Chapter 6
Hey People! So if you don't know the couple yet it's Naru/Mai. The end of the poll when I looked at it was Naru/Mai-8 Lin/Mai-5 John/Mai-0. If you don't like the couple I'm sorry and I hope you will continue to read it anyway.
For those that wanted a Lin/Mai I am so sorry and I love that couple to. I think I will try to make a Lin/Mai story. :)
'There he is!' Mai thought spotting Oliver look-alike standing by a black van.
"You're early. Good, let's get the equipment into the school house." He opened the door of the van to reveal packed in TV's, boxes, shelves, and many other things.
"Wow." Was all that Mai could say. He began to unload all the equipment.
"One week ago, your principal contacted my company. He said the main problem was how they had to constantly run damage control over all the rumors about the school house begin haunted. When I checked the records, I was able to verify that up until 18 years ago, when the old school house was in use there would be one or two deaths inside the structure every year." He said as he handed of the boxes to me to carry. They weren't very heave to her but they must have weighed a good fifty pounds each. He turned and gave Mai a strange look. She realized she had two of the fifty pound boxes and she held them as if they were as light as feathers, so she tried to cover it up by looking like she was struggling with the weight. But he didn't buy it. He narrowed his eyes and turned back to the van and began typing on his computer.
'Crap! Nice going Mai! This is not good!' Mai thought as she quietly gulped. He didn't comment on it but instead just picked up some equipment of his own and began to walk towards the old school building. Mai followed him at a steady pace.
"It is also true," he said, "that when construction crews were demolishing the east side of the building there was an accident with the roof collapsing prematurely. No workers died as a result but five where injured and it was ultimately blamed on human error. Construction ended with only a third of the planed demolition work ever being finished." Kazuya lead the way up the steps to the next floor. Mai was starting to feel unsettled about this place. Her instincts where telling her that the old school house was not safe in the slightest.
'Something doesn't feel right. I'm sure that there are no spirits here, but the whole building seams… off.' Mai thought but she was thrown out of her thoughts when she heard Kazuya's voice again. 'I wonder why he has such an alluring voice. Oliver didn't have that. He had a nice voice, but Kazuya's voice kind of… pulls me in. Weird. Wait… did I just think that his voice was… alluring? Ok something is really wrong with me.'
"There was also a teacher that committed suicide in the building, but that was explained in the suicide note left by the victim. Also the incident with the truck was a drunken driving accident. That is when construction was stopped for the last time." Kazuya said walking into an old class room. Just as Mai was going to follow, she heard a strange noise come from the ceiling. Like an old creaking sound. Mai slowly walked to where Kazuya was, still staring at the ceiling.
"The rumors probably played a part in this decision. Based on my research the existence of paranormal here is nothing more than fiction. For a place this active, every occurrence here has a reasonable explanation." She was still staring stupidly at the ceiling trying to lesson to the noise when he turned to her and raised an eyebrow. "What are you doing?" Mai's head snapped back to look into the cold blue eyes and her cheeks heated up.
"N-Nothing!" she stuttered. Fake Oliver just rolled his eyes.
"We will set up base here." He said putting down the equipment he brought.
"Base?" Mai said confused.
"Precisely. We will conduct all our observations from this room." He replied and turned back to look at her.
"Oh ok, that makes sense, I guess." Mai said
"Go back and bring the rest of the equipment up for me and I'll start putting up the shelves." He said.
"What? But that stuff is super heavy! I bet some of it ways up to like, one-hundred pounds!" Mai exclaimed shocked.
"Yes, it does. And just because they are insured doesn't mean you can drop them. I expect it all here one peace." He said with a smirk.
'Why that lazy, egotistic, rude, selfish ass!' Mai though angrily as she stomped away. 'But I guess it's my own fault. I should have paid more attention to acting like a human. I'll have to be extra careful around this one.'
Time skip!
"Ok, that's the last of it!" Mai said happily as she walked back into base and closed the door behind her. Fake Oliver was no were to be seen. 'That's strange, where is he?' She thought as she set the last of the equipment onto a table. Suddenly creaks came from all around her and the lights flashed on with a loud 'boom'. She gasped and put her hands over her sensitive ears. The door opened quickly. Mai jumped back, but then saw it was just Kazuya.
"Stop goofing off and get back to work." He said as he strolled in like he owned everything in the world.
