Protectors

by lizzykittystar

Naru and Mai must face that their past may not be what they remember, what really happened? A stranger comes and turns their world upside down, and the team still has to face challenging cases, but can they overcome them?

2. Chapter 2

Chapter 2- Just another ordinary day, right?

A/N I so glad that people liked it Now I do not mind criticism as that will help me improve and I'm sorry if anyone seems too OCC, but it is my first ghost hunt fanfic, ok? Help me improve c:

Disclaimer: I do NOT own Ghost Hunt, but I wish I did…

Oh yeah "this is English," Almost forgot to put that in there hehe

Yumiko's POV

"This House is perfect!" I shouted in excitement as I continued, "There is even enough room for your entire team, if we need it! Although we shouldn't buy too many breakable things in case Mai's becomes more of a klutz." Naru and Mai just remained silent ever since Lin talked to them yesterday;

(Flashback to yesterday)

"Yu, they deserve to know if we are going to follow them everywhere for the rest of their lives just to protect them." Lin argued his point blocking my view of the door to see my face which I hid my emotions just like my younger brother with a stoic mask, but Lin knew me better almost as well as his girlfriend Madoka.

"I am well aware of that fact, but they hardly remember me. I was going to wait to tell them after Gene showed them their memories, leaving out what they actually saw that day." I retorted. We sighed in unison knowing we both had a valid point, but neither one of us wanting to give in. I swear my pride and ego were almost as big as my little brother, but I could actually express my emotions better. I snickered slightly at an even older memory, where Madoka would break up our fighting as while telling us we were both right and wrong at the same time and there was nothing we could do now, what was done is the past. Lin smiled softly and I could no longer be mad at him. "I'm going to call Madoka, and tell her that it's time for us to become what we were trained to do." I stated out loud. He nodded and I noticed he wanted to say something, but thought against it and walked away quietly.

(End of flashback)

I wish he really didn't tell them that I knew about their past, they always stayed silent around me almost as if they were ignoring me. I groaned as I brought my hands to my face, when do I tell them and how? I wanted Gene to show them, that much was clear, but only Mai possessed the ability to get into the spirit world and astral-project. "Naru, Mai, go gather your belongings and I will meet you at SPR to discuss my case. Make sure your team comes too." I ordered. They simply nodded and turned away from Lin and myself quietly walking away. I grabbed Lin arm before intensely glaring into his eyes. "Do not take your eyes off of either of them. I'm counting on you." I stated with authority in my voice. He nodded and hurried after them. I sighed and picked up a phone. After a few rings a voice called out hello. "Moshi, Moshi. Madoka, its Yu."

I was already at the office when Mai and Naru arrived with Lin right behind them. "Mai, Tea." Naru ordered.

"Wait; do you know how to make Earl Grey tea?" I asked staring intently at her waiting for her to answer. She nodded while she sweat dropped. "Please make it. I have not had tea in so long." I pleaded almost begging her to make the tea.

"S-sure." She stuttered and almost ran to the little kitchenette that the office had. I relaxed back into the seat as she gave me a cup with some sugar and honey on the side.

"Thank you." I whispered and she smiled brightly at me as she ran off to give the guys theirs. The aroma of tea was relaxing and made me a little homesick for England, but that place was never my home like it was Gene's and Naru's. I took a sip and saw why my brother had developed an addiction to Mai's tea; it is the best tea I have ever tasted. Soon the door opened and people I have seen, but never had the pleasure of meeting poured into the office taking seating on the couches near me. "Hello, I suggest you all get comfortable since you will be here away." I stated and we all got some more tea or other refreshments. Which I took another sip of before beginning, "My name is Yumiko Brown, as I am sure you have figured out, I'm Naru's sister but I am older than by eight years. I am here to stay for quite a while and thus I have started to take cases myself, but my line of work is slightly different than most ghost cases, but you have encountered a monster and a god and prevailed. I have faith in this team to be able to succeed, but even if you do not know how to monster hunt, you all can still help me because monsters cases tend to include a vast amount of ghosts or spirits, so either way I will need your help even if it turns out not to be a monster case, I ask to help me as you have helped my brother. It will be both of us in charge, but if I say something, I mean it, my cases can get life-threating, which reminds me to say do not ever let Mai wonder off alone, ever. Besides that, any questions?" They all stared quietly absorbing the information first.

"What types of monsters do you usually fight?" John-san asked curiously, but the whole group seemed to want to know that answer as someone leaned forward.

