Chapter 1 - Frenemigos
Tsukune looked out the bus window, he remembered the words of his apathetic mother "Just try not to be too much of a fuck-up". "Typical", he thought. Tsukune, despite his physical appearance, had grown up in a rough neighborhood. His parents weren't particularly wealthy and the kids in his neighborhood at his age had either been in juvenile hall or sent away to live with relatives. Almost anything good acquired or done in his neighborhood was a scheme or shake down of some sort. As he saw a teenage girl ride a bike in a fairly nice neighborhood the bus was passing through, he remembered, vividly, a particularly interesting time when he was a kid riding his bike. An older kid had approached him and said "Nice bike, man! Can I try it out?" Excited at the prospect of making an older friend, he obliged, he never saw the bike again. He remembered crying to his parents who only punished him for wasting their money. This was the first of many events that he could readily recollect that severed him from trusting others and even feeling any real kind of empathy for other people as well. He was an intelligent boy, but due to his disciplinary problems in the past, no local High Schools would accept him. He had a violent temper and a mean streak, there was also word on the street that he had a body or two under his belt. As he daydreamed and almost dozed off, he heard the busdriver say something about how his new school would be "A scary place, kid". This made him chuckle internally "Didn't you see where you picked me up?" He mused inside of his own mind. After he was sure the driver wasn't going to address him further, he drifted off to sleep.
After an indecernable amount of time, He awoke when the bus screeched to a halt. He grabbed his bags from the overhead compartment, thanked the driver, as his mother, despite her frigidness and general lack of interest in her son, had taught him good manners. Tsukune drank in the scenery around him. "Strange" he thought as he cocked an eyebrow and looked incredulously at his surroundings "What the fuck is this?" he silently asked himself, only to be brought out of his stupor by the wooshing sound of a bicycle passing by him. He had to chuckle to himself as this seemed very appropriate considering his little flashback earlier combined with the driver's words. "I guess this is the universe telling me to watch my back." he said inside of his own mind while he half smirked. Tsukune was surprised, but not afraid of his surroundings or the girl with silver hair and red eyes on the bike. No sooner than he had his little internal conversation, the bicycle riding girl screeched to a halt and sniffed the air. Confused, and cautious, Tsukune proceeded to try to walk past her, only to feel his wrist grabbed and he turned to see the red eyed girl staring at him with an indeterminable look on her face. Just as he was about to ask what gives, she spoke up "You smell like a human, which is a pleasant smell, something about you is off considering where you are" in a voice that simultaneously sounded annoyed and completely aloof. He just looked in her eyes, a habit he had learned as young kid as to not show intimidation or weakness, and said "Alright, and where exactly am I? Why is the water red, why are there dead trees, and why are there headstones everywhere?" She chuckled softly "In case that bus you came off of didn't indicate anywhere on it, this is Youkai Academy, a school for monsters".
Tsukune was pretty confused by what he was seeing and hearing. First off, he'd never seen a red eyed girl with silver hair before in his entire life, not one that had any kind of skin pigment anyway. Second, why on God's green Earth was she messing with him? Even all of the horrible things he had done in the past to get out of worse situations, there's no way he truly believed monsters existed, and even figuratively, he doubted an entire institution was built around a metaphor, if they were describing someone like him, it would just be simply called "School for Sociopaths". His thoughts were interrupted when the attractive yet dangerous looking girl in front of him asked "So, what's your name and what kind of monster are you? If your scent is this good, I'm curious to know more about you to ascertain why you smell like a human." He thought carefully, if this girl was a monster, then he'd better tip toe, he decided to attempt to juke the question. "I'd rather not say, I don't know what or who I'm surrounded by". The girl gave a sly yet suspicious smirk in response "Interesting answer, but you avoided answering about your name". "Sorry about that" he replied, "My name is Tsukune Aono, and this is my first day here". She just kind of chuckled in response and said "Well then, Tsukune, my name is Moka, good luck here". With that, she took off on her bike, leaving him thinking until he was interrupted by the bell ringing. "Fuck" he thought, "I need to shift my ass before I'm late". As he entered his homeroom, he saw the attractive girl from earlier "Good," he thought "I at least know someone in here, that's a start at least". "Good morning class!" a very chipper and curvacious woman with glasses and cat ear like shapes in her hair chirped. "Welcome to Youkai Academy, school for monsters! We here learn how to blend into the human world and get along!" her friendly voice was interrupted by a sound right next to him.
