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Chapter 11- Cleansing Wish

I stood, shivering at the entrance to the tunnel, looking through. Naru and Lin or on either side, watching me closely as I slowly stepped forward. I paused, halfway in.

"Dai?" I breathed. There was a wind and I closed my eyes and shielded my face. When I looked back up, Mickey Mouse stood before me, the smiling face directed at my terrified form. I took a step back.

"Your wish," said a voice, soft as wind. My eyes widened as realization hit me. A white light shot past my face and struck the suit.

"John, now!" yelled Naru. I felt an arm wrap about my waist and spin me back wards. Dizzily, I saw Naru standing in front of me as John began from behind us.

"In the beginning was the Word, and the Word was with God, and the Word was God." The suit began to convulse and I stared in horror as a horrible, gut wrenching cry seemed to pierce my chest.

"Can you hear that?" I whispered. Naru glanced back at me.

"What do you mean?" he growled. He couldn't hear it. I watched the suit with a stricken expression. Dai was in horrible pain. I heard the cry again and I grabbed Naru's shirt.

"Stop him," I said. Naru ignored me. Dai yelled again and I collapsed to the stone ground, dragging Naru's shirt with me and bringing my free hand up to cover my ears.

"MAI!" I heard Monk yell as he and Naru knelt beside me.

"He has to stop," I gasped, "Naru, please stop John, he's only making it worse." Naru looked at me with hard eyes.

"Mai, what are you talking about?" asked Monk, confused. I removed my hand from Naru's clothing in order to cover my other hand.

"Please stop," I said again.

"And the light shineth in darkness; and the darkness comprehended it not," said John, his focus not broken.

"JOHN PLEASE STOP!!!" I shrieked. Suddenly, John was sent flying backwards and he landed hard on the floor.

"JOHN!" yelled Ayako and she ran to help him as he sat up.

"I'm alright," he struggled to say.

"Mai, did you do that?" growled Monk. I didn't answer, I was too busy thinking.

Dai won't leave, not until he has done what he came to. He can only try to full fill someones main dream. He won't allow himself to move on otherwise. But what can I do?

Your wish...

That's it!

I clasped my hands together in front of me, as if praying, and began to think, "Dai, I wish that you would move on." Over and over again did I think this, letting it fill my heart. I felt a warmth spread from my core to my very finger tips. I kept my eyes shut as a small wind lifted my hair from my face.

"What's going on? Mai, what are you doing?" asked Monk. I wasn't sure what he meant, but I didn't have time to think on it.

"Naru, what's that light?" I heard Ayako ask. There came no response and the feelings inside of me grew stronger until I felt as if I would burst.

My eyes flew open and I yelled, "Dai, my wish is for you to move on!"

At first, nothing seemed to happen as the wind around me died down. I stared at the mouse. Then, slowly, the suit fell to the ground, revealing a blue form of the man. He looked at me with shining eyes and I saw his noiseless lips mouth, "Thank you." Slowly he faded away, leaving me staring at the spot he had last been.

No one said anything. No one moved. They all watched me.

I just sat there until some sense of my surroundings returned and I met their confused eyes.

"Mai," whispered Monk.

Even Naru's eyes were wide when I looked at him.

"What?" I asked, my cheery tone out of place in the quiet. Naru's mask returned and he turned and walked to the suit, seemingly deep in thought as he knelt down to examine it.

"What just happened?" asked Ayako. We watched Naru stand.

"It seems....Mai has successfully cleansed Hikaru's spirit."

"HUH?" I asked, my jaw falling open.

"Wait, you didn't even know what you were doing?" asked Monk, sweat building on his forehead. I put a finger on the side of my cheek as I thought.

"Uh-uh." I shook my head. Monk slumped over, letting his arms hand.

"Incredible."

"Hold on, how is that possible?" asked Ayako. "Mai's never been trained to do such things."

"She didn't have to be," said Naru dully. "Dai's main objective by coming here was to grant Mai's wish. When she made herself believe that, at that moment, the only thing she wanted was for him to move on, he had no choice but to do so."

