SEKIREI- HEART OF DARKNESS

by TheMaroonWarrior

A young man with a troubled past is suddenly thrust into a game that will destroy any chance he had left at a normal life, but perhaps this is the start of a new beginning for our hero, the chance hes always wanted to get the one thing he could never have...Love, follow Jun Yeager, Karasuba, Yume and others as they embark on a journey that will change the world. please review

21. Chapter 21

SEKIREI HEART OF DARKNESS CHAPTER 21

"If your going through Hell, keep going"

-Winston Churchill

For almost three days Jun and his sekirei simply laid around the house and had fun, with all the commotion around Juns Reaper position nobody had really accepted the family's two new members...Akitsu and Shiina, both sekirei had pretty different personality's but fortunately they fit in PERFECTLY.

Akitsu and Yume had instantly become comrades with Yume making extensive use of Akitsus subservient personality, she could get SO many dished cleaned and meals made with a second set of hands that was willing to help with ANYTHING, but much further than that there was real sisterhood between the two sekirei, Yume was always trying to bring out the "light" in people. She firmly believed that all people were inherently good, a fact made apparent by Yumes continued support of Karasuba, a sekirei infamous for her darkness.

In the case for Akitsu it wasn't that she was "dark" or "light" it was just that she was willing to do anything if she thought Jun would like it...she had NO individuality...she was like a robot...but every once in while "something" would shine through, a little spark of a person under all that...ICE.

Yume saw it as well and id anything she could to bring it out, she even got sexual with Akitsu just to see if she would get any kind of reaction...she didn't...unless it was Jun doing the talking, NOTHING seemed to get through Akitsus ice armor...figuratively...her actual ice armor was also VERY tough, not even a point blank shot from one of Juns ANTI TANK RIFLES could pierce it...

Now shiina was a whole different animal, He was docile, honest, smart, and CUTE he was basically like a mini Homura but a little less "play boy" and a little more "Minato" actually that was one of the first things Jun noticed about Shiina once he really sat down and talked with the boy...he was ALLOT like Minato...he had all the same traits accept shiina had a little more self confidence then the "ashikabi of the north'

Karasuba and Homura had taken a HUGE liking to shiina, the ashen haired sekirei always had a liking for the "little ones" or the younger sekirei, but she had what amounted to a "big step sister" crush on shiina. Karasuba and Homura had both taken the young shiina under their black and fire wings, they were biological siblings and although shiina wasn't directly related to them he did fit perfectly with them, Karasuba, Homura, and Shiina all looked liked three siblings, with their grey, ashen, and silver hair they were like a matched set.

In the days since Karasubas return from Takamis surgery and Jun taking back control of his life, Karasuba and Homura had formed a new relationship with each other, finally embracing each other as brother and sister and truly understanding what it means to be siblings...they were a sight to behold.

Jun had a habit of turning anything he could "badass" so it was only natural that he made their paring offical, Jun had new battle plans for the whole sekirei plan and one of them was Karasuba and homura becoming a perfect duo, he called them...

"SHADOW AND FLAME"

Jun had a BIG smile on his face when he told them their new code names...

Not only had the family really come together in the few days since "the incident" but they also were training hard every minute of every day, Yume was the strongest out of all of them and Karasuba was a close second, Homura and Akitsu were pretty even and while Yahan and Shiina were both insanely powerful, they were still young and had allot too learn. A task that Karasuba and Yume were glad to take on.

After the fourth day it was time to act, the last sekirei had been winged and the plan was now in full swing, battles were already starting everywhere and there were vast rumors of sekirei and ashikabis about to try and make a mass escape from the city.

Needless to say MBI was cracking down HARD on Shinto Teito, in order to justify the massive lock down of the city MBI simply staged several large scale "terrorist" attacks.

Men in Military gear and scary masks attacked various high population areas throughout the city, killing a few hundred people and bringing fear into the people, needless to say Juns large scale attack four days ago didn't help either, MBI linked that attack to the others they staged and even had their "terrorists" dress up like Jun did, going as far as using the same skull masks, gear and weapons.

With the family now completely committed to the sekirei plan it was time to make allies, so their first stop would be Izumo Inn to plan with Minato, Jun would have to explain the attacks the other night but he already planed for that, the next Ashikabi would be Sannada of the west, Shiina had informed Jun that he saved the young sekirei and asked that in return Jun meet with him...apparently Sanada was interested in a partnership with Jun, from what he heard about him, Sanada seemed like just the kind of guy Jun would like...

MASON IZUMO

10:30 A.M.

Sekirei number 2 Matsu, the wisdom sekirei, typed away on her super computer hacking into Russian military files to study anything they have learned about the sekirei or the sekirei plan, there had been MANY invasions of Kamakura island and out of all of them the Russians had been the most successful in gaining information on the sekirei. All of the invasions were a failure in the end, but at least the Russians managed to infiltrate the facilities and gather some information, they didn't know they were aliens, as far as the world knew the sekirei were super soldiers but the Russians had more in depth information on their physiology...they were the only ones who knew that sekirei needed something called an "Ashikabi" to function at full power, they thought this was a power source not an actual human being.

