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Ashikabi Shinobi	By : Pokemaster12 Category: Naruto Crossovers > General Views: 10574 -:- Recommendations : 1 -:- Currently Reading : 19
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Chapter List
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A/N: Once again I would like to thank everyone who reviewed my story. While I try to deny it, I am a review whore. I mean, why else would we all bother to post our stories online if not to have people praise our work so that our egos can be inflated to Kishimoto sized proportions?
Disclaimer: I do not own Sekirei. If I did there would be more nude scenes and the main character would totally take advantage of the amount of feminine flesh he was exposed to on a daily basis. I do not own Naruto either, if I did he wouldn't be as stupid as he is in the manga and he would have decided to kill Sasuke the moment he started spouting his 'I'll show my hatred to the world' crap.

Chapter 5: New Complications
XoX
It had been a long day. Scratch that, it had been one of the longest days he had in a long time. While Naruto would admit the battles that had been fought during the rescue of Kusano had not been all that arduous – especially when compared to some the shit he had been through in his life – with the most serious of the series of bouts being the one between Akitsu and an as of yet unknown male with a katana, the events of just a few hours ago had involved more action and danger then the blond had faced in some time. It was a relief when he finally returned home to Izumo Inn.
Unfortunately it was not quite the end of the day for Naruto. As soon as he stepped in through the door, carrying Kusano on his back, the first person he ran into was Miya. Said woman only took one glance at him before an unreadable expression crossed her face. Naruto didn't quite know what to make of it and didn't have time to contemplate the look before she spun on her heels, walking into another room before returning again, this time with her katana in hand.
"Uh, Miya-chan? What are you doing with that?" asked Naruto, only to be ignored as Miya quickly withdrew the weapon and pointed it at the blond's throat. Musubi gasped, shocked that their nice landlady was pointing a weapon at her Naruto. Meanwhile, Akitsu quickly stepped forward to launch an attack at the woman threatening her Ashikabi, only to be stopped by said blond raising a hand in front of her.
"Ashikabi-Sama...?" Akitsu said questioningly, her mind trying to decipher the reason her Ashikabi wasn't allowing her to defend him. Unfortunately she couldn't come up with anything, there was a clear threat to his safety present and he wasn't letting her do anything. Of course, she knew that Naruto was more then capable of taking care of himself. She had seen the battle he had waged against the soldiers during their rescue of Kusano, so maybe he just wanted to fight this battle himself? It was the only thing she could think of that might explain why he stopped her.
"Relax, Akitsu-chan," Naruto said in a soothing voice. She did just that, her body unable to do anything but soften it's posture at the sound of his soft tone, almost against her will. The confidence in the blonds voice was more then enough to reassure the ice-user that he had things well in hand. Seeing her relax, the blond eyed the sword pointed at his throat and the eyes of the woman holding it.
She looked angry, an expression he had yet to see on the kind woman. So far he had seen her amused, happy, curious, and mildly disgruntled; he had seen her smile, frown, giggle, pout and even saw her awesome hanya mask. This look was new, her eyes were narrowed and her lips were set in a thin line that showed visible anger and disapproval at his actions, whatever action it was that he had committed to upset her.
He was still trying to figure out just what he had done to earn a sword being pointed at his throat. His mind replayed the events of the past few days, trying to find if he had offended the woman at some point. After a split second reviewing and replaying all of the memories of him interacting with Miya he found nothing, making him even more confused.
Just what had he done to earn the woman's ire?
"I take it there's a reason you're pointing a sword at me, Miya-chan?"
"A very good reason," Miya said sternly, her voice was rather cold, almost bone chilling. It was one that he had heard in only a few people in his life; Senju Tsunade when she was pissed off at Jiriya for peeping; Haruno Sakura when she thought Naruto was doing something perverted; Kazahana Koyuki when she had been dealing with a group of traitors after her thrown – and when he did something she considered stupid; Yuhi Kurenai when a male was ogling her – this led to many genjutsu that shall forever remain in anonymity for the blonds peace of mind; and Mitarashi Anko when someone knocked over and/or insulted her dango.
Anko was just weird like that.
While he had known quite a few women capable of pulling off the 'you have a lot of explaining to do before I gut you like a fish and hang you by your balls' tone of voice, seeing it in this day and age was surprising. He had long since thought the ability to create such a frightening tone and look had been lost.
Apparently it hadn't.
The two Sekireis on either side of Naruto shivered at the voice, it was clear that neither of them were used to that look or that tone. Not that he could blame them for being frightened. The only reason Naruto himself didn't was because he had dealt with worse in his life time. This woman, while obviously very powerful, couldn't hold a candle to some of the horrors he had seen in his life.
And was it wasn't like she could actually kill him. He was pretty sure that no one could kill him nowadays, though he hadn't been challenged seriously enough to actually get injured in nearly two thousand years so he couldn't say for sure.
