Hello~ As promised I have posted the next chapter now! It is now 5:15 in the morning and I should probably go to bed lol. Oh well. This chapter is longer than the last one, thank you to all who reviewed last chapter; wenzel4542, Musical Teardrops, Rhiannonlee93, and Cooper101. You guys are awesome, and thank you to all those who are still following my story, I'm glad you've liked it so far. Now on to the disclaimer~

Disclaimer: Raixbishop does not own ghost hunt or any of its characters, she only owns the plot lines and characters she made up in this story.

Case 1: A hidden creature: part 3

It had been half an hour since they had gone back to base and others had left for dinner, leaving Naru and Lin in base, Mai was still in her room.

Flashback

"Lin!" Mai screamed as he fell. She reached out trying to grab his arm but only resulted in tripping over herself, she shut her eyes as she began to fall as well when pair of hands grabbed onto her waist. She opened her eyes as she was set on the step to see Lin laying on the ground rubbing the back of his head and looked up to find Naru still holding onto her. She looked back down at Lin as tears began to fill her eyes and she ran to her room.

Naru sighed going down to Lin who was standing now.

"Are you okay?" Naru asked looking in the direction Mai ran off to.

"Yeah, I didn't really get hurt, it's just a headache." Lin said quietly, following Naru who started walking to base.

End flashback

Naru stood up as he saw the others walking down the halls to base in the monitors.

"I'll be back. I'm going to go get Mai." Naru said to Lin as he walked out of base. He continued down the hall to the girl's bedroom knocking on the door. "I'm coming in." He didn't hear any words of protest so he opened the door. She was sitting on her bed which was on the far end of the room next to the window.

"Is Lin okay?" She asked staring out the window.

"Yes, he's fine." He responded closing the door after himself as he walked over sitting on the edge of her bed. "Why'd you do it?"

"I…I don't know. I heard this voice and the next thing I know Lin's falling." She hid her face in her hands. "I don't know what happened. What if he had been hurt, it would've been my fault." Naru sighed as he looked over at her.

"It's not your fault Mai. I believe I know what's going on, well part of it at least. You haven't done anything wrong so you don't need to blame yourself." He said, Naru's never been really good at comforting others.

"Really?" Mai looked up at him, she had been crying again. He didn't want to see her like that although he would never admit that to anyone, not even himself.

"Yes, let's go back to base. I need to tell you something." He said standing up. She smiled at him wiping her tears.

"Alright." She nodded getting up she followed him out the door smiling at the fact that the one and only Naru, her narcissistic boss, was trying to comfort her. They walked into base to see everyone there.

"This is the first time we've all been in the base at the same time." Bou-san stated.

"Yes, but what I'm more interested in is the fact that both Naru and Mai were together…alone." Yasu stated as Mai blushed.

"What were you two doing in there hmm?" Bou-san replied raising his eyebrows, immediately getting hit by Ayako's purse afterward. Mai and Naru sat in the two chairs by the monitors, Mai only sat there mainly to try and get away from those two. She felt like they were planning something, or at least Yasu was.

"Now that we're all finally together we need to discuss the case." Naru said completely ignoring everyone else. "So from what we've learned from Mai's dreams, at least the ones she's been able to tell us about so far, a family used to live in this house; a mother, father, and their two sons Daichi and Akiyuki. We don't know if the oldest son, Akiyuki, is the client ye-"

"Oh!" Mai interrupted him." I forgot to tell you. While I was making tea, Akiyuki was showing me where the stuff was and he said his family owned this land and that he lived here when he was younger."

"I would prefer it if you had told me this earlier, and that you didn't interrupt me while I'm talking. I guess the fact that you found this out can make up for your ignorance though." He replied. Mai didn't know if she should be mad or happy so she just nodded. "Well anyway, he may very well be the older child in Mai's dreams; his little brother was being abused by the father. From what Mai said, he blamed the child for his wife's death. I believe there's another person involved in this though, someone who is possibly very powerful." He said looking at them all. "Yasu I'm going to need you to research this house and its previous owners. Ayako you will go with Masako to see if you sense anything around the house and Bou-san will go with you." They all nodded standing up.

"What about me?" Mai asked.

"You, Lin, and I will stay in base watching over the monitors and such, but first I'd like tea."

"Fine." She huffed standing up.

"Go with her Lin." Naru said, Lin stood up and followed Mai out the door. They walked silently to the kitchen, Mai was avoiding conversation on purpose she felt really bad and didn't know how he felt about the incident earlier, she was currently quite thankful for his quietness. Once in the kitchen she grabbed the kettle filling it with water and placing it on the stove.

"Mai," Lin said. She cursed her luck staring at the ground, of course he would choose this one time to talk, it's not like she'd be able to avoid the topic forever though.

"Y-yes?" She mumbled wishing for the water to hurry up.

"I'd like to talk to you, about earlier." He said.

"Okay. Are you mad?" She asked looking up at him hesitantly.

"No, but I'm pretty sure we know what's been happening." He replied looking at her. "We, Naru and I, believe that a spirit in the house has an ancient form of mind control used on certain types of psychics. In short, they're able to tell someone something telepathically and the person ends up doing it because of its strength normal people can't hear it because their minds aren't the same as psychics. The side effects most often include the iris' getting darker with tiny purple flecks appearing in it, it only lasts for about 30 minutes." Lin stated as Mai looked at him her eyebrows furrowing.

