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Chapter 5

Mai looked around to find herself in a dark void, she smiled to herself when she realised how calm she was whereas a few years ago she would have been panicking about what was going on. She had grown to love this place as it was the home to one of her fondest friends and soon to be brother-in law.

"Hey Gene" She said softly and heard a chuckle from behind her.

"What gave it away?" he asked in a sarcastic voice.

"My amazing sensing skills and the fact this has been going on for a long time." She replied equally as sarcastic, though it did cause him to laugh.

"You've been hanging around my brother too much Mai, his narcissist ways are beginning to show." He smiled at her. She returned it before watching him look down and reach out a hand, touching it gently on her stomach. "I believe congratulations are in order."

She looked up at him and smiled softly at him. "Thank you, I hope he or she gets to meet their amazing uncle." She watched him blush and laughed softly. "Did you have something to show me or was this just a nice little visit?"

His face fell slightly and she knew the answer and let out a sigh to which he smiled apologetically at her.

"Let's just get it over with…"she said to which he gave a nod and held out a hand for her which she took.

The surrounding area zoomed away and she felt herself grow nauseous as she grabbed hold of Gene's shirt and closed her eyes. When it stopped she looked up at him and saw him watching her, looking concerned.

"Gene….please don't do that again" she said weakly to which he frowned before a look of understanding came to him.

"Sorry." He said softly before looking up as a figure moved. It was then Mai looked up and recognised the surroundings as the gardens of the house. She vaguely thought to herself how well they had redone the gardens now, it was almost identical. Shaking these thoughts away for the moment she watched the scene.

A small girl was hiding behind a bush, laughing to herself as she looked over it before moving back squealing.

"Found you Mina!" another voice said as a young boy jumped around the tree causing the girl to cry in disappointment.

"Kyou you cheated!" Mina pouted to which Kyou laughed, Mai noted that he seemed to be older than Mina.

"No you're just bad at hiding, now stay there and count to 50 and no peaking!" he told her before running away to hide. Mina pouted again before turning to count.

Mai smiled at the childish games before a movement caught her eye and she looked over to see a man walking towards the girl his arms behind his back.

She noticed him say something to her and yet it seemed that the sound had been muted. She frowned and looked up at Gene who seemed to be frowning as well but he continued to watch.

"Why can't we hear them?" She asked him to which he shook his head as if to say he had no idea.

"Just keep watching Mai." He told her, which she did.

The man was starting to walk away and Mina waved goodbye happily and went back to counting. It was then Mai gasped as she noticed the man walk back up to the young girl and wrap a hand around her face a piece of cloth in his hand, Mina started to struggle but the man kept his hold on the girl.

"Gene!" She gasped tugging his sleeve as he watched the girl collapse into his arms. "Mina!"

"Mai this happened a long time ago, there is nothing we can do about it." Gene told her sadly as he watched the scene, Mai looked back and managed to get a look at the man who was holding the girl as he walked across the grass away from the house. It was then the scene went black and she found herself staring at the place the man had been.

"It's time to wake up Mai." Gene's voice called to her as she found herself disappearing from the void.

Mai opened her eyes and came face to face with her still sleeping fiance which brought a soft smile to her face. Sitting up she looked at the clock that was on Narus side of the bed, she knew it had to be early for Naru to still be asleep and the time the clock displayed didn't let her down as it read 6:45.
"Naru must have had a late night" she thought, reflecting on the fact he hadn't gone to bed when she had and the fact he was still asleep.
Leaning over she gave him a kiss on the check and began to move away only for Naru to stop her by holding onto her wrist. She jumped and turned to look at him where she saw him looking up at her, she smiled at him lying down again so she was resting against him.
"Good Morning," Mai said softly and was greated by him wrapping his arms around her waist resting his hands on her stomach.
"Morning" he replied equally as softly his eyes closed and he let out a sigh.
"What time did you turn in last night?" she asked in concern as she watched him struggle to stay awake.
"Late" Naru replied simply and she just smiled before closing her eyes as well and cuddled into him.
What seemed like moments later a beeping sound echoed throughout the room, making them jump as they both looked over to the clock that now read 7:30 and they soon realised they had fallen asleep again. Sighing Mai got up and walked over to the bathroom as Naru sat up and turned off the alarm, before placing his head in his hands.

"Naru if you're still tired you can go back to sleep and I'll tell the others that you had a late night." Mai's voice said softly and he looked up to see her standing in front of him wearing a skirt and a sweater.

