First of all let me apologize for taking so long so long to update.

I am soooo sorry

Secondly I wouldn't call this a chapter it is much too short so I will be updating immediately after this so please be patient with me.

Ok on with the story.

THE CASE

It had been over four months now that Mai had started working at the SPR, she had long forgiven Monk for keeping Naru's return a secret form her. During their return they have had cases but none were too dangerous and didn't really require much investigation, when they weren't on cases they would be in the office. Lin like old times would be in his office typing away god knows what on his computer ,Naru he would be in his cave of an office and as for Mai her administrative work continued and when there was nothing to do she would retort to doing her homework assignments. Of lately Monk and Ayako had become scarce and no one knew of where they would disappear to. John and Masako often visit, Mai noticed that Masako wasn't clinging to Naru as she used to and it left her to wonder if something had happened between the two. More likely Masako was often seen with John at her side Mai saw this but never thought anything of it she was used to seeing them appearing on cases with each other or showing up at the same time.

One Friday after school Mai was at work trying to finish up some assignments that was due the next week plus she was studying for her college entry exams. Her phone alarm went off she paused to looked at it, she set the pen on the desk then reached over and took up the phone and turned the alarm off. She then pushed away from the table and reluctantly and went into the kitchen, she filled the kettle with water, set it on the stove and lit it, and leaned back against the small counter and waited for the kettle to boil. Since working for Naru Mai had changed drastically and he had noticed she was more reserved and kept to herself she doesn't talk to him unless she has to, she avoid eye contact with him at all cost she would work effectively then resort to her studies. She addresses him as Shibuya sama which came as a surprise to Naru and the rest of the gang and she always made his tea before he even asked for it, even the bubbly personality she used to portray turned apathetic. After a few minutes the kettle began to whistle, she turned the stove off and got out two tea cups and made black coffee in one and black tea in the other. She placed the cups on a tray then head out the kitchen and made her way to Lin's office she balanced the tray on one hand then used the other to knock on the door and was greeted by a grunt which was Lin's way of answering. She walked in and placed the coffee on his desk

"Taniyama you don't have to bring coffee or tea so often as Naru…agrigato,"

"You're welcome," Mai said dryly then exit his office

Mai knocked on Naru's door but there was no answer she knocked again and this time she heard a clear

"Come in,"

Naru looked up at Mai as she entered his office, she came in not uttering a word to him and simply place the tea on his desk then took up the empty one but just as she was about to leave he spoke, "before you leave give these to Lin," he slid two sheets of paper over in her direction "and by the way take care of these." That was when Mai actually noticed the tall stack of papers on his desk, she took up the papers for Lin then head out. She first went to the kitchen and got rid of the tray then she went and gave the papers to Lin then went back into Naru's office for the stack of paper. The papers were too much for her to carry all at once which meant she had to make a few trips back and forth, she went back in his office and took up some of the papers and brought them out to her table she then went for some more. On her second trip there was a knock on the door and in stroll a chubby woman with dark pink hair,

"Um…may I help you?" Mai asked but after the question left her lips she recognize who it was and her eyes grew wide in shock.

"Wow! Do I look that different that you don't recognize me?" asked the woman

"G...Gomen'nasai Madoka I didn't recognize you with that watermelon in front of you,"

"Eeeeh what watermelon?" Madoka asked looking around in a comical way, then Mai pointed to her stomach which made the woman chuckle "I'm just pregnant Mai I have a husband you know,"

"You have a husband?" Mai asked surprised

"Last time I check I was married a year and a half," Madoka giggled

Suddenly Lin's office door opened and Lin standing in the door way

"Are you ok?" he asked in a slightly panicked voice

"I'm fine," Madoka waddled over to him and gave him a big hug then kissed him this shocked Mai to no end she was frozen in place. Madoka glanced in Mai's direction and saw her expression and started laughing she was laughing so hard that Lin had a worried expression on his face. Her roaring laughter was so loud that it caused Naru to get out of his office.

