Ghost Ashikabi

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

Chapter 25: Annoying Tsundere and Homura's Luck

Downtown Shinto Teito...

Leaping across the city below, an imperious long blonde haired woman wearing a short white skirt, white shirt, black belt, and black coat. She also had knee high boots and black leggings going up even farther while sporting an incredible female bust most women would be envious in having. This woman in particular was scowling with both her hands on her hips, standing in a pose meant to intimidate anyone who saw it. Not that anyone could at the moment since she was standing so high up and no one really looked up for the hell of it.

All in all, she was posing in an intimidating fashion for nothing.

Right now said blonde was thinking about finding the perverted monkey who she'd been dreaming about; the one to be her ashikabi and drowning the pathetic monkey in a tidal wave of water.

"Something on your mind Tsukiumi?" The blonde jumped as she turned to see Homura standing behind her.

"Homura! How dare thee sneak up behind me in such a dishonorable fashion?" Tsukiumi exclaimed while pointing at Homura.

"I had no intention of sneaking up on you Tsukiumi. You were so distracted from your desire to mentally drown everyone in the city you didn't hear me walk up behind you. I could have deactivated you if I wanted." Homura countered before dodging a blast of water aimed at him by her.

"So thou wishes to test me in combat, even though you are unwinged. Fine! I shall show thee the difference in our power!" Tsukiumi declared with Homura now sighing in annoyance.

"Sorry to burst your bubble but I am winged now." Homura countered making the blonde pause in surprise.

"Thou has been winged?! When?! How?!" Tsukiumi asked.

"Last night. I met my ashikabi, a beautiful and considerate woman." Homura said proudly. 'Not to mention dangerous in her own right. In fact almost as dangerous as those 'two'.' He added based on what he'd felt from her when they met in their dream and then when they met for real.

Flashback...

Kagari couldn't help but smile in excitement as he left Maison Izumo. The cool night air seemed to soothe his inflamed body, something he was very grateful for. Life at the inn had gotten much more interesting ever since Renato recovered from his defeat at the hands of Neon Cross. He honestly saw it coming as he knew that Renato's odds in a straight up fight against his former teacher were very low. He was honestly glad he survived though. Not to mention the man's Sekirei wouldn't let the man out of their sight as he recovered well. In fact right now he felt that Renato had become even more powerful. Still that was for another time.

As he walked down one of the many streets near the inn, a white Porsche pulled up beside him startling him a little. The passenger side window came down and he gasped at the sight of the driver, his ashikabi and he began burning up at this point and struggling to keep his balance as he also felt her power which was at the same level as Renato and even Neon which amazed and frightened him at the same time.

On the steering wheel was a slender women with brown hair and brown eyes and light skin. Currently, she was wearing a blue cocktail dress with fishnet stockings and blue high-heeled shoes. Seeing Kagari/Homura in pain, she got out of the car and was at his side in seconds as she easily sensed his out of control power.

"You look like you're going to explode. I take it that you're reacting to me now Homura." The woman said trying to support his body.

"Y-Yes." Homura struggled to answer, torn with pain and pleasure and stumbled back. He knew why this was happening and until he was winged his body would spiral out of control. "Y-You'll have to-" Suddenly his body was engulfed by flame causing the woman to jump back with a shocked look on her face.

"What the hell!" The brunette exclaimed in shock.

"I know a way to stop this." Homura said.

"I take it that I have to wing you right?" The woman deduced.

"Yes...which means you need to kiss me." Homura spoke with determination.

"If I wanted to get a tan I'd do that at a salon not through a kiss." The woman deadpanned.

"Just trust me. Please, it's the only way!"

With a frown the brunette reluctantly accepted. "Fine. The worst that can happen is I get a bad tan."

Moving close to Homura while maneuvering around the violent flames she closed in on his body, moving her body against his she gently placed her lips upon his and watched in awe as beautiful wings of fire erupted from the man's back. The firestorm around the duo picked up for a moment before gradually setting down.

With a flushed face Homura moved back from her and spoke "Homura Sekirei No.6, I will protect you with these flames of my pact forever my Ashikabi..." before he passed out in her arms.

