(A/N: The fourth chapter of Her Greatest Desire is here ! Wow, I’m proud of myself. :) This is like a break from my Tsubasa story Sakura and the Luna Kuro Wars. It’s nice.

I have not fully edited this chapter seeming that this file has been on my comp for a bit, and I decided to just post it up here already.

Disclaimer: yaddah yaddah yaddah never own MDLR ever...blah. :P

And the fushigi mystery cases begin!!XD I am extreamly sorry for the wait!X/ Here we go!!XD

Summary: Loki, Mayura, and Yamino are all listening to the client (who happens to be a slim woman with dark curly hair. She happens to be the granddaughter of the writer who just died this year. He has left a cryptic will behind, the will contains the way to find his hidden treasure! And apparently to the riddle, the treasure is in the writer’s house! Where is the treasure hidden...?

Her Greatest Desire

Chapter 4: First Case - The Writer’s Secret

When the client (as well as Yamino) entered the little office, Mayura quickly took in the woman’s appearance:

The woman looked the age of her early twenties, with a slim body covered in a fluffy white

feathery coat, and silky-looking dark brown hair that fell to her waist. Over all, she was a very pretty young woman. Mayura smiled politely as she bowed and introduced herself.

“So, what brings you here, miss...?” Loki asked for the name of his client, he was genuinely surprised at the beauty of the woman, ‘this is rare.’

“Sakura, Maika Sakura.” stated the woman politely, and curtsied slightly, thanking Yamino as he asked to take her heavy(by the look of it) white coat.

“What is your mystery, Sakura-san?” piped up Mayura, she followed the young woman’s movements as Maika Sakura sat down in a velvet (meant for clients) chair.

“Well, you have heard of the famous author, Jun Sakura, correct?” the woman asked, she brought out a brown-cover book and handed it to Loki, he glanced at the title swiftly and nodded.

Smiling, he answered, “Jun Sakura, he is a famous author for non-fiction, if I believe, this book is one of his works. And I believe you’re his granddaughter, Maika Sakura.”

Ms. Sakura smiled and nodded in confirmation, “Yes, and you see, my grandfather just died recently,” she paused for a moment, looking down, then continued, “ and he left a most interesting will behind.”

“Are you having trouble deciphering it or something?” Mayura asked, tilting her head slightly while putting some of her hair behind her ears. She wanted to see the title of the book that Loki held, but she saw him quietly put it into his desk drawer. She fumed silently, once again.

“That’s it exactly. He left quite a cryptic will behind, I’m afraid.” Ms. Sakura nodded, and sighed, seemingly defeated. “I tried different places, but no one could help me, to tell the truth, the will is a riddle.”

“A riddle?” echoed Mayura and Loki, they simultaneously looked at each other, blinking in surprise.

“Here, take a look for yourself.” Maika got out a piece of paper from her pocket of her dress and handed it to Mayura, the paper was folded neatly.

And here are my dying wishes;

seek the words of life,

scattered in my enclosed domain,

and a wondrous gift will open itself to you

my dear granddaughter, who loved my writings,

I grant you access to my treasure.

“Interesting.” Loki muttered, as he finished the will, he set it down on the desk and asked, “And what pray tell, is the ‘treasure’ exactly?”

“When my grandfather was a young writer, he found numerous amounts of gold, which is rare from the start, though that didn’t really have to do with his writings. He actually stumbled upon a box of gold, and hid it. In a place only he knows.” Maika said, she took back the will and put it into her pocket again. “Though I have no clue if he really found gold, or something else, or if the gold is his ‘treasure’. So far, everyone doesn’t have a clue.”

“Hmm...” Loki put a hand on his chin thoughtfully, his eyes were closed as if he was thinking intently. Suddenly, a bright voice chimed from the pink-haired girl that was sitting silently before.

“Don’t worry, we’ll find out this mystery for you, Detective Mayura (and Loki) are on the case!”

Loki let out a sigh.

Looks like the detective didn’t have a choice.

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As the woman left, Mayura quietly went back to her room. Slightly nervous to face the detective since she told the client that they would help her; without Loki’s agreement.

The girl felt ashamed for the outburst, but she also felt satisfied. Loki didn’t object to her decision, which was a good sign.

She walked to her room with a skip in her step, gleeful that she finally gets to solve a mystery.

The girl stopped her light-hearted skipping as she passed by the picture that held the woman with wings within it. The girl couldn’t help but wonder,

‘Who is she?’

Mayura didn’t have time to dwell on her thought long for she felt a little pawing on her right ankle and looked down curiously.

There was Fenrir, probably going to make sure the poor girl didn’t get lost. Chuckling as the little dog sat down and looked up at her with wondering eyes, Mayura crouched down and scooped up the dog.

“What’s wrong, Fenrir, you hungry again?”

The dog’s grey eyes sparkled at her question, obviously answering in the positive.

“Sorry, boy, go ask Yamino-san.” The pink-haired girl said, laughing as the black dog gave a whine. She put the little animal down and started heading to her room. The dog continued to follow.

Noticing this, the girl looked back over her shoulder and laughed, a sweet, small, smile on her face.

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The following day, Loki, Yamino, and Mayura (yes, Fenrir can’t come, no dogs in the house, that includes him obviously) headed to the mansion that the great author recently resided in.

As Maika lead a tour around the extravagant mansion, Loki payed close attention to the rooms that she showed, to see if anything was out-of-place. The detective glanced behind him to notice his two assistants doing just that by touching old books that ‘might be a clue’ and looking through random papers and such.

The young-man smirked wryly to himself at his luck and continued to listen to ’s description of each room they entered.

