CHAPTER THREE: A SHOKING GREEN
"Help me." A soft voice whimpered.
Minato found himself in a green field of grass with dark skies. The ashikabi looked around for anything that would give him the idea of where he is.
"Where am I?" He asked as he surveyed the lush green field.
"Help me...Onii-chan." The voice cried.
Minato looked up and sees a girl about nine years of age. She wears a one piece shin length white dress and have gold blonde hair. Her green eyes holding unshed tears and pleading to be saved.
Minato looked as the girl held her arms out as if reaching for him. The ashikabi reached out to grab the girl but she suddenly bursts into spores.
"Please save me." Her voice echoed. "Onii-chan."
B.W.A.
Minato sat up panting; waking his girls in the process.
"Minato-kun, what's wrong?" Uzume asked she was lying by his left leg behind Akitsu.
"I had a dream." He murmured.
"Was the dream so good that you had to wake up and tell us?" Yomi asked from her sleeping post at her ashikabi's right leg.
Minato shook his head. "It was as if this little girl was trying to contact me or something." He explained. "She has blonde hair that reaches down her back and green eyes. White long dress and was floating towards me. She was calling me. Calling me for help." The girls listen intently. "But when I reached out to her she just suddenly disappeared in a dust of spores." He sighed. "Do any of you girls now what it means?" He asked his sekirei.
"Maybe it's a link a sekirei is capable of using to find their ashikabi." Matsu stated.
Minato look to his orange red haired sekirei.
"Some sekirei can make contact with the ashikabi they are destined to be with. The sekirei will then either walk aimlessly or wait for that person." She explained.
Minato nodded. "I see."
"What did the place look like?" Kazehana asked.
"I was in grassy field. The grasses were lush and filled with life. But the sky was dark. Either she's scared or she locked herself somewhere there's a lot of grass and no roof. Or the roof itself maybe the trees of sorts." He thought.
"A botanic garden?" Yume guessed. She remembered a little girl that fits her ashikabi's description when she went to visit a white haired doctor.
"It could be." Minato pondered. "We'll figure this out later in the morning. For now let's get back to sleep girls." He soothed them as he closed his eyes with his sekirei snuggled to whichever part of his body they can grasp. 'I need a bigger room.' He thought as he drift back to sleep.
B.W.A.
"I'm bored!" Female voice yelled startling people in the area.
"Will you pull it together?" Another female said with a sighed.
At the side of a cafe sat two women. Twins to be exact. Both wearing a cafe uniform. One wore a pink apron over her black maid uniform. She has B-cup bust with near dark hair that has a few strands sticking over her forehead and two long triangular ponytails that reach her waist, light brown eyes along with brown flat sole shoes.
The twin wore the same uniform and hair style safe her bust being a D-E-cup. She has the same clothes safe for the blue apron over her maid uniform.
The calm one sighed again. "Hibiki please stop shouting. You're scaring off the costumers." She lectured her twin.
Both girls were sitting at a small bench having their lunch break.
"I know, Hikari." Hibiki frowned as she popped a piece of chicken in her mouth. "But it's really hard to do things without our mbi-card." She scowled.
"Yeah." The twin agreed.
"When I find that asshole that took our cards I'll electrocute him to a burnt crisp." Hikari growled.
"Not if I get him first." Hibiki frowned as she took a sip of her coffee. The older twin looked to the clock and cursed. "Looks like our break's up."
"Can't we short out that clock?" The younger twin asked.
"I wish." She answered as she stood and dust off the crumbs of food from her uniform.
The twins continued their shift.
"Oi, Hibiki. Pick up at table fifteen." The cook announced as he placed two plates of food on the counter. "And don't forget to smile." He grinned.
"Yeah, yeah." She mumbled as she picked the plates and made her way the table. She made her way to the table ignoring the ogling looks from the male customers and the jealous looks from the females. "Here's your order, sir." She said with force smile.
She and her sister were the main reason why the café were filled up. Not only because they were twins but the figure they had were to die for; even though one twin was more developed in the chest area. It was very hard for the younger twin to NOT to electrocute guys for the cheap pick up lines and trying to cup a feel at her or her sister. And let's not forget about the girls accusing them of trying to steal their boyfriends with their maid café routine.
"Thank you." A bored male voice replied from behind the news paper. "Just put it on the table. And can you bring me a cup of coffee along with your phone number?" He asks as he places the paper down.
The man looks about his early thirties and had black unkempt hair and faded shaved beard. He wears a white body shirt along with brown long pants. He has construction boots on his feet as they were resting on the next chair across him. He looked with his dark blue eyes meeting light brown.
The owner of the brown eyes narrowed. "What the hell are you doing here, Seo?" The younger twin growled at the man.
Seo simply chuckled. "I'm just checking on my little girls." He waved of the glare he was receiving. "I also came to bring you these." He grinned as he pulled out two golden plastic cards with the sekirei crest on it. One having a number eleven engraved in the bird and other a number twelve.
As soon as the now known sekirei sees the cards she instantly went to grab them. Only for the older man to move his hand out of the way.
