yes chapter three^^

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I also thought it might be nice to actually tell you how many numbers there are^^ I split it pretty equaly 28 rich kids and 24 numbers. I'm not writing about all of them just will use them when I randomly need numbers or rich people^^

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It had been a week since the incident and Yukimura had been busy with many different things when a teacher walked towards his table.

"Yukimura-san, I heard your group got injuries while working on the project."

Yukimura waited for her to tell him that they weren't supposed to go there anymore.

"I know that as a teacher I'm supposed to stop you from going, and if there's even one person that's willing to stop I will, but Tezuka said he didn't see a reason to stop and Atobe got angry at me when I said it, Yanagi said that he will only stop when as well you as Tezuka as Atobe said you would stop."

Yukimura was surprised to say the least that his group was willing to continue. It was his idea in the first place and they didn't seem so keen on going.

Now the teacher wanted them to stop they wanted to continue.

Yukimura thought it had something to do with their pride or something like that. But he was happy, he didn't want to stop and he would get to the bottom of this no matter what.

"Please Yukimura-san, tell them it's stupid that they'll only get injured."

"I don't think it's my place to stop them." He said smiling. Sure if he wanted he could stop them.

They couldn't bribe him into saying yes.

He was as rich as Tezuka and Yanagi maybe a little poorer than Atobe but that said nothing.

They couldn't blackmail him into agreeing either.

He was the only one who could do anything with blackmail. No the only reason he agreed with them was because he actually wanted to go.

Yukimura and Tezuka had both lessons in self defense now and it would be at least another week before they would go to the ghetto again.

Yukimura was surprisingly good at self defense because he was so flexible.

Tezuka improved quickly because he was so disciplined. But he had seen the people they would be going up against and he doubted if 4 people could defend themselves against them no matter how good they were.

Yanagi spend every free second trying to figure out more about the people they were dealing with. He analyzed what he saw last time and made sure someone made sketches of the people they met.

Atobe was being Atobe and was thinking of ways for revenge. Ways to restore his pride.

Once again they were standing in the narrow alleyways of the ghetto. Now they were accompanied by Shiraishi because he was interested in solving this case to the bottom.

"I thought you would leave after the last time."

Yukimura looked back to see the guy who had told them about the numbers.

"How do you know about it?"Yanagi asked already knowing the answer.

"Word gets 'round."

"May I ask your name?" shiraishi asked.

The guy burst out in laughing. "You think I'm going to give my name to a bunch of students?"

Atobe twitched by how low this stranger thought of them.

The guy grinned when his eyes fell on Tezuka's broken nose.

"What can you tell us about the numbers?" Yukimura asked.

The guy laughed once again.

Atobe wanted to twitch again but by now he had realized how inelegant it looked and he decided against it.

Yanagi opened a notebook. "You know these guys?" He asked showing the sketches of the people who had attacked them.

The guy grinned. "I know everyone wandering these streets."

"Everyone?"

"Except for you that is." He said eyeing Shiraishi.

"So let's trade. My name for yours."

The guy seemed to find this all amusing. "I'll have no problem figuring out your name if I want it."

"Then you would have no problem finding out things about the numbers." Atobe said annoyed.

The guy grinned. "And you seem to have."

"We know quite a bit already though." Yukimura said suddenly.

The guy looked at him and solely at him. "You do now."

"We do."

Yanagi decided to go with the bluff and he hoped Yukimura knew what he did. "If you know where to look for it there're quite some things to find about them."

The guy shifted his attention and his smile dropped a bit.

Shiraishi was impressed by Yukimura. He hadn't expected Yukimura to figure it out before him.

Yukimura had figured out the 'why' behind it all. Information. He had always known knowledge was a valuable thing to have but he had thought it didn't work that way in places like this.

"Let's make it a fair trade then. I'll tell you my name and I'll tell you the name of one of the numbers if you tell me what you know." The guy said with a mocking smile on his face once again.

"You call that a fair trade?" Atobe snorted.

"Yes I do."

"Our information seems more valuable." Yukimura said.

The guy shrugged. "You probably don't know anything I don't know. So you would give me information I probably know and I give you information you don't know."

"How do you know we don't have that name you're going to give us?" Yanagi said.

"Because I dare to bet with my life you don't know this name." He said.

"Fair enough. But you'll tell the name of the person of the numbers after half of the information we give you. You'll give your name at the end." Yanagi said.

"Precaution." Shiraishi added.

The guy grinned. "You're not as stupid as you look."

Atobe wanted to hit but once again he stopped himself because of the inelegance of it. Yes even in the ghetto Atobe had to look elegant.

"We know what we told you last time and what you told us last time." Yanagi said. He knew that was about half of it and that if he told the new things first he wouldn't get the name but the guy would just walk away.

"That's half of it?" He snickered. "That's hardly worth the names."

Yukimura glared at him.

"Don't worry I'll tell you." He snickered again. "Hiyoshi Wakashi."

"Then we know the numbers were found about 3 months ago and reached the top here in less than two days. They usually don't kill and hurt their victims as little as possible. They have stayed away from the police. They have a number somewhere on their body." Yanagi was stuck he didn't know what more to tell.

"The people in character sketches are known nowhere but here. Someone from the numbers has hacked into a computer of the police." Shiraishi added.

At the last comment the guy seemed surprised. "You know how to get information." He snickered.

"Your name." Yanagi said.

"Senri."

"Senri?" Atobe asked. "Don't you people have family names?" He asked annoyed.

Senri chuckled and turned around.

Tezuka grabbed the guy by the elbow to stop him. A very un-Tezuka like action but he wanted answers. Yes even Tezuka was curious now and then.

Senri turned to him with a smirk. "I don't mind giving you a black eye matching your broken nose."

