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Mika Part Two	By : Rocks Category: +G to L > Ghost Hunt Views: 2150 -:- Recommendations : 0 -:- Currently Reading : 0
Disclaimer: Ghost Hunt belongs to Fuyumi Ono and Kodansha. This story has been written for my own enjoyment, and I make no money from its publication.

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"Mai…Mai, wake up!" Naru's voice cried. Mai opened her eyes and looked around. She was lying in the sun on the grass on a spring day. Sitting up she saw Naru kneeling beside her and looking to the well she saw the blood stained grass where Mika had been. "Come on, you have to see this." Naru said urgently as he pulled Mai to her feet and pulled her with him towards the well, where he jumped onto the edge, waiting for Mai to climb up beside him.

"What are we doing?" Mai asked in confusion as Naru looked down the well.

"We have to go down there." Naru replied as he made ready to jump down the well. Mai crouched on the edge of the well and then looked at Naru,

"Are you crazy? We'll get hurt if we…" se trailed off, oh my god! Naru and I just fell down there! I have to go back! She thought in a panic,

"Mai! You have to see this if you want to get out and solve the case." Naru insisted. Mai looked down the well and then nodded, he's right…if this will stop Tohru then it's worth a shot…I just hope the real Naru's alright…she decided as she jumped into the well with Naru. The descent into the well was fast, but seemed to take a lot longer as Mai looked down to the darkness below. Oh my god! I'm going to die! I was crazy jumping like this! She thought as she gripped Naru's hand as tightly as she could, too terrified to even scream.

"Don't worry, nothing can harm you here!" Naru assured loudly over the rush of wind in their ears, his voice echoing slightly on the stone walls. Finally the reached the bottom of the well, but rather than slamming into the ground painfully as Mai expected her descent stopped and her feet lightly touched the frozen base of the well where the little water that remained had turned to ice. "Come on." Naru encouraged as he pulled her towards the wall of the well, though she didn't know what he was looking for. The well was small; it probably would have fitted five people in it, but no more. Naru examined the wall carefully, running his hands lightly over the stones until he found what he was looking for. Mai watched curiously as he pushed with all his might on the stone and a doorway appeared. A large doorway shaped section of wall was turning and once if was large enough for a person to squeeze through Naru stopped. "Come on." He said as he pulled Mai through the gap behind him. On the other side of this doorway was a long dark passageway, which gave Mai shivers as she looked down it.

"Naru, why is there a passage here?" she asked nervously as she looked around in the darkness, goose bumps prickling her skin. Naru pushed the doorway back into place before turning back to her,

"This was a sort of spillway. This tunnel will lead to a chamber, which will then have another passage leading towards the river, but that passage will have a grate over the tunnel. It was a rare thing, but this well had a doorway like gap so that should the well ever get too full someone could be sent into it from the chamber, which would be hidden somewhere. That person would climb down a ladder into the chamber and walk to the doorway. They would inch the door open a little, only a little, before running back to the chamber and climbing the ladder as quickly as possible. The metal grate would stop that person being washed out to sea and drowned, though they would sometimes die anyway." He explained as they walked through the dark passage,

"But how would they get washed out to sea? You said they only opened the door a little bit before running back to the chamber." Mai asked, forgetting her surroundings as she became lost in the discussion,

"Well, lots of things could happen. The man may trip on his way back and the water could catch up, he may open to door too much, but mainly it is the fact that as the door was opened the pressure of the water on the other side would force the door open faster and the water would sometime catch up with the runner. The metal grate would stop the man being washed away so he could find the ladder and climb to safety." He replied, their footsteps echoing lightly as they walked. Mai imagined a torrent of water suddenly erupting through the doorway and knocking them both down, cutting of their air supply and looked over her shoulder anxiously, come on Mai, pull yourself together! The water level was too low for that, and it was frozen! She scolded inwardly.

"Why are we in here anyway?" Mai asked as she saw an ending to the tunnel, where there was a dim light inside, and a strange noise that sounded like chanting, but Mai didn't recognise the language at all, it didn't even sound like Lin's Chinese chants. Beside her Naru quickened his pace, making Mai jog slightly to keep up.

