HELLO THERE MY FABULOUS, PATIENT AND AWESOME READERS. Sorry I haven't been updating and I have to say...THANK BAGEEBAS IT IS FINALY THE HOLIDAYS! I am so happy no more assignments, exams or homework! I mean seriously my teachers gave me like eight peices of homework on the first week of school. Anyway enough rambling and I am still so sorry for not updating sooner.

Disclaimer: I do not own any of the characters or ghost hunt.

Naru's POV:

Everyone heard a loud crash and we all ran to the front of the house. There I saw Mai and my brother passed out on the cracked stone path leading to the house, a box of equipment Mai had been carrying lay on it's side beside her. I rushed to their sides and checked for any damage, luckily there was nothing wrong with them. I sighed and said, "Ms Matsuzaki would you please check over Mai and my brother for any injuries that I may have missed and everybody from now on you will have to stick in pairs, ok be careful. " everyone rushed off to do their stuff after taking Gene and Mai inside, obviously I made Ayako stay behind to look after the two along with Masako. I can't help but wonder why those two were unconscious and I think, no I know those two are together on the astral plain. At this I feel a pain in my chest and I clench my fist, I need to get back to work.

Mai's POV

I walked aimlessly for a while, all I could see was black with white floating lights. I wasn't in the astral plain and I know that for sure. I could see a bright figure far in the distance but no matter how far I walked I couldn't reach it. The figure turned to me but I couldn't see it's features, it was like a shadow puppet with the light shining behind it. I assume it was a girl I the distance because the figure had long flowing hair. I stayed standing where I was and waited, it was only a few minutes until the shadow figure spoke, it said "beware my freind you and your companions are in danger in this house." I am lucky that I can now understand english along with some other languages otherwise the girls words would have been lost on me. "Who are you?" I questioned, but I was too late she was gone. Weird.

I woke up after that and could se that I had been placed on an old couch inside the house, Gene was on another couch that had been moved beside mine. I sat up and could see Gene starting to stir, he woke up and instantly sat up, I could see he got dizzy from sitting up too fast. "Idiot your not supposed to get up that fast after waking up." I said with a hint of amusement.

"Ouch Mai, don't you think calling me an idiot is a bit harsh I mean it was only that the room span for a couple minutes." Gene said smiling.

"That Gene is why I called you an idiot."

Ayako walked in with Masako at that moment, both had a couple of glasses of water. They both noticed that Gene and I were awake at the same time and Ayako put her tray of glasses on a close dresser and rushed to both of us engulfing us in a hug. I patted her back slightly awkward because of the years of no human contact what so ever. I turned to look at Gene "Genedid you meet a figure when you were out and did you hear what the spirit said before we fainted?"

"Yeah I did hear what it said but I didn't meet a figure, all I saw was black with floating lights."

"What are you two on about?" Asked Naru as him, Lin, John, Yasu and Bou-San walked into the room.

"Well Mai was saying that she met a figure when she was out but Gene-kun didn't." Said Masako.

"Well what did the figure say Jou-chan?" Asked Bou-San while leaning against a small side table.

I assumed we were in the lounge room, this room was unfamiliar to me and I could see the cobwebs and dust that had built up all over the room. I looked at the others and repeated what I had encountered. They looked at me seriously.

"I wonder why Jou-chan got that dream when when Gene-San didn't?"

"I am also curious however for now both you and Gene are to be supervised at all times, you two have to to be accompanied by either me or Lin, ok." Said Naru, his ice blue eyes piercing into my visible eye.

"Yes sir, we shall be good children." Said Gene with a mock salute.

This caused almost everyone to burst out laughing, you could probably guess that the only two who weren't laughing were Naru who just raised an eyebrow and Lin.

I stopped laughing as soon as I felt a strange presence enter the room, it felt cold and mocking. I looked over to see if anyone else had sensed it and realised that no one else had, maybe it was just me being paranoid. Gene must have noticed me stop smiling and he asked me what was wrong.

"Nothing, it's just me but I can't shake the feeling that something just entered the room."

