DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN GHOST HUNT

DAY 5 PART 2

"If there still are ghosts in there I say that we should see what we're dealing with BEFORE it gets dark out." Yasu suggests.

Everyone murmurs an agreement and we begin to walk into the pale yellow house.

Please let nothing bad befall us…

As I enter the house, a cold chill hits me. The ghosts are still here. At least some of them are. I can feel them. I don't know how, but their presence is in the house. It's a bit scary walking around knowing that little bit of information.

Nothing about the house seems warped or distorted…it just seems normal. But is smells different. Sorta weird. Not right.

"Mai, where did you see the ghosts?" Naru demands.

"Umm… in the guest room where Ayako, Masako, and I stayed in, and the hallway in front of that room…" What is that smell…I've smelled it before. In biology, it's where I've smelled it. Damn, why couldn't I have paid more attention to that class! That smell…we were lighting up a burner with… matches. MATCHES! That's what it is! Its sulfuric acid! Really strong in smell, too. The smell is coming in the direction of the kitchen. I start drifting towards the kitchen distractedly.

"Where are you going, Mai?" a worried Naru asks.

Funny, Naru is never worried…he's always calm and collected.

The smell is getting stronger as I approach the kitchen. That worries me, so I break into a run. Straight to the kitchen.

"Where are you going?!"

I yank open the door to the kitchen and…

Nothing is there.

No blazing fire, no burning stove, no drapes going up in flames.

But how? How did I smell the sulfur? Was it just a ghost of a smell? Did I actually smell it? Or was it a "vision smell"? Something that has yet to happen.

"MAI!" I hear Naru yell behind me.

I look sharply to my left and I see the cupboards burst into flame. Splinters of the heated wood fly straight for my face.

"AAAAAAIIIIIIIIII!"

I duck to the floor, covering my face with my arms, my eyes shut tight as a extremely hot piece of wood impales its self on my arm. Something shields me from most of the hurt.

Monk runs in carrying a fire extinguisher with him as Ayako and Yasu help him put out the fire.

"Naru!" Lin runs over to where Naru and I are.

Naru shielded me…he jumped up in front of me to protect me…

"Ngggh" I hear Naru groan in pain.

"My God, Naru! You're hurt really bad! Someone call an ambulance!" John exclaims, looking at Naru's back.

"Let me see…" I get up from my crouch and try to make my way to see how hurt Naru is.

"Lin! Nggya. Don't let Mai see!" Naru doubles over a bit in pain. "And don't call an ambulance…I'm fine."

I try to get past Lin to see Naru.

"Lin, please let me through." I try asking him in the most polite tone that I could muster in the situation.

"No. Ayako take her to the guest room."

"O-okay." Ayako nods, just a bit pale. She grabs me by the arm and drags me away, though I'm still trying to fight my way to see how Naru is.

At the guest room, Ayako leaves me by the bed and locks the door. I sit on the bed.

"Why didn't you guys let me see him?" I huff in annoyance.

"No, Mai, you don't understand…it-it was really bad. His back was hurt really bad. I'm a child of two doctor/surgeons and what I saw with Naru mad me pale. He really needs to go to a hospital, but if he says no then I'll trust him to know his limits and just treat him myself." She says as she starts treating my wound that happened during the kitchen fire.

A few minutes pass in silence.

"Well, since we're going to be in here for a bit, will you tell me what happened while I was passed out?"

"Sure, but it's going to be a pretty long story."

"I can handle it."

"Good. After you hit the wall and were knocked out John had Monk come in and carry you out. John kept on going in his exorcism. The ghosts weren't very happy about that and they started moving chairs and the table. They even threw a chair at John. He dodged it very expertly, might I add. The ghosts tantrum died down a little after John finished. Just as a precaution Monk went in and exorcised it also."

It had been about an hour after we thought we had finished the spirits off for good and John, Monk, and I were just about ready to go out and celebrate, when you woke up of course, when Naru comes in, yelling at us that we were stupid doo-doo heads for not following his orders. Then Naru and Lin go off lecturing us on how to exorcise some spirits you have to know their religions and beliefs so you can let them pass on with their religion."

He finally notices that you're not there with the group and he asks where you are at and we just say that you were knocked unconscious by the spirit. At that he gets all overprotective and angry that we didn't take better care of you. I have no idea what his problem was…but anyways he came back and Lin supposedly exorcised all the ghosts out of the house. I guess Naru must have miscalculated something or something like that because the ghosts aren't gone yet. And you are now updated up until right now."

"That was long" I say my head spinning from all the intake of information that I had just received. Ayako finished bandaging my arm.

"Told you so." Ayako responds.

The door opens and Lin pokes his head in. "Ayako, we need you to treat Naru."

Ayako nods and leaves.

Minutes turn into hours as I hear muffled groans and moans come from outside the room I was confined to. Please let Naru be alright…

At last Monk opens the door to my room and lets me out.

"Is…is he alright?" I ask, scared for a negative answer.

"He will be. He just took some of that splintered wood on his back and that's it. And besides it would take a lot more than wood to slow Naru down."

"That's good" I sigh in relief. "Did Lin get rid of the spirits?"

"Yeah…it was some weird type of religion that the Takinyaks were into."

"Oh, but what happens if the person who dies is atheist? Then what would happen to them?" I ask truly curious.

"Nothing happens. They don't believe in heaven nor hell. They don't believe in afterlives so they just disappear off of the radar. They don't become spirits or anything, they just fall into oblivion."

"What a sad way to die…" I think out loud.

And with that another case was closed. The Oshobo's were grateful that we had gotten their house rid of all the spirits, and Yoshiko was just glad that she didn't have to hear anymore scary noises in her room anymore. Naru still refused to go back to the hospital to have his back checked, so he's being wheeled around for some days to not hurt his back.

In the end I think everybody was happy.

A/N: A case closed :') makes me smile just to look back on this. Don't think that this series is over yet! I have two more cases to go and some fillers to go in between. I'm deeply sorry if I offended anyone with the religions thing but I didn't know any other religion to stick in there and so I thought of atheism. What would happen after they're gone? So I decided to put that there.

I am so very sorry for the late posts but I might have to make this go on hiatus, because basketball season is coming around and I won't have much time to type anything out. In fact I don't have time to type at all right now, I'm dealing with a lot. My dad got a job sorta far away from the town I live in, high school is hard, I'm close to failing English 9, and I'm in my first ever relationship o.O.

I'll find time to type, though the updates may be very infrequent and odd at times.