Shibuya Kazuya:

I am informing you that I am resigning my position as your assistant and my last day working as an employee at Shibuya Psychic Research will be on the final day of this month. Although I am leaving, I would like to help by training the new assistant so that you will be satisfied with not only their filing, translating and/or case work, but also their tea.

I feel that I am not well suited for this position. Mainly because of the many times I allow my emotions to have a play during cases and in front of clients. This is unprofessional and puts many people in dangerous situations, not just myself. Mostly you, Shibuya Kazuya, and I apologize for being a hassle during these said cases.

This in no way was caused by any employee of SPR. Working for you as long as I have, I have come to grow close to many of them and I consider them family. This is truly my decision and my decision alone.

Please, do not think that this decision was made in haste, or out of anger. I spent many nights thinking if this would be the right decision and only discovered until recently that it may just be. I am still extremely grateful for all that you have done for me. For as long as I live I will be in your debt.

Thank you for allowing me to work for your company and I hope your new assistant is exactly what you need.

I sigh and look away from my resignation letter that sits in the middle of my desk. "There is no way I can quit." I mutter folding my arms and pouting. "I guess I'm meant to be a love-struck fool forever."

"Mai, Tea." Naru calls from his office. My lips turn upwards slightly at the corners. Rolling my eyes at his lack of "Please" I stand and head for the kitchen. I quickly make two cups of tea and walk to Lin's office. Knocking politely he opens the door and declines my offer for tea. I nod in response and head for the 'big boss'. I knock and wait for Naru's reply.

"Come in." I open the door and carefully set his tea on his desk. I give a slight bow and walk back to my desk.

*RING*

*RING*

"Shibuya Psychic Research.. What?... No… Fine…. I do…. Are you sure?... Who?... Why?!... Idiot…. Yes… Yes. … I won't." My face bunches in confusion when Naru ends his phone call.

"He usually only calls me idiot… I wonder who he was talking to." I wonder out loud spacing out.

"Mai!" Naru calls loudly, I jump from his unnecessary loudness and spill my tea all down the front of my shirt.

"Grrr… What!" I answer with a tiny bit of attitude.

"Have you finished the filing and translating of the Minishi case?" He asks coldly.

"Yes." I answer glaring down at my shirt. In frustration I swipe my resignation letter off of my desk, missing the waste basket, it flutters to my boss's feet. When did he get out here? He bends down to pick up the letter. "That's personal." I say scrambling to reach the letter before him. He tears it away from my reach and begins reading it.

"You're really quitting?" He asks almost hurt. I stare at him with wide eyes. His face is face is so full of emotion.

"Who told you?" I ask confused. "Masako probably told John, Who told Monk. Are there no secrets?" I mutter quietly to myself

"Not happening." He answers himself coldly, glaring at me. Crushing the letter into a ball he tosses it in the trash.

"Excuse me?" I ask glaring back.

"Do I really have to spell this out for you? Not. Happening." He rolls his eyes and goes to walk away. I stand and grab his arm.

"You can't control this, Dr. Davis. When an employee quits there is nothing you can do!" I hiss through my teeth.

"No resignation letter made it to my desk." He replies smirking and walking out of my grip to his office. I smirk and sit in my desk. I click on my resignation letter and quickly change my stained button up shirt with my extra one in my drawer.

"Well he's right! Mmm... How many copies..." I mumble to myself with my hand on my chin. "Naru! How many cases have I worked since I've been employed here?" I ask curiously.

"Two-hundred and fifty-three." He answers immediately, tapping his stupid favorite fountain pen. I allow myself to be surprised and happy that he knew the answer to that, without having to think about it, for a split second. I type in the number of copies I desire and click print. I stand and go to Lin's office which has the printer. Knocking he answers and lets me enter. I take my place next to the printer and wait. Ten minutes and many sideways glances from Lin later, my copies are complete. I grab them and turn to walk out.

"For Naru." I answer Lin's unasked question smiling. Reaching the client area of the office, I see the rest of the SPR team sitting on the couches.

"What are all of those papers for, Mai?" Yasuhara asks curiously.

"They are for Naru!" I answer still smiling. I see them get up and stop by my desk watching me go to Naru's office with my stack of papers. Barging into his office I stand in front of his desk, grab a handful of letters and throw them in the air. He glares and watches as I slam a letter onto his desk. "Two-hundred and fifty-three. A letter of resignation for every case I should have quit after!" I shout as letters fall around us. He continues his very frightening glare, but I stand my ground. I set the rest of the letters on his desk and continue, "You can't deny all of these letters, can you Dr. Davis?" I taunt. In a flash he slams his fists on his desk and pushes the pile of letters into the floor his favorite pen following them. The papers fly around the room and some slip into the hallway. My jaw drops and I glare viciously.

"You wasted two-hundred and fifty-three pieces of paper and all of that ink for resignation letters that are NOT even valid?!" he yells back at me.

