Hey everyone, sorry for the long wait... school was disastrous for the past week. But now I have found some free time to write xD Anyway, hope you like it!

Chapter 4: The Case

Previously:

"How could I forget? You broke my heart that day Naru." Mai replied rather harshly.

Naru felt like he was stabbed in the heart hearing those words from her beautiful lips. "Mai... When I left Japan I couldn't stop thinking about you, you were on my mind whether I was asleep or awake." Naru said. As he said this Mai's eyes were wide in anticipation of what he going to say. "Mai, I seriously made a stupid mistake, and I finally know what I want- no need to say to you" He caressed her face and Mai closed her eyes. "Mai Taniyama, I love you" he whispered into her ear.

When those words left his lips, Mai froze in the spot and her eyes went wide. She felt like time stopped, she didn't even hear the music anymore. 'Di-did Naru j-just say that h-he l-l-loved me?!'

Present: Normal P.O.V.

Mai's look of shock quickly went to look of worry. She brought her hand up to Naru's forehead to check for his temperature, "Naru, do you have a fever?"she said innocently.

Naru looked at Mai as if she had said the most stupid thing in the world. He quickly grabbed her wrist, looked her straight in the eye and pecked her on the lips. "No Mai, I don't have a fever, I am perfectly healthy. I was being serious, I truthfully love you Mai." He said to Mai.

Mai's face was burning from the kiss, she felt her breath catch in her throat, "N-N-Naru, you k-k-kissed me... b-but you left me when I c-confessed to you, and now you're telling me you l-love me? I really can't wrap my head around this." Mai said in a painfully slowly pace.

"Mai, please understand that I'm not lying, and give me your answer." Naru said with eyes full of love and passion.

"N-Naru, please give me some time to think about this, you know I have a b-boyfriend and I'm extremely busy. I just need time to think about what I really want." Mai whispered.

Naru nodded in understanding, "Very well Mai, I'll wait until next week. If I don't have your answer by then I will think of it as a rejection." Naru said, and kissed her cheek softly and carefully as if she could break with the slightest touch.

Mai felt the blood rush to her face once again, she was thankful that the party was dimly lit because if it wasn't Naru would see her blush and tease her. "Bye Naru." she said before she went to Kei to tell him to take her home.

*Time skip to the next day's morning (author was lazy)*

Mai groaned when she heard her extremely annoying cell phone ring. "Hello?" she answered rather angrily and annoyed.

"Hi Mai." She heard over the phone. It was Naru. She felt her heart skip a beat.

"To what do I own to have such a early phone call from the one and only narcissist." she replied, trying to hide from her voice that she was flustered.

"Well, can you come into the office today to discuss a case we have? Everyone thinks that we will probably need your help."

"Give me a minute to check my schedule for the next couple of days." she quickly looked at my calendar and by a weird coincidence she didn't have anything scheduled for the next 4 days. "Yeah sure I have nothing planned. When should I come in?".

"In an hour. Pack some clothes in case you come on the case with us." Naru replied, with a pinch of happiness in his voice, although Mai didn't noticed. "Bye for now".

"Bye Naru". she said with a gentle smile on her face.

Mai put down the phone, sighed, and got up to get ready. She quickly took a quick shower, went to her closet, and packed some clothes. She then wore a brown long sleeved shirt with a deep 'V' cut, light blue pants with a brown belt, light brown heeled boots, a light brown scarf, a brown clutch and a golden watch.

Mai grabbed her keys and got into her red Mercedes-Benz Sls Amg and drove to the SPR office.

*Time skip to the office (Author was lazy again)*

As soon as she got through the door of the office she was lifted up by Monk, and she felt Yasu wrap his arms around her from behind her. Thankfully Ayako was fast and hit them both on the head with her purse.

Mai quickly greeted everyone.

"Hi Taniyama-san, come sit down so we can start talking about the case." said Lin.

As Mai was sitting down she said, "Really Lin, there is no need to call me Taniyama-san, please just call me Mai." Out of the corner of her eye she saw Lin nod quietly. "Okay, so can someone explain the case for me please?"

Naru finally spoke up, "It's a case in the outskirts of the city. A family of 5, a mother, father, and three sons, their ages are 6,16, and 22. Apparently, at night they hear a child's screaming throughout the halls, and in the morning when they wake up the mother always has scratches all over her body. They also said that most of the incidents has been around the mother, and that the 6 year old son is often found talking to nothing."

While looking at Naru, Mai couldn't stop herself from thinking about his confession and kiss from the other night, she felt her face flush, she could tell she looked like a cherry at the moment. She shook her head, and she cut him off so she could ask him about the case, "It seems like a easy enough case. Why do you need my help?".

John spoke up, "Because many people have already tried getting rid of the spirit but it's just too strong, even I tried and I couldn't exorcise it".

"Ohhh..." was all that Mai said.

"So continuation of my explanation before I was rudely interrupted." Naru said throwing a glance at Mai. "The two other sons say that they sometimes see a outline of a child when they walk through the house, or when they look into the mirror they see a child with a teddy bear behind them smiling. The father said that he would see writing outlined on scratches on the furniture that says something along the lines of 'She will pay'". Naru finished.

Mai felt a shiver course through her spine. "Okay then." she said shakily. "When are we going?".

"In about a hour, so let's start packing up the equipment By the way, it will take about 6 hours to get there." Lin said.

Everyone groaned at the thought of packing up all the equipment and the length of the trip. But nonetheless they packed quickly and drove to the clients house. Mai was to go with Naru, and Lin in one van, and the rest went to the other van.

After 30 minutes Mai fell asleep on Naru, and she failed to see Naru blushing because of her act. She slowly fell into her world of dreams.

To be continued...

YAY! It's done... sorry if it's not such a exciting chapter, but it's all I could do xD

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