Alright, here is Chapter 2
Climbing out of a taxi, the twins looked to their Ashikabi in confusion as Naruto opens the large doors set before them, "Where are we?" Hibiki asked looking around the large warehouse.
"We, are in a place I acquired a few years ago before I began to travel abroad. It's a safe-house of sorts. But for right now, it's now a place for use to get some things I need." he told her.
"What would that be?" Hikari asked him.
"Well I have a transport here and need to load some supplies into it before we head to the real destination." he said to her as he led them to the back.
Hikari was looking around in shock by the sheer amount of stuff inside the building, "How big is this warehouse?" the young woman asked.
"Well you have the standard warehouse size being three stories at ground level, but underneath I have an additional seven or eight levels for things that might come on handy later on. And yes, all levels have something stored in them. However, what we need is located all the way in the back." he told her.
"And you need that much space for what reason?" Hibiki asked him as she crossed her arms over her chest.
"For you to ask a hundred questions." Naruto said.
"Oh yes, king of comedy everyone. This is the love of my life." the Sekirei said clapping her hands together in sarcasm.
"I'll show you comedy if you want, and trust me, it's not going to be the fun kind." Naruto growled out.
"Ok, can I ask something without sounding like a bitch?" Hikari asked before she asked anyways, "Why are you so calm and collected and even respectable at one moment, but then the next you're a total jerk for no reason?"
"Because, that's just who I am." Naruto responded as he located a golf-kart, "Get in." he told them turning it on.
"That's not a answer." Hikari told her Ashikabi.
"Well until we settle on our future placement that's the only answer you're gonna get." Naruto responded.
"Fair enough." the eleventh Sekirei shrugged her shoulders.
"Anymore questions you wanna ask, I'd get them out now before we get going. I won't be answering them once we get to the back just to let you know." he told them.
"Your eyes, are you blind or something, I don't see how you can get around normally with them." Hibiki said curiously.
"A sort of genetic defection. I don't know what happened, but I used to have blue eyes and could see color like a normal person, but then one day something happened and they turned a pale lavender, at least that's what I'm told, and then everything turned into a bright pink and white. Everything not associated with the darker colors blinds me and gives me a headache. Good thing about these eyes is that I am able to see in the dark, the disadvantage is that I am more blind in the day and have to wear high level sunglasses to see properly or even welding goggles to have appropriate sight. That's how much my sight is affected by the light spectrum." he told her.
"Are you a natural blonde?" Hikari asked him.
"Yes, and before you ask yes my name is Japanese, no it doesn't mean Fishcake but rather Maelstrom." he told them as he began to drive, "Now that's enough questions, we have things we have to do." he said as the buggy drove at a high speed to the back.
"What's your favorite food, at least tell us that. I mean it wouldn't hurt to know that much would it?" Hibiki asked him.
Naruto shrugged, "It depends." he told her.
"Depends on what?" the twins asked together.
"Usually it's based on where I live, but seeing as I don't stay in any one place for long, it always varies. While I'm here it'll most likely be teriyaki noodles and shrimp fried rice, or it'll be miso ramen." he told them as he took a right.
"Well at least he's not into barbecue." Hibiki muttered.
"No, that's only when I'm in the states and even then I eat it hardly if ever. I do like fried chicken though." he told her.
"So, you say you bought this place several years ago, but even then the standard warehouse doesn't have as many lower levels as this one is said to have by you. How'd you get it built and with what money?" Hikari asked him as he turned the wheel left.
"I'm a successful investor. And I also like to gamble on the special occasion. And not only that, I am also very lucky when it comes to making money." he told her with a shrug of the shoulders once again.
"How, you can't be no older then twenty?" Hibiki said to him.
Naruto gave a short dry chuckle, "Trust me, I'm a lot older than I look, now enough talking, we're here." he said stopping the buggy and climbed out. Turning to the twins he asked, "Can either of you drive a vehicle?" while he glanced between them.
"Of course we can. We were brought up much earlier than most of the other numbers and learned some things they probably won't know. We learned how to drive so we could blend in when we needed to." Hikari told him.
"Good, behind this shelf on the right is a large shipping truck, bring it around." he said to her pointing to the right shelf next to her, "Keys are in the ignition." he told her before turning to her younger sister, "On the opposite side of this shelf here is a forklift, bring it here." he told her as the sound of a truck being started up was heard, "And you better not scratch my truck!" he called out to Hikari who responded with a nonchalant answer.
