I couldn't do it.

Mai opened her eyes to darkness. Slowly she sat up and looked around. White lights were flowing around her. "Naru!" she said when she spotted the boy in black. A sad smile appeared on his face as he shook his head. That's when Mia realized it. "Gene?" He gave her another sad smile. "Gene!" Mai yelled as she ran over to him and wrapped her arms around him. It had been so long since she had seen him.

"Hello Mai." He said. Mai let go and looked up at him. His expression was sad. She titled her head. "What's wrong?"

"Its nothing." He said. She knew he was lying. Unlike Naru, he was easy to read. The longer Mai stared up at him, the more she remembered.

"No Stop!"

"No stop please!"

"Please just stop." Mai buried her face into Naru's shirt as the pain grew. She couldn't take it anymore, it was too unbearable.

"What happened!" Mai scream all of a sudden."Where's Naru!" Mai screamed as she pleaded with Gene. Gene just stared down at her, his expression sad.

"How are you feeling? Does your head still hurt?" he asked trying to change the subject. This made Mai angry."It doesn't matter how I am! I want to know what happen to Naru!" Mai screamed.

"Don't you ever say that again." Gene yelled at her. Mai took a step back surprised. She had never seen Gene act like that before. Gene noticed how scared Mai was and backed up, avoiding her eyes. "Sorry, just don't say that again. It's not true. You're very important to Naru and if anything happened to you he would have my head."

"It's okay and I feel fine my head doesn't hurt anymore." She said staring at her feet. "That's good." Gene said. Then he sighed and looked at her again. "I'm sorry."

"For what?"

"For…That…" Gene tried to find the words. For some reason it was harder to find them the more he tried. "I'm sorry you had to see that." He final said. Mai looked at him surprised. She had no idea what he was talking about. "My death." He said when he saw the look on her face. "Oh." Mai said. The memory started to creep up on her again, the pain, the longing, the fear. Tears started to come to her eyes.

Gene walked over and pulled her into a hug. "I tried to talk her out of it, but she wouldn't listen. She never does. So I decided to keep an eye on you, but somehow she snuck up on me and took you. By the time I realized you were asleep it was too late. I tried to stop it but nothing worked. I really tried everything." Gene said. Mai nodded in his chest, but she didn't dare to look up.

"Who is she anyway?" Mai asked when she calmed down.

"Who?" "That girl. The one in the house, the one showing me those dreams." Mai asked. Gene sighed and closed his eyes.

"A pain in my ass that's what she is." He said under his breath.

"What?"

"Nothing." Gene said quickly. "But truthfully I'm not really the best person to explain it to you. Next time you see her ask her and if she doesn't answer you tell her I'm watching her." Gene said with his famous smile that seemed to always make Mai feel better. "Now you should wake up there is something that you have to do and if you don't do it soon it will be to late. " Gene said. Mai looked at him questioningly. "What are you talking about?"

"Please just wake up. Everything will become clear soon." He said with a sad smile. Mai nodded still curious as to what Gene was talking about but decided to listen to him and wake up.

Mai opened her eyes. A bright light blinded her making her close her eyes again. She moaned in protest. She was tired and wanted to go back asleep. "Miss Taniyama?" said a voice to Mai's left. Mai opened her eyes and looked to see a blonde hair, blue eyes nurse staring at her. "Oh Miss Taniyama it's nice to see you awake. I was just checking your blood pressure. How do you feel?"

"You speak Japanese?" Mai asked. It was the first thing to pop in her mind.

"Yes. I was hired at the hospital because I could speak different languages. I mean you never know what kind of people could come to the hospital. Its always good to have nurses who speak different languages at hospitals." She said with a smile.

"How did you know I was Japanese?"

"Because of your name." She said. Oh right. Mai thought to herself. "Would you like me to call someone for you? I can pull up your medical information for you and call someone."

"Please do." Mai said as she sat up. The nurse smiled and walked out. Mai looked around the room. It was a regular hospital room, with everything being all white. Within a few minutes the nurse came back in and said someone was on there way, but she never said who. Mai waited for about half an hour before anyone came.

"Mai!" said a voice as the door of the room burst open. Konta came running in. "Are you alright? What happened? Why haven't you called? You have everyone worried sick!"

"K-Konta? What are you doing here?"

"Don't change the subject! Answer my questions!" Konta yelled.

"Um Yes I'm alright, I don't remember what happened and the reason I haven't called was because I just woke up about half an hour ago so I really couldn't have even if I tried."

"How can you be so calm about this? You were passed out in the middle of the street!" said Konta. Mai saw a crowd gathering around the door way. They were looking in to see what all the commotion was about.

"What?" Mai said as her face started to get red as yet more people gather around the door way. Konta turned around and saw the crowed. She glared at them for a moment before walking over to the door and slamming it shut. "The nurse said they got a call from someone saying you were passed out in the middle of the road. When they got there the women was gone and you were just lying there."Konta said as she walked over to Mai's bed. Mai just stared at her unsure wither to believe her or be freaked out that she somehow ended up in the middle of the road.

