Hello. Sorry to those of you who were waiting for something else. I really wanted to get started on this. Its an Idea I've been playing around with for the past week or so, so yeah. I hope it is satisfactory to the people who read it. Thankyou for opening this story, I hope you aren't disappointed. Oh.. and its not related to the movie by Hayao Miyazaki in the slightest.

And its not related to my other stories. I just felt like writing this. I will finish the other one kay?

Hokay so normally I do a short sort of beginning, but not today. Full chapter. So yeah!

Note- Akemasu (According to my Japanese english dictionary) means to open. Sorry if I use it weird. forgive me. It just sounded cool... yeah...

Disclaimer- I do not own ghost hunt. This disclaimer applies to all subsequent chapter of this story.

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"Hey! Are you sure we can do this?"

"Theres no rule directly against it, now is there?"

"Actually, I think there is."

"What?"

"Rule Book page 18, section 10, subsection 4, topic 2, line 3: Access to the back buildings past 21:00 is strictly prohibited unless direct written permission is a acquired 3 days prior to when you... umm... go to the building... or something."

"No way... You actually know the rule book? I thought that people like that don't really exist."

"I have a semi-photographic memory. Its habit to go over things like that. But really isn't it kind of obvious that they don't want us going over there? What with the fences, and vines, and thick forest stuff?"

"No way! You mean we're not supposed to do anything that the rule book says we can't do?"

"Yeah.. generally that's the way it works."

"Oh that thing is stupid!"

"Yeah, come on, you're coming with us."

"Yeah!"

"Fine, but if we get caught, I'm saying that I only came to try and get you guys to change your mind, and I want you to agree with me okay?"

"Right. Lets go."

Mai sat down on the couch after getting her boss some tea. She sighed and sipped a cup of her own before looking at her watch one last time. She didn't have school tomorrow, and Naru had some files that required immediate filing... for some reason. So he decreed that she would stay until it was done or until he left the office for the night. Which ever came first. So here she was, 9:30 at night taking a break, hoping that Naru would walk out of his office.

But at 9:45, she figured Naru wasn't planning on leaving before she finished, so she settled down back into a regular rhythm of work, conquering the pile that prevented her from going home and sleeping. There was not much left, but Mai figured it'd take until 10:30. If she really tried, maybe earlier, but she was tired. Not much else to it.

She started making pretty good time, The pile decreased faster than she thought, and she had only about 2 cm (little less than an inch) left. She lay her head down and looked at it from the side. Although the action reminded her just how sleepy she was. By 10:15, she conquered the pile, and cheered to herself.

She poked her head into Naru's office, and saw him rapidly typing. The light was off, so the only source of illumination in the room was the screen of the computer which sat in front of Naru. Mai sighed and debated turning on the lights. It was bad for his vision. But it wasn't really her place to act like a mother. Though that made Mai wonder just what kind of person his mother was.

"I've finished, okay? So I'm going home." She said, closing the door, not waiting for a response.

Nayuki, Chizu, Aoi, and Kazu were sneaking into the one of the buildings in the back of their school. Nayuki was against it. She was the most responsible of the group. Chizu was all for it. Aoi and Kazu had heard that there was a building that had a door that didn't lock. And some senpai passed down the knowledge to them that there was alcohol or something hidden in the basement, where no teachers would go. They had told Chizu of this fact. Nayuki was unaware.

They belonged to a boarding school which was proud to offer students complete schooling education right up to University level courses. It was called Akemasu Academy. Named as such for the doors which it opens for it's students.

Nayuki looked around one last time as Chizu carefully hopped down from the fence, caught by Aoi who helped her to her feet. "All right come on." She whispered. "You can do this!"

Nayuki sighed. Of course she could. She was better at P.E. than Chizu was. But did she want to? Even if she hadn't caught wind of the reason everyone else was going, she knew something was up. After all, the school buildings weren't that exciting at night. Last chance to make the decision to go home and sleep.

Nayuki scaled the fence and softly landed on the other side, ignoring Aoi's outstretched hand. "Oh." he said. "I guess that works too."

Kazu looked around, then motioned for the others to follow him. "Right! According to senpai, we should go along this fence until we get the the tree that grown right beside it." A ways into the distance, Nayuki could see said tree. "Then we head inwards, towards the buildings. The unlocked entrance should be the only one that we see if we look only straight."

There was a general sense of agreement, and the party of four headed out.

At the tree, they turned. Chizu pointed. There was one door they could see. It had to be the right one. Kazu moved forward faster than before, nearly running. Nayuki watched as the others sprinted as well. She still felt as if she were doing the wrong thing.

Maybe she would honestly try to get them to turn around.

Or... not. But a word of general caution was in order. "Slow down guys..." She said, carefully stepping to make less noise than the others did. "There may be people around that know of the door and thereby patrol the area to prevent renegade students from getting in."

