Author's Note: Yeah! I'm posting so soon! It makes me happy.

Rena: That and the fact that we want to keep this story going!

Yup! We're really excited and might end up posting, too, frequently. Is that even possible?

Rena: Anyway, we're just here doing nothing particularly interesting.

Today we see our lovely characters realizing that they bite off more then they could chew.

Rena: What are you talking about?

You'll see. enjoy!

I DO NOT OWN GHOST HUNT

Chapter Four

Mai's P.O.V

The moment we walked into the house Masako collapsed and John just barely managed to catch her. Things would never be easy would they? This was defiantly not good. Why hadn't Syaoran explained the situation. It would be so much easier.

"Masako!"

We managed to take her to the base without any further complications. I felt pretty bad for Len-kun, his first case wasn't going to be easy. Then again if he wanted to work in the paranormal he'd have to get used to it.

"She'll be fine, I guess that she was just overwhelmed by the spirits here," Ayako said.

Masako looked pale but this wasn't the first time this happened. What worried me and most likely everyone else was that the only times this had happened was in particularly hard cases.

Naru's P.O.V

"We need to be careful I'm sure you know that we'll be in pairs and one group of three, you decide on that," I told them.

We already had all the information we needed we could get set up right away. I wanted to get this over as soon as possible. Even though I couldn't sense spirits in this kind of environment even I slightly felt them. This was going to be difficult. Maybe pairs wasn't such a good idea.

I was staying in the base with Masako for now. Lin and Mai were going to the west wing, Ayako and John were taking the top floor, and Bou-san, Len, and Rena we're going to cover the rest of the house.

"When you're done come back here right away, and finish before the sun goes down, hurry up,"

They nodded and left the room, Ayako and Bou-san had already set up a barrier around the room so this was the only safe place at the moment. Now all they had to do was hurry. Maybe it seemed paranoid but I wasn't willing to take any chances.

Rena's P.O.V

I looked up at the big door.

"This is our first stop," I opened the door, it was a ball room with a pair of stairs to the far left. "Let's set it up there at the top of the stairs pointing down,"

"You really know your stuff don't you?" Bou-san teased I smiled.

"Of course I do silly,"

We walked to the stairs and set up the camera. My fingers easily putting the cables together and connecting them. I figured that Bou-san and Len would have some difficulty with the task.

"What's through those door?" Len asked.

"According to this it's the hallway leading to the west wing, and judging by this red dot we need to set a camera in there too," I answered looking at our map.

I opened the door and took in the long hallway that had glass windows on the left side and lamps on the right. Wasn't that just absolutely appropriate for a haunted mansion?

"Pointing staight ahead," I ordered.

"Yes, ma'am!"

I rolled my eyes at them. Well it was fine at least as everything worked out. I couldn't help but be infected by their high hopes.

-Later, After Much Work-

We were walking back to the base when my phone started to ring.

"Hello?"

"Rena it's me Veronica,"

"Oh, what's up?" I asked.

"About the house,"

"What is it?"

"You remember how I couldn't control the spirits back in Tokyo?"

"Yeah?"

"Well I sort of still can't,"

"WHAT!" I had stopped walking."You mean that this really is dangerous!"

"I'm sorry! But I wouldn't have know until now!"

I wanted to bang my head against the wall. I hung up. Just great! Just, freaking great! Now to top off my worry about Kazuki and Syaoran, now, I had to worry about what happened to the team! Damn it, Veronica! You really want to be my slave for an eternity, don't you?

"What's going on?" Bou-san asked.

"This house is actually haunted," I told them.

"But didn't that medium set this up?" Len asked.

"All that time she spent letting her powers run wild took its toll on her, she can't fully use all her abilities yet, so basically the Spirits are running wild," I said.

"This isn't good is it?"

"Not at all,"

Stupid unreliable medium. What I wouldn't do to get a good whack at her throat.

We walked back to the base and I collapsed on the couch.

"Where are Mai and Lin?" Ayako asked I shot up.

"They haven't gotten back?" I looked up at Naru.

What if something happened to them? Damn it! I was worrying too much. It was to be expected though, Veronica wasn't the only one that couldn't use all her power.

"They're at their last camera in the main hallway,"

I watched as they finished setting up the camera our's was taping them. Something didn't feel right. I didn't really have intuition but when you live and share a mind with someone like my brother the ability starts to awaken.

"We'll go meet up with them," Bou-san said as he and Len walked to the door.

"Mhmm," Naru said.

I followed them out the door and we headed down the hallway. I pushed the doors to the ballroom open and bumped into Mai. I fell back and looked at her.

"Oww, why don't you watch where you're going?" she asked I smiled at her.

