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With Mai
'Oh no, where is he?! He better not have left the store!' Mai looked around frantically but there was no sign of him. 'Naru you idiot!'
"Excuse me, have you seen a girl about five foot two, brown eyes and hair leave the store? She was with me earlier." She asked the cashier hoping someone might have seen him leave.
"Sorry Sir." The cashier said shaking his head. 'Where are you Naru?' She thought desperately. She hurried out the store to see if he was outside. She didn't find him. 'Could he have gone back to his apartment?' She pulled out her phone and dialled his. She heard a faint ringtone sound from somewhere nearby and rushed to check it out only to find Naru's phone just lying on the ground. She picked it up off the ground and clutched it before running back to Naru's apartment. She burst through the door and quickly and carefully checked every room, but he wasn't there. The apartment was empty.
She sat down on the couch and put her head in her hands. She was thinking rapidly. Why didn't he tell her he was leaving? Why would he even leave in the first place? Was he that mad at her? And the most important question...
Where the hell is he?!
With Naru
Naru wandered around the darkened office relishing the peace and quiet of its deserted state. He wondered what Mai must be thinking right now. 'She'd probably be celebrating.' He smirked to himself. But then he remembered that he is in her body. '...Or maybe she's freaking out. She probably has no idea where I am...'
Back with Mai
Meanwhile Mai was roaming around the apartment restlessly, trying to think about what to do. Should she call the others? It might be faster that way... She reached out to pick up the phone. She decided to call John first since he knows of their situation. She dialled his number and waited for him to pick up. But he wasn't picking up. She hung up and dialled Monk.
"Monk!" She screamed as soon as she heard it pick up.
"Naru...?"
"*Ahem* Yes, that's right, it's me." She said slightly more calmly.
"Right...what do you want?" He asked with a hint of irritation in his voice. He must still be mad at Naru. "You haven't done anything to Mai have you?!"
"Ah, that's why I'm calling. You've got to help, she's gone missing!" Mai screeched as she started panicking again.
"WHAT?! How could you lose my little Mai?!"
"I don't know how it happened. We went to the store and she was there one minute and gone the next." She explained.
"Uh-huh yeah...Are you sure you didn't say something to make her storm off?" Monk asked already knowing the answer.
"No, of course I didn't." Mai denied.
"Whatever. What's important is finding Mai!"
"I know that, that's why I called you." Mai snapped, irritated by the pointless conversation taking place. 'I guess I now know how Naru feels when people are saying pointless things.' She thought to herself.
"Okay so where have you looked for her?!" Monk bellowed.
"I've looked everywhere on the way back from the store. She isn't anywhere, not even at the apartment."
"So you checked the office then?!"
"No, I mean why would she be there at this hour?!" Mai questioned. 'Although it is Naru...'
"Maybe she forgot something there and went back to get it." Monk suggested.
"No, I was with her when we left; she had all her stuff with her."
"And you've tried her cell phone?"
"I found it just lying on the ground outside the store..."
"I see. This isn't good Naru, how could you let this happen?!"
"That doesn't matter right now! We need to find Mai! Now!"
"I know that. You don't need to tell me."
Mai sighed. He's not helping at all. Maybe she should've just called Lin instead... At least he probably would've been calmer about the situation. He wouldn't freak out because it's not Naru...but actually it is. Of course, he won't know that though.
"-hey Naru are you even listening to me?!"
"Sorry, what?" Mai asked, confirming that she hadn't been listening to a word Monk had been saying.
She heard Monk sigh on the other end. "Geez Naru, this is not the time to be zoning out! You're acting like Mai." He mumbled.
"I find what you just said rather rude. This is not the time for that anyway."
"I know! You were the one-"
"Takigawa, just tell me what you were saying before!" She yelled.
"I'm not sure I want to repeat myself, even if it is for Mai." Monk said petulantly. 'Well I see how much you care about me!' Mai fumed as hung up on him. Forget him! 'Maybe I should try Lin next...' She dialled Lin's number. The phone rang a few times before going to voice-mail. Great, now what is she supposed to do? Maybe she could try John again or perhaps Ayako...
She shook her head. Better not call Ayako; she'd probably freak out more than Monk did...plus she's already suspicious. She sighed and ran a hand through her hair. 'What to do, what to do...' What would Naru do in this situation? Probably call her an idiot first of all...but after that! She couldn't help but let a small chuckle escape at the thought of Naru calling her an idiot.
Mai smiled sadly and looked at the apartment. He's only been gone for a little while and she's already missing him. 'Okay, think Mai! How would Naru even begin to think of where you were?! Maybe he would ask the others...ah, but I've tried that...what else is there to try?!' She ran her hand through her hair again. There just has to be some way! Naru somehow knows where people are. She chuckled. She swears Naru could be a- She froze and looked down at her hand.
"Maybe...maybe that's it, but how does he do it?" She muttered to herself. She clenched her hand and stood up. "He did say he only touched Gene's shirt..." She looked around her. "What should I touch though? Should it be something belonging to Naru or something belonging to me as Naru is in my body... Well, trial and error I guess." She concluded. She went into Naru's bedroom and looked through his dresser. She settled, for some reason, on taking out a pair of his underpants. 'Now what do I do?' She really didn't know how to do this. Maybe concentrate? She gripped the underwear and started practically glaring at them...then she stopped. 'I should maybe close my eyes perhaps.' She thought. So she did and relaxed a little but still concentrated.
