A/N: Hi guys! i just want to promote my new story "Dont leave Me" so pleasecheck it out xD
Summary: Naru found Gene and now he is leaving is now in charge of the Japanese branch SPR. Mai's first collapse changed it all,was it a good thing or the worst thing that would happen to both people twisted by fate.
"Madoka...Mai collapsed"
"What!" "
Noll you're going to regret this..."
"Goodbye Naru..."
Will this be a happy ending? Or a tragic love story? Find out! MaixNaru
Oh and btw…I might use your OCs as antagonists…but with a good purpose. PM me if you ever loathe the idea. It's just that, I think SPR is getting too crowded xD
With Noll and Boomer
Noll: *pokes the hamster*
*Shock*
*Pokes again*
Boomer: *stares blankly with cute sleepy eyes*
Noll: *eyes widen a fraction*
Gene: *Enters the room suddenly*
Hey there baby brother!
*stopped on his tracks*
Noll: What now Gene?
Gene:…YOU!... you think he's cute!
Noll: *glares with a very very faint blush on his cheeks*
OH AND WARNING! this chapter contains graphic violence and torture...just for this chapter only...Sorry so uhhh how do I say this? Brace yourselves?
Chapter 9: The Abused Children
~Recap~
Suddenly I was awakened by a loud noise. Everybody went out of the car ad say a newly collapsed building and a bunch of teens, one has dark green hair and onyx eyes and he is currently & helplessly shouting through the pile of rubble.
"NAOMI!"
I only noticed it now, but I also saw apricot hair and porcelain skin wearing a bright yellow uniform with flower embroideries. It was only then I realized who they are.
"Sensei? Kyouya?"
~Mai's POV
Kyouya immediately whipped his head as his name was called. The woman on the other hand shakily went towards Mai.
"Mai-chan, why are-"and the woman fainted before she could even finish her sentence.
"MOM!" Kyouya ran towards her, luckily Lin managed to catch her before she met the floor. Then a boy with jet black hair and amethyst eyes stepped in front of the commotion.
"Everyone, back to the base. Cloi don't worry, we will look for your sister but for now, it's best for everyone to settle so that we could start working" He looked at the young man and though he wanted to oblige, his words were the law of the team.
"Y-YOU!" Mai shouted in disbelief also gaining every single person's attention. The young boy with amethyst eyes realized that she was pointing at him and slightly smirked.
"Hello Mai-san, it seems we did meet again after all" he displayed a small smirk before going inside the car.
"Mai, if you stand there like an idiot, we're going to leave you behind" Naru said strictly.
"Jerk" she replied and hastily went inside the limo with the rest.
We entered a two-door room which seemed to be labeled as 'the base' and so far, it seemed similar to ours. Monitors neatly stacked in rows, four couches forming a square with a table in the middle, red carpet, and what a coincidence…the place to make tea, the kitchenette. We all settled in the couch while sensei is brought to a room in the base Ayako and a girl with long ash brown hair. I looked at Kyouya whose face is etched with worry and tugged on his white shirt. He gave me a small smile and led me to one of the couched and sat beside me.
"What's going on?" Naru asked…Uhhh…more like demanded.
"Alexis…" the amethyst-eyed boss simply looked at the young man with ebony hair and slate grey eyes and nodded in response.
"Let me start from the beginning, we were hired because kids began to end up missing and then after a few days be found with cuts and bruises. The parents of the children were furious, muttering something about security. The school tightened its security to the max after the complaints and a number of student withdrawals but still. They end up missing, when they asked one of the children they would always reply that they went there themselves and having no recollection about the injuries they got."
"Well, that is weird…" bou-san muttered.
"While we were investigating, we found the hotspot for paranormal activity and we were trying to exercise it earlier but then the ghosts got violent and even destroyed the building." Alexis continued.
"So 'what exactly are the ghosts'?" Ayako asked.
"Based on our research, the building was once an orphanage and though it's still a theory but we inferred that the owners abuse children in which is being supported by the injuries of the kids when they are found. The ghosts of the owners Akagi Rido and Akagi Hisa were confirmed earlier during the exorcism. And the ghosts of the kids were also seen on tape but so far have not been hostile towards the students." He replied and everyone nodded in understanding. Well that is when Yasu broke the tense silence.
"Uhmm…sorry for the question but what's with the commotion earlier?" Yasu said while raising his hands like he's innocent and he's being excused innocently. I looked at Kyouya who exhaled and smiled softly.
"During the exorcism, my sister ran inside the building for reasons I don't know, mother was chasing her but when she entered the building the area began to shake and windows broke then the walls began to crumble. The debris blocked the entrance so we couldn't enter." He looked at me with sad eyes and I squeezed his hand and gave him a comforting smile.
