Yuhu here is the new chapter. Thanks for all the reviews and the general interest in my story, much appreciated.
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Chapter 9
The next morning.
Currently it was 5:00 in the morning and like every good little soldier out there Johns eyes flew open and he was ready for the day. Blinking twice to adjust to the light inside the room which was still quite dark, John sat up on his futon to stretch his arms. While getting up he could feel the arms and the two heads of his Sekirei slide of his upper body and onto the matrass of his futon. Looking to his left he saw Karasuba still sleeping peacefully with a good amount of drool leaking from the corner of her mouth and her long grey hair was in a mess just like it was supposed to be. Looking to his right he the first thing he saw was a mob of red hair that belonged to Matsu, who had snuck into the room at a later time during the night, he couldn't see much of her face because a good amount of her hair covered it up.
Having finished his stretching John got out of his futon to go to his wardrobe in order to look through his clothes in search for some training clothes. Having found what he needed John quietly left the room to change outside, not planning to wake his two Sekirei up in order to enjoy a little bit of peace and quiet, the ruckus that those two generated was going to start soon enough and he was set to get at least an hour or two for himself before he was dragged into their kind of mayhem again.
Having finished changing in the hallway John quietly opened the door to his room to place his clothes just behind the door and closed it again before quietly walking towards the stairs.
Having managed to get to the stairs without rousing his Sekirei, John walked down the stairs and quietly left the Inn in order to get some exercise in.
With Miya
Miya always had a light sleep so it was no wander that her eyes flew open the moment she heard the front door of her Inn open and close. Turning on her side Miya reached for her alarm clock that sat next to her futon and looked at the time. 5:10. It was way too early to be awake, usually she would wake up at 6:30 in order to prepare breakfast so who the hell was awake at that time already. Getting up Miya went to grab a robe to putt over her nightwear and got some slippers on before quietly walking out of her room to walk around a little and see what was a miss.
As she left her room she started her track by going to the kitchen, living room. Finding nothing out of place she quietly went up the stairs towards the rooms that she was renting out and looked through all the rooms quietly. Homura was in his room soundly asleep and Uzume was in her room soundly asleep too. When she got to Matsu's hidden room and she opened it she found the room empty and dark due to the lack of the light provided by the usually turned on screens. Walking out of Matsus hidden room she went to the only room that was left to check on the floor that was occupied.
Standing in front of Chiefs room she slowly slid the door open with care as not to rouse the people inside of it. When she looked inside and focused on the futons laid out in the middle of the room all she saw was the grey hair of Karasuba and the red hair that belonged to Matsu but she failed to see any trace of the Chief. Slowly and on her tip toes Miya entered the room and as she did so her feet brushed against a bundle of clothes. Looking down Miya noticed that the bundle was made up of a pyjama and her guess was that it belonged to Chief. Counting one and one together Miya came to the conclusion that John must have left the in so early, to do what she didn't know. Curiosity getting the better of her Miya walked further into the room and had a look around. This wasn't snooping, no she had all the rights on her side as a landlady she was allowed to do room inspections, if it was in the early morning or late at night didn't matter. She was in the right.
Finishing up her inspection and finding nothing new Miya glance towards the futon where one of the occupants had slightly moved just now. Quietly moving closer to be able to see, Miya had to supress a chuckle that threatened to escape her at what she saw in front of her. Right in front of her under the covers of the futon were Karasuba and Matsu snuggling up to each other and it seemed like Karasuba was doing most of the snuggling in her sleeping state. "Ugh, John not so rough." Breathed Matsu in her sleep as Karasuba squeezed one of her breasts while she too mumbled "Take that old man, this should teach you to dominate me." With a dark chuckle at the end.
At some point even, as the twos subconscious actions continued and the balance of power shifted to Matsu, Karasuba even whimpered. "Nooooh I'm sensitive" and "why do have to be so mean" Miya almost burst due to the hilarity of the scene in front of her. Managing to calm down a little bit Miya reached into a pocket of her robe and pulled a camera out of it and took a picture of the two snuggling up to each other. One could never have enough material for blackmail and Miya had always known that keeping a camera on her person would come in handy at some point. It had been ages since her blackmail camera had been put to use anyway and it started to feel lonely. Taking a few more pictures until she was satisfied Miya gave her blackmail camera a loving stroke and placed it back into the pocket of her robe before quietly leaving the room.
Stepping out of the Chiefs room Miya walked back into her room to freshen herself up and get dressed for the day as it seemed she had spent quite some time watching Karasuba and Matsu.
