"Mai, Mai, oi, Mai!" Monk whisper yelled as he poked the brunette girl's face.

"Stop. Poking. My. Face," she hissed as she sat up from her slumber, glaring menacingly at the older man.

"Sorry, Naru called us all here but he's not here, any idea what he wanted?" Monk asked, Mai looked around.

"He called you all here?" she asked, noticing that he was the only one stood in the room.

"Shut up bed head, the others will be here in five," he glared; Mai looked at the older man.

"Oh, hey! I don't have a bed head!" she yelled as she put her hands to her head, ok, so maybe she did have a tiny bit of a massive bed head. "Stupid sofa," she hissed. Monk laughed as he sat down next to the younger girl.

"Any idea where he went?" he asked.

"Not a clue, I fell asleep after a new client left," Mai answered as she stood up, running her hands through her hair.

"Least we finally have a job," he smiled, Mai nodded her head. Just as she finished running her hands through her hair, Naru walked in with Lin following behind him.

"Where'd you go?" Mai asked, but the smell of food hit her nose and she knew where they'd been.

"You fell asleep and the others would be here around tea time, so we went for food," Naru stated, Mai glanced at Lin.

"But Lin wasn't-,"

"I rang him to meet me," Naru interrupted.

"Oh," was all Mai said before walking into the kitchen. She brewed tea for everyone as she heard the doors to the office open.

Walking back in she saw Ayako sat with Monk, Masako sat on a love seat, John and Lin sat on the sofa and Naru sat on his chair. Mai set the tea down on the desk and joined Masako on a love seat next to her.

"So, the reason I called you all here," Naru started as everyone grabbed their usual food from the Chinese.

The group ate as Naru explained which client had come to see him earlier that day. SPR looked at each other in shock once he was finished.

"Nursery rhymes?" Masako asked.

"I knew there was a reason I didn't like those when I was a child," Ayako shivered. John only nodded in agreement.

"People only tell the beginning of the nursery rhyme, the end of it is never said to children, or it could give them nursery rhymes," he stated, Lin sat in thought, while Monk tried to register the fact they were going on a case with nursery rhymes.

"Sing a song of sixpence a pocket full rye, four and twenty blackbirds baked in a pie. When the pie was open the birds began to sing, oh wasn't that a dainty dish to set before the king?" everyone turned to Mai, who looked up from her hands. "It's a nursery rhyme that I'd heard somewhere," she shrugged.

SPR nodded their heads and turned to Naru, not noticing the smirk ascend onto Mai's lips.

"When do we leave?" Lin asked the question everyone was wondering.

"Tomorrow," with that, the group stood to leave. Mai's head hung low as she walked out of the office, her smirk grew as the door closed behind her.

Sunrise rolled around the next day, Mai yawned as she rubbed her eyes, the light seeping in through a crack in her curtains. She smiled sweetly as she opened them fully and looked at the rising sun.

"Wouldn't you look at that, it seems like such a good morning," she placed her hands on her hips and walked to her bathroom, humming a small tune as she did so.

'Sunrise, I'm gonna praise his name, sunset I'm gonna praise his name, praise his name, praise his name, I'm gonna praise his name'

Mai hummed the tune as she walked out of the bathroom, hair and teeth brushed, her plain white t-shirt rested on his upper body, while a black denim skirt on her lower half.

She walked over to her drawers and pulled out a pair of plain white socks, slipped them on before slipping a pair of black boots on over them.

She grabbed a small black suitcase she had packed the night before, skipped breakfast, eating at six made her feel sick anyway, and headed out the door.

Walking down the steps Mai noticed Monk standing by his car with a half asleep Ayako and Masako in the back seats. She smiled at the older man.

"Morning, Mai," he yawned, Mai smiled back.

"Morning, Monk, how are you?" she asked.

"Tired, if I fall asleep, you take over driving," he answered, Mai only nodded her head, handed the older man her suitcase and sat in the passenger seat.

Monk put Mai's luggage in the boot and hopped back into his car. He reversed away from Mai's apartment blocks and headed towards SPR.

"So, Lin and Naru picked up John, since he was at the church around the corner, it's up to you who you wanna ride with," Monk stated as he yawned again, early flights were not his thing.

Mai didn't answer him, instead she kept looking out the window waiting until they'd come close to SPR.

Suddenly, a soft humming noise filled the air. Monk looked in the rear-view mirror and Masako and Ayako, both were sleeping, then at Mai, she was looking out the window.

"Can you hear that?" he asked, Mai hummed in response.

"Hear what?" she asked, Monk frowned slightly.

