Prologue

Makoto P.O.V

Today, I am going to go and see my Onee-chan, Chiho-Onee-chan. She is very sick. Ever since I can remember, she has always been sick, and I don't know what to do. With our parents deceased, I live alone in an apartment. Since I have to support myself, I can only afford this place. Plus most of the money that are parents left us are paying for Onee-chan's hospital bills.

I, feel bad that I can't do anything for her besides help her go outside once in awhile. I help her by bringing her things, giving her a chance to see outside. Onee-chan likes the outside. And I want to help Onee-chan as much as I can!

That's why, even though I go to school, I also have a part-time job! Its an after school job so I don't have to depend on the money our parents left me, so it can go onto Onee-chan's hospital bills. She deserves the best kind of treatment for everything she has gone through.

It gives me enough to rent this place. It isn't the biggest in the world, but it isn't the smallest. My bedroom is, not big but it will due. And the living room is a decent size. Plus there's the bathroom which is big enough for me. Good thing I'm small, ehehe.

I got out of my bed, and went towards the closet. I need to get ready for today is a special day. Seeing Onee-chan is pretty much a special day for everyone. I went into the closet and got out some shorts and a shirt, then I started getting dressed after getting out some clothes for the day.

Basically, I have to go and see Onee-chan, then go to work and finally...come back home. I'm glad today is a Sunday, I don't really want to go to school. I am...well, I am kind of bullied because of my meek demeanour. It isn't my fault. I've tried being braver, I really have! But I just can't seem to ever...do things right.

And it doesn't really help when I look like...I'm 12 or something. Even though I'm 16 with shoulder length hair that's a similar colour to my Onee-chan's but different coloured eyes, which are icy blue, I basically look young. I think the term is...Shota.

I got dressed and headed into the living room/kitchen. I need to take some stuff for Onee-chan like some chocolate, maybe some manga. I went to the fridge and I started to explore. I know I bought a cake for Onee-chan last night so...aah. There it is.

I grabbed a bag from the side of the fridge. Yes okay!? I keep bags by the fridge! It isn't a crime, is it!? Grrr, I bet someone would laugh that I keep bags by the fridge...whatever. I packed the chocolate cake into the bag and headed back into my bedroom, collecting some manga off my desk, and put them into the bag also.

I think that's everything so...I can go! I headed out of my room and then the apartment after grabbing my keys from the small table by the door. Yeah, I keep keys by the front door!

I will eat breakfast with Onee-chan. I just want to be near Onee-chan right now. Since I haven't been able to go for a few days or so, I've had to work. I turned and locked the door.

Outside, its...sunny. That makes a difference to what it was for the past few days, raining. It was really bad rain. It had even started leaking into the apartment but I was able to put a stop to it, eventually. It nearly flooded the apartment but whatever!

I need to go towards the hospital. If I leave my apartment and go west for a mile, I should be able to get the bus, if I've not missed it that is! So with that in mind, I start running to my destination, the bus stop! If I can make it in time then I will be able too...

Collide!

"Uwah!"

Someone bumped into me and fell over! Owww, even I was pushed over. That's smarts. The cake! I hope I didn't...phew. No, the bag is intact and therefore, the cake is safe also. Hehe, I thought therefore. I rubbed the back of my head and stood up as I picked up the bag. But who knocked me over?

When I looked...it was a girl. She has long light coloured hair with two strands sticking out on the top of her head, a dark orange skirt that's just above knee level, with black stockings on and brown boots. She also has a creamy coloured top on that exposes her shoulders plus she has b-big...b-b-b...boobs! T-They are q-quite big...no! Don't look Makoto! Its rude to look at the beautiful girl that's stood right there looking...cu...cute!

...But that's when I noticed something on her back. She has a spear like weapon on her back. Ehehehe, cosplayer? There's no way a girl has a real spear like weapon with her. Yeah. That's her cosplay item that she uses to go and cosplay! That's it! Well done Makoto! You figured it out!

W-Wait! I shouldn't be thinking about that! This girl has just been knocked over! I need to help her stand up! Its the only gentleman thing to do!

"H-Here, my hand. Please take it."

I offered my hand to the girl, which she takes. I pulled her to her feet, and she looked at me with a small smile.

"Ehehe, I am sorry about that little boy. I wasn't watching where I was going and I really thought that...well, I didn't see you."

L-Little boy? Was that an insult of my height? Was she insulting me? Or was she trying to be genuine. I didn't detect any deceit in her voice so...yeah. I think she was actually trying to be...truthful and didn't see me. But to call me little boy is...painful.

"Erm...I'm not a little boy. I am 16 years old, thank you very much."

"Really?"

