Ahhh… BRING ON THE LONG REVIEWS BABY! Thank you to all the guests who reviewed, and the regular reviewers; you all made my day! Although I seem to have created even more questions than before, so I'll try to answer them in this chapter.
I don't own Ghost Hunt; that's why it's called FANFICTION!
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Yasu had never felt as disorientated as he did when he woke up from the whole "Memory sharing thing."
Then Lin went all freaky with his glowing eye, and the wind, and then the command,
"Feed on her flesh."
50 points for scariness, 20 for the eye, and a level-up for the wind.
Not to mention that little tear that made its way down Lin's cheek, without him noticing.
But, the scariest thing Yasu had seen was Lin's shiki tearing through the demoness, while holes appeared on her body where they had gone through, and black blood dripped down onto the floor.
They shredded her into ribbons, all the while Lin looked on.
Monk, Ayako, Mai, Masako, Nollene and even Naru looked away, but Yasu and, to his surprise, John, looked on.
Yasu was thinking about what kind of computer-simulation would be able to recreate the effect that the shiki made, and whether he could invent some game that would use it.
He had no idea what John was thinking, only that he watched the demoness die with morbid fascination, and his eyes never stopped moving around the room.
It really confused Yasu, because John, being a priest and all, shouldn't really like death and destruction.
With a final, ear-shattering shriek, the demoness vanished, along with the blood that had poured from its wounds. Yasu looked around the base.
Some of the windows had been smashed, and files had flown everywhere from the wind, and there was some leftover blood on the monitors. He whistled, impressed.
"You really did a number on the base, didn't you, Lin?"
Lin's reaction was somewhat surprising.
His eyes went hard, and his face was as impassive as ever, but his tone was all ice and venom.
"Shut up, Yasuhara-san. Just, for once in your life, shut up."
It was the angriest thing ever to come out of Lin's mouth in front of them, and Yasu's mouth dropped open slightly in shock, while the others all looked at Lin strangely.
Big Boss gave Lin a warning glance.
"Lin…"
Lin turned to glare at Naru, and Naru flinched slightly, before his own eyes hardened.
"Take a walk, and come back when you're not going to kill us all."
Lin nodded, and strode out the door to base. Yasu heard his footsteps quicken, as if he started to run, and then they disappeared altogether, as if he'd left the warehouse.
'There's no way he would've been able to make it through the entire warehouse that quickly. Not unless he had like, supersonic speed, along with all the weird wind things and the assassin's guild patch.'
Yasu looked out the window, and blinked.
"Hey, I can see Lin." He commented.
He wasn't expecting pretty much everyone to come over to the window, and look out. Nollene was pressed up against him, and she smelt like vanilla and cherries, with a slight hint of coffee. No, he wasn't enjoying this in the slightest. What gave you that idea?
Lin stood on the large expanse of concrete that had supported a building once, but it had been torn down to make room for a new one to be built after they exorcised the ghost.
His mouth was open, and he might have been screaming, but Yasu couldn't hear over the sudden roar of wind that appeared out of nowhere.
The sky darkened, and the storm that had been coming all day finally broke, pouring great sheets of rain onto the concrete, and making it start to flood. The rain itself was slanted, and the wind started to swirl around Lin, forming a mini hurricane.
Fingers of lightening danced throughout the hurricane, glowing the same golden as Lin's eye had. The warehouse groaned and creaked, protesting at the onslaught of power that shook it's foundations.
Yasu jumped a foot when a voice-one that didn't belong to anyone from SPR- sounded behind him.
"He's going to kill himself if he keeps this level up."
The voice was male; deep and rumbling.
"It's a good thing he's going to stop then, isn't, Xióng?"
This voice was a lighter male voice, but it was a sly undercurrent.
"Enough, both of you. I will go talk to Master, while you two go and check the perimeter. The rest of you stay here and guard."
"Yes Commander Tatsuo."
There was a growl, and then a yelp, before a tall man with ice-blond hair and purple eyes appeared, perched on top of the monitors like a cat.
Everyone stepped back, except for Nollene and Naru, who both nodded respectfully.
"Tatsuo."
Tatsuo raised an eyebrow at Naru.
"Your manners are never this good when dealing with Koujo."
Naru shrugged.
"Lin can't kill me in over fifty ways."
Tatsuo sniggered, and Naru looked slightly unnerved, before Tatsuo jumped down from his perch, and headed towards the door.
"Try not to kill each other while I'm gone."
Yasu shivered.
"Who was that?"
Naru looked at the monitors, and Nollene answered.
"Don't you remember, from those memories? Tatsuo was the one who taught Lin how to kill demons."
Yasu let out an 'oh', before his mind went back to the memories.
"To imagine that Lin went through all that,' Ayako murmured,' and still came out sane. A lesser person would have taken to the knife, or pills."
Monk nodded.
"Like that Taniyama guy said. Great resilience and spirit."
Yasu looked at Mai, who was kneeling on the ground, her expression far away.
"Mai-chan?"
Everyone looked at Mai, who continued to stare off into the distance. Naru moved towards her, and touched her arm.
"Mai."
Mai tilted her head, eyes distant.
"There were two of us,' she started, voice quiet,' two girls. Mai and Maya. Cricket and Grasshopper. Almost identical twins, but not quite. It was always two."
