My ghost hunt story!
Her soul, his heart
Things have changed
She had finally fallin into a stead pace of thinking. Doing math
problems without thinking about them for more than a second.
Her boss opened his office door planning on giving her more files to
file and tell her he wanted more tea. But when he saw her so
concentrated, he stopped to watch. She was different than Mai, but then
again she wasn't. Her personalty was the same as his ex-assistant, but
she had a level head about her and was way more into her studies. Her
attitude to him was the same and she even called him Naru. Although he
guessed she had heard Lin say it once or twice, but still just the way
she said it made him think about his ex-assistant.
Before Naru could start walking to the desk again he heard the door
open. The phrase 'speak of the devil and thy devil shall appear' ran
through his head as a chipper Mai walked into the room. He hadn't seen
her since she quit so that she could focus in her studies more. Instead
of walking towards him she walked closer to the desk to observe what
the girl was doing.
Michaela, his new assistant didn't even look up from her paper. The
observer seemed irritated that the girl was ignoring her so bluntly.
" You were always to into your studies to notice anything around you,
but I've never seen you totally ignore people like that Michaela." The
girl finally looked up from her work to glare at the annoying pest who
she loved so dearly.
" Yes, and you always ignored your study's which is why I'm surprised
you even got a scholarship, let alone pasted high-school."
Naru was almost amused by the girls bickering, but almost was the key
word. This was a work place not a fighting ring.
" Mai." Said Naru stressing her name so he could get her attention.
Mai's head turned towards her ex-boss knowing from experience what he
was about to say. " You know this is a work place, if you aren't here
with a case of any sort then why are you here?" Mai smiled at the
expressionless faced boy, seeing a twinge of annoyance in his eyes.
" Well I have been talking to my sister here and she just told me about
a day ago that she was working here, so I thought what the heck, I
would come see my sister and it also gave me a reason to come and be
able to annoy you again." She smirked at her last comment.
Naru definitely couldn't say that he hadn't missed her, because he had.
But then his mind caught up with him. 'Sister, Mai has a sister.'
" How come you never mentioned that you had a sister and why do you
guys have different last names?" He wasn't confused just curious as to
why Mai had never told anyone she had a sister.
" Oh well I guess it was because nobody ever asked and as for the last
name-" Michaela finally decided to come into the conversation to.
" Our last names are different because we're adopted sisters and after
her mom died I decided to go back and live in America for a little
while not wanting to burden her. And I also decided to go back to my
ordinal last name because well I don't why... I just did and about a
year ago I came back, I looked for her and when I found her we started
communicating again. She had told me all about her job she had here and
how she had found a long lost cousin she didn't know she had. And she
wanted me to meet this cousin, so then I moved out here closer to Mai,
finding that me and this cousin Zoey of hers were a lot alike in some
ways. And then when she quit work here I decided to give it a try I
didn't tell her because I knew it was dangerous and I knew her and Zoey
wouldn't approve." The girl smiled at the end of her story.
Naru nodded and then command Michaela to go get him some tea. Out of
habit Mai took a step forward before realizing that he had said
Michaela not Mai. She smiled to her self as she watched her younger
adopted sister walk into the kitchen going through the same routine she
had not to many months ago. She smiled over at Naru who had been
watching the thoughts flow across her face.
" Old habits die hard." She said. Looking towards the kitchen. "So any
weird cases since she's started." Mai asked not wanting to here that
her baby sister, though only a year younger than her, had gotten into
any scary or dangerous situations.
" So far we've only had small cases with very low level ghost so no
need to worry, she hasn't even meet the others yet because we haven't
need them." Mai nodded her head sighing the breathe she didn't even
know she was holding.
" Naru just please take care of her I don't know what I or Zoey would
do if she ended up in the hospital because of ghosts. If you thought I
was a ghost or danger magnet well she's even worst, she's had psychic
abilities since we were kids and she used to have ghosts following her
around and coming after her all the time. She has special abilities that
I don't have. Just ask what the charms and weaves in her hair are for.
Trust me there not just there for looks. So please watch out for her
and protect." She looked at Naru with utmost seriousness telling him
that she had grown up in the few months he hadn't seen her.
He nodded his head indicating he understood and would do as she asked.
But even without her asking he would have, it was his job to keep his
employees safe, but just like Mai, Michaela seemed to be one he wanted
to protect.
Before anymore could be said about his new blond assistant, she walked
out with a tray, with tea cups and a tea pot full of steaming hot tea.
Michaela watched the two adults in front of her, they seemed to be
thinking about two entirely different things. Instead of worrying what
the two had been talking about before she walked in, she poured them
some tea. Mai took the tea smiling while Naru took it and turned on his
heel to go back to his office. Michaela fumed over how he never seemed
to say thank you. She heard the girl next to her chuckle.
" Trust me you will never get a thank you from him." Mai said smiling
like a little school girl.
" Well he really needs to learn how to because it's really starting to
tick me off that I sit here and file all of his files and make him his
damn tea and then I don't even get one freakin thank you or even an
indication of one." She sighed at the end of her rant falling back
into her desk chair.
