Ryu's chest rise and fell slowly. His sleep undisturbed, after the bath last night he let miya give him fresh bandages and proceeded to scold him slightly. He would've laughd about t if breathing didn't hurt so bad, and miya would unleash her wrath upon him. After that he went to uzume's room and collapsed onto the futon and fell into sleep quick.
"Remember ryu, you never want to use your skills to hurt." A muscular man said to a much, much younger ryu.
"Yes, master..." Ryu groaned he was tired of getting a six hur lecture every day he wanted to train and cut things with a sword!
"I bestow on you my teachings."
"Yes..."
"Ryu, are you listening!?"
"Yes."
"Ryu, now listen carefully."
"But, I want to train master!"
His dream scape began to shift and change, the image of his wild haired master faded into hot white. "Hello," he said sleepily with a weary smile. He was feeling especially good today and couldn't put his finger on it. Slowly, he opened his eyes nearly gasping. On top of him laid uzume still in a deep sleep her pants off and only wearing a white night gown shirt that barely kept her breasts clothed.
He tried to move, but realized that wasn't possible. Uzume had her arms wrapped tightly around him. She must've made herself comfy on top of him some time during the night. He strained for a few seconds trying to pry her off of him to no avail. Jeez, she's strong! He thought giving up for the moment.
"Mmm?" Uzume's eyes fluttered, opening them she rubbed the sleep from her eyes. "Oh. Good morning." She smiled snuggling on his chest, "wake me up in a few hours." Ryu thought it was cute how she rubbed her eyes. As much as he'd like to lounge around for the entire day, and he could with miya's blessing he needed to get his stuff from his old place.
"Uzume, I need to get up..." He groaned, he waited for an answer but received none. "Uzume..." He said lowly. The busty brunette groaned quietly opening her eyes and looked like she was pouting.
"Ry ry, why are you so mean?"
"I am not mean," ryu said dryly pecking her on the nose. "Second I am not ry ry, and third I have to get my belongings from my old house and bring them here." He explained. "As much as I'd love to lay here with you I have things to do, and miya wouldn't like it."
"Miya won't know, I'll stay quiet." Uzume shoved him down gently but ryu rose back up with a blank expression.
"Uzume."
"Fine, fine." She gave him his body back, not even bothering to cover herself up with the blankets. Ryu stretched his arm but regretted it the moment he did. Pain was sent through every nerve.
"Where did you live?" Uzume asked, her heart still ached seeing him hurt the way he was.
"I lived in the country," ryu started slipping on a deep blue kimono. He had fond memories of growing up he wasn't the smartest boy and he was very naive. "A few years ago I moved to the city and I've been here since." He looked behind him at his lovely sekirei. "I think it was the west side of town." He nodded to himself deep in thought. "Yes it was."
"Well, if you'd like I could come with you and help?" It was more of a statement than a question. She wasn't going to let her ashikabi strain himself too much.
Ryu really wanted to decline the offer, but seeing her bold eyes he sighed in resignation. "Alright." He smiled slightly.
"Ryu." He knew that sweet voice anywhere, he never would've thought it'd send a chill down his spine. How deceptive miya truly was. "Breakfast is going to be ready soon, don't be late."
Ryu wanted to smile, she was so sweet. But he knew better than to let her enter the room with uzume half naked. "I'll be there miya, thank you." He said hastily trying to hide his nervousness.
"Do you need any help, is uzume giving you a hard time?" Miya's tone was serious, she wouldn't tolerate illicit acts and uzume wasn't very... Modest.
Ryu glanced at uzume who was frozen stiff, her brown eyes pleading with him to say no. He couldn't say no, not to those brown pools. "I'm alright miya, and uzume is just fine." There was a moment of silence, what was thirty seconds felt like an eternity.
"Okay." Miya's voice trailed away from the door. Uzume breathed a sigh of relief putting on her star shirt.
"Thanks ry ry," uzume smiled stretching her hands into the sleeves fitting her head through the collar. "Miya would've killed me." Uzume exclaimed she was never more scared of anyone besides kurasaba, but even that fear was like a pond compared to her fear for miya.
"Sure," ryu shrugged tightening his obi finishing his outfit. "You owe me though."
