I don't own sekirei or anything sekirei related.
"Karasuba talking"
"talking in general"
"personal thoughts"
Karasuba was standing on top of a hill and watching the quiet base that was situated below her. It was a JSDF base with information on the sekirei and/or sekirei DNA. None of that really mattered to Karasuba, she was just using at as an excuse to slay, stab, impale and kill, basically executing her deepest will. Karasuba had been enraged for a while now at the deception Yume had done, killing herself before Karasuba had the chance to kill her with her own two hands. She could've killed the runt of a sekirei Yume saved but that would have been useless. Her only option now was to wait and hope that Musubi would become at least as powerful Yume had been, then killing her would bring her the satisfaction she needed. Not the sekirei plan that useless monkey of a man had concocted. "A new age of gods my ass. Wait until the end scumbag, then you shall see the world burn. Maybe I will even let you see me kill that bitch of a scientist you seem to be fond of." Karasuba said to herself as she started walking down towards the base. If Minaka knew that the only reason he was breathing still was that he gave her fun missions with the insight of never making it an order. Karasuba laughed at the so called control the man had and the sound made the forest animal scatter before her.
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"Yo, Kenji. What's up?" Said the man to the guard that was standing in the post feeling bored as ever. They were so deep in the mountains that nobody ever came there, aside from the few lost hikers that their perimeter scans picked up. Kenji turned his head to the voice and grinned to his commanding officer, the youngest man ever who had enlisted to JSDF. Some said that it was because his mother was so well connected but even if that were true, the man had proved himself many times since then that he had the right to be in the squad.
"Hey boss, nothing much. Squirrels tried to invade us again but I think the storehouse mouse's were able to fend them off." Kenji said and turned to scan the forest again, ignoring the silent laughter behind him. "Drop the boss Kenji, I think I've said that Minato was fine. Doesn't sit well with me that an older man calls me boss." Minato said and took a pair of thermal goggles from the desk and took a look at the forest. Kenji shaked his head at Minato, at the age of 46, he had been in the military so long that boss was as informal as he got. "No can do boss. Regulations you know." He answered and decided not to tell Minato his poker face was not as good as he thought. "Regulations, huh. Since when Kenji, since when." Minato thought and said his goodbyes. He was doing his evening rounds, like he did every day. The people on the base joked that they could check their clocks based on his rounds.
Every morning at seven oh hundred, Minato rose from his bunk and stretched his six feet tall frame that had over 200 pounds on it. The regular lifestyle of the army had done good to Minato, he had been bullied in school for being such a scrawny kid and he had been shy. The military had been sure to get rid of that disposition as it did him no good. He probably would not have enlisted in the army but his intelligence had been so good that his teacher had convinced his mother to help him get enlisted. The only place where his intelligence could be put to proper use aside from the Mid-Bio Informatics but when Minato had suggested that as a workplace, Takami Sahasi had been rather quick to help Minato get enlisted. Now at the age of 26, he was the youngest man who had enlisted and the youngest military officer that had been approved to the Shinsengumi. It was a unit of highly trained soldiers that were the best Japan could train and the name was given to the unit to honor the once famous group of swordsmen that had upheld the peace in Japan.
It was at seven oh thirty as he walked the perimeter and talked to the guards to get into the speed of things and then it was time to sit in the office. Drinking coffee and filling reports and equipment requisitions was how he spent most of his day. Not to mention planning training drills and competitions for the boys and girls of the unit as to not make them be too bored. And finally when the night settled in, he started his evening rounds before he made his way to see what was in the program for tomorrow. He always hoped that it would say transfer but every time he was disappointed. Tonight however, a few of his men were sick and Minato had been forced to step in and help with the guarding and patrols and his evening perimeter check was late.
Minato was on the back side of the base, checking the soldiers on duty along the mountain side of the base, where their most secret projects were been conducted. The mountain side had been excavated in a series of caves and tunnels that housed scientists and engineers of all sorts and Minato believed that nobody knew exactly what was going on there. He didn't like it but to do his job, he didn't have to. He talked with the men for a while and with a wave he left, taking the shortest route to his own house where he would get some sleep. "Good thing that the fellas are in such good spirits. We've been here for a month now and nothing had come here in the time of our rotation. Can't wait to get out of here and maybe get some action. Babysitting is not for this unit." Minato thought and entered his house with a yawn. He checked the clock and saw that he had a total of six hours of sleep before he would be doing his morning rounds.
