Hey you all! Its Alito again! It's almost time for me to go up for college earlier so I want to get as much chapters of this fanfic in as I can. So then, here's chapter 3 comin' at ya! Also, I don't know if I'm the only one who noticed this, but isn't Heller and Mercer's hatred a lot like Izaya and Shizuo a bit from Durarara? They really seem alike.
Anyway, here's chapter 3!
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Chapter three: The Second Sekirei, Loving Wind
The sun seemed to offer a great deal of sunshine to the Northern sector of Tokyo as Izumo inn, creating a seemingly peaceful atmosphere for the beautiful land lady to do her sweeping of the front entrance. The land lady had light purple long hair and matching eyes. For her torso she wore a white shitagi, under a matching white kosode, her lower half was a light purple, a matching hakama himo, and her feet wore white tabi, and waraji.
She was humming a merry tune to herself as she was enjoying the peace and quiet of today…until a small breeze rolled in.
"Kazehana, welcome back." The land lady said kindly with a smile.
"Good to be back, Miya-san." The one called Kazehana replied coolly as she brushed her long raven black up-do hair back. Her outfit was a short Chinese dress that showed her cleavage and belly button along with her smooth slim legs. "You won't believe the amazing things I've seen today."
Miya quickly noticed the half empty bottle Kazehana held in her hand by her side and the context of her sentence. "Well now, I sure hope it wasn't what I think it was. Right, Kazehana?" Miya didn't waiver her kind smile, but the darkness of her anger took the form of a demon Hannya mask looming behind her.
"O-Of course not!" Kazehana quickly said throwing the bottle a random way, "I was simply implying about the crazy event that happened downtown today! I-I heard an explosion and went right over!"
"Crazy event?" Miya wondered, letting her Hannya mask disappear, "What event?"
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If there was one way to describe the crazy life of Minato Sahashi, it would be…well crazy. This black haired brown eyed human male once again had no choice but to sit and hear another bantering challenge between his two beautiful and quite big breasted Sekirei.
"Thou hath won this round Musubi, but I shall not waiver to the likes of the!"
"Alright then, Tsukiumi! One more round, winner takes all!"
The two once again battled mercilessly in the battle of…chores. No, you heard right. Chores. The one called Tsukiumi had long blond hair and blue eyes. She was dressed in a rather provocative maid's outfit which didn't do much in hiding her female assets.
The other was a girl with brown long hair in a thin pony tail and brown eyes. She too wore a maid outfit which also didn't do a good job at hiding er female assets as well, which rivaled Tsukiumi's.
Meanwhile Minato simply sat there at the table of the main room, hearing the two banter at one another constantly. Tsukiumi was so competitive, while Musubi was energetic, but either way the two together were more then he could take. He simply let out a hopeless sigh and mumbled, "I'd hate to see them when they actually do fight…"
"You should be use to this by now. It's everyday for these two." Said a young man sitting across from Minato. He had grey short hair and wore a white dress shirt, and black jeans. Though he was a guy, Minato always felt his voice was unnaturally high like a female's voice then a boy.
"Yeah, I guess." Minato replied to Homura. "Still, maybe those two just need to sit down and talk out their issues."
"They don't have issues." said a cute long blond haired, green eyed little girl who was wearing a white dress. "There's something going on in the city. She happened to be sitting in Minato's lap, "They just like to have fun with each other, but just do it differently."
"I guess that's one way of putting it, Kuu." Minato smiled while rubbing Kuu's head.
"Hmm? Hey, Minato take a look at this." Homura said as he turned up the volume on the television.
"One once again, police are baffled at the scene here as witnesses confirm that a man indeed fell from the sky earlier this afternoon and ran off from the scene, while carrying a citizen with him. The search for a Takeshi Morikawa is still being done and police are looking vigorously."
"A man falling from the sky?" Minato repeated.
"Maybe it's an angel." Kuu said curiously.
"Angels don't take people off their feet and disappear with them though." Homura said, "I think it could be a Sekirei."
