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Akitsu kept staring the woman who had bursted through the ice and was now pointing her blade at her.
"I wont let you touch him." Akitsu said with a calm she was not feeling. She knew how deadly Karasuba could be and she knew just how much that woman liked to kill. Karasuba's murderous habit's were no secret among the sekirei.
"Step away from my pet Akitsu, I'm going to tell you this only once." Karasuba said as she took a step closer to the huddled form of Akitsu.
"NO! I will not leave my ashikabi again!" Akitsu said with conviction. She was not going to let Karasuba do what she wanted with her Ashikabi, not anymore.
"Then you leave me no choice. Instead of killing you in front of Minato, I'm just going to gut you here and now." Karasuba said and lunged forward, trying to impale the other woman on her blade. She was half-way across the room when she was stopped in her tracks. Karasuba's eyes narrowed in annoyance as she felt the tip of a blade in her neck.
"What are you doing?" She hissed at the intruder.
"Saving your life." Yahan said with a calm tone, knowing that this was the biggest gamble in her life. Being the target of Karasuba's anger was never the smart thing to do and Yahan really hoped that she would be spared from it. Karasuba looked around the room with more attention to see what Yahan was talking about and when she noticed what Yahan was talking about, a big smile broke on her face.
"Min-chan. You always seem to have more surprises for me." Karasuba said with a pleased voice and she sheathed her sword. Akitsu was wondering what the black sekirei was talking about until she noticed a trail of ice spikes that originated from Minato's hand. Quickly pulling Minato away from her chest, she looked for signs that Minato was awake but his eyes were still closed. 'How did you do that Minato?' Akitsu wondered, trying pointlessly to hide the fact that even she didn't know from the other two sekirei in the room.
Karasuba looked around the room again now that she had calmed down and was slightly impressed at the signs of slaughter in the room. She had thought that she was the only one who would do that much damage to humans but clearly she was wrong. Now the notion of Akitsu joining the Disciplinary Squad was not sounding so bad.
"Yahan. Inform the tower that Minato has stabilized and somewhat awake and we are moving him back to the tower." Karasuba said, looking at the sleeping form of Minato on the bed. Yahan nodded and left the room, hoping that Karasuba would not harm the ice sekirei or the boy. Yahan was sure that however she was going to get out of this mess that was her life, Minato would be one part of it. Wether he liked it or not.
"Akitsu, could you now remove your filthy hands from my pet? Before I chop them off." Karasuba said angrily as she was not going to kill the other sekirei, yet anyway. Akitsu shaked her head in clear defiance.
"I will not leave my ashikabi again. Not for any reason." Akitsu said and wrapped her right arm with her powers, ready to implant an orb of ice in the middle of Karasuba's head if need be. The pure killing intent from Akitsu made Karasuba smile.
"He is going to be my Ashikabi too, you know that Akitsu. Both of you will join the Disciplinary Squad." Karasuba said and walked around the bed, trying to get near Akitsu. Akitsu kept turning the bed with her as she was sure that Karasuba would not kill Minato, harming him put aside and that way the safest bet would be to keep him between them for a while.
"If he chooses to wing you and you consent to it, I have nothing against it but I will not let you near him until he has awoken and given me the permission." Akitsu said, being very confrontational about the most important man in her life. Karasuba enjoyed the defiance from the other sekirei even if it did anger her. It had been awhile since she had met someone with a backbone. Well, Minato was one and he was good at hiding it. She bowed to the words of Akitsu and went to lean on a wall. She had all the time in the world to teach the other sekirei who was in charge and of what.
Yahan was quickly making her way towards the communication center, trying to figure out what to say to the staff in the tower to be let there aswell. She was trapped in the island and she wanted out of there, in the tower she would have the opportunity to break out of there and find an ashikabi and a way out of this insane life. She hated the fact that her only skills involved murder and other means of disposing of people when all she wanted was to live in peace. Being an assassin was taking it's toll and if what she heard was right, this was not even the half of her duties that would be shoved on to her. As she entered the room where you literally could contact anyone and everyone in the world, she gave the order to inform the tower that the package was coming back and that she should be brought along with it as the remaining staff in the island could handle the situation. Getting the ok from the other side she sent the word to pack her things and then she left to tell the others that the trip back to the capital was ahead of them.
In his office Minaka was laughing. He had gotten the information from the island along with the most recent report on Minato's condition and he was feeling more ecstatic than ever. Minato was along his way to coming back to being the ashikabi of the Disciplinary Squad and being more powerful than ever would mean that he could start the plan as soon as the remaining sekirei would be adjusted and released. He had made the choice of releasing the already adjusted sekirei in the tower among the public a few days ago as the numbers who were not adjusted was now around twenty. Already the most of the sekirei that had been in the tower was now walking among the people of tokyo, trying to find their ashikabi and he had already made a few information calls to the few ashikabi in the city who had winged a sekirei.