"I thought you were better then to stoop so low as to kidnap someone, Naruto-san. But it appears I was mistaken. You do know that kidnapping is one of the highest offenses that can be committed? And that committing said act results in the harshest of punishments? Don't you?"
"Kidnapping?" Naruto blinked several times. He tossed the word around a few times in his head, wondering what the hell Miya meant. He blinked, his eyes going from the sword to Kusano, then back to the sword. And suddenly his eyes gained a glint of understanding. "You think I kidnapped Ku-chan?"
"What else could this possibly be, if not a kidnapping?"
It was a rhetorical question, the tone in Miya's voice made that clear. But Naruto answered it anyways.
"How about –"
GURGLE!
Naruto, Miya, and the other two Sekirei in the room blinked owlishly at the rumbling sound that echoed through out the room. All four of them stopped what they were doing, halted their argument and began to look around for the source of the sound, which reminded them of the roar of an angry predator.
GURGLE!
The sound came once again and the four were able to track the noise to it's source. For some reason Naruto found the sound to be very familiar, though for the life of him he could not place where he had heard it before.
GURGLE!
"So hungry..." the little girl muttered, just loudly enough for everyone in the room to hear before her stomach rumbled again. As the girls stomach growled for a third time, and the soft words that were issued from her mouth came to him, the blond realized where he had heard that noise before.
Musubi's stomach when she was hungry.
He hoped to kami that Kusano did not have an appetite as large as the fist type Sekireis.
"She must not have eaten for a long time, being cooped up in the forest," Naruto mumbled, more to himself then anyone else. He turned to look at Miya and gave her a sheepish grin. "So, it looks like Ku-chan's hungry. Would you mind making her something to eat. I promise to tell you everything then."
Miya just blinked at him, her expression going from stern and angry to confused. "Ara?"
XoX
"I see," Miya said as she sipped a steaming cup of tea. She had just finished listening to Naruto's tale about how he and his Sekirei had rescued Kusano. The blond shinobi had told her pretty much everything that had happened, going into quite a bit of detail, while somehow skillfully removing the information about Sekireis, Ashikabis and the Sekirei plan in general.
Not that he was actually concerned about Minaka finding out he had told someone else about the Sekirei plan. He honestly couldn't care less if he revealed the secret. But until he knew more about Minaka, MBI and the Sekirei plan as a whole, he didn't want to callously give information that might place his Sekirei in jeopardy. It simply wasn't in his nature to place people he had grown to care about in harms way.
"So this girl was responsible for creating the overgrowth of plants in the Arboretum, and you, Musubi-chan and Akitsu-chan went there to rescue her. Am I getting this right?"
"That's the gist of it," Naruto agreed as he scratched the back of his head. Idly, he turned his attention to the girl of their discussion. Kusano was busy scarfing down several bowls worth of food in an attempt to make up for however long she had not eaten. It was almost incredible to see such a tiny child eating so much, especially one that wasn't an Akamichi.
Then again she was a Sekirei. Perhaps they all simply had higher then normal metabolisms, though he had not seen Akitsu eat nearly as much as Musubi. Though he just figured it was due to Musubi being a fist type, and thus being much more active and having a higher energy expenditure. It was just a theory, but he assumed that simple types used less energy, due to the generally limited amount of movement they make during combat and the fact that they don't use their energy for anything other then battle.
He had no clue how to prove this, however, he wasn't a scientist, just an young looking immortal with too much damn time on his hands.
"Hmm..." Naruto sweat dropped as Miya stared at him with a discernible expression on her face. She leaned over, so close her nose was nearly touching his as she looked into his eyes with frightening intensity. Naruto said nothing, however, letting the purple-haired beauty search for whatever it was she was looking for. She seemed to find it after a few seconds of staring, because only a moment had passed before she pulled away from him and smiled. "I believe you."
"You do?" Naruto blinked, despite himself he was slightly surprised, though that could have been because of the woman's previous behavior towards him when he first came in with Kusano.
"Of course," Miya's bright smile was rather radiant as she spoke, so unlike her scary smile where her hanya mask would appear around her person. He still wanted to ask her how she did that. "I'm very good at telling when someone is lying to me, so I know that everything you've said is the truth."
Actually Naruto was much harder to read then most people, and not just because of his killer poker face. For some reason Miya simply had a hard time figuring him out, it was just another part of the mystery that was Uzumaki Naruto.
"Well that's good," Naruto said with a laugh. His left hand came up and went behind his head, scratching it as a sheepish grin crossed his face. "For a second there I was afraid you were going to point your katana at me again, or even worse, actually use it on me to cut me into tiny pieces."
"Oh no, I wouldn't do that," Miya said with a bright smile. Her eyes closed as her lips curled into a wide smile that looked very beautiful on her face. Were it not for the fact that she was leaking that evil, purple energy like that one time Uzume had spoken badly about Izumo Inn. "I would only cut you up if you deserved it."