"Another male Sekirei?" Minato questioned. The last male Sekirei he saw was Mutsu, number 5, and the other Sekirei that Kuu is searching for, Shiina. "But why would he suddenly fall from the sky? Then again Musubi did so maybe he was in a fight with other Sekirei."
"Maybe, but that still doesn't explain the disappearance of that guy he took." Homura reminded, "All I know is, we better keep our eyes open. We'll never know where he could be next."
XXX
"Excuse me."
Both Miya and Kazehana turned to see a single male walking to them. He had brown short hair and was dressed in a green hoodie, jeans, and shoes.
"And who might you be?" Miya asked politely.
"The names Juichi Tanegawa. I thought I'd come this way on account of I was looking for somebody this way."
"Well I'm afraid I haven't seen anyone come down here." Miya said, "What of you, Kazehana?"
"Sorry, but no. Who exactly are you looking for?" Kazehana replied, taking a sip of another bottle she had with her.
"Easy…you."
Kazehana stopped her drinking and quickly dropped the bottle in order to defend herself, only to see that the male was already making a grab for her neck, however, that arm was hit with a broom and forced to stop in its tracks just as the bottle shattered on the floor. Juichi looked to the side to find the purple haired land lady in possession of the very broom that hit him.
"Well now. It appears we have a disgusting science project at our door step." Miya said actual sternness from her and her broom pointed right at Juichi, "What a surprising visit, project ZEUS, or should I say Alex Mercer?"
"Heh, so you know of me." Juichi said as he suddenly formed black ooze like substance all over his body and from it appeared Mercer once more. "I guess I've become something of a celebrity."
"More like an infamous celebrity." Miya noted.
"Ah, so you're Alex Mercer." Kazehana said with a cool smile on her face, "I've been dying to meet you. You sure know how to make things interesting around here."
"Please don't in courage him, Kazehana." Miya sighed.
"Mercer-sama!"
All three turned to see another female with brown short hair and a black dress drop feet first right next to Mercer and seemed to have a worried expression on her face. "Are you okay, Mercer-sama?"
"Mercer-sama?" Miya repeated in shock.. "Don't tell me…!"
"Oh, so you must be his new lover I presume?" Kazehana cooed.
"W-What?-! N-No! I-I mean…!" Yashima blushed intensely at such words that she couldn't form the right words to describe her and Mercer's relationship as Sekirei and Ashikabi. "I-I'm just his Sekirei, is all!"
"So I was right." Miya confirmed, "You really are an Ashikabi now? How can that be if you aren't even human?"
"That's not important right now." Alex replied as he suddenly formed his black claw arms once more and looked straight at Miya. "Seeing as you're going to be ripped to shreds if you continue to stand in my way, tell me one thing though; how exactly do you know who I am?" He demanded.
"It wasn't hard to discover the events that took place in New York City and all the terrible events with Black watch and their filth." Miya said bitterly, "Even though I'm just a land lady now, I still have connections to someone who looks into government filings to know all about the actions of Blackwatch."
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"A…ACHOO!" Sneezed a young beautiful woman in a dark room. She had orange long hair tied in a pony tail and brown eyes behind round glasses. She wore a white dress and was simply seated on the floor with an array of computer screens all around her, having scopes on all of Tokyo. "Geez. I must be coming down with something…"
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"So you hate the bastards too, huh?" Alex smirked, "Guess we got something in common."
"You and I are nothing alike." Miya said to the point of anger, a point Kazehana hasn't seen her get to in a long time. "It was because of you and your damned virus that turned an entire prosperous city into a complete and total death filled nightmare."
Both Kazehana and even Yashima turned to Mercer in surprise at the words Miya was saying about Alex Mercer. Yashima being the most surprised as he never did tell her that he destroyed a city and turned it into this "NYZ" area.
"All in the past." Alex shrugged, "Now I've got other plans in mind, and I would very much appreciate it if you simply step out of my way." He then pointed his claws at Kazehana and held a small grin. "You're coming with me, Sekirei."