Tezuka of course wasn't one to be intimidated.

"You would give Ore-sama your name so Ore-sama expects your full name." Atobe said.

The guy burst out in laughter. "Ore-sama?" He asked having a hard time stopping laughing.

"Ore-sama demands to know your full name." Atobe said trying his very best to keep his posture while a stranger was making fun of him.

Senri couldn't stop laughing but at least it had stopped him from walking away.

"Ore-sama yes do you have a problem with that?"

"It's hilarious!" Senri said between fits of laughter.

Atobe couldn't help but twitch but he tried to do it as elegant as possible.
Once Senri had stopped laughing…. Well he hadn't really stopped laughing he only calmed down enough to walk away.

Shiraishi stared at the retreating back of the stranger. "Well it's a start. With a name I can do pretty much."

"You can find out who he is?" Yukimura asked

"Hiyoshi Wakashi? Probably yes. But it'll be hard to figure out who the other people are probably." Shiraishi answered. He smiled like someone who had just found a challenge he was confident in winning. "Ecstasy."

Atobe almost sweat dropped he always had found Shiraishi's trademark quote weird. Well he was hardly the one to talk because his Ore-sama just got ridiculed by someone who looked like he never finished elementary school.

"What about Senri?" Yukimura asked.

"I don't know there are many people called Senri so it's going to be a pain to find him." Shiraishi answered slightly annoyed.

"Let's go and see what we can find." Yanagi said.

Shiraishi thought it would've been easier to find someone with the name Hiyoshi Wakashi but it was harder than he imagined. He had found nothing.

Not even a Hiyoshi Wakasi at the other side of the world. It was as if the name didn't exist.

Shiraishi was starting to believe the boy had lied that there was no such person as Hiyoshi. That was when he remembered that there once had been hacked in a police computer. They didn't know what had happened but Shirashi had the feeling it had something to do with the nonexistent name Hiyoshi.

Yanagi tried to find something about either Hiyoshi or Senri but he was failing. He wanted to take a break when his phone ringed. "Yanagi Renji, yes."

"Renji, I need your help. Could you get files back that had been deleted?"

"I can try why do you ask?"

"I have the feeling we need it to find the numbers."

"I can try."

"Thank you, can you come to my house?"

"I'll be there in about ten minutes."

"See you then."

"Yes. Bye."

Yanagi raised his eyebrow. He wondered what Shiraishi had found.

It wasn't long before they had actually found what the searched for.

Hiyoshi Wakashi, missing 3 years, age 16. Next was a description of the person and last was a picture taken a few years back.

"You think it's him?" Yanagi asked.

"I wouldn't know why his file was deleted if it isn't him."

"We should call the others and start with talking to his parents." Yanagi said.

Shiraishi nodded. "I'll call them."

"We're sorry for bothering you." Shiraishi said as he entered the living room of an apartment.

With him also Yukimura and Yanagi entered the living room. Tezuka and Atobe couldn't come.

"No it's fine. You said you might have heard something about my son." A woman in her mid thirties said. I might say mid thirties but if you didn't know she had a son from over 16 you might believe she was 20. She had long brown/orange hair and sharp brown eyes.

"Well we're not sure someone mentioned his name in combination with the numbers. A gang in the east side of Tokyo." Yanagi said not creating the illusion they actually saw her son.

"A gang?" she asked clearly surprised.

"It might be hard to imagine." Yukimura said trying to make the shock a little less.

"It most certainly is. He always was a nice boy."

"We want to ask if you might be able to tell us if he was hanging out with people who might have stood in contact with a gang." Shiraishi tried. He wanted to know all of them and prefereblya rrest most of them.

"There you ask me something. I'm not really sure. Yes he got new friends a little before he disappeared but I never really saw them." His mother said looking down sadly. "Oh wait I once saw someone walk home with him."

"One of these people." Yanagi asked holding up the sketches of the people that had attacked them.

"No they don't look familiar." The mother said shaking her head sadly.

"Maybe someone with brown hair, closed eyes and a huge smile. Might look a little girlish." Yukimura tried. Yes Yukimura wanted to add he looked girlish because he had been called a girl not too long ago.

"Yes. Yes I actually thought it was a girl at first. When I asked Wakashi about it he got mad at me." Wakashi's mother said shaking her head sadly.

"Someone else?" Yukimura tried.

"Yes a really serious looking young man. He was wearing cap." She said frowning. "Oh and there was a much smaller boy with a cap. It's pretty long ago so I don't remember really clearly."

"We've seen those too." Yanagi said recalling the first day they went to the ghetto.

"So then you know where my son is?" The woman sounded so hopeful that Shiraishi found it hard to tell her the truth.

"No that's the problem with the numbers. It's really hard to find any of them." He said looking down sadly.

"But then how did you know about my son." She was clearly getting confused.

"We only heard his name." Yukimura said.

"We're trying to find them." Shiraishi clarified.

"Will it help if I give you a picture? It's been three years ago but it might help. This is the first news I've heard in three years." The woman said searching through a box with tons of pictures of a young grumpy looking boy.

"Thank you that will help a great deal." Yukimura said.

"They actually stopped searching pretty soon because it wasn't an important case. They said he would come home in a few days. That he was probably at his friend's house." The woman sighed regretfully. "I often wonder if we did something wrong."

"Probably you didn't. Children around that age are over sensitive and probably because he made some wrong friends he got where he was it has probably nothing to do with you miss." Shiraishi said. He felt anger raging. He wished he could do something about this it felt wrong in every way. He hated these children for breaking down families.

Yukimura shared Shiraishi's emotions. He wondered why the hell children would do this to their parents. He realized this was the fault of the three boys he saw the first day and he decided that all the blame was on them.

Tadadada chapter three hope you liked it^^please review^^