Note there is one other new chapter before this one, do not skip over it, or some stuff will not make sence in this chapter. I am sick of getting emails, where I have to tell people there are two new chapters.


Chapter Fifty-Four

May 24 5:29pm

Naru made his way back to his office, he had been gone longer than he pleased. As he walked in he heard someone stumping to the door.

"I knew this was coming."

Lin raced up to him and growled, "Naru, what were you doing!"

Naru brushed past his angered guardian, and began to make his way to his office. This made Lin even more furious, "Must you sneak out when you go anywhere? Naru- I am talking to you!"

He ignored the Chinese man and went directly to his office. Once he closed the door he immediately fell back into his chair behind the desk.. He took a deep sigh, "I can not believe I just did that."

He groaned and put his head on the desk.

"Why was I so angered the thought about her going on a date? I should not even care, and who cares what she thinks of me. It is not a predicament if she thinks I am like that. Just because I do not overstep my boundaries I am like that too her. Does she realize other people in a work environment have those exact same boundaries? Yet she oversteps them any chance she gets. I can not belie...,"

Suddenly the phone rang and Naru straightened up. He picked up the phone towards his ear and pressed talk.

"Hello," she said coldly.

"Um yes hello, I would like to speak to the parent of Taniyama Mai."

"I am neither the parent or the guardian of her."

"Oh- well then can you put her parent on the line."

"You must be mistaken, Mai is an orphan. Her parents are dead."

"Forgive me, but I just started. And it says on her student contact sheet that the work number to reach her is this very one."

"Oh Mai."

"I work with her, just tell me what you need and I will relay the message to her."

"Can you get your boss on then to tell her."

"This is he."

There was a pause on the other end of the line. Suddenly the man came back on and said in a slightly higher tone, "Really."

"Of course you half wit."

"Yes, my name is Kazuya Shibuya. I run Shibuya Psychic Research, and Mai is my assistant. Now if you will, tell me what she needs to know."

The man sighed, "I guess you will have to do. Well it seems that Taniyama-san is barely passing most of her classes."

"Figures," Naru murmured.

"What."

"Nothing, just continue."

"So she is getting an average of 72 marks for each class, except one. You see Mai is failing English and if she does not pass it she will not be able to graduate, she can barely pass to the eleventh grade right now."

"...,"

"Uh-Hello."

"..,"

"Hello?"

"Tell your principle that I will be taking care of this, personally."

Naru did not wait for a response as he hung up the phone. He brought his hand to his chin as he began to think of a solution. One immediately came to mind, but he was not entirely sure if he should do it. After trying to think of countless other solutions none could measure up to his first one.

Naru groaned and leaned back, "looks like I am going to have to do it."

The next day Mai casually walked in, wearing her normal clothes again. She quietly made her way to her desk, not wanting Naru to catch her walking in. She did not feel like making tea just yet. Mai began to walk to her desk when she saw movement. She caught her breath and looked toward's her right. Naru's door was wide opened, except he seemed to be engulfed with some kind of work. She sighs, "great he is busy, now I can quickly get this done."

Mai quickly pulled out a small book and took out a pencil. She began to scribble something on the first page, "Okay- Kouki told me his birthday was December 28th , Bou-san's is January 22nd , Ayako's is.. June 7th, John's is January 5th, Yasuhara's is March 1st, and Masako's is July 24th. Now when is Lin's? Maybe I should just ask him. He might tell me."

Mai got up and went to Lin's office. She grabbed the handle and peeped inside. A bright blue light was shining on Lin as he continued to type god knows what on his computer. He only glanced up for a second and then looked back down.

"Tani-Mai."

"Oh- um, can I come in?"

"Sure."

Mai slowly creaked the door open and came in. Lin continued to type.

"Can I ask you something."

"Hn?"

"When is your birthday?"

Lin stopped typing and looked up at the girl. He leaned back in his chair, "my- birthday?"

Mai nodded at the Chinese man.

"January Eleventh."

She nodded and grinned at him, "thank you Lin-san."