She has a serious look on her face! And even shocked mixed in also! Ooh come on! Please take that look off your face please! It isn't very good!

I pouted and looked away. Really? Is that what she says!? Everyone, all the time bullies me or makes fun of my stature. Even Onee-chan has a small frame. She's quite small for her age also.

"Y-Yes, really. Why would I lie about my age?"

"Erm...I guess you wouldn't..."

She trailed off as something happened to her. Her face, became a scarlet colour while looking at me. Great, have I done something to embarrass her now? Its always either that or...no, people usually just ignore me anyway. And I'm fine with that, I really am!

"I-Is something wrong...erm, girl I don't know?"

"Huh...ooh no! D-Don't concern yourself little...I mean, boy."

She was going to say little boy...wait, I don't have time for this! I will miss the bus at this rate! If I do that, then Onee-chan wont forgive me for being late! I'm the only person who goes to see her after all. If I didn't go then Onee-chan would become lonely.

"I-I have to leave now. My name is Hidaka Makoto! If we meet in the future, I would also like to hear your name!"

"W-Wait a second!"

As I attempted to leave, she stopped me. She took a hold of my arm, but then realized what she was doing and released that arm with a flustered face. Yeah, I thought that was really adorable.

"W-Whats wrong?"

"W-Where are you headed?"

I gave her a suspicious look. Why would she want to know where I am going?

"T...To visit my...Onee-chan in hospital. Why do you want to know?"

"O-Oh...ummmmm...you erm...what a coincidence! I'm heading that way also!"

"Y-You are huh. T-Then...why don't we walk to the bus stop together?"

"Okay!"

I looked at her, as her breathing became a little ragged. Is something wrong with her? When I was about to ask, she started walking like a pained soldier and went the complete opposite way to the hospital...

"Erm...maybe it isn't any of my business but the hospital is this way..."

I pointed in the direction of the bus stop. Technically what I said wasn't correct but it was in a sense. The way to get to the hospital is this way so...why not?

She stopped in her tracks, faced me with a massive blush on her adorable cheeks and went in the direction of my pointed finger. What an odd girl she is. But I thought that it was a little cute how she got mixed up in the directions.

With suspicious eyes, I continued on my way to the hospital. She is a very peculiar girl. The more I look at that weapon, the more I think that it is real. But it can't be real, can it? There's no way. I suppose I could ask her but she might turn it on me or something. And I don't want a weapon turned on me. I plan on living for awhile yet.

I caught up with the girl and we both continued walking until we reached the bus stop. She seems to keep taking small looks at me...okay, I am small. Its not polite to stare at me like that.

"E-Excuse me, what is your name?"

I asked, out of the blue. I don't recall her telling me her name. If she did then I didn't hear it. She jumped up, in surprise and faced me with reddened cheeks.

"I-I'm sorry! I am Sekirei...I-I mean, I am Nanami! Please too meet you, Hidaka-sama."

Seki...what? Her name is Nanami-san? And why did she call me sama? I don't like being above anyone else. I'm not above anyone else. I'm actually quite a timid person, evident in the way I was speaking.

"Nanami-san. So, if you don't mind me asking, what are you doing at the hospital? Do you have a sick relative also?"

"Ehehe...n...yes. I have a sick...relative at the hospital...also. My...erm...my...I would rather not talk about it, if its all the same Hidaka-sama."

"O-Okay..."

She's strange. But its her personal life. I don't have any rights to interfere with her personal life. Not that I would anyway. Pretty soon, I wont see the spear girl named Nanami-san and she is a Seki something. I don't plan to pry into that. Seki...seki erm, I don't think it matters to me.

"Hidaka-sama, do you believe in...love at first sight?"

She suddenly asked me a strange question. Love at first sight huh...erm...well...

"I-I...don't know. I've never really been in love before so...do you?"

Hah! I turned it around on you! So, what's your answer Nanami-san?

"Yes, very much so. I believe that there are people that are destined for one another."

W-Why is she suddenly talking about love anyway? Is that normal conversation?

"I-Is that so? I guess you have a boyfriend then?"

"N-Not exactly. But, I'm pretty sure that soon, I will have my destined partner. My Ashi...my partner."

She's really into love huh. Nothing wrong with it I suppose. I think its actually nice for people to think like that. She wants love so what's wrong with that? If I had the chance then I would also want someone I can say that I...love.

"I hope you find your destined partner then. If you do, then I will be happy for you, even if I don't really know you. Its only common courtesy, right?"

"Hidaka-sama gets it, you do...get it, don't you?"

"Get what? You wanting a boyfriend, or girlfriend whatever floats your boat. Hey I'm not here to judge."