"Ah, ahahaha, that's... good to know," Naruto said with a sweat drop. He wondered what it was with him and violent women. Why was it that he always found himself surrounded by that type of girl?
'Back then it was Sakura-chan, Tsunade-baa-chan, Anko-chan, Kurenai-chan and Yugao-chan that I had to worry about trying to beat me half to death and/or genjutsu me,' the blond looked from Miya to Musubi to Akitsu and sighed. 'Now I've got these three, all of them powerful fighters in their own right. Well, at least none of them have actually tried beating the crap out of me yet.'
For some reason his mind conjured up an image of Akitsu, Miya and Musubi in the leather bondage clothing those lightning girls had been in. A blush formed on his face, but he quickly shook it off.
'Don't go there, Naruto, don't even think about it,' he brought up both hands and smacked himself across the face several times, the pain helping his mind move out of the gutter and back into the real world. 'The last thing you need is Miya thinking your some kind of pervert.'
"Um..." Naruto blinked, his eyes opening to see Miya and Musubi staring at him strangely. Akitsu would have been included in this as well, but she just looked the same as always. "Are you ok, Naruto-san?"
"Uh... ah ha, y-yeah, I'm fine," Naruto replied, coughing into his hand to hide the slight blush that threatened to creep back onto his face. "A-Anyway, do you think you could let Ku-chan stay here with us?"
"I don't see why not," Miya said. She looked up at the ceiling as if thought, before smiling. "It's not like she has anywhere else to go, and since your the one who rescued her I doubt she'll want to leave you. So of course she can stay."
"Thank you very much."
Naruto smiled as he began eating some of his own food, having disregarded it until after he finished his conversation with Miya. He was pleased that his landlady understood the new situation and was willing to allow Kusano to stay with them. Not that he had expected her to do otherwise, if nothing else, Miya was a very kind and caring individual. Even if she hadn't understood the truth of how Kusano came to be in his care, he was sure she would have let the young Sekirei stay at Izumo Inn.
As he began eating the delicious food, calamari in a spicy dipping sauce and pickled vegetables, the sound of footsteps echoed in the hallways. Naruto turned his head just in time to see the door open to reveal Kagari. He looked like he was still getting dressed, his long sleeved shirt still had several buttons that were undone and a tie was hanging loosely from his neck. Likewise, he wasn't wearing his normal jacket, instead it was currently folded across his arm. All in all he gave the picture of somebody who was in a rush.
The white-haired males eyes took a quick second to glance at all of the occupants in the room, locking on the still eating Kusano before going back to Miya.
"Miya, I'm going to be heading out, so you don't have to prepare anything for me."
"Oh?" Miya looked Kagari up and down as he finished getting dressed, buttoning up the last of his buttons, tightening and straightening his tie and finally putting his jacket on. "You're dressed up rather nicely today, more so then usual," she commented lightly. "Is something going on?"
"Nothing big really," Kagari replied in a conversational and smooth tone. Naruto figured he was modulating his voice in preparation for his job, it reminded him of the few times he had been ordered to seduce a woman of high station when he was a ninja. He would often change his voice into the smooth, husky sound that the other man was using now.
He had also done it when the loneliness became unbearable and he decided to find a female companion for the night, but that was something he didn't like thinking about.
Shaking his head Naruto focused his attention on Kagari as the young man continued. "There are going to be quite a few people coming tonight, I'm told it's going to be the busiest night we've had in a month, so I just thought I should put a bit more effort into my appearance."
"Ah, well in that case I wish you luck tonight," Miya said with a smile.
"Thanks, I have a feeling I might need some luck." Kagari smirked. He turned around and was about close the door before looking over his shoulder. "I have a feeling I might not be back tonight, so don't worry if you don't see me tomorrow morning."
As the door closed behind Kagari and the sounds of footsteps began receding deeper into the hall, Musubi turned to Naruto with a question on her mind. "Hey, Naruto-Sama? What was all that about?"
Naruto and Akitsu sweat dropped while Miya giggled. "Um... just an adult conversation, Musubi-chan. Nothing for you to worry about right for now."
"Oh, ok!"
Sometime during the conversations taking place, Kusano had finished eating. The little girl, after scarfing down nearly three times her weight in food, completely ignored the other people as they spoke. Blinking, her eyes began to take on a drowsy quality, drooping and closing occasionally as she fought to stay awake. However, with all that had happened to her, the attack on her person as someone tried to force her into being their Sekirei via forced winging, creating the abnormal plant growth in the Arboretum, spending who knew how long inside of that place all alone and with no one to comfort her, and finally, the action that had accumulated her adventure before coming into the care of Uzumaki Naruto had left her spent. Her eyes drooped even further down before she slumped over, her head hitting the table as her eyes closed a final time and sleep took her.
