As promised! Chapter 3! Two chapters in one day! Whew, well let us know what you think! :)

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Chapter 3

Ughh, why do I always have to ride with the two most boring and silent people on the planet? Mai groaned and looked over at Naru, who was studiously ignoring her as he read one of his books. She was seated in the van between Naru and Lin, who was also ignoring her as he drove them to the zoo where the case was taking place. She knew exactly why Naru had demanded that she ride with them, which is exactly why she was sending a particularly hostile glare Naru's way.

~Flashback~

Mai woke up at six the morning, they were leaving for the case in an hour, so she would have time to get ready and be on time. "Ha! I'll show Naru that I can show up on time! Just you wait you big jerk!" Mai yelled triumphantly as she gathered the clothes she had laid out and went to take a shower. After she felt that she was clean and relaxed, she shut off the water and dried herself off, got dressed and headed into the kitchen to make some tea and get something to eat before she left.

She made her tea, took it over to the table where she sat and started drinking it while waiting for her bagels to finish heating in the toaster. She had her head in her hands while thinking about the case that they were going to be investigating that day. She didn't even notice that she was dozing off, and soon enough she had fallen asleep using her arms as a pillow. She was in a deep enough sleep that she didn't hear the popping noise the toaster made as her bagels finished cooking.

Mai was enjoying an unusually peaceful dream when her phone started ringing. Groggily, she slid her hand over the table to where the cell phone that Monk bought for her as a gift after their last case rested.

"Hello?" Mai mumbled sleepily. "You do remember what I told you yesterday correct? You have five minutes to get here before I dock your pay by such a large amount you will be essentially working this case for free." Naru snarled through the phone. Well what has him so crabby? Mai thought to herself while glancing at the clock. It was currently 7:45. "Holy crap! I'm so sorry! I'm on my way right now!" Mai exclaimed. She hung up the phone and raced upstairs to grab her bag of things she had packed the night before to bring with her, and took off sprinting as fast as she could to the office where she was meeting everyone.

She managed to get there in a matter of minutes, albeit short of breath and completely exhausted. "There you are Mai. I was starting to think you'd never show up." Ayako said smirking.

"I knew her love for the big boss would get her here after he called for her!" Yasu said, dramatically wrapping his arms around himself. "It's so romantic!" Ayako snickered.

*Huff, huff* "Sorry I'm late guys! I fell asleep while I was making my breakfa- OOF" Monk wrapped Mai up in a bear hug and started spinning her around. "Mai! It's been too long!" Monk laughed as he set her down from the monstrous hug to let her catch her breath.

WHACK! "OW! What the hell you old hag! What's your problem!?" Monk cradled his head, nursing the bump Ayako's purse had just given him. "Shut up you stupid monk! You should know better than to squeeze the life out of poor Mai!" Ayako growled as she pulled Mai into a comforting hug.

"It's okay Monk! Allow me to nurse you back to health!" Yasu declared, wrapping Monk up in a hug as he pet his head comfortingly. "Gyah! Get the hell away from me you weirdo!" yelled as he shoved Yasu away and scrambled to stand up and get away from the crazy teenager.

"Uh, Ayako? I'm really fine! No big deal!" Mai wrestled out of the priestess's grip and escaped her grasp, making her way over to greet Masako and John. "Hey Masako! Hey John!" She said cheerily and waved.

"Hey Mai! Great to see you!" John smiled kindly. "Hello." Masako greeted with her sleeve-covered hand covering her face.

"If you're all done screwing around, we are already late enough thanks to Mai. Let's get moving." Naru stated coolly. Mai grumbled to herself as she made her way to Monk's car. No way was she riding with that cranky narcissist.

"Mai." Naru called to her. "What's up Naru?" she questioned. "You're riding with me and Lin." He smirked. "Uhh, I was actually thinking Masako could ride with you!" She said hopefully.

"No." He said simply. He went over to the passenger side door of the van and held it open and waited expectantly. Mai groaned. "Well it's been nice knowing you guys." Mai trudged over to the van where a four hour torture was sure to begin.

"Don't worry Mai! Just remember, Pink Tutu!" Yasu yelled to her as he climbed into the car. Everyone shared a confused look as they looked over to Mai questioningly. "Eh..hehe ask Yasu!" she said as she climbed quickly into the van to avoid the questioning she was sure she was going to get. Hopefully Yasu can tell them all about it and they can get their joking out of their systems before we get there. Mai thought hopefully.

~End of Flashback~

"Mai stop fidgeting. Sit still and be quiet." Naru ordered. "But Naru, I'm bored! Are we almost there?" Mai whined. If he was gonna be bossy, then she was going to complain a little. Fair is fair.

"No."

"Lin, how long till we get there." Mai asked sweetly.

"Awhile." Was his response.

Mai sighed and settled against the back of the seat. Might as well take a nap to pass the time. And that's exactly what she did.

Slowly but surely, the motion of the car was making Mai slid further and further over until her head rested gently on Naru's shoulder. Lin smirked slightly when he looked over at Naru. Naru looked down and her and sighed, returning to his book.

Mai felt a nudge and opened her eyes. She jumped up and blushed furiously when she noticed that she had been sleeping on Naru's shoulder.

"We're here." Naru told her as he got out of the van. Mai noticed they were in the parking lot outside the zoo, so she went to the back of the van and opened the door to grab equipment, only to notice that there was none there. Only a few thermometers and a notebook and pen.

"Hey Naru? Why didn't we bring any equipment? All I see here are thermometers…" Mai asked.

Naru sighed. "Mai, our base is in the security office. We are at a public facility. They have all the cameras we need. Stupid."

