A/N: Before I get started, I want to clear up a few things. Namely, this is in NO WAY a self-insert because I'm not quite ready for a proper self-insert in the Sekirei universe. Also, the reason why the main character's name is indeed American is because he originally lived in the US before he decided to live in Japan. The reason for this will become clear after Matt wings Karasuba. Secondly, like a couple of other fanfics on here ("Ambitious Wings and the Dubious Ronin, and "The hopes of Ascension") the main character will have some fighting capability which will also tie in with the reason why he is living in Japan and will be glimpsed in this particular chapter. Lastly, each sekirei that Matt will come across will have four chapters; the intro (introduces said Sekirei), the battle/winging, and two "filler" chapters serving as chapters to get to explore the relationships with Matt and his sekirei with the last chapter for that sekirei to also serve as a preview to the next sekirei he will come across. I hope that this clears that potential misunderstanding (self-insert problem) as well as possible questions (at least for now). Now then; here it is: "The Frosty Swordsman"!

Normal: standard speech

Bold: Techniques in action

Italics: Thoughts or flashbacks as well as "inner" moments

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Chapter II: The Frosty Swordsman

It was a peaceful morning as Matt is seen laying on his futon on his side thinking about his day to come as he checks his watch to see it read "7:00 am". "Hmm, didn't think I'd wake up so early. Oh well; it makes no matter to me since every day in Japan is a good day to me." However, waking up he feels something soft on his back. "Did I turn in my sleep?" he quietly asks himself feeling around for the thing he felt. Then, when he feels a couple of mounds he also hears a soft feminine moan when he squeezes it. "Wait a minute... oh man. PLEASE tell me that wasn't-" he starts to think until he looks back and sure enough, his hands were on Akitsu's very perky mounds. And making matters worse, she was awake. "Good morning, Thompson-sama." With that, he quickly retracts his hands and turns his head away to hide his nosebleed. "What's wrong?" she asks with a raised eyebrow. "Uh... I kinda accidentally touched you well... there." He says not turning his head around. "I don't understand, from what I knew with my tuner all males wanted to get 'frisky' in the morning right?" She asks in such a tone that made him mentally ask himself "Did she REALLY just ask that? Takami, what the HELL did you teach her?" Shaking his head to regain his focus he then tells her "Anyway, I have to get going now. It's almost time for my classes at Teito U so I'll see you later ok?" At first, she seems reluctant to let him go but he reassures her "Don't worry, I'll be fine. From what I can tell, MBI seems to have certain places within Teito locked down to try to keep a prescence for some odd reason and I highly doubt anyone would try something with them there." This seems to calm her down (despite her having her usual "neutral" facade) so after he gets his things he hugs her and takes off.

[scene change]

"Well, that was a good day." Matt says while stretching as he leaves the classroom with a couple of new friends he made during homeroom orientation. "Yeah, but honestly it was so boooooring!" one of them said with a very tired sigh. "Oh come on, all you guys did anyway was secretly play each other in numerous matches of Dissidia Final Fantasy." Matt says with a mirthful chuckle. "Oh, and you didn't?" claims Hayate Kisoto, one of the two he was with. "I have no idea what you're talking about." Matt says in a mocking innocent tone. "Oh come off it!" Hayate says with a wave of his hand. "I know FULL well for a fact that you kept facing us with Cloud and literally SPAMMING that Cross-Slash of yours!" "Yeah, and somehow you kept getting criticals with Omnislash!" cried out Sasuke Morino, another one of Matt's new group of apparently Final Fantasy and Phoenix Wright lovers. "Oh, is THAT what happened to you?" Matt says again not changing his joking tone. "Aha! So you admit it!" Hayate says in triumph while wagging his finger like Von Karma. "OBJECTION!" Matt cries out in response to that. "Oh yeah? On what grounds, Mr. Wright?" Sasuke mocked while poorly imitating the judge. "I plead the fifth!" Matt says raising a hand which made all three of them laugh. "But seriously, how did you get so good at Dissidia?" Hayate asks in wonder. "Simple. I saw that you relied a lot on Rough Divide with Squall since it does make a good charging attack." Matt explained. "And all it took was a simple timed dodge move, combined with Sneak Attack and First Strike to raise my bravery. Then for your own brave attacks, my Riposte ability activated giving me criticals whenever I blocked your attacks." "Hey Matt, who's that?" Sasuke said while pointing to the courtyard of the campus (yeah, the campus is fairly sized). "Ah, that's a girl I met yesterday. Her name is Akitsu and for now, she's my roommate." "Well now, I must say; you obviously have fine taste!" Hayate said, obviously thinking perverted thoughts. At this, Matt had a very faint blush as he recalled the day's "accident" when he woke up. "Uh, yeah... well I have to go, see you!" Matt said as he took off.

