Okay people, here's a SPOILER warning, it only hints at it currently but trust me this will go into full blown spoilers. But if you want you can still read, actually I recommend it! And review!


Chapter 3- Madeline

"Mai, wake up! Mai!" Madoka tried to shake the girl awake. They had moved her to the couch in the library and Naru had covered her with a blanket. But no matter how hard they tried to revive the girl they elicited no response.

"Lin, how's her temperature?" Naru said in a cold voice as he turned to look at the older man. Lin shook his head and Naru went over and looked at the screen that Lin had set up and saw that Mai was turning blue quickly and the red that indicated the warmth of her body was quickly disappearing. Naru growled underneath his breath before turning back to look at Mai as Madoka and Kim kept attempting to revive her.

'How is this happening? She gave no symptoms of being hurt or sick and she collapsed with no warning.' Naru thought as he studied Mai trying to figure out what was going on. For the first time he was coming up with a blank before he decided that he needed to see the passageway.

"Kim, can you show Lin and myself where the secret passageway you found was?" Naru asked and Kim nodded before leading them to the door and opening it before handing her flashlight to Naru who took it and she watched as the men disappeared.

Naru kept walking until they reached the door. He looked at Lin and the man traced his fingers over the words graved into the door before tracing the gargoyle and frowning before shaking his head.

"There's nothing malicious about this door, Naru. Even the most sensitive of people could see there's nothing on this door and I have feeling there was nothing ever on this door, rather than a threat warning strangers so that they'll stay away." Lin wiped his hands on his pants as he straightened up to his full height.

Naru reached out to pull on the handle of the door and found that it wouldn't budge from the door frame. Naru closed his eyes before opening them and frowning before turning to Lin.

"I need to see what happened to Mai." even in the dark he could see Lin's eyes widen before Naru headed out of the passageway and into the library where Madoka was the only one sitting with Mai. Naru stood by Mai before he reached out to touch her forehead stopping when Madoka grabbed his wrist.

"Don't do it, Naru. You don't know if she's alive or not and if she's possessed you will see the death of the ghost." Madoka said and Naru frowned before freeing his wrist from her grip.

"What else would you suggest we do? Mai's losing time, quickly and this is the only thing I can think of to do that may produce some results." Naru snapped at the woman and Madoka sighed before she brushed Mai's bangs back.

"Naru, you've already seen someone you care about die through your eyes…can you stand to do that a second time?" Madoka asked and Naru growled as he glared down at her.

"That's different." he snapped and Madoka bent her head before straightening up and standing and meeting his cold blue eyes.

"Is it really, Naru? Are you trying to make it up to Gene by saving her?" Madoka asked and Naru felt as though he were slapped in the face. "Are you trying to save her because you couldn't save him? Naru, don't do this because you're trying to prove a point."

"I'm not doing this for him, Madoka. I am not going to stand here and watch as Mai slips away." Naru reached out and pressed his hand against Mai's forehead and felt something pass through him.

Madoka sighed before she left the room and bumped into Lin who she saw had a worried look on his face. She closed the library door and shook her head. They both knew what was going on.

"He's trying to prove himself." she whispered and Lin sighed before looking over his shoulder at the closed door.

"The question is…is he trying to prove himself to Gene, us, Mai, or himself?" Lin asked and Madoka frowned before shaking her head.

"I wish I knew." she answered.


Naru found himself in the hallway but he realized that he was himself and not someone else. He heard footsteps and watched as the woman he recognized as Madeline entered the room from the conservatory that was located opposite of the library. She looked upset and frazzled and Naru realized that a man was standing at the front door.

"Jonathon, you are not wanted here!" Madeline snapped angrily and Naru watched as the man stepped out into the light but his face was still in darkness and Naru frowned, wondering who's eyes he was seeing this through.

"Get off it Madeline, I am just as much of a Lunar as you are, more so than those brats you're taking care off." Jonathon snarled and Madeline shook her head.

"You lost that honor the moment you put that poison in father's drink." she replied before crying out as Jonathon pulled a gun on her and shot. Naru was quiet suddenly moving and he realized whoever he was had run from Jonathon.

"Chris!" Naru heard Jonathon call after him before he was in a large room with several children. Naru grabbed the oldest looking girl and she looked at him startled.

"Get everyone together, go through the secrets passageway and get away from this house. And change your names, go to one of the better orphanages and hide! My brother and I'll be going to go to Spain and if you need me I'll be there, just do as I say." Naru said and the girl nodded before taking all the orphans and slipping through a secret passageway and Naru watched them go.

