Naruto had somehow managed to calm her down, and she finally told him about it between bites of her Pop-Tart.

"...Not to be a jerk or anything, but I thought you agents were prepared for everything."

Luna sighed and ran a hand through her hair. "That's the thing. With my job, I've never felt helpless before. I've never been in a situation where I didn't know what to do. That's what made it so scary, almost scarier than the ghosts themselves. I didn't know what to do, I didn't know if it was real..."

She looked at her hands again, popping the rest of her Pop-Tart into her mouth. "I don't have any proof...But I know it was real, I'm certain of it..."

He nodded. "I believe you. I'm just gonna go ahead and say it; that sucks."

"Yeah, I know."

"Do you think it'll happen again?"

She met his eye for the first time since she woke up. "Most definitely. My shitty luck more-or-less certifies that it will."

He couldn't help but grin at that, and she smiled a little too. Then she sighed and stretched. "I guess I have no choice but to get up now. No way in hell am I going back to sleep."

Luna was back. But...she woke up in a different part of the giant House of Horrors this time. "God, I hate this place. With a passion."

"I do too, and I haven't even taken a step yet." She screamed in spite of herself, but then her temple throbbed as Naruto started laughing his ass off.

"Naruto! Dammit, that wasn't funny!"

He nodded despite his laughing fit. "Yeah it was. Admit it."

"What...What're you doing here?" Before he could reply, they heard shuffling. "Huh?"

They looked around, and Naruto tapped her shoulder rather hard before pointing spastically down the hall. A woman ran up a couple stairs, and they heard the creak of her opening a door.

They both gulped.

Naruto looked at Luna.

She looked at him.

"...We're gonna follow her like the dumb teens in a scary movie would, aren't we?"

She sighed heavily. "I know, I know. Might as well go outside and investigate a strange noise when a serial killer's on the loose or something. But right now, that's all we CAN do."

They took their sweet time down the hallway, but all too soon they had reached the door. She slowly opened it, and they saw a series of wide open rooms.

After glancing at each other, they slowly made their way through. Luna noticed that, somehow, they both had flashlights.

She decided not to question it and inched through the rooms. "Oooh, shiny!" Naruto randomly informed her.

He picked it up, then made a face. "Type 14? What's this supposed to do?" Luna shook her head. "I dunno, I picked one up last time, too. Just keep it; you never know."

He shrugged and stuck it in his jacket pocket. They continued through the rooms, and finally found one with a door.

Luna gulped as she noticed the doll sitting on the dresser. Naruto noticed it and decided to look through that same exact dresser.

"Aw, nothing." She practically dove for the door, but before she could open it, the doll fell off the dresser, making them both jump with a yell.

Her temple throbbed. "You just HAD to search THAT dresser, didn't you, Naruto?"

A slow grin spread onto his face. "WAIT a minute...You're scared of dolls, AREN'T you?"

She shushed him as if someone might be lurking around to make fun of her for it. "Yes, yes, now could you shut UP?"

"Fine, fine. Jeez. Wound up much?"

"Yes, yes I am. In fact, I'm VERY wound up," she was saying as they passed a blue lantern and headed for the stairs.

After going up the stairs, they ended up in a hallway full of MORE staircases. They looked at each other, then shrugged and decided to go up the first staircase.

Before they could, though, they heard a very ominous noise from behind them. They turned to look, and saw something moving down at the end of the hallway.

Three...shadow people were heading towards what Luna assumed was a door, but it was hard to make out what was what from their distance.

She tugged on his sleeve, and he followed with a groan. "No wonder you were so scared...You have a knack for making the stupidest moves in scary situations!"

Luna stuck out her chin defiantly before opening the door the shadow people had gone through. "Maybe it's just because us Agents are trained to be brave."

"Or stupid."

"Brave."

"Stupid."

"BRAVE."

"STUPID."

"BRAVE!"

"STUPID!"

They quickly stopped arguing after noticing flashes and sounds of struggle. Both their protective instincts kicked in, and they ran through the hallway to reach the entrance to the room.

Before he could go in, Luna tugged him back and stared him down. He almost expected her to pin him to the wall like she had the first day of their cover.

"Naruto, remember. These people are dead. Therefore, kunais are useless against them. These targets, since they're shadows, also happen to be transparent. Really, all we can do is grab the person in danger and run like hell. Got me?"

