hey its me again! my first ghost hunt story! don't be too mean i worked on this with Tenten Hyuuga from storywrite tell us how we did! :)

Just another ordinary day at Shibuya Psychic Research, SPR for short. Mai was making Naru tea, when there was a knock at the door. A middle-aged woman with black hair cut just above her shoulders, opened the door. She wore a pale pink, long-sleeved blouse, a dark brown skirt, just above her knees, three-inch heels, and a jean jacket. "Um…hello, I hear you help with hauntings? My name is Sakura Kimura," she said, closing the door.

"Yes, yes we do," Naru replied, gesturing her to sit down. "Tell me, what's been going on?" Mai placed two cups of tea on the table before standing behind Naru to hear the claim.

"Well, our house is over two hundred years old, with a history of some traumatic deaths. When my husband I moved in, we noticed very small things, like a door opening on its own, and possibly a child giggling. We thought that it was a spirit, but dismissed it, because it wasn't causing us any harm. However, my grandmother refused to enter the house and didn't want me to stay there when I became pregnant with my oldest. After she died, I went into labor and when I brought my daughter home, the incidents were getting a little more frightening. Knocking sounds, doors opening and closing at the same time, things like that, but we weren't worried about it; no harm was being done to us. However, within the past week things have escalated in fact today is the nineteenth anniversary of when we bought the house. It's the same doors opening and closing, lights turning on and off, children giggling, but what's scared me the most is whenever I'm doing the dishes at night, I look out into the backyard and by a bush, I see a human figure staring up at my daughter's window. Please! Tell me you can help!" she explained.

"If the haunting hasn't truly bothered you, it doesn't seem like you need help. How old are you children?" Naru replied.

"My oldest just turned eighteen, my son is ten and my youngest daughter is five."

"I see, the poltergeist activity is probably being cause by your oldest daughter. It's quite common with teenage girls. As for the figure staring up to the bedroom from the backyard, I suggest you call the police. They'll give you more help than I can."

"But…oh….thank you anyway," Sakura said, getting up and walking away.

When the door closed, Mai turned to Naru and started shouting. "What the hell, Naru! She was just trying to help her kids! You could've at least given her better advice!" Mai argued.

"From what she's told me, it's a small haunting that won't pose a threat to the family, as for the figure in the yard, it's probably just a pervert that the police can handle, not much more I can do."

"What! Ugh! I can't believe you!" Mai began, but suddenly a teenage girl's voice could be heard outside the door.

"So you just left? That's it, I'm gonna talk to him!" the voice said, suddenly the door opened up and a girl about eighteen years old walked in.

"How dare you deny my mother's claim!" she cried out. She was wearing flare jeans, a black t-shirt with a butterfly pattern, and a purple crop jacket.

"From what information she gave me there wasn't much more I could do, who are you, anyway?" Naru replied, giving her cold eyes.

"My name's Kiko Kimura, the eighteen year old daughter of that woman you denied help to!" Kiko cried out. "However, I may know a reason why you would want to take this case. You know how my mother said my great-grandmother refused to go into our house and hated my mother living there while she was pregnant with me?"

"Yes, what of it?"

"What if I told you that she was a famous novelist, she wrote books about paranormal phenomena? She was also the famous psychic-" she tried to say, but Monk walked in interrupting her.

"Hey, Naru, there's a lady outside, she looked pretty worried, is there another case? Oh I'm sorry, looks like I'm interrupting something," Monk said, realizing Kiko was there.

"No, you're not, she was just leaving. We don't have another case," Naru said, standing up and starting to walk away.

"Wait, I wasn't done, Mr. Kazuya!" Kiko argued. "I was named after my great-grandmother, the famous psychic, Kiko Nakagawa!"

Naru stopped short. "How did you know I was Kazuya?" he asked. "Wait, Kiko Nakagawa?"

"Look, like Mai over there, I'm a psychic; however, I don't know any warding magic like Mr. Takigawa. I'm sure you've heard of my great-grandmother, after all, I see a few of her novels over by that desk," Kiko replied.

"Whoa! Naru, that was pretty freaky, you sure you don't want to take on her claim?" Monk added.

How did she know my name? Mai thought, staring at the girl before her.

