Disclaimer, I don't own Rosario Vampire or any of the characters.
Well this is my first story in quite a while so let's see what people think of it. In this Tsukune is a bit darker and has a very important role to play in the long running plot of this story so no I'm not kicking him out of the story. Also there are no pairings as yet but as it goes along feel free to give me ideas of who you want to see with the main character. I love the feedback as then I can try to steer the story in a direction you all want.
I appreciate everyone who reads this and leaves a review as it is the only way that I can get better at writing. Thank you all.
Leaving
Things had been different with Tsukune since the injection of Moka's blood. Yes he had gained ghoul powers and yes he had learned to control them thanks to Ruby, and Moka but as time had passed he was sure something else was changing in him as well. The thing with changes about oneself though are that he didn't notice them, no the ones that were noticing them were Moka, and his other friends.
Tsukune had started to spend more and more time alone with none of the girls around. His temper had flared up more than once and he had started to become withdrawn. Moka was finding this change in him hard to handle. Tsukune was changing but she didn't know why, the man she loved was so different than the kind and thoughtful young man he used to be, that it was heart breaking. She was sure she had something to do with it but she had been unable to get him to talk about it no matter how she broached the subject. She was starting to wonder if she had done something to truly make him angry or even to possibly hate her. At those thoughts her heart beat a bit faster in panic, but she fought it down.
Moka looked up from her homework that she had been finishing early in the morning and decided that today was the day she was going to confront him about it. She needed to know, and today she was going to be sure that he told her what the problem was so that she could help him deal with it. Unconsciously her hand went to her Rosario, to her heart. "Tsukune," she whispered as a tear slid down her cheek. "What is wrong. I only want to help" Her voice was so quiet any listening wouldn't have even heard.
She took a deep breath and reached up slowly and wiped the tear away. "Things will be fine, trust me on this." Moka's eyes widened at those words as she knew her inner self tended to keep quiet, except where Tsukune was concerned.
A smile tugged at the corners of her mouth, "Thanks inner me." Moka had needed those reassuring words. It helped to steel her resolve on what she felt she needed to do.
Moka stood up, packed her homework, and gathered her other things. Her resolve was firm now, it had to be. She was going to find out what was going on. She had to find out what was going on. She had been so happy for so long, it was hard to be unhappy now. She didn't want things to go back to her being alone, those times had been hard. The worst part though was that the cause of that unhappiness was the man that she cared for more than anyone.
Moka looked in the mirror and nodded her head. She grabbed her bag and headed out the door, to go meet Tsukune. It was time she told him how she felt, maybe that would get his attention if nothing else would. With those thoughts though her cheeks started to get warm and she reached up and touched them. How she longed for Tsukune to touch her cheek gently.
"Now is not the time to tell him such things, not when he is acting the way he is. We must be firm. We need to know what is troubling him, keep that in mind and . . . . guard our heart," Inner Moka warned.
"I will, thanks again inner me." With those words she left the girls dorm in search of Tsukune. In search of the man she loved, and would do anything for.
Tsukune was in his room his head cupped in his hands, resting on his knees. He hadn't been feeling well and today was worse than any other. He lifted his face from his hands and groaned a bit. His room was as it always was. Bed, desk, computer, his school bag by the door his homework sitting forgotten on his desk.
The strange thing about his room today though was that it was no longer as tidy as it normally was. Cloths were tossed around the room and the mirror in his bathroom was broken. It was broke dead center with cracks spider webbing out from that first break. In one corner of the room there was a break in the wall, with what looked like hole made by a fist.
His bed was a mess the covers knotted, and soaked in sweat. Tsukune looked around his room and sighed heavily. He wasn't even feeling like himself anymore. He had been so timid and calm most times but lately his temper had started to flair. Not only that but he didn't seem to be able to completely control some of his base emotions anymore. When he looked at Moka all he saw was a girl that he should be laying claim to. He should be making her his, but he wasn't even sure where those thoughts were coming from. When he looked at his other friends he saw, well he saw food. That was the best way to put. Food and playthings, in bed or out either way. He hated the way he was feeling but once in a while . . . once in a while he liked the feelings he had now and it scared him.
