*Somewhere in a really rainy area the author of this story is being held at a gun point*
Gun person 1: Tell us the truth, do you own ghost hunt or not
Author: I do, I do
Gun Person 2: You know we kill liars
Author: But I do own ghost hunt
Gun person 1: Where, in your head or in real life
Author: *becomes really silent and looks away* In my head
Gun person 1: *takes gun away from head* Keep dreaming *gun people walk away and author sighs*
Author: I wish my dreams could come true... HEY! That's it! A dream come true machine! Then I will own Ghost Hunt! *laughs evilly*
It had been six weeks since the case was closed up. Mai had been able to take the sling off and left the apartment John had so kindly prepared for her. She made sure to leave a note saying that she was truly not ready to face life yet and did not know when she would be back.
John had lost contact with Mai. Ayako and Bou put their wedding on hold until Mai returned. Yasuhara's grades were dropping, and Lin and Madoka stayed in Japan to keep the office open while Naru returned with Martin and Luella to England.
The two parents of the narcissistic child got the answers they had from Lin. They had dare not bring Mai up in front of Naru. No one dared to bring her up. Ever since finding what she had left him on the table, Naru had grown cold to everyone.
In England, Naru filed papers for his parents. They did not tell him that they had just wanted him to get away from the ghost hunting for awhile. Martin felt that his sons health was in danger. But Luella had another reason for taking him away from Japan. She was gutsy and approached him on his assistant.
"Noll, tell your mother the truth," Luella walked into Naru's room. He sat at his desk, submerged in files his father had told him to look at, "I know something more than the last case is bothering you. And I know that something is a Japanese woman."
Naru did not look up to see his mother. He continued to look at the manila envelopes while Luella walked into his room and sat in the chair next to him.
"Noll, you can tell me," She spoke as gently as she could, not wanting to hurt her son. She felt horrible about the way he was feeling, but at the same time she was angry about the fact that he was bottling up all his emotions like a teenager.
Silence filled between the two adults but was broken when a small clank filled the space. Luella looked at her son's wrists. He tried to hide them from her, but she grabbed them and lifted up the sleeve.
There, one of each wrist, were two bracelets. Luella instantly recognized them as the one's Lin had described that Mai had left for Naru. The one with a K on it was around his right wrist, and the R one on his left. Luella's eyes softened.
"Noll, you still love her, don't you?"
The black haired man turned to his mother, pulling his arms away from her, "I do not love her, I only care about the children. They are mine and yet I have not been able to even spend a slick of time with them."
"Is that not your fault?" Luella asked, confusing her son, "You forced yourself to not believe they were yours. Even after Mai left the bracelets for you and left, you forced it. Lin had to beat it into you. And," Luella took a breath, "It is obvious you love her."
"What makes it obvious?" Naru snapped at his mother.
Luella did not need to say anything, all she had to do was point at the golden chain around his neck, barely able to be seen. After Naru dropped his head into his hand Luella felt talking would never help. She got up, out of her seat and walked towards the door. Before she left, the older woman turned to look at her distraught son and told him one thing.
"Why don't you go to your brother?"
Naru did not know why he had listened to his ludicrous mother. Gene was dead and would never return. There was no reason for him to visit the grave. But, for some reason, he went to the cemetery.
Many headstones covered the ground, reminding Naru that life was short and there was no point in dawdling in nonsense. The sky was dark and looked as if it may rain. But he continued to make his way up the path to the grave he sought.
Near the top, Naru heared mumbling. He got as close as he could, but could still not make out what the person was saying. Finally reaching the top of the hill, Naru saw who stood near what grave.
Mai looked from Kyan to Ren. They were both wearing black outfits, making them both look more like their father and bringing tears into her eyes. She lowered her head just as a rain drop fell. Raising her head, Mai looked at the gravestone.
"Gene, I brought you your niece and nephew. I thought you might like to meet them." Mai looked down to her two kids, "Ren, Kyan, this is your Uncle Gene,"
"Oka-san, I don't see anyone here," Ren said.
