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Matsu: Hey everyone, it's me Matsu and I'm here to on Taka2012's behalf on uploading the next installment of Sekirei EX II! *Chuckles and turns on a screen showing screen caps of last chapter.* Last chapter, Minaka sent a message to all available ashikabis in Shinto Teiho about the last sekirei hiding in the North. Seishin knows Kagari's a sekirei; however he doesn't know she's the last sekirei that's un-emerged until he got the call from Takami... long after Kagari fled the house to hunt down Minaka.
Later, Seishin and I spoke to Musubi, Tsukiumi, Ku and Kazehana about soon after Kagari's reaction to him. Afterwards, Seishin and the others have left to find our flame wielding friend here. Speaking of which... Kagari was almost to MBI until Akitsu tries to intervine. Uzume also arrives to capture Kagari but her powers grew more unstable. Akitsu tries to stop Uzume and then the two fought. Seishin senses Kagari's powers reaching critical levels upon nearing her location. As the race against time is nearing its end, will our Shinikabi make it to Kagari before either she dies, or gets taken away by someone else. Let's find out on Sekirei EX II Chapter 6! *Sighs and looks at the camera with a worried look.* Oh, Seishin... Please hurry. *The screen starts acting up and then turns into static.*
Sekirei EX II
Chapter 6: Homura Emerges!
The chapter begins with the silhouettes of Seishin and the sekirei getting closer to Kagari's location by jumping over roof after roof, before anyone else interferes. Seishin's phone began ringing and he went to answer it. It was Matsu.
"Hello." He said as the camera was pointed to only his mouth.
"Seishin, I'm calling you to see how you're doing." Matsu said.
"So far so good." Seishin said. "However, I've picked up presences near Kagari's location."
"Really?" Matsu wondered until she checked her computer. "Oh, crap! There are 2 sekireis are near Homura! No, wait there's three, wait five! Crap, there's four more joining in!"
"And more are on the way..." Seishin said. "I understand what's happening, Matsu. Don't worry..." The camera panned to Seishin's left eye, which is glowing red through the night. "I will save Kagari."
"Ready to take care of business, Seishin?" Seishin's hollow asked.
Seishin smirked. "Always have...always will. Let's get it started."
Yukari and Shiina as they walked through a lit-up shopping district of the city while search for Kusano. However the only flaw for ashikabis of every kind is prohibited from using trains or other modes of transportation due to MBI enforcing the rules more since the Bridge escape.
"The northern area should be coming up soon." Shiina said.
"Dang it, this is crap!" Yukari whined. "Ever since the escape three months ago, I can't even catch a train with a sekirei."
"The security checks are even tighter, huh?" He wondered.
"We got to find her!" She said encouraging herself more. "She's the final sekirei; Number 108!"
"Though I do admire your determination, we don't know exactly if Ku's the last sekirei!" Shiina said.
"I know that's true, but we have to take the chance we get." Yukari said. "We don't want Ku in some sleezeball's hands, like that gut we encountered before who tried to kiss you."
"I guess you're right." Shiina said. "Alright, let's go."
As the Demon Ashikabi and the Reaper Sekirei ran off to the Northern part of the capital, Uzume and Akitsu's fight still continues. Both attacks were clashed many times, giving it their all to capture Kagari. One to add her to one's collection and the other to save one she cares. Kagari on the other hand is getting worse by the minute.
"I can't take it anymore!" Hayato said as he watched what's going on. "Mutsu, go in there and stop the fluttery one! That flame sekirei's rare and I want it right no-" Mutsu stopped Hayato for a second as he sensed someone approaching the two of them.
"Alright, whoever you are... Come out!" Mutsu saud bluntly.
"Well, well, well... If it's Hayato Mikogami, a friend from the South..." Kakizaki said as he appeared from the corner of the same street Hayato's on. "Welcome..."
"His presence..." Mutsu said while glaring at him. "An ashikabi, huh?"
Kakizaki smirked at them.
"An ashikabi?" Hayato asked. "So that fluttery one belongs to you?"
"Hard to say that it's true, but she's doing some work for us." Kakizaki said. "My boss, Izumi Higa of the East."
"Higa of the East, huh?" Hayato repeated.
"I am his secretary, Kakizaki." He introduced himself as 2 other sekireis appeared behind him. "We'll take it from here, now."
"Hmph... Using 2 sekireis to get the job done?" Mutsu said.
"No need to be alarmed, as long as you two do what I say and stay here until we capture Number Six, then the two of you will be safe from harm." Kakizaki replied. "I give you my word on that."
"Argh, that stupid jerk! Mutsu go get him!" Hayato cried like a little boy having a tantrum. But Mutsu calmed him down a bit.
"You said that so readily Hayato, but look around...There's not a lot of us to get the job done here." Mutsu shifted his eyes to a couple of sekireis on the Eastern side of where they are and then to the Western side of them. "More sekireis made it to the location, but as it is, we'll be fighting a losing battle."
