My only claim to fame is my twisted mind which came up with this scenario. This means that I do not own Sekirei or anything that is related to it. For this I am sad.
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"MINAKA!" came a shout of anger from behind the grand double doors that led to the inner sanctum of Minaka Hiroto, the president of M.B.I. He turned his head towards the doors from the cityscape of Tokyo, making the cold fluorescent lights glare from his glasses. The doors opened with a slam and inside his office strode a woman with unruly gray hair and a blue business suit that had seen better days with a coffee stained lab coat pulled over it. The gray eyes of the woman were now shining with anger he had not seen on the woman in a while.
"Ah Takami-kun! To what do I owe the pleasure of your company?" Minaka said while fixing the collar of his white cape and grinned at the woman, which made her anger rise.
"You know damn well Minaka!" Takami Sahashi shouted at the man and slammed her fist with a satisfying thwack to his temple, dropping him cleanly from his chair. The man sprung up with surprising agility for a man of his age and kept a steady gap between him and the woman.
"I must confess Takami, I really don't know what I've done to earn your ire today." Minaka said with a light tone and smirked at the growing annoyance of the woman. Takami took a cigarette from her pack she kept in her coat's pocket and decided it was much faster to humor the man.
"I'm talking about this you bastard!" Takami growled and threw a folder on the desk. Minaka glanced at the folder and saw it was the results from his recent scanning of schools.
"You have no right to pull MY children to this insane plan of yours!" She said loudly and gripped Minaka by the lapels of his white suit and shaked the man.
"Furthermore, you have no right to meddle in their lives since it was you who decided to have no interest in them so far." Takami said and let go of Minaka's jacket and lit her cigarette. She opened the folder on the desk and looked at it with sadness. In the folder was a photo of a 12 year old boy with messy black hair and grey eyes, smiling an innocent smile. The folder had his name (Minato Sahashi) and his relevant info, age, gender, hobbies and likes/dislikes. A bit further down was a bit of his medical history and odd-looking graph. The graph was divided among the titles growth, compatibility and time.
"Oh that, you must be proud Takami!" Minaka said with his grin widening and with an obvious glee.
"Minato has been chosen to be a part of the grand plan that the gods themselves has given us! And we must not spit in the face of fate" Minaka continued and started smiling. He took the folder from the desk and quickly read through it even though he knew what was on it. After all it had been his marvelous idea to screen the schools of Japan for possible applicants. Even he, who had been graced by the fate hadn't known how good of an applicant Minato would or could be and had only toyed with the idea of making him a part of his plan but this folder and the results it had. It had changed everything, and once he had decided that Minato would be in the program, there was nobody who could stop him. Not even the boy's mother.
"Cut the crap Minaka!" Takami said and slammed the folder from the man's hands making Minaka give the woman a hard glare.
"I'm telling you now to leave Minato off of this. Surely there are others who would be just as good." Takami said with a pleading voice, she had seen the look on Minaka's face and had known then that straight confrontation with him wouldn't work, not this time and not on this.
"This is no crap, as you eloquently put it Takami." Minaka said and picked up the folder from the floor.
"This is the dawning of a new age, a new look on life and Minato will be a part of it whether you like it or not." He continued and strode back to his chair and sat down. Takami followed the man while taking puffs from her smoke and dropping ashes on the floor.
"Besides, you still have one child left don't you? Isn't Yukari also living with your grandmother?" Minaka said with a dark glare and even darker grin. Takami's face paled as she recognized the veiled threat for what it was. Either she should give Minato to Minaka or she would lose both of her children. All the anger was deflated with that simple sentence and she let her shoulders slouch in defeat.
"Will...Will I be able to see Minato while he is in this program of yours?" Takami asked as she threw her cigarette out on the balcony of the office and lit a new one. Minaka chuckled at the sound of defeat from her voice.
"But of course Takami-kun." He replied and walked next to her.
"I'll even let him live with you for the time being." He continued and patted the woman on her shoulder, making the woman glare at him with disgust. "To think I used to care for this monster." She thought and nodded to him.
"Do you think I'm a monster who would keep children away from their mothers Takami-kun?" Minaka asked with the same manical grin he always wore, not expecting an answer from the woman.
"When?" Takami asked and took a puff from her smoke. She walked next to the table and picked the folder up, trying to see what was to become of her son and what she could possibly spare him of.