"Usually it's low level demons and goblins, though I mainly encountered just spirits and I cannot do anything about them that is how you guys got the doll house case. I sent that one your way." I replied. They stared at me for a second and nodded. "That being said, there are chances you will get hurt, but if we all are together those chances go down." I explained "So your answer please?" I asked politely. They look at each to have a silent conversation for a second before they turned to me and nodded towards me. "Good, onto my case details. It's a boarding which is believed to be haunted or cursed. The client said that some of disappeared and when found again in a nearby rose garden and question all they could remember was being taken away by some sort of phantom. I do not enough details to figure out if it is a monster or not. Luckily no one has seriously been injured, just taken away, but no one has a clue to why these girls are taken." I said as I started to pass out photos of the victims. "A total of twelve girls have been taken this year alone, which leaves me warning Mai and Hara-san are not to be left alone. It's not that I don't believe in your abilities, it's that these disappear for a whole month and we cannot have that to any team member." I stated. All the pictures were of teens and what bothered me was bringing Mai along, but I cannot protect her and Naru until I do the ritual. I already had mother and father coming to observe the ritual, but I have failed to tell my little brother that. "Naru, we have a week to prepare for this case, but um.. Our mother and father are on the way here now." I informed him and which he responded with a growl. He began to glare with ice daggers, but I was not intimidated by his glare and returned my own.

"Why would they visit us now, huh, Yumiko?" He asked still trying to threaten me with his glare.

"I'm honest in my reports even if it is the first one I have sent in years, but it's time to take back my responsibilities again. And they are here for Mai as well." I replied to him allowing authorityto slip back in my voice.

"Why are they here for me as well?" Mai asked in perfect English which cause shock to crack though Naru's indifferent mask, but it did not surprise me since this idiot brother of mine left her here; she devoted herself to her studies and hid it till she needed it.

"I will explain later when they arrive for now let us dismiss the team before they get here." I grabbed my tea cup and went into Naru's office to thinkI felt the stares the bore into my back as I left the door open, but I needed to think. It's been so long since that day I came back to Japan, so long since that fateful day. I almost forgot how to interact with other people! I been out of sight so long with no contact to others, but Lin and that was only when Mai was in peril which was more than I thought any other human could be in a lifetime. I snapped out of my thoughts when I heard the door open and close. I went back to the lobby only to find everyone still here and stared at my adopted parents who have not seen me since my sudden disappearance. I was holding my breath when I saw them standing before me here now. Mother ran to me and hugged me tightly. "Please do not disappear again! We missed you so much." I stood there for a few seconds my arms handing by my side not sure as to what to do. Then awkwardly copied what she was doing to me and hugged her. "I do not plan to, but why is everyone still here? I thought you only wanted Mai." I replied to her and glared at my father

"Honestly we were interested in all of Noll's team. You could use more help in England." My father answered which earned him to icy glares and a few gasps. I heard whispers, but I ignored feeling my anger rise in me.

"Who said I was going to England? I'm staying here in Japan with Mai and Naru. I'm sorry if that sounded like I had different intentions. I wanted to make sure I was allowed to protect Mai and Naru, just like before." I retorted with spite clearly in my voice. My father and mother exchanged glances before nodding.

"We figured we shouldn't have high hopes since you have been here for ten years, but then what do you suggest?" My father asked clearly remembering his position as the head of SPR back in England.

"If Naru and Lin do not mind then we will continue this office as a branch of SPR of course hiding our identities a secret to keep the media at bay. Is that alright father and mother?" I suggested hoping that they would take it. They stared at each other for a few moments before nodding.

"Fine, but under one condition, your reports must be completely honest no avoiding questions about anyone or anything. And if we give you a case we expect you to take it no matter what within reason of course." My mother ordered allowing her own dark authority to be in her command. Naru and me were shaking while everyone else sweat dropped.

"Is that ok, Naru and Lin?" I asked my voice shaken somewhat my mother's powerful voice. They simply nodded not trusting their voices.

"Then we will say that you are an official branch of England from now, but we will try to keep that from the media from now on, but you also called in for a different reason as well." My father stated.

"Yes, I would rather not ask in front of everyone else but I do not think you are giving me a choice, so I want to take the protector's oath since I found my two charges as well as reinstate the protector's circle. Please I cannot tell them about their past unless I do so." I requested gritting my teeth together hoping they would just simply agree and not question me further. The silence was filled with deep curiosity and I looked up to my parents hoping that would be the last inquiry.