As she got back into her room and looked at her alarm clock Miya saw that it was already 6:00 so she got dressed and combed her hair before walking towards the kitchen in order to prepare breakfast.
Back to John
Going after his internal clock John could tell that it was already 6 and his little jog had brought quite some distance between him and the Inn already. John had to run quite fast in order to work up at least a little sweat. Currently he was at the main square of Shinto Teito and slowly the lights inside the shops started to come on, signalising him that people were already out and about to get their things ready for when they opened up. Deciding that it was enough John turned around and took off at a leisurely pace, at least to him it was a leisurely pace, back to the Inn. About halfway back he decided to take it up a notch so that he got at least a little bit out of his run and soon enough he could see the shape of Maison Izumo coming back into view.
As John arrived at the Inn he decided to go into the garden and do some more exercises for his muscles.
Back to Miya in the Kitchen
Miya had was almost halfway through preparing breakfast at this point and the time read 6:30 so all in all she was quite fast in preparing all the dishes even for traditional ones as they took quite some time to have everything ready. Right now she was slicing up spring onions that were going to be used as toppings. While slicing away Miya hummed a soft tune to herself, she found it quite enjoyable to do so, and while she was humming Miya heard the gate opening that lead on to her property. Deciding to go check again to see where the Chief had gone Miya walked to the kitchen to the living room and opened the door to her veranda. When Miya stepped out into the still fresh morning air she saw that the sun was already casting its first rays into her garden and right in the middle of it she saw Chief put himself through a tough regiment of exercises. His whole form was in a constant blur and he was moving around his body parts with such a speed that they were definitely beyond human. It was mesmerizing seeing how such a big body could move so fast, well he wasn't at her speed that was for sure but he was still unreal for human standards. As Chief continued to do his thing he seemed to have noticed her and he greeted her with a curt. "Morning, Ma'am."
"Good morning, you're up quite early no?" Miya replied and added a question in.
"Standard procedure Ma'am, wakeup calls at 0500." Chief replied as he finished up his last set of repetitions.
"Oh right right, military I forgot. So how is your workout coming along?" Miya said.
"It's been good for a light workout." Chief answered.
"Well if you're thirsty don't be shy to enter the kitchen breakfast will be ready soon." Miya said as she turned around to go back and finish up breakfast and still a little perplexed. Well it sure as hell was a change of pace if another early riser stayed at the Inn, usually she was the first person up and had the first few hours of her day to herself and as she stepped through the door back in she called back. "Should I prepare a bath?"
"That would be appreciated Ma'am."
With Karasuba and Matsu in the morning
The sun had just started to seep through the window into the room that Karasuba and John shared and the little invader that was Matsu was slowly beginning to wake up as she could feel the warmth of the sunrays caress her face. All though sleep had come to her quite late Matsu still felt quite rested and the warmth that the futon and her Ashikabi supplied was just wonderful. His soft skin, the flowery smell of his hair, the lithe arms that held her tightly, the smaller soft mounts that pressed against her larger ones, the sweet taste of the drool that slowly seeped in in between her lips. Wait what? Matsu's eyes flew open and she was awake completely now and the sight that greeted her was the close up face of Karasuba that was mere millimeters away from hers. A soft high shriek escaped her and in the rush of the moment she tried to wiggle away which didn't really help as Karasuba had a firm grip on her. "No, no you won't get away." Mumbled Karasuba in reply to Matsu's actions. "Ka Ka Karasuba you've got it all wrong." Matsu stuttered out. "There is nothing wrong with some skin ship Johnny." Karasuba mumbled still sleeping as she buried her face into Matsu's breasts and began to nibble on her. "Hahaha stop this tickles!" Matsu couldn't help herself with that outburst, what was enough was enough, sure this could count as one of her experiments but the subject of those wasn't near right now. "Mhmmmm you're so soft and you smell so good." Karasuba mumbled on as she buried her face deeper in between Matsu's breasts while her sleeping mind slowly started to wake up too. Slowly opening her eyes Karasuba noticed that things were out of place. Instead of the manly chiselled chest of John her face was pressed in between a set of boobs. Slowly pulling her head out of the breasts Karasuba tilted her head slightly up to look at the face of the impertinent vermin that had dared to replace her Ashikabi and came face to face with a sheepish looking Matsu. "Uhhh this is awkward." Matsu said to Karasuba who lowly began to growl before she viciously pushed Matsu out of the futon and away from her. "How dare you do this to me!" Karasuba yelled as she jumped to her feet and glared down at Matsu. "Uh didn't do anything." Matsu stuttered out while she scrambled back a few feet. "Where is the old man!?" Karasuba bit out as she stalked closer to Matsu while doing gurgling motions with her hands. "I I I don't know!" Matsu shouted back as her scrambling brought her closer and closer to the door of the room and as she was close enough Matsu jumped to her feet and bolted out through the door with a loud "SOOOORRRYYY" hollering after her leaving Karasuba alone in the room.
