Well here we go after many attempts i finally have a story i think is worth posting, I've written or attempted to write loads of different fan fics but this is the only one that I've been brave enough to post so please be gentle and please no flamers only nice comments.

Hexen jäger

Chapter one: Foreign tongs

Ban Mido sat in the honky tonk savouring the bitter taste of the coffee Paul just served up for him, the honky tonk was quiet and that's how ban liked it no inane pointless chatter from his ever happy partner, Ginji. Natsumi, had taken the day off, and thanks to the torrential rain outside customers were few and far between.

With the occasional rustle of a newspaper from Paul this was the perfect environment for ban to just be, to sit and think, and to enjoy his coffee. The hammer of the rain against the pane of the window was very soothing as it gave an erratic beat in the back ground.

The bell above the door tinkled indicating that at least some one in this city had braved the rain, ban didn't need to look up to know who it was he could sense his partner a mile away, so he always knew when he was on his way or where about he would be, it couldn't be explained this bond between these two young men nobody understood it not even themselves all that they knew was that it was right for them to be around each other, ban liked to think of it as a yin yang deal that he was the dark to ginji's light.

"ban- chan!" a pair of sopping wet arms where immediately thrown around ban which the slightly shorter of the two shook off, with an annoyed noise

"Don't do that! In case you haven't noticed you're soaking wet and I'm quite dry"

The blond teen looked slightly down at his immediate brush off usually ban would humour him a little, but Ginji was used to bans grumpiness by now, but even for ban this was unusual. Lately ban had been grumpier, Ginji smiled at his best friend he knew ban well enough to know that he wasn't actually mad at him and that he didn't really care about his shirt getting wet it was more about the show of affection in public that ban didn't like, he never had been the touchy feely type of guy. Ginji took the stool next to ban and smiled at Paul,

"Coffee please chief!" Paul set about making Ginji his coffee, and Ginji started going on about what he'd been up to while he'd been with kazuki and Shido, ban sat smiling in to his coffee enjoying hearing about what his friend had done that day,

"Then kazuki took me to this fancy restaurant and treated me to lunch, I even got take away for you ban –chan I put it in the lady bug for later! But if you're hungry now I could go get it for you"

"No thanks Gin I'm fine"

Ginji carried on talking about what he'd had for lunch the bell above the door chimed again this time ban did look up.

The aura around this person he did not like it set off a fear inside of him that he had not felt for a long time. Ban stared at this person for behind his purple glasses trying to figure out if he knew him or not.

"Ban Mido?"

Ban did not answer only carried on staring, feeling this guy out for what he was, how much of a challenge he would be if things got nasty. Ginji stopped talking and also look up at the man and then at his best friend and back to the shadowed man in the doorway

"I'm looking for a man called ban Mido are you him?" ban immediately recognised the language this man was speaking as his native tongue, German.

"I'm ban Mido and who are you stranger?"

Ginji looked from the man in the door way to his best friend. He knew his best friend could talk a lot of languages but he had never heard him speak in anything other than Japanese. Ginji was amazed at how easily this foreign language came to his best friend and how he had easily slipped between tongs.

At ban's reply the man in the door way smiled removing his jacket to reveal a long blade attached to his belt. ban and Ginji immediately stood on edge expecting a launched attack.

"My clan has spent many years trying to track you down witch, and now I have found you I will be favoured above all. Ban Mido the time has finally come for the last of the pure blood witches to die!"

With that the man launched himself at ban, blade unsheathed he swung violently each attack aimed to kill.

Ginji jumped back out of his seat as the man launched himself at ban. Not being able to understand what the man had been saying Ginji hadn't anticipated the attack, he was to impressed listening to these foreign word come from his partners lips looking from the man in the door way to the man sat next to him, it wasn't until he had seen the blade the stranger had revealed that he realised his true intent.

The attacks where dodged easily Ban moved with the grace only attained through years of battle Ginji always loved to watch his partner fight it was like a rare treat for the young man as his fights always took longer than bans did and all to regular it was ban watching ginji's back while he fought.

As the attacker swung again ban grabbed his hand and twisted it a satisfied smile on his face as he did so, but the attacker smiled himself.

Anticipating this move the attacker switched tactics dropping the sword to the floor and spinning his body around ban's untangling his limb in the process and forcing a well aimed punch in to the ribs of the spiky haired fighter.

Ban stumbled back at the force of the punch. The attacker then kicked ban in the face as he reeled back. Ginji could feel the electricity around him spike preparing to jump in at the first sign that ban needed help. Ban stood up wiping blood from the corner of his mouth with the back of his hand a slight smile on his face.