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Takami was talking to Matsu, as she was trying to tell her that Minaka was on to her but Matsu was not listening. She wanted out and even if Minaka knew about her plan, she was going through with it.
"Don't you understand you stupid woman! The moment you step out-of-bounds, you will be killed or worse." Takami shouted at the spectacled sekirei who was in her room, doing the final adjustments on her plan. She was going to release a program that made the security cameras of the tower useless and rendering the other protection around the center of the tower that held the Jinki inoperable.
"No Takami-tan. Matsu has to do this. There is no way Matsu can leave those in the hands of a madman." Matsu said with a tone that made it clear that there were no debating on the matter.
"Fine, at least wait until Minato comes back. I had a notification that Minato is coming back with Akitsu, Yahan and Karasuba. Please wait until they come back and then you can go and get yourself killed." Takami said as she gave up on trying to convince the sekirei to not go through with her plan to steal the most guarded secret in the tower. Matsu was rather surprised that Minato and Akitsu was returning, after all they hadn't been gone for long. If they really were returning, it would be worth the wait as she would then get help from the ice sekirei and should improve the odds. Akitsu could freeze anything that would stand in their way and Matsu could use her skills to ensure that no other sekirei would be able to intervene. So she agreed to Takami's suggestion and left her plan alone, for now anyway. Takami reminded Matsu that Minaka was still on to her plan so maybe she should lay low for awhile. Play that she is doing exactly what she was supposed to do rather than doing everything else she was not.
Benitsubasa was going for the mess hall that had been opened again now that most of the sekirei had left the tower. They were supposed to get meals provided to them but as the numbers had started to increase, the kitchen staff had been hard pressed to meet the demands. Sekirei ate a lot compared to the humans and there were gluttons among the sekirei. She turned around the corner and was greeted by the sight of a very lost Haihane.
"Benitsubasa-sama, I can't find the cafeteria." Wailed the lost sekirei as her stomach grumbled. Benitsubasa didn't answer, she only grabbed Haihane's hand and started to pull her along when Takami shouted them to wait from behind. They waited until Takami was with them, Haihane giving the woman an idolized look as she knew how much Benitsubasa liked Takami.
"So Tsubasa, how are things going?" Takami asked, hoping that Minaka hadn't done anything to them.
"Fine Takami-sensei, we just finished training and are going to eat at the cafeteria that just opened in this level." Benitsubasa asked, slightly amazed at the question. It hadn't been long since their last talk and she wondered what could've possibly happened in such a short time. Takami lowered her voice to prevent others hearing her, among the others were the cameras in the corridor that had sound recording devices in them.
"Minaka knows and he's brining Minato back. I just got Matsu to postpone her plan and wanted to warn you." Takami said with a hurried tone before continuing her non important banter. Benitsubasa eyes widened as she was truly terrified of being find out. She didn't much care about the president at this point as she had resolved in helping Takami because it had been Takami who told her what was actually going on inside the tower.
"What do you suggest we do?" She asked the older woman, trying to think something to help her and Haihane if Minaka ever called them to the office or worse.
"I don't know and I don't think Minaka will tell me anything. We need to lay low for a while. And just to be on the safe side, I'm not going to see either of you until further notice. Karasuba is coming back and we can't risk her getting pissed. She doesn't listen anyone as you very well know." Takami said with a hint of fear as she remembered that she was returning with Minato.
"Did she..?" Benitsubasa left the question open on purpose as the thought of that woman being winged was terrifying. They knew that when sekirei was winged, they got a power boost and Karasuba had been the most powerful sekirei Benitsubasa had ever seen. If she has gotten winged, Benitsubasa doubted that anything could stop her. Takami shaked her head in response and said her goodbyes. She was on her way to make the final adjustments to three other sekirei which Minaka had forced on her, saying that she was the only one who could adjust them in time. After those three, it would be only the sekirei number 107 and 108 or commonly known Shiina and Kusano in her care. Takami had refused any other sekirei as those two were not much less deadly than Karasuba.
Kusano could make plants grow everywhere and she ment everywhere. If her power was not soon restrained, they could have human shaped bushes in the tower. Not to mention Shiina who in turn was marked in records as the sekirei of death, could mean that the employees who wandered too close to him had the very distinct possibility to be reduced into soup. They had been paired as Shiina was the only one who could help Kusano keep her powers in check by wilting anything Kusano unwillingly grew and Kusano was the only one who could give Shiina's powers a target that would not be human. 'No rest for the wicked.' She thought and went inside the elevator that would drop her down two levels, where Kusano and Shiina both lived.