Naru looked like he'd been punched in the stomach, while Masako paled drastically.
"It's happening again."
She whispered, to concerned looks from John and Ayako. Mai continued, regardless.
"Always two; Light and Dark; Male and Female; Moon and Sun; Yin and Yang. Lin was the Yang; he was always the Light. Always the sun that everyone was drawn to; the one that cared for everyone, and told jokes, and lightened up the room."
Yasu frowned, confused.
"Are we talking about the same Lin here?"
"But there was his darkness; his Tori, who balanced him. Serious, but still had a sense of humour. She was his light; the one who kept him in reality. As it always was.
Koujo and Tori.
Tajo and Madoka.
Mamoru and Jia.
Always balanced. Always perfectly balanced."
Naru started to look concerned, but Mai simply talked faster, becoming agitated.
"Mai, that's enough."
"But his light is gone now, and he's in shadow. She left him in the shadows, and his light has gone out. It can never be rekindled, and now the balance is gone. He cannot be the Yang without his Yin."
"Enough."
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The word cracked like a whip, and Yasu turned around, to see Lin leaning against the doorframe, his hair plastered to his neck and face. His clothes were dry, and Yasu notice that he'd managed to get changed.
Into jeans and a t-shirt.
'Damn. He should be a model.'
Mai continued staring straight ahead, shaking and pale, and Lin walked over to her.
"That's enough, Mai,' he said softly, touching her cheek. 'You shouldn't have had to see those things."
Mai blinked, and looked at Lin.
"What were you, to me? What did I call you?"
Lin leaned back, and sat on the couch opposite, sighing, before he answered.
"Madoka wasn't the only one who called me Ani."
Mai swallowed, and the others sat down on the couch, giving Lin curious looks.
"And the spell? What spell was this, that was placed in my head, blocking my memories?"
Lin bit his lip, and leaned forward, putting his head in his hands.
"You have every right to mad."
He looked up.
"All of you. I lied to you about who I was. The…monster." He whispered the last word, hands turning white at the knuckles. Yasu looked away.
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"You're an idiot."
Lin's head snapped up so fast that Yasu thought that he'd get whiplash. Lin looked at Naru, who had folded his arms, and was looking at Lin disapprovingly.
"As if what you'd done made you a monster. You survived, you lived, and yes, you killed to do so. But the demoness didn't show us any of the kind things you've done. Teaching me how not to kill myself, and Gene how to make sure he didn't explode from the power I gave him."
Lin tilted his head, and Yasu blinked, the action making Lin look like a teenager.
'He doesn't even look twenty-five.'
Naru continued.
"And let's not forget, I lied to everyone for a whole year about my name."
Lin gave a humourless smirk.
"Dr. Davis and Mr. Lied."
"He's right."
John spoke up, meeting Lin's eyes.
"The case at my church. A monster wouldn't have put up with the kid clinging to him and calling him dad, let alone play with him."
Lin pursed his lips, and Yasu thought that he was hiding a smile.
"So did Frankenstein, and I snapped at Kenji, which made him run away."
John raised an eyebrow, and Yasu was reminded of how good his flatmate was at arguing.
"Frankenstein was created from science and stupidity. You were created by circumstance and necessity."
Everyone stared at John, who looked slightly embarrassed, and then to Lin, who looked grateful. Mai broke the silence.
"And the spell? Did you put it there?"
Lin shook his head.
"You asked us to put it there. I believe your words at the time were 'I don't want to remember. Make it go away.'"
Mai froze.
"I said that?! Why?"
Lin sighed.
"When Amaya and Jia died, they weren't the only ones in the kitchen. You were there as well as your sister. Cho and Hana were inside, but they were too far away to be of any concern. You didn't want to remember seeing your mother die in front of your eyes every night, so you asked Tori to block your memories."
Mai nodded, looking away. Monk spoke up.
"How did you get the rest of your shiki? There are three of them, right?"
"Six." Lin smiled slightly, and shook his head. "It's a long story, so I might save it for another time. But,' he looked up at the top of the monitors,' I got them with kindness and bribes."
Lin then fixed a glare on Mai, who wilted slightly, and then he raked his gaze over the irregulars of SPR.
"You're not telling us something, and I doubt even Mai knows about it."
Yasu decided to try and bluff this out.
"We told you everything that had happened. What else could there be?"
It was a mistake, because Lin then fixed his iron glare on Yasu, and Yasu had the odd feeling of being caged.
"I'm talking about how Mai's abilities, which were also blocked as per request, are now back in full force. Her ESP, especially, shouldn't be looking into the past like that."
Mai swallowed, confused.
"Umm…"
Lin waved his hand dismissively
"I'll explain later."
Yasu exchanged a quick looked with Ayako and John, while Masako looked at the ground.
"Well?" Naru spoke up, and his voice was soft.
'His angry voice, which means hours of paper work for everyone. We're doomed.'
Yasu sighed dramatically.
"Well, it was bound to come out sooner or later."
John shot his flatmate a panicked look.
"Yasu, don't."
Yasu simply smiled, and pushed his glasses up, so that the light reflected off them.
"John almost got murdered by a ghost, and Masako was stalked by one…"
"Yasu." The warning was clear in Ayako's voice, but Yasu continued, finishing with a flourish.
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"And MAI BLEW UP A BUILDING!"
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