Naru left the room and found himself face to face with Jonathon and the gun and Naru realized that Chris was not the oldest son. He felt a burning in his chest and he dropped to the ground as the pain spread through his body and Naru closed his eyes and seconds later he was ripping his hand away from Mai's forehead and looking back down at her.

"Alright, Chris, I know what happened. Get out of Mai." he told the unconscious girl before stepping back as her body arched up and Naru watched as Mai's eyes opened and she sat up and Naru knew from the way she sat that she wasn't Mai.

"I'm not my son, Mr. Shibuya. I am Madeline. I thought it would be easier to let you see what happened through my son's eyes." Mai said and Naru sighed before he sat down in a chair beside the couch where 'Madeline' was sitting cross legged.

"What is going on?" Naru asked and the woman sighed before she stood up and went over to the book shelves. She ran her fingers over the spines before turning to look at Naru with an almost pained look on her face.

"I am not a witch…I was never a witch. I just used medicines to help the children with illnesses and because of that I was accused and everyone thought my brother should replace me as the leader.

"But they did not know his secret. And telling you I could put you into serious danger but I know you saw. So many things have happened in this wretched house that I would much rather not know. So many terrible things that I can't begin to describe that I saw when I was a little girl.

"I suppose that because of my childhood that I started up my orphanage to try and help the children. And yet I was cursed for being different, for being something a woman of my day and age was not supposed to be." Mai turned away and studied the books again. Naru stood up and placed himself behind her and studied the books over her shoulder.

"Humans are naturally afraid of that which they can not understand." Naru said and Mai turned around with a smile on her face before she began to walk around with her hand trailing on the bookshelves before she stopped on the opposite side of the room and turned to look at him.

"And what's different about you, Mr. Shibuya? You speak as though from experience." Mai said and Naru looked at her before a smirk formed on his face and shook his head.

"And how am I supposed to know that Mai can't hear me? I would rather her not know the secrets I have as they could put her in danger." he replied and 'Madeline' smiled before starting towards him and stopping in front of him.

"So we both try to protect those that we care for." she said and Naru frowned at her before he stepped around Madeline and picked his case file up from the desk where they had set up the computer and the few thermal screens they had managed to smuggle from Japan.

"And why would you say that?" he asked as he turned back to look at her and she laughed before looking up at the ceiling as though she were the most amused person in the world. She looked back down at Naru and shook her head.

"Mr. Shibuya, it's not hard to see that you have a strong desire to protect this girl. If you didn't then why did you touch her to find out what had happened? What would have you done if you realized it wasn't a ghost turning her blue but her own death that sent her temperature spiraling downwards?" Madeline asked and Naru felt something give a twinge in his chest. He realized belatedly that it was his heart that had jumped at the implication of Mai's death.

"As she isn't dead I don't see how this has anything to do with the Lunar family's problem." Naru said and his breath caught as Mai was suddenly very close to him. Madeline looked very interested.

"Then you really shouldn't mind when I do this." Naru's eyes widened when he felt Mai's lips pressed against his for no longer than five seconds. Naru counted instead of focusing on the feel of her lips. He knew if he focused on the kiss that he would end up doing something that he should not do. Especially with Mai being his assistant.

"Stop it." Naru pushed Mai away and the girl blinked up at him before her eyes slowly slipped closed and she began to fall. Naru caught her and held her and felt his breathing slow to a normal pace when he realized that Mai's body heat was returning to her.

He picked her up before placing her on the couch where she curled up into a ball. He left the room and went to his bedroom. He leaned against his door and pressed his fingers against his lips. Had Mai had anything to do with the kiss? Why had Madeline made her kiss him? What did the ghost know that he hadn't told her?


"Have you seen Naru?" Madoka asked Lin as he sat at the computer typing. Madoka had covered the still resting Mai with a cover. She and Lin had been surprised when they returned to find Mai's body temperature was returning to normal and that she was sleeping soundly. But Lin and Madoka hadn't seen Naru since they had reentered the library.

"No, it's possible he found out something and is investigating. And he wouldn't tell us if he did." Lin said and Madoka shook her head before standing up and beginning to pace behind Lin until the man turned around in his chair to look at her and she stopped.