End flashback...

Homura felt a little embarrassed at how their evening went after as he went through some more interrogation but still it was worth it as he now felt complete.

"Anyways your chances at beating me are a lot lower than before." He said to the blonde only to dodge even more as Tsukiumi lashed out relentlessly with her water attacks against him.

"Silence! You have been a constant annoyance to me. Claiming repeatedly I should have a monkey for an Ashikabi. And now thou came here boasting about how you are stronger than me and could have deactivated me, yet you dodge, and flee from my attacks like a coward! Fight me thou spineless bastard!" Tsukiumi yelled while flooding the roof with water and forcing Homura to leap to the next one.

Only to be pursued by the angry busty blonde woman.

Homura knew he could beat her right now if he wanted but he didn't want to right now as he had better things to do. Still he had to defuse this situation.

"Just who is your Ashikabi anyway? I know you're obviously reacting to someone." Homura said, as he had seen Tsukiumi around Shinto Teito, and noticed the woman had been reacting to someone strongly enough to bring about such anger at him.

"That is none of thy business!" Tsukiumi yelled while trying to drown Homura's ass.

"I know, but if you plan to kill your potential Ashikabi, it will only bring down the wrath of the secondary Discipline Squad led by Neon Cross." Homura warned while he saw Tsukiumi pause in her motion to launch water at him.

"Teacher?! How does thee know of him? Speak!" Tsukiumi demanded, as she grit her teeth, and glared at Homura.

"He was my teacher too. Still if you know what's good for you just drop the idea of killing your ashikabi. Unlike Minaka our teacher wouldn't think twice about obliterating you if you outright committed murder." Homura said.

"Where is he?!" Tsukiumi demanded once more.

"At a penthouse apartment in Downtown Shinto Teito close to the MBI Tower you can't miss it. Just be careful of his Sekirei, one of them in particular is the Black Sekirei, after all he's the ashikabi of this secondary discipline squad." Homura answered before leaping away leaving the blonde woman gritting her teeth.

'He's right. Teacher would kill me if I tried to kill that monkey still I can't accept being bonded to such a fiend.' Tsukiumi thought. The one she called Teacher is the only man she ever respected and treated her with respect. The man had honor but was also a monster but only to those foolish enough to anger him. He was the one who convinced her that not all men are fiends like she'd thought.

With that Tsukiumi then made up her mind on what to do next.

...

It'd been a few days since Renato woke up from unconsciousness after his loss against Neon. Since then his body had recovered enough for him to work his body back to tip top condition.

That includes his fighting skills since that fight showed that Neon was the better fighter and that Renato needed more than his stealth skills if he wanted to stand a chance against his nemesis. Neon had shown that he'd improved by leaps and bounds since their last engagement way before they met at the Hyamaki hospital and if he was to stand a chance at beating him he'd need to be better; blade or hand to hand.

He cannot afford another loss.

Renato sighed happily at the feeling of the steaming hot water in the tub taking care of his aching and tired body this particular morning. He'd just finished an intense sparring session with Yahan, Akitsu, Yashima and Ikki as part of his way of working on his weapon fighting skills and training his Sekirei and also a sparring match with the excitable Musubi who was more than happy to spar with him since she was the only bare handed fighter in the inn anyways.

So far training was going on well for his Sekirei and his fighting form had returned and he was getting better. Yahan was almost a match for him in knife fighting and stealth; almost being the keyword. Ikki's mastery with her wakizashis were top notch now and can hold her ground against him at least for two hours and that's when he's holding back. Yashima had improved leaps and bounds and could now use her giant hammer without leaving herself open too much and even could conceal the giant hammer and not burden herself. Akitsu could now hold her own in a close range fight and can make ice weapons to use for such situation, though long range was still her forte.

Kochou was the exception since she wasn't a combat type but her hacking skills were almost close to Matsu's as the two have been competing with each other in that and who the better ashikabi is between him and Minato which irritated the Nigerian a lot.

Renato heard the door open and chuckled as he knew who had come in considering their almost silent footsteps.

