Summary: My name's Taniyama Mai, I'm twenty-three years old, and at the moment I'm in the dumps... so to speak. The only way I could get out of this was by becoming the world's most hottest band's manager, and to tell you the truth it was a harder job then it looked with monk bassists and twin devils, silent watchers and creepy boys. Oh what did I get myself into!

Disclaimer: I don't own Ghost Hunt, just the idea of this plot. Also, I don't own any of the songs I will be using in this fiction.

Author's Rant: Here is another update for my lovely fans. I love all your reviews! And because everyone wants him last Naru will be the last person she sees. Also, from this chapter onwards I will be slowly introducing the girls of Ghost Hunt, but they won't offically have any roles until after I get done introducing all the band members to Mai. Anyways, read on and give me some great reviews again.

Warning: Story is un'betaed!

ESP

The (semi) Lin's Day

"I'm coming, I'm coming."

Letting one end of the towel hang off my left shoulder I continued drying my hair as I headed toward the phone.

"Moshi, Moshi! Donata desu ka?"

"Koujo Lin from ESP. Taniyama Mai-san wa irasshaimasu ka?"

"Hai, hai. This is her. You're the bass player. I'm supposed to be with you today right."

"Hai. I was wondering if you wouldn't mind coming to the headquarters for a few hours. I'm busy at the moment with some paper work for the band that need checking over. Afterwards we can do whatever you please. That is, if you wish."

"Oh sure. Yeah..."

"Do you need a ride? I could have Madoka come and pick you u-"

"Yadda! It's all right. I can get there."

"All right. Ja ne."

"Wow. He really is a man of few words unless he's talking business." Placing the phone down I walked back toward my room to get dressed. Picking out a simple brown skirt and orange-pink tang-top I grabbed a light jacket to be placed over and some nice slip on shoes.

"Now all I need is to phone a taxi. Now what was the number to that taxi place?"

Under the burning sun,

"Yeah. Since there isn't a band manager at the moment Lin-san is stuck looking over all the papers. I'm just the assistant manager so I can't really sign anything official without permission from either a band member or the manager," Haruhi babbled on as she lead me once more toward the room that usually held the band members.

"Poor Lin-san. Won't anyone else do it?"

"Sometimes Oliver-san does it or Gene-kun but it's usually Lin-san. He is the oldest so I guess everyone thinks that this type of stuff should lie on his shoulders." Stopping in front of the door she turned toward me. "There really isn't anything we can do about that. Though I don't know why Oliver-san doesn't do it today. He has no one to host."

"Lazy?"

"Hahahaaa! If only someone would say that to his face." Giving me a bow and a good-bye hug Haruhi left me to deal with Lin. Turning the knob and opening the door I came face to face with someone else with black hair.

"Ahhh, ohayou Davis-san." He nodded his head slightly in reply. Stepping aside he motioned me in before stepping out, the door closing behind me with a soft snap. Looking around I noticed Lin at the table, leaning over some paper work with a laptop close by.

"Ohayou Lin-san."

"Ohayou to you to Taniyama-san," the bassist muttered as he kept his eyes down on the paperwork. "You can take a seat anywhere it is available if you like. This will only take an hour or two so do as you please."

Nodding my head I sat down on a nice sandbag chair. The minutes ticked by to ten, then twenty, then half an hour to then an hour. I started dozing, leaning back more deeply into the bag chair.

Yawning I turned my attention back toward the door, wishing for someone to just walk in and keep me entertained. I mean I know Lin told me I could do whatever I liked but I didn't really want to impose on anyone that worked here, nor did I want to interrupt Lin with his work.

The door opened at around an hour and a half later after I entered the room. Oh look. It's Naru again. And he has a book with him. So that's what he went to do and it took all but a complete hour to do so. Watching him as he walked across the room the man didn't even spare me a glance as he sat down right next to Lin on a spare chair, opening his book to begin reading for - what it looked like to me unfortunately - a very long time.

Oh how I was right. Before I knew it I was stuck bored in this room for three hours with the two most boring people on the face of the planet. Groaning I rolled over for the umpteenth time to a face full on beanbag.

"If you're going to be disruptive because you're to stupid to actually get up and do something why don't I put you to use."

Snapping my head up I locked startled brown eyes with hard, emotionless blue eyes and slightly smirking lips.

"Go get me some tea."

"Ahhh, sure." Asshole. Where does he get off ordering me around. I don't even work for him yet to begin with. Trying to keep as straight a face as possible I stood up and straighten my clothing.

"Would you like any as well, Lin-san?" Starting slightly the bassist looked up and nodded his head.