"Sit down," Naru said, sitting back to his original seat. "Tell me, is there anything that your mother may have been leaving out?"

"Most likely, especially since I have inherited my grandmother's psychic powers, and this is believed because just moments after her death my mother went into labor. It was known that I had gained her abilities when I was around ten years old. I was even penalized at my old high school for believing in such things, but you don't want to hear my life's story do you? Anyway, my father left for a two week business trip about a week ago, that's when the activity started getting more severe, whatever this thing is, it's going after me," she explained, then rolled up her sleeve, revealing a marking of an S and an A in Calligraphy, but smashed together, almost unable to make out the letters. "I awoke at three o'clock on the dot, to a burning sensation on that spot. It was so powerful that I just jumped out, screaming! This isn't the only one either."

She then rolled up her other sleeve and her pant legs, revealing more of the markings. "As you can see, this was no accident nor was it meaningless. I also have a feeling that I'm gonna get another one of these sometime this week, not sure what day though. So, any other reasons why you'd want to deny my claim I would like to hear it, not to mention that I will not stay at my house alone nor will I let my mother nor siblings alone there. So, what do you say?" Kiko added, folding her arms across her chest.

"Fine, we'll take your case, we'll be at the sight tomorrow morning," Naru said, almost

reluctantly.

Wow, who would've thought that Naru would actually accept the job. I wonder if this girl has any dirt on Naru, too, Mai thought.

"I'll be waiting, how many investigators will you be bringing?" Kiko asked, before leaving.

"A total of four, myself, Mr. Takigawa, Mai, and my assistant Lin, however, if I see it necessary, I will have some more experts come. Is that alright with you?" he answered.

Why is he being so polite? He's never acted like this before; he even made a little girl cry a year ago! What does she have that I don't! Mai thought, having her own little tantrum in her head.

"Perfect, see you guys tomorrow, I'll give you a tour then!" Kiko said, walking out the door with a smile.

"Say, Naru, it seemed that you were reluctant to accept this case, why did you?" Monk said, folding his arms, then thinking as though Naru may have a crush on Kiko.

"Kiko Nakagawa, I do have some of her books, she seemed like a very intelligent woman, Not to mention how famous of a psychic she was, if you were to compare her popularity to someone alive right now, it would have to be Oliver Davis. Besides, this case is somewhat personal, my family knew the Nakagawas very well, so it may be interesting. Any more questions?" Naru replied, his expression the same, but when he mentioned him knowing the Nakagawas, he seemed to smile slightly.

"Wait, as famous as Oliver Davis! Then this case may be interesting!" Monk replied excitedly.

And that's how yet another case gets it's start, Mai thought, smiling and laughing to herself as Monk acted like a school girl who just won tickets to a concert.

The next day, Naru, Lin, Mai and Monk were at the Kimura residence, ready for the new investigation. The house was quite large and not styled like the traditional Japanese house, as least, not on the outside, it looked to be three stories high and decks leading from every other window on the second and third floors.

It was an oddly cool day in July, and Mai was almost regretting wearing her shorts and T-shirt. They all walked to the front door, monk rang the bell. Kiko answered, wearing a jean skirt, black leggings, a three-quarter sleeved, violet shirt, showing some of her marks, and black ballet flats. "Morning!" she said, cheerfully flashing the peace sign.

She sounded just like Yasuhara, for a second. Maybe, nah, there's no way! Mai thought, as everyone went into the house.

"Kiko, why don't you show us around, Lin I want you to talk to Mrs. Kimura, see If there may be anything else she left out when she talked to us," Naru ordered, his voice still emotionless.

"Right," Lin replied, walking away.

"Alright, now, here's the kitchen, my mother has seen the figure outside that window," Kiko explained, pointing to the window, by the sink. "Now, here's the living room, my sister, Sakurako, has said things like 'a man's here' also 'he's scaring me' and 'why won't he go away?'"

"Have you ever felt this 'man's' presence here?" Naru interrupted.

"Yes, I have. I haven't seen him, but I have felt his presence," she replied, suddenly she was on the couch, her eyes glazed over.

"Kiko!" Monk exclaimed, as Mai walked over to Kiko. The next thing she knew, she was on the couch, next to Kiko, having a vision.

