"I can't believe you made me watch all of the harry potter Movies, Kuro-san" Mai stomped onto the ground, Kuro just sniggered as she was amused at Mai's small overactive reactions, " Ah but you enjoyed it though didn't you, I know I did, it could have been a lot worse we could have had a marathon with Paranormal activity"
Mai playfully glared at Kuros direction clearly a little annoyed that she was forced to watch harry potter " You know that's... urgh whats the word for it " Kuro decided to help her out "The word is Blackmail dummy"
"urgh, why you so mean to me" Mai pouted her body was slumped showing she was sulking, causing Kuro to just giggle at her 'pain' " because you are adorable that's why" Kuro gently says this with a soft small smile.
Mai blushes abruptly at her friends teasing, Kuro feeling a little bad sighed before affirming " Okay I'll make it up to you what do you want to do?" Kuro gave her a glance as Mai's face lit up like a sun.
that's when that smile became more like a grin, a stupid grin Mai jumped up and says "Let's go shopping? for clothes" Kuro raises her eyebrow showing she was confused slightly " Shopping for clothes? Why?" Kuro inquiries softly.
"So I can dress you up in really girly clothes, I've always wanted to go shopping with you, and since you blackmailed me you owe me so I get to choose your clothing today" Mai happily states this, Kuro sweatdrops and begins to think that it was a bad idea.
Mai face, however, goes to a happy one to a depressed one, Kuro eyes peer at her wondering why she changed moods so quickly "What's wrong?" Mai's cheeks puff up in shame " I don't have any money..." she then sighs causing Kuro to do the same.
"Jeez, Mai-chan that's all? You're upset because you can't buy any clothes for me? I know about your problem with money and about your family... I am okay with paying, you know you can rely on me sometimes."
Mai faces shifts only slightly "But I want to be independent, I need to do this myself..." Kuro gave her a small look of concern, she pats Mai's head " You have been too independent Mai-chan, Let me help for today okay?" Mai sighed and nodded.
(Time skip- In a clothing store/makeup store)
"Are you sure we should go here? it's really expensive here" Mai questions worriedly, Kuro shrugged her shoulders, as she really didn't care, She wanted to get Mai some new stuff as she really didn't have much.
Mai looks around the shop, it was more like a massive heaven full of clothes, Makeup and accessories Mai was purply awestruck as she never saw a shop like this, it seemed, however, that there were a lot of snobby people here who had tons of money to spare.
Kuro spoke for the first time in a while asserting "So what the first on the agenda?" Mai looks at Kuro, thoughtful as she was thinking what to put Kuro in and what suited her, then again anything suits Kuro as she had an hourglass body curvey and quite thin but not to thin.
Kuro has pale skin which is unnatural in some ways but her eyes go well with it as does her long black hair that was extremely long, she should put her hair up more often but she always hesitates, Maybe she thinks that it doesn't suit her but, of course, it does, Thinks Mai
"A skirt! first, we need to find you a nice skirt to wear!" Mai excitedly shouts prompting Kuro eyes to wince at her friend's booming voice, Mai grabs her friends hand and drags her to a section of the shop that was full of beautifully designed skirts
Kuro and Mai were shopping for a couple hours finally gathering all the clothes they both wanted now at the till of the shop with tons of clothing shoes and several accessories, The lady at the till had a surprised expression because of the amount set on the table.
waiting for a while the lady says " That would be 4,328,340.53 Yen" Mai gasped at how much it was but Kuro didn't hesitate to grab her credit card and begin paying it all after everything paid.
Kuro and Mai grabbed all the bags and started to head out but Mai paused " Hey Kuro-san why don't you put your clothes on now that I picked out for you, since you will be wearing it all day today?"
Kuro sighs at this wishing Mai didn't Buy such girly clothing but she owed Mai this so she nodded.
(time skip- Again)
Kuro and Mai were walking to the school building, they were surprised to see Naru in the back of the van sleeping, Kuro blushed slightly at the sight but covered it up, Mai's mouth opens up " Naru? get up you will catch a cold out here" Naru opens his eyes " ngh Mai?
"What are you doing here this early in the morning?" He asked Mai not noticing that Kuro was behind her, watching him closely, Mai looked at him in disbelief and replied "M-Morning? It's already past 11 A.M." His hand was behind his back.
Naru just sat their, that when he hears Kuro's feminine but has a tinge of roughness a gravelly kind " I am here too Kazuya, glad to see you too" Naru eyes strain to see Kuro and once he did he was shocked.
Kuro looked completely different, very girly but looked aboustly stunning, Kurobara currently had her hair up in a sided bride her the two braids connect making a bun at the bottom of her head, only a part of the hair was out, which was at both sides of her head framing the face beautifully.
her neck was shown, one side had bandages/plasters plastered on her skin, her shoulders were out as well due to her top, it was a Light blue and white striped top, it looked silky to the touch, it had Bow at the top of the neckline which is contrasted with the alluring cut out detailing at the shoulders.
it went well with the flowing skirt she was wearing, it was a flowing pink lace skirt at the top was a black elasticated waistband, the skirts weren't too short nor too long just above her knees which was covered by black stockings.