"That is because Gene has already passed on. If you were to meet your father then you would know what he looked like,"
"Oh," Ren turned from her mother and looked at the grave stone, "Hey, Uncle Gene, it's nice to meet you," With a smile, she placed a small flower beside the grave.
"Nice to meet you too Uncle Gene," Kyan laid another flower next to his sisters.
Mai had felt that the children call their uncle by the English base instead of Japanese base. He was originally Japanese, but was raised in and English family. And if Naru were to realize that the children were his, then she would insist they call him dad or father.
"Gene," Mai whimpered out, thinking about everything that went wrong just as the rain began to fall, "Why can't Naru realize it? Why can't he remember the love we shared? Why can't he see that Ren and Kyan are his and just take responsibility? Why can't he come save me?" Tears streamed down her face, mixed in with the pouring rain.
"I did realize, I remembered at the end, I would take responsibility if you had just told me, and I would have come to save you had you not left," Mai turned around instantly at the voice she had wanted to hear for so long.
Naru stood over her, his hands in his pockets. The rain falling on his head dampened his hair, giving a grievance look to his whole stature.
"N-Naru?" Mai whispered.
"Let's go somewhere there is no rain," Naru said, turning away. Ren and Kyan recognized him and got up, walking away with Naru. Mai sat there, not knowing what to do.
In the end the Japanese woman stood up and left with the English man.
Mai sat on Naru's bed as he paced in front of her. Ren and Kyan were downstairs being taken care of by Luella. Neither adult knew where to start. Finally, Naru broke the silence.
"Why did you leave three years ago?" He looked at Mai, his face showing no emotion.
"Y-you forgot me,"
"Why couldn't you wait?"
Mai looked away from Naru, a blush sweeping over her cheeks, "I saw you with Masako,"
Naru grunted at the name and ran a hand threw his hair, "Hara.. Yes, I remember the day you left. I could still not remember you at that time,"
Both adults were thrown back into the past, both remembered that hurtful say for both of them.
Flash Back
Mai was walking home from picking up groceries, she had come to terms that Naru did not remember the Mai he had loved, but she believed that one day soon he would remember.
Just as Mai rounded a corner she stopped. She had thought Naru was still in the hospital, but there he was… with Masako.
The two looked like they were having a great time with each other. Masako laughed and Naru would smirk. They looked, to Mai, like a couple that was meant to be together. This pained Mai.
But no, the pain did not stop there. Masako stood up on her toes and took a peck at Naru's cheek, the narcissistic man turned to her and cornered her to a wall. Mai did not care what else happened after that small exchange. Instead she felt tears take over her eyes and ran home.
Naru cornered Masako. He was furious that she had just done that.
"Hara, why did you do that?"
"Because, Oliver, I want to be with you, and as long as I know your secret and you don't want Taniyama to know it, you must do what I want." Masako hooked her arms around his neck and brought his head down to hers. When their foreheads touched Naru pushed her away, panting.
"Don't ever think you can use that against me again!" He screamed, loosing his composure.
"N-Oliver?"
"Don't call me that, I will not let you call me that,"
"But-"
"No but's, Hara, you're fired." Naru turned and began to walk away.
Masako stumbled for her next words but knew how to catch Naru off guard, "I'll tell Taniyama about you,"
Naru stopped. Masako felt victorious. Until Naru turned to her, a smirk on his face, "Tell her, I don't care, she already knows." And with that he turned the corner and made his way to Mai's place.
When Naru reached her door he noticed it was slightly open. He pushed it open all the way and walked into the empty living room, it looked as though she had left.
Panic grasped his heart and Naru ran to the back of her apartment. The door to her room was open and he noticed that all the drawers were opened in her chest of drawers and no clothes were left. Naru rushed to the bathroom, noticing all of her shampoos were gone.
The English man walked to the living room, not knowing what had happened. It was then that the small box and piece of paper next to it caught his eye. He walked over and picked up the paper, reading the note.
'Dear Whoever reads this, Thank you for keeping the truth from Naru. I wanted him to remember, but at the same time I felt he should remember by himself and not me. Though now I realize, he may never remember. The Naru I knew is gone. And so I am leaving. There is no reason for me to stay in this country anymore when I have matters to take care of. I'm leaving the ring Naru gave me for our engagement. By leaving this ring, I am hoping that someday he will remember me. Goodbye all, Mai'
Naru felt a jab at his heart, he laid the paper down and picked up the small box, opening it to find the diamond ring he had hand picked for Mai.
