Celestial Star12:…
Naru:…
Mai:…uhhh….
Naru:…che…
Celestial Star12: I'm sorry okay! Bows head in shame…
Naru: I can't believe it took you so long to update
Celestial Star12: I was having my review for my college entrance exam (T_T)
Naru: Oh yeah, I forgot that an idiot like you can't keep up with you calculus and trigonometry lessons. I feel sorry for your teacher…
Celestial Star12: Hey! I haven't took those lessons yet! But hey, sorry for not being a genius jerk!
Naru: yes, you're an unfortunate, helpless idiot that was not born with looks and intelligence like mine.
(awkward silence)
Mai: uhhh…anyway, Celestial Star12 wanted to apologize for the VERY LATE update, she was banned from touching her laptop during weekdays even though its summer vacation.
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Mai: gasp OH MY GOD! WHERE DID THAT 45-K MAGNUM COME FROM!
Celestial Star12: Oh Naru, my dear Naru, I am soooo gonna ruin that handsome face of yours.
Naru: still calm you think I'm handsome? Looks like a few of your brain cells are still working.
(Bang)
Mai: MOTHER F! uhhh, Celestial Star12 would like to thank the following persons for their continuous support, especially for taking their time in reviewing her story.

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Thank you so much for reviewing, she can't stop reading your reviews. THANK YOU SO MUCH!

(bang)

Mai: HOLY MARY MOTHER OF GOD! Please review or else she'll get really violent. runs


Chapter 4: The Two Orphans

Mai stood amidst the pitch black abyss looking around to see a familiar face.

"Gene where are you?" she called out, but no person called Gene appeared in this unending sight of darkness. After waking up and recalling how she fainted, she knew right away that she was in the astral plane, and she was sure that it was about to show her something about the red-eyed ghost that she saw before she fainted. Minutes passed and still no sight of Gene.

"Wait! I shouldn't rely on Gene forever. He's supposed to be 'at rest' and materializing in front of me must take a lot of energy." She mumbled to herself. 'That's right Mai! Now focus and take a look at that boys past!' she braced herself for the incoming vision that was about to begin.

"Natsume…Where are you Natsume?" a boy with silver hair and black eyes searched every nook and cranny of the abandoned warehouse. He looked in every corner, closets, and even at the back of the warehouse, but there was no one there.

"Natsume!" the boy tried calling again. And this time he heard a small hic behind the tower of crates and empty boxes.

"Natsume…are you there?" he sneaked behind the boxes and saw a boy with dark blue hair. He was sitting upright, his knees up and his arms covering his face.

"Kaito…?" he took a small peek and Mai was able to get a glance on his ruby eyes. 'So his name is Natsume?' Mai thought and shifted her focus back on the scene. Natsume was crying more openly as Kaito patted his head. 'Poor kid…I wonder what happened to him.' Mai thought.

"I didn't mean to Kaito! I really, really didn't mean it" Natsume cried even louder. Kaito rubbed his back and smiled warmly.

"I know…don't worry…I know that you're a good guy Natsume…"

The scene began to fade and Mai was still confused. 'What happened to Natsume? Is he one of the victims?" But before she could figure that out, she was drawn back to her body.

"Mai!" Mai fluttered her eyes as the man who was calling her kept on shaking her body endlessly. She groaned and tried to sit up as her vision became more and more clear.

"Bou-san?" she looked at the monk right in front of her who a worrying look plastered in his face.

"Jou-chan!" he sighed "You shouldn't play medium you know…" Takigawa said as he poked Mai's forehead hard.

"Owww! That hurts bou-san" Mai complained. But before she could complain more, she was cut off by her overly-narcisstic boss.

"Did you dream?" Naru asked.

"Yeah, it was about two children named Natsume and Kaito. Kaito was looking for him in an abandoned warehouse, he found him behind the pile of boxes and Natsume was crying saying he didn't mean to do something….i don't know. I didn't understand much of the vision." She paused for a while to think. "And I think that Natsume is Riku's imaginary friend." She told Naru.