'Ok its official, I hate this guy.' Mai thought madly.
Another time skip!
"Hey, what are those?" Mai asked looking at two fancy cameras' she had brought in before.
"An inferred camera and a thermal imaging camera. There used to shoot in total darkness. The thermal imaging camera uses thermography to record temperature. When a spirit appears the temperature near it will drop and it will show up on the camera." Kazuya answered.
"It's amazing that you know how to use all of this stuff." Mai said, truly impressed a human could know so much. She hadn't come across many humans that could understand such things and had never come across one with so much knowledge.
"No, it's not, my brain just works differently than yours." He said bluntly.
"I see…" Mai said rolling her eyes. "After all, you are mister hot-shot-boss so you might as well do everything. But what made you decide to go into ghost hunting? It's kind of a… unique profession, don't you think?"
"Because someone has to do it." He said simply.
"Oh, well have you ever had any cases you couldn't explain?" Mai asked him as he walked around plugging things in and setting everything up.
"No," He said with a smirk, "I'm very good at my job."
"Amazing, he's as smart as he is handsome!" Mai said dreamingly until she realized what she said. 'What the… did I really just say that?" Mai thought shocked.
"So you think I'm handsome?" He asked turning to look at her.
"Um… well that is um… at least, that's what all the girls at school are saying." Mai said waving her hands back and forth.
"Well, they have very good taste." He said turning back to his work.
Mai stood there dumfounded. 'I can't believe this guy! I have no idea how someone like him can look so much like my brother, a sweet, kindhearted, protective person, and act like such a…a… narcissists! From now on your name is Naru! Naru the Narcissist!' she thought and fist pumped in the air with a triumphant look on her face until…
"Mai stop goofing off already and get back to work!"
"Ok, ok I will!" Mai huffed and turned back to the monitors she had to put onto the shelf. Naru walked over the far side of the room putting some monitors onto bookshelves. Suddenly, she heard his quick intake of breath and turned to see what had happened. He had accidently pushed a monitor of a shelf. Mai sped over faster than any human could see and caught the falling monitor and put it back up on the shelf. She froze and realized her mistake. She slowly looked over to where Naru was standing and saw him looking wide-eyed at her in amazement.(Sorry but I just had to do this… a Twilight moment XD)
"How…How did you do that?" Naru asked his eyes now narrowing in suspicion.
"I-I don't know what you're talking about." Mai stuttered and gulped.
"How did you get over here so fast?" He asked
"W-What are you talking about? I was standing right beside you."
"No, you were on the other side of the room." Naru said getting irritated.
"Y-Ya I was but I walked over to… to," he raised an eyebrow waiting, " … ask you something! Ya! I was going to ask you where the bathroom was!" She exclaimed with a smile and ran from the room without him answering. Naru just shook his head and continued with his work, still completely confused on what happened and still completely set on finding it out. (ok so kind of a twilight moment :P sorry)
Was going to stop there but nope!
ANOTHER TIME SKIP!
"Well that's all we have to do for today." Naru said walking past Mai who was currently haft passed out with her head laid on a table. They had been working nonstop.
"Ok…" Mai mumbled as she stood from her seat.
"I'll see you here again tomorrow."
"Ok, by Naru…" Mai said as she walked out the door.
"What did you just call me?" She thought she heard Naru ask but she was too tired to answer so she just continued walking.
With Naru
'What did she call me?' Kazuya thought confused. 'It sounded like she said Naru.' He pondered that for a bet longer before just dismissing it as nothing and opened back up a black laptop. He pulled up a file labeled Taniyama, Mai. He had decided yesterday to look up a little information on the girl to know exactly what he was dealing with. When he had talked to her in the hallway yesterday, she seemed different then everyone else, like she stood out from them. Her smile, her laugh, the way she acted, and even her eyes somehow… intrigued him. When he researched her file, he found some very interesting things. She was an orphan. She had transferred to this school two years ago when she was thirteen. Her father had died when she was very young and her mother in middle school, shortly after moving here. Afterword's, a teacher took her in but by the time she was fourteen, she had decided to live on her own. Her mother and father had a nice enough amount of money left to her and it was enough to keep her feed and clothed. Her grades were extremely good with a high A in every class. She had no behavioral problems, and from what he could gather, everyone liked her. But all of this was not the only thing interesting about her. In fact, the most interesting things he has found have come from his own observations. She was, from what he witnessed today, incredibly strong for a girl of her size, able to lift things that where heave even to Lin, like they were nothing. Then after that, she was looking up at the ceiling, like she saw or heard something he didn't. Also, she had amazing reflexes and speed. Just a little while ago, he had dropped one of the monitors of the shelf (a very unperfected thing for him to do, I know) and she had cot it before it had even got close to the ground, but the last time he had checked, she was on the other side of the room, making it almost inhumanly possible for her to see the monitor dropping and get there in time to catch it before it got close to hitting the ground.