"The fuck is that?" Kenji thought as he saw a figure walking leisurely along the dirt road that led to the base. "Stop and identify yourself!" Kenji shouted and raised his rifle to point towards the figure walking closer. "Stop walking now or I will fire!" He continued shouting as the figure was not slowing down. He clipped the safety off and took aim of the figure only to see it disappear from his sights. "Huh?" "You stupid mongrel, do you think your pathetic weapons could harm me?" was the last thing Kenji heard before his world turned black. Karasuba cleaned the blood off from her blade with a flick of her wrist and kicked the severed head into the little box that was supposed to be the guard post. She was angry at the arrogance of the wretched human who thought that she would listen to a word he said. With an exaggerated flourish, she turned and walked inside the base, flipping a coin in her head as to should she kill everyone or not.
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Minaka was watching the scene unravel at his big screen that filled the half of the wall in his office on top of the M.B.I tower. "Always with the grandeur Karasuba. One could almost think you're showing off." He said to himself and tried to keep his white fluttery cape from flipping in front of his eyes. The white cape was ridiculously big and it had struck a chord in Minaka's head as the perfect accessory of a man who was in tune with the gods. He had always like the color white, which was why his suit was white too and the fact that his hair was graying out, made it seem that he had dyed it in purpose. He watched Karasuba kick the head in the box and made a mental note to try it himself as it seemed like fun. Minaka was waiting for the whole base come on full alert before he switched off the big screen. It would be boring to watch now as Karasuba would only kill and maim the opponents, nothing out of the ordinary.
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Minato was just about to fall asleep when the full blast of an alarm sounded right next to his quarters. Cursing under his breath, he took put on his military issued cargo pants and his rifle with two extra magazines before he dashed out of the house. As he opened the door he was entranced by the sight of a gray-haired woman with the longest sword he had ever seen dancing among his troopers and seemingly effortlessly killing them. "Step back from her, get out of the reach of her sword!" Minato shouted to the few troopers who were still alive and took a few shots at the woman. "Damn that woman is good-looking, why do they always have to be the good-looking ones." He cursed and continued to fire at the woman with no effect. It amazed Minato how the woman could reflect the bullets with a sword. "Nobody is that fast. How in the hell does that woman move so fast." He said aloud and kept moving on the edge of the battlefield, trying to find some resemblance of organized troops. Spotting the four members of his personal squad, Minato made his way to the house they were inside of and taking shots at the woman. "Sit-rep people, what's going on?" He said as he entered the house and was slightly amazed that it hasn't been attacked yet. "Sir. One female enemy with the biggest fucking kitchen knife I've ever seen attacked the base about fifteen minutes ago. All that's left of the unit is us and the boys..no, just us now." The red-haired woman said and continued to shoot from the window. "We got three M-16's with half a clip and a SAW with full clip, which is now being set up at the storage window behind us." Said the blonde woman who was now emptying her sidearm in an effort to save the remaining bullets in her rifle when the woman decided to attack the house.
"alright. Yuki, you will go to the caves and lock it down and Nanase will exit the base via the mountain to try and get this information to the big wigs in the city. We need back up, not that it would come in time but maybe they can get that motherfucker." Minato said and took the rifle from the blonde woman who dashed to the back of the house, trying to get to the caves. Nanase gave Minato her trademark grin and a quick kiss at the cheek before dashing to the same way Yuki had left. They two women looked at each other and with a nod started to run towards their own objectives. Minato took the two rifles with him and dashed out of the house, to the storage room where the SAW was being set up. As he got around the corner, he saw the SAW start spewing bullets and the Minato would remember the scene the rest of his life. The woman who was in a tight black leather outfit with a grey haori on top if, riddled with blood droplets, letting out a loud laugh before she lunged to the storage shed. Minato couldn't believe his eyes when he saw the woman slice the whole building apart with her sword, killing Minato's men along with it. "FUCK YOU BITCH!" Minato shouted and emptied the clips on both rifles towards the woman, no hopes of hitting her as he wasn't properly aiming. What he did succeed in was getting Karasuba's attention. She started to walk towards Minato with a big smile on her face. Oh how she liked the stupid human's who never knew when to quit, she was going to play with this one.
