Yes, I am actually back. Between school ending and surgery, I have had little time and interest in writing. But now that I have all summer to write, I thought I'd give it another whirl. Hopefully, this story will be updated on a weekly basis. Enjoy reading and review! The reviews make me very happy!

Prologue

Mai Taniyama, aged eighteen years, bounced into the SPR office with a bright smile on her face and a bouquet of daisies in her hand. One might ask, with the boss that Mai had, why would she be brave enough to bring such bright flowers into the office? Well, her boss and his associate had been forced to fly home for said boss's mother's birthday.

"Oh, Mai! What beautiful flowers!" a voice exclaimed. Mai turned around after setting the flowers on her desk to be met with her temporary boss. Madoka was a bright, bubbly young woman that could make even Naru bend to her whims. When she had heard that Naru would be going to England and that she would be in Japan, she had insisted on taking over for the short month Naru would be gone

"I know! I saw them on my trip and had to buy them! Have you settled in? Is there anything I can get you?" she asked as she shed her coat and placed her purse in the drawer she kept it in. She turned to look at Madoka and saw the woman was smiling at her from the chair that Naru usually claimed.

"Some tea would be nice, if you don't mind?" the woman asked. Mai felt her jaw almost drop. She wasn't used to being asked for tea. She nodded with a smile on her face before moving into the kitchen. She pulled the teapot out and filled it with water. She placed it on the stove and turned the flame on. She bustled around the kitchen as she placed some biscuits on the trey as she waited for the teapot to whistle.

When the whistle let loose shrilly, Mai turned around and hurriedly turned the stove off while taking the teapot off. She poured the hot water into a teacup before placing a tea packet in and mixing it in. Once she was sure it was mixed completely, she balanced the trey and took it out to Madoka. She set the trey down and handed Madoka the teacup.

"Thank you!" Madoka exclaimed as she took the cup. She took a sip and Mai gave a small giggled as a pleasant look spread across her face. "This is one of the things I look forward to when I come and visit. I truly love your tea."

"Thank you! You and Naru are so completely opposite. He wouldn't even think about saying something like that." Mai told her. Madoka shrugged as Mai took a seat. Mai wasn't sitting for ten minutes before the door opened hesitantly and she watched as a young woman entered with an uncertain look on her face.

"Hi! Can I help you?" Mai asked as she jumped up from her desk. She watched as the woman jumped and turned to look at her. Mai smiled at her gently as she recognized the look the woman had on her face. An uncertain look that made the wearer wonder if they really wanted to be there. Mai saw it on all their clients until they started talking and realized that the SPR team wasn't going to call them crazy.

"Um, this is the SPR office, correct?" the woman asked softly. Mai nodded before leaning her to the couch and Madoka. The woman looked up from her magazine and smiled at her before shutting the magazine and placing it on the coffee table.

"I'm Mai Taniyama, an Investigator, and this is one of my bosses, Madoka Mori." Mai introduced with a smile that she hoped would calm the young woman down. It seemed to work as she saw the woman calm down slightly, tightened muscles began to relax.

"One?" the woman questioned curiously. Madoka nodded with a smile as she held her hand out to shake the woman's.

"Yes. I'm a Vice-President of the Company. The President is currently out of the country so I'm taking over for him. How can I be of service?" Madoka asked and Mai blinked. She was so much more amicable than Naru ever thought about being to his clients.

"You can still…perform investigations though, right?" the woman almost seemed nervous that Madoka would turn her away. Mai continued to give a comforting smile as she sat down across from the woman.

"Yes, I am qualified. Now, why don't you tell us your name and why you're here?" Madoka asked in a gentle voice. The woman nodded before she took a deep breath.

"My name is Cho Smith. I live in a small town outside of Tokyo, about thirty minutes I suppose. I'm not here about my house but about the place that I work. I'm the Head Librarian at the Noriko Library. A few months ago, things started happening, books were rearranging themselves and no one had an excuse.

"At first, it was just in the children's section and I just thought the kids just didn't know where to put the books. But then it got worse and worse. Soon, every morning when I came in to open the library, it was completely rearranged. I thought that I was going crazy so I set up one of those little cameras that you can buy and set it to record all night.

"I came in the next morning and checked the tape. I was surprised to see books flying off shelves and onto other shelves. It was scary to watch but I refused to let my employees know. I decided to keep quiet until one night, when I was locking up, I was attacked by the books. It was then that I started looking up people that could help me. This was the only one that I felt I could trust." the woman explained and Mai could feel her eyes getting wider each minute the woman explained what was going on.

"Oh, my. Well, let me ask some questions, okay?" Madoka asked gently. Cho nodded in understanding and Madoka looked at Mai. "Mai, would you take notes?"

Mai stood up and gathered her notepad and pencil before sitting back down and smiled at Madoka. The woman smiled before taking the last sip of her tea and setting the cup down on the coffee table. Mai watched as Madoka crossed her legs and placed her folded hands on top of her knees. She gave another gentle smile before starting to question the woman in front of her.

"You said that the books rearrange themselves, is there any method to how they rearrange?" Madoka asked. Cho thought for a moment before nodding.

"Yes. It's an old method that hasn't been used since before World War I. No one knows that sorting code except me and that's only because I did research on the library before I applied for the job." Cho told them. Mai made a note of this, wondering if maybe this would help them date the time period that the ghost, or whatever it was, that was playing around in the library.

"I see. Well, it sounds like you need our help and we don't have any cases that are supposed to come in. If you would give me the address, I can have the rest of our team assembled and out there by tomorrow. Is there anywhere that we can stay while investigating?" Madoka asked. Cho nodded.

"Yes. You can stay with me and my husband. We live only a few blocks away so I walk to work everyday. The town is small compared to Tokyo, we maybe have twenty-five hundred residents." Cho told them. The two women exchanged looks as this was obviously a very small town. Cho wrote down the address of the library and handed it over to Madoka with a smile.

"Thank you. We should be there about lunchtime tomorrow. We'll need a room to set our equipment up in as well." Madoka told the woman as they all stood up. As Mai opened the door for their client, Cho turned to look at them with a slightly worried look on her face.

"There's one more thing that you should know before you come." she told them.

"Oh? What would that be?" Madoka asked with a smile as she turned from Naru's office door. Mai and Madoka both watched as the woman sighed and twisted her hands into the skirt that she wore. Mai wondered if the poor woman was going to speak. It was when she finally did tell them that Mai wished she hadn't.

"The first two librarians that ever worked there in the early eighteen hundreds are buried there. The coffins are on display in the library."

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