"Sorry," I told her getting up and helping her up.

Thank god, they where still okay.

"Aren't you done setting up your cameras?" Koujo asked.

"Yeah, but we came over to get you, it was getting late," Bou-san said.

"It was a long walk," Koujo answered.

"We should head back," Len suggested.

We started to walk back to the base, that is until the door to the ballroom closed.

I froze but Len walked through the door. I closed my eyes and opened then staring the door was wide open. What the hell? I was slowly followed them, something wasn't right. I felt a tingle on my back as if someone was following me. I made a quick turn and looked back, no one.

"Hey Rena, are you alright?" I looked up at Mai, I smiled at her.

"Just fine,"

"Well then hurry up you've been walking really slow,"

I nodded and caught up to her. What was going on? My mind was running through all the possibilities when it finally hit me. The only way Veronica would be able to get Syaoran here was if this house was meant to get me out of the picture; everything in this house was built to get ride of me. God I was so screwed, I thought as I walked into the base. Well at least I knew that hopefully I would be the only target of all the ghost, that would help a little.

"We're back," Mai said cheerfully.

"I can see that," Naru said.

He was staring at the computer screen and from the corner of my eye I saw Mai pick up a pair of keys and aim at his head.

"Not a very good idea," I told her taking them from her.

"Where are we going to crash?" Bou-san asked from the couch.

"The guy's room is through that door," Ayako said pointing to door on the left. "We'll be staying over there," she said pointing to a door on the right.

"We'll conduct all our investigations during the day, we can't risk working during the night not with all the activity going on in this house," Naru announced so that's what was bugging him. "To make up for those hours everyone is to be up by five,"

There as a groan from the group and I couldn't help but smile little. They'd been working with Naru for almost three years now and they couldn't get used to his way of working? How long did it take me? I guess not long, my family was trained to not need much sleep.

They really hate waking up early don't they?

Yeah, but so do you Gene

I'm a cat I don't have to wake up

You suck

Love you too

I rolled my eyes at him, he was perched on the window sill. He was still mad at me for stuffing him in the 'devil box' as he called it.

"So all the information we have is this packet?" Ayako asked.

Looks like I'd missed something. You know I didn't expect them to catch on so quick, or to suspect anything at all.

"Yes but it's more then enough, anything else we can research ourselves," Naru told her.

"Doesn't it seem a little to convenient, thought?"

Shit. Okay so maybe I'd slightly underestimated them. I could handle that. Sure, I could make it work. I was known for finding solutions in difficult situations.

"What do you mean, Ayako?" Mai asked.

"Well, since when have our clients every been able to give us such a helpful booklet?" she pointed out.

"These are all the obvious things, anyway, for him to go get us all the way from Tokyo he had to make sure that we thought it was worth the trip," I said.

"That's what I mean by being a little too convinent," Ayako told me.

"You're thinking too much, are you feeling okay?" Bou-san asked her she glared at him.

"Why you idiot!" she snapped.

I let out a breath I hadn't realized I'd been holding. Everyone else sighed. Naru looked like he wanted to smack them, he caught my eyes and I smiled at him. I didn't have to look at the others we all felt the same; things were becoming complicated.

Mai's P.O.V

We were sitting in our room laughing at Masako, she'd just woken up and looked like a cat sleep in her hair.

"It's not funny," she said lamely. "I'm leaving,"

"You can't," Rena said between laughs.

"Why not?" poor Masako she was so confused.

"Don't you remember? You collapsed the minute you stepped into the house," Ayako told her, Masako's eyes widened.

"I did?" she asked.

"How do you think that you got here?" I asked her she furred her eyebrows.

"I don't know," she admitted.

"This isn't good," Rena said. "Hey Masako look at the cat,"

She held G.D. in front of Masako's face.

"Why?" Masako asked her as she tried to move away.

"This is important just hold still for a sec,"

Masako stopped moving and G.D. was looking at her, he sniffed her and then jumped out of Rena's hands.

"What was that for?" I asked.

"Just making sure, she wasn't possessed," Rena said walking back to her bed.

"What? You honestly thought that I was possessed?" Masako demanded.

"You never know," Rena said.

She was bent over a piece of paper, something didn't feel right.

"What are you writing?" I asked her.

"Give me a second," she muttered capping her pen.

I watched as she grabbed her violin and walked back to Masako.

"What are you doing now?" she asked Rena smiled at her.

"Well it wouldn't be any fun if I told you know it?" Rena said.

Placing the paper on Masako as she played three quick notes. We watched in amazement as it glowed. She played again and Masako screamed out.

"What the hell is going on!" the guys were banging on the door.

"What are you doing?" Ayako asked Rena.

