A/N: Here's a late Christmas present for you, and if you don't celebrate Christmas then you owe me a cookie. Nah, I'm just kidding, anyway this chapter is a little shorter.. Not much funny in there, but cuteness galore! I hope you guys like it. In case you haven't realized it yet the chapters are named for each of the letters in Daydreams, hence, there will be 9 chapters. Five left to go!! I'm writing more now, and I'm happy to say that my downloading problem, the reason for long-awaited updates, has been solved!! No more waiting!! So RXR and I'll think about updating soon, Monday perhaps? :P

PS, because the chapter upload thingy won't let two chapters have the same same the chap has been named Dl, it is actually just D, sorry for the confusion!!

Disclaimer: I don't own Ghost Hunt, Santa didn't come through.

Chapter 4: D is for Discovery

"Naru? Or are you Gene?" Mai asked the boy who stood before her. He dressed like Naru but so far he was smiling like Gene. Naru didn't smile like that, but he should.

"Okay, I'm guessing you're Gene. Why are you so quiet?" the boy only smiled. He gestured to the empty space they were standing in.

Mai was almost positive that she had been sinking in to her comforter only moments ago. Instead she didn't feel the slightest bit tired. She was standing beside Gene in this empty black space, which was when she realized that the space suddenly wasn't so dark or empty.

"Gene, when did we get to Adventure Suites?" Mai asked, but once again he only smiled. "Are you giving me the cold shoulder or something? Because, you know, if you're mad at someone you're not supposed to smile at them."

Gene took her hand and led her through the front doors.

It was different, Mai noticed immediately. The colors were off, like nothing was as bright and as colorful as it had been before she'd left that night. Instead the walls of the entrance were gray and drab. The floors were a thick, worn carpet and the windows were smudged as if someone had rubbed their fingers all over them.

"What happened?" Mai asked bewilderedly. "This is so weird. Gene you picked a really bad time to go mute."

Gene only smiled, of course, and led her through the lobby. They passed the base and headed for the kitchen. Mai would have liked to think that she knew the place well after making Naru three cups of tea in the few hours they had spent there.

But she didn't. The fridge was on the wrong side of the room. The microwave was nonexistent. Even the toaster, which Mai remembered well after Yasuhara had had an all out duel with it earlier, was gone, replaced by a strange device that looked like a mini oven.

"Um, Gene, what is..."

"Daddy!"

Mai spun around. Gene was gone. She was alone and there was a girl on the other end of the kitchen that didn't seem to notice her at all.

Lumbering in to the doorway came a tall, heavy man. He stood over the girl who was trembling in fear.

"Hey! Knock it off!" Mai yelled, too scared to run forward. It didn't matter. Neither of them noticed her at all.

"Why Kimiko?" the man asked, taking her by the shoulders. "This was our dream! This is our legacy! The Kura family!"

The girl seemed upset, she cried as he held her, which only made him angrier.

"Why Kimiko! Don't leave me here alone!" he yelled furiously, slapping her in the face. She reeled from the blow. Holding her cheek in her hands.

"Kim-i-ko..." he said, suddenly clutching his chest. The girl ran to him, crying. Ignoring her own swollen cheek.

"Daddy? Daddy are you okay?" she asks nervously. He didn't respond so she sat there shaking him, crying his name.

Mai watched the scene in shock as she realized that not only couldn't they hear her or see her but she wasn't really there to begin with. This had already happened. This was Adventure Suites in the past.

She felt a hand on her shoulder and she turned expecting to see Gene smiling. Instead she saw the what seemed to still be Gene but in place of a smile was a scowl on a normally handsome face.

"Naru," she smiled. "What took you so long?"

*******

Mai woke up with a bright light in her eyes and the smell of hot chocolate in her nose. She smiled and flipped over in her sleep.

"Oh no you don't, its time to wake up." a grumpy voice proclaimed, lifting the covers from Mai's cold body.

"Madoka!" Mai shrieked, jumping from the freezing bed. "I only just fell asleep! Why'd you wake me up!"

Madoka looked less than amused she sighed and gave a little smile before heading for the doorway. "You're suffering from jet lag Mai, here in England its around noon and a certain grouchy scientist has been slamming things around all morning because he can't make himself tea."

Mai blinked and then giggled. "Naru can't make tea? Then how does he make it at home?"

"His mother makes it for him," Madoka smiled. "Now get dressed, I can't cover for you with Noll any longer."

Closing the door behind her Madoka left Mai standing frigid in the room. She shivered and looked towards the windows. It was really cold. She pulled on a pair of jeans and a sweater of Ayako's that was lying on the floor, since she hadn't brought any herself. The sweater managed to fit her loosely seeing as Ayako wore hers tight.

As she made her way out of the bathroom which connected the bedrooms on the second floor Mai found herself giggling over Naru's lack of tea making skills. He could be such a dunce sometimes, even though he was supposed to be a genius. She couldn't get him out of her head. She turned to a mirror, her cheeks blushed. Then she stopped, stared and sucked in her breath.

"Oh my gosh." Mai said softly, staring at her flushed complexion. "I can't be...but I-"

Mai fell on to her bed in shock. She felt like drowning in her covers and never coming out. She couldn't believe it. Her face felt very hot, and she slapped her cheeks with her hands.

'When did she start having a crush on Naru? She hadn't even known him for very long! This wasn't possible!'

But it was, and as Mai lay thinking about Naru, his scent, his touch…She realized that she did in fact have a crush on him. A crush. A crush. A crush.

She clutched her head in frustration and shrieked as Masako opened the bedroom door and stuck her head in.

"Lunch is ready."

*******

"So Masako....We haven't really talked yet....Are you enjoying yourself?" Mai asked awkwardly as the two girls walked to the hotel together.

This was her first time talking with Masako and she felt in particularly uncomfortable. Most likely because she was wearing Ayako's old sweater and Masako was wearing a luxurious kimono, the sleeves of which covered her hands and made her appear more fragile than she should have been.

"Yes," Masako said, "I am enjoying myself."

"You're a medium right? Have you sensed anything yet? Can you feel any spirits?" Mai asked curiously. She knew that Hanako had felt the spirits but it was another case altogether if Masako felt them too.

"I haven't felt anything significant, there may well be two spirits in this place but its as if they're avoiding me." Mai nodded at this, remembering what Hanako had said. The spirits liked her, not Masako. They would be more attune to Mai.

"How about you?" Masako asked condescendingly, "Have you sensed anything yet?"

The medium was belittling her, she knew that Mai hadn't sensed anything at all.

Mai thought for a moment, back to last night. The dream seemed all too coincidental, now that she remembered it. She had been so busy thinking about Naru, tea and Masako's condescension to spare much thought to the implications of her dream.

And Gene and Naru….she had dreamed about Gene and Naru. She raised her hands and slapped her reddening cheeks before Masako could witness the action. As if Masako could suddenly sense love interests as well as ghosts.

"Well? Have you?" the medium asked in annoyance as the girls crossed the parking lot to the hotel. The sun was out and shining, it was a beautiful day.

Mai opened her mouth, words seconds from her lips before headlights blinded her. It was day so headlights shouldn't have been on. Mai's eyes widened, her reflexes taking over.

"Masako! Watch out!" she cried, pushing the small girl out of the way.

There was a squeal of tires, a crash and a sickening thump; and that was all that was needed to summon a certain narcissist from the depths of his paperwork.

Okay, I didn't kill Mai, and don't worry this won't be one of those...Mai got hurt and I realized I love her (Naru POV) type of deals. In fact, it will be a big surprise. Read between the lines, people!!

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