Escalation

Chewing on the leather strap that was in my mouth, while my hands and legs were bound, I found myself regretting the discussion on boundaries from last week. Granted my quarters had been come off limits, and oddly enough, even Shoukaku was keeping it as 'out of bounds' in her game with Akagi. However, that no-playing zone, didn't extend to the outside of the fence around my home, as I'm currently being carried over Akagi's shoulder, bound and gagged over her shoulder, my vision full of fluffy brown tails.

After what feels like hours, I'm tossed onto a soft bed. Looking around quickly I see that I'm in one of the warehouses on base.

So I guess that means hulls are also off-limits too now, good.

Akagi kneeled beside me, and pulled the gag down, before shoving her tongue down my throat and whispering, "There is no escape, this time, Shi-ki-kan-sa-ma."

My lips compressed and I snorted, "Why are you doing this to me?"

"Because... " Akagi kisses me on the forehead as she continues, " You belong to Akagi. And nobody will take you away from Akagi, ever." Her eyes flash with power as she leans in and whispers in my ear before nipping my earlobe, "You. Belong. To. Akagi."

I gulp and try to back up on the mattress as much as I can as I ask, "What about me is so attractive to you, Akagi? Before Shoukaku took an interest and before the news broke about a kansen being pregnant, you showed zero interest in me."

With a predatory grin, she leaps across the mattress, pinning me down as she whispers, "Because, you were not Akagi's then." She pauses and traces her nose against my neck before nipping me as she adds, "But Akagi will make you Akagi's."

"But why do you want to make me yours? Did you ever stop to ask, why does the Shikikan want?" I plead as she sits on my lap, starting to rub herself against me, almost like she is trying to mark me with her scent.

"Because..." she starts before gripping my hair and pulling my head back to look me in the eyes as she continued, "Akagi wants to keep you all for Akagi. You will not go to or look at anyone else except for Akagi because no other person is worthy of you. Do you understand Akagi, Shi-ki-kan-sa-ma?"

"But what if I don't want that, Akagi?" I ask, trying anything to get myself out of this, I'm so tired of being in the middle of this pissing match between Akagi and Shoukaku.

Akagi's eyes narrow at me as she lets go of my hair, then she drags her nails down my chest while she leans forward, alternating between kissing and nipping my neck and ears before whispering, "That does not matter, Shi-ki-kan-sa-ma. Akagi will be the vessel for your seed."

My breath catches in my throat as I whisper, "But why do you want that?"

Akagi leans back, and pulls me upright, pushing my face into her bust as she growls, "Akagi will bring about the future. Shinano-sama has seen it in her dreams, Akagi needs the best seed. What better seed than that of one that commands an entire base of kansen? Akagi. Will. Have. Yours." She then pushes me back against the mattress and continues to grind against me.

"But I don't want to be a father!" I shout finally.

"But Akagi wants it." She says coldly as she starts to undo the buttons on my shirt, with each one she adds a new word, "Akagi wants you. Akagi wants it. Because Akagi wants it, Akagi will have it."

I was suddenly filled with dread, I never, ever thought I'd be in this kind of position, you hear about this thing happening to guys, but you always think it's more of a joke, I gulp and try one last thing, "Fine, but you need to untie my hands and feet first."

A few tense moments pass before she laughs in amusement, "Very well, Shikikan-sama." She keeps me pinned under her by staying seated on my crotch, but undoes the ropes that were keeping me bound before asking, "Happy?"

I've got one chance now, and I know it, but I need to do this under the right timing. I place my hands on her hips, and roll us to put her on her back as I say, "This position works better for me."

Akagi looks surprised by my sudden moves, to add more distraction; I place one of my thighs against her, while she traces my neck with her nose and whispers, "How bold of you, Shi-ki-kan-sa-ma."

"That's nothing." I whisper into one of her ears, before I push off the bed, leaping over her, and sprint for the door. Once I'm on the other side of the door, I grab a metal pipe and jam it into the handle, preventing the door from opening inwardly.

Sinking to the ground to catch my breath, I hear Akagi rage inside the building, just before the metal of the door dents beside my head and I scramble forward, continuing my sprint away from the warehouse.

After running to the farthest ends of the base, I bend at my hips, my hands on my keens, chest heaving in and out while I try to catch my breath, this game is really starting to escalate, I need to figure a way out of this, but I can't leave this for some other guy to get pulled into. Man, talk about getting screwed for the screwing you did! Looking down at my crotch, I can see a damp mark left behind by Akagi and I sigh, she really wanted it, it seems.

Standing upright, something she said really stuck with me right now; Shinano said she would bring about the future. What kind of future is that?

However, that was neither here nor there, right now I knew I needed to go home, get changed, and get to the docks, as we had some sort of Sakura uppity-up coming to the base today.

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When I got to the docks, I found everything was too quiet, there was no one else around like all of the hulls had been moved out, and only a single launch sat there, as well as a tall kansen with dark, almost midnight colored fox ears, her blue eyes looked up saw me. After a second she pushed off of one of the poles, her red kimono flowing and falling off one shoulder to reveal a chest binding. As she came up to me, she asked, "Shikikan?"

I nodded and then she took hold of my uniform collar and pushed me into the launch, before moving to take over the helm, she stopped and tossed me a bag and added, "Put it on."

Looking at the bag sideways I say, "Thanks, I've had enough blinds and bindings."