Chizu laughed. "Yeah right. The building may as well be abandoned. Theres nothing of value in it. So even if there was a door on the back that didn't lock, it wouldn't be a priority. Come on, quit lagging behind."

Nayuki sped up. She wondered how long the door hadn't been lockable. After all, the senpais had talked about it like it had always been that way. Maybe one day the school would decide that it was a priority to have it lockable. Maybe that would be today! She was about to call it to the group as Kazu tried the door, which silently swung open.

But she stopped. They always told her she needed to become less strict. Relax a bit. Calm down. That sort of thing. 'Breaking the rules is a skill. The first time you'll be really nervous, so you have to learn to get over the nervousness. Come on. Its an important life skill.' That was what Chizu, Kazu and Aoi were always saying.

She moved towards the door frame held open by Aoi.

Mai moved into the streets and sighed seeing that rain now fell from the sky. It hadn't been raining 2 hours ago,when she would have normally left. And now she was going to get wet. And it was Naru's fault. But rather than being angry like she would have been usually, she was more sad. Rain didn't suit her, and especially not late at night. Mai wondered how wet she would be when she got home, and prayed she wouldn't catch a cold.

Although, she was glad she didn't have any papers or sheets with her because they would have been soaked. Now, it was just her that was wet. After she arrived home, she took a warm shower. She felt uncharacteristically down. After drying her hair, she changed into warm pajamas, and fell asleep wondering if she would feel better tomorrow.

Nayuki followed the others through the building. For some reason everyone other than her already had decided they were going to basement. Feeling a bit uncomfortable, she followed, but lagged behind. And once in the basement, she saw nothing interesting. So she decided to leave them to look for whatever fun they were planning on having, deciding for sure that she didn't want to be involved.

"I'll stand upstairs and warn you guys if something happens." Nayuki left the scene.

Chizu sighed once Nayuki was out of range. "Well I guess that does solve a problem. Out of curiosity, were you guys really expecting her to have some?"

Aoi shrugged. "I guess that her coming this far was enough. Eventually we may be able to get her to relax more. She takes everything too seriously."

Kazu sighed. "I wasn't sure about bringing her along. I don't want something to happen that turns her away from us. After all, we may not be much, but we're the only friends she has. I almost feel bad that she had to fall in with us." He said. Kazu, immediately after seeing the girl, knew that he liked her. Once he got to know her, there was only more reasons why he kept her close. He felt like a bit of a bodyguard, trying (to some extent) to prevent her from becoming like them. The way he acted with the others, encouraging her to go with them when they didn't follow the rules, was only so the others of the group wouldn't notice. They hadn't yet, so things worked out okay, and he didn't get bugged about the way he felt.

Aoi nodded. "Right then. In the broken vent. The Senpai said that they stock it for people like us, and that they figured we were 'worthy to know'. So I guess this is the moment of truth. Are we idiots, or are they for telling us where it is?"

Chizu did the honours of opening the makeshift cupboard. Sure enough, inside was a stash of alcohol. Enough for 7 people to get completely wasted. There was only three of them (Assuming Nayuki would stay away).

Chizu grabbed three bottles, and passed them around.

Kazu grabbed a bottle and opened it. Before taking a drink, he wondered what Nayuki would think if they all came back up drunk, or passed out wasted on the floor. But that didn't stop him.

Meanwhile Nayuki carefully climbed the stairs. Once she was alone, she regretted leaving. Be alone was worse than being in a group because if she was caught, what would she say now?

Nayuki went back to the door, and walked out, examining the lock. It didn't look like it would take much to fix it. She was examining the handle carefully, when muffled footsteps from two people made her turn. Luckily the door was quiet, and she closed it silently before dashing to the tree and hiding.

She saw a member of the security team at the school as well as one of teachers walk up to the door. A light rain started to fall.

"Aww, great. Rain. lets get this over with. Like I said, this door has been bugging me. I don't think anyone else knows, but it doesn't lock." The security team member said to the teacher. "You know how to fix this sort of thing right?"

The teacher looked at it. He examined it just as Nayuki had. "Yeah, don't even need any others tools. Okay so all I have to do is..." He leaned over a bit, and there were some light clicking sounds. "That should do it. It'll lock fine now. See?" The teacher closed the door, then tried to open it again. It didn't open.

"Perfect! Lets go, the rain is getting heavy fast." The two people left. Nayuki immediately ran to the door. She tried it, just to make sure. Then she looked for something to use to pick it. But even if she had something people stereotypically use to unlock doors, she wouldn't have known how. She went back to the tree as the rain got harder and harder. Hiding under its foliage, Nayuki was protected from most of the rain, but she still became soaked.

It was half an hour later, a half hour that Nayuki spent sulking, that Kazu opened the door. He didn't look quite right, as if he were very much imbalanced. Nayuki, while naive and uneducated as to exactly what he was feeling ,could tell right away exactly what everyone else had come for. The door shut behind Kazu, and Nayuki knew that she would have to do something with Kazu, and getting him out of here, or back into the building would be hard if not impossible.

