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Continues right where we stopped last time.

After Matsu finished her pledge she began to feel the bond slowly growing inside her. It was beautiful, how the connections came to be. A whole new world opened up to her. She focused on the finished bond to feel out her new Ashikabi. Usually somebody would expect happiness or sadness or some other emotion in a person but she didn't feel anything. Pinching her creasing her eyebrows together in concentration she delved further and there was this small thing with two lines going to it one was black and one was white symbolizing Karatsuba's and Matsu's connection respectively, it felt like it was in shackles and those shackles didn't let anything through. To be honest it felt cold.

"It's weird don't you think" Karasuba spoke up, pulling Matsu from her concentrated state.

Matsu opened her eyes and look at Karasuba. "You have noticed too?"

"Of course, do you think I'm dump pervert?"

John took Matsu's arms and finally separated her from him as he look at Karasuba. "Behave."

Karasuba looked away with a humph. "Why is it like this? Matsu asked her.

"I don't know. The only time I feel him is when John here wants me to feel him. It has probably something to do with how our Ashikabi was made. We got off easy in comparison." Karasuba tried to explain.

"What do you mea…"

"That's classified." John cut Matsu off, looking towards Miya he asked. "Have you reached a decision?"

Being spoken to Miya focused back to the Chief and collected her thoughts. Sure enough so far she hadn't felt any hostility from him and he seemed to be honest, from the short conversations they had had Miya could tell, all of this wasn't easy for him. Not once since he came here did he let his guard down and relax. Even when Matsu kissed him he didn't even twitch as if he didn't feel anything from that action. It was weird. Karasuba seemed to know more about him as she let on, when they were watching the video Karasuba didn't react to the content how she was supposed to do. There was no surprise or awe or what not in her during that time. As if she had seen the stuff Chief had gone through already. This was weird, but not impossible. Miya actually hated the thought of Karasuba staying at the Inn, Chief she found she opinion of him was quite neutral and if he had Karasuba under such control as he had shown in the short time both of them were here, she might be able to put up with her too. And even if Karasuba tried to do anything harmful it would give her the perfect opportunity to put that rapid dog finally down.

"I have decided yes. You may stay here, but keep Karasuba under control and it wouldn't be fair towards Matsu if I would kick her out now, when she has helped me quite a few times already. But get rid of the armour if you're inside. I don't want you to scratch my floor. Rent will be 40000 yen a month (I have no clue if that is realistic but whatever), breakfast, lunch and dinner are served her in the living room, now then if you excuse me it's getting late and I have to prepare dinner, Uzume will show you to a free room if that is alright with you."

"Thank you Ma'am." Was all John said.

"OH, oh I can help you with the armour." Matsu piped up. Before John could say anything, Matsu had touched the breastplate of his armour and closed her eyes. After a few seconds a beep resounded in the room and all the locks on his armour began to open, the bolts in his armplating and on his legs began to move on their own accord, unscrewing themselves. And with heavy thuds the platings fell of him. John thought it was finished there but suddenly his black under suite began to peel itself off of him too, effectively letting him sit at the table naked all of a sudden.

Uzume blushed heavily seeing the Spartan naked and Karasuba whistled before saying. "Your quite ripped for an old man Johnny boy." Matsu as she had opened her eyes and saw John naked in front of her had saliva dripping from her mouth. "Oh I can't wait to start experimenting with you ufufufufuf." Her glasses getting steamy as she look at his prone form.

"MATSU!" Came the yell from Miya out of the kitchen. "The rules still stand. Illicit sexual behavior is forbidden under my roof."

"Yyes Miya I uunderstand." Matsu yelled back.

While this was going on John got up from his sitting position without a care in the world, grabbed his stuff and spoke to Uzume. "Miss if you could show us to our room?"

The blush on Uzumes face got even darker as John stood at the table without any kind of inhibition. "Yyes follow me." With that Uzume got up from her sitting position and walked towards the door.