"Now now. There is no need to be rude, scumbag. This will simply be the day you die, most painfully." She said as she deflected the bullets that were in her way. Minato had burned through all of the clips he had carried and the one in his sidearm when Karasuba was so close that she could use her sword to disarm Minato. It took a couple of swings and all the weapons were in pieces on the ground. Yuki was inside the caves and watched as the female woman began to toy with Minato. Cursing under her breath, she took a few clips and a shotgun from the armory next to the entry to the caves and breached her order. She opened the caves up and with a mad dash, ran towards her commanding officer. "Die you whore!" She shouted and started to empty the clips she had taken from the armory. Karasuba was looking very much amused as she looked the woman trying to hurt her. "Stupid human. There is nothing you can do to me." She said and took a few steps towards the blonde. Cursing under her breath at the seemingly undefeatable enemy that had attacked them, she switched to the shotgun and tried to blast the woman's head off. All she did was graze Karasuba on the cheek slightly as some of the pellets bounced from the her sword when she swiped her sword as a shield in front of her. "You lose." Karasuba said as she grabbed the head of the blonde woman and slowly impaled her in her sword. Minato heard the gurgling sound and knew that Yuki was going to die, painfully. He pulled his combat knife from the sheath in his boot and tried to sneak behind the woman in an attempt to stab her to death with it before Yuki died so she wouldn't die in vain. He almost made it. He got behind the woman and with a powerful lunge, his knife embedded itself on flesh. Yuki looked at her commanding officer with thank you clear in her eyes as Minato drew the combat knife from her chest. Karasuba had heard his steps and before Minato could react, simply turned around in her place and made the woman take the knife instead. Minato's eyes widened as he realized that he had just killed his team-mate and the obvious gratitude in her eyes for the quick death did nothing to ease his guilt. "See, this is why I hate you stupid monkeys. You never know when you've lost and now it is time to die soldier-san." Karasuba said with a smile and impaled both the corpse of the woman and Minato on the wall of the crews quarters with a pipe she had pulled from the wall. She tapped Minato's cheek and smiled widely at the rage in the man's eye before turning her attention towards the caves. "Now that fun time is over, it's time for work." Karasuba said and entered the caves as Minato passed out of blood loss.
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"Thank you Karasuba-chan. I knew that I could count on your help in this one." Minaka said as Karasuba threw few disks on the table along with the paper copy of the findings inside the base. "Next time you call me chan, you arrogant shitstain. I will cut your tongue out." karasuba said and left the office. She made her way to the quarters of the Disciplinary Squad, where Haihane and Benitsubasa was in a new fight over bust sizes. "No matter how much you rub and stare Beni, you tits will be flat as a board." The white haired sekirei said and scratched her head with the claws that she had forgotten on her hands, cutting her scalp again. Benitsubasa looked the other sekirei with obvious disgust and threw the magazine in her hand and hit Haihane in the forehead. "And where have you been Karasuba? And why do you smell like blood?" Benitsubasa asked, trying to move her attention away from the irritating woman. "Where I go and what I do is my business alone Benitsubasa and if you want to continue breathing or squealing about your tits, I suggest you keep that in mind." Karasuba said and made her way straight to the bath. She loved to bathe, wether it was blood or hot water and then relax herself while sharpening her nodachi. Benitsubasa swallowed the spit in her mouth at the threat which she knew Karasuba was quite able and willing to follow. She hated to be a coward but that woman scared her to death and it didn't help that they were supposed to be in the same team as Karasuba clearly was not a team player.
Karasuba was lying in the bath, reminiscing the attack on the JSDF base and found herself thinking about the young man who had tried to attack her with his knife. "He was quite cute, for an inferior being and the rage, the rage in his eyes was exquisite. If I had to pick an ashikabi who I could tolerate, that man would've been on the top of my list. Such power in his eyes!" Karasuba thought and was slightly amazed at her own thoughts. Maybe not all humans were worthless, some seemed to be more tolerable than others. "If he survived, maybe I could search him out and make him my ashikabi. It would be fun to break that man in." Was her last thoughts before she exited the bath and went to the spacious living room to sharpen the nicks and cuts away from her blade that had come upon it from this night's activities.