When they reached the courtyard, they decided to take a break and have lunch. Yamino got permission to use the kitchen(the items in there are still fresh), as Loki and Mayura decided to exchange things that seemed different that they noted. Loki supplied most of that conversation, while Mayura noted unimportant objects.

Sighing, Mayura decided to chat with Ms. Maika for the rest of the lunch.

“So, Ms. Maika, what are the remaining rooms that we are going to look at?” Mayura sipped on her tea as she asked her question, trying to be graceful, but failing miserably(she spilled some tea on her skirt, making her jump up in surprise at the hotness of the liquid, ultimately making the whole cup spill on her), “Hot, hot, HOT!!” she yelled in the process, greatly surprising the woman and earning an amused glance from the detective(much to her embarrassment).

The poor girl had to use a napkin, which wasn’t enough and eventually had to excuse herself and go to the nearest bathroom.

Mayura sighed as she washed her face and dried herself with a fancy green towel, she looked at the mirror subconsciously and sighed again. “Such a klutz...” she murmured to her reflection and put the towel back on it’s rack.

On her way back to the courtyard, Mayura noticed an open door and, letting her curiosity get the best of her, went into the room.

The room turned out to be a study of sorts, books scattered randomly on the floor and on a finely polished wooden desk. The girl noticed that all the books were reference books, picking one off and glancing at the title, ‘The Many Colors of the Roses’ quite random, but thinking back to what Loki told her at dinner last night, the author’s most recent book had to do with roses...

Glancing up at a glass case filled with books, she walked over(stepping carefully in the spots where there were no books) and read the spine of one of them and gasped. These were all journals that the man kept! As she tried opening the glass case, a voice called out to her.

“Mayura? What are you doing?”

The pink-haired girl looked up from her task to see Loki, Yamino, and in the doorway, knowing how wrong this looked, Mayura started, “I was coming back from the bathroom and saw this door open, I went in and saw this glass bookcase, I’m trying to open it—”

“Why, may I ask, are you trying to open it?” Asked a calm Loki, he was curious why the girl seemed to want to get in there so desperately.

“You remember that poem, right, in ’s will? It says ‘Seek the words of life’ this is what he’s referring to, I know it!” Mayura exclaimed as she went back to her task of opening it.

The girl frowned as she saw a little key-hole on one of the case doors, she then looked up at Ms. Maika and asked, “Ms. Maika, if you excuse my rudeness, but do you have the key to this glass bookcase?”

The young woman, seemed startled and nodded, “Yes, well, I know where it is, if you excuse me for a second...” she went off to a different room to retrieve the key.

Joining Mayura by the enclosed bookshelf, Loki looked over at her and asked “How do you know this is what he’s referring to? You could be wrong.”

The girl shook her head, long pink stands swaying at the movement, “No, I’m positive I’m right; in here, there are all the journals that Mr. Sakura has written.”

“I see, ‘Words of life in My enclosed Domain’, makes sense, good work Mayura.” The young-man smiled at Mayura, making the girl flush slightly.

Yamino just stared at the two in awe, how quick they figured the mystery out, the chef would never understand.

“I have the key, here.” said as she entered the room again with a golden-colored key at hand, the woman handed it to Loki, who let Mayura do the honors.

The girl unlocked the case and opened the glass door, she picked off a journal from the shelf and opened it. She smiled and said “First case, officially closed.”

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Back at Loki’s mansion, Mayura was sitting on the comfortable couch, Fenrir lying comfortably in her lap, and Loki at his usual spot in his chair at the desk relaxing and reading a book. Yamino handed them both tea, smiling at how relaxed the atmosphere was in the study.

As Yamino left the room to make dinner(Fenrir following close at his heels), the silence continued until Mayura spoke up;

“Um, Loki-san?”

“Yes?”

“You knew from the beginning what key to solve the mystery was, but let me figure it out for myself, why? We could of solved it faster if you did it.”

“Listen to yourself, Mayura, why would I ruin the fun of figuring it out for you? It’s good experience for a new detective such as yourself.” Loki said as he turned a page in his book, he looked up from it at her next question.

“Could you summerize it all again like you did before, I forgot the details.” She laughed sheepishly and grinned, scratching her head.

“Hmm, let’s see, after you found the treasure in the journals I explained to that her grandfather wanted her to inherit his treasure, which just happened to be gold(that he got from his book selling) and put it away in a grand secret place, within the ink of his journals(which he started at an old age), a good trick if I say so myself.” Loki concluded, and, putting a bookmark in his place, sitting up and putting his hands in a business-like position.

Mayura was genuinely impressed, he could tell all that from the will? He must have done some research, that must be it. She nodded to herself, “Wow, Loki-san, I feel very useless right now, I’m sorry, you’re just so good, I’m depressed.” she said glumly, looking down to her hands in her lap(she switched skirts when she got back).

Loki laughed at her bluntness, “thank you for the compliment, and don’t worry, you’re just starting, you are learning from the best! You will get it as quick as myself when you have had more experience.” The man got up and ruffled Mayura’s pink hair, winking.

Mayura just nodded, and smiled up at him, “Yeah, you’re right.”

-First Case- Closed-

(A/N: There you go, sorry for the wait, internet restrictions, you know. *shrugs* And I’ve been busy with school work, and such. I'm sorry if this case was a little rushed, I apologize, if it was.

I'm halfway with chapter 5, will update when I have time. Be lucky that I have stayed loyal to my fans and updating. So No Reviews on how late the update was, 'cause I know. seriously. No need for reminders.

Chapter 5 preview: Second Case- Missing Hourglass this one’s a little more tricky...:3

Is this mysterious hourglass ‘blessed’...

or ‘cursed’...?