I'd just like to know like a curious cat. Why do people want him to wing yomi? Just would like to know have no issues with it and he will wing her. And if you want him to return to izumo inn FAT CHANCE! And thanks to the reviewer who put the kami sake objective complete ryu is a mean one.
Ryu stood in front of a large wooden stump. He inhaled quietly quickly taking a stance and drawing his sword, it arced it way through the air in a blue humming ethereal blade. The stump shifted for a second before the top half collapsed onto the ground kicking up copious amounts of snow.
"Much better." He said with slight disbelief sheathing his sword smoothly. He glanced around his yard surveying several wooden stumps like the one he just cut through littered throughout the back. His breath was visible with each pant, he had a lot on his mind so he did what he did best trained rigorously. He had been at it since sunrise and it was going on one in the afternoon.
"I guess that's good enough for today." He said going back into his house to make himself dinner. He kicked off his zori and took off his kimono moving into the kitchen with lightning speed that made even miya look slow. He made tuna salad with a few other dishes. He plopped down on his chair digging in quickly he literally inhaled the food.
His body was spent, his muscles taxed, it craved more!
He wolfed down the tuna salad moving onto the salmon that wafted his nostrils pleasantly. He heard a crash he walked to the window sighing as he watched two people argue about who hit who's car first. So petty he thought going back to the table.
His eyes wandered around the kitchen. There wasn't anyone here but him... He sighed shoving a roll into his mouth with an annoyed expression as he felt a pang of hurt course through him. He'd by lying if he said he didn't miss his sekirei.
Watching uzume walk into the living room with just panties on before dinner and miya scaring her half to death was amusing. And he'd grown accustomed to the daily shenanigans of his sekirei. Toyotama's constant advances, nanaha always following him, and yashima fussing over him.
He closed his eyes grasping these feelings and shoving them into the depths of his mind. They weren't needed now, and wouldn't be needed for a while.
Regardless of how his sekirei felt he needed to do this.
Maybe the bond is an acutal bond... He thought. He knew something was strange the day after he winged uzume but he hardly noticed it, it'd take a moment of concentration and even then it wasn't much. But after nanaha and yashima he began to feel something seeping into him. Feelings that weren't his, emotions that weren't his, thoughts that weren't his. Every now and again he'd just toss them away since they weren't his own.
I'm not like your other sekirei, I won't chase after you. Karasuba's words resonated through his conscious as he remembered that day. Karasuba walked with an indescribable strength, a power deep within, he couldn't help but be... Attracted to her, she wasn't like his other sekirei. She didn't fight for his attention, fight with the rest on who loved him more. She was fine with just this, her and him under the same blue sky. That was enough for her. She was violent, blood thirsty, but it was in a hot way, at least to ryu.
But calling him monkey began to make him mad!
You certainly aren't like the others karasuba. Ryu thought opening his eyes continuing to eat, you don't hang onto me, you don't fall on me like the others do. You're so proud. He smiled lightly at the thought. Yes karasuba was a killer, called him a monkey, but she was still his sekirei.
It had been another one of those days for miya. She couldn't help but feel responsible for this, ryu hadn't come back for almost over a month now. He left without as much of a goodbye. She was second guessing herself now as she walked down the stairs towards her room.
Kagari spoke to her a few weeks ago. He encountered ryu a few miles away, but ryu sucked all of the strength from him. Since that day ryu's literally vanished.
"Miya-tan." Matsu's voice broke the silence. She had her head peeking out from her doorway looking at miya with understanding eyes.
"Matsu." Miya said with slight surprise turning to face her with her usual face. "You didn't join us for dinner."
Matsu looked at miya sheepishly for a moment. "Well, yashima and nanaha are pretty bad." She said adjusting her glasses. "I don't want to see them cry."
Miya nodded her head in resignation. It was the sad truth, yashima was just a mess and nanaha was slowly getting better. It appeared though that yashima may have never gotten better until ryu came back. If he came back. "Did, kagari tell you?"
