"Yay, breakfast time~." Musubi happily sung out with such enthusiasm before blessing the food that was prepared by her housemates by bringing her hands together.

"You are the only one I know who gets so excited over breakfast." Acknowledged Kaho before picking up her chopsticks after turning her head away from her fellow Sekirei. As Musubi, Kaho, and the others chatted amongst themselves while indulging in their morning meal, Chiho and Antonio remained silent, avoiding eye-contact with each other, because when they did, Chiho's face would begin to turn red at the slightest look of him.

"Here is your breakfast dear." Said Miya cheerfully as she placed down Antonio's breakfast and tea in front of him, all the while Musubi was happily humming a tune to herself while eat, causing Kaho to sigh silently to herself.

"T-Thank you Miya." Replied Antonio after Miya sat down next to him. As Miya nodded her head in response, she gently picked up her cup of tea to her mouth and slowly began to drink from her cup. "Is there something wrong Miya?" Asked Antonio as he noticed Miya was looking at him.

"Is everything alright?" Asked Miya.

"Y-Yeah. Why wouldn't it be?" Replied Antonio as Miya picked up her own chopsticks.

"Well it's just that you hadn't said a word since Chiho went to come get you." Said Miya, with a hint of curiosity in her voice, causing both of Antonio's and Chiho's bodies to immediately tense up slightly at the fact that Miya had guessed something was up.

"Who knows Miya." Karasuba chimes in after swallowing her food. She put down her chopsticks and shrugged her shoulders. "Maybe he is plotting something 'dastardly', or something of that nature."

"Please don't make it seem like I'm always plotting something bad." Replied Antonio, causing Karasuba to slowly rub her chin.

"Now why would I?" Said Karasuba in a sarcastic, playful tone of voice. As conversations between Antonio and his Sekirei ensue, Uzume has just looked over to Chiho and had noticed that not once had she looked up from her food, unless it was to answer a question or unless she was being spoken too. All the while trying to hide her tomato red cheeks.

'Damn it, just what the hell is going on?' Benitsubasa thought to herself while watching Antonio eat, seemingly nervously. As Haihane finished chewing her food, she looked down on Benitsubasa's plate and had seen there was still a few strips of bacon left.

"I'll just take that." Said Haihane while taking a piece of Benitsubasa's bacon without a moment's notice. When Benitsubasa turned her head back towards her plate, she noticed a piece of bacon was missing. The combat Sekirei instinctively turned her attention towards Haihane and noticed her eating a extra strip of bacon.

"Haihane what the hell! Don't just grab my food without asking!" Said Benitsubasa in a annoyed tone of voice as Haihane took a sip of tea.

"Well if you were paying attention, you would've notice me taking it sooner." Replied Haihane in a smooth tone of voice, irritating her Benitsubasa before doing it again.

"That doesn't mean just freely take something off my plate! Plus you just did it again!" Responded Benitsubasa but furiously scratching the sides of her head, Haihane just ignores her by simply taking a sip of tea which just easily agitated the combat Sekirei.

*I DO NOT OWN ANY OF THE MENTIONED ANIME NOR ITS CHARACTERS*

Speech: "Home is where the heart is."

Thoughts: 'Can i really go through with this?'

Whispering: "I will do anything and everything I can do to help."


Chapter 27: What It Means To Fight!: Bringing Down The Ninth Pillar


'That's the last one.' Antonio thought to himself as he put the last of the washed & cleaned plates away, with the assistance of Minato and Yukari. After shutting the Cabinet door, he stood there, letting the visages of what happened between him and Chiho fill his mind as his heartbeat steadily increases.

"Thanks for helping as usual." Said Miya as she was drying her hands off as her husband as finished helping her wash and put away the dishes. Antonio has simply shaked his head.

"Oh it's nothing Miya. If anything, I'm glad that I get the chance to help you." Replied Antonio, which caused Miya to smile at his response. "If you don't need anything else, I'll be heading to the training room to work off some of this amazing food." Said Antonio before walking out of the kitchen.

"You know.." Said Miya, causing Antonio to stop almost immediately at the sound of her talking. "I've been alive and have been around for a very, very long time, so I know how to read body languages of my kind and humans. That girl, Chiho, from being around her and watching her, I can see that she loves you tremendously, just like all of us do." When Miya finished talking, thoughts Antonio and Chiho first meeting, to seeing her recover from incurable illness, to even Chiho confessing her love for him ran across his mind. "Maybe it'll be a good idea for the two of you to have a talk."

-Kawakami Temple-

"Good morning everyone!" Said Kazuko as she waved to many people stretching out in the Kawakami Temple courtyard. As they waved back to Kazuko, she continued back to her morning run as a rope was tied to her waist that was pulling tires that was tied on the opposite end of the rope. As she made her way around the large temple, she began to isolate noises that was coming from a dojo that was branched off from the temple which peaked her curiosity. As she was coming up on the dojo, she noticed that the entrance leading inside the dojo was opened a tad bit, so when Kazuko peeked inside the extensive dojo, she had seen Momoyo and Tesshin training together, purely hand to hand.

"Hmm, yes you're strikes are getting sharper." Said Tesshin as he, without effort or breaking a sweat, he simply dodged all of Momoyo's strikes. "But.." As Momoyo used her left arm to deliver a punch, she was caught off guard, just a tad bit when she had seen Tesshin simply move his body to the right, grab a hold of her arm and tossed her across the dojo.

"Woah!" Momoyo exclaimed before recovering midair, and skidding across the dojo floor before getting back in her offensive stance while slowly

"You are still light years away from hitting me." Said Tesshin as he let out a slight chuckle. "Now that I think about it, this is the first time you've willingly wanted to train."

"I've always trained." Replied Momoyo."

"Hmm yes, but only when I come to get you and force you." Said Tesshin. "You usually boast about your tremendous strength and often at times say 'training is such a drag'."

"So what. I just had a change of heart." Replied Monoyo as she stood up straight and folded her arms. Tesshin has just simply continued to rub the hairs on his long beard. "What is it?" Asked Momoyo as she had noticed Tesshin was just simply smiling at her.

"I had a feeling that's not the only thing that has changed." Said Tesshin, confusing Momoyo. "You're dating someone aren't you?"

"W-What?!" Responded a wildly blushing Momoyo in a shocked tone of voice as she closed her eyes and turned her head away from Tesshin. "W-What makes you.."

"Nothing can get past these old eyes of mine." Said Tesshin. "I've been around longer than anyone can imagine, even you, so I tend to notice when someone acts different from what they usually do. Plus, I was young once before." When Momoyo heard this she just sucked her teeth.

"S-So What." Said Momoyo as she turned her head back to face Tesshin. "W-What does this have to do with what we are doing right now?" Tesshin has once more chuckles to himself.

"You are right." Said Tesshin as he agreed with Momoyo. "Let's resume our training."

"Well good." Replied Momoyo. "Because I…"

"Then maybe you can tell me how you and Antonio finally became a couple." Interrupted Tesshin, causing silence to ensure between the two before Momoyo's face turned a deep cherry color from embarrassment.

"W-What makes you think I'm dating him?!" Responded an embarrassed Momoyo, causing Tesshin to burst out laughing.

"Because whenever someone would mention his name, you would just have this silly grin on your face. Plus you'd finally started paying attention off during lectures from teachers here at the temple. Also, You two grew up together playing and such. I could often tell how happy you were when you would return home after playing with him." As Tesshin had a hearty laugh to himself, Momoyo bit her bottom lip as flashbacks of when Antonio and herself were playing together & most recently when they established their relationship raced across their mind which caused a smile to appear on her face. As Kazuko had seen Momoyo smiling, she decided to stop peaking and resume with her own training as she continued running until she would get tired.

"Big Sis is trying hard, so I will as well!" Said Kazuko as she motivated herself on her run which she managed to gain another speed as she managed to run even faster.


-?-

"Something on your mind, your excellency?" Asked Xyla as she stood next to Xros who sat in his seat in what seemed to be his throne room. She noticed that with his left fingers, he began to rhythmically tapping his fingers on the left arm rest.