They had been deemed to dangerous, they had the whole level to themselves having their food being sent down. Takami was saddened that Kusano would not be able to see any other sekirei until her adjustments were done and Takami was very much against at adjusting the girl quickly. Kusano was only 9 for god sakes and much too young to be apart of this insane game.
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Minato was awake inside the light cube for the first time since he had been made to drink that awful smelling liquid. Looking around him, now that he wasn't in pain, he noticed that the room was an infirmary of sorts. Trying to find the woman who he faintly remembered, he rose from the bed only to find out that his legs weren't working and that the floor under the bed was just as clean as the rest of the room.
"You shouldn't get up yet Minato." He heard a woman's voice say from behind him before he was lifted and placed in a sitting position on the bed. Taking this chance to see who the woman was, Minato was not surprised how he had confused her as being Miya-neesan. They both had purple hair but she was taller than Miya had been and much...fuller. Minato blushed slightly and berated himself on thinking that way. Minato kept looking at the woman, trying to get a picture of her and he couldn't help noticing that her hips swayed quite nicely.
"Now Minato, it's not polite to stare." The woman said, keeping her back on the boy. Minato stuttered an apology and started to wonder what was wrong with him. He was god knows where and that woman was god knew who but there he was ogling her. Iliana laughed internally at the young boy as he was apparently waking up to puberty. 'Well it was to be expected. Being kissed by an amazing looking woman will do that to a hormone driven boy.' She thought to herself, not saying anything out loud as to not embarrass the boy. The bits and pieces she had got from Akitsu's mind had told her much about Minato and the few fragments of memory she had been able to extract from the unaltered mind told the rest. Minato was a gentle and compassionate boy who had the great unfortune of being the son of M.B.I's president, who in turn had tried to make his son into a walking war machine. And that man had effectively enslaved the remaining sekirei race, threatening his lover and daughter in the process.
"Who, Who are you?" Minato asked the woman while trying to move his legs.
"I am the guardian of the sekirei race, well we are not originally called sekirei but that name works just aswell as any other." The woman answered and turned towards Minato with a syringe in hand. The syringe brought flashes of medical rooms and people he didn't recognize in to his mind along with a feeling of fear and anxiety. Minato didn't even notice the faint glow in his right arm before it dwindled at the words of the woman walking towards him.
"I am not going to hurt you Minato, I am trying to help you. I have seen inside your mind and I am sure that not even you know what kind of a mess it is. I am trying to free you from your own mind as you are now a prisoner of it." The words scared and reassured him at the same time. He remembered some conversations with Takehito, where he had said that Minaka had tried to alter his mind to be a perfect Ashikabi. The only thing Takehito did not answer was when Minato had asked at what an ashikabi was.
"What will that do to me?" Minato asked when Iliana was next to him and was about to inject him with what ever was inside the syringe.
"It will give your organs and mind a big shock in an attempt to awaken your true self from the deepest pits of your mind. We are now inside your mind, where the biggest problem is and frankly where the biggest shock will be felt. I am not going to lie to you Minato, this will hurt." Iliana said and looked Minato straight in the eye to show him that she was not lying.
"And if this doesn't work?" Minato asked in fear of the response as he was quite sure of what it would be.
"You will remain as you are. An unfeeling machine who thinks of nothing more than the next battle. And it will also let loose the sekirei inside of you, making your own self more buried as it will become weaker than the prominent force leading your actions." The woman said and gave Minato time to digest what had been said. Minato knew that he had been injected with sekirei cells, and quite a lot of them. He also knew that the cells were the reason behind his beast self.
"And this is the only way?" He asked just to make sure.
"The only way I can help. The other would be asking help from the people who did this to you and I don't think they would be inclined to do so." Iliana was not sparing any punches as she needed Minato to know just how desperate his situation was. Seeking confirmation from the boys eyes, Iliana made a quizzical look which was answered with a nod and clenching of teeth.
"Good luck Minato, and remember that you have Akitsu." Iliana said with a whisper and injected the fluid inside Minato. He screamed the second the fuild entered his bloodstream. It felt like his hand was on fire and his eye was melting. Iliana looked at the boy with a sad look as she knew that she couldn't help him as this was something that only the strength of that boys will would accomplish. Leaving the light cube to enter the main computer of the ship in Kamikura, she let out a little prayer for the sake of Minato.
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Karasuba was glaring at Akitsu and she took a step towards the woman.
