"Oi, redhead, quite making a fuss about it. They only took the kid, but I can guarantee you they won't kill him", Ban said as he watched Aya picked up his katana and roughly pushed past the other man, heading up towards the attic. Ban rolled his eyes and followed behind.

"Whoah, mood swings."

Once upstairs, the swordsman furiously stepped into his position and sliced through the air with grace. Ban watched at the door for the next ten minute, in which made Aya even more irritated.

"Quit watching me! Go do something else or something!" Aya growled.

Ban whistled and approached the redhead. "Look, I'll cut a deal with you. We both fight. If you win, I leave you alone, if I win, you get over your sick habit and tell me the rest of the unfinished story. I know you're still hiding half of the secret."

Aya sniffed at that statement. He was about to refuse, but seeing that the Dakannya was serious, he accepted the offer and got himself into place.

"You win if you can get me, I win if I snatch your sword away."

The fight begun in the attic as Aya dashed straight at Ban, sword in a fixed potion and aiming for the sides. Ban easily evaded the attack, followed by blocking the blade with his bare hands, which surprised Aya.

Both took a step back from each other and Ban chuckled.

"Not bad, although I'd expect you to be better."

"And it is no surprise the iron-like hand of yours can withstand my sword."

"Don't flatter me. I know I'm good", Ban said proudly, which caused a twitch in the redhead.

Both charged and went head on, katana and hand at each other's neck.

After a loud clash, the katana went into the air, dropping straight down at the wooden floor and embedding itself into the pine flooring.

Ban smirked at Aya who had his neck in Ban's hand.

"I win."

"I'd prefer to call it a draw", Aya retorted, shifting away from Ban to get his katana. At first, Ban wondered what he was talking about, then noticed that his left arm was grazed had blood flowing in a thin line down the arm.

"I still won, so you tell me the truth", and the fight goes one.

The decision was made when Ban won Aya in a game of rock-scissors-paper, despite that the redhead refused playing such a childish game. Aya simply frowned at his lost and turned to Ban.

"I suppose you wish to know the truth?"

Ban nodded. Serious mood swings

"I know what they want me for, at least, I can guess the reason why they need me. Considering the fact that I have such ability to resist anything that happens to me, they're probably doing re-lifeforming…"

"As in use you as a guinea pig? Those guys are born sick."

Aya frowned at the interruption and continued.

"That blonde guy, his name is Mike. I don't know how he ended up there, but he must've told the person my name. He used to be an old comrade of mine…I'm sure you guessed it right since you fought him before. He left to join some other group three years ago, that was when I joined Weiss."

Aya stared at Ban who stared back.

"What?"

"Why do you care anyway?"

"Well that's easy, to know information and get the job done, whadda ya think?"

Aya frowned at the reply and headed downstairs with Ban grinning to himself behind.

It was real late already, Ban noticed. In the room, Aya had changed to a plain white tee and was now on the bed with the covers over him. Ban felt that when he stared at the redhead under the blanket, he felt more hot.

"Are you plain crazy or nuts? It's so hot and you're covering yourself with that darn blanket", Ban snorted and pulled the blanket, which came off rather easily. Aya did not seem to move, just stood there like a slab of stone. Ban moved in and realized the assassin was asleep.

"You were on the bed for less than a minute and you're asleep already?" Ban cocked an eyebrow at the sleeping figure. Then again, he did look fragile when he was asleep. Ban scolded himself for thinking such things and sat beside the snoozing redhead.

A mumbled escaped the redhead lips, and Ban watched as the figure seemed to uttering something which he could not hear. Taking this chance, he bent over the redhead, giving a peck on his cheek before throwing the blanket over Aya, covering him up to his shoulder.

Ban straddled on the bed a few moments later, looking for a comfortable spot and imaged how the mission would be for the next day.

OMG OMG OMG!!!! I'm so sorry this was late! My mind was totally blank when I first started this chapter! 'sweat drop' Well now, at least I got this up! Seems to me Aya keeps frowning. For all you die-hard shounen-ai fans! ... heh heh.... Aya and Ban'n gonna get into a little (or should I say big!) trouble as someone ......... I'll keep it a secret! I'm so mean....

Mujyakina-->Thanks a lot... I plan on doing some more rubbish... tee hee anyway, thanks for your nice support! And for what Aya said to Makoto... Well, he's just being nice so he said the rest were his family members! Ho ho ho. You have not read that. It was supposed to be a secret. Shoo. Go read other of my fics.