Chapter 13: The First Mystery
As planned, after classes the entire Ninja Seeking Club made their way to the principals office.
"Welcome, Ninja Seeking Club" Mr. Kazuryu said "the first mystery describes a Treasure. Hidden here in the school"
"Is there more information?" Enju asked, like me she didn't really believe that these Mystery existed. But at least it is a danger free activity.
"Ah yes, there is a Riddle" Kazuryu pulled out a scroll and handed it to me. I opened it and could feel that it was prop paper, made to seem ancient.
"Alright, here it is." I said, since Akari was beaming with excitement i tried to play along best i could. "A treasure borne of Moonlight: When the light of the Moon can be seen, so too shall the treasure hidden in the school be revealed. However, it can only be seen by those who know the shadows, with eyes that may pierce the illusory veil of light" i looked from Akari to Kazuryu and saw the old man beam with joy.
"is that all?" Enju asked, i handed her the parchment and she began scanning the words.
"there is a hint," Kazuryu burst out, he cleared his throat and began speaking "the full Moon's beams, it's visage reflected. The secret shall be, at the midnight hour attested"
"well that much is obvious, we can only find it at night" Myu squealed, she seemed excited as well.
"Sunday is full moon right?" Akari asked "that's just two days. We should search for it then"
"good idea," Enju replied "let's meet by the gate at 11PM, so we have time to get to the right spot at midnight" we all agreed and then made our way out of the office. Suddenly as i was leaving school grounds Ricka tugged on my shirt
"lots of with to do" she said "can't teach Myu today"
"want me to do it?" i asked, she nodded and then began walking past me
"appreciated" she said and disappeared
"Alright Myu, let's get to the woods" i said as i began walking with Myu, "let's see what you and Ricka have been doing. Keep up!" i leaped into the trees and began jumping from branch to branch, i had to slow down so that Myu could keep up but at least she is doing the basics. We stopped on a clearing in the woods which Ricka and Myu had been using for training. "so. What have you been practicing?" i asked
"Well," Myu began "we've been doing hand to hand combat training, and shuriken throwing. Well advanced, I've been trying to learn how to curve them"
"Alright let's see" i said. Myu took out a shuriken and threw it. It curved around a tree in front of her nicely but not far enough to hit the one diagonally behind it. "ah i see" i said as Myu took out another Shuriken "do your throwing motion again, but don't release the shuriken" Myu did as instructed and i could spot the problem "try to tilt it a bit in the direction you're curving it, like this" i gently grabbed her wrist and tilted her hand a little "now, try again" she threw once more and the star curved around the tree and struck the target.
"wow!" Myu said in awe, "i did it"
"Alright now the tree further on the right" i said
"but no one can curve that much without a jutsu"
"watch this" i replied with a smirk. I retrieved two Shuriken and threw them. They curved around the first tree and then the left one hit the other and it changed direction, it flew as struck the tree further on the right. "just like that" Myu didn't say anything "learning that takes time, keep going with the regular curve and keep pushing your goal" Myu nodded and began throwing as i watched.
Afterwards we did some Thai jutsu training, and a harmless hand to hand fight. Before we made our way to our dormitories. But that didn't stop me from speculating about what Ricka was up to, because she lied when she gave me the reason to oversee Myu's training.
As agreed we all met at the school gate as then proceeded inside together. It felt weird being in school at night again, but this time we weren't unexpectedly running into Enju. No this time we ran into someone unexpected, or rather something. Akari suddenly tripped and fell. I spotted a rope on the ground and ran to her side, prepared for any spikes or the like. But nothing happened, not even a sound. "a booby trap" Enju said picking up the rope.
"yeah, who ever placed it is a scrub though" i replied "it did nothing, probably some idiot ninja who claims to be good" at those words i spotted a flicker of anger in Ricka's eyes but she quickly relaxed again.
"hey what's this button?" Akari Had gone further and was standing at the bottom of the staircase, we all walked over add saw the button to "I've never seen this one" without a second thought Akari pressed the button.
"Akari!" Enju pulled her away as he huge ball came rolling down the staircase. It was seemingly made of rock. "run!" Enju yelled and we all did, but the ball followed wherever we went. "in here, Quick!" Enju had opened a classroom at the end of the hall and jumped inside with everyone following, Jonny was last but before he turned to run into the room he slipped and fell.
"Johnny get up!" i shouted but it was to late the boulder was coming, i had to do something! I jumped out of the classroom and readied myself to stop the heavy stone. It was rolling fast, very fast and drew closer. But instead of feeling the impact of stone i barely felt anything when the ball touched me. It pushed into my hands a bit and then bounced in the other direction.
"wow, how did you do that?" Akari asked
"i didn't do anything, i think it's made of foam" i replied, and correct i was "what the hell?"
"Johnny-senpai" Myu ran over to Johnny but she hadn't seen the wet floor that Johnny had slipped on and slipped too. I tried to catch her and slipped myself landing with Myu on top of me, with her bosom pressed to my chest. "Kiba-senpai!" she sat upright on top of me in shock "I'm sorry" she quickly got off of me while Enju stared at me with a disgusted look.
"maybe we should have a look in the principals office" Enju suggested, we agreed and she stomped off at the front of the group. Enju was careful to spot, and point out any traps she saw. Guiding the others through the dark. We reached the office and Enju tried to slide the door open but it was locked, but the sound of something unlocking could be heard. Enjoy jumped to the side barely evading Water coming from just above her. "Hah! Like i'd ever fall for a pretty trap like –"
Cloink!
Enjoy was suddenly hit on the head by a bucket which bounced and then got Johnny straight in the face sending him crashing to the floor. Enju stomped her right foot on the ground and grew visably red as she clenched her fists shut. "This Stupid..! Arghh!" Enju was furious, which seemingly got het brain working harder. "We're heading outside, to the fountain."
"are you sure Enju? We got 5 minutes till midnight.." i said
"don't you Question me," she said leaning in closer to my face and pointing her index finger at me "it's way to simple… i should have figured this out quicker. The water that sprays from the top of the fountain should reflect the moonlight relatively well, since the fountain is infused with chakra" we got into the garden, and shure enough, a small circle was seen reflected on the grass. Tengge, who had found two shovels nearby gave them to Johnny and me.
"Start digging boys, you might get a reward" she said. Johnny didn't hesitate avid began shovelling on the marked spot, i joined him and soon we had found a small plastic box. We pulled it out and handed it to Enju.
"All this, for a cheaply decorated plastic box" Enju said, she sighed and put the box into her bag. "we'll give it to Kazuryu during club time tomorrow" And just like that, the first 'Mystery' had been solved. We finally left through the school gate and closed out behind us.
"Good night, Everybody" Akari said cheerfully "great work!" Tengge chuckled as she too began walking in the opposite direction
"don't do anything naughty without me" Tengge said. The rest of us made our way towards our dormitories, I slowed down and took Ricka to my side behind the group.
"did you clean up all the traps then?" I asked slyly
"you knew?" she replied
"you're not good at lieing," i said "why did you set them though?"
"Kazuryu told me to" Ricka replied. Why would he do that? I had my doubts about these mysteries, and this one is fake. Kazuryu made this up.
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Yeah, this chap kinda sux. it took a lot of long breaks inbetween writing this one since I've been working on 'A Touch of Magic' I'll try harder on the next chapter to make it more enjoyable. but it will take time because this is a side story for me. i write this when i don't have any current ideas for my other story since i don't need to think of an entire story for this...
hope you still enjoyed. Review!