I don't own Harry Potter or Ghost Hunt, I am just having a little fun while I can.

Thanks go to DragonSlayer2187 for going through this monster fic. Thank you sweetie! You are awesome!

Sorry for taking so long to get back into this. But at the beginning of 2016 I had a health scare that I wasn't given the all clear for until the beginning of November. I'm getting back into the swing of things and I am hoping that I might be able to update once every two weeks. Enjoy the chapter.

Yume no Naka ni Seishin

Case File Two

Where Are You?

Chapter Twenty Three

Harry gave a sigh as he looked over at the alarm clock next to his bed and saw the bright red numbers only read five minutes past three a.m. After being sent up to bed at 10, Harry and Mai had stayed up for another hour getting their homework done. Only now did he wish he hadn't finished it so he could have something to do. Harry berated himself for not thinking ahead and bringing up a book or even maybe some of his magical lessons. Closing his eyes he rolled over once again and tried to fall asleep, but all he did was toss and turn for another five minutes thinking about the case and how nothing had happened after they found Koji Bear. Giving up on going back to sleep Harry gave another sigh and stretched as he sat up in his bed and decided to get ready for the day.

Not wanting to waste any more time he stood up and made his way to the bathroom. After freshening up, along with a five-minute fight with his hair, he rifled through his bag and pulled out some gray sweatpants and a black hoodie. If he was going to be up this early, he was going to be comfortable. Stripping down to his boxers he immediately grabbed his dragon hide wand holster and strapped it to the inside of his forearm, putting his wand in it, giving a flick of his wrist, he smiled when his wand jumped into his hand. Happy with how the holster was working he put his wand back in it and then finished getting dressed. After he finished getting his clothes on he slipped into his black converse, grabbed his bag, and headed out the door into the hallway and towards the stairway. As he passed the camera shooting the stairway he gave a smile and a small wave, letting Lin know he was on his way down.

Harry walked into the base room a few minutes later to see Lin sitting at the monitors, "Hey Lin-san," he greeted him as he went over and sat down on the other chair, doing a quick once over of all the monitors himself.

"You should be sleeping while you have the chance," Lin told him, glancing over.

"I can't sleep at the moment," Harry said giving a small shrug and pausing for a few minutes before asking, "So, has anything else happened?" Meeting Lin's concerned gaze.

Lin shook his head, "No, nothing since the basement incident," he replied still studying Harry.

Harry gave the nod with a murmured, "Right."

Lin observed him for a minute before he inquired, "Are you going to tell me what happened in the basement. Because I don't believe for one second the excuse that you gave," he stopped for a moment, "There is no way that you don't know what happened to you," he accused.

Harry froze for a moment and then turned to look at Lin, "All I remember is a lot of anger coming towards me. I thought it only lasted for a second at the most," he gave a small shrug, hoping that would be an acceptable answer since it was close to the truth.

Lin watched him and then nodded, "I'll leave it there, but you and I both know that there is something more going on. I'll wait for you to tell me, but if it is something that can put you or other people in danger, then say something."

"If there is anything I will," Harry agreed,

"You are an odd one Potter-san," Lin stated as he went back to checking the monitors.

"You and a lot more people think the same thing," Harry grinned a little as he asked, "Can you try and call me Harry? I hate hearing people call me Potter. Reminds me of a teacher at my old school."

"If you wish," Lin gave a small shrug, as he couldn't help but ask, "How did the teacher say it?"

"With disdain and hate," Harry replied with venom. At Lin's questioning gaze he went on to clarify, "My father bullied him while they were at school together. His hatred for my dad ended up transferring to me when I started there," finishing with a shrug. It didn't bother him that much anymore, but his mother had promised to hex him when she saw him in the afterlife.

"He does realize that you're not your father?" Lin queried.

Harry nodded his head, "He does, but it doesn't matter to him. To be honest, I am not bothered about it anymore. I am in a new school and learning is so much more pleasant now that I don't have to put up with his constant hateful comments or extreme scrutiny."

"Right," Lin nodded, a little smile playing on his lips.

"I think since nothing is going on, I'll do a little reading," Harry said as he got up and went over to his school bag he had left in the room.