"No later than a week, after that it would be too late and the training wouldn't be finished on time" Minaka said while walking back to his desk. He sat down and opened the computer and watched the same file from his computer that Takami was now browsing through and added a few extra
"courses" to the training that weren't on the folder.
"Don't worry Takami-kun. You get to say goodbye to your darling boy, since you'll be the one to bring him here." Minaka smirked and continued. Takami choked on the words, she hadn't expected to be the one who would actually deliver her son to the den of the devil herself.
"Wouldn't it be the best? You'll get to spend time while traveling and tell him what is expected of him and what he will become." Minaka continued when he saw Takami frown at the idea. Takami agreed to the man's plan as she had no way out of it.
"I still think you're an asshole and I hate you for it" She said and started to walk slowly out of the office of the resident madman, not eager for leaving the office as it meant that she would need to return with Minato. By the time she reached the elevator that was the only entrance to the top levels of M.B.I tower, she was already talking in her cellphone with the manager of the company's employee benefits and had gotten herself a car for a week. When that was sorted out, she went on to call personnel management and called in her sick days, holidays and what ever she could think of to get a week off from working.
After the talks was finished and the elevator arrived, she stepped in and pressed the button that led her to the 75th floor which was her apartment/laboratory at the same time. After packing and checking her computer, she went to the car park that was situated on the first basement level to get the car and had started her long drive home. Minaka watched her leave with the black sedan and was already making mental notes on the training file of one Minato Sahashi. Adding a few suggestive therapy sessions and gene modifications. When he the car was lost in the traffic of the big city, he went to write them down on the file in the computer that would tell the people working on the project that Minato would be receiving treatments every 4 days and Minaka was certain that Minato would be all he hoped and more.
"Mwahahahaa Minato my boy, you are destined for glory!" He laughed in his office and turned to watch the grand city of Tokyo, his arena for godhood. A playground for unearthly powers only he was in possessions of.
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Takami had gone home and spent a week with her children Yukari and Minato, trying in vain to make up for the fact that Minato would be leaving with her. While Yukari had started crying when Takami told her that her beloved Onii-chan was going to Tokyo with her mother, Minato was excited about seeing where her mother worked and being allowed to go with her this time. Although the school her mother said he would be going sounded difficult and was getting him nervous.
"Don't worry Yukari." Minato said, hugging her sister who was crying her eyes out. Yukari lifted her tear filled eyes to Minato and started crying even more as the thought that this was the last time she would see him came to her.
"I won't forget you and I promise to call you every week." Minato said and wiped her tears from her cheek.
" Promise that you'll be a good girl and stay with grandma. And if you're nice enough, maybe you can come too." Minato said comforting his younger sister.
"Y-you promise O-Onii-chan?" Yukari asked while sobbing and grabbed her brothers jacket harder.
"I promise Yukari, and besides. I can still come see you when the school is out for holidays and such. Isn't that right mom?" The boy asked Takami while patting her sister on the head.
"Yes Minato, that's right" Takami said knowing this would be the first of many lies she was forced to tell to Minato on the upcoming years. She felt miserable at the sight of her daughter crying over that she was left alone and the prospect of Minato going through what ever that insane man had deemed "necessary". Oh how she hoped he never would've thought up the sekirei plan or that she wouldn't have found the idea good one at the start of all of it.
"Come along Minato, we need to be going if we are going the get you to your school on time" She said tiredly and gave her little girl an hug and a kiss.
"Be a good girl Yukari, and we come see you anytime we can okay? Be a good girl for grandma" Takami said and started walking toward the car her hand in Minato's.
"I will mom, I p-promise I'll be a good girl. Onii-chan, take care" Yukari answered with a stronger voice than she was feeling. After waving goodbye to her brother and mother, she ran to her room and stayed there crying the rest of the day.
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Takami saw Minato fidgeting in the seat of the car from the side of her eyes and sighed.
"What is it Minato?" She asked while keeping her eyes on the road.
"I feel bad about Yukari mom, why couldn't she come with us?" Minato asked with a serious voice and looked at her mother.
"Because Yukari is still too young for this school, and she is better with grandma." Takami said for the hundredth time, only this time to Minato and not Yukari.
"This school is not the same as the one in home Minato, you need to take this seriously and if Yukari would have come along you wouldn't have been able to concentrate on school." Takami said with a small tremble at her voice and she gripped the steering wheel harder. Takami was glad Minato was too young to read anything more than missing home and Yukari from her voice.
"So what's the school like mom? I mean is it harder than regular school?" Minato asked now curious about his new school.