"I'll give you the incantation if you just kiss me." Hayato said as he puckered his lips up to Mutsu, but he placed the palm of his hand in Hayato's way.
"No thanks!" He said calmly as he then carried Hayato and prepared to retreat. "Let's go! Five feathers or ten, it makes no difference to me, whatsoever." As Mutsu slammed his sheathed sword on the ground, he caused a strong shockwave causing the ground around him to shatter like an earthquake was happening. The attack got Kakizaki and the sekireis that's with him to flinch, but then he turned to see Mutsu retreating with Hayato being carried while sticking his tongue out at Kakizaki.
"Little brat!" He muttered. Back to the battle at hand, Uzume and Akitsu's clash still continues until Akitsu used an ice style version of Kimimaro's Bracken Dance, striking Uzume and sending her crashing into a wall. Just then she sensed Mutsu.
"Akitsu, we're pulling back!" Mutsu said.
"We're retreating?" Hayato asked.
"Yeah, she's about done for." Mutsu said. Hayato sighed and agreed to Mutsu's terms. As they retreated they noticed what seems to be a flaming meteor flying mid air.
"What the..." Hayato and Mutsu looked closely at the man and discovered that it was Seishin in his Soul Reaper uniform. Behind him were five other sekirei as they were heading to the location. "Is that who I think he is...?" He wondered.
At the same moment, Kagari whose unstable power is reaching near-critical levels. However, she glared at the ice sekirei before her.
"I recall you asked why I have a master..." Akitsu asked her as she slowly approaches her. However, Uzume who was slowly getting up, used her veil to stop Akitsu from approaching her. She then turned her sights on the Veiled Sekirei. "Hmmm... There's no hesitation in your eyes, the will to face death for an ashikabi. They're strong eyes you have."
Uzume growled.
"You don't become someone's master because you become their ashikabi." Akitsu continued. "You become someone's master because someone recognizes you as such. For me, I do have a master because someone recognized me... for now."
"Wait... What do you mean for now?" Homura asked.
"Though I am discarded, I still seek my one TRUE master..." Akitsu said while remembering Seishin from her dream and the very words he said to her.
(Flashback)
"I'm terribly sorry for the pain you felt... I'll do what I can to make you no longer be a scrapped number." Seishin continued. "I know someone who could possibly help you make it happen. I will protect you with my life."
(Flashback ending)
"There's someone out there for me..." She continued. "One who's will is hotter than the flames you cast... One who's devoted to protecting those that cared. I am jealous that you can still emerge and I can't though. The future can be changed, fates can be rewritten and something new will happen. As for your fate, sekirei guardian... Either you live to see the dawn of tomorrow or your life will fade in the night sky. The choice... rests with your destined ashikabi."
Homura glares at Akitsu as she makes her retreat. Homura'a clothes were almost burnt away, almost exposing her breasts entirely and scars from the heat were made. As she catches up to Hayato and Mutsu, she noticed Seishin along with five other sekireis heading towards Kagari's location.
"So he finally arrives..." Akitsu thought as she saw the same young man with long red hair from her dream. "I hope he can do the same to Homura... as he did to me..." Akitsu turned her sights back to Hayato and Mutsu as the three of them retreated.
"One who's devoted to protecting those that cared..." Homura repeated what Akitsu said. "Who is the man that discarded sekirei was mentioning? Could she be talking about..."
Just then, she saw Uzume getting up and preparing to battle her once again as she raveled up the veil she used to attack Akitsu.
"Are you coming with me or not?" Uzume threatened her with a cold glare on her face.
Elsewhere in the city, Yukari and Shiina were near the location of the battle that's happening. The two ran through the empty alleyways as they grew closer to the location.
"Hear that! Sounds like a battle's going on." Yukari cried. "Let's hurry up, Shiina!"
Just then, a motorcycle got in Yukari's way and injured her knee a little. Shiina ran to help her.
"Are you alright?" He asked.
"Ow!" She said and then looked at the man in the motorcycle which turned out to be the same tan skinned, lean built man with black hair while wearing a black leather jacket with matching leather gloves, a trouser with a white skull belt, a pair of goggles around his neck and sported a gruff wild look on himself. "Hey, watch where you're going!"
"Huh?" The guy asked. "You're the one who kept running over like an idiot, PUNK!" He rebuked after he took his helmet off and glared at her.
"Just who the hell do you think you are?" Yukari yelled.
"The name's Sanada Nishi," He introduced, "and just who the hell are you?"
"Yukari Sahashi and this is my sekirei Shiina." She replied until she winced at the scratch she has on her leg. "Just look at what you did to me knee, you idiot!"
"Quit your cryin', will ya..." Sanada said as he walked towards her and kneeled down to look at the light but painful wound on her knee. "A little spit and it'll be good as new." As he placed his finger on his tongue;lubing it with saliva, he then attempts to rub it on her knee. Angered, Yukari kicked him hard in the face.
"Come on, Shiina." Yukari said.