"How dare that pervert" Karasuba growled as she walked to the door to look down the hallway and catching a glimpse of the wall closing up after Matsu had entered and barricaded herself inside her hidden room.
While Karasuba glared at the offending wall a door a bit down the hall opened up with a sleepy Uzume stepping out. "What's going on so early in the morning?" She questioned as she sleepily looked at Karasuba who was cutting an imposing image at the moment. "If you value your life you go back to bed." Karasuba threatened in a low and calm voice, almost too calm.
Hearing the threat Uzumes eyes opened up and she was wide awake "Yyyes Karasuba." And with that Uzume bolted back into her room scared shitless.
Slowly calming down Karasuba went back into her room and moved to grab her washing utensils and put on a bathrobe over her almost nude form before walking towards the bathroom.
Arriving at the door that lead led to the bathroom and sliding open the door she saw Johns muscular big frame under the shower washing him.
"Why did you not wake me?" Said Karasuba harshly, as she slid out of her bathrobe and took of her black thong before walking next to John in order to squeeze her under the water with him. "Usually you say good morning or morning after you wake up." Replied John as Karasuba pressed herself at him and tilted her head up and got onto her tip toes in order to get a good morning kiss from John who just finished up his wash before he walked to the tub and got into it for a soak, completely ignoring or being oblivious to what Karasuba wanted.
"Well fine! Maybe I should look for someone who appreciates it when a smoking hot chick wants under the shower with him." Karasuba huffed quite peeved about how she was treated, all this shit was new to her too but things should be like this with an Ashikabi. That's what she had been told at least when they had gotten their adjustments back on Kamikura Island. Back then she thought that she would never get herself an Ashikabi, that humans were weak and weren't worthy of her. Humans were still not worthy but she could put up with John. Shit now she felt herself get wet because she remembered how he manhandled her into the wall at their first meeting and thinking of that same instance caused her throat to tingle as well with a ghost feeling of his powerful hand squeezing it. But with John even the bond that Benitsubasa and Haihane had rambled on and on about stayed out with John aside from the times he commanded her to do something she didn't feel anything. Maybe that was the reason why she started to behave like this, in order to feel him. God she hated humans for making everything so difficult.
"Suit yourself." Answered John in an already bored fashion. He'd much rather enjoy the relaxing bath and go for some breakfast than listen to Karasuba's complaining right of the bet in the morning.
Growling lowly as she heard John dismiss her in such a fashion Karasuba finished of rinsing herself down of all the soap and walked over to get into the tub too and as she stepped inside the tub Karasuba made a wide motion with her hand when she turned herself to get the second foot in, in order to accidentally, if you so will, slap John in the face. She wasn't going to slap him hard, well a normal human would have an unhinged jaw from that slap but she knew that her old timer of an Ashikabi was built of sturdier material. But before her hand could make contact with John's cheek, he had reached out and caught her wrist in a vise like grip.
"That's uncalled for." John reprimanded her.
"Well I was gonna teach you to respect your Sekirei a little bit." Karasuba defended heatedly. "And if I'm going to get a bruise on my wrist I'm gonna carve you open like the big wrinkly sack of meat you are!"
What came next Karasuba didn't really expect as John gave her wrist a powerful tug which caused her to slip and brought her whole body under the water. Having her head under the water Karasuba tried to scramble back onto her feet or at least sit up in order to get back to her precious supply of oxygen but a firm hand gripped her head and keep her under the water. Keeping her eyes open Karasuba was able to keep eye contact with John and saw him glaring down at her through the water. Making a motion with her body to get back up she found that he still had a firm grip on her head and she narrowed her eyes at him threateningly. He seemed unimpressed. Now Karasuba could feel her oxygen levels get dangerously low and she started to trash around under the water to no avail. Feeling her eyes slowly closing due to the lack of oxygen John pulled her head out of the water and bend over as to be on eyelevel with Karasuba.
"You going to apologize?" John asked her and was rewarded with a spit in the face.
"Fuck you!" Karasuba groused out defiantly and her head was shoved under the water again.