As Matsu was finishing up she got an encoded message through her servers, Matsu narrowed her eyes and cracked her fingers to prepare for a hacking battle, she clicked on the message to see it was from the Ashikabi of the south, Jun Yeager, offering to meet up to discuss the sekirei plan and a possible team up...

Matsu didn't know for SURE that Jun was the one behind the other nights attacks...but Miya seemed to be sure...Miya had been acting strange lately. She was speaking in cryptic words by referring to Minato as the "angel" and Jun as the "fallen angel" or Minato as the "bridge" and Jun as the "pillar...Miya didn't seem all that angry or disappointed about Juns actions...it was like she knew something they all didn't...whatever it was it didn't matter, because if the mother of all sekirei and the most powerful being on the planet trusted Jun then Matsu saw no reason why she couldn't or any of her comrades or ashikabi couldn't...

Matsu moved the mouse over the icon and clicked on it, she then pressed the "yes" tab on the message to confirm the meet up. Jun replied with a friendly smiling face and a "see ya soon, 11 sound good?" Matsu chuckled at Juns child like texting, for such a legendary warrior he sure was immature..."sure, Miya will be happy to see you, see you soon"

JUNS APARTMENT

Jun logged off the computer and turned to his sekirei, who were all dressed in their normal sekirei clothing plus extra combat gear...

Jun gave his sekirei more combat gear and traditional warrior decorations to augment his sekireis looks,

For example Karasuba had full leather pants instead of the usual boots, these leather pants also had light armor to protect her usually vulnerable legs, and at the ankle she had fur cuffs made from wolfs fur to better accent her look, they flared out at the bottom in these big bundles of fur and gave her a more ancient warrior look...he also gave her a light weight tactical vest for some extra blades like throwing knives and two katanas plus three kodachis, now Karasuba had her regular long sword, two katanas she could duel wield(Jun thought she would look badass with two swords) and several short swords plus throwing knives, she was like a walking chef kitchen but she was now 10 times more dangerous...

her discipline coat now had a small hood she could pull over to protect her no shorter hair, and she had a bandit style skull mask with a wolfs teeth instead of human teeth to make her look more intimidating.

other than that her outfit was the same accept they cut down her mini skirt to better fit with the full leather pants...and boy were they sexy...tight leather pants showing off Karasubas best feature...her LEGS.

All of Juns sekirei had similar customized outfits...

Homura had a skull mask now and a fire resistant long coat, plus gauntlets with built in flame throwers so he could could concentrate his fire into better shapes.

Yume had the leather pants and leather top look Karasuba had accept she ditched the long coat in favor of extra armor, Karasuba needed to be fast and agile with her swords while Yume was like the family's tank, she could dish out maximum damage but would be slower with the extra armor, it was still light weight leather but she had allot of it with various straps and buckles hanging off her arms and legs, she then wore an extremely light weight and flowing ninja top too conceal the majority of the armor, and of course a skull mask to augment her already frightening outfit

Yahan had a full body Ninja suit, it was sealed to the environment and had all kinda of bells and whistles to allow her the full ninja arsenal of throwing stars, sai blades, kama blades, chain whips...etc,etc...she kept her black cape which now doubled as a cloaking cape, the one Jun used to wear which allowed the user to turn invisible as long as they weren't moving too much. A black hood to cover her head and face and a bandit style skull mask.

Akitsu had a very similar design to Yume accept with much less armor to allow her to create more ice weapons, she kept the long white robes but now wore light weight leather armor underneath instead of nothing at all, she had a skull mask with a more sharp design to fit her ice persona.

Shiina had a commando skirt over some urban camouflage combat pants, black combat top with a light tactical vest for various small weapons and grenades, mostly stayed light weight to allow him to jump around and use his "death powers" effectively, although Jun provided him with an energy shield to better act in his defensive role, and of course a full face skull mask with little horns of the top to better give him a "little devil" look.

All in all the sekirei basically had the same overall looks as their original outfits but this time the were more focused on combat than "looking sexy" like the standard outfits did, sekireis outfits weren't really what someone would think super powered alien gladiators would where, and while jun wanted to keep to overall looks of them, he also wanted them to have light armor for protection, clothing and gear to better match their powers and personality, and of course skull masks because Jun just couldn't help his inner teenager...they weren't "Halloween" though...they were just ski masks or bandannas with skull prints on them, the kind special fores wore when they wanted to scare the shit out of their targets, like "ghost" from the popular Call of duty video games.

