Chapter 7 is here!! I can't really make up my mind!! as to how many chapters this is going to end..But this story is ending soon...

Warning: This chapter is very confusing...


Okay!! So...let's Begin!


Chapter 7:Temptation, Reincarnation?!

Until...

Until some sort of noise broke it. It came from inside the room. Naru stared at her in wonderment. The noise came again. Mai blushed as she realised it was her own stomach that made the noise. Feed me Mai! Feed me!...It told her.He sweat dropped and stopped himself from giggling. She blushed even redder as she noticed what he was doing, but was relieved easily.

"I guess we better get some dinner." he proposed as he stood up and reached a hand to her, to help her get up.

"Naru, shouldn't you be resting for a while? You used-" she cut off as she slumped back at the bed. Naru have let go of her as she almost mentioned something he didn't like to hear. He doesn't want to remember the time when he almost lost her. Besides mentioning his PK, which he doesn't want to discuss at all.

"Naru you should rest." she said worriedly.

"I don't need to rest Mai." he said plainly irritated.

"But Naru...you're still tired and..." she stopped as she knew what she was about to say. I don't want to see you like that! I want you to be...to be more than fine! She just sighed to herself. Just as you want him to be more than friends? her evil inner self teased. She turned pinkish for a moment.

"Do you want me to rest so that you could stay here?!" he teased which told her that he's in a good mood. Evil?!..she said to her self.

"Of course not!" she replied immediately. He gave her a smugged smile which of course made her blood boil. How dare he? Ugh...You're such a narcissist Naru! she screamed in her thoughts.

"How arrogant of you!!" she exclaimed. He just kept his smile playfully on his lips.

"Oh! Am I?" he asked with ridicule.

"Yes!" she snapped back. He moved closer to her, cupping her chin, he brought her face closer to his. Her heart started beating fast again.

"Well then, you wouldn't mind if we stay here the whole night without any food, would you?" he said grinning as he glanced at her stomach then back to her eyes. She didn't answered. FEED ME MAI!! FOOD!! Oh SWEET...screeched her stomach which she ignored for a moment.

"Oh! I see you're TAKING me to BED early tonight." he emphasized. Her blood boiled almost over a hundred degrees! She imagined Naru being tied up on a tree and being burned by her while he's struggling for his life and begging for her mercy.

"YOU-" before she could finish her stomach acted up again.

"I think it's enough play for tonight, Little girl..." he mentioned as he held her chin with his pointer finger.

"Ewe!! You got Bou-san coodies!!" she giggled.

"You ARE a little girl, idiot." he stated as a fact. She clinched her fist, ready to hit him when he already headed for the door. Her veins almost popped as her face turned like an exploding volcano.

"I'm not a Little Girl anymore!!" she exploded. He only gave her a smirk.

"Yeah?! What are you then?!" he manage to ask still smirking and already holding the door knob. Her eyebrows twitched. What kind of a question is that, anyway? she argued herself.

"I'm...I'm a highschool student!" she answered fast. He turned to her and smiled. "I'm a teenager!" she stressed with much force.

"Wrong, Mai, wrong." he answered just like a great scholar teaching a little child, a six year old kid to be exact. She would kill him! If she didn't love him so much.

"What am I to you, then. NARU?!" she scorned with much sarcasm. He let go of the doorknob. He haven't turned it yet.

"You're nothing..." he paused, his unemoitional face plastered on his face. He stopped for a while, thinking if he will really tell her what he thinks of her. She was facing his back at that time.

"Nothing?" Mai asked weakly. It's too late! She thinks he really stopped talking. I should have known, Naru...she sadly noted, her heart feeling cracked and broken all of a sudden...Then,I wouldn't have asked you. He was thinking for quite some time so she thought he have finished his sentence.

He didn't really know what face to show her, what expression he should show her. Because to him it doesn't matter what he looks like at that moment. All he knows is that Mai felt so terrible. And she thinks that he doesn't love her which isn't true at all. He knows that she's hurt and doesn't really want to talk about it.

"I should have known, Naru." she said out loud. She faked a smile.

"I-It-" he cut off facing Mai as he heard clickings from behind him. Mai became so teary inside.

"OI!! NARU!! MAI!!" came a voice outside. Then, there was poundings on the door. Very noisy ones. Naru shook his head as he figured who the pounding-idiot was.

"BOU-SAN!" he half yelled to him. Outside the room, John sweat dropped as Nakazi came bringing lots and lots of keys. Naru turned the knob and found it locked.

"What did you do this time?!" Naru asked not really keeping his cool. Takigawa curled himself at one corner near the room like a little child scared of being eaten by a monster from the closet. Naru could be so scary sometimes...I got to keep mysel together...He kept telling himself like he has gone mental.

Nakazi laughed. "Well, umm, we have a problem." she spoke near the door. Kei came and knew what the scene was about.

"What's the problem?" Mai asked.

"Well, we sorta kind of can't...open the door."Nakazi answered uncertainly.

"WHAT DO YOU MEAN YOU CAN'T?" Mai yelled.

