Grand Blue's Roar
Chapter 7 – Lighting Beast at the Oceanfront
I do not own Rosario + Vampire in any way
So, I have somewhat of a major choice that I have decided to make with this story. I have decided that I will be removing the entire storyline that deals with Alucard and the things that deal with that. I will be replacing it with another storyline for the end of the second year.
This is mostly because I haven't read the manga. Even if I did go and read the manga from what I understand from the rough cliff notes I've read it might clash story-wise with Tsukune coming a shino vampire.
Sorry if that ruins the story for anyone.
On the bright side because of this change it is possible for me to think about me write out the third year instead of writing some type of short segment on it with the future mixed in for an epilogue.
Though that's going to take a lot of thinking and planning for the third year and with the semi-warm opinion of this story so far, I might feel like moving onto another story by that time. Also, it would be way more slice of life than normal and, even someone who appreciates SoL, it might be too much for the average reader.
Though all of this is far into the future, anything can happen in the meantime.
I walked out of the boy's dorm as usual with Tsukune. I let him take the lead since the one time I walked out first I was tackled by Kurumu and nearly was suffocated to death before Yukari pointed out she didn't have Tsukune. Yukari still teases her about that. Needless to say, Kurumu at least looks before she divebombs her target.
Though it was good to see that she was no longer holding what happened during my inversion against me. Especially since the addition of Shirayuki into our little group.
After the day we saved her she became part of group naturally. That is when she was actually around for us to speak to her. Somehow, she could get into places I would never expect any monster, much less a yuki-onna, to get into to. Though I wasn't exactly against it.
With her around I no longer had to be the bad guy separating Moka or Kurumu from Tsukune. She would do that from the shadows with a well-placed kunai or freezing the girl semi-solid.
But because of her hiding in the shadows so well I was always felt on guard, trying to pick her out from sounds and smells. Though it was incredibly hard since she was so good at hiding her presence and I was so bad at finding people who were hunting me.
But it seemed like she knew what I was doing since she would on purpose give me little hints that she was around and was 'hunting' us. Usually by leaving a kunai in a tree to signal to me since I was still bad enough that if she didn't I would have no idea what she was out and about.
It seemed like she enjoyed these exercises or at least tolerated my practice. I wouldn't know since we never really talk about it much. Though that could sum up my relationship well with Shirayuki.
We didn't talk much to each other but we were both okay with that, since she was shy around people that wasn't Tsukune or one of the girls trying to get into his pants. I had Yukari that loved to chat constantly so when we both got a moment of reprieve we enjoyed it.
I watch on as the usual scene with Kurumu tackling Tsukune to the ground and attempting murder in broad daylight. The shimmer of light appeared as a kunai logged itself into Kurumu's forehead.
Mizore walked out of the tree line, again I couldn't detect her presence at all. Her eyes glanced at me and gave me a small nod before moving her focus to Tsukune and attempting the same murder technique though less effective.
"Mizore, get off Tsukune!" I glanced at Yukari who pulled out her wand. She really didn't know what she was going to get into did she? Yukari went to wave her wand before the entire rod was frozen solid.
She glanced at the wand and tried to swing it only for none of her signature pans to come from the sky. Yukari pouted before putting her wand away. "Hey popsicle what are you doing to my mate of fate?" Looks like Kurumu woke up.
"I'm simply showing my husband what he will have in the future." Kurumu went to retort but whatever she said was covered up by the bell ringing. I looked at the school and back to the group.
Shirayuki gave Tsukune one more squeeze before getting off him and patted her skirt to get rid of dirt. Kurumu of course started to complain again as we started to make our way toward the school. "How dare that walking snow cone! Trying to get in between me and my mate of fate."
"My mate of fate and me." Yukari being the usual smart mouth. I noticed that Shirayuki had somehow slipped away from our group again. That meant that she would be 'hunting' again.
I started to look around the tree line for any type of movement. For any smell that smelled like Shirayuki, what I would imagine frozen vanilla would smell like. For any unnatural sound that came from the forest.
We made our way down the path and I couldn't sense Shirayuki at all. When we got to the school gate I felt someone tap my shoulder. I looked behind me and saw Shirayuki. I felt my spine stiffen for a second before relaxing.