Jun himself had to better take the role of the Ashikabi so instead of going full commando like he always did he just wore some civilian clothes, he still had some light weapons like handguns an knives, plus a grenade or two but he wanted to be able to walk in public, he also needed to better play the game so instead of leading in combat he would sit back and command like all Ashikabis did, he had some tight faded dark jeans, a grey t shirt, and a black Adidas track jacket with the classic three stripes down the sleeves, plus some nice bright red Nike sneakers, of course he had to still have some weapons...but nobody would notice the two 45.s under his jacket.

IZUMO INN

11:10 A.M.

Jun pulled up on his Motorcycle, he got off alone with his sekirei taking the rooftops to better protect him, they jumped down and landed in a defensive circle around their ashikabi, moving with him to keep up a constant line of defense, with Karasuba acting as his personal body guard and the only one outside their circle.

Jun singled for his sekirei to remove their masks and button up any robes or long coats they had to give a more friendly appearance...

Miya answered the door, "hello Jun-kun, please come in-"

Miya scowled as soon as she spotted Karasuba, Jun huffed...this was going to be interesting.

Miya took a protective position in front of Jun, pulling the young man behind her and pointing her finger accusingly at the ashen haired sekirei...

"Jun-kun, what is SHE doing here, you said this was a peaceful visit..."

"You DARE lay hands upon MY Master!?"

"Last time i checked YOU were the one who put hands on poor little Jun-kun, you TORTURED him! you ev-"

Miya immediately stopped when she realized something...karasuba referred to Jun-kun as...Master. Also when Miya mentioned the torture Karasuba put her head down in shame, she even looked chocked up, like she was going to cry.

Miya retracted her finger and let Jun go from her protective grasp, Yume stepped forward with a solemn look."Miya-sensei...our sister had changed, she IS better now I assure you..."

Miya had to listen to yumes words as she was the one who brought the injured Jun to her home that dreadful night. Miya straightened up and stepped aside with her arm extended in greeting to her home...

Jun bowed gratefully and took Karasubas hand in a show of trust and love for his formerly violent sekirei. Jun entered the Inn with his sekirei in tow, Homura gave Miya a kiss on her hand as he entered and Miya pulled him into a hug, happy to see her former tenant again. "Homura, is it true..." Miya whispered into his ear as she pulled back from the hug.

"yes Miya-sama, My Sister had changed for the better, shes a completely different person now."

Miya was taken aback again by Homuras referral of Karasuba as his SISTER, Miya always knew they were biological siblings like Musubi and Yume but she never thought in a million years that Homura would actually see Karasuba as his sister...this was truly a sign from the gods that something really had changed...and for the BETTER.

Jun and his sekirei entered the Inn to be confronted by a barrage of greetings, sarcastic remarks, teasing, hugs, kisses, and general friendship.

In between the barrage of love and teasing Jun spotted Minato across the living room, the young man gave Jun a sorrowful look and signaled for them to retreat to deeper inside the inn to allow them a private talk...Jun knew where this was going, but it was understandable, Minato was the most pure hearted person he'd ever met and while it did kinda piss Jun off just how "good" Minato was, he also understood that this was probably just jealousy...Minato was the man Jun always wanted to be...a good man.

Jun crept past the commotion and up the stairs to follow Minato into his room, he walked in and closed the door behind them, Minato took a seat in his chair by the window and his desk while Jun sat on the floor in a submissive position, he had been studying Japanese culture so he knew a little more of what to do in these kinda situations...

"Jun-san, lets get straight to the point, while i would want nothing better than to be your partner through this "game"...i also cant work with a killer...please explain yourself."

Jun was almost in shock...this was NOT the Minato he remembered, the kid had done some growing up and it SHOWED big time.

"My life up to this point had been nothing but going from serving one psychopath to another, up until recently i was still the dog of one such master and i still needed to fulfill my duties, that was the attacks and while i have no excuse for what i have done i want you to know that if i could have had it ANY other way i would have, the truth is i had NO other choice, i know that doesn't sound very true to somebody like you but it is...all i can say is that like my sekirei Karasuba, i have changed for the better, you will never have to worry about my faithfulness or morality ever again Minato-san, on that i can sear in my own BLOOD"

Jun bowed down to Minato, while it felt kinda strange bowing down to not only someone who was younger then him, but somebody that he could literally take apart with his bare hands...Jun had to admit that he had no rights in this situation, Minato was in the right and he wasn't...

"If Miya-san trusts you than so do i, i accept your apology Jun-san...lets forge a new partnership and threw that we can free the sekirei that we all love so much"

"thank you Minato, but only on one condition"

Minato have Jun a questioning gaze...

Jun pulled a knife from his pants pocket and switched the blade open, he then cut a straight line across his hand and extended the bloody palm towards Minato, handing him the blade at the same time...

Minato gulped a little but nodded, he steadily took the blade and was about to cut in slowly when Jun helped him by sliding it fast, Mianto winced but Jun assured him it was better then doing it slow...

