Chapter 3: First Job

Lover's Quarrel Part 3:

An Introduction Of Some Sort?

Mai couldn't help but giggle at the scene as soon as they arrived to the room they would be using. It was a rather simple and wide room with all the equipment needed. But then again, maybe it would be a waste.

"What the fuck do you want?!" Tsuyoshi spat angrily at Naru who ignored the action.

"Explain," Naru simply said and Mai resisted the urge to smack the him though she didn't stop the laughter from escaping her mouth.

With the sounds of laughter, Naru turned to her and stated, "Would you kindly tell me what's funny, Mai?"

"Well, for starters, did you know Tsuyoshi's an idiot?" Mai asked amused, ignoring the yell of denial from a certain red-head. "He doesn't know what to explain so he won't explain anything."

Naru stayed quiet to that and turned back to the scowling Tsuyoshi. "Explain how you know Mai was going to be attacked," he commanded firmly.

Tsuyoshi blinked and all anger was replaced by disbelief. "Why didn't you fucking say so?" he asked with an eyebrow raised and sighed heavily before answering with doubt, "Well, you could fucking say I'm her fucking half or something like that."

"Half? And why say it with doubt?" Naru narrowed his eyes.

Mai sighed at that.

"Like how you and Gene works, Mai and Daisuke complete each other in terms of spiritual power." Yamato started with a friendly grin, ignoring the gasps or glares that followed. "When they're together, they're the most powerful duo."

Not wanting anyone to interrupt, he quickly added with a smug smirk, "After all, the gods wanted that to happen, right~?"

Mai darkened at that. Black-chan lowered her head. Tsuyoshi, if possible, looked more angrier than before. Ayumu seemed to be lost and sad at the same time.

The SPR team noticed this immediately and all wondered, 'What happen to them?'

No one said a word. It was not oblivious to anyone that they went to a sensitive spot.

Mai began to sweat and was about to speak up when Naru spoke again. She had never been thankful at his forwardness.

"I see," Naru nodded in indifference though with hinted curiosity and then narrowed his eyes at something he had remembered. "How did you guys know Gene?"

Okay forget what she thought before, Mai definitely did not like his forwardness.

"He fucking visits my dream."

"He's staying on my mind~"

"I...saw him."

"I'm (his) friend."

The Helping Club members, exception of Mai who just banged her head, glanced at each other and laughed.

Though, it didn't look like Naru was seeing the humor. "Why is Gene still here? Shouldn't he have move on?" he asked grimly.

Tsuyoshi raised an eyebrow to him. "That stupid genius doesn't want to move on yet," he answered like it was as simple as that.

Mai began to sweat as tension risen again. "Ah. How about we do introduction?" she asked with fake cheerfulness. She definitely did not like tensions...nor suspense.

Everyone looked at her and nodded in agreement.

"Well, you guys already know me but I might as well introduce myself," Mai started as no one made move to speak up first. "I'm Taniyama Mai and I'm the one who usually can't take a break if the job's about ghost, paranormal, spiritual, love, relationships, and bodyguard."

"Huh? What do you mean by that, Jou-chan?" Bou-san asked in confusion.

"You see," Black-chan started while her club mates glanced at her with worried eyes which she ignored. "Everyone of us specializes in different jobs. Since Mai know about paranormal more than anyone else, she can't be absent if our job is about ghost."

"I see," Bou-san nodded before gaping at the girl. "Wait! You guys don't know about supernatural except for Jou-chan?!"

"That's right," the girl raised an eyebrow. "What about it?"

"That means you're not professional!" Ayako pointed out, earning some glares. "How do would you help in our case?"

"Well, Black-chan only said we don't know much about supernatural~" Yamato stated with a still friendly smile though for some reasons, some of the SPR members couldn't but shiver. "She didn't say we don't have psychic or ESP or any other abilities, right~?"

Bou-san couldn't help but felt a tick on his head at the arrogance tone he had found in the young man.

