Chapter 1

I love starting new fanfics! This one hopefully will be better than my last Ghost hunt Fanfic though will have nothing to do with it. And I'm sure you all know that I do not own anything relatively ghost hunt. If I did there would be a season two and Naru wouldn't have said the worst three words ever.

It was just another day in the office of SPR when a frazzled woman burst through the door. Mai looked her up and down. She was a sight to see.

She wore her thin dark hair in the oddest arrangement Mai had seen in awhile, and she was wearing slippers with striped socks that reached her knees along with a short blue dress. Her makeup, though dark and too heavily applied, was done messily and her coat buttons were horribly mismatched.

Even Lin poked his head out of his office to see who was making all of the noise with their panting and stomping. Mai tried to be as polite as she could but she so desperately wanted to laugh.

Mai sat the woman down as nicely as she could and then went to Naru's office. He was at the door however before she could finish knocking and she accidentally touched his arm as he swung the door open. Mai blushed and sneaked away to the kitchen to make tea.

When she returned from the little kitchen the woman was already finished her story and Naru was asking her questions. Great Mai missed the whole thing. She set the tea down and carefully took the seat next to Naru without touching him at all.

When the woman left Naru turned to Mai.

"Call Ayako Takigawa and Yasu, then see if Miss Hara and John would like to join us." He said and then he closed the door to his dark little office leaving Mai alone to make the phone calls.

When they arrived at the case site, Mai was surprised to see that it was a theme park. The park was under a dome to keep it from raining on any guests, and the roller coasters stretched far beyond Mai's line of sight. There was also a house of mirrors and a haunted house where they were told had the most activity.

This time when the woman appeared she looked very beautiful and Mai could have swore she saw Lin and Naru stare at her a little longer than necessary. Now her long brown hair was pulled neatly into a complex braid and her makeup was lighter giving the impression she needed none.

"Do you have somewhere we can stay and a room for us to use as our base" Naru asked as he looked absently around the park to avoid looking at the woman. She was already skeptical about his age, he didn't need her to think he was that immature as to stare at her all day.

"Yes, you will use the house of mirrors to set up your equipment and you can stay in the fairy tail section. There are several little houses in their that will be rather comfortable." She said as she walked away.

They set up the equipment before Monk and the others even got there. Ayako and Monk came out of the car bickering as usual and then abruptly stopped when they saw that they were using a house of mirrors as base. Monk raised his eyebrows.

"We're in a house of mirrors." He said hesitantly, he looked around only to confuse himself even more.

"Of course we are great observation." Came the monotonous voice of the one and only narcissist. He stepped away from his desk and Mai looked at his thousands of reflections, not quite sure which on was really him.

Ayako looked around a little confused but said nothing. She was busy noticing that Naru wouldn't look in the mirror. Then Yasu and Masako and John came in and John blinked a few times before he looked around confused.

"This is odd." Masako said quietly as usual, her sleeve covered her mouth and she walked gracefully to the center of the room, walking right into a mirror.

Ayako and Monk stifled their laughter and John just pointed the way to where Naru and Lin were, he obviously found this room just as confusing as Masako and didn't feel the need to laugh. Mai was also very disoriented by the room and she'd been there for a few hours already.

Naru however seemed to ignore the mirrors completely and never got lost in the room once.

"Mai, tea." He said calmly as he sat on the fold up chair he had brought with him. Usually there was some kind of sofa or couch already there but since they were at a theme park there was nothing and he was reduced to use fold up plastic chair.

Mai nodded and then walked into a mirror that she thought was the exit. Monk laughed at her just as much as he did Masako this was going to be a long case.

"Takigawa, please escort Mai to the cafeteria," Naru said pinching the bridge of his nose in annoyance. He was extra irritable this case. Monk stopped laughing long enough to acknowledge him and take Mai out to the cafeteria.

It was a big yellow room wit blue fish painted all over it, there was a massive kitchen and a white fence separating it from the tabled where the guests would eat. She quickly found a teapot and made some tea for her boss.

On the way back the lights in the park flickered and the whole place went dark. Nothing could have been seen and Mai stood frozen in the spot she was. When the lights flickered back on she saw a variety of kitchen utensils including knives and forks pointing at her.

She screamed and ducked down as they all launched themselves at her. Monk thankfully covered her with his own body and only got grazed by a couple of forks.

Probably hearing the screams Naru and the rest of SPR came running out of the mirror room to see Monk with his back bleeding in spots covering a panicked Mai.