In the vision, there were silhouettes of everyone from SPR, Mrs. Kimura, a young boy, a little girl, and Kiko. One by one, the silhouettes were killed brutally. Blood was splattering, screams of agony heard. Quite a horrifying site.

By the time the two awoke from their daze, to Monk calling their names, Mai, unwillingly had tears down her face. Kiko looked around, guiltily. "I'm sorry you had to see that Mai," she said.

"What?" Mai said, under her breath in a daze.

"I'm sorry, you shouldn't have come. The evil spirit within this house is even angrier than before. Now, not only does he want to kill me, but all of you. He believes you will be in his way, I'm so sorry," Kiko apologized, bowing.

"We've dealt with these things before," Naru reassured her.

"So, you'll stay?" she asked.

"Of course, we can't just sit back and watch if your life is on the line!" Monk replied.

"Yeah, besides, it's nice to finally have someone around who has the same dreams I do!" Mai added, smiling.

"Thank you," Kiko whispered.

"Now that, that's settled, is there somewhere we could set up headquarters?" Naru asked, still focusing on the case.

"Hmm….how about the den?" Kiko said aloud, leading everyone to a nearly empty room.

"Perfect, we'll start setting up HQ. Mai, you and Kiko, go let Lin know we're setting up," Naru ordered, the two girls nodded.

"On it!" Mai replied as they left the room.

Mai and Kiko were walking throughout the main hallway, trying to find Sakura and Lin. "Where do you think they are?" Mai asked Kiko.

"I don't know, my mom usually talks to her guests in the living room, but we were just in there. Maybe in here?" Kiko replied, walking into the play room.

In there, Lin and Sakura were talking and laughing, as Sakurako played with her stuffed animals. Wait, Lin laughing? As you guessed, Mai was extremely freaked out, after all she has rarely seen him crack a smile.

"Was Lin, laughing just now?" Mai thought, as Kiko opened the door wide enough to let them know, they were there.

"Sorry, were we interrupting something?" Kiko asked, smiling.

"Oh, not at all, is something wrong?" Sakura replied, standing up, placing her cup of tea on the coffee table.

"Nothing, Naru just wanted us to let Lin know that we were setting up HQ," Mai explained.

"Right, I better help them," Lin replied, standing up and heading downstairs.

"I should go, too," Mai smiled.

"Please, let me help," Kiko insisted, as the two left the room.

After HQ was set up, Naru decided to have a meeting as to find out whether or not they needed the rest of the team. "What type of spirit do you believe is here?" Kiko asked, as she and the members of SPR stood by the monitors.

"It's almost too early to tell," Naru replied.

"It could be a poltergeist, but there hasn't been too much movement," Monk added reluctantly.

"Do you think we should contact John? You know, in case this thing tries to possess us?" Mai inquired.

"Yeah, and maybe Masako can see the spirits clearer," Monk added.

"Masako? Masako Hara? The famous medium?" Kiko asked.

"Yeah, wait you didn't know that? But back at SPR you knew I was a psychic?" Mai asked.

"Yeah, my psychic abilities are weird, I know someone's past and name and qualities when I see them in person, when I hear their name, but not see them it doesn't work. I know it sounds weird, but the only thing I actually know about you guys is that other than you four, there are four more people who help with your investigations," Kiko explained.

"Oh," Mai replied.

Suddenly the front door opened. "Oka-san! I'm home from soccer practice!" a boy yelled, then he walked into the den. "Hey, Kiko, do you have that weird stuff that I-" he topped short seeing people he has never seen before. "Kiko, who are these people?" he asked, getting defensive.

"Satoshi, these are the members of SPR they're here to help with the spirit in this house," Kiko explained.

"What spirits! I told you there is nothing going on in this house!" Satoshi yelled, running away.

"Satoshi! Come back!" Kiko yelled, as Sakura passed by.

"What just happened?" Sakura asked.

"That was my younger brother, Satoshi," Kiko informed, then turned to her mother. "Sorry, Oka-san, I think Satoshi may still be brainwashed from our old school. He ran off when I told him about SPR."

"Oh dear, I'll try to knock some sense into him. I swear that boy is worse than his father," Sakura muttered, walking down the hall. "Kiko! Watch Sakurako for me!"

