Finding You (Ghost Hunt) (NaruxMai)

Tatami

Finding You:

Chapter 5:

The following morning Mai was abruptly woken up by her alarm clock and she half heartedly slapped it to turn it off and sat up.

Last night's dream had been exceedingly weird. Admittedly stomach cramps at that time of the month were not an unusual occurrence for her, but the other parts had been strange. Naru was her boyfriend and referenced buying her necessities at an inconvenient time and hugged her to make her feel better. There was also that indirect kiss via his water bottle. She fought back a giggle and a blush. That dream had been very surreal.

The amnesiac stretched her arms and got ready for work. There was plenty of time to mull over her dream on the van ride to the house and it would give her something to do as Naru had always tended to glare at her when she tried to make conversation or flipped pages of a book too loudly.

Another surprise awaited Mai when she got into the van and Lin started the engine. The former narcissist held out of the case file to her.

"Read it and ask me questions of you get confused."

Mai stated at him for a few moments before taking the file. The 25 year old Oliver Davis was certainly a lot better mannered than his younger counterpart. She wondered how and why the change had occurred.

The case involved strange noises, furniture moving and the wife was unable to account for some of her time at night. Mai flipped to the next page, this case didn't seem to have anything too defining to it unlike the labyrinth case or the Gellerini case. In fact this case sounded like a bad ghost movie plot.

She thought back to the conversation she had overheard at SPR. If she remembered correctly Naru had said something along the lines of "it is perfectly obvious what is causing the hauntings".

The psychic searched the next page in the file carefully for clues. The house was built in the post war period where the infrastructure of Japan was hastily rebuilt, if she had the date correct. The following page in the file was a map of the area in the 1930s before the house was built. Mai squinted at the area that had been circled and then it clicked.

"The strange occurrences are because the house was built on top of a graveyard?" she consulted the expert.

He nodded. "Well done, Mai. You got it faster than I expected."

Mai resisted the urge to blow a raspberry and a question came to her.

"If you had already worked it out, why are we here? It isn't like you to waste time."

The scientist glanced at her shrewdly. "You are right. We did have a very similar case a number of years ago," he paused to pass her another case file. "It took us two days to solve it as we didn't manage to find out that the house was built on top of a graveyard during the property boom until later- the records were harder to find. Read this file and tell me how this case is different."

Mai opened up the completed case file for Case #38. According to the date she had been 19 when she had gone on this case. She scanned the first page... furniture moving...unearthly noises...possession of all family members...all occupants of house report similar occurrences. She checked the file for the current case, the last point was absent.

"Is it that none of the previous owners of this house reported anything and only the wife in this instance is being possessed?"

"Good, Mai. You are right. There is something different this time. I have an idea, but I need to investigate. As all activity occurs when it is dark, we will be staying the night."