Chapter Fifty-five

Summer slowly melted into full coarse. And just because school had ended for Mai did not mean her tutoring with Naru even remotely. On the contrary, she wished that she was in school. At least there she could see her friends and Kouki, instead of having to spend hours in a dark office and getting called and idiot in multiple languages when she got something wrong. The only good thing about it was that when work was done she would usually go on another date, though it seems that lately the more time she spends with Kouki the more hours she will end up spending with Naru. And when it comes down to Naru he was unforgiving when it came to tutoring, Mai was even beginning to miss the large sums of paperwork he would give her. Instead it is being replaced by worksheets given to her by Naru. The paperwork was beginning to run dry due to the fact Naru has insisted there has not been a single interesting case in the matter of a month. Mai has still not figured out how he could keep S.P.R running so long without a case. It is not like there is any shortage of cases, the phone is ringing off the hook when Mai is trying to study. She still does not entirely understand why Naru sometimes refuses to pick up the phone while he is working with her, you would think he would want to find a case as soon as possible. But to Mai's surprise she is getting better.

Mai suddenly jolted awake as a large book was thrown onto the desk she rested her head on. She shot up and looked around in the darkness. Suddenly her vision was met by a cold glare.

"I left for two minutes and I come back to find you drooling on my desk."

Her body stiffened as she looked up at her boss, "Hey, I wasn't drooling over your desk!"

Naru did not respond, he only picked up the sheet that Mai's head was laying on and examined up, "I see you have not done the conjugations on these sentences."

Mai groaned, "but I have been doing this for a week now, and why are you teaching me like a drill sergeant? My teacher was never this hard on me!"

"Well look at where that got you."

Mai felt her face redden and she turned away, "arrogant narcissist!"

Naru then ran his hand through his hair as Mai continued to look away from him, "Just go to your desk outside and work on this."

Mai snatched the sheet from his hands and walked out, mumbling something to herself. She walked out of the dark and to the light of the centre part of S.P.R. Mai made her way to her desk and plopped the seat. She put the now crinkled worksheet on her desk and reached into her desk for a pencil. After Mai placed it on top of the paper she began to work.

"This has to be longest worksheet in the history of the world! Any human would struggle with this!"

Her anger reflected in her writing as she punctured the paper several times. Suddenly she paused for a moment and grinned, "oh yeah, I almost forgot."

Mai then looked in the front drawer of her desk and pulled a brand new Ipod. She put the headphones in her ears and began listen to Check Yes Juliet. Her grin turned into a smile, "I don't know why Naru insisted that I will learn better if I listen to English music, but I am not going to argue with him. He even payed for it, saying it was best to get something new so you could have time to replace it. Though I have not even seen Naru ever listen to music, how did he know that this would help me or buy everything? He had only one condition, that the songs had to be in English. It is just confusing, he is nice one second and then he is not."

The song soon ended and the song Narcissist began and Mai could not help but smile. As soon as she saw this song title she had to get it. Mai continued wanted to work on the sheet more calmly, though that does not mean that she does not daydream of burning it.

"Okay just one more question and then I am don..,"

Mai suddenly felt someone tap her shoulder, and she glanced slightly over. The figure was wearing black trousers and groaned, "you can wait on correcting me for just a second Naru, I am doing this problem and then I am finish..,"

The figure tapped her again, this time harder. Mai tried to ignore it as she tried to finish writing the last word. Before she could put the period on the sentence there was another round of taps on her shoulder.

Mai suddenly tore the headphones out of her ears and stood, "What is the big deal? Couldn't you see that I was almost done!"

Mai felt her stomach drop, the man before he was not Naru. An office door then opened, "Mai what is the problem."

This caused Mai to sweat drop as Naru began to walk out of his office. He began to walk down the hall and only paused for a moment to see the man Mai was yelling at, he seemed to be in his late twenties and he had his hands up as though he was trying to defend himself from his assistant. Naru then began to walk again with a hardened face.

