Ghost Hunt Fan Fiction ❯ The Forgotten Case Files ❯ File One: I Will Love You as my Own. Part 1 ( Chapter 1 )
[ Y - Young Adult: Not suitable for readers under 16 ]
By: serenastar122189 
Upon waking from a strange dream Mai finds herself late again. Rushing out the door she hurries to the SPR office to start another day.
Anime/Manga: Ghost Hunt Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Supernatural / Romance / Horror / Drama / Action | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 06.03.2011 | Updated On: 06.03.2011 | Pages: 1 | Words: 3.2K | Visits: 225 | Status: Work In Progress
Upon waking from a strange dream Mai finds herself late again. Rushing out the door she hurries to the SPR office to start another day.
Anime/Manga: Ghost Hunt Fan Fiction | Genre(s): Supernatural / Romance / Horror / Drama / Action | Type: Continuation | Uploaded On: 06.03.2011 | Updated On: 06.03.2011 | Pages: 1 | Words: 3.2K | Visits: 225 | Status: Work In Progress
Authors Note:
Hi Serena here,
This is the first time in a while I have wrote anything so please be gentle, but don’t be afraid of telling me about any mistakes. It is my goal to stay as much in character as possible. Although yes I want there to be pairings if I can stick with the story that long to introduces them (Reviews help. The more I read your thoughts the more I write usually. It helps me not shirk my duty). I want them to arrive though as it occurred naturally not forced with their personalities. Yes in the end they will probably have a few OOC parts, but I will try. I hope to set up everything like an episode to keep the feel of the setting and characters. I will just have to see how I do. Don’t be afraid to correct me.
On a side note, for many of you that have read fan fictions and did research. I plan in changing Gene’s role a bit he will still be a sprit guide but Mai will find out about him a little differently than in the Manga. This is to help my story flow.
Further note: All Mai’s dreams sequences will be labeled and italicized, these are not to be confused with regular character thoughts. Thoughts in dream sequences will look like this ‘thoughts’.
Disclaimer:I do not own Ghost Hunt, for if I did there would be a season two. Also, if anyone was to google or happen to know history Japanese anyways you will find I often use real folk tales and places for inspiration and just change it to fit what I have in mind. This is not the case with all files. I will make a notation when it is though.
Hi, I'm Taniyama, Mai by the way. I am the current assistant at Shibuya Psychic Research, or SPR for short. I have what some would consider a weird job. I work under the most egotistical self-confident boss in existence Shibuya Kazuya, but I along with everyone else at SPR call him Naru. Naru, Lin-san and I conduct investigations on what people claim to be a haunted home, or area. Sometimes depending on the case, we have our friends Bou-san, Ayako, John and Masako along to help us. I have been doing it for little over a year now so I am proud to say that I am starting to get a hang of this ghost hunting stuff.
As I reached the train station, I glanced down impatiently at my watch. I had fifteen more minutes to get to work or I would be late. Impatient I bounced up and down on my feet while I waited for the train to pull up to the platform. When it did, I shoved my way through the crowed to makes sure I got on this train and would not have to wait for the next one. Once inside I tried my best to keep from being jostled or jostling others too much as the train began to take off. Looking down at my watch, I noticed five more minutes had passed. I scowled at the watch face as if that would somehow slow down the passage of time so I could arrive at my destination on time.When the train stopped, I once more shoved my way through the crowds and took off again. Five minutes to go I might make it, just might. I gasped for breath as I turned the corner and saw the office in sight. Breaking out into a full out run, I all but stumbled through the door in my haste to be in the office on time. Hurriedly I looked around, Naru was not in sight, and could it be that for once I would get away without being scolded. Not wanting to chance Naru coming out of the office and find me standing here, I quickly dropped my bag on my desk and made my way to the kitchen. Naru was always in a bad mood if I did not have a cup of tea ready for him when I came in the door.
Five minutes later, I carried two cups of fresh tea on a platter and knocked on the door. “Mai” was all I heard in acknowledgment. Opening the door, I found Naru sitting at his desk reading something in that little black book of his and looking at a map. I placed the tea on his desk, and hastily went to back out. I could not believe it; I was going to get away with being late. I had almost made it to the door when Naru stopped me again. “Mai, if you insist on being late I will be forced to dock your pay. Do try to make sure you make it to work on time,” he said with a slight smirk as he looked up from his book for the first time since I stepped foot into his office that day.