"If you don't remove your hand Akitsu, I will remove it for you. Permanently." She said between clenched teeth while she wondered why it mattered to her. Minato suddenly screamed and jolted upwards from his bed. Akitsu was immediately there and tried to hold him down as flailing inside a helicopter was not a good idea. Yahan was going to help until she saw the lines of white coming out of Minato's right hand and the faint glow from his right eye.
'What's wrong with his hand?' Yahan asked herself as she took a step back. She didn't know anything about human diseases and even if she was supposed to be immune, that was something she was not going to risk. Akitsu and Karasuba didn't notice the arm until it reached his elbow. Karasuba was now eyeing Yahan with suspicion as she saw that she was trying to back up even more.
"What now Yahan? Afraid of one pathetic human?" Karasuba snarled at the assassin sekirei, being irritated enough as she was forced to share a cabin with a discarded number and a coward who struck at the shadows. It was even more annoying to see the broken sekirei being too close to the young man who was constructed solely to be her ashikabi and toy. Yahan didn't say anything as she pointed Minato's hand. Both Akitsu and Karasuba turned their attention at the hand. Akitsu gasped and took Minato's hand in her own while Karasuba had an amused look on her face. 'What's this Min-chan? More surprises?' She thought to herself and opened the door at the side of the helicopter. She could see the tower already and she jumped off. She wanted to tell Minaka about this most recent occurrence and then she was going to play with June some more. Yahan kept staring at the boy in the bed and wondered if she would survive this game after all. Akitsu clung to Minato's hand and tried to awaken the boy, she was worried as she could feel faint traces of her own power pulsing within the hand.
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Minaka was sitting in front of very nervous scientists who were summoned to tell him what was going on with Minato. Almost 12 hours had passed since the helicopter had arrived and they could get him to treatment. Minaka was surprised that it had been Karasuba who came with the news but knew better than to pursue that train of thought while Karasuba was in the room.
"Tell me." Minaka said calmly and waited for the first one to clear his throat.
"He is still unconscious and while most of the tests wont be ready until tomorrow, we already have confirmed that the cells inside his body are now concentrated in his right hand and the right side of his brain. How and why are unknown, however it is without a doubt that Minato's body has become normal." The first said and offered his folder to Minaka before sitting down and letting someone else be the center of attention.
"What do you mean normal?" Minaka asked and looked closer at the file in his hands.
"I mean normal. Not taking account for his right hand and his eye, which has turned completely white, Minato is very much a normal teenager" The first scientist said, hoping that he would excuse him. The sheer insanity that was shining from the eyes of the president was unnerving. Minaka frowned at the information. The second scientist rose up and walked to a projector, turning it on he started to show slides of Minato's brain.
"As you can see, the parts of brain that are affected are mostly around the normally unsued parts of the brain. As we don't know what those parts of brain controls, we have no way of knowing what has changed. Until he is awake that is. After that we can run more tests." The second scientist took a pause for questions.
"And the eye? What can you tell about the eye?" Minaka asked the obvious. He was slightly concerned that Minato might be blind in his right eye. The second scientist cleared his throat and changed to the slides that were about the boys eye.
"He has no pupils and iris, meaning that he has now one eye that is completely and utterly white. There is no indication of optic nerves or anything that would suggest that there is any eyesight left in the eye. Again, we can't confirm that until he awakens and we can run more tests." The second scientist ended his speech and gave the folder to Minaka while sitting down. The third scientist rose up, being more nervous than the others as he had heard the last one to hold his position had had a heated discussion with one of the sekirei and that had been the last time anyone had seen him.
"We know that he has some of the power of the number seven in his hand, and he is somewhat able to project her powers from his hand." The scientist started and was startled when he noticed that he had peaked Minaka's interest and had now his full and undivided attention.
"He can project sekirei powers? So he is half-sekirei now?" Minaka asked in confirmation. His hopes was rising as this was more than enough to counter weight the loss of eyesight and the changes on the rest of the boys body.
"Yes and no. He has the ability to project some of the powers his sekirei has. We read the report from the incident at the base in Kamikura and that shows that he can use the ice powers as well. When we started the test, we could confirm that his powers reacts to bodily harm and pain. He surrounded himself in ice spikes. The spikes however were only 25cm tall and could be easily broken. We don't know if this is only because he has just gotten the powers and they are not under his control but we are 99% certain that he can't use those powers like number seven can. Most likely he would be able to defend himself to some extent before his ashikabi comes to save him. There is also the fact that at some points his eye flashes. It gives out small light but we don't know why and every test we have done was inconclusive. So far we have not determined what makes the light come out, sort of speaking but we have confirmed that his eye is much tougher than his left eye. We tried to take a sample of the fluids inside the eye and the needle broke. And this is all we have been able to conclude without further test and as the others had told, he needs to be awake for them." The third scientist said and drank his water glass empty. The combined effort of talking for a long time and seeing Minaka staring at him, frowning at times, had dried his mouth.
