(Lin's POV)

When I heard those words I felt myself relax at the realization that they were now willing to help if they thought that her abilities were a danger to her. Though before a single word could leave my mouth Mai was pushing against me trying to get up. Mai then said' "Lin, let me go the wounds have healed."

I did not want her to strain her self so I asked her, "Are you sure Mai these cut were deeper than the last ones?"

"Yes I am sure and I just realized that this one was not like my other dreams, Lin This was the future I saw." Mai said as she looked me in the eyes.

"How do you know it is the future young lady?" My father asked with curiosity lacing his voice.

"I know that it is the future because the date on the news paper was tomorrows date, and based on the look of the sky I have to say that it will happen at night in an ally behind a club of some sort." Mai said as she stood up in order to prevent her self from getting blood on the sofa. At seeing this I took of my jacket and set it on the sofa so she could sit down sense it did not have any blood on it from when I was holding her to my chest.

"Mai why didn't you tell me that it was a vision of the future?" I asked.

"That is because I did not know it was one at the time, this one was in a different place and the woman was different as well and I didn't know that it was the future until I saw the news paper. Along with that ability I can dream of the past and experience the victims life or death I can sense spirits and can tell if the are malevolent towards me or towards other people." Mai said as she sat down on my jacket that I had set out for her. She then looked at my mother and said, "I am sorry for wrecking your sofa I will replace it."

I turned and looked at Mai and said, "No you will not, I will and don't even try to argue against me on this." by the time I had finished talking she had her arms crossed in front of her chest and was making a pouting face that she was unable to replace the sofa that her blood had ruined. I then turned to face my parents when I saw my mother have a look on her face that just did not settle well with me.

My mother then spoke by saying, "Koujo your father and I need to leave the room to discuses all of the information that we have received we will be back in a short bit once we have decided on what we are going to do." As she said this both her and my father got up and proceeded to leave and just as my mother began closing the door the last of the words had just left her mouth and ended with the door closing with a soft tap against wood.

A few minuets later both of my parents reentered the room and sat down. Both of the looked at Mai and my self and then my mother spoke, "We have agreed to take this girl in and train her but first thing first is we have to know a little about you so tell us what Koujo was talking about."

"What do you mean what was he talking about?" Mai asked a bit confused and at her words my mother was shocked.

"Young lady can I ask you where you when when this vision happened." Asked my father before my mother could speak which had me wondering where they were going with this.

"From what I could tell it was that astral plan but something felt off it felt a lot colder than usual . Why?" questioned Mai.

"Well based on the way Koujo was acting it appears that you had died for a few seconds, you had stopped breathing and would not wake up." responded my father to Mai's question. "It seems that you may have not been in the astral realm I believer that you might have been in the veil during that time. Meaning you were in between death and living" as my father finished speaking Mai's mouth was hanging open.

"And what I am referring to is when Koujo said you wanted to learn more about your Chinese ancestors and your mother and her family." My mother said as she again looked Mai in the eyes.

"Oh that... he was talking about how I told him that I wanted to learn more about my mother who was full Chinese and she left her family in order to marry my father and to have me. My father was half Japanese and half American growing up my mother taught me all about these cultures that made me who I am today. Then after my father passed away when I was young my mother taught me about the cultures of his family while she taught me about hers. Then about two years before she passed away I found out that I had a grandfather here in china and that was only because he had passed away and she took me to the funeral and then took me home and she came back here to settle some things, she never told me what they were. Then she passed away when I was twelve years old and I have been on my own sense then. I just want to learn more about my heritage." said Mai as she looked at both of my parents before turning and looking at me.

"Oh my... I am so sorry for your loss but let me ask you this... are you willing to learn to become a proper Chinese woman if so I will help you in doing so but...I will not go easy on you and I will say this now it is going to be very hard." Said my mother as she started Mai in the eyes.

"Yes I under stand and Yes I would be so thankful if you could teach me how to become a proper Chinese woman." stated Mai as she smiled with extreme happiness. When Mai said that my mother turned and looked at my father and nodded her head.

Once my mother did that my father clapped his hands and turned to me and said, "We will train her now pleas follow the attendants to your rooms so you can get changed, and pleas dress in proper clothing." When my father had finished talking both Mai and I excused our self's and followed the attendant to our rooms which happen to be next to each other.

Once inside my room I got close to the joining door I knocked and when it opened there stood Mai looking at me and I told her, "where one of the Qipao you packed chose a simple one."

"Okay, and thank you Lin for every thing you are doing for me." stated Mai as she closed the door.

Once I was finished getting I knocked on the joining door I heard a mumbled come in. As I entered the room I stopped in my tracks because there stood Mai with her side to me trying to zip up her dress. She turned her head and looked at me and said, "Lin can you help me I can't get this to close all the way." as she moved her hands away from the zipper.

"Sure I will try." I said as I walked up to her and put my hands on the zipper. I grabbed the zipper tag and pulled up.

When it would not budge Mai said, "You might have to pull the two sides of the dress closer to make it easier to zip up." hearing her say this I could not stop the blush from tinting my cheeks.

I whispered in Mai's ear, "Okay then hold still." I said this as I grabbed the two sides of the zipper and pulled them close together and place my finger on the inside to prevent the zipper from catching and pulled the zipper up closing the dress. When I pulled my hands away I saw that Mai had a slight blush on her face and I turned away and said I will wait for you outside. I walked through the joining door and closed it and exited my room and waited for her in the hall. When Mai came out I got a real good look at the dress she was wearing it was simple it was all black with seer shoulder with lace on them with it she whore a pair of black house slippers. She even put her hair up in a traditional style for the Qipao. "You look nice Mai, now lets get going and not keep my parents waiting any longer."

"Thank you and okay." she said as she followed behind me all the way to the dining room. As we got closer to the table I saw that it was set up for more than four people so I pulled out a chair for Mai and once she was seated properly I sat down in the chair next to her.