"Yes, it's a lot harder and longer. But in the end it will the best for you, It's a kind of prepping school for really smart people and you know you are smart Minato. You always score the top of your class" Takami answered with a fake smile. If it was not for Minaka's idiotic plan, her son would have been safe.
"Okay mom, I'll make you proud!" The young boy beamed a brilliant smile to his mother and then continue to look outside of the window. Takami sighed again and lit a cigarette. "I wish you keep thinking that after you have been in the "school" for a while, I really do." She thought and blowed smoke out of the car window.
The trip to Tokyo took almost three hours, she slowed down in purpose when she could and still wished it would have taken longer but the silhouette of Tokyo came to view only too soon and the closer they got, the closer the foreboding figure of the M.B.I tower came. She was just parking her car in the underground parking lot when man in black suit ran next to the car and knocked her window. Takami rolled the window down, knowing that it must be something serious as she always had not to distrub orders in place when she was not on the medical floor of the tower. The man didn't say a word, only gave her a note that summoned her to Medlab 3 and she instructed the man who gave the message to take Minato to her apartment on the 75th floor.
Takami then turned to Minato and patted him on the head while telling him that she would join him as soon as she solved the problem they had and he should follow this man to the place where they would be living. Minato nodded and stayed by the car to get his things from the trunk and Takami went straight to the elevator and headed to Medlab 3. After she got there, a myriad of folders and files were given to her that she needed to go through inorder to solve the problem which had occurred in the adjusting of sekirei. "This will take longer than I thought." She thought to herself while groaning inward.
Takami quickly walked to the intercom and called her apartment to tell Minato that she would be in the lab for a while to solve the problem. Minato said he would be fine and she wouldn't need to worry. Inside he was excited as he got to explore her mothers extravagant apartment without her telling that he shouldn't touch this or go in there.
"Whoa, this place is HUGE!" Minato though after exploring the apartment for a while. The room he had first seen had been the living room and it was undoubtedly the largest room in the place. It had a huge flat screen T.V on the other wall with a top of the line stereo system under it and facing that was a fireplace that looked old. Minato had thought of seeing if the stereo's or the T.V would work as good as he thought they would but decided not to when the consequences from the last times he had done so came to his mind. Takami was quick to discipline when he did something wrong and had taught her that as a man, he would be responsible for his own mistakes. Two couches and arm chairs framed a coffee table that had it's center made of glass in the middle of the room and they were standing on top of a white rug. Two corridors left from the living room, one leading right and one leading left while there was an open kitchen in the corner near the door.
Minato had walked in the left corridor of the apartment as it had been closer to him and he had found three bedrooms that looked like they had been stolen from a five star hotel. Comfortable looking double beds, night stands and lamps were in place but it looked like there had never been anyone in any of the bedrooms. "I want this as my room!" Minato thought when the last of the bedrooms had a T.V in it and a personal shower.
Feeling a little thirsty, Minato made his way to the kitchen for a glass of water or possibly juice if his mother had remembered to buy it. He was disappointed at the lack of juice and went to get water from the kitchen sink when he saw a door being slightly ajar with light coming out if it. He was curious and went to see what room it was. He opened the door and saw a room filled with equipment that reminded him about the science room in his old school, he was a little disappointed at the lack of anything cool when a flash of light caught his attention. There was a table with a new looking computer on it and its screen had come to life with a stream of photographs of girls started to twirl around it. Minato was mesmerized at the photos as the girls were really pretty.
Minato was startled when he heard a door slam shut and his mother shouted that she was home. Minato ran to his mother, not wanting to get caught being in one of her rooms and told Takami that she needed to buy juice. After they ate a small evening snack, they unpacked his things in the cabinets of what was going to be his room, Takami had frowned at his choice but relented as it was one of the few things she could give the boy without feeling guilty about it. After they had finished the unpacking, Minato went straight to bed as his mother had said that tomorrow would be his first day of his new school. Minato had a hard time falling asleep as he could hardly wait, he was so excited to see this new school and hopefully new friends.
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Minato was woken up by an alarm clock promptly at seven in the morning and he slowly dressed while moaning about being tired and made his way to the kitchen. He found a note stuck to the fridge door that said that his mother had already left for work and his breakfast was in the microwave. And that someone would be around to take him to school. Minato ate quickly and went to the living room to sit on the couch and maybe going through the cabinets there while waiting for someone to come pick him up.
