Authors Forward:

Well, My question was answered... and yes, I know, it was answered awhile ago by FallenRaindrops. and May I say, THANK YOU! I will try my very hardest to come up with a witty disclaimer that will satisfy all my fans. So to start, *puts hand on chin and gives a pondering face* there really is no point in a disclaimer on fanfiction. The sight says it itself, 'fan' 'fiction' as in, the 'fan' will write a 'fictional' (not true) story based of a 'fictional' story. now, i do know that some stories when you get in the book or movie categories are not going to be fictional, but the story that you write would be one that is not true but based off the original story, hence the 'fiction' portion. so one would think that a disclaimer stating that you do not own the story would be completely ludicrous. And so I have come to the decision that- *people in black suits come in and put tape over mouth. they throw a bag over the head and pic up the still struggling girl. with a final look and apology for her going to be long explanation they head out a door that was not previously there before*

Mai woke up to blinding whiteness; a soft steady beep was going off in her right ear. She tried to move her left hand, but pain shot through her the second she budged. Quickly, Mai lifted herself off the bed and looked around. A really stupid idea on Mai's behalf for she instantly felt dizzy in the head and fell back onto her pillows.

With a groan Mai lifted her left arm to blind her eyes from the light. Horror struck through her when Mai saw that a large bandage was wrapped around her palm.

"What the-" Mai began, but was interrupted by the person sitting next to her.

"Taniyama, you're awake," Mai turned her head to see none but Kazuya Shibuya, Oliver Davis, Noll, Naru, whichever alias he was taking in this hospital, sitting in the chair next to the bed.

"N-" But once again Naru interrupted Mai when he stood and went to the door, calling for the doctor who came rushing into the room.

"Well, Taniyama, Mai," The doctor spoke while looking at his clip board, "Let's see how you are faring," He pulled out a light and shinned it in Mai's eyes. She blinked and pushed his hands away from her face, "Eyes, check," The doctor spoke while marking something on his clipboard than taking out his stethoscope and placing it on Mai's chest, "Breath in, good, now breath out," Mai did as he said multiple times until he pulled away and wrote on the clip board.

Next the doctor moved to the monitor and did some adjusting. Mai and Naru stayed silent as the man did his procedures.

Finally he turned to look at the young woman on the bed, "Do you remember anything from before you passed out?"

Mai tried thinking, but couldn't remember past leaving the room to get his tea. She shook her head no.

"Well, your friend here informed me when you came in that you had fallen down a flight of stairs and pulled down the railing, managing to somehow shove it through your left palm. You might have slight amnesia from around the time it happened but nothing too serious. It seems you will be able to leave the hospital within the hour, so I shall go get the papers to sign so you may leave," The doctor finally smiled then left the room.

Mai turned to look at Naru, "That's not what happened is it?"

"No," Naru went to sit down where he had been sitting, "You were attacked by the ghost, proving that my assumption was right about the target, though I was wrong about the ghost."

Mai cocked her head to the side, Naru caught this and new that it meant she did not understand, "I had assumed the ghost was that of the father, but instead it was the ghost of the son. I do not know why he has had an exact pattern up until now, but I do know that he is after women. My only guess could be that he is looking for a mother after his father had killed his. But since my last assumption was wrong I will not say this for sure,"

"Oh, then Ayako and I have to watch out," Mai stated as more of a question. Naru shook his head yes then silence engulfed the two.

"Mai," the said girl turned her head to look at her employer, he had not called her that once since they re-met each other. "We need to talk,"

"About what?"

Naru sighed and looked at her, his eyes showing something she could not tell, "About three years ago. Mai, I-"

But Naru was interrupted when the door opened and two young children came rushing in. Mai caught her breath when she saw them bounding towards her and saw John standing at the door.

"Sorry, Taniyama, Ren knew. I don't know how, but I was contacted by the priest and he said they were worried and he was bringing them here." John stepped into the room and closed the door behind him.

"Oka-san! We were worried! Ren saw something attacking you and when we called up Oni-san he said you were in the hospital," Kyan came running at Mai, jumped on the bed, and hugged his mother.

Mai, with fear in her body, turned to where Naru sat. His entire composure had changed since the two young one's had ran in, but when Kyan called Mai by Oka-san his eyes narrowed into slits.

"Naru-" Mai began to speak but he stood up and made for the door.

"I can see very well what you did while gone," He hissed then slammed the door behind him. Outside the door her mentally cursed at himself for loosing his composure at the moment.

Back inside the room Mai heaved Ren up onto the bed with her and Kyan.

"So you two somehow got a grown man into taking you miles away from home just to visit your silly Oka-san?" Mai laughed at Ren and Kyan's innocent faces as they looked up at her.

"Apparently the priest thought it best they be with you at this time," John said, walking further into the room. "Is it really safe for them to be here?"

