Karasuba landed on her ass as Ichigo practically threw her off of him before sitting up, an annoyed expression on his face as he glared at Karasuba who was simply laying on the ground smirking up at the ceiling with her eyes closed, revelling in the power that now flowed from her, something she had never expected to increase had, her power was almost double of what she once had. Miya's hands clenched to the point her knuckles were turning white. Ichigo looked over to her to see her burning in anger.

"Get out. Now!" Miya snapped at Karasuba who sat up and smirked evilly at Miya.

"Something wrong Miya?" Karasuba questioned before her eyes shot wide open as she was hefted up from the ground by her collar by Miya who had dashed forward, Karasuba's feet leaving the ground as Miya glared up at her, even if he wanted to Ichigo doubted he could have been able to stop the attractive woman from doing so.

"I can't remember the last time I saw you this angry. Could I sense a hint of jealousy?" Fear flashed through Karasuba's eyes as Miya drew the nodachi at the grey haired Sekirei's hip and pushing it against Karasuba's throat, the tip still within the sheath, a small trickle of blood running down the blade as Miya glared into the dull grey eyes of the one she was still holding, the fear now having left the eyes and acceptance of death remained.

"Get out of my house!" Miya growled at her. "Or I'll kill you!" Karasuba smirked once more as her feet hit rested on the ground as Miya let her go, Karasuba's nodachi sliding back into the sheath where it belonged. Karasuba simply checked her sword was in place before walking towards the sliding door where the brunette was still standing with wide eyes at what she had just witnessed. As she passed Ichigo she simply winked at him.

"I'll be in touch." Ichigo sighed and ran a hand through his orange hair as she left the house. They heard the door close and the room was silent, that was before they heard another door close and Kagari made himself known.

"What's with all the noise?" He questioned running a hand through his dark grey hair.

"Sorry Kagari were we making too much noise?" Miya asked, her back to everyone. "I'm sorry, I'll have dinner ready soon then we can sit down and eat together." The four of them watched as Miya's form began to tremble, her arms wrapping around herself before she fell to her knees.

"Miya!" Kagari shouted running to her side. "What's wrong?" He asked but got no response. He looked to Ichigo for answers but he saw that the teen was just as confused as the brunette... that was when he realised there were two Ichigo's.

"What in the hell..." He asked looking between the two. Ichigo sighed once more before standing up.

"It's a long story. We should probably get Miya to her room." Kagari nodded his head and helped Miya stand up and began to walk her towards the main bedroom where Miya slept. When the two were out of sight Ichigo turned his gaze to the new comer. "So... uh who are you exactly?" He asked awkwardly.

"Oh, I'm Uzume." She told him with a smile. "I saw this..." She said reaching into her pocket and pulling out a flier, the same one Ichigo had picked up the day he had come to Tokyo. "And I thought I might come check it out, I never imagined to see a Sekirei getting her wings though." She said tapping her chin in thought.

"Wait you know about all this?" Ichigo questioned with wide eyes.

"Sure do!" Uzume said with a smile. "I'm a Sekirei too." She gave him the victory sign. "So was that your first Sekirei?" She asked and Ichigo nodded his head.

"Is there anyone in this town that isn't a damn Sekirei." Ichigo mumbled to himself as Uzume sat down at the table before thrusting a thumb at Kon.

"Is he your twin? The two of you look identical, kinda freaky." Uzume stated.

"Ah... that's hard to explain." Ichigo said looking at Kon out of the corner of his eyes, his eyes wide hands gripping into his pants legs. Ichigo just knew he was doing all he could to restrain himself from doing anything to Uzume. "Don't worry too much about him, he won't be around for long."

"You said I could stay!" Kon shouted at him.

"If you do what I think you're about to that deals of the table!" Ichigo growled back at him. Kon shrank back into the corner he was sitting in. Uzume simply laughed as she pulled her jacket off.

"You wouldn't happen to know how I'd go about getting a room here would you?" Uzume asked him.

