And… chapter six, people. Man, this is ridiculous…. The end of this case… and the beginning of me playing with your emotions with my ridiculously slow burning relationship between Mai and Naru
It occurs to me that I forgot to do this a few times. DISCLAIMER: I own only my OC's. Ask Embla owns the song.
Chapter 6- The Man Who Stole the Sun
You took the sun and you waited
I saw you when I saw the ray spark from your eyes then it faded
and now there's only shades of gray
and I can't tell the night from day
I fell in love with a bad man. I fell with the man who stole the sun
~Ask Embla- I Fell in Love
Mai followed the woman down the dark hallway. Her eyebrow rose as she looked around her. It was pretty spartan, she noted. Much like Yasuhara's bachelor pad had been before he'd left. "Don't touch anything…" the woman grumbled. Mai gave the woman a placating smile "Of course." She said.
The maid led her to a door, and then turned to her. "He won't be able to leave. Just so you know."
Mai snorted. She'd sent out her spiritual awareness the moment she'd stepped into the house, and had realized that the man was dying. "I realize that. He doesn't have much longer, does he?"
The woman shook her head. "No."
"This shouldn't take too long." Mai said. "I just want some answers. He's the only one who can give them to me…"
"Who is Mogami Yuki?" the maid asked. Mai snorted. "If he passes on before I leave, I'll tell you." She replied. "For now, it's his business."
She walked into the room without another word.
The scene that awaited her was much like the scene at the hospital when she'd met, and then promptly lost, her grandmother. Kuronuma Yuru lay on the bed certainly seemed small, though, age, undoubtable played a hellish role in that. He was no longer the ridiculously handsome young man he'd been when he was 19.
His black hair had long since turned white and fallen out, his eyes were now a soft, filmy blue (blindness, Mai thought dimly. It was said that those who could not see had senses far better than many other humans, though that was neither here nor there). He was wrinkled and worn.
"I hear you've met Yuki…" the old man's voice wavered with age… with exhaustion. Mai snorted.
"You could say that… though I have to admit, she wasn't too nice about shoving me into her death scene." She drawled. He chuckled.
"Ironically, one of the things I loved about her was her fiery temper…" he murmured.
"And yet…" Mai drawled. "You killed her."
"And yet, I killed her." The old man agreed, nodding his head. He sighed. "The worst decision of my life was killing the woman I loved."
"You obviously didn't love her enough to follow through with your promise…. You stabbed her in the back."
"If I had not killed her, someone else would have." He stated. "I had tried to get out, had been in the life longer than I had known her."
"you could have left with her."
"Yes, I could have. There are so many things that I could have done. And yet, I chose the worst. And I chose to spend my life, with the knowledge that I had been the one to kill my best friend and lover. That was my punishment."
"Other than the fact that you just weren't too keen on dying." Mai snorted.
The old man chuckled. "Ah, youthful disdane. You have suffered much in your young life…"
Mai rolled her eyes. "You killed her. You broke her heart, and her mind was lost when she looked down at her own body and realized what had happened. Now, she's nearly killed four different people because of what you did to her."
He let out a cry. She snorted. "What's done is done, Oji-san. You already feel guilt over it…"
He closed his eyes. "I have done many things in my life." He said. "If what you say is true…" he broke off, and those eerie, blue eyes seemed to examine her.
A soft chuckle came out. "You are a bit like her. Stronger of mind… but I can almost feel the same type of heart of one who lets too much in."
"And look where that got me…" Mai grumbled. "I'm here, talking to a guy who's on his death bed. A man who killed the proclaimed love of his life?"
The chuckle came again. "And all I can say now, is that I am sorry for it."
"Yeah, well I have to go help her move on."
He sighed and closed his eyes. "I'll be there to meet her." He murmured.
Mai watched for the second time in her life (since her powers started to develop) as the light left his body, and floated upwards to the light. No longer a 90-year-old man. She'd gotten the conformation that she needed. Now, all she had to do was convince Yuki that he was dead.
She walked out of the room. "Kuronuma-sama is dead." She told the woman. "He passed on already. As promised, I'll tell you who Mogami Yuki was."
The woman straightened up. Mai continued. "Mogami Yuki was Kuronuma-sama's first love… and his first victim. He murdered her 70 years ago to become the head of the Yakuza." The maid gaped at her. Mai shrugged, and showed herself out the door.
