Halo: Of Wolves and Wagtails

Episode 8: Crazy in Love

A/N: I apologize for the delay but I was strapped for ideas this time. I hope everyone likes this chapter, I did my best on it but I know it's probably not so good to put it lightly.

Posted on 2/18/2020


[Destins: Thanks, and yeah the poor guy can't catch a break.]

[Slim A Lou Prime: Power Sword you say? Hmm why does that sound familiar? You don't mean He-Man's sword do you?]

[Evowizard25: Thank you, and yes it seems 6 is now committed to the inn or rather one of its tenants. I really hope you aren't disappointed by this chapter when it comes to Benitsubasa and Haihane.]

[VGBlackwing: I'm guessing sekirei still have babies the same way that humans do, no reason to assume otherwise. That kid would be a badass to put it lightly.]

[halsey11mc: Thank you, and I'll give you a hint: Great Scott!]


-CITY SQUARE-

Benitsubasa and Haihane waited patiently for an answer from the spartan. The spartan in question, just stood in place for a brief moment to ponder their desire. A huff of impatience came from the pinkette, she tapped her foot and scrunched her face into a mean glare at her potential ashikabi. Haihane though was calm and silent as she waited for the answer, a look of boredom was the expression she wore on her pretty face.

"Well, say something tin man!" The pinked haired brawler barked at her crush.

"No." 6 said curtly. Both girls went wide eyed in a brief moment of shock at the word. The pinkette's shock wore off quickly and was replaced with a quiet tremble, her appearance would be akin to a tea pot about to blow off steam.

"NO?! OH, FUCK YOU!" Benitsubasa's already short temper erupted and she screeched at 6 like a wailing banshee, her blushing face was redder than ever with rage and arousal. "I did not get my ass kicked, and go through kicking your titanium ass, just to hear you say NO!" She ranted as she got in 6's personal space.

The spartan bent down slightly to look her in the eye. "I'll say it again, no." He told her.

"Just why the hell not, dipshit?!" Benitsubasa glared at him and gritted her teeth in rage.

The amount of insult being thrown his way were beginning to wear thin on the Spartan's patience. "What reason do I have to attach myself to an enemy? The answer is none whatsoever." 6 explained in a cold tone, his words pierced through the hearts of both girls like a frozen spear of ice.

"Now that is just bullshit! Haihane and I have gone to hell and back, all for you! I'd have killed anyone else that gave me this much trouble!" The pinkette clenched her fists and spouted a tirade of pent up rage at 6. Small teardrops began to form at the outer rims of the pinkette's eyelids as she spat fire at the man.

The blue sekirei inched closer and removed one of her gauntlets. She then summoned the nerve to put one of her soft hands directly onto the Spartan's cold, titanium chest plate. "We don't have to be enemies, 6. Just let us have this, please. Don't… don't reject us." Haihane begged.

"Both of you are in my way, move aside." 6 growled to the both of them.

"No." Haihane said in determined tone as she began to hug the spartan. "Please don't just call for us and then shut us out."

The spartan looked down at her, his visor glistened in the sunlight as the sun rose higher into the sky above. "I… I never called for you." The ice in his tone sounded as if it had chipped slightly. He stared into the girl's eyes for only the briefest moment and suddenly a flash of memory struck him with the force of a 90-millimeter round from a scorpion's main turret. Within those eyes he saw a howling, lonely emptiness, that same familiar void which he knew all too well.

Benitsubasa rushed to his side just as Haihane had done and she squeezed the spartan tenderly in her arms. "We've gone through hell to get this close to you… You're supposed to be our ashikabi, the one we're meant to hold and cherish forever, we can't…. no, we won't let you throw us away." She looked straight into 6's visor with a roaring desire, a chain of passion that had simply refused to break even under the harshest of strains.

For one of the few moments in his entire life, the spartan assassin was stunned in frozen silence. His legs had strangely grown heavy and his scarred hands trembled as he stared into the eyes of the two girls who had previously been trying to capture him.