"Here, at the hospital, yes, at the spring? I do not know." Mai answered him with the full truth.

"Oka-san, I saw something hurt you? Are you better now?" Ren asked.

Mai looked at her daughter with bewilderment, "How did you see?"

"When I was dreaming,"

Mai looked up at John, "Did you know?"

"Yes, the priest told me that she had told the very same thing to him,"

"I wonder," Mai thought for a second, putting on her thinking face, "Do you think Ren has the same ESP powers I have?"

"We at least know that she has the ability during sleep as you do," John said with a small, fully knowing that all of Mai's powers had to due with sleep.

Mai stuck her tongue out at the blonde Australian then looked down at where Ren and Kyan were fighting over who would get to sit on their mother's lap more. A soft smile lit her face but was taken away just as fast when Bou and Ayako entered the room.

"Mai- uh," Bou stopped himself from running over and hugging the young woman when he saw the two kids fighting in her lap.

Ayako shoved past the Monk, not noticing the young children until she had a full on view of Mai. The Miko's mouth dropped open and she was speechless.

"Uh, Mai, I think you have some explaining to do," Bou said, started to get angry, "And the first one is, who is the father?"

Mai chuckled lightly to herself, she had expected them to instantly guess but, Bou being Bou, didn't see anything which gave his question away instantly.

"Why are you laughing?" He asked.

"You should know," Mai said, more to herself than the others around her.

Ayako walked closer to the two kids. Ren instantly jumped up and look at the red head. With a small shriek, she ran to the edge of the bed and latched onto Ayako's neck.

"Yay! Oka-san brought us an Oba-san Kyan!" The little boy stood up as his sister spoke to him and ran over, attaching himself to Ayako as well.

"Oba-san?" Ayako looked at Mai, anger swelling in her face.

"I'm sorry, Ayako, but you are like a mother to me, so it would make sense,"

Ayako's anger instantly fizzled when looking at Mai's innocent face. She smiled and pulled the kids off her, placing them back on the bed.

"Well, I think when we get back to the spring you have a lot of explaining to do to all of us."

Back at the spring everyone either stood or sat in base. The twins had gotten tired from playing with Yasuhara and crashed the second their heads hit the pillows. The whole SPR team though did not have their focus on the kids, instead they were all looking at the mother.

"Ok, Mai, fess up," Bou said, "Tell us the whole story,"

Mai sighed and took in a breath. She looked around at everyone. "When I left I went to Australia. There I found out I was pregnant with twins and decided to stay. After about a year I went to a church to get them baptized, I had thought that if they were to attract as much ghost attention as I had, I might as well get them blessed.

"When I reached the church I found out that the priest was in a different country. I asked for him to specifically come and baptize them. One month later John appeared. He knew about the twins the whole time and helped me bring them back to Japan." Mai was looking down at her hands in her lap by the end of her story.

"So, who's the father?" Bou asked yet again. "You never answered me back at the hospital."

Mai looked panic at the question, she looked to John, the only one who knew the truth, and hoped no one had caught her glance. Lin raised his hand to his chin for he had seen the short exchange between Mai and John.

"Mai?" Ayako asked, moving her hand to the young woman's back.

"She doesn't know who the father is," John spoke up, everyone turned to look at him.

"So it was rape?" Bou asked, anger rising in his voice.

"No," Mai spoke up, causing everyone to turn and look back at her, though Lin kept his eyes on the priest before turning back to his co-worker. "I knew him for a short time. He had given me a ride from the airport into town then took me out to eat. I was stupid and went back to his apartment with him. There things got carried away and I-" Mai bit her lip and looked at the couch at her two sleeping children.

"Yes, I think we all can see what came out of that," Naru said.

Mai felt like she had told an awful and terrible lie to her 'family'. Technically, she was not lying. The night she and Naru had conceived the children she had picked him up at the airport from visiting his family. They had gone out to eat, and they had ended up at his apartment. The only difference was that she had said it was with another man.

"So how old are they?" Lin spoke up.

"They're two going on three in a short amount of time."

"Wait, if they're turning three soon then that means that you would have given birth to them within seven months after leaving Japan. Unless you were pregnant in Japan," At what Ayako had said Naru turned his head quickly back to look at Mai, his eyes growing into thin slits. Ayako made Mai nervous, she was so smart in the medical area, curse her for being a doctor.

Mai didn't answer and that made her panic herself. If she couldn't come up with a story shortly then Naru may catch on and find out about the fact that the twins were his.

"I-They were.. Born.. Prematurely, yes, that's it, they were born prematurely." Mai said quickly, hoping everyone would fall for it. Everyone must have because they all nodded their heads as though the story made sense. Well, everyone but Naru and Lin. Naru just kept glaring towards the kids and Lin kept his eyes on the brunette to watch her every move.

