"Let me see" Ayako pushed past Lin and the Monk and looked in pure horror. Raf's eye was completely blood red and glowing? "It'll fade" Raf said. Kural and Karla fell out of their van and stood behind the SPR team. "Yo Raf, your turn to sleep" Kural said quickly. Raf quickly thanked him and got up to go to the van when Naru stopped her. "What aren't you telling us?" he demanded angerly. "Nothing that will effect this case." she spat back "If it become nessesery to inform you I will; but as it isn't, I will not." Naru glared hard at her "and glaring at me will not make me talk, understand?" Naru glared harder, he wanted to know what was going on, Mai didn't say much about her neither did her friends. "Well what did you do to that spirit?" he asked. "I confined him to his house for a few hours." she said. "How?" Naru asked hoping she'd fall into the trap and talk. "that is none of your business. But to get you off my back so I can sleep I will say this: It was a simple confinement spell, he will be out in a few hours but it will be seven am ok?" Raf pushed past Naru and got into the van and slammed the door.
At midday Mai came around with some tea for everyone. "Mai I want you to check the cameras from yesterday for any damage." Naru ordered. Mai nodded and started her rounds. Karla decided to join her while Kural worked on some protection charms for everyone. "Sooo you have a crush on Naru" she said. Mai felt her face go red. Seeing this Karla giggled like a school girl. "W...why would I love him?" Mai asked "he's rude, arrogant, a huge jerk, full of himself and he's handsome as hell" Mai clapped her hands over her mouth after she finished. Karla's giggles became laughter. "You have it bad my dear." she said rubbing Mai's back. "oh god if he heard that..." "yes?" Karla promoted. "he'd agree and tell me to get back to work and get over how good looking he is." "Yes I would" Mai squeaked and turned round. Naru was walking towards them. "Oh god!"
Naru smirked at Mai's face. She looked like a child who had been caught with her hand in the cookie jar. He looked at her face, it was so cute when she looked like that. Karla, seeing the problem decided to speak. "and what can we do for you Mr Shibuya?" Naru looked at the spirt miko "Your camera in house six stopped working and Mai forgot her cell phone so I came to tell you and join you." he said. They continued their walk in silence. Naru normaly loved the silence but wished Karla would finish the talk she and Mai were having earlier, yes he had a massive crush on Mai but after the rejection he gave her on one of his cases...he was scared.
Flashback
Naru was in the hospital for using his PK abilities. Lin was scolding him for the upteenth time that day about his carelessness.
"Lin the spirit was strong enough to possess you do you think the monk, John and Ayako combined will have stopped it. You almost chocked Mai to death" Naru snapped at Lin. Lin looked at his charge and sighed, pulled out a mobile and left the room. Naru knew who Lin was calling, his parents. Yep Naru the Narcissist was is a terrible mood. He couldn't find his brother, he and Lin had found the lake one day by accident, they had divers investigate the entire lake only to find nothing. Gene wasn't anywhere to be found. That was two months ago.
He heard the door open and in walked Mai. She smiled at him but all he did was glare at her. "What do you want?" he snapped. Mai quickly wrote 'Would you like some tea? :)' on a white board she had. Lin was possessed by a sprit of a school bully in the case they were working at, he had grabbed Mai and had precoded to chock her. While in his hold Lin had bruised the area around her voice and the doctors said she will not speak for about two weeks while her neck healed.
Naru nodded to her suggestion of tea and she walked out. Naru was thinking how lucky that Lin's shiki had been working to force the spirit out AND to protect Mai at the same time. Naru knew if the shiki hadn't interfered Mai would be dead. Once the spirit was out Naru used his powers to destroy it. Then he blacked out.
Lin came back into the room and noticed a piece of paper on the floor by the door. He knew Mai had come to offer tea, she must have dropped it. He opened it and saw it was something he's asked her to do. Lin placed the paper on the table and began hunting for a black marker pen. Naru snapped out of his dase to see Lin put a piece of paper on a table near him and leave the room to look for something. Curious Naru got out of bed and grabbed the piece of paper and began to read it.
dear diary,
here we are another creepy case and I'm in the hospital :( We're investigating a boy's school were the ghosts of the bullies and there victims have been sighted. For the first day we had little activity. Monk and Ayako fought again then ended up asking each other out...don't ask. Naru asked for 16 cups of tea so far. New habit: each time Naru had over 40 cups of tea on a case I buy a new flavor of tea for him to try and I get a coffee from the cafe under the office. I was sooo close on the last case: 39 cups!
I had another dream...Gene guided me through it as per usual, it was one of the victims and how he died. He fainted while the main bully was holding his head in a basin full of water. He drowned. I cried into Gene's chest. He sat me down in the black void thinggie and we spoke. He asked me about Naru and my thoughts about him. I told him that although he was a bit mean and a total jerk, which is true, I loved him, and I do. I would tell him but...
ah well back to the case: today Lin and I were replacing a camera that monk had tripped on and broke. When Lin started to shake. I asked him what was wrong and he said it was nothing. Once the camera was fixed I stood up and then felt something wrap around my neck, it was like a thick silk scarf, then suddenly Lin grabbed me and began to strangle me! I looked at him and could see his eyes shone with evil I knew all to well. One of the bullies had taken over Lin. Thankfully this this around my neck was helping stop Lin from killing me but it didn't stop him bruising my neck so now I can't talk. I could breath either and ended up blacking out then I woke up here in the hospital with John next to me. He explained what happened. In short Naru blasted the spirit and fainted...or as Naru would put it 'black out'. John has gone to tell everyone I'm awake.
Got to go :)
Mai
P.S. Lin walked in on me writing and asked me what I was doing. In a caring way, so I showed him..well I blanked out that bit about Naru. But he asked as it had a missing part of the case could he have a copy. He assured me he'd blank out my confession about Naru. So off to the copier I go!
Naru stared at the paper. Lin had asked Mai for this? He re-read the confession and glared hard at the paper. At that moment Mai came in smiling with a cup of tea. Naru put the paper down and got back into bed and began to drink his tea. Mai bowed and made for the door. Now he didn't know why but her words haunted him so he decided to talk about it. "Mai" he began "you can forget any fantasy you have about being in love with me as I would never go for a no-body like you" He watched as her face went from shocked/surprised or pain/heartbreak. He watched as she ran from the room in tears. Before he could regret what he said Lin came in...oh boy he must of heard what he said, and the look he was giving him, Naru knew he was going to get it.
End Flashback
Naru shuddered at that memory. Lin had scolded him for an hour then Modoka came in Lin told her what happened and she started on him, then she ran to Mai. He didn't know why he said that, he thought he was possessed but then Lin would have picked up on it. Naru wanted to apologize but didn't know how. "are you ok Mr Shibuya?" Karla must have seen him shudder. "It's nothing just a painful memory" he said. They arrived at the house number six. Karla gasped and grabbed Mai's arm. "she's here, she must travel form house to house. We must be careful" she said in a panicked voice "by her you mean Mrs Sato?" Naru asked. Karla nodded. She handed them both charms to have on them as they walked into the house.
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