Chapter 2: Meeting Again Part

Mai's POV

By the time everyone had stopped laughing, I moved in to my office with Gene right behind me. A voice drifted through the open office door making me look at the date on the calendar.

'It's already been 3 years since Naru left, I wonder when he is coming back?' Ayako thought out loud.

'I'm already back,' said a guy's voice coming from the entrance. Everyone except me was shocked to see him or hear in my case.

'Naru, welcome back,' said a surprised Masako

'I better go back. Naru doesn't know yet that you have PK powers and that you can summon me, does he?' Gene asked, I shook my head and he disappeared. The last thing I heard from Gene while he was disappearing was 'Tell him soon'.

'Naru, why didn't you call to say that you came back?' Ayako asked.

'Even Mai is shocked,' Bou-san looked round towards me.

'Who is shocked?' I asked, with a smile on my lips as I walked out of my office. Bou-san looked at me. His face going from cheerful since seeing an old friend come home, to slowly going blank from what I said.

'You aren't surprised?' Ayako asked me.

'No, that's because I knew he'd be coming back today,' I giggled a bit.

'You knew?' Naru asked. His eyes widened.

'Yes, I knew. I got a call from Luella 2 days ago,' I told him as I stuck my tongue out. 'Wait, where is she anyway?'

BANG. The office door got thrown back, hitting the poor wall right behind it leaving a dent.

'Noll would you please stop walking away so fast just so you can see your darling Mai and help us bring in the luggage,' screamed a red faced woman. Yep, Luella Davis has just entered the room along with Martin Davis and Lin.

'Great now I'm red in the face because of what she said. But why did she say that Naru was here to see me?' I grumbled silently only to hear Gene laughing in my head.

'You are the one who brought half of England with you. Dad, Lin and I only have one bag each compared to your 20 bags.' Naru replied back while pinching the bridge of his nose.

'Looks like we are going to need a lot of tea,' I thought as I walked to the kitchen to get it ready.
When I came back from the kitchen all I saw was Naru trying to talk calmly to his mother about wasting time due to her luggage while Luella talked about nothing but how he had no manners and that it would not look good if her grandchildren ended up that way. While this was happening, everyone else was hugging or shaking hands with Martin and Lin, welcoming them back home. I passed out the tea to everyone leaving Naru and Luella for last.
Yasu had a wide grin planted on his face while he was watching Naru and his mother argue. To me it looked like Yasu was watching a tennis game and not really caring who won as long as he can tease them about it later.

'Having fun are we' I said to Yasu right into his ear.

'You have no idea. But this isn't as good as you and Naru shouting at each other,' Yasu turned his smile towards me as if he was challenging me. Slowly making my way towards the non-stop shouting couple but still keeping an eye on Yasu, I passed the tea to my ex-boss and his mother.

'Thank you Mai. Now Mother would you shut up.' Naru glared at his mother not noticing that the whole room had gone quite. The only sound in the room was small popping sound coming from everyone in the room except for Lin (of course) and Naru as he glared round the room to see everyone doing the same thing. Opening and closing their mouths like a goldfish.

'What?' questioned Naru as he sipped his tea.

'Did he just…' started Ayako.

'Yep I think he did,' John found his voice to answer Ayako.

'No way' Bou-san said after a few more minutes.

'Are you feeling ok Noll?' Naru's father, Martin, added.

'I think he's not,' added a baffled Masako

'Mai?' Madoka seemed to be the only to notice that Mai was so many shades of red, that she lost count and now was having trouble breathing.

Yasu then bounced into action questioning Naru.

'Naru, what did you just say to Mai when you got your tea?'

'Nothing. I did tell my mother to shut up. Does that answer your question?' said the Jerk.
Everyone sweat dropped.

'Anyone want more tea?' Madoka suddenly asked.

'Please,' everyone nodded in agreement.

'So how was England Naru?'

'You already know so why ask,' Naru said, clearly annoyed. He was still wondering why everyone was acting like goldfish earlier.

'Right I think it's about time we had a small chat in the office Noll, Mai,' stated Martin as he tried to calm his son down a bit.
Martin, Naru and I moved away from everyone else, as they started their normal chitchat, and went into my office.

'The office has been in Mai's care for 3 years now and from the reports I have been receiving from her…. Well, all I can say is that I'm proud of her. In only a year the team had 35 cases done, 5 of which were long ones and as of today the cases that she took exceeded 100, and that's the most cases done in 3 years.' Martin smiled to me as he said this and I smiled back. 'The question now is who is going to run SPR?'

'Seeing as Naru is now back I guess he is the Boss and I'm his tea-maker again' I said softly but still kept a smile on my face to show that I was happy with whatever they pick.