"I'm sure she was on the other side of the room just seconds when I dropped that monitor." He thought aloud to the empty room. He looked out the window to see Mai greeting two people with flashlights outside of the school. Even though it was dark he was able to see that it was the other two people that had been with Mai when he first met her. 'Come to think of it, the first time I met her she looked like she was on the verge of tears and smiling like an idiot when she saw my face, not that I could blame her, I am extremely attractive. But when I began to talk she looked shocked and maybe even a little… mad for some reason. I wonder-' Kazuya was pulled from his thoughts when his cellphone rang. Looking at the caller I.D he saw it was Lin, his assistant and his guardian for as long as he was in Japan.
"Noll, how did everything go?" Was the first thing Kazuya heard.
"It was fine. Everything was set up without a problem." He replied. He heard the man sigh with relief. "How is your leg?" Kazuya asked.
"It's getting better. But it would be fine if it hadn't been for that girl. Lin replied angrily.
"It's not like she purposely did it just so you would be hurt Lin." Kazuya said with a sigh.
"Yes, I know." Lin said with a sigh. "Will you be alright to go home by yourself or should I send a car?"
"I'll be fine by myself, thanks. I just have you finish a thing or to then I'll be on my way home." He said.
"Alright, but call me once you get home so I know that you're safe."
"I will, bye." Kazuya said and closed the phone without waiting to hear a reply. He sighed and ran his fingers through his hair. Looking back at his computer with Mai's file still pulled up he began to wonder, 'Just who and what are you Mai?'
With Mai
'So tired! All I want to do is go home and sleep!' Mai thought as she walked out of the doors of the old school building. She saw two people with flashlights standing by the wall in front of the old school building. It was Keiko ad Michiru. (thank you guys for setting me strait with the names!)
"Mai? Have you been here with Kazuya all night? What where you two doing?" Mai heard. 'Well scratch that plan.' She thought with another sigh.
"It's a long story. Mai said rolling her eyes.
時間はスキップ
(Time Skip!)
"Paranormal investigation? So he's not an upper classman?" Keiko said shocked.
"According to him, he is a ghost hunter." Mai said leaning on Michiru's shoulder.
"A ghost hunter?" they both exclaimed.
"Mai?" A voice said out of no ware. Kuroda walked into the light of the streetlamp. "I was wondering if you would introduce me to him."
"Introduce you to Naru?" Mai said surprised.
"Hey what's with this Naru stuff?" Both Michiru and Keiko exclaimed excitedly.
"That guy has to be the biggest narcissist I have ever met in my life!" 'And for a 1,500 year old, that's saying something!' Mai thought with a laugh. "I can't believe I have to work for that guy."
"You know I have many physic ability's myself and I think I could really held Kazuya with his work." She said desperately.
'No Kuroda, it's more like he will call you out on all your bluffs of being a powerful physic and you will be hurt.' Mai thought sadly. But she said, "You know, since he is a professional and all, maybe it would be better if you didn't get involved."
"Well, I'm by no means amateur!" Kuroda yelled angrily. Michiru and Keiko looked at her in surprise.
"Come on Mai, let's go!" Michiru said and took Mai's hand and dragged her away from Kuroda. "That girl is a freak!" Michiru said once they were far enough away from Kuroda.
"Ya I know! She has been like that since middle school! It's kind of sad." Keiko said. Mai just turned her head back to look at the girl still standing in the streetlight.
ONE! MORE! TIME!
TIME SKIP!
"I'm home!" Mai said when she walked through the door of her small apartment, slipped of her shoes, and walked into the kitchen to make her favorite tea. She still loved Earl Gray tea, even if it has been eight hundred years since she had seen England. Once her tea was made and drank, she decided to go to bed.
April 23, 1703
"Maia, come here for a second!" Mr. Drake called happily.