"You already know I have lantern psychic," Mai smiled slightly to lighten the mood. "The others have abilities that normal people don't. Like for example, Tsuyoshi is somehow like me though he's more powerful in exorcism than astral projection."

John stared at her in confusion. "What's his real name, mate?" he asked politely, glancing at Tsuyoshi. "You call him "Tsuyoshi" but others call him "Daisuke."

"Ah! It's Tsuyoshi Yamato though everyone calls him "Daisuke" the nickname I gave him," Mai answered and felt some irony in it. She was the one who gave the nickname but she never called him that at all.

"I can fucking introduce myself, you know?" Tsuyoshi stated irritably and rolled his eyes at the brunette who pulled out her tongue at him childishly. "Name's Tsuyoshi Yamato and call me my surname and I'll fucking kill you. Call me my first then I send you to the damn hell. Only call me "Daisuke", got it?" he glared at the end and got hit by his best friend.

"Tsuyoshi, that is not how you introduce yourself!" Mai scolded him like a mother and he turned away.

"He seems very...delinquent," Masako mumbled, covering her mouth with her kimono.

"Haha! Don't worry, my lady," Yamato held Masako's hand and kissed it gently. "He's just a softie~"

Mai stopped in track and turned to the player. She pulled his ear out and dragged her away from the dumbstruck medium. "What did I told you about your flirting?!" she glared at him annoyedly which in turned just made him smirk.

"Jealous much, my love?" Yamato teased and chuckled at the slight blush that surfaced from the brunette.

"Stop teasing me!" Mai shouted and then pointed at the two siblings with a smug grin. "You just made Ayumu cry, you know?"

The boss paled a little and turned to Black-chan who was emitting this dark aura. "Black-chan...sorry?" he held out his hands in surrender.

"For making my younger brother cry, I'll make you wish you were never born!" the raven girl cracked her knuckles.

Tsuyoshi burst out of laughter with Mai and the other SPR members. Yasu pulled out a cellphone and recorded the scene. Ayumu just sighed. John just smiled.

And Naru and Lin could feel their patience snapping.

"If you guys are here to play, kindly go back to Japan," Naru said coldly which stopped the ruckus. "Can you now continue to introduce yourselves?"

"Um...," Ayumu started nervously but then silenced and Yamato came to the rescue. "This is Ayumu Sakura, Black-chan's younger brother. He has this disorder which makes him finish his sentence with missing words. He can sense any aura and heal via his energy," he explained while Naru raised an eyebrow in suspicion with Lin.

'There's no disorder like that,' Naru thought to himself but opened his mouth to state the abilities instead. "Aura reading and energy healing."

"Bingo~!" Yamato snapped his fingers and then continued his introduction to the younger boy. "Also Ayumu can't take a break when the job's about work, salaries, business, studies and training."

"He can take a break when it's about ghost?" Yasu questioned with disbelief. "Wouldn't you guys need him?"

"No, (they) won't," Ayumu said slowly. "Daisuke-kun (and) Yamato-kun (are) the (only) ones not allowed (to) take (a) break (when) it's (about) ghost (along) with Mai-chan."

Some of the SPR were confused but then they suddenly understood it and nodded.

"Why only Daisuke-san and Suzuki-san?" Madoka asked curiously while Ayumu giggled and Black-chan laughed at that.

"They're protective and possessive that's why~!" Black-chan answered in glee while the two boys glared at her.

"Oi! I'm not fucking protective nor possessive! Maybe Yamato but not me! Name one fucking time I was!" Tsuyoshi demanded angrily at the still laughing girl.

"Actually, I can name a lot~! There's that time when a passive and not vengeful ghost hugged Mai-chi because she looks a lot like his lover and you blast him with your spells. There's also a time when Mai-chi was helping Yama and you kidnapped her so she helped you instead," Black-chan listed with a knowing smirk while the red head delinquent blushed slightly at that.

Naru couldn't help but feel something tighten in his chest and he glared at the cause.

