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Chapter 14: Case: Part Two.

I sighed as I made the tea and Naru interrogated and interviewed the people behind me. So far we have found nothing out yet. People said that they had heard noises and such, but that was about it. Not really anything. None had said anything about the shawdow. Much to everyone surprise but Naru didn't ask them if they did. I wonder why?

Was it not to scare them? Not to tell them that a shadow is walking the halls. I chuckled and remembered Naru was never that nice and shook it off and thought that he just wouldn't mention it. Monk and the others where sent on rounds to set up the rest of the equipment and to just get a feel of the place just like an old job. One like before. Ones from a year ago. Obviously the pairs were like normal. Monk and John, and Masako and Ayako, much to the girls displeasure, but they didn't say much, but you could tell. Even if they are a little closer.

I took the tea I had made from the small counter in the corner of our base and head over to Naru and the second till last person he had to interview. She had blonde to near grey hair pulled into a low pony tail at the base of her neck. A pendant hung from it as well, but once i looked at it, she had hid it from my view. Also, she wore a white blouse with faded blue jeans, and he some simple flats on. Not what i thought a usual old person would wear. Not taking offence but, that was what i always thought. She gave me a smile as i set the tea down infront of the two before Naru spoke up.

"So, these marks, can I see them," he asked in English.. I stared at the woman as she pulled up her long white sleeves to reveal marks, well, what looked like to Mai words. They wrapped around her arms like a snake would thinking her arms were a tree. They were a thin font, very wavy, like real old words, they must have been. "Whoa." I whispered softly but loudly. The lady looked at me and then down at the marks. I blushed, quite embarrsed as she traced the words.

"They appeared sometime yesterday, about 1 in the afternoon." I gasped, and stepped back and the woman looked up at me."That was about the time I got attacked, right Naru," I stated. I trembled and put my hand on the desk to steady myself. Naru looked over at me, then back at the woman. "Did anything else happen while these marks appeared?" he asked and then woman pulled down her sleeve in deep thought. Her eyes then looked up, to search minem, when she spoke."Yes," she said, "I think there was one thing," she looked at me, and then back at Naru. I could tell she was thinking over what she was going to say before she said it, "I wish to say this privately," spoke the woman looking at me.I frowned slightly and went to protest when Naru sighed, "Mai, please leave us for five minutes," I went to shout saying 'No' when he gave me a pointed glare, "Hai," I muttered in Japanese before walking around the desk to the door.

I looked over my shoulder back at the two when Nary raised an eyebrow and stared at the door. I sighed and push the door open and left to stand outside the door.

Normal POV.

The woman, or Tsubaki Hitomi, stared after the assistant as she left. Stared into the eyes of the poor girl that she had just rudely asked to leave. But, she didn't asked, more comanded to her boss. She felt sorry to do this but she reckoned it was in the girls best interest she wasn't here to hear what she had to say. She sighed softly, looking down to the ground as she turnt around to look at the boss. His eyes glazed over as he went quite and wrote a few things down. Tsubaki would admit, those two looked to be a lot closer then they let on. An Realtionship maybe? Who knew, but she knew on thing, it had to be something to do with their past and if that was true they might be able to stop what has been going on here.

"Shibuya-san, sorry to send your assistant out, but, I only wish she didn't hear this." she paused to look him straight in the eyes, his eyes flashed some an emotion, that she could figure out because it was gone so quickly. She knew it was something deep. "This information contains what might become of her health." Naru, slightly more interested leant forward, "And what might this contain?" he asked. She sighed and watched as worry slowly seeped into his eyes, this time, it stayed there, but he still had an emotionless façade. "When I got the marks, I heard a voice, it was deep, scratchy but sounded very young. It said that it had its next target, I thought personally it was me, with these marks on me, it was obvious. But, it then gave me a name. I wondered on the name until I heard it being shouted and that's when I knew I had to tell you. The name was Mai and once I found out it was the name of your assistant I had to tell you, but," she paused and she looked down at her hands.

"He, I assumed it was a he, said that he had a job for me to do before anything else, but, he didn't tell me what this job was, he said, if i didn't complete this job, or told anyone he would kill me, he could even kill me for telling you now," Naru watched the old woman and then closed his eyes, he always knew Mai would get in danger, she always did. It was inevitable, he sighed inwardly.

She was the danger magnet of the group, and he knew this was just the beginning. "Tsubaki-san, we will help you, give you charms as such made by our priestess, we will solve this, and don't worry about Mai, she will be-"

SCREAM.

Naru and Tsubaki both stood and bolted for the door after the scream that was very known to the young ghost hunter.

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