"Why yes, as a matter of fact there is something preoccupying my mind." Replied Xros before getting up from his throne seat. He walked forward slowly before waving his right hand, conjuring up and rotating globe of the earth. "Look at it Xyla." Said Xros, causing Xyla to walk to his side.

"What am I supposed to be looking at exactly my Liege?" Asked Xyla before looking at the side of Xros's face. "It's just a globe."

"No, it's more than that. Much more." Replied Xros. Xyla knew he was fascinated with how beautiful the earth was, but she was clueless on how much it meant to him, more like, how it used to mean to him. At that moment, a small, purple magical circle appeared next to Xyla's right ear.

"What is it?" Asked Xyla as she responded to her call. As a few moments pass, a sudden smirk appeared on her face. "Very well then." Said Xyla before she tapped on the small magical circle, causing it to disperse.

"What is it?" Asked Xros as he noticed that Xyla moved to where she was standing across from him and his levitating globe of the earth before she bowed down to him.

"You will be pleased to know that the ninth pillar is ready to depart at any given moment. By your command." Replied Xyla before Xros flexed his right index finger causing his globe to vanish.

"Alright." Replied Xros before turning to sit back down on his throne seat. "Summon her here, immediately."

"As you so desire." Replied Xyla as she flexed her Fallen Angel wings.

"Also.." Said Xros, catching Xyla's attention as she could feel a wave of Xros's strong, negative presence wash over her as she tried to keep her composure. "I meant what I said before, I will accept nothing but success. Is that understood?" Asked Xros, as Xyla slowly and carefully nodded her head.

"I understand one-hundred percent." Replied Xyla carefully before she vanished to summon the Ninth pillar and bring him to Xros's throne room. As he sighed, he had just looked upwards.

'Hopefully it won't be much longer, until this wasteful earth is purged cleaned and we'll see the one we fell in love with.' Xros had emerged himself in his thoughts after he extended his right arm upwards as the visage of what seemed to be the back of a woman appeared. "Lilith."

-Occult Research Club-

"I swear taking a midday shower is the best." Said Issei as he and Kiba got done taking a shower and were walking down a corridor with towels on their head, drying their heads.

"It is pretty relaxing if I do say so myself." Replied Kiba as he was thinking to himself. "It seems as if Koneko has calmed down ever since Kuroka found shelter with Antonio." Said Kiba as Issei nodded.

"Yeah, she looked pretty excited." Replied Issei, she gets to see her sister whenever she wants as well, so that's a fantastic thing. She's still just a kid."

"It." Responded Kiba. In their time together, Kiba could tell that Issei's growth had gone up tremendously from the first time they met until now. As Kiba opened the door, leading into the main room where the members of the occult research club members gather, Issei and Kiba stepped into the room then closed the door behind them.

"We are finally done with the…" before Issei could finish speaking, Koneko had suddenly dashed in front of him and thrusted her left, balled up fist into Issei's stomach with so much force that Issei coughed up a bit of spit and stumbled back a bit.

"Hmph, I didn't make you fall down this time." Sighed Koneko as Issei clenched his stomach where Koneko had just strikes him at.

"W-What was that for?" Asked Issei. Koneko had just stared at him.

"I felt you had said something about me, Senpai." Replied Koneko as Issei slowly stood back up. They had both turned their attention to Azazels desk where they had seen him laughing, almost hysterically, while Rias stood next to the desk.

"Seeing you two kiddos interact with each other is some great stuff." Said Azazel as Rias had just sighed. When Issei looked towards Koneko, she just looked back at him.

"What? Not going to punch him?" Asked Issei, he had just seen Koneko turning her head away from him.

"Respect is earned, not given Senpai." Replied Koneko, which caused Issei to lower his head and Kiba to sigh slightly. As Issei raised his head back up, he looked towards Azazel.

"So anyways, what are you doing here?" Asked Issei before Azazel shrugged his shoulders.

"Well I was working on some wonderful 'Inventions' so I decided to take a break and check up on you all."

"Oh how caring." Issei replied with a sarcastic tone of voice before turning his attention to Rias. "Has anyone mentioned anything suspicious about those 'Pillars'?" Rias had just closed her eyes and sighed.

"No, nothing out of the ordinary." Replied Rias. "Still, with all that's happening, the quicker we can get rid of these 'Pillars', the better. What's worse is that we know almost nothing about them."

"What's to know?" Replied Issei, confusing Rias. "They are threatening our home, I'll kick their asses and send them flying if they ever try to hurt my Rias or my friends & family!" At that moment, when Issei finished talking, Rias's face slowly turned red at his statement while continuing to look at the seriousness that was imbedded on his face.

"Issei I…" before Rias could speak, a magic communicator appeared besides her right ear. "Uh hello?" Rias Responded as she had seen Akeno and Asia slide their arms into Issei's. Suddenly, Rias's eyes widened. "Really! Thanks so much. Talk to you soon." Said Rias as she disconnected the call by tapping the magic communicator, causing it to slowly vanish.

"Who was that?" Asked Akeno out of curiosity while still having her chest pressed against Issei's arm.

"It was Grayfia." Replied Rias. "They found something, peculiar."

"More like someone!" Chimed in Issei as he pumped up his fist as his arm took shape of his Sacred Gear, Boosted Gear.

"Did Grayfia happen to mention anything else?" Asked Kiba, causing Rias to sweatdrop slightly.

"Well yes, two things actually." Replied Rias before turning and walking to the window inside their main room of operations to look outside. "Just a location of an anomaly they found, and, well.."

"Well what? Is everything ok Rias?" Asked Xenovia, before Rias slowly breathed in, then out.

"She wanted us to check it out, but." Rias had then turned her head to face her peerage, "She asked everyone, to be on guard, It's most likely that another 'Pillar' has appeared.". As Rias finished talking, the energy in the room dramatically changed. Later on at the Kanzaki Residence, Antonio was on the rooftop of his home, leaning against the rooftop rails while resting his arms on top of them, thinking.

"So this is where you were hiding." As Antonio heard this, he turned around to see Chiho stepping onto the rooftop and started to approach him slowly. "What are you doing up here?"

"Just thinking really." Replied Antonio as he continued to look towards the sky, allowing Chiho to walk next to him.

"What are you thinking about?" Asked Chiho curiously, looking at the side of his face.

"Just, I wish some things were different you know? Like what if, what if we could actually live in some form of peace and not having to worry about the next threat to come. I guess that's just silly thinking on my part."

"Well that is certainly something to think about." Replied Chiho as she looked up to the sky, same as Antonio. As Silence ensued between them for a moment, Chiho had smiled to herself. "But.."

"But?" Antonio answered back while still looking at the sky, he hadn't noticed that Chiho had turned back to face him. After not getting a response, he turned to his right, he had seen Chiho smiling warmly towards him.

"It's not a silly thought, everybody has their own sense of peace, even amidst all sorts of trouble and chaos. Mines is…" Chiho slowly placed her hands amongst Antonio's face softly. "Being able to know that we are both looking up at the same blue sky. Just being able to know that the man I love is ok is my sense of peace." Said Chiho in a passionate tone of voice as a blush was made visible upon her face.

"Chiho.." Replied Antonio softly before placing his right hand atop of Chiho's left hand, which was still placed against his Cheek. That talk Miya had given him was absolutely and undoubtedly true, Chiho loves this man tremendously and with every fiber in her being. As their hands lowered off of Antonio's face, while his right and Chiho's left hand were still connected. Images of what happened earlier on between them, early morning flashed in his mind as he tried to find the words he wanted to say. "C-Chiho I.."

"Master!" Called out Akitsu, as both Antonio and Chiho looked towards the entrance to the rooftop as they were brought out of their romantic trance and had seen Akitsu. When the Ice Sekirei approached the two, Chiho and Antonio has let go of each other's hand.

"What's going on Akitsu?" Asked Antonio.

