So, I'm back in the groove again…for now lol. Hopefully I can finish this story soon so I can start another. I'm running out of ideas for this one. *sweat drop* Hope you guys enjoyed so far!
Mai: Chii owns nothing related to Ghost Hunt…Sadly
Chii: Ugh…again, that's more and more depressing each time you say it… -_-"
A few days had gone by since the incident. It seemed like all progress on this case came to a standstill. Everyday, the same routine: Takara-san leaving for work in the morning, and us conducting any investigations we can, and getting nowhere. We weren't getting anything done, and it was eating away at us all. We just wanted this case to end on it's own and everything to go away. But, I think the person who wanted that the most was Jun. She was sitting in her usual spot on the window seat, typing away on her laptop, looking for any information that can be gathered on related past events on the house. Everyone else was off on their own, while we were left in the base…as usual.
"What the…" Jun exclaimed quietly. I looked over at Jun who was now sitting straight up staring blankly at her computer screen. I got up and walked over to the window seat, sitting down next to Jun. I looked at the screen she was so terrified of.
"What is it…" I asked. My voice trailed off as I saw what she was so afraid of. It was a news article from a few years back about a certain child at a school being brutally humiliated in front of the entire school.
"Listen to this…" Jun started. "It says 'Local 9 year-old girl gets strung by her legs from a fence surrounding a public elementary school' Who would do something like that…? And another, '9 year-old girl gets pushed down two flights of stairs'. These children are brutal! There are several others relating to the same type of torture." We both read through a few others, in horror of the lengths these children went to in order to torture this poor child. At that moment, Naru walked in and noticed our frightened faces. He came over and looked at the computer himself. He took the computer over to a table and began jotting things down on a notepad.
"Naru, do you think these incidents may be why Miyami is acting this way?" I asked.
"Are you really that stupid that you couldn't figure that out yet?" He crudely asked. I stiffened at his sarcastic comment, but brushed it off when I noticed Takara-san coming up the driveway.
"Hey…You're mom's home early, Jun." I said. Jun looked out the window curiously.
"You're right…" She said. "Wonder what happened." Jun got up and rushed out to the main hall. When she got out there, she saw her mother in shock. She rushed up to her mother and shook her a bit to snap her out of it. "Mom! What's wrong?" She exclaimed. Her mom just staggered a bit before stating,
"Your father…isn't coming home." She said, her voice wavering. Jun stepped backwards a bit and let her mother finish. "He…is having an affair with one of his Co-workers…and won't be coming home." She finished. Jun just stood there in, what seemed like more shock than her mother. Then, without warning, she ran straight up the stairs into her bedroom and slammed the door shut. Everyone stood in silence for what seemed like forever, before Takara-san broke it solemnly.
"I think…I'll start supper…" She said softly, before heading off to the kitchen.
Supper was quiet, and a sad aura filled the air the entire time. Jun still hadn't come down from her room.
"Wonder if Jun is hungry…" I thought out loud. I decided to be nice and prepare a plate for her and bring it up to her after everyone else went off on their own to do a little more investigating.
I got to Jun's door and opened it slowly. I walked in and saw Jun sitting on her window seat, looking out at the garden.
"Jun?" I started. "I brought you some supper, in case you were hungry." She looked over at me and smiled. I was a bit shocked to see her so cheerful.
"Thanks a lot, Mai!" She exclaimed cheerfully. "I'm starved, actually." She took the plate gratefully and sat on her window seat and began eating immediately. I sat down on her bed facing her.
"So…why didn't you come back down after your mom informed you of your father?" I asked. She just looked up at me before turning back to her food.
"I don't know…" She said after a while. "I kind of expected this to happen, actually. Dad was always acting strange around Mom. He also didn't tell us what kind of business trip he was going on. So this was to be expected. It just kind of surprised me that he would actually sink that low. I thought that I was just being paranoid." She looked out the window in wonder. Then she whipped her head back around cheerfully after a while. "But I'm not upset! I'm going to keep my head high and keep moving forward." She said with all the confidence in her. I smiled widely at her. Whilst her voice and expressions said that she was happy, her eyes looked sad and lonely.
"I'm glad you're taking it this easily." I said. "It took me a whole year to get over the death of both my parents." I finished with a sad smile. Jun just looked at me, concern written all over her face.
"Oh, Mai." She said. "I'm sorry. I didn't know that happened." She had a sad expression. I just shook my head.
"It's fine." I said. "I'm over it now. I have a new family now. I think of this team as my family." I smiled widely. For the next half hour or so, we sat talking in Jun's room. I explained to her the components of my make-shift family I have created within this team. We sat joking for a while before she finished up her supper. After a while, it turned out to be later than we originally thought. By the time we both decided to go back downstairs, it was about 10 o'clock.
