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National Psychical Academy
Summary: Welcome to National Psychical Academy, a secret and undisclosed school in our modern technological world, whereby people with supernatural power or what we called Psychics studied in.
The Beginning of a Strange Dream
"Hur… Hur…"
He could hear his own perspired breathing as he ran as fast as his two heavy legs could carry him towards the black iron-like door. His instinct told him that it was the only escape route. From both corners of his eyes, he could see the atmosphere around him was shading in an alarming rate. No! It was getting colder! He got to make it to the door before everything gets trap into the darkness! Including him!
The exit was only a few feet away…
He reached out his hand to the metal handle…
Then everything went white.
"This is… Why am I in school?"
He noticed that he was dressed in his usual uniform, the dull brown school coat and tanned long pants, as he stood stiffly in the middle of the dead silent hallway. He took a step forward and peeked through the rectangular glassed-up door's pane. To his astonishment, a class was currently being held inside. Haruna-sensei was writing some Japanese characters onto the chalkboard and in front of her stood four human figures. Though their faces were hidden behind a dark cast of shadow, he could tell they were students. But they were not students from his school, since they were dressed differently.
"Who are they?"
He slipped his hand into the door handle with an attempt to open it, but something else had caught his attention. He made a quick turn towards the strange presence that was behind him. Then, he saw a recognizable person gradually walking passed him.
"He's one of the missing students, Hitomi Kagiyu."
In the next blink of an eye, the boy disappeared into the corner. Though he was never in a good-term with Hitomi, something in him triggered his body to follow.
He picked up his speed and ran after Hitomi, into the corner, up the stairs and through the door.
It was the school roof.
Strong wind blew passed him as he stared in shock at the boy who stood motionlessly at the edge of the roof barrier.
"He's… He's about to jump…"
He tried shouting out to him, but no voice was heard.
Hitomi took a step forward…
"NOOOOOOO!"
"LINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!"
Haruka woke up alarmingly, covered in sweat. His eyes wandered around impulsively only to realized that he was currently in his own room.
"What was that all about?"
He restlessly off his morning alarm and got out of bed.
It was a new semester and he wasn't at all happy about it. He's the type of guy who was born with both the looks and the brain. His amazing academic results had achieved him a place in one of Tokyo's top rated high school, Megeru High. It's a prestigious high school whereby all famous, rich and spoilt kids studied in. Yes! It was indeed a dream school for all those poor kids like him, but Haruka wasn't too keen about it. Despite his good looks and grades, he has no friend in school. His classmates feared him after they witnessed his violence against some school bullies. These had him noted into the police record and his step-parents were outraged about it.
Day after day, he would walk pass the same blocks, take the same train and see the same faces before arriving to school. Finally, he would step into a class full of normal people who only have money to be proud of.
He had enough of this boring life!
It's the same every single day!
Somehow, Harkua had already predicted his future. Three years from now, he's going to graduate from this simple school, enter Tokyo University whereby he will get a standard degree, and follows his step-parents words on becoming a doctor or a lawyer.
"This world is so boring…" Haruka mumbled out displeasingly and exited his room.
"This school doesn't look that bad…" a teenage who had long, black hair tied back into a low ponytail commented as he gazed up at the school buildings.
"It will look bad if you were to compare it with ours…" another teen with his fine, long silvery hair tied back into a simple ponytail responded.
"One thing for certain, no school in this world can be beat our academy." The last young man with his auburn long hair which was also tied back added.
"But-but, I heard that Megeru High is an outstanding school. Everyone inside must have really good grades. Common school like this, they require us to do mathematics and science right? Oh! I am so going to fail…" the only girl within the group of four cried out.
"Don't worry, Odango… I will protect you." The black-haired teen patted her on the head.
"Yeah! Seiya! You are the best!" the girl cheered happily.
"Hey… Hey… Who is the genius in this group? Don't worry, Usagi. I will not allow anyone to give you a difficult time." The tall auburn-haired teen told her smilingly.
"Yeah! Taiki! You are the greatest!" the blonde girl continued another cheer.
"Everyone, can I have your attention here?" the silver-haired teen clapped his hand. "Remember that we are here to solve a paranormal case, it is not as if we are really going to be studying here forever."
"Oh! Ya! I totally forgotten about it!" the girl stick out her tongue admitted embarrassingly.
The rest of the boys let out a sigh as they proceeded into the school building.
Haruka slid open the door roughly as he made his first step into the noisy classroom. And as soon as he did, everyone turned quiet. Girls turned their heads away from him, boys hurried back to their seats and soft, annoying whispers were heard. He knew really well that they were whispering about him but he wasn't at all affected by them. Everyone is the same, there's no one in this class or the entire school that interests him. As he proceeded to his seat, he overheard a group of girl's loud conversation.