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Cambridge University, England
The gang sat in the break room- well, all but Oliver and Martin, talking. Or, rather, some were talking. Others (Lin… Adrian) stayed silent, watching and listening as the others discussed the news that Mai (Whoever she was, Adrian thought) was on another case.
"I think that it's good. It's not like she didn't want to be a ghost hunter, anyway." Yasuhara said. Madoka grinned. "Too bad she isn't coming to Cambridge," she murmured.
Eugene laughed at this. Madoka, wondering what exactly the young man was laughing at, looked at her student. Lin cocked his head to the side, listening rather intently. Eugene shook his head. "you can't tell Noll." He snickered. "But… she may very well be coming to England. Father's thinking of inviting seven students from Tokyo university to study here. All of them have psychic abilities of some sort…. And I have a feeling one of them is Mai."
"Which is a good thing," Takigawa snorted. "Especially since, as we speak, Mai is probably getting attacked by the ghost she and her team are trying to cleanse. At least here, we can protect her…"
"Wait, what?" Finn asked. "Does she get attacked by ghosts often then?" Masako snorted, kimono sleeve over her mouth as she fixed Finn with her large, violet eyes. "Taniyama Mai," she said a grin on her face, "Is possibly the most accident-prone being that I've ever met. She is not a ghost magnet. She is a trouble magnet. There is a target on her back that everything dangerous within a 100-kilometer radius seems to find with no problem."
Ayako sighed. "There's only two times that I can think of that she wasn't the one attacked. The Urado case… and the case with the cursed house…"
"Mai was a target in the cursed house. The spirit that possessed Naru was actually headed for her. He kind of pushed her out of the line of fire." Takigawa pointed out. "So, really, only the Urado case."
Masako snorted. "She would have been, if she'd been the one to leave the room." She pointed out. "However, it was my foolish decision to leave."
Adrian's eyebrow shot up This girl sounded like more trouble than she was worth… then again… his brother was best friends with the girl next door, who could give this girl a run for her money.
He glared at nothing. If Anabelle wanted to run away like a scared little girl, that was up to her.
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Tokyo, Japan
Unknowing that she was the topic of discussion, Mai was indeed being attacked by the ghost of Mogami Yuki. Well, it wasn't only her. Anabelle and Psyche were also in the ghost's line of fire, while Takeshi had gotten everyone else out.
It turned out that in life, Mogami Yuki had had psychic abilities. multi-location to be exact. Abilities that were only strengthened in death.
As a fully-fledged poltergeist as well, the vengeful spirit could, indeed physically harm them with her aura, something that Mai found rather annoying. She hadn't actually dealt with a ghost since…. Well, since the case they had right before finding Eugene's body.
What was even more bizarre was the fact that she was actually fighting (physically, and not psychically) a spirit. That had never happened before. She performed the nine cuts, of course, but they seemed to have little effect on the supremely pissed of ghost.
So, Mai changed tactics. "Oh, come on!" she yelled, glaring at the translucent face of the girl she was currently hitting (It felt so weird, like hitting a wall of plasma) "Get over it already. The one you want to punish isn't even alive anymore!"
This seemed to make the ghost stop… but Mai wasn't done. "Do you honestly think that you're the only one here who's had their heart broken?" she yelled. Yuki sneered.
Maybe not, but I'm the only one here who knows what it feels like to have a knife shoved through your heart- quite literally- by the one you love….
Mai snorted. "Get real, Yuki." She snorted. "Did you forget that you shoved me into your little death parade? I know how you feel more than anyone… you made me feel how you died."
Second hand emotions from a memory. You know nothing of pain. You don't know what it's like to die.
Mai rolled her eyes. "Really? I know nothing of pain… just because I'm not dead doesn't mean that I don't know what it feels like to die." She growled.
Suddenly, she felt a thousand years old. Her voice softened. Yuki wasn't really fighting them anymore, and she motioned Anabelle and Psyche to get out. She stood, toe to toe with Yuki, knowing that this was the only way that the ghost would listen.
"I've felt what it was like to get my throat slit, simply because a madman wanted to bathe the blood of young people to stave off dying young." She said quietly. "I've jumped off a cliff and drowned with a lover that was not mine, was beheaded as a traitor in the aftermath of a rebellion, was drowned two more times. I know what it feels like to get my heart broken. And now, I know how it feels to get a knife shoved through my heart." She stared into Yuki's see-through-eyes.