Shuffling some of the larger books out of the way Harry found his great, great, great, great, great grandmother's journal and pulled it out. Seeing as the sofa was looking more inviting than the wooden office chair he plonked down onto the couch and opened up the cover to start reading. His great, great, great, great, great-grandmother had been an empath as well, and his hope was that she had some information that might help him on repairing his shield. What he had read so far talked about her shields and what it could do, but so far nothing about fixing one. The information he was learning would have been very useful before his occlumency lessons with Snape. He might not be suffering now if his shield had been stronger, but then again if Snape wouldn't have torn through his mind because of some grudge towards his father he would have been fine too. It was sad that he hadn't the foresight to go into his vault to look before his lessons had started. What was that Muggle saying? Hindsight is 20/20 or something like that.

Harry had only been reading for a few minutes when he felt the spirit begin to move from the basement. Frowning, he closed his eyes and opened up his shields a little bit more to see if he could tell where the boy spirit was moving too. The spirit only spent a few seconds wandering around the main floor before making a hasty move to the second floor. Harry could feel significant amounts of anxiety, but mixed in with it was a right amount of frustration and worry, but what shocked in the most was the little underlining of sadness. To Harry this where the emotions of somebody trying to find something. There was always a healthy dose of anxiety and frustration, but depending on what the person is looking for the last two emotions always differed. With worry and sadness being the last two Harry could only conclude it was something precious for the ghost. What that valuable thing is Harry had no clue, but maybe if they could find it, the spirit would move on.

All of sudden the sadness tripled in strength, completely blocking all the other emotions and making Harry jump off the sofa as a heart-wrenching cry filled the whole house making the air heavy with the sad feeling. His great, great, great, great, great grandmother's journal had fallen to the floor in his haste and Harry quickly bent down, scooping it up, before rushing over to Lin.

"Do you know where it's coming from?" when the sadness had become too overwhelming Harry had immediately erected his shields, so as not to be overwhelmed, and now had no clue where the spirit was.

"No, I can't seem to pinpoint it as it appears to be taking over the whole house," Lin answered in frustration as he began to check the audio feeds from each of the microphones and cameras.

Harry gave a sigh of resignation. Steeling himself he slowly lowered his shields as much as he dared, but had not prepared himself for the overwhelming amount of sadness and loneliness that met him. Swaying slightly, he immediately put his hand on the counter to try and steady himself as he sought to pinpoint the ghost. It was no use the emotions were too high to get a reading of where in the house the boy spirit was and so Harry quickly brought his shield back up and scrutinized the screens in front of him.

The crying had now reached a fevered pitch, and Harry wasn't surprised to see Mai, with her hair all a mess and a bewildered look on her face, come out of her room and head for the stairs to come to the base. Right on her heels was Kazuya, immaculate as ever with his lips in a thin line and a determined look on his face, as he left his bedroom not two minutes later following the same path as Mai. A few moments after that Erika and Royta-san also came out of their room, but instead of heading going towards the stairs and base, they made a beeline to their son's bedroom.

"I can't seem to find the source, in fact, it is coming from everywhere," Lin informed Harry.

Harry was confident that if Lin had been anybody else, he would be growling in frustration, but Lin kept his calm face only showing minor signs of frustration through the narrowing of his eyes and thinning of his lips, as he studied a screen.

All of sudden he leaned back from the screen and started to say, "But..."

At that moment Kazuya flung open the doors to the base room and marched in and headed straight to the monitors barking out, "Anything else going on besides this infernal wail?" Mai followed Kazuya in, but at a more sedated pace and even covering her mouth as a yawn took over.

"No, the sound is coming from everywhere in the house, except Hideki's room." At Kazuya's lifted eyebrow Lin clarified, "There is no crying going on in Hideki's room. In fact, that room is completely silent, even when his parents entered the room no sound followed them across the threshold."

Kazuya looked at him and then back to the monitors as he saw movement. It was Erika and Ryota leaving their son's bedroom. "Interesting," Kazuya mused.