Okay so I lied, I guess I was not going to get away with it. “Wait, how did you know I was late, you did not even see me come in.” I exclaimed, prepared to argue my point of being on time. Usually he was up in the front already when he scolded me, this time he was in his office with the door closed he couldn’t of seen me it was impossible. He sighed and shook his head as if the answer was obvious, “If you must know Mai, you served my tea late,” he said in a way of an explanation. I looked at him baffled. What in the world does tea have to do with being on time!
“I can see you’re still not getting it. Let me see if I can spell it out so someone with your brainpower could understand,” he began in his cool, condescending tone he usually had when he had to explain something to me he felt I should already know. “It takes about five minutes to make a cup of fresh tea, give or take. If you would have been here on time, I should have gotten my tea by at least 12:40pm at the latest. You however served me the tea at 12:50pm. This tells me that you did not walk into the door until at least 12:35 or 12:40pm. Since you were supposed to be here today at 12:30pm that makes you late, really Mai it is actually quite simple.” His explanation complete he turned back to his work, silently dismissing me the smirk never once leaving his face as he all but ignored me now.
Why that pig headed, self-important, narcissist jerk! Only he would have timed the time it took me to bring him tea. It is not as if it is important to know when I will serve tea. He’s not going to die if he gets his tea fix a little late. Then again, maybe he would. It’s not like I see him ever drink anything else. I pondered that thought as I stormed out of his office shutting the door behind me. Stopping briefly to give Lin-san his tea, I then plopped down in front of my desk. Checking my trey, it did not surprise me it was empty. I had finished all the paperwork from our last case weeks ago, and we had yet to accept a new one. Mostly I just doodled on my note pad, made tea, and cleaned. It was really somewhat boring to tell you the truth, Naru never took a case that did not interest him.
With nothing better to do, I started to do my daily cleaning of the office. It would do no good for our place of business to be dirty when we eventually did have a customer come calling. As I began the mindless task of dusting and wiping, I thought back to the dream I had earlier. It had been strange. Granted it is not the first time I have had out of the ordinary dreams that in no way shape or form had anything to deal with me, it was when I did, I usually was on a case, and Dream Naru was always there with me. So that left me with why had I had such a startling realistic dream in the first place? As I pondered that thought, the telephone began ringing in the background. Dropping my dishrag I went to go get the phone, the same time as Naru ordered me to. Rolling my eyes, I picked it up answering cheerily, “Good Afternoon, you have reached Shibuya Psychic Research, this is Taniyama, Mai speaking, how may I help you?” As I listened to the person on the other end, I made my way to the desk and pulled out a pen, and flipped my notepad to a blank doodle free page, I proceeded to write down the information the caller was telling me.
“Yes, ma’am” I said in response to her question, I heard Naru’s steps come to a stop behind me as he looked over my shoulder reading what I wrote.“Yes….Yes….All right let me make sure I have everything correct. You are calling to request us to investigate am old castle you plan on renovating and turning into a tourist hot spot. However when you hired workers, they began to complain of strange things happening. You were not very clear on that point, could you give a bit more detail.” I waited for a moment, jotting down notes as needed.
“Okay, so tools were going missing, woman’s screams have been heard throughout the estate although there when you got to investigate. Two men were found dead, it was thought they suicide both of them where working in the Feudal Lords room. Three house cleaners, all women have reported feeling as if they were constantly watched or felt like someone was touching them, both appropriately and inappropriately even though no one was seen in the vicinity. Two of them have quit, claiming the house was haunted, the other committed suicide by jumping into a well unable to take it anymore and you are having a hard time trying to keep people working there die to the rumors and deaths. Is that correct…Right, well it seems….what’s that ma’am?” I paused as she repeated a figure that she was willing to pay to get us to come. Raising my eyebrows, I wrote the number down under lining it. I heard Naru shift beside me as I turned to the day planner on my desk. Flipping it open to this week, I saw that we were mostly clear, there were very few clients scheduled to actually come into the office.
