Hello to those of you who are reading this for the first time, I hope you enjoy my second story and this revision of my first chapter (trust me you don't want to see the original!)

This story will be taking place a little before the anime and manga but stays in line with both pretty well. I will not end this story until the manga is finished as I am using as my base for this story.

I do not own anything that is original to the Sekirei series, all I own are the concepts of my OCs, their names and personalities. All else belong to their respective owners.

"Leave us alone! This wasn't part of the deal!" I desperately exclaimed trying to loosen the ropes that bound me and find a way to fight back.

"The deal was we protect you and you pay us we never specified the type of payment." He sadistically stated all while never even looking at me but instead at the unfolding scene that my shook me to the core.

I was being forced to watch as my girlfriend of six years be raped in my own bed, well it would have been rape if she had actually resisted.

"It's...ahn... okay sweety...mmnn... I'm doing this so they won't hurt you." She somehow managed to respond between her moans and gasps as she allowed these pigs to violate her, and to think that I had planned to propose to her on our anniversary just a mere week from now.

"I don't know why I even bothered to hire you guys, guess I was just scared but now I see you're nothing more than pigs that are too low, cowardly and idiotic to do things that could actually benefit someone else." Saying this earned me a sharp blow to the face and gun suddenly pressed against my forehead.

"You got a pretty big mouth for someone who so eagerly came to us when he first came here. So if you ever want to see sunlight again, I suggest you quickly learn how to shut it." He vehemently hissed pushing the gun harder on my head.

"Guess you really are a coward if you have to use a gun against someone tied up." I smirked as he simply turned away and continued watching.

"No longer can I call her mine, she's been so easily corrupted by these pigs." I lamented in my mind as I looked at the face of pure ecstasy my former girlfriend had, listened to the sound of her screaming as loud as she could in pleasure and I simply reiterated the fact she wasn't mine as often as I could speak.

Five Years Later

"Why do I keep having this godforsaken dream?" I asked myself while turning to read my clock and seeing it read one in the morning, I decided to go out and make sure no one else had to ever experience what I experienced. Every night I patrol the streets of Tokyo, or known as Shinto Teito here, I started this about two months after the incident as a means to protect those from having to "pay" for protection, but now I help anyone that needs it.

Gathering my gear from my closet, the memories of the people I had saved ran through my head and how grateful they were and yet there was still something missing in me that wasn't being filled and felt cold. It seemed that every time I took down one of these guys, three more popped up in his place and I had a feeling that somehow the group that I had first crossed was somewhere deep in the massive gang system in this city and each day I felt somewhat closer to finding them.

As I pick up my phone I notice I have a five minute old message.

"If you want to make a large sum of money, meet me at the bridge in the park in thirty minutes."

"Hmph, no number attached but I guess it doesn't really matter seeing as how I need the money." I said as I walked out the door while thinking about the last paid job I had received, which was about two months ago.

As I walk onto the roof I notice that even with city lights brightly shining, the stars shine even brighter and the moon seemed brighter than usual.

"Maybe tonight will be a good night." I optimistically stated as I began sprinting across the roof then launched onto the neighboring roof and as I continued towards the park in the central area of this section of the city I listened to the few cars that drove down the streets, the cats that gathered in the alley and the few dogs that barked at minor disturbances in the distance.

Ten minutes later I was looking at the park that was usually filled with life during the day, but at night it became a beautiful place of peace and serenity and seeing as how I was early to our meeting I decided to take the chance to sleep a little. So making my way down from the building I was perched, I meandered to a bench that sat on the bridge and laid down.

After about five minutes I seemed to slip into a blissful state that felt as if i were floating but at the same time there was nothing around. I was surrounded in cold blackness, but in the distance I could see the faint glow of a light and even though I tried to reach it my body wouldn't move. Suddenly the area in which I was grew colder and the light disappeared. I felt like had suddenly been slammed back onto the bench as I awoke to see a single eye, surround by grey hair.

"I think he's awake boss." She dryly stated as she turned away from me and moved to stand beside a man that seemed about my age that was dressed in a suit, was about five foot five and carried himself proudly.

"I'm guessing you're the client." I stated as I stood from the bench and realized that he was about three inches shorter than me and the two women that were with him were even shorter. The one that had awoken me had grey to dull silver hair that covered her left eye, leaving only her right, very cat like, eye revealed and she seemed to be about five foot four or five foot five and somewhere around twenty to twenty-five years old but the oddest parts of her were the huge choker she wore and the bladed gauntlets she wore.

The second one seemed to be the youngest of the two seeming to be about fifteen to, at the most, eighteen and about five foot two to five foot three. The main thing that set her off was her ridiculously large pink ponytail that she kept sideways and in place with a flower hairclip. While I was guessing on her, she seemed to have noticed and she stuck her tongue out and pulled her right eyelid down.

