Recap

But one girl wasn't she placed the office phone down after having a long weird chat with a man. " Yasu! You give me one hell of a migraine" reaching into the top draw of her desk taking out two asprin popping them into her mouth drinking the last of her coffee. Tomorrow she was really dreading it.

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Chapter 2

The next morning came a lot faster for Mai than what she would have liked it to be, bags under her eye's she couldn't sleep again, it was more nerves than thinking about her past. She knew she would run into some old people at that dance studio, oh why oh why did it have to be possessed by a ghost.

Which had been running threw her mind ever since she made that final call to the last member of SPR yesterday. She wanted to tell Naru she wasn't going but then she wouldn't get any money for rent that week.

Sweat rolled off her forehead as she did one more push up, gritting her teeth, her past would end up being revealed to the whole gang, she wasn't ready she couldn't. How was she going to keep this a secret, yes fair enough her apperence has changed but some of her old habits haven't. Again another push up, this was going to be one tough case for the girl.

In her mind, she wondered what kind of spirit was possessing the school, was it even a spirit? Could it be a curse? Or maybe… A flash back of the Urado case went threw her mind, dropping to the floor holding her head, no she couldn't go threw another case like that. She wouldn't be able to take it, the poor girl could still feel the cold metal blade against her neck. A knock came at her door, standing up wrapping a towel around her neck. Opening the door she saw a red haired woman, surprised Mai was a little speechless.

"A..ayako? How did you find out about where I lived?" Ayako gave a small smile to the woman, " you should never underestimate a doctor," Giving a laugh she moved to the side and allowed the woman into her apartment. "Got a nice place here kid, spotless as well" Rubbing the towel against her cheek " Yeah, you kind caught me in the middle of my morning exercise. Anyway want some coffee?"

The woman nodded her head, watching the young girl she had watched grow for the past 2 years, she gave a small smile, she treated the girl like her own daughter. Looking around the apartment she noticed there wasn't very many pictures around, until she spotted one. Walking over to the picture her eye's went wide, ' why does she have this picture?'

Soon enough the young woman walked back out of the small kitchen she had and placed a coffee on the table for the older woman. " so what brings you all the way down this end of Shibuya Ayako? Don't you live all at the other side closer to the office?" Ayako nodded and turned around sitting down on the sofa, as Mai sat on the other end.

"I just wanted to talk to someone, about this case." answered the older woman taking a sip of the black liquid in her cup. " Go on you know I'm always open ears. Even if Naru doesn't acknowledge that." both girls chuckled and Ayako placed both her hands around the cup. "You see Mai, this school were investigating, My sister, she use to work there back when she was my age, she died 5 years ago. I was going to decline this case at first but… I don't know what to do."

Mai had listened carefully, 5 years ago? That's when her mother and father died. The sister of this woman sitting in front of her must have been something around 10 years older than Ayako. " I see, well its always best to face the past sometimes, no matter on how painful it may be. I should know that, I've been facing my past since my parents died, but with great friends like you guys, I've been able to over come the obstacles day by day. Getting stronger day by day." Ayako looked up to the younger girl, that's right she lost her parents when she was a young girl. Ayako still had both her parent's she didn't know what it was like or how it felt growing up with no one there to support her on what path she should take or what road to go.

Ayako nodded " I understand, I'm sorry I never realised that any sooner Mai" This caused the younger girl to look up and laugh "its ok, I'm alright my parents will be just happy that I've found a family that I can accept into my heart." she looked over to the time, "it's 8.45, if you want, make yourself at home while I take a shower before we go to the case, its only a 15 minute walk from here." Giving a nod Mai stood up and went into her bedroom grabbing the clothing she had laid out for that day.

20 minutes later she came back out, wearing a long sleeve pink shirt with a small black leather waist coat. Her black jeans matched as well as she placed on some black converse. "Wow Mai, I didn't know you had such a good fashion" Mai couldn't help but laugh and look over to the woman. " I get it from my mother, she was good at taking anything that was old, and transforming it into making it something new. I guess I inherited her fashion styles." Standing up and grabbed 2 travel mugs filling them up with coffee, handing one to Ayako and one for herself. Grabbing her phone, wallet and keys, and lets not forget her shoulder bag where it had at least a weeks worth of clothing in there.