They continued to watch the monitors, with a glimpse of Erika and Ryota every so often; they seemed to be making their way towards base now. The crying only continued for a minute or two and then stopped leaving a feeling of emptiness in its wake. Harry let out a small breath of air and sagged a little in his spot as the dark emotions also left. They had been so powerful that they had slowly been breaking down his shield. Finding the empty office chair, Harry fell into it and zoned out for a minute as he tried to pull what he could of his shields back up.

Coming back from the tedious task Harry found Kazuya and Lin going over the footage with a fine tooth comb, but as far as he could see, there was nothing they were going to get from the video or audio. Mai seemed to have the same idea as she was now sitting on the sofa and appeared to be falling back to sleep, but startled into awareness as the door to the room once again opened letting in Erika and Ryota.

Erika didn't waste any time, in fact, she blurted it out as soon as she came through the door, "We just came from Hideki's room and the same thing we have told you happened. It was completely silent in his room. We couldn't hear anything!" The poor woman was close to panicking as she tried to make sense of what was going on.

Harry tried to calm down Erika by saying, "It does show us that he is considerate of your son."

Unfortunately, it backfired as Erika grew more stressed out, "How could you say that? He hurt my precious Hideki! How could you forget that!"

Seeing that Erika need a lot more than simple placating to calm her down Harry took her arm and steered her to the recliner. Having her sit and seeing that she was as comfortable as she was going to get he began to talk to her in a soothing tone, "I did not forget that Hideki was attacked Erika-san." The woman looked up at him with tears in her eyes, "I believe what happened to Hideki was a case of a distressed child acting out when they don't get their way. I don't think it was meant on purpose, especially of what I have seen of the case so far."

Harry had been so focused on calming Erika down that he startled a little when he heard Kazuya's voice right behind him say, "I agree with you, Harry." Turning to Erika and Ryota, who had come to stand next to the chair he continued, "Hideki hasn't been hurt before then, am I correct?"

"No, only the once," Ryota confirmed, "But I still want to know what is going on, and why this spirit has latched onto my son."

"And we will be doing our best to help you," Kazuya reassured him, then added, "I believe that we should all go back to bed."

There were murmurs of agreement from Mai, Ryota, and Erika as they left the room. Harry watched them go and then turned towards Kazuya, who was glaring at him. "What?" he asked.

"You were already in here by the time Mai and I got here," he stated. "Why are you up, you should have been resting."

Harry gave him a sheepish smile, "I couldn't sleep anymore. So I got up and came here."

"Then I suggest that you go to bed now and try and get a little more," Kazuya suggested to him and turned around to talk to Lin some more about the case.

He stopped though when Harry said, "Look, I am not tired. I think I will stay here and read some more."

Kazuya glared over his shoulder at him, but he seemed to realize bullying Harry back to bed wasn't going to work as he turned back to Lin saying, "You might as well go to sleep Lin. It is only a half an hour until four; I will be all right."

"Alright," Lin agreed, getting up and heading to the door. As he passed Harry he paused for a second, "Naru is right, you should go to bed and sleep while you have the chance."

Giving a sigh of exasperation Harry laid it out for both Kazuya and Lin, "Look I'm fine. I don't sleep that much and never have. I have always slept for no more than five hours. After that, I can't sleep anymore, even when I try," Finished with his little speech he ignored Lin and Kazuya look of disbelief, walked over to the monitors and sat down in an empty office chair.

Lin shook his head as he walked out of the base room without another word. Harry looked at him, a little shocked that he had been able to hear Lin at all. It had been a few months into his fourth year when he had first started to hear people's thoughts; it wasn't very often at first. Only occasional from Hermione and Ron, but then he began to hear others. Most of the time it only happened when their thoughts were robust enough to come through. Kazuya came over next to Harry and took the other office chair and continued to stare at Harry making him feel uncomfortable.

Knowing what the other teen was wanting from him, he finally gave in, "I will only stay up a little bit longer, then I will try to get some more sleep."

Kazuya nodded his head. "Very well. You do know that I am only pestering you for your good. You never know what will happen in a case and being well-rested keeps your energy up for those unknowns." Kazuya lectured.

Harry gave him a small smile as he opened the journal back up, realizing it had been in his hand through the whole incident. He had only gotten halfway through the first page when he felt Kazuya's stare once more on him, "Yes?" he asked looking up from the page.