"Ah, ah, ah." He teased waving the cards like a fan. "You'll have to do me a favor." He grinned and was lightly shocked by an irate Hibiki.
"Our shift ends in four hours. If you're not there…" She left the threat hanging as she makes her way to her sister
"They grow up too fast." The man sighed as he took a bite of his burger. "I should bring some for Nako." He thought as he called another worker for an extra order.
B.W.A.
"So what do you want, deadbeat?" Hikari asked after she and her sister came from their shift.
The Hikari wears a pink shirt with a yellow eleven printed on it along with a white pants that stops just above her knees.
Hibiki opted to wear a dark blue shirt that was loose enough around her chest and brown knee length skirt along with brown slippers below her feet.
"Hey." Seo defended himself as he raised his left hand showing the wedding band. "I'm happily married and you're getting a little sister in a few months." He said getting a snort from the younger twin.
"You dress like a deadbeat." The younger twin added.
Seo sighed in defeat at his 'daughters'.
"So what's up, Seo?" Hikari asked.
"Well there's a little bit of a problem at lab fifteen." He said with a smile. "And you might get something good out of this."
The twins didn't like where this was going.
B.W.A.
"Is this the place?" A woman with staff strapped to her back asked. She wears a green female suit that fits her C-cup bust and figure with plain black shoes. She had pale blonde hair that was tied in a short neck length ponytail and silver eyes.
"Of course, Sola." A young man replied as he stepped next to her. He wears a white suit with a frilly scarf and white shoes. His hair is red brown and cut short by his ears. Brown eyes look at the large forested area with a childish gleam. "I want that green girl."
"At will be done, Mikogami-sama." Sola said.
"Good." He smiled confidently. "I only brought you because I know Mutsu's to busy with his errands. And I depend on you the most."
B.W.A.
"Here we are." Minato whispered as he looked over a small hill.
He decided to see this green girl be safe after that message he got.
Flashback
Minato groaned as he sat on the couch of the living in the inn. He didn't like the fact that the dream was bordering him. And he really wanted to help the small sekirei out.
"I hope she's okay." He prayed as he turned the T.V. on. Only to see the face of one grinning Hirito Manaka.
"Hello, Sahashi-kun." The man greeted with grin.
"This is a weird show." He commented as he flicked to another station only to see that same grinning face of the whitette.
"Oh this is more than a weird show, Sahashi-kun." Manaka said with ever present grin. "I have a mission for you and the others and it involves a little green girl.
That peaked the graduate's interest. "What do you mean?" he narrowed his eyes at the game master.
"Simple really." Manaka replied as his face screens off and shrinks viewing a building with wild plant life of every sorts running through it. "This is lab fifteen." He said as schismatic's from the lab is viewed. "A…friend of mine was in charge of this facility until some unauthorized person came and tried to wing the little girl against her will." He bit back a grin as he tried to hold a non expressional mask.
Minato held back the urge to hunt the person down. His sekirei told him that anyone can wing a sekirei even if he or she is not their destined ashikabi.
Few have already been through this.
"So you want me to save her?" He asked. "But what's the catch?"
"You really are a smart young man, aren't you?" He chuckled. "You won't be the only one going to get this little bird out of her cage. Others will be going after her as well."
"What!" Minato shouted as he stood up.
"That's right." Manaka said as his screen widen to the width of the television. "Now all you have to do go against several ashikabi and sekirei in order to gain the main price."
After saying those words Minato's phone rang its massage tone. He picked and read the massage. The ashikabi's eyes narrowed as he glared at the chuckling CEO.
"You asshole. Do you know what you're doing?" He gritted his teeth.
"'I've made the game more interesting." Manaka replied with a grin. "Toodles." He waved and the screen went back to its original program."
"You're not going to get away with this, Manaka." He vowed.
Flashback end.
"You're at the right place Mina-tan." Matsu's voice answered from his phone.
Beside were three of his sekirei. Akitsu, Yomi and Uzume. Akitsu wore a long open white Kimono top with black edges at the sleeves showing her cleavage and white biker thigh length shorts. She has chain around her neck (her choice) and single line of links went down between her breasts.
Yomi wore her regular attire and her scythe was held over her shoulder.
Uzume wore a wrapped cloth that bound her breasts and a thigh length white skirt with a slit at the left side. She has a white veil covering her head and two long veils down her arms.
Minato wears a black sleeveless tank top shirt with black army pants tucked into steel toes and soles black boots. He wears fingerless black gloves and his katana strapped to his back; much to Karasuba's displeasure.
"Okay girls, are you ready?" He asked his partners.
"I am ready whenever you are, master." Akitsu replied with her void expression.
"I'm ready, Minato-kun." Yomi grinned.
"I'm good to go." Uzume winked.
"I'm ready on my end, Mina-tan." Matsu said as her ashikabi place the earpiece into his ear.
"Okay." He took a deep breath. "Operation 'Save the green' as a go."
They nodded and rushed to the entrance.
"Halt!" A guard yelled as he sees the approaching group.
"We got to get pass these guys first." Yomi said running at Minato's left. "To bad we can't kill them."
"But you can hurt them." Uzume advised.
