Review Response. Guest. She didn't become his sekirei... Yet. That will be a process. And their bond will get stronger, I still haven't completely decided, I write each chapter on the fly, nothing is planned out in great detail.

Ryu never felt more refreshed then he did last night. Whatever stress he had about this plan was washed away during his encounter with his sekirei. Honestly, he didn't want to have sex with them, in their room, at izumo inn. But horomones took over his sense taking a back seat, which wasn't too hard to understand.

Afterwards he fell into a deep sleep. The best sleep he'd gotten in several months, maybe even years. He could feel his sekirei's warmth all over him, and though he wouldn't admit out loud, yet, it made him feel at peace.

However, something very, very disturbing happened.

Ryu stood with his katana at his side, blood dripping down the tip of it decorating the cement in large spots. His violet irises that captivated his sekirei now pitch black devoid of anything remotely human, burned a hole into his sekirei.

Yashima stood with fear on her face. The bond pulsating with darkness, so much darkness. Anger, rage, and... Hatred. She struggled to look into his eyes, every time she did all she could feel was her soul breaking.

"R-Ryu-sama." She said nervously not daring to move from her spot in the corner of a large room. He didn't respond he merely walked towards her with the same look as before. Nothing but contempt for her.
Why? Why did he hate her? She did everything for him, loved him as much as she could so why...

Yashima painfully gasped feeling like the back of her head was going to split. She didn't even try to retaliate, she could barely breathe and couldn't stand on her own two feet. All she did, could do was look at her ashikabi with pain filled eyes. "It's time." He said coldly resting his sword against her throat staring straight into her eyes.

Yashima grimaced feeling a small cut sting her soft skin, blood running down the blade. "P-Please ryu." She pleaded tears saturating her eyes. Blood sprayed several feet over ryu's head as yashima's cry echoed.

Ryu's eyes snapped open sweat beading down his face and body. His breaths were ragged and short, his mind racing. What was that? Was it him? No it couldn't be he'd never attack a woman, yet alone his sekirei.

He'd never hurt yashima...

He looked around his room to his right was uzume her strong arms wrapped around his burying it into her chest. She didn't seem to be bothered by hs abrupt start, but she slept like a rock. To his side was yashima, her lips slightly parted and a quiet snore escaping her as she breathed through her nose. She was cuddled up under his arm with the side of her head buried in his chest.

He sighed laying his head back down his pillow closing his eyes. He could feel them... Nanaha and toyotama were in another part of the house, toyotama probably watching a soap opera and nanaha helping with breakfast. I must've been out of it he thought to himself looking up at the ceiling. For a few minutes he had a staring contest with the wood his eyes never faltering a for a second.

The dream just came... From nowhere. He moved slightly, uncomfortable and his arms falling asleep being in the grasp of his two sekirei. He didn't mind, but when he felt the pins and needles that's where he drew the line. He removed his arm from yashima illiciting a small moan of protest from her before she snuggled up closer. Uzume wasn't so easy, she kept a strong grip on his arm and didn't let up.

"Uzume." He whispered not wanting to wake her with a start. He watched her eyes tense for a second letting him know she heard him, or was at least awake. "Can you let go?"

"Mmm..." Uzume groaned softly wrapping her arms around his wait rather than his arm. She didn't hear him, but she knew he wanted to have his arm back.

With his arms free he set them behind his head fingers interlaced to support his weight. Am I going crazy? Is all of this really happening?
It had been eventful for him. Sekirei, not to mention all of these fights. He felt like it was just a dream, one big dream that was about to end.

"Ryu-sama." A quiet voice brought him out of his musings, sighing he said.

"Yes nanaha-san."

She slid the door open. She was wearing a pair of his shorts with a white t shirt. She looked cute, much more mature than her previous outfit. As always she had that submissive look. "Miya-sama asked me to see if you were awake."