Mai watched the poor girl with a small smile inching it's way across
her face, knowing just how the blond had felt, but she would just have
to get used to it because it wasn't gonna change anytime soon. The only
thing she hoped for the young girl is that she didn't develop the same
crush she had on the navy eyed boy. Mai's crush on the boy had wavered
some time ago and was now in a steady relationship with a boy she
really liked.
Michaela smiled at her sister. " Trust me I'll be fine." Mai looked at
her with confusion. " Your worried, I can tell by the way your so
quite. Your thinking to much in that head of yours up there." Michaela
pointed at the brunets head. Mai shook her head while chuckling, she
really did miss being able to talk with her like this, she always knew
when something was wrong. Mai look towards Naru's door then looked back
at her sister.
" I better get goin, if he comes back out to find me still here he
won't be happy." Michaela smiled at her sister, knowing all to well
that he would be. One step out the door Mai turned back around and
smiled. " See ya around Chaela." She said, using her old nickname, and
walking the rest of the way out letting the door swing closed behind
her. Although Mai couldn't see her, Michaela waved anyways. Turning
back to her desk she groaned. Naru had left a stack of about 20 files.
Closing her math textbook knowing it would take awhile to get back on
that steady pace again when she tried later when she got home. She
reluctantly picked up one of the files and opening it to make sure that
all the files were organized right and that there weren't any useless
files that weren't needed.
When she opened it she took note to the date. June 4, 2003. She
wondered why her boss was looking at old cases from about two years
ago. The case file name was the OURADO CASE. She skimmed over the page
til she got to the spot where it told her who had worked the case with
her boss. She smiled when she saw Mai's name, but all the other names
were unknown to her.
Instead of wasting time as her boss would call it, to go through the
file to find out what happened. She closed it knowing it was organized
since her sister did it. She moved onto the next.
When Michaela had gotten through about half the files, she heard the
bell on the door ring clear through the room telling her that they had
a visitor. She stood up and smiled as a man about 30 years old walked
into the front room looking nervous and tired. The purple bruises under
his eyes indicated that the man had gotten little sleep in the past few
days. His brown hair was in a tidy sort of mess and his green eyes
showed every emotion he was feeling at that second. He was lean with
muscle and was probably 6' 4".
The man looked up at the young cheery girl in front of him. She reminded
him so much of his late daughter Hime.
" I know I don't have an appointment but I was wondering if I could
speak with your boss about a case." She smiled and nodded to the man,
walking towards Naru and Lin's doors, knocking on them and then walking
back over to the man and leading him to the sitting room where he would
discuss the case with her boss.
Both Naru and Lin walked into the room at the same time, Lin holding
his computer and Naru holding his black notebook. The man look towards
Lin thinking he was the boss.
" I'm Kobayashi Hitoshi I woul-"
" Kobayashi-San usual when people talk to me they look at me not one of
my assistants." Kobayashi turned bright red from embarrassment from
getting something wrong and from being spoken to like he was a child.
Michaela felt the need to smack Naru run through her veins. You think
being accused of being so young to run a company so many times would
teach him indicate that he was the boss when he walked into a room. And
he didn't need to go and be mean because someone made a misake that so
many others have made.
" Oh ... sorry. As I as was saying I have a case." Kobayashi sat down
on the old couch.
" Michaela." She walked out of the sitting room into the kitchen to get
them some tea. She walked into room while Kobayashi was in mid-sentence.
"- People have been found with strange marks on there body's and some
say they hear voices when there the only ones in the room. I been
getting hell from all my guest and I'm losing business fast. I heard
from others that you guys are some of the best." Naru ignoring the
comment and drank a sip of his tea.
" What kind of strange marks have been found on the guest." He asked
getting straight to the point.
" Hold on a second." Kobayashi said reaching into one of his inside
coat pockets. Michaela all the while had set herself on the arm rest
next to Naru. When Kobayashi produced his hand from the pocket he also
pulled out pictures. Michaela gasped at what she saw, even though she
what the marks ment. 'But then again knowing what these marks mean only
make things worst than they could imagine.' She only hoped that Naru or
someone else could explain what they ment so she didn't have to.
" Do you know what theses mean?" Naru spoke like a sincere question and
not like he was going to explain it to everyone. Kobayashi shook his
head in shame as if wishing he knew, like there was some sort of
meaning behind them that would solve his sorrow or what looked like
sorrow to Michaela.
The room stayed deathly silent as Naru seemed to go over in his mind
what the numbers and Xs, that were carved into these peoples body's,
might mean. Michaela picked up one of the pictures that had 23XX carved
into one of the persons skin. Kobayashi seemed to watch her intently
while she wa holding this picture.
" If I told you guys I knew what theses mean what would happen."
Kobayashi seemed shocked that a girl so young could know what the older
men didn't. Naru looked at her with a blazing gaze.
" I suggest you tell us my patience is wearing thin." She nodded her
head but had to ask a question before going on.