[scene change]

"Hey Akitsu, I'm glad to see you but how did you find me?" Matt wondered as the two of them went home. "I merely followed you and found the way, but I had no idea where you were so I waited for you." "Wow, for a few hours? Man, she must really like me or something..." was all Matt could think before a chunk of the earth flew at them causing them to narrowly dodge. "Well, well. We meet again." Mikogami said with Mutsu at his side as usual. "You again. Didn't I tell you to leave us alone?" Matt says back clearly irritated. "Whatever. I'm not leaving here with out the scrapped number, she would make a fine piece to my collection. Now hand her over!" Mikogami demands clearly feeling superior. "You know, you two should really leave them alone!" a voice suddenly cries out. "Well look who it is, Mikogami. If it isn't our little guardian." Mutsu says not surprised in the least. "So Homura, what are you doing here?" Mutsu says slowly inching closer to his blade. Suddenly a wall of fire materializes and a man wearing a dark suit with a mask steps out of the flames. "What do you think? Protecting the wingless sekirei, even if she IS a discarded number." "Holy crap..." Matt slowly starts to say. "What the heck is Kakashi doing here?!" he then yells out. At this; Mikogami, Mutsu, and Homura ALL sweatdrop at this. "Ugh, why does everyone think that I'm either like Batman or Kakashi?" Homura asks himself mentally while pinching the bridge of his nose. "Anyway..." he turns around. "You two should get going, leave this guy to me."

[scene change]

"Is that guy is going to be ok?" Matt says with a slight bit of anxiety as him and Akitsu ran from the scene from before. "I do not think that he is in any danger." Akitsu says, starting to fear that she inadvertently dragged Matt into the Sekirei Plan. "So anyway, what the heck is a Sekirei?" Matt asks in confusion. "I can't fully answer that just yet, Thompson-sama. Namely I can safely say though that I'm sure that they have elemental powers from what we experienced so far." words Akitsu since she is trying to give a noncomittal answer to prevent him from being dragged into HIS sick game. "Well, I think I'll go for a walk later on; you want to go with me?" Matt asks in a cheerful tone. She hesitates at this until he explains "Sometimes when I take a walk my mind is cleared a lot better and I can in turn think more better." At this, she then nods and says "okay." Some time after the two arrived at their destination it was quiet in the park as the two walked through and took in all the sights while oddly enough, Matt was carrying a large sword on his back in a custom made sheath of his own design. As to why he was carrying that, she asked he merely responded "It might help us against those two." She then silently nods, still a little confused over this but decided to trust her ashikabi. Then, the two wind up at a small creek running through the park and stop to gaze at it. "Akitsu, I know that you said that you would tell me later what a Sekirei is but I have to know, does this have anything to do with why you were like you were that night I found you?" he asks in a careful tone. She then looks away in sadness as Matt notices and silently curses himself. "Way to go, baka. You just made a beautiful girl unhappy. I don't know, I guess... I just want to know her a little better before something happens to her." Unfortunately at that point, Mikogami shows up yet again with Mutsu, only this time he is apparently pissed off. "That's as far as you go! Akitsu belongs to ME!" Akitsu then starts to give a very cold reply (no pun intended, if you understand what her power is) but Matt then says "You know what? I'm really getting tired of you, you bastard!" "What? How dare you- Mutsu, teach him a lesson!" Matt then grins as Mutsu draws his blade and calmly says. "Bad move. You see, this time I came prepared." and as he says that, Matt slowly unsheathes the sword from his back while not taking his eye off of Mutsu. "Hmm... there's something about this guy that interests me. He definitely seems like a strong one and he had an aura that is almost as stoic as the very Earth itself." "Oh, like it will make any difference you have that since my Mutsu is powerful!" Mikogami says back trying to seem smug. Matt then grins and says, "I don't think you know what you're dealing with. You see, this sword is made up of 6 different blades which form a really powerful fusion blade known as the First Tsurugi." "Hmm, I wonder how powerful that blade really is." Mutsu says while taking his stance. Matt smirks back and after putting on a black cloth which covered his left leg and his left arm along with a high collar black shirt with no sleeves, and black pants and boots then says "Why don't we find out?"

