This is my first English Fanfic, so I'm sorry for the incorrect grammar or spelling. I just typed as fast as I could so I wouldn't lose the story that was created in my head. And no time to edit, oh-hoo… forgive my laziness. Anyway, enjoy…. Well, I hope you enjoy it…

Disclaimer: I don't own Ghost Hunt, of course.

Deception

Part 1

Mai rose from her lying position. She watched her sons in adore as one of them stirred in his sleep. She took a deep breath, and let her mind wandering. Yes, it's almost three years since she left this city. Mai closed her eyes tightly. The memory about that time was still too painful to remember, but she couldn't help it since the memory was permanently transplanted in her brain.

"Mai, are you awake?" a soft sound came from behind a slightly opened door. Mai left the bed and opened the door wide to let a middle aged woman entered. "Ah, they're sleeping. I guess it would be harder to send them to sleep after this long trip. But you manage to do it."

Mai grinned in triumph. "Well, if they didn't, I had a thought that I'll give them sleeping pills. Really, I have a headache to nap them today. They cried over almost about everything. We can't blame them, though. They must be really tired but still too excited to explore their new home."

That old kind faced woman smiled widely and tapped her head before left the room. Mai took a glance at her sons before followed her to the kitchen.

"It can't be help, then. We must cancel all these arranging things until they wake up." Said the old woman while poured some hot tea into two cups.

"Hamada-san, I can't say anything but thank you. You did anything for me." Said Mai in a slightly sad voice. "But I don't know… I mean, is it a good decision to return to Tokyo? We have a great life in Chiba."

The old woman, Hamada-san, laughed slightly to hear her words. "We have a great life in Chiba, yes. But Mai, you must think about your future. You have to continue your education." Hamada-san smiled widely, "Ah well, but if you want to return to Chiba and accept my offering, I'll be more than happy to leave this town."

Mai sighed and smiled bitterly, she knew she would loose to that kind-hearted old woman, "I think I'll stay and try as hard as I could to get into Tokyo University."

"That would be great. I know you can, you've ever passed the exam once."

"Well, I hope my brain won't crack."

They smiled and sipped the tea and breathed in relieve. It had been a busy day for them. After a long trip from Chiba to Tokyo, they also had to put and arrange their things in their new home. The twins were the additional work for them. Almost reached their 2nd age, they are very-very excited about their new surrounding, made Mai and Hamada-san had to put the extra sensitive radar inside their own head to ensure the twins' safety between those scattered box of their clothes and toys and books and everything. To put more to the other two woman's dizziness, they refused to take a day rest even though they were already tired. Cries could be heard from the room where Mai was fighting to nap them.

Hamada-san put her cup inside the sink and left to take a rest in her own room and advised Mai to do so. Mai nodded, but didn't move an inch from her seat. Instead, she walked and sat on the chair in front of the window and watched the street below. Years ago, she also lived in this city. After a painful tragedy of her mother's accident that left her as an orphan, she lived with her teacher. A normal life, if someone could say so. She attended a high school and supported her own life with her scholarship and her job.

She was an investigator at SPR or Shibuya Psychic Research. She found a family there. Hooshoo Takigawa, the monk that just like her father. Ayako Matsuzaki, the miko that was representing as her mother. A kind hearted priest, John Brown as an elder brother. The another cheerful brother Osamu Yasuhara, the scary uncle Lin Koojoo, Masako as a spoiled sister, and Naru. Yes, the narcissists Oliver Davis or Kazuya Shibuya or Naru for short.

The memory itself seemed to be refreshed after she returned to this city. A week before, she was accepted to work in a fashion magazine. So, she had to move to its headquarters in Tokyo. But the biggest reason of her return was because Hamada-san insisted her to continue her education. Hamada-san even had already prepared the fund despite of Mai's protest.

All of that Mai's commotion begun when Hamada-san wanted to open a certain account for the twin's education fund, and Mai objected. So she gave Mai two choices. One, Mai had to let her participate on the twin's financial needs. Or two, Mai had to get a degree from a good university so she could have a good job and able to finance their own life. Hamada-san also threatened her that if Mai didn't choose, she would make Mai her heiress.

