It's my birthday today! Yay! Anyways, on with the story.
I woke up that morning from another nightmare. Since my brother got in an accident, I didn't dream anything nice. Every night I have a nightmare, and every night is about a dead brother. Last night I dreamt that the woman hit him twice instead of once, then wrapped him up in a white sheet and threw him in a river. Even the thought of it is horrible to me.
I asked Mai Taniyama to meet me at the van that day at 4 pm. Then the investigation would have begun. At that moment however, I realised that Masako was actually one of the others who were sent there to investigate. The reason for that was that the principal didn't trust a boy my age to do the job. And who says that? The principal of an untidy school containing brainless idiots as students? Its mental age that matters, and his is negative eighty.
Everyone introduced themselves, and by 4:10 pm, Mai was there. She also had a girl with her named Kuroda, who kept talking about how psychic she was and how many ghosts there are in this haunted building. Ghosts from war hospital as she says. There never existed a hospital here. It was a school made before the war. Ayako, the apparent miko, got trapped in a room as well, after verbally offending her. It was a nail and no one knows. But what attracted my attention was the photo of me and Gene as children in the old building hallways. Who was there? Was it Masako?
Mai was ten minutes late, without an excuse for being late. She is so stupid that she can't even read a clock. We got in the car with Lin driving. I got a book out while Mai was giving Lin directions on where to go. Shortly after, we arrived by the lake I saw using psychometry.
"This is it!" I muttered. I didn't really think she'll know where it was as it appeared that she wasn't with her mother at the time. But turns out the opposite, she actually does know. What else does she know? As bad as she is in maths, she is good in Gene's accident. I find that suspicious. What I'm suspicious about though, is unclear. "So the hospital has to be around here. Lin, research all the hospitals around here within five miles." Lin nodded. He just came out of the hospital, so he was in a sour mood.
We got back to base, and Lin showed me three hospitals, however, one of them closed the day after Eugene was in an accident. The reason was unknown. At that moment I realised, that I have another paranormal case on my hands.
"Naru, if we could find the address of the nurses and doctors, we could track down what happened to him." She suggested. Of course that's the cased. I think she realised that too late.
"And we are going to find that by?" I continued. If we can't find the reason for a public hospital's closure, then how are we going to find personal addresses?
"I have an address!" She blurted, then quickly covered her mouth of course. I turned to look at her,
"Just how deep are you involved in this case?" I asked.
"Deep enough…" She answered slowly. I decided to ask for the address later but for now, I had to check the other two hospitals.
"Why are you looking for your brother?" The nurse asked. I didn't tell her who I was, I just tld her I had a brother.
"Because he needs finding." I responded.
"Is he lost?" What a stupid question.
"No, were just playing hide and seek." I added sarcastically. She shook her head, silently telling me tha the wasn't there. They didn't keep him there. The last resource was the address.
"Where is it? Give me the address." I demanded, and she finally gave up, after a few minutes of her trying to change my mind.
"Fine, I'll write it down." She wrote in Kanji, something I'm not good at, so I gave it to Lin. He read it and nodded before going to start the car engine. He has kept silent for the past few days and I like it. Not that he talks much anyway.
"What's the address Lin?" I asked when Mai fell sleep in the car.
"666 Headington Road." Lin answered casually. Isn't 666 the devil's number or something like that.
"Headington is not Japanese nor is 666 normal. Are you sure it exists?" He nodded.
But… when we got there, it didn't exist.
I know all of you are thinking that this is some devilish horror story, but I will guarantee you that it's not. It's just spiritual/supernatural. You'll find out the 666 thing later. I have a reason for using that number and it's not devils and demons.