"Good afternoon sir."

Naru stopped by Mai's desk, and gave her a quick glare meaning he will talk to her about this later. The man then dropped his hands and looked over at Naru.

"May I speak to your boss."

"I am the boss."

The man did not have a shocking reaction or anything of the sort that other potential clients ever have. The man immediately dropped to his knees and bowed his head to the ground at Naru. This caused Mai to be floored, "he is bowing to Naru! But, this guy- he has his hair slicked back, a clean shave, glasses, a business suit. He makes Naru look almost casual!"

"Please Shibuya-san help us! I come from the house of Tennōo."

Mai felt the colour drain from her face and she felt as though she was about to be sick, "I just told off a servant from the emperor! Naru is going to kill me!"

Naru sent another glare towards Mai, this one was harder than the first. It left Mai instantly in chills. Naru then looked back at the man.

"Come and sit, we will talk about the case."

"E-Emperor..,"

"Oh erm."

"E-Emperor..,"

The man looked up at Naru uncomfortably, "well can we talk about this in..,"

"E-Emperor..,"

He then glanced over at Mai and then back at Naru and whispered, "in private."

"E-Emperor..,"

This left Mai even more horrified. Naru only nodded, "come on, and Mai- tea."

"E-Emperor..,"

Naru turned and began to walk off, the man got off the ground and pushed his glasses to the bridge of his nose before following Naru. This left Mai in her up most shocked states she has ever been in.

"E-Emperor..,"

A few minutes passes and suddenly a voice called, "Mai- Tea- Now."

Mai shot up immediately from the sound of his voice, it was cool- too cool. That could only mean one thing, he is very, very irritated with Mai. Mai clumsily made her way to the kitchenette and put the pot of water onto boil.

"I can not believe I did that, I'm dead- I'm dead- I know I am! Naru is going to kill me!"

The moment she was dreading finally came as the kettle whistled. Mai poured the hot water into the two cups, trying her best not to spill. She then slowly made her way to the black abyss of Naru's office. She balanced the tray in one hand and knocked on the heavy wooden door.

"Enter."

His voice sent another chill down her spine.

"I am in for it!"

She heard the platter begin to chatter from her shaking and tried to make it stop.

"Come on Mai, you can do this!"

Mai then took a deep breath and opened the door. She tried to not make eye contact with either of the man as she sat the platter on the table. Suddenly as she looked up she was met by a chilling blue.

"Leave- no..,"

Before Naru could finish Mai dashed out and slammed the door behind her, making the tea tremble. The man took a cup and began to add some sugar to his as Naru just took it and began to sip. When the man was finished stirring he took a small sip and put it on it's plate. Naru then put his down and leaned back in his seat.

"So what is this -case?"


Yay a new chappie up quick, with this pace I can get through with part one of my story by the end of the summer..*cough, cough* anyways..,

Tell me what you think, how mad is Naru going to be with Mai- or better yet.., lets see who can guess what the case is. It must be pretty important, could it be even more deadly than the Urado case? Well- until I post that chapter, let's see who can guess it.

Also thank you to all of my new and older reviewers. It makes me very happy that you guys are enjoying this story, I also feel joyed when I see you took some of your own time to write a review!

So plz RxR and I will get back to you guys later! I will have the next chapter up super quick, and it will not be dissapointing!

-Rose-chan

Oh yeah- one more thing here are the two links to the songs that Mai was listening to, if you are curious.

.com/watch?v=lcnduNaZV2g -Check Yes Juliet by We The Kings

.com/watch?v=hBbnZVGCxyk -Narcissist by Hedley (Check this song out- it is so funny!)

Mai- **Cough- Cough** "Um, is this thing on, well Rose-chan does not own anything of either songs."

Naru- "..,"

Mai- "Naru, what's wrong."

Naru- "I am not like the guy in the song- mumble, mumble mumble...,"

Mai- **Smack** "Get over yourself!"