"where's your luggage Ayako?" wondered the curious girl, Ayako blinked and smiled, " I made Monk take it for me. Have to have that man do something useful." Giving a laugh Mai went up to her side, " two love doves aye?" This caused the red haired shrine maiden to blush as red as her hair, " Why you! Come lets get going!"

With that they headed out of the apartment, locking the door and checking it twice. They began walking down the road to the Dance studio " so do you know why Naru picked this case? This is the most famous school in Japan… the media is always around here" Shaking her head Mai sighed " no I wish I knew but the damn jerk wouldn't give me any details about the case, I asked him 3 times and each time he said that I would find out once I got to the studio."

Giving a nod Ayako drunk her coffee, " that makes sense that's Naru for you always wanting to confuse the crap out of us." Agreeing to it Mai chugged down the last of hers and place it into her bag.

Soon enough on the warm summers day they finally made it to the dance studio, They both took a gulp, Mai held a hand to her heart closing her eye's 'I can't believe I'm back here… it's been 5 years… ' opening her eye's she looked at the name on the side of the school

PRETTY TOP

A beep was herd from the side and they saw the black van that Lin had drove, Walking over they gave a wave. "Hey! Glad to see you both made it! Did you walk it?" Asked the boy with glasses they nodded and Ayako smiled, " surprisingly Mai only lives down the street from this place. Isn't that a coincidence so I stopped by her apartment this morning, you know to make sure she's not late" Ayako spoke they all laughed as the woman winked, Mai elbowed the woman in her bloated stomach from all the morning coffee.

"anyway now that your all here, lets go in," spoke Naru getting up from his leaning spot against the van. Walking right up to the doors, a woman with short violet hair bowed to the man and he bowed back. Mai was reluctant to go in first but them something touched her hand she looked down seeing Ayako looked scared, she then decided she would put on a brave face for the woman who helped her threw the past 2 years.

"It will be ok Ayako, we all have to face the ghosts of our past." Ayako nodded and they both walked into the studio together, thankfully as they walked down the hall as many dancers watched them to the presidents office, no one had noticed who Mai really was.

That's when the president turned around and sat down, " please take a seat, Thank you for coming on such a short notice we are really having our hands tied here. We appreciate that you will be helping get rid of this."

" If I may ask, can we get right down to what you can tell us about what's happening?" Mai looked over to him this was a famous manager here who helped top dancers go pro. " Naru…" she hissed he gave her a quick glance as Lin got out his laptop.

" A man who can get right down to business, very well. It happened a little over a week ago, a few of the dancers had items going missing, normal right? Someone playing a prank is what we thought at first, but then in the dance rooms mainly situated in 2-A it gets extremely cold and some girls mentioned that they have seen a shadow in there. Lights flicker on and off, on the ice rink this is where it gets even stranger, a pair of skates will start to move on their own, and begin to make a message on the ice saying ' please bring back the prism queen…' we don't know what to make of it, it seemed like a little innocent spook but things got stranger the past 2 days, when the skates are doing this writing, blood starts forming on the ice and it takes at least 2 hours to wash away. Also there are cries in the hallways knocking," Naru placed a hand to his chin, trying to decide on whether this case was actually worth taking.

" yesterday one of our dancers was out on the ice when suddenly she was thrown from one end of the ice rink to the other, it was strange we couldn't make of it, until I saw the shadow, it looked like a young woman. The girl suffered from a sprained ankle and a hand print around her other ankle. Please I beg you please take this case."

Naru looked to the woman and gave a smirk " we will help this spirit move on. Right everyone I want the equipment set up at base immediately, camera's thermal tempuratures, night vision and temps taken before you all even think of eating and Mai" Mai looked to him which caught the presidents attention.

'she looks familiar' " Tea…" Mai stood up and groaned " Yes Naru I will take it straight to base for you."

With that they all split up into teams, the men taking off the equipment from the van to set it up, Ayako and Masako doing a walkthrough of the building, Lin was interviewing girls at the school while Mai was going to make the royal pain in her arse his tea.

That's when she noticed a set of red haired twins walking down the hallway, her eye's widened ' no it couldn't be… Uru? Eru?"

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So the case has begun and Mai's already tense! Who are these twins Uru and Eru? Why does Mai look familiar to the president, what adventures await the gang?

~Cure Dream 90 over and out!