Sorry about the really long break, guys! My laptop's hardware or something like that got toasted so my files were totally lost. I had to reinstall everything but my mom was getting a new version of Word so I had to wait for that. I'm really sorry. (This is actually from my parents' laptop. I did the chapter on google and exported it)

Disclaimer: I do not own Ghost Hunt.

Naru stared at Mai. "Are you saying you're a murderer?"

Mai turned away. "I don't know."

Naru rolled his eyes and started pulling Mai towards the stairs. "We'll figure this all out."

"I don't think we can."

"We can," Naru insisted, "I'm around."

Mai laughed and ran down the stairs. She took a look at the door and remembered her dream.

The door! she exclaimed. Mai turned around and went in the opposite direction. Naru called her name but she just kept going. Mai encountered a room. It was the only one in the hallway. No, that wasn't true. There were other doors but they blended in with the walls. Reluctantly and very slowly, Mai walked to the door and slowly opened it. She didn't dare go in to investigate and just left.

Naru was standing by the stairs waiting for her.

"Where did you go?" he asked coldly.

"The back," Mai answered and hurried out.

They went to the van.

"Did you learn anything?" Naru asked Lin.

"No," Lin answered, "This town isn't significant. There are no records."

Masako and John came up.

"Hara-san?" Naru turned to her, "Anything?"

"There's nothing here," she answered, "I feel nothing and I see nothing."

Everyone turned to Mai.

"Maybe Mai got the wrong town," Ayako suggested.

"No, this is it," Mai stared at the crumbling house, "This is definitely it."

"Let's ask the locals," Naru said.

All the locals told them to ask the town officials instead. The team was forced to ask the town officials. They all gathered in the town office place.

"We'd like to ask some questions," Naru stepped up.

"What is it?" one of them, the one in front, said.

Naru glanced at Mai. Mai stepped forward.

"First of all, can you tell me who Joanna was?" Mai asked.

"There's no one here by that name," they stepped back.

"That's because she's already dead," Mai said.

"There was one Joanna," one of them reluctantly told Mai.

"What happened to her?"

"She died falling off a roof."

"A roof?"

One of the officials popped their head out. "Hey, aren't you that girl?"

"Girl?"

"We all tried to warn you about her."

"Warn?"

"Don't tell me you've forgotten?"

"I don't remember... Could you tell me?"

The town officials nervously looked at each other.

"Please?" Mai pleaded.

"All we know is that the house she stayed in got caught on fire but because the house along with 2 other houses were isolated from the rest of the town, we only saw the last part."

"Last part?"

"Joanna fell. That's all we got, sorry."

Mai frowned.

When they left, Mai said she wanted to go back to the house next to the crumbling one.

"There's someone I want to talk to there," she said.

"Mai, stop trying to solve it on your own," Naru grabbed her arm, "You're obviously getting nowhere."

"I'm the only one that can solve it though," Mai stared at Naru hard, "No one knows the truth and you guys don't know what to ask!"

"You can tell us," Naru glared at her.

"It's hard to explain!" Mai yanked her arm away, "I just want to ask the old lady!"

Ayako stepped up. "That's the thing Mai," she said, "There's no one in that house."

"What? I'm talking about the house next to the crumbling house."

"So am I. We checked it out when you were next door. It's burnt and deserted."

"You're lying!"

"I'm not."

Mai ran to the house with the old lady. Frantically, she ripped the door open. She saw the old lady sitting on the chair. What's going on?! she thought.

"Excuse me?" she tried to catch the old lady's attention but her voice herself sounded muted. My voice... Mai thought.

As soon as Mai thought this, the view turned black and white, then sepia toned before turning back to normal. Mai rubbed her eyes to make sure she wasn't seeing things. Now, the house that stood before her was new and in the chair was the old woman but she looked considerably younger and healthier.

Mai waved at the old lady to get her attention but before she could say anything, two little girls passed through her. Through her. Like she was the ghost. Mai couldn't see their faces but they passed through her giggling. One had black hair and one had brown hair. They were the same ones from her dream. The little girls greeted the old woman who was knitting as they ran past her and through the back door. Mai followed them into the flower maze.

"Wanna know a secret, Joanna?" the brown haired girl crouched as if to hide under the flowers.

"What is it?" the black haired girl crouched down with her.

"I don't have a daddy," the brown haired girl whispered. Wait a minute... Mai thought, She couldn't be...

"That's okay," the girl 'Joanna' whispered back, "I don't have a mommy or a daddy."

They smiled at each other and ran back in.

The scene in front of Mai changed to a bad one. There was fire everywhere. The girls weren't present however and the old lady was just sitting on her chair.

That can't be right... Mai thought. Because then...

The scene turned sepia toned then black and white before returning normal. Instead of seeing what Mai deducted was the past, Mai saw the present. She didn't see the old lady alive however.

Sitting on the chair was a body. Burnt beyond recognition. It was falling apart. Probably because it was decaying. Mai knew who it was, though. Who else could it have been?

I'm sorry it's boring but I'm just trying to build up the mystery. If I solved it now, it'd seem too short and if I added some twist, it'd be better of as a sequel since it'd be different from the original plot, I think. Um, feel free to guess what happened and if you do happen to guess what happened back then that causes the girl to go psycho on Mai, I'll credit ya for it. This is my most successful story so give yourselves a round of applause! 6 chapters and 49 reviews? That's amazing guys.