A/N: Ah, an update. You guys are so lucky, I have noooo free time anymore but I manage to squeeze some Daydreams in. and some nice one-shots too. I hope you guys check those out too! They will be out soon. Hope you like this chapter. Its a bit short but some things are made more confusing! BTW, I live to make things confuse and frustrate you!! Another cliffie!!

Disclaimer: If I owned Ghost Hunt...well, we would all be in trouble wouldn't we?

Chapter 5: R is for Revulsion

Masako was sprawled across the parking lot, her kimono torn in several places, and a thin stream of blood making its way down her pretty face from a cut near her eyebrow. She looked up, wincing in pain, the gravel under her hands and feet dug in to her skin. She pushed herself to her knees.

"M-Mai?" she called wearily, blinking her eyes to correct her foggy vision.

She saw a stilled car, a trail of blood, and no sign of the small, fiery girl who had been standing beside her moments ago.

"Mai!"

A door to the hotel crashed open and SPR ran out, Naru in the lead, his normally placid face knit in worry. Masako did not know what was stranger, Mai's disappearance or Naru's display of emotion.

Hanako clung to Lin's shirttail, her eyes wider than her small face should allow.

"Why is she here?" the girl said wearily, "She shouldn't be here."

Lin looked down at Hanako in confusion and placed a hand on her head, almost like he was patting her, then he moved to Naru's side.

"What happened?" Ayako demanded as she ran from the hotel, "Oh my gosh, Masako are you okay?"

It was only then that the others seemed to notice Masako, shaking and hurt on the other side of the car. They rushed to her, surrounding her with questions and confusion. She held her head and when she took her hand away it was covered in blood.

"Move away, people, she's hurt," Ayako announced, she commandeered her way through the crowd of people and ordered Takigawa to carry the girl inside.

"Ms. Hara," Naru asked, in a raspy voice, "Do you know what happened to Mai? Where is she?"

His voice, however soft, rang in her ears. She tried to remember but it was hard. She squeezed her eyes shut, trying to sense Mai's spiritual energy.

"She's, um, I know she p-pushed me out of the way. Please, I can't remember," Masako said pleadingly. Naru nodded and walked away from Takigawa, who carried the girl inside.

"Everyone, split up and look for Mai, she has to be-"

"Hello? Can someone help us?" a voice asked, Naru spun around and the rest of SPR followed suit. "Under here."

Lin knelt down, Hanako hovering behind him, his eyes seemed to widen and he sucked in a breath, "Naru, I found them."

*******

Mai looked up and all she could see was black. She looked down and she could feel her arms, legs and torso, but those were black as well. She couldn't see anything.

"Am I….Have gone blind?" she wondered aloud, scanning the empty area, "Well, if I have gone blind, at least I won't have to pass in my English essay."

She sat for a moment, trying to come up with good things about being blind, Naru couldn't force her to make tea, or set up the cameras, or check the microphones, or take the temperatures….

"Why are all the good things about being blind revolving around Naru?" she asked herself. Her voice, no matter how soft, comforted her in the darkness.

"Hello?" she called curiously, but there was no voice in return. "Hello-"

"Mai, stop fooling around and pay attention," it was Naru's voice.

She spun around, but still there was darkness, "Naru? Is that you? Where are you? I can't see-"

Someone's hands, small and soft and cold, slapped across her eyes. She knew that in normal conditions she wouldn't be able to see, but there wasn't a difference between the darkness and this person's hands.

"Naru?" she spoke softly, hoping it was him.

"Mai," Naru whispered in her ear, "Pay close attention to your surroundings, SPR needs your help, you're the only one who can solve this case."

Mai held her eyes open wide, startled, "I am?"

She hoped that Naru couldn't feel her cheeks heating up.

"Yes, now watch."

The hands were removed from her face, but as they were Mai blinked against the harsh light that now penetrated her vision.

She was standing in Adventure Suites lobby, and Monk was a few feet in front of her in a gorilla costume.

*******

"What happened?" Naru asked, watching as Lin placed Mai, unconscious, on the couch in the base.

