Mai strutted through the hallway, trying to reach the end before turning sharply to the left. Apparently when Naru said to stay close, he meant, 'so that she wouldn't be lost', not, 'you're an idiot so stay close.' She had walked around the whole house by now only to find herself lost and in the same position as before.

She couldn't let her guard down in an area where a ghost maybe by to use her astral projection, so she just used her instincts, which weren't working in this particular moment. She had been through this corridor at least 3 times, so she knew she was lost.

She settled down on the floor for a moment and sat in lotus position waiting for the presence she'd been feeling, that meant the spirit was close, to move down the hallway. Then she closed her eyes and started floating in her mental mind, in front of her was a map of the house and its floors, all in black and white, there was the base and other rooms, where people were investigating and then there was Naru and his presence, a blue light flickered over where he was like a cursor on a computer to click for directions.

She strained her mental control a bit to reach out to his PK signature, but she got hold of it and her message, 'Don't get too cocky when I say this, but I-I'm lost. I can't stay here for long, but I'll try and find you.'

She had learned this trick when Naru was gone to England after finding Gene's body in the river. He had ignored and rejected her confession of love for him saying that she was in-fact confused between the twins and choose Gene, not him. So, when he had left she was in hysterics, but learned to calm down and settle her emotions by concentrating on forming her abilities into something she could use, she had mastered her abilities, all within 3 years, but Naru still hadn't came back until 2 years ago (5 years) she was trying to learn from Lin about Chinese sorcery, who is the only one besides her masters who know of her spiritual transformation, Lin was teaching her some ways to conceal her presence from the others so she could have them focus on the case. When Naru came back, Lin and Mai were in the middle of a spell, so when he walked in it was funny for her to see the slightly-scrunched-up-face of her boss.

Now that Mai had successfully connected her message to Naru telepathically, she started to get up and head down the stairs to her right, before it leading into a dark blue hallway. The things she remembered from the map flowed into her mind almost immediately, making her feet follow them on their own. Trusting her astral plane, she followed those instincts instead and found she'd walked straight into the base's kitchen. Then a thought popped into her head, a thick voice said, 'Mai. Tea.' And she realized why.

She had made the tea and walked into base, it was a crowded room with all of the team there for a meeting and loads of monitors flooded the room. A small table was sitting in front of the monitors recording the rooms upstairs.

Mai Pov

A comment from the left made me jump slightly, slight hearing loss from an accident involving fire and an angry master to my left ear, and since everyone knows me so well, no one has a clue that I had an incident.

"Mai, when were you going to tell me that you were lost? I would've come up to get you!" Ayako said worriedly.

"I doubt you would've been able to get to her that fast you ol' hag." Monk said incredulously loudly, making a tick on her forehead and hitting him with her purse.

I giggled at their banter and said, "It's ok Ayako, no harm, no foul. I did ok. I just need to remember where I am the next time, besides I got back here ok."

A booming voice cut us off from our conversation, "I do not pay you to be social with each other, now if everyone could take a seat we could begin the meeting." He shot me a look that said, 'now that you're finally here, idiot'. And it made me want to punch him, but I sat still through the meeting.

(5 mins)

The meeting was brief, organizing a plan where; Ayako/Monk would head to the attic, John/Masako to the library, Yasu/Lin to the main hall to discuss with the clients our plan. And I was to stay by Naru's side and NOT get lost.

I walked over to the monitors and planted myself in front of them and watched as the people moved across the screens. I grew bored after a few moments of intently watching over the monitors, since Naru was saying nothing and watching the second set right next to me, so I started my ritual of meditation.

I drew the Sun on my right hand with my index finger and on my left I drew a moon, I pushed my hands into a praying gesture with the two middle fingers folded, and my thumbs extended and closed my eyes. I slowly chanted in a low voice:

Silently I watch.

Forever and Nothing.

Stretching and remaining.

Cold and Outshined.

Comfort in those with no sight.

Fright in the night.

Fearless in the sunlight.

I opened my eyes wide, and let my mind wander the house, imagining the furniture on each room and following the white beings flitting between rooms. A large white spirit floats between the yellow and blue corridor, which I had been only moments ago. I calm down and push forward, headed in the direction of the hallway down a little further, there was a small door colored brown and semi-broken. I pushed through the door my body materializing into the room; it seems to be a cellar, with a protective seal over the door. In the back end of the room there were shelving, two had bones on them and the others were empty. The essence that a spirit was detached from the bones, but not into the other realm, is what poked her mind into shooting back into her body with such force that if she had been standing up she'd hit the wall so hard a concussion is what would bound to occur.

Still as she was sitting down, she jerked in an odd way as her soul re-entered her body. She looked to Naru who was looking at her quizzically. Breathlessly she says to Naru her findings, "There is a door," Inhaling as much air as she could, "It has shelving that has the bones of the spirit in which it was once attached to." And breathing erratically, slightly coughing. One slight bad part of her being in the astral plane without Gene, and staying in for so long in this certain way, she had to hold her breath, and her body goes into a sleeping/resting state, where she would be pronounced dead if she wasn't hooked up to a monitor, since she has a slight pulse.

"Naru." She looked at him, rather stared into his eyes. "If we don't get there we will be in immense trouble." He looked to her with surprise about all this information.

Then returned to his immovable mask of stoicness, "Did Gene tell you all this?"

I had come to the conclusion that the only things that I would tell the gang are the little abilities that I have. So if some slip out it's ok. So when Naru asked me this I inwardly smirked, it's one of those times, "No, I haven't seen Gene in a long while, he's slightly lighter shade of color than yours in presence, so I haven't seen him in a long while, I think he mentioned something about dating in the afterlife. . . . I think her name was Luna, but I'm not certain." He seemed impressed when I'd told him the news, so I brought up the topic that Gene had said before he retired of being my spirit guide, and saw the slight look of irritation at Gene's name then suspicion, then relieved, but I'm not certain if it's the fact that Gene is happy or not.

"I guess the idiot really can think." He said which lit me on a fire of rage. I had been about to scream at him, but I was cut off when I heard a shrill scream.

Oh no.

[A/N: XD I had just decided to do this story, I had begun writing it when I was in group therapy, Teen Therapy, APHP. It sparked my interest when I'd been reading other fanfictions that is like this. IDK, but I decided to write it down and maybe publish it!]