"Uhh... right..." Shiina followed her as the two walked off to search for Kusano. Sanada gets back up from the kick, like it was nothing.
"Heh heh..." Sanada chuckled as he turned to watch the two walk off, despite having a slight nosebleed from the impact of the kick he got. "What a naughty little girl she was... But she does have one hell of a kick."
Back to the rooftop, Kagari's body was reaching her limit and Uzume was prepared to capture her.
"I promise; if you come with me, I won't kill you." Uzume said to her.
Homura struggled to get back up while she glared at Uzume. While doing so, she then remembered what she and Takami were talking about back when she was in MBI.
(Flashback while playing sad music: Now playing Naruto OST - Nightfall)
"A guardian sekirei?" She asked.
"If someone could protect them, at least until they have been able to meet their ashikabis... Well will you accept this task, Homura?" Takami asked.
(Flashback ended)
"All those children, all those little birds I protected..." Homura thought. "If they have met their ashikabis, then I am satasfied with that. Because a least I did something good in my life." Homura closed her eyes and then made a small smile on her face until she felt the unstable strain her body as her powers are reaching high levels. "But still... The fact that I couldn't kill Minaka myself..."
Homura power grew far out of control as it envelops her flames. The heat was too much for any other sekriei or ashikabi to approach her. Just then, Kakizaki arrives to the rooftop.
"Stand down, Uzume. We'll take it from here." He said as Higa's other sekireis stood beside him. Homura then figured out what's happening.
"Uzume, are you...?" Kagari asked but as a reply Uzume shifted her sights away from her.
"Pre-emergance, oh yes!" The sekirei wearing a cloak over her cheerfully said.
"But Kakizaki, she's on fire! What should we do?" The red headed sekirei said. She wore a yellow jumpsuit with blue sleeves and white stripes on the sleeves
"Looks like this sekirei has a very unstable output." Kakizaki said calmly while fixing his glasses. "We need to see if she's acceptable to be Higa's sekirei."
"Higa... He's the Ashikabi of the East." Homura thought and then chuckled with a light smile getting his attention. "I see. So this is the kind of game this is... It's too bad that you guys came here on a fool's errand. " Her smirk had faded and then turned her sights to MBI's main tower. "Minaka! If you think I'm a prize in this sick game you set up, THEN I'M GONNA MELT HERE ON THIS SPOT!" She yelled out to the tower. "NOW WITNESS THE WAY NUMBER SIX BURNS; MINAKA, YOU BASTARD!"
Elsewhere, Seishin felt the great flames Kagari formed from afar as the reflection of what's happening appeared in his eyes.
"We're almost there!" Seishin cried out to his sekireis and turned his sights back to the warm, yet faint glow near them. "Kagari, don't you die out on me! DON'T YOU DIE ON ME, NOW!" Seishin jumped high into the sky; higher than his sekireis actually and formed a cage... well, an arrow shaped cage of flames as Seishin flew up in a 45-degree angle despite the pain coming from his unstable power. He and the flames turned into a dragon as it roars made the skies tremble.
Back at the rooftop...
"Sorry..." She thought. "Miya, Takami, I can't..." As she closed her eyes, she remembered a few familuar voices...
"Dost thou call thyself my rival?"
"Tsukiumi..."
"I'm worried about you, Kagari... Everybody is..."
"Matsu..."
"Because we're friends and I want to help you. I don't want to see you suffer, Kagari. Please, let me help you."
"Especially you... Seishin... I'm sorry..."
(Song ends)
"DON'T YOU DIE ON ME... KAGARI!" Seishin's roar echoed as it snapped her back into reality, until she was doused by Tsukiumi's water.
"What the... Was that?" Homura wondered.
(Dynamic entry music began playing: Bleach OST: Chokkaku 30-second theme)
"What art thou doing, Homura?" Tsukiumi asked. "What did I say, I told thee before: I won't let thee stop."
Kagari was wide-eyed and awestruck that Tsukiumi appeared; and not only her arrived, but Musubi and the other sekirei arrived as well.
"Hey Kagari, we're here!" Musubi was second to arrive arrived, Kusano came in after this by floating on a leaf as bug as her, then Kazehana made a dazzling arrival with flower petals raining down around her.
"You guys..." Kagari said
"Hmph, looks like we made it..." Kagari and the orhers turned to the left of them to see a flaming tornado spinning around while staying still.
"Whoa...!" Musubi said as she was facinated at the tornado of flames.
In the tornado, Seishin'e eyes were closed, but when he opened them, his eyes were glowing like that of a dragon With one swing of his sword, the tornado dissolved away. He appeared wearing an ankle-length, flame-colored shihakushō with no sleeves, but exposing a bit of his chiseled chest and carried a katana the length of his leg that has the same flame designed color and mark of the dragon. He appeared in his Bankai: Banningsouru Reddnouva.
(Song ends)
"For making a grand appearance, you know how to make one even better, Seishin." Kazehana smirked. Seishin smiled and chuckled a little.
