And here is the second rewritten Chapter! i know its a little long, but hey I needed to make up for the absence. I did reference the light novels a lot for some of the plot, but im also working of of the manga and anime. depending on the case. I know that Mai is OC here but thats kind of the point, i thought it would be fun to have her actually come off as being smart, but to enjoy having fun as well. After all we cant have Mai be anything but happy-go-lucky !

the disclaimer is in the first chaper if you need to read it once again

Stargal

Oliver had been looking through the main building of the school that him and Lin had been hired to investigate. Most of the students had left; he was just killing time as his bodyguard/ assistant got the information he needed. As he wandered he heard voices coming from one of the classrooms, looking in the darkened room he came across four girls sharing ghost stories, they seemed to be playing a game.

"One" Said the one closes to the door her voice was laced with slight fear

"Two" was the one to her right, who also seemed scared.

"Three" the girl furthest from the door said, her voice however was calm and showed no trace of fear.

"Four" the final girl was the same as the first two, fear laced her voice, Oliver couldn't help but to interrupt

"Five" his steady voice rang out, making three of the girls scream, turning on the lights, he saw that two of the girls had garbed on to the one furthest from him, how seemed irritated but not scared. After seeing his face the three who had screamed raced over to him and started berating him with questions, the final girls just stared at him. She seemed to be analyzing him, before looking away and staring off in to space, he could tell that she was thinking about something. He answered her friend's questions studying her at the same time.

"Whats your Name" the girl who stood on his left asked.

"Shibuya Kazuya" he answered.

"Im Michiru, this is Keiko and Yuuri, and Mai is back there" the girl introduced her friends. It was then that the girl called Mai looked over giving a smile, he phone went off making her check it quickly. After reading the information on the screen she gave her goodbyes and left. After asking to join in their next session Oliver also left.

Mai stretched as she walked along the park path, admiring the cherry blossoms. 'Im happy that I actually woke up early today, now I get the cherry blossoms to my self' she thought happily. When she reached the old school house, she came to a stop at the gate, noticing a black van parked in front of the old school building, watching for a moment she saw her principal and two others come from in behind the van. One towered over the other two easily, the other looked to be no older then her. After a second she recognized the two men walking beside her principal. 'Hmm lets have some fun shall we?' She asked her self a mischievous grin making its way to her face, as she bounced over towards her principal.

"Himito-sensei, good morning!" Mai called out cheerfully as she got closer to the threesome. She actually quite liked the principal of this school, he understood that she just wanted to enjoy her high school life with others her age, he also didn't giver her much grief innless he pranks got out of control. From the smile on her face the principal knew she was up to something, and that could ether mean trouble, or it could help him out greatly. Hoping it was the later he responded with his own greeting.

"Taniyama-san what a surprise seeing you here this early in the morning, not causing trouble I hope?" Mai couldn't help but giggle at his question; he must be worried that she was planning another prank, really she hadn't caused much trouble since she put a rather over confidant student teacher in to place. Mostly because she gotten quite the earful for it from him; something about not picking on people just because she found them annoying. She hadn't told him that the main reason she had targeted the idiot was because he was picking on one of the girls who was shy and had a hard time in the history class that he was teaching at the time.

"Nope no trouble today, my neighbor woke me up when she started yelling and her boyfriend at an ungodly hour this morning so I figured I would come in early." She explained her principles' aura relaxed as he nodded. A cough interrupted them; causing look at her principal's companions needless to say they looked annoyed. 'Hehe Noll looks upset about being ignored, ah wait I should think of him as Shibuya-san so that I don't accidentally slip up.' Mai thought, "Oh Shibuya-san I didn't see you there. How are you this morning?" She asked feigning ignorance over ignoring him.

"Fine. However you are interrupting an important conversation." He started irritation was laced though his voice but she cut him off.

