I do sadly not own this.. although the idea is mine alone, Naru's car, the stalker and Mai's powers is owned by me though!
Some weird feelings, I wrote why under the chapter.. I accidentally used them when I wrote this chapter and the last one so.. Mai and the others might appear a little pissed and I apologize for that!
And thank you all for faving, reviewing, stor alert and so on :D
File 6.
Filtering the Ghosts.
Non of them, not even Naru had expected the room to grow dark, then to see their own actions being reversed as they seemed to go back in time, fast too and there was no sound.
Naru had noticed Ayako's gasp and he turned towards Mai, wich everyone else did too, Mai's dark hair seemed to glow and then it was white, as white as snow glittering under the sun on a cold, yet sunny winter-day, if they could've seen her eyes, they would've seen her electrifying, blue eyes and could read anything anywhere.
The activity around them suddenly slowed down to a halt, Mai didn't turn and Naru didn't react to the fact that non of them where there, instead, a young man, a young girl, around 16 or 17 and Yoshimo stood there, suddenly the sound was on, like someone had pushed a button, they heard the summing of the crickets outside and they could feel a warm summer-breeze through the room and realisation dawned on Yoshimo "this is.." he began, but Mai cut him off "9 months and six days ago, in July.." she stated with a monotone voice.
Naru nodded "so what-ever happened, happened in this room, almost a year ago, why didn't the activity happen before now!" he hadn't really meant to ask, just as a reminder to himself "because the strong ESP that Ukemi-san had didn't act before the person who caused this left!" Mai told them as she continued to stare out the window.
"Before the person left?" Yoshimo stated "it can't be.. Tena?" Naru turned, but instead of asking him, he looked at Mai "his daughter, she is the young girl you see, she left this household when she was 17, she also has a strong ESP, but it's stronger, and it's more on the PK-side!" Mai said, Yoshimo glared at the woman and stood up "how do you know anyway, you've never been here before!" he yelled at Mai and Naru stood up "refrain from yelling at my assistant Ukemi-san, she is only doing what I tells her to.. and she doesn't need to be somewhere to know it all, the only things she needs is to hold someone's hands and she can see all that she wants, even things you cannot remember!" Naru stated and was a little shocked when he saw the surprised and dumbfound faces of the people from the rest of his team, except Lin of course.
"What.. when did Mai become like that?" Ayako asked, but Naru ignored her when they saw another woman enter the room and it all happened so fast, the girl began to cry and Yoshimo yelled at the woman as she grabbed the teen girl and dragged her away from her father while the young man just stared between them, then he was pushed aside as Yoshimo walked forward and yelled at the woman, asking her why she was taking his daughter from him, the woman spat at him, telling him that he would never have his daughter as long as he was so weird, this made him tick and he threw the first thing he found at the woman, wich was a large book.
Then it all stopped and Naru raised an eyebrow, it was almost like a movie that he owned and Mai would suddenly push the pause button "Mai?" "this is not me.. it was the young daughter Tena-san, her will to stop their fighting did this and no-one knew because they where frozen, except.. him!" she turned around and Ayako let out a gasp, John followed suit seconds later while Bou and Lin just stared at her in shock.
Naru stared at the young man that suddenly moved despite the fact that both the man and the woman was frozen "who was he?" he asked and Mai swept her blue eyes across the room and stared at the young man "Hayatake Dai, a young man that worked for the Ukemi-family, he left with the daughter of the house when the parents where still frozen, they didn't know they left..." they watched the girl get out of the grip of her mother, not regarding her with a single look, she gave her father a kiss on her cheek and turned towards Dai, they spoke of leaving and soon enough they ran through the door, then the crickets was out-sounded by the car sound.
"S-she left on her own?" Yoshimo asked, Mai looked at him "this is the reason why he always looked so angry when looking at a female, he thinks his daughter hates him and his ex-wife took her away!" Mai stated, this ticked the man and he threw himself at Mai, the vision in front of them blurred and when Mai hit the floor, she was herself, with black, long hair and brown eyes.
