Author's Note: I'm sorry for my lateness! But I forgot that last Thursday was Thanksgiving, I don't really make a big deal out of it but my mom uses any holiday to bring the family closer together so I wasn't allowed on my laptop.
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I DO NOT OWN GHOST HUNT
Chapter Two
Rena's P.O.V
Today I, Syaoran, and Naru were going to England. The flight left at night so we were going into the office. Koujo was staying so that he and Mai could keep an eye on the office and take down the cases so that Naru could look into them later. I sighed for the one thousandth time that morning as I stretched out on the sofa waiting for Mai and everyone else to show up.
You don't want to go
It's not that Gene
You don't want to stay
I sat up and looked at our luggage in the corner of the room. These people didn't know me that well, but we'd spent four month together. Yet in that time they'd proven better company then my own family. Bou-san, John, and Yasu hadn't locked me in an asylum for the things I'd told them; neither had Kazuki, Len, or Takumi. Mai had been a close friend of mine helping me even though she had no idea what I was going through. It was like leaving my other family.
I didn't know what to do. I wanted to stay but I wanted to leave with my twin. I just didn't know anymore.
What's wrong?
I'm just a little worried, that's all
Don't worry Rena
It's easy for you to say Syaoran
Not really
I stopped the conversation after that. It was true I and Syaoran both had reasons to worry; the only one who was having worries about not coming back was me. And then there was Naru. He was definitely coming back because of SPR, I had no such obligation.
That was another thing that was worrying me. I looked at the closed office door. We'd been on bad terms since the last case, I swallowed. I tried to ignore the rest of the complications that came with that thought.
"Good morning," I looked up at Mai.
"Hey," I said.
"Hi there," Syaoran called from the window.
He'd taken to playing with Gene ever since we told him the truth. They always did get along best.
"What's with the bags?" she asked as she hung up her purse.
"We're going back to England," I told her. She froze and turned to look at me. "Not all of us. Koujo is staying to take care of the office, with you,"
She relaxed a little but she frowned and sat down next to me.
"When are you coming back?" she asked I felt my throat go dry.
"We don't know yet because we don't really know how my parents are going to react when they see Syaoran, it's not like you can give a heads up about these things," I explained.
She looked at me and I averted my eyes. If she looked at me in the eyes I wouldn't be able to keep it together.
"You are coming back thought, right?"
No. That's what I should have told her that I wasn't coming back. Yet I couldn't force myself to say it instead I smiled at her.
"Well I kind of have to, I highly doubt there's another high school willing to take me in," I said.
I'd told them about the whole getting expelled from the five schools, it had made an interesting conversation.
"You have a point," she said smiling in agreement.
"Mai, tea!" she rolled her eyes and went to make Naru his tea.
Why'd you lie
I don't know
And instead of having to face my twin I focused on flipping through the magazine Ayako had gotten me yesterday.
Since when had I become such a coward?
(Later)
Bou-san and Yasu were having there moment as we got ready to leave in the cab.
"Yeah, I'll miss you guys too," I told them patting there head's as they faked cried.
"Hurry back," they wailed.
I repressed the urge to roll my eyes, but it was true this might be the last time that I ever saw them. I hugged them back and fought back tears.
"Bye John," I told him he smiled and gave me a hug.
I smiled at Ayako and Masako surprising them both by giving them a quick hug.
"Look after those idiots, okay?" I told them low enough so that they heard but no one else.
I gave Mai a quick hug and also gave one to Lin.
"Hurry up you two," Naru called from the cab.
"We're going," I said.
Syaoran took my hand.
"Bye, and thanks," we told them as we half ran to the cab.
"Where are you going to?" the cab driver asked.
"Tokyo airport," Naru said.
I looked out the window and waved back to them. I felt a lump form in my throat as my phone rang; I took a deep breath and picked it up.
"Hello?"
I already knew who it was though.
"When were you planning on telling me about your trip?" Kazuki asked.
Len was probably still playing bodyguard.
"When I landed in England,"
Not true, I wasn't planning in saying anything because this was going to be the hardest goodbye.
"I'll be waiting for you to get back," he warned I looked out the window.
"You might be waiting a long time," I said truthfully and in that moment I was sure he understood what was really going on.
"I'll still be waiting for you, beautiful,"
Damn it! Did he never give up? Then again that was the thing that I liked most about him.
"Goodbye Kazuki," I whispered I was holding the phone really hard almost sure that it would break.
"Rena, I—
I closed the phone before he could finish. The irony in this situation though. Who would have thought that the daughter of traditional Chinese would have such trouble leaving Japan? I felt a hand on my cheek and I smiled at Naru.
