Author's note: We're almost at the end of Destinations part 1. About 2 or 3 more chapters until the end, meaning I'll go into season 2 after this, or maybe I'll add a few off-season chapters; like DLC stuff or something. I'm going to be doing two stories back to back after the final chapter of part one. Remember to leave reviews of your opinions and other stuff and remember to check out the fics. Hellfire and Obsidian out.

"Training?" Oriha asked me.

All of us were gathered in my training/gym area, and I was wearing nothing but slightly baggy black athletic pants and agile combat boots. They were all in similar black athletic shirts and slim athletic pants and shoes. Some of them had their hair done up in a tail or a bun or something to keep it from getting all over the place and in their way. I smiled. "That's right, Oriha. We're training." I answered as I picked up a bottle of water. "We're all going to be developing new fighting techniques for the upcoming battle, and I'm going to be your trainer."

I poured some water on my head and ruffled it all through my locks of hair. I smiled in vigorous excitement and took stance. Upon each of my hands were black pugilist fighting kenpo equipment gloves. "Come on, babies! Gimme your best shot." I taunted.

They simply stood there, befuddled by my sudden show of excitement. "Why would we attack you?" Oriha asked me with her finger on her chin.

"Thou art not protected by armor, nor armed with a weapon. 'Tis unfair." Tsukiumi chimed in.

I scrunched my face in disapproval. "I was going to take you girls on a date based on your performance with me, buuuuut, wellll..." I said.

They all jumped straight up in place out of the sheer surprise of my offer, and then they all cried out, "Get him!"

I smiled and sharpened my senses, taking stance. "That's right, baby girls, come and get me." I taunted to myself.

And it began. Katsuragi and Benitsubasa, my unarmed fighting sekireis, were the first pair to lunge at me. Katsuragi was in the air, preparing to sweep kick me with her foreleg from the left; whereas Benitsubasa's fists were coated with her red light energy corona as she was about to energy punch me with both of her fists. I used both of my arms to block the Red Sekirei's attack, but it hit me with the force of a runaway sledgehammer, and I grunted in aggrivating pain. "Grrrraahhhh!" I growled out as I retaliated and I unleashed a salvo of punches, which she was quick enough to block with her arms. But that was exactly what I wanted, and I showed that as I punched her shoulder with all of my force, and as I saw her arms disband ad I heard her groan in sharp exasperation, I punched her gut like a rocket's force and I quickly and efficiently picked her up over my head and then slammed her down upon her back. Remembering that she wasn't my only sparring opponent, I turned swiftly to my left and caught the ankle of what would be a sweep kick to the side of my head ; and as I did so, the momentum of Katsuragi's attempt of an attack slid my feet. I smiled, and blew a small kiss to her as I spun her 360 degrees over my head and slammed her onto the ground. Looking down on them, I saw that they weren't hurt, just lying on the ground and panting out of sudden exhaustion. Seeing this, I smiled in relief. "That's two." I said to myself.

Then came my other opponents. I leapt into the air and gyrated my arms and legs in an inverted flip in order to dodge the incoming sawblade gears and projectiles of light mixed in with whipping tendrils of living shade. I landed upon my feet with a pound and faced Oriha, Midasu and Kagayaki. I smiled and took a cranelike stance. "Don't think this is unfair, ladies. This will be-" I said before I heard my phone ring on a bench a few feet from the big arena mat we were on. I groaned and walked over to it. "Lemme get this."

I picked up my phone and saw a pciture of Yukari and I standing together, holding ice creams and pressing faces to one another. The ringtone was a standard digital ring, no song was made to loop back for a ringtone customization for her. I slid the phone's answer button on the screen to answer the phone. "Hello?" I asked.

"Goooood morning, baby boo!" Yukari's voice cried out in greeting, her voice all glazed in joy and cute affection. "How was your night? Is my brother doing okay?"

I smiled and closed my eyes, sighing. 'Typical Yukari.' I said to myself. "He's doing very well, Yukari." I answered. "And my night was eventful."

"Oh! How exciting! You won't believe about my night!" she began to vent out to me. "So apparently..."

She began to tell me all about how she and Kagari began to spend most of their night at the club that he worked at, and they had a few drinks and whatnot, but Yukari wasn't drinking any alchohol (at least I hoped not). And after a whole night of partying and clubbing and whatnot, she went on to her main point. "... and then he kissed me."

I widened my eyes. "He kissed you?" I asked in alarm. "So you're an ashikabi now!?"

She was silent. "No, I'm not cheating on you. I'll let this slide because you're American, but don't make up words to accuse me of cheating on you." she answered, as if trying to deny a secret.

"Yukari, I'm not accusing you of cheating on me. I don't even know if the word Ashikabi actually means anything in english." I argued.

"I don't either." she chimed in.