"How are they not valid? I yell louder, "They are on your desk!"

"THEY. DON'T. HAVE. YOUR. NAME. ON. ANY. OF. THEM." He shouts leaning over his desk his fists still pressed down. I roll my eyes and grab a letter. Looking at it briefly, I see that this narcissistic know it all, is right.

"God dammit." I mutter letting go of the paper and stomping out of the room.

"What are you doing?" He yells after me.

"To print off two-hundred and fifty-three letters with my name!" I shout back stopping at the end of the hall at my desk. The audience; Madoka, Lin, Ayako, Monk, Yauhara, John, and Masako, are now standing in front of the SPR entrance. Blocking any escape Naru and I have from each other. Flipping open the SPR lap top I reopen my letter and begin typing my name. Naru walks up to me coolly and grabs the lap top. "Give it back, Oliver!" I growl. He briefly smirks at me and slams the lap top on the ground repeatedly until the screen is completely separated from the keyboard. He carefully puts them together and set them on my desk.

"Here you are, Mai." He says indifferently. I bite my bottom lip trying to suppress an angry, rage filled scream.

"Who do you think you are?!" I ask yelling in disbelief.

"What a dumb question to ask, Mai." He snaps rolling his eyes, "Dr. Oliver Davis." Fuming with anger, I take a deep breath and let out a fake smile.

"Well, Dr. Oliver Davis. I will just sign a letter." I say smiling like I have won. I reach over my desk for my pen cup and all of my pens are gone! "Oliver!" I growl loudly.

"Honestly, Mai. I said I was DR. OLIVER DAVIS. Did you really think I wouldn't have thought about your pens?" He asks with his perfect stupid smirk. We stare at each other both huffing angrily. When something brilliant pops in my head.

"I bet there is one pen still in this office, Naru." His face scrunches in confusion. I dart down the hall way into his office. He groans in frustration and dives into the room after me. We both scramble to the floor and desperately search for the pen he had lost amongst the sea of resignation letters during his outburst. Tossing papers aside I finally find the blue pen with a silver tip. He snaps it form my hands and stands holding it above his head so I could not reach it. After, four failed attempts of jumping to reach the pen, I hang my head in "defeat". He smirks still holding the pen above my grasp. I walk across the room kicking papers as I go creating a carpet runway. Our audience is now standing by the door watching us. I turn quickly upon reaching the end of the room and run down my carpet trail. Jumping I snatch the pen back and fall to the ground by his paper shredder. I grab a letter and manage to write a 'T' before Naru flipped me to my back. Straddling me, he restrains both of my hands and pulls the pen out of my grasp. He turns sharply to the shredder, still on top of me, and shreds the tip making the pen, Naru's favorite pen, completely useless. I groan in defeat and end my attempts to leave his grasp. He rolls off and lands next to me panting.

"That, is coming out of your paycheck." He snaps between breaths.

"Whatever. I didn't want to quit any way. So the pen is really a loss for you." I huff folding my arms on my chest. His eyes bulge at my words.

"Then what was the point of all of this!?" he asks pointing to the random white papers.

"You told me I couldn't." I answer. "I get to decide if I quit! Not you, Naru." I pout staring at the ceiling.

"You printed of two-hundred and fifty-three resignation letters, because I told you no?" He asks gritting his teeth.

"Yup!" I answer enunciating the 'P'. He sighs and closes his eyes. We lay there in silence and listen as our audience quietly sneaks into the office to watch what we will do next. "Why did you even stop me?" I snap turning my head onto to side to look at him.

"All of the things that have occurred up until now and you really have to ask?" Naru asks annoyed rubbing the bridge of his nose with his thumb and index finger. "You really are an idiot."

"YOU are the idiot, Naru! AND out of control. I've never seen you show THAT much emotion. Breaking stuff." I mutter the last part mostly to myself. His actions had surprised me but I did trash his office.

"I stopped you, Mai. Because I don't have time to hire a new assistant." He answers indifferently. I scoff and roll my eyes.

"Yeah because finding a new assistant would be soooo hard!" I reply mockingly.

"I love you, you hard-headed, clumsy, idiotic woman." He snaps loudly. "So yeah! It would be very difficult filling your position." I froze in disbelieve. My whole body ignited in a blush and my stomach fluttered two-hundred and fifty-three times a minute.

"W-what?" I ask staring at him.

"Mai, even YOU should know what 'I love you' means." He answers annoyed.

"I'm fully aware of what it means. I just don't see how you could have fallen in love with me in a matter of eight days." I snap.

"Eight days?" He asks loudly turning to me. "Are you that dense, Mai?" I keep my stare on him showing that I am serious. He groans and looks back toward the ceiling.

