Thank you so so much for all you reviews so far!! And I'm very sorry if I beat some people to writing this type of fic- but hey, what can I say?

Because of all your so many lovely reviews, here's the next chapter in super quick time!

There will be some actual ghost hunting in it later.. I'll piece it together from another dream, but I don't know if it will work. All I know is that it's gonna be cute! And as for Gene...I might put him in a bit, but it could complicate things, and then I dont want Mai falling for him instead of Naru. Review with any ideas or comments!!

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Because Life is just a Plate Tectonic.

The bell finally rang and Mai heaved a sigh as she packed up her Physics things and stretched her arms above her. They had been studying plate tectonics, something Mai not only found difficult but also excessively boring. As the students flocked out of the classroom Mai sighed to herself.

"Tectonics is so hard."

"Perhaps if you paid more attention you would be better at it," came a voice in her ear. Mai jumped and looked to the left. There was Naru, as she now called him. She had been ignoring him so far, but Mai wasn't very good at ignoring. She loved to talk too much. She only thanked the stars that she had only been made to sit next to him in two of their four lessons so far. But he hadn't stopped making superior remarks. The thing was however, he only made them to her. He didn't really talk to anyone else. The boys thought that was selfish, but understandable, when so many girls had crowded to him, each telling him her name at the same time. The girls just thought it was cooler, and instead sent him notes and such.

Naru didn't yet know that she called him Naru.

Mai hadn't replied to his remark, but scowled darkly at him. He seemed to find it funny.

"So, where to now?"

"Lunch."

"Yay." Mai suddenly wheeled around to face Naru, her hands on her hips. Naru stopped.

"Look, Naru. Why are you only talking to me, because-"

"Naru?" His face was genuinely shocked, and Mai felt some satisfaction that she had made him show an emotion other than smugness and amusement at her.

"That's right. Narcissist," she pronounced proudly. Naru scoffed.

"That's not very original." Mai's pride was slightly dented, but she shrugged in reply.

"Doesn't matter. It's going to stick. But I'm going to lunch, so I'll see you." She walked ahead, but she could have sworn she heard him say to himself, "Why is it always that name?"

So she wasn't the first? Mai triumphantly marched to lunch, good mood back.

The school canteen was full of students who, surprisingly, were there to eat. The large red faced dinner ladies happily pile large portions of whatever it was onto the trays thrust in front of their noses. Everybody chattered happily to their friends, discussing the past lessons and teachers.

Naru had managed to get a table by himself, but every five seconds he had to deny a crowd of girls who came and asked to sit next to him. He was just about to start eating when another girl came. Naru sighed. He would just have to tell her o go away too. But not in such rude words; after all, he had to make a good impression.

The girl was short, with black hair cut in a long bob, pale skin and red lips. Naru assumed that people would find her beautiful, but for him she was too dollish. She stood there silently, slightly blushing as he assessed her. There was something he didn't understand. She looked shy and reserved, yet her skirt happened to be the shortest he had seen yet. The regular grey skirt could be worn at any length, but most, (sensible so he thought) people had it just above the knee, like Mai. The girl looked down.

"Um, hi. I'm Masako Hara. You must be Kazuya Shibuya right?" He nodded, still slightly confused. Then she looked down, and looked up again at him from under her eyelashes.

Naru knew that look. He frowned.

She indicated to the chair next to him. "Can I, um, sit there-please?" Naru faked a smile.

"Sorry, but I prefer to sit on my own thanks." Masako looked like she had been stabbed.

"Oh. Ok. See you then." She turned and left. Naru didn't bother to look up and watch her leave. It seemed that her being shy was actually just a show. She wasn't really shy.

Naru had just taken a bite of his food when he heard loud voices behind him. The main one was a light male's voice, who was laughing at something.

"Let's sit next to the new guy, eh?" Naru turned around quickly, and found himself looking up at a tall, slightly lanky boy, older than he was, with long light brown, almost blond hair which he had tied up in a ponytail. An earring hung from one ear.

Behind him were standing two other strangers, and Mai. Without even asking, they sat down at his table, Mai sitting last, groaning and dragging her feet. As they settled down, Naru had leave to inspect them. Sitting opposite of him now was another boy, who looked younger, with light hair and blue eyes. He was smiling apologetically. Next to him was a girl, who had long dark brown, slightly auburn hair, and large hoop earrings. She looked too old for school. Her face was made up, as if she was going on a date, and her bright red fingernails were strumming the table impatiently.

There was a small but very awkward silence.

"Soo," began the tall one. "I'm Takigawa Houshou. You must be Naru." Before he could protest, the girl spoke.

"I'm Ayako."

"I'm John Brown." They looked at Mai, who hadn't been paying attention, and was happily eating. When all their eyes, including Naru's had turned to her, she looked up innocently.

"What?"

Naru decided it was time to get firm.