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"Sir! We have a live one here!" Shouted the medical corps corporal who had been called to the scene by master sergeant Nanase Kahiro. The first thing that came to mind when the medical corps along with the first and second infantry company that had heard the distress call. The master sergeant was now hospitalized as she was the first one who was recovered and now they had found another survivor. First lieutenant Minato Sahashi, now a full blown combat veteran with another battle under his belt. The medical staff was bewildered when they saw that he was impaled in the wall with a pipe, along with another dead Shinsegumi member. "First lieutenant Minato Sahashi is alive but the woman, uhh...sergeant first class Yuki Rowland is deceased, sir." The corporal informed the squad leader who came to over see the removal of the pipe and said persons from the wall. "GET THAT AMBULANCE IN HERE NOW! THIS MAN NEED IMMEDIATE MEDICAL ATTENTION." The squad leader shouted before giving the okay on the removal. They needed to be quick or they would lose the only man who could tell them what the fuck happened in the base. With a wet schlop sound, the pipe was removed and Minato dropped on the ground before the medics started to bandage him and inserting drips into his arms. They all got spooked when Minato opened his eyes and whispered that the caves needed to be protected and the medics sedated him as he could die of shock if he was conscious.
The ambulance came almost immediately and picked Minato up, putting on sirens and calling ahead to the hospital to inform them that they had a patient which needed to be operated on as soon as they got to the hospital. They were blazing through the country side and when they entered the city, there was police cars waiting to keep the roads clear for them. Yukari was about to cross the street when she heard the sirens and saw that two police cars with a military ambulance in tow was racing towards her and she stopped at the last minute as the cars shooted pass her. She knew it was dumb but every time she saw those military cars, she couldn't help but to think of her brother who was working in the military. "Be alright Onii-chan. Don't want to read your name from the obituaries." She thought and crossed the street. She was almost home, well as home as a country girl like her could be. She had been lucky when she found the Maison Izumo from the ads at the bulletin boards in her old dormitory when she was a student and she had immediately rented a room there as she had gotten a job in town.
Yukari had hated the idea of moving back to the countryside after she graduated as she was completely used to the hectic city life. She was now working as a nurse in high school near her living space and wouldn't trade it for the world. The only thing that was bugging her was the weird women who kept on coming along with some of the students and as she was a very curious woman, she had started her own investigation on them. She had noticed that all of them had this weird tattoo on the back of their necks and the few students that she had coaxed on talking about them, were saying the same thing. They had suddenly appeared from nowhere talking about wagtails and ashikabis and now they apparently were couples. This was puzzling but Yukari was thinking that there was something else that they hadn't told her and this was the day that she decided to talk to her landlady about it. They got along fine, even if the purple hair of her landlady was something she thought that wasnt suitable for a woman of her stature and the ridiculous rules on decency and illicit relationships sometimes drove her up the wall. Miya Asama had been a good friend to her for a few years now and talking with her more often than not, cleared her head.
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Takami was in her office, going through the latest files on the sekirei and ashikabi in the infirmary, as she was now transferred to the treatment of injured sekirei and ashikabi as her talents as an adjuster were no longer needed. The phase one of the plan was almost complete and after the remaining few sekirei had been adjusted and released to find their ashikabi, she was now more centered on fixing the participants up after a battle. She was interrupted by a phone call from the military hospital and she was sure even before they told her that it was about Minato. "Please be alive, please be alive." Takami thought as she listened to the doctor on the other side of the phone. Takami agreed on the treatment as Minato was not in a condition to say anything against or behalf of it and then proceeded to tell Minaka that she would not be coming to work tomorrow as she had something more urgent. "Now Takami-kun. We need you here, just incase something goes wrong with another sekirei." Takami sighed and put out the cigarette she had smoked. "No you don't, there are capable doctors in the infirmary and if for some reason an emergency comes, I can drop by later to see it. But listen to me now bastard, MY son has been injured and is now treated at the Shinjuku Military Hospital and nothing you say or do will make me not go there!" Takami shouted at the phone and tossed the phone in it's hook so hard that it jumped back out of it. Knowing that Miya would not like her to go her inn, she decided to tell the news to Yukari in person rather than call her. Takami checked her schedule and shifted the non-critical treatment to the other doctors that were on duty and went to quickly check the two that were left before leaving for the Maison Izumo.
