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

Chapter 12

Ghostly Hauntings:

Chapter 12:

Mai took a hesitant step forward. Would he remember her? Or was she about to be rejected? Lin took the decision out of her hands by rushing forward towards Naru.

"Do you remember everything?" he asked.

Naru took a while to answer that and the time gave Mai a chance to observe what he looked like living and breathing. His skin was almost as pale as it had been when he was a spirit and his eyes were more of a brilliant blue. His demeanour wasn't as friendly though, he felt more closed off to her.

"I remember everything from before I was attacked," Naru said and Mai's heart sank.

"What about after?" Lin enquired cautiously. "Do you remember Taniyama-san?"

The whole room was so silent that the loudest thing was Naru's IV. Mai stood paralysed on the spot as she waited for the reply.

"Of course I remember Mai," Naru said and looked over at her.

Mai out a sigh of relief. She had been so sure that Naru would forget everything. She gained the courage to stand by his bed.

"What happened to Urado?" she questioned.

Naru held up a pale hand. "He's gone. I probably went a little too far with the PK."

There was no guilt in his voice so Mai knew that Urado's death wasn't going to weigh on his conscience.

"Think about Mori-san," Lin reminded him. "She has to explain his disappearance."

A flicker of guilt passed across Naru's face momentarily.

"I'll talk to her later, I'm just glad that I didn't die when I did it."

"I see," was all Lin said.

Mai had no idea what they were referring to so she left them in favour of finding out why all her fellow society members were oddly quiet.

"Why do you all look so scared?" she whispered.

"He's one of the best looking men I've seen, but he's hella scary," Keiko replied in a low voice. "When we came in after the doctors allowed us and asked him questions, he just said, 'I didn't realise this was a café.'"

"Then he gave us this look that implied 'shut up'," Michiru confirmed.

Mai glanced at Yasuhara. He shrugged nonchalantly.

"He is a little imposing," John agreed.

Mai could understand them. This Naru was colder and sharp, the spirit Naru had been curious and witty.

"I'm not that scary, I just don't like being overloaded with questions after waking up from a coma," Naru's voice cut through their nervous whispers.

It appeared that good hearing could be added to the list of alive Naru's traits.

"Mai, come here," he said in a softer tone.

Mai returned to his bedside again with a nervous heart. Unlike ghost Naru she could tell this Naru that she liked him and it wouldn't be strange. However this Naru wasn't quite the same.

"I remember seeing you now," he smiled. "At the accident."

"You did?"

Lin nodded. "I thought you would."

"We never made eye contact. You were the last good thing I saw alive," Naru explained. "I awoke in the road and was struggling for breath and was in pain. Urado was looming over me so I looked for help and I saw you at the roadside. I wanted to get your attention, but Urado knocked my head into the ground and I fell unconscious."