AN: Good News none of the tornados hit our home. With all the time I had waiting out the storm I decided to write a new chapter. Anyways I do not own Ghost Hunt. Read and enjoy!

Chapter 3

Lin's POV-

I can hear my door slowly being opened, shut than the click of my lock being slipped into place and the only person that would do that aside from Yasuhara and Gene, would be Madoka. Deciding to play along with whatever charade she has planned I continue typing and looking up information until I feel her hands go over my eyes.

In her semi seductive voice "Guess who?"

To mess with her "Ayako I told you not at work. People will start thinking things if you keep locking yourself in the office with me."

Smacking me on the back of the head and giggling "You couldn't play along for just a minute, going and spoiling my fun by trying to make jealous." I can tell she is pouting a bit and decide to amend for my actions. Pulling her close I kiss her soundly on the lips; she is grinning like she planned the whole interaction and knowing her this what she had in mind from the very beginning.

Deciding to cut to the chase since, I really did have quite a bit of work to do before we left for the case tomorrow; "to what do I owe the pleasure of you company?"

Looking a little sheepish Madoka replied "I wanted to see if you will go get lunch with me?"

"I would love to but Noll just sent me a huge list of things he wants me to research before we leave tomorrow and if I don't do it now I will be up most the night researching. With me being the one driving the 8 hours to theater I really don't want to be up all night. I will take you to dinner; however, and leave a lit early today in order to spend time with you."

Pouting slightly but not too much since I did say I would spend the evening with her she jumps off the desk "I'll give you a hand at researching and call Yasu, he can help us then maybe we will make to dinner in a reasonable amount of time."

Nodding I agree to this seeing as it would take a huge load off my plate and give me time to spend with my future wife though at this point I have yet to propose it is inevitable that we end up together she has intrigued me since she was 16 and telling me I could not hate her because of a whole race of people and a war we did not take part in. She used logic to outsmart my bias and decide to take my heart hostage over the years.

-Back with Naru after his argument with Gene regarding his feelings for Mai-

Shifting my focus back to the case at hand I realize I have drunk all my tea. I can feel the twitch that builds when my tea cup is empty. Sighing and pinching my nose I yell "MAI TEA"

5 minutes later

Still no tea, really did she just ignore me I haven't even been back an entire day and she is ignoring my request for tea. I don't think so!

All the sudden, an ear piercing scream shatters the air.

I burst out of my office into the main room making my way to the culprit, before the others. Shaking her slightly, "Mai wake up, Damn it Mai focus!"

Mai's Dream –

Her vision was a dark bluish hue, thinking about how much she hates it when it is this color because that means what she sees has already happened and she can do nothing to save them.

Finishing punching in at the time clock she turned around when her boss addressed her, "Hanako, tonight you are going to work the projectors. Tomorrow is when all of our new releases are coming out and I need you to build the new movies on projector 8 and preview them so that everything will be in order for the early viewing previews at midnight."

Getting ready to pout about being put upstairs and the fact that it creeps me out to be alone up there in the dark, I saw the impatient look that passed over his face. "Look, I know you hate being up there but you want to be considered for the assistant manager positions don't you? Just consider this as a leg up over everyone else and do this job right and there is a high possibility that the position will be yours."

Frustrated I nod my head in acceptance. He has been dangling the assistant manager position over all of our heads like candy for the last two months. Rumor is he doesn't want to name someone because we all agree to do what he asks us when he mentions giving it to us. I know the person that will really get it is Kazuko because I saw them to together in the office last week and they were not just having a friendly little chat, I know she saw me walk in since she was the one facing me and he was a little too lost with what her mouth was doing to him. Unable to look away I watched ill he finished and released her head smirking she winked at me awaking me from my frozen state. That is when I heard him say the position was all hers.

I am currently agitated at my boss. Why did he always make me build the new movies? As soon as I showed up to work he assigned me to the movie both. I hated working up here all by myself I would rather be downstairs talking to the customers coming in. Instead I'm up here isolated and alone. Sighing I pick up the first new reel and put it on the cutting table I have to be careful the blade on this table can easily cut off an extremity. Putting my headphones on and setting to work. I wasn't paying attention to anything around me other than putting the movies together.

