A/N: Sorry for it being short, well 2,300+ words are short in comparison to the first one but I wanted to keep it short to keep it interesting. But I have a lot of stuff in here that are important for future plot and Naru is coming into the scene eventually...Enjoy!

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August 4th, 2016 5:47 (5:47 a.m)

Mai opens her eyes to see Naru, definitely Naru, a real 'dream Naru,' the ones that encompass her dreams in order for her to 'understand' better in a sense.

"Do you?" She hears a man next to her, she looks down and realizes she's wearing a traditional wedding kimono, only to realize so is 'Naru.' She also looks to be pregnant which makes her blush in her subconscious.

"I do," she replies fondly though her words and actions are not her own, she then exchange the rings with 'Naru.'

As soon as the rings are placed on their ring fingers, Mai gets a foreboding feeling like something is about to fall on her and she remembers a chandelier over her, she then pushes her son onto the floor to shield him from the blast and just before the chandelier hits her she feels her now husband cover her body.

She then blacks out, with that Mai wakes up with a scare.

At that exact same moment Gene jumps up from his pillow. With a whine. "I dreamed too, but I have to pee," he says through the telepathic bond they share. Which Mai hasn't thought too much on it but Naru must also share it too. But because of distance most likely wasn't able to communicate, though it could also just be that he hasn't noticed it.

Mai sighs as she goes to open the bathroom door for Gene, he pads in and waits for her to close the door with a 'how rude' through their bond. She closes it for him with another sigh.

She blushes slightly as she remembers her dream. She hopes that perhaps all she needs is to better understand things in order for her mind to give her mercy. Because she doesn't know how many more times she can go through these dreams with her playing and 'Naru' playing a part.

She hasn't even kissed him yet and it almost happened in her dreams! Anyway what was this dream about? 'I better write it in my journal,' she thinks as she walks over to the side of the bed and grabs her notebook.

She begins to write down her dream as Gene barks to have the door opened and keeps whining to her through the bond.

"Damnit Mai don't leave me here!"

"I'm coming," she said through the bond as she stands with a sigh opening the door. He pads out paws and all with his snout stuck up in the air as he looks pointedly away from her.

He then lets out a huff as he falls onto the pillows dramatically. Then dramatically Madoka throws a pillow at his snout with a groan. He lets out a pained yelp.

"Animal abuse!" He screams through their bond as Mai shakes her head with a sigh, the only reason she doesn't cut him off is because otherwise he annoys her by barking which is increasingly worse then him saying 'Mai' constantly in their bond until he gets her attention.

Mai then grabs the pillow out from under him. "What is wrong with everyone this morning?!" He asks annoyed in their bond but shuts up as soon as Mai throws a pillow at Madoka and then Ayako right after waking both of them up.

"Mai," they groan almost in sync.

"How did you know I wasn't a ghost?" Mai asks with a smile.

"You have a weak throw," Ayako replies as she sits up and spits her red hair out of her mouth, she puts her hand on her head. "Ha you said I had a weak throw!" MaI points out. "You do, I just feel a headache from annoyance coming on," Ayako says with a smile.

"Well we should get ready for the day!" Madoka says already up from bed and she walks over to collect her day clothes. Somehow managing to collect Mai's and Ayakos and throwing them at their heads. "Madoka!" Mai yells. "You started it," she says in an almost sing song voice and a smile. Mai can see Gene's tail peeking out from under the bed, well he probably doesn't want to be caught in the middle.

Mai then smiles and well running to the bathroom shouts, "I call dibs." She then slams the door and puts her bra before throwing on the light pink dress that goes down to her knees. She really needed to get a new bra because her cups were overflowing. Some time when she was being depressing and lying about eating junk food and drinking carbonated juice, her chest had filled out a bit more. Which had nothing to do with her new 'diet' but the fact her personality wasn't the only thing to mature.