"Well you'd have to talk to Miya about that, she did say she had a bunch of rooms left." Ichigo told her. "But I don't know if you will be able to see her today, as you can see she's..."

"A bit upset but I'm fine now." Miya said standing in the door, having calmed down. Kagari standing next to her. "Now Uzume, you said you needed a place to stay?"

"Yep!" Uzume cheered. "If you've got the room and don't mind me, I'd be happy to stay here." Miya nodded her head.

"That's fine. The more the merrier." Ichigo looked up to her and saw that she had resumed her once more calm composure. Kagari walked into the room and sat at the end of the table. "I'll get dinner started and be back soon. The three of you should get to know one another a bit, you'll be living together after all. I'll be back shortly."

"Is she alright?" Ichigo questioned Kagari once Miya was out of sight. "She seemed pretty shaken up."

"She seems to be doing better, it would be best if she keeps her mind busy for the time being." Kagari told him which Ichigo nodded at. "I'm Kagari by the way." Kagari said turning to Uzume.

"Uzume." She smiled and greeted in return. "This place seems really lively."

"You could say that." Kagari chuckled lightly. The three continued to talk for a while, Ichigo still noticing that Kagari tried to avoid any form of eye contact with him but at least he was talking with him now. Kon was mainly quiet and keeping out of the conversation and very much away from Uzume much to his own displeasure.

"Oh I know! To commemorate a new house guest, mainly me!" Uzume grinned. "Let's get a group photo!" Ichigo rose an eyebrow at her alongside Kagari.

"I'm not to sure about that..." Kagari trailed off.

"Why not Kagari? I think it would be a great idea." Miya said from the door. "Kon can even take the photo. Can't you Kon?" Miya questioned the mod soul.

"Huh oh yeah I can do that." Kon told her standing up. Uzume handed Kon the camera before wrapping her arms around both Ichigo and Kagari, Miya kneeling to the side of Kagari. "Say cheese!" Kon told them.

"Cheese!" Miya and Uzume were the only one's saying it as both Kagari's and Ichigo's faces were buried into Uzume's chest. Kon frowned as he looked at the Photo and only saw Miya, Kagari and Uzume. Ichigo's spirit form hadn't been captured by the camera.

When Miya had brought dinner out, Uzume was the life of the party, Kagari laughed along when needed and Kon laughed along because he actually found Uzume to be funny but Miya and Ichigo remained quiet. Ichigo thinking over what had transpired that afternoon and Miya muddled with thoughts on what to do.

Miya looked up to see Ichigo looking at her, trying to find anything in her face that would help him understand the situation any better. Her eyes darted to the door and Ichigo nodded before standing up and walking out of the room, Kon and Uzume too distracted to notice. Kagari shot a glance at Miya who was standing up who just nodded her head to tell him that it was alright before heading out after Ichigo.

Miya shivered slightly as she saw Ichigo sitting in front of the open door, a cold wind blowing into the house from outside. He glanced up at her as she walked towards him before taking a seat next to him looking over the white snow in the dark. They stayed quiet for a while, neither really knowing how to start the conversation they were about to have.

"You're a Sekirei aren't you?" Ichigo questioned rubbing the back of his head, not really expecting an answer from her. "I guess... things have been a bit rowdy around here today." He chuckled half heartedly.

"You... you have to stay away from Karasuba." Miya said her gaze lowering. Ichigo tilted his head to look at her. "She... she's the leader of the Disciplinary Squad under the control of MBI. Even if you are now her Ashikabi you... you can't see her." Miya told him softly.

"I don't even know what all this means Miya." Ichigo sighed looking up into the night sky. "Ashikabi, Sekirei, none of it. It's all confusing." He scratched the back of his head once more. "Plus what's MBI got to do with any of this? I thought they were some type of pharmaceutical company."

