Hey guys! Thanks for all the support and encouragement to write more. Anyway sorry it took so long for me to post, but I had a HUGE test to study for (which I got an 80 on!) so I didn't have anytime to write. So if any of you want to help make this story better, I need your criticism because I'm not always the best at seeing mistakes in my writing. Anyway enough of me talking and ON TO THE STORY!
Disclaimer: softball2240 doesn't own Ghost Hunt or any of the characters sadly.
He was trying to figure out where she could have wondered to, but he was lost……. literally. Naru had no clue where he was and needed to figure that out before he got lost even more. He was looking around the area, and then felt like an idiot when he finally realized where he was. He was standing on the grounds of Mai's high school. This was the first place that Naru had met the girl.
She had been with her two friends after school in her classroom telling ghost stories. Naru had scared the girls (quite easily now that he thought about it) by saying the number four after the group had finished counting. The three girls had screamed, and had freaked out more when he had turned on the lights. Now that he looked back to that day, he thought it was rather ironic that he had first met her when she was telling ghost stories, and now she worked for him by hunting ghosts.
As he was thinking about that time, a small smile appeared on his face. He was trying to get information at the time and tried to seem friendly, but Mai, even back then, could see through his façade. But soon it had disappeared. He had to look for Mai before she harmed herself, because unfortunately she was prone to any kind of danger.
As if Naru could predict the future, he heard a scream coming from one of the upstairs classrooms. Naru quickly ran up the stairs and to the classroom to see if it was Mai who had screamed. As he was running up the stairs and the scream was clearer, he knew that it was Mai. "Who else has that scream?" He asked himself. As he got closer to the classroom, he hoped that Mai was ok and just freaked out.
Mai had screamed. What else was she supposed to do when she had walked over to the corner of the room and her leg fell through the floor. As she freaked out from the sudden fall, she did what she normally did when something was wrong and screamed. It became something natural for her to do whenever something happened when they were on a case, and anywhere else if she thought about it. As she tried to figure out what happened, she noticed a figure outside of the doorway.
When Naru had entered the room, he saw Mai in the corner of the room, with one leg through the floor. Rolling his eyes mentally, he went over to her and smirked. "Do you get in trouble just by walking?" Naru was joking with her, and he knew that she was going to get angry, but he didn't care. Mai's face was turning red in the face, and she started to look like a tomato. "WELL EXCUSE ME if I just HAPPEN to be accident prone!" Mai yelled.
It was obvious now that Mai was angry with Naru, and was very embarrassed for one reason or another. Mai was loosing her calmness, and was struggling now that the floor around her was getting weaker. Just then, Naru realized that she was struggling. As Naru walked over, he could hear the floor creaking, and realized that it was going to break from under her in a matter of seconds.
As Naru grabbed her waist, the floor beneath her broke and both of her legs fell through. Mai then realized that if she didn't hold onto Naru, then she wouldn't be on the floor same floor with him anymore. As Mai understood what Naru was doing, she wrapped both arms around Naru's neck and held on. "Naru I'm scared!" Mai said. She was getting scared that she would fall from the 3rd floor, down to the first. Panicking wasn't helping her, but she didn't know what else to do.
Naru tried to pull her up, but she was stuck. All Naru was doing was keeping her from falling down to the first floor. 'Why is it that she always gets stuck in these horrible situations?' Naru thought. Finally, Naru found where Mai was stuck and tried breaking off pieces of the floor, so he could pull her up. As Naru started breaking pieces of the floor, Mai clutched to Naru tighter. "Its ok." Naru told her. As he broke off more flooring, Naru was able to pull her out of the floor. While being lifted up, Mai felt something sharp scratch her and winced in pain. As he lifted her out of the hole, he looked at her and noticed how cut up she was.
Mai was clutching to Naru as he pulled her out of the hole. Her legs felt like fire was running through them. Once he got her out of the hole, Mai still clutched to his shirt. Only until she felt Naru stroking her back did she realize that she was crying. "Its ok Mai. You're safe now." Naru soothed her. As he rubbed her back, she started to calm down and was able to pull herself together.
As he was wiping off the tears from her face, he noticed that she felt a little warm, but decided that it was probably from her blushing. After she had stopped crying and started to breathe normally again, Naru started to stand up. When he stood up, he noticed that Mai was trying to stand as well, but was having some difficulties. "Mai can you walk?" He asked, keeping his mask on, but really he was concerned about her.