Again so many reviews! You people know how to cheer someone up! I can't believe the story has so many people reading in after the third chapter!

Anyway, as always, I do not own Ghost Hunt...

Enjoy~

That one little girl

Chapter 4 ~ Not scared of anything... almost anything

"Hello!" A deep voice echoed through the office well the door was slammed open.

Mai turned around at the sound of the familiar voice. "Bou-san! Long time no see-" Mai was cut off by the bone crushing bear hug she was given by the older man. Over Takigawa's shoulder Mai could see a little of Ayako's flaming red hair. Well Mai was turning blue, because of the lack of air, Ayako got her purse full of bricks ready. A second later a loud "wham" was heard followed by the whining of the monk.

"Stop harassing little Mai-chan! Mai, don't let that old man touch you, okay?" Ayako looked at Mai seriously.

As an answer Mai nodded.

"Must I remind you that this is not a cafe, but a office? You have no business here till tomorrow." Naru said standing in the doorway of his office.

"Hello Naru! Actually we came here to ask something about the case." Takigawa said.

Naru was about to reply when the soft voice of Akemi interrupted. "Who are those people daddy?"

Ayako and Takigawa froze on the spot. Confused they looked around the room for the person that could be meant with "daddy", but spotted no man that could be meant.
Then Ayako noticed the little girl with long black hair hiding behind Naru, clutching his shirt, blending in perfectly with his cloths.

"Hey there, I'm Ayako and that idiot there is Takigawa, but you can call him Bou-san." Ayako knelt down to be eye level with the cute little girl.

A little more confident the girl stopped hiding behind Naru and said, "I'm Akemi!"

"What a nice name! Who did you mean with daddy a while ago?" Ayako asked.

"I meant daddy!" Akemi answered simply.

"She means, who is your daddy?" Takigawa helped Ayako out.

Akemi turned around and looked up at Naru. "Are they id-i-ots daddy? Daddy is daddy!"

The jaws of the two grown ups dropped well Mai giggled and Naru smirked lightly. "Yes they are idiots. Poor them." Naru said, smirk widening at the red faces of the adults.

Akemi turned around with a shocked look. "Awe. Poor id-i-ots, got headache allll the time when thinking!"

Mai burst out laughing and Naru's smirk widened well Ayako blushed as red as her hair and Takigawa was also turning red. After catching her breath after her laughing fit Mai knelt down to Akemi's eye level and asked, "Where did you get the word idiot's from?"

"Mommy, you always call daddy that when you get mad." Akemi said before face palming and shaking her head.

Mai sweat dropped. Although Akemi was defiantly not Naru's daughter and also not her's, she swore that Akemi's personalty was what would come out if she and Naru added their personalities up.

"Do you know what idiot's means?"

"It has to be a bad word when you say it well getting mad, so I asked daddy about it and he said," Akemi made her voice a little deeper and took the childish accent out of her voice as best as she could. "In psy-cho-thingy ter-ms, an idiot ref-ers to a sev-erely retar-ded indi-vi-dual, ge-ne-ral-ly with an IQ be-low 20. In com-mon us-age, idiot is a term used to ref-er to someone who acts stupid, moronic, dumb and so on. Dad also told me what stupid means...The word "stupid" has several meanings:

un-intel-ligent, slow-wit-ted, not clever showing lack of good judge-ment; foolishun-inter-esting or boring and many other different things."

Akemi took a deep breath before smiling at her mother and said, "So mommy and daddy both call each other idiots, but are actually SUPER smart!"

Mai's jaw also hit the ground and joined Takigawa and Ayako.

"How could you repeat all that?" Ayako asked surprised.

"I don't know." Akemi asked and smiled. "I'm gonna go to uncle Lin..." With those last words Akemi ran over to Lin's office, on the way picking up her teddy bear.

~:.*.:~

Mai knew she was in for a loooooong questioning when Akemi left. She wished she would just disappear.

