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(A/N: To all those you think Naru is ooc, yes I know he is. I making him ooc on purpose to show that he is opening up to Mai, okay?)
I would like to start off by replying to a few comments:
JingleBelleRock: First, let me say for the past year and a half, I have been homeschooled, so I talk from experience. If you are someone like Naru who doesn't really have any friends to begin with, not going to an actual school definitely doesn't help. Without actual school he doesn't have much of a reason to leave the house. After all, the main social part of a child/teen's life is school. Second, it said it was ONE of the reason he is ani-social. So do you get what I was trying to say? Please reply to this.
Sheshomaru94: Oh really? I never read a fanfic where he can't cook. If I had, I wouldn't have made so he can't cook in this story.
ardx: Well let me start out by saying, I don' know much about glucose machines: only what commercials show you. But since so many different companies make them, they are bound to vary in sound, right?
"I-it's Taniyama-san!" Satoru nearly shouted in a panic.
Oliver looked up wide-eyed. 'What did she get herself into this time?' He wondered. Oliver stood, "What happened?" He asked.
"She-she is unconscious by the stairs! She must have fallen down or something." Satoru started to explain, but that was all Oliver needed to know.
In an instant, Oliver was out the library doors and was running down the hall. He soon saw a group of students crowding around the bottom of the stairs.
"What should we do?" One questioned.
"Should we call an ambulance?" Another asked.
Oliver pushed through them and happened upon the sight of Mai. She laid on the ground unconscious. Oliver sighed in relief when he saw that there was no blood surrounding her.
Quickly, Oliver scooped Mai up bridal style. The crowd of students made room for him to leave. He hurriedly walked to the nurse's office.
"You're an idiot." Oliver scolded.
"Oh, come on Naru!" Mai whined. "It wasn't my fault I fell!" She said for what seemed to be the tenth time.
"You're just lucky you were already half way down the stairs or else who would have a lot more than just bumps and bruises." Oliver informed Mai who just huffed in response. Mai sat on one of the beds in the nurse's office. She was over all unscathed, she had a slight bump on her head and a bruise here and there. With exception of a headache which was slowly fading away due to over the counter painkillers and an icepack, Mai felt completely fine.
There was then a knock on the door and Lin walked in. "I heard Taniyama-san fell down the stairs, is everything alright?" He asked.
"I was pushed down the stairs by a ghost." Mai corrected firmly.
Oliver turned to Lin. Lin noted that he was slightly irritated. "Lin, there is a matter I would like to discuss with you outside." He said and then left the room.
Lin raised his eyebrow curiously and also left the room. Lin approached Oliver who was waiting for him in the hallway. "Is something wrong? You seem agitated."
"Lock the base door again, and I can guarantee you that the authorities will never find your body." Oliver warned making himself very clear.
Lin only smirked. "If you insist. The purpose in which I locked the base's door has already been fulfilled." Lin informed Oliver referring to Oliver helping Mai. Not waiting for a response Lin walked down the hall back to base leaving Oliver even more irritated than before.
The next day whipped around once again. And once again, lunch came around and like the day before, the base door was locked. 'Dammit Lin!' Oliver cursed outside the base's door. He smashed his fist against the wall in anger and then leaned on it. He was really going to have to kill Lin now.
A couple girls, who were leaning against the wall a few yards away, noticed Oliver. "Hey, isn't that the new transfer student Shibuya-san? We should go talk to him!" One of the two girls with the ponytail asked.
"Yeah, he's hot isn't he? I am a little scared to go near him though. He keeps giving off this scary vibe like he doesn't want anyone to go near him." The other girl with short hair said.
"Well, I have seen him talking to Taniyama-san a few times before so he can't be that bad." The girl with the ponytail stated.
"I guess you're right. Even if he was that bad, his looks make all worth it!" The short haired girl giggled.
"Then, let's go talk to him!" The girl with the ponytail prodded. They both giggled and approached Oliver. "Shibuya-san?" The ponytail girl called out.
Oliver grudgingly turned and looked at the two girls. "What?" He said venomously hoping to scare the girls off- he was not in the mood to deal with those kind of people- but unfortunately it didn't.
