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"WHAT?!" the priestess, monk and exorcist exclaimed. The ever-quiet medium Masako Hara covered her mouth with her komono sleeve and gasped; eyes widening.

Bou-san jumped to his feet and slammed his hands down on top of the table. "This is sick! Why don't we just go and take her away? Ayako or I could adopt her or something, if it helped!" Ayako nodded in agreement, her eyed wide in shock.

"Unfortunately, the woman--Omi Nazuka--refused to tell me where she was taking Mai. Lin and I checked Mai's apartment for any hint or clue as to where she is, but found nothing." Naru's eyes hardened just the tiniest bit. It was so tiny, nobody would ever notice.

Lin-san, listening from the other room, recalled the nigh two days ago when he and Naru had gone to Mai's apartment. If they had been able to find something of Mai's, they would have been able to find her easily. Sadly, her apartment had been totally barren of anything of Mai's. Her couch sat collecting dust, and her remote-less TV sat unwatched in the corner. On the outside, Naru had been calm and indifferent when they saw these things, but Lin-san knew that he had been completely furious and frustrated.

"Couldn't we call all the orphanages and look for her?" John asked, concern coloring his voice.

Bou-san sighed angrily. "Yeah, but just think about all the files they would have to search through! We don't even know if Mai's file's been shelved yet! The secretaries definitely don't know the names of all the kids, so they wouldn't be able to just tell us, either."

The air was instantly heavy and gloomy with this logic. They all sat in silent despair, hoping that there was a solution that they just couldn't see yet.

"So...will we still be doing the case that Mai called about?" Ayako asked finally, needing something else to think about.

Naru stood up from his seat and walked over to the window silently. They all watched him, waiting for an answer. "I don't know," he finally replied.

After another stretch of silence, Masako spoke up. "Our case is at an orphanage, right?"

Naru turned and looked at her. "Yes, it is," he answered slowly.

"Well, if we continue on with the case, there is a small chance that Mai would be there."

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I woke up to the sound of relentless screams. I jerked out of bed and ran down the hall, finding a crowd of girls around a door.

"What's going on?" I asked and ran up to them.

A girl turned to me; her eyes wide with fear. "It's Fuyumi! She's dead!" she exclaimed.

I gasped and began pushing my way through the crowd. Nobody objected or shoved me, and when I came to the front of the crowd and was looking into the room, what I saw took away my breath.

The girl named Fuyumi lay in a pool of blood in her bed. Her mouth was open, and that was where the blood seemed to be coming from. I couldn't see her chin at all through the flow of blood. Up above her bed, the sentence "Good girls will obey all rules" was written with fresh, dripping blood.

I stayed rooted to the spot, unable to move.

"She coughed up some blood the other day, but I didn't think it would be this serious!" someone shouted fearfully. My ears buzzed with the babble of many terrified voices.

"Make way, make way!" a loud female voice suddenly spoke up over the girls. "Let me see her!"

A middle-aged lady suddenly appeared through the throng of people. It must have been the owner, Minori Sasaki.

"Excuse me, dear," she said, shoving past me.

I watched as she hovered over Fuyumi, and began to shiver in fear. Why did things like this keep happening? Hurry, Naru! I thought, squeezing my eyes shut tight. Come figure out what's going on here!

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Okay, I know this chapter is shorter than usual. But, to make up for that, I will write the 7th chapter today and hopefully post it today! As usual, read and review, please! :)