"Ah, so now you want some of me, huh?" Kazehana smirked slyly. She then burst into a wind spiral and blinded both Alex and Yashima with her blasting wind! Once the wind finally died down, Kazehana was gone and was now on the top of another building behind where Mercer and Yashima stood. "Well too bad. I don't come cheap."
Alex simply looked over his shoulder and said coldly. "That's just what I was hoping for."
Mercer then leaped high into the air to the rooftop Kazehana jumped on to, but Kazehana had ran off and leaped from rooftop to rooftop into the city! She looked back to find both Alex Mercer and his Sekirei dead on her tail with no intention of letting her escape.
"Wow! You must really want me if you're trying this hard!" Kazehana teased.
"Stop running and I'll really show you how I feel!" Alex called back with a mixture of anger and playfulness in his tone. Like a natural born hunter playing with his prey. He then looked towards his Sekirei and said; "Yashima, don't let her escape."
"Yes, Mercer-sama." Yashima nodded. She then summoned her giant hammer to her hands and jumped high into the air and slammed her giant hammer into the building that Kazehana was about to jump from, making her stumble a bit and giving Alex enough time to grab her. However, Kazehana used her wind magic to jump off of as a jumping point and flew through the air away from the two.
"Kaze no Tachi!" From there, Kazehana swung her arm and a large sonic blast of wind soared at the hammer carrying Sekirei with break neck speed, but it only ended up hitting the side of a building as Yashima was grabbed by Alex before the wind could hit her.
"Got be quicker than that." Alex said sternly.
"S-Sorry…" Yashima apologized.
Alex then landed on another building and dropped Yashima as the last building that the brown haired hammer Sekirei smashed fell to the ground destructively. "She's better then I gave her credit for." Alex smirked, "But now it's time to stop playing around."
Alex made his claws vanish in black ooze and soon his right arm quickly transformed into a single black armored arm with small black spikes on it and his palm transformed into a two spiked claw.
"What is that?" Yashima asked in almost amazement as she stood back up.
"You'll see." Alex replied in a dark tone.
XXX
Kazehana had felt she got far enough from the two but still wondered as to why they seemed to have stopped chasing her. "Hmm, guess they gave up." Kazehana thought.
She let her curiosity get the best of her and looked back to see whether or no they had given up, only to see a long black vine-like grapple soar right at her from Mercer himself! She narrowly dodged it, but saw Mercer himself soar across the air at her!
"Ok then! Hana Senpuu!" Kazehana opened her hand out to Mercer and suddenly a powerful blast of wind blew from it with the same speed and power as a mini tornado! The wind slammed right into Alex, but was only able to his a giant black biomass wall that stood around Alex Mercer and Yashima, whom Alex grabbed quickly to hold her and make sure she wasn't caught in the wind. Once the wind had ended, Alex removed his shield arm to be normal again, and jumped to shoot his whipfist at the wind Sekirei! Though she tried to escape it was useless as the whipfist wrap itself around her waist and yanked her swiftly to the building that Mercer and Yashima stood on! Alex then removed the whip from around Kazehana while she was close enough to her and with his normal hand, grabbed her by the arm, letting her dangle off the ground.
"Ow…well, you sure know how to treat a girl, don't you?" Kazehana smiled almost aroused.
"I have my ways." Alex said with a smug smirk as he eyed Yashima. Yashima could only blush to herself in response while making her giant hammer vanish. He then turned back to the wind Sekirei and said, "So then, how about we stop playing this game and get right down to the nitty gritty. I need you to join me."
"Oh really?" the wind Sekirei said with interest, "And what if I say no?"
"If you say no…" Alex then used his other Whip fist arm and transformed it into his long clawed arm again to spread his bladed fingers. "…Then you're no use to us."
"Please, Kazehana-san." Yashima asked kindly, "We promise we won't hurt you if you join us."
