Another update! Yay ryu came back to izumo inn! Happy day! I won't be updating for a while now. Anyone watch hardcore pawn? Show is a trip and a half.

Ryu stared up at the ceiling of izumo inn. Despite his best attempts he could not get up, not that he could if he tried he was physically and mentally spent. He was pinned to the floor by his four sekirei who tackled him to the floor in a group hug. Not surprising, since he left for nearly three months to parts unknown without as much as a goodbye kiss.

"I missed you girls too, but may I get up now?" Asked ryu from the floor his sekirei got up off of him and toyotama pulled him up from the floor effortlessly and hugged him as tightly as she could in one smooth motion. "Toyotama, my lungs, I can't breathe... Pain." Toyotama stopped hugging him holding him at arm's length.

"Ryu?" Many of the people in the living room asked as one. Ryu took off his kimono to revel the bruises he recieved from his fight with ichiya and oshina. He didn't do much to heal them, he had been running for almost the entire day. His body hurt everywhere, but he could take it he's been through worse on more than one occasion.

"Oh my God what happened?" Uzume asked as she placed a hand over her mouth in shock.

"You idiot, you're hurt!" Toyotama said with worry flooding her eyes.

"I got into a little scuffle with two sekirei earlier today. And I smashed into an air conditioning unit." He explained using all of his strength not to black out. "Something weird happened and my eyes and ears just started bleeding out. And I had a run in with some bastard and kicked his ass for abusing his sekirei. Right after I did some weird thing to remove his sekirei's crest without terminating her. All I know is that sekrei is with an ashikabi that will treat her right." He said with a faint smile. Telling them about his lineage now was a mistake, he'd wait.

"Woah, back up man, you fought against two sekirei?" Kagari asked incredulously as he turned to look at ryu.

"Yeah, they tried to ambush me. It wasn't a big deal." Said ryu as he remembered the confrontation. It wasn't a big deal until his eyes and ears began to bleed.

"Not a big deal! Listen to yourself!" Toyotama exclaimed grabbing his shoulders roughly.

They were worried sick about him. But now he was back and he was never going to leave his sekirei alone again. "That smells really good, I'm so hungry and tired..." He said closing his eyes as he fell forward. Toyotama caught him before he hit the ground his other three sekirei fussing over him while matsu looked at ryu with a hint of curiosity.

"Why are you such an idiot..." Toyotama said with a sigh shaking her head. He had her worried sick and she had a good nerve to punch across the back of his head, but how could she when he was such an oaf?

"He's really hurt." Uzume said examining some of his wounds. His upper and lower back was purple and blue from the beating he endured earlier, but that wasn't the worse part. Dried blood was on his kimono, arms, hands, face, and ears. It looked like he had been through a war.

"We need to clean his wounds right away before they get infected." Miya instructed walking towards ryu with an intense stare. She felt a pang of fury course through her veins as she took in his appearance. If it wasn't for being half sekirei he'd be dead right now. "Toyotama take him to my room, nanaha get a fresh towel yashima you go with her and get some warm water, uzume..." Miya trailed off.

"Yes?" The tenth sekirei perked up waiting for her instructions. She wanted to help ryu the best she could and would do anything.

"I want you to take off his clothes while I get a change of clothes for him." Miya said with slight ice to her voice. "Don't. Try. Anything."

"I won't!" Uzume cried even without the hannya miya was scary. Besides uzume had things in store for later on. With their instructions given each of his sekirei went to do their task. Yashima nearly cried in joy seeing him standing in front doorway but panicked when she seen ryu's condition.

Kagari and matsu exchanged glances with one another being the only ones in the room now. "You're not going with them? You must've been worried sick." Kagari asked looking at matsu slightly puzzled.

"No, for now ryu-tan needs rest." Matsu said pushing her glasses up. "I knew he'd come back sooner or later." When they talked that one day before she winged him, she felt so safe around him. The world melted away and it was just them. "But now would be a perfect time for me to conduct an experiment."

"He's out cold and you're going to fondle him?" Kagari asked with a light chuckle. "Miya will throw you out on your ass."

Matsu sighed in resignation. Yes that was true, and she wouldn't dare to try anything now. The way she told uzume not to try anything was scary, a lot more scary than usual. "I guess you're right, but I should check his injuries once they're all done."

Oh ry ry. Uzum thought as she slipped off his hakama grimacing at how bruised he was. Who did he fight miya and karasuba? She never seen him look so banged up before except for that one time. "What happened to his eyes, his veins... They're..." Uzume took them in almost fainting.

