Chapter 18

Taking a deep breath, closing her eye's it had been 2 weeks since the Trial and Mai being a free woman away from danger of Hibiki. It was lovely not having the feeling of someone watching over your shoulder every two minutes for the possible of danger lurking. She loved the feeling of being able to walk down the street without having someone go and protect her just incase she was about to be attacked.

The young brunette who finally had her hair back to the normal colour, she had gone to the hair dressers a few days before hand and paid for them to strip the black out of her hair, they told her some of the colour would still be lurking but she was just simply happy to have her chocolate brown hair back. That also included her new boyfriend who was also happy to see the wonderful colour on his girlfriend.

Now, though she had locked herself inside the bathroom of the Takigawa house, opening her eye's she looked down at a white stick she held in her hands, for the past 2 weeks since the morning of the trial she had been waking up feeling weak and pale. She had thrown up and then got sudden hunger pains and fixed herself up with the strangest breakfasts.

She had also taken note that her breasts had grown a little bit but was very tender, after looking up an article on the internet about the symptoms she went into a panic and rushed out of the house ignoring the calls of her foster parents. Running down to the closest drug store, receiving dirty looks when she bought the item.

A beeping was heard and she looked down at the white stick again in her hands, slowly her world had come crashing down. How was she going to explain this? As her mind was wandering a knock came on the door. " Mai sweetie, Ayako said your going to be late to your appointment, today's the day we find out about your eye!" Mai raised a hand and placed it over her bad eye, she had finally gotten use to being blinded in one eye, and she didn't know how to feel if her sight in that eye was going to be working.

Quickly shoving the stick in the trash and flushed the toilet Mai rushed out of the bathroom and got ready in her bedroom.

Monk just shrugged and walked into the bathroom to get ready to take his little girl to the clinic when he spotted something in the trash, curious he knelt down and blinked, then his eye's widened and began to panic. ' Ayako's pregnant?'

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Down at the clinic Monk and Mai had arrived 5 minutes before her appointment time, monk looked down at the teenager and saw her hands fidgeting with the rims of her skirt, he placed a hand on the girls shoulder. "Everything's going to be alright Mai, calm down ok?" Mai looked up to him and smiled nodding "I will do Papa"

Closing her eye's Ayako walked out with a clipboard wearing a doctors coat, " Mai, its time are you ready for this?" Mai stood up with Monk and nodded "As ready as I'll ever be, it.. Just too bad Naru couldn't make it for this. I wanted him to come with me" both of her parents looked a little sad, " It can't be helped apparently he had a urgent meeting to get to."

With that they walked down to Ayako's examination room.

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Naru was sat in his office looking at the woman in front of him, "I really want to give my deepest regrets to you, I have told the police to withdraw the charges against you and your team. I also want to thank you, if it was never for you people I would still be in that mans clutches"

Naru sat back and looked down at the news article on the desk it held a story on the front page saying at the James mansion bodies of 3 women had been found in the attic brutally murded by Mr. James, he had been sent to life in prison with his son. The woman sat in front of him had no idea on what her husband had done apart form the abuse he had given her over the years of being married with the man.

"Well I must say thank you, to you Mrs. James.." she put a hand up and smiled, " Please call me Sandra I'm divorced from that man now, I'm also English as well as you Mr. Shibuya." "Well Sandra, if it wasn't for you giving us the news about where My girlfriend being held captive she would be dead by now."

She bowed and smiled, " Well I have to go, I'm off to stay with my sister until I am back up on my feet again. Thank you again for everything you have done" with that she left, Naru looked down at his watch, Mai would be having her examination right now. He wondered whether to go and meet her for lunch. He then smiled he had something perfect planned. Picking up the phone he dialled a number

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Mai sat in a dimmed hospital room, as her foster mother went threw the routine check up before standing up and closing the blinds a little bit. " Right its time, since your eye's been bandaged up for a little over a month, its going to be rather sensitive to light ok?" Mai nodded and took a deep breath as Ayako stood behind her daughter and slowly began to take the bandage off Mai's eye.

Slowly pealing it off row by row, there was a long scar that went from just under her bangs stopping halfway down her cheek from the knife wound that had been inflicted onto the girl. Monk winced seeing that the scar wouldn't go away. Finally after another minute Ayako finished taking the bandage off and then knelt down in front of Mai.

"Ok sweetie you can open your eye now." with that Mai opened her eye, it took a while for her to focus it. "Well how is it sweetie?" Spoke the shrine maiden. "I can see, but… there are a few blurry spots." Ayako nodded and turned the light up a little bit, Mai's eye winced a little from the sudden change in brightness.

