Matsuoka finally arrived back to the headquarters, except looking so white and pale. Everyone stared at him as he passed by them. Tatsuya, their head chief calls out for the violet haired detective who seems to staggered towards his own office.

He slumped into his chair, staring onto the blue folder on the table. He had not blinked once after he came back.

"Maybe it's just my imagination…"

"Matsuoka"

He did not hear.

"DETECTIVE MATSUOKA RIN!"

He fell onto the floor, and then blinked as he looked around. In front of him, Chief Tatsuya looking very annoyed. Quickly he gets back on his two feet and dragged the chair to its original position.

"This damn boss really should stop kicking me off my chair, one of these days i might ended up with a broken spine"

"What is it, boss? "

"I've been calling you for the past 5 minutes; I'm asking you, did you go and see the patient?"

Matsuoka froze. Tatsuya looked at him and raised an eyebrow.

"You look like you just saw a ghost." The chief nailed it.

He flinched at that word as he sweat dropped, "G...Ghost…there's no such thing as ghosts…"

"Yes, there is such a thing as ghosts, they really exist!" a voice enters the office. A blonde looking teen carrying a few folders in his hands, his long bangs neatly brushed.

The violet haired detective went back into his chair. "How can you be so sure?"

"Jeez, I told you a million times to call me Nagisa!" the shorter blonde whined. Matsuoka sighed as he starts fiddling with a pen while flipping through the file.

"Well?" Chief Tatsuya tapped the table, waiting for a reply from the younger detective.

"Yea I went…"

"And…?" The violet could feel a major headache coming if that boss of his and Nagisa does not leave the office.

"His name is Mizu, which was given by the hospital"

"Mizu...as in water?"

"Yeah, apparently they said the medics named him since they saw the color of his eyes before he went into a coma"

"Well it's better to call him that instead of Kid" The chief shrugged as he made his way towards the exit.

"Better get this case done and over with. Something tells me this case isn't just a matter of lost identity and attempt murder" he reminded, leaving Nagisa and Matsuoka in the office.

"Hazuki" The blonde stopped his pace towards the door and turns around, looking at the detective who seems to be busy looking at that certain file.

"What ya know about…" he trailed off, searching for the right word to describe the 'Ghost' he saw earlier.

"About?" Nagisa echoes. It was unusual for Matsuoka to trail of a sentence.

"Hmm… about a person who is still in deep slumber…their thoughts leaves the body?" Matsuoka frowns at his miserable descriptions. Nagisa was not sure on what reaction he should gives to the violet head, other than looking at him in a ridiculous way with a tilted head to the right.

"WHAT!" Matsuoka could feel his face burns with embarrassment, he was not even sure if his IQ is at the lowest bottom of the peak. The blonde quickly let out a laughed; Matsuoka was refraining himself back so much from killing the shorter one right there for laughing at him.

"Ah sorry, I didn't mean to laugh at you, it's just, this is the first time I seen you failed terribly at explaining things"

Matsuoka groaned in embarrassment. "Yeah well, no one's perfect"

Nagisa nodded then he moves closer to the table in the middle, "I think the correct word for your 'thoughts' are astral projection, thought most people calls it out of body experience (OBE)"

The violet raised an eyebrow following the sight of the blonde heading to his coffee pot, "Astral projection?"

"Mhmm… it's where your soul or spirit believed to leave the body when the body is extremely sick or in comatose state but sometimes it depends on a situation of the person were in a sudden accident or attack, the soul tends to be confused to what has happened, it may have difficulty to go back to its body"

Matsuoka rested his head on his right palm while listening to the explanations given by his partner, "Sometimes it's different, when a person went through too much in life and doesn't wants to be in the reality anymore, the spirit will resist to go back to the body"

"I wonder if that's the case with that kid…." Flashes of those sad and hurt look on that 'Ghost' hits him at some point, he sighed.

"I guess ghosts have feelings too…" then an eyebrow rose. His friend still busy explaining at the background while Matsuoka was busy with his own thoughts.

"Maybe I shouldn't call him a ghost...he's not even dead."

"Rin-chan?" Nagisa interrupts his thoughts. Matsuoka raised his head, Nagisa face is practically inches away from him.