"How nice of you to join me." He said and smirked as he felt her surprise at being caught.

"Ah...You caught me." Akitsu whispered as she approached the hot tub naked without any hint of shame regarding her body, and entered with a wash cloth in hand.

"I swear you're quite the sneaky one aren't you?" Renato said.

"Well not as sneaky as me." Yahan spoke up from behind Renato in the tub.

"Yes who can ever forget my beautiful shadow dancer?" Renato responded, making Yahan blush while Akitsu narrowed her eyes and wasted no time moving to her ashikabi's right side.

"Hey no fair! I wanted to wash Renato-sama's back." Yashima whined while entering the bathroom and pouting at seeing Akitsu and Yahan beat her to him first.

"You snooze ya lose." Yahan said.

"Well I call front then." Kochou said as she walked around Yashima without her glasses on and got into the tub taking her spot in front of Renato with a cheeky smile on her face.

"And I'll take the left side." Ikki added as she also went past her and moved to the left and giggling.

"Oh c'mon!" Yashima protested since she felt her being denied to wash Renato's body because the others were beating her to the key spots.

"Instead of whining just get in the tub." Kochou said to Yashima.

"Fine." Yashima pouted and went to join everyone in the tub.

"This is nice. I need this." Renato commented as he enjoyed the feel of his ladies arms and chest around his body though he had to keep Yahan from reaching down south.

"Yes. You definitely need this alright." Kochou said, "You've been training intensely ever since your recovery. You need to relax."

"Yes, you don't need to strain yourself." Yashima added.

"I'll relax when I need to." Renato replied, "And more especially when this sick game of Minaka's no more and Neon's six feet under."

"Forget about those two and RELAX now." Yahan said.

"Yes. Do that. We wouldn't want a repeat of that episode do we?" Ikki said with a tone that didn't match the smile on her face. The same one her sisters had right now that made Renato mellow out quickly.

"Of course we don't." Renato said quickly. His Sekirei were still on his case over his near death experience that had them on the same borderline. They've become very protective, clingy and perceptive of him, never letting him out of their sights especially Yahan who made sure to stay in Renato's shadow most of the time.

Deciding to not argue with them Renato resigned to just enjoying the bath with his Sekirei.

Unknown to all but one Miya had seen them altogether and decided to leave them alone as an exception considering the events that had happened. She knew they needed moments like this.

...

Downtown Shinto Teito

Neon was waiting at the site of another aftermath of punishing rule breaking ashikabis who were trying to force wing a few sekirei. The Sekirei they'd saved were grateful for his intervention and were soon off to find their destined ones. Beside him was a vigilant Kaho who had accompanied him on his patrol of the city. Karasuba was doing her own patrol of the city as reports of ashikabis and sekirei trying to escape the city had gotten to MBI and Minaka wanted to make sure none got out.

Ever since word got around Shinto Teito of a new Discipline Squad, which had MBI's seal of approval, and was ensuring ALL of the rules in the game were strictly enforced some foolish ashikabis have tried to oppose Neon and his Sekirei. Claiming the rules he and his Sekirei had been enforcing were bogus and meant to be followed by losers afraid to get their hands dirty.

Neon knew all about getting his hands dirty. He'd been doing it ever since before these shit stains were born.

Of course an immediate response was needed to let the rest of Shinto Teito know there was more than one Discipline Squad in the city to fear. And it had been immediate and without prejudice. He had his Sekirei deactivate those Sekirei belonging to those fucking morons and then proceed to annihilate each ashikabi of these defeated Sekirei; either leaving them for dead or nothing left for anyone to identify.

Needless to say, those that survived at all never showed their face in Shinto Teito after that. Not like it mattered to MBI in terms of what these morons did once they were out of the Sekirei Plan. A few well-placed threats from the company and flexing of muscle to prove the point and these losers in the game fled the city with the firm belief of keeping their mouths shut about the Sekirei Plan.

