Chapter 2: First Job:

Lover's Quarrel Part 2:

Otouto-chan, Be Nice To Visitors!

Mai grew from all those years and was able to be as mature as anyone would guess. She's even the best in faking smiles, only one person noting it's fake.

Like now...

"It really is you, Naru!" the brunette faked a smile that was really like the real thing and inwardly, flinched at the glare of a certain red-haired. "What are you doing here?"

The silent teen just stood there and stared at the other for a minute before shaking his head and turning to a pale woman.

'Why didn't I notice her?' Mai thought, almost face-palming. She thought she cured her obliviousness to her surroundings but the narcissist proved otherwise.

"I will take the case but I highly doubt the Helping Club could prove any kind of help to us, SPR," Naru said with complete authority that made a certain bodyguard and playboy glare at him.

The confused-at-what's-happening brunette double take and glared at her boss. "You promise you'll stop accepting ghost problems! I want to rest, Yamato!"

Said blonde boss called Yamato just laughed, getting over his glaring competition with Naru, "I'm the boss. I make decisions~"

"You're abusing your position," Mai deadpanned seriously and Yamato just laughed it off again, "I know~"

Naru, who didn't like noises, glared at the two and bluntly insulted, "If that's how Helping Club is then I suggest you call other people. I already had two childish co-workers. I don't want them to be added."

Mai turned to her ex-boss and glared at his words. She definitely hated people who insult her friends, old love or not but before she could even tell the other off, someone beat her to it.

"I don't fucking care if you're the fucking best in the field of paranormal, we will fucking help the old hag," Tsuyoshi grabbed the narcissist by the neck and glared hard, his thumb jabbing at the woman.

The Helping Club, except the amused boss, dropped their jaws and stared at the bodyguard in complete shocked. They never imagined the other would take a job seriously since Tsuyoshi always complained about how he was forced to work. They were definitely shocked but in a good way.

But what they, still except Yamato and perhaps the Devil Tutor as well, didn't know that Tsuyoshi was just plain angry at Naru and didn't care about the job. The latter also seemed to be stealing worried glances to Mai every time the narcissist spoke.

Getting back to senses, Mai noticed something very wrong in his statement and stomped towards him.

"Tsuyoshi, that's not how you treat elders!" she gripped onto the boy's ear and pulled the other, causing him to let Naru go. "And stop using violence as solution!"

"Itai!" Tsuyoshi tried to get a hold of his ear but was in vain. "Who the hell are you to fucking say "stop using violence as solution"?!"

"Your best friend who knows best!"

"Don't go on narcissist on me now!"

Black-chan and Yamato laughed hard at the scene while Ayumu giggled slightly. This was one of the daily humor in their lives and they clearly enjoyed it.

Naru glared at the scene and intensified his glare, seeing the two hot-heads fought and interacted. He was angry at the noise and was not jealous.

"Ah!" Mai exclaimed looking at the clock above and took Tsuyoshi's hand. "We have to go now!"

Tsuyoshi just sighed and let himself be dragged by the other who was seemed to be anxious of something.

"See ya guys tomorrow!"

'Definitely not JEALOUS!' Naru screamed in his mind as he glared harder at the two who left... Hand. In. Hands.

"You're not going to be with them today?" Black-chan looked confused to why Yamato didn't follow while Ayumu looked as left out as his sister.

Yamato looked sad and serious for a minute. "Mai needs Tsuyoshi, not me," he whispered, looking down but then looked up to Naru with a happy-go-lucky face. "So where's the case?"

"...it's in," the woman who asked for the help started, ignoring the glare sent by the narcissist jerk. "England."

~OXOXOX~

"You okay?" Tsuyoshi asked, casually leaning on Mai's door while the latter stared at her shoes.

"I...," a soft heartbroken voice broke out from Mai's mouth, making the bodyguard gritted his teeth in anger. "What do you think?"