Eric walked behind him, rubbing his sore head. Someone handed him an icepack and he turned to Ayako with gratitude. "Thanks," he mumbled, wincing as he set it on the lump that was forming by his temple.

"Mr. Jilson," Naru prompted, "What happened in the parking lot?"

Eric looked at him for a moment, gathering his thoughts. He sat down, feeling dizzy and then said, "I s-saw Mai coming out of the summer home, across the street and I…wanted to say hi. I think. Then this car came out of nowhere and Mai pushed Masako aside. I grabbed Mai and blocked her when the car hit and we fell and it ran over us."

"The car?" Naru confirmed, "Was there a driver?"

Eric shook his head diligently, then he squeezed his ice pack closer to his head as the pain throbbed harder than ever.

Ayako walked over to him and held the ice pack away for a moment. She spoke to her boss, "Masako's resting in the Rainforest Suite and he has a concussion, Naru," then to Eric, "You shouldn't sleep for awhile, just so we can keep an eye on you."

Eric didn't nod or smile or respond, he looked up and followed Ayako from the room, his only glance behind him was to the small girl, crumpled under a blanket on the couch.

Naru glanced at her as well.

'I'll have to ask her…what's going on.' he thought. 'For some reason I get the feeling she knows more than she is letting on.'

Strangely Naru felt the need to wrap his arms around her and sit by her and brush her hair out of her face. He needed to feel that she was okay. He...shook his head and placed it in his hands.

'I must have bumped my head too.'

*******

"Takigawa! Take that thing off! You don't know where it has been!" Ayako demanded as she led a green faced Eric from the base.

Takigawa turned to her, prepared to fight her on the matter but she smacked him with a pointy-nailed hand and that was that.

"But I was trying to draw out the ghosts!" Takigawa yelled, Ayako smacked him again and he began to step out of the gorilla costume.

Mai watched this and all she could see was the shadowy outlines of her friends and their broken voices. It was almost like she was watching black and white TV, even their voices were laced with static.

In this world they were the ghosts and Mai, who couldn't even see her hands in front of her, was invisible.

"Father! Stop it, don't touch him!" a girls voice cried.

Mai looked up and saw the girl from before and her father, his beefy arms reaching for Takigawa. For some reason those two were solid and their voices perfectly clear.

"Takigawa! Watch out!" Mai cried, rushing forward only to fall straight through the man she was trying to attack. Not only was she invisible, but tangible as well.

Gene walked in to the hallway, he wasn't her dream Gene, this time he was fading and his voice unclear. This was the real Gene.

"Ugly suit, huh, Takigawa?" he asked jokingly.

"Yeah man, ugly as hell, get it off me! It smells too!"

They laughed and the girl's father roared.

"My home! My legacy! They mock me and my work! They mock everything I stand for! Kimiko," he said, turning to his daughter, "don't you see? They make fun of what we have lived so long to accomplish….our paradise. Our land of fairytales!"

Mai watched in confusion. None of it made sense.

The girl, Kimiko, shook her head and she began to cry. Pressing the heels of her hands to her eyes. "No father. This isn't right. Killing yourself to further your 'legacy', this is not r-right."

Infuriated the man shouted and lunged for Takigawa's neck.

Mai was confused but she understood one thing perfectly. She needed to save Takigawa.

"No, stop it!" Mai screeched, finally she broke through her invisibility and in a brilliant flash of light she stumbled towards the man and grabbed his arms. "That's my friend, please don't hurt him."

The man's eyes softened and Kimiko looked up sharply, "Y-You," she said, "It worked. It really worked.

*******

"This suit-won't come off!" Takigawa exclaimed, Gene pulled on a sleeve and Ayako on another, but it was stuck and the Monk sighed in hopelessness. "No use, huh?"

Gene watched the Monk in amusement and, for just a moment, things seemed peaceful once again.

"No, stop it!" Mai's voice pierced the air and Takigawa's head whipped around.

"Mai?" he wondered aloud, he turned to the others just as Lin and Naru ran from the base, "Did you guys hear that? What's going on?"

Gene and Naru looked at each other.

"Mai's doing all of the work."

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