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Yume no Naka ni Seishin

Chapter Ten

Case One-Evil Spirit's All Over

Part Four

"ARGH! Ghost!" Mai yelled in fright as she grabbed onto Shibuya-san's sleeve, pressing herself closer to him as she almost fell off the edge of the desk in her haste to be near someone for comfort.

Harry snickered a little at her reaction, "Mai, she's not a ghost." He smiled as he studied the young teenage girl that was now standing in the doorway.

She was cute, with her chin length black hair, and porcelain heart shaped face, and dark eyes looking intently at the people gathered in the room. He noticed she was also wearing a red kimono with sakura blossoms on it, and could hear the clack of wooden shoes as she stepped further into the room. Wondering who she was he glanced over at Shibuya-san and had to hold back a snort of laughter at the scene.

Shibuya-san was trying to pry Mai's fingers off of his sleeve, while sending her a death glare, which she was completely ignoring as she was now looking at the other teenager. Giving a sigh as he finally got loose, he looked at the girl and stated for everybody's sake, "Her name is Masako Hara. She is a spirit medium."

Mai still completely focused on the young girl, shot her a smile and said, "Oh, really, another one."

"So now they have called in a TV star," Takigawa-san said, shaking him head in disbelief.

Matsuzaki-san stood up and snorted, Harry could only imagine what her smart remark was going to be and wasn't to be disappointed when she finally spoke, "Ridiculous. It's easy to fake results on television, but out in the real world it won't be so easy. The only reason she gets ratings is because she is pretty and wears a kimono all the time."

Hara-san didn't miss a beat as she answered with a shape retort, "Why thank you for that last statement, I'll take that as a compliment."

Matsuzaki-san seemed taken aback for a few moments, but she soon got her tongue back and replied, "Well trust me it isn't."

Shrugging her shoulders as if she could care less, Hara-san then turned towards Shibuya-san with a curious look, as though seeing him brought back a memory, and she asked, "Forgive me, but have we met before?"

"No Miss Hara, we have not met before. I have heard of you and your reputation precedes you." Shibuya-san answered in his calm voice, all the while examining the nail that was still in his hand, not paying any attention to the young medium.

"Right," Hara-san said, but her voice and the emotions that were coming through clearly stated that she didn't believe that to be true.

Harry's curiosity was spiked, and he knew that he would be trying to figure out what that was all about. Matsuzaki-san's alto voice cut into Harry's thoughts as she once again stated her thoughts on the building, "There is a haunting here that is my professional opinion. It is an Earth Bound Spirit, called a Seirei."

Harry just rolled his eyes at her, he just couldn't figure out where she got her confidence from, but it was beginning to annoy him. Takigawa-san couldn't be left out and threw in his own theory of what was haunting the building, "Well, I think it's a Jibakurei."

"Jibakurei? Seirei?" Mai's confused voice asked and filled the silence left in the room by the other two statements.

"A Jibakurei is a spirit that has been bound to an area or place. A Seirei is one that is bound to the land." Harry answered Mai's question.

Mai's head whipped around so fast in his direction, that Harry was sure she had to have given herself whiplash, "How would you know that?" she asked in an awed tone.

Harry smiled at her and shrugged his shoulders saying with a smile, "I'm interested in spiritual things. It's something that I picked up when I was younger, and researched it even more when I went to my old school. Also I read a lot, but only the things that interest me."

"Well, it just so happens that you are right," Takigawa-san said as he nodded to Harry, drawing everyone's attention towards him, "but I think this entity may be afraid it will lose its home."

"Brown-san, what do you think?" Shibuya-san's question echoed through the room as he asked the only person who hadn't said anything so far. Everyone turned towards the young priest and waited for him to speak.

Brown-san was shocked that he had been asked for his opinion on the matter, so he quickly stuttered out, "I don't really know, but usually a haunting does originate with a ghost or a spirit occupying a structure."

"So it's either a haunting from a Seirei, Jibakurei, or a Yuurei," Shibuya-san speculated while tapping the end of the nail against his chin in thought. He then stared at Mai and said, "Are you listening to this Mai?"

"What do you take me for!" she almost snarled as she added, "Of course I am, but why don't you tell Harry that as well?" Mai's voice began to rise as her cheeks turned pink from her anger and pointed towards Harry.

