Have fun with this and remember to review this.. have a good weekend too :9

you all probably noticed I wrote 21 3 6 down on the page.. I didn't mean to, a reader made me obvious of it and I thank that person so much.. mistake, really.. so it's changed to 21 3 7.. anyway.. I managed to pull it off so that you have to wait till Monday to read the rest XD

File 11.

Happy Birthday.

Even ten years after what happened that day, 3rd July, Mai would have nightmares of what happened, no one blamed her of course, because they knew just how much she was traumatized by it.

Yet, no one knew just how close Naru was to commit a murder that day, since Mai never told them that, she was obviously scared that Naru might have gotten into trouble.

3rd July.

Day 1.

Naru sighed as he leaned back in his chair, ever since he woke up, he had been worried, Mai was just like usual, well to say that she was currently celebrating her birthday at home, alone.

Yet he couldn't shake of this feeling of unease, it had something to do with Mai's stalker, he knew, but he just didn't know how and what did those numbers mean, 21:3:6, he stared at the paper where it was written down, lately, he had found it outside their apartement as well, on the doorstep and in the mail box "Naru!" said man put down the paper and turned, slightly in shock, he had been so into the numbers he hadn't heard Lin had entered his office "yes?" he forced himself to sound just like usual, the narcissistic tone currently taking place in his voice.

There was a long silence "what's that?" Lin asked, Naru gave him a pointed look and sighed "someone, probably the stalked, is leaving this numbers around our apartement.. it's just so irritating.." he said and he ruffled his hair in annoyance, it shocked Lin, not the numbers, but that Naru couldn't crack it.

"Naru-chan~" someone called, well, a certain monk did and Naru turned to glare at the door, he was still a little pissed after Bou had managed to crack Mai's wounds after she had lost her first child.

He stood up and walked into the main room, Lin following close behind, the boss glared at the monk "what?" he noted that the others where there as well.

John wore simple dark grey jeans, dark brown shirt and light brown jumper, Masako, as usual wore a Kimono, but it was blue, compared to her usual red, pink and purple ones, Ayako though, was nothing like the woman they where all used too, now she looked like a mommy, more or less, she had let her hair flow around her hair, she had dropped make-up and style and replaced it with easy, comfy clothes while having this mother aura around her, yes, Bou had confirmed it and the rings on their fingers showed that just enough had happened between them.

"Where's Mai-chan?" Bou asked, he had become somewhat imune to Naru's glares or he had just grown up, the narcissist looked at the monk for some seconds "she's home" "it's her birthday today!" the monk and miko complained, Naru felt a tingle of jealousy, he had known, yes, but he hadn't gotten her a gift yet and that was why he had let her stay home "so, she is still home.." he turned away to leave as someone entered the room "is this SPR?" the man asked, he looked somewhat nervous, so Naru nodded "yes?" it still made him wonder how the heck people managed to miss the bold letters on the door.

"I.. I have a case.. I w-want you to s-solve!" his stuttering almost made Naru annoyed, but he smiled somewhat half heartedly and nodded to him, John and Masako stood up so the man could sit, he looked like he had been running for miles without end and was looking somewhat scared, of something or someone.

"My name is Yoh, Sakamura Yoh and own a shop, a few streets away.. you see.. there's always been this rumor that the shop is haunted by ghosts, I never really believed them though.. until recently.." Naru nodded as the man talked, Lin had fetched his computer and was now typing on it, sitting on the opposite couch of the man, Ayako siting beside him.

"And there's never been any trouble with the shop, until a week ago, when things began to move, at first we thought is was just kids playing around, but when we looked at the tape.." he went silent "there was no one there and it only grows worse.. by now it has moved a whole shelf that was standing in the middle of the shop.. then.. we caught whatever it was on tape.." Naru furrowed his eyebrows "it's not unusual that ghosts appears when you first caught them once!" the man nodded and pulled a cd out of his pocket "here.." he laid a cd on the table and Lin fished it up, then he put it into his computer, Naru stood up and walked over to him, the rest also piled around the Chinese man to get a look.

At first there wasn't anything in the room that could tell that a ghost was there, it looked like your average bookstore, but suddenly they all heard this hissing sound, like something was moved and they saw one of the moveable shelves move across the room, it stopped on the other side, then the next shelf moved until three shelves had been moved.

"Wha.." Bou began, but just then, they saw a hovering white orb in the middle of the room and they all stared on it, then they saw what it was, it was a boy, he looked like he was only eight or nine, he turned and looked at the camera, then he turned and skipped away with happy child laughter.

Masako gasped "I think he just wanted to prank you.." she said, Yoh looked at her and frowned "well, that was just the beginning.." they looked back at the screen as the screen changed somewhat, it was day now, people was standing by the same shelves and was either looking at books or reading them when all shelves moved at once, with such a force that made the people stumble and fall, or hit the shelves, then Naru and the rest heard child laughter.

