HunterX097: Hello everyone. Wow, I don't expect this story has gotten more than 100 favorites and follows since the story was published last week. Thank everyone very much xD.

I'm glad you guys like my choose on Yume as Naruto's first Sekirei as she's a bit more mature version of Musubi and it's easier to write. However, you can see the keyword: a bit, because she, after all, didn't have a lot of interaction with the outside world, so she's a little childish and simple-minded but she's still very serious when needed.

Anyways, this is chapter two of Naruto: Ashikabi no Monogatari. Have fun with reading and let me know your ideas via reviews yah.

Disclaimer: I own nothing. All rights go to Masashi Kishimoto and Sakurako Gokurakuin.

"So let me get this straight, you're a member of an alien race called Sekirei. You and 107 other Sekirei have been released into this city by MBI corporation to find your Ashikabi, your destined ones, term and to fight in an all-out battle royal, known as the Sekirei plan." Naruto spoke to Yume, who nodded her head, "And by finding your...eto...Ashikabi right? You gain your wings and emerge allowing you to access your full power?" He continued, once more getting a nod from the girl, "And to emerge you need to kiss your Ashikabi?" Once again, Yume a.k.a his Sekirei nodded in agreement.

Naruto was holding his desire to groan in exasperation. Great, just great! When he was thinking that he finally got away from fights and wars in his past life, that he had a peaceful life to enjoy after a chain of events since he had arrived in this timeline, trouble randomly found him.

"So...you were being chased by those lightning girls because another Ashikabi wants to claim you against your will because you're one of these 'single digits'?" She nodded once more, "And, whatever it is in Sekirei that tells you who your Ashikabi is, it is pointing you towards me."

"Hai, Naruto-sama." Yume answered with a cheerful smile.

Once again, Naruto rubbed his temper when his headache was returning. MBI or Mid Bio-Informatics, there was not a day that he didn't see the ads or the news about that giant conglomerate on big screens whenever he walked in the streets of Shinto Teito, especially the President of MBI, Hiroto Minaka, and his ridiculous appearance and speeches. The numerous times the former shinobi wondered if he was a nutbar or he worked so much that he slowly became some kind of lunatic illusionist, but Naruto didn't actually really care too much then as it was none of his business...

...Until he saw the news stating that Hiroto Minaka bought up eighty percent of all Shinto Teito stocks.

It was then that the ponytail man got a bad feeling about that douche-bag and his schemes that he was ready to bet that didn't end well, and that he started to give more attention to MBI than before a little. After all, whenever a large company bought out a city it was done for a purpose, large conglomerate companies didn't just buy out cities for no reason. There was always a reason, always.

However, Naruto never expected it was for some sort of game where all Sekirei had to fight against their own kind to the death for the right to remain with their chosen slash destined loved one. It made him ill and disgusted. What was the bloody hell stuck in that President bastard!?

"Man, I soon knew there is something off in that Hiroto Minaka. After all, nobody is insane enough to buy out an entire city for nothing, but I don't think he wanted to set up a battleground of aliens. What a drag!" The blond complained as he grabbed his head frustratingly.

"Naruto-sama..." Yume gazed at him in concern. From his reaction to the situation, she could guess he didn't take the new information too well.

The blond man sat silent for a while, as if in thought before looking over at Yume with seriousness in his gaze, "What are you going to do now?"

"Now that I've been winged, I cannot and I'm also going not to come back MBI. I'm staying by your side forever, Naruto-sama."

"You mean...you're going to be with me from now on?" Naruto asked blankly.

"Yes...is that going to be a problem?" Sekirei No.08 questioned with a hint of fear and panic entering her voice. Would Naruto cast her aside now!? "Please don't leave me! I know it's so sudden, but I really want to be close to you! I promise I'll be a good girl! I'll do anything for you, just please don't send me away!"

Both irritated and a bit puzzled by the sudden situation, Naruto still couldn't help to find it pretty funny that Yume was now no more than an abandoned puppy. She actually thought he would heartlessly forsake her, "Have I said anything about dumping you out of here, you foolish little girl?" Yup, Itachi blessed him, "Of course, I have no problems with you making me your Ashikabi or letting you stay with me. And as you're my Sekirei, it's also my duty to take care of you." He stated with a bright smile as he reached out his hand and pulled the girl into an embrace while the other hand was stroking her hair gently.

Yume closed her eyes and enjoyed his warm hand running across her head. It made her feel loved, cared for, and protected. She snuggled deeper into his chest and hugged back him tightly as if the Sekirei was afraid her Ashikabi would disappear if she let him go.

