Trouble

Chapter 3

John and I finally returned to the conference room and saw Naru, Mai, Monk, Lin, Ayako, and Yasu surrounding one of the tables and looking at something. "What's going on?" I asked curiously as we walked up to them.

"We found a Hitogata under the middle chair in second row in the Music Room just as you two left." Yasu said smiling.

"Ooh, does it have a specific name or something?" I asked curiously.

"No, it looks like it's aimed at whoever sits there." Lin answered.

"I wonder if the person who put it there, knew that Kosuke-kun sat there."

"We won't know until we find the person and ask them." Monk said frowning.

"That's not what's important at the moment." Naru said going over to the desk I assumed they used when they were listening to stories. "A student by the name of Minoru Sachiko talked to us and told us about how her childhood friend, Naoki Kichirou, doing extensive research on Hitogata and other things related to the paranormal. I believe he's the one behind the Hitogata."

"But that doesn't solve the poltergeist activity and the broken window." Monk said frowning.

"That's why I plan to use the test on the whole student body this afternoon. I asked Kazuo-san if that was okay and he agreed to do it." Hopefully I'll get to see this test of his now. I didn't get to last time because of what happened to that student in the gym.

"Do you want me and Aki to do a walk through of the school?" Ayako asked him.

"Yes, but be careful." We nodded and Ayako and I left the room once again.

"Did you feel what I felt at the tennis courts?" She asked me as we went to the entrance. We were going to start from there and move on.

"Yeah, it was definitely creepy. I didn't see anything though." I said frowning. "I think the spirit is hiding itself from me."

"Then this is definitely not a residual haunting."

"Yeah, Yasu said this was the first time any activity has been reported here, so someone somewhere must be bringing them here."

"Maybe it was that Naoki kid."

"Well, we won't know for sure unless we talk to him." I decided to text Naru and tell him what Ayako and I were talking about, so maybe he could talk to Naoki-kun.

"So have you spotted anything yet?"

"No, nothing so far." I said we walked into the cafeteria.

"Aki, who are you talking to?" Ayako asked me confused.

"You," I said looking at her with a raised eyebrow. "Didn't you just ask me if I spotted anything yet?"

"No," She said wide-eyed. I heard someone laugh and I sighed in relief when I found a girl standing in the doorway.

"Don't scare us like that." I said sighing. She giggled.

"Sorry, I couldn't help myself. My name is Minoru Sachiko."

"I have a question about Naoki-kun." She nodded. "Well, it's about the school population in general. Do you happen to know if anyone here uses spirit boards?"

"Your boss asked the same thing. I don't know anyone but I've seen a few students have some weird looking paper with writing on them. I also heard a few girls in my class talking about their wishes coming true or something." She said shrugging. "I didn't catch any names though."