Summary: What happens when the SPR gang meets Saya and Hagi during that year they disappeared after Riku's death? My first fanfic... please be nice. xD

Disclaimer: I do not own Ghost Hunt and Blood Plus, unfortunately.

CHAPTER 1

A sigh and a yawn escaped from Taniyama Mai's mouth. She was walking home from work and to tell you the truth, she always loved taking the slower route home. Never mind the assortment of paranormal beings she stumbled upon from her job in SPR, because now is a particularly good time for a long good stroll to calm down her nerves.

Of course who else would ruffle her feathers more than her boss Shibuya Kazuya (which she calls Naru, short for narcissist)? Handsome and intriguing as he is, he does take an unusual pleasure in making her feel a little bit stupid (or slow, or clumsy) every chance he gets, and it DOES make Mai wonder how on earth she ended up liking him.

"I should've gotten used to this by now!" she said, gritting her teeth, as she tried to forget what just happened a few minutes before she left in a huff at the SPR building.

"I'll explain, for Mai's sake…"

The phrase went over and over her mind just then, each and every time picturing darling little Masako hiding an evil grin behind her kimono sleeve.

"That girl… ", Mai started, but somehow whatever mean thing she meant to say about the famous medium was forgotten as a flash of something metal appeared amidst the dark empty street.

"What was that?!" she asked herself as tried to look into the darkness and had just caught two figures dancing across the night, one much bigger than the other, with sparks of metal somehow glittering randomly as they shifted violently together. "Wait… dancing? How strange…"

And being Mai, of course she should get to the bottom of this.

Somehow the two figures were moving in a very fierce pace as the distance between them and Mai increased, well enough for the determined girl to run towards their direction as fast and undetectable as she could.

Stopping on a street corner, Mai hid herself beside a trashcan as she looked on, cursing her short skirt, and curiosity building up inside her. As her eyes adjust to the darkness, they almost instantly became wider as they finally absorbed the scene before her…

The bigger partaker of this dance was… (Mai gulps) a monster!

"Ww… What is that?" was her question to nobody, as she continues to watch the creature as it roars and strikes on its partner, a girl, about her age, with a sword probably as tall as she was. Somehow it does not look like a dance anymore. No, it was a fight. It was between this young girl and this monster, its very claws currently doing some damage on the girl's skirt, and had she not shifted back it would've sliced off her thigh.

"Oh no! ", cried Mai, "I must do something!"

Looking around, her eye caught on nothing but the trashcan lid.

"Agh!", a frustrated Mai cried, and without much hesitation she threw the lid at the monster.

WHACK!

Somehow, time stood still. The participants of the fight had never anticipated anybody interrupting… with a slightly confused, slightly annoyed creature letting out a growl (that properly weakened Mai's knees). The girl, coming back to her senses, took the opportunity to finish her opponent off, and with one great sweep of her sword the creature was cut in half, the pieces falling backwards just a few feet from where Mai was standing, jaw dropped, as the body crystallized before her very eyes.

Mai squeaked as she collapsed on her knees.

She took no notice of another person behind her, very much bleeding, but intent on closing the distance between himself and the girl with the sword.

"Saya!"