"Why is Akemi calling you mommy and Naru daddy? Don't tell me you-"

Before Takigawa could end the sentence Mai jumped in, "No! It's not like that! I didn't even have my first kiss yet!" Mai said embarrassed waving her hands in front of her. "Also, I've only just turned 17 about 2 moths ago. Remember?"

"Upps..." Takigawa mumbled, scratching the back of his head.

"Still, why is she calling the two of you mommy and daddy?" Ayako asked again.

"She just does." Mai answered.

"I'll believe that, for now..." Ayako said and leaned back.

"Did the mommy-daddy-thing change anything about your relationship with Naru?"

Now Mai was feeling unconformable.

"Mai tea!" Naru called from his office.

Without a complaint Mai jumped up without another thought and rushed to the kitchen. When a few minutes later she came in with his tea she was in panic.

"Naru, you have to help me!" she said well setting down his cup of tea on his desk.

"And why that?" Naru raised his brow at his assistants panic.

"Bou-san and Ayako are doing questioning! They haven't asked anything bad or very embarrassing yet, but they are just warming up!"

"And what exactly am I supposed to do against it?"

"Something!"

"Why don't you go out and answer their questions and I'll come out to talk to them about the case or so in a minute or so."

Mai smiled brightly and gave Naru a hug without thinking. "Thank you so much!"

"It's fine. So... could you let go now?"

"Sorry..." Mai apologized and blushed bright red.

Naru coughed awkwardly and a silence settled over the two.

"I'll go then... um, yeah..." Mai said in a awkward way before leaving the room.

~:.*.:~

Well Mai was having a awkward time, her daughter was sitting on a desk in Lin's office, having climbed onto it with difficulty.

"Uncle Lin? Why did you give this teddy to me?" Akemi asked.

Lin turned to face the little girl, "It's a long story."

"I have time." Akemi answered.

Lin noticed that she was right now to similar to Naru for his liking but also was amused by the girl.

"Well, Naru once had a twin brother named Eugene, Gene for short. He was the exact opposite of your dad and was very nice, just like your mom, but not quite as clumsy."

Akemi nodded in understanding and urged him to go on.

"But sadly, well Gene was here in Japan, he was hit by a car and died. And that teddy bear you are holding was the present that he got from me for his fifth birthday. Your dad also got one just like this back at his family's house."

"So this teddy is uncle Gene's?" Akemi asked, having quickly understood what Lin meant.

"Yes."

"That's kind of sad, you know? It isn't really fair, but I guess god made it that way for a purpose." Akemi said and clutched the bear a little tighter. "Hey, uncle Lin, you guy's hunt ghost's, am I right?"

"Yes."

"Does that mean that uncle Gene is a ghost?"

"Yeah..."

"Daddy told me a little about ghost hunting. Ghost can use things as ves-sels, right?"

"That's right."

"So, can't uncle Gene use teddy as ves-sel?"

Lin froze. That would be great if Gene could do that, because then they would have better contact to him and could ask him what is keeping him from passing on.

"I don't know. I'll ask Naru about it. Wait here."

~:.*.:~

Well Akemi had this brilliant idea Mai was just finishing up the awkward questioning season. Naru just opened the door to his office to come out when Lin also did at the same time.

"Naru, I have to talk to you. It's important." Lin said.

"One second. Matsuzaki-san, Takigawa-san, must i remind you that this is not a cafe? Also, Mai tea."

"We just ran out of tea." Mai answered before Naru could leave into his office.

"Then go buy some. I'll give you the money back later." Naru demanded and went into his office with Lin.

"Sorry to cut our conversation short, Ayako, Bou-san, but I really got to go before the shops close. See you tomorrow on the case!" With that Mai ran out of the office forgetting her jacket, which she would regret 20 minutes later...

~:.*.:~

As already said, Mai regretted forgetting her jacket 20 minutes later when it started to rain on the way back to the office. By the time she got there she was soaking wet.

Little did she know at that point, that this would lead to her having a very bad cold...

Sorry about the little cut of ending. it's, like, 11:30 over here and i got school tomorrow... hope you like it!