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(First thing, sorry I know that the 1st chapter was a short chapter, and that it was a long wait…. Sorryyy!!!. 2nd, please excuse my horrible grammer {if you do find any}. I'm mostly known for making lots of English grammer mistakes. But I can't help it. I just don't know how to express it. {In words I mean.} ^.^)\
Chapter 2
"Wow I can't believe it. We're finally here at the academy?!" Mai was astounded.
"Mai stop slacking and get back to work." Naru's voice broke through to her.
"Hai!" She ran off towards the van and carried a load of heavy monitors. She passes by a couple of students, making ways through the stairs and doors. Now another stairs she's climbing.
"Urgh, why can't Bou-san be here when I need him to be?" Mai grumbled while going up the stairs. On the way up she didn't notice that a pencil was there. She kept walking until she stepped on it.
"Ahh!" Mai began to fall backwards. She closed her eyes to prepare for the worst. Then suddenly a hand grabbed her by the arm and pulled her up. Unfortunately, the monitors ended up on the bottom of the stairs though. Mai opened her eyes slowly.
"Wah, I didn't fall down?!"
"Well you could've if I were a little slower to catch you." A voice from behind Mai spoke. She looked up and saw a male student of the school. Mai was staring at him.
'Wow, what good looking, dark green hair, nice build, nice smell, and quite hands-' Mai quickly turned the other way around to avoid him seeing her blush.
'What am I saying at a time like this?!' Mai was blushing even redder. While the man was clueless and let her go.
"Uh thank you very much." Mai was too nervous to look at him. Even the way she talked sounded weird.
'What's up with this girl?' "No it's ok; I always have a friend that falls down the stairs all the time. So it's all right." The man smiled.
"Oh is that right?" Mai turned around to face him. She looked up at him.
"Well, again, thank you very much." Mai had cooled down a little. She went back down where the monitors were and started to stack them all. The man followed her down.
"I've been wondering? What's with all these equipments, and who are you? I mean you're not a transfer here or anything right?" Mai began to pick up the boxes. The guy came down and helped her out.
"Oh uh thanks."
"No problem. Tsuchiura Ryoutarou by the way." Mai raised an eyebrow, and smile at him.
"Taniyama Mai."
"So, what are all these equipments for?!" Ryou was amazed to see all these high- tec stuff, but being carried by only a small not to mention scrawny girl.
"Oh I'm from Shibuya Physic Research. SPR for short." He was even more amazed.
"SPR huh. So what do you guys do?" He helped Mai carry the boxes up the stairs, chatting with her on the way up.
"We investigate cases that involves strange or extraordinary phenomenon. Or again to make it short, we do ghost hunting." Ryou eyed her.
"Ghost hunting huh? That must be pretty rough?" He and Mai kept walking, only a few meters away from base.
"Yeah, in our whole entire group, I mostly get the attraction of the ghost. To put it simply, it targets me most of the time." Ryou started to laugh.
"Hey it's not nice to laugh at people when they tell you a serious life- threatening event!" Mai making an angry face turning the other way.
"Sorry. It's just, I can see why though. Why the ghost keeps coming after you." He kept on laughing through the hall way. Eventually they got to base. Both of them stopped in front of the door.
"Well were here." Ryou looked at Mai then open the door.
"Naru, I'm back!" Ryou's voice came after hers'.
"Uh, sorry for intruding." Both of them step inside. Ryou was looking at all the more equipment that was set-up in the room.
"Mai who else did you bring in here?" Naru's voice broke the silence in the room.
"Oh it's a person that helped me in the hallway when the-" The instant that Naru stepped out from the behind the wall Ryou's jaw drop.
"Tsu- Tsukimori?!" Naru raised an eyebrow. Mai was showing signs of confusion.
"W-what are you doing here Tsukimori? What ARE you doing? When did you dyed your hair black? When did you even start to wear black?" One after another Ryou kept spitting questions at Naru.
"Ehto, umm Tsuchiura-san, that's not Tsukimo- or whatever his name was but he's Nar-, oops, I mean he's Shibuya Kazuya. He's the boss of SPR." Ryou looked at Mai back again at Naru.
"Yeah it is true. That's not Tsukimori but-" he turn back to look at Mai.
"If you were to meet Tsukimori, Shibuya-san here looks exactly like him, but his hair color and clothing are different though." Ryou smiled. The school bell rang.
"Well I have to go to class see you around." He runs toward the door and left out.
'Tsukimori-san. Hmm, wonder what he really looks like Naru?' Mai chuckled. Naru saw and got irritated.
"Mai, tea."
"Hai!" 'And again I have to make tea for Naru. Man doing this every time for him is being quite a hassle.' Mai heard the door creak. She went to check who it was, and guess what? It's-
"Bou-san?!"
