The End of a Frightful Night

Naru walked down the street quickly, the little boy running to keep up with him.

"Mistwer, pwease don't walk so fast!" the boy yelled. Naru stopped and waited for the boy to catch up to him. The little boy looked a little out of breath and his face was tinted red.

"I'll walk slower, okay?" Naru said. The boy nodded his head as they continued down the street, Naru making sure to walk slow enough that the boy didn't have to push himself to keep up.

We don't have much time left. Naru thought to himself. It's only a matter of time before Mai does something stupid and get herself killed. Not to mention, we don't really know if they are at the cabin. For all I know, they could be on the other side of the town. Going here is a long shot, one I don't want to take. If I am wrong, and Mai isn't at the cabin, she will die.

Naru felt something bump up against his arm and when he looked down, the little boy was holding his hand.

"Why are mommy and daddy in trouble?" the boy asked without looking up at Naru. Naru had no idea what to say, or if he could say anything. Telling this young boy his parents were murders was not something anyone wanted to do, especially Naru.

"They did…some stuff." Naru said looking away. He didn't know how to explain it to someone so young.

"Am I going to be taken away?" The boy asked suddenly. Naru stopped and looked down at the boy, who refused to look up.

"I can't answer that." Naru said. "You might be; you might not be, I don't know." The boy sniffed and hid his face from Naru, but that didn't matter. He knew the boy was crying.

"I don't wanna go." The boy said. "I don't wanna show you mommy if you gonna take her away."

Naru opened his mouth but nothing came out. He didn't know what to say. He knew that lying would be the quickest way to get the boy to show him the way, but it would also cause the most problems. Naru sighed, not liking the situation he was in.

"How about this." Naru said as he crouched down and got eye level with the boy. The boy glanced at him, but said nothing. "You take me to the cabin and I will let you be friends with Mai."

"Who's Mai?" The boy asked sounding interested.

"She is the person that is with your mom. She is really nice and fun to be around. You can hang around her for a while until..." Naru stopped, trying to think of what to say next. "…until things get better. How about it?"

"Otay!" The boy yelled suddenly happy. He began to pull Naru's hand as they continued down the street.

"Turn here!" The boy pulled Naru, excited about something all of a sudden. They turned and walked for a few minutes until they came to the end of the street where a forest was spread out in front of them. Naru knew that they were close, and he just hoped that he wasn't too late.

"Mai, please be safe." Naru whispered to himself as they began to walk into the forest.

"Detective!" called a voice that made the Detective look behind him. He saw five figures coming towards him. Three of them were running at him, while two of them walked quickly behind them. As they got under the street light, he recognized them immediately.

"What are you doing here?" He asked when they reached him. Some of the other officers around watched as the group of unknown people came running to them. They had been in the middle of marking territories to check when these people came over, pausing the search.

"We came to help." Bou-san said. Ayako, Yasuhara ran up behind him and stopped when they reached the Detective. They were all out of breath from running all the way here.

"Says who?" Masahiko asked as he watched as John and Masako finally came into view. "And how did you find out where we were?"

"Naru." Ayako said. "He told us to come help, please we can help you!"

"No, absolutely not." The Detective said before turning back to the map that was spread out on top of the cop car.

"Look, we can help look for her-" Bou-san said as he grabbed onto the Detective's arm.

"Hey!" He said pulling back. Bou-san looked shocked for a moment. "I don't want to be the bad guy, but it's too dangerous for you to go out there. Not to mention we have plenty of people. We don't need you."

"There are five missing." Masako said suddenly. Masahiko looked at her for a moment, not sure of what she was talking about. "Your officers. There are five missing due to the traffic blocks that you have put up. There are five of us which means we can easily replace them."

"No, absolutely not." He repeated.

