John had now ended up in a portion of the orphanage that he had never visited. It was odd, once he sprinted out of the room, his feet took over, and lead him here. But he totally forgot to take a map.

"I wonder if this is what mai-chan feels like all the time?" he actually felt kinda stupid, and now had a new perspective of the girl. She wasn't stupid, no he had known that all along, she was just caring for people that it compelled her to be rash. He had to admit he found that quality rather attractive about her. She was always courageous and never gave a second thought to herself. She really needed someone to take of care of her, even though she would never admit it. He wondered if she would let him, if he asked? There was no way he was going to let her live in an apartment with no food, and most likely she was lacking other necessities as well.

Looking up he noticed an odd painting, it was of a conqueror, who was standing on a mound of bodies. "What a gruesome concept for an orphanage!" he mumbled out loud, "It looks alot like mai's dream though..." he then reached out his hand to take a closer look at it, when something pulled his arm back.

"Mai, what are you doing out of bed?" he looked shocked at the sudden appearance of the woman in front of him. "What are you doing in this part of the orphanage?" her hair was a mess and she looked disheveled, and slightly out of breath. She didn't say anything, but just grabbed his hand and started to lead him in the opposite direction.

"You're not mai-chan are you?" he asked nervously, the girl nodded in agreement and continued to move them down the hall.

"Why wouldn't let me touch that picture?" he continued to ask questions, but they walked in silence for a while, with their hands intertwined.

"Danger." was all the possessed girl would say on the matter, before returning to the silence.

"Who are you?" curiosity taking over him, at that question, she just smiled at him, finally they stopped in front of a door. He realized that they were now in front of the base. "Thank you, for your help." he said quietly before mai's eyes blanked or a minute.

"John-kun?" a very confused mai asked, "Am I dreaming?" she was definitely not in bed, where she was supposed to be, so the only that was the only explanation.

"No mai-chan your not dreaming, I promise you that much!" he said quickly as he turned towards her. He had to admit she was cute when she was confused.

"Oh, well why are we outside base?" she asked that being the only question she could come up with. She had now realized they were holding hands and she was rather close to him yet again. She had been doing that lately, well not that she minded, but if they kept this up, they might end up...'No, no, no, no we are definitely not going there now!' Forcing that perverted thought from her head, she was now reaching a rather deep color of red, on her face. John reached out his hand, and felt her forehead worriedly.

"Are you ok? You don't feel like you have a fever though." his hand suddenly moved on it's own, down her face, and onto the base of her neck, before letting it fall back to his side. He didn't know what caused that, but he wasn't going to deny that he liked it.

"I am fine, but you never answered my question?" she was desperately trying to change the subject.

"Oh well, how about I explain it to everyone ok?' he then opened the base door and they walked in. Everyone went from looking worried to a new level of shock. From an observers perspective, it didn't look good from a perverted mind, like yasu's for example. Mai looked confused and disheveled, with a bad case of bed hair. She was wearing a blue shirt that obviously belonged to john, and a mysterious pair of boxers. John looked disheveled, a little too content, and red in the face, plus they were holding hands.

The sound of a 'click' caused everyone to look over at yasu, who happened to have his camera out, and mischievous look on his face.

At the same time, Ayako came running in screaming, something about mai disappearing, which caused everyone to look at her. Another sound of the camera going off, meant yasu was getting plenty of blackmail pictures.

Mai couldn't help herself, this was way to comical! She started laughing hysterically, which caused everyone to now turn their attention back to her. She laughed even harder as yasu continued on his picture escapade. This was defiantly a Kodak moment, she would have to bug him for copies. Oh how she was going to miss this! Naru had now turned around and was glaring daggers at everyone, which made mai to start cackling. It hurt so very bad, her sides were aching, but this was defiantly worth it.

"Mai, are you ok?" john had sadly let go of her hand, and was now holding her up. Slowly she calmed down, and looked to find everyone had expectant looks on their faces.

"I think an explanation is in order!" Naru stated with an almost bemused expression on his face.

"Mai, where did you go?" Ayako spoke up first, "I have been looking everywhere for you! I took a shower and came back, and you weren't there."

'I don't know. When I woke up I was standing with John outside if the base." Mai had barely been able to answer, as she wiped tears, that had come from her laughing fit. She was still leaning up against john, because her muscles lacked strength. Gosh she wished this could last forever, she felt so safe around him, and especially in his arms. He had wrapped his arms around her frail waist, and she leaned into him.

John picked her up bridal style and walked over to the couch. Sitting down, he placed her on his lap, which caused another wave of looks to sweep across the room. Except for the camera happy yasu.

John spoke up, "I will explain everything that happened." he ignored everyone's looks, and started the story. He could feel mai's breath on his neck, it was to say the least, very distracting. She soon started to curl her body closer to john's body warmth. With that john stopped mid-sentence, to observe the shivering girl on his lap.

"Continue what you were saying about the painting." Naru said as he was assessing the situation.

"It's coming!" Masako stated, then proceeded to collapse on the floor, yasu rushed to help the medium almost immediately.

"Masako!" he gently picked up the medium, and felt her forehead. "She's cold!"

"Temperature is dropping." Lin stated from his position at the computer, "-1 degrees."

Everything stopped or seemed to go in an extremely slow motion, well at least to john. Yasu had taken masako out of the room, followed by a worried ayako, and bou-san was chanting his mantra's. The rapping noises were so loud it hurt to hear, the light's were going on and off so quickly that it felt like they were in a thunderstorm. Blood curtailing screams could be heard everywhere. Mai's eyes were transfixed on a spot in the corner, john had moved them next to a wall, and was hunched over her in a defensive position. Naru was busy looking at readings acting calm seeming almost inhumane.

"There are to many of them!" Bou-san yelled and then went back to chanting, spirits could be seen everywhere, there was no stop to them, it seemed that the flood gates had been opened.

John felt cold arms snake around his neck, looking down he saw mai staring at him with an odd smirk, pulling herself up, she then whispered into his ear.

"Mister, you like this one don't you?" his eyes widened at the statement, she was possessed again! "Before you exorcise me, I think I will tell you something interesting I just found out about the body I am in!" the girl continued

"Your girlfriend here, has been keeping secrets, you see she already knows what I am about to tell you!" she continued to taunt him.

"I almost got them all!" Bou-san yelled "Just a few more!"

John had a sinking feeling that he was not going to like this information, he was about to hear, in fact he knew he was going to regret this moment probably forever.

"This girl that you like so much, is going to die!" she drawled out, and with that john stopped breathing.