Author's Note:

This is something I thought after watching "Persona-trinity soul episode 6". I made this fic for the Valentines Day! Happy hearts day everyone!

Disclaimers:

I do not own ghost hunt and its characters.

NOTE:

The characters are two years older prior the series. Meaning is Mai is 16 on the series, in this fic, she's already 18 years old. And if Naru is 17 during the series in here he's a handsome young man in his 19th year old.

MR. BLACK BEAR

11 years ago, Tokyo Amusement Park

A girl with Brown hair was skidding around the amusement park gleefully as she sings the words. 'Mama will buy me a black teddy bear' repeatedly.

Her mother watches her young daughter with a smile on her face, since her husband died, her daughter had been very reserved and she was afraid that her little angel had forgotten that she's still a little girl and not a trying hard adult.

"Mama!" the brunette cried as she pointed out a stand full of different kinds and sizes of teddy bears.

"Look Mama!!! There are beautiful colored teddy's there! Look! There is my black teddy!" she exclaimed.

And before she can stop the young child, the said child already dashed towards the said stand.

Oliver hated amusement parks. He even hated it when he's with his annoying older brother who loves to play hide and seek.

Their adoptive parents brought them to their homeland wanting them to see the country where they were born and hopefully enjoy the things usual children enjoys.

Unfortunately, neither of them is normal.

He decided that looking for his annoying older brother in a crowded place like this would be troublesome since the older boy doesn't want to be found, yet.

He decided to sit on one of the benches and wait until his older brother gets tired of his antics and decide to show himself.

Flopping down the unoccupied bench, he pulled in his pocket a small black book and began reading it, enjoying the serenity of being alone.

A loud cry near him ruins his serenity and made him jump on his chair.

Looking to where the awful noise was coming from he saw a Brown-haired girl crying her heart out as she roams her head around the park.

Deciding that the noise the little girl's making IS indeed very annoying to him and it almost disturbingly rivals his older brother's whining.

He walks up to the young girl. "What are you crying about idiot?" he asked.

To his surprise the little girl looked at him with fire in her eyes and wiped her tears away with one hand the other clutching a black stuffed toy. "I am not an idiot!" she huffed angrily but her teary eyes show's her weakness.

"So what's your problem?" he asked trying not to let his voice sound colder than it already is, the little girl didn't seem to mind.

"I lost my Mama" she said brokenly tears threatening to fall out of her eyes.

"Don't you dare." He said monotonously.

"B-but… My mama… I cannot see my mama… I cannot go home without mama…" she stammered clutching tighter the black teddy bear in her arm.

Oliver sighed. 'What kind of mess did I get myself into' he thought.

"Shut up. I'll help you find you mother" he said.

"Really?" she asked hopefully.

"I am not a liar." He said fiercely.

The little girl looked frighten for a while. "Please don't yell at me…" she said while hiding her face behind the black toy and only her eyes were shown.

Oliver sighed, his heart melting at the sight of her sad yet innocent eyes. 'How can an annoying little girl like her have this kind of effect on me…' he asked himself. 'Even that bear looked like mocking me' he added in his mind.

"Fine, just stop doubting me." He said firmly. "Give me that" he said pointing to the teddy bear in the girl's hand.

"Huh?! But why? Mama bought this for me! Why would you like to take it from me? Are you bullying me?" she asked.

Oliver can feel his vein throbbing in his forehead. "I told you stop asking non-sense questions idiot. Just hand me that thing and I'll bring you back to your mother." He said.

"So when I give you my black teddy you will take me to my mama?" she asked.

"Didn't I just say that?" Oliver asked annoyed.

The girl flashed him a big bright him and Oliver found himself mesmerized as he stared at the little girl.

"Okay! Here!" she said holding the bear to Oliver.

Oliver blinked a couple of times before gaining his composure back.

"Fine" he said and grabs the stuff toy from the little girl's hands . He was concentrating his mind on using his psychometric ability when Oliver felt a tug on his shirt.

"What are you doing?' the girl asked curiously. "You are acting weird… you look like an idiot, an ugly idiot." She said innocently after giggling cutely.

Oliver fought the idea to smack the girl upside down. Here he was trying his best to help her and there she goes insulting him. What he can't accept of all is he called him 'ugly' he might weird andsometimes looks like an idiot BUT he IS NEVER "UGLY".

"If you don't stop that tugging of yours I am not helping you" Oliver said he can feel his brows twitch in irritation.

The girl only giggled. "Gomen nasai" she murmured letting go of his shirt.

Oliver went back into concentrating, he's in the middle of his meditation when he felt another tug from the girl.

"Ugly weirdo… what are you up to?" she asked.

"Patience" Oliver muttered repeatedly under his breathe as he continued concentrating.

