I'm not your docile woman

[Satsuki]

After a few hours my vision finally returned to normal. When I move to stand Iori is walking into my room. "Satsuki sama. How are you?"

"Let us see." I let my feet touch the floor and tentatively take a step. My legs remain strong and my head unclouded. "Good." I grab my sword from across the room and head out the door with Iori at my side. "Do we know Matoi's current location?"

Iori pulls a tablet out of his lab coat. "We've got sightings of her through several cities. The changes in her route are consistent with the movement of the second banshi thread."

I scowl, it's not surprising that she can track banshi but it doesn't make this any easier. "How long before she catches up with them?"

Iori studies the map again. "Not long, maybe a few hours, she's moving remarkably fast."

I sigh as we make another turn to the less frequented part of my mansion. "Do you think they have a chance?" The look on his face is enough of an answer. "How long before the life blood is useable?"

He swipes a few times bringing up another display. "There are still some major side effects. The fundamental problem is that we're trying to force the strain from a kamui and a wearer on a human. For starters life fibers can sense a wider spectrum of light than human eyes and that's why you were experiencing vision problems, it's your brain trying to compensate for the extra information. As for the stamina usage for maintaining that amount of muscle fiber activation, I have a theory about that but for a completed product, it will take a while."

I think for a second as I punch in the key that leads into the Kiriuuin lab underneath the mansion. "If you were to focus on just one problem. Do you think you could have it done in a week?"

He looks at me strangely as we begin descending the steps. "Probably, but even one of the side effects could be crippling, if I fix the exhaustion you still risk blindness, and if I fix blindness the muscle strain could be fatal."

"Fix the fatigue problems. I can still fight without my eyes."

He looks at me wide eyed but makes a note on his tablet. "This is only assuming we have a week. This data suggests that Matoi will be here in maybe four days; five at the most if nudist beach can slow her down. I'm not counting on it though. Where are we headed by the way."

We pass the door that would lead us to the room where Senketsu was stored before testing in the laboratory below Honnoji, 'LFS 1-KS' I stop in front of a door labeled 'LFS 2-HN' "We're here to buy some time."

[Ryuuko]

'Ryuuko, you're running low on blood, I recommend stopping in this next town for sustenance.'

I want to argue but I am feeling a little light headed. We're above a small city so I land on a nearby roof letting Senketsu revert to his standby mode. My stomach growls soon after I land. "How does a whole coyote only last me two hours?"

'The extended time in Hane form is rapidly draining your stamina. Acquiring another vehicle would be a safer mode of transportation.'

I walk through the door on the roof and start heading down the stairs, "Maybe, first let's grab a bite though, I'm in the mood for some barbeque how about you Senketsu?"

'Considering your MSG and cholesterol levels after your last barbeque venture I would prefer it if you didn't.'

I sigh as I open the door at the bottom of the stairwell, "Geez I forgot how much of a kill joy you could be. Where are we anyway?"

I open a door and enter into a hallway crowded with about thirty high school students. The crowd goes silent as I exit, "Who's that?"

"Is she new?"

"She looks hot!"

"But what is she wearing?"

Ugh I forgot how annoying school could be. I push my way through the crowd following exit signs to find my way out. Luckily after a minute or so the bell rings and the majority of students are out of my way. Which is why I'm so surprised when there are three guys standing right in front of the exit. They turn to notice me and the one in the middle let's out a low whistle. "Damn, I didn't know we had any girls like you at our school."

His buddy nudges him, "Naw man look at her uniform, it's like totally different."

My stomach growls again, I really don't have time for this, "Move out of my way I don't have time for you."

The leader's eye twitches, "Who the fuck do you think you are coming into my school and talking to me that way? I think she owes us an apology right boys?" He gestures to his pants when he says apology. I almost chuckle; I suppose I can spend a minute or two teaching these guys some manners.

The big one lunges at me with a fist aimed at my gut, however before I beat him and his friends up what better way to show how weak they are than to let him break his fist on my stomach? That's not how it happens though; about a foot from me a red spike shoots out from Senketsu and impales the incoming fist. Senketsu's voice rings out from my chest, "You will not lay a hand on her!" The spike retreats from the fist and the three guys all run away screaming.

"What was that about?" I didn't think it was possible for Senketsu to transform like that.

'I don't know what came over me. When I saw that degenerate move to attack you my body moved on it's own.'

I roll my eyes as I walk out the door, "Not that, I mean was that Senketsu senjin?"

