Author's note: THIS IS THE FINAL CHAPTER!

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Well this now has over 450 reviews! So thank you everyone who sent me one! This is the most ambitious story I have ever written in terms of plot and I'm glad you all liked it! I know there are a few typos and the ending is a bit rushed, maybe over summer I will sort that out! I have exams for the next few weeks and so will not be writing! I say that but I will probably end up writing a one short or two because I'm addicted to writing...

Thank you all once again and here is the final chapter of A Hint of a Threat!

A middle aged man rushed into the office of Martin Davis with worry in his eyes a week after the funeral of Eugene Davis.

"Oliver has gone missing." He said quickly. "I can't find him anywhere."

"Hello Mark, have you checked the library?" Martin asked calmly.

"Yes."

But the arrival of a tall man of Chinese origin interrupted them.

"I know where he has gone." Lin said.

"Japan?" Martin asked, still calm.

"The plane leaves in about half an hour. He's also paid for Miss Taniyama's rent for the next ten years."

Martin Davis chucked to himself.

"What do we do?" Mark asked. "I can have men at the airport in ten minutes?"

"Let him go." Luella had appeared in the doorway.

"What?"

"I quite agree." Martin said. "Let him go. Call Yasuhara-san, ask him to arrange a raid on Taniyama-san's apartment tomorrow just so Noll thinks we are after him. He'll return when he's ready."

My eyes might've been focused on the textbook in front of me, but not a single word was going in.

A knock at the door made me jump slightly. All loud noises in my apartment seemed to be causing such a reaction since what had happened. It had been several weeks since Naru had left for England. It felt like the whole thing had been a dream.

Ogawa-san had called round when I returned from the business trip checking I was okay and of course I had lied. I was not okay in the slightest. I had had nightmares of Hara-san dying in my arms every night for two weeks after I returned home. Going back to school had been torture, Michiru and Keiko knew something was wrong from my change in demeanour but, of course, I could not tell them a thing.

The person at the door was my landlord.

"You've had an anonymous donation." He said. "Your rent's been paid for about the next ten years."

"Excuse me?"

"I just thought you ought to know."

And he left.

I shut the door and returned to my homework, slightly stunned. What on earth had just happened? The next ten years? I might not even be here in ten years time!

I shook my head. Perhaps this was a dream. I opened my laptop and started some music playing. I smiled as one of my favourite songs began to play.

"Arino mama de sore he kaze ni notte!" I sung to myself as I looked back down at the textbook. "Arino mama de tobidashite miru no!" Perhaps this song was a bad idea, far too distracting. "Nidoto namida ha nagasanai wa!" I looked up to pick some less distracting music and felt a knife pressed to my throat.

I hit the space bar to pause the music.

"Scream and I'll kill you." A low voice whispered in my ears. "Now tell me why you are in this flat?"

"It's my home." I replied with the strangest sense of déjà vu.

He chuckled behind me and dropped the knife. I span around.

He was here.

Naru was here.

I threw myself at him and hugged him tightly.

"It's you." I whispered. He seemed slightly taken aback at the sudden embrace, but quickly recovered and hugged me back.

"We don't have much time."

"What do you mean?"

"They will know where I am and they'll probably look here first since I paid for your rent." He said calmly.

"Who are?"

"MI6? Yakuza? Take your pick. There are a multitude of people that want me back or want me dead…" He said.

"What? What are we going to do?"

There was a sudden bang on the door. Naru swore.

"Come with me."

He took my hand and dragged me down the corridor and into my laundry room. Naru pointed upwards at a loft hatch.

"That's how you got in?" I said incredulously. Of course I had looked around my apartment for entry points, but I had never thought to look up.

He lifted me up and through the gap in the ceiling before pulling himself up after.

"What is this?" We were in a tunnel lined with pipes that seemed to run the length of the building.

"Access tunnels for the plumbing. Don't touch the pipes to your right; they will probably be very hot."

Carefully, I started crawling along the tunnel.

"Where does this come out?"

"A maintenance room. Now the slower you go, the longer I can look at your underwear."

My face went scarlet; I had forgotten that I was wearing a skirt. I picked up the pace until we came out into the maintenance room he had spoken of. He led me out and down some stairs until we were out on the street.

I spotted Takigawa-san and Matsuzuki-san round the side of the building.

Naru took my hand again. He looked into my eyes and genuinely grinned.

"Run!"

Fin.