As we walked past the gate she walked past me and pushed herself between Kurumu and Tsukune. Scaring both Tsukune and Kurumu. "Snow cone! Get away from my mate of fate!"
"No. Tsukune is my husband." Shirayuki latched onto Tsukune's arm making him panic and try getting her off his arm, which worked only because she purposely let go. "I'll see you in class husband." She started to walk away from us, giving me a tiny wave before walking into the crowd of students in front of us and disappearing.
"I'm going to get that girl." Kurumu started to growl in the direction that Shirayuki took off at. "When I do she won't go anywhere near you." She then took Shirayuki's place on Tsukune's arm, causing him to panic again. Though Kurumu didn't let go like Shirayuki.
Tsukune glanced at with pleading in his eyes. "Kurumu-san, we need to get to class." She looked at me with a glare but let go of Tsukune anyway. With all problems now dealt with for now our group made our way into school building.
I sat myself down in my seat and leaned back into my chair. Just a second after Sensei walked into the room. He looked around the room and even though he was present the rooms energy didn't settle down like it usually did. "Everyone settle down." The voice of the other students drowned out his voice, us in the front were probably the only ones to hear him.
I saw Sensei get annoyed but didn't seem like he was surprised by this reaction. I wonder what was going on? Was there some event that was going on that got the student body hyped up? "Everyone settle down!" Sensei yelled so loud that the room was quiet in an instant.
Sensei looked around the room eyeing the students in the back. "Now I know all of you are excited for spring break coming up." I felt my body jolt from that. Spring break was coming? "However, we still need to finish today." Wait, today was the last day before spring break? "So, let us get to work."
I could only blink in surprise as Sensei turned to the board and started to write on the chalk board.
The bell rang for the last time until spring break ended. All the other students rushed out of the room faster than ever, even Sensei made his way out of the room quicker than normal. As the last few people left the room I looked to Yukari who was writing on some paper. "Yukari."
"What Onii-chan?" Yukari looked away from her paper to me, her head slightly tilted making the top of her hat flop around.
"Did you know that today was the last day of school before spring break?" I saw her nod her head.
"Yeah?" She looked at me oddly before she broke out in a smile. "Wait, did you not know?" I shook my head. There was no way I was going to let her have something like that over on me.
"Of course I knew." I saw Yukari's smile get bigger as she started to giggle.
"No way. Onii-chan, you totally didn't know." She broke out into a full-blown laugh shaking her entire body even making her hat fall off her head. This girl. I got out of my seat and walked over to her fallen hat. I picked it off the ground and put it back onto Yukari's head with a little more forced than needed, forcing the hat over her eyes and shutting her up.
She pulled the hat back into its normal place and pouted at me. "What was mean Onii-chan."
"Just like a particular imoto laughing at their Onii-chan?" She gave me another pout before getting up from her from her seat and made her way toward the door. I followed along behind Yukari knowing that she would be back to normal by the time we got to the club room.
I opened the door to the clubroom and saw Tsukune getting his arm pulled in one direction by Kurumu and getting pull in the other direction by Shirayuki. Moka was behind them looking between the three of them not knowing what to do. Tsukune looked to me again with pleading eyes.
I walked into the room completely ignoring his silent plead and went to the table. I didn't feel like helping Tsukune right now after having spring break silently sneak up on me. Plus, he had to learn how to deal with multiple girls wanting him. I won't always be around to pry them off him.
Well that might not be true. I'm probably going to stick around Tsukune at least until high school was over. After that I have no idea what I'm going to do. I could go back to the human world and go to college or I could stick in the monster world and start doing research for Okaa-sama. Though thinking about this now is just a waste of energy.
While waiting for the girls to finish fighting over Tsukune I decided to close my eyes and just think about the homework that Sensei gave us. I was just about finished thinking about the first problem when the door slammed open.
I nearly fell out of the chair I was sitting in while the girls stopped fighting, probably to see who the intruder is. I turned my head and saw Gin walk in, a smile plastered onto his face. Behind him I saw Tsukue's homeroom teacher, Nekonome-sensei, behind Gin.
