Yeahhhh I'm blowing off my history project to write this…oh well kukukuku (evil laughter) term projects stink! I'll just say I left it in my printer and look really sad…that always works!

Okay onto CHAPTER 12!

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Mai slowly started to wake after a nearly dreamless night. Keeping her eyes closed she remembered the dream she had the night before, thinking of the man's blank stare and bloodthirsty knife. I don't want to feel that pain again. I just want this case solved so we can leave.

The girl fluttered her eyes open, expecting to be blinded by the morning's light. The light never came. Instead all she saw was black.

It's morning isn't it? Then why can't I see? The girl gasped. Oh Kami!

"I'm blind!" she yelled and shot her hands out into the 'darkness,' (a.k.a. Naru's chest). The force of her hands nearly pushed the boy off the bed and his eyes shot open in shock.

"Mai? What's wrong?" he asked sleepily in confusion.

"U-Uhhhh…nothing? Ehehe…" she laughed nervously as her boyfriend narrowed his perfect blue eyes at her in suspicion.

"Then why did you push me?"

"I, uhh.. well…I-I," she started but Ayako's voice cut her off.

"She woke up against your chest and thought she was blind," the woman groaned, still tired.

Naru turned his attention back to the young brunette with whom he was currently sharing a bed with and smirked.

"I always thought you were an idiot Mai but that just confirms it…you thought you were blind?"

Mai growled and stuck out her chin. "Well I…you would have done the same," she said and paused and thought about what she had just said, "Well maybe you wouldn't, but maybe you would hav- uhhh…hmmm…Fine! Whatever! So what if I thought I was blind?! How was I to know you slept with me last night?! No! Wait…that came out wrong!" she yelped and covered her mouth and blushed brightly.

"Well we did sleep together…just not in that sense," he told her with his smirk still in place.

Ayako and Masako, who were still in the room, watched the scene before them with amusement. Well this is entertaining! If only I had some popcorn, Ayako thought happily as she watched the conversation between the dark haired boy and his girlfriend. Masako just sat on her bed, trying not to laugh…she was failing pretty badly though.

"Naruu!" Mai hissed.

"What? I was just saying we haven't slept together in that sense…yet," he responded in amusement, waiting for her to notice what he really said.

"But you didn't have to- Wait! Did you just say 'yet'?!?!" she yelled.

"Don't be so loud Mai, it is still morning after all. People are still trying to sleep," he smiled and stood up to leave to go to his room and change. "Mai, when you're dressed get me some tea," he told her before closing the door behind him with a 'click.'

Ayako had to clamp her hand over Mai's mouth before the girl could yell something too vile and wake everyone up.

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When Naru entered the base he was surprised to see Lin and Madoka asleep on the couch with the Chinese man's arm wrapped around the woman's waist.

The boy cleared his throat and the couple jumped apart, causing Madoka to land on the ground. "How long have the monitors been unwatched?" Naru asked the two.

The woman grinned sheepishly before replying, "It's only been a few hours. It's tiring watching those screens!!"

Naru rolled his eyes and sat down in front of the computers, pulling out his notebook and started to read it silently. The base door opened to reveal a still slightly flustered Mai holding a tray with the boy's tea on it.

"Here's your tea…baka," she muttered the last part under her breath.

Naru smirked yet again, "I heard that Mai."

Good, she thought and sat down in the other couch since Lin and Madoka were sharing the other one, and sitting quite close together I might add. Her boss turned to her.

"Mai, can you tell me what happened in your dream now?" Naru asked.

"I could…" the girl teased.

"Mia," the raven boy warned.

"Fine, fine! Well…in both of my dreams, so far, it's as if I'm living somebody else's memories. I'm a really pretty woman and I'm waiting for someone named 'Daisuke' to arrive. When I heard someone in the bushes outside I went to the door and opened it, but…" Mai trailed off.

"But..?" Naru said.

Mai's eyes looked distant and started getting blurry with tears. Her boyfriend placed a comforting hand on the girl's shoulder.

"What happened Mai?" he whispered, urging her to go on.

She looked in his eyes and put a hand up to grasp at her heart. "It hurt. He stabbed me. But it wasn't just the pain from the knife that I felt. I felt as though someone I knew and trusted…maybe even loved stabbed me. It hurt, and it hurts to remember it," she finished as the tears started trailing down her cheeks.

Naru's eyes softened and nodded. "Okay, you don't have to talk about that part anymore. Just let me know if you dream anything else, alright?"

Mai hiccupped and nodded her head as well, "Mmmhmm."

Naru gently pulled the girl's head to his chest and ran his hands through her hair, comforting her as she tried to control her tears. He knew how it felt to feel that type of pain. He had experienced it as well when he relived his brother's death through his own eyes. Some of the pain always stays, and sadly, many of the dreams Mai has are like the one she had the night before and the pain will always be there.

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(Here's something to lighten the sad mood!):

In the other room, John finished dressing and decided to go check on his girlfriend. He knocked on the girls' room's door. "Masako, it's me; John," he said.

"Come in!" a muffled voice on the other side of the door seemed to say.

The blond boy turned the doorknob and walked into the room only to stop in his tracks. There, only a few feet away, was a half naked Masako staring at him with wide eyes, trying unsuccessfully to cover herself up.

Meanwhile, inside the former-priest's mind everything seemed to going haywire and the poor boy fell to the floor; unconscious, and with a nose bleed. (Ooo poor John hahah sorry I really wanted to put this scene in!)

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The case will get closer to being solve in the next chapter.

So, until next time!

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Thanks to:

okami no kidzukare

Otaku Nayami

ghosthouse

rubyxdragon

Manga Girls

Vampire Freak Forever

seshysgodestris

Animeluver428

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