"You have a important call, from Rias." Replied Akitsu. As Antonio's eyes widened at Akitsu's statement, he just slowly took a deep breath in, then released because he already knew what the call was going to be about.

"Ok, thank you Akitsu. I'll be down right away." Said Antonio as he smiles towards his ice Sekirei. As a light blush popped up on her face, she turned and started making her way back inside the house with Antonio behind her. "Hey Chiho.." Said Antonio as he stopped in the middle of the entrance, leading to the rooftop. "When I get back, let's have a nice talk."

"Of course." Replied Chiho. "I'll await your safe return." With that, Chiho had seen Antonio retire back inside from the rooftop, leaving Chiho to turn back around and look at the blue sky, with the wind gently pushing her hair back.

-An Abandoned City-

This abandoned city, heavily filled with plant life, breaking up from the concrete, to buildings having shattered glass & broken windows. Not a person around for miles, truly a ghost town, well at least for now.

"Are you sure we are in the right place?" Asked Akeno curiously as Rias's teleportation circle vanished, leaving her, Rias & her peerage, along with Antonio, Momoyo, Kaiha, Yomi and Ikki.

"I'm sure of it." Rias Replied back as everyone's head began to look at the seemingly apocalyptic terrain that surrounded them. "This is exactly where they said the anomaly occurred."

"Well couldn't this damn anomaly occur somewhere less creepy & dull? Talk about an instant mood killer." Said Ikki as she started to slowly fold her arms together, allowing her hands to rub against them.

"We might as well spread out and look for where this anomaly is exactly." Suggested Kiba, with everyone nodding their head in agreement.

"Hmm, I was wondering when I was going to be greeted with such an audience." Said a mysterious, ominous voice that instantly caught the attention of everyone as the speed of the wind slowly began to pick up. Antonio and the others were looking around to see where the source of the mysterious voice came from, but when one of them looked up and gasped, they all had moved their head and vision upwards and saw a figure wearing a hooded coat, just floating in the air across from them. "About time."

"Let us guess, you're one of the thirteen pillars aren't you?!" Asked Issei as the orb on his Boosted Gear began to glow.

"My, how very observant you are. I'm almost envious of your observation skills." Replied the hooded figure in a sarcastic tone of voice before raising their right arm, causing everyone to tense up before the figure snapped their fingers.

"Everyone get ready!" Said Rias which caused everyone to nod their head in agreement as they all watched the mysterious figure be enveloped in a dark purplish orb before they had spreaded out. As the orb started to slowly disperse, everyone could see that underneath the hood, hid a woman who has yellowish eyes, silver hair done in a ponytail. What was most noticeable was that most parts of her body was covered in a black, purple and light silver color, even her breastplate that held her breasts firmly.

"Your assumption is correct trash. It is as you see, standing before you is the Ninth Pillar of the Thirteen Pillars of evil." As the ninth pillar opened her eyes, she has seen the amount of people staring at her, ready to charge at her at any given moment. "You very lot are a bunch of fools."

"What makes you think that?" Replied Issei.

"As you can see, there's more of us and only one of you!" Said Ikki. As there was a momentary silence, the Ninth Pillar just laughed softly to herself. "What the hell is so funny?!"

"If you honestly thought that with your numbers you'd be a match for me, you are sadly mistaken.." Replied the Ninth Pillar. 'Oh?' The Ninth Pillar had then just mysteriously vanished from everyone's sight in the form of a purple mist.

"Everyone! Stay Alert!" Called out Rias, but before anyone could react, the Ninth had instantly appeared in front of Antonio causing everyone to turn their head towards him.

'Just as I thought, you look exactly like him.' Thought the Ninth as she looked up at Antonio as he looked down to get a look at her face. "Hmph.." The Ninth has simply touched Antonio, deadcenter above his stomach. As a Magic circle appeared, Antonio was pushed away from her with so much force, that he instantly went through the wall of a nearby abandoned building, destroying it and causing debris to fall on top of him.

"You bitch!" Said Ikki as, along with Kaiha, Yomi, Xenovia and Kiba all descended down on the Ninth with their Weapons, ready to strike the enemy down. Just when they were about to slash the Ninth, she just happened to vanish & reappear in the air with her right arm pulled back. The Pillar had then extended her right are forward, allowing black lighting to project itself out of her magic circle and race towards her opponents.

"Akeno!" Called out Rias, causing Akeno to nod her head in agreement as the two stood side by side and launched their own magic attacks & as all the magic attacks met, it caused an explosion, canceling each other out. "Issei!"

"Hm?" The Ninth couldn't see through the vision restricting cloud of smoke what was going on but a few seconds later saw a pair of green, glowing eyes as all of a sudden Issei, cladded in his red armor from his Sacred Gear: Boosted Gear, burst through the smoke charging at her.

"Let's go Ddraig!" Said Issei in a confident tone of voice.

"Welsh Dragon, Overbooster!" Momoyo and Antonio's Sekirei took the opportunity given to them by the others engaging in combat with the Ninth to rush over and check on Antonio who was still covered completely in rubble. When they got close enough, they could see beams of white light emerge from the rubble as suddenly, a visage of the Sekirei crest shined through the debris before Antonio suddenly let out a muffled battle cry before exploding through the rubble which caused Momoyo, Kaiha, Ikki & Yomi to cover their eyes. When they removed their arms from covering their face, they had seen Antonio in his Sekirei King form, panting.

"Definitely was not expecting that." Said Antonio softly before inhaling, then exhaling slowly.

"Antonio, are you ok?!" Asked Ikki as she had seen Antonio dusting himself off. As Antonio nodded his head, Ikki sighed with relief. "Thank goodness." Said Ikki As the explosions continued off in the distance as the fighting moved within the abandoned area.

"Let's catch up to the others, quickly." Said Antonio. Later, The Ninth was dodging coordinated attacks from Koneko and Kiba while flying backwards in the air. Even though their clothes were battle torn, they kept pressing on, though it seemed that their attacks were effortless.

"Futile.." Said the Ninth softly as she dodged both Koneko and Kibas attack, as both of her hands held magic circles in them, launching Magic blasts at Koneko & Kiba were blasted away, crashing into separate buildings on impact.

"Now!" Signaled Rias as Akeno, Rossweisse, and herself fired off consecutive powerful magic blasts that created an explosion on contact with the Ninth Pillar.

"Did we get her?" Akeno asked softly as she stood next to Rias as they looked to see the dust from the explosion had not yet settled. As seconds passed, the dust quickly expelled from around the Ninth. "S-She didn't take any damage?!"

"Insolent gnats! I'm growing tired of entertaining you pathetic devils!" Said the Ninth as she extended her arm outward to Rias, Akeno & Rossweisse, building up a lot of dark magical energy. Before she was about to fire her magic blast, her highly sensitive ears picked up an incoming sound and she backed up quickly, dodging Yomi slash from her scythe.

"Issei!" The armored Issei turned around to see Antonio running up to him as Rias & Rossweisse came up behind Issei as everyone else, Momoyo included continued fighting against the Ninth.

"Antonio, dude are you ok?" Questioned Issei, receiving a head nod from Antonio. Issei then turned his head towards the Ninth who was dodging constant attacks from Yomi, Ikki, Kaiha. Along with Kiba and Koneko who kept back into the fight with Akeno acting as support. "It doesn't look like she is wearing down at all."

"That's not entirely true." Said Rossweisse catching everyone's attention.

"What do you mean?" Asked Issei as he turned his head towards Rossweisse.

"Look at her." Said Rossweisse. As Antonio and the others gazed at the Ninth Pillar. "The amount of dark magic she's using as a Valkyrie is effective, but there's a limit to it."

"Meaning what?" Asked Rias.

"The more she uses her dark magic, the more it'll take a toll on her it seems." Replied Rossweisse. As Issei seen Rias and Rossweisse talking, he turned his head to Antonio who had his arms folded and his eyes closed as he escaped into his thoughts.