I walked to the door and opened it, they ran in. The light faded and Masako fell down.

"Masako!" I ran to her and placed a hand to her forehead.

"What is going on?" Len-kun asked.

Rena picked up the paper.

"Masako collapsed because she was possessed," Rena explained.

"And you didn't say anything sooner, because?" Ayako demanded.

"I'm not a medium," Rena said.

"Is the spirit gone?" Naru asked her she shook her head.

"I just sealed it here," she waved the paper at him and he took it.

"Please don't do that," he told her taking it from her.

You can seal spirits in paper?

"Hey she's waking up," I told them we crowed over Masako. "Are you alright?"

"I was possessed, wasn't I?" she asked I nodded.

"But Rena already took care of it," I assured her. She frowned.

"Do you remember anything?" John asked her.

"Sort of, it's really strange thought," she mused.

"What was it?" Naru asked he was still looking at the paper.

"The spirit, it was clear," she'd said that before.

"Don't you see Lin's shiki clear?" I asked her she nodded her head.

I bite my lip this wasn't good was it. I just hoped that this case wouldn't be like that one. I shivered at the memory.

"No one is to go anywhere alone, no where, understand?" Naru said. We nodded. "Good, Bou-san take care of this,"

He handed him the paper and left the room. Lin followed him but not before catching my eyes he held my gaze for a moment and left.

"Rena how am I suppose to take care of this?" Bou-san asked her.

"Exorcise it silly," she told him.

He gave her a disbelieving look. How did that even work?

"Are you sure?" he asked her.

She snatched the paper from him.

"Fine then, don't do it," she snapped. "Never mind,"

She gave it back to him.

"What is it?" John asked she shook her head.

"It's nothing," she answered.

"It's not hard just chant it's like a spirit in a box," Len-kun told him.

"And how do you know that?" Bou-san asked him.

"Because I saw my dad exorcise something like this," he said.

Bou-san frowned but chanted anyway. I watched as the paper caught on blue fire and Bou-san left it fall to the ground until it was nothing but ash.

"Is that safe?" Bou-san asked Rena.

She nodded.

"It's just dust now,"

"Didn't you exorcise the spirit in our last big case?" Ayako asked.

"Yeah,"

"So then why couldn't you exorcise it now?"

"I'm tired from the trip,"

That was such a lie, what was she hiding?

"That's not it, is it?" Masako asked. Rena looked away. "What's really going on,"

"Nothing," she said.

"What are you hiding?" Masako pressed narrowing her eyes.

"Drop it," Rena said threw her teeth.

"You do realize that this could cause problems, right?" Ayako asked.

"Stop it," I said worrying as Rena's hands clenched into fists.

"You have to tell Naru," Maskao told her.

"You think he hasn't figured it out?" Rena demanded. "And I'm not a liability, I know how to carry my weight,"

She didn't have to say it, but the accusation was there.

"What does that mean?" Ayako demanded.

Rena didn't answer.

"How about we all just take a deep breath, it's been a long day," John suggested. "And we should all just calm down before we really say something that will cause damage, we're not in a place where we can have the luxury of arguing,"

John was right.

"Just relax and go to sleep," Bou-san added.

"See you tomorrow," Len-kun called.

The air in the room was extremely tense, I watched as Rena played with her phone and closed it.

"Sorry about that," she finally said.

"I'm sorry too, guess I was out of line," Ayako told her.

They shared a shaky smiled I looked at Masako who looked away.

"Your apology is accepted," she said Rena's hand twitched.

"You, you little," she sighed. "You're welcome," Maskao turned back to her.

"What?" Rena smirked. "I'm the one who took the Spirit out, a thank you is in order after all,"

Masako blushed a little but she looked away again.

"Just go to sleep," and then we started to laugh.

Author's Note: Aren't they just the cutest?

Rena: Stupid unreliable mediums!

Veronica's not here right now, would you like me to take a message?

Rena: since when are you Veronica's secretary?

I'm not. I'm her creature. (insert evil laugh)

Rena: Then bring her here!

We kind of need her alive for future stories, sorry, request denied.

Rena: I don't care!

Well I do! So that's final. I hope you guys liked the story, by the way, we're half way there! To where you ask? Well, that, is a secret! I've always wanted to say that!

Rena: Eclipse you're acting weird.

Not really. I'm just so happy! Why? Because I just go to see Allen Walker again! The love of my life! For those of you who don't know Allen Walker is an anime character from D. Gray Man. I LOVE HIM! (Fan girl squeals, jumping up and down) I LOVE ALLEN WALKER!

Rena: for they sake of your sanity and mine we'll leave it at that. Bye-bye. Please Review! (Looks at Eclipse) Guess I'll do it.

Later

Rena