Although if she was a lesbian then it would be kind of hot...ehehe, I better not go down that train of thought. Just as I thought that, the bus pulls up. So I put my hand out to stop it.

Once it was stopped, I got onto the bus, paid for myself and then went to the back of the bus. When I sat down, I notice that Nanami-san has also journeyed to the back of the bus, taking the seat next to my own. Okay...I don't really like it when people...I am a very shy person and I...erm...how did they let her on with a weapon!?

"Say Nanami-san, that weapon you carry...is it real?"

She looked at her spear like weapon and then took it off. She then pointed it at me! Oooh shit! She's going to kill me for asking about her weapon! Please don't kill me Nanami-samaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!

"I-I AM SO SORRY! PLEASE DON'T SHANK ME!"

I pleaded with her for my life! I put my hands together in a pray like stance! I'm too young to die! Please God don't let this girl kill me! I will pray to you more if you let me live! I-I...

"Shank you? What does that mean? I was only showing you my weapon."

S-She what? She wasn't going to shank me? I looked at her weapon and reached out my hand hesitantly, but then pulled back. What if she tries and sticks that in me? I would die if its real!

"You can touch it, you know?"

I nodded hesitantly. I reached out my hand and touched the tip...it has a metallic feel. Yes, there's no mistaken it. She has a real weapon. She has a real weapon and is going to kill me for knowing that it is a real weapon...I'm too young to die!

"Are you going to kill me, Nanami-san?"

She raised her eyebrows in a confused manner.

"N-No, why would I...kill you...Hidaka-sama..."

I shrugged my shoulders. How am I meant to know?

"Erm...no reason I guess. I was just a little curious that's all! So nice spear you have, please don't kill me and point it away from me, thank you."

She shrugged her shoulders and put it away, seemingly not seeing what was wrong with that situation. She basically just pointed her weapon at me and told me to touch it. I-I mean, how does that happen?

The rest of the journey was her trying to make conversation with me. I tried my best to talk to her, but she is a stranger. You know the whole stranger danger thing? Well, its doubly dangerous when she has a freaking weapon! She could kill me if she really wanted to kill me! That thing is...whoa!

When it was my stop, I got off quickly and so did she! I know she is going to the hospital but...damn, does she have to follow me? S-She's very beautiful and all but with that spear, I feel a little uneasy. Isn't it understandable that I would feel like that!? That spear looks like it could impale me at any...

"Halt! Sekirei No. 78, Nanami!"

Eh? Who's voice was that? I looked around, but the girl next to me had a stiff expression. What's wrong with her all of a sudden?

"Hey! I'm talking to you here, Nanami!"

I looked around, but then stopped when Nanami-san drew her weapon! Ooh no! She's going to kill me after all! I knew it! I am going to be mince meat to the beauty girl who has a large spear and people don't seem to question it!

"No. 16!"

No. 16? Why are they going by numbers? The strange voice said something about Nanami-san being No. 78? And what's with the Sekirei thing? I heard it again. What the hell is a Sekirei?

Nanami-san, who is besides me seems to be looking at someone. So I turned my attention and saw...a woman who is tall who is on a lamppost. Way taller than I am. But she has some good balance. I don't think I would be able to stand on a lamppost like that.

She has long dark green hair and blue eyes. A different shade of blue to my own. More like sky blue. She has on a tight blue and white belly top, revealing some of her cleavage! D-Damn those things are huge! B-But, that's not what I should be looking at right now! The girl also has a weapon...okay. Why is it that today, I've met two girls that carry weapons? Seriously, is it like a new thing in Shinto Teito to carry weapons around?

"No. 16? Nanami-san, you know this woman?"

Nanami-san stopped looking at...whatever her name is and looked at me, with a small, sad nod. Why is she sad?

"S-She's trying to terminate me. T-That's why I bumped into you before Hidaka-sama. She's trying to take me out of the game so there's less competition later on."

Take her out of the game? Terminate her? This girl wants to kill Nanami-san!? W-Why would she want to do that!? O-Okay, she carries a spear but that girl has a staff. Why should they be...game? Sounds like some kind of manga or something. Two girls fighting for a game.

"Ooh, No. 78, is this boy your chosen Ashikabi? Or, is it that you haven't been winged yet?"

Okay, people need to stop saying things about things I don't understand! Like Ashikabi! What's an Ashikabi!? And winged? Winged? She isn't a...bird? That's the first thing that came to mind. Yeah...I'm in crazy land. That bump into before knocked me out and I am secretly in a coma or something...I really do like to imagine stuff huh...b-but...

"I...don't think y-you should t-try and h-hurt this girl..."

I spoke in a small voice to the girl who has a staff. However, she scoffed at the idea.