'You fucking looked like shit that just saw his old love die and fucking looked like the world was fucking gone but,' his glance softened a little. "You looked annoying."

'I can't tell something like that,' he thought sadly, not doing anything to comfort his best friend. 'She doesn't need me to tell her something she already knows well. She doesn't need pity. What she needs is someone there for her.'

"Thank you," a sob came out from the girl who just saw the person that broke her heart.

Tsuyoshi looked up to the sky and saw it was a clear blue sky.

'Damn, this girl just fucking made me soft.'

~OXOXOX~

"Ouch!" Mai rubbed her head that had a big bump on it and glared at her alarm clock. "Tsuyoshi, why did you do that? It's Saturday!"

"You fucking forgot?" Tsuyoshi raised his eyebrows and threw something to her. "Here, your favorite."

The girl stared at what she caught and shrieked happily, annoying the other, "It's chocolate!"

She quickly devoured it and made a face of bless.

"Forget love- I'd rather fall in chocolate!"

The red-haired teen simply rolled his eyes and stared at the brunette's face, especially the eyes. "Better fucking cover that red eyes and black eyes of yours."

The brunette put a hand trailing her face and noticed it was a little wet. "I... how long was I crying?"

"Three hours until you fell asleep," the red-haired answered nonchalantly, his eyes being closed. "And I'm the fucking one who took you to your room."

"Oh," the girl just said. It wasn't something unusual for the other to take her to her room. Their other jobs made her sometimes tired and asleep so at least one or two people would carry her to her room. The usual people would either be Yamato or Tsuyoshi or both for they were best friends and all.

"No thank you?"

The brunette ignored his question and asked a question herself. "What's the day today?"

Tsuyoshi looked confused for a minute before relief found its way to his face. "February 14, it's fucking Valentines Day and am I fucking glad that we had a job."

"What's the job?" the girl asked, giving a slight sympathy to her best friend. He along with her and their club mates were famous in school and always got in trouble in Valentine's Day and White's Day for both boys and girls kept on giving them gifts as sign of appreciation, affection, etc. It was like hell for them and she thanked her boss for finally having great timing.

"Some Japanese people are haunting your beloved," Mai glared at that. "Naru's parents and the SPR's being restarted. The narcissist's mother was curious about us and asked for assistance. It's in England"

"Oka- wait! England?!" the female shouted while the male just nodded, his eyes on Mai's clock. "And the flight's starting in ten minutes."

"Baka! You should have told me that sooner!"

~OXOXOX~

"Wait, so we made it?" Mai asked confused at the turned of event and breathed heavily. "But Tsuyoshi said it's only ten minutes before the flight's starting!"

All eyes drifted to the said red-haired while he answered with a shrugged, "What? I lied."

"Mai/Jou-chan/Taniyama-san/Mai-chan!"

Multiple voices shouted, making the called girl turned and smiled at the sight of her old friends.

"Hi gu-" she was crashed into a group hug that made her almost loss her breathing. "We miss you, Mai!"

Tsuyoshi twitched dangerously annoyed while Yamato seemed to smile darkly.

"Get the fucking hell away from my bestie!/Mind getting off my best friend?" the two said in unison, pulling the suffocated girl by the hand and then glared at each other. "She's not your fucking best friend/your best friend! She's mine!"

"Stop copying/fucking copying me!"

Mai shook her head at the two's attics and smacked some senses to them. Literally.

"Itai/Fucking shit!"

She turned to the long forgotten old co-workers and smiled innocently, "Welcome to the daily life of Helping Club where parental guidance's advice and curses are thrown~!"

Ayumu nodded as his agreement, a low giggle escaping his mouth while Black-chan laughed, "Nice one, Mai-chi~!"

The SPR gang stared for a minute before throwing a pit of laughter, Masako hiding her giggle by her kimono and the two silent teens were well silent but you could see a slight curve from Lin's mouth. They would surely have fun with Mai's new team.

And Naru would surely have a hard time.