"Your not an exchange student are you? To bad Michiru and Keiko will be disappointed, so what are you actually doing here?" Shibuya looked shocked at her sudden interruption. Mai noticed, "Oh come on what exchange student is actually given a tour of an abandon, off limits building, now then, lets see…. The options are, the principal is hiring you to finish the demolition," she made a point of looking both of them over, noticing the suspicious look Lin-nii gave her, "hmm to well dressed for that, you did seem rather interested in the stories that my friends and I were telling last night, oh I know!" Mai thumped a fist in to her hand ' I know just what to mistake him as.' She laughed inwardly "You must be reporters. Yep that has to be it. Are you here to do a story on the old school building? Something about the tragedies that keep on happening?" Mai gave both men an innocent look, she could have sworn that both men almost faltered, but they recovered quickly and hid it behind emotionless masks. She could hear Himito-sensei sigh beside her he had seen this before, normally she only did it to the students that she caught bad mouthing one of the other teenagers, or a teacher that woke her up from a nap. She would normally try and embarrass them or make them feel uncomfortable. Shibuya-san had probably done something to annoy her when he meet her, which had to have been the night before when her and her friends normally stayed to tell ghost stories after school.

Taniyama-san, that's enough. This is Shibuya Kazuya, who I can see that you have already met, and his assistant Lin Kojuo." Her principal introduce the two men trying to save them from his students rambling, Mai giggled ' he really butchered Lin-nii's name.' She giggled some more making the three men look at her; she just put up an innocent mask. "They are paranormal researchers, that the board hired to investigate the old school building. " he paused, an idea coming to him. "Taniyama-san you are still ahead in all of your classes correct" he asked, Mai could tell what was coming next.

"Yep, I just come so that I can cause trouble for all of you. That and its boring at home all the time." she told him with a overly bubbly voice making the poor man sweat drop. He turned towards Shibuya and Lin.

"Looks like I just solved two problems at once. Seeing as how I don't have time to help you with any questions and im sure that you can use Taniyama fascination for the paranormal to your advantage, why don't I have her help you out for the duration of you investigation." He offered, hoping that the young man would take him up on the offer. Both men saw the desperation in the principles eyes, looking over at the girl whom the man before them seemed to want out of his hair for a bit they saw that she had already started towards the old school building.

"Something tells me that we are going to have her around here either way." Shibuya sighed in annoyance, he hadn't planed on having someone other than him and Lin there, not to mention a teenage girl who seemed way to happy for him. He was lost in thought that he hadn't noticed her walk back over to the group. That was till she spoke.

" Are you coming? Or are you going to just stand here? Because I think it would be more productive if you actually did something." He almost jumped. Instead he just looked at her.

" Shouldn't you be heading to the school with your principal?" he asked in a cold voice. Babysitting some teenage girl was not on his list of things to do. She looked at him in confusion.

" You do realize that he wanted me to help you because that meant I wouldn't be at school making the teachers life hard because I was bored in class? Hence the "solve two problems at once" part." She looked at him like he was stupid. Now Shibuya understood, Sighing he lead her over to the van caring the equipment that they would be using for the case. he was not looking forward to this case, he had only token it because it was part of the school, and he didn't want any of the students to get hurt. "Lin will show you what to do with the equipment" he stated before leaving his companions behind to start walking through the old building.

Mai looked over to the quite man, waiting till she knew that Noll was out of hearing range she smirked. Walking over to the tall man.

"So are you even going to say hello, its been a while since I saw you? " Mai asked

" Yesh if it wasn't do to the fact that they were identical you wouldn't guess that he and Gene were related. I mean really he could at least pretend that he liked people." Mai ranted making Lin startle, he knew that the girl was familiar, but decided it was just because she had a similar personality to the small girl he had seen as a sister before her and her mother left for Japan six years ago.

"What did you just say Taniyama-san?" he asked.

" Really Lin-nii, I don't think that you are old enough for your hearing to be going already." He just stared at her with a blank expression. "Wait you mean that you really didn't recognize me? I mean I know it's been six years, but surly aunty Lu-LU shared the pictures that I sent her every year." Finally it clicked

"Mai-meimei?" he looked shocked. "And here I thought he recognized me when I was bugging Noll" Mai Thought. She just nodded her head; a smile broke out on his usually static face, before giving the younger girl a hug.

Kojuo Lin was not one for emotions, how ever upon hearing the young girl before him was the sister he had never had, that he had lost contact with not long after her moving couldn't help but show his happiness at seeing her again. Not being able to stop himself he quickly picked her up in a bear hug.

"I missed you. I haven't heard from you since you mothers funeral." He said letting her go a small and happy smile still slightly visible on his face.

