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Yep I am hoping to write an awesome chapter this time. Yeah…so..when you friend messages you and all the words are jumbled you know that somebody has way to much time on their hands. Yep…that's the first clue…I have had many reviews and I am pleased that almost all of them are people begging…I mean wanting me to continue the story. I will meet these requests and continue…as soon as I finish this A/N. 'Kay?
So here's the next chapter to everyone is Lost and I will have a One-shot up in fruits basket by Sunday as well as one in here. One-shots are a lot of fun to write.
I forgot to add the disclaimer in the last story but I think that you get the point. I don't own ghost hunt no matter how much I would like too. If your reading fanfiction then my story is obviously not the first one you have read and if it is, you have seen the same things in other chapters. It's not like it is anything new.
Thank you to all my reviewers and I will say that I have a bunch of people wanting this chapter so let's Start!
We left off with Mai…
Chapter Seven: The Prize and The Dying
Naru had his hands grasping at his head. Mai now lay in the room next to Masako and she was not responding. No matter how much he wanted save her, he didn't know how. And what was Mai talking about when she said 'Satsuki's Garden'? He talked to Miinie-san about that and she said she had no idea what Satsuki's Garden was. Well obviously it was a place but where that place was, was the question that needed to be answered.
Everything seemed to fall apart and He didn't know what to do. People were slowly getting hurt and no matter how much he tried to protect the ones he loved it didn't seem to make a difference. Mai knew some defense and yet she chose to follow his brother into a dream. His Brother…
If Gene had shown her the dream than wouldn't he be the one that had caused the pain, that was now inflicted upon so many due to mai's coma, and shouldn't he answer to that? No…no matter how much Naru wanted to blame Mai's Accident on Gene he couldn't bring himself to do it. After all mai probably followed gene willingly into the dream merely to gather information: she always had others in her heart first before her own being. He loved that about her. She always seemed so selfless while he always seemed to be so selfish. Maybe that was why he fell in love with her. He didn't know; all he knew was that he was slowly losing this battle of wills against the demon. He would have already left but now two of his employees were hurt.
"Naru?" a soft voice called out to relieve Naru of his blackened thoughts tainted of what ifs and Possibilities but no truth. The voice happened to be the voice of Yasuhara. He looked as if he had been crying and Naru merely looked up to acknowledge the man's presence.
"What is it?" Naru's voice was cold and tired. He wasn't in any condition to really make or give out orders but he would be damned if he didn't put up at least a pretense; he had too much pride in his abilities to ever show weakness no matter how many of the SPR members had told him not to hold back feelings. He wasn't going to lose.
"Your parents have dropped by and given us some information on the Corrmon family's deaths. There were four girls before the family started to produce boys more often. Not every girl was targeted though. Only those with the mahogany eyes and the honey brown hair at age twelve. Miinie-san didn't have those traits. There were a total of five deaths before the colors started to get a little different. The dates of the deaths were not available but when you called me about 'Satsuki's Garden' I had the answer. Satsuki Corrmon was the first victim of the curse. At the age of fourteen she ran away with her cousin's betrothed, leaving a cousin full of hate and revenge." Yasuhara took out a very old and yellow newspaper clipping with the story of Satsuki Corrmon Death and the death of her lover, Hikaru Tamachi.
"This still doesn't explain the Garden or the fact why she was killed at age fourteen when everybody else has been killed at the age twelve." Kai had come up behind Yasuhara and had heard the whole report.
"Listen to me closely." Yasuhara took a big breath and then took out a spare blue print of the Corrmon manor years ago. Many things that had been added later on were not on this map. He pointed to a specific area of garden about where the smokehouse would be located today. The words 'Satsuki's Garden' were printed in very clear words and Kai flinched. So they had found the garden but it would only be proved once they got the explanation and once they had actually destroyed the contract.
"Satsuki had played here often as a child and as a twelve birthday present, the family decided to name the garden after her. The main attraction of this garden is still standing today; the sakura tree." Yasuhara looked at Naru and took a step back when he saw the fire that lit up Naru's Eyes. The man now had a focal point and Yasuhara felt sorry for anybody who got in the way. They probably wouldn't be living if they did anything drastic.
"so now we know where the contract is," Ayako looked at mai's Still form. "but the question is now, where in the garden is it?"
