don't mind chapter 9, just skip right though it.
"what about this." Ayako said holding up a bright pink colored shirt, with different colored flowers.
"na, to girly. how about this." she said holding up a dark plain, green shirt. Ayako sighed.
"Mai its all right get anything you want its all on me."
"no l mean l really like it." she said looking at it then looking at herself in the mirror. Ayako sighed in defeat.
"next lets go to that shop." Ayako pointed to a big building across the street.
"the mall, isn't that were a lot of smaller shops are located?"
"yup, at least that's what l heard."
"l don't know about that place."
"Mai get anything you want and go to the cash register, l'll find Masako and l will meet up with you later."
"k" after she left. Mai went on a search to find a plain, black shirt, it would have went great with an outfit she had in mind. she searched everywhere, but couldn't find anything. then her eyes se on a pair of dark colors. she quickly rushed over to the racks. fanilly she spotted it. her hand reached out for it, when all of a sudden she lost her balance and bumped into someone.
"oh, lm so sorry." she pulled her hand back and looked up at the person she bumped into. he had dark hair with dark hazel eyes. he kinda resembled Naru in a way.
"why are you in the men's section?" he asked. Mai looked surprised.
"men's l didn't realize it." his eyes moved to her pair of shirts.
"not really a big fan of girl cloths." he chuckled.
"yea, you could say something like that." then his eyes set on her outfit, he looked like he was gonna ask another question, but Mai beet him to it.
"me and my friends came here to visit. it was such a surprise and in such a short notice that l didn't have any time to pack. so a friend let me borrow these, and so lm here." she said with a charming smile.
"how can you know your leaving and not pack." he chuckled more.
"hay, it was a short notice okay, l didn't even have enoff time to tell anyone." he stopped and looked up at Mai with a gentle expression.
"any way, l too have come here to visit and am looking for a place to stay, how about recommending me to some places."
"huh, l don't think l know any places here."
"how about the place your staying in."
"huh, you see the situation lm in right now is complicated, l wouldn't recommend you to stay at our place."
"oh l see." he looked disappointed.
"Mai!" she heard Ayako call out.
"oh that for me l got to go."
"oh, okay l was nice talking to you."
"yea, you too." she quickly grabbed the shirt and walked away.
As they left the store, Ayako kept complaining about Mai's sence of style and the cloths she got.
"come on Mai, the store had a lot more better cloths then this, that would have looked so much better on you, and you had to get this, don't you realize that these cloths look a little boyish." Mai shrugged.
"l didn't say l was a girly girl. any way l think they would look good on me and most of them would go with my other pairs of cloths l have at home." Ayako sighed in defeat. then Mai looked at Masiko, looking at something she was holding in her hands. she smiled and blushed a little. her smile looked so beautiful.
"did Masiko get anything?"
"yea, a blue star necklace, she wouldn't stop staring at it so l bought it for her."
"blue star?" Mai said recalling that Mitsuki had a blue star necklace around her neck, also.
Mai then looked at the clock, next to the mall.
"Ayako its 5:30 what time did we leave?"
"at 3:00 why?"
"we have been gone for almost three hours." Mai said freaking out.
"Ayako lm sorry l don't think that we would have in off time to go to the mall today maby some other time." Ayako frowned.
"fine." they changed their curse and headed for the house.
Naru had finished on packing, and was looking at a blue folder with a bunch of papers inside. lin was at his computer typing away like an zombie.
"l would like to know a little better about the house, so l will take a little look around if its all right with you." osamo said, standing next to the door.
"its all right with me. lin accompany him."
"lm sorry Naru but l can not do that who's gonna stay and protect you."
"Naru." lin raised his voice. a knock broke though. Mai's head popped though the door.
"hey." she said in her usual voice and happy smile.
"now go, as you can see l have Mai here with me." Mai froze.
"what?" lin nodded as if agreeing and he left with osamo.
"lin and osamo went to look around the house for a bit."
"us girls have just finished shopping so we went back."
"oh, you could have stayed for a bit longer, l don't need you right now."
"its okay." Mai smiled and noticed him reading the blur file.
