So here is a sweet chapter that I came up with for another story prompt. This is one of my favorites to write and I added more before I uploaded it. Hope you enjoy!

9-Ghosts

Once Naru and Mai had Gene, Mai's role at the office was greatly reduced. For the most part she would stay at home and care for the infant. She did eventually start to go on investigations, granted not as often as she used to, but she did. She would even bring their little boy to the office and get paperwork done while caring for him. But once Mai was pregnant again and had once again gotten herself into a very dangerous situation on a case, they both decided that it would be best if she remained at home for the most part.

Naru had gone on a few cases without her, but she insisted on being of some help. She would usually research for them. And would usually watch everyone else's kids during the case, most of the time one of the other moms would stay behind and they would tag team the babysitting.

But Mai and Naru's children weren't quite in school yet and were too mobile to bring into the office. They had decided not to put Gene into preschool, because he was getting plenty of interaction with his little sister and the rest of the team's and their friends' children. Mai would usually find herself hanging out with her kids in their apartment.

On this specific day, it was cold in February, Mai couldn't take the kids to the park or to the office. They had to entertain themselves another way. Mai had learned to get very creative with her kids. So despite the gloomy day outside and the cold temperature, they did not spend the day watching movies.

Naru had gotten used to coming home to find the three of them in the middle of some strange game that usually ended with various pieces of furniture moved about and maybe some sheets thrown over them to make a fort. On this day, however, it wasn't a secret clubhouse that he came home to and had to guess the password.

It did, however, involve a sheet.

"Gene, Midori, what are you doing?" Naru asked as he walked into his living room. In the middle of it stood a little girl with hazel eyes and light brown hair up in lopsided pigtails, holding a hairbrush. She pointed the brush at her brother who had a white sheet draped over him.

"Papa!" the little girl exclaimed with wide curious eyes that reminded him of her mother.

"I'm a ghostie!" the little boy said, raising his hand.

"I Mama!" the little girl added. She turned back around and jabbed the brush toward her brother. "Go away! Back, ghostie, back! Zai! Zen!"

Naru just tilted his head to the side, where was their mother? "Hey, Midori, where is Mama?"

"Camera!" Midori pointed to the couch and sure enough Mai rose from behind it with one of their cameras.

"They said I had to hide otherwise the ghostie wouldn't come out," Mai said with a smile, zooming in on her husband's confused face. "They've been taking turns being the ghost and one of us, I had to get it on tape!"

"You taught her the nine cuts?"

Mai shook her head and shrugged. "Wasn't me. Honestly, I have no clue how she learned it. I didn't even use it when I was pregnant with her."

"Did you cut holes in the sheet?" he asked, seeing his son's deep blue eyes peer up at him.

"It's an old sheet, so why not?"

Gene grabbed his father's hand and pulled him down. Naru knelt down as his son threw the sheet over him. "I'm Papa now!" he said gleefully as Naru adjusted the sheet.

"The eyeholes are lopsided," he commented dryly earning a look from his wife.

"So are your ears, now deal with it."

"Bad ghostie!" Midori pushed against her father's leg.

"Uh oh, I am a bad ghostie aren't I?" This earned him giggles from his kids. "Do you know what bad ghosts do?" The two shook their heads. "They catch little kids!" He took a step and the two kids ran out of the room in fits of giggles and screeches and Mai recorded the spectacle.

She giggled and shook her head. Oh Naru, who would've thought you'd turn into such a great dad? She thought to herself with a smile as her husband caught their two year old daughter and threw her into the air. Their son latched onto the man's leg as the giggles continued.

And Mai realized that she and Naru finally found it. They found happiness. It didn't happen the way they planned it. Hell, they didn't plan a thing. But they wouldn't have had it any other way.

Mai smirked behind the camera. Ghosts brought us together, she thought, amused. She watched as her children managed to knock their father to the ground, playfully shouting the incantation that she herself used to protect her team and herself on cases.

And ghosts will keep us together.

I love the idea of Naru playing with his future kids. And when the prompt just said "Ghosts" I knew it had to be a Ghost Hunt scene. But I also knew I had to put some type of twist on it and I thought "what about their kids? Would they become ghost hunters one day?" But I didn't want to write about their kids all grown up just yet, maybe I'll do that in the future, but this time I wanted to write about how much Gene and Midori admired their parents at such a young age. I hope this scene at least captured that just a little.

Anyway thanks for reading! I hope you all had a Merry Christmas, Happy Hanukah, Happy Kwanza, or whatever holiday you might had celebrated! I hope to have Dangerous Souls updated before the New Year so stayed tuned!

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