"What is the book you're reading?" Kazuya asked him, as he examined the cover for any title.

"It's my great, great, great, great, great grandma's journal. She started it as a young child, so she could learn how to write. In actuality, most of my family for generations have written a journal. In fact, I have started one myself not too long ago." he said with a smile all the while thinking about what they were used for, but Kazuya didn't need to know that.

In fact, all the journals, including Harry's, were filled with spells, potions, and rituals that a witch or wizard would devise as they grew, as well tell about what was happening around them at that time. Harry didn't start his journal until his fourth year. He had filled it with everything that had happened from his time with the Dursley's up to everything that had happened at Hogwarts at the time.

"What things are written in there? If you don't mind me asking," Kazuya asked with a nod towards the journal, Harry could feel his curiosity spike.

"Well, my great, great, great, great, great grandmother was around during the witch trials. She writes a lot about the innocent people that were tried, convicted and then burned at the stake or hung. My family took it upon themselves to help them escape the persecution. She writes about things that she has seen and done. Along with other things that are personal," he explained to Kazuya.

Kazuya looked at him in interest, "I've not heard of personal accounts from the witch trials still being around."

"That is true; I am sure a lot of them were locked away like mine where to be kept safe. I think I might be the first person in my family to have read what she wrote." Harry said with a loving smile.

"Still unusual," Kazuya murmured as he glanced back at the monitors.

The two drifted into silence as Kazuya continued to watch the screens and Harry read a little more of his great, great, great, great, great grandmother's journal. It wasn't until an hour later when Harry yawned that the silence broke.

"You should try and get a little more sleep," Kazuya said as he turned to the other teenager.

Harry nodded in agreement, "Yeah, suppose you're right about that," he grinned a little as he bound the journal and stood up, "I'll be up in a few," he murmured.

"Night," Kazuya gave a small, barely there smile as he turned back to the monitors.

Harry smiled, "Night," he then went back to his bedroom and climbed into bed. Yawning as he quickly drifted off to sleep.

XxXxX

Breakfast was over, and the four of them were back in the base room. Kazuya went over to one of the arms chairs and sat down. The others quickly did the same as they waited for their boss to tell them their orders for the day.

"Right," he said as he looked to Mai, "Mai, I want you to spend the day with Hideki, he seem to have connected with you during breakfast."

Mai smiled happily, "Right boss, I'll watch over him. I know that he is going to be in his playroom while Erika does the housework and Ryouta-san is going to work for a couple of hours today."

Kazuya nodded and then looked to Harry, "You and I will be doing a walk-through of the house."

"Okay," Harry nodded in agreement, wondering why the two of them would be doing so.

"We may try an E.V.P session as we go," Kazuya then added as he glanced to Lin, "You will be here monitoring us all. Please make sure to get in touch with one of us if there is a need."

"Will do," Lin nodded as he went over to the monitors and sat down, looking through them.

"Let's get to work then," Kazuya said as he grabbed two walkie talkies and handed one to Mai. She gave a mock salute and then headed to the playroom.

Kazuya and Harry walked out of the base room and headed toward the basement first. The whole walk they said nothing to each other, but Harry could feel Kazuya's curiosity and even caught him looking at him from the corner of his eye occasionally.

"Right, now what," Harry stated once they made it down into the dark and cold room.

Harry opened his shields a little, and once he was able to filter out Kazuya's emotions, he found that the spirit was still not in the basement, but wandering the second-floor hallway.

He had to bit his tongue on saying anything when Kazuya announced, "Let's start an EVP session."

Knowing they wouldn't catch anything, Harry still went along with it. Asking a question and then waiting a few minutes and then Kazuya asking a question and waiting for a few moments. All in all the EVP session only lasted a few minutes and surprised surprise when they were done and played back the tape they received nothing.

Kazuya seemed to be a little frustrated, "Well since that didn't receive any results let us go to the main floor and do one in each of the rooms. Maybe they will turn up something."

Harry wanted to tell Kazuya that it would be a waste of their time and that the spirit was on the second floor, but he had no idea how he could do it without bringing any suspicion on himself. So with reluctance Harry followed Kazuya up from the basement and into the first room they came across. They repeated this several times with the same results. It took them an hour to finish the ground floor and by that time Harry could feel Kazuya's frustration like his own.