"I don't know." Miya said grimly icing the bruises and rubbing alcohol on the cuts to starve off the infection, if there was one. She needed to act fast however before it spread.

"They look puffy." Yashima said worriedly. She knew that blood should not come from the eye sockets. This was bad, what happened to her ashikabi.

"He mentioned a fight, who did he fight?" Toyotama asked with narrowed eyes. The moment she heard a name she was going to go out and tear shinto teito apart looking for them. Nobody hurt her ryu and would live to get away with it. There was a moment of silence and she spoke again. "I'm going to kill them." She hissed venomously.

"But, we don't know who did it." Nanaha said looking at toyotama trying to hide her tears. She was so happy to see ryu she wanted to smother him with kisses and hugs, but seeing him so hurt those thoughts left and her protective nature kicked into overtime. "We just need to stay here with ryu."

"Ryu..." Yashima said with a shaky voice cleaning any blood that was left behind from before. Please be okay.

"I don't care someone needs to pay. I will raise hell!" Toyotama exclaimed clenching her fists.

"Nanaha-san is right." Miya said a hannya mask flaring up behind her glaring at toyotama. "I'd be so mad if you brought trouble to my little inn while ryu wasn't well." Miya laughed sweetly, too sweetly. Her mask had friends, lots of friends they came through the was and the floorboard turning it purple.

"I-I-I'll stay here." Toyotama stuttered feeling like her death was at hand any second. She was relieved when miya let up with her hannya mask and its pack of friends.

Miya brushed a few strands of hair away from his eyes. Sighing inwardly, if she never told him this would've never happened. She shook the thought aside it was too late to go back on it now she needed to think of the future and nurture him back to health. "That's for the best." She said quietly wiping away a blood stain under his nose. "There. Now he just needs rest." Miya said as she stood up putting away her medical supplies. It was a good thing he was half sekirei he'd heal completely within a few days.

"Is it okay if we wait here?" Yashima asked looking at miya. She really wanted to stay at ryu's side he was gone for so long and now that she had the chance to finally stay by his side she didn't want to pass it up.

"Wait, for what?" A voice groaned ryu sat up wincing slightly as he glanced around. His vision was slightly blurred if he didn't know any better that attack he used some how damaged his eyes or something... It was a good things he trained and heightened his other senses. Sensing life forces didn't hurt either.

"Ryu-san you need to rest." Miya said sternly frowning at him. He just couldn't sit still for three seconds. "You went out causing trouble." She scolded.

"But I didn't do anything they just ambushed me." He said quickly turning in her direction using his ears to pinpoint her location. How did those two sekirei find out where he lived? It couldn't have been karasuba, no she wanted to kill him herself.

He didn't doubt she'd kill whoever tried to kill him just so he had her chance.

Miya glanced around and noticed that his sekirei all excluding matsu and karasuba wanted to smother him. She couldn't be mad at them for that he was gone for so long it was only natural. But f they tried anything while he was hurt. "I have to go do some things. Uzume, toyotama..." Miya glared at them both. They yelped in fight shivering under ryu's right side as a hannya mask flared to life. "Don't do anything." She warned.

"We won't miya promise!" The two cried in unison wanting their torture to end. They sighed in relief feeling the pressure lifted off of them. Miya simply nodded leaving the room to give them privacy she was sure those two got the point, if not she'd just have to leave lumps on their heads.

Ryu turned to face his sekirei staying silent. He was terrible, he was a terrible ashikabi the way he acted prior to and during his departure was just bad. He remembered seeing the blue orb quiver, poor yashima. He didn't know where to start or what to say. The five of them sat in silence neither knowing what to say, his sekirei basking in his presence, and ryu contemplating. "I missed you girls so much. I'm sorry for leaving and the way I treated you. I should've never pushed you away. I just needed time to think. But, I'm back now, and I promise I will never leave you girls alone again... Can you ever forgive me?" He asked. In response to this uzume, toyotama, nanaha, and yashima crawled up to him and hugged him once more.

"Of course we do, ryu. You're our ashikabi we love you more than anything. While you were gone nanaha exlained how you were stressing about everything and you needed to think. We all agreed you needed space after that." Said uzume, trying her hardest not to cry.

"Yeah, but next time ryu please just let us know you need your space. You had all of us worried sick. You know that? We thought we'd lost you forever. You idiot." Said toyotama, tearing up slightly. Ryu smiled lightly at that, he may have been an idiot but he was their idiot.