"Sure mom!" she yelled back, picking her sister up. "So, what's the game plan?"

"I want Mai and Monk to go around taking the temperature of each room, Lin, you were able to find a floor plan of the house, correct?" Naru ordered, his arms crossed, leaning against the wall.

"Yes, Mrs. Kimura was able to give me a copy, I've already put it on our computer," he replied, turning away from the computer for only a moment.

"What about the other investigators?" Kiko asked.

"More people?" Sakurako asked, a little frightened.

"Don't worry, Saku-chan, these people are here to help and though one or two may look scary doesn't mean they are," she comforted, stroking her sister's hair.

"Yeah, Naru may look mean and scary but once you get used to him, he's not so bad," Mai chimed in, earning a glare from Naru and a chuckle from Monk.

"As long as Sakurako is here, we may as well ask her a few things," Naru suggested, well, more like ordered.

"Naru, remember, she's five," Mai retorted, earning another glare.

"I'll act as a translator," Monk sighed, as everyone walked over to a table and chairs.

Sakurako sat on Kiko's lap, Monk sat next to them, Lin at one end of the table and Naru sitting across from his clients. Normally, Naru would have liked to have Kiko leave the room, so Sakurako wouldn't feel she had to hide anything from her sister. However, with the little girl's refusal to leave her sister's side, as well as Mai's complaints to the idea, Sakurako stayed with her sister.

Then with a slightly peeved Naru, did the questioning begin. "Sakurako, when did the spirit start bothering you?" he asked, Sakurako, being five, understood not much more than her name, looked at Monk.

"He means, the thing that scares you, when did it start scaring you. When did you first see it?" Monk translated.

"The ghost?" she asked, her voice small and hesitant. Monk and Naru nodded. "I don't know, as far as I can remember."

"What exactly happened to you when the ghost appeared?" Naru asked.

Once again Sakurako just stared. "Did the ghost do anything to you?" Monk translated, the girl nodded. "What did he do?"

"I've seen him he would talk to me. Say how he was going to something called rebend, I think," she replied, this time it was Naru and Lin who stared.

"Rebend?" Monk repeated, clueless as to what she meant.

"Does she mean revenge?" Mai suggested, Sakurako's face lit up.

"That's it!" she said, excitedly.

"Has the ghost done anything else?" Naru asked impatiently.

The girl nodded. "After he tells me he will get revenge, when just me and Mommy are home he will hold a glass above her head until I cry for him to stop!" tears gathered in her eyes as she finished.

Kiko rubbed her back, trying to sooth her. "It's okay, Saku-chan, everyone here will make sure he won't frighten you again," she said, comfortingly.

"She's right, Sakurako-chan," Monk said, smiling.

"Is that all the ghost has done?" Naru asked, trying to keep the question simple.

At this, Salkurako fell silent, just what Naru was afraid of, she was refraining from telling her sister. "Sakurako, I need you to tell me what you're hiding," Naru ordered, the child looked surprised.

"Naru! That's a little harsh, she's five!" Mai argued, the tension in the air grew.

Naru sighed before continuing. "You don't want your sister to know what else the ghost has done to you, correct?" he said, the child before him was amazed at his ability to read minds. "If you would like, I could have her leave."

"No!" she exclaimed, surprising everyone.

"Saku-chan," Kiko started, turning her sister to face her. "I need you to tell him what happened."

"Sakurako, we'll make sure the ghost won't harm you again," Mai assured he.

"He-he would tell me about how he was going to get back at Kiko-obaa-chan. He wants onee-chan to go inane and commit supicide," Sakurako explained, frantically closing her eyes and balling her hands into fists.

"Supicide?" Mai asked aloud, as Lin turned away from his typing.

"She means suicide," he replied, going back to the non-stop typing.

"I know that, it's just hard to see where she got the P from."

"Is that all he has done, Saku-chan?" Kiko asked.

"He does things when I tell people about him," she added, wishing to not go any further.

"What sort of things?" Naru asked.

Monk looked at the girl, knowing that she had had enough. "Naru, she just told us about the entity, if we wait, he'll show himself," Monk suggested. "Besides maybe this guy does different things every time."

