Whew, a lot happened last chapter, and now with Renka teetering on the edge of life will she be able to get the chakra she needs to survive? Or will Minori deny her her only chance to live? Read on.

Disclaimer: I do not own Senran Kagura series or any of its characters. The plot is the only thing I own.

Warning: Strong sexual content, language and really heavy sexual tones as well as mild nudity in this chapter.

Chapter 17 - Round One Commences

My lips brushed past Minori's nipple now that Kat got her close enough. Minori shivered involuntarily when I did so. I think after about a few pushes from Kat, Minori realized how important this was. "If this will help you live, Renka, then please take all you need."

Yagyu chimed in, "It will take almost all of your chakra to bring her back from this."

Kat looked at Yagyu, "Wait, what'll happen to Minori if we do this!?" Through my haze, I gave a silent thank you to whatever gave Kat enough clarity to think about Minori.

Yagyu crossed her arms, "She'll develop a severe fever. She'll probably be out for 24 hours at least." I hear her give off a silent hum as if thinking about something, "Nah, the chances of death from this are extremely low, especially since I can tell you'll be tended to afterward."

I feel Minori flinch, "B-But that means!?"

Yagyu nodded, "Yes, you will miss your match, but what's more important? Some match to get the Elite Title, or Renka? A very dear friend unless I'm wrong. I'll let you decide. Now, I must be off. See you guys in the quarterfinals... hopefully."

Yagyu left and that's when my vision started to blur and sleep suddenly felt nice, I struggled to get my words out, "Mi… no… ri… win...that… match… for… me…"

Kat's eyes went wide, "No, please! Renka-Honey, don't speak like that!"

Minori took a deep breath and let it go, "Renka, you're my very best friend ever, and I don't want you to die. Honestly, I'm not a very good shinobi at all. So if I have a chance to save my friend, I'll take it. Renka, drink it."

Ikaruga turns around and shuts her eyes, "I never saw this happen, capiche?"

Kat smiled, "Gotcha, Ikaruga-Sensei."

I put my mouth on Minori's nipple and began to suck gently. 'If this is what Minori wants, I'll gladly take everything she's nearly got.'

As Minori begins to cry out, I felt her chakra pour into my mouth. I was immediately hit with a really sweet taste. 'This is Minori's chakra!?'

Minori cries out even louder, she probably doesn't have a single ounce of will to try and stop her voice. I swallowed the first big gulp of her chakra and at that point, my stomach felt very warm. Taking my second gulp, I felt some of my energy return. I still couldn't believe I was sucking on Minori's breast like some sort of baby. As I took my third gulp, I felt the need to sit up, so I guess that meant more of my energy has returned. Four, five, six, gulp after gulp made me feel better. As I continued to suck on Minori's breast, her chakra suddenly stopped coming out. Which meant I took all she had in her right one.

As I stopped, I let out a sigh, the color returning to my face. The blush on my face now more evident, I looked up at Minori and her face was also red. I looked to her other breast, when Minori spoke, "I-I feel something wet going down my thighs. Th-That's strange, I don't remember having to pee."

It was at that point that I remembered the same thing happened to me when I was treating Naraku. God, I feel awful doing this. I want it to stop, but knowing everyone's personalities they'll keep this up until I can stand on my own.

Kat did her best to focus on me, "Renka-Honey, drink from the other one now. I can tell you when to stop."

I nodded and licked my lips, and then put my mouth on Minori's other boob and started to drink once more. More of Minori's sweet tasting chakra comes pouring into my mouth as I take gulp after gulp. I didn't want to rob Minori of all of her chakra at once. At the moment I felt in top form, I stopped and looked to Kat, "Are we done? I don't wanna take all of Minori's chakra cause it'll kill her."

Ikaruga looked to me, "Your almost back to normal. Just a bit more should do."

I sighed, "You sure I'm not taking too much?" I already felt like garbage having to do this to Minori, the sooner we get this over with the better for both of us.

Ikaruga shook her head, "You're more than capable of sustaining life now. If you want to stop, then it's entirely up to you, Mikagura."

I moved my head from Minori's breast the moment those words entered my ears, "You can cover up now." Minori nodded and started to put down everything over them again. I sighed, "Sorry you'll have to miss your match tomorrow."

Minori smiles as she finished putting her shirt back down, adjusting herself in the process, "It's okay Renka. As long as you get to live another day, then I'm perfectly happy to miss it."

I couldn't help the tears that streamed down my face. Kat couldn't hold back her tears as she hugged me. Minori shed tears as she clung onto me too. Even Ikaruga stood there, I could see the tears falling for her as well as we remained in this tight-knit group.

