Dream and Anger

Kurobara opened her eyes, it was bright. "What's going on" she said out loud, turning around she saw that she was in a room. It was an old-style Japanese house. Her eyes turn to the side noticing a figure on the floor, it was Mai. Running to her "Mai!" She yelled out in alarm, she kneeled down to her body and begun to shake her.

"Please wake up" Kurobara said. She began to panic, only for Mai to shift her head to the side. "Kurobara?" Mai said while opening her eyes. Kurobara sighed out in relief, she thought Mai was… shaking her head. "Thank god. I am so glad that you are okay" she stated as she helped her friend up from the floor.

Mai looked around "where are we?" she questioned. Mai saw her friend shrug "I haven't got the faintest of clues on where we are, but it seems to me that we are in an old-style Japanese house." She replied with her hand on her chin. "We should take a look around Mai"

Mai nodded at her friend word as both of them went to look around, Kurobara paused stopping both of them. "What's wrong?" Mai asked not knowing why they suddenly stopped. Kuro pointed outside, a wide door was opened showing the outside.

Mai looked where Kuro was pointed and saw a young girl. She didn't look anything like Ayami however. A young short haired girl was seen, bouncing a ball onto the ground. "That's not Ayami…" Mai said stating the obvious. Kuro would have rolled her eyes but right now she had no idea what's happening.

"Well that's obvious don't you think, I think we should be asking who that girl is instead of commenting who it isn't." Kuro said bluntly. Mai ignored that comment, she was to wrapped up on who that young girl could be.

A guy suddenly appeared causing both Kuro and her friend Mai to gasp. Kuro had a bad feeling. A really bad feeling, she may also have a vague idea on where she is and why. Kurobara was surprised however, as Mai was with her. The man had a hat and a long coat on. There was no colouration on them.

They are black, black shadows. It was suggesting to Kuro that this is in fact a dream of some sort, Mai and Kuro watched as the man held out his hand to the young girl. "No… get away from him" Mai whispered to herself, Kurobara did not like what was being seen. Suddenly Mai reached her hand out and yelled "stop!"

The young girl and the man walked off as Mai yelled to them to stop. Kuro winced, she had an idea what this was and what may have had happened to the young child. Still it was not pleasant to watch. The scene changed. Both of them heard a woman's voice call out " Tomiko" The pleading Women caused Kuro to flinch.

Kuro did not want to watch anymore nor did her friend Mai. It was horrifying to watch. The women in the Japanese kimono began to scream as soon as she saw a ball in the middle of the lake "No!" they heard as the scene changed to an even more morbid scene. Mother of the young girl was now by the well with her head pointing downward.

Mai screamed as she saw what the woman was planning, before she could have run to the Women a figure stopped her. It was Naru. Kuro eyes narrowed at the figure, why was he here? Kuro had no recollection of Naru falling with them.

"Naru?" Mai questioned.

'Naru' closed his eyes and shook his head softly at Mai. Meanwhile Kuro was staring right at him with confusion, Mai sighed softly and turned her eyes back at the women. "Tomiko" she cried as she got ready to jump, Mai and Kurobara could not bear to watch as the young women threw herself down into the depths of the well.

Suddenly Mai wakes up.

She was the first one to wake up into the well. "Mai Kuro. Are you hurt" Ayako says as she looked over the edge of the well. Kuro was not yet awake. "Ayako?" Mai inquired still feeling a little loopy after the dream they had "Oh thank god you are alright. What about Kurobara is she okay?" Ayako asked shortly after finding out that Mai was okay.

Mai looked to the left side of her. Kuro was laying there. "She's unconscious"

Ayako glanced at Kurobara's lying body with a worried expression "We will get you out of here. Lin is bringing some rope"

(Timeskip)

Shortly after they were taken out of the well, Kuro woke up. She was not pleased as her already injured arm had small scratches on her skin, her burnt arm was even more damaged. "Huh? A kidnapper?" Ayako asked after Mai had finished recounting the dream she had while they were unconscious in the well.

Mai had told them about how this place had been a traditional Japanese house before, and a little girl had been taken away by a strange man, leaving her mother in so much despair that she committed suicide. Kurobara however did not say anything, causing everyone to worry about her health.

"I think so…" Mai said. "The girls were probably kidnapped by that man, and never came back. So then, she threw herself down the well. Hey, do you think our dream meant anything?" She asked them.

"Hmph. You're not even a psychic, so why would your dream have any meaning?" Ayako asked as she applied a Band-Aid to Mai's scraped knee, giving it a little smack. Kurobara glared at the women "Did you forget that I had the same exact dream as Mai-Chan? And let's not forget that I am actually psychic" Kuro told them.

Ayako huffed at her as she moved onto Kurobara's injuries. "Surprisingly enough, they may have hit the mark." Lin said thoughtfully. Kuro winced as Ayako's hand grabbed her arm, she was currently checking her burn mark that seemed to burn even more. "Huh? You think so?" Mai asked, getting excited.

"We don't know if it's true or false, though." Lin reminded her, bursting her bubble. Mai let out a sigh and flopped back onto the couch. Kurobara would have chuckled if she wasn't in pain, she wished her arm would heal.

"Well, what should we do now?" Ayako asked as Mai drifted off to sleep. "It's impossible for me to exorcise her."