"Have you heard the latest news? Ayashi Mai from Class 2-B was reported missing yesterday…"
"Ayashi Mai? She's the daughter of the director of Jacky Magazine, isn't she? Oh my! Then, this made her the third person this month who went missing…This is getting creepy! Where did you hear that from? "
"I overheard Haruna-sensei and Kizuki-sensei private conversation minutes ago. It was believe that she went missing during class hours. She asked for an excuse to the restroom and never came back since. The police are now in campus investigating hers along with the two other missing cases."
"What's with this school? Will I go missing next? I'm so scared… "
"Suzuki-chan, you are always such a wimp! I bet it's just some silly pranks… I used to run away from school and home when I was younger, just to grab attention."
"Pranks? These rich and childish kids… What a waste of time." Haruka thought to himself.
The classroom's door made the usual sliding noise as Haruna-sensei walked in and ordered everyone to settle back into their seats. She did her daily routine name checks before making a surprising announcement.
"Class! I will like to present four new foreign exchange students that will be joining us for the next few weeks. They came all the way from the United States and I hope everyone will treat them well."
"Exchange students? More boring people…" Haruka murmured softly.
"The four of you can come in now." Haruna-sensei facing the closed door stated.
The door was once again opened hastily. All eyes were on the four attractive strangers as they made their way into the classroom. The girls were blushing and screaming in excitement upon noticing the three idol-looking guys, while all boys were drooling over the striking-looking blonde girl.
With their appealing looks and exclusive school uniforms, they had caught Haruka's attention. The colours of their uniforms were mainly black and white with two silvery stripes drawn along their blazer collar. The black ties made a stand out against their white internal blouse. For their bottom, they had long black trousers for the guys while short black school skirt for the girl. The smart-looking uniform came with a school logo was imprinted on the left side of their blazer.
"I believe I have seen their uniforms somewhere before.." Haruka deliberately leaned forward by a little to get a better view at their school logo.
From afar, the logo design was a stand out of two white wings with a star in the middle. Below the star were three simple letters: NPA.
"NPA? Never heard of such school… I guess all American kids wear fashionable uniform." Haruka thought as he relaxingly leaned back.
"Will you mind introducing yourself to the class?" Haruna-sensei asked them graciously.
"Hai! I am Usagi Tuskino, nice to meet all of you!" the girl with her long golden hair tied up neatly into two buns smiled refreshingly at the class.
"I'm Taiki Kou, nice to meet everyone here." The tallest among the four introduced himself with a slight smile.
"Taiki Kou? His name sounds familiar. I wonder where I heard it from." Haruka thought.
"Seiya Kou… nice to meet you." the relatively tall guy with sexy dark blue eyes followed up emotionlessly.
"Yaten Kou here…" the silvery-haired young man added reluctantly.
"Will you like to introduce your school as well?" Haruna-sensei asked.
"Sorry, but we are not allow to disclose much about our school." Taiki replied bluntly.
"What? Some top secret school? Damn rich kids…"- Haruka thoughts.
"Oh. It's alright then." Haruna sensei forced a small chuckle. "Let see. The four of you shall sit at the available seats around Tenoh-san."
Since the class had boycotted Haruka, no one was willing to sit besides or in front of him.
All the students still could not set their eyes off their four new classmates even after they had proceeded to their seats.
Haruka caught a glimpse of Usagi who was a table away from his right. As if she could sense him secretly peeping at her, she naturally faced him and smiled brightly. "Hi! I'm Usagi Tuskino. And you?"
He was slightly taken aback by her friendliness. "I am Haruka Tenoh…" he replied in a low voice.
"Nice to meet you, Haru-chan!" Usagi cheerily said.
"Haru-chan?! What's with this girl acting all so intimate with me?" Haruka stared blankly at Usagi for a second before giving her a quick reply. "Nice to meet you…" He then hastily turned back to his textbook.
It was their usual History period. Haruna-sensei was verbally reading out lines from the history textbook throughout the lesson. Haruka hated history and practically all class modules that were currently being taught at every single school in Japan. It's not like he was given a choice, he needed them for his national entry examination to Tokyo University.
His eyes wandered dully around the classroom. Some of his classmates were listening attentively while the others were taking down notes.
The blonde at his right had her book up, but head down as she secretly napped throughout the entire lesson.
Seiya who was seated in front of Usagi had the upper half of his body lying flat against the desk as he openly slept his way in class.
In front of Haruka was the serious looking Taiki who had kept himself awake. He was reading a small notebook that was undoubtedly not related to history.
Yaten had his eyes closed and his earpieces on. Like his other three friends, he was obviously not paying attention to Haruna-sensei history lesson.
"Why are they even here for?"
Suddenly a loud frightening scream caught the whole class attention. Everyone was filled with terror as they witnessed through the opened class's window, a body falling down from above. It was a shocking scene, and there was a terrifying moment of silence.
"That's… That's Hitomi Kagiyu!" Haruka stood up abruptly and exclaimed.
