HUWAA SORRY FOR MY LATE UPDATE!

I just started new term in college... and got a lil bit busy with all of moving dorm room(i should say, building though... cause i got room in different building hahaha) and add&drop subject T.T

Please forgive me and R&R please

CHAPTER 2

Saturday, 17 October

11.30 A.M.

"E-eh…" Mai was stammering a little because of nervousness.

"I'm sorry, don't be nervous… I can understand and speak Japanese fluently… that one was just slipped out," She smiled apologetically to Mai and then she introduce herself, "my name is Ze- no, Arakawa Reiforte, I come here today as what Madoka-san told me to."

"Ah! I'm sorry for my rudeness…. Please come in Arakawa-san," Mai moved to left and opened the door wider. There was a hint of pink on her cheek, she felt so embarrassed and wanted to hide in the hole if there was one near.

"Please sit… do you want tea?"

"Oh, that would be nice!" Arakawa-san said as she untied her stole, undid her parka, and hanged them on the coat rack next to the door.

"How do you like your tea?" Mai asked as she fix the tea for Naru, one teaspoon of sugar and a pinch of creamer.

"Hmm… half tablespoon sugar please," Arakawa sat comfortably on the black sofa.

"Mai, is there a client coming?" Naru said as he came out of his room. His eyes immediately located Arakawa that already staring at him. Their gaze met and Naru smiled, a business smile, at her.

"Are you the one that Madoka talked about?" he sat in front of her still with the same smile.

"Yes. And please stop that kind of smiling," an innocent smile that Naru never can show plastered on Arakawa's face. After she said that, he stop smiling and back to his emotionless face. He took out the stack of paper which is a file sent by Madoka and put it on the table.

"Hello, I am Shibuya Kazuya, president of SPR," Naru introducing himself and started talking to the point, "I just read it briefly, but before starting the explanation from you, can you tell me where your companion? I thought that there will be two persons coming today."

"Ah, he is still have some business. It is okay if he isn't here anyway," Arakawa smiled cheerfully and stared at Naru's blue night sky eyes, "By the way, you are really Oliver Davis, right?"

Naru lifted one of his eyebrow, 'so Madoka had told her about that'. "Yes," he answered, staring back at Arakawa's dark brown eyes that more looked like black if you didn't see it closely.

"Thought so, you are just like how Madoka described," she smiled again.

"Here is your tea," Mai place Naru's cup near him and Arakawa's near her, while her cup next to Naru. She put the tray back into the kitchenette and went to her desk to get a notebook and pen to write down what Arakawa said. Then, she stride back to where sofa is and sat beside Naru. Well, not exactly beside him as there was half meter gap between them. Naru glanced at Mai as she sat, usually she wouldn't sat beside him but he didn't think much about that and continued to focus on the client, client's daughter for exact, in front of him.

"Is what you are going to talk about this case the same like what's inside the file sent to me by Madoka?"

"Well, I don't know what's written inside them. Because the one that talking to Madoka wasn't me, but my parents, who bought that building…" Arakawa glanced at mai that stared at her seriously and giggled inside.

"Then, why are you here?" Naru asked a bit harshly in Mai's opinion.

"Because I have been there yesterday and have a little bit more information than what my parents knew I guess?" she ended that sentence with a question mark that obviously showed in her voice.

"You have been on location, alone?" Mai gasped, she is surprised because usually it is dangerous to go to that kind of place alone, and without any power in addition.

"Yes, I was there Yesterday actually, because coincidentally I was near with that building. So, my parents asked me to check the building without getting inside, getting more information from neighbors and bring some cleaning robot there," she smiled at Mai again, a bit exhilarated with her reaction.

"Eeh… Ro–" she was being cut off… by Naru.

"Could you tell me the detail of what you got there?"

"Okay… I wonder where I can start…," She looked like thinking for a while before starting it, "When I stood outside the building, I have a feeling that there are too many spirits inside. I already tracked it's history, and that building sure have a dark past. Still, the amount of spirits there is still overwhelming and too much. Maybe around two to four times than what it's history says," She took a breath, took a sip of tea as her throat felt dry and just right then, Naru asked, "It's history? That one about how the building was actually a hotel and went down 10 years ago because of the owner was murdered?"

"Yes, but it isn't just that. In fact, it was mass-murder. I bet the realtor tried to conceal it as much as they can. Well, when I tried to investigate around the neighbor, most of them only know that the owner murdered ten years ago. Maybe that was what known publically," she smiled bitterly.

"In the beginning you said that you felt the spirits, does that mean you can feel or see them? If you can, please explain what did you see or feel," Naru took a sip of his tea while Mai take a note what Arakawa said.

"Yes, I can. Like I said, there are many spirits there. However, most of them are not evil. It is more like they are trapped there. Some of them are evil, as ghost and as human being(was), maybe they are the killer or something. And some of them hold a grudge for their killer. Well I have a feeling there are some that are stronger than others but I can't say for exact their number."

"How strong are they?"

Arakawa crossed her leg and lean back on the sofa. One of her hand is on her chin, she looked like trying to remembering about that matter. "I wonder how strong… I can't say it for sure but if I should make a comparison of it with spirits from one of your case…," she stopped and her gaze looked like wandering around, "Remembered that Okubu-sama?"

"Yes, how did you know about that…" Mai flabbergasted hearing that.

