This is my first Ghost Hunt story so please don't flame. I haven't written anything for five months so I may be a little rusty. I just found the inspiration to post so here it is. Enjoy Fireflies! :)
(Rin's P.O.V.) Chapter 1
"Hey Rin! How was your day?" I heard my younger sister call to me when I opened the door.
"It was good but I can't stay long. I have work in a few minutes." I said, putting my backpack on the decorative bench beside the door. I heard a loud crashing sound as my younger sister appeared from the kitchen.
"What? You got another job?" she asked, her voice filled with disappointment.
"You know that rent is due next week. I need at least two jobs to make the rent payment, unless you want to go live in a foster home?" I said. My sister shook her head.
"No I don't but you don't need anymore jobs. You now have three." she pointed out. I sighed and I smiled at her, trying to convince her it didn't bother me. I didn't want to live this way but I also didn't want my sister and myself to go to a foster home. Our parents weren't here anymore, so I had to support my sister and myself.
Only one more year until I'm eighteen. Then I won't have to worry about someone finding out about a seventeen year old paying 83872.00 yen a month for rent, I thought.
"Don't worry about it. I'll find time to come home and time with you, Miku." I said, ruffling her hair. She smiled at me.
"Ok, but can you please hurry home? You're a workaholic and it's not healthy. Plus, the house is starting to get creepy with only one person here. I keep seeing shadows." Miku said.
"I'll smudge the house when I get back." I said as I grabbed my work uniform from the coat rack and I rushed out the door.
"You always say that." I heard Miku mumble before I closed the door.
"She is such a workaholic!" Miku complained to Mai Taniyama the next day at school.
"Why do you say that? How much work does she do?" Mai asked.
"She has three jobs. She practically lives for work." Miku said. Mai stared at her friend.
"Do your parents know about this?" she asked the younger girl. Miku shook her head.
"Our parents are dead." she said.
"Oh. I-I'm sorry. I didn't know." Mai said sympathetically. Miku smiled at her friend.
"It's ok, you didn't know." she said and the two girls started walking again.
"You know, you're sister sounds a lot like my boss. All he does is drink tea and go through files from cases we do." Mai said. Miku looked at her friend quizzically.
"Cases?" she asked.
"Yeah. We're ghost hunters. We accept cases that have to do with supernatural phenomena." Mai explained. Miku stopped dead in her tracks. She thought about all the creepy stuff that she had heard and seen at her house.
"Do you think that I could come in to your workplace later and talk with your boss? My house has been creepy lately and it sounds like someone's there when I'm alone in the house." Miku said. Her friend stopped and turned to her friend.
"Sure you can come in. But will your sister mind?" Mai asked as they started walking down the hall again.
"Nah. In fact, I think she'll be relieved." Miku said.
"You're late Mai." Kazuya Shibuya (a.k.a. Naru) stated from his office as Mai rushed in, breathing heavily.
"School just got out. Cut me some slack." Mai said breathlessly. Naru said nothing; instead he went back to looking at some papers he had in his hand. Mai headed toward the kitchenette to make Naru some tea.
"Oh a friend of mine might come in to talk to you later." Mai called.
"Is that so?" Naru asked, not bothering to look up.
"She says her house has a weird feeling to it and she feels like someone is in the house when she is alone." Mai explained as she brought in a tea tray with a cup of tea and biscuits on it.
"There's going to have to be more activity in the house than that if she wants us to investigate. I'm not going to waste time on a house that's not haunted and it turns out to only be the person's nerves on edge." Naru said.
"I see your point, but what if it is a haunting?" Mai asked, setting the tea tray down on Naru's desk.
"And if it isn't?" Naru asked, lifting up the tea cup and taking a sip. Mai sighed in defeat and returned to her office duties. Naru went back to looking at the paperwork. A few minutes later, a knock was heard at the door.
"Come in!" Mai called. The door slowly opened and a girl with black hair and sapphire blue eyes came in.
"Hey Miku!" Mai called, dropping some papers on Naru's desk and coming over to her friend.
