Friday 13th, April…

Day Two…

It was Friday morning and I had had a long night. As it turned out the young couple who had hired me to look in to the possible ghost haunt were just glory seekers who wanted to been seen as risk takers by their next door neighbors. It was sad and bogus and it had taken so much time to just set up and then take everything down that it was one giant waste of time, I had made them pay me extra for the shenanigans they had put me through.

So now here I was walking down the Sakura lined street in the early morning on my way to school trying not to yawn too hard and thinking of all the sleep I would get in history class. Unbidden my meeting with Naru from yesterday came to mind; it still made me want to cackle with evil laughter for some reason or another.

As I approached the old school house I was tempted for a moment to just past it by… if only just a moment. To go on with my life like nothing had happened and I had never met Naru or Lin, I could live happily ever after… but where was the fun in that I asked myself. I was in the past not ten months and I was already doing cases under an assumed name and no matter the fact that I loved the independence of working for myself one day I knew that I would eventually come across something that I wouldn't be able to exorcise on my own Yukimaru or no Yukimaru. So when that day came I was going to want my good old team with me to help and to get them I was going to have to go and get a huge ass shelving unit to fall on my future husband. Did it could as spousal abuse if you were not married to the person yet?

Nodding to myself I was ready to go into the old school house and get Lin squelched to death by at least three bookcases from doom. My handsome hubby wasn't going to like me much after this but if it got me into SPR then so be it, sacrifices had to be made and if it was Lin's leg the well I was going to have to live with it. Poor Lin was going to have to take one for the team… again.

Peering into the window of the front door I could see the silhouetted image of the camera I was about to brake. Looking at the large thing I was struck with the thought of just how much the future had spoiled me if I was complaining about the size of a camera… I had taken to making my own equipment not long after I had gotten here, not uncommon as when I had worked alone I hadn't been able to afford much in the way of equipment and there for had had to fix and replace parts on my own, it why I some time filled in for Yasou as the Tech manager for SPR.

I entered the old school and was met with the shocking silence of an empty building. I walked up to the camera, it was an old digital camera with heat seeking technology and it was laughably pathetic really.

"Hay you what do you think you're doing?" yelled the voice of the man I loved.

Lin was suddenly there yelling at me like an avenging angel. I got caught in staring at him like I had with Naru, remembering him as he had been the last time I had seen him. With Naru it wasn't so bad; he had done somewhat gently in his sleep like coma. But Lin I remembered waking up in our bed without him one morning, I had gotten up and gone to base after making tea for him and Naru. The base looked like a torn up war zone the monitors were broken and the glass was everywhere, metal shells of the displays were scattered around the room. Naru had been almost fine just laying off to the side against the wall staring at something I hadn't been able to process.

Lin was in that room to although I hadn't been able to recognize him right away him once beautiful eyes had turned to cold emotionless orbs with is death. And his lovely soft skin had been shredded leaving behind ghastly wounds and bloody finger prints of his murderer. Urado had with his blood written on the walls such horrible things but it was the sight of the man I loved dead before me that truly had broken me. it was for that reason that the only works I had seen where the ones that said : "YOUR NEXT!"

There had been so much blood…

"Hay kid I asked you what you were doing!"

And just like that I snapped out of the morbid thoughts of a future dead Lin and tried to concentrate on the present one before me. I jumped up from the crouch I had been in to look at the now forgotten camera.

"Oh wow, you scared me! Sorry I was just walking past when I saw the camera set up in here… did Shibuya leave it here? I asked as I leaded back away from the camera that would hopefully get me my job back. Though now that I had seen Lin I didn't know if I would be ok with hunting him at all this was going to hurt him and my heart.

"Yes we left it here over night to record and spiritual activity of the building while we were not here. Spirits tend to dislike outsiders in the locations of their haunts so we view them from afar every now and again. Now that the hell are you?" he snapped at me. I noticed that he hadn't given me his name, how rude of him but then again that is just how he always was.

"OH sorry! My name is Mai Tamiyama I met Shibuya yesterday were he walked into the class room me and my friends were telling ghost stories in, its mice to finally meet you Lin Koujo." I said trying to keep the shit eating grin off my face when he got this cute shocked look in his face.

"Whatever, you should be going back to school your bell just rang and your late!" he snapped and rudely motioned for me to leave, my poor hubby need to learn a lesion and that was totally not to piss me off which is what he was going with all the rude behavior of his. It was really starting to look like I was going to have to squish him under one of the bookcases after all.

Throughout this little 'discussion' I had leaned up against one of the bookcases in question to give Lin big puppy love eyes that I knew was half the reason he was acting the way he was. It wasn't often he got girls batting their eyelids at him as it was always Naru or Gene that got that type of attention. So it was for that reason that when I pushed myself off of the bookcase it wobbled and eventually fell forward towards me, oops… I felt Yukimaru freak out for a moment as the case fell and I watched as Lin ran forwards and pushed me out of the way of the falling bookcase only to be buried under it himself. Out of the corner of my eye I saw one of the five Shiki Lin had supporting the heavy wooden shelf for him. I did notice however that they had missed his leg which was pinned under the edge of the shelf painfully.

