Snow Day

Naru was sitting in chair at the base staring off into space. How am I supposed to choose between Mai and Gene? Gene was my brother, my twin brother. He understood me in a way that no one else ever could. But Mai is unlike anyone I have ever met. With her I feel emotions I thought I could never feel again after Gene died. What am I suppose to do? Gene is half of me yet Mai somehow completes me. How am I supposed to live without the other?

The door opened interrupting Naru's thoughts. Mai was standing in the doorway in her pajamas. She scratched the back of her head as she walked in the room half asleep.

"Naru?" she asked as she stopped halfway into the room.

"Tea." He said looking away from her. For some reason he couldn't make himself look at her. Mai just looked at him for a moment before shrugging and turning to leave to make him tea. Naru sat in silence waiting for her return. The smooth rhythm of Lin's typing filled the air. Ever since three this morning Naru has been unable to fall asleep. Lin asked him if he was alright, but Naru just ignored him and stared up at the dark ceiling, as the memories replaying themselves in his mind.

How am suppose to live with out one of them? Gene would be the logical choice but Mai would the reasonable choice. The worst part is that I can't imagine life without Mai, but I've already experienced life without Gene. So would Mai be the more reasonable choice? But if I choose Mai would Gene ever forgive me?

Mai opened the door and walked in, closing the door behind her with her foot. She placed the tray of tea on the table before walking over to

Naru. Once she reached him she climbed on top of Naru's lap and looked him in the eyes. "Is everything okay?"

"Why would ask something like that?" Naru asked avoiding eye contact. He didn't want to look her in the eyes, afraid that he would lose control and pick her without probably thinking about it.

Mai gentle placed a hand on Naru's cheek and made him looked at her. "Because you won't look at me." She whispered. Now Naru understood why he didn't want to look at her, it wasn't because he was afraid of picking her over Gene; it was because he knew he would.

Mai's eyes shifted over to something behind him. Her eyes slowly widened. "What?" he asked attempting to turn around, but failing.

"It's snowing." She whispered. Naru blinked at her for a moment before turning around as much as he could to look out the window. She was right, it was snowing. Naru turned back to see an evil smile on Mai's face. "Mai?" he asked her. She looked down him.

"It's nothing." She said before kissing him passionately and running out of the room. Naru stared at the door for a moment before finding a need to distract himself.

Two hours later Naru is sitting in his chair re-reading the files from yesterday. To him everything just seemed random. There were no patterns, there was nothing. It was all just random. Naru took a sip of his tea, to find out that it was empty. "Tea" Naru said to no one. Lin turned to look at the boy. "Mai is not here." He said. Naru looked up at him before looking around to see that he was right.

There was a knock on the door. Naru turned to see Mrs. Aikawa walk in looking pissed. "May I help you?" Naru asked not bothering to sound one bit pleased about her visit.

"Yes you can. You can keep your employees from acting like a bunch of idiots."

"Excuse me?" Naru said trying to control his anger.

"You heard me"

"Under what authority do you have the right to call my employees idiots?"

"Do you know what your employees are doing?"

"I do not." Now Naru thought about no one has entered base since Mai had left. A smug smile appeared on her face. "They are outside having a snow ball fight." Naru looked at her as if she was insane. "Don't you believe me? Then take a look for yourself." She nodded towards the window behind him. Naru stood up and walked over to the window. Looking outside he could barely believe what he was seeing. Mai, Ayako, Bou-san, Yasuhara and Masako were all outside either standing there laughing or throwing a snow ball. To what he could see Mai and Yasuhara were on one team and Bou-san and Ayako were on another. Masako was standing off to the side in her kimono laughing as a snowball hit Bou-san in the face.

"I didn't realize that our school hired a bunch of children to do a man work." Mrs. Aikawa said with a sneer. Naru didn't even bother to turn around to look at her as he said. "Well I didn't realize the people that hired us would go so low to tell on a bunch of kids. I believe you refer to it as tattle tailing?" Naru turned to see shock spread all over Mrs. Aikawa face at the disrespect he had just shown her.