By now I had caught the attention of the whole room. "Gene, Masako do you feel anything?"

"No" "not at all" replied Masako and Gene.

Everyone was looking at me quizzically, I felt it again except this time it was in a corner behind Naru and this time it felt more dangerous. I saw it's face, it was a twisted and smiling face that was old, the empty eye sockets with maggots and decaying skin freaked me out a little bit and I could see that Gene and Masako could now sense it. The lights flickered and a loud screech could be heard, the room temperature dropped. I changed my eyes to those of my wolf so I could see, I could see the others shaking at the cold and I could see th spirit behind Gene and Naru. "Naru Gene watch out." I yelled as I jumped up and pursue the two out of the way of the spirits massive claw like hands that were swiping towards the two. I could feel myself flying through the air, my eyes reverted back to normal so I could no longer see, I felt my side hit something spiking out from the wall as the rest of my body slammed into the wall with a lot of force. I heard something approaching me and I forced myself to stand back up, I smelt the foul smell of decaying flesh mixed with the smell of blood. Something cold brushed against my fave and I heard a metallic like voice say "you will become an interesting puppet indeed, I will come back and dress you up nice and proper next time." The thing laughed and dissapeared as the lights started to flicker back on. Once the lights were on I could see a thin layer of ice coated the room and I could see everyone huddled around the two couches at the center of the room. I fell back against the wall with a thud that caught everyone's attention, "MAI!" They all shouted and ran towards me.

"I'm fine guys, Gene, Naru are you two okay?"

"Yeah we are fine, so it was you who pushed us both down?" Asked Gene.

"Yes it was me."

"How could you see them and the spirit?" Asked Yasu.

"Oh umm, you know how I was a wolf when you guys found me?"

"Yeah, it was pretty obvious." Said Bou San.

"Yeah well I can' transform' when I wrap myself in a layer of PK my skin absorbs it and I can change my form, so all I did was wrap a layer of PK around my eyes and changed them to those of a wolf, so that's how I could see in the dark."

I realised they could only see my face because of a big picture that had fallen down in front of me. That was probably what I hit my side on, I thought, I looked down at my side and my eyes widened at the sight. There was a large cut running from my hip to my waist, but I could see that it was really deep and blood was pouring out of it, I could also see bruising all the way down my arm and leg on that side. The others must have noticed something was wrong because Bou San grabbed the painting and chucked it to the side, I heard some gasps and I could see everyone's eyes widen. I noticed that on my other side there were five long and deep gashes across my side and back. I sighed and looked at Naru and Gene and said "you two better not say that I shouldn't have protected you because these are mere scratches I have had worse."

"Idiot you may have been through worse in your past but you should never have to go through anything like this ever again!" Yelled Naru, surprising everyone in the room including Mai.

"Naru it does not matter to me as much because I cannot feel it, when you were all shivering because of the cold I didn't feel anything. I do not feel anything anymore Naru, ever since you left I've felt nothing. I am no longer the Mai you all knew, I can never be that person again because I do not value living anymore, I am but a number. I am experiment number 001, I as Mai don't exsist, and I will always carry the pain of the experiments with me, the pain of the past." I said with my head tilted to the side and a sad smile and a blank stare. Masako, Gene, Ayako, Yasu, John and Bou-San had tears streaming down their faces, Lin and Naru stared in a shocked silence until it was broken by Lin.

"Mai to us you will never be a number. You are a kindhearted girl who is a member of the SPR and a danger magnet, you are also the one who feels the most."

"Thank you Lin." Mai said still smiling however a stray tear slid down her pale face and her long brunette hair flowed in the breeze.

"Now let's get you cleaned up Mai." Said Ayako gently.

"Yes thank you Ayako."

Yay there we go, another chapter down. Sorry it's not as long as some of the others and thank you so much for all of the encouragement to keep goin with this story. :D YOU ARE ALL FABULOUS! I'm also surprised you readers haven't complained about my atrocious spelling mistakes and terrible gramma but anyway THANK YOU ALL:):):):)