Introduction: Ban's childhood friend visits Shinjuku from Germany to have a vacation with her friends. She just wanted to have a vacation but she realizes she can't go back to Germany for a few weeks… Or maybe never…
Disclaimer: I do not own Get Backers… I would be oh so happy if I did and I'll keep Kazu-chan for myself ;-3 this is my second fic so please spare me… -sweatdrops-
ICH LIEBE DICH
by: Kazu Eri
Chapter 1: Meet the Friends
One sunny day in Shinjuku, inside the Honky Tonk… The usual music in the coffee shop is played on the radio. A brown spiky-haired guy and his blonde headed best friend sat in the counter.
"Now you two… Are you going to just sit here all day?" Paul asked through the news paper he was reading. He always reads a newspaper. Nothing's new.
"…What can we do…we don't have money to make fliers…" Ban said and exhaled smoke. The same excuse everyday.
"Wash the dishes then… So you can pay up your tab…"
Natsumi let out a silent giggle.
Ban glared at Paul. Paul stared back through his dark purple glasses.
"…No…way…" Ban said with a frown.
In Ban's point of view, part-time jobs are so boring and low for his abilities. Tooooo boring…
"B-Ban-chan…we better wash the dish-…" Ginji didn't continue because of the way Ban looks at him. He turned into his tare firm. He would say 'Uruse Ginji!' and grabs his head and throw him to the wall. He just sat still staring somewhere in front of him. Sweat trickled down his cheeks. (A/N: Poor Ginji… Always get tortured by Ban…)
"Then get out of my coffee shop…" Paul said rather dryly.
"M-Master…" Ginji whined.
Ban eyed Paul one last time. He stood up and walked to the door.
He opened the door and walked out. Then he bumped into a person. He thought he heard a girl cried something German.
The girl shouted something German to Ban.
Ban apologized in German. Knowing that the girl really is German.
The girl looked confused. Even her three companions, that were behind her, looked confused as well. She stared at Ban. Ban stared back.
Ginji walked to them.
"Ban-chan… do you know her?" Ginji asked Ban.
"YOU?!" both shouted.
"Is that really you?!" both of them chorused.
"Midou Ban? Is that really you?" the girl smiled.
"Yes! I am! Takumi Rica?" Ban said with a smile. It was a different smile from the usual ones he show.
"It's been a long time isn't it?"
"Aa! It has! Was it five years already?"
"Ban-chan… I can't understand a thing you said…" tare-Ginji said in full confusion.
"Oi! If you're going to talk, better come in here!" Paul instructed them.
"But you just told us to get out of your coffee shop…" Ban stared at Paul.
They looked at each other for a long time… Until Ban decided go back inside.
They talked in German that made everyone so confused, especially Ginji.
"Anou… Ban-chan… Who are they? Why do you know them?" Ginji asked.
"Oh! Sorry 'bout that Ginji." Ban faced Ginji then pointed a thumb at the ebony haired girl. "She's Takumi Rica. She's my childhood friend when I was in Germany."
The girl has shoulder length, curly light brown hair, a pair of beautiful brown eyes, rose colored lips… To make it short she's beautiful. You can imagine her as a model in a magazine. She wears a white sweater, jeans, and white snickers. She was simple.
Rica smiled at Ginji. "Yoroshiku." She said in perfect Japanese.
Ginji turned tare. Much more confused.
"I forgot to mention that Rica is half Japanese and she knows how to speak Japanese." Ban smirked.
"Ah… Yoroshiku ne, Rica-chan!" Ginji jumped to her lap.
"Thank you. You're so cute." And patted Ginji's chibified head.
Ginji smiled. She looks very pretty and friendly too. Ginji thought.
"Oh! By the way, who are these girls you're with?" Ban asked, turning his attention to the other girls.
"She is Schnell Angie, Yamagata Eri, and Yamagata Yue…" she introduced one to the other, talking in fluent Japanese. "If you'd say it here in Japan." She added. "Angie's pure German while Eri and Yue are pure Japanese."
