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File 2.

A Snowy Bloodbath.

Mai sat up slowly and rubbed the sleep out of her eyes, since the room was nearly pitch black, she couldn't make out the time of the day and sighted and laid back onto the pillows, she looked around and her eyes found the small lamp in the corner, then her she gasped and held her breath in amazement.

Naru was sitting in the corner, on a chair, beside him was his papers, some pens and a cup, probably empty, and to Mai's shock, was Naru fast asleep, a hand linked to his cheek wich was steadied on the table so he didn't fall down.

Mai felt her cheeks heat up and she pulled the sheet closer to her face, just in case the narsissist felt like waking up right then, wich he didn't.

Mai sighted and slid her hand across her right ribcage, of course there was no injury, but it still itched, that scar.

"N.. Mai?" said woman jerked her head towards him and blushed when she saw him sit up and then look at his wrist-watch, Mai stared at him, feeling that blush come back again, Naru looked so handsome where he sat, black clothes, that black hair, forming he face perfectly, and those blue eyes that seemed to hold a lot of wisdom, her eyes lowered to his lips and her blush darkened, a lot!

Naru saw this and almost began to worry for a possible after-effect, wich ebbed away as soon as he noticed how Mai was staring at him "I thought she had given up!" he thought and almost crushed the poor pen when Gene replied.

"Then she would never speak to you again.. she isn't the one to hold a grude, but I think she wouldn't have been able to be around you if you had rejected her completely!" Naru frowned "Gene.. get out of my head!" this wasn't because he was annoyed with his brother, he rarely was, but he was kind of nervous for Mai to hear his thoughts.

"Don't worry Noll.. Mai can't hear, it's kind of like a date right.. both sides have to want it.. I guess she can't accept if you wont let her.. or your not in a state of being subdued or nearly dead!" this made Naru relax a bit.

"Mai.." Naru said and got up from his chair, nothing that Mai hadn't expected him to call her name as she jolted from her position, eyes widened in shock "woah.. er, what is it Naru?" she asked, masking her almost half-rejected feelings with an fake innocence "stop playing around.. back then.. at the office, you kissed me Mai, what was the meaning of that, you said you had given up!" he asked, Mai's blush turned into a new shade of red and Naru had to wonder how many shades of red he had seen on Mai since he first met her.

"Um.. well, I guess it was impulse.. I wasn't really planning on ever coming back or even talking to you.. guess fate is playing with me again!" she sighted, even though she was older now, and more mature and beautiful, it didn't keep Naru from seeing the younger Mai he knew, but he could also see a new Mai, a different one, stronger, smarter and better Mai.

"Mai" Naru began, Mai looked up, she licked her lips twice and Naru stopped "your mouth's still dry or!" Mai turned red "slightly.. but it's okay!" Naru sat down on the bedside and stared at the young woman "N-Naru..?" "hm?" Mai blushed "why is it that you seem to act so caring around me lately!" this made Naru fall into his thinking-mode, then he went pink, although it's wasn't that easy to see in the dim light, Mai saw it and almost chuckled.

"Oliver.." Mai whispered, making the jolt slightly, stil not used to Mai calling his real name "what?" he asked, maintaining his calmness as Mai tried not to laugh.

"Have you ever thought that maybe God have a fate for everyone?" this question was made to sound so innocent, but Naru knew better, after he had found out about her he knew that this meant that maybe it was God's fault that they had ended up together again, not that he actually blamed God, he actually thanked him.

"Probably.. does this have something to do with you powers?" this question was not innocent in any way, Mai paled "what?" Naru sighted "Mai, I know.. although I had to scare the crap out of Gene to get a hold of this.." he stopped, Mai looked frightened "how.. why.. are you... ... are you gonna leave too?" Naru gaped "what.. no, do you think I would just because of some powers, you have a crappy memory or have you forgotten what I am!" Mai pouted, then she sighted "when.. before my dad died when I was 8, we visited some old friends of his, there was an accident and dad showed his powers to help.. but he hadn't know his friends saw it and they where so frightened that they never wanted to see him again, after that I was told to never tell anyone if I wanted to hold onto those I loved.." she stopped abruptly and looked down, then Naru knew just what was wrong, she was insecure, she felt that needed to hold it a secret so people would hate her or be scared of her.

Naru scooted forward and unconsciously hugged the now shocked woman "Mai.. you know we wouldn't hate you, or be scared of you!" "yeah.. cuz they don't need two scary people!" Gene commented in their heads, Naru growled and Mai heard nervous laughter "Noll, seriously.. Mai can't even scare a cat, she to soft-hearted, wich.." there was two annoyed veins, one in each' head "I'm glad for, but the fact that she wanted you to spare her from that suffering says enough doesn't it!" then he was gone.