"Minori, when this is over, I'm going to spoil you for a day. Promising that right now." I declared this once we broke from the hug, hands on my hips determinately. Though, needing Kat for physical support didn't make me look that much more serious.

Minori let out a squeak, "Y-You don't have to do that-"

"Nope. I made up my mind. You, me, Kat, mani-pedis, smoothies, a movie, and lunch. We are going to relax, have fun and celebrate any and all victories that happen in the tournament."

I heard Kat let out a breathless laugh from behind me, "I agree with Renka-honey, so I'm going to help with spoiling you."

Noticing that Minori was in a losing battle, Ikaruga escorted us all back to Kat's home for us to rest. Another several minutes of arguments lead me to sleep in Kat's bed while she took the couch, Minori taking over my room. A little voice in the back of my head was pleading with me, telling me that my next course of actions was a bad idea, but I didn't care. I chose to skip wearing pajamas, I was hot, I didn't want more heat, so I stuck to my bra and underwear. It wasn't the most comfortable of sleepwear choices but at least it saved me from a heatstroke.

My sleep was dreamless, restful even. I welcomed the dark void as anything else would have left me more exhausted than before, so I waited for the sun to rise before fully sitting up in the bed.

The day where round one officially begins has finally arrived and with no real way to carry my drums and get the element of surprise, it seems my Ninja Art still needs work. I'm literally going up against my sister with no Ninja Arts at my disposal. Which had me worried in all honesty, wondering how our powers would collide in this fight.

My thoughts were cut short when I hear Kat's voice yell, "No Minori! Don't go in there! Even if Renka-Honey is awake, she probably won't have her top on!"

'How does she know that!?' There was no time to think anything else, however, as the door bursts open and Minori rushes in. She stops in her tracks when she saw my lack of modesty -though not as bad as usual- and thankfully her first reaction was to cover her eyes, "Oh my god! Renka, I'm so sorry! I didn't know you weren't dressed yet!"

I sighed, "Don't worry about it Minori. It was an honest mistake. Anyone could've made it." Thank god I had the sense to wear a bra to bed.

At that moment, I saw Kat in the doorway. Looking with wide eyes and a bit of blood leaking out one of her nostrils. I sighed, "Kat, what're you doing?" Was it the design of my bra? The color? Or does Kat have no self-control?

Kat quickly snapped out of it and turned on her heel, "N-Nothing, Renka-Honey!"

I crossed my arms over my chest, "Then can you take Minori out then? I think I've embarrassed her enough for one day."

Kat nodded, "R-Right!"

Minori looked in my direction while still covering her eyes, "Embarrassing me!? Aren't you embarrassed that I saw your boobies?"

I shook my head even though she couldn't see it, "No, don't worry about it. They're covered anyway. Just go you two."

Kat took Minori out of there with little hustle. With reluctance, I took a bath and then opened that package mom gave me not to long ago. It turned out to be some white outfit that I have not worn before.

A white button up top with a strange yellow-green symbol on the top left of my chest. Blue tie on my neck, shoulders exposed, with a dark patch around the tie. With similar sleeves and skirt. White boots with brown laces at the top. Dark leggings with blue bows just above my knees. My sleeves have dark areas near the ends that took the shape of points. Yellow-green symbols around my wrists and the sleeves itself shaped into points. The skirt, yellow-green symbol on the front with the same dark color around it stretching all the way around the top of the skirt. White sections in the front and back leaving the sides of my legs and thighs exposed. My midriff was also showing.* I sighed after seeing myself in the mirror, "Mom, what the hell?" I gave myself one las lt look over, "Might as well mark myself as an open trench with this shit."

I shook my head and walk out and downstairs to see both Kat and Minori all dressed up as well. Kat sees my outfit I swear I could see the blood threatening to spew out, "Goddamn Renka-Honey! You're hot!"

I blushed at the compliment, "T-Thanks. Y-You, don't look too bad yourself, Kat."

Kat was wearing a black Festival Happi outfit. Top wide open but had red wrappings around her breasts. The bottom was open enough you could even see red panties around Kat's waist that didn't even cover up her butt fully. Like I needed any more distractions. Something tells me she's either wearing this to be evil or as a strategy against her opponents… or just because she's Kat.

… Yeah, she's just Kat.

Minori was wearing a dark blue yukata with pink flowers and a yellow sash tied around her midsection. It was tied up into an obi on her back.

I smiled at the modest clothing, "You look good too, Minori."

Minori beams as her cheeks go red, "Thank you, Renka! You're very pretty yourself.

I nodded in thanks, "Thanks."

