A/N: Hey guys here it is, (Long A/N at the bottom like normal)
Disclaimer: I do not own Ghost Hunt or the charecters, but the plot and the blond "hussy" are mine, all mine :D *evil laugh*
Everyone turned and looked, open mouthed at Naru and the mystery girl attached to his face. The look of shock and surprised lingered on everyone's faces, and soon turned to anger or embarrassment when Naru made no attempt to remove the girl. The only person showing a different emotion was Mai, who looked hurt and confused.
Eventually the limpet detached itself from Naru and took his hand leading him further into the room. Naru just glared back not saying anything but not encouraging her. In short he was the same Naru he had been when he first arrived in Japan. The Naru who thought he could control the world with just his glare. And most of the time was right.
All eyes of the group followed the pair into the center of the gathering where the new addition gave a tinkling laugh at the young boy's expression. "Naru, silly boy," she laughed in a sickly sweet ickle girl voice. "Are you not going to introduce me to you friends?" She gestured grandly around at the assorted members of SPR. "No." That was all Naru had to say on the matter, giving her one last glare he removed his hand from her perfectly manicured grip and turned to walk back to Mai.
Only when he looked back at the door, there was no Mai to be seen.
Having seen her boyfriend make no effort to remove the girl who was so intent on eating him from his person, all Mai could do was stand in open pain whilst her confused little brain ran through the possibilities as to who this girl is.
Nothing came up and so she was left with more questions than answers.
When the girl moved them away from the door, Mai had her chance to slip out of the room without anyone else seeing. They were all to focused on the newest SPR couple.
She managed to reach the back door before the tears gathered in her eyes and by the time she slumped against the trunk of the willow tree where she and Naru had shared such an intimate moment days earlier the hot tears spilled over onto her cold, windswept cheeks. She had never been more appreciative of the long shielding branches of a Weeping Willow until that moment where she was invisible to the rest of the house.
"How have I been so stupid!" she couldn't help but scream at herself. "He was so caring and kind towards me now. I thought he'd changed, I-I-I thought I'D changed him." The tears took over and the sobs racked her body as she leant against the sturdy trunk of the large, forgiving tree.
When Mai finally returned to the house she appeared to be alone. No one was in sight and the living and dining rooms were empty. Cold and tired Mai climbed the stairs and decided a hot bath was needed before she could crawl into bed and cry herself to sleep.
When she opened her door she found a small scrap of paper had been slid under it. Ayako's handwriting covered the pale pink parchment;
Mai, We have all tried to talk to you, even the great narcissistic one, but I guess you aren't in the mood to chat. Naru and Lin along with the Davis' and Madoka have gone to see his grandparents in Essex overnight and will meet us all at the house tomorrow. Seeing as you weren't answering the rest of us are going out to eat as there was no dinner served here and assumed you wanted some alone time. If you need anything call us and we'll be right there. All our love, Ayako, Monk, John and Yass.
In the bottom corner Yasu had added a P.T.O sign: P.S I think you might want to take a look at the information I gathered today. Green folder on the coffee table downstairs.
With a sigh, Mai decided she was too tired to call anyone and let them know she was okay. Instead she ran the bath she had already planned and after adding lots of sparkly pink bubble bath and turning the jets up full blast she ran and grabbed the folder Yasuhara had left her on the table.
Having barely managed to get in and out of the fateful room without fresh tears consuming her body, she dived into the hot, steaming tub to try and relax and read the case file.
The file started out pretty boring and mundane. The house had been built in the early Elizabethan period by some rich friend of the queen. Since the house has been passed through the ownership of some of England's most prestigious aristocrats until in the late 1800's it had been given to the daughter of the Earl of some posh sounding place Mai had never heard of.
The house was to be setting of her wedding to an English boy of high standing, with the idea that after the ceremony it would become their home. The Earl had been subject to a lot of scrutiny after marrying and having a child with a Japanese girl, The Earl had met whilst in the Army as a young man. So it was hoped that by marrying James, the englishmen his beautiful daughter, Airi, might somehow ease the scrutiny against her father.
However, due to her mothers Japanese heritage, Airi was a beauty rare to Victorian England. She had many suitors lined up at her door and although James had not been a traditional courtship, simply a childhood friend who had fallen as deeply in love with Airi and she had with him. This had led to much unrest with the traditional suiters of The Earls Daughter. One suiter in particular in fact.
William Wheeler, a member of the house staff The Earl employed had fallen emphatically for the young women and, despite there being no reciprocation of his feelings, had managed to figment a relationship between himself and the teenager.
This mental instability had eventually led to him murdering the bride on her wedding day in a spiteful act to stop anyone enjoying what he was unable to obtain. There was no mention of how Airi was murdered or what had happened to William after the event except for the simple line printed on the end of the folder. William did not live to see the next sunrise.
Despite the lack of details over the eventual fate of William and the murder of Airi, Mai knew two things to be true: First she knew every single detail of the encounter between the pair and it was most definite proof of Williams mental instability and secondly, both William and Airi were present in that house, locked in a constant battle of good vs evil.
Tired from taking on all this new information Mai drained the tub and climbed between the luxurious sheets on her bed. As she drifted off to sleep, her thoughts were not of how to fight this case, but how to win in combat against an enemy she had never encountered before...
A/N: Hey guys, I know Monday isn't the Sunday upload I kinda promised some of you guys but life, work, friend melodrama and the fact I managed to break my computer after a week (my best is still 2 days, honestly I am death on technology) kinda got in the way :(.
Add in the fact its like 29 degrees here at the moment an I do not respond well to heat does result in a delay in updating even if the chapter is written.
Please tell me what you think, all constructive views welcomed here. I have the next chapter almost done and the more reviews I get, the faster I write and upload as few reviews kinda make me second guess my work /:
Anyway review and come to the dark side... I have homemade white chocolate chip Millie's Style Cookies