I didn't have to say anything, he knew and he also knew that I didn't want to talk about it either. Instead he settled for taking my hand.
Japan really was beautiful once you gave it the chance.
Maybe that's why Naru and Koujo couldn't leave, or maybe it was the people.
Mai's P.O.V
Something wasn't quite right in their goodbyes. Rena would have shown some sign of discomfort with Bou-san's and Yasu's overexcitement. Yet she returned it. My hand stopped waving as the cab disappeared. Why did it feel like an actual goodbye?
"Let's go get a parfait for the weeping soul," Yasu offered.
I looked over at Lin.
"You can go ahead, I'm going to close the office and head home," he told me.
They cheered and ran off to Bou-san's car as they figured out how we were going to fit.
"You should come with us, Lin," I offered he smiled a little.
"I'm fine,"
It settled in at that moment and I looked at the ground my hands in fists.
"She lied to me didn't she?" I asked weakly.
I could tell that Lin had stopped moving so I took the chance to look up at him. He ran a hand through his hair almost as if he didn't know what he wanted to say. I'd knocked Lin Koujo speechless. That wasn't the most shocking thing. The most shocking thing was that I was able to see right through him, he no longer was the mysterious tall Chinese man that I first met. He was just plain old Lin.
"I don't know, Rena's always done things her own way, in reality I don't even know if she'll come back or not," he admitted.
I closed my eyes and then opened them again.
"She will,"
I didn't know how but I knew without a doubt that Rena would come back. She had to, it wouldn't be the same. She and Syaoran had to come back. I'd just started to get to know them. Lin looked at me and then smiled brushing a piece of hair behind my ear.
"Mai, hurry up!" I sighed and Lin let his fingers run down my cheek.
"Go," he mumbled I nodded.
"See you tomorrow," I called and he waved.
"So where are we going?" I asked Bou-san.
"Where ever we feel like it," he said.
England, so we can drag Rena's sorry ass back here.
"Let's go a few blocks down the street," I offered and we made our way down streets.
So now I was lying too. You better come back Rena or I was going to through the biggest fit of the century.
Naru's P.O.V
We boarded our plane and sat down. Rena had been worrying since we got home last night. I knew what was wrong but it wasn't as if she was going to willingly share that information.
"Did you forget something?" I asked her.
"No," I frowned and sighed settling for grabbing her hand.
Syaoran had already fallen asleep. Ever since they'd gotten out of the hospital he'd spent a lot of time sleeping. He'd told us it was nothing that he was still recovering and we shouldn't worry but no one had listened, especially Rena.
"You can't lie to me, Rena,"
She began to shake and I pulled her against me. Rena didn't cry. She never did. It was always that...
"There's something in my eye," she mumbled weakly.
"I know," I told her.
I know you best, so please, chose me.
(Later)
We still had about eight hours of the flight left so Rena and I were devoting ourselves to German crossword puzzles.
"I hate German," Rena pouted and I tried to hold back my laughter.
"You've mastered almost all the languages known to man and yet you have yet to full Master German," I told her she continued to pout.
"It's not my fault I just hate German with a passion," she said I ruffled her hair.
"Well this is the only crossword book we haven't finished," I told her she ruffled her own hair.
"I give up. What do you want as your prize?" she asked I smirked and leaned forward my mouth right on her ear.
"All of you," I whispered.
I watched her reaction as she flushed and shoved me away hiding under the blanket she'd gotten. I smiled and leaned against my seat content.
"Really?"
My eyes snapped to her, she was holding the blanket around her body but she'd uncovered her head. Her head was tilted to the side and her eyes held innocence and a small amount of desire. I reached under my seat and pulled out an Italian crossword book tossing it at her.
"There should be one more in there," I growled.
I felt a finger on my chin and she kissed my cheek.
"You can't win that way Noll," she mumbled.
I swallowed and took the book from her opening to the last page.
"Here," she took and smiled at me.
"I love you," I shook my head.
"You're just lucky that I do to," I told her she handed it back to me.
"You're turn,"
"Right,"
(Later)
I opened my eyes as the plane rocked a little more then I found comfortable my arms tightening on instinct as I pulled the warm form closer to me.
"We'll be landing in England in a few minutes please bring your seats up and fasten your seatbelts," I pried my eyes open and shook Rena awake.
"A few more minutes," she mumbled.
I rolled my eyes by that time we'd be in England.
"She always did hate waking up," Syaoran muttered I glanced over at him.
"How long have you been up?" I asked he shrugged his shoulders.
"I don't really know," he said flipping through the book that Yasuhara had gotten him on his birthday.
"Hey, Rena you kind of have to get up, now," I told her pushing her hair out of her face; she sighed but opened her eyes.
