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Disclaimer: Despite my fantasies, I do not own Ghost Hunt :-)
For starters, let's just say that I have no personal grudge against Masako, in fact she's a lot like me (hey just count beautiful and talented not snobbishness ;-) and she's a Leo too, so I can't really have a grudge on her. Thanks a lot for the reviews, keep it up because they make me update faster! Also I reposted this chapter since I made a mistake, Naru shouldn't have told Mai about his mother because she doesn't know that Madoka lives in England or that Naru is English. Thanks to Iloveanimex for pointing that bit out!
Summary: Plan B? Of course he had no Plan B, because Plan A worked perfectly, after all what harm could shutting Big Boss and Mai in a closet do. Nothing...Nothing at all.
-Y A S U-
"So..." Masako-chan pursed her lips into a thin line as she put down the glass of orange juice. "Any Plan B's?"
Plan B?
Pfft...Me, Yasuhara, requiring second plans, that was when the first ones failed and in my plans there was no such word as failing; they worked like a trick. Obviously living for two hundred years actually gives you a lot of experience and expertise.
"No Plan B's." I leaned in my seat, putting the cash on the table, voicing my opinions. "It won't fail Masako-chan"
She gave me a short-lived smile and I winked at her, watching her as she started to wipe her lips off a napkin before glancing briefly at me.
"Yasu, if he doesn't get the obvious signal then-" I sighed and waved off her concerns.
"He will, he's not that blind, and Lin-san's supporting us too, right?" I leaned forward to stare at her, smirking. "And if he doesn't well then I won't take you on any more dates."
I relished in her flushed expression before she stood up and I followed suit.
"So, when are we going to implement this plan, I can't wait to have revenge on him."
I sighed, taking off my glasses and pocketing them for a while.
"Me too, I mean that guy needs to get a grip on his feelings."
"So does Mai."
"Yeah. So does Mai, but hey, don't boys make the first moves Masako-chan?"
"Boys like you do, this was supposed to be a date? I'm cheating on Kazuya."
Now that stung...honestly did, like when Bou-san pushes me off and sticks on to Ayako. So to answer her I just went for the truth, after all both of us knew that Kazuya and dating are like on other sides of the globes, there had to be some other reason for him to stick to Masako like that, without any obvious emotion towards her.
"You and I both know," I opened the door of the black car for her and she promptly took a seat inside. "That there's nothing of the sort between you, why would you help me set up Mai with him then?"
I noticed her frown, it looks bad on her face, really...
"And until I figure out what's going on between you both, just know this." I leaned down and faced her, a cheeky expression covering my face. "I'm not letting go."
She huffed and shook her head, as if annoyed but I could see her grin reflected in the mirror of the car as it drove away.
So where did I leave my genius plan, oh yeah, right, need to make a call...Plan B's as if, hah!
Teeheehee...
The smell of victory wafted in my nostrils as I casually made my way to Mai-chan, the cute, innocent girl was pouring tea for Big Boss and humming to a nice song.
"Hey Mai-chan!" I waved and she smiled back happily, I could practically imagine her floating down the aisle, in a long, white, veiled dress holding a beautiful bouquet as he takes her hand and just ogles at her.
Wait – Big Boss and ogling, no that came out wrong- so I can visualize him holding her hand and just...um...staring...okay maybe...looking, eh, she's his wife not a monitor screen...okay so he's glancing at the floor, wait...what?...I-
"So Yasu, how's college?"
Great way to shatter the wedding moment...
"Umm yeah it's good, and oh did you hear the great news?" I could practically hear the excitement in my own voice.
Time for action!
"No, what's that?"
Teeheehee.
"Madoka is coming over and you know what, she'll dress you all up as cartoon characters and take you all for a party."
"Hey that's great!" She faced me and beamed. "That way Naru will finally relax!"
Save your bright smiles for your wedding Mai-chan...I carefully sided over to her and whispered in her ear.