"That's what it is to everyone who doesn't know about the Sekirei plan, everyone involved knows that it's the king piece on the game board." Miya told him. "With Minaka Hiroto at the centre of it." She said gritting her teeth in anger. "There are one hundred and eight Sekirei within the city. Not long ago they were released and sent out to find their Ashikabi. Once a Sekirei finds their Ashikabi they can emerge and fight."

"Fight?" Ichigo questioned with wide eyes as he turned to face her. "Fight what?"

"One another." Miya told him. "That's the Sekirei plan! To force the Sekirei and their Ashikabi's to fight one another!" She grit her teeth shaking her head. "Minaka is a twisted man, he wants to watch events unfold all the while pushing for more to happen! It's wrong!" She cried. "I thought we were doing good! Protecting the little birds but Minaka twisted it all into a game! I just want it to stop!" She cried before she felt arms wrap around her and she was pulled into Ichigo's chest. She gripped onto his shihakusho and cried into it, not having felt these emotions in a long time and her overpowering reactions to emerge with Ichigo was pushing her to her breaking limit.

"I'll say one thing." Ichigo told her. "I'm not good at this type of stuff at all, I can't handle it when I see a girl cry, I don't know what to do, people tell me I'm a no good delinquent and that I'm nothing but a no good brawler." Ichigo wrapped his arms around her tighter. "But I've been told I've got one redeeming quality, and that's helping people in need. You Sekirei need help. That's all I need to know. If it comes down to me taking MBI down, then so be it."

"You can't!" Miya cried into his chest. "They'll stop you!"

"I've faced impossible odds before." Ichigo told her as she pulled back from him and stared up into his eyes. Her body began to heat up again, being in such a close proximity to Ichigo made her body react to him once more. Ichigo noticed her breathing became heavy and she was pushing herself against him. "Miya are you alright?" He asked grabbing her by the shoulders.

"Hot... It's... my body it's so hot." She breathed out panting heavily, her breath visible with each pant she let out in the cold air.

"Damn you might be getting sick." He lifted the bangs of her hair up and rested his forehead against hers. Miya closed her eyes and leant forward but Ichigo had pulled back before her lips could touch his. "You're burning up. Come on I'll get you into your bed. It was a dumb idea to come out here at this time of night." He said helping her up. She leaned against him wanting him to kiss her to let her emerge to become his Sekirei but she couldn't get the words out. Her eyes lidded as she saw Ichigo's own shoot open. "Miya!" Ichigo cursed and she felt herself being lifted up. With a flash of shunpo Ichigo appeared in Miya's room and laid her down on the futon she had set up earlier and pulled the blankets over her body.

"Kiss... uh Ichigo... please." Miya breathed out making Ichigo run a hand down his face as he knelt next to her bed. The door opened and Kagari walked in.

"What's going on?" He asked.

"Something is wrong with her. I don't know what." Ichigo said. "Take care of her, I'm going to get some hot water and clean towels." Kagari nodded and went to Miya's side and his eyes widened as he saw the state she was in. As soon as Ichigo had left the room her breathing became calmer the distance between the two making her condition better, when her eyes opened she saw Kagari leaning over her.

"You have a choice to make Miya." Kagari told her softly, brushing a few strands of hair from her face. "Become emerged or kick Ichigo out."

Karasuba was grinning as she walked into the headquarters of MBI, any officers she passed quickly got out of her way, they knew as soon as she was grinning blood would flow. However... she wasn't in the killing mood. She had gotten an Ashikabi today, a true Ashikabi. A warrior worth her time better then Natsuo who she was going to let her emerge since they had similar ambitions, but now, she didn't need him, she had someone better, a fighter a warrior a hunk...

"Where the hell did that come from." Karasuba's grin faded into a scowl only scaring the piss out of the officers that hadn't already run away from her grin. "He's a decent Ashikabi but still a worthless human!" She growled as she stood in front of the elevator and pressed the button. "But how did he best me, and yet that of a simple gesture of his hand. He can't be a human! There is no way, then there is how he became two! Damn it! I shouldn't have pissed Miya off so much and I might have actually got an answer to these questions!"