'I-I' That's odd Senketsu never sounds unsure of himself. 'It's odd. Even with only half of my original form I'm feeling stronger than ever before. I can carry you using Hane even with only half my strength. I don't know what's happening to me.'

He sounds almost scared. I smile down at him, his two big eyes looking up at me. "I know what's happening to you, your just growing, simple as that."

'Growing? Ryuuko, I may be more than clothing but that doesn-'

God I hate his stubbornness sometimes, "Senketsu, we've said it before, we are both human and clothing. How is it so hard believe that you're growing like any normal human? You're becoming stronger and advancing. It's completely natural." Actually this makes something more clear, "So back in the forest you really did kill that coyote by yourself? You're strong for your size. I wonder how strong you will be when you're gully grown?"

[Mikusugi]

I close my cell phone and motion for the caravan to stop. I get out of the van and Tsumugu pulls up next to me on his motorcycle. "Why are we stopping?"

I sigh and run my hand through my hair, "I just got word from Honnoji. Apparently us moving around isn't stopping Matoi kun from tracking us."

He pulls out a cigarette and starts lighting it. "How much time do we have left?" I groan showing him an image of Matoi kun's last seen location, a Mac Donald's in a near by town. "Didn't we just pas through what three hours ago?"

I step out of the car in all my nudist glory and start walking to the back of the truck I look at my wrist where my watch is, one of the few articles of clothing I have. "More like three and a half."

Tsumugu walks to my side and pulls out the key to the back of the van. "How much time do we have?"

Together we open up the back door of the van to see our third generation DTR. "That photo was taken almost three hours ago. Ready our nudists."

As he's walking off to ready our troops he turns his head and asks, "Do you honestly believe we can stop her? A year ago I did it myself but now…"

I almost chuckle at the notion, he hasn't seen Ryuuko lately, and "I'd give us a ten percent chance All we need to do is slow her down."

"I take it Satsuki has a plan then?"

"Satsuki always has a plan."

[Satsuki]

"This plan is dangerous."

"Risk comes from not knowing what your doing."

Iori takes a second to think, "You're quoting Warren Buffett now?"

I smirk, "Very good." We're still standing in front of the 'LFS 2-HN' door.

Iori sighs and removes his glasses to look me in the eye. I meet his gaze showing no weakness. "The Satsuki I know does not take unnecessary risks. Are you sure you know what you're doing, what you could be unleashing?" My stare is intense, I convey as much of my confidence as I can to him through our visual exchange. He closes his eyes and smiles. "I suppose Kiriuuin Satsuki always knows what she's doing."

He's right; I do always know what I'm doing, but also about me not taking unnecessary risks. "Do we have a way to control it?"

He scrolls through his tablet flipping through files before stopping on a file I recognize as a failed project of ours. "We discovered that the life fiber inhibitor collar we developed wouldn't be able to affect Ryuuko or Senketsu because of their unique physiology, however we could repurpose it for this subject."

Ah the life fiber inhibitor collar. Designed to vibrate the life fibers in a way that would unsettle them from their delicate lattice, to literally tear them apart. I had hoped to use it to make my sister human again but after a few tests on samples it became apparent that I would have to find another strategy in my search for a cure. "Will it be fatal in its use?"

He scrolls through the page brining up figures and charts from our experiments. "It could be. I can probably make adjustments to it to set a scaling intensity. I'll have a remote made up too. Satsuki I know I can't persuade you from this plan, but can you at the very least promise me you won't open that door before I have the new collar made and installed?"

Iori, always the worrywart, "That, my friend, is an easy promise to keep." I want to spend as little time in there as possible. If I didn't need to buy time I would never even consider this plan.

[Ryuuko]

After eating I quickly took to the skies again in pursuit of his banshi. "How close are we?"

'Very, they should be within sight soon. Although it's been stationary for he past hour.'

They stopped? "You think they're waiting for us?"

'That is the mos- RYUUKO look out!'

What the? Senketsu and I barrel roll through the air just barely dodging a missile front the ground. When we stop for a second to hover I notice several people on the ground clad in nudist beach colors. "It's just those naked fools again. I'll show them not to mess with us." I guess I can't be too mad though; I was getting bored. Senketsu reverts to standby form and I angle myself to land in the middle of about five nudist beach members. They look startled when I land, "What's the matter? Scared to fight me face to face?" They all pull out similar looking daggers. "I see that they've mass produced the tailor's dagger. But do you really think dull blades like those could hurt me and Senketsu!"