"Just no killing blows." Minato sighed when he remembered how blood thirsty his scythe wielding sekirei can get during a spar between said sekirei and Karasuba.
"Stop them!" Another guard yelled as they start shooting at the group.
Said group bobbed and weaved pass the bullets. As they reached Uzume leaped in the air and used her veils as a shield against the bullets. As the projectiles stopped she waved both of her arms and the veils lashed out at ten of the guards and tied them together.
Akitsu moved passed a guard and placed her hand on his shoulder; instantly freezing from his neck down.
She moved out of the way just as a baton passed where her head was and slams her foot to his chest. The man staggered back and received an elbow to same area feeling his ribcage rattle and the air knocked out of him. The fell down in a heave before the ice sekirei.
Yomi grinned as she neared a group. She avoided the swings and thrusts and slashed one guard as his back was turned after swinger too hard at her. The man yelled as he felt the blade cut his back and muscles.
"C'mon. Give me a good fight." She licked her lips and gave a giggle.
The scythe wielder then raised her hand to block a large guard's hand from hitting her. The guard was surprised that such a small girl can stop his fist with one hand.
"That's it?" Yomi asked in a bored tone. Her eyes showing small hint of blood lust as she grinned. "Minato said no killing blows. But he didn't say anything for-" She quickly slashed his abdomen and cut his hand off. "-cutting off certain parts." She finished as she knocked the guard out with her staff. She then went to tie the wound and called Akitsu to freeze the stomped wound and the hand.
Minato was facing eight guards. He took a deep breath as he set himself in a boxing stance while bouncing on the balms of his feet.
The men laughed at the graduate thinking that he wouldn't last long. One of the guards stepped forward and cracks his knuckles as he rolled his neck.
"Let's get this over with kid." The guard said in a smug tone.
To his surprise after he swung at the ashikabi he felt an elbow his solar plexus. The man double over as he ground and a nose shattering knee was dealt to his face. Minato the moved as another guard came from the side and swung for a left hook. The guard used his force as a momentum and swung his right elbow to young man's temple. But Minato ducked under the blow and hit him right below his ribs cracking one or two and drive a kick to his thighs bringing the man to his knees. He saw black after knee blow to the back of his neck. The six other guards looked in shock as the young man took down two grown men like nothing.
"Spread around him." One of the guards commanded as the five others surrounded the ashikabi.
Minato looked around and didn't like the situation. 'This is taking too long.' He though as he grasps his katana with his right hand.
The guard to his back left noticed this and rushed for the graduate only to feel the sheath of the katana into his stomach. Coughing the man failed to realize the sheath knocking it right at his left temple.
"Four more to go." He said as he slowly drew his katana.
The guard at Minato's twelve can see the red blade fully drawn. He actually felt nervous seeing how the blade glints in the moon light silhouette of the graduate made none the wiser to try and stop him.
"I'll just disable you five." He said with a chilling grin. "Wouldn't want some idiots to feed my blade some bad blood." He held his katana over his head with blade pointed forward.
The guards move at Minato at all five points. The first one to fall was the one at his ten with his arm and leg cut deep enough to lose enough blood to pass out from the lack of it. The second at his five swung his baton to incapacitate him only for the blade to block it receive stab to the left shoulder was his counter. The other three decided to rush him at once. Minato duck under the first and swung the hilt at the second's skull. He pushed him unto the third and used the distraction to stab his left leg right above the knee. The last one went to tackle Minato only to stop when the tip of red blade was aimed at his jugular.
"You either leave with your life or a body bag." Minato said with cold stare.
The man was about to answer but got a knee to the stomach and a neck chop to the back of his...well neck.
Minato sighed as he cleaned his blade with cloth and sheathed it.
"Mina-tan!" Matsu cried through his earpiece.
"Yes, Matsu." The graduate replied as he sees his three sekirei coming towards him.
"There are five life forces inside the wild forest. Two close by, two moving, and the last one at the center staying in one spot."
"That means two ashikabi and sekirei groups are here besides us." He pondered than something caught his eyes. He saw a large truck by the entrance and grinned. "I got an idea to make sure that no one else's going to come after us." He looked to his sekirei. "Yomi, Uzume cut the gas tanks from the truck. Yomi make sure you spark the gasoline and make it explode. Akitsu when the fire's up; freeze it."
The three nodded as the four made their way to the entrance and entered it.
"You girls ready?" He asked them and they nodded. "Now!"
Uzume and Yomi lashed at the truck aiming for the gas tank; causing it to leak out. Yomi dragged her blade against the ground to spark the gasoline and it went aflame. Seconds later the fire caught the rest of the gasoline and the truck exploded. The heat was enough to drive the girls back.
"Alright, Akitsu." Minato nodded to his ice manipulating sekirei.
Akitsu nodded and blew a wisp of cold air that froze the flame at the entrance. The four took some deep breaths to get themselves together.
"Okay." Minato wiped some sweat from his face. "Is everyone ready?"
B.W.A.
A small mosquito flew by and landed on someone arm. As soon as the insect landed it found a place and punctured the skin with its thin sharp needle and began to extract the blood of its victim.
