Those people probably were Koga Hayato's parents. Now, Mai knew what she saw, and probably understood what she should do about it. When her vision had finished, she has done a deep breath, and then she opened her eyes. She saw Matsuzaki, who was holding her hand.
''Mai!'' Woman shouted happily when her friend woken up.
''I am alright now.'' Taniyama smiled without showing that her body is a bit aching. ''How long did I sleep?''
''It's already morning, so you slept yesterday's evening and the whole night.''
''Your wounds seem better.'' Yasuhara also looked at Mai.
''Matsuzaki-san, we have to go.'' To the room came Masako.
When she noticed Taniyama woken up, she smiled at her.
''Where are you going?'' Mai asked, but she probably knew the answer.
''We're going to perform an exorcism, so nobody would get hurt again.''
The brown-haired girl only smiled when they said that and then she laid on the bed again. She closed her eyes and fell asleep.
IN SOME OTHER PLACE…
''Harada-san started doing an exorcism and Matsuzaki-san are with her.'' Lin reported to Naru, who was reading some notes.
''I see.'' He didn't even look at his friend.
''I also heard from Yasuhara-san that Taniyama-san woken up a while ago and she seems fine.''
Shibuya stopped reading. This time he looked at Lin, but didn't say anything.
A FEW HOURS LATER…
Taniyama was standing in front of a mirror, which was located on the wall in the corridor, to fix her hair. She changed her torn clothes to a black dress and even did a little bit of a make-up. She seemed brighter.
''Are you sure you don't want to rest longer?'' She heard a voice and turned around to see a person, who asked a question, but even without it she knew who it was.
''I'm all right Naru. Those scratches are not a big deal. It doesn't hurt either.'' After saying that, she returned to fixing her hair.
''Are you sure it was an accident?'' He was referring to the attack, in which she was a victim.
''Yes, I felt dizzy and fainted. That's all. When I woke up, I saw what those ghosts did to me, but I also heard that Masako and Ayako will do exorcism so I figured out you found something. How did the exorcism go?''
''Fine, I guess. Yasuhara and John are checking it.''
''So it's an end of this case, right?'' Mai finished arranging hair and looked Naru in the eyes.
He was leaning against the wall with folded arms. His gaze was as hypnotizing as ever. He looked simply amazing and sexy.
''I think so.'' He also was looking in her eyes.
''Naru, I want to leave SPR.'' She said normally, still looking at his eyes.
She made a decision. She was sure that she doesn't want to lie any longer and that she didn't change as she wanted. Mai was confident and her eyes were showing that. Naru didn't say anything so Taniyama told something else.
''You were right- I became another person. I was saying so much lies that even I started to believe in some of them. I have secrets now, and I should do something about them. That's why I want to quit this work.''
''They won't be happy about this.'' Mai knew who he meant.
Those ''They'' were Masako, Ayako, John, Yasuhara and Bou. Maybe even Lin. They were caring for her and definitely didn't want her to leave when she just got back. What hurt Mai was that she felt that in those ''They'' there wasn't a person, whose name was Shibuya Kazuya.
''I will told them, I can't work when I'm always targeted by ghosts.''
It sounded like this will be enough.
Naru didn't say anything this time either. He just left, leaving the brown-haired girl alone.
SOMETIME LATER…
''What do you want?'' Koga Hayato was surprised, when Taniyama asked him to go with her somewhere.
They were outside 2 kilometers far from the house. They were standing in some forest and beside them were only trees. The only thing Hayato could hear was singing of one of the birds. It was quite relaxing.
''I have something to tell you.'' Mai turned to him and looked in his eyes.
''Is it a confession at last?'' He sounded flirty.
''No, it's not.'' Mai smiled. She already stopped feeling angry when he was saying lines like that to her. Before she said what she wanted to tell him, she closed her eyes and remembered something what had happened about half an hour ago:
She knew that she has still two things to do: the first was a favor to some ghost from the forest that probably helped her. She promised she will do something and now she had to fulfill the promise. She had to meet them, but after this it looked like she had only one thing to do in reality. Those ghosts were related to her dream about fire. It seemed they were some distant relatives of Koga Hayato and they wanted to help him. It was weird, because they couldn't even met- Mai thought that, but also was happy that ghosts didn't ask for something she couldn't do. Even if they didn't ask she would have told Hayato what she dreamt about. And it was her second thing she wanted to do.
IN THE FOREST WITH KOGA HAYATO…
''It may seem weird to you, but could you tell me where are your parents?'' Taniyama asked.
The man was confused, but in a moment he answered.
''I don't know. My aunt said that they died in their house.'' In his voice was sadness.
''What if I told you that you are mistaken…''
''What…?''
''I had a dream… Until yesterday I didn't know what it meant, because that dream didn't fit in a case. This dream was related to you. If you could hear me I would tell you about it.''
''A dream? What are you talking about? You know I don't believe in things like that.''
''Your father looked like you, he had the same face. Instead, your mother had red hair and beautiful green eyes.''
''How do you kn…'' Koga started saying, but quickly stopped. Mai's face looked serious, and he wanted to hear the whole story. He started to believe her.
''I saw two people in front of the burning house. They were your parents. They were holding hands and smiling. They didn't die in this house. They faked it, so they could escape. They were involved in some unpleasant incident I suppose. I also felt sadness in them, because they were thinking about you. You were still small and they decided to leave you with your grandparents. When they heard they died, your parents wanted to take you, but they were too late. You were already adopted.''
Koga's face was surprised. His eyes became big and his mouth was opened.
''How did you know I was adopted? How could you know about all of this?''
''I had a dream, I told you.'' She smiled beautifully knowing he believed her.
On Hayato's face tears appeared. He started crying.
''There's something else. Some friends wanted me to tell you something… Your parents are still searching for you…'' Mai meant the ghost, but she thought she don't have to tell him that. He had already too much on his head.''
''Really?''
''Yes, and I think you can find each other if you also try to find them.'' Mai smiled seeing determined look at the man's face.
Taniyama thought she should make the same face. She also wanted to do something important. She was convinced she should quit SPR.
I'm sorry if I made some grammatical errors. I hope that do not bother you so much. Thank you for reading :)