"I think the little dears all tuckered out," Miya said as she noticed the young girl had fallen asleep. She placed her hands against her cheeks, smiling at how cute the young Sekirei looked. She was snoring contently, eyes closed and mouth partially opened with several grains of rice covering her cheeks. The spoon she had been using to eat with was still clutched tightly in her hand, only moving with each breath she let out. "Now that her stomach is full she's probably exhausted."
"Right, in that case we should get her to bed," Naruto commented. He lifted the little girl into his arms, it was rather easy considering how light she was, like a feather.
"Yes, we should," Miya stood up as well, and after a few minutes both Akitsu and Musubi got to their feet too. "And since your room is rather crowded she can sleep with me. I've already laid out the bedsheets for her."
"Eh? Are you sure?" asked Naruto. "I don't want to impose on you or anything."
"You won't be imposing on me," Miya replied easily. "We can't have her sleep in her own room, and you've already got three people living in your bedroom." She gave the blond a pointed look, causing him to laugh sheepishly. "So don't worry about it, ok?"
"If you insist then I won't say no," Naruto bowed to the purple-haired beauty. "You have my thanks for this. I really appreciate all your doing for us."
"Your very welcome," Miya replied a dazzling smile. "Now come on, let's get her in bed. And you guys should probably turn in as well."
"Yes ma'am."
XoX
Kagari walked down one of the many streets near Izumo Inn, his long coat billowing slightly as he moved. It wasn't long before he reached his destination, a very expensive looking limousine that was parked by curb with only a single light on in the back. As if it was waiting for someone.
Walking over to it, Kagari stopped by the rear door that was facing the road. Opening it he leaned down and peered in to see the person who had called him, who also happened to be the woman helping him with his job as the guardian of unwinged Sekireis.
"A limousine, huh? This is a pretty classy way to greet a friend," he smirked at the woman, sitting with her right leg crossed over the left, a cigarette in her left hand. She was a slender women with grey hair and grey eyes. There was a long scar that traveled across her left eye, which was being covered by a large, triangular eye patch. Currently, she was wearing an expensive purple dress, it was sleeveless with a thin neckline that acted as a choker and was connected with the rest of the dress, forming an X pattern as it moved across her chest and left a large rhombus like hole to show off her cleavage. The womans name was Sahashi Takami, and she was the person who had asked him to become the guardian of unwinged Sekirei.
"It's the least I could do," Takami replied with a smile. "You've missed a lot of work lately because of me." As Kagari stepped into the car and sat down her gaze sharpened. "Do you think number one-hundred and eighty is safe with that man?"
"Safer then she would be with anyone else," was the reply she got.
Takami frowned, taking a drag of her cigarette before blowing out a stream of smoke. "You seem to have faith in this man," she looked back at her companion for the moment with a raised eyebrow and undisguised curiosity. "I thought you said you didn't trust him?"
"I said I don't know him," Kagari corrected. "The first time I met him was when he had winged Sekirei number eighty-eight, Musubi. I saw him doing things, acts of superhuman speed that shouldn't be possible for a human to do. Yet I also know he is human, a Sekirei can not be an Ashikabi, so that makes it the only viable explanation. This also leaves me baffled and unable to come up with any theory on just how he is capable of such a feat. I don't like unknown variables."
"You never did," Takami agreed with a nod. Truth was she didn't like it either. The man was a ghost, he had appeared out of no where with no past, no history, no workers ID, nothing. Even his passports were unavailable, either missing or purposely stricken from the records she didn't know, but that she couldn't find out anything about this man was disturbing.
MBI was one of the largest companies in the world, and their technology was the most advanced. They had satellites in stationed to watch ever country and had hacked into the satellites of other countries. Their information network, while more focused on Japan, and Shinto Teito in general, was still impressive on an international scale. With the level of technology they possessed, along with their information network, finding information on one person should be easy.
Which is why not being able to learn anything about Uzumaki Naruto bothered her so much.
Reaching into her pocket she pulled out a small mobile phone, a touch screen much like the one Naruto used only this one MBI logo was on the back. Accessing some of the files she kept on hand, Takami scrolled down until she located a file that was simply called UN. Tapping on the file with her thumb she opened it, bringing out a picture of the man they were talking about and any relevant information they had gained on him.
"Uzumaki Naruto, age: 18, height: 195 centimeters, weight: 91 kilograms, build: lean athletic, hair color: blond, eye color: blue, Sekireis winged: number 88 Musubi, number 7 Akitsu, and now he has Sekirei number 108 Kusano under his care."
"Though he hasn't winged her yet," Kagari pointed out. "I suspect that he won't wing her unless she's the one who decides she wants to be winged by him, even though she did react to him."
"Is that so?" said Takami, shifting her body around to face him as a look of interest appeared on her features.
Kagari nodded. "I didn't get to hear the full conversation, but from my understanding Kusano had reached out to Naruto via his dreams. That was the whole reason they had found out about her and went through the trouble of saving her in the Arboretum."