"I hate you," she told me.
"Yeah, I love you too babe," I answered helping her untangle herself from the blanket.
"Morning, Syao," she said looking at her brother.
"Morning," he put his book down and frowned at her. "Your hair's a mess,"
"I know, sleeping on plane for twelve hours doesn't really help," she said petting her hair down.
"Lin reserved a room for us so that we could get ready before we head off to your parents' home," I said.
"Koujo always thinks ahead," Syaoran noted.
"That's why he's the oldest," Rena agreed I rolled my eyes but shook it off.
They always loved teasing each other.
Once the plane landed we found our bags and G.D. and headed off towards the hotel.
"I call shower," Rena said dashing off towards the bathroom.
I sighed but flopped down on the only bed.
"So how bad were things at home?' Syaoran asked I looked at the celling.
"Do you want to know the truth?" I asked him.
I wasn't sure how much Rena had told him or how much she'd wanted to tell him.
"I want to know everything, I need to know what happened," he whispered I sat up and looked at him.
"When you disappeared the police declared you dead because of the evidence indicating such, Rena fell into depression, your parents didn't know how to deal with it, so after your memorial service when Lin and I returned to Japan on your grandmother's orders they locked her in an Asylum," I took a breath to get my anger in control. "My mother found out three months later and told us, we took the first flight back but the damage was done, she was very close to losing her sanity but we got there just in time, since then Rena lived with my mother and father until the last six months she spent in England,"
"That's when she started dropping schools, we all figured that it was normal after what your parents put her through, they held up until the sixth school, then they just shipped her off to Japan to go with Lin, I can't tell you what happened in those six months because I was in Japan, what I do know is that going back is just as hard for Rena as it is for you," I told him he looked like he wanted to throw up. "She didn't tell you about the Asylum did she?"
"No. She never did," he answered.
I got up and put a hand on his shoulder.
"It's not your fault," I said.
"That's easy for you to say isn't it," I took my hand away before I did anything stupid.
"No. It is not. I hate that I couldn't do anything, do you know how much I want to throw the blame on someone else? But I can't, I won't do it because I know that I have some blame because I wasn't there for her when she needed me, I didn't stay with her," I snapped at him he looked at me then smiled.
"You're not half that bad, Davis," he told me I smirked at him.
"Glad you think so,"
"Who's next?" Rena asked skipping back into the room.
"I am," Syaoran said walking into the bathroom.
I was watching Rena; she was wearing a floral patterned dressed that reached her knee. It was red, black, and green; she looked pretty hot in it. But that was beside the point. I knew why she wore that, her mother had brought it for her, on her sixteenth birthday.
"You're trying to butter your mum up?" I asked we'd long since switched to English.
"I'm trying to not give her a heart attack," she answered.
I rolled my eyes and sat down.
"I like you better in jeans," I said she sighed and put a hand on my cheek.
"I'm not dressing for you right now, love, I'm dressing to soften my mum up," she told me.
"So you admit it?" she sighed.
"I'm going to pretend that we didn't have this conversation, try again," she offered I kissed her hand.
"You look nice in that dress,"
"Better,"
"Well I'm not trying to get the award for best boyfriend of the year," I said she shook her head.
"What did Mai see in you?" I frowned.
"I asked myself that every day, but then again what's there not to like," I told her.
"You're not that special, don't go inflating that ego of yours or I'll have to do something about it," she warned.
"I can't help it," I told her, she sighed but let it go.
"I wonder what's going to happen," I took her hand.
"Don't worry, I won't leave you alone," she ruffled my hair.
"No. You won't,"
Rena's P.O.V
The cab pulled up in front of the Davis' house. Luella had told us that my mother and father had stopped for a visit. I took a shaky breath as Naru paid the cab driver. He motioned for us to get out; Syaoran took my hand and I looked at him, he was pale and sweat was forming on his brow.
It'll be okay
His response was to tighten his grip on my hand. We climbed out of the cab and took out our luggage. We walked up to the front gate. Naru pushed the buzzer and we waited for an answer. The light flashed red.
"It's me, Oliver," Naru said.
There was a squeal from the other end and the gate opened we walked forward but Syaoran stopped walking I looked at him and then followed his gaze. Luella had already opened the door and was standing there with Martin. They were looking eye wide at us.
"Luella who is it?"
It was my mother she walked out and followed by my father.
"By the gods,"
Author's Note: And that's all for now. We'll still be in England for the next chapter after that we're going back to Japan, so all those LinMai fans please be patient.
Rena: That was cruel leaving it like that, you better up-date Thursday!
I will!
Syaoran: Hurry!
Okay, okay! Calm down.
Anyway, see ya!
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