Anime: Ghost hunt

Rating: Mature

Author: ecyoj06

Title: After School Secrets

Pairing: Naru-Mai

Summary: Mai Taniyama is a senior in St. Mary's Exclusive High school. A simple student as she seemed to be, unbeknownst to anybody, she's hiding a secret that involves her life after school, a life that includes the school's no. 1 arrogant geek teacher.


Chapter 4

"Dad, that was uncalled for!" His thundering voice vibrated on the four walls of the library. He just found out something that didn't only pushed his buttons but also pulled his nerves to astray. "You have no right to meddle with my affairs even though you claimed to be my father!"

"I am your father!" Martin exclaimed angrily. "I had been your father for the last 17 years and I am going to be your father until your aging and I'm dying!"

"You just happened to be my father when you signed those papers!" Naru argued.
"You're just my father by papers… by worthless, shabby papers! You're not even half of what I expected to my father… you're just an old…"

SLAP!!!

Silence reigned. Luella could only let her tears fall as she watched his son's face. It's starting to redden. Her fingers had scraped parts of his face. She could still feel her hands tingling with pain due to that hard contact.

It pained her to hit him but it pained her more if she's going to continue hearing the words that he's sprouting towards her husband. Those words that's full of anger and full of regret.

"Noll…" Luella stated softly but firmly. "I may not be the one who bore you for nine months nor did I delivered you to this world full of scams… but I cared for you like I would care for someone who I had carried in me for months… I would give everything for you like I would for someone that I had laid my life during birth and I would surely offer my life for you if that meant your safety…"

"That's why don't you dare say that we are not your parents…" Luella finished before rushing to the doors to get away from them.

"I'm not going to say sorry for doing what I had done, Oliver." Martin told his son after a long time of silence since his wife left them. "Nor would I say that I forget what you just said. You're right to say that I just became your father after signing those papers… but you're wrong for saying that's all I am to you… I had every right to keep you in check if that meant keeping you safe."

Noll watched his father stood up from the chair behind the huge mahagony table before walking towards the door, but when he's about to open the wooden door, Martin stopped and continued to tell him his laments.

"And when I said safe…" Martin started as he turned the brass knob. "I meant not only ffor those who would harm you but also from yourself."

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'SHIT!' was the first and the last word that he had said during the whole day. The first time he had that word on his head was when he managed to see the report he had asked. He couldn't believe that his father had meddled with it. He couldn't believe that his father had really managed to take a hand out to control everything he was planning. Who would have thought that he's father would actually do those things just to mess with his life.

And now, as he managed to realize the words he had uttered, Oliver Davis felt like he had been dumped on a garbage can just to be tumbled along hand with those dirt and filth he felt like he was.

The slap he had received from his mother was nothing compared to what he had given her and that's the last thing he would like to do. The last thing he would like to do was to be responsible for another death of someone he cared for… not because of anything… definitely not because of his own stupidity.

"Not again." He said out loud as he looked down on a picture of a man whom he thought was responsible for the death of the two people he cared for.

'I won't stop until I see you suffer 'til you run out of blood.' He said as he pushed the first page of the report to reveal a smiling face of a little girl. 'Nor was there anything that can stop me from doing anything that would serve my purpose.'

'There's nothing, Lucia…nothing Gene…' Noll turned to leave with one thing in mind. 'If I can't take him with my own hands to bleed… rest assure Gene, I would take someone else that would make him bleed.'

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"Mori-san…" Mai started as she looked down on the girl who's currently acting as the CEO of their company. "I haven't heard anything from my brother. He had been gone for more than a week now."

"Be more patient, Mai." Madoka said before going through the papers on her desk once more.

"I had been patient for so long now." Mai insisted. "I had enough being patient already!"

"Mai…" Madoka started as she left the documents alone for a moment. "Lin-sama is currently on a very complicated business trip. I don't think it would be right for us to bug him by being a cry baby, isn't it?"