"Why?" Masako asked. "Are you afaird that we may know them better and that we will be able to find them quicker then your team? If that is so, you are being childish when someone's life is in danger." Masako said from behind her sleeve. Masahiko looked offended and as he was about to say something, Masako continued. "Plus, we both know that even if you tell us we can't help look, we will anyway, putting our lives in more danger then they would be with one of your officers."

The Detective thought about this for a moment, before finally giving in.

"Fine, but you do as I say and you are to not go anywhere without one of my officers with you."

"Deal" Everyone said together. They all gathered around the car while they continued to go through where to search on the map.

Naru ducked under the tree branch that was hanging to low. He looked back to see the boy behind him, taking his time over a root that was sticking up. Naru made sure to look back every now and then to see the boy struggling to keep up, but Naru had to keep going. Mai had been missing for more then three hours now and he was just hoping that everything was still alright and the worse thing to happen to her was being hit for her stupidly.

"Wait up Mistwer!" The boy called. Naru paused and waited for the boy to reach him. While he waited, he looked around to see that he could not see anything. There was no cabin, there was no light or any sign of anyone being out here. There was nothing but a bunch of trees.

"Are you sure this is the right way?" Naru asked the little boy.

"Are you doubwing me?" The little boy asked, looking up and placing his hands on his hips. Naru was a little taken back by the question.

"No."

"Good." The boy said. "I don't think we have much furwer." Naru sighed in relief as he looked to where the boy was staring to. He reached into his pocket and pulled out his phone. He dialed a number quickly before placing it to his ear. It rung four times before there was an answer.

"Hello?"

"Takigawa" Naru said. "Are you still with Detective Masahiko?"

"Yea, why? We were about to leave." Bou-san explained, sounding confused. Naru could hear the other voices on in the back ground asking what was going on.

"Tell him I know where Mai is." Naru said. He was about to explain more but Bou-san bombarded him with questions. "Really? Where? Is she alright? Do I need to call a medic? Where is Carmela? Is she still there?"

"If you don't stop asking questions, I'm going to hang up." Naru growled at him. The line suddenly went silent. "We are at the cabin in the forest on the other side of town. Just go to Little road and take a left at Butterfly street and you just keeping walking straight into the forest. It shouldn't be too far from there."

"Alright" Bou-san said. "Are you going to be okay? I think you should wait for us to come before you do anything-" Naru cut him off my pushing end and putting the phone back in his pocket.

"You ready?" Naru asked. The little boy nodded his head. He reached down and picked the little boy up and placed him on his hip in order to balance the weight. If they wanted to get there before anything bad happens, he would have to carry the boy the rest of the way.

After what felt like hours passed, Naru was finally tired and lost. He looked around, but there was no cabin in sight.

"Are you sure we are going the right way?" Naru asked the little boy who was falling asleep on his shoulder.

"Yea. It's just up ahead."

"You have been saying that for twenty minutes now and we still have yet to get anywhere." Naru snapped at the boy. Why did he even bring the boy with him?

"I know it's up bwhere!" the boy tired to yell, but he was just too tired. "You're just not…" the boy's sentence trailed off when his eyes slid closed.

"Hey, wake up!" Naru said, shaking him, but the boy was already too deep in sleep. "Damn it." Naru looked around but there was no where he could just dump the kid and continue. That's when he saw it. The cabin was in the over to his left; far enough away that Naru could have easily missed it if he hadn't been looking.

Naru began to make his way over there, unconsciously making his footsteps longer. It wasn't until he was there at the door that he realized just how far of a walk it had been.

"That was only because I wouldn't have left if he didn't. It didn't mean anything. He hates me." Naru heard Mai say as she gasped for breath. What was she crying about now? Naru thought to himself as he placed the boy down against the wall a few feet away from the door. "I said some horrible things to him."

"That doesn't mean anything. I say horrible things to my husband all the time. It doesn't mean he doesn't love me." said another voice Naru assumed was Shiro's wife, Carmela.