"Oh, I am." He replied lazily. "And what did I say about this sama thing, ryu is just fine." He groaned lazily, his body had yet to want to move. And it was too early to get into this with nanaha.

"S-Sorry." She said quietly dropping her head in shame. She only did what was natural. Sekirei were to serve their ashikabi, they were their masters. But ryu didn't think that, or treat her in such a way.

Ryu noticed how ashamed nanaha really was. He didn't mean to be so cold but could it kill her just to call him ryu? With no honorifics? "Ahh, it's okay. Nanaha-san." He smiled softly.

She wanted to cry for being so stupid calling him sama again, but seeing his smile it slowly washed away and was replaced with happiness he gestured for her to come. Without hesitation she walked to him looking for a spot to lay. Yashima and uzume hogged up his sides that just left...

"R-Ryu." She said with a faint blush.

"I'm wearing shorts." He assured patting his chest for her to lay. He made sure the first thing he did last night after being intimate with his sekirei was put something on. If worse came to worse miya would let it slide, as long as she didn't know about the sex.

Nanaha laid on top of him. She rested her chin on his chest looking into his violet irises. She felt her heart flutter after a few seconds. Those eyes were so pretty, mysterious, so powerful she breathed silently. "Yes, ryu?"

"I know, you've been told that sekirei are to serve their ashikabi that they're nothing but slaves."

Nanaha nodded her head slightly, very slightly. She didn't want to upset him again.

"But, you're not my slave. So please don't use the honorific sama when speaking to me. Ryu is just fine." He smiled warmly.

"I-I understand." She replied about to lose herself.

"I'm happy." Ryu looked to the side with a blank expression. "But, I've kept you away too long, miya may need your help."

Nanaha's eyes widened slightly before she nodded in agreement. Silently she got off of him going to the door. "Nanaha." His voice stopped her. She turned around to look at him. "I'll be there soon."

She nodded before leaving.

"Mm..." Yashima moaned softly stretching out a little bit. Ryu watched her as she opened her eyes sleepily rubbing the sleep from them. He had to admit she looked adorable while she did this, the image of him pressing his elbow to her windpipe flashed into his mind, he pushed it aside quickly.

"Did I wake you?" He asked softly.

Yashima shook her head yawning quietly. "No, I slept good. Did I distub you?" She said sleepily.

Ryu couldn't argue with that, all of his sekirei including him must've got the best sleep last night. He know he did. "No I was up before." He replied looking at uzume who still slept peacefully, her chest rose and fell slightly every few seconds her lips parted in a small smile.

Yeah, she would be smiling. He thought. Uzume was very... Passionate, if it wasn't for those veils he was sure miya would've bumrushed that room and beat them all into twitching heaps. He remembered bits and pieces from last night, it was hard to recall everything since he just didn't experience it. "Well, I'm going to take a bath." He said slowly slipping his arm out from uzume's vice grip.

"S-Shall I accompany you?" Yashima asked shyly.

"If you want to, but I won't make you." Ryu replied getting out of the futon slowly so he didn't disturb uzume. He covered her back up before any warmth was lost. Yashima looked at him with wide eyes, she wasn't sure to go or not. On one hand she wanted to be with him, but last night opened her up to a lot of things. Now, she was tempted to do it all again. Alone.

"Well?" Ryu questioned bringing her out of her thoughts.

"I-I'll see if landlady-sama needs any help." Yashima said quickly before leaving as she was getting very flustered.

Thank goodness he said mentally putting on a kimono so he was clothed. Didn't want miya to see him shirtless. Thinking of miya he remembered yesterday when she collapsed and appeared to have blacked out. He didn't want anything to happen to his beautiful landylady.

She had been through enough, losing her husband. She didn't need to be enduring this, but he wasn't sure why she just collapsed.

He groaned loudly as he stripped himself down to nothing putting his clothes into the basket. He entered the bathroom setting the water to a nice hot steam, after letting it cool for a few seconds he entered it slowly adjusting himself until he was comfortable. He squeezed a white towel out putting it over his eyes as he leaned his head back mulling over his throught and relaxing. He found himself slowly drifting off.

