AN: yay!!!! Thanks for the reviews!!! Here is the continuation of the chapter…
"bold" means English
"normal" means Japanese…
Chapter 3: The Spirit of the Glass, what! Past? part 2
(Mai's POV)
"Hey, why don't we do some thing interesting?" Osamu-san asked.
"Like what?" Masako asked from behind her kimono sleeve.
"Uhmm… something like… the spirit of the glass!"
"Why do we have to play that?" Ayako asked, "Don't you get tired of seeing spirits almost every day?!"
"Hahaha… just kidding!!! Hey Mai!" he shouted.
I blinked, I must have doused off… I stifled a yawn…
"What time is it?" I asked Osamu-san.
"About eleven in the night… oh no, eleven! We should all get some well deserved sleep! Off you go first, Mai-chan!" Osamu-san said as he pushed me towards my bedroom, "don't worry, we'll be guarding you all night…"
As he said that, he gave me an all knowing smile and then he gave me a push that sent me stumbling across my room.
"Sleep well Mai!" he said and then he closed the door…
I smiled at myself…
Since that hour… Osamu-san had always been there for me… it feels like I have found yet another brother in Osamu-san…
As I thought about how brotherly Osamu-san had been to me, I walked towards my bed… and I fell in deep slumber…
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What is this? I asked myself …
I'm floating in mid air?! Oh, this is one of those dreams again…
I slowly lowered myself to what would seem the ground. When my toes got in contact with it… I touched water…
'What is this?! Am I walking on water?!' I asked myself… then I saw Gene…
'Hi there Mai…' he said. Then I began crying…
'Is that what happened to you?' I asked…
'I'm sorry Mai but you need to see everything… Noll's wavelength is so out of reach… I can only reach him through you…' and then he vanished. 'Sorry Mai' echoed in the darkness.
'Where have you gone now?' I asked myself as I wandered in this 'dream'. Then somebody seemed to be coming to me… oh no… why is this spirit's aura very dark? Oh no… I really need to wake up…
You made contact with that bastard didn't you?
The spirit suddenly barked at me like a dog…
Then he grinned…
I'll use you then… and he flew through me… I started to scream like an idiot… then I felt a slap open my eyes…
I was back in my bedroom… Ayako slapped me… and I cried…
"Hey, it is alright… we're here now…" she then hushed me into sleep again… and this time I slept through… or not…
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(Naru's POV)
"Tanaka-san, you are not helping us at all…" I said… she kept on blabbering about Mai getting used by the spirit…
I got her to talk… only a bit though…
The spirit that haunted her was her uncle's…
She gave us full biographies of her relatives, which , it seems to me, are the most important information we got from her…
Tanaka, Yukio… 24 when he died… Tanaka-san's spirit uncle… very strong psychic medium and pk user… supposedly another Japanese version of Yuri Geller...
Another important piece of information we got from her was that her uncle did suicide because of a girl… a girl whom he was greatly attached to… she turned him down but he still followed her around…
'Sounds like a stalker to me…'
Then he went to Hokkaido for work and went back after 3 and half years… and saw her with another man… already married… carrying two identical boys…
He got hurt and hanged himself in the nearest temple… and Tanaka-san was just unlucky enough to witness it…however, how did she managed to remember such a incident when normal people, including psychics, only remember things after they were four years old? is there something she's hiding from us? or is she just toying with us? besides, how could he have learned that the spirit is with Mai if she is here and the spirit is somewhere else? and we haven't heard anything from Osamu-san...
'I guess we should sleep for now…'
" Madoka-san… " I said. She got the cue and started to comfort the teen… I looked at Lin for the moment…
"Noll… we are going to the spare room… we are going to sleep now…" Madoka said.
"Do you mind waking up our residential monk…" I said as I pointed a thumb on the now sleeping monk. He instantly snapped awake.
"Did I miss something?" the monk asked.
