Okay...so the Third Chapter is finally here! I don't know if you'll like it and all...But I hope you do!sigh...Okay Here it goes...-nervous-
Now, Is she really Mute?...Hmmm...Is she really what you think she is?
Chapter Three:The Girl, The Bird and The Case!
It was already 11:30, almost lunch time when Nakazi returned from Grocery. She was carrying 6 giant paper bags and some plastic bags with her. John and Takigawa have to help her and had to go three times back and forth to place all the bags in the kitchen. Mai on the other hand helped Om arranged all the food and stuff Nakazi have just brought.
"Mai!" Naru called. He was in the dining room glancing at his laptop.
"What is it Naru?" Mai asked as she came in. "Tea." was all the answer she got.
"Geez...Can't you say please for once!" she said as she now stood in front of him, her hands closed to a fist. He didn't answer and didn't mind her. So, Mai had to drag herself to the kitchen and make him tea. I swear...I hate you, Kazuya Shibuya!...she thought over and over again as she made his tea...Mai? Tea!...She imitated his voice with a tone of ridicule. She already mixed the tea to the hot water as she rolled her eyes,for she can't stand her boss' attitude. She quickly went over to him bringing his tea. She set it on the table and quickly left with heavy steps like she was having tantrums or something.
Hmmm...It tasted better than before..I wonder what she used this time?...he thought as he sipped his tea...Hmm...I swear she's the best tea maker I've known!..he smirked in his inside thoughts...She'll be a good wife..someday..He paused and his smirk fade..Wife? Her?..Ugh..Damn it!...She must have cast a spell on this tea!...he stared at the tea with an amused look and then, resumed to his usual thing, typing on his laptop.
His typing was disturbed when the dining door slid close (The door was a sliding type and Mai didn't close it when she left). It was the girl, from earlier that day. She stood in silence as she looked down, her head bowed covering her eyes. Naru looked over his laptop to get a view at her. He set aside his laptop and got the list from earlier that dawn. He pretend to read it and used it to not make it obvious to her that he was observing her moves. A little later, Mai came in disturbing the silence in the room.
" Hey Naru!" she shouted not noticing the girl beside her as she came in from the living room. The girl looked and smiled at her sweetly. Mai was surprised and apologized at her. Mai's face when she came in was pale as if something terrible just happened and she was panting for air.
"Umm..Gomen..Gomen!" Mai apologized with a smile and a little tear drop on the right side of her head. The girl looked down for a moment. Then she gave out a small smile, kind of like a little smirk.
"Mai." Naru called for her urgent attention with his arms crossed and now he was standing up. His eyes giving out a somewhat worried look but not making it too obvious.
"Oh Naru! Right." she blushed for almost forgetting him. The girl noticed her blushed but Naru ignored it. The girl smiled, her usual eyes turned dark red, some kind of a maroon blending in the color of brown, a maroon brown, giving a very intruiging color that cannot be noticed immediately if not given detail to (or if you don't stare at her eyes for 5 seconds). She quickly bowed down so her eyes could not be visible and just listened to their conversations.
"What is it Mai?" Naru asked in a firm manner but registering a little worried tone. Mai really took a long time before she could tell him her purpose of why she had called him.
"That's it!" Naru was not in his normal composure. He was half mad and the other half trying to stay cool. Mai nodded like a little child.
"You came here, shouting!... for the thing." His voice raised but lowered at the last phrase gaining his usual self again.
"You know you have disturbed me, Mai." he said cooly. Mai had told him that Bou-san had caught a little birdy in the garden which made him angry for making him so worried when she came in shouting. Mai gave him the puppy eyes. He almost lost himself again but then stopped, and gave her the facial expression of a father when very angry to his daughter.
"But...but Naru. The bird is like a dove... but not like one...And we swear! The bird somehow had glowed for a moment!" Mai reasoned out like a little child wanting him to believe. The little girl looked at both of them, her eyes went back to normal. They didn't noticed her leave until the sliding door made a sound of opening and then closed door. The little girl had rushed into the living room where Takigawa, John and Nakazi were.
They were all looking at the bird which was in Takigawa's cupped hands.
"Hello!" John greeted her for he was the one who noticed her first. She just looked at him blankly as if examining him in a stationed position. It gave him a slight shiver on the back. Her eyes traveled from John to Takigawa. And lastly on the little bird.
"Oh! Hi K-" Nakazi got cut off when the little girl slapped Takigawa's hands so hard that it bruised. They all stared, figuring what just happened. The little girl's expression turned from sweet to dead serious angry face. Om was there during the "slapping incident".
"Kei-sama..." Om didn't have time to finish her sentence because the little girl already snatched the bird from Takigawa's hands and swiftly ran to her room. Mai and Naru just got out from the kitchen just in time to see what just happened. Nakazi was so disappointed.
"Who is she?" Takigawa asked holding the bruised hand. Om only shook her head and went to the kitchen to find an ointment for Takigawa's hands.
"She's my cousin." Nakazi answered almost tearing. "She's Mitsukuri Kei."
"Then if that's her name...what's-?..." Mai trailed.
"Then my real name is Mihashi Nakazi." Nakazi sighed as she closed her eyes for a moment. Naru held a paper in his hands and showed it to Nakazi.
"Her behavior." Naru voiced out. She shook her head.
"The 'acccident' had nothing to do with her behavior." She said as she stared at him. She had just read the paper he just gave her.
"Accident?" John asked. Mai was puzzled as well. They were doing a supernatural case, but then, they would suddenly figure a psychotic case like they were detectives or psychologists?
"Wait. That little girl and her behavior had nothing to do with the ghost cases." Takigawa protested, wanting a straight answer. "Or does she?" Naru shook his head.
"She might be the reason of this case." Naru answered. Mai was confused as ever. "Huh? I don't get it Naru!" Mai voiced.
"She must be the reason why there are ghosts here." Takigawa answered with his head bowed down.
"The reason?" John asked out of confusion.
Sigh...sorry guys! I had to cut the chappy at this point because it's getting too long if I continue... This is one mysterious chappy, I guess...Gomen!
So this chappy is about the case, partly about the girl and her behavior and It's introducing the mysterious bird...What could the Bird Be? And what's with the 'ACCIDENT' thing? Must be a really heavy event...Oh! And you haven't figure out if the girl is really mute yet? ...Well you have to find out the answers...In the Next Chapter!
Ummm...I'm really sorry guyzz...I'm really sorry if this chappy is so boring! And non of your bussiness type...but this is the starting of the climax...heheh...I'm really really really sorry...-Nervous again-sigh...Note the Italicised word/s too!
