JUST ONCE MORE
Author's Note: Okay… so this is actually my first attempt to write a Ghost Hunt fanfic. I'm not sure how would this story appear to the readers but I hope you still like it. This was originally planned to be a one-shot. But then the story turned out to be longer than planned so I have to divide it into three parts. I've been watching this anime for so many times and I felt like I'll never get tired of doing so. Anyway, don't forget to leave your reviews. This way, I'll know how I will write my future stories. Before I forget, this story will be my first installment of my mini-series entitled "To The One I Love" but it still depends on how this story would turn out to the readers. Anyway, enjoy!
Disclaimer: I do not own Ghost Hunt and its characters. Somehow, I could say that the plot belongs to me. So I guess I should still be happy with that.
Warning: Characters might not be in their usual selves. In other words, possible OOC.
Summary: Death seemed to be the only way to separate two hearts that love each other enough to defy the rules of heaven and earth. But love will always find a way for two separated hearts to reunite… even just for a while. But will it be able to fulfill one secret wish from their hearts?
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PART ONE
Etched Scars Of Love
"He's dead… He met an accident on the way to the villa. He never made it to the hospital…"
Mai shook her head in denial upon hearing that news that Lin said. It can't be! It wasn't true! Naru couldn't be dead. Every word that Lin said—those were merely lies. Right? Naru couldn't die. He promised that they would meet again tonight and would never be separated. Till beyond eternity… Naru promised her that. Till beyond eternity, they would be together. So how come he would break it all of a sudden? He couldn't do that.
"Take it back…" Mai mumbled as her tears started to fall. "It's not true, right? He can't die! He promised that he would never leave me. He promised me that I would never be alone again. He said that he'll save me… He'll save me from this hell! How could he possibly break all that?" Then Mai faced Lin rashly, unmindful of the tears continuously falling from her eyes. "Tell me it's not true! That it's just a joke! Please, Lin-san, you have to take it back. Please… I'm begging you… Tell me it's not true…" And those pleadings were soon followed by several sobs.
All the people in that living room were just looking at her. Pity, sympathy, sadness and… regret? Wait, regret? But those emotions were more than enough to convince her that what Lin said was true.
That idiot Naru! He left her. He left her alone and unable to accept the truth. Things weren't supposed to go this way. She and Naru were supposed to be happy together. How would she possibly achieve that happiness now without Naru? How did things end up this way?
Masako approached her and was about to touch her when she just brushed her off. Mai didn't notice the hurt she had inflicted to the woman and now vividly expressed in those eyes. And without facing any of the people in that room, she took off—away from that place… away from her living hell of a family.
Roars of thunder resounded as soon as Mai got out of that house. She was unmindful of the rain continuously falling from the sky—just like her tears. She just ram without a care about direction. Running away from everything—and even from the truth—was the only thing she could care about. Gashed and cuts all over her body were nothing to her. As long as she could fade the overwhelming pain in her heart by running, that was all that mattered to her.
Naru… Naru, you can't leave me! Please, you have to make me believe that it's not true. You can't leave me like this!
But no matter how she cried out his name over and over, the truth could never be changed. And it was something she couldn't accept. The truth was completely enough to tear her heart apart.
When she got tired of running, she stopped underneath a large tree. Upon looking up to see what kind of tree it was, her tears incessantly fell once more. It was followed by a loud sob as she leaned her tired body onto the tree. The rain fell harder and harder. Roars of thunder and flashes of lightning resounded throughout the dark gloomy night sky once again, just enough to muffle her outburst from the rest of the world.
You can't just leave me in this hell again, Naru! Please, tell me it's not true! None of these are true!
Unfortunately, everything around her now was the reality she knew she could never face heads on. All she did was to cry as the rain fell. Several hours later, the rain stopped. But her tears and the unbearable pain in her heart didn't. It was so cold but it didn't matter to her that much. In fact, it was for the best. She needed the cold to shield her heart—much better if the cold could paralyze it completely—in order for her not to feel any more pain. But she couldn't simply accept all that so easily. She was left by the man she loved—the one she chose to love forever—to face another living hell without him.
How would she be able to move on and act like nothing had ever happened? She never had a life of her own from the start. Naru gave her a life that she wanted to cherish eternally when she met him. And all of a sudden, death took it all away. His death had condemned her to live in hell once again.
Wet and broken, she decided to return to the mansion. But along the way, she started etching words she wanted to say but couldn't speak it out in selected boulders that she had come across. Those boulders were hidden from people's sight so no one would be able to see it aside from her. She etched those words on those boulders using a pointed rock in order for her to deliver the message to those people who could never understand how much she loved Naru. No one in her family—except Masako—understood her feelings for him.
These words will lead you to me, my love… she thought as she etched the final words that would complete her message.