"Hmmm, that doesn't seem to be the case Mai-san." John said "Sakura-san told us that Riku had been calling his friend Kaito or something…" John trailed and Mai was surprised.

"Eeeh? But I thought that Kaito had black eyes in my vision." Mai murmured she was really confused now. The visions don't seem to add up at all. She scratched her head annoyed that the case isn't going anywhere, and surely she's not helping. She was about to say something about Kaito but then Yasuhara barged in the door with a mischievous grin plastered in his face.

"Naru-chan! I found something really interesting" he grinned and cleared his throat as he began to present the fruits of his research.

"I scanned over the old and fragile books in the library, and if you saw them you'd wonder why they're really crappy and so prehistoric. But if you researched the history of this place, you'll never wonder In the first place." Yasu said as he handed the papers to Naru and everyone began reading as Yasu orally explained it.

"In late 90's, the village was experiencing great poverty and famine. Crops died for this unknown drought that comes out of nowhere, wells dried up, and forest fires happen frequently just like what was happening right now. The village chief at that time was named Shuyin, his son was living in the city during the great poverty the village was experiencing. The interesting part is the letters sent to Shuyin by the villagers, think of it as complaints." He pointed at the old pieces of paper Naru was holding. Everyone gasped as they read the letters of complaint Yasu was talking about. It wasn't about poverty or food or anything about corruption." He stated as they read the letters one by one:

"That boy is evil!"

"He is the source of misfortunes that had been happening to us!"

"The devil's child! Let us kill him already"

"Kill that child or else the end will come upon us all!"

Everyone was left mouth-opened. Silence was in the room, and everyone stared blankly at the pieces of paper Yasu found. Shortly after that, the lights began to flicker and rapping noises were made and then it stopped, but it was replaced by the loud striking of a bell, frantic footsteps and nervous voices.

"What the hell is going on outside?" monk said as he ran out to check all the fuss, all of us were following behind him. When we reached outside of the mansion we saw all the villagers panicking. Men were running, mother's grab their children and some were crying and wailing…it was total chaos, when we saw the thick black smoke not far from the mansion we understood then that there was a fire. We quickly ran to the place to help in putting out the fire. The men in our team helped the villagers gather water while Ayako, Masako and I took care of the victims. As I was helping Ayako tend the wounds of the children I took a glimpse of the burning house and was horrified.

"Ayako there's still somewhere in there!" I pointed at the house where I can clearly see a figure of a child crawled up in his knees with his arms covering his face.

"Where Mai?" Ayako was searching it as I was desperately pointing at the silhouette of the child. The fire got even bigger causing debris to fall near the child was sitting. I could barely hold my feet in place. I just couldn't watch this anymore. I ran and grabbed a bucket full of water from a villager and splashed it all over me. I gave the bucket buck earning a confused face from the villager but I had no time to explain, the child was in danger! I ran inside the burning house as Ayako screamed my name but I never looked back.

"Boy! Where are you?" I called for him I continued to search amidst the blazing corners and debris not to mention the gust of smoke that covered the house. When I reached the end of the house I finally found him. I kneeled right next to him putting my hands over his shoulders and whispered to him.

"Everything's gonna be alright" I smiled warmly at the boy as I grabbed his hand to exit this blazing room. Unfortunately though, he remained in the same position and when I was about to ask what's wrong he raised his head and said something I couldn't understand. I crashed on the floor as my eyesight slowly faded. 'Am I going to die?' I questioned myself and my world turned pitch black.

~Naru's POV

Naru shuffled through the papers Yasu had given him. 'Poverty, drought, famine' Naru thought. But out of the three Naru thought that the drought seemed out of place. 'Just where did this drought come from?' he put a hand on his chin and kept on thinking how to put this clues together.

"…the interesting part were the letters sent by the villagers" Naru wasn't paying attention. Well he really didn't need to, but that was the only thing that caught Naru's ear. He shuffled the papers once again and found old stationeries that were on the verge of ripping and crumbling into dust. He stared at the nearly faded but still legible writings and thought…'maybe…'.