Kat soon opened the door, "Let's get going! We need to get to school soon."

I nodded, "Right! Minori, can I store my drums in your pocket dimension?"

Minori tilted her head in confusion, "Store drums in it?"

I nodded, "I need to use them as part of my Ninja Art but can't carry any weapons into battle other than my Rei Tei. So that's where you come in Minori."

Kat was also looking at me confused, "How do you plan to get them back out? Minori can't toss them to you. That's kind of thing that'll get the both of you shot by Commissioner Goto."

I looked to Kat, "She just needs to store them. That's all. I'll think of the rest later."

Minori looked at my drums, "Those drums don't fit in my bucket."

I looked at her confused, "What? No, don't put it in the bucket, just open a portal and stash my drums with your candy."

Minori shook her head, "As I said, they can't fit in the bucket. The only portal I've got is in this bucket."

At that point, it hit me like a tsunami wave, "Are you telling me you can't summon a portal anywhere else besides your bucket?"

Minori blushes but nodded, "Uh-huh. I've tried mimicking my actions with bigger objects, but it doesn't open like with my bucket."

Kat put her hand to her chin, "Have you tried increasing your ki output for bigger objects?"

Minori shook her head, "No, I can barely understand all that as it is. In fact, when I used my Ninja Art four times, it only came out that one time. I'm just guessing at how it all works really."

Kat tilted her head, "Wait, really? Well, it is true that you still haven't fought a true battle yet. Even Renka-Honey only fought part of one back then. So it's like, that'll be your first official battle."

I remembered Kafuru's advice, "Minori listen, my energy is thunder, right? Well, Thunder… wait, what did it do again? Let's see, water flows, so what does thunder do again?"

Kat realized where I was going with this, "Renka-Honey, Thunder courses."

I snapped my fingers, "Yeah that! So we just gotta figure out what light does." What exactly does light do again? Wizzes around? Does light actually have a fixed type of movement?

Minori was so lost, so Kat quickly chimed in, "Minori, try to imagine your energy moving from your heart through your arm. For my energy, I imagine my wind energy blowing as it comes out. But in your case, light shines. So imagine your energy shining its way down your arm and out through anything you touch."

I poured and crossed my arms across my chest, "Sure, steal my thunder!"

Kat chuckled, "You had the right idea, but you still don't have a firm grasp on the subject either."

Minori started to look at her hands, "Give me your drums, Renka."

I handed them over to her and Minori put her hand on one of Kat's cupboards as she concentrated her energy. The air soon filled up with this air of purity around us. After about a minute, Minori opens her eyes, "Now." She opens the cupboard and we see a straight up portal to Minori's pocket dimension. Minori smiles, "I-I did it!"

I clap my hands together, "I knew you could do it! After all, that advice came straight from my sister!"

Kat chuckled, "Man, I didn't think Hanabi was that smart."

I shook my head, "Not that sister. Kafuru gave me the advice."

Kat looked shocked at me, head tilted to the side, "You took advice from Kafuru!? That's a shock! What, is the world ending!?"

I pouted again, "I didn't ask for it! She just sort of offered it to me of her own free will. You know me, asking her for advice was something I wasn't willing to do."

Minori placed the drum inside her portal as Kat nodded, "Yeah, that would be something you'd never do."

As Minori closed the cupboard, I pointed to the door, "Come on, we're gonna be late. So let's head on over to school!"

The other two agreed and we went straight to New World Academy. As it were, the school's day was a relatively short one cause of the Kohana Tournament later. Once school ended, Minori, Kat and I all went to the arena where the tournament is being held. I looked up at the arena, "Never thought I'd be standing here when we first signed up."

Kat nodded, "I knew no matter what I had to be standing here. I want that title."

I smiled, "Let's head inside then." The other two nodded and both cheered out a "Yeah!" and followed me into the building.

As we entered the waiting room, the Tv was on, and we saw two announcers come onto the screen. The male announcer cried out, "Greetings and welcome to the Livestream of the Kohana Tournament live here on Newtube!"

I tilted my head in confusion, "Newtube?"

The male announcer pointed to himself, "I am your host, Mister K'"

The female announcer pointed to herself, "And I'm Miss R!"

Minori tilted her head in confusion, "What're Kiriya-Sensei And Rin-Sensei doing on Tv?"

I flinched, "What!?" Shocked at what Minori said, but as I gazed at the announcers more only to deadpan, "Nevermind. It's pretty obvious now that I see it."

So Kiriya was pretending to be Mister K and Rin was pretending to be Miss R. Mister K continued his announcement, "And have we got four great matches for you today!"