"This is getting us nowhere," Kazuya grumbled as he turned off the audio recorder in the last room on the ground floor, once again with nothing on it but their voices.

At this Harry decided to speak up. "You know the spirit seems pretty attached to Hideki; maybe it is in the playroom with him?" He glanced at Kazuya hoping he had bought his little white lie to get them to the second floor.

Kazuya seemed to think about it for a moment and then gave a nod of his head, "You might be right Harry. We'll head to the second floor."

Giving Kazuya a smile, Harry agreed and followed Kazuya out of the room and up the stairs to the second floor. They were halfway up the stairs when Harry had to stop altogether and grab onto the railing with both hands to keep from falling over. A wave of anger had completely caught him off guard and made him feel dizzy and weak.

His sudden stop and grip of the railing with both hands must have alerted Kazuya who was in front of him because the older teen came back. "Harry," concerned laced Kazuya's voice as he reached out a hand to touch Harry's shoulder.

Thankfully before Kazuya's hand made contact with him Lin's deep voice came over the walkie talkie with a sense of urgency, "Naru, there is a temperature drop in the playroom. Something is going on. "I'm heading there now."

Kazuya snatched up the walkie talkie from where it had been hanging on his belt and pressed down the button answering Lin, "All right, we'll meet you there," clipping the walkie back into place he turned his dark blue eyes back to Harry just as he was straightening himself back up.

Harry met Kazuya's eyes with his emerald green,"Let's go," ignoring the concerned look that KAuzya was still sending his way, "We need to hurry." Harry stated as he moved passed Kazuya and up the last few steps.

The whole time he was trying to pull up his shields as best he could, but the anger was so strong that it was showing itself to be a futile task. Of course, Kazuya didn't take long in catching back up to Harry, and as they reached the top of the steps, the older teen passed Harry taking the lead once again. Hitting level floor the two started sprinting down the hallway to the playroom. They both say Lin reach the door of the room, while they were still two doors down. Lin had just stepped through the doorway when a high pitched scream rang down the hall. Both boys recognized it as Mai and increased their speed to a sprint to cover the last two feet as quickly as possible.

Skidding to a stop in the middle of the room Kazuya and Harry took in the aftermath of what happened. Mai was crouched in the far left corner of the chamber. They could barely make out the top of Hideki's hair as Mai had all but wrapped herself around the boy as if shielding him from something. All they could see of Mai was the right side of her face, and that had a slow trickle of blood running down to the side face from a small cut on her cheek. Seeing as Harry still didn't have his shields up all the way, he could not feel the spirit in the room anymore. In fact, it was back in the basement, and the anger had subsided back into sadness and loneliness.

Kazuya was the first to move out of them, and he immediately went over to Mai and Hideki, kneeling down in front of them he asked, "Are you both all right?"

Mai gave a sharp nod of her head to answer Kazuya's question and slowly loosened her hold on Hideki, who now revealed, had tears running down his face. Harry could see both sets of eyes filled with fear. He didn't even need his empathic ability to tell they were both scared.

Harry slowly made his way over to the small group and kneeled down on Kazuya's left side. Placing a comforting hand on Mai's back, he began to make slow, soothing circles trying to calm her down. Seeing Hideki needed comfort as well Harry put his other hand on the little boy's back and began doing the same thing. Giving them what he hoped was a reassuring smile he whispered, "We should head back to base," giving a quick glance at Kazuya.

Kazuya gave a small nod, as the two of them helped Mai and Hideki off the floor, Erika came into the room them as they got up. She didn't even stop to ask what happened, she immediately went to her son and took him from Mai, holding him carefully as he continued to cry. There was fear in her eyes as she went and took her son from Mai. Holding him closely as he cried.

"Come on let's get back to base and talk about what happened," Harry suggested out loud for Erika's benefit as he kept his hand on Mai's back applying slight pressure to get her moving out of the room.