"No It's fine, If I don't turn up they will just give me grief later." He sighed as he stood up and walked over to the bathroom. Mai laughed softly at this following him towards the bathroom where she stood at the door, hearing the water running.

"You and your pride, I wish you'd care a little less about it." Mai smiled leaning against the door. "After all I would like our child to have a father that wasn't dead on the floor due to work."
The door opened at this, causing her to go backwards as a result, only to be caught by Naru who stood over her.

"And I would like our child to have a mother who wasn't so accident prone, but not all of us get what we want do we?" he said with a smirk as Mai glared up at him, only for him to smile softly and lean down and kiss her on the lips, silencing any retort she was about to throw at him leaving her only surprised.

Breaking away he smiled down at her which caused her to blush, "Don't worry I'll start taking better care of myself."

"I would reply and say I'll try to be less clumsy but we all know that's just asking for it." Mai replied which made him laugh, which in turn made her smile.

Arriving at the base they found only Lin and Masako inside, both of whom looked up when they entered the room.

"Good Morning." Mai said brightly to the occupants who smiled at her and replied, happy with this response Mai went and sat down next to Masako on the sofa.
"Has anything happened since last night?" Naru asked walking over to Lin, who was (as usual) at the computer screens keeping vigilance over the entire house; both visually and audibly.

"No it's been quiet everything seems to be fine." Lin replied as Naru leaned over and looked over the readings of the past few hours. "I thought I told you to sleep."
"I did" Naru replied simply to which Lin sighed.

"3 and a half hours is not sleep Naru." He stated only be ignored.

"I told him to go back to sleep, but he was having none of it." Mai added to which Lin sighed again, knowing if Mai couldn't convince him no one else stood a chance.

"I'm fine, When are John and Madoka arriving?" Naru asked, easily changing the conversation.

"They are on their way from the airport now." Lin replied, ignoring the fact he had purposefully changed the subject.

A commotion was heard approaching the room before the doors opened and Bou, Ayako and Daichi entered the room.

"I can't believe you forgot to pack my make up bag!" Ayako yelled at Bou who just gave an annoyed sigh.

"Look woman, it was your stuff why, am I being blamed when you packed your own damn luggage" he replied.

As they entered the room Daichi ran straight over to Mai and sat on her lap as he watched his parents fight, finding it extremely amusing. Mai and Masako found they too couldn't help but smile at the couple as they argued over nonsense.

"Hey you two." Mai called gaining their attention. "Do you have to be so loud so early in the morning?"

"I wouldn't be so loud if someone here had remembered my makeup bag!" Ayako yelled at Bou who growled.

"For god's sake you don't need any make up Ayako, you're beautiful without it!" Bou shouted only to realise what he said and blushed, as did Ayako and that was the end of the argument.

"Nice one Bou-san~ that will earn you some brownie points later I'm sure." Yasuhara said as he entered the room clapping his hands.

"Shut up you little nerd." Bou muttered embarrassed, to which everyone, excluding Lin and Naru, laughed at.

"Well it seems rather chipper in here today." A familiar accented voice said from the door way and they all looked up to see John and Madoka enter the room. "G'day mates"

"John, Madoka!" Mai said standing up from the sofa and running over to give them each a hug.

"This is a place of work, not for you all to mess around, so all of you get to work." Naru's cold voice echoed in the room causing them all to stop, sigh and get to work.

"Come on Naru, It's still early and they just got here, let's all have some tea." Mai said to which Naru gave a sigh but said nothing in response which caused Mai to smile. "John would you come and help me?"

"Sure thing." John replied and followed her out the base and towards the kitchen.

"I hear you've been keeping something from everyone Mai." John said suddenly as they walked, causing Mai to look up and see the Australian with a smile on his face.
"H-how do you know that?" Mai stuttered.
"Madoka likes to gossip." John stated with a laugh. "However she didn't fill me in on all the details so what, if you don't mind my asking, is the big secret?"
They had reached the kitchen and Mai gave a sigh, before she began sorting out the tea.

"I really wanted to tell everyone at Christmas, but everything sort of blew up…But actually Naru and I are going to be parents; I'm pregnant." She said softly, a warm smile on her face.

"Congratulations!" John exclaimed. "I wondered how long it would be until you guys settled down."

"Not everyone knows yet so could you keep it quiet…I'd rather they heard from me and Naru." Mai asked, placing the cups of tea and cup of milk onto 2 trays.

"Sure, no problem I'm very happy for you both." He replied as he took a tray from the counter and they started to head back towards the Base.

That was until Mai stopped.
Something didn't feel right, looking around she knew she could sense something, and then she heard it. The sound of a child laughing and she recognised it instantly and her first thought went to Daichi but she knew he was safe with his parents and that left only Eri.