"Yes Mr. Drake?" Maia asked as she whipped her hands on a dish washing cloth from the kitchen. Mr. Mason Drake was sitting in his chair by the dining room table.
"We will be having one more addition to dinner tonight." The twenty eight year old said.
"Oh! Alright, who is it? Mr. Russl?" Maia asked.
"No, her name is Madison Long." He replied.
"Ok sir, do you know her favorite dish?" Maia questioned, trying to plan for tonight's supper.
"Anything is fine Maia! You make the best food this side of the New World!" Mr. Drake laughed. Maia blushed and smiled at the kind man.
"One more thing Mr. Drake, what exactly is her purpose of coming here."
"Actually, I met her in town, and I think I've fallen in love with her…" Mr. Drake started and leaned back in his chair, "I hope that she will become my wife." Maia gasped and a smile broke out across her face.
"Oh thank the stars! You finally got up your lazy butt and got yourself a lady!" she exclaimed. Mason laughed again and Maia smiled.
June 12, 1704
"Oh Maia, can you help me with my dress?" Miss. Long, soon to be Mrs. Drake said. Miss. Long's long strait black hair was curled and placed in a beautiful bun. Her porcelain doll looks shown on her young face (sorry can't really descried her. thinkMasako with long hair and smiling non-evilly.) She hadn't stopped smiling since Mr. Drake proposed.
"Yes Miss. Long." Maia said smiling. Once Miss. Long got into her dress the wedding began and she could only hope that Mason would always be happy.
February 2, 1707
"I'm sorry Mr. Drake, but it doesn't look like she will make it. The birth was too stressful on her heart." Maia heard throw the door as the doctor told Mason the bad news. Mrs. Drake had just had their first child, a healthy boy, but the birth had quickly become too much for her. Maia heard Mr. Drake begin to wail in sorrow. The doctor exited the room and nodded to Maia before walking out the door. She quickly stepped in the room to see if she could comfort her employer and friend that sat buy his sicken wife. He looked up, tears streaming down his face. She made her way over to the man.
"Maia, I am sorry but I must ask you… well that is… I know you are different." Maia blinked. Then her eyes widen and began to back up in fear of what he would do. "I'm not mad! I mean you couldn't really think that I wouldn't notice you looking the same for the past seven years." He laughed as much as he could in the state he was in. All Maia could do was nod. "And also… I was wondering… can you help her?" he said it so quietly, she wouldn't have heard him had it not been for her sensitive ears.
"Yes Sir, I can." She said.
"Please Maia I beg of you, help Madison! I love her dearly and, and…" Maia stopped him with her hand. She reached to her neck and unhooked her necklace that was strung around her key and placed it on the side table. Once the key left her hand, her white hair came back, along with her green eyes, beautiful looks, and sharp claws. Maia heard Mason gasp and she turned and flashed a bright smile towards him. She walked over to Mrs. Drake and picked up the cleaned knife that had been used when the birth of the child. Mason's eyes widened when he saw the knife Maia held in her hand.
"Do you trust me Mason?" Maia asked, still holding the knife. He didn't hesitate to nod yes. She brought up the knife to her wrist and cut a long, deep line across it. She brought her bleeding wrist to the young, dyeing woman's cold lips and forced her to drink her demonic blood. After a few seconds, she began to toss and turn away from her wrist. Maia pulled back and stepped away from the woman when Mason quickly stood and held her had.
"Madison, Madison my love, look at me!" Mason said stroking her hair, her face. Madison's eyes slowly opened and she turned to look at her husband.
"Mason, where is our son, is he well?" She asked her voice horse.
"Yes, yes my love, he is very well. Oh thank the lord you are alive!" Mason said stroking and kissing Madison's face. Then he looked back up at Maia. "Or, I suppose, I should be thanking you, Maia."
"It was nothing sir, I only wish you to be happy." She said looking at her friends face. But she knew that this was the last time she would see his and Madison's face.'He only knows that I am different, but he doesnt know I'm a demon. Even if he exepts that face, Madison might not, or someone could overhear and they can find out. It is to risky .' "I will leave you now Mr. Drake, please have a long and happy life." Maia said quietly as Mr. Drake looked back at his beautiful, very alive wife. She silently backed out of the room… and she left.
That's the end of the chapter! I'll update soon! BYE BYE!:)
