The Final Chapter of I'll Love You Forever is up!! :D All that's left now is the epilogue! Makes me kinda sad really!!
I'm not that happy with this chapter as it's pretty anti-climatic but whatever. Sigh. You guys can be the judge of it!
EDIT: I've added a bitty more NaruxMai but it's darker than usual. It's just to show their relationship isn't all sunshine and sparkles and to add a bit more on!
Disclaimer: I don't own Ghost Hunt.
Mai gasped for breath as Naru rolled off of her, lying on his back next to her, breathing in the same way.
"Wow." Was the only thing she could think of, noticing Naru wincing as he moved. "What's up?"
The pale boy next to her shot her a look as if to say 'You really don't know?' to which she responded with a look that clearly said 'If I knew, do you really think I'd ask?'
He sighed and sat up, his back facing her. In the faint moonlight coming from the windows Mai could see thin red scratches down his back, angled from the inside edge of both shoulder blades in a downwards diagonal pattern. Some were deep, some weren't but they all looked noticable.
"Whoops?"
"It doesn't matter." He stated, his face turning serious and stern.
Mai couldn't help but think he wasn't all that comanding right now. After all, he was naked, the only thing covering him was a thin sheet pooling in his lap and he was remarkably thin looking in the moonlight, without all his black clothes. Not to mention the fact she could distinctly remember him calling her name out repeatedly in the past hour.
"Promise me you're not going to do anything stupid."
"I've already told you Naru-"
"You've never said the words 'I promise' you only agreed or changed the topic."
"Stop being so stupid Naru." She snapped sitting up and glaring at him, not even bothering to hold the sheet over her chest.
"I'm not being stupid!" He snarled and in one fluid motioned was straddeling Mai, the sheet in her lap the only thing seperating their lower halfs, his hand on the head bored on either side of her head. "Promise me."
Mai tried not to shake. She had never seen him like this before. His rain water blue eyes were drilling into her own honey eyes so hard it was almost painful. The heat his whole body was giving off seemed to scorch her skin. She felt the air around her begin to get heavy, like that time at the shrine in the cave before he passed out.
"Naru...please..." She whispered weakly, sliding down slightly as if to get away from him. She knew he'd never hurt her purposefully, but at this moment in time she wasn't possitive.
"Promise me." His voice was low and smooth but sent shivers down her spine.
"Don't you trust me!" She asked, looking into his eyes with hurt.
Naru's eyes softened and his muscles relaxed. He seemed to crumple for some reason, his head lying on her shoulder and his body becoming a dead weigh on top of her.
"I'm so sorry for scaring you Mai..." He muttered lifting his head up and looking at her, taking hold of her chin in his hand. "I just don't want to loose you."
"Naru..." Mai paused. What could she say? That she'd never leave him? That wasn't a smart thing to say. How could she tell that she'd never leave him, be it today, tomorrow or in 5 years? Situations changed constently and she wasn't all that sure about her and Naru now. Seeing him like that, the intense look of anger in his eyes...it had scared her more than the whole Keita situation.
"Naru, lets just go to sleep ok?" She placed her hands on his chest and slowly pushed him off of her.
She saw the heartbroken look in his eyes and it took all her strength to ignore it, slipping back under the covers and laying on her side. She felt the bed shift as Naru did the same and seized up slightly when she felt his chest against her back, his arms pulling her close to him. Slowly she relaxed and drifted off into a dreamless sleep.
Mai woke up, in Naru's bed, due to the cold air blowing around her.
The first thought she had as she pulled on Naru's pale blue pajama shirt over her underwear, was to close the window.
"Hang on..." She muttered looking at the window with a frown. "The windows are locked..."
"Mai?" She whipped around to see Naru sitting up in bed, the covers falling into his lap, showing his bare chest. "Come back to bed." His voice was thick with sleep.
"D-don't you feel it?" She whispered, feeling around on the bedside table for the sutra charm Ayako had given her. She felt the thick paper under her finger tips and picked it up. "It's so cold..."
As soon as Mai finished the sentance Naru lept up, pulling on his pajama bottoms. "Mai get out of this room!" He grabbed her hand and pulled her to the door. It was jammed closed.
"Naru..." Mai's voice was feeble as her fingers dug into his arm. "He's in here."
And she was right, because moments later, the temperature dropped even more, mist curling along the carpet.
"Keita..." She whispered and as if he heard her say his name, he appeared.
"It's all your fault Mai. Everything. You killed me!" Keita roared at her, barely noticing Naru in the room with her.
"I..I didn't mean it! I..I'm sorry!" She cried, the sutra charm clenched in her hand.
"Your sorry? You're SORRY!? I'm dead because of what you did! Because of you, my mother has suffered so much! You killed me Mai!"
"I'm sorry! I sware! I..I didn't know!" She was sobbing, watching him with fear and sorrow.
"How could you not know! I watched you all the time! I wrote you letters that you threw away! I loved you! And you killed me!"
"Mai didn't kill you. You killed yourself." Naru snapped pulling Mai into his arms.
"Because she didn't look at me! I died because she'd never look at me the way she looks at you!" He pointed at Naru angrily, hate in his eyes.
"You shouldn't have killed yourself..." Mai whispered, looking at him as she moved closer to him, breaking free of Naru's arms.
This was it. This was the right time.
Keita was staring at her as if she was something he couldn't quite understand.
"You should have just talked to me. If you talked to me then I would have noticed you." She reached her hand out and her hand brushed his arm. He felt ice cold, almost solid, like crushed ice but smooth. "But you have to go..."
"Mai!" Naru said warningly. "Don't...you promised!"
"You don't belong here, hurting people..." She ignored him, looking straight at Keita for the first time since she'd met him.
"I want to stay and be with you..." Keita muttered, gazing at her with love struck eyes. "I'm sorry for everything I did to you...I needed to get your attention."
"I know..." Her hand moved from his arm to his face, stroking his cheek. "And you can be with me. Soon. But if I join you...you have to leave."
"No Mai!" Naru pleaded and in any other situation, Mai would have dropped her jaw at the tone. "You can't leave me. You promised."
"I love you.." Keita whispered as she went on her tiptoes, her lips a hair breadth away from his. "Will you join me?" As if by some illusionists trick, a knife appeared in his hands
Mai looked at him, straight in the eyes, removing the knife from his hands. "Yes." She uttered, pressing her lips against his gently.
The cold presence in the room dissapeared and Naru watched with a horrified expression.
Mai pulled back opening her eyes, watching Keita open his slowly, pressing her forehead against his, holding his cheeks in her hands softly.
"Let's go together. It's not painful." He whispered, moving to kiss her again but her stopped him with a finger on his lips.
"I'm sorry..."
It all happened so fast Naru was sure if he blinked he would have missed it. Keita screamed in pain and pushed Mai away. She stumbled straight into his arms and they both watched as the sutra charm Mai had impailed on Keita's chest using the knife sent black shocks around his whole body, Keita letting out scream after scream before finally dissapearing in a soundless explosion of blue and dark purple lights.
Mai sagged in his arms and he held her tightly as she began to weep openly.
It was over.
He was gone.
I know it's short but whatever.
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