Trouble

Chapter 8

About five steps before we got to the bottom of the stairs, I felt something push me. Letting out a startled scream, I found myself sitting at the bottom of the steps. "Ow," I groaned as Yasu helped me up.

"Aki, are you okay?"

"Yeah, nothing broken or sprained." I said rubbing my soar backside.

"What happened?"

"I felt something push me."

"Do you see anything?" I looked around and frowned.

"No, there's no one here. This case is so weird."

"I agree." Finally the two of us got back to base.

"What took you two so long?" Monk asked curiously.

"Well, we didn't find Naoki-kun, but we did find out how he's been able to move around without being seen." I said grinning. "Naru, you remember that video of the desk moving and you saw the shadow of something near the window?" He nodded. "I'm 100% positive that that was Naoki-kun."

"Wow, that's a lot of confidence." Ayako said smirking. I stuck my tongue out at her.

"So how did he do it then?" Mai asked curiously.

"Well, after you and Ayako left, Yasu and I decided to go look at the classroom with the broken windows and see if there was a secret passage way too and there was! Yasu and I kind of went in but as soon as we went to turn back, we couldn't get out. So we went a little further down the corridor and about half way through we found a door on the right side of the corridor. We found ourselves in the Biology lab after going through it. We didn't go all the way down the corridor because we figured we should tell you guys in case something happened." I said shrugging.

"Also, on our way back here, something pushed Aki down the stairs." Yasu said smiling. I scowled at him.

"You made that sound way worse than it really was!"

"Are you alright, Aki?" John asked me in concern.

"Yeah, I just fell down like five steps. Really it isn't a big deal. I didn't break or sprain anything." Naru narrowed his eyes at me.

"What? You don't believe me?" He just sighed.

"Do you think that corridor you and Yasu found is connected to the corridor between the music room and orchestra club?" Mai asked curiously.

"Hm, I don't think so. I don't remember seeing any other doors in that corridor, do you Yasu?" Ayako asked him. He shook his head.

"No, I don't remember seeing any either."

"Same here," I said in agreement. "But I do believe there are more corridors like those around this school. We just have to find them all. Ne, Yasu, how come you didn't see those in the blueprints of this school?" I asked him frowning.

"The map I saw looked newer, so that might be it. And I think the original blueprints got lost when the school's record room caught on fire. No one was injured or killed, but the school lost a lot of important data." He said shrugging.

"Did you check out the tennis courts?" John asked Naru and Lin. The two nodded.

"Yes, we didn't find any Hitogata, but we did find a basement of sorts not too far from the courts. We think it's connected to the school somehow." Lin said as he typed a few things on his computer. He must be putting in the information we've found so far.