[battle begins]

(Title: Fight On! Artist: Nobuo Uematsu. Album: Final Fantasy VII Original Soundtrack.)

After a few seconds pass, Matt makes the first move by slashing at Mutsu two times in a row but Mutsu manages to dodge one and block the other while unleashing his own attack, "Gaia shard." Mutsu breaks a piece of the ground and throws several rocks at Matt who swipes them all away with each block, albeit with some difficulty. Then Matt goes into another attack, "Sonic Blade!" which has him charging at Mutsu with several slashes which he effortlessly dodges except for the final one when Matt delays the attack for a split second. Mutsu then winces a little bit but maintains his composure. "Not bad, you actually got one in. But that was just merely a warm up." Mutsu says as he slams the earth with his sword and cries "Breaking Point!" which causes the earth to crack under him and Akitsu to which she dodges but Matt isn't so lucky and he nearly falls into the crevice. "I don't believe this, he's that powerful? Guess I have no choice then..." Matt then rights himself and says, "You should be proud, I haven't used this attack against many opponents so here goes!" He then covers himself in a powerful aura and cries out his signature attack while oddly enough, growing a black (and demonic looking) wing, "Omnislash!" What happens next is incredible. Matt then flies around and slashes Mutsu fourteen times and then brings his sword down for a final six hits which all hit its mark rather well. "Mutsu!" Mikogami cries out in a sudden panic. "My, such a powerful combo. Too bad for you I'm not one to go down easy." Mutsu says getting up as though nothing happened. If he wasn't, Matt was now nervous. "Oh crap, if THAT didn't work then I'm done for!" Or at least he was until the air suddenly got colder around the surrounding area and a voice cries out "Tsuara Fubuki!" and a series of ice shards launch themselves and damages Mutsu further. "You..." Mutsu says while holding his arm. "Mikogami, I think we should retreat." "But Mutsu!" Mikogami starts whining. "Listen, against these two; even I can't last forever." "Tch, very well." Mikogami reluctantly agrees and so the two flee but not before Mutsu leaves the two with one last line. "What strength, but don't forget there are many ones like you all over Teito!" and then they finally flee.

[song end, battle end]

"Well, that takes care of that for the time being." Matt pants out before he notices Akitsu still has her ice shards floating around her. "Wow, that was incredible!" he says to which Akitsu blushes and says "Thank you, my ashikabi-sama." Matt then sheepishly says "Um, I'm still not sure what that means but I guess whatever happens now, we're in this together now huh?" Akitsu then smiles and replies, "More than you know..." and then she leans in and kisses him causing wings that almost look like the wings of a bird but with ice to appear. After pulling back, he then looks at her forehead which prompts her to ask "What's wrong?" He points and says "It... it disappeared?" She looks confused at this so he clarifies "Your mark, it's gone!" Upon realization, she goes to look at the nearby pond at her reflection and indeed sees her sekirei mark gone from her forehead. When she walks back, she hugs him and smiles while softly crying. "Thank you... thank you so much, my beloved ashikabi." He blinks then realizes "Wait a second, does this mean what I think it means?" She pulls away and smiles beautifully and says "Yes. I am Sekirei #07 Akitsu, the Ice Sekirei. And I am yours, now and forever!"

A/N: And there you have it. If you haven't figured it out already, in this fanfic Matt is going to fight in the EXACT style of Cloud Strife. (with his Alternate outfit, the one from Advent Children) Though the only difference is that he will have the fully assembled First Tsurugi fusion blade instead of just the Buster sword. And yeah, this chapter was a little long but I thought it should be seeing as how it was the battle/winging chapter. Anyway, please be sure to read and review if you like this story! And no flames; I only accept constructive criticism and before ANY of you say it, I prefer to stay as close to the anime as I get. I do not like basing my stories off mangas like I see a LOT of people do on here. Once again, read and review! Also as a bit of an extra note here; I redid this chapter with some minor changes that you can tell if you've been reading my fanfic and keeping up to date with it.