A/N Hello! This is my first Ghost Hunt fanfic, and it takes place after the manga ends. I am hoping to have lots and lots of fun with this, and I hope that you all have fun reading it.

I do not own Ghost Hunt!


Case 1: Trapped

October 16th

A few days before

Dream:

I looked out into the darkness and noticed that the only light that I could see was coming from the glowing orbs that were floating around me. I didn't understand, this was my dream plane, but I had not been able to get here since Naru left with Gene's body three months ago. And, somehow, as I looked around the space I had entered, I knew that Gene was not coming. I wouldn't be seeing him again.

It was then that I saw a pair of glowing black eyes watching me. It wasn't in a creepy stalker way though, no, it was in a curious protective way. I found myself staring back in curiosity as well. I heard a ruffle of feathered wings as the eyes began to make their way closer to me.

In answer to the ruffling, I reached out with my hand and calmly waited for it to come closer. Though, I really don't know why I had done that. It wasn't usually like me to invite something unknown to me. Especially in my dreams.

In no time at all, whatever it was had taken a perch on my arm and was watching my eyes expectantly. Seeming to will me to stay calm. The floating lights around me faded as the black shifted until it resembled an open field. It was then that I realized the thing on my arm was in fact a Raven.

I guess that I should have been worried or even frightened at the gigantic bird that was on my arm. But for some reason, I trusted the Raven. It was as if he was an old friend I had met long ago.

Tearing my eyes away from the bird, I found that the field I was standing in was devoid of all life. In fact, I could see the bodies of dead people. Most were just bones, but a few seemed to still have meat on the bones, sickly decomposing flesh that looked and smelled terrible.

I found myself struggling not to hyperventilate. I mean, I was in a field full of dead bodies! Just before I was about to let out a scream, a soft brush of a wing on my cheek had my head turning towards the Raven. It was then that I knew it. As long as the Raven was with me, I was safe. He would make sure of it.

As a breeze seemed to ruffle my hair, the Raven let out a loud caw. I felt myself start to slip back into the real world.


"Mai," I heard Madoka call out my name. And from the sound of her voice, I gathered that it wasn't the first time she had called out to me.

"Hmm?" I asked as I lifted my head from my desk. When realization dawned on me, I said "Oh my God, I am so sorry! I didn't mean to fall asleep!"

To my surprise, she just chuckled at me. "Don't worry Mai! I'm just surprised this was the first time since Noll left that you have fallen asleep at work! You wouldn't believe the amount of times he vented about how you fall asleep at the drop of a pin!"

I shook my head at the comment. It wasn't like we had gotten any tough cases lately anyway. Most of what we had been doing these past three months that Naru had been away for were clean cut cases that anyone could have solved in their sleep. Or out of it seeing as I didn't have those dreams anymore. Or I thought that I didn't.

But that also didn't reassure me seeing as I hadn't gotten a dream since my boss left. After all, Gene had moved on since his body was found, and he had been the helping hand that had once guided me through the dreams. Without him, I wasn't sure if I could even get those dreams.

"Was it one of those dreams?" Madoka surprised me by asking what I had just been thinking about.

"Yeah, I think it was." I answered carefully. I didn't really want to tell her about it, but I knew she would want to know what I saw.

To my surprise, she didn't ask me to tell her. She only asked a single question. "Was Gene in your dream?" She asked as she averted her gaze and her teeth played with her lower lip. It was almost as if she was afraid of what my answer might be. And I understood that. If I was her, I would be very concerned to what the answer would be.

I let out my breath before answering "No, he has moved on." I tried to make sure that my voice was strong, but I'm not sure if it worked or not.

It was only after that that Madoka forced me to share the details of the dream. For some reason I didn't tell her about the Raven. I just couldn't; it didn't feel right to tell her about him. But I did tell her about the lights and the field of bodies.

Madoka nodded, and to my surprise bubbly told me that I had the rest of the day off. Not that I was complaining. With a wave I left, just noticing her taking her phone out.