Present
"You left so that no one would find out about the kids," Naru said more than questioned.
"Yes," Mai answered.
"I remembered right after Hara kissed me," Naru sat on the bed next to Mai, placing his head in his hands, "I guess I was too late twice,"
"Naru, what are you talking about?" Mai leaned in, placing one hand on his shoulder.
"You had left, I was too late to save you, I had no idea where you went,"
"Naru, you didn't need to save me, I wanted you to, but you didn't need to," Mai felt a small twinge of pain for the man sitting next to her.
A silence passed between the two, an awkward silence on Mai's behalf, but at the same time she felt safe with the man next to her. Naru broke the silence just as Mai sighed.
"I know they are mine, Mai. Ren and Kyan, I know they are mine."
"I figured as much when the ghost told you," Mai smiled lightly.
"No Mai," Naru looked at her but could not bring himself to look for to long, turning away after a few seconds, "It took longer than that, I convinced myself the ghost had been lying. Lin had to literally beat it into me after you left,"
Mai laughed at what Naru said and Naru looked at her with bewilderment in his eyes, "I'm sorry Naru, but Lin beating you, that just sounds so funny,"
Naru had to smile, watching the love of his life laugh made his heart jump, but the next thing he had to say he knew would stop the laughter, "My heart broke twice Mai, both times through letters."
Mai stopped laughing, she looked at the man in front of her and suddenly felt bad, "I'm sorry Naru, but, I didn't want to get in between you and Masako, I didn't know that you remembered right after, and then after the ghost I couldn't take how you had been treating me, so I had to,"
"It's ok Mai," Naru leaned towards her and tucked a piece of hair behind her ear, letting his hand linger on her soft cheek, "I love you, Mai,"
Red instantly flushed the said girl's cheeks. She wanted to say the same to Naru, "I-I love you too, Naru,"
"Do you forgive me for what I've done to you?" He asked, leaning in closer to Mai, "Can you easily forgive me for causing you so much heartbreak?"
"I think I can," Mai whispered right before their lips met.
The kiss was not one of gentle love nor one of passionate lust. The kiss held years of anguish, years of loss, years of built up anger, years of love, all in on small action. The two parted, panting from the heated kiss then kissed again.
Naru took his hands around Mai's waist as Mai put her hands in his hair. Everything felt right, with the two of them together. Naru pushed Mai down slowly, getting on top of her. She willingly gave in as he deepened the kiss.
Naru then pulled away, not being able to tell why himself until a thought struck him, "What about Ren and Kyan? Will they take to me so easily?"
Mai was still panting as she sat up and smoothed out her shirt with a smile, "They've always wanted to meet their father,"
"Father?" Naru looked at Mai with confusion in his eyes. Why had she not said Otou-san?
"Yes, father, I want them to call you that because I want them to know of their English side too," Mai answered, looking away from Naru to hide the blush in her face.
Naru smirked and pulled her chin to look back at him, "Why is it only you get to get called in Japanese?" And then he kissed her again.
Ok, SO SO SO SORRY it took so long to get out. My laptop has been off for the past couple of days while my family has been sight seeing so i haven't had the time to update.
Now, Thank you to all my lovely readers and all my reviewers, there will be one more chapter to this story, kinda like a post story thing, and then i shall start up on the 'prequel'.
And, just wondering, when i was reading this over to check for some errors, there still might be errors, i thought it would be really quite fun to write the scene where lin beats naru into submission to believe the kids are his. I was wondering, if i wrote it, who would want to read it. If i do post it I would have it as the fifteenth chapter after the post story thing. let me know what you think.
ok, just so you all know, the stride flavor changing gun is really weird, i tried it today and it starts out berry then turns to mint... but i can never tell when it REALLY turns to mint, all i do is feel this freshness in my breath. Oh well
Ok, so I'll try to update soon. cross your fingers and hope for the next chapter out within the next days.