Ryu sat on a tree stump with an annoyed expression. His mater stood a few feet from him about to give another lecture.

"Master..." He groaned. He didn't want to be lectured for his brash behavior.

"Ryu." The word was simple, his name. But the presence, the weight of that. The way it was spoken got his attention. He looked at his master with a blank expression tilting his head.

"Yes master." He said hastily.

"I want you to listen to me. Take this to heart, understand?"

"Yes."

His master began to speak but nothing came out, ryu strained his ears even jumped up to hear better. But nothing came, not a sound not a whisper.

The images swirled into black with flashes of yellow and orange that happened for a few minutes. He slowly opened his eyes feeling his arm being squeezed gently and another body next to his. He removed the towel looking down at nanaha's naked form next to his. She was happy just being there with him. She didn't speak nor move really, just sat there with his arm in her own feeling his heat.

"I thought you were helping miya-san," ryu said quietly.

"She said that I could take a bath, yashima-san has taken my place." Nanaha replied without looking at him.

Miya he said mentally. "Is miya-san alright?"

Nanaha looked up at him a faint blush on her cheeks since she was the only one in there naked with him. "Yes, ryu-sam-ryu." She corrected herself quickly. He didn't miss that change up but didn't dwell on it for too long. He got out of the bath washing his thick abundant hair a few times over to be sure it was clean.

Job hunt starts he said to himself mentally drinking the warm liquid in his cup. He sat at his usual spot with uzume now in front of him with yashima at her side with nanaha, toyotama sat next to him one arm wrapped around his. It made eating awfully difficult when he kept feeling her breasts push against his arm. How his sekirei managed to agree on a seating order was beyond him and he'd rather not know.

Knowing what they spoke about in their spare time...

"So, ryu does today start the job hunt?" Miya asked him with a polite smile.

"Yeah." Ryu replied not too confidently. "I was thinking about getting an early start, after breakfast." He explained running a hand through his hair.

"I'll come with you." Toyotama said. She wanted to serve her ashikabi any chance she got. And if any sekirei attacked him, she'd be there to defend him.

"Ah, that's alright." Ryu said with a slight smile. It was going to be a long day and he'd rather not have another fight with sekirei, or something weird happening today. "I'm going to be gone for awhile, and it's cold. I'd rather you stay here."

Toyotama's eyes saddened but that as replaced with anger quickly. "Are you going to take one of them with you instead?" She asked, she didn't try to sound jealous but it was clear that she was.

"No." Ryu sad simply watching nanaha and yashima look down sadly. He was happy to burst their bubbles, he didn't need or want them thinking he played favorites. Then he'd have four angry women with superpowers and him stuck in the middle, he'd rather not deal with all of that. "I'm going alone." He said more firm.

"That's alright, I was going to take a nap." Uzume said. In truth she didn't want to go outside, it was cold and there was snow on the ground. She'd lay in her nice warm futon for the rest of her day until dinner.

"You looking for a job?" Kagari asked tiredly from his spot.

"Yeah, I figured I need something to do besides train. And I don't want to be a mooch." He said turning to look at kagari. "You could help me out?"

"I won't make any promises, but I'll ask, put in a word for you." Kagari said looking at him with a slight smile.

"That'd be great, thanks kagari-san." Ryu thanked him with a slight bow.

The silver haired man waved his hand in front of him with the same smile. "Yeah, yeah, no need to thank me."

"I might just get a job then." Ryu said to himself smiling slightly, he felt horrible living there without paying rent. He helped with the chores and went shopping for miya when she asked, but he still wanted to pay his debt. Then there were the sekirei, he didn't know why, or how, but they seemed to gravitate towards him. Since he meant uzume and matsu a few months ago more sekirei just kept popping up in his life.

