Hiya~ I'm finally done with this chapter! I hope you all enjoy it, thank you for reading my fanfic! x)

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Day 2 8:00am

Running a marathon without any type of training beforehand whatsoever can be stupid, the next day your body will be pretty sore, that however is an understatement for Mai Taniyama. She woke up groaning in pain the next morning. Her head was pounding too, she may as well have spent the previous night drinking and partying like a madwoman. She tried to sit up but found it easier to just continue laying in bed trying to find a comfortable position. After a few minutes, it felt like hours to Mai though, someone knocked on her door.

"Hold on!" She managed to grunt out hopefully loud enough for the person to hear. Mai sat up and, with a lot of effort, stumbled to the door opening it to reveal Naru on the other side.

"That took a while, how are you feeling?" He asked making his way inside and helping her back to the bed so she could sit.

"Horrible, everything hurts." Mai complained.

"I figured as much, you wouldn't wake up last night, your body was physically exhausted from astral projecting. What did you do?" He filled a paper cup with water and pulled a medicine bottle out of his pocket.

"I don't know, once I fell asleep I just found myself back in my apartment sitting on my bed for some reason." She took the water and pain killers gratefully.

"That's probably why you're so sore. Astral projecting to somewhere that far away takes a lot of energy for someone so inexperienced. It's just like sports, the more you condition and practice the stronger you get." He sat down next to her. "What happened while you were there?"

"...Well," Mai hesitated," I looked around, I felt weird like something was off. Then I got that feeling, the one I had that other day when I felt like I was being watched." She shuddered to herself while remembering then looked at Naru. "I saw someone staring into the window then freaked out and ran out of my apartment...when I got halfway down the hallway I saw the man. He couldn't see me, at least I don't think he could." Mai shrugged to herself standing up, her body was stiff but the pain had gone down. "I'm going to get ready," she pulled out some clothes hoping her voice didn't betray her as she swallowed past the lump in her throat. Naru, however, wasn't completely clueless and saw through her attempt. He had also known her long enough to be able to tell when she was upset, it was quite obvious to him and, after remembering such a thing, so he sorta expected it. He stood and began walking to the door but stopped next to her first placing a hand on her head.

"Don't worry, I won't let anything happen to you." He didn't look at her as he spoke, "you have Lin and I to keep you safe." Mai watched Naru smiling faintly as he left then grabbed her clothes getting ready for the day.

The group left for the school once they were all ready and once there they split up. Naru, Mai, and Lin began looking around the school, after Mai had made Naru a few cups of tea of course.

"Where should we start?" Mai asked as she followed Naru.

"All of the students who have disappeared all had one teacher in common." Surprisingly Lin had been the one to respond. However she should have expected as much when Naru didn't seem to have much interest in replying at all.

"So?"

"Have you been skipping your studies? You're brain cells must be receding again. That obviously means that we are going to look through all the classrooms that she has taught in." Naru said smirking.

"Hey! Are you calling me stupid?"

"Of course not. Did you hear me say that at all? Maybe you should pay more attention too."

"Stupid, narcissistic, jerk!" She yelled at him crossing her arms.

"You do know I'm not stupid right?" He shrugged his smirk getting wider, before Mai could respond he turned into a classroom. "This was where she first taught at this school." Lin and Mai followed Naru in and they all looked around the room. It felt slightly eerie, the room was empty and the walls bare.

"How old was she when she first started working here?" No one responded to her question this time and she could feel her heartbeat speeding up as the other two silently searched the room. She couldn't feel the presence of anything but inside the room she felt sad and alone, a slight fear began to make it's way in the overpowering emotions that had been going through the room.

"Mai? What's wrong?" Naru asked puling her out of her thoughts as he wiped a tear from her cheek.

"Wha-" Mai mumbled, she didn't even know she had started crying. "I don't know, this room just fees so...sad, like someone had left, but their feelings lingered in here afterwards." Naru rubbed his chin as he thought.

"What exactly do you feel?"

"Sad and lonely, as if I've been forgotten. A little scared too." She shuddered slightly to herself.

"Do you feel any entities of some sort?" Mai just shook her head in response to Naru's question.

"Alright let's leave to the next room." Naru led them to another room, in this one Mai could feel the anger of something that was just in here. She went over to the teacher's desk and looked through the drawers. They were all empty until she got the last one, deep inside was a sticky note pressed to the back. 'I love you' was written on it in childlike handwriting.