Naru eyes couldn't help but to drift, Kuro seemed taller much taller due to a rose gold high heels she was wearing it seemed rather uncomfortable his eyes drift back to her face, she was wearing a necklace with gold and pink flowers engraved onto it, as she did also have gold bluebells? dangling from her ears.
Naru couldn't help to think she looked very beautiful in what she was wearing but he couldn't help but wonder why she was wearing it in the first place " Why are you wearing that?" he demanded.
Kuro chuckles not saying anything as Mai was the one to answer " Ah well, Kuro owed me and I thought it would be fun to dress Kuro in something girly, Ne Naru don't you think she looks stunning?"
Kuro had a faint blush on her cheeks hearing Mai causally complementing her makes her feel a little weird, Naru rolled his eyes as he seemed to pretend that she was wearing nothing special.
" No, she isn't my type, now since your both here-" Naru was interrupted by Kuro " Now wait just a minute did I just hear you have a type? and also I saw your eyes checking me out which means you like what you see" Kuro bluntly says causing Mai to eyes widen.
Naru looked at Kuro or merely giving her a glare as he was not amused, however, Kuro noticed small marks of pink on his cheeks, he was Blushing only slightly but Kuro smirked at this, she was proud that she made Naru blush.
Mai looked at both of them wondering what the hell is going on between both of them, Naru affirms strictly " How many times do I have to tell u to stop wasting time, I am here to do my job, not to chat to you"
Kuro shrugged this off like normal as she was resilient, Mai couldn't help grinning like a child being given candy and randomly shoats " I ship you two" Kuro and Naru attention is drawn to Mai as she just blurted something out.
Kuro face erupts in a faint pink blush, she couldn't believe that Mai would say that, more than that she said it out loud where everyone could hear before Kuro could have said anything.
Hey!" Takigawa called out, getting their attention, as he marched up with Ayako and John. "What's up with your lab?", Kuro looks at them and rolles her eyes at their appearance, "What's going on, little boy? Getting ready to leave already?" Ayako asked in an annoying voice irking Kuro a little.
Though she wondered why Naru had everything packed in the van and why he was leaving so fast what about the case? maybe he figured it out who knows.
"Correct," Naru returned coolly, Mai was extremely confused as to why Naru was leaving so fast so did the rest of them "You must be kidding No way—why!?" Mai urged as she was taken aback by this sudden announcement.
"You mean, you're running away because you can't handle it?" Ayako asked with a smirk, Kuro forehead mumbles in irriattion and says " says the one who couldn't exocise the spirit and got the vice principal and principle hurt"
Monk sniggered at this but Ayako wasn't as she was fuming at what she just said " why you, you little brat" Kuro eyes narrowed dangerously " Huh what did you just say?! " Ayako smirked " You heard me" John starts sweating a cold sweat as he watches them about to fight.
" Now now let us calm down, maybe Shibuya-san has a reason other than giving up, right Shibuya-san" John politely says this trying to stop a full blown fight happening, Naru sighs " Right, I've determined that this case has been solved."
Kuro and everyone else looked at Naru, mostly in surprise "Eh?" Mai said voicing out her surprise, Naru plainly ignored her "You exorcised them, all on your own?" Monk charged as he was just as surprised as everyone.
"No, I didn't. There was no need." Naru spoke to them slowly opening his large laptop, Kuro raised her eyebrow, "No need…?" Monk proposed, bestowing a look of confusion with the others.
"What do you mean?" Mai questioned as Naru began typing and summoned up a series of charts on the screen for them to see "What's that?" Kuro looks at them realizing that it was the data and research she had collected for them he must have compiled them together.
"A level scale graph. Last night, I compiled the results of all or my measurements. This building sank more than 0.2 inches overnight." Naru declared, Kuro goes in a thinking postion realizing what he was trying to say.
"I see," Kuro said softly out loud causing the others to look in her direction, however, everyone was surprised that the building sank "It's land subsidence." Both Kuro and Naru announce at the same time.
"So, what? You're saying that was the cause of all those strange phenomena?" Ayako asked doubtingly, Kuro looked at the graphs closely before pronouncing " It seems as the old building is on a reclaimed swampland which will cause the drooping of the building am I right Kazuya?"
Naru nodded before adding to it " I asked Kuro to do some research into the land here, she did some pretty intense research but what piqued my interest was her theory as she stated in her own words written in this file she had made."
Everyone looked at Kuro, she was surprised her theory was right, but something was off, maybe the fact that they might be wrong, everyone gathered around her file and begun to read some had difficulty as it was in English.
Mai was impressed, she always knew that Kuro always wrote her notes in English, she never asked why but she was never failed to be surprised at her beautiful handwriting.
Naru added more to it " After looking at her theory I decided to check it out into the distribution of wells that were once in use I found out that there was a large underground water vein that passed directly underneath this school. But upon checking the wells around here, i discovered that they were mostly dry."
"Which means…?" Mai asked, Kuro sighed and joined in Naru's explanation " Basically what Naru is saying is that the ground was vulnerable, to begin with, the water has dried up, so if it is hollowing out underground, then this will cause the land to change and settle. Typically, the old school building that was constructed above it will sink too. This area is the most severely affected. The setting is progressing
more rapidly on one side of the building, and as a result, various parts of the building are starting to deform and collapse."
Chapter 21! is now complete thank you for reading and patiently waiting for me to update i hoped you enjoyed this chapter peace out!