"Uh, I've never operated a forklift." Hibiki told him.
Naruto sighed in annoyance, "Fine, then wait by the buggy. I'll be back. Don't touch anything." he told her as he walked away. Walking around the shelf he jumped onto the forklift and brought it around and parked it beside the golf-kart and hopped down while leaving it running. Hikari was slowly moving the truck around the corner and soon brought it to a stop and climbed out.
"Ok, I'll be honest, I never operated a manual shift vehicle before, it was an experience." she said.
"Let's just hope you didn't strip the gears in my truck." he said opening the back of a small trailer that was hooked onto it, "Sit in the golf-kart and wait. I'm going to load what I need and then you will follow me back to the front." he told the older twin before he got back on the forklift and began to drive up and down the aisle and move large pallets of what looked to be metal bars, tubes of propane, several strange machines with belts on them, a pallet of boxes, a large machine, among other things. They watched as the blonde grabbed a chain and proceeded to hook it onto the forklift and then run around the corner.
Coming back he brought what looked to be like a hammering machine, but even then they were lost on what it was in its entirety. Once he finished loading everything and closed the trailer, he hopped into the truck and poked his head out the window, "Stay close and follow me." he told them before he started the truck up and began to drive through the numerous columns of stored items. When he reached the front he watched as the twins climbed off the little kart and jumped into the truck. Driving out he stopped just after clearing the exit and jumped out and shut the doors. Entering a code on the keypad, he watched as the little light turned red and then jumped back into the truck.
"So, care to explain why we need all of the stuff in this truck exactly? I mean I'm not smart when it comes to some things, but a lot of the things you loaded didn't look familiar to me." Hibiki told Naruto.
"You'll see." Naruto simply told her.
"Well can you at least explain to us where we're going now?" Hibiki asked him.
"I'm dropping you both off at the motel. After that I'm going to get a place for us and then come get you when I have everything set up like I want it to be. I'm pretty sure you two are the type to not sit around and wait for long periods of time without trying to find something to entertain yourselves." he said to them.
"You'd be correct." Hikari sighed out, "So why bring us with you to that place when you were just going to drop us back off at the motel?" she asked him.
"I needed a extra set of hands. That and to keep a eye on you two as I don't know your habits and as such want to know how you two work when on your own." he told her.
"We usually try to mind our own business and keep to ourselves. Mutsu and his band of crazy were only chasing us because their Ashikabi wanted to add us to his collection and treat us like toys. I would rather not be in that kind of situation if I'm honest with you." Hibiki said as she crossed her arms.
"Nobody would. From what I'm gathering either this Mutsu's Ashikabi is a young brat who's never experienced life like a normal working human, or he's just really fucking stupid and needs to have a reality check." he stated.
"You would actually be right on both accounts." Hikari told him as he hummed to himself in thought, "The kids name is Mikogami Hayato and he comes from a very wealthy family. He's been handed everything he's ever wanted on a gold platter and knows nothing except what his money can buy. Unfortunately his parents also don't seem to care about him and leave him alone a majority of the time to vacation around the world and leave him on his own." she told Naruto.
"Well, when this is all said and done I'm sure he'll have a different outlook on life." Naruto muttered as he pulled up to the curb and stopped, "When we get to the motel I want you to lock the patio down as well as the elevator pass. Nobody is to enter except for me for when I come get you, got it?" he asked as he turned right and then stopped at the parking lot for the motel, "And no ordering room service, we won't be staying here long anyways." he told them as they got out and left.
When Naruto finally returned the twins were already set to leave. And apparently someone had taken the time to drop off some of their effects while they had been gone. He could appreciate the fact that they wore regular shirts and shorts as him being seen with a couple of young women wearing S&M clothing was actually kinda embarrassing to admit. Driving them to the edge of the city they pulled into a small neighborhood and then pulled up to a fairly decent looking house. It was a two story house and was roughly one hundred feet by one hundred and fifty feet. Climbing out Naruto stretched, "Alright girls, we're here. Our current abode for the time being." he told them.
"And how are you so sure about that? I mean it's nice and all, but it's too big for just the three of us." Hibiki said.
"If what Minaka said is true and you two are in a fighting tournament, then you're going to need more help to win. I'm sure that all those other Sekirei that were chasing you were all that one brats, and if that's the case I don't want to be outgunned in the future. I may not like or care for you, but in time things could change and I don't like loose ends. So I bought this place for the time being." he told them.