"Uhmmm I think I can use the bath later too." Uzume suddenly spoke up quite uncertain about this being the right time to be here as she had entered the room unintentionally at the right moment to witness the Chief getting spit in the face before he had shoved Karasuba under the water again.
"That would be appreciated Ma'am." John said politely as he held Karasuba under the water.
"Right." And with that a disturbed Uzume left the bath again and walked back to her room. On her way back she ran into Homura and in passing she said to him. "Trust me now is not the right time for a bath." This caused Homura to turn around and walk back to his room too with a perplexed look on his face.
Back to the Chief who still had Karasuba's under the water. Karasuba's trashing around hadn't lasted that long this time and he pulled her head back out. "Apologise?"
"NO!" Karasuba yelled back at him a bit out of breath and her head was pushed under again.
This routing continued for another 3 rounds until Karasuba was completely exhausted and before she was pushed under for a fourth time Karasuba gave in reluctantly. "Fine, fine I'm sorry, now stop this you idiot." And her head went under again but this time only for a short time as John pulled her head back out shortly after. "Not polite enough." John said his eyes boring into Karasuba's.
"Okay, Okay! Sorry for saying that I would carve you open and sorry for trying to slap you." Karasuba breathed out but Chiefs gaze intensified. "And sorry for spitting at you I won't do it again. And with that Johns grip moved from her head to her arm and he pulled her out of the water and sat her down next to him. Karasuba was in a sorry state after that whole ordeal and her gray hair were stinking to her face in a mess leaving only small patches open where her eyes could see out. Deciding he should reward Karasuba for her apology he decided to give her a pat on the head like somebody would a dog.
"Good Girl."
A short while later during breakfast
Right now the current residences of Maison Izumo were enjoying their breakfast while idly chatting away.
"So Homura how was work?" Uzume asked him.
"It's been good, last night weren't too many annoying drunk women so I can't really complain." Homura replied. "How was your night did you sleep well?"
"Oh I slept like a bear." Replied Uzume before she pushed some rice into her mouth and as she did so she looked around the room at the other tenants who were enjoying their breakfast too. The sitting order from yesterday had changed a little as to avoid conflict. Miya was still sitting at the end of the table the door to the kitchen behind her to her left and opposite of Homura who was sitting next to her sat Matsu, next to Matsu sat Chief and the last person on that side of the table was Karasuba who kept on sneaking glances of Chief who was already using the chopsticks like a pro.
"So Chief what have you planned for today?" Asked Uzume trying to strike up a conversation with the man, he was way too quiet in her opinion. Looking up from his breakfast Chief looked at Uzume and said. "Job hunting."
That answer pulled some attention from Miya and Homura who were now listening in on the conversation. "Really Job hunting, have you found some offers already in such a short time?" Inquired Uzume.
"Yes Matsu helped me out looking for some and Karasuba picked two out." John replied.
"Well let's hear it then, what are you aiming for?" Uzume said.
"One was in Construction and the other one as a waiter, Karasuba will accompany me when I go for the interviews." John answered and Karasuba perked up at that as she heard him say that she would tag along.
"Wait what as a waiter?" Homura exclaimed loudly at the absurdity of that little statement. "Are you sure you're fit for that? And set up appointments already?"
At that Chief looked towards Matsu who chuckled slightly in embarrassment. "Hehe uhhm I might have forgotten to call them yesterday, but I'm sure they won't mind if you just show up it's not like your applying for a CEO position in a major company." Matsu tried to salvage the situation.
"Well leave it to the pervert to be the smartest being on earth and the most forgetful too." Karasuba said annoyed. "Why do I have to tag along anyways?" Karasuba said to John.
"Keep troublemakers close." Is all John said as he looked at her.
"I'm not a troublemaker you…!" Karasuba started out sassily and ready to call him names again but when she received Johns penetrating gaze which carried the message keep going if you want a repetition of the bathroom incident. "Fiiiiinne I'm sorry."
"To answer your question Homura a friend once said "anyone can carry a plate from A to B and you have to be a god damn retard if you don't manage that." John said as he remembered one of Stg. Johnsons rants in the pelican as they were on their way for a mission.
"Well if you put it like that I guess it's true, haha." Homura said not really expecting Chief using that kind of language he seemed like a proper person down to the bone.
Looking up at the clock John saw that it was past 9 already so he got up from his seat at the table and grabbed his dishes to bring the towards the kitchen. "Karasuba we're heading out its getting late already" and towards Miya he said "Thanks for the breakfast."
