Summary:
Harry Potter / Sekirei Cross-over. Harry, forced into exile to save his heritage from thieves, begins traveling the world. While in Japan, Harry happens upon an intimidating woman dressed in black, and gets thrown into a plot he never saw coming.
Disclaimer
I don't own Harry Potter in any way. JKR has those rights... Also, I hear Sekirei is owned by Sakurako Gokurakuin.
*Author's Note *
Some back story on a few of the Sekirei has been changed, just cause I wanted to use the characters and needed them to come from a different place. If it bothers you, tough.
This will be my last update for a while. I enjoyed the process of writing a lot more with having eight chapters finished in advance and then proofing them and slowly releasing them. My intention now is to knock out at least eight more chapters and revise that group in the same manner I've done with this first eight. I think in the end it made my story that much stronger. Hopefully it won't more than the month or so the first eight chapters took.
Thanks for reading. And an extra special thanks to my beta starlightshimmer.
Chapter First Published: 2012-03-13
Chapter Last Update: 2012-06-17
Chapter 8 – Melting the Ice Queen
Harry woke up without a clue where he was. All he knew was that he was warm and comfortable. In fact he was far warmer and relaxed than he should be in bed. He opened his eyes to see a mass of gray-white hair nuzzled into his neck.
'Eh?'
The events of the previous night coalesced a bit more when he suddenly remembered Karasuba asked him to spend the night with her, with the condition they did nothing more than sleep. His arms wrapped around the woman, who was completely naked and currently held onto him even more possessively then he held her. One of her legs coiled over his, and upon consideration that there was likely more of her on top of him then there was likely in contact with the bed, he was quite glad that he was still in possession and wore his boxers.
They had talked until almost dawn the previous night. While they talked in bed, Karasuba had taken her time and slowly examined his body. She took great interest in the origins of his scars. It was a subtle torture for him to allow her to straddle his back while naked as she traced each one and inquired into events behind them. She had visibly had doubts when he told her of the existence of a thirty-meter snake that could kill you with its gaze, but she those doubts were washed away when she touched the scar that extended through both sides of one of his biceps a massive fang. The dragon tail scar on his shoulder received laughs rather than the pity due to the sheer ridiculousness of the events behind the encounter.
Harry found her easy to talk to when she did not need to worry about keeping her guard up. He saw her laugh more in those twilight hours than he had during all their previous time together.
It was when her attention turned to the latticework of criss-crossed scars on his back that her mood darkened. She swore violent oaths that if the Dursleys had not been financially ruined by Harry and died penniless, she would have travelled to England that day and gutted them all like fish.
He liked to know someone out here cared deeply enough about him to do something like that. Hermione, even as worked up as she sometimes got, never swore oaths like that out loud whenever his abuse at the hands of the Dursleys was hinted at.
Slowly he dragged his mind back to the present. He slowly caressed the smooth skin of her well-muscled back from the base of her spine up to her Sekirei crest. The crest was of particular interest to him, and he was thoroughly surprised the previous night when he saw it because of how light its coloration was. It was nowhere near the intensity of color that Homura's or Musubi's was. He really wanted to think that it correlated to how strong the bond between Sekirei and Ashikabi was.
While he pondered this and continued to knead the chiseled muscles of her shoulders, Karasuba woke up and moaned into the side of his neck.
"I'll say it again, you're hired. You're moving in immediately," she mumbled into his neck as she squeezed him closer to her body.
Harry did his best to ignore just how tightly her grip on his body was as he massaged her scalp, neck, and upper back. Her wiry and tight muscles succumbed easily to his ministrations and caused her to moan and squeeze his leg between hers.
"You're an evil, evil man," she finally said.
Harry chuckled, and threw a Tempus charm out randomly into the air. 6:23AM
"What time do you need to get up?"
"We have our morning spar session at 06:30."
"Well, you have seven minutes to get there."
"Shit," and she vaulted out of the bed, no concern whatsoever for her complete lack of modesty as she ran around the room and attempted to get ready.
"Since we're repeating what we've said previously, I'll do the same. You are beautiful," said Harry with a lop-sided grin.
"Well, you're not so bad yourself," she said and quickly walked over to him, reached under the covers, slipped her hand into his boxers, and grabbed his manhood. "I was impressed with the length of your…. boxers."
She gave him a squeeze and ran off again, which left Harry to groan and shake his head. While Karasuba continued to run around the room and curse the time, he fired random charms at her to straighten her hair, and simulate her having taken a shower. He summoned Dobby, who was asked to bring a small morning dose of pepper-up.
"Here, drink this before you go," he said as he held out the very small cup of liquid.
She drank it and grimaced at the taste, then her eyes widened as steam poured out of her ears.
"It's called Pepper-Up," Harry told her. "Normally it's used when people are on the verge of exhaustion, but very, very small doses like that can help wake you up in the morning if you didn't have enough sleep and have to definitely be up and pay attention. Its wise not to abuse it though, so don't expect those too often."
"Thanks," she said while she strapped the remainder of her morning workout clothes on.
"When you finish, you can always ask Dobby to pop you and Haihane over some breakfast."
"Really? He can do that for us? I'll try and ask him today or tomorrow sometime."
"Well, have fun. Don't beat up Nubs too much."
"You know, I've actually found it quite amusing to kick her around since your spar with her."
"I aim to please and inspire," Harry said theatrically. Then, without warning, Harry stood, walked over to Karasuba, and embraced her tightly.
"Hopefully this will only be for a few more days, and then we'll figure out how to make all this work," he quietely whispered in her ear.
"We better…" she whispered back as she let go and walked towards the door.
"I'll clean up a little before I leave," Harry offered.
"Don't bother, MBI will send some maids through in about an hour."
"Alright, see you later."
The door closed and he was left alone. He walked over to the bed and vanished any stray hairs that may have collected in the night. An old habit he had gained from Moody. No use in giving away from potion supplies for Polyjuice to someone.
He stood and quietly pondered his next move and realized he was still checked-in at a hotel downtown. He popped directly into the hotel room that he had not visited in two days. After he showered and packed up the few belongings that he left in the hotel, he then proceeded downstairs and checked out.
He promptly walked out the lobby doors, rounded a nearby corner and entered a nearby alleyway. A loud crack was heard as he apparated outside the front door of the Izumo Inn and walked inside. It was a state of mild bedlam inside, which calmed instantly once the inn's occupants saw him.
"Where have you been?" asked Homura breathlessly.
"Uh, I was just at my hotel room. I checked out of it since I figured I didn't need to stay there anymore," Harry said evasively. He figured it might not be wise speak about how he had slept in Karasuba's bed the previous night.
