Chapter two A new mission, and more lies
Once they got back from the Honky Tonk they found it to be deserted all except for Hevn and it looked like she was with a client. Ban spoke up "Hey Hevn this another client?"
"Well of course it is Ban, do you ever actualy see any real customers in here?" Haven retorted, she seened like she was in a bad mood. "Hey!" came Paul's voice from behind the counter. He didn't like anyone saying anything bad about his cafe. Hevn just ignored him and turned to face Ban and Ginji.
"I have a job for you, but not only you, it will be dangerous. So I have asked a couple others to help as well we are awaiting thier arrival" Hevn said ushering them over to where her and the client were seated. "Hey, Hevn, who else is coming?" Ginji asked sitting down in the booth. "Hm? Oh! Um...well i have asked Shido, Kazuki, and Jackal to help us out this time" Hevn said. "J...J...J...JACKAL! Oh Hevn why do you do this to me?" Ginji asked curling up behind Ban. "Well Ginji he is really efficent and he won't let anything stop him from completeing a job. And besides I said that the job was going to be dangerous so you will need the extra stregnth." Hevn said getting a bit riled up.
"Hevn, when haven't your jobs been dangerous?" Ban asked taking a sip of the coffee that Paul had brought him. Natsumi had gone home for the night. "Well if you don't want the job then fine by me! you just won't have enough money to feed your self, let alone pay off your tab to Paul" Hevn said getting up to leave. "Wait, wait, wait, Hevn...how much are we talking here?" Ban asked grabbing Hevn's arm. she was right if they didnt do another job they might never get to eat again. Paul said that he wouldn't feed them until he got the tab paid off. he didn't think that he could handle another day without food. "Five million yen, each" Hevn managed to say after finally claming down. Ban and Ginji looked at each other for a moment.Ban opened his mouth to speak but he was interrupted but the client who had remained silent up until then.
"I will pay you more if you wish, but please retreival agents do not refuse my job it is most important to me" The client was a midde aged man he looked about in his late forties, early fifties. "We will decide once we hear what you want us to do" Ban said pushing his glasses up. "You will not hear of the job until the others get here" Hevn said.
As if on cue Kazuki, Shido, and Jackal entered the cafe. "Your late! now sit down so that we can get this meeting started" hevn said clearing a spot for them at the booth. once they had all sat down the meeting had started. "Okay first things first, this is the client, Queio tojero" Hevn said gestering towards the client who was siting next to her in the booth. "He is the owner of a big company, tojero computers. The company has been very successful, but for a while thier sales have been going downhill" Hevn said and paused for a minute to let the information soak into thier minds.
"So whats the point? So thier sales have gone down, big deal what does that have to do with the job?" Ban said obvously frustrated that they still didn't know what they were needed to do. "It has everything to do with job Ban. Less sales means less money. Which plays a big part in this problem. Mr. Tojero has some problems, problems with the mafia" Hevn said pausing once again."I will let you tell them the rest Mr. Tojero" Hevn said letting mr tojero say what he needed. "Um...okay well...a few weeks I made a bet with one of the guys in the mafia, but the thing is, is that I lost the bet. I was sure that i was going to win so the stakes were high really high. and well you see I am not able to pay the debt off because the company is going down hill drastically. They got impatient, they took form me the most important thing in my life" Mr Tojero stopped it seemed that what ever he lost is paining him to be so. "Well what is it tht they took from you?" Kazuki asked. Kazuki was the best person to speak in a situation like this. Kazuki used the most calming and soothing voice he could muster.
The old man looked at him, though he tried to hide it it was visable, the tears were rolling down his cheeks. "The thing that they took form me was...was...was my only child, they took my daughter Hikari" The old man managed to say. "She is only six years old, she shouldn't get mixed up in this, its my problem not hers." Hevn put her hand on Mr. Tojero's shoulder. "They said that they woud only give her back if he paid them the money, and there is a deadline for the money. I know I don't have to say what will happen to the girl if we don't get her back by the deadline. At least I hope I don't have to" Hevn said sounding quite sincere. "Well Ban?" Ginji said looking to Ban who was sitting just beside him. "We'll do it, but there will be a price, were not cheap you know" Ban said with a smile, he had made his decision, they were taking the case. "OH THANK YOU" the old man said while giving him something. "Its the number for my work phone, if you need any information please just ask" With that the man bowed to them and left.
"You do know that this job won't be easy and there is a very good chance that you might not survive through this" Hevn said to them once the old mann had left. "There will be a lot of fighting, the mafia holds many people like yourselves, you know with special abilities" Hevn said taking a minuite to look at every one of them. "It sounds like fun" Akabane said from the corner. he was so quiet during the meeting that nobody knew that he was there. Ginji was hiding under the table, apparentely he had forgotten too.
In the morning they all met on the outskirts of infinate castle. "Well now we just need a place to start"Kazuki said once the group had gathered. "We should go see computer boy it seems that he knows more than we really know" Ban said lighting up a cigarette. "Yeah but first...did Paul manage to dig anything up?" Hevn asked them once she had arrived, she had told them that she was going to be late, she needed to do something before she came.