Shibuya-san smirked at her and answered in a calm but amused voice, "These are the things that you need to learn, as for Harry, he has already shown that he knows about the supernatural. I suggest that you ask him to teach you as well." He turned to Harry, who gave him a nod in confirmation.

Matsuzaki-san having enough of their antics butted in, "Enough, I am leaving. I will get rid of these things as soon as I get back from lunch." With that she walked towards the door, muttering loud enough for everybody to hear, "I don't know how long I can put up with this." She came to a stop at the doorway, when she found it blocked by somebody.

"I wouldn't be so confident in your abilities Priestess," a cold smug voice floated through the room. Harry groaned out loud as he recognised it immediately as Kuroda-san, as she followed up with, "The spirit that haunts this place is incredibly powerful."

"Kuroda, what are you doing here?" Mai questioned her classmate as she had walked over and came to a standstill behind Matsuzaki-san.

Having enough of the fake psychic, Matsuzaki-san pushed the girl out of her way, speaking through gritted teeth, "Move aside," as she did so and then promptly disappeared out of the room.

Kuroda fell to the floor with the rough handling and Mai was by her side in an instant, worriedly asking her, "Kuroda, what's wrong?"

In a weak voice, missing its former confidence, she rasped out, "The spirit attacked me."

Mai's eyes widened as she exclaimed, "What? No way!"

Kuroda-san seeing Mai's reaction sat up against the wall and told her what happened, "I was walking down the hallway and something grabbed my hair and pulled me backwards. I tried to get away but something went around my throat, it felt like hands, and began to strangle me." Her hand came up to rub at her throat and her voice had taken on a shaky raspy quality it didn't have before and she was still talking quietly, "It was threatening me."

Shibuya-san gave the girl a cold hard stare and asked her, "when did this happen?"

She looked up at him and with no hesitation gave him an exact place, "A few minutes ago, by the lockers on the second floor."

Hara-san stepped forwards and said vehemently, "I don't think so, there are no spirits here."

Kuroda-san flushed as the words filled her with anger and showed through on her next statement, "There is a strong spirit here, plus many more and they are all angry. I am not lying." She was practically yelling by the end of it and Harry could feel she was getting frustrated with everybody not believing in her.

Shibuya-san had turned to the monitors by this point and was looking for the one that she had said. To make sure he had the right one he asked her, "You said that you were by the lockers on the second floor?"

"Yes," she once again answered without hesitation as she looked up to him.

Harry turned around and watched as Shibuya-san kept scanning the monitors, "I'm sure we have a camera around there," he commented as Shibuya-san found what he was looking for and started to push a few buttons to rewind the tape.

Felling everybody's gaze on him and Shibuya-san, Harry began to fidget a little, as Shibuya-san stopped the recording and pressed play. Harry watched as the other cameras caught Kuroda-san coming into the building and heading up the stairs, but as soon as she got to the second floor camera that she mentioned the screen went fuzzy and you couldn't hear anything that was going on. Shibuya-san hit a couple more buttons, but all they got was static. Harry continued to stare at the camera and couldn't help but think that this felt wrong, somehow.

"What happened? Did the camera break?" Mai asked when Shibuya-san stopped messing around with the console and turned to face them.

"No, but it is strange. When a spirit becomes active it sometimes causes the electronic equipment to malfunction. I am not too sure that is the case in this instance." Shibuya-san seemed deep in thought as he spoke aloud, more to himself than to the room full of people, "Is it a spirit or Electromagnetic Interference?"

Harry thought about it for a minute and neither one of those suggestions seemed right to him, he was about to say something when Kuroda-san spoke up with her own theory, "It has to be a spirit. Interference doesn't cause someone to be attacked."

Mai gave Kuroda-san a confused stare as she questioned, "Hara-san says that there were no spirits here? And even Harry doesn't believe there to be either?"

Kuroda-san scowled at Mai and then turned it on Hara-san as she crossed her arms and said, "Well, I'm a little sceptical about her." She then turned to Harry and said, "He has no abilities, so what would he know."

"It is common that female mediums tend to be either right or way off base. She may not be able to sense anything now; it doesn't mean that the haunting is active." Shibuya-san cut in, trying to stop an argument from happening, he then turned to Harry as he asked, "Though why do you believe that there are no spirits here?"

Harry looked at him and answered as simply as he could, "If you went to the school I did, then you would know what spirits feel like when they haunt a place. I don't feel that here."