"You don't seem that tough to me!" Said Yomi as Kaiha, Ikki and herself skidded away from the Ninth as the trio and the Ninth stood across the way from each other.

"How about all of you insolent insects just give it up already." Replied the Ninth. "What you all are doing is pointless and futile. It doesn't change the fact that you all are going to die." Said the Ninth with an intimidating & scary look in her eyes which prompted Antonio's three Sekirei to stand their ground.

"Heh well sorry to disappoint you, but rolling over & giving up isn't embedded in our DNA." Replied Yomi before softly placing her left hand on her face while gripping her scythe in her right before having a slight blush emerging onto her face. "But If Antonio orders me to roll over and give my body up to him.."

"What she is trying to say.." Said Ikki as she slowly walked in front of a fantasizing Yomi before pointing one of her weapons towards the Ninth Pillar of evil. "If you think you can just expect us to just roll over and simply die without putting up a fight, then you can go fuck yourself. Plain and simple. Our will to fight and live on for 'him' is stronger than anything you can come up with." The Ninth simply responded by extending her arm outward towards Ikki, Kaiha and a still erotically fantasizing Yomi.

"Is that so? Then allow me to end every single one of you all and erase your so called 'will to fight'. My master's ambition will come to realization!" Said the Ninth as she began to charge up a magic attack. Just as Ikki and Kaiha readied themselves, with Yomi snapping out of her wild fantasies shortly after, a loud whistle could be heard which made the three Sekirei's ears twitched.

"That sound!" Said Kaiha as all of the Sekireis nodded their head towards each other as one by one, they decided to exit the fight with the Ninth Pillar.

"So you turn and flee?!" Taunted the Ninth, causing Ikki to turn around mid air to look down at the Ninth.

"It's called a strategic exit!" Replied Ikki as she pulled on her left eyelid with her left finger and flipped off the Ninth Pillar with her right middle finger, causing veins to appear on the side of her head.

"You insolent little!" Said the Ninth as she changed her aim towards Antonio's Sekirei and as she was getting ready to fire off a magic blast towards the backs of Yomi, Kaiha and Ikki, she canceled her blast and was forced to put up a barrier before Akeno's and Koneko's blast attacks made contact. An explosion was the after result of Akeno and Koneko from stopping the Ninth from hitting the three Sekirei in the back. "No matter how many of you there might be…" Said the Ninth as she let down her barrier, still surrounded by the dust from the explosion. "None of you will be able to deal a lasting attack!"

"You sure about that?" As the Ninth turned around behind her, Momoyo had appeared through the dust with her right arm pulled back and landed a punch so vicious against the Ninths face, she was sent fly through three walls of a nearby building, demolishing all of them. As Momoyo charged after the Ninth, the three Sekirei landed on the ground and made their way towards Antonio.

"Antonio! We came as soon as we heard you w, ow!" Said Yomi as she loving approached Antonio but had received a flick deadcenter on her forehead. "Why!?"

"I had a feeling you were saying something perverted and it had something to do with me." Replied Antonio, causing Yomi to blush after rubbing her forehead.

"Well you aren't wrong about that." Said Yomi softly, causing Ikki and Kaiha to sigh softly and Antonio to scratch the back of his head.

"There's a reason I called you three back to me." Said Antonio catching all of his Sekirei's attention before turning to Issei, Rias and Rossweisse. "I think I may have a plan."

"A plan?" Replied Rias as she tilted her head with curiosity.


"The hell are you doing this here in the living room for?" Asked Haihane as she had seen Benitsubasa punching the air with her left and right fist, as she would usual do for a warm-up. "We have a dojo don't we?" Asked Haihane in a sarcastic tone of voice, causing Benitsubasa to sigh. "Why don't you go there like everybody else."

"I want to be ready for when we have to head out and help Antonio." Replied Benitsubasa after fixing her hair. "I don't wanna rush out from the dojo and race here where everyone is going to be. It's simple, I'm always read..." As Benitsubasa had a face of confidence written on her face, a cushion made contact with her face.

"Well move your simple ass out of the way and do your warm-up elsewhere, I can't watch the TV with you blocking it." Said Haihane after she threw a couch cushion at her friends face. As Benitsubasa began to grip on the couch cushion intensely as veins slowly appeared on her head before throwing it back at Haihane. Also sitting on the couch, along with Haihane was Kuroka who was combing Kuu's hair.

"You have such beautiful hair young one." Said Kuroka as she was gently combing Kuu's hair as she turned around to face Kuroka.

"Thank you so much Onee-san." Said Kuu with a warm smile which made Kuroka smile and her cat ears twitch in response to the young Sekirei as she continued to gently comb her hair. "Can I ask you something?"

"Well if it's something I can answer then I don't mind." Replied Kuroka. She had then seen Kuu turn around and climb onto the couch and brought her mouth close to her ear to whisper something to her.

"Hey, do you like my Onii-chan?" Asked Kuu as she whispered into Kuroka's ear, causing her eyes to widen at her question. Just even coming up with a response to how she feels about Antonio causes her heart too slowly race because she already knows how she feels. Just imagining the warm smiles he would give her would fill her with such delight, that she could explode. Kuroka has simply turned her head to Kuu and put her right index finger close to her lips.

"I'm not telling, it's a secret.." Replied Kuroka with a soft, playful tone of voice as she whispered back to Kuu.

"Ehhhh?" Asked Kuu curiously as she back away from Kuroka's ear. She had then felt Kuroka gently pat her on the head.

"Come on, let me finish combing your hair." Replied Kuroka as she instantly changed the subject. Feeling defeated Kuu reluctantly agreed and allowed Kuroka to resume combing her hair. As the Nekomata was combing the young Sekirei's hair, she couldn't help but to smile a little as the image of his face when they were together at the Kanzaki Residence together stayed on her mind. 'Yes it's a secret, but I wonder for how long?'

"Something doesn't seem right.." Said Benitsubasa softly as she sensed something was said between the two girls.

"You're right, something does seem right. I thought I told you that we have a dojo for you to do your warm-ups. Can you get out of the way already?" Said Haihane as Benitsubasa continued to stand in front of the tv before looking at Kuu. As the young Sekirei turned her head and noticed the pink haired combat Sekirei looking at her, she proceeded to stick her tongue out at her, causing Benitsubasa to become more & more irritated.

-Abandoned City-

"Hmm, that might just work." Said Rossweisse as she had rubbing the bottom of her chin before nodding her head towards Rias.

"Right, it does sound like a well thought out plan." Said Rias as she Replied. As Antonio walked up to Kaiha as she had a small blush appear on her face as her Ashikabi walked closer to her.

"W-What is it?" Asked Kaiha. She let out a small gasp as Antonio softly placed his hand on her face.

"You three will play a major importance, so I want you three to be able to use your nori.." Yomi's ears immediately perked up at Antonio's sentence, she then

"Excuse moi!" Exclaimed Yomi as she rushed over and bumped Kaiha, gently, away from Antonio before throwing her arms around Antonio's neck. Rias and Rossweisse began to blush madly as Yomi's lips pressed against her Ashikabi's. Yomi's tongue even started playing with Antonio's.

"Yomi no fair, I was suppose to go first." Said Kaiha before she began to pout. She had then noticed that being able to recite her norito, Antonio extended his arm out towards Kaiha. As Kaiha's lips pressed against her Ashikabi's, her body began to slowly fill up with an immense warmth and as they parted, Ikki took her turn to stand on her tippy toes to passionately kiss her husband.

"Oh my.." Said Rossweisse softly after witnessing Antonio kissing his three Sekirei, passionately, which caused not only her, but Rias and Issei who blushed slightly underneath his armor. Suddenly, Rossweisse, Rias and Issei had squint their eyes as to not be blinded by Yomi, Kaiha and Ikki's emerged wings of light.

'W-What's with this surge of power?' Rias thought to herself as she had seen wings of light emerged from the backs of Antonio's Sekirei and had sensed their strength immediately skyrocket.