"Wait, what about Naru?" Mai asked. Konta took a step back, shock consuming her face. "What do you mean?"

"Where is he? Why isn't he here? Is he alright?" Mia asked. Konta just took another step back shaking her head. "Konta?"

"It's nothing. He's fine." She said, though the shock and pain never left her eyes.

"Then where is he?" Mai asked.

"He-ah-" Konta thought about it for a moment. "He wasn't answering his phone." She said looking away. "Same with the others. They weren't answering there phones."

"Then why are you here?"

"Noll put the house phone under your emergence contact while you were here. Luella and Martin are at a meeting and Tom was sleeping. So I answered the phone. As soon as I found out you were here I tried to call everyone but they wouldn't answer there phones."

"Oh." Mai said looking down at her sheets. Why weren't they answering there phones? Lin always had his phone and no matter what always answered it, so what changed?

"Um Mai" Konta said. Mai looked up and fond Konta avoiding her eyes. "There is something else."

"What?"

" I-ah" Konta paused for a moment. "I don't know how to say this but Naru-"

"What about Naru?" Mai asked. She wanted to know is he was alright. This made Konta look at Mai, which she never wanted to do in the first place. That's when she lost it. "He doesn't want to talk to you or see you." She said. Mai felt her heart crack in two. She couldn't believe her ears. Wasn't it him just hours ago saying that he loved her and then kissing her? Wasn't he the one that saved her and yelled at her, telling her not to do it again? Mai started to feel the tears coming, but she held they back as best as she could since she didn't want to cry in front of Konta.

"I have to go. I will try to call the others and have them come to check up on you. They must be worried about you." Konta said before leaving. She slammed the door behind her and walked out of the hospital, getting looks as she went. Mai pulled her hand up to her chest and bent over. She felt sick. She wanted nothing more then to disappear from this world. She just wanted to die.

The phone rang twice before someone picked up. "Hello?"

"Ayako? Its Konta. I know where Mai is." She said as she stood outside in the freezing cold.

"You know where Mai is?" yelled Ayako. All of a sudden Konta heard more voices.

"Mai!"

"You know where Mai is?"

"Is she alright?"

"Hello? Who is this? How do you know where Mai is? Is she aright?" asked Bou-san as he grabbed the phone from Ayako. There was a sound that told Konta Ayako had hit him and it sounded like it hurt.

"Ow! What was that for! I was just worried about Mai!"yelled Bou-san into the phone.

"So am I But I don't steal the phone away from people and start asking question that I was about to get the answers to!" screamed Ayako.

"Well you were taking to long you old hag!"

"What!" screamed Ayako as she hit Bou-san again on the head. Konta sighed and leaned on one foot as she heard them argue. She really didn't have the time for this and she wanted to be off the phone when Tom got here.

"Hey….HEY!" Konta screamed into the phone. Everyone around her looking at her funny, but she ignored them. "Bou-san give the phone back to Ayako I did call her phone and I would like to talk to HER!" There was silence on the other line. Then Ayako took the phone. "Yes?"

"Mai is at the general hospital on Main Street. She is room 223 under Davis. She just woke up and has no idea what is going on. According to the nurses someone called about a girl being passed out on the middle of the road and they went to get her. I have to go do something so do you mind coming and keeping an eye on her?"

"Wait how do you know all that?" Ayako asked. Konta sighed. She hated explaining things more then once.

"Noll put the house number down as Mai's emergence contact information while she was in England. They called the house about an hour ago. I'm standing outside the hospital right now."

"Okay we are on our way." Ayako said.

"Fine but I'm not going to be here when you get here."

"That's fine, thank you for the call!" Ayako said as she was about to hang up.

"Oh wait Ayako!" Konta yelled as she remembered something.

"Yes?" Ayako said. She had heard Konta before she hung up.

"I couldn't do it. I couldn't tell Mai about him…about Naru."

Hi! sorry bout the cliff hanger! This was all i could fit in for the time being. I just got back from Connecticut and i typed this chapter up really quickly. Um...what else...oh right before i left a few people told me they wanted me to do another story after this one. Over the LONG break from writing i thought about it and decided i am going to do another one. I think its taking place about two or three months after this one ends.

If you want to read the summary of the next one its on my profile under "Do you love me?". i couldn't think of any other name and now that i think about it, it is kinda perfect for it. Anyway i also have "Falling Apart" coming up on December 7th is any of you are into Naruto.

One another note im bored and truthfully writing these stories are the highlight of my day so if you want me to write a story on another anime or movie or book or whatever tell me cause i will. And i mean ANYTHING! just as long as i can put it on fanfiction or deviantART. i have to update that story on deviantART. Ill do it later. No but really if you guys have a request tell me cause im sitting here bored out of my mind. I mean over the break i thought of another ghost hunt story that takes place after the next one even though im still not done with this one. THATS NOT RIGHT! so please help me out! and ill try to update soon!

hope you enjoyed and please review!

sorry about spelling or grammar mistakes.