When she had first come to this school, which was the previous year, she felt very alone. because most people did all of their schooling there, it made for a very closed sort of society. The newcomers were lonely. Chizu's roommate had gotten sick of her, and moved to another room, so Nayuki had the choice to stay with her, or alone in an area that very few people went to. Figuring she might make a friend, Nayuki chose to stay with Chizu. She met Chizu's friends Aoi and Kazu soon after. They had made her feel more welcome, and soon she was a part of their group except when they broke the rules. Tonight she had felt closer to the group, but was still scared of getting in trouble.

The other think that happened when she met the group, she learned something new. She had spent her entire life so far not caring for anything other than studying, doing her best, and stuff like that. But when Chizu had introduced her to Kazu and Aoi, she changed. Kazu... He seemed so nice. She thought he was something special right away, and the more she got to know him, the more she wanted to be near him. He had even given her a necklace that she never took off. Although she hid it under her shirt.

Thats why right now, she felt more than slightly uncomfortable. Nayuki knew that chances are, he wouldn't remember anything from right now later so she could... No she wouldn't. The way they got along now was just fine. She didn't need anything more. Especially nothing that he wouldn't remember.

Kazu moved towards her, through the rain. "Nayuki..." He said, brushing the rain from his face. "Come here." Nayuki almost believed for a moment that she was wrong and that he completely understood what he was doing. But she stood still. Kazu moved towards her more. Then pulled her close. "I'm really sorry. I'm not sure I can do this any longer."

Nayuki, completely shocked and slightly happy inside, could smell the alcohol on his breath. And that made her uncomfortable. He wouldn't do anything that she would be upset about... right? "What... I don't understand..."

"Pretending I don't care." He kissed her forehead. and hugged her more. Nayuki was frozen in place for a moment. This was wrong. Even if she liked him, this wasn't him. Not real. Not real...

She pushed him away. The sadness built up inside her from sitting in the rain finally exploded as tears on her face. But they weren't visible in the rain. "No... thats not right. Don't lie to me! I'm not... I'm not going to let you do this and get away with it just because you're drunk!"

"I can't stand you!" She said, and fell to her knees

"Nayuki!" he cried, but Nayuki didn't hear. Although it wasn't because she wasn't listening, it wasn't because of the rain. It was because another voice was speaking to her.

Its okay... calm down... Lets go.. lets leave, not here... let's go... let's go... let's go...

Nayuki calmed her crying, but the dull ache of sadness was still there, and the rain still beat on her shoulders.

let's go... let's go... let's go...

Nayuki felt hands on her shoulders, that worked there way up her neck over her eyes. She ripped off the necklace Kazu gave her.

let's go... let's go... let's go...

The hand secured themselves on her eyes.

Kazu, who wasn't quite completely out of it, blinked. One moment Nayuki was sitting there calming down. Now, all that remained was the imprint that she had left in the ground, and a shining silver something on the ground. Suddenly feeling a lot more sober than before, he picked it up, and his eyes widened. Nayuki had disappeared.

Gone.

Right in front of his face.

The next morning, Mai woke up late. Really late. It was noon. She threw back breakfast and grabbed something to wear before dashing out the door. She waved to a couple neighbours before exiting the building and slowing down. People tended to stare at people who run around in the streets, and Mai didn't need that. She still felt a bit down still, but put on a smile, and made her way to the place she should have been hours ago.

Ah well... it can't be helped now... She arrived at the office. No one was in the main area, so Mai simply sat down. About 5 minutes had passed when she decided to make some tea as a peace offering. As she started making tea, Naru came out of his office, and nearly at the same time Takigawa came in. Naru scolded Mai. "You should have been here hours ago."

Takigawa looked at Mai. "You just got here too? Wow.. thats some sleeping in."

Mai frowned at Naru. "I was up late. And that would be your fault." Mai wondered breifly when Naru had left. If he even had left last night.

Naru didn't say anything, but rather sat down on the couch. Mai finished with the tea and put a cup in front of Takigawa and Naru.

"I received a call from a school wishing that we take a new case. I haven't decided if we will." Naru said as Mai sat down, with nothing much to do.

"Oh? Why?" Asked Mai. Usually he was pretty sure if he wanted to or didn't want to.

"Well, from the sounds of it someone disappeared right in front of someone. But its only one person. The validity of the witness's statement also comes to play. I told them to call back in a week if more people go missing, and we may come." Naru said.

Mai smiled. She knew it wasn't good if people disappeared, but she thought it would be nice to have a case.

Naru put down an empty tea cup, and Takigawa stretched out. "Its been a while since we had a case." he said. "I guess if he doesn't call back in a week we'll know nothing's up."

Mai figured the week would probably move slower just because she was excited about whether or not they would have a case.