Seasons Change
by Yoshiko Hatake
File 1: New Additions, Part 1
When a new boy in school, comes, super cute, and super smart, and has taken an interest in Mai, she's utterly confused. He wants to be more than friends, as he seems to have portrayed to her, when he wants to be her boyfriend. How will Naru react? Same as always, keep his cool facade on. But what will he do when she asks for a day off? Her birthday no doubt, to spend it with him, together? What's really going on? The seasons certainly change, one year has passed, 8 more files have been added, a total of 16 cases Mai has gone through, and countless cups of tea for Naru. Just when she's to turn 17, what will happen?
A casual spin from the usual supernatural stuff, to show more of the drama and romance side behind the Shibuya Psychic Research, scene.
Ahem, please note, I have not yet read the light novel or the manga of Ghost Hunt, only the anime. (I'm afraid to see the manga, I think it'll be just as scary as the anime, near the second to last file.) Also, I won't be putting many spoilers or anything of that sort. I was watching the anime, and I really wanted something to bloom between the two of them. (Naru and Mai.)
Disclaimer: I don't own Ghost Hunt. Hayashi Nobuo and Fujimori Akemi, I do own.
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-September Day 1-
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"Watashi wa Hayashi, Nobuo desu." The tall brown haired boy, bowed, "It's nice to meet you all."
All the other students stared back at him, watching his every move. A new student coming in almost three months into the school year? Quite suspicious, so they watched him like a scientist testing a lab rat, and then he took his seat.
Except one student was busy looking through her cell phone, at her calls, to see if she had one she missed. So far none. Finally, Mai looked up to see the quizzical gaze, that her friends gave her.
"What? Do I have something on my face?" She asked.
"Iie. It's nothing. But, that new student, Hayashi-san, has been staring at you since he walked in." Keiko said.
"He has?" Mai turned her head a bit, to look over at him, she of course, did hear his name, and etcetera, when he introduced himself, but was more shocked to see the kind of boy he was, that and the fact, he was indeed staring at her. They stared back at one another, neither backing down, his gaze didn't lighten, it just continued, staring dead straight at her. She gulped, and spun around to face forward.
The teacher began the class, and he followed along, just as Mai did.
Once it was time for lunch, Mai and her friends stood up going to go eat their lunch. He stepped over to them, blocking their path.
"Will you accompany me for some lunch?" He asked, bowing.
Mai's friends, who were behind her, stepped back a little, and watched as the new boy stood up straight, still watching Mai.
"Hayashi-san, right?" She replied shakily.
"Please call me, Nobuo."
"I'm Taniyama Mai." She said.
"Well, Mai-chan, will you have lunch with me?" He had completely ignored her friends.
"Actually, my friends and I were–" She spun around to see her friends had completely vacated the premises, but, the other students all stared at the two of them, some of the girls were glaring at her.
"Your friends?" Nobuo paused, "They ran out of the classroom the moment I asked you to eat lunch with me."
"You're kinda straightforward, aren't you?" She replied.
"Yeah." He laughed, and so did Mai.
"So, shall we?" He added, and offered her his arm. She blushed slightly, but nodded, and took it, as they walked out to the cafeteria.
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-September Day 1, After School-
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"Mai! Tea!"
"Huh?(!)"
"It's overflowing."
"Ahhhhhh!"
A few minutes after that whole ordeal, with the tea overflowing, Mai was on her hands and knees, cleaning up the mess.
"Mai, is something else on your mind?" Naru asked, looking up from the documents, and at her.
"No! Not really." Mai, said, and went on cleaning the mess, "Nothing really, at all…"
Naru raised an eyebrow, at the young girl's antics, and went back to the files. They found a hacker was trying to get into their program, so Lin took over his computer, and his entire office, to try and stop it. Which left the young Director, to sit on the couch, which had a full view of what Mai had been doing.
"Here's your tea." She finally brought it over and set it down in front of him, and held the tray to her chest, as she looked over his shoulder at the files.
Ah, it's another case? No, Naru wouldn't go for this kind of thing. He'll probably rule it out as some sort of a prank. But, you never know with him…
Instead of staring at the files. She instead began to stare at his head.
Why won't you ask me out on a date?(!) You'd instead take Masako's offer? Hmph.
Then she had a flashback to earlier that day, during school.
"Mai-chan, will you go with me to see a movie? And then some dinner after?" He asked, pausing in drinking his milk.
Mai stared up at him with a blank look, she was drinking her milk, "Like a date?"
