Chapter 16 – How Dare Her
I can't believe Naru actually took the case, I didn't think he would after what that woman said.
FLASHBACK
She had started her story the same way any client would, just with a little more calm. "My daughter, Maron, believes our house is haunted. I don't believe in those things, but she managed to convince my husband, Tatsuya, that our house is indeed haunted. So he has sent me to you as he is too busy."
"Do you know why your daughter believes your house to be haunted?" asks Naru.
"Of course, she reminds me on a daily basis," she replies. "My daughter has said she sees a ghost of a small girl in her room every night. She says the girl is covered in blood and whispers 'Where are you mummy?' Then she disappears."
Naru thinks before asking, "Is there anything else?"
"Yes, we can all hear knocking sounds at night before I put Maron to bed, she says it's the ghost, I say it's an animal in the roof. But since my husband believes what Maron says, I came," she replies.
"Very well, we will take your case, we will need rooms for four couples, one with a child, another for one person, and another for our base," Naru says.
"There will be women coming?" she asks with disgust.
"Of course, our team isn't made up of purely males, as you can see, one of my assistants is female," he replies calmly.
"I don't want other women in my house," she states.
"Well, you'll have to deal with it, there are four women on my team and I am not leaving Mai alone, and I can guarantee the other men wouldn't leave their respective partner alone either," he replies. "If you can't we will not take your case."
"If those…women, come anywhere near my husband or daughter, I will not hesitate to kick them out, literally," she says darkly.
"If you are going to threaten them, I will not take your case, and if you lay a hand on any of them when we are there, we will leave," Naru replies, just as darkly.
She looks angry, "Fine," she says through clenched teeth.
"Very well, you are free to leave," he tells her before turning to me. "Mai, call the others."
END OF FLASHBACK
Just by looking at him, I could tell he was seething. She just threatened to take her foot to the girls and I if we went near her family. By the way he was looking, the thought of anybody taking their foot to me angers him greatly, he's concerned for the baby; any man would be. If he wasn't over-protective before, he's over-protective now that I'm pregnant.
I'm taking Naru his tea, knowing he needs it before the others get here. I walk in and see what I knew I would, he's glaring at the screen of is laptop. I sighed and placed his tea on his desk. "Naru, I know she angered you, but you don't have to take it out on the screen," I tell his as I make my way around his desk.
He turns his glare at me, "Don't look at me like that, I'm not the reason you're angry," I say, glaring back at him.
He loses his glare and sighs, "Sorry, I'm angry, yes, but I'm not taking it out on the screen," he replies. "I'm absolutely seething, how dare she threaten to kick you and the others out, did she not realise she was threatening to kick a pregnant woman?"
He's glaring again, this time at the ground, "Naru, I don't think she'd actually do it, she couldn't possibly be so rude as to kick a guest out of her house with her foot," I reason with him.
"I hope you're right," he mutters.
"Just drink your tea and clam down before the others get here, Lin and I decided it would be best not to tell the others about the threat," I inform him.
Without warning, he pulls me onto his lap, this is familiar, "Since when did the two of you, as my assistants, decide to make an agreement without me?" he whispers in my ear.
"Since you decided to return to your office and glare at your screen," I tell him matter-of-factly.
"Really now, you should still run things by with me anyway," he reprimands me.
"Lin suggested against saying anything until you had calmed down some," I tell him, blushing hard as his hands make their way up my shirt.
"Well, I'll talk to him about that later; he went to pick up Madoka didn't he? That leaves us alone," he whispers suggestively in my ear.
I shiver as he turns me around to face him and plants an incredibly passionate kiss on my lips. I couldn't keep track of how long we were kissing, but we were interrupted when someone cleared their throat. We looked over to see Bou-san and Ayako, snickering at catching us in something so intimate. I blush crimson as Naru just glares at them, "Do you to idiots mind, I don't find anything we were doing a laughing matter, I'm sure you do it all the time," he says with a smirk now on his narcissistic face.
This makes them blush brightly and me to start laughing. After I had calmed down, Naru released me and we made out way into the sitting room. When we got there, the whole team was waiting and from the looks of it, they new what we were doing. Yasu, Madoka, Martin and Luella were grinning and snickering, Lin, Ayako and Bou-san were smirking, Masako and John were blushing, and Sora just looked confused. This made me blush again and make my way hastily to the kitchen to make tea.
An hour later and we're making our way to the client's house; Naru had explained the case to everyone before we left. I don't feel adamant about running into her again, but I would like to meet her daughter, and find out why she doesn't want us girls near her family, or why she is even disgusted by us. She is a woman as well, afterall.
I feel acommplished, 16 chappies, sugoi. I wonder why the woman doesn't like the girls or wants them near her family. Even I don't know yet. Anyway R&R, please.
I haven't given her a name yet because I want opinions, that and i can't think of a name. So please, your ideas on her firstname and surname. Arigatou
Seza, out