"I missed you too. I lost your email, when I was packing up moms things, I thought that Gene and Aunt Lu-Lu would tell you about everything when I talked to them, well that and the teacher I was staying with wasn't really a fan of my love for the paranormal… or the fact that I didn't want to skip grades even though I had surpassed most of my classmates let alone my school mates. She never really understood why I would still want to follow something that killed my mother." Mai Explaind. "That's right her mother was killed by a curse." He thought when she was done talking. They talked for a few more minutes, about what she had been doing in the last three years that she had been living in Japan.

Does Noll still have amnesia from that time?" she asked. Lin just nodded "Okay in that case I wont let him know about me knowing who he truly is, I know he's keeping his identity secret to ovoid the media." Mai sighed.

"That why you asked if he was a reporter. You wanted to tease him for the other night. Jeez after all this time you still like to tease him don't you?" he asked Mai gave him a look that said 'of course' "we better get all of this moved before Noll gets mad." Lin grabbed one of the heaver looking boxes before heading inside, Mai followed suit.

"You should probably treat me like you would any other stranger, so that he doesn't think anything is going on" Mai told him as she entered the old abandoned school house. Lin just nodded and lead the way, to what she assumed was the room being used as a base for the investigation. Upon entering she saw that there had been shelves set up and a generator sat in the corner, they had also managed to get the principal to have a couch brought in. 'something tells me that Noll takes after his fathers workaholic tendencies' Mai sweat dropped upon seeing the set up. Sighing she set her box down and started the walk back down to the van. Walking back and forth between the base and the van was tiring. About an hour later they had brought everything in and had started to set up cameras around the building. Mai had been setting a camera up in the old boot room when she accidentally bumped in to a shoe rack causing it to start falling over.

"Taniyama-san!" she heard Lin call before she was pushed out of the way of the falling shelves. She let out a scream as she tumbled towards the ground. Standing up she saw that the rack had fallen on Lin's leg. Shibuya had joined them as she made her way to help the man up. Offering him her had he slapped it away and glared at her, but as he did this one of his shiki brushed past her, letting her know that he was okay.

"Are you okay Lin?" Shibuya asked kneeling beside the tall man.

"Yes its just a sprain, I should still go to the hospital and get it checked out. The shorter man nodded.

"There's a small clinic not to far from here if you want to try there. It's just down the road, it's about a five minute drive." Mai said looking guilty for injuring him.

"You might as well head to school for the rest of the day. Leave me with your phone number so I can contact you when we get back. Looks like you will be filling in for Lin till he is able to work again." He told her, his voice gone cold again. Mai nodded and walked out of the old school building, and then towards the school. ' I hope that Lin recovers quickly' Mai sighed, before bracing herself for school.

Mai stretched as the bell rang. Her friends quickly surrounded her desk.

"Why weren't you at school this morning" Michiru asked her.

"Himito-sensei though that I should help the group of paranormal investigators over at the old school building, though I think he did that so that that I wasn't pulling pranks out of boredom" Mai stated, bringing her hand up to cradle her chin in a thinking pose. Making her friend laugh.

"Are you going to stay and tell ghost stories after school with us? We were going to invite Shibuya-senpai." Keiko asked. Just as Mai went to tell her friends that she had other arrangements. A voice came from across the classroom.

"You've been telling ghost stories! No wonder I have a headache." an average girl with braids and glasses complained glaring at the group.

"Great it's Kuroda again" Michiru whispered

"Doesn't she ever quit" Keiko whispered back, and Yuuri nodded her head in agreement. Mai looked confused; having only started school here at the beginning of the year she didn't actually know many of her classmates that well. So the two hadn't really talked.

"Really how many times do I have to tell you that by telling ghost stories, you are attracting wondering ghosts here? No wonder I've been seeing more of them than usual today" Kuroda gave them a murderous glare. Something about her aura reminded Mai of Noll; just what it was she couldn't figure out. Just then the door opened and in walked Shibuya.

"Taniyama-san are you ready to go yet." He asked annoyed, before Mai could answer him Kuroda spoke up.

"Who are you?" she asked an edge to her voice.

"Someone your principal hired to investigate the haunted building on school grounds. Lets go Taniyama-san." He brushed the Kuroda off quickly. Mai saw her friends look at her in confusion.

"I'll explain it later, got to go." However before she could reach the door Kuroda spoke making Mai stop.

