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The next day Mai was actually up on time for class. She gathered her books and wandered off to Naru's classroom. On her way down the hall she was cut off by perfect blonde hair and a bad attitude. Mai tried to duck away from the pretty blonde but was then headed off by one of her friends.
"Carrie, please don't do this. I want to be friends." Mai said as politely as possible to avoid any negative communication. Carrie flipped her hair in a curtain over her shoulder.
"Listen I don't like you. And for some bizarre reason Professor Davis lets you in rather than me. So you continue to be his little teacher's pet and I'll work my way into his life as your best friend." Carrie explained while examining her well manicured nails. Mai thought of how to handle this situation, she knew Naru didn't like Carrie Finely, but did he really treat Mai that differently than all of the others?
"I don't think that will work, if Naru doesn't like someone right away you can't really expect him to change his mind." Mai rambled,Carrie narrowed her icy eyes at the smaller Japanese girl and enunciated every syllable.
"He Will Be Mine." She said as she spun on her wedge heel and sashayed off to the classroom. Mai sighed and leaned against the wall.
"Why do all of the pretty girls hate me?" She whispered to herself thinking about when she first met Masako, and how the pretty medium had hated her for the same reason Carrie did.
Mai heard Naru close his book from in the classroom, it echoed through the hallways and she squeaked before scurrying into the room earning a few looks from students and a glare from Naru.
She sat in her seat and proceeded to take notes for the class, about three quarters into the lesson the door burst open and in strode a tall man in a long black coat and a green scarf flowing dramatically behind him. Mai glanced at Naru trying to gauge what kind of person this man was based on her teacher's facial expression.
Naru rolled his eyes and Mai smiled, that reaction was the same one he gave Kiwi and Yasu and Monk whenever they did something funny. She was going to like this man. He descended the stairs gracefully with a hop over the bottom step to add a little flair. He swirled over to Naru and leaned against the chalkboard behind him.
Naru narrowed his eyes and continued with the lesson, he asked questions in attempt to engage his audience who was staring and whispering about the man who had waltzed into Professor Davis' class without comment. When the bell rang, Naru gave Mai a look that she knew meant come see me. She gathered up her books and made her way to the front of the class where Naru and Lin were taking (Or in Lin's case listening) about the case they had taken before hand that had nothing to do with the paranormal at all.
Mai smiled at them as she walked up to them. Lin acknowledged her with a nod and the man smiled politely but Naru made no effort. Mai frowned and waited patiently to be told what the matter was and why her teacher wanted to see her.
A few moments later the door opened a second time and Kiwi followed by Greenly walked in. Greenly looked like she did not want to be there as she stomped down the stairs causing her dark hair to bounce up a little with every step.
Mai smiled at the writing on Kiwi's shirt, it was black with a picture of two Pokemon trainers head to head with a caption that read, When the two smartest kids in class get into a fight.
Once they were all there introductions were given. "Hello, I am Curio, I am Your wonderful professor Davis' uncle and I look after the SPR here in this wonderful little town." He said smoothly, he flipped his head slightly to flick his sandy brown hair out of his coffee brown eyes. Laugh lines were barely visible on his face and he said wonderful every few sentences.
"Yes uncle we all know who you are, please continue with your reasons fro distracting my class." Naru snapped from beside Curio. Curio smirked at his nephew's response and continued with his explanation.
"You see I am really just one of the many people who run SPR, I mainly however look after the wonderful people who possess certain abilities." He said glancing at Mai when he said that. Mai saw in her peripheral vision that Naru had moved closer to her and glared consistently at his uncle who remained oblivious.
"That's great and all but why am I here? I don't even take this class," Greenly said folding her arms over her mint green tank top. Kiwi elbowed her in the ribs trying his best to remain inconspicuous. She narrowed her eyes at him fiercely.
"Because Miss Sparks, as I'm sure you know everyone in this room other than Lin, has a physic ability of some sort." Naru said in his same voice he used when calling Mai a dummy or idiot. Curio seemed lost in thought for a moment before twirling around so he faced the blackboard and grabbed a piece of chalk to illustrate each person's ability.
