AN: So here's another story idea I've had for a while, hope you enjoy.

Riley shifted on her feet restlessly as she waited for the train to come to a stop and she could get out into the fresh air. She never really liked trains that much, the tightly packed people and sealed doors always made her feel slightly claustrophobic. Unfortunately for her, trains were the best way to move around the city short of the helicopters that always seemed to be flying about Tokyo airspace. She was unsure if there was always this many helicopters or if the sudden rise of MBI and it's crazy scientist CEO was the cause of them.

The train rolled to a stop and Riley passed through its doors before they fully opened, almost catching her satchel on the way out. Breathing a slight sigh of relief before dodging her way through the crowded train station, she quickly made her way down to the street without bumping into too many people.

Slowing her pace now in relatively open space, Riley managed to walk past an alleyway entrance just as a blur of grey came bolting out, straight into her. Letting out a grunt at the impact, colliding with a nearby parked car stopped her from hitting the pavement as she reflexively brought up her hands to steady the grey mass.

"Watch it." She coughed trying to get some air back in her lungs as she lowered her eyes to take in what she now could tell was a grey haired girl in an interesting outfit. "You going to comic con or something?" She asked, taking in the studded collar and what seemed to be claw gauntlets.

"What are you on about?" She responded with laboured breaths, most likely due to running like a madwoman, as she tried to push herself off Riley.

"The get up. What's with it?"

Before the clawed girl could have time for another breathy response the pair was interrupted by triumphant laughter.

"We've found you now so no more running. We're going to take you out of the game." A woman's voice yelled and Riley looked up in response to see twin sisters seeming alight with electricity.

Lightning suddenly shot itself towards the pair, giving barely enough time for Riley to dive to the side, the other girl still in her arms as the lightning barely missed them. The car exploded, pushing them further into the ground and causing nearby car alarms to go off. She vaguely heard screams and commotion of passer-bys but her ears were ringing a bit so it was hard to tell.

"Hey human stay out of this!" The same voice yelled angrily.

Pushing herself off the grey girl with shaky arms, Riley managed to regain her feet, pulling the other girl up with her.

"Why did you do that?" She questioned Riley as she looked up into the woman she collided with.

"Well excuse me for saving your arse."

"I didn't need your-" She protested before collapsing into Riley's arms, weakening her argument.

"Says the girl who can't even stand." She shook her head at the girl's stubbornness.

"Your fault." Came a laboured reply, her chest rising and falling rapidly.

"How is this my fault?" She asks incredulously as she held the other woman.

"Stand down, you don't stand a chance against the both of us." Another woman's voice yelled down to them.

"Not alone but with my full powers..." She managed to get out, her voice trailing to a whisper as she looked up at Riley.

"Hey don't you dare wing her!"

The crackling of lightning could be heard and Riley turned her head to see the purple twin charging up and she prepared to dodge another attack.

Claws entered her peripheral vision and she twisted her head to avoid being poked in the eye, her eyes landing on the blushing face of the girl in her arms. She felt metal on her cheeks and tensed at the feeling. "Oh shit, they're real!" She thought, trying her hardest to remain still, despite the threat of the lightning twins. She really did not want to get sliced and diced today.

Rising on her toes to reach the taller woman, the blushing girl leaned in to embrace her ashikabi and claim her power. Their lips met, one falling into the kiss easier than the other without threat of cuts if she moved her head too much. Eyes still wide open due to the shock of everything that just happened, glimpsed black wings of light erupting from beneath her collared neck. By the time the kiss ended, Riley was very confused.

"Wire claws of my pledge, tear apart the guards imprisoning my ashikabi. No. 104 Haihane." She recited and introduced herself smiling sweetly at Riley before a evil grin spread across her lips. Spinning around, luckily avoiding slicing into her ashikabi's face, she faced the two twins revitalised.

"Now you're mine." She laughed and she leaped forwards, slashing her claws in the direction of the twins.

Seeing the winging and suddenly becoming nervous the pair shared a glance before managing to just leap out of the way, leaving claw marks in the concrete wall behind them.

Growling at the missed attack, Haihane looked up and taunted. "Who's running away now? I thought you said you could take me." She laughed again at the slight fear in their eyes and prepared to charge again.

"We only fight unwinged sekirei." The loudest one said, before quickly turning around and leaping across the buildings with her sister, moving as fast as they could.