"You plan on winging more Sekirei? Why, are we not good enough for you or something?" Hikari growled out.
"No it's not that you are good enough or not, but I want to ensure that those I come to care for are safe. So deal with it." he said to her as he walked up the driveway, "Doors are open, find yourself a room and get comfortable, I'll be in the shed out back." he told them.
"We only had the two outfits on us so we're practically set." Hibiki told him.
"Well there's no furniture in the house anyways so there really isn't anything for the both of you to do, but seeing as you said that, I could use some help." he told them.
"With what exactly?" Hikari asked.
"You are both long range fighters due to your use of lightning. I want to ensure that in case you are unable to draw upon that, you can at least still put up a fight, so I'm going to craft you some weapons to use in battle and teach you how to use them properly and even teach you how to use your lightning with the weapons I make for you." he told them as he walked around the house.
"So explain something to me. How did you afford all this, this couldn't have been cheap." Hibiki said.
"Like I said before, I have money and I am usually a very good investor. This was actually pretty cheap compared to some of the other lots that were up for sale. I even bought the house next door on the right as well as on the left in case of anything." he said to them with a shrug.
The twins were speechless. He bought three lots of property?!
When they reached the back, he opened the door to a large building and showed them around, "This is the forge I set up to make your weapons. Now I already have the idea of the weapons that would suit the two of you perfectly in mind, just don't complain when I'm finished." he told them as he raised his goggles up to his forehead, "I only need the two of you to run maintenance on some minor jobs around this place while I work, other than that, you're free to explore the place, but again, don't touch anything if you don't know how it works." he told them.
"I think I'll stick around to watch." Hibiki said. She had never seen something like a blacksmith forge or the like so this would help teach her something she might be able to use in the future.
"Whatever, just make sure you stay out of the way while I work, wouldn't want to hurt you on something important." he told her as he walked up to a bench, "Let's see, I need 15-20 and some 10-95..." he muttered to himself as he went through his supplies, "No full stock bars but rather the plates, makes it simple and easy to manipulate into the form I need." he said to himself before bringing out roughly thirty sheets of metal for both types of steel and stacking them on a table next to a belted machine. Pressing a button the belt began to turn and Naruto set out to begin working on the metal, sparks flying as he ground them down.
"So, you know how to work in a blacksmith shop I take it?" Hikari said standing next to her sister.
"Yea, decided to learn some things while I traveled. This just happened to be one of the things I learnt." he said as he continued to switch between the two metals and stack them as he went.
"So, any particular way you're going to make us what you want." Hibiki asked him.
"Yes actually. I'm going for both quality and design. Good quality blades are easy to come by, but one that is appealing to the eye never hurts either. I'm going to make some mosaic pattern Damascus. It'll be done by alternating between the 15-20 and 10-95, but the difference is that I'm going to twist these out into a long bar, cut the bar into three, re-stack the three bars, twist them again to get a better pattern out of the metal." he told her as he grabbed his material and walked over to a different table and flipped on a machine, "Turn away. If you look into this light you'll go blind." he told them as the machine whirred to life.
"Why, it's just light." Hikari shrugged.
"Welding machines produce a light that's twice as bright as the sun, stare into that light it's permanent eye damage that nothing will heal." he told her before twisting his hand around, "Now turn." he ordered her as he put his welding goggles on his eyes. The young woman huffed but did as she was told to while her sister did the same thing. The welding process took a couple minutes as he needed to weld a handle to the welded plates so he could grab them without hurting himself while working the metal, but he still did the job and then turned the welding machine off and grabbed his material, "You can follow me if you want." he said walking around and then to a small box that was spewing fire out its ends.
Raising a small lid he shoved the block of welded metal plates in and then shut part of it and stepped back. The twins watched curiously as he simply sat by and let the metal sit in the furnace, "So how long will this take to do? I imagine it's not a five minute job?" Hikari asked him.
"A few hours. The metal only takes ten minutes to bring up to proper temperature, but the real fun begins when we start doing the initial curving of the blades." he said shrugging. When the metal had been heated to the correct temperature, Naruto was quick to pull the white-hot metal out and turn on a machine and then shove it under what looked to be a rectangular block. Stepping onto a pedal, they watched as the block hammered up and down onto the heated metal. He needed a total of about fifty-two inches in length to be able to cut it and then twist it to length. He performed a twisting motion of his wrist each time the block raised itself so that a different strike flattened out a different piece of the metal.