"Hey, Weird looking boy… are you still there?" the girl tugged harder making it hard for Oliver to concentrate.

Snapping his eyes open he glared at the girl. "That's it! Didn't I tell you to stop that!" he exclaimed. Then before his eyes flashed an image of a shoulder-length Brown haired woman.

The girl looked startled and was almost teary eyed.

"What now?!" Oliver said annoyed.

"My bear…" she said tears flowing out of her eyes. "My mama's bear…" she whispered.

"HN?!" Oliver looked at his hand and found a ruined bear in it.

"Oh" he muttered before an earth piercing cry came out of the girls lips.

Panicking, Oliver didn't know what to do. He's not good with people in the first place what more in dealing with a hysteric young girl whose bear he destroyed 'accidentally'.

Not knowing what to do, Oliver remembered the image that passed through his mind. Deciding that it was the best decision he said.

"I found your mother" he said.

The girl instantly stopped crying. "Really?" she asked. "You found my mama?" she inquired.

"Yes, she's standing at the bear stand." Oliver said.

"Will you take me there?" she asked hopefully.

"Didn't I tell you I'll bring you back to her, so it's obvious I'll take you there" he said.

The girl smiled sweetly at him. "You aren't scary after all! Thank you" she said clutching Oliver's arm as he lead the way.

'This is ridiculous, her mood swings are the worst I've ever encountered.' He thought.

"What about your stuffed toy?" Oliver asked.

The girl pouted then smiled at him. "As long as I got my mama back, it doesn't matter. Besides, you'll buy me another one right?" she said.

"…"Oliver replied with walking with her to the bear stand.

He felt her tug his arms and they halted their walk.

She poked his cheek. "Right?" she asked tears starting to form in the corners of her eyes.

'This is bad' Oliver thought. 'I must be getting soft' he added.

'This girl sure is annoying yet the sight of her crying angers and irritates me the most. I never want to see her crying especially when I can help it. This girl deserves the best and only the best.' He added in his thoughts.

"Ne?" she asked again bring Oliver back from his musing.

"Let's hurry up or your mother will leave you." He said ignoring the question.

The girl hearing what he said followed him instantly forgetting about her question.

They reached the bear stand in his vision and true to his abilities, the Brown haired girl's mother was there looking frantically for her daughter.

"Oh little one! There you are!" she exclaimed running up to them.

She hugged the girl tightly. "Mama's so worried about you little one… don't you ever let go of mama's hand again okay…" the woman said.

"Hai, mama" the girl replied crying again this time Oliver knew it was tears of joy not tears of pain, sadness, loneliness, and helplessness.

The woman turned to him. She smiled at him.

"Thank you for finding her for me. I knew you'd help me a lot. Thank you so much." She said enveloping Oliver in a tight hug.

Oliver was surprised. 'What is she saying?!' he thought.

"Have you found your brother? Is he somewhere in the park? Do you need help in looking for him?" she asked.

"Huh?" Oliver looked confused.

"Noll!" a voice called him, the woman, the little girl and Oliver turn to the source of the voice to find his older brother smiling at him.

"Oh" the woman muttered.

"I'm sorry Taniyama-san, I cannot find your daughter. In fact I think it was you who just found my little brother" Gene said smiling.

"Oh, you are that boy and this young man is your brother." She said smiling brightly.

"Ah, yes. How did you find him?" Gene asked her.

Oliver was about to say something but chose to let the woman say it for him.

"Oh, I didn't find him. He went to me, he found my daughter." She said happily.

"Mai, come here" she called the girl who's gawking at the rides.

The girl called walks to her mother smiling.

"Mai, say thank you to them, they helped mama find Mai-chan" she said.

Mai bowed at them and smiled gracefully.

"Thank you for bringing me back Mr. Ugly Weirdo and Thank you for staying with my mama Mr. Cute Smile" she said.

Oliver can only see red now as Eugene laughed so hard.

"Let's go Gene! Mom and dad must be waiting for us" he said walking away without a word.

Eugene giggled more and bowed to the mother and daughter. "Thank you Mai-chan, and next time hold your mother's hand tightly so you wont get lost, there wont be a me or a Noll around to save you." He said as he walk away from them following his younger brooding brother.

'Oooohhh, I can sooo imagine his infuriated face. To think that someone called him weird AND ugly in the same context. Record breaking.

But instead a brooding Oliver "Noll" a.k.a "Naru" Davis, he found an amused and smiling Naru sitting on the car window.

'Now that's new… someone made my idiot scientist of a brother smile other than me or mom or dad. Interesting…' he thought and looked back to the place where they came from.

'I hope to see you someday Mai-chan' he thought. "Now, I believe that miracles to happen in the most unexpected time." He murmured before boarding the car.