"Is that Sanada of the West?" Kakizaki wondered. "Wait that's not right, this guy's from the north... Is he..." He remembered the fight on the bridge and saw Seishin's fight against the Discipline Squad. "No... He's the man who helped orchastrate the Escape three months ago!"
"You guys... Not now." Uzume thought as she looked at Seishin and the others. "Not when we're so close!"
"Why did you guys come; what are you doing here?" Kagari asked them.
"We're here to save you, Kagari." Seishin replied as he turned to see her.
"Seishin..." Kagari felt her body reacting stronger to him. Seishin noticed her holding her git in like she's in pain. He attempts to help her out until... "Stay back, Samayou!" She cried. "I already told you, I don't need your sympathy!"
"It's not sympathy, Kagari!" Seishin said.
"That's right! it's not sympathy at all, Kagari." Musubi joined in. "We're here to collect the rent!"
Seishin looked at Musubi with a deadpan look and then face-palmed himself with the hilt of his zanpaktou.
"What's important here, is that we're here to save you, Kagari"
"Seishin..." Kagari said.
"Homura!" Tsukiumi called her name while looking away and crossing her arms under her endowed assets. "Thou made a fine mess decieving me. If thou dost return, be prepared..."
"Please Kagari!" Kusano spoke to her. "We've came here to help you!"
"You can't go out and kill the company president all on your own." Kazehana joined in. "The thoughts of my old love forever happy... But don't worry, I am totally over him."
"Something tells me she still have some feelings for Minaka..." Seishin's hollow said.
Seishin chuckled a little until he felt a strand of pain coarse through his body as he fell on one knee.
"Seishin!" Tsukiumi and the girls rushed to their aid. "Why would you risk doing this...?"
"Because thereare some sekirei near us... attempting to capture Kagari." Seishin said. "I can't... let her... be taken away. I will do all... I... can... to save her."
"Seishin..." Kagari thought as he watched him struggle to get up.
"Now... Honō Kurōn!" Seishin and his zanpaktou glowed like a candle in the night. As he glowed, five flames; the size of a human being were formed around him and then they turned into duplicates of himself. "Ok boys... now scatter and stop other sekirei and ashikabis from approaching this area."
The clones nodded and immediately left used flashstep.
"Are they our enemy?" The jumpsuit searing sekirei asked.
"Yes, they are..." Kakizaki said. "Especially the red haired one. However, to have a pre-emerged sekirei, broken or not, to be taken before our eyes would be an insult. We must stop them! Don't let them make that sekirei emerge."
The cloaked sekrei smirked and then removed her cloak, revealing herself as she wore a white underdress with a blue cloak like dress over it, she wore a red bow on her head and collar of her dress, and wore leg length boots.
"Alright, let's go!" She said in a sing-song voice. "And you'll be fighting along side us, huh Number Ten?"
"That's the Veiled Sekirei!" Tsukiumi said. "How lucky I should meet thee here."
"Hold on." Kazehana interrupted. "Number 10's all mine."
Suddenly flying spinning blades swooped around Tsukiumi, and then returned to where they came back to where they came from. Tsukiumi turned to see the girl performing a curtsy while she makes her introduction.
"My name is Oriha, I am Sekirei #101." She introduced. "Higa Izumi is my ashikabi."
"Fine, girl..." Tsukiumi said. "Thou has some cleaverness to bear blades at me, cowardly trollop! I am Number Nine, Tsukiumi!" She introduced herself while summoning a small wave of water aroun her with a large wave behind her. The power she unleashed made her hair and her clothes flow in the updraft. "Challenge me and I'll repay thee in spades!"
As Tsukiumi and Oriha prepares their fight, Musubi prepares to fight the jumpsuit wearing sekirei.
"My name's Musubi, Number Eighty-Eight and I'm a fist-type!" She introduced.
"My name is Number Eighty-Six, Katsuragi...," She said in a melancholic voice,"and I'm a foot-type."
"Let's go!" Musubi cried as she and Katsuragi began their Hand-to-Hand, er... Hand-to-Foot clash.
At the same moment, Kazehana prepares for her fight against the Veiled Sekirei: Uzume.
"You're not too surprising to see me here, huh Kazehana?" Uzume asked.
"I'm sure you have your reasons, but yes I was expecting you to be here." Kazehana said. "First you attacked Kuno three months ago, then the time you challenged me to a battle on that same day. Plus you almost said the incantation on the day Seishin returned from the hospital and then you left Maison Izumo without a trace. Did you think I wouldn't notice? Surely you've given us more credit for that huh?"
"Hmmm... You're right." Uzume confessed. "I guess I wasn't a match for you, Kazehana."
"I want to ask you one thing..." Kazehana said. "You're doing this for your ashikabi, aren't you?"
Uzume glared.
"That's the only cause for a sekirei to fight." Uzume replied. "What other reason is there?"
"It's love... true love! It's must be love!" Kazehana happily cried.
"Stop it; this is serious, Kazehana!" Uzume said in a slight deadpanned angered expression.