She then walked out of his office and back to her desk. She then picked up her pencil and began to scribble something into the notebook , "let's see- Lin-January 11th. Wow- there are a lot of birthdays in January- I am going to have to save up a lot to get each of them something nice. Now let's see here, now much overtime would I have to wor..,"

A piece of paper suddenly got in the way of her notebook. Mai looked up to see Lin towering over her. She could not help but sweat drop as he gazed down on her. She picked up the scrap of paper and looked back up at the onmyoji. He motioned her to open it. Mai's fingers carefully unravel the scrap sheet of paper. She then stared at it blankly at what is said on it.

She then whispered under her breath, "September Nineteenth?"

Her blank stare traveled up to Lin and he then motioned his head towards a door. Mai looked at the direction and saw Naru in his office, still working on whatever he was working on. It took a second, but it finally clicked in her mind. She looked back at Lin and smiled.

"Thank you Lin," she whispered.

He only smirked at the young girl and began to make his way back to his office. Ever since she had been progressing even more in her training a new relationship was open between the two of them.

Mai quickly wrote the date in the notebook, when she suddenly heard Naru call her name. She nearly jumped out of her seat, "crap he caught me."

She looked timidly over her shoulder, and to her surprise none was there. Her eyes scanned over to his office, and he was still working on whatever.

"Tea."

"Hai."

Mai got up and went to the kitchenette, with her heart still thudding in her heart.

"I thought he caught me. Though, why is Naru waiting so long for tea?"

As Mai finished pouring the tea, she waited no time to get to his office. Naru did not look up at her as she walked in. He merely says, "close the door."

Mai carefully walked in and closed the door behind her. As she turned to her eyes it seemed Naru's dark blue eyes brightened in the darkness of the room. Before Mai could put the cup on the table Naru rose and cleared his throat.

He then stated at first in English, "Hello Mai, I am going to make this quick so listen closely. Können Sie verstehen mich überhaupt? Je vois ce regard sur votre visage, vous êtes confus. Sei davvero così tanto di un idiota? Tad atkal jūus Mai. Tja, heter din skola mig, och sa något ganska intressant. Dywedwch wrthyf, byddai pam ar y ddaear yr ydych yn dosbarthiadau methu. Og engelsk af alle klasser, er du virkelig, at meget af en idiot? Bana cevap gel. I guess ju jeni një idiot."

Mai just stared blankly at her boss, "was that English?"

Naru's hand's tightened on the table, "this is going to be more difficult than I thought."

He then switched back to Japanese, "Mai- you really are a baka."

"Eh- Hey, I am not and Idiot!"

"Oh- then why did your school call."

Mai stepped back, and felt her whole body tighten.

"Don't act so surprised Mai. You should have realized they would call since you put S.P.R down as your medical and parental contact. Now let us get back on topic, shall we baka. How can you even fail English? It has to be one of the easiest languages to learn."

Mai gritted her teeth, and balled her fist, "well sorry I am not a genius like you. But how can I even do good in that class, if I am working here."

"I believe that is your fault, due to the fact how much time you actually spend sleeping while working."

Mai felt her cheeks begin to turn red, and she knew her whole face would soon be engulfed in it.

"Oh yeah, well who is the one that always makes me work?"

"Would you stop getting upset with me about your stupid mistake, do you realize what will happen if you do not pull up your marks? You will fail, and you will never graduate from highschool."

"What should it matter if I ever graduate? I work here already- and I can continue to work here!"

An evil look came to his eyes, making Mai jump back.

"Is that so? Well I suppose you have not heard the new policy here at S.P.R. If and employ chooses to work at Shibuya Psychic Research as they are a student in school. They must graduate by age eighteen, or will be automatically fired by the CEO on their last day of school."

Mai felt her mouth drop, but she could not bring herself to bring it up.

"This is a joke, it has to be some kind of cruel, sick joke. Is he being serious? Jerk!"

"Bring your jaw up Mai, before you start attracting flies.

Mai then closed her mouth angrily, and looked at the seventeen year old.

"You can't do that, that's not fair! You have not even gone to colle...,"

"Don't speak another word on what you do not understand Mai. You know nothing on my schooling."

