Ghost Ashikabi

Disclaimer: I do not own the Sekirei anime. Only the OC is mine.

Chapter 10: More Migraines for MBI

Renato Agba had just saved Kusano, Minato's next sekirei, from being taken for force winging by the spoilt brat Hayato Mikogami's Sekirei, a blood thirsty bitch known as Yomi, who was now no longer in the world of the living after being on the receiving end of the angry 'Ghost Ashikabi'. After Minato and his Sekirei, Homura, Renato's Sekirei and another ashikabi known as Seo Kaoru with his Sekirei Hibiki and Hikari finally met up with them. Renato and his sekirei had decided to get out of the botanical garden before more trouble shows up but not until Hikari and Hibiki gave Renato questioning looks.

"Hey! Who in the world are you?" Hikari asked.

"Someone who can silence you permanently if you ask the wrong questions." Renato bluntly answered.

"What makes you think you can threaten me? You're just a human."

Renato sighed in anger as he didn't have time for this unnecessary talk with this unruly girl but decided to make things clear to her.

"Threatening someone is one thing, following through on that is another. Anyone can threaten anyone with whatever they want but not everyone can follow through with such threats making them empty threats. In my case I can say that I can silence you permanently because I can and will follow through with it if you don't watch yourself. If you think I'm joking you can ask Yomi over there but I doubt she'll be able to answer since she's dead."

Renato pointed towards where the deactivated Sekirei was lying so that they could check for themselves.

Homura with wide eyes rushed over to where Renato had pointed. The flame Sekirei looked at the body and saw the cuts and stab wound on the wind Sekirei. His eyes went from the body to Renato and then back to the body with his eyes widening even more as he came to a shocking conclusion.

"Im-Impossible...yo-you defeated a Sekirei!" Homura said in shock, getting the attention of everyone but Renato, his Sekirei and Kusano who was asleep.

"EEEHHH! Y-Y-You defeated a Sekirei?!" Minato exclaimed in surprise.

Hikari snorted incredulously as she ran over to where Homura was. "Defeated a Sekirei? Ha! What the hell are you talking about? There's no way a mere human c-c-c-could..." She got stuck there as she trailed off completely after her eyes landed on Yomi's dead body.

Seo and Hibiki went over and leaned over Hikari to look at the body. What they saw shocked them too as they saw the woman lying down on her back with several cuts, a few bruises, a stab wound on her stomach and a slit throat. Hibiki nearly fainted out of sheer shock and horror while Seo kept his cool though barely and let loose a whistle, then turned back to Renato.

"Oookaaay...I can say that you certainly did one hell of a number on her." Seo said with a calculating look at the hooded man. "So how did you manage to beat a Sekirei?"

Renato shrugged his shoulders like it was nothing new. "I just took her by surprise. I didn't give her any chance to act and put her down like the bitch she was. Nothing special."

"Nothing special?!" Hikari said out loud as she walked up in front of Renato, "You call what you did nothing special? You outright killed her!"

"Please be quiet. There's a kid sleeping over there." Renato said as he pointed his thumb towards a sleeping Kusano in Minato's arms.

"Yeah...how can you be so nonchalant about it?" Hibiki added as she joined her sister.

"Is there a point within your rambling?" Renato asked nonchalantly.

Seo cut in before Hikari could say anymore, "Sooo...what are you meant to be? Some kind of soldier or something?"

Renato just looked at the man blankly which was of course obscured by the hood and mask. "No. I'm just a person like you, that's all."

As they were leaving the place, Renato was trying his best to resist the urge to slice and dice the other Seo Kaoru who had been pestering him with more questions, trying to obviously probe for some information. Renato however knew better than to oblige him with such sensitive info about himself especially when he had info on Seo himself.

Seo Kaoru apparently used to work at MBI before he got fired. He's the ashikabi to Hibiki and Hikari aka "The Lightning Twins" and has a reputation of being a lazy bum and mooching off others. However the man was street smart as he was able to handle odd jobs and get information from the streets and other unorthodox sources. Also Renato found out that Seo had been given some kind of power through alterations to his body by a scientist at MBI before he left. The power to give commands to any Sekirei he touches, which made the Ghost ashikabi very suspicious of the ashikabi and a threat he'd have to eliminate later.

