Ok...this is my first Ghost Hunt fanfic, so please be nice!!! Read and review!!
Disclaimer: Sadly I don't own any of these charactes or Ghost Hunt itself.
CHAPTER 1
"So what's the problem?" Takigawa asked, leaning forward in his chair.
Ayako, Takigawa, Mai and Naru were gathered in the main room of a large house, just down the road from Mai's school. It had been a busy month for the ghost hunters- and this case promised to be well-paid.
"There have been a number of incidents in the house since last November," the woman said. "Since my father died. My husband fell off a ladder and broke his collarbone. We thought it was just bad luck, but two weeks later, my brother fell off the roof and broke his skull. And four weeks ago, my mother died from falling down the stairs. Visitors to the house- postmen, delivery men- they've all been chased away by a violent wind, and roof tiles falling."
"All these accidents occured after your father's death?" Ayako asked. The woman nodded.
"Mrs Tejioka," Takigawa asked. "Was there anything that would have provoked your father into causing all these accidents after he died?"
"I can't think of anything," the woman said. "There are no feuds in the family, everyone got what they were left on his will."
Naru had remained silent throughout the meeting, but now he leaned forward and spoke. "Monk-san, call Masoko and John, we'll need them for this. Mai, page Lin, ask him to bring his camera and the equipment necessary. Ayako, we'll need you to perfom an exorcism later."
"So you are able to help?" said the woman, sounding relieved.
"We'll try," Takigawa said, winking at her and sauntering out, mobile in hand.
John arrived first, clutching a Bible and candles.
"What's the problem?" he asked.
"Violent spirit of some sort," Mai said. "Ayako's going to try exorcising it first."
John raised his eyebrows but said nothing. Ayako's exorcisms rarely had any effect whatsoever, unless they were around nature- which seemed to be in short supply around this house. It looked more like a morgue.
"Hey, John," Tekigawa said, leaning out from the main room. "Masoko's not here yet?"
"She should be in in a minute," John replied. "She was coming up the road when I got off the bus."
Sure enough, a minute later, the door opened and the tiny psychic came in, looking around her.
"Hey, Hana-san," the monk said. Masoko nodded towards him in reply.
"Do you feel anything, Masoko-san?" John asked quietly.
Masoko nodded, her eyes opened wide suddenly for dramatic effect. "There's a great disturbance here...only one spirit, and it's very angry."
"Angry about what, though?" Mai said, half to herself.
"Who knows," Ayako said, appearing beside Takigawa. "Naru's persuading the family to look at the will now, and Lin's questioning everyone."
"Lin?" Mai said. "When did he arrive?"
"About five minutes after you paged him," Takigawa said. "Through the back entrance."
They all paused for a moment to wonder at Lin's seemingly magical- and completely creepy- fast appearances everywhere.
"Oh, and the family have said we're to stay overnight if need be," Ayako said. "Although I wouldn't stick round here tomorrow for anything."
"Why not?" John asked.
"Have you seen the place?" Ayako asked with a patronising tone. "It looks like death itself.
"I wouldn't stick around here too long anyway," Bou-san said. "If the spirit's angry then it won't want people invading its territory."
"But maybe because we're not connected with the family?" Mai said hopefully.
"Visitors aren't spared," Ayako said. "We checked it up on the records. 21 people affected in total, including the family."
"And each injury grows steadily worse," Takigawa said. "From cuts to deaths."
"But the last person affected died," Mai said. "What could be worse than death?"
Silence filled the hallway as all eyes turned to Mai accusingly for daring to tempt fate.
"Well, I'll stay," Masoko said. "If Naru does. I'm not scared."
"It's not a question of being scared or not!" Mai snapped in a way most unusual for her. "It's a question of whether you want to live or not!"
Masoko's eyes narrowed, and she would have retorted had Lin not appeared silently from a doorway further down the hall. He nodded at them to follow him.
Naru was sitting in the room at the head of the table, studying documents carefully.
"This is the will?"
The woman nodded. "It is. Everything was done according to it."
Naru looked round the assembled family members. They all nodded.
"We all saw the will," a young man said. "We would have known if something hadn't been done fairly."
"I see," Naru replied. He leafed through the documents for a minute, before glancing at the clock. It was 6:00 pm. Mai noticed it- so Naru didn't want to be here overnight, either.
"Very well," Naru said. "Ayako, you will try to exorcise it first. Masoko, where is the spirit presence strongest?"
Masoko thought for a minute, looking around.
"Outside," she said, sounding surprised. "To the back of the house."
"The family graveyard," the woman said. "That's where we buried him."
Ayako nodded and swept out of the room. Takigawa grinned at the others.
"Lets see if it actually works this time..."