"Let's all get ready; we need to look for Cloi's sister before it gets too dark. Cloi, Lia and Anise accompany them." the man with amethyst eyes said, his tone is like authority itself and everyone including SPR nearly obeyed it like slaves. Even I felt my hairs standing. We were lead by the three people mentioned to two rooms adjacent to the base and each other. 'Well this is convenient…' I thought inwardly. We separated when we reached the doors that seemed to belong to males and the other for females. I heard Ayako gap when we entered the room.
"There's a freakin chandelier in here!" she exclaimed and I giggled. Then I noticed one of the girls play with the hem of her sky blue skirt and then I realized that we never got to introduce ourselves.
"Uhmm Hi, by the way, I'm Taniyama Mai and this is Matsuzaki Ayako" I pointed to Ayako who was fixing her things and smiled slightly.
"Uhmm…I'm Magnolia Gray...but my friends call me Lia…n-nice to meet you!" she said nervously but I think it's cute, I also recognized her, she was with Kyouya when I bumped into him. She has long brown hair and her eyes-
"ARE YOUR EYES LIKE…AMBER?" Ayako wailed
"Uhmm, no, they're actually hazel but somehow they ended up too light to look hazel" she smiled shyly and blushed.
"Oh…and she's Anise Sinclair, but I think you recognize her, she's the one Eisen sent to meet you when you first arrived. She went there with Alexis" I looked at the girl who has long black hair that reached up to her waist and steel colored irises with a matching steel-hard glare.
"Sinclair?" Ayako raised her eyebrows
"Oh, I forgot, in our place we say our first names first followed by our last name. its like how you say your names the other way around." She smiled.
"Oh so her name is Anise?" I emphasized the ooooohhh~ sound
"If everyone's done then let's head back to the base" she said with an emotionless expression as she pushed her glasses upwards making it glint in reflection with the light. I saw her look at Lia and she nodded then left the room. 'Whoa' I thought.
"Uhmm sorry Lia but is Anise telepathic?" I asked and she blushed again 'I'm happy that I'm not the only person in the world who could blush different shades of red' I smiled.
"Uhmm, actually, I'm the one who is telepathic" she blushed while playing with her fingers.
"WOW! That is so cool" I squealed.
"Yeah, unlike yours Mai…" Ayako rolled her eyes.
"Hey! It's not like I asked for it you know!" I ended my sentence with a "hmph", Lia was giggling at our antics.
"What's your ability Taniyama-san?" she asked
"Ohhh…you'll see it soon. It will definitely leave you speechless" Ayako replied
"Ayako!"
Knock, Knock
"Oh, hey, Eisen wants us to gather in the base" Kyouya peeked slightly from the door.
"Oh…okay Cloi" Lia nodded.
"Hey!" Ayako retorted making me jump in the process.
"Sorry but you're really confusing me! Just which on is your name? Mai calls you Kyouya while the others call you Cloi. And wait, how do you know Mai" Ayako crossed her arms like a demanding kid.
"Ah, my real name is Satou Kyouya, I'm Mai's childhood friend. My mother took care of her when her mother died since they were good friends so living together we got real close. And I go by the name Cloi Alexanders when I'm in America. It's my English name." he smiled.
"OHHH~ I see" Ayako chirped.
"Matsuzaki Ayako, and don't worry, we'll help you look for your sister" she shook hands with Kyouya..err…Cloi or whatever.
~Naru's POV
'damn, why is that guy here?' I groaned and made a fist as I was reading the files given by Alexis, but my mind keeps on wandering about a certain bastard who's just a few meters away from me. 'Wait! Why do I even loathe the guy?' I asked myself 'Is it because of Mai?' I pinched the bridge of my nose, I'm starting to get a headache. 'And speaking of Mai, why is that Cloi guy so clingy towards her…and why does Mai call him Kyouya…do they know each other?'
"Naru?" Lin gave me a questioning glance. I simply looked at him and went back to reading the file. 'I better concentrate on this one' a few minutes later, the rest of the team settled on the unoccupied couches.
~Mai's POV
"Good, now why don't we introduce ourselves, my name is Eisen Klein. I'm the leader of this team." He said emotionless then went back to the screen.
"My name is Cyril Cloi Sinclair but please call me Cyril, I have a team mate with the same name as my second name" a guy with silver hair and steel colored eyes like his female cousin stood up and gave us a small smile.
"Oh and this is my cousin, Anise Sinclair" she pointed to anise sitting on the couch in front of him.
"Cloi Alexander but my real name is Satou Kyouya, you're free to call me between the two." A guy with dark green hair and onyx eyes bowed at us, signifying his Japanese manners.
"Alexis Schyler" 'he's almost like Lin!' I thought. Black hair, slate eyes, tall...Near six feet or six, and he's always with the boss.' Yep, definitely Lin's long lost relative'
"Hi everyone!" a chirpy girl with ash brown hair and silver eyes came to greet us with a big smile. "I'm Angelica Midgard but cut the formalities and just call me Angelie 'kay?" she smiled warmly at us.
