Hello! I am about to start the next year of college and I am now all settled into my apartment! Also, I got a comment from someone asking about Mai's birthday! I did not forget, and there will be a chapter that mentions it. I've had some free time, so I finished this chapter early! Hope you enjoy!

Mai was nervous, that much was obvious. She couldn't quell the butterflies in her stomach, and the sweating in her palms only proved that she was scared as well. Similar to all the other times when she gets blood drawn, it's the same fear that had her immediately tearing up and her brain feels like it spinning. That awful panic where nothing else matters and, if you work yourself up into a further frenzy, you might start to see white. Although Yasu was being supportive and took to holding her hand, regardless of the sweat, she had to admit she wanted to do nothing more than cry and just go back home so she could escape what they had wanted her to do.

A man with glasses and salt and pepper hair approached Mai, who was sitting in a modified room that reminded her of a psych ward you might see in a movie, except much more plush and brighter. The man smiled at Mai, and Mai gave him a watery smile back, while Yasu smiled happily. Naru was off to the side with a white lab coat on. If Mai wasn't so scared at this moment she would have gawked at how the color was brightening his eyes and face, and all it did was accentuate his already handsome features. Mai felt somewhat envious of him, at this moment. While she was busy looking scared and sweaty, he was looking calm and collected, not to mention beautiful.

She tried to focus on Yasu's hand as it gripped her and not on the scientist getting close to her with a needle. After a tourniquet was placed on her arm, and she tensed. The needle was skillful put into her vain and the tourniquet was undone.

She had to admit there wasn't a lot of pain, in fact, the pinching was less than that from a shot. "You're really good at that," she said to the doctor with the thick black rimmed glasses without thinking, considering her adrenaline was leaving her body and she was now residing in a half-lidded state.

He chuckled a little and smiled at Mai. "It's all about technique," He finished up what he was doing and put a label on the vile that contained Mai's blood. "Some people are so good, they can make a shot feel like nothing, although with the new needles that are smaller, I'd also say it assists with the lack of pain. I'm Doctor Evan Mitchel, but you can just call me Doctor Evans." Giving Mai another quick smile, he excused himself and left the room, blood vial in hand.

Mai's grip was limp from Yasu's hand and he moved over to talk to Naru about something, but Mai didn't have nearly enough capacity to care. She had succumbed to a state of borderline comatose.

"Does it always end up like this?" Naru asked, watching Mai lay down on the hospital type bed.

Yasu smiled. "Oh yeah!" He suddenly looked reminiscent. "I remember when we had to get flu shot because the year before, Mai had gotten the flu and didn't tell anyone, so there was a huge uproar when she passed out in class from her fever." He looks pointedly at Mai. "She acted the same she did then that she does now. She's always been really frightened of shots, even though I'm sure she's gotten enough at this point to get used to them. Still, the same reaction."

Naru nodded in understanding but was just as angry.

'How could one person be so stupid as to continue going to classes with a fever so high that passing out became her body's only way of being able to get her to go to sleep.'

Naru clenched his teeth and had to close his eyes just to try to calm down. He began to wonder if him leaving wasn't such a great idea. It had seemed to him that Mai must have been smarter with him around in Japan.

Doctor Evans reappeared with a tray that had some other things on it, and a female nurse who was dressed in scrubs came in with a polysomnogram machine.

Mai looked over, and when noticing the tray, was at an immediate attention, sitting up on the bed. Fear found its home in her eyes again and settled in not appearing to want to leave. It was that same tray that was usually there to accompany every doctor's visit. Usually with some sort of immunization inside.

"This is a polysomnography machine or PSG," The Doctor Evens said setting the machine up while the assistant left. "It's intended for monitoring sleep patterns, and after looking at your chart, it seems that your dreams are where your psychic abilities are emanating from," He approached Mai with some sensors.

Mai eyed him. "This is all for establishing a baseline?" She questioned, not fully sure this was a good idea anymore. "And how exactly am I going to fall asleep in the middle of the day." She crossed her arms.

The nurse came back into the room and started washing her hands. The doctor looked at Mai.

"Well, we're going to administer a light sedative that will hopefully place you in a light sleep, one easy enough for you to come out of," He took the tray that was handed to him by the nurse. After grabbing out the shot that was lying innocently in the tray, he asked Mai to roll up the sleeve of her shirt.

Mai started shaking and a bought of anxiety washed over her. She had seen the tray and knew what it might have been, but she didn't want to believe she'd be getting another needle anywhere on her body. Even though getting her blood drawn didn't hurt nearly as bad as she thought, she still didn't want to relive anything needle-like.

After she regrettably rolled her sleeve up and a quick cleaning of a small section on the top of her arm was done, Mai tried to think of anything but the eminent pain she was about to feel. Her eyes shot all about the room until they landed on Naru's cool and calculated gaze. She saw some understanding in them, as well as a calm demeanor, which in turn made her relax a bit. Her shaking slowed and she felt more relaxed.

"All done," The Doctor said putting a protective cap on the needles point. "Now it usually takes a few minutes to kick in, so we're going to start putting the sensors on."

After receiving five small circular sensors that were all around her face, one sensor under her nose to measure airflow and two sensors that wrapped around her chest and abdomen to measure the amount of effort that was being put into breathing, Mai finally felt the effects of her sedative. It was slow at first, but then each blink of her eyes became a dangerous dance with sleep. At that moment she was grateful for her lying down position and the quietness of her companions. The nurse left and had said something about monitoring but the doctor stayed and finished setting the machine up and talking quietly to Naru and Yasu. She shut her eyes, and the room faded into black.

