Pop: "How on earth did you get the computer to explode?"

"Ummmm. Luck?"

Disposable: When it came down to it, Mai wasn't truly needed. She was just the assistant. She could be replaced, fired, or just plain gotten rid of at the drop of a hat. But she took comfort in the fact that she was still here.

Chance: Sometimes Mai thought hard about the circumstances that had led up to her working for him. There were just so many coincidences. What if she hadn't been in the classroom at the exact time he had come in, or if she had never gone to check out the haunted building? What if someone else had? Naru would have hired them instead. And then where would she be?

Phone: Naru had finally figured out why none of the clients had called back for their appointments.

"Mai, stop telling clients that we're the Ghost Busters."

Computer: Bou-san and her would joke about the similarities between Naru and the computer. Both were analytical, cold and very, very smart. But, as funny as the comparison was, it actually scared her more than she'd like to admit. Naru spent so much time working, and hardly ever took any breaks. And if he crashed, Mai didn't know what she would do.

Stair: "Correct me if I'm wrong, but did you actually trip over your own feet and fall down an entire flight of stairs yesterday?"

"Well, yea, that's the basic story."

"I see."

"And what's that supposed to mean!"

"Nothing. But, it does answer some questions."

Grinch: "You're a vile one, Mr. Daaaviis! You have termites in your smile!'

"Mai, this is enough, the movie ended an hour ago.'

"You have all the tender sweetness of a seasick crocodile, Mr. Daaaviis!"

"Mai, this is getting to be a bit much. This is the fifty-seventh time you have repeated this song, and I don't care how inebriated you are at the moment, this has to stop."

"Given the choice between the two of you, I'd take the seasick crocoddiiillleee!"

"That is it. You are getting a pay cut, one that is effective immediately."

"Hey! That's not fair, Naru!"

"So, I'm 'Naru' now?"

Cut: Sometimes, the team asks her why her hair is cut so short. Mai tells them that it's for purely economic reasons. Having less hair means that she had less to shampoo and condition! Then she would laugh with them at her frugal orphan nature, and both question and false answer would quickly be forgotten.

Sometimes, Naru asks her why her hair is cut so short. And under his calculating gaze, she tells him the truth that the others didn't ask for. Her mother had always braided her hair when she had been young. Mai would just wake up, eat a bowl of cereal, and then sit herself down in her mother's lap, waiting until her mother finished braiding her hair. After her mom was gone, she hadn't known how to do it herself. And every time she had looked in a mirror, she had been reminded why.

So, she had grabbed the nearest pair of scissors, rusty ones that had mainly been used for opening bills, and she had cut it all off to the nub. When Mai gets to this part in the story, she stops. She glances at Naru with a haunted look in her eyes, and she asks him a question. Was that wrong of her? Her mother had always loved her hair, and Mai had stayed up many nights with her, just combing their hair together. Her mom had always praised her for how cute she had looked with her little twin plaits.

Was it wrong for Mai to feel happy that her hair was short? To feel happy that she didn't have to keep being reminded of how her parents were both gone? This was a question that she did not have an answer to, and one that Naru, even with the multitude of degrees at his disposal, did not know how to answer. So he didn't. He opened his mouth and told her why he wore black, hoping to make the playing field more equal.

Heat: "Naru, fix it."

"I've called the air conditioning repairman five times already, they're coming over as fast as they can. So stop whining."

'Ughh, but you called them an hour ago. How long are they going to take?"

"Judging by how the traffic outside is, a little longer."

"Nooo. Naru, make it better!"

"Mai, what makes you think that I can just magically make it better?"

"But you always make things better!"

At these words Naru took his eyes off of the young woman that was still languishing atop the couch, bemoaning the hellish temperature. Mai thought of him that highly? He couldn't help but give a pleased smile, relishing the satisfaction this gave him. Of course, he hid this behind a hand so that she couldn't see it. He was quite used to other people placing him atop a pedestal, but, with all the times she had cut his achievements down, he hadn't realized she might have been doing the same. Naru quickly snapped out of his thoughts at her next words.

"How on earth are you wearing that?"

"Wearing what?"

"All of that!"

Naru frowned. Despite the temperature, he still hadn't seen it fit to change from his all black ensemble. Judging by Mai's glare, she was probably jealous by how he still wasn't sweating, while she looked as if she had been dunked into a pool. Well, mind over matter, he always said. Of course, Mai had absolutely no right to be commenting about what anybody was wearing. So, he answered her with the same question.

"How are you wearing that?"

"What do you mean? My outfit is fine!"

"What little of it there is."

Involvement: Valentine's day always proved to be nothing more than an irritation to Naru. Between Takigawa's innuendos and Ayako's not-so-subtle hinting about his non-existent love life, the only place he could find any peace was in his office. A flash of red by the window made him look up. Shocked at the sight, he quickly looked down and tried to distract himself with some work. All while silently chanting 'I did not just see Yasuhara dressed as cupid.'

Letter: There had been a time, after he had left, that Mai had thought about sending him a letter. She had spent hours on it, pouring out all of her grievances, heart aches, and her feelings. When she had finally finished, she had stared at the pages for a few minutes. Then she had ripped them up, right down the middle. Mai had spent her entire life struggling to become independent. She'd be damned if she let herself fall to pieces over him.

Mortality: Strangely enough, Mai had never thought of him as just human. Naru was too smart, too in-control, and just too powerful to be classified as the same as everybody else. It was only when he had collapsed, with Lin screaming at him to 'breathe' had she realized that he could actually die.

Exploitation: "But, Naru, it's Saturday!"

"The problem?"

"You can't just barge into my house and tell me to make you tea!"

Sign: He had been thinking of it in more of a symbolic sense, but the giant blinking sign that read 'Just Ask Her Out Already!' would do. Still, there was the question of how they had they managed to sneak that into his office.