“I see, well let me check and see when we can make an appointment to come in and talk to Shibuya-san about your case in more detail.” I looked up at Naru questioningly since he was in the room. He leaned over and pointed to a date and time on the calendar. “Let’s see, I actually have an opening for tomorrow at 2’oclock if you are….you are? Okay, I will put you down for 2’oclock. Who all should I be expecting to come?” I asked. Upon receiving an answer, I wrote down the name Ariwa, Miki next to the time. “Okay, ma’am I have you down for Friday June 3rd at 2’oclock. We will see you then.”
Done I hung up the phone and stared down at my notes, they were scrawled over the page in quick short jaunts, in some places you had to look closely to even read the writing. I would have to rewrite it much neater before I actually gave it to Naru. A hand obscured my vision picking them up, surprising me, looking up I found Naru walking back to his office with them. “Mai Tea” came the customary call. Sighing I got up and went to make him the tea. Walking into his office when it was ready, I placed it on his desk. It was then I noticed that he was busy looking up something on the computer, his much neater and precise handwriting flowed across the page whenever he found something of interest. Occasionally he would stop and peer at the paper full of his and my notes before continuing his reading.
Not wanting to disturb him, I walked out without saying anything. It had been a while since he actually took the time to research a case. That means that this case holds some sort of interest to him. We might get another case soon after all I thought happily. Smiling to myself, I checked in on Lin-san who was still busy typing something on his trusty laptop as usual, I idly wondered what he would do if it ever broke or we had a power outage. I rarely saw him without some king of electronic equipment. When he said he did not need anything I returned to cleaning the office, making sure to give it a little extra effort with the client coming in tomorrow. I had just finished vacuuming when Naru called out again,
“Mai, I want you to call the others and put them on standby in case they are needed. After that you are free for the day, make sure you’re here on time tomorrow.”
“It was not my fault, my alarm clock didn’t go off,” I complained.
“Then buy a new one, in fact buy three, it sounds like you might need them.” was his answer as he shut the door to his office.
“NARU!” I complained to the closed door. Really could he go for one minute without saying something about me being late, or dropping something, or…I tried to think of something else he complained about, when the door opened again. “Oh, and work on your hand writing you write like a second grader” he said before closing the door again.
Authors Note Continued:
--Serena
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Hi Serena here,
This is the first time in a while I have wrote anything so please be gentle, but don’t be afraid of telling me about any mistakes. It is my goal to stay as much in character as possible. Although yes I want there to be pairings if I can stick with the story that long to introduces them (Reviews help. The more I read your thoughts the more I write usually. It helps me not shirk my duty). I want them to arrive though as it occurred naturally not forced with their personalities. Yes in the end they will probably have a few OOC parts, but I will try. I hope to set up everything like an episode to keep the feel of the setting and characters. I will just have to see how I do. Don’t be afraid to correct me.
On a side note, for many of you that have read fan fictions and did research. I plan in changing Gene’s role a bit he will still be a sprit guide but Mai will find out about him a little differently than in the Manga. This is to help my story flow.
Further note: All Mai’s dreams sequences will be labeled and italicized, these are not to be confused with regular character thoughts. Thoughts in dream sequences will look like this ‘thoughts’.
Disclaimer:I do not own Ghost Hunt, for if I did there would be a season two. Also, if anyone was to google or happen to know history Japanese anyways you will find I often use real folk tales and places for inspiration and just change it to fit what I have in mind. This is not the case with all files. I will make a notation when it is though.
File One: I Will Love You as my Own. Part 1
Thursday June 2 12:00pm
-Mai’s Dream-
It was dark, but not the scary kind of dark I was used to. The moon was up high in the sky illuminating the balcony I was standing on. My pale white night shift blew around me as a gust came around the corner, causing it to conform to my body in that one moment of time. Below me the waves crashed creating a steady harmony that would continue to play long after the moon had set, the sun rose, and I was dead. As I stared out at the water, I heard the sound of approaching footsteps. Thinking it was my husband coming to see where I had wondered off to so late at night I did not bother to turn around. To say the least it did not surprise me at all when a set of hands wrapped around my waist and drew me against a hard, well-defined chest. For a while, we just stood there enjoying the breeze and listening to the waves. That is until his hands started to stray where they should not in such a public place.