"Oh my gods, Koujo are you alright?" I yelled freaking out like any good little school girl would I looked up thinking Naru shouldn't be far off as he was always with Lin, he should have heard that and come running. " it's going to be fine I don't think you hurt anything really badly save your leg of course and I am so sorry what was I thinking leaning up on that bookshelf?" I spazed, where was Naru?

Moments later Naru had still not shown up to help; Lin always was the punctual one of the two. Reaching over to the large shelving unit I started to move it off of Lin gently as I could it was a lot easier to bring the thing down then it was to get off of Lin.

Lin cried out in pain when it slipped and dug into his leg a little more. Damn it I didn't want to have to give anything away just yet but if I had to then I was going to help Lin out of this before keeping my secret. Gathering my thought I focused on the bookcase and the wood it was made out of. I wasn't very good at this but I was hoping that it would work. I focused on moving the shelf rather just making it light enough to move and free Lin.

It slowing started to work and I gently lifted it off the trapped man, I was more than half way done and sweating like a horse from all the power this was talking me, the bookcase must have weighed at least a hundred pounds! I was normally luck to lift anything fifty pounds or less! Psycho Kinesis (PK) was a skill that was hard learned for me, I wasn't very good at it unless shit was truly hitting the fan.

"What's going on in here? LIN!" Naru yelled when he finally showed up.

I lost whatever concentration I had was lost in that moment and I felt the wooden bookcase start to fall once more. I was going to kill Naru after this poor Lin was about to get seriously hurt because he couldn't keep his big mouth closed for two minutes! I got a hold of myself just in time and started to pull the thing back up once more. Something that should have been impossible for a little ninety pounds when wet fourteen year old… I was going to have so much to explain after this.

I was too focused to look at Naru but as I could hear him swearing in the background I'm sure he wasn't helping me with this at all. "Just another minute Koujo and I'll get you out from under there… it's not like your friend over there is helping much or you'd be out so much faster…" I wheezed and gasped for breath hoping Naru would get the drift and help me with this thing.

"Fuck!" I cursed as the bookcase slipped again only this time it tore at my hands and thankfully not Lin's leg but I could feel blood dripping down from my fingers it was making the wood wet and hard to grip. I was hoping to raise this thing just enough that Lin could wiggle out from under it.

"Noll stop staring and get me out from here!" snapped Lin at the teen behind me although it was nice to know that he was 'staring' shit now they would knew that I was a psychic… well it was a good thing cause now I had more room to wiggle with in turns of what I could do now still I had plan to be the clueless but interested assistant.

Well if I wasn't going to get away with that then I was good with being a young psychic that didn't have much power to speak of save for lifting bookcases off of men she was in love with. It was just going to have to work for everyone… although it would hopefully make me into more of a mystery and not someone to be weary of.

Moments after Lin had yelled at Naru he was there beside me reaching for Lin's arm as I finally lifted the thing far enough away from the trapped man that he could wiggle his way out from under the shelf. My arms were sore and my hands bloody from the splinters of the wooden shelf. Drenched in sweat and shivering with exertion from using PK a skill I hadn't had the nerve to train just yet for this vary reason, it left me thinking that I was going to die from being so tired.

"You're a psychic?" Naru's voice was full of shock and disbelief as he and Lin stared at me. Well Naru did anyways Lin just hung from Naru's arms with his lag at an interesting angle… I had managed to break his leg with that stunt something that hadn't happened the first time.

"Ya well what can I say? it only happens when I really need it to." I gasped out of breath and fell to my knees sweat beading as it ran from my forehead down my checks and into my eyes. I was leaving bloody handprints on the floor as I held myself up on my hands and knees. "Go get Lin help there's a doctor's office just down the street from here I think I'll just take a nap here if you don't mind?" I whispered as my arms gave out on me and I lay on the dusty floor still gasping for breath after my little amazing display of strength.

"No you're going to get sick if you stay there. Damn it, I can't move you both!" Naru snapped at me. Well I guess he didn't like his new role of having to cart us both to the doctors.

"I'll be fine you ninny, I just need to rest here a moment then I'll be off to class and wishing I hadn't been here because of the headache that's about to start drumming in my head. Koujo's got a broken leg and I don't if you leave that for much longer he just going to suffer needlessly you ape!" I said my voice was full of more conviction then I had thought I could get out as I wasn't really feeling it all that much. At the moment all I really wanted to do was roll over and take a nap in the floor.

"Do you know nothing about using Psycho Kinesis? If I leave you here after using PK for extended period of time I don't know what it could do to you, there are people out there that it would kill! You expect me to just leave knowing that?" Naru argued, his handsome face contorted in rage and his eyes were glaring at me like I was the stupidest thing in the world.

"I'm not Oliver Davis you ass I'm not going to drop dead after using a little PK!" I yelled at the hard headed idiot in front of me. Sighing I got up to my hands and knees the stinging of the dust in the cuts of my bloody hands as I struggled to my feet. It took me a long few moments but I eventually got it and somehow I wasn't vary sure how but somehow I managed to look Naru in the eyes and walk out of the building.