"Calamities caused by a child who was said to be the son of a devil…" before he could position himself into a deep thought, loud beating of bells rang in the air. Takigawa ran outside to check and everyone else followed him. When they got outside, he noticed smoke arising in a particular place. When they arrived there, they met a burning house. Naru quickly went over to the victims to question them and the rest helped put out the fire.

"What happened?" Naru asked in his stoic mask.

"Fire, fire appeared out of nowhere!" the lady looked like she was hysterical as she was clutching her children in her arms.

Naru was putting the clues together, 'calamities, fire, and a devil's child…'

"That is all, thank you for your cooperation." Naru said to the lady and she just nodded still in shock of what happened. He was about to go Lin and tell him what he figured out.

"The ghost responsible for this mess is a child" Naru muttered to himself and when he was about to walk he heard a man shouting.

"Hey you! What are you doing!" when he turned around, he saw Mai who stole the bucket of water and poured it all to herself then went inside the burning house.

"Mai!" he heard Ayako shout, he stole a bucket of water from a villager and repeated what Mai did, when he was about to go inside, debris piled up in the entrance before he could even enter.

"Idiot!" he said angrily then used his PK to blast these things off. He would get a mouthful of Lin later.

When he reached Mai, he saw her lying helplessly on the floor.

"Stupid girl" he said in her ear and scooped her up bridal style exiting the house.

~Mai's POV

Tiny orbs of light flickered across the dimension Mai knew as the astral plane. She groggily stood up and tried to recall how she ended up being here. Her mind processed a long list of possible reasons to fall asleep during a case and she scanned all of those and poof! 'Oh yeah! I fainted while trying to get a child out of the burning house…'

There was 5 seconds silence…

"OH MY GOD! I FAINTED IN A BURNING HOUSE! AM I DEAD? AM I? GENE WHERE ARE YOU! JESUS CHRIST…." She plopped down on the floor, trying to calm herself. She continued to whimper on the floor when she felt a hand behind her that made her jump on the spot. When she turned around, she saw Gene slightly panicking. He was looking at her with worried eyes and began to shake her back and forth.

"Mai wake up! It's dangerous here, leave the astral plane, you can't stay here." Mai was confused but nodded instead. Gene always had this 'commanding tone' that you can't reject.

"This is really important Mai, NEVER BE ALONE! Stay close to Noll and NEVER leave his side do you understand." Mai nodded again, Gene looked scary, he's so much like Naru right now, just scarier. She closed her eyes and tried to feel her way back to her body.


=o(^.^~)/=

When Mai came to, the first thing that greeted her was bou-san's ultimate bear hug technique. And while she was being squeezed out of life in between monk's arms she was receiving Ayako's fearful tongue-lashing paired with a mouthful of scolding.

"Did somebody turn Mai-chan into a bad girl? 'cause it seems that she can't behave and needs a good baby-sitting." Yasuhara wagged his finger at Mai.

"JOU-CHAN/MAI JUST WHAT WERE YOU THINKING!" Ayako and Takigawa said in unison. Mai sweat dropped and looked at both of them with puppy-sad-eyes. Both of them sighed, nobody can predict when she'll execute her klutz attack after all.

"What were you thinking that made you run inside a burning house like an idiot" Naru said coldly and Mai frowned.

"Hey, it's not like I wanted to die you know I-"

"What you did is another version of the word called suicide. I'm starting to doubt that you're even using your brain, or if it can comprehend to the words called RECKLESSNESS and DANGEROUS" Naru emphasized the two words at her and glared coldly. She suddenly remembered Gene's angry face and took back what she said earlier 'che…twins, they're both scary after all'. Speaking of remembering, she jolted out of the bed all of a sudden.

"Ayako THE KID! Is he okay? He's safe now right?" Mai eyed the confused and speechless priestess in front of her.

"Mai, there is no child in the first place. Every person occupying the house safely evacuated before the fire got worse" Naru told her.

"But!" Naru glared at her and was unable to keep on talking.

"Get some rest, we have exorcisms to do in the morning" Naru walked out of the room and was followed by Lin leaving the team and Mai quiet in her room.