Haihane was tempted to follow but remembered she had just found her ashikabi, who was far more important than some skimpy clothed cowards that she would soon tear to shreds. Losing her evil grin, she lowered her clawed arms and walked back over to where her ashikabi stood a bit shell shocked next to the car wreckage.

"Ashikabi?" She asked to get her attention.

Letting out a breath and running a hand through her long brown hair, Riley turned her gaze around the area, to the claw marks, the wreckage and then back to the grey haired girl. "Okay," She said nodding to herself. "I've lost it. Great. Just brilliant." She continued to talk to herself. "Hallucinations are just dandy." She chuckled a bit to herself before rubbing her eyes with her knuckles in order to clear the illusions from her mind.

Haihane walked up to her, offended at her ashikabi calling herself crazy. "This is real. You are my ashikabi and I'm your sekirei." She stated firmly and oddly seriously.

She took in a deep breath and shrugged, shortly looking towards the sky before decided that this hallucination did not want to go away. "Fair enough. Why not? This is real." She briefly hummed to herself as she put her hands into her trouser pockets. "Care to explain how?"

By the time the two women had reached Riley's apartment block, Haihane had explained the basics of the Sekirei Plan, an explanation her ashikabi accepted quite readily having chosen to just roll with this whole new weird reality she was now in. She let them into the building and was glad to see none of her course mates were hanging around as she made her way towards the stairs. She may have accepted all this sekirei business but she doubted anyone else she met would, not without seeing the stuff she had seen.

Riley groaned quietly as they came to the stairs, she ached slightly from the explosion and was not looking forward to the 4 flights of stairs she had to climb.

"What's wrong Riley?" She asked, having learnt her ashikabi's name on the way over.

"Nothing, just not looking forward to the stairs." She responded was a sigh.

Glancing around, the sekirei noticed the lift and pointed it out for her ashikabi's convenience.

At the mention of the lift, Riley just quickly shook her head and starting up the stairs at a brisk pace. Shrugging the other woman followed her lead, easily keeping up with her. They reached the flat in fairly good time and Riley let them both in, hoping no one would come out and talk to her when they heard her keys in the lock.

Entering the living space of the modest one bedroom flat, Riley barely managed to get out a, "Welcome to my humble abode," before the TV opposite the sofa turned itself on.

"Congratulations!" Boomed a male voice from the TV, making Riley jump. A man no other than MBI's CEO was yelling at her from her TV screen. "You have successfully winged No.104 Haihane and are now a proud participant in the Sekirei Plan!"

Riley could only really stare back for a moment, unsure how to respond to a talking television.

"Well? What do you have to say for yourself Miss Wynn? You are now part of an amazing game of the gods!" Minaka boasted loudly.

"Yay?" She responded uncertainly, not entirely sure why he was talking to her when she had Haihane to explain everything.

"More enthusiasm would be nice." He pouted before moving his eyes towards the other woman. "I've seen you've found an ashikabi outside of the power of MBI Haihane, a shame to lose you but a place easily filled." He waved her off as if her absence in the disciplinary squad was of no consequence.

Noticing the backhanded comment, Riley jumped in reaching for the remote. "Well thanks for the visit or call I guess but Haihane already explained things to me and the aim of the game." She picked up the remote.

"The great prize at the end!" He announced dramatically. "For one ashikabi and their sekirei!"

"Yeah exactly." She confirmed. "So thanks but we've got it covered, I'll see you at the finish line." She stated assuredly.

"Cocky?" Minaka questioned with a laugh.

"Confident." She turned to look at her sekirei. "And for good reason." Facing him again. "I've got no doubt my girl's going to win this, you're going to regret not having her." She stated and pressed the off button at the end of her little speech.

Haihane was grinning at her when she threw the remote down and turned to face her. "Ashikabi..." she started but didn't seem to know what to say.

"How about I see you in action? You think you could have taken on those twins that attacked us?" She asked grinning, wanting to get some revenge of those that had attacked her girl and to eliminate the competition.

Mirroring her ashikabi's grin, she responded confidently. "Course."

"Good." She said hooking her finger in the metal loop of Haihane's collar and pulling her up into a heated kiss, the light of her wings filling the room. After the kiss ended she pulled barely a breaths width away and whispered. "Let's go hunting."