Part 3.
Mai felt like she had been taken back in time. A time, when her parents were still alive. She was only about five years old. She was in a busy hospital much in the same format as the one she was currently residing in. It was busy and filled with life, she was waiting patiently within the waiting room with her mother. Another young girl sat opposite her, she had short brown hair and blue eyes, Mai had never seen anyone so pale as her. Even the girls mother had a pale complexion with long blonde hair that cascaded over her shoulder.
"Are you having your tonsils taken out as well?" the little white girl asked in perfect Japanese, Mai looked up to her mother to see if it was okay to talk with the other young girl, her mother nodded with a warm smile. Mai nodded, as she stared at the white girl curiously, as she left her mother's side and picked up a small jigsaw puzzle. "Do you want to play with me?" she questioned Mai, Mai once again looked up at her mother who once again nodded at her reassuringly. Mai got down of the seat and went over to the white girl, while she noticed her mother began to speak to the lady with long blonde hair. "What's your name?" She questioned, as she handed Mai a piece of the jigsaw puzzle.
"Taniyama, Mai," she replied as if she had practiced it over and over.
"That piece doesn't go their Mai-chan!" the girl exclaimed with a giggle just as the doctors came in. "Don't leave," the little girl cried, as Mai's mother came and took her away...
Mai was brought out her deep thoughts with Hara-chan falling on top of her. She blinked owlishly as all of their drinks fell over the linal floor, how many more cups had she smashed now!
"Hara-chan!" Mai cried out as she was in mid dilemma as what to do, one hand was still holding onto Naru's tea, while the other tried to support Hara-chan. "Hara-chan," Mai cried out again as she slowly managed to kneel on the ground while supporting the unconscious body of Hara-chan. She needed to get back to the base and let the others know what was going on, however the other part of her knew Naru would lecture on how not to leave Hara-chan. "Gah!" she exclaimed as she could just imagine Naru glaring at her for being irresponsible and leaving Hara-chan. So she stayed, what had caused Hara-chan to faint she wasn't sure about. She went to touch her forehead, when Hara-chan's eyes sprang open as she gasped out in horror. "Hara-chan are you okay? You just fainted on me," Hara-chan shook her head as she hid her face with in her hands. "Hara-chan what's wrong?" Mai insisted on knowing.
"They are not dead," Haru-chan said aghast causing Mai to frown not understanding what was going on.
"But you said there were lots of young spirits floating around," Mai replied, while Haru-chan nodded then shook her head as she stared defiantly at Mai as she sprung up into a crouched position and gripped Mai by her shoulders.
"They're spirits floating around, but they are still alive," Hara-chan retorted causing Mai to look even more confused, "They want to die, Mai, the people are being tortured so much so that they want to die, but their bodies are holding them back," Hara-chan said with a horrified cry as she shook her head. "The haunting isn't done by some spirit, people are at work here, Mai this is a crime scene not a haunted building," Hara-chan informed her, causing Mai to gasp in shock.
"B-but then, we should tell Naru," Mai stated as she went to wise when Hara-chan pulled her back down and shook her head immediately.
"We can't, Naru will pull out if we do that," Hara-chan explained causing Mai to frown.
"But you said it was a crime scene, we should leave it to police," Hara-chan shook her head in response to Mai's statement.
"Mai, this is my business these spirits are in pain, I've never seen so many spirits who want to die so desperately, we have to help them, we can't let the police get involved," Hara-chan stated firmly causing Mai to frown, dealing with the dead was one thing, but dealing with the living was another, should they not leave that to the experts? "Alice Doon, clearly realised they needed our help, that's why she contacted us" Hara-chan stated, "Are you going to let her die?" Hara-chan threatened causing Mai to freeze, that was cruel saying words like that, knowing it would get to Mai.
"Naru is going to be furious when he finds out about this," Mai stated, while Hara-chan scoffed.
"When have you ever cared about Naru's opinion when it involves people's lives?" She questioned Mai, and Hara-chan had a point, whenever cases involved the lives of people, Mai would always stand up to anyone who was going to do something that involved the loss of people's lives.