"That would be nice, Taniyama-san."

Bowing to the both of them - I don't see why I bothered since none were looking - I headed out the door and walked toward the elevator, clicking the button to call it before a thought struck me. Where the hell am I supposed to find the kitchen. Oh that conniving, sinister, bastard. No wonder he was smirking. I swear when I see him again with that tea I'm going to pour it all down his damn shirt!

Continuing forward I entered the elevator, noticing another women in there as well who looked around Lin's age. "Ah ohayou."

Turning toward me with a confused look she laughed. "Silly. It's afternoon all ready."

"Eh!? Really? Wow. I was stuck in that room for that long? Well konnichiwa then."

"Konnichiwa to you to.. uh..."

"Mai. You can call me Mai."

"Konnichiwa Mai-chan. I'm Madoka. And what room?"

"With Lin-san. I was supposed to spend the day with him today but he has paperwork to do. I guess it's taking longer then he thought. Then Oliver," - note here that I practically spat his name - "told me to fetch some tea even though I don't know where the kitchen is."

Madoka gasped. "I thought I taught him better. Remind me later to have a talk with that boy. He really needs to learn his manners. Specially toward a nice young lady like yourself. Sometimes I wonder how he and Gene are twins at all."

I couldn't help but giggle. "They do say that twins are usually opposites."

She smiled. "That is true."

Ding!

Exiting the elevator Madoka turned back toward me. "Go back up to the original floor you were just on. It's the first door on your right that is the kitchen." Before the doors closed again she added with a smirk, "and add lots of sugar to Noll's tea. He hates sweet things."

I laughed the rest of the way up and into the kitchen. Looking around I quickly explored all the cabinets before finding the tea pot and it's burner, along with some matching tea cups. As the tea heated I looked through the fridge to find some snacks which I placed on a tray I found. After the tea finished heating I placed both cups on the tray filled with the right amount of sugar for Lin's and loads for dear oh Oliver.

Walking out of the room and down the hall I entered the band's room only to find Oliver there. He looked up from his book for a brief second before returning to it.

"Lin went to check on something." Oh, how elaborate you are. I don't see how I couldn't have figured that out without your help, Oh Great One, I thought sarcastically as I placed the tray down on the table, passing Oliver his tea with some of those tea cookies on a napkin.

Turning away I walked back toward my chair, keeping my eyes on Oliver as he reached for his tea, took a sip, then spit the whole thing onto his book, his eyes narrowing in disgust before locking with my innocent brown eyes in anger.

"What. Is. This!"

"What is what?" I asked innocently, turning my angel face on as I stared as purely as I could at the angered twin.

"This!" he all most shouted at me as he slammed the tea cup down.

"Tea of course, silly," I said exasperated. "And here we thought you thought I was the stupid one."

"You might as well be if you don't even know how to properly brew tea."

"Well maybe if you told me how you would have liked your tea I wouldn't have made this silly little mistake."

"I thought that maybe you wouldn't have had been stupid enough to not know how to at least make proper tea with the proper amount of tea spoons of sugar. I guess I was wrong for placing my trust in such an idiot."

By now both of us were face to face, a few inches separating us.

"Well then maybe you should have gotten your lazy ass up to get your own tea you narcissist, egoistic man instead of using me like some sort of servant."

"Well what else am I supposed to use such a stupid girl as you for? Now that I know you can't even do this I guess you've just been down graded to being a carpet."

Growling I was about to lift my foot to kick his smirking face in when the door opened and in walked Gene, with Lin close behind.

"What's happening in here? It sounds like a hurricane is blowing." He looked between our faces. Mine of course was burning up with anger. Oliver's on the other hand was back to it's poker mask, though his eyes were gleaming with slight frustration.

"Oi. Mai, can you please come with me." Turning around Gene walked passed Lin who walked in as I stormed out, the door closing with a loud rattle. Walking a little ways down the hallway toward the elevator he stopped and turned toward me. "What happened in there?" he asked.

"Damn Naru and his damn needs." Was all I offered up. Gene's face relaxed from it's tense expression, a small knowing smile gracing his lips in understanding. Resting a hand on my shoulder he asked, "Did you eat anything?"

Looking into his gentle face and soft smile relaxed me. "No. I actually haven't eaten anything all day," I replied sheepishly.

"That won't do," he said with a disappointed face. "Come on then. Lin won't be done until three hours so why don't I treat you to lunch."

"That sounds nice, Gene-kun." Hooking my arm with his we headed off.

I take a look around,

Waving bye to Gene as the elevator doors closed I sighed happily. After eating at a local cafe Gene had taken me around the area to show me what was around, buying me a drink or two along the way.

