Chapter 20 – We're Bored

After the incident with Tsukino-san, the boys became the pinnacle of protection; they wouldn't let us out of their sights. Naru 'suggested' that we girls all stay at base where we are safer. Being pregnant, Ayako and I are getting it worse from our men; they won't leave us alone. It is really starting to get on our nerves, all four of us are planning to escape; yes even Masako wants to escape. The only problem with that plan is that, as I said, they won't let us out of their sights. We know they're worried about us, but we're as bored as anything; if we don't get any freedom we're going to go insane.

"Naruuuuu, we're bored, can we do something?" I complain to my overprotective boyfriend.

"Sure, as long as it doesn't involve leaving this room," he replies calmly.

"But there's nothing to do here," I whine. "Oh, I know, can we go shopping? You don't want us leaving this room because we might run into Tsukino-san, but what are the chances of us running into her at the shops?"

He takes a contemplative look at me while the girls and I all give him a hopeful gaze. "Fine, but don't be gone longer than two hours, if you're gone longer, I will come looking for you," he replies with a sigh.

"Yes, thank-you," I yell as I give him a peck on the lips and follow the girls out the door to go on our shopping spree.

"I can't believe he actually agreed with that," mutters Ayako.

"Well, like I said what are the chances of us running into Tsukino-san here at the shops? He can't so no to that because it isn't fair on us," I reply happily.

"No, you just seem to have him tied around your finger, I never thought the day would come when Naru became whipped," states Madoka.

"I doubt that, Naru is just getting soft I think," I reply.

"Whatever helps you sleep at night," replies Masako.

"Whatever, let's just make the most of these two hours we have to go shopping without the guys keeping their eyes on us," I suggest to change the subject.

So we spend what time we have at the shops and we bought a lot; and when I say a lot, I mean clothes to last us a week, lots of pleasure food (chocolate, chips, cake), new shoes, you get the idea. Therefore, when we arrived back at base, we were exhausted and I'm not really one for shopping, but hey, I'm pregnant and want to have fun before I can hardly move. When we walked into base, the boys' eyes were wider than saucepans and I could have sworn that even Naru's and Lin's eyes got bigger. I don't blame them; we bought a lot of stuff. "Did you four have to buy out the whole town?" asks Bou-san.

"Oh come on Houshou, we didn't buy that much," replies Ayako tiredly.

"I think us girls are too tired to even complain about being bored again, we're going to sleep," says Madoka as she lets out a yawn which instigates yawns out of the rest of us shoppers.

"I agree, good night," I say.

With that, the four of us dump our bags up against the wall and make our way to our rooms before the guys can say anything.

Naru's POV

"Did they just walk out of here forgetting that there is a possessed woman who doesn't want them in her house," asks Bou-san dumbly.

"If they go straight to bed, they should be fine, but check up on them occasionally," I say, though I am a little worried about not having my eye on Mai.

"Alrighty then, if you say so," replies Bou-san.

So we all return to what it was we were doing before the girls got back. The only sound was coming from Lin's laptop and the occasional page flipping from where the others were going through research.

Nothing much happened after that, the girls are quite; they certainly get tired after a shopping spree of those proportions. We haven't found out anything new and Mai hasn't had another dream since the first one, and the first dream isn't much to go off of. The others haven't found out much from Yasuhara's research, but that's also because we don't have much to go off of. I want this case to be over and done with as fast as possible to get the girls away from this house. If only we could- "AAAHHHHHHHHH"

"MAI," I yell as I make my way to our room, the others hot on my heels.

When I get there, Tsukino-san is standing near Mai with a bloody knife in her hand, from the looks of it; she managed to injure Mai in the arm. It pains me to see her like this, and it makes me angry that the spirit is hurting her. "Get away from her or I swear I'll kill you," I hissed darkly.

Tsukino-san turns with a sadistic smile on her face and her eyes are completely white, if the spirit doesn't leave the body soon, Tsukino-san will die. "Why should I listen to you, or would you prefer I killed your child," with that said she moved the knife to Mai's stomach, right where the baby would be.

"Don't even think about touching either of them," I yell at her.

"What you gonna do, exercise me? You don't know how," she laughs maniacally.

"You may be right, but I can destroy you. I was going to let one of the others just exercise you eventually, but you went too far when you injured Mai and threatened my child," I inform the maniacal spirit.

This makes the spirit scared, and I don't hesitate to use my powers to destroy the spirit. Tsukino-san's body goes limp and it's not long after that when I follow.

Mai's POV

When Tsukino-san and Naru fainted, I ran over to him to make sure he was still alive; when I found a pulse, I too succumbed to darkness from blood loss.

I open my eyes and everything is hazy. When my eyes adjust I look around and find myself in a hospital room, across the room, Naru is still unconscious in a hospital bed as well. The door opens and in comes a nurse to check up on us. "It's nice to see you awake, you lost a lot of blood when you were injured, but had enough blood to bring you back," she says kindly.

"What of my baby?" I ask when I suddenly remember I'm pregnant.

"No need to worry, your baby is healthy; in fact, it wasn't affected by your injury in the slightest."

I sigh in relief and look over to Naru, "You hear that Naru, our baby is going to be fine," I say even though I know he can't hear me.

"So he's the father, that would explain why your friends requested you two were put in the same room," she states as her eyes flash with mild jealousy. "I'll go and tell your friends you're awake."

With that, she leaves the room to retrieve the others. "Naru, you better wake up soon," I say as I wait for my friends to get here.

No amount of times that I say I'm sorry could say how truly sorry I am for not updating in sooooo long. I only got back from my holiday this morning and after dumping my luggage on the floor, I was asleep as soon as my head hit the pillow. I woke up about an hour ago and had something to eat and as soon as that was done, I put this up. I typed it up on my holiday since I did have my laptop, but I don't have internet when I go away.

The only reason I was able to reply to any messages was because I replied on my phone internet, thank God for iPhones.I'm glad I did have time on my holiday to type considering the family reunion was huge and my cousins, brother and I were either in the pool, eating, table tennis, eating, billiards, eating (we had a lot of food), volleyball, eating, badminton and sleeping. When most of the family had left, I took the peaceful opportunity to type up this chappy. I think that's all.

Anyways, Seza out.