"We hired you to do a job. Now do it." She turned and left. Naru looked back out the window, watching the game below. Bou-san picked up a snowball and threw it only to miss Mai, who picked up another snow ball and threw it at him. Yasuhara dodged one from Ayako, who got hit with Mai's snowball. Bou-san had run behind her to avoid getting hit. Ayako quickly brushed off the snow and turned to face him. He gave her a weary smile, before she bent down and picked up a pile of snow. Bou-san closed his eyes as she dumped it all over him. Yasuhara fell to the ground laughing as Mai grabbed her sides. Bou-san smiled evilly as she turned and started to walk away. He bent down and picked up a snow ball and threw it, only not at Ayako but at Mai, who was still laughing too hard to notice.

Yasuhara called out to her and when she looked up she barely had anytime to dodge it, but when she did, it hit the person standing only a few yards behind her. Everyone froze when they saw Masako with a face full of snow. She slowly raised her hand and started to brush away the snow. When the snow cleared everyone saw something they never thought they would see. Masako was smiling evilly at Bou-san. She bent down and picked up some snow, before throwing it at Bou-san. He was still in shock to even think about dodging it. Everyone broke out laughing when the snowball hit Bou-san in the face. Bou-san brushed away the snow before kicking some at Yasuhara who was still on the ground laughing.

Naru turned away from the window shaking his head. "Why don't you join them?" Lin asked

"Because it is a childish game that has no point." Naru said walking over to his chair but before he could sit down he heard something. Turning around he saw snow fall from the window. He walked over and opened the window only to meet something white and cold.

"RUN!" he heard Yasuhara call from below. Naru whipped the snow off his face and looked down to see everyone running in different direction. Naru closed the window. I'm never opening that window again. He thought as he went back to sit down.

The door to base opened and everyone walked in. Naru was about to say something when he heard Mai say. "I know tea." She gave him a small kiss on the lips before taking the tea tray and walking out. Naru turned to the others and was about to say something but Yasuhara cut him off.

"It wasn't my fault!" Yasuhara walked over to Naru and got down on his knees. "Bou-san made me do it! He was the one who told me to throw a snowball at you! HE THREATEN ME BY SAYING HE WOULD NEVER SLEEP WITH ME AGAIN!" Yasuhara yelled. Naru just stared at him for a moment before looking up at the others.

"Did any of you sense anything last night?" Naru asked, ignoring Yasuhara's comment

"Nope" Bou-san said staring at Yasuhara with an undesirable expression

"No." Ayako said trying to keep a straight face.

"Masako?" Naru asked. She looked up at him. "No I did not sense any ghosts last night." Mai walked in and put the tray of tea down before walking over to Lin and giving him a cup. Everyone took a cup and drank the warm liquid.

"So where are we with the investigation?" Mai asked as she went to sit down on the couch that had been placed there for their convenience.

"No where." Naru said. Everyone looked up at him surprised. "All we know is that the ghosts haunting this place are two children and other then causing accidents that no one remembers we have nothing. There was no activity at all last night"

"So what do we do?" Bou-san asked. Silence filled the room as everyone thought about Bou-san's question. The door was thrown up and everyone turned to see a student looking panicked.

"Please come quick! Kukiko-chan is hurt!" yelled the girl before running back down the hall. Being a doctor Ayako was the first to run out of the room to follow the girl. Mai was next followed by everyone else.

In the middle of the hall a group of students were all standing around looking down at a girl. Ayako pushed pasted them and kneed down next to a girl. She was lying on her back looking very stiff and in pain. Ayako started to look over the girl.

"What happened here?" Naru demand. The students looked around at each other looking scared.

"I fell." The girl said through her pain. That's when Ayako saw what was wrong.

"Naru she has a broken neck."

"Takigawa call an ambulance. Matsuzaki do what ever you can until they get here. Mai and Miss Hara stay with Matsuzaki and the girl. Yasuhara and Lin come with me."

"Wait, don't move!" Mai yelled Naru looked back at her. "Look at the ground." She said. Naru looked down to see nothing other then the floor.

"Mai I don't see-"

"Look closer." Naru listened to her and looked closer. His eyes widened when he saw it.