"With this, we're ready now." Said Yomi as she spoke for not only herself, but for Ikki and Kaiha who just responded by nodding their head towards their Ashikabi. "Just give the order."

"Right." Said Antonio before turning to the sounds of clashes and explosions. "Let's go everyone!"

-Elsewhere-

"Is that all you got, you pathetic human!" Shouted the Ninth as she knocked back Momoyo with a magic blast, causing Momoyo to demolish a small building. As the Ninth raised and extended her arm out to fire off another attack, she was met with magic blasts from Akeno and Koneko and ranged slash attacks from Kiba and Xenovia on the ground.

"Don't let up Koneko-Chan!" Said a nearly exhausted Akenko."

"Yes Akeno Senpai!" Replied Koneko tiredly, but with confidence as they kept pressing on with their attack, trying to get past the ninths magical barrier.

'Why isn't this working!' Akeno thought to herself. Just then a small, red magic circle appeared next to the right ear of Akeno. "Huh? Rias?" As their attacks pressed on, Rias took the time to communicate with her peerage before switching over to Momoyo who was getting up after using her instant recovery technique.

"Momoyo-san? It's Rias" Momoyo's eyes suddenly widen at the fact when Rias wasn't nowhere near her but was somehow communicating with her.

"W-Who's there?!" Said a suddenly spooked Momoyo.

"C-Calm down, it's Rias." Replied Rias, giving a sense of relief. "Listen, we have a plan. I've already relayed it to the others."

"A plan? What plan?" Replied Momoyo. Moments later as Rias was breaking down the plan that Antonio, herself and the others formulated, the Ninth was getting irritated with the efforts being put up by Rias's peerage, which caused her to turn her back to Momoyo.

"I'm really getting irritated with you miserable bastards!" Said the Ninth softly, before blowing away the attacks of Rias's peerage. Just the sheer amount of pressure the Ninth Pillar was exerting from her body made Akeno, Koneko, Xenovia and Kiba skid sway from her. "I'm going to kill you all!" Shouted the Ninth Pillar.

"That's the plan." Said Rias finishing off her explanation. "Antonio and Rossweisse are on the way, all we have to do is stall for time. Hopefully she'll be too distracted to know what's really going on."

"That's it?" Replied Momoyo curiously, which caused Rias to nod her head as she stood next to Issei. "Then that'll be a piece of cake!" Said Momoyo as she confidently pounded her fists together. As Rias cut communications with Momoyo, she took a deep breath and exhaled before looking at Issei.

"You got this Issei?" Asked Rias with a smile on her face which then gave Issei a boost of confidence as he pumped his fist in the air.

"Of course, you can always count on me!" Replied Issei in a energetic tone of voice before squatting down slightly with his arms at his side. "Alright Ddraig, let's do this!"

"Yeah!" Replied Ddraig before the green orbs on Issei's gauntlets and chest, along with his eyes started to shine brightly as the wind around Rias and himself began to pick up. "BOOST! BOOST! BOOST!"

"Thunder Fall!" As the Ninth raised her right arm in the air as she levitated upwards in the are, ominous, dark clouds loomed high above everyone. A few seconds later, a powerful thunderbolt came racing down towards Rias's peerage and Momoyo.

"Xenovia!" Shouted Kiba as Xenovia and himself both sent ranged slash attacks that collided with the thunderbolt, resulting in a big explosion. "Did we stop it?" Asked Kiba, which resulted in the Ninth Pillar just smirking to herself.

"Not even close!" Replied the Ninth as a second thunderbolt raced towards Kiba and Xenovia who both managed to dodge the thunderbolt right in the nick of time. As the thunderbolt made contact with the ground, it created a big crater. As her right arm stayed in the air, she used her left hand and placed it on her face as she began to chuckle to herself which then soon turned into a sort of maniacal laughter as one by one thunderbolts appeared, one after another, racing towards her enemies who kept either dodging them or firing out their own attacks to cancel each other out.

'They're fast!' Koneko thought to herself as she dodged a thunderbolt by jumping to a wall of a nearby building then jumped off before another thunderbolt struck the building she jumped away from, disintegrating the building in its entirety.

"Struggle all you want worms! It'll mean nothing once your dead!" Shouted the Ninth as she lowered her right arm, sending three high speed thunderbolts towards Momoyo who was getting ready to defend against it. Though as the busty beauty was ready to defend herself, it was as if time stood still as she had slowly seen a white haired Antonio throw himself in front of her with his right arm extended outwards, casting a golden barrier to protect them both.

"Are you ok?" Asked Antonio as Momoyo continued staring at his back.

"Y-Yeah." Replied Momoyo softly before unconsciously reaching out to touch his back.

"You!" Said the Ninth with an irritated voice as she had seen Antonio entering the fight, which caused her to smirk. "That's fine, you can die along the rest of these insects."

"I don't think so!" Replied Rossweisse, causing the Ninth Pillar to turn her head before firing off her own magic attack towards the Ninth, which caused her Thunder Fall attack to subside. As the two Valkyries clashed in the air like two beams of light, Antonio had dropped his barrier that was protecting Momoyo and himself.

"Ready?" Asked Antonio, who then heard Momoyo scoff confidentially.

"Born ready!" Replied Momoyo before the pair both leaped after the Ninth Pillar who was still engaged in combat with Rossweisse. After blasting Rossweisse away from her, she turned to see Momoyo coming towards her with her arm pulled back. As the Ninth Pillar readied an attack, gathering a suitable amount of magic in the palm of her hand, she had seen Momoyo back off which confused her until she widened her eyes as she looked down and saw Antonio.

"W-Why you!" Said the Ninth softly before trying to motion her arm downwards to point at Antonio. It was futile though as Antonio launched his right fist into the Ninth's stomach with force so strong, it caused her to kneel over before coughing up a blood, spit mixture. "Y-You bastard!"

"That's payback." Replied Antonio gently as the Ninth started to growl with agitation before she raised her hand towards Antonio who just smirked. "Get ready, because you are going to lose this one." Said Antonio as he sensed that it was time for everyone's plan to come to fruition.

"Me lose! Know your place you pathetic h.." Then suddenly, Antonio punched the right side of the Ninths face ferociously again before grabbing her left arm and started to spin around.

"Over to you, Momoyo!" Said Antonio as he launched the Ninth Pillar, mid-air, over to Momoyo who already had her hands clenched together above her head.

"With pleasure!" Exclaimed Momoyo before slamming her clenched hands down hard on the Ninths body with force strong enough to shatter nearby buildings window glass. As the Ninths body made contact with the concrete ground, the impact created a large crater but the moment her body had bounced up off the ground, Koneko was right there, not giving the Ninth and time to rest.

"My turn!" Said Koneko before kicking the Ninth Pillar in a different direction. "

"Ready everyone?" Asked Akeno, receiving a head nod from her ally's, Kiba, Xenovia, and Rossweisse. When they saw the body of the Ninth Pillar heading towards them, they held nothing back as from all different angles, they launched their own, powerful magic and ranged slash attacks and as they collided, it created a huge explosion. A few seconds have passed and the wind picked up, causing everyone in the immediate area to cover their eyes as not to get dust in them.

'Did we get her?' Kiba thought to himself. As everyone started to gather around, something shot out of the dust cloud upwards. As everyone looked up, they had seen the Ninth Pillar with pieces of her armor destroyed breathing heavily.

"Was that it?!" Shouted the Ninth Pillar before aiming a concentrated magic blast towards her opponents, not paying attention to her surroundings, especially behind her. "If you thought that was enough to do me in, then you are sadly mistaken!"

"That might not have been, but this definitely will." The Ninth slowly turned her head around with the wind pressure started to pick up, and when she did, she was met with a shining green light, that had camouflaged Rias and Issei who was holding a giant red orb. As she slowly walked behind Issei, she slowly put her hand on Issei's shoulder. "Do it Issei!"

"Hell yeah!" Replied Issei as he extended both of his arms outward. "Take this! Dragon Cannon!" The ground beneath Issei and Rias started to shatter then debris scattered as the giant red orb was launched from Issei's hands as ridiculous speeds.