Parking the car near the entrace of the yard at Maison Izumo, Takami was still unsure should she just enter the inn or call Yukari and tell her to get out when she was taken out of her musings by a knock to her window. She turned her head and saw the purple haired woman running the inn looking at her with not so pleased eyes. Takami rolled down the window and greeted the woman. "Good day Takami, and what brings you here today?" Miya asked as she knew that what ever it was, it most likely was something important. The amount of bad blood between them was something that was hard to ignore but as she knew that Yukari was Takami's daughter, there were times when being civil was the only option. "I need to talk to Yukari about her brother. I know how much you dislike me being here so would you please send Yukari out?" Takami asked, keeping the fact that she was irritated for being forced to plead anything from the other woman. Miya agreed to it and walked away from the car without a word. It didn't take long for Yukari come running out of the inn after Miya had entered it and Takami opened the passenger side door for her in advance. "What's wrong with Onii-san?!" Yukari asked as she sat inside the car and closed the door. Takami started her drive towards the hospital as she told Yukari all that she knew. Minato had been on a training exercise and was injured, badly. Both Yukari and Takami knew that it was only an euphemism that Minato had been doing something secret and things had gone wrong. After Takami had told Yukari everything, the rest of the trip went in silence as the worst possible things were going through their heads.
Minato opened his eyes and found himself laying down on a hospital bed. He was surprised to be alive and came to the conclusion that Nanase had been succesful on bringing in the troops. "Sir! Thank god you are alive." Came the relieved voice of the master sergeant who was looking rather ragged. She was still in her uniform and Minato judged by the bags under her eyes that she hasn't gotten much sleep. "How long was I out?" Minato asked and felt small pains from his abdomen and throat. The pain in his abdomen was from the impalement the attacker had done to him as Minato remembered the situation and the pain in his throat was from the lack of liquids. Being on top of things, Nanase gave the water glass to Minato as she knew that he must've be thirsty. "You were unconscious for a few hours after we found you but I don't know how long you were out before we found you, Sir." Nanase said in her usual and short military manner. She, like everyone else in the unit had been long in the army and the mannerisms were drilled in their heads. The whole unit had thought Minato to be like a little brother but that had changed after their first mission together. If it weren't for Minato's quick wit and fast actions, they would've been killed in that mission. Minato let out a small thanks for the water before he drank the glass in one gulp. "So, how am I doing?" Minato asked after he had gotten his throat wet and talking didn't hurt so much.
The red-haired woman gave Minato an uneasy look before she sat down on the bench and cleared her throat. "Sir, for all intents and purposes you're supposed to be dead. The ambulance rushed you here but the doctors couldn't do much for you in the surgery and they were almost ready to give up when your mother barged in, took a look at your situation and made a phone call. After that some men in black suits came with a suitcase and gave you some kind of an injection and you where taken to this room where we have waited for you to awaken, sir." Nanase told Minato all the while giving the uneasy look at him. It seemed to Minato that his subordinate didn't actually believe it was him, and not a doppelgänger. He was about to tell the master sergeant that he indeed was Minato Sahashi and not a body double when he heard the distinct shouting of his mother and sister. With a heavy sigh Minato laid back down on the bed. He knew very well how easily the two medical woman in his family could force him to do what ever they wanted. He had never been able to say no to his little sister and he knew better than to even try to say no to his mother, unless he wanted an earful of curse words and threats. Nanase was a little taken aback at the resigned to his fate kind of attitude that was now exuding out of her commanding officer.