He nodded, then smirked. "And YOU remember that bullets won't help either."

She rolled her eyes. "Duh."

They charged into the room, and it took a minute to try and process what was going on. The shadows were there, advancing towards a woman who was obviously alive, and another woman was hunched over in the corner.

The first thing Luna did was shout, "Are you alright? What the hell's going on?"

The reason she was shouting was because Naruto had gotten the gun from her pocket and was currently wasting her bullets spastically.

Luna slowly turned to look at him, temple throbbing menacingly. He slowly stopped shooting and handed her the gun with a nervous laugh. "Sorry...Instinct?"

She rolled her eyes again. "Nice try. Moron..."

They watched on as the woman fended off the shadows with her camera, since they didn't have much else to do, and when she was done, she turned towards them.

They threw up their hands as she lifted the camera towards them. "Whoa, whoa, we're alive!"

She slowly put it down. "...Oh. My apologies."

Luna waved her off. "Eh, no worries. Do you know what's goi-" "LOOK OUT, SHE'S GONE POSTAL!" Naruto warned, pointing behind the woman.

She turned, and the other living woman lunged for her. After a few more rounds with her camera, the crazy lady let out a blood-curdling screech before disappearing.

"You're not...like...me? None of you?" Her voice echoed throughout the room.

"...Hell no, we're not like you!" Was Naruto's sensitive reply. Luna smacked him upside the head. "Great, let's piss her off so she'll come back for more! Idiot!"

The woman smiled a little. "Who exactly are you two?"

"I'm Naruto, and this is Luna, my girlfriend." Jeez, the cover was starting to become normal for them, she could tell.

"Do you mind telling me what the hell kind of camera that is?" Naruto asked, obviously itching to get one.

"I'm Rei. Rei Kurosawa. And this is a Camera Obscura, from what I can gather."

Naruto leaned towards Luna. "Something tells me she didn't get it from Best Buy." She just sighed and shook her head, making Rei grin again. "No, I didn't. This is no ordinary camera. It has the ability to exorcise ghosts, from what I can gather."

Luna was already formulating a plan on how to land one for herself. "Rei, do you know who invented this Camera Obscura?"

"His last name is Asou. I can't think of his first name at the moment, sorry."

"No, that's perfect. And where are you living as of right now?"

"...Um...Japan. Why?"

Naruto grinned. "Oh, don't mind her. She interrogates people a lot, this is just how she gets to know people."

Luna smiled innocently, and Rei nodded slowly, at least a little convinced. "Okay.."

"Care if we tag along? All we have is a gun and some throwing knives."

She nodded. "Sure. Company would be nice around this place..." Luna looked around, and felt a spiritual pressure starting to manifest. "You mean living company.."

They all shivered, and Rei led the way out of the room. They were in the hallway when the woman appeared in front of Rei.

All three of them screamed, and as she grabbed Rei's arm, Luna felt herself waking up.

They both shot up with a gasp that time, and Luna covered her face with her hands for a brief moment before jumping off her makeshift-bed.

Naruto ran after her. "Whoa, where're you going? What the hell was that? Is that how your dream was? That was scary as hell! Wait, what're you doing?"

Luna sighed impatiently. "I'm making some phone calls."

She growled in frustration as Alex called again, right on cue.

She answered, then hung up. Naruto laughed. "You're so nice." She shrugged, then dialed Tara's number.

"Hello? Tara, I need some stuff immediately. It's urgent. I hope you have a pen." She didn't, and Luna waited as she grabbed one.

"What're you doing?" He repeated, but Luna just waved him off, pressing a finger to her lips. "Shh."

"Ready? I need information on an inventor with the surname Asou. Obviously, he's Japanese. Also, I need you to check the IOAD for duplicates of a Camera Obscura. Two would be good, but just one is fine as well. And lastly, I need information on a Rei Kurosawa, living in Japan. I need her address, phone number, the works. And I need it before night falls, if at all possible."

With that, she hung up. Naruto blinked. "Um..First off, what's IOAD?"

"International Occult Artifact Database. We have every object used for the communication or exorcisim of ghosts there. And we also make a few clones of each item, for security reasons. Or if an agent needs one for any reason. If you have the right clearance...Piece of cake."

He laughed in disbelief, then flashed her a half-smile. "You know, you were right."

"About what?"

"You ARE kick-ass."

She beamed. "Yes, I know."

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