Mai blinked "suffering.. me?" she wondered why the heck he said that, Naru on the other was worried a lot more "Mai... how long have you know of you own powers?" Mai looked down "I've known since my parents told me.." she fell silent.

Naru looked at her and then forced her to look up by grabbing her chin and pulling her face upwards "Mai.. will you tell me?" it was an obvious question and Mai knew it was, tears welled up in her eyes and she nodded slowly.

"But.. er, Gene told me you once visited Japan several years ago, before we met!" Naru nodded "why?" Mai blushed "I'll tell later.. but before, what's the clock?" Naru gave the said thing a quick look "2 pm!" Mai smiled "thanks!"

16 years ago.

"Mai-chan" Hisoka said and pulled a smiling four year old girl into his arms.

The child laughed happily as her father lifted her like a plain, walking into the kitchen "and the Mai-plane goes into landing" he made a plane-sound and slowly lowered her, the girl laughed as she went lower and lower until she was siting by the table.

Erika turned and smiled to the little Mai "Mai-chan, how was kindergarten today?" the girl looked up and smiled big time "fun, reawy funny" her father sighted "still struggling with L aren't you, but so cute.." he cuddled the girl, who began to giggle "daddy's cute too" she said and kissed his cheek, Erika chuckled to herself and then placed the food on the table "did you behave then?" she asked, Mai looked up at her and smiled while nodding like crazy.

As their dinner went on, the door-bell rang and Hisoka left to sheck, Mai blinked, food halfway into her mouth while her mother continued to eat as usual, like nothing had happened.

Suddenly the small child froze in her seat, Erika looked up at her then she frowned "go away!" she whispered, something seemed to react because in the next moment Mai relaxed again "mommy.. was that a ghost?" she asked, her mother smiled at her "yes.. but it's okay, it's gone now!" Mai nodded.

Suddenly Hisoka came in with a large smirk on his face "guess who came on a visit?" Erika looked confused, then four people entered and she lit up "Luella-chan, why are you here.. and with the twins too!" Luella smiled and went over to hug Erika, the mother's looked between their children, Mai was already out of her seat and was staring up at the twin-boys, who stared back, mild interest in their eyes.

Hisoka nearly laughed "okay.. Mai-chan" he turned her to Luella first "that cute lady over there is Luella.. Davis Luella, then there's Marting, he's her husband and those two boys" he then turned the girl back towards the twins "Oliver and Eugene Davis, they live in England, where your mom grew up" then he smiled at the boys, Luella and Marting both smiled to the girl as the English man crouched beside his children "that cute little girl is Mai, she's two years younger than you"

The boys stared at the man before Eugene walked towards the little girl, a smile krept to his face and they all knew that they would get along very well.

Mai blinked to Eugene who smiled back and then he bowed "I'm Davis Eugene.. but everyone calls me Gene, nice to meet you!" this made Mai blush and she nodded "M-Mai.. Taniyama Mai... n-nice to meet you t-too.." she said, then Oliver moved, but unlike Eugene didn't he bow, he just smiled.

"Oliver, or Noll, wich one you prefer, nice to meet you!" everything about them where similar, their smile, their eyes and form, even their voice and actions was so similar they could have been copying each other, and the simple fact that their Japanese was fluent made her heart jump a beat for some unknown reason.

Mai blushed even more now and nodded "M-Mai..." Eugene looked up at his mother "can we go outside, I want to see how it is around here!" Erika stiffened a little, wich Luella noticed and smiled "just in the garden, Mai is still just 4 years old, we can't have her go missing and since you don't know where to go yet" the boys nodded and turned away before she finished, then Eugene looked over his shoulder "wanna play Mai-chan?" she squealed and ran after the boys, Eugene took one hand and Oliver the other, they both stared a little at each other, then at the girl in between, who had such a dark shade of red that even a tomato would be jealous.

"Let go then Mai-chan, Noll!" then they went outside, playing what-ever they could inside the quite large garden of their's.

Luella sighted and sat down beside the table, seeing that the food weren't quite finished "did we let her go before she was finished?" Erika laughed "doesn't matter, she's an eating-machine and it doesn't matter if she misses a little of this!" this the two men laughed at, then Marting turned serious "so.. when did Mai get white hair.. oh, and how's it going, I hear it's hard to keep them away from her!" Hisoka nodded "yes, just the last week, we think it's because of the powers, we also got it, although we'll dye her hair as we did too, and them... it is.. we don't know for how long they will do this, but Mai-chan, if she's lucky, she won't have any powers, if I or Erika weren't what we are, she would have that 50\50 chance, but since we are both the same, she probably will have those powers too.."