"Come." John said to Karasuba, knowing that Matsu already had a room.

"Can't wait to have a private moment with me, can you old man?" Karasuba tried to teas John but got ignored as John walked towards the door his things under one arm. Seeing him not respond Karasuba scrambled to her feet in hot pursuit as John ducked through the door. "Wait for me too!" Matsu yelled as she stumbled of the table, picking up her laptop and running through the door towards the stairwell.

With Uzume in the lead, the four walked up the stairs and down a hallway when Uzume stopped by a door and opened it. "Here this will be your room, I know it's not much but you will find it quit cozy when you have stayed for a bit. Now I will let you unpack." Uzume wiggled her eyes while she said that towards Matsu. "Not that you really have to." With that final line Uzume skipped away from the three and went to her room to run the event that happened through her brain again.

Chief stepped inside the room and gave it a cursory look over. There was a small cabinet at the wall, and a window in the wall in front of him. As John stepped inside with his bare feet he could feel the soft tatami mats against his feet. In the middle of the room was a futon set up on the floor, all in all it wasn't that bad. Compared to live in castle base on Reach this was way more comfortable. Karasuba and Matsu had followed him inside and had sat down next to the futon curiously watching him has he strolled through the room still naked without a care in the world. Both of them were watching him like hawks following his every move. Blood was dribbling from Matsu's nose as her eyes stayed focused on his manhood, her mind a jumbled mess of perversion right now. Karasuba watched him too all though she liked what she was seeing she didn't watch him for that specific purpose. While she kept her eyes on him she thought about everything that happened so far.

Sitting inside Maison Izumo was quite unreal, she was inside the house of her archenemy, her goal. At that she shook her head. This was so stupid but at least it was exciting. Three days ago Karasuba found herself thinking back, she never thought she would let herself be bound to some weak human being. They were so squishy and not deserving of her time. That had changed as she encountered John. A weak human had won in a fight against her, knocked her out and fucking kidnapped her. If she would tell that to a past self, her past self would call her stupid and slaughter her for that blasphemous statement. But here she was bound to probably the apex of humanities evolution. Demon had they called him, his enemies she found it quite fitting. But it wasn't his past that she liked it was his ability to make her submit. That was a real turn on for sure. Never had anyone talked or interacted with her in such a manner as John does. There was no fear in his eyes, no uncertainty about his actions. He fully believed in himself that if push came to shove he would emerge victorious. Maybe those qualities made her react, she didn't know for sure. Suddenly she thought back to the instance she was pinned to the floor with his hand on her throat as he loomed over her. She felt herself get moist from that thought, to be dominated in such a way, it was exciting. Any lesser being she would have slaughtered on the spot.

During the inspection of the room John found several instances where his sixth sense tingled and after closer inspection of those areas that had peaked his interest he found several bugs. Taking the bugs down and with them in hand he walked to the window and took a look outside to see where the escape routes where and if there was any possible cover should they come under attack.

Satisfied with his observation he walked back to the two sekireis that were with him. Stopping in front of Matsu she looked expectantly at him as John reached out with his hand and dropped all the bugs he found into her hand. "Dispose of them please" John said as he shifted his gaze towards Karasuba and spoke to her. "You still have your MBI card?"

"Yes I still have it, what do you want with it?" Karasuba questioned.

"Go to the next clothing store and grab me a few close. You will get the money back when I'm able to generate some income."

"Why do I have to go?" Karasuba protested.

"Well I can't really leave the inn hehe." Matsu supplied as she rubbed the back of her head sheepishly.

"Fine, fine, I suppose you can't always walk around naked not that I mind." Said Karasuba as she got up and walked towards the door. As she slid the door open she looked back at the two and asked Chief. "What are you going to do in the meantime?"

"Gather information." John responded as he looked at Matsu intently who gulped when she saw his intense look.

