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"Minato." - Regular Speech

'Musubi' - Thoughts

"Kaminari!" - Sekirei Incantation

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Chapter 19: Yukari Blows Her Top

The Next Day

Rooftops of the New Capital

"How dare one of those accursed monkeys attempt to defile mine dreams!" the blonde bombshell known as Number 9, Tsukiumi, cursed. Dressed in her usual outfit, the blond Sekirei stood atop a building, not-so-quietly fuming about her dream last night.

That she was actually reacting to one of those…those…those lower primates was bad enough, but the fact that she had been drawn to the Ashikabi so strongly that they met in the realm of dreams! Not only that, she hadn't even been the only Sekirei there! What sort of lust-filled beast drew two Sekirei into their dreams at once!

Teeth gnashing in fury, the Sekirei of Water glared out at the city, as if to draw out the target of her ire with the power of her mind.

"Tch. I shall have to track down and deal with that accursed Ashikabi with great haste, before he gains ideas above his lowly station!" Tsukiumi declared. Then she frowned. That prideless wench of a Sekirei who had been in the dream with her had claimed the boy as her Ashikabi, just like that. Not only that, the other Sekirei was an ice-user, which was almost impossible, as the only ice-using Sekirei to the Water Sekirei's knowledge was the former Number 7, the Scrapped Number. Scrapped Numbers couldn't Wing themselves on Ashikabi, nor could they React to one. Therefore, there had to be another ice-wielding Sekirei aside from the former Number 7.

'Curse it, ice is a natural counter to my water, and one that I cannot easily think of a counter for.' The blonde Sekirei thought, folding her arms beneath her impressive bust, unknowingly enhancing their size by doing so. 'Tch, in the end it matters not at all. Should that monkey not manage to Wing that harlot before I find him, then it shall be the simplest of matters to dispatch him. Should he manage it, it will make no difference in the end. I am a Single Number; with mine power I can easily overwhelm even the abilities of even a natural counter with sheer power alone.'

Nodding in agreement with her thoughts, Tsukiumi then leapt to the next building, deciding to start her search for the Ashikabi to whom she had started to react to.

Later

Bathroom, Sahashi Siblings Residence

Yukari was quite put out. Once again, she had lost a pair of her panties and nightwear, thanks to her First Sekirei and her apparent hatred of such things. Those had been one of her favourites, dammit! She'd been forced to wear a dress shirt and nothing else so she could make it to the bathroom without giving everyone a free show.

As she brushed her teeth, she thought about exactly what she should do about her situation. The path of least resistance was to simply start sleeping in the nude to prevent Oriha from destroying her sleepwear (and panties). Something about that, combined with what Yomi had said about how Oriha thought, stopped the youngest Sahashi from considering it.

'I'm her Ashikabi. I can't let her direct me like that.' Yukari told herself firmly as she washed her toothbrush off. 'We've only been together for a few days, so how I act now will set the tone for the entire relationship, and unlike a relationship with a human, there's no going back from this. We're together for life. Quite literally 'til death do us part.''

Honestly, that did make her feel warm inside. She was married, twice over, to a cute girl and a somewhat androgynous bishōnen. She would never be alone again.

Yukari had always been more popular than her nerd of a brother, but she'd never had much in the way of close friends. Casual acquaintances and school friends, sure she had plenty of those. But her up-front and in-your-face personality (both of which she'd inherited from her mother) tended to scare off anyone who tried to get too close. For the longest time her big brother, pathetic as he was, was the only person who ever truly simply accepted her for who she was.

So to know that she now had two people who'd love her unconditionally for the rest of her life made her insides go a bit warm and gooey.

Still, that didn't stop her from wanting to explode like a volcano when she saw one of those bitches shoving their tongues down her brother's throat! Even worse when they rubbed themselves all over him like cats marking their territory! Grrrr…!

She was well aware that Sekirei were many times stronger than a human thanks to her mother showing her a video of Musubi almost negligently turning a car into a pile of crushed scrap. That the mega-breasted Sekirei was also many times faster than Yukari could ever dream of being only magnified the problem. Any kind of confrontation between them wouldn't even be called a fair contest, even if Musubi held back. A more appropriate term would be a 'one-sided beat-down.'

That hard-to-swallow fact, plus the fact that she was more than slightly outnumbered, was what stayed her hand from trying to lash out at her brother's Sekirei. That and she had never seen Minato quite so…content…before. He had always been tense and watchful at home; here, he was open, relaxed and comfortable. Yet another thing to send her jealousy into overdrive about, but still. These women made her brother happy. As such she just couldn't bring herself to hate the Sekirei who her brother had 'married'…

most of the time, anyway.

Finishing her morning ablutions, she left the bathroom, only to run into Oriha.

"Oof. Oh. Good morning, Mistress Yukari!" the petite girl greeted her with a happy smile.