"Well then... That's about right for a sekirei, isn't it?" Kazehana asked rhetorically. "Alright then, I suppose I'll fight you; but you're gonna have to come at me with everything you got." Kazehana gets her game face going as she prepared to fight against Uzume.
"Ah, feeling confident in our fighting abilities, are we?" Uzume rhetorically asked. "Very well, I'll have to take advantage of that first hand. I'm glad to come at you anyday!"
As the battle grew more intense, Kazehana and Uzume began their clash.
Seishin watched as his sekireis are handling against their opponents, while he gets the opportunity to go save Kagari. As he took another step, a shockwave of pain from his power rapidly eaten up shook him like an earthquake. Regardless, he gets back up and walks to Kagari. Kakizaki then remembers who Seishin is.
"So that's him..." He said. "The Soul Reaper that allied with the Terrifying Monster in the North. He also helped with the Escape three months ago. He appears to be quite the skilled fighter since he's carrying that sword of his." While he was analyzing Seishin's information, Kusano appeared behind him. Just as he turned to see her, Kusano smirked and summoned several vines to tangle him up. "What the—Put me down right now!"
Kusano made a smug smirk not paying mind to Kakizaki.
"It looks like you've been..." Kusano donned a pair of sunglasses "Tangled up in this mess." Out of nowhere, the CSI Miami theme kicked in.
"Where is that song coming from?!" Kakizaki yelled.
Seishin made it to Kagari and kneeled down to her.
"Kagari, we didn't come here out of sympathy or anything else." Seishin pleaded. "We came to save you. I don't want to see you in pain or kill yourself trying to kill Minaka. Please I want to help you, please come back home with us."
"You're no different than anyone else, Seishin." Kagari said. "You're exactly the same as everyone else, especially Minaka."
"I'm not like them or anyone else, Kagari." Seishin said while Kagari's getting up.
"Kagari..." Seishin felt another strong pulse and fell on his arms and knees, dropping his zanpaktou.
"Does it matter how much power you got?" Kagari said. "Does it matter how many you saved?! Too bad you you Seishin, I'm broken... I'm a defective prototype. She showed him her exposed and scarred body. "Look at this Seishin... It's unsightly isn't it? My body's scarred so much from the power I possess that's unstable. I can't control it any longer and it seems that I am at my limit." Kagari began getting enveloped in the flames again.
"Kagari, you can't do this! Don't do this!" Seishin cried as he struggled to get up; tears began forming in his eyes due to the pain in his body and the sight of Kagari hurting inside.
"Don't you see, I don't deserve to live. I'm done..." Kagari said. "There's no point in stopping me, Seishin. I will burn myself out. I never had a life of my own...I can't get one... I'm nothing!"
"NO!" Seishin cried. "I WON'T LET YOU DO THIS!" He got back up, using all the strength he has in his body. Just as he ran for the flames, sparks appeared and surrounded his combat pass as it malfunctioned, disabling the enhanced durability he gained in his soul reaper form. As Seishin ran into the flames to hug Kagari, he began feeling the harsh flames burn his body bit by bit.
(Now playing Wake from Linkin Park's Minutes to Midnight album)
"What the!" Kagari cried. "Let me go, Seishin!" She attempts to break free but Seishin held her down tightly. Most of his soul reaper uniform was enveloped in the flames and burn marks were shown all over his only thing that's left was his pants that were burned from the lower leg up to his knees and half of his shirt.
"Don't you dare say that you're nothing Kagari!" Seishin said as he looked at her while enduring the burns. "Listen to me... You are a friend to Maison Izumo, Kagari and have been a friend of mine since Musubi and I first got here. When I was injured with Musubi, you helped heal us... When I didn't have a place to live around, you and Miya welcomed me to Maison Izumo."
"Please... Just let me go, Seishin..." Kagari said.
"No!" He cried. "Musubi and Ku wanted me to rescue you. Tsukiumi, want you to live because she thinks you were her worthy rival and she wants you to stay. Kazehana also want you to live as much as the three of them wanting you to. They're risking themselves to save you! Don't tell me there's no point, don't tell me it's a game, Kagari, because it's not a game!"
"Please... let me go." Kagari said. "I can't control the fire. Just give it up..."
"NO, I AM NOT GONNA LET YOU DIE LIKE THIS, KAGARI!" Seishin cried. "Remember the time you and I had talked three months ago. You knew of my secret as a Soul Reaper and the reason I am one...
Kagari then remembered that moment...
(Flashback )
Three months ago, Seishin was outside in his Soul Reaper form sitting outside by the tree where he first met Kusano. Kagari saw him sitting along and went to talk with him.
"So... all this time, you were a Soul Reaper?" Kagari asked.
"Yeah, I've been." Seishin chuckled. "I'm surprised Miya didn't tell you that."
"Yeah, I've been busy at my job alot so I've been left out on some things." Kagari replied. "So this is how you had saved Musubi, Kusano and Tsukiumi, right?"