Those options should be a blessing for most of the people, but Mai felt different. Because she didn't want to hurt her guardian's feeling, Mai chose the second option. Hamada-san knew that Mai had passed the entrance exam of Tokyo University, the prestigious university in this country, but did not enter it. She suggested Mai to retake that exam. So, they move back to Tokyo, and Mai tried to struggle with her past.

Mai wiped the tears that already fallen to her cheeks. She still remembered that time like it just had happened yesterday;

Mai started to go out with Naru since her last year of high school. She was his girlfriend, something she wanted since long before. She loved him and he loved her back. Naru was already at his 2nd years of Tokyo University, so Mai worked really hard to pass the exams to the same university. Yes, she succeeded, so they planned to live together in Naru's apartment.

The world seemed so perfect for Mai. Until one day Naru left her without explanation and broke their relationship. Naru shut himself in his office; ignore Mai's demand for answer. Not long after that, Ayako told her that Naru was with Masako. Mai didn't believe her. It was Naru himself who ever told her that he was annoyed by Masako's behaviour. Masako ever blackmailed him to go out with her when he still hid his real identity.

Mai still refused to believe in Ayako until one day she spotted Naru and Masako walked together, holding hands. But the scene when they kissed was the thing that splintered her heart. Broken hearted, Mai resigned from her job at SPR. The darkness still followed her when she found out that she was pregnant. So, she moved to live by herself despite of her former teacher's protest, and sought for a job. Mai chose to ignore her dreams to be a college student and kept the money she'd been collected years before, for the baby. She didn't dare to tell the father of her child, afraid to hear his rejection. She also cut off all her connections with all her colleagues and friends.

"Well, Taniyama-san. I believe you have twin here, "said Dr. Sato calmly, when Mai did her first pregnancy check up a month later. The doctor had told her that she was in her seven weeks pregnancy.

"Wh…what…?"said Mai, in disbelief. Wait the minute, no wonder that her body was bigger than the average pregnant women at the same month.

The doctor smiled to reassure her, "We'll do some test to check your babies' condition, just for preparations. Don't worry."

Dr. Sato told her that she was in good condition. Seemed that nothing to be afraid for that time. Yes, she had to be more careful, because twin pregnancy had more risks than the normal one. She wasn't allowed to get stressed.

And then, another question that made her worried;

"Taniyama-san, you're still underage. I'll ask you to bring your husband or your parents here for the next checked up."

"O…okay…" said Mai in undertone.

The doctor didn't miss her reluctantly, "Forgive for asking this, do you have a husband?"

Mai shook her head but tried to smile genuinely.

"So, where are your parents? To let their pregnant daughter alone for a medical check up…"

"They're still at their work." Mai lied quickly, she knew that if the doctor found out that she lived by herself, she would made her sent to the orphanage. "I'm the one who insisted to come here by myself. I'll bring them here for the next visit."

Dr. Sato nodded, giving her the test result and the medication prescription. Because she didn't have any insurance, she had to pay the visit in cash. She walked out the clinic in an awful feeling. She had decided that she would not return to this clinic. She had already lied to her neighbours that she actually had come to an age. The rent of apartment she lived in was her former guardian's last gift for her.

Mai walked to the nearest park and sat on a wooden bench, cried silently. She really wanted to raise her baby, but she didn't know how to raise twin babies. Her money was enough until they were delivered, but she scared and confused and needed someone. Mai contemplated to tell Naru, but once again removed the idea. When she still convinced herself to call Ayako, she heard a sobbing beside her. Mai turned her head to find an old woman sat beside her. Her eyes got swollen from crying.

"Excuse me, are you okay? Do you need some help?" asked Mai carefully.

The old woman raised her head and wiped her tears slowly, "Ah, I'm sorry. Do I bother you?"

Mai smiled and shook her head, "No. But why are you crying?"

That woman cleaned her nose before answered, "It's the 2nd anniversary of my son, my daughter in-law, and my three grandchildren's death."

Mai put her hand on her mouth in shock. Really, compare to that woman's sadness, her problem was really nothing. "I'm sorry to hear that."

