Naru's POV:

I awoke to find myself lying on a futon, Mai and Yi kneeling over me.

"I think he's awake." Mai smiled. "Oliver?"

I grunted, raising a hand to my face and feeling a mask there.

"You can't take that off - it's what is keeping your balance in your body." Yi snapped, and I lowered my hand.

"Yi! Apologise!" Mai frowned, and I felt a smirk wanting to form.

"He should say "thank you for helping my brother and I" first. Keeping Eugene from over-spilling his own powers was hard enough, I've had to dissolve the link between the twins, as well as tell Dr Mitsuzuki and Mrs Mao to ensure he is asleep for longer." Yi pouted, before smiling. "At least now I can act normally! Being as peace-keeping as your half-archangel friend, yet as firm as you two combined is too hard!"

"But you do a wonderful job! Also, at least you're able to stop yourself from grinning or laughing, while I can't do anything but grin and laugh!" Mai replied, beaming.

"True." Yi smiled, before looking at me again when I sat up, finding a chain linking my waist to the wall. "Sorry, that's to ensure you can't run off. Mother's orders."

I remained silent, as did Yi, and Mai got slightly irritated.

"Oliver's too hard to say! Hey, what else can we call him?!" Mai asked.

"I heard his friends calling him Naru." Yi mused.

"It's because a certain someone decided to call me a Narcissist on my first case." I hinted, though it held no reaction with Mai but make her tilt her head as she tries figuring it out.

"Really?" she asks.

"It's not my fault I was born supremely handsome." I found this falling out of my mouth like the other times I tended to talk with Mai, and her reaction matched those times perfectly. "You just seem too dumb to realise it."

"H-Hey!" she stammered, "That's mean, you jerk!"

"Mai, Naru, no arguing. Do you want Naru moved to the cellar?" Yi snapped, and immediately Mai shut up, the blood that had risen quickly dying down.

I tried to say Mai's name, but instead I found my throat tightening slightly, making me cough, flames licking into the soft skin around my windpipe.

I covered my mouth, as Yi shrugged.

"Sorry, Mai. It appears he can't bring himself to say your name." Yi smirked. I sent her a small glare, and her smirk widened, before disappearing as Mai looked at her.

I glared at Yi, before feeling the mask again.

"It's soft, yet brittle - how old is this?" I asked.

"It's made from a straw, hay and reed paste, I mixed yesterday. When it was half-dry, I slipped it onto your face with a charm engraved in its front to stop your powers getting out of hand!" Yi smiled. "I'm quite good at moulding stuff, and I've had plenty of practice from Mai!"

I could feel how it wouldn't budge from my face, although I could slid my fingers underneath.

Sighing, and dropping my hands so my hands rested on my knees, I looked towards the other two.

"Yi! I think we should get him some proper clothing, so that he can change out of that stinky lot!" Mai exclaimed. Yi nodded in agreement, and rang a bell.

"Well then, we should go shopping." she smiled.

Why does that feel slightly unnerving?

Hikari's POV:

I followed Hibari, sitting by him when he stopped to look down at the village.

Waiting in silence, Hibiki came a while later, a camera on a strap around his neck.

"Give." Hibari stated, walking slightly to the left, away from me.

Taking the camera, he studied it for a minute, before focusing in on something at the village, and taking a picture.

Getting up, I walked to his side, trying to see what it was he could see.

Noticing my movements, he pointed, yet all I saw was the big crack running in the middle, splitting the village in half.

"Come on." Hibari stated, pulling out a small bag, and from that a pair of see-through gloves, a spatula and an even smaller, re-sealable see-through packet.

He walked down to the scar Kojou-dàgē had left all those years ago.

Carefully stepping into it, he held out a hand.

"Hikari, the pencil torch you borrowed." he said, looking at me.

I bit my lip, and handed it over, watching as he shone it about, before smirking as he found what he wanted.

Having Hibiki hold the torch, Hibari carefully scratched a thin layer of something into the bag, before resealing it and placing it in his pocket.

"Camera."

Taking a final picture of whatever it was, Hibari removed the gloves, and shoved them in his pocket.

"I'll be back at Base with you by nightfall." he stated, ruffling my hair at my forlorn look and handing Hibiki the Camera. "Meanwhile, I need the photos developed. You should ask Yasu."

I nodded, before grinning.

"See you later, dàgē!" I said in my cheeriest voice, before pulling Hibiki back towards the village.

At least I can do something for him...

Joker: Aaaaand DONE! COOKIES TO THOSE WHO CAN WORK THIS OUT!

Naru: Idiot, it's not like they're going to now re-read all the facts when they'll get the information they need in about this in some future chapter.

Joker: Meany! Maaai! Tell him how many chapters are leeeft! XS PLEEEEAASE!

Mai: I think... About 6-9? That's at least how many plot points, I think...?

Naru: *smirks* You should be sure about something before you say it, idiot. Or at least state the average - 8.

Mai: BAKA! X(

Naru: I suggest, Reader-san, that you Triple R, and deflate the idiot's ego before I end up wearing a chángshān.

Joker: THAT A SPOILER! ~X(

Gene: BYE! XD *drags Naru out of Mai and Joker's firing range*