"Hmph!" As the Ninth Pillar extended her right arm to conjure up a barrier. As issei's dragon cannon attack collided with with the Ninths protective barrier, red and violet sparks of electricity flew wildly. The Ninth has began to chuckle slightly before laughing to herself, not noticing that her protective barrier was chipping away slightly. "W-What the!" Said the Ninth with a surprised look on her face before concentrating to keep up her barrier, but to no avail, her barrier kept being chipped away at while pushing her up further in the air.

'Come on!' Said Issei as his Armor dissipated from his body due to his exhaustion from charging up his newly found attack. Before he dropped, Rias managed to catch him and threw his left arm around her neck.

"I refuse, to let a bunch of pathetic, weak, monkeys get the better of me!" Said the Ninth as she was at this point struggling to fend off Issei's attack, she had then switched to using both hands to try to keep her shield up. "I refuse!" Said the Ninth, but at this point her barrier completely shattered while Issei's Dragon Cannon got closer and closer to her. "I refuse!" Shouted the Ninth Pillar as Issei's attack collided with her body, engulfing her in a even larger red, orb of light before a large explosion occurred. Antonio conjured up a barrier that protected Momoyo while Akeno made on to protect Kiba, Xenovia, Koneko and Rossweisse while Rias made one to protect Issei from debris from the nearby, destroyed buildings.

"Alright, we got her!" Said Kiba with a confident tone of voice. As the wind slowly died down, everyone had let down their protective barriers. 'Everyone' has re grouped together and was waiting to see if the Ninth Pillar had truly survived the attack.

"Is everyone ok?" Asked Rias to her peerage.

"Feeling better than ever." Replied a tired Akeno who tried to fix her dangling hair. As Everyone was interacting with each other, Antonio, who was still in his Sekirei King form, was talking Momoyo. As he was chatting with her, Xenovia was looking at the side of Antonio's face with a small blushing creeping onto her face while maintaining her emotionless facial expression.

"Huh? Xenovia are you ok?" Asked Kiba as he noticed that Xenovia's attention was elsewhere. As she was done looking at Antonio, she then turned her head towards Kiba.

"Yeah I'm f.." Xenovia's speech was interrupted at the sound of crackling thunder. Everyone immediately stopped talking as the sounds of crackling thunder being persistent, happening over and over again and as everyone looked towards the lingering heavy dust cloud, it was suddenly blown away from a heavily injured Ninth Pillar whose left eye was shut but right eye was opened. Her armor was badly damaged, from her chest plate that revealed her right areola to her stomach. What's more was that she was bleeding from her head that covered her left eye.

"Such Insolence, such insolence, such insolence!" Said the Ninth Pillar softly before using her right hand to softly touch the top of her head. When she brought it back down, she had seen blood on her fingers. As she slowly made a fist, everyone had gotten into their fighting positions as the sounds of crackling thunder intensified. "I honestly held back because I thought you mongrels weren't worth me using even a shred of of real power. I was wrong!" The Ninth Pillar had then lowered her right arm downwards, as she did this, she summoned a violet magic circle that slowly enveloped her right hand. The whole sky lit up in a whitish violet color as the violet magic circle that her right hand was in grew in size before revealing that her right hand was gripped onto the handle of a weapon of some sort.

'Here it comes!" Rossweisse thought to herself.

"Heed my call, my trusted ally. Rally to me in this fight, so that I may demolish my enemies with your tremendous might. The final stage worthy of your appearance has been set!" As the Ninth Pillar then had finally revealed her main weapon, a metallic, violet and black lance that had sparks of electricity flying off and around it. She had then got into her stance with her left arm extended outwards and with the arm she held her lance in, she pulled it back to where the the sharp end of the lance was pointed down to Antonio and company. "Before I blow you insolent mongrels all to kingdom come!" Said the Ninth Pillar as she was gathering an intense amount of magic which caused the wind pressure around her to intensify, focusing it before releasing it all. "You kit won't survive this day, any final words?!" She had then seen Antonio walking forward, while undoing his transformation.

"Now that you mention, I can think of just a few." Replied Antonio as he looked up at the Ninth Pillar with his Hazel eyes. "Gameover." As the eyes of the Ninth Pillar eyes widened, the three Sekirei had already moved themselves within striking distance as the Ninth Pillar turned around.

"By the scythe of my pledge, my Ashikabi's enemies shall be cut down!"

"Scissors of my pledge, cut the root of evil from my Ashikabi!"

"Twin swords of my pledge, cut away all things that may hold back my Ashikabi!"

Yomi, Kaiha and Ikki, with their sprouted wings of light that grew harshly from their backs, delivered fatal slashes to the body of the Ninth Pillar from their boost of power from their noritos, which in turn, caused the Ninth to yell out in pain & slowly lose the grip she had on the handle of her lance.

'I-Impossible… how could I have forgotten about the whereabouts of those three?!' The Ninth Pillar thought to herself before slowly letting go of her lance completely as she fell back down to the ground. The tip of lance pierced the ground before she came crashing down, creating a decent size crater before her lance slowly dissipated.

"Look out below, Antonio catch me!" Said Yomi as she was descending down to the ground with Kaiha and Ikki as their wings of light slowly faded away.

"W-Woah.." Antonio said to himself softly as he stepped to the left and right before managing to successfully positioning himself to have Yomi land in his arms. "Are you ok Yomi?"

"But of course." Yomi Replied with a confident tone of voice. "Isn't it more romantic for a young beautiful maiden to fall into the arms of her pr…" Yomi's 'speech' was cut short by a sigh from Antonio as he let Yomi drop down to the ground, letting out a small yelp before she was dropped on her ass while Kaiha and Ikki landed on their feet.

"Why did I even ask, of course you are fine." Replied Antonio before scratching the back of his head before Yomi poured slightly before standing up.

"Meanie." Said Yomi softly to herself. As Antonio walked up to talk with his Sekirei with Momoyo behind him, Rias has just began to look at Antonio and his Sekirei in amazement almost.

'That amount of strength, that amount of power from just a kiss?' Rias thought to herself in both amazement and confusion before snapping herself back to reality to join Antonio and the others. As conversations ensued for a couple of uninterrupted seconds, they could hear grunting. As they look off in the direction the Ninth Pillar fell in, they could see that she was trying to hold herself up with her left arm as blood trickled down her head.

"D-Don't think you insects won anything just because of my failure.. What you have, what you all have, it won't last. Others will come and are many times stronger than I.." When the Ninth finished talking, Antonio had a flashback to the time when he was compared with his father by Queen Lisha. Momoyo had then seen Antonio slowly balling up his right hand before the Ninth pillars extended her right arm outward, right before everyone's eyes. "When they do, I hope you can keep that same level of confidence and try not to die.." With that, a small Pillar like crystal within her started to crack before shattering completely, then the Ninth Pillars body disappeared in a black and purplish smoke. Everybody just stood in eerie silence as the wind kept blowing ever so gently.

"Is it really over?" Asked Kiba.

"It's about damn time." Replied Ikki as she stretched her arms before folding her arms together. "She was a real pain in the…" Just then while Ikki was talking, Kaiha's stomach just let out a loud growl which caused her to because pink in the face with embarrassment at first before the group burst out into a chuckle.

"It's about time we finally head home." Said Rias as she fixed her hair before extending her arm towards a spot on the ground where she summoned her teleportation circle. As everyone was walking towards it, Momoyo stopped to turn around and seen that Antonio hadn't moved.

"Hey! Are you coming?" Asked Momoyo who snapped Antonio out of his trance and brought back to reality. He turned around to see Momoyo and everyone else waiting for him who were within the red teleportation circle. Antonio took a deep breath then slowly exhaled.

"Yeah, here I come." Replied Antonio before walking over to everyone and as soon as he stepped into Ria's teleportation circle, everybody was teleported away from the heavily damaged abandoned town that the place for a fierce battle.