"Ah... excuse me." A timid voice said from behind her. She glanced over her shoulder to see a young woman, probably a new addition to the corporation, probably her first day too. A sadistic grin came to Karasuba's face. Before she closed her eyes and smiled at her.

"Yes how can I help you?" Karasuba asked her kindly.

"Are you going up by any chance?" The woman inquired.

"Why yes." The elevator doors opened with a ding and Karasuba stood to the side gesturing for the young woman to walk in. She smiled brightly up at her and walked into the elevator. Karasuba walked in after her before pushing for the top floor, as the doors began to close the sadistic smirk came to her face again and she clicked her sword out with her thumb.

"I'm Anya Botes, It's nice to meet you, what's your name?" The girl questioned hoping to find a friend, only to be met with silence. When the elevator doors opened on the top floor Karasuba was grinning once more, the body of the young girl unrecognisable as the elevator was bathed in blood. She glanced at the two officers on either side of the door that she could tell were shaking at the mere sight of her.

"Clean that up for me won't you boys?" She grinned walking out of the elevator. "Now that is what I call stress relief." The two officers guarding the top elevator door looked within and weren't able to keep their lunches up as Karasuba headed for Minaka's office. Not even caring to look at the receptionist sitting outside of Minaka's office she walked straight to the door and opened it revealing Takami standing while Minaka was sitting behind his desk with a portable game device mashing on buttons. Both looked up to see her, Takami with a scowl and Minaka with a grin.

"Oh you're back! How did it go! How was our number ones Ashikabi!?" Minaka asked jumping from his desk. "Is he everything I hoped him to be!?" Karasuba grinned and sat down on the black leather couch stretching her arms out over the back with a content look on her face.

"He's more." She told him. "Don't worry about Natsuo, I've already got my Ashikabi." She told them making Takami's eyes widen in shock.

"You emerged with number ones Ashikabi!? Are you insane!?" Takami shouted at her.

"Hmm, this is certainly interesting, to see two Sekirei who absolutely loathe one another with the same Ashikabi as they fight their way to the heavens!" Minaka roared in laughter before Takami's clipboard sent him flying back toppling him over along with his chair.

"This isn't a laughing matter!" Takami roared at him. "Even having number one in the game is dangerous! If the two of them fight they could level half of the city if not more! I'm getting sick of your games Minaka!" Minaka just laughed harder as he stood up, turning his attention to Karasuba again and raising an eyebrow at her.

"Why is your forehead bandaged?" Minaka asked, Karasuba's eyes widened and she rose a hand to her forehead, totally forgetting about the first aid Miya had done on her.

"You didn't fight Miya did you?" Takami asked.

"No." Karasuba told them plainly. "The Ashikabi was able to do this to me." Both Minaka's and Takami's eyes widened at that.

"Haha!" Minaka laughed. "A great addition to the game! The game among Gods ugh!" Takami had slugged him right in the face sending him to the ground.

"You're insane! What do you know of this guy!" Takami shouted.

"Nothing! HAHA! Practically nothing! How he managed to hit her, to gain Karasuba's blessing of willing accepting him to be her Ashikabi is beyond me! That's what makes it so enjoyable! I only have his school records and medical history everything else was beyond my reach! It's so exciting to find a character like him! It's like a secret achievement!" He continued to laugh. Takami looked between Minaka and Karasuba to see a somewhat relaxed face on Karasuba.

"Could it be she found someone capable of forming a true bond between a Ashikabi and a Sekirei? Could this really be her true Ashikabi along with Miya's?" Takami thought to herself. "How will you be spending time with him, he lives at Maison Izumo correct?" Karasuba's eyes opened slightly and glanced over at doctor who had pushed her hands into her lab coats pockets.

"I'm working on that." Karasuba told her.

"The bond between the Sekirei and Ashikabi is the true strength of the Sekirei. The stronger that bond the stronger you will become." Takami reminded her.