However, the little moment was cut short as the blonde young man felt his phone vibrate from his back pocket, causing him to pull away from their embrace, much to Yume's disappointment.

"Congratulation, Namikaze Naruto-san!" The voice yelled out of cheerful, but Naruto quickly shut his phone, causing Yume to widen her eyes.

"Oh my god. No way I'm talking to anyone that has to yell. My ears are ringing." The ponytail blond stated as he rubbed his ears softly, which made his Sekirei giggle though the caller was one of the people she despised too much.

Naruto then put his phone back into his pocket, only for it to ring again, causing him to groan in annoyance, "Yes?" He decided to answer but he pulled the phone away from his ear this time.

"Why did you hang up!?" The caller yelled again, and Naruto almost closed the phone again until Yume grabbed his hand.

"He's like this all the time, and he just going to call back no matter you hung up every time he calls, so just listen to him okay." Yume said in between her giggles.

Naruto let out a sigh, then slowly bringing the phone back up to his ear, "So what did you need to tell me? Is that really important? And who're you?" He asked as he wrapped his other arm around Yume, bringing her close to himself.

"Okay Naruto-san, I'll try not to yell and my name is Hiroto Minaka." Naruto raised his eyebrow.

"Oh, you're the fancy folk with ridiculous dances and senseless speeches I see on large screens around Shinto Teito every day eh?" Sekirei No.08 was having a hard time holding herself to burst of laughing as her Ashikabi was making fun of Minaka!

"Too mean Naruto-san. I'm very vulnerable." Naruto nearly threw up at his tone. Was that really the President of one of the most successful companies in Japan?

"So what makes the owner of MBI have to call a commoner himself?" The blond asked smugly.

Minaka, however, seemed not to pick up or just simply ignored, "I'm calling to explain the Sekirei plan to you, my boy." Minaka states excitably as the blond just rolls his eyes this guy was a real piece of work.

"I already heard it all from Yume-chan and I'm not your boy. My last name is Namikaze, not Minaka." Naruto replied in exasperation, "If that's all then bye Mr. millionaire." He was about to hang up the phone, but Minaka stopped him by yelling at him...once again.

"Wait! Wait! Wait!" Naruto groaned in annoyance and put the phone back to his ear, "First of all, it's billionaire." The blond just rolls his eyes and was about close the phone until Minaka stopped him again, "Wait! Also, did she mention that the Sekirei plan is highly classified and no one must know about it?"

The blond man got a boring look on his face, "Needless to say, everyone can easily see it should be kept in secret. Can I go now?" He asked. Because he didn't get a reply so he just took it as a yes and shut his phone quickly, then shot a glare at it and clicked his tongue, "Tch, what a psychotic dork..."That was the understatement of what he really thought about the President of MBI, he had a variety of suitable yet colorful vocabularies for that douche-bag, and he would have surely tossed every one of them if it weren't for the young girl next to him.

Naruto really despised people like Hiroto Minaka. He was too arrogant to give himself the right to take Sekirei as his own property and take control of their life, forcing them to do what he desired. Not to mention he got innocents to participate in his sick game by Sekirei getting their wings from those people, and some of Ashikabi scumbags took advantage of the winging of Sekirei for claiming them against their wills.

This game, known as 'Sekirei Plan', was an affront to his sensibilities as even though Naruto could be more mature and peaceful in his thoughts and acts, he still was a rather sentimental person. Giving him a sob story and he cried, giving him a horror story and he was freaked, giving him an injustice and he was righteously pissed off. Certainly, he wouldn't let this go unimpeded.

"Naruto-sama, are you alright?" Naruto was snapped out of his thoughts as he heard Yume's anxious voice, "You don't answer when I call you."

"I'm fine. Just thinking about what I should do to this stupid game of Minaka." Naruto answered with a smile, "I really don't like the idea that you and your race are forced to fight till the death, and there is a high chance you will be injured or even defeated in the battle." He stated sincerely.

"You're worried about me?" Yume asked as she stared at him with happiness in her look

"Of course I am. This might sound odd, but I haven't had anybody to call a friend or even a remote acquaintance." It was a half-truth. He really had no friends, but he still had some distant relatives of his foster parents. However, Naruto had had no further contact with them since he had gone abroad.

The brown-haired girl immediately had a downcast expression as she heard about her Ashikabi's circumstances. He had such a difficult life, and no doubt he got a lot to deal with, but he still looked out for her, accepting her as his Sekirei. What a rare and wonderful Ashikibi Yume luckily got to herself! She would be damn if she let him go!

Yume, Sekirei no.08, the Sekirei of Fate, would rather live in a trash bin with her Ashikabi, Namikaze Naruto, than in a palace without him!