"Oriha…did you have to destroy my panties last night?" Yukari asked with a sigh.

"I was asleep!" the Flying Gear Sekirei protested. "I can hardly be blamed for what I do while asleep!"

"Fair…" Yukari allowed before narrowing her eyes. "Do it again and I'll start tying you up before we go to bed though."

"Is that a promise?" Oriha asked with interest in her eyes that made Yukari blush bright red. Great, so now she knew her Frist Sekirei was interested in being tied up in bondage. Just lovely. This was going to give her erotic dreams, she just knew it

"Ahem. Just please try not to destroy my clothes in future." She hurriedly said before making a strategic retreat to her brother's bedroom to get dressed properly.

Behind her, Oriha covered the grin that sprouted on her face. "Oh my, Yukari-sama. So eager…hehehe…"

Down in the kitchen, Minato was finishing up the cooking for his Sekirei. He'd left Yukari's portion under a clean dishcloth, so she could eat when she came down.

"So, what's our plan?" he asked Matsu.

"For Number 9?" she asked, adjusting her glasses. "Well, as was pointed out to us all last night, Akitsu and Kusano are natural counters for Tsukiumi's water power, so as long as at least one of them stays near you to act as a bodyguard, we should be reasonably safe on that front. The main problem is finding her. Tsukiumi hates humans, so she tends to avoid public places and keeps mostly to herself. I've scoured the city's CCTV network and the most I've found were a few flashes of her outfit moving by or the occasional blurry image on a rooftop surveillance camera."

"Have any of you met Tsukiumi?" the Ashikabi of the North asked his wives.

"The Single Numbers, Akitsu aside, were generally treated better than the rest of us by the staff at MBI." Uzume replied with a shake of her head. "Takami-sensei herself didn't discriminate, but they were adjusted in a separate wing than the rest of us. I've only caught glimpses of her and that's only because I'm just one number down from her. She speaks in a really old-fashioned way, so she's pretty easy to find verbally."

"Takami-sensei had me investigate MBI for corruption in the Handlers." Yahan volunteered. "Tsukiumi's Handler told her all sorts of exaggerated and false rumours about what it meant to Wing an Ashikabi, which is probably where her hatred of them came from. Other than that, all I know is that her pride is bigger than Honshu."

One by one, the other Sekirei explained what little they knew about the Water Sekirei. Some knew nothing at all, like Musubi and Kuruse, while the Raiden Futago knew that she was actually somewhat terrified of her Handler for whatever reason.

"A Sekirei scared of a human?" Minato had a hard time wrapping his mind around that. "Does Miyajima-san know martial arts like Kaa-san does? Or carry a gun or something?"

"Nope. What kind of scientist does either of those?" Yahan asked with a raised eyebrow before hastily adding, "Well aside from Takami-okaa-san anyway. And we all know just how 'normal,'" the sarcasm emanating from the Shadow Sekirei was almost palatable, "she is."

That earned her a chuckle from everyone. Takami certainly didn't fit into the standard 'scientist' mould that most people imagined upon hearing the word. She kicked ass, took names and then proceeded to kicked even more ass just to make a point. There was a reason why people who had gone beyond even Minaka Hiroto's tolerance level feared Sahashi Takami almost as much as Karasuba.

"Hm. None of this helps us find Tsukiumi though." Kuruse mused. She doubted that she would be much help against the Water Sekirei, what with water control being an excellent and flexible defence against her tridents from a distance, and only an idiot got up-close and personal with a Single Number without a plan.

"I…think that perhaps asking Number 1 for help might be an idea?" Yashima suggested. "Or maybe Takami-okaa-sama?"

"Nope. Number 1 will refuse to help anyone." Matsu shook her head firmly. "She refuses to involve herself in the Sekirei Plan by any large means, which helping us would count as."

The stony expression on the Sekirei of Wisdom's face told everyone that looked that she disapproved of the Strongest Sekirei's decision, but that there was nothing to be done about it. Wisely, everyone decided not to step on the conversational landmine.

"And it isn't a good idea to draw Takami-okaa-sama into regular Sekirei Plan matters." The Sekirei of Wisdom added as an afterthought. "We don't want the Chairman to forbid her from seeing us because she broke the rules."

"I guess the best plan is to canvass the city, at least the areas where she's been spotted most often, until we find her." Minato decided with a nod of agreement at his Fourth Sekirei's words. "Matsu-chan, where is she spotted most often?"

"Around the central area where the MBI building is, as well as the western area of the city. She avoids the east and south." The orangette said after checking her mini-laptop again. "She knows better than to go near Mikogami or Higa."

"OK. So, Oriha and Shiina are staying here with Yukari and Matsu." The only male Sahashi mused aloud.

"I have to take Hikari and Hibiki to Number 1 to have their power levels read." Uzume interjected.