That was all it took for everybody else to move, with Kazuya heading out the door first followed by Erika and Hideki, and then Mai and Harry, with Harry leaving last, giving the room one last look before following everybody else. Making it to base Harry found Lin had gone to the kitchen to get some tea for all of them at Kazuya's request. With a little more, they were able to get them all back to the base room. Harry went and found the first aid kit and sat next to Mai on the couch, setting the bag on the small coffee table and opening it up took out some wipes and bandages. Harry sat down, a first aid box on his lap as he asked Mai to turn towards him so he could take care of the cut on her cheek.

As Harry started doing this Lin walked in with a tray full of tea cups and a steaming teapot. It didn't take long for Harry to finish with Mai's cut and as he placed the bandage over it, a cup was put in her hands, and one sat next to the first aid kit for him by Lin. Harry nodded his thanks and began to put everything away.

He watched as Mai took a small sip and seemed to relax some. Kazuya must have seen this as well for he finally spoke, "Mai," he waited until she looked at him before continuing, "Can you tell us what happened?" Kazuya asked her as soon as everyone had a cup of tea in their hands and Mai's cheek was taken care of.

Taking another sip of her tea, Mai seemed to collect herself before launching into her side of the story, "We were playing with the toys like we had been all day. As we were playing the room felt like it suddenly got colder," Mai paused to glance at Harry, "kind of like what happened in the basement." Harry gave her a nod that he understood what she was saying. Mai gave a small smile before turning back to Kazuya and continuing, "It was then that I heard Lin over the walkie saying that the temperature had dropped drastically. I was getting ready to hit the button to tell him that I could feel it when I saw something out of the corner of my eye. I noticed just in time that it was one of Hideki's wooden blocks and dodged it." By now Mai's voice was shaking a little, and she had to stop there and take a sip of tea to try and calm down. Harry could feel her fear as if it was his own and had to erect his shields to stop from being overwhelmed quickly. Mai seemed to have collected enough of herself to continue, "As the toy missed me Hideki cried out to leave me alone and that I was playing with him. The whole room at this point got very still, but it only lasts a second before Hideki's toy train lifted off the floor and came flying at me. I was so shocked by this that I forgot to move out of the way and it hit me on the cheek," gesturing to the band-aid that covered the small cut, "Then Lin showed up, and the temperature went back to normal." She finished with a frustrated look on her face.

Harry took Mai's hand and gave it a squeeze as he felt her frustration, confusion, and fear at the attack on her. Wanting to bring her back to the now he said, "Thanks for telling us what happened." squeezed her hand, reassuring her a little. He could still feel her terror and fear as he held her hand. The emotions were strong, but not strong enough to cause him any true problems.

Mai gave him a small smile for his words. Giving him a squeeze back before removing her hand so she could pick up her tea cup and take another sip. Harry, seeing he wasn't needed anymore also reached for his teacup and moved his gaze to Kazuya, but as he did so he caught an object by the monitors that he had forgotten until now. Setting his cup back on the small coffee table, he stood and walked over to the little blue bear, picked it up, and turned around holding it out to Hideki.

"Koji!" Hideki yelled in happiness.

Everyone in the room followed his movements as he went over to where the monitors were and pulled out Koji, "Koji!" Hideki yelled, happiness colouring his voice as he saw the bear in Harry's hands.

"Yes," Harry smiled as he walked over to him, "I was able to find him yesterday, I forgot to come and bring him back to you," handing the bear over to the excited child. over the bear.

"Thank you," Hideki said as he took the bear and hugged it tightly.

"Let's hope he doesn't go for another walk around," Harry teased, smiling. smiled to him.

"Hideki," Kazuya called the attention of the little boy, "I need you to tell me what happened in the playroom?"

"But Mai-chan already said," Hideki he answered, confusion apparently coming through a little confused.

Harry smiled atto him as he knelt in front of the small boy, sitting his mother's lap, "I know she did, but we have to hear it from your point of view as well. So, can you tell us?"

Hideki studied Harry's face for a few seconds and seeing what he was looking for nodded and hesitantly started his version of events, "I was playing with Mai-chan and was having tons of fun, though I did think it would be more fun if Koji were there. The little boy showed up, but after last time I saw him I still didn't want to talk to him so I didn't. He got mad and said I was mean and that I should play with him. When I kept on not talking to him, he became even more angry and stated that Mai was stupid and he was going to hurt her so that I would play with him. That is when he threw the block at her. I got mad at him for trying to hurt Mai-chan, and so I yelled at him to leave her alone and that I didn't want him there. He seemed to get even madder at that and threw my train at her and hurt her. It was after that I grew scared of him and thought he was going to hurt me next." He huddled into his mother who had brought him closer as his story progressed.

