[The Kamui Project]

Within a living room of a very complex yet rich looking building was the presence of a familiar looking woman who is around her 30's with mid length black hair and a just as so blonde girl who was ten or eleven years old. Following a bit of silence, there was a ringing at the front door and the girl popped up yelling out as she got to the door "I'll get it, mommy!"

"Oh you always beat me to the punch for that, don't you my little bundle of promise?" The older woman replied as she went out of the living room to attend some personal business.

The girl then opened the door and when she did, she was greeted by a man in his 20's with a most unique hairstyle that makes him look more like a rock band artist than anything else; especially a scientist. "Ooooohhhhhh…" was all the child said as she then began staring down at the man, as if she was peering into his soul. After two minutes of staring, the newcomer opt to break the silence but was also beaten to it first when the girl shouted out at the top of her lungs "Mommy! Your Rock and Roll wannabe boyfriend is here!"

The woman then replied "Great timing, my dear! Send him my way."

"Okie Dokie, Loki!" the child yelled back to her mom "This way, buster…" the girl scoffed.

"Oooookaaayyyyyyy…" The man simply replied as he simply and quietly followed the child until he got to his destination: the lady of the house

After about five minutes of traversing the family household he then locks on to his designated target: the main maiden of the household "Now let that loser rocker wannabe make a move on you, got it mommy?" the girl said, to which the man simply sigh in relief

"I see you've finally met Nui Harime in the flesh." The woman chuckled

"At least I was prepared for it. After all it was you that told me about her, Lady Ragyo." The gentleman answered

"Now then, my good Soichiro. It's time we resumed… our special project for weaponized clothing." Ragyo pointed out

"Of course; that one. That is the reason why I'm here" Soichiro stated in response which to his surprised got a nasty look from Ragyo of all people. He then realized what he said and corrected himself "Oh excuse me, ONE of the reasons I should say."

"At least you're always willing to correct mistakes." Ragyo said as she began smiling again "Now then, shall we?"

"But of course, ladies first."

The couple made their way into the Life Fiber R&D facility of the Kiryuin household, although Nui knows nothing of it as of yet. "Now then. Our artificial kids in a matter speaking." Before him laid two sleeveless sailor fuku shirts, one white with blue stripes and the other black with red stripes. As the couple walked up to the display case, the bow sections of the collars 'opened up', revealing a pair of eyes for each one.

"Senketsu and Junketsu" Ragyo purred

"Fresh blood and Pure Blood, Dark and Light. Both sides of the same coin; it's almost too befitting… got to love the irony in that." Soichiro muttered to himself in amusement. The couple then got to work on the secret project together once more.

After seven day together in a row, the first two Kamui in existence were at long last created. They both looked very militaristic and would most likely belong in the navy, which would no doubt be the case provided what would happen next succeeds with flying colors. Ragyo wiped off some sweat from her forehead and exhaled "At last, ours pet projects are done."

"Eeyup. Took weeks of drafting prior to us even dating, but I like to say it was waaaaayyyyy worth it." Soichiro added

"You got that right" Ragyo retorted "Now for the Beta Testing for the Kamui Project"

"And there is only one candidate for that job…" Soichiro stated, obviously on to what Ragyo is implying. He then called out "NUI! WE'VE GOT A PRESENT FOR YOU!"

"A present? FOR ME!? You two should've have!" Nui shouted out as she was rushing towards where Ragyo and Soichiro were with the Kamui Brothers housed in separate display cases. Once she got to where they were, she immediately took notice of the two sailor uniforms in the cases and asked "Ohhh… are those for me?"

"Absolutely, Nui. I think you'll look great in these…and more." Soichiro answered

"And more, you say?" Nui asked now curious of what the scientist meant. "What do you mean?"

"Why, these sailor fukus have 'special properties' so to speak. We just need to know which one would best suit you." Responded Ragyo

"To get to the point, these uniforms are forged with Life Fibers and your mother's own DNA, allowing you to combine with the uniform in a matter of speaking. Synchronization if you would." Soichiro proceeded, filling Nui in on all the details

"Wow…that actually sounds… so amaaaaaazing!" Nui gleefully cheered

"Now that you're all raring to get started, which would you like to start with?" Ragyo asked her half-daughter Nui pondered at the obviously tough choice between the two identical Kamui for about a minute, but then finally made up her mind and helped herself to the white and blue striped Kamui. Ragyo then said "Junketsu it is then."