Takami had left Yukari to deal with the idiotic doctor who was trying to deny them entry to her sons room. Yukari was half way down on her own list of demands and threats that made the doctor shrink after every word when Takami slammed the door of the room open, only to be greeted with a barrel of a gun and a very angry looking woman. "You better take that gun off my face missy or I'm gonna shove it so far up your ass that you'll be sneezing bullets." Takami said, not bothering to cover up the anger in her voice. "It's okay Nanase, you can lower your weapon. Not that it would do you any good against my mother." Takami heard the sound of her son and turned her full attention to the bandaged form of Minato, who was laying down on the bed. Takami was looking at Minato with clear suspicion as she was sure that Minato had only recently laid back down on the bed. "What happened Minato and don't give me any bullshit about a training accident." Takami said and promptly sat down on the chair that was now empty as the woman who had occupied it was now standing in bafflement at the end of the bed. Just when Minato was opening his mouth to talk, the door was slammed open again and this time it was his little sister that came in, fuming at the rudeness of the staff in this hospital. "Brother!" Yukari shouted and ran to the bed with every meaning of smothering Minato with her sisterly affection when she noticed a red haired woman giving her a rather nasty look. Yukari looked the woman up and down and then she gave a glance to her mother who nodded. "I knew it, this woman likes Onii-chan." Yukari thought as she walked towards her brother with lot less enthusiasm as before. "Onii-chan. Who might this be?" Yukari asked her brother, trying very badly to keep jealousy out of her voice.
Minato looked at the two women, being very confused at the sudden chill in the room. Minato was a smart man, very smart in fact but he was clueless about anything related to relationships. "This is master sergeant Nanase Kahiro, she is a part of my crew and now I would assume that she also is the only survivor." Minato said plainly as he tried not to worry the only family he had left. Nanase's face grew grim at the reminder but quickly brought her face back to a neutral. "I thought I told you to spare us from the training accident bullshit." Takami reminded Minato, just in case he would start the story of what happened. Minato and Nanase gave each other a look and then Minato told them the truth or most of it. They were on guard duty and they were attacked. That was all Minato said and even when Yukari and Takami both tried to threaten for more information on both Minato and Nanase, they kept their mouth shut. Soon the doctor came to tell them that visiting hours were long over and even if the two women were a doctor and nurse, they still needed to follow regulations of the hospital. Minato said his goodbyes and gave Nanase an order to stay for about five minutes so he could speak in private. His doctor was about to object but when Minato looked at him with murder clear in his eyes, he opted to shut up and leave the room.
Nanase and Minato talked the whole five minutes about what had happened in the base and what was known about the attacker. Nanase informed Minato that nobody knew the attacker and no record of the attacker was left intact. The only ones who had seen the attacker was them and she had already gave a description but it had not been believed. Minato then told Nanase that he would quit the military and enter the private sector for work as he was sure the culprit was somewhere in city, how else would she been there with out a car or other transport. Nanase tried to talk him out of it but knew that Minato had little choice as the JSDF would not let him conduct investigations on his own. She gave Minato key to the hotel room she was staying, and told him that she had established a base of operations there as she was also investigating who the woman was, how was she able to do what she did and why had she attacked the base. Nanase left the room with a salute and went to write her resignation letter as Minato had started to write his own in the room. He was feeling angry towards the gray-haired woman and the thought of getting revenge was giving him sadistic pleasure.
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Minato was reading the letter in his hand as he waited for the doctor to give him his discharge papers. The letter was from his commanding officer and in it was stated that Minato was honorably discharged from the military with distinguishing marks and all of his back pay from his time served in the base. He scrunched the letter and threw it in the garbage can when the doctor came in. "Here you are Mr. Sahashi, you are now free to leave. I must say that your recovery has been remarkable, I have never seen anything like it." The doctor said and gave a recipe of painkillers to Minato with orders to take one in a day until the bottle was empty, it was going the painful to train his stomach muscles to work normally again. Minato thanked the doctor and told him again that he did not know what his mother did, all he did know was that she worked for the M.B.I and that had shut the doctor up. He walked out of the gates of the hospital when he heard honking. Turning his head, he saw that Takami had come to pick him up. Minato walked to the car and when he had sat down and closed the door, Takami left the parking lot without saying a word.
