When I woke, I found myself inside a grey room. It was almost bare. The only things inside where a table and three chairs. In the top right hand corner above the door was a security camera.

Where was Naru? He had had a knife to my throat. My hand felt around my neck but there was no damage. Where was the lake? And the others? What was going on? How long had I been out?

Slowly, I got to my feet and fumbled my way to the door. I turned the handle and was very surprised to find that the door opened.

I was even more shocked when I realised there was someone else on the other side. It was that detective; Takigawa-san?

"Why don't you take a seat, Taniyama?" He said gruffly.

As my eyes widened in fear, I scurried to a seat and Matsuzuki-san joined us.

"Let's cut to the chase, shall we?" Takigawa-san said. "We know that you know this man." He threw a picture of Naru down on the desk. It looked like it had been taken when Naru had been leaving the SPR office. "We want to know everything that you know about your 'boss', or should we say your 'boyfriend'?" He threw down another photo. It was the moment Naru had first kissed me, when he had pretended to be Narumi Kazuo to look around those houses. It all seemed so long ago.

"He's my boss." I said quietly.

"Yes, your boss who supposedly filed your tax incorrectly. Yet we know that Yasuhara corrected that issue. What do you know about him? Hmm?" Matsuzuki-san demanded.

"That he's an awful date."

I didn't know what to do. Both Naru and Yasuhara-san had told me to spill the beans on them but…

"You know what, Taniyama? I think you know that your boss is a killer. Do you want to see some of his work?"

I shook my head mutely, but that didn't stop Takigawa-san throwing images on the table as he spoke.

"This is the remains of the man killed by your boyfriend and found in your old school building. This is what was left of a man that your boyfriend blew up in a car he'd purchased. These are all of the members of a gang that he slaughtered. Perhaps you'd like to see the footage?"

I shook my head again, trying not to look at the horrific pictures.

"I've seen it." I whispered. "Please don't make me watch it again."

The two detectives smirked in satisfaction.

"Maybe we should show her the other video." Matsuzuki-san said.

I looked up as Takigawa-san as he pulled out a tablet and loaded a video.

He placed the device down on the table and reluctantly, I looked down at the screen.

The video had been taken at twilight judging from how dark it was. I could see an empty road. Then a masked person threw a bound body down on the road before turning to the camera and speaking.

"Dear Mr Davis, we are giving our thanks for your work to your dear brother here. Maybe next time, you'll think twice about messing with us and our business."

I didn't understand the entire message but recognised a few words; something to do with that Davis person and a brother. I frowned as the camera zoomed in on the face of the bound man. The masked man pulled the gag from the bound man's mouth and hissed something at him that the microphone didn't pick up.

The bound man looked into the camera and I gasped. It was Naru!

"Don't be an idiot, Noll." Naru said, then his body twisted around. The camera panned out slightly and I saw a car.

No.

No.

They wouldn't.

Not like that.

The red car's wheel went straight over Naru's head.

"No!" I shrieked. "He can't be dead! That's got to be fake. He can't be dead!" I begged as tears rushed to my eyes. Takigawa-san took the tablet back.

"We found that in Yasuhara's apartment."

"He can't be dead." I repeated. "He can't be! Why are you here? Someone killed him! Aren't you detectives? Why aren't you looking for his killer? He can't be dead." I couldn't take it in. Naru was dead.

"Taniyama why do you think Yasuhara would have such footage?"

"I don't know." I whimpered as I wiped my eyes.

"I don't think Yasuhara would have a copy of such a tape unless he'd been somewhat involved with it, do you?" I shook my head. "So why don't you tell us about Yasuhara?"

"He told me he doesn't kill people. He told me he respected Naru for his work." I said quietly. "He can pick locks."

"Yes he can." A familiar voice said as the door opened and Yasuhara-san himself walked in.

The two detectives spun around in shock and their hands went straight to their weapons.

"There will be no need for that." Yasuhara held up an identity card that recognised him as a member of the Public Security Intelligence Agency.

"What?" Takigawa-san spluttered.

"Perhaps you ought to take a seat." Yasuhara-san said and I finally came to my senses.

"You killed him." I growled. "How could you?!" I stood up from my chair and made to hit every part of his body that I could reach.

"He's not dead Taniyama-san." And Yasuhara-san's words made me stop dead in my tracks. "As these two very well know, the man who you saw die in the video was not the man you know as Naru."

"They knew?" I frowned. "You were trying to trick me?"

"Into giving information about Naru and me." Yasuhara-san confirmed. Takigawa-san and Matsuzuki-san did not even have the decency to look embarrassed.