"Hi. I hope I'm not coming at a bad time." the younger girl said, noticing the glare Naru was giving Mai.
"No you're fine. Miku, this is Kazuya Shibuya, my boss." Mai said, bringing her friend into Naru's office.
"Hi there. I'm Miku Ayumu." Miku said, sticking out her hand. Naru didn't move. Miku brought back her hand slowly, feeling as if she did something to bother the man in front of her.
"My assistant has informed me that you believe that you have a spirit haunting your household?" Naru asked, reaching into a drawer beside his desk and pulling out a blank form.
"Yes, I believe it to be the spirit of my younger brother, but it doesn't feel like his presence." Miku said.
"What do you mean by that?" Naru asked, though boredom tinted his polite tone.
"Well, I'll feel a child's presence but something about it doesn't seem right. Sometimes I'll hear strange tapping sounds and objects will move on their own. One time, I came home from school and everything was rearranged in the living room." Miku explained.
"I see. What other strange occurrences have you noticed?" Naru asked, writing all of the details on the form.
"Well, I'll see the shadow of another person in a certain room. The shadow is about this tall on the wall." Miku explained, putting her hand up next to her thigh to show how tall it was.
"That's about a child's height." Mai observed.
"Yes and I'll see two yellow eyes in the shadow. It doesn't seem right for a child's spirit but I don't exactly feel threatened by it. Our rabbit will act weird after every occurrence too. She'll push on her cage door like she wants to high-tail it out of there." Miku said.
"Who else has noticed this?" Naru asked.
"Well, my sister and I are the only ones who live in the house, but my sister never acknowledges it. She's either at work most of the time or sleeping. The only time she spends at our house is cooking and sleeping. She has three jobs" Miku said. Naru gave the girl in front of him a quizzical look, but decided he wouldn't pry. It was rude.
"But will you help us? I would greatly appreciate it if you would." Miku said. Naru thought for a moment. Mai crossed her fingers. She really wanted to help her friend.
"I will accept this one. I would really like to see this yellow-eyed shadow myself." Naru said finally. Mai let out a sigh of relief and smiled at her friend. Miku's eyes lit up.
"Oh thank you! Here's my address and contact information." she said, reaching into her uniform's jacket pocket and pulling out a small slip of paper. She handed it to Naru. He took the paper and looked at it.
"We will need three rooms in your household; two for sleeping areas and one for a base." Naru said after looking at the slip of paper.
"That won't be a problem with the rooms. But don't mind my sister if she's rude. She tends to be really tired and grumpy when she comes home. How many of you will be coming?" Miku asked.
"Seven, although four of them may not come until later." Mai said. Miku nodded in understanding.
"Thanks again for accepting this. You don't know how grateful I am." Miku said, turning towards the door.
"It's our pleasure. Since it's the weekend, we will be there at noon tomorrow." Mai said, leading her friend toward the door.
"That's perfect. See you tomorrow." Miku said and she walked out of the office. Mai turned her attention to her boss.
"So what do you think of that?" Mai said, her voice full of accomplishment. Her intuition had been right again. The situation had been worse than what her friend had told her earlier that day.
"Like I've said, I really would like to see that yellow-eyed shadow. Now I suggest you go home and start packing some clothes and other basic necessities. According to this address, they live twenty miles outside of Tokyo." Naru said, setting the slip of paper down on his desk.
"Woah, wait. Twenty miles? How does Miku get home? Surely she doesn't just walk?" Mai asked.
"There are taxi services that run out that far outside the city." Naru said, giving Mai a "you're so stupid" look. Mai glared at Naru, returning his stare with a "you're such a narcissist" look. Naru ended the staring contest and went back to his files. Mai stalked out of the office, going for her coat. After grabbing her coat, she was just about to leave when she heard a voice say, "Before you go, one more cup of tea would be nice."
So how did I do? Like I've said, I am a bit rusty with writing so please tell me if it's good or bad in a review. I'll try to stay consistent with this story so sorry if I don't update for long periods of time. Send a shout-out if I do that. :)