“Masa stop, if someone where to look out the window they would see us,” I said placing my hand on top of his much larger one to forestall his movements. They stilled for a moment before moving out from under mine and continuing their slow exploration. Annoyed I now turned around to give him a piece of my mind about his wondering hands, only instead of an angry resort, a startled gasp flew from my mouth. It was not Masa, my beloved husband standing behind me as I had thought; it was Sato his best friend, and my trusted confident. Not the least bit concerned he continued to approach me, as I slowly backed up away from him until my back hit the rail. “This is not proper Sato, where is Masa, what have you done to him.” He just smiled and continued his approach. I was trapped between him and the balcony rail now with no place to go but straight into his arms. Desperate I screamed hoping to draw any type of attention at all to my predicament. Sato lunged his hand clamping over my mouth as he pulled me away from the balcony and pinned me to the floor.
“I will love you as my own,” he uttered, before his hand came down hard and I knew no more.
-Mai’s Dream Ends-
I awoke with my screech that was muffled somewhat by the pillow that had gagged me. Somehow, during the night I must have turned over, it was no wonder I was having such weird dreams. Blearily I sat up and stretched, rubbing my eyes I glanced at the clock to see what time it was, it read 12:00pm. Yawning I tried to figure out why that time seemed so important to me. Then it clicked. “Oh no, I am going to be late, Naru is going to kill me!” I threw back the bed sheets and started to reach for the first cloths I could find, and hoping they would match. Once fully dressed, I breezed through the bathroom, ran a quick bush over my hair, and I was out the door, pausing only long enough to lock it before taking off running down the sidewalk from the apartment building I stayed in.Thursday June 2 12:00pm
-Mai’s Dream-
It was dark, but not the scary kind of dark I was used to. The moon was up high in the sky illuminating the balcony I was standing on. My pale white night shift blew around me as a gust came around the corner, causing it to conform to my body in that one moment of time. Below me the waves crashed creating a steady harmony that would continue to play long after the moon had set, the sun rose, and I was dead. As I stared out at the water, I heard the sound of approaching footsteps. Thinking it was my husband coming to see where I had wondered off to so late at night I did not bother to turn around. To say the least it did not surprise me at all when a set of hands wrapped around my waist and drew me against a hard, well-defined chest. For a while, we just stood there enjoying the breeze and listening to the waves. That is until his hands started to stray where they should not in such a public place.
“Masa stop, if someone where to look out the window they would see us,” I said placing my hand on top of his much larger one to forestall his movements. They stilled for a moment before moving out from under mine and continuing their slow exploration. Annoyed I now turned around to give him a piece of my mind about his wondering hands, only instead of an angry resort, a startled gasp flew from my mouth. It was not Masa, my beloved husband standing behind me as I had thought; it was Sato his best friend, and my trusted confident. Not the least bit concerned he continued to approach me, as I slowly backed up away from him until my back hit the rail. “This is not proper Sato, where is Masa, what have you done to him.” He just smiled and continued his approach. I was trapped between him and the balcony rail now with no place to go but straight into his arms. Desperate I screamed hoping to draw any type of attention at all to my predicament. Sato lunged his hand clamping over my mouth as he pulled me away from the balcony and pinned me to the floor.
“I will love you as my own,” he uttered, before his hand came down hard and I knew no more.
-Mai’s Dream Ends-
Hi, I'm Taniyama, Mai by the way. I am the current assistant at Shibuya Psychic Research, or SPR for short. I have what some would consider a weird job. I work under the most egotistical self-confident boss in existence Shibuya Kazuya, but I along with everyone else at SPR call him Naru. Naru, Lin-san and I conduct investigations on what people claim to be a haunted home, or area. Sometimes depending on the case, we have our friends Bou-san, Ayako, John and Masako along to help us. I have been doing it for little over a year now so I am proud to say that I am starting to get a hang of this ghost hunting stuff.