"The day I met you, you saw straight through my act. You intrigued me. After that, I couldn't stop thinking about you. When you broke my camera and Lin was injured, I saw it as a perfect opportunity to test you. And so I did. Even after our first case, you still intrigued me. So, I hired you. Then after the hexed school case, I started feeling different around you. It was your stupid tea. You came in late and I still didn't have any tea. I was worried, knowing you, you probably fell down another well. You're such a klutz and you seem to attract everything and anything even remotely dangerous. I knew then, worrying about you and feeling relieved when you walked through the door. I knew. I began insulting your intelligence to push you away but that back fired. You just insulted back and shouted but still stayed, smiling and making tea." He sighs and continues, "And then you told me you loved me. I knew you didn't, that you couldn't, especially because Gene was involved. Why would you love me? Why would you choose me over the smiling Gene? So I left. Buried my brother and tried to continue on in England. I spent two years drinking horrid tea, which made me miss you every day. The office was always to quiet. I missed your humming and the sounds of you tripping over nothing. Madoka and Lin would talk constantly and many of their conversations involved you. And so I stopped trying to not miss you. Even if you didn't love me, I could still drink your tea. Then I came back." He stands and looks down at me. I am so happy that I can't even form any sort of sentence my brain is throbbing from retrieving all of this information. He loves me. He turns his back to me. "Tea." I jump up and run out of the room heading toward the kitchen. I stand in the middle, my eyes wide and my heart pounding.

"He loves me." I say to myself and smile. I hear the audience evacuate Naru's office and sit in the client area yet again.

"That was…" Ayako starts and pauses thinking.

"Destructive? Messy? Unnecessary?" Monk asks laughing. "Everyone knew they felt like that about each other. I did NOT see Naru's confession coming though."

"The big boss went a little crazy for a minute, didn't he?" Yasuhara adds with amusement in his voice.

"Yeah! I mean… It's normal for Mai, to be elaborate like that toward Naru, but I did not see the lap top situations occurring at all." John joins in a hoarse whisper.

"I am surprised that she didn't confess back." Masako states simply. "Almost three years of unwavering love for one another. Two of those years with no contact." I hold my breath and dash back to the wonderful, handsome, idiot who is picking up my mess of papers.

"It was you." I say loudly and blushing at my unintentional loud volume. I continue quickly staring at the floor lowering my voice slightly." It was never Gene. And I knew it, but you doubting it made me doubt it. I mean you're basically a genius! So who was I to go against what you said? You said it so black and white! Good or bad? Because it was that simple, of course someone is going to say 'good'! Only a sadist would say 'bad'. You are not 'bad'. You are a mixture of everything. And I love you. It was you. It still is you. And..." I pause taking a deep breath and looking at him, "It will always be you." I bite my bottom lip nervously and realize I never made Naru's tea. I laugh awkwardly and back up slowly, "I'll go make your tea…" He drops the papers in his hands and pulls me into him.

"Forget the tea." He whispers holding me. I smile and wrap my arms around him in response.

"What now?" I ask quietly in his chest. He slides his fingers in mine and lightly lifts my chin with the other. With a slight smile he slowly begins to move in to me. I close my eyes, my mouth begins tingling in the anticipation of his next move. He softly brushes my lips and smirks as a shiver runs down my spine. Letting his hand go I lean into his chest and step up on my toes, smashing my lips onto his. He wraps his arms around me and pulls me closer, deepening our kiss. I let out a soft moan and intertwine my fingers into his raven black hair. His tongue travels along my bottom lip asking for entrance. I give in, allowing him to explore my mouth and dance with my tongue. The taste of tea fills my mouth as he invades. A shaky breath leaves me as I grip his shirt trying to keep myself steady. His kiss is possessive but passionate, demanding but gentle, and full of desire. The world around us is nothing but a blur as we continue what we had desperately wanted to start long before now.

"Ahem." A voice brings us back. I blush and step away, my gaze to the floor. Naru clears his throat and grabs my hand before speaking.

"Yes, Lin? What is it?" he asks indifferently.

"It's finished." He answers cryptically and walks away with a smirk on his face. I turn to Naru with an eye brow raised. He shakes his head and smiles slightly. Leaning down, he touches his lips with mine and allows them to linger for a brief moment. Pulling back he lets go of my hand and travels to the other side of his office behind his desk.

"Bring tea and return so you can clean up your mess, Mai." He demands coldly clearing off his desk. I roll my eyes at his tone and smile.

"My mess?" I ask innocently. His eye brows raise as he looks up at me. Mocking my eye roll he smirks and answers.

"Fine. So WE can clean up your mess." He returns to the matters on his desk as I walk down the hall and see the SPR team still chatting. Smiling, I step into the kitchen and walk up to the stove. My eyes widen the closer I get. Finally reaching it, I run my finger across the brand new stove and let out a small laugh.

Home is where the heart is and I'm glad I'm finally home.

THE END.

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