Renato had noticed how much of a blatant pervert Seo is especially with his Sekirei as he groped them without a care in the world. Of course Renato was just about to castrate the asshole before the twins electrocuted the man himself. Then the fool was looking at Musubi and Renato's own Sekirei with perverted eyes again and this time Renato beat the crap out of him before he promised that he would castrate him if he did that again. Seo was quick to get the message and behaved himself this time.

They finally reached the exit where there was no one in sight. Seemed like the brat Mikogami left the gardens with his other Sekirei and left Yomi behind. How pathetic of him!

"I guess this is where we part ways." Renato informed those that did not live at Maison Izumo. "Minato, me and our sekirei will be heading back to the inn."

"Yeah, I agree. It's about time the girls and me head home as well." Seo said as he stretched his arms before yawning. He then wrapped his arms around the twins' shoulders, not groping them this time and the three turned around and made their exit. "We'll be seeing ya!"

'I sure as hell hope not. That man's more trouble than he's worth.' Renato thought as he watched the trio leave.

"Bye, bye!" Musubi shouted as she waved at the trio.

After the twins and their ashikabi had left gone out of sight, Renato spoke to Homura without looking at him since he knew that he'd been studying him ever since they left the garden though if he did he would have noticed the flame sekirei scratching his chest. "I know that you have your own place so I won't bother to ask. Just watch yourself okay."

"Of course I will." Homura replied, "Besides it's been a long day."

"I'm with you there." Renato agreed, "Well then, I think it's time we left. Maybe we'll see each other again some time."

"Perhaps." Homura agreed, though the grimace on his face showed that he may not be looking forward to it.

The group consisting of Renato Agba, Minato Sahashi and their Sekirei finally made it back to Maison Izumo late in the night. And right now the two male ashikabis and their sekirei needed to sleep after all the hectic action that evening. As soon as they stepped through the door, they were all greeted by Miya. Said woman took a glance at Renato, Minato and the young Kusano on the male Sahashi's back before an unreadable expression appeared on her face. While the others looked puzzled by her expression, Renato had an idea what was going on in her mind and decided to act quickly since he didn't have time for an unnecessary misunderstanding.

"Miya, I hope you're not thinking that we kidnapped the little girl on Minato's back because we didn't. Kusano here is Minato's new sekirei and we rescued her from being force winged, so please don't overreact. I'll-"

Renato was cut off by the sound of something rumbling followed getting confused looks from everyone. Then the sound came again and this time Minato and Renato looked at the culprit. Kusano's stomach. She's hungry.

"So hungry..." the little girl muttered, loud enough for everyone to hear.

"Looks like Ku-chan's hungry." Minato said.

"Yes she is Captain Obvious. Miya, would you mind making her something to eat? I'll explain everything."

Miya just blinked at him, as she went from stern to confused. "Ara?"

Now inside, Miya sat at her usual place at the head of the table, listening to Renato who was sat at the opposite end of the table with his hood down and mask off. Beside him on his left was Yahan with Kochou beside her and on his right was Akitsu with Yashima beside her. Minato sat on the left side of the landlady with Kusano sitting in between him and Musubi on his left. The only people missing were Kagari, who was most likely in his room or still out there doing his work as the Sekirei Guardian and Uzume, whose whereabouts were unknown to him.

Renato told Miya everything that had happened that night at the arboretum and the circumstances that led to it. Well not everything. He left out that he killed Yomi since he didn't need freaking out about him killing a Sekirei though he suspected that she knew he was no ordinary human.

"I see," Miya said as she took a sip from her hot cup of tea, "So this girl was cause of the overgrowth of plants in the arboretum and is Minato's sekirei. And you, Yahan, Akitsu and Yashima went to help Minato rescue her. Am I getting this right?"

"Correct." Renato replied in agreement, "I had planned on doing that earlier but that madman forced me to speed things up." Idly, he turned his attention to the subject of their discussion. Kusano was now busy scarfing down several bowls worth of food in trying to make up for however long she had not eaten. It was almost incredible to Renato to see such a tiny child eating so much. Then again she's a Sekirei. Perhaps they all simply had higher than normal metabolisms just like he did, though he didn't eat as much.

Then again, Renato was no scientist.