"Oh and Cloi, I sent your mother home. I said that we'll take care of everything and-" her eyes traveled the room and somehow landed on me "YOU-" she pointed, I gawked and my mouth dropped "m-me?" I said nervously thinking about the things I did to make this lady Uhhh…
"Satou-san said that you should visit no matter what, or else she'll have to drag your things from Shibuya and glue them here." She smiled innocently…'why does this person remind me of Madoka? Oh, yeah…'
"Shibuya Kazuya, these are my assistants Lin Kujou and Taniyama Mai. Takigawa-san is our monk and Matsuzaki Ayako is our priestess. John Brown is a priest from Australia, Hara Masako is our medium, and lastly Yasuhara Osamu works as a part-time researcher for our team.
"Hey, why don't we just let Oliver Davis use psychometry to find Cloi's sister? " Anise said bluntly.
"I prefer you calling me by my Alias Ms. Sinclair" Naru said icily but it didn't faze those steel eyes.
"Scared of the media Davis?" she smirked.
"Anise, that's enough" Eisen said then they were talking about splitting into groups of five but my attention was disturbed when I felt a tug on my sleeve. When I turned to my right I saw a little girl with dark brown hair in pigtails that matched her innocent eyes.
"Hey there, what's wrong?" I asked the little girl and she began to cry silently. I stood up to hug the little girl and rub her back. When Kyouya poked by back and looked at me confused.
"Mai, what are you doing?" I looked at him dumbfounded.
"Kyouya can't you see that I'm comforting this little girl?" I said pointing to the brown haired kid in my arms. He then grabbed my arms and moved in front of me protectively. I saw the others in the base stand up as well.
"Wha-What's going-"I was about to say more when Kyouya finished for me.
"Mai there is no kid in the base…" he said then the lights began to flicker and a faint glow appeared from the spot where I was earlier and I saw her…but it was a little different, the little girl was missing an eye and her throat was slit. I felt my knees shaking and bou-san, Ayako and John began chanting their prayers. Kyouya was still holding his arm in front of me protectively and Naru shifted closer to my side.
"Onee-chan please help us"
Then my surroundings began to warp like it was shifting into a different dimension and the base I was once standing in no longer looked like one instead I looked at the cold, dark street in front of me and a bunch of children nearly freezing to death.
"Ayumi nee-san, what are we going to do? We didn't collect enough money and Uncle Rido will-" the little boy couldn't finish his sentence and began to cry while shivering in the cold streets. I saw the girl earlier hug the boy who seemed younger than her.
"Let's run away…"
The scene shifted again and I was staring into a room with a fireplace and all of the children were there, crying. A big fat man took steel from the blazing fire and hit it to the children leaving nasty marks on their skin as they wailed in pain. My eyes start to water and no matter how much I wanted to stop that man my feet were glued on the floor, I felt useless…just like the time when I was watching Natsume die. I saw the man stop and returned the steel to the fireplace. The children were trying hard not to cry for fear of being punished again, then, out of nowhere a big woman emerged from the darkness holding a sharp knife.
"Trying to escape are we? I'll make sure you'll never be able to move again"
She grabbed a small boy about the age of four and ripped his shirt then started dissecting the boy like some frog. The little boy screamed as his organs were being ripped from their original position. The other kids were trembling with fear; one by one she sliced their skin, took a piece of meat from their bodies saying something about selling it in the market and then the little girl named Ayumi became brave enough to snatch the knife from the woman to protect the remaining kids alive.
"Ooooohhh~ somebody is playing heroine?!" she laughed like a witch again.
"But sorry kid, you're just not the protagonist of this story…" the woman threw the blazing steel and burning her thigh making her drop the knife in the process then she launched herself at held her throat then started to gauge her right eye out. The little girl thrashed around as she screamed in pain, annoyed of this, the woman threw her to the wall.
"You little bitch! STOP MOVING AROUND!" she took knife and slit her throat in one clean slice. The little girl couldn't even scream anymore, she was just there on the floor convulsing and stealing some breaths.
"Well…now that the fly is gone, let's continue the fun shall we?"
I couldn't scream…
I couldn't move…
Heck, I couldn't even blink!
All I could do is watch from the corner while the room began to flood in blood, the once yellow glow from the light bulb turned red because of blood splashing all over the place.
"Mai wake up!" I heard Gene calling me but my muscles were numb, I couldn't even feel them.
"Mai you need to get out of here!" I choked some air as the room filled the scent of blood…but that was a bad move…
The woman heard me and advanced towards me…
"Well what do we have here?"
