(This story takes place after Mai already found out about Naru's real identity (Oliver Davis) and his brother Gene - Naru already found Gene's body and went back to England but came back two months later and rehired Mai to help him with cases in SPR)

October 29

SPR

The cool autumn wind blew through the busy streets of Shibuya, making the crowds of people clutch their jackets and coats a little closer to their bodies in order to keep warm. The building on the corner of the street stood tall along with its neighbors as a brunette bundled up in a jacket, scarf, and hat jogged up the stairway to the main door with a brown paper bag in hand.

She opened the door and was met with the comforting warmth of the main office of her workplace. She slowly unraveled her scarf from her neck and hung her jacket up on the coat hanger in the corner, next to two familiar black jackets. After placing the paper bag on her desk, the girl walked over to the small kitchenette, filled the teapot with water, and waited for its whistling signal that it was done.

As she waited she walked back to her desk and opened the bag with a mischievous smile. She started pulling out some of the contents of the bag but stopped when the whistling teapot startled. After fixing the tea, she started down the small hallway and opened her first door on her right.

"Good morning, Lin-san," she greeted happily to the tall man typing away at his desk.

His typing ceased for only a moment as he nodded his head with a small "good morning" of his own and then brought his attention back to his computer once again.

The girl sighed.

'I guess that's all I'll ever get out of him,' she thought to herself and placed a cup of tea down on his desk. She left the man's office and next went to the closed door at the end of the hallway.

Not bothering to knock, she pushed open the door and sighed when she saw the young man.

His head was resting on his fist as he glanced back between his computer screen and the open files and black notebook on his desk.

"Workaholic," the girl muttered, causing the man to roll his eyes and look up at her.

"You're late, Mai," he stated.

"All in good reason, Naru, all in good reason," she smiled to him and walked over to his desk.

He leaned back in his chair, crossing his arms over his chest, and raising a perfect jet black eyebrow. "And what, pray tell, is your 'good reason' for being more than thirty minutes late to work?"

Mai only tapped the side of her nose. "That's for me to know and you to find out."

"Mai," Naru sighed, fixing her with a steady gaze. "Don't tell me you brought holiday decorations again. I told you last time not to."

Mai's eyes widened and her mouth fell open. "How'd you know?"

"I know you too well."

The two looked at each other for a moment before, the black haired man reached forward an took the teacup from the girls grasp. Mai's face tinted slightly as his fingers brushed hers for a second and seemed to linger for another before he broke the gaze and looked back at his notebook, taking a sip of the drink.

Mai cleared her throat, noticing she was staring at the black haired narcissist, and hurried out of his office before closing the door. She leaned against the doorframe, lightly holding the hand he had touched just moments ago to her chest. She could swear she could still feel the warmth of his fingers.

She sighed and shook her head. How long had she been working for that narcissist wonder? Four years? And yet she still blushed every time he looked at or touched her...

'Mai, you really have to control your emotions better,' she thought to herself and headed back to her desk, pouting as she looked at the bag of Halloween decorations on her desk and then glancing back to her bosses door. She stuck out her tongue at the man's door.

"I'm still going to put up the decorations even if you don't want me to Naru. Even you'll be impressed once I'm done," she whispered and turned back to the bag with a smile of determination on her face.

...

Two hours later, Oliver looked down at his empty teacup, his mouth suddenly feeling dry.

"Mai. Tea," he called, expecting to hear the girl to mumble angrily about his so called 'tea-addiction.' He was a bit surprised, however, when he received no response. "Mai," he called again...still, nothing.

Rolling his eyes, he stood from his desk, closing all the files that he had finally finished filling out, and he headed out to the main office.

"Ma-" he stopped short when he saw the room.

The colors orange, black, and yellow were everywhere. Fake cobwebs hung from the corners of the room, cardboard ghosts and witches were taped to the walls, fake pumpkins placed on every counter and table, and of course, a large bowl of that god-forsaken candy corn. Oh how he hated that candy.

Looking around the office for his assistant, he found her asleep on one of the large black couches. 'Figures, the sleeping beauty is asleep once again.'

After a hesitated moment, he walked over to her and shook her shoulder. "Mai. Mai, wake up."

The girl's eyes snapped open and she quickly stood up, nearly falling over because her legs were asleep. Naru reached out a hand and ignored her blush as he swiftly grabbed her arm to help her regain her balance.

"First you come in to work late. Then vandalize my office, after I specifically told you not to. Now, you're napping while you still have filing that needs to be done. Really, I should reduce your paycheck for this week," he stated, holding her gaze with his cold blue eyes.

"B-But...I..I.." she started, looking around nervously.

"Mai," he cut her off.

"Yes?" she asked meekly.

"...I'll let you off the hook this time, but next time I won't be so lenient."

A large smile lit up her face. "Thank you, Naru!"

The man felt a slight flutter in his chest as he looked at her but he just brushed it off as annoyance at her lack of listening to him earlier.

"Just take down the decorations."

Mai's face fell instantly and she looked at him with a twitching eyebrow. "But it took me a long time to set everything up."

"Mai, you obviously don't understand how lenient I'm being right now do you? I let you off the hook for being late and falling asleep. All I'm asking is you take down these ridiculous decorations," he said levelly.

"Can I at least keep half of them up?" she asked hopefully.

"No."

"But we're ghost hunters! Any person would think that ghost hunters would have a decorated office for Halloween. It's..It's just so obvious!" she defended.

"Mai-"

"-Please," she asked with a small pout.

After a moment, the man sighed and looked away. "Fine, but instead of half you can only keep a quarter of the decorations up. " he stated.

Mai smiled gratefully. "Thank you, Naru."

Suddenly she noticed something. Naru's hand was still on her arm. It had been ever since he helped her regain her balance after waking up.

A faint blush rose to her cheeks once again, and Oliver raised an eyebrow in question. Then it dawned on him, too. He quickly released his hand from her arm as if it were on fire and cleared his throat. He looked down at his other hand which was still holding his empty teacup from earlier and placed the cup in the girls hands before walking back to his office and closing the door.

'How can he act all cool and collected like that while I always wind up blushing like a tomato?' Mai thought embarrassedly to herself and went to the kitchenette to refill his cup.

Before she could get the cup to her bosses office, the front door opened with a jingle from a jack-o-lantern bell she had placed on the doorknob earlier that morning. She turned.

A middle-aged man stood in front of the door and bowed.

"Is this the Shibuya Psychic Research Center?"

THANKS TO ALL MY READERS (be you new readers or my originals) I'M SO HAPPY YOU'RE ALL STICKING WITH ME! I'LL MAKE THIS STORY A SPECIAL GIFT TO ALL OF YOU! LOVE YOU ALL!

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