"I know."

Ichigo sighed for the umpteenth time, tomorrow would be the day Kisuke would be arriving. Here he was sitting in front of the TV completely bored out of his mind. He couldn't go anywhere because nobody would be able to see him, and there were no hollows to kill so there was no real point going out. Kon had snapped just an hour ago and was lying in a twitching heap in the corner, Ichigo couldn't really blame the mod soul though so he had no right to punish him, but Ichigo didn't have to. Miya did it for him.

X-Flash Back-X

"I'm bored!" Kon whined as he slumped over on the table, Ichigo idly flipping through channels as he lazily rested on his arm staring at the idiot box in front of him, completely ignoring the outburst from Kon. For some reason everyone had willingly accepted that there were two Ichigo's. Ichigo had told them that after Kisuke arrived there would only be one, unless he needed to use Kon for any reason. However when Miya had approached him on the subject she had let slide that she already knew that the mod-soul had been in the stuffed animal, how she knew that was beyond him.

"Ichigo! Didn't you hear me! I'm bored!" Kon whined again. Ichigo continued to ignore the mod soul as he flicked onto the news.

"... In latest news a young woman has been found dead in her apartment. The victim's name was Anya Botes, from reports it was a murder and the killer has yet to be apprehended, the search still continues..." Ichigo flicked the channel once more not caring for some random murder, it was a big city murders happened all the time. The door to the room slid open and Kon immediately turned hoping to gain some form of social interaction, however his mouth just dropped. Standing in the door was a yawning Uzume, completely topless revealing her well endowed chest and only dressed in a pair of white panties.

"Oh hey guys, what are you watching?" Uzume greeted, Ichigo turned his head and his face went bright red as blood trickled down from his nose.

"GAH! What the hell are you doing! Put something on!" Ichigo shouted making Uzume look down and rub the back of her head sheepishly not even bothering to cover herself.

"Well would you look at that, totally forgot a shirt." She said as if it was the most natural thing in the world.

"And pants!" Ichigo shouted looking through the cracks of his fingers making Uzume smirk at him.

"Valley of the gods!" Kon cried leaping from where he was seated. Uzume's eyes widened in shock when Kon's head was buried between her luscious flesh mountains. "Oh how I've missed you so!" Kon cried.

"Ah... is he usually like this? I think I broke him."

"KON!" Ichigo shouted still covering his eyes as Kon fondled Uzume. Before anything more could be said a wooden cane came down on Kon's head sending him straight to the ground in a twitching heap. Miya stood there, wooden blanket hitter in hand as she narrowed her eyes at Uzume.

"Uzume." Miya said the demonic visage appearing behind the landlady once more. "You're tempting Ichigo and Kon into sexual acts."

"No! I promise I'm not!" Uzume cried. "Honest mistake truly!"

"Go get dressed." Miya told her to which she nodded and walked down the hall. "You can open your eyes now peeping Tom."

"Hey!" Miya just giggled as Ichigo removed his hands from his face.

X-End Flash Back-X

Ichigo rested his head on the table looking at the wall. Not even the TV was entertaining him at the moment. The door slid open and Miya walked in and sat down on the other side of Ichigo making him raise his head and look at her. Since the other night the two really hadn't been alone together, not that Ichigo was expecting alone time with his beautiful landlady, he just noticed that whenever the two were around Kagari always seemed to be around as well. This was the first time since she had got that strange fever.

"I need to explain something to you Ichigo." Miya told him. "It's... very important." Ichigo nodded his head sitting up straight.

"When you're ready." Ichigo told her, Miya nodded her head and let out a deep breath.

"I'm Sekirei number one. The very first Sekirei." Ichigo's eyes widened at that. "My husband was a researcher at MBI, that was how we met but that's another story for another time." Ichigo nodded his head again, waiting for Miya to continue. "Us Sekirei have a sixth sense if you would, when our true Ashikabi is around... we lose sense of ourself." She told him. "It is true that we can emerge from any Ashikabi but our bond is stronger if we join with our very own Ashikabi."