"Yes."
She smiled, "You really are straight forward." she commented, then blushed, "I'd love to."
"Something wrong?" Naru was staring back at Mai, giving her the usual look, no emotions, nothing, zip.
Mai frowned, "Nope, nothing at all."
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-September Day 2, 7:00 pm-
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"Did you like the movie?" Nobuo asked, as they walked out of the movie theaters, she was holding onto his arm again.
Mai never went on many dates, except the two with Bou-san. The one when they were paired together, and the second one where he asked her out to the movies as well.
She looked up at him and nodded, "Yes. I really liked that movie. Thank you."
"No, I should thank you for coming with me." Nobuo said. This made Mai laugh.
"Ah…You have a nice laugh."
Mai blushed again, "No, I don't. It's a normal one, like everyone else's."
"But, I like your's the best." Nobuo said.
She blushed a darker red, because of this.
Later on they, went in to a restaurant, and was seated. They ordered, and continued talking as they ate. He picked up the check, the moment it came. He was a lot faster than Mai.
"Oh no, I wanted to pay."
"I can't let you do something like that." Nobuo said, putting the money down.
As the two walked out of the restaurant, it had gotten a bit colder, with the change of the temperature.
"Ne, Nobuo-kun, why did you ask me out on the first day?" Mai asked, looking up at her, starting to wonder if there was a hidden agenda.
"Hmm…I guess, I thought you were pretty interesting." He paused, as if thinking back, "I thought you were really cute, and different from everyone. So, my friends from my old school told me to find a nice girl, and date her, to find someone that'll make me happy. That I did, so I thought, why not go for it. She seems perfect."
Mai's blushed continued to darken. They had eventually come to her house, he put his hands on her shoulder, and started to lean down, she started to stand on her tip toes. Soon their lips were inches apart, but then her cellphone went off. Which made them jump apart from one another.
The girl sighed, and took her cell phone out, it read Shibuya Psychic Research. She gasped, and remembered that she turned off her cellphone when she went into the movie theaters, but turned it back on to check something, she saw there were about 20 missed messages, but her attention was on someone else. She answered the phone quickly.
"Moshi moshi, Mai desu!" She answered, and got someone yelling at her on the other line.
"She answer-" The person who was speaking, was Masako, but the phone was taken from her abruptly.
"MAI! GET HERE NOW!!" It was Ayako, after saying this she hung up, and Mai closed her cellphone.
"I'm sorry, I have to go now."
"Oh, you had a boyfriend, right?"
"NO! Of course not!" Mai said, startling Nobuo a bit. He grinned. "It's my boss."
"Oh! Alright. I'll see you at school." He said, she waved at him as she ran, then spun around and continued running.
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-September Day 2, 10 minutes later-
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"Mai?(!) Where were you?(!)" Ayako was pointing at her.
"I…I…um……" She continued to stutter.
"More importantly, why are you dressed so nicely? You didn't go out with yourself today, did you…"
"Bou-san! I didn't go by myself…I mean it's nothing important!" Mai was being grilled, by her two "parental" figures. She sat in her seat.
Masako, John, Lin, and even Naru were all secretly listening and watching the priestess and monk.
"That doesn't matter–Wait, were you on a date?" Ayako asked, turning to Mai and pointing at her.
"It doesn't matter!" Mai said.
Naru stood up and slammed his hands on the desk, then opened his mouth to speak. Everyone was staring at him.
"She's right you know. It doesn't really matter." A woman's voice reached their ears, and they all turned their attention to the door, instead.
Everyone looked from the woman to Naru.
She had a pair of dark sunglasses, that blocked her eyes. But her hair was shown, a light red color, and was pulled into a high pony tail, with some bangs that went low enough and covered over one of the lenses. She took them off, to show a young looking face, with green eyes. She was quite short, about a bit taller than Mai, and looked to be a high school girl, with a matured voice.
She stared at them, and they stared at her, her hair was moved aside, so it only covered the side of her eye.
"What?" She asked.
"Aren't you a little young?" Ayako and Bou-san both said, staring at her. This just angered her more.
"For your information! I am 24!" She finally snapped.
"Please, let me introduce her. This is–"
"Fujimori Akemi desu." The girl named Akemi bowed.
Naru stepped over to her, now glad that their attention went from his antics, to the new comer.
"She's our client."
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Chapter one end! I hope you all enjoyed that. I accept any kind of reviews, just don't bash me too much, I've taken a lot of damage to my head already. (PE sucks!!)
-Yoshiko