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Your first reaction was turning around to shove your hands forward in hopes to push away whoever was behind you.

Your second reaction was at the boy that was now sitting inside of the toilet water, and once you noticed that pained expression on his face, because of your kind nature — you tried to help him out by grabbing his shoulders and helping him out the toilet water.

Your third reaction was to back away after you had helped him out of the toilet and realized it was a male, not wearing your school uniform, inside of the girl's washroom. Is he even a student at this school?

Your fourth reaction was to immediately call for your friend Nene once you noticed that his body was translucent, sporting an old school uniform with a pair of will-o-wisps flickering around his form.

Nene burst into the washroom the second the first syllable left your mouth, "Yes! (Y/N)!".

You looked away from the boy to glance at the white haired female who was frantically running past all the stalls and eventually she saw you with the translucent boy behind you who was currently shaking off droplets off his clothing.

She instinctively ran towards you and pulled you further away from the male, staring him down as she did. He grinned and waved, before turning around to kick down the lid of the toilet and sitting on top of the toilet.

"I'm a ghost!" He exclaimed while grinning at the both you, his eyes flickering between the two of you. "I'm the seventh of the school mysteries." He looked straight into your eyes, you looked away from him when the two of you shared eye contact.

"Hanako-san of the toilet, pleased to meet you." He finished, tilting his hat.

Your eyes widened and you tilted your head to the side to look at Nene, who was the first one to speak between the two of you, "Hanako-san!?" She slapped a hand to her mouth, "Where's your bob? The red skirt? And you're a boy!" She shot one question after another about his true identity but he continued to smile in return.

"That stuff is outdated so you can call me Hanako-kun instead." The ghost replied, throwing up peace signs before jumping off the toilet to get a better look at the two of you.

"Other than the one about being a girl, all of the other rumors are true!" As he approached the two of you slowly he continued to speak, "Well? You summoned me, don't you have a wish?" He was now directly in front of you, a little closer than you would have liked it to be. You looked to your friend for help, she tried to gently push the male back however her hand went through his shoulder.

She let out a yelp and pulled back her hand, grabbing your wrist to pull you back as well. "You really are a ghost!" Your eyebrows furrowed at that.

The boy let out a laugh before nodding, he took a few steps toward you and leaned forward so he was in front of your face. Your face a bit pink at that but despite the close proximity, it wasn't enough to distract you from how you were able to touch him earlier.

Deciding to see if you could touch him, you shoved a hand to the male's shoulder — a little too hard as he was forced to stumble backwards. Both Nene's and your eyes widened, "What?" You stammered out, "I can touch you though, does that mean I'm dead?!"

Hanako groaned and rubbed his back to soothe the aching pain, "that was kind of mean." He looked up at the two of you, "only special humans can see me and only a few of the ones that see me can touch me."

"Special..?" Nene started, "what's special about me?" She frowned, trying to think of something. "Don't tell me — it's because of my ankles!"

You pat her back for support, trying to calm her down. "No, I don't think that's why — "

Hanako jumped in, "That's probably it!" The two of you glared at him, he only gave you a closed eyed smile in return. He opened his eyes to look at you, "And you, can see and touch me.." He hummed while looking you up and down for any noticable feature, which made you uncomfortable. "You're just special I guess!"

"Special.." Nene's voice trailed off, "That's right! (Y/N)! You've been falling asleep lately, although that might just be narcolepsy.." Your eyes widened and Hanako perked up at that. "Although you did say that you were having weird dreams in those short periods of time.

"Weird dreams?" He asked slowly, you looked at him.

"Well that's the reason we came here today, we wanted to know if you knew anything about these weird dreams (Y/N) has been having." Nene said for you, sending a glance your way.

"What kind of dreams?" The male repeated, your stomach flipped at how his cheerful demeanor dropped. He noticed your face fall a little and he quickly covered up. "Because, depending on the type of dream it is. You're at the age where it's normal to fantasize about — "

You flushed a bright red, "No!" You yelled, "Not those kinds of dreams!" You paused to think of how to phrase it, "they're dreams, but I don't really remember anything about them. The only thing I remember is a boy and that's it."