"I gotta tell you, the knife wasn't so different to getting my heart broken." She said it softly. "But the thing is…The one who did this to you… the one who broke your heart… he isn't here. I watched him die."
That made Yuki gasp. He's dead?
Mai nodded. "The last thing he said was that he'd be waiting for you." She said. "He said that he regretted this." She sighed. "Moot point, as he did it for selfish reasons."
Yuki glared He lived a full life… because of him, I was not able to do so myself.
Mai nodded. "Yes. That's true… but I think that he's the only one your thinking of, which is kind of stupid. There were others in your life. Your father and mother…."
How can I face my father? He was the one who warned me about Yuru.
"I don't think your father would care about that. I think he'd just want you happy. Personally, I want you to move on so you can go to the other world and kick Yuru's sorry ass for what he did to you." She smirked.
Yuki gaped, and then let out a laugh. Do you think I can?
"That's what I'd figure out, if I were you." Mai snorted. "But, you better go now." She motioned to the young woman. "The light was always there, Yuki. Don't let it go now… and punch him in the face for me…"
She smiled, and nodded.
Seconds later, Yuki's presence disappeared. Mai turned to face a slack-jawed Korito-sensei and an amused Takeshi.
"That… has got to be the weirdest cleansing that I've ever seen…" Korito-sensei whispered in awe. "You got her to move on by telling her that her dead murderer was waiting … and that she should go kick the crap out of him." Mai shrugged and grinned at her teacher.
"Whatever works…." She drawled, and then yawned. "Now, I want to go home… I'm tired."
And so, ended her first case in two years. When the eight of them finally got back to the mansion. They all went straight to bed. Tohru grumbled something about "not going to do this for a very long time," while the twins proclaimed that the ghost had serious issues... to which Mai reminded them exactly why she had issues, and said that not only was that point moot, but that Yuki had had every reason to be crazy.
Anabelle just maintained that she wanted to go to sleep, and Psyche was right behind her. Kuroda was still nursing her sprained wrist from some activity that had happened after Mai had gone to find Yuru-san.
Takeshi had just wanted to go and forget the whole thing. "Never again…" he muttered, knowing that it was probably going to happen… again.
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Cambridge University, England
Martin Davis sat in his office, feeling more euphoric than he had when the Connolly twins had started to study with him. Korito, the parapsychology professor at Todai (as Madoka called it) had finally emailed him back.
She had included a case report, at the video footage from their last case. He watched as Mai Sullivan (he had deduced when one of the other girls- the one who looked like the girl on the screen had called her Mai) talked the ghost down… and her rather unorthodox way of getting the spirit to move on.
So enraptured with the case video was the doctor, that he did not notice Lin walk in. Just at the point where Mai spoke… or rather, yelled.
"Do you honestly think that you're the only one here who's had their heart broken?" the Chinese man froze. His dark eye shot to the screen and it took all of his self- control not to gape. She looked… different. Her hair was longer. Tied up at the moment so that he couldn't tell how long it was. Her cinnamon eyes flashed with anger. She was no taller than she had been when he'd last seen her, but she was thinner, less baby fat. Her face was leaner.
She looked angry, but he would know that voice anywhere. It was Mai.
"Amazing, isn't she?" Martin grinned. "Her professor sent this to me. Apparently, the ghost was talking, but I guess the cameras didn't pick it up.
True to what the professor said, all that they heard after Mai's outburst was static. Mai gave a derisive snort, before answering whatever the ghost had said. "Get real, Yuki. Did you forget that you shoved me into your little death parade? I know how you feel more than anyone… you made me feel how you died."
Martin gaped at this. "She's different, isn't she?" he said. Lin, however was starting to pale. She'd had another death vision then… he realized. He winced as he remembered the first one…
"Hey, what's up, Dad?" Eugene called cheerfully as he walked in. He froze when he saw the girl on the screen. "Holy… is that Mai?" he gasped. She spoke again, and Gene let out a yelp. "She's actually hearing the ghost? She's having a conversation?"
Lin nodded in abstract horror as Mai's answer fell on his ears.
"Really? I know nothing of pain…? just because I'm not dead doesn't mean that I don't know what it feels like to die."
Eugene winced. "Crap…" he looked at Lin. "we shouldn't let the others see this one…." He muttered. But Mai wasn't done.
