Chapter two! I made this one longer than the last one so its moving along!

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The little princess loved to play with her dolls outside whenever she could. Sometimes her older brother, the prince, or her mother would come out to play.

"Big Brother, would you fight away all the monsters that lurk in the dark?" She inquired.

The prince bent down and tucked two wild flower in her dark brown pigtails.

"I would slay a hundred monsters if I knew it could keep you safe."

Friday. September 4th. 7:04 a.m.

Beep.

Beep.

Snooze.

I sighed and tried to go back-

Beep.

Beep.

I might as well wake up. Maybe I'll be early for once and impress Naru.

For now it will just be Naru, Lin, and I working on this case. If the others are needed then we will call them. The others consisting of a Buddhist monk named Hosho Takigawa. A Shrine maiden named Ayako Matzusaki. A famous medium named Masako Hara. An Australian Priest named John Brown. And two other researchers named Osamu Yasuhara and Madoka Mori. They don't work for us, but they come when we need help. They are the best! We are like some strange dysfunctional family that has supernatural powers that I would never trade for the world. Speaking of powers, I'm a latent psychic. My dreams help on cases (even though Naru throws fits about me falling asleep! I mean it is part of my job…). Lin is an onmyoji and Naru... Well, Naru has these crazy PK powers that are too strong for one person to handle and when he uses them, he lands himself in the hospital! We all found this out on the last case which he destroyed a demi god and-

Mai.

Anyway as I was sayi-

Mai wake up.

Hmm. That sounds lik-

Mai, if you don't wake up, I'll dock your pay.

Friday. September 4th. 12:30 p.m.

I grumbled. I guess I fell asleep on the way here. I tried to ignore him as I tried to snuggle more into my breathing pillow.

Wait, breathing pillow?

I shot up from where my head rested on Naru's shoulder. I couldn't fight the blush the erupted on my cheeks. "I see you decided to wake up, dummy. Now we can do what I actually pay you to do." I mumbled a string of insults and all he did was look away. He is so infuriating! Laugh while you can, I'll get the last laugh eventually.

"Mai, please stop daydreaming and help carry in the equipment."

"Yes, your highness." I mumbled under my breath, but he turned around and gave me a ghost of a smile while he put a monitor in my arms. "I'm glad we are on the same page. Don't drop the equipment while you set it up, klutz." I growled and stomped off into base and gently put the monitor down. I mean, who cares if I break it? It's insured anyway.

"Today, we will meet the husband and the son. Mai, I want you to take these video recorders and microphones and set them up. After that I want you to record temperature readings."

I fought the urge to roll my eyes, "Anything else?"

"Tea."

"Please would be nice." I grumbled.

"Mai, I didn't quite catch that, care to repeat it for the rest of the room to hear."

I didn't reply, instead I stormed out of the room with microphones, video recorders, and all in hand. It wasn't long before I was lost. Come on, Mai. This is a two story house that is only half the size of Naru's ego. If he found out I got lost, he'll poke fun at me! I ended up at a door with a childish written sign that read "Yuki's Room".

I knocked, "Hi, Yuki-chan! Can I come in?"

There was a muffed gasp and a shuffling of feet before a small voice rang out, "Okay, come in!"

The moment I stepped into the room, I had an icy chill go down my spine and the feeling of dread pooled in my stomach. Man I really don't like the feeling of this room.

"Wow, Yuki-chan! You really like dragons don't you?" It was true, the room was littered with plush dragons from different sizes.

"Kinda," She shrugged, "Dragons aren't all bad, my dragons are good, and Aki-chan protects me from the bad dragon." Something about the bad dragon made my stomach twist.

"Oh yeah? Is the bad dragon the ghost?" I asked, but for some reason I didn't feel like the ghost was.

"No…" She looked down at her twiddling thumbs. That was weird. Why wouldn't the bad dragon be the ghost? Logically, it should, but my gut says it doesn't mean any harm toward her. I carefully made my way to sit with her on the fuzzy pink carpet. I need to approach this carefully and get her to trust me. I don't want to scare her off.