"Don't worry Mai, despite his attitude he was actually very worried about you. He was the one that saved you after all." Ayako sat beside her tucking her into bed like a child. Mai just gave off a doubtful look in response. The rest of the team called it a day and went back to their own quarters.


=o(^.^~)/=

Mai looked around the place she was currently standing. She was amidst a big angry crowd carrying torches, rakes, knives and all kinds of weapons. When Mai realized it was a vision, she peeked further into the crowd to get a better look of what they were venting their anger on. When she was able to sneak to the front, she saw two boys that she recognized as Kaito and Natsume. Kaito was protecting Natsume from the horde of stones they were being thrown at. Then one of the villagers grabbed Kaito away from Natsume and started to hit him with a rake endlessly. Mai covered her mouth at the gruesome scenario in front of her.

"Die you son of a bitch! Rot in hell you devil's advocate!" the villager continued the successions of blows as blood splattered everywhere, as kaito's blood dyed the soil red. The villagers continued throwing stones and other things at Natsume who was desperately reaching for Kaito who was reaching out his hand in the same way. In the middle of the angry mob were two boys who were on the verge of dying, they were spitting on them, kicking them mercilessly and calling them devils. Mai cried unable to take it anymore. 'What did they do to deserve this'

"STOP IT!" Mai shouted, but no heard her, in fact, nobody saw her. She was already in the middle with the two boys trying to shield them from the objects that were aimed at them, instead they just slipped past through her body. She shifted her gaze to Natsume and Kaito.

"Natsume…run" and with that Kaito breathed his last.

"Kaito? KAITO!" Natsume screamed with all the strength he had left. But it wasn't enough to keep him alive. He glared at the crowd, his red eyes bloodier than usual. Despite how weak he is already, he was able to stand as tears streamed between his eyes. He screamed so loud that the villagers were frightened and started to run. When Natsume finished screaming, he glared at the villagers who were running like ants with no particular direction, and the next thing that followed were screams of pain and anguish. Fire engulfed the whole village in a matter of seconds, people were slowly being incinerated into ashes slowly and painfully meeting their deaths. No one was spared, everyone burned while Natsume laughed hysterically like some madman.

"WHO'S ROTTING IN HELL NOW? !"

Mai was unable to move. Her feet were glued on the ground and all she can do is watch everything burn like hell. She just stood there crying silently as Natsume mercilessly kill every single villager in the village while laughing.

"Natsume is psychic…" Mai whispered softly. Everything makes sense now, Natsume probably couldn't control his powers therefore explaining the mysterious fires that appeared out of nowhere and it somehow labeled him as a devil.

"Look Kaito, isn't this pretty? Everybody is burning and it makes me so happy right now! Nobody can hurt us anymore Kaito so please…come back" Natsume held Kaito's hand. Although he still wore that creepy smile, tears flooded his face. Mai couldn't do anything, she just watched them as they too were engulfed in flames.

"He really didn't mean too…" that was the last thing Mai could say before she was pulled out of the astral plane.


=o(^.^~)/=

When Mai woke up she found herself on the floor. 'Did I fall?' Mai thought embarrassed as she tried to crawl back into bed. She reached for the covers to aid her in getting up, but before she could even lift herself up something tugged her back to the floor. All the hair in her body suddenly stood up. She was about to wake Ayako when it started to pull her out of the room.

"AYAKOOOOOO!" Mai screamed. Both Masako and Ayako jolted from their sleep and saw Mai being pulled out of the room. Ayako quickly chased after Mai but the door suddenly closed and locked them inside.

"Mai! Mai!"