Tsukune glanced over at the clock sitting on his night stand and watched as the second hand ticked by. As each second advanced so too did his anger at having to go to class today. He stood up and moved to the side of the nightstand and as it was ready to go off his arm came down hard slamming onto the clock shattering it and the nightstand. The wood from the nightstand exploded sending shards in all directions and Tsukune brought his hand to his lips and licked the bit of blood from his hand, savoring the taste.
A sadistic smile came to his normally calm face and he walked out of his room, trailing his bloody hand down the wall of the dorm. As he came outside he glanced around and wondered why it was that he had never noticed how truly beautiful the landscape was here. All this time he had thought that it was very depressing but in truth there was character there.
He walked off down the road his eyes glancing around and whenever his gaze fell on someone they would cringe away from him. Of course that could be because he had defeated Kuyo as the story said but he didn't mind at least people were leaving him alone. He decided that was what he wanted today and so he headed away from the school and out into the surrounding trees. He passed headstones and crater's in the ground where other fights had broken out not once did he glance at them though, at least not until he came upon the spot that he had first seen Moka transform.
Another dark grin came to face unbidden as he remembered her transformation. His eyes seemed to glaze over for a second as he remembered back to that moment and how her assets changed. Oh how lovely that transformation was! He started chuckling to himself as he brought his hand to face then ran it through his hair. He continued to walk away from the school building deciding he needed to do something else today than study. While he continued to walk his anger continued to grow and grow his scowl deepened, and he started to growl just in a bit.
Kurumu came upon a very sad looking Moka on her way to school that morning. "Hey everyone, where's Tsukune," came the question that Moka, and the others knew was coming.
"We're not sure, normally he meets us here," Moka answered her voice a bit strained, he hand absently clutching her Rosario. She had to admit with the way he had been acting this made her a little nervous.
"I wonder if he is feeling okay?" Yukari asked concern in her voice and visible on her cute face. She loved Tsukune as much as the other girls even though she was smart enough to realize that he was never going to pick her due to her age. The problem was love didn't have a age, it didn't care how young or old someone was. Love just was and it hurt to know that the one you love didn't return your feelings, at least not in the way that you wanted.
They all looked around and sure enough peering out from behind a bench they saw Mizore, her typically lollipop poking out of the corner of her mouth. "I saw him a little while ago."
"Where stalker girl," yelled Kurumu putting her hands on her hips and subconsciously jutting said hips to one side. Hey she was a succubus and training was hard to break even though she had been trying really hard.
"Stuff it tig ol bitties," Mizore replied in her monotone voice, though a bit of humor could be noted in those beautiful blue eyes of hers.
"What did you just call me," Kurumu asked a bit confused but knowing it was an insult of some kind directed at her rather ample chest that she knew all the girls envied . Oh how she knew her chest was one of her best assets and once she got Tsukune to truly notice her, her breasts would be his.
A slow blush started to form but was immediately wiped away by Moka's concerned voice, "Where did you see him Mizore? Could you please take us there," Moka asked knees together like they always were when she was unsure of something. At this all the girls started to realize something was going on and they knew they had better find Tsukune, if for no other reason than his normal morning torture, or pleasure depending on how you viewed it.
Mizore motioned for them to follow her and off the group walked. They kept glancing around at the school and not for the first time Moka and the rest wondered how Tsukune kept doing in day after day. With the dark atmosphere, the trees devoid of life, the goth buildings, and of course all the monsters roaming around they wondered how it was that Tsukune didn't mind staying here. To them this was normal but not for him.
"He should be this way. I saw him leave his dorm this morning but not go towards the school, I . . . I was a little worried about that and that is why I waited for all of you," Mizore said over her shoulder.
