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Chapter 2 - Twisted Ambition

"Cut...cut...CUT! DOMO! Where did you find this germ of an actor...HE'S TERRIBLE! He has no stage presence, and lacks any motivation for his character!" Mojo bellowed with a twitching eye and began to aim his metal tail at a trembling man holding up objects in his hands."That is because he is delivering our food." Major Domo said with a side glance at Mojo, and then taking the boxes from the man who looked ready to faint on the spot. "Ah, I knew that! Who said that I didn't? YOU!" Mojo shouted while pointing to the man who was backing out of the room slowly. "You'll never work in my Universe again! YOU HEAR ME!" Mojo fired a strong beam of energy from the blasters in the tip of his metal tail reducing the man to nothing but ashes. "Clean up on aisle seven! HAHAHAHA! BOO-YAA! " *sigh* "This is the tenth one this week." Major Domo stated in his head while rubbing his temples with one hand to stave off a headache. "I believe we have other matters to attend to...the missing X-Men?" Major Domo started counting on his hands. "DOMO, I just realized something." "Yes, Oh Malignant one?" "Your just standing there while my ratings are circling the DRAIN! Get busy finding my wayward little X-Slaves!"

Major Domo walked to a metal chair with a computer interface, and sat there, and began entering the co-ordinates of the dimension the X-Men traveled to using Spiral's power signature to triangulate their current location. "I have pinpointed the planet, another mud ball named Earth apparently. I cannot detect the X-Men's exact location due to a similar energy signature interfering with the scanners." Major Domo had a questioning look for a moment, and entered another combination of coordinates. "It seems that there are rare birds hiding out there as well." "Birds?! Who cares about that! I need slav...I mean stars to give me more power, and RATINGS! I"M NOT STARTING AN AVIARY!"

"Do you remember the planet of the Sekirei your maleficence?" Major Domo asked with a grin.

"Sekirei...Sekirei...WAIT! Wasn't that the planet I had destroyed because the locals wouldn't give up their worthless 'Bonds of Loooove' and join my entertainment conglomerate extravaganza?!" Mojo said in excitement.

"Yes, you did have the planet's destruction recorded for posterity. There are survivors of that race on this Earth." Major Domo started imputing information, and a three dimensional holographic picture emerged overhead. "Approximately 108 to be precise. They are situated in this area." Red dots began to show up on display, and dispersing from one location. "Interesting. The birds appear to be leaving their nest."

"AHAHAHA! Get me Spiral Domo!" The image on the 3 dimensional picture changes, and shows the six armed sorceress with a large ape like man with a Mohawk holding an energy whip in the background. "Spiral, there has been a change made to your search and will include..." Before Domo could continue, he was shoved out of the way roughly by an excited Mojo. "SEKIREI! SPIRAL! GET! NOW!"

"What?" Spiral raised a delicate eyebrow in confusion.

Major Domo secured himself back in his seat, and gave Mojo a look. Mojo just shrugged his shoulders with a smile on his face.

"What he meant to say is that a nearly extinct race called Sekirei has been located in your vicinity. Your new orders are to capture both the X-Men, and all of the Sekirei as well. Alive would be preferable."

"How many of these Sekirei are there?" Ma'gog asked the Major in a gruff voice.

"108 in total. A warning: Sekirei are more dangerous when they are bonded. Prevent the Sekirei from achieving the bond at all costs." Major Domo stated in a even tone.

"Getting so many slaves will look good on my resume." Spiral smiled, and then ended the transmission on her end.

In Shinto Teito

Wolverine made his way to the center of the city wearing civilian attire, with his X-Men uniform stuffed in a satchel bag that's slung over one of his shoulders. He was attempting to find his teammates using his enhanced senses when he picked up a smell of someone that was following him, and disappearing in intervals. Knowing he was being tracked, he lead his mysterious stalker to a dead end street, and waited. "Darlin', I can smell you coming, and you can't get the drop on me. Why don't you come out of those shadows before I have to use these." *SNIKT!* Wolverine popped out his unbreakable adamantium claws, and readied himself for a fight.

"Well, well. I wasn't expecting anything like this when I started following you. Your full of surprises." A dark-skinned woman appeared out of the shadows. She has jet black hair, and is wearing a bikini top beneath a small hooded shawl, a buckled sarong, and leather knee-high boots.

"I can tell by your smell that you ain't human, so let's skip to the reason why you were tracking me." Wolverine eyed the curved dagger strapped to her belt behind the small of her back.

"Okay, I'll come right out and say it: I want you to be my Ashikabi." Yahan said with a ghost of a smile, and a faint blush on her cheeks.

"Wha? You're going to have to explain what this Ashikabi is, because I've never heard that word before." Wolverine said in confusion.

"An Ashikabi is a special person, and the only one who can bring out the best in a Sekirei."