Film: "Hey Naru, have you ever thought of filming our cases? You know, so you can make a movie out of them? We could be famous and-"

"No, Mai."

Wedding: "So you won't watch a movie with me, but you'll watch a wedding on television?"

"It's Prince William's wedding."

"But my movie is about royalty too!"

"I am not going to watch The Princess Bride with you, Mai."

Wishing: Mai used to wish for a lot of things. She wished for a family, she wished that the suffocating loneliness would stop, and she wished for someone who could actually love her. After her time at SPR, she could safely say that she didn't need wishes anymore.

Inch: Naru rarely had time to ponder about how their relationship worked. But when he did, he found that he could sum it up in just a few words. He gave an inch, she took a mile.

Altogether: No matter what happened, no matter how much trouble they were in, they would always have each others back.

Tank: He was all fortified armor, bullet-proof and impenetrable. She was always by his side, relentlessly pounding until he let her in.

Game: "Wow Naru, I never knew you were so horrible at Go-fish."

"We're playing chess next."

Red: The shoes were gorgeous. Bright red pumps, designer, and very, very expensive, which she could see by looking at the price tag. There was no way that she could ever afford these, no matter how much she wanted them. Mai sighed and moved to put them away. She would just have to look somewhere else for some new shoes.

"Miss, those shoes have already been purchased for you." said the salesclerk beside her.

"What?" she responded, confused.

The salesclerk responded by pointing to a young man standing by the wall, with his back ramrod straight and his cool blue eyes looking off to the side.

Phantom: The boy stood confused beside her. Well, not so much 'stood' as floated. Mai had never met anyone with hair that white, and definitely nobody who could shoot green lasers at malevolent ghosts. She opened her mouth to thank him for saving her from the strange ghost, but the ghost kid beat her to it.

"So, you some new kind of ghost?"

Burying her head in her hands in embarrassment, she couldn't help but think how she should have known better than to astral project herself so she could scope out the town. And Naru really should have thought a little more about taking a case in a place called 'Amity Park'.

Astronomer: Mai wouldn't call herself a professional, but she thought that she knew quite a bit about stars.

"See Naru, that's a froggy over there, and that one's a flaming poodle and that one-"

Grade: He stared incredulously at the piece of paper in front of him.

"Mai, when I said that we would be having employee evaluations, I didn't mean like this. And just why did you give me an F?"

Glance: She took him in only through the corner of her eye. Him, only when she didn't seem to be looking. Lin thought both were being completely ridiculous and that they should just suck it up and talk to each other already.

Blame: Mai thought that he took on far too much blame for everything. It wasn't his fault that Gene had decided to go to Japan, and it wasn't his fault that he had died, and she would always tell him so. She was okay with not leaving until he understood.

Mold: All the psychics he had met had fit some type of mold. That was, all the psychics until his team. He would never understand just how a guitar playing monk, a medium who dressed only in kimonos, an Australian priest, a doctor miko, and an orphan astral-projector worked so well together.

Dictate: It was a fundamental rule of the universe. The sky was blue, the earth was round- Naru never asked for anything. He just told them what would happen.

Kid: Mai was just walking around, taking a tour of the town. She had promptly ignored Naru's orders to stay in the base as soon as he had given them, because really, who would pass up the chance to explore a place famous for their ghosts? She quickly turned the corner, and gave a start as she crashed into someone. As she fell on her butt, she looked up and saw a familiar face. The same black hair, and blue eyes. "Naru?" The kid gave her a strange look, and informed her that his name was Danny, not 'Naru'.

Copying: "Mai, it's just an evaluation of your paranormal knowledge, not a test. So stop trying to cheat off of Yasuhara."

Distortion: Everything looked like she was looking at it through a thick sheet of glass. The tears on Ayako's face seemed to shimmer, and the panicked look on Bou-san's face looked comical. Through the corner of her eyes she saw Naru, with an almost scared look that she had never seen on him. Mai tried to open her mouth to tell them how strange they all looked, but she was just so tired. So, she closed her eyes and waited as everything turned dark.

A/N: Hello All! I do not own Ghost Hunt!

It's nice to be back. I will be posting my little drabbles here, and some other stories that I can't possibly fit into The Dawn Daydreamer. A couple will be AU, a couple will be in this prompt format, and a couple will actually be in the world of The Dawn Daydreamer. There's actually a lot going on behind the scenes of that story, and if I was to write every single event, well, we'd never finish.

The title of this 'Psyche' is actually Greek for soul, which I thought would be the perfect title for this. This chapter was written in a prompt format. Some are written out, and some of them are just dialogue. A couple of these are actual events in The Dawn Daydreamer, and you may even see references to them in that story. Prompts 'Kid' and 'Phantom' are cross-overs with Danny Phantom, and if I have time, I'll write out an entire chapter for them.

I hope you all like this chapter, and please tell me which of these are your favorites. I'll see if I can expand on them in a later chapter. I had a lot of fun writing these! I'm hoping to further explore the Naru and Mai's dynamic in the future chapters. A lot of these prompts actually deal with little moments between Naru and Mai in the office or in her home. I'm going to try to revamp their stereotypical dynamic, which usually has him staying in the office all day and her just sitting around. I think that they gotta talk to each every now and then, and these are my ideas of how that would go. After all, Naru's human too.

If you guys have any prompts you want me to do, just tell me and I'll try to include them in the next prompt based chapter! The next chapter is an AU story, and, to make up for my long break, I'll be uploading it next week. All I'll say about it is that Mai's a teacher. And Naru- well, you guys just have to wait to see that. It's already done, but it's all kinda long, so I'm having some trouble finding all the little errors. Wish me luck!

Thank you all for reading!