"Fuck!"
Only to get shocked and fried of said 'victim'.
"Damn mosquitoes." Hibiki mutters as she rubbed her arm.
The twins were walking through the dense foliage arcing electricity at random intervals; shocking any insect foolish to try and get them as a little meal or snack. They changed their clothes to a leather top with a circle ring at the center and high thigh pants with the top of their hips showing. Hikari's own being a pale pink color as Hibiki's own is dark purple.
They were on their way until felt the shockwave. The twins turned behind them and then looked back at each other in sync.
"Damn." Hibiki cursed.
"Looks like we got company." Hikari frowned at the dark tunnel. "We have to move faster."
The younger twin nodded and they dashed deeper into the foliage.
B.W.A.
"Mikogami-sama." Sola warned as she looked behind to where she felt the explosion came from.
"Mikogami sucked his teeth. "Oh man." He whined. "This is not what I wanted." He grumbles then he remembered that his phone vibrated earlier in the day. When he took out his phone he gasps at the message. "That son of a bitch told the others?" He said shocked.
"We did tell you to check the phone when it rang earlier." The sekirei reminded her ashikabi.
"Not now, Sola." He said singing tone. "We have to move faster." He said as he and his sekirei ran. 'I should've brought Mutsu along.' He thought.
B.W.A.
At the center of the foliage.
A little nine year old girl floats inside a green lit oval pod. She has long blonde hair and her eyes clothes. Dressed in a long one piece shin length white dress and holding her knees to her chest.
"Please." She pleaded. "Please help me…Onii-chan."
B.W.A.
Minato and his sekirei stopped at a three way crossing. "Which way to go?" Uzume asked she looked at the entrance.
"Onii-chan…this way…" A little girl's voice said in the ashikabi's mind.
Minato looked to the far left one. "This way." He said as he began his run along with his sekirei behind him. 'I'm on my way.' He thought as he leaped through some bushes. 'I'm coming to save you.' He said with determination burning in his storm grey eyes.
"Mina-tan, one life force ahead of you!" Matsu warned.
"Alright." He nodded as he motioned to his sekirei.
"So we're going to have some company then?" Yomi grinned.
"Keep your guard up, young blade." Karasuba's voice came from the scythe wielder's earpiece.
"Yeah, yeah." Yomi rolled her eyes.
"Awe. Little sister's pouting." Uzume teased running next to her ashikabi.
"I am not!" Yomi yelled.
"Well then why is your face all red?" She questioned.
"Well I never." Yomi said in feint shock.
"Minato-sama, look out." Akitsu warned.
Minato barely had time to avoid a staff from hitting him where is head was. Minato managed to roll on the ground and stood ready to draw his blade.
"You are a very skilled ashikabi." Sola commented as she stepped from behind a tree with her arms crossed under her bust.
"And here I thought the sekirei are not allowed to attack humans." Minato commented.
"True." The silver eyed sekirei agreed as she pulled her left hand back.
Uzume watched as the staff that was imbedded in one of the trees flew straight to the sekirei's left hand.
"Sekirei #77, Sola." She introduced herself as she sets into a bojutsu stance.
"Sekirei #43, Sahashi Yomi." Yomi stepped forward.
Minato raised an eyebrow at that.
"What? I am going to be with you until death do us part." She grinned cheekily.
"Alright." Minato smiled.
Sola felt a bit jealous at this. "Let's see how good you can fight. Just because you're number is lower than mine doesn't mean you really stronger."
"True." Yomi agreed as she wrapped her left arm around her ashikabi. "But my ashikabi is with me." She said as she kissed him making her wings come out to shine.
"With my scythe I will bring death to those that dare harm my ashikabi." Yomi glared at the staff wielder. "Minato-kun go on ahead. I'll be behind you after I'm done with this little spar."
"Are you sure?" Minato asked still eyeing Sola.
"I'll be fine." She grinned and pecks her ashikabi on the cheek.
Minato nodded and backed away. "Okay. Uzume, Akitsu. Let's go."
The two other sekirei nodded and wished their sister good luck. The three then dashed forward to their destination.
"Oh no you don't!" The staff wielder shouted as she threw the staff at them. But Uzume blocked it as Askitsu shot a spray of ice spikes. "Tsk!" She jumped out the way and called her staff back to her.
"You should watch your back?" Yomi said with grin; her scythe posed the strike. "It could be the end of you." She warned and swung her scythe just as Sola caught her staff to block. "Good. Let's have some fun shall we!" Her grin widened.
'This one's crazy!' The green suited sekirei thought before she felt her stomach caved due to a foot in it.
B.W.A.
"So this is her, huh?" One Mikogami said with a thinking pose as he stood before the green pod with the little blonde girl in it. "If only Manatsu didn't lose that sekirei." He sighed. "Oh well." He perked up. "There are plenty of birds in the sky. I intend to add this one to my cage." He said as he began to climb the tall vines. "I shouldn't have brought these clothes with me." He whined. "I'll just buy a new set after I'm done with this."
The rich boy didn't realize green eyes were opening.
The little sekirei yawned cutely as she looked around the large room she was in. "Onii-chan." She muttered. "Where are you?"