Mai blushed, embarrassed. "Well I'm sorry for asking you jerk!" she stormed over to the rest of the group that watched the scene in amusement. "Aw don't let him get to you Mai. Ya know, I bet if you declare your undying love for him, he will lighten up in a heartbeat!" Yasu said nudging her expectantly.

"W-W-W-WHAAT?! I don't love him! What are you talking about stupid!" Mai said red-faced as she started beating on Yasu's chest. "Don't take it out on me because you refuse to see reason! Monk please save me!" Yasu declared as he jumped into Monk's unsuspecting arms.

"Wah! Get off me you little freak!" Monk dropped Yasu hurriedly and hid behind Mai.

"Stop goofing around. We have work to do." Naru said. John, Masako and Ayako all walked ahead with Naru and Lin while Yasu and Monk stayed behind to tease Mai some more.

Mai noticed that her head was starting to pound and she was feeling very light headed. She didn't even notice the jokes and prodding the two guys were saying to her. All of a sudden her world went black and she felt herself falling. "Mai!" Monk shouted, catching her before she hit the ground.

~Dream POV~

"Ugh, my head." Mai held her aching head as she took in her surroundings. She was in the living room of an expensive looking house along with a middle-aged man with dark brown hair and sad gray eyes. He sat on plush deep red chair reading a newspaper with his feet resting on the dark mahogany coffee table. Whoever this man was, he was loaded! Mai thought to herself.

"Mai," Came a gentle voice from behind her. She turned and smiled. "Gene!" she ran up to him and gave him a hug. He smiled and returned her embrace. Mai hadn't seen him since he had revealed himself to her while Naru was in the hospital in an attempt to calm her panicking. Suffice it to say, she was very angry that she wasn't told sooner, but she couldn't bring herself to stay mad at him.

"So I take it you aren't mad at me anymore?" He chuckled.

Mai pulled herself away and gave him a dirty look, then sighed. "No, I still wish you would have told me sooner, but I just can't stay mad at you. You or Naru actually. It's like a curse of mine." She sighed again.

"I think I know why you can't stay mad at Naru," he smiled mischievously. "Oh? Please do enlighten me." Mai crossed her arms and looked at him.

"Haha, some other time. Right now I have something for you to see." He gestured to the man sitting on the chair who now was talking to a middle aged woman with fiery red hair that curled around her face and down to her shoulders. Her bright green eyes flashed in annoyance at whatever he had just said to her.

"I don't get why you're so angry about this! It was just a business meeting! He was a potential sponsor for the zoo! I couldn't say no to him! It was just lunch dear, I promise." She wrapped her arms around the man's waist and snuggled into his chest. "There's no one else my love, you know I could never do anything to hurt you." The man reluctantly returned her embrace and sighed. "Okay Yoshiko, I'll trust you." She smiled up at him and kissed him gently. She then made her way back into the kitchen and the man ran his hands over his face and left the room. The room disappeared back into the dark.

"That doesn't look good," Mai stated. "No, it does seem like they're a little…tense, eh?" Gene commented.
"Gene, what was the purpose of that? I don't see how it relates to the case…" Mai scrunched her face in confusion.

"All in good time Mai," Gene said good-naturedly. "for now, you need to get back, your friends are worried about you and you caused quite a scene." He chuckled. "Okay, I'll see you later Gene!" Mai waved and felt herself return to her body.

"Mai! Mai! Come on, say something!" She heard Monk say worriedly.

"What's going on here? Is she alright? Should I call an ambulance?" She heard a familiar male voice say.

"No thank you, Mr. Takashi, this happens frequently. She should wake up shortly." Came Naru's cool emotionless voice.

Mai groaned and stirred, causing the crowd to look at her expectantly. "Ughh…Hey guys, how long was I out?" she looked around and noticed that Gene was right, there really was a crowd.

"Mai! You passed out and have been unconscious for almost a full half hour!" Ayako scolded. "You need to take better care of yourself so you don't pass out like that!"

"Hey mate, how ya feelin'?" John asked. "I feel okay, thanks John." Mai sat up straightened her hair. John offered his hand and helped her up.

"Did you have a dream?" Naru asked. Lin took out a notebook and pen and waited for her to start speaking. "Hmmm…I did, but it didn't seem relevant…" Naru just stared, waiting for her to explain. Mai sighed and continued. "Well, I was in this really fancy looking house, and a couple was arguing about something but I couldn't really tell what they were saying…hehe" Mai didn't want to admit it was because she was too distracted to pay attention to the vision, and Naru didn't know about Gene being in her dreams and she figured it would be best if it stayed that way. "Anyway, at the end they seemed to make up about whatever they were fighting about, but the man was still very upset. That's about it." Mai shrugged.

"Okay. Let's go get set up." Naru turned and made his way to the base, with Lin, Masako and John following.

"Stupid jerk, not even asking if I was okay, ughhh!" Mai grumbled to herself.

"Awww, Look at that Yasu! Poor Mai didn't get enough attention from Naru! How sad!" Monk made a sad face at Mai and snickered to Yasu who suddenly grabbed his hand and rubbed it against his face, "Don't worry Monk, I'll never ignore you like that!" Monk snatched his hand back and escaped behind Ayako, who slammed her fist on the top of his head. "Go away you stupid monk." She started walking away when all of a sudden she felt a sharp tug on her hair that pulled her back, nearly making her fall.

"OW! What the hell?!" she glared at Monk as she fixed her hair. "Why d'you do that?! Stupid monk."

"It wasn't Monk, Ayako. There was no one there…" Mai said, slightly paling.

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