"Yeah that isn't like him, he may not be the best student but he never misses school at least not by just ignoring it for the day," Yukari quipped. She frowned and looked at the other girls. "Do you suppose all the fights have finally started to affect him," she asked her voice timid and eyes downcast in sadness.
Her hat hid her eyes but she felt a hand on her shoulder and looked up to see Kurumu. "No, if he managed to get though everything that he has dealt with, though now I don't think he would be that weak do you. He isn't leaving he just needed some time away from school like we all do"
Kurumu smiled down at her diminutive friend and when she got a little older possible rival for Tsukune's love. "Let's go get him and cheer him up if he is having a down day 'kay."
Yukari reached up and wiped a couple tears away that she hadn't noticed had slipped free. Dammit! Why did she have to cry, and in front of Kurumu too. That just made things worse but she wouldn't let it show that it bothered her. There was no way she was going to give Kurumu something else to pick on her about later. She nodded her head, "Yeah you're right cow tits."
Kurumu's smile disappeared just as quickly as it had appeared as though it were a ghost. "Why you little . . ." Kurumu started but didn't finish her cheeks puffed out as though she were mad but she wasn't. She was glad that Yukari was feeling a bit better, at least good enough to poke fun at Kurumu and her ample chest. Kurumu loved her friends, and would always care for them even though they were all rivals in love.
Moka and Mizore watched the war of words, and touching moment play out between their two friends and were glad that Kurumu had started to change so much. They had Tsukune to thank for that. "He shouldn't be much farther," was Mizore's words that broke though the haze that Moka was in.
"Oh good," she said eyes downcast her hands held together in front of her chest. "I hope we see him soon." Moka glanced around and noticed where they were finally. "Hey we are almost to the bus stop."
"Yeah, I think Tsukune plans on leaving. He . . . he had a really dark look in his eyes. We should get to the bus stop at about the time the bus shows up," Mizore said her voice so soft Moka could barely hear it so she knew their other two friends didn't hear it.
The girls continued to walk to where the bus picked them up for their school trip to the human world. It was on that trip that they had befriended Ruby, that sad witch whose personality had changed after she had come to the school with them. Moka smiled at the memory. She hoped that she continued to make more and more friends, and didn't want these days to end.
Their footsteps were heavy as they neared the bus stop. There was an eerie silence the closer they came to their destination. There were no crows in the trees watching them, no bats, nothing. The trees seemed even more dead if that was even possible,and each step they took could be heard a dull audible click on the hard ground.
"This is a little bit creepy," a scared Kurumu nearly whimpered.
"Yeah I agree, this . . ." the rest of what Moka was going to say was cut off by a scream of pain from somewhere in front of them. Although if they weren't mistaken that scream held a bit of pleasure?
"Ruby!" Yukari yelled and rushed forward the others hot on her heels. Her cape flapped behind her like the wings of some great bird and she had to reach up and hold her hat down on her head she was running so fast. Her other hand clutched her wand tightly to her chest holding it a bit ready in case she needed to use it.
As they ran down the hard packed path towards the sound of the scream the branches from the nearby dead trees clawed at them as though to try and slow them down. As though those trees didn't want them to get any closer to their goal for fear of what they might find. It wasn't true that they were trying to slow them down but when one is in a hurry everything seemed to always try to hold you back, and slow you down.
That is exactly how the girls felt as they left the hard packed dirt road where so many feet had previously been and tamped the ground as hard as any pavement. They sprinted straight to where they heard another scream, this one much closer and this one held a bit more pain, as though someone were relishing the slow pain being inflicted upon another, which the girls figured wasn't so far off since they did attend a school full of monsters and some of those said monsters loved inflicting pain. It was as if it was in there genes or something.