"But I'm not done yet!" Karasuba yelled after him and Miya said as he passed by her "No worries Chief." And with that he entered the kitchen put his dishes in the sink and walked off towards his room to get dressed properly.
10 minutes later outside of Maison Izumo
John having himself dressed appropriately was currently on the street in front of Maison Izumo waiting for Karasuba and while he was waiting he sorted he thought about where to go first.
The two jobs that Karasuba had picked were fortunately close to the inn, the restaurant that was searching for a waiter was located in the south of the inn three blocks away and the construction company that was looking for helping hands was located to the west four blocks away. As John was thinking about where to go first Karasuba finally walked out of the Inn only wearing her black dress today and her boots because it was a warm day and as she stepped over the threshold of Miya's property a gust of wind traveled past the two that got Karasuba's hair to slightly billow and in that moment a strange thought wiggled itself into Johns mind. Strangely enough he found her beautiful in that moment as her hair got carried to the side by the wind. This made John pull his eyebrows together in a slight frown because he didn't know where this thought suddenly had come from.
"Don't frown at me will ya, I haven't done anything." Karasuba said as she got closer to John and stood in front of him. Not getting a response to her statement and seeing his frown slowly disappear Karasuba asked with a sigh. "So where do we go first?"
"To the restaurant." John answered as he got pulled out of his thoughts by Karasuba and seeing her inquisitive expression concerning his choice he explained. "It's closer."
"Ah well whatever let's get this whole thing over with, I need to get a lot of R&R in today after he last three days." Karasuba said as she moved her arm to hook hers in with Johns as they began their walk towards the restaurant. The moment their arms were hooked, Karasuba entwined her fingers with John's larger ones and slightly leaned into his larger frame resting her head on his arm. Feeling John's eyes on her Karasuba looked up and grinned wolfishly. "What after the bathroom episode I've decided on a different approach. I've decide to try treating you differently, not like those squishy disgusting humans that I know and I'm used to. But that doesn't mean you will have it any easier with me, I'm just giving you a breather for the day and maybe try to embrace those disgusting feelings that keep welling up here and there. This is just one of these moments so don't think too much into it." Karasuba finished her explanation and received a shrug as response from John showing his indifference on this whole matter. Apparently she had a problem with this oddly enough he didn't, which was confusing to say the least.
It didn't take long for the two until the restaurant came into view and although there weren't any pictures with the job offer, John kind of had the feeling that it would look like this from the outside.
It was a quaint little restaurant, it had two windows next to the entrance and in front of it was a little patio where a few tables and chairs were set up.
When Karasuba and John reached the front door John stopped for a moment to give the surroundings a onceover, all in compliance with his training, best cover, which way to pull back, sniper locations and so on.
Karasuba being oblivious to why John had stopped in front of the door spoke up. "Getting cold feet now mister super soldier?" With that little teasing remark Karasuba reached for the door and stepped through without waiting for him. Looking after Karasuba's disappearing form John heaved a long sigh and followed after her inside.
Inside a scenery greeted them that screamed maid café to Karasuba and to John he found it confusing and weird.
Further into the restaurant there was a bar, behind it a large burly man that was only a head shorter than John and dressed in a frack was currently drying of a few glasses while whistling a low tune to himself completely oblivious to the two who had just entered. Looking around the dinning room John found two woman dressed in extremely frilly dresses setting up tables. Not paying them much attention John walked up towards the man behind the counter and while he was doing so it seemed like the man finally noticed the two as he looked up from his polishing and the two could see how the man was slowly arching his brows up in astonishment as his and Johns eyes met.
"Hello Sir my name is John and I'm here to apply for a Job, could you please call for your superior?" John said not knowing that the man he was talking to was actually the owner of the establishment.
Hearing John say that the man behind the bar barked a laugh and responded. "No need for that, your speaking to him, my name is Yamashita Matsumoto." The owner introduced himself and raised his hand for a handshake which John accepted. "Just let me grab a few things and we can start the interview." Yamashita said and was about to turn around and walk into the back when he stopped again and called out to the two maids. "Hikari, Hibiki could you two set up a table at the window with some water and 3 glasses please a potential new employee is here for an interview." After receiving a "Yes boss" and a "Sure" from the two Yamashita walked through the door into the back to grab some things.
