"Ban ban".
The 2 police ran around the head quarters looking for their pray, not to hunt and kill him but to apologies and explain themselves personally instead o his own thoughts being biased over his eyes.
Sen-Chan heard the ruckus from their main quarters and advanced to the door to come to meet 2 breathless figures that were keeled over leaning on the opposite wall but still insisted on calling for ban.
"Where's ban" Houji asked quickly as he saw Umeko and Sen-Chan.
"Mmm he's with boss" Sen-Chan said and was followed by the chirp of Umeko "why you so desperate to find him?".
"We said things and we need to apologies" Jasmine finally said after she got her breath back.
Both Sen-Chan and Umeko looked at each other and realization set on them, "Ahhhh so that's why".
"That's why what?" Houji asked now worried.
"What has he said?" Jasmine continued and followed Sen-Chan and Umeko as they went back into the room.
"It's not what he said" Sen-Chan started.
"Funnily enough he didn't say a word, he just got here and cried" Umeko said.
"Cried?!" They both said.
"Well, We saw him on the security camera when we were on duty and he cried in the hall".
"someone went down the corridor he was in, he wiped his tears and carried on walking here and that was that"
"Wait ban cried, yeah right" Houji laughed but Jasmine pressed her hand on his arm. The TV switched on and footage of a figure in a red uniform stumbled through an empty corridor and slammed his hand on the nearby wall, this was Ban for sure.
"He came to the office and we asked what was wrong but he just ignored us and asked for boss".
"We've been really worried for you and him, as you know he is not the one to really cry".
Houji and Jasmine looked at each other and looked up to see the other 2 stare at them.
"What happened exactly, Houji" Sen-Chan asked as he leaned closer to Houji's face to see a slight crack in Houji's hard man attitude, "What did you do to Ban?"
"Jasmine?" Umeko tugged at her friends arm and pleaded to her with her innocent eyes.
"Doesn't matter now, where's boss and ban?" Houji rushed them on.
"In the meeting room down the corridor" they both pointed in the direction but now worried and warily.
"Jasmine" Umeko yelled before Jasmine left. Jasmine stopped and looked over her shoulder as Houji carried on through the door and around the corner. "what's going on Jasmine", she rushed to her side and tugged again at her uniform sleeve.
"Don't worry Umeko, we're dealing with it now, OK" she patted her on her head and she was gone.
Umeko was now very confused as she looked around at Sen-Chan who wasn't in a better state of mind and sat down at the table.
She blew out in frustration.
"Do you remember when she was always like that", "and Houji" Sen-Chan added.
"Yeah, it was because of that incident from before I joined, isn't it?".
"Yeah it was".
"But..." Umeko started,
"But what Umeko?".
"Didn't they change when Ban joined us" Umeko giggled slightly as her smile returned.
"Aghhhh that's true" he agreed, "by the way, never lose your smile Umeko".
"Huh?, why", she blushed a slight rouge colour.
"It makes me feel calm with situations like this" she blushed an even darker rouge, " Ahh, thank you Sen-Chan" and with that compliment she rushed out to see Jasmine run around a corner.
She smiled as she went in the opposite direction, "they do care for Ban, and him for them"
Jasmine raced down the corridor around the corner from the main office and saw Houji yanking at the door handle.
The windows were covered with curtains from the inside so the contents were wrapped up like a secret present.
"Houji" she said as she joined him at the door.
"It's locked" Houji informed her.
"Can't you break down the door?" she asked.
"Break down the door, are you serious jasmine?" but as he looked to her she was serious, "oh OK then".
They both continued to yank and pull at the door, the door being slammed against the door rim and the small space between the lock.
They carried on for a few minutes until the handle came clear off and smashed into the wall behind forming a large dent.
"Oh gawd" Houji cursed as he ran towards the wall to inspect the damage.
"Houji just let me work this out"
"Huh like you could open that door" he scoffed and turned around back to the dent and complained to himself.
"Huh boys are so strange" Jasmine smiled but got back to business, she unclasped her button on her leather gloves and pulled the glove off her fingers.
She placed her hand on the handle and closed her eyes, cancelling out Houji's whimpers and putting away Houji's recent feelings on the door handle.
She felt a feeling of covered sadness just recently left "could this be ban!".
"Ban!" Houji forgot the dent in the wall and ran to her side,
"He was just here, right".
"Yes, a couple of minutes ago at how strong the feelings are".
"Ok so where is he now, in that room?" he asked.
"Well not inside. It seems he was going that way", she pointed further down the corridor where the space police crafts were.
They looked at each other, and in the distance, a vehicles engines could be heard. This sound caused them to panic.
"He isn't leaving right?" Jasmine asked.
"Could not be him" he said but he stopped with the guessing as they both ran to the viewing room.
They arrived as the red driver waved off to Boss and Swan-San who were in the control room just a door away from the viewing room and with a cloud of smoke from the engines, was gone.
"No" jasmine cried.
"We missed him" Houji punched the wall to his left but heard the scratching of a mike and Bans voice crackling over a headset.
"We can still talk to him" he said and opened the door to the control room.
Inside was boss and Swan-San who both were talking to ban and didn't notice the 2 intruders until the headsets were yanked off and the sound system went loud throughout the room
"Houji, Jasmine, what are you doing?" Swan-San asked, outraged by their rudeness and intrusion.
"Houji, explain yourselves" Boss was as shocked as Swan-San.
"Are they there" a voice came from the speakers, Ban was now almost in the same room as them. They were glad to have another chance.
"Ban, where are you going" Houji bashed his hands on the control desk and Jasmine tried to calm him down.
"No need for you to know, Houji San"
"Houji... San" Houji repeated what ban said, slowly, rejected and sad.
He didn't call him his partner anymore, the small joy in his heart and he was now called by his normal name, no special connection kept them together no longer.
"Ban please" Houji felt like going crazy as the connection went lost.
"Ban is going on a special journey and mission, specially selected by me, Swan-San and Space HQ, which causes him to go into un-known territory" Boss answered, "that means no connections so they can get tracked" he turned off their sides connections and turned around to face Houji and Jasmine.
"In unknown territory" Houji exclaimed.
"On his own?" Jasmine asked, "Yes on his own" Swan-San agreed that this was a risk but he was ready to take a chance.
"He wanted this for himself. We were going to send Houji but he requested that he went, for he had a question for Space HQ anyway" boss said.
"Might as well do both jobs at the same time he said" swan San remembered the scene where he bowed his head so low.
"He replaced me, but why" Houji whimpered.
"Because it needed a candidate quick and ban said you couldn't make it anyway, something about you being unable to concentrate, something about needing space from some people" swan San said.
"Well he has enough space" Houji said, "between his ears".
"Houji" Swan-San was shocked again.
"Houji, what happened between you two, it seemed he wanted to leave pretty quickly" Boss asked now genuinely worried for his team members.