"HAH! Why should we subjugate to humans when we can just eat them? That's what I'd do anyway" as a long tongue protruded from his mouth and dangled. "Hell, I'm sure I smell one right here, right now." Tsukune looked at him, "pretty boy" he thought to himself. The "pretty boy" in question had long hair, an ear piercing, high cheek bones, and dark eyes, in truth, he was a handsome person, but Tsukune picked up a bad vibe from him "I'll have to watch him" he thought to himself. No sooner that Tsukune thought this, the brunette boy turned to him and looked directly into his eyes and said "In fact, I'm pretty sure I smell a human right here, in this room" and with this, his tongue came back out and he gave Tsukune a psychotic look. He heard gasps come from around the room, and even one from behind the boy looking at him. He turned his head to see a gorgeous blue haired girl with a plaid skirt, high socks, black shoes, and a yellow sweater that he could clearly see large breasts under, despite the sweater. "Damn, she's pretty hot" he thought to himself, but was snapped out of it when he heard the teacher say "Ah you must be Saizo". "Correct" the long-tongued boy replied, holding his gaze on Tsukune. Seeing this as a challenge, Tsukune knew he couldn't show weakness, so, returning his gaze said "You know, there's two really attractive girls behind us, and you're staring at me with your tongue out, that's really weird, my man" He smirked at his own words. He turned to see the blue haired girl had turned to look at him after hearing his words, and blushed lightly. Once again, he smirked at this, the silver haired girl, however, wasn't amused and whispered to him "You'd better watch it, unless you're trying to get killed." He turned to the girl speaking and saw a slightly annoyed look on her overall stoic face. He didn't say anything and just returned to the gaze of the now angry boy to his right. "What did you say to me?!" growled Saizo. "I will tear you limb from limb, you'd better watch your back, kid!". Tsukune just chuckled "Or what, you going to kiss me? Just not on the lips, please." This made Saizo angry, and as he started to stand up, so did Tsukune, that is, until the teacher decided to break this up, with that, the bell rang. "Saved by the bell, huh?" Tsukune said, and grabbed his bag. Three pairs of eyes watched him leave the room after he said this.
Later on, he was at the vending machine getting something to drink, "this school is weird as hell." he thought to himself. "I've already made one enemy, and I don't know what the hell to think of that girl." No sooner he thought of that, than the ladder object of his thoughts appeared. "Hey, Tsukune." He turned to see the stoic visage of the girl before him. "I never told you my name, or what I am, so maybe that's why you felt like you were safe to refer to me like that back there, but my name is Moka Akashiya, and I'm a vampire." Tsukune said nothing but clearly had an intrigued, albeit, confused expression on his face. "I'm giving you fair warning, don't ever do that again, I'll let it slide this one time, because you didn't know." at this, he just said "Yeah sure, I'll keep that in mind." Moka was internally taken aback by lack of any intimidation in his voice or eyes, she also, upon further inspection, was even more perturbed by his lack of anything on his face or in his eyes. He was finished with his drink, so he went about his business, he looked back over his shoulder, "See you later." he said in a flat voice. Tsukune felt his phone vibrate under his pocket, and took it out, only to see his phone alternate between his home screen and static, confused, he decided to wander off campus. He stopped near a tree to see if he got a signal, when he heard steps behind him, he turned to see the "vampire" girl walking towards him, she hadn't quite seen him yet, and he had no idea what her intentions were, so he hid behind a tree. He could see from his spot her nose wiggling through the air sniffing something. "Jesus, she has quite the obsession with my 'human' smell." he thought to himself. With that, he heard someone else approach the two. He soon saw Saizo approach and say "You know, that asshole in class may have tried to make me look bad, but he had a point, you are quite easy on the eyes there, girly." with a wry grin on his face. "Fuck off, creep, you may have a cute face, but your smell is atrocious and that tells me that you're an Orc, way below my kind, as you can see, I'm busy here, so go away." She turned her back to him, and he took this opportunity to transform quickly and grab her. Tsukune looked on, brows furrowed, thinking "Holy shit, this place really is filled with monsters, this might be just as rough as the block!" he said in his own mind. As he looked on, he watched intensely as the Orc attempted to assault and grope the girl from class. As he was just about to make his presence known, he watched in awe as she elbowed him in the gut, uppercutted his jaw, and delivered a fierce kick to his mid section, most likely fracturing a few ribs. As he flew backward, he regressed back to his human form and fell against a tree unconscious. After seeing that display, he didn't want to stick around to find out why this girl was pursuing his scent. He made his way back towards the main building.