That last scream had lent a bit of urgency to their steeps and the ran even faster their arms pumping breath coming harder due to running so hard. They pushed through a sort of dead thicket which may have once been some vibrant plum bushes. The bushes clung to their shirts and skirts scratching their arms and beating at their bodies trying desperately to keep them from getting through and seeing what lay on the other side. The bushes failed though and the girls pushed their way through finally and stood gasping in great lungfuls of air and as they looked at the scene before them they could only wonder why?
God why did everything have to happen to him? He had just wanted to get into a school, go to said school, and live life. He wanted a girlfriend, eventually a wife, a family, a job all the things most normal people wanted. Well he got one of his damn wishes. He got into a school but not a regular fucking one. Oh no he got to go to one with monsters. Monsters! How is that even possible? Oh well it was and that was where he was going.
It was one of those monsters that had managed to turn him, a human into a fucking monster! He had tried to leave when he knew it was getting bad. He had friends here, friends he didn't want to hurt. Friends that he would fight for, hell even one of those friends, a girl by the name of Moka he had once hoped would be more than a friend. He had hoped that they could be at the very least boyfriend and girlfriend. He had hoped they could be a couple and do couple things and learn to love together.
Boy was he wrong! No that couldn't happen after all he was just a lowly human as her vampire side had told him. That silver haired, cold hearted, irritating bitch that was Moka's other self. Damn her! Then of course when he had tried to protect her even though he was but a lowly human he had gotten hurt badly and she had done the only thing she could think of to help him. She had injected some of her blood into him and that was when his life took a turn for the worse.
These thoughts had been raging in his head now all morning and they just kept making him madder and madder. He had punched a tree that he had passed and saw in crack and fall in two. That had made him smile at least. True he may be a monster now but at least he had power now. He grinned evilly at his hand and shook it a little to get it to stop its stinging from where he had hit the tree. He clenched that hand and opened it slowly. Yes he knew he was a monster now. Hell his old self was being buried by this new persona. It had slowly started taking him over and subverting his old conscious.
He looked at his thin arms that had never had any muscle in them and knew that now all those bullies from his childhood would learn what it was like to feel helpless to someone much more powerful than you. He flexed said muscles and rolled his shoulders. It felt good to know that he wasn't weak anymore.
He glanced around and realized that he had made it to the bus stop. Off to his left sat the bench, even though he felt the bench was rarely used. It was old and looked as though a decent amount of weight on it would cause it to fall to pieces letting its occupant feel the ground.
Of course the bus wasn't coming today but he felt that it was time to leave this cursed place. Enough bad shit had happened to him here that he no longer wanted to be here. His other self, the timid Tsukune yelled and raged that he wanted to stay but that part of him was nearly gone by now. He was no longer so weak, he was a predator, a full fledged monster and he was reveling in it.
He started to walk down the pavement thinking that he might just be able to walk out of this little pocket dimension or whatever the place was when he heard the whoosh of something large fly behind him and then the click, of heels as they touched pavement. He heard the rustling of cloth and a step taken forward.
"Tsukune what are you doing," came a concerned voice. He knew who the voice belonged too. He could picture her in his mind. The long beautiful dark hair, the corset, the long skirt with tatters at the end, the those eyes of hers. Tsukune growled a bit and turned slowly to look at her.
"Ruby, what is it that you want." His voice held no warmth, no caring. The way he spoke almost made her flinch back. She looked at him concern oozing from her and she took another step forward. As she did her skirt parted to show a bit of leg and she saw Tsukune's gaze flick down to her exposed leg. She quickly brought her left foot forward to be even with her right so that her skirt covered her leg.
It wasn't that she minded that he looked in a way she had a crush on the young man as did so many other young women but it was the hunger is in eyes that made her flinch back. It was animalistic, it was the look that said that he might just take her right then and there. His eyes were devoid of emotion as well as his voice. It was like he had lost the ability to care. She was glad that the headmaster had sent her here to try to stop him. She knew looking at him now that he was going to leave. She knew it as sure as the beating of her own heart, which she reached up and touched, to try and slow its beating.