"I'm right here?" Mikogami said with a singing tone that caught the small blonde's attention. "And I'm here to rescue you."
The little girl shook her head, causing her hair to sway from left to right. "You're not him." She said stepping deeper in to the pod. "You're not, Onii-chan." She added as she shed some tears.
"Oh don't be so mean." Mikogme grunts as he grabbed another vine and pulled himself up. "I'll be your Onii-chan." He said but his foot slipped from one of the vines. "Woah!" He looked down. "Listen. Some very bad people are coming to get you." He tried to persuade the young sekirei.
The small blonde girl looked at the young man. "B-Bad people?" She repeated fear in her voice.
He nodded. "That's right." And they'll do anything to get you. Even try to burn down the forest to get to you."
"No!" The girl screamed as she gave a small green glow. The trees grew and plants grew more madly and the ground shook.
"Calm down! Calm down!" Mikogami shouted as he struggles to hold on for his dare life. But he lost his grip and fell. "AAAAH!" He screamed as he made his drop to the ground.
But instead of hitting the ground and ruining his clothes even more. He was caught by a pair of feminine arms.
"Thank you for saving me, Sola." He thanked his Sekirei.
"Who the hell is Sola?" An impatient voice answered.
Mikogami looked up and his brown eyes meet light brown of Hibiki's. He snuggled more unto her breasts. "Thank you for saving my life." He cried then looked at her. "By any chance, are you a sekirei?"
"I am." She replied ready to drop the young man. "My sister and I." She motioned to her twin was scouting the surroundings.
"Then as a reward for saving me, let me be your ashikabi and when I get the green girl the three you can some back with my to very large mansion." He boasted like a spoiled child. "All you have to do is let me wing you." He smiled as he puckered his lips.
'No." Hibiki answered as she dropped him on the ground. She was surprised of how quickly he got back up with pout on his face.
"What do you mean, 'No'?" He said with a frown on his face. "You're practically giving away a good life!" He said as he folded his arms stubbornly.
Hibiki mimicked his posed hefting her breasts in the process. "And I'm not reacting to you." She growled. "So back the hell off." She warned.
'Well, let's go check on the little bird.' Hikari thought as she leaped to the pod.
"You really know how to be stubborn, don't you?" Mikogami asked as he tried to persuade younger twin.
"I'm stubborn?!" She yelled in fury arcing electricity around her body.
The redhead stepped back. "Now, now." He said with a nervous tone. "You're not allowed to hurt me."
"We're not allowed to kill." She corrected with a smirk.
'Worst day not to bring Mutsu.' He sweated.
"Hey there." Hikari cooed as she reached the plant controlling sekirei. "What's your name?"
"Ku…Kusano." She trembled.
"It's alright." The older twin carefully made her way to the trembling girl. "I won't hurt you."
"P-Promise?" She asked.
Hikari smiled and turned her back to the younger sekirei; showing her sekirei crest at the base of her neck. "As a fellow sekirei, I promise."
B.W.A.
"Minato, there's light up ahead." Uzume announced as they reached to end of the tunnel.
"Okay," Her ashikabi nodded as they stopped at the exit. "Akitsu I want you to go back and make sure that Yomi's okay."
"But Yomi is clearly stronger than Sola." Akitsu stated logically.
"I know." Minato sighed. "But just in case that sekirei has more partners with her. And incase it's a single digit…"
Akitsu nodded. "It will be done, Minato-sama." She stepped up to her ashikabi and kissed his lips. "With my ice; I will freeze those that would dare bring harm to my ashikabi." She gave a faint smile and left the duo.
Minato looked to his ice sekirei until she was out of sight.
"Mina-tan, do you doubt me?" Matsu asked from his earpiece.
"It's not that, Matsu." Minato replied as he leaned at the entrance to peek." I just have a gut feeling."
Matsu sighed. "Okay, Mina-tan. But you owe me an experiment."She giggled at the end.
"Alright." He looked to Uzume and nodded. "You ready?"
"Are you?" She asked back.
Without a word the duo leaped out into the opening. Only to avoid a lightning strike aimed at them.
"More assholes are here?" Hibiki growled after she shot a blast of lightning. She looked at the smoked unconscious Himegami. "You better stay there." She said as she marched at the duo.
"And elemental type." Uzume mutters as she looked at the leather clad sekirei walking towards them. "Minato-kun let me do my Norito."
Minato nodded as he made his way to his sekirei.
"Not happening!" The purple clad sekirei yelled as she shot another arc of electricity at the two.
Minato managed to push Uzume out of the way. "We'll have to take care of this sekirei first before we can save the green girl." Minato said and he eyed the green pod above.
"So you're after Kusano too, huh?" Hikari said as she landed next to her sister with now sleeping sekirei. "Sorry but you're not going to get her without a fight." She placed the sleeping sekirei by a large leaf.
"Awe, she's so cute!" Uzume gushed. "But you know your ashikabi have to be pretty weird to want to wing a little girl." She judged as she looked at the unconscious Mikogami.
