Heyy, first of all I would like to apologise for the long wait, and thank you all for your patients.
I need to also thank my friend whom this chapter is dedicated to becasue she helped me out when my plot ponies started rnning away, so thank you so much Squirrel!
Another note I would like you to check out the summeries at the bottom of this page and vote for the next story to be written after this one is done.
Thanks for the continued support and hope you enjoy this chapter!
Chapter 7
Recap-
I looked over at Naru and saw him looking thoughtful. "There is a possibility at this point we know nothing until Yasuhara returns with his research, I suggest both of you just stay and rest in base for now, once everyone is back we can discuss this properly." After Naru finished his speech he started flicking through the pad. His eyes rested on a page for a while longer than normal but I couldn't read it because my eyelid where starting to close. I let out a silent yawn before falling sideways onto something warm. It was so warm that I snuggled closer to it without thinking and immediately fell into a deep sleep.
End of recap-
~*DREAMLAND*~
I opened my eyes and saw the glowing orbs around me that indicated I was in a dream. I started looking around for the trouble maker also known as Gene. I couldn't find it, and I mean IT, I only saw an image of the house we were currently investigating. I realised this meant that Gene was not here in this dream but was just behind the scenes showing me the images.
I walked up toward the house to find that the scene changed around me. I was now inside the house and walking through the endless hallways. I wasn't sure where to head until I heard it.
Crying.
I followed the sound down the hallways and found myself stopping in front of one of the large master bathrooms. I stopped myself for a second but once the crying changed into heart wrenching sobs I quietly slipped through the door, in dreams I'm like the ghost because I can pass through solid things, and looked around. I found a woman collapsed In front of the tub still wearing her traditional kimono with long black hair tied back in an elegant braid. The rest of the woman looked like a wreck.
I looked at her memorising every detail of the dream. She started muttering "why?" over and over. She looked scary it was like her personality was twisting and distorting her.
"Death is the only freedom" she whispered, and then I watched as she picked up a previously hidden by her kimono knife and slashed her wrist. She cut so deep that the blood sprayed through the air and covered the room in a blanket of red. I couldn't stay silent any longer and screamed out loud while the woman's lifeless body fell to the floor the knife hitting the tiles with a metallic clang.
Once my piercing scream subsided into sobs and tears the dream faded leaving me feeling emotionally drained. I fell to the invisible floor and watched the glowing orbs as they lulled me to sleep.
~*END OF DREAMLAND*~
I started to wake up little groggy from the dream. I wondered why no one had woken me when I was screaming before I realised I must have been silently screaming here in the real world. I lifted my hand to my face and realised it felt sticky from half dried tears. I must have been silently crying as well.
After mentally checking that my body was safe from harm I finally decided to take notice of my surroundings. I finally noticed I was still in base and that it was now dark except for the bright light coming from the monitors. I appeared to be on the sofa I was sitting on when we were talking to Masako and John but I now had a travel blanket draped over my body and my head was resting on a warm pillow….Pillows don't move!
I turned my head slightly and looked up and just as I suspected I saw a sleeping Naru. He must be the only person in the world who can fall asleep sitting up straight with a girl's head in his lap. I quickly got myself off of him when I felt him shift slightly in his sleep. He moaned slightly in his sleep when I moved off of him and I couldn't help but think he looked cute with his guard down like that. I noticed something next to him on the sofa, from its position on the sofa it would have been next to me and I could have been cuddling it in my sleep. It was Mr Snuggles! Naru actually brought his bear on the case with him…I bet he keeps it hidden and was going to tell anyone who saw it that it was mine. Evil genius.
"You rang?" Came a voice in my head…and not the crazy kind.
"What? No, I was thinking that Naru was an evil genius." I thought back to him.
"Shame I thought you were acknowledging my clear geniusness that is obviously evil," Gene sent to me punctuating it with an evil muahahaha kind of laugh.
"Says the genius who uses a word that doesn't exist such as 'geniusness'" I thought to him.
"It's in my genius dictionary so I understand you might not know the word," Gene said the continued "So you finally got to sleep with Naru, huh?" Gene said 'sleep with' with an obvious tilt toward the world of adults.
"GENE!" I shouted at him "God, don't say it like that! I just happened to fall asleep on him and Mr Snuggles," I said at a much lower volume.
"He actually brought the bear with him? Damn he is such a dork!" Gene said back while laughing. "I heard you thinking he was cute while asleep by the way so don't deny you love him" he added.
