The Veiled Sekirei didn't say anything, just let the cloth she controlled drift into defensive positions.
"Not much for talking, hm?" asked Kazehana. "Still, I... what?"
The Veiled Sekirei hesitated as the Sekirei she was facing started looking around.
"There's an Ashikabi near by, but such power..." Kazehana set the bottle she had been carrying through the fight down. "Hold on. What IS that?"
As soon as the other Sekirei was showing signs of extreme distraction, and had accepted the signed indication of truce, the Veiled Sekirei struck.
"Are you sure about this, Pervy-Sage?" asked Naruto.
"Positive," said Jiraiya. "I haven't gotten much information from Akitsu, but while you were training with Akitsu I had a talk with Katsuragi. Who was MUCH more knowledgeable about certain things."
"Oh yeah, I meant to thank you about having me dodge ice needles and bursts," said Naruto, his tone indicating that he was less than pleased with that.
"No problem, I'm sure you'll do better in the future," said Jiraiya. "And you really helped Akitsu with her aim."
"Well, she's no Tenten," admitted Naruto.
"Excuse me, but I don't think women falling off these ridiculously tall buildings is normal, be right back," said Jiraiya, who was gone in a puff of chakra smoke as soon as he'd finished that statement.
"What?! Oh." Naruto watched. The girl seemed to twist away, Jiraiya twisted to get under her again. The girl twisted some more. The two collided. Green wings spreading from the girl's back.
Naruto winced at the thought of more dodging practice in the near future.
Kazehana realized immediately what had happened.
She had been falling from the roof, two pieces of cloth slicing through the roof and causing chunks of masonry to slide off. Despite being the Sekirei of Wind, she had been severely off balance immediately due to her footing suddenly losing stability.
As she'd fallen, she'd twisted around to get her balance back and realized she was a little more drunk than she'd realized. Must have been the whiskey, as sake normally didn't give her this much trouble.
She had also realized that someone was impossibly heading towards her at high speeds - running up the side of the building towards her.
Not feeling she needed to be rescued, once she'd gotten the whole up-down thing sorted out, she'd twisted again and began bringing her power to bear.
Unfortunately, the guy (too old to be a Sekirei but what WAS he?) also twisted and tried to catch her.
Lips met.
Oh dear.
She had bonded to someone older even than Minato.
She was winged.
All of this ran through her head in under five seconds. After which she responded exactly as her understanding of the situation dictated.
Jiraiya considered himself "Jiraiya the Gallant" as well as "Jiraiya the Super Pervert." Some might consider the two as exclusive, but he'd never done so. Women were, in his rarely-humble opinion, wonderful delightful creatures.
On seeing a buxom woman falling from the top of one of the many ridiculously tall buildings, surrounded by pieces of said building, he responded in a manner completely in character for being the one member of the Three Legendary Leaf Ninja that had managed to face Hanzo the Salamander and NOT get immediately overwhelmed.
He disappeared from next to Naruto, using a Shunshin to get to the building and then run all the way up the building at appropriate speed.
The woman twisted in mid-air, panicking most likely. He was skilled enough to adjust for her altered course, but then he was close enough that the next twisting meant that he wasn't quite in the right place.
Still she came down and impacted mainly along his chest even as he threw a ninja-wire line to the building with one hand and used his other arm to secure the woman into place.
Their lips met. He felt some chakra being siphoned away. There was a lot going on at the moment though, so he couldn't analyze the experience in too much detail.
He managed to hold onto the woman and guide their descent, using the ninja-wire to change the angle.
At which point the woman broke out of his grip and kicked herself away, and was gone - with the glimmering of wings fading away behind her back.
So she was a Sekirei, and he had just winged her. Interesting.
"PERVY SAGE! A LITTLE HELP!"
Jiraiya considered just abandoning the kid and giving chase to the woman, but no - he had a feeling she'd be looking him up again later anyway.
In the meantime, Naruto had two girls apparently orienting on him.
Naruto backed away. "Hey now, I already got Katsuragi here. You don't want me, right?"
"Ikki, Sekirei #19," said one girl, her breath coming in short pants.
"Uhm, Katsuragi, a little help?" asked Naruto, thinking that maybe using one girl to fight another girl might mean less Naruto getting hurt?
"They're reacting to you," said Katsuragi. "Why not just wing them?"
"What?" asked Naruto, it registering that Katsuragi apparently fully intended for both of these other Sekirei to kiss him - and that she didn't see it as a problem.
That hesitation was enough for one of them to launch herself at him, and he barely avoided lip-to-lip contact with the one who hadn't identified herself.
"My Ashikabi!" said the recently introduced Ikki, sounding alarmed as Naruto leapt and rolled and then scampered up a lightpole like a panicked squirrel.
Naruto breathed a sigh of relief from his new post before he felt someone grab onto him. He'd been so focused on the twin kodachi-wielder that he'd lost track of-
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