"Well, you could've told us that's where you were going," mentioned Uzume, who seemed quite relieved to see him.
"I wasn't aware that I had to. Last night I talked with Akitsu for a few hours, and then went to my room here to go over her diagnostic results. Hopefully Dobby brings back a confirmation from Madame Pomfrey soon about what I sus-"
Dobby appeared at that instant without a word, he handed Harry a note and a box of potion vials, then popped away again. Harry just stared at the spot and blinked for a few moments before laughter started breaking amongst the girls present.
"He's a cheeky little bugger isn't he?" mused Harry out loud.
"Anyways, I went over her results, and decided I needed to think about what we were going to have to do, not only for her, but for all of you. You're all Sekirei, but you're all also magical beings. So, there's some training I think I'm going to teach you all. Where you take it from there is up to you."
"Finally, I found out our main friend at MBI was still awake, so I popped directly over there and found out what happened as a result of what we did last night. Apparently Minaka is absolutely furious that Kusano isn't winged and he can't find her. He's also quite upset about Mutsu being eliminated, and he suspects Higa was behind it, since he has the largest number of Sekirei. Apparently, with Yomi, Mutsu, and Akitsu all gone, Minaka assumes Higa as being the only Ashikabi who could've raised the number of people necessary to take on all three of them," Harry finished while he waited to see if they called him out on where he actually slept.
"Well, don't run off again without telling anyone. People were very worried about you," said Homura, before walking into the kitchen. The others soon followed leaving him alone with Miya.
"Well, I wasn't exactly expecting this when I got back here today."
"They care about you, all of them. You've made a difference in every one of their lives in the past day that none of them could've dreamed possible. It's only natural they worry about you as well," she said.
"Yes ma'am." Harry looked at Miya, and spoke softly, "They have no idea about the true story behind Mutsu. They think Higa somehow got all his Sekirei together and somehow ambushed Mikogami and took out 5 and 43 and then kidnapped Akitsu."
"Yes, we were lucky there," Miya nodded while she looked strangely out the window. "Anyway, it's time for breakfast."
Miya and Harry stepped into the lounge and stopped short. He realized that there were now a lot more people in the inn, but it hadn't really hit him until now. The original group from yesterday morning of Miya, Homura, Uzume, Matsu, Musubi, and himself had now added Toyotama, Shi, Kusano, Akitsu, and Chiho.
"Well, it certainly got crowded in here," Harry said aloud.
"Yes it did, we may have to come to breakfast in groups in the future," Miya observed sadly.
"No need, Dob-," but the elf had already appeared carrying four stones before Harry even had finished calling his name. Dobby handed the stones to Harry, winked, and then popped out again.
"What the heck is going on with him," said Harry in puzzlement. Harry thought for a moment as to the best way to accomplish this. He noticed the half dozen ice flowers on the table he had made for Akitsu last night still glowed and suddenly thought of an an idea.
As each woman present attentively watched him, he placed the four stones on the table. His wand erupted from his holster and he quickly engraved a few runes on each stone. He picked up the stones and walked to a corner of the room. While there, he transfigured a decorative sconce and then placed each ice flower inside on top of a stone and covered it with a shade. He then slowly repeated this process in each corner of the room.
"How are lights going to help us have more room?" asked a very confused Matsu.
"Just watch," said Harry with a fiendish smile. He pointed to each corner of the room, and they saw the four square stones briefly glow and then fade through the lamp shades. Then, with a wide arching sweep of his wand, the room expanded five meters in each direction.
Silence. No one could believe what they just saw.
"Is that enough room Miya, or should we make it bigger?" Harry spoke into the silence with a satisfied grin on his face.
"No, I believe that's plenty of room. I think we'll need to redecorate though. We seem to no longer have enough furniture for the room," said Miya absentmindedly.
"Well, there's one thing I can help with at the moment," said Harry as he flourished his wand one more time and pointed at the table that was now way too small for the room.
As he pointed, the table slowly began to elongate and widen just slightly. Eventually, the table that previously could barely seat eight could now probably seat twenty with room to spare.
"Is this something you can teach us as part of the training you mentioned?" asked Toyotama into the awed silence of the room.
"Not immediately. This sort of thing is a fair ways down the road if you want true magical training. But you're all capable of something like this if you put in the time. My main goal for now was actually going to be to try to fine-tune Homura's control over fire and yours over Ice. Maybe figure out just where your limits may lie as well."
"Well, now that everyone's here and we can sit down, we can begin breakfast," said Miya cheerfully.
She had barely walked towards the kitchen when food appeared with pops at various places around the table.
"Don't you just love house elves?" said Harry with a laugh as he moved over to Akitsu and sat down next to her.
He read the letter from Madame Pomfrey as everyone else helped themselves to breakfast. The letter was Poppy's typical mixture of venom and exasperation that once again either he was hurt or he found someone who needed extreme help. She confirmed his suspicions that everything done to Akitsu was safe to remove except for the Empathic Block. She would need to learn Occlumency to almost a master's level before it would be safe to allow external emotions to flood her mind.
The list of things prescribed for Akitsu started with a purging potion to remove chemicals, and was included in the small box of vials sent along with Dobby. "Akitsu, it might be a good idea to put off eating for about an hour. You're not going to be able to keep the food down cause of the first treatment you're going to have to do."
"What are you talking about? What treatment does she need?" asked Homura, clearly confused because she had not been required to do anything like that.
Harry hated to do this in front of everyone, but he had a feeling everyone would just hound Akitsu later if he did not. Better to explain this now so it's all over and done with, "Do you mind if tell everyone what you'll have to do? It'll save you having to repeat this to everyone else later when they get all nosy," Harry said, glaring at everyone around her.
"As long as she understands she doesn't need to tell anyone what she must undergo if she doesn't want to," said Miya forcefully.
Harry nodded his agreement with Miya, and looked at Akitsu. She looked at him, nodded slowly, and folded her hands in her lap. She seemed to shrink in upon herself as well, and this did not seem to bode well to Harry. He reached over and held one of her hands while he squeezed it in an attempt to offer support.
"Well, Akitsu has had some rather major things done to her. In fact, the only person I've ever known in my life who has had more detrimental magic removed from them is me." A few of them looked surprised at this, and a few looks of pity were sent towards Akitsu.
"Akitsu is going to essentially have four things done. First, is a purging potion which is in this box. She's going to drink it and, unfortunately, immediately vomit anything she's eaten. Then, in twenty minute increments for the next hour, she'll vomit all the unnatural chemicals, medicines, and potions that are still in her system. It's definitely not pleasant, but we need all of that stuff out of her body."