With that force wingings had gone to a minimum with a few cases of assholes who still tried, one of them being Mikogami but Neon was going to deal with that little shit later as right now he and Kaho were waiting for MBI to pick up the deactivated sekirei here. At least they were level three deactivations as Takami had been on his case about the large number of level 5 deactivations him and his squad had performed since the squad's forming especially during the leveling of Hyamaki hospital.

Suddenly he sensed someone approaching them and so did his naginata wielding partner who pointed in the direction where the intruder was before Neon signaled to her to be at ease.

"Looks like another student of mine has decided to meet me." Neon began as said person showed herself, "Long time no see Tsukiumi. Still talking with that Shakespearian accent?"

Tsukiumi showed up in her ridiculous, vain glory, a little annoyed at her teacher's jab at her accent.

"It's been a while Teacher and this is how I talk! The only reason I'm not smiting thee now is because of my respect for thee." Kaho sweat dropped at the accent while Neon just shrugged his shoulders.

"Now that Mount Tsundere has finishing exploding." Neon began as Kaho giggled while Tsukiumi glared at him, "May I know what you're here for?"

The blonde Sekirei reigned in her annoyance and got straight to business. "I came to thee for advice about something of importance."

"That important issue being that you're reacting to someone." Neon guessed which she nodded at while Kaho cheered for the blonde for having found her ashikabi. Tsukiumi was about to lash out at her but the look on his face made her rethink that.

"Yes it is unfortunately. However, thou knows about my issues with them especially male ones. I respect thee enough to not outright seek the monkey out to kill him and draw thy wrath and instead need assistance." Tsukiumi stated.

Neon sighed at her as he knew that she'd come to him for this. He'd known about Tsukiumi's issue with men due to the female workers at MBI and it had made training her a pain in the ass until he had to outright knock some sense into her head that not all men were like that and that action gotten him the blonde tsundere's respect. However, Neon is not a therapist.

"Tsukiumi I'm a warrior not a therapist so this isn't exactly something for you to meet me for. But I'll still help you either way for old times' sake." Neon said, "So who's the lucky or unlucky ashikabi in this case? I take it that you dreamed about him right?"

"Yes I did." Tsukiumi replied and began to describe the one she dreamed of. Neon face palmed as that unlucky person was Minato Sahashi, Takami's good hearted but spineless son who had the shitty luck of being involved in Minaka's insane game.

"Well lucky for you I know about your ashikabi." He said.

"Really? How does thee know of him?" The blonde asked.

"I don't know him directly but through someone close to him and I know for a fact that he's not like those fiends you're worried about. If anything he's too good hearted to try anything vile with you." Neon said, "If anything he'll only give you your wings if you were reacting to him and wanted to be his sekirei so you don't have much to worry about."

"Thou is sure about that?" Tsukiumi asked skeptically, "Not like I don't trust thou intuition but I'm still somewhat skeptical."

"If you want you can go and meet him for yourself and see. The kid resides in the North in an inn that belongs to an old friend of mine, Maison Izumo being the name of it." Neon suggested. "Just behave yourself around the one in charge as she won't tolerate your antics there." He warned.

"What if the monkey turns out to be a fiend?" Tsukiumi asked.

"Then do with him as you see fit." Neon said. 'Though I doubt it'll even come to that.'

"I thank thee Teacher." Tsukiumi said with a bow before she leaped away.

"You handled that well." Kaho commented.

"Not really. Like I said, I'm a warrior not a therapist. I just gave her some simple advice anyone can give. Just convincing her that not every man was a perverted fiend or monkey was a real pain in the ass in the past. I needed to drive the point home to her the hard way to make her understand." Neon stated.

"Still based on her profile I'm surprised you're able to put up with her when you trained her."

"Well to be a teacher you'd have to put up with the most annoying students or in some cases nip that annoyance in the bud."

Soon the MBI pickup arrived on the scene and the conversation ended. However Neon face palmed as he felt something familiar once again.

'Really?! Even she's here?! Bloody hell!'

...

Maison Izumo...

