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Yume no Naka ni Seishin

Chapter Eleven

Case One – Evil Spirit's All Over

Part Five

Harry and John continued to sit and watch the cameras, as Kuroda-san came into view, slowly making her way towards the base room. She stopped on occasions, looking closely into the classrooms she was passing. A few minutes later Monk walked past her, he stopped when she started to speak with him. He replied in kind and then moved on to the front door, before disappearing out of sight.

The door behind them opened a few moments later and Mai and Shibuya-san walked into the room, having finished taking the temperatures and adjusting the cameras in all the rooms of the old school building. Shibuya-san walked over to them and stood next to Harry looking at him with an expectant look on his face.

Harry glanced up at him, reporting, "Nothing has happened, Shibuya-san."

Shibuya-san nodded his head, "I didn't think there would be," he then glanced over to John and raised an eyebrow at him, as he looked back over to Harry.

Harry shrugged and whispered, so John wouldn't be able to overhear, "he wanted to help, so I figured having him watch the monitors with me wouldn't be such a bad idea."

Shibuya-san looked thoughtful for a few moments as he then nodded his head at Harry and grabbed a nearby chair to sit on, bringing out his laptop and typing on it. Seeing that he had been dismissed, Harry tuned around to see what Mai was doing. He found her sitting at one of the empty desk looking completely bored out of her mind.

Chuckling to himself at her, Harry turned back around and saw that Kuroda-san was almost to the base room. Hopefully she could help Mai in her boredom. Glancing at the monitors once more he saw that Matsuzaki-san had made it back and was dressed in the traditional white shirt and red pants of a Shrine Maiden. Her hair had also been pulled back from her face in a low ponytail, with two strands left out forming into loops that hung on each side of her face.

Takigawa-san soon followed after her, carrying what seemed to be a small table. He watched as Matsuzaki-san gestured for him to put it down in the centre of the entrance. Takigawa-san didn't look to happy about helping, but followed her as she walked out again. They walked back in a few moments later, with a white cloth, a few candles, a couple of bowls, and a little shrine. Matsuzaki-san and Takigawa-san set it all up; she walked out once more, coming back in with two small vases, filled with some type of flower, setting one on each side of the mini shrine.

Kuroda-san noisily walked into the room at this point, making Harry glance over his shoulder at her and watch as she looked around before zeroing in on Shibuya-san. A slight blush appeared on her cheeks as she asked him, "Is there anything that I can do to help?"

"No," Shibuya-san abruptly said without looking up from his typing.

Kuroda-san looked a little upset at that, but Mai soon called her over and the two started talking quietly. He gave a smile and shook his head a little, wondering what the two could be talking about.

Deciding it was probably nothing he wanted to know, Harry turned his emerald eyes back to the monitors, noticing that Matsuzaki-san and Takigawa-san seemed to be putting the last touches on the table. Looking away from the monitors again, he turned to Shibuya-san, "Looks like Matsuzaki-san is ready to begin with her cleansing. Do you want to go down and watch, or stay up hear and watch through the monitors?"

Shibuya-san thought for a few moments before he answered, "Let's go down and watch. We might learn something that we won't get through the cameras."

Nodding his head, Harry stood up, as did John. Mai who was still talking quietly with Kuroda-san, saw the movement and asked them all, "Where are you all going?"

"We are going to watch Matsuzaki-san's cleansing ritual." Harry answered as he walked by the two girls.

"Oh!" Mai exclaimed, "Wait, I'm going too." She yelled, jumping off the desk and quickly following after the three teenagers.

Harry didn't look back to see if Kuroda-san was coming, and frankly he could care less if the annoying girl did or didn't. Mai came up to his side saying, "I wonder what it will be like?"

Looking at his friend, Harry was slightly surprised, "You have never seen a ritual like this before?"

Nope," she replied, popping the p with a grin.

Soon they came to the bottom of the stairs and fanned out just in front of them as the Principle and the Vice Principle walked through the doors. Matsuzaki-san turned to them with a gentle smile, "Gentlemen if you would please stand right over there by those old shoe lockers, I will get started."

"Oh, of course," the Principle said as they both did as she had instructed.