"We were wondering if you like to eat lunch with us." The ponytail girl smiled.
This irked Oliver. "Why? Because you think me to be 'hot'?" Oliver spoke in a monotone voice. "I would appreciate it if you would not bother me with your trivial fixations." He began to walk away leaving the two girls stunned, but turned back to say one last thing. "Oh and next time you think it to be wise to gossip about someone, be sure to be out of their hearing range." He said venomously and with that he walked away. He had been dealing with those types of girl since he was thirteen and frankly he was getting quite tired of them.
Somehow, Oliver found himself at the usual picnic bench. Why he ended up there- he was not certain. Perhaps, it was because he subconsciously wanted to see Mai. After all she may just be the only person (in his age range) that hasn't judged him by his looks. But then again, she had mistaken his brother for him, which was just as bad if not worse- at least that was what Oliver believed.
"Oh wow, you're here!" Mai said as she approached the bench. She was shocked yet happy that Oliver was there on his own free will.
Oliver looked up at her from where he was sitting and noticed that she was not only carrying one bento but two. He had completely forgotten about how Mai vowed to make him lunch.
She set the two bentos on the table and placed the top one in front of Oliver. "Well, eat up!" She smiled happily.
"No." Oliver refused.
"Don't make me get the handcuffs." Mai said darkly.
Oliver did his best to keep himself from gulping. He was not going to underestimate her again. Besides, how bad would it be to eat her damn food? To avoid confrontation, he sighed and opened 'his' bento. He picked the chopsticks and started to eat. He immediately froze. If he thought her tea-making skills were good, then her cooking was perfection.
Noticing how Oliver stopped, Mai asked "Is something wrong?"
"Yes…it's good." Oliver said and continued to eat.
"Hey!" Mai said slightly offended. "Don't act too surprised. I had a lot of practice, considering I have to cook for myself, you know!" Mai began to sit down on the bench.
"What are you doing?" Oliver questioned.
"Eating with you and I thought you were supposed to be some sort of genius." Mai stated the obvious.
"Why? Aren't those friends of yours waiting for you?" Oliver continued to question.
"No, they are helping their classes prepare for the festival. Since it starts tomorrow everyone is in a hurry to make the finishing touches." Mai explained.
"Ah." Oliver said in acknowledgement.
They ate the rest of their meals in a somewhat awkward silence.
"So…" Mai said setting her chopsticks down and wiping her face with her napkin. "You'll be helping with the finishing touches on the haunted house after school, right?"
"No." He said firmly.
"Oh come on, Naru! Please!" Mai begged but realized it was getting her nowhere, so she picked a different strategy, "You know, if you keep this up, then people are going to think you are a deadbeat."
"And if you keep this up, people are going to think you are a loudmouth." Oliver said getting irked.
Mai only stuck her tongue out at him in response.
As punishment, Oliver snatched her chopsticks and used them to take hold of her tongue. Though may have been raised in England, he used chopsticks like a pro. Mai looked at him startled. Oliver smirked and said, "Maybe this will help fix that loudmouth of yours." He then took the left over wasabi off her bento and sprinkled it over her tongue.
"WAAAAAAAAAAAHHHH!" Mai screeched from the Hell's fire that formed on her taste buds. She gulped down all her water bottle's contents in a matter of seconds. Mai slammed her water bottle down and glared at Oliver.
Oliver, who was intently watching Mai's reaction, had the biggest smirk on his face that Mai had ever seen. He particularly enjoyed Mai's expression. Her face was red from anger, yet she looked completely frazzled. Oliver's shoulders began to shake. He wasn't sure how much longer he could contain himself. Mai was about to question him, when Oliver started to laugh. He couldn't hold it in anymore. It was just too funny.
Instinctively, Mai acted on her anger, "Don'd waugh ad odher's peopwe's pan, yow jewk!" Mai had tried to say, 'Don't laugh at other's people's pain, you jerk!' but it came out completely wrong due to her numb tongue. However, this made Oliver laugh even harder. Frustrated, Mai pointed her finger at him and said the one word that summarized Oliver's actions, "Ebil!" She tried to say 'evil', but at least she can pronounce the 'l's now.
