Ghostly Hauntings (Ghost Hunt fanfic) (Naru x Mai)

Chapter 5

Ghostly Hauntings:

Chapter 5:

How could this be? She looked again at the Naru lying in the hospital bed. He was attached to a number of machines and his face and arms were free of bandages. Despite the noise they had made entering the room plus Keiko's squeals, he hadn't stirred at all. He was also wearing plain blue pyjamas. From the patients they had passed Mai knew what the hospital issue pyjamas looked like. Naru had been here long enough to be wearing his own pyjamas.

He was in a coma.

That's why he was different to a normal ghost. He wasn't a proper ghost because he was still alive.

"Was he the boy I saw in the road last year?" She asked John. He appeared to have all the answers.

The mysterious Lin answered instead.

"14 months ago, Noll was brought to the hospital on the verge of death after being found in the road. He isn't dead, but he has never regained consciousness."

It was strange to think that she had been only a few metres away from him when it had happened.

"Recently he's been showing signs of deteriorating," Lin continued with a disaffected tone. "I'm not sure how much longer he can last."

Naru had told her that recently he had been finding it easier to stay longer. It wasn't because he was stronger, it was the opposite- he was slowly fading away from his real body. Mai began to feel a little teary.

"Taniyama-san," Lin said, drawing her out of her inner thoughts and providing a welcome distraction. "I heard from Brown-san that Noll is attached to you. Will he come here if you stay here?"

"He will," Mai assured him. "He only appears in the evening though and it's still the afternoon."

"In that case, I will explain everything to you in the meantime," the black haired man said and gestured for all of them to sit down.

They all sat down on some uncomfortable hospital issue chairs. John stayed standing and awkwardly cleared his throat.

"I should probably explain how I know who Noll is and how I found him."

Mai nodded encouragingly at him. It was a lie to say that she hadn't been wondering how he tracked down Naru so fast and obtained permission for them to visit.

"I wouldn't have worked out Noll was a nickname for Oliver so fast if I hadn't seen a message on my phone from a monk I've worked with before. That monk is an admirer of a famous English scientist called Dr. Oliver Davis. He is only famous in paranormal research circles so I'm sure none of you have heard of him."

They all shook their heads at him and John continued on.

"That brought the suggestion of Oliver to mind and I looked it up. Noll is sometimes a nickname for Oliver. I also know that Oliver Davis is rumoured to have gone missing a year ago. So I put two and two together. Our ghost Naru had to be Oliver Davis. I asked someone else for information and I was put in contact with Lin-san."

He gestured at Lin who took over. He still looked very serious, but he was less uncommunicative than before.

"I wouldn't usually share this information, however since you have seen his ghost and wish to investigate, I will tell you. Noll's brother was killed by a car in Japan and Noll came here with the intention of finding the murderer. It would appear that he did find the murderer."

The modus operandi sounded the same. Both had been hit by cars. Her assumption was proven wrong by Lin a few seconds later.

"As Taniyama-san knows the driver of the car in Noll's case did stop and participated in the investigation. He maintained that Noll came out of nowhere. The black box footage proves he is telling the truth."