Disclaimer: I don't own Ghost Hunt. If I did, well...
The equipment was really heavy. It was no wonder that the students just eyed the three members of the SPR left to do such a daunting task. Takigawa twitched. "What's with them?" He asked in a soft hissing voice, but loud enough to be heard by his two companions. "Don't they see that we are having trouble carrying all this?"
The priest sighed. "Maybe that's why they don't help." Takigawa didn't comment about this, but he made a usual grumble along the way.
"Lin-san," the curious priest enquired, "How can we keep up with them?" Since Naru and the gang have gone ahead, and left the three of them to carry the cameras and such, they couldn't possibly know the way to the base.
As if to answer his question, Mai appeared in front of them. She gave her cheerful smile and said that Naru had sent her to get them, while Naru talked to Asumi. Mai grabbed two thermal cameras from Lin, who was carrying the most load, and lead the way. It took them a minute or so to reach the conference room, a.k.a. the base.
Takigawa gave a look of irritation, as he saw Masako and Ayako, practically doing nothing. They didn't even bother to help!
"Having fun?" Ayako commented slyly. No, that didn't help either. In fact, it made Takigawa feel like a volcano about to explode. But instead of exploding, he gave short breaths at five second intervals to cool himself.
"Actually, some help would be nice." Takigawa bounced back; his voice had a hint of agitation. He received a scoff from Ayako.
"How very rude of me," He added, his lips starting to form a smile. "I shouldn't ask Ayako-baa-chan to do the tedious task of bringing the heavy-"
But before he could finish what he was saying, Ayako hit him on the head with her purse. He yelled out his cry of pain, as the purse continued to make contact with his head.
"Matsuzaki-san," Naru said, as he was slowly approaching them. "We are not here to play around."
Ayako instantly stopped at the younger boy's direction. He may be younger, but those death glares of his seem to be perfected over the last century. She made a frown, her "punishment" was cut off, but Takigawa was glad that it was.
"Where is Asumi-san?" Mai asked, curious as to where the student council president had gone. Maybe Naru did something…
"She is getting all the students that are involved in the case." was Naru's swift answer. He went inside; to study all the information he had at the moment.
It took the team approximately 30 minutes to bring all the equipment to the base. "Mai, tea." was the first thing Mai heard when she finished bringing all the equipment.
"Hai." she replied, and went on to do her routine of making her boss' tea. She ended up doing this five times, as her boss asked for more and more, while listening to the stories of the numerous students that had experienced or witnessed paranormal activity. Almost all of the people in school, including faculty, have seen this child ghost at least once.
"Woah, so many have seen this ghost kid." Takigawa stated tiredly, as Asumi left together with the last group of students to be interviewed. "But only one class saw their classmate almost kill a girl."
Naru turned to Masako. "Hara-san, what do you sense?" He asked, knowing that an experienced medium such as her would be able to feel something.
She gave a quick small frown when Naru called her by her last name, but not quick enough to be unnoticed by Mai. Masako thought for a moment before adding in her thoughts. "I sense a presence of a boy, and of something else."
"Something else?" John echoed. The other members were also keen on knowing what this was. Masako looked uncertain for a moment, as if doubting if she ever felt it at all. She closed her eyes for a moment, and shook her head.
"It's nothing." Everyone else breathed a sigh of relief.
Naru stood up from his chair and went over to Lin to go over the notes Lin made. Scanning them up and down, Naru noticed something in the ghost boy appearances. He got up and reached for the whiteboard that had the school map in it. He grabbed the red coloured magnetic dots and placed them in various places in the school map. He did the same with the purple magnetic dots, putting them in selected places that also contained the red magnetic dots. Finally, with a blue one, he placed it in one location.
He turned to look at the curious looks that the SPR members sported. With a cough, he started his discussion. "The red dots signify the places where the ghost boy has appeared at least once. The purple dots are the places that have been visited by the ghost boy the most. The blue dot is the place where the incident happened."
The team nodded in understanding, knowing that their deductive boss will get something out sooner or later. More on the sooner, though.
He continued, "The places that don't have anything on them, are the places that had no paranormal activity, from what we can get out of the information given by the students."
"Yes, and these are the faculty room and the gym, etc..." Takigawa added exasperatedly, annoyed on what Naru seem to be implying. They're grownups for crying out loud, not school children. Naru gave Takigawa a much colder glare.
"Oh, I know." John called out, "The ghost boy doesn't seem to be visiting areas that the students don't usually go to."
"That explains the teacher's faculty room." Mai confirmed, "But not the gym. The students go there for P.E. class."
"Yes Mai. There's something else." Naru seemed to give Takigawa a much colder glare than he used to. It was as if he knew what the monk was thinking. "They're places where students wear their school uniform."
Mai looked at the map. The gym, when students go to P.E. they have to change into their P.E. gear. There were also the archery grounds, the swimming pool and the teacher's faculty room, where students don't really stay there for a long period of time. It all kicks into place.
Takigawa was also surprised. Only Naru-bou could be able to get out something like that. He turned to look at his little sister figure, Mai. She had given a smile of admiration, that she thought was unseen by everyone.
"Alright, Matsuzaki-san and Hara-san, you go around the school, and see if you can sense anything." Naru ordered in his usual cold business fashion, but they nodded anyway. Naru thought for a moment before he continued, "Mai, Brown-san and Takigawa will set up the cameras in the classrooms 1-C, 1-F, 2-B, 2-E, 3-A, and 3-F."
"Demo, Naru," Mai couldn't help but inquire, "What happens if there is a class in one of the rooms?"
Naru gave his answer, "Well, just remember those rooms and set them up soon after."
They nodded their heads, leaving the now silent room, except for Lin's typing.