"Alright, if the pervert touches you I'm going to butcher her." Karasuba said as she walked out of the door, closing it behind her.

"Now tell me everything you know. You were the second so you're bound to have information." Chief said towards Matsu in a commanding tone.

Hearing this Matsu gulped again. "Yyes." What had she gotten herself into?

Back at MBI at the time Matsu got winged

Ever since the new Ashikabi had appeared that had winged Karasuba the headquarters of MBI in Shintower was busy as a beehive. People were hurrying around to give reports and get reports, to sort out data, and of course to find any leads that they could get about their new mystery Ashikabi. In the middle of it all was Takami overseeing everything and her and there issuing orders and answer questions. So far they didn't get any new leads on their new Ashikabi and Karatsuba's vitals were monitored as well as they could but due to her losing the tracking chip that was all they could get.

Minaka hadn't done anything either yet, he was more or less going with the flow. At some point this particular Ashikabi had to slip up, so he was content with waiting.

Benitsubasa and Haihane had recovered as well as they could over the last 72 hours and were currently in their suit inside Shintower getting some R & R.

This all stopped as the alarms went of inside the monitoring hub signaling that another Sekirei was winged. A few seconds later the alarm stopped and all the personnel including Takami stopped working to look at the giant monitor at the front of the room.

Sekirei Nr. 02 Matsu's Picture popped up on the screen, next to it her information's scrolled down with her location and her health stats displayed. Her location wasn't anything new to the upper echelons of MBI. They all new that she resided in the forbidden zone, if you so will, that was the norther part of Shinto Teito. That was the only reason why MBI hadn't brought Matsu in yet, although she had stolen something very important to her. But with the Hanya of the North Sekirei Nr. 01 Miya residing there, Matsu was out of their reach. This was all well know but what brought a sickening feeling to Takami was the empty field next to Matsu's picture.

How was this possible this person wasn't even in the city for 2 whole days and already he had winged to Sekireis, both of them single digit numbers too. This was as if the whole thing was planned. Like some strategist that someone had secured himself with a literal well of information and a walking slaughterhouse in 48 hours, not to forget he unknowingly or knowingly had set up his base of operation in an area they didn't have any influence over.

At least they now knew where he was to set up surveillance at the entrances to the north so they could finally get a picture of this person.

Takami groaned, she would have to go to Minaka again to give him her report, man and she was running out of cigarettes again, with the 5 remaining cancer sticks she wouldn't last long if her nerves were going to be exposed to the annoyance that was the father of her two children. God if she could just travel back in time.

With Karasuba on her way to buy clothes

As Karasuba left the in the sun was already about to set, casting the buildings around her in an ethereal golden light. As she strolled along the street she looked around for a bit curiously studying her surroundings. The residential area that she found herself in was quite, no people were around and the lights in the houses were still off signalling that their owners were probably still out working or doing other chores.

Karasuba liked the quite it gave her time to think. About her new situation that was essentially being a taken woman. This hole bonding thing didn't really give her that much, her opinion on that matter was if it benefited her it was good, all she wanted was power and if an Ashikabi could supplier her with that power than all was good as long as that person excepted being used like a tool.

So far the last 72 hours didn't give her much of the experience that was supposed to come with the bond, she didn't feel more powerful either but she was sure this was going to change over time.

What made her glad about the choice she had made to bond with John was that he didn't appear to be a total wuss. If she would have found herself reacting to somebody lower on the food chain than her she would have ended the person straight away. Now where her Ashikabi stood on the food chain she didn't know, the little fight they had back when they met gave a few pointers but over time she would be able to see where they stood in comparison.

