Chapter 2: Hickey or Bite Tats? Part 2
Author's Note: Hello, my fanfiction brothers and sisters, I apologize for being mia for so long, but I've been so busy with school and work that I haven't been able to post anything. But Zhane Zelda (Nickname my boyfriend has given me) is back for good and I had decided to rewrite the other three chapters. So read, comment, favorite and follower if you new and enjoy.
Trackflield and swimming had given her a healthy athletic body and above average stamina. she'd never imagined she could go a mile and a half at a run while tugging her satchel and luggage. Then again before today she never thought she would meet someone who would bite her and drink her blood like a vampire! Weird fetish much, she thought. Fortunately, she'd left him far behind.
When she, at last, reach the school entrance her blouse was soaked through and she was ready to collapse. she set her suitcase down and sat on top of it so that she could catch her breath. Having finally reached the school there was a steady stream of students walking past and looking at her curiously.
while resting Tsubaki decide to take the moment to look at her surroundings. The school was built near a cliff overlooking the sea. there were several buildings, with the main one looking a bit like a gothic cathedral. The others though had a more modern design but looked worn; like public housing built in 1960-1970's that had been allowed to fail in disrepair.
" What Papa and Mama were thinking. This isn't an elite school," she muttered.
For the next three years, this is going to be her home. When she'd thought of an elite private school out in the country she imagined a spacious campus filled with neatly manicured trees and flowered beds spread out between prepossessing buildings and the most modern facilities.
Not this rundown dump surrounded by cemeteries and spooky woods! Oh, and let's not forget the freaky incident with the vampire fetish kid. She thought resentful.
Tsubaki was satisfied to see that her fellow classmates were at least normal. Besides the incident with another student. As they walked past they were all neatly dressed in school uniforms looking about half in confusion and excitement. None appeared to be concerned or put off by the school's exterior or by its location.
Tsubaki eventually got back on her feet. Picking up her suitcase she gave a slight grunt. Now that she no longer had adrenaline pumping through her it seemed slightly heavy. She just sighs in annoyance and continues on inside the school.
The registration and check-in were mercifully short. Freshmen were all required to follow the same course study so Tsubaki already had her schedule printed up and her textbooks waiting for her. She was given her assigned room number and key as well as a basic map of the campus. She realizes she still had an hour before the ceremony so she decided to go to her room, take a shower and change into fresh clean uniform.
Tsubaki was relieved to find her room to be clean and with modern appliances. There was a main area with a bed, desk, and a closet. connected to it was a kitchenette equipped with a sink, electric stove, oven, microwave, and refrigerator. A door to the left of the room opened to a bathroom that included a ceramic bathtub with a showerhead. it was small, but she was glad to have her own bath. overall her new room was slightly bigger than the one she'd had at home.
She undressed and took a hot shower and tried to erased earlier incident from her thoughts. Now that she was actually here things should settle down. She will try to relax and find a comfortable routine.
After showering and dressed in fresh clean uniform, Tsubaki had unpacked her belongings and proceed down to the Entrance Ceremony. The Entrance Ceremony was about what you would expect. While somewhat there were students sitting in fold-out chairs in the gym facing a temporary stage where the Headmaster spoke to them about hard work and following the rules. it was fairly ordinary speech as far as the subject matter went. But what made it odd was that the Headmaster was dressed in white robes like some sort of priest. And what caught Tsubaki attention was that his eyes were glowing. 'Just as with the bus driver?' she thought perplexed.
The most bizarre and disturbing part though was near the end of the Headmaster speech.
"Try not to be too upset or disturbed by the occasional deaths of classmates and teachers even if they are friends or relatives. We are what we are and these things do happen when so many of our kind gather together. Follow the rules and be aware of your circumstances and you have an excellent chance of living to see graduate.
Tsubaki felt a chill went up to her spine when she realizes that he wasn't joking and the other students merely nodded as if it were serious advice. She thought back to the bus driver advice from earlier and wonder was this what he meant.
Afterward, they were dismissed everyone headed to their designated homeroom.
When Tsubaki arrived she noticed the other students were chatting and getting to know one another. There was a stir in the air and people were excited. Being in a classroom again with regular classmates gave Tsubaki somewhat hope that the next three years wouldn't be a complete nightmare. She smiled to herself and sat down in an open seat.