"Can you tell me who the bad dragon is?" She tensed at my question and vigorously shook her head.

"Okay, okay." I gave the girl a reassuring smile and she seemed to relax. I scanned the obviously girly room, full of colorful pinks and purples and every other shelf was adorned with a plush dragon.

"You know, Yuki-chan, your dragons are so cute. I have an idea! Do you want to play pretend?" She seemed elated at the idea as she snapped her stormy, light-filled eyes with my brown ones.

"Yeah! We can be pretty princesses, Mai!" She clumsily got up from her excited haste and pulled open a closet full of different kinds of costumes. "I have loads of dresses that we can wear! Some don't fit me yet, 'cause I'm not big enough so maybe you can! A-and I have make up, Aki-chan is the prince, and he needs to come in and save us, o-okay?" I blinked and nodded. This is the most I've even heard her speak. I honestly don't think she's said more than two words toward me until now.

"Okay, Yuki!" I pulled out a dark, navy blue dress that goes to my thighs. It's a little small, but I think it will work. She clapped her hands in excitement and pulled out a light pink, sparkly dress. "I'll do your hair in braids, okay?" I said patting my lap. She nodded and plopped down.

"Mai, your hair is really pretty. Do you go to school? How old are you? What's your bosses name again?"

"Naru," I replied without thinking, brushing the knots out of her hair.

"Oh, right! So do you like Naru? He's really handsome! Like Aki-chan. You know, I think he's a prince too!" She chattered happily, "No wait, he's a knight! A mysterious knight clad in black that comes to save the princess!" She gave a girly giggle as my eyebrows rose and held back laughter. Oh man, better not let Naru hear this, he will get a huge ego boost over this! The picture of Naru in a suit of dark armor on a horse… I blushed. Oh man…

She giggled at my face, "You like him!"

"No way! He's a jerk-face, workaholic, tea-addict!" I exclaimed, shakily tying the braid together. But my red face gave it away. I moved to stand, "Alright Princess Yuki, go and change into your royal clothes and I will too, okay?" I slipped the dress on and helped Yuki into hers. She ran to a drawer and put on a plastic tiara and thenshe pulled at me to bend down so she could put one on me too.

"Alright, Princess Yuki! What shall we do," I gave an overdramatic gasp, "There are loads of dragons around us!" She gave a huge nod and tugged at my hand.

"We have to run, Princess Mai!" I was pulled out of the room and down the hallway in all my awkward princess glory.

"Okay! But where do we go, Princess Yuki?"

She hastily looked around. "I know! To my hidey spot. They will never find us there, not even the bad dragon does!" That same twist in my stomach happened again at the mention of the 'bad dragon'. Maybe I'm just getting too much into the pretend part. She turned into a small closet full of cleaning supplies and shut the door. I moved, as much as I could in the tight dress I was in, and sat down. Yuki moved to wipe the invisible sweat off her forehead.

"Phew! That was a close one Princess Mai!" She gasped, "Oh no! I head something, shh, be quiet." She held her little hands up to her mouth. I strained my ears to listen, but there was indeed footsteps leading to where we were hiding. Then the footsteps stopped right outside the doorway and Yuki barely contained her gasp as the door flung open.

"Mai, what are you doing?" Naru asked as his voice and eyes shone with amusement. I blushed, Kami-sama strike me down, I look like a hot mess with my hair all messy and a girls dress that was obviously too short for me!

"That's Princess Mai to you!" Yuki said pointedly with her hands on her hips and a childish glare that couldn't compare to the glare of Naru, but still she stared him down. His lips twitched slightly and his eye brows rose. I blushed a whole new shade of red and groaned. I will never hear the end of this, that's for sure.

"Oh? Alright then. Princess Mai," Cue stronger blush as Yuki nodded in approval, "I remember asking you after you reported back, to make some tea. That was thirty minutes ago."