Marting nodded and scratched the bridge of his nose "so, the important thing now is to protect her from being attacked, what about telling her so she will be more on alert.. ops.. I forgot she's just 4 yet!" he had to laugh of himself for a second, while Erika took the dishes away and Luella made some tea, then they all gathered around the table "but will she be alright outside, we can barely let her outside now.." Erika asked, Luella smiled "Oliver and Eugene is quite strong too, they would help her if she's in danger"

"Anyway.." Marting began "when do you think she's develop her powers?" Hisoka and Erika shook their heads "don't know.." before he could finish the sentence, the front door opened with a loud slam and the three children sprinted inside, Oliver and Eugene dragging Mai behind them, then slamming the door shut, both held onto Mai as the girl began to cry.

Luella's eyes widened as Erika got up and ran over to the children, Hisoka in tow, they crouched beside the small ones and laid her hands on Mai's shoulder "Mai-chan what happened, are you alright?" the girl didn't stop crying, but she opened her eyes and looked up at her mother "there was a scary-wooking man outside.." the boys stared at them as Hisoka tried to hold back his anger.

The man told his wife to take the children inside and hide them for now, wich she did as he opened the door and looked outside.

And to his anger and fear, a man was standing by the gate to their house, black glasses and dark clothes, but he could see the real form of that man, a demon "argh.. why now!" he twisted his arms as the man noticed he was acting and before Hisoka could even make up some charm or chanting, the man had changed and run over the man, who fell to the floor after the hard blow, forcing the air out of his lungs.

He turned to see the demon rush around the corner "Erika.. it's inside!" he shouted, but just seconds later a scream filled the house "Erika.." the man whispered and got up, staggering towards the source of the scream, finding them in the living-room and to his fear was Erika lying on the floor, hair covered her face so he could see, Mai was trying to shake her mother back to consciousness and the twins where shielding their parents.

The demon smirked and reached a hand towards Mai, who froze when she looked up, suddenly something slashed through the air and cut the demon's hand and he jerked back, the boys where looked directly at him, Mai didn't turn, she just stared at the demon in pure fright.

That lead to Hisoka being thrown to the wall behind the demon, who managed to grab Mai's hand and try to drag up, both parents of the twins where also unconscious, sitting in the chairs beside the couch.

"Mai-chan!" Eugene shouted, he grabbed his brother, who frowned more and lifted his hand towards the demon, who smirked and just ducked, then threw air-pushes at the twins, who was taken aback and fell down to the floor.

Mai turned at stared at the brother's who had a hard time getting back on their feet, Hisoka's eyes widened as the demon lifted the girl up, who kicked and screamed to get out of his grip.

The demon made it ready to leave when the whole house began to shake, Eugene looked at his brother, almost expecting it to be him, but he just stared back and shook his head "it's her!" he simply said and pointed at Mai, of course the twins where sensitive to psychic powers so when Mai reacted, they felt it and they both began to crawl away, backing off.

Hisoka watched his daughter bit the demon, who let her go, but the shaking didn't stop as something hit the demon's head fast and hard and Hisoka realized it was the old bowling-ball he had gotten when he was a teenager and he winced as the demon fell to the floor "remind me to never piss off Mai-chan ever again!" he noted to himself.

Then Mai managed to get out of his grip and run across the floor, to the twins.

The demon wavered as he tried to latch onto Mai again and take her away, but she refused and the bowling-ball made a re-tour.

When the demon had been beating enough that he was more like a crushed ooze on the floor than a bony creature, Mai lifted her eyes and then looked at the window that was pushed open with an enormous power and the demon was thrown out.

Hisoka stared at his daughter "Mai-chan.." he whispered, the girl then looked at him, her blue eyes turning brown, then tears began to fill the corner of the girls eyes.

Oliver was first up, he quickly took the girls hand and the sobs halted, she turned and blushed "it's over Mai.. don't cry!" she nodded and tears stopped, Hisoka had no idea how the boy managed to stop her, she was just four years old, it wasn't abnormal that she cried a lot.

The girl hugged the boys shirt, Oliver stared down at her before he hesitatingly wrapped his arms around her.

"I'll protect you Mai, always.." he whispered, Mai hadn't heard, but it didn't matter as long as he had desided on that.


Okay.. just along the way of Mai's past.. oh, and lucky, I put Naru and Gene there too.. and if people wonder why he has the name Noll and Naru - Oliver = Ol = Noll (try say it, it's easy) then, when you say Noll in Japanese it's Noru, wich would easily turn to Naru XD

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