Little before eight, there was a knock on the door. Minato walked to the door and opened it, surprised to see a man in a black suit and with a serious face. The man told Minato that he was picking him up and that they would go for a check up first. Being a little baffled at what the unknown man had said, Minato decided to ask him.
"Why do I need a checkup first? We just had our medical in my old school" Minato said and looked at the man. He answered with a slightly irritated tone that Minato needed a check up before he could go to school so they would know his health and could go over his diet and other important things like that.
"Makes sense I guess." Minato replied and started walking behind the big man. The man took him to an elevator and swiped something on the numerical pad of the elevator, making the doors close and the elevator started going down rapidly. After a few minutes on the elevator and couple more through an corridor, they arrived at a metal door that had a sign on top of it saying Medlab 2. Minato thought it was bit weird for his checkup, but figured that it was just like a doctor's office. He was ushered straight inside and the man seated him in a chair that resembled the one he had seen in a dentists office.
"Hello Minato-kun, my name is June and I'll be doing your checkup today." Minato heard a woman's voice and turned his head towards it. He saw a brown haired woman with brown eyes, who was slightly younger than his mother and she was wearing white trousers with a white shirt that had a white lab coat pulled over it. Minato spotted many pens in the breast pocket and a stethoscope around her neck.
"Will this take long? I really don't want to be late on my first day." Minato said to June, eager to start in his new school.
"No Minato-kun, I just need to check a few things and then we will be all done" June said happily and started asking questions and checking the paper in her clipboard. After half an hour of questions, June proceeded to check his weight, height, posture and eyesight.
"One more thing to do Minato-kun." June said and placed the clipboard on his desk and pulled a syringe from the side-table that had multiple needles and tourniquets placed on it.
"I need to give you this shot as you are new here and we don't want you to be sick." June said and showed him a syringe with clear fluid inside. Minato nodded and closed his eyes while June placed a tourniquet in his arm and tightened it, making the vein in Minato's arm pop out.
"Now this might sting a bit, but I'm sure a big boy like you can handle it right?" She said with a warm tone and rubbed sanitation alcohol in Minato's arm before giving him the shot. After the shot, that had stung quite a bit, Minato started feeling slightly dizzy. When he told June that he was feeling dizzy, she said it was ok and expected because the shot was protecting him and his classmates from a variety of illnesses so it was prone to make one sleepy or dizzy. Then Minato fell asleep while June started smiling. "He is so adorable, I can't believe he is mine now." She thought and pressed a button on her speakerphone.
"He's ready, we can begin the procedure now" June said to the speakerphone on her desk and shortly after the notification, few men with lab coats came in and took Minato to the next room where he was placed on an operating table. He was hooked to a variety of medical instruments like drop bottle and EKG. Blood samples were taken from unconscious Minato and June told the men to be careful and not cause bruises to form. Multitude of shots were given to him while they placed a headset on his head that was spouting hypnotherapy. The point of the therapy was to give him memories of his "school day" and mold his mind to be more receptive to learning the things he was needed to learn as he was now a part of the training program called Phoenix.
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When Minato woke up, he was back in his mother's apartment, laying on one of the couches while the T.V was on with the newest episode of the latest hit anime rolling. "How did I get back home? I was in the middle of the class and...Oh, I must've fallen asleep and someone brought me home." Minato thought and got up from the couch. He noticed that Takami wasn't home yet and so he called her to find out that she was almost home and she would make dinner to them.
"How was your day at school honey?" Takami asked her son in trepidation while making dinner. She had had nightmares last night of what Minaka had scheduled for Minato.
"Oh it was fun, can't really remember my classmates but the lessons were great. Teacher was kind and stuff." Minato said happily but suddenly fell silent and a light pink came to his cheeks. Takami noticed it and stopped her cooking to give Minato a stern look. Minato recognized the look and gulped.
"I-I fell asleep in class and don't know who brought me home" He said sheepishly to his mother and waited her to yell at him for sleeping.
"About that, your teacher called me and said she would bring you here, since I was busy." Takami said to Minato with a relieved voice, she was happy that Minato didn't remember anything he really had gone through.
"She was upset that you were sleeping in her class but understood that you had only moved in here yesterday." Takami continued with a stern voice. "Oh Minato, honey. I'm so glad that you don't remember but it seems that I can't do nothing else than to watch from the side." She thought with fear about how effective the treatment had been on Minato on the first day, it seemed that Minaka is taking this seriously.