She looked around the place one more time. She mustered a bitter smile when she realized something. The boulders where she etched the five stanzas of her poetic message to those who didn't understand her love for Naru actually led her to the place where she and Naru first met and declared their love for each other. The words she etched on those boulders would somehow lead Naru's soul to her and would allow her to see him again…
At least… just once more…
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Mai's eyes snapped open and then she sighed mentally. She was having a dream, though she wasn't sure who the dream was referring to. All she knew, it has something to do with their new case.
Four days ago, a client by the name of Mizuno Akira came to SPR's office and asked for their help regarding the Kawazumi mansion's strange phenomena. Akira had the details explained to Naru and after some considerations, he accepted the case.
According to the eldest daughter of the Kawazumi family—now married to the son of the owner of the Mizuno estate—strange noises were coming from several rooms of the mansion. There were sobbing and wailing sounds. Sometimes, there were even walking sounds. One time, the family also heard dripping sounds coming from the back door. When they checked on it, they saw water and mud trails starting there and then going to all of the entrance of each room on the second floor. They could also hear something pointed was scratching the walls.
The family could've ignored all that, but one particular phenomenon had caught the SPR team's attention. Basing on Akira's accounts on the encounter, the sentences "Lead him to me" and "Don't let me live much longer in this hell house" were etched on the walls of a particular room. To be specific, the study room that hasn't been opened for more than eight years. Akira had come to the conclusion that the spirits residing in the mansion wanted to convey something to the family.
And now, it was the team's first night in the Kawazumi mansion. At first, they didn't find anything weird or out of place yet. The mentioned phenomena hadn't been happening upon their arrival. But then how come she had a dream like that? Everyone in the SPR was in that dream—except for Naru. Her dream with all of them in it—she was sure it tells a story. And she could actually feel the pain of loss of the person she represented in that dream.
It might be a vision, she concluded in her thoughts.
In her dream, Naru was her lover. Lin and Monk were her older brothers, Ayako was her older sister, Masako her younger sister and John and Yasuhara were her cousins. In that dream-vision, it appeared that only Masako could understand her pain but she just shrugged her off. And those words that she had etched on the boulders, what could it mean?
"Mai!"
Mai was startled upon hearing that voice. Of course, he knew who it came from. She could hear it even in her dreams since she met the person who had that voice. She looked around to know where it came from. It wasn't a surprise for her to see Naru sitting on a chair placed near her bed. He was reading some notes placed on the clipboard.
This guy's possibly still working even though it's late at night, she thought. But why was Naru sitting near her bed?
Her eyes widened when she saw him leaned a little towards her and allowing his hand to wipe something from her face.
"Why are you crying?" he asked, a little stoic but she could sense his concern. Her heart skipped a beat.
Of course, she could sense that concern. After Naru came back from England three years ago, she had come to know him even more. She might not have come to know a lot about him, at least she could understand his emotions a little better that was lying beneath that cold, stoic and narcissist mask of his.
"It's just a dream," she plainly said before showing a smile to reassure him. But knowing Naru, she knew he wouldn't just let her go with "it's just a dream" answer of hers.
"What about it?"
For a while, she didn't know how to speak. But Naru was asking for it. Heaving a heavy sigh to calm her now erratically beating heart (thanks to Naru's concerned gesture), she told him about her dream, of course, she told him that it might have something to do with their current case.
After that, Naru's face was serious. It was because either he believed her or he thought about… something that was probably related to her dream and the case.
"Naru?"
It caught his attention and he suddenly stood up. "This house and this family might have a secret that resulted to these strange phenomena," he said.
But before she could voice out her concerns, they suddenly heard loud scratching sounds—similar to what Akira had described to them before. It was so loud that the sound actually reached the entire house. Mai and Naru had to cover their ears.
"I think she was trying to say something, Naru!" she said out loud in order for Naru to hear it.
"Yeah, I know that. But where could that sound possibly come from?"
And then, something struck her as the sound abruptly stopped.
"Please come back to me… Shiro…" That was the voice that echoed in her mind.
Shiro? Could it be that the person represented by Naru in my dream was someone named Shiro? Soon after, several banging sounds were heard. Somehow, even though she wasn't at the base and watching the monitors, she knew clearly where the sound was coming from.
"The study room!" she exclaimed. Without a word, she jumped out of her bed and went to the hallway—straight to the direction where the study room was. She didn't even pay attention to Naru calling her. All that mattered to her was to reach the aforementioned place.
To all of their surprise, the door of the study room was opened. As soon as Mai entered, the door abruptly closed, as if the spirit didn't want anyone else but Mai to enter the room.
"Mai!" was all she heard before the door shut itself tight, locking her in that room.
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This might be a little simple for my first Ghost Hunt story but I still hope you enjoy it. I'm not exactly someone who likes horror stuff. But that doesn't prevent me from loving this anime and this story, as well. Too bad it was on permanent hiatus for some reason that only the creators know. Anyway, please watch out for the second part of this story. Don't forget to leave your reviews about this. Please!
Coming next…
Part 2: What Had Kept Them Apart
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