Title: Forever & Always
Chapter: Three
Author: Dravena Anevard
Disclaimer: I, Dravena Anevard, do not own, nor have any part in the creation of Ghost Hunt. I do, however, have the rights to my imagination. Please enjoy and review!
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It was three in the morning when Rai woke up in a cold sweat. Her ragged breaths were the only thing that could be heard in the once silent room. She looked over at the other two females sharing the same room as her. Her eyes burned with unshed tears, pulling her legs up into her chest she buried her face into them. Silently, she allowed the tears to flow quietly, not wanting to wake anybody.
"Mai…I need you, so much," she whispered. "I can't do this alone. Not without you…please."
Rai~
Rai's head shot up, eyes wide and slightly unseeing due to the tears clouding her vision. But she could just barely make out her sister's figure.
"…Mai?" came the strangled whisper.
Mai smiled. "Is Naru giving you a hard time?"
Rai scoffed lightly. "What do you think?"
Mai giggled, her expression slowly turning into one of sadness and guilt. But why she would feel guilt confused the younger of the two.
"Why the guilty expression Maisha?"
Mai turned to look her sister in the eyes.
"We need to tell them."
Rai understood now, shaking her head she frowned.
"They can't, not until we find him."
Mai shook her head sadly.
"They need to know, at least tell one of them."
"And who do you suggest I tell?"
Mai grinned slyly.
"Masako."
"The medium?" Rai was confused. "Don't you two hold a grudge against each other or something?"
"Not quite Taniyama-san."
Rai nearly squealed in surprise, whipping around to find the medium in question and looking at her and Mai's slowly fading figure. Rai turned at the exact moment her sister disappeared.
"Mai!"
Rai sat unmoving in the base; it was now seven twenty-eight (in the morning of course). Oliver, Lin, and Masako were watching, waiting for her to snap back to reality, but she just sat there staring at nothing in particular.
"Mai," the three were slightly shocked to find large tear drops falling from her brown eyes.
SMACK!
Rai found herself looking not in front of her, but rather to her left, and a stinging sensation went through her clouded mind. Silently she raised her fingers to touch her right cheek only to hiss, it throbbed and felt hot to the touch.
"Quit daydreaming and get a move on! Geez, and you people call me slow!"
Rai frantically looked around the room; the other three were doing the same but in a calmer manner.
"Quit being so emotional, that's my job," sniffed Mai. She slowly appeared in the doorway of the base, smiling she waved at Masako, apparently she couldn't see Lin and Oliver.
"Mai?"
"Rai, listen to me for I am only saying this once. This case will be the least of your worries; the answer to the problems is actually quite simple. However, until you find me you and the others need to be careful. Whatever has a grudge against SPR is more powerful than we think."
"What makes you think that?"
Mai sighed, "Latent psychic, remember?"
Rai paused, "Oh yeah. But Mai, where are you?"
"I'm not here anymore, but somewhere else. I can only leave you riddles until you get closer to our destination."
"Riddles?" Rai was confused.
Mai nodded, "You will receive the first one after this case. Like I said, the answer is right in front of you, you just need to use that gift you call a brain." Mai's expression darkened slightly. "And remember this, no matter how simple the answer, the work will always be difficult. Oh and don't forget to make Naru his tea." And with that said, Mai was gone.
"Always the violent one," Masako sniffed, and then she smiled. Her comment made the other three snap their attention to her.
"What do you mean by that?" Rai frowned. She knew Mai since she was born, and never had she ever shown any acts of violence.
"She changed when you weren't around."
"Why couldn't she see us?"
The two girls were startled as they realized that Oliver and Lin were still in the room with them.
"What do you mean?" Rai asked. The two males had been right behind her, Mai would have been able to see them, unless –
"She could only see those who were mediums." Masako breathed her eyes wide and for once she wasn't covering her shocked expression with her kimono sleeve.
"And since I am not a medium it must have been our twin telepathy kicking in." Rai concluded.
Oliver and Lin nodded in agreement to this hypothesis.
Rai frowned once again, looking at each of the occupants in the room.
"Who's Naru?"