And that's exactly when Karasuba decided that she had been quite enough for the moment and spoke up. "Hmmmmm somehow these names sound familiar John." When she said that Karasuba turned towards the two woman and locked eyes with them. "Karasuba." Mumbled one of the two as they took a step back and fell into a fighting stance. "What are you doing here!" The other one yelled, at that point John decided to shift his attention to the woman in the room and found the two waitresses to be twins.
"Well would you look at that. First I thought this would be a pain in the ass to go to a job interview with my Ashikabi but I'm pleasantly surprised that I still get some action." Karasuba said and her serene face turned twisted and bloodthirsty.
At that remark lightning began to arch around the twins and one of them spoke up. "Well be ready to be put down you dog!"
That sentence was the start of some unwanted mayhem in Johns opinion as he tried to reign Karasuba in. "Karasuba!" John said lowly in a demanding manner, but Karasuba paid him no heed and launched towards the two sekirei.
The brawl was on so it seemed.
The moment Karasuba reached the twins both of them split up to get some distance between Karasuba and them. That's when Hibiki noticed that Karasuba didn't have her sword with her and she reprimanded herself for not noticing that earlier. "Hikari she doesn't have her sword." Hibiki said to her sister. "Well that's just like an invitation to flatten that lunatic!" Hikari responded as she decided to get close and zap the daylights out of Karasuba.
Karasuba having shifted her focus to Hikari was able to dodge the lightning clad fist that swung for her face by leaning backwards and summersaulting out of the way of an arch of lightning that came from Hibiki. Summersaulting two more times and Karasuba managed to get close to Hibiki and land a kick to her face, which Hibiki barley managed to block with her forearms. The force behind Karasuba's kick was too strong though and lifted Hibiki from her feet and propelled her back in a high arch, thankfully for Hibiki she managed to catch her bearings during that little flight and with a flip she landed crouched on a shelve at the other side of the restaurant. Seeing her sister get force back Hikari raised her hand to charge up a stronger lightning attack when the door behind the counter opened and Yamashita stepped through with a folder and some pens in hand.
"What's going on here?" Yamashita questioned as the view of the raging battle greeted him at his return. "Hibiki how did you get up on the shelve?" He questioned "And Hikari, JESUS, Hikari there is electricity dancing across your hand!" The shock that overcame Yamashita from this compelled him to drop his folder and the pens and run over to Hikari and in the rush of the moment he slapped her hand in order to maybe get rid of the lightning. Well not the smartest thing to do as Yamashita got reminded of what lightning does to a human when he got electrocuted and dropped to the floor unconscious.
Seeing the nuisance who had interrupted their fight drop to the floor Karasuba decided to go for it again and she was about to launch herself into the fray one more time, had it not been for John who at this point decided that enough was enough and that he had to put a foot down in order to quell the whole debacle.
Before Karasuba was able to launch herself at Hikari, John stepped up to her and grabbed her wrist non too gently and plucked her off the floor, lifted her up and had her dangling in front of him at eye level.
"Enough." John said firmly. "There is a time and a place to fight, this here is neither."
Hearing that Karasuba only growled defiantly.
"Do I have to repeat myself?" John reaffirmed as he brought his head closer to Karasuba's to stare her down.
"Tsch NO." Karasuba replied after a few minutes of staring each other down had passed.
"Good, Ladies the hostilities cease now am I clear." John spoke, meaning all three of the sekirei that had tried to duke it out.
Always the brush one of the twins Hikari couldn't let it slide so it seemed as she barked angrily. "Who do you think you are? To be able to boss us around!"
"Am I clear?!" John repeated with a slightly raised voice. Seriously it took a lot to make him loose his composure but these damn sekirei where doing a really good job in riling him up.
Hibiki seeing the little pause in their battle decided that she should get back to her sister and jumped of the shelve and landed next to Hikari. "Hikari he's right, besides we only got this job 2 months ago and I don't want to go job hunting again."
"Seriously Hibiki we have the chance to take out the black dog of MBI and you worry about our Job?" Came Hikari's disbelieving reply.
"Seo." Hibiki ended the argument as Hikari's head suddenly hang low.
"HHhhaaaa fine we'll stop if you guarantee that that bitch stops too." Hikari said.
"You have my word." John said as he set Karasuba down again. "And hers."
"Alright, alright I'll stop. Jezz old man way to ruin the fun."
The Job interview
After the two parties agreed to cease hostilities Hibiki and Hikari went get to the kitchen to get a jug full of water, some glasses and a bucket full of it for Yamashita who got picked of the floor by John and set down into a chair at a table that the remaining conscious people picked to sit down at.
