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Chapter 2

"Yes, please everyone, sit" Midori offered. Mai went and sat on the floor next to Kaiya, the teen, who was giggling at something her uncle had said to her.

"Hello" Mai said to the teen girl. She didn't look that much younger that Mai. She defiantly wasn't older, her height told Mai that.

"Hey" Kaiya said curtly, not looking at her. Mai was a little put back by her response and turned towards Naru, who sat in a recliner across from her. The guy was there with no laptop, no notebook, nothing to write down what Midori-san was going to say. This struck Mai as odd, seeing as how he usually kept neat notes while Lin would rapidly type on his laptop, almost as if he were trying to break it.

"First of all" Mai's attention was turned away from Naru and over to Midori-san, who was the only one standing at the time besides the maid, Saeko. "I'd like to thank SPR for coming all the way out here to Masakazu to help us. You'll soon find out why we needed you here so urgently."

"Where should I begin? Well, the beginning is always good. Fifteen years ago, when my parents passed away, Seiichi and I bought this mansion together. We bought it from Genji Masakazu, the last of the Masakazu line. He had no children and though it pained him to give up his family's long-treasured home, he simply was getting too old to rake care of it by himself. Together, my brother and I got it fixed up and put it on the market. It was up for two years without a single buyer, so we decided to live in it and never go into the reality business.

"The place always gave me the creeps, from the moment we were given the deed to the house. It started out with miniscule, unimportant things, such as hearing things, figures moving out of the corner of the eye, and the occasional thing going missing now and then. Then it escalated smoothly over the years. Kaiya began getting nightmares, I started having too many accidents for them to be accidents, and Seiichi has even woken up to a strange figure in his bedroom. As if that wasn't bad enough, it became awful once Ryoichi and I got married. That's when it got very scary."

'That's when it got scary? I'd have moved out once my brother began seeing ghosts in his bedroom!' was Mai's thoughts.

"The little 'pranks' became increasingly worse. We started getting physically attacked and hurt bad by them. Ryoichi has been hit, stabbed, burned, and choked by them. Kaiya's been pushed, nearly drowned, and her dreams have gotten so bad that she can barely sleep through the night anymore. Seiichi was once attacked by a chainsaw! Saeko-san has been thrown off ladders and was almost suffocated while making a bed. One of the scariest things though, Shinichi has been written on. No, not written on, carved on."

"Carved on? What did it say?" Bou-san asked.

"Disgusting people. It just showed up on my back one day when I woke up from taking a nap" Shinichi said, playing a hand game with Akiko in his lap.

'Disgusting people? What could that mean? And who takes a nap in their employer's home?' Mai wondered to herself. She looked at the male nanny who was too preoccupied with the little girl to notice the mother staring at him with an odd look on her face. She had a mixture of lust and torment on her face. Looking between the mother and the nanny-man, Mai then decided to keep a close look on the two who could possibly have something going on.

"We obviously need to start setting up. Where will our base room be?" Naru asked sitting up from the chair he was sitting in.

"In the library, Saeko-san will show you where it is. I figured you'd like to have it in there since there are so many books on the house's history in there. Which reminds me, Kaiya, go clean up your mess in there too, alright? And Seiichi, help them unload their stuff." Midori-san gave everyone their jobs to do and sat down, sipping her dainty cup of peppermint tea. She obviously wore the pants in the household.

"Come on Kai-chan, let's help the ecto-investigators unpack their bibles and holy water" Seiichi said, he and his oldest niece standing to help.

"I'll come too" Shinichi said, ready to stand and help.

"No you won't Shinichi-kun. I pay you to look after Akiko and you can't do that if you put your back out carrying some 80-kilo piece of equipment" Midori-san said, giving authority in her voice. Mai saw the way Ryoichi-san flinched and grimaced at the way she called him Shinichi-kun. She also noticed that she would rather have her tiny teenage daughter lift heavy monitors and speakers instead of the twenty-something man who could do it no problem. 'Oh yeah, those too are on my watch' she said in her head. Kaiya then came up to her and practically pushed her out the door.

"I'm sorry about her. Other than psychology, my mother's only other talent is ordering people around" Kaiya whispered to Mai, who giggled at the comment. "We haven't been properly introduced yet, I'm Kaiya Fujita, a first-year at Kumamada High in town."

"Nice to meet you, I'm Mai Taniyama, a second-year at Shibuya High." They shook hands and went outside to where Seiichi and Bou-san had most of the big heavy stuff out for the girls to take inside.

"Oi! Mai-chan! Mamori-san! Take the boxes of wires into the library for us please?" Bou-san yelled from inside the black van.

"Sure, Takigawa-san, but my name isn't Mamori, its Fujita" Kaiya corrected him as she and Mai lifted some moderately-heavy boxes.

"Like me!" Seiichi yelled like a child. Kaiya and Mai giggled as they went through the front doors.

"So Ryoichi isn't your father?" Mai asked her as they walked into the cool house from the hot sun outside.

"No way! He's Akiko's dad, not mine. My dad died before I was born" she said, and Mai felt the room get a little colder.

"Oh… I'm sorry for bringing it up" Mai apologized.

"Don't worry, Mai-san. I actually feel worse for you. How do you handle it? Being an orphan, having school work, a part-time job, and bills? It must be hard."

"You learn how to balance it quickly enou-" Mai stopped in mid sentence. 'How did she know that?' "Um, Kaiya-san?"

"Hm?"

"How did you know that?" Kaiya smiled at Mai. It was a smile that told Mai she knew something that Mai probably wanted, or needed, to know.

"A little transparent birdie told me."