Run Away
"Naru!" Mai screamed as she fell to her knees and her vision started to become faded. She watched as her hand reached out and pressed down on the wound that was on his chest. "Hold on Naru, they are coming." She said, hoping that she was right. They needed to come. They needed to get here before it was too late.
"They should be here soon, so hold on." She told herself more than him. She looked behind her but no one was there. She then looked down at Naru who had his eyes closed. "Naru?" Mai called, hoping he would speak up. There was no response. "Naru!" Mai called. He laid there, motionless.
"Someone help us!" Mai screamed over her shoulder, hoping that there was someone there to hear her. "Anyone! Please! We are over here!" Mai screamed again, but nothing changed. Tears came to her eyes as she realized that it was futile. No one was coming, and she should just accept that. She was alone, and Naru was on the verge of death and there was nothing she could do.
"Please…." She whispered as she removed her arms from his chest. He had gone cold minutes ago along with his faint heartbeat. "Someone…..anyone….help me."
"Mai!" called a voice that woke Mai from her sleep. She looked up to find two dark blue eyes staring down at her. "If you tired, go home. I'm not going to pay you for work you don't do." He snapped at her. Mai sat up straight and headed for the kitchen, not looking at him. "Where are you going?" he asked.
"You're snappy, so I am getting you tea." She replied to him, not bothering to put any effort into insulting him. He turned and headed back to his office, without another word. Mai listened for his office door to close while she filled the kettle with water.
It has been over six months now since that event, and Mai has heard nothing of the whereabouts of Shiro from the police. To them, it seems like he has disappeared off the face of the earth, and there was nothing they could do to help. They had offered her a spot in the Witness Protection Program but she politely declined. She didn't want to leave everyone behind to start a new life.
Mai put the kettle on the burner as the front door opened. Mai turned around to find someone walk in. Mai turned around to find a young woman standing there. She had to be in her late twenties, early thirties with her shiny, smooth blond hair and her light brown eyes that looked around the office with confusion.
"Hello." Mai said as she walked out of the kitchen to greet her. The woman jumped, not expecting to see her.
"Oh hello" She said nervously. "Is this where I can find a Kazuya Shibuya or a Mai Taniyama?" The woman asked.
"Ah, yes I am Mai Taniyama and my boss is Kazuya Shibuya." Mai said as she introduced herself. "Is there something I can do for you?" Mai asked. The woman shook her head before bowing and turning to leave. Mai watched the door close gently behind the woman. "huh" Mai said to herself as she heard the whistle from the kettle in the other room.
She quickly poured the water into a tea cup for Naru as she added some tea to it, turning the water brown. She then carefully picked it up and carried it to Naru's office(Lin was not in today). She knocked on the door and when she heard 'Come in' from the other side, she opened the door and walked to the back of the room, where her boss Naru was sitting.
Mai placed the tea down in front of him and stood there for a moment.
"I am not going to say thank you." He said, not looking up at her.
"I know. I just wanted to talk to you about something." Mai said. Naru looked up her, the cup in his one hand.
"About?" Naru asked as he leaned back in his chair.
"Well there was this strange costumer who just came in." Mai said. Naru looked at her funny, not understanding what she was talking about, so Mai continued. "She came in and asked if this was where she could find…"
"Find what?" Naru asked, getting impatient.
"If you and me were here."
"And?"
"Well, when I said yes, she said thank you and then just left."
"She just left?" Naru repeated. Mai nodded her head. "So? I don't see what the issue is. There are a lot of reasons she could have been here, you can't just assume that it is a bad one."
"I'm not!"
"Then what is the problem?"
"I don't know!" Mai yelled at him on accident. She covered her mouth as she felt tears starting to feel her eyes. "Never mind!" Mai said before walking out. She barely made it out of the door before she collapsed to the ground from week knees. In truth, that dream she had really scared her more than anything. Even though it has been months since then and Naru has made a full recovery, she still couldn't help but having those dreams. And what scared her more was that Shiro still had not been caught and at any moment he could come and take her away.
Mai pulled her knees out from underneath her and pulled them to her chest. Why didn't Naru see that all she wanted was a little reassurance? Then again, it was Naru, and it was just best to forget about the whole thing. He would just tell her to get over it now and get back to work. Mai put her head between her knees, trying to stop from crying. It wasn't worth it. None of it was. Crying would get her nowhere and she knew that so why couldn't she stop?
