Ghostly Hauntings (Ghost Hunt fanfic) (Naru x Mai)

Chapter 2

Ghostly Hauntings:

Chapter 2:

Mai tried to calm down her erratic heart beat with a deep breath. It didn't work and the spirit looked impatient with her. She tried again and she managed to choke out a reply.

"I think I can see you..."

"I am really here," he told her coldly.

She was sure she could detect disdain in his voice. Now she had recovered from the shock, her brain was working to full speed. Mai looked over the spirit again.

He was a male and from what she could tell from his translucent form, he wasn't bad looking either. That thought made her give herself a mental slap. She was here for business. She wasn't going to waste their illegal excursion on stuttering and debating on the good looks of a ghost.

"Are you the ghost that the students see?" she asked the most obvious and important question.

"I am the only ghost here," he replied quickly. "I try to talk to people, but they just scream and run away."

Mai softened a little when she heard that. It was clear he wasn't an evil spirit, he was just trying to find people to talk to. She could understand why people would scream and run though. His glowing form did look terrifying on a first glance.

"I haven't run away yet," she pointed out.

He locked eyes with her.

"No, you haven't yet."

The boy's ghost was nothing like she had been expecting. They were holding a conversation normally. The subject was otherworldly, but he was talking like a normal live person. His voice wasn't frightening. It had a sternness to it, however it was pleasant. Were all ghosts really like this?

Mai was about to ask a question when she heard running feet and Yasuhara came running in with Keiko lagging behind.

"Why did you drop back?" Yasuhara demanded. "I was worried."

That was right, she had been following them. Seeing a ghost for the first time had wiped everything out of her mind.

"I found the ghost," she said and pointed.

That point turned out to be aimed at thin air because the ghost had gone. Mai blinked again, he was still missing. Where had he gone?

"He was here, I talked to him," she said before her sanity could be questioned.

She searched their faces for a sign that they believed her. Keiko looked skeptical and Yasuhara simply looked curious.

"What did you talk about?" he asked.

"He said that everyone he tries to talk to runs away. That's all I got out of him before you two came," she related to him.

"What did he look like?" Keiko looked less disbelieving now.

Mai thought back to it. "He looked high school age, he was wearing a uniform. It wasn't a gakuran though. He had black hair and possibly blue eyes."

"Hmm," was all Keiko said.

Mai felt a sharp nudge to her side and she turned her head to see Yasuhara grinning at her.

"For what it's worth, I believe you."

Thanks to Yasuhara's subtle persuasion, John and Michiru showed no signs of skepticism when they regrouped by the stairs and Mai explained everything. Michiru was just disappointed that she hadn't seen the ghost herself.

"So, the reports were true," she said happily. "Do you know what this means?"

Mai caught onto her enthusiasm. The trip to the school hadn't been a dead end like they had all been expecting.