Fear over took Mai, her legs started to shake, throwing off her balance so she fell to the ground. She watched as Lin and Monk walked up to the two standing in front of her in the door. "Don't be frightened Mai, all we want to do is talk, nothing else." John's words seem to seep into Mai's ears and drain into her bones tightening her up. She twitched her body getting the fill back and making sure the two behind her were alright. Masako was scared, but as hard-headed as always, Ayako on the other hand was shaking and crying out quietly. Tears hit the floor softly as Ayako's usual braveness walked out of the room and was replaced with fear of the four men. Mai placed her hands on the ground as, for some reason, her head became light. She gagged at the sight of her hands landing in the same puddle of blood that she had face-planted into a few minutes ago, but she held her grip on the ground. Ayako shifted behind Mai, a sound of fear escaping her throat as Monk started in the direction of the group of girls. Ayako and Masako's hands griped onto the back of Mai's shirt, both shaking and whimpering. A sharp shiver raced down Mai's back as Monk approached her, knelt down, and grabbed the front of Mai's shirt. "Masao Hotaru," Lin yelled from behind the other two. Monk released the collar of her shirt and stud up strait, a glare at Mai lifting. "Forgive me, Akio Yuuta," Monk said in a frightened voice, moving aside for the others to approach. "Yoshio pull the two off her," Lin commanded Yasu. "Makoto, help me get this one," Yasu asked John, holding onto Masako's kimono. They yanked Masako a few time, finally pulling her dead grip off Mai's shirt. Monk pried Ayako off, placing the two in the back of the room, commanding Yasu and John to stand guard. Lin squatted down beside Mai, placing a hand on her back, and stared at her as she shivered at his touch. "I promise I won't hurt you again, that happened when I didn't know who you were," he said, a smile flashing across his friend. Mai's eye's flew open, what did he say? She turned her head to Lin, but when her eye's met his face he had changed. He looked exactly like the first man she had seen that night. Now his hair looked to be a little darker and the black high-lights had a hint of red mixed in. "So Mai do you remember me?" Lin's, well more or less Akio's, voice echoed through her head. Tears filled her eyes as he grabbed a chunk of her her hair and pulled her face up to his, a grin flew across his face as warm tears ran down her cold cheeks. Why... why is he back, can't I just forget the experience I had that night? He grabbed her injured arm and waved it back and forth, making pain running up her arm and down her spin. Monk walked up to Mai, grabbed her from under her arms, and lifted her to her feet. He placed her on a chair they set up in front of Naru's desk. Lin sat in the chair on the other side and stared at Mai for a few minutes before opening up one of Naru's desk drawers, pulled out something, and placed it on the desk. The black gun glimmered in the light as Lin pushed it back and forth. "Now tell me what is your name?" "Mai, you know that already though." He shifted in his chair like she had made fun of him. "Now do you know the man who keeps on calling himself your brother is?" "N-no, he just said who he was and left." The thought of the young boy came to mind as she rubbed her arms from a cold blast of air. "Why is he here?" "I don't know maybe because you killed him." He picked up the gun, "almost dropped" it, pointed tword the two in girls in the back, and shot. Mai's body instantly started shaking as a scream of pain echoed though out the room. Woman... alive... and in pain! Mai's body shook so hard she had to cross her arms to make shure they didn't hit anything. "These things are so slippery, you never know when they are going to go off, so don't be a smart ass." The four started laughing as a cry brock out through the room. Mai shifted to see who had been hit, but Lin's hand grabbed a chunk of hair, placing the other on her cheek. "Now did he tell you anything about placing a spiritual lock on this building?" "No, but have you ever thought that Hades himself wouldn't take you in for being such...," She possed thinking of the word ",scum." Every work she wished had never left her throat, a sharp pain lashed her head to the right. "Akio calm down, she's just being a pain inthe butt." John's voice echoed up to tthe front of the room. The crys screached even louder making Monk bult up from his chair where he had been sitting and march to the back of the room. "Masao calm down, if you kill her we wont get what we've been waiting for theses twenty years," Lin said, letting his grip on Mai's hair fall, "leave her alone!" Mai lifted her hands to her sore head and rubbed, smothing out the bumps of hair. Another scream left the mouth of somone in the back and Mai couldn't stand sitting there wondering who was in pain. She shifted slowly on her chair, making shure no one noticed her moving. She turned her head and turned to tears. There on the floor, still breathing, lie Ayako covered in blood, screaming in pain.