"Is something wrong Mai?" John asked looking back to her, concerned as to why she had suddenly stopped.

"I don't know," she said placing the cups of tea on a table nearby. "John can you go back to the base and ask Naru to look at the camera in Eri's room.
"Sure but…" John started only to be cut off by Mai yelling "Thanks" and running down a corridor. "That girl never changes."
Mai followed the sound of laughter right to Eri's door, which she slowly opened and looked inside only for her eyes to widen when she saw Eri sitting on the floor playing with the ghost's young boy and girl, Mai knew for sure then that they were harmless as they were smiling and laughing as they played.

"Good morning Eri, wow you guys are having fun," Mai said entering the room which caused the playing to stop instantly and all three children looked at her which made her smile as she walked over to two ghosts. "I'm sorry it took me so long to find out your names, Kyou and Mina."

Hearing their names both children smiled widely at Mai before they laughed again.
"We know your name to Mai! We were watching when you helped Eri find her mummy." Mina stated to which Kyou nudged her in the side.

"Mina you're not supposed to tell her!" he whispered loudly into her ear which made Mai smile.

"It's all right, we're here to help you so please feel free to tell us anything." She said.

"Mai what are you doing here?" Eri asked suddenly and Mai turned to face her.

"I heard laughing and I wanted to see if everything was ok." Mai smiled at the little girl who smiled back.

"It's great, Mina and Kyou are really nice and very fun to play with." Eri said which made Mina and Kyou smile at her before they looked away sadly.

"You're trying to make her happy so she doesn't remember, aren't you." Mai said softly as she noticed their expressions. To this they both looked up at her in shock before they looked away in surprise.

"We just don't want to see her get hurt or anyone else." Kyou stated sadly.

"I know and you both are very brave for that, but in this case maybe Eri needs to remember something so that we can help stop it from happening again?" Mai replied which made Eri look at Mai in confusion.

"Mai is right Kyou, I don't want him to hurt anyone anymore." Mina said as she began to cry.

"Him?" Mai asked before her eyes widened. "Is he the man that kidnapped you?"

Both Ghosts looked at her in alarm before they ran out the room, with Mai behind them.

"Wait!" she called but by the time she had left the room they had vanished.

"They went away…"Eri said sadly from in her room.

"I think they had to go home for a little while but I'm sure you will see them again." Mai said softly as she walked back over to the little girl and lead her out of the room. "Come on lets go to the others, I'll introduce you to Daichi."

Leading Eri back towards the base, she picked up the tray of teas on the way and they entered the room together.

"Mai where have you been?" Naru asked in concern as he walked over to her.

"Didn't John ask you to check the monitor?" Mai asked in confusion as she placed the tray on the desk.

"Yes, I take it you saw the Ghosts again and I also take it you had a dream last night." He replied.

"I meant to tell you, but after this morning I forgot." She said blushing at the memory before she went on to tell him everything she saw the night before.

The room went silent after that and all the attention in the room seemed to be fixed on either Daichi, Eri and in Naru's case; Mai.

"Yasuhara, Madoka find out any information on this house involving the kidnapping of children by the names of Mina and Kyou, from what we've seen they will be at least 50 years ago and then I want you to find any similar occurrences from that point on." Naru ordered to which they both gave a nod and left the room.

"Masako, you and John take readings from the room and see if you can sense anything."

Like before Masako and John gave a nod before they also left.

"Bou and Ayako please go and check the grounds, Daichi and Eri will stay here with myself, Lin and Mai as it will be the safest place at the moment."

The couple gave a relunctant nod and left the room after saying goodbye to their son who waved as they left.

"And now we wait." Mai stated as everyone left.

"Yes, and now we wait." Naru echoed before he went back over to Lin.

I am sooooooo sorry it's taken me this long to update you must all hate my guts –hides in corner of shame- a few things happened over the last few months, but the main one is that I lost my partner T_T she has vanished; infact I'm thinking of putting up a reward poster for anyone who can find her for me!

I also went back to school this year – yes BACK to school ^ ^ I'm studying for my A Levels so I can go to University . better late than never, but that has taken up all of my time. I'm really sorry…Not to mention I got stuck on what to write.

Anyway I'm really, really sorry for the delay and so I'm giving you an extra long chapter filled with nothing but fluff, info and GENE! Hehehe kindness~

I'm not sure when the next update will be, but please believe I will write this even if it takes 50 years! Or….wishing my life away…But you guys are worth it ^ ^

See you next chapter