As I reached the train station, I glanced down impatiently at my watch. I had fifteen more minutes to get to work or I would be late. Impatient I bounced up and down on my feet while I waited for the train to pull up to the platform. When it did, I shoved my way through the crowed to makes sure I got on this train and would not have to wait for the next one. Once inside I tried my best to keep from being jostled or jostling others too much as the train began to take off. Looking down at my watch, I noticed five more minutes had passed. I scowled at the watch face as if that would somehow slow down the passage of time so I could arrive at my destination on time.When the train stopped, I once more shoved my way through the crowds and took off again. Five minutes to go I might make it, just might. I gasped for breath as I turned the corner and saw the office in sight. Breaking out into a full out run, I all but stumbled through the door in my haste to be in the office on time. Hurriedly I looked around, Naru was not in sight, and could it be that for once I would get away without being scolded. Not wanting to chance Naru coming out of the office and find me standing here, I quickly dropped my bag on my desk and made my way to the kitchen. Naru was always in a bad mood if I did not have a cup of tea ready for him when I came in the door.
Five minutes later, I carried two cups of fresh tea on a platter and knocked on the door. “Mai” was all I heard in acknowledgment. Opening the door, I found Naru sitting at his desk reading something in that little black book of his and looking at a map. I placed the tea on his desk, and hastily went to back out. I could not believe it; I was going to get away with being late. I had almost made it to the door when Naru stopped me again. “Mai, if you insist on being late I will be forced to dock your pay. Do try to make sure you make it to work on time,” he said with a slight smirk as he looked up from his book for the first time since I stepped foot into his office that day.
Okay so I lied, I guess I was not going to get away with it. “Wait, how did you know I was late, you did not even see me come in.” I exclaimed, prepared to argue my point of being on time. Usually he was up in the front already when he scolded me, this time he was in his office with the door closed he couldn’t of seen me it was impossible. He sighed and shook his head as if the answer was obvious, “If you must know Mai, you served my tea late,” he said in a way of an explanation. I looked at him baffled. What in the world does tea have to do with being on time!
“I can see you’re still not getting it. Let me see if I can spell it out so someone with your brainpower could understand,” he began in his cool, condescending tone he usually had when he had to explain something to me he felt I should already know. “It takes about five minutes to make a cup of fresh tea, give or take. If you would have been here on time, I should have gotten my tea by at least 12:40pm at the latest. You however served me the tea at 12:50pm. This tells me that you did not walk into the door until at least 12:35 or 12:40pm. Since you were supposed to be here today at 12:30pm that makes you late, really Mai it is actually quite simple.” His explanation complete he turned back to his work, silently dismissing me the smirk never once leaving his face as he all but ignored me now.
Why that pig headed, self-important, narcissist jerk! Only he would have timed the time it took me to bring him tea. It is not as if it is important to know when I will serve tea. He’s not going to die if he gets his tea fix a little late. Then again, maybe he would. It’s not like I see him ever drink anything else. I pondered that thought as I stormed out of his office shutting the door behind me. Stopping briefly to give Lin-san his tea, I then plopped down in front of my desk. Checking my trey, it did not surprise me it was empty. I had finished all the paperwork from our last case weeks ago, and we had yet to accept a new one. Mostly I just doodled on my note pad, made tea, and cleaned. It was really somewhat boring to tell you the truth, Naru never took a case that did not interest him.
With nothing better to do, I started to do my daily cleaning of the office. It would do no good for our place of business to be dirty when we eventually did have a customer come calling. As I began the mindless task of dusting and wiping, I thought back to the dream I had earlier. It had been strange. Granted it is not the first time I have had out of the ordinary dreams that in no way shape or form had anything to deal with me, it was when I did, I usually was on a case, and Dream Naru was always there with me. So that left me with why had I had such a startling realistic dream in the first place? As I pondered that thought, the telephone began ringing in the background. Dropping my dishrag I went to go get the phone, the same time as Naru ordered me to. Rolling my eyes, I picked it up answering cheerily, “Good Afternoon, you have reached Shibuya Psychic Research, this is Taniyama, Mai speaking, how may I help you?” As I listened to the person on the other end, I made my way to the desk and pulled out a pen, and flipped my notepad to a blank doodle free page, I proceeded to write down the information the caller was telling me.
