Author's Note: All of you who enjoy Sekirei fanfiction, and especially any Akizu fans out there please give the story; A Cold Sensation that Warmed my Heart, by unclejoex3 a try.

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After a short battle Minato managed to get both of them to stop. Kazehana was willing. Tsukiumi, despite failing to land a single hit, reluctantly agreed to a truce. Getting them to stop attacking each other was only the beginning.

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Somehow or other Kazehana managed to switch places with Kusano at the dinner table. She was sitting to Minato's left while Tsukiumi was in her usual place to his right. Kazehana spent her time teasing him and giving him little shoulder rubs while also trying to get him to have more wine. Tsukiumi spent the entire dinner scowling at the intruder. Minato meanwhile tried desperately to keep things from descending into open bloodshed.

"So Minato-kun, it looks like you're really into cosplay," Kazehana said sounding amused. "You naughty boy, I wouldn't have guessed. Would you like me to put on a French maid's uniform too? Or maybe something in leather?"

"This is not cosplay!" Tsukiumi said, venom dripping in her voice.

"What's cosplay?' Musubi asked.

"Have Yukari explain it to you," Akizu told her.

"Hey!" Yukari objected sharply.

"Yes?" Akizu turned to her calmly. "That is the reason you keep Shiina in that sailor suit isn't it?"

The boy in the said outfit blushed and lowered his head.

"So what are the sleeping arrangements?" Kazehana asked with a purr in her voice. "Do we all share or take turns?" Leaning over she put her lips to his ear and whispered the last part just for him. "I'm happy giving it to you either way my love."

Minato grabbed a napkin to staunch the blood suddenly gushing out his nose.

"There is no sharing or turns!" Tsukiumi shouted furiously. "As his one and only legal wife I am the only one to perform the wifely duties!"

Kazehana looked at her mischievously. "Does his cock have your name stamped on it?"

Tsukiumi turned a deep red and started to make choking sounds.

"What's a cock?" Musubi asked.

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"Vile, disgusting, horrible woman!" Tsukiumi muttered as she lay in bed beside her husband. "To say such things out loud! She has absolutely no shame or sense of decency!"

"I… I don't think she's really that bad," Minato said carefully. "I just think that she's saying what she honestly feels."

Tsukiumi looked over at him a bit worried. "Minato, do you… like her?"

"Yes," he answered honestly. "I like all my sekirei, and I want to try and make all of them happy. Each of them chose me, and I want to repay that kindness." He reached over and placed a gentle hand on her cheek. He looked into her sea deep eyes. "But the only one I love in that way is you Tsukiumi."

At his touch and soft words she shut her eyes and shyly nodded. When they were alone together, and especially here in bed, Tsukiumi was a very different person from who she was the rest of the time. Here she was nervous and shy and very, very tender. It was here that she would smile for him. He always thought it a terrible shame that she so rarely smiled in public. She truly had the most beautiful smile in the world.

"Minato," she said in a quiet voice. "You know I would do anything to please you. So long as it is you, and we are alone, I don't mind."

"I already know that, and you don't have to ever worry, you always make me happy." He kissed her and slid his hands beneath her nightgown to begin teasing her breasts. She was not eh only one who was different when they were alone. While he still tended to be nervous and flustered around the others, when he was alone with her he felt confident to do the things they both enjoyed. They began making slow unhurried love, both of them enjoying the feelings they brought out in one another.

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The next morning Minato and Tsukiumi went down to the dining room together for breakfast. Musubi, Yukari, Kusano and Shiina were already seated.

"Kazehana knows how to cook," Musubi announced. "She's helping Akizu make breakfast."

"Well that's good of her," Tsukiumi acknowledged sourly. "It's nice to know she can do something other than flirt with my husband."

"Tsukiumi," Minato said. "Please, let's all try to get along."

Looking unhappy Tsukiumi nodded. "For your sake Minato, I will try."

As they were sitting down the door to the kitchen opened and Akizu and Kazehana came out with trays of food. Akizu was dressed in her usual maid outfit. Kazehana had on high heels and an apron… and nothing else.

As soon as Minato saw her naked backside blood came spilling out his nose. Tsukiumi slapped a hand over his eyes and growled. "You shameless woman! Why are you dressed like that?"