When he was satisfied, he grabbed a small can and poured what appeared to be flour over the metal where it began to melt and boil from the heat of the metal. The twins looked on in confusion as he stuck the metal back into the fire, "What was that stuff you put on the metal?" Hibiki asked him.
"Borax." he told her as he leaned against the hammering machine, "It's generally used as a flux when forge welding to prevent oxidation of your surface and weld. The best type of borax to use is what is called anhydrous borax as it speeds up the process due to its early liquefaction, and leaves little room for impurities to get inside the joints in your weld. The flux from borax promotes deep penetration in the filler metal of the joints, which causes the resulting bond to have high strength thus creating high quality steel for forging. Anhydrous borax, in particular, is the best type to use for this process, as it stays where it is placed on the steel while the metal is still hot."
Repeating the process, they watch as the bar becomes thinner and thinner and much more elongated until it was a long thin bar. Taking a small tool that had a sharp edge (a hot cut tool), he proceeded to cut the bar into several pieces before he gathered them up and let them cool. Grabbing a spool of wire, he then took the small bars and put each one in the fire to bring them up to temperature. When one was hot enough he would pull one out and move to a vice and set it up vertically. Grabbing another tool, he placed it at the top of the bar where a hole was cut out and pulled it down about a half inch. With it in place he began to twist the bars one by one to get a total of ten full rotations on each bar before going back for more heat.
When each bar was once more brought back up to temperature he finished them off with an additional seven twists for each bar for a grand total of seventeen twists for each bar, stretching them to the near limit for such a process. As he twisted, the twins noticed a dark material flaking and falling off. Naruto explained that it was known as scale, which is when the orange hot steel comes in contact with the oxygen in the air which allows it to form. When the bars were all finished and cooled he walked over to a machine with a couple wheels on them and flicks on the power where the machine begins to spin the two wheels on it.
He uses the left one made up of wire and brushes of the excess scale that didn't remove when he was in the process of twisting the bars, and then upon finishing he wire tied the bars together before he welded the ends as well as a handle to the now stacked bars. When that was done, he once again threw the bars into the fire to let them begin heating up. He was hoping to produce a bar about four foot in length and about three inches around so he could do what needed to be done next. When he had the bar to the desired size he then took it to a press and then began to once again twist the metal to form a old pattern from Russia known as the steady katapesh.
Each bar when ground through produces a star pattern, and seeing as he had twisted multiple bars, stacked them and welded them together and then twisted again, that pattern was now going to flow as a spiraling pattern across the blades. This would be his final manipulation of his Damascus pattern before he would draw it out into the blades. When he had finished twisting it he once more placed borax on the metal and placed it in the fire to bring it up to temperature. When it is, he once more puts it under the power hammer and goes at it until he once more has it to shape. Then while it is still hot, he takes the hot cut tool he used when the bars were small, and he cuts the bar into four pieces.
With his bars ready he heats them up once again and begins to finally hammer them down and flatten them out to draw out the length of the blades. He of course also pounds a pointed tip at the end of each flat bar before switching to a heated one so he can continue working without having to wait on another, and it's efficient to do it this way. And when they are finally drawn out, he cuts them off his handles to cool. He then draws out the tang on each on before going over to the anvil and manually hammering the curve of the blades into the bars to give the starting process of shaping the blades.
When that is done he reheats and then uses the power hammer to finish out the curving and even has to re-flatten one of the blades to ensure it didn't remain that way. With his work finished he drops them in a small box of oil to quench them. He leaves them in the liquid and calls them over, "Now, the weapons I am making are designed to follow the natural flow of the body as you twist and turn." he told them, " They'll cut, slash and stab with each natural movement depending on how you hold them. And with proper training these will be some of the most deadly weapons ever designed for you two." he told them.
"So how will we hold them?" Hibiki asked him.
"With the pointy end away from you." he smirked.
He had forged them to be quite thick, meaning he would have to take a good amount of material off but in the end it would reveal the beautiful pattern he had inlaid to the metal. Taking a magnet and sticking it to the back of one of the blades, he proceeds to start grinding it down. He had to rotate, grind, dip into water, rotate and repeat to make sure he didn't just grind down the blade and ruin it. Not only that, but the blades were designed to be single edged, so that meant he was only going to do a hollow grind on the outside edge before he made the serrations in the end with the bevel to finish it off.