"Why are we watching this shit?" Asked Haihane as she, along with Toyotama and Juusa was was sitting on the couch, along with Benitsubasa who sitting close to the tv with her eyes peeled onto the tv.

"Nobody asked you to watch it with me Haihane!" Responded Benitsubasa before Haihane just shrugged her shoulders.

"You know it's kind of hard to say anything when you come rushing in, snatch the controller away and tune it to some crappy romance soap-opera." Replied Haihane.

"I actually think it's quite nice and mellow." Juusa chimes in, causing Benitsubasa to snicker confidently to herself.

"See Haihane, at least someone gets my sense of romantic, cinematic masterpieces." Said Benitsubasa confidently, causing Haihane to snort slightly to herself.

"Yeah but she doesn't get your small breasts either." Said Haihane, causing veins of irritation to appear on the side of Benitsubasa's head as Toyotama snickered to herself. As everyone inside the home was doing their own thing while Dinner was being prepped, Rias and everyone else was successfully teleported near the front door of the Kanzaki Residence.

"Thanks for everything you guys." Thanked Antonio as he bowed on respect before Rias had gently shaken her head side to side.

"No need to thank me. Without your plan, we probably would've been struggling for hours on in trying to win. So if anything we should be thanking you." Replied Rias. "We should get going now, tell everyone inside that we said hello."

"Of course, get back home safely." Said Antonio before seeing Issei pump his right arm in the air.

"We'll see you later Antonio." Said Issei confidently. "Then maybe we can have another match." Antonio nodded his head in agreement.

"Of course." Said Antonio.

"Please.." Everyone has noticed Koneko had her head lowered before raising it up so that her voice could be heard more clearly. "Please tell Kuroka that I'll see her later?" A few seconds had passed before Antonio smiled warmly towards the white Nekomata.

"Of course I will." Replied Antonio, causing Koneko to smile in return as everyone had waved goodbye except for Xenovia who just looked upon Antonio's face as they were enveloped in Rias's magic teleportation circle.

"Do you want to stay for dinner?" Asked Antonio, causing Momoyo to blush slightly. Later, After Antonio, Momoyo and his three Sekirei cleaned up and had switched into some clean clothes with some provided to Momoyo from Kazehana which consisted of a violet T-shirt and gray sweats, everyone had a delicious dinner, chatted with each other and shared laughter amongst each other, like a family. As the late night slowly crept upon them with the moon shining, Musubi and Kuroka and Rachel had helped Miya clean the dishes as Minato, Yukari and the rest of the Sekirei retired to their rooms for the night, all except for one person. When Antonio returned to his home, closed and locked the front door, he walked into the living room expecting to find it empty.

"Chiho?" Said Antonio curiously as he had seen Chiho slowly rising up from the couch and walked towards Antonio.

"Want to have that chat now?" Asked Chiho as just wore a simple pajama top and pants. She had then seen him slowly nod his head up and down.

"Yeah, now's a good a time as any." Replied Antonio softly as the pair made their way up to his room.

"So, what did you want to talk about Antonio?" Asked Chiho as she plopped down gently on his bed before Antonio walked over to her to sit down on his bed next to her.

"Chiho I, I just want to apologize for making you feel uncomfortable. About what happened when you came to wake me up this morning.." Antonio said softly and when Chiho remembered what he was talking about, she began to slowly fidget around. "It was never my intention to make you dart out of my room like that. I just felt that I made you extremely uncomfortable."

"Oh that. It wasn't that I was uncomfortable Antonio, it wasn't your fault." Chiho said softly before taking a deep breath then exhaling. "As a matter of fact, I was happy to have the man I love touch me. I was just nervous."

"Well do you mind me asking what you were nervous about?" Replied Antonio. Chiho had then softly placed her hands on her cheeks.

"Uzume told me, a long time ago when I was still bedridden, that it hurts whenever a young maiden loses her virginity!" Replied Chiho softly.

'I can totally see her saying that.' Antonio thought to himself before a image of Uzume giving a thumbs up appeared in his head.

"But I realized, when you left today." Chiho had then slowly turned her head to face Antonio. "You wouldn't do anything to hurt me. You even went as far as to help me get out of that hospital, sent me to live with your mother and even went as far as helping me cure my illness. You've done done so much for me, more than anyone I've known, even now. You are such an amazing man." Said Chiho, causing Antonio to blush slightly as he began to slight scratch his chin with his index finger.

"Well thanks Chiho. Hearing that makes me happy." Said Antonio as he closed his eyes & once he reopened them, he had seen Chiho close the distance between them. As soon as Chiho threw her arms around Antonio's neck, she slowly stole his lip, kissing him as passionately as she could. Their lips stayed connected for a few seconds before parting.

"I love you so much Kanzaki Antonio." Said Chiho softly as she moved her lips away from his and slowly took his hands into hers.

"And I love you Hidaka Chiho." Replied Antonio as he intertwined his right hand with her left. Silence ensued between them before Chiho decided to speak.

"Antonio, I want to give you my virginity." Said Chiho with a confident tone of voice but had a huge red blush on her face. Antonio had simply nodded his head.

"I would be more than honored to receive it." Replied Antonio as he bowed his head to Chiho. He then felt Chiho releasing his hands and had felt her slowly get off his bed before slowly raising off his bed as well. As the couple stood across from each other, Antonio had slowly took off his clothes which prompted Chiho to do the same, only leaving on her panties as Antonio left on his boxer shorts, and using her right arm to cover her breasts.

"Oh my god is getting really good now!" Matsu said to herself softly while trying not to drool, causing Kocho to sigh.

"Didn't Miya warn you last time to not spy on him?" Asked Kocho while Matsu's eyes were still glued to the screen, watching her Ashikabi and Chiho progress even further by making it back to his bed and kissing each other passionately as Chiho removes her right arm, revealing her breasts to Antonio.

"Oh that? I'm not too worried." Replied Matsu as she pushed up her glasses towards her face. "Besides, it's not spying."

"What is it then?" Asked Kocho, Matsu just shrugged her shoulders.

"Harmless observation." Replied Matsu in a serious tone of voice which caused Kocho to sigh again. Back to Antonio's room, after a couple minutes, the couple had separated from their intimate kiss as a strand of their mix saliva escaped their mouths. He had then slowly & softly used his right hand to gently massage Chiho's left boob. As he did this Chiho, had let out cute, small gasps as he continued on but had started to moan slightly as he used his left hand to play with her left nipple. As Antonio was paying attention to Chiho's chest, her panties began to slowly accumulate pre-ejaculated fluid as her lower body started to fidget around. Chiho's lover had then stopped playing her chest to kiss the center of it, then began to slowly move his head down towards her panties, kissing her body along the way. As both Chiho's and Antonio's breathing became slightly labored, he finally reached the sides of Chiho's panties and without saying anything, Chiho slightly lifted up her waist.

'I can't believe this is finally happening!' Chiho had thought to herself as she lifted her waist up, allowing Antonio to help remove her panties and placing them off his bed. Antonio had observed and seen Chiho's pussy had a small, cute patch of hair and was glistening from being so wet. "T-Try not to stare so much."

"S-Sorry." Antonio Replied back softly as he looked back up at Chiho's face.

"Take your shorts off. It's not fair if I'm the only one who's fully naked." Said Chiho softly. As Antonio agreed with her, he pulled down his boxer shorts to reveal to Chiho his big, slightly pulsating penis, which caused her face to turn red and her body to freeze up after he tossed his shorts off his bed as well. 'Oh my goodness.' Chiho thought to herself.

"Everything ok?" Asked Antonio causing Chiho to snap out of her amazement as Antonio began to roll a blue colored condom onto his penis.

"Y-Yeah, I was just thinking, I'm just really happy I get to do this with the man I really love." Replied Chiho as Antonio slowly placed himself between Chiho's legs, missionary style. As Antonio leaned forward, Chiho brought her arms around Antonio's neck and kissed him passionately once more. As the two separated from their kids, she just smiled at him. "I'm ready now." Said Chiho softly.

