Friday 13th, April… Day 2, Afternoon!

Standing next to the black equipment van I watched as Naru rooted about for the lightest things for me to carry into the school house. He was talking about something or another but aster twenty years of dealing with this narcissistic asshole of a boss, well let's just say that I was good at ignoring him until he said something genuinely important.

"One week ago you principal contacted my company he's been exasperated with all the damage control he's had to do in regards to the building being haunted." Said Naru as he pasted the shelving supports to me, I was glad as it sounded like he was finally getting to the point.

"This led me to the records of this school. I was able to verify that up until eighteen years ago while the school was still being used there would be at least one or two death inside the structure every year."

You would think that after twenty years of this I would know what to expect from Naru but some time it shocked me at just how good he was a t his job. It was a good way to catch a glimpse at his mind sometimes; Naru was a very structured person. He never made an action any which way without first taking into consideration the possible outcomes both good and bad of that action. I remember him trying to teach me to think that way but it wasn't any good my mind just didn't work that way.

"It is also true that when construction crews were demolishing the east side of the building there was an accident where the roof collapsed prematurely. No workers were killed but five were injured quite badly. The incident was ultimately blamed in human error." He said as we walked into the school house and down the hall to the room Naru was set on using as the Base.

'God Naru you really do know how to fill the room with your voice don't you?' I thought as I walked just behind him. He was so well informed at the moment that I was willing to bet that I was the only wild card in the deck that he didn't know what to do with.

"The construction ended without even a third of the planed demolition work even being finished." He continued on to say. "And while a teacher did in fact commit suicide in this building, that was explained with the note the victim left. The incident with the truck last year was a drunk driving accident. That is when the construction was stopped for the last time."

We had finally gotten to the Base I remember from the first case I was ever on. It was old and falling apart just like the building around us. I turned to Naru; sometimes it was best to let him think you're paying attention to him even though you're not. Most of the time he'll shout up faster.

"So spread the rumors about this building being haunted. Based on my research however the existence of anything paranormal being here is nothing more than fiction. For a place this active every occurrence here has had a reasonable answer attached to it. We'll set up base here." And with that the he was finally finished talking.

I had researched all of this a few months ago in preparation for Naru and Lin coming back just to make sure that I was probably enrolled into the only non-haunted school in japan.

"We'll be conducting all of our observations from this room." He said as he dropped some of the selves onto the table next to me and started to walk out the door.

"Shibuya! Did you need any help bringing any of the other equipment in from the van? I asked as he stood at the door.

"I don't think you can help me with any of this stuff most of its almost a hundred pounds."

"Shelves it is then!" I said with a sunny smile. After so many years of ghost hunting with Naru and by myself I was unfazed but the creaking of the building as it settled it was constantly in motion from the wind to the earth below shifting. I had long since been able to tell the normal sounds from the not so normal ones, this place was nothing if not normal. By the time Naru got back from the first trip to the van the shelves were almost all up and ready to go, after so many years I was used to this job and did it fast if only so I could get to the fun part of the job. By the time I was finished putting it together Naru had already brought in some boxes from the van and automatically began unpacking them. When Naru came in I though he was going to have a heart attack.

"What the hell do you think you doing?" he yelled!

Looking up from all the electrical equipment I gave him a clueless look. "I'm putting your sound equipment together. What's it look like I'm doing? Anyways if I brake anything again I'll just continue to be your little slave." I smiled at him and when back to work with Naru sporting a shocked look, it was kind of cute on him and it was my plan to keep it on his face for as long as possible.

Finishing attaching all the sound equipment to the boards attached to the computers I started with hooking up the monitors next moving on from there. Naru kept a close eye on me and handled all the really expensive things himself.

Looking at the two cameras on the table beside Naru I blinked at them, I hadn't seen anything like that in years. Pointing at them I asked, "Hay Shibuya! What are those?"

"It's an infrared camera and a thermal imaging camera. They're used to shoot in total darkness. This one uses thermography to record temperature changes, when a spirit appears the temperature around it will drop and therefore show up on the camera." He explained as I watched him, his shoulders relaxed a little bit as if he was put more at ease now that I was asking questions then before when I was silently putting things in place.

"It's amazing how you know all this stuff." I said thinking that it really was he was only seventeen and here he was running after ghosts and the like without fear when most kids his age would be running away instead.

"No its not, my brain just works differentially from yours." Was Naru's response… I had forgotten that he had said that the first time as well. Then I had thought him arrogant and named him Naru for the word narcissist. Now I just wanted to laugh, so I did.

"Ok… so what made you go into the ghost hunting business anyway?" I asked giggling.

"Someone had to do it." He said ignoring me as he when back to the setting up the base.

"Well have you ever had any cases that you couldn't explain?" I asked again wishing that I didn't have to ask all these questions just so that I wouldn't seem too interesting. Little school girls weren't supposed to know PK and better yet we weren't supposed to know anything about ghost hunting even if i had told I was interested in the topic.

"No I'm very good at my job." Deadpan and honest as always. I was lent momentarily wondering what it was that had attracted me to him all those years ago, I was thinking it was his hansom face and just how much of a mystery he always was because I was almost certain that it wasn't his ability to keep a conversation going.

"Hum…well it looks as if you're as smart as you are handsome." I said as I to when back to setting up. I heard his barely audible gasp and turned to find him staring at me. Now most girls would be shocked that they had said something like that and look away to act like it had never happened. I just stared Naru in the eyes and smiled it was direct and honest just like him; the idiot had rubbed off on me in the last twenty years or so.

"So you think I'm handsome hum?"

Still looking the boy in the eyes and still smiling I answered:

"Yep! But you're a little loud for me Shibuya, I like my prospective boyfriends to be on the tall dark and quiet side. You just don't seem to fit my minimum height requirement."

I watched as Naru's eyebrow started to twitch and his mouth started to lift at the corner to form the smirk I liked to hate. He shook his head and turned to leave as if that was all the time he was willing to give me but from the hallway I could hear him laughing. Smiling to myself i knew he would be ok and couldn't be happier that his brother was still alive.

After a few hours we were finished and I whet home.