"Hahahahahaha oh my god…the look on your face is priceless, you don't have to look so shock Mai Lin is my husband and this is our baby," She said rubbing her stomach.

"Why are you here Madoka?" asked an irritated Naru

"Oh hi," Madoka greeted but Naru didn't answer he just stared at her "I came to see my husband,"

"Pregnant women are suppose to stay home," Naru stated

"Are you going to tell me what to do Oliver Davis?" Madoka said in a dark and scary voice with a dark aura emitting from around her.

"Naru don't," Mai heard Lin say in an exhausted voice the next thing she heard was the slam of Naru's office door.

"Um Madoka is there anything I can get you?"

"Oh no I'm fine just going to talk to Lin for a while jay ne," she said then disappeared into Lin's office.

Mai returned to Naru's office and got some more of the papers by this Naru was sitting behind his desk with an irritated expression. Mai wasn't paying much attention to him well not anymore, he had been watching her secretly he was beyond annoyed that she had become so isolated an unsociable, it annoyed him every time she called him Shibuya sama, he found it especially annoying when she wouldn't yell at him or caused their regular bickering like she used to. Mai had really changed the girl he sees now is not the girl he once knew; frustrated he got up from his desk and took up the rest of the papers and left the office. Mai was busy making space on her table to go for the last set of papers when suddenly a hand shot out from over her shoulder and drop them on her table, taken by surprise she took a step back and bumped into something or rather someone.

"I have meant to say this to you for some time now,"

Mai was rigid with shock for the second time that day it wasn't that Naru was behind her that brought on such shock it was the proximity and that he spoke so close to her ear that goosebumps raised on her skin involuntarily. "It's unlike you to address me as Shibuya sama, not that I have a problem with that, it's just that coming from you it sounds annoying,"

And just for that split second the old Mai surfaced she was going to give him a piece of her mind, but when she spun around to face him the smart comment she had in mind disperse immediately when she came face to face with him. Her breath hitched in her throat as she saw that Naru's face was merely inches from hers, Naru himself was a bit surprise for he wasn't expecting her to turn around so quickly. She would have stepped back but her table was preventing her from doing so and Naru on the other hand made no effort o move away from their awkward position. His gaze met her wide frightened brown eyes then travelled down to her slightly parted pink lips, her uneven breathing was tempting him, he felt a sudden urge to close the distance between them an pressed his lips against hers and kissed her like there was no tomorrow. He felt the need to have her pressed firmly against his body, he was curious as to how her skin would feel beneath his touch. For the first time he felt strongly tempted to do something uncharacteristic and he felt he would have acted upon it if there wasn't a knock on the door and without a word he turned and walked away. Mai let out the breath that she was holding and sagged against her desk (what the heck was that?) she felt slightly dizzy and she shook her head to clear away the feeling. Then she heard Naru talking to someone the person he was talking to was a female with short blond hair suddenly a nauseous feeling over came her and the dizziness came back much stronger. Mai's hand shot up to her head as if trying to stop the place from moving she shook her head again to clear it, just then Naru turned to her and said something but she didn't hear it everything before her swirled into darkness.

DREAM

[ (W…What happened? Where am I? Is this a dream?) Mai noticed that she wasn't in the office anymore, it seemed like it was night for there was no light protruding from the window she was facing. In fact the window was closed and the curtains were drawn, she slowly turned around and found to her immediate right there were two book shelves stack with books. She leaned closer to get a better look there seemed to be many books of different genre. She noticed that next to the book cases was a slide door she hesitantly stepped towards the door then reached out to open it when she suddenly drew her hand away from it (wait a minute if this is a dream where is Na...I mean Eugene? Even after they returned his body to England I am positive I saw him in my dreams twice before Naru came back. So where is he?) Mai held her hand close to her chest as she examine the door then she decide against opening the it she glanced over to her left but there wasn't much only a school uniform hung up on a rack, (hmmn I've never seen that uniform before, how…different I mean it's just plain and the skirt is pretty long all the way down to the ankles) she turned fully around to observe her vicinity her eyes caught a bed and two bedside table the lights were on but they were very dim then she noticed the room door. (It's a bedroom, this is someone's bedroom from the looks of it it's a female's bedroom…) There was something about this room that gave Mai the chills it had a dark eerie feeling to it as if something bad was going to happen or something bad had already happened, then suddenly the room began to get cold rapidly. It was so cold that Mai had to wrap her arms around her torso (the temperature dropped so suddenly…oh no the temperature dropped!) she thought in alarm (this means) Mai felt terrified to look behind her as she felt an extremely cold presence behind her, Mai was now visibly shaking from head to toe in fear when she heard it and as suddenly as it came the cold presence left. Mai listened carefully then she heard the noise again it sounded as if someone was crying

