Disclaimer: I hate writing these... but since i love the real authors of these two stories i'll write a disclaimer on each and every chapter. (forgive me if i forget!) I do not own Ghost Hunt or Psychic Detective Yakumo.

(A/N: Now on with the story! Sorry that it took so long, like i explained on my profile; my sister was sick and on bed rest so i was watching her, making her meals telling her when to take her pills, etc... etc... so it took forever to write and get this up, so i'll say sorry because i worried that it might be hard to understand since i jump from character to character... sowwy (=o=)/ )

Chapter Two: Group Dates and Stalkers

Mai closed her phone looking up at Haruka and her two friends, shaking her head at the silent question. "They can't make it, the car broke down and it's going to take four hours to repair it."

The girls all groaned.

"What are we going to do now?" Shiori asked fishing in her purse for her phone.

Miki answered phone already at her ear. "We'll just have to call in some more girls."

Haruka shook her head, sitting down on the park bench. Mai flopped down next to her. "So?"

"So..."

They were silent listening to the other two girls talk into their phone. Haruka noticed Mai glancing at her vibrating phone. "You're not going to answer?"

"No, I know what he's going to say." Mai said frowning.

"He?" Haruka prodded raising an eyebrow.

"He's my boss." Haruka made a grossed out face making Mai laugh.

"I thought he was your boyfriend or something, the way you said it just—"

"Well he's only two years older, and I do like him. He's just a—"

"Jerk." Haruka finished. "I have a 'boss' that's like that too, though he's gotten a lot nicer lately."

"Lucky for you." Mai grumbled smiling. "I've known Naru almost four years, he hasn't changed a bit. But I know that he wouldn't, and I love my job, that's why he can be so mean to me, he knows I'll never quit."

"Hmmm. So you came here to get a boyfriend and pretend to get over him?"

"And show him that there are plenty of guys out there that like me."

Haruka grabbed Mai's hand bowing her head. "Please help me too Sensei!" she half yelled smiling up at the younger girl.

Yakumo didn't know why he had allowed himself to be dragged into spying on Haruka with Gotou, but he'd been unable to stop himself from getting pulled out to the car, and pushed into the passenger seat.

Now he sat silently listening to the detective long and over used dating lecture, which he had mostly tuned out from the beginning.

"—you think I let my wife go out with other men?" sighing he looked over at the silent student. "How can you be so smart and so stupid at the same time?"

"What you perceive as stupidity, is simply indifference." Detective Gotou raised an eyebrow. "I do not have feelings for Haruka. She's just someone who I work with and who bothers me continuously."

For a long moment Gotou just watched him, any normal person would have become uncomfortable, but no one said that Yakumo was normal.

"You have to realize your feelings soon, or you're going to lose her."

Yakumo glared at his older friend, pushing his door open and getting out, "I don't have feelings for her." he said annoyed at having to repeat himself. Slamming the door he headed over to the movie theater, Haruka and the rest of her date had gone in a few minutes before and he was determined not to lose her.

"Come on Naru-chan! You know you want to, it's just one movie and we can keep on eye on Mai." Hosho Takigawa reasoned trailing behind the annoyed younger man.

Ayako looked over tiredly from the couch, shaking her head at her companion's actions. "Give it a rest will you?" she said sitting up straight, flicking imagery flakes of dust from her shoulder. "He's never going to agree."

Hosho glared, growling at her. "We'll never know unless we ask." He stated as Lin came into the room, handed a file to Naru and left without a word.

Hosho whistled.

Ayako rolled her eyes calling after him. "You should as least say 'hi' Lin-san."

"..."

"Fine," Ayako said grumpily getting to her feet. "I'm going to the movies to watch over Mai. Anyone who wants to come, hurry up I'm leaving in five minutes."

Hosho smirked watching her storm out of the office. "Well that's my cue." He said saluting to Kazuya. "See ya Boss-chan!"

Kazuya sighed under his breath glad that they had finally left him in peace.

Once they made it to the theater, Mai was beginning to be overwhelmed with the three guys who had been lumped with her, due to not enough girls.

Two had been making rude jokes for the past half hour and Mai was almost at her limit, barely able to restrain herself from hitting the obnoxious collage students.

She sat down on the nearest bench, hoping that she could loss all three of them, but the tallest and the only one who hadn't said a word sat next to her watching as the other two walked away towards the arcade.