"Because to solve the case, and get you out of here, you need to see this." Naru replied as they hurried to the entrance, where Mai gasped in horror as she looked at what Tohru was doing. Mika's still bleeding body had been chained to the wall, her body surrounded by a circle of her own blood, well, not exactly a circle, it's around her on the floor and then up the wall, more like…an outline. Mai corrected as she shifted her gaze to Tohru, who had pulled dark red robes over his normal clothes and held a battered leather book. As Mai looked closer she realised that the robes were red because they had been repeatedly stained with blood, Mika's was still wet and fresh on places, making Mai gag and clamp her hands over her mouth to stop herself from throwing up. Looking at the book she saw there were bloodstains on the pages, and those pages were tattered from age and use. Mai stepped closer and looked over Tohru's shoulder, the writing where it wasn't obscured by blood, was foreign to her, she knew a small amount of Chinese, but this was definitely nothing like any language she had ever seen, what if Lin-san can't read this? What will we do? She wondered helplessly as she took in her surroundings. Tohru had put candles in a sort of semi circle that surrounded both him and Mika's body, which, Mai noticed in horror, was glowing slightly. Mai looked on in horror as Mika's spirit appeared and tried to escape, screaming in terror and futility as it was drawn back into the body, not reaching out any further than the outline of blood. Tohru threw some sort of water at Mika's body, and Mai gasped as she realised it was blood.

"He's binding her with her own blood?" Mia wondered aloud in horror,

"No Mai." Naru replied as he appeared at her side, making her jerk in surprise. I can't believe I forgot he was here…she thought distractedly as she looked around further and saw a long delicate blood stained knife beside the small bowl that had once held the blood, blood, Mai realised, which had leaked from a cut in Tohru's right hand, which was wrapped now in a piece of Mika's kimono, which he had ripped from the garment. Tohru's chants became louder and faster as Mika's spirit screamed and thrashed as if the blood were burning her and then the candles suddenly went out and Mika's body was still, the spirit gone, trapped within the corpse. Tohru sagged gasping on his knees; bracing himself on the ground with his hands, sweat dripping from his forehead. Whatever he did must have used a lot of energy, Mai thought curiously leaning over to get a better view of the book as he closed it, and as he closed it Mai gasped, seeing a bleeding skull engraved in blood red on the black leather cover.

"Mai! Mai are you alright?" Naru's voice cried urgently as he shook her shoulders. Mai opened her eyes groggily, registering pain in her back, arms and legs as she tried to move, "Thank god, no, lie still for a few minutes" he added as she tied to sit up. Mai laid back obediently and sighed as she looked up at the bright circle of light above, the well…that's right…we fell in…she thought slowly as her vision adjusted to the darkness. She looked at Naru, who was sat beside her with one leg bent and the other outstretched, cradling his right arm.

"Naru, are you hurt?" she asked as she sat up, leaning on one arm as she looked questioningly as Naru, who gave something between a smile and a grimace,

"I'll live." He replied,

"I'm so sorry, this is all my fault!" Mai cried as hot tears began to roll down her cheeks and her body convulsed with sobs. Naru pulled himself across the floor towards her and put an arm round her awkwardly,

"Mai, it's alright, don't worry, we'll get out of here somehow." He comforted. Mai gripped the front of his black turtleneck and sobbed into his chest, "Hm, this is the second time you've pulled me into a well while I've been wearing this top." He teased gently, smiling slightly as he heard Mai laugh.

"We should get out of here," she said as she sat up and wiped her eyes.

"Well, we're stuck until someone finds us, I can only hope at least Lin will think to look here." Naru replied as he lean back on his left arm and looked up,

"I know the way out, I saw it in my dream…and I know where she is, Mika, I know where Mika is." Mai replied in a rush as she got to her feet and went to the wall, examining it just as Naru had done earlier. Now, how did he find it? She wondered as she ran her hands over the wall, feeling the rough rock beneath her hands until there was a thick gouge, which she followed round, this is definitely it! She thought as she traced the doorway.

"Mai? What are you doing?" Naru asked in confusion as she started pushing on wall of the well, "You didn't hit your head on the way down did you?" he added, raising an eyebrow at her as she repeatedly threw her weight against the rock.

"No! I-had a-dream this is-a doorway!" she replied as she threw herself against the rock, feeling it give a little. Alright! I can do this; it's not so hard. She thought, encouraging herself as she pushed on the heavy rock, how did the runners manage this? It must have been even harder with water in here!

"Good job Mai!" Naru congratulated. Mai turned back and wiped her brow on her sleeve feeling exhausted. She looked down at Naru and smiled,

"No worries…hey, are you okay? Can you stand?" she asked worriedly as she stepped forwards and held a hand down to him,

"I'm not sure, I'll try." He replied as he took Mai's proffered hand and used his left hand and left leg to get up, but he was unsteady, completely unable to put weight on his right leg, with his right arm still held to his chest. "You should leave me here, I'll just slow you down." He said as Mai pulled his left arm over her shoulder,

"No Naru, I'll help you! I can't do this by myself!" she replied, finding herself suddenly on the verge of tears as she remembered what was waiting for her in the next chamber. Naru sensed her distress and sighed in defeat,

"Alright, but I'm going to have to go slowly." He warned as he hopped towards the doorway, leaning heavily on Mai, who was sagging under his weight, "Sorry." He apologised as he looked down at her strained face,

"No problem…how did you get hurt so badly? I just felt like I'd fallen down a steep hill, but you came off so much worse, and I was falling before you, I thought you'd land on top of me for sure." She asked as they passed through the doorway. Once on the other side Mai left Naru leaning uneasily on the wall while she closed the doorway.

