Author's note: So I'm writing this here because the ending is... Well you'll see! One person actually guessed who died in so much detail I checked behind me for them watching me write! Guesses included: Masako, Lin, Yasuhara, Mai, Naru and no one...
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I have now completed this story!
But before I upset you all with this chapter, I would like to encourage anyone who had thought about writing fanfic and then not done it. Seriously, go and write! We need more good writers in this fandom and I believe all of you can do it!
Finally, I'd like to thank W. Krishnamurthi who wrote a one shot called Love about Masako in this fic, so everyone go and check that out!
I saw Hara-san throw herself in front of Naru and watched as her body crumpled to the floor. As the others began firing back, I dropped the floor and rushed to Hara-san's side. She was bleeding profusely from a gaping hole in her chest.
"You're going to be okay!" I said quickly, placing my hand on the wound and applying pressure. I pulled my coat off and tried to use it to staunch the bleeding.
"Taniyama…" Hara-san whispered. Her breaths were short and shallow and I could only just hear her over the sounds of the gunshots.
"You can call me Mai, its fine; you're going to be okay."
"Mai, you have to go to the lake." She grabbed my shirt in a surprisingly tight grip. "Head inland. There's a lake. What Naru is looking for? It's in the lake."
"You can take us there yourself." I said. "You're going to be fine."
"I'm sorry." She gasped.
"Someone call an ambulance!" I shouted. The others had stopped firing. I looked up to see the rowdy men dead on the floor, but I didn't care. "Help!"
"It's okay Mai." Hara-san's grip on my shirt was slackening. "Thank you."
"No!" I screamed. "No! You can't die! Hara-san! Hold on!"
"You were always so kind…" She breathed. And then she breathed no more.
I lay her quickly on the floor and while holding my coat over her wound, began trying to perform CPR.
"Hara-san! You can't die!" I half screamed. "Wake up!"
"She's gone Mai." A gentle voice said from behind me.
"No! She's going to be okay! She can't die!"
"Mai, let go." Strong hands began pulling me away from Hara-san as I struggled to continue my attempts to save her. "She's gone."
"No! I can save her!" I begged, but the arms had already pulled me into a tight embrace. I sobbed weakly into Naru's chest. "She said we had to go the lake." I whimpered between sobs. "She said to head inland to a lake and we'd find what you were looking for."
Naru suddenly grabbed me by the shoulders and held me away from him.
"What?" He demanded.
"That's what she said. Head inland and what you're looking for is in the lake." I repeated, shocked by his change in demeanour.
"Naru, we need to go." Yasuhara-san said. "Chances are someone will have heard that."
Naru dragged me from the cave, leaving Hara-san and the other's dead on the floor, with Yasuhara-san, Mori-san and Lin hot on our heels. We all but ran back to the car.
People from the restaurant saw us coming. They looked shocked. Perhaps because of the weapons the others were carrying, or perhaps because I was covered in Hara-san's blood.
Naru swore.
"Get in the car." He ordered and I blindly followed Yasuhara-san. We sped off with Lin and Mori-san following close behind. Naru phoned through to the other car.
"The police will probably be after us now. Those people will have alerted them to our presence. If this is the place I want you two to contact Martin and Luella without any argument."
"Noll, you better not do anything stupid." Lin's voice said through the speaker.
"Wouldn't dream of it." He replied with sarcasm in his voice as he cut the call.
"Mai, are you alright?" Yasuhara-san asked me. I was shaking. My body was shaking and I couldn't make it stop. "Mai? Listen to me, okay? I want you to slow your breathing down."
"I can't." I sputtered.
"Yes you can." Yasuhara-san said. "Come on now, breath in two three four and out two three four." He repeated the counting until I managed to control myself. "It's just shock, you'll be okay."
"But she died in my arms…"
"Yes, but she died saving someone she cared about." He said consolingly.
I looked at Naru who was being silent as usual. He seemed thoroughly unperturbed that Hara-san had died for him. Did he not care?
I hoped he did.
Yasuhara-san suggested I changed into something less covered in blood. I pulled a fresh t-shirt from my suitcase. Awkwardly, I swapped clothes, trying to hide myself from the two men in the front of the car, despite the fact that neither of them was looking.
Twenty minutes later, we pulled up near an old lake surrounded by trees. I pushed my anguish to the back of my mind and focused on what was going on now. I could mourn Hara-san later.
"This is it." Naru said, more to himself than any of us as he climbed out of the car. "I've found it."
Yasuhara-san and I climbed out to see Madoka and Lin pull up behind us.
"Is this...?" Lin asked as he stuck his head out of the window.
"Yes, get out of here and contact Martin and Luella with these co-ordinates." Naru replied and I frowned as Lin turned the car around and sped off.
"Where are they going?"
"Yasuhara, please keep a look out of the police. I want to take a look around."
"Of course."
"Come on." Naru walked towards the vast expanse of water and I followed. "He's here." Naru muttered quietly, again as if he wasn't aware he was doing it.
"Who's here?"
"My brother."
I watched as he stared into the lake.
"Was that your reason for coming to Japan? To find him?"
"And get back at the people who killed him."
"Those men you killed in the cave? Was one of them Oliver Davis?" I asked.
Naru did not respond.
"So you'll be returning to your own country now?"
"Yes." His voice was emotionless and flat.
"Oh." I couldn't help but let the pathetic noise out. So much had happened in the last few hours. And now he was leaving. "I really like you." I said quickly.
"No you don't." Naru replied coldly. "The feelings you think you are feeling are due to something akin to Stockholm syndrome. You think you like me because pleasing me has kept you alive."
I didn't manage to find my voice for a whole minute out of shock.
"But you kissed me." I whispered. My body felt sort of numb.
"Playing into your delusion kept you under control."
Before I could ask anything else though, a sudden shout from Yasuhara-san caused us both to look around.
"They're coming!"
"Get out of here Yasuhara." Naru ordered. "Get back to headquarters and do what you can, if they catch me they should not come after you." I saw Yasuhara-san disappearing off into the trees.
"But there are no sirens…"
"They keep them off so they don't alert us to their presence." Naru told me.
Before I knew it, he had spun me around and held a knife to my throat as police cars swarmed into view. Takigawa-san and Matsuzuki-san were first out of the cars and had guns pointed at us.
"Are you going to kill me?" I whimpered, but as usual Naru did not reply. "I don't want you to die."
"Put the knife down!" Takigawa-san was yelling. "Put the knife down and let the girl go!"
"Please Naru, don't let them kill you." I whispered.
"Put the knife down!" Matsuzuki-san had a microphone.
There was a flash of silver.
A sudden pain in my neck.
And everything went black.
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