Matsu nodded with a serious face gesturing for miya to come in her room where they could speak in private. Miya entered the room silently taking a seat on the futon staring at all of the computers. Matsu crawled her way to the keyboard taking her usual seat. "It appears ryu-tan has the same ability as seo-tan, takehito did do adjustments."
The thought twisted miya to her core. She couldn't get the image of ryu out of her mind. The anger, the rage, behind those eyes. That moment they looked like hers, but in that moment she could see on thing, pain. She didn't even try to run after him like his sekirei did, he wasn't turning back. Not then and not now. "Yes he did." Miya said quietly lowering her head slightly.
"Miya-tan don't feel bad." Matsu said putting a hand on her landlady's shoulder giving it a light squeeze. She knew it was a possibility, there was a chance where ryu would in fact leave the inn. "It's better that he knows now instead of later." She said reassuringly.
Matsu knew the moment he left if a crying yashima was anything to go by. But they couldn't understand what ryu was going through she knew full well they couldn't only her, karasuba, miya, and ryu himsef knew.
"I know matsu, but..." Miya trailed off keeping her head down slightly. "He probably thinks I hate him."
Matsu's eyes widened at that. "Miya-tan don't speak so harshly." She said quickly. "Ryu-tan he wouldn't, he couldn't."
Miya sighed sadly. Yes he was technically her son, but she just had a feeling she couldn't shake. "Ryu-san this really got to him, I should've waited." She thought about the consequences ryu winged four sekirei and then she drops two more bombshells it was disastrous in the end.
Matsu shook her head with a firm face. "I believe you made the right decision miya-tan. He isn't a child, he is a man he had the right to know, he should know and now he does." She said curtly.
Miya stayed silent.
"All we can do now is wait for him." Matsu said in a soft voice.
All because she understood the circumstances didn't mean she missed her ashikabi any less. She couldn't conduct her experiments on him, she couldn't fluster him like she enjoyed doing so. But somewhere inside of her she had a feeling that he will come back.
"Have you been able to trace his movements matsu?" Miya asked changing the topic.
Matsu began to punch her keyboard with her fingers whirling them around at blinding speeds. "I lost track of his movements a few days ago, he was in the south side of the city buying a few swords." Matsu answered looking back for a moment. "Matsu made a big mistake."
Miya narrowed her eyes in on matsu. "What do you mean?"
"When ryu-tan and matsu-tan spoke. He was curious about all of this in here, I tried explaining but I gave up." That was one thing she wouldn't do again trying to explain technology that was at least twenty years ahead to someone who grew up on the country side. "But, he asked me what these were." Matsu picked up a small device it was no bigger than a quarter and metallic in appearance. It looked like a steel coin at first glance, but upon closer examination it was a jammer meant to block out any surveillance from anywhere if it was on a person or object. "And I explained and he took one before he left." Matsu answered carefully.
Miya's face was impassive but her aura was dark. Dozens of hannya masks crept around and over matsu completely surrounding her. "If anything happens to ryu-san, I'll hold you responsible matsu." She said in her usual sweet voice. "And one more thing, never mention that scum's name again." She giggled behind her hand.
"Y-Y-Yes miya-tan, matsu won't let anything happen to ryu!" She sqeauked feeling herself beginning to suffocate, breathing a sigh of relief since the air became lighter. "He'll come back." Matsu said with fierce eyes.
I hope you're right... Miya thought as she left the room.
"Ryu-sama hates me." Yashima said in a shaky voice with saturated eyes as she looked at uzume and nanaha with a pitiful face. She missed her ashikabi, she just wanted him to come back.
"No, he doesn't." Uzume said soothingly. "Just don't call him sama."
"B-But why, he's my ashikabi? Yashima asked with watery eyes.
"He doesn't like honorifics." Uzume stated flatly drying yashima's tears.
"B-But..." Yashima whimpered.
"You know if ryu was here right now and seen you crying what would he say?" Uzume asked.