Madoka's POV:

After Mai left, I took out my phone and dialed a number I knew by heart. I was a little panicked, but I knew that I couldn't show that. At the same time I was ecstatic! Mai was getting visions again!

"Hello?" A deep voice asked.

Taking a deep inhale, I said "Mai fell asleep at work for the first time! From what the two of you were telling me I thought it was going to be a daily occurrence." Yes, I was stalling, but I also knew that if Noll was around he would hear the name Mai and try to enter the conversation. He was the one I really wanted to talk to.

"It was when we were in Japan," Lin answered in his stoic voice.

I heard the phone switch hands right about then and knew that the little genius had decided if it pertained to Mai's dreams he needed to know. I smiled inwardly at myself. I knew that boy like the back of my hand … sometimes.

"Did she dream?" His blunt question was asked with feigned emotionless voice. But he couldn't trick me so easily. I knew that he had a soft spot for Mai. We all knew that. Well, except for Mai and Naru. But seriously, those two were so dense sometimes.

"Yep," I gave him the affirmative.

"Was it one of those dreams?" He asked over the phone.

"Seems like," I answered as cheerfully as I could. I heard the pause on the other end and decided not to pull his chain. He needed to know this. It really wasn't fair to keep it from him anyway. And it wasn't like it was bad news. Or I didn't think that it was bad news.

"I did ask. Mai is convinced that he has moved on, and she didn't see him." I said with some care. I didn't need him going into a rage or what not.

A few minutes later and I had described the dream as Mai had told me. "And now we know that she can probably still use her dreams on cases! Isn't that wonderful?"

I was greeted by silence on the other end. Then Noll replied by asking "Have you lost more brain cells then you could replace on your last case?"

I huffed. I knew that I had taught him manners when he was younger, but he apparently decided to forget them all. Seriously, could he be a little more gentlemanly at times? Or would the strain on his personality kill him?

"The detailed reports we had Mai fill out tells us that Gene repeatedly interfered in order to probably keep her safe. Without a spirit guide in her dreams, her visions may become more violent and volatile. And we all knew how bad they can be anyway. You need to watch her Madoka!" he continued with a little bit of annoyance in his voice.

I hadn't thought of that. Damn, why did he always have to be a kid genius? It wasn't fair. Yes, I was pouting.

"Oliver is right. I think we both are planning on coming back sometime next month. Until then, keep track of all of her dreams and actions meticulously. Okay?" Lin said as he took the phone back from the agitated teen.

"Alright," I agreed. Then I had to ask "How are things over there?"

After a pause to get the right words Lin said "Suffocating. I think that we both can't wait to come back. If anything it will get people off our backs. And I think he doesn't want to admit it, but we both are missing Japan."

When he hung up I couldn't help but wonder if it was Japan they were missing or the people who lived there.


Day 1

October 21st

Mai's POV:

Crap! I was watching the clock as the seconds seemed to be speeding up. I was not ready yet! The test was going to be super hard, and I did not study as much as I should have. In fact, I hadn't studied at all!

It had been almost week since the first dream, and every time I closed my eyes I saw the Raven as if it was telling me that something was coming. And that also kept my focus off of everything else. For instance, I meant to study, I really did, but when I opened the book I had heard a flap of wings from behind me when nothing was there. How the hell was I supposed to study with that thing always handing over my shoulder?

But at this point I didn't give a damn if it was trying to tell me something unless it was to tell me the answers to the test I had to take next class. If he could I would promise him that I would get whatever treats that dream ravens liked and I would give him a truck load of them.

About a minute before it was time to move on to math class, the intercom beeped to life. "Mai Tanyama, please report to the office. Mai Tanyama, please report to the office. Thank you,"

Thank you! Thank you Madoka! I praised the pink haired woman. She was a life saver. And I knew it was her because it was always SPR related when I got called down the office. That was just the kind of person I was.

