I've been thinking about the title and which one do you think sounds scarier? 'There's Something Wrong with Mai' or 'There's Something Wrong with Taniyama Mai'? It's almost the same but I think the last name part does something.

Disclaimer: I don't own Ghost Hunt.

"Haunted?" Mai repeated, "What do you mean?"

"Are you stupid?" Naru sighed, "What else could it mean?"

"What am I supposed to do now?" Mai started to panic.

Naru rolled his eyes. "We can't have you getting in the way of your work so obviously we'll be exorcizing it."

"Well sorry for being stupid," Mai replied stiffly.

"Masako, do you see any ghosts?" Naru asked.

Masako looked around and came back shaking her head. "There's nothing here."

Naru turned to glare at Mai. "What does that mean?" he asked.

"Well, it's not really my apartment…" Mai started, "It's the fact that it's empty."

Naru rolled his eyes. "Masako and I came all the way here to check it out and I find out it's because you're lonely?"

"The girl has nothing to do with that!" Mai protested, "I just… don't like being alone…"

"Why not?" Naru demanded.

"It's too empty. There's nothing in it…" Mai trailed off.

Naru rolled his eyes again. Mai ran off to change out of her uniform and when she came back, Naru glared at her.

"We'll look around a bit longer," he started. "Mai, te--"

He was cut off by the fact he saw Mai asleep on a chair. Naru sighed and went into the kitchen himself to make some tea. He was looking for the teacups when he heard a choking sound.

"Naru!" Masako called him, "There's something on Mai!"

Naru ran over to Mai who seemed to have fallen out of her chair and was shaking and choking on the floor.

"What happened?"

"I don't know. She just suddenly started choking on air then she fell off. There's a black aura on her!"

Naru reached out to touch Mai but her skin was deathly cold.

"Stop it!" Mai cried out in her sleep, "STOP IT!"

Mai was on a rooftop this time. In front of her, the girl, dressed in the same clothes as always was standing on the outside of the rail. Her hair was still covering her face.

"Don't!" Mai tried to warn the girl, "You'll fall."

"You'd like that, wouldn't you?" the girl rasped in the same scary voice.

It seemed to echo through and through. The girl held out a hand.

"I'll stop if you take my place."

Mai flinched away.

"No? How about this. Come here."

Reluctantly, Mai walked toward the girl. The girl hugged Mai gently then squeezed her tightly.

"Stop… it…" Mai choked out, "I can't… breathe…"

"No?" the girl replied calmly at first then growled, "Good. Maybe you'll know my pain now, huh Mai?"

The girl revealed a sharp kitchen knife that seemed to appear out of nowhere.

"Let's play, Mai-chan," she said in her echoing, harsh and playful voice, "Let's play like we used to."

The girl pulled on Mai's hair and held a kitchen knife to Mai's throat.

"Stop it!" Mai screamed, "STOP IT!"

"MAI!" Naru repeatedly called out.

Mai's eyes snapped open and hugged Naru.

"She tried to kill me!" Mai cried.

"What happened?" Naru asked hurriedly.

"We were on a rooftop… She was outside the safety rail… Then she hugged me… and… she held a… a knife… and… and…"

Mai stopped talking and continued to cry. Masako came back with a cup of tea.

"Here, calm down," she said.

"I think it's best if you stayed with someone tonight…" Naru told Mai back at the office where everyone was gathered.

"She can stay with me," Ayako offered.

"Thanks, but I don't think you're capable of protecting Mai when she dreams again," Naru said.

"Why you…!" Ayako fumed, "I'm perfectly capable of protecting Mai!"

"Why don't we just all sleep over at one person's place?" John suggested innocently.

"How about Mai's place?" Bou-san piped in, "I mean, what if that girl lives there too?"

"I've had dreams here too, though," Mai pointed out.

Despite that, they all went to camp in Mai's apartment anyway. Naru insisted they all set up base in her bedroom so they all had to sleep in the living room. Mai pushed all her stuff into a closet to make room for base and everyone set up the living room so they could all sleep on the floor.

Of course, Naru wanted to sleep on the couch instead. Masako wasn't thrilled about sleeping on the floor so Mai had to go get a futon for her. Lin… no one really imagined that he slept so it was kind of awkward.

They made Mai sleep in the middle so they could reach her faster. Mai wasn't thrilled about it at all.

"You know, I'd sleep faster if you all didn't expect me to die," Mai said glaring at everyone who stared at her expectantly.

"Just shut up and sleep," Naru ordered her.

"Oh and if she hurts you, we taught you chants remember?" Ayako reminded Mai.

"Oh yeah…"

"Idiot," Naru rolled his eyes.

Everyone pretended to fall asleep for Mai's sake but as soon as she fell asleep they all hovered over her, watching for some reaction.

In Mai's dream, this time, the girl was sitting on her usual chair in the same room but instead of the hallway, the door came from a house. Mai heard some giggling from it but when she entered, it was just the same girl on the same chair.

"You told on me," she said in her echoing voice, "You told on me Mai-chan."

"I didn't tel--"

"I don't need your excuses, Mai. Come here. Tattle tales need to be punished."

I know it's fast paced and short but I never had a good sense of rhythm in the first place. Go ahead, ask my friends. So what do you think? I wrote this right after midnight. Do you know how scary that is?

Oh and remember about the title.

PLEASE REVIEW and complain about how I move too quickly so I'll work harder (I don't move unless I'm told, you see)