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No he didn't apparentely the girl named Hikari Tojero never existed...but neither did her father, so Paul is questioning him on that right now" Ginji informed Hevn "Yeah he said that he would call me once he found some information." Ban added. "Well then it seems as though were all set, shall we get going?" Akabane said for the first time since they got there. "Will you stop doing that!" Ginji wailed from behind Kazuki. "Lets go" Ban sid grabbing Ginji by the back of his shirt and dragging him into infinate castle.
They slowly made thier way down to the bottom level of infinate castle. They were heading to the garbage room which was where MakubeX's computer room was located. "It just goes on forever doesn't it?" Ban said while they were walking down a long hallway. "I don't remember it being this long" Shido said stopping to take a look around. A silence ran through the room.
"KIMI GA SEOU ITA MINO HATTE NI WA" everybody jumped when Ban's cell phone went off, breaking the sudden silence. "What did you find out?" Ban said into the phone. It was Paul caling to tell them what he had found out. Afew minutes went by and hen Ban hung up the phone with a simple 'thank you'. "We have a problem, and its not a small problem its a big problem" Ban said with a strange concerned look on his face. "Paul found out that the girls name is really Tia Lang and her father Quieo Lang, he found that out by calling the number on the buisness card that the client gave us before he left." Ban paused "But the problem is that... Mr. Lang was murdered late last night on his way home from our meeting, and they were the guys from the Mafia. Paul thinks that they might have found out that he came to us for help last night" Ban finished.
There was an ever longer pause everybody was trying to comprehend what they had just been told. "Well it seems that coming here was a waste of time, and I was so looking foreward to having a little fun. Oh well its not that much of a loss" Akabane said pulling down his balck hat. "No! we can't do that, we can't just give up just because our client is dead. We can't just leave her!" Ginji screamed he hadn't said much since they had got to infinate castle. "But Gin..." Haven started to say but was interrupted soon by Ginji. "No! Look... his daughter is still out there with those Mafia guys, we can't just leave her, her life could be in Danger. I couldn't live with myself if anything happened to her.So i'm going to find her money or not" Ginji finished saying. "Well he does sort of have a point" Kazuki said he was the first t speak up after Ginji's little splurge.
" Then you are on your own, if there is nothing in it for me then there is nothing I can or will do" Ban said turning around to leave. "Same here" Hevn said and she joined Ban. Ban and Hevn were at the end of the hall when Ban's cell phone rang again. this time it was not a call but it was a picture, Ban took a look at the picture turned around and said "Okay i'll help but only because her life could be in danger" " You perv let me see that picture" Hevn said taking the phone from Ban. "There you see thats why he changed his mind so suddenly" Hevn said showing the picture to the rest of the group. "Thats my Ban" Ginji said taking the phone from Hevn and passing it to Kazuki. Kazuki let out a little chuckle. " Let me see what made the snake Bastard change his mind" Shido said reaching for the phone. "Wait I thought that Tia was supposed to be just a little girl" Kazuki said passing the phone to Shido. "The girl in this picture looks to be about 18 or 19" Hevn looked at the picture again. "Your right...I think we should go see what else Paul dug up."
They slowly made thier way out of the maze that was infinate castle. Getting lost a couple of times along the way, which was because of Ginji's oh so stunning sense of direction. All of them but Shido entered the Honky Tonk. Shido had to go home to Madoka, so he parted with the group just outside infinate castle. "Hey Paul, what information did you find out?" Hevn asked as soon as the door closed behind her. But to her dismay and everyone elses Paul wasn't there. "Hey Natsumi, ya here?" Ginji called, and sure enough Natsumi came out of the celler with a bunch of bottles in her arms. "Ginji, Ban your back already?" Natsumi asked clearly confused. "Natsumi, where is Paul?" Ban asked pushing up his glasses. "Um... let me think... he went out a while ago, and I don't recall him say where. But i'm sure that if you hang around for a while he will ne back. He's been gone for a while so he should be back anytime now" Natsumi said raising up the coffee pot and Bans favorite cup "I'll even make you guys a coffee, and don't worry i'll pay."
"Well i think thats a good idea. I mean if we go looking for him we could miss him" Kazuki said setting himself into a chair while Nasumi got to making him a tea. "Right then, hey Natsumi how about getting us something to eat" Ginji said sitting in a chair next to Kazuki. "Master says that i'm not to give you guys anything until your tab is paid off. Nothing but coffee. Sorry" Natsumi said with a guilty look on her face. "Come on Natsumi, don't do that to us" Ginji said getting all teary eyed. "Now Paul is refusing to feed us" Ban said slamming his cup down on the counter almost breaking it. "Well this has been a good visit, but i'm afraid that I must bid you adeau, for I have another job that I must get to" Akabane said from one of the dark corners of the cafe, this time everybody jumped because they didn't know that he was still with them. "Right good night Jackal" Hevn said getting control of her nerves. "Good night" Akabane replied as he left the Honky Tonk. Everything went silent for a few minutes, everybody was busy pondering over the last few days events. Things were sure moving slowly these days.
Hours went by and still no Paul. It was late at night and everybody was really tired, they were falling asleep in thier chairs one by one, even Kazuki had fallen asleep. Natsumi had gone home for the night she had school in the morning. Kazuki woke with a start. Something was bothering him but he couldn't figure out what it was, he fell asleep one again. But not without first looking at the clock on the wall, it was one thirty, yet Paul had not yet returned. Kazuki was too tired to care.