But then they noticed Black-chan's weird speaking. "You're speaking in?"

"English," the black-haired girl smirked.

~OXOXOX~

"Wow," Mai gawked at the site of her ex-boss's house -wait... No, that's a mansion!

A big gate, two fountains, statues everywhere, trees on the sides, beautiful flowers surrounding, a mini storage, a backyard garden, a huge garage...yup, it's totally a mansion.

"Mai, stop being an idiot and move./Better stop looking like an idiot there, Mai."

The two bosses, naming Naru and Yamato, stared at each other hard, one narrowing while the other smiling. You could just see sparks on their eyes.

"Oh my god!" the brunette suddenly exclaimed, surprising the two having staring competition.

"There's two narcissist boss!" Mai cried out, knowing full well the teasing and work she would do for the two bosses.

"Idiot./Stupid~"

~OXOXOX~

Ayako couldn't help but giggle at the similar of words yet different attitude. Naru was as serious and cold as ever while the other she had yet to know was both flirty and teasing.

"Mai-chi's right," a foreign voice said from behind her and she looked back to stare at green eyes that seemed so knowledgeable. "Yama really have almost the some wordings to her old boss."

"Huh?" Ayako eyed the black-haired girl with confusion while said girl blinked.

"Do," the younger girl shook her head as if she was doing something wrong and opened her mouth, trembling a little as she did. "Do you perhaps don't understand English?

'Thank god,' the female miko let out a sigh. 'She can speak in Japanese.'

"Yes, I can't," Ayako smiled friendly, giving her hand to shake. "My name's Ayako Matsuzaki, a miko and a doctor."

The girl smiled but the doctor noticed how it seemed forced. Ayako also noticed that the girl didn't give effort in hiding the fact her smile's fake like she didn't have the energy or just couldn't do it.

But she could never be sure since they only met just now.

"My name's Black-chan, just Black-chan! It's nice meeting you, Yako-chi~"

Ayako smiled. Maybe she was thinking too much. The childish character of this Black-chan just proved her wrong.

"Nice to meet you, too, Black-chan," she bowed then pointed at the blonde boss. "Is he your boss?"

Black-chan seemed to beam and the aura she had was positive almost as if-

"Yup, he's Yamato Suzuki~!"

'This girl's in love,' Ayako deduced triumphantly, not thinking of other possibilities and mentally forgetting the strange reaction of the other.

Black-chan would just have to ignore Ayako who was prone to being a matchmaker.

~OXOXOX~

Houshou thought he saw a twin in the two boys that were named Naru and the other he heard being Yamato Suzuki.

They spoke same words yet it's different. This Yamato guy had a warm and teasing voice like he was always joking while he knew that Naru was well...anti-social.

He wondered if the other guy was a long-loss brother. That would definitely explain it.

But it was impossible since the only brother of Naru was Gene and Yamato's blonde, not raven.

"(Are) You (um) bou-san?" a soft and hesitant voice asked from his lower side that he looked down.

What he saw was a splitting image of the girl Ayako was talking to yet he noticed the short hair and short height difference. 'A younger brother?' he guessed, finding himself nodding at the confusing question.

"Mai-chan (told) me (much) about (you), Bou-san," the boy bowed politely and smiled at the still confused man. "Nice (to) meet (you). (I'm) Ayumu Sakura, (a) friend (of) Mai-chan."

"Huh?" Houshou, or formally known as Bou-san, still couldn't get what the other was talking about. There were some words missing in the boy's statement that he sometimes couldn't understand. "What did you say?"

(A/N: If you guys forgot, Ayumu doesn't say the words inside the parenthesis.)

The younger boy, he thought was named Ayumu, frowned sadly and took something from his backpack.

The other got a notepad and flashed the pages until he saw a blank page.

Bou-san watched curiously as he wrote words that seemed to flow to his mind.

Ayumu then showed the older man the note.

