CHANGERS CHAPTER 2

The first thing that Tsukune did when he walked Moka's office was look around. He had done the same thing last night, but now he realized that compared to his human senses, these vampire senses were a hundred times better. It was like he was seeing everything in a new light, but since all he had been around for the past 12 hours was an alleyway; he hadn't noticed the changes taking place until now. It was almost overwhelming. "Whoa…" he whispered, awestruck. Moka smiled in amusement. She had never gotten the chance to see one of her clients changing, and she was amused at how this kid seemed to find something amazing with a simple change in senses. Just wait until he feels the other changes: faster, stronger…

The thirst…

Moka shook her head to clear it. She had very little time to show Tsukune how to help before the customers showed up. She snapped her fingers to get his attention. "Oi! Tsukune! Front and center!" It Tsukune responded quickly, rushing in front of her and standing rigor mortis in front of her, arms stiff by his sides.. Moka looked him dead in the eyes and even though Tsukune was taller than her, he felt a shiver go up his spine. She took a key from out of her front pocket. "Give me your hand." She instructed. He complied, and Moka placed the key in his palm. She let go, and Tsukune brought the key up to eye level for a better view. "Tsukune, do you see that filing cabinet over there?" She pointed and Tsukune nodded. "That is the only key to it. I want you to go over there, open the bottom drawer, and tell me what you see." Tsukune did just that. He walked over, unlocked the drawer, opened it, and pulled out the first sheet over paper. He read it, and then turned back towards Moka.

"Is this… a contract?" He asked. Moka nodded.

"Yes. It's the same paper that I made you sign last night: It says that you came here of your own free will and that you release me from any of the repercussions of a transformation." Tsukune gave Moka a confused look.

"Why do you need these?" Moka raised an eyebrow.

"Tsukune, being a changer isn't necessarily legal, but if the police catch me, they can't charge me with anything because of those papers." Tsukune widened his eyes in surprise. He realized that she was right: most of the changers that were caught by the police were sentenced because they couldn't prove that they hadn't changed people of their own free will. With these disclaimers, Moka would probably get away scot-free (or at least a very light sentence) if she was ever caught. Tsukune was impressed.

"That's incredible!" Tsukune praised. "How did you think of that?" Moka's expression darkened and Tsukune's feelings of being impressed quickly turned into feelings of being scared. However, Moka quickly got over it.

"No more questions!" she exclaimed. "For today, just get me a contract and a pen every time a client comes. Got it?" Tsukune nodded just as there was a knock on the door. " Well, here's your first test." Moka made her way over to the door and opened it. However, when she saw who was on the other side, she bit her lip to prevent herself from saying anything that she would regret later. Tsukune, standing on the other side of the room, couldn't see who was at the door, but he was curious as to why Moka wasn't letting them in. He could hear hushed voices, but since his hearing wasn't at vampire standards yet, he didn't understand what was being said. Finally, Moka stepped aside and a short red-haired girl strode in. She walked to the middle of the room and stopped with her hands on her hips. As she looked around, Tsukune had a chance to take in the newcomer. She was shorter than Moka by a good head or so, and she had a much more petite frame. In fact, everything about her seemed somewhat tiny. She had a deep frown on her face, but she was still cute, and Tsukune suspected that she would be even cuter if she smiled. The most confusing part about her, though, was her eyes: they were red, which marked her as a vampire, but her hair was red as well, not silver. As Tsukune pondered this, the women's eyes landed on him and widened in what he assumed was shock. She pivoted towards Moka, whose only action since the girl arrived was to close the door and lock it.

"Who the hell is this?" The girl seethed, pointing a finger at Tsukune angrily.

"That would be Tsukune." Moka said. "My new apprentice." The girl's eyes grew even wider.

"Apprentice!" She exclaimed, turning to face Moka dead-on. "And why did I not hear about this?"

"Because he became my apprentice..." Moka looked at the watch adorning her wrist. "Five minutes ago."

"And when were you going to report this?"

"At the end of the day." Moka looked over the girls shoulder at Tsukune, who was still standing still holding the disclaimer in his hand dumbly for a lack of something better to do. "After I bought him some new clothes."

"And why were you going to buy him the clothes?" The girl snapped. Moka decided to dodge the question.

"Look, I don't understand why you're getting so worked up about this Kokoa, it's not like its breaking the rules or anything. Lots of changers have apprentices."

"Yes, but they sent in a request! And after that request was granted, they picked one of the ones that we offered them! They didn't just decide 'hey, I think I'll get an apprentice today! Oh look, here's a vampire! In fact," at this point, Kokoa whirled around and dashed over to Tsukune with her vampire speed. She completely ignored his personal bubble and got right up in his face, or at least as much as she could when she was more than a little shorter than him. Tsukune looked down, and he saw her face scrunching up as she appeared to be sniffing him. "It's just as I thought! He isn't even a full vampire yet!" She whirled around to face Moka again, almost knocking Tsukune off of his feet. "What were you thinking?" Moka sighed.

"It's a long story. Look, can we just go tell the bosses now? I can close up for the day, we can go to the bosses, get their verdict, and boom! Problem solved!" Kokoa appeared to contemplate this.

"Fine." She said. "But he can't know where we're going." She shoved her thumb behind her at Tsukune. Moka shrugged.

"Wait, where are we going?" Tsukune asked completely lost.

"You'll find out." Kokoa said with a smirk. "But you'll have to take a little nap first!"

Tsukune was about to open his mouth to ask what she meant when she suddenly brought her fist up and punched him in the face, knocking him unconscious.