"That boy is seventeen years old; soon to be eighteen and an adult, and still acts like a child! Going off and doing things by himself! I should really go find him and drag him back to this library and tie him to one of these chairs! He's a child, Lin!" Madoka cried and Lin looked at her with a raised eyebrow.

"Madoka, you just said he was about to become an adult. You watched him grow up just like I did. But you can't keep him as a child." Lin told her and Madoka shook her head.

"Maybe I just agree with his parents. He's been in Japan for nearly a year and hasn't found what he's been looking for. I think he should stay here in England and not return to Japan." Madoka stated and Lin shook his head.

"You can't force Naru to do anything, much less stay in a country against his will." Lin said and Madoka looked him square in the eye.

"Then tell me, why does he want to stay in Japan other than the reason he told his parents?" Madoka asked and Lin didn't answer but Madoka realized that his eyes weren't on hers and usually when Lin talked to someone he usually look them in the eyes. She turned around and saw that Lin's eyes were on the sleeping Mai.

"Oh, no…Lin…tell me that what I'm thinking is wrong." Madoka said softly and Lin turned away without answering and Madoka let out a sigh.

"Lin, the deal was a year. His parents have given him more. What made him change his mind so suddenly?" she demanded and Lin looked over his shoulder at the curly haired woman.

"To protect someone. Madoka, you are the only one that understands who Naru is and the desires that he has to protect those he cares about. He may be cold but we both know that he would do anything to protect the lives of those that he cares about." Lin said and Madoka sighed before looking over at Mai.

"And yet he lies to her everyday." she replied.


Mai stood in the hallway of the house. She looked around confused. The last thing she could remember was falling the library and hitting something very warm and yielding and something that would protect her. She shook her head and looked around as she tried to figure out what was going on and having very little success.

She watched as a figure slowly began to appear in front of her. She felt her eyes widen as it took on the form of Madeline. She stared at the dark haired woman in wonder before gulping as the woman smiled at her in a friendly sense.

"You must be Mai. I heard that you're trying to help Kim. She's a kind girl…so kind that she almost doesn't belong to the Lunar family." the woman said and Mai blinked, since when had being kind been grounds to not belong to a family?

"What do you mean?" Mai asked and Madeline shook her head.

"All the Lunars have secrets, Mai. And most of them are not good. We are very dangerous and are not to be messed with, you are in serious dangerous. And the bad thing is…I don't know what is hunting you or who is controlling the hunter." Madeline told the girl and Mai felt her heart thumping against her chest at the look in Madeline's eyes, she had never seen a ghost look so serious in her time of having worked for Naru.

"You mean you didn't start this?" Mai asked and Madeline shook her head and Mai felt her eyes widen. "But then who? Who started cursing people into that…thing?" Mai cried.

"I don't know but I would not put it past my brother to delve into the dark arts to get what he wanted. But our family protects our secret even from traitors of the family even if they are part of the family." Madeline said and Mai shook her head before she started to walk around with Madeline watching her.

"But there's no clues or anything. The door in the passageway is locked and there is no way in." Mai told Madeline and the woman chuckled.

"Of course not, you have to find the other passageway and figure out the puzzle." Madeline told Mai before disappearing and in her place appeared a man with black hair, blue eyes, and a gentle smile on his face.

"Naru! You're alright!" Mai cried and the man nodded before looking towards the stairs and she followed his case and gulped as she saw that the whole hallway was black.

"Whatever is in this house wants everyone out. Kim's aunt is only the start and she certainly isn't the last. Be careful, Mai." he told her before everything went black.


Mai's eyes snapped open and she found herself staring up at the ceiling of the library. She sat up, rubbing her head before she looked out the window and saw that it was dark outside. She also saw that Naru, of all people, was sound asleep in front of the laptop. She almost laughed before covering her mouth. She didn't want to wake the man up. He rarely ever rested.

She took the cover that had been covering her and placed it around Naru's shoulders before heading towards the door. She stopped as she heard the growling. She vowed to never buy a dog. She gasped as the door burst open and she came face to face with the werewolf that everyone had been talking about.

Mai screamed as the wolf launched at her before something knocked her out of the way and she groaned before opening her eyes and squeaking as she saw Naru was lying on top of her. She could feel her cheeks burning bright red before they heard a crash and their attention was drawn to the window of the library and they saw that the window was shattered.

"Aunt Rena's gone!" they both looked at the busted door and saw that Kim was standing there and her eyes went wide. "I'll come back later…Aunt Rena can wait until you're finished."