When it was finished being profiled he was quick to start on the edge grinding, but he did it in the same fashion as a hollow grind, meaning he had to face the edge of the blade upwards. He did this so he could make sure he didn't over grind into the edge. He would go roughly halfway before he flipped the blade over to do it again, grinding in his depth before moving his grind backwards to gain a significant width. When he was finished with one, he took a marker and marked where he had to cut out some holes and blade catching serrations beveled into the spine. He designed them this way to ensure that any blade user they encountered didn't just bounce off and could actually be deflected or parried.
He of course also marked where his tang would be set and extended it down, marked where he had excess to cut off, and then used a angle grinder to cut that off. With that done he took a small punch and made indention's into the circles he drew before he grabbed a drill and some drill heads. He made quick and easy work on drilling out the holes before he used a grinder to cut into those to make his serrations. With those done he took a flint and powered up a plasma torch and placed the serrated end into the fire to quickly heat it up. With a hammer he proceeded to hammer in the square ends to make his bevels one at a time.
With all four blades now properly shaped, ground down and serrated, he once more placed them into the furnace. Now, it's important to note that with this kind of twisting in a forge, it is very important to normalize, which prevents the metal from twisting back when doing the heat treating. When they were brought up to the proper temperature, he removed the blades from the furnace and allowed them to air cool for about fifteen minutes before he once again returned them to the furnace to once more bring them back up and then dipped them oil. And with that done, all he had to do was let them air cool to get on with his work.
With the blades finally heat treated and tempered, he could finally begin to work on the polishing as well as some ferric chloride and etch in the pattern. He moved from the eighty grit down to the one-twenty grit and really dug in to remove any unnecessary grim off the blades. But when it was all said and done, a set of beautifully polished silver blades were revealed, but he wasn't done just yet. He then took it over to his scotch bright wheel and used it to soften up the lines and crisp up the hollow grind. All in all it was fast, simple, and to the point and he was able to retain the same method of grinding as he did with the belts.
With the blades now fully polished, it was time to etch them. He decided to use a incredibly concentrated batch to do the job quicker, as it would take ten to fifteen minutes to finish the process of etching the blades out. Calling the girls over he gave a knife a quick dip into the chemical and then pulled it out showing several white lines across the blade. The white lines each represented a twist made when he was doing the forge welding, and the girls couldn't be more awed by the beauty of the pattern. When the blades were finished being etched, he decided to spread some white ash across the blades.
It was a very basic form of base to neutralize the acid, so it was a simple thing. Taking some Windex for the ammonia inside it, he proceeded to spray it over the ash covered blades to not only clean them off, but because it also acted as a neutralizer in its own way. When he finished with that he grabbed a green buffing rouge and had a cloth buffing wheel started up to turn the white lines into a incredibly shiny glow and it would allow the dark black lines to remain dark without having to remove anymore metal off the blades. And to him he could only grin as he revealed the finished product of the buffing, these would be one of a kind blades.
Now that he had etched the blades in ferric chloride, he could now proceed to make some handles for the blades. He decided to use some cocobolo wood to form and shape the handles. From what he could see of the girls' hands, he already had a pattern he could use in his mind and quickly drew them out onto the wood and was fast to carve them out after cutting the block of wood into four so he could start to shape them. Using a handheld sanding tool he proceeded to smooth out the thick lines he had made when he cut into the wood. Clamping them both together to get the finishing touch as close as possible, he then used a dremel tool to sand out the rest.
This was so that if the girls were to switch hands with any one of the knives, it would still hold that same exact grip as they originally had before and didn't lose any speed when having to get used to a different grip. With that done, he proceeded to cut each block in half and flipped them around and put them back together. He didn't want the darker side to be prominent at the finish, but he had other plans regarding the former outside. He proceeded to carve out his notches for the blades and then sanded them down to proper shape and form. Upon finishing he decided to use some epoxy and put the blades into the hilts and clamped them all shut.
He used a lot of epoxy to ensure that all the seams were sealed shut where the blades didn't shift around and shake in the hilt where a wrong move could harm the twins. With that done, he hand sanded all the excess off to clean it up and put the finishing touch on. Taking some dark stain, he dipped a rolled up napkin and began to paint over each handle to darken them up, and he'd probably use a little bit of wax as a added touch, but regardless, he had finished his work in a total of eight hours.