The male hummed before giving you a cheeky grin, "Like I said, at your age. Dreaming about a boy in a certain way — " You kicked his shin and he winced at the pain.

"I'm not even sure if they're dreams though, Aoi-chan thinks they could just be hallucinations and Nene-chan apparently thinks it could just be narcolepsy or something more paranormal." You said unsure if you were even believing what was coming out of your own mouth, "I don't have any health problems though so I don't really understand why it would be hallucinations or narcolepsy."

"Well," Hanako started off, "If it's not any of those.." He floated towards you until he was behind you, you felt his arms sling around your shoulders and his face close to you ear, "those could be memories."

You felt shivers and goosebumps run down from your ear to your feet, you squirmed to get out of his hold but luckily Nene helped pull you out. "What do you mean memories?" She asked, while the male continue to float in the air.

"Well, I'm sure you realize — but this is a very strange building with lots of different kinds of rumors and mysteries. I'm sure you'll find something about that strange phenomenon. In fact there have been a few cases of sudden flashbacks at this school, wouldn't be the first time I've heard of them." He replied, he eased himself to the ground. "And since I'm a school mystery, I still need to grant a wish since you guys summoned me."

You and Nene looked at each other with uncertainty, she leaned in towards your ear. "What's worse, knowing that a ghost has been peeping on girls in the washroom or knowing that a student from another school snuck into the girls washroom to perv and is trying to play it off."

You put a finger to your chin, trying to choose between the two. "Well, one thing's for sure, your hand went through him."

     Hanako slumped at the two of you, "bye.." He said as he floated away glum.

Realizing that he wouldn't help you with your weird occurring if he were to walk away. Nene quickly spoke up, "I'm just kidding! A boy Hanako-san is sooo cool!"

The minute that last word left her mouth, the ghost spun around with a grin and fished a notebook and pencil from inside his blazer, "well! Any wish?"

Nene and you sweatdropped, 'what a shallow guy.' The two of you thought, having many negative opinions of the school mystery.

Nene looked at you, "do you have any wishes?" You shook your head, "then.."

"I'm Yashiro Nene from class 1-A, and I want the guy I like to fall in love with me!" She shouted, bit too enthusiastically. You gave the girl a nervous glance, before looking back at Hanako to see his response.

He hummed, "Yashiro, and you want some romance." He scribbled a few notes down into his pad, "And? What is he like?"

"His name is Minamoto-senpai, he's a second year, he's hot, smart, nice and is our school's prince!" She exclaimed while falling into a haze, you scrunched your nose at that.

"Nene, everyone likes him though.."

"That's why I'm making this wish!" She said while grabbing your shoulders and shaking you, stopping and apologizing once she realized you were getting dizzy.

"Okay, then. I'll grant your wish!" Hanako announced while bouncing towards the two of you, Nene beamed while you looked at him with doubt.

"How do you grant wishes anyway? Do you have magic items or something?" Nene asked curiously, bouncing up and down due to her excitement.

"Mhm! In fact I have something super cool right here!" He said as he rumbled through his pockets.

      'How big are those pockets anyway?' You thought, as you tried to use some math formula they taught you in class but decided formulas were no use when he had magical items — probably had magical pockets as well.

You held back a giggle when you saw Nene crestfallen at the book Hanako whipped out, 'Love Strategies.'

"Well, doing this is a lot safer. If you wanted something behind human comprehension than you'd paying a much larger fee." Hanako said while flipping through the first few pages of the book, Nene huffed before muttering about how she wanted those powers.

"Oh, well I don't have any magical items on me then, sorry!" He replied while squinting at a page. "Method 78, Capitalize on your special abilities.."

"Yashiro, do you have any special talents?"

author's note 09/02/20

finally introduced hanako in the story! i hope u enjoyed this chapter!

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