"You mean, you have already graduated college?"

Naru glared at her, "of course I have, idiot."

"And Mai, I can do whatever I please, as long as I own and run this corporation. Let us not forget who signs your paychecks."

Mai stared blankly at her boss, she was stunned. After a few minutes of silence Naru picked up a booklet and began to flip through pages.

"Now were are going to begin wi..,"

"Wait- we?"

This earned her another glare from Naru, "of course dummy, I am going to tutor you."

"Ya-you tutor meh-me?"

"Yes, is there a problem?"

"You just insulted me and now you are trying to help me! Forget it, I don't need you, I will find a tutor myself."

After a moment of silence in the room Naru pulled something from one of the desk drawers. Mai stared confused at it.

"Why does Naru have a calculator ou..,"

Mai suddenly saw Naru's fingers rush across it with one hand, and using the other to right down estimates.

"Now Mai, the regular cost of a tutor is this. Now that is for one lesson, with only one subject. When you begin to pay for a tutor once a day, the total begin's raise into this. Now you would have to pay that for two years. Let's not forget about highschool exam preparations. So let's just say, in order for you to catch up you would need to also work less hours here to be tutored. Now the final cost will be, well- you would have been better off paying for the broken camera in the first place."

Mai looked over at the finished estimate, and instantly she was about to have a heart attack.

"That is a LOT of zeros, I can't afford that!"

"I see you understand your predicament, and that total does not include raising your overall average for each subject. There is also the time you would have to spend to find a decent tutor. I am willing to do it for free Mai, and you can study here. But I will expect you to take care of it yourself during cases."

"So he is pretty much saying that he is better than any other tutor and I have no way out. Stupid Narcissist...,"

"Fine- I'll do it."

She got no response from him as he pulled out several more books.

"I want you to begin to study the English Alphabet, and memorize them. Tomorrow we will go over the sounds of the vowels and constantans. We will then go over how if you combine two letters, the sound would change."

"But that's too long!"

"Is it?" he asked tauntingly.

"Yeah and I already know the English Alphabet!"

Naru quickly picked up a piece of paper off his desk and shoved it in Mai's face.

"Alright, read the first line of this page."

Mai knew her entire face had to be red by now.

"Oh, um well- it says, well..,"

"Like I have told you before Mai, I am not gullible. Here, take these books. I expect you to complete the first twenty pages of the workbooks, and you must bring in notes as well tomorrow."

As he put the books in her hand's Mai nearly toppled over.

"Jerk."

Naru sat back down as Mai began to walk out of the door. Before she walked out she turned around for one final thing.

"Naru- why do you even care about my marks?"

Instead of getting an answer she just got another hard glare, causing her to zip back to her desk to get out of dodge. Naru sighed as the darkness of the room began to creep back over him.

"Nothing makes sense anymore."


So, what did you think? I know it is not much, but it will make sence later on. Also notice, Naru never argued over being Mai's medical contact, among other things for school.

Oh yeah- if you are wondering what language Naru was speaking in, it was not one language.

It was german, italian, frech, english, bulgerian and several others. Also this is what Naru said if you translate it.

Hello Mai, I am going to make this quick so listen.

Können Sie verstehen mich überhaupt?

Can You understand me at all?

Je vois ce regard sur votre visage, vous Ltes confus.

I see that look on your face, you are confused.

Sei davvero cosX tanto di un idiota?

Are you really that much of an idiot?

Tad atkal jãus Mai.

Then again you are Mai.

Tja, heter din skola mig, och sa nDgot ganska intressant.

Well, your school called me, and told me something rather interesting.

Dywedwch wrthyf, byddai pam ar y ddaear yr ydych yn dosbarthiadau methu.

Tell me, why on earth would you be failing classes.

Og engelsk af alle klasser, er du virkelig, at meget af en idiot?

And English of all classes, are you really that much of an idiot?

bana cevap gel

Come on, answer me?

I guess ju jeni një idiot

I guess you are an idiot

PLZ tell me what you thought of this chapter and review. I have been through a week, and it will make me very happy. *puppy dog face*