Jun and Minato connected hands, the blood pouring from their palms and mixing together as one, "we are now Brothers reborn in blood...i hope you understand what that means..."

Minato nodded, this was obviously some tradition from Juns home country, and although Minato didn't know anything about Juns warrior culture...he had to admit...that was pretty cool.

Just as they were pulling back Minato slipped on some of the blood that dropped on the floor and brought Jun down with him, Jun landed on top of Minato as they crashed in a heep...

Just then the door swung open and All the sekirei came pouring in to see what the noise was, where their ashikabis had went, and why they felt their boys were bleeding.

What the sekirei saw garnered mixed reactions from all who gazed upon the seen...

Minato was lying under Jun with his legs spread and Juns waist positioned right in the center, with Minatos legs slightly encircling Juns back side, Minatos head was back and his face was flushed and he was breathing a little heavy, Jun too looked a little tired and...and their was blood on the floor!

Kazenhana chimed in with a bottle of saki in her hand "i would say you boys had a rough session what with all the blood but you kinda need to have your clothes off to do that...isn't that right Minato" The buxom women said with a wink.

Karasuba too had the "you better explain before i cut your heart out with a spoon" face, which basically meant one of her EXTREMELY terrifying smiles.

Yume and Miyas demons formed around behind them, while Musubi and the other younger sekirei looked confused as to why this was so bad...and Tsukiumi along with Homura were muttering things of both anger and jealousy.

20 MINTUES LATER.

After the incident was sorted out Minato and his sekirei plus Jun and his converged in the living room and began discussing heir own experiences with the sekirei plan, The more powerful and mature sekirei stayed silent the whole time while the younger ones asked questions and joined in on the conversation.

After it was finished Jun and his family were invited to stay for lunch, a proposal they gladly accepted as Yume was more than eager to show off her new cooking skills to her former teacher Miya...

Of course the portions were WAY to big for Minato and Jun but they stuffed down as much as they could before they felt like they were going to explode, even the usually food deprived Karasuba ate just as much as her sekirei sisters...

After Lunch everyone kinda went and did there own thing, all the younger ones went and took a bath together while the older ones converged amonst each other...

Akitsu and Tskuimi did a tag team against Homura and Kazehana with Yume training With Musubi, Shiina and Kuu played in the garden to re adjust to being together after so long apart and Yahan joined Matsu up in her tech lab to discuss "experiments" and other very inappropriate girl talk...

the only ones left were Karasuba and Miya, the two power houses eyed each other from across the yard before finally silently agreeing to go up on the roof and talk...it was time to finally settle things, Jun and Minato looked at each other nervously when they saw the demon and the wolf go onto the roof...but they had faith that they could work it out, besides Karasuba left all her blades behind...always a good sign.

ROOF TOP OF MASON IZUMO

Karasuba and Miya sat next to each other looking over the large "city of battles"

For at least five solid minutes the two sekirei sat together in COMPLETE silence, Karasuba was just trying to find the words to start with...what could she say?

Before Karasuba could even formulate a sentence she felt a hand running through her hair...the LAST thing she thought would happen.

Karasuba turned to see Miya looking at her with admiring eyes, almost lusty, her hand running through Karasubas ashen hair slowly and...lovingly...Miya began scratching little sensitive parts and Karasuba gradually relaxed into the touch...

"what happened? its short now...it was always so long and flowing, if there's one thing ive always loved about you its the hair...it really completes your look you know?"

Karasuba began chucking at the totally casual way Miya was going about this, two sworn enemies sitting next to each other and they open with hair talk...

"something happened...im going to grow it back out" Karasuba said with a light chuckle, she half leaned into her elders shoulder but didn't fully commit...

"come here baby, let me hold you" Miya said lovingly as she gently put her hand around her younger sisters shoulder and slowly pulled her down into her lap, Miya hadn't done this since the first few weeks of their emergence...it felt so good to hold Karasuba again, she used to be so cute when they were little...with that mature ashen hair and her little red eyes.

Karasuba relented and laid down in Miyas lap, putting her head on her soft thighs and curling up to her big sister in a submissive position. Miya began stroking her hair and lower back. Miya brought her hand over to Karasubas upper stomach, just under her breasts and right above her stomach where her scar was...where Miya cut her open...

Both sekirei looked down to the street right in front of the Inn, where there "battle" took place just after Takehito sacrificed himself for all the sleeping sekirei and Karasuba brought Miya his lab coat in an act of gloating and victory over her rival, Miya didn't even give Karasuba the time of day...she just speed blitzed her and sliced her from end to end with her bare hands...WITH HER BARE HANDS.

Karasuba just laid there in her own blood and looked on in AWE at the sheer power of the sekirei she considered a "rival" implying that the two were closely matched...not even close...course that was a long time ago back when they were almost Juns age...and granted if it had been fair Karasuba would have certainly gotten a few good hits in but in the end it was obvious that there was no rivalry...the reason?

