Finding You:

Chapter 12:

"What is it?" her former fiancé enquired after a few seconds of silence.

Mai took a deep breath. If she hesitated now she was going to lose her determination. She had not gone through losing her memory for nothing to ever change and for the status quo to remain.

"Can I meet you?"

"If you like." She could hear the surprise in his voice.

"I will come over to your apartment now," she said and put the phone down before he could protest.

She pulled her coat back on and as an afterthought, she dug through her desk and picked out a small red velvet case that had been hidden underneath an untidy stack of utility bills. Although she had returned the photos and his clothes, she had kept the engagement ring and stashed it away somewhere until Naru apologised. Now that time had come. She slipped the box into her pocket and left her apartment.

The door was opened by a stone faced Naru who let her in silently.

Mai sat herself down on the sofa and looked around his living room which consisted of two sofas and an armchair and a whole wall of bookshelves filled with neat rows of scientific books. Like the SPR office, it had not changed in the basics, the small details were different. The photos of them together were missing.

"Earl Grey or Darjeeling?" the scientist called from the kitchen like he always used to.

"Darjeeling," she requested.

Shortly he returned with a teapot, milk jug and one teacup on a tray which he placed down on the coffee table in front of her.

"Aren't you going to have any?" she questioned.

"You know full well that I can only drink tea if you make it," he stated simply as he poured the tea into the cup and added a dash of milk before handing it to her and sitting down opposite her.

"I saw Lin buying you tea from a cafe when I met him after the accident."

"I have sampled from all of the teashops and cafes in the vicinity of the office," Naru explained and gracefully crossed one leg over the other. "How did you get your memory back? I had only just got back here when you called so it could not have been astral projection."

Mai smiled. "Ozawa-sensei. I would have liked to see you trying to persuade her to lie to me like you did to Keiko."

Naru's face seemed to blanch slightly. "Keiko-san and Michiru-san have not known you for as long as Ozawa-san and she is more of a mother to you and not a friend. They were easy to persuade as they agreed it was for your benefit."

Mai took a sip of tea and savoured the familiar taste, bringing back memories of their relationship. She had made him green tea and he made her milk tea whenever she came over and later when they had lived together.

"Why did you appear to help me with my amnesia and at other times, be an obstruction?" she enquired. Haruka's explanation had been the breaking the point, nevertheless the earlier cracks in her amnesia had been caused by Naru.

"I liked having you close to me again, however I knew that the amnesia was not comfortable for you to live with so I started to help you subtly with the photos. Once you found out about our relationship I had to tell you more significant facts that were likely to cause you to regain some memories. What else could I do? It would not be fair to you to never get your memory back."

Mai narrowed her eyes at him. "You did not tell me about my miscarriage."

Her words caused Naru to flinch. "I could not bring myself to; it would cause you pain again and I did not want to see that. How are you feeling about it?"

The former amnesiac frowned and thought back to two years ago. Once she had been discharged from hospital, she had applied for other jobs and disposed of everything that reminded her of Naru aside from the ring which she had hidden from view. After a while she had begun to forget about him and all of her friends were considerate enough to never mention him.

"It was hard at first, but eventually I got over it. I was too young to be a mother and you were not exactly father material, although you were a lot better than you were when I first met you."

There was a pause in the conversation as Mai sipped her tea thoughtfully and Naru mulled over her words. The silence was broken by him asking:

"What about now? Would you say that I am father material?"

She jumped in her seat, unsure if she had heard correctly. She shot him a questioning look. Naru adjusted a crease in his trousers awkwardly before continuing.

"What I am asking is: can we start over again?"

This was not what Mai had been expecting. She was expecting to have to apologise for what happened two years ago straight away and for Naru to act coldly towards her. Not that she didn't want him to ask that, it was just a surprise. He really had become more considerate.

"Yes, I would," she replied with a bright smile which was outdone by Naru's brilliant smile which showed his dimples.

"Thank you, Mai."

Following that their conversation stopped and they stared awkwardly at each other, each waiting for the other to make a move. Considering that she was the one who still had an apology to make, Mai made the first move.

"I'm sorry about getting injured two years ago and losing the baby. I was not thinking straight, I just wanted to protect you. Can I come back to work now?" she requested nervously. "I won't act rashly anymore. I behaved on the last case."

Naru reached out and lightly touched her cheek.

"For two years I waited for you to come back to the office. I lost three capable employees and my fiancée for my behaviour two years ago and I regret it," he said sadly. "It is certainly true that you behaved yourself, although I attributed it to you being occupied with other matters."

Mai pouted, knowing that Naru found it endearing. Or that was Yasuhara had told her.

"No, I trusted that you had complete control of the situation and I stayed where I was because of that," she argued back.

Her boss flashed her another heart stopping smile. "Well, you can come back again."

"It's a deal."

Now satisfied that she had been forgiven, Mai got up and sat on Naru's lap. She felt him squirm a little underneath her at the unexpected action, but he relaxed and placed his arms around her and rested his head on her shoulder. They stayed like that for a while, perfectly content and then Naru lifted his head to say a familiar line with an addition.

"Mai, tea. Please."

