This takes place after the Bloody Labyrinth which is the Urado case. I've only read the manga and haven't watched the anime, so all my info comes from there.

Summary: Mai is early to work one day. She finds something she shouldn't and absolutely everything changes.

I

Mai Taniyama brushed a lock of her short brown hair back from her face as she picked up a map that Naru, her boss had left out on the counter. A picture of two identical boys with black hair and handsome faces slipped out from between the folds of map. Mai bent down to pick it up off the ground. Shock raced through her and tears gathered in her eyes. For all that she was young and Naru liked to call her an idiot she really truly wasn't stupid. Side by side, with the knowledge that there is two of them Mai knew that the kind boy she sees in her dreams isn't Naru at all, but the other boy in the picture, whose eyes are softer and whose smile comes easier than a smile on Naru's face any day. Dread presses down on her and she knows that if this boy is in her dreams and he's not Naru then it makes more sense that this boy is dead.

Fresh tears spilled onto her cheeks as she kneels over the picture. No wonder Naru always wore black, he must be in so much pain she thinks. Her heart ached for the two brothers.

Naru walked into the office and froze in the doorway. Mai was kneeling over the picture. "Where did you get that?" he ground out, desperately trying to keep himself under control. Just because she saw his picture doesn't mean she knew anything. No one is supposed to know, except for Lin. He hadn't even informed Lin of all the details. He didn't want anyone to know. Aside from the fact that it's supposed to be a secret, if other people know then it's real and he can no longer pretend that his reflection in the mirror is his twin if he just looks long enough.

She doesn't lift her head and Naru is becoming suspicious. "You left it out," she finally answered, but he can hear that there's something wrong with her voice. It sounded nasally. He should never have left that picture out, but Mai has always had a habit of coming in late and he had thought he had time. He pinched the bridge of his nose. He should know better by now, when it comes to the important things in life he always shows up too late.

He knelt down next to her and reached for the photograph. She tightened her fingers around the edge and met his distressed eyes. He can see her tear-stained cheeks and the water that is still gathered on her lashes now. He is so distracted by the sight that it takes him a minute to realize that Mai asked him a question.

"What?" he said.

"I said were you ever going to tell any of us?" she asked. Her face was a mixture of sorrow and something that he doesn't have the ability to decipher.

"That I have a brother. Why would I?" he mustered his coldest, most impersonal tone, but he knows it's futile even before he finishes speaking. It doesn't deter Mai at all.

"Oh Naru," she cried. The tears come faster and he still has no idea the reason. There's no way she could know. He and Lin have been careful to never give any clues away and she's Mai- young, clueless, temperamental, sweet Mai. She doesn't have psychometry as a gift so there's absolutely no way she could know. The only thing he can think of is that she is upset he didn't share parts of his life with her because they were "friends"?

"I wish you would have told me. What's his name?" she asked softly staring intently down at the picture.

He's getting tired of this and he doesn't want to talk with anyone about this, not even Mai he's just doesn't feel ready. "Why does it even matter?" he asked angrily. He can't help but think that he may never be ready to share this with anyone.

His gaze swept back over her face and suddenly he is able to read something else on her face now. It looks strangely like defeat to him and he doesn't like the look of it on her face. He's never liked Mai sad or scared and he's realizing he doesn't like this look on her face either, especially since he is the one that put it there.

"Please?" her voice is almost a whisper at this point.

He sighed and he can feel the grief crash through and engulf him, "Eugene. His name is Eugene or Gene for short."

"Eugene," she tested out. It is foreign on her tongue and hard for her to emphasize correctly. She is having trouble getting the syllables and her mouth to cooperate so she shortens the name like Naru had, "Gene".

"Why does it even matter to you Taniyama?" The grief threatens to overwhelm him. He resents that she won't let this go. It's hard for him to even hear his brother's name spoken out loud and he doesn't think he can bear to hear it out loud again anytime soon.

Mai visibly deflated and a few more tears escape her eyes. "Because I've been seeing him in my dreams ever since I met you. He's been helping me with my dreams, but I didn't know you had a twin, so I thought it was you or that I was crazy. I can tell though that it's been him. That it's been Gene this whole time," she said as she lightly traced two fingers over his twin's face.

Ice froze the blood in his veins and he would swear that his heart stopped altogether. Whatever he had been expecting Mai to say, well it wasn't that. He clenched down the nausea that tried to force his way up his throat. He would never have dreamed of that. He wants to vomit. He's been so close this whole time. He could have put his brother to rest months ago. He grabbed her upper arms frantically and a ragged breath escapes from his body. "Mai, what did you say? Never mind, I heard you the first time. Does he talk to you?" he asked desperation creeping into his voice.

She lets out a small wounded cry, "Yes. All the time. He's always helped me. He's dead, isn't he?"

