DIE SCHOOL

DIE SCHOOL!! I am so sorry to have not updated for like….ever…but first with finals, then jumping all over the place during summer, and then two hours of homework every night DURING THE FIRST WEEK OF FREAKIN' SCHOOL!! Things got a little busy. Pardon my rant. Yo by the way, a lot of this will involve explaining the magic stuff.

I don't own Ghost Hunt. I've only read up to volume 9. I will be making things up. A lot of things. If you have any questions, don't be afraid to ask. I cannot guarantee a logical answer. Moving on.

Kaye and Naru were sitting next to each other, determinedly not looking at the other and basically ignoring each others very existence. Next to Kaye, driving, Lin shifted uncomfortably.

"Mental note to self, never stick twelve people together in one small van for periods of time longer than…oh lets say ten minutes." Mai muttered under her breathe to Masako, who giggled, earning an amused look from Reno and Shinji, who was perched precariously on top of Reno's lap.

It had been an hour, and Mai was honestly surprised nobody was dead. Although it did look as if Takigawa-san was going to murder the babbling Ry in his sleep. Ayako didn't look much better. On the bright side, John and Katen were getting along!

"Oh yeah Mai! Always look on the bright side!" she said, earning a few odd looks.

"She does that." Katen said, before continuing on with her conversation of Good and Evil, barely missing a beat.

Blushing lightly, she turned around to listen, noticing several others do the same.

"There are four basic elements to life: Good, Evil, Light, and Dark. Contrary to most popular belief, there is no set boundary between these aspects."

"What do you mean?" John asked, looking confused.

"Well, take the example of magic practitioners. One can be a Light Magic user be use this Light for Evil or Good. Or one can be a Dark Magic Practitioner and use it for Evil or Good. Or one can just use it for any area in between."

"So Dark and Evil aren't the same thing?" Takigawa asked.

"Nope. If one is to practice magic that dwells more on….the darker aspects of life, then it is just Dark Magic. Dark Magic uses concepts such as the moon, water, stars, air, shadows, night, and silver. Light magic focuses on concepts such as the sun, fire, light, day, earth, and gold. Good magic uses them for good. Evil magic uses them for evil."

"Sounds pretty basic." Lin spoke up.

"The basic explanation is." she smirked.

"She can make it a heck of a lot more complicated then that." Reno drawled out.

"Trust us." Mai and Kaye said together. Kaye glanced back at her and they looked at each other for a few moments before erupting into giggles.

"Lookie Katie!" Ry exclaimed.

"Katen."

"Whatever. Lookie Katie! Cue Katen sighing in exasperation The unofficial twins are back together!!"

"Awww….ain't that sweet…." Shinji fake gushed.

"Shut it." the two said together.

Naru frowned, "You've used that term before. What does it mean?"

"It means we're not related at all but we act like twins so we might as well be." Mai exclaimed, smiling slightly at the look of puzzlement of Naru's face. He was clearly not able to wrap his oversized, egotistical brain around the concept of being twins but not being twins. She cackled evilly inside, pleased to have finally confused him.

"We're here."

"Thank God." Masako mumbled to Mai, who erupted into giggles as they watched Kaye and Naru fight to get out of the car first. Apparently Naru wasn't moving fast enough, based on the large psychic push that Kaye set at him.

Naru flung out of the car and face planted right in the dust at their customer's feet. About two minutes passed before every single member of the combined research team burst into uncontained laughter.

The couple just looked at them in confusion and slight worry for their mental health.

"Kaye!" Mai admonished (1) between laughter, "Stop using telekinesis to shove people around!"

"Psht. Whatever."

Finally the group calmed down enough to properly speak with their hosts. The man, Takashi (whom they learned to be the woman's-Anna- fiancée) helped SPR carry in equipment.

"What the heck are those?" Kaye asked Lin.

"Cameras and microphones, so we can monitor parts of the house that spirit phenomenon has taken place." He explained.

"I thought it was weird too." Mai shrugged her shoulders at Kaye.

"Whadda you guys usually do?" Takigawa asked.

"Usually? Well, usually we ask Shinji to go around and let us know where the most prominent heebie-jeebies' are and then Katen does her voodoo on it to let us talk to it." Ry explained (2).

Lin blinked at him, who smiled broadly, kissed him on the cheek and skipped out of the room.

"Ummmm…." Lin started.

"Don't ask." Katen said, stepping into the room, putting down two duffel bags and a large wrapped up stick looking thing.

"What the heck are those?" Ayako asked, pointing at the stick and bags.

"One is clothes. The other is my Book of Shadows, Spell Book, Tools and 'Ritual robes'. The other is my Staff. I use it to concentrate my magical energy. Kinda of like a wand."

"Move over Harry Potter." John said, apparently in awe of Katen. Katen smirked.

"AHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHHH!!" a scream erupted from the hallway.

"That sounded like..."

"Masako!" Mai yelled, running out of the room, the others hot on her trail.

(1)- Oh yeah. Big word. I rock. Look at me, helping people pass the SAT's one chapter at a time. Of course I don't think I used it in the right context so you may not want to hold me to that….I can see that going over well.

"Dear! How did you manage to fail the Vocab section of the SATs?"

"Well, mom, I just did what the nice person on told me to."

yeah…..

(2) Ry is kinda free spirited….and well….childish….