"Thank goodness someone is finally doing something about that building. You know I keep on seeing victims from the war there its annoying." Shibuya just looked at her, as did Mai. 'She doesn't have the aura of a medium.' She thought.

"You're a medium?" he asked turning to look at her better, making her blush. Mai wanted to shake her head. Before the man before he could make a rude comment she started her way out the door.

"Well we better get to work Shibuya-san, I want to be heading home at a some what decent hour." She started to user him out of the door and in to the hallway. Mai knew that Kuroda had been lying, she couldn't see ghosts; it had to be something that the girl did for attention. Mai and Shibuya continued their walk in silence. Mai lost in her thoughts. 'How am I going to keep Gene a secret from Noll, even though im a good actor, Lin-nii and Noll could always tell when I was hiding something. This is going to be annoying. I don't need Noll becoming suspicious of me. If I luck out maybe I can get a job working for him, if that happens I should be able to find something of Genes so that I can use it to trace is aura back to his spirit, thank heavens I got him those charms so that his spirit didn't lose connection to his body. It's the only thing keeping him alive right now. I should also replace the charms in his room soon.' Mai thought she was brought out of her thoughts when they stopped at the van. "So what's the plan for the evening boss" Mai asked. ' I can see why people think he's handsome, hell I have to agree' Mai thought, and then he smirked 'I did not just…'

"So you think I'm handsome" Mai blushed over her slip up, shaking her head over adding to his ego. Mai decided that she knew a way to knock down his inflated ego just a bit.

"Something tells me you get that a lot, though I must say I've seen better looking men, not to mention that personality is a major turn off" Mai looked at the man in front of her who needlessly to say looked shocked Mai smirked, 'awe looks like he's not use to girls saying that.' Shibuya just scoffed, before turning and heading in to the old school building Mai just followed. As the evening drew on Mai found her self, alone in the base watching the cameras. 'This building gives me the creeps, but I don't feel any ghosts' Mai thought staring aimlessly at the monitors. Lost in thought she didn't feel Shibuya approaching the room. When she heard the door open Mai shrieked, she wasn't use to people sneaking up in her. Turning around she saw just who had entered the room. The temptation to hit the smirk of Shibuya's face was hard to ignore, even more so after he told her.

"You are here to replace my assistant not to stare at my face Taniyama-san" Mai's face turned red from anger and embarrassment. 'That narcissistic jerk, I cant believe he just said that! Now he's just looking at his reflection in the window! That's it I am no longer calling him Noll or Shibuya, From now on it Naru-chan the narcissist!'

"You, you jerk. First you sneak up on me then you actually think that I would be staring at your face!" Mai huffed before leaving the room, "Im going home, it's late and im bored, see you around." She stomped out of the room leaving her companion behind, stopping outside of the building she looked up, seeing her former company watching her leave from the window. Mai couldn't help but smirk; he was still the same hiding behind an emotionless mask and trying to keep everybody at arms length but still protective of those around him. Humming happily she made her way home, however as she rounded the corner, a flashlight blinded her, as she ran in to someone.

"Eh Mai?" Michiru asked, "what are you still doing here?" seeing her other two friends behind Michiru she guessed that they must have just been finishing up with their evening ghost stories.

"Hmm well remember how Shibuya said he was the person who the school hired to look in to the paranormal happenings at the old school building? And how I said that the principal asked me to help out? You do the math." Mai told her friends curious expressions turn to realization.

"So you're helping out Shibuya-san? What's he like?" Keiko asked excitedly.

"Ya for now at least… he's a complete Narcissist, Uhg! I don't even want to get started on it, he spent most of the time we where working staring at his reflection!" She complained acting all worked up about the matter. She had her friends laughing at her actions when she felt Kuroda walking towards the group.

"Taniyama-san, do you think it would be possible for you to introduce me to Shibuya-san." She asked. Mai didn't need to read her aura to tell that she was after Noll's attention. 'This is going to turn out bad for her, Noll hates fakes…'

"I don't know…." Mai started

"My abilities would be of assistance in helping solve the issues at the old school building" Kuroda interrupted before she could tell her that it wouldn't be a good idea.

"Come on Kuroda everyone knows that your just faking being a medium to get attention" Michiru said grabbing Mai's hand "Come on Mai, lets go." Before she could say anything her friend had dragged her around the corner and half way down the next street.