"Cute" I sarcastically thought at her sudden display of immaturity.

"Wait a second, two?"

"You're correct Voice-san, I am Natsuo Ichinomi." He started off in a polite yet arrogant way.

*"Not to be rude Mr. Ichinomi, but I know who you are." I said as politely as I could in order to stop him from further introduction.

"Do you now?"

"Yep, you're Natsuo Ichinomi, as previously stated, you work for M.B.I. as a pharmaceutical clerk and you always have three women with no matter where you go." I stated as calmly as I could while watching how any of them would react to what I said and none of them seemed to react in any way.

"You've really done your research haven't you Voice-san?" Natsuo cooly replied revealing absolutely nothing about himself in his words.

"You could say that but the truth is that someone had actually tried to hire me for a hit on you..." The moment I said this the two women changed into defensive stances, especially the pink haired one, but Natsuo simply motioned at them and they returned to ease.

"As I was saying, TRIED to hire me for a hit but I'm no hitman so I refused the offer."

"Well that's good to know, but back to business I need to know if you want the job or not." He asked in professional tone that rivaled that of a CEO's.
"But of course, I will gladly take the job depending on the details." I replied, eager to return home and go back to bed.

"Your job will be to provide a protection detail for an acquaintance of mine that is going to be flying in."

"When and where do I meet this acquaintance of yours?"

"You will meet her at my penthouse at six p.m., three days from now."

"Will do and thank you for your business Mr. Ichinomi." I thanked as I bowed as best I could with my gear on.

"The pleasure, I hope, is mine Voice-san." He replied while bowing as well.

"Oh and may I ask you one more thing Mr. Ichinomi?"

"What would that be Voice-san?"

"It's not really any of my business but where is the third member of your female entourage?" I asked this invasive question as politely as I could even though I probably shouldn't have, but my curiosity got the better of and I ended up asking.

"What do you mean?" He asked somewhat confused but I had a feeling he was putting on an act, one that would be very good if I hadn't met countless others that did the same thing on countless occasions.

"Well when I had been given the intelligence on you, it stated and showed pictures of three women who were constantly around you. Two of them are here, but it's been somewhat bugging me as to where the third one is."

"You seem to have a sharp mind and pair of eyes Voice-san, but unfortunately I don't know where she is. She has a habit of running off at her heart's content." He honestly said, but my gut was still telling me he was lying.

"She's within eyesight of this very spot isn't she?" I asked as non-threateningly as I could because I couldn't afford a big commotion against these two, something felt somewhat off about the whole thing.

"Very good Voice-san, I had no intention of revealing her but since you seemed to have deduced her approximate location, I guess there's no longer a point." He,somewhat defeatedly, said and simply snapped his fingers. As soon as he did, the third woman appeared and she seemed to be the most threatening of the three.

Her eyes were the first to set me off, they were narrow, winter cold grey eyes that seemed to hate anything she looked at and her face matched the cold hatred her eyes exuded. She was about five foot seven and had very long grey hair that she kept in a ponytail. She seemed to be the oldest of the group and I guessed she was in her late twenties to early thirties.

"Are you some kind of perverted monkey or do you have something to say?!" The small, pink haired one suddenly let out in a very annoying and aggravated tone.

"No, just making some guesses." I casually replied.

"What's the matter flatty? is 'Mr. Cool' over there making you hot under the collar?" The one wearing the gauntlets teased her while pointing at me.

"As if! I only care for Master." She quickly replied while turning a faint red.

"Well, that's a relief."

"What did you say you damn monkey?!" She angrily replied.

"I said it's a relief for me that you don't have the hots for me." I replied taking a bit of humor at aggravating her.

"Well who would get the hots for some weak monkey like you?!" She arrogantly said while attempting puff out what little of a chest had.

"Did you hear something Mr. Ichinomi? It sounded like a fly buzzing around." I said feigning ignorance of her presence.

"No, I certainly didn't Voice-san. Now if you'll excuse we'll be on our way." He replied while turning and walking towards a limo that had pulled up and also causing the target of my attack to put on a defeated look on her face.

"Master, how can you let him..."

"Haihane, be sure to swat that fly if it acts out of place again." Natsuo quickly cut her off directing this order to, I believe, the one with the gauntlets.

"With pleasure Master." She happily replied while giving pink hair a menacing grin.

I sat back down on the bench and watch them leave.

"I got a bad feeling that things are about to get pretty crazy." I exasperatedly stated while letting out a large sigh and looking up at the sky.

Ok, so there's the remastered version of Chapter 1 and I'm hoping you liked it well enough to continue reading.

Author's Notes- *The reason why Voice speaks this way instead of -san,-sama ect. is because of his roots that I will reveal in the next few chapters.

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