"Yeah?"

"You weren't listening" he pouted.

"I was, just thinking that's all" The violet haired detective replied, he then pushed the shorter out of his office after shoving his files into his chest.

"Ehhhh, but I still wanna talk with you" Matsuoka sighed. He is still amazed on how that younger detective looked so young yet he is only a year younger than him. He eyed the file that lays open on the table as he sat down once again and rested his chin onto his knuckle. The more he thinks about that Mizu, the more confused he gets and feels. Especially when the kid was worried about him earlier and he just ran off like that.

"AH DAMN IT!" Matsuoka banged his table then exits the office.

At the hospital,

The spirit that that claims he is Mizu, curls up into a ball as he buries his head into his arms. He floats around in the room while looking at his body that lays quietly on the bed with life support machines and tubes attached to him. "What am I thinking…I'm a ghost…of course he would run…" he mumbles, his blue orbs sadden. He looks at his see through hands, he bit his lower lip.

It's been days since he suddenly found himself like this, floating around the room, looking at doctors and nurses coming in and out fixing those machines or changing his body bandages. No one could see him; they all passed through him, no matter how much he screams at them. No matter how much he tries to remember, he could not recall anything that happened, he felt so lost and confused.

"Am I going to stay like this forever…?"

"No, you're not"

Mizu quickly turns around and saw those flaring orbs looking at him from the door. He blinks.

"When did he came back?"

Matsuoka then steps a few feet forward, the ghost well…Mizu, stays at where he was floating, looking at the moving violet haired man. "Sorry about earlier…" Matsuoka scratches the back of his neck, feeling awkward apologizing to a ghost.

"For running off like that…"

The jet black teen blinks a few times, swiftly he went towards the detective that clad in black leather coat. His face is now inches from the detective.

"So you really can see me" Matsuoka was mesmerized by his blue orbs.

"It's beautiful and calm just like the water…" he thought.

"Yea, I can. Don't ask why I can, since I don't know the answer to that" He answered as he walks forward towards the bed where lays the ghost real body is.

"Ya know how you ended up here in the hospital with all those injuries?

The floating teen did not say anything for a while, "No I don't…I can't remember anything…when I came to, I'm like this…"

Matsuoka did not miss that sad tone. "Guess what Nagisa explained earlier was true, he's probably in a sudden situation that his memories all jumbled up" he thought.

"Well, I've been assigned to your case, finding out who you are and why were you out there in the storm heavily wounded but only with your help" The violet detective said as he turns around to look at the ghost.

"My help…how?"

He wants to punch himself in the face for suggesting that idea. "A help from a ghost, what am I thinking! Wait, he's not a ghost."

"I'm not so sure how but we will find out later, first we need to introduce ourselves"

"I'm Matsuoka Rin, a detective"

"But you don't look like a detective…and your name sounds like a girl name…"

"He's only a ghost, nothing to get pissed off at" Matsuoka mentally reminded himself to not punch into the air. Then he realized the ghost was not introducing himself.

"You do remember at least a name don't you?"

The ghost bit his lower lip, "No…"

Matsuoka sighed, somehow he hates seeing those sad orbs. "Let see, if I'm not mistaken, the hospital gave you a name, lemme try to remember what it was" he said as he went into a thinking pose.

"Mizu..." Matsuoka mumbles, concentrating on something in his hand. The teen head rose as he floats towards the detective who was scribbling something on his notepad. He eyed the note pad from the detective shoulder.

"If you wrote it like this …" then the violet shoved the note pad in front of the ghost.

"Mizu-ki?"

"Yeah, it means water child. The color of your eyes are so blue just like the sea."

"But it's a girl name…"

Matsuoka turns around as he stood up straight, as he sighed. "And you're a ghost" he continued in his mind.

"Suck it up, until we find out who you are, you'll have to deal with that name for the time being, are we clear?" The ghost that is now, named Mizuki nodded, while the detective cracked a grin.

"So, let's start over. I'm Matsuoka Rin"

It was an odd situation for Mizuki but he decided to follow.

"Even if I can't go back to my body…even if i were to remain like this forever...at least someone knows I'm still here…that's more than enough…" Mizuki thought.

"I'm Mizuki."

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