"Naruto-sama." Yume took one of his hands with a smile on her face, "I'm so happy to know you care about me so much. I knew I picked a gem when I chose you to be my Ashikabi."

"Yume..."

"However, you don't need to worry about me." She continued as she squeezed his hand, "I will fight for you, I want to fight for you. We will be together forever"

The blond man now Ashikabi stared at the girl in front of him speechlessly, then a smile slowly spreading out on his face, "Man, what a pleasant surprise such a poor man like me received from a beautiful angel. Well, perhaps I should count myself as lucky." He said as his hand reached out on her head, stroking her hair gently, "If that's the case, then I will also fight with you."

Yume shook her head, "You don't have to." She started with a cute smile, "I can fight for the both of us."

"But I want to," Naruto said seriously as he looked into her eyes. "If we are partners, then that means we are a team. I won't let you fight alone, and I will do all in my power to protect you as well as you will get my back!"

Yume's eyes got big and watery, and she immediately clung to him, "You're really a nice person, Naruto-sama."

"Aww thank you, Yume-chan. Most people think I'm pretty lazy and a bit clumsy, and I'm not going to deny." Naruto could feel Yume was giggling against his chest as he made a joke.

Unfortunately, their moment was awfully ruined once again as there was banging on the door of his apartment, which caused Naruto to groan in annoyance as he clearly knew whoever was behind that door. Yume still held securely against her Ashikabi when he made his way to the door and opened it, only to find himself face to face with his landlord. A squat, heavyset man whose hairline has receding as he advanced in years, his landlord was not known for his sunny disposition, but for his very low prices though it would change, sooner or later.

"Well, well, well. Namikaze-kun, I come up here because I thought I heard voices, and I see you having a woman tuck under your arm." The landlord growled as his eyes narrowing as he looked at the pair in front of him, "Don't even try to give me some cock-and-bull story about her just being a friend who is visiting as you seem to get lovey-dovey with her. Unfortunately, this isn't a love hotel, so be out of here by the end of the week!" The landlord then stomped away down the stairs,

Naruto shook his head before heading down as well. He had soon guessed it ended up being like this, so he wasn't really surprised.

"Naruto-sama, I caused you to get kicked out of your apartment...I'm so sorry!" Yume apologized with tears in her eyes.

"What's done is done, and there's nothing that can be done about it now. By the way, I'm going to move away from this place, so don't worry okay?" Naruto said, giving her a kind smile, "Let's let that go. Why don't we go out to fill our stomachs, and find a new place then? Man, I'm really hungry now."

"Naruto-sama..." Yume whispered, feeling the love he held for her fill the air around him, "Yes! I will follow you anywhere!"

A few hours later

After getting a meal in a restaurant and nearly emptying the wallet by his Sekirei's formidable appetite, Naruto and Yume started to go house hunting, mostly around the west and the north of Shinto Teito. However, there was something that made it hard for them to get an apartment. That was that MBI owned almost all of the apartment complexes in these sectors. Finding an apartment that was not owned by the corporation of a certain insane douche-bag was even more difficult than finding a needle in a haystack.

'Man, never really think one day I wander on the street while I'm a fucking millionaire. Come on, at least there has to be one someplace that bastard didn't have his eyes and ears!' The former shinobi thought in exasperation, 'Wait what was that?' He mentally questioned as he just passed by a large brown fence.

Taking a few steps back, which caused Yume to gain a confused expression, Naruto stared at the small sign on the fence intently, "Maison Izumo." He read slowly as a grin made its way to his face, "Heh, I think we just found a place to live, Yume-chan."

"Well, we still don't even know if the landlord will accept us or now yet, Naruto-sama." The brown-haired girl said awkwardly.

Naruto only shrugged, "You will never know if you don't give it a try."

With that, he made his way towards the entrance of the household, with Yume right behind him. Taking a look at the inn, it was a nice building using an amazing blend of traditional and modern architecture, surrounded by a high, simple wooden fence, and there was a garden off to one side.

The more Naruto looked at it, the nicer he found it to be.

However, that was not all as the blond man sensed multiply chakra signatures coming from inside the house, especially the one that felt around Kage level, 'It feels exactly like what I got from Yume and the S twins. Looks like I blithely come to a Sekirei's den, and one of them seems to be much more powerful than the supergirl next to me who I thought was the strongest one I've already met. Man, many unexpected surprises within a day.' Letting out a sigh, he then knocked on the door three times and waited.