She stops and towers over me, "It wasn't a request. Now either you put it on, or I put it on you."

With a heavy sigh, I slip the bag over my head as I say, "Fine, but I better not be next to Akagi after this."

"I… don't get it?" she questions while I hear the motor of the launch kick in.

"Can you at least tell me where you're taking me?" I ask from under the hood.

"That's not my role in this, Shikikan." She says to me with a pause before adding, "But we'll be there soon."

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I don't know how long I sat in the launch before behind hauled up and dragged along some decking before I heard a hatch open, get tossed through it, and landed on something soft. A moment later the bag came off of my head, and I found I was in a dimly lit room, and I could hear someone sleeping, so I quietly asked, "Hello?"

I hear some rustling of fabric on fabric before this iridescent butterfly starts to fly around me and I hear a sleepy voice say, "We meet at last, Shikikan."

Rubbing my left arm as I watch the iridescent butterfly move around me, I ask, "And you would be?"

I can hear a yawn, just as the dim light catches and reflects off opening blue eyes, "This one is called Shinano."

Oh fuck.

I run through what to do, and all I can think of to do is bow, bending at my hips, I bow low as I say, "It is a great honor to meet one of the three. May I ask as to why you summoned me?"

Her voice is soft, but there is a gravity to it, that lets me know what she is saying is important, "I have foreseen many a future for the world, a dark and terrible future, one which many of my sisters shall perish and suffer." She pauses and moves to stand in the dim light, with my head bowed, I can only see her feet in their white stockings and blue wooden sandals with butterflies on them as she continues, "A single hand can shift tides of history, and change the destiny of many to the light of the stars. And you have been chosen to be granted this chance." I risk a glance up, to see that she's tall, a lot taller than I would've thought, with my eyes level, I can only see her hips in her blue and white kimono, and then she asks me, "Are you prepared to face the weight of the future, Shikikan?"

Future. Again with that word, why am I so important to it?

"That depends, Shinano, does this have anything to do with the future that Akagi says I will help her usher in, where she says she needs my seed?" I counter her question with another question.

The world seems to stop, behind this kansen, I can see the flames of the candles have stopped moving, and the iridescent butterflies have stopped flapping, just as the kansen before me asks, "Akagi has said this, to you?"

"Just this morning as she tried to take me in a warehouse, an event I barely escaped." I admit, returning my gaze to the floor and her feet.

She takes on a measured and metered tone and way of speaking that is almost musical, "Would you mind, telling this one, a full recounting?"

I sigh before risking standing upright, to my full height and surprise; I see she is a kitsune format, with silver-white hair and fur, long silver white fox ears, and gorgeous blue eyes, when I'm looking her in the eyes, her cheeks flush a little and I tell her exactly what went down, "Akagi took me to a warehouse that she had set up to be some kind of love den, tried to force herself on me, told me that you told her she would usher in the future by using my seed. I tricked her into undoing my bindings, I then escaped before anything actually happened."

Shinano's expression turns as cold as ice as she listened to me, her ear's fur standing up and her tail curling up as well, "This is… most concerning." Her lips are compressed as she seems to choose her next words carefully, "She has misinterpreted my warning." She leans into my space and asks, "She was not to be the vessel for the future in this way, you have taken measures of protection for yourself, yes?

I look down at my feet as I say, "No, and this is just another in a line of attempts on her part to take me like this. I think it has to do with the fact that a kansen became pregnant, not on my base, but I think it also has to due with the fact that I am in an ill-defined relationship with Shoukaku."

The room goes cold, and I see ice starting to form around the glass of the portholes as Shinano's voice darkens, "The idea that this Akagi would go this far, to the point of physical assault, is unconscionable and I will deal with Akagi, myself." She pauses, and the frost started receding as she adds, "But do not lower your guard, Shikikan, there may be others out there with the same intentions."

I give a sad laugh, "Already survived one attempt like that a couple of weeks ago. But my real problem right now is whatever this is between Shoukaku and Akagi. They are constantly trying to outdo one another, and they are treating me as the game piece. And I'm getting tired of it."

Shinano's ears tilt in intrigue as she asks me, "And what is the exact state of your relationship with Shoukaku? Is there anything you can tell me about what has she been doing, or perhaps you could say more about the state of your heart or hers?"

I rub the back of my head as I ask, "Are you really sure you want those details?"

"If this one is to be able to solve such a conflict before it... grows into something... darker, then yes." She pauses to move a bit closer and whispers, "Please, elaborate."

I groan and hang my head, "Shoukaku is fun, we have sex, but nothing is defined. Then after I found out a kansen in another command became pregnant and the news got around the base, Akagi suddenly took an extreme interest in me. Shoukaku seems to take Akagi's… actions as a challenge to outdo her."

Her voice takes on a smooth velvet-like texture in my ear, yet each word felt like it carried the weight of entire worlds, "You wish to see this come to a stop, before it becomes dangerous, to you, yes? How badly do you want it to stop?"

"Very badly. I know what happened today, I got away because I exposed and used a trick that I doubt will work again on Akagi." I whisper back with a pause to add, "And I'm afraid of what will happen next time. She had made it clear what I wanted didn't matter in this case."

She leans back and nods, lifting a hand just in front of my face, she says calmly, softly, and lowers her hand quickly, "Sleep now."

"Ho…" I start to say before I find myself in the void, content, like a welcomed embrace.

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