"They died in an accident. They went for a company party, but being hit by a truck. I used to be there with them. But that day, I had a headache. I really…really wish that I was in that car. They're my only family, and they left me… I'm alone now…" She started to cry again.

Mai took a deep breath, waited until that woman calmed again before said, "I understand. My father died because of an illness when I was four. My mother also died in an accident when I was in junior high school. I know that feeling of being left alone."

"Oh…my child. You're so poor," that woman put her hand on Mai's back, "To be an orphan at a very young age. With whom are you living now?"

"Oh, I don't have other family. I don't even know how could that happen, but that's the truth. I am living on my own, now. Well, I used to live with my junior high school's teacher. But I left her after I got a condition."

"What…?"

"It's okay. I've worked since my high school time. I have a lot of saving right now. I have a job at the bookstore, too." Mai smiled widely.

That woman stopped her crying and started to sob again, she blew her nose to clean it and wiped her tears, "You said you have a condition, what is it?"

Mai scratched her head and blushed nervously, "Errr…that is… Well, my boyfriend left me, and I found out that I am pregnant. So, I didn't want to bother my teacher with my problem."

That woman stared at Mai, her eyes widened. Mai prepared herself to hear a scorn from her. An eighteen years old orphan girl who live by herself without any single guardian, that's so much reason for someone to express a rejection towards her. But unexpectedly, that woman hugged her and cried again. "Oh, you poor little girl. I'll pray that your ex boyfriend will pay for this. You must strengthen yourself. There's a life inside of you. For us that had already witnessed the death of our beloved ones, that is something so wonderful."

And then, they cried together and attracted everyone's attention at that park. They realised it after one of those viewer asked them what's wrong. Mai and the woman flustered in embarrassment, bowed their head to apologize and moved to the nearest teahouse. She introduced herself as Sachiko Hamada. After that, they become close friends.

"Mai, how are your twin? Do they kick already?" asked Hamada-san when she visited at her lunch time at work, about a months later.

"Hamada-san, it's still my 3rd month. Don't expect that so early." Mai answered while ate the sushi that Hamada brought for her.

"Okay. But what do the doctor's say? Are they healthy?"

Mai hardly swallowed her food, "I hope so."

"What's that supposed to mean?"

"Mmm, last time I checked my babies was when I met you. They will send me to an orphanage if they find out that I am still underage and living by my own." Said Mai, more nervously still.

Hamada just nodded. She watched Mai with her serious expression.

"Mai, I want to ask something from you, "said Hamada-san, "I've been thinking about it for a while. May I be your guardian? I like you. With this, you may have a proper medical protection for your babies."

Mai stared at Hamada-san in an opened mouth. She never expected something like that from her. Hamada-san laughed to see Mai, "I already love you like my own daughter. You must considering my offer, Mai. Think about your kids, okay?"

Yes, Mai did thought about Hamada-san's words. It took three days for Mai to agree. Hamada-san sent the application as quick as she could. And a week later, Mai had a legal guardian. Soon after that, Hamada-san asked Mai to move to Chiba, her hometown. In there, they could live peacefully, left their dark shadows in big city of Tokyo.

Mai heard a cry and walked hurriedly to the certain room. She found one of her twin, Mamoru, had wake up already. The other, Makoto, was still sleeping. She checked up his pant, but it still dry. So, Mai carried him and sang a lullaby to sleep him. It only lasted for a while before Makoto woke up and asked to be hold, too. Mai rolled her eyes. Carried them together could broke her waist in an instant, so she offered them to sleep with them. She placed herself between them so they won't play instead of sleeping, and read a story. Maybe they really were tired that soon after that, they slept again. Mai huffed in relieve. She sat and stared at her sons.

They really were a representative to their father, she thought. Maybe, that's how Naru and Gene looked alike when they were small. Mai kissed their cheeks so lovingly. She hoped that she won't meet one of her friends or colleagues. Especially Naru and Masako, she didn't know how to react in front of them if they met. Before, she really wanted to punch his face and threw her a big pot, but she didn't want it this time. Because Naru was her children's father, and Masako, once was her friend. Mai stood up and walked out from that room. There's still so much things she had to put in place. Tomorrow was her first work day, so she had to get hurried.

To be continued…

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