Elemental

by Never Ending Illusions/Zaru

Pairings: MaixNaru, AyakoxTakigawa, OCZaruxLin

Summary: One of the funders of SPR is asking for the ghost hunter's help. And does she have some sort of secret?

Disclaimer: I do not own Ghost Hunt. I own Zaru Kiys, the employees, customers and of course Club Kunoichi.

A/n: Chapter 2 of this fic after such a long time. I am rather disappointed in myself for not updating this, lol. But hope you enjoy this chapter nonetheless.

Chapter 1

May 24

Saturday

It was before six in the morning. The crisp air of the morning made the few people already there shiver uncontrollably. The sun had not risen yet, and boy Zaru couldn't wait until it did. It was too cold outside so she couldn't help but grab her jean jacket from inside of her truck, the hoodie she wore not being warm enough. There was nothing really but silence surrounding her as she leaned against her vehicle waiting for Lin and Naru who had been going back and forth from the building and the van to get equipment.

The wind blew a little hard whipping her dyed green hair into her face. She spewed out several strands that got caught into her mouth.

"Ugh." She spit out another strand before brushing her hand across her face to set other loose strands behind her ear. "I hate the wind."

"It only bothers you because of the length of your hair, Zaru." Naru stated as he set a monitor inside the van. "Cut it if it poses such a problem for you."

Zaru pushed herself from the side of the truck and headed over to the two men as they shut the doors. "Shut up. I actually like my hair this length." Her arms crossed over her body to hold some warmth. "Besides, the wind is just windy. It's cold out and I'm freezing. Where the hell are your co-workers?" Her blue eyes glanced around. "Shouldn't they have been here by now?"

Lin turned to look down at his girlfriend with a small smile on his face. "They'll be here, Zaru. Have some patience. It is not even six o'clock yet, the time we agreed to all be here at."

"Honey, I understand, but it's cold. I wanna get a move on so we can stop and get breakfast. I'm actually really hungry right now." As if on cue, her stomach let out a low rumble. "See?"

Naru sighed heavily, eyes closing. "I swear you act like a child sometimes."

She growled in his general direction holding up a jacket covered fist. "Don't start with me this morning, Naru. You know I'm not my best in the morning time."

"As if I could ever forget that." The director seemed to remember a time a few years ago when he was asked to awaken Zaru when she spent the night at his and Lin's home. She glared at him with such beastly eyes before he slowly backed out of the room. When she was finally up, she was very cranky and sometimes spewed an obscenity every now and again. Definitely not a morning person. He smiled a little recalling that memory.

"Hey, Naru, are you okay?" Zaru snapped her fingers in front of his face, diverting his attention to her own face.

"Huh?"

"You all right? You looked like you were spacing out for a minute there."

"I'm fine." He shoved the sleeve of his jacket up to check the time. It was a couple minutes past six. The others should be arriving any minute now.

A couple moments later, through the silence, they heard the sound of a car approaching, headlights flooding the dark street in front of Shibuya Psychic Research. When it pulled over to the curb before Zaru's truck, the engine cut and four doors opened to the blue car.

"Yo!" Takigawa grinned as he stepped from the driver side. "How's it going?"

"Ne, Takigawa-san, you're pretty happy this morning." Zaru smiled as she walked over to the crew. "Hey, Hara-san, Ayako-san, John. Are you ready for our little road trip?"

Ayako huffed a little, her own red hair blowing with the wind. "I never like waking up this early in the morning. It's bad weather for my hair." She tried to push flying hair down using her gloved hands.

Masako giggled a little before walking around the older woman to Zaru. "It really is a pleasure to be able to go to your club, Zaru. I have heard many wonderful things about it from celebrity friends of mine."

"Eh?" Zaru was surprised. "You have friends that have been to Kunoichi? Celebrities?" She never recalled seeing anybody famous within her club walls before. Perhaps she was just too busy to notice. "Hmm. I'm gonna have to keep a lookout from now on for famous people." I had no idea Kunoichi was that popular. Who would have thought? "But I'm glad that you'll be able to come as well, Hara-san. I do hope you'll be able to help figure out exactly what is going wrong."

The young girl set a hand on her shoulder. "It's my pleasure to help a friend of Naru's."

"Thank you." Both the females smiled at each other.

"Where's Mai?" The blonde priest, John, finally asked from his spot next to the car. "Isn't she here yet?"

"Should be." Naru looked at his watch again. Quarter after six. Where is she?

Finally, they heard a small voice shouting in the distance. Naru and Zaru eyes met with the figure who was running up the sidewalk toward them. She was breathing heavily, the smoke coming from her continuously. "I made it!"

Mai made it to the front of the black van, her hand resting on the hood, body doubled over trying to catch a breath.

"Mai, did you run all the way from where you live?"

"N-No. I took an early morning train, but I did run here from the station. And it looks like I'm here in time."

Zaru raised an auburn eyebrow and walked over. "I could have come to pick you up, Mai, if you just asked me to. I was freezing my ass off out here waiting for everybody. At least I could have been in my warm truck driving, doing something to keep occupied!" She reached over to the girl's shoulders and shook her. "Next time, call me. You won't have to take the train if I'm around visiting, okay?"

The brown-haired girl smiled small. "Y-Yeah. Okay. I'll remember that."

"Good. Now that everybody's here…" Her sentence trailed off as she moved over to Lin, pulling him as close to her as possible for some warmth. Taking a hint, he wrapped his strong arms around her, squeezing her tightly.

"All right, everybody's here. Why don't we head out?" Naru called, heading to the passenger side of the black van. "Lin, Zaru, enough with the public displays of affection. We have an investigation to get to."

The couple looked up at each other and grinned, having one kiss before separating. "I'll see you in a little bit."

"Yeah." Lin kissed her chastely once more before he pulled keys from his coat pocket, and headed to the driver side of the van.

Zaru offered to drive one of the other members of S.P.R., only to have Masako and Mai arguing about it. After a headache was ready to come on strong, she grabbed the nearest person and shoved them to the other side of her truck.

"Let's go, Ayako-san."

The shrine priestess chuckled inwardly, waving to the two teens as she made her way into a non-cramped vehicle. For once she wouldn't have to listen to Takigawa's music tastes of Masako's ramblings or conversations that included how great Naru was from the medium. For once, it was going to be quiet and different, with another female around her age to talk with.

Lin started the van and waited for Zaru to pull out first. She was going to be the one leading them to the investigation site that was going to take a few hours to get to, mostly due to traffic. Finally, the red vehicle came to life and moved to take the lead followed by the black van, then the blue car. The crew was finally off for this new investigation.

TBC…

A/n: Geez, this sucks. I haven't updated in a few years and all I can give is this shitty short chapter? How wrong of me, right? Oh well! I'll try to update this story a little bit at a time and not wait a few years to continue it!

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