Hi, sorry I haven't updated very quickly and i'm sorry it is so short. I promise the next chapter will be longer.
As quick as the voices came they were gone again and the base was silent and was a still, haunted silence that left nothing but dread to hand in the air.
Masako and John were the ones to break it. They ran down the corridor and into the bases doorway and John shouted, "What was that?"
Masako quickly swept into the room and stood in front of Naru, with her sleeve over her mouth and her eyes full of want and lust. This, of course, snapped Mai out of her stupor. Mai then turned toward Naru, who, in turn, looked up at her. "Do you think it was trying to get our attention again?" She asked.
"He may have been or he could be trying to tell us something..." Naru answered completely ignoring Masako.
"Or he could just be trying to scare us." Lin added, surprising everyone but Naru. The Chinese man mostly kept his ideas to himself or told Naru- he hardly ever shared with the whole team.
As the evening slowly turned to night, Mai once again found herself up past mid-night waiting from Naru. However as she let out a yawn Yasu and Lin walked through the base doorway. Mai took her chance, grabbed Naru by the hand and lead him to the sleeping quarters.
"Finally." She exclaimed, "Have fun guys. Me and Naru are going to sleep."
They continued to walk down the corridor in silence until Mai huffed, "Seriously, how are you not tired? We probably slept for four hours at most last night."
"Not all of us need to sleep all the time Mai." Naru teased but he only caused Mai to frown with worry.
"That is not normal, Naru. People need at least eight hours sleep and if you are not going to sleep that long I will make you." Mai scolded before finding a bed and falling asleep next to Naru.
Oliver lay there, content with watching as Mai slept peacefully beside him, before falling into his usual light sleep.
Back at the base, Yasu and Lin shared a look as they watched Mai dragged a stony faced Oliver Davis to bed. It was obvious that Naru did not want to loss out on any work however it also appeared that he was unable to refuse Mai. Lin was thankful to Mai because at least with her consent need to sleep, Naru would be able to sleep healthier. Yasu hoped that the budding relationship with Mai would soften the young boss up.
The two men didn't talk much to each other but instead began rhythmically tapping at their computers searching for any type of information about the accident that the spirit was involved in. The constant tap, tap, tap seemed to loll the night into still tranquility.
Yasu was the one who found it in a newspaper article dated in 2010- fourteen years ago.
"On the late night of December 19th, a car and a bus containing twenty nine people was sent plummeting into Lake Shojiko. Kyou Sammiya aged 33 skidded on black ice in front of a bus and both crashed into Lake Shojiko. Fortunately everyone on the bus survived but the drive Mr Sammiya drowned and his body was never found. Witnesses have claimed that the door to the bus was stuck but it somehow was opened, allowing them all to get out safely..." The article read.
"Lin, I think I found it." Yasu called and the middle aged man went over to read the article. Eventually he nodded his head in agreement.
As Lin and Yasu continued to work, in the boys room Monk jumped awake panting and sweating. Images from the nightmare that had just haunted him still floated around in his mind and he gasped wishing he could expel them.
Once Monk had gotten to grips with what he had seen, he began to register the things around him. John slept quietly snoring to his right and Mai and Naru where cuddling together to his left. In the darkness, Monk caught a movement at the door. A pale, slightly glowing man stood in front of the door. His clothes drinking with water that never seemed to reach the ground.
Slowly, the Monk raised his hands to form a symbol and began muttering, "Naumaku Sanmanda Bazaradan Kan. Naumaku Sanmanda Bazaradan Kan." The ghost turned around and let out a feral hiss than awakened Naru and John before disappearing through the door.
John ran over to the wall beside the doorway and flicked the light switch. The men were intently assaulted with the bright white light however their eyes quickly adjusted to see wet foot prints in that seeped into the carpet.
"Takigawa, what happened?" Naru's cold business-like voice cut through the shocked atmosphere.
"I had a dream- maybe the same one as Masako's. I was trapped in a bus that was rapidly being flooded with water. Everyone was desperately beating at the door and windows trying to get out and then... I think I saw a figure outside and then bus doors burst open and I woke up. When I did I saw him, I saw it. I began reciting the protection chant but it vanished before it could take affect." Naru nodded. Then looked down at Mai when she shifted and groaned.
"What the hell are you doing up? Sleep now, work later..." She grumbled unhappily and Naru sighed giving into her.
Monk smirked before whispering, "I'm going to see if anything needs to be done in the base. You two have fun." He said, turning off the light and walking out of the room. John was following behind him.