"Okay, but who are your charges? We know Noll is one, but the other?" My mother asked as I cringed almost dropping my tea. I sighed heavily before breathing out the name,

"Mai." This caused a commotion as I heard several threats from Takigawa-san and Matsuzaki-san as well as a few gasps from Brown-san and Hara-san. Yasuhara-san and Naru stayed quiet but I could see them trying to figure this out. I just calmly sipped some super Earl Gray tea before putting it down and steeling my eyes. "Sit and Listen. If you are to be a part of the Japanese Branch of SPR then you have to learn a few things. I do not have time to teach children everything so listen." I ordered with every ounce of power behind it that I could muster. I turned to my gaze to my parents before asking, "Then I have you permission, correct." I stated less darkly than I had before and mother and father nodded. I ran to my bag to grab a candle and some incense before returning to the group. I had also changed into a purple robe that was embroidered with green and silver symbols. I tied my hair back with a purple string. I had some of the group gawk at me but I sat down. "Mai and Naru, I'm going to establish a hard line between the two of you and soft line connecting you two to me, do I have your permission?" I asked looking at the two carefully. Mai thought about it for a second and nodded. I knew what Naru was thinking, but it meant that he could safely use his powers again. He nodded after his calculations. "Mai Taniyama I swear to protect you with my life. Not only you, but your family and dearest friends as well. I will use everything in my power to keep you safe. As long as I live I shall protect you." I chanted as the candle lit itself.

"Yu-san, I accept your protection." She whispered softly. I repeated the same chant to Naru and he nodded accepting my protection but not wanting to say it aloud. Then it fell silent as I called the elements silently to help me establish the lines. Everyone felt the power I called thick in the air. I concentrated on Mai's and Naru's energy trying to meld them together to create that line. I heard two gasps and knew I was successful, but I then had to create a soft line so I could know if they were in trouble. It took all my energy to create one line to me and I sent the elements back with a thank you and the candle flared up as I shrieked. I felt the fresh burn marks in my skin letting me never forget my true purpose. I hissed in pain as someone touched the still the delicate skin around my wrists. It started to heal but those marks will never go away. I pushed away the hands that were trying to help.

"I'm fine. It will just hurt for a little bit." I reassured them with a soft smile.

"Fine, but let Ayako see your wrists." Mai ordered, which I almost laughed at her attempt to sound in charge. I held out my hands and I heard the gasps from the stunned team members, there was only a faint pink on the raised skin. I could tell them did not believe that one could heal so fast.

"I said I was fine, didn't I." I stated coldly looking down at the fresh brand marks on my wrist which were Naru's and Mai's name. "Anyway should I tell Naru and Mai their past now or later, mother." I asked sitting down into the seat Lin brought from his office.

"Might as well get it over with." Mother replied. I sighed and drank some tea muttering under my breath that it was cold before I started,

"I first started learning how to monster hunt when I was eight years old, that's when Naru and Gene were born. It was mandatory for a family with seventeen children to be able to protect the seventeenth child from the monsters that would surely come after them. For each seventeenth child that is born, that child is given intense power. I believe you all saw a glimpse of that power. Anyway eight years after later we got attacked in our home in Japan. Most of my brothers and sisters were slaughter in front of me like we were just animals. I had sealed a room off with Gene and Naru inside it, but these monsters mistaken me for the seventeenth child and…" I looked down and sighed before continuing, "They mixed my blood with theirs and I haven't grown, and I can heal faster. My psychic powers grown even though I still can't compete with Naru, but I realized I was not exactly human anymore, but I wasn't sure, no I'm still not sure what I am. Anyway I made sure Naru and Gene didn't remember the whole ordeal, but it seemed Gene just knew, and sometimes Naru would bits and pieces of it while I stayed close to them that year, but I felt this incredible to go to Japan. I left immediately without a word to anyone. I stumble upon a family with a seventeenth child that didn't report her back to England SPR. I tried to help, but I was only able to save the mother and her daughter. I was asked to not to report her to SPR and help protect her from the shadows. Even after her mother went after her family's killers on her own, I looked after this child. For ten years, I protected this child from monsters, but the child indirectly got involved with SPR. I asked Lin to keep her out of his reports as her mother's dying wish was 'Please keep her away from SPR, unless you have no other choice.' I tried, but that child Mai, was having Gene helping her into her powers and once they started there was no stopping them. Also as the cases she went on became more and more perilous I had no choice, but to bring her into SPR so I could protect her." I finished. I looking up to Mai and noticed she was shaking. "Mai, I'm sorry that I failed to get there in time to protect your family the first time, but I won't let that happen again. I will not make the same mistake a second time." I apologized. I felt faint and tightened my grip on Mai's hand. "I'm sorry, but if you have more questions ask me later or ask my father or mother. Lin, do you have a place I can rest for now?" He pointed at Naru's office and I nodded. I stumbled my way there but managed to get to the cot on the floor. I closed my eyes and fell into a light sleep, just in case.