"I've felt what it was like to get my throat slit, simply because a madman wanted to bathe the blood of young people to stave off dying." She said quietly. "I've jumped off a cliff and drowned with a lover that was not mine, was beheaded as a traitor in the aftermath of a rebellion, was drowned two more times. I know what it feels like to get my heart broken. And now, I know how it feels to get a knife shoved through my heart."
She sounded so… old, Eugene thought dimly. Though he couldn't blame her.
"I gotta tell you, the knife wasn't so different to getting my heart broken." She said it softly. "But the thing is…The one who did this to you… the one who broke your heart… he isn't here. I watched him die."
Martin was gazing at the screen in abstract awe. "Amazing. Simply amazing." He whispered. "She's a medium… she must be the one who can astral project… to see these things…"
While he did not feel comfortable with the idea that a young girl had seen so much death in her life, it was difficult for Martin to not be utterly exited to see this girl's abilities for himself. Having a son of his own who experienced death visions, he knew that they took their toll on the psyche. If he could, he wanted to help.
As deep in thought as he was, he nearly missed the words she spoke to get the ghost to move on…."I don't think your father would care about that. I think he'd just want you happy. Personally, I want you to move on so you can go to the other world and kick Yuru's sorry ass for what he did to you." She smirked. Eugene gaped.
"That's what I'd figure out, if I were you." Mai snorted. "But, you better go now." She motioned to the young woman. "The light was always there, Yuki. Don't let it go now… and punch him in the face for me…"
At this point, Eugene laughed. "Well, that's one way to go…" he snickered, grinning at his former… student through the screen. And then, he saw her.
Not the ghost. He'd already seen that…. But the girl who walked in after Yuki had moved on. Dark hair- almost black, layered, falling just past her shoulders. Her eyes were green. It was the girl he'd met while trying to astral project himself into Mai's Astral projection. Psyche Mallory.
She was just as pretty on the video as she had been in the projection.
"Eugene, are you all right," Martin asked, sending his elder son a quizzical look as his attention seemed to be taken by something on the computer screen.
"Yes. Dad. Just… thought I saw something." He said, recovering. Then, he turned to his father with a quick grin. "Are you going to invite them to study at Cambridge?" he asked.
"That was my intention…." The professor replied, almost sheepishly. "they seem to have a wide range of psychic abilities."
Gene chuckled. "I'm sure they'll take you up on it…" he smirked. Lin grinned as well, knowing what it would mean for them. For Oliver.
Looks like the gang was getting all the way back together, Lin thought. He should tell Madoka….
"Though, after the verbal chew out over the phone… Noll's going to get whiplash…" Eugene's smirk deepened. "Oh, I can't wait." He chuckled darkly.
He then remembered the latest prank he'd pulled off with Yasuhara on Oliver, and decided to make himself scarce… in two seconds.
The strangled, (manly) yelp from the other office sounded, and Eugene grinned. "Gotta go, see you at home dad. Tell Yasuhara I'll pray for him…" he called as he started out of the office.
"Also, please tell him that it's not permanent…"
Martin's eyebrow shot up as he watched his elder son make himself scarce… and then heard another scream. This one, admittedly less manly, as his other son roared "Yasuhara!"
Martin chuckled as his furniture started to shake. "Aah…" he murmured, as the aforementioned young man ran past, heading for the exit… and saw his son, who's hair was… a vivid shade of orange stalked after him.
Martin gagged on his tea.
Lin sighed. Laughter sounded throughout the building.
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Momohara Mansion, Tokyo, Japan
It took three more days for Mai to recover. She hadn't realized how much energy she had used. It hadn't just been her, either. The twins had been forced to use their telepathy almost non-stop, as had Anabelle. Psyche had had to take care of all the wounds- which she was still learning how to do. Kuroda had been defending herself with her PK.
The only one who really hadn't used a bunch of energy had been Tohru, who had been busy suppressing it so that she didn't hurt anyone. Sakurako had commented on their lack of energy at dinner, as they were all sluggishly trying not to fall asleep as they ate.
"What on earth were you up to?" she gasped.
"Heartbroken teenage girl…" Mai grumbled. "Can we not, tonight? I'm really ti….erd…" she yawned, causing an outbreak. Sakurako sighed. "Oh, whatever…" she muttered, shaking her head.
The group trudged to their rooms, and fell asleep in a matter of seconds- or, at least, Sakurako figured they did. She didn't see them until three days later.
She'd gotten an email from the professor, saying that classes had been cancelled a bit- more than likely because of the same reason.