I was probably the most shocked out of all of us.

"But that light?" said Yasuhara. I looked at him confused.

"What light?"

"You were surrounded by a golden light," he said, as if it were obvious.

"I was?" I asked, my head cocking to the side as I thought on what he said.

"How can you not know!?!?" yelled Monk as the others shook their heads in disbelief.

"That light," interjected Naru calmly, "was the same light we've seen in previous cases were we have done cleansings."

"Oh, you mean like the case with the doll?" said John. Naru inclined his head slightly.

Wow, I did that? Yay!

"Wait," I said with a small gasp, "Naru, just because Dai is gone doesn't make this case solved. There are other ghosts that aren't connected to him. I saw it in my dream." Naru turned to look at me with the most condescending look I have seen.

"That's a given Mai. There is a reason why Lin, Yasuhara, you, and I are the only ones going back to the base. The others are going to exorcise all the other locations."

My eyebrow began to twitch angrily.

"Well excuse me captain narcissist," I said crossing my arms and closing my eyes like a stubborn child. I felt a hand pat my head and I gasped, looking around as Naru walked off. Did he just...

"Come on Mai, then," said Yasu as he and Lin followed.

"Ugh, right, coming!" I said, quickly standing to follow.

"They seem to be getting along well," said John. Ayako and Monk agreed with smiles.

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I slowly made my way up the stairs to the balcony at the top of the tower. We had finished up just the night before and were intending on leaving tomorrow. I just wanted to see that view one more time before going, so I was surprised to find someone already there.

"Oh, Kameko, I didn't know you would be here." She turned to look at me and I smiled.

"Mr. Nagoku told me that Dai is gone," she said, a sad edge to her voice. I nodded somberly and she turned back to the view. I went to lean on the banister next to her.

"I've always loved this place," she said quietly, and I looked at her as a gust of wind smacked my face. There was a soft smile on her face and a single tear fell from her eye.

"Kameko," I muttered.

"So, where's that boyfriend of yours?" she said, turning to me happily. I raised my eyebrows and blushed, my hands waiving in front of me.

"Oh, no, no, it's not really like that. That was just my and Naru's cover." Kameko raised her eyebrows.

"I didn't know my father made you go under cover," she said, dumbstruck. I shared her feeling as I examined her face.

"Then, why did you think Naru and I were dating?" She looked down and smiled.

"The way he looks at you, even when you aren't looking back. It reminds me so much of how Dai used to look at me, of a man in love." My eyebrows were dangerously closed to being swallowed by my hair line as my face turned a lobster red. I laughed, nervously.

"No, I-I don't think that's right. I mean, come on.....Naru....in love....with me?" I stuttered. The thought itself was laughable. But could it be....just maybe...

She giggled at my reaction.

"Mai." I turned to see Naru standing at the door way, the wind sweeping his hair across his face. I smiled and skipped to him, stopping right in front of him as he looked down at me.

"Yes boss?" I asked cheerily. He sighed.

"You forgot." I cocked an eyebrow questioningly.

"We have lunch reservations dummy."

"HEY, don't call me a dummy you jerk!"

"Don't act like one then."

"NARU!!!!"

He placed his hand gently on the top of my head, causing me to calm instantly. I looked up at his eyes as they seemed to shift into his normal expression, part of me wondering what they had been like two seconds before.

"Naru?" I asked. He turned back to the stairs.

"Let's go."

"Oh, uh, right." I turned and waved bye to Kameko before following him happily.

Yay, it's done. And be strong readers, if they kiss now then it will ruin my thought processes. I have a plan *smacks fist to hand*

Oh and I finally found they prayer John says. YAY!

Next Case- We've visited this small little pub, a little whole in the wall of Chiba. However, these things just don't seem right to be who they think it is that is haunting the bar. And does John seem to be a target of the poltergeist's pranks, or is it just me. ---Coming soon-- Hangover

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