"Very well gentlemen. Is there anyway we can forcibly bring him out of the coma like state he is in?" Minaka asked and got a table full of disbelieving looks.
"Sir, I don't think that would be wise. We have no way of knowing what will happen if we force him to be awake. He could go on a rampage." One of the men around the table voiced the collective thought.
"I see, then we need to prepare for that don't we. Take Akitsu and Takami in the room and wake him up. I am quite sure that Akitsu at the very least would be able to stop Minato." Minaka said and dismissed the group. He walked to his office, smiling the whole way. 'If Minato really has sekirei powers, this is a blessing. I need to get him to wing Karasuba as soon as possible.' He thought and walked inside his office, barely containing his enjoyment before he frowned at the information flashing in his computer screen. Homura, Tsukiumi and Uzume had been released and Shiina and Kusano was very much behind schedule. The amount of sekirei in the tower was now 10 and decreasing. Opening a different folder, he saw more sekirei being winged and with a smile, he started telling the people involved that they were now his puppets.
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"What have they done to you Minato?" June asked silently as she gently stroked Minato's cheek. It had taken a long time to get her calm back after the sudden visit of Karasuba but she couldn't help herself. Minato was her plaything and not that sekirei's and now she was in a room with other scientists and Takami. June wa sure that Takami could stop Karasuba from attacking her as she had been the sekirei's adjuster. She also needed some other protection against her and that had been provided with the appearance of the ice sekirei. It had surprised June that Minato had winged a sekirei without talking with her but she forgave him. She was sure that it was only a mistake on Minato's part. June couldn't help but grin at the thought that Karasuba was watching her with Minato and grinding her teeth in frustration.
"Don't worry Minato, I will make it all better again." She said and gave a kiss to Minato's cheek before injecting the same mind altering drug that she had used on Minato since he entered the tower. June had switched the wakening agent when she had gone to get the stimulant and gotten the idea of getting Minato to listen to only her with the drugs and then she could use him as a puppet. She smiled at the images that flashed in her head, the things she would make Minato to do. The images had gotten a lot more bolder as she had seen what had happened to Minato. It made her shiver and she was lost to her imaginations as she ran her hand over Minato's muscles.
"Continue with the treatment June or I swear to god I will make a pincushion out of you before letting Akitsu do what she wants." Takami said as she was disgusted at the woman and how brazenly she fondled HER son. Akitsu was also glaring daggers at the brunette and every one saw the mist that was rising from her fingers which ment that her powers were in use. Suddenly Karasuba bursted through the door, spotted June and smiled.
"Here you are June, I was looking for you." Karasuba said with a gentle tone that Takami knew didn't mean anything good. She almost didn't say anything as she thought that anything Karasuba said or did to that repulsive failure of a doctor. Takami took a hold of Karasuba's hand and pulled her to the side, already talking so that Karasuba wouldn't attack her in blind rage.
"Do not interrupt this treatment Karasuba, Minato's life might depend on it." She said and looked the sekirei straight in the eye. It had always puzzled Karasuba as why her powers didn't frighten the woman but that had also made her gain Karasuba's respect. She loathed humans but Takami was one human she could respect. She wasn't weak, well not as weak as rest of humans seemed to be and Karasuba could see where Minato had gotten his strength of character. Of course Minato was afraid of her but that was a sensible fear. One should always fear power greater than their own and Minato had the same unwillingness to back down as Takami had. Karasuba only nodded and continued to stare at June with eyes that promised more pain when they were alone.
June left the bed and the rest of the room waited to see Minato rise. They waited and waited and nothing happened. The scientists in the room went to see the readings their equipment were giving and after they had checked and double checked the results, they notified the people in the room that Minato was not responding and for fearing of giving him brain damage, the next dose was scheduled to be injected tomorrow. Takami cursed and Akitsu let her powers fade as they both looked Minato with pain and regret. 'Why can't I ever help you when you need it Minato?' Takami thought to herself and left for her apartment inside the tower. Akitsu was as emotionless as ever and without a word, exited the room and started her wanderings through the endless corridors of the lower levels of the tower. She needed time to think of a way to help Minato out of the coma he was in as it was clearly her fault. The faint traces of her power she had felt from Minato's hand was also something that she was in need of pondering.