"Actually, what is Shiina-san's power?" Musubi asked curiously.

"Kaa-san called him the Sekirei of Death, if I remember right…" Minato said, trailing off as he glanced at the bishōnen.

"I'm the opposite of Kuu." Shiina said solemnly. "She can make living things grow without restraint, even return life to dead wood, as well as revive defeated Sekirei. Me…my energy naturally drains away life force from anything it touches. Plants will wither and living things collapse from exhaustion or their bodies literally give out beneath them. One solid blast of my power is able to defeat any Unwinged Sekirei, no questions asked, so long as it strikes the torso. When Kuu used to lose control of her powers, I used mine to restrict the growth of the plants and return the amount of them to normal."

"Sheesh. One on one, you're almost invincible." Hibiki shivered.

The bishōnen shrugged. They were all practically in-laws now and he really couldn't see a situation that would force the Sahashi siblings to become enemies (nor could he see Takami-sensei allowing such a situation to arise within the Sekirei Plan), so being honest about his limitations would cause no harm. "Not necessarily, even at my best my attacks are fairly short-ranged, most don't extend more than a dozen meters or so outside my body without my Norito being active." he admitted offhandedly "Someone staying back and blasting me with elements or throwing weaponry would force me into the defensive. That's why having Oriha-san as well will greatly improve Yukari-sama's chances of winning the Sekirei Plan."

"Minato-sama is going to win!" Kusano argued with her older brother, an adorable pout on her face. "I'm going to make sure of it!"

A pouting Kusano, even when she had been matured into her adult form, was almost at the same level as a WMD on the cuteness scale. Using it against Shiina, who had a strong positive bias towards her, was akin to setting a house of cards in the way of an incoming tornado; he folded almost at once.

"Just as you say, Kuu." Shiina sighed with a smile, prompting his sister to glomp him happily.

Smiling fondly as his newest Sekirei hugged her brother (who was doubly his brother-in-law thanks to both being his newest 'wife's' brother and 'married' to his sister), Minato turned his mind to the situation with Tsukiumi. He wouldn't force Tsukiumi to be Winged by him, but he did want to try and convince her to not try and attack him. And remaining passive in this situation wasn't an option; if he did nothing, Tsukiumi would eventually track him down and probably attack him without any other provocation, which would lead to his Sekirei attacking her in return and would likely result in a very large mess for everyone involved.

No, heading this off as soon as possible was the best plan. He'd have to see if Akitsu would want to be Winged by him, then divide the rest of his wives into teams of three or so. Kuruse, Musubi and Yahan in one team, the twins and Uzume in another. He would be with Yomi, Kusano and Yashima, while Matsu and Yukari's Sekirei held down the fort at home.

There was some disappointment from the others when he laid his plans out, but he was firm.

"Kuu-chan is the natural counter to Tsukiumi, while Yashima and Yomi can guard me from any threats that don't come from a Single Number." He stated decisively. "Actually, on that subject, what do all of your Norito do? I know what Yashima's does, as she explained it to me a while back…"

"You should know what we can do." Hibiki conceded with a nod. "My sister and I have one called Kaminari (God's Cry). It is basically a massive lightning bolt that we can fire repeatedly. It's several times stronger than our most powerful non-Norito-powered attacks."

"I have two." Kusano admitted. "One is called Sakameka-san (Earth Mother) and it allows me to fill a large area around me with pure life energy, which revitalises, revives and rejuvenates all Sekirei and humans within its radius of effect. The other is called Ōkuninushi (Great Land Master), which allows me to assume complete control of all plant life in the area and causes it to grow into a veritable forest that attacks any enemy within its boundaries."

"Mine's just called Death Scythe Reaping." Yomi shrugged. "It's a charged up version of what I can do normally, although it is strong enough to cut a building in half if I really want it to."

"Mine's called Yomotsu-hisame (Eight Hags of the Underworld)." Yahan shrugged as well. "It lets me draw someone into their own shadow and attack them from eight directions simultaneously."

"Eh…I dunno if mine's any good." Kuruse admitted sheepishly. "It's called Amenonuhoko (Heavenly Jewelled Spear) and it basically lets me enlarge one of my tridents to the length of a streetlight and fire it at the enemy with a lot of force behind it. Good for single, stationary targets, not so much for regular Sekirei. The Chairman stated my powers would be excellent for anti-tank or anti-ship combat, but not so much against other Sekirei."

"Humph. My Norito isn't at all physically threatening…immediately." Matsu smirked. "It's called Yagokoro-Omoikane-no-Mikoto (Many Minds Thought Combining Deity). It basically allows me to take control of anything electronic without needing to use a computer or programming as an interface. Regular computers, ICBMs, orbiting satellites…you name it and I can take control of it."

"Musubi has one too!" the Miko-lookalike cheered. "I get really powerful and BAM!"