Mai sighed in relief, glancing over at her silent companion.

"So..." he said arms sliding along the back of the bench. "How about we ditch them and just go in with Ren and Haruka?"

"You know Haruka-san?" Mai asked turning to look at him.

"Yeah, we met last year, and Ren and I just kept in touch." He leaned closer to Mai and whispered. "Ren really likes Haruka."

Mai giggled, smiling at him. "I bet he dose." Extending a hand she offered. "I'm Mai Taniyama."

"Jori Kim." He said shaking it firmly.

"Kim? Are you Korean?" Mai asked excitedly.

"No, sorry, only half and I've only lived here my whole life." Mai nodded, she liked him, he was nice and he tired to keep her talking.

"Were you raised in Tokyo?"

"No, I lived in Shibuya. I work there too."

"Oh? Doing what?" He seemed generally interested. She smiled about to start explaining about her job when a familiar voice made her stop.

"Stupid Monk, why would I want to see that movie? I see enough ghost as it is!"

"What you scared Ayako?"

"Bou-san?" Jori followed Mai as she walked up to the two. "Ayako?" she wasn't sure if she should be happy or not, were they spying on her? No way, she was just being paranoid. "What are you doing here?"

"Mai? I didn't know you came to this theatre!" Bou-san looked pale, like he'd been caught doing something wrong, and his words sounded rehearsed, like he'd been practicing in front of a mirror.

Mai growled.

Jori covered his mouth, hiding a smile.

Mai was about ready to kill her older co-workers, they were spying on her! She was so angry that she didn't know what she wanted to say first.

"Mai! Jori! The movies going too started in five minutes, we have to get inside now if we want seats!" Haruka called, waving them over to where she and Ren where waiting by the entrance.

"I'll deal with you two later." Mai said grabbing Jori by the hand and dragging him (quite willingly) to their waiting friends.

Hosho was fuming as he watched his little Mai interlock her finger through the tall collage student's; who was smiling at the young girl as she pulled him away from them. Ayako had to hold him back from dragging Mai out of the theatre, telling him that she had go the tickets so they could watch her even in the movie.

It didn't calm him down but it was enough to get him to follow her into the theatre.

~In the Movie~

Yakumo watched Haruka and her date as they leaned closer to each other. Her date whispering in her ear, Haruka had to cover her mouth to stop herself from laughing out loud.

Yakumo glared looking more closely at her date; he was tall, handsome and made her laugh even though they were watching a horror movie, a really good candidate for a boyfriend for a girl like Haruka.

So, Yakumo hated him.

He slumped down annoyed that he had come; it wasn't any of his business what she did in her free time, even if she was going out on dates. She had even told him that the reason she was going was because her date didn't want a girlfriend, he was going to support his friend.

He wasn't supposed to be looking for a girlfriend, but with the way he was looking at Haruka, there was no doubt that he like her, and that he wanted this to be the first of many dates.

He got even more annoyed when a man and a woman slipped into the seats on his right, they didn't pay any attention to him so he tried to ignore them for a while, until they started talking in hushed tones.

"He's still holding her hand!" the guy hissed to his companion.

"Relax, that's all they're doing, if he tries to kiss her..."

"I'll kill him!"

"Shut up! Your disturbing people." The woman said peaking over at Yakumo. Who ignored her completely, not interested.

He watched as Haruka stood, with another girl, and they both walked out leaving the dates to watch after them. Yakumo leaned forwards he was close enough that he could partly hear what they were saying, though not everything.

"Mai's awesome, thanks for asking me along." The other guy said. "She's so sweet and she's gorgeous."

"Yeah, I glad you came Jori, I really needed a wing man today." Haruka's date said rubbing at the back of his neck.

Jori laughed. "Are you finally going to ask her out?"

Haruka's date's head whipped around to look at his friend.

"Come on, everyone knows you've like her since last year." This isn't good. Yakumo thought growling. "Just ask her already; what's the worst she can say?"

"No."

"So?"

Haruka's date shrugged, glancing over at the door, smiling.

"There back." He sat sitting up straighter.

Yakumo's blood felt like it was on fire, as he watched Haruka and her friend walk back up the line of seats and slide in next to the guys.

Haruka and her date started talking again, their voices to low for Yakumo to hear.

A loud scream broke the silence of the theater as the first person died in the movie, blood spraying the screen, as the ghost murder disappeared just as the detective and his girlfriend-assistant showed up.

