When Mai got to her room she took out the clothes she would change into, turned on the shower, stripped, and walked into the small stall. She relaxed as the warm water hit her back and calmed her soul.

Memories of bathing with Ren and Kyan when they were just infants flashed through Mai's head and made her smile. She could remember when they were just infants and would look at her with the same eyes of Naru. She could remember the pain in her heart that had been somewhat quelled when taking a shower on the day she found out she was pregnant.

Flashback

Mai had been throwing up all morning. In fact, for the past three weeks she had been throwing up every morning and yet been craving food like there was no tomorrow. Her period had missed one month now and she was beginning to think something might be up.

Before going into work Mai found herself inside a grocery store. It wasn't very often in this day that one would see a lonesome eighteen year old girl in the pregnancy test section. But Mai felt that she should get this off her back.

Grabbing the first one she saw, Mai made her way to the check out, then quickly ran away from the store. She shoved the test into her bag and walked into SPR. Naru was in his office typing on his computer and Lin was in his. Naru called for his tea like normal and she went to make him it. After delivering the hot beverage she went back to her desk and began to file for the rest of the day.

When Mai got home she went directly to the bathroom. She had specifically drank lots of liquid during the day so that she could easy take the test.

After three minutes and some very worried paces from Mai, she made her way back to the bathroom where the test sat on the counter. She inhaled once and looked at the little piece of plastic.

Plastic hit the ground and Mai dropped to her knees. She exhaled in slow, shattered breaths. The test had said what she had feared. A small plus sign stared her in the face when she finally looked up to make sure what she thought she had seen was truly there or not.

After five minutes of shock Mai stood up and stripped herself of her clothing. She turned on the shower and stepped into the hot water. The stream of liquid instantly calmed her down as she rubbed her stomach, thinking to herself, "My child, my and Naru's child,"

Present time

Once done with her shower, Mai dressed and walked back to base. Her ankle had gotten better over the night, although a light bruise still laced around the skin.

When Mai got back to base she could hear Ayako and Bou fighting over something while someone, most likely Lin, was typing on their laptop. Mai stopped by the door before entering and listened to what the fight was about.

"I told you, no wedding talk during the case Ayako. We can discus it after." Bou said.

"I wanted to discuss some things with Mai though," Ayako whined back.

"You can talk to her after the case is over,"

"How do you know that she will be around when the case is over?" Ayako asked, a long silence met her question and Mai decided to walk in.

"Hey guys, what's up?" Mai smiled and noticed that everyone was in the room. The talking stopped abruptly and Naru started to speak.

"Taniyama, tea, and take Matsusaki with you, I do not want a repeat of the last couple times you have been alone."

Mai huffed and walked back out the door, Ayako following close behind. She was mumbling under her breath how she agreed to work with him on this one case and after she never wanted to see him again. Ayako could have sworn that she heard something about a tea-addict in the grumbles too.

"So Mai, where all did you travel?" Ayako said as soon as they got to the kitchen.

"Huh?" Mai turned towards Ayako.

"You said that you had traveled while away, where all did you travel?"

"Oh," Mai responded, turning back to the tea, "You know, places. All over Japan, China, Thailand, Australia, Korea, all in that general area."

"Australia? Why there? That isn't even close to being an Asian country," Ayako began to grow suspicious of her and John's friendship.

"Well, John was such an interesting person that I thought the country he came from would be interesting too, so I moved there,"

"Moved? I thought you said you traveled there,"

Mai mentally kicked herself, she had let something slip that she had not wanted to say, "Umm, yea, well, you see… I really should be taking Naru his tea." Mai picked up the tea tray and scurried out of the room, leaving a confused miko behind.

On the way to delivering Naru his tea Mai ran into someone who she thought would not be on the case.

"Yasuhara? What are you doing here?"

The young man stopped in his step and turned to look at his past coworker, an evil grin swept his face, "Well you see my dear, I had heard that you and Naru were back together and expecting, I didn't believe it was true until I heard you were at the springs on a honeymoon."

Mai stiffened, he had mentioned a child, between her a Naru. That was dangerously close to the truth. She stayed silent.

"Joking Mai, you've become uptight since three years ago. You probably would have blown up on me for even saying something like that." Yasuhara held up his hands in a surrendering fashion and smiled a toothy grin.

Mai released her held breath, "So what are you really doing here?" She asked continuing to walk forward, Yasuhara taking in step next to her.

"Boss man said he wanted some information on the springs, so I looked it up at the school and found something quite interesting. And here I am, to deliver the info."

Mai laughed at how Yasuhara puffed out his chest to make himself seem larger. But her laughter soon ended as they reached the door to base.

Mai delivered the tea as soon as she got in then sat down. Yasuhara sat next to her on the couch and cleared his throat making Naru turn around.

"Why are you here?" Naru asked, his eyes growing into slits.

"Well, my dear friend, I happen to have some information on the case that may very well help you finish this all up."

Naru didn't say anything, he just looked at Yasuhara. The college student didn't get the hint that he was to continue until Mai nudged him in the arm.

"Right, well, I was looking through some old documents. It looks like this spring was built just about twenty years ago. The spring itself was based around a house who's occupants mysteriously disappeared. The original house's owners were a young couple with a young son and expecting a daughter. The husband was of Japanese decent though the wife was of English decent. The son, believe it or not, was not the owners son, but rather the illegitimate child of the wife's lover in England. The wife was pregnant with the owners daughter when she died. The cause of her death is unknown, but something that is known is that the son died shortly after the mother in the springs to the right of the house. The man was never found." Yasuhara closed the folder and Naru sat with his hand under his chin.

"Naru?" Mai leaned in towards Naru.

"It sounds much like the family in your dream," Naru said to Mai, not really looking at her.

"The name of the young boy was Gregory, the woman Hanna, and the man Kiou,"

Mai turned instantly at the sound of the names, they were the family in her dream. And that made everything much more clear.

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