It's his turn to swallow back tears. It's like a slap to hear someone else say it. Martin and Luella, his adoptive parents never say it aloud either. The corners of his mouth turned down into that displeased look he always wears around her whenever she's annoyed him. "He is. I let him come to Japan alone. Something terrible happened and please Mai has he ever said where he is?"

Mai thinks that perhaps she has never really understood Naru at all and maybe that the expression he always wears is less annoyance with her and more grief spilling out that he can't stop from bubbling out. It's the please that gets her. Naru never says please. She can feel the literal tug on her heartstrings at the most unguarded look she has ever seen on his face. She shook her head no.

"But I can ask."

"Mai - he didn't die peacefully," he warned lowly.

He can't bring himself to say that she doesn't have to do that, but he wants to give her an out. On the last case, in the bloody labyrinth she had experienced a death vision and he knew that it had scared her. When he closes his eyes, he can still clearly see the terror reflected in her eyes from that day. She is always feeling something, she spills feelings out all over everything she comes in contact with, but he had never seen her so shaken up before.

She grasped his hands and met his deep blue eyes with a soft look. She is projecting earnestness so strongly that he can feel it through their clasped hands even without consciously calling on his psychometry. "It's okay. I still want to try." The to help you goes unspoken but he knows that's what she means.

He pulled her up by their still connected hands and helped her over to the client couch. He moved a decorative pillow under her head as she laid down.

"Will you stay?"

He can't bring himself to speak, but his nod is the last thing Mai sees as her eyes fluttered closed. Her hand tightened on the picture of the two boys one last time and then she felt herself drift.

Suddenly, the inky blackness behind her eyelids turned into a roadway. It's night and the road looks dark and wet. Mai looks up and in slow motion she can see the headlights of a red car speed down the hill and the driver lose control on a wet patch of the road. She can't move out of the way in time. Her eyes widen and her body tenses instinctively. She feels the impact as the car hits her straight on and everything speeds up as she feels her body fly. She feels and hears the sound of her bones crunch as she hits the ground. Immense pain flares through her body and she can't move from the shock. There's something wrong with her ribs and bones are definitely broken. She gasps out a strangled breath. She can hear the car stop and the driver rush over. She can't tilt her head but she can tell by the heels and bare legs that the driver is a woman.

Mai tries to say help or please or anything at all, but she can't get any noise out. She hears, more than sees the woman bolt back to her car and Mai despairs that the woman has left her. She hears the car squeal and she sees the taillights rushing toward her. She cries out as her vision whites out and it is only after it happens that Mai comprehends that the woman has run over her a second time. She's in so much pain she can't move or speak. She's wavering in and out of consciousness, but every shallow puff of breath brings debilitating agony.

Please, someone, help me.

She feels the soft fabric of a blanket being wrapped around her broken body, it's such a strong contrast that it sticks in her mind. She's aware of being hefted up and tossed onto a surface. There's so much pain. It is the familiar sound of a trunk closing that alerts her she's been tossed like luggage into a car trunk.

Please find me.

I don't want to die.

Mai knows that she can't have been in the trunk of the car for very long, but an eternity seems to pass by. She has no way of judging and she knows that the lost time between blackouts could be seconds or hours. She wants to bang on the car, she wants to make noise, but she is unable to move or make a sound through the pain. Panic clogs her throat as the car stops and Mai can't help but dread whatever will happen next.

Help. Please. I don't want to die.

Mai blacks out from the pain and fear as she is lifted out of the trunk. As her body hits the water, she jolts awake and takes a deep breath reflexively. Cold water fills her mouth. Her throat spasms in response and more water fills her lungs. She's too weak to swim and she's only barely conscious as it is. She can't breathe and she's sinking further into the depths. It's impossible to move. Her throat and chest burn badly, she can't tell if it's from the lack of oxygen or the impact of the car earlier.

It hurts. I'm scared. Someone, please find me.

It's dark in the water already, but even darker is the blackness creeping into the corners of her vision. Then there's no more pain or fear at all.

Suddenly, Mai is back in her own body on the shore of the lake that she's sure Gene's body was thrown in. The water looks peaceful lapping in little waves at the shore, but she shivers still able to feel the icy coldness of the water dragging her down.

"I never wanted you to see this," Eugene, the boy she sees in her dreams, said. He looked pale and wrung out even as a spirit. His face is the unhappiest she's seen it in her dreamscape.

"Eugene," she hiccupped. The tears come faster now. "I'm so sorry. But why did you let me think you were Naru this whole time?"

His shoulders slumped and he kicked a rock into the water as he sighed out, "I was trying to reach my brother, but I never could reach him, only you. It's hard for me to begin the connection if there's no danger though. This is the first time you've reached for me and not the other way around. I think it's easier for you to contact me than it is for me to contact you, especially since you know my name now. Inevitably, every time I could reach you everyone was always in danger and I didn't have long."