"Shut up!" Yoshimo screamed, beating up Mai.
It took John, Lin and Bou to get him off of Mai, who by now was wincing in pain as Naru rushed over to her, for once all of his emotions showed on his face, but worry took most of the place "Mai!" he crouched beside her and helped her up, she held her arm, wich she had used to protect her face, Naru picked her up, bridal style and in the next second, his eyes bored into Yoshimo's and anyone else would've regretted what they had done if they had known what he was capable of of course.
Mai coughed and blushed deeply "please put me down, I can walk on my own!"
Naru ignored her and continued to glare at Yoshimo "it told to refrain from doing such things towards Mai, Ukemi-san!" he warned now and the only one who didn't back off to the wall and krept towards the door was Mai for the reason she was stuck in the narcissist's arm and Yoshimo, who didn't have a clue about what was happenening.
"N-Naru!" Mai said his name loud, but he didn't react, then the temperature dropped to under zero degrees celsius.
By now, the only one who of the fleeing people that weren't out of the door was Lin "Naru!" he yelled, but an invisible force pushed him out of the room, Mai was let go, but Naru still had a hand around her torse, holding her close and safe "Oliver" she thought and became desperate "Gene, I can't communicate with Oliver, what should I do?" in her mind, Gene appeared with a frown "I've noticed" then he raised an eyebrow with a smirk following "why don't you kiss him or something along that way!" Mai blushed "argh.. leave, your not to any help Eugene!" she shouted inwardly and Gene laughed before he got serious again "but I'm not really sure, he always listened to me when I called.. can be that you where hurt, he loves you after all!"
Mai blushed and nodded "Oliver!" she said, sounding strict, but to no avail, Mai desided that he had become deaf and she shook him, but he still didn't react, now she was become frustrated, things had begun to move around and Mai noted another presence, then she chuckled "even the poltergeist is scared out of it's mind!" she thought and ducked when a book flew over their heads, it barely missed Yoshimo and he stared at them, now even he had understood how serious this was and maybe he even was a little scared.
"OLIVER!" Mai shouted and shook Naru out of his murderous state "Mai?" he turned his head and looked down at her, she sighed and pinched his cheek "don't scare me like that, I think you even frightened Ukemi-san a little and he is our client!" she scolded him, but much to her annoyance did he ignore her and glare at Yoshimo instead.
"That case is closed and we've found the cause, so we'll take our leave!" Naru told him and looked at him, then at the door, but Yoshimo stood where he was "you haven't gotten rid of the things doing it!" "yes he did!" Mai countered and Yoshimo glared, making the young woman flinch and Naru glare even harder "how so then?" the man asked "Naru scared it away, it already vanished!" Mai told him.
The Next Day.
Mai placed the cups on the table as she was eyed by everyone from their team.
"What?" she asked and looked at them with a raised eyebrow "how come the poltergeist was gone when we entered the room, you seemed to fail to tell us!" Bou said and pinched one of the patched on Mai's cheeks, after she had been beaten up, she had to cover more of her body with bandage and Naru wasn't really happy about that.
"Oh, I forgot.. well.. Naru became angry.. and .." she chuckled "he scared it away!" everyone burst into laughter, most of them agreeing, since Naru was a scary man "sounds like him alright!" Bou stated and laughed harder "I'm not deaf!" they heard from the office Naru resided in, of course he wasn't in the door-way, but he had to yell hard didn't he?
Lin emerged from his own office with a small smile on his face as Mai where about to yell back at him "don't bother Taniyama-san" he heard a half-hearted snort from the other door and snickered, then he looked at Mai "is it possible I could get some tea as well?" she smiled and went to get another cup, that took two minutes since the water still was hot "here you go Lin-san!" Mai said and handed him his tea, he thanked her before he disappeared into his office again.
