Everyone stood there not sure what to do. The room temperature had gone back up and the ghost was gone but after her last comment it, everyone just stood there confused. Naru (of course) was the first to speak.
"Lin did we ever figure out how the Rachel's and Isha parents died?" Naru asked. Lin looked through the file that he had brought with him from the library. He nodded before saying "They committed suicide. The wife stabbed herself to death and the husband hung himself in his study." Lin turned to Naru who was thinking about something.
"How exactly do you stab yourself to death?" asked Bou-san, but again his question went ignored. Out of no where, Mai stood.
"Mai?"
"The room with the articles and books." She said to herself. Everyone just stared at her confused.
"What do you mean 'the room with the articles and books'?" Naru asked. Mai turned to face him before saying. "The room I was locked in. There was a table with a bunch of articles and books everywhere. I-I think I read the suicide note. It was just sitting there in the middle of the room."
"Oh yea I remember, there was a bunch of paper everywhere. Not to mention all the boxes on the floor behind the table." said tom.
"Do you remember how to get there?" Lin asked standing up. Mai froze. No she didn't she was so focused on saving Naru she didn't bother to look where she was going. Her face stared to go red as Naru stared at her waiting for an answer. Once he saw her face get red he knew he wasn't getting an answer. Sighing he turned to tom. "Do you remember how to get there?" Tom nodded.
"Yea it's on the third floor second door on the right." He said. Naru turned to Bou-san and Ayako.
"Takigawa and Matsuzaki I want you to stay here and watch the base." When Naru said this he got complaints form both Bou-san and Ayako.
"What? Why? Can't Konta and the boy stay?" yelled Ayako.
"I know why Ayako useless but why do I have to stay?" asked Bou-san. Ayako hit him on the head causing him to fall to the floor clutching his head in pain. Naru sighed. Why did he keep them around?
"Because I said so." Naru headed to the door and opened. He stepped out and headed down the hall. Mai quickly ran after him followed by Lin, Konta, Tom and John. As they caught up Naru started to give orders to everyone. "Konta if you sense anything I want you to tell us immediately, same with you Tom. Lin I want you to use your shiki to keep watch over Rachel and Isha while we are in the room Mai I don't want you to leave my side do you understand?" Mai nodded but this only made Naru look at her. "Do you promise?" This stunned Mai for a minute. She stopped causing everyone else to turn and look at her.
"Hai." She said before continuing.
They walked up to the door before Naru opened it to reveal a pitch black room. Naru turned on the lights and walked in. The room was as Mai had left it. Paper scattered all over the table with two or three boxes either on the floor or on the table. There was a book self in the back holding very dusty books. Naru took a step in. Nothing happened, so he decided to walk over to the table. He picked up a few papers and skimmed the contents of the article. Mai stood close to Lin who was waiting by the door. She didn't want to get far in the room just in case they got locked in again.
"Lin, look at this." Naru called from across the room. Lin walked over and took the piece of paper out of Naru's hand and read it.
"This is…." Lin trailed off as he continued to read the paper. Mai looked over to Tom. He was staring at the books on the selves like he was waiting for them to jump off and start dancing. Konta was just walking around the room staring at nothing in particular. Mai looked to her right and found John standing on the other side of the door way watching her.
"What?" she asked him. He shook his head.
"Nothing." Mai turned her body toward him and put her hands on her hips. John sighed and looked at Naru and Lin who were in deep conversation about the paper. He then looked at the other two. When he deiced that they wouldn't hear him he said. "I guess I'm just really confused. First Kazuya-san wants Konta gone but now he is trusting her and acting like the last three day between them hasn't happened. Then there is this new person, tom. We know nothing about him other then he knew Lin and maybe Kazuya-san. Also only ten minutes ago we found out that the you we spent the last four hours with was a fake and that you were trapped in a room, which tom let you out of. What was he even doing up here? If Aki sent him she would have told us or at least sent him to base so we wouldn't mistake him for an intruder. I guess I just confused and don't know what to believe or even who to believe anymore."
Mai stared at him as she took in what he was saying. He had a point Naru was acting strange and who was this tom person? He did say he was looking for someone, so that would explain why he was on the third floor, but who was he looking for and why didn't he come to base and ask for help in the first place? Mai turned to see him still staring at the books on the self. "Hey tom." She called. He turned to look at her. So did Naru, Lin and Konta. "By the way who were you looking for?" Tom look surprised about being asked the question but he still answered.