"Then your a Sekirei...Wagtail? Like the bird? This still doesn't add up to me. I'm this Ashikabi that you want, but you don't know me at all. Me? I'm the best there is at what I do, but what I do ain't nice." Wolverine said as a gleam is seen coming from his adamantium claws.

"I can live with that. I did have limited training in MBI to use assassination techniques with my power." Yahan said with a tilt of her head, and her hand on her hip.

Before Wolverine could ask any more questions, a large bolt of charged lightning struck the ground where Yahan was standing. She used her shadow teleporting ability to appear beside Logan. Wolverine gave a low gutteral growl when he had to dodge the same lightning strike.

Two figures jumped down from the rooftops into view. They were twins with long black hair that they have in two ponytails. "They must've raided Emma Frost's closet!" Wolverine thought letting out a chuckle. They are wearing violet, and pink S&M outfits.

"Give it up No. 57, we've got you trapped with no way out!" The twin with the larger bust, and violet outfit shouted.

"Hikari, We should give her a chance to surrender. Don't you think the giant lightning bolt was a bit overkill?" The other twin tried to reason with her angry, and louder sister.

"No, I don't Hibiki! We've been chasing her all through the city for hours! My feet are tired, and I just want to get this over with, and take a hot bath back at the hotel!"

"There's only one problem with that plan of yours, the lady wasn't alone when you tried to fry her up extra crispy." The twins heard someone say with a growl in his voice.

"Get out of here, or else we won't be responsible for what happens!" Hikari shouted with electricity dancing from her fingertips. "Hikari, do you see what's coming out of his hands? I don't like this!" Hibiki had a bad feeling, and the look in this man's eyes unnerved her greatly.

"Come on Hibiki, this sawed off little runt doesn't look like much to me. We can take him!"

Hikari sent a blast of lightning at the crouching man who took off in a dead run towards Hikari while her sister Hibiki send wave after wave of electricity at Logan who barely acknowledged their efforts. Wolverine was entering a berserker rage from all the electrical energy coursing through his viens, and started to howl in anger with only the whites of his eyes showing.

"Hikari we don't have our Norito yet, and this guy keeps on coming! Let's regroup, and come up with a plan to deal with him later!" "Ah...yeah. I'm bored anyway! You got off lucky today pal...Oh crap! He's coming!" Hikari yelped, and she and her sister Hibiki leaps to the rooftops to avoid the claws of the feral mutant.

"GRRRAAAGGGHHH!" Wolverine roared at the loss of his prey. He then sniffed the air to discover that there was still someone there with him. The woman slowly approached him, and reached behind her back causing Logan to snarl at her. "This isn't how I wanted our first meeting to be." Yahan said as she threw her curved dagger away. "You see, I'm not going to hurt you. I'm a friend." Logan is still in his feral state, and made his way over to Yahan sniffing the air, and growling. He circled Yahan, and sensed no intent to harm him. He felt soft hands touching his face, and stroking his hair, He likes the feeling, so he leans into her hands, as she lifts his face to meet hers.

"I'm hoping that in doing this, it will bring your mind back to normal, my poor Ashikabi." Yahan then kisses Logan gently on the lips. Yahan feels the bond forming as Logan's mutation heals his injuries, and wings of black shadows form from Yahan's sekirei crest. The shadow wings start encircling the pair as their kiss grows more passionate until they both disappear to another location.

Cyclops took a walk through the park to clear his thoughts. "I managed to find a decent sized apartment in the city, but I'm still no closer to finding Peter, and Logan. I wonder how Jean is doing? It's been 5 months from today since we decided to break up. I know that Logan has moved on from Jean, but I did talk to Warren about his feelings for her. He didn't have to ask for permission from me to date her. I'd never treat Jean, or any other woman like I owned them."

Cyclops entered deeper into the park, and came upon a sight that filled him with rage. Two men, actually one man, and a teenager were attempting to abduct a woman with sandy brown hair wearing nothing but a bloody lab-coat while she slept.

"Look Mutsu! Look! It's the Scrapped Number, and she's asleep! Now is the perfect time to bring her home with us! Hurry Mutsu! I want her!" The teenaged boy wined to the older man.

*Sigh* "You need to cut out the sugary snacks Hayato. This will only take a minute, and then when we get home, I'll play that new video game with you."

"Yay!"

"Stop! Leave that woman alone!" Mikogami, and Mutsu turn around to see a tall man with short brown hair, with an athletic build wearing casual clothes with a strange yellow and red visor over his eyes. " Go away whoever you are! We saw the Scrapped number first, that means she's mine! Mutsu, get rid of him!" Mikogami ordered.

"If you leave right now, I'll let you walk away, persist and I will have to kill you." Mutsu said in a cool tone of voice.

"Not a chance friend. Now put her down now." Cyclops said with authority. Mutsu was amazed that this human hasn't backed down yet. Perhaps a show of force will change his mind!

