Disclaimer: I do not own Ghost Hunt.
A/N: I like to say a big thank you to everyone who does read this story and to my beta, who has been helping me along the way.
Mai and Sayuri had cried out in fear of what would happen to their friends. The boys appear to be standing still in the dark. The spirit let out a disgusting hiss, angry that his bullets didn't penetrate anyone's flesh. Monk's chanting sounded like it was louder then before, with the spirit glaring angrily at him.
The barrier had stop the bullets from hurting anyone.
"Get out of here," Naru whispers furiously, "now!"
Ayako drags Masako and Mai towards the door to get out of the place. Sayuri remains standing, fear gripping her if something would happen to one of them. She didn't want that. She didn't want them to die like the ghosts did.
"I'm not leaving you guys alone with this bastard," Sayuri shouts.
The bastard turns its head around to stare at her before lunging in her direction.
"Sayuri!"
Her legs couldn't move as the spirit lunges for her with his gun. The flashback of the vision of the spirit with the same dangerous red eyes consumes her thoughts.
Kyo...if you're here now...help me!
Her eyes close, waiting for the fatal blow. Her arms raised to protect her head. A sharp sound like metal hitting metal is heard. Her grey eyes open part way to see nothing but glowing, white wings. The wings are coming out of the back of the grey and white dressed samurai standing in front of her.
"K-Kyo?"
The spirit is surprise as a sword is what is blocking his gun. Sharp, intense gray eyes bore their way into the red. There was no trace of fear in the samurai's eyes. Sparks fly off the weapons as Kyo backs away to stand in front of Sayuri.
The spirit makes a gurgling sound before trying to aim his weapon at the face of the samurai that stood before him. A small smirk appears as the samurai grabs a hold of the barrel, pulling it out of the hands of the spirit. A sound of something piercing flesh is heard as the gun is shove into the chest area. The guns sticks through the spirit as Kyo shoves him back into the wall.
It's red eyes fade to where the blood shot eyes of a angry man are now terrified.
"Please...don't hurt me," the voice was wispy and gurgling at the same time.
"Nobody tries to hurt my family," Kyo's eyes shine with white feathers everywhere, "you tried to hurt yours. Instead you went and took the lives of others out of fury and hate for no reason! You don't deserve mercy."
"Please," the spirit kneels, "don't..."
"Finish it!" Kyo shouts, not sure to whom from Sayuri's point of view. In a fury of feathers, Sayuri finds herself off the floor and out of the hotel. It wasn't long until she could hear Mai calling her name.
"Sayuri," Mai hugs the older girl, "are you alright?"
Sayuri looks around to see that all four of them were outside on the lawn near the van. Ayako was helping out Masako while Mai kneeled on the cold grass to hug her.
"How did I get out-"
"We were about to ask you the same thing," Mai asks, "one minute you weren't here next it was like poof!"
"Poof?"
A large explosion is heard from the front half of the hotel. All four girls scramble towards it, yelling for the names of their friends trapped inside. The loud piercing sound of sirens is also heard. Sayuri grabs Mai, holding her back as Lin helps Naru out of building followed by Monk and John.
"Sayuri!" A familiar male voice catches the girls' attention, turning around to see who was calling out.
Sayuri feels arms wrap around her, spinning her around before setting her back down on her feet. The worried amber eyes of Detective Ritsuke Satoru stares down at her, with hands on her cheeks. His spiky black hair look even more untamed down to his rumpled shirt, pants, and jacket. His gun was visible from the inside of his leather jacket.
"Are you alright?" Ritsuke squeezes her tightly to him, "I panic when you didn't pick up your cell phone. I found out who else died around here. A very angry man who was shot down by police when he came to kill off members of his family for disowning him."
"Figures," Sayuri brushes her hair out of her face, "thanks for coming...I think?"
"Least I could do just to be sure that you weren't in danger," Ritsuke lets her go, "ghost hunting involves blowing up hotel lobbies?"
"Not usually," Sayuri laughs sheepishly, "in this case, yeah."
It didn't take long for Naru and Ritsuke to take care of the police. Though Sayuri could have sworn that Ritsuke had threaten Naru with his life for putting her in danger. She sighs, knowing that Naru would retort, saying how she would know what she was getting herself into.
"Well," she got clearance to go back in and get her stuff, "guess my mini-vacation is over."
"Need any help?"
Sayuri jumps from gather up her suitcase. She turns around to see Monk leaning in the doorway.
