Disclaimer- I do not own Ghost in the Shell. The only thing I own is Thomas Maki. He's mine.

It ain't dead after all people. I changed the story a little bit but don't worry it's still a Motogusa story. Please read, review, and no flames.

Outside the house was a crowd of people trying to see why the cops where there. They wanted to know if somebody was getiing arrested or if somebody died. More poilce showed up to maintain order and made sure nothing got out of hand. Little did they know, that the perp they were looking for was in the middle of this crowd.

He was an american named Thomas Maki. He was a cyborg in his late thirties. He was wearing a black suit. He was about 5'9. He had short, dark brown hair and he had no emotion on his face. After looking on for a while, He walked away. He walked down the street until he couldn't see the crowd anymore. Then a black car with tinted windows pulled up next to him. Thomas just the opened back door and entered the car and the car took off.

The car dropped him off in front of a large building, Maki got out of the car and walked inside the building. Inside, he was greeted by a man dressed in a grey suit. The two didn't say anythong, the man in the grey suit handed Thomas an envolpe and then left. Thomas looked at the envolpe, put it in his pocket, and walked to an elvator in the back of the lobby. The elvator door opened, and a few well dressed men got out.

Thomas entered the elvator and pressed the button for the fourteenth floor. The door closed and the elvator started to go up. When it stopped at his floor, he got off and headed down the hall.

He walked down the hall until he reached his place. It was small but enough for a soldier turned mercenary. It had a bedroom, a bathroom, and a kitchen and that was it. Thomas took out the unopened envolpe and tossed it on the kitchen table and sat down on a chair next to the table.

He didn't like killing innocent people but he needed the work. His empolyers gave him more then a job. They aslo gave Thomas a place to live and gave him a new prosthetic body. It was an offer that an out of work man with a broken down body and no place to go, couldn't refuse.

Thomas had a very tough time after the last world war. He couldn't live a normal life. There were many times when he thought about ending his life but there was one thing that kept him going. It was a woman he hasn't seen since the last battle of the war. They served together in the same unit and fell in love despite the constant hell that was going on around them. Some people in the unit called her Queen Kong, others called her the Major, but to him she was simply Motoko.