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Chapter 9
They was all confused, onto why the boy would be thanking Mai for destroying the necklace, or more of a controlling amulet " do you understand why I got rid of this Kirito?" he nodded, " Yes and to be honest, I want to apologise for everyone, I received that amulet from a person who was friends with my mother, they said they use to work with her and that she wished for me to have it. When I was wearing it I saw all the past crimes of what my mother did. They was horrible, killing young girls no older than 5 up the age of Lisa Taniyama, your mother. I know it wasn't my mother who killed her but the other 6, was my mothers doing."
Naru crossed his arms, " more of an explanation would be needed please" " There is a secret organisation that is after killing guardians that control the elements, my mother was one of them, also Ryo Hishiro, my mother was meant to Kill Lisa but in the end it was the other way around. Basically the organisation wants the powers of the elements to control the world." Kirito explained, Now Asuna understood, So that's the reason for all this going after the Taniyama girls.
Mai re-layed the whole conversation she had with her mother to them, Asuna thought about it, Ryo Hishiro really wasn't a bad guy after all, but the way he dealt with things wasn't right either. " First we have to exorcise this spirit before she becomes even more violent." Naru spoke and looked to his team " Masako you will draw out the spirit, John you will exorcise it, monk and Ayako will be on stand by. Mai you and Asuna will be both with me and Lin. They nodded understanding and looked to Kirito , " you and Yasu will also stay with us"
Masako looked over to Naru, " I don't know how to explain this but… the spirit has gone, she's not in the house anymore." turning around looking to Masako they all widened "What!" Masako nodded hiding her face behind her kimono, " its strange, I thought she was just bound to this house but it seems like when Mai destroyed that necklace with her powers it seemed to break the woman free from this house."
Naru stood up " Pack up! I want us out of this house immediately. Dammit, Mai for this I'm docking your wage!" Ayako stood up in front of her daughter, " it's not her fault! She didn't know by destroying the necklace would break the bound this house had on the spirit!" Walking out of the room to take his anger out on something else, Mai couldn't help but blame herself for it being her fault. "He's right, just let him do it." Mai got out of bed slipping on her black converse.
She looked over to Kirito, smiling " so we have an Older half brother, Ayako I think our family's getting bigger." this caused Asuna to look to them, " You adopted my sister?" they nodded as Monk placed a hand on Mai's shoulder, " Mai was so quiet about her real past, we all thought she was an orphanage we came to love, and adopted her." Asuna smiled and nodded she bowed " thank you for looking after my sister I appreciate it." Ayako and monk looked to each other, " if you both want, you can come and stay with us." They both shook their heads, " for now, I'll have Kirito stay over at my apartment we will help clean up the equipment." giving a smile of thanks the others left the room.
Mai smiled as she stood up but she felt exhausted, must have been due to the high power she released earlier, as she walked she wobbled a little from side to side. Monk went by her side and smiled " Hey, sit down and rest ok? Let us do the rest" Naru soon came back in " You both go help out I'll keep an eye on her."
Mai just sat on the bed with her knees hugged up to her chest, Naru watched her, his eye's fixated on the strangle marks around her neck. His memory's still burned from the abusive wounds on her back. Even if Mai's mother said it was training to get stronger he had a feeling that Mai's father did it on purpose to the girl.
Naru went and sat on the bed, " Mai listen, I'm sorry… for acting the way I did." She looked to him in shock, THE! Naru was apologising to her, " I just never failed to exorcise a ghost before and failure in my book has never been a option." Mai nodded understanding, " I know, I'm sorry for letting her escape. I was told to destory the necklace, and to exorcise her but I don't even think my mother knew she would be unbound from the house."
Naru took in a deep breath, " Listen Mai I .." he was cut off by the door opening, " the vans all packed up boss." Yasu spoke up cheerful , " oh? Am I interrupting something?" Naru stood up wipping invisible dust off his clothing, " No you wasn't, lets get going, I presume Ayako packed up Mai's things?" Yasu nodded everything was in the vans.
Later on the ride home was a silent but yet uncomfortable, Mai's mind was still thinking back to what Naru had wanted to say back in the bedroom, looking out watching the tree's go by, she could have swore she had a bad feeling about going home. A sinking deep feeling.
Once reaching the SPR office, Asuna gave Mai a hug, " Stay well ok? I'm going to do more research on this guardian of the elements business tonight and inform you tomorrow, your still on summer vacation right?" Mai nodded and smiled " An that's if Ayako will let me study tonight." Ayako shook her head, " no way in hell, Lin said you stayed up all last night studying, I don't care if you got sleep while in the astral world, your getting an early night tonight young lady!" they all couldn't help but laugh.
"Even I have to admit Mai you are smarter than you was back in high school. Take a break tonight ok? I will see you tomorrow morning at the office." Naru spoke and walked up the stairs to his Cave. Mai's mouth was hanging open he turned around giving a smirk, " Careful Mai you'll be catching fly's."
Mai wanted to go knock that smirk off his face as he disappeared into the office, Monk had finished placing their bags into his car, " Ayako, Mai come on we better get off home, and you kids, be careful ok? Ryo is still on the loose" Asuna nodded and bowed her head, " Thank you we appreciate your concern, my apartment isn't too far away good night to you all." with that the two older siblings headed out, Mai got into the back of the car buckling up.
"so for tonight, what would you both like for dinner?" They looked back to Mai, they had never let her even cook anything for them in the kitchen, " I'm not going to posion you and if you don't choose I will just make something with what ever ingrediants we have at home" giving out a look of fright as they looked out of the front window " alright Mai. We trust you."
When they got home, Mai placed her bag in front of the washing mashine, placing her clothing in first while sticking her tongue out at monk. She then made her way into the kitchen and smiled getting out the ingredients to make dinner. She still had this bad feeling about being in this house like something was lingering in the dark waiting to jump out at her.
Once dinner was done and set out on the table she called her parent's who's mouths was drooling form the scent of food. Monk was the first to dig in, " Mai! This is good!" Ayako took a bite and nodded smiling agreeing with her husband. " well how did you expect me to live on my own for so long before you adopted me? Instant ramens and take outs?"
Shaking their heads they laughed and had a very eventful dinner.
Once Mai had showered and walked into her bedroom in just a vest top that revealed the lower half of her torso and ¾ length pj bottoms, walking over to her desk standing over a small sketch she had been doing. She was curious on what it actually was, it looked like a small medallian where on each of the edging held its own respective element. Right in the middle was the element of Fire, that was Mai's elemental power. "what does all this mean?"
Giving a large sigh throwing the towel down to the ground it felt like the room had gotten a little cold, she looked over to her balcony window. " when did I open that?" giving a sigh remembering Ryo was still out on the loose, she still didn't trust him. He destroyed her childhood, took away someone presious to her. Walking over she was reaching out about to close the door when a hand wrapped around her waist and covered her mouth.
" Well well, its been a long time Mai.." Mai's eye's widened, she knew that voice, it couldn't be could it? He couldn't have found her… could he?
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What's this Mai's in danger yet again? What's this sketch she drew? What's the meaning of it? Where did Kirito's mothers spirit go? That reminds me I still need to think of a name for her! Who's grabbed Mai ! Thank you for reading!
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