File 2: Secrets Nightmare
"Mai, are you really alright?" Ayako stared at me with a concern look.
"I'm really fine." I show a cheerful and assuring smile.
Earlier after Ayako and Masako had return back to base, Ayako immediately came asking me a branch of question and I end up simply retelling her everything while leaving out the long nightmare telling before Bou-san told them about his suspicion.
"But if Mai was already in those situations, shouldn't we be worrying about ourselves too!" Ayako let out her thought as she turned toward the others.
"You are already way past the target age." Bou-san comment was immediately returned with a glare from the red-haired priestess.
Talking about target age… I cast my gaze at Masako and then at Naru in concern, they both were around the target age.
"Mai, read these old patient records to see if you can find the owner of the dairy in your dream." Naru hand me a few papers from a black folder just as our conversation which he had ignored came to an end.
"Okay." I snapped out of my staring and reached out for those papers so that I could start looking through.
On my hand were a few papers which had already turn yellow, those were the patient records of some of the patients in the old hospital but not one of them had a kanji name for 'Saki'.
"Not one of them has 'Saki' in the name but there are something bothering me…" I told Naru before picking two of the papers out, "These two patients were both teenager and their condition worsen when they were about to left, isn't it kind of remind you of the victims?"
"Are you saying the haunting start way back then, Jou-chan?"
"Ehm, I don't think so…it just bothering me somehow, maybe because of the content of the dairy I saw in my dream…" I shook my head and frowned before handing the papers back to Naru.
"We'll need more information to know if the haunting starts back then." Naru told us as he kept away the papers to the black folder.
"Do I hear big boss needing more information?" Yasuhara came in with a bright smile as he carried a few plastic bags.
"We have also bought back some dinner." John smile kindly as he followed inside to place the plastic bag on the table after Yasuhara.
"There are the reminding things from the old hospital. It really took us a while to get it out from the police station." Yasuhara place another plastic bag on the floor next to the couch since the table was almost full.
"How are you able to bring those out of the police station, Shounen?"
"I use my charm to let them give it to us willingly of course." Yasuhara push his glasses slightly before smiling brightly.
"I really doubt they will just give them to you like that, Shounen." Bou-san had a look that said he clearly didn't believed in the younger guy words.
"John, how exactly did you get these things out?" Looking though the plastic bag, I asked John the other person who knew about it.
"We were help out by Kiryu-san." John turn to answered me.
"Who?" I tilted my head quizzically at the unfamiliar name coming out from John.
"The detective in-charge of our last case, don't he take a statement from you?" John answered while being confused at my question.
"Oh, the detective last time who I don't even know his name…" I instantly remembered the strange detective but why was he in a small town police station?
"Yasuhara, have you found anything?" Before I could asked out my thought, Naru turn our attention back to our case by asking Yasuhara.
"I still haven't check on the reminding things but I did found something." Yasuhara sat down on the empty seat before taking out a few papers from his bag, "Back before the old hospital was build, there were some missing report of children around the age of 13 to 18 around the town. The police back then didn't found any of the missing children and Kuze family had been the suspect of kidnapping the children since one of them was last seen entering his house but there was not enough proved. The case end up unsolved and the old town people start to move away in fear of their children being the next missing people."
"Yasuhara, do you have the picture of the mansion of Kuze Kyoshiro?"
"Ehm, I think there was one from the media interview of the Kuze family in front of his house..." Yasuhara flips through the papers searching for it before stopping at one of them, "Ah, here is it." He stop at one of the paper and hand it to Naru.
"Mai, is this the mansion of your dream?" Naru hand the paper to me.
I took the paper and saw it was a copy of the newspaper; on the top was a picture which shown the crying marriage couple and behind them was a rather big three flooring house.
"No but it kind of alike..." Even though it was not the same as the mansion, the door had pattern look just like the one in my dream.
"Don't the Kuze's family turn their mansion into hospital later on? Maybe it was that hospital that Jou-chan had seen in Dream."
"Ir seem that the mansion was not rebuilt and the hospital and Kuze's mansion was quite alike in some,way." Yasuhara answered Bou san as he point out.
"Really?" I look back down the paper in wonder since I had not look at the outside of the hospital before but I'm sure at least the roof and door were different.
"Jou-chan, let me see." Bou-san reached out his hand for the paper which I just nodded and gave it to him, "The outer layout are almost the same except for the roof."
"Anything else you have found?" Naru turn the conversation back to the information Yasuhara might had found out.
"That's it."
"So we still don't really know what are the cause of it." Bou-san ruffled his head as he hand the paper back to Mai.
"Let see if I can find anything useful from the reminding old things here." Yasuhara show the plastic bag on the floor with a smile.
"I will leave that to you then." Naru just gave Yasuhara a nodded before turning to Ayako, "Matsuzaki-san, make protective charm for Mai and Sakamoto-san."
"Okay." Ayako nodded.
"Mai, you will be sleeping in the base." Naru turn toward me next.