"What?' Kazehana asked innocently. "You expect me to cook without an apron?"

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Minato had his books and other supplies in his back pack ready to get to school. The girls were all by the front door. (Kazehana was now dressed in her usual outfit.)

"Have a good day at school Minato, and don't forget we are having visitors tonight. My friend Homura and he is bringing a girl with him, someone named Uzume." Tsukiumi told him.

"She's not an unwinged sekirei is she?" He asked fearfully. To his immense relief Tsukiumi was shaking her head.

"No she is not, if she were I wouldn't allow her within a thousand yards of you. The only unwinged one will be him so you should be safe."

Minato nodded. He was a little worried at the prospect of his sister acquiring a second sekirei. He knew very well how complicated that could make things. But if things worked out he certainly wouldn't stands in their way. "All right, I'll be back in time for lunch." As he turned towards the door though Kazehana was there.

"Have a good day at school darling." Before he could react she grabbed his face and planted her mouth on his and pushed her tongue eagerly past his surprised lips.

"HEY!!" Tsukiumi screamed.

"What?" Kazehana asked as she released him. Minato stood there too stunned to move, his heart was pounding.

"You are not allowed to kiss him!" Tsukiumi raged.

"Really? What if were in a battle and his life is in danger and I need the power of my norita? Should I not kiss him and leave him in danger?"

"There's no battle going on now!"

"So does that mean under those circumstances I'm allowed to kiss him?"

Tsukiumi opened her mouth and hesitated. "Fine! If his life is in danger you can kiss him."

Kazehana immediately put her arms around his shoulder and gave him another long kiss.

"Wha... what the hell?!!" Tsukiumi screamed ready to commit murder.

When Kazehana let go she looked over at Tsukiumi. "That was to protect him from dying of loneliness." She said with an innocent grin.

"Musubi wants to protect him too!" Leaning over she kissed him as well. Tsukiumi stood there with her mouth hanging open. When the kiss ended Musubi looked like a child on Christmas morning. "Have a really good day Minato-sama!"

Minato was still unable to move when Akizu came up to him. "Have a good day at school master." Her kiss was more rigid and chaste than the others had been, but when it ended there was a rare blush on Akizu's face and a very slight grin.

Minato felt a tug on his jacket and looked down to see Kusano. "Me too oniichan, don't leave me out."

Not wanting to leave her out and not wanting to be a criminal Minato placed a warm kiss on her cheek that seemed to satisfy the little girl. He then hurried out the door.

When he was gone Tsukiumi turned her full rage on Kazehana who did not seem especially intimidated. "Just what are you trying to do with my husband?!" Tsukiumi demanded.

"Nothing," she answered sweetly. "I was just wanting to give my love and ashikabi a kiss. Just because you call him your husband doesn't mean you can keep him all to yourself."

"Yes it does!"

"No it doesn't," Kazehana replied. "Whether you like it or not we are all his sekirei and we all love him."

"Your love isn't as strong as mine!" Tsukiumi shouted. "I would do anything for Minato!"

"So would I," Kazehana said.

"So would Musubi!"

"I would anything the master wished me to."

"Ku would do anything for her oniichan!"

"Sounds to me like everyone loves him in the same way," Kazehana noted.

"I don't care how you put it or what you say. I will never let you take Minato away from me!"

"I don't want to take him away from you Tsukiumi," Kazehana said. "I can see that you love him and that he loves you. The last thing I would ever do is interfere with that. You share a beautiful love with your ashikabi and I am happy for you. But is it really fair for you to deny the rest of the same chance to be with him? We are all his sekirei and we are all in love with him. Are our feeling really so much less important that yours?"

Tsukiumi looked at her unhappily. This was a view she had never really considered before. In her eyes the others had always been unwelcomed rivals to be defeated. She believed in battle and the basic principle that to the winner go the spoils. Yet the others weren't really enemies. They lived together and if Minato were in danger they would fight to protect him. They were, in a certain sense, family. The connection they all shared to Minato also bound them to each other. But even if she could recognize that she still couldn't bear the thought of losing her place with him. Even if it was selfish of her she didn't want to give up the special relationship she had with the man she loved.

Seeing she was unlikely to get an answer Kazehana shrugged. "Well anyway think about it."