Sakurako nodded, lowering her head into Kiko's chest. "And let harm come to a five year old?" Naru questioned, glaring at Monk.

"Naru!" Mai exclaimed. "Can't you see she doesn't want to talk anymore! She's had enough!"

"She's right, Naru," Lin argued. "And since she nodded about the ghost doing different things, we don't know what to look for anyway. Have Sakurako go with Takigawa and Taniyama when they do the temperature readings."

"That sounds good, what do you say Saku-chan?" Kiko asked. "Wanna spend some time with Monk and Mai?"

The girl hesitated a second before slowly nodding.

"Alright!" Monk exclaimed, standing up. "How about you show us around, Sakurako? Mai and I are bad with directions and could get lost easily."

"Monk! I'm not that bad!" Mai argued.

"Yes, you are," Monk, Naru, and Lin all replied together, causing the brown-eyed girl to blush and their blue-eyed hostess to laugh.

"Okay, Saku-chan, be good with Mai and Monk, I'll help Mom with lunch," Kiko gently ordered.

"Okay," she replied, hopping from her sister's lap and held onto Mai's hand.

"There's something strange about this case," Monk stated, taking the temperature as Sakurako clung onto Mai.

"You mean how this one is similar to the one with that doll, Minnie?" Mai asked, stroking the girl's hair.

"Well, that and how Mrs. Kimura wasn't able to convince Naru but Kiko was. Isn't that a little odd?"

"True, but it's not the first time something like this has happened. Remember Yasuhara was the one who convinced Naru to take on the case."

"Yeah, but that was a school, and the principal asked, but was turned down by Naru and if it weren't for the petition Yasuhara started I don't think Naru would've taken the case."

After Monk wrote down the some numbers, they walked into the next room. "So, Sakurako, what room are we in now?" Mai asked.

"This is Satoshi's room, he forgot to clean it," she replied, not letting go of Mai.

"I bet you'll scold him for that later," Mai laughed. "Am I right?"

Sakurako, nodded as Monk took the temperature. 'It's a few degrees colder in here than the other rooms," he noted aloud.

"Do you think that could be the cause of Satoshi's behavior?" Mai asked.

"Could be, but it's too early to tell just yet," Monk replied.

After they finished taking the temperature they had lunch and met up in their base. "So, all the rooms are about 19 degrees, excluding Satoshi's room, the living room, and the kitchen which were a few degrees colder and then Kiko's room was the same temperature as the house. Very strange," Naru summarized, his index finger and thumb on his chin.

"What's strange?" Kiko inquired.

"Normally, in places with activity, the more active rooms have lower temperatures," Monk explained.

"Right, the spirits apparently take the energy around them making the air colder," Kiko replied. "And my room should be colder with the marks I've been getting."

"That's right," Naru said emotionlessly.

"So, what do you think we're dealing with?" Mai asked.

"The entity has been quiet since this morning, so it's either gathering energy and we should expect the worst or it used too much energy and is recuperating," Naru mumbled. "Takigawa, are you up for an exorcism tonight?"

"Sure, but Naru, why tonight? We don't know what type of entity this is," Monk answered.

"Whatever this thing is, it isn't ready to take us on, we need to get rid of it while it can't put up a fight," Lin explained, not once did he stop his typing.

"Makes sense to me, what will you guys do afterwards?" Kiko asked.

"I'd like to stay the night, there is a chance of the exorcism failing," Naru replied, looking at one of his black folders.

"Are you doubting my abilities?" Monk teased.

"No more than if you were Miss Matsuzaki," Naru replied, causing Monk's mouth to drop and Mai to giggle.

"So once you're done with the exorcism, I'll stop getting these marks?" Kiko questioned, gesturing to her arm.

"Mai nodded, "and possibly go away like with our last case right?"

"Anything's possible," Monk answered, "but you should stop receiving them. I'm gonna go prepare, what gave you two that vision, isn't going to give in easily."

With that, Monk left the room "I better go see how Satoshi is, I think he ate his lunch in his room," Kiko announced, leaving as well.

Once again, Mai was left alone with the two most anti-social people in the world with nothing to do. "Why were there twelve people in the vision?" Naru mumbled, causing Mai to realize something.

""Right now, there's only eight people in the house, how did this thing know about the others?" Mai wondered.

