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Chapter Summary: The first case after Naru returns from England and things take a turn for the worst. Is Gene really Mai's Guardian Angel? Or will she be lost forever?

Disclaimer: I do not own Ghost Hunt or Army of Angels by Kerli. Please Enjoy! Review!

A/N: I suggest listening to the song as you read. It makes more sense. :D Mai centric chapter. Written randomly, and may continue if you like it! Also: It is a rather spaced chapter as it is supposed to mess with the senses and be relatively confusing... On with the chapter.

Chapter 1: Army of Angels

Mai POV

Things weren't supposed to be like this... It was supposed to be a simple case! We were just sitting in base when it attacked, knocking Naru into a wall before it grabbed me. I remember moving, but it was dark, like my body knew where I was going, but I was blindfolded. Is this what it felt like for Gene?

To know that you were going to die? Because that's what I felt like. No one knew where I was going... No one was there... I knew...

I've been watching you silently
Blind-fold come in you violently
Feels like you've fallen and there's
No one out there, no one out there

My head was fogy... Was I sleeping again? Was I in my dream plane?

If so, where was Gene? I don't know where I'm going, I'm wondering through the darkness but I'm not walking. It's like I'm falling... Falling forever without anyone to catch me. Naru? Will you save me this time? Do you even care?

'Is it me you love... Or my brother?' The memory brought tears to my eyes. Did he even notice I was missing?

My mind is hazy but my body... Somehow I know that my physical body is moving... It's somewhere cold. Like I'm sleep walking...

Sleep walk wandering endlessly
Hands tied keep in your perfectly safe
No searching nor questioning, follow me

It's then that I realise... I don't care who... Just please... Someone find me! The darkness is never ending. My body is weightless as I fall through the plane of the spirit world... I couldn't move, I didn't want to move... I was safe like this. If I didn't try anything, I'd be safe. Like all the times Naru called me stupid or careless, I'd always tried something. So maybe if I leave things to fate... Someone would find me. Save me. Without question, they'd follow me and save me... But who? I didn't know the answer...

Images flashed through my head... I saw Naru, running through the halls of the mansion we had been investigating, his flashlights beam shining on the eerie paintings in the hallways, the eyes of each portrait following him as he passed. He slammed his shoulder into the door to the roof, causing the usually locked door to burst open. Casting a curious yet quick glance at the now broken door and looked forward before his body went rigid. Following his gaze, I gasped. I now knew why I thought my body was cold..

My body had moved, in a possessed sleep walk, to the roof and was teetering close to the edge, dull brown eyes staring back at Naru through the rain.

An army of angels will take you away
An army of angels prepare to invade, don't be afraid
Your life starts today

"Mai!" He called, reaching out as he took a step forward, only for my body to take one back. "Mai! You have to come back! You have to fight this!"

I stared at him, my emotions for him flaring and making the pain in my chest grow. He didn't care about me. He just didn't want to do the paper work. He always did say I was annoying...

'Mai...'

I felt myself stop falling and I landed on something soft. The dark, invisible ground under my feet shifted so that I was transparent in my place next to Naru. His shoulders lifted as the voice called my name again and he turned to face me.

"Mai?" I looked at him as a forlorn expression too over his face and he looked between my body and my spirit. "Why? Why aren't you in your body?"

His accusing tone made me flinch and step back, the pain only growing.

"I don't know... I don't know... Just make it stop!" I yelled, clutching my chest as I turned away, tears falling from my eyes without regard.

'Mai... It's alright.'

That voice... I knew that voice. "Gene?"

Naru glared at the mention of his brother, having been so confident that after the funeral his brothers soul had been put to rest... for good.

'Yes Mai. I'm sorry, but it's up to you.'

"Gene! What are you doing here?" Naru asked, yelling over the thunder that boomed.

'I am her guardian Naru. Her spirit guide... If you can't do your job, she'll be taken away...'

Earthquakes ending you quietly
Wake up turning you painlessly
When your broken down hopelessly follow me

"My job? What are you talking about?" Naru questioned his brother as he manifested beside my spirit. Only Gene didn't feel like Gene. It felt malevolent. An uncharacteristic grin spread across 'Gene's' face before the ground started shaking.

"No!" I yelled, rushing to Naru and pushing him to the ground just as a streak of dark light, similar to Lin's shiki, flew threw me. I screamed...

It felt like someone had torn all my muscles and mended them in a second. Crumbling to the ground, I felt like I was falling again, only this time, instead of calm, soft darkness, it felt like I was being dragged into a bottomless pit. Naru was at my side instantly, trying to grab me.

Calling out to me as my vision started shifting to darkness.

The demon had me. I was being taken away from Naru. The demon had been taken from its lover so it was doing the same to me...

But suddenly, just before I lost all thought, my pain turned to hate. But not for Naru... For the demon that was trying to take me away. I wasn't scared of death, but I wouldn't let this be my end. I wouldn't die because of a demon and I wouldn't let myself go until Naru knew how I felt.

How I really felt... The rest of my life... Begins now...

It starts... with Naru...

An army of angels will take you away
An army of angels prepare to invade, don't be afraid
Your life starts today

There was a bright flash in the darkness and I suddenly felt solid again. The rain ran over my skin as I collapsed to the ground, the pebbles on the roof grazing the skin of my knees. I heard an inhuman scream and I was suddenly flying off the roof with something holding me by my throat.

I twisted in the air to see Naru running after me, cautiously stepping onto the edge of the roof. Just because it was flat, didn't mean that it was safe.

"Let her go." He said, an edge in his voice that I never heard before.

'Very well then. As you wish...'

The demon that had been holding me suddenly let go and I didn't have the strength to scream. Clenching my eyes shut, I said a silent goodbye before my arm was jerked upward and a whimper left my lips.

"Monk! Now!"

I blinked the rain out of my eyes and looked up to see Naru hold onto me, pulling me up and back onto the roof. In the background I heard Monk chanting but I was too busy looking at Naru, his expression frantic as he finally got me up.

I thought he would move away straight away but instead, he grabbed me by the shoulders and pulled me into a hug, his head buried in the crook of my neck before he let out a shuddery breath.

"Mai... I'll never let you go again...Not for anything..."

You live, you love
You cry but you're not alone
You breathe to die
I'm here if you don't believe your eyes
When your world starts to change
It's real, your fly but not on your own

~X-x-X~

Confusing yes? If so, good. That was what I wanted. Haha. I wanted some fluff but this will be a continuous story, each chapter a new song and case. Its also fun to write between my other stories.

This chapter was written in one day by the way. His song just gave me the perfect inspiration and so here you have it. Review and I'll update soon.

Wonder what happens in the next chapter?