Gene's POV:

I glanced at the clock as breakfast trickled past.

"I want to go and look for Naru." I complained, looking down at the scrambled eggs which had been so carefully cooked for me.

"Eat first." Mrs Mao ordered. "Growing boys need their energy."

I pouted, and shoved a mouthful of food in my mouth.

"Back." Naru's vice filtered in, and he appeared a moment later.

"Wow, Naru! Which hedges did you go through?" Yasu asked.

"Half-Demons District, Normals District and Half-Angels District." Naru panted. "Found her. But we have another problem-"

"We do indeed have another problem, Master Davis, and that is you are a walking mud-tray! I shan't have mud being trod around my building!" Mrs Mao complained before he had finished, folding her arms. "And you left before breakfast! Now off you trot!"

"I-" Naru started, and Mrs Mao put down the fish she had been serving, before pushing Naru from the room, getting little resistance with how out-of-breath he was.

I turned to Yasu, who grimaced, before grinning and laughing.

"Wow! I see!" he laughed. "Mai saw him in some back alley, which obscured his face. She thought him to be a stranger and began running away, and he learnt not to scare her like the idiot he can so easily be!"

I found myself starting to laugh a moment after as another thing occurred to me.

"He's so in for it, as well! Think of how Mrs Mao is treating him now!" I choked out, making further laughter at the table as my idea of Mrs Mao telling Naru off and treating him like a five-year-old around the room.

When Naru finally returned, he had been made to wear the blue shirt and grey thick-cotton sports-trousers I had slipped into his suitcase, and we had all finished breakfast. He also looked as though he had been thoroughly-scrubbed.

"Now sit down and wait until I've fetched you some breakfast." Mrs Mao ordered, and he silently slid into the vacant seat beside me, waiting until she had left before he spoke.

"She's a lower-class demon in a woman's skin." he growled, making further laughter erupt around the table.

"Well, at least she's not as bad as Luella." I replied.

"She's worse." Naru grunted. "She literally frowned at all the black in my suitcase, saying how much she wishes I was as polite as you."

"She's a perfect old lady. She actually reminds me of my Gran…" Yasu grinned.

"Really, Yasu and Gene are such perfect boys, why can't you learn charisma from them." Mrs Mao mumbled as she re-entered with a tray of scrambled eggs.

"Sadly I'm the perfect opposite of such a perfect twin." Naru replied.

"But he does have the memory of a mountain." Gene replied. "Sadly that genius caused both his Doctorate and his charming attitude!"

"At least I don't flirt with every girl I speak with." Naru growled.

"What can I say? I'm a lady's man!" Gene smirked. "Though don't go thinking I don't have any room left for my dearest of kin."

With this he swiftly wrapped his arms around Naru, and grinned at Mrs Mao before she retreated.

"Anyway, now Mrs Mao's not here, I can continue where I left off." he growled, though not shoving Gene away. "I did find Mai, and she is being treated well – but it appears she's not able to get enough freedom because of who her friends are, and…" Naru's face became completely unreadable as I felt his PK activate slightly.

"She can't remember any of us."

I felt my eyes widen.

"I see…" I replied.

"That's why I ended up chasing her around until I was out of breath – she said she was scared of me, before feeling as though being chased was fun…That was when she asked my name." Naru continued.

"Do you think her abilities are still intact?" I asked.

"Our telepathic link's been stopped somehow…" he replied.

"Right! What does she look like currently, where's she staying, and how the hell do I reach her?" Monk asked, standing.

Naru sent him a death glare.

"She wears a white and blue mask that hides her eyes and upper face, as well as chèuhngsāam. She's staying with Yi." he growled.

"Why do I get the feeling Yi is at the centre of all this?" I asked, a small smile on his face, before he leant back. "Well, since I recall that she and Fu are Elder Bo's children, maybe if we ask-"

"I've already completely lost my reputation as a Psychic Researcher here, and more as "the boy who chases pretty girls and gets mud all over himself". I don't think I want to be labelled as a brat, as well." Naru scowled.

"But that is why we came here, even if I disagree with the rules on blood-types, I think we should try and find out exactly what is happening here…" John politely admitted.

"Well, maybe if we were to be nice and gain a few people's trust, we can get something done, and not appear like a bunch of snobby outsiders." Masako agreed.

Joker: WAH!

Masako: Where on earth were you?

Joker: I'm now having to update while at school, or during the weekend! 'Cause I have to take a bus from one county to another!

Mai: You poor person!

Naru: Why not just go to your former secondary's sixth, idiot?

Joker: NO WAY! I like it at my current one, and I've got two of my BFs going there with me! (Also there was a large problem with subjects I wanted to take... = .=

Naru: Idiot.

Joker: NO TEA FOR YOU! *runs off* TRIPLE R~!