That made Tanaka-san laugh. I, however, gave the monk a cold stare.he really had a headstart at teenage girls... he always knows how to make them laugh, even at such uncomfortable circumstances... specially with Mai...
'Why can't I be like him when he's with Mai?'
Someone snapped me from my short day dreaming (and I'm thankful about it...) and it was Madoka...
"What?" I said as she stopped waving her hand in front of me.
"You seldom space out... Are you alright?" she asked.
"Yes, thank you for the concern." I said as I stood up and faced the half-lighted hallway... what can be end of this?...
After that, Madoka shushed the girl to sleep. I already arranged Lin and Takigawa-san to sleep right outside the door of the room the women are using. Now for the promised explanation…
I drifted slowly to sleep. I found myself floating in an unknown dimension… my feet touched something hard… the ground… the ground was covered with grass. Two boys were running across what seemed like a park… they were tossing a ball made of Japanese paper back and forth. The boys were yelling…
"Hey Kisho! Throw it higher!", one of the boys said.
"I'm trying! I'm trying!" the other exclaimed.
The boys look exactly the same… they both have black hair and sapphire blue eyes. They also have white skin…
The boys began throwing the ball higher and higher… the ball went to my position and the boy tried to catch it… he ended up bumping me… so this is Kisho…
"Sorry…" he said and his brother picked up the ball… Kisho ran up to him and both wore expressionless faces in an instant... they both stared at me wearing those faces... Gene's face and mine…
'Why did I think of that all of a sudden?'
"Kisho… Ronin…" I heard a woman call out to them from the horizon… so the smiling one is Ronin… the more serious looking is Kisho…
The woman came into view wearing a kimono with cherry flowers. She wears her wavy, orange, hair up to her waist. Like my usual dreams, I can't see faces that clearly… Behind her, a man came. The kids resemble him a lot more than the woman… perhaps this is the father…
The boys rushed to their 'mother'. Her face suddenly went clearer the moment the boys rushed to her… her golden, oriental eyes gave away her Japanese genes…the man behind her also looked a lot clearer the moment he touched her and his eyes seemed to sparkle with light even though his eyes were pretty much blue…
"Keiko, why did you call them? They're having fun…" he playfully said, wearing a smirk that very much resembles a sadistic smile… he spoke in English…
This realization led me to see the whole park a lot clearly… I saw that the place was actually in America… some park I visited before… is this the Forbes park??
"But they're bothering someone over there…" the woman named Keiko said. I turned my head and saw her cuddling the whispering children, looking at my direction… is this not a vision? Why is she seeing me?…
"He should see them play longer…" he said.
"Raika, he doesn't even know who we are!" the woman said playfully at her 'husband'.
'Yes, I don't know who you are…' I thought…
Suddenly the whole place turned pitch black… the park, the kids, Kisho and Ronin, everything was swallowed by darkness except the couple…
"What do you want?" I managed to ask…
They looked at me with mixed expressions… joy, melancholic… a bit surprised yet expectant in the same way…
"What we want sure is something you would want…" the man named Raika answered me… and the woman named Keiko snapped at him like a dog... or more like a cat slashing her long nails?...
"Stop it, Voltaire! He's confused enough already!" the woman said
"No, he's bright enough to hang on to our conversations already… and I know Martin had raised him with all the knowledge he could pass on…" Voltaire, or Raika, answered…
'Wait… I'm not hanging on enough…'
"Did you say something about… this Martin?" I asked…
'This is not possible…'
"Yes, Martin Davis, and Luella,… you and Gene's adoptive parents…" the woman said…
"How did you…?" I said then the realization passed me like lightning…
The complexion, the eyes, the attitude…
"We are your parents." The man called Raika said in full Japanese…
AN: OMG!!! Naru's true parents?!?! What are they doing here??? Didn't they die in a car crash??? Why haven't they moved over yet???
Watch out for the next installment : the ghost's girl friend...