Sure enough, there she was. And she was grinning for some reason too. Right about then I should have been afraid, but I wasn't. Silly me.

"We have a case!" She announced proudly and with a lot of enthusiasm.

With a bead of sweat running down my face I answered "I thought as much," with a small smile.

Before I could ask what the case was, I was pushed into the van that was already packed with the equipment needed for collecting data on the house or place we were investigating.

"Where are we going?" I finally asked after we had been driving for a while.

"Oh, it's a case I found myself. You see, there is a condemned property where people see spirits often. I thought it would be a great idea to go ahead and catalog all of them for Naru. It might give him some good data for his research." She smiled and swerved in and out of traffic.

To be honest, the one thing I missed more than Naru was Lin's careful driving. I could fall asleep when he drove, but with Madoka... I was afraid that I was going to die. It is impossible to sleep hen every five minutes you are either about to crash into the car in front of you or you feel your insides coming out due to the fact that the break was just slammed to the floor of the car.

Case and point: she made an hour drive done in a little less than fifteen minutes. I was scared that my life was going to end in that cursed van.

As it turns out, the place we were investigating was a large two story house with scorch marks all over it. While the second floor had been deemed uninhabitable, there were plenty of rooms down stairs that we could use. That we were using as it turned out.

Madoka had decided that we would stay the night in the same room that acted as the base. She had been sure to pick a room that just happened to have two couches in it so that we were going to sleep semi comfortable. I didn't like that at all. One; it was just the two of us, and two; the door didn't lock anymore. Anyone could come in while we were sleeping! And it really did bother me.

As I set up the cameras, I couldn't help but think of Naru. I wondered how we would both react when he was back. I had confessed my love for him, and he had just shoved it off onto his twin who I didn't even know. In total I had probably spent all of twenty minutes with Gene. How the hell was I supposed to have fallen in love with him?

I still loved Naru, but now I knew that he probably wasn't going to accept my feelings anytime soon. So I had decided to stay close to him, and to try again when the time was right.

"A little bit more to your right and we are set!" Madoka smiled with her voice. It was so much better than the monotone voice that Lin used, but I would have been lying if I said I didn't miss it though.

As I made my way back to base, I could feel a cold breeze caress my back. It was chilling, but I figured that it was just because the place was mostly burnt down. It was also October, almost November, so the weather was getting somewhat colder. That was also when I heard the rustling of feathers. If it was the sound of anything else I might not have freaked out, but after the dream with the Raven I was a little jumpy about that particular sound.

I started walking faster until I was almost running into the base that Madoka had set up for us. And unfortunately that did not go unnoticed by the pink haired ghost hunter. It was always easy to pass it off as nothing around Naru or Lin because the first was always reading some book and the other was always watching the monitors. But Madoka could probably care less about that when she was at base.

Sure she always had one eye on the video feeds, but the other she had on having fun with the other people present, and that usually meant me most of the time. So of course she knew that something was up right away when she saw me running into the base and closed the door rather quickly behind me.

"Mai, did something happen?" She asked as she came closer to me.

"No! Not at all, it was just cold and then I didn't feel comfortable, and then I came back here," I started mumbling with my hands waving in front of me. I knew that I was fooling absolutely no one with this, but at least it was better than letting her know what had actually happened.

"So, you're getting a bad vibe off this place?" She clarified.

I sheepishly nodded. There really wasn't anything else for me to say. Then I watched as she picked up her note book and scribbled down some notes. I already knew that my gut reaction to this place was going into the case file for when we finished it up.

"So what are the reports of this place? You still haven't told me about them." I asked her to try and take her mind away from the fact that I really didn't like it here.

"Oh, silly me," She said with a laugh as she flipped through her notes. "Let's see, it started after a fire that ran through this place really late at night. All of the inhabitants were asleep when it happened. The only one who made it out was the twelve year old daughter who woke up because of the smoke. The other four in the family were not so lucky. Their spirits are seen every once in a while, and sometimes there are phantom fires that appear to be real, but when people go to douse them, they disappeared on their own."