Once he was back in class, he pondered what he had witnessed. He doubted the Orc was coming back to class that day, considering the beating he took. He turned around to see Moka staring intently at him. She had a knowing and somewhat menacing look on her face. He surmised that she knew he was there during her little brewhaha with Saizo. "You've got quite a right hook and kick there, Moka" he mused. She just narrowed her eyes at his casual reference to her, yet she couldn't bring herself to hurt him until she figured out who or what he really was. His genuine lack of fear had gotten to her, shewasn't scared, just wanted to make sure he wasn't secretly some kind of legendary beast she hadn't heard of. Things went back to normal for a few days until Saizo came back. Saizo immediately glared at Tsukune, he returned the gaze unphased by what he had seen, he knew, Saizo may be bigger and stronger, but he had a trump card, and he was smarter. He knew that if he manipulated him into getting angry enough to attack, he could get Moka to go after him and do something a little more final, he had to just figure out how he could manipulate the vampire. "What the hell are you looking at, jerkoff" Saizo seethed. Tsukune just kept his gaze and smiled in response, choosing to keep quiet. At this, the teacher began her lecture and they both dropped the situation.
Tsukune decided to hit up the library afterward and see if he could get on the internet. By the grace of a miracle, he was able to access some kind of database of monsters and mythos. He discovered exactly why that Moka girl, while arrogant and elitist in almost every way, had taken a strange interest in him. He was a human, and that was, by far, a Vampire's favorite blood flavor. He decided to take a risk and give her a taste, he had a feeling she wouldn't try to ice him for his blood, she'd likely be the type to get greedy and want to keep him around for more later on. A lightbulb went off in his brain, this is how he was going to take out Saizo. He later saw Moka and called out to her. She stopped and turned around, and he decided to pretend to trip and fall and cut himself a little, knowing her senses would numb her thoughts and turn her primal. He was indeed correct because no sooner than blood trickled down his nose, the curvy Vampire was at his side lapping it up off of his face, and then bit him. She grew a small blush on her cheeks, then took off. He just stood there and smirked, he felt kind of light headed as a result, but he had gotten all of the information he wanted. Little did he know, there were a pair of eyes watching. Behind a tree the blue haired girl saw everything, and grew curious and annoyed, she had a plan, and she wasn't going to let this girl get in the way of that.
Tsukune laid in his bed planning out how he would get rid of Saizo. A thought snapped into his mind. All he had to do was bait Saizo into hitting him or making him bleed while Moka was in proximity, this would draw her near, and seeing that her "food" was under attack, would likely seriously injur or kill Saizo, which suited Tsukune just fine, that guy was a fucking jerkoff and he wanted to be rid of him once and for all. He slept like a baby knowing he wouldn't be constantly interrupted by that moron anymore. The next day, he taunted Saizo in class, enough to get him really angry. He walked outside after the final bell rang, and looked around for Moka, Saizo tailing him waiting for a chance where there were no witnesses to snitch. He saw Moka drinking some tomato juice from a vending machine near the dormitory buildings. "Hey, bitch boy!" he heard Saizo call out to him, and smiled to himself "perfect, he's dead" and turned around to receive a none too light punch to the face, knocking him to the ground, bleeding out of his nose and mouth. Instantly smelling the sudden surge of that sweet smell she liked so much, Moka followed the scent to see the Orc attempting to harm her food. Not willing to let all of that blood go to waste, she stepped towards Saizo and called out "You again huh? I guess I have to get rid of you permanently this time" with a dangerous yet empty tone. Faster than he could possibly react, she was at him, hands on either side of his head, and kneed him in the sternum. Not quite over his injuries yet, he howled in pain, only to be cut off by the cracking sound of his neck, and he fell to the floor lifeless. Tsukune, lying on the ground nearby merely smiled. His plan had worked, and he didn't have to worry about being sucked dry because Moka had bigger fish to fry, she had just murdered Saizo and needed a place to dump his body and make sure she wouldn't be indicated. Tsukune finally spoke up, "There's probably some crazy shit living in that swamp nearby, why not try tossing him there, he would be eaten up, and even the most keane cop in the world can't fish out a body from 1,000 different stomachs" She glanced at him "Good idea, human." She spat that last part, he panicked internally for a second before realizing that if she had really wanted him dead, she wouldn't be dragging only Saizo's corpse to the swamp.
Immediately after dumping the body and washing off her hands, she went back to try to find Tsukune, only to find a small amount of blood where he had been. She chuckled to herself "Cunning little bastard he is." and walked off to her dorm to relax and let the adrenaline wear off. Tsukune walked to the infirmary, but needed to rest at a bench near a small pond. He was feeling pretty dizzy from the hard hit and wanted to clean up some blood before going. After cleaning up slightly, the blue haired girl stepped out and startled him. "Jesus Christ, does everyone just appear around here?" she giggled. "Hi Tsukune, I'm Kurumu, I remembered what you said about me being cute yesterday and wanted to introduce myself" she smiled at him. Tsukune faked a small smile and said "Hey, nice meeting you, but I gotta get to the infirmary". "Oh no! What happened? Let me walk with you" she said frantically. Tsukune only shrugged in response, and she grabbed his arm and walked. Perplexed, but not upset about the ample bust of this cute girl on his arm, he decided to just forget about it for now, and get to the infirmary to figure out his next move.