Kazehana did think it was kind of the brown haired Sekirei to ask her in a kinder manner then Mercer was trying to do. Still, she wasn't sure if she could do so since she already had a good enough living arrangement, and didn't want to get kicked out since it was obvious Miya wasn't too fond of this hooded man holding her by her arm.
"Well, I guess I don't have a choice then." Kazehana figured, "But say I do join, what do you plan on doing?"
"Simple…" Alex said darkly, "I want to rip Minaka apart."
As if Mercer had said something beyond words, Kazehana's smile dropped and only a shocked expression upon her face. She stared at Mercer and didn't even utter another word for a few seconds. She still needed to gather her understanding as to what this hooded man had just said, until it finally clicked in her own mind. "So…you want to end Minaka, huh?" She said rather solemnly. "Well…I can't say I blame you."
"So I can guess that you got a problem with him too." Alex figured as he slowly let her down. She touched the rooftop ground and simply stood there with a more irritated look on her face at the very mention of Minaka's name. Alex turned his arms back into their normal form as he questioned, "What did he do to you?"
"That bastard…He…He…! He rejected me!" Kazehana exclaimed.
Alex and Yashima said nothing right away. In fact, Yashima was a bit confused as to if she meant what she meant, while Alex had a rather dead-pinned expression. Both could only say; "Wha…?"
"It's true. I had feelings for him and was planning to spend the rest of my life with him. I wanted to always be close to him no matter what. I didn't want anything to separate us…but…he had someone else he was in love with." Kazehana said sadly, "He didn't even be soft about it. All he said was that I was a tool that was to be thrown away once he got bored…I was simply a useless item that will be useless to him once all his fun is had…He broke my heart…and I thought I could never fall in love again…honestly that's why I'm still unwinged to this day…" She still felt a little raw about confessing those deep and dark thoughts to someone. She wanted to keep them drowned in a bottle of sake and never let them surface.
"Then let's prove 'em wrong."
Kazehana looked up to Mercer to see that he was wearing a stern expression on his face as his words actually held truth behind them. "I got my own questions for Minaka and once I get them, I'm going to rip him apart, consume him, and that would be that. But if you really want to, and will still want a piece of him," He then smirked his smug smile, "Then you can smack him around a little before I finish the job."
"Kazehana-san…" Yashima spoke out, "I-I know how you might feel…I know what it feels like to be rejected and feel like no one wants you at all…but I promise that you won't be alone anymore!" She then smiled kindly as she said, "You have us to trust."
Kazehana looked at Yashima, then back at Mercer who simply looked the other way as to not look her in the eye. She didn't know whether she was making a right decision or not, but she did know that Minaka deserved more than he was going to get. It was a chance that she probably would never have again. Besides, looking at him now, Alex wasn't exactly a bad looking guy either…in fact looking closer at him, Kazehana couldn't help but actually blush a bit.
"Still…I guess I feel a little better to at least letting my feelings out to someone…and now I know what I want to do…" She looked directly at Mercer and quickly wrapped her arms around his shoulders, to his and Yashima's utter surprise, and smiled tenderly to him, "…I want to see Minaka beg for his life. Do that for me; would you, Mercer-sama?"
She then placed her soft lips upon Alex's as she began to feel the effects of being winged.
The feeling she felt was something beyond anything she had felt before. A new kind of sensation filled itself within her body and was giving her the same euphoric feeling that Yashima was feeling. She didn't know how to properly react to it, but what she did feel was freedom; a freedom she hadn't felt before, and quite frankly, it was beyond what she had expected before. From her back came the same black wings as Yashima, only this time, hers were of black wind formed into wings. Finally the wings vanished as she removed her lips and arms from Alex, and suddenly her short dress turned into a black version of it and the sleeves were a red color now. Here shoes were also a red color as well. She could feel a great power build inside her that just begged to be used.
"Wow…!" Kazehana said with amazement, "I really do feel it now…Guess this is what it's like to be winged by an Ashikabi."
"Correction." Mercer said as he placed his hands on her shoulder and smiled rather sinisterly, "This is what it's like to be winged by the Mercer virus."