When Hikari and Hibiki returned from the back with the water they set it down at the table and Hikari being the devious one of the twins decided that it would be her honor to dump the bucket of water onto Yamashita in order to drag him back into the land of the conscious. When the ice cold water hit him Yamashita jerk wide awake and started to sputter due to the water. "Wha, wha, what happened? I had a weird dream of you girls fighting in the restaurant and Hikari your hand was covered in lightning."
"Oh haha Boss your funny, you don't remember when you came back you slipped and hit your head." Hikari tried to salvage the situation. Hearing that Yamashita reached to the back of his head to feel if he had a bump somewhere but he couldn't feel one so he discovered Hikari's little lie immediately.
"Well there is no point in trying to lie to me, I've seen some weird stuff the last couple of months, woman jumping from roof to roof, some of them fighting like crazy with weird ass abilities and at first I thought some clown was mixing something into my coffee and you too were way too weirdly dressed when you applied for the job here." Yamashita deduced while Hibiki and Hikari sweat dropped at what they heard.
"John can I end him? He knows too much about the plan." Karasuba said completely serious.
"No I'm still looking for a Job so be quite." John said sternly.
"Fine." Karasuba replied a little annoyed while the other three sweat dropped at how nonchalant she was about the matter.
"Well Ladies if you would leave me and John for a moment to discuss what kind of criteria's I have, you can go to the bar and drink something." Yamashita said to the woman at the table.
"Alright" and "Sure" came the replies from Hikari and Hibiki as they got up and walked over to the bar and prepared some drinks for themselves.
"You can go too Karasuba but no fighting or I might have to find a fitting punishment for you." John ordered Karasuba.
"Alright, alright my mood has dropped anyway." Karasuba said as she got up and walked over to the other two sekirei, sat down on a barstool and surprisingly received a drink as well.
Start of the Interview
"So John was it, what can you tell me about yourself?" Yamashita started right from the bat.
"That's classified, but what I'm and liberty to say is that I served in the Navy until I got discharged recently and I'm honor bound not to disclose any information about myself, the operations that I have been a part of." John said automatically.
"Oh you served in the Navy, funny me too, and I completely understand there where some black ops guys stationed on the carrier that I served on and they were the same. So I guess I start of with what I expect from an employee."
And so Yamashita explained all the tasks to John that had to be done at the maid café while the Sekirei sat at the bar.
With the three at the bar
"Here Karasuba your coffee." Hibiki said as she placed the cup in front of Karasuba.
"So how long has it been since you were winged." Hikari inquired in an attempt to get a conversation started to lessen the awkwardness that had surrounded them when they went to the bar.
"What's up with you trying to be all buddy buddy now, the moment I step out your free game again so don't try to cozy up on me." Karasuba replied in a snarky manner.
"Grrrr listen don't think we like the idea of sitting together with you anymore than you do!" Hikari bit back quiet loudly which managed to draw the attention of John who turned his head towards them. Karasuba feeling eyes on her turned her head in that direction and found John staring at her while doing the "I'm watching you" motion with one hand. This made Karasuba sigh. "Alright, alright we have been together for about three days. He was the one who caused the commotion in the downtown area back then and when MBI sent me and the rest of the disciplinary squad to find out what was going on we fought and he kidnapped me." Said Karasuba and at the end of the sentence her voice got lower and lower as if she was embarrassed.
"What he kidnapped you? Seriously?" Hikari said her voice coated in disbelieve.
"Well he shoved a powerline into my neck so I fell unconscious." Karasuba elaborated.
"Whoa that sounds rough." Hibiki said but then she saw how a slight blush dusted Karasuba's cheeks.
"Yeah it was." Karasuba said dreamily.
At that Hikari whispered to Hibiki as quietly as possible. "Who would have thought that she is a M."
"Well I haven't." Hibiki whispered back.
At That point Yamashita yelled over to the three sekirei. "Ladies we're done you can come over again and have a cup with us.
Hearing that the three nodded and went back to the table where John and Yamashita were sitting and set down where they sat before.
After the interview with everybody at the table
With the interview finished John and Yamashita had agreed on a timeframe of a week for John to decide what he wanted to do and currently everybody was sitting at the table with Yamashita telling stories of his navy time with John intently listening when suddenly the door burst open to reveal a weirdly dressed middle aged man who had a headband around his head which had the word Otaku spelled on it.
The man didn't waste any time and rushed over towards the table and started to swoon over Hikari and Hibiki. "Oh how I have missed you too, my little sisters." This elected a rather loud "Ugh" to escape Hikari's and Hibiki's throat.