Did Karasuba not have the skill...no, she had the skill...shes ALWAYS had the skill...did she not have the heart?...no, Karasuba had no heart at the time so that cut the problem out entirely...was she not there mentally...no, Karasuba was always ready for a fight at any time and any place so her mind was trained to switch on and off from combat mode to relax mode at the drop of a coin...so what was it?...simple...LOVE.

In that moment Miya wasn't a god like alien, she was a women who lost her love...probably the most dangerous thing on the planet next to a nuclear bomb...Karasuba had NO love, if she was a human that could work, after all not all Humans are made to love...but shes not a human...shes a SEKIREI...the very word captures everything that is love and affection for another, its in a sekireis very CORE, their soul, their being, to love. Its what they are...if humans could be described in one word it would probably be somewhere along the lines of War, Hate, Greed, and despair...if a sekirei could be described in one word...LOVE...no question about it, so logic dictates that a sekirei without love is the weakest a sekirei could be, and karasuba had absolutely ZERO love...

Now though things were different, she had love alright...her daily sessions with Jun proved that...and with love came the destruction of all that blackness and hate, Karasuba no longer had any desire to hurt Miya...none whatsoever...she could lay in the lap of the women who once cut her end to end and left her bleeding to death in the street and feel totally happy, she didn't want revenge...all she wanted was love like any sekirei does.

"i never thought out of all people YOU would be the one i did this kind of thing with..." Karasuba said with a little laugh.

"ive been waiting for this for a LONG time, Yume reassured me all these years that we would one day be able to do "this kinda thing"...you have an irreplaceable friend in Yume, every sekirei should be so lucky."

"i know Miya...i know"

The two stayed like that for god knows how long until the sounds of training and laughing died down and the others returned to the house, Miya and Karausba slowly got out of there position and made there way into the house, before they opened the door however Miya lightly grabbed Karasubas shoulder and turned her around.

"you know if you want to have that world ending sword fight you've always wanted we can do it in some desert somewhere...ive always been curious as well"

"looking forward to it, though ill have you know ive gotten ALLOT better"

"i can see, especially with all those blades you got strapped on, can you handle all of those at once?"

Karasuba chuckled and gestured to her Ashikabi sitting at the table with the others, "actually i can but Master thought it would be...badass...i don't think he cared if i could actually use them, he just wanted me to "look cool" haha"

"hahaha that sounds like something Jun would do, though seeing that you CAN its going to make things a whole lot more interesting" Miya said with a demonic aura taking hold, a wide grinned hannya mask beginning to float over he face.

Karasubas eyes lit up like those of a wolf and she barred her sharp teeth.

Both women began cackling insanely at the thought of their sword fight to end all sword fights...

Jun and Minato emerged just in time to see them and immediately ran back inside at the site of the two demonic creatures relishing in the potential carnage and destruction.

"Musubi! does thou have no shame! i do not understand why thou cannot leave Yume-sama alone! also where is Minato and Jun!" Tsukiumi yelled in frustration, Musubi was clinging on to her sister, she was like a grizzly bear with the mind of a six year old...she also forgot just how STRONG she was sometimes.

Yume was trying her best to give Musubi some guidance and hopefully make her a little more mature...key word...TRYING.

"oh Sister you've gotten so strong! look at your abs!" Musubi chirped and poked Yumes hard stomach that showed through her leather top, like a little child poking at something she found interesting...the big number 8 tattoo on Yumes stomach.

The practice battle between Akitsu, Yume and Homura, Kaehana almost ended in a draw however Yumes strength proved to be enough for Kazehana, Homura and Akitsu had taken each other out leaving only the wind and light sekireis to duke it out...while kazehana was extremely powerful, easily among the best of all the sekirei, she couldn't overpower Yume in the end...everyday Yumes powers increased and increased, soon she would be even as powerful as Miya, that was inevitable.

Jun, Minato, Miya, and Karasuba rejoined the others at the dining table for the remainder of their stay. After about another hour Jun and his sekirei rounded up and said there good byes, everyone was in high spirits and for the first time since the two ashikabis joined this insane game they felt HOPE...hope that things just might turn out well, all they had to do was trust in each other and their sekirei and things would be just fine.

Jun and his sekirei said their goodbyes under a barrage of hugs, kisses and yelling on Tsukiumis part, Jun and Minato left on great terms with their now blood sealed pact they were confident that the sekirei plan could be avoided and their loves could be safe from ever having to fight each other.

As Jun rounded the corner of the street to get on his parked motorcycle a bottle hit him in the back of the head, Jun turned to see a few dumb ass teenagers in a car with one hanging out the window with a stupid little smirk on his face..."get out of our country you fucking Mando!" The one teen yelled, Jun barred his teeth and clenched his fists at the mention of the racial word "Mando" The kids saw his look and immediately gunned it down the streets at top speed...