Three days later, Mai stumbled downstairs, phone in her hand. "Sure, Andy-san. I'll come by. It's no problem… See you then."
She hung up and grinned at Sakurako. "Andy- san may have something for me." She said, answering the unspoken question.
"Something…?"
"Andrea says she has something that she wants to tell us." She said, as she grabbed her jacket, calling for Takeshi and Kuroda.
"But you just got finished with a case." Sakurako said, bewildered. "A case that you're still recovering from."
"Yeah, because it's been a long time since I used my powers that way." She, running out as Kuroda walked into the foyer, frowning. "Did Mai call?"
"Yes. Bookstore. Andy." Kuroda perked up. "Oh, awesome! It's been ages!" she sang. Takeshi sighed. "I suppose I'm taking them?" he asked his aunt, dark eyebrow raised. Sakurako smirked. "Well, you are the butler." She reminded him. "And the chauffeur." The younger man groaned, good naturedly.
Kuroda laughed as she ran after Mai, calling out for the other woman to wait.
"For twenty-year-olds, they're sure excitable…" Takeshi murmured, eyes on the door that the dark-haired girl had just run out of. Sakurako smirked.
"Surprisingly happy for their line of work…" the woman murmured. "And childlike is just Mai's personality. She drags everyone else with her." Takeshi shrugged as he trudged after the girls.
The bookshop had not changed all that much, Mai thought, a bit bigger than last she saw it. More employees. She was glad that it was doing all right. When Andrea came out, though, the young woman's eyes went wide as dinner plates.
She hadn't seen Andrea and Kyou in half a year, but… wow. Andrea was very pregnant. The woman grinned. "You've been busy with school… but we found out a few days after you moved." The woman said laughing.
"Obviously, you've been busy as well," Mai grinned back, jerking her head to the shop. Andrea laughed. "Oh, yeah. You have no idea. Between this and the triplets…"
Mai spluttered. "Triplets?!" she gasped. Takeshi sat up straighter, and Kuroda let out a squeal. Andrea smirked. "Yeah. Runs in the family. It was a pretty big surprise to us, too. I guess that's why I'm so big…" she grinned.
Kyou came out then, and glared at his wife. "You also shouldn't be standing…" he growled, leading her to one of the outdoor tables for the café. Andrea smirked. "Overprotective…" he snorted. "I'm right and you know it."
Mai and Kuroda sat as well. "So, what's new with you… besides the obvious?" Mai grinned at the woman's large stomach. Andrea laughed. "Not much… Though I actually called you with another thing in mind…" she said.
Mai grinned sheepishly. "Sounded interesting." She said. Andrea snorted. "Of course." She said, dotingly. She knew how Mai was about ghosts. "So, I did some digging myself before calling you."
Mai laughed. "Another unsurprising thing." She drawled. Andrea shrugged. "I like research. One of the reasons I opened a book shop." She smirked at the younger woman. "Moving on, have you ever heard of a Mexican ghost called La Llorona?" she asked
Mai shook her head.
"Well, the story is interesting. As one of the versions of the story goes, La Llorona found her husband had been unfaithful to her, and, in a fit of insanity brought on by grief and betrayal, she killed her own children. Afterwards, when she'd realized what she'd done, she killed herself, as well. When she got to the great, pearly gates, God asked her where her children were, and she replied that she didn't know. After that, she was forced to wander the river where she drowned her children for eternity, looking for them.
The thing is, in Mexico, where the story originates- at least La Llorona- because there are many more stories like hers- she preys on children she finds wandering around. The other stories like hers, all women who, in a fit of manic despair, killed their children and then themselves after they came back to sanity, go after unfaithful men…" she frowned.
"Now, my friend in England, is kind of scared, because her sister's boyfriend, who my friend knows was cheating on her sister, is missing, and her sister is frantic. They can't find him anywhere, and There's a story similar to La Llorona, where they live in Bast."
Mai was gaping in amazement by the end of the story. "That sounds interesting…" Mai grinned, and Kuroda groaned at the almost manic look on the brunette's face, before she turned to Andrea.
"Does your friend know about BSPR? They work with this kind of stuff…" Andrea looked Kuroda and frowned.
"Now that you mention it, she did say something about calling someone, but they said it was out of their league; to call BSPR. But my friend doesn't know if they would take the case."