Hibiki caught the gestures and waved it off with tick mark on her head "Oh please. As if someone like him would be our ashikabi." She frowned. "At the moment the three of us are unwinged. So if your ashikabi is that desperate to wing a sekirei without her consent…" She warned as both her and her sister began to gather electricity around them.
"YOU'LL HAVE TO GO THROUGH US FIRST!" They both yelled as they intertwined their hand a shot a large lightning bolt at them.
B.W.A.
Yomi fell on the ground with a heavy thud. Her dress was tattered to the point that her red thong was in plain view and her corset bra was showing through her torn top. She looked up only to feel Sola's staff at her neck.
"Give up." She panted. She wasn't even looking well herself. She has small bruises and slashes cuts on her arms and legs. Her suit ruined leaving her in her pale pink bra. Her pants torn at her thighs and the left pants leg completely gone. She noted as Yomi's body began to shook. "I can see that you are scared to losing your ashikabi." She said with a sorrowful tone. "But do not worry. I will make sure you'll be terminates without pain." Yomi suddenly began to laugh loudly. "What is wrong with you?"
"This is the kind of fight I wanted!" She said with a maniacal grin and her eyes matching her mindset. "C'mon!" She yelled as she raised her knee hitting Sola user in the chest, and knocking her away.
Sola quickly retaliated and dashed at her opponent and thrust her staff. But Yomi side stepped it, neared the sekirei and gave her a solid headbut to her forehead. That move made the staff wielder disoriented and dropped her staff on the ground. But the scythe wielder wasn't then yet. She grinned as she roughly grabs Sola's hair and pulled her down as she smashed her left knee into the silver eyed sekirei's nose; breaking it in the process.
"C'mon is that it?!" Yomi giggled darkly as she smashed her knee into the sekirei's face two more times and did a round house kick to her chest sending her to crash into a tree.
'What...kind of sekirei is she?" Sola thought weakly as she slid down the bark.
Yomi picked up her scythe and stalked to her beaten sekirei. "Now I gotta finish this. My husband's waiting for me." She then grabbed Sola and smashed her face first into the ground. She then ripped off the back of whatever clothing remained and placed her hand the silver eyed sekirei's crest. "By my blade my ashikabi's life is saved." She chanted.
The crest on Sola's back glowed then dimmed away as it vanished from her neck.
"Miko...gami...sa..ma." The beaten sekirei said before her eyes lost their light and she fainted.
Yomi fell down on her bum breathing as much air as she possibly can. "That...was fun." She pants with a tired grin. "Now...to get to the others."
The scythe wielder staggered on her feet. She took a look to the now 'terminated' sekirei. She turned to walked but stopped right into a blade placed to her neck. The dagger was seven inches long and zig zagged.
"Now that is something I'll have to disagree with." The female in a brown robe said.
Yomi cursed herself for letting her guard down. With a quick swung she let her scythe cut down on the robed assailant. Only for the robed person to vanish right before her eyes.
"The hell?" Yomi panted as she stood guard. "She must pretty fast to-" She stopped and swung her blade just as the robed female to appear behind. But the assailant jumped back only for her robe to get cut revealing a black and grey body suit."Typical Assassin types." She chuckled hiding her cough. "Always going for the back." She looked at the semi robed assailant, but her hood was still over her head.
Said assailant kept her gaze as she passed her hand over her chest and felt warm liquid. She flinched at the feeling. 'When did she cut me?' She thought. 'I'll finish this quick.' She thought as she vanished again.
Yomi remained in her spot holding her scythe to guard herself at almost any moment.
Almost.
"Got you now." The 43rd heard above her.
'Shit!' She mentally cursed as she failed to block the assassin's blade from cutting her back.
The scythe wielder fell forward to the ground with a grunt and her scythe fell from her grip. "Damn it!" She gritted from her teeth, fighting against her fatigue and pain.
"Do not take this personally." The hooded female said in a neutral tone as she placed her dagger away and walked to the wounded redhead. "Forgive me that you are unable to spend the rest of time with your ashikabi." She said as she put her right hand on Yomi's sekirei crest.
"Minato-kun." Yomi gritted as she tried to pull herself up but was roughly pushed down to the ground.
"Don't make this harder for yourself." She frowned beneath her hood. She then sees Yomi struggled to reach for her scythe was just out of her reach. She sighed and this and drew dagger once again and instantly moved to the sekirei's outstretched hand and pinned it to the ground.
"AH!" Yomi screamed in pain but she still glared at the hooded female. "B-Bitch!" She screamed.
"You're the one that's making it hard." The assassin replied going back to her original goal. "By my dagger-" She began but she moved out of the way just an ice spike passed just where her head was.
The hooded female looked at where the attack came from and mentally cursed herself.
Standing before with an icy aura and mist rolling about was calm but inside she a very furious Akitsu.
"An elemental type, huh." The hooded assailant stated as she calmly went for her dagger but Akitsu shot another ice spike at her causing the hooded woman to leap away.
"You will not hurt my comrade anymore than you did." She said as she formed an ice spear in her hand. "Scrapped #7, Sahashi Akitsu." She introduced herself.