"Alright." Ichigo nodded in understanding. "But how doe-" Ichigo was cut off as Miya raised her hand to stop him. When he looked into Miya's eyes he saw they were full of determination. He closed his mouth and started to listen once more.

"Ichigo. You are my Ashikabi." Ichigo's eyes widened at that. "As I am your Sekirei." She continued. "The other night, my body was reacting to you, I all but emerged, when you were checking my temperature with your forehead I tried to kiss you." Ichigo blushed slightly at that. "I lost myself." She said lowering her head. "I never expected to be apart of the Sekirei plan, when I married I refused Minaka and left the disciplinary squad. But now, my body's reacting to you. Which means, I'm apart of this game now, just as much as you are."

"Miya, if you don't want to you don't have to." Ichigo told her. "I don't expect you to do something you don't want to do."

"I have no choice now." Miya told him. "If I don't emerge at the end of the first phase Minaka will let everyone know that there is one Sekirei left and Ashikabi from all over will try to claim me as theirs. There is no escaping this game Ichigo." Ichigo clenched his fists and grit his teeth. "I need you to kiss me, let me emerge."

"No." Ichigo told her shaking his head. "I won't, you don't want to become emerged otherwise you would have come to me sooner." Miya's eyes widened at the rejection. "I won't force you to do this! If any Ashikabi comes after you I'll stop them! But I won't make you do something you don't want to do!" Miya's eyes widened even more at his reasoning and tears pooled out the corner of her eyes before she lowered her head to the ground in a bow.

"Thank you." Ichigo simply chuckled lightly. "But I can't accept." Ichigo's eyes widened as he realised what she had said. "I can't allow my Ashikabi to put himself in danger just because I am a selfish person. I can't accept." She looked up and was surprised to see a determined look on Ichigo's face.

"I won't become your Ashikabi. You don't want anything to do with this damn game and honestly neither do I, but I haven't been given a choice. I've already got Karasuba as a Sekirei... much to my dismay." He muttered to himself. "But you Miya, you don't have to be awakened or whatever it is, I won't let you. I'm sure if you ask him nicely Kagari won't let you become emerged either. He's a Sekirei after all too."

"How did you know that?" Miya asked with wide eyes. Ichigo just smiled at her.

"The day I got here I could tell that you weren't exactly human. I could tell by the power that you were releasing. When Karasuba emerged the other day I felt her power being suppressed before it burst out. You have the same suppression on your power. Kagari and Uzume both have the same suppression upon them. I can sense your reiatsu levels, even now yours is flooding from you and it would only be an ocean more than it is now if released." Ichigo told her. "Once Kisuke get's here I'll go over a plan with him. Until then no more talking about me becoming your Ashikabi alright?" Miya simply stared at him before lowering her head.

"It won't work... Minaka will find a way for my emergence to come about."

"Let him try." Ichigo told her. "I've faced off against worse then some super genius or what ever he is." Ichigo shrugged. "What's one more notch in the belt of weirdo's that I got to beat down?" He chuckled. Miya smiled and brushed a few strands of hair out of her eyes and stared at Ichigo with a small gentle smile on her face making Ichigo blush lightly and look away from her.

"Perhaps one day, we can both come to an agreement and you will allow me to emerge and become your Sekirei." Ichigo's eyes widened at that as Miya stood up and headed for the door before stopping. "When you sensed Kagari's power... did you notice anything strange about it?" She questioned.

"Actually... now that you say it it was abnormally unstable." Ichigo said remembering back to when he had sensed Kagari's reiatsu level. Miya nodded her head in understanding.

"Kagari isn't your normal Sekirei." That was all Miya told him before leaving the room. Ichigo watched the spot where Miya had left before he heard a groan from Kon.

"Pretty girl asks you to kiss her and you refuse?" He questioned. "So gay." He was silenced as Ichigo threw the remote at him.