"It enhances her physical abilities threefold and she can condense it into a single punch that can one-hit any Sekirei, even a Single Number." The Sekirei of Wisdom translated for her sister-wife.

"Isn't that what Musubi just said?" Musubi asked, tilting her head in honest confusion.

Ignoring the latest of Musubi's (increasingly infrequent) bouts of air-headedness, Uzume offered her own input, "Well I've already used mine before. It's called Mikafutsu-no-Kami (God of the Jug and Cloth Capital), and it englobes my enemies, whether they be one or a group, and lets me attack them from all angles. It also increases the size of my cloth after I use it. And…I think that's everyone since you already know about Yashima-chan's Gravity Hammer."

"Yup." Minato nodded before looking up. "Now I'd better go and have a word with Akitsu-san and see if she wants me to Wing her…"

In Akitsu's Room

The former Scrapped Number sat on her bed, totally naked, and stared at the wall with half-lidded eyes. She shivered, not with cold but with remembered pleasure, as she thought of the dream she had been in last night.

'A Linking Dream…to think that I would ever have one…' she thought in awe, using one of the technical term used by the MBI scientists for when an Ashikabi and Sekirei dream of one another.

She had envied, but not begrudged, her fellow Sekirei who had received one in the past. No Sekirei would ever begrudge one of their brothers and sisters a chance at happiness. Envying them was another thing entirely. But now she had dreamed of her Ashikabi…and it was Takami-sensei's son. The same person who had taken her in, who had helped her get to his mother in order to be cured, and who had come to defend his mother and the Sekirei within her lab complex.

A sudden onrush of heat from her core made Akitsu squirm as she started to React to Sahashi Minato. It was a very unfamiliar feeling, as she hadn't reacted to anyone before that idiotic quack of a scientist had experimented on her and stripped her of the ability to React at all. Now that she could React again, she had to wonder if her body was extra-sensitive as a result of being denied all this time?

A soft knock at the door made her look up. Her eyes widened as a familiar voice spoke up shortly afterwards.

"Akitsu-san? Are you decent?" Minato asked through the door.

Panicking in spite of the fact he had already seen her nude body, the Sekirei of Ice grabbed a nearby gown and pulled it on. It was a kimono-style nightgown that was soft purple in colour and decorated with embroidered lavender flowers.

Tying the belt tight, and unintentionally maximising the amount of her bust that was displayed through the silk garment that strained to cover her bountiful breasts, the pale-skinned beauty nodded to herself before calling out, "I am. You can come in."

As Minato entered, he had to gulp subtly at the vision of beauty that stood in the middle of the room. Akitsu may not realise it herself, but she was tall and regal in bearing and demeanour. Combined with her natural aesthetics and form-tight robe, she was beautiful by almost any degree of standards.

"How have you been since you arrived here, Akitsu-san?" he asked.

"Comfortable." She replied after a bare moment. "It's…better…than before."

Considering 'before' had been her sleeping on a park bench clad in only a bloody dress shirt, that wasn't much of a surprise to Minato.

"That's good." He said with a nod. "Now, I have to ask…do you remember the dream you had last night?"

Blushing slightly, Akitsu bobbed her head once in confirmation. "I…do."

"Thank you for protecting me from the other Sekirei's attack." Minato smiled at her. "She's Tsukiumi, Number 9. She's infamous for hating Ashikabi and she's probably going to try and track me down to eliminate me."

Akitsu's eyes widened and a chilly aura erupted from her. "No…! I will not permit it!" she growled.

She had only just Reacted to him and someone was already trying to take him from her? Were the gods intent on making her suffer for some sin in her past life or something?!

"I'm taking measures myself, and my newest Sekirei, Number 108, Kusano, is a counter for her abilities." Minato nodded. "Your powers aren't just a counter for Tsukiumi's though; yours flat out negate hers. I would have asked, even if Tsukiumi wasn't an issue, but as she is…would you let me Wing you?"

Akitsu found her heart beating faster. "You…want me?"

"I would daresay that anyone would want you, Akitsu-san." The Sahashi boy replied with a small chuckle. "You are a beautiful, powerful woman. As I said before, I would want to have you as my Sekirei even if Tsukiumi wasn't an issue."

For just an instant, Akitsu allowed herself to hope…but then her reality reasserted itself. Memories of the experiment that the accursed scientist had used to lock away her ability to React and be Winged surfaced and plagued her.

"But…I'm…broken…" the Sekirei of Ice turned her head away, ashamed. "My mind and body was…defiled by that scientist…I do not deserve-!"

She stopped speaking when a finger placed itself over her lips and followed it. Minato stood close to her, eyes locked onto hers.

"You have suffered." He said firmly. "You have been hurt physically and mentally by that louse of a man, and both my mother and I are sorry that it happened. You cannot let him win by locking yourself away though. You deserve better than that. I don't want that for you."