Sitting next to her was a brunette guy with messy uncombed shoulder length hair. It was the very first day but his uniform was wrinkled and a complete mess. His lower lip and earlobes were pierced. The guy's appearance pretty much screamed Yankee.
'Yikes, first an incident with a weirdo, now I'm sitting next to a gangster,' Tsubaki thought. from the corner of her eye, she sees him ogling her. She looked at him with disinterested eyes.
Not much later to Tsubaki delight, the teacher arrived.
She appeared to be in her twenties and was dressed in a white blouse, orange skirt, low heel sandals. Her sandy short blonde hair had couple weird tufts that remind Tsubaki of cat's ears.
"Well good morning, students, if you're new here, welcome to Yokai Academy. My name is Ms. Shizuka Nekonome and I be your teacher."
Turning to the blackboard she picked up a piece of chalk and wrote out the word 'Coexistence.'
"Coexistence is the core philosophy behind this academy and everything it stands for. Now as you all know the Earth in under control and domination of the humans. In order to survive we monsters must learn to adapt to human society."
'We monster, what?' Tsubaki brow curled.
Tsubaki glanced at the other students. Everyone was taking what the teacher was saying at face value.
"We are all monsters here." The teacher said. "All the students and faculty; this school located within a magical barrier that separates it from the normal world. No human knows of its existence, and if by some chance one did stumble onto he/she wouldn't get to ever leave."
"And that brings us to our first rule with the special circumstances as long as you're on campus you must always remain in your human disguise. Everyone got that? Now rule number two, never ever reveal your monster identity to another student I'm sure you can see why! Everyone will follow these rules right?"
"Hey, teacher." The guy across from her spoke. "why do we have to waste time coexisting with weak humans anyway? would it not be better for us to eat up those puny humans and in the case of beautiful girls better to molest them."
That drew laughs and made Tsubaki blood run cold.
'What the fuck? just what sort of people have I got mixed up with?' Tsubaki thought.
The teacher merely shook her head. "there are six billion humans and they have an industrialized society. No matter how weak they may appear individually as a race there is no denying they are more powerful than all others combined. there is a reason why we call it the human world after all. why we are the ones who have to hide in the shadows while humanity does as it pleases. Any human who discovered here will be killed on sight, but that won't work outside this hidden world."
Tsubaki kept waiting for the joke but it didn't come. the students just nodded their heads. The guy across from her gave a sour grunt.
"Given that human control of the world is unlikely to change existence becomes the only real option. This school will teach you to a skill you need to pass for human and to succeed within their society. Yokai Academy is run just as real Japanese high school is. We prepare you guy's when you graduate from here you will be able to attend a human university or else find employment among them. We teach through total submission, that is why you do not reveal you're true forms even away from class. You must learn to maintain your disguises and behave as a human would at all times. Anything less would put you in danger when you are among them."
Tsubaki felt like vomiting the uneased feeling from earlier was ten times worse. She wants to mount urge to panic and just run away from these crazy people. First the weird kid, Headmaster, and now the teacher. monsters and killing and everyone else were just going along with it! why her parents sent her to a school for monsters?
Tsubaki chose to not react for the fear of drawing attention to herself. But she couldn't keep her hands from trembling a little though. The boy sitting across from her noticed and glanced in her direction. Tsubaki didn't like the curiosity in the other boy's eyes. This Yankee had been talking about eating people and molesting girls just a minute ago; Tsubaki did not want to draw his interest. I gotta hurry... If I don't escape from this place right away, Tsubaki thoughted petrify.
The door to the classroom opened.
"Excused me, after the Entrance Ceremony I kinda got lost in the school. Sorry, I'm late." A familiar voice spoke.
"Oh, that's fine, just take a seat. Well, aren't you a cute one."
Tsubaki gasped in surprise to realize it was the boy from earlier. She was in so much shock that she didn't even get a better look at him. He, however, wasn't cute but actually handsome. Long pink hair in a ponytail, beautiful emerald colored eyes and he was dressed in the male's school uniform. Tsubaki noticed he had a leather choker around his neck and a sliver Rosario with red centerpiece connected to it by a chain.