Uzume strutted to him throwing her arms around his neck. "Don't worry I'll give you that and more." She purred kissing him lightly. "We better go."
"Good plan." Ryu agreed opening the door to uzume's room, he blushed when his stomach began to grumble.
"Let's go I need you at full strength." Uzume said grabbing his hand and guiding him to the kitchen. He was still familiarizing himself with the structure of izumo inn so he let uzume guide him.
Ryu took his seat at the end of the table with uzume sitting to his left. At the head of the table as usual was miya seated with an elegance to her left was matsu. Ryu kept looking at her, but she wouldn't meet his stare.
"Ryu, matsu has something she'd like to say to you." Miya said with a gesture of her hand. Matsu turned to him, a sheepish look on her face.
"I didn't mean for you to get hurt. I'm sorry I got you involved." Matsu bowed her head after.
Ryu nodded, not sure what to say, it was true that matsu and uzume started the whole thing. And ryu didn't know all the details of the situation. But he'd never forgot the woman who plunged a hole into his chest. Three killers were sent out and the head honcho had her eyes on him.
"M-Miya..." Uzume said nervously. "Now that all that is out of the way let us eat!" She didn't want to to dwell on the past, but seeing him wince and grimace brought her back to that day. But she was the life of the party and was going to be spending time with ryu today.
Miya glared at matsu one last time before nodding and breakfast started.
"Where's kagari?" Ryu looked where he always saw the silver haired man seated by miya's side and he wasn't present.
"Kagari works late, as a host, so he rests during the day." Miya replied sipping her tea.
"I see." Ryu nodded, that's one thing he didn't want to deal with. He never liked clubs or places along those lines. They were noisy and not necessary. Matsu subtly kept looking at ryu, smething about him was just... Mysterious his violet irises, long hair that hid them from view, and his dress was all so... Strange, but it intrigued her. I need to do a little bit of research. She thought adjusting her glasses.
Breakfast went by pretty smoothly. Ryu talked whenever miya and uzume would speak to him. Uzume was the life of the party, all the tension melted in the room whenever she was arund he didn't get how. Matsu for her part spoke only when she was spoken to, ryu thought it was odd but he was quiet as a child so he brushed it off.
Ryu stood at the front door with a relaxed posture. The wind gently blew his hair to the side as he left the door open. It was an early summer day, the humidity was reaching its peak. "Ryu-san I think you should still rest." Miya scolded.
"I know miya-san, but I need to get my belongings." He said with a sigh. He wasn't looking forward to the walk across town, but he was happy that he was going to be with uzume.
"Just be careful, I need one tenant that pays rent, and you're new here."
Miya smiled, it was a gentle smile. "Can you do that for me?" Ryu didn't feel a chill go down his spine or the air get cold, so he could answer much easier.
"I'll come back miya." He smiled softly. "I promise." Miya nodded with a small smile.
"I'm coming ry ry!" Uzume called from down the hall four seconds later she was at his side.
"Uzume, what did I say?" He groaned.
Uzume began to laugh. "Come on ry ry we better get moving! We'll be back before dinner miya!" Uzume said from the walkway.
"Be back before." Miya said before the two disappeared from her sight. For someone to risk their life to save my brethren, such a kind and gentle soul. Ryu was a mystery, but miya knew one thing. Ryu was a good person.
Ryu and uzume walked down a sidewalk, they were still in the north and had a ways to go until they got to the west side of the city.
"Uzume, is it possible to get more sekirei?" Ryu asked. He didn't want to be a pervert, but if this was a game, he'd play to win, and eventually kill that minaka.
"You dog!" Uzume teased wrapping his arm in her breasts, a grin on her face noticing ryu getting flustered again and his cheeks heating up. "You got me, but I don't mind sharing."
"I-It's not like that!" Ryu exclaimed running a hand through his hair composing himself. He didn't miss the grin on his sekirei's face and really wondered if she was enjoying this.
"Yes, an ashikabi can have more than one sekirei. You get stronger, the more sekirei you have." She explained.
Ryu had a thoughtful look on his face. "So, can a sekirei be forced into... Whatever it is that we did?"
"Emerging," uzume stated with a laugh. Ryu was so clueless. "Basically, our powers are limited, when we emerge the limiters are broken. You could say we get our wings through an exchange bodily fluids."