"I'll do better mother, I promise." Minato said and hold out a plate to Takami. She quickly finished her cooking and gave Minato a plateful while taking some to herself. Minato ate with silence and good appetite as Takami merely prodded the food along the plate, too caught up in her head to be hungry. Minato took their plates to the sink and took out his schedule from the printouts that were in a pile on the coffee table with his name on top of them.
"What's CCT mom? I have only that for the next three days in my schedule." Minato asked and looked at his schedule with a quizzical look. Takami almost dropped the plates in the sink when she heard that question. "Minaka you bastard!" She thought and turned towards Minato and gave him a weak smile.
"T-Thats martial arts training Minato." Takami said, knowing already how her son would react to this.
"The school is big on sports and since you're so good in normal subjects, we agreed with the principal that your regular lessons are kept in one grade higher than you should be and they would step up your sports as you had very little of that back home." Takami continued without giving Minato to say anything before she was finished.
"If you say so mom, but I don't know how much fun will martial arts be. I don't want to learn how to hurt people." Minato said seriously.
"I know dear but this is for self-protection and I know it's going to be rough but give it a chance. I think you will like it." Takami replied and went back to washing dishes while Minato kept memorizing his schedule. Takami's heart was aching at the amount of lies she had to tell to Minato. After washing the dishes and telling Minato to go to bed since tomorrow will be an early day and he would need the energy for the martial arts training, Takami took a bottle of scotch and a glass with her and went to the only place she knew she had some privacy. She was in her lab almost all night, drinking quietly and cursing Minaka and his damned plan. Cursing the gods he so much loved for getting her son into this mess.
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The next day Minato was taken to a Dojo after finding out that his mother had once again left the apartment while he still slept. The Dojo was more like a big room with four rings on hard tatami mats than an actual training room. Posters of paper was strewn on the walls with kanji marks that were too difficult for Minato to read and in one wall was racks upon racks of weapons. Swords, spears, anything you could think of and then Minato saw that in one of the rings was standing an older man with a white gi and a black belt. Minato went to him and bowed for the man who insisted that Minato called him sensei. His training had begun and it started brutally and harshly. After the beating disguised as training was done, Minato was left in tears and in pain in his mother's apartment, lying on the couch being almost unable to move. His chest and hands were showing signs of bruising and his lower lip was split.
Minato lied on the couch and wished for his mother to come home and comfort him as he remembered the training. The teacher had not been nice at all, he had called him names and didn't stop beating him even when he asked or was lying on the ground. Minato wanted for his mother to come and take him back home, but she didn't come. He cried in the couch of being hurt and alone and eventually, being exhausted by his sadness and aching body, he fell asleep. Takami opened the door slowly and came inside the apartment and saw how beaten up her son was, he was black-eyed and there were dried blood in his cheeks.
"I'm sorry Minato, I'm so so sorry." She whispered and took him to his bed where she cleaned his face and changed him to his pajamas. Kissing his forehead she pulled a blanket to his chin and left to drink again. As the days of Minato's training went on, every time he saw his mother he asked if he could go home which the answer was no. Takami always said no, giving an excuse after another and after six months, Minato stopped asking. Takami was afraid of the change she was seeing in her son but helpless to stop it.
"How are you doing Minato?" Takami asked one morning while cooking breakfast with shaking hands, Minaka had shown her one of the videos he had recorded of Minato and it had shocked her to the core.
"Fine Mother." was Minatos only reply as he did his now daily push ups and pull ups.
"Here's your.." Takami started but was cut off by Minato.
"I need to get going or sensei will be mad." So Takami watched her son leave for another day of brutal combat training, she hoped to see Minato after the training so she could talk to him and remind him that she was still there for him but Minato didn't come back home that day, nor the next day.
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"MINAKA! WHERE THE FUCK IS MINATO?!" Takami screamed with anger that could be counted as the holy wrath of god as she kicked the insane corporate presidents office doors open with a slam.
"What did you do to him! Answer me you sick bastard!" She continued her bellowing and picked up a vase that was standing on a pedestal near the door and threw it towards Minaka. The vase shattered against the table, the shards sliding across the surface and finally dropping on the lap of the white-clad man who was sporting his regular grin.
"He's training as you very well Takami-kun." He said while sweeping the shards off his desk with one hand and watching as the woman came closer to the desk, breathing heavily from the screaming.
"He was performing so admirably and learning faster than I presumed. So I did the only thing I could do the reward such behaviour and sent him on to the second stage of his training six months early. Surely you are happy about the progress of your son?" Minaka said with a smirk clear in his voice and grinned at the raging inferno on the eyes of the woman.
