Day 1: Shibuya Psychic Research
The door to SPR opened as a petit brunette stepped through, humming to herself. She placed her coat on the coat rack, but kept her bag with her.
Walking around, she looked at her old desk, the one she used when her boss was still in Japan. How long had it been since he left, two, three years now maybe?
She sighed, it was upsetting, but if he were to ever return she knew he would be no different. Yes she had confessed to him, yes he walked away, yes she expected that, he was a heartless jerk after all.
The brunette shook her head, heading to a door labelled Kazuya Shibuya. Every morning she stopped and she looked at the sign on the door. Why hadn't she changed that sign? Why hadn't her team mates? Because there was still that small hope that he would return.
She opened the door and stepped inside. Nothing had changed, his book shelves were still there, his desk, his chair, but now it was all hers.
She walked over slowly, placed her bag down and turned the small white laptop on the desk on. She looked at the time 7:15, an hour to pass before anyone else came.
The young woman sighed, running her hands through her now long hair. She looked in the mirror, black jeans and white button up shirt with a black blazer, that's what she wore.
Her hair hung loosely down her back as she walked around her desk. She picked up a small white card with her name, work company and telephone number on it.
Taniyama Mai, Shibuya Psychic Research 555-0248
She smiled at the small piece of paper before placing it back down.
Yes, this was Taniyama Mai, now 18, head of SPR and waiting on her friends to come to the office. She walked out her work room to get some tea. Along the way she looked at photos that hung on the wall. Most of them successful cases that were solved, and then there was the odd couple that were of the gang.
Then there was Mai's favourite, a photo of the gang from when she was still just an assistant. How they ever managed to get Naru and Lin in it, she'll never know.
She shook her head and walked into the kitchen. She slowly made herself some tea and walked back into her office. Mai then sat down and began typing away on her computer at previous cases that were a success.
Later that day, the SPR office was bubbling with joy. Masako, a celebrity medium, John, who had quite being a priest but was still allowed to perform exorcisms, Monk, who was a monk, Ayako, a shrine maiden and Yasuhara, a researcher for SPR.
Mai walked out of her office once she heard all the commotion. Masako smiled at her. Since Naru left, the two had gotten closer, she had ditched the Kami awful kimonos she wore and instead dressed in jeans and shirts.
"Good morning, Mai," Ayako smiled as she walked in with a tray of tea in her hands. Mai smiled at her.
"Morning guys, how're you all?" she asked. Monk responded by hugging her tightly, crushing her in the process. Hey, she may be the leader of SPR but didn't mean they weren't still as close as ever before.
Ayako then whacked Monk with her purse once Mai started turning red. The room laughed as Mai took a seat in the chair at the end of the table, gratefully taking a cup of tea.
"So, Mai, do we have any clients today?" Yasu asked as he looked at Mai, who placed her cup on the table.
"Just one, I think," she answered with a smile as she watched Monk and Ayako sit down.
"So, Naru still hasn't gotten in contact with anyone?" Monk asked as he looked at everyone for a second. Masako turned her nose up in the air, John looked down, Yasu frown, Ayako sighed and Mai just rolled her eyes, resting her chin on her fist.
"You expect him to?" Masako asked. "It's been two years and we've hear nothing, I'll be surprised if he ever came back," she stated with a tone of distaste.
"Masako, his twin did die remember," John reminded, Masako just turned her nose up even more. Mai laughed at her.
"What does it matter?" she asked, everyone looked at her. "We're doing fine without him aren't we?" she wondered as she looked at everyone else.
"All our bills are being paid, we're making more than enough money to pay everyone and afford new equipment, not to mention travel expenses," Yasu answered as he nodded his head.
"That's because we have someone who can handle the money," Monk stated as he looked at Yasu, who blushed slightly.
"Not to mention we're now Mai's a lot more experienced she helps with almost every case-,"
"Hey!" Mai cut Ayako off, but the rest of the team laughed as she pouted.
"Speaking of Mai helping," John spoke up. "Have you been seeing Gene lately?" he asked, Mai frowned.
"No, I think he might have finally crossed over. I hope he has, it's for the better," Mai stated as she smiled sadly. She was going to miss having him around, it was like having Naru around, only Gene was nice to her.
A small knock on the door caught everyone's attention. Ayako stood to her feet.