Later that afternoon Naru came to find me in the languages room after the days classes had ended. I was just starting to pack up for the day and go home. It was a long day and I was tired after all the PK I had thrown around in the morning class had been a killer as I had fallen asleep once in every class so far, it was time to go home and catch a cat nap.

"Mai? You're going home?" I heard one of my friends calling out to be, great I wasn't going to be leaving now without an excuse and somehow I didn't thing I could blame spiritual exhaustion on how tired I was.

"I thought we were supposed to tell ghost stories with that cute guy remember?" chimed in one of my other friends at the moment I was so tied I couldn't\t even think of their names. I was such a bad friend.

"Nope, not me." I said tiredly trying not to yon as my eyes drooped. I had been looking forward to telling ghost stories tonight; I was going to tell the story about that woman in the white dress I had once encountered in Montana. I had been 19 at the time and just only three years away from rejoining Naru and Lin at SPR in London.

"No way I can't believe you!" yelled the first friend drawing so much attention to us that I was surprised that the teacher hadn't come running over to see what the yelling was all about.

"This is our only chance to tell ghost story's with a senior! Please Mai!" Senior? Were they talking about Naru? Well he was senior to us I guess. I thought about all the things that Naru had showed me in my life and all the things we were going to see in the future. I didn't think for a moment that Naru was actually going to tell any stories more like gathering information form the gullible little girls.

Out of the corner of my eye I say movement as one of my classmates as she muscled her way to where I and my two friends were standing.

"Did you say ghost stories? Is that what you've been doing every day? No wander my head has been hurting for so long! I am vary spiritually sensitive. When spirits gather together I get headaches." It was Koroda, and she didn't waste anytime in telling us what was what. I momentarily thought I was going to kill her for keeping me up and away from my bed and a good night's sleep.

"So you're blaming us for that?" I asked in disbelief as I stood there staring at her.

"Of course I am! whenever you tell ghost stories, low level spirits come together. Then, that attracts stronger spirits, and it's bad news when that happens. That's why you can't entertain yourselves by telling ghost stories." Koroda nagged at us in her annoying voice saying things that she thought were true but I really life were only hear say. It was true that if you spoke about a spirit I would come poking its head in to see what was going on but that was just an automatic reaction to curiosity.

"Hello girls what are you up to now?" he asked with that fake ass smile of his.

"Ghost things, aren't you supposed to be working Shibuya?" I snarled at him annoyed at him for interrupting my thoughts as I thought about a way to get rid of Koroda without insulting the poor girl that only wanted to get the attention of people in hopes of getting friends.

"Ghost things? Hum… and here I thought that ghosts were my job, cute little kids like you shouldn't be dabbling in things they don't know." He said.

'Oh burn!' I thought looks like Naru was going to bring out the fangs! To be fare I wasn't all that nice this morning and I had kind of walked out on him. But now I was stuck dealing with not only him but Koroda the high maintenance spiritualist.

"You! Are you the one that put them up to telling ghost stories! I'll have you know that I'm vary spiritually sensitive to these things and you can't just go summoning spirits and think that It's all fun in gams!" yelled the she devil herself. I was about to puck with all the 'me this and headache that'. Koroda was a nice person but if she didn't lay off shed get no were.

"No but I'm interested in hearing your thought about the old schoolhouse do you think it's haunted?" Naru asked with the fakest smile he could muster from the way his eyes stayed icy I could imagine that he didn't like Koroda at all.

"Yes of course it is! I had been sensing things from that building for the last two years. I had seen so many wounded people that I think…no I' positive that that building was used as a hospital in the war! It's so sad but I know that that was what happened here." Koroda said as her eyes lit up happy that someone was finally listening to her.

"Hum I wasn't aware that the building had been uses as a hospital but I'll take that into consideration as well. Thank you for your insight." Naru said as he smiled to Koroda. It didn't take him long to dismiss her as well. Turning to me he was still smiling "Mai I would like to talk to you in privet it that alright with you?" and with that said he walked out of the room as if I was the one that needed to fallow him and not the other way around! Dame it I wasn't going to just play as being his lap dog that wasn't my job I was his friend and I was his future co-worker.

Sighing I fallowed anyway what was the point of fighting when I knew he wasn't going to listen to me for at least a year. I fallowed him out to the hallway and found him standing and staring out of the window to the east were the old school house was still standing.

"How's your friend?" I asked.

"Lin is fine. However you broke some vary expensive equipment that you have no viably way of paying me back for. I propose that you work your debt off my afterschool by helping me since you're the reason that my assistant you'll have to take his place." Said Naru with the most annoying smirk on his face I had ever seen.

I was trying not to laugh in Naru's face, this was the whole reason that I had made the bookcase fall in poor Lin's leg. I had wanted to take the position as Naru's assistant and work for SPR.

So it was with that little sham that I found myself a temporary member of the SPR team. I was always rather found of my little plots coming together nicely like I wished they always would.