Akitsu cringed at the sound of it, and the rest of the people around the table did not look pleased either. Matsu placed her chopsticks down and pushed her food away from her.
"Then, we'll remove all the compulsions placed on her. She has much more than even Miya had, so they absolutely must come out. I have no idea what they are doing, but more than likely they were trying to make it so she would accept what the MBI folks told her without question."
Harry stopped for a moment, to gather his thoughts on the next part. He tapped a finger from his free hand a few times absent-mindedly on the table before he continued.
"Next part is rather two-fold. You'll need to undergo three rituals," Homura gasped at this. Harry gave her a small understanding smile before he spoke again. "You'll undergo two of them right away. Then, much later will be a third and final one."
Harry had to think how he was going to explain this next part. He knew she would need to learn Occlumency, so he decided to tackle that first.
"Dobby?" the elf popped in immediately behind Harry and Akitsu.
"Yes sir, Harry Potter sir?"
"Can you bring me my Mayan school book on Occlumency, please?"
"Yes sir, Harry," and Dobby disappeared and reappeared almost instantly with a book in his hand.
"Stick around for a second Dobby," Harry asked, then turned his attention to the book. Harry waved his hand over the book, making two direct copies of it in a flash of green light. He handed the original back to Dobby with his thanks.
Harry then set one of the copies aside next to him, then picked up the remaining one. He placed his hand on it for almost thirty seconds. The entire time, the girls all watched as the book glowed with a bright red light. When he removed his hand, everyone saw the book's cover had changed from English to Japanese. Then Harry placed his hand on the book again and it glowed green for a brief moment before an exact duplicate of the book seemed to shoot out of the original. He asked Akitsu if she could pass the books down and around. He made copies till everyone had a copy and there were ten extras piled up.
"Occlumency is a skill that's very important for magical beings like us to learn. There are quite a few specific kinds of magic that can only be performed if you have a firm grounding in this subject. More importantly at the moment, it's a skill that's going to be vital for Akitsu to master for her ongoing health."
"Currently Akitsu has three very powerful blocks and wards placed upon her. The first is an Emotion Suppression block. Basically it means, she can never get overly angry, sad, or happy. That's the first thing we're going to get rid of. It'll be painful like Homura's was, but the block isn't nearly as complicated and won't be nearly as hard to remove. The second thing we're going to get rid of is a bit shocking. It's called a Psyche Response Ward. They're normally put on dangerous and highly intelligent inmates in prisons. It was created specifically for those who are at a higher level of risk of escape. The ward makes the victim think just a bit slower and can cause them to be forgetful. We'll remove that second."
Akitsu had closed her eyes at this, and was gripping Harry's hand very tightly, cutting off the circulation in his hand. He just grit his teeth and bore it. Akitsu needed an outlet, and he thought he would gladly give up feeling in his hand for the time being to help her. Breakfast was completely forgotten at this point by the looks of shock and disgust reflected on every face in the room.
"Then there's the last one. I think this one is actually the source of all your problems. I could be wrong, but I don't see how the others could be preventing you from winging to an Ashikabi. MBI obviously doesn't like 'special' abilities on Sekirei. They went above and beyond sabotaging Homura so she couldn't use her Metamorph ability. They did the same to you, Akitsu. You're an Empath."
All around the room, Harry got looks of confusion at this statement. He could tell none of them understood what this meant, including Akitsu, who had opened her eyes and now looked at Harry; a silent plead him to continue.
"Empaths can feel other people's emotions. It's initially a subconscious thing that you'll need to learn to control. The subject of this book will help, and you need to learn this before I remove the last block on you."
"Why can't it be removed now?" asked Akitsu. Harry knew she had latched onto Harry's statement that this thing likely kept her from winging and being considered normal, so he had to make sure she understood the risks.
"I know you want to have it removed now, but here's why we should wait a bit." To the room at large, Harry spoke, "Let's say Akitsu has her Empathic block removed, and she walks into this room for breakfast and sits down with all of us here. What happens to her if she has no training?"
Harry then turned, one by one to each person in the room. "She immediately feels that I'm angry, and ready to head over to MBI and kill every last adjustor in that building. She would feel my blind rage that I'm honestly barely holding in each time I think about what they've done to her. From Homura, and I'm just guessing here, she would be feeling my some sisterly sympathy, since she too had a core part of her 'blocked' cause of MBI. If she focused on Miya, she would be feeling likely some motherly feelings and a desire to take care of her, plus a bit of the same feelings I have to go and exact some vengeance on whoever did this to you."
Harry glanced at Ku, and almost chuckled out loud. This caused every person at the table to follow the direction he looked. The little girl had been playing quietly with her food while pretending it was an airplane. Miya glanced at her and just barely contained her giggles.
"From Ku? Well, I'm sure Kusano isn't very interested in this conversation so Akitsu would get boredom and a little bit of desire coming from probably wanting to go watch television. Toyotama and Shi would likely be exuding confusion and some curiosity since they aren't as familiar with what we had to do for Homura. Musubi and Uzume are probably feeling about the same thing as each other, thinking ways to try and cheer Akitsu up. Matsu probably has a bit of curiosity with a morbid edge to it, since she's probably thinking of running upstairs and finding the names of the adjustors that worked on both Akitsu and Homura and then providing the names to Miya and myself.
Harry took a deep breath, and continued "And then we get back to Akitsu herself, who has just sat down..." Harry took a deep breath and looked at Akitsu who looked lost at his explanation.
"..and felt every single person's emotions in the room at the same time all as if they were her own emotions."
Harry looked around and said, "Do you all have any inkling of what life will be like for her now going forward? Most Empaths have to be identified before the age of four or five to begin training. Otherwise, it's almost a proven fact that if they aren't found early, Empaths usually end up insane by the age of seven because they can't deal with feeling all the emotions of other people they're around at once."
Wide-eyes greeted this. Akitsu slowly shook her head in denial with her eyes closed so Harry reached over and hugged her.
"That's absolutely not going to happen to you though," Harry said firmly and evenly to her. "That's what this book is for. It'll teach you how to organize your mind, how to control your emotions and deaden the influence other people's emotions have on you until you allow them to be felt by you."
"Once you've learned this, we can take the block off. Then you'll be fine."
Harry looked again at the room at large, "It's also why I gave the book to all of you as well. So you can all help her practice and be aware of just how hard what she has to learn is."