Shibuya-san nodded his head in acceptance, though Harry could tell that he wanted to question him a little more about it, he looked back to Kuroda-san and said, "it maybe that the spirit haunting this place is very in tune with your wavelength."

Kuroda-san smiled up at him and murmured, "Yeah," happiness coming through at the thought that someone believed in her.

Harry decided to add what he was thinking, even though he didn't truly believe there was anything here, "That would also mean Kuroda-san that the ghost stories we tell have nothing to do with the spirits that are bothering you. The ones here are already attracted to you and a story won't call up any other. If it is an intelligent haunting, a Yuurei, then it may come around to see what we are talking about but only if it is part of the school. I know for a fact that the main school building isn't haunted, so it's only logical that it would be from this building." He then muttered under his breath, only Shibuya-san being close enough to hear, "Even though there isn't anything here."

"But it does call them!" Kuroda-san tried to argue, but Harry shook his head.

"No it doesn't. It may gather the spirits that are already around to you, but it can't summon spirits. You need certain things and ways of calling spirits to you, or to a place, and not one of us has done such a thing. You only do it when it is necessary and only then under certain circumstances; it goes against the order of things." Harry finished, crossing his arms and leaning back against the table edge.

From the other side of the room Takigawa-san's deep rough voice asked, "And how would a high-schooler know something like that?"

Harry looked the monk right in the eye and with confidence said. "It is something that I became interested in when I was younger. It became even more so when I got slightly older. Back in England, I live in an old castle, it was my school, and there are a high number of spirits residing within it. Some are from be-headings, murder, accidents, just about any way you can think of dying, there is most likely a ghost that went through it in that school. In fact, we had a spirit named Professor Binns; he died in his sleep in the school some one hundred years ago, maybe even two hundred years ago. He is the only residual haunting in the school, and would give the same lesson plan that he used the day he died. It was interesting listening to a history lesson that's over a hundred years old," he smiled a little as he then carried on, "it was also because of him and a few other things that I decided to do even more research. I ended up doing a lot more than I had planned and before I knew it, I was hooked on the subject and took to looking up things as often as I could, and still do." Takigawa-san seemed satisfied with his answered and nodded his head. He could tell that Shibuya-san was still interested in learning more from him.

"Will you show me a few books that I can read Harry?" Mai asked him as she smiled over at him.

"I have one or two at home, though I will have to have those translated, ones in Latin, I will give them to you as soon as they are done." Harry answered her, smiling back to her.

"Thanks Harry," Mai said, grinning.

"Latin?" Brown-san asked as he looked to the teen, it wasn't a language that most would know.

"Yes, my old school did an extra course in it; I took it and carried on with it." Harry answered him.

Shibuya-san looked at the three and nodded a little, he had to admit that he liked the fact that Mai was willing to learn about things. He turned back to his equipment and started to adjust things back to normal, Mai come with me, I need to look at all the cameras and the microphones to make sure nothing is damaged. Harry, remain here and monitor everything." He then whirled around and headed out the door.

"Okay, hey wait up!" Mai shouted as she ran out of the door to catch up with her boss.

Harry pulled out a chair and sat down as he started to check each monitor to make sure they were recording properly. He heard Kuroda-san stand up and heave a sigh before walking out and appearing on the monitors as she left the building. Takigawa-san left shortly after her to study the building more he said. Hara-san also left, but didn't say anything, much like Kuroda-san. Brown-san pulled out a chair next to Harry and sat down.

"Brown-san, you have never done something like this before have you? The investigating of a haunting, I mean." Harry asked the Priest giving him a sideways glance.

"No, I haven't. I have only ever been called in after things have come to some sort of conclusion about what is going on. I hope that I can actually learn something from this. So I hope your boss doesn't mind me sticking around a little and please call me John." He said, honesty written all over his face.

"As long as you call me Harry and I don't think Shibuya-san will mind as long as you don't get in the way, but I would ask him just to make sure. The Priestess will be back soon, and so too will the Monk and Hara-san." Harry answered as he continued to look at the monitors seeing Mai ad Shibuya-san going over each camera and microphone; he caught Monk checking out some of the classrooms on the first floor. Hara-san was now on the second floor, but all the way down on the south side, and then he caught Kuroda-san coming back through the door, and heading in the direction of the base room. All they were missing now was Matsuzaki-san.

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