Mai watched with amusement as the man drew stick people that were meant to represent each person. She laughed when he drew Naru with a frown rather than a smile. Naru narrowed his eyes.
"Everyone has some sort of power that I find invaluable to my program. Oliver has his psychokinesis and Miss Taniyama has precognitive and post cognitive dreams as well as being a wonderful spirit medium, Mr. Delain had telepathy and Miss sparks is pyrokinetic." Curio finished drawing a little ball of fire around the stick figure labeled Greenly. He turned back to the group of people in front of him and saw that Greenly and Kiwi were in utter shock he knew about their abilities.
"How did-Have you been spying on me?" Greenly choked trying to regain some kind composure. Kiwi meanwhile had a glazed look in his eyes and he stared emptily through the walls.
"Well, then uncle I think you've given them enough of a shock for one day. Perhaps you should leave." Naru narrowed his eyes. Curio once again ignored the younger man's look and continued with his proposal not caring weather or not the kids were listening.
"So if any of you think you would like to join my program, do let me know it would be just wonderful to have such bright gifted people on my team." Curio said as Naru practically pushed him out of the room.
Naru returned to his dumbstruck students and debated how to handle the situation. He could simply leave them all there staring at each other like idiots or he could attempt to help them get over the shock of having their secret revealed. He put a hand to his forehead as he decided on the latter.
"Mr. Delain, stop staring at that wall, you were well aware of your abilities so it shouldn't be this shocking for you to hear it spoken out loud." Naru snapped facing Kiwi with an annoyed look in his eye. When Kiwi did nothing he stepped closer and waved a hand in front of the boy's eyes. Kiwi did nothing.
"Kiwi? Are you alright?" Mai asked stepping forward so she was beside Naru. She was distracted by the sweet smell of his shirt, the sleeves were dangling centimeters away from her cheek.
"Miss Sparks. Snap out of it both of you." Naru ordered receiving once again no response. This time he grabbed Kiwi's shoulders and shook them. Suddenly Kiwi snapped out of it and blinked at his teacher who had since stopped shaking his shoulders.
"Professor Davis? I didn't know you cared so much for me. I'm so very sorry but I'm taken." Kiwi teased putting his hand over his heart jokingly. Mai smiled and Naru ignored him while he grabbed Greenly's shoulders and shook her out of her trance as well.
She didn't say anything though, she just quietly left the classroom. Kiwi made to follow her but Mai grabbed his wrist keeping him with her.
"She needs some time." Mai said simply. They stood in the room a few more minutes asking each other questions about the others ability.
Naru eavesdropped for awhile but then Mai started letting on about how she had a spirit guide and he looked just like Naru. Naru then decided he had had enough of them and shooed them away from his classroom.
Once they were gone he slumped in his desk chair and placed his head in his hands. Loin noticed his friend's distress and handed him a cup of tea that Mai had made earlier. Naru accepted it and sipped the cooling liquid slowly.
"You know he's not as bad as you make him out to be." Lin said collecting the incredible amount of papers he was going to help Noll mark. Naru looked up at his friend.
"I know. He didn't have to use that stupid trick on my students though. They should have a choice, not be forced into his program that wasn't even approved by my father." Naru muttered draining his teacup and setting it on his desk before gathering up a pile of paper that was a fair bit larger than Lin's.
"Have you decided on a case to make up for the last one?" Lin asked as they walked side by side from the room. Naru shut off the lights and closed the door behind him. He had an unexpected experience once when he left the door open and several of his female students had destroyed the place and filled it with letters that had rather frightening content.
He and Lin walked down the empty hall until Naru answered the man's question. "Yes, we will take the case Mr. Kasper offered us." he said approaching his private quarters, Lin turned away and went to his own room.
Naru thought about the case in his head, it was risky and not quite certain an actual ghost was causing the disturbances at the hotel. There was one problem with the hotel's rules, only couples were allowed to stay there.
So that chapter maybe wasn't as good as it could've been. Anyway the next case should be funny, I'm also not sure if Mai's dreams are Postcognitive or Precognitive. I'm not even sure if that makes sense there but I wanted to make Curio sound like he knew what he was doing. And since I'm still just a kid and have to deal with school and all that, I don't really have any desire to look it up so yeah.
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