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File 4.

Dinning With Spirits.

Day 1.

Naru picked up the last file he was reading through when the door opened and Mai came in, she had the tea he ordered seconds ago in her hands, she closed the door and put the tea on her desk "there's an appointment tomorrow, 11am, a lady Furashiwa-san wanted us to take a case.." she told him, Naru took a sip of the tea, enjoyed the taste before answering "okay.. how much work do you have left?" Mai put a finger to her lips "about ten or fifteen papers left, then I'm good to go!" she smiled at him, earning a nod.

She turned away to leave when a hand where on hers "you have ten minutes on you to finish whatever you can!" Naru told her, she puffed her cheeks and nodded, Naru let her go and she left, hurrying to finish the rest before she was done for the day.

And Mai managed to get over half of the work done on those ten minutes, although quite hurried and badly written, maybe because, to Mai, what they where about to do, had another meening.. a date!

The door to Naru's office opened and the man himself came out, he had his jacket on and no folders in hand, just his phone "let's go!" he said and closed the door, he peeked into Lin's office for some seconds, Mai suspected he told the Chinese man where they were going, then he came over to her, who in the mean time had gotten into her jacket as well, her red face almost winning over the wine-red colour on her jakcet.

He lead her to the door and closed it after himself, then they walked down the stairs, the whole time non of them talked as they walked around the corner and over to a small and comfy resturant.

Inside, Mai and Naru was lead to a table and they sat down, they took off their jackets, waiting for the meny, just seconds later, a waiter gave them just that.

Mai scanned the meny and nearly huffed, there wasn't much Japanese in there, then her eyes met something she just had to smile off "Oliver.. there's an English dish here.. wanna try it?" she asked, smirking as she peered over the edge of her meny, he didn't answer, just look over the meny and hid a smile "why not, what drink do you want?" Mai reddened and almost said wine, but held herself from it, she wasn't really into alcohol.

"Um.. soda I guess..." Naru nodded and closed the meny, Mai did too and the waiter came over when she saw it, they told him their choices and was soon left in completely silence until Mai desided to ask something.

"I'm just wondering.. why did you ask me on a dinner Oliver?" Mai asked, the man looked at her and then he began chuckling, making Mai blush and pout "what?" she asked, glaring at him and he barely managed to stop "I think I've already told you Mai, I love you!" this made Mai's blush darkened at least ten times, their drinks arrived and Mai used this as an excuse to hide her ever so deepening blush.

"Oh.." she said after taking a long sip of her soda.

After ten minutes or so, their food arrived and they dug in, Mai weren't all to used with forks and knives, but managed somehow while Naru ate in his own little silence, when they had finished most of their food, Mai stopped "tomorrow.. should I get in early?" Naru stopped "does it matter.. easier will mean less work on more time!" she nodded and finished her food and drink.

By the time they had finished everything, night had already fallen and less people arrived at the resturant, Mai and Naru had, much to Mai's embarassement ended up with wine and Mai felt slightly air-headed.

Suddenly a low scrapping sound caught their attention and they turned towards the back of the resturant, there wasn't anyone there and the waiters seemed to ignore that place for now.

Mai's grip on the glass tightened and she looked at Naru "this place's haunted!" she said, firmly holding the glass and finishing it in record-time, wich made Naru's raise an eyebrow "Mai, that wine will go to you head if you drink to fast!" Mai glared at him "I'm okay, now to get that spirit away!" she stood up and wavered slightly, so Naru stood up too, expecting the girl to stumble and fall any second, but she didn't.

The waiter came over and asked if they wanted the bill, Naru said yes, then he asked for the boss of this resturant, the waiter looked like they had failed big time, but Mai reassured them of the opposite.

When the boss arrived, Naru directed him about the corner "um.. yes, we do actually have strange activity there.. that's why my waiters try to avoid that corner..." this made Naru slightly more curious than he wanted too.