"But you said you were using each other to kill people, so why would it matter what you said to each other!" Mai yelled at her. To Naru, it seemed that her crying was getting worse. He opened the door a little and peeked in, looking at the scene in front of him. Mai was on the ground, crying as she stared up at the woman Naru assumed was Carmela.

"Just because we didn't like each other or could hardly stand one another, doesn't mean that we didn't mean we didn't have feelings. We were married for six years, not to mention we have a kid. Of course we have some feelings for each other. Not like you and the boy, but there is something there." Carmela said as she shrugged.

"That doesn't mean anything!" Mai said as she buried her face in her hands again. Carmela stayed quiet for a few minutes, waiting for something. Naru pushed on the door a little too much and it swung open, but no one seemed to notice.

"Stop crying, would you?" Carmela yelled. "It's making me sick."

"I don't care!" Mai snapped at her, as she looked up at her with hatred eyes. "I want to cry, so I'm gonna!" Naru sighed to himself as he leaned up against the door frame from exhaustion. He couldn't believe Mai was acting so childish.

"She is right, Mai" Naru said, catching their attention. "It's unsightly."

"Naru!" Mai screamed when she saw him. Suddenly Carmela turned around and pointed her knife at Mai's throat.

"Move and I'll kill her."

"No Naru! Don't listen to her! She wants-"

"Shut it!" Carmela yelled as she pulled on Mai's hair. Mai yelled in pain as she leaned back and away from the knife that was now at her throat. . "Now I want you to call your little friend on the Detective agency and tell him to release my husband. If you don't she will die."

"That would be a waste of effort." Naru said. "Why would I call and tell them to set your husband free when I know they won't and I know that you will kill her anyway?" Naru glanced down at Mai and saw more tears falling down her cheeks. The look in her eyes hurt him, but there was nothing he could do. The only thing he could think was that she was safe for now.

"True…hmm…well maybe I should just-"

"Mommy?" asked a small voice. Naru turned to find that the boy had woken up and was looking at him mother with fearful eyes.

"Mori?" Carmela asked out of shock. Naru took a step in front of the boy, who grabbed onto Naru's pant leg and hid there for a few moments. "What-What are you doing here?"

"How do you think I found this place so quickly?" Naru asked. She looked up at him then the boy.

"How-How could you lead him here sweetie? I thought I told you no one is allowed here other then mommy and daddy."

"Mommy and Daddy are meanies." Mori said, taking a small step out from Naru before going back behind his leg, apparently to scared to face his mother.

"What?" Carmela asked, as she started to nervously laugh. "What has this boy been telling you? Why do you believe his lies?"

"Why are you holding his swpecial friend here?"the boy asked. Carmela remained silent while Naru glanced away, trying to hide his embarrassment for what the kid had said. He had never meant for Mai to hear that he was his 'special friend'.

"Because….because…" her voice faded as she looked down at the ground, tears forming her eyes. "Because I wanted to make sure he found her and that she was safe."

Carmela let go of Mai's hair and removed the knife from her neck. Mai quickly crawled across the floor to where Naru was now on his knees, waiting for her.

"Naru!" Mai yelled as she buried her face in his chest and cried out all the emotions she had been feeling. Happiness that he had came to save her; Anger because he had taken so long; Fearfulness for both their lives.

"Mai, it's alright. You can stop crying now." Naru whispered to her, but she ignored him and continued.

"Hunny…" Carmela said. "Sweetie, I want you to do mommy a favor, okay?" Mori looked up at her, not sure if he wanted to listen. He looked at Naru who nodded his head and Mori looked at his mother. "I want you to back through the forest and meet the police and bring them back here. We are going to go visit daddy, okay? I know he will be happy to see you."

"Otay." Mori said before turning to leave.

Carmela looked at Naru and asked. "They are on their way right?"

"More or less." Naru said to her as he tightened his grip on Mai. He had no idea why she would let Mai go so suddenly, but he wasn't going to take the chance that she was going to take her back.