"I see."
That was a very unusual but not unexpected way for a Sekirei to reach out to their Ashikabi. When a Sekirei could feel who their Ashikabi was, but was incapable of, or perhaps didn't want to reach out to the person they were destined to be with, their desire to be winged would often manifest itself in dreams along with the usual heat when their Sekirei Crests burned.
Pulling her thoughts back to the present, Takami asked the question she had been dying to ask since Kagari had entered the car. "What do you know about Uzumaki Naruto?"
"Not much," Kagari admitted. Seeing the look of disbelief the woman gave him caused the young man to hold up his hands, as if to defend himself from her assault. "He's a very... reclusive person." Once again he was given that 'are you fucking kidding me' look that Takami had perfected.
It was a look she had perfected thanks to her dealings with that fool, Hiroto Minaka.
"Maybe not reclusive so much as quiet about his past. Aside from a few stories about his travels, which really don't tell us much at all except that he traveled a lot before coming to Japan, I know almost nothing of his past. Who he is, where he comes from, what he did before coming here, whenever the subject comes up he somehow manages to dodge the question, answering it without really answering it."
"So what your saying is you know next to nothing about him." Takami sighed. That was disappointing. This new player to the game had caught a lot of attention when he winged the 'broken Sekirei' and not just from her and MBI. A lot of other Ashikabis had found out about this miracle winging, as well as a lot of Sekireis. It wouldn't surprise her if the man soon found himself on the receiving end of a lot of unwanted attention.
Or wanted attention, depending on the kind of man he was and whether he ended up dealing with an Ashikabi or an unwinged Sekirei.
"Well, I do know a little bit about him," Kagari admitted. "I do live with the guy after all. It's impossible not to learn some things."
Takami once again turned her attention to the man. She raised her eyebrow, waiting for him to continue. When he didn't, instead gaining a pensive look, a tic mark formed on her head. "Well?"
Snapping out of whatever it was he had been thinking about, Kagari began talking. "Aside from his superhuman abilities, Naruto is also very skilled in hand-to-hand combat. And when I say very skilled I mean VERY skilled." He gave Takami a look, as if trying to convey his true feelings on the subject matter they were discussing.
"How skilled are we talking here?" asked Takami, finally gaining a true interest in the conversation now that there was something worth learning.
"Last night when they rescued Sekirei number one-hundred and eight, Naruto and Musubi attacked the MBI soldiers guarding the front gate to the Arboretum. Number eighty-eight managed to defeat a total of eight opponents. Naruto managed to beat twenty-two in the same amount of time."
Kagari gave the woman a very serious look, letting her know that he was not pulling her leg.
"I would have to say he has more skill then even a fist type Sekirei, possibly. Musubi is still new, having just been released from the lab a few days before being winged by Naruto. She doesn't have as much skill as some of the others, so it could just be that. However, the fact that he managed to take down more soldiers then a fist type Sekirei in the same amount of time she took down hers is something that we must acknowledge."
Takami gaped at the man for several seconds, which stretched into minutes. The silence was almost unbearable, for Kagari at least. The female of the two was far too busy trying to reengage her brain to even take note of the unsettling quiet that had descended upon the car.
When she finally managed to find the 'on' switch for her brain, the woman didn't hesitate to turn it on. "That's... impressive," she croaked. Impressive was an understatement of course. If what Kagari said was true and Uzumaki Naruto had accomplished that feat, then there was far more to the blond male then she, and possibly even Minaka realized.
If only she knew.
Thinking of Minaka, Takami couldn't help but question whether he knew of this or not. Was Minaka aware that they had a human with Sekirei fighting capabilities in Japan? And that he had winged two Sekirei, with a possible third on the way, within a grand total of several days? Not to mention that one of those Sekireis should have been impossible to wing at all. She wished she had the answers to those questions, and even thought about seeing if she could beat them out of the man. However, even she knew that doing so would be impossible. Minaka was surprisingly tight lipped – especially when she considered how damn loud and obnoxious he was – about things he wanted to keep a secret.
She sighed and took another drag of her cigarette, letting the nicotine calm her nerves of the shock she felt from this new piece of information. After blowing out several streams of smoke she felt infinitely better, and turned her head to look at Kagari once again.
"What else do you know about him?"
"Hmm..." Kagari crossed his arms and closed his eyes as he pondered the question. After a few seconds he nodded and began telling Takami everything he knew about Uzumaki Naruto. "Aside from his fighting capabilities he also seems to have the strange ability to earn the trust of others." Already knowing that Takami would ask for an explanation he began elaborating. "Within the first few minutes of them meeting he gained the trust of Asama Miya, and he and her now seem to have a very close friendship."
"Lovers?"
