Note: This is a 95% Fatal Fan Fiction and 5% Rurouni Kenshin's Aoshi Shinomori fiction. I don't own any of these characters, I wish I did, but life is not fair so I'm just a fan writing fiction. Remember this is only 5% Aoshi Shinomori so don't think it all about Aoshi.

Author's Note: Thank you everyone for supporting me and encouraging me! I receive a lot of e-mail telling me to go with my original idea and this is what I'm going to do. I'm really sorry for bring up the past, but I'm a huge Mai and Andy fan and I picked Aoshi out of the blue. The truth is that my story can work with other character like Darren from Sailor Moon, but I have already written it as Aoshi. If anyone has a problem with it and I'll change it immediately.

Gone by Duckie4rmabove

Chapter 2 - Andy's Reaction

The clocked ticked a quarter to 4. He was sitting on the couch waiting for Mai to walk through the door again and apologize. He wasn't sleepy nor tried, he was worried about Mai and if she was hurt or not. It's been way to long since she had left. He sat on the couch with his arms cross against his chest.

'It's almost 4 AM in the morning, where could she have possibly gone?' Andy regretted not running after her when he had heard her leave.

'Maybe she just waiting for me to go out there and find her' Andy considered the though and he shook it off as he saw the clock strike 4.

'Maybe she went to stay at a friend's house' Andy feeling a bit more relief.

'But she doesn't have much friends beside Joe and Terry' Andy getting worked up again.

'Maybe I should call them to see if she's there' Andy picked up the phone and started dialing.

"Hello?" A hoarse and sleepy voice answered the other side.

"Hello? Joe?" Andy quickly asked.

"No, Go away" The other line answered.

"Joe! It's me Andy!" Andy said before he hung up.

"Andy?" Joe trying to wake up but it was no use.

"Yeah" Andy knew he was sleeping.

"Its 4 in the morning!" Joe yelled into the phone.

"Yeah I know Joe, Sorry man, but is Mai there with you?" Andy got straight to the point.

"Mai? I haven't seen her seen she stormed out of the club to...last night" Joe grumbled.

"Oh" Andy spirit dampens.

"I'm sure she'll fine, she can protect herself better than any other woman can and for some case better than some men could" Joe tried to comfort Andy and at the same time trying to shoo him away so he can get back to sleep.

"Thanks Joe, Bye" Andy hung up the phone and picked it up again.

"Hello?" A much more awaken voice answered.

"Hello? Terry?" Andy asked again.

"Andy?" Terry confused to hear his younger brother on the line.

"Yeah, by any chance is Mai there with you?" Andy didn't give his hopes up since Terry sounded awake and not sleeping like Joe.

"No man, sorry bro" Terry answered as he gave a yawn.

"Oh" Andy once again was saddened by the news of Mai.

"What happen? I thought she raged home to drag you back" Terry asked as he was concerned about Mai and his brother.

"She left, I thought she would come back after a few hours, but its 4 AM in the morning now and there's no sign of her" Andy sighed.

"I'm sure she's safe, how about in the morning me and you go look for her. She just probably in a hotel or something" Terry said it like it was.

"Maybe, but what if she's hurt now!" Andy thought of the worst scenario possible.

"She's a ninja and a very strong woman" Terry was worry about Mai too, but he knew she could protect herself.

Andy didn't say anything, but just thought of the ways he treated Mai.

"Don't worry Andy, get some rest and we'll go looking for her first thing in the morning. Okay?" Terry said into the speaker of his phone.

"Okay" Andy said goodbye and then hung up the phone and went into his room. He stood in his doorway for a minute or two hoping that Mai would come walking through the door, but she didn't. He flopped down on his bed and closed his eyes.

~*~ "Andy, look at this! Isn't it beautiful?" Mai stopped in front of a jewelry store when the glimpse of a diamond necklace caught her eye.

'Not as beautiful as you Mai' Andy was tempted to say, but he did away and turn around saying a simple "yes"

"Oh Andy!" Mai squeezed his arm tighter.

"Come on, Joe and Terry is going to be waiting for us" Andy dragged her a little bit to get her moving towards their destination.

"Hey, Hey You two love birds, did you want us to leave you alone for a few minutes" Joe winked at Andy.

"Go away you insignificant ant" Mai pouted

"You illegitimate woman!" Joe stepped forward

"You supposititious man!" Mai wanted to throw a punch.

"You wicked little excuse for a woman!" Joe took another step and found that Terry was holding him back.

"I will not deal with your trifling" Mai also took another step to find that Andy was holding her back.

"Calm down you two" Terry tipped his cap.

"Mai, you act like you two were siblings" Andy held her by the waist.

"Oh Andy" Mai snuggled up into Andy's arms. ~*~

*ring**ring**ring*

"Hello? Mai?" Andy awoke with a startled as he picked up the phone.

"It's us Andy" Two voices said in sync.

"Joe? Terry?" Andy confused.

"We were wondering if Mai ever came back home yet" Terry asked over the phone.

"No" Andy voice lowered as he looked at the digital clock that read 8:17 AM.

"Not even a call?" Joe asked.

"No" Andy voice lowered again.

"Now this is very unlike Mai." Terry added.

Andy lowered his head even though he knew the other two could not see what his actions were.

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