Ryu nodded understandingly. "Okay."
"It's true that any ashikabi can wing a sekirei. But there's our destined ashikabi, that we have a connection to from our very existence."
Ryu's eyes widened slightly. This is just... Crazy.
"This is our destined ashikabi. The bond formed between them is a lot stronger than just a normal ashikabi and sekirei. But, we sekirei can be forced into this bonding and have a life of servitude."
"Servitude?" Ryu asked, frowning. He wouldn't let that happen.
Uzume nodded. "Sekirei serve their ashikabi, we are created to do their bidding."
Ryu growled quietly. "That sounds horrible."
Uzume's eyes bucked at the statement. "What we have is horrible?"
"Are we that? You know, destined to be together?"
Uzume nodded. "I knew from the moment I seen you that you were my ashikabi. I felt so warm and safe in your arms, you rescued me." Uzume winked to which ryu blushed slightly. "You were my knight in shining armor, a very, very sexy knight."
"U-Uzume!" Ryu exclaimed becoming flustered with her advances. "We're in public!"
Uzume pouted. "Such a party pooper!"
"I don't want people staring at me while we kiss!" Ryu argued. They shared a laugh uzume enjoyed making him flustered, and ryu enjoyed bursting her bubbles. "Should I?" Ryu looked away, he didn't want to upset uzume. Since they kissed he felt something like a pool of feelings inside of him that weren't his completely, and it was weird.
Uzume felt his troubled mood through their bond and squeezed his arm a little tighter. "Should I wing, or emerge more sekirei?" He asked quietly, almost a whisper, uzume had to strain her ears. Even with her sensitive sekirei hearing she could barely hear him.
Uzume, realized that was very hard for him to say. She felt conflicting emotions through their bond, but there was one that stayed true. Determination. "Ryu, I want you to know. Now and in the future, no matter what I'll always stay by your side."
Ryu smiled feeling affection pulsing through the bond. "So you don't care if I?"
"No, no," uzume waved off his concerns. "I mean you're so sexy, my fellow sekirei would be stupid not to be with you." Ryu was bracing himself for a very emotional moment but uzume delivered the opposite he was thankful and chuckled quietly.
"Do I have to watch out for any sekirei like those three from the other day?"
Uzume shook her head. "They were the discipline squad. The game is still in its early stages and I think I maybe the only sekirei that was winged, we should be alright." Uzume said cheerfully. Ryu nodded, a warm feeling kept pulsing through his entire body, he and uzume walked the rest of the way silently enjoying the other's company and feeling of warmth from being close to each other.
Uzume scratched her head, a curious and confused look on her face. "This was your home?" Said home had yellow police tape stretched across the entry way. The entry way consisted of six staircases going up to six different complexes, they were more modern than izumo inn from the once pristine glass windows to solid steel structures that held the residence up.
"Was my home." Ryu stated jumping over the police tape and making his way towards the third complex. It had twelve rooms they were spacious but nothing too spectacular, he only had a few things besides a tooth brush, deodorant, and mouthwash. Uzume opted to chop the tape in half instead of jumping over it.
"What... Uh what happened here?" She asked a little dumbfounded. Four of the six complexes were burnt and destroyed almost the other two were hanging on by a thread. She stayed close to ryu as he went up a case of stairs coming to a stop in front of room 105.
"A gas leak." Ryu replied clenching his hand into a tight fist. Truth be told he lost the key during his fight with the discipline squad, and he doubted anything would still remain inside of it. "The landlord used natural gas, and there was a leak, that's why four out of the six look like a tornado went through them." He snapped his fist out knocking the door clean off of its hinges and shattering the wood.
Uzume nodded stepping into the complex. The walls were black filled with soot from the explosion. The cabinet doors were all but naught, his dishes, what remained of them were on the floor in hundreds of pieces. The lights were out, the main pwerline severed during the explosion. "Ry ry, I don't think there's anything in here." Uzume said with a blank expression taking in the full extent of his old place.
Ryu tossed a piece of cement that was about three hundred pounds with ease, the slab slammed into the wall breaking it down. Between water damage, flooding, and the explosion the walls were literally paper thin and frail. "I'm leaning in that direction, but I have no money or job, and I don't want to start from scratch." He said with a groan attached at the end of it. He really didn't want to buy everything over again, food wasn't a problem but some of the things he had he brought from the country when he moved. Most of them couldn't be found again.
