Tori: Thanks to all those who reviewed, I am glad that you all liked Mai and Naru's reunion.
Mei: And thanks to the positive feedback on having Nollene turn up and follow Naru to Japan.
Oliver: I didn't find it very funny.
Mai: I did, so shut up Naru.
Yasu: Sorry to Angel-chan1212, as her username was chopped off in the previous two thank you's.
Tori: Yeah, sorry. Thanks also to Naruisawesome, Amychan14, NaginiFay, slvrphoenx and anyone else that I might have missed.
Mei: Tori does not own Ghost Hunt, but she does own all of Lin's shiki, Myself, and Nollene.
Yasu: Enjoy!
Japan
Yasu wasn't really interested in girls; they were always trouble.
But the one that walked through the door certainly caught his attention.
She was tall and slender, with pale skin, and reddish-brown hair, with a fringe on the left side. Her eyes were two different colours; one a light blue, one a pale green.
She was, Yasu thought, beautiful.
And she walked with the same confidence as Mai and Masako.
However, when she saw the look on Clau...Lin-san's face, she wilted slightly. Especially when Lin spoke into the phone in Chinese softly before handing it to her.
"It's Luella." He said.
Yasu, being a very good liar himself, noticed that Lin-san was lying through his teeth.
Nollene winced, and took the phone handed to her.
"Hello?"
Yasu did not envy her when he heard the torrent of angry English emerge from the phone.
The girl went white, then pink, and steadily got redder, shrinking slightly with each insult.
His English was good, but the woman on the phone talked way too fast for him to keep up.
There was suddenly a pause, before an acrid remark came through the phone.
"Do you have anything you'd like to say?"
The girl bit her lip.
"I'm really sorry, Mei. It won't happen again."
There was a mutter on the other end, and Lin took the phone out of the girls' limp hand. He murmured softly in Chinese, before he hung up.
The girl turned to him, face dejected.
"Are you going to lecture me too?" she asked Lin.
Lin raised an eyebrow.
"Your Japanese has improved. No, I think Mei did a pretty thorough job." Yasu's mouth dropped open when Lin pulled the girl into a hug.
"Don't scare me like that again, do you understand?"
The girl nodded, seemingly fine with the physical contact that she was getting from Lin.
The girl pulled away, wiping her eyes, before turning to Naru.
"Noll..."
"Don't...say...another...word." Naru hissed. There were shocked glances in his direction as he stood up, and stood in front of Nollene.
Nollene flinched at his icy tone, and went pale.
"Oliver..."
"You are the most irresponsible girl I have ever met." The temperature dropped a few degrees, and Yasu shivered in his t-shirt.
'This is going to get ugly.'
"Look, I..."
"You obviously didn't think before you acted, as usual. What had happened if you had been in an accident? We would have no idea where you were."
"Well, I..." The temperature was now below ten.
"Did you even stop and think what this would have done to Martin and Luella? They said you weren't allowed to go for a reason, and you disobeyed them. Did you even tell them where you were going?"
Naru's voice was getting softer and softer; a sure sign that he was mad.
Nollene glared at him, and the temperature dropped a few more degrees.
"Well, maybe if you hadn't left me behind last time, I wouldn't be in this position."
Yasu exchanged a glance with Monk and John, who looked just as puzzled as he did.
"I left you behind because I knew that you wouldn't be able to cope with finding Gene's body."
The temperature was continually dropping, and mist was forming on the windows.
"So why not take me this time?"
"Because you have no experience in this field whatsoever, and I will not be responsible for your death."
"But yet you take the responsibility of everyone else's death."
Naru clenched his teeth, and Yasu could tell that Nollene had hit a nerve.
"If by everyone else you mean Gene, then yes, I do take responsibility for his death. Why? Because I could've stopped him, or offered to go with him. But I didn't. And now he's dead."
There was a silence, and you could hear the tea slowly freezing over in the cups.
Nollene looked shocked, and Naru simply looked mad.
Lin broke the silence.
"Are you two finished?" he asked, his face unreadable.
Naru shot him a glare, and Lin looked rather deliberately at the windows, which were now covered with a thin layer of ice.
Naru gritted his teeth, and glared at the ice, which started to melt at a rapid rate.
"Nollene, you as well." Lin ordered, giving Nollene a stern glance.
Nollene sighed, and moved over to the other window, placing her hand on it and allowing it to melt from her body heat.
Naru still looked angry, and what happened next shocked Yasu.
Mai stood up, and went over to Naru, placing a hand on his arm.
Surprisingly, Naru didn't shake her off, instead turned towards her, looking in her eyes.
Mai stood on tiptoes, and murmured something in Naru's ear.
He replied, equally low, and Mai gave him a sympathetic smile, before squeezing his hand and moving back to the couch, ignoring the incredulous looks that the rest of them sent her.