He turned to find Mai walking towards the said corner "Mai!" the woman didn't answer as she stopped precisely two meters away from the wall, she didn't turn her head towards him or anything, just stared in front of her.

"Mai?" Naru walked over to her, the woman sighted "someone died here right!" she exclaimed and the owner of the resturant flinched, he looked down "y-yes.. but we don't know when.." Mai turned her head and stared at him "the previous owner did this..." she stilled and turned towards the corner again "a man.. was trapped in a square room in 2 to 2 meters, trapped till he died and forever, he is still here.." the owner nodded "true, a man's boned where found when we broke down the wall for more space, it gave us quite a shock, but the previous owner said he didn't know of any body and it was to old and such so they couldn't arrest him"

Mai nodded and lifted a hand and placed it on nothing, in fact in the middle of the air, but Naru knew better "Mai, can you purify him?" the owner looked at the pair, seemingly in shock and the woman nodded "I'll try.." then she faced the invisible wall and began to mutter for herself.

Suddenly all the candles around the room flickered and then they went out, but Mai didn't freak out.

"The wall is removed.. you are free.." Mai whispered and concentrated on the force that built up before her "your free.." she whispered again and a white-golden glow appeared around her "that's the apostle for you!" Naru thought and watched her as something appeared before her.

A man-like thing appeared, it hovered just over the floor and had it's eyes on Mai, who didn't flinch or look away, the spirit glared more, then it's blood-shot, wide eyes widened even more, Mai was smiling peacefully at him and this made the spirit warm inside, wanting more he closed the distance and didn't stop when Naru prepared to stop him.

Naru held himself back when he saw a similar glow on the spirit and the real man himself appeared with a smile, he had short, brown hair that stuck out everywhere and the smile was curled in a slight amusement, then he bowed and began to float upwards "thank you.." then he was gone and in the next second, all the candles where lit again.

Mai turned and smiled Naru "now then... he's gone" she smiled as the glow around her had faded as fast as the spirit had disappeared.

Before they left the resturant, Mai told him the name of the man that the police had been unable to get "Hirose Takako.. the ex-owners younger brother..." then they left, the owner of the resturant told them that the next time they came by, he would treat them with a meal on the house, of course that delighted Mai and Naru.

"Oliver?" Mai asked as she got into the car, Naru got in and started the motor as Mai fastened her seat-belt "hm?" was the simple hum she got from him, she blushed deeply "n-nothing.." she turned and looked out of the window as they drove past building after building, until they reached her complex, where Naru lead her to the doors of the building and they stood for quite a while, she blushing and he looked around from the corner of his eyes.

Suddenly something white landed on the bridge of his nose and he looked up, Mai did the same and gasped "it's snowing!" she exclaimed and then she smiled, Naru looked at her and felt heat rise on his cheeks, how come Mai managed to make her blush, she had never done that to him before.

Mai looked at the clock "it's late.. I have homework too so.." she blushed "s-see you tomorrow then Oliver!" she looked at him and he nodded, then he leaned in, hoping that the shadow he had seen before the case saw this and knew the Mai had already been taken there was no way Naru was giving her away to some sick perv.

Their lips met and Mai soon closed her eyes, her arms closed around his neck as his floated around her waist.

When they parted, Mai was so red one would thinks she could win any tomato any day, this made Naru smile "goodnight Mai, call when your ready for work tomorrow" then he backed off, Mai's blush deepened more "y-yes.. um, goodnight Oliver.." then she turned to the doors and went inside.

She rushed up to the elevator and soon she was inside her apartement, she locked the door and slid down against it, hiding her face into her knees, she held back a squeal "finally getting your wish?" Gene's voice filled her head and she looked up "hm.. y-yeah.. maybe that..." she said absently into the room, she got up and didn't bother to flick the light on, just went right to bed.

"Goodnight Mai-chan.." Gene whispered to her "m.. goodnight Gene.. and Oliver.." then she fell into a deep and peaceful sleep.

How was that?

A seriously short case.. just one day, and to drop by on Mai and Naru's date _

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