"Yeah." Seishin said. "I became a Soul Reaper when my grandfather was one a long time ago. My grandfather's burning will to save those he cared and keep the peace is the one thing that passed down to my father and then to me. That burning spirit of mine isn't just a spirit, it's a beacon of hope... A light that shines through even the thickest of darkness."
"Tell me, Seishin... Why did you; a Soul Reaper, became an ashikabi?" Kagari asked.
"It wasn't by luck if that's what you've been thinking." He replied. "Musubi, kinda crashed into my life... literally after chasing and protecting her from other sekireis. She then became my sekirei afterwards. It was at that moment, when I chose to protect her and any other sekirei I'll meet."
"I see and if you managed to save the sekireis you met, will your goal be met?" Kagari wondered.
"No..." Seishin replied. "The goal to protect any sekirei I know is far from over, Kagari. There are 108 of you guys and doing this is a big task. However, when it comes down to the last sekirei left in Shinto Teiho, I will do my best... Absolutely anything to save them. My sekireis got my back and I got theirs. Count on it..."
Kagari smiled at his confidence.
(Flashback ended)
Those last words from her flashback made her realize that Seishin's words are entirely pure.
"I'll protect you, Kagari!" Seishin cried. "I'll help you live the life that you wanted and you won't feel lonely or hurt. You are someone I care about, not just a sekirei. You will finally be free from the darkness! I will change the Sekirei Plan... for Musubi, Kazehana, Matsu, Ku... Tsukiumi ,too and especially for you and all the other sekireis in Shinto Teiho... SO WE CAN ALL LIVE IN PEACE!
"Seishin..." Kagari thought as she felt her sekirei symbol glow."All this time, I thought you are just like Minaka or any other ashikabi. But I was wrong... Seishin, your words... They cut me deep like a gash from a sword or a burn from a raging flame. You're the only man I have reacted to, that opened the door to my heart. Now that I know... Then there's only one thing to do..."
Kagari looked at Seishin in the eyes and he looked back at her.
"Kagari..." He said.
"Seishin... All this time I, a defective sekirei didn't want an ashikabi because I am useless; thinking that there's no hope for me." Kagari said. "But I was wrong... Your words, your meanings and actions are like the sharpest sword; able to cut down anything. They are pure, just like that burning beacon of hope you have inside you. You make me want to have a reason to live."
"Kagari are you saying what I think you're saying?" Seishin asked as she placed her hands on his cheeks.
"Yes, Seishin... I've been reacting to you for sometime and now I'm ready..." Kagari said. "Seishin Samayou, I wish to be... your sekirei." With a quick response, Kagari began locking lips with the crimson haired Shinigami.
(Now playing climatic moment of "Wake")
"Way to go, Seishin..." Seishin's inner hollow said with a smile on his face as he watched him make Kagari emerge.
"Seishin..." Tsukiumi said his name.
"He finally did it!" Musubi cried.
Even Matsu saw what happened and was happy to see it.
"You did it, Seishin!" Matsu cried. "Way to go!"
"What's going on, Matsu?" Miya said.
"Well, this Samayou kept his word..." Matsu said. "Take a look!"
Miya leaned in to see Kagari kissing Seishin.
"Seishin... He finally did it." Miya said with a warm smile on her face. "Something tells me things are about to get exciting."
Back at the roof of the building near MBI, a pillar of light was formed and the flames around her were dissolved.
"Seishin... Thank you..." Kagari smiled a little as her sekirei wings were long flames shaped like feathers and the sekirei symbol appeared on her back.
"What is this strange feeling? The flames are subsiding..." Kagari thought. "The heat is fading; the all consuming pain is finally gone. It felt like all the power I kept separate from my body is released and is intwining with my soul..."
As she felt her body return to normal, she then remembered something Takehito said to her.
(Flashback)
"Homura, you're a special sekirei, so I doubt any ashikabi would make you emerge." Takehito said. "But don't worry, it's only for right now. An ashikabi's true power, is the power of fate. As theit fates will grow stronger and their bonds become tighter, only then the ashikabi's true power can be revealed. I am certain that someone will be able to reach out to you. They will embrase their fate, they will find you... Your ashikabi will come."
(Flashback and song ends.)
Kagari regained her consciousness and then noticed Seishin on his knees, scarred with burn marks from the shoulders downward.
"Seishin!" Kagari cried out to him as she rushed out to aid him. "Are you alright?"
Seishin coughed a little. "Other than being covered in burn marks and soot, I am just fine."
"You could've died from that much fire." Kagari said.
"Yeah, I could've..." Seishin said, "but at least I've lived to tell the tale."
Kagari smiled and leaned closer to Seishin as she gave him a hug despite her cleavage touching his face.
"It's an honor to be your sekirei, Seishin." Kagari said while smiling and blushing a bit
"Likewise, Kagari." Seishin said. "I'm happy that I'm your ashika—wait, what's that I'm smelling?" He asked.