Every word was true. Despite being so strong and aloof, there was something about Akitsu that tugged at his protective instincts, like seeing a puppy abandoned in a cardboard box when it was raining, except more profoundly. Just as she currently thrummed with Reacting to him, he was Reacting to her and all of his Sekirei could tell; how he knew that was beyond him but it was like a universal truth. Water was wet, apples are red, Minato's Sekirei knew he was Reacting to Akitsu.

The touch of Minato on her bare skin -and on her lips specifically- made Akitsu's heart race even faster. Her trembling legs gave out beneath her and she flopped forwards, arms automatically shooting out and grabbing onto the nearest thing to try and keep her upright…that thing being Minato.

Taken off-guard by the unexpected action, the Ashikabi yelped in surprise and toppled to the ground as well. When he opened his eyes with a wince, he found himself pinned beneath Akitsu, the startled teal eyes of the Sekirei of Ice gazing into his own, her robe open and exposing the entirety of her body to him, her full breasts large enough that they pressed against his body and (thankfully) blocked his vision of her lower half.

The fact that he could feel how Akitsu's nipples were standing up, hard and pointed, made him blush even more than before. It really didn't help matters either that he was now quite aroused himself by this situation, so he was 'upright' as well!

"Do…do you mean it? Do you want me?" Akitsu asked softly, lowering her head low enough that the tip of her nose brushed Minato's and her warm breath rustled his hair. "Even if I'm…broken?"

"You aren't broken." Minato answered softly, reaching up to gently touch the side of her face. Akitsu instinctively leaned into his touch. "Hurt, yes. In pain, yes. But not broken. Even if you were before, my mother healed you. You are Number 7, Akitsu, the Sekirei of Ice, once again. And for the third time, yes, I want you as my Sekirei."

That final confirmation was the straw that broke the camel's back. With a whimper of need, Akitsu pressed her lips to Minato's own, falling into the kiss with the urgency of one long denied. Minato, very much used to this kind of thing by this point after winging ten-odd Sekirei, reciprocated immediately, gently duelling Akitsu's tongue with his own.

With a cry of exultation, Akitsu broke away and arced back, arms crossed beneath her breasts as the one-winged bird crest of a Winged Sekirei appeared at the base of her neck. As it melted into her skin, the Sekirei of Ice cried out again, this time in pleasure, as her long, pale blue wings erupted from her back and spread themselves wide. They looked like ice themselves and glittered in the light like diamonds before fading away.

"My Ashikabi…let the ice of our love remain eternal!" she whispered softly, hardly daring to believe that she was actually Winged now. She finally had an Ashikabi…a true loved one! Tears steamed from her eyes as she realised this, burying her head in the crook of Minato's neck.

Unfortunately for the newly Winged couple, Minato hadn't closed the door properly when he had entered and it had gradually swung open as events inside had unfolded, and Yukari had walked past the room just in time to see the kiss.

Now Yukari had been (in her own opinion) very tolerant of the fact that her (beloved/irritating) brother had been all-but married to several busty and beautiful alien women. She had endured the superior looks (from Yomi, Hikari and Hibiki), she had gamely ignored the frequent scenes of PDA and the casual groping that she witnessed (Uzume was the main subject of this, along with the twins and occasionally Musubi) and even ground her teeth and kept her mouth shut at him being addressed in what she considered to be overly-familiar ways ('Onii-chan', 'Minato-sama', etc, etc).

She had endured all of that, but seeing this absolute knockout of a woman liplock her brother was the absolute last straw. Her patience exhausted, her anger blazing and her fist already flying, Yukari let out a wordless scream of anger as she blindly attacked.

Her blow was fast, powerful and from complete surprise. Against almost any human target, Yukari would have struck them and dealt some serious damage. Sadly for her, she was not just facing a human; she was facing a Sekirei. Not only that, a Single Number Sekirei who had just been Winged, and thus accessing the full 100% of her power. Akitsu gathered Minato in her arms, leapt into the air, flying over Yukari even as she attacked, and then very carefully (she needn't go all out against a mere human) chopped the girl on the back of the neck, dropping her like a stone.

As the unconscious body of Yukari dropped to the floor in a heap of sprawling limbs, Minato sighed as Akitsu very carefully set him on his feet again and hovered protectively over him.

"Well, it looks as if the twins are going to get to have their fun." He muttered eyeing his sister. "You brought it on yourself, little sister."

*WARNING! THIS NEXT SECTION IS RANKED 'L' FOR LIME, AND CONTAINS LIGHT S&M AND SCENES OF A LESBIAN NATURE! IF THIS IS DISAGREEABLE WITH YOU, THEN SKIP TO AFTER THIS SECTION!*

Later

Yukari moaned as she came around. She felt as if she had lost a no-holds barred match against her grandmother and then been thrown in the local stream near her dojo.