=o(^.^~)/=

Naru was still up reviewing the details of the case while Lin was watching the monitors when a scream echoed throughout the house. Naru immediately recognized it as Mai's voice and stood up alarmed. Both of them saw Mai being dragged by an invisible entity, they quickly ran out of the base in pursuit of the ghost that attacked Mai. Naru ran like never before, the ghost isn't supposed to be this violent. Or if he did, he would have burned her not drag her out of nowhere. Lin immediately whistled for his shiki to follow Mai as they ran through the mansion following Mai's screams. They finally caught up to her when it suddenly stopped in the lobby. Naru motioned to get a hold of Mai when a powerful blast sent him flying backwards. 'What the fuck!' he growled as he tried to get back on his feet. Lin whistled calling 3 of his shikis, the swirled around Mai but all three of them were deflected by some sort of barrier. Naru started to gather up energy as his body began to glow, he couldn't think straight anymore, Mai was in danger and even Lin was panicking, he didn't know what to do anymore…Oliver Davis is scared…scared that he might lose someone important and isn't able to do anything about it like before. Just when he was about to release his PK, the temperature suddenly rose and embers started to form around Mai burning the figure that was dragging her earlier. Behind the confused Naru and Lin was the rest of the team with mouths open. They all stared at Mai who looked scared and confused as they were.

"Mai you better start learning how to repel things when you're so good at attracting them, especially trouble." Takigawa looked at Mai and went to her side. But before he could even reach her, Naru was already there helping her up and supporting her with his arms causing 'physical contact' which isn't included in Naru's dictionary, yet, he was the one who initiated it first.

"Big Boss: Strike One!" Yasu whispered but enabling the team hear excluding Naru and Mai of course.

Naru examined his wide-eyed assistant, checking for any serious wounds. He found a few bruises and abrasions caused by the pull earlier but there were no serious injuries and thinking about it made Naru sigh in relief. She offered her his hand and helped her get up and have a long and serious talk with her and the rest of SPR. He held her fragile arms as she stood wobbling on her feet. 'She's still scared, she had no idea what happened after all' Naru thought. When he felt Mai's grip tighten on his arms, he unconsciously slid his hand on her waist to keep her from falling and at the same time let her know that he's there. Lin's eyebrow rose curiously 'Noll's showing open kindness…he must be tensed right now. Looks like Noll needs to see an accident first before his hormones kick in, idiot scientist.' He smirked behind Naru's back and fought the urge to take his cellphone and take a shot of Oliver Davis's rare act of kindness. But his smirk faded when he saw Noll holding the protective charm he gave to Mai on her birthday in shreds.

"Lin, are you sure this thing works?" Naru eyed at him

"I wouldn't have given it to Taniyama-san if I know it won't. Naru I made that myself" he said as he took shredded necklace from Naru and inspected it. His eyes grew large.

"It's gone…all the power that I put on the necklace is gone. Not even a faint power was left"

"I'm sorry Lin-san. I broke it even though you exerted a lot of effort in making that necklace…" Mai said softly in her shaking voice.

"It's alright Taniyama-san, though I must be the one to apologize that it wasn't able to protect you" Lin bowed in apology.

"That's not true Lin-san! That thing was about to…like swallow me but then it wasn't able to because the necklace protected me!" Mai shouted, her tears were evident already. Ayako hugged Mai and began soothing her, she felt responsible also for not being able to protect Mai.

"Why don't we go back to the base?" Yasu said and everyone else nodded.


=o(^.^~)/=

"Mai what happened?" Ayako scanned her when Naru helped her sit in the couch of the base. It was the nearest place to have 'Mai's interrogation' to take place. Lin grabbed his laptop while the others sat on the chairs they could find. Masako and John came back with tea for everyone.

"Well I had a dream about Natsume and Kaito. The villagers were mad at them calling them devils while throwing stones at them. Then one man suddenly grabbed Kaito who was shielding Natsume from the stoned and hit him with a rake countless of times. Natsume tries to reach his hand as stones hit him but before he could, Kaito died…" Mai's eyes began to moist and a single tear dropped and trailed down her cheek.

"Natsume…he's a psychic like Naru…and the whole village including the villagers were cremated in the blazing field" Mai started sobbing quietly. The images of Natsume who had gone insane when he lost the only person who loved him and rook care of him.