'If he wasn't weird and had attacked me I would have considered him attractive,' She thought.
"Hello," he said with an embarrassed bow. "My name is Akashiya Moko."
The girls in the class got one look at him and began to giggle and whisper to one another. The brunette Yankee grunt in boredom.
Moko looks around the class and at his peers for an available seat. He spotted an empty seat in the back of the class and walk over and sat down. From the front of the class view, he happens to notice a familiar brunette.
"Hey, Tsubaki what a surprise we're in the same class!" Moko whispered to Tsubaki. Because Ms. Nekonome had proceeded with class again.
Tsubaki was first caught off guard but then whisper harshly. "Leave me alone and stop talking to me. You going to get us in trouble."
"Geez, cold shoulder much, I just want to apologize for what I did to you on the road earlier. I had no right to take advantage of you like that. I really am sorry; I just couldn't resist my instincts." He whispered to loud.
Tsubaki could feel the eyes of the students in the class boring into her and him. A couple of them mouthed take advantage and couldn't resist. The Yankee boy was staring at her with interest and hungrily eyes.
"Ah, since you're apologizing I forgive you," Tsubaki said, nervously twirling a piece of her hair. "Let's just forget it ever happened."
"Actually I was hoping we could become friends," Moko said sheepishly. He was ogling her and kinda drooling. "All this time I've been thinking about how delicious you smell and taste. It was also my first time and I hope you'd be okay with us doing again! it was amazing I want to keep doing it with you as much as I can!"
"Public displays of affection are against the rules." Ms. Nekonome announced with a shake of her finger. "Please be sure to do and speak of those sort of things in private."
It might have just been her imagination but Tsubaki was certain she could feel murderous intent being directed at her from all over the room.
"Fine, I become your friend if you stop talking now," Tsubaki said, sulks in her seat and tried her best to disappear from sight.
Later after the final bell, Tsubaki and Moko explored about every inch of the school. After they were done exploring they found a vending machine and both got can of juice when they reached down to get pick their own their hands brushed against each other and they both flinched back slightly blushing. Moko looked away he waited for Tsubaki to pick up her can and then grabs for his, they found a bench near the vending machine and down. Moko tried to start a conversation" Look, I didn't mean to embarrass you in front of the class. And I was sincere about my apology, I had no right to take advantage of you, like some type of..."
"M...Monster," Tsubaki stuttered.
"Uh... I was going to say like an animal but I guess that works," Moko mumbled. " Monster wannabe, freak, weirdo was what I was called in my previous schools. I went to a human school all the way up until high school here. I had no friends and was humiliated for saying stuff like monsters exist and that I was a vampire. A course they didn't believe me and I wouldn't blame them. This rosary seals my vampire powers if it comes off I turn into my true self, an s-class vampire."
Tsubaki felt ashamed to misjudge him and tried to comfort him "I'm sorry, I didn't mean to upset you. I know what its like, they treated me the same way. And I apologize for the way I treated you." She said while pulling him into a tight embrace. She let him go when she could tell that he was in a better mood. "Thank you, Tsubaki."
Then Moko said "Come out Saizou, hiding is a cowards tactic"
"I'm not hiding I just want to know," he said while he picked up Moko by his collar "Why a hot girl like you is hanging out with a loser like this," he said to Tsubaki. Moko just calmly said, "Put me down, and leave us alone or you'll regret it." Saizou just ignored him and grabbed Tsubaki's arm "Why don't you just leave this loser and hang out with a real man like me" Tsubaki yelled "Let me go"
"I warned you," Moko said as he grabbed Saizou's wrist and twisted it hearing a sickening crack. He smiled as Saizou screamed in pain and let them go. Moko then walked up to him and grabbed him by the throat and said "I told you to leave us alone" and with that, he threw Saizuo into the vending machine. Tsubaki just watched the whole thing in amazed as he threw Saizou.
"Let's go somewhere else Tsubaki," Moko said as he watched Saizou slam into the vending machine.
Tsubaki stuttered "O...okay."
Moko and Tsubaki walked down a path and found a graveyard on the right and a lake on the left. They just stood there silently and admired the scenery. Tsubaki broke the silence "Moko, there something you should know about me I'm a hu-" But was interrupted when a tongue wrapped around her ankle "What the- " was all she could get out before being hit up against a tree, stunning her.