"No," Kagari snorted. "You and I both know that Miya was in love with Takehito. She would never fall in love with another man so easily. However, they are both very friendly with each other, and often joke around and converse with each other when neither of them are spending time with the others. Several times I've seen the two of them just sitting around sharing a cup of tea, and Miya has even taken to training Sekirei number eighty-eight."
"She wouldn't do that unless she liked the, both the Sekirei and her Ashikabi," Takami agreed. While she would admit to not knowing Miya that well, she knew enough about the purple-haired beauty to know that much at least.
Kagari nodded before continuing with his report. "He also has a very strong rapport with his Sekirei. Both Akitsu and Musubi are fiercely loyal to him and each other. Naruto seems to be the type of person who treats his bond with them as if he were in a relationship with them."
"Oh?" Takami raised a single, manicured eyebrow. This was an interesting piece of information. "You mean he treats them like they were his lovers?"
"Or his girlfriends," Kagari said with a shrug. "So far Naruto has taken Musubi out shopping for clothes, and they have also gone out on a picnic. I know that he and Akitsu haven't done as much yet, but I'm pretty sure the reason is more due to the fact that he only winged her two days ago. However, he did take her shopping for clothes as well. Along with that he is very affectionate towards them both. It's not unusual to see him with one or both of them, usually in some form of physical contact..."
Kagari trailed off as he tried to think of other pieces of information he had learned that may be relevant. While he was doing that, Takami had already decided what else she wanted to know. "What about his personality?"
"His personality?" Kagari blinked. When Takami nodded he said, "friendly."
"I thought you said he was reclusive," Takami countered with a sly smile, making Kagari scowl slightly.
"I said he was quiet about his past. He refuses to reveal anything about his origins, however, aside from that he is a very friendly and outgoing person. In some ways he reminds me of number eighty-eight, out going, talkative, yet unlike her, he also seems to be highly intelligent and observative... though he can also be very quiet at times. He also has a tendency to switch personalities, sometimes he acts just like eighty-eight, other times he's very quiet, and still sometimes he acts in a manner similar to Miya. It's like he has multiple personalities or something..."
He trailed off for a moment, then sighed.
"I think he's onto me..." he admitted quietly, shocking Takami. Looking at her, Kagari said, "sometimes, when I talk with him, I get this feeling that he knows who I am. I have nothing to prove it but..." he trailed off and shook his head at the end.
"Hmm... this could be a problem," Takami said to herself, though Kagari nodded in agreement with her statement. "However, it could also be a boon." When her companion looked at her she asked, "tell me, do you trust him?"
"I..." Kagari paused. Did he trust Naruto? He would admit the blond was a good guy. Friendly, protective and confident. Charismatic. A natural leader in many aspects. Even Miya had taken a liking to him.
However...
"Not completely," Kagari said at last. "I trust that he is a good person, and I don't think we'll have anything to worry about as far as him becoming like Minaka or the two Ashikabi that have been known for forcibly wing Sekireis. But until I know more about him, I simply can't trust him."
"I see..." Takami sighed. There were a few moments of silence between the pair, neither willing to break it at the moment as they both got lost in thought.
It would be Kagari who broke the silence.
"So... what are we going to do tonight?"
Takami smirked as she pulled out one of the MBI executive credit cards. "I swiped Minaka's card from him a little while ago. I get the feeling he was the one who released Sekirei number seven. So I think we should punish the bastard by using his card to buy anything and everything we want tonight!"
XoX
Within his tower, Hiroto Minaka sneezed violently, before he went back to the screen where he was watching Izumo Inn to see if his newest obsession – I mean, the Sekirei Plan's newest player was doing anything entertaining.
XoX
Kagari let out a short laugh. "Takami, this is why I like you so much!"
Yes, it was a good night to be them.
And a poor one to be Minaka.
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Naruto looked up at the sky as he sat on the back porch by himself, hands placed behind him to act as support as he leaned back. His feet were planting on the soft ground below the house, the small lip that acted as the porch wasn't very high, maybe a foot or two, possibly less.
It was a beautiful night out, the sky had darkened to a very dark, almost blackish blue color, several thousand stars were twinkling in the night sky, thousands of light years from the Earth. He could recognize all of the constellations in the sky and was easily pointing them out to himself, using his skills in observation and his imaginative mind to connect the stars together and create the images the constellations represent.
It was a skill he had acquired during one of the times he had decided to pose as a college student and took several astronomy courses. He wondered how his old friends would react if they learned he had been to school not just once, but several hundred times in the past one thousand or so years. They would probably shit a brick.
He chuckled at the thought before sobering up. So much had changed since the Elemental Nations disbanded, though that was perhaps too soft of a word for what happened. Both the land itself; from the shifting of the tectonic plates that had separated what had at one point been more or less one large land mass with several smaller continents that had not been a part of the Elemental Nations. To the cultural changes, the great variety of artwork and architecture that had sprung up from the many different countries that came into being. To the changes in it's people, the advancements that had been made through history and the technological wonders they had come up with when Chakra had become a thing of the past.
