Authors note: I want everyone to know that there are a few things that i'm changing from the original plot, like how i made it so MakubeX could leave Infinate Castle. This is the only way that i can make my story work, so if you are confused about something that i have changed, or just added in then don't hesitate to ask. Thank you and enjoy this chapter! If your lucky i might upload another chapter today, if not don't worry it will be up tomorrow. Incase you don't understand the ringtones, Ban's is the second opening of Get Backers, and Ginji's is the first.

Chapter five Crime

Shido and Emishi made their way toward the West end of the closed down fish factory. Though the factory had not been in use for over ten years now, the smell of rotten fish still lingered. There was absolutely nothing in the building, no machines, counters, nothing, it was just an empty space. In just a few minutes Shido and Emishi reached a sign that said "West". "Hey Shido I think we're at the West end" Emishi said reading the sign.

"Yeah but there's nothing here, call Ginji let him know" Shido ordered then went into a empty corner and crouched down.

"Okay...Um Shidoo what are you doing?" Emishi asked his phone in hand. "It would be efficient to have the rats help us search, at this rate we are going to run out of time" Shido replied as a small rat climbed into his hand. The rats attention was fully on Shido, all it took was a look and the rat knew whet he had to do. He leapt from Shido's hand and ran off squeaking. "Lets go back to the South end, if anyone, or anything comes here they will let me know" With that Shido and Emishi turned on thier heels and headed back to the South Emishi dialing Ginji's number along the way.

"Kimi ga seou ita minna hatte ni wa"

"namida atsumete yozora e kaesou"

Both Ban's and Ginji's cell phones went off at the same time, but neither of them answered. As soon as they were out of earshot Ginji took his chance to see what had been bothering Ban. He knew that something was wrong with his bestfriend and he was going to find out what it was one way or another. "Don't do this Ban you know that I can tell" Ginji pleaded.

"No, Ginji there is nothing wrong" Ban answered, he kept walking in the direction of the East side. They didn't have the time for this, Tia and Paul were in danger. There was something wrong but it was his own problem, and if push came to shove he would tell Ginji about it once this was all over. "Ginji we don't have much time, thats whats bothering me, and you pestering me isn't going make this go any faster." This was a lie, but what else could he say to make Ginji drop it. On the other side it really wasn't a lie. They didn't have a lot of time, and that was starting to worry him.

"Ban I don't believe that" Ginji started. Why was Ban hiding this from him? Ginji thought that maybe Ban was not going to say anything because Kazuki and the rest were around, but he did not even want to talk to him. This was starting to make him feel very uneasy. Ban had been in a whole other world since that fight they had with Himiko, then things got even worse when they got that picture of Tia from Paul. As things progresses Ban was even starting to get colder toward him, and he was going to put a stop to it as soon as he could.

"Ginji, believe what you want, but i want to get this case over with. We can talk about it later" Ban told him, the thing was, this time Ban turned around and looked at him. This means that Ban meant it, once the case was over he was going to tell him the truth. Good.

Ginji simply replied "Okay" that was all that he had needed to say. They began again heading for the East side of the building. Ban's cell phone went off again, this time he decided to answer it, it was MakubeX. "Yes" Ban said into his reciever.

"I have not yet found a map of the building, but what i did find was a newspaper article. The article was from about two weeks ago. Some teenagers thought that it would be fun to go into this building because they were told by friends that it was haunted. What they found though was not a ghost. It was the dead body of a women, she looked to be in about her late forties. When the police and coroner arrived on the scene they couldn't figure out how she had died. Even after the autoposy they were unable to declare the cause of death." MakubeX paused.

"What does that have to do with what we are doing?" Ban asked, he didn't have the tie for this either, the Mafia was not going to wait for MakubeX to read a newspaper article.

"This has many things to do with it. For one thing, I was told that you would be facing people like ourselves, if the police were unable to determine the cause of death don't you think that it is a possibility that it could have been caused by one of these people?" MakubeX asked.

This is true, it is a possibility that one of them could be behind it. This was good it was giving them something to expect when the real fight broke out. "Okay i get what your saying, what else?" Ban asked, this was turining out to be more useful than he had originally thought.

"The next thing is, when police are presented with a potential homicide then the place they start is the crime scene. Why didn't they find any traces of the Mafia when they were investigating this place? Thats not all until the case has been closed nobody would be allowed to even come near this place, when i got her ethere was no crime tape, not even an officer to stop civilians." MakubeX stopped.

"Okay I get the part when you said they didn't find anything, but what do you mean by saying that you didn't see an officer? Maybe they just closed the case." Ban suggested

"No, they wouldn't just close the case, in a situation like this where they are not finding anything, they keep the case open for a few months. This has only been a few weeks, this place should be crawling with cops." MakubeX he knew that ben understood now.

In the distance Ban heard Ginji's phone go off again. MakubeX was right this place should be covered in cops, but why was it that they have not found any yet? This was bad. "Okay thank you MakubeX, I'll call you if we find anything, keep trying to find those blueprints. At this rate i think that we are going to need them" Ban said sighing.

"Okay, but keep your eyes open for those cops" MakubeX said and he hung up.

Ban made his way over to Ginji. "I just got a call from Shido, there was nothing at the West end, they are waiting for us back at the South, they have just been joined by Jubei and Kazuki, there was nothing at the North. And by the looks of things there is nothing in the East. I think we should go back to the South." Ginji said but it didn't see as though Ban was listening. "Ban? Who was that"

"Hm? Oh MakubeX" Ban said snapping back into reality.

"What did he have to say?"

"Ginji we have bigger problems then we thought"

"Hm? You know I don't think they are really here Ban maybe we should just leave." Ginji suggested he tried to put a smile on his face, but he knew that it wasn't fooling Ban.

"No Ginji I think that they are here we are just not looking hard enough." Ban replied seeming a bit more troubled. "I think that we should just regroup at the South end and see where to go from there."

"Ban whats wrong, what did MakubeX say?" Ginji asked, he just clouldn't keep himself quiet anymore. "Ginji we are standing right in the middle of a crime scene. And nobody has stopped us. There is much more than just one crime here Ginji and if we find these Mafia guys then I bet we will find the rest of the crimes too." Ban replied Lighting a cigarette, the last one in his pack.