"Who was it then?" I felt a few tears fall down my face.

"A British Intelligence spy by the name of Eugene Davis, also known as the Medium, brother of Oliver Davis, also known as the Scientist."

"The man that Minami-san pretended to have killed? That the others at that thing wanted dead?" I asked. "But why does he look so much like Naru? Unless…"

"The man you know as Naru, Shibuya Kazuya, Narumi Kazuo, is really Oliver Davis. The twin brother of Eugene Davis." Yasuhara-san revealed. "These two have been investigating Shibuya Kazuya, thinking he was really an assassin or something. They even worked with Hara-san to try and find out more. But Hara-san's father was using them." He laughed cruelly. "I was Naru's liaison with the Japanese government."

"But your finger? Why were you at that business thing? I thought you were Yakuza?"

"I have been undercover with a Yakuza family, this was part of the act." He held up his hand

"You cut your finger off for a job?!" I couldn't help but be shocked, that was dedication.

"But you were working for us?" Takigawa-san asked, nonplussed.

"Yes, the family wanted someone in the police force. They knew Hara-san's family had a foot in the door and did not want to fall behind."

"But Naru is alive?"

"Yes. He was in the adjacent room until about twenty minutes ago. They were torturing him." Yasuhara-san glared down at Takigawa-san and Matsuzuki-san.

"He was in Japan for his brother…" My mind was racing, and yet slowly, things were beginning to make sense. That's what Naru had said at the lake.

"Yes. For his brother's body, which he found in the lake that Hara-san informed you about, and to finish the job that Gene did not." Yasuhara-san replied sadly. "To stop the people smuggling operation; the people who cornered us in that cave."

"It was Hara-san's family?!" I asked incredulously.

"Family friends really…"Yasuhara-san said.

"Can I see him?"

But the door opened and two people I didn't know walked in.

"Yasuhara-san, it is nice to see you again." The woman said. She looked to be in her fifties with greying blonde hair. The man beside her was completely grey, but had a kind wrinkled face.

"Ah, Taniyama-san, Matsuzuki-san, Takigawa-san, this is Davis-san and Davis-san." Yasuhara-san made the introductions. "They are head of the Asiatic division of MI6."

Everyone bowed to each other and I stared at the two people. They were Davis' too? Was everyone called Davis?

"I can see you are confused Taniyama-san." Yasuhara-san continued. "Technically, these are Naru's parents."

"Naru?" The woman asked.

"Her nickname for Oliver."

"It's short for narcissist." I explained and to my surprise, they laughed. Or at least, the woman laughed, then translated for the man before he joined her in a slight chuckle.

"We've been in touch with our Japanese counterparts and they will have your entire record wiped, as officially this did not happen, as long as you sign the secrecy act." Davis-san said. "You will of course have to keep your silence for a minimum of thirty years."

"And what if I don't want to sign it?"

"Then we will have you thrown into gaol for aiding and abetting a known murderer and a known Yakuza member." She said coolly. "It's your choice."

"How can you say things like that so politely?" I scowled at the woman.

"I'm British, I will always out-polite you." She said with a hint of amusement.

"I'll sign it if I can see him."

"Of course." Davis-san said. "Yasuhara-san, would you?"

Yasuhara-san led me out of the room and away from the two Davis'. He led me down grey corridors until we came to what looked like a medical room.

I couldn't help but be shocked at Naru's appearance. His face as covered in bruises and he was holding ice against a cut on his chin.

"What did they do to you?"

"Interrogated me." He said calmly as if his injuries were nothing.

"But you're not a baddie!" I whimpered. "Why didn't you tell them to stop?"

"No point in lecturing pigs." He said and I wanted to laugh, but I had more questions.

"Yasuhara explained… Why didn't you tell me?"

"Strategic secret."

Obviously. Why didn't I realise that?

"Yasuhara, will you take Mai home? Ensure all her belongings are returned to her." Naru said, looking over my shoulder.

"Of course." Yasuhara said. "Your parents want to go as soon as you are ready. I'll give you two a minute." He left, closing the door behind him.

"I don't know what to call you anymore."

"Stick with Naru." He advised.

"Were you worried when I came up with that because it sounded like Noll? Lin called you that before?"

"Yes." He said simply.

"What happened at the lake?"

"I knocked you out. There is a point on the side of you neck that when struck knocks you out. If you hit it too hard you can die." He said coldly. "But I knew if you were knocked out they would be more concerned for your wellbeing than in interrogating you. I did it in the hope to spare you the treatment I knew they would give me. After you'd collapsed, I surrendered and they dragged us here."