"Taniyama," Mai turned to Naru, "Please enlighten us why two toddlers who are soon to be three have such great speech,"

Mai blushed and turned to look at her dwindling her thumbs, "Umm, well… they take after their father and have a high IQ,"

"How high?" Naru pushed to know.

"Umm, I think it was somewhere around one… forty, forty five, somewhere around there, Ren's IQ was always higher than Kyan's, she took after her father the most."

Everyone, including Lin and Naru this time, looked at Mai with surprise. To have children at that age with a high IQ was, well, reaching the brains of higher than Naru.

"Oka-san?" Mai turned to her young one's just as Ren raised her head and looked at her, "Oka-san, will you please tell me about Otou-san?"

Mai instantly stiffened and craned her neck to look at everyone, they all got the clue and dispersed, Ayako and Bou to go take temperatures, John to check the cameras, and Lin and Naru back on their computers.

"Well, Ren," Mai moved over to where Ren and Kyan were laying on the couch, she picked up her daughter and sat down. She picked the sleeping Kyan up and laid her feet across the couch. Placing Kyan between herself and the back of the couch with his head on her stomach, Mai laid Ren in her arms and let Red nuzzle her head in her neck.

"Your father, at the time, seemed very important to me." True, Naru was important to Mai, "Although I didn't know him very long, I felt like I could trust him with my life," True again, Mai had not known the soft side of Naru very long and when they got engaged it was like he was a different person, "He was very formal and didn't care much for people, though I knew he cared lots for me," Naru's ears twitched when she spoke of the man who had knocked her up in such a soft way, "He was very handsome and very intelligent, but sometimes he would be so stupid."

"Hmm, he sounds like a very nice person, Oka-san. So, why did you leave him?" Ren yawned, and with it Mai yawned herself. Naru, though it might have seemed that he was just typing, was listening intently on their conversation.

"I didn't leave him, he left me," Technically, that was true. Naru had changed after the accident and Mai did not want to force him to remember her. When she had found out that he remembered everyone but her, Mai's heart had broken in half.

Flash Back

"Why can't I see him Lin? You said yourself that he got his memory back," Mai stood outside Naru's hospital room. Lin had stopped her from going in.

"Taniyama, please listen, now is not a good time for you to see him."

But Mai did not listen to what Lin had to say. Instead, she pushed her way through and into the room. There sat the love of her life in a white outfit, covered by white blankets with a black book in his hands.

"Naru," Mai said, a smile spreading out across her face. She went to sit down next to him. When she sat he pulled the book down and looked her over, letting his eyes linger on the ring on her finger.

"Who is it?" Naru asked.

"Who is what?" Mai asked back, confused.

"The one you're engaged to, you're wearing a ring, aren't you?"

Instantly Mai felt her heart get stabbed, maybe, just maybe, he was playing with her and would shortly become the Naru she was with, "Naru, don't you remember anything?"

"Yes," Naru put the book back up to in front of his face and Mai felt that he really was playing with her, until, "You are my assistant, nothing more, nothing less."

"But Naru, you-you and I," Mai tried to grasp for words but could not find anything to say, she then remembered the necklace he had gotten her on their anniversary. Pulling it out from under her top and leaning in Mai spoke, "Read this,"

Naru took his book back down and looked at the small golden heart with two names inscribed on it, "Davis and Taniyama," He pulled away, back to his book again, "So my brother never passed on and now you're engaged to a dead person,"

"Naru, No-" Mai shook her head.

"Last I checked, you loved him,"

Mai's heart broke right there, she knew he was serious and not playing at the moment. She knew that he truly could not remember them being together. Tears brimmed her eyes and she stood up suddenly, leaving the room, muttering something about tea.

Present Time

Naru looked at his sleeping assistant on the couch. Her children looked so much like her and yet, not. Naru sighed and looked at Lin.

"You knew, didn't you?"

"I guessed as much," Lin stopped typing and turned to Naru, glancing over at the mother and twins. "I thought something along the lines of mothering had happened to her when she spilt the tea and said, 'no use crying over spilt tea'. I had thought that maybe she took care of a friend's child. I guess it was her own children."

Naru sighed and looked back at the woman. He stood and grabbed a blanket, carefully placing it over her so that each child was covered but still had their heads uncovered. Pulling away, Naru wondered why he had felt a slight tug towards the kids every time they were in the room.

Yay! Another chapter up! And now the real fun will begin with the kids on the case. I was going to introduce the kids differently, but while i was cleaning out a box i found a piece of paper with the beginning of this chapter written on it... i totally forgot that i had planned it before, and then all my plans for the story came back, so i finally know what I'm going to do.

anywho's the next chapter should be up sometime within the week, maybe two days if enough people like this one. *wink wink*

ok... well... there is really nothing else to say, to sayonara.