"I was going to fall on you. As we fell I let go of your ankle and threw my arm out to the side of the well to change my angle so that I didn't hurt you, but when my arm hit the wall it didn't work, I just hurt my arm, so I tried with my leg and twisted away from you…then I hit the ground. I woke up a few moments before you did." He replied as she left the door and returned to him, once again supporting his weight on her shoulder.

"So it was my fault you got hurt!" she said guiltily as she looked up at him,

"No, no it's not! I chose not to fall on top of you, you had nothing to do with it!" He replied firmly,

"But if I hadn't come out here then none of this would have happened!" she argued,

"Well…that is true, but it doesn't matter now!" he said as they walked through the darkness, unable to see anything. Mai walked with one arm around Naru's waist and the other on the wall as a guide while Naru gripped her shoulder as he hopped beside her. After a walking for what seemed like hours, neither of them talking, Mai's hand reached the edge of the tunnel.

"This is it! This is the chamber!" she said in relief as Naru leaned on the wall. "I'm not sure if there will be a ladder here. In my dream the ladder had been thrown down from above…I wonder why there wasn't a metal ladder built into the walls…" she wondered aloud as she walked around the wall feeling for a rope, but also very conscious of the fact she was near Mika's corpse.

"I think I know, I was reading about it in a book up at the house. These wells were sometimes used for execution purposes, not legal executions either. There were chains fixed into the walls to hold the guilty away from the runners." Naru replied as he looked in the general direction he thought Mai's voice came from, though the echoing and her constant moving made this somewhat unpredictable.

"That explains how the chains got there." Mai muttered as she reached along the wall, now slipping her foot forward carefully so that she didn't stand on Mika. Feeling something with her foot Mai gasped, oh my god, I'm touching a corpse! She thought cringingly as she felt around Mika with her foot, her hands touching the chains as she passed. Eventually she found her self back with Naru, "There's no ladder!" she said in a panic, "How are we going to get out?" she wondered worriedly as she looked at Naru, who she knew must be feeling weak and ill, please don't collapse! If you have to do it then please wait until we get out of here! She begged inwardly.

"The grate…it's iron right? It might have rusted…go and check." He said, his voice wavering and weak. Mai saw him sag slightly against the wall, his eyes drooping slightly.

"Naru!" she cried as he slid down the wall. Mai grabbed him beneath the arms as he fell and gently lowered him to the ground where he rested with his back against the wall, his eyes half closed. Naru! Please don't…" she cried,

"Mai…the grate…" he ordered. Mai wiped her wet eyes and nodded,

"Right." She replied as she got to her feet and worked her ways around to the grate. Once she was there she grabbed the bars and pushed them, feeling around the edges for weak points, or what she thought may be weak points. "I can't tell if it's weakened or not!" she called as she pushed and pulled the bars with all her might, feeling them give slightly, "Yes! It's working!" she cried as she continued pushing the grate, which was about the size of the doorway, until it fell with a resounding clang. "Naru!" Mai cried as she worked her way back to him and knelt to see his eyes closed. "Naru! Please!" she cried as she shook him.

"Mmm…Mai…" he groaned as his eyes edged open and he looked at her.

"Naru…come on, we have to go." She said gently as she tried to pull him up,

"No…leave…you'll be faster alone…I'll be alright…" he assured, but Mai shook her head,

"No Naru! I'm not leaving! If you don't go, I don't go." She stated firmly.

"You're my employee. I'm telling you to go!" Naru snapped, glaring as much as he could in his weakened state.

"Fine then! I quit! Now get up!" she cried as she tired again to get him up, but he was too heavy. Mai fell to her knees and clutched the chest of his top, leaning on his chest as she cried, "Naru…please…" she sobbed, feeling a gentle hand on her arm. Looking up she saw Naru's face inches from hers before he captured her lips in a gentle kiss. Mai clutched his top tighter as she melted into the kiss, losing herself for a moment and forgetting the trouble they were in.

"Mai…I can't go with you…I can barely keep my eyes open…I guess I was more wounded by that fall than I thought." Naru said as they broke apart.

"Try Naru! Please try!" she begged. Naru closed his eyes a moment, a moment in which Mai feared he had lapsed into unconsciousness again, but then Mai felt him gripping her shoulder with his uninjured arm and she pulled him to his feel, bracing him on her shoulder as she took almost all of his weight. "Hold on, I'll get you out!" Mai assured as she half dragged Naru towards the grate, trying to keep a pace that was both slow enough for him, but quick enough to make progress. The tunnel was exactly the same as the last, but much much longer and as she walked she felt Naru getting heavier and heavier. "Naru, are you okay?" she asked in concern, pausing to look at him.