Looks of comprehension and understanding were slowly seen around the group, along with fierce looks of determination. Someone had harmed their sister. These Sekirei would make whoever was responsible pay and they would be there to help her every step of the way.
Harry let go of Akitsu and turned to the others in the room. "Akitsu will also require you to be aware of her needs going forward. She is going to naturally like quiet places and enjoy solitude, because that means she can open her mind up and not worry about being assaulted by the emotions of others. It also means she's going to absolutely hate going into public, since the effort of blocking out dozens, if not hundreds, of people will be very tiring for her over a long period of time. You have to be considerate of her. If you see people in the house having an argument around her, you need to be understanding if she runs off. It's because she'll feel physical pain from feeling anger and other very strong emotions in such close proximity."
"Akitsu isn't the first nor is she likely to be the last one of us to have been abused. I went through hell to have nine blocks removed from me when I managed to finally escape England and all the people who wanted to control me there. Homura went through hell and back yesterday morning to get her block removed. I'm sure we're going to encounter more Sekirei with amazing abilities that MBI thought needed to be controlled. Just be patient and understanding of Akitsu as she goes through this, please."
Harry turned to Akitsu and asked, "You want to step out? Get some air for a moment? Or if you want, you can take this potion now and get started on all this."
Akitsu's still had not let go of Harry's hand, and she now had a vice-like grip upon it. He sighed and stood up while he lifted her hand with his. She subconsciously stood, her face dazed as if in shock. Harry turned to Miya, who gave him a look of understanding.
"I'm going to take her into the other room and help her deal with all this. Let me know if you all need anything," and he led Akitsu out of the room into the bathroom in the hallway.
After he conjured two chairs in front of the toilet, Harry led her over to one and sat in the other. He waved an absentminded hand at the door and it shut with a soft click. He had to get through to her if she was going to climb out of the despair he knew she now felt.
Harry reached up with one hand brushed some of her hair behind her ear and stroked her face. She still had not released his hand from the titan-like grip in which she had held it since the conversation began. Eventually Harry said, "Everything you're about to go through, I've done already. I had to take purging potions, had spells and blocks removed. I even had to have memories that were stolen from me restored. And above all I had to learn Occlumency to give me better control of my magic."
"I know this will be hard. I know it seems like the day where all this stuff is done is so far away. I had to do this without anyone. I was on the run from England and half-in hiding. I was completely alone. All I had was a bunch of doctors who checked on me every few hours while I was laid up in bed, and that was after I woken up from a month-long coma after having nine blocks removed. But I'll be right here with you when you go through it all."
"Can you do this if I'm right here with you?"
Akitsu looked at Harry and then looked back down at the vial in his hands. Her voice sounded very far away when she whispered, "I don't know."
Harry lifted her chin up and looked into her eyes, and said with a strong clear voice "Come on Number 7, I said I wanted to be your Ashikabi. You are going to be my Sekirei. It means you don't let me give up. And it means I won't let you give up either."
Akitsu seemed to look through him, as if she stared off into something in the distance. Her eyes were unfocused for a few brief moments while she breathed in an out. Eventually she closed her eyes and reopened them, looking at Harry so intensely he felt like she now gazed into his soul.
She eventually nodded and said, "Ok."
She reached for the vial and uncorked it. She closed her eyes, hesitated for smallest fraction of a second, and downed the potion. Harry pointed a wand above them and did a modified Tempus that would display a sixty-minute countdown timer. After only a few moments, Akitsu retched into the toilet.
Harry did his best to comfort her during the ordeal. He held her hair out of her eyes and performed frequent freshening charms between bouts. Most of the time, he simply sat behind her and held her. Towards the end, when the foul MBI chemicals and drugs expelled took on an appearance very near to black sludge, she finally seemed to be on the verge of breaking down in tears. It was one thing when they told her she was broken constantly, but to vomit this black tar they purposely placed inside her was almost too much. Throughout the ordeal however, Harry never left her side and whispered comforting words to her.
Eventually Akitsu finally fell into Harry's arms. She was exhausted both emotionally and physically after the hour ended. They sat quietly for a long time and held each other in the aftermath of her ordeal. Eventually Harry helped her up, and they slowly walked to the bathroom door. They attempted to leave the bathroom, only to find their way blocked. Every girl in the inn sat outside the door to the bathroom and waited for Akitsu and Harry to emerge. Each, in their own way, silently giving their support to Akitsu as she endured.
Every Sekirei present felt helpless while Akitsu persevered through what MBI had done to her and they could not do anything about it. Harry forgot to silence the door in his distraction because of his worry for Akitsu. He assumed now they heard every sound and word spoken between the two while they were inside. One by one, they came forward and hugged the brown-haired woman. Each embrace telling Akitsu in their own way they would be there for her in the future.
As they made their way back into the kitchen, Harry gave her the next round of potions. "These are some nutrient potions. Some of the tests indicated you went a decent period without food. These will help balance out a few things in your body. You'll need to take one of these with breakfast each day for the next week."
Akitsu drank the potions and grimaced at the taste. Harry then called for Dobby and said, "Dobby, Akitsu and I would like some breakfast if you still have some available."
He turned to Akitsu and acknowledged her look of disgust at the mention of food when he said, "I know you probably don't want to even look at food after going through that for the last hour, but you need to get some food down."
Dobby reappeared with breakfast for two, though they were hardly alone in the room. Most of the other girls had now reentered and were quietly conversing amongst themselves.
After eating a few bites, Harry stood up again and pulled out a wand.
"Ok, while you're eating I can do the next part. I'm going to remove the compulsions they put on you. You may feel a bit disoriented as they are removed, but there will not be any pain at all."
Harry pulled out his wand, and raised his eyebrow, waiting for an acknowledgement from Akitsu. She nodded, and Harry went to work. Madame Pomfrey had mentioned that Finite Incantatum should take care of most of them, but he may need to try a few more powerful spell finishers. He tried the three most powerful ones he knew and his efforts were rewarded by Akitsu looking quizzically around the room.
"That certainly feels a bit different. Lighter somehow."
"Good. That means you're strong magically and you can notice the difference between the way you're supposed to feel and the way those spells were trying to influence you to feel and think. We'll stop here for now. I'll need to set up rituals for the binding and ward we're going to remove. That'll take a bit to check and double-check them and make sure they're done correctly. For now, after breakfast you should rest a bit. Maybe even do a few of the beginning Occlumency exercise to help you relax."
Harry sat down again and finished the plate of food in front of him quickly. After the empty plate was pushed away from him, Harry decided to shake things up a bit.
"Homura!" Harry yelled unexpectedly.