"Oh no we are not doing that again. I am not getting thrown back into that godforsaken well, it was horrible enough to have that morbid dream. Let's wait for our almighty boss to arrive, it's the best course of action." Kuro remarked in an annoyed tone. "I think that would probably be best." Lin agreed. He'd rather not have to rescue anyone else for a while.

(Later that day)

"Are we really going to be okay, Naru-chan!?" Monk demanded loudly, waking Mai, who looked extremely surprised upon noticing that Naru was in the room. Kuro groaned at the loud noise. She had a headache from what had happened earlier, twice has she bumped her head today so it isn't unexpected that she had a headache.

"Lin, play back everything that's been recorded so far." Naru said, taking off his jacket." Oh you are awake? Egotistical jerk is back." Kurobara stated as she glanced at her friend with a playful smile. That smile was soon erased as the pain began to throb in both her head and arm, Mai looked alarmed at this and shot of the sofa.

"Are you okay?" Mai asked.

She blinked at her question and forced a smile "I am okay, do not worry Mai" Kuro stated as she concealed her pain. Mai seemed to have forgotten that Naru was back. "Naru your back!" She loudly proclaimed causing Kuro to wince.

"I'm right here, aren't I?" He replied with a touch of sarcasm, obviously wondering if she had hit her head while he was gone. Mai grimaced and clenched her fist. Kurobara sniggered at Naru's tone, she was glad though that he was back she kind of missed him… not that she will admit it to him.

"Ah. Huh!?" Mai said, taken aback when she realized everyone else had returned as well. "Sup." Takagawa greeted her with a small wave. "What do you mean 'Sup'? What are you doing here?" Mai asked. "What about Ayami-chan and Noriko-san!?" Weren't he and John supposed to be with them?

"We left them at the hotel." He replied. "That's what Naru told us to do."

"Will they be safe there!?" Mai asked, rounding on Naru. Kurobara slapped Mai's head softly trying to calm her down "They will okay Mai. Naru knows what he is doing. Am I right Aein?" she says while moving to look at Naru. "Of course I know what I am doing. As Kuro says Mai-Chan they will be fine" Naru answered calmly. "We're going to close this case tonight."

"Are you serious!?" Mai asked excitedly.

"I take it you've found something?" Kurobara asked. "Of course." He said coolly. "What did you think I was doing while I was gone? All of you were here, but you've only made matters worse." Kuro eyes began to twitch at this. She didn't get hurt so that she could get insulted "Maybe if you weren't so careless we wouldn't have been thrown into a fucking well!" she retorted angrily.

Naru bit his lip "Maybe if you were smarter then you wouldn't have got into that situation in the first place, you should have known that it was too dangerous to have tried to get rid of the spirits" He says coldly. Kurobara stood right up in his face and yelled heatedly "Oh shut up you fucking Twat don't blame us for your fucking mistake. Your own stupid ego caused me and Mai to get injured. If you didn't leave us with instructions we could have prevented it from happening."

Kurobara grabbed her head. Her yelling caused her head to only to hurt more, she was getting stressed. "That's right! Give us a break!" Ayako huffed indignantly. "You don't know what we've been through. This spirit is unbelievably difficult to deal with!"

"That's pretty obvious judging by how intense this poltergeist has been." Naru retorted. "The root of the problem is very clear. The mother is looking for her child. She just wants her daughter back." Kurobara took several breaths. At this rate she was going to end up putting him in the hospital. "Even I knew that!" Ayako snapped with a vein throbbing on her forehead.

"So, we need to unite them." Naru continued, ignoring her. "But of course, it would be impossible to bring Tomiko back to life, and meaningless to do so anyway. Tomiko would be an adult now, and her mother wouldn't understand."

"Hara-san, what are the spirits doing?" Naru asked. Masako closed her eyes and focused on sensing their presence. "They're all in the living room." She said. "They still haven't tried to leave for the hotel yet."

"Hey… Shouldn't we be worrying about our own safety too?" Ayako asked, still feeling uneasy after seeing Mai and Kuro got dragged into that well. "You can't mean you're going to abandon Ayami-chan!" Mai said, shocked. "…But if we botch this, we could end up being turned into site bound spirits ourselves." Monk said tentatively, scratching his head.

"It's okay, Mai, Kurobara." Naru said. "You guys can feel free to leave any time." He told the others. "I don't need you if that's the calibre or spiritualists you are." Kurobara ignored him she was already annoyed, what the point on saying anything anyways, He won't listen to them. "Do you really think it's possible to win?" Takagawa asked.

"You either believe in yourself, or you don't." Naru replied coolly. Ayako and Monk exchanged a glance.

KiraLawliet: I have finished yet another chapter! And it's Chapter 40! I believe. I cannot believe that I have reached 40 chapters, I am surprised that I have not given up on writing. I am pretty proud of myself which is a first.

Thank you for following me guys. It means a lot, it helps me to become motivated. I would have given up otherwise.

Edit: So guys i made a misatake. I am very confused, like extreamly confused. as i was counting the chapters on the site and well its 39 chapters... but in my folder on my computer there are 40 chapters so im very confused. I dont know whether this Chapter is 40 or The next one is 40.

Sorry for the confustion. This is why i failed Maths so meny times XD