Slowly she started getting a blurry vision. She could see Naru sitting somewhere dark...not on the floor, no...on a chair? No, too low for a chair...maybe a footstool, yeah. He wasn't tied up so his kidnapper must be confident or trust him. He was muttering something...what was it? "Stupid Mai, I'll..." 'Okay, I think I'll stop now. Seriously, he's made me frantic with worry and he blames me for this! Okay, so a dark room...a dark room...oh yeah that's helpful! Was there anything in the room that might help? Hmm...' There did seem to be something behind him though. 'Was it a picture...no, I don't think so. What was it, what was it...? Maybe a mirror? Yeah, it was a mirror, it seemed slightly familiar too. A mirror that's gold all the way around...where have I seen that...' She thought hard before it suddenly came to her. Her eyes widened.
It's the mirror at SPR... 'Why is Naru at SPR?' The one place she didn't lookâHe's there! She rushed out of the apartment and headed to SPR. When she got to the office, she tried to open the door only to find that is was locked. 'If Naru's here then why is it locked?' She scratched her head and thought about what to do. She didn't have a key and she really didn't think that she could break the door down...so picklock it? She bent down to have a look at the lock when the door was unlocked and swung open by someone. She snapped her head up quickly.
"I wondered how long it would take you to work out where I was." Naru commented from his position in the doorway.
Mai huffed and stood up. "I've been looking everywhere for you, you Jerk!"
"Obviously." He muttered.
"Do you know how worried I was?! Why did you run off like that?!" Mai blurted. Naru just shrugged.
"I thought you'd been kidnapped you Idiot!" She yelled.
He raised an eyebrow and leaned against the doorway while crossing his arms. "Kidnapped? No one could kidnap me if even I am in your little body."
"My body is not little." She said stubbornly. "Besides, my size hasn't bothered you so far." Naru said nothing; he went back into the office and Mai followed.
Mai sighed. "Are you going to answer my questions?" She demanded.
Naru sat down and looked at Mai. "Why should I?"
"Because I was worried about you." She shouted. "God Naru, what the hell is wrong with you to not realize just disappearing would make others worry?!"
Naru scoffed. "I never asked you to worry about me. I'm very capable of taking care of myself."
"Of course you are, obviously." Mai said sarcastically. "By the way, here's the cell phone that you dropped." She dug into her pants pocket before tossing the phone at Naru which he gracefully caught.
He then looked at it puzzled. "I dropped this? I did wonder why you hadn't tried to call."
"Yep, you sure can take care of yourself." Mai deadpanned as she sat across from Naru.
"Says the girl who has fallen down a manhole, fallen through a floor and had a ceiling collapse on her. All of which I have had to rescue you from." Naru muttered.
"Excuse me but those are ghost related things. Yours was not, you were just being careless." Mai huffed. "But yes, I do thank you for saving me all the time."
"Ghost related they may be, but one would think it would make you take more caution in the future. You don't see the others getting into danger all the time." He pointed out.
"It's not my fault ghosts love me you know!" Mai grumbled and crossed her arms.
"That's not the point." Naru argued.
"You're right, the point is you shouldn't run off like that especially with not telling me where you're going. I was worried something had happened to you!"
"Like you're one to talk." Naru murmured under his breath.
"Excuse me?!" Mai asked indignantly.
"You heard me. Never once do you declare where it is you're going when you just run off like someone stuck a firework up your..."
"I can't believe you're saying this!" Mai interrupted.
"...Skirt. In fact your actions usually put the rest of us in danger as we have to go racing off after you." Naru continued as though Mai hadn't spoken.
"Who ever said that you guys have to chase after me?!" Mai inquired through gritted teeth. Usually half the time she runs off is because of Naru anyways.
"Would you like to fill out the paperwork for a fatal incident because I sure as hell don't?!"
Mai's eyes widened and it felt like her heart dropped. "I see..." She said quietly after a moment. She glared at the floor before going into Naru's office and slamming it behind her. 'Now what the hell's she doing?!' Naru asked mentally. He stared at his office door wondering if he should go in there... He was about to shake his head at the idea when the thought occurred to him that it was his office. Immediately he got up and went to the door, prepared to kick it down if necessary, luckily the door was unlocked when he tried it though. He peeked in there and saw Mai with her elbows on the desk with her head in her hands.
"What are you doing?" He asked as he approached.
"Brooding, what's it look like?!" Mai answered.
"Why?"
"Why not? You do it all the time."
Naru scowled. "I do not."
"Naru, it's the first thing you do if things aren't going according to your plan." Mai said wearily.
"Give me an example." Naru ordered flatly. Mai looked up at Naru.
"The first case I ever went on with you at my school, you said subsidence and as soon as the windows exploded, slightly disproving your theory, you ran off to be by yourself."
"I went to do more research." He corrected her.
"You ran off to sulk and you know it."
Naru sighed exasperatedly. "Think whatever you want even if it is wrong." He crossed his arms. "How can you stand these things being here?" He asked gesturing to his chest after uncrossing his arms again. "It feels so...unnatural."
"Excuse me, but I am all 'natural' unlike you, you Jerk." Mai snapped. Naru glared at her and was fixing to protest but Mai interrupted him. "Why are you here anyways?!"
"Because I felt like coming here." He said in a 'duh, well isn't it obvious' tone. Mai glanced at Naru before looking down and massaging her temples. That wasn't what she meant.
She leaned back in the chair and checked the time on the clock on Naru's desk for a moment. "I don't know about you but I'm going home." She stated and walked to the door bypassing Naru. Naru huffed, shrugged and followed after her.
Treelow955:- Man this was hard to write!
Naruisawesome:- I know, especially when we...
Treelow955:- Shh, the readers don't need to know we messed up and had to rewrite parts of it!
Naruisawesome:- So why are you telling them then?
Treelow955:- ...Oops...hahaha, please ignore what I said!
Naruisawesome:- Anyway, I was going to say especially when we couldn't figure some stuff out!
Treelow955:- Ohh, okay! Anyway, please review!
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