Death of the Innocent and Gulity

Mai broke through a cold hard surface that seemed to engulf her insistently. She tried to gasps for air, but as soon as her mouth opened, her lungs quickly filled with water. Mai tried to swim towards the surface, but her body wouldn't move. She tried to call out, but her voice had disappeared, leaving her with nothing to do but wait for darkness to consume her.

"Mai!" called a very distance voice. It was faded and unfamiliar to her.

The surface above her broke, sending ripples out all around her. Something began to come closer and closer to her, each second growing more and more distant. Suddenly a long arm reached out, wrapping around her weak body, and pulling her up. Mai felt something warm surround her as she was being pulled to the surface.

Within seconds, Mai broke through the surface, gasping for air.

"Mai!" called the voice. Mai looked up to find blue-eyed boy staring down at her worriedly. "Are you alright?" He asked her. Mai stared up at him, unable to speak. The water dripped down onto his face from his black hair that covered parts of his eyes. His pale face rested so close to hers that she could feel his warm breath touch her cheek. His warm dark blue beautiful eyes stared down at her, relinquishing all of her worries and regrets. Around her waist, his firm grip held her just above the water, keeping her from its hold.

"Na…ru?" Mai asked unsure if what she was seeing was real. She stared into his eyes, trying to control the thoughts that floated her mind. "Naru!" she screamed as she wrapped her arms around his neck and pulled him to her. She buried her face into his neck, not caring that she had just almost pulled them both under. She was so happy to seem him, she could hardly control it.

"Mai" Naru whispered as he wrapped his arms around her waist, holding her to him, never wanting to let go. "Let's go somewhere safe." Naru whispered to her as he pulled back a little. He could feel her nodded, but she refused to move from her position. Naru unwrapped one of his arms from her and began to pull her to shore where some warm blankets rested.

As Naru reached the edge he tried to pull Mai off of him so she may get out of the water, but she refused to remove herself from him. Once Naru realized that she would not let go, he held onto her tightly as he pulled himself out of the water, Mai still in his arms. As he got far enough away from the water, he reached out and pulled a blanket around Mai, wrapping it around her tightly. Mai hesitantly let go of him, before pulling the blanket around her tightly and resting her head in Naru's chest.

"Naru" Mai said after a few minutes of nothing but silence. Naru looked down at her. "I'm sorry." She said as tears started to fill her eyes. "I wasn't able to do what you asked."

"What do you mean?" Naru asked confused.

"You asked me to use Asa's memories against her, but I wasn't able to." Mai said staring out into the night, not looking at Naru. "I was only able to see one, than Shizu intervened. She took my place and…" Mai trailed off, unable to say anymore. Naru wrapped his arms around her and held her as she began to cry

A boy walked down the empty dark hallway, searching for something. He stopped in the middle of the hall and looked down the moon lit path. This was the last time he was ever going to experience this. It was surely something he was going to miss, but somehow it was all worth it.

"NO!" the screamed erupted through the darkness, spreading all around him. The boy turned to find a young woman walking out of the darkness, glaring at him with pure anger. "How dare you!" she screamed. The boy just stared at her, not saying a word. "How dare you play some mindless trick on me." She growled.

"I have no idea what you are talking about." He said.

"You know exactly what you did." She said. "You switched that pathetic girl out with one of my children, one of my servants." She said. The boy was unsure of what she was talking about, but by the feeling he was feeling, he could tell that what ever it was, Mai was somewhere safe now.

"And so what if I did?" He asked, playing along. "What does it matter? You don't even care about them as long as you get what you want." Suddenly the young woman seemed to calm down.

"You are right." She said smiling. "I guess one loss is nothing to what I will be gaining." She looked out into space as she thought about something. "You know what, I'm glad it happened this way." She said as she began to take a few steps to the boy. "And you know what?" She asked him.

"What?"

"I now have no longer use for you Eugene."

"The same for you Asa." Gene said. Asa looked at him confused, unsure of what he was talking about. He nodded to something behind her. She turned to find Hitoshi walking out of the darkness. He seemed to be in a daze.

"Hitoshi." She said happily. "I'm glad you could join us." Hitoshi walked over to her, before slowly looking up at her, anger filling his eyes. "Hitoshi?" she asked confused. Suddenly a sharp, stinging pain erupted through her. Asa looked down to find a large kitchen knife sticking out of her. Blood began to seep out of her as she reached down and touched the knife. She wanted to pull it out, but Hitoshi kept it in, twisting and pulling it. "W-Why?" she asked finally being able to find her voice.

"Because you killed my sister you Bitch." He said before pulling the knife out of her. Asa fell to the floor, unable to keep herself up anymore. Gene walked over to her and stood next to her, looking down at her.

"You'll pay for this." She said as she twitched in pain on the floor. Gene just stood over her, not saying a word.