"Then this is my kind of virus." Kazehana smiled. She then looked over to Yashima and said, "No wonder you like being by his side~"
"P-Please don't say it like that…" Yashima said shyly.
"Oh come on, now." Kazehana smiled as she cooed towards the blushing Sekirei, "I know you just love being kissed by this sexy beast right here~"
"Stop it!-!" Yashima exclaimed with even more blush on her face.
Alex sighed.
Suddenly, they could hear a strange ringing sound coming from nowhere. It sounded close, but also faint as well.
"Oh, that's me." Kazehana said as she reached in between her large breast and pulled out a small cell phone, earning a cocked eyebrow from under Mercer's hood. She flipped it open and said "Hello?"
"Kazehana! Is that you?-!" said a female voice on the other end.
"Matsu-chan?" Kazehana answered. She could hear the panic in her voice. "What's the matter?"
"Look there's no time to talk! Mina-tan's been kidnapped!"
"What? Where?" Kazehana questioned with concern.
"I'm searching right now! Ah man, I can't believe we let our guard down against numbers 104 and 105!"
"104 and 105?" Kazehana questioned.
"Oh no! T-That's the discipline squad!" Yashima said with fear in her tone. "They enforce the rules of the Sekirei game and make sure no one breaks the rules within it! If whoever this Minato guy is got captured by them, then we have to reach him before something bad happens to him!"
"Damn. Matsu-chan, please hurry with finding him." Kazehana asked urgently.
"What do you think I'm doing?-! Don't worry, I'll—!"
"No need."
Both Kazehana and Yashima looked back at Alex Mercer along with hearing the frantic shrieking of a adult male with him, Yashima didn't have to look to know exactly what he was doing. But Kazehana turned to him and saw just in time the brutal punch to the random male's stomach and then that same stranger fuse with Alex Mercer in the form of black ooze. Soon after he had a horrid headache as he saw that person's memories.
It was the setting of the city and different parts of it from road sides to warehouses.
"P-Please…! Don't hurt me…!"
"Oh I won't. Just so long as you do what I say, got it?-!" Said a feisty beautiful girl in her late teens who had long pink hair (which matched her eyes) in a long side pigtail and daisy hair clips. She wore a black kimono shirt with a red large bowed belt on her waist, black short tights, and long dark pink boots with matching pink UFC gloves. She looked over the man with her hands on his collar and a fist ready to punch him.
"O-Okay! I-I'll do whatever you want…!"
"Good. Now I want that Alcohol warehouse over there! Warehouse # 5!"
"Y-Yeah, sure!"
"Good. Now get outta here! Otherwise you'll have to face the wrath of number 105!"
The vision finally ended just as Mercer's head was back to normal once more. He looked back at Kazehana and said coolly, "Tell that Matsu woman that I found whoever this Minato guy is. He's located in Teito Wharf, Warehouse # 5."
"Wow! You mean to tell me you can have the memories of people you kill?" Kazehana said with a mix of amazement and fear.
"One of my many talents." Alex smirked. "Now if I were you, I'd tell Matsu where to go. Not that it matters since those Sekirei will be done for by us once we get there."
"You're going to save Minato then?" Yashima asked in confusion. She had known her master long enough to realize that he'd never go to the aid of someone who wasn't important to him. So what was he gaining out of saving this Minato guy?
"No. I'm gonna go there, force them to tell me where their Ashikabi is, and then consume that poor bastard so that I can make them my Sekirei as well." Alex said to Yashima, "You saw Heller. I'm gonna need more fire power to bring him down so that I can get to Minaka with at least s half of my strength to kill him."
"Ah…yes, that sounds more like you, Mercer-sama…" Yashima sighed.
XXX
"So let me see if I got this right." "These Sekirei are beings with great power that has the ability to take the winner of this game of Sekirei to the heavens with them? That's a pretty odd story." Robert Cross chuckled as he sat in Higa's office with him. Cross had his hair brushed back with a single thick strand of white hair brushed back as well, and seemed to be in his early 40s. He had a few scars on his face, along with black eyes. He wore a simple black T-shirt, grey cargo pants and black combat boots.