Out of nowhere my head is smashed into the work bench and pain shoots through my head down my neck. Struggling to get a look at my attacker I realize that they are pushing my head under the sharp cutting blade and my last thought is I don't want to die.

Everyone's POV –

Mai was thrashing, crying and convulsing. Tears leaking down her check as her eyes popped open and with a gasp and bowing of the table like something from the exorcist she stop breathing.

Noll was starting to panic he could not get her to wake up and now she wasn't breathing. Acting purely out of instinct he started CPR compressions and mouth to mouth. After about a minute and a half she started gasping for air in ragged breaths. Picking her up off the floor Noll took her in to his office and laid her on the couch not giving a thought in the world to the rest of his office staff or the fact all of them were looking at him with varying degrees of shock. Closing the door Noll pulled up a chair and waited for Mai to come around.

Outside Noll's office-

Lin was looking smugly at Gene and said "I told you if you would leave your brother alone he will figure things out for himself."

Madoka smiling just said "It's about time he figured it out, that girl was a wreck while he was gone, I know she has been having some terrible dreams and doesn't know how to control this ability. Mai would come into work some days and look like she hadn't slept in two or three nights. When I would ask her what is wrong she would just shake her head and say that she was fine. The only person who was ever able to get the whole story from her was your idiot scientist brother and with him being gone she didn't want to tell anyone about what was going on. In fact she tried to play it off many times hoping not to worry us with her problems but I could tell her powers were growing and she had no idea how to control them. "

Looking grim Gene replied with "Well we are back now and I will try to help her the best I can but Lin probably needs to start teaching her some meditation techniques."

Nodding Lin looks deep in thought "I can start training her on this case if her powers continue on the path they are on it could destroy her. I will speak to Noll and see what he has to say on the matter. For now we need to focus on finding all the information on this case we can. If her reaction was any indication this case is not going to be a typical case that is easily solved. What time will everyone be meeting us tomorrow?"

Madoka replied "We leave at 6 a.m. the only not meeting us here is Father Brown he is on his way back from Australia and will meet us at the movie theater tomorrow night once his flight lands."

Shaking his head Lin makes a mental note of this information and proceeds back into his office.

Gene glances at Madoka and smiles "you're glad he's back huh?"

Smiling Madoka shakes her head "yeah, life's just not the same without the one who holds your heart."

Chuckling Gene says "Careful Madoka I will mistake you for a love struck teenage that has lost all sense of reason."

"No I still have my reason Gene, he just happens to be very tall and strong." With a wink Madoka twirls round and heads back to her office.

Muttering to himself "What will Masako think when I see her tomorrow, the last we met she impressed me know skill and knowledge, will she still have feelings for my brother or realize it futile and Mai has already won his heart."

Back in Naru's Lair

Mai's POV –

Groaning I try to sit up when to firm but gentle hands hold me in place. Opening my eyes , My chocolate brown irises clash with sapphire blue. At first I think it is Gene because of the softness of the eyes until I realize Gene's are never this blue they are more of a graying blue like the sea on a cloudy day. These eyes belong to the one who makes my pulse race and my face heat up. "Naru"

His voice laced with an emotion that I'm not sure if I understand "You should rest Mai your powers are still simmering at the surface and your body more than likely cannot handle a round two. Why didn't you tell Madoka about how far your abilities have grown? She would have informed me if you had and she did not so I am assuming that she had no clue they had gotten this far out of hand."

Breaking eye contact so I didn't have to see the disapproving look that would come with my answer "I didn't want to worry anyone, you were in England and had so much on your plate with your being found and Madoka had to worry about running the office and still trying to her job for BPR. I just thought I could handle it and this was going to be no big deal. It wasn't till recently that my powers progressed to this point. I have a hard time tuning out spirits now and even when we are not about to embark on a case I have random death dreams from any point of view."

I was starting to tear up and this frustrated me I was not one of those girls who cried all the time.

