Mai looked at the family in front of her, there were only four stood before them from a family of five.

"I apologise about the absence of my eldest, he doesn't wish to come from his room. You will meet him at dinner," Mrs Kuro spoke as she rested her hands on her youngest's shoulders.

"I am Mr Jino Kuro; it is a pleasure to meet the famous Shibuya Psychic Research. May I ask who is in charge?" a man with dark brown, shaggy hair, his eyes a matching colour. He seemed relieved to see SPR standing in front of him.

"That would be me, Kazuya Shibuya," Naru stepped forward and extended a hand, Jino shook it with his own and smiled at the younger man.

"Pleasure to meet you, Shibuya-san. As I have said, I am Jino Kuro; you have met my wife Aliza Kuro. These are our two youngest children, Nekko," the smallest boy with untidy blonde hair and bright green, almost yellow eyes stepped forwards. He bowed to Naru and the rest of SPR, who bowed back.

His eyes drifted to Mai as he smiled sweetly at the elder girl, Mai knelt down to his level, smiling sweetly back at him and petted his head, causing the boy to laugh.

Mai returned to her position next to Naru, who smiled slightly at the two of them and waited for the second boy to be introduced.

"This is our middle son, Hitachi Kuro," a frown came onto the older man's face as he introduced his middle aged son. He watched as his son stepped forwards and studied the group, only shaking hands with Naru in a firm grip.

"Why did he have to bring all old hags?" Hitachi asked. Ayako glared at the smaller child and started ranting under his breath.

"I know they're old, but they're not that old, come on," Monk laughed as he looked at Hitachi, Ayako whacked him over his head with her purse and the younger boy just stared.

"Dad what have you gotten us into?" he asked as he and Nekko ran back into the house in search of their older brother.

"I apologise for Hitachi's behaviour, he's normally quite shy, but I do regret to inform you that he will be like this during most of you stay. He has a tendency to speak what he thinks, even if it's rude," Jino explained.

"Oh don't worry about it, we've had it quite a bit on the cases, so we're used to it," Monk smiled as he rubbed his head. Jino nodded and motioned for the team to follow him inside.

As they did another boy stood at the top of the stairs. The team looked at him as he studied them all, a smirk fell onto his features and his emerald green eyes closed. He ran a hand through his spikey, raven black hair before descending the stairs and stopping in front of Mai.

"Now, my father told us we'd be having a team here, but I never expected someone as cute as you to be here," he flashed a dazzling smile before looking Mai up and down.

"Hiro, enough," his father hissed. The boy, Hiro, rolled his eyes and stood up straight. He winked at Mai before walking off in the direction of the back yard, ignoring a glaring Naru along the way.

"Our son gets his flirting from you," Aliza huffed as she shot a glare to her husband.

"Like father like son," Jino smirked as he winked at his wife, the team could instantly see the resemblance, but Mai was not impressed with it.

After a few twists and turns to team came to a stop in front of a large door. Jino pushed it open, revealing a large sitting area. Tables for the monitors sat at the far end next to a large window, opening to small balcony, a few feet in front there was a small table with two sofa and four love seats, two at either end.

To the right of the room was another room and a second room to the left.

"You will set up here, anything you need just ask and we shall bring it. Both rooms, to the left and right are bedroom; I expect this would be much easier for all of you if you were closer together. Just behind us," the team turned to look at a smaller door behind them. "Is a small, make due, kitchen that we use at times. You may use it any time you like. Both rooms have showers and bathrooms attached to them, we hope it's up to your standards," Jino explained as SPR stepped into the room.

"This is a lot bigger than we expected," John stated as he looked around, Lin walked straight to the table at the far end while Monk, Ayako and Masako checked out the two rooms, each had four beds.

"We hope everything's comfortable enough for you all," Aliza smiled as she hooked arms with her husband.

"It is, thank you," Mai spoke as she lifted hers and Naru's suitcase and brought them into the room. Naru turned to the older couple as she did so.

"You wouldn't happen to have any servants in the household would you?" he asked, Aliza shook her head.

"Fortunately, no, we'd rather do things ourselves, which is why we keep our home nice and tidy," she answered with a loving smile, Naru just nodded.

"Then, we will need to interview the children," he stated, Aliza's smile fell as she looked at her husband, he only nodded his head.

"Of course, Nekko will be in the garden, Hiro will be in his room looking over his football strategy and Hitachi will be down by the beach," Jino explained as Naru thanked him.

"If we need anything we shall find you," he spoke; Jino and Aliza nodded their heads before walking out of the room.

"Masako, do you sense anything?" Ayako asked as she, Masako and Mai sat on one of the sofas, leaving Monk, John and Lin to set up the monitors.