"What!?" Both my eyes and month wide open in surprised.
"You are going to attract fly." Naru raised an eyebrow at my reaction.
"Sorry for attracting fly!" I glared hard at Naru but he was completely unaffected by it at all, making me cross my arm and huffed.
"Mai, if you have a dream or sense anything, tell me immediately." Naru said more like a command before asking when I didn't respond, "Is it clear?"
"I can hear you!" I returned in glaring at Naru. Narcissistic jerk!
"Good that you are not deaf." Naru slightly smirk before he demanded, "Mai, tea."
I was certainly pissed off and harden my glared but Naru completely ignored it, "Tea-addicted narcissistic jerk..." I got up and irritatingly stomp off to made tea while muttering under my breath.
Here I was laying on the floor of the familiar yet creepy dusty corridor, I got up looking around to located where I was but I still couldn't since the corridors of the mansion was alike no matter how I look at it.
I'm starting to get annoyed of this stupid dream place!
Letting out a tired sighed, I started walking around and looking through every room to locate where I was and found any clue or information just like the last few times I was here but I really wished I was not alone in place like this yet Naru was nowhere to be found like the last two times I was here.
He must be trap here too but where?
Pushing open a door in front, I saw it was not a bedroom but a lounge as I could see a pair of sofa at the middle of the room and beds were nowhere to be found in the dim room.
"It was the first time I see other room other than bedroom..." I was going to step inside to check the room but suddenly I felt shivered down my spine, I turn around to saw a figure walking at the end of the corridor.
Not that bloody ghost again...
Just when I was deciding on what to do, a cold hand suddenly covering my mouth and I was dragged into the lounge, causing me to widen my eyes in panicked as I began to struggle to break free from the grip.
"Stay quiet." A familiar voice came from right behind me and I instantly recognized the voice.
"Naru..." The name was muffled by the hand on my mouth, I stop my struggling and slightly turn my head to saw a familiar raven hair teenager standing behind me while lying against the wall.
There was the smell of blood coming from outside the open door, it had became thicker and thicker until it was right outside and then I could felt cold glaze staring inside the lounge from outside the corridor for a moment before the glaze was turn away and the smell of blood getting denser and denser as it left.
"Are you alright?" Naru finally let go of me as the smell of blood disappeared from our reached.
"I'm fine..." I took a few breaths and sighed in relieved before turning back, "Naru, where have you been? And why can't I find you during my last two times here?" I immediately asked in concern.
"I was hiding from those spirits around and it seems like they don't want us to stay in the same place." Naru simply answered before telling me, "There is a place I need you to see."
I nodded and followed him out of the room as he guides me through the dim corridor, stopping not long after we turn around the corner to face one of the walls.
"Why are we stopping here?" I stared at the wall and then to Naru in confused.
Naru didn't answered my question, he just randomly push the left side of the wall and then to my surprised, the wall we were facing open revealing a small, narrow secret room which was enough for only maximum four people to enter without being squeeze until no one able to walk around.
"How did you find this place?" I followed Naru into the secret room and look around to notice bookshelf on both side.
"Accidentally found it." Naru stop not far away at the end of the room before squatting down.
"What are you doing?" I walked forward to saw Naru trying to pull the flooring up and looking clearly, that flooring kind of different.
"This was not the only place I want to show you." As Naru replied, he finally pulled the flooring open revealing a staircase toward the floor below.
"A secret basement room?"
"That's right." Naru got himself up from the floor before turning back to me and nodded, "It was just an empty room but it was strange."
"What do you mean?"
"You won't just make a secret basement without anything in it right?"
"Oh…You are right. If I was the owner of the house, I won't waste my money just to make it an empty basement." I nodded before asking in confused, "Why is there such a room then?"
"About that, I also don't know." Naru shook his head before telling me, "I don't have the time to thoroughly search inside since the spirits here don't seem to like me being here."
"You said spirits, so how many are there?"
"There are many spirits around but I can't tell the number, all I know are two of them are dangerous. It was the two you met the last time you were here."
"You mean the charred figure and the bloody girl?"
Naru answered with just a nodded.
"Then how you know I had met them?"
"I can sense it." Naru just told me before walking away toward the bookshelf on the right side near to the entry, "This will answer some of your question of this place." he then pulled out a file and hand it to me.
"Patient record?" I took a look at the old file and found a familiar word 'Saki', "Amano Misaki…" I could slightly make out the words of the name but still frowned as I'm not sure if this person was the same person that wrote the diary or not.
"We should get going." Naru turn toward the doorway just as I felt the air around suddenly became hot.
Something is coming here…
I gave Naru a nodded before we both leave the secret room with the file still on my hand, the hot air came from the other side of the corridor and it was an orange flame I saw on my first time here in the mansion.
"Run!" Naru grabbed on my hand and dragged me running along with him.
I could felt the hot air getting closer and closer before a burning sensation reach my arm, I stop and turn around to saw the flame was right behind me.
"Mai!"
"Naru!"