Even he had changed. While not much had changed on the outside, in fact, nothing had changed at all when it came to the blond's physical appearance, he looked the same now as he had when he had gained this accursed power. No, his changes were more along the lines of mental and spiritual change. Aside from becoming much quieter – he was still loud on occasion but had long since toned down his enthusiasm – then he used to be, more patient, more capable, and much more bitter with the world.
Though it may be more accurate to say he was embittered with his inability to pass on, to leave the mortal plain so he could be with his loved ones again, his precious people. Many a night he had wished for the end, to feel the cold embrace of death as his soul left his flesh and blood body so he could ascend to where his parents and adopted family was waiting for him. Anyone else may have been disturbed by those thoughts, but Naruto had lived a long life, and with everyone he had ever known and loved gone, the blond had simply desired to go where they were.
They were the thoughts of a man who had lived for a long time and now had nothing left to live for.
'Of course, I do have people to live for now,' he thought to himself. His mind conjured the images of the people he had come to care about; Akitsu, Musubi, Miya, Uzume, Kagari and now Kusano. They were people who had become important to him, precious. It was odd, to feel that desire again, the desire to be with and protect others. While he had never turned away someone in need, he had never really put much emotional stock into those people. Simply helping out of instinct.
With them it was different. Naruto didn't help them because it was natural, an inborn need to help others and play the hero. He did it because he wanted to, because he enjoyed helping them, because seeing them smile brought him happiness. It was a very different feeling from the emptyness he felt when helping others, and not something he was quite used to yet.
Not that he could find it in himself to complain. While he did have some worries about getting attached to these people, he wasn't going to let his fears stop him from doing so. He had lived with the fear of finding love, and outliving the person or people he loved for so long. Now he wanted to feel love, at least once, for now, and hopefully, forever.
Whether they would be capable of living that long was up for debate. But Naruto was willing to place his faith in them and his feelings for them, at least this once.
"Ah..."
Hearing the soft, feminine voice, Naruto turned his head to see Kusano standing just a few feet from him. He wondered when she had woken up, but didn't let that stop him from giving her a smile. "Good evening, Ku-chan."
Kusano blushed, looking down at her feet in mild embarrassment. Though what she was embarrassed about Naruto did not know. "G-Good evening."
"Why don't you sit down," the blond suggested, patting the spot right next to him. Kusano looked at him for a moment, thinking. After a few seconds she walked over to him with small, hurried footsteps. She sat down next to him, close enough that should she wish to, she could grab onto him, but far enough that they weren't touching.
Naruto smiled before grabbing onto the small blanket he had brought with him. It wasn't cold enough for him to use it, bringing it more out of instinct then anything else. But from the way Kusano was shivering he figured it was a good thing he had brought out.
Maybe he was psychic?
He wrapped the blanket around the girl, smiling when her large green eyes looked at him. "Are you feeling now that you've eaten and got a good nights rest?"
"Better," Kusano replied. Naruto was beginning to think she was just a soft spoken girl. The small Sekirei's voice was very soft, light, like a whisper on the wind. It also told him much about her personality, that of a little girl who was soft spoken and didn't like violence.
Of course, she was a little girl so not liking violence was to be expected of her.
"I'm glad, you went through a rough time," Naruto said. He quieted a moment later, his head turning as he looked at the backyard. His eyes landed on the solitary tree. "You know, that tree over there is where I first saw you. It hasn't even been two days since then."
Kusano was quiet for a moment, her head tilted down slightly as her eyes looked from Naruto to the ground several times. Eventually, however, she did speak.
"The tree, it felt onii-chan when he touched it. And when it did, Ku-chan felt onii-chan through the tree. It told Ku-chan that onii-chan was one with it, and it was one with onii-chan."
Naruto absently nodded, coming to the conclusion that Kusano had somehow sensed his connection with nature through the tree. That was a very handy skill, a powerful skill if used properly, and one that would make Senju Hasharima jealous. Though that all depended on whether or not she could feel others through the trees as well. It could just be him due to his ability to harness nature chakra. Still, even if she could only commune with the trees that would be a valuable asset to have.
"Onii-chan..."
Naruto turned his head, and blinked in surprise when he found a pair of forest green eyes inches from his own. A pair of tiny hands grabbed onto his face, cupping his cheeks.
"Onii-chan, will you..." Kusano paused, her eyes darting like a scared animal. Then she took a deep breath and plunged on. "Will onii-chan be Ku-chan's Ashikabi?"
Naruto didn't get a chance to respond, whether to accept or decline, because the moment Kusano finished speaking her face closed the distance between his own face. Lips pressed themselves against his own and the blonds mind short circuited.
He was kissing a nine year old. It was a disturbing thought, granted, just about everyone was a child when compared to someone as ageless as him. That still didn't change the fact that a child was kissing him.
