First of, thank you all for favoring this story as well as reviewing guys :D I didn't think there'd still be that many that read Ghost Hunt ^^

And surprise.. it's just been like.. 10 hours or something since I published this story..

Oh well, it's not that long either, but they will get longer as I figure out what more to write!

Enjoy the first file, and first actual chapter of this story :D

File 1.

Haunting From The Deep Waters.

There was something, something deep down. Something was trying to get up, but couldn't. Something restricted it, and it wouldn't let it go. There was something over it, something floating. Reaching out for it, it began to float upwards before it was floating above the surface of it's prison, the first thing it saw was a girl looking over towards where it was, floating in the air.

"Get away, leave.. run away!" it called, though no one heard. Not even the girl. And no one knew the danger she was in, but it did and it wanted to help, but couldn't.

Day 1.

May 5th.

There was a loud sigh and Ayako turned to see John and Bou standing side by side, just looking out over the lake that they visited just a month ago.

"What?" Ayako asked. Bou turned his head, then made a motion towards Naru, who was also looking out over the lake, his hands resting on the railing. Something seemed to be bothering him. It might have been because right now, that damned lake that had been hiding his brother for so long, now seemed to hold some new secret, which cause Mai to be in danger.

"Naru?" Lin asked as he came over. Naru just shook his head.

"We'll set up a camp and get Mai." then he went over the car and got in. Lin went as well while Bou just sighed before walking over to his car and starting it. John and Ayako followed suit before they headed over to the camp.

Naru stepped out of the cabin and did a quick search over the lake. It looked like it did when he first came here, however, there was something in the air. Uneasiness settled in his mind.

"Mai.." his thoughts was on the road of Mai, but he wasn't worried that much, because he knew Mai got into trouble all the time, but she was capable of surviving on her own. So instead, he turned towards the rest of the group that had followed him out of the cabin.

"First task, find Mai." and with that, he walked down the stairs and disappeared. Ayako rolled her eyes.

"And not even a 'hi' when he comes back.. did he somehow get even more gloomy in England?" she asked, looking at Lin, who cracked a smile.

"No, he didn't.." Lin answered before he too began walking. And so, the group split into several smaller groups, searching for the brunette. It was John and Bou who found the first clue, by finding Mai's classmate's. However, they didn't know were Mai was, despite it being so late. When Naru heard, he looked just a tad more annoyed then earlier. However, he was cut short when Masako stopped him from any further action.

"Hara-san?" Naru asked. Masako shook her head.

"There's something.. something here, I can't see it well but.." Masako said.

"That's not unusual.." Bou commented and earned a glare from Masako.

"It's not my fault, something is blocking me off." she stated. Naru however, narrowed his eyes.

"Blocking you off?" he asked. Masako nodded.

"It feels like a ghost, but I've never encountered one that can block me.. so, it must be someone who is latent psychic." Masako said. Bou snorted.

"I've never heard of anyone able to block of others with the same ability." he stated.

"Well, what if someone can?" Ayako stated. Bou frowned.

"It's be something completely new." Bou said.

"Don't matter, we need to find Mai first." Naru stated.

"Shouldn't we wait till tomorrow, it's nearly midnight and searching in this pitch black landscape would be really hard.

"I don't-" Naru stopped himself as he, just like the rest noticed the faint, blue aura in front of them.

"It looks like.. fox fire.." Bou said, but he seemed unsure.

"It's not, it's too big." Lin answered.

"It's a person.." Masako said, then she gasped before she collapsed on the ground, her face in her hands. Naru turned, as did the rest as John and Ayako crouched beside the medium.

"Hara-san?" John asked, worried. Masako slowly looked up from her hands, tears falling heavily from her eyes. Naru frowned.

"What?" he asked, then he suddenly realized and spun around, staring at the blue shape that slowly got a more detailed form before it completely vanished. Naru hadn't been able to see who it fully was, but he and idea, and it wasn't one he liked. Bou was now helping Masako up, but she was still crying.