'Hang on…why am I so cold?' she wondered groggily. Peering around blearily, she saw she was in a dark room…

"Ah, looks like she's awake." A familiar voice said with an audible sneer in it.

Jerking her head around, Yukari spotted Hikari, dressed in a dark purple S&M outfit that accentuated her curved very nicely. Cuddling up to her on her left was her sister, Hibiki, wearing a similar outfit to her twin except in a shade of burgundy.

"You two! What the hell has happened to me?!" Yukari demanded…or she would have, had it not been for the ball gag in her mouth. As it was, all that came out was a series of muffled grunts.

"Sorry, we didn't feel like listening to you screeching like a harpy, so we took preventative measures." Hibiki drawled with a smug smirk. "And by 'sorry' I meant 'sorry, not sorry.'"

Narrowing her eyes at the wench, Yukari shivered at the cold before looking down at herself. What she saw was ridiculous! She was completely naked except for a pair of panties, and not the ones she had pulled on this morning. Judging from the lack of fabric sensations on her ass, she was wearing thong panties. A pair of black leather anklet-cuffs were on her ankles, attacked to a spreader bar to stop her from closing her legs.

Looking around, she recognised that she was standing up with her arms above her head. Peering up, she scowled at the sight of another pair of cuffs around her wrists, joined together by a six-inch chain that was in turn looped over a hook attached to a chain leading down from the ceiling.

"Now that you have properly looked at your situation, do think about why it is that you are here, hmm?" Hikari said, detaching herself from her sister's side and strutting around Yukari's arrested form. "What did you do to deserve it? Here's a hint: Akitsu."

Blinking in confusion, Yukari thought back and then got a jumbled group of memories and remembered what had happened immediately prior to being knocked out. A punch, a blur of purple and flesh, an impact to the back of her head and darkness.

"Ah, so the penny drops!" Mocked Hibiki as realisation and chagrin flew across the bound girl's face. "Girl, you are in a heap of trouble."

Reading the confusion in Yukari's eyes, Hikari unbent enough to elucidate her. "See, before you arrived, when we heard about you frequently beating up our Minato-sama, we asked Takami-okaa-sama for permission to discipline you if you flew off the handle and attacked him at some point. I think you can guess her response."

Yukari shook her head in disbelief and negation. Her mother wouldn't have, would she?!

"Oh yes she would." Hikari smirked. "Little girl, you've run rampant too much for your own mother to bear. You are an arrogant, brazen, incestuous little bitch with too much confidence in your own strength to pay heed to the words of others. You ignore what Takami-okaa-sama says about Minato-sama, you ignore what she says about you loving your brother as a man…she has thrown her hands up and washed them of you. Now for every attempt to strike our master, you will be punished by us."

"Within reason." Hibiki added. "Your virginity, for example, will remain intact…until you break down and offer it either to Minato-sama or to Shiina-san, anyway. We are not allowed to physically scar you or inflict mental damage to you either…unless you ask for it."

Yukari started to struggle mightily in her bonds, but nothing gave whatsoever.

"Don't bother. Those are the Amazon Binder ™ brand cuffs, specifically designed to restrain physically strong women without marking the skin." Hibiki told her. "They could even hold a Sekirei like Oriha, although my sister and I could break them easily."

"Oh, and don't think your Sekirei will interfere." Hikari added. "Takami-okaa-sama came and explained thing to them a few hours ago. They're reluctantly allowing this as it is entirely your own fault for attacking a newly Winged Sekirei as brazenly as you did."

That irritating smirk covering her face, the older twin reached out and flicked the nipple on her right-hand breast, which was hard from the cold, making Yukari yelp behind her gag.

"Sensitive, aren't you? That will come back to bite you, I promise." Hikari said silkily. "Ready to start, sister dear?"

"Ready and willing, sister mine." Hibiki replied with a smile. Sauntering over to her twin, she reached out with one hand and laced fingers with Hikari before they raised their free hands towards Yukari, who tried to jerk back.

Faint traces of lightning came from their hands and ran over the youngest Sahashi's body. Oddly enough, it didn't immediately hurt…it did sting here and there, but…

"MMNN!" Yukari moaned/yelped as a strand of the electrical energy grazed her breasts, shocking them, but not actually hurting them.

'Wh-what was that?!' she wondered. 'What are they doing to me?!'

"This is a weak electrical field, specifically designed to cause many minor shocks similar to static electricity on someone trapped within it." Hikari smirked as Yukari moaned again as her breasts and rear-end were struck at once. "As you probably know, the central nervous system is basically bioelectricity. What this field is doing is stimulating it. Specifically, we're stimulating the nerves that send the sensation of pleasure to the brain. Once we've done that, we'll actually start your punishment, as you'll be nice and sensitive."