"Be careful though. While both are quite sensitive in terms of blood flow, Junketsu is a little more so than his younger brother. Be sure to keep a calm mind of things" Soichiro warned Nui "Just…take a few minutes to get the usual jitters out of your system first."

"Listen to my friend here, Nui. He doesn't talk up bullcrack." Ragyo added

"Awwwww, okay…" Nui whined as she took a seat. Five or so minutes passed and when she looked at Ragyo and Soichiro, they gave her the okay, but not without telling her "Remember: Calmly." All Nui did was shake her head as she took him to get changed. About 80 more seconds later, Nui walks out of the changing room completely clad in the fancy uniform. "Now about that whole 'synchronizing' crap." Nui started off

"Note the three bands on your left arm…" a mysterious voice called out to Nui from what she would call the nether

"Hey! Who was that?" Nui asked

"Look down onto your chest" the voice called out again to which Nui did as she was told. Looking down on the fuku shirt's collar, she immediately took notice of a pair of eyes on it

"Mr. Matoi was right after all: you are different from normal clothing." Nui pointed out

"More than you could realize." The voice answered and then continued "anyway, you need to slap all three of those arm bands to draw blood so that I can activate my abilities for use to use."

"Alright, but this better be worth it you three" Nui nagged as she slapped the arm bands that have needles in them, drawing blood and will (hopefully) synchronize with each other. Once the white Kamui got in enough blood to initiate the process, it started to rumble quite lively. But after about a minute of rumbling, it started and no apparent change has occurred. "What the-? You guys said I would be able to work with it, but nothing happened!" the blonde then said

"Something must be up, Lady Ragyo. Could it be something about Nui's bio-structure?" Soichiro proposed his hypothesis

"Maybe… or Junketsu is clearly not her type. Shall we give Senketsu a go?" Ragyo semi-agreed

"Alright, but let's not try and do anything hasty, alright Nu-?" Soichiro pleaded Nui to try and take it easy despite the set-back, but his pleads fell on deaf ears as Nui was changing into Senketsu right now and in front of the adults no less without any other care at the moment.

"Shut it, nerd! I want to synch with one of these washcloths and I want it done yesterday!" Nui howled at the top of her lungs as she then did the same thing with Senketsu

"Christ…impatient much?" Senketsu asked Nui whose question also didn't faze her as she slapped the arms bands on Senketsu without a second thought. While something different did happen this time around, it wasn't for the better as Senketsu then muttered to himself "this is sooooo not good…" He then started to tear at certain spot and wail in pain as thought the synchronization was being forced than allowed.

Then without warning, Senketsu's right eye then tore itself apart, basically rendering it irreparable, which was where even Ragyo was forced with no other option put to put her foot down and took off Senketsu herself "That's MORE than enough, young lady!" She yelled

"B-b-b-but Mommy, I-"

"No buts. Look at what happened to dear Senketsu. Clearly I was a fool to think Senketsu would be any good either."

"She was forged from your DNA, was she not, Lady Ragyo? The synchronization process should have worked at the get-go unless…unless we need the DNA source to be more direct." Soichiro brainstormed

"You think we need to infuse a Kamui with her DNA for a more direct connection, right?" Ragyo asked

"Exactly! Nui, can you hold out your arm for just a bit?" the scientist asked, which she did alright…in the form of her punching him dead square in the face, which the man still took advantage of by holding her arm in place which gave Ragyo the opening she needed by shoving an empty syringe in her arm and pulled out some blood to be used. Soichiro then said "thanks."

"Loser." Nui said, now growing even more impatient with wanting a Kamui to use

"Hey, honey. Keep that close to you at all times, will you? This past week has been rough. I'm gonna need some time to recuperate from all this, alright?" Soichiro said, requesting off

"Be my guest. I'll be sleeping like a rock for the next three or so days. I'll call you in another five." Ragyo sighed

"Deal."

Two weeks passed since the day Nui caused Senketsu to lose his right eye. Ragyo is still keeping an eye on her as well as trying to repair Senketsu while Soichiro works on the Kamui designed for Nui Harime personally. While Ragyo managed to put repair most of Senketsu, it was unfortunately too late for his eye. She had no other option but to simply place something of an eyepatch as a replacement. Ragyo then told the black clad Kamui "I'm dreadfully sorry it came to this, Senketsu."