"Konta ,why?" Mai shrugged. "Well you said you needed help looking for someone and I guess I kind of forgot up until now." Tom nodded and turned back to the selves.
"Naru!" Konta yelled as the door slammed shut and the lights shut off. Everyone stood there for a moment in darkness before they heard Konta say "Someone's not happy. Sorry I guess I didn't sense it till about five seconds ago."
Mai heard Naru sigh before hearing him say "Is everyone all right?" 'yes's filled the room as everyone responded to him. Naru sighed again. He was getting a head ach and he was getting tired of all these games that the ghosts were playing. He just wanted to finish this case and leave. "Mai where are you?" he asked remember that she wasn't by him.
"By the door." She said.
"Come here."
"What if I run into something?"
"How can you do that if the only things in the room are behind me and Lin?" He heard Mai mumble something about tripping over something but ignored the comment. He listened as Mai slowly started to walk over to him.
"Naru she's coming!"Said Konta as the room grew colder.
"Mai get over here now!" Naru yelled as panic shot threw him. She couldn't take her from him. Not again. When Mai started to run she felt something grab her bad ankle and trip her. She let out a small scream. "Lin!"
Lin understood. He brought his hand up to his mouth and whistled. White lights filled the room as Lin's shiki tried to find the ghost and destroy it, but it was no use. They couldn't find it. Soon the light faded away causing more panic to go through Naru. "Lin?" Naru asked.
"My shiki can't find her." He heard the Chinese man say next to him. Naru was running out of options. "Mai! Mai can you hear me?"
"Y-Yes! But my ankle. I can't walk." Naru let go of the breath he didn't know he was holding. He walked forward and grabbed Mai's arm and pulled her up. His eyes were use to the darkness by now so he could take a pretty good guess about where Mai was.
"You have to be more careful." Naru said a little more harshly then he wanted to.
Mai just glared at him threw the darkness. He could be more considerate. I mean it was his fault that I fell. If he had yelled at me to walk over to him then I wouldn't have trip. Why does he always blame me? Mai felt something wrap around her waist and over her mouth. Slowly she was being pulled back away from Naru. Mai tried to yell but the hand covering her mouth stopped her.
"Does anyone have some source of light?" asked Naru. Mai tried to reach out to him but all she managed to grab was air. She then felt herself being brought closer to someone as they hugged her tighter.
"No" everyone said.
"Lin, Konta can you use your shiki?"
"Not much light will come from them." Mai heard Lin say. She felt tears starting to form as she realized no one knew she was gone.
"I don't care any light will do." Naru's voice was harsh and full of panic. At that instant the door swung open and light flooded the room. Mai watched as everyone shielded their eyes form the light. Her eyes widen as she realized that she saw herself next to Naru shielding her eyes from the light.
"Come on lets get out of here." Said Naru before pulling her out and everyone following. Mai felt movement behind her before she heard a voice whisper in her ear. "If you stay quiet and listen to what I tell you, I won't kill your friends."
Mai just nodded as more tears formed in her eyes. "I have a proposition for you. If you come with me, ill spare you friends." Tears fell from Mai's eyes as she realized what she was asking. She could either go with her now and die or go back to everyone and wait to die with them. The answer seemed so obvious to her but she couldn't get herself to say it. "Can't decided? Well ill give you some time to think about it. How about till midnight tonight? That gives you about nine hours to think about it. Also if you tell anyone down stairs about our little deal-I'll kill everyone within a blink of an eye." Slowly Mai felt the figure behind her disappear. She fell to the floor unable to hold herself up. Covering her face with her hands she started to cry. She tried to stop but for some reason couldn't. It was probably because she knew that in nine hours she would be dead.
In her mind a picture of Naru appeared, his raven black hair covering part of his dark, deep blue eyes that she loved so much. On his face there, was his rare smiles. A real smile. This only made Mai cry even harder. She loved him and she would never get to tell him. She would never get to grow up. She would never be able to see him again.
'until midnight'
hey sorry it took so long to update. things have been kinda busy around here. Anyway i have the next chapter typed i just need to make a few changes before i can post it so it should be up by no later then monday. have a awesome weekend! and sorry that it is kinda short.!
hope you like it so far!
sorry for grammar and spelling mistakes!