Renato woke up in annoyance. His siesta disrupted due to loud noise from downstairs of the inn. Ever since his recovery he'd started to take siestas since his sekirei had made it their mission to keep him from going anywhere and so to prevent himself from getting bored he started to have siestas every day from 1pm to 4pm. He'd warned his sekirei and other people about his siestas and how he didn't want to be bothered at all. Unfortunately Matsu once found out the hard way when she stupidly caused a ruckus near the room during a siesta.

It wasn't pretty and Matsu had been sleeping with an eye open ever since Renato got through with her.

Uzume and Chiho were making noise thanks to Uzume teasing her ashikabi as usual which also woke him up and earned them his wrath. After an hour of terrified screaming Uzume made sure to never tease Chiho during siesta so as to not go through that hellish experience ever again.

The dumbass Seo also made the mistake of entering the room during a siesta and it ended with the bum making an imprint on the wall. The poor bum's sekirei had to pull their ashikabi out and then Miya forced the bum to fix it too as he was at fault for disturbing Renato in the first place.

Now another moron has decided to screw up once more.

Getting off the bed, and quickly putting on a t-shirt, Renato groggily walked out of his room and made his way downstairs where the noise was still being made. Arriving downstairs he turned to his left and spotted the culprits: Musubi and a new person; a blonde woman wearing a short white skirt, white shirt, black belt, and black coat along with knee high boots and black leggings and speaking with a ridiculous accent that further grated on his nerves. Both involved in a yelling match. Kusano was there too but she was just watching the two and Minato was trying to play peacekeeper and failing at it.

The pissed off man also spotted his sekirei, Uzume and Chiho also trying desperately to shush them but with no success and so Renato decided to take matters into his own hands.

"SHUT THE HELL UP!" He shouted loudly while unleashing his terrifying aura.

The result was instant as every one stopped what they were doing and shakily turned towards him. Yahan, Kochou, Akitsu, Ikki and Yashima stood still in fear and to make themselves smaller targets to the angry beast. A scared Minato was embracing the terrified Kusano who returned it tightly while just as terrified Chiho did the same with Uzume. Musubi stood still in fear and so did the blonde but that soon changed quickly and she glared at Renato.

"Who are thou to order me mon-" Tsukiumi began before getting cut off.

"SILENCE INSECT!" This time Tsukiumi wisely did so. Renato turned to Minato. "Minato, please cover Ku-chan's ears and while you're at it tell me the time." He ordered in a lighter tone.

Minato wasted no time covering the child's ears, checked his watch and said, "It's 3:55."

Renato nodded before focusing on Musubi and Tsukiumi. His glare rooting the two to the spot. "Look at my fucking face." He ordered. Musubi did so but Tsukiumi was hesitating. "I said look at my fucking face!" This time she obeyed. "Now do I look amused? DO I FUCKING LOOK AMUSED?!" Both sekirei shook their heads. "So may I know why you two insects raised your voices to the point of interrupting my siesta?! Please tell me while I'm in a civil mood."

'No way in hell is he in a civil mood with that aura he's outputting.' Uzume,Kochou, Yahan and Ikki thought.

'We're so dead! We're so dead!' Yashima panicked in her mind.

Akitsu stayed silent.

Musubi spoke up, "T-Tsukiumi-san w-was just winged by M-Minato-sama and few minutes ago and had been claiming to be Minato-sama's wife because she's his sekirei now. I-I was just telling her that that would also make me his wife but she began yelling and it led to this."

Renato then looked at Tsukiumi. "Care to add anything?"

Once again Tsukiumi managed to gain her bluster and said, "I do not need to say anything else. The strumpet has more or less said it all you ape!" She got rewarded with a full blast of KI as Renato fully focused on her.

"So let me get this straight...You found it fit to yell like a fucking howler monkey because you wanted to stake your claim as the alpha female...Thus ruining my siesta...ARE YOU FUCKING SERIOUS?!" Renato snapped.

Tsukiumi said nothing as she was frozen on the spot seeing a terrifying image of a black dragon towering over her and looking down as if ready to end her existence in one go. The only other time she had felt like this was when she met Neon for the first time and once again she was subjected to this terrifying feeling again and the full brunt of it too.

She wasn't the only one who saw it as every one else could see it too as the level of terror increased tenfold.