"What happened?" Naru asked as he looked at all of the scattered kitchen tools on the ground and the spilled tea all over Mai and the floor. Monk stood up on his own wincing as his shirt touched his wounds.

Mai sat on the floor shocked, that had never happened before, and why didn't the ghost target Monk? Naru had to help her to her feet as she kept just sitting there numbly.

"Mai! Are you alright?" He asked the edge of worry in his voice barely visible but they all caught it because Lin took her chin h=in his hands and examined her.

"She seems fine, just shaken." He said shortly. Naru relaxed a little but kept his mask up and looked her over once again before deciding that she was okay. They'd been here for three hours and she'd already been in a life threatening situation.

He was going to have to go without tea for awhile. He was not going to put his team in that situation again. He hated this case already.

The mirrors and the knives. This case was getting uncomfortable. Back at base he sat on his foldy chair quietly waiting for something else to happen. He was reading a report that Yasu had given him about all of the deaths and disappearances at the park. There were a large number revolving around the house of mirrors and the haunted house, just as he'd been told.

Theme parks sucked. Ever since he was a child he hated them. The over excited people the swirling gut knotting roller coasters, and the clowns. He hated the clowns because they had on emotion painted onto their face but could be thinking something totally different, and the fact that they're grown men dressed up ridiculously to cater to children isn't exactly thrilling either.

"Naru, I'm fine honest," Whined Mai as she sat on the extra fold up chair Lin had brought. Lin stood at his desk and typed away at his laptop, he appeared to be emailing Madoka about something.

"I don't doubt that." He said as he read through the many papers Yasu managed to find on each victim so far. They all seem to have disappeared near the house of mirrors and then reappeared with no memory at all. The other half of the people who had mysteriously vanished had not yet been found.

"Well then why can't I help with the investigation? Its so boring here!" She dramatically threw her head back over the chair and exaggerated the word Boring as if to point out that he and Lin were the boring ones. Naru after reading the same sentence over three times in a row threw down the papers causing Lin to hesitate in his steady rhythmic typing.

"Fine! You can go to the haunted house with me," He said standing up and walking gracefully out of the room without so much as a glance away from the floor. Mai scrambled up from her seat and much more clumsily followed him out.

The haunted house was a wooden house with a track running through it, the windows were all boarded up for dramatic effect and there was yellow police tape all around the outside. Just thinking about entering such a creepy place made her shiver.

As usual Naru just walked right in following the track with his flashlight. Mai stayed close to him, it was even creepier inside.

There was what looked like dusty old furniture all along the outside of the track and writing all along the walls. The floor creaked as they stepped on the dusty floor and there were cobwebs all over the ceiling and in the corners. What was really disarming was the half covered mirror with the faded image of a young girl in it. Mai watched the girl as she passed the mirror and unknowingly walked right into Naru's back.

"Watch where you're going dummy." He said quietly in his sarcastic teasing way. He shone his flashlight in all of the corners and at all of the paintings. Nothing seemed out of the ordinary until he opened a door that was off limits to the tourists.

As soon as he opened it the stench of decaying bodies drifted out. Mai gagged and hid behind him as if something was going to grab her. Naru winced and shut the door hurriedly. He looked down at Mai she was choking back tears and probably vomit as well.

He wanted to put his arm around her and tell her it was alright but thought better of it as there were other things on his mind and they probably clouded his emotional judgment.

Instead he pushed her along back the way they had come from. She shouldn't have to have seen that, he shone his light in all of the places he did before to make sure he didn't miss something and froze when he shone it in the mirror.

He could have swore there was a picture of a little girl in there. If there was she certainly wasn't there anymore. Suddenly his flashlight turned off and the temperature dropped severely. He grabbed Mai's hand and dragged her toward the door. He was vaguely aware of the cackling that bounced off the walls of the little house, but kept running all the same.

Just as they approached the exit, the door swung shut and locked, though there was no lock on it to begin with. Naru cursed under his breath and held Mai close to him, if this ghost tried anything stupid he would destroy it himself with his powers.

Mai was getting closer and closer to him as the laughing got louder and louder and more insane. Suddenly a little girl with dark hair pulled into curly pigtails, and a frilly red dress appeared in front of them. He would have guessed she was about eight, if he had been able to see her face. Her face was covered by a mouth less white mask with dark purple eyes and little blush spots on the cheek. It was probably meant to be pretty but the way this girl used it made it even creepier than the clowns.

"You left me." Was what the girl said venomously. They didn't know her did they?