Mai sat at her desk glaring at her text book. She had spent the last hour trying to figure out the same math problem, and she wasn't getting anywhere. It was finally her day off, and she was using it to catch up with all the homework that she hadn't done, due to their last case. She hadn't had much time to herself since they got back from the Sho shrine. If it wasn't Ayako checking up on her it was Monk. She understood that they were worried about how she would react to the whole thing; after all, she did witness a murder and whatever it was that had happened to the two boys.

Mai let out a long sigh and decided it was best if she took a break before she got a headache. As she made her way towards her bedroom, there was a knock at her front door.

"Who is it?" Mai called out as she headed towards the door.

"It's Oliver." Mai froze, what was her boss doing at her house on her day off?

"Naru, is everything ok?" Mai asked as she opened her door.

"I need to talk to you," was all Naru said, as he slide past her and walked into her sitting room. Still slightly stunned, Mai closed the door and followed him in.

"What did you need to talk about?" Mai asked as she watched her crush walk into the room.

"Do I need to pay you more? This place is a closet!" Naru asked as he looked around the room. Granted, Mai's apartment wasn't the biggest place; it only consisted of a small sitting room, a kitchenette, and a bedroom, but to her it was perfect.

"I happen to love this place it's the perfect size for me. And yes, you do need to pay me more! Now don't change the subject. You said you need to talk to me; what about?" Mai was beginning to become a little worried because it wasn't like Naru to make idle conversation. And was it just her or did he seem a little nervous. Any one else would have thought he was the epitome of calm, but Mai had spent enough time with the boy that she could see right through him.

"I needed to talk to you about, Gene." Naru answered as he sat on her dark green loveseat. "And I didn't want to talk about it at the office, I like to try and keep my work and my personal life separate. However, that has become harder and harder to do with you around."

"I know it bothers you that he hasn't passed, even though you brought him back home. He won't tell me why he's still with me." Mai walked over and sat on her coffee table so that she faced him. She could tell that he was bothered by something.

"It's not about that, I need to know if you're in love with him." Naru looked Mai in the eyes, causing her breath to suddenly disappear. His face was completely blank, but his eyes had a strange swirl of emotion that Mai couldn't seem to grasp.

"I'm not in love with him. I mean I do love him, but it's more like the way I love Monk." She gave him one of her best smiles, "He means a lot to me, but not in that way."

"And what about Yasuhara?" Naru asked.

"He's my best friend…" Mai had the felling telling Naru right now about Yasuhara's confession was a bad idea. "Naru is there a point to this sudden interrogation?" she quickly changed the subject.

"If you can't figure that out your dumber than I thought," Naru answered with a smirk. "I would think that would be obvious even to an idiot like you."

Mai's face turned from a nice blush to about three different shades of red. She was about to lay into him when the meaning of what he said finally sank in. She slowly stood up and began to pace the small room. "Let me get this straight, you came over here to see if I was with anyone?"

"That would be the logical first step," Naru answered her with is blank face back in place.

"You could have just asked me if I had a boyfriend," Mai stopped her pacing and placed her hands on her hips.

"If you were still in love with my brother you wouldn't be dating him." Naru stood up and covered the distance between them, coming only inches away from her. Mai could feel his body heat and it was beginning to make her heart beat faster. She took a deep breath to calm her nerves. She could smell him, tea and pine.

"I was never in love with Gene. It was always you." Mai looked up into his eyes and was once again lost in his dark blue depths.

"Why?" Naru whispered.

Mai took another deep breath and closed her eye. If he wanted an answer then she wasn't going to hold anything back. "You're a workaholic. You act like you don't care about anyone, you insult me almost every chance you get. You're a huge narcissus. But I know that you're a workaholic because you love what you do, and you're very good at it. You only act like you don't care because you hid almost all of your feellings, but the truth is you care very much about everyone you work with and about the clients you take on. The reason you insult me is only because you like to get a rise out of me, you enjoy our arguments just as much as I do. The reason you're such a narcissus is simply because you are in fact a genus and extremely handsom. So the reason I love you is because of all your flaws and in spite of them."

Naru smiled, he truly smiled at her, making all thought escape the poor girl. He leaned down, gently placing his lips against hers in a simple chased kiss. "Don't be late for work tomorrow," was all he said as he left the apartment with a shocked Mai standing in the room.


Please let me know what you all think of this chapter it took forever for this one to come out. Dont fret I have the next case outlined and the love triangle is not over yet.