Mai watched the group that had formed this morning. Joining her and Naru now was a self styled "Shrine Maiden", Mai could tell that she did indeed have powers, but for some reason her aura was laced with a vibrant green color instead of the usual pale blue or some times pink colors that Mai had seen with other shrine maidens. The second to join there group was a Monk, Mai could tell right away that he was indeed a monk, however he didn't seem to be all that traditional, though he had obviously been raised in a shrine it seemed more like he used his powers more of a way to make money on the side. Though what he did for a living she didn't, know not many men choose to grow their hair out and wear it up. The third person had been a priest from Australia, she couldn't help but Laugh when he introduce him self, just as she knew that Naru was also amused by his odd accent… The last person to show themselves to the group had been a medium, though she wasn't nearly as powerful as Gene, she definitely wasn't a fake, which suppressed Mai because she knew the girl from a television show that her friends liked to follow. Soon after the group had introduced them selves, Kuroda had shown up at the school claiming once again to be a medium in which, she was quickly called a liar by the shrine maiden; Ayako Matsuzaki. Of course being embarrassed Mai's classmate then threatened the older woman. Noticing that she was the only one left in the base Mai stretched, knocking the pen shed had been using to record any noses or images down, off the table, reaching down to pick up the pen she noticed that the floor had a slant.

'Wait this isn't normal, this kind of slanting only happens when there is something like ground substance at play, that would explain Masako Hara's belief that there is no ghosts here. Also I remember mom saying that houses could make sounds similar to knocking sounds.' It was shortly after Mai came up with her theory that Naru, returned with Masako and John Brown the priest. Quickly observing the group she noticed that Masako was hitting on Naru. John was making his way over to her slowly.

"Nothing so far, how ever Matsuzaki-san and Takagawa-san are still working on theirs." John informed her taking the empty seat to her right. Wanting to figure out just how a 19 year old was able to gain the status of exorcist Mai took a close look of his aura. She noticed a strange golden color twined though out the pale blue color. Having never seen such an occurrence, it confused her a little. Not finding anything, she gave up, thinking that she could just ask him about it later. Seeing that Naru was still busy trying to get rid of a clingy Masako, she decided to see if she could confirm her theory, but she didn't really have time for researching the topic she sent a quick message to her friend, knowing he would enjoy the break from studying, besides he found the paranormal just as interesting as she did, but he loved it more when he could find evidence that would actually disprove that Haunting, saying it was more fun. As a secondary thought she decided that she would like more information on the group that had joined them, something told her that she would be seeing them a lot more after this was over.

She was just about to tell Naru that she was going to go and get some drinks from the convenience store down the street there was a loud bang followed by a scream that sounded like Ayako. Racing towards the second floor classroom, they found The monk who Mai had decided to call Bou-san already there. Talking to a very distraught sounding priestess.

"Step back Ayako, im kicking the door in!" The monk called as he backed up.

"Just get me out of here!" At her words the door was hit by the older mans foot successfully knocking it off its hinges. Every one rushed in, except for Naru who stopped to investigate the door. Of course Mai noticed this, along with him stopping to pick something up from the broken door. "Is that a nail?"

After the whole incident with Ayako getting locked in the old classroom, everybody decided that an exorcism was in order. Having already guessed that the building wasn't really haunted, Mai followed simply to see the Shinto version work, though it was mostly because she didn't want to be in the base by herself, it was to boring. After finishing the ritual, the principal and vice principal invited Ayako out to dinner, who in return refused claiming that she needed to stay and insured that it had indeed worked. As they started back to base Mai walked ahead checking her messages to see if the friend she had talked to earlier had found anything yet, having gotten confirmation about the grounds, and was suppressed to find that he had also decided to check the surrounding wells, finding them dried up. "That confirms my suspicions then. Hopefully he can find some information on the others." Mai thought, suddenly she heard the sound of shattering glass behind her, turning around just in time to see shards of the window she had passed hitting the teachers. Crying out in surprise Mai rushed over to check and see if everyone was all right, after calling an ambulance for both the principals. Everyone returned to base. Once again Kuroda had joined them.

Well then there is the two rewritten chapters, please feel free to tell me what you think. ill try and respond to any reviews that i can. also feel free to IM me ill do my best to get back to you ASAP

Stargal