An: I'm back….. hey *sheepishly smile* So you see what had happened…. I'm lazy. Lol really I no longer is friends with Steven… and he was kind of my mentor when writing this individual case. So I've re-watched the anime millions of times (anyone start on the second manga book for it… just case out this august… Naru is back after finding Gene and bring him back to England… yea read it peps) So now I'm fully back into the writing stage for this story… heads up this case is going to end soon. I found out that although I have many cases written down, this one is one that I'm not enjoying as much as the other one's I've done. So now I'm just trying to find a quick but still true to the story line way to wrap it up.

Enjoy

Case three: psychological madness

Chapter Five: Who is the enemy?

The group was split up in the asylum. John, Masako and Bou-san where currently walking the halls while Masako sensed where and how many spirits wondered the halls. On the other end, the rest of the group waited at base.

Mai was currently on a task Naru sent her on, going through a bunch of different articles related to the asylum. She was never one to do the book work, and in all reality hated it. She started to get sleepy, and found herelf blinking trying to stay awake.

Not again, I can't fall asleep right now, she told herself. Unfortunately the words on the pages she was reading started to get all jumbled up on the page. She blinked again:

Mai stood in the darkness. "Not again." She muttered to herself as she looked around. Her surroundings changed and she was suddenly floating above the building. She could see everyone else doing their duties, and strangely when she looked she saw herself. She was passed out with her head on a bunch of papers.

At that moment, Naru looked over at Mai and sighed. "I swear." He shook his head a bit before standing up from his seat and moving over to Mai. "Lin." He said.

Lin instantly looked over and nodded before leaving the room quickly. Naru bent down a bit, and almost effortlessly picked her up bridal style. He took a few steps over to the couch and put her down. At that moment Lin handed him a blanket and he put it over her.

Mai smiled before realizing that she wasn't here to see things like that, even if it was extremely cute. She moved her attention back to work. She looked around the building and saw that the place really didn't have many spirits. There was just one, but the closer she looked, the more she noticed that there were two. There was something wrong with one of them though. There was this aura around it; she couldn't really explain exactly what it was.

She did know one thing while just looking at it…. It was evil.

Mai instantly opened her eyes and looked around. Just like her dream she noticed. She was on the couch, and a blanket was over her keeping her warm. She smiled a bit at the realization. "What did you dream about?" Naru asked while he sipped some tea that Mai made not too long ago.

Mai sat up and looked over at the small group in the base room. It looked as though John, Masako, and Bou-san already came back during the time she was asleep. "There are two sprits here; one is normal and the other… I can't describe it. It was evil, but not completely. It's more like the spirit is in the process of becoming evil." Mai shook her head at the thoughts, "Is that even possible?" She asked before turning to Naru, the expert.

Naru nodded his head, "Well the process for a spirit to become a vengeance spirit takes a little while. Of course some are like that when they die, but for the spirits that don't receive closure after such a long time they have phases they go through. Slowly, the evilness starts to take them over until they are almost nothing but a shell of what they once were."

Bou-san stepped in after that, "And that is how you can get what is called demonic entities. Spirits that no longer remember what they were, what they are still doing here and they start to lose themselves."

"Most of them hold on to a certain feeling, which is normally a forum of revenge, and that feeling stays with them." John said as well.

Mai nodded her head in realization. "That makes sense, especially since it's only been recently that people have started to get hurt." She added more to herself.

Masako nodded her head in agreement. "I had the same feeling walking through the building." Everyone turned to her, "It's a girl and a boy here. The girl is the one changing, but he just wants to find a way to move on. Her main objective right now is to cause pain to someone who works here. I just can't figure out whom."

The group fell silent as they took in what she said. Mai thought about the other dream she had. "Shizuyo," she said immediately. "That's her name."

The group's eyes turned to her. "Did you have a dream and not tell me about it again?"

Mai looked down at the ground, "I forgot." She muttered.

Naru shook his head at her. She always did this kind of thing. "Well what happened?"

"It was the two spirits; Shizuyo was the girl, while Yemon was the boy. She was a patient here and afraid that she would never get out of here. He was a guard. They were together, that's basically all I picked up from that dream. It wasn't really enough to mention."

"I'll be the judge of that." Naru said before he went through a few more papers on his desk and pulled a certain paper out of the files.

"What's that?" Mai asked as she stood up and made her way over to where he sat.

"It's an article from a newspaper." He said before Mai started to read it over his shoulder:

Disaster strikes

Last night a guard tried to help another inmate escape from Kencial Mental Asylum. Officially they are declared as missing, but no sign or sightings have been witnessed. Apparently from an inside source the two of them were close and some guards even thought they were secretly seeing each other. One guard, Mr. Kainize stated "We are looking for them. They are not within the ground currently, so we believe that somehow he helped her to escape." The warden was unable to comment on this story, but stated, "We are investigating the matter." The police are officially involved and searching the area around the asylum as well as the surrounding towns.

"That's weird, Mr. Kainize never told us anything about this happening when he came to the office." She stated after she read the article.

Suddenly loud voices were heard throughout the building. The group instantly looked at each other before going to the source. They raced through the halls until they stood outside the cafeteria area.

Inside, the inmates were screaming and acting as though something was there. Mai looked around until her eyes landed on a dark figure in the corner, where a few of the other inmates were looking. Mai turned to Masako, and she nodded as though already knowing what she was going to ask.

The figure started to move, and many of the inmates started to try to run to the other side of the cafeteria away from the figure. "NOOOOO." A random inmate screamed.

While other inmates strangely didn't do anything but sit there and smile. It was weird. "They are going to pay." One inmate said as she sat there eating a piece of chicken. "He is going to pay." She muttered to herself before giggling.

This was getting out of control; many of the guards stood there frozen out of fear, not knowing what they should do. Monk put his fingers into a well-known stance and started to mutter, "Namaku san man dan bazara san kan."

The spirit turned to look at the group before disappearing. The inmates seemed to go back to their normal selves. It was as if the whole incident didn't even happen. Things were getting worse, they had to do something, and fast.

An: ok there is the next chapter… don't hate please : ) already working on the next chapter in my head and it should be out soon. Again sorry for this incredibly LONG wait, hope you enjoyed.

Side note: is that chant right? I was looking EVERYWHERE for it, and I was not going back through the amine or manga to find it. Would have taken WAY to long. : )

*~ashley~*