"Ah there you are," John-san exclaimed as he looked at the coffee and tea stained mess that covered the linel. "Are you both alright?"he questioned in worry as he bent down to their level to check if they had any injuries.
"Yes, " Mai replied instantly jumping up to attention, so fast that her head collided with John-san causing both of them to cower over and hold onto their bashed heads.
"Idiot," Hara-chan said coolly as she graciously stood up.
"What happened?" John-san questioned the girls, Mai looked cautiously over to Hara-chan.
"Mai fell over," Hara-chan claimed as she graciously left them both. Mai's mouth dropped to the floor How dare she play the blame on her?! It was her who had fainted! But something stopped Mai from complained the fact that Hara-chan had confided in her, trusted her not to talk to Naru, seemed to make her feel happy. Maybe, just maybe despite their fight for Naru the two could possible become friends, possibly.
"Let me help you clean up," John, stated as he bent down and began picking up the broken shards of pottery. Mai also got down and began picking up the pieces, as the two then set out on making new pots of tea and coffee. This time when they made it back to the base, they were surprised to see that Bou-san and Ayako had already left to go and perform their exorcisms. Mai looked at Hara-chan wondering if that was a good idea seeming as the people were still alive, she simply ignored Mai's stares.
"Mai, I ask you to do one simple job and yet you fail to accomplish such a task," Naru stated coldly as he looked over at her, from across his mock desk as he sorted through papers.
"That's because I-I had one of those dreams," Mai stated, she could sense Hara-chan stare at her curiously. Naru stared at her deciding whether or not she was deciding the truth.
"And?" he further questioned, Mai casted a glance over to Hara-chan who was looking at her very intensely, causing Mai to freeze a little.
"Nothing important," Mai muttered a little sheepishly, "just the words, don't leave," Mai added for Hara-chan's benefit, however Hara-chan did not even flinch, as if she had not even said those words. Perhaps in that moment she had called out to Mai she had indeed been possessed.
"Do you think it is of any significance?" Yasuhara Osamu questioned as he whipped out a notebook and pulled out a pen from behind his ear.
"I doubt it," he breezed off as he focused back on his work, while Hara-chan giggled, causing Mai to glare at her. The day wore on, Mai and Osamu was given the task of tea fetcher for the entire day, a task she managed to do without breaking any more pottery. Hara-chan had gone out with John-san to do some exorcisms around the building. Mai was always curious as to what Naru was doing, know one except Lin-san seemed to understand him fully, and yet whenever she tried to learn he would tell her to focus on her own jobs instead of putting her nose in other people's work.
"I'm so bored!" Mai exclaimed as Osamu bet her in yet another game of chess. The day had been wearing on, Mai was even beginning to miss the company of Hara-chan.
"The others should be back soon, then we can prepare for dinner," Yasuhara Osamu replied as he began setting up the chess board once more. As if a fortune teller had predicted the future John-san and Hara-chan walked through the doors.
"Anything unusual happen?" Osamu questioned, while Hara-chan shook her head and took a seat opposite Mai.
"Well it appeared as if their was nothing there" John informed him, Osamu pulled out his notebook and began writing down what John had told them. Before they began to talk about the hospital in its prime.
"Where is Monk-san and Ayako-san?" Mai questioned after a couple of more hours had passed. Naru looked up at Mai's words, as did Lin-san. The others looked around clearly uncomfortable that their two friends had yet to turn up.
"Lin!" Naru exclaimed, as everyone gathered around Lin-san who began going back through the footage, where early in the afternoon they watched as Ayako was performing her exorcisms with Monk-san keeping watch, once completed the two began to leave, only for them not to show up on the next camera.
"Where are they?!" Mai cried out in alarm, voicing everyone's thoughts!
Monk groaned as he began to squirm, he opened his eyes but all could he see was darkness. His hands bound behind him, and feet tied, he had no means of moving.
"Where am I?" He questioned out to no one in particular.
"Welcome to Hell," came the reply.
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