Miss R posed, "Indeed! Round one, day one will have the first four matches today, and Round one, day two will have the other four tomorrow."

Mister K struck his own pose, "The winners of those matches will proceed to the quarterfinals on Wednesday; and the winners of those, to the semifinals on Thursday!"

Miss R then struck a pose that showed more of her cleavage and I suddenly started losing respect for these adults at their silly antics, "With the winners of those participating in the finals on Friday! We've got such a good line up today!"

Mister K laughs, "Indeed we do! Our first match pitches sister against sister as Renka Mikagura will take on Hanabi Mikagura to see who will have a shot at being considered for the Elite title!"

Miss R clapped her hands together like a hyper schoolgirl, "Then it's the quiet versus the mysterious as Murasaki Yahagi takes on Salt Spice!"

Mister K was soon in a pirate ship- wait what the hell? "Then we have Yomi Kayano, the former pirate and former first mate to one of the most infamous pirate captain of all time Hikage Shiraishi!"

Miss R soon pops out of the crows nest, "Yomi's opponent will be the tragic princess, Chikasa Kitase! Both of her teammates died trying to get her here, so she's got everything to gain but everything to lose!"

Mister K jumps off the ship and landed on the ground in an overly dramatic pose that I've only seen in western comics, "And finally we have the always playful and young Minori Igarashi taking on the always calculating Kou Asakura! Will his brain beat her instincts?!"

Miss R landed in front of him, hands on her hips also in a dramatic pose, "So that's Renka Mikagura versus Hanabi Mikagura!"

Mister K quickly jumped in front of her, "Then Murasaki Yahagi versus Salt Spice!"

Miss R quickly did her own somersault in front of him, "Then Yomi Kayano versus Chikasa Kitase!"

Mister K then pushed her to the side, "And finally Minori Igarashi versus Kou Asakura!"

Miss R then comes back by bumping her chest against Mister K which sends him flying, "Who will be the winners of these exciting matches!? Stay tuned and find out!"

No one spoke for a solid minute, eggs were frying in our brains with what we just saw while two more normal people began talking in their place. Once the shock subsided I clenched my fists with only one thing sticking to my fried brain, "Teammates died to get her here!? Did both of that poor girl's teammates die that day!?"

Kat shook her head, "I don't know, but both Princess and Hikage-Sensei being pirates interest me. Hikage-Sensei has never spoken a word about it till now."

A familiar voice soon chimed in, "She has a good reason for it!"

We all turn to see Yomi, all dressed up in her former pirate outfit, "Hikage-Sensei doesn't mention it per the agreement she made with Grand Councilwoman Homura. In order to send me to school here, Hikage-Sensei had agreed to stop all actions as a pirate. She wanted me to live a decent life as a shinobi, not as a pirate always running from the law. So we agreed to stop all actions of piracy in order to allow me to come to New World Academy."

I brought my hand to my chin, "I never knew that about Hikage-Sensei. I only knew her from before the war."

Yomi put her hands on her hips, "It was cause of that war that Hikage-Sensei began her life as a pirate in the first place!"

An announcement soon sounded off, "Will all eight of our candidates who are competing today please come out into the field."

A quiet voice chimed in, "This is it." We all turned again to see Murasaki dressed out in a dark purple dress with a cape to it too. And next to her was my sister, sporting her sailors uniform of pure white combined with the color blue on it. The Shinobi Sailors logo printed on the left side of the chest. Kat chuckled, "Well since my match is not till tomorrow, I'll root for you guys from the stands okay?"

I nodded, "Alright, Kat." As everyone left, I spoke to Kat more, "Kat, thank you for helping me become stronger and thank you for letting me stay at your house."

Kat rubbed the back of her head awkwardly, "No problem Renka-Honey. I-I'd do it all over again in a heartbeat!"

Kat gave me one of her trademark smiles and I involuntarily shivered once more. As I turned to go to my match, Kat looked like she tried to move towards me but stopped with her feet glued to the spot. I looked at her weirdly and turn back her way, "Kat?"

Kat shook her head immediately and gave a hearty chuckle, "It's nothing Renka-Honey. Now go on and win your match."

I smiled at her and it was Kat's turn to shiver this time. As I turned away from her I felt someone cling to my backside almost instantly, I looked back and saw Kat's face on my shoulder, "K-Kat!? What're you doing!?"

Chapter End

Whew another Chapter down. *Note that Minori's chakra will not be the heal all miracle powers that you think it's gonna be. Which is why I gave it severe limitations. I don't want this to become abusive more down the line. What is Kat doing at this moment and how will Renka's match against Hanabi go? You'll have to wait till next time to find out. Ayame out!