Mai snorted, thinking of Na- Ol- Dr. Davis, before shaking her head. "Oh, they'd take it. IT's right up their ally. Or, at least one of them… trust me. Tell your friend to give them a call." Andrea's eyebrow shot up.
"I didn't know you knew people in BSPR, Mai…"
"For nearly two years, I didn't, either." Came the cryptic, dark reply.
Takeshi, who had been in the store, came out, talking on his phone. He hung up, and looked at his charges. "Mai, Kuroda, we've got to go. Something came up, and Korito-sensei is on her way over."
The two 20-year-olds looked at each other in confusion. They had thought that Korito-sensei would be at home resting as well, after the last few days. Apparently not, though… They shrugged, and turned back to say goodbye to Andrea.
"Before you two go…. I have a favor to ask of you…" she said it softly. Mai and Kuroda both looked at her quizzically before she spoke again.
"I was hoping that each of you would be godmothers to my children…." She said. Time froze. Kuroda gasped, hands flying to cover her mouth. Mai burst into happy tears, and hugged the pregnant woman. Takeshi and Kyou (both of whom were oddly used to the outburst of emotions) stood by, waiting for the scene (that many people were turning to see) to end.
"I'll take that as a yes, then…?" Andrea asked the two girls. Mai was too moved to speak, so she just nodded, while Kuroda croaked out an affirmative.
"Okay, girls… come on, time to go home." Takeshi drawled, as the scene wound down. As touching as it was, they had to get back. The man turned to Andrea and Kyou. "You can stop by the mansion at any time, you know."
They grinned and nodded. "Don't think I'll be going there, soon, though." Andrea heaved a long-suffering sigh, "Not with this overprotective lug." Kyo snorted. "After the babies are born…"
"Right, right."
Takeshi grinned at the bickering couple and got in the car.
Korito-san was already waiting for them at the mansion when they returned. The odd thing was… while Anabelle, Tohru, Emiko, Izumi, and Psyche looked like they were about to celebrate, Sakurako looked rather worried.
It was Psyche who spotted Mai and Kuroda. She let out a squeal and bounded over to them. Without preamble, she wrapped Mai into a hug. "We got invited to study at Cambridge!" she all but screamed.
Mai froze.
Cambridge…..
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Cambridge, England
"You finally did it, dad?" Eugene grinned at the professor. Martin nodded. "Well, it wasn't as if I could do it when I wanted to… they were on a case." He pointed out. Eugene jerked his head.
"But they're coming?"
"They did send in their formal reply, saying as such." Martin said. "Why are you so interested, Gene?" he didn't take an interest in new prospects like Oliver did. Oliver was the researcher, through and through. Eugene was a spiritualist, a medium.
Eugene smiled guilelessly. "No reason, dad." He said, the sheer innocence in his voice set the professor off, however. He knew that tone all too well. "Eugene, what is going on?"
His elder son's smile turned into a smirk. "Does Noll know?"
"yes, he knows. In fact, I've asked him to work with Miss. Sullivan."
At that, Gene gave a start. "Sullivan?" he asked. Martin grinned. "Yes, easily the most, er, diversely talented in the group, with Miss. Fitzgerald right behind her."
Eugene must have heard wrong. "What's her full name?" he asked. This was a question that Martin would expect from the medium. He liked being on a first name basis.
"Mai. Her grandmother was the late Megumi Momohara." He grinned. "It was Miss. Sullivan who did the cleansing on the tape we saw."
Eugene let out a breath. So… it was the real Mai. He had nothing to worry about, except… "Has Noll seen the video?" he asked his father. Martin shook his head. "NO… unfortunately… I accidentally deleted it off my computer. I did send a request for Professor Korito to send me a CD copy…"
Eugene thanked whatever deity was out there for this serendipitous turn of events. He chuckled to himself, though, at the prospect of seeing his brother's reaction to seeing Mai after almost three years as he strode out of his father's office.
This was going to get fun.
Finally… the moment you've all been waiting for… coming next chapter. Sorry. After the cleansing of Yuki, it got pretty filler-ish, but it had to happen. When the girls get to England is when things really start getting going, as England is where Mai starts her research (for her grandmother), as well as reunites with SPR, since they're all working with BSPR right now. …For those of you worried, don't be. I ship Mai and Naru hardcore. I just think he needs to crawl a bit, as the whole thing about Naru's reaction really pissed me off. Other pairings have already been hinted if you've been paying attention. Read and Review.
Until Next time, AOP