As Karasuba finished that train of thought she noticed how she was about to leave the residential area and how she got closer to the more urban center of the city. The sun had traveled further down and was now just behind the skyscrapers making them cast large shadows over the streets below. With one final step she flawlessly integrated herself with the flow of the people, some strangers closer by were inconspicuously shooting curious glances at her. Some wondering why her person was in such a disheveled state. Giving herself a once over Karasuba noticed why, her clothes certainly had seen better days. Her black thigh high formfitting dress had many wrinkles in it and a few holes here and there showing some of her skin in her belly area. Well she was going clothes shopping anyway so she could pick up some things for herself too, it didn't really matter now. Oh this brought another issue up, she didn't have a weapon anymore her last had broken in her and Johns fight and her replacement nodachi was in her flat in Shintower, well she might as well go pick up her stuff.

On that note she walked past a clothes store and lucky moment for her they were advertising clothes in XXL so without missing a beat the lean Sekirei walked inside.

Inside a wide arrangement of oversized male clothes greeted her, with many different customers mingling about that were going through the assortment in search for something fitting.

A shopkeeper that was currently folding up stuff noticed her walk in and he made a beeline to her side. "Hallo miss how may I help you?"

"Vermin I'm looking for some clothes for my hubby, he is 2,20 , pick something that is nice to look at and at least 10 different outfits." Karasuba ordered.

The buff shopkeeper was looking at her at first perplexed and then a flash of anger appeared on his face. "Listen bitch do something about your tone." A flash of lust appeared in his eyes. "Or I'm gonna change your attitude in a fun way for me." The keep threatened unknowingly provoking his worst nightmare.

Faster than the guy could blink Karasuba was upon him grabbing his arm and twisting it in a wrong angle ,while setting her leg up so that the guy would trip over it. As the buff shopkeeper sunk to his knees with an expression of pain replacing the smug and almighty face he was making a second ago.

"Less talking, more picking out, pig." Karasuba ordered as she applied more pressure on his arm making the guy whimper.

"Yyes Mma'am." When the guy gave in Karasuba released her hold on him and he scrambled of to pick her ordered outfits. "Don't forget the underwear you wimp." Karasuba yelled after him as she sat down on a stool, throwing her left leg over her right, making her short dress ride up her thighs a bit as she leaned back. Noticing the other customers staring at her a bloodthirsty grin made itself known on her otherwise pleasing face. "You want some too little bitches?"

The moment she said that, all the man in the store avoided her gaze and hurried to pick out their things. Looking to her right she saw the guy closest to her begin to shake when her gaze fell on him. "You wimpy excuse of a man, bring me some sake."

The guy Karasuba spoke to shrunk into himself and hurried out of the shop with a quick "Yes Ma'am" that came out in a high voice.

Karasuba leaned back in her seat, shopping wasn't so bad in her opinion.

After 15 min and a few cups of sake later Karasuba started to become restless, how long was this going to take. "Hey vermin are you done yet?" Karasuba yelled into the shop and not a second later her unofficial slave came hurrying her way. "Yes Ma'am if you would please follow me, everything is at the counter ready for you to take, if you would be so kind as to look over everything to make sure the clothes please you." Mr. Slave spoke with his bend over posture, hands clasped together and looking at the floor.

"Fine, after you Vermin." Karasuba said as she got up from her stool and followed the clerk towards the counter, where she found the different outfits neatly arranged for her inspection. The was a pyjama, a bathing trunk, 7 different sets of normal clothes with shirts, pants, sweatshirts, a jacket, a bunch of socks, underpants and finally a black suite with a white shirt a fitting tie belt and black shoes and an assortment of work clothes with shoes,. "You making fun of me, you little bitch? Where are the normal shoes Huh? You expect my huppy to walk around those all day? And the slippers? Whats wrong with you? You out for some more punishment?" Karasuba said.

"Nno, No Ma'am certainly not Ma'am."

"Good pick out a nice pair of shoes and slippers and deliver them to this address." She said as Karasuba began to scratch down the address of Maison Izumo on a piece of paper with a pen that she had snatched away from the clerk.

"But Mma'am we don't have delivery service." The clerk stuttered.

"Well you do now. How much is it?" Karasuba asked with a bloodthirsty grin.