"Don't listen to my thoughts! Also I thought while asleep while he awake he is egotistical and a jerk," I said "I'm making myself some tea so this conversation is over!"
"Don't deny the truth Mai!" Gene shouted before I shut the connection. What truth? Naru is a jerk and nothing more. I walked over to the kitchen area and started filling the kettle with water for some tea.
"Mai…" I heard Naru say from the sofa, I looked over and saw he was still asleep. Awww he dreams…. "tea" ….scratch what I was thinking he even dreams of being a jerk.
The kettle started making a lot of noise as the water boiled and I noticed Naru beginning to wake up so I grabbed an extra cup so that I could give him the tea he asked for…in his dreams.
Once I had finished the tea Naru had sort of woken up he still looked a little groggy probably due to the fact that he fell asleep sitting up. I grabbed his cup of tea and my own and made my way over to him. I put my cup down on the small coffee table so I could tap Naru to let him know I was there…he looked kind of asleep still.
I tapped him and he turned his head to look at me and I silently handed him the tea… he took it and immediately took a sip, it seemed to wake him right up…I had a theory that he ran on tea and now I'm positive I was right.
"I definitely needed this," I heard Naru mutter as he took another sip.
I grabbed my pad that had been left on the coffee table and looked around spotting a pen on the monitor table I used my PK to make it fly over to me. I quickly scribbled out "Yeah you ordered it in your sleep." After showing him the note he simply smirked at me and said "Mai I know I'm attractive but watching me sleep is just creepy," He them went back to his tea as if he hadn't just said the most narcissistic and evil thing ever!
"I was not watching you sleep I had just woken up!" I wrote back to him.
"Ah yes, about that thank you so much for falling asleep on me yesterday evening," He said to me in a sarcastic tone of voice "The others found it quite funny when they came back to base to see you cuddled up to me."
"I didn't mean to!" I defended myself before coming up with and evil idea "It won't happen again besides I know you prefer cuddling with Mr Snuggles!" I wrote to him before grabbing said bear and giving it a big hug and a kiss on its fuzzy face for good measure. After reading the note and then staring in horror at me hugging and kissing his bear.
"Give him back!" Naru said calmly before snatching the bear from my grasp "How did you even know about this?" Naru asked while narrowing his eyes at me.
Thinking fast I wrote down "Lin told me" and hoped to any higher power out there that Lin would cover for me…again. I then wrote down "So when the others returned did you get any new information on the house or the ghost?" I was obviously trying to change the subject but I hoped Naru wouldn't notice.
Naru quickly placed Mr Snuggles into his bag that was ever present at base and then turned back to me. He stared at the pad I was holding seeming to not see the writing yet, after a while his eyes lost their glazed look and he read the note. He finally spoke to me to answer my question "No, the group chose to go through the information in the morning when all of the team were awake," At the end of his sentence he gave me a pointed look indicating that I was, in fact, the only team member asleep.
While I was lost in my thoughts of how I could much easier read his face than I could 2 years ago I didn't notice Naru stalking up to me until he was right in front of my face, my normal reaction would have been to jump back blushing, but that was my old self instead I calmly looked up at him, my eyes asking the unspoken question. Naru reached out his hand and grabbed my pad before I could do anything, he started flicking through the pages to some of the older notes, he suddenly stopped on a page and ripped it out.
"Mai, I wanted to ask you about this half-finished note, I found it yesterday when I was talking noted on the attack." Naru said showing my note that I had started writing to tell him about Gene.
I think a flicker of shock passed over my face before it settled back into its normal emotionless mask.
"Hey Gene? I'm gonna tell him and I think he is gonna be PISSED!" I sent a quick thought to Gene.
"Go for it Girl! He can't stay pissed forever…not when he loves you so!" Gene thought back before disappearing.
"Mai! Stop spacing out and tell me," Naru snapped at me getting impatient
I snatched the pad from him and started writing down everything from Gene never leaving my dreams to me now being able to communicate with him while awake. I convinced myself that although Naru might get angry it's better for him to know because Gene is his brother and he has a right to know about his brother's spirit.
I passed the finished note to him and watch as his eye seemed to darken with what I can only guess was anger at me not telling him this sooner.
"He could also be jealous that I still talk to you and get to hear your voice," Gene's voice broke into my mind but I quickly cut him off without saying anything to him…now just wasn't the time, I was watching Naru waiting for some kind of response.
He didn't do anything he just stared at the note and it was starting to freak me out, if he got mad I could handle it but this calm rage filled silence was unbearable.