Uzume thought about telling him about her black MBI card but remembered it'd be of no use since she helped matsu. Then she became worried about him. "Maybe, you could wait to find a job until you heal."
He kicked over a wooden beam glancing at the ground like he figured nothing was left. Since it was natural gas, they complexes literally were snapped in half from the force of the explosion anything in the middle was gone.
Damn it he thought punching a wall crumbling it into nothing. With a groan he turned to see uzume looking around absent mindedly. "We can go, thanks for coming to help."
"No need to thank me I'd do anything for you ry ry." Uzume said with a grin, "anything." She made sure to emphasize the word the second time around.
Ryu blushed furiously. "Let's get back." He said quickly, his mind was filled with about three dozen fantasies involving uzume at the moment. Uzume laughed, grabbing his hand, she lead him out of his old home.
Needless to say nothing was left, he had to start from scratch, which he wasn't looking forward to.
They took a different way back home and enjoyed the other's company.
"So, ryu when are we going to seal the deal?"
"Mmmm..." Ryu looked at her with a blank expression. "Deal? What deal?"
Uzume smirked, shaking her head, she stopped their stroll, going on her tip toes she began to whisper something into his ear. Ryu's eyes widened as far as they could his irises and pupils like saucers his face beat red.
"I-I see..." He stuttered. Uzume giggled at his expense she really enjoyed flustering him.
They walked in moderate silence. Every now and again uzume would talk about the pat of the city they were currently in. It surprised ryu that she knew so much, and explained things in detail while he was clueless with the city. But she was a part of MBI indirectly so knowledge like this was easy to come by.
Somewhere close by, there was a game of cat and mouse. A woman with long hair wearing a cream colored top which revealed her shoulders, short dark orange skirt, black stockings and light brown boots was on the run.
Her lungs burned from the constant intake of the hot summer air, beads of sweat streamed off her forehead, she was hungry, thirsty, and exhausted. Her spear which she carried on her back with a holster gave away her hiding spot every time, now she was cornered like an animal her eyes wide with fear.
"Please..." She begged.
A tall man with a relatively slim build and brown hair. Wearing spectacles a black jacket and a red shirt underneath. Smiled sickly, he caught drift of the sekirei plan and went on the hunt for his own. He stumbled across nanaha and she was a good find, timid, and weak easily manipulated.
"Please... You're not my-"
"Shut up weakling!" He spat with a smirk on his face. "You're pathetically weak, you need me." He walked towards her closing off any route of escape with a quick lean to the left or the right. Nanaha trembled frightened by his sharp eyes and almost evil smirk. She didn't know where she was, but she wanted to find her ashikabi her destined one, but she was on the run since she was let out in the city.
"You're not my ashikabi, p-please don't do this." She tried to move back but froze when she realized there wasn't any place she could go. She was trapped. Tears began to well in her eyes as she was faced with the worse thing. Not able to be with her true ashikabi she was going to be forced by this man.
"I don't need to be, I can force you stupid." He said with an edge to his voice, he dug his fingers into her chin causing her to whimper from the pain. "Now hold still and suck tongue." He leaned in closer, nanaha struggled to break free but she found herself powerless, so she clenched her eyes shut fearing the worse.
"Himura, I see you haven't changed at all."
The man turned around with a frown on his face. "Ryu, you still look like a wimp." He mocked. "Come to save this little girl, too late she's mine." He smirked.
Ryu sneered his nose up in disgust. "You don't treat people like possessions, not a human, not a sekirei!" He snarled walking forward with a deadly glare directed at himura.
"Ryu!" Uzume whispered loudly. "You're wounded, what are you doing!?"
She wouldn't hesitate to kill the man with the glasses if he threatened her ashikabi in any way, even if it was against the rules. But she wanted to avoid that.
"He's nothing," ryu spat. Glancing back at her. "I won't let him have his way with her." He said lowly, turning back around, he set his glare on himura once again. "I can make you eat cement again like the last time, or you can just walk away."