"You're not the one who should be apologizing, Lady Ragyo." Senketsu replied

"I agree with my brother." Spoke out Junketsu "Ms. Harime could have and rightfully SHOULD have stopped trying to synch with my brother. It started to looked more like a struggle than trying to co-exist with one another; an 'Override' if you would."

"I see. I'll have to take note of that for later." Ragyo responded as she took note of what Junketsu had enlightened his very creator on. "Especially if you were to be taken by a normal wearer. A human cannot remain in your yet to be discovered combat state for too long unless suicide was their intent."

"What's wrong, Lady Ragyo?" the pale white Kamui asked his maker

"Oh, I'm just…you know, surprised. Your intuitive intelligence turned out to be larger than I previous gave enough credit for." She answered, still impressed with how creative the first and eldest Kamui can be.

"I guess you could say I got yours brains when you infused me with your DNA… and my brother got your tenacity." Junketsu stated

"Ain't it the truth? A lesser living uniform would have begged to be put down after what I went through, but I'm still placing money that you're just as tough, if not more, as I am, brother." Senketsu chipped in

"Lady Ragyo, the third Kamui is finally complete." Soichiro announced "No second-hand DNA, no shortcuts, just one simple route, one…simple… order… Junjotsu…"

"Hmm…?" Ragyo hummed, curious to Soichiro's sentence

"That's the name of the third Kamui, Milady. Junjotsu."

"We'll see about that when we watch her in action, right Nui?" Ragyo stated as sshe made her way to the R&D test chambers

After two more hours finally came out Mr. Matoi along with a one piece purple colored dress of about average skirt length, is decked with mesh sleeves, and a bracelet on the left sleeve. "Have to pull some all-nighters the past three days out of six, but I can say it was just as worth it as the first two." The Life Fiber scientist bragged

Nui then spoke out "This one looks different from all the others. What gives?"

"We know that you were getting impatient with wanting a Kamui, so we didn't have enough time to opt for the militaristic appearance this time." Soichiro explained

"Then how do I draw blood if this one doesn't have those pin things on the arm sleeve?" Nui pondered

"Go get changed first. We'll explain that when you return." Soichiro said

While Nui wasted no time doing as she was told this time, she also learned from her previous mistake of letting her temper get the better of her after the Senketsu Incident. Taking her time to get to the dressing room, putting Junjotsu on, and getting back out amounted to just around two minutes. Ragyo then complimented "A definite 180 from last week's fiasco, I'll give you that."

"Thanks, mommy. Now that I'm donned in the new Kamui, how can I draw blood this time around?" Nui asked

"See the bracelet on my left arm?" an ethereal female's voice called out "Just turn it around your wrist and your good to go."

"I take it you're Junjotsu." Nui jokingly replied

"Yes, that's right…" Junjotsu replied

As Nui twisted the bracelet around her left arm, it drew some blood in a similar method for the two Kamui Brothers. She then awaited the long anticipation of Synchronization, but to no avail. She was unable to properly synch up with Junjotsu as well. "Oh come the fuck on! Give me your power already!"

"Language, young lady! You don't hear me using that kind of tongue, do you!?" Ragyo nagged

"I'm sorry, Nui Harime but something or another is preventing us from doing so." Junjotsu replied in a saddened tone

"So it's back to sewing board, huh?" Soichiro groaned

After about a moment of silence, Ragyo shook her head and said "No…we're done trying to get her to synchronize with a Kamui. She'll have to make due with her usual duties as my Master Tailor. Nui, go get changed back to the usual and leave Junjotsu for me to store away later."

"So that's it, huh? Okay, mommy…" Nui sighed in disappointment to which Ragyo solemnly agreed

Ragyo sighed "six weeks wasted for naught. I guess Nui was never meant to wear a Kamui after all. Perhaps Soichiro was right about her genetic makeup being the root cause from the start… at least Nui's hands remain as dexterous as inhumanely possible. Speaking of Mr. Matoi, I still have more imaginative uses for him…yessssss." Ragyo sinisterly chuckled as she held out what no doubt looks like a pregnancy test device, bearing some rather…promising results.