"Yo Mai." He gave Mai a smile likes usual. From behind him, She spotted a blonde, two blacks, and a red head.
"John?! Masako, Yasuhara-san?! Ayako?! Everyone's here?!" She was surprise. Usually everyone doesn't come whole as a group in a day.
"What's with the surprise looks Taniyama-san?"
"Oh it's nothing, just a little surprise that's all." Yasuhara didn't quite get the answer but went along with it.
"Agh, never mind." Mai waved a hand. She saw Masako looking over her shoulder and was wondering what she was looking at and so Mai too also turn around.
'Argh, it was only Naru. Well obviously who else would Masako look at? But still, that pisses me off.'
"Well anyway everyone, come on in and have a seat." Mai greeted afterwards and went to the kitchen to prepare Naru's tea before she forgets.
"So what's going on with this case?" Takigawa, along with everyone sat opposite of Naru except Masako.
"Dang that Masako. First she came in to only stare at Naru and now she's even SITING next to him! Urgh, that makes me so angry!" Mai was sending hate waves at her. Of course Masako could feel them but, she just ignores it which made Mai even angrier.
"Mai did you hear what I said?" She kept making a tiger face at Masako.
"MAI!"
"W-what?" She finally snapped, and face turn to Naru.
"What is it Naru?" Now he was the one ignoring her.
'What?!' Now Mai is triple angry.
"Mai-san, Shibuya-san was asking if you heard what he asked of you?" Mai then turned her head to face John.
"Oh uh sorry. I wasn't really paying attention." Mai started scratching her head and laughing it off.
"Mai." She jerked.
"Y-yes Naru."
"Go and set-up the equipments and make sure to return as soon as possible." And after those few words Naru left out of the rooms to do his things.
"Darn why is it always me." Mai started lagging the equipments down the hallway. "Good thing that the students are out for the day." She went to most of the rooms that were required and putted the microphones in there and left out quickly. She stopped walking and then took a glance at her map.
"Hm, my final destination is," she pointed to her right. "That way." So she turn to the right and was on her way to the last location. She came upon an unknown door, but opened it anyway.
"Uh, I wonder if I'm at the right place." Then Mai heard a violin playing.
"Oh wow! What a beautiful sound." She closed her eyes and followed the tune, to the conclusion she reached a door.
"Ah, what a happy yet sad sound. Wonder why?" Without a second thought, Mai sat down, her back leaning against the door, and she black out.
Few hours later…….
Creak…..
The door opened.
"Oh it seems like someone's there? The woman squeeze through the little opening and bent down to wake Mai up. She started to shake her.
"Um, ehto, it's not safe to sleep here so please wake up." Mai started to mumble some words.
"Bou-san, John-san, just one more minute." Mai turned around and her whole body fell straight for the floor.
"Ouch!" She raised herself up.
"What happened to me?" She looked up and saw that there was a girl there staring down at her. Immediately Mai got up and courtesy her.
"Uh, sorry. I kind of doze off there. Hahaha." The woman just smiled back.
"So, what are doing here?" She asked.
"Oh sorry. Taniyama Mai. We're here to investigate the problems that the school has here."
The woman put on a surprise face.
"Ah?! By any chance, do you know Tsuchiura-kun?"
"Hmm, is he tall, tan skin, dark green hair, and has a pretty nice build?"
"Yeah that's him."
"Uh hah. Yeah I know him. He helped me out when I was about to fall down the stairs."
"I see. Well did he mention someone by to you when you guys were talking?"
"Umm, well he did mention this one person that's all clumsy. It's a her by the way. Hmm, he said that he always have to help her out because she's to clumsy to carry or do anything. She would always fall down the stairs, and trip most of the time she has an errand to run. So Yeah. Why you asking it though?" Mai turned to her and found her with a sad puppy face.
"He called me clumsy huh?"
"Uh, is everything ok." The woman quickly raise up happy again.
"Oh, it's nothing. Anyway, that person that Tsuchiura-kun was talking about. That was me."
"HUH?!" Mai paused, and looked at her.
"Y-you mean………"
"Yep. Hino Kahoko."
"I see so you played the violin huh?" Kahoko smiled.
"Well I'm really bad at playing it though."
"I don't think so. I actually think that your pretty good." She smiled again.
"Thank you." Mai was adjusting the final equipment and,
"All done!"
"Wow, these are pretty impressive things."
"Yeah that was my first reaction when I first work." Both of them looked at each other and laughed.
"Hino-san?" Both of them stopped laughing, and turned around to look who it was. To Mai's surprise.
"Ah! Tsuk-"
"Eh! Naru?!?!"
Well that concludes of chapter 2 Music of the Remembering…… Please read and review….. ^&^….