"And leave my prize with you, I think not!" He barked pushing her back into the wall. Nanaha was frightened her heart raced and her eyes were like saucers. Through all of this she felt a tug, a pull towards ryu. She set her eyes on him and felt heat rise in her chest, so much that her face flushed.
"Ryu, stop." Uzume pleaded, she didn't want him to get hurt. She'd lose it.
"Don't worry, he's nothing." Ryu assured.
He now stood forty or more feet from himura, his hard gaze never faltering for even a second. Himura glowered at him, his teeth grit.
"I'll kill you!" He roared charging forward, with good speed for someone not trained in martial arts. It took about a minute to close the distance between the two of them, he threw a wild hay maker, ryu carefully moved his feet the punch skimming passed him harmlessly. Uzume stopped he pursuit when she seen how easily her ashikabi dodged that blow. With a quick snap he slammed a fist into his stomach, knocking the wind out of him, himura slammed back first into a row of garbage cans groaning trying to breathe again.
"You always did look down on others, but when you're faced with a greater opponent you fall from grace." Ryu mused walking over to nanaha.
Uzume's eyes were wide with shock and awe. Wow, that was... Amazing! She thought, of course compared to a sekirei he wasn't much, but he was wounded at the moment and he did manage to hold off the entire discipline squad for her and matsu to escape she'd be wrong to doubt him.
Nanaha whimpered quietly. "Hey, you don't have to worry about him anymore." Ryu said in a gentle voice. The heat came back, she looked up at him with watery eyes. "It's alright, don't cry." Ryu said wiping them away with fingers slowly. "There." He smiled softly.
"My ashikabi, I've found you at last," nanaha whispered clutching her chest with her hands. Ryu was taken a back by her declaration and moved his lips back from hers as she moved closer and closer. He felt, hot, very hot, unbearably hot as she got closer to him. He didn't know if it was her or him, he didn't feel that with uzume but then again he was barely conscious.
He looked at uzume, who offered no solace, she merely smirked at him and began to raise her eyebrows. "Get her!" She encouraged.
"But uzume..." He looked at nanaha. her face was flushed, inside she was mess. Her heart beat faster and harder with each passing second, the heat that started fro her chest spread out to her entire body she couldn't bear it, and that wasn't speaking of what was happening in her nether regions she tingling and was about to moan.
"You have to do it." Uzume shrugged, saying it like it was the simplest of things to do. "She's reacting to you." She put a hand n his shoulder, starting to snicker seeing him look apprehensive as nanaha started jumping on her toes rubbing her chest against him a deep blush on her face.
"Please be gentle." She whispered.
"Do it." Uzume said.
Ryu was torn. He wanted to kiss her, she was attractive. But he felt that he was cheating on uzume was it wrong to kiss another sekirei? They'd be bonded after this... But uzume was for it, and egging him on. He closed his eyes, sighing, he wrapped his arms around nanaha's waist meeting her lips with his own.
He felt a surge of heat course through him, nanaha opened her mouth slipping her tongue into his mouth and deepened the kiss, he returned the kiss and melted with it. Bright yellow wings with cream feathers blazed from behind her back. Ryu opened one eye watching the wings surround the two of them and slowly disappear.
Nanaha slowly opened her eyes, affection swimming through them, she smiled softly. "I've found you at last, my ashikabi-sama." She said sweetly her eyes fluttered before closing. Ryu caught her before she fell to the ground.
"What happened?" Ryu asked.
"She looked tired, she just emerged. Could be tired." Uzume shrugged grabbing him by his kimono, puling him down into a deep kiss. Ryu muffled protests about uzume being rough, and not being abl to breathe but he melted with kiss. They parted looking into each other's eyes.
"Well, I guess we should go." Ryu said kicking a garbage can with lightning speed, himura was going for a sneak attack but the garbage slammed into him throwing him back into the mess. "You never did have honor, himura." He spat walking away cradling nanaha in his arms and uzume at his side with both arms laced in his.
Nanaha has been winged, I always liked her, though she wasn't in the anime for more than let's say 6 minutes! I have my harem all picked out, well if you can call it a harem... Not sure how much a harem consists of. But I will take suggestions for such and minato's. This isn't a rewrite of the anime this is my own thing, with aspects and such. Mmmm leave feedback, review, PM whatever it is you do. As always enjoy and read. I'm hungry so I'm done!