Ghost Hunt: My Continuation
Disclaimer: As completely sad as it is, I don't own Ghost Hunt. I want to read the novel so bad!
File 1: Revenge after Death (This would actually be something like File 8 but since it's my chapters it is just going to start with 1)
I'm Taniyama Mai, a first year high school student. My part-time job is a bit unusual. The guy I work for is Shibuya Kazuya, a ghost hunter. A few days ago a man by the name of Morishita Kurogane asked for an investigation. He owned a small temple that was said to be the resting place of an evil war lord.
Flashback
"The temple is always a favorite tourist spot. Many people come daily to sight see, pray, get their fortunes, and for the average troublemaker attempt to free the spirit of the war lord, from the feudal era, of his seal." The client, Morishita Kurogane informed Naru. "The seal is a simple Shinto binding spell, and has been in place for many years. But, recently strange things have been happening around the temple, and to the visitors."
There was a slight pause here, in which Naru raised an eyebrow. "What type of strange things?" he said to encourage the client to continue.
Morishita-san sighed before continuing, "Many odd, and unusual things have happened. Children have been found unconscious in the woods surrounding the shrine, only one of these children have woken up, the rest are still in a comma. What's more we have women who have gone missing and come back without a memory of ever getting lost. Usually they come back with bruises, and cuts all over them, and again they state that they just appeared there. The family members of these people of course were in a terrible temper, and I got blamed, and accused of many violent and shameful acts." Here he paused again with his hands clenched into fists, and a face full of painful emotion.
Mai looked at Naru worried. As she knew very well by now, he only took on cases that interested him. She felt sympathy for the poor man and hoped the Naru would take the case and help him.
"So," Naru started, Mai's face lit up as Naru began to speak, "you want us to solve this case to clear your name? Am I right?" Mai's face fell. Naru still sat in his black leather armchair in the process of glaring the person into insignificance.
The client immediately took on the defensive but with a hint of offense. "Please don't take my request that way. That isn't how I meant it to come across, please, I beg of you, accept my request." After his pleading Morishita-san bowed his head down to his knees.
Needless to say Naru accepted, not completely unwilling, but definitely with suspicion of the client's intentions.
Now, Mai sat alone in the "base", one of the empty rooms that were part of the temple, waiting for orders from Naru. Earlier they'd set up their equipment, but their associates who weren't part of Shibuya Psychic Research (aka. SPR). This was the host of Mai's part-time job, run by seventeen year-old Shibuya Kazuya. Their associates consisted of Matsuzaki Ayako, a self-styled Shinto priestess, Houshou Takigawa, a Buddhist monk, John Brown, a Catholic priest/exorcist from Australia, Hara Masako, a spirit medium with her own television show, and Yasuhara Osamu, an extra brain for gathering data. None of them would show up until tomorrow, so all there was to do, for her anyway was to sit and watch the monitors. Naru and Lin, Naru's assistant, had gone to check out certain spots around the area where these occurrences happened the most. Once they'd thoroughly searched the temple grounds they'd planned to speak with some of the women who had disappeared. They also planned to talk with the child, but for that Naru insisted that Mai be present, and that they wait until the next day. Mai couldn't understand Naru's reasoning for this but then again, she rarely ever could.
She began to think about how strange it was to stay in the temple with only Lin-san, and Naru without Masako, or Ayako. As she furthered her thoughts she began to blush, she couldn't believe that she was thinking of such things. She slapped her cheeks twice lightly to disperse the blush before Naru, Lin, or the client walked in, and saw her. She sighed afterwards, no one had come in, and she still sat doing nothing but staring at the blank monitors. She rested her head on her arms which she had folded on the table, and closed her eyes.
She was now walking along a pathway that led up to the temple. It was a little misty out, and because of the weather the temple grounds were void of visitors. Mai looked around a little confused but soon enough determined that this was simply a dream. This deduction was proven correct when Naru came out of the mist and walked toward her. "Naru, what's going on?" she asked slowly. Naru remained silent as her usually he did in her dreams. Apparantly she wasn't going to get to hear his voice this time.
Naru pointed behind him, where Mai could now distinctly hear voices. She nodded at him and moved forward. She found herself entering some of the forest that surrounded the temple. As she got closer she could tell that the voices were those of children. She began to walk faster, and found herself in front of a small boulder with a rope decorated with white paper spiraling at intervals along the rope, tied around the boulder. There was a small sign of to the side that declared; Fujioka Shun, warrior of our great feudal lord, let him rest in peace. Mai heard laughter coming from the other side of the grave. She walked around to the other side where she saw two little kids carving some characters into the base of the boulder. They giggled together as Mai walked to a position where she'd be behind the kids. There was one girl and one boy, the boy had been the one carving into the rock while the girl sat next to him and suggesting to him on what to draw next. It was a cute carving of the two holding hands and playing together, Mai smiled as she saw it. Then a chill set around the grave. Mai's eyes widened as a dark aura began to rise off of the boulder. She tried to warn the kids but before any sound could escape her lips a sudden roar followed by a mini-earthquake threw the kids backwards. Mai put her arms up in front of her to protect herself from the blast. Once it was over she looked around to find that the little girl had been thrown against one of the thick tree trunks and was knocked unconscious. Some of the stones that had surrounded the grave had been thrown along with the kids and one sat on the girl's stomach. Mai's eyes widened as she saw the blood coming from the corner of the girls mouth and the stain that had appeared behind the girl's head at the base of the tree. She looked around frantically for the little boy but found that he was fine and on his feet. She let out a sigh of relief that the boy was okay, until she saw the agony in his eyes. He was angry and sad for his friend's death. He hadn't realized that they'd been doodling on an important rock, let alone the grave of a powerful warrior. He didn't know that they had been punished for degrading his grave, and he didn't care. Mai began to run to the boy she let out a small, "No, stop!" But just when she was about to reach him, Naru appeared with his hand on her shoulder.
Mai wanted to listen to him, but she couldn't stand there and let the boy die. The small boy had picked up a tree branch that had fallen after the earthquake and began to charge at the rock. What could he possibly do with a tree branch that will help?, Mai asked herself. She wanted to look away but she was glued to the boys actions. He hit the grave with all of his anger and strength but instead of making a hit, like he'd hopped, the branch was forced back at him striking him on the back of the neck which forced his head forward making him hit his head, hard, on the boulder. Just as the boy hit his head and Mai saw his life leave him, she woke up.
A/N: Well that's it for this chapter. I tried to make it a lot like the episodes. I kind of wanted this fanfic to be almost a continuation of the anime. So all of the characters are going to be as close as they can to their original selves, and the format for my chapters will be the same as in the anime, File 1, File 2, etc. I hope you all liked this chapter, and I'll be waiting for your reviews! Thanks a bunch! Please comment, I would like to hear your thoughts, or ways that I could improve on the characters or on the case. I will add in some NaruXMai moments once the story gets rolling. Plus, as you probably noticed, I haven't read the novel, but I know that it's really Gene in her dreams, but as I said I really want this to be like a continuation of the anime. So if that bothers you than please bare with me. Thank you! See ya next time!
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