The One Person Talk

"Mai, get up we're here!" Mai's head snapped up as she heard the sound of a car door slam. She looked around to see that she was the only one left in the van. Mai, opening the door, jumped out to join Naru and Lin when something suddenly shot threw her. She froze. Something wasn't right here. It was as if something was watching her. Slowly Mai lifted her eyes to the third floor to see a girl staring down at her.

"Mai stop goofing off." Mai turned to see Naru glaring down at her. She collected herself before looking back up at the window. The girl was gone. Suddenly two bear like arms wrapped around Mai, squeezing all of the air out of her.

"I've missed you soooo much!" said Bou-san as he hugged the life out of her.

"Need air!" Mai gasped as Bou-san started to hug her even tighter. Bou-san released his grip on her and when she looked up at him he scratched the back of his head awkwardly. "Sorry its just been a while and you know…." He said awkwardly. Mai started to laugh.

"Hey Mai" said John as he appeared behind Bou-san. She smiled at him and said "Hey John what's up?"

"I don't pay you to sit around talking about your lives Mai. I pay you to work, so start unloading." Naru said scribing something in his black notebook. Sighing Mai started to walked over to the van.

"Let me help you" said John as he walked over to the back of the van.

"Thanks John but you don't have to." Mai said smiling. Then Mai remember something. "Hey where is Ayako?" she asked looking around.

"Oh she can't come until the day after tomorrow." said Bou-san. "What about Masako and Yasuhara?"

"Yasuhara has classes and Masako is filming. So it's just the five of us for now." Mai said as a car pulled up. Everyone turned to see who it was. A girl got out of the back seat of the taxi. She walked up to the passenger side window and started to talk to the driver about the fee.

"Mai." She turned to see Naru looking at her. Slowly she made her way over to him. He pushed her behind him. Mai didn't argue. Something wasn't right about that girl.

"Here this should be enough keep the change." She said before she started to make her way towards them. She kept her head down as a strong gust of wind blew at her, making her short brown hair fly back. Suddenly she stopped and turned around to face the cab drive who was leaning on the passenger side.

"Miss there is over thirty dollars worth of change, are you sure you don't want it?" He asked.

"Yes keep it." She yelled back before she continued to walk towards the group. As she made her way up the pathway, Mai started to get a better look at her. She had light brown hair that fell just past her shoulders. Her bright green eyes reflect off her pale heart shaped face that held a small smile. It was than that she seemed to finally notice them standing there. Mai watched as her green eyes scanned over them, when finally the rested on Naru. For some reason her smile disappeared which was replaced with surprise. I looked up to see Naru staring at her with a cold expression. They both stayed like that for a few minutes before Aki came out grabbing everyone's attention.

"Oh good you're all here, why don't you come in?" Mai made to follow her but something stopped her. She looked up to see that it was Naru. She gave him a confused expression.

"Whatever you do I don't ever want you to be alone with her." Mai just stared at him for a moment not sure what to say, but before she could say anything Naru had followed everyone else inside the stood there stunned for a moment, before realizing she was the only one left outside. She quickly ran into the house and followed everyone into the room itself was very large. In the far corner were two tables that were set up for their use. By the window there was a long couch in which Ayako and John were sitting. There was a small coffee table in front of it. To the left of the door, Mai had just entered was a large comfortable chair that Konta was sitting in, looking quiet relaxed. Naru were leaning against the wall by the couch, Lin next to him, refusing to sit down. Mai made her way over to the couch and sat down next to John.

"Why don't we start with introductions." Aki said happily, looking around the room.

"Konta Higashi" said the girl sitting in the chair, not looking at anything in particular.

"Kazuya Shibuya and this is my team. Houshou Takigawa is a monk and John Brown is a priest. These are my two assistants." Naru said nodding to everyone as he introduced them.

"Wonderful. The rooms you requested are just down the hall. Girls are on the right and boys are on the left. Now if there is anything else you need I'll be around."

"Actually i have a question for you." Konta interupped. Aki paused and turned towards her.

"Yes?"