Moko whipped around to see Saizou in his true form, "You're going to pay for what you did to me!" he said as he kicked Moko into the lake. SPLASH! Moko screamed out in pain as soon he touched the water "AAAAAAGGGGGGGHHHHHH! it felt like he was being electrocuted.
Got... to save... Tsubaki! he screamed in his mind, he struggled, an intense pain bloomed at the top of his chest, spreading downwards and inwards. Dark and cold was what he see's and felt. Moko wasn't sure if he was awake anymore. He had tried to get to the surface but couldn't lift his arms and the pain became intolerable.
Tsubaki screamed as she watched Saiouz kicked Moko into the lake and he hasn't resurfaced. She managed to get up and drove into the water after him. Tsubaki swam drown as fast as she could. She had to find him. Something red caught her eye. A center jewelry piece. Moko's rosary. Grabbing him, she dragged him up.
Breaking the surface of the water, Tsubaki gasped. She pulled him onto the land and performed the Heimlich maneuver when it was showed he wasn't breathing. Suddenly, Moko started throwing up water. after it was out of his system, he woke up. He groaned hoarsely.
"Tsubaki... are you... okay?" he managed to get out, he had lean up into a sitting position. "You silly boy I should be asking you that you had almost drowned." She said embraced him. That brought an amused smile to his lips. "While I didn't because an amazing camellia saved me. Thank you."
They heard Saizou spoken. "What's wrong? Not feeling good? That makes it easier on me." he said with an evil laughter.
Tsubaki embraces Moko protecting as they watched Saizou walked over to them. "Whatever happens to us, Moko. You should know I want to be your friend. Even if you are a vampire. I like you, Moko." Her hand accidentally reached for his rosary. And pulled it off and the last thing she heard was a metallic clink.
Something silver in Tsubaki's hand caught Moko's eye "M... my rosary!" Moko was then developed with a red demonic aura, his pink hair turned silver, his emerald green eyes turned blood red and his pupils on his eyes became reptile like slits. When he was done transforming he looked down to see Tsubaki and his anger flared. She's injured and soaked from rescue him because of someone who wants to rape her. He turned and glared at Saizou which made his skin crawl.
Saizou just stuttered " You... you're not the same Akashiya you're a... a vampire!" he said while shaking.
Moko cut him off "You did this to Tsubaki?! He was suddenly in front of him " I warn you. Now, KNOW YOU'RE PLACED!" he said as he kicked him in the face and shattered all of his bone in his face.
With that, he turned and approached Tsubaki.
She watched him knelt down beside her and smoothly placed his mouth on her throat. She could feel his hot breath against her skin. Her heart was pounding; She at once longed for and dreaded his taking her.
" You smell delicious," he whispered in her ear. "I can understand why my other self couldn't resist. Tell me does anyone else here know you're human?"
her head twisted about and her brown eyes were staring straight into his blood red ones.
"H... how did you know?"
She felt his fingers lightly caress her cheek.
"I'm an s-class vampire, remember our smell, sight, hearing, and etc are greatly enhanced, which enables us to see, hear, smell and taste thing imperceptible to humans and other monster's."
Tsubaki looked at him in disbelief and ignorance " If that accurate, then you must have seen me. You ran your bicycle into me on purpose!"
That brought an amused smile to his lips.
" You don't have to be afraid, I will keep your secret. I am not in the habit or hurting those who have never done me any harm. And I'm in you're debt for rescuing me."
Tsubaki looked over at Saizou's unconscious and couldn't help but feel a little sorry for him. Saziou's skull was half caved in "Looks like you showed him his place."
"He got what was coming to him." He said sternly.
"We need to get some sleep," she said noticing the sun was going down.
Moko just nodded and said, "Want me to walk you back to your dorm?"
Tsubaki was slightly stunned at his question and said "Okay." They were unaware they were being watched on their way to Tsubaki's dorm.
once they got to Tsubaki's dorm she handed Moko his rosary "See you tomorrow."
Moko placed his rosary on the end of his chain. He was once more surrounded by yokai energy as he transformed back into his more innocent person. "See you tomorrow."