Takigawa-san came and stood next to Shibuya-san crossing his arms in front of his chest as he looked towards the red haired woman. Harry watched in fascination as Matsuzaki-san took up the Haraegushi, a hexagonal wooden wand with many Shide, zigzagging paper streamers, attached to it, with both hands and began her prayer, waving it back and forth over the mini shrine. "I perform this ritual to beseech the Gods. I call upon them to descend from Heaven to this place where no Gods dwell, to purify and end this ceaseless suffering." Her voice was strong and commanding, each time she moved the Haraegushi from left to right, over the shrine, she would give it a little jolt, making the paper rustle. "Please accept our plea for peace and tranquillity." She carried on with her prayer, ignoring the curious looks from the others as they watched her.

Mai leaned in towards Harry's ear and whispered, "What is she doing?"

Harry didn't really grasp the concept, since he wasn't that familiar with it, but he had heard a little about it, "Have you not heard of Norito?" not taking his eyes off Matsuzaki-san.

"No, what's that?" curiosity lacing her voice.

Takigawa-san had heard their whispered conversation, and before Harry could impart the little he knew, the Monk jumped in with a hushed voice, "They are Shinto incantations," looking at Mai before returning his gaze back to Matsuzaki-san with a contemplating look saying, "Though I have to wonder if she can actually pull this off."

Shibuya-san joined the conversation, his voice low, so as not to disturb the woman, "I have never seen anyone perform a Shinto exorcism before."

"Neither have I, so it should be interesting," Harry agreed.

"Let's watch and see how she does it then," Shibuya-san answered with a bit of a bite to his words, it was his way of telling them all to shut up and watch.

"Let this place be as the High Heavenly Plain. Gather here, all ye Gods. Hail Marishi-ten, Goddess of Light." Matsuzaki-san intoned, still waving the Haraegushi left to right, "Grant us protection and light in this school." She let the words linger for a few minutes before she lowered the Haraegushi, setting it gently on the table and then turned to the Principle and Vice Principle. "That is it. Now you will have nothing to worry about," a smile on her lips.

The two men smiled back at her, happy that it was over and that they would be able to carry on with demolishing the building. The Vice Principle clapped a few times as he walked towards her saying, "I am impressed, it was beautifully presented. Thank you."

"Yes I agree," the Principle said stepping forwards and putting an arm around her lower back, "What would you say to coming out and having dinner with us, in celebration of you accomplishment?"

Matsuzaki-san stepped to the side, letting the Principles hand fall from her back as she answered in a polite voice, "I'm sorry, but I can't. I have to stay here for the next twelve hours to make sure the ritual worked."

"Well maybe some other time then," the Principle seemed a little disappointed, but he didn't let it show in his face as he kept his smile firmly in place.

Seeing that the ritual was over Harry turned around to head back up the stairs and to the base room, but was surprised to find Kuroda-san sanding right behind him, blocking his path. The feelings of anger that rolled off of her made Harry wonder how he had missed her. They were building quickly, and he staggered back a little as they assault his weak shields. He had a bad feeling that something was going to happen soon, and whirled around when he heard the cracking of glass.

He watched in horror as the glass that was still in the doors, warped and bent inward, small cracks appearing in them. Everybody seemed frozen by them, but Matsuzaki-san and the two men were too occupied by their conversation to notice. They headed towards the front doors, so the Principle and Vice Principle could leave.

Just as the Principle reached for the door handle the glass finally gave way with a resounding shatter, throwing glass at all three of them. Matsuzaki-san gave a scream, her arms coming up to protect her face, ducking down to avoid as much of the glass as possible. The Principle and Vice Principle were not as lucky as they both fell to the floor in a heap.

Harry and Takigawa-san were the first to run towards them, "Ayako, are you okay?" Takigawa-san frantically asked as he knelt next to her on the ground.

"Yeah, I'm fine," her voice was shaking and a little unsure, but it could have been from shock than an actual injury.

Harry knelt down next to the Vice Principle and began looking him over for injuries. There was a large gash on his arm, and he quickly shouted out "He is hurt and bleeding badly," quickly he took out one of the many pocket hankies he had and pressed down on the gash, trying to get it to stop bleeding.

Monk had moved over to the Principle and shouted out, "This one is too." He looked to the others that were standing there and said, "One of you call an ambulance."

Shibuya-san whipped out his phone and dialled 119, putting it up to his ear and speaking rapidly. Harry went back to trying to stop the bleeding as best as he could. Making sure that nobody was around him to see what he was about to do, he then let his magic flow into his hand holding the handkerchief and wordlessly said a weak healing spell. Immediately the wound stopped bleeding. Harry put an end to the spell, making sure that it still left a nice sized gash, so no one would be suspicious of what was going on. He didn't want to try and explain magic to them all at that point.