"Is it? I think of it as a perfect story for these beings." Higa said as he looked out his window while sitting at his desk. "I mean it doesn't sound too out of the ordinary considering the life you've lived to this day, Captain."
"Yeah, I guess so." Cross agreed.
"By the way, I can't help but wonder something." Higa asked, "How did you survive that fight with this so-called Supreme Hunter?"
It was silent for only a few seconds, before Cross suddenly began to chuckle to himself. He then grabbed his beer that sat on Higa's table. "Good question; easy answer." He took a large swig of his beer and breathed out in satisfaction before answering; "I did die. However I was offered a second chance. You can call it fate, destiny, or whatever other thing…but I think it was from that bastards biomassed DNA fusing with mine, and I was resilient enough to take over its body at the moment of its death at the hands of Alex Mercer. After I did control it, I escaped before the nuclear bomb got me and well…here I am now." He said arms wide. He dropped his arms as he had to breathe out the hassles he had to go through. "Gotta tell ya though, it was one hell of a struggle to rebuild myself into the image I last saw myself as."
"And you're sure you're the real Captain Robert Cross, and not just a creation of the biomass to look like him?" Higa wondered.
"Of course not. I am Robert Cross; ex-Specialist of Blackwatch." Cross said proudly. "And for now; The Specialist for the Ashikabi of the East."
"And it is an honor to have you on board, Captain." Higa smirked. "I'm guessing after hearing the story of the Sekirei, you'd like to take part in this game?"
"No thanks. I've never been one for relationships. Just let me handle the nitty gritty of MBI and your lady friends can handle the other stuff." Cross said. He finished off his beer, through the bottle in the garbage next to Higa's desk, and walked to the door to leave.
"And if a Sekirei gets in your way?" Higa asked.
Cross stopped at the door as he said, "I think we both know the result of that. If a Sekirei or anyone, including Mercer, decides they want to become my enemy…" He brought up a single hand and suddenly that same hand transformed from black ooze-like substance and morphed into a blood red giant of a hand, clenched into a fist. Cross looked over his shoulder to Higa with a glowing red eye staring towards him and said, "…Then they will be dealt with as such."
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Within his own office, he simply enjoyed his tea with no possible way to be any more at peace. He didn't have to worry about his Sekirei nor the work load of his boss. He only had this moment and now. This man was at least in his late 20s, but you wouldn't know that as he looked in his early 20s with brown short hair brushed down and brown eyes. He wore a dark blue suit and a green tie.
"This actually seems like a rather peaceful day." The man said with a warm smile on his face, "I wonder how my fine Sekirei are doing right about now? I know Benitsubasa said something about kidnapping a weak Ashikabi, but why should I care?" He then held a rather twisted grin as he was about to sip his tea. "Hers and all the other Sekirei will face their death soon enough."
Suddenly, the front of his door opened by itself and in walked a single tanned man who was obviously African American and was wearing a black leather jacket as well. He definitely looked muscular and very physically fit.
He stood before the desk of this brown haired man's office, prompting him to ask kindly; "Can I help you?"
Heller didn't say anything right away. He seemed to have a strong expression of guilt on his face as he tried to avoid looking into this brunette's eyes. He finally looked back at him directly and asked, "You Natsuo Ichinomi?"
"Yes, I am, but I don't see why—"
His words were suddenly yanked away as James Heller reached from the desk itself and yanked Natsuo out of his very seat and held him up forcefully by the collar of his shirt. Natsuo struggled to break free, but to no avail at all. "W-What is the meaning of this?-!" He yelled, "Let me go!"
"Sorry. Minaka's orders. Nothin' personal…I just need Sekirei."
And as the doors finally closed on their own, the blood curdling scream of Natsuo was echoed throughout the office along with the splatter of blood.