A/N: So sorry for the late update but I lost internet and power here from a snow/ice storm! It was pretty nasty! Anyway, here is the next chapter and WARNING adult themes mentioned and foreshadowing adult events to come!

I still have no idea how my story turned out this way...but it did!

"No…I will kill myself" Mai corrected her with a sigh as she tried to calm down her laughter. What could have been so funny even eluded her and she was the one doing it. Maybe it was the irony of it all, maybe it was the images whirling around in her mind of what was to come…she wasn't completely sure. "Slit my wrists, hang myself, stab my heart, overdose, drown, fall…there are endless possibilities."

"How…" the Okami-san stared wide eyed at the girl, "how did you…know."

Mai walked into the room and took a seat across from the woman and chuckled softly. "I saw it…"

"Saw it?" Naru reiterated and narrowed his eyes at his assistant. "What did you see, Mai?"

She turned her head and looked at him sadly. Her expression was so pained, so hurt that it startled the boy. "I saw them die…but it was already too late…for me."

"You'd better start explaining." He said darkly as he hit the table in front of him with force causing the girl to flinch. Before she had a chance to say anything, though she really had nothing to say in the first place, the Okami-san spoke up softly.

"Maybe I had better explain…" she trailed off and looked at her husband that silently gave her a supportive look. "There is something that I haven't told you yet about the deaths of my maids…"

"Continue…" Naru said darkly using a deadly low undertone.

"I told you that the maid's suicides were unnatural and about the strange occurrences before they started but what I failed to mention was the rather…hedonistic…nature of the events leading up to their deaths." She started to cry again and Naru noted Mai's disinterested expression and wandering attention; she probably already knew all of this and the fact that she had, once again, failed to share the information with him or any of the others started to piss him off.

"Go on" he pushed again impatiently.

"Well…" she hesitated as she sent a glance at Mai, "all the maids that died started out the same way as your assistant. One day they would refuse to leave their room and when finally forced they were as you see her; naked. When we would try and cover them up or persuade them to put on clothes they could not…"

"What do you mean 'could not'?" Bou-san questioned.

"They can not wear clothes or cover up. If they do, the girls will experience pain as if someone is punishing them for the action. They have to remain naked."

"And then…?" It was Lin's turn to ask. By the look in the woman's eyes he knew there was more…something horrible and dark at the back of her mind just waiting to be told.

Once again the woman stole a glance at Mai who continued to sit naked and disinterested in everything. She was trying desperately to occupy her mind with anything other than the current situation. Her cheeks sported a deep flush but she was trying not to let it show.

"They will stay that way for a day or so….then…it starts…"

"What starts?" John asked meekly, fearing the answer.

"The sexual harassment…" she answered softly. "It was like there was someone there…erotically harassing the girls. It was the same with every girl. In another day or so…they would be raped…" she trailed off as Ayako gasped and the others were too stunned to speak.

"Wha…what do you mean?" Ayako shakily asked.

"It's like I said. The girls were raped. It looked like they were having sex but only that the male counterpart was invisible…" she sniffled some more. "They were raped and taken repeatedly for days until finally…"

"They killed themselves" Mai looked at the woman. "But in truth they didn't want to die. It made them die…made them do what they did."

"Mai" Naru glared at the girl, "what more do you know?" She looked rather surprised at the question but answered anyway.

"That is all I know. I saw how each girl died…the first went into the bath and slit her wrists with a razor blade, the second hung herself from the tree out front, the third walked into the kitchen and took a knife to her heart, the fourth sat in her room and swallowed a handful of pills, the fifth drowned her self in the outdoor bath, and the sixth jumped off the second story balcony. I saw that in my dream. And I saw that they all didn't want to do it. Their faces were not the faces of girls that wanted to die…they were horrified at what they were doing yet they did it anyway…meaning that something else was making them do it. I think it was the thing that took them…raped them…I think it made them die." She finished weakly. She was on the verge of crying herself but was holding it in for her own sake. If she started to cry again over what she had seen then there wasn't much hope for her to remain strong and composed for what was to come.

