Some of the kindest souls I know have lived in a world not so kind to them. Some of the best human beings I know, have been through so much at the hands of others, and they still love deeply, they still care. If that isn't something to be in awe of, I don't know what is. -Bianca Sparacino.

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A boy about fourteen watched on with a dazed look at his father as he yelled at the boy for getting ninety percent on his exams. His best was never enough, never, he knew now why his older sister died from suicide. She just couldn't carry on but he wanted to, he hoped that one of these days it would get better.

It wasn't until he first fell in love with a boy his own age that he learned that sometimes even your hopes and dreams could be crushed. His father never fed him before anyways so he only ever ate one meal at school his friends paying for it. But when the beatings started because he wasn't quite straight he began to wonder if suicide could be an option.

He also began to be bullied in school, it got worse when his boyfriend died by suicide, his friends blaiming him for it. They were convinced he'd done something to turn him gay. So the beatings became apart of his school life as well.

Just when he thought it couldn't have gotten worse he had been raped on his way home from school at fifteen, his father blaming him for being late and the beating was even worse than usual. When Child Protection Services had found out that he wasn't being fed at home. Than he was sent to live with his mother who hated him just as much.

She at least made sure he had food and nice clothes and he attended his first year at Rokuryo High School, he had been accepted into the student body because of his grades in interests in helping the students, despite how the teachers acted, if he was being honest it was heaven in comparison to living with his father. Then during his third year there Sakauchi had died from suicide and then school had become sort of haunted, which led to him meeting his real family.

It was only recently that Yasu had began to experience problems with his mother even more so than usual insulting his hobby of working at SPR, which was why he had gotten a job at Okinawa in the first place, to try to get her to leave it be but she continued to bring it up.

He could help but wonder when it would end.

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"Why?!" Mai exclaims as she stands up. "Why do you have to leave, Yasu please tell us," Mai's voice cracks and everyone else is in too much shock. "What do you mean you have to leave?" Monk asks. Everyone else murmurs an agreement too shocked to do much more. Well of course Naru doesn't act too shocked, along with Lin.

"I.." Yasu's voice cracks and he's on the verge of tears. "I can't tell you.." He looks at his feet. "Please, explain to us," Mai begs. "Y-you want to know the truth? I-I-I'm t-tired of this j-job, o-okay, I hate playing r-researcher." It's such an obvious lie, besides the hurt on his face from saying the words that give it away, so does the tears rushing down his cheeks. He collapses backwards with a fit of sobs as he hugs himself. Everyone is heartbroken seeing their usually cheerful companion in such a state. Even Naru and Lin look obviously shocked by this point.

"I will need an explanation, Yasu," Naru says though his voice is soft.

"I shouldn't, I can't, I just can't please don't make me say it," he sounds so broken as he curls up with his knees to his chest on the couch.

"Whatever it is we won't judge," Masako says from where she stood by John. John nods and adds, "We don't like to see you like this so you can tell us anything, mate," he says.

Yasuhara just has one of those twisted painful smiles on his face from how much he was hurting before his lips go back to a frown again as he cries. "You'd just think I was weak," he says as he looks at his lap not able to look at them.

Ayako walks forward and pulls him into a hug. "Tell us what's wrong, how much longer do we have to say it?" Ayako says. By now they all had tears brimming in their eyes besides Naru and Lin of course. They just didn't like to show their emotions as much more so Naru then Lin however.

"My mother told me she doesn't approve of my job, I've only recently began to live with her, I was living with my father before but he abused me so they gave me to my mother who never wanted me, she hits me too and complains about everything I do, about my job, especially," he explains. All of them are shocked through their disbelief as that, that happened to him, still happening. Much less someone that acts like everything was always right with the world and only sometimes acts serious, a happy go lucky kind of person.

From this moment on he's one of the strongest people Mai knows. "Why would we think you were weak?" Mai asks. "You're the strongest person I have ever met," she adds. "You think so?" Yasu asks hopefully. "I know so," Mai said with a smile. "You're so strong for what you've had to deal with, not only that you act like it doesn't happen, which is so strong of you, to be able to ignore your pain and be happy."