The rejection after her confession was a wake up call. Mai hums as she brushes through her softly wavy hair which was hidden of its existence because she's always had short hair. She puts her hair in a high ponytail letting two strands loose to frame her face. Lastly she puts on white flats she had enough common sense to bring with to replace her heels from yesterday. Ghost hunting plus heels are a bad combination, though Ayako had yet to learn her lesson, Mai can only imagine the horrors of wearing heels.

"Mai out now!" She hears Ayako's stern voice and Mai opens the door with a, "I'm coming, I'm coming."

"Finally you took forever in there," Ayako says as she walks in. Madoka just snorts in agreement as she waits. "Perhaps we should kick Gene to stay with the boys next time, more changing space is welcome," Madoka said with a look to Gene.

Gene just huffs in reply.

Ayako walks out close to ten minutes later after Madoka began to complain. Apparently Madoka is quite good at wording her complaints appropriately to get her out of the bathroom. Ayako sporting her makeup in all its glory, her red lipstick for once matching her outfit. She was wearing red heels, the same color pencil skirt and a blouse with lace frills.

They both wait a bit impatiently for Madoka to come out, when she does she dances around all cheerily in her skinny light blue jeans she's wearing a white pintuck shirt with long sleeves and white flats. "Let's begin the day!" She says happily. Sometimes Mai wonders if this woman is just a morning person or a demon.

Madoka opens the door and says, "well come on." Mai sighs and walks through the door. Ayako follows with a huff but nothing more seeming to bite back her replies. Though she hears a "I take off time at my real job for this?" Under her breath.

Gene pads out right behind Mai trying to sneak past Madoka and succeeding just barely.

It wasn't really shocking to see no one in base, at least when Naru and Lin were here they actually had a 'Night Watch' system set up. "Perhaps I should call, Noll.." Madoka says looking around. It's not like she was never in charge of cases, it's just she forgot to do a night watch even if she had remembered she probably wouldn't have. No one wants to stay up looking for ghost's all night...well besides Naru and Lin but Mai was pretty sure they were insomniacs.

"Me and Ayako will go wake up the boys don't leave this room, oh and can you watch the monitors?" Madoka asks with Ayako next to her grumbling about how, "she doesn't get a say in anything." Mai then replies, "sure it's fine. I'll work the monitors," she is a bit annoyed with it but Madoka is a scarier boss than Naru. Madoka then grabs Ayako by the sleeve and pulls her out the door, Gene who was just standing by the door pads over and with a huff curls up at the base of the monitors. He did seem a bit annoyed today.

Mai then sits down where Lin would usually sit because she was on monitor duty. "I don't know how Lin does this…" Mai says softly as she tries to check all the audio. "Perhaps I can be of assistance?" A feminine voice says at the door. Mai startles and when she turns around she sees a beautiful woman, despite her beauty she looks like a rebel in pure black leather skinny jeans and a tank top, she's very curvaceous with wavy raven hair with blue lowlights that go past her waist. "Naomi Agawa, pleasure," she says with a grin as she walks up casually, "It's quite new tech but the monitors could use an upgrade." She looks at the equipment with a, "lets see here." Under her breath.

"Give me the day and I'll have your cameras looking better than anything any company could ever dream of creating," Naomi says with almost sadistic glee. "But," Mai tries to protest surely the video feed would be down. "Not today? Fine give me your companies address, I'll be over shortly after you finish your case here, Ghost girl." Naomi says.

Ghost girl?! Well she doesn't have anything else to call her so..guess she's going to have to change that. "Mai Taniyama," she says bowing in greeting to her, which Naomi only does an acknowledging bow with her head in response. Which reminds her a bit of Naru. "I'll leave you be, I have some family matters to attend to and my cousin needs some help with the house work," Naomi says as she backs out of the door with a wave of goodbye and then she walks down the hall.

Mai just watched the monitors bored until Gene's head perked up to watch the newcomers that were talking boisterously, besides John that just politely paid attention. Sometimes joining in.

"Good morning, Mai." Monk says as he throws an arm around Mai with a big grin on his face.

