Ok, so I wanted to put up two chapters today, seeing as I'm probably gonna be sleeping most of the day away tomorrow since I'll be out until probably 3 in the morning…ugh…so, here's the second chapter. Hope you guys like! Enjoy!Disclaimer: I own no Ghost Hunt-related items…sadly enough…YOU DON'T NEED TO RUB IT IN MY FACE! STOBBIT! ." Wow…sorry…spazzed out a bit…On to the story now! *runs away, face a bit flushed*
We got to the house at exactly 9 o'clock. Wow…he wasn't kidding when he said 9 o'clock… I thought to myself… I chuckled at my thought as I got out of the car, stumbling over my feet a bit, before running into Naru as he caught me in mid fall.
"Are you that clumsy that you manage to somehow trip over air?" He smirked. I jerked away from him, glaring at him hard.
"No! I am not!" I stomped over to the other side of the car to where Monk was. He chuckled to himself at the scene as well. I just glared his way and he regained his composure.
We decided to start walking towards the were almost at the house when we saw a little girl standing off to the side by the pond. She was expressionless, and didn't even take notice to us. She had shoulder-length brown hair, and was wearing a black school-girl dress. I decided to call over to her. (A/N: Picture that inspired this look on my profile.)
"Um…excuse me! Hello?" I looked at her. She just looked our way, and walked in the house slowly, face still expressionless. "Well that was weird…" I said out loud. Then we heard another voice.
"Hey! Up here!" the voice called. We looked in the direction and noticed a girl sitting in a nearby tree. "You guys are with Shibuya's group, right? Hang on a sec!" she did a back flip off the one branch and landed on her feet, before running over to us. She was dressed oppositely of the girl we had just witnessed. She had short, brown hair which only came down to about the middle of her ears, and was messy. She wore a purple shirt, with a white jacket over top of it, jeans, and a pair of one-star converse shoes. She reminded me of a tomboy in a way…(A/N: Again, picture that inspired this look, on my profile, except for the hair. The hair in the picture is actually really long, and I don't like long hair on tomboys. So, I cut it. ^_^ Lol)
"Name's Jun!" she said with a smile. Monk and I both went "Woah" when she did this.
"Heh…what's wrong?" She smiled shyly. Monk and I both just shook our heads. I said,
"Nothing! That was just really cool, what you just did right now when you jumped off of the tree branch." I complimented. She just looked at me like I was speaking nonsense.
"It's not that hard…" Jun said with a smirk. "Now, I'm sure you guys want a tour of the house, right? Mom's out right now, and Dad's on a business trip. So it's just us girls in the house for the time being. We've arranged a room for you to use as a base, at your request of course, and two more rooms side-by-side on the second floor for your use. You may use them freely." She said.
"Mom told me to show you guys the places with the most activity, so we'll start with my room." Jun stated, and walked towards the house before stopping and turning towards us with a serious face. "Oh, and one more thing. Try not to get too involved with my sister." She said this with the creepiest tone of voice I've ever heard."Um…why, may I ask?" I asked, a bit scared to hear the reasoning behind her statement. Her face turned back to her obnoxious, tomboy self.
"No reason!" She smiled, put her hands in her pockets, and walked us into the house, leaving us all thinking about the past statement.
"Woooow!" I exclaimed. "Your house is beautiful, Jun!" I said as we were entering the main hall right inside the door.
"Thanks! Although, I think my Mom overdid it a bit with the décor…I don't like all this artificial crap hanging around. Like the artificial bonsai tree over there, and the peacock feathers hanging on the wall…it's all artificial…I wish my mom had some sort of authentic nature in her… I love being outside, with nature, it's all so peaceful." She frowned. "At least…it was, until all this activity started. Now it's just an emotional nightmare for all of us…" I placed my hand on her shoulder and smiled.
"Don't worry, Jun." I said. "We're here to help." I smiled widely at her. She returned it, and started leading us upstairs.
She led us down a hallway which had paintings of scenery and plants hanging on the walls. They looked relatively new, so I assumed that they had just purchased them. We stopped at a door that looked like a cross between blue and green, and had a simple sign on it saying "Jun's Room." She opened the door slowly, as if expecting something to jump out at her.
"Well, here we are." She gestured towards the room. It had light blue walls, with white trim around the edges. There was a small desk in the corner, with a dresser up against the window on the other side of the room. Her other window, had a window seat built in it, with a bookshelf on the right side of the window. Her bed was up against the wall next to the dresser, with simple dark blue covers, and a book laying in the middle of the bed. "It's not much…but it's a place where I can just be myself. Although, there has been quite a lot of activity in here." She explained.
"What kind of activity?" Naru asked. "Mai, take temperature readings while Jun-san explains." He ordered.
"No problem." I complied and started taking temperature readings in said room.
"Well…" Jun started. "I was sitting at night on my bed reading, when I noticed a shadow on my wall. I brushed it off as just a shadow from something in my room. But, when I looked away for just a second, I looked back and noticed that it was gone. I thought it was my imagination, when I looked over to my other wall, and noticed it was now there. I thought something might happen if I looked away, so I stared at it for about 10 minutes at the most, until finally it moved out of the room and into the hallway. I stayed in my room for a while, and nothing seemed to happen after that. Then, I heard knocking on the wall behind me, turned around, and saw a little girl's face coming through the wall. I screamed then, making my mother run into the room to check up on me. But when I told her the story, she said there was nothing behind the bed. I confronted my Tsukiki about it, but she said she wasn't up and about at that time of night." She cringed at the memory.