It was a horrible movie and totally not realistic.

Yakumo watched as Haruka jumped, startled by the sudden noise, her date caught her hand. And to Yakumo's further irritation she didn't let go.

He was about to get up and drag her out of there, when Gotou-san and his partner Ishii-san came in through the doors. They spotted him and quickly made there way up the stairs, sliding into the opened seats on his left.

"Yakumo, we have a new case." Gotou said taking the seat next to him; he held out a red folder, black letters cross the front read 'confidential'.

Yakumo sighed taking the file.

"It's right up your alley." Ishii-san said leaning forwards in his seat, waving stupidly at Yakumo, who raised an eyebrow in question. "It's a Haunted Mansion."

"Shut up Ishii."

"Yes sir."

"But he's right; you have to read through the file." Leaning back in his seat he started to watch the movie, until he spotted a familiar brown haired girl. (A.N. in the Manga she has brown hair, not pinkish-purple.) "Oh," Gotou said wiggling his eyebrows suggestively. "So that's why you came in to watch this 'movie'."

Yakumo shifted in his seat but gave no other sign that he had even heard the Detective.

"So earlier in the club room—"

"What happened in the club room?"

"—with Haruka—"

"What did you do to Haruka-chan?" Ishii's voice had risen to a volume almost as high as the movie, which had gotten the attention of the whole theatre.

"Ishii." Gotou warned glaring at his young partner.

The man and woman on Yakumo's left looked at them a little worriedly. "Is everything okay?" the man asked eyeing the young Detective.

"Yes, sorry I'll keep him quite." Gotou apologized.

"It's not a problem." The woman replied, brushing it off.

Ishii blushed, sinking into his seat. "Sorry." He mumbled. Then in a stronger voice he demanded of Yakumo. "What did you do to Haruka earlier?"

Haruka looked back worried, scanning the back rows for the owner of the voice.

"Everything alright?" Ren asked squeezing her hand softly to get her attention.

"Yeah I just thought I heard someone I know."

"Hmm really?" they both turned looking up a few rows where Haruka spotted Detective Gotou and Ishii. She looked closely trying to find Yakumo, but she couldn't see him anywhere.

"Well, that's weird." Haruka said leaning back into her seat and trying to watch the movie. Really she was happy the Yakumo wasn't there with them, she was trying her best to forget him and seeing him would be the worst thing that could happen right now. plus there was no way that he would come to see this movie, it was the stupidest thing she had ever seen.

"Clear?"

"Clear." Gotou confirmed as Yakumo straightened. "Never do that again..."

Yakumo glared. "Like I would—"

"She looking again." Ishii warned Yakumo as he threw himself over Gotou's lap again, hiding just in time that the younger girl didn't see him.

"This is ridiculous."

"Tell me about it."

The rest of the night was quiet, Yakumo left spying on Haruka to Ishii, while he and Gotou went to look at police report and have the case filled in for Yakumo from the Coroner.

It wasn't long after they left the Haruka cornered Ishii and demanded to know what he was doing there.

"What? Haruka aren't you being a little paranoid?" he said feeling awkward about lying to her. "You know that the Detective and I have more important things to do than to follow you around all day."

Haruka didn't look convinced but she left it alone, apologized and went back to her date.

"Who was that?" he asked glaring over at the tall, older, glasses wearing guy, who was very good looking and on familiar terms with he would-be girlfriend.

"Ishii-san? Oh he's just someone I know from work."

"Work?"

"Yeah I sometimes work with the police on unusual cases." Haruka smiled, "My boss is a consultant with the police."

Ren was very impressed, but it seemed like Haruka was uncomfortable talking about work so he changed the subject.

Dinner and drinks lasted a few hours before people had to start heading home for the night, Haruka found Mai, asked her if she wanted to walk to the station together.

"Yeah, just let me grab my bag."

Haruka waited as Mai grabbed her bag from the table followed by Jori who insisted he and Ren walk them to the station as well.

"You don't have to; it's not far from here after all."

"Please?" Ren begged.

"We couldn't go on calling our selves men if you don't." Jori added flashing a winning smile that ended the argument.

(A/N: sorry was that crazy all over the place? i promise that as it goes along and all the characters met it will be less hectic! thanks to all thoes who reviewed, i love reading comments about my work! thank you! don't forget to press the button and send a review!

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