Updated 01/02/17


The annoying sound of her alarm woke Mai up. "Yasu turn the alarm off." She mumbled into her pillow.

Having heard no response from her best friend, she sat up a bit too quickly. "After years of getting knocked out case after case, you would think I would have learned by now not to sit up so quickly, she said holding her head in an attempt to stop the room from spinning.

"Yasu!"

Still no response. Leaving the comfort of her own bed, Mai left her room. Walking into the living room with her eyes unfocused, she managed to bump into a tall and muscular figure. Taking a step back she spotted another man sitting quite comfortably on her couch. He had white hair and shining blue eyes. Surota. Her eyes traveled back to the figure in front of her. A man with midnight colored hair and captivating yellow eyes. Kira.

"Why are you both here?"

Kira, a stupid smirk on his face as always spoke. "My My. Straight to the point as always."

Mai frowned, her arms crossed over her chest. "I'm serious Kira. Why are the two of you here? Our time isn't anywhere near up."

"See that's why we came here." Mai's eyes traveled towards Surota. "We came to tell you that your time has been extended to the end of the year. On new years eve, 1 minute before midnight, the contract will be eliminated. What happens then solely depends on your research."

Mai nodded, thinking over her options. "What's the catch?"

Surota spoke up then. "If the deadline passes and you have not met our expectations, well then I'm afraid your soul will belong to us." Truly, Surota was speaking quite solemn. Even as a demon, Surota was passionate and understanding to the human race, after all, he was in the same situation many years ago.

Mai weighed her options. Yasu and Mai were nowhere near meeting their expectations. Surely it wouldn't hurt to agree to their rules. Even if it meant sacrificing her own soul to save Yasu's. "Alright, however, as for Yasu, I would like if you left him alone." She said.

The two men took a short glance at the other. "Alright."

The 3 adults stayed in their spots until a certain question was asked. "Speaking of which, where is that boy?"

Mai rose an eyebrow. "I thought you two would know."

Both men shook their heads, genuinely confused at the other male's disappearance. And as if the devil himself was listening into their conversation, Yasu appeared seconds later with breakfast in hand. "Hey, Mai! Sorry for taking so long, the lines were very... What are you doing here?" His usual chirpy demeanor was replaced with a serious and threatening one. A hatred filled soul to be precise.

"Yasu, Sit down," Mai said. "Surota and Kira just came to tell us about the little extension they are willing to give us."

The university student nodded but he wasn't stupid to believe that was it. "At what price?"

Mai glared at Yasu for asking that question. "Nothing that concerns you at the moment."

This caused Yasu to glare, though directed towards Kira. He didn't like what he heard, but for now, he will just have to learn to accept it. Mai looked towards the clock on her wall. Lin's arrival will be in ten minutes. "I think it's best that you two should leave. We have a guest coming in a few minutes."

"Alright, We'll be seeing you soon. Mai, Yasu, Until then, enjoy your time." And with that, both men disappeared, leaving no trace of their time there.

Mai let out a breath she didn't know she was holding. Yasu placed a comforting hand on her shoulder. "Mai, what exactly was the deal? I know there is something you are leaving out. "

She shook her head. "It's not something that was should care about for now. We will get out of this. We just have to work a bit faster."

Yasu sighed, knowing that he wasn't going to get anything else out of her. "Alright. Come on, let's eat. Lin will be here shortly."

/x/x/x/x/

"Hello, Lin." Mai greeted and he greeted the same. "Mai, Yasu."

Both university students ushered in the tall Chinese man since it was pouring outside. Having distributed the tea's and small pastries Yasu had picked up, they sat down.

"So where should we begin?" Mai asked.

Lin looked at Mai like she asked a stupid question. "Right sorry. Still not in the right mind due to events that happened this morning." She muttered.

Lin nodded. "Perhaps you should tell me what happened after we left."

Mai began her tale, only deciding to leave a few things out. Some that perhaps, could give insight towards how to help them.

(don't look at me like that. I'm not going to spoil it for you. Besides that would ruin the future chapters cx)

Lin placed his tea cup down. "I still don't fully understand. What is making you so secretive?"

While they did tell him almost everything, they left out the fact that this was caused by demons so quite bluntly, Mai answered his question. "Yasu and I are currently being stalked by two demons."

Lin blinked in surprise, clearly not expecting that response. "Is there anything specifically I should do that would help?"

Mai shook her head whilst Yasu nodded. "Only with the research. I'm almost certain you'll inform Madoka of this so both of you can do it. Other than that, I'm afraid Mai and I are on our own."

Lin nodded, understanding the situation to a certain extent. Though even with all the information they had given him, it was difficult to understand everything even for a man with his knowledge. Knowing the dangers of letting their secret get out, Lin agreed to stay quiet about it. "Alright, Now that this is out of the way I am curious about one thing. How about we talk about the dating situation."

Mai and Yasu were both baffled at this. Lin, strict, silent, almost emotionless Lin, wanted to talk about relationships. This was unheard of.

"Mai, Why did you and Yasu date? In fact, why are you letting Naru believe that the two of you still have feelings for one another."

Yasu was now starting to understand what the older man was doing, however, he withheld from saying anything, Instead, letting Mai speak for him. "Yasu and I dated because we really liked each other. We lasted longer than what we led everyone to believe but that had to come to an end." Lin gestured for Mai to continue. "Yasu dumped me because he ended up liking this girl we met on a case. " The brunette looked over at her friend. "And if I'm right on a few things, you haven't asked her out yet. "

Yasu blushed a brilliant red but still nodded. "Y-yea. I'm waiting for the right moment."

"I suppose the others are not informed of this as well." He asked and got his confirmation once both the college students nodded. He sighed, knowing that this was going to put a road block on things. He also sighed because he knew his boss was going to question him about his whereabouts later. He made a mental note to come up with a small white lie. "Now onto the subject of your powers."

Yasu and Mai looked at each other and then back at the onmyouji, certainly confused on his jumps on the topics.

/xx/x/x/xx/

By the end of the day, Yasu's brain was sent into overdrive and Mai was completely out of energy and breath. The tall Chinese man, dressed in a business suit had a bit of sweat trickling down his face. He certainly looked more disheveled than when he first arrived at Mai's apartment.

(I'm serious You guys better not think about that as dirty. I know that some of you are.)

Panting, Mai looked up at him and managed a small smile. "T-thank you Lin. When's the next lesson?"

Smoothing out his appearance, he responded. "Next week. I'll be taking my leave seeing as it's late. Naru will surely ask where I was."

Both college students looked at the man questionably. "I thought you and the big boss live in separate places now."

Lin nodded at Yasu's words. "The apartment next to him actually, but the majority of the time I spend it at his place."

The pair accepted his explanation but stayed in their spots after the door had closed and Lin was gone.

"So what do we do now Mai?"

She took a deep breath and sighed. After the workout, they were be given they certainly needed a break. Even if that meant losing precious time. "First, we take a break, then eat and finally, I suggest we take a short nap."

"So we just relax?" He looked at her questionably.

"Yes."

"No work?"

"No work."

"Why?" Surely there was something wrong with his friend, he thought.

Mai twisted her head to get a good look at her best friend. "We deserve a little break, don't you think?"

Yasu nodded. As the events played out and they were now in Mai's bed. (Mai having asked Yasu to sleep next to her) Mai cuddled up into Yasu's arms. Loving the warmth they gave up. A part of her missed this, however, worry dismissed her thoughts as she admitted one thing she never planned to admit.

"Yasu, I'm terrified of what may happen."