"My blood doesn't come for cheep you know you'll have to pay for that"

"The blood of a witch deserves to be spilled to the soil of this earth, your kind doesn't deserve the air in which they breath, scum of the earth the whole breed!"

Ban immediately launched in to attack punching the man in the gut and again in the chest and finally in the face. The man fell back in to and through a table, splinters flying everywhere.

Ban calmly walked over to the man that was laid in a pile of splintered wood.

"That will go on your tab you know" ban heard Paul state from behind the bar. Ban didn't care all he cared about was who was this man and how did he know about his heritage?

Ban stared at the man laid on the floor kneeled down and grabbed the front of his shirt he was still breathing but he wasn't conscious. Ban dropped the man back to the floor and stared at his own shirt it had been cut open by one of the attacks the man had made on him. Just what he nedded now he had to buy a new shirt.

"Ban?.." Ginji tried cautiously

Ban searched his top pockets and found his cigarettes and lighter, he removed one from their pack and slipped it between his lips lighting it and taking a drag. He turned his head to look at his partner.

"I don't know Ginji," all ready knowing he was going to ask why the man was attacking him

"What was he saying to you? That language you where speaking what was it?" ask he spoke he moved closer to ban looming over his shoulder as he bent down and began to search the unconscious man for any clue as to who he would be and why he would be attacking him.

"German" ban replied searching the man pockets but he found no form of identification on the man

"German... as in Germany?"

"Yes Ginji German as in Germany," ban eyes traced over the man trying to find something to distinguish him, his eyes caught sight of black ink under the man's lightly stained white shirt,

"But isn't that where you come from ban-chan? Was he someone you used to know before you came here?"

"No I never knew this man not that I can remember anyway" brow furled in curiosity he rolled up the man's shirt sleeve to reveal a tattoo of a black diamond with a hammer in flames.

Bans eyes widened at the tattoo he dropped the man's arm and stumbled back slightly...

"Hexen jäger"

Ginji looked at his friend in shock whatever this symbol was it scared the hell out of ban and that no matter which way you look at it could never be a good thing.

"Ban-chan?"

Ban stood up and stumbled back as if trying to get as far away from the man on the floor as possible

"Ban who is this person? What's a...whatever you said?"

"Hexen jäger...it means witch hunter in German"

Everyone turned to the door way to see a petit woman with a large chest wearing a hooded cloak to shelter her from the rain outside. Ban immediately spun around to glare at Maria.

"Is this you?!" he bellowed at her "is this one of your tricks!?! Trying to get me to remember who I am?!" he ran over to Maria grabbed her by the cloak that hung around her shoulders lifting her straight off her feet and slamming her against the door frame with a sickening thud.

"BAN-CHAN!!" Ginji ran after his best friend and grabbed one of his arms trying to pry it away from the front of Maria's cloak but ban was to strong and to angry right now.

Ban slammed her off the door frame again "THIS IS YOU ISN'T IT!! YOU AND THAT OLD HAG OF GRANDMOTHER SETTING ME UP AGAIN ISN'T IT, YOU THINK THIS SHIT IS FUNNY?!"

"BAN-CHAN CALM DOWN! WHAT EVER THIS IS I'M SURE IT'S NOT MARIA'S FAULT!" Ginji had never seen his best friend loose his cool like this before, ban was always so calm about every situation they got themselves in to and they had been in some pretty bad situations in the past. whatever was wrong, who ever this person was and why he scared ban so much to react this way Ginji didn't like it one bit. Ginji was scared.

Ban immediately turned on his best friend "how do you know huh? They've done this type of shit to me before trying to scare me to go back to the clan! Trying to get me to run back" he turned his focus back to Maria "I've told you before I'm never coming back!"

Maria had kept herself calm the whole time ban had screamed at her and slammed her against the door frame, she calmly placed both her hands over his like she had done when he was a child and she had tried to calm him from one of his many rages.

Although her hands no longer covered his the way they once had done, she spoke to him in a soft voice in his first language in an attempt to calm the young man like she had done in the past when he had suffered from the nightmares that had once plagued his nights.

"Ban-Chico ....this isn't my doing nor is it your grandmothers, this is real, they found us ban they found your grandmother" ban stared at her with disbelief in his eye. No one outside of his clan knew where his grandmother was and even in the clan it was hard to find her. "Ban I'm so sorry but you have to believe me they found her, and well..."

Ban loosened his grip on the front of Maria's cloak and slowly lowered her to her feet and took half a step back,

"The clan they tried the best they could but...I'm so sorry ban...they got her... the hexen jäger got her and now...and now they are after you ban. As the only pure blood left if they got you then the battle is pretty much over....ban you are the only descendant of the greatest witch of the 20th century we need to keep you safe now"