"For such a high esteemed customer its free Ma'am."

"Good." With that said Karasuba strolled out of the shop and towards Shintower so that she could pick up her stuff it was beginning to be late all the while thinking how easy shopping was with the right amount of charm.

With naked John and Matsu in Johns room at Maison Izumo

An hour had passed since Karasuba had left the inn, John and Matsu were still in Johns room discussing various things about the Sekirei and their beginning.

"So your saying that your batch of 108 Sekirei weren't the first ones to arrive." John inquired.

"Yes, you see long ago for reasons unknown we had to leave our homeworld and we traveled here. Inside the ship there was always one adult Sekirei with many more embryos so we could start living here. The ship that I and the rest was on had an accident which caused it to sink into the ocean. But 25 years ago some seismic event caused our ship to resurface and that's when Minaka Hiroto, Sahashi Takami, Asama Takehito found the ship." Matsu explained.

"So that's how they got an edge over the other corporations?"

"Yes after entering the ship they found Miya and awoke her, she showed them everything and those three immediately began to reverse engineer the technology that was stored on the ship. Obviously it didn't take long for the governments around the world to notice that a new island had appeared and many nations tried to make a grab for it and the well of information and technology it held. So the numbers from 02 to 05 were hatched to defend the island. We formed the first disciplinary squad, back then nobody new how powerful the Sekirei are so those 6 are the ones with their original power. After the invasion had failed Minaka and his friends went straight to studying us and invented new ways to make our lives possible in human society."

"You keep mentioning technology, what kinds?"

"Everything, from weapons, to medical equipment and things you would need for daily life." Matsu counted down.

"FTL?" John inquired.

"Sorry what?" Questioned Matsu

"Faster than light travel." John said.

"Oh no not that I know of and I know a lot that is going on inside MBI, Oppps!" Matsu exclaimed, realizing her slipup too late. "Sorry but you must understand that I don't really feel comfortable by disclosing so much when I still don't know you so well."

"I understand you don't have to push yourself, I'm happy with more basic stuff too, like customs or general information about life here." placated John.

"Oh okay thank you, you see some secrets aren't mine to tell, so let's continue." Said Matsu as she slowly got comfortable around her new Ashikabi, all she really had to go by so far was his interactions with Karasuba and they seemed quite harsh, so she didn't really get a feel for him and how things were going to be.

So Matsu just talked and John listened intently, here and there throughing out questions and so on. Matsu talked about live in Shinto Taito how things were from her point of view, that almost the whole city was owned by MBI, how things worked for the Sekirei and how they were able to come by. At some point Matsu had to start up her laptop because John had asked her about the many weapons that there were and what the military had in this day and age. While browsing through the web another question came up which was how to generate his own income. This matter was a first for him. John never had to worry about stuff like that, everything that he needed was supplied by ONI and the UNSC so the whole concept of earning money and spending it was completely new to him.

A knock on their room door pulled John and Matsu out of their researching marathon and John called out "Come in."

When the door opened Uzume stood behind the door with a couple of bags in her hands. "Uh Chief Miya send me up here with those bags, saying they were delivered for you." Uzume said while rudely staring at his naked form.

"Thanks you may leave them here." John spoke, going with the flow.

"Uh Miya also said to get ready dinner is about to be served."

"Good we'll be down in a bit." John answered as he got up and walked towards the bags and looked inside finding a bunch of clothes in them. Emptying the bags next to the futon John pick up the clothes he wanted to wear and put the rest neatly folded into his shared cabinet. What he picked was obviously socks, underpants and simple jeans with a white shirt. Slipping into his slippers he motioned for Matsu to follow him. "Let's go we can finish this afterwards." And with that said both left the room and walked towards the living room for dinner.

30 min earlier with Karasuba, in front of Shin Tower.