Jun simply stood in the small parking lot looking at his own reflection in a puddle of water, his silver hair and blood red eyes a tell tale give away of the county he was from...a country that was hated and despised even though it longer existed and its people were all MURDERED.

Normally Jun didn't mind the racism against him or his kind, these people didn't matter anyway, the were mindless drones who hated him simply because the assholes on the news said his kind were "terrorists"...those kids have never even been out of Shinto teito let alone experience the things Jun has...when he was their age he was fighting for his life just to get a piece of bread or a matt to sleep on...these fucking kids these days didn't know what it meant to have to FIGHT just to survive day in day out.

So Jun usually didn't get too worked up about the racist idiots...but...this was different...he was no longer a reaper, at least not an official one...he felt human again and with that feeling came all the old human emotions that were locked away from his reaper powers...he wanted to HURT those kids...BADLY...he wanted to make them PAY for DARING to use his country's name in such a disgusting way...

Jun didn't even realize that his sekirei had come to see what was taking so long, when they saw Jun simply standing there staring into his reflection they got worried, they saw what looked like an apple, like somebody had hit jun with it...which confused the sekirei.

Sekirei didn't have any concept of racism, they couldn't understand why someone would hate another person simply because of the color of their skin or the country their from, sekirei were pure creatures...unlike humans...

"Master?" "Jun-sama/san/kun?" All of Juns sekirei said in unison, concern etched on their faces as they surrounded their Ashikabi in a comforting way...

A small tear ran down Juns face, he was trying to hide it because he was a man and men always hid their emotions and buried them deep down into dark places...but all things have their breaking point.

"WHAT THE FUCK DO THEY KNOW! THEY'VE NEVER HAD TO KILL ANYONE, THEY'VE NEVER HAD TO WATCH EVERYTHING THEY LOVE AND CARE ABOUT BURNED AWAY! THOSE FUCKERS...IM GONNA FIND THEM AND KILL THEM! THOSE FUCKING MONKEYS...HOW DARE THEY JUDGE ME! THEY DON'T KNOW ME...THEY-"

"JUN-SAMA!"

Yume launched herself onto her Jun, latching her luscious body to his and soothing him down...she still didn't understand why he was so angry but that didn't matter because her special person was in pain...her Jun-sama was calling out to her and Yume was more than happy to quell his pain, more than willing to sooth her man into calmness.

Jun was so close to breaking down his hands started shaking, Karasuba took his hand into her own and gently squeezed it to comfort him, she took his left hand and placed it over her heart beat so he could feel her love for him directly...Akitsu placed her hands on his back and put a gentle chill through her hands to cool him down, she knew Jun liked the cold so in an almost comical act of love she "cooled him down" by literally making him cold, it seemed Akitsu didn't understand the real meaning of the term "cooling down"

Yahan and Shiina both took his right hand and held it comfortingly, the young sekirei were determined to please their Ashikabi and not get showed up by their elders, besides Yahan had been with Jun long enough to understand his likes and dislikes, she knew how to make him happy and implemented her skills into her act of love and compassion...Shiina might not have been with the family for long but that didn't matter...the longer he spent with his Ashikabi the MORE he wanted to be with him...Jun was just so mysterious and shiina wanted to learn every little detail he could about his beloved Jun-sama.

Homura was the only one who actually saw what happened, he tracked the car about a block down the road and stopped it, Homura was a single number sekirei so he could outrun a Ferrari let alone an old beater like these teens were driving.

Homura was absolutely FURIOUS about what they did to his Jun-san, Homura was MUCH more cultured than the other sekirei from all the years he worked in the host club an experiencing humans first hand, movies, music, food, sex, drugs, etc etc...Homura had been through it all so he knew all about how cruel people could be to one another over things like SKIN COLOR...people were actually willing to KILL each other over something as STUPID as RACE!

Homura lite the car on fire to force the punks out of the vehicle, they ran into a side alley like rats right into Homuras trap. The skull masked figure jumped down in front of them and made a fire behind them to trap the punks. Homura balled his fists and approached the cowering group..."which one" Homura said in a DANGEROUSLY deadpan tone. There's a misconception that when somebody wants to kill you that they'll be screaming and raging...not true...somebody who wants to kill you will have whats often called the "half lidded eyes" or eyes that have no feeling or mercy in them what so ever.

"w-w-what?" the leader said in a scared little whine while he pissed himself.

"i said who's the one who threw the Bottle at my love" Homura said again in the deadpan tone, the punks grew more and more terrified each inch Homura got closer to them, all they saw was this horrible black dressed demon with the face of skull slowly approaching them behind what could only be described as HELL FLAMES.

"t-that's me" one punk grew a little courage and stood up, his legs were shaking and piss was running down onto his shoes, any confidence he had immediately left on jet wings when Homura turned and locked his eyes on him directly, his eyes were literally burning with hate, small fires dancing in the pupils.