I decided that the silence had gone on for much too long and changed that with a different kind of silence, I pulled the pad from his hand using my PK then wrote on it "Naru I nearly forgot I had a dream," He looked up at my face then in a cold business like tone of voice asked me to describe the dream. I wrote him about the woman and he decided we should wait for Yasu to come and tell us more on this.
Despite how early it was when we woke up we didn't have to wait long for the others, Lin was the first to enter the base at 7am and by 8:30 the rest of the group had entered, Masako sporting a nasty looking bruise on her neck.
I made everyone a morning beverage some having coffee, some tea and Masako opting for orange juice since her throat was still sore and she was worried hot tea would only make it worse.
Once everyone was settled and Monk had finished giving me his daily bear hug, he had decided until I smiled I was getting one everyday no matter what, and Monk had also received his daily whack on the head by Ayako's ever present handbag, we finally got down to business. First Naru recited my dream to everyone and they all decided she was the ghost we were dealing with, though she seemed very good at hiding because Masako could only sense her presence and not her location.
After that we moved our attention to Yasu who had a fairly thin stack of research considering it was him and he normally brought half the library back with him.
"Okay first of all I would like to say there are not many records of this place in the library so I couldn't find much." Yasu said to start off.
"So what could you find?" Monk asked.
"Well I found out that this house isn't that old, it was only built 42 years ago by an English couple who wanted to move to Japan." Yasu said.
"That explains the western design of the place," John said while the rest of the group nodded.
"Right well the couple were very wealthy, obviously you can tell just by looking at the building, and they had a son who was later arranged to marry a rich Japanese couples daughter." Yasu finished looking at the group.
"Arranged marriages must suck! I'm glad I told my parent no arranged marriages when I turned 16," Ayako said reminding us all that she was from a wealthy doctor family.
"Well from what I could find the marriage happened and then…." Yasu trailed off.
"And then?" Naru asked impatiently.
"Well then I don't know what happened all the records after that were destroyed," Yasu said looking at the group perplexed.
"Hmm, well it's obvious that something happened that made the Japanese daughter kill herself while in this house so it must have been after her marriage. Do you happen to know her name?" Naru asked Yasu.
"Yeah, but I only have a first name, it was Hana," Yasu said after flicking through the papers in his hands again.
"Well for now maybe we should…" Naru started to say but suddenly the world was very blurred and his voice was fading. I felt my eyes slip closed and suddenly all I could see was black.
Naru POV
I was busy trying to think of what we could do next as a course of action. It didn't help that we had very limited information on this case.
I noticed Mai looked like she was drifting off, I was about to reprimand her when she suddenly slumped forward and it could be seen that she was unconscious.
"Mai!" Everyone in the room shouted except for Lin and me of course.
It surprised me to see that Ms Hara was the first to jump up to Mai's aid, though I understand that they are now friends so it should not continue to surprise me. I guess it will take some adjusting to see them as friends instead of the rivals they once were.
Anyway, almost as soon as Mai had slumped down she seemed to sit back up again though her eyes were still closed. She brushed Ms Hara off and opened her eyes but instead of her warm brown eyes they had changed to a blue colour that was maybe one shade lighter than my own eyes.
"Who are you?" I heard Monk yell at the spirit clearly possessing Mai.
In response Mai's face split into a giant grin and she held out her hand to Monk who was now in front of her.
"I'm Eugene Davis, pleasure to meet you," The voice was Mai's but the name that passed her lips shocked me beyond belief as well as the rest of the occupants of the room.
Thats all for this chapter, I hope it was worth the wait! The plot ponies are back now thanks to my friend so the next chapter shoulnt be too late though it will most likely have to wait till after my holiday where I might not have internet but I will have my laptop so I will type up the next chapters in my free time I will post them when I come back...I think that made sense xD
Story Idea 1 for your votes:
Different Beginnings- Olivia Davis is really Mai Taniyama. In this role reversal series of chapters with secrets and a dead twin sister. While a normal high school student Naru AKA Kazuya Shibuya accidently finds himself a part of the team.
Story Idea 2 for your votes:
The boy in the dream- After years of searching Naru is finally able to put his brother at rest and will do so after returning to London. But a case gets in the way and for closure for the team Naru agrees to one last case. With hauntings more violent than the others the ghost hunt team stumble across truths, secrets, lies and mysterious deaths surrounding the local hospital. However while investigating Naru and Mai stumble upon blasts from their pasts. Can things get more complicated?