"Shima we're not open yet." Yamashita exclaimed naming the weirdly dressed man who seemed to be a regular if Yamashita knew his name.
"But Yamashita I could help but rush over to see my idols. Could I not please get something from those two?" Shima kind of begged Yamashita. "Sorry Shima but we are currently busy with John and Karasuba." Yamashita tried to explain to Shima which caused Hikari and Hibiki to heave a sigh in relive seeing as Yamashita was trying to get rid of this pest.
"Oh you're finally getting a new maid." Shima concluded as he looked at Karasuba and mistakenly thought that she was applying. "Whaaau she is so hot." Shima breathed out not even trying to hide his perverted thoughts. "Could I get something to drink from you then." Shima said while leering at Karasuba and completely ignoring Yamashitas attempt of clearing up the misunderstanding.
Karasuba seeing that ugly Otaku leer at her caused her anger to boil up again and quick glance at John showed that he was trying to figure out what was going on. Seriously god bless his cluelessness about normal civilian life.
So Karasuba stood up in a threatening manner and she directed a dose of what one might call killing intent at this Shima fella who when he felt the feeling in the air and saw her look began to sweat rather heavily. "How dare you worm." Karasuba said in a bloodthirsty tone. "You think I would serve some lowly creature like you!? Now kneel!" Karasuba said to a frightened Shima. "YYes Ma'am." Shima squeaked out as he fell on his knees but as he hurriedly kneeled down a few droplets of sweat flew of his head and landed directly on Karasuba's heels. "How dare you dirty my shoes you worm." Karasuba exclaimed annoyed. "Lick it them clean you piece of shit." Karasuba ordered.
"YYes Ma'am." Shima squeaked again as he was really about to lick her shoes but before his tongue could touch them though Karasuba kicked him lightly but strong enough to get him to back down. "You think I would let something as lowly as you touch my shoes?" Karasuba said. "Nnno Ma'am!" Shima said as he rubbed the sore spot on his face.
"Stop calling me Ma'am, I am your Mistress do you understand!?"
"YYes Mistress!"
"Now get me something sweet you disgusting trash and get out of my sight!?" Karasuba ordered Shima who was by now heavily blushing "YYes Mistress, certainly this lowly being will swiftly carry out your order!" Shima yelled as he hurriedly stood up and ran of to procure something for Karasuba.
When Shima was gone Karasuba directed her attention back to her company and as she saw the weird looks directed towards her from Hikari, Hibiki and Yamashita she asked. "What?"
At her question Yamashita turned towards John. "Is she looking for a job by chance?"
At that question a lightbulb lit up in Johns mind. "Yes she is." He stated seriously.
"No I'm not!" Karasuba yelled at John.
"Well do you have money?" John asked her.
"I don't need money I have this shiny black baby here!" Karasuba said sassily as she pulled her black MBI Card out of her pocket and waved it triumphantly into Johns face.
With lightning fast speed John reached up and took a hold of the card in Karasuba's hand.
"Huh you wouldn't dare?" Karasuba questioned John seriously and in response John crushed the black no limit MBI credit card.
"Yes I would, this will help you get a hold of your urges. If you injure someone to badly or kill someone there will be punishment. NO FOOD, NO WATER, NO FUN." John said emphasizing the last part of his sentence and then he turned back to Yamashita. "She is taking the Job."
Hearing that Yamashita jumped up and unbecomingly of a Boss pumped the air in excitement. "Awesome I was looking for someone like this for ages, Shima is not our only customer that likes to get frisky and annoy the staff and the other girls were starting to complain already. Now quick tell me when you can start and what size do you need your uniform in!?" Yamashita exclaimed happily and eager to get Karasuba set up for her first work day.
"Ugh never and no." Karasuba answered venomously.
"Tomorrow." John said to Yamashita.
"Excellent, well you two enjoy the rest of your day, we have to get back to work and see you tomorrow at 14:00 Karasuba." Yamashita said his goodbyes as he got up and shook Johns and Karasuba's hand before excusing himself.
"Well see you tomorrow." Hikari and Hibiki said their goodbyes with a defeated voice and walked of to continue working again.
When everybody was gone from the table and only Karasuba and John remained Karasuba looked at John and said "I hate you right now."
"No you don't." John countered as he got up and walked towards the door.
"Seriously I do." Karasuba yelled after John as she got up too.
Hey guys sorry for the long wait. I had a ruff time with work and other stuff. I hope you have enjoyed this chapter and see you at the next one.