"Thank you, Mai," he says with a soft genuine smile of his. At the sight they all begin to cry as they go in for a group hug, Lin and Naru staying out of it.

"We promise we'll do something to get you out of this. Alright, just give me and Ayako a few days to think it over." Monk says to Yasu as he ruffles his hair lightly much like he does with Mai. "I knew you'd fall for me," he jokes softly to Monk. "It's still not funny," he replies. "I think it is," his usual reply and it was just as bright as always.

"Would you like to stay with me for a bit, Yasu?" Mai asks. "Sure I need to get away from my mother," he replies. "We will probably have to go shopping for clothes for you though.." Mai says as an afterthought.

"Well Mai we should get going then." He says cheerfully as he stands up and brushes the tears from his face. "Come on then," he drags her out despite her protests and Gene trots behind quickly as he finally gets out of his own mindspace from Yasu's realization.

"Damnit Yasu!" Mai yells as he drags her out the door.

"There they go," Madoka comments with a cheerful smile despite all their tears and the sadness that weighs heavily in everyone. Everyone else sighs in response besides Naru. All of a sudden everyone feels a chill down their spine as Naru just stares at where they left before looking back at his book. "Now now Kazuya no reason to get upset," John tries to calm Naru down.

It only seems to make the temperature drop faster..

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"How about this Yasu?" Mai asks. "No not that, that looks awful against my skin," Yasu's voice replies,

"How about this one?" "No, Mai not that either." "This?" "Hmm you're getting better." "Let's go to this shop!" "But that's a girls shop." "Hmm I was thinking about getting clothes for you too." "What!" "Yep let's go!"

Yasu drags poor Mai into a store. They'd probably be their for hours luckily Mai saves up a lot of money.

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"You looked so pretty in that red dress," Yasu says as they walk out of the mall with bags in their arms, so much bags, too much bags.

"I don't know when I'll need something that fancy," Mai replies.

"A date with Naru of course," Yasu replies cheerfully. "Now lead the way to your apartment Mai-chan!"

Gene once again joins them where he awaited outside of the mall, hiding from passerby. Mai puts his leadline back on as they were in public. He huffs in response still hating it. "We will lead the way, no need to worry." Mai says with a smile as they begin their trek back to her apartment.

Mai and Yasu were exhausted, ready to collapse when they finally got to her apartment. Mai unlocked the door and fell inside her apartment. Yasuhara collapsing next to them, Gene simply padded over them and curled up on the couch.

"So far.." Yasu says as he puts a hand over his head. "It took an hour to get to your apartment..these shoes weren't made for walking either.." He complains. "Neither were mine, neither were mine," Mai replies as she takes off her shoes on her sore feet.

It took a few minutes but they finally got their stuff away and Yasu's bed, bed frame and dresser had arrived just outside the apartment building. They both rush down and get it up to the apartment and spend the next hour setting up his room and putting his clothes and new shoes away.

They had spent far over five hundred thousand yen in a single day, Mai sighs as she opens the Shoji doors to step out of Yasu's bedroom. "Thanks Mai," he says as he steps out with her. "No prob," she replies as she goes over to the kitchen area and Yasu helps her cook up their dinner, then they sit at her Chabudai table as they begin to, chopsticks in hand.

Her apartment was huge and one of the best you could get in Japan, she doesn't pay too much for rent because the person that runs the apartment complex knew her mother. It had a separate dining area from the kitchen, a storage area, a living room, along with two bedrooms. It was like a tiny house in and of itself. It was a traditional styled apartment, with tatami mats and shoji doors and windows, it also had a balcony. Her bedroom had already built in 'bed frame' in a way that was what it was. She just had to buy a mattress to put on top of it though. All things in the apartment she had to buy herself, besides the kitchen's necessities.

"This is a nice place you have here," Yasu comments after he swallows some of his food. "Yeah I don't have to pay much for rent because the apartment's owner knew my mom," she says. "Thats cool at least you don't have to struggle to much," he says with a smile. "Yeah and now you get to stay here," Mai replies with a smile.

"Mai," he says seriously after a few moments of silence. "Yes?' She asks nervously. "Please call me Osamu." He says with a smile. Mai's eyes become bright at the notion, "Really?" She asks. Gene perks his head up from his bowl of meat. "Yes," he nods. "I'll call you Osa for short! How does that sound?" She asks excitedly. "Sounds great."