"Masako? What did you see? Was it someone we know?" Ayako asked. Masako sobbed softly before she nodded. Ayako gasped before she looked at Naru.

"It can't be, were we too late?" Ayako asked. Naru frowned.

"We don't know yet!" he stated.

"So.. the ghost we saw.. was it-" Yasuhara stopped himself.

"Y-yes.." Masako sobbed.

"It's Mai.."

"So where do we start off?" Bou asked. It had been an hour since everyone had woken up. Naru was standing by the window, his face expressionless as usual. Everyone had this tired, grieving look on their faces. Mostly because Mai was, and would always be like their little sister. Naru turned around to face them and it was evident he hadn't slept at all.

"Search! Mai must be here somewhere!" he stated and everyone nodded, getting ready to go search for their missing member, because Mai was irreplaceable to them. Bou was the first to leave with Yasuhara and Masako while John went with Ayako and Lin with Naru. There was no way they were going to leave the girl somewhere to rot.

John looked up into the trees, into the bushes, anywhere Mai could have hid and then died, if she was dead that is, and John was hoping she wasn't. A gasp from his side made him turn.

"Hara-san?" he asked. Masako was staring off in another direction. So John looked the way she did, and saw he didn't like.

"Hara-san, you should get Shibuya-san." the priest said. Masako nodded before she ran off while John ran over to the figure lying in the grass. About five minutes passed before Naru and the rest came running. Naru and Bou was the first to reach John.

"John!" Bou called out as John gently lifted up the nimble and seemingly fragile form into his arms and stood up. The others eyes widened at the sight. The young girls eyes was closed, her hair dirty as well as her clothes. Her skin wasn't as pale as she ought to be, which gave them some hope. John was smiling as well.

"She's breathing." he said. Bou and Naru both came closer before the latter turned to Masako, who shook her head.

"I don't know why, but I swear it was Mai I saw, she even had this foolish smile on her face and said 'seems I did it again'.." she said. Naru nodded.

"Get her back to the cabin, Matsuzaki-san, go to her class and teacher and tell her she's safe and stays with us!" and with that, he walked away, followed by Bou and John. Ayako opened her mouth, but then grumbled and left. Masako and Yasuhara stared at the woman before they joined the men.

Ayako came in and closed the door, only to get worried when Mai wasn't sitting on the couch laughing or something. In fact, the girl was still unconscious. She came over and John moved aside to let the woman sit down and check the teen.

"Still not awake?" she asked. John shook his head.

"She is breathing, but it's like.. she's in coma or something." he explained.

"Well, I can see that, but it's still weird, to fall into coma like that.." she glanced at Mai's hands and tilted her head to side. She reached out and gently opened the fist, then she gasped.

"Naru, you need to see this." she said. Naru came over, even quicker than Ayako though, only to have to show Naru what she had seen. Inside Mai's hand, on her palm was a large cut, well, two actually, and they formed a cross. John gasped.

"A cross? Who would do that?" he asked.

"Maybe she did it herself?" Masako suggested.

"No way, Mai wouldn't do that." Ayako answered, glaring back.

"Your right, Mai wouldn't leave a clue like that, she would rather use something else, or she'd use her astral powers to tell us." Bou stated. Ayako nodded.

"I don't think.. she did this herself, by the way the wounds are cut it seems someone did this to her.. hopefully after she fell into unconsciousness." Ayako stated. Naru nodded and motioned for Lin to write it down.

"Should we call the police?" John asked. Naru twitched at that. Everyone in the room knew that Naru didn't like media because there would be a chance of the world figuring out his identity, and he wouldn't risk it. Bou motioned for John to look at him, then he shook his head.

"Not smart.. besides, it's doesn't seem anything criminal happened, she could have fallen from a tree and fainted and some nearby guy thought that making the mark-" he was cut of.