"Wanna play hide and seek?" A child's voice said in Mai's ear making her gasp. All of a sudden she was on a bike, a car coming straight at her. Mai didn't feel the need to fight, she didn't want to. Whoever this was had given up. A loud crack broke the silence as their head slammed into the hood. The limbs were no better, broken legs and cut arms. She couldn't take it anymore. Mai started screaming as her eyes focused back on the present and she fell on her knees.

"-ai! Mai! What's happened?" She could finally make out Naru's voice and looked up at him as she stopped screaming.

"N-naru?" She muttered then latched onto him trying to hold back her sobs.

"What's wrong Mai?"

"I had..." Mai didn't know what to call it, she didn't know what it was, "...vision? While I was awake." She managed to get out as her body tensed up. Naru stopped asking questions and hugged her back so she could calm down.

He looked down and noticed the sticky note she had dropped. When he reached out to pick up something stopped him, he saw it. A child on a bike. A cor coming towards him. Mai had somehow sent the memory to him as well. When it was over he looked down at Mai then stood, pulling her up with him.

"What are you doing?" Mai asked wiping her eyes.

"Lin bring that note," he said pointing at the note on the floor, "we're going to the next room."

With that he left the room, Lin followed soon after then Mai ran out to catch up with him. As they approached the next room Mai felt a sense of dread and once she was standing outside something told her not to go inside, it felt like a really bad idea.

"Mai?" She looked up to see Lin staring at her.

Mai just smiled at him and went inside, but as soon as she got inside she felt like something was staring at her. Not Naru or Lin who were indeed watching her, but by something different and it was forcing a fear in her.

"Naru..." she mumbled turning to look at him wide eyed. He started to walk over to her when the door slammed shut behind her making her scream.

"Mai!" he ran over as Lin tried to open the door. It wouldn't budge. A fog started to form around the floor as the room got colder.

"Play with me, it's time for hide and seek." The same voice from before spoke to Mai again, she turned looking towards the corner where the fog started to form into the shape of a young boy's body. His face was pale and eyes were sunken in and blood could be seen in different spots.

Mai grabbed Naru's arm tightly and he looked in the direction she was staring. Lin looked as well and they both saw the ghost.

"Stay calm," Naru whispered to Mai. She didn't hear it though, it was as if she and this boy were the only two left in the room.

"Can you find her?" he smiled maliciously, "I doubt you will, no one else could do it." An image of Masako flashed in her mind before she passed out.

"Masako," being the last thing Naru heard her say.

A young boy sat curled up on a large bed alone.
"Where are you Mommy? It's time now." He asked quietly not really speaking to anyone, or anything, in particular. He jumped up as soon as the sound of a garage opening broke the silence. The child ran past an alarm clock that read 12:00am, and out the door to greet his mother in the garage.

"Aki. Why aren't you in bed?" The woman asked wearily.

"I wanted to wait up for you..." The scene suddenly went black

"Why do I have to look through these dusty old books too?" Ayako complained yet again. "I'm above this type of physical work." Naru had sent the rest of them to look through the archives in the school's library for anything interesting.

"No you're not old hag." Monk called out from his stack of newspapers. They had split up the task; John, Monk, and Ayako looked through newspapers and book records. Masako and Yasu searched through electronic records.

"Shut up stupid Monk!" Ayako yelled throwing a book in his direction.

"Guys, calm down please." John smiled at them. "We need to work together or else we won't get anywhere."

"They can't even go five minutes without fighting," Masako said quietly, she and Yasu were far away from the other group however Ayako seemed to have heard her.

"You don't even know what you're talking about!" Ayako yelled.

"You're like an old married couple." Yasu said loudly, "I thought you loved me Bou-san!" He cried out, fake tears streaming down his face.

"Stop it! That's creepy, I do not love you!" Monk shuddered. Ayako was about to yell at them when she noticed a headline on a newspaper that had fallen.

"Hey guys, I think I found something." She instantly got everyone's attention and after they had all seen it and thought for a little bit they came to an agreement.

"So because this seems to be the only thing we can find it must be relevant, this child's death has to mean something to this case. He was a teacher's child." Monk said.

"Well now that we all agree on something let's go take this to Naru." Ayako said and they all followed her out.

The path to base from the library was pretty empty, nothing but grass and a bunch of trees in one area however once they did start going through the trees no one noticed Masako had stopped following them. She wandered off the path, something leading her away. No one noticed her disappearance til a few minutes later when John looked back.

"Masako's gone." John said worriedly to the rest of the group.

This chapter was really long -.- I hope you liked it! I didn't mean to take so long, I just kept changing it around and then ended up putting alot more than I intended and stuff ahaha. But yeah please review!

Until next time, ttfn~