This heavy feeling, it wasn't something 6 had ever experienced before as far as he could recall. Memories flashed through his mind as he tried to comprehend the new feeling that had brought his actions to a screeching halt. 'What is this?' He asked himself. This wasn't anything like him at all, and he certainly knew it at the core of his mind. He was trained to think and act, not to feel for anything but vengeance, his duty to the UNSC, and his brothers and sisters. So, what was this heavy feeling that had become such a weight on his shoulders that it began to grow painful?

But while he spent that short few seconds distracted to process the new emotions, Haihane snaked one of her arms into a pocket on her belt. She then whipped her arm out and slapped a small circular module onto 6's torso. A brief pulse came the device on contact with the suit, and the spartan woke from his moment of distraction to a frightening revelation. 6 grunted when felt his suit almost instantaneously lock into place. "You locked my armor!" He exclaimed in surprise at their underhanded move to disable him.

It was like one of his dreams, every time he'd had a dream that wasn't a quick blur or a horrible nightmare, he'd found himself feeling so heavy. He tried to move, to push the two of them away and get on with his next objective, but he found no such success in that attempt. The intangible force that held him down grew heavier on his body, and the tighter both of the girls hugged him, the more oddly comfortable he felt. In an act of desperation, he turned to his gut for an answer but even his trusted instinct was mostly quiet on what he should do. With another burst of thought, he changed the question that he asked of instincts and inquired instead if this feeling of warmth the two girls were giving him was right. A low whisper that he'd never heard from his instincts before told him that it was. It shouldn't feel right to him, it just shouldn't feel so warm in this spot.

While 6 stood frozen in the grasp of the two disciplinary squad girls, Matsu watched with a mix of emotions on her mind. The most prevalent of those emotions was fear, a fear that her valiant hero was about to become her enemy. She took her eyes away from the display of deceit and affection then looked at the high caliber pistol that rested in her hands. The superhuman warrior that had fought so hard to defend her was now in the arms of two of the most feared sekirei in recent times, and she now had a choice to make about that with the magnum pistol she carried.

Her mind was racing to find a myriad of solutions to the problem, and her heart was going a mile a minute within her chest. If she did not act to stop the two squaddies from conquering 6, she would be in their sights next. On top of that issue, she could lose her armored savior forever to the black hearted Karasuba when the discipline squad leader woke up from her unconscious stupor. The pretty redhead clutched her free hand ever so tightly to the area of her chest where her heart was positioned.

What could she do? She couldn't shoot them, she wasn't a heartless witch like Karasuba, and 6 might shield the two of them from the bullet. That would not only anger him, but it would shatter any trust they had grown between them. But if she ran away then that would be the end of it, the spartan would be lost to the grip of MBI forever. He would no longer be her mysterious savior, but rather a nearly unstoppable enemy that was capable of untold destruction. She couldn't let that happen; she couldn't let it end like this. Matsu took a deep breath to steady herself and rallied every ounce of courage in her body and soul.

"6!" Matsu shouted his name with all of the breath in her lungs at that second. But there was no response to her cry from the frozen spartan, at all. Undeterred by that lack of response, the redhead took in another breath of air."6, I know you can hear me! I'll find a way to snap you out of it!" She shouted loudly again to the spartan.

Benitsubasa had grown irritated at the shouting that came from Matsu and decided to retaliate. "Shut up, SHUT UP!" The pinkette roared at the redhead. Her cheeks were still the same fiery red from her ongoing reaction to 6. "This guy is going to be our ashikabi! Got it?! So, back off and runaway, or get squashed!" The furious red sekirei snorted like an angry bull, and she was ready to charge at the girl that had dared to try taking her ashikabi away when she was so close to her goal.

"I'm not going to let you take him!" Matsu shouted proudly with blushing red cheeks as she pointed the handgun at the both of them. She was going to have to fight them somehow in order to set 6 free from their grip. This was her next moment to shine, and she knew that it was up to her take the spartan back. Both of the squaddies had left her no choice other than to risk wounding them in order to help 6 out of this mess. She'd landed a shot the terrifying Karasuba of all people, and now she would have to do the same thing to Benitsubasa and Haihane. "Don't make me use this again! I'll set him free, no matter what it takes!"