Walking forward I ran into somebody along the way. Naru. Damn my luck. We stared at each other for a long moment before he walked passed with a slight grunt.

Fine then. If he won't admit his mistake then I'm not saying sorry either.

Opening the door I rejoined Lin, this time taking a seat in front of the man. Taking a sip of my drink I drummed my fingers on the table.

"Are you hungry Lin-san?" I asked. It was late-noon after all and he probably hasn't eaten anything since those cookies and tea.

"No. I'm fine." I sat for a few more minutes before asking, "So who else is assigned to someone?"

"Bou-san has Yuki-san and Yasuhara has Clare-san."

"I feel so sorry for Clare-chan... are you sure you're not hungry?"

"I'm fine." Well there goes that idea for occupying my time. Man is he so unsocial... Oh yeah!

"If I remember correctly, aren't you Chinese Lin-san?"

"So?" Looking up for the first time during our whole (mostly) one-sided conversation Lin gave me this stony glare, causing me to shiver.

"So...um... oh, never mind. It's not that important. It's nothing." Last time I try to start a conversation about his home with him. Maybe Madoka might know something.

"I hate the Japanese." Starting I looked into his deep set eyes. Did I just hear him right?

"Wh-what did you...?"

"Don't you know what the Japanese did to China a long time ago? I hate the Japanese and living among them makes me uncomfortable." That wasn't right. He couldn't hate us for something so long ago, could he?

"Bu-but before that wasn't China responsible for the Mongol invasion... isn't world history filled with invaders and the invaded?"

"Then you approve of what Japan did?"

"No, I don't. I didn't say that..." Lifting a hand up I rested it over my pounding heart. My throat was tight with a lump of sorrow. I felt sad... "That's not what I meant!" ...this wasn't right. It was so unfortunate that he felt like this.

"Japan did do some terrible things. I think we must never forget that. Terrible deeds are just that - terrible. Though if we harbor grudges we'll keep hating each other for eternity. That's just wrong. It's completely unacceptable! Lin-san, it's one thing to hate me personally, but don't hate me because I'm Japanese... or a girl... or because I'm poor! I don't want you to hate me for that..."

Looking at each other for a few more minutes Lin leaned over slightly, fisted hand over his mouth... and laughed. Is... is he laughing at me!

"Those words are the exact words."

"Huh?"

"Someone else said those same words to me long ago. Ah, I remember them well."

Tilting my head I asked thoughtfully, "Was it Naru...?"

"No way. Here's what Naru would have said: 'Well, you're an idiot.' Can you really expect something else?" Oh yeah. That's just like him, huh. Maybe it was Gene-kun.

"Taniyama-san I don't hate you. We can't erase the psychological trauma of what happened, but I agree, it is stupid to bring national problems into personal relationships. Still, you should learn from these problems. It did happen not to long ago."

Looking at Lin thoughtfully I nodded my head, my eyes softening. "All right. I will." Shuffling the papers into a neat pile Lin finally stood up, grabbing the black coat that hung on the back of his chair.

"Come on. I'll buy you some dinner at this little restaurant down the way. My treat."

Imagine if this all came down...

"I guess I'm getting Bou-san tomorrow."

"Really! Awe, you're so lucky Mai-chan. I wish I was in your place. So how was the day with Lin-san?"

"Oh after the whole I-hate-Japanese-people thing the rest of our day went smoothly. We did run into Madoka along the way so she joined us at the restaurant. Guess what! I think Lin has a crush on Madoka."

"Why would you say that?"

"Well for one he gets kinda nervous around her. Two, I guess they're childhood friends so I mean come on, there has to be some romantic feelings between them. Three, the way he looks at her."

"Does Madoka like Lin?"

"I think so. She does kinda shy away. I couldn't really tell to much with her though. Oh well. Anyways, I figured out that she is usually the one who deals with setting up where the tickets can be purchase so I have to talk to her later. Oi, that reminds me I still haven't done anything for the concert that's due next Friday."

"Better start on that Mai-chan. Ah, I have to go. Talk to you later. Oh, and don't let Naru get under your skin to much. Ja ne!"

"Like that hasn't happen," I muttered, downcast. Hanging up the phone I walked into my room for a good nights sleep, unaware that somewhere else a certain twin was still ticked that I dared to ruin his tea.

...I'm waiting for the day to come.

So Bou-san is next. I've been having some ideas for a day with Bou-san but I don't know. So I want you to decide between:

theater, arcade, or ice skating.

The other ones might be used between Naru and Gene so choose wisely. Till next time!