"She's going to make you all wear outrageous costumes and take all the girls for a two-day shopping trip. The costumes are so...um...bad...that Lin-san refused."
Her left eye twitched and the tea-cup in her hand started to shake fervently, her nervous smile and gasps made it hard to hide my smirk.
"Eh? Th-that bad?!"
"She's coming over in fifteen minutes, I think you and Naru should hide Mai, I heard she was going to dress you and him up as bride and bridegroom."
Her expressions changed from nervous to dead frightened and petrified when the words sunk in.
"KYAAAA!" She roared and I watched her whole form get drenched in a very dark shade of red. "WHAT DID YOU SAY?!" This reaction amused me and I fidgeted internally with laughter.
I loved this place like home, working with these guys, unnecessarily hitting on Bou-san, flirting with Mai-chan, making Big Boss snap in annoyance, enjoying to have Lin submit to me (due to a letter of his about Naru which might make the latter's PK overflow in anger) and seeing Ayako seethe in jealousy with the way Bou-san and I got over-friendly, those moments were absolute heaven. Working in here was the best thing that ever happened to me, along with the two-hundredth birthday I recently celebrated.
The first time I saw Big Boss, I knew he wasn't that hard, in fact he was quite a softie on the inside (please do not let Naru see this), he cared about others, scratch that; he cared about Mai. More than cared and yet he didn't express it in that blunt manner of his and this was a complete mystery to me, his mysteriousness was inexplicable and yet this lured me to solve it all the more. One day I'll take off that black curtain, I swear and then when I'll finally come to know Masako's relationship with him, maybe than I can go out with her.
I grinned like a maniac, a giggle threatening to burst out of me, as I watched Mai-chan confront Lin and ask him about Madoka's arrival, poor Lin did just as he was told; first he warned Naru of Madoka's so-called plan, then he carefully told Mai about it.
Ah, there she turns white, that just means I'm elevated on to the status of a complete genius and that my plan was working just like it should. Some might call me a prankster but hey my pranks are friendly and they end up in people laughing.
Okay maybe not always. Like that time when I put an allergic substance in my father's food so I could experiment, the old man laughed until there were tears in his eyes, which he later told me were tears of happiness on seeing his son play tricks just like him when he was young. See, I made him happy.
I saw Mai rush inside Naru's office, her breath hitched and her voice octaves higher which made it easier for me to overhear their conversation.
"We need to hide." Mai all but yelled, panicking. "Madoka's coming here in ten minutes and I do not want to be spotted by her evil eye today."
I loved Mori-san, she's perfect. Even telling lies about her arrival made other people run to life-insurance agencies, or their private closets, whatever was closer and more hidden.
"Mai, I know that, where do we hide, there's no place in the office-"
I almost laughed at the slight panic in his voice as he tried to keep Mai and himself calm, now Mai was going to suggest that they hide in the closet.
And...
"There's the closet." Mai's voice could be heard all over Tokyo. "Your cupboard, but where are you going to hide?"
I laughed internally, no, maybe I cackled as I spotted a slight glint in Lin's eyes. The Chinese may not show it but he was pretty fun-loving when it came to teasing Naru. Silence ensued from Naru's office before he finally spoke up, indifference trying to lace his tone.
"We're both going in there."
So, it's been ten minutes and Masako-chan just joined us, bending over to hear the conversation going inside the office. That is when Lin beckoned for us to follow him inside his office and me and Masako followed him, astonishingly, a laptop adorned his desk, my laptop, I vaguely realized, which showed Big Boss and Mai in that closet, arguing in their usual manner.
Masako gasped. So he had set a camera in that closet!
"You are a genius Lin-san." I grinned, ruffling my hair as I took a seat and comfortably sat in the chair, turning to my other crime companions.
"Anyone wants popcorn?"
"Mai stop making strange noises, as if it isn't already stifling in here."
She looked up at him and stopped mumbling, her eyes ablaze.
"It isn't my fault that I'm claustrophobic."
