Hi! Picking up where we left off. Hope you enjoy, and please review not only this story, but my other ones as well. I have desided to except flames, but I'll still be practicing with them, only now it will be in a controlled lab invroment.
'Masako' advanced on the group slowly. Her eyes, burning with the fires of hell, leveled on Naru.

"YOU!! Did you honestly think that you could just go on with your life, and leave me here!" Masako shrieked, raising the shard above her head and bringing it down aimed straight at Naru's head.

THUNK!

Masako crumpled in a heap on the floor. Yuki stood behind the unconscious girl, the book she had been reading raised to hit 'Masako' again, if need be.

"Did you have to hit her?" Naru questioned.

"Yup! If you hesitate, you might lose your head in this job. Besides, she'll only be out for about twenty minutes, I wasn't positive that I'd hit the nerve so I raised the book as a precautionary measure. It is my suggestion that we either tie her up, or put a immobilizing spell on her." It was incredible how cheerful Yuki could be.

"What about an Exorcism?" John asked.

"Well, we could do that, but I think the only thing that would happen then is that the spirit would go to some one else, and that may be more dangerous than leaving her possessed."

"I agree. All the other women here, with the possible exception of Taniyama-san and Yuki-san, have much better fighting skills than Hara-san. If you will give me a minute, I'll prepare for the immobilization spell." Lin spoke up, startling a few people.

"Mai is a better fighter than I am, but I can hold my own rather well."

"I thought as much. Otherwise, the conversation the two of you were having yesterday in Chinese wouldn't make much sense." Lin had to resist the urge to chuckle at the reactions of the two girls. Yuki started to whistle; while Mai stared at her feet like her white sandals were the most fascinating thing on the face of the planet. Mai looked up at him and glared.

"Repeat a word of that to anyone, in any language, and I'll grind you into dust. Got it?" Taniyama's words were punctuated by her trying to stomp on Lin-san's foot.

"Mai. Please don't hurt anyone. Last time you stepped on some one's foot it was you cousin and his toe swelled up to twice it's original size."

"Eheheheh." Mai scratched the side of her head as an embarrassed gesture. Lin suppressed his natural urge to chuckle at the antic of the two girls as he placed Masako in a spell -induced sleep.


Later…

"Okay, according to the files that Yasuhara-san brought, the house was built in Meji 5, that would be approximately 1872. The owners were a Tanaka Hideki and his wife, Tanaka Hoshiko. They had a daughter named Tanaka Kaede. Kaede-shi married a man named Motomi Kazuya and became Motomi Kaede. Three years into their marriage, Kaede had a miscarriage and it tore their unstable relationship to shreds. Kaede-shi became, slightly erratic, to say the least. One moment she would cling to Kazuya, the next moment she'd burst into tears and throw things at him. As for Kazuya-shi, with his wife's unpredictable behavior, he began to loath being near her. He would make-up excuses to leave his wife for three and four weeks at a time. Eventually, in his travels, he found comfort in a woman addressed in these papers only as "Himiko". Kazuya wanted to have a child, not with his wife, but with Himiko. So, he told his wife that he was leaving her and never coming back. She got clingy and emotional. The two of them argued, and the neighbors called for the police, however, when the police got there, Kazuya had already left, and Kaede was no where to be found. A few weeks later, the police came by the house and heard a scream. The broke down the door and found the back down swinging on it's hinges and Kaede lying on the floor in a pool of her own blood. Her body was riddled with cuts. Kazuya was found in Kyoto only two days later, on a business trip for the company he worked for. When told about his wife's death, he seemed very upset and mourned his wife for about three months. After that, he married Himiko and they had three children, two boys and one girl. The boys were named Osamu and Kyo, respectively. The girl was named Chika. When Chika was sixteen, she suddenly started acting much the same way Kaede had the last few years of her life. Eventually, she killed her father, mother, and her brother Osamu. Then she and her brother, Kyo ran off. Chika changed her name, married her brother, and they had six children. Chika apparently changed back to her normal self after she killed the members of her family that were home. Kyo came home and she told him that a gang had done it and that she had hid in the basement. It wasn't Since then, the house has had numerous problems with men who left their wives for other women dying, men with similar looks to Kazuya-shi being shot, women who have had relationships with married men being strangled, and the children of these women and the married men being stabbed. They are always killed by sixteen-year-old girls. Kaede was sixteen when she married Kazuya. Seeing any pattern here?" Yuki looked up from the file that Yasuhara-san had brought her. "The only thing I see missing is the jerk or witch that's cheating."

"I see your point. There is a pattern and it's strange that the pattern was broken. I wonder what happened." Naru took the file from Yuki as she handed it to him.

"I don't know. What I do know is that in two days, our clients daughter, Sora, will turn in sixteen in two days. You look a little bit like one Motomi Kazuya and you have the same name. My guess is, as I said, every one that looks like Motomi Kazuya dies. I think that maybe, because everyone that's lived in this house has complained about a poltergeist, I think that the spirit of Kaede-shi has picked you as her next target. Mai, what type of spirit is possessing her, do you know?"

"Female, mid-to-late twenties. She's not the only spirit in this house though. Since Hara-san was possessed, the spirits have gotten easier to sense. I suggest we keep our guard up." Mai looked at Yuki from the computer screen.

"I thought so. Kaede-shi was twenty- five, almost twenty-six when she died. I may or may not be right, but at the moment, I think this is all we have to go by."


Sorry it stops at such a horrible place. I'm sure you'll forgive me! Right? (Nervous laugh) Okay then. BYE!!!