"As you remember Takami-kun. I said you can live with him for the time being, and that time has passed." Minaka said calmly and placed his chin on top of his hand that he keeping on the table. Takami ripped his phone of the wall and proceeded to whack his head with it all the while screaming she would kill him if Minato wasn't back at the end of the day.
"Should I get Yukari in his stead then? If you are so adamant at not giving Minato a chance, maybe you would be happier if Yukari was here instead" Minaka asked calmly and held his handkerchief on his now bleeding temple. Takami was blown out of her rage again by the most simplest of sentences and she knew she was trapped. Nothing she said or did would change the situation and Takami had to make sure that Yukari would not suffer this, it was bad enough Minato had to go through with it.
"Let me at least see he is okay, you bastard. You owe me that much." She said with a compliant tone and dropped the phone from her hands.
"I will, if you keep your end of the bargain Takami-kun" Minaka said and sat back down in his chair.
"Fine, I will adjust all the sekirei who come out of hibernation and not only Takehito's, just let me see my son!" Takami said and lit a cigarette. Minaka then punched a few keys in his computer and took over a live feed looking at the combat training of Minato.
"Come here Takami-kun. Come and see your son at his finest." Minaka said with glee and pulled away from the monitor of his computer. Takami walked over and looked at the monitor, only to see her son being thrown around by a much older man. Takami noticed that even if Minato was getting brutal training, he was fine and she let out a sigh of relief. Takami suddenly tensed when the teacher went to the wall and placed something on his waist.
"Why is the teacher holding a sword?" She asked when she saw the older man pulling two katanas out of their sheaths.
"Because in this stage, Minato gets to learn techniques that are effective against armed opponents too. I have great plans for Minato and he is living up to them quite nicely." Minaka said proudly. Feeling utterly defeated Takami left the office and went to her home to drink until she didn't see straight.
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"Why did mom say I can't come home?" Minato thought again at the words had been so casually said to him. Three days ago, after another set of lessons where he had to do his best to survive, there had been a man in a familiar black suit at the Dojo who had flatly said that Minato was to stay at the Dojo. When he had asked why, the man looked at him with uncaring eyes and told that his mother didn't want him there, she had forbidden him to enter the apartment until she said otherwise.
Feeling rejected and betrayed, Minato had not wanted to leave a message to his mother and he sent the man away. He sighed, turned to his side and closed his eyes and went to sleep, not wanting to dwell on it anymore. And so the days went on and they turned to weeks which again turned to months. Minato was now proficient in most of the martial arts he had been taught and some of the weapons like katana and wakizashi, knifes and batons. He was not an expert but good enough for his own standards, sadly this was not enough for his sensei. He kept pushing him and had now decided to get a partner to spar with him.
Minato looked as a young girl with, oddly enough, pink hair and a black. one sleeved kimono was brought in. "She's to be my spar partner? She's so small!" Minato thought in disbelief but kept silent. He didn't want to be rude and his teacher had taught him to be quiet unless spoken to.
"My name is Benitsubasa and I'm supposed to be your partner for today" the girl said and bowed to Minato.
"My name is Minato and I'm glad to have you" he replied and bowed in return. Without a word they assumed their positions in the ring and when the sensei gave the clearance to begin, they started. It was an even match in terms of skill but Minato quickly noticed that Benitsubasa had far greater strength than him. Luckily until now the training on him had been brutal and his pain tolerance greatly grown as his sensei had known he would be sparring against one of the sekirei at some point. He had not been expecting so soon but nonetheless, here they were. Benitsubasa won by knockout but she was impressed that he could keep up with her. "He's not half-bad." She thought and went to get a drink. Minato's teacher was also amazed that Minato had it in him and so it was decided that Benitsubasa would be sparring with Minato from now on.
Houuu, what are you doing I hear you thinking. I am making this more polished, that's what. Truthfully, I was re-reading this while thinking about the new chapter and found out that the difference in writing between this chapter and my latest one is drastic. So, I decided to do this quickly to gauge your reactions. Don't worry, I still intend to write TsoO fully to it's closure, I am doing this on the side when I think about the next chapter and so on. But tell me people, is this one better than the original first chapter or is it the other way around. Please Review, that would be very much appreciated.
I have been informed that this is the way to go, so I will place this in the original storyline of Two sides of One and delete the other version interily. Sorry if this annoys you but I do try to do what my readers want.
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