Sitting up Marcus put a hand through his sweat drenched hair, "I have to be honest with you Takami".
Glancing at him she raised her eyebrows, "Oh?".
"When I asked if you wanted to do anything tonight I thought you'd take out a 9mm and shoot me square between the eyes".
At this she chuckled, "What can I say, I was surprised you had the balls".
He smiled, "Of course".
Smile disappearing she sighed, "Marcus, we both have kids and we're separated so I think we both know…".
Quickly cutting her off he continued for her, "How this works, I do know".
He too sighed, "I realize you must be confused about this, after all you've stuck to the same man for nearing on 20 years now".
Turning to her fully Marcus slipped his hand into Takami's, "I just hope that you'll stop degrading yourself by devoting your entire life to him".
A small smile appeared on her lips, "you're a better man than I hopped…".
Quickly
maneuvering himself so he was behind, Marcus wrapped his arms around
Takami and whispered into her ear, "And you're a better Woman
than I deserve".
For several minutes they sat simply enjoying
each other's embrace.
A break from the world, and brief reprieve from the Sekirei Plan.
After a while Takami remembered something, "Didn't you want to ask me something about your Son?".
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As per Miya's suggestion John took a walk to clear his head after the previous night.
The same night that rendered most at the Inn either fully or semi unconscious due to the horrendous amounts of Saki consumed.
Or in Suzume and Ku-chan's case a sugar crash.
Walking down the street he didn't notice as he walked into a pink-haired girl in a designer dress.
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Walking down the street Benitsubasa was doing what she loved most, shop therapy.
Un-fortunately it wasn't working.
Her mind was racing with thoughts of her Ashikabi.
It was common knowledge that Natsuo Ichinomi was gay.
But she had always thought that she could turn him, make him love her.
That was until she had found him in bed with some college student.
Now everything seemed so hopeless, how could the man she loved not love her.
Was it her fault?.
Was it because her breast were too small.
Looking down at them she didn't see a certain Ashikabi run into her
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Both then collided in a spectacular fashion, with both ending up on their rear ends.
Rubbing his John looked up at whoever ran into him.
He found a beautiful girl of about Mitsuki's age with Pink hair, Pink eyes, weird he thought, and a designer French dress.
Getting up he offered her his hand, "sorry about that, my mind was elsewhere".
Glaring up at him she yelled, "HOW DARE YOU!, DO YOU KNOW WHO…".
She trailed off as she began feeling hot and weak at the knees, what is this!?!, she thought, it can't be!.
John put both hands up to defend himself, "like I said I'm sorry!".
Then he began to feel the warmness in his heart that he felt whenever he met a Sekirei.
As he quickly regained his composure she glared at him again, "well!?!, aren't you going to help me up!?!".
Quickly pulling her up he couldn't help but notice that she was slightly heavier than he expected.
Dusting herself off Benitsubasa glanced at the man before her.
The most obvious feature about him was that he was western.
Besides that he was a fair bit taller than Benitsubasa, sporting denim jeans, a light green T-shirt that said Tokyo Metro and a leather jacket.
He had short brown hair and Chocolate brown eyes, along with what appeared to be 5-o-clock shadow.
Deciding he was interesting she said, "I've decided how you are going to make it up to me!".
He blinked, "Huh?".
She fixed him with another glare, "you are going to make it up to me aren't you!?!".
Quickly deciding that he was in no position to argue with a Sekirei that could possibly throw him half-way across town John nodded, "yeah".
Putting her hands on her hips she huffed, "Then you're taking me shopping!".
John sighed both physically and mentally, how was he going to get out of this one?.
Looking her in the eyes he said, "Then We better get introductions out of the way, I'm John Smith and you are?".
"Benitsubasa".
Taking his hand she began to lead him back down the street.
As he struggled to keep up with her also he noticed that she was scratching the back of her neck, her Sekirei crest, as if it were burning.
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In their third store after running into each other almost 3 hours ago, Benitsubasa was trying out some of the latest designs.
John wanted to throw himself off MBI Tower.
Appearing out of the dressing room in a pink cocktail dress that seemed to be tight around her rear end and show off enough cleavage to make the size of her breasts irrelevant.
Which was probably why she picked it.
10 minute into the worst experience in his life John had already noticed that Benitsubasa was very conscious of her breast size.
"Well?" she said, pirouetting to give the full view.
Blushing a bit he smiled, "Its great and the color seems to blend in with your hair".
This time Benitsubasa blushed, "thanks…".
Ok now she was confused!.
Every time he looked at her like that and smiled her heart galloped.
But Natsuo is my Ashikabi!, she thought.
Heading back into the dressing room she leaned against the wall to regain her composure.
"Benitsubasa?, are you ok in there?" called John.
She managed to keep herself from gasping her response.
"I'm fine!", she replied, "just a little hungry".
After a few moments he replied, "ok, then how about…French?".
Nodding to herself she sighed, "that'd be fine".
How did he know French was her favorite?.
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After a very satisfying lunch Benitsubasa had absent mindedly looped her arm through John's, leading him down the street.
Then at the corner of her eye she caught something.
Pointing at it she tugged at his arm, "look!, a Photo booth!, let's try it out!".
Before he could refuse he was quickly dragged inside.
Planting herself on John's lap Benitsubasa secretly reveled in the feeling of having his body leaning against hers, causing her to blush.
Pushing the button she ordered him, "say Cheese!".
Doing his best he smiled.
But with each flash the warmness in his heart grew until he couldn't take it anymore.
With each flash the fiery feeling in her chest and crest grew and grew, as did the desire to be with him forever.
They both leaned in as she whispered, "let us be like this, now and forever!".
Their lips met in a passionate kiss, that thrilled them both to the core.
The crest on her neck disappeared and then re-appeared.
And as the wallet sized photos popped out of the machine the last three showed wings of a brilliant pink light extending out of Benitsubasa's back.
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I think you all saw it coming and before anyone asks, yes Marcus and Takami are in a relationship.
P.s: what should the next Sekirei be?.