Kagari then noticed smoking coming from behind Seishin.
"Seishin, your butt's on fire..." Kagari answered.
"Great balls of fire!" Seishin cried while running around panicking in a cartoony gesture. "MY BUTT IS FLAMING! MY BUTT IS FLAMING! MY BUTT IS -" Seishin was interrupted by Tsukiumi's Water Celebration as it sent him flying into a wall, despite the fire on his derriere out finally. "Thank you... Tsukiumi..." Seishin said as he fell off the wall and fallen to the floor, head first. Kagari giggled.
"I may have told thee to wed her, but for my husband to kiss another person besides me!" Tsukiumi growled as she summoned a ball of water the size of an small monster truck. Her hair and clothes flowed in the updraft. Oriha was shocked at the power the Water Sekirei possess.
(Now playing intense music: Soul Eater Theme Song)
Musubi's fight against Katsuragi continued. Clash after clash, one evasion after another... the two hand combat sekriei fought with their all. After one last clash the two stood their ground.
"Hey, I just realize something..." Musubi said.
"Huh?" Katsuragi wondered.
"I have it... in my heart." Musubi said. "I've always have it... the beast that's in my heart. A big black bear, waiting to be unleashed!
As Katsuragi was about to charge at Musubi, she saw the aura in the shape of a black bear. She was shocked at it's power and froze in place out of fear.
"How did she get so much power?!" She wondered. "Could it be her bond with that ashikabi of hers?" Then she saw Musubi charge her right fist as she prepared her final attack.
"KUMA-KEN!" Musubi announced her attack as she drove her enpowered fist hard into Katsuragi's stomach, sending her flying in a 360-degree arrow spin towards the other side of the roof, effetively defeating her. Katsuragi's sekirei symbol on her back then faded away.
Back to Tsukiumi's battle against Oriha, Oriha launched her flying discs of doom towards her.
"This stuff not amuse me." Tsukiumi said as she stood her ground, slightly evading oriha's discs like they were nothing and while they were away, she clashed with Oirha's discs with her water attacks, until they landed beside her.
"What's going on?" Oriha said.
"I am not at all amused!" Tsukiumi announced while gritting her teeth as the water she controls manifests into a body with 8 long serpant heads sprouting out of it. Tsukiumi unleashed her new move: The Eight Headed Water Serpent. "Slither forth my water snakes! She commanded them to advance towards the sekirei that dressed like she was in a fairy tail story. Oriha panicked and started running away from the snakes.
"Go away, I hate snakes!" Oriha cried until she was stood in between a rock and a hard place... almost literally. She mustered up her pride and threw her disc towards Kusano's vines, freeing Kakizaki.
"Ouch!" He said as he landed on his back.
(Song ends)
"Hey, what's wrong with you; why are you captured,Kakizaki?" Oriha asked him in a slightly stern voice.
"How shameful." Kakizaki muttered as he stood up and fluffed the dirt off his suit. "Apparently, we arrived too late. Number 06 has been emerged..."
"Yeah and they got Katsuragi, too." Oriha said as she glared at Tsukiumi. Tsukiumi prepares to attack her again, until Seishin stopped her. "What the...; what is he doing?" Seishin stopped and turned to them while the bangs of his untamed hair covered his eyes as he looked slightly down.
"Hey you..., the freak in the business suit." Seishin called him in a cold manner.
"You little punk!" Kakizaki muttered. "Who the hell do you think you're ta—" Seishin interrupted them by an instantaneous weakened cero as it nearly missed them on purpose, grazing Kakizaki's cheek. Uzume was surprised at Seishin standing up to them
"Let me guess..." Seishin commented. "This Higa person... Is he your boss?" Kakizaki scoffed.
"Hey, just watch what you're sa—" Oriha yelled to Seishin until she flinched back from another weakened cero that almost hit her foot.
"As I was saying..." Seishin continued. "Give this message to that bastard boss of yours... Tell him that as long as I am still standing... I won't let you or anyone else harm my sekirei. Otherwise you'll have to answer to me. Also, if he wants to hunt sekireis...HE SHOULD STOP SENDING YOU TO DO HIS DIRTY WORK!"
Kagari and the others all looked at Seishin as he stood strong.
"Seishin..." Kagari thought.
"You can't tell Master Higa what to do, Soul Reaper!" Oriha yelled as she threw her razor sharp disc at Seishin. He simply tilted his head to the right as it almost completely missed him. The disc left a cut on his left cheek and some of the blood got on the disc and a little beside his left foot. Seishin then felt the cut on his cheek and with his glowing red eye, he glared at Oriha while his spiritual pressure rose. Oriha and Kakizaki felt the overwhelming power he carried.
"If you throw that disc again the next shot with my cero won't miss." Seishin said as he stuck his left finger out and a crimson cero began charging. Oriha grew scared and heeded his warning.
"Y-Yes... s-sir..."Oriha replied. Seishin nodded and turned back to Kakizaki.