"I'm sorry." I said quickly. "For what I said at the lake, it was wrong of me to-"

"Did you mean it?"

"What?"

"What you said at the lake."

I nodded mutely. He patted the bed beside him and I sat down before resting my head on his shoulder.

"You said Oliver Davis killed your brother? But they said you were Oliver Davis?" I left my real question unasked.

"We were taking down a smuggling ring. I let him go somewhere alone when we both knew we should've stuck together. He got caught and was killed." Naru said quietly. "It was my fault." His voice was completely emotionless.

"You shouldn't blame yourself." I replied automatically.

He shook his head slightly and we fell into silence.

"You never did tell me how you got into my apartment." I said quietly a few minutes later.

"And I don't plan to."

"Why?" I asked.

"If I tell you, you'll block it off, and then I'll never be able to get back in."

"But if you have to go back to England…" I trailed off, the thought hurt too much. I had known this man for what? Just over a month or so? And yet he had wormed himself into my life. "I'd leave the way in open for you." I whispered and I heard him chuckle lightly.

"I'm sorry Mai, about all of this. It's like Lin said, perhaps under different circumstances…"

"Was he talking about him and Mori-san?"

"Yes. He loves her." Naru spat the words out. "But people in my profession can't afford to love, we only lose them."

"But under different circumstances…?" I asked hopefully.

"Perhaps."

I knew that was the best I was going to get out of him, and raise my head from his shoulder.

"I'm sorry about your brother."

"Don't be, he was an idiot." Naru said, but there was a ghost of a smile on his lips, as if he was remembering something.

Then the door opened and the two Davis' walked in.

"You alright Noll?" The man said.

"Yes."

"Time to go."

Naru stood up and turned to face me.

"Here." Naru handed me something from his pocket. "Farewell, Mai." He said quietly and gave me a sad smile. I blinked back tears.

I looked down at the photograph of two black haired twin boys and smiled slightly.

I still had so many questions.

But he was gone.

Yasuhara-san drove me home personally from wherever we were after I signed the secrecy act. He had collected all of my belongings from evidence.

"Ask away." He said about five minutes into the drive.

"How did he end up like that?" I asked immediately.

"Eugene and Oliver were born in Japan but mostly raised for the first part of their lives in an American orphanage. They caused lot of trouble in this orphanage, but were never caught in open wrong doing. Martin and Luella Davis saw their potential and adopted them. They put the twin's skills to use after a bit of training."

"But they were children!" I replied, shocked. "Surely that's not allowed!"

"Officially, those two boys died before leaving America in a car crash. There was no one to check up on them."

"But it's still barbaric!"

"Some would think so, but they did a lot of good." Yasuhara-san said. "I told you before I respected him for his work and it is true. Those two saved a lot of lives."

"Why did Hara-san kill Urado? Not a proper assassin?"

"Urado was one of the most paranoid people around. Hara-san's father wanted him dead and told her to try. She succeeded. I would guess she got close to him by offering him the information on who killed one of his clans."

"Who?"

"The group Naru exterminated was one of Urado's."

"But she told him to kill them!"

"Urado did not know that."

"Why didn't you stop those detectives investigating Naru?"

"Because the underworld bosses would have been suspicious of a man who wasn't being targeted by the police." Yasuhara-san replied. "It gave him credibility."

I fell silent and stared out of the window.

"You're upset." Yasuhara-san stated.

"Yes."

"Why?"

"Because everyone lied and lied and lied. And Hara-san is dead and…"

"And because Naru is gone?" He prompted.

"Yes. Because Naru is gone." I agreed. How dare he just storm into my life, mess everything up and then just walk out like that? Leaving me jobless and utterly discontent to return to my normal boring life?

"I suspect it won't be the last you see of him." Yasuhara-san said kindly.

"Yes it will. Even if he had any sort of emotions for me, he said that people in his profession weren't allowed to care for others." I said bitterly. "Perhaps in another life…"

"You know, I read a theory about parallel universes whereby there could be a universe where you were together."

"Is that supposed to comfort me? That some other me is happy?" I frowned at the man.

"Perhaps not, but it's a nicer idea than no versions of yourself being happy."

"If we going with a daft theory like that," I said. "Then there is probably some parallel world where we're all ghost hunters or something stupid." I laughed. I couldn't help myself.

We half talked for the remainder of the journey. Yasuhara-san walked me up to my apartment with my things and gave me his card.

"If you need anything, ever, call that number." He said firmly before leaving.

It was over.

Author's note: Your reviews were all so much fun! Not that I enjoyed worrying you all that I'd killed Mai or something...

There is one more chapter that I shall post in the morning UK time just to round everything off...

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