"I'll be fine…we have to keep moving." He replied quietly. Mai nodded and started moving again, trying to move a little faster to see if he could keep up. He could it seemed so she kept going at a normal walking pace. Looking ahead she saw the tunnel getting slightly lighter,

"Look Naru! Light!" Mai cried excitedly as they moved forwards. As the light got brighter Mai could just make out the sky and some trees, though after hours of darkness the light hurt for a while. Once they reached the edge of the tunnel Mai looked out onto a river, a frozen river luckily. She looked in both directions and could see what looked like a main road. "Naru, come on, we're going with way." She said as she carefully stepped onto the frozen river, supporting Naru carefully, hoping that the ice would hold. After a few minutes they reached the road and Mia looked around, I have no idea where we are! How am I going to get Naru somewhere he can get help? She wondered, knowing that the chances of a car driving by were slim, and the chances that the car would stop were slimmer still. "Naru, you stay here. I'll be right back okay? Try to stay awake." She said gently as she lowered Naru to the ground. Naru nodded weakly and sat unsteadily on the roadside with nothing to lean back on. Mai walked a little way down the road, looking for road signs or houses in the distance. After a few minutes without any luck she headed back to find an old couple looking down at Naru in concern,

"Are you alright lad?" the old woman asked kindly as she bent over him. The old man puffed on his pipe and held tightly to the lead of a small white westie, which seemed just as concerned as it's owners as it sniffed Naru's outstretched leg.

"Excuse me! Do you know where we can get help?" Mai asked, shivering as she realised just how cold it was. "Please, he needs a hospital!" Mai cried as tears began leaking from her eyes,

"My dear, it's alright. You come with us; our house is just down here. We can call an ambulance and get you warmed up." She soothed as she put an arm round Mai's shoulder.

"Oh thank you, thank you so much!" Mai replied in relief as she sank down beside Naru and tried to coax him to his feet. She managed to get him halfway before he began to fall,

"Easy now." The old man, who must have been at least fifty-five, said as he braced Naru's other side. "This way dear." He added as they walked back the way Mai had come from. "What happened to you? You look like you've had a rough time of it," He asked as they walked along, the old woman now walking with the dog, which still seemed most concerned.

"Well, we were up at Fai Tanaki's mansion. We were called in to investigate a problem he's been having and we fell down a well, which came out by the river. We've been out all night." She replied. "The others must be terribly worried…" she thought, feeling troubled as she imagined Monk-san's frantic search, John's worried looks and Lin's silent fear, as well as Fai, who Mai thought more likely to react like Monk-san than either of the others.

"Don't worry dear, as soon as we get inside you can use our phone to call your friends." the old woman assured. "What is your name dear?" she asked as she looked over the shoulder of her thick blue coat,

"Oh, I'm Mai, and this is Naru-I mean Kazuya." She corrected quickly, receiving a warm smile from the old woman,

"Well, Mai-san I am Iola, and this is my husband Ming." She replied, "And this," she continued as the small dog at her feet yapped in apparent indignation at being left out, "Is Yuko." She said looking at the dog, which now seemed contented. Mai smiled down at the dog as they walked and as she looked up there was a small cottage on the roadside, which they headed towards and once there the old woman opened the door and ushered them into the house. "Put him down here dear." The woman said as she steered Mai, Naru and Ming towards the sofa, where they laid Naru comfortably as Iola brought in blankets for him. "Come dear, take that coat off." Iola said kindly, but as Mai unbuttoned it she remembered what she had been wearing when she went down to the well,

"Actually I'm quite cold, I think I'd better keep it on." She replied blushing, "Um, could I use your phone?" she asked quickly before Iola could object.

"Oh yes, of course. It's just through there on the right in the kitchen." She said as she pointed to a room behind Mai, which appeared to be the dining room. Turning right from there she saw the kitchen and walked inside, where she was a cordless phone. She picked it up and dialled at hospital to ask for an ambulance before calling the mansion and letting a very worried Fai know where they were.

"I'll tell you about it later, I don't want to run up a bill…if I don't see you before I'll meet you at the hospital." She said before hanging up and heading back into the living room, where Naru lay now soundly asleep, was letting him sleep a good idea? He's lost some blood…and he may have hit his head…she thought worriedly as she sat on the edge of the sofa, gently brushing his hair out of his face. Within a few minutes the ambulance had arrived and Naru was loaded into the back with Mai, who has a few cuts and bruises of her own and, finding that she had also fallen down the well, the paramedics insisted she get checked over.
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