'I can't take her on now.' The unknown female thought as she flinched from the wound. 'What the hell?' She thought as the small sting from her chest coursed through her body. 'Was that blade poisoned?' She thought as she nimbly avoided a spear thrust aimed to her left shoulder. 'I have to get my dagger back.' She thought drastically as she ducked under a horse kick from Akitsu and went to grab the dagger.
She succeeded and jerked the dagger from Yomi's hand. "Mother fucker!" She yelled as she rolled aside cradling her wounded hand.
"Be happy you're alive." The hooded female said as she avoided a spear from pinning her to a tree. She leaped above unto a branch and kneeled on it. "Until next time." She said and vanished into the shadows.
Yomi allowed herself to lie on the ground. "When...we get our own place." She panted "Minato's...not leaving that room...for a week."
Akitsu nodded as she partially froze the wounds on her fellow sekirei's body. "It was a good choice that Minato-sama sent me back to help you."
Yomi smiled despite the pain. "He's a loving husband, right?" She grinned.
"Yes." The ice sekirei agreed as she hefts the tired sekirei unto her back and began to walk back to their ashikabi. "He is."
B.W.A.
"Uzume!" Minato shouted to his veiled sekirei. He clothes were slightly scorched and his left leg pants torn at his knee. He was panting and was getting some pretty close calls from those lightning strikes.
"I'm fine." Uzume from behind debris of rocks. Her clothing having tears in them and her skirt torn at the edges. She was panting and holding her bruised right arm.
"These two are pretty good." Hikari commented.
"Whatever." Hibiki glared at the tumbled trees that the ashikabi was taking cover behind. "These two are smart enough to hide behind the plants. We don't want to catch this place on fire."
"True." The older twin agreed. "But we have to do something about those two." She said as she glanced at the unconscious redhead boy. "And him too."
"Yeah." Hibiki muttered as she shot a bolt of lightning just as Minato stuck his out to watch if anything was clear.
"Woah!" Minato ducked as the arc of electricity rushed just over his head. "This is getting us nowhere."
"Minato's pinned down." Uzume thought to herself. "I have to distract them."
Without a moment's hesitation Uzume leaped from the rocks and shot out one of her veils shouting "Spiral spike!" causing the veil to rotate like drill towards the older twin. Said twin didn't realize the attack but the younger one did. So a soon as she shot another lightning bolt at the ashikabi she leaped behind her sister to take the blow. Only for the cloth stop millimeters away from her neck.
Hibiki couldn't move anymore due to how threateningly close the point moved after she tried.
Hikari seeing her twin in trouble was about to assist until she moved her left just where Minato's katana landed. She raised her hand that was now sparking with electricity but froze once she felt the cold steel of a blade pressed to her neck.
"I'm sorry." She hears the ashikabi besides her. "But was it was the only to have stopped the both of you." He apologized.
The twins set all their attention on the two and vise versa that neither of them notice small groan escaping Mikogami's lips.
"So you planned this out, huh?" Hibiki growled glaring at the veiled sekirei. "Honestly the plan was on a fly when Uzume came out." Minato said with a small chuckle of embarrassment.
"So what are you going to do, huh?" Hibiki growled.
The ashikabi sighed. "Uzume release her and go check on the green girl." Minato said still eyeing Hibiki; who hasn't turn to the human yet.
"Minato-kun?" Uzume looked at her ashikabi with a frown. "I can't do that." She stated. "The minute I release her they'll attack you."
"I know." He answered. "You being a sekirei you have overall more strength than that of a regular human being. So when I give the signal you get the green girl and run."
"It's a sekirei's duty to protect their ashikabi." Uzume countered.
"And I'm learning to fight alongside you." He said not noticing Hikari glancing at him.
But soon as her eyes meet the ashikabi her heart skipped a beat. 'No way.' She thought.
"Hikari?" Hibiki called her sister careful of her neck. But her twin didn't answer. "Sis?"
Hikari was panting and her cheeks were flushed.
"What's your name?" The older twin finally spoke.
"Sis?!" Hibiki yelled.
"Sahashi Minato." He sighed as he put the combat knife away; much to Uzume's surprise.
"Minato!" Uzume yelled.
"It's alright Uzume-chan." He smiled at the sekirei. "And your name?"
"Sekirei #11 Hikari." She said as she stepped closer to the ashikabi. "My ashikabi."
She then kissed the graduate and her wings; electric blue with yellow sparks glow from her back. Hikari stepped to the side and her sister immediately kissed the ashikabi as well her wings matching the color of her twin. When the younger twin released the lip lock her face was as red as a tomato.
"Sekirei # 12 Hibiki." She said in her flustered state.
"With our lightning, we will strike down those that dare harm our ashikabi." The twins vowed as one.
Minato smiled at his two new sekirei. "I'm gonna need a very large apartment." He sighed.
"Nooo! Onii-chan help!"
The grouped looked to the scene of the voice and their blood instantly boiled. Mikogami was trying to wing her, much to her fear.
"Kusano!" Minato shouted as he ran to the two, hoping to save the young sekirei.
"C'mon don't be afraid." Mikogami grunted against the smalled sekirei. "You'll...get to live...in a big house."