At the sound of the yell, Homura jumped in her chair. She glared at Harry, who just smiled evilly.
"Homura, I do believe I mentioned that today we would be playing with fire," Harry said while he simultaneously conjured one of the blue-ball flames that Hermione loved so dearly. He distractedly tossed it up and down with a shit-eating grin on his face which made a shiver go up the spine on every girl in the room.
No one present wanted training if that was how he was going to look at them.
"Let's go babe, maybe we'll even work our way up to Fiendfyre today," Harry said as he got up from the table.
"What is Fiendfyre?" Homura asked cautiously as she got up and slowly walked towards Harry and the door. As she walked she barely noticed everyone's attention was riveted upon her and Harry.
"Oh nothing, just cursed fire. It normally kills whoever summons it," and with that ominous response, Harry walked out of the room.
He successfully held in his laughter as Homura tripped and nearly fell after hearing his reply.
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Homura looked absolutely exhausted. She had never before used or controlled as much fire as she had done in the past hour. Harry was trying to gauge just how much she had left in her when he saw her take a knee. She looked at him a pleading look in her eyes while she breathed heavily.
"Ok hot stuff, you're done. You did really well. Let me help you up," he waved a hand and Homura rose steadily and floated right into him. Before she knew what happened, Harry gave her a kiss which unleashed her Norito and gave her a second wind.
Harry could actually feel some of his magic transfer to her, so he did his best to allow it to occur naturally. After about thirty seconds, and numerous catcalls from the women who watched behind them, they broke apart.
"Feel like you could go a few more hours?" asked Harry.
"Yeah, I could actually. No one ever said that would happen. What the heck was that?" asked Homura a very confused Homura.
"Said what would happen?" asked a sweet voiced Miya, soup ladle brandished like samurai of old might hold a sword.
"I wanted to try something," said Harry, ignoring the instrument of doom in Miya's hand. "I wanted to see if a kiss and the subsequent Norito would affect a Sekirei that was approaching magical exhaustion. It did and I actually felt some of my magic go to Homura."
Whichever answer Miya expected from her question, Harry's response was most certainly not it.
"I've certainly never heard of such a thing occurring before," said Miya.
"I think we're in uncharted waters now. Sekirei are magical beings, and I doubt any other Sekirei are bonded to full-fledged wizards. I bet most are winged to squibs like Chiho. Anyways, you're done for today Homura. Excellent job. I think you should also see if your friend Takami is out of the hospital and contact her too."
Homura nodded in acknowledgement and moved off to the house. Many of the girls had sat outside and watched, although a few such as Akitsu were off to the side engaged in the initial steps to Occlumency.
"Could you have ever imagined two days ago this place would have this many people in it?" he asked Miya, who had not moved away yet.
She shook her head, and looked at the assembled group of Sekirei, "My husband had a dream for this place, to never refuse to take in people in need. It's surprising that so many Sekirei have found it. Sometimes I thought his dream would never become reality, but thanks to what you've done, it has."
She walked off joining Toyotama and Musubi who were working on their sparring forms. Uzume and Matsu were inside, and Shi and Akitsu were off by themselves. Akitsu looked to be working on her Occlumency, but he could not get a read on Shi. He had not actually spoken to the girl beyond the rooftop yesterday, so he figured now was as good a time as any to initiate a conversation.
Shi was a pretty girl, with dark messy hair, and a body a little shorter and smaller then Musubi. They even wore similar outfits, with the main difference being longer sleeves for her to hide numerous knifes and daggers. She had a withdrawn look, and had definitely chosen to sit in a place within the yard where she could see everyone and everything. The three days on the run had definitely taken their toll on the girl and increased her paranoia.
He walked over, but when she saw him approaching she visibly tensed up. He figured, despite everything had happened, she was probably still scared out of her mind someone would force her to wing against her will. He walked up slowly and cautiously sat beside the girl under the tree.
"Hey, I don't believe we've been properly introduced yet. I'm Harry Potter," he said while he smiled gently and held out his hand.
She hesitated, before she slowly held his hand with a very light grip. "Shi, Number 40."
Harry lost half his smile and looked rueful, before he leaned back against the tree and stared off into the yard. "You should relax, you're safe here. No one in their right mind would attack Izumo Inn so long as Miya is here. I would actually like to see how long someone lasts if they did come here. My guess would be about thirty seconds, tops. Maybe forty-five if they're really lucky and brought a couple dozen people with them."
"And then, if some act of god actually occurred and they got past Miya, they would have to get past me. I know you're still scared. Remember, Matsu and Kusano are here and un-winged as well. Hell, Matsu has been on the run from MBI for years. Every person here will defend you three if someone comes here trying to take you."
Shi nodded, pulled her knees up to her chest and put her head down to rest.
"Well anyways, I just wanted to say hello. If you're looking for something to do, I'm sure Miya would spar with you. She's quite good, and you'll learn a lot. Oh, and if you have time, bring your weapons by for me to see. I want to see if MBI did some subtle sabotage to them like they did to Miya's and a few other people's weapons and belongings."
She looked up in confusion, and eventually slowly nodded. She took out a dagger and looked at it, holding it gingerly, as if it had been dirtied in the past few seconds.
"I'll talk to you later," Harry said quickly. He did not really feel like pressuring any of these girls into talking to him, especially when he already had plenty who wanted some of his time.
-o0o0o-
After leaving Shi to her quiet contemplation, Harry walked back around to the front of the Inn to enter the door. When he came around the side of the inn and had a clear view, he saw a man and a blond woman enter through the front gate. The man, just barely out of his teens, was decidedly normal looking. The woman however, seemed to be his exact opposite. She had an old style formal coat on over a white dress with long sleeves that was only barely adequate to cover her chest's modesty.
The boy walked without any real self-confidence, and definitely deferred to the woman. 'A Sekirei dom / sub relationship?' laughed Harry internally.
They saw him coming around the edge. The boy seemed wary, and the woman now definitely moved in front of him to try and protect him if needed. Harry fired two subtle translation spells on them as the girl spoke.
"Who art thou? Why dost thou approach me?" the girl spat at Harry arrogantly.
'What the fuck?" thought Harry as he stopped short of the strange pair. 'Who honestly talks like that?'
"It's typically polite to introduce yourself before demanding to know who others are, especially when you are a guest on this properly," Harry said none too kindly. He definitely didn't feel like backing down from the woman.
Her eyes flashed, and Harry felt a wave of uncontrolled magic pass over him. 'Oh she's strong, but she has the maturity level of a five year old, despite all her haughtiness.'