Naru looked at the doctor. "Could you give her a flu shot while she's asleep?" He asked.

The doctor chuckled.

Mai was asleep, but she felt more awake than ever. She could still feel her body lying down, but her eyes were tightly closed. She was not exhausted, although she felt as if opening her eyes was too much of a struggle, and so she left them shut.

She drifted. There was a constant haze in the back of her mind, where she would occasionally dip into a light bought of sleep and then quickly jump back out, and then repeat the process until she eventually began to drown in it. Stars seemed to swim in front of her eyes and she opened them to see the astral plane.

While she wasn't ecstatic about seeing the traditional black background with balls of light, she didn't necessarily hate it either. In fact, she often compared the view to that of the stars in the night sky she saw the time Ayako, Monk and she took a camping trip after her finals. They drove way out of the city and to a small forest with a nice clearing. She'd never been camping before, but when she gazed at the stars, she was overwhelmed. She'd never seen something so clear and beautiful, she thought she was dreaming.

She looked around from her sitting position on the ground and didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. The only problem was that he wasn't there.

'Gene,' She thought. The last she had seen of him was years ago. But when she saw Naru again, she was hoping she would see him too. 'I guess I was wrong.'

After mentally crossing off one of her many nagging questions, she got up from the ground and started walking. While passing the small orbs, she could hear and see faint memories and voices from them, as if looking through a small window. It reminded her again that these were not just lights, but also spirits that were once living and breathing right next to her.

A thought struck her. "It's a little strange that I'm still alive, but on the same plane that they're on," She said out loud. Her thoughts scared her. She'd been to the plane many times before, but without her guide, she resorted to independent research, she had realized these scary facts that began to present themselves. Shaking her head, she kept walking only to stop a few times to look at some of the visions of memories.

"How do you know all these lines mean different things?" Yasu question watching the video monitor, and watched the changing lines. Mai had just fallen asleep and while Naru was talking to the doctor, Yasu decided to wander to the viewing room just next door. He was delightfully surprised when being met with confidential data on Mai, and after telling the nurse he was Mai's betrothed, he got VIP access to the screen.

"The different levels indicate different things, and we can measure them and tell what they are and what state she is in based on those lines," She said, marking a few things down on her clipboard.

Yasu nodded in understanding and then stood to watch the process.

After a short segment of monitoring, a series of beeps sounded around the room. The nurse stood up in alarm, her eyes darting around the screen at a rapid rate. Yasu glanced at her, alarmed.

"What's going on!?" He said over the loud beeps.

The nurse picked up a nearby landline phone and rapidly smacked a few numbers.

"Sir, there's a problem with Miss. Taniyama's vitals," After a short pause she looked back to the screen. "That's right, I would say we're looking at a code 13," She seemed to cut off and Yasu could hear yelling over the phone. "No, there's absolutely no reading at all,"

The door burst open and Naru was there with a pale face. Quickly making his way over to the screen, he glanced at it before gritting his teeth and cursing and then leaving at a much quicker pace.

"Naru," Yasu said following him. "What's going on?"

Naru barely glanced back, before responding. "It's a code 13, and it's aggravating at a fast pace," He walked over to Mai and started shaking her shoulders.

Yasu sighed. "In a language, I can understand, please," He watched as Naru opened up the room Mai was in.

"Her vitals and brain activity are starting to resemble a dead person." His voice was strict and blunt.

Mai walked further into the inkiness. The memories of those who have passed were becoming more and more faded until she started into a different place. She recognized it as the place she last visited when she was on the plane and was flying to England. However, she wasn't flying, necessarily, she was just floating in a blue world.

There were suddenly orbs around her, similar in shape from the astral plane but different in color. They looked like miniature suns, they were a light yellow in the middle and slowly started fanning out into a deep orange. They were small enough that it could fit in her hands. Two orbs seemed closer to her, so they were the first ones she approached. As she got closer to them she noticed something familiar. A very familiar voice.

She decided to watch the memory.

"You should apologize to her," Lin said as he wrapped a cord around his hand. It seemed like they were taking base apart like they used to after cases when they were in Japan. "You didn't explain yourself properly." He finished packing up a box and began carrying it out the door.

Mai watched as a younger Naru shut his black binder and sigh. He pulled on his jacket and grabbed his binder and made his way after Lin.

The memory faded out a bit, and Mai was drawn to the scenery. She got slight déjà vu until the thought hit her.

'This is the case that we went to Yasu's school,' Naru was walking out of a door and out into the courtyard. 'This is when I went to go apologize to Naru.' Just as the thought crossed her mind, she watched her younger-self burst through the door and she relived one of her favorite memories of Naru.

It was the same conversation. The same beautiful smile, and the same memory, but was from Naru's point of view. Mai was awe-stricken.

'How could this be possible?' She thought. The Memory had dissipated and the orb was all that stood in the space with the other orb floating next to it. 'These are Naru's memories.'

Do not freak out! I have an idea of what is going to come next, and I think you guys are going to be pleasantly surprised and/or intrigued! Let me know what you think. I am happy that this chapter was able to get the ball rolling for the rest of the story!

Cheers!