Not wanting to distress the child more Harry patted his head saying, "Good lad," ruffling his hair for extra measures Harry smiled to him, ruffling his hair.

Hideki gave a small smile, which quickly turned into a scowl, as he tried to bat Harry's hand away from his hair. , "Okay."

Erika seeing her child had recovered somewhat from his fright said into the silence,"I think I shall go make some lunch since it is almost that time." Standing up with Hideki on her hip. "Is everything to be the same as last night," looking at Kazuya for confirmation.

"Yes, the same as last night," Harry answered her instead of Kazuya. He could tell she was only asking to keep her mind off the fear she felt for her family. smiled to her, "And thank you,"."He added with a smile.

"You're Welcome," she nodded with a smile and gave a small smile as she turned around and walked out of the base room, taking Hideki with her.

Mai turned to the others after watching Erika and Hideki leave with Hideki, "Naru, do you think the same thing that happened with Kuroda could be going on here?"

Harry shook his head from where he was sat beside her, "No, I don't think that is the case here."

"But we can still check for that tonight, just to make sure," Kazuya said in a deep, thoughtful tone. "It would be a good idea to eliminate all possibilities," even though he believed that it wasn't the cause of the goings on in the house.

"We'll do that tonight before Hideki goes to bed. We'll tell them that we have something we need to do, but nothing about what it is," Harry suggested as he got a nod of agreement from Kazuya.

Harry knew that PK wasn't the cause of the goings on as, he could feel that spirit at that moment back in the basement. There was once again a feeling of sadness and loneliness coming from him.

"I think I should go and see if Erika-san would like a little help in the kitchen, or for me to watch over Hideki while she cooks," Mai said as she stood up and went over to the desk, grabbing a walkie talkie from it.

"Keep us informed of anything that happens, no matter how small or even unimportant you think it is," Kazuya told her.

"Will do," she nodded as she began to head out of the door. There was an air of seriousness about her that hadn't been there before.

Kazuya gave a sigh, "So far," he began, as the door closed behind Mai, "we have the spirit crying in the hallway last night,. A a voice in the basement, that sounded childish, and then now the attack on Mai in the playroom just."

"I think we are dealing with the spirit of a child," Harry said as he could feel that from the spirit.

Kazuya nodded, "Yes, but why is the spirit coming through now. From what we have gathered from the family. Ryota was living here with his mother when he was a child. Nothing happened during that time. But when he came to live here again with his child, things have started up."

Harry nodded, "I don't know, I think we're going to have to investigate a little more. There is a library near here; they might have some local records,?" he suggested?.

Kazuya looked at him, "I would have suggested going there, but I think we shall have to leave it for another day. They close early today," he told Harry when he saw his questioning look, "I looked up the times for the local library. They are an excellent source of information when it comes to finding out about the spirits that might be in a house."

Harry smiled, "Right, I think I might do some homework then if we don't have anything pressing to do?" he queried.

Kazuya nodded saying, "Do as you need," then went over to Lin, who was sitting in front of the monitors.

It was then that Mai walked back in, "Ryouta-san is back from work. He is with Hideki and Erika is making lunch."

"All right," Kazuya said nodded to her as he turned back to the monitors.

"I'm going to finish my homework, you joining me?" Harry asked her as he picked up his backpack and went over to the table on the far side of the room?.

Mai nodded and grabbed her bag, "Would be a good idea, wouldn't do to go back to school without it done," she grinned a little as she sat down and began to pull out the work she had left.

Harry grinned back as he did the same and the two set to work until Erika called them for lunch twenty minutes later.

XxXxX

Kazuya, Mai, and Harry gathered in the living room. In front of them sat the Sasaki family, Hideki on his mother's lap and Ryouta-san on her left. The red light from the lamp pulsed slowly. Giving an air of calmness to the room as Kazuya stood before them with a small vase in his hands.