"Well, not nanaha she was sure you'd come back. She never doubted you for a second." Uzume said with a sniff.

Ryu wrapped them all in a hug hi face buried in uzume's and toyotama's breasts as he squeezed tighter. He was so... Happy they forgave him, he was such an ass for the way he acted, and he needed to speak to yashima later on alone. He never wanted to be so cold, not with her. "I love you girls. No matter what happens from now on, I'll never leave you girls alone again. But, can we head to my bedroom? I need to talk with you girls about something." He said, suddenly serious. He knew if he didn't tell them now, he wouldn't be able to until later.

"But what about miya?" Uzume asked in fear.

"It's okay I'll take the blame. Let's just go to my room okay?" He asked pressing his hands into the futon he was lying on slowly pushing himself up to his feet. His sekirei watched him carefully as he got on one knee and stood up only to fall forward but toyotama caught him.

"You know, we're always here to help you ryu. You don't need to act tough in front of us." She said helping him stand upright yashima and nanaha massaging his shoulders and back.

"I'm not acting tough." Ryu said looking away from toyotama with a slight scowl. He was a man he needed to stand on his own two feet with his own strength.

"She's right, I know you're a stud and all but we're your sekirei we'll help you." Uzume said rubbing his cheek tenderly. She knew ryu was strong, he was the strongest human she knew he never ceased to amaze her. But she'd always be there at his side he didn't need to shoulder everything alone. Ryu looked at each of his sekirei in tow, he was so lucky to have them in his life, to be bonded to such faithful women.

"We'll die for you." Toyotama said squeezing his hand affectionately. Ryu's eyes bucked at that. No he didn't want that to happen he wanted to stay with them forever and ever. He was an idiot for leaving, but it was justified in every sense.

"No, I want you girls to live on with me." He said firmly.

"We'll always love you ryu!" Yashima said happily hugging him from his back. "No matter what we promise!"

Nanaha nodded hugging him as well. She missed his touch, his warm body that was like a furnace that made her so warm. She missed it all, and now that he was back she'd never let go. "We stand with you ryu." She said.

Ryu was a strong warrior, he knew how to keep his emotions in check. He was disciplined both physically and mentally, and never showed signs of weakness for himself and for his sekirei. But hearing them declare their unconditional love and unwavering loyalty made his eyes well up with tears and he quickly shut them preventing them from streaming.

But it was useless since he was bonded with them and his sekirei felt his every emotion.

"Come on let's go to your room so you talk to us." Toyotama said grabbing a hold of his hand while uzume grabbed the other leading him out of the room. She didn't want her ashikabi to cry, she would always forgive him. Even if he was an idiot.

"Well things are back to normal." Kagari said with a small smile feeling the aura of the inn lighten up even miya walked with her usual warm motherly aura.

"Yeah, I'll have to keep an eye on uzume and toyotama those two are hard of hearing." Miya said with a sigh attached at the end of it. What was she going to do with those two?

"What about matsu?" Kagari asked looking at miya slightly puzzled. Out of all of his sekirei matsu was the most perverted surpassing uzume by ten fold easily. "And if ryu can't see I doubt he'll know what they plan to do."

"They won't." Miya said with a small smile covering her mouth with her hand. "I'd have to make arrangements for matsu and toyotama and uzume..." She giggled sweetly into the back of her hand a hannya mask flaring behind her.

"M-Miya stop that!" Kagari exclaimed feeling his blood turn ice cold. Miya laughed sweetly relinquishing her hannya mask.

"Yes it is good to have him back." Miya said with a small smile. She missed ryu a lot, and she thought he was mad at her. In fact she still did, but they'd talk later when he was up to speed.

Ryu took a seat in the corner of his room as his sekirei crowded around him to hear what he had to say. Ryu felt like he was some scientist making a ground breaking discovery, though he hated science with a passion and school itself, but he did like to learn through experiencing things for himself not reading them from a book.

"What do you have to tell us ryu?" Uzume asked taking a seat in front of him.

"We're listening." Nanaha said looking at ryu intently as if willing him to start talking.

Ryu took a few deep breaths and emotionally prepared himself for what he was about to say.

Not much to say here except thanks to those who voted! I'll say this now benitsubasa and haihane will become his sekirei but way later, I can't say the circumstances you'll have to wait. And he will be wining namiji I think that's how you spell her name she seems interesting and I want to write her out in ryu's harem. To musubi fans she'll be with minato don't worry. But keep on voting I have no date when the poll will close as of yet, I may even forget I put it up.

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