The door from behind her suddenly disappeared and Mai looked up to find Naru standing behind her. She stared at him for some time, letting the tears fall. She didn't care anymore.
"I'm moving." Mai said as she looked away and tried to stand. She knew that was what he wanted.
"Mai" Naru called from behind her.
"I'm fine Naru, I just haven't been sleeping well, that's it." Mai said as she finally got up. She wiped off the invisible dirt before heading towards her desk.
"Mai" Naru said a little more firmly, but Mai ignored him and said. "I'm going back to work, alright? Just save me the lecture."
"Mai!"Naru yelled as he reached out and grabbed her arm. He pulled on her so that she turned to face him, but he pulled a little too hard and she gave a small yelp. Naru took a deep breath to calm himself before saying "Mai what is going on? You have been acting strange lately, and I don't appreciate that you ignore me when I am trying to talk to you!"
"I told you nothing is wrong!" Mai yelled at him. She tried to pull away from him, but he didn't budge. "Just leave me alone!"
"I won't Mai, because you are obliviously upset about something, so just spit it out already!" Naru yelled at her.
"You want to know what is wrong? I haven't slept in days and have barely eaten anything! I am scared out of my mind and you just don't care!" Mai yelled. All the feelings she has been feeling the last few weeks finally just spilled over. The hatred that boiled in her; the loneliness that ate away at her; the frightfulness that consumed her; everything just exploded inside of her. "Ever since that night you have been acting like nothing has happened. That Shiro never exist and that he never hurt you! You have done nothing but move on, not caring that I am scared out of my mine about what will happen! I don't know where his is, Naru! I don't know anything! For all I know, he could be right behind me, waiting for the right moment to strike! Every second in my life, I am afraid, and you expect me to just get over it and continue on with my life, but I can't do that Naru! Unlike you, I am too terrified to go outside my own house, let alone even go to sleep in my own bed!" Mai yelled, tears spilling down her eyes. "I just…..I just can't take it anymore Naru!" Mai said as she tried to stop breathing so hard. She had lost so much of what she had thought, that she couldn't even remember what she had yelled at him, but whatever it was, she didn't want to remember. The look on his face in that moment frighten her more then anything. It wasn't made of anger, or annoyance, but of worry and confusion, and she just wanted him to stop looking at her like that.
"Let go of me." She said, looking away from him. When he didn't release her hand, she yanked it away from him before turning around to head for the door.
"Mai!" Naru called after her.
"Just leave me alone Naru!" Mai screamed before slamming the front door behind her.
Mai ran down the streets, not bother to look where she was going. She just wanted to get as far away from Naru as possible.
After what felt like hours of running, Mai finally slowed down, her breath hard from running and the tears that were falling down her cheeks. Mai bent over and stared at the ground, watching her tears wet the ground beneath her. What had she been thinking? She had just yelled at her boss about something that she had kept bottle up for weeks now. There was no way she could go back now. He would hate her for saying those things, and even if he did, there still no point.
Thunder echoed across the sky, shortly followed by lighting. Mai stood up and looked up at the sky in time to feel the rain drops on her face.
"Great." Mai mumbled to herself as the rain started to pick up, pounding itself into the ground. Mai looked around to see where she was and found a gazebo just a head. She decided she might as well go there before she gets sick form the cold.
Mai ran over to the shelter and stepped under it, recognizing the area as a park that was a few blocks from the office. "I hope it lets up soon. I don't want to be here all night." Mai said to herself as she watched the dirt on the ground turn to mud. There was no way she would be able to stay out all night, even if she wanted.
Suddenly, Mai felt her pocket vibrate as a loud ringing sound came from it. Mai reached into her pocket and pulled out her phone and saw that someone was calling it. She looked at the caller ID. It was Naru. She pushed the ignore button and put it back in her pocket. She didn't want to talk to him right now.
Shortly after her phone had stopped ringing, she felt the same vibration and the same annoying ringing sound coming from her pocket again. She pulled it out and looked to see that it was Naru again. She pushed the ignore button again.
Shortly after that, it began to ring again and Mai was starting to get annoyed. She pulled the phone out of her pocket, flipped it opened and screamed "What Naru!" into it.
"Baka!" he yelled at her. "Who the hell said you could just leave!"
"No one Naru!" Mai yelled back at him. "I decided it myself! Why do you care anyway! Don't you have better things to be doing, like drinking your stupid tea!"