"Crap! Now he's let the dragon out!" Yahan exclaimed.

"Not the dragon again! Not the dragon again!" Uzume also exclaimed in panic.

"Thanks a lot you crazy blonde! You just had to make him mad!" Ikki yelled.

Just before Tsukiumi could retort Renato said to her, "Well then congratulations! You've volunteered to be my sparring partner! To the backyard then!"

"How dare thee-"

"SHUT UP. 180 degree turn. AND MOVE IT!"

The blonde couldn't move any faster than that at the terrifying commanding voice and was in the backyard in seconds. At the same time the terrifying aura and draconic apparition vanished allowing every one else to calm down and sigh in relief.

"That felt great." Renato said in satisfaction, making the others sweat drop in disbelief at his mood swing, "And now it's going to get even better with this spar." He then snickers maniacally and goes to the backyard.

"Um...should we feel sorry for her?" Chiho asked Uzume who looked back with a deadpanned expression.

"Nope. She had it coming when she started running her mouth." Uzume replied.

"Let's go outside just to keep Renato-sama from breaking her to pieces." Kochou stated, "Knowing him he's still in a foul mood."

"And also to make sure he doesn't destroy the inn." Miya added approaching the group, "That man can sometimes be so tactless."

Outside Izumo Inn...

"So this is the inn you live in? Quite traditional which is okay in my books." A woman in casual wear comprising of a brown aviator jacket, white tank top, black jeans and grey sneakers complimented.

Homura in his work attire smirked at her, "Thanks. Glad to know you like it considering your line of work."

"What? You didn't think I'd like the civilian life?"

"Well your all serious demeanor made it hard to tell."

"Well I am a civilian now so I can be laid back now and then."

"Okay...I'll accept that. Anyways ready to meet the others?"

"Sure. Hopefully it's not a madhouse."

"I guarantee you it's nothing like that."

BOOM!

The explosive sound coming from the inn's backyard conveniently caught their ears when the two entered.

"That says otherwise." The woman pointed out but then froze in surprise sensing something familiar, "I don't believe it. I know this energy from anywhere." She reached into her jacket and pulled out her Desert Eagle and rushed to the backyard.

"Hey wait!" Homura called out to her before sighing and following her. When they got there they saw what seemed to be the aftermath of a spar where one of them went a bit overboard.

One the ground in a crater with barely much clothing left and a lot of cuts and bruises was an unconscious Tsukiumi and standing a few feet from her with twin blades was a slightly wet Renato who had a look of satisfaction. Watching by the door of the backyard were Miya who was twitching in annoyance most likely because of the crater, a panicking Minato who was rushing to the blonde Sekirei's side along with Musubi and Kusano, a laughing Uzume and a sighing Chiho and then finally Renato's Sekirei.

"Next time you'll keep that trap of yours shut when I'm having a siesta. That way you won't end up like that." Renato stated flatly causing the brunette and Homura to sweat drop. "What do you know? Welcome back Kagari and who's your friend, no don't answer I recognize her 'goodness' from anywhere. Fancy meeting you here Alexa Lin." That got everyone to turn to look at Homura and the new arrival Alexa Lin.

Said woman replied just as flat, "Of all places to find you I'd never expected it to be here." She then looked at the still unconscious Tsukiumi, "So you beat the crap out of her because she disturbed your siesta? I never even knew someone like you ever have a siesta not to mention sleep?"

"Even a dragon needs his sleep." Renato replied, "Anyways welcome to the madhouse."

Chapter 25 End.

Thanks to the poll I'd put up I'd decided to focus on Ghost Ashikabi now. I'd work on the other fics too but it's this one I'll be focusing on the most so look forward to more updates now.

Neon once again meets with another of his students and gives advice this time and Renato decides to give a tsundere a beat down for disturbing his siesta. (I know I would if someone disturbed mine and writing Tsukiumi's lines was annoying. Seriously who the heck still speaks like that?) And someone Renato and Neon are familiar with has joined the crazy game and has winged Homura preventing him from going up in flames. Looks like things are going to get interesting.

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