"So there's a ghost here with that power? How are we supposed to get rid of it if it can do that much? What if I can't remember the important dreams, Gene said we needed to know everything before we could finish this case." Mai said frantically and Lin placed a hand on her shoulder.

"All we need to do is locate the ghost, after that everything becomes much easier. This ghost is most likely really smart though so for now we'll have to put charms on you while you sleep and have at least one person with you at the time so you'll be able to tell us your dreams right after you wake up. We're switching up the sleeping arrangements because of this; you, Naru, Bou-san, and myself will be in one room while Ayako, Yasuhara, Masako, and John will be in the other, John and Ayako will be protecting the other two." Lin said, the tea kettle whistled right after and Mai turned to go pour the water in a teacup and began making his tea. When she finished Naru's tea she prepared two others and placed them on a tray.

"Lin?" She asked as they left the room.

"Yes?"

"I'm sorry about earlier, for pushing you." She said quietly.

"It's alright, don't worry it wasn't truly you and I'm fine." Lin reassured her holding the door to base open. She smiled at him and proceeded to walk inside. She handed Naru his tea and placed hers on the table on the spot next to Naru's, she then walked over to Lin handing him the last cup of tea. Afterwards she sat next to Naru watching the monitors.

She lay in her new bed, the room was set up just like the other one and she had wanted the one closest to the window but Naru insisted that she be on the one between him and Lin and that Bou-san should be at the one nearest to the door. She was about to protest but she was tired and just wanted to go to sleep, at least at the time she was. Now she lay in bed wide awake trying to will herself to go to sleep, she had spent the first five minutes staring at Naru while he was asleep without realizing it but she realized how embarrassing that was and ended up laying on her back and staring at the ceiling. Mai sighed sitting up, she got out of her bed quietly and walked into the bathroom, she was grateful that each room had its own bathroom as well walking down a dark hall alone didn't seem that appealing.

"C'mon Mai, you can do this. Their only silly little ghosts just go to sleep." She whispered to herself as she splashed water on her face and stared at her reflection in the mirror. Mai groaned sitting on the toilet, thankful that the seat was down, and pulled her knees up to her chest resting her head on them and wrapping her arms around her legs thinking.

Mai looked around, she was in a room that looked quite familiar, she walked around then jumped when she heard yelling. She ran out of the room into the hall where it was coming from.

"It's your fault you murderer you deserve this!" The father yelled as he slapped the child.

"I didn't kill her!" Daichi yelled in response. "You did!"

"Shut up boy! Don't you dare talk back to me!" He yelled picking the boy up by his shirt. Mai watched wide eyed as tears began to fall from her eyes, something didn't feel right though, she looked around and saw a dark figure. He seemed familiar but she didn't remember ever seeing him before, she looked back at the boy when she heard a whisper, it wasn't directed at her though. 'Kill him, you know you want to. You can do it with the knife in your pocket, then stab yourself afterward.'

"NO!" Mai screamed trying to run over but something was holding her back. "Don't do it!" She fell to the ground as she was forced to watch, yelling to no avail. She gasped when the boy pulled out a knife stabbing the father in the chest. She screamed the tears falling down her cheeks uncontrollably. The father let go of Daichi as he fell to the ground clutching his chest, Daichi pulled the knife out holding it up.

"WHY?" Mai screamed as he stabbed himself.

Mai woke up screaming on the bathroom floor, she sat up sobbing.

"Mai! Mai what happened!" She could hear Naru yelling through the door.

"Open the door Mai!." Yelled Bou-san. She stood up feeling nauseous as she went over to open the door. She looked up and saw Naru standing in front of her, immediately falling into him as she cried.

"Mai. What happened? I'm sorry but you only have about 5 minutes to tell us so we need to know now." Naru asked.

"H-he killed him." She stuttered.

"Who Mai?"

"Daichi…he..killed his father a-and then he s-stabbed himself too. B-but he did it because…..someone told him to." Mai said through her sobs. "I couldn't s-see who he w-was."

"That's all Mai. You don't have to say anymore." Naru said as she held onto him burying her face in his chest, he wrapped his arms around her and rubbed her back not really knowing what to do. He looked at Lin who had typed everything up making sure to save it as well then nodded.

"You guys can go back to sleep. It's still pretty early." Naru said as he looked at the clock seeing that it was three in the morning. They nodded climbing into their beds. "Mai. Do you want to go back to sleep too?" Naru asked as he looked down at her only being able to see the top of her head, she had stopped crying and was now half asleep. She didn't reply so he picked her up and walked over to her bed laying her on it and placing the blanket on her. She immediately fell asleep and he laid down in his own bed closing his eyes.

Alright thank you all for reading this chapter, I feel so lucky, having people continue to follow my story and such. Alright before I go I'd like to ask you all if you'd prefer this to be a one case story or a super long story with multiple cases? PM me or post it in a review, either one works for me. Okay thank you all again for reading time to go to bed lol. Please review if you'd like your opinion to be heard!

Au revoir! *waves*