Instead, she picked up her cup of tea, and started to collect the others.
"Does any one want hot tea, or are we content with iced tea."
Yasu sniggered as a pun came into his head.
"I guess you could call that breaking the ice. And now we know that Big Boss really does have laser vision."
John groaned and flicked him over the head.
"Yasu, we talked about this. No more bad puns."
Yasu pouted.
"But that was for the flat, not work." John shot him a glare, which silently told him not to push his luck.
He was slightly out of favour with his flatmate, after bringing home a few girls over the span of two weeks.
For some reason, John was really mad, although Yasu couldn't think why.
Some of the anger was directed at him, but not all of it.
He decided to interrogate his flatmate later.
Nollene leaned against the wall, and gave everyone a weak smile.
"Hi?"
Naru sighed, deeply, and pinched the bridge of his nose.
Yasu gave her one of his 'ladykiller' grins.
"Hi. I'm Yasuhara Omasu, but everyone calls me Yasu."
"Call me Monk."
"I'm Ayako."
"Masako."
"John."
"Madoka." Madoka grinned cheekily, and Nollene rolled her eyes.
"Yes, Madoka, I know who you are." Nollene suddenly smiled; a very fox-like smile.
"Aren't you Lin's girlfriend?"
Madoka sighed, controlling her temper, and Lin gritted his teeth.
"Why does everyone assume that?" He muttered. Nollene smirked.
"She isn't? Then who is? Is it Hàna, or Tahei, or Aroha, or Natalie, or Yara, or Cho, or Rose, or..."
"Since when did you go through my contacts list?" Lin interrupted, not at all looking about as concerned as he should be. Nollene raised an eyebrow.
"Last week."
Lin rolled his eyes.
"It is possible for me to have female friends and not date any of them, Nollene."
Yasu smiled his 'I-don't-believe-you' smile.
"Yes, but why do you have all of those female numbers on your phone?"
Lin raised an eyebrow and said nothing. Yasu took this as a further opportunity.
"There are some exotic names in there."
Lin shot him a glare that clearly said 'shut up now before I kill you.'
Yasu shut up.
Nollene gave them all a smile.
"I'm Nollene Davis."
Monk blinked, and Ayako frowned.
"Davis?"
Nollene shrugged.
"Yes. I'm Oliver's younger sister."
Inside, Yasu crumbled.
'I'll never get a chance with her now. Big Boss will kill me.'
To say that Nollene was nervous was an understatement.
Following Noll?
Yeah, that was stupid.
Picking a fight with him?
Even more stupid.
Nollene often forgot that fact that he was one of the most powerful spiritualists in the world, and only saw him as her brother.
But, arguing with him reminded her that...he could kill her if his temper got out of hand.
Besides, her PK-LT was killing her.
Something, or rather, someone, was in pain, and her gift just itched to help them.
"So..."
Nollene snapped her head around to face the gray-haired teen, who had introduced himself as Yasu.
"Yes?"
"How old are you, Nollene?"
Nollene sighed.
"It's Lene. Why does every guy ask me that question?"
Monk sniggered.
"It's because it's Yasu. He wants to know if you're older or younger."
Nollene clenched her teeth.
'I'm going to kill Noll for leaving to talk to 'Taniyama-san' privately, and leaving me here to deal with questions.'
Nollene gave Yasu a feral grin, looking positively cat-like.
"I'm seventeen. I'll be eighteen this August."
Yasu raised his eyebrows.
"Are you single?"
Nollene sighed, rather pointedly.
"Unfortunately, yes. All the English boys aren't really into mixed blood, or Eastern descendants, so..."
Yasu sighed in sympathy.
"Ah, to be without love is indeed difficult." He announced dramatically.
"Just look at Naru. Mai's been after him for months, and he still won't look at her." Ayako complained. Monk gritted his teeth.
"He's going to get an earful if he breaks her heart again."
Nollene raised an eyebrow.
"Taniyama-san is in love with my emotionally-stunted teenage brother?"
Yasu nodded sadly.
"And not to mention, Madoka going through mood swings because Lin-san wasn't here."
Nollene sighed.
"Plus,' she began, looking directly at the man called Monk and the woman, Ayako,' you two really need to get yourselves sorted. Your energy signatures are starting to annoy me, because they want to be joined, and you don't."
Monk looked down at his shoes, and Ayako flushed.
"It was just dinner." Monk muttered. Ayako looked away from him.
"And a film." She murmured.
Nollene smiled.
"There, see? Was that so hard?"
Monk nodded.
"It was. I kept thinking that she was going to hit me with her purse."
Nollene sighed.
"I can see that this is going to be interesting. Perhaps I should ring Mei and tell her to come along for the ride."
Yasu leaned forward.
"So, what's Lin-san's sister like?"
Nollene sighed.
'Endless questions. Now I know why Oliver was so keen to go home.'