"I am Tsukiumi, Number 9. And this is my Ashikabi, Sahashi Minato," the woman said as she looked at Harry expectedly. Clearly she felt that her previous question should be answered now.
Harry however, blinked at Minato's family name. Coincidences did not occur in Harry Potter's life. Here was a Sekirei bonded to a man with the same family name as one of the adjustors who was Homura's friend. The same last name as the adjustor who was attacked while taking Kusano on an ill-advised day trip the previous day.
"Sahashi, eh? Are you any relation to Sahashi Takami?" Harry asked with his head cocked, giving a rather laid back aloof look.
"Uh," Minato stuttered, shocked by the unexpected question.
'Oh this is bad. How in the world is this wimp going to handle a chick as dominating as this?' laughed Harry to himself.
Minato finally gained some measure of composure and continued to answer, "Yes she's my mother. I haven't spoken to her in a few days though. She cut me off from my allowance after I failed my university exam a third time. We just lost my apartment because I'm not allowed to have a woman staying with me and Tsukiumi was a bit loud this morning."
Harry nodded his head and filed the information away, "I'm Harry Potter. I'm an Ashikabi with two Sekirei bonded to me who are inside the inn. I'll warn you both now. There are a fair few un-winged Sekirei here under the protection of both the owner of the Inn and myself. Do not cause problems here."
"Thou darest threaten my Ashikabi. Monkey, thou thinks thy will still draw breath after thine insult?" The blonde woman practically foamed at the mouth as she nearly growled this at Harry.
With a polite shake of his head, Harry simply gave an over-the-top yawn and lazily said, "I suggest you settle down Number 9. Violence is not tolerated here by the land lady. She will not be pleased if you threaten anyone here."
"A mere land lady does not scare me, for I am Tsukiumi, the most powerful of all Sekirei now that I have my Ashikabi. I will do as I please," she finished with a satisfied smirk.
Harry blinked, and chuckled softly. "It's your funeral if you keep that attitude," said Harry while he shook his head.
With that, Harry walked away and headed inside. He no longer felt the need to deal with the conceited bitch any longer. 'Let Miya worry about what to do with her.'
As he walked inside, Miya passed by, somehow already aware she was needed, and was on her way out to greet Tsukiumi. "Good luck with that one out there. She's strong, but has some serious control and trust issues," warned Harry.
Miya stopped, nodded and continued out the door.
'What do I do now?' thought Harry. Maybe he could just go sit by Akitsu and relax for a bit or watch Musubi spar for a while. He took a few steps back towards the back yard of the Inn when he realized he had stuff yet to finish. After he turned around and headed up to his room, he cleaned off the remains of the notes for Homura's ritual and started the setup he needed for Akitsu's.
After only a little bit of research, he discovered the Emotion Block was quite simple to remove. Dobby found books that had multiple ways to deal with the block. Harry was privately amused that the secretive, valuable and ancient tomes from the Potter and Black libraries all showed rites as complicated and likely as painful as Homura's earlier ritual. Newer books that he had purchased from North and South American sources detailed a small rite with a very small runic circle. A few minutes effort would be all that was required to remove that block from Akitsu. It actually looked like there would not be much pain involved, if there was any at all.
However, the Psyche ward was different from anything he'd run across used on people before. It was a ward, so it was not actually magic directly from another wizard that had been placed upon her. Someone had actually drawn runes on her to enchant her very skin to cast the magic that would be influencing her. The runes were self-sustaining and drew upon Akitsu's own magic. So to tear down the ward, Akitsu would have to exhaust herself magically before Harry could siphon the remaining power out of the runes. Once accomplished, the runes would be erased when they were underpowered.
'We could probably do that after a sparring or training session,' mused Harry. All he would need to do is find the runes on her body, which hopefully wouldn't be that hard. The two of them would probably end up enjoying it if they were in some obscure location.
He went straight from there into Akitsu's room and began the setup of the ritual to remove the Emotion Block. The more he thought about the ritual, the more something stuck out in his mind. How long had the block been in place? He remembered using passive Legilimency on her on the street the previous night and being shocked by the rage bottled up by the woman. He needed to make sure he helped her in case she let her emotions get away from her after this.
"Dobby!"
"Yes sir, Harry Potter Sir," the elf was jumping up and down in absolute glee. Harry had called Dobby more times in the past few days then he normally do in the same number of months. The elf loved having so much to do.
"I need a few calming draughts Dobby. Actually, I probably need a whole hell of a lot of them. Some dreamless sleep potions would also likely be good to have on hand here as well."
He was able to quickly finish the circle for the ritual. This particular one was even more surprisingly simple then Harry had thought it would be. With that complete, Harry left Akitsu's room and locked the door using magic to ensure no one entered and messed up the runes.
Akitsu was still in the backyard, under a tree in the opposite corner of the yard from Shi, who also looked like she hadn't moved. Akitsu wore a simple baby doll t-shirt and sweat pants, all of which hugged her incredible curves in ways that most women could only dream.
She felt his approach and gave a small shy smile. "I like these exercises. They seem quite easy yet they feel right. And I feel so much better now than I did this morning. I couldn't tell right away, but it really does feel like something heavy has been lifted from me."
"Good. Well, get ready for more. I have your first ritual ready," the statement was briefly met with a moment of panic from Akitsu. No doubt she had been prepared by Homura to expect a lot of pain from the ritual, and likely was not looking forward to it.
"The emotion one is incredibly simple. It should only take a few seconds and only requires you and me. You don't even need to change clothes or anything. It's all set up in your room and ready to go. Because of its simplicity, and the fact that only I need to be there to break this, I doubt this will be as painful as the one Homura had to go through, but don't tell her that," Harry said with a smirk and a wink.
"I think we can take care of the Psyche ward as well. It's a bit different in that it doesn't require a ritual to remove. Someone has drawn runes on your body somewhere, and your own magic has since been powering them to cast their spells on you. I need you to magically exhaust yourself just as Homura did this morning. Then I can drain the remaining magic from the runes and then remove them. The whole process should be pretty painless, except for me making you show me your ice stuff until you fall over that is," he said with a smile.
Harry pulled out a piece of paper, "Have you ever seen these symbols on your body anywhere?"
Akitsu looked at the symbols for a few seconds before nodding. Pointing at the center of her Sekirei crest on her forhead, she said "Here, they appeared after I woke up one day with a Sekirei crest over them. That's when they first called me broken."