"Because I had investigated about you of course… let's use that one as a comparison… if Okubu-sama's strength is ten point, then their strength are eight or nine point… well around that, I think" Arakawa said as she tilt her head to the right, a small smile formed on her lips without any reason.

"Is that all?" Naru confirmed that Arakawa have said everything she found out or know.

"Yes," She firmly answered before suddenly remembered, "Oh right, I and my friend will be with you all thorough the case, is that okay?"

"As long as you won't hinder us," He replied shortly with cold face. Mai glanced at him, somehow she had a feeling that he thought her being there will mess everything up.

Arakawa lift her left eyebrow, 'I guess he thought that I will be a disturbance…'. Her eyes changes colour a little, but neither Naru nor Mai realized that. She fix her seating position, she straighten her back, uncrossed her leg and close them up, and put her hands on her thigh closely. Her mouth automatically form a small polite smile. "I won't."

"When we are going to set off?" Mai said as her gaze glued on Arakawa, she was mesmerized by her much more than before, somehow.

"When all members of your team ready, can you check it? Whether they can or can't" her polite smile successfully made Mai dozing off, she felt like there was something that pull her. 'Is it her pheromone?' Mai thought as she tried to took a glance at Naru that still using the same face like usual and in the middle peered at Arakawa too. But he didn't look like he was enthralled by her. Even if he was, his face didn't betray him at all.

"Mai, you contact Takigawa-san, Matsuzaki-san and Yasuhara-san" Naru ordered as he took out his smartphone. Mai did so too and open her Line. She went to the group that made especially for SPR and type, 'We have a case, can you all join us?'. She smiled when the 'Read by' count go up fast to five, they all had read it. "I already contact them Naru, just need to wait for their reply."

"What? How?" Naru kind of looked surprised, but his face still flat like normally. Just his tone and eyes that a bit different. Of course Mai caught that and she smirked. It was rare for him to change expression, even if it is only slightly. She giggled, "We have Line's group you know."

"And I'm not a member?" He raised his eyebrows, his eyes say 'how come'.

"Ups! No one thought you have one… sooo," Mai's mouth formed a smile unconsciously. She felt guilty but amused at the same time. It couldn't be helped, it was the first time for her to see her boss looks cranky even though that just happen in a second before he back to his emotionless face.

'Bzzz bzzz bzzz bzzz bzzz' Mai's phone keep vibrating. When she saw the notification, it all came from SPR Line's group. Everyone could and wanted to take a part in the case because they didn't have anything important this month. 'Lucky I guess?' Mai thought, and then the 'Read by' count added by one. That was mean… Lin had read it too. Then, Lin's room door opened.

"Naru, we have case?" he asked before located someone he didn't know. A woman with a good figure and polite smile on her face. 'Just like a real Yamoto Nadeshiko…' he thought unknowingly why. He hurriedly erased that thought from his brain as that almost made him lose his cool.

"Yes. I haven't told you yet, how did you know?" Naru nodded slightly.

"Line's Group," He answered as he took seat on one of the pouffe near Naru. "Lin was invited… why I wasn't" Naru murmured with super low volume so no one heard him. He felt like betrayed by Lin because he should remember to invited him to the Group because he have Naru's Line.

"How is it, Mai? Can they all join us anytime?" he asked, trying to hide that he was hurt by that fact.

"Yes they said," Mai noticed that her boss kind of distant when Lin said that he knew it from group. 'Is Naru cranky because no one invited him?' she thought and then laughed at herself that it wasn't possible for him to feel like that just because no one invited him to the group.

Of course Lin realized that Naru didn't like it the fact that he wasn't invited to group. Yes, even though he didn't look like it, he was irritated by it. Lin couldn't help laughed inside looking at Naru's crankiness at that moment. 'Looks like Taniyama-san noticed it too,' he wanted to smile at that thought but unconsciously stopped it and that made his mouth twitched a little.

Arakawa just smiled, aware that there was a little drama happened behind this 'normal' scene. 'Even flat person have things that make them feel that it's wrong' she thought as she glanced at Naru. He tried to hide it. But it still show if someone sensitive enough and looked at him closely. She chuckled before said something to bring back everyone to their conversation, "Then, can we depart tomorrow?"

"Yes, how about transportation?" Naru drank his tea that already cooled a little.

"I'll provide everything, just tell me what you want to bring and how heavy it is," she did the same like Naru and smiled at how delicious the tea is, 'Taniyama-san sure know what she did'.

"Oh!" she exclaimed as she remembered something to check, "You all have passport right?"

"I have," Naru said, obviously he had it.

"I have too," and so Lin.

"Me too," Mai said as four eyes leering at her.

"You have it?" Naru asked kind of rudely.

"Well yeah, for school excursion."

"How about other member?" Arakawa was amused looking at those two in front of her, Naru looked just like an elementary boy that like to tease the one he liked and Mai… a naïve girl and–unexpectedly– quite dense toward what others feel for her. Mai that didn't realize Arakawa had stared at her for some minutes, typed and asked it on group without any delay. And so was the one on other side, they replied just in a second. Fortunately, all of them have passport.

"They have passport, I guess we can go whenever," Mai lift her head from her phone and smiled at Arakawa.

A/N: fufufu i hope none of the character was OOC... oh right, i do not own Ghost Hunt and its character. but i do own Reiforte Arakawa and her friend that still not came out yet haha xD. once again R&R please 3