The film stopped and Naru looked at Yoh "has the ghost become any more violent?" Yoh though, looked very sad "yes, an elder woman ended up with several broken ribs and one foot as something or someone attacked her, she said so herself when she woke up, she barely told her family that she had heard child laughter and felt hands push her, she fell and hit herself hard, after she had though, she went away.." Yoh told them and some of them shivered involuntarily "and?" Naru asked, he had noted the tone Yoh had used in the end "pregnant woman lost her child after someone pushed her towards a latter and a man.. in his late 20's is in coma right now.. she heard laughter too, but as long as the man, who is a friend of mine is in coma, we cannot know what he heard or saw.."

Naru nodded "then.. we'll come over at once" he was fairly sure they wouldn't use much time on this one, they had been up against much more worse than him after all.

Yoh nodded and stood up, the rest gathered their belongings, until Bou and Ayako started a fight, again, this time it was because he didn't want her inside in her situation, she just countered with the fact that she could take care of herself and had good counter spell.

In the end they all ended up in the small bookstore that Yoh owned, Ayako looked a little pissed while Bou had a red cheek, no one payed attention to them though, just as soon as Naru had entered the store though, he felt his unease come back full force, why?

"Naru.. he's here, the boy.." Masako stated as Naru looked at her "hm.." was all that came from the boss as John walked around a shelf, suddenly though, he stumbled backwards and ended up leaning against another shelf, his eyes clouded and he seemed different than usual, Naru and the rest looked at him as he leaning in heavier on the shelf and continued staring right in front of him with glazed eyes.

"John?" Bou asked, Masako though, gasped "h-he is possessed, but the boy.." everyone jerked their head from Masako to John, then Naru walked over to John "what's your name?" he asked, John turned his heard and stared back at Naru, he opened his mouth and closed it, then he opened it again "Kazuo.." Lin noted it down as Masako came over "Kazuo-kun, why are you doing this to the shop?" the priest shook his head and stared right at the medium "I'm bored" he stated, Masako blinked and Naru felt like punching the nearest wall, why did ghosts even bother!

Suddenly a fist landed on John's head and the priest soon covered his head with his hands "ouch.. that's hurt!" he shouted and glared up at Bou, who glared back, everyone too stared at Bou, but in shock rather than anger, then Bou exploded "what a stupid way to haunt, go to your own family or friends and haunt them, not some poor owner of a store, it stupid to just haunt instead of getting peace and rise to heaven.. or wherever you spirits go!" John stared up at him, something seemed to click and he suddenly looked like he was about to cry "ah.." Bou let out in shock, but then the priest nodded "okay.. you win" that made most of the people in the team gawk at him, then John collapsed and Bou had to grab onto him to hold him up, Naru just stared at the monk in just as much shock as the rest, then he smirked "so you finally where of some use too.." they heard a groan saw John come back to himself, he looked around, blushed and stood up fully "w-what?" he asked, he looked very confused, because the air in the room was different "what happened?" Bou snickered and folded an arm around John's neck "maybe you should get a charm, your beginning to look like Mai!" this made the preist blush and stutter.

Naru turned to Yoh "the boy is gone" Yoh though was gawking just like the rest had when the ghost left "t-thank you.."

Soon they left the shop as Naru felt unease explode inside him for full force, then he took up his phone as he walked back to the SPR, the rest following behind, Naru dialed the number to Mai and soon got an answer "yes?" "Mai, are you home?" there was a silence "yes.. I have nothing else to do" Naru sighed "okay.. I'll be home soon" he could practically see Mai blush on the other side of the line "o-okay, love you.." "love you too" then he hung up.

Suddenly something hit him, but before he could call Mai again, his phone began to ring "yes?" he answered "21 3 7" a man's voice said, then he hung up, Naru stared at the phone, noting that he had gotten a message as well, it said the same as the voice had, 21, 3, 7 and he growled "what does it mean?" he began, suddenly his froze to his spot and the rest stopped as well "Naru?" Lin asked, but the young man didn't react "21, 3, 7.." he whispered and Lin laid a hand on Naru's shoulder.

Just then the man flinched and looked up at him "Lin, call the cops.. I'm heading of to Mai!" he said, not to loud since the rest of the unknowing team was close.

Lin nodded slowly "do you know what it means?" he was referring to the numbers "Mai is 21 today, today is 3rd July, July is the 7th month in the year.. 21, 3, 7.." then he ran down the street as fast as his feet could carry him, the rest of the team had probably never seen him run so fast, not that Lin blamed him.

Naru quickly jumped into the car and sped out of the parking lot, he quickly drove past all the buildings as he quickly parked the car and ran up to the doors to the apartement complex, behind him, a police car parked and two officers, including the lady from before that had been talking to them, Naru didn't really look at them as they all filled into the elevator, Naru concentrated his powers and tried to see if he could get in touch with Mai, it took some seconds before she answered.

"Oliver.. help..."