"I don't know." Naru said looking at mai one last time before leaving. All the members of SPR minus his parents and Madoka parted as he walked out. "but I have a way of finding out if I can contact the idiot brother of mine."
He smirked and then walked out of the hospital with a pair of car keys in his hand. "Where is he going?" Monk-san asked, looking at lin who was merely amused.
"To a small shrine by a lake," was the reply given.
(A/N: Genes thoughts are now in italics!!!!)
Naru locked the car with the press of one button on the master key. He really didn't think that anything would happen to his car here but it was always better to be safe than sorry. He was a bit nervous as he climbed the many steps up to the top of the shrine. He really didn't know if contacting his brother, even here at a shrine miles away from the site, would protect him from the demon; but it was worth a shot.
He took off his jacket and threw it on a bench resting outside the main temple. As he entered he took in the fresh incense and the mikos and shrine maidens that were quietly going about their business. Unless he asked for their assistance, they would not disturb him. He quietly sat down on the one of the pillows out for prayer and closed his eyes, letting his breathing even out. Breathe in 1…2…3…4…5. Hold…1…2…3…4…5. Exhale…1…2…3…4…5. This was the familiar pattern that he let his body take when meditating. The Calmer his mind, body and spirit was the better chance he had in contacting gene.
"Idiot! Open your eyes." A voice that resembled his own reached his ears demanding the psychic's attention
"Gene?"
"No I'm a pink elephant that just decided to learn how to talk and then come and haunt you; yes, of course, it's me." Gene rolled his eyes as Naru blinked in confusion.
"You're on an astral plane of those who guide. We Spirit guides tend to lead an interesting life guiding those to heaven and those who are gifted."
"What did you find out? Whatever you showed Mai has helped us but it wasn't enough." Naru looked as his brother who was currently frowning.
"Didn't mai tell you all about the dream?"
"No; she didn't even have a chance to do so. The demon has her life in its hands."
"Oh, so I am guessing that you want a location to the contract?"
"…"
"It is right in front of your nose even though it doesn't have its life on it right now. After all, it only comes to life once a year before losing its beauty."
"The tree?"
"Yes, it is a logical place to place a contract because nobody would think to cut down something that is that beautiful when in bloom."
"Thank you"
"For what, noll? You would have figured out where the contract was eventually." Gene was frowning slightly at the grateful tone that he thanked his brother in. That wasn't like Noll at all. The Noll that Gene knew would have merely left the plane and gone back to destroy the contract.
"you were always there for me; and even though you are dead, you are still willing to help me." amusement laced through Naru's voice making the young man sound more like his dead brother than the prideful Dr Davis.
"I was never lost; I never needed help being found. I knew exactly what I wanted to do in the after life and I am currently doing it. I am guiding spirits to better places. I am helping people just as I was when I was alive." Gene looked over at his brother for some hint of emotion; some hint that his point was getting across that thick skull of his.
"I was never lost either; I just…"
"No, you were lost. Noll, everyone is lost, at one point or another in their life. You were lost for the longest time, afraid that acceptance was never going to grace you with its presence. I was wrong: Everyone is lost, but every one can be found. Your 'grace' is that of a female currently lying in a coma and you are exchanging bribes with me? That doesn't make any sense to me." Gene walked up to his brother and gave him a hug. "For once, be the prince that saves the princess, finish what you started here on this case. Save the day, Save Mai."
With those last words, gene threw his spirit back into his body. Naru jerked as her landed in his body. It was dark outside and a little cold. Shivering Naru put his coat back on as he left the shrine.
'Everyone is Lost, huh?' Naru thought with a grim smile on his face as he left. 'Well maybe I can help people, like gene, to find there way back to the light.'
Naru started up his car and began to slowly make his way back to the SPR team.
He now knew what he had to do and he would do anything to help bring Mai back into the world of the living spirit.
Okay so I know that it was a shorter chappy but I thought that I had to cut it short once I got through with the gene portion. I really wanted to torture you all as I made you wait in suspense for the next chapter. (HA HA HA)
So I've had my laugh and my life is getting better. I can't give you any new one shots right now because of the weather and school combined. I got snow in Texas and if stuck and then the teachers are like, "because it's snowing, let's give extra work!!!" teachers are mean.
Reviews are helpful and I love them. Rika Aoi and Constance Greene now have Boyfriends so this chapter is dedicated to the both of their relationships.
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