"Good morning, Bou," Mai replies as Monk lightly ruffles her hair fondly but not enough to mess it up. Yasu is surprisingly quiet which is unnerving.

Though he did seem normal when he seemed to remind himself to act that way but with how down he was appearing Mai was beyond concerned.

"Should we eat breakfast before we get the real fun started?" Madoka suggests. "I'm starving I could eat a whole cow," Bou-san comments, "like you could eat a cow, stupid monk." Ayako replies just to bait him for a bit of banter. Ayako seems to look at Yasu to see if he joins in which when he doesn't Mai understands what she was doing.

With all eyes in the room on him for a moment Yasu just smiles. "Well I'm not sure what we are waiting around for Ayako to get gray hair or christmas, the former is more likely." He adjusts his glasses slightly. Ayako fumes, "why you!"

"Let's eat I'm starving," John says. How could they deprive the only nice person in their group food?

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Mai had been walking down the hall and taking temperatures, the group decided to stay away from the rings which are the artifacts centered around this case, not until they can prove that there is nothing at all behind it, they don't wish to risk death if somehow they are responsible.

Suddenly she stopped and looked up to see a family photo, the Agawa Family was huge! They all had been painted in a long rectangle like golden frame, The date above being 1998 Agawa and Adachi family? She assumed that must be family of relation. Then she saw something even more peculiar...she was in the photo. She looked closer because that couldn't be right and it wasn't as a teenager in the photo had a very light brown hair that reminded herself of her mom. Next to the woman was what appeared to be her sister and her husband, holding up a two year old Naomi. Then behind them must have been their mother and her husband. But she couldn't stop staring at the woman in the photo.

She looked like her mother!

"Don't think too much into it Mai!" She scolds herself looking away. She starts back down the hall with a huff.

When she looks ahead of herself she sees a beautiful man standing at the end of the hall looking at her with a smile, she can tell he's a ghost not because of his looks but his clothes. He was wearing a distinctly western style suit, with black hair that goes to his shoulders in a way that seems to suit him. His clothing were reminiscent of the Meiji Period.*

He looked to be tall, in fact Mai guessed he was as tall as Lin.

Her instincts say he's the cause of this but how could someone with such a kind smile do something that awful?

His eyes were a soft brown befitting of his kind look that he gives her and his suit nearly blends in with the wooden walls of the house. Though halfway down the wall has red wallpaper.

She just stands and watches him, his gaze is only filled with kindness and her instincts don't yell any warning bells off in her head. Which reminds her neither did it when they arrived.

"Hello?" She asks curiously. "Are you the one haunting this house?" He looks away for a moment and then nods softly though the kind look in his eyes never leaves, though his smile drops.

He then begins to walk down the hallway once more to the right, leading her down the hallway. She began after him with a "wait!" She ran to catch up with him but stopped when she began to feel too tired to run.

"Wait.." She says just before her eyes droop and she falls unconscious, the last thing she sees is his kind smile filled with only compassion. Even now when she drifts off to sleep she doesn't feel at all afraid.

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"Oliver Mai has been missing for the last two hours, we've looked everywhere!" Madoka's voice filters through Mai's mind. 'But I'm right here…' She thinks sleepily.

"You left her wander by herself!" Comes Naru's reply. "I––we can't afford that," is his hasty reply that echoed through her mind. "I'm on my way to Japan, call me if you get any leads where she is," his cold but familiar voice echoed through her mind.

Then it all went silent once more…

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A/N: Once again sorry for being short. Anyway what's up with Yasu? Only I really know but I mean at the same time I feel like I don't. XD Anyway does Mai have relatives? Or is it just coincidence? Naru is on his way it appears he was just a little bit worried about Mai. Does this ghost have evil intent? Anyway see you next chapter.

1*: Meiji Period- Era between 1868-1912, when the Japanese had a lot of western influence and the government encouraged the total population to wear western garments, during that time the 'kimono' was an unpopular choice of clothing to wear.