A/N: Random inspiration: ENGAGE!
… Please don't mock me and my Star Trek ways.
Disclaimer: I own neither Ghost Hunt nor Star Trek…. No matter how much I wish I did!
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Theme: Humor
Pairing: Guess… (Mai and Naru)
"Ok, how about this one? Why is 6 afraid of 7?" Mai challenged Bou-san. The two were currently having a joke contest in the lobby/living room in the SPR office. Ayako was being silent, sitting off to the side. She had opted out of the nonsense, content to sip her tea while watching them.
"That's easy. Because 7 ate 9." Bou-san stuck up his nose, praising himself. "What's black and white and red all over?"
"A penguin with a sunburn. A newspaper. A zebra with a sunburn!" Mai shouted three answers; hoping one was the one he had in mind.
"Nope, a cow with a sunburn." He laughed at her disappointed look.
"Ok, why did the chicken cross the road?" Mai shot him the rhetorical question. Bou-san looked surprised for a moment before shaking his head.
"To go to KFC… He was an emo chicken." He replied with a straight face. Mai stared at him. The silence was interrupted by Ayako snorting on her tea and starting to laugh. The three laughed heartily until a door slammed open.
"Would you all mind not being obnoxious for once in your life?!" Naru yelled and glared… Directly at Mai.
"W-Why are you glaring at me? It was Bou-san's fault!" Mai withered under Naru's glared.
"Come on Naru, can't you take a joke? Or do you have no sense of humor?" Bou-san asked, unhappily glaring back.
"I just prefer riddles." He muttered before he could stop himself. Mai and Bou-san looked at one another before grinning largely.
"Riddles, eh?" Bou-san asked, mocking a Canadian accent.
"What eats and eats but when it drinks dies?" Mai asked.
"A flame." Naru responded immediately. The two looked at each other dumbfounded.
"You're good. How about this one? Name five days of the week without saying Monday, Tuesday, Wednesday, Thursday, Friday, Saturday, or Sunday." Bou-san grinned maliciously at his cleverness. Mai looked puzzled.
"Today, tomorrow, yesterday, the day before today, and the day after tomorrow." Naru responded without batting an eyelash.
"How can you drop an egg three feet without breaking it?" Ayako asked from her corner.
"Drop it four feet. After the first three it won't hit anything." Naru lashed back before shutting the door to his office. The three glanced at each other before Bou-san nudged Mai.
"What?" She edged away from his elbow. Bou-san mouthed the words 'Go talk to him!'.
"Wha... Why?" She whispered but didn't get an answer. Instead Bou-san shoved her off the couch like a child and pointed at the door. Not understanding the point to all this, Mai stood and knocked on the door but went in without a reply.
"What do you want?" Naru asked without glancing up from his files. (Oh, how Mai hated when he did that.)
"Uh, c-can you teach me some riddles?" Mai asked hesitantly. She still didn't understand why Bou-san had so forcefully pushed her into this.
"How can you make a fire with one stick?" He asked, still sorting his files.
"Um, strike it with flint?" She guessed and sat in one of the chairs that were usually for clients.
"Use a matchstick."
"Oh."
"Can giraffes have babies?"
"Yes?"
"No, they have giraffes." Mai laughed at his reply and that made Naru look up. To see the joy on her face was like therapy for his bad mood.
"That's a good one! I'll have to remember that." She smiled and before she knew it Naru was standing over her, his hands holding onto the arm rests and his face looming next to hers.
"I told you I have a sense of humor." He murmured before slowly kissing Mai into the afterlife.
'That's it. I've died and gone to heaven.' She thought before Naru kissed all her thoughts away.
"What has eyes but cannot see?" He whispered, pulling back slightly. Mai kept her eyes closed and shook her head.
"True lovers." And he kissed her again.
A/N: I don't get the last riddle personally. I got most of the riddles off a website…
P.S.- If anyone knows the song 'Therapy' by Relient K, you get a cookie. That song was stuck in my head for this fic...