Sekirei One Shots

By: FunahoMisaki

(A/N: I own nothing and this is just a random one shot that pops into my brain. Be prepared for anything AU and OOC should be expected.)

"I'm back." Minato called as he got back home from work one day shortly after winging Kazehana. He inwardly marveled at how much the Inn felt like home, felt like such a safe space that he had never really known before.

"Welcome back! We're in here with a guest." Miya called from the living room and he wondered if that meant another Sekirei or a new tenant of the regular kind.

His smile slipped a little when he smelled the booze. Was Kazehana day drinking again? He thought she had cut back greatly on doing that unless there was a special occasion or something very wrong.

"Is everything alright? I smell alco…" Minato froze as soon as he got to the living room door, his eyes stuck on the one person he did not want to ever see while she was drunk.

"Eh so you're finally here are ya you brat?" Takami slurred as she looked at him with bleary, blood shot and drink addled eyes while one of the Disciplinary Squad members was in the room as well but she seemed to be watching something with Kusano.

"It's very rude to address him that way." Miya chided with a small frown on her face.

"Eh the little bastards my son. I'll call him whatever the hell I want to." Takami said and Minato noticed how most of his Sekirei looked surprised at this but Miya and Kazehana and even Kagari didn't.

"So that makes thee my mother-in-law?" Tsukinomi asked looking shocked and Takami stilled a bit at that as she looked at Tsukinomi and then at Minato who remained in the door way.

"Tsukinomi. Do me a favor and take Kusano outside to play." Minato requested quietly as he kept his gaze locked on his mother and the other Sekirei frowned slightly at the way he was watching her. He looked wary as if she was a threat but also resigned as if he knew something was going to happen and he couldn't stop it.

Tsukinomi frowned a bit but it was one of the rare times Minato actually asked her for something and so she took the young Sekirei outside to play with the flowers without complaint or issue.

"Get in here brat!" Takami snarled at Minato, startling everyone while the one who he recognized as Haihane frowned slightly as she looked up and paid attention as well.

"Mother." Minato said with a small nod and most of the older members of those assembled, and not drunk which Kazehana actually wasn't this time, noticed how his eyes had seemed to drain of life.

Minato stepped into the room and sat on the floor beside his mother who immediately grabbed him by his hair roughly.

"I told ya not to turn out like ya bastard father so where do you get off ordering her around huh?!" Takami demanded with such vitriol that it stunned the others silent.

"I merely asked her to keep Kusano entertained, Kusano has a lot of energy so it's best she gets it out before suppe-" Takami silenced Minato with a backhand across the face, which made everyone suck in a breath and jerk slightly.

"No excuses! Ya don't order anyone around got that! Ya won't be like your father, not while I live! I'll make sure of it! I'll beat anything like him out of you if I have to!" Takami snarled at her son before she drank another gulp of beer while Miya was getting up ready to intervene. Haihane quickly got out her phone and recorded this. She didn't like where this was going and she would need the evidence.

"I understand mother." Minato said calmly, his voice emotionless as he sat there with his stinging cheek.

"Now smile and sing that song! The one that makes you unlike him!" Takami demanded and Minato sighed and gave a hollow smile. He looked like a china doll with his dead eyes and hollow smile and it sent chills down everyone's spines.

"I'm such a useless useless useless child. The most useless child in the whole world." Minato began to sing in a dead voice and the song sent shots of horror through them while Takami smiled.

"Good boy! Don't be like ya father and you'll be okay. Ya not going to be like him! I'd kill ya before I let you be like him!" Takami drunkenly continued to say that while Musubi looked horrified, Kazehana had tears in her eyes, and Kagari was beginning to steam. Through his mothers words Minato continued to smile that dead doll like smile and sing that song.

"That is ENOUGH!" Miya said snarling as she stood there with tears in her eyes but she was furious.

"Eh? The little bastard did something didn't he? Minato prepare for punishment!" Takami ordered as she lit a cigarette. Minato continued to sing and his voice didn't waver nor did his smile drop as his mother took the freshly lit cigarette and stabbed it into his neck, causing the smell of burning flesh to enter the room.

"What are ya waitin fer boy! Pologize an' get punished!" Takami snarled and Minato stopped singing as he turned his dead eyes to Miya.

"I apologize for making you put up with my worthless useless self Landlady-sama. I understand if you wish to beat me or punish me and you are free to do whatever you wish to me for having to bear with my worthless self. If you don't wish to waste your energy and time on my useless self merely tell me what you wish to do and I shall punish myself." Minato said all this with the dead smile on his lips as he bowed low to Miya.

"Boy get the water!" Takami barked and Minato stood and grabbed a whistling tea kettle.

"He's real good at punishin' himself. Knows he needs it. Pour it boy!" Takami snarled and Minato, much to their horror, raised the kettle above his head and dumped the boiling liquid directly on his own head. All with that dead look in his eyes and dead smile on his lips.

"Stop!" Miya near screamed and Minato immediately stopped pouring the water.

"I apologize. It seems my worthless self had gotten your clean room soaked. I shall punish myself even more." Minato said bowing to Miya again while Takami lit another cigarette and stabbed it into his neck which was already blistering from the water.

"Stop it! Get out of my home!" Miya said and there were tears falling down her face and Minato once more bowed.

"Of course Landlady-sama. I shall leave immediately and never bother you again." Minato said beginning to stand but Miya reached out and grabbed him.

"Minato no! No you stay! You stay here as long as you like! Kagari get that…that bitch out of here before I get my sword!" Miya said as she pulled Minato into a hug while he just stayed there limply as if he were a puppet waiting for his strings to be moved.

Kagari immediately grabbed Takami and forcefully dragged her from the Inn before throwing her into the street and threatening her to never come back, shooting a fireball near her when she complained.

Miya was sobbing as she held Minato, she…she had noticed how he was lacking in confidence and anything that might make him similar to Takami or Minaka but…but she never even suspected any of this.

"I'm never drinking again." Kazehana said seriously with tears falling from her own cheeks while Musubi was still stunned speechless and still despite the tears in her eyes.

All the while Minato just stayed there limply like a puppet with that same dead look in his eyes and small doll like smile on his face.