DUN DUN DUNNNNN! FINALLY WE KNOW WHERE THE COFFINS ARE! PREPARE FOR SOME EXCITMENT! THE STORY HAS ALMOST REACHED ITS END! JUST A COUPLE MORE CHAPTERS! ENJOY.

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN GHOST HUNT!

Mai's POV:

I gasped. "Their coffins are nine inches bellow the pond..."

Naru nodded, confirming my accusation.

"We have to tell everyone." I said frantically, my eyes trying to picture the three coffins.

"No need. We heard already." Bou san said with the rest of our group in tow.

"Someone go inside and retrieve Mr. and Mrs. Bara." Naru ordered.

John san ran inside and came back a few minutes later with the older couple. It was safe to say that John san had already told them based on their expressions.

"How could we have not dug far enough...?" Mr. Bara whispered. "The pond is a full six feet deep..."

Naru explained the old tradition to the Baras. "With that being said, we'll need for you to call in someone to drain and dig up the pond so that someone can be called in to dig up the graves." Naru said quietly.

"But that would take thousands of dollars..." Mr. Bara whispered with distressed eyes.

"We have the money in our savings..." Mrs. Bara said gently to her husband.

"But that money is for us if any of us gets sick." He whispered.

We all averted our gaze as the couple debated. Finally, Mr. Bara looked at us and sighed. "Alright. How much do you think it will take total for this?"

"It should only take a couple thousand for all the digging and the transport of the bodies should be covered by your insurance, if not, by the city. The previous people to come here and dig told you there were no bodies and since they did their job incorrectly, you should be able to call them and inform them of that and they might come and do everything for you for free." Naru said.

The couple sighed in relief. "I'll go call them." Mrs. Bara said, walking back to the hotel.

"And then the ghosts should leave?" Mr. Bara asked.

"Yes, they should. Just to make sure, as soon as the bodies are transported off the land, we'll do a cleansing." Bou san offered.

Everyone talked about who should do the cleansing, Ayako or Bou san. It was decided that since Ayako's abilities involved trees, she would cleanse the garden while Bou san cleansed the hotel from room C8. Mrs. Bara came back outside to stand by her husband. "They said they'd come here to properly transport the bodies free of charge tomarrow morning since we paid last time. They even offered to break up the pond as long as we drain it."

"Now that that's settled, I'll go get the electric pump that drains the pond." Mr. Bara said, leaving with his wife.

"I guess this means we'll get to leave tomarrow evening after the twelve hour wait time to see if the cleansing was affective." Ayako said, stretching her arms then crossing them in satisfaction.

"I'm really gonna miss this places food." Bou san sighed, pretending to wipe away a tear.

"I won't miss the restaraunt's tea..." Naru mumbled but no one seemed to hear him but me.

While everyone chatted and Naru stared into the distance, I decided to focus my attention on Lin, who was looking at a notebook. Possibly the one I've been using to record people's interviews. I suddenly heard something behind me. As if someone was breathing on my neck. Their breath was very cold. I then remembered the no one could be behind me. I was standing on the pond's edge.

Gasping, I tried to spin around but my shoe caught on a rock and I began to fall back. As I fell towards the water, I saw the youngest ghost, Kyou, try to reach for me. Splashing into the freezing water, my muscles froze up and I couldn't move for a second. After a moment, my brain kicked into overdrive and I began to frantically swim around, trying to head towards the surface. Right before I reached the surface, I was jerked out of the water.

Shuttering, I clung to whoever had pulled me from the water. It took a second for me to realize it was Naru. "Mai! Are you okay?"

"I-I'm-m j-just-t-t s-s-so c-c-o-old..." My teeth chattered and I felt a jacket being wrapped around me.

"It's fourty-two degrees out here, get her inside." Bou san said urgently as everyone rushed me inside and up to the hotel suite. I was sat on the ground as my jacket and shoes and socks were taken off. Ayako and Bou san huddled over me trying to warm me but it didn't help at all. It's as if the cold was radiating from inside me.

I searched the room frantically for Naru but couldn't see him anywhere. He suddenly rushed into the room from the base with a cup of hot tea. Kneeling beside me, he had me drink the whole thing. By the time I had finished it, I felt much warmer. "Better?" He asked softly.

"Yes..." at least my teeth weren't chattering. I thought I was going to bite my tongue off a few minutes ago.

Shocking everyone in the room, including me, Naru sat the cup aside and pulled me right into his arms. "Don't you ever scare me like that again...you could have died of hypothermia..." Naru said so softly, even I could barely hear him.