"Hmm..." Renato looked up as Miya stared at him, looking intensely into his eyes. Renato however was unfazed by that as he knew that she was definitely trying to see if there was any deception in him. Though he saw that as a waste of time as he didn't have any reason to lie. Well he had skipped some details from his explanation but he wasn't bothered about it. After a few seconds of staring, Miya smiled at him. "I believe you."

"Really?" Renato asked with a raised eyebrow. Not surprising since he knew that Miya was aware of the Sekirei Plan at least to some extent.

"Of course!" Miya said with a bright smile, "I'm very good at telling when someone is lying to me, so I know that you're telling me the truth."

"Of course I'll tell you the truth." Renato said, "The last thing I need is you trying to cut me and Minato up to pieces because of a lie."

"EEEEHHHH!" Minato gasped in shock.

"Oh no, I wouldn't do that, I would only cut you two up if you both deserved it." Miya said, her eyes closed and her lips curled into a wide smile. The lavenderette also had a malicious aura around her that made her all the more sinister and scaring most of the other people on the table, except Renato and Kusano, who was too busy enjoying her food to bother.

"That's...good to know." Renato said with a sweat drop, "By the way, can you drop the dark aura? You're freaking everyone out."

Miya pouted as she got rid of the dark aura around her. She still couldn't get why she couldn't intimidate Renato with her aura or her hanya masks. Everyone else sighed in relief that the aura was gone but still surprised at the fact that Renato was somewhat immune to it.

"Uh...umm landlady, do you think you could let Ku-chan stay here with us?" Minato asked.

"I don't see why not," Miya said smiling, "It's not like she has anywhere else to go, and since you're her ashikabi I doubt she'll want to leave you. So of course she can stay."

"Thank you very much." Minato said in relief.

Renato got up from the table and began walking out of the dining room surprising everyone.

"Renato-san, is something wrong?" Minato asked in concern.

"Nothing's wrong. I just want to get some air outside." Renato answered as he left the dining room.

As the man walked down the hallway to the back door, he came across Kagari who seemed to be in a rush as he looked like he was still getting dressed, his long sleeved shirt still had several buttons that were undone and a tie was hanging loosely from his neck and his jacket was folded across his arm.

The white-haired man looked up and was surprised at the sight of the white-haired dark-skinned man with black eyes in front of him. Kagari wondered if he was a new resident at the inn until he saw the all black clothing he wore and the equipment he had before he figured out who it was. This caused him to grimace a bit much to Renato's annoyance.

"What's your problem Kagari or should I say Homura?" Renato whispered as he walked up to him.

"Renato? You're back?!" Kagari whispered.

"Yes I am. And I see that you're off to work right?"

"Y-Yes. I am and I'm in a rush."

"Okay I won't hold you up but don't forget about the meeting I asked you to set up with Takami."

"I know I haven't forgotten. I'll be sure to tell her."

With that the two walked past each other as Renato went to the back door and entered the backyard while Kagari continued towards the door but not after he looked into the dining room where the others were.

"Miya, I'm going to be heading out, so you don't have to prepare anything for me." he said to Miya.

"Oh?" Miya said as she looked Kagari up and down as he finished getting dressed, "You're dressed up rather nicely today, more so than usual. What's the occasion?"

"Nothing big really." Kagari replied in a smooth tone, "I'm told that there are some high-class clients coming and so I just thought I should put more effort into my appearance to impress the clients."

"Ah, well in that case I wish you luck tonight," Miya said with a smile.

"Thanks, I have a feeling I might need it." Kagari said. He turned around and was about to leave before looking over his shoulder. "I might not be back tonight, so don't worry if you don't see me tomorrow morning."

Kagari sighed in relief as he left Maison Izumo. He was glad that there was cool air around to help cool his body. For some reason he was finding it hard to be in the presence of the other two men at the inn, Minato and Renato. He knew who Minato was and had no problem with him. Renato however was a different case as he barely knew anything about him. All he'd seen so far is his face and his odd dress code. He did not hate the man but didn't like him either although Renato somewhat placed trust in him but that was because of Miya. After tonight, he could honestly say that the Ghost Ashikabi was a good man but also a very dangerous person too. And worse of all he lived under the same roof with him.