"Ha! You got lucky and hit our leader's thigh!" Haihane spat at the redhead with a sly grin on her pretty face. In her lust for the man under the armor, the blue sekirei ran her ungloved finger along the stunned Spartan's chin. She mused to herself about just how perfect it would be to bring him home to the tower, to spend a night by his side with Benitsubasa in bliss. If What Karasuba had said was true, she just had to have to have him.

"Our man here was the one who knocked her out, and we'll do worse to you! So, get lost ya pervy wimp!" Benitsubasa threatened the determined redhead, with a furious scowl on her cute face to emphasize her point. Matsu was undeterred and continued to her slow advance on the two of them. Neither of those two would stop her, but she still had to figure out a plan, the gun was not going to be enough.

"Oh, now what should we do to our big strong man when we get him to the tower? What do you think Benitsubasa?" Haihane said a sultry voice as she stroked the Spartan's chin with her hand, she licked her lips and moaned while her privates salivated in the desire for hot action. She continued her gentle caressing of the man's neck and grinded her thighs against the titanium suit.

Benitsubasa blushed madly at her partner's lustful words. The bubblegum brawler bristled excitedly at the thought actually embracing the illusive man she and her partner had been chasing. "Haihane! Don't be a perv like her!" Said an embarrassed Benitsubasa while she grinded her own thighs together in a ditzy manner. The pinkette turned head away from Matsu as she tried to deflect the question, which allowed the redhead to inch closer to her goal while she cooked up a plan. The both of them arguing with each other was a certainly useful distraction to buy some time, she just had to think.

Haihane chuckled at her reaction and shot an amused look at the red sekirei. "Come on, don't tell me you're not licking your own chops for the man under the mask. He's huge in stature, so maybe he's huge in other ways too." The blue sekirei purred seductively.

Searing hot puffs of comedic steam practically poured out of the pinkette's ears. "Alright, I want him so bad! There I said it!" It was an embarrassing moment for the petite brawler, but she could not resist the urges of her biology.

Haihane began to cackle at her partner's actions and the two of them began to butt heads. Matsu clenched her hands tightly around the pistol, and shook with agitation at their words. Her infuriation reached its peak when a splash of inspiration struck the redhead. From what she knew of the spartan thanks to her information gathering, the man possessed a powerful energy shield. It stood within reason that it could be used to do what she had in mind for the two Sekirei that were in her way.

"You're not going to do anything to him!" Matsu defiantly shouted to the two of them.

"I said GET LOST! You don't have the guts to shoot me! I'll just pound you into the ground like the pathetic wimp you are!" Benitsubasa roared back at the redhead in seething fury and stamped one of her feet onto the concrete in rage. The impact from the force behind her stomp left several visible cracks in the concrete beneath her feet.

"You're right, I've got something ever better in mind for you two!" Matsu declared as she made a hard sprint towards 6. Every cell in her brain was screaming that her plan was going to be insane, and it was going to be painful, but she knew she had to do it. Benitsubasa threw a punch at her, but Matsu barely managed to dodge her opponent's fist and stretched her palm out to the Spartan's chest armor plates. Upon her touching her hand to the warm surface of the metal suit, Matsu's eyes began to glow and the armor's outer shield shined a bright electric blue.

A shower of electrical sparks erupted from the Spartan's position and into immediate the area surrounding 6. The redhead tried to focus on her objective rather than on the excruciating pain from the electrical shock she'd caused. Her opponents were thinking far less pleasant thoughts as the surge or energy coursed through their nervous systems and arcs wild electrical current danced off of their bodies. The civilians who were not wearing sunglasses, shielded their eyes from the bright strobe flashing of the vibrant blue electrical sparks. A brief few seconds passed before the surge became too much for their bodies to handle and forced the two disciplinary squad members away from the spartan, out of reach of their goal yet again. They rolled across the ground, their bodies smoking slightly from what had just transpired. Matsu breathed heavily and shakily removed her hand from the Spartan's torso and tried to block out the unpleasant sensations that she had inflicted upon herself.

