The Forgotten Children That Weren't To Be Remembered

Chapter 7

"Yosuhara, Takagawa-san, and Matsuzaki-san tell us what you found so far, then Mai report your dream, and then Hara-san please tell me what spirits that you can feel in the house right now", ordered Naru.

"ahem…", began Yosuhara. "I just found out that our little cold hearted Naru-chan actually had feelings to confess his dying love for Mai!"

Mai blushed madly as many eyes were grinning at her. Naru… just glared at Yosuhara telling him to be serious. "If you don't mind… continue on NOW!"

"hai hai… well lets start with the information from 50 years ago and Mitsuko…" started Takagawa, but was only to be interrupted by Yosuhara.

"50 years ago, there was a family of three that lived in this house… the mother, 31 years old: Kyoko Ai , the father, 32 years old: Tatsuya Ai, and the daughter, who's 7 years old: Mitsuko Ai. Apparently the daughter had physic powers, but they weren't harmful… her powers only allowed her to pick up objects and that was about it. There were rumours that the mother often abused her daughter but there was no evidence of it."

"Then one day the parents were found dead in the kitchen with a lot of stab wounds" continued Ayako. "As for the daughter… she went missing, so people assumed that she killed her parents because they thought the rumour about her mother being abusive was true. So they assumed that-"

"she had finally lost it, and killed her parents huh?", finished Naru.

Takagawa and Ayako nodded in unison. Yosuhara continued again, "Then ever since that accident, children around the age of 5 to 9, either had gone missing or were found dead."

"For 20 years after that accident, people believed that children went missing or found dead in that house was because Mitsuko was still alive and wanted revenge. So they set out looking for her, but they forgot what she looked like. They only knew that she had brown eyes and hair and must have been at least 27 or 28 years old.", said Takagawa.

"So then one day they gathered all the girls that had brown hair and eyes around the age of 27 or 28 and were burned to death at the backyard of this orphanage. After that, the children stopped going missing and turning up dead, but 8 years later when everybody forgot about that incident … children started going missing again.", Ayako spook with disgust filled in her voice, but continued. "Till this day, children still have been going missing."

Everyone was speechless, until Mai started talking.

"Mitsuko never had gone missing…." said Mai. Then everyone's attention was directed to her and she continued. "About her mother bring abusive… that was true… however she never went missing… her mother killed her and the reason why both of her parents were found dead in the kitchen, they killed each other".

"Was this part of your dream?", asked John.

"yes… when the father found out that the mother had killed his daughter… he lost it… so he killed his wife, but before she died she stabbed him in the heart which caused him to die from blood loss".

"Then what happen to the daughter's body?" questioned Masako, obviously disgusted but what she was hearing so far.

Tears filled Mai's eyes and she looked down. Naru got worried and walked over to her and put a arm around her shoulder pulling her close to him, which seemed like a hug. He ignored the looks that everyone was giving him and kept his arm around her shoulder trying to make the girl feel better. Mai just looked up and smiled at him as a thanks and continued with her dream report.

"Her mother… she cut off all of skin and organs from her bones… and fed them to some hungry dogs in an ally way…", Mai started crying, "T-then s-she burned her bones to ashes at the backyard and cleaned up all evidence… so no one knew where her body w-went….".

"Mai… it's ok…", said Naru as he tried to smooth the girl but patting her head and rubbing her back.

"It's ok Mai! Bou-san's here!", Takagawa tackled her with a bear hug as Naru moved out of the way to let him.

"C-can't breath Bou-san!" shouted Mai.

If it wasn't for Ayako hitting the monk at the back of his head, Naru would have punched him in the gut making sure he could never walk again.

"WHAT YOU DO THAT FOR YOU OLD HAG!", yelled Takagawa.

"You're suffocating the girl Idiot", replied Ayako as she checked her fingers for any broken nails or just tried to look cool.

Takagawa and Ayako got into a fight of insults, which cause Mai to laugh. Naru sighed in relieve when he heard the girl laugh, so he made his way over to Masako. "Do you feel anything?"

"yes… I wonder why I couldn't feel it before… but when I concentrate hard enough… I can feel the daughters spirit wondering the house… looking for someone… and before I could feel one dangerous spirit… but now I feel two… I'm guessing one is the father and the other is the mother but I cant tell who is which spirit… the only difference between the spirit is that ones sad and the other is anger and hatred. Also there are many children spirits as well as many women spirits… I'm also guessing the children are the ones that were killed and the ones that had gone missing…. As for the women… they must have been the ones that were killed by the towns people".

"The daughter must be looking for father since he was the only one who loved and cared for her. I'm also guessing the sad spirit must be the father because I bet he's also looking for his daughter… so the other must be the mother because she was the one who killed the daughter. And the children that has gone missing must have been killed the same way as Mitsuko." explained Mai.

"that's so sad… but their in the same house… how are the father and daughter not able to find each other?", asked John.

"because the mother is most likely not letting them…", Takagawa replied.

"why not?"

"I'm guessing that the mother must have felt betrayed when the father loved his daughter so much and was willing to kill her for their daughter", spooked Lin as he decided to join the conversation.

"well then… we know what happened… we just need to know how to make the spirit move on.", said Takagawa.

"not yet", interrupted Naru. "we have to convince the father that Mai isn't Mitsuko and that his real daughter is looking for him.".

"but how are we going to do that? He's going as far as to kill Mai just to be reunited with his daughter, will he even listen when he's blind by who his real daughter is?" Questioned Ayako.

Naru started to think, "were going to have to lure him out… and then Mai has to talk and convince him… then we'll have to find a way to get rid of the mother…"

"WHAT!", shouted Takagawa. "That's too dangerous for Mai! I will not let it happen!"

"Either you want her head or do this, which has a possibility of saving her which one do think is better!", yelled Naru. "I don't want this anymore than you do ok? She's my girlfriend and some stupid ghost is after her just because he mistaken her for someone else, do you think I'm happy about this!"

Everyone was shocked to hear Naru yell. His normal and expressionless mask was gone and anger was obviously flowing through his face. Mai just blushed at what he said, so she stood up causing every one to look at her.

"I'll be fine Bou-san… and besides… you'll be there to protect me, right?"

"Yes, I will be… but-" replied Takagawa

"no buts… I'll be fine don't worry, trust me"

Takagawa sighed and just nodded. Mai smiled back at him and then turn to Naru. "so… when do we start?"