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Disclaimer I don't own Ghost Hunt. If I did I would have done the live action already, or a freaking movie or even better the second season of the anime. A drama CD or whatever to collect xD
"Rival?"
"That Masako Hara that's on Tv?"
Both Michiru and Keiko kept bothering her with questions.
"You know her?"
"Yeah... The psychic medium on that popular show... She's about our age. She's also really pretty..."
"Mmm I guess so, she really looks like a Japanese doll" Mai commented but then she noticed the depressed look on her friend's faces. "Hey, didn't I say it already... Give up on Naru-chan. He's not as nice as he looks, he's a liar, and he's a poison-tongued narcissist to boot."
"But he's handsome!"
Mai couldn't help but think it was a lost cause, she was really getting tired and no matter what she said, they will still think the same.
Somehow she turned around and met Kuroda's stare, she appeared to want to say something but chose to turn around and leave.
Well it was wierd, but Mai preferred to focus on how to escape her friends, after all it will be troublesome to be followed.
She succeed when they began to argue and was glad to find the weather was great, like yesterday. A raining day will be scary to say the least since she had to work the night shift.. the strange thing was that she wasn't scared at all and she couldn't decide if that was good or not.
She opened the door of the base and came to find Kuroda-san alone near the equipment, no sign of Naru being near.
"...What are you doing?" Mai asked.
"Nothing. I'm just looking around. Shibuya-san doesn't seem to be here." Kuroda-san touched the equipment beside her.
"It's best if you don't touch anything. Naru-chan will get angry."
She ignored Mai and instead began to ask about yesterday's incidents, when she heard about Masako she instantly replied with a claim that she was an imposter..
Mai inwardly disagreed with her, but then she thought 'Maybe Kuroda-san is the only one who can feel it? '
Just when she thought it Kuroda gazed intensely into her eyes. "I... Was just attacked."
Eh?!
"When I was walking in the corridor, a force suddenly started pulling my hair. I wanted to run, but then it grabbed my neck..." She continued to insist adding more unusual comments to support her, "I even heard a voice telling me, 'Your psychic power is too strong. You're in the way.'."
Mai couldn't say anything, the air just felt to heavy and she couldn't help but wonder, how could she know if this was a lie? She was no good for judging since she had never been inside a hunted place... She knew nothing. Her knowledge was limited. In fact- she was interrupted from the thought process.
"What's the matter?" Naru asked, he was at the door...
After he heard Kuroda-san talk about her story, Naru was silent and thought about if for a while. "When did that happen?"
"Just now. At first I was scared and wanted to go back out, but then I saw all this equipment, and I gave it a second thought. I just got here"
After being told the exact time and place he rewinded the video. A static feedback appeared on that specific time, followed by a white screen. Then the screen turned all black.
Naru contemplated his ideas, then quickly turned to face Kuroda-san. "Kuroda-san, you said you heard a sound. What kind of sound was it?"
"It was an unclear sound, but it sounded like a little girl's voice."
"Really..."
Mai couldn't help but lean her head to the right, "is there really a spirit here?"
Naru turned to her, a small smirk on his lips.
"Normally... Female mediums have different wavelengths. Maybe her wavelength is the same as that of the ghost. If the old school building does have a ghost, then that ghost might have the same wavelength as Kuroda-san."
Kuroda nodded with satisfaction, a small laugh escaping her. "Perhaps" was all she said because suddenly everyone else plus the director and an old teacher entered the base. Ayako was in front dressed in her priestess garments. Her exorcism was about to start.
With her awful personality she ordered John to help her set the altar. Everyone made their comments, they had doubts but they turned to watch.
She clapped her hands, waving a stick with white slips of paper attached. "I invite you to cautiously come down onto the earth, white light enshrining the spirit...
"I have no idea to what on Earth she is saying" Mai whispered
Naru made an annoyed like face. "You're Japanese yet you don't know what a Norito is?"
"Norito?"
"A Shinto prayer"
Mai nodded, now she knew what it was but didn't understand the monotonous and repeated sentences the Miko said, she tried to stay awake but she ended up falling asleep like Bou-san.
...
"Now there should be nothing to worry about. Our work here is finished." Ayako laughed while she talked to the principal after the ceremony.
The principal was really happy, so much that he invited everyone for lunch even when Ayako told him that there was a need to check everything after the exorcism.
Mai instantly stood up, a sudden chill running up her back, Naru simply raised an eyebrow to her behavior
*Creak*
It was then that a loud sound came from the ceiling, quickly followed by a sound of something breaking.
And at the same time, the light bulb on the door shattered, along with the windows.