I managed to mumble out, "I'm sorry, Naru. I was a little, uhm, preoccupied. I'll get it right now."

"Of course you will, Princess Mai."

"That better, Knight-san." Yuki nodded, patting him on the arm. Now Naru's lips actually did form a very amused smirk. I gave a nervous laugh, and patted Yuki out of the door way of the closet.

"You know, Yuki, Knight-chan gets cranky when he doesn't get his tea." I retort dryly before escaping down the hallway and into Yuki's room. I pulled off the tight fitting dress with a sigh of relief. I am so going to get it later. She groaned and left Yuki's room, heading downstairs to the kitchen.

"So you're the investigators." A prepubescent voice said distastefully, but I didn't notice as I was too preoccupied with getting tea. Really? Him and his mom have a knack for just appearing!

"You must be Akihiko!"

"What's it to you?" He rhetorically asks, crossing his arms tightly near his chest. My eyebrow twitches, How rude! Before straightening up and smiling.

"Nothing much. Do you want some tea? My boss is addicted, so I think I'm pretty good."

Familiar, yet far more distant grey eyes widened before a light pink dusted across his cheeks. He slowly nodded as he moved to sit down. I smiled and pulled down another mug.

"Great! So tell me, Akihiko, have you had any-"

"No." He interrupted. My eyebrows rose and was about to comment on his rudeness when my gut told me otherwise.

"Oh, okay. This is a pretty awesome house, huh?"

He shrugs, "It's okay."

"So your sister says your a 'prince', huh?" I tease, Akihiko's cheeks faintly turn pink.

"Oh man she tells everyone that," I chuckle at his grumbled comment. "I think it's cute! I don't have any siblings so I have no clue what it's like to have a younger sister or brother." He snorts. "She also tells me you protect her," I tentatively say as I take the screeching kettle off the burner. I glance at his reaction, his arms tightly wound themselves near his chest and he tenses again. I decided to press more. "She says you protect her from the bad dragon." His face significantly paled at the mention of the 'bad dragon' and his eyes glaze over in an emotion I cannot recognize.

"D-did she now?" He stutters.

"Yeah," I reply softly. I sit in front of him and push the green tea to him, "You wanna talk about it?"

He shakes his head.

"Do you know who the bad dra-"

He vehemently shook his head as he stood up.

"Akihiko-"

"Excuse me," He swiftly leaves the room before I could apologize. I sadly continue to look at the door he escaped from. Akihiko, what is so bad about this dragon? What are you so scared of?

Friday. September 4th. 5:49 p.m.

I spun in my chair, occasionally glaring at the man clad in black. I am so bored! How does Naru not expect me to fall asleep in the room with the two most quietest people!

"Mai, stop spinning, or you'll fall and hit your head. You need to preserve the little brain cells you have now." I stopped to glare at him before I pushed myself to spin faster. I swore I saw Lin smirk lightly.

"Excuse me, Mr. Shibuya?" Mrs. Ida knocks before opening the door. I abruptly stop, nearly causing the chair to fall sideways. Naru gave a pointed I-told-you-so look.

"Yes?"

"My husband will be home soon, so I though you would like meet and question him too. Oh and dinner is almost ready as well, so wash up." She smiles before leaving. She seems really nice.

Naru clears his throat, "Just so you know, Hiro Ida is not biologically Yuki and Akihiko's father. Mrs. Ida divorced her previous husband when Yuki was 6 months old. I say this for Mai's sake so she doesn't make any stupid comments."

My face turns red with anger, "Uhm, excuse me, but I'm not that totally ignorant you know!" Naru smirks as I storm out of base. I can't believe him! I mean sometimes I say things without thinking, but I'm human!

"I'm home!" A deep voice calls out.

"Daddy!" Yuki squeals as she leaps into her fathers awaiting arms. Akihiko, however, tightly crosses his arms and turns his hardened gaze to the floor.