"This door was designed differently from the doors of the other rooms. If we got locked from the outside, someone has got to open it with a key, the key, from the outside." Naru answered not looking at her.

Kei wasn't sure but she could feel that 'she' is near. Then as Nakazi, John and Takigawa were happily finding the key to get them out of the awkward room something flashed before them. Something smoking black.

"HURRY!!" she let out.

"Is she here?" John asked as they all stopped working on the door. She just nodded. They worked swiftly. Om gave an ear-splittening shout.

Aaaaaaaaahhhhhhhhhhh!!

"What is it?" Takigawa ran to her while the others searched for the right key from Nakazi's collection. Om pointed at the wall.

"The typical, this thing means bussiness." he sighed as he looked at the bloody wall of the hallway. 'D3a+-s...By +-3 r!s3 0f +-3 Bl00dy /\/\00n. 0n +-3 13+h r!s3-+ 0f +-3 sun...' it wrote.

"How do you know that?" asked Om shakily.

"Blood on the wall by the enemy is so not good. And always will be." he answered running back to the others with her.

"She can't hurt you..." Kai paused as she glanced at the clock. "You got 2 hours left to find the key." she said.

"What? I don't understand." Takigawa sighed cluelessly.

"She can't do anything until midnight. Right?" answered John.

"Right! But she can tempt you into stopping the search or she could tempt..." she stopped. "Mai and Naru into..." killing each other or at least hurt...she just finished in her thoughts.

"Okay stop! I don't wan to know about the last part." Takigawa reacted as he sensed danger. They heard shouts from inside the room after a while. But they couldn't make out what they meant because another noise came. It was like a very loud stingy noise that could hurt the eardrum so badly.

"Naru! MAI!" John shouted.


Inside...

"NARU! YOU IDIOT!." harsh words came out of her mouth.

"IT'S ALL YOUR FAULT!" she continued. "IF YOU HAVE LET ME DIE ON THAT SITE! THIS WOULDN'T HAPPEN THEN."

"Mai, it's not like that." he replied.

"THEN WHAT IS IT LIKE?" she scorned.

"IS IT NOTHING...AGAIN?" she yelled.

"You don't know what your talking about, Mai." he said holding her arms.

"OH RIGHT!THAT'S RIGHT!! I DON'T, DO I?? THAT'S BECAUSE I'M STUPID RIGHT?" she said as she rolled her eyes.

"STOP IT MAI!!" he snapped.

"JUST BECAUSE YOUR MY BOSS DOESN'T MEAN YOU COULD TELL ME WHAT TO DO!!" she snapped back.

"APPARENTLY I DO." he replied.

Yes, yes...hehehehe...This is going better than I thought...an evil laugh could be heard from the corners of the room.

"DON'T TOUCH ME!" she yelled as she slapped Naru's hands. It sored.

"Mai..." he searched for words. As his heart started pounding like breaking into pieces.

"I DON'T NEED YOU, NARU!! I DON'T WANT TO BE WITH YOU EVER AGAIN!!" she snapped. She covered her mouth as she finally realised what she have said. Tears rushed on her cheeks freely.

"I see." he said weakly."I'm sorry."

Then suddenly the door banged open but that wasn't enough to startle them both. They remained still as though they never heard the door bang so loudly.

"Mai...What happened?" Takigawa immediately asked. Mai only hugged the monk because she doesn't know what to tell him. John looked at Naru but he only shook his head.

After that, Mai was settled at the living room sofa with the others except for Naru, Kei and John who was at the base.

"What happened?" John asked. Naru ignored the question and checked the equipments' pick ups. There were none. So, he continued to search in his laptop. Typing, typing and typing some more.

"She was tempted." Kei answered the previous question. She glanced at her wrist watch. By now, Naru was checking the monitor, the kitchen particularly. The blood wasn't washed off yet.

"What you mean is Mai was tempted by her?" John asked confused. She just nodded. "Who is she anyway?"

"She is Tushiro. She's from hell." she replied without any emotional reactions. John sweat dropped. Naru kept typing but was listening as well.

"Well, if that's the case we could cleanse the house." John answered eagerly as he picked some papers scrambled on the floor.

"It's not the house. It's all of us." she said with twinkling eyes of . John gave a confused look.

"She's a messenger from the God of the Underworld." she said plainly. "She wants me to suffer before my soul could be taken. --Reincarnation." she said as simple as that. Naru glanced at her and gave a surprised look. John did as well. Reincarnation?

"So, we're part of this?" Naru asked seriously.She nodded.

"Why us?" John asked again.

"This is not simple. You have the characters of some people my past-self know. But the thing is, yours' are just temporary...That's the first set. The 2nd one is involved in magic. Celestial beings in celestial war?! You have, too..." she trailed off.

"What's our role?" Naru asked trying to figure where this talk was going.

"You were sent here to help." she replied. They gave her a confused look.

"What?!"...


Only one question for this chapter and I leave the rest to you. Can you read the bloody 'love' letter, the one that's written on the kitchen wall?