Warning: This chapter is T rated.
The next day Naru stared at four of the forty five screens in shocked confusion. They were black, but still working. It appeared as if they were shimmering, like the background they was focused on was rippling. Mai, seeing Naru do this walked up beside him and frowned. The four camera screens revealed nothing to her.
Naru getting over his shock re-whined the cameras until the screen showed something. The time stamp said two-thirteen in the morning around the time both him and Mai went to sleep. At first there was nothing, then the camera was jolted and then the surrounds moved. Naru and Mai knew that it wasn't really the surrounds that had moved but the camera itself. It was being dragged by something.
Mai quickly re-whined another camera that showed the assault from another angle. What it showed them was peculiar, the camera was being dragged by an invisible force. It was tugged and yanked into the northern forest. Mai groaned, "The lake."
Great, Naru thought with a sigh. He now had four very expensive cameras at the bottom of Lake Shojiko somewhere.
"Why would it do that?" Mai muttered astounded at the ghosts forwardness.
"Do what?" A voice from behind asked causing Mai to jump. Naru, however, did move. He still stood looking at the water flooded camera screens. Mai turned to see Monk frowning slightly as he too looked at the screens.
"The ghost dragged four cameras into the lake."
"It was probably to get our attention." Naru said finally.
The next few hours were boringly uneventful. Mr Akiyama, the client, was a young 20 something, single man who believed that he was Gods gift to woman. Poor Ayako had learned that the hard way...
"Hey, sweetheart." Akiyama-san cooed in a sickeningly sweet voice. Ayako cringed internally and continued waking to the next room, determined to finish getting all the room temperatures like the young boss wanted.
"Why don't you stop working for a while and come with me. I know how to please a woman."
The urge to gag made her stop but she pushed it away and said in a very business-like tone, "Then please leave me alone."
"Don't be like that baby. How about a date this Saturday?"
"With you?"
"Yes."
"Sorry, i'm having a headache this weekend." And with that Ayako stormed off leaving Mr. Casanova frowning in the doorway.
Unfortunately, the client didn't seem to get the hit and when he wasn't chasing Ayako, he was chasing Masako or Mai or one of the poor guests. By the end of the day nothing supernatural had taken place and Mai temper with Mr. Akiyama was now boiling over.
When the infuriating man in question was learning against the base door, something inside Mai snapped. Naru and Lin watched in caution as the small brunette looked about ready to kill the man.
"Go on, don't be shy. Ask me out!" Mr. Akiyama smiled in what he probably thought was seductive.
"Okay, get out." Mai gritted through her teeth. Her hands were in her lap and she felt as her fingers twitched in annoyance, wanting nothing more than to strangle the man in front of her.
Mai groaned inwardly when he stepped into the base and said, "Do you want to have a drink with me?" How can this guy not take a damn hint. No matter how many times you tell him no or say that your not interested he just comes back with new pick up lines and more date ideas. Mai was silently fuming and then she had an idea. This sounds cliche but it is true; it was like a light bulb had suddenly turned on.
"Okay." Mai smiled and Naru's head snapped to hers. Naru's heart beat wildly in his chest as he watch Mai walk slowly towards the grinning client. What is she thinking? Is she really going to go on a date with him? Suddenly his stomach rolled sickeningly with jealousy and regret.
Mai was soon standing face to face with the man and, just as she expected, he wrapped an arm around her. Mai took a deep breath trying to suppress the gleeful grin but it didn't work. "Lets go, baby." He said but she stood still and leaned into him a little.
"I've been wanted to do this for a long time." Bile rose in Naru's throat and he couldn't take his eyes away from Mai as she leaned closer and closer. Then, suddenly Mai kicked her knee into Mr Akiyama's groin. For a second his eyes widened in shock and pain and the he fell to the floor clutching himself. Mai thought she saw tears in his eyes but she didn't feel any pity for him.
She spun around and, still running on her glee, she skipped up to Naru before sitting down on his lap. Naru was in shock and his body reacted of its own accord, wrapping its arms around her and holding her tightly to him.
Akiyama soon stood up with great difficulty and glared at Mai as he leaned panting against the doorway. "Aren't you going to do anything about her?" He shouted looking at Naru.
Naru brought his eyes up, 's shouting snapping him out of his stunned silence. "Why? What I saw was an employee protecting herself from harassment."
His cold calm answer didn't seem to do much for the angry man. "Assault! I will be the one suing her and your company for assault if you don't fire her this instant."
"Now, Mr. Akiyama I don't think that would be a very good idea considering that you are threatening Mr Davis. Also me and Mr Davis have been witnesses to several of your shameless flirting and harassment."
The man visibly gulped as Lin jumped in. He too had had enough of this man displays and thought that he got what her deserved for Mai. However just for safe measure he added, "And I thing we will be able to find some footage for said harassment on some of our tapes." That did it. Mr. Akiyama practically ran from the room in fear.
Mai began to relax grinning widely however that wasn't the only eventful thing for the night. Mai's frown fell when the lights and TV screens began to flicker on and off. The door to the base then closed with a sharp 'BANG' only to be opened and slammed shut again... and again... and again. It wasn't just the base that this happened to but the entire corridor in which the base was situated.
The temperature soon began to drop. Then they heard it, the chanting that Mai had heard in her dreams.
"They don't remember. Why don't they remember? They should remember. They don't remember. Why don't they remember? They should remember."
