(Lin's note)- This case wasn't recorded by Mai or Noll, it was one that Yasuhara and I remembered, and recorded. SPR was called to an old hot spring where two lovers were rumoured to have met in secret before being murdered by one of their spouses.
(Yasuhara's note)- Man this case was awesome. The look on everyone's faces was priceless! I love possessions...
The hot spring looked, in one word, amazing.
"Wow!" Mai squealed, as she had at the last venue and the one before that... Naru sighed and walked ahead of her.
"Mai. The cameras need setting up."
"... Jerk." She muttered, and smiled ruefully at Lin who handed her some of the lighter boxes. "Thanks Lin-san." She sighed gratefully and the monk slapped Lin on the back.
"Dude, be careful, that's Naru's girl and you know it!"
Masako's silent death glare as she passed the group was enough to silence even the normally chipper (Yasuhara- And not to mention handsome!) Yasuhara. The petite doll-like girl glided on and proceeded into the main foyer of the onsen resort.
Mai stared after her and rolled her eyes as John got out of the van and raised one eyebrow inquiringly. "She really doesn't like me..." Mai sighed in defeat and Yasuhara nodded sympathetically.
"It would seem so." He smiled.
"Do you sense anything?" Naru asked, and the tiny medium put a hand to her head dramatically, earning a slight narrow-eyed glare from Mai.
"Oh it's awful... two lovers separated by their families' expectations!" Masako murmured and then her eyes widened. "Oh..."
At exactly the same moment Mai put a hand over her eyes and stumbled a little bit. "Uh..."
Mai was sure she was in a dream. Why else would she suddenly be beside a hot spring when before she was in the Base room.
"Mai?"
She turned in shock to see Masako standing next to her.
"Why...is this a vision of yours?"
Mai nodded with a frown. There was only one other time Masako had been in her vision and that was on the Urado case, when Mai had actually dream-projected herself.
"Do...do your visions normally have people who you know in them?"
Mai shook her head, wondering where Masako was going with this.
"Then why are we over there?"
Mai turned in shock to see an image of herself and Masako holding hands across the other side of the hot spring. Their mirror images hair was longer than now; pulled into delicate buns and both were wearing simple sleeping kimonos.
"I thought the ghosts were meant to be lovers..." Mai trailed off noticing the looks her look-a-like was giving Masako's look-a-like. Suddenly the pair was locked in a tight embrace, kissing passionately, Masako's hands untying Mai's kimono sash quickly. "Oh!"
Both real girls span around blushes on their faces, trying to ignore the soft moans coming from their counterparts.
"I can't believe it..." Masako murmured. "THIS is what you dream about?"
Mai flushed red and growled at the smug-looking medium. "Don't be stupid. What the hell is going on here? Those two look just like us!"
"I've heard of this before... I think..." Masako seemed to take a deep breath to compose herself before looking Mai dead in the eye. "We might be them reincarnated."
Mai clamped her mouth shut and frowned. "Holy-"
The two girls looked at each other and broke into wide smiles. Mai welled up and rushed forward to take Mai's hand. "I thought I'd never see you again... When I was told we'd both had husbands arranged..."
"These aren't lovers..." Ayako smirked. "Obviously they were childhood friends as girls and arranged marriage meant that they were separated."
Masako smiled and caressed Mai's cheek gently. "I was so distraught..." She kissed the other girl on the forehead and hugged her tightly.
"Why do I feel like we're in an alternate dimension?" Yasuhara smirked, and turned to the boy on his left. "Naru? What do you make of the situation between your fangirls?"
Naru glared at him and ordered Lin to make notes. "Are you two sisters?" He asked the two possessed girls.
"Oh god no." Mai laughed.
Masako looked at Mai in a way that was normally reserved for pre-teen girls looking at their idols. "Sasuki is...the love of my life."
With that, every face in the room went into shock - even Naru and Lin's (Lin's note - I was not shocked. I was simply...startled.) - As Mai bent down the two inches that separated them and kissed Masako lovingly. On the mouth.
Bou-san looked like he was torn between cheering them on - what red blooded male doesn't like a bit of girl on girl action? - And pulling them apart. John simply turned an interesting shade of scarlet, with a dash of purple and looked at the oh-so-very interesting wall - really! Who ever thought of putting cream and mint together as a colour scheme was a genius! - Ayako doubled over, trying to hold in her laughter, Yasuhara's grin had turned irrevocably large and his cell phone could be heard snapping pictures - to be sold to the tabloids for a high price 'Masako Hara, top female medium in Japan, closet lesbian! '- Lin simply stared in shock and Naru looked as if his world was dissolving in front of him. The two girls who fawned over him were...kissing?
When the pair finally separated, both had a rosy blush on their cheeks and their eyes practically glowed with love.
"How though?" Masako asked, her arms still wrapped around Mai's shoulders.
"Fate." Mai replied pulling Masako closer by the waist. "We'll never be apart again!"
"John." Naru snapped and the blond in question pulled his eyes away from the wall - the very, very, very interesting wall - and looked at his boss, his face now a strange shade of pink. "Can you exorcise the spirits?"
John nodded and pulled his robes, holy water and Bible out of his bag before leaving the room to change.
The group watched as he left then turned back to the girls who were once more in a passionate kiss - this time with more groping and noises.
"And hurry!" Lin called as he intercepted them from moving into the small room that was off the base.
After the exorcism, just before both spirits left the bodies of Mai and Masako, they kissed once more. It took five seconds of the girls standing still before they jumped back blushing profusely.
"Do you remember anything?"
The girls looked at each other then at Yasuhara, who had asked the question, both answering quickly and defensively.
"NO!"
"Let's not talk about it though." Mai added in quickly.
"Yes, no need to. I don't sense them anymore! Let's clean up!" Masako hurried, actually picking up some cables, which was unusual in itself as she never helped with the equipment.
Although just before they left, Yasuhara was walking past the base, and heard the girls talking in hushed tones. So of course (Yasuhara note - being the smart and great guy I am!) listened in.
"Masako...do you remember..."
"Yes."
Silence reigned for a few moments.
"Erm...you have a very nice...waist?"
"Thank you Mai. Your collarbones were particularly...Erm...pretty?"
"Thanks."
Silence once more.
"We never speak of this again, right?"
"Agreed."
Lin note - I'm fairly sure they never did talk of it again. Naru seemed to act as if the case never happened.
Yasuhara note - I know he did. I never even got paid for that case. But the blackmail material made it all worth it. And have you noticed any time Mai and Masako are anywhere near each other they blush?
Lin note - Yes.