Homura grabbed the punk and forced him up against the alley wall faster than any human eye could track, the fire demon was a GOD compared to these worthless pathetic humans...

Hmura didn't waste any time, he grabbed the balls of the punk...Homura smirked a little at the tiny little boy balls the wannabe tough guy had, Homura then BURNED THEM OFF.

The punk screamed in pain as Homura dropped him to the ground and the other punks cowered away and screamed in terror at the horrible sight, one punk paniked and drew a pocket knife and tried to stab Homura in the back...

Homura moved faster than he ever moved in his life, the next thing the punk knew his arm was being held by the demon that only half a second ago had its back turned to him.

Homuras rage was at an all time high as he twisted the arm of the punk, with his sekirei strength he snapped the arm like a twig but he didn't stop there...he then burned the arm off.

The other two punks got on their knees and began begging for their lives by pleading and screaming apologies and crawling to Homuras feet.

"if i ever see any of you in this city again im going to cremate you in front of your families, HOW DARE YOU INSULT MY ASHIKABI! YOU HAVE NO IDEA WHAT HES BEEN THROUGH AND WHAT HES SEEN, DON'T EVERY LET ME SEE YOU AGAIN YOU FUCKING COWARDS!" Homura raged like the demon he was and the punks cowered before him...though to be fair even a grizzled military veteran would shit their pants at the sight of the fire demon.

The punks left their injured friends and ran off screaming their heads off, Homura pulled out his cell phone and called an ambulance for the now ball less and arm less teens, maybe it was a little too far but he didn't care, these fucking rats weren't going anywhere with their lives anyway, they weren't curing cancer or bringing humanity to mars so fuck em.

Homura jumped off, the police and medics would be there in a few minutes which was no problem for the demi-god alien moving faster than a sports car.

FURTHER UP THE STREET.

"Those fucking rats, if i got my hands on them...oh man what i would do..." Karasuba snarled with barred teeth, flashing her wolf like fangs in anger, she was so tired of every being under the sun trying to get a piece of her Ashikabi...he didn't deserve it, hed been through enough...Karasuba made a mental note to "comfort" her master latter, the ashen haired wolf used any and all situations as an excuse to get into Juns pants...not that she didn't care of course, she just loved their play time a little more than normal.

"i...i don't understand...why do people hate you so much Master?" Shiina said with both concern and question in his voice, as Jun guessed his sekirei couldn't wrap their heads around the concept of racism, sekirei just weren't racist, it wasn't in these creatures of love to hate ANYBODY let alone hate someone for something as crazy as the color of there skin, or the country of origin, or the religion.

"Because that's how Human beings are little one, were creatures of hate, we NEED to hate something because it gives us purpose, Shiina you have to understand that were not like you, were not like sekirei...were the exact opposite of you, we don't use love as the core of our life...we use hate, revenge, and greed to get by...its sad but its true, now come on...we gotta get going" Jun turned and put his helmet on and mounted his bike, before his sekirei could continue he simply started the engine and pulled away with his sekirei in pursuit, each one giving each other a different look of worry...was their ashikabi right?...was humanity really that bad?

Homura stood on a lamp post over looking the street as Jun and his body guards raced towards Sanadas hideout, he fell into formation with the others and they proceeded on their way...though Homura could have swore he saw Jun give him a little smile right when they passed under the lamp post...

SANADAS HIDEOUT

In a rather unsavory part of town was the hideout of the Ashikabi of the west, located at the intersection of gangster and hustler town...just the kind of place Jun loved.

Jun parked in a back lot and took off his helmet and jacket, openly flashing his two smith and Wesson 45. handguns to show he meant business but more improtently to show his tattoos, in gangster culture tattoos told a persons entire life including everything they've done, seen, and been through, it also showed what there status was within the various gangs and where there loyalties lied.

Jun needed a small group for this so he could only those who would assert his position even more, the obvious choice was Karasuba for her threatening appearance and dominate aura, Homura would provide rear security while Yume and Akitsu would cover the streets an Yahan and Shiina would the rooftops, while any one of his sekirei could level this entire block he still needed to grounded, too much "firepower" would off set his goal...he wanted to show force, but be friendly at the same time...oh how Jun loved gangster politics.

The sekirei took their positions and scared off everyone within three blocks to they could have some room to breathe, an empty street would be easier to fight in if the situation called for it. Jun and Karasuba marched their way up to the front door of Sanadas hideout with the ashen wolf acting in a bodyguard/enforcer role by standing just behind Jun to show he was in charge, her height and predatory face would be enough to get him far enough...let alone the GIANT FUCKING SWORD she carried around like it was a toy.