"Or a ghost did it." Yasuhara suggested and that actually seemed like a good point.

"True, she could have been attacked by a ghost, it's not the first time." Ayako said.

"Then find it, and we'll find out why Mai isn't waking up!" Naru ordered. Bou and Ayako exchanged a glance, wondering if Naru wasn't a little bit too much worried for the brunette. But, they both shook their heads at that thought. Even if Naru seemed to care more for Mai than anyone, it was a long throw to say that Naru cared enough to become frantic when she was in danger. Bou got up.

"Well, where do you think we should start?" he asked, then he turned to Masako, who shook her head, letting the rest know that her sight was still restricted. There was a knock on the door to the cabin they used as base and Yasuhara opened the door, letting in a few high school girls. They were from Mai's class, and obviously someone close because they looked like they were worried to death.

"Um.." then they saw Naru and the narcissist saw them.

"Your Mai's friends." he simply said, and the girls nodded.

"Y-yes, we were the last to see her.." one of the girls said. Naru nodded and motioned for Lin, who got his laptop and opened it. Naru then sat down in his chair while John and Ayako moved aside for the girls to sit down.

"When and where?" he asked.

"We walked with her to the lake after the group talks in front of the fire, she seemed a bit.. out of it after telling the scary stories." one of the girls said. Naru nodded.

"Your name was again?" he asked.

"Michiru, I've been with Mai since 6th grade." Michiru said. Naru nodded.

"So, you left her at the lake?" he asked then. Michiru nodded.

"She said she wanted to be alone.. I personally think she was thinking about the story she was telling the class about.." she said. Naru frowned.

"What story?" he asked. Michiru looked down, then up again.

"About the haunted school outside of the camp.." she said. Naru's eyes didn't even twitch, but Ayako's did.

"You mean, she told the class what happened over there?" Bou asked, this earned him a glare from Naru, so his shut up. But Michiru nodded either way.

"Yes.." Naru however, frowned.

"It was far from the scariest thing Mai has gotten herself into.." he stated.

"Yes, she did mention that the most scariest was the case with.. what was it.. oh, Vlad or something.." this caused an odd pause. Naru's face was still blank, but the rest had troubled looks on their faces. Michiru and her friend both frowned, finding it odd that they all looked a bit concerned. Naru however, didn't.

"What was the time when you left Mai at the lake?" he asked. Michiru looked at her watch, like trying to remember the time.

"Um.. around 9 pm I think, it was late, but not so late that it was time to go to bed.. Michiru explained.

"That's about the time we received the call Naru." Ayako stated. Naru nodded.

"Anything that seemed out of the ordinary?" he asked. Michiru tilted her head to the side before her face read realization.

"Yes, there was one thing, she was talking to someone, like.. looking at nothing, well, we couldn't see anything, but she was talking to someone.." Michiru said. Naru frowned, as did the rest. Mai hadn't in the past been able to see ghosts clear as the day, that was Masako's job, so who was she talking with? Naru shook his head.

"Did you hear what she was saying?" he asked. Michiru looked a bit troubled.

"Well.. not much, but I decided to go back and ask her who she was talking with, but stopped when Mai picked up her phone.. um.. wait, I remember a name.." Michiru said. Naru's eyebrows narrowed as his eyes made it from Lin's face and back to the girls.

"Gene.." he whispered and Michiru lit up.

"Yes, yes, that's the name." she said. Bou and the rest just gasped.

"Well, then we know it Naru-chan, she wasn't just talking to anyone." Bou said.

"But didn't he.." Masako began. Naru shook his head.

"How should I know, I can't see him.. but Mai seems to have been." he stood up.

"Thank you." he said to the girls, who nodded and left. Bou sat down on the couch, looking a bit worried.

"You think your brother had some unfinished business?" Bou asked. Naru turned and glared.