"what are you doing?" she leaned in to take a look.
"lm just trying to piece in some information, it doesn't really make any sence all the victims who have escaped reported that they were torcherd differently and they also explained by their past and struggles lm trying to understand what that means."
"you got to actually talk to them."
"no l had them search tem up, it seems they have a whole news paper article written about them." Naru took off his jacket and placed on the bed.
"l'll hang it." Mai yelled and reached for it as if someone else was in the room and also tried to grab it. she walked up to the caught hanger and was about to hand it up when something fell out. she quickly hanged up the jacket and picked up the thing. it was a photograph. on the back it had some strange writing she couldn't understand. when she flipped it over, her eyes widened at what she saw. it was a picture of them both, the same one Naru had given her. he said he didn't need something like this. he lied to her, but it made her happy.
"Mai" Naru called out. Mai quickly put the photograph into his pocket and walked back to him.
"yes Naru."
"tomorrow we will start setting up the equipment, so try your best not to get caught. we will get Masiko to help us to tell us which rooms would be the best and with more activity. l would also like you to show me the rooms you saw in your dream."
"what."
"you said that it wasn't a dream that it felt real, s l want to see those rooms."
"but N aru l don't think that." then she paused when she saw him frown.
"what is it?"
"it just don't seem to make any sence. all the victims reported the sentry around them changed, and the were back into their worst nightmares."
"ln my dream." Mai spoke in a low voice.
"in my dream l saw a woman chained up in chains, then the image around her changed and she was in a little boys room. the woman came up to the boy and she talked about how sorry she was, and how it all was her fault. and then." she was shaking by the time she got to that sentence.
"Mai, if you don't want to talk about it l won't force you." Mai gave him a calming smile.
"everyone will you please come down stares." they heard a distant voice. everyone got out from their, and went down stares. they were all gathered together. the woman stood in front of them with a man next to her. someone Mai knew.
"everyone this is Mooso, he will be staying with us for a couple of weeks so please everyone make him feel at home." Mooso looked seruse standing next to her. he didn't seem like he recognized, but he always kept glancing at her and the woman. finally she stopped talking and Mooso came up to Mai.
"its nice to see you again." he smiled at her.
"you know him." the monk asked
"we met at a store when l was sopping." then the woman came up to them.
"come with me and l will show you to your room." she said sweetly. his expreshon suddenly changed to an icy cold, and Mai realized it immidatly. he followed the woman up stares. Mai sighed a worry sigh.
"he asked me a place to stay l didn't know any thing, but l told him not to go but didn't listen."
"this changes everything, it will be hard to stick with the original plan." Naru's voice suddenly changed.
"everyone get to your rooms. we will try and see if we can go with the original plan." everyone went back to their rooms.
"l can't belive he came." Mai said as she walked into her huge room that looked to be an apartment. she looked at her side of the room, and noticed that it seemed different. different senses came rushing at her and caught her off guard. of course Ayako had something to do with this.
"what do you think." she asked walking in.
"Ayako." Mai spoke in an angry voice as she turned back.
"is it really necessary for me to have all this." she said dangerously.
"look its not a bog deal, you spend in Naru's room to long so l went out and bought some other things for you and Masiko even she doesn't seem to mind." Mai blushed when she mentioned Naru, but that even made her angrier.
"look l know what your trying to do here Ayako, but please don't get involved with my business." and she stormed out of the room. escaping the noise she was finally alone and it calmed her down. she walked forward then turned right into a dark hall. something like images, white blury images flashed in her head. two people with a child. Mai recognized the woman it was her mother. she was holding a little girl that looked to be her. Mai couldn't recall the guy next to her mother, since her father had died when she was such at a young age, she couldn't remember if it was him. the images vanished and she saw someone walking towards her. the woman came up to her. Mai felt a little scared, but what the woman did next surprised her. she hugged her tightly and spoke in such a gently sweet voice.
"oh, how l missed you Mai."
"Manika." she said.
"you don't know how lonely it was."
"Manika." Mai only said, and found tears running down.
l always find myself writing when its really late, don't know why.
l'll try fixing all my mistakes today, if l don't then tommorrow.