As much as Yukari wanted to refute that, she was a very smart girl (temper aside), and could see why it would work…not that she was doing much in the way of thinking right now. The shocks were becoming more frequent as the twins learned exactly where to strike her skin with their powers to elicit the proper response from her. Thankfully (frustratingly) they kept to their word and stayed away from her groin, which, much to her shame and embarrassment, was getting quite wet and staining the panties she wore.

"That ought to do it." Hikari said and lowered her hand, Hibiki following suit. Yukari slumped in her bonds, sweat glinting on her body.

"Hmm…you make a very good sub, Yukari." Hibiki cooed. "A nice, taut body, tough and resilient, but not musclebound and meaty. You were born for this kind of thing."

This earned her a half-hearted glare from Yukari, which had about as much effect as one of her punches would have had.

"Now then…as it's your first offence, and you've been surprisingly well-behaved since arriving at our master's house, we'll let you pick your poison." Hikari smirked. She held up something that Yukari had to blink to believe she was seeing it. That was…!

"Yup, it's a riding crop." The older twin laughed at the bug-eyed expression her captive had. "Your punishment depends greatly on which instrument you pick. Choose this one and you receive ten spanks on your nice bare bottom."

Putting the crop down on the nearby table, she then picked up something else. "This is a willow cane. Lovely, isn't it? Choose this one and you only receive five spanks, although this one is a bit more painful than the other two."

Hibiki picked up the final object from the table and waved it in front of Yukari, who was relieved to see that it was a paddle. "Yup, this is the easiest one to choose, isn't it? But if you do, you have to endure fifteen spanks. Plus, the next time you're punished, you can't choose the same tool as you did this time."

The bound woman raised an eyebrow at that.

"Oh, you silly girl. Of course there's going to be a next time." Hikari chuckled. "While you've been good for you, it's been under two weeks since you moved in. That you were only able to keep yourself in line that long does not speak well about your self-control."

Seeing the defiant glare in Yukari's eyes, the Raiden Futago exchanged a smirk. "Tell you what…how about a bet, girlie? If you manage to not attack our master inside of the next fourteen days, starting tomorrow, we won't punish you again. If you do though, you must willingly submit yourself to three punishments. How does that sound?"

Yukari scowled and shook her head. No way was she falling for that!

"Ah well…it isn't any surprise, really." Hibiki sighed theatrically. "After all, you know that you'd lose, miserably. Once you lose control once, it becomes harder to avoid doing it again. Still, at least you know your, very short, limits."

A vein started to pulse on Yukari's head as the younger twin needled her, making her hurt pride swell up and prod her into falling for it. Glaring at Hibiki, the bound girl nodded once very firmly.

"Oh, so you accept? There's a good sport." Hikari smirked. "We'll see who wins that later. For now, choose your instrument of punishment; crop, cane or paddle. Nod the same number of times as your choice."

When Yukari nodded urgently three times, the twins rolled their eyes. It was what they had expected, but couldn't the girl at least try to go against their expectations here and there? Seriously, no one should be as easy to trick as this girl!

Moving quickly, they set things up for the spanking. In a trice, Yukari found herself bent over a desk, her arms and legs fastened to it. Hibiki twirled the paddle in one hand as she eyed as she eyed Yukari's shifting rear end. It wasn't Minato-sama, but she could admit that his sister wasn't too bad. They hadn't had a chance to go to Number 1 today thanks to Yukari's temper tantrum, so this was payback!

"I'll be starting on the count of three." She lied as she raised the paddle. "One."

CRACK!

"MMMPHH!" Yukari yelped as flat of the paddle struck her behind. Thanks to the lingering effects of the stimulation she had received from the electrical torture field earlier, Yukari was much more sensitive than normal and the mingled sensations of pain and pleasure shot right to her head and womanhood.

"Two."

CRACK!

"Three."

CRACK!

With every blow, Yukari's ass became steadily redder, although Hibiki was careful to wait a moment in between every strike and to not strike exactly the same location twice in a row. She also noticed in amusement that the girl was practically flooding her panties with the nectar of her arousal.

"Four."

CRACK!

"Five."

CRACK!

"Six."

CRACK!

"MNNNPPH!" the youngest Sahashi let out a cry as, with a great shudder, she climaxed from the stimulation, much to her shame.

"My, my, my…having an orgasm from your first experience with a bit of slap and tickle…how naughty you are, Yukari." Hikari grinned. She was flushed from arousal; seeing a cute girl writhing in mixed pain and pleasure was highly stimulating for her, and she could tell from Hibiki's expression that her twin felt the same way.

"Seven. Eight."

CRACK! CRACK!

"Nine. Ten."

CRACK! CRACK!

"Eleven. Twelve."

CRACK! CRACK!

"Thirteen. Fourteen."

CRACK! CRACK!