He was a hair's breath away until her felt a force pulling him off the crying sekirei. The rich young boy was then turned and only saw a fist coming towards his face before everything turned dark
Minato panted as he finally relaxed.
"Onii-chan!" Kusano cried as she leaped unto to tired ahiksbi bringing both of them to the ground.
"It's alright, Kusano." Minato patted her back gently. "The bad man is gone now."
Then the little sekirei looked up to the ashikabi; her green eyes meeting his grey ones. And with a flushed face and quick movement, She kissed him and neon-green wings brightened the area. Minato was shocked when he felt the little girl's lips unto his and when the lighyts faded he almost didn't hear her vow.
"With the strenght of nature I will protect my Onii-chan. Sekirei #108 Kusano. Ku-chan for short." She smiled with tear filled eyes.
"I am in so much trouble." He said as he rubbed the bridge of his nose.
"I didn't know you were into to kids, Minato?" Yomi ased with a tired laugh as she and Akitsu made their way to the small group.
Seeing the two,their ashikabi noticed Yomi's state. "Sorry Kusano but I have to check on your older sister, okay?" Withe her nodded and getting off him he made his way to wounded sekirei.
"Yomi." He gave her a gentle hug. He then pecked Akitsu on the forehead. "Thank you, Akitsu."
"You're welcome, Minato-sama." She said with a small tint of peach color on her cheeks.
"We have to work on that." He smiled then looked at his redhead sekirei with a worried expression. "And we'll have to check these wounds when we reach home."
"I'm fine Minato." She smiled tiredly at him. "Just tired."
Her ashikabi nodded and Akitsu passed her to him. The scythe wielder was going to ask her ahikabi what he had in mind until she was lift up like a bride.
"Better?" He smiled softly and avoiding to hurt his sekirei more.
"Better." She sighed with a smile. She then noticed the twins. "Who are you two?"
"Hikari, Hibiki." Her ashikabi motioned to the two. "These are Yomi, Akitsu and Uzume." Then he looked to Kusano and smiled. "And little Ku-chan."
"Well now that this is over." Uzume streched.
"Let's go home." Yomi finished with a groan.
"Oh yeah before I forget." Minato paused. "I'm sorry but the room that me and my other sekirei are renting is small. So I hope you guys can get comfortable." He laughed nervously. "But don't worry. Once I get enough money at a job, I'll get us a place large enough for all of us."
The twins nodded the paused as a plan formed in their heads. With a mental smile/grin they decided to help their ashikabi with his home issues.
After all. How bad of a place he staying could be?
B.W.A.
"Manaka do something about this!" Takami yelled as she slammed her fists on the game master's desk. Her PDA showing the latest status of her son winging the twins and Kusano.
Manaka was silent for a few seconds until her turned his chair to the head specialist and looked out his office window to the city. "Tell me Takami-kun." He began with his glasses glinted in the sun. "How can I take a chess piece of the board after it reached so far into the front line?'
"Now is not the time for these kinds of questions, Manaka." The whitette gritted. "I want my son out of this!"
"And I told you that there are two different ways of for him to get out." He reminded her with a grin eventhough she can't see it. "Let me look ino this, Takami-kun." He said in tone that annoyed her the most.
"If you don't handle it; I'll fix it myself." She warned as she left the office and slammed the door.
"Manaka turned back and looked at the door with a grin. He reached down to open one of his draws and pulled out a folder. "Sahashi Minato." He chukled. "Ashilabi to #3 Kazehana, #4 Karasuba #8 Yume, #10 Uzume, #11 Hikari, #12 Hibiki, #43 Yomi, and #108 Kusano. And let's not forget that scrapped number too." He chuckled. "You're advancing too far into the game. I like that." He said as his left lens showed his eye. Instead of the joyful juvial eyes of a child, were those of a cold tactician. "But sometimes you have to know your place in the game, Sahashi-kun." He said as he leaned forward and intertwined his fingers. The an idea struck him and he giggled like a little school boy on the park. "Oh that will work." He chuckled with a grin. "That will definetly work."
The sounds of his laughter echoed through his office.
AND THAT WAS CHAPTER THREE. I HOPE WAS GOOD ENOUGH. I'LL SEE YOU IN THE FIRST THREE CHAPS OF MY NEXT STORY A TO LOVE RU FANFIC. TOODLES.
Minato's sekirei list.
01. #08: Yume -
02. #04: Karasuba -
03. #07: Akitsu -
04. #105: Benitsubasa
05. #104: Haihane (claws)
06. #02: Matsu (tech) -
07. #88: Musubi (fighter)
08. #43: Yomi (scythe) -
09. #09: Tsukiumi (water)
10. #108: Kusano (plants) -
11. #03: Kazehana (wind/naginata) -
12. #10: Uzume (veil) -
13. #11: Hibiki (elec) -
14. #12: Hikari (elec) -
15. #84: Yasshima (hammer)
16. #78: Nanami (spear)
17. #01: Miya (katana)
18: #16: Toyatama (fighter?)
19: #20: Kochou (Techno/Stratigies)
20: #06: Homura (fire)