A/N: I'm really sorry for being over a week late everyone! I hadn't noticed last week until like Sunday, and decided that the 19th would be better to post. Well on the 17th, my Grandmother died and I'm pretty depressed by it right now. Which is why I'm posting this chapter on the 20th... I truly hope that the update is worth the wait, and I'll try and keep this going!

Disclaimer: I do not own Ghost Hunt

"It's a little hard for me to explain Ryushi." Mai began hesitant on where she should start from.

"That's okay. You can start whenever you're ready." Ryushi told her reassuringly. Mai smiled up at him happy to have gotten to know him some since their first encounter.

"As I'm sure you've already gathered, I use to work at SPR as Shibuya's assistant. However, soon after working for him I realized that I had psychic abilities. When I would sleep on a case back then I often dreamt about the ghosts past. Sometimes I would have these dreams before a case started." Mai said quietly as she took a shaking breath before continuing.

"When I had first met you in the alleyway, by the way I am truly sorry about what happened, but the night before I had a dream where a young woman had been raped and murdered in a similar alley. That normally wouldn't be enough for me to do that to someone, but when you were approaching me I was sick with a fever as well and you're image had reminded me about the dream and I acted on instinct." Mai said as she started crying. She normally kept her emotions under control however, with everything that had happened recently she couldn't keep a firm grasp on them. Ryushi turned to her then and pulled her into his chest as she silently sobbed. He kept his arms protectively around her as if to keep the memories away, but loose enough to where if she wanted she could easily sit back up.

"I don't blame you for that. I'm so sorry that you had to go through such an event though. It's okay Mai." Ryushi said as he kept repeating the last sentence over and over until she stopped crying.

"Thank you Ryu." Mai said as she sat back up getting out of his embrace. They both sat in silence as the two decided to drink some of their beverages.

"The day you had asked me out, the night before I had a dream. The members of SPR were together on a case and they were having trouble. There were two fox fires, or malevolent spirits where they were. I watched helplessly as some of them tried to get rid of one of them only to disappear, and then Shibuya-san used his psychic abilities which ended up getting him killed and the fox fires were still there only stronger." Mai said in a saddened voice. After she had cried in Ryushi's shirt she was able to get a better handle on her emotions.

"I'm sorry." Ryushi said solomy unsure of what to do in such a situation.

"It's not you're fault, if anything I should be apologizing once more. But, that was the only reason that I had agreed to work for that narcissist Shibuya-san again. But, I couldn't do it without some help emotionally which is why I had asked you for help." Mai said looking at him.

"I'm okay with being there for you Mai. I do have a question though." Ryushi said as his face turned to one of confusion.

"How come you don't want anyone from SPR to know that you do have psychic abilities?" Ryushi asked. He couldn't figure out the answer on his own since she just admitted to them knowing that she had them previously before they had split apart.

"I just can't let anyone know about that." Mai said with a soft tone.

"Ok." Ryushi told her accepting that she couldn't tell him the reason at the moment.

"Thanks for understanding Ryu." Mai said lovingly and she sat closer to him on the couch.

"So, what else can you tell me about what happened back there?" Ryushi asked her still not completely satisfied with how the case was solved.

"Well, I had a few dreams about the ghost there and was only going to try to passively direct the investigation into the right area until..." Mai dropped off snuggling closer to him as if for reassurance that he was safe.

"Until you had disappeared." She finished after some time with a heavy tone.

"I'm alright now Mai. I'm safe." Ryushi reassuringly told her as he pulled her closer to his body.

"I know, but at that time I couldn't handle the fact that you could die while I sat around and did nothing when I could easily go rescue you." Mai admitted to him.

"So, what happened?" Ryushi asked after a moment.

"I blacked out in a way. I left all reason and ran out of the base to go find you. I knew that the third story bathroom was the center of the haunting but that was all I was sure about really. But, when I had gotten near the room I heard one of the ghost tell me 'go'. I wasn't too sure what they had meant at that moment but I took it as a sign to use my powers, so I did. I had used them to knock out Shibuya-san just before I had blacked out in the bathroom. After I had blacked out I ended up talking with the ghost who were haunting the place and somehow managed to get them to pass on peacefully, and I lived one of their memories. It was of how they died." Mai said with pain in her voice towards the end. Ryushi turned his head and rested his lips on top of her hair giving it a kiss before placing his chin there.

"How did they die?" Ryushi asked after some time.

"They were twins. Their mother had gone out to go shopping for a little while and they were playing upstairs when they heard noise from below. They both ran downstairs to be meet with someone that wasn't their mother. He was a man around 20. He told them that he was a friend of their mothers and that she had given him permission to go in the house and take some things. They were young and believed him. After helping him out he led them to the bathroom where he locked them in. He then went to one of them and proceeded to cut her body all over, not hitting any vitals. He then placed her in the tub with warm water. I can still hear her screams as the water entered her cuts. After she had died of blood loss he went and grabbed me, or more like the twin I was seeing this all through, and drowned her in her twins bloody bathwater." Mai said as she slowly became more and more frightened. Ryushi then pulled her into his lap and hugged her shaking form to calm her down.

"It's alright. You're safe." Ryushi soothingly told her kissing her head multiple times.

"After I woke up, I could tell that they had passed on. I instantly went looking for you. I wanted to make sure that you were alive." Mai said after she felt good enough to speak some more. At this Ryushi hugged her closer to himself as reassurance.

"Then later while I was napping on you're lap, I astral projected and wrote on the walls. I couldn't bring myself to use blood. Not after the vision from the twins. So, instead I used strawberry jam." Mai said softly. Ryushi started to chuckle at her statement remembering the occurrence which lightened the mood somewhat and Mai even smiled a little.

"Yeah...After that I slowly fed the spirit that had helped me out by blocking everyone for me. I knew that they wouldn't do anything dangerous, but just in case I was keeping an eye on them. But, that made me really tired in the end and I fell back to sleep. That's where my interference with the case ended." Mai told him as she looked up into his eyes.

"Then, my next question is after you did the jam thing, why were you're eyes a different color when you woke up?" Ryushi asked. He really wasn't sure what had happened, or if it in fact happened at all. Mai was surprised at his statement but forced herself not to react outwardly.

"What do you mean? My eyes are brown and always have been. You can't change you're eye color without contacts too." Mai said with a curious voice. Ryushi watched her as she had said this in order to get a gage of what to expect.

"Maybe it was the light or something." Mai continued when he didn't say anything.

"I guess so." Ryushi muttered with a thoughtful look.

"My turn. What did you talk with Monk about?" Mai asked.

"They kept pressuring me about you having psychic abilities and I was pretty sure you didn't want them to know you had some, for whatever reason, so I told them the reason you went straight to the third story bathroom was because I had a vision that you were going to be harmed there." Ryushi told her.

"Can you actually get visions?" Mai asked him next.

"At times. It's really rare and only for people that are close to me. Usually not anything significant the most part I only see a few minutes ahead." Ryushi confided. After that Mai got off of his lap and finished off her now cold tea before cleaning it and putting it away. She walked back into the living room where Ryushi was slowly drinking his cold coffee. She said her goodbyes and went home after that. After he was sure that she was gone Ryushi got off the couch and picked up a recording device behind his flat screen T.V. He plugged the device into his laptop from his bedroom and transferred the most recent recording over. He listened to it to make sure of it quality before he saved it under a file titled 'Ai?.'

A/N: I'm sorry again about the extra wait. I hope this chapter goes well for everyone... For all of the people who have been rooting for Ryushi to not be with Mai, well I think I just might've given you a good reason... Share your thoughts and frustrations by making a Review!

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