"I haven't seen the symptoms of claustrophobia in you before." He just shot back and leaned against the wooden surface.
She huffed and her cheeks puffed out, her eyes showed true fear and her features were adorned with small blush lines.
"Well let's just say that Madoka's party plans have strangled the life out of me."
"Hn."
She looked up again, annoyed and pushed her hair behind her ear. My adorable Mai-chan!
"Lin-san, Yasu and Masako would be hiding won't they, wonder what Madoka will feel when she sees the office empty, I hope she isn't offended."
I saw Boss scoff a little at her selflessness.
"Mai, she's planning to make idiots out of us and you care for her well being?"
"Well she's human and it's not good to offend someone nice like Mori-san."
"Nice." I saw him murmur to himself. "Mai you do not know the woman she's pure evil."
"But still, she's nice, she's your teacher, you can't talk about your sensei like that!"
Her voice got louder and louder...
"Well, I can't say I'm fond of her."
"Naru, you should care about people other than you or your mirror!"
"Why should I do that?"
"Because you have got to be nice to people, stop being like an ice-cube."
"I do not believe in being nice to stupids and idiots."
Mai-chan had somehow leaned closer to him, they were staring intently into each others' eyes and I could feel the moment building as they kept their eyes locked. Yes, they were close, so very close; his eyes showed nothing but he did not pull his eyes away or avert his gaze...he just kept staring. Beside me, I felt Lin-san fold his arms and sigh as if disappointed and I turned to him curious.
"It's over." Lin mumbled. "He's seen the calendar."
Calendar?
I watched Big Boss, reach over Mai's shoulder and take a small chart in his hand, the calendar. But how would a calendar ruin my plan and that's when the whole idea came crashing upon me.
"Mai what's the date today?"
I watched the spell bound Mai slowly turn her head towards Naru and blush furiously before managing to tell him the date and that's when his eyes dawned in comprehension.
"Madoka can't come today." He mumbled, to himself, lost. "She can't."
Mai raised her eyebrows, curiously.
"Why?!"
"Dammit Mai, today is April Fool's Day..."
"All the more reason for Mori-san to come over and take us to a crazy party!"
"Madoka never leaves her house on April Fool's Day Mai, she shuts herself in her room and plans tricks that she would play on 2nd April, she stays inside because as much as she likes playing pranks, she doesn't appreciate being made a fool."
Eh? does Mori-san really do that. Hey, wait, does this mean that Lin knows too!? He...betrayed me?
All of a sudden, Boss's blue eyes land on the camera, enabling us to get a full view image of his iris, under normal circumstances I would have appreciated his blue eyes and Masako would have swooned but today his iris held that one unforgivable emotion.
Anger. Wrath.
May God have mercy on me.
I don't care what happens to the others, just save me from his wrath. I was just able to look at him, reaching for te camera before glaring at it. Glaring and mentally digging our graves.
"Lin. Yasu, I swear if you are behind this..."
Lin hurriedly shut the laptop and scraped the chair back in it's place, Masako followed his suit and they both almost ran towards the door.
"Hey guys!" I called but to no avail. I was stuck and bad, alone with two beasts. "Masako-chan, you were supposed to support me!" She shot me a worried glance and just shuffled her way out of the door.
"I was supposed to. I'll be sure to send some roses for your grave."
"Roses?! Grave?!"
No...
I haven't done anything wrong, I still have to live to see my future generations and yer the cool, calm yet scary voice that echoed behind me showed me my future, under the ground.
"Yasu."
Big Boss...
Uh-oh...
What was Plan B, again?
While on the other side of the street, the young medium, Masako, smiled lightly and sighed, shaking her head. So much for Yasu's plans, she had made sure she wouldn't lose, she couldn't give up on Oliver yet, could she?
But placing calendars in his closet did prove helpful. Ah, the power of love and evil.
Hope you liked it, I think it was OOC but this chapter was more light and tension free I think. Please review :-)