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This might get a little sad...It's gonna be what could have happened if there could only be one sekirei to win and what it truly meant to be an ashikabi.
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They had almost won.
Karasuba defeated by the hands of musibi. All his sekirei winning there battles against the south,east and west. The disciplinary squad providing back up for karasuba. The brutality of each fight escalating to great heights. Everyone fighting til their last breathe and giving everything they had.
Than in the blink of an eye...it was only them left. Every ashikabi defeated. Every sekirei terminated. The only ones left where them. A smile crossed minato's face,but he could help the growing gut feeling he had. All of his sekirei staring at one aonther and than it hit him.
Only one could be claimed the winner after all...
He didn't know who started it first,but the anxiety and pain as he watched those most precious to him almost slaughter each other was hard to bare. The only thing he could do was close his eyes and pray.
He prayed for the madness to end.
Not long until all was quiet and his last remaining sekirie standing was musubi. The bodies of all his sekirei at her feet and he nearly gagged at the sight of blood, their blood, surrounding him.He saw her hold kusano close to her chest. The youngest of his flock lifeless in the arms of his first. The tears streaming down her face. Her sobs as she vented about wanting to win, but not like this.
It was a nightmare, nearly all of his sekirei terminated and for what? A game of entertainment for a madman.
The damn finally bursting open, he broke down on his knees begging for this to be some twisted joke.
If only life were more fair than this.
Finally passing out from exhaustion ,the last thing he saw was musubi's silhouette walk away. The look of despair in her eyes.
"I'm sorry minato-sama..."
Than darkness.
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Waking up in a hospital bed was a surprise to him. It was even more of a suprise to see him mother ,takami, sitting by his bed a look of...concern on her face. There was only a few other times she had this face.
"Minato I'm sorry..." The words foreign. She never said those words...never. Not to him and not to anyone.
For the second time he broke down as his mother hugged him. The first hug he had gotten since he was a kid.
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A week was all it took to reactivate all of the terminated sekirie and he was restless.
He could see them again, he could finally see his family back.
"If only things were that easy..."
The first one he was able to see was surprisingly, homura. He ran to him with tears of joy as he had finally saw a glimpse of his family. Though he didn't expect the severe punch to the jaw and sneer from the normally calm sekirei. Crashing onto the ground he looked up and saw the fierce glare in the eyes of the fire sekirei.
"DON'T YOU DARE! I thought I could believe in you! Instead I put my fate in a coward!"
The guardian sekirie storming leaving a conflicted minato on the ground.
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He had hoped for it to be a fluke. For homura to come back. For the latter to apologize for the outburst of anger. Yet it never came...and he knew it never will.
Though the pain from the encounter with homura, it was from the other's that made it much worse.
The cold and emotionless stare from matsu. The wisdom disregarding all attempts of contact with him. She muttered something along the lines of nuisance before he had left her alone.
The silent treatment from kusano and the fact she didn't call him onii-chan nearly breaking him.Instead she called him, "sahashi-san", the whole time.
Gone was the wind sekirei. Leaving before he even had a chance to talk to him. The finally message from her being empty sake bottles and a note reading.
"Fool me once, shame on me. Fool me twice, shame on you."
The worst one had come from tsukiumi. The prideful water sekirei wasn't even angry. instead she eerily calm and collected. The complete opposite of her normal boastful self.
The eyes though had said all he needed to know, her ocean sapphires held no emotions at all. Instead a cold azure stared back at him relentlessly. Turning on her heel she walked away without a word.
Collapsing on his knees all he could do was watch her walk away as held back a chocking sob.
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A week and he returned to an empty Inn. Every single room void of any belongings. Even the secret room that matsu had was empty. No trace, no evidence. The only thing left was emptiness. A void that grew with the lose of all of his sekirei.
The first night in a long time he was truthfully alone.
The warmth and love gone only leaving a void for the once cheerful ashikabi.
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A/nThis is what could have happened if they had to fight each other.
so its official...he lost the love of all his sekirie. Now lets she of he can find the love of another.