"H…Hello? Is anyone here?"

It was at that moment she heard the noise again but this time it was a bit more audible, Mai turned around in the room to pin point the noise but she still didn't see anyone. Unconscious of what she was doing, she unintentionally took a few steps closer to the bed and it was then that the sobbing grew louder. Mai turned to face the bed when something moved that caused Mai to jump back but her eyes never leaving the bed, then she saw the silhouette of a girl sitting on the bed. (How did I not see her there earlier? Was she sitting there all along?) "Are you ok?" Mai asked but the girl didn't appear to have heard her so Mai took a reluctant step closer to the girl "Hey are you ok?" Mai asked again but the girl still didn't seem to hear her at all so Mai took a few more steps closer but Mai noted that the closer she got to the girl the more real she appeared. Mai envisage that the girl had long jet black straight hair that hid her face from view, her skin was pale too pale to be human she was in a long white frail night gown. She was sitting on the bed her feet was on the ground and her shoulders hunched forward and her hands were gripping her night gown,

Worried Mai gradually made her way over to the figure of the crying girl

"What's the matter?" She asked but the girl didn't answer she just sat there shuddering, Mai then reached out to touch her on her shoulder when suddenly an arm wrapped around her waist and yanked her backwards

"It's not safe here it's too dangerous wake up Mai," came a stern stoic familiar voice "wake up!"

"Why?" Mai asked but she was too late everything around her changed]

"Mai, Mai wake up,"

Her eyes fluttered open and her hand shot up to her forehead to massage her temples

"Ow," she groaned when her fingers came in contact with her head then she felt a hand brush away her hand and placed something cold on her head. "What happened?" she asked finally understanding who was directly over her

"You hit your head pretty hard on the edge of the table when you fell," Naru informed

"I fell?"

"Don't tell me you lose your memories too,"

Mai said nothing she just glared at him, she slowly raised herself up off the couch and swung her feet to the floor and tried to get up but was stopped by Naru.

"Are you sure you're ok?"

"I'm fine," she said stubbornly and forced herself to stand up which caused her to sway lucky Naru was already standing in front of her when her hand shot out to his shoulder for support.

"Stop being a hard headed and rest a while," Naru said forcing her to sit back down

"I don't get pay for sitting around doing nothing," she said

"I am not taking the blame if you hurt yourself on the job Mai," he said in a warning voice

She huffed in irritation and turned away from him she let her gaze travel to the floor then came to rest on her school shoes

"Fine," she finally said "then hand me the phone,"

"Why?" Naru asked

"I need to call the others,"

"What for," Naru asked again

"What are you the police?" Mai asked her voice filled with irritation "you just took a case the normal thing to do is call the others,"

Naru was shocked,

"How did you know I took a case? You didn't even saw the client,"

"I'm…not really sure," she answered "I just feel it I guess, more like an intuition,"

"Did you have a dream?"

At this question Mai became very quiet,

"My head hurts," she said in a mono tone then lay back down on the couch with her back to Naru

To be continued…

Ok please review, tell me what you like and don't like

I don't mind gimme something and by the way I had a huge writers block

Again my apologies

Jay ne …