Lost Hearts

part 4

Written for DarkDreams55

I stared up at his pale face, one that now had all the color drained from it. In his dark blue eyes, I could see nothing but the abyss of fear and worry. Something was wrong, but what? Why was he staring at me like that? Why does he not say something?

"Mai?" his voice was nothing more than a whisper, one that echoed around in the silence. I wanted to open my mouth. I wanted to call to him. I wanted him to stop looking at me with such sad eyes. I desperately tried to find my voice as time around us froze, leaving us in this moment, with nothing to look forward to.

"Naru" I mouthed, not having the voice to say. My body ached all over. My chest felt as though it had been ripped open. There was this strange warm liquid that surrounded me. Inside me, I could still feel the coldness within my body, one that was slowly growing stronger and stronger.

I heard footsteps echoing down the hall, coming towards us. I tried to turn my head, but it would not budge. I could only stare up at Naru, as he looked at me with pained eyes.

"Naru?" called a voice I recognized as Lin's. I heard him stop in the door way, along with three other people, but I still could not face them.

"Oh my god!" I heard John say. I stared into Naru's deep eyes, trying to find out what was the matter. Why was everyone so afraid? What did they see that I did not?

"Call an ambulance." said another voice, one that I did not recognize. It must have been one of the owners. I listened as I heard someone run off down the hall. Why did they need an ambulance? Was someone hurt? Why won't anyone tell me anything!

I watched as Naru fell to his knees beside me. It was than that I saw the reflection in them….. I saw myself.

Naru stared down at the girl lying on the floor. Her brown eyes were staring up at him with confusion and worry. Her once rosy cheeks were now pale, drained of all color. The brown hair that used to hang around her face now laid spread across the floor, wet from the red liquid spilling out around her. If it had not been for the attempt she had made to call his, he would never had known that she was still even alive.

Off in the distance, Naru could hear the sirens that were slowly growing louder and louder, telling him they were closing in. Naru watched as tears slowly began to fill Mai's eyes as she looked into his. He guessed that she must be seeing her reflection and he suddenly wished she couldn't. Naru closed his eyes in order to block out the image of her motionless body lying there.

"Noll." Lin called as two men from the ambulance came in and surrounded her. Naru stood up and backed away, watching the fearful Mai start to loss consciousness. It was as if he wasn't even watching it from his perspective. It was as if he were someone else. He had no control over his body, and his mind had gone blank ages ago. He wasn't even sure if what he was seeing was true.

Something grabbed his shoulder, making him look up. Standing there was a man, one he did not recognize. He was watching Mai with his dead-lifeless eyes. Slowly, as if it wasn't even happening, the man trued his gaze to Naru, his eyes dead. Something inside of Naru told him to step back, to get away, but his body would not listen to him. The man stared at Naru, not saying a word. He just stared.

It was than that Naru recognized him. He was the man from the photo, the one in the hallway of the couple holding each other. Suddenly a red liquid began to drip down the man's head. Naru watched in horror as the once brown eyes that rested in his head fell out and began to roll on the floor. Naru tried to take a step back, but his body still would not move. The man began to suddenly melt, causing a pain in Naru's shoulder where the man was still holding him.

"Kazuya?" Naru looked to find John standing there, looking at him with curious eyes. Behind him, the men from the ambulance were rushing Mai out of the room on a stretcher. Naru looked back to find that the man was no longer there.

"It's nothing." Naru said turning back to John. "We need to get to the hospital." Naru touched his shoulder, the exact place where the man's hand was before and where he could still feel the burning.

*Lost Hearts*

Naru paced the white walkway of the hospital as he waited for the doctor, who was still with Mai.

"Kazuya. I think you need to see this." said John as he walked down the hall towards them. He had gone to the library to see if he could find anything about the couple who had died in the house.

"What is it?" Naru asked as John reached them. John held out a piece of paper and Naru took it, reading through it quickly. "This can't be right." Naru said as he re-read the paper.

"What is it?" Lin asked walking over to him.

"It said that the couple in the house was found with their chests pried open, their hearts missing." Naru said as he continued to stare down at the paper. "It says that their hearts were never discovered but the police suspect that the person who had done it hid the hearts away somewhere."

"Well that could be anywhere." Lin said, pointing out something that Naru did not want to hear.

"Where would we even start to look?" John asked looking between Naru and Lin. Naru thought about this for a moment.

"I know where they are." Naru said before handing paper to John and heading out to the car.

*Lost Hearts*

Naru walked down the stairs to the hidden room below. As he walked into the familiar area, he looked towards the broken mirror. It still lay in pieces from when he had broken it, but the girl that had been there was now no where in sight. Naru walked up to the mirror and placed his bandaged hand onto the box beneath it. He slid his thumb along the edge, until he found the opening. Then, just like that, he opened the lid, letting the mirror fall to the floor and crash at his feet. He looked inside to find a shriveled looking object, one that oddly resembled a heart.

