Hey! ere is chapter 2! (no joke) Thanks to reviewers and readers :D

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Chapter 2 - Battle Trouble, Part 2

Mai placed a steaming cup of tea in front of Naru.

"What did they say?" she asked him, referring to the interviews with the Ichihara family.

"The two children said that they saw a samurai ghost once wandering around the house."

"Samurai ghost? Wouldn't he have come from the battle field?"

"Mai, your stupidity amazes me. Of course he came from the battle field. Touta, (the father, Mai, remember?) confirmed that his furniture, including his bed while he slept on it, was moved during the night, and that he fell into the pond. However the pond incident could have been an accident. The sister, Orimi, fell down the stairs, but she claims it was an accident and that she wasn't looking where she was going. Hanayo and Yazuna, the older daughter, have not seen the ghost, but all the family have seen scratched walls. Apparently the wall was fine, until they turned around. When they turned around again, the wall would have scratch marks." Naru didn't even look up as he spoke. "Mai, I want you and Hara-san to do another tour of the house. See if you can feel anything."

Mai walked off, unhappy that she was paired up with Masako, but knowing full well that complaints would only gain her nothing. Mai trudged through the house, her displeasure at this pairing obvious.

"So, Masako, do you feel anything?"

"I would prefer it if you didn't drop honorifics with me" Mai remembered that Masako had told her that on a previous case, and tried again.

"So, Masako-san, do you feel anything?"

"There is a soldier walking around downstairs, but he is not causing any trouble. However..."

"Continue?"

"There is someone else...I can't see who it is..." Suddenly she screamed, and fainted. Mai caught her, and laid her down on the floor. There was no way she was carrying her back to base. She didn't really have to faint all the time. Mai did not have to wait long; there was a camera and microphone nearby, which picked up Masako's scream, which probably made Lin's ears hurt for a while.

"Mai! What happened?" John asked as they came running. Mai rolled her eyes.

"The usual. She screamed, and fainted."

"Didn't she say anything before that?"

"She said there was a ghost downstairs, but it wasn't making any trouble, and then she said that there was someone else, but she couldn't see them clearly."

"Someone else?" Masako started to wake up.

"Masako, who did you see?"

"I think it's a woman, but I can't be sure, but she's angry, so angry and sad..."

-x-x-x-

Naru had his chin in his hand, he was deep in thought.

"John, can you do an exorcism?" Naru asked John when they got back to the base. John nodded.

"Wait, what are we doing?" Naru sighed.

"Mai, if you cannot pay attention then I will leave you behind next time. We are going to try and do an exorcism on the battle field."

Mai nodded, and tried to look as though she was paying attention.

"Because we cannot put cameras on the battle field, we will all be there in person, except Lin."

The exorcism couldn't have much risk if Lin was staying behind, right?

Soon after John, in his catholic robes complete with holy water and bible, stood on the windy field; everyone else stood some distance behind him. John sprinkled holy water, opened his bible and started the exorcism.

"Heavenly god, please allow us to worship you, your soul becomes our heaven and the earth, in the beginning there was the word, the word was with God, the word was God. Through him all things were ma-"

Suddenly John was thrown back, and he hit a tree, and sank down to the ground.

"JOHN!" Mai cried, running to his side.

Ayako was already there, checking his pulse and breathing.

"He's all right, but unconscious." Everyone sighed in relief, except for the usual one.

"Take him to his room." Naru ordered his chin in his hand. Monk lifted John and led the procession back to his room.

-X-X-X-

Mai jumped onto her temporary bed and sighed. Before she knew it, her eyes had closed and she drifted off to sleep.

Mai was standing in the pregnant woman's room.

"Wait, how did I get here?" she asked the air. She turned around, taking in the room. "Naru!" she smiled back at the black clad figure just behind her. Before she had a chance to say anything the door opened as the pregnant woman walked in.

"Wow, she got big." Mai commented tactfully.

"Watch."

She sat down on her chair, and started to write a letter. The scene morphed, the woman was sitting in bed, holding a baby. She looked so happy and peaceful. The door to the room was flung open and a man strode in.

"Sakurako, give the baby to me." He said, trying to control the anger in his voice. Sakurako shrank back.

"No!" She said, holding the baby away.

"Yes!" He cried, clawing for the baby, who had started crying. "This is your own fault" He spat at her. Mai could see the fear in Sakurako, and automatically reached out to try and stop the man, but as usual, Naru held her back.

"No! Please don't take my child! Please!" Tears started rolling down Sakurako's cheeks. Mai was shocked. Who was this man to take away her child, who she obviously loved and cared for? There was the sound of hand on cheek, and all Mai could do was stand and watch it, and do nothing to help Sakurako. The man finally managed to grab the crying baby, and stormed out with it. Sakurako just lay on the bed, sobbing. The dream faded.

Meanwhile...

Masako rolled over. What she saw surprised her, but then she smiled, rolled over again and went back to sleep. Serve her right, she thought happily.

After several more hours of sleep, Ayako woke up, yawned, and looked to see if Mai and Masako were awake. She was even more surprised then Masako had been, and was certainly less happy about it. She quickly ran over to Masako and shook her awake.

"Masako, Masako! Wake up!"

"Hm...? What is it? Did I over sleep?"

"No! Look!" Ayako pointed.

"I know." Masako said simply, and turned her back to Ayako.

"What?You knew? Then why didn't you say anything earlier?" Ayako was practically screaming.

"I thought I was still asleep" Masako lied.

"Even so, you just woke up, and it wasn't a dream, and you're doing nothing about it?"

There was a knock on the door.

"What's going on?" shouted Monk through the door. Ayako stormed to the door, and flung it open, revealing Naru, Monk, John and Lin. They were used to Masako or Mai screaming, not Ayako, even if she was screaming at someone, not because she was scared. Normally Ayako only screamed at Monk.

"Oh! If only I knew what was going on! And if only I knew what was going through Masako's mind!" she screamed at Naru, who was unfazed by her screaming.

"Ayako, move." Naru said simply, and Ayako realised that they couldn't see past her. She moved aside.

"Huh?" gasped John.

"Mai!" shouted Monk in surprise. The view even shocked Naru.

"What happened?"