Angie has long curly blonde hair, beautiful blue eyes, and also beautiful like Rica. She wears a white jacket over her light blue spaghetti strapped blouse, denim mini skirt and brown leather boots. Eri looks more Japanese than Rica. Long, straight, beautiful brown hair that reached her waist, which reminds them of Kazuki, and black eyes. She wears a mint green turtle neck sweater, jeans and black snickers. Yue has short, straight, black hair that reached her shoulders, and a pair of black eyes. She wore a black sundress. But she's a bit different from her sister. She's a bit of…like Akabane himself.
The two girls smiled except Yue who just gave a nod.
"Nice meeting all of you." Ban greeted them in German.
"Arigato, Ban-san." Eri said.
That didn't surprise Ban that Eri speaks Japanese fluently.
"This friend of mine is Amano Ginji." Ban turned to Ginji. "And that guy over there is Wan Paul, the nicest owner of any shop that would throw away his only two costumers."
When Paul heard what he just said, "If you keep saying that you won't be entering this coffee shop again…"
"Whatever!" Ban groaned. "Oh, and that girl is Mizuki Natsumi. She works here."
Natsumi smiled at them. So did they.
"So, when did you get here?" Ban asked Rica, his expression a bit lighter than before.
"We just arrived yesterday," Rica smiled, "and after a series of strolling in these streets we found this coffee shop and here we are."
They heard the door of the place opened, that made all of them look at the door, except Yue and Paul.
"Irashaimase!" Natsumi greeted the guest.
"Hello, Natsumi-chan." Hevn smiled warmly.
"Ah! Hevn-san!" Tare-Ginji jumped towards Hevn. "So you're gonna give us a job today?" Ginji asked excitedly.
"Yup! And this is a big one!" Hevn grinned. It WAS a really big case. You can see it by the way Hevn smiled. I'll force Ban to give me forty pervent of profit in this case I got for them, Hevn thought greedily.
"Wai!" Ginji cheered. "We're going to eat meat again, ne, Ban-chan?"
The girls looked surprised. Except Yue again.
"Yeah…yeah Ginji…" Ban said and sweat-dropped.
Ban was embarrassed that his friend would know about how poor he is now. But Ban would not admit it.
"Ban-kun," Hevn called his attention, "would you mind introducing these lovely ladies?" Hevn said flicking her beautiful blonde hair.
"This is Takumi Rica and her friends." Ban pointed at Rica. "Rica's my friend back in Germany when I was a kid. She's Angie Schnell, Yamagata Eri and Yamagata Yue." He pointed one to the other.
The ladies bowed and smiled. (Yue is exempted in the smiling part)
"I didn't know you had a friend when you were little." Hevn said and grimaced.
Ban's eyes narrowed at Hevn. It was like she was pointing out that Ban was so mean when he was little that he didn't have any friends.
Hevn ignored his reaction.
"Oh, I'm Hevn. I find work for these guys because I'm a mediator." Hevn said proudly.
"What do you mean, Hevn-san?" Rica asked. She was totally clueless of what has become of her childhood friend. And now that she found Ban again, she wants to go back to the memories they have shared.
"Didn't Ban-kun tell you?" Hevn asked, her greedy smile not leaving her face.
"About what?"
"They're the so called Get Backers. They're a retrieval team. They retrieve all sorts of things; their success rate is 100. But they're kinda broke."
"Uruse…" Ban hissed.
Rica was a bit surprised. Relief and concern was shown on her face. Relieved, that Ban was doing okay, and concern, that they actually are starving. But suddenly an idea struck her.
Eri then nudged Rica's elbow and whispered something to her.
"Ban…?" Rica looked at Ban.
"To tell you the truth we are broke…" Ban leaned to the counter. "And we even have a tab to pay…"
The girls looked at each other, except Yue, who sips her coffee quietly, and after a few short whispers; the three girls stood up from their table and approached Ban. Blank expressions on their faces.
"What is it…?" Ban asked. He could sense an aura of need.
To be continued…
A/N: Arigato gozaimashita minna-san…-bow- I hope you enjoyed this first chap please review… If there are any things to be improved, please don't hesitate to tell me… ;-3 OH! BTW, I forgot to tell you that the titles in German which means I Love You. I just learned the spelling from my father who works with Germans.