"Tonight the vase that is in my hands will move in this room," Kazuya's voice sounded hypnotic as he spoke almost in a rhythm as he let the words sink into the unconscious mind of the three before him.

All eyes went to the vase. Moments later Mai turned the light on and broke the three out of the semi-trance. They looked to the vase once more before Mail then led them out of the room.

"Harry goes and gets the other cameras, I want them set up in here now," Kazuya said as he followed Harry out of the room.

"Sure," he murmured as he walked to the base room, he could feel feeling the curious eyes of Kazuya on him.

It didn't take long for Kazuya and Harry to have the room set up and locked so no one else would be able to get in there. Mai was in the base room with Lin when the two of them came back and gave them a smile when she saw them.

"Everything set up,?" she asked?, although she already knew the answer as she had been watching them through the monitors.

"Yes, now we just have to wait and see if anything happens," Kazuya said as he went and sat down at the table and looked at the notes he had made earlier.

"Want to do a little homework?" Harry asked Mai, as it was only four hours until midnight and there was nothing else they could do.

"Sure," she agreed as she the two of them grabbed their school bags.

Harry also grabbed his bag and followed her to the couch and began pulling out books and notebooks. Harry could feel Kazuya's stare on them, along with a feeling of relief and Harry could only guess that he must be happy he didn't have to do this.

A little while later, Kazuya's voice interrupted Harry and Mai from an argument over a math problem, "Harry, you will have the midnight to four shift. Lin, you'll have the four to eight shift."

"All right," Harry answered not even looking over at Kazuya and Lin did the same. nodded as Lin did the same.

The rest of the night passed and soon all, but Harry had gone to bed. It was quiet for most of the evening; it was only when four in the morning was beginning to approach when Harry felt the spirit stirring. He looked at the monitors and saw him in the hallway upstairs. It was a small child, maybe even a toddler walking down the halls, looking sad.

Harry quickly wrote down the time and the monitor he first appeared on and then watched. He turned up the sound, hoping that he would be able to hear something as the spirit wandered towards Hideki's room. The door opened, and Harry watched on the other monitor as the spirit went to Hideki's bed. The covers flew off, and Harry was glad that the little boy was in his parent's room that night.

"Where," came the sad voice of a little boy.

Harry looked on sadly as the spirit left the room and walked along the corridor. Moments later Harry lost track but soon felt the spirit back in the basement. Harry sighed as he thought of the loneliness that the spirit was feeling. Harry began to make notes on what had happened and where the spirit was on the monitors. He leaned back and waited for the end of his shift.

"Anything happen?" Lin asked as he walked into the room.

"Yeah there was something," Harry answered.

Lin's face showed his shock, but it quickly disappeared as he went into work mode. "What happened?"

"I was watching the monitors when I caught sight of a spirit of a small boy wandering the second-floor hallway. I marked it in this notebook for you guys to review later," Harry said lifting up the said notebook.

Lin nodded, "Anything else."

"Yeah," Harry answered, "He walked into Hideki's room and the camera in that room was also able to capture the spirit, so I also marked that down in the notebook too," Harry said tapping the notebook. At Lin's nod he continued, "As I watched him, he went over to Hideki's bed and tore all the covers off like he was looking for something and then the equipment was able to catch him saying, 'Where?' and right after that he just disappeared. Nothing else happened after that" Harry finished, holding back that he knew exactly where the spirit had gone.

"Interesting," Lin said as he pondered over what Harry told him, "Did the vase move in the locked room or anything else peculiar happen in there?"

Harry shook his head, "No, nothing at all." He stood up and stretched a little before moving away from the chair so Lin could take it. "Honestly, once you see the footage you will know that it is a spirit causing all that is going on," a little grin on his shook his head as he stood up, and moved aside.

Lin nodded once more as he took Harry's seat, "All right, I'll have a look and then get it ready for when Naru gets up in the morning.," he told the teen.

"As I said all the times you need are on the notepad. Goodnight Lin and take care." He said as he headed for the door and hopefully a good rest.

"Goodnight Harry," he heard Lin say as he left the room.

Thank you all for reading and I do hope that you have enjoyed it so far!