"Of course he had." he stated, glaring. They all knew that Gene wouldn't harm someone because if he wanted to, he could have done it to Mai all the time he helped her. Ayako walked over to the window, looking out of it as she too fell into deep thoughts.

"Could it be something happened to Mai and your brother shielded her?" John suggested. Naru turned to him, his eyes showing that it might just be what happened. Then the boss turned to Masako. Masako however, was just looking down at the floor. Then the medium looked up.

"I can't see him, nor sense him.. I can however sense another spirit, and it's not a friendly one." she said. Naru frowned.

"From where?" he asked. Masako sighed.

"From the lake.."

Naru looked out over the lake, there was nothing out of order. The surface was without a ripple and reflecting the sky perfectly. There was nothing to indicate that something had happened, but it wasn't the first time this lake had given of a false perfection. Naru turned his head slightly and saw some kids playing with a ball hundred feet or so away. This place was faking security, and had been for a long time.

"Geh.. if it's another body in that water, I'll never swim in a lake again.." Bou stated from Naru's left side. The boss just ignored what he heard, while his mind was thinking through every possibility. Was there a way Mai's mind was trapped? No, that was just about unheard off, but then again, Mai's abilities allowed her to even leave her own body, maybe she then got caught in some sort of trap set by a ghost?

"Oi Naru-chan." a voice brought him back from his thoughts and he turned. Bou was standing a few feet away, pointing out over the lake. There was a boat, a small one, but there was people on, and they were pulling something out of the water. Naru's eyes widened, but relaxed when he saw nothing bad, however, it seemed something got Bou worked up.

"Look at the body.. it's face!" he said and Naru did just so, and was shocked, there was a striking resemblance to Mai. Brown, short hair, a soft, round face and fragile body. It could be her sister, if it wasn't for the fact that Mai didn't have one. Naru, despite his usually cold demeanor grew worried.

"Could it be.. someone is attacking young girls with those looks?" John asked, though gasping first. Ayako gasped as well.

"It can't be, it would be horrible.." she said, but she knew, just like the rest, that it was in every way possible, so first thing they had to do, was to return to the cabin, and to Mai's unconscious body.

"Brown-san, you and Yasuhara-san stay here in case they find something more." Naru ordered before he left for the cabin. John sighed, but turned back to the boat as even more corpses was pulled up.

"Wait.. don't they all resemble Taniyama-san?" he muttered.

"Indeed they do, it's to much of a coincidence don't you think?" Yasuhara asked.

"Yes, it is." John agreed. Suddenly they heard running and turned around to see Bou, who looked a bit frantic.

"Is any of the corpses Mai?" he asked. John shook his head.

"No." he answered.

"Thank God.." Bou said, falling to the stony beach. John and Yasuhara came over.

"What's wrong?" Yasuhara asked. Bou didn't look up as he caught his breath.

"Mai's gone.." he said.

"What? You mean she's been.." John began. Bou shook his head.

"We don't know.. the door and all the windows was locked, but she wasn't there! It's like she's just disappeared into thin air!"

Bubbles rose to the surface. The fingers that reached out, trying to frantically reach up, trying to escape. There was no air to breath. It felt like being pressed between sheets of plastic. Mouth opened to try to call, to breath, but only water came, stopping the airways. Eyes wide in fear and desperation.

"No.. help me, help me.. I don't want to die!" however, it was futile, there was no escape anymore. Soon enough, struggling stopped, and the hands slowly stopped moving before they slowly sunk and bit, but continued to float. The feet, they hadn't been moved at all, still tied with tight chains, tied to a stone. Eyes slowly began to close. Brown eyes that would have been filled with tears if not under the surface. The the bubbles stopped, as well at the beating heart.

And that's the end of chapter 1 (well, chapter 2 but.. meh..)

There is one thing I've always loved :D CLIFFHANGERS~ Gods I love those XD

Remember to review okay? I think Naru's going to kill me *runs away*