"A humming noise, it sounds like it's coming from the back of the car," he answered, Mai shrugged.

"Maybe something's wrong with your car," Monk huffed and shut up as Mai said that. His car did not hum, it purred, like a beauty he thought.

Normally Monk wouldn't mind this kind of thing, only the humming noise was starting to send him to sleep. Eyes closed, Monk suddenly nodded off. Mai looked at him, another smirk appearing on her lips as her eyes glew red.

She reached over for the wheel as it slowly turned into the other lane. She didn't notice the large truck heading their way, the large honking noise caught her off guard as Monk jolted from his sleep, gripped his steering wheel and quickly swerved out of the way.

Mai frowned as she leaned back on the window, Ayako and Masako had shot away in the commotion.

"What happened?" Ayako asked.

"Idiot here almost got us killed," Mai hissed.

'Damnit, I almost had it,' a voice in Mai's head growled.

"You almost what?!" Masako asked as she glared at Monk.

"Sorry, there was this humming noise and-," Monk stopped abruptly, he noticed the humming noise was gone and now there was nothing but the sound of his car purring. He frowned, had Monk imagined that entire humming, maybe he was still just sleepy.

Four hours passed and the team finally landed in Okinawa. Naru, still pissed at the fact Monk almost killed his team and Mai, had decided that all of them would ride in the van. Now, this wouldn't have been a problem, if it hadn't had been for the fact that Mai had to sit in between Naru and Lin the entire ride and everyone had to be silent.

"They sent someone for us," Lin stated as he looked over to a man holding up a Shibuya Psychic Research sign. Mai and the others walked over to him.

"Shibuya Psychic Research?" the man asked, to their surprise, he wasn't Japanese, instead he was pure English.

"Yes," Lin replied in English.

"Pleasure to meet you, my name's Elliot and I'll be driving you to the Kuro residence this afternoon. Please, leave your bags and get in, I'll put them in the boot," the man, Elliot smiled, and spoke in fluent Japanese. The SPR team knew he was English since he had bright blonde hair

"No worries, I got it," Monk smiled as he picked up his and Ayako's suitcases. Elliot took Lin and Naru's, while Mai and John carried the other three around to the boot.

"How long have you been in Japan, Elliot?" Monk asked, making small talk for the time being.

"Over a year now, I'm thinking of going back to England for a while when the year ends though," Elliot replied as he shut the boot.

SPR climbed into the black limo and allowed Elliot to drive them towards the house.

Time passed by in silence until Elliot decided to speak up.

"So, you're the ones the Kuros asked to get rid of the ghosts, huh?" he asked.

"That's right," Mai answered as she looked at Elliot's eyes through the rear-view mirror. "Do you work for them?" she asked, Elliot shook his head.

"No, I work for a limo hire company, they hired me to pick you up and take you. They're quite wealthy though, their house, well mansion, is by the side of the beach, just on the shore, and their children own quite a variety of animals and gadgets," he answered, Mai nodded her head. The rest of the ride was in silence.

As the limo pulled up SPR filed out, glad to finally be stretching their legs, Mai looked up at the mansion before her. They had been in bigger, this one looked big enough to store extra thing and maybe a few extra guests, but not big enough to get lost in or feel uncomfortable.

As Elliot got their things out of the back, four people walked out of the house, two small male children, an older man and Miss Kuro who had previously gone to see SPR. Their third son wasn't with them.

Mai grabbed her suitcase and set it at the ground in front of her, their equipment were in smaller cases in the back of the limo and in Naru and Lin's bags.

Mai laid eyes on the family in front of her and smiled cunningly at them, guess the case was about to begin.

I'M BACK! *pops out of nowhere*

Naru: Oh boy

Anyway, so, couple of things first, first thing, I have exams in the third and fourth week back at college, so I will try to update as much as possible but with having to do revision and everything, I don't know when it'll be.

Second thing, thank you to cometshadow for the really random PM

Mai: Extremely random

Well yeah, but thank you, I'll try my best with the exams, and finally the names of the three Kuro children, and I did say first come first serve are:

Nekko from 14AmyChan~~~~~ Thank you!

Hiro from tennison~~~~~ Thank you!

Hitachi from TheUnquietDead~~~~~ Thank you!

Monk: What is it with you and death?

Nothing, I swear, anyway, that's I needed to say today, thank you everyone for your reviews, I shall try to update as much, I love the load of you, and I hope you enjoy this story

Mai: And if there's a certain nursery rhyme you want in this story just review it and HTF will try to fit it in

I will? Eh, sure why not, review guys

Cast: We'll see you soon!