Taking out his wand, he examined the runes and, for the first time, the crest itself. Harry was shocked when he truly began looking at her crest. He had spent a lot of time the previous night and this morning tracing Karasuba's crest. Akitsu's crest was nothing like that. In fact it wasn't a Sekirei crest like Homura's, Musubi's, or Karasuba's at all. It was literally a normal tattoo on her forehead. "This isn't a Sekirei Crest, Akitsu. It's a normal Non-Magical tattoo. Would you like me to remove it?"
"You can get rid of it? Yes, please do so. It's the thing that announces to the world that I'm broken in everyone else's eyes," she said with a bitter voice.
"And you know me," said Harry. "I don't believe you're broken for one minute. To me, you are perfect."
Harry raised his wand and bit his lower lip while he tried to remember the tattoo vanishing spell. He had been forced to use it once before, when Tonks had taken him out drinking one time the summer after Sirius had died. He had woken up back at the Dursleys with "I'm Tonks' Bitch" emblazoned on his ass with pink hearts surrounding it. The first thing he did when he reached Hogwarts for his sixth year was to go to the library and find out how to get rid of it.
The spell worked like a slow eraser. The crest slowly faded until nothing could be seen but a set of previously unnoticed light golden runes in a circle in the middle of her forehead.
"Here you go, take a look," he said as he conjured a mirror for her to look at herself with.
She took the mirror from him with a slight tremor in her hand. She slowly raised the reflective surface up and simply stared at her image in the mirror. It had been so long since she could see her forehead, unblemished and clear. She ignored the small runes centered there because she knew Harry would get rid of those soon.
She put the mirror down, and turned to him and gave the first true smile he had ever seen her give. Her quiet voice was almost inaudible when she simply said, "Thank you."
Harry just smirked at her. He actually looked forward to seeing what Akitsu could do. She had only thrown one blast of ice at him the previous night. That was nowhere near enough of a demonstration to understand her true capabilities and offer suggestions.
"Oh you think we're done do you? Come on Ice Queen, let's throw some ice around, and maybe we can 'accidentally' freeze the new tenants that Miya talked to before I came out here. If there's anyone who needs to slip on a sheet of ice and fall on her butt, it's that new girl."
Harry ran out into the middle of the yard and yelled, which gathered the attention of everyone nearby and half of the inn, "Come on Ice Queen. Hit me if you can!"
She smirked to herself. While she knew she would never be able to hit him, she raised her hand up and flung it forward. The quick action threw hundreds of icy spears at Harry.
The icy curtain of death simply crashed and shattered against a suddenly visible wall of dirt that sprang from the ground. The sound of the ice and rumbling Earth had brought half the house running, and the rest were right behind her.
"You took too long to conjure that. You don't need your arms to throw ice. You telegraphed your intentions to me seconds before the first piece of ice appeared. Magic is all about intent. You could stand there combing your hair if you wanted and still throw ice at me. Use your mind, not your body."
Akitsu considered his words, slightly cocking her head to one side. Suddenly she smirked as twice the amount of ice as before suddenly appeared and hurtled towards Harry.
'Now this is better,' thought Harry with a smile as another conjured wall protected him from imminent death.
-o0o0o-
"You sure… I didn't overdo it?" gasped a barely standing Akitsu as Harry led her to a chair, followed by a scowling Miya and every other girl in the Inn. Even Tsukiumi and Minato, who both stared open mouthed at the Ice Sekirei's impressive casting endurance, didn't seem thrilled with how Harry egged Akitsu on and on to continue casting spells.
"Yes, I'm quite sure. I needed you this exhausted so I can siphon all the magic currently in the runes down to a point where I can remove them permanently. Then, no more Psyche ward on you. Only way to do it I'm afraid," Harry said with a sorry smile.
Akitsu had spent two and a half hours under Harry's watchful eye in the backyard. She had conjured and threw ice at Harry in some form or another almost non-stop. Her directions had been very simple. Create small shards, large spears, and any combination of ice in between. She had to build structures such as walls and igloos, and then turn that ice into spears to attack a conjured target Harry produced. He had talked to her the whole time while he half-concentrated on shilelds for himself and vanishing the remains of the spells. The whole time they were out there, he tried to get Akitsu to let go of her preconceived notions of how her abilities worked.
Harry looked at all the girls who had followed them into the room and were now crowded around while they hoped to watch more magic. "Ok everyone, I do need a bit of room and I'm on a timeline now, I have to do this before Akitsu's magic starts recovering. I need quiet."
Harry pointed the Elder wand at Akitsu's forehead and began issuing the lightest ward draining spells he knew. Each of the symbols in the circle on her forehead needed to be individually drained, and Harry would have to return back to the initial one to drain them all over again. Each cycle through it would require less and less time to deplete them until it was taking the briefest moment each cast to deplete the rune. Eventually, after roughly eight drain cycles through the circle, when he had to barely touch each rune with magic to deplete them, Harry knew he was ready to break the ward.
He quickly switched out the Elder wand for his Beachwood wand, and muttered a low rumbling incantation from ancient Mesopotamian that was a standard Ward Breaker's finisher for runic array clusters.
After five seconds there was a bright flash and the array disappeared from Akitsu's forehead and she gasped. She held her head, and looked around, eyes wide and unfocused.
"It was like a tearing sound, and then a crack. Wow that feels different. I can think without having to concentrate on everything. It feels so effortless now. I can't believe how amazing this is, I can talk without having to force each word out. And wow is this cool, you won't believe…" Whatever Akitsu's next comment would be was undecipherable. Almost every girl laughed openly at the normally stoic woman that some of the Sekirei had known for years that had suddenly developed a bad case of diarrhea of the mouth.
When she finally noticed everyone's laughter, she looked around in confusion, until her eyes fell on Harry that is. Then, no one else mattered in the room as his bright smile completely dominated her thoughts.
Harry mirrored her thoughts. He felt the happiest he felt in a long time when he saw Akitsu get so excited just to have a bit more control of her mind. But it was time to give her even more control.
"Come on. Let's go do the last one for the day. You guys can all watch if you want, this ritual won't be as involved as Homura's." Harry grabbed Akitsu's hand and helped her from the room and up the stairs. The entire Inn's residents followed them. Even Matsu came out of her hidden safe-room hole, eager to see Akitsu take one more step towards being whole.
As they approached Akitsu's room Musubi ran ahead to open the door, but was surprised to find it was locked. Miya was confused and stated, "But the doors in the inn have no locks."
"That was me I'm afraid. I locked her door with magic to make sure the circle for the ritual wasn't disturbed," Harry said as he gestured towards the door and sent a wandless Alohamora which resulted in a small popping noise like a cork being pulled from a bottle of wine.
