Chapter 3 is up! Thank you so much to my reviewers! Sorry for these 2 slightly depressing chapters, I just wanted to add a bit more insight into their dating period
Disclaimer: Unfortunately I do not own Ghost Hunt; it belongs to the mangaka TT-TT
Ah the SPR office; my second home. Whenever Naru stays late, I turn all stubborn staying with him into the wee hours of the morning and making him feel guilty for my absolute tiredness the next day.
Sometimes it leads into arguments, sometimes it leads into sleepless working nights and sometimes it leads into a make-out session on his table…Anyway the layout of the SPR office has not changed since the day I set foot in it.
Naru still had his cave (now he has a picture of our wedding day on his desk!), I still had my lousy desk and Lin still had his cave, though now Lin made more of an appearance, so did Naru surprisingly! (After a little bribery from me, his cute wife of course…).
My job though has got a bit more important!
Now, not only do I have to file (for my novel and Naru), make tea and dream but sometimes I do interrogations, research with Yasu, and practically share the job of looking through the night at cameras and temperatures with Lin.
Since Madoka was pregnant, Lin spent less and less time in cases. Plus he now got the bigger role of reporting back to England and spending his effort on onmyouji tasks instead.
Many people still come and go through the door of SPR with cases ranging from hauntings in Japanese inns to hauntings in Japanese inns, I mean in ritzy hotels.
Though nowadays, Naru has rarely been accepting any cases, like zilch number of cases. Ever since the beginning of this year the number of cases we took dropped.
Even though the excitement at home with ice-cube was enough to suffice, I miss my work and cases that introduced me to the ice-cube of my life, my make-shift family and my psychic powers.
Cases were when everyone worked as one; the whole atmosphere was filled with warmth (excluding the chilling phenomena of course), and nobody can take that away from me.
As I sat at my desk sorting out files (…) a phone call came through. I went into my professional mode. "Hello, Shibuya Psychic Research."
"Ah hello, may I book an appointment with you?" The possible client's voice sounded strained and desperate.
"Yes, how about today at 4:30pm?" I said as I sifted through the logbook of clients.
"Yes that will be fine, thank you very much bye." The dial tone rung as I put the phone down and got up only to curse when the papers that I just sorted out were on the ground, unsorted again.
Note to self: Do not place files on lap. As I bent down to pick them, I heard a small devious laugh coming from the right of me.
'Great' I thought sarcastically. Even though I'm married to him, Na- I mean ice-cube just got worse with the insults. "Mai bring me tea now…please."
My eyes went wide as I looked up noticing that he actually had a genuine smile on his face. "Yeah, after I quickly pick up these papers."
I replied; my spirit soaring in the sky. "I said now, not after Mai." With that he retreated back into his cave with the brisk slam of a door.
As my spirit came crashing down burying itself into the ground like an ostrich I sighed, leaving the scattered papers and retreating into my third home; the SPR's mini kitchen.
When in the office, if I'm not filing then I'm making tea instead; that my friends hasn't changed. I made the tea then knocked on the door of the royal ice-cube's office.
A grunted reply came from the other side, so I went in closing the door behind me then I walked to his desk, placing the tea there. "Ah hey Naru we have a client today at 4:30".
He glanced up at me, nodded then darted his eyes back to his precious work. Naru must be in insult mode if he doesn't even want to give me a kiss.
I sadly smiled thinking back to how the terms for the different modes of Naru's workaholic-ness came about. The 'terms' I am talking about come from when Naru and I were in our dating period.
It was a year before we got married and we were a pretty happy couple in the beginning…well as happy as you can get with public display of affection hater; Naru.
Anyway for a few months it was stressful time as I was having problems with the lease on my apartment and some orphanage stuff while Naru was also in a predicament of a time with SPR having to report back to England on something major.
We never saw each other as I had took time off for a short while. When I did show up at SPR, Naru was in his cave never even giving so much as a glance to me even when I tried to start a conversation; it was almost like he had turned back into his old self. If only I had realized it was not almost but HAD.
During the busy time we also accepted a case. It was just a normal case one that with lots of research and exorcisms was finished in a jiffy.
It was a normal case yet it's what broke Naru and I; our love utterly shattered. For those of you that are thinking 'Ah it probably only lasted a week, not a big deal'…you are wrong.
We drifted apart for 4 months. In that time I quit SPR and Naru spent most of his time in England; All because of one comment made by the client's daughter; Arimi.
She was harmless at first, sure maybe a bit annoying with her flirtatious ways towards Naru but harmless.
It was only when Arimi showed that she had a degree in psychology, was already an acquaintance of Mr Davis (Naru's father) and had a high IQ that she was as about harmless as a serial killer.
Other than the SPR girls she was the only girl from outside who actually was imprinted in his memory with their long conversations on the world of psychology and phenomena.
So even during the case I never once had an alone moment with Naru. Yet I knew that this was just a period of time where busy futures needed to be sorted out and we just simply had no time for each other.
Everything would turn back to normal once my problems were sorted out and Naru's major reports for England were completed.
Everything should have turned back to normal.
Back to the time when Naru would hug me tight inviting me into his warmth, or when he would take me out on loving dates or when he would swiftly kiss me on the lips when no one is looking.
However we didn't go back, neither did we go forwards…so where did we go?
Arimi; the client's daughter said something to me which made me doubt my relationship with Naru. "You know nothing about him. You can never talk to him about something he likes and even if you try to learn you don't have a high enough IQ.
You are utterly mismatched for him. He only keeps you around because you have a connection to Gene and you are an orphan; just like Oliver (Naru). Have you ever thought about how you can be of no help to Oliver in the future when he tries to climb to the top in the world of psychology?
He's already a professor, and you, well you're still a student." When the words sank in a question took form in my tired mind. "How did you know about my connection with Gene?"
"Oliver told me."