"He's right Mai. You need to be more careful...you scared us all..." Bou san said gently.

"I didn't trip. Well, I did but it wasn't my fault. I saw the Kyou. The youngest ghost. He was hovering right behind me and he startled me..."

"He tried to make you fall in?" Naru asked with an angry expression.

"No. I think he was just following me. When I started to fall in, he tried to reach for me."

Mrs. Bara came in the room with a white bundle. "I have a kimono here and a couple towels. It'll keep her warm and she's more than welcome to use the hotel's steam room."

"The hotel has a steam room?" Bou san asked.

"It's a more expensive feature we have. We don't usually have it running this time of year but we're going to start it up for her. It'll warm her up so she doesn't get sick."

Yumi Bara came in and stood next to her mother. "The steam room is ready."

Naru picked me up and walked behind the two women down to the first floor and through a sliding door. Naru sat me on my feet outside of a very solid looking wooden door.

"The steam room is right here. We'll leave you be to get in. You can wrap yourself with one of the towels." Mrs. Bara said.

"Thank you ma'am." She bowed and left with her daughter.

"I'll be back down for you in twenty minutes. Alright?" Naru said quietly, beginning to walk towards the sliding doors.

"Naru, wait." I grabbed his sleeve and he turned back, shocked.

"I don't want to be downstairs here by myself...it's scary in here..." I was refering to the horrible lighting.

Naru looked like he was thinking over my hinted request. I was embarassed to have to even ask. It was inappropriate and he had just talked to me about inappropriate actions. But it was a communal steam room so it wasn't too big a deal. He sighed. "I'll wait outside while you get ready to get in. Tell me when you're done and I'll sit on this bench while you warm up. Hurry, you'll get sick."

Naru stepped out and I quickly stripped and put on the towel. Stepping into the warm room, I kept the door cracked. "Naru. I'm in."

I heard the door open and Naru sat on the bench that I could see through the crack in the door as I sat on one of the steam room's wall benches. After a few minutes, I felt not only warm, but rejuvinated. I kept peeking at Naru from the corner of me eye who looked at the floor in either embarassment or the want to not to be disrespectful and look at me in a towel.

After ten minutes, I decided that I didn't prefer silence. "After we finish this case, winter break will be over and it'll be time to get back to school."

"Yes. Why do you mention it?" Naru asked, momentarily letting his eyes focus on me.

"It'll just be strange to go back to school knowing I have a boyfriend." I blushed and avoided his eyes that were now staring at me intently.

"So you won't be embarassed to tell anyone that your boyfriend is a narcissist?" He smirked as he said this.

"Not one bit. And I don't call you a narcissist much anymore because you hardly ever act like one now. At least not in front of me. Don't get me wrong, you do have your moments."

The steam of the sauna had finally put me at ease and I stood up, ready to get out. "Are you getting out?" He asked, watching me with strange eyes.

"Yes." I whispered and he he stood up imediately, leaving the room. I stepped out of the steam room and changed in the walk space. The white kimono was very warm. It retained all the heat and I crossed my arms for a second to just snuggle to myself. I picked up my dirty, wet clothes and the towels and opened the sliding door. Naru was outside the door, talking with none other than Yumi Bara.

Neither seemed to notice me peeking out the door. Yumi looked at the ground in embarassment. "So...you have a girlfriend..."

"Yes." Naru said softly but firmly.

"I figured...sorry to waist your time..." And she ran off.

I stepped timidly from the room and shut the door behind me. Naru turned to look at my shy face. "You heard?"

I nodded and took his extended hand, letting him lead me to the stairs. "Are you jealous?" He asked after we had made it to the second floor.

"No." I answered honestly.

About five feet from the door, we stopped. "Why?" He asked, looking at me.

"Should I be jealous?"

"No...jealousy just always seemed to be a big emotion for you that you displayed even when you have no reason to."

"I've asked you before, more than once, why you chose me. I didn't get it then and I still don't really get it now but I've decided something."

"And what's that?" He stared down at me and I looked back up at him with full confidence.

"I've decided that I don't care. You're with me and I shouldn't go around questioning it. I know you'll never try to cheat on me. It took you long enough just to confess to me. I don't think I've got any worries." I smiled up at him and stood on my toes to kiss his cheek. When I pulled back, he was smiling.

"Then I guess that means I need to stop being jealous of the undead."

"It means exactly that." I laughed. Naru took my hand and we walked into the hotel room with our fingers laced, this time with no embarassment.