"You look tired," She pauses a moment to walk up to him, "you should be in the van trying to catch some sleep, my brave monk."
"Eh, it was nothing," Monk rolls his shoulders.
"Hurt?" Her hand touches his arm.
"Just sore," He stares down into her grey eyes, swearing that he had seen two pairs when conforting the spirit. It didn't surprise him if there were and the second belong to her so called angel Kyo. Now it made sense when he heard a loud voice shouting him to finish it. John did as well. The two assume it was from Naru who later confirm that he heard it too and wasn't him.
"You rest when you get home, alright?"
"Aw, you do care." His smile had flirt written all over it.
"I care enough," Sayuri felt her one eye twitch, "only because you guys are awesome and after this, I don't want to see any of you go out the way those ghosts did."
"Right," Monk helps her with her suitcase while she attends to her laptop and papers, "what's the big bag of stuff for?"
"Sadly," Sayuri blushes, "for you all. I subconsciously bought you all something while I was out one day."
"Hmm," Monk looks through the bag, "did you get something for Sho?"
"Of course."
"You going to tell him about your adventure?"
Monk watches Sayuri pause a moment in packing away her laptop. He sees her shoulders go down, sighing. "I'm going to," she mumbles, "despite that I don't want him to worry."
"If he did," Monk zips up her bag, "he would have called."
"Maybe that's why I had Kyo with me," Sayuri zips up her laptop bag, "because he wanted me to be safe."
"It sounds like the little guy," Monk picks up her suitcase, "ready?"
"Yeah," the two leave the room with the manager saying the rooms were on them, and not to worry about paying up front. Ritsuke was currently talking with Naru when he spots her leaving the hotel.
"Leaving?"
"The case is over," Sayuri opens the trunk for Monk to put her suitcase in, "so yeah. Also I got to pick Sho up from a friend's house. He's got school Monday."
"You sound like a little mother," Ritsuke pinches her cheek.
"Stop it, Ritsu!"
Monk clears his throat, "sorry to interrupt but who are you again?"
"Detective Ritsuke Satoru," Amber eyes narrow, getting a good look at Monk, "I'm a friend of Sayuri's. And who are you?"
"Hosho Takigawa, a member of Shibuya Psychic Research and a friend of Sayuri's as well."
"Guys," She could hear them mentally growling, "be nice. I like you both too much. While you two growl over who is the alpha male, I'm going to go say goodbye to everyone else."
After saying goodbye, Naru pulls her aside.
"You did fairly well on your first official case, Miss Natsuma." Naru looks her in the eyes.
"Thanks," Sayuri smiles a bit, "since it went so well, I forgive you for tricking me."
"It was the only way that I could have you accept that you have a unique ability," Naru coughs, "I'll be seeing you later Miss Natsuma. Have a safe return home."
"Wow you actually got to talk to not one but seven ghosts!" Sho was leaning out of his chair. Sayuri was telling him about her trip up to the hotel. She explained all that happened, including the encounter with Kyo.
"Pretty much," Sayuri laughs, "I felt sorry for them."
"I would too," Sho frowns, "did they move on?"
"Yes," Sayuri nods, "Naru told me they did. They also told me thank you for helping them."
"Cool!"
Sho hands over his empty dinner plate to her, "so...did you really see Kyo?"
She stops washing dishes. The dishes sink to the bottom with Sayuri leaning over the sink, "Yeah I did Sho. He protected me from the dark spirit. He...you were right. I'm sorry."
Sayuri is nearly knock off her feet by Sho. The eight year old decides to tackle her into a hug. The brunette kneels down and hugs her little cousin back. Sho wraps his little arms around her neck.
"I'm happy that you did," Sho whispers, "I told him to protect you while on your trip."
"Sho..." Sayuri pulls away.
"I mean it," Sho looks ever so serious for an eight year old, "I knew you didn't believe in ghosts and I was afraid that...I didn't want you to get hurt by something you couldn't see so I told Kyo to watch out for ya."
"The other ghosts saw him," Sayuri ruffles his hair, "they told me he was nice. And I know he is. He's very handsome and very protective."
"Duh? He's family," Sho leaves the kitchen.
Sayuri watches Sho go into the living room to turn on the television. She thinks back to what the angel had said when he was fighting off the spirit. He said that he would protect his family.
The overwhelming sensation of love makes her eyes water. It was a warm feeling that was rising up in her chest. She felt something brush up against her shoulders. Her eyes close.
Kyo...