"Look. I don't really care who you are, but please get lost. I was trying to eat." Takigawa whistled.

"Ouch. Hey Ayako, how come you're not eating?"

"I'm on a diet," she explained. He snorted.

"Sure thing." Ayako quickly turned angry.

"Are you suggesting that I'm fat?" she angrily demanded. He shrugged.

"Perhaps."

Whack.

Naru looked in bemusement as the boy winced and held his cheek gingerly in his hands. Mai was laughing, and John was smiling.

Hadn't they heard what he had just said? He cleared his throat. "Excuse me?" They stopped and looked at him. "Please leave. Now." Mai looked at him sympathetically.

"Just give up Naru. The more you tell them, the less they'll care." Takigawa suddenly rounded on Naru.

"So. What do you like to do?" Naru was slightly taken aback.

"…Things." He replied evasively. He had given up and was eating. Mai laughed under her breath, but Naru noticed.

"What?"

"Nothing. Butforget that. You never answered my question earlier. Why do you seem to act different around certain people?"

"Isn't it obvious? You seem to be more stupid, so I assumed it wouldn't matter how I acted around you." Mai choked on her food, and Takigawa thumped her on the back in between laughs.

"Nice-one." He finally managed. When a respectable quiet had fallen over the table again, Mai started up a new conversation.

"So, Bou-san, what plans do you have for the weekend?"

"Me? I'm playing bass for a gig on Saturday and I'm up in the mountains again on Sunday."

Monk? Mountains? What the hell was going on?

"Monk?" he asked without thinking, then swore in his head. He was supposed to act like he didn't care."

"Yeah. It's my part time job. I'm pretty good actually." Ayako laughed shrilly.

"Sure, if you call sweeping the floor a skill." She scoffed. Mai suddenly grew weary.

"He we go again," she muttered. Naru soon found out what she meant.

"At least I'm not- wait, what is it you do again? It's so worthless it slipped my mind."

"Excuse me?"

"What?" he challenged.

Whack.

"Stop doing that!" he cried. Ayako laughed smugly.

"It's always been like this," explained John. Naru heard the Australian accent in his voice. "Even before we found Mai." Naru was going to ask what he meant, but the bell rang. He looked down at his plate, and saw he had hardly eaten. Mai meanwhile, had been steadily filling herself, so now she sighed and stood up. Ayako, John and Takigawa also stood, and spoke their goodbyes to Mai as they went off to their lessons. Mai stared at Naru.

"Aren't you coming?" He blinked, and then quickly stood up.

"Of course." They walked out of the cafeteria side by side.

The rest of the day went by reasonably fast for Mai. Her last lesson had been Latin, and with it came a test on case endings. It would have been fine, if Mai had remembered that Wednesday's homework had been to revise, and she had done it. But surprisingly, as she fretted and panicked in the silence, Naru, who was sitting next to her, sighed and thrust his sheet of paper in her direction without the teacher noticing.

Teacher being, (of course, by popular demand,) Mr Cullen. Many people wondered how he actually had the skills to become a Latin teacher, but most assumed that he had some intelligence, underneath the layers and layers of fluff that filled his brain. He was currently sleeping on his desk.

Mai stared at Naru, and then smiled hugely and set to copying his work as quickly as she could.

As she did so, Naru had a chance to look at her, something he hadn't bothered to do so before. Mai had light brown hair, cut short but which fell around her neck and nearly touched her shoulder. As she quickly wrote some strands of hair fell across her eyes, and she impatiently tucked them behind her ears. She must be about average height, and wore the school uniform correctly, apart from a small silver necklace with a cross which hung from her neck.

She soon finished copying, and passed it back to Naru. As he reread it, he saw a small note in the corner written in pencil.

Thank you :)

Naru rubbed it out just as Mr Cullen snorted, jumped up and smacked his head against the whiteboard behind him. Clutching his head, he surveyed his class.

"Pass your tests to the front please. I'll mark them…someday." As the noise level of the classroom lifted, Mai turned to Naru.

"Since when were you so good at Latin?" she demanded. "Not that I'm not grateful," she hastily added. He shook his head.

"It's not that I'm good, it's just that you're terrible." She glared at him, and the bell rang.

Every girl in the school had seen the black shiny Mercedes that pulled up by the school gates.

Every girl had seen the door open.

Every girl had seen a glimpse of the driver, a tall, slim man with black hair cut in a fringe at the front.

Every girl had seen Kazuya Shibuya, School Idol In His First Day Of School step inside the car, and drive off.

Every girl except for Mai, who was in detention.

Yes, there will be more Lin, and Masako and Naru will find out everything he needs to know, and Mr Cullen may appear here and there.

Coming next: A confrontation.

I'm warning you all now that future updates will nto be this speedy. It's maily just because I'm on a role at the moment, so I can't stop.

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