"What is it?" Bou-san asked looking all over the floor, but seeing nothing.

"We are standing on ice." Naru said watching the glass glisten in the light from the windows. That's when everyone froze. Looking up at everyone Naru said. "Everyone return to class and stay there until I tell you to leave. Lin, Yasuhara come with me." Naru said walking away. The students grabbed onto each other and tried to walk back to their classes without slipping.

Mai slowly walked over to the girl and got down. Masako followed her.

"Hey my name is Mai Taniyama, what's yours?" she asked. The girl looked up at her. Mai could see the pain and fear in her eyes.

"Kukiko Sasamoto." She said.

"Well I'm Ayako Matsuzaki, but you can call me Ayako." Ayako said bending over the girl so she could see her without having to move.

"Masako Hara." Masako said as she placed a sleeve in front of her mouth. The Kukiko gave a small sad smile before she closed her eyes I pain.

"It's okay we are here to take care of you." Ayako said placing a gentle hand on Kukiko shoulder. "Can you tell me what happened?"

"I was walking to class when I heard someone laughing. That's when I saw these two children looking into a room. I believe it was room 228 the art room." Mai looked up at Ayako, then at Masako. They were all thinking the same thing. The art room was the base. "When I asked what they were doing they turned to face me. They started to talk to each other before I got this strange feeling. It was telling me to run. When I turned around to run I felt the hall way get cold, and before I knew it I was on the floor and I couldn't move."

"That's horrible!" Mai said placing her hand over her mouth.

"Mai." Masako whispered. Mai looked at her to see her eyes were filled with fear. Mai followed Masako's line of vision and saw to little children looking at then from around the corner. They both had black hair and bright blue eyes. The little girl giggled before grabbing her brother and disappearing behind the wall.

"Hey wait!" Mai yelled standing up.

"Mai no!" Ayako yelled as Mai ran after them. The next thing Mai knew was pain. She curled up in a ball and pulled her knee closer to her as pain went through her leg. Ayako quickly (and careful) stood up and moved closer to her. Masako stayed where she was, knowing she would slip if she tried to move. "Mai let me see you leg." Ayako said as she bent down next to her. Mai redundantly let go of her leg so Ayako could look at it. After a quick look over Ayako said. "Your knee is broken. We need to get you to the hospital so we can be sure that was the only damage done.

"No!" Mai yelled. Ayako looked at her stunned. "No, Naru can't know about this. Please Ayako."

Ayako thought about it for a moment. "Alright, fine but you have to take it easy for a while okay? But you have to promise me that you will go after the case."

"I promise." Mai said sitting up. She heard sirens in the distance and she knew the ambulance was here. Standing up she attempted to look like she hadn't just broken her knee. The paramedics took Kukiko away and Mai, Ayako and Masako slowly walked back to base. There Naru, Yasuhara and Bou-san were awaiting them.

"Is she going to be okay?" Bou-san asked.

"They don't know." Ayako said. Mai walked over to the couch and sat down. The pain in her knee was excruciating. Mai felt eyes on her and when she looked up she saw Naru studying her.

"Yes?" Mai asked.

"Nothing." Naru said before turning to look at the file in his hand.

"Well if there is nothing to do then I'm going to go take a walk." Masako said before turning and walking over to the door. Once she opened it she had to stop herself from running into a blond hair, blue eye boy who was standing there.

" 'ello Masako."

HI! how is everyone... that's good! im trying not to leave cliff hangers but i already made this chapter so long n i didn't want to extent it. um...yea so thats pretty much it. I might updat again sometime within the week i might not i dont know yet but it all depends on how long it takes to write the chapter.

also i wanted to thank Fairy of Literature and Music for the idea in the beginning about what to say with Naru's inner thoughts! even though i changed some things...i hope it good!

Oh n the snow ball fight i got the idea from a bunch of friends walking up behind my last Wednesday (when i had no school) and throw a bunch of snow balls at me. I was completely covered in snow it was horrible. But yea the whole scene is actually what happen! sadly i was Bou-san in that situation. Hope you enjoyed!

please review and criticize(maybe) all can review and criticize(maybe)

sorry about spelling and grammar mistakes!