I'm right here, Sayuri. I'm not going anywhere.
"Does this mean you believe now?" Sayuri opens her eyes to Sho standing there, "as in ghosts?"
"In a sense, yes. It's...still a bit scary to me. I'm taking my time with it."
"Okay!" The eight year old seem very happy about that answer.
It only took a couple of days until Sayuri finally asks Sho if he wanted to go Halloween decoration shopping with her. The eight year old all but flew to the car after school when she came to pick him up.
"I'm guessing you don't have your own decorations?" Sho asks the moment they walked into the store.
"No," Sayuri pushes the cart around, "typically I eat junk food and watch corny horror flicks."
"Not this year!" Sho giggles, "you got a eight year old to entertain."
"That I do," Sayuri laughs, "but I'm not going to try to make the house too scary. I don't want you or your friends having nightmares."
"Why have nightmares when I have a guardian angel?" Sho immediately spots something, "oooh, let's get those!"
Two hours and several dollars later, Sayuri didn't feel bad about splurging on the best decorations available. Sho even convince her to get a costume. She was happy with the pumpkins and ghosts and cheesy skeletons. Her mind wanders to what Mai and the others would be doing for Halloween.
"Probably a case," she sighs, "maybe I can make some of them play hooky for work and have them come down and help me out."
She begins to unload her purchases, putting them away in close storage until she and Sho could get help to decorate their home with spooky stuff. The only thing she didn't buy were tombstones, stating that they had the real deal out in the backyard.
"Hey Sho," Sayuri puts down a bag of lights, "what do you think if we all up Mai and Monk and the others to come down and help us Halloween night? As long as they're not busy that is. Sho? Whatcha think about that?"
Her question remains unanswered.
"Okay," Sayuri sighs, wandering through the house, "very funny Sho. I told you not to scare me with those masks we got. Okay, I've seen enough creepy things for at least another week."
She searches the entire house top to bottom, checking every cabinet and hiding place that a eight year old could get to. Sayuri even check the attic only to be startled by a huge black spider. The spider met its death at her hand before moving out to check around the house.
Panic rises back into her chest, recalling the night when she found him by Kyo's tombstone. When she reach the tombstone, Sho wasn't there at all.
Her whole body felt numb as she races back into the house.
Sayuri grabs her cell phone off the counter, ready to dial Ritsuke's number. She lets out a small scream, dropping her phone at the sight of the small ghost plush sitting right in front of her on the countertop.
She lets out a breath, picking up her phone. When she comes back up, the ghost is right on the edge, staring at her with a cute smile and black eyes.
"Okay," Sayuri pushes the doll back, "very funny."
The doll moves again, coming forward.
"Kyo?" The doll immediately stops when she speaks his name, "I'll take that as a 'yes'. Where is Sho?"
The ghost doll goes up then drops on the counter.
"Ghost?"
The doll sits up, with it bobbing forward as if Kyo was making it nod.
"It's..." She felt her breathing hitch, "oh god...Kyo...why didn't you watch him? Kyo! You're suppose to keep him safe! Isn't he your friend?"
Sayuri turns around to see a pumpkin sitting on the other counter with a sad, clown face.
"Okay not your fault but..." She takes a deep breath, "I can't fight it."
The number to Shibuya Psychic Research appears in the arms of the ghost doll, staring at her. Warm tears come into her eyes as she dials the number to SPR. Mai's warm voice answers the phone.
"Mai," She sniffles, "it's Sayuri."
"Hey Sayuri," the warm greeting dies, "what's wrong?"
"Please get everyone down here," She felt her lip quiver, "Sho's gone missing. I think it's ghost related."
"How do you know that?"
"My angel told me," She felt like crying.
"Okay! Hang on! Lemme just-" Mai leaves the phone as soon as Sayuri starts to cry, "we got it! We're coming over. You have anyone that can keep you company while we get everyone rounded up?"
"Y-yes," She sniffles, "Mai...I'm scared. He's...he's only eight years old. I know what some ghosts can do to people. I don't want to find him like that."
"You won't," Mai's voice falters on the line, "get someone to stay with you."
"Okay," she hangs up the phone before calling Ritsuke. The detective was there in about ten minutes. He look like he had just got home from work, dress in nothing but a long sleeve shirt with a unbutton one on top with dirty jeans and boots. His gun is on him at his holster.
"Ritsu," She falls into his arms.
"Why haven't you call the police?" He holds her.
"Because," Sayuri sobs into his shoulder, "It wasn't a human."