It was a short and uneventful walk from the store to Shin Tower, the headquarters of MBI. When Karasuba arrived at the entrance, like usual she walked in, head held high like she owned the place. When the receptionist saw Karasuba walk in he straight away pressed a button on the underside of the desk that send a signal to the security and to Takami. Walking past the clerk Karasuba got in front of the elevator and like usual pressed the button that called it to the ground floor. A short wait later the elevator dinged and opened its door so that Karasuba could get in.

Inside the elevator was a little card slot that would unlock the floors that were only for Sekirei, sliding her black MBI card in Karasuba pressed the button for the 32 floor where her apartment was located.

It didn't take long for the elevator to reach the 32 floor, a ding signaled the opening of the door again and what greeted her outside in the hallway were at least 20 security personnel and in the middle of the guards stood Takami with her hands folded under her bust and a stern look on her face. "Nice of you to stop by again after your little holiday." Takami said in an annoyed tone.

"Well I just came by to get my things, Mom." Karasuba replied with a mocking tone.

"And where do you think you're going?" Takami questioned.

"To my hubby of course, got a problem with that?" Karasuba said as her eyes widened in anticipation.

"As a matter of fact I do, you're not allowed to leave until you got a new tracking chip and you finalized your report." Takami said.

"Well we can do this the easy way or the bloody way, please choose the bloody one." A cruel smile appeared on Karatsuba's face as she offered a choice to her opponents.

"Hmmmm why do you always have to be like that, Men fire!" Takami ordered and as one all of the guards opened up fire with their subs that had tranquilizers loaded.

The moment Takami spoke her order, Karasuba was already moving. With lightning fast reflexes Karasuba jumped up and spun around so that she could plant her feet on the sealing. With a powerful leap Karasuba managed to get in between the guards and right in front of Takami, grabbing the closest guard she ripped the sub out of his hand and with the other pulled the poor fella close to her effectively using him as a living shield. This whole action only took a few seconds, the guards around her still stunned and unprepared to what was to come didn't have enough time to readjust their aim as Karasuba opened up with the sub she had seized. All around her guards were going down like sacks of rice and because of the close proximity to each other at least 15 of them were hit leaving 5 and Takami still standing. Now that there was more space to maneuver Karasuba got rid of her makeshift shield and engaged the remaining in close quarters.

They didn't stand a chance and after another couple of seconds Takami stood alone in the hallway surrounded by her unconscious men. "Takami-chan you could have taken the easy choice you know." Karasuba mocked as she lined up her sub for a final shot and with the pull on the trigger Takami slumped unconscious to the floor as well.

Throwing away her kind of stolen sub Karasuba continued her stroll towards her apartment while whistling a jaunty tune and flipping one of the surveillance cameras the bird.

As Karasuba finally reached the front door of her apartment, she unlocked the door and went straight away to packing. Getting a big duffle bag out of her wardrobe she started to through in all of her clothes and underwear, she grabbed an extra bear of boots and got her replacement Nodachi. Unsheathing the blade once to have a quick glance at it, to check if the edge was not damaged, Karasuba pushed the blade back in as she was satisfied with the state of the blade and tied the sheath to her belt. Closing up her bag Karasuba was off to the door again to leave the building as she stopped in the doorframe and looked back into her apartment for a last time. Then it hit her.

"Oh how could I forget my most important memento!?" Karasuba exclaimed as she rushed back in to a little podium that was situated in front of a big window. On the podium was a little hollow glass ball that held a memento of one of her most precious memories. Inside the ball was an assortment of dried middle finger bones from the time her and Yume had gone to save Sekirei 88 Musubi and Sekirei 87 Kaho. Oh how fun it was to use the middle finger on the cut off arms of the corpses to flip of the still living soldiers at that base. Karasuba couldn't suppress the chuckle that escaped her while she walked down memory lane. "Hehe good times."

And with that she was out the door heading back to her Ashikabi.

Here we go guys, motivation was on a high this time so you get another chapter earlier.