Disclaimer: I do not own Ghost Hunt. If I did, Naru would be slightly nicer to others. Except Masako, he would act the same to her.
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"Do you need any help?" Michiru asked.
He turned to look at her, causing her to blush furiously. "No, I'll be fine. though I would like to join you in telling ghost stories, if that's okay with you?"
"Of course Shibya-sempai." the girls squealed.
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"When?" He asked, flashing another fake smile.
"How about tomorrow after school?" Michiru suggested. She smiled her trademarked flirting smile at him.
Mai rolled her eyes at her friend's antics when she began to feel dizzy. She placed her hands on a desk and began breathing deeply. She could feel her friends shooting her woried glances. She stood up and gave them a look that said that she was fine. After they knew that she was alright they turned back to Shibya-sempai.
"That sound good to me, but where?" He responded whilst giving Mai a fake look of concern.
"Right here." Keiko responded without a second thought of the daggers Mai was glaring at her.
"Okay." he replied in a business like tone, as if this was just another thing to check of a list.
There's something fishy about this guy. I haven't had this kind of warning in a long time. I'd better get to the bottom of this... quick.
Friday, Early Morning.
"I love this weather, I'm glad I left early. I have the cherry blossoms to myself." Mai's cheerful tones pierced through the air, leaving no hints of the awful dream she had the night before last. She turned the corner, right next to an old decrepit building. It wasn't just any so-old-it's-literally-falling-apart building, It was the old school house. The same school house from Michi-Chan's story.
The more I look at the place, the more I feel like I could believe Michiru's story from yesterday. It's sorta creepy. Maybe even as creepy as... No, nothing's as creepy as that place, but this place is at least number three in my book. That probably why everyone fears it. Seems legit.
*FLASHBACK *
"Okay," Michiru began, "my story is about the old school house." Almost everyone gasped, everyone except Mai.
" The old school house?" she asked, not sure what they were talking about. They all looked at each other then some one answered her question.
"That's right, you don't know yet. We keep forgetting that you just moved back. The old school house is that creepy old building on the corner, the one we're not allowed to go in because its falling apart." Kaya-Chan explained.
"Only its not actually falling apart." Keiko cut in. When she was sure that she had gotten everyone's attention. "The old principle from a few years back tried to demolish it to make way from a new gym. But, every time they try to tear the place down, there's some kind of accident. Also, when It was still in use, a teacher commit suicide in the building. A couple years back, three students got severely injured when a truck driver lost control of his truck. In more recent events, my senpai said that when she was passing by the building on her way home, she saw something reflecting in the window. When she turned to look, she saw a person standing in the window, with blood red eyes, staring straight at her."
"Creepy." they all shuddered in unison.
****BACK TO THE PRESENT****
Mai looked again at the building, half expecting to see the figure in the window. She relaxed when she both saw and felt nothing. Continuing on her way, she glanced up once more, out of instinct. This time there was something unusual about the place. There was something in the doorway. "What is that?" she asked herself. Nearing closer she realised that it was simply a camera. But who in their right mind would leave something so expensive just lying around in an obviously structurally unsound building? Maybe they were trying to... Please tell me its not HIM again.
She started walking towards the building in hopes of either warning the owner or catching the culprit. After all it's just common courtesy to tell them that the old shoe lockers were probably going to fall on their expensive equipment. As she drew closer, a deep, unfamiliar voice -male, she assumed- shouted out, "Stop! Go away! don't come any closer!"
She stopped dead in her tracks, {AN: Sorry, Bad pun.} and searched for the source of the noise. As she searched, the peaceful feelings that had been with her previously turned into hate. The utter loathing in the air made her stomach turn. She then found the source. a tall dark haired man stood a few meters away from the camera. The hate rolled off him in waves, so thick that you could probably cut it with a knife. Not a dull knife mind you, a sharp Cutco knife. Any duller of a knife would probably just bounce of it. I don't think I've ever wanted to disappear this much.
"Stay there." The man glared. Her eyes widened in fear, but not in fear for herself. She feared for the hateful man,she feared that the shaking shoe lockers would fall before he moved.
"MOVE!" She shouted, worried that he would ignore her attempts to save him. He looked around himself, hearing the fear in the young girl's voice. Unfortunately his eyes skimmed past the quivering shelves.
Mai ran the remaining distance between her and the tall man, muttering unintelligible words. With an awe inspiring leap, she pushed the large man out of the way... well mostly out of the way. "Crap. I didn't move fast enough." she murmured, just barely loud enough for the man to hear as she climbed off the floor. His ankle was, unfortunately stuck under the nearest locker, and those things were way heavy.
The man stared at her in complete and utter shock as she dusted herself off and said, loud enough for him to hear, "I told you to move, you should have moved. Do you want me to call a doctor?" As soon as she asked the last part, she heard footsteps. It's time to finish this. Shibuya-san walked in and saw the damage.
"Lin, what happened?" he asked the silent, uncomplaining and bewildered man. Before 'Lin' could answer, Mai butt in.
"I saw the camera as I was walking to school, and I wanted to know if those idiotic boys were trying to get a video of the girls as they walked to school... again, so I came to investigate. When I got closer to the building, the shoe lockers began to shake, he pushed me out of the way. I feel completely responsible, and if you want I can call a doctor to check his ankle." If Mai were anyone else, it would be obvious that she was lying through her teeth, but Shibuya-san wasn't there, and Lin-san, well, he would think that she was telling the truth. Of course there was always a slight chance that the memory charm wouldn't work.
Lin-san looked at her in suspicion, then confusion, then all at once his face went blank and his eyes held something almost as frightening as the fires at Old Nick's house. "I told you to leave. This wouldn't have happened if you had listened." he growled, unknowingly repeating almost the same words she had muttered to him seconds ago.
It worked. She mentally sighed in relief. She rummaged through her backpack, searching for an unneeded piece of paper, lowering her head to make the men think that she was ashamed. She was so focused in her task that she didn't hear the bell going off in the background. Finally finding what she was looking for, she wrote down the phone number, address, and name of the nearest hospital. She glanced up at Shibuya-san as he asked her a simple question, but with an annoyingly amused undertone.
"What's your name?" he asked, smirking, his eyes full of unexpressed emotions.
"Mai." was her quick reply, still somewhat astounded by the lack of emotion in his soul. "What's it to you?"
"Well Mai, the bell just rang, you're late." his eyes held something similar to laughter, but it never surfaced.
"CRAP!" Mai exclaimed loudly as she handed him the paper, grabbed her school bag and ran to the school.
Thank you Purple Firebird for letting me know that there was something wrong with the chapter, I probably wouldn't know that it had done that...
3/Kessa
