Guest - I'm excited about that too. I've got it all planned out.
Agilo - Saggezza - I'm glad you like the personality, there doesn't need to be all angst and anger.
NullSilver2005 - I haven't decided yet, but with Lotus's outgoing personality it'd be more likely that she'd be the one to ask first.
Guest - I haven't decided when I'll make them a couple but I wanna do it before the end of season 1. For Lotus and Kaidou I do have an interesting chapter planned for something like that.
Guest - I don't have a proofreader and it seems like my grammar correcting software isn't doing such a good job. I understand it's irking sometimes when you read something and you're like "Wait what's up with this grammar?". A proofread is not a bad suggestion.
This is Lotus
This is Saiki
~This is thoughts of others~
A What Kind of Thief? - Lotus is On the Case!
"Great job!"
"You were awesome today!"
"That final block was amazing."
Lotus smiled at the complements thanking the guys around her. She had just finished gym class, today's lesson, an intense game of soccer. Lotus had been chosen for the position of goalie.
A hand landed on Lotus's shoulder, and she looked behind her to see Hairo.
"Lotus you were incredible thanks to you we won!" Hairo cheered
"It was thanks to everyone but I'm happy to play my part," Lotus said
"You sure got dirty though," Hairo pointed out
Lotus looked down at her clothes and Hairo was correct. During her last block, she had dived for the ball, and the ground was wet, so she slid into a dirty damp patch of grass and mud.
"Guess your right huh? Good thing the girl's locker rooms have good showers," Lotus said
"These are some serious grass stains. Lucky I've got Ethan, he'll be able to get them out. It's amazing how he does it." Lotus thought
Lotus took off her clothes putting them in a plastic bag, so they wouldn't dirty anything else in her school bag. Lotus was the only one in the locker room since she was the only girl in the boy's gym class.
"It's nice having this place to myself," Lotus thought
Lotus turned on the water and stepped in. She showered making sure to get the mud that somehow made its way in her hair.
"~Is that the shower?~"
Lotus paused mid scrubbing of her hair as a male voice entered her head.
"What the?"
"~Maybe someone just left it on.~"
Lotus's eyes widened when she heard the door to the locker room open. Just as she was about to shout shampoo trickled into her eyes.
"Ow!" Lotus cried out rubbing her eyes.
"~Crap! There is someone here!~"
The door quickly shut and footsteps started to rush away.
"Helios!" Lotus shouted
"Yes, my young descent!" Helios came from out of the wall next to Lotus.
"Some guy was trying to sneak in the girl's locker room. See if you can catch him," Lotus said
"I'm on it!" Helios left phasing through the door.
"Hopefully Helios can find the guy. I gotta get this shampoo out my eyes, man this stings," Lotus said
When Lotus got out of the shower her eyes still stung, and they were a bit red from the irritating cleanser.
"I'm gonna listen to Violet from now on and use that baby shampoo from now on. At least while I'm at school," Lotus thought
Lotus was in the process of putting on her clothes when Helios's head popped up out of the floor.
"Greetings!"
"Gah!" Lotus shouted
Out of instinct, she kicked Helios's head, but since he was a ghost it just went right through him.
"My apologies for startling you!" Helios said
He floated up entering the room completely.
"Did you find him?" Lotus asked
"I apologize my young descendant but the miscreant got away!" Helios reported
"Darn. So you weren't able to even catch a glimpse of him?" Lotus asked
"Unfortunately no, I had got distracted, you see," Helios said
"Distracted? By what?" Lotus questioned
"By this group of young rapscallions. They were speaking with impure intentions regarding you. Such vulgar words," Hairo said
Lotus sighed, "You know regular people can't hear you much less be touched by you."
"I know but that detail had escaped my mind when I heard those young hooligans talking about you in such a manner. It's disgraceful to your honor!" Helios said
"Well, at least his actions came from a good place. But was a guy really trying to get into the locker room?" Lotus thought
Lotus was walking through the halls trying to come up with different ways to catch the peeping Tom. She sent Helios out exploring the school hoping the spirit would come up with any leads.
"I heard his voice in my head, so maybe I can use that to figure out who it is. Ugh! But there are so many guys in this school and so many voices constantly going off in my head all the time it'd be hard to pinpoint him."
"I'm so sorry that happened to you Akiyoshi."
"Don't worry we'll help you find them."
"I just don't know what could have happened to my gym clothes."
"Huh?"
Lotus looked further down the hall to see three girls gathered together talking.
"Excuse me," Lotus interjected herself into the trio's conversation, "Not be rude and intrude but did you happen to say something about missing gym clothes?"
The girls all turned to Lotus, the girl with black hair nodded her head.
"Yeah, my friend here's gym clothes went missing," The ebony haired girl spoke.
"One minute they were in my locker and then next thing they're gone," A Brunette said
"I see….."
"So a guy tries to sneak into the girl's locker room, and now some girls gym uniform is missing. A coincidence….I think not. It's a high probability that the clothes were taken by the same person. He must've done it during the boy's gym period. It'd be the perfect time since the girl's gym period doesn't overlap with the boys. But whoever it was didn't realize that at least one girl is in the male gym class."