Naru just sighed and sat back in the chair pinching the bridge of his nose. Trying not to giggle from the familiar sight that I had not seen in 6 months I knew he was trying to find a solution for the problem I had just presented and what he said next left me shocked quite literally.

"Well there is only two options at this point seeing as you are not responsible enough to report this to the people whom can help you. Either Madoka or I will be moving in with you in order to monitor your powers and be there in case a situation arises again like today where you stop breathing. Someone needs to be there to revive you; I would feel responsible if you died on me."

Gaping like a fish it took me a minute to process what he said. "Madoka I would rather live with Madoka considering living with you my worst nightmare and dream come true all wrapped in to one. So for the time being Madoka will be better roommate choice."

Smirking at me, I tried to figure out what I had said that would warrant such a look. "So you would like to live with me but your too scared is that right, Mai…I have to say I am flattered and you have good taste but I would merely be there to observe you in your natural habitat when you natural animal instincts go haywire."

What did Naru just call me an animal! Screaming "NARU YOU JERK!"

He just shakes his head and says "If you can scream you are obliviously feeling well enough to get up and work. Oh and Mai TEA."

Naru's POV –

Trying to keep myself from laughing at the face she made after I implied she was animal and she threw her little fit while storming out of my office and slamming the door in her wake. She can be really adorable when she wants too and it is so much fun getting her all riled up. Not only that she seems to have forgotten about the dream and when she brings me my tea I will have her relay it to me, I just hate seeing her so upset.

'What did you do to Mai this time I am sure all of Tokyo heard her call you a jerk.'

'I did nothing you know how she is over reacting because of the littlest things. Besides it is not my fault she acts like a wild animal.'

'Idiot Scientist you did not call her a wild animal, did you. I cannot believe you really of all things you could talk about her being like a wild animal was the one you thought was an appropriate topic of conversation.'

I could feel his glare in my head.

'No I brought up the fact that since her powers were so unstable that either myself or Madoka would be staying with her until we could determine the extent of her powers since they tend to be much like animalistic instinct and that is when she yelled at me.'

Mentally sighing at me 'when are you going to learn that she values your opinion over everyone else's and telling her that does not help her opinion of her powers that she has if you compare them to animal instinct. Think about it Noll how did you feel when your powers started to manifest, you were quite the animal yourself remember.'

With that Gene left me to my own thoughts I guess he did have a point when my power first awoke it was a reaction to a situation that Gene and I were in at the time. Not something that I like to remember but he did have a point. I suppose I should smooth things over with Mai then get her to relay the dream to me.

Mai's POV –

While I was making tea for the boss I was trying to decipher the dream I just had. I remember that in the dream I was a girl named Hanako that did not like the job her boss assigned her to and I had this enormous feeling of resentment when it came to him for what exactly I don't really remember maybe if I go over the dream with Naru I can recall more of the event's that happen.

Naru thinking about him makes me remember the fact he just called me an animal. Bunching my fist to my side I take a minute to think and realize that he was trying to make me feel better after waking up from that death dream. Not one to look a gift horse in the mouth I quickly finish the tea and knock on Naru's door waiting for his grunt of entry.

Looking up from his papers as a walk in he looks at the tea in my hand like it is a long lost lover. Giggling at my mental image I earn a questioning look from Naru.

"I just forgot how much you love tea. I bet you are missing the tea from home already."

He shrugged then gave an airy reply "Not particularly, I prefer the tea here."

Shocked I kind of just nod my head. Thinking about the dream I decide I should bring it up now that the beast has been temporarily subdued " Naru, are you ready for me to tell you what I remember from my dream?"

Motioning for me to sit in the chair in front of his desk I take it as my queue to begin. "In my dream I am a girl named Hanako….."

AN: That my friend is the end of chapter 3, My longest chapter to date! Hurray I survived the weather! (I knew we would but my roommate hates storms and thinks that anytime there is a tornado around then we are all going to die and it must be the end of the world. However that is what I am here for I am her balance to her extreme anxiety over the superficial.) Anyways Read and Review I would appreciate it! Peace, Love and Chocolate!

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