XxX
"Before I begin teaching you how to use these blades, there is something that needs to be done." Naruto said before looking back to them with a hard gaze, "If we are to be partners, I need to know everything about you. Your powers, strengths, weaknesses, tactics...everything. And you don't truly know someone until you fight them yourself." the Twin Sekirei looked alarmed at their Ashikabi's words.
"We can't fight you!" said Hibiki, and Naruto frowned.
"If you are afraid I'll do to you what I did to that girl yesterday, rest assured, I have far more skill and control then you can imagine." he said. Hikari and Hibiki did indeed remember what he had done to Mitsuha and shivered. Nobody at MBI had told them that there were humans who could take on Sekirei in combat, "However, if you're afraid you'll cause me harm, you are sorely mistaken. So...care to try together, or one at a time?" he asked them with a smirk on his face. The sadistic way in which he smiled at them caused both Hikari and Hibiki to stiffen up in response, "And don't be afraid to use all you're arsenal." he added to them.
Hibiki and Hikari shared a look and shrugged at the same time. He asked for it, it'd be rude not to oblige him.
XxX
Both Hikari and Hibiki were breathing heavily, flabbergasted at what was happening. Their Ashikabi, who was without a doubt the most bizarre man they had ever met, was simply standing in the same place without a single scratch on him. When they wouldn't attack him, he began to do everything he could to provoke them into doing so. He was disappointed at their lack of physical prowess. Though they were far above human women, they apparently did not measure up to his standards, and he told them so, which served to infuriate Hikari, and even irritated the normally even-tempered Hibiki.
Combining their power, the two had sent a powerful, but more importantly, a non-lethal blast at their Ashikabi. When the smoke cleared, he was nowhere to be found, which sent the two straight down the emotional spectrum from fury to panic. They prepared to leap to action to search for him, but Hikari was rocked by a kick to her gut from her Ashikabi, who seemingly appeared out of nowhere. This sent her flying into her sister, causing them both to topple end over end toward the edge of the yard. Regaining their bearings, they jumped to their feet and began rabid-firing lightning bursts at their Ashikabi, now thoroughly confident that he really could handle himself. But they slowly began to run short on energy, which is why they stood, panting, in the middle of a ruined yard, their Ashikabi again nowhere to be seen again.
"Hmm, not too shabby," Naruto announced as he came up from behind the two and wrapped his arms around their shoulders. The two felt strangely comfortable in his embrace, before he shoved them onto their asses, "However, you're both a little too rough around the edges for my taste. I'm a part of this game now, and I do not take losses very well." he told them seriously. He paused momentarily, cursing himself silently as he wished he had phrased that differently. The last thing he wanted to do right now was focus on the many, many things he had lost in his immortal life. Shaking those thoughts from his head, he continued. "Get used to this, you two. By the time I've finished training you, there will be no doubt who the strongest Sekirei are."
Despite his general jerk-ass attitude, both the twins smirked just a bit. For all his anger and callousness, they at least got an Ashikabi who was completely competent. They could work on his social-skills later. They thought for a moment about how many lazy bums there were in the city that might otherwise had winged them. Unbeknownst to them, in a dirty mess of an apartment, one such bum sneezed himself out of a fantastic dream. Back to the matter at hand, Hikari and Hibiki shared a look. Naruto yelped as electricity coursed through his system, frazzling his hair and leaving him scorched and twitching on the ground. As he looked up to his now standing Sekirei, he glared as they crossed their arms. "Hey," Hikari announced, defensively. "You never said this training exercise was finished..."
"Yeah," Hibiki continued innocently, taking over from her sister. "You really should be more clear about the rules." Naruto tried to say something, but his mouth snapped shut as he realized he had no rebuttal for their argument. Standing, he brushed himself off.
"Well, I'm glad we'll get along better than I thought." he said calmly. He definitely liked their don't give up attitude on fighting, "Come on," he continued, motioning for them to follow, "We'll head back inside and get cleaned up, and then I believe it's time for lunch." The two nodded, agreeing wholeheartedly with his suggestion.