“Yes, ma’am” I said in response to her question, I heard Naru’s steps come to a stop behind me as he looked over my shoulder reading what I wrote.“Yes….Yes….All right let me make sure I have everything correct. You are calling to request us to investigate am old castle you plan on renovating and turning into a tourist hot spot. However when you hired workers, they began to complain of strange things happening. You were not very clear on that point, could you give a bit more detail.” I waited for a moment, jotting down notes as needed.
“Okay, so tools were going missing, woman’s screams have been heard throughout the estate although there when you got to investigate. Two men were found dead, it was thought they suicide both of them where working in the Feudal Lords room. Three house cleaners, all women have reported feeling as if they were constantly watched or felt like someone was touching them, both appropriately and inappropriately even though no one was seen in the vicinity. Two of them have quit, claiming the house was haunted, the other committed suicide by jumping into a well unable to take it anymore and you are having a hard time trying to keep people working there die to the rumors and deaths. Is that correct…Right, well it seems….what’s that ma’am?” I paused as she repeated a figure that she was willing to pay to get us to come. Raising my eyebrows, I wrote the number down under lining it. I heard Naru shift beside me as I turned to the day planner on my desk. Flipping it open to this week, I saw that we were mostly clear, there were very few clients scheduled to actually come into the office.
“I see, well let me check and see when we can make an appointment to come in and talk to Shibuya-san about your case in more detail.” I looked up at Naru questioningly since he was in the room. He leaned over and pointed to a date and time on the calendar. “Let’s see, I actually have an opening for tomorrow at 2’oclock if you are….you are? Okay, I will put you down for 2’oclock. Who all should I be expecting to come?” I asked. Upon receiving an answer, I wrote down the name Ariwa, Miki next to the time. “Okay, ma’am I have you down for Friday June 3rd at 2’oclock. We will see you then.”
Done I hung up the phone and stared down at my notes, they were scrawled over the page in quick short jaunts, in some places you had to look closely to even read the writing. I would have to rewrite it much neater before I actually gave it to Naru. A hand obscured my vision picking them up, surprising me, looking up I found Naru walking back to his office with them. “Mai Tea” came the customary call. Sighing I got up and went to make him the tea. Walking into his office when it was ready, I placed it on his desk. It was then I noticed that he was busy looking up something on the computer, his much neater and precise handwriting flowed across the page whenever he found something of interest. Occasionally he would stop and peer at the paper full of his and my notes before continuing his reading.
Not wanting to disturb him, I walked out without saying anything. It had been a while since he actually took the time to research a case. That means that this case holds some sort of interest to him. We might get another case soon after all I thought happily. Smiling to myself, I checked in on Lin-san who was still busy typing something on his trusty laptop as usual, I idly wondered what he would do if it ever broke or we had a power outage. I rarely saw him without some king of electronic equipment. When he said he did not need anything I returned to cleaning the office, making sure to give it a little extra effort with the client coming in tomorrow. I had just finished vacuuming when Naru called out again,
“Mai, I want you to call the others and put them on standby in case they are needed. After that you are free for the day, make sure you’re here on time tomorrow.”
“It was not my fault, my alarm clock didn’t go off,” I complained.
“Then buy a new one, in fact buy three, it sounds like you might need them.” was his answer as he shut the door to his office.
“NARU!” I complained to the closed door. Really could he go for one minute without saying something about me being late, or dropping something, or…I tried to think of something else he complained about, when the door opened again. “Oh, and work on your hand writing you write like a second grader” he said before closing the door again.
Authors Note Continued:
Next time on Ghost Hunt, File One: I would have loved you. Part 2
You mean we finally get a case!
Yes, I do realize I put one at the top. For some reason I like putting two, sue me if you don’t like it. Anyways, how did I do, did you like it? As I said, it has been a while since I have written anything. I know it is a short chapter and all but, I plan to make them longer as I get re-accustomed to writing again. For you at guys at FF, I had these on my computer for awhile now. I wrote them during that long dry spell when I had no internet. Yes, I know I could of finished the doll one but I didn’t instead, I worked on honing my ideas. For those on MM welcome, this is the first time you have seen me. Don’t be shy to tell me what you think.You mean we finally get a case!
--Serena
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