"Wonder if anyone's still up." I thought out loud. We took Jun's plate into the kitchen and headed over to the base to see if anyone was still awake. Sure enough, Naru and Lin were the only two people in the room. We walked in, shutting the door quietly, as to not disturb them while they were working. But of course, Naru being his Narcissistic self, spoke up right away.
"What are you doing here?" He said, not looking up from some files he was holding. I stiffened at his question but walked over calmly. I heard Jun stifle a laugh behind me. I ignored it, and continued walking over to Naru and his so-called "work" hoping to be of some use.
"I wanted to see if there was anything you needed help with." I stated.
"No." Naru simply said without hesitation. I decided that it was useless and sat down at the table in the center of the room. Jun went to her usual spot on the window seat in the room and flipped open her laptop, looking through some documents that she had saved on her computer from earlier.
"Shibuya-san…" Jun started. "What do you make of this incident?" Jun took her laptop over to Naru and showed him said incident. His eyes widened a bit as he read through the document.
"Do you think it could be why she uses dolls?" Jun asked.
"Can I see the story?" I asked. Getting up to walk over, Jun handed me the laptop. I gasped at the story. I started reciting the story. " 'Local high school torments 9 year-old girl with voodoo dolls spread all across the elementary school. Reports say that about 99% of the school used them, including a few teachers. Information as to how this many dolls were created hasn't been discovered, but measures will be taken to remove all dolls.'" I gave the laptop back to Jun, in shock of what I had just read. "This is pure torture. A 9 year-old girl getting tortured like this is just inhumane!"
"There's nothing we can do now." Jun said. "The deed is done. But what I'm trying to understand is what gave these kids the motive to do all these things?"
"Children who think humiliating non-sociable children is amusing. So any child will do it just for the amusement." Naru stated. "Why they would go to such lengths is beyond me."
"Even the teachers were in on this!" I exclaimed. "That's against the law!"
"Perhaps…but maybe the girl was just mentally unstable like her father, and did things against the students as well as the teachers." Naru stated. "Maybe she did things that the teachers wouldn't even think a child could do, and didn't want her around anymore."
We sat there going over as many possibilities that we could think of, and came to the conclusion that the girl was mentally unstable and had a few incidents where she had snapped on everyone in the school, and that's why they were all against her. I decided to go get us some tea, so we all sat there sipping tea and talking about how we were to solve this.
"I suggest we perform an exorcism on the girl's bedroom. That seems to be where the spirit resides." Naru said. Just as he said that, Lin jumped up from his chair and was staring at one of the camera screens.
"Naru!" Lin exclaimed. Naru jumped up quickly to look at the screen. His eyes widened as he looked at the temperature readings for said room, and was shocked at what he actually saw in the room.
"What is it, Naru?" I asked. I soon saw what everyone was gaping at. Takara-san was in Tsukiki's room being held up by some force by her neck, and being strangled. Without thinking, I ran out the door, followed by Jun. As I was running out, I heard Naru yell 'Mai! Wait!', but ignored it completely.
When I reached the top of the staircase, I picked up my pace as I heard the brutal scream of Takara-san. I got to the door and tried to open it, with no luck. I tried ramming into it a few times with my body, still having no luck. When I was about to try again, Jun arrived and pulled me aside. She lifted her leg and gave one swift blow at the door with her leg. With amazing luck, the door gave. But, to our shock, when we went inside, there was nothing there. Nothing was out of place, nothing broken, and no one was in there.
"What…?" We both said.
"How is that possible?" I asked out loud
"We could see everything happening on the camera!" Jun exclaimed. We left after a period of looking things over, and investigating anything that might seem out of the ordinary. When we got to the top of the flight of stairs, we noticed Naru waiting anxiously at the bottom.
"Anything?" He asked eagerly. We both shook our heads. "Odd…" He thought out loud. "When you broke down the door, the video turned to static for a second or two and refocused afterward. I thought something had happened." He looked at me when he said this. His expression didn't change, but I knew he was concerned for me. I smiled warmly at this. We reached the bottom of the staircase when Naru said, "I think it's best we quarantine Tsukiki's room for the time being. Seeing as there is a lot of activity going on in there, we don't want anyone going in there and getting themselves into trouble-" Naru was cut off by the horrifying sight of Takara-san's disembodied torso falling in front of all of us.
"AAHH!" Jun's scream echoed throughout the entire house.
Well, there ya go! Hope you enjoyed this chapter…I have nothing else to say so I'll just stop rambling now.
Mai: You killed her sister AND HER MOTHER? You're on a killing spree, aren't you!
Chii: This is my way of wrapping things up, ok! You of all people should know this by now!
Mai: Very true…R&R and comment!
Chii: Ciao! ^_^