"Aww… you do know you had hit me hard and definitely low, don't you?" Mai said with a pout. "Sorry for bugging you when you're already stress out due to my childish acts of worries."

Madoka could only winced as she realized what she had said and done. She might be taking care of a lot things right now but it wasn't right for her to blow her top off a child who's only worried of her only living relative.

"I'm going now, Mori-san." Mai said as she traced her steps out of his brother's office. "I'll leave you alone now. I wouldn't want to bug and harass you with childishness, do I?"

Madoka watched as the door of Lin's office closed. She had said something rush and she had hurt the poor kid. Only God knew how sorry she was for her, not just because of what she had done but also because of what was more to come.

Taking her eyes away from the door, Madoka reached for her mobile phone and dialed a single number. She waited for a while as she looked at the city from the glass wall of the posh office. After some ringing tone, a woman answered her call.

"Hello."

"Madoka here." She said as she looked up, as if asking for divine intervention.

"What's up my dear?"

"She's asking questions and she's distressed now." Madoka said before a grimace crossed her face. "Me, telling her off, didn't help at all of course."

"Madoka." The woman said with sympathy. "Everything would be just fine."

"I hope so." She said as tears threatened to escape her eyes. "I miss him, Lue."

"Baby…" Luella started. "He would be fine. I would make sure he's fine."

"Do that." She said while wiping the tears away before they fall. "I hate to think of how I would feel when he sees the real me."

"Madoka…" Luella said. "You know what's the real you."

"Of course." Madoka sarcastically said. "A God damn liar."

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Waiting in the dark with his hands tied behind his back, he waited patiently for this time to come. The time for him to know who had taken him away even before he could set foot out of the plane.

"You could leave us alone." He heard someone stated. He could vaguely remember that voice but he couldn't remember it at all. "And open the bloody light for pete's sake. The man was not here to be monk or something."

"Yes, sir." The guard said before his eyes shut as the place started to brighten up.

"Who are you?" He asked as he felt the man sat in front of him. He still couldn't open his eyes.

"I'm sorry to do this to you Koujo." The man told him with a hint of… worry…perhaps? "This is the only way to bring you here without unnecessary squabble, let alone media attention."

As he felt his eyes started to be relieved by the blinding pain, Lin slowly opened his eyes only to see someone who he never thought he would see again… especially not with these circumstances.

"Are you alright now, Koujo?" The man asked him before smiling. "I hope you are though… I wouldn't like to see Kaishin with him hunting me because I mistreated you."

"My father would never be able to hunt you down even from his grave if you let my sister get hurt!" Lin snarled at him. "Where's your son, Martin Davis? Where's Oliver?"

"In Japan." Martin told him. "To get your sister, I guess."

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"Why should I be the one to meet him at the airport?" Mai complained as Madoka told her about their foreign visitor. "You could go and get him yourself. I'm not that good at English.'

"Sure, you are." Madoka told her. "What kind of an idiot would get an A+ for her grades, neh?"

"I still wouldn't meet him." Mai argued before stomping her foot on her way to her room. "And don't you dare say those words to me."

"What words?" Madoka said as she followed her behind. "You know I would never black mail you."

"Sure." Mai said before opening her room, but not quick enough to be able to block her words to her.

"I'm just sad that Lin would lose a client as big as he is just because his sister wouldn't want to give him some moment of her time."

"Damn you, Mori!" Mai said before closing her door making the red head smile but moments later, a look of sympathy and guilt cross her beautiful face.

Leaving the house, and going to her car, Madoka pulled her phone out before waiting for someone to pick up her call.

"Yes?"

"She's meeting him." She quickly stated. "Just like how you wanted her to."

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TBC…

A/N: this was the things that had happened before Naru had gone to Japan and met mai…

I'll be doing this in a slightly unconventional way. Not in sequence with the dates… it could be before Naru got to Japan, before Mai and Lin's pasts, present times, days before the present times,,, in japan or not in Japan… things like that…

I'll try to make it clear to you what time it was in the chapter…

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