"Ruby, I'll ask again, what do you want." This time his voice had an edge to it, a demand. His eyes flashed a bit of anger and she swore that they darkened. He took a step towards her. "If you want you can come with me and be mine." What was that? He just offered her the chance to go with him and be his!? Her heart thudded in her chest to a beat all it's own and she was sure that he could hear it. She was nervous but elated at the same time and she reached out to him slowly with her left hand, a hand that was trembling, out of fear, or happiness, or some other emotion she didn't know.
"Choose quickly cause I'm not going to be here much longer. I have to get away from all this monster business. I have to. I need to try to find myself, and here with so many monsters I can't do that. I know that I am one now Ruby but I have no desire to be one. I think . . . I think I may return to the human world and see if the doctors there can fix me." His voice seemed a bit more normal but she couldn't be sure. He looked more normal, more like the Tsukune that she fell in love with not the man who was standing across from her so cold and hard, and ready to do things to her that Tsukune never would have thought about.
"Tsukune," her voice came out barely above a whisper, and it trembled but grew steady and louder as she continued. "I would love to go with you but you know that we can't," she brought her hands together in front of her chest where he saw her clutching her wand. "We have to stay here you are one of us now, is . . . is that such a bad and horrible thing?"
He paused for a second and she hoped that she had gotten though to him. He was the one who had gotten through to her. He was the one who had helped care for her and then had shown her that not all humans were bad. He had helped her and been a friend to her and the others, and now for some reason he hated monsters. She didn't get it. She didn't understand what had changed him, or changed in him to be more precise that made him being one of them such a hateful thing.
"Yes!" He roared. He came right at her and it surprised her. Her eyes widened in shock as she saw his fist coming for her. She leapt back but he followed her and he had the momentum. His fist connected with her stomach and the air left her.
She dropped to the ground gasping trying to gulp in air. He reached down and grabbed a fistful of hair and slapped her across the face which snapped her head to the side he hit her so hard. He watched in satisfaction as blood flew from a split lip and splattered on the ground. "Yes," he hissed as he picked her up as though she weighed no more than a doll.
He held her by her hair and looked her in her beautiful eyes. She started to struggle a bit but she was in shock by what he had just done and it wasn't really even in her to fight back. Besides she hated to admit she liked a man that took charge, and she felt her heart beat faster at the thought.
He grinned darkly as he brought her face to his. He could see and smell the blood, that wonderful fluid. It traced a delicate line down her porcelain skin. He watched it slowly move down her chin and trace a thin line down her neck. He watched it in fascination as it continued its descent down her neck and disappeared down her bodice, between her breasts.
He growled and lunged forward planting his teeth in the side of her neck. As she felt the teeth pierce her flesh and him begin to suck the blood from her body she writhed a bit in pleasure but more in pain as dark images flashed in her mind. Things of what he wanted to do to her and things that he would do to her when he was done drinking his fill. Her mind seemed to wrapped in a dark night of eternal horror as images flashed one of her on her back with him prying her ribcage apart with his bare hands while laughing manically. Another was of him smashing her head into the pavement until it was just a bloody pulp, there were still others and she closed her eyes and tried to block them out but it was no use. Not while he had a hold of her in his iron grip. The strength of a vampire and she couldn't do anything but one thing. That one thing was to scream, and she did loud and long. "Nyaaaaaaaahhhhhhhh!"
It took no more than a minute but then he tossed her to the ground where she hit the pavement hard and scraped her hands and knees and fresh blood blossomed. She felt her forearm break as she tried to soften her landing from the force of being thrown by a vampire, at least it was only one forearm though. She cried out in pain again and he stalked forward her blood dripping from his chin and his eyes wild.
She slowly tried to get to her feet and she wobbled a bit. She summoned her wings and they appeared behind her. She was beautiful to behold in the form with those great wings spread out behind her and then they flashed forward sending black feathers at Tsukune who didn't even try to dodge them. A few of them pierced his flesh and he calmly just pulled them free and let them drop to the ground continuing his slow deliberate walk towards his prey.