Mai slapped herself and interrupted before this talks go to her relationships, "How about you introduce yourself next, Black-chan?"

"Ah, you're right!" Black-chan smiled in gratitude and bowed to the SPR. "I'm Black-chan and I'm Ayu-chi's big sister. I specialize in gathering information and locating anything~ Though the only time I can't take a break is when the job's about the same things as Ayu-chi."

"Hehe, so you're like me?" Yasu asked, moving closer to the girl who grinned in return.

"Maybe~" Black-chan replied like she still had a secret.

"I'm next, huh?" Yamato asked no one in particular and flashed his friendly smile again, taking a bow like a butler to his mistress. "My name's Yamato Suzuki, the leader of Helping Club. I'm somehow like your boss but I don't have the same ability. It's a secret~" he stated, glancing at Naru a little. "I can't take a break when the job's about the same as Mai and that's also the same for Tsuyoshi."

Tsuyoshi glared at that. "Oi!" he cracked his knuckles in anger. "Who fucking told you it's okay to call me by my name?"

"Myself," Yamato smirked in smugness.

Mai popped up some veins on her head and pulled them by the ear. "Bou-san, would you please continue?" she pleaded, glaring at the two boys who sulked.

Bou-san sweat-dropped at seeing her with the two boys. "I'm Houshou Takigawa or you can just call me "Bou-san," he greeted with a friendly aura.

"My name's is Masako Hara, medium," Masako introduced herself gracefully.

"Hello, mates. My name's John Brown, a priest," John smiled and Tsuyoshi groaned.

"This means I have to tune down my cursing and swearing, huh?" he asked and Mai just smiled at him.

"Told you so!" she pulled out her tongue childishly at him while he just glared.

"Damn you and your intuition always jinxing me!" the red head mumbled out of his breath.

"Yo! My name's Osamu Yasuhara! Nice to meet you!" Yasu ignored the one-sided argument and said cheerfully.

"Well, you already know me, Lin and Noll, right?" Madoka asked as the two quiet males had no intention of saying anything.

"Now, that's over. Mai," Naru called out and almost immediately Mai responded with a "what?". "Did you have a dream?"

Mai blinked in confusion before she snapped her fingers. "Ah!" she said in realization. "I have a dream about me and Tsuyoshi being brothers and talking about sibling relationship and promises and then I cried about him already breaking the promise."

"And this is related to the case because?" Naru raised an eyebrow.

"I heard something like "Otouto-chan, be nice to visitors" before I was attacked and then I remembered in my dream I was called "Otouto-chan". Also I think I saw two males a while ago, too," the brunette explained though she herself was confused.

"So we had a lead," Yamato thought aloud seriously and added in his thoughts, 'The ghosts are brothers but which ones the vengeful.'

"No, we don't," Naru stated simply, causing the others to look at him in disbelief.

"The people who lived here were all having brothers," Madoka explained further with apologetic smile. "And there's many families who moved here so unless we have the names, we can't be sure."

"Actually," Tsuyoshi started with a smirk. "I know the names."

"What do you mean?" Bou-san asked.

"I thought it was just something I imagined but since Mai dreamed of it then it's not something I imagine," he mused. "When Mai had said she had a weird dream, I also got one though Gene didn't visit."

"What is it about?" Ayako asked in curiosity.

"I only heard dialogues but there are two names I got Kuro and Shiro," Tsuyoshi answered with triumph.

Naru stayed quiet for a minute before he turned to Yasu. "Check out those names," he commanded and then went back to reading his notes.

Everyone was getting along great except for Tsuyoshi, Naru and Lin who refused to talk –or in Tsuyoshi's case, he won't talk to anyone without blowing up and only Mai was able to start a conversation with him.

"Mai, tea," Naru said suddenly and Mai glared.

"I'm not your assistant anymore!"

~OXOXOX~

A/N: Sorry for being ultra late! But I'm focusing on my other stories more... Hehe, sorry? And I'll try to update if I can?