"I'll make more tea," she smiled. Yasu stood to grab a notepad and pen, John walked to open the door, while Monk and Masako stood by Mai, who also stood up.
In came a young man wearing a white coat. His hair was brown and his eyes a light blue. He looked quite sophisticated to Mai.
John lead him over towards the table, Mai reached her hand out to shake it.
"Good morning, Sir, my name's Taniyama Mai, I run SPR," she smiled.
"Doctor Yabashi, name to meet you, Taniyama-san," Yabashi smiled as he shook Mai's hand. Just then Ayako walked in with a tray of tea as they all sat down.
"Don't let anyone here intimidate you, this is the rest of my team, Monk," Monk nodded, "Ayako," Ayako smiled, "Masako," Masako shook Yabashi's hand, "John," John greeted him with his warm smile, "And Yasu," Mai finished as Yasu smiled at the man.
"Nice to meet you all, thank you for having me," Yabashi smiled at Mai, who nodded her head.
"Everyone deserves a chance, now, what can we help you with?" she asked as she looked the doctor up and down.
"Well, you see, I work in the next town in a local hospital, and recently a lot of the patients have gone missing or have died, which is quite unnerving. We've had the police in a number of times but the missing have never been found. We've recently had to shut the hospital down, but I'm afraid we're going to have to reopen it soon because there are so many injured and sick that the other hospitals are overflowing. But we really don't want to open it in case the disappearances start up again," the doctor explained as he looked at Mai with pleading eyes.
"It's quite normal for people to die within a hospital," Monk stated as he looked at the doctor.
"However, disappearances are not. Is there any physical signs of their being a haunting?" Mai asked as she looked at the doctor who hesitated slightly.
"Patients have ended up with weird cuts and gashes throughout the night, some have had hand prints on them and one….." the doctor trailed off.
"One what?" Mai encouraged. The doctor sighed.
"One said they saw something… inhumane…. And then, to erase the image, cut their own eyes out. The nurses are scared, as are we, and we don't want to open back up to the public if it's still like this," Yabashi explained as he looked at Mai, who nodded her head.
"We'll take the case, however, there are a few requirements that we will need to meet first," she stated as she looked at Yabashi, who nodded his head.
"Anything," he replied.
"We'll need three rooms, two to sleep in, one for base. A file of all the missing patients and patients who have been injured. I want to see staff who have seen anything to come for questioning. But most of all, I want everyone out of that hospital until I say it is safe to go back in, understand?" Mai made her arrangements, the doctor agreed to them all and then Yasu discussed the costs and when they would arrive.
Mai stood as the doctor left, the team knew what to do. Without a word, Masako began helping John prepare for exorcists, Monk and Ayako began getting the equipment out, while Yasu went to his desk to copy his notes up.
Mai walked to her office to type up the important parts of the interview and create the next case file.
Miles away, a young black haired man laid on a bed, besides him were two large suitcases, fully packed. He ran his hands through his hair as he sat up; his door slowly opened revealing a tall man.
"Noll, is everything ok?" he asked as he looked at the younger man. The young boy looked up.
"Everything's fine Lin," he replied.
"Then are you ready to leave?" Lin asked, Noll looked at his bags before thinking of where they were going. A young brunette popped into his head and he slowly nodded.
"I'm ready," he answered as he grabbed his bags. Lin smiled at the young man as they walked down the stairs. At the bottom, two people waiting for them, both middle aged, smiling at the two young men.
"Noll, Lin, we're so sad to see you leaving again," the man stated.
"Well, it's been two years, father," Noll replied as he looked at the man, who smiled at him.
"We're going to miss you," his mother said as her eyes welled up with tears, Naru hugged her tightly.
"Take good care of my boy," Mr Davis ordered to Lin, who nodded his head.
"Of course," he replied.
With a final goodbye, Lin and Noll were out of the house, heading towards the airport.
"We should be in Japan by tomorrow morning," Lin spoke as he looked to see Noll looking at a photo of him and Lin with SPR. Lin smiled slightly, but never said anything.
"I guess I should start calling you Naru again," he stated after a long moment of silence. At this, Noll couldn't help but smile. The minute he and Lin would walk into that office everything would be back to normal and he would be called Naru once more.
But Naru couldn't have been more wrong.
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