"And this…is number fifteen!" Hibiki drew the paddle back before smacking it against Yukari's thoroughly red and stinging bottom. The bound girl cried out again before her eyes rolled back and she slumped to the table's surface, overwhelmed by the pleasure.

"Aaannd…she's out like a light." Hikari frowned. "Think we overdid it?"

"Maybe a little, nee-san." Hibiki replied as she set the paddle down on the table. "But hopefully this should convince the stuck-up little madam to either move out or keep her temper in check…although I doubt that she will do either. Do you have the lotion?"

"Got it here." Her sister casually threw a bottle of lotion to Hibiki. In S&M, aftercare was important, both as a way of getting both sub and domme to bond and to ensure any physical aches and pains inflicted on the sub are minimised and treated.

'Even with this, she'll be feeling it tomorrow.' Hibiki smirked as she removed her gloves and started to rub and knead the lotion into Yukari's abused posterior. 'I sincerely hope she takes time to reflect on her mistakes…as unlikely as that is.'

*THIS IS THE END OF THE LIME SECTION. THOSE WHO SKIPPED THE PREVIOUS SECTION MAY NOW RESUME READING!*

That Same Day

Office of Higa Izumi

"So, now that Kōchō is finally fully recovered, how soon can she start repairs to my company's mainframe?" Higa asked Kakizaki. He was seated behind his desk, with his bespectacled subordinate standing in front of him.

"She estimates about four days, Higa-sama." Kakizaki replied steadily. "She has also requested to not be permanently linked to the mainframe this time, as it is why she required so long recovering."

"Tch. Very well." the businessman sneered slightly. "And what of the boy…Sahashi Minato? What moves has he made since his mother set MBI's attack dog on me?"

He scowled at the cast his arm was still in. He absolutely refused to lower himself to the point that he used MBI's hospitals, even if it meant he had to endure the indignity of wearing a cast for months while his bones healed the old-fashioned way.

"He has Winged several more Sekirei since our last encounter with him, including Number 43, Yomi, the Death Scythe Sekirei, Number 108, Kusano, the Sekirei of Life, and, as of this morning, Number 7, Akitsu, the Sekirei of Ice and formerly the sole Scrapped Number." Kakizaki reported. "His sister is also an Ashikabi, having Winged Number 101, Oriha, the Sekirei of Flying Gears, as well as Number 107, Shiina, the Sekirei of Death. Their blood relation means that they are likely allies, with Minato being the leader and his sister the subordinate."

"And likely he's taken her in so no one can use her as a bargaining chip." Higa clicked his tongue in annoyance.

"That is correct, sir." His subordinate nodded. "She is on the rolls as being a student at Shendong Women's University when the term starts next week, but she will likely be escorted by both of her Sekirei, if not a few of her brother's as well."

Higa sighed. He was not accustomed to having such…competent opposition. So far his competition in the realm of the business world had all been quite easily to predict and counter. Though, that was likely because the enemies he'd faced were all old fossils who'd been using the same strategies for decades without growing with the changing times.

The Ashikabi he'd managed to suborn to his side so far had also been easy to predict. Their motives were obvious. They were either cowards (merely promising them safety and a way to escape the game later and they'd be obedient) or greedy (a large-enough paycheck and a promise of more to come was enough to keep them on a leash), but the Sahashi siblings, particularly the elder, were far more difficult to wrap his mind around.

It would be best to play it cautiously for now, until he could better determine their motives and a means to either control or eliminate them.

"Hm. For the moment, keep an eye on them." He decided. "With the Sekirei Plan in the Second Stage, there should only be ten or so left that are Unwinged. These are assets that Mikogami and Sahashi Minato will be denied. Either they are Winged by myself or one of my subordinates, or they are terminated. Understood?"

"Yes sir. I'll make arrangements immediately." Kakizaki bowed and left immediately. Higa sat back on his chair and smiled thinly. He may not be able to strike at Minato outside of the Sekirei Plan due to Karasuba's threat, but once things progressed to the Third Stage, he would have a chance to remove the so-called Ashikabi of the North within the rules of Minaka's own ridiculous Plan, and the Black Sekirei would be powerless to move against him until they faced one another.

'I must obtain a Single Number to match Mikogami and Sahashi's own.' He thought as he drummed his uninjured hand's fingers on the arm of his chair. 'Number 1cannot be Winged and is missing besides, Number 4 is on the Discipline Squad, Sahashi has Numbers 2 and 7, Mikogami has Number 5 and Number 8 is apparently already dead. That leaves Numbers 3, 6 and 9 free. I have to find them and take at least one of them into my service if I am to emerge victorious in this stupid game.'

A sinister smile crossed his face then. 'Once I win the Sekirei Plan, I'll tear down MBI and absorb it into my Zaibatsu, then kick those old fossils on the board to the curb. Then everything I want will fall into my hands…'

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