Suddenly someone opened the door and a young woman stepped in, she couldn't be older than Mai and had long, dark, brown-red hair, it was curly and fell around her face and made her look younger, also, her dark brown hair made it a bit more obvious that she was Japanese "excuse me?" she asked in a Kansai-accent and John turned around "what's the matter?" Mai asked and the woman came over she closed the door "this is Shibuya Psychic Research right?" she asked, Mai raised both eyebrows, how come everyone seemed to miss the very bold letters at the front door, where it stood SPR and the long name underneath!
"Yes.. is there anything you want?" Mai asked and they shook hand, Mai paled and turned away, then she offered her to sit, the rest of the team got up and Bou, with Masako, Ayako sat down on the other couch, Mai sat down beside the woman while John stood behind the monk and the medium "er.. yes, my house.. strange things had started to happen and I just can't get it out of my head, the house has a terrible past and I thought that might be the case.. now.." she fell silent as she noticed that the rest of the team where staring at her.
"What?" she asked and Mai turned to them with a 'stop-staring-right-now'-glare before she smiled at the woman "then, I'll call my boss..." she gave the rest one last look before she waltzed off towards Naru's office.
Mai opened the door and slipped inside "Oliver.. there's a client here" Naru turned "have you heard what she has to say, what about Ha.." he stopped, Mai had a bothered look on her face as well as being rather pale and scared.
"This is a 'interesting' case Oliver, you should take it!" she stated when Naru came over and took her hand, he looked into her eyes as she tried to look away "okay, you tell me the rest later okay?" he told her and kissed her on her cheek, she blushed and nodded before she exited his office, they all looked at her as she smiled at the lady "he'll be right here, do you want some tea?" the woman nodded and smiled back.
She walked into the kitchen and began to make more tea, she put the tea on a tray and prepared to take it all out at once, but John came to her rescue "should I help Mai-san?" he asked and Mai nodded with a smile "thank you John!" they walked into the main room as Naru came out of his office, he knocked twice on Lin's door before he sat down on the chair in front of both couches, the curtains luckily covering most of the planks covering the destroyed glass.
"I'm Shibuya Kazuya, how may I help?" Naru actually asked and the occupants of the other stared with wide eyes at him, before Bou and Ayako got up when Lin came and sat down where they had just been siting.
The Chinese man didn't look at the woman before he had opened his laptop in front of him, then he nearly gaped as the woman made a outburst and squealed "Koujo!" she said and actually jumped over the table to hug him for some strange reason, and to everyone's shock, didn't he push her away, wich he would do to anyone else, except Mai though, he actually just sat there, wide eyes and gawking like there was no tomorrow.
"Minami?" Lin asked after several minutes of awkward silence, the woman squealed again "you remember me, how many years has it been, I've missed you!" she said and clung to him for dear life "um.. six?" "yes, you haven't changed at all, of course, you look older, but.." she stopped as she noted the atmosphere in the room, she blushed and stood up.
"Um... I'm really sorry, this was weird wasn't it... I'm Minami.. Hatoshi Minami.." she introduced herself and bowed.
Okay, first off, weird ending there, I just couldn't bare to write more about that Ukemi Yoshimo.. grr... hate him.
Second, that woman, Minami, I got her in the idea from GiggleMaster13
of course the idea was fabulous, but I won't say anything more, so I'll hold my tongue until the next chapters! XD
And for those who believe that is just for those who has perfect stories written, WRONG! (not to be offending) I read here the other day that some people tend to see such sites as this as for those who write perfect English or what-ever language they write on.. nuh, don't think so!
But People who purposefully look down on people who do some few mistakes when they write can rot in hell, well.. not that bad, but if they actually tell the author that she or he should just drop writing, I get angry and I don't usually do!
Okay, done with the ranting.. ^^
Next case: He walked into the main room again, he sat down on the couch with a sigh and Mai plopped down beside him "that was one of the things that made me think of that!" she pointed out and Lin nearly clamped his hand over his mouth.
File 7: Missing Within Ghost House.
Please review or I'll hurt Mai! (Naru: Why you.." Me: Don't try Noll, or I'll hurt you too.. and maybe John too! Naru:...)