The one in front of me moves to stab but I quickly sidestep and grab his outstretched arm. I spin him around before throwing him into one of his other allies they hit a tree and from the look of their limbs neither of them is getting up anytime soon. Two down three to go. The two on opposite sides come at me at once, one with the knife held high the other coming at me low. I grab the wrist of the knife aimed at my head while jumping over the one aimed at my knees. I plant the knife in the hand I'm holding in the back of my other attacker. At the same time the third assailant tries to stab me while my back was turned to him but I easily kick my foot out and catch him in the stomach following up with a punch to his skull that knocks him out cold. When I turn my attention back to the other two they've managed pull the knife out of his colleagues shoulder. They both charge at me from the front but without even a word from me Senketsu blocks their attacks with two blades of his own while I punch each of them knocking them out.

In the end Senketsu and I are left standing surrounded by five unconscious nudist fools. "That was less fun than I had hoped. Do any of them have the banshi?"

'No, I would guess that these troops were meant to be a distraction. Based on the nature of this encounter it is extremely likely that they will have an even larger trap awaiting for us at the banshi.'

I think back to a particularly bad day at Honnoji. "We both know who's probably running this show then, a certain Mohawk bastard with a boner for traps."

'Almost definitely, I don't suppose you would want to go about this sneakily and carefully?'

I give him the full Ryuuko smile, "You know me so well Senketsu."

[Mikisugi]

Tsumugu walks up to me and hands me a pair of binoculars. I look through them and see three different smoke trails through in the jungle. "She's faster than we thought."

He grunts blowing a puff from his cigarette, "It's hard to believe how much stronger she's gotten. Back at Honnoji this much would have killed her. I'm not looking forward to when she gets here. We should get ready, we could only have a few minutes."

This is always my favorite part. "Get ready then!" Tsumugu and I both fall into our well-practiced stances. We break into a sprint towards the edge of the cliff I can practically hear our theme music, "Ultimate!" when we reach the edge we both jump with perfect synchronization, true nudist beauty! Our arms are straight back as we slide into the two cockpits of our ultimate, "DTR!"

Our marvelous DTR forms around us, similar to our previous combination but this time made to work in tandem, created out of a new alloy given to us by Revocs Corporation, and forged in conjunction with Satsuki's top scientists, the ultimate DTR! We move our limbs around a bit to make sure that the control interface is working. "Tsumugu, how fast do you think we can reach the young lady?"

Our DTR crouches into a fighting stance. "I know one way to find out. Want to do the honors friend?"

He knows I do, "DTR LAUNCH!"

[Ryuuko]

I pant as I shove the tank off of me. Yes, a tank. "I can't believe those crazy bastards dropped a tank on us!"

'Do not forget that they shot a knife shaped aircraft carrier at you and the original life fiber.'

It's hard not to laugh thinking of that fight. In the moment I was so focused on winning and protecting my friends, but when I look back at it the whole thing was pretty ridiculous.

'Ryuuko, the banshi is moving.'

Crap they're on the move again, "Where are they going?"

'It is heading straight for us.'

Why would they- my thoughts are interrupted as a large machine tears through the trees in front of me. I quickly jump into the air to dodge a giant fist that crashes into the ground where I was standing. The machine is a giant black dotonbori robo with the word 'ULTIMATE' written on the side. "Senketsu, the banshi wouldn't happen to be in there would it."

'It is.'

"Of course it is." I land on the branch of a nearby tree, just tall enough that I can look Tsumugu and Mikisugi in the eyes. "Just give us the banshi. If your desecrated army here is any indication you don't stand a chance of beating us. Senketsu and I beat them without even having to transform. Don't make me break your toy."

The robot pulls it's arm back. The closest thing to a response I get is Mikisugi yelling, "DTR PUNCH!"

The machine is fast, but with him announcing his attack it's not too hard to dodge, the follow up kick however gets me by surprise. I'm punted back through several trees before I come to a stop. That actually hurt. Before I can move to get up the robot is on top of me driving me into the ground with another massive fist, "DTR BARRAGE!" Fist after fist assaults me I'm fairly sure that I'm at the bottom of a large crater now.

'Ryuuko!'

Enough of this! "GET THE HELL OFF ME!" I brace my self on the ground and reach up to grab the robo's fist. With my strength I'm able to stop it in place, slowly I lift it up as I stand up to my feet. From the edge of the crater I can see Mikisugi's shocked face. "I'm just getting started."

I see their other fist come at me and quickly jump to the right into the tree line. I wait for their next attack but they just look confused. "They must be too slow to keep up with us."

'Ryuuko they are stronger than any opponent we've recently faced we should synchronize.'