"Seriously? A human telling me what to do?"

A human...isn't she human? No, she's some space alien sent to kill mankind. Yeah right! She's playing some mind game with me! But as I thought that, the woman jumped down from the lamppost and pointed her spear at me! W-Wait! Hold on! Don't kill me! I'm just an innocent and shy teenager!

"N-No. 16! Leave him alone! He's just a bystander! If you intend to fight then lets go to somewhere more not out in the open!"

"Nah, for some reason, his face really pisses me off. Its too adorable. It annoys me that he's so cute!"

Right...so she hates me because I have a cute face apparently? And that's my fault, how? I haven't done anything to her! The woman spins her staff around and points it at me!

"S-So if he is cute! I-I'm not going to let you hurt him, Sekirei No. 16!"

"Well, you don't have a choice! Hyaaaaaaaa!"

She woman charged at me with speeds I can't comprehend! I-I think I'm about to die! Well Onee-chan, it seems that I will be dying before you. Sorry Onee-chan, I wish I could've...

I closed my eyes. Waiting for my end. I know I couldn't move out of the way. I didn't even see her coming at me.

GIN!

...What was that noise? Metal hitting metal? I cracked open my eyes...Nanami-san!

"I said you wont harm him you bitch!"

I-I didn't think I would hear her swear. Nanami-san has defended me with her spear. She pushes the No. 16 girl backwards and makes a slash with her spear, coming in from the right. However the staff girl jumped out of the way, before it hit her! Damn it!

"Heh! So, you'll defend someone who isn't your Ashikabi huh!?"

Nanami-san didn't reply and simply put away her spear! D-Don't put away...she turned to me and came really close to me.

"Hidaka-sama, do you trust me?"

"Erm...okay...?"

She suddenly lifted me up and threw me over her shoulder! Uwah! What is she going to do!?

"I'm not letting you go!"

The staff girl charged but then Nanami-san jumped away from the attack! Uwah! I'm actually really above the ground right now! If she dropped me from this height then I would die! I seriously would die!

"Oh no you don't!"

The girl with the staff then jumped up into the air! If she catches us then...I don't want to think about it! Nanami-san lands on the ground with me after jumping a fair distance away. She then jumped again as the other girl landed! There's no way that we'd be able to...outrun her...okay. Even if Onee-chan will hate me for throwing it away...

"I'm coming for you!"

The staff girl once again jumps up into the air, after us! However, I take out something from my bag...

"EAT CAKE!"

Splatter!

"Iyaaaaaaaaa! I got cake in my eyes!"

The staff girl fell to the ground as the cake hit her in the face. Using this chance, Nanami-san jumps away with me over her shoulder! She jumps away until that girl becomes a spec, then disappears from view altogether. Uwah...that was...uwah.

Nanami-san, after making sure that we are a certain distance away from the psycho with the staff, puts me down. I didn't like that. But...

"Nanami-san...you saved me? Why?"

"Hidaka-sama...I erm...I know this is a little strange but you know...I have erm...I want to become your Sekirei! Will you please become my Ashikabi!?"

"W-What does that mean?"

Nanami-san got to close to me, and placed her hands on my cheeks, blushing immensely. My own cheeks are burning from her touching me. I've never had a girl so close to me before, besides Onee-chan that is.

"It doesn't matter right now. Hidaka-sama is...I am reacting to Hidaka-sama. I didn't know it would be so intense. I don't mind if Hidaka-sama is my Ashikabi."

"I-I don't..."

Before I could finish, Nanami-san moves closer to my face, her lips inches away from my own! W-Wait! If she kisses me then I will be losing my first kiss to...her lips overlapped mine! H-Her lips are on mine! Her lips...the smell of her hair is hitting my nostrils...its intoxicating...I-I can't...

Shine!

That light! Some light is coming out of her...back? Neck? I can't see from my position. The light from her wings are...blue in colour. A bright blue colour that shines very brightly and that bright burst of light has turned into a shape. Wings. There are wings coming out of her back.

She breaks the kiss as the wings disappear. Ehehe...what just...

"I am Sekirei No. 78, Nanami. At your service Ashikabi-sama!"

"I...erm...I..."

That's all I could say before it became black...I just kissed a girl...and something magical just happened...

Hello! By popular demand, I've made a new Sekirei story! I've been getting quite a few PM's about it so I decided that I would write this. This time, I went with Nanami as the Sekirei! I've seen her name written as Nanaha and Nanami so I went with Nanami since I like that name better!

And now, he is officially into the game. The whole Sekirei plan and such will be discussed next chapter. I have a few ideas for Sekirei's for my Oc, but I am taking suggestions so, if you have any then please let me now! Thanks for reading!