As they walked away they didn't even notice that they were being watched. From a nearby building that was currently in construction, a dark-haired woman sat on a high metal beam, a large bottle of sake in her hand. "Now that is interesting," she announced out-loud, to nobody in particular, as she took a rather large gulp of the alcoholic beverage. Face flushed, she smiled a bit, leaning against another beam. "I'll have to keep my eye on this one..." she told herself with a seductive voice.
Naruto stood under the shower head, letting the water cascade down his body, not even caring to really scrub himself as his mind wandered. Why was the emergence of Chakra happening. Why was it happening only in Tokyo, or well Shinto Teito as it had been renamed? And why had he been drawn back? Not realizing it, the blond man fell into a semi-hibernation as his heartbeat slowed down to a solitary beat every five seconds as his mind reached out. Now normally when a Sekirei or Ashikabi was having a reaction to the other and they had yet to find them, they would most certainly meet in their dreams. However, Naruto wasn't exactly asleep now was he?
He was on a rooftop. Wave after wave of cloth was around him. Hanging on racks meant to dry them after being cleaned. It reminded him of the hospital after visiting Sasuke and the teme wanted to fight him out of jealousy. But this time was different. The area was different from the chakra he sensed around him and the white cloth that seemed to move on its own.
Add the laughter and giggling of a flirtatious woman helped too.
Focusing on the sound of the female laughter, Naruto walked toward the center of the roof, seeing a feminine figure standing there, and masked in the shadows. As he got closer, the shadow around the woman faded, and revealed a woman wearing skin tight, hip hugging jeans, and a simple t-shirt with a star in the center where her impressive bust wanted to burst out of for all to see.
"Hey! I'm glad you made it," said the woman while slaughtering over to Naruto while the cloth around them seemed to become more alive with each step toward him.
"Oh? In what way?" asked Naruto while she smirked at him before she motioned for the cloth to come toward her and it obeyed without question.
Naruto watched as it wrapped around her, blinding him for a few seconds in fact, and revealed it to be the only thing she was wearing. A white veil over her the upper half of her face, a pair of white cloth pressing against her breasts, and a short white skirt that did little to mask her shapely hips. She even had a pair of long white cloths on each arm acting like an extension of them and it was clear to Naruto this woman was not human.
She was a Sekirei.
"This way my Ashikabi. Just think of all the fun we can have together," replied the Sekirei in a sultry tone while posing for him and touching herself while giving him a wink.
"Tell me your name." said Naruto with the woman smirking now.
"I'm Sekirei #10 Uzume: The Veil Sekirei. Find me soon my Ashikabi. I don't know how long I can wait to be wrapped in this cloth without you." moaned Uzume while slowly stripping out of the cloth in front of him in her clearly aroused state.
And then the dream ended.
Naruto awoke to the feeling of cold water pouring over his skin, no longer running hot like it was when he first started showering.
-MBI HQ-
(M.B.I. HQ-Minaka's Office)
"You are playing a dangerous game Minaka. More so then ever with Naruto," warned Takami, a woman, who had a look of someone who didn't take no for answer when giving an order. This woman was remarkably similar to one Tsunade Senju...minus the big boobs and super strength the Senju had to back up her commands. She of course said this while Minaka was trying to spy on Naruto with the technological wonders that M.B.I. had at their disposal.
Only to find himself staring at static and hearing the sound it made when getting nothing from the recording devices.
"I am well aware of that Takami-chan. Which is why I preferred to have Naruto-kun on our side over being in his path should he be displeased with us." replied Minaka before focusing on the data gathered from Naruto's winging of the twins.
Aside from the usual bio-metrics the system took when a winging occurred, the data also had genetic samples from when Naruto had taken the M.B.I. card gifted to him by the girls which all Sekirei has on them prior to their winging to give to their Ashikabi. Even now, such DNA analysis from the blonde's genetic code was beyond anything ever seen, and would likely ever be seen in the years following the present time. Hell, it was like comparing Sekirei technology to human technology in terms of how advanced one was over the other. Naruto's clearly superior genetic makeup made humans look like monkeys throwing feces at each other by comparison on the evolutionary scale.
"Just make sure you keep my kids out of this. I don't want one of the world's greatest prison escape artists and possibly the world's most lethal assassin to come after them." the woman said.
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1. Shout-out to Man at Arms Reforged for designing and building of the Riddick Ulaks from the Chronicles of Riddick, I am glad to have been able to use this design/build in a story of mine. I am a big fan of the M.A.A.R series so this dialogue was strictly all you guys doing the thing you do best.