"Shizu" Gene called as he walked up to the little girl who was crouched in the corner, trying to hide. He got down and tried to look into her eyes that avoided his own. "I need you to do me a favor."

Shizu looked up at him with sad eyes. "What?" she asked.

"You know that girl you tried to save? The one that Asa is after?"Shizu nodded her head sadly. "Well, her name is Mai, and she is going to die very soon." He said. Shizu moved a little, surprised and frighten at the same time. "She is going to forget who she is and she is going to be absorbed into Asa. I need you to go take her place. I need you to remind Mai of who she is and I need you to die for her."

"Why?" Shizu asked as tears began to form in her eyes.

"Because it is the only way to save her." Gene said sadly. "Not only her, but Hitoshi as well. You want to save your brother right?" Shizu nodded. "Well this might be the only way."

"Okay." Shizu said as she wiped the tears from her eyes. She stood up and stepped away from the wall. Darkness began to form around her until she was finally gone.

"Do you think she will be alright?" Gene asked turning to find Naru standing there. Naru shook his head.

"I don't know."

"I hope you burn in hell." Hitoshi said before turning around and walking away.

"Oh I will." She said before reaching her arm out to him. "And you'll be joining me." Something began to slither out of her palm. They were small light blue strings that attack Hitoshi, wrapping around him.

"Hitoshi!" Gene called before reaching out to him. Gene grabbed for the strings and as soon as he touched them more appeared and wrapped around him. "Damn it." He said as the strings began to tighten around him, making it harder to breath. Asa began to laugh as she watched them struggle. Gene reached up and grabbed the ones around his neck, but as soon as he got too close, the ones around his arms tighten and pulled his arms away.

Gene fell to his knees as the world around his began to spin. He was beginning to lose control over his senses. His mind became clouded, as his sight began to blur. He wasn't going to make it out of this, and he knew it. Gene looked over at Hitoshi who was now on the floor, struggling to stay alive. His body was beginning to fade as he began to loss all strength in his body. Gene wished that Hitoshi wouldn't have to surfer like this, but there wasn't anything he could do. Darkness began to engulf him as he watched the last remaining movement of Asa, who's eyes glazed over and began still and empty.

"What the Hell!" yelled the principal. "You expect me to believe this bull shit!" Naru stood in the middle of the principal's office, Mai, Lin, and Bou-san standing behind him.

"Truthfully I don't care what you believe." Naru said in a calm tone. It was the next morning and Naru had just explained the case to the principal, who did not believe him. "I just told you what happened and whether you believe that or not is your choice." Naru had come up with a story that involved very few true facts of what had really happened. He had told the principal that the ghost that had been causing all of this was an insane young woman who had missed her husband and was using the students to try to revive him. That was the only part of the story that was true. He had neglected to tell the principal that she had not only used students, but had posed as one herself. He had also forgotten to tell the principal that she had manipulated other ghosts that also posed as students to do her bidding. To Naru, all of these things were unimportant.

"I asked you to get rid of the ghost and what did you do?" The principal asked, but before Naru could answer, the principal continued. "You turned my school into one of the most dangerous places around here! You told me to send the student homes because it was too dangerous, yet somehow that danger lasted three days, and only one of you looks like you actually did anything!" He yelled. Mai took a deep breath, trying to hold back her anger. She hated that Naru was getting scowled like this, though what made her even angrier was how ignorant the principal was. "Not to mention that three of my students are now missing!"

"Three of you students are missing?" Bou-san asked surprised.

"Yes. Asa Mekamori, Hitoshi and Shizu. They have been missing since you have started investigating here." The principal said sitting down in his chair. "Now I have to deal with telling their parents."

"That will not be necessary." Naru said. The principal looked up at him confused. "Asa Mekamori was never a real student here, and as for Shizu and Hitoshi, they did everything they could to help end the investigation. Though if you do not believe me, you may look in your records, I am sure you will not find any record of them ever going to school here since they have never really gone here." Naru said. The principal stared up at him confused. "Now if you don't mind, we will be taking our leave now. It is a long way back and we would like to arrive back at our office before dark." Naru turned and headed for the door. Mai followed him, Lin and Bou-san not far behind.

Hey everyone. Right now i am trying to slowly work my issues out, but so far its not working. But as for this story goes, i hate leaving it unfinished like this so i am just posting this chapter and the Epilogue (which i still have to write) so that this story can be finished. I want to thanks those of you who have given me some kind words and we kind enough to wait patiently for this story.

...what else...sorry that i rushed the ending a little. It just that i couldn't think of anything else to say. and for those of you who dont know Yes i am a horrible person for killing Gene...i may have left a few lose ends but i will try to get those in the next chapter...blah blah blah... Oh im an only child now!^^ This past weekend i dropped my sister off in Kentucky were she is now currently going to college^-^

anyway comment/review or criticize (maybe) i wont yell!

sorry for spelling and grammar mistakes.