Mai cocked her head to the side and asked, "What do you mean about it being easier to contact you with your name?"

"Names have power. Always remember that Mai Taniyama," he said and met her gaze dead-on.

A chill ran down her spine as if someone had walked over her grave and she nodded in understanding. "Do you know where your body is?"

A shadow passed over his face and his lips turned down. The expression made him look even more like Naru, except that it looked wrong on his face. "In Fureai Damn Lake."

"I need to go soon. Is there anything else you would like me to tell Naru?" Mai asked more to change the subject than anything else. She doesn't like to see him in pain. He's always been so gentle to her and she can't stand that someone had hurt him so badly.

His gaze softens and Mai can't help but contrast how different he looks from Naru with a more natural expression on his face. Even though they are twins Mai doesn't understand how she ever mistook them for the same person. It's easy to tell them apart if you know to look at their eyes and mouths. "Tell Oliver- Tell Noll I said to stop being an idiot scientist and live a little more and that I will always love him."

Mai nodded and pinched her lips together so she doesn't let out the sob that is crawling up her throat. He spoke again, "And Mai- Thank you. When Noll finds me I don't know that I'll ever see you again, so in case I never get to say it again, thank you."

Her heart stopped beating for a minute and it feels as though someone has torn the organ out of her chest. She felt it like a physical blow. "Because you will have passed on?" she questioned.

"Yes," Gene said simply.

She pressed her eyes closed for a second and opened them as she spoke, "Then I hope you find peace."

He smiled gently at her as he is bathed in a soft glow. He takes her hands in his and squeezes gently. "Thank you, Mai. It's time to get up."

Naru retrieved a blanket for Mai and settled in next to the couch. His eyes trace the tracks of the fat tears that rolled down her cheeks while she slept. Well, at least he can be sure that she was seeing something although if it pertained to his missing brother or not remained to be seen. He wrings his hands in his lap. He wants to touch her or wipe away the tears, but he is afraid if he touches her it will break the spell. He doesn't know how long he sits there waiting for her to wake up, but it simultaneously seems like forever and like no time has passed at all.

Mai's eyes flew open and she choked as she hugs her arms around her ribs. Her throat burned and her ribs ached fiercely. After she finished coughing and heaving, she practically launched her body onto Naru's. She tried to talk, but Naru can't understand what she's trying to say through the sobs wracking her slight frame. Naru stiffened when she initially threw herself into his lap, but as the surprise wore off, he released the tension in his frame while she clung to him. Finally, he can make out the words she has been repeating and he almost wishes he couldn't again, because she's saying, "I saw it."

He closed his eyes to collect himself and to fight back the nauseous feeling in his stomach. He should never have risked that she would watch that. He can still see the accident clearly in his mind. Death visions are difficult even if you don't know the victim, but to experience someone's death that you know and care about is excruciating. He waits until her sobs haven lessened in intensity and the breaths on his neck slow down to ask, "Mai did you talk to him? To Eugene?"

Mai nods her head in the hollow of his neck. Her throat is so sore, but she lets out a single hiccup and then began to speak, "Fureai Damn Lake. He says to tell you to stop being an idiot scientist and live a little more and that he will always love you."

He fell back into the chair and bowed his head eyes squeezed tightly closed. When he opened his eyes he gently helped Mai back on to the couch. She sat with her head on her knees and her arms wrapped tightly around her while Noll makes tea.

He crouched down and hands her a cup of the tea. Steam rose up from the cup as she sipped it. "I've got to contact Lin now. When we find Gene I'm going to shut down the office and return to England, so you need to begin searching for another job. I'm leaving as soon as Lin gets here so bring all your stuff home with you tonight."

"Kaz-" she starts to speak and then abruptly closes her mouth. Shibuya Kazuya couldn't possibly be his real name and Gene had called him Oliver in her vision.

"Oliver," she said and she watches him jump at the sound of his name from her lips. "I want to go with you to find him. I'd like to pay my respects, please. He's probably saved my life as many times as you have," she said with a wry self-deprecating grin.

Oliver sighed, "That's because you can't stay out of trouble idiot. I'm calling Lin now. Get your bag ready."

A/N Guys, you can't let me read anything else. This is getting to be a problem where I read or watch something and suddenly I think I have to write fanfiction on it.

I haven't read any of the fanfiction on Ghost Hunt so hopefully, this hasn't been done before. I reread the manga and the sequel this weekend and I literally couldn't stand how it ended.

I think this chapter can stand alone, but I do have some plans for more of a story if readers are interested. So please give me your thoughts.

Thanks for reading! Please review.

- Blushin