Hey my lovelies~ This was probably the longest wait between chapter releases... I'm sorry ... I was busy with school stuff, but I recently decided I should post the next chapter. Congratulations to me, I deserve a cupcake don't I?! (lol) Oh and, sorry for always changing my writing style, in the first chapter or so I did first person point of views but now I only do third person. Anyway, on with the story!

Chapter 6: Who Are They?

Previously:

Mai looked at Naru and Lin emptily. "When you guys left. There was no one to teach me. So I did it all by myself. I won't lie by saying it was easy, some days I would just break down. But in the end I learned to control it." Mai smiled hollowly at them.

"Mai I'm so-" Naru started but was immediately cut off by Mai.

"No Naru don't. The past is in the past and nothing can be done about it. I moved on from those memories, and you should forget I even told you". Mai said while walking over to the door. "I'll be in the kitchen making more tea". With that she left.

Naru sighed and ran his hand through his hair. 'What can I do for my so she can love me again' Naru thought.

Present:

Mai was making her infamous earl grey tea while humming a random tune, when two of the members of the household walked into the kitchen. By the looks of it, it was the 6 year old and the 22 year old.

The little boy had messily styled brown hair with cute round brown eyes. The older of the two and piercing hazel eyes, and brown hair with red streaks running through it. Mai stared at the older sibling, she thought he look somewhat familiar but she couldn't quite put her finger on it. She was staring at him in a daze until the little boy coughed. She broke her train of thoughts and plastered a smile on her face.

"Hi, I'm Mai Taniyama. I'm here with the SPR." She said in a cheerful tone. She stuck her hand out to the older boy. He grabbed it and shook it politely.

"Hey, I'm Ryota Nobuyuki, and this is my brother Satoru. If you didn't guess already, this is our house." The older sibling now known as Ryota said. "Oh and please just call me Ryota".

Mai nodded her head and smiled, "Very well then, you can call me Mai". Ryota nodded back at her. "Anyway, Ryota , Satoru, is there anything you wanted to tell me?"

"Ah, not really. We just wanted to meet everyone. If you wouldn't mind could you take us to your base to meet the rest of your members? We didn't get to say hi yet, we weren't at home when you guys came." the younger boy Satoru said while playing with his hair, probably afraid that I'd say no to his request.

Mai smiled at the adorable boy, she knelt down and held his hand, "Of course you can, I'm sure everyone will be happy to finally see you." Mai stood up while holding the boys hand. She turned to Ryota, "Come on Ryota". Ryota smiled in response, not caring that Mai didn't use honorific's. Mai grabbed the tray that held the tea and started walking.

The pair walked through the halls to get to base while Satoru was running around playing with his toy airplane he picked up off the floor.

Ryota turned to Mai, "It's amazing how fast he took a liking to you." Mai turned to him.

"What do you mean?"

"Well..." Ryota trailed off. "It's just that ever since these weird things have been happening he starting cutting himself off from his friends and family. It took me 15 minutes to get him out of his room to come and greet you, but as soon as he saw you it's like he relaxed." Ryota scrunched up his eyebrows in thought.

Mai giggle at his face. That caught his attention, he turned back to her in question. Suddenly she touched his nose, "You look stupid~~" Mai sang.

Ryota looked surprised, his face suddenly took on a playful glare. "Mai... did you just call my face stupid?"

Mai laughed and skipped in front of him, "Maybe~" She sang again. She turned back to him and stuck her tongue out at him. Whilst doing that Mai wondered why she felt so comfortable with this stranger even though the met a couple of minutes ago.

That thought was pushed away when Ryota started chasing Mai , with Satoru tailing behind him. Ryota was yelling, "Mai! You are so gonna regret calling me a idiot!", with a mischievous smile.

They ran all the way to the base. Mai pushed open the door and fled inside, before she could close the door on Ryota he grabbed her wrist and pulled her towards him. The force of the fall caused Mai to trip and fall, pulling Ryota with her.

And there she was, Ryota on top of her, and the entire SPR watching with wide eyes.

She quickly forgot about the SPR around her when Ryota started tickling her.

"R-Ryota!" Mai yelled breathlessly. "S-Stop i-it!" she said in-between laughing.

"N-O-P-E! This is what you get for calling me stupid~", he said in a singsong voice.

He suddenly stopped, looked straight in her eyes, touched her nose and cheerfully said, "Now who looks stupid Mai, or should I call you clumsy?"

Mai cheeks turned cherry red with embarrassment. "Whatever Ryota, but can you get off me now? It's starting to become uncomfortable." she said with a bitter undertone.

Ryota nodded and heaved off of Mai and helped her up. That when they found the SPR starring at the two with mouths open wide.

Mai slowly looked over to Naru and the glare he was giving the two could absolutely kill. Looking over to Ryota, she saw that he wasn't even shaken from Naru's glare, in fact he played it off like it was nothing.

Naru open his mouth to scold the two. "Mai, who are these people who you brought here?"

The calmness in his voice made Mai shiver, it was the calm before the storm. "U-Uhm... they are members of the household, Ryota Nobuyuki and his younger brother Satoru. They wanted to meet us."

"Well, now you've met us. Lin please escort them out." Naru said and Lin quickly played out the duty. Naru sighed and walked into his office, closing the door behind him.

Mai, burning with rage from Naru's rude behaviour, marched into his office and slammed the door shut. "Naru! How rude can you get?! They were just trying to be nice!" Mai looked towards Naru who's expression had not faltered for a second. "Fine", she breathed out, "I'm so done with you Naru."

Just as she was about to turn around, Naru grabbed her wrist and pulled her towards him. He backed her up onto his desk, his two arms entrapping her in his protection.

Looking into her wide eyes he whispered, "Mai... Do you have any idea how I feel? Here I am waiting for you to accept me again and I see you being so close to someone you just met... I really don't know what to do anymore".

He was so close that she could feel his breath against her lips every time he uttered a word. "N-Naru", she whispered with a bright blush upon her cheeks. "I-" she was cut off by Naru's lips on hers. Mai's opened wide in surprise.

She started pushing on his shoulders, struggling to get out of his grip. Naru refused to let her go again, he pushed down harder on her lips and Mai absolutely melted. Her eyes slowly slid shut and arms wrapped up around his neck, and Naru's arms wrapped around her waist. Needless to say, they were completely pressed up against each other.

Naru, finding that she relaxed, decided to go a bit farther. He wouldn't give up this opportunity. He pushed her down until she was laid down on top of his desk. Mai stared at him, lust blinding her good judgement. Climbing of top of her, her connected their lips again. His hands trailed up her body remembering every curve and turn. When he reached her breasts Mai's eyes shot open in realization of what was happening.

Pulling away from the kiss, she grabbed his hands and pushed them away, "N-Naru, please stop... I-I don't know what's happening to me. I want to be with you, oh gosh, I have to face it, I need to be with you... I find when I'm away from you, my body yearns for your warm touch." Mai hollowly chuckled, "I can believe I'm telling you all this... But at the moment can you please let me get back to my job?"

Naru nodded in understanding and got off . She fix her ridded up clothes and she quickly fled out the room. Naru, watching her fleeing form, sighed a longing sigh.

So yeah, I need you beauties to vote on who you want Mai to be with:

1)Naru

2)Ryota

3)Kei

4)Other: Please specify

Personally I want her to end up with Naru, but I want to know about everyone else's opinion. Oh, and, uh, I probably won't be able to update for a long time again, exams are soon and I have a lot of mid-term assignments due, so yeah, sorry... Anyway thank you for reading! Buh Bye ^_^/