(Note from Lin)- I remember this case, it was the first time I'd seen the great Oliver Davis actually embarrass himself so completely in front of his employees.

(Note from Yasuhara)- I wasn't there... why wasn't I there? Lin, did you not invite me? I'm hurt!! Well this is something I found lying around on Mai-chan's desk (cough diary cough) but I couldn't find anything about it in Naru's journal... the entry for this case was 'waste of time'...

Dear Diary,
We got a new customer today! A nice, professional looking man in his thirties, who had been hearing scratching and crying from inside his walls. His cat would disappear for a few hours at a time at regular hours, and his baby boy had scratches on his arms, but can't speak to tell his parents how he got hurt. Naru did accept the case when he heard about the baby, but I think he would have declined if I hadn't started crying when the man showed us pictures...
Stupid Narcissist!!
Ugh! I hate him sometimes!! But he makes up for it when he saves me... (Sigh)
ANYWAY we went round to the house with Lin-san, Takigawa, Ayako and John (Masako's still in America for her special publicity show and Yasuhara's got a university paper in soon.) When we got there and set up the equipment, I fell asleep again! I dreamed about being trapped behind a wall and that really freaked me out...
(3rd person)
"Naru!" Mai shouted as she sat upright, sweating. That had been scary... She'd been stuck behind the wall and she could hear laughing on the other side... how horrible!
Naru raised an eyebrow. "Mai. I don't pay you to-"
"Sleep, yes I know! But I dreamed that I was trapped behind the wall!"
"... What?" He muttered, and then the customer ran inside.
"The cat's back!!" He said, holding up the black, slightly tubby feline. "And the crying has started!"
"Lin." Naru ordered, and the onmyou-ji nodded, turning up the sound on the monitors. Mai gasped and Naru paled as the mournful cries of children filled the room. "Oh my god..." He whispered, and Takigawa frowned. Ayako groaned and looked on the verge of tears as John bowed his head in prayer.
"What can we do?" Mai asked, and Naru clenched his fist.
"May we have permission to look inside the wall?" He asked, and the customer nodded.
"As long as you pay for damages..." He gulped as Naru glared. "...Uh... don't worry about it actually. It's fine..." He smiled and Naru smirked.
"Lin, Takigawa, John."
"We're always the ones breaking through walls..." Takigawa grumbled but followed Naru anyway.
Ayako raised an eyebrow. "Gone to be all macho-manly again. What is it with men and breaking things?"
Mai giggled slightly. "I think Lin is the only one who can be 'macho-manly'. Naru's way too much of a pretty boy, Bou-san's more like a clown and John's...well..." She stopped and looked at Ayako.
"John?" Ayako added thoughtfully.
"Yeah...I guess we should go check it out..."
As they entered the room with the crying children, Mai frowned. "From here it doesn't sound so...painful..."
"Or child like." John nodded, picking up a sledge hammer. Safe to say, innocent John with a large and deadly work tool caused a rather funny sight.
Lin rolled his eyes at the pair and pressed his ear against the wall, wrapping on it with his fist. A look of surprise crossed his features.
"Lin, move."
Lin turned around just in time to see his young charge swinging his own sledge hammer at the exact spot his head was. With a muttered curse he jerked himself back and the group collectively winced at the sound of metal against drywall.
"Naru...you probably shouldn't-"
Lin's warning was cut off by another thud, accompanied by a large hole in the wall. The crying grew louder and Naru reluctantly - as reluctantly as the Great Kazuya Shibuya/Oliver Davis/Naru/Noll's ego would allow at least, which let's face it, wasn't very much - reached his hand into the hole, withdrawing it with a shout.
"Something...licked me..." He trailed off as Lin put his hand in the hole and pulled out...
"A kitten?" Mai asked in shock.
John poked his head into the hole. "Actually a whole litter of kittens..."
"So you're saying..." Bou-san was hiding laughter, quite badly, in fact. "That Naru took a case because of kittens in the wall? And got scared because a kitten licked his hand!"
By now he wasn't even trying to conceal his laughter, and was now doubled over.
"Takigawa, if you wish to keep your job with SPR I suggest you shut up." Naru barked before storming out the room. His exit would have been much more dramatic if it wasn't for two reasons. 1) It was hard to be intimidating when you had just metaphorically wet your pants because of a kitten and 2)...Mai could have sworn he was pouting...

(Note from Lin)- Mai seemed to find that case amusing... She kept giggling in the van on the way back. Noll wasn't too pleased about it though. I wonder if he was really pouting. Madoka- I know you're probably holding your phone in your hand dialling Noll's number as Martin reads this aloud, but please don't tease Noll... after all... there are much more interesting cases further on for you to tease him about.

(Note from Yasuhara)- Are you thinking about the case when Naru found out Mai had more fans than him? Or when he burst into song? 'Cause both were fantastic.