"He…really didn't mean to do it, he couldn't control his powers very well, but he avoided hurting people with all the things they labeled and did to him…to them" she cried harder and Ayako rubbed her back gently. Mai sniffed and fought back her tears so that she could explain what happened further.

"After I woke up, I found myself on the floor. When I tried to climb back to my bed, something grabbed my ankle and pulled me back into the floor. Even though I was still half-awake, I knew something was wrong and I felt really scared so I decided to call Ayako, but before I was able to do that, it pulled me." She sobbed again, and she was crying hysterically now.

"I'm so scared!" Mai screamed in between her muffled cries. Ayako pulled her into her chest and gave her a tight squeeze.

"Man! Just what kind of priestess are you? She was right beside you and she still got attacked by a ghost?" monk said jokingly but it backfired him when the purse and yells from Ayako didn't come charging at him. Instead, Ayako looked at him with a painful expression, like she was about to cry for being so useless.

"Everything makes sense now, we can't wait for tomorrow, let's exorcise it now." Naru said as he stood up from his seat.

"Uhmm...care to explain Shibuya-san?" John asked meekly.

"I summed up the research Yasuhara made, at first I thought that this case was some kind of cursing since someone was treated like an excommunicated villager. But then, I couldn't understand why there were no use of dolls or any form of cursing methods, I also consulted Lin about this and we were both confused about it. But then it became clear during the fire accident and the apparition of the child that Mai saw in the burning house. I assumed that the ghost is a psychic and the villagers were terrified of his power: Pyrokinesis. He had the ability to influence the temperature explaining why there was drought resulting to crops dying and famine. Not to mention the strange forest fires. Because of those incidents, the villagers labeled him as a 'devil's child' and probably the other kid was accused to be his 'bodyguard' or his 'contractor', the rest, Mai already told us." Naru explained and the team nodded in agreement. Everything makes sense now, all they have to do is exorcise it and everything will be fine.

"But there's still something that's been bothering me…" Naru held his chin, thinking deeply.

"Who was the ghost that attacked Mai? I am pretty sure it wasn't Natsume especially Kaito since they were both fond of Mai. It also seemed like Natsume who was still sane trusted Mai and sought her help. It can't be the villagers also, not once the villagers were able touch a single resident of this town moreover pull them out of bed." Naru paused for awhile then looked at Mai briefly and his eyes went back to SPR.

"Anyway, we can't let the danger escalate any further." Naru crossed his arms and went into boss mode.

"Brown-san, bou-san and Matsuzaki-san please get ready. Lin set up your shikis just in case the ghost becomes violent. Hara-san we also need your help, Yasuhara-san, you aren't allowed to wander by yourself."

"Don't worry boss, I will never plan on doing that" Yasu saluted at him. Naru turned to Mai whose cries began to soften.

"Mai, never leave my side" Naru stated in a commanding tone. Mai gave a weak nod in response. It's going to be a rough night for SPR.


=o(^.^~)/=

The SPR stood in the fields where Mai was first attacked and got her hand printed marks on her legs. The place is actually where all the villagers gathered at that night and died in that particular field. Masako was seated on the grass surrounded by a circle of characters not found in any language. Behind her were John, bou-san, and Ayako who were in there attires and was ready to chant any time. Not far from them was Naru, Lin, Yasu and Mai. Masako gave Naru a nod indicating the start of the jourei.

"Natsume, I know you are here. Please talk to me" the medium stated. There was a sudden cold breeze and the temperature around them began to drop immensely. Then a thin foggy, transparent figure appeared amidst the plain grasses. It was a boy with ash colored hair and red piercing eyes. He was looking at the medium with a sinister smile. Mai's heart clenched the moment she saw Natsume with that evil smile plastered on his face.