Mai POV

I was still shaking when Yu-san left to rest. "Mai, about ten years ago was also the time we lost contact with our previous JSPR. We knew that Yu', Gene's, and Noll's parents were killed, but the other two leaders we think your parents disappeared from our radar, we knew nothing of what happened until we read Yu's report that expands over the time since she got here. It seems she tried to erase your memories too, but failed mostly instead all she could do was lock up your psychic powers into you ran into another psychic which you did when you met Naru. She followed you though, but always in the shadows, never where you could see her. She was protective of you and told Lin whenever you were in extreme danger and where to find you. It is a very detailed, maybe in the future you can read it when you have calmed down a bit." Luella Davis-san said. I nodded not knowing what to think, my mind felt numb at the moment.

"We have to leave already, so it was nice meeting all of you. Just tell Yu to contact us more." Martin Davis-san said.

"We will miss you, Noll. Don't forget to call." Luella –san called out before leaving. That is when I started to cry. 'Both my parents died not only them but sixteen siblings that I will never know now. They all died in a gruesome way' after I finished that thought that was when the shaking started. I looked around for the source like everyone else getting ready for a fight.

"Hara-san, any spirits?" Naru asked. She shook her head. Then the knocking started and it was extremely loud and I covered my ears.

"Naru!" Lin-san yelled.

"It's not me!"

"Mai! Mai! Mai, look at me! You have to calm down!" Naru yelled. I opened my eyes to Naru's cobalt, and took a deep breath and everything stopped.

"Naru, I feel weak." I breathed out.

"Just keep breathing Mai, just stay still for a little while." Naru sighed in relief as he let go of my shoulders. "Matsuzaki-san keep an eye on her. Since it's her first time she shouldn't need to go to a hospital." Naru ordered.

"Naru, that's her second time poltgeisting. The first time was in the church when Kenji-kun possessed her." Naru turned to face his sister and I looked up to see her holding her head. "You know I followed her around for ten years, right? Of course I know every case she was on. Since she is a danger magnet, so I constantly worried about her when she is on a case. Anyway Lin can you teach her like you taught Gene?" I stated and Lin nodded. "Take her home. If everyone is alright with it, you can stay at my house until the case." Yu-san announced.

"Yu-san, you already have a house here?" Bou-san asked. "Eh, I just got it today and kind of need help getting it set up. I don't know what normal humans need so…" She said looking very cute.

"We will help you!" Everyone shouted except Naru and Lin and myself, I simply nodded too tired to be of any real help before blacking out.

Yumiko POV

The house was completely furnished by what Hara-san, Matsuzaki-san, and Mai choose. The guys moved most of it and were now exhausted and I who helped as much as the guys were standing there not tired from all the work. "Yu-san, why aren't tired?" Takigawa-san asked.

"I guess I have a higher stamina level than all of you ," I replied before getting cut off.

"Dinner is ready!" Matsuzaki-san called out. The guys shuffled off to the dining room and I followed them curious to see a dinner after so long of not having one. I watched them as they started eating, but I looked down at my food and saw nothing familiar. I was about to get up and leave when I heard,

"Yu-san, what are you doing? Are you not hungry?" Mai asked innocently. I sat down and picked up the tea cup filled with Earl Gray tea and drank it all.

"No Mai, I'm not hungry. I do not have to eat or drink anything, but I have taste buds so I can still taste food. I cannot cry yet I have tear ducts." I replied then added, "Besides that I don't remember how to eat or even recognize the stuff in front of me." The table went silent and seemed almost frozen. I drank all the Earl Gray tea that was in my cup. "Can I have more tea, please? I will try food later, but for now Mai's tea will suffice." I asked Mai, before my statement about the food problem. She quickly came back with my cup that now had more tea. "Thank you. Now I have research I have to do. You guys can decide who gets what room, but Mai and Naru get the two master bedrooms, understand?" I heard all the responses of agreement except Mai's and Naru's. I glanced at the two before sighing softly at the old memories that were rising back to the surface again that I pushed back down as I walked down the hall. Then I heard Gene's voice in my head as I locked myself in the study.

'Onii-san, it has been a while.'

'Yes it has.' I thought back.

'So, you want me to show them the past right?' He asked and I'm glad for once he was being serious.

'Yes, but let's leave out the killings, they do not need to see them.' I responded putting down the case file I had with me all day.

'Okay, but how are you going to get Noll into the dream?' He asked smirking somewhat like I hadn't thought of it yet.

'I will figure something out. Go prepare it for now. Until next time, little brother.' I felt him leave without a proper goodbye and smiled to myself as I walked back to find everyone asleep, well now it is my turn to do my part.

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