Kagari continued walking down one of the many streets near the inn. It was dark outside, with only the street lights to illuminate his path. It wasn't long before he reached his destination, a limousine that was parked by curb with only a single light on in the back. As if it was waiting for someone. He walked over to it stopped by one of the rear doors before opening it. He leaned down and peered in to see the person who had called him, who also happened to be the woman helping him with his job as the Sekirei Guardian.

"A limousine, huh? That's pretty classy of you."

"It's the least I could do, you've missed a lot of work lately because of me."

Inside the limo was the woman known as Sahashi Takami, Minaka's second in command at MBI, who was wearing an expensive purple dress, it was sleeveless with a thin neckline that acted as a choker and was connected with the rest of the dress, forming an X pattern as it moved across her chest and left a large rhombus like hole to show off her cleavage. She also had an eye patch covering her left eye which had a scar across it.

"So how is #108?"

"She's safe with Minato. Which is better than with anyone else. Though he hasn't winged her yet, and I suspect he'd only do so unless she wants to be winged by him, even though she did react to him."

Takami sighed in relief that the girl that she had been fond of was safe with the young man. Then she decided to move to the next subject. "So have you found anything about the Ghost Ashikabi?"

"I got something better, I met the man himself." Kagari said.

"Really? That's good. When?" Takami asked in anticipation.

"I saw him at the Arboretum with three of his Sekirei, Yahan, Akitsu and Yashima. He was there to help Minato rescue #108. He helped me when I had to deal with two of Mikogami's Sekirei and those three took them out." Kagari replied, "As for what I could find out about him, he's a very secretive man with a bit of paranoia, keeps his face hidden. He's also like you said a ghost. The first time I actually saw him was when Minato met #88 and he sneaked up on the #11 and #12 and knocked them out. Then he disappeared almost as soon as he arrived. Whoever named him the Ghost Ashikabi sure picked the right name for him."

Takami took a drag of her cigarette before blowing out a stream of smoke. "Funny enough it was Minaka that came up with that name and so far he's living up to it. Hell Karasuba couldn't find this man when she was closing in on him and #84. They just vanished and she couldn't even sense them at all. Anyways what else you could get about him?"

"That he's a dangerous man to have as an enemy and that he has no love for Minaka and the Sekirei Plan." Kagari mentioned, "He's done somethings that a normal human couldn't do like move at superhuman speeds, walking around without making a sound no matter where he stepped. I know that he is human but he also seems more than that too which makes him a wildcard."

"I'm with you on that." Takami agreed with a nod. The Ghost Ashikabi was literally a ghost. He had appeared out of nowhere with no past, no history, nothing at all. Nothing to prove the existence of this man and it was very disturbing.

MBI was one of the largest companies in the world, and their technology was the most advanced. They had satellites in stationed to watch every country and had hacked into the satellites of other countries. While their information network was more focused on Japan, and Shinto Teito in general, it was still impressive on an international scale. With the level of technology they possessed, along with their information network, finding information on one person should be easy.

However they had not been able to learn anything about this mysterious man and that was something she and even Minaka didn't like at all.

"Also the man himself wants to see you personally." Kagari mentioned which surprised Takami.

"Are you serious?" she asked.

"Very serious. I told him about you not liking the Sekirei Plan and he wants to hear your own thoughts about it." Kagari said, "He told me to set up a time when you both can meet each other."

"Well considering how busy he's made us at MBI finding free time to meet him would be difficult. However when I do get free I'll let you know." Takami said with a grimace, "Anyways when you said that he was dangerous, how dangerous did you mean?"

"I mean dangerous that he can go toe to toe with a Sekirei and defeat not to mention outright kill them." Kagari grimaced as he remembered the damage he had done to Yomi, "Just like he did to #43 and he seems to have no qualms about it."

"Impossible!" Takami said, her voice shocked as she shook her head. "What you're saying is impossible."

"No it's true." Kagari stated in a dry tone though he couldn't believe it either. "I saw the body of Yomi after we had gotten #108. The damage done to it was nothing short of someone who was angry just like he was before he went off to find #108. Hell Seo and his Sekirei looked at it and well they couldn't believe it either. Plus that the Ghost Ashikabi's sekirei had no problem with meant that they'd seen him do it before."

"What you're saying is impossible," Takami stated again in denial, "There's no way that a human could defeat a Sekirei."

"Believe me I thought the same thing but the evidence all points to the man himself." Kagari said.