There was a noise behind Naru, making him turn around. Standing there in the door way was the girl. Her long blond fell around her heart shaped face like a veil. Her head was titled to the side as a small smile traced her lips. She looked from the box to him with her blue eyes as her smile grew. Suddenly she began to fade away, leaving Naru to stare at an empty door way. Knowing that she was gone, Naru decided to head up stairs.

As he ran up the stairs and into the hallway Naru noticed something, causing him to stop. The picture that had been on the wall had changed. There was no longer and woman and a man standing there. It was just a man, holding an empty space.

Naru continued to down the hall and into the room that had gone from having blood drip down its walls, to the white room that it was before. Naru looked around the room for something, anything that would hold a heart, but he could not find a thing. As hope started to fade from him, Naru noticed something. The room was off. The walls were not the same distance apart which meant only one thing. Some one had filled in an extra wall. Walking over to the spot he was before Naru did the only thing he could think of. He punched a hole in the wall, hurting his already bandaged hand.

Tearing apart the extra wall, Naru saw something lying on the ground between the two walls. He reached down and pulled it out. Getting rid of the dust, he opened the box to find a small shrived object inside. It was the other heart. Just like before Naru turned to find the man standing in the door way, looking at him with a smile. And again, just like before, he began to disappear. Naru dropped the box with the heart and walked out of the room.

*Lost Hearts*

Naru sat in his office, waiting for his brown haired assistant to come in with his new cup of tea. There was a knock on the door before a young girl walked in, balancing a tray of tea in her hands.

"Here you are Naru." She said as she placed the tea on his desk before taking the old cup. Naru reached out and grabbed the warm cup of tea and took a sip, letting the liquid run down his throat. He pulled the cup away from his lips as he looked up to find Mai still standing there.

"Yes?" Naru asked as he placed the tea down.

"How did you solve that case?" Mai asked. She watched as my face turned to confusion. "The one at that house, when I was…" Mai let her sentence trail off, not wanting to finish it.

"It was easy." Naru said as he picked up a file on his desk and began to read it. When he noticed that Mai was still standing there he looked up at her. "Can I help you?" he asked.

"How was it easy?" Mai asked.

"You want to know?" Naru asked. Mai nodded her head. "Than bring me more tea." Naru said as he went back to looking at the file. Mai pouted but left as she went to go get more tea. When she came back, she waited for Naru to finish his tea before waiting for him to explain, but he remained silent.

"You said you would tell me if I got you more tea!" Mai pouted as she stomped her foot.

"You're right, but I have changed my mind."

"Why won't you tell me?"

"Because it isn't something you need to know."

"I think it is!"

"I think I am your boss and you are my employee, and employees don't question their bosses." Mai glared at Naru as she tried to think of something to say, but she couldn't. So she gave up and turned around, walking out of the room. Naru sighed to himself, happy to be alone in his room once again.

Naru thought back to the case as he stared at his tea. He had remembered reading a section from a book about lost souls. It had said that, to truly separate two lovers was to send one to Hell and one to Heaven, the only places that they would never find each other. Since in real life, that was impossible, the only thing a person could do was to make it seem that they were in Haven and Hell, by taking their hearts and placing one under the earth and one above it. That way, no matter how close they were, they would never find each other.

Naru stared at the closed door and began to wonder. If Mai's screams from above had not broken the trance on him, than would he and Mai both be separated from each other forever?

Hey! Here is the 4th and last installment of Lost Hearts! YEA! Im so happy that i finally finished it^^ Though i hoped you all enjoyed it and i hope it was scary somewhat cause i put this under Horror and it would suck (excuse my french) if it wasn't. Though if it wasn't it doesn't matter.

Also someone asked me to explain a part from the last chapter. I think i did somewhere above but if i did not or it wasn't clears here it is. Okay so I have somewhere in the third chapter that Naru was in a trance because a creepy girl was hanging out of a mirror. Well i believe it was celtyin who wanted to wanted to know what happened. Well, celtyin (and anyone else who is confused) Naru was in the trance and Lin yelling at him did not help, but i believe i wrote that Mai was screaming from above. (and if i did not i am srry) Well her screaming kind of broke the trance, giving Naru a minute to think about what was going on. And well Naru being Naru, he not only figured it out, he came up with a plan to stop it.

That is the best way i could think of how to explain it. Though if your still confused ill explain it more (somehow) Anyway here it is and i hope you enjoy it^^

P.S. I know that you are still not reading this Whitephoenix18. I know you are in college but come on, i know you have more free time that me. God like every time i talk to you (which is like never anymore cause you are ignoring me) you are reading FanFiction. Can't you just read this? You know what, im not helping you with any more stuff until you do you ******

P.P.S.S DarkDreams55 i know i said i would not post this till Wonderland is up, but cause you are so speical and nice to me, I let you slid on this one...but seriously get that next chapter up or im coming over and making you...

I don't not, under any circumstance, own Ghost Hunt. All rights go to the Author; Fuyumi Ono