Ayako noticed a small light blue spot shining in the young girls eye, she took a deep breath " its good that you can see a little bit out of it hunni but.." Mai held her hand up and smiled, " I'm partially blind ain't I? don't worry to be honest I was sort of expecting that coming. Especially if I'm going to be experiencing more new things in my life… " She placed a hand to her stomach and looked down, the facial expression wasn't a happy one.

This confused both of the parents, " Mama… papa I have something I need to tell you… and I need both of your support for this.. Otherwise I can't go threw with it."

With that both of them sat in front of her.

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Later on that night Mai was getting ready for a unexpected Date with Naru, he had called her to tell her he was picking her up at 7.30 and to wear something nice. Right now she was sat in front of her mirror wearing a slim baby blue satin dress that his mother bought her when they went shopping.

Her hair was straightened and around her neck held the celtic cross. Closing her eye's she hadn't seen Gene in her dreams lately, she wondered since the pains of her past had gone away that he had finally moved on. A knock on her bedroom door caused her to re-open her eye's and turn around. "Come in" she spoke.

Ayako walked into the bedroom and gave a soft smile, she was holding a glass of water and her medication. " Here you go sweetie, I think your really going to need these tonight." Mai turned around in her desk chair and took the medication taking it without the water. She had gotten use to it to the point where they are easy to swallow.

" Are you going to tell him tonight?" asked the red haired shrine maiden. Mai took a deep shaky breath and nodded "yeah, I have to, I'm scared though what if he doesn't want to be with me cause of it?" All the mother could do was give Mai a hug. "if he walks away I think Monk will be the first one to track him down and kill him with me behind, we support you with this, its your choice." Mai gave a gentle smile and nodded. "thank you mama" "No problem sweetie, now… lets get something done with your hair" she turned Mai around and picked up the brush and began to place Mai's hair up into an elegent bun, with a few strands hanging down at each side of her face.

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The sky held a lovely midnight blue colour, with stars shinning clear as day Mai walked up to the doors of a beautiful seafront restaurant, all the building on lower grounds was all see threw windows, a balcony that allowed people to dine outside over the water front. It was clearly breath taking for the young girl. She had only ever been to a few of these places when her mother was alive.

Walking up to the door a waiter opened it for her and bowed her head smiling, "welcome to the fish troll" Mai gave a gentle smile and nodded " thank you, I'm here under the reservation of Shibuya." the Waiter nodded and smiled again. " right this way, Mr. Shibuya just arrived a few minutes before yourself"

He took her in and began walking to the outside balcony, in the corner sat Naru wearing a pair of grey suit trousers and a white dress shirt. He gave Mai a smile and stood up taking her hand, " you look beautiful tonight love." that caused Mai to smile even more. "thank you, you look stunning yourself."

The waiter pulled a chair out for Mai who simply sat down and thanked him. She looked out towards the ocean, it was so breath taking, the fresh sea water air. "This is lovely Naru," he smiled and took her hand "not as lovely as you, how's your eye?"

Mai looked to him, she had managed to put on some foundation to cover up the scar a little bit but it was still noticeable. She placed a hand on her eye and gave a small sigh, " I can see, to an extent, a little bit of you is blurry out of it, Mama diagnosed it as being patricianly blind, in which I expected." he just smiled to her. " it doesn't matter to me, your still the girl I want to be with."

She took a deep breath, " Naru, before we have this… I need to tell you something, I found out the reason on why I've been so ill lately."

Naru looked to her curiously. " what is it, is everything ok? Monks been telling me on how worried you've been."

Mai looked down to the ground, and placed a hand on her stomach, she knew she had to tell him. "Naru… I'm sorry… I'm pregnant." Naru's eye's widened his mind went into shock, he knew that it wasn't his as he wasn't ready to go that far with her, and he knew she wasn't ready to go that far with it either. "A..are you possitive?" Mai nodded and then looked to him. "Naru… I.."

"Are you keeping it?" She gave a nod, " Yes…" Naru looked to her, his face wasn't plesent he stood up letting go of her hand, " Naru? A..are you not … " he took a deep breath. "I'm sorry but I can't accept it, goodbye.." With that he walked away leaving Mai to sit there, tears filling her eyes. Naru… had just broken up with her… for being pregnant.

THE END….

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Well that's the end of this fanfic! Mai is pregnant and keeping the baby! Naru BROKE UP WITH HER!

THERE WILL BE A SEQUAL! KEEP AN EYE OUT FOR IT!

Curedream90! Over and out!