Oliver watched the scenery outside the car on their way to the hotel they are staying at. Eugene called his attention again.

"What is it that you want?" he asked annoyed.

"I was just asking, where you found that ruined bear in your hands, you've been clutching it since we left the amusement park." Eugene asked.

"None of you business" Oliver replied but the tinting of his cheek told Eugene not to pry any more although he have some assumptions he'll just keep it to himself.

In his mind, Oliver cannot take the little girl's statement.

'Besides, you'll buy me another one… right? Right?' this thought plagued him, making a vow to himself he clutched the ruined black teddy bear in his hands.

"Someday" he murmured then felt a head hit his shoulder looking beside him he saw his older brother slumped to his side, Gene's head on his shoulder.

"You call him the elder one… sleepy head" he muttered then smirked.

Present time:

SPR just finished a case in Tokyo's newly built amusement park. Everyone is sitting on the benches chatting when a stand full of stuffed toys caught their attention.

"Look! A stuffed toy stand!" Mai exclaimed excitedly.

Takigawa chuckled. "Easy Mai-chan, you're hardly a child now!" he teased her.

"Shut up Bou-san!" Mai said.

Ayako, Takigawa, John and even Masako joined Mai in the bear stand as they looked and joked about the different toys available in the stand.

On the way home, while riding in Lin's van, Mai suddenly spoke.

"I just remembered… I got lost once in an amusement park when I was young. I came in with my mother and got separated from her accidentally." She reminisced.

"How did you found her?" Ayako asked.

Mai thought for a while. "Ummm… I cannot exactly remember… but a boy helped me. He ruined my black teddy and found my mother, he said he's going to buy me another one but he never did. That was unfair of him." She said.

A loud slam came from the front seat, it was the young handsome yet brooding SPR boss who slammed his clipboard rather loudly.

"If you can only find your brain you wouldn't have gotten lost in the first place" he said. "Now, if you could just shut up, I am working here." He said and reopened his clipboard.

With that riot ensued Takigawa and John held Mai as to prevent the young SPR assistant from strangling their young boss.

After arriving back to the office, as they began unpacking the items in the van, their narcissistic boss told them to go home after unpacking as he disappeared to god knows where leaving all of them to do the unpacking.

It was St. Valentine 's Day and Mai carefully checked all the chocolates she baked for everyone at SPR even Yasuhara and Lin-san have their own fair share of presents from her.

Arriving at the office, Mai distributed her presents that earned the girl a tight hug from the monk and miko, a thankful smile from Lin, a humorous smirk from Yasuhara, a small nod from Masako, an innocent and full smile from John and of course, NOTHING from her narcissistic boss.

As the day went by, Mai noticed that Naru never left his office not even once. And what's odder is he turned down Masako's dinner invitation.

Everyone had left the office and Lin-san just bid Mai goodbye for he's leaving earlier than usual because he promised Madoka he'll be home earlier.

When Mai was already alone, that's the only time she analyzed what the Chinese man said and meant.

"EH?! Lin-san and Mori-san are dating?!" she exclaimed almost dropping the folder files on the floor thank god she managed in time.

"You're that slow. Unbelievable… I didn't know such idiocy existed till I met you" he said.

Mai turned to him darkly.

"They are not just dating, they are engaged." Naru informed her.

"OH my! That's amazing!" she exclaimed forgetting about the files as they scattered on the floor. The SPR manager raised an eyebrow at the now shy-looking SPR assistant.

"E—errr" she said rubbing the back of her head.

"Idiot" Naru murmured.

"Hey!" Mai complained.

Mai was picking the papers up when to her surprise Naru kneeled down as well and helped her in fixing the scattered papers.

After a couple of minutes of arranging the papers. They both finished it.

"Thank you for the help Naru." She said

"No problem." Naru replied.

Naru went to the coat hanger and began arranging his coat.

"What are you waiting for?" he asked.

Mai jumped and turned to him. "Pardon?" she asked.

"I said, what are you waiting for, let's go" Naru said.

"Huh? Where?" she asked.

"When will you stop asking non-sense questions? It's late, I'll take you home, where else?" Naru said.

"Oh… okay." She said and immediately grabbed her coat.

Naru only do things like this once in a while Mai might as well enjoy it to the fullest.

On their way to Mai's apartment complex, Naru complained getting hungry resulting the two of them dinning in a nearby restaurant which happened a 'non-standard' dinner.

Naru mockingly paid for their dinner telling how idiotic Mai for recommending such expensive dinner and telling her that she owed him a dinner too.

Reaching Mai's apartment, Naru walked Mai till her apartment door.

"Safe and sound." He said mockingly.