Mutsu puts Akitsu on the ground, and tapped the scabbard of his sword on the ground, and called out his attack. "Smashing Point!" The earth starts to quake, and large chunks of jagged rock come jutting out to the surface toward Cyclops.

Cyclops jumps to dodge the rows of earth spikes, and fires a wide angle optic blast at Mutsu to force him back. Scott starts to sprint toward the still sleeping Akitsu when he saw that the path of the spikes are moving toward Akitsu's prone body. Scott dives for Akitsu, and wraps his arms around her in order to roll them out of the way of the mass of spikes.

"Mutsu! What are you doing! The Scrapped Number will be no good to me if she's dead!" Mikogami shouted while jumping up and down in anger. "How did he fire that beam from his eyes? He must be a new type of Sekirei!" Mikogami reasoned in his head.

"Come on Mutsu! Get up! I want that guy too! You've got to beat him so I can give him a kiss!" Mikogami said with stars in his eyes. That sent a chill down Scott's spine at the thought.

"What are you talking about Hayato? I don't know what he is, but he is not a Sekirei." Mutsu said hoping Mikogami will listen to him.

"He's a new type, I know it! Now go get him, and the scrap number Mutsu!"

*Sigh* "Very well." "Smashing point!"

Akitsu had regained consciousness when Cyclops saved her from being impaled on Mutsu's earth spikes. She is curious why this man is trying so hard to protect her when she is so worthless. She watched as he fires red beams of energy from his eyes, and shatters Mutsu's attack before it can reach them. Why? He should get away, and forget about her. "No, he's still fighting to protect me?"

Cyclops is being kept too busy by Mutsu to notice that Mikogami has crept up behind him, and Akitsu with a large rock in his hands. Akitsu looks up thinking she is the target, when Mikogami changes direction and hits Cyclops on the temple, and knocks off his visor.

"NO! GET AWAY FROM ME!" Cyclops shouts as his eyes are exposed causing deadly optic blasts to strafe the sky, and then cut a large number of trees in half!

"Hayato! It's too dangerous here! We're leaving!" Mutsu said in finality while scooping up the teenager piggy back style.

"I thought he was a new type of Sekirei, but he's just another scrap!" An optic blast just misses them by a few feet. "Get us out of here Mutsu!" Mutsu takes off at high speeds out of the park.

"No! Where is it?! I can find it!" Cyclops said in a panic with his hands over his eyes to stop more energy blasts from escaping. Scott feels a hand touching his shoulder, and then the familiar weight of his visor being put over his eyes. When he opens his eyes, he sees the woman he saved from the two abductors.

"Your like me." Akitsu said in a monotone voice.

"What?"

"Your broken, like me." Akitsu points to Scott's eyes, and then to the Sekirei crest on her forehead.

"I don't see myself as broken, and you shouldn't either. My name is Scott Summers, would you tell me your name?"

"Akitsu."

"What happened to you Akitsu? Why are you dressed in a bloody lab-coat?" Cyclops asked.

"Ah...I escaped from the lab."

"This sounds similar to when humans are found experimenting on mutants!" Cyclops thought in anger.

"Akitsu. It's too dangerous for you to be out here all alone. Is there someone that I could call? A relative, or a close friend?"

"Ah...I don't have anyone. I'm alone." Akitsu said with sadness visible in her eyes.

Akitsu's words cause old memories to resurface in Cyclops's thoughts. A lonely young boy in an orphanage after his parents death. Being shunned by his age group, and his mutant power manifesting, and the loneliness becomes much worse.

"No Akitsu! Your not alone anymore! If you'll have me, I'd like to be your friend. Please come with me Akitsu!" Scott said putting his hands on her shoulders, and looking her in the eyes.

"You want me to come with you? You won't abandon me?" Akitsu said with some hope in her voice, and a slight blush.

"Yes, I want you to come with me, and I will never abandon you Akitsu."

Before Cyclops knows whats happening, Akitsu is kissing him, and wrapping her arms around his neck. Scott feels a pull on his energy, but the flow suddenly stops. Akitsu deepens the kiss, and the flow continues to increase. They have been kissing for almost five minutes when a flood of power fills both of their bodies. Scott's eyes are starting to itch, but he opens them to see the crest on Akitsu's head vanishing, and beautiful ice wings form out of the new crest on Akitsu's back. Akitsu breaks the kiss suddenly, and lets out a moan of ecstasy from her winging.

Akitsu looks at Scott with a soft smile, and happy tears escaping from her eyes.

"My Ashikabi-sama. Forever, and ever."

Author's note: This is the longest chapter I've ever written. I hope you all like it. Now, onto the poll: Uzume, and Toyotama are both tied! I'm going to add them both to Colossus' flock. Yahan, and Akitsu both found their Ashikabi's in this chapter, but I'm still debating if all the X-Men should stay in Izumo Inn or not. Anyway, thanks for reading! Leave a review and let me know what you think! : D