Mai was not a very strong person. She was often overly sentimental and caring even when it hurt her to be so. She hated to see sad things and even if she didn't know the girls that had died, her heart went out to them. But right now…Mai decided she was going to get through this in a mature and calm way. Too many cases had gone by with Naru insulting her intelligence and her jumpy personality; happy one moment and heatedly angry the next; crying from sadness then being terrified in the next instance, but not this time. Mai decided she was not going to show Naru her absolutely mortified and crying face. She was not going to whine or cry nor complain at her misfortune. No, Mai was going to show Naru that she too could be mature and collected at times that she needed to be.

"So…" Mai started once again after inspecting the faces around her, "that is how it is. So you guys better start trying to figure out what is here and how to get rid of it."

"That's right…" the Okami-san interjected, "since all the girls died within four to seven days of them being unable to wear clothes."

"Understood" Naru coolly confirmed. "Bou-san and Hara-san, I want you to start inspecting the rest of the inn and see if you pick up anything. John, Matsuzaki-san, and Lin I want you to start setting up cameras in the locations that were discussed earlier. Mai…you are to stay here with me."

There were a few quick glances at one another but soon every one wordlessly complied and went on their way to complete their given tasks. The Okami-san, her husband, and her maid left as well since they were still running the inn and had a few guests to attend to. Once alone in the room Mai suddenly became very self conscious. She was after all stark naked sitting alone in front of the man she loved but would never admit to.

"Mai…" he started with his back to her, slowly turning to face her and fix her with a strong gaze. "I want you to tell me exactly what happened. I don't quite understand…"

Mai was rather surprised; her all knowing boss did not understand something…he is human after all. "I went earlier with Masako and Ayako to put our luggage away. I must admit as soon as I entered the inn I felt a sharp pain like something was jabbing me hard, but it was so fast I just dismissed it" Mai explained calmly. "While in the room talking with Masako I found out she felt it too…it was around that time that I went into the bathroom for something and I saw it…"

"Saw what?" Naru had moved to sit opposite of the girl. He could tell she was embarrassed at him being so close to her and looking at her. She was blushing a beautiful shade of red. She had crossed her ankles and brought her knees up to her chin and clasped her arms around them in an attempt to cover herself. It was the most adorable position he had ever seen the girl in…Naru was surprised at how captivated he was by her body. It was just a body…he was well educated in the realms of biology and anatomy. It wasn't like it was anything he hadn't seen before. But Mai's body…her slightly pink skin; it looked so soft and inviting.

Naru vaguely wondered what it would be like to touch…he wanted to see more of her, feel more of her, witness more of her expressions. Naru knew it was not the time for thinking like he was, but he couldn't help it…

"When I went into the bathroom I had a vision" Mai's voice brought him out of his wandering thoughts and he snapped back into reality. "I watched as the girls were stripped of their clothes forcefully by a presence. I saw that when they tried to put anything on they were hurt. I was there when they were taken and toyed with…and when they finally were killed…" she finished softly. "When I came to I was on the floor…I tried to get up but something was holding me down. Before I knew it all my clothes were pulled off and I was left like this. I too tried to cover up…but it hurt too much to continue…so I stayed this way. When Ayako and Masako said they were heading back I told them I was having problems and asked them to go on ahead. I am assuming Masako didn't feel anything when I was in there so I don't know what pulled off my clothes…but it felt like hands."

"You saw all the girls that were killed correct?" he asked sincerely.

"Yeah, why?" She looked up at him confused.

"Did you notice anything they had in common? Did they all have similar hair color or similar body structure?"

"Ah…no…" she trailed off when she realized he was trying to find the trend. She knew what the deciding factor was…what they all had in common. "What we all have in common…the reason it picked us and not the others is because it targets virgins…" she flushed and looked away.

"Virgins?" It finally clicked. The age range of the girls that had died…the girls were virgins…

A/N: Please review, I love hearing from all of you! ...the dark decent of my story...it is only the beginning!