Haruka found himself staring at the familiar iron black door again.
"It's this dream again." With a shaky hand, he opened the door hesitantly.
Once again, everything went white.
This time, he entered into a science laboratory. As he scanned through his surrounding, he found test tubes with freshly coloured chemicals in them, taps were left on but no sound of running water was heard. Once again, he found himself surrounded by an uncomfortable sense of silence.
Then, he noticed the door opened. His eyes widened as he stared shockingly at the four incoming teenagers.
"Why are the exchange students here?!"
He saw them slowly making their way towards a life-sized solid closet located at the very end of the room. Stopping right in front of it, he watched in silence as Yaten placed his right hand onto the closet surface, as if he was trying to feel something from within the locked-up storage. Several seconds later, he saw him retreated his hand in distress.
From Yaten's grim expression, Haruka could tell that something about the sealed closet was amiss. He saw Yaten's lips moved but heard no words from him. The four then stared at the wooden closet for a moment longer before exiting the room.
Unable to control his curiosity, Haruka gradually walked towards the suspicious locker. Then, he extended his hand for the handle.
"LINGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGGG!"
His morning alarm woke him up once again.
"Damn it!" Haruka angrily slammed his hand against the timer, setting it off.
"What's inside the laboratory's closet?" Haruka badly wanted to get back to his sleep, but being under the guardian of his strict stepparents, he was not allowed to miss school. He speeded up his preparation after deciding to investigate on his strange dream.
He rushed out from the apartment, ran passed the usual stores, bought his breakfast along with a magazine that had caught his attention and boarded the early train.
He got himself a comfortable seat and focused on the magazine, The Psychic Zine, A New Vision Psychic Magazine. Though the magazine was not really informative, it did give him some brief explanation towards his paranormal dreams. "Seeing the future in dreams… Precognition… Does this make me… No way! There's no such thing as Psychic."
"Precognition denotes a form of extra-sensory perception (ESP) wherein a person is said to perceive information about places or events through paranormal means before they happen." - Fact
Even till now, Haruka was not able to swallow the fact that his dream about Hitomi jumping off from the school roof actually came true. The police had his case suspended under suicidal, but something inside Haruka tells him otherwise.
"Hitomi Kagiyu, age seventeen, his father is the principal of this school, Megeru High. Reported missing three weeks ago, last seen after Physical Education class. Did not turn up for his next history lesson… Found dead yesterday, cause of death is blunt force trauma; jumping from the school building. Case greatly suspect as suicide." Taiki briefly read out some of the noted information.
"Ehhh? Suicide?" Usagi exclaimed in surprise.
"Aren't the police taking this case a little too lightly? Even the slow Odango know it's more than that…" Seiya stated teasingly.
"Hey Seiya! That's mean…" Usagi pouted at him.
"I was just kidding… Don't be upset…" Seiya poked her right cheek gently. Ever since young, Usagi couldn't resist to let out a smile whenever Seiya poked her on the cheek. He had always been the one who knew the best way to cheer her up and to make her smile.
"Hey… Hey… Will you two please get serious here?" asked Yaten impatiently. "Can we solve this case fast? I can't take another day in this school…"
"Looks like someone is missing his dear Minako-chan already. Oh, Minako-chan! Where are you?" Usagi called out lightly.
"It's not all because of her…!" Yaten lied, blushing lightly. The other three giggled softly as they knew very well that Minako was the main reason for him missing their home academy.
"Alright, alright! Let's get back to our assignment shall we?" Taiki leaning back against his chair stated. "Takashi Hoshuyo, age eighteen, son of the founder of Mitsuka Car Manufacture, reported missing two weeks ago. Did not show up after break hours… His whereabouts is still unknown.
Third missing student, Ayashi Mai, daughter of the director of Jacky Magazine. Reported missing two days ago, went to the washroom during her history class, never been seen after which."
"All this missing students, their biological background is pretty renowned. Did you manage to contact Hitomi's ghost last night?" Seiya facing Yaten asked.
"I did see him…" Yaten responded while folding his arm. "But, because his spirit presence is extremely low, I wasn't able to communicate with him. If he really did suicide, he would have a stronger spiritual energy. But, from what I see here, he didn't even know that he's dead."
"Anymore information about him?" Seiya facing Taiki asked dully.
"When Hitomi Kagiyu was alive, he was known to be the school worse bully and troublemaker. Because of his father's status, he pretty much bossed everybody around and that included the teachers. All in all, he was a spoilt kid with bad reputation." Taiki explained bluntly. "Not only him, the other two missing students, were equally as bad. Anyway, from what I had analysis so far, this case wasn't as tough as our previous few."
"Eh? You already found the culprit?!" Usagi asked surprisingly.
"Sort of… but we will need more supporting evidence…" Taiki replied with a smile.
"As expected from Taiki, who is he then?" Seiya questioned quickly.
"It's not a 'HE'… but 'THEY'…"