"Please be careful to not step on the circle in the middle of the room," Harry announced as they entered Akitsu's room. There was just enough room for everyone to line the walls and have a clear view of the circle and Harry.
"Will you need any of us to help this time too?" asked Musubi. Her voice wasn't the normal cheerful voice he had come to know and like. It was strong as steel and just as determined. Harry looked at her in surprise, almost not even recognizing the voice, and was shocked to see the strong unwavering stare that looked back at him. She almost seemed to be a brand new and wholly different person right now. It actually almost seemed unnatural. He would have to talk to Musubi about this.
"No need for anyone but me in this one. When we eventually get to the one that removes the Empathic blocks on her mind, I'm sure Akitsu would appreciate you standing in the circle then." Akitsu glanced at Musubi and nodded. Harry was sure if had needed people that cared for Akitsu to participate in this rite that she would've been the first one in line.
Harry double-checked everything one last time and took a deep-breath, centering himself and clamping down on his Occclumency to remove his anxiety.
"Ok Akitsu, I need you to take a small step within the circle and stand there. Please be careful not to touch any of the lines or runes. Here's how this ritual works. I power up the four clusters representing the four elements of nature. After that happens, I power up my own control cluster. Then I do an incantation to start the array. At the conclusion of the incantation, the energy of the ritual is released and the block will be gone. It should be completely painless and instantaneous when it happens."
Harry looked at everyone gathered in the room before he continued, "A warning to everyone before I start this. Akitsu hasn't been able to feel and truly express emotions in years. Don't be surprised if she's angry or does something else unexpectedly here. Just give her some patience for a while because things we all take for granted will feel quite new to her."
Harry looked at Akitsu and asked simple, "Are you ready?"
She nodded, looking straight into his eyes and said, "Thank you for everything, my Ashikabi."
A small smile was all her declaration garnered from the wizard. Neither heard Uzume and Chiho look at each other and whisper, "Aww."
Harry took out the Holly and Phoenix wand. For some reason, it felt right for Harry to use a wand meant to protect others for this. He pointed at each of the elements rune clusters and activated them with a small burst of power. This left the entire circle lit except for the area directly in front of Harry.
For a brief moment, Harry and Akitsu gazed into each other's eyes. Then Harry looked down and activated his own rune and began the incantation that started the ritual. The chant was low and guttural, and the translation necklaces the girls wore were not capable of translating this ancient dialect. All witnesses to this rite simply remained spellbound as they watched the two in the center of the room.
As time went by Harry's eyes glowed a vivid green as he channeled more power into the ritual circle and the room. Finally, his voice reached a crescendo and he pointed his wand at Akitsu. There was a flash of light and, for the briefest of moments, people saw a flash of light appear from Akitsu's head. Only Miya and Matsu standing directly behind Akitsu saw the brief outline of a Sekirei crest shimmer through the shirt on the Ice Sekirei's upper back and exchanged quick knowing smiles of anticipation with each other.
With a quick wave of his wand Harry deactivated the circle and it powered down. Another wave of his wand and the circle with all its runes and lines vanished completely, which left the floor spotless with no indication that it had ever been present at all. Only then did he risk a look at Akitsu again.
She looked longingly at Harry while her lower lip quivered and tears began to form in her eyes. She took one tentative step forward and launched herself forward into Harry's arms while she locked lips with his.
Harry felt the magic try and grasp onto his like it had the night before, but this time it was much stronger. There was the briefest lull, like her magic passed over a speed bump it now found inconsequential, and then it locked onto Harry with a power that for any wizard other then Harry would be overwhelming.
Massive wings of Ice immediately erupted from her back and pulsed with a shockwave that knocked every person in the room including Miya on their backs. Harry felt her exhaustion dissipate as she hungrily pulled magic from him to remedy her weariness. Deeper and deeper they kissed, a coolness permeating the air as gravity defying snowflakes began to coalesce in the air around him. The drop in temperature was neither unpleasant nor unwelcome to any in the room as they watched the formerly broken Sekirei gain her wings.
Eventually they separated, which ended the spell which had kept the room in silence as they watched. Harry briefly saw Akitsu's eyes were illuminated with a fathomless deep electric blue that seemed to extend deep inside of her, causing the air around her eyes to chill with soft contrails of smoke-like movements before they faded to their normal color. Only then was a movement made from the observers. Every person who witnessed the impossible winging of Number 7 rushed up and cheered the duo in the center of the room.
"I am yours forever, my Ashikabi," was all Akitsu said as she wrapped her arms around Harry and embraced him as she held on for all her life was worth.
-o0o0o-
Current Residents of Izumo Inn:
Harry Potter (Ashikabi)
Chiho Hidaka (Ashikabi)
Sahashi Minato (Ashikabi)
Number 1 Miya Asama
Number 2 Matsu / No Ashikabi
Number 6 Homura / Harry Potter
Number 7 Akitsu / Harry Potter
Number 9 Tsukiumi / Sahashi Minato
Number 10 Uzume / Chiho
Number 17 Toyotama / Higa (Unwilling)
Number 40 Shi / No Ashikabi
Number 88 Musubi / Harry Potter
Number 108 Kusano / No Ashikabi
-o0o0o-
MBI Headquarter Residents:
Minaka / MBI CEO
Sahashi Takami / MBI Sekirei Adjustor / Friend of Homura
Number 4 Karasuba (Discipline Squad Member) – Natsuo (Unwilling)
Number 104 Haihane (Discipline Squad Member) – Natsuo (Unwilling)
Number 105 Benitsubasa (Discipline Squad Member) – Natsuo
-o0o0o-
Previously Encountered / Mentioned Sekirei
Number 3 Kazehana (Former Discipline Squad Member) / No Ashikabi
Number 5 Mutsu (Terminated Former Discipline Squad Member) / Mikogami (attacked Takami)
Number 8 Yume (Eliminated Discipline Squad Member) / No Ashikabi
-o0o0o-
Number 11 Hikari / Seo (Lightning Twin / "Doofus" Twin 1)
Number 12 Hibiki / Seo (Lightning Twin / "Doofus" Twin 2)
-o0o0o-
Number 18 Ichiya (Eliminated) / Higa
Number 22 Kochou / Higa (Unwilling)
Number 31 Sai (Eliminated) / Higa
Number 43 Yomi (Eliminated) / Mikogami
Number 86 Katsuragi / Higa (Unwilling)
Number 101 Oriha / Higa (Unwilling)
Number ? Oshino / Higa (Unwilling)
Number ? Kujou / Higa (Unwilling)