I don't know what happened then, I just felt like there were cuts and bruises on my body…I felt like I was going to die…
"Mai!" Gene screamed
Then a white flash of light emerged in thin air and I heard glasses breaking. Although my eyelids were on the verge of closing, I caught a glimpse of long silver hair with matching eyes. I saw an armored man with a katana that was as long as three or four meters.
"I broke the barrier, take her out" the man said.
"Thank you Sephirot…" then Gene carried me then dashed along the void space of dimensions.
"Mai you idiot…you nearly died!" Gene said looking ahead of us while running.
"Sorry…" I said weakly.
"Mai!" Gene stopped on his tracks and I saw Kyouya running towards me..
"Kyouya…" I whispered
"You're Eugene right? Hand Mai to me, I can take her back" Kyouya said.
"How did-"
"I can differentiate things that are alive and are not" Kyouya replied and Gene handed me to him while caressing my cheeks one last time.
"Don't feel guilty Gene…" I said weakly I saw his sad eyes and I reached out then pinched his cheeks with my remaining energy.
"You'll look like the narcissist like that…" I said
"Sorry…"
"Don't be…"
When I was back in my body I heard screams of pain engulf the room and to my relief it wasn't the children's voices, it was those people who tortured them. Shikis were hovering all over the place and I noticed one kept on swirling in front of me. I noticed the glow my bracelet was emitting and smiled. Then I heard a growl…
"YOU! I will kill you!" the woman said in a demonic voice then launched herself to me but Sephirot intercepted and sliced the figure away. The lights returned to normal and the room was finally ghost-free. I saw everyone relax except…
"Mai!" Ayako screamed 'god, she should stop that'. I noticed the look that the others were giving me and then scanned myself. I was bleeding… then I fell on my knees. Ayako looked like she teleported to my side and began wrapping my wounds and screaming for the first aid kit I also saw ash brown hair on my left realized that Angelie was beside me and her hands are glowing!
"Ayako-san, let me take care of the wounds, please prepare materials for blood transfusion, it seems like she lost a lot of blood." She said, Ayako quickly nodded and grabbed the needled and the tubes 'god, I hate them'
"Eisen, move her to our room" without missing a beat, he carried me and gently plopped me down on the bed while Angelie continued to heal my wounds, they started to disappear like there was no trace of them then Ayako was back with the materials and was muttering about blood types 'man am I sleepy…' from the corner of my eye, Angelie was smiling at me 'wow, her name suits her well' I thought.
"Don't worry, just relax and go to sleep" and on cue, I drifted to a dreamless slumber.
~General POV
The base was quiet, Alexis and Lin were watching the monitors, and Bou-san, John, and Cyril were exhausted from the exorcism. The rest were in the room with Mai while Eisen was sharing his blood. He was the only one compatible with Mai's blood type. And around the corner a certain narcissist's knuckles were turning to white.
"Cloi, explain…" Eisen muttered softly.
"Well, I noticed Mai was having an out of body experience so I mentally projected in her dream. But I saw Eugene Davis carrying a wounded Mai running desperately. I couldn't ask him what happened anymore because I told him to hand Mai over since she was running out of spiritual energy. I gave her mine so that we could both escape from the astral plane and then…" bou-san sighed.
"Man, and we were just introducing ourselves a while ago and Mai already attracted a crazy ghost." He sighed.
"It's not a ghost, it's a hollow" Eisen said (A/N: okay, I don't own the hollow idea…it all from bleach xD)
"Care to elaborate?" Naru said trying hard to fix his tone, but it still came out scary.
"Hollows are ghosts that are on the verge of becoming demons, that ghost we encountered is classified to the lowest stage before being called a demon, they're called Gillians" Eisen said.
"O-kay…so how many stages are there?" Takigawa asked out of curiosity.
"Based on our research we found three stages. The lowest are the Gillians, they are the weakest among the three, but they are the biggest. They are often called as Menos Grandes because of their size. Next are the Adjuchas, they are smaller compared to Gillians, usually they are the ones that toy with humans often seen as man eating monsters like in the Philippine culture they are called aswangs, tianaks, tikbalangs and many more. Lastly, the third one is called the Vasto Lordes. They are the smallest out of the three and are nearly human in size. Mostly termed as doppelgangers, shift shapers, white and black ladies etc. But remember, they are still not demons." Takigawa felt chills running down his spine. He definitely doesn't want to run into one of those. Suddenly a small knock was heard.
"Uhhh…Cloi…we…have…a…" Cyril stuttered from the doorway. Cloi or Kyouya raised his eyebrow but then it disappeared and was replaced by a jaw drop when a giddy little girl with long green hair tied into pigtails with red ribbons peeked inside the room and her onyx eyes gleamed in delight when she saw…
"Onii-chan!" Naomi said as she ran and hugged her brother's knees. Everyone in the room gasped.
"What the hell is going on here!?" Takigawa moaned while plopping into the vacant bed once again.
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