"Okay girls!" Lotus got a determined look putting a fist in her palm. "I'll help you find those missing gym clothes."
"Oh wow really?" One of the girls said
"Yeah," Lotus said
"Thank you very much!" The girls said
"Time to go detective. Lotus style."
"Okay, so the girl said her clothes were in a pink gym bag. Let's see how can I narrow this down even further. He tried sneaking into the girls' locker room while I was there, I don't think he'd be able to take a break long enough from class to sneak in, so he either had gym himself or lunch, maybe a free period. But if he had gym wouldn't that mean I'd know the guy? What if-"
"Young Lotus!"
"Ah!" Lotus shouted taking a step back as Helios appeared from the ceiling.
"Helios! You're going to give me a heart attack one day!"
"My apologies, but you must come quick! I was conversing with another spirit, and he informed me that a young man was running through the corridors of the second floor a pink bag under his arm," Helios said
"Really!"
Lotus took off speeding to the stairs going up to the second floor.
"Hey did you see a guy run by here?" Lotus quickly asked a random boy.
The guy pointed down the hallway. "Yeah tw-"
Lotus didn't give the boy any time to finish before she ran off. As she rounded the corner she spotted a classroom door open at the end of the hall.
"Ha! Got you now!"
Rushing over to the door Lotus charged in the room.
"Wha?"
Lotus was surprised to discover who was in the classroom. Reita stood frozen wide-eyed and stunned gaping at Lotus, a girl's gym shirt in one hand, the rest of the clothes on the table along with a pink gym bag.
"I knew he was a pervert but not to this level. I seriously thought he was better than this," Lotus thought
"Reita….I never thought you'd go this low," Lotus said
"No! Lotus you got it wrong!" Reita shouted waving his arms, "It wasn't me I swear! I was trying to catch the thief. I followed him to the classroom. He dropped the clothes too! I'm innocent I swear!"
Even without reading his mind Lotus had a feeling he was telling the truth, she still did read his mind, just to be 100% sure.
"Alright Reita, calm down I believe you," Lotus said
"Oh thank goodness," Reita let out a sigh of relief.
"~If I go down as the school's gym clothes thief no girl will come within 5 miles of me,~" Reita thought
"Where did the guy go? I came in the only entrance," Lotus said
"He jumped out the window!" Reita exclaimed
"Seriously!?" Lotus said
She ran out of the room hoping she'd be able to catch the guy. As she jogged by she encountered the three girls from earlier, telling them the missing clothes were found gesturing to classroom Reita was in.
Lotus quickly headed outside, but she probably should've told the girls that Reita wasn't the thief before she left.
Once outside Lotus made her way to the window where the thief had jumped out.
When she located the window there was no hide or hair of the guy, but below the window was a set of crumpled bushes the thief had landed in.
"Good thing these were there. The windows on the second floor, he could have seriously hurt himself. Well even though he landed in these bushes he's still gonna feel something tomorrow, judging by how most of the branches are broken he landed pretty hard. So, he dropped the clothes and ran huh? Well, I might not have caught the guy but at least the clothes were recovered. But how to keep him from doing this again?" Lotus thunk with a thoughtful look on her face until an idea popped in her head.
"Whoa Reita, those girls sure did a number on you," Lotus commented
"No kidding," Reita said
"I guess that's partly my fault. I was so focused on finding the real culprit that I forgot how guilty you looked to anyone else holding those girls clothes," Lotus said
Lotus wiped off the dirt one of the girl's footprints left on Reita's face.
"~She's got super soft hands!~"
"Quit it before I give you another bump to add to ones already on your head," Lotus stated
Reita sweat dropped chuckling putting his hands up.
"It sucks though that we won't be able to find that guy," Reita said
"Why Reita, I have come up with an ingenious plan that will guarantee that the pervert will be apprehended," Lotus said
"How's that?" Reita questioned
Next day
"Got you, Peeping Tom!"
"That's how," Lotus smirked
"Coach Matsuzaki!?" A male voice cried
Lotus had an accomplished smile on her face. "You see I simply told Coach Matsuzaki that a boy was sneaking in the girl's locker room. I knew he'd be on high alert and it wouldn't take any time for him to catch the guy."
Coach Matsuzaki came down the hall dragging a guy by the back of his school uniform jacket. Matsuzaki was yelling at the teen reprimanding him for his poor actions and listing off the punishments heading his way.
"No please don't! Give me detention for the rest the year, the rest of my school life, just please don't call my mom!" The clothes' thief begged
As the two left around the corner a ghost appeared poking his upper torso out the wall.
"I was afraid this would happen, but maybe it's for the best. This might be what he needs to set him straight," The ghost said before going back in the wall.
"That was...odd. Well at least I don't have to worry about someone seeing me naked in the shower at school anymore," Lotus said
"Wait, what?"
"Oh hey Saiki what's up where've you been?" Lotus said
"Why wasn't I in this chapter?" Saiki questioned
"Huh?"