6 began to move again and shook his head to try and recover from the disorienting shock. He put a hand to his helmet and blinked rapidly to get his bearings back. A moment later, he glanced down at the injured Matsu. Her red hair was frazzled and numerous small burns covered her body from head to toe. "Matsu, are you alright?" He asked as he leaned down to pick her up in his arms again.

"I just saved you, by electrocuting myself. I think I'll take a little rest." Matsu chuckled as she collapsed into the Spartan's arms. She smiled at him with a gleam reflecting off of her glasses and the sunlight shining off of her lovely red hair. 6 slowly picked her up and then turned to leave the area, despite the fact that heavily armed stood in the way of his escape. The police brought up their riot shields and stood their ground as the spartan stared them down. Suddenly a pebble struck the back of 6's helmet, and the spartan turned back to see the two disciplinary squad members struggling to get up from their daze. He watched them put in tremendous amounts of effort simply to stand up on their own feet.

In an odd way he had to respect that, the sheer determination to obtain a kiss from him in order to bond and complete their objective of capturing him alive. No matter how badly beaten down both of became in the process, they kept getting back up to face the challenge head on. 6 sighed to himself and chuckled slightly in admiration of the willpower of the two girls. He cradled Matsu in his arms like a sleeping bride while he approached Benitsubasa and Haihane. The pinkette glared into his visor as he approached her, a river of tears streamed from eyes as she pounded her fist against the ground in a tantrum.

6 maintained a calm pace until he stood in front of the pinkette and bent down towards her. Haihane marshalled what little strength she had left and clawed her way over to her partner's side. A minute later 6 stood over them with a profound a silence that permeated the space around him and the two beautiful enforcers. He set carefully set Matsu down behind him and then kneeled down in front of the two girls.

"You've both have guts. I'll give you that." 6 put his hands on Benitsubasa's head and delicately stroked her hair. Haihane shot him a spiteful look, and he immediately swapped his field of view to her. The spartan proceeded to give her the same attention he was giving to Benitsubasa, a soft pat on the head being her reward. "I can understand your determination, but I have to walk Matsu home where she belongs." There was a certain warmth to his simple words, a kindness of sorts that hadn't been there before.

"Don't…. don't leave us." Benitsubasa whispered with what little of her strength that remained.

"You're the one we're destined to be with, forever. They'll take that away from us if we fail." Haihane said with a look of despair on her face.

"So, you have said." 6 grunted stoically as the two of them tried to appeal to him in some meaningful way.

He softly cupped his hands around their chins, propping their heads higher with his mighty strength. From 6's point of view, the tears they had shed were glistening brighter than the most things he had seen. All of those tears were real, they were truly beautiful because of that sincerity. "We might speak again, the next time we meet. You've earned that much." The hearts of Benitsubasa and Haihane nearly stopped at the uttering of those words.

"You can't abandon us like this. There might not be a next time for us." Benitsubasa

"I'm not. I want Hiroto to know that I'm interested in his deal. You two are still a part of that offer of his, that should buy the both of you some time. If not, he'll regret it." 6 told the girls as he glanced between them, a hint of anger laced his words. The spartan then rose to his feet and scooped Matsu into his arms once again.

Letting out a sigh, 6 frowned in hardened resolve behind his helmet faceplate and began to walk away. Benitsubasa and Haihane attempting to crawl after him, the pinkette managing to grab a firm hold of his ankle. The spartan briefly stopped to pry her fingers away from his boot and went on his way towards the edge of the square. All of the heavily armed police and MBI Security troopers pointed their weapons at him, yet 6 continued to walk on undeterred by the show of hostility.

"Halt or I'll shoot!" A trooper prepared to fire his weapon.