"H-He'd say no more crying." Nanaha answered quietly. She was still hurting but she wouldn't cry anymore. She didn't want to.
"So enough crying okay?" Uzume asked resting her hands on yashima's shoulders.
Yashima wanted to be strong, oh how she tried. She always tried to stay strong for ryu, but him leaving and how he kicked her out of his room made her break inside. She began to whimper then started crying much to uzume's dismay.
She couldn't help it. Ryu hated her, she just knew he did. He'd never find it in his heart to forgive her, he didn't even say I love you when he left a little over a month ago. And worse yet he yelled at them.
"Gah!" Ryu groaned in frustration burning the feeling of sadness away. It wasn't his emotions, he didn't need or want anything seeping in anything disturbing him.
Ryu put his phone to his ear leaning back on the couch waiting for someone to answer on the other end. He stared up at the ceiling for a moment before closing his eyes.
"If it's not my little monkey." Karasuba chortled from the other end.
"It's good to hear from you too karasuba." Ryu said with a hint of sarcasm. Honestly would it kill her to call him by his name once instead of monkey?
"Aw, don't tell me the big softie is upset." Karasuba said in a mocking tone.
Ryu's face heated up with anger. "First I'm not soft, secondly I'm just... Lost." He said quietly. He grunted. "And I know that's basic information you gave me, thought you could play with me?"
Karasuba laughed on the other end of the line. She did enjoy pissing ryu off. Giving him basic information was the best way to go about it. "Oh ryu-kun." She said in a melody type voice. "You're so easy."
"What do you mean by 'easy' and this kun thing?" He asked with a hint of anger. Yup it was clear karasuba enjoyed riling him up. It was official.
"You just fell right into my joke. Ryu-kun." She chortled still laughing lightly from the other end. Ryu could see her grinning or smirking while his head turned bright red before steam was released from his ears.
"I don't see the joke." Ryu said flatly.
"The joke is on you." Karasuba shot back at a rapid pace. "My little monkey." She laughed harder hearing ryu growl out his frustrations. "Are you mad?"
"Yea-you know never mind." He groaned running a hand through his spiky black hair hearing her laugh back. "Can we talk?"
"Sure, about what?" She asked. Ryu didn't know if she was feigning excitement or totally mocking him.
"Could we talk in person?" Ryu asked after a moment of deliberation.
"Oh, I'll wear my leather suit again." She said teasingly, ryu blushed slightly remembering her body hugged tightly by that suit. He was surprised she could move so freely since it was skin tight.
"KA-Karasuba!" Ryu exclaimed.
"Don't be such a prude, r-yu-kun." She said in a melody voice. "If I may ask what's this about?"
"We never did get proper introductions out of the way. So how about that and some dinner?"
Karasuba was silent aside from humming as she thought. Or rather gave ryu the impression she was thinking about. She couldn't deny she wanted proper intrductions out of the way but every time she was around either miya or one of his sekirei were there to ruin it or would ruin it. But she'd have a little fun flustering ryu."So a date then?"
"W-Well I guess." Ryu stuttered. He didn't know what karasuba considered a date... Cutting a person in half and eating their heart?
"Hmmm." Karasuba hummed. "Alright, I guess I can go. I'll bring you something special, okay?" Ryu didn't know if she was teasing him or trying to arouse him so he just settled on an agreement since they came to one.
"Where should we meet? And that sounds great I like surprises." Ryu said with a hint of excitement that shocked him slightly since he was just a little on the sad side a few minutes ago.
"The coffee shop on the east side of the city. And you'll love the surprise I give you my little monkey." Karasuba purred suggestively. "See you in an hour don't be late."
"I won't be." Ryu said hanging the phone up as the other end disconnected. He put his dirty dishes in the sink rinsing them off befre he set them into the dish washer.
"This is the first time I'll be alone with karasuba." Ryu said to himself feeling a little worried. "I hope this surprise doesn't kill me." He mused heading to the bathroom to take a shower and get a fresh change of clothes.
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