They drove in silence for a while until Takami asked why Minato had quit being a soldier. Without wanting to tell his mother of his true intentions, Minato simply said that it was his time to quit as he felt no desire to be a soldier anymore. The incident in the base had been the biggest reason for it but contrary to what Takami believed, Minato was hell bent on seeking the woman out and giving her the punishment that was long over due. Takami was thinking again about offering Minato a job at the private army of M.B.I but decided against it again on the prospect of the sekirei plan starting and she did not want Minato to be apart of it. "I'm going to apply to M.B.I mother. And what ever you say will not make me change my mind." Minato said with a calm voice and kept looking out of the window. He knew that if he looked at Takami's face, his resolve would falter at the angry look she was sure to give him. Takami slammed the brakes and gave her son a good hard look. "Why?" Was all she said before she continued the drive, checking that the sudden stop hadn't confused the GPS she was using. Most of the electronics of the city had been going haywire since Matsu had escaped with stealing something from Minaka and Takami couldn't trust her GPS anymore. Matsu had broke every piece of technology that could have been used to track her and GPS had taken the side effects of her actions.
Minato sighed. "Because being a soldier or something similar is all I know what to do and the idea of returning to school is really not that appealing. The M.B.I offers the best pay and from what I've heard, it's centered around the capital." Minato gave Takami the list of reasons he had prepared beforehand as he knew that, for whatever the reason, his mother did not want him being employed by the giant conglomerate that now controlled most of japan and had practically bought the city of Tokyo. Takami knew that anything that she would now say would not make Minato change his mind so she agreed to arrange a meeting with the head of staff. "I just hope you wont come to regret this Minato. I really do." Takami almost ran a red light when Minato asked to arrange a meeting for Nanase too, and was greatly relieved when Minato assured that it was not because what his mother was thinking. They had worked together for a long time and would like to continue to work together. Takami was still a little apprehensive at the presence of the woman, who clearly was fond of Minato even if Minato himself didn't see it but again she had no reason to say no. Takami parked her car at the address of the hotel Minato had given her and left back to her work after Minato had kissed her goodbye.
Minato watched his mother drive away before he turned towards the hotel and went to find the room where his partner was in, steeling his resolve. This could take a long time and the later he started, the longer it took. Knocking the door with their established code, Minato looked around to see if anyone was interested in his presence but saw no one and went inside the room with his key. Nanase was aiming her sidearm at the door, relaxing when she saw Minato entering the room. "So where are we on the investigation?" Minato asked and went to put his suitcase on the bed. Nanase went to get the file she had compiled while Minato looked around the room. On the opposite side of the door was a table filled with equipment for tracking police and other radio signals and scanners for searching for signals from hidden tracking devices and the like, on the left of that was the kitchen and it's table was now a small armory. There were handguns and assault rifles laid with two big cases of ammunition. There were few knives and a crate of grenades and when Minato took a closer look, he saw shrapnel and flashbangs and a couple of phosphorus grenades. "Damn Nanase, you've been preparing for a war." Minato said with a grin and took the file the woman was offering to him. "Yes sir. I thought it would be wise, seeing at the amount of destruction that bitch did at the base. Can't wait to see her deflecting this." Nanase said and took a grenade from the crate, grinning at the idea of turning one certain gray haired woman into a fleshy goo.
Minato flipped through the file and saw that it only contained the incident at the base and the investigation results from the unit who had responded to Nanase's distress call. Frowning at the scarcity of information, Minato dropped the file on the table and went to get his casual ware out of the suitcase. "We have a job interview tomorrow Nanase, so be on your best behavior. It's for the M.B.I and as that company has his hands on everything, it is the best place to start. But for now, you stay here and scan the radio frequencies for anything and I'll go and see what the under town knows." Minato said and took out a pair of black jeans with a white t-shirt and red hoodie. Minato was trying to look like a normal citizen, maybe an older student of an university and go for the pubs where rumors usually tend to fly around loose tongues and beer. Nanase frowned at being left behind but she knew that someone had to do it and Minato was feeling responsible at the deaths of their unit since he was the leader. She nodded to Minato and went back to the equipment set, ready to scan the radio waves again and again being sure that she would find nothing.