"Wait, hold your fire! All of you stand down! It's a direct order from the CEO!" A higher ranked officer shouted to the jumpy trooper and all of the other armed personnel in the surrounding area. They began moving out of the way as 6 quietly moved through them, the looks on their faces spoke of all the confusion and contempt they held for a man they barely knew. With that incident over, the spartan began sprinting through the crowd towards his destination.

"6 what happened to you?! Who was messing with the armor?! Cause that really hurt, ya know! Also, why do you look like hammered shit?! Who's the red head you're holding?!" Misako shouted as she came back online to check on her partner. "Just what in the hell did I miss?! 6 tell me!"

"Everything." 6 told his partner.

-MEANWHILE AT SHIN TOWER-

In the office at the top of MBI's main tower, the mad genius himself was grinning ear to ear at what the spartan had just shown him. A sinister aura radiated from the twisted CEO as he stared at the monitor with a look of amusement. "How delightful." Minaka said as he leaned back into his seat for a moment, he replayed the footage of the battle while a report from the lab technicians scrolled across another nearby screen. Across the top of the screen with the report was a title with the designation: ARMOR LOCK. Right beside the title was the words success in bold green letters. "Oh, what a glorious day for my game! Finally, some truly entertaining drama in my contest of the gods!" He cackled to himself as he spun around in his computer chair like a maniac.

The mad genius stopped his spin and picked up a small circular device, a faint electrical glow radiated from the high-tech trinket while it sat in Minaka's hand. "So interesting how such a small thing can make a world of difference, ah the wonders of science." Minaka tossed the piece of technology into the air like a coin and caught it a short moment later, a gleam of light reflected off of the man's glasses. "I'll be waiting you then, Spartan. Eventually all the secrets that you hold will be unlocked, one way or another. The future will be forged from the will of the gods!" He said with an excited grin.

While the demented genius cackled to himself in the office, behind the door in the hallway stood a serious Takami. She clenched her fist at what she heard from inside the room, a fire of determination lit in her eyes. No matter what it took, she would undermine that psychopath's inhumane plan for the sekirei race. It was now time to concoct her own plan to stop Minaka's madness, and she knew just the right people to help her. With that in mind, she stormed off down the hallway towards the elevator to visit the research labs. "You're not going to get away with this Minaka. I swear that whatever you plan to do I'm going to stop you; I owe it to Takehito and Miya."

-LATER-

After a walk through the city and catching Misako up on recent events, 6 had returned to the front steps of Maison Izumo with Matsu fast asleep in his arms. He approached the home and was greeted by the appearance of a panicking Uzume and a snarling Kagari. Miya was right behind the two of them, an expression of worry was strewn across her pretty face.

"What happened?! Is she alright?!" Uzume asked frantically as she approached the spartan and unconscious sekirei.

"She took a bad electrical shock." 6 replied in a cam tone.

"How the hell did that happen?!" Kagari barked at the imposing super soldier, clearly undeterred by 6's appearance.

6 was silent for a moment, he carefully contemplated what to say in response the civilian's inquiry. He briefly glanced to Miya for a read on her disposition as well, but her facial expression spoke nothing other than concern. With no other option to use but the truth, 6 took a quick sigh before he spoke again. "She received it during her attempt to assist me against Benitsubasa and Haihane."

"Calm down, everyone. Let's get her inside." Miya commanded to the group, and they all complied by walking straight through the door of the inn. 6 tenderly set the unconscious Matsu down on a couch and Miya ran to grab her a blanket. While 6 kneeled beside the injured girl, Kagari shot him a particularly nasty stink eye. Though 6 took note of the irritated expression on the man's face, he decided it was best not to inquire until Miya returned. Miya came back several minutes later with blankets from Matsu's room and Uzume helped her tuck in the injured redhead.

"She needs proper medical attention, but this was the only place I could think of to bring her at the moment. And before anyone asks, I am not a medic." 6 told the three other people in the room.

"I can understand why you did, if she were to be admitted to the nearest hospital, she'd be easy pickings for MBI. Even with you there to protect her." Kagari said as he glanced at Matsu, the silver haired man then turned his gaze back to the landlady. "Miya why didn't you stop her?" He asked her with a distraught tone.

