"Have you heard? It actually happened!"
"No way! You sure?"
"It's on the forums. Proof is there!"
"So it's true! We can breed!"
"We can actually have babies!"
Unbeknownst to Homura and Uzume, pictures of their little family outing is now circulating all across the city through various Sekirei forums, Ashikabi forums and word to mouth. Obviously, this is huge news for the alien species.
MBI have assured and adjusted their species to be able to mate with humanity. Through years of research and adjustments until the Sekirei game, the end goal for all Sekirei is to find love and somehow make that love productive with many children to save their small population.
The problem is that the Sekirei have never seen nor have proof of what MBI assured them. No Sekirei have ever been pregnant or sired children. Despite MBI's assurance, the alien species is skeptical deep down especially with said Sekirei Plan. Heck, the Sekirei Plan is actually hindering such a goal as MBI implemented a safe-sex regulations while the plan is active, aka having protective sex to avoid pregnancies.
Yes, Sekirei have gone through sex education before release.
But the image of Homura and Uzume with a white haired baby? That is enough proof to throw down the towel and get some business done.
But unbeknownst to said Sekirei, they have all been bamboozled.
One, they mistook Uzume as the Ashikabi instead of a Sekirei. An understandable mistake as Uzume is not well known among her flock and most of her appearance as a Sekirei is her hiding her identity like Homura as the Veiled Sekirei but more effective than Homura's flimsy disguise. As such, it's easy to mistake Uzume as an Ashikabi without realizing it.
Two, Sekirei is still a naive species when it comes to general knowledge. Genetics is just one of them. If they actually looked closely, they would notice that the baby doesn't look anything alike to said parents except for the hair which could be correlated to Homura.
And finally, they're on a family outing. Such displays of public affection pretty much blinded every Sekirei that saw the images. Their logical minds shutting down to insert their own fantasy with their own Ashikabi.
They wanted that.
And they will get it.
Later on, Takami will blame this incident for the massive baby boom of Sekirei but that would be another story entirely for later.
As for MBI, they have been blocked in doing anything to correct this misunderstanding by their own director.
He finds it hilarious and this will surely heighten the stakes of the game.
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Meanwhile, the cause of said misunderstanding is currently crawling her way in the middle of a busy street.
On the other side of the highway, a pair of Sekirei are currently watching the forums go wild at the unexpected news.
"I can't believe they're losing their minds over some baby. Especially that guy's baby of all people. He actually did it with someone. It was a surprise. No wonder he is strong." Toyotama frowned as she scrolled down the forums. She is a tall and curvaceous woman with long dark green hair and very pale blue eyes. A Sekirei of Higa Izumi and one of the pursuers on Yashima's escape with Homura.
"Still bitter about last time?" Ichiya, her partner, asks with a sardonic smile. Another tall and curvaceous Sekirei with short cropped hair and violet eyes. Toyotama's partner and one of the pursuers of the previous incident with Yashima.
"Of course, that man costs us a Sekirei." Toyotama scoffs.
"Said Sekirei was able to cripple an ex-Disciplinary Squad member." Ichiya reminds her, "Which is by far more dangerous. I would rather not work with someone that strong, especially someone so rebellious. They would just cause trouble." She shrugs with the handbags she's carrying.
Currently, the two have just gone through a shopping run. Mostly essentials such as female products and some choice wardrobe. Higa, their Ashikabi, is already providing for them very much but that man lacks a woman's touch. As such, these runs are a regular bonding time for the two of them with the exception of sparring.
Ichiya and Toyotama have been long time friends, even before being released as they have trained together. What they both love together mostly other than their Ashikabi is fighting. Fighting for the sake of fighting. Heck, they have once thought about joining the Disciplinary Squad before but it was too late as spots are filled and the number of Sekirei for the plan needs to be at bare minimum.
"True but she would definitely be someone fun to fight. I wish we managed to fight her last time." Toyotama signs wistfully, making the girl beside her laugh.
Then out of the corner of their eye, they both saw something crawling towards the busy street. Both women looked at the baby crawling on the dirty road before looking down on the phone in Toyotama's hand before looking up again then looking down again to confirm it.
Why is the baby on the road? Where's the parents and GOOD GOD THAT CAR SPEEDING ACROSS THE STREET!!!
Ichiya moved first, being the faster of the duo. The woman shoved all of her bags into her partner's arms and practically leapt across the street to cross the distance in less than a second before the car hit the child. Ichiya scooped the baby and leaped off the road in no time, much to the relief of Toyotama onlooking the scene.
"What the hell are you doing here? Aren't you supposed to be on a family outing?" Ichiya asks the baby as she raises its eyelevel. Of course the baby didn't answer, it can't. The baby can only babble in her arms as it stared back at her.
"Either those two are bad parents or this one's a hellion of its own but I think we have a lucky break." Toyotama said as she arrived next to Ichiya, staring at the baby with a glint of inspiration.
"You're seriously gonna stoop on using babies now?" Ichiya asks with a deadpan. Her only response is Toyotama's lips curving up, mirrored by herself next.
"So how do we do this?" Ichiya asks next.
"Simple. We make a simple post."
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"We're home!" Musubi announced to the empty inn, carrying bags of groceries. Following behind her is Minato with less bags in hand with a wry smile.
The grocery run was eventful yet mildly relaxing despite the initial nuances. For one, Musubi's pretty much clueless about the items Miya listed for them, making him work for it as Musubi kept pulling and asking him about so many things in grocery stores they visited, earning them looks of both amusement and jealousy. It was an experience for sure but he won't exchange it for anything else. Unfortunately, the way back home was rather embarrassing as Musubi earnestly took most of the burden in carrying their haul which was lots with all the mouths to feed in the inn.
He felt scum under so many pointed looks on the way home.
"Looks like no one is home yet." Minato said as they entered the kitchen, dropping their haul.
"Aw! Minato-sama, there's food on the table." Musubi suddenly points at the untouched leftover breakfast this morning.
Minato blinked at the appearance of said untouched plate. No one is home surely and if they do, they should have greeted them by now. Something's not adding up. Then he realized there's someone unaccounted for.
Yashima.
Did she wake up? He has to check.
"Musubi, I'll check Yashima first. Take care of this for a bit for me, will you?" He said to her girl.
"Un! I'll do it." Musubi nods. With that taken cared off, Minato made his way to check on the inn's sole patient.
What he did not expect is to find someone already standing on top of the stairs. Someone he didn't meet before, a complete stranger to him.
"I'm sorry, Minato-chan but I need you right now." Minato's utterly stupefied at the words that came out of her mouth, that's why when said girl leaps from the 2nd floor all the to his arms, he was sitting duck as he stared at her free falling form in slow motion. Arms open wide, lips puckered out in a kiss, it was a view he had trouble processing.
So he took it like a deer in front of a car.
A fucking roadkill.
[CHAPTER END]
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