Everything had went silent around them. There were no crows cawing there was nothing. The wind itself even though there was never any seemed to be avoiding the battle that was taking place. The trees if it could be believed seemed to have withdrawn as well leaving only two people in the street. Due to that you could hear each hard footfall of Tsukune as he stalked towards Ruby. She brought her wand up and started a chant.
Tsukune didn't know what she was doing but some part of him knew that he needed to stop her. He rushed forward faster than she remembered him ever moving before and he punched her in the side sending her flying through the air and she hit a tree and slid down the rough bark which scraped her bare back to rest on the ground.
She screamed from the punch and felt her ribs break. She knew that she couldn't stop herself from hitting something as she was flying though the air and she hit a tree and slid down it. She couldn't do much to stop that either as there was no fight left in her. She was ready for the oblivion that was coming. She knew that the others would hate her for not being able to stop him but she had tried. It was just hard to fight the man that you loved, actually fight him. She wasn't able to do that and as a result he had beaten her soundly.
She knew that she was dying. In face she was pretty sure she very few bones left intact in her ribcage. She took a shuddering breath and a bit of blood trailed out of the side of her mouth and she saw Tsukune standing above her. "Beautiful," he whispered as he gazed down at his handiwork.
He stood no more than a few feet from the nearly unconscious Ruby and knelt down. He slammed his fist into the ground and laughed at her trying to jerk back away from him. He was going to enjoy tearing her limb from limb, stupid woman. No one could match him when his blood was riled and boiling. Hell he was nearly a match for a vampire! If he kept working at this he could beat them. He could become one of the strongest!
Some part of him knew that what he was thinking was crazy but that part was buried under the haze of anger and lust he was feeling. Those two emotions were warring for dominance on his face and for control of his body. Deep down Tsukune was disgusted with himself for what he had just done to Ruby and he wished that he could just die. He didn't want to hurt people, he didn't want to fight people , but the part of him that was still human was disappearing fast. That part was being buried under an avalanche of power and raging emotions that he had absolutely zero control over.
He moved forward on his hands much like a giant ape and reached out towards Ruby who whimpered and moved her head away from. She had tears trailing down her cheeks, glistening in the light. Tsukune grinned as he smelled the terror coming off her in waves. It was a great feeling to know that he was no longer the weak one. That others were scared of him. Now it was time to finish this girl off so that he could leave this place, and carve out a niche for himself somewhere. Tsukune drew back his fist and as it was about to fly forward he heard a voice that he hated. "Tsukune stop! What are you doing to Ruby?"
Deep below the ground where the combat was taking place above was a large room. In this room resided many things. One of these things was a giant circle and in the center of this circle was a statue. The statue was expertly carved to look like a man from old times wearing cloths that no one wore now.
Around this room were other things. On the walls there was writing, and on the floor there were seals drawn. In the corner was a suit of armor that was rusted to nearly nothing with a sword leaning against the wall. There was off to the left where the statue was looking a slightly raised platform and a stone pedestal, upon which a tattered book rested but that book was so old to touch it would see it crumble into dust like so many other things in this room.
There were other statues lining the walls but these were not near so lifelike as the one in the center whose face looked calm and peaceful. The room had a small sound in it from the fight above and bits of debris rained down on the statue and around the room. In response there was a slight rumble that if anyone would have been near couldn't have believed where it came from.
End Chapter 1
Well that's it the first chapter! Hope everyone likes it, wanted to hopefully do something a little different with Tsukune so please bear with me on this.
Yes there will be a original character but only because it is the only way to make this particular story work. I hope that doesn't scare some of you away.
All I ask is everyone please be patient with me on this as it will take a bit of time to get into. This chapter ended kinda bad but if I didn't end it like this it was going to get way too long.