I gulped, phantom fires and ghosts; two things that I did not want to be having dreams about right at this point in time. And I had a feeling that I was going to have a dream about this place sooner rather than later. If I wasn't so afraid of letting her know that I was afraid I would have groaned. In fact, if it was ay one but Madoka who had told me about this I would have.

But the woman in front of me scared me enough to keep the fear inside and try not t show it. She had enough influence to keep Naru in check, and I head learned the hard way that it was not a good thing to show that you are afraid when she is around. It could mean a week full of teasing and relentless pranking.

As is the norm with our first day of investigating, there was no activity anywhere. The only interesting thing that happened was when a bird had flown in. Though it was only interesting for her, I had the wits scared out of me.

It wasn't my fault. Because there was no lock on the door, a draft had opened it. In fluttered a small sparrow. I admit that it was kind of funny. At the sound of the wings I literally jumped out of my seat, gave a short scream, and looked for the sound.

Could you really blame me? After all that had happened up until that point?

Of course when I found that it was only a sparrow, I sighed and relaxed. When Madoka was done processing what had happened, she started to laugh her head off. I was so embarrassed that I had begged her to stop. She did after a while, and then would every so often break into laughter again. I knew it was for the same thing, and I knew I was going to be hearing about this for weeks.

But after that was over, we spent the rest of what little there was of the day just sitting there. I worked on my homework with an occasional glance at the monitors as Madoka read a little, and started on the paperwork. It was just video and voice recording things for Naru. It wasn't like we were here o perform an exorcism or something.

Not to mention, we weren't even sure if this place was haunted. The last one wasn't, so it might be the same thing.

"Time for sleep!" Madoka announced as she snapped the folder in front of her shut.

I groggily agreed. To be honest I was just too tired to do anything else. I had been fighting sleep since right after Madoka had stopped laughing at me. It was to the point that I didn't even remember why it was that I was fighting off the sleep. I was ready to pass out after I had changed and gotten comfortable in the sleeping bag.

The soft snores coming from the sleeping bag next to me lulled me into the oblivion of sleep in a matter of moments.


Dream:

I was breathing heavily as my surroundings began to come into focus. At first it was just flashes of yellow and orange, but now it was the entire view of the inferno. Flames licked the air around me and I could feel the heat through my shirt. But it didn't hurt. Or at least it didn't hurt yet.

In front of me was a bed, a bed that happened to have a boy around my age in it. I was a bit panicked as I saw that he was still sleeping. I rushed forward almost immediately and tried to warn him. But right when I was about to touch him a loud caw caught my attention and the beating of wings.

In an instant, the Raven was in between me and the boy and he was flapping his wings at me so that I was herded away from the bed. It reminded me of how Gene would hold me back from going to try and stop the person in my dream from doing something.

With tears in my eyes I watched as the fire started to consume the bed. I looked away from the image then. I knew what happened next, and if it was any indication, I heard the boy start to cream. But it was already too late for him. I remembered that Madoka had said that only the daughter had survived the fire.

Right before the screams became unbearable; I felt the Raven land on my shoulder. The image around me swirled into the next scene. It was in the kitchen.

When it came into focus I found that I was seeing it though the eyes of someone else. I couldn't speak. I was just there to observe. I couldn't stop the tears from spilling then. I was so afraid. I couldn't do anything. I had no control over anything that was happening to me. It was a realization that scared me even more than the dream.

I didn't know how to stop, I didn't know how to wake up, and I didn't have anyone other than a Raven to help me. My breathing hitched as I thought about that. Then I suddenly couldn't get enough air into my lungs. I was so afraid.


A/N And that concludes the first chapter. Please Fav, Follow, and Review. I would love to hear everyone's opinion on this one. And I have no posting schedule, so I will up date as soon as possible and to the best of my ability!