"Ok, if it starts to hurt, tell me." Replied Antonio softly, causing Chiho to nod her head up and down. Antonio had then gently grabbed his penis and then guided it towards Chiho's pussy. She started to wince in anticipation as the tip of his penis pressed itself against the entrance to her vagina and as the tip slipped inside of her, she felt a shock throughout her entire body which caused her close her eyes in pain as her insides continuously wrapped and coiled around Antonio's member as Chiho's hymen official torn, causing blood to trickle out from Chiho & onto his sheets and coat Antonio's penis.

'Oh my god!' Chiho thought to herself as she gripped Antonio's bed sheets tightly in both hands.

"Are you ok Chiho?" Asked Antonio with concern in his voice.

"Yeah, I'm fine. I-It didn't hurt as much as I thought it would." Replied Chiho softly as she reopened her eyes and softly placed her right hand on his face. "You can proceed how you want to my love." As Chiho said this, Antonio slowly gulped as he began to slowly move his hips, sliding his penis inside and out of Chiho causing her to moan softly. "Ahh, Mmmm!" Chiho moaned out as she could feel Antonio's penis piercing her insides as her boobs bounced up and down with each slow thrust. His pace and rhythm started to increase as he picked up speed and started thrust inside Chiho faster.

'Holy shit.' Antonio thought to himself as he was penetrating Chiho's vagina at an increased speed, watching her boobs bounce as moans of pleasure washed over her while her pussy kept tightening itself on Antonio's penis. As Antonio tried to keep focus on pleasuring Chiho with each rhythmic thrust, all he could see was Chiho's nicely sized boobs bounce up and down with each thrust as he kept penetrating her vagina, almost kissing her cervix with the tip of his penis.

"Ahhhn! A-Antonio, yes!" Chiho moaned out as she opened her eyes, allowing tears of pleasure to escape her eyes and roll down the side of her face as she looked up towards Antonio who kept penetrating her. As he leaned in closer to Chiho, she instantly locked him in by hugging him close to her. "I love you so much, I love you so much!" Chiho whispered in Antonio's ear & the moment she did so, Antonio pushed her legs back farther and began to thrust deep inside her, causing her to moan loudly. She dug her nails in Antonio's back, slowly scratching Antonio's back and his dick kept kissing her cervix.

"I-I'm about to cum." Said Antonio softly. Chiho then softly placed her right hand against Antonio's cheek while he was slowed his speed down.

"I-I think I'm close as well." Chiho replied softly. "Let's do it together." Chiho said softly before Antonio brought his face closer to Chiho's, allowing their lips to be locked with each other before Antonio's hips thrusted once more. As Chiho moaned out & Antonio let out a loud grunt, she could fee Antonio's pulsating as he cummed into the blue condom as her body started to twitch as she had experienced her very first orgasm with the man she loves. After a few seconds, Antonio slowly pulled his penis out of Chiho, who let out a slight gasp and observed that the condom was on his penis had a mixture of semen & blood from and his semen was trapped inside his condom.

"That was pure bliss!" Matsu Said softly as she rested her head on her keyboard after climaxing from watching Antonio and Chiho's very first intercourse which progressed late into the night. As Kocho sighed as she placed her hand on her forehead.

"Something is seriously wrong with you." Kocho said softly before going back to sleep. As Antonio properly disposed of his condom by wrapping it in tissue and throwing it in his trash can before climbing back into bed with Chiho who just looked at Antonio with pure bliss in her eyes. The instant Antonio got back into bed with her, she instantly cuddled herself up to him, not caring that she was sweating or nothing as the two shared an deep, intimate kiss. As the couple separated from their kiss she just started into his hazel eyes.

"I love you so much Antonio." Said Chiho softly, causing Antonio to smile.

"I love you as well Chiho." Replied Antonio as Chiho softly and gently placed her head on Antonio's beating chest. As her eyes closed slowly, she quickly drifted off to sleep as rested while Antonio just looked at the ceiling of his room. As he looked at Chiho's sleeping face before slowly shutting his eyes, drifting off to sleep.


-The Next Morning-

"Minato!" Said Tsukiumi as she seen Minato dressed in his morning apparel, yawning into his hand before before being spotted by his Sekirei.

"Goodmorning Tsukiumi." Replied Minato softly as he walked closer to her in the living room. As they were only inches away from each other, Tsukiumi's face turned a light red color as she turn her head. "Uhh Tsukiumi?"

"Isn't it customary to give your wife a kiss on the cheek in the morning?" Asked Tsukiumi with a seemingly impatient tone of voice. "Please do not make me wait any further."

"Oh I'm sorry Tsukiumi." Replied Minato before slowly leaning in and kissing his water Sekirei on the cheek, causing her to feel all fuzzy inside.

"Tis alright, I'll forgive your forgetfulness only if you promise to properly kiss me on the cheek every morning." Said Tsukiumi with a confident tone of voice.

"Everyday?" Said Minato. "Isn't that a bit.."

"We want a kiss on the cheek everyday too!" Said Oriha as she, along with Tsurara & Katsuragi walked up to Minato and Tsukiumi.

"Excuse me, that right is only exclusive to his 'rightful' wife!" Said Tsukiumi.

"Screw that, we're his Sekirei too! We should have the same privileges as you!" Argued Oriha.

"Hah! The same rights?" Replied Tsukiumi. "You lot are not nearly as fit to become his rightful wife." As Tsukiumi and Oriha were locked into a argument, Minato had only sighed as unknowing to both Oriha and Tsukiumi, Tsurara and Katsuragi slipped there arms and grabbed Minato's arms and just looked on at the two other Sekirei argue as the other housemates waltzed into the living room one by one. Except for Kuu who was sitting on the couch with Uzume.

"There they go again.." Said Yahan softly as she entered the living room with Hikari and Hibiki.

"Well at least it isn't boring, though I could use not hearing her irritating voice early in the morning constantly." Replied Hikari who referred to Tsukiumi, whose ears almost instantaneously shot up.

"What's this about my voice being irritating?!" Said Tsukiumi as she walked over to Hikari who had a face of irritation.

"That's right." Replied Hikari. "Your voice sounds like a cat scratching it's nail on a chalkboard." At that immediate moment in Kuroka's room, the Nekomata had sneezed.

"Why you!" Said Tsukiumi with a voice of building irritation. As Miya looked over at the Sekirei arguing after putting on some tea from the kitchen, she just looked to took a long sigh.

'Honestly..' Miya thought to herself, and she looked up she had seen Antonio walking towards her direction. "Oh good morning dear. You slept well I presume?" Asked Miya as she seen her husband wearing a simple black t-shirt and gray gym shorts.

"Yes I did." Replied Antonio, he then notices behind her that she had a tea kettle on the stove top. "Making some tea?" Antonio asked.

"Oh yes! I just put some on." Replied Miya. "I can make you some when it's ready." She then seen Antonio lean in and give her a sweet kiss on the cheek.

"I would love that." Said Antonio as he left the kitchen area to go sit on the couch with Kuu and Uzume, leaving Miya with a happy smile on her face while a blush sat comfortably on her cheeks. Moments later, Uzume's attention turned to the entrance to the living as she seen Chiho in white tank top and khaki pants.

"Morning Chiho!" Said Uzume when Chiho looked on in her direction.

"Good morning Uzume." Replied Chiho. "Good morning Antonio."

"Morning Chiho." Responded Antonio. As what happened last night still lingering in both of their minds they sport a small blush on the cheeks of their face.

"So how did that little talk go?" Uzume didn't get a response but had notice that Chiho made her way to the couch. When she was close enough to Antonio, she softly placed her hands on his face & slowly brought her face to his as their lips instantly met with each other. "Eh?" Said a shocked Uzume. After a few seconds, Chiho's soft lips parted away from Antonio.

"I guess you can say it went amazingly well." Said Chiho with a gentle smile on her face.

Next Chapter: A Momentary Time Of Peace