"Exactly." I agreed swiftly. "But understand that I am not someone that you want to hide this from. So I'm going to ask you in english this time. Are. You. Kagari's. Ashiabi?" I sternly and seriously asked her.

She was silent once more. "If you know about it, that must mean you are too." she answered.

I let out a breath, and I could tell she heard me. "Yes, I am. I have eight sekireis living with me." I admitted to her.

She was quiet even more, and I became fearful of breaking her heart. "So when you told me that Minato was with his girlfriend and your neice, you really meant that he was with his sekireis?" she asked.

"Yeah." I answered her.

"Oh, well that all makes sense!" she replied with joy.

I should have fallen down like Minato usually does, whenever something throws you off so much that you quite literally fall down. "It makes sense?"

"Yeah! Explains why you're usually so busy! And why Minato never really talks to me on the phone any more! You two are ashiabis! Are you in some club with your women?" she asked as she gasped. "Are you guys having sex parties?!"

"No we are not having sex parties with our sekireis!" I screamed out hysterically.

"Okay, okay, geez mister scream-my-ass off-at-my-girlfriend." she chided.

"You are not my girlfriend! We are simply ashiabis that are very close!" I kept going.

"And romantically inclined. I'm your girlfriend." she argued.

"God dammit, my sekireis would tear you apart if you try to-" I began.

"And my sekirei would kill you if you hurt me. Look, I don't need to be your girlfriend, but whether you like it or not, I love you just as much as they do." she snapped.

I was silent as I looked to my sekireis, standing on the mat and looking at me. I knew then that they heard my entire conversation and were still listening, but they didn't look all too angry. Akitsu was looking monotonous like usual, but her eyes gleamed out with a sense of approval with my situation. Tsukiumi looked like although she didn't like having to compete with an ashikabi to gain me, she knew that since she had a sekirei already, she was nothing to worry about. Midasu and Kagayaki simply smiled intently at me, and I could already tell that they were thinking of nasty ways that they could "share" me with Yukari Sahashi. I closed my eyes, sighed and smiled before I looked up at Oriha to find that she was smiling and winking at me gleefully. "I love you too, Yukari. But I hope you know that you'll have plenty of competition with my family of sekireis." I replied.

"You mean your harem." she corrected.

"No, family." I argued.

"Harem."

"Family."

"Harem." she said more slowly.

"Family." I said, following suit.

"Harems consist of multiple women that you sleep with." Yukari argued in her logos. "How many of them have you screwed?"

"I've only had sex with half of them, maybe five." I answered.

"Uh huh, you have a harem. You should at least have some time with the other three or four." she said to me.

"I plan to, today actually." I said as I noticed their impatience. "I'd better go, I was actually training with them until you called me."

She giggled. "I love you, boo."

"Love you too. I'll see you at Maison Izumo in two days." I gave farewell as I hung up on her.

I walked over back to the mat and smiled nervously. "Please don't kill me?" I begged.

Tsukiumi smiled and grabbed my face, squiching my cheeks and making my mouth open round and small like a fish. "Thou art damn right, Nathan. She shall have very much competition for you." she affirmed.

"Ehh heehh." I affirmed.

She kissed me deeply and went from squishing my face to simply brushing my cheek with her soft palm. When we were finished kissing, she began to walk awak a little. "Thou shalt take us for dates." she decreed. "As thou hst already stated, of course. Today thou shalt chose, and then I shall chose for thee."

I smiled in confusion. "What brought up this sudden burst of bravado?" I asked.

She turned her head to me and smiled with more confidence, almost challengingly so. "The fact that thou art devoted to all of us. Thou pleases me very well, now 'do' thy 'thing', as thou Americans say it."

I smiled and chuckled. "I suppose so, Tsukiumi." I agreed. "Well, since I'm only chosing today... Oriha, come on and let's get dressed. I'm treating you to a few things, Nathan style." I said to her.

Oriha immediately bounced up to me, almost face-level close. Her face shone with a giant cutie smile and glittering eyes. "Ohmygoshthisissoexciting! I wanna watch a movie and get a lot of candy and get a puppy!"

I smiled and kissed her forhead. "Anything you want. C'mon, today is Oriha day." I said with a grin of excitement.

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The sun was already down, and we were both tired as we walked our way home. But the day was beyond fun and enjoyable. As soon as we left, we bolt our way to the nearest amusement park and rode every single ride there was, five times. We had lunch, a bunch of snacks from candy and food stands here and there, and then after all of that, we walked out of there with both of our arms filled with stuffed animals. Except for snakes, which she shireked and cried out about. Didn't really think that she'd be so afraid of snakes, but sure enough she had a phobia of 'em. But aside from that, we dropped them off at Maison Izumo so that she and I could see this recent hit movie that was about some sort of principle of love, and friendship and all of that business; with an evil father who had the main protagonist woman branded for murder, but she found this guy and they tried to run away together. But then there was a buttload of dramatic and combat scenes, and they actually had a "happily ever after" thing going for them. With the movie done, we also had this really huge dinner of the most expensive cooked sushi that I could buy for her. We might as well have walked out of the restaraunt with gigantic bellies that bubbled and hobbled around when we tried to walk. But yet, we didn't. After all of that, I also ended up doing a bit of last minute shopping for some more clothing for her. The mall time of which we were shopping ended as the sun finally set upon us, and we decided to go back to Maison Izumo and pick up everything.