*Bang*
White smoke rushed out. Right afterwards, window glass shards shot towards the principal. It was a total disaster. Kuroda snickered while the principal made his angry retords. Masako claimed it was and accident and that there were no spirits..
A total mess, Mai on the other hand narrowed her eyes to kuroda, she was sure now that she had something to do with this building, her hand tried to reach her but was stopped mid air... What could she do? Mai bit her lip wishing to be a psychic in order to be able to find out what was going on and solve it.
Turning around she looked into the screens. She noticed something strange on the second floor on the west side, the equipment she set there had a chair right in front of it.
"Naru-chan," she interrupted Naru's conversation with Bou-san.
"What's wrong?"
Just when he got closer, she pointed at the TV screen. "There's a chair in the middle of the room. It wasn't there yesterday. There were no chairs in that area."
Naru raised his eyebrows, then asked the psychics behind him, "Did anyone go to the classroom on the west side?"
They all looked at each other before answering, "No we didn't...?
While everyone was watching, Naru rewinded the recording. He replayed the video. The recording was when the glass windows broke. The camcorder in the classroom on the west side, showed how the chair moved. Apparently no one touched the chair. It was in front of the blackboard, when it suddenly started moving little by little, until it reached the middle of the room.
"Is it a poltergeist?" Kuroda asked
"Poltergeist?" Mai asked, unsure of what that was.
"It means 'noisy spirit.' Like when an object moves or a sound is produced. —Right, Shibuya-san?"
"Right. You seem to have a clear understanding of this. But I don't think this is a poltergeist"
"Why is that?" Kuroda narrowed her eyes
"According to the thermography, that chair's temperature did not rise. This kind of thing never happens. Since objects moved by poltergeists are usually warm."
Kuroda was dumbstruck.
."Aren't there other conditions that would categorize this as a poltergeist? I think this is a poltergeist." John asked, lightly scratching his face
Naru- smiled slightly. "Tisane."
"Huh"?" Mai couldn't stop herself from reacting, she took a look at everyone else and they all seem to have the same expression with the exception of the great Masako Hara. Even Bou-san looked clueless.
"And you all call yourselves psychic, how shameful" the medium commented hiding her mouth with her kimono sleeve.
Naru sighed 'was he disappointed?' "Of course, Hara-san would know, a French officer, who classified poltergeists."
He crossed his arms while he continued to explain "There are nine categories in total. Explosions, opening and closing of doors, noises, knocking... Out of the nine conditions, three occurred here: a door closing by itself, a moving object, and a shattered window. But we lack evidence to qualify this as a poltergeist haunting."
It was a slip of Mai's tongue but she asked about Kuroda's incident and the person herself ended explaining it again for everyone else to hear about it. In that moment Naru carefully re-examined the TV that didn't record the incident.
It was just a moment but Mai catched him glaring daggers at her while Kuroda proudly shared her story.
...
It was then that Bou-san asked Masako's input for that event.
"...There are no ghosts in the old school building," Masako calmly repeated before walking out of the classroom.
John looked at Masako's figure as she left. "It seems like she got quite a blow there."
"Of course," Naru replied, "psychics can see things that normal people can't. If you mess up, then you can't be considered a psychic anymore."
A small discussion began after that, claiming that Naru just go for pretty faces. Mai was surprised to say the least when she heard that, she had thought about it, but didn't say it out loud.
The discussion turned to the worst when something about treating them with respect was brought and the Monk and the Miko began to fight.
Mai was trying her best to remain calm but something was bothering her. Her gut to be precise. She turned to look at the roof and unconsciously got closer to Naru.
He noticed but was annoyed by the rest so he paid no mind.
The sound of wood breaking silenced the heated argument from the Monk and the Miko
Then a loud knocking sound came from the ceiling.
Bou-san looked at the surroundings, "A rapping sound?"
Just like before when the window broke, a chill ran down Mai's back. 'No way... That can't happen to Masako Hara right?'
*Crack... Thump...* The sounds were coming from the west side of the ceiling.
Adrenaline ran through her, she was about to run off when Naru grabbed her arm.
"Where do-" she interrupted him
"Let go, she's in trouble"
"What?"
*Crash*
Along with the faint cracking sounds, a loud, splitting sound shot through the air from the west side. Followed by a piercing scream.
The room was completely silent again.
Suddenly, John shouted, "Hara-san!" And Mai slumped to the ground, hiding her face in denial
Out of nowhere, John rushed towards Naru's TV screen. "Hara-san fell from the second floor!"
Naru let go of Mai's arm and turned to look at her with an unreadable expression
So freaking long! But I don't really want to rush this, if possible I would like to jump towards the doll house and blood stained arc but no, I need this.
See the slight changes?
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