Mai reddened in anger. "If you'll just keep on insulting me then you might as well leave." She said.

Naru shook his head "How ungrateful" he said. "Is that how you repay the one who fed you dinner?" he said.

Mai blushed. "I didn't ask you to" she answered back.

"And how do you plan on paying your meal's bills?" Naru asked entering Mai's apartment and sitting himself on her couch as he roams his eyes around her place.

"Perhaps you'd rather do the dishes then?" he assumed.

"That's not a bad idea" Mai replied.

Naru's eyes narrowed. "You don't get it don't you…" he said.

"Huh?" Mai asked looking at him weirdly in between brewing tea and conversing with Naru.

"I never want to see you look helpless." Naru said lifting a picture frame, the one containing the SPR group and then he stared at another frame where a young Mai is smiling with her mother.

"I never wanted to see you mother so sad again" he said.

Mai nearly spilled the hot tea. "My mother?! How did you know her?" she asked.

"Long time ago…" his only response as he sips the tea Mai gave him.

Silence reigned.

Soon, Naru finished his cup of tea, he decided to cut his visit short.

"You should be resting now. I'm going. I'll see you in the office tomorrow" he said as he walks towards the door.

"O-Okay…" Mai replied. "Take care… good night Naru" she said before closing the door.

Naru just gave a nod and left.

Mai went back to the living room and was fixing the teacups that she and Naru shared when she noticed a black paper bag in the couch where Naru sat.

'I didn't saw that earlier…' Mai thought.

She went to the couch and sat there bring the paper bag to her lap and opened it.

Inside was a medium sized black teddy bear with red bow on its neck.

'It was pretty' Mai thought as she gazed at the stuffed toy, remembering the once ruined toy her mother bought her and the boy who saved her before.

"But I wonder who gave this?" she asked herself as she traced the bear's appearance.

The bear is pure black with silver eyes, a red bow on the neck and big heart design in the middle and a midnight blue stone in the middle of the heart with a word 'always' engraved in it.

Suddenly, a phone rings, grabbing her land phone Mai pushed it on, hearing a dial tone she sweat-dropped realizing that it's not coming from her land phone, searching for the sound she found it inside the paper bag where the bear came from.

Mai glanced curiously at the LCD screen of the mobile phone since the name that flashed on the screen is named 'Oliver Davis'.

'Impossible' she thought. 'Is this some kind of a joke?' she mentally added.

"Hello?" Mai answered.

"What took you so long to answer?" came a voice she knew very well.

"Naru?" Mai asked

"No, its Will Smith, is this Madonna?" he answered sarcastically.

"Sorry, Mr. I-do-everything-perfectly, the name that flashed the screen is 'Oliver Davis, not the almighty Shibuya Kazuya." Mai said.

"It's good to hear that you think of me as almighty, I confirmed how good your taste is." Naru replied.

"The nerve, what do you want?" she asked.

Silence on the other line.

"Naru?" Mai asked.

"First thing first, did you like the stuffed toy?" he asked.

"Oh the black teddy?! Of course! He's adorable." Mai said.

"Toys have no genders" Naru retorted.

"For me they have so drop it, how did you know about the teddy bear I received?" Mai asked.

"Because, that teddy bear came from me dummy." Naru said.

This time it was Mai who is silent.

"Mai?" Naru called.

"Are you still there?" he asked.

"I am here, perfectly here…" Mai replied.

"Good, I'm driving. Good night. Oh, and I have alarmed that phone don't dare change it, and please… keep that mobile with all the time" Naru said.

"Are you saying that this mobile is mine?" Mai exclaimed.

"Yes, unless you don't want it." Naru said.

"NO! I love it! Oh, thank you so much Naru!" Mai said.

"I'm glad." Naru said.

Silence.

"It's late get to bed." Naru said.

"O-okay…" Mai said.

"Oh and Mai… I kept my promise, I did give you another bear, goodnight, happy hearts day." He said and hung up.

Mai stared blankly on her wall.

'Kept his promise?! What does he mean?' she thought.

And an image of two young children walking, the girl's arms around the guy's arm. The girl asked. "You're going to buy me another, right? Right? RIGHT?"

And that is when she remembered.

"Naru is her mystery savior during that time at the amusement park?!" Mai exclaimed.

Later, tears began forming.

'I cannot believe… I found him again.' Mai thought.

'This time I am not letting go' Mai added mentally.

AN:

How was that for valentines special? LOL. Reviews please… I expect at least 5 to 10. LOL.

-raijuteinomougenjou.

NOTE: This will be the last of the two one shot's I'll be posting for Project Heart, I'll be concentrating wholly on the fic "In Both Realms" and the upcoming "GHOST HUNT: Book of Shadows".