"No!" Takami snapped, surprising Kagari. "You don't understand, Homura!"

"What?" Kagari blinked as Takami took out her cellphone and began pressing buttons on her phone at a furious pace.

"Look at this!" Takami shouted as she thrust the phone into Kagari's face, "That looks more like the work of #57 since those wounds there were obviously from a dagger, and I know that she uses daggers and that she's that man's Sekirei so don't joke around. Besides that was a level 4 deactivation."

"I know about Yahan and her use of daggers but those slash marks are from a serrated edge not a normal dagger." Kagari corrected, "And I know that Yahan doesn't have any of those but the Ghost Ashikabi does. Not to mention he told us about how he took #43 by surprise and took her out himself and Yahan herself confirmed it with me when I asked her. With the way he nonchalantly described it to us, I can say that he's killed before and what he did to Yomi was a common thing to him."

Now Takai had to do a double take with the information she'd heard and compare them to what she found out when she and a team had been sent to pick up the bodies of Yomi and the other two Sekirei that had been deactivated.

The slash marks on the body were from a serrated weapon and hearing that the Ghost Ashikabi himself nonchalantly told Homura that he did it and was backed up by Yahan who was there when he first attacked #43. She began to not like the conclusion she was coming with. If it turned out that Kagari had been correct, then she would have a huge problem on her hands.

The knowledge that there was a human out there who could take down a Sekirei went against everything she had researched up to this point. Not only did it do that, it also meant they now had a dangerous man running loose who could kill any Sekirei he comes across. That he was an Ashikabi just made it worse. If what Kagari said was true and The Ghost Ashikabi had accomplished that feat, then there was far more to the mysterious male then she, and even Minaka realized. Worse, Minaka would go even more insane that there was someone like that who was messing with his plans.

While she did not mind that this man wanted nothing to do with the Sekirei Plan, she knew that there would most likely some more dead Sekirei and ashikabis around just like how Kakizaki and Junichi had been killed and she now suspected that it could have been this man's handiwork.

She sighed and took another drag of her cigarette, as she calmed down and took in this new piece of information. After blowing out several streams of smoke she felt infinitely better, and turned her head to look at Kagari once again.

"Anything else?"

"Nothing else from what I have so far. He's secretive about himself to the point of paranoia, he also seems to be highly intelligent and perceptive of the world around him, his Sekirei are loyal to him, he's like a ghost thanks to his stealth skills and I'm not sure if he's human or not. Hell I still don't know what he looks like or where he lives."

Okay. That was a lie. Kagari knew what the Ghost Ashikabi looked like and where he lived but Renato Agba had trusted him to keep that a secret as well as his name. Most likely he'd reveal it when he meets with Takami.

Takami sighed. At least she had gotten some information about this man but still it wasn't enough for anything concrete. She had no idea of his real name, what he looks like or where he even lived. All she could think of was that the man was like a ninja. And a very dangerous one at that.

"So that's pretty much all we know about him, right?" Takami asked in a sarcastic tone.

"Pretty much." Kagari agreed with a nod of his head.

There were a few moments of silence between the pair, neither willing to break it at the moment as they both got lost in thought.

"So... what are we going to do tonight?" Kagari asked, breaking the silence.

Takami smirked as she pulled out one of the MBI executive credit cards. "I swiped this card from Minaka a little while ago. I get the feeling he was the one who released #7. So I think we should punish the crazy bastard by using his card to buy anything and everything we want tonight!"

Kagari let out a short laugh. "Takami, this is why I like you so much!"

Yes, it was a good night to be them. And a poor one to be Minaka.

End of Chapter 10.

I know that it's been a while since I updated but many things have occurred that has made me busy and that I have been writing other fanfics.

Now I need some help from you guys on how next I should progress with the story and I have thought of multiple ways to go which I need your opinion on.

1. Renato Agba ends up fighting Karasuba while rescuing Ikki. And thanks to that battle ends up getting the attention of another person and it's not Minaka.

2. The escape from Shinto Teito incident.

3. Renato ends up meeting Hayato Mikogami and having chaos ensue.

4. Renato helps deal with someone's ashikabi problem and takes out a certain guy on his shit list.

Take your pick. Or give me your own ideas.

Anyways read & review.

Sayonara!