'I'm sorry. I have a disorder that makes me finish a sentence with missing words,' Bou-san read in his mind with wide eyes. 'I'm Ayumu Sakura, Mai-chan's friend and Black-chan's younger brother. Nice to meet you, Bou-san. Mai-chan said you're a great brother.'

Bou-san stared at the black-haired boy in front of him. The black-haired boy, Ayumu, was smiling brightly like an angel from above. He felt it. The feeling he had for when he was with Mai, the feeling of being an older brother.

~OXOXOX~

Tsuyoshi stared at the three scene and growled behind his teeth. He definitely hated how his club mates forgotten why they even were here. Just like the old jobs.

It made the jobs longer and more stupid and it made him sick. 'But...,' he stared at Mai who was looking angry like her normal self with softened eyes. 'Guess it's not so bad.'

"Aren't you going to join them?" a cheery voice came from the air and he twitched, becoming more annoyed. He looked at the direction of the voice and saw a four-eyes staring at him with teasing and sly eyes. "My sources tell me you're Tsuyoshi Yamato, Taniyama-san's other best friend."

Glare, check. Killing intent, check.

"Then your fucking sources are wrong. I'm her only best friend."

The teen didn't notice or just plain ignored his reaction and extended a hand. "My name's Osamu Yasuhara but you can just call me Yasu. Nice meeting you, Yamato-san."

Tsuyoshi glared harder and growled out like a beast on the hunt, "Don't fucking call me by that fucking name!"

Four-eyes, the red-haired already long forgotten the other's name, seemed to thought for a minute before snapping his fingers.

"Your surname's your boss, Yamato Suzuki's first name!" Yasu exclaimed, making the bodyguard glared harder if possible. "So what do you want me to call you?"

Tsuyoshi stayed quiet for a long time but then sighed tiredly. If his memories' right, this was the other brother figure of Mai that just loved to tease and annoy someone, mostly the first brother figure which was long forgotten by him. He also remembered that Mai told him the four-eyes would be curious at him and be persistent.

'And of course, she was fucking right,' the red-haired felt another sigh coming. 'Damn her intuition. Always jinxing me.'

"Daisuke, you fucking only call me Daisuke," he answered, adding in his mind, 'I'll only permit one person to call me by my first name.'

Four-eyes smiled and talked animatedly, trying to find a way to tease or embarrass him.

Yup, there's the sigh. Check.

And the danger, check.

"Go away!"

'Damn, I really fucking hate my life,' Tsuyoshi thought tired, dodging an incoming vase that came out of nowhere. He stared at the broken plot that could have injured him, ignoring the glances he received and went straight to his unfocused best friend.

"Don't come inside!"

The red-haired pulled Mai quickly, barely dodging another incoming flower vase. He held the girl protectively and could stop the smirk from his face, feeling two intense and jealous glares.

He stared at the two bosses, giving him the glares. 'But my life's just to fun and interesting to give up.'

~OXOXOX~

Mai was minding her business and staring at the mansion. It made her feel uneasy and sad like there's a past sealed to the deepest part of the mansion.

She then heard it. A cry and a whisper of a boy.

Her vision became blurry and for a second she saw two male, one angry and the other crying. She felt her heart ached like the time when Naru rejected her.

But then it was gone and the next thing she knew, Tsuyoshi was pulling her before an incoming vase hit her.

And she heard another voice, much louder and clearer.

"Otouto-chan, Be Nice To Visitors!"

'Does that mean my dream before was related?' she asked herself and found herself sighing, completely oblivious of her surrounding or the glares from the three boys.

'Great. My intuition tells me that Tsuyoshi and I will definitely be targeted. And it's never wrong.'

~OXOXOX~

A/N: Well, that's it. And if you're wondering about Masako, John, Madoka and Lin, they're already inside. The reason why one two or three person interacts is caused those two or three are near each other. Hope you like it and sorry for being late to update. This is an apology chapter for being late and my gift for Valentines, even if it's late. Happy Late Valentine~!