'Geez, Naru is such a jerk laughing at me.' Mai thought and then something occurred to her. 'Wait…Naru is…laughing?'
Mai abruptly stood and leaned over the table coming nose to nose with Oliver. "Are you possessed?" Mai asked concerned and suddenly she could speak clearly once again!
Suddenly back to his usual self, Oliver glared. He put his palm to Mai's forehead and pushed her back into her seat. "No." Oliver said flatly and then quickly stood up and walked away leaving Mai stunned.
Mai walked down one on the school's hallway by herself. School had ended an hour ago. Many classes were doing last minute preparations for the festival. Mai's class had just finished all the preparations, it was just a couple things so luckily it didn't take too long. Oliver, of course, didn't help. Mai suspected he was at base. No surprise there. Normally she would be a bit mad at him for not helping out but, for today, she was just glad he laughed.
Mai stopped when she reached the part of the hallway in which it branches off in four different ways: forward, backward, left, and right. Mai felt as if she was being watched. The feeling wasn't as eerie or as creepy as she expected it to be considering the school is haunted. She looked to her left and right to see if she could see something. Unknown to Mai, I hand was slowly reaching out for Mai's shoulder.
Mai suddenly felt like there was someone behind her. She was about to turn around and look when someone called out to her. "Mai-chan!"
The hand retreated.
Mai looked forward to see Yasuhara Osamu way at the other end of the hall walking towards her. "Yasu!" Mai smiled cheerfully. Mai ran to the other end of the hall to greet him. "What are you doing here? I thought you had classes."
"Miss me, did ya?" Osamu joked pushing up his glasses. "Well, to start with, I am on spring break now which gives me a lot more time. And you know how I have a part time job as a tutor? Well when I was looking up your school after I heard you guys got a case here, I saw that you school is hiring tutors for the next few days. So I thought I should take it up and kill two birds with one stone."
"But the next few days is the school festival, why would you need tutors for that?" Mai questioned.
"Apparently, if you have bad grades or get in trouble a lot, you can't participate in the festival. So I have to tutor those kids in one of the classrooms while everyone else is having a good time. Kind of sucks, huh?" Osamu explained.
"Yeah, I wouldn't want to be one of those kids." Mai agreed. The idea of not attending the festival kind of scared her.
"Uh? No, I was talking about me." Osamu corrected and then quickly changed the subject. "So where is that Big Boss of ours? I haven't seen him since he left for England!"
"Oh, he's probably at base. I'll take you there." Mai said.
Oliver opened the base's door. As he expected, Lin was typing away on his laptop as he sat at the table. Oliver quickly walked in front of him. "Lin!" He growled.
Lin looked up at him slightly startled. "What is it?"
"I thought I told you to never lock the door again." Oliver said with venom seeping out of every word.
"Yes, you did." Lin stated unsure of where he was going with this.
"Then why was it locked during the lunch break?" Oliver was very close to raising his voice.
Lin looked at him strangely. "What are talking about? I wasn't even here during lunch." Lin said honestly.
"What?" Oliver said now slightly confused.
"I went to the office to sort out some files. I left a little after 10:30 and didn't comeback until about 2:00." Lin explained still looking at Oliver in confusion.
Oliver was a little more than confused. He was certain Lin wasn't lying, after all Lin was one of the few that wasn't intimidated by him or his threats so Lin would have no reason to lie right now. But what didn't make sense was that the door needs a key to be locked from the outside. Since no one in SPR has a key to the base the only other way for someone to lock the door is from the inside, but if no one is inside how is it locked?
Both Oliver and Lin were thinking similar thoughts. Perhaps it was the ghost?
Suddenly Osamu, followed by Mai, busted through the door.
"Naru-chan! Lin-san!" Osamu called giddily and proceeded to ramble on aimlessly.
"Yasuhara-san…" Oliver said becoming agitated. The last thing he needed was an overzealous college student stirring up all kinds of commotion.
Could things get anymore hectic?
To put it simply: Yes, yes they could.
(A/N: It was about damn time I brought Yasu in the story, huh? BTW to all you GH fan fiction writers out there, Yasu's first name IS Osamu NOT Yasuhara!)
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