Hina's POV:

The next morning Mai and I were loading the van with a bunch of expensive looking equipment. When I asked Mai about it, she explained that the equipment helped them detect the presence of ghosts. Deciding just to go with it, I didn't question it too much. Oliver and Lin were in their respective offices getting ready for the case. I'm not really sure what they were doing, but it seemed better to just leave them to it.

Before we had started loading the van, Oliver had explained that the investigation was going to take place in Kanami-san's house since she would be taken a paid leave from work for the case. Then, for my sake, Oliver mentioned that there would be more people working on the case and that they would meet us at the location. After this was said, Mai seemed to become much more excited. I guess she must be pretty good friends with these people.

The car ride itself was fairly uneventful. Although I was staring out the window the entire time, especially when we passed forests. I had seen trees before but never that many at once. When I inquired about this, all I got in reply was confused looks.

"You mean you've never seen a forest before?" Oliver said incredulously.

I blushed and muttered a quiet no while Mai gave Oliver a mean look. She then explained to me that groups of trees were called forests, which led to more conversations about things in nature. It lasted the whole car ride.

As soon as I exited the car, I was in awe at the gigantic house, or should I say mansion, in front of us. It was styled in a traditional Japanese way and looked like it had been around for centuries. Thinking of all the things this mansion had witnessed was fascinating.

"Jou-chan!" an excited shout brought me out of my musings as a tall man with light brown hair rushed forward and basically tackled Mai. I would've been worried if it wasn't for the ecstatic look on the girl's face as she enthusiastically hugged the man back.

"It's good to see you Jou-chan, Naru-bou hasn't been bullying you too much has he?"

Mai just giggled and said "Not too badly, Monk" in response to his antics.

When he heard this the man glared in Oliver's direction and started to make his way over to him when a bag suddenly hit him in the head.

"Stop harassing her you idiot Monk!"

The owner of the voice was an older women with redish brown hair and a scowl on her face. C=

"Harassing her!" The monk and the women continued to argue. I could tell that they weren't really mad at each other, I wonder if they're married? When I voiced this out loud, Mai doubled over in laughter and even the stoic Lin had a small smirk on his face while Oliver just sighed. Unfortunately, this reaction drew the attention of the couple in my direction.

"Naru, who is this?" The women asked.

"My sister."

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"You have a sister!" The monk shouted very loudly earning him another hit from the women's bag.

"Don't yell so loudly !" The women yelled loudly.

Oliver cleared his throat to get their attention again.

"Yes, I have a sister. Now if you haven't noticed, there is a case going on. So get to work." Oliver asserted. I was beginning to realize that my new brother wasn't the most friendly person in the world. He then made his way up to the house where Kanami-san opened the door and welcomed him inside. All of us followed and we were shown to a room on the first floor that would be acting as our base. It was completely bare except for a few zabuton* and tables, an ideal place to set up the massive amount of equipment Oliver had us bring. The group wasted no time getting the base ready, during this time two more people showed up, an Australian priest named John and girl in a kimono. After set up was finished, Mai was sent out to get set up cameras around the house and Oliver went with her. Lin was already typing away on his computer so that left me with a group of boisterous strangers. The monk's attention was quickly put on me.

"I don't think I got the chance to introduce myself, I'm Houshou Takigawa. You can just call me monk though" The man beamed.

"Ah, nice to meet you, my name is Hina Davis" I replied.

He smiled and continued, "That she-beast" Que another hit, "is Ayako, the priest is John, and the girl in the kimono is Masako, she's a medium."

John gave me a friendly smile and Masako just looked away, she must not be the friendly type.

"Nice to meet you" I said to them.

"So you're actually Naru-bou's sister?" Monk-san inquired.

"Well, kind of." When he gestured to me to elaborate I continued, "I'm adopted, I've only been in the family for about 6 or 7 months now."

"Huh, you look a little old to be adopted."

"I'm 19 or 20, around there I think"

"Seriously? Why then?"

"There was, um, circumstances." I wasn't quite sure if I was ready to tell them what happened to me. To be honest I just wanted to forget all about it. Thankfully I was saved by Ayako-san. Seeing my discomfort the women interfered.

"Stop interrogating the girl, Houshou" She scolded, then smiled comfortingly at me and suggested that we go get ready for bed since it was getting pretty late. I nodded in agreement since I had found out earlier that I was rooming with the women and we left the base. However, the walk to our room was interrupted suddenly.

A blood-curdling scream filled the mansion making both Ayako and me jump in surprise. I was instantly worried about Mai, I'd like to believe that we were friends and I didn't want anything to happen to her, so I took off running in the direction of the sound with Ayako close behind.

We had just made it to the room where it was coming from when the screaming abruptly stopped. Quickly I made to open the door but it wouldn't budge. My silver eyes looked wildly around for anything that could help when I saw Monk rushing around the corner of the hallway. He ran towards us and stopped in front of the door. Lifting his leg up, the man made quick work of busting the door down and revealing the shocking image on the other side.

AN: Oh no, a cliffhanger! I guess you'll just have to hang on tight till the next chapter! Get it, cliffhanger, hang on tight, man I'm just too funny. Anyways that was the 4th chapter, not much Lin action going on yet but it's coming, just hang on (look I did it again!).

*zabuton are those pillow things that are used for sitting on the ground.

Also since the case takes place in a traditional Japanese mansion there will probably be more things like zabuton showing up in the story so I just wanted to say that if you see anything incorrect, please let me know. I'm not very familiar with Japanese traditions and I'm only armed with google to learn about them, so please tell me if I mess up so I can fix it as soon as possible. That goes for anything really, like if there's a grammar thing or a plot hole.

Also I was looking on the ghost hunt wiki, and did you guys know that Lin is 6'8"?

Ghost Hunt doesn't belong to me, just my character Hina.