And now we were finally heading home, our arms full of the stuffed animals and bags of clothing that were all collectively for her. Her face was glazed, almost radiating joy and a sense of giggly and drunken pleasure from having been treated to a fabulous day with her Ashikabi. I could tell, for she had a really cute smile on her face, almost too big to fit. Seeing this, I smiled and chuckled. "So, how was your day, Oriha?" I asked her.

She looked back and up to me, giggling and wearing this kissy face. "It was absolutely perfect, dear."

I laughed a bit. " 'Dear'? I'm sorry, are you and I an old married couple now?"

She giggled. "Not yet we aren't. But we are sharing a bed tonight."

"We are?" I asked.

"Of course, silly man!" she answered with a jolt. "Today is me day! That means tonight is me night too."

"Very well. I guess I'm sleeping in your room tonight then." I affirmed as we got home.

It wasn't even ten seconds, not even five seconds, before I heard the judgement fall upon me. "Nathan Felix!" Tsukiumi's voice boomed as she grabbed me by my shirt and pulled me close to her.

Her eyes blazed with serious fury like usual when she was in her hyperactive anger moments. "Hast thou treated Oriha to a fine day like I commanded thee?!" she interrogated like an angry goddess.

Fearing for my own life, I closed my eyes tightly and squealed out, "Yes ma'am!"

Slowly opening my eyes, I saw that she smiled at me more, satisfied by my performance with Oriha. She kissed me deeply, her lips showing very much appreciation. Her tongue was wrestling with mine and I could tell that in every way, not only was she starving for me, but she was also extremely pleased. When we pulled away, a thin string of saliva still connected us and she smiled warmly to me: which was new. "Good. Thou hast passed my test."

I was confused. "Test?" I asked.

"To make sure that you were telling the truth, and you love all of us equally." she explained. "Tomorrow, thou art taking Midasu and Kagayaki out." she decreed.

I blinked a couple times, befuddled by Tsukiumi's sudden burst of cunning and dexterity. My heart began to pound in absolute lust and desire, and my loins began to enlarge at this as well. "Dear sweet Christ, I love you, Tsukiumi." I admitted to her, submissively.

She gasped out a little bit, then she giggled and blushed a little bit. "American men are such ass kissers." she chastised with a kiss on the cheek. "Now go with Oriha to thy chambers, my ashikabi."

And thus I went to Oriha's bedroom with her and put down all of her stuff. "Well, I suppose that's just how Tsukiumi's going to play it." I said. "So what are we going to do...now...?" I asked, tapiring off into paralyzing silence as I turned around and saw Oriha dropping her clothing on the ground.

She was naked, and I saw more of her now than I did in all of the time I knew her. She had a rather petite womanly body, with smooth skin, and maybe C-cups, if not B-cups. I gazed upon her, with her hair let down and her dress all over the floor. She was blushing very darkly, and he couldn't even look directly at me. "Take a picture, why don't you?" she japed.

I spuddered a little bit. "I'm sorry, it's just that-"

"It's just that you've never seen me naked?" she asked. "I'm your sekirei, Nathan, I always figured we'd do this."

"Well, yeah, but-" I began as she unleashed her sawblade gears upon me and seared off my clothing.

Upon the sight, she smiled and winked at me. "You have a beautiful body, Ashikabi-kun." she complimented as she saw my loins begin to enlarge.

'Just take the compliment, and love her like she wants.' I told myself as I walked over to her and held her cheek softly, looking into her violet eyes. "You do too, Oriha. " I complimented.

She kissed the palm of my hand, and began to suckle on my fingers. Then she stopped and leaned in for a kiss. "I love you, Nathan."

"And I love you, Oriha." I replied as we kissed deeply, her wings bursting from her back.

That night we made love upon her soft cushiony bed, and not once did she let go of me in any way. Her body was smooth, tight, and beautiful. And from my hearing of her moans and cries of love, I was enjoyable to her as well. At the end of the night, love juice, sweat and all other things were all over the place, and my palace was filled with the love cries of a woman who lost her virginity. The night ended on the perfect note, and we slept heavily, snuggling tightly to one another.

And that was only the first of a few days. I could hardly imagine what the next day would be like. But in the end, it all lead to the end of the line. Sooner or later, I'd have to help Minato save Haruka and Kuno.