Thanks for all of the suggestions, but for all of the people who request Hibiki and Hikari, they've already been winged by Seo, so I won't give them to Minato. Sorry if I disappointed anyone. This chapter is more set up, I know, it's been a lot of that lately, but it is all building up to something big.
Chapter 15
Higa was busy reading the paper when he noticed movement in his office. He got up from his desk and quickly scanned the room.
"Whoever's in here, show yourself."
There was no reply, but as soon as he saw movement, he reached out and grabbed. His hand found its target. He looked closer to see that he had grabbed a woman.
"Who are you?"
"I am Number 55, Saki." She said, as she struggled to escape his grasp.
"I can't let you get away now, can I?" Higa smiled as he added another Sekirei to his collection.
Minato woke up to find himself on the couch with Kochou lying on top of him. He moved her off of him and checked his phone.
"A text from Higa?" He muttered. He heard Kochou get up from the couch.
"What does he want?" She asked.
"He's asking me to meet him to discuss something."
Kochou looked worried, "He wouldn't want to personally meet you if it wasn't important."
"What do you think I should do?" He asked.
"You should hear what he has to say, but you should also take your Sekirei along."
Minato nodded in agreement.
"Why exactly should we trust him?" Benitsubasa asked, "I've heard some bad things about him."
Minato shrugged as he rang the doorbell of a large mansion. The door opened to reveal a black haired man with glasses.
"Hello Mr. Sahashi. Mr. Izumi is waiting for you in his office. Follow me."
As they walked inside, Minato saw countless Sekirei eyeing his group.
"Are all of these Higa's Sekirei?" He asked.
"Not all, some of them belong to Ashikabi working for Mr. Izumi."
He stopped in front of a large door.
"Mr. Izumi, he's here."
"Send him in." Came the reply.
The door opened to reveal a well dressed man sitting behind a large desk with a woman standing beside him.
"Please, have a seat." He pointed to a chair in front of his desk.
"What exactly do you want, Higa?" Minato asked as he sat down.
"The same thing that you do. I want to end the Sekirei Plan."
Minato was surprised.
"Not only that, I intend to take it one step further and destroy MBI."
"You can't honestly expect to do that."
"Not without your help I can't."
"Even so, it's still impossible."
Higa smiled, "Nothing is impossible. You see, I found her." He pointed to the woman standing beside him, "trying to sneak into my mansion. Turns out, she's MBI's spy, which means she has access to a lot of information."
"What are you getting at?"
"Straight to the point I see. Well, you see, using the information that she gave me, I discovered something to make our Sekirei far more powerful. You see, when the Sekirei were adjusted, their powers were reduced by the adjustments. They took special care to add limiters to keep the Sekirei from destroying the scientists working on them. However, they also made care to keep a way to remove the limiters, if it was necessary." HIga held up a needle filled with a clear liquid. "I am now in possession of this way."
"How did you find that?"
"I didn't find it, I produced it. Saki here gave me the information and using my pharmaceutical company, I produced it."
"So that's your plan. You'll remove the limiters and attack MBI with the stronger Sekirei."
"Exactly, you know, you're smarter than you look."
"It won't work though." Minato said.
"Why not?"
"You can't make Sekirei stronger just by removing their limiters, you have to love them and create special bonds."
Higa sneered, "But we don't have time for that. This is the only way."
"If you're so confident, then why do you need my help anyways?"
"I don't like to take chances. I want all of the odds in my favor. If you need more proof, here's a demonstration."
Saki stepped forward and pulled out her sword. Suddenly, she dashed forward and sliced at Yomi, who barely blocked her in time.
"How did she move so fast?" Yomi asked.
Higa laughed, "That's the power of a Sekirei without limits. However, that's only a fraction of what she can do."
"Let's see how fast she can move when she's tied up!" Uzume yelled as she wrapped up Saki in her veils. "See, just like that, we stopped…" She stopped when she noticed struggling from inside the veil.
"There's no way that she could get out, right?" Minato asked.
A sword emerged from the veil, followed by the rest of Saki.
"All right, we need to end this right now." Mutsu said as he charged into Saki. Metal clanged as their swords met each other.
"Impossible! She's as strong as Karasuba!" Mutsu muttered as he found himself unable to overpower her.
Minato was worried now.
"All right, you've made your point." He said to Higa.
"Good, I knew that you would see things my way." He snapped his fingers and Saki stopped attacking.
"Now then, we have some business to discuss."
The next chapter will be up soon, and it definitely marks a big change from the canon story. Please leave any feedback you want. I'll try to listen to all of your suggestions if I can.