'I should be,' Naru quickly responded. This made me look down. 'But you have made progress while I have been away,' at this my head shot up and looked at Naru into his ocean blue eyes. That was a mistake. Nearly 3 long years I have not seen him and now that he is in front of me saying something good about me and all I can do is be hypnotised.

'Yes Mai. I know I'm still gorgeous looking.' Yep that got me to stop and glare at him with his stupid smirk.

'If I may' Martin spoke up 'Mai I would like you to be the Boss of SPR here in Japan. From everything that you have done while Noll has been in England I think it will be the best step. Noll can give you help at any time you like if you're not sure what the next step is. Sounds fair?' Naru and I both look at each other and nodded. Naru started walking back to the others but not before saying.

'You will still be making the tea though Mai'.

'You narcissistic, tea-loving JERK,' I shouted at the top of my lungs. Inside I did miss him saying it.

'Well I think it's about time we head out to our home for tonight, don't you think Martin?' questioned Luella. Who just got a nod from him as he walked out of my office.
'Ok, then we'll see you tomorrow as well Luella, Martin.' I said as I led them all out the door. As soon as they left, I turned to face everyone.

'Well I guess that this time, I'll be the one bossing Naru around,' I said with a smirk on my face. Everyone laughed at that remark, except from Naru who was glaring.

'Mai, we'll also be going home for today, we'll meet you tomorrow,' Masako said, I nodded to the Gang as they all left leaving just me, Madoka, Lin and Naru.

'Mai, I think we should tell him our secret tomorrow at the park.' Madoka just voiced out. I could hear the worry in her voice. Nodding my head to her as if I was one of those nodding dogs you can get for your car I turned round to Lin.

'Lin, if you are free tomorrow, would I be able to take you out for coffee as a thank you for helping me while you were in England? Shall we meet here at the office?' I asked

'Why yes, I think that would be nice.' A small smile was forming on his lips. From the corner of his eyes, he could see that Naru was giving him an evil glare and decided to explain to him.

'I left a phone and laptop behind to help Mai-san on any cases she might have trouble on.'

'And you didn't even bother telling me why?' Naru asked, still glaring at Lin with his arms crossed.

'There wasn't any need,' stated Mai.

'Oh, I see so you decided to keep it a secret from me,' Naru still not happy about being out of the loop. A small pain started rising from his heart at the fact that Mai never contacted him for any help.

'Actually we're keeping 3 secrets from you,' I whispered so no one would hear.

'Mai, Madoka, we'll be leaving for today as well we'll see you tomorrow,' Lin said and then he turned to me, 'What time shall we meet?'

'Would 10 o'clock be ok for you?' I asked him, hoping it would be because I knew that after 10 everyone would be here and would want to know what secret we're telling Lin.

'Yea, so we'll meet here at 10 and then we leave for a coffee,' Lin smiled, which was unusual for him, but that smile disappeared when he saw Naru still glaring at him.

'Let's just go Lin,' Naru told him as he left the office with Lin following. As soon as they left a boy ran out of Lin's old office, I looked at the boy and said

'We should also get home, because tomorrow's going to be a long day trying to explain Shin and my powers to Lin,'

'Well, it's not like he can do anything about it can he, I mean I found out I was pregnant when I was already in my 5 month,' Madoka said as she picked Shin up and put his coat and shoes on.

'I agree,' I said and then we left the office, but we didn't know what else would be awaiting us that day.


Me: 'Ah, 3rd chapter finished, now i wonder what will happen next,'

Suddenly an angry Naru appeared with everyone hot on his heels,

Naru: Glares at me while saying, 'Who said you could change who'd be the boss of SPR?'

Martin: 'Naru, I think that's a good idea,'

Me: 'Thank you Martin,' turn to look at Naru, 'What your scared that your favorite Mai won't be making your tea anymore?'

Naru: Nods

Me: 'Well don't be cause she still will, plus one more thing before you say anything, Don't even try playing with me or something might happen to someone important to you'

Naru: glares at me and walks away. Everyone following,

Gene appears as soon as everyone's out of sight.

Gene: 'Mai-chan, say your thank you's to all your reviewers and explain why you planned to make Mai T. as the boss,'

Me: 'For God Sake Gene, stop appearing so suddenly. But anyway I'd like to thank Miko-monk who was and is helping me with my story, Fairy of music and literature, PauleenAnne and everyone else. Now I'd like to explain why i decided to make Mai the boss of SPR. First, i wanted to see if all this would work, second i wanted to make my story a bit different from the original and thirdly cause it's fun to see Naru being bossed by Mai.'

Gene: 'Good now you can go home and continue the next chapter with Madoka's confession,'

Me: 'Yes,' Turns to readers, 'If you could please review, I'd be really thankfull for that,'


To Be Continued...