"The only thing I have to do is find you and get you back to the office!"
"Well I don't want to go back!"
"I don't care! You are coming back here, even if I have to drag you kicking and screaming!"
"Why should you even care where I am! It has nothing to do with you!"
"It has everything to do with me! Now come back!"
"No!"
"Mai don't test me, now get back here!"
"I will test you however I want!" Mai yelled. There was a noise from the bush behind her that made her jump. She looked behind her to find a rabbit trying to get shelter from the pounding rain. "Plus I can't come back" Mai said in her normal voice.
"Why not?"
"It's raining really hard and I don't have a change of clothes to change into."
"That is what you are worried about?" Naru yelled.
"Well it might not be a big deal for you, but I don't want to be soaking wet and stuck in the office for another who knows how long!" Mai said trying to keep her voice calm.
"You are such an idiot!" Naru yelled at her.
"Don't call me an idiot!" Mai yelled back.
"I can call you whatever I want!" Naru said. "And did you forget the part about having a serial killer after you!" he yelled. There was silence as Mai started to remember what he was talking about.
"Oh right" Mai said. She suddenly felt extremely afraid. She had been so concerned about getting away from Naru that she forgot the whole reason she wanted to get away.
"Where are you?" Naru growled.
"I'm in a gazebo at a park a few blocks from the office." Mai said, looking around. She knew exactly where she was, but for some reason, a strange feeling came over her and she felt as if she was being watched.
"Don't move I'll be there in a minute." He said. Mai waited to here the click, but it never came. Instead she heard the door open and slam shut.
"Naru?" she asked, wondering if he had forgotten to hang up.
"What?" he snapped.
"Nothing." All of a sudden she felt safer, knowing that Naru wasn't going to leave her alone.
There was a strange noise behind Mai that made her turn around. There in the bushes across from her was a man. He was not only soaked to the bone, but he was holding a very sharp knife that glimmered when he turned it the right way. Mai suddenly froze with fear.
"Well look who we have here." He said with an evil smirk. Mai immediately recognized him as Shiro.
"Mai, who was that?" Naru asked through the phone. Mai was unable to answer, because somewhere along the way she had lost her voice. All she could do was stare there silently, watching Shiro like a deer caught in headlights.
"Who's that?" he asked, taking a step closer. "Is that our little friend, oh what's his name, Caru?" Mai felt her body move a step back.
"Mai, what's going on?" Naru asked , trying to get her attention. Mai didn't hear him as her arm slowly fell to her side.
"Don't worry I promise to make sure that the police will be able to identify the body after im done with it. Or at least part of it." He said before laughing like a mad man.
"Mai get out of there NOW!" Naru screamed. Mai hearing him and dropped her phone to the ground as she ran as fast as she could out into the night.
"You can run, but you can't hide." He said before disappearing into the night.
Hey everyone! This is the next chapter to Run Here My Dear you all! I just have some announcements below so yea. Nothing really exciting.
1. I have finally re-written all of those lovely one-shots and I posted three of the five up. Ddurga 's Mai x John, ddurga74 's Mai x Lin and Ariana Taniyama 's Masako x Yasuhara. Out of the three, Ddurga and Ariana Taniyama's I like the best. No wait that was a lie. Jade Starlight 's I think is the best out of them all. Sorry everyone else, but I just like it. I am putting it up tomorrow with Chrysanthia-Sunshine 's Mai x Naru. This one is a continuation of the Opalle Isilei*'s Mai x Naru one where Mai invites Naru to sleep over and then kinda ruins it for him. She asked me to continue, so I happy did, and I have to say, it coming along great.
2. Sissy's story is now out and I have to say, you should try to read it. I like it and I think it is worth reading when you have the chance. If you want to and don't have time or the patience to read Awaken My God, just message me and I will fill you in on all the stuff that you need so you can read it. It won't be long trust me. You didn't miss much. Wow I pick on her a lot. Anyway it is worth reading. I suggest you check it out. It's Silence Within Stone Walls. I did not come up with the title, no matter how many times she says I did. No, I'm joking she will take all the credit.
3. So like, I taught my mom two new words...Yaoi and Yuri...bad mistake. If you know what I am talking about, you must understand, if you don't, please find a Japanese dictionary and look it up, so that you can understand with us
4. I have the next two chapters of this story completely, and I am trying to get three, cause I do not want to leave you all so soon, but it looks like I might have to.
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