He'd need to find his own place with the room to fit all of them. He was going to avoid meeting anymore at all costs, he didn't need more at the moment.

After breakfast ryu went to his room to get dressed for the day. He wore his usual outfit but kept his sword leaning against the wall and wore a blazer to keep his chest covered from the icy wind.

"Wait, ry ry!" Uzume called from her futon stopping him in his tracks before he raced out the inn. He turned looking back at her with a blank face, titling his head to the side. "Come here, silly." She said tapping her chest.

Ryu sighed quietly, if uzume wanted him to fondle her breasts that wasn't going to happen. Not now, or again for a long time. "What's up?" He asked kneeling down next to her.

Uzume looked into his violet irises almost losing herself in them. "I want a goodnight kiss." She said sleepily puckering them for a deep kiss.

"Uzume, you just woke up an hour ago, you're sleeping again?" He asked chuckling lightly. He had to admit she was one of his most cheerful sekirei, he pressed his lips to hers about to break it off until uzume grabbed him by the collar of his blazer and deepened the kiss, bright yellow wings sprouted from her back fading away after a few seconds.
"Good luck, you dog." Uzume said with a wink breaking the kiss.

"Hehe, thanks." Ryu scratched the back of his head with a sheepish smile.

Uzume was always so optimistic. With that he left the room leaving uzume to nap peacefully, he never could get over how much she slept, he wondered if she was part koala or something but thought that was just silly. He went down the hall toward the staircase looking at the room numbers.

Room 205, room 204, room 203, room 202, he said mentally looking at each in tow until it just stopped. There was room 202, but not a room 201.

Strange he thought. "Now that I think about it..." He trailed off with a thoughtful look on his face, out the corner of his eye he caught the sight of blue lights shining under the floor from a... Door?

He walked up to it looking at his feet. What is this? Some james bond movie shit? He asked himself. He looked at his watch it was a quarter passed eight, he needed to get going but not before investigating, curiosity getting the best of him. "Is anyone there?" He asked knocking on the door a few times.

Silence

"Um..." He looked with wide eyes. "I know someone is behind here, can we talk?" He asked politely.

"Go away." Shot a voice from behind the door.

His eyes bucked for a second before he composed himself again. "Come on, we live in the same house. We miles well get to know each other better." He was trying to keep things civil.

There was a moment of silence then the door slid open with matsu peeking over the edge of it. "What do you want?"

Ryu frowned slightly. She was just rude, after he saved her life. "I'd like to get to know you a bit better, and I saved your life you could be a bit nicer." He said with a low sigh.

Matsu studied him for a moment before moving out of the way. "I don't see why not." She said extending her arm out for him to enter.

"Thank you." Ryu took her hand placing a kiss on the back of it, he was really trying to flatter her. A blush formed on matsu's cheeks.

"Sure." She gushed with a small smile on her face.

Ryu entered her room. It wasn't big by any means, his eyes traced over the numerous computer screens on the walls and in front of him he took a seat on the bed with a blank expression, in awe. "Wow, so you live here?"

"That's right." She answered curtly shutting the door behind her. She was certainly interested in ryu, his violet irises were captivating in every way.

But she was alarmed when she tried to find information on him she only found his medical records and high school records. "What can matsu assist you with?"

Ryu scratched the back of his head sheepishly. "Mmm, well are you a sekirei?" He asked quietly.

Matsu contemplated to lie or tell the truth. But lying at this point wouldn't do anything he already had four. "Yes, I am number two. Wisdom type."

Ryu smiled widely. "Ah, so you can help me out with all of this." He said with relief running a hand through his hair several times.

"Well, what is 'all of this'?" Matsu asked looking at him seriously. She had a rough idea of what he wanted to know, but she'd only say so much, otherwise face miya's wrath.

"Ryu-san, are you leaving?" Miya's sweet voice sent a chill down her spine.