"You really don't think I can handle this? Check this out Senketsu." Reach into my pocket and take out the red half of my scissor blade, crouching down I watch the robo as its pilots survey their surroundings. They won't know what hit them. As soon as they turn the other way I dash from the trees as fast as I can, I swing the scissor blade out and catch them in the knee, I run without stopping all the way to the other edge of the clearing. When I do turn to look back at them I'm pleased to see that they're now looking at where I previously was still confused. I'm significantly less pleased to see that I barely scratched the paint on their knee joint. "Geez just what is that thing made of? I've cut buildings in half for fuck's sake. Time to go with your plan." I drag the scissor blade across my arm and let the blood soak into Senketsu before the wound heals. His shirt transforms into the skimpy straps that I love, hooked into my jeans. "Chutto Itai!"

That feels better. Hearing my shout the duo turns towards me, "We're locked onto you now Matoi kun! No where to run." As if that would help them. "DTR PUNCH!" When their giant fist comes towards me I bat it to the side and their entire robo is thrown off balance. I jump into the air scissor held high.

"Senketsu where is the banshi?"

'In the space between the two, there's probably a storage compartment of some sort.'

Now I know where not to aim. On my downward swing I get the left arm of the robo and my blade is like a hot knife to butter. A blade comes out of the robots right foot and Aikuro is quick again with the attack names. "DTR BLADEOOOO!" I change the angle on my sword and the right leg of the robo goes just as easily as the arm. Now off balance the entire thing falls onto it's side.

"And down it goes." Unable to stand there's nothing they can do to stop me from walking up to them and ripping the banshi out of the center of the machine. The thread in hand I'm ready to walk away when my curiosity gets the better of me. "So tell me Mikisugi, you had to know that this wouldn't even come close to stopping us. What was the point?"

He laughs, looking utterly ridiculous with only his chest and head sticking out of the robo. "Like all of lady Satsuki's pawns. We're only here to buy her time."

Satsuki huh? Last time I was injured and we were evenly matched, but with Senketsu being a step closer to complete I don't see how she can stand a chance.

[Satsuki]

"Iori?"

He's currently in the observation room attached to 'LFS 2-HN' watching the room through the one-way mirror before I walk in. I hear him over the loud speaker in the hall, "The inhibitor collar is working and installed. Both remotes we have should be effective. Be careful though, I don't have the best reflexes."

With razor in one hand I enter my unique pin on the door and carefully step inside. The inside of a room is a padded cell. In one corner of the cell is every manner of broken things, broken toys, broken pictures of Matoi and I, torn clothes (mostly pink), and even the metal bed that was originally for the cell's sole occupant is a twisted piece of metal on top of the pile. In the opposite corner of the room is the cell's sole occupant. The very reason I had a room like this created, a small blond girl, naked and curled into a ball, with her long hair hiding her features like a curtain. Through the tangled mass of hair I can see one blue eye glaring at me with at least as much hate as I used to have.

"Harime Nui." She doesn't move. Iori had said that she was still unresponsive to the name.

I walk closer to her and she doesn't move an inch, the only way I know for sure she notices me is the way her eye follows me. When she speaks her voice is so quiet I can barely hear her. "I want to break you and put you in my pile."

I'm not put off in the least by this, ever since she could move; all she's been doing is breaking whatever we threw in here and piling it up. There was only a single banshi of the original life fiber that we recovered. In the same way that Senketsu started growing back from a thread so did Harime although a much faster. Or at least we think its Nui we were trying to see if she remembered anything, or even if she was actually Harime. But she destroyed everything with equal ferocity, pictures of me, Matoi, Ragyo, and even her own possessions. "And why is that?"

Her answer is immediate, "I want to break everything, and put the whole world in my pile."

"You understand what that collar your wearing does right?"

She touches the red collar with a single tiny finger. "It hurts. It keeps me from breaking. You won't let me break!"

If possible she glares at me even harder. "What if there was something I would let you break?"

It only takes her a second to think about it. "I would break it, and put it in my pile."

Good, I can work with this. I reach into my pocket and pull out a picture of Matoi, "Break the girl in the picture."

Okay I hoped you like it please review if you do. One thing I want to cover because I'm sure that someone will ask Nui was a human fetus grown in a life fiber womb, Ryuuko was a human grown in a normal womb and implanted with life fibers. Their physiology is fundamentally different also noted by the fact that Nui can't synchronize with Kamui as well as her natural strength without one. That alone implies that she is more life fiber than human, or at least more life fiber than Ryuuko.

Thanks for reading review if you like it!

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