They both enjoy the rest of the night in one another's presence at one point Gene, Yasu and Mai all curl up on the couch and watch tv.

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August 19th, 2016, 15:32 (3:32pm)

Osamu had then been offered a job by Naru as one of the researchers at SPR, along with helping Mai with filing and office work. It was a good opportunity for him and he accepted and the next day quit his job at the hotel in Oikawa.

So now every morning Mai and Osamu went to their jobs at SPR.

Mai had just arrived to work on that particular day when suddenly a woman she recognized ran in. Naomi Agawa. "Yo," she replies a bit out of breath. "I'm here to upgrade this place," she says as she gestures to herself. "You'll have to talk to Naru on that," Mai says. "Alright," the woman walks in and spends the next minute yelling at Naru and then she walked out. "He said no, I'm doing it anyway," she replies. "Wait!" Mai tries to stop her but the rest of the day she spent working on monitors, cameras, the security system of the general building.

"Seriously?" Mai asks, for what felt like the billionth time as Osamu just watched with a smile. At that rate even Naru had stopped trying to stop her finding it a waste of his time and Gene just curled up in a ball taking a nap and sometimes watching her annoy his brother.

"Yes seriously, I'm getting this job done, I only have a few more to go and everything will be perfect," Naomi says as she throws away the last of the cameras and turn them into scrap metal. She had installed cameras from their particular company called Domino all over the building, their security cameras were unnoticeable, well not completely someone could notice them however they had to be able to pay close attention.

She put the last of Dominos monitors and cameras away into their storage for cases, far more cameras and monitors than they needed.

Naru was in a bad mood and asked for tea every five minutes.

Mai was happy to give it to him unlike usual because of his anger.

"You're good to go, now let me get the security cameras online and working then, I want to speak to your boss about a case," she replies as she walks into their security room and comes out half and hour later. "Yo, asshole, get your ass out here!" She yells to Naru. He walks out as emotionless as ever though his glare could kill quite literally if he didn't keep his psychokinesis in line.

"What do you want?" Every word he says sends a shiver down Mai's spine in fear because he was losing control of his emotions. "I have a case for you," Naomi replies softer than before as she felt it too.

"Explain." He says as he sits down cross legged on the leather couch taking out his black note taking book. Lin sits next to him taking out his laptop, Osamu also taking out a notebook and Mai decides to leave it to them this time around.

"I have a friend from high school, she's been renting out her house she had recently bought and within the past few months alone everyone who has stayed there has died. I wouldn't ask this if it wasn't important, so could you investigate and in return I will do you a favor," she says specifically looking towards Naru.

"We will accept your case," Naru replies then he takes a sip of his tea, closing his eyes in content as he does so.

"Mai it appears that we have a case, you call Matsuzaki-san and Takigawa-san, Yasu call Hara-san and Father Brown. Agawa-san, our equipment is ready correct?" He asks addressing her. She just nods in a businesswoman like manner.

"Then we will get ready to leave within the hour, I would like an address, Agawa-san."

And with that their next case began.

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A/N: Sorry for taking so long, honestly I remade the beginning of the chapter a bit, but besides that I had it relatively finished. I was laying in bed and I had an idea for their next case and I so now because I know what will happen next I finished the chapter. Sorry for be relatively shorter than most of my chapters.

Anyway Yasu got a bit of a background, though I will put more into it in the future when he runs into his mother, that's for later though. Thanks to all who have waited and see you next chapter! Oh and I didn't want to make Yasu that affected by his past, not because people aren't affected by things, I myself who went through a lot of mental and emotional trauma from a family member am an example of that, it doesn't go away easily and I will show times where Yasu will struggle, I just didn't want a character being held back by their past.

Also next few chapters will be pretty dark but I won't let them get like graphically so. Speaking of next chapter...

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"Perhaps we should leave, it's getting dangerous far too quickly," Naru says.

"But we haven't finished the case yet!" Mai argues. "I can't risk it!" Naru replies in a biting tone. "So I suggest we leave before we all lose our lives."