They remained in silence for a while before the curiosity overwhelmed Naru, and he had to know.

"Why?" Naru asked. "Why let Mai go?"

"Do you want me to take her back?" Carmela asked. Naru flinched back and Carmela laughed at his reaction. "Don't worry, I don't plan to." She said as she looked down at Mai who had somehow fallen asleep in his arms. "To tell you the truth, I really wanted to kill her. And I would have if it wasn't for Mori. When I saw the look in his eyes when he saw me holding the knife to her throat, I thought that maybe, what I was doing was wrong."

"You didn't think it was wrong before?"

"No, I knew it was wrong, but the urge just overwhelmed me. I loved the excitement of the kill and I guess I lost sight of what was really…." Carmela let her sentence trailed off when a memory took over her subconscious. "You know when we had Mori, me and my husband took a break from killing people in order to raise him. I guess you could say that I figured out that I don't want our son to grow up like us. He deserves a better family." Carmela looked at Naru to see that his face was emotionless. "Look at me, a serial killer monologuing about things you probably don't care about."

"You're right. I don't care about any of that stuff." Naru said. He heard dogs barking and saw some lights out of the corner of his eyes. The police had finally come. "Looks like you time is up." He said to her.

"I guess." She said. Naru looked behind him to see that they were almost there. Just a few more yards. Naru thought. "Unfortunately, I have no intention of going to jail." Naru snapped his head to look up at her and found the knife at her neck. "Tell Mori I love him."

"Naru?" Mai mumbled as her eyes flickered open. Naru instinctively pushed Mai's face to his chest, wrapping his arms around her head as the knife glided along the smooth pale skin, and turning it blood red. "Naru!" Mai said as she tried to push away from him, but he just held her tightly like that, trying to spear her eyes.

"Naru! Mai!" called the voice of Bou-san.

"Stay outside!" Naru yelled turning to them. He watched as some of them stopped and looked at him weird, but the one that he wanted to stop didn't. Mori kept running towards the door. "Mori stay outside! Don't come any closer!" Naru yelled at him. Mori stopped a few feet away, looking at him confused.

"Naru let go of me!" Mai said as she pushed on his chest, but her strength had drained from her a long time ago.

"Mai stop it." Naru whispered to her, keeping his eyes on Mori. No one showed any sign of moving.

"Naru let me-" Mai said but Naru interrupted her.

"She's dead." Naru whispered, so only Mia could hear. She froze in his arm. "She cut her throat a few moments ago, so just stay still for a minute." Naru whispered before looking up at the officers.

Detective Masahiko came forward and looked at Naru nervously, before understanding what had happened.

"Father Brown." Masahiko called, knowing what he had to do. John stepped forward. "Take Miro back to the station for a while. We'll meet up later."

"No I want mommy!" Mori said before running towards the house. Naru didn't know what to do, and truth be told, he didn't have any time to think. He reluctantly let go of Mai and reached out, grabbing Miro at the last second before he could see anything in the cabin. He held him to his chest and ignored the fists that were coming at him and the cries for his mother. He turned to look at Mai to find her staring at him intently, trying to not to look behind her.

Mai slowly turned her head, losing her inner battle to keep looking away.

"Mai" Naru called, making her look at him. He shook his head and she knew that he was trying to protect her.

Holy Rainbow! This is really long! This is the last chapter, well it was suppose to be but its way too long, so I broke it up and now we have this. Sorry, but we have one more chapter which will be the epilogue. Don't worry, it's already written and I am posting it tomorrow.

So as some of you might know (actually probably none of you) I went swimming yesterday and I was bad and forgot the lovely sunscreen. So I got burned. The weird part is, the only part that was really bad was my right shoulder. Right at the collar bone where the shoulder meets the neck and it KILLS! I'm surprised I'm not dead. Well kinda from all the typing.

Well I hope you all enjoyed the story to this point!

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