Karasuba turned her head to see where June had gone and when she didn't see her anywhere, she left the treatment room to go to June's office once more. They needed to talk about the agreement they had done. Walking with a brisk pace, she went straight to the elevator on the end of the corridor as the offices of the staff was one level up. June watched from the entrance to the toilet as Karasuba's back went further and finally she entered the elevator. 'Now to end the treatment.' She thought and walked to the treatment room silently. June opened the door and saw nobody else but Minato inside the room. With a smile, she pulled one more syringe from her pocket and went to inject it to Minato's arm as she whispered in his ear.
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Matsu, Benitsubasa and Haihane, who was still yawning, were all in Akitsu's room to get the latest info about Minato. Matsu had come to the realisation that even if it weren't been the intention, all of their planning at this point revolved around Minato. They were happy to hear that Minato was back and Benitsubasa had started talking with Haihane at the possibility of getting to fight with Minato, both had been rather quick to assure Akitsu that they ment it as an activity and not an actual fight as the temperature in the room had started to drop really fast. Akitsu was showing very possessive traits when Minato was the subject and Matsu couldn't help but wonder what made that boy so special that the sekirei who was known to be emotionless and devoid of interest in anything was getting pink cheeks and fits of jealousy and their resident psychopath was starting to show an unhealthy interest in Minato as well. Matsu was starting to want to see him personally as she studied these two. When she had talked to Benitsubasa, she had gotten the image of a sniveling boy who did not like violence and she could not understand how that made anyone appealing.
"Open your eyes Minato." June whispered at Minato's ear as she was now sure that her suggestive treatment was working perfectly and Minato would now awaken as her mindless puppet. She almost squealed at excitement as Minato did open his eyes, but her enthusiasm soon turned into horror as she felt a cold grip in her throat and the look of a very angry Minato.
"Do not touch me woman." Minato growled and threw June to the treatment table on the far corner of the room. June stayed on the table and tried to get more air into her lungs all the while repeating that she was June to Minato. Minato rose from the bed he was laying on and found himself in regular hospital clothes, cotton pants that were a size too large as they were ment to be comfortable and he was without a shirt because his chest was filled with wires and sensors. He ripped them off of him with disgust and then he heard what the woman in the corner was muttering to herself.
"I'm June Minato, surely you know who I am. Please recognize me, I'm June. I have always been there for you." June was saying over again as her voice was getting higher. She was shocked that Minato, who was her puppet, did not do what she had told him to do when she had injected those drugs. They had worked before, why weren't they working now? She could not understand it. Minato walked to the woman and stared her in the eyes.
"I know full well who you are and I am also very much aware of what you have done to me." Minato said as he lifted June from the table. June was now begging Minato to come back to her as she was the only one who cared for her. Minato's mouth twisted into a nasty grin.
"You disgust me woman. I'm going to tell you this now, before I end your miserable excistence. I am not the Minato you think I am, I am something more." He said and started to tighten his grip around June's throat. June's eyes widened as she felt her breathing come more laboured and a unfamiliar coldness started to seep to her body. Minato growled like an animal as the images of June's torture flashed throught his mind and with a sudden and violent jerk, he twisted June's neck and threw the body through the glass that separated the treatment room from the equipment room. He spotted a white jacket next to the door and proceeded to leave the room as the only thought in his head was to find Akitsu.
Akitsu was walking at the corridors now as the meeting, that's what Matsu had called it, was over and she had planned to walk towards the room where Minato was in. She turned around a corner and felt herself hit something. It was something solid that made her heart race on contact and that was all the information Akitsu needed to know that she had indeed walked straight into Minato's arms. She heard a whisper which sounded very much like her name and she lifted her head only to be kissed by Minato. Light wings of brilliant blue flashed in the darkened corridor as Akitsu felt her breathing stop. The sheer sense of relief almost overwhelmed her and she would have fallen on her knees if Minato hadn't caught her.
"Come Akitsu, we are leaving." Minato said and took the woman he knew he was destined to be with by the hand and started to make his way towards the elevator. Akitsu was trying to make sense of what Minato had said through her addled mind as she was still trying to digest what had happened. She had felt lonely and miserable as her ashikabi was in a coma and she couldn't do anything about it. Now she was happy, feeling relief and disbelief that it had indeed been Minato who she had walked straight into, let alone kissed. And now they were leaving.
"You need to talk to your mother." Akitsu said as it was the only coherent thought she could produce at the moment. Get the one woman she could really trust to take a look at Minato before something bad happened. Akitsu was rather familiar of things going wrong just as they were supposed to be good.
"I have no mother Akitsu and I will not stay here for a minute longer. Am I making myself clear?" Minato said with a voice that brooked no objection.