A few seconds passed until Naruto and Yume heard shuffling on the other side of the door, showing someone was approaching. When the door opened, it revealed the person Naruto had felt the high-level chakra coming from, and more surprisingly, it was a slender woman with long purple hair, tied with a white ribbon. She was wearing the traditional attire of a miko that consisted out of a purple hakama, a white haori with a sash-like belt, and wooden sandals.

When Asama Miya opened the door, she saw a pair of a young man and a girl, and immediately recognized the latter. How could she not as that girl was a single-digit like herself? Not to mention she also was the leader of the Second Generation Disciplinary Squad. However, what sparked her interest was the ponytail blond man who, no doubt, was her Ashikabi.

'It seems that there are only two of them, so it means that No.08 might or might not be his first Sekirei. An Ashikabi could wing a single digit, even one of the strongest ones when he even wasn't Ashikabi yet. By the way, there is something off in him I can't explain.' Miya narrowed her eyes slightly in thought, 'I have to keep my eye on this man.' She then put on a sweet smile.

"Hello, can I help you two?" She asked politely.

Unknown to Miya, Naruto had caught her scrutiny on Yume and him just moments earlier, and he could see she paid particular attention to him more than his Sekirei though she quickly hid it with her smile then. It was at this moment that Naruto knew that this woman couldn't be underestimated. She held herself with a natural grace and elegance that not even the most expensive of geisha could hope to achieve. Even the most talented of dancers would have been unable to replicate the way she held herself. In fact, there were likely only a few people in the entire world who could hold themselves with even a modicum of the gracefulness this woman did. Naruto doubted most people would even recognize the way she held herself, other than to note that there was something different about her. The only reason he recognized the way she held herself was that he had seen it many times in his past life.

Hers was the grace of a warrior, born and bred on the battlefield.

"Well, we were recently kicked out of our apartment. We're finding a place to live but have been having trouble getting one. I'm wondering if we can stay here?" Naruto asked with a sheepish smile, scratching his cheeks typically.

Miya stared at the blond for a moment before bowing her head lightly, "We do offer to house here for a monthly fee of fifty thousand yen per room. However, I must ask, are you in any kind of trouble that I should know of?"

Naruto was ready to bet that question was mostly for his Sekirei, from the way the woman was looking at Yume. Did they even know each other? Did they even have any problems with each other?

"Nope, at least to me." He replied as naturally as possible, "My companion, however, had a conflict with some people, but I don't think they'll bother her again." He paused, blinking in curiosity for a moment, "Would us being in some kind of trouble affect whether or not we're allowed to stay here?"

"Oh no, not at all." Miya replied with a kind smile. "My husband believed in never turning a person away, even if they were in some kind of trouble. I just wanted to know as a simple precaution."

Naruto perked up at this tad bit of information, 'Husband!? She doesn't look older than twenty-two! What the fuck?!' He thought as he stared at her in shock before getting back his merely friendly expression, "Ah, that's really nice..."

"Now, I'm Asama Miya, the landlady of this inn. Just call me Miya" The purple-haired woman introduced herself, "We currently have two rooms available on the second floor. As I said before all payments are made in increments of fifty thousand yen monthly. So long as you can pay, you will be allowed to live here."

"I'm Namikaze Naruto, and this is my companion, Yume." Naruto said, pointing at Yume who slightly bowed her head.

'During my time in the Disciplinary Squad, there was a rumor that the First Disciplinary Squad leader was taken by a researcher and brought to someplace in Shinto Teito.' Sekirei No.08 thought to herself as she stared at the woman in front of her, 'If it's that No.01 runs this place, we can stay here without worrying about annoying MBI or hostile Sekirei. Wonderful choice, Naruto-sama!'

Miya gave them a polite bow, "Very pleased to make your acquaintance, Namikaze-san, Yume-san. Welcome to Maison Izumo." She said with a sweet smile.

"Oi, it's not fair as you call my partner by her name while I'm stated by my last name." Yume sweatdropped at her Ashikabi's childish sulky while the woman slightly giggled at that.

"Ara, I'm careless. My bad, Naruto-san." The landlady said sweetly

"Nice." Naruto smiled in satisfaction, giving her a thump up.

Surprisingly, Miya couldn't help staring at his smile...with a small blush on her face. However, seconds later, she quickly regained her bearings and waved her hand to invite him and Yume inside, "Let's talk the business inside here, this way."

"Yes, thank you very much, Miya-san." When Naruto was about to follow Miya, he felt a pair of strong arms wrap around him, embracing the blond against two very soft objects.

"It's a relief, Naruto-sama. We finally found a place to stay." Yume said with a smile while hugging him tightly, totally the redding face of her Ashikabi.

'So...so soft...'