"Nothing yet, the spirits must have gone into hiding upon our presence," she answered, Monk grunted.

"Either that, or it's the little kid playing a trick, he seemed quite mischievous," he stated, Ayako glared at the back of his head.

"Nekko seems like a really well behind child, how can you even think that?" she almost yelled at the older man.

"Besides, even if he was doing it I don't think his family would have called us in," Mai defended the younger boy as well. Monk stood up, stretching his back and held his hands up in defence.

"Okay, so it's not the kid," he sweat dropped.

"Stop arguing, Monk, you and Matsuzaki-san set up the cameras and microphones. Mai, I want you to question Hitachi and Nekko. John, you and Hara-san go question Hiro," Masako paled at the thought of having to question the older boy who had flirted with Mai.

John walked behind her, squeezed her shoulder and smiled sweetly at her, Masako soon found herself more comfortable knowing John would be with her.

Mai stood to her feet; she had put hers and Naru's bags in the two separate rooms and took out a small note pad from her bag. She picked it up off the table, along with a pen and placed them in her pocket.

"How do we know which room's Hiro's?" John asked.

"Find Mr or Mrs Kuro, I'm sure they'll tell you. Mai, I don't suppose you need guidance to find your way outside?" Naru asked with a smirk on his face. Mai turned red before glaring at the older boy and storming out of the room.

"Jerk," she muttered as she passed him. Once she was in the corridor she looked both ways before following the on heading down. "With any luck this is the right way," she mused as she walked, passing many doors along the way.

"Are you lost, miss?" Mai turned around to see Nekko stood behind her, he held a bucket and spade in his hands.

"Actually, I was coming to find you," Mai answered with a warm smile.

"Really?" Mai nodded. "Then let's go build a sand castle," Nekko smiled as he gripped Mai's hand tightly and began pulling her towards the back yard.

Mai kept up with the child easily and soon they were sat in a large sandpit. Mai had taken her shoes and socks off and the two were putting wet sand into a bucket before turning it over.

"Do you know why my friends and I are here?" Mai asked, she figured getting the child into a slow conversation would be the best idea.

"Mummy says it's to make the scary voices go away," Nekko answered as he looked down towards the beach. In the distance, Mai could see Hitachi sat atop a large rock, skipping stones into the ocean.

"Scary voices?" Mai asked as she looked at Nekko, who nodded his head.

"At night a scary voice fills the house, it wakes me, Hitachi and Hiro up, but mummy and daddy don't hear it, so we don't think it's anything. But one time, Hiro screamed and said he saw something behind him, he said it looked like it was singing something, but didn't know what. Hitachi and I always sleep in Hiro's room if we ever hear the voice, it makes us feel safer," he answered; Mai could see the fear in his eyes and slowly nodded her head.

"Alright, we don't have to talk about it anymore," she whispered as she patted his head. Nekko just nodded his head as he stood up.

"I'm going to find mummy and daddy, see you soon, miss," Nekko called as he rushed off into the house. Mai watched the shoeless boy run and disappear down the corridor.

She shook her head and stood up, walking towards the beach. It didn't take her long to reach Hitachi; he turned his head to see her walk over to him on the rocks.

Mai picked up a stone and started skipping it in the lakes, it skipped three times before a 'plop' was heard and it sunk to the ocean floor.

"I didn't think you'd come back, after you followed her," Hitachi spoke as he looked at the girl next to him. She skipped another stone, smirking as her eyes turned red.

"Now Hitachi, you know when I make a promise I fulfil it. I had to see who she was getting in order to get an idea of how to destroy them," Hitachi watched as she skipped another stone, dropping the ones in his hands as he looked at the red eyed girl.

"At least let the girl go," he hissed, the girl glared at him, an unknown force sent him flying off the rock as she jumped down after him.

"You wanted me to do this, you asked for it, and now I do it my way, understand," she growled as she held the boy down by his throat. Hitachi nodded his head, tears slowly forming in his eyes.

Mai released his neck, her eyes burning brightly as she watched him stand to his feet. He rubbed his neck, knowing there may be a bruise there in the morning.

"And if I asked you to stop?" he asked, Mai's eyes started fading back to their normal brown colour. She turned around and started walking back to the house, calling over her shoulder to the younger boy.

"Then I'd have to kill you."


Cliffy? Cliffy sounds good? Oh I like how this is going so far!

Mai: YOU JUST MADE ME ATTACK A FOURTEEN YEAR OLD! HOW IS THAT GOOD?!

Naru: And what's he got to do with Mai?

All shall be revealed in due time, also, thank you to the people who reviewed. Please review and I shall try to update again soon.

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