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I ran a hand through my short brown hair as I set the kettle down on the stove. It had been about three weeks since the case had ended, and I had just gotten out of the hospital two weeks ago. Life had went on as normal--as if nothing had ever happened. Because Nazuka-san--or Sasaki-san--hadn't been a real government agent, I wasn't really filed as an oprhan, so I was able to return to my apartment. I returned to my job as the secretary at SPR (of course), and everything was going fine.

Except for Naru's confession kept coming back to haunt me. I couldn't get it out of my head. And, to make things worse, he wasn't acting any differently than usual.

I suppressed a yell of frustration as I finished making the tea. That's it. Maybe I should just ask him about it... I quickly smacked that thought away.

I walked to Naru's office, tea cup in hand. "Here's your tea, Naru!" I said with a smile, setting it down on the corner of his desk.

He didn't look up from the file he was looking at, and he didn't say a word. Yep, definitely nothing had changed.

I gave an inward sigh and turned to leave, but stopped at his doorway. "Hey, Naru?" I said slowly.

There was silence for a moment. "What, Mai?" Naru asked when I didn't go on.

I almost chickened out, but I made myself go on. "What you said in the hospital..." I trailed off, thinking of how to word what I wanted to say. Naru remained silent behind me. "Were...were you saying...that you...love me?"

This was met by silence. I stayed tensed in the doorway, biting my lip as I waited for his answer. Would he even answer?

Suddenly, his breath was at my ear. Wow, how was he so quiet??? "Was it so hard to figure out, Mai?" he breathed.

I turned around to look at him, but before I could do or say anything, he leaned down and kissed and me. Every coherent thought that I'd been thinking; every sensible thing I'd been thinking to say, immediately cut off.

When he finally pulled away, I realized I was breathing raggedly. How embarassing.

Naru was smirking. Was there ever a situation where he couldn't smirk? "Are you still confused, or do I need to write it out in Japanese for you?" he asked.

"It's not my fault my brain works differently than yours!" I huffed.

"Actually, it might be," Naru said indifferently.

I opened my mouth to protest, but then he kissed me again. Maybe he was right, maybe he was wrong about my brain. But, hey, why did I care? Naru was kissing me! Instead of being mad, all I did was kiss him back.

THE END