"Yes Minato-sama." Akitsu said and walked next to her ashikabi not noticing they were holding hands. Akitsu was thinking why Minato would say that he had no mother. Takami had clearly stated herself as being the mother of Minato and now Akitsu was wondering if she had lied. Akitsu couldn't think any reason for Takami to lie and she was not going to ask Minato as he did not want to talk about it. A sudden realisation dawned at Akitsu and she stopped just before they entered the elevator. Minato looked at as why would Akitsu stop now and he saw her eyes shimmering.
"What is wrong Akitsu? Are you feeling ill?" Minato asked with concern. He had been just re-united with his sekirei and she was looking like she was going to cry.
"No Minato-sama, I am alright. It's just that I haven't been able to pledge my self and it bothers me. I am...was a scrapped number and." Akitsu let her voice fade. She had never talked like that, it sounded weird in her ears. She had sounded...normal.
"You are my sekirei Akitsu, and you never were a scrapped number. Now, come." Minato said and pulled Akitsu to his arms as he pressed the number for the ground floor of the tower. The elevator took off but stopped five floors before the ground floor which made Minato to growl in frustration. He didn't like the fact that he now had a habit of growling when he was irritated but quickly moved his attention to more pressing maters. Such as how they were going to get to the ground floor now. The doors of the elevator opened and dark purple eyes were staring them with surprise being the most showing emotion in them. Minato quickly dashed forward and tried to grab the darks skinned woman who was standing before the elevator door but she quickly disappeared and reappeared twenty paces away.
"I am not your enemy Minato Sahashi." Yahan said as she kept racking her brain. To say that she was surprised to see Minato and Akitsu in the elevator at this time was and understatement but she immediately recognized this as her only option of getting away from this. Minato looked at the woman, not believing a word as he knew personally that anyone inside here was not to be trusted. The only ones who weren't included in that was him and Akitsu. Minato turned his head slightly as he felt Akitsu grab his hand.
"She works with Karasuba and Karasuba wants you to wing her and become the ashikabi of disciplinary squad." Akitsu said to Minato as she was sure that nobody had told that to Minato and Minato needed to hear this. Yahan's eyes widened at the accusation of her being a friend of Karasuba's and she started to talk, very quickly.
"No. I do not work with that woman. I simply did what I needed to do to survive. Trust me on this.." Yahan said with a pleading voice. She would beg this man if it helped her out of this tower and out of this insane life she had been forced to live. Minato's eyes narrowed as he kept thinking. It didn't help that his mind was a mess, he could remember bits and pieces that he had categorized as the memories of the other Minato and he knew that it this woman indeed had just wanted to survive, she had needed to follow the orders given to her.
"Who are you?" Minato asked, hoping that it would reveal more information. He needed rest in somewhere safe so he could get his mind straightened out.
"I am sekirei number 57, Yahan and I would very much like to accompany you in leaving this wretched tower." She said with all the sincerity she could muster. Minato nodded at the information as he grumbled the lack of information in his mind.
"What do you say Akitsu, should we take her along?" He asked and turned to look at her. Akitsu felt a surge of jealousy and thought about it as it was her ashikabi's wish. She looked at Yahan and could not feel any insincerity from the woman and then she looked at Minato but could not read the look on his face. His right eye was glowing faintly and that was obscuring his face in the dim light that was coming from the lamps embedded in the lower section of the walls.
"What ever you decide, make it quick. The patrolling guards should come around this way soon." Yahan said as she knew that if they got caught at this point, no amount of explaining would be sufficient to save her or those two from trouble.
"If that is what you want Minato-sama, I will not go against it." Akitsu said, making her mind up in following what Minato would want. She placed her trust in him and would go along with anything he wanted. Minato looked at Yahan once more, slightly startled that the slight fuzziness around Yahan was not because of the lighting in the corridor but was somehow connected with the power the woman had. 'She's hiding her strength, but is it to fool us or sensory equipment in here?' Minato thought and let out a heavy sigh.
"Fine, come with us. You will listen to what I say and if either me or Akitsu find something funny going on, that will be the last thing you do. Did I make myself clear?" Minato said and went back to look at the control panel in the elevator, trusting Akitsu to keep an eye out.
"Yes. I understand. Thank you." Yahan said and took a few tentative steps towards the pair. She felt flushed after the intense look Minato had given her and relieved as she knew now that she would get out of the tower.