I shuddered at the thought of seeing a little girl's face coming through my wall at night. The thermometer beeped and I recorded the temperature on a chart on a clipboard.
"Was there anything else that's happened in here?" Naru asked.
"Yeah, after that incident, my bookshelf will collapse on it's own, my computer will turn on by itself, and my door will slide open and shut at night." (A/N: I made it so that her door, and only her door, slid open like a traditional Japanese door would.) She explained all this, before having us see the rest of the house. She showed us a number of rooms in particular that had more activity in them than others. When she finished, I realized something…
"Hey, Jun?" I asked. She turned around to me.
"Yeah? What?" She asked.
"What about your Sister's room?" I asked, afraid that she might yell at me for asking to go in the one person's room she warned us not to get involved with. "Has there been any activity in there?" She looked up the staircase as if to look at said person's room.
"I don't know." She said with a straight face. "I don't really know much about my sister anymore. She spends so much of her time alone, I don't know half the things I should about her. She spends almost all day in her room, and then goes out to the pond every once in a while to look at the scenery, but that's about it. When I try to talk to her, she doesn't respond. So, I've given up on trying to speak to something that won't answer." Her voice got a bit angry with her last statement, but she quickly jumped back to her perky self.
"Well! Have you guys seen enough?" She quickly asked with a bright smile.
"Yes. We'll be setting up all of our equipment in the room you've reserved. We're going to need it all for this case. Thank you for your time. You may go." Naru stated.
"Um…if it's alright with you guys, would it be at all possible for me to stay and help out with things? I know a lot about paranormal investigations, and could be a great help to your investigation!" She said all this in hopes of getting a positive answer.
"I guess you could help us with research and setting up equipment with Mai. Fine." Naru said, not looking away from some files he was looking at. Jun smiled widely at this and bowed politely before sitting on the window seat in the room looking out into the garden with the pond.
"Hey, Jun." I asked. She turned her head and smiled at me. "You wanna help me set up cameras in the rooms you mentioned? Naru made a list for us. Then we can come back and wait for the rest of the equipment to arrive!" Jun's jaw just dropped.
"There's MORE equipment than this? Wow…your boss doesn't waste any time when it comes to work. Sure, I'll help!" It's true. We had a lot more equipment with us besides some thermometers and a couple cameras. The only thing we didn't have were the screens to project the video footage on and the other equipment to listen to the sounds we collect. She jumped up, grabbed some cameras and microphones, and headed upstairs with me to place them in the rooms in question.
We finished putting the last camera and microphone up and started heading back to base. We got about halfway down the hallway when we heard a door open. We both looked in the direction it came from, but didn't see anything out of the ordinary. We continued walking down the hall when we heard it again, only closer. We both spun around again, this time seeing a small figure at the end of the hallway up against the window. Jun scowled.
"Tsukiki! How many times must I tell you not to scare me like that!" She shouted. Just then, the figure rose off the floor and started floating towards us. We both cringed at the sight and started slowly walking backwards. When the figure finally came into the light, it was a horrifying sight to see.
"Jun! Run!" I yelled. She complied, and I stood my ground.
"Mai! What are you doing! Come on!" Jun yelled back. I just stood there staring at this apparition. I knew it instantly when I first saw it. It was the little girl in my dream. She had the pink hair, and the blue dress on, but instead of holding a regular rag-doll, the doll looked like it had been sewn from different dolls, making it look evil-looking. It still had blood stains on it, along with the girl herself. I raised my hands and made the seal of the Immovable One.
"Nau-Maku-San-Manda, Bazara-Dan-Kan! (X2)." I started, but the spirit just got closer and eventually got right in my face as I started the Nine cuts."Rin, Pyoh, Toh-" I was cut off by the spirit picking my up and pinning me against the wall by my neck. It was choking me to death.
"MAI!" I heard Jun call. Then I heard something I thought I would never hear come out of Jun's mouth.
"Rin! Pyoh! Toh! Shah! Kai! Gene! Retsu! Zai! Zen! BE GONE!" She slashed her hand one final time, making the spirit retreat back to wherever it came from. It wasn't exorcised, but at least it was gone for the time being. I fell to my knees as I was held up by Jun.
"Mai! Are you alright?" She asked, concern flooding her voice.
"I'm fine…I've been through worse, believe me." I smiled shyly. "At least the others didn't hear that, or Monk would have been freaking out on me stating that I can't do this anymore, and that he's taking me home first thing tomorrow." I laughed out loud and was helped up by Jun.
"We still have to explain to them that we saw her. Not the part about you getting practically choked to death, but just the fact that we saw her." Jun suggested. I nodded and we both went back downstairs to explain things to the others. I noticed a van out in the driveway.
"Looks like Lin's here with the remaining equipment. Good, he needs to hear about it too." I said.
"Lin?" Jun looked at me with a confused look. I just chuckled.
"Heh…you'll get to know everyone on the team soon enough, Jun." I patted her playfully on the shoulder and started laughing. She chimed in eventually as we were going down the stairs. We got to the door and as if we both thought the same thing, we both took a deep breath at the same time.
"Well, here we go…" I said. Jun nodded, and we opened the door, waiting to explain everything to the guys.
Well, there ya go! Ok, reviews are key for this chapter…I feel like I did a lot of rambling on this one…And, I didn't go all crazy on the attacks this time. So, please, please, PLEASE, review a lot on this chapter and criticize me all you want. Criticism is good for the soul…no pun intended…^.^;
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