" Kobayashi-San did the hotel by a chance use to be an asylum of
any sort?" The client seem hesitant, but though other wise then to lie
to the people in front of him.
" Yes it was an asylum for young adults, teens, and children." Michaela
pursed her lips not really wanting to know that people actually had
that much evil in them to hurt children like that.
" And by any chance have the people that have been getting attacked been
the younger guest and children." He nodded his head.
" Yes, ages ranging from 3 to about 19 maybe 20 at the highest." She
looked back down at the picture and then around the room to the three
men who were waiting for the explanation.
" In my history class we did a huge project on places and things back
in the day like way, way back in the day. I ended up with asylums and
the secrets behind them and the history of course. And one of things I
found out is they would mark or branded people to tell certain things.
Most of the time Xs or other letters even, ment they were treatable
patience and would be getting out, but that usually ment you were
definably and would be getting out of the asylum. Now numbers more often
ment that you might be getting out and that you might be treatable and
that maybe you didn't have anyone on the outside world waiting for
you." They all seemed confused even Lin and Naru. " What I mean is if
you had a number and didn't really have any family or friends you
probably wouldn't be coming out of there, if you did it would be in a
body bag." It seemed to click in Naru's head what she meant. " Another
thing you would learn is that asylums back then did a lot of
experiments, because most diases back then were uncureable. So it was
most unlikely that you would have an X and most of the time if you were
one of those kind of patience they didn't even mark you. And not only
did doctors experiment for the research they did it for the fun of
killing and torturing to. I read the over half the people with numbers
carved on there back were killed in any asylum until people started
getting thrown into jail because of it." Michaela stoped as if she was
done, she wanted to be because the next sign scared her the most. She
was hoping they wouldn't ask and would just leave it be or maybe forget
that there was still one more mark to be explained, but unfortunatly
for her she worked for someone who liked having all the anwsers and not
being blindsided.
" Michaela what about the last mark." He seemed to know that this
subject made upset, because instead of demanding like he usually does
he had asked softly.
" It means unless you some how survived your diseases after people started
being thrown in jail for 'experimenting' then there was doubt that you
would be leaving there in a body bag and not walking on your own two
feet. I just... Can't believe someone could do this to children." A
single lone tear ran its self down her face. Kobayashi who had seemed
to get paler and paler as her story went on watched the the girl with
sorrow.
Naru put a hand on her shoulder and slided the picture out of her hand
and turned it upside down so she wouldn't have to ponder on the image.
" We'll take the case." Michaela looked surprised, but then again it
wasn't like this case was gonna be normal.
" Michaela please get the address we will be heading there tomorrow.
Please have four rooms ready, three for sleeping and one to be our
base. And Michaela- oh never mind, Lin could you please call the others
will need them all on this case." Lin nodded his head and so did
Michaela thanking god that Naru was nice enough not to have her call
the others and having them wondering who you are and start asking a
billion questions.
With those orders he stood up, taking the pictures with him and headed
for his office, as did Lin. Michaela gestured Kobayashi to follow her
to the front room so that she could take down his address and right down
what he needed set up for them.
After he gave her the address, she started writing down the list of
rooms and things that were needed.
" Your boss..." Kobayashi started trying to remember if Naru had told
him his name or not.
" Shibuya, Shibuya Kazuya is his name." She answered his unasked
question.
" Yes Shibuya-San seems... Oh I don't know so strict." She smiled
knowing he hit the nail right on the head, well maybe a little of to
the side, but close enough.
" Yeah, but I guess that's what you would get from a person who is so
smart and owns a business at his age." Kobayashi nodded his head taking
the short list of things needed and how many people would be there so
that there would be the correct number of beds, but if Michaela had it
her way she would write that they needed two less beds than people,
because Naru and Lin never seemed to sleep.
" Well thank you for your time and see you tomorrow." She nodded her
blond head at him and waved as he walked out the door. She heard the
door to her bosses office open. Turning she saw Naru already had
crossed the room and was standing a few feet from her.
" You can have the rest of the day off, but be sure to be here by six
tomorrow. It will take about two hours to get there and I intend to get
an early start on this one." She nodded her head, as he turned on his
heel and walked right back into his office.
Sighing she picked up her backpack and took out her cellphone, checking
while shouldering the backpack on one shoulder. She noticed she had two
text from Mai and a few others from her friends. The ones from Mai were
asking about what she was up to this weekend and was wondering if she
wanted to hangout. She almost had it set in her mind that she should
lie to her sister and tell their going on another minor case this
weekend but then she remember it was Wednesday and if they had a small
case it would be done by Thursday or Friday and she would still be able
to hang out. So she texted Mai that she had a big case and couldn't.
All her friends wanted to know if she wanted hangout after she got off
work, she decided to tell them that she was going to have a long night
at work and couldn't. She hadn't really gotten around to telling her
friends where she worked and didn't really want to.
Later on while she was on the sub, she got a text from Mai telling her
to be careful and that she would be calling tomorrow night to check on
her. She smiled at her sisters protectiveness towards her.