Jun tapped on the heavy metal door and a little slide opened to reveal a set of small eyes on a heavy set body, typical door keeper. The man took one look at Jun and the women standing next to him and opened the door...he didn't need to know who they were to know they meant business. Jun placed a hundred dollar tip/pay off in the shirt of the large door keeper, he bowed thankfully and raised his right hand to show where his loyalties were.

Jun and Karasuba made their way down the dark hallway under flashes of neon lights to hear the heavy sound of cheap dubstep playing in the back ground, everyone got out of their way when they saw the tattoos on Juns body...the head of a wolf with the horns of a goat meant only one thing...a killer...and damn GOOD one at that.

Jun and his enforcer entered the main room of the building and spotted Sanada sitting across the way, in the center of the room were cheap strippers and low level hustlers while the further you went back into the room the more and more dangerous the people got, in the center was the hustlers and pimps and on the edges were the Yakuza bosses, Russian Mafia, and American gangsters with Sanada settled in the middle, he controlled this part of town and everyone knew it...

To his right and left were his sekirei, they were also positioned in an enforcer role to show Sanadas power over the area. As soon as Jun and Karasuba entered the loud music stopped and all eyes turned to them, there was a brief pause before the ENTIRE room cleared out...EVERYBODY knew who they were.

Jun could hear the whispers...

"...that's the reaper"

"...the new Ashikabi of the south..."

"...killed a thousand men..."

"...the grey wolf..."

"...destroyed entire armies..."

"...the entire yakuza couldn't stop him..."

The room cleared out with even the high level gangsters and mafia bosses bowing their heads in respect and offering condolences to Jun, the big shot bosses came by one by one and kissed his hand in a show of respect and submission to the "reaper"

Everyone avoided Karasuba entirely, everyone in shinto teito knew of her and her fearsome reputation, luckily they didn't know of her rehabilitation...not that it would matter..."the grey wolf" was a legend among legends and NOTHING could change that.

Sanada waited for the room to completely clear before he stood up an opened his arms while he approached Jun for a hug...

"Our meet is long over do my freind"

"i agree...Sanada of the west"

Sanada and Jun locked in a respectful hug, patted each others backs and went to take a seat by the round table, Sanadas sekirei took a semi defensive circle around their master but stayed back to allow them privacy during the meeting...Karasuba did the same but had her hand lazily hovering over the hilt of her Nodachi and back Katanas...

"so...the new ashikabi of the south...good job by the way in kicking Mikogami out of his spot, i always hated that kid..."

"i don't take too much pride in it, to be honest there's nothing more i want then to burn MBI to the ground an dance on its ashes...i don't how much longer i can play this insane "game"

"i know what you mean but in my experience its better to play the existing system than to burn it down and start over"

"normally i would agree but when you have a small army of super powered god like aliens it would seem a little less complicated..."

"so what? all out war with MBI?...do you know what that would do to my business let alone this city, it would certainly attract the attention of America and China...let alone Russia...then what? your gonna take on three world super powers plus the most powerful company on earth...think this through before you go guns blazing...just because you have a nuclear weapon doesn't mean you should use it...ALOT of good people would die in the cross fire"

"oh what the fuck do you care about "innocent people" you just said this was about your business, don't give me the moral speech because me and you both know that there's not a single person in this room right who doesn't have the blood of THOUSANDS on their hands...people like me and you crossed the morale line a LONG time ago so don't pretend like your anything more than what you are, and NO i wasn't referring to all out war, im talking about riding this wave until the end...THEN we take it down"

"that could work...but by them wont MBI have all the straws..."

"well see, were not exactly helpless by ANY stretch of the imagination"

"agreed..."

Sanada let out a hardy exhale an rubbed his weary eyes, he had been apart of this game longer then Jun and the results showed...for someone so young he looked...tired...not just tired but TIRED...like his stress level went through the roof a LONG time ago.

Jun reached for a bottle of vodka that one of Russians left behind and poured a glass for him and Sanada, they toasted and drank together to ease the tension and bring on lighter thoughts, they both knew the only real thing to do was ride the wave and play the game until the time was right...that really was the only way.

Jun and Sanada talked about each others past and the different experiences they had, they found that their child hoods were VERY similar, the only difference being Jun grew up on a battlefield while Sanada grew up on the mean streets of slums and ghettos, they both still had to fight and sometimes even whore themselves just to get by day to day, it was a connection only those who knew true suffering and hard ship could share, and the results showed...

Jun left about half an hour later with a new partner and a new friend, both men were morally questionable but ha hearts of gold...all they wanted was to live free with their sekirei...an they would do ANYTHING to make that happen.

JUNS APARTMENT

The family returned that night with a true sense of accomplishment, they had forged new relationships and re kindled old ones. For the first time Jun had complete confidence that he could get through this "game" with his head attached to his body.

There was one last stop Jun wanted to make before he and his family could fire up the ovens and start making dinner and relaxing, one more person he had to visit and and see...

His Mother.