"You need this Minato." Yahan said and pulled a black card from between her breasts. Minato blushed slightly at the slight jiggle of the black haired womans breasts and took the card. 'Warm.' Was Minato's thought as he took the card and inspected it. It looked like a regular plastic card that was given to customers in some shops and he guessed, correctly, that the reader on the side of the numbers were the place it should be used. Akitsu and Yahan stood on eithersided of Minato as he pulled the card through the reader and after a beep from the console, the elevator started moving again. This time they got to the ground floor. The sneaked out of the small cabin and Yahan gave the sign that she would go and see when they could leave. She came back quickly and explained with hushed voice that there were five guards in the lobby and three cameras pointed at the general area. She also pointed out that it would be easier to leave from the fire exit that was behind the door that lead to the staircase and if Akitsu froze the sensors, they would not alarm that the door had been opened. Both Minato and Akitsu agreed to this and they made their way to the fire exit.
"Are you going to come with us all the way or are you only coming this far and then split up from us?" Minato asked after they had exited the door and left the yard that surrounded the tower. It would be easier to plan when there were no fear of interruptions.
"I was planning on following you, if that's alright. You can wing me if you want Minato, I'm sure you could use the help." Yahan said calmly. Minato was a man she could live with and the idea of someone winging her against her will was not something she would enjoy experiencing. Not that she didn't like forceful men. Minato was thinking about winging Yahan and decided to ask.
"Are you sure you want me to wing you? From what I know, that would be a done deal with no chance of refund." Minato said and pulled Akitsu closer. He was being protective about Akitsu, a trait he found that both he and the other Minato shared. He knew that Akitsu would not, most likely, like him winging others but it was also true that he needed help to accomplish what he needed to accomplish.
"Yes, i'm quite sure. I don't think I would run into a better man than you and who knows, I might start to like you." Yahan answered, feeling that she best keep honesty as the best policy. Akitsu stiffened at the words of the other sekirei but the reassuring squeeze from Minato made her realize that Minato would not abandon her or forget her.
"Wery vell then. Yahan, become my sekirei and help me change the world." Minato said, sounding very pompous. 'That sounded so much better in my head.' He thought as both Yahan and Minato took a step closer to each other and kissed.
There was a flash of smokey light and dark grey wings which seemed like they were made out of smoke springed from Yahan's back and her eyes widened at the warmth that spread throughout her body. 'Wow, I might do this a lot more if it feels like this.' She thought and smiled at the idea of kissing Minato more. She was not immediately in love but she did like him and being cute was not a bad thing either. She also knew that men and women did have sex and or petting when they were together and when she saw the look on Akitsu's face, she decided to ease her worries.
"I am not going to steal Minato away from you Akitsu. You need to tolerate me until you learn to know me." Yahan said and offered a hand to Akitsu, not sure if the other woman would preferred a hug instead but she wasn't that much into bodily contact. Akitsu stared at the hand and took it after awhile.
"For Minato, I would do anything." She stated and dropped the hand, turning her attention to Minato and she frowned as she saw Minato holding his head. Minato felt that Akitsu was worried and reassured that he was fine, just in need of rest. Preferably somewhere safe. Akitsu took Minato in her arms, not listening to the shouts that he could walked and jumped to the roof of the building next to them. Yahan was already waiting them on top of the roof and Akitsu glared at her.
"No need to get protective, I can just teleport short distances." Yahan said in a neutral tone as she was sighing inside her head. 'This will be fun.' She thought as she could clearly read from Akitsus face that she did not trust her yet.
"I can search for a good hiding place with my teleportation powers and I think you should take off from here and make some room between you and the tower." Yahan said and took out to look for a good hiding place. She had always had a knack at finding those, mostly from experience from her line of work. Akitsu started to jump away from the tower, aiming for the big municipal building in the distance while waiting Yahan to find a resting place. She didn't trust her yet, as she was sure that Yahan was working with Karasuba but only time would tell.
"Don't worry Minato. I will keep you safe." She whispered to the boy who had fallen uncoscious in her arms. She smiled at the peaceful look in his face and wowed to keep him safe no matter what, even if she needed to kill every single human who came into contact with him. Not even Karasuba came near him without permission, this she swore to Minato and went to wait for Yahan behind the big machines that were on the roof of the municipal building that turned out to be a school.
So here we are again. Hopefully you don't think I am moving too slow or fast with the pacing of this one but I think the sekirei plan will start in another chapter or two.
As you may or may not know, I am writing another sekirei story along with this one. The main reason is that the idea for the other one (Darkness Consuming) did not leave me alone and I found myself writing that in the middle of this chapter, so I had to write that out of the way. Sorry about that :D It would please me if any of you who read this, would read that one as well and give me your opinions on it. As always, I would very much appreciate any reviews, opinions and ideas you want to tell me for this one. I assure you that I read every post you write and give the ideas some thought. And last but not least, if there is something wrong in this story, tell me. It could be that I use a theme too often or too little, not concentrating on characters enough or if you would like me to use more description on places and charactes, tell me so I know what I am doing wrong, if I am doing something wrong :D
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