All four stared at Hunter, neither daring to move. The club owner turned to Linux, keeping his gun trained on Konemi.

"You, lock the door."

Linux looked at Hunter, hesitating for a moment. She then glanced at Konemi and walked over to the door, shutting it and making sure it was locked. Hunter nodded in satisfaction as Linux returned to the group.

"Let's all move over to the back. Slowly."


Konemi stared at Hunter in disbelief. "Why?"

Inferno scoffed. "Isn't it obvious. There's your sabatour Talon."

Hunter nodded. "You know why, as your flame haired friend so eloquently put it. I'm very sorry about this, it couldn't be helped. If you'd just minded your own business."

Konemi stared at Hunter. "Inferno didn't kill my father. You did."

He laughed. "Are you kidding? Inferno saved your life. Of course I'm sure he wasn't aware of it. That visor I gave you would have finished it quickly, a simple brain hemorage. All I needed wasa chance for you to use that combat disc. That was easy, bringing The Reaper in to challenge, you couldn't resist defending your friends. You'd have been dead soon enough if Inferno hadn't thrown that damn visor to the ground. Now we're going to have to do it a lot more messy then I would have liked."

"You murdered my father."

"Yes, I did. But the deal was only for your father. That should have been it, how could I know you'd come around here snooping. I'm sorry for your mother, it doesn't look like she's ever going to see you again."

"What deal?"

"I'm keeping that confidential, not that you'll have too long to worry about that little fact, seeing as you'll all be dead in the next few minutes."

Talon scowled. "you idiot, you can't kill us all."

"Actually I can. People disapear in the abandoned districts every day, what's four people in the grand scheme?"

He continued to keep his eyes on the four as he attached a silencer to his gun. "I'll open the club later on account my assistant is missing. How was I supposed to know the leaders of Black Falcon and Red Flare were missing too? Much less our young hacker. I really did like you Konemi. You got guts, the unfortunate thing was that you wouldn't leave things well enough alone."

Inferno narrowed his eyes. The boy's face was red with fury, he didn't like to be threatened much then being accused accused. This coupled with his temper made him react quickly and he charged Hunter head on. Hunter noticed the charging dancer a little two late, getting two shots in the boy's direction before the full strength of Inferno's body came crashing down on the older man, pushing him onto a table in the back room and crushing some delicate equiptment. Inferno was still breathing heavily when the others caught up. The Red Flare leader was still red in the face with anger, adrehnaline rushing through his body as he remained on top of Hunter. Talon immediatly picked up the gun and then looked at Inferno.

"Where the hell did that come from?"

Inferno glared. "I refuse to be threatened by middle aged hitmen. Now help me tie this bastard up so I don't have to keep sitting on him!"

Talon smirked, grabbing a chord. "Okay fine, whatever you say linebacker."

"Asshole, don't ever call me that again."

Konemi glanced outside. "I'll get some help."

Linux looked at Konemi. "Not much luck there, there are no patrols in this district."

Konemi ignored the other girl and ran out the backroom, hurridly trying to open the door. Finally she jerked it open, looking up and staring at the tall shadow in the doorway. Genma looked down at Konemi partly in curiousity. "Unusual for the door to be locked isn't it?"

Konemi stared at Genma, frozen for a moment. Finally she grabbed the man by the arm and proceeded to nearly drag him into the backroom. Genma followed along in brief confusion, until he reached the backroom. There Konemi let him go and the dancer looked around. His gaze first met Inferno and he grabbed his arm, turning it over. "You've been shot."

Inferno yanked his arm away. "I'll be fine."

He nodded and knelt down to Hunter. Seeing an opportunity, the Dance Rave owner spoke. "These kids are nuts! They're planning to kill me!"

Genma smirked. "Hmph. Well I don't know about that, I've known at least Konemi for a few years and other then being headstrong like her father, I'd say she was sane enough. But then, that makes me wonder why you're tied up, and why one of these kids has a gun with a silencer."

Konemi nodded. "He's the one who murdered my father Genma. He tried to kill us too."

Genma smiled, turning back to Hunter. "Well it appears we've got one gun, a bullet wound, and the word of three people against you. I imagine you will be very famous once this gets out. They're not likely to go easy on you, would you like to say something on you're behalf?"

Hunter scowled. "I only did as I was told."

"And who told you?"

"I don't know! Another dancer, you guys are always so competative."

Genma smirked. "Well someone really must be desperate to win then."

He stood up and turned to Inferno. "I suggest you have that arm looked at. Someone really wants to win the next competition. With Patriarch gone the championship is up for grabs."

Konemi looked at The Reaper. "There's still one Patriarch left."

Genma looked at the girl. "I know what you're thinking. Don't. You're mother would never forgive me and you're father would eternally throttle me in the next life. No."

"But we could find..."

Genma cut her off. "I said No. Now assuming there's a phone here, I'm going to make a few calls and get this guy shipped out. All of you can go home. Kid, you stay here and let me make sure that arms looked at. Konemi, don't you even think about it."

Konemi frowned and the group disbanded, all except Inferno returning to their formor location.