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Karasuba was jumping around the city, trying to find some one funny to play with as she was still feeling slightly giddy at the slaughter she had performed in the military base. Every time she remembered the hate filled eyes of that dark haired man, she felt her blood lust rise. Jumping down on the bad part of the city, she was certain that some one here would be good enough to play with and satiated her blood lust when she felt someone grab her shoulder. "Hey there beautiful, how about you, me and a couple of my friends go to a more private place?" She heard a drunken slur and smelled the stench of alcohol. Smiling, she turned around and saw a group of four men. They were shabby looking and most likely were a part of the street gangs in the area, thinking that she was an easy prey. She was slender and weak looking, if you didn't look at her eyes and this bunch was far too drunk to notice the angry flash at the touch of this revolting man. The four men quickly grouped up on her and pulled her to a side street, where they thought they would get some action. "Oh, action you'll get. Just not the one you were hoping for." Karasuba thought, her smile widening at the soon coming deaths of this group of filthy humans.
Minato cursed under his breath as he exited the fourth bar he had been in that night. He had got absolutely no information, except for the appearance of odd women. At first he had thought it was the information he was seeking but when he had listened more closely, none of the descriptions matched with the woman who was occupying his mind. He was walking toward the main street, going to give up for the night when he heard a muffled scream. Normally he wouldn't have cared but he had been filled with adrenaline since the attack and wanted to get it out of his system. Brawl with the lowlifes of Tokyo was just what the doctor ordered and so he went towards the noises that were getting louder as he was getting closer. When he turned around the corner, he stopped in his tracks. The scene of fresh blood and body parts were familiar and so was the smiling gray haired woman who was slowly chopping a man in pieces.
"YOU! I got you now!" Minato shouted and disregarded any notion of a clear and calculated mind. He drew his weapon and started to shoot at the woman who unceremoniously dropped the thug on the ground and easily side stepped the bullets. In a second she was right in front of Minato and had grabbed the the weapon and placed her sword on the man's throat. "Such hate. I love that look in your eyes." Karasuba said and reveled at the intensity of the stare Minato was giving her. "Tell me human. What is your name?" She asked and applied a little more pressure in the blade, which made the blade cut the upper layer of Minato's skin. He knew better than to infuriate the woman as he intended to be alive after this day. "Minato Sahashi, and what is yours? I would like to know the name of the person I intend to kill." Minato said through clenched teeth, noticing a slight shiver from the woman when he threatened to kill her. "Karasuba and be honored to know my name. Why would you want me dead? You can try if you like but you wont succeed." Karasuba said, tasting the name of the man inside her head as she felt joy.
She knew that breaking and killing this man would feel wonderful, almost more than killing the runt that was now running around with the core of Yume. This human reminded her of Yume so much. Both were strong in mind and did not fear her. The rage that came out of his eyes felt like fire, giving her a burning sensation where ever his eyes darted. "I will kill you for killing my men, and to give you the punishment you need." Minato said and tried to take a step back, which he was allowed to. Minato was slightly surprised that Karasuba would let him go but then again, she must be very confident of her skills and as much as Minato hated it, she had every right to be. "Why would you want to kill me for getting rid of the weaklings? You should join me. We could watch the world burn together. You are more like me than you think human." Karasuba said and sheathed her sword. Minato growled in anger at the statement of him being the same as her. He sensed that Karasuba was tensing up and was ready to defend himself when Karasuba jumped to the top of the building they were standing next to. He watched in awe as Karasuba took off, easily jumping several ten meters at a time. "How can I kill someone who can do that?" He thought to himself as he started his walk back to the hotel.
"Welcome back Sir." Nanase said as she heard the door open, not taking her attention away from the equipment as she had heard a police call for several dismembered bodies found in an alley and there had been shots fired. "Not quite." Karasuba said and lopped off the head of the woman, smiling at how easy it had been to find this place. M.B.I was powerful indeed, in terms of humans. Dipping her fingers in blood, she wrote a message to Minato.
Now I know what you're thinking. I still have a story that's unfinished but this kept bugging me so I had to write it. Hopefully it won't be too boring and you actually like it. I tried something new at making it clearer on thoughts and talks and I hope you agree. Well, as always R&R. I don't know how often I will update this one, but when ever I get the idea for a new chapter, I will write it or I can't concentrate on the Two sides of One story at all. See you later ^^
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