"Other then all the kids getting sick before they disappear, is there any other similarities?"asked Konta. Aki thought for a moment and said. "Yes they have bruises. I didn't think about it until yesterday when I was getting the files ready for you. I wanted to call but I though better of it. I hope you don't mind."

"No of course not." Konta said as Naru opened his mouth to say something. He turned to glare at her, but she ignored him. Feeling his eyes on her Konta said."The point is that we know now." Konta turned back to Aki. "Is there a specific spot where they get their bruises?"

"No but I have notice that the older ones have it on their neck shoulders and chest, while the young ones have it on their arms and legs. I just assumed it was because the smaller children run around and accidentally hurt them selves."

"Anything else?" asked Naru.

"Let me think…oh on the third floor people say they have seen a little girl wondering around up there. I didn't believe them until about a month ago when I was up there alone. She kept mumbling to herself and then she would just disappear."

"Where are the children anyway?" ask Mai suddenly. Everyone turned to Mai, making her face go a little red.

"They are at my cousin's house. I didn't want them to bother your investigation."

"Why would you ask that Mai?" asked Konta. Mai's face got redder. Mai didn't know why she asked it, it just came out. She just happened to be thinking about the little girl she saw in the third floor window when it just came out.

"I don't know. I just thought-" Mai stopped in mid-sentence, not really sure where she was going with this.

"What did you say?" Everyone turned towards Naru who was now standing up straight, staring at Konta. He looked so surprise and curious at the same time. The tension in the room started to grow causing everyone to become a little comfortable. Konta took a deep breath and stood up.

"I'm going to go have a look around. I'll be back soon." She said as she made her way towards the door.

"You didn't answer my question." growled Naru. She just turned to look at him.

"Well I don't like that question so ask another and you might get an answer ." She stood in the hall looking in at him, her hand on the handle ready to close it.

"Do you sense anything?" John asked after a minute of silence. Konta turned her attention to him and smiled.

"I don't know." She said. That was good enough for John. Actually he would be great with any answer just as long as Naru didn't get any madder then he already was.

"What do you mean you don't know? It's a simple yes or no question. "Konta looked back at Naru, her smile dropping. "If I say yes then I'm lying, if I say no I'm lying and you seem like the person who hates it when people lie so just except my answer and move on." Her voice suddenly got colder. "If you don't mind I'll be making my rounds now." With that she slammed the door shut and stalk off.

"Mai-tea." Naru said as he sat down.

"Okay!"

"Brown-san, Houshou-san go help Lin with the unloading." Naru picked up a file and started to read through the reports.

Mai made her way down a hallway, thinking about what had just happened. Why was Naru acting like that? Yea I mean Konta was being a pick unreasonable but still.

"It's okay I'm not going to hurt you." whispered a voice. Maid stopped and looked around. She found that she was the only one in the hallway at the moment, but she was positive that someone had spoken.

"What's your name?"Mai turned around to find a door. She could have sworn that that door wasn't there before.

"Rachel? That's a pretty name. My names Konta nice to meet you!" said a voice coming from the door. Mai walked over to the door and peeked through the small opening. Konta was kneeing in the middle of the room, talking to someone, but there was no one there.

"Why?" Konta asked. There was a short pause "Who will find me?" another pause, this time longer. "Us? There more of you?" barely a pause "How many?"

Mai was starting to wonder if Konta had lost her mind when she continued to speak "Can you please find out?" Mai had just enough of this. Konta was insane. She was having a conversation with herself.

"Well I don't want you to get in trouble so why don't you count as many as you can and then guess how many others you think there are, sound good?" Mai's attention was brought back to Konta as she started to stand."Alright thank you" Mai grabbed the door handle and tried to close the door when the floor squeaked beneath her feet. Mai just stood there waiting for something to happen.

Maybe she didn't hear me.

Mai continued to close the door until she heard "Mai….."


okay so yea it worked and im happy not and for those who don't know whats going on i spelled Mai's name wrong and i wanted to fix it, but now im ending up re-writing most of the story so it doesn't sound as stupid. I guess staying up all night writing this without someone checking it was probably a bad idea, but now im going back and stuff. So there might still be a few minor errors, but hopefully not like the ones im fixing.