"Please stop what you are doing, you have obtained your revenge, there is no need to harm any more people and hurt yourself even further. Please move on and follow the light, I am sure that Kaito is waiting for you on the other side." Masako said gently with a matching smile. Natsume's smirk grew even wider and he began to laugh in a creepy way. After a few seconds, he stopped laughing and looked dead straight into Masako's eyes,

"No need to hurt them? But I still want to burn them more?" he pouted and flames began to appear in the field. Ayako, monk and john took these as a go signal and started chanting. Natsume just laughed unaffected by their chants as the fires grew even bigger. Mai who was watching started to cry silently. 'It's so sad and painful…his eyes…he's suffering so much…he doesn't deserve this…' Mai thought. She gazed unto the burning fields and her eyes recognized the silhouette amidst the burning grass. It was Kaito and he was crying. He was begging Mai to stop Kaito from torturing himself any further.

"Onee-chan, please" Kaito begged her with a painful tone. And without any further ado, Mai ran and charged at Natsume ignoring the flames that surrounded the place and hugged him really tight. Natsume was evidently shocked; no one ever tried to hug him, especially with all the flames around him.

"It's okay, you can stop now. It's all over Natsume…" Mai said staring at his ruby eyes and wiping the tears that were streaming down his cheeks which he had not noticed at all. Mai smiled warmly at him stroking his ash-like colored hair, pushing the bangs away from his eyes causing his red orbs to become more evident.

"Kaito's waiting you know? He's waiting for you all this time. And I assure you, nobody will hurt both of you anymore. So stop hurting yourself Natsume, you don't deserve this pain because I know you're a good boy Natsume…you don't hurt anybody" Mai smiled even brighter at Natsume and instantly all the flames slowly disappeared into thin air leaving Mai and the transparent body of a crying little boy who was hugging Mai back. SPR was dazed, she really was reckless, but Mai knew what the ghost wanted…it was love. They all treated him like a monster and the only friend he had also experienced the same pain he had gone through even though he didn't deserve it…no…they both don't deserve it. It was that time when Kaito appeared. But he didn't look happy, he was running to Mai and Natsume's direction like he was warning them of something.

"ONEE-CHAN! NATSUME!" Kaito screamed.


=o(^.^~)/=

Mai was soothing the sobbing child in her arms, to put it more clearly, the sobbing ghost in her arms, but it doesn't matter at all. Mai wanted to make up for all the years of agony that Natsume went through. Natsume was also hugging her back this time, crying in her chest as she brushed his ash colored locks with her fingers. When she looked up, she saw Kaito running towards them screaming.

"ONEE-CHAN! NATSUME!" but he wasn't happy or dramatic. He looked terrified like something big was after him. When she turned around she saw a dark figure with a creepy smile. Its teeth were pointed sharp and his eyes were blood-red. And the next thing she knew was that she was barely inches from its face.

"I found you"


A/N: I am really sorry this chapter was soooooo late, I was having my review for my college assessment exams and for the past two weeks I was being tortured by chemistry, geometry, trigonometry and calculus (T.T) somebody save me. Oh, I also am not allowed to touch my laptop during weekdays. Sometimes, I was thinking of eloping with my laptop in a place far from science and math you know. Oh and more importantly, PLEASE DONT LEAVE WITHOUT REVIEWING! (I'm serious here)

Oh and btw, im a newbie and I would really like to ask for your help. I need ideas for the next case i need to put in the story. i really tried to research about ghost stories and even stared at scary pictures but im still not satisfied with what i came up (The ones i was satisfied with was arranged for chapters that are VERY IMPORTANT for the story) so if you'd like to help i would be delighted to accept it (^^)/. just pm me and i'll try to include them in my story. THANK YOU VERY MUCH FOR READING! :D

OH! and here's the format:

1. The case- what the case is about,all the information i need regarding the case like how many died, their genders what's their relationship with the MAIN ghost, why was he haunting it etc.

2. The characters- names, personality and appearance. (this is what usually takes my time...im VERY picky about names but dont worry, ill respect whatever name you choose and will not change it ;D)

3. Setting- the town or city, if it is a house, hotel, restaurant etc...

4. if you'd like suggestions or tell me how you want me to write the case, you can also tell me. oh and if i have something to change regarding the case so that i could insert the plot that i need, I'll tell you first but if you wont agree, then lets have a good talk about it (though i think it would be a spoiler for you...)

That's all...and thank you for your continuous support! i love you guys xD