~Authors Note.
Hey so you see another new story, not of the norm, this is my first attempt at a Ghost Hunt Story, I'm not very good at descriptions or anything of the like but I'm really hoping that I'll actually get this one done.
Anyway I hope you enjoy the prologue to Forgotten, it was the only thing that popped into mind for a title but your welcome to submit story title idea's, but anyway again enjoy, there will be a new chapter very soon.
End Authors Note~
It had been four long years since they'd stepped foot in Japan "Lin you have called to inform everyone of our return correct" Naru or rather Kazuya Shibuya as was his Japanese name asked without preamble.
Not wanting to waste time in making sure that the others he'd previously been involved with knew he was back and preparing to reopen SPR "Everyone but Taniyama-san, who hasn't answered any of my voice-mails that I've left" Koujo Lin said.
A frown creasing his forehead that he hadn't been able to get in contact with the young woman who'd formerly been Naru's assistant and a member of their team, he had this uncanny feeling that something had happened to Mai.
His shiki happened to agree with him "Call her again, we'll figure out things later" Naru commanded, sparing a fleeting thought to the whereabouts of Mai, or what she may or may not be doing before focusing on his reason for returning to Japan.
Lin nodded silently at the command and dialed the number he'd looked up for the young woman in question, only to get sent straight to voice-mail yet again, after leaving another, probably the third or second because he didn't remember leaving a voice-mail the first time.
With business concluded, he and Naru went to the old building they'd used originally and two days later reopened for business, among those celebrating their miraculous reopening were Houshou Takigawa, Ayako Matsuzaki, Masako Hara and John Brown.
The one person noticeably absent was Mai Taniyama "Have any of you had contact with Mai since we left" Naru, who was growing rather frustrated with his assistants inability to get in contact with the girl asked those gathered in the office.
Each of them shook their head "No, in fact it was like she simply just disappeared" Ayako, the one he thought would keep an eye on the girl, shrugged as if she didn't care, Lin saw the action as he did and they both shared a concerned glance with one another.
"Yeah that's weird now that I think about it" Houshou frowned, stomach twisting itself in knots as dread filled him, he feared the consequences of not checking up on the girl he thought of as a little sister now and he decided right then that no matter what he was going to find her.
No matter what he had to go through, off to the side Masako covered her mouth with her kimono sleeve "Perhaps she simply doesn't want to come back did you think about that Naru" Masako asked making the others think.
Naru and Lin knew though that Mai had loved her job before they'd had to leave and return to England to bury his twin "If that were the case, why didn't she answer any of our calls" John interrupted, one of the few who'd tried to keep in contact.
But it was like 3 months after Naru and Lin had left she'd simply stopped responding to any of his concerned phone calls, in fact he'd even been to her apartment to check up on her but that had ended in failure when the owner of the building had said she'd moved.
Just then a knock came on the office door, in stepped another familiar face Osamu Yasuhara "Guess we have a full house, huh where's Mai, I thought you would have called her to, so that she could be here" Yasuhara looked around only to note what everyone else already had.
Mai's absence when his question was answered with the affirmative that Mai had indeed been called all of them began to wander what had happened, why was Mai ignoring them and suddenly dread filled them, so began their first case upon their return.
~Meanwhile~
During this moment of realization for the members of the newly reopened SPR, Mai Taniyama now a young woman of 19 sat at a desk, blearily staring at her university textbook trying to finish her homework.
Right as she was dozing off, a cry from a toddler sounded throughout the little apartment she was able to afford somehow, immediately she was wide awake and alert, followed by more cries, Mai was on her feet in three seconds, making a mess.
As she tore from her room to the one across the hall where a three year old girl was sitting up in her crib crying "Oh it's okay, hush now Shion, there, there just a dream" Mai whispered repeated assurances to her three year old daughter.
Until the mahogany haired toddler settled once more, doe eyes shutting to drift off in another hopefully this time more restful sleep, Mai sighed softly and carefully deposited Shion in her crib and exited the toddlers room quietly.
Leaving the doors cracked open just in case as she returned to trying to get her homework done, by the time it was midnight, all of her schoolwork was finished and after checking on Shion one last time went to bed herself.
Dreaming of what her life would be like if not for that fateful day in which she'd been raped and the subsequent months of finding out she was pregnant, never missing the little green light flashing indicating she'd missed several phone-calls as she drifted off into a deep slumber.