"Mrs. Kimura had no clue of the rest of our team, she thought it was just us four," Lin replied, continuing to type. "I personally didn't tell her how many there were."

"Kiko was the only one who knew," Mai whispered, her eyes widening. "Wait! You don't think this is caused her, do you?"

"It's possible, however, I've been taking that into consideration since I found out the ages of the children. Just to make sure, after the exorcism we'll do the test," Naru replied flipping through his file. "However if things don't turn out the way I plan, I'll need you to call the others and gather information."

Mai sighed and fell back into the couch. There he goes again, maybe there's a therapist or maybe a rehab center for workaholics, Mai wondered silently.

"Mai, tea," the overused order broke the room's silence, as well as a groan from a certain brunette.

After dinner, monk performed the exorcism, whatever was hiding there did not go down without a fight. Lights flickered, the walls shook, banging came from the ceiling, yet it all ceased at once, the temperature was normal for every room. Naru knew there was something in the house causing Sakurako to fear, however was skeptical about the vision Kiko and Mai saw. If Sakura didn't know how many people were in their team, and Sakurako and Satoshi didn't know about the team's arrival, how would the entity know?

Kiko was the only one of the family who knew. There were two possibilities, Kiko's psychic abilities were adding to the paranormal activity. Or, the entity was able to travel. Of it was the later, the team had their work cut out for them. All though, Naru, being the workaholic he is, feels the need to test his first theory, just to be sure.

Naru had Mai gather the mother, Kiko, the five year old, and a reluctant Satoshi, into the study on the third floor. Using the light, Naru hypnotized the group telling them the table lamp would move. After locking the room from the inside, the only thing left was to wait.

Sakurako had fallen asleep on her mother's lap and Satoshi was half asleep on the couch. "It's time for these two to go to bed," Sakura announced.

"I don't think Satoshi's going to get up," Kiko giggled.

His mother held on to her youngest while trying to shake him awake. "Satoshi," she said sweetly," Satoshi-kun, time for bed."

"No," he whined, rolling over.

"Here," Monk offered, picking him up.

"Thank you," Sakura replied, as they headed upstairs.

"It's getting late, I'm gonna turn in, unless there's anything else you'd like me to do,"

Kiko said, standing up.

"There's nothing for you to do," Naru replied, coldly, turning in his seat.

"What he means, is that we can handle things for the night, get some sleep," Mai translated, smiling.

"All right, don't stay up too late," Kiko warned, leaving.

"Do you have to be so cold to her, she just wanted to help," Mai scolded her boss.

Her boss was silent, ignoring her? Maybe…

"If you're not going to answer me, then I may as well just turn in," she huffed.

"Before you go, change the tapes in the kitchen and Kiko's room," Naru ordered, pointing to some tapes next to the wall of monitors.

Mai changed the tapes and headed for the guest room, a few doors from Kiko's.

It was one in the morning, all seemed quiet, even the workaholic and the nonstop typist were thinking of turning in for the night. Until all hell broke loose. "Naru! Take a look at this!" Lin ordered as his younger boss stared at the monitor.

"What the-" his thought was interrupted by a scream.

She was exhausted, as soon as she hit the bed she was asleep. The familiar scent of her pillow filled her nostrils and she was comfortable. Well, except for a stinging sensation on her left shoulder. It turned into burning, then a feeling like something was carving into her skin. Becoming so severe she awoke with a scream.

Naru and Monk burst through the door to see Kiko sitting up gritting her teeth, holding onto the back of her shoulder. Mai turned the light on as she, Monk, Naru, Lin, and Sakura hurried to the girl.

"Earlier than usual," Kiko noted, removing her hand to look. Her eyes grew wide. "There's never been blood before."

Sakura sat on her daughter's bed and took a look. "This one's the worst yet," she commented, moving the strap of her tank top.

"Mai, call the others," Naru ordered.

"Naru, it's the middle of the night," Mai argued.

"Call them and have them do research on the property," Naru ordered, his tone as serious as when they were at the Minami Mansion. "Takigawa, go with her."

"Right," Monk said, pushing Mai out of the room.

It appears that this case is far more sinister than we thought, Mai thought looking back at Naru. Naru is more jumpy than usual.

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