"If we ever meet again, I will personally kick both you and Higa's butts all over Shinto Teiho." Seishin said as he raised his left fist in front of his face. "Now that you got that message, it's best you start retreating... Now that I saved Homura."
"Damn that Soul Reaper." Kakizaki thought as he and Oriha were about to leave.
"Get going... RIGHT NOOOOOOOW" Seishin yelled with a hollowfied roar while a hollowfied visage made of his flaming spiritual pressure appeared, intimitating both Oriha and Kakizaki as the two retreated. Not to mention startled Uzume as she attempts to make the fatal blow.
"Number 10, we're leaving." Oriha said. Uzume scoffed.
"Well, you heard them." Kazehana said.
"I guess you're right." Uzume replied with a smirk. "Just when it's getting fun... Oh well. Until then, Kazehana..." She followed Kakizaki and Oriha as they retreated.
"I gotta admit, that was quite a show you made, Seishin." Kagari said to him.
Seishin chuckled for a second and then he fell to his knees. Tsukiumi, Ku, Kagari, and Kazehana all went to help him up.
"Husband, are thou ok?" Tsukiumi asked him feeling concerned.
"You should be more careful, Seishin." Kagari said to him.
"I'll... be fine." Seishin said as he catches his breath while he dehollowfied. "All that matters is that you're ok, Kagari." Kagari smiled with a blush on her face. "As for you guys... I thank you for saving her as well... Wait, where's Musubi?"
Seishin turned and the others turned to find Musubi as she stood alongside the now-terminated sekirei, Katsuragi.
"Musubi..." Seishin's inner hollow thought.
"What's she doing?" Kusano asked.
"She's doing the honorable thing in a sekirei battle." Seishin said. "When a sekirei ceases functioning, the winner of the sekirei battle must stand and watch over her, until MBI arrives..."
Musubi waited until an MBI chopper flew to their location. She then turned to Seishin and smiled.
"I'm ready if you are." Musubi said.
"Ok." Seishin replied and turned to Kagari. "Come on, Kagari. Let's go home... Together."
"I will be honored, Seishin." Kagari smiled at him.
Back at Maison Izumo...
"That was close..." Matsu sighed in relief.
"No..." Miya said cutting her off. "I'm afraid it has just begun."
"What...? What has begun...?" Matsu asked
"The Game has changed and Teiho will be the stage it's set on." Miya replied.
Back to the rooftop near MBI, Kagari was about to walk with them until she suddenly passed out.
"Kagari!" Seishin caught her and carried her in a bridal fashion.
"Is she going to be ok?" Musubi asked.
"Of course, thou chatterbox." Tsukiumi said.
"Let's go home, guys." Seishin said as he began jumping over roofs, returning home with his sekirei behind him. "I have a omminus feeling about this... Now that all 108 sekireis have been emerged, the REAL plan of the Sekirei Game has begun. Minaka, I will look for you...I will find you... and I will end this game... Personally."
As Seishin flys through the town, his left eye turned from its normal colors to an inverted black sclera and red glowing cornea. Back at the rooftop, MBI's Dog: Karasuba arrived to where the battle was located. She stopped to see a drop of blood on the ground. As she scooped it up with two fingers and tasted its savoring flavor, Karasuba felt something different... Her powers mixed with Seishin's spiritual pressure made her stronger than before. She smirked wryly with her eyes wide open as she felt the tremendous power flowing in her.
"Just keep getting stronger, Musubi... and you too, Seishin..." Karasuba said. "I am looking forward to our destined fights when the time comes..." Karasuba began chuckling a little which built up to a maniacal laugh as it echoes the night sky.
Matsu: Yes, Seishin you did it! You saved Kagari!
Seishin: I'm just happy Kagari's safe from harm now.
Kagari: I owe you my life Seishin. Thank you so much for saving me. *She blushed a little*
Seishin: It's no problem, I'm just happy you- *Was interrupted when Kagari french-kissed Seishin deeply and her wings were shown again.*
Kazehana: So much love in the air, isn't there? *Chuckles and watches them.*
Tsukiumi: Seishin! Cease this posthaste! *Seishin blushed a dark red until Kagari released him from her kiss.*
Seishin: *Saying gibberish while being dazed from the long and passionate kiss.*
Tsukiumi: That's it! Water... *Seishin shook his head and regained himself until he saw Tsukiumi preparing his watery punishment.*
Seishin: Not again!
Tsukiumi: Celebration! *Fires a beam of water at Seishin, but he dodged it at the last second and began running for his life.*(Now playing Yakety Sax... again) Get thee back here, Seishin and face thy punishment like a man!
Kagari: Well, guys... That's it for this chapter. Taka2012 will return but with something new in planned for his next story. Sekirei EX II will resume once his side project's done. Once we return, we'll resume up to a story idea thanks to a fan of his which may happen next chapter or the after that. On behalf of Taka2012, This is Kagari, signing off...
*Seishin screamed as he got soaked to the bone by Tsukiumi again. Kagari giggled as she was turning the camera off*