Automatically, schooled by numerous years of responding to this order, Mai stood up and walked to the kitchen to make tea. As she waited for the kettle to boil she had a snoop around the cupboards, ensuring to close the doors quietly so Naru would not hear her. In the end she found an impressive amount of ramen and teabags.

"What is it that you like so much about my tea? I have made tea for lots of people since SPR and they all say it's good, but not brilliant," she asked interestedly.

Naru looked serious again. "It took me a while to work it out. I only realised it when I left Japan. You are right, it is not the tea- it is the sight of you that makes me happy and makes the tea taste nicer."

Mai fought back a blush and failed. She saw Naru smirking at her, he had always enjoyed making her blush.

"Naru, why is there so much instant food in your kitchen? It's not healthy," she reprimanded him.

The former narcissist placed his teacup back down on the coffee table and ran a hand through his hair dramatically causing Mai to goggle.

"Well, you see, I used to have a girlfriend that I lived with and she used to cook for me. When we broke up, I missed her food and when we get back together I would like to live with her again to she can cook for me again."

The psychic resisted the temptation to flick her hair in return and distracted him by producing her engagement out of her pocket. Naru's eyes followed her movements carefully as she placed it on her appropriate finger.

"... I wasn't sure if you still had it," he whispered.

"Yasuhara recognised it when I showed everyone and told me how much it cost so there was no way I was going to throw it away after hearing how many zeros there were," she explained with a smile. "That may be true, but I also maintained a hope that time would heal the rift between us."

"All it took was a case of amnesia," he said quietly. "Are you going to stay over tonight?"

Mai blushed again and poked him in the shoulder.

"We have only just made up, Naru. I will cook you dinner though."

The SPR employees' reactions were varied to say the least when Naru and Mai arrived at the office together with Mai wearing the same clothes that she had been wearing the day before. Lin gave them a once over and silently returned to his office. John flushed and Masako arched an eyebrow. As expected Yasuhara had the most vocal reaction.

"I haven't seen you two do the walk of shame of a couple of years," he winked suggestively."How's the amnesia, Mai? You know it's the body that remembers things the best-"

"That reminds me, I have not given you a pay cut for a couple of years, Yasuhara-san. Possibly because you stopped making comments like this," Naru warned and swanned past his employees.

Yasuhara closed his mouth instantly and waited until Naru had closed his office door before opening it again.

"Let's have a party to celebrate Mai's recovery!"

Masako lifted her sleeve to her mouth and spoke from behind it. "I suppose we could."

Yasuhara clapped her on the back. "That's the spirit. John?"

The priest cast a nervous glance at Naru's office door. "As long it does not disturb Davis-san."

Mai dismissed that worry with a wave. "If we have a tea party instead there won't be too much noise. I will make the tea. Yasuhara, what snacks are hidden in your desk?"

They all jumped in unison when they heard a door open and Mai turned to see Naru staring at them.

"How many times must I sat that this office is not a cafe?" he griped and much to everyone's surprise he sat down next to John instead of retreating to his sanctum. "Mai, I thought you were going to make tea."

She tore her eyes off him and walked off to the kitchen. She had assumed that there would be no more surprises now that she had recovered from her amnesia. Clearly that was not the case with Naru.

Another surprise awaited her when she returned with the tea. Yasuhara was setting out boxes of Pocky and Hello Panda and Naru was putting his phone back in his pocket.

"I have invited Takigawa-san and Matsuzaki-san. It seems that the office will be closed yet again," he sighed and Mai noted it was not an exasperated sigh. "I need to re-employ them. It a lot easier to exorcise when Bou-san is around."

Happily Mai threw her arms around him and hugged him tightly. Her family were back together again. She did not protest when Naru pulled her closer so their foreheads were touching and kissed her on the lips in front of everyone else.

"Ew," was Yasuhara's comment as all of the other employees decided to temporarily vacate the seating area.

Naru's eyes flicked up to check they were gone before he began probing her mouth with his tongue, keen to make up for lost time. His hands twisted in her hair, keeping her close to him. The pair eventually parted to breathe and Mai's face was the same colour as a stop sign.

Her boyfriend tweaked her cheek. "You're blushing. I don't quite know how you still manage it, we have done much worse."

Mai glared at him and was about to retort when a ponytailed monk burst in followed by a priestess.

"Jou-chan!" he wailed, reminding Mai of when she woke up in hospital. "What is this about you getting back together with Naru-bou?"

Ayako pushed him out the way and gave the brunette a searching look. "Your lips are swollen. What were you doing just now?"

Naru smirked at the pair before sobering. "We have both realised our mistakes now and a rift like this will never happen again."

Bou-san waved his fist. "If it ever does, I don't care if your name is Oliver Davis, I'll-"

Ayako cut him off abruptly much to Mai's relief. "Where's the party?"

Later on when the celebrating had calmed down and everyone was happy with Naru and Mai's reconciliation, Mai took the camera Naru had lent her and took a photo of her family who were finally together again. She had missed seeing them together over the years, but what made her the most happy was being back at Naru's side and hopefully this time it would be forever.

The End

I would like to thank everyone who supported this fanfiction especially Naruisawesome, 14AmyChan, ACertainIdioticScientist and EverlastingRyo. This will be the last Ghost Hunt fanfiction I will write for a while as I am leaving for university next week.