authors notes: id like to give a huge thanks to my beta liveinlaughter19 because really without the help this story would be nowhere i give half credit to my beta for the ton of help. this is also my first fanfiction so i hope i did ok. i do mean to update this regularly being it will be the only story i work on it should be updated quickly.
A dark brown-haired, young man sits at the mid-front of his bus, lost in thought; still doubting his parents' enthusiasm towards this apparent "god send".
He stared at the phone in his hand and then at the creepy bus driver, half-tempted to ask him to pull over and let him off. He could call for his parents to bring him home, but he knew his father, no matter how nice he seemed on the outside, cared very much for his son's education and would never allow him to return. Especially before he even tried the school. He thought to himself, I'll give it a month.
Then the vibration from his phone awoke him from his thought process He looked at the caller-id to see it was his cousin, Sukkie. He had half a mind to hit the ignore button due to his cousin's constant berating, but she was the closest thing he had to a sister, so he answered. "Hey, Tsuki!" she shouted. "I heard about that weird academy you're gonna attend. I did a little research and was surprised when I found ou- beep beep beep.Hmmm, the young man shrugged it off. There was probably no service because of the tunnel. He went back to his thoughts for the remainder of the ride; just staring out the window. Every so often, he'd glance at his phone to check the time.
When he felt the g-force of the bus stopping, causing him to slightly jerk forward, he looked up at the bus driver. The driver smirked at him. "Hmm, you're a first year i take it. Well, this is it. Heh heh..."
"What!?" tsukune spoke a little too loudly. It was the middle of nowhere and it looked so strange, not like any place he'd seen or even heard of. The bus driver just stared at tsukune with his eerie glowing eyes until tsukune felt uncomfortable. He stared back as the bus driver counted cockily under his
breath, making sure the young man heard.
"5... 4... 3... 2... 1..."
"Okay! Okay!" tsukune stood up and walked to the exit of the bus. He turned around, however, before taking the final step off. "Hey... what direction is this school in, exactly?" He secretly prayed that it wasn't through that ominous, evil, dark-looking forest...
"Oh! Heh heh... It's right through there!" The bus driver exclaimed, while pointing at the very forest tsukune prayed against. He gawked. It was like he read my mind, tsukune thought to himself. "Maybe I did," the driver said in an erie whisper.
"What was that?" tsukune asked.
"Oh, I said you better hurry. If you follow the path, you will be at the school in no time."
"Thanks!" As tsukune took his last step off, the bus driver whispered yet again, but tsukune could still here.
"That is... if you don't get eaten on your way... Heh heh." The bus driver smirked.
"WHAT!?" He blurted out. The bus driver took a puff of his cigar and blew it in tsukune's face.
"I said watch your back, boy. Things at this school can get real scary, real fast, if you don't watch your back. Heh heh... " And with that, the bus doors slammed shut, and the bus sped off. This left tsukune to take in his surroundings, all from the violet sky to the blood-red sea; even the scare crow by the cliff. He sighed. Well, I better get moving if the time is right on my phone. The entrance ceremony will start soon. Ugh. He grabbed his bags and started walking on the path he was directed on, and so his life-altering journey begins. Heh heh... tsukune Aono, a boy who's fate swirled with darkness the further he traveled down the road to the academy.
He was oblivious to this fact because he was currently more worried about the noise he just heard. It was slowly getting closer to him. He couldn't help but be scared in such dark woods, filled with bats and grave stones and god-only-knows what else... He stopped for a breather, and hopefully to let whatever that noise was pass him. He brought his hand up to rub the sweat off his neck, only to hear metal clanging against metal.
A small, pitch-black lock with small purple crosses made of a chain link, with some type of jewel embedded in it, had collided with a pure white rosary with black trim, and what seemed to be some type of forgotten language. The rosary also had a heavenly blue jewel centered in the middle of it. He had them for as long as he could remember, but he didn't like to think about them. tsukune fiddled with it and decided he was going to be late.
He used his other hand, which also had a lock similar to the other one, to pull out his phone and check the time. Oh, crap! I'm gonna be late! It had been almost 30 minutes since he got off the bus. He stood there, like a bump on a log, thinking about how long he had been walking, when he was snapped to reality when he heard a young girl scream.
"Please move!" But it was too late. Bam!
He felt a sharp pain in his back as he flew to the ground but was unexpectedly cushioned by something really soft. He pushed off of whatever it was to stand up, when he heard the moan and realized what his hand was on exactly. A very stunningly beautiful pink-haired girl, wearing the same school uniform as him. She slowly opened her jade green eyes and looked up at him, blushing. He quickly pulled away and stood up rambling on some excuses as to why he had his hand where it was. he offered her help to get up, and she grabbed his hand and stood up. She looked embarrased, mumbling, "I'm very sorry. I didn't see you until it was too late... "
tsukune was happy that she didn't seem to think he was a pervert but was still shy around what seemed to be a goddess "Umm... My name is tsukune Aono. I'm a freshmen, here at Yokai Academy." The pink-haired girl seemed to light up at that fact.
"Oh, really? My name is Moka Akashiya. I'm also a freshmen... but, uhm, what do you think of vampires, tsukune?" He laughed an uneasy chuckle, at first thinking the vampire part was a joke, but she seemed to stare at him with such seriousness. He lifted his hand to scratch the back of his head; a nervous tick he developed. But as he opened his mouth to release one of his running thoughts, she blurted out in pure and utter excitement. "O.M.G. You're one too! I had no idea until I saw that."
He followed her eyes to his rosary. "What are you talking about?"
She smiled and "lightly" hit his shoulder but, to him it felt like a football jock just slugged him. You're a vampire, too. Right, tsukune?"
He looked at her as if she had just asked him to jump off a bridge. "No," he said hesitantly.
Moka went from excited to disappointed. "Hmph. If not a vampire, then what are you? I only know of vampires and a couple of other high breed monsters who use rosaries." He blushed and said the first thing that came to mind.
"Werewolf."
She laughed and said, "No, you're not." She sniffed him. "You don't smell like one. They have a strong sent to them. Plus," she giggled, "they don't use rosaries. He looked at her and then back at he rosary.
"Well, if I am a vampire, no one told me," he said, hoping that it would stop here with the bombardment of monster trivia.
She smiled. "Well, tsukune, would you maybe umm.. be my friend?" she asked shyly. "I've never met another vampire." She smiled again.
"Sure," he said quickly, falling for her beauty. She was over-joyed but hid it well, even with the cute light blush on her cheeks. They walked the rest of the path together, mostly making meaningless small talk, but tsukune couldn't help but notice how much Moka was glancing over and staring at his neck. He stopped at the front of the school. Before they had to split up to find their seats for the entrance ceremony he asked if she was okay.
She shook her head. "I'm fine, just a little hungry."
tsukune looked at her, surprised. "Well, if that's all it is, help yourself." He smiled and started to pull a granola bar from his book bag, but she blushed and, before he could say "ow", her teeth were in his neck, drinking away. "Hey! What are..." He started to think that it hurt but at the same time it felt kind of nice to have her this close, but then she pulled away and he was snapped back to reality.
She smiled once more. "Thank you." She blushed. "You're so delicious." He almost fell down when he heard that but managed to stay on his feet. She waved good-bye to him. As she went through the crowd of students, she yelled, "I hope were in some of the same classes!" leaving him to find his seat.