Despite this he didn't jerk away from the action, however, he also didn't kiss back. Naruto didn't want to be an ass and break the child's heart, yet at the same time he really wasn't all that comfortable being in this position. He was no lolicon.
Still, as his mind began coming back into focus he realized this was probably also for the best. There were other people who would try to force her into a winging, essentially making the girl their slave. If nothing else, the least he could do was let her choose whether or not she should be winged by him.
The Sekirei crest on her back began to glow, illuminating the surrounding area in it's radiance. Wings spread out from her back, glowing green wings that looked like large tree leaves arranged in the shape of angel wings. They changed after a moment, their forms shifting into the ten wings he had seen on Musubi and Akitsu when he kissed them. A moment later they disappeared.
With the release of her power via her winging, the backyard began to grow with new life. Dozens of flowers, beautiful, colorful flowers of several different varieties sprouting from the ground. A brilliant array of golds, oranges and purples plants that grew from small stocks to full grown flowers in seconds, their petals bursting open and showing off their beauty. It was a magnificent sight, one that Naruto, someone who had a surprisingly green thumb, could not help but admire.
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Inside her kitchen, Asama Miya held up a small plant that had grown off of her sponge with a look of mild confusion.
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Behind the Ashikabi and his new Sekirei, Akitsu and Musubi – having just come to get the blond after they finished preparing the bed – admired the scene with them. The two fully grown Sekireis sted in awe at the beautiful display of flowers, neither of them had seen anything like it in their entire lives.
Naruto looked away from the beautiful display of flora, towards the young girl whose power created them. She was looking at him, her eyes displaying a surprising depth of emotions. Then she smiled, and Naruto felt a smile of his own appear unbidden on his face.
Awkward or not, he couldn't really find it in himself to complain about his new Sekirei being a kid. She had reacted to him and he had rescued her, Kusano belonged with them. And that was all that mattered.
He just hoped they wouldn't have to kiss again until she was older. Much older.
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Omoke: I... Forgot...
Akitsu frowned at this new opponent. She had been fighting the mysterious swordsman that had appeared before her and rescued the other two Sekireis for nearly fifteen minutes now and it was beginning to show. Several cuts littered her clothes and body from the many near misses that weren't quite misses, and she was beginning to breath much more heavily.
If this fight kept up much longer Akitsu knew she would lose.
"Because your Ashikabi managed to defeat Yomi and has in all likelihood captured number one-hundred and eight, I'm going to have to end you. Don't take this personally," the man said as he drew his blade –
– and promptly dropped his blade when a stiff breeze blew through the clearing and caused Akitsu's skirt-like clothing to blow up.
"W-Wh-Why aren't you wearing any panties!" the man shouted, a very uncharacteristic squeak in his voice. The man had turned around completely, not only exposing his back to the enemy but also covering his hands over his nose while blood gushed down it like a waterfall.
A very uncharacteristic action indeed.
Akitsu blinked several times, then looked down at herself. Seeing as how she couldn't see whether the mans words were true or not, she lifted the skirt without any issues or thoughts on the morality of her actions.
Of course, it had to be at that exact moment that the swordsmen decided to end the fight and had turned around to draw his sword. He had been crouched down just as she lifted the article of clothing, and was thus given an unfettered view of the woman's... ahem, girly bits.
"Wh-What the hell do you think your doing!" screeched the swordsmen. Once again his voice was completely OC from the stoic and calm character his seiyuu normally portrayed him as.
His hand promptly went from trying to grab his sword, to holding his nose as even more blood began pouring from it.
"...sorry," Akitsu said in an emotionless tone.
"Geez, what is it with women these days?" the man mumbled to himself as he tried not to think about what he had just seen. "No decency at all." He would have given the ice user a glare, but was concerned that she might still be flashing her honey pot to him. And so he settled for glaring at the fire hydrant that was right next to him.
"Um... are you going to stay like that?" asked Akitsu curiously. Not that she had a problem fighting him in that position. If he wanted to crouch down and hold his nose while she impaled him with several hundred ice shards that was fine by her.
"Until you put some panties on!" the man retorted angrily, though his anger came more from embarrassment then anything else.
Then a thought came to him.
"Why are you not wearing panties anyways?"
"I... forgot..."
Her words caused the man to face fault, which promptly caused him to smack his head on the fire hydrant, knocking him out cold.
Akitsu blinked as she stared at the unconscious man before her, her expression never changing from it's emotionless state.
"Does this mean I win?"

So out of curiosity I did a search on Naruto crossover stories. Did you know that as a grand total, Naruto has 12,119 various crossover stories written on this site? Yet even with so many stories, there are only 314 that are over 100,000 words. And even then, only 96 are complete and the largest 'completed' story is actually a story that has been discontinued.
Really, it's kind of sad when you think about it. There are so many stories where the authors just kind of burn themselves out and stop writing.
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