Miya crossed her arms and sighed in regret for her mistake. "I… had not expected this to happen." The landlady told him quietly.

"Are there any other hospitals nearby?" 6 asked the group. Miya shook her head while Kagari scratched his is in thought.

Uzume gritted her teeth and glanced back and forth between all of her associates. She knew that Matsu needed treatment, and there was only one place she knew of that could help. "There's one I can think of that MBI has no control over, it's not that far from here." She told the spartan.

6 noticed her apprehension but he knew it was best to focus on the task at hand and save that line of questioning for later. "Let's move out then, Matsu needs professional treatment ASAP."

"I'll go with you." Kagari said as he stood up.

"Knock yourself out." 6 replied to the silver haired fellow. The spartan then looked at Uzume and uncovered Matsu. "Lead the way Uzume." 6 ordered to the buxom brunette and she nodded fiercely as she stormed out of the house, with the spartan and Kagari trailing behind her. The silver haired man shot Miya one more look as he went out the door and shut it behind hind him. Miya put a hand to her head and grimaced. 'I suppose I overestimated his abilities, or maybe Karasuba has gotten stronger than I thought.'

-OUTSIDE: WITH THE GROUP-

"It's this way!" Uzume said as she ran ahead of her associates towards the hospital. But just as she and the others were about to go around a corner, a slender young man stepped out in front of them and stuck his hand up. Uzume skidded to a halt just in front of him, and the face she saw made her jaw drop. Directly in front of the busty brunette was a man with blonde bob cut hair and a handsome face, his body was quite lean and he sported a blue shirt and black jeans with a pair of running shoes.

6 and Kagari stopped short just behind Uzume and the blonde man raised an eyebrow at their presence. His eyes narrowed when his analytical gaze landed on the injured redhead. With his observation complete, he smirked and took on a confident aura. "From the look of your friend and the direction you're going, I take it you must be heading to Hiyamaki Hospital. She has some very serious burns, electrical most likely."

"Get out of the way." 6 growled to the man.

"Now, now, I come bearing fair tidings. I have an alternate option for you to treat your friend. I'm sure you don't want to owe a substantial debt to the man who owns Hiyamaki. It would be quite inconvenient for you." The stranger advised the group.

"And why should we trust you, a guy we just ran into on the street? We don't even know you, and we have no reason to trust you." Kagari narrowed his eyes at the suspicious man.

"Fair enough, introductions are in order. My name is Hanafusa Hajime, I'm a doctor at the university and-" The now named doctor said politely, but he was interrupted by the spartan.

"She needs urgent medical attention, and you're slowing us down with talk. Either assist us or leave." 6 growled at the man with a tone that spoke volumes of capacity for violence.

The doctor did not seem phased in the slightest by the super soldier's words, in fact he seemed quite at ease. "I'll make it simple; do you want to owe a debt to the owner of the hospital: Higa Izumi, or not? Either way you still avoid MBI, but I can guarantee swift emergency treatment for your friend. I'll personally see to her injuries right away." Hanafusa pitched his arrangement to the group.

"There's always a price." 6 said grimly.

"Quite logical of you, yes there is. The decision you make is entirely up to you." The good doctor replied calmly.

"Deal." 6 nodded.

"Follow me then, I've sourced a vehicle capable of taking ALL of us to the university. Your suit weighs approximately 1000 pounds from what I can see, luckily I had the foresight to compensate for such an issue." The doctor said as he walked across the street to a heavy duty ambulance that he'd acquired. He immediately opened the rear doors and gestured for them to step inside the emergency vehicle. "Please load my patient onto the bed."

"Just help her." 6 said impatiently as he set down the sleeping beauty.

"Of course, it's my responsibility since we made our agreement, and I am a doctor after all." Hanafusa replied as he began hooking up Matsu to the vehicle's medical equipment. The doctor then made a sharp rap on the window to the cab and the ambulance sounded its and sirens as it sped off towards the school.

-END CHAPTER-