Moving his eyes away from the Vice Principle he spotted Matsuzaki-san standing around with a confused look upon her face. He got her attention and motioned her over with his head. She walked over slowly and he asked her, "I got his arm to stop bleeding, but can you try and get his other ones to stop. I'll go over to Takigawa-san and see if I can't help him, until the ambulance comes."

"Sure go ahead," she said kneeling down and started to look for the more serious wounds.

Harry stood up and waved to Mai to come over. When she reached him he asked her, "Help Matsuzaki-san with him."

"Yeah, no problem," Mai said kneeling down on the other side of the man and asking Matsuzaki-san, "What do you need me to do?"

Satisfied that there would be two people on the man he made his way over to Takigawa-san, he glanced over to his boss and saw that Shibuya-san was still talking on the phone to the hospital. "What needs to be done?" Harry enquired when he made it over to the Principle and looked down at the Monk.

"He has a nasty gash on his shoulder," Takigawa-san told him as he added, "could you try and get it to stop, while I take care of the one on his leg?" looking up at the teen.

"Yeah, no problem," Harry knelt down next to the man and pulled out another clean handkerchief, pressing it down onto the man's shoulder.

Harry heard Shibuya-san tell John that there were some clean towels in the back of his van, John nodded his head and immediately left to get them. He was back in a few seconds and handed them out to all four of those that were attending the two men. Harry was thankful for a bigger piece of cloth and wasn't afraid to tie it around the Principles wound and then press down on it. A few minutes after that they finally heard the sirens of the ambulance approach, getting louder and louder. It finally arrived and everybody moved out of the way for the EMT's as they loaded the two men onto stretchers and then into the back of the ambulance.

They all watched as the ambulance pulled away before they all turned around and walked back into the building. Shibuya-san didn't stop until he reached the base room, everyone else following him. He walked over to the monitors and replayed what had just happened, all the while with his hand on his chin and a slight frown between his eyebrows.

Matsuzaki-san and Kuroda-san were standing next to each other, and Harry could feel the ill will coming off of Kuroda-san as she smiled smugly at Matsuzaki-san, "I thought you said there would be nothing to worry about? Looks like your little exorcism didn't work. Your failure sent my principal to the hospital." her voice full of spite.

Before Matsuzaki-san could say anything back, Hara-san butted in, "That was just an accident."

"Thank you, I thought I did my job very well." Matsuzaki-san nodded her head in confidence as she looked between the two girls.

A small smug smile showed on Hara-san's face, before as she covered it with the sleeve of her kimono and said, "I am not saying that your exorcism worked, because there are no Spirits here."

"Yes there are," Kuroda-san shouted at the smaller teenager. "I was nearly killed by one of them," still denying that there was nothing in the building.

Harry could feel John's uneasiness with the disagreement and Harry let out a sigh as he stepped between the two teenage girls, who were glaring angrily at each other; with his hands rose saying softly, "Maybe it was a coincidence."

Both girls turned away from him still angry. John gave a sigh of exasperation as he lowered his hands, at the same time his shoulders sagged in defeat. With an air of depression he walked over to Takigawa-san and stood beside him. Takigawa-san feeling bad for the guy gave him a sympathetic smile, but added more fuel to the fire by suggesting, "Or maybe whatever is here was too strong for Ayako to drive away."

Matsuzaki-san threw Takigawa-san a murderous glare, but didn't say anything. Shibuya-san, having been in quiet thought all this time as he listened to everybody, finally stepped in with his own thoughts, "If that was the case then I would have more conclusive readings," shaking his head at the last part.

Harry gave a sigh as he leaned against the table with the monitors on it, watching as everybody bicker back and forth, granted most of the arguing was done by the Monk, Priestess, Medium, and Kuroda-san. Getting board with the pointless bickering, which was leading them to nowhere he looked around for Mai. Finding her, he smiled as she came over and stood beside him, leaning over the desk to study the TV screens. With Harry being so close to her he was able to pick up a few of her stray thoughts, 'I wish I could sense something, have a power that would be able to tell us what is here.'

Shaking his head slightly, Harry thought to himself, 'Having power didn't really matter, what it all came down to would be if anyone believed you. Just look at Kuroda-san and Hara-san, both were saying something different, yet no one really fully believed either one of them.'

He was brought out of his thoughts by Mai's gasp as she then stuttered out, "Naru, did that room have a chair in the middle of it yesterday?" Pointing to one of the monitors at the top of the stack.

Thank you all for reading so far, I do hope you are all enjoying reading the re-write. Please review and tell me what you all think, I would love to know.