Ryu looked at matsu who looked like she wet her pants and shit them at the same time. He wasn't sure why she was reacting that way, he didn't feel the air go cold around them. So why was she so afraid? Oh well it didn't matter at the moment he did need to get going. "Yes, miya-san." He replied standing up looking back at matsu with a soft smile. "We'll talk more later, right?"

Matsu wanted to say no, but how could she? He was so flattering and a gentlemen. "Yes ryu-tan." She cursed herself mentally for agreeing.
Ryu put his hand on the door applying some pressure until it slid open. He looked miya in the eyes before offering a smile, he was in big trouble.

"Sorry miya-san."

Miya laughed sweetly covering her mouth with her hand. "Are you harassing my tenants ryu-san?"

The color drained from his face. He was scared of her still, rightfully so, and did not want her picking up that sword without his present. "N-N-Not at all miya-san, I was just going!" He exclaimed dusting down the staircase to vacate the premises for now.

Miya kept her eyes trained on where he left until she was sure he was out of ear shot. She turned to matsu with a serious face stepping into her room and closing the door, matsu held a serious look as well. "Did you find anything out, matsu?"

Ryu made his way to the front door quickly. He wasn't sure what was going on, yesterday miya was pushing against him and today he felt like she was going to leave six lumps on his head. He took a deep breath enjoying the rush of oxygen entering his lungs. "Wait, right there ryu."
He sighed inwardly watching toyotama strut up to him with a seductive smirk on her face. Last night was amazing, she could do it again, right now but she knew better than to initiate it so early in the day. "I have to give you a goodbye kiss, my sexy ashikabi." She purred grabbing him by the collar of his blazer and pulling him down into a deep kiss. Heat surged through her body as red wings blazed from her back disappearing after a few seconds.

"Heh, good morning to you too!" Ryu grinned.

"A very good morning." She said releasing him from her powerful grip she went back into the living room taking a seat on the couch to continue watching her TV show.

"Now, time to go." Ryu said to himself turning around he barely had time to react to his two sekirei standing in front of him. "Yashima! Nanaha! Why did you do that!?" He asked with a hint of annoyance what if he plowed over them?

Yashima flinched from his tone. She just wanted to say goodbye and get a kiss like her fellow sekirei. She loved ryu the same, in her opinion more than the others. "W-We just wanted to give you a goodbye kiss ryu-sama."

"Yashima, cut it out with the sama." Ryu groaned running a hand through his hair.

"Can we give you a goodbye kiss?" Nanaha asked looking at her feet.

Ryu's eyes softened up a bit, a small smile creasing on his lips. "Of course." He whispered taking her chin in his hand giving her a gentle kiss on the lips. Nanaha's eyes widened in surprise but she melted with the kiss moaning quietly as her wings sprouted from her back slowly fading away.

Yashima watched the two of them and began to pout looking at the floor. She wanted to be kissed first but wasn't going to speak against her ashikabi, after all he was her master. Ryu didn't miss her pouting and noted she was cute, almost like a child when she did that.

"It's your turn yashima-san." Ryu said quietly standing in ront of her. Her eyes lit up like ten thousand suns and a small smile graced her face. Ryu kissed her gently but was surprised when she stuck her tongue into his mouth moaning into it as her own wings bursted from her back

dissipating after a few seconds.
"I wish I could come with you, ryu-san, but I believe in you." Yashima said quietly a faint blush on her cheeks from her aggressive kiss.

"Thank you for understanding yashima-san." Ryu said in a soft voice. "I'll be back before dinner, could you tell miya-san for me?" He asked looking back at his two sekirei.

"Yes, ryu-san!" Nanaha and yashima said in unison glaring at each other for a second.

Never would've thought they'd be competitive ryu thought with a small smile before leaving the izuma inn walking into snow storm.

Well, not much to say here. I figured I'd take the pace slower a little bit. Mmmm leave a review and give me some feedback, review. If you have questions ask I'll gladly answer. I guess that's it for a note here.