"Hello everyone!" Nekonome's cat ears and tail popped out. I felt in the instinct to tell her but quick suppressed it when I remembered what Tsukune told me what she did to that student who told her before. I'd rather not have claw mark up and down my face. "I have a special surprise for you all." She suddenly stopped when she saw Shirayuki.
Right Nekonome-sensei hadn't shown up the entire time that Shirayuki so this would be the first time they ever met each other. I wonder how they will react. "We're all going to the human world for spring break!" She didn't even react to Shirayuki.
Wait. Did she say the human world? I looked around to everyone else and saw that they had a similar stunned looked that I felt that I had to. Right, so for spring break… we're going to the human world.
I didn't feel comfortable with this but this was Nekonome-sensei that was hosting this it should be alright.
Moka looked quite upset that we were going to the human world. Tsukune had a large smile on his face. Kurumu looked really excited for some reason. Shirayuki was face was stoic as usual with her lollipop stick sticking out of her mouth. Yukari was trying, and clearly failing, to make herself not to appear nervous.
I waved for her to come over to me and she quietly walked over to me. I leaned in and whispered in her ear. "Are you scared?" Yukari nodded her head slightly.
"I've never been to the human world without Okaa-san and Otou-san." I took off her hat and petted her head.
"Don't worry. Onii-chan is here. Moka-san, Tsukune, Kurumu-san and Shirayuki-san are here for you. Even Nekonome-sensei and Gin-senpai, even as unreliable as he is." She was still nervous but at least she was a little more stable. I put her hat back on her head.
"Thanks, Onii-chan." She gave me a tiny smile before running back off toward everyone. They all looked to Yukari as she put herself into whatever conversation they were having.
Yukari looked around before looking back to me and waving me over. I got out of my seat and walked over. "What going on?" I seemed to get everyone's attention. Yukari pulled on my sleeve.
"Onii-chan, we were wondering what the human world was like. Do you know anything?" I gave a nod.
"I do. Before coming here, I use to live in the human world with Okaa-sama." My statement seemed to surprise Kurumu and Shirayuki. Yukari started to pull on my sleeves with my enthusiasm.
"What should we do Onii-chan? I don't want to let humans know we exist." I put my hand on Yukari's head to calm her down again. Now she had some weird mix between fear and excitement.
"Don't worry. Just take off your hat and cloak and you'll be fine." That seemed to calm her down again. Was I going to have to keep doing this? Usually Yukari was confident all the time, overconfident even. But humans seem to offset her usual balance it seems. "Kurumu-san just need to keep her wings and tail hidden." Which if it was any other person other than Kurumu it wouldn't be a problem. "Shirayuki-san just need to make sure not to freeze anyone." I saw Shirayuki give a small nod.
I didn't bother saying anything to Moka knowing she went to a human school at some time. And Tsukune was obviously in any danger since we went to the same middle school. All in all I was most worried about Kurumu forgetting and taking flight for a Tsukune dive bomb or Yukari panning someone, most likely Kurumu.
"Alright everyone." Nekonome-sensei's voice brought us to silence. "The bus will be here in a half hour so go get packed for a weeklong trip!" She was in her own little world, wasn't she?
Everyone started to make our way toward the exit of the club room. I didn't move and reached out to stop Moka from leaving by grabbing her arm. She gave me a weird look but didn't do anything else. "Moka-san, could you make sure that Yukari packs correctly?"
The weird look Moka was giving me softened. She gave me a smile and a nod. "Of course, Arashi-san." The two of us make our way to catch up with our group. "You really care about Yukari-chan, don't you?"
I was caught off guard by the question but quickly nodded. "I do. Yukari is probably the closest I'm going to get to a imoto, at least any for quite a while." That is if I excluding Emiri but tell Moka about her didn't seem like the best idea right now. "What about you?"
I didn't know what possessed me to ask but I did. Moka seemed surprised to since she didn't answer for a second. "As I said before vampires have a shorter span to wait so I do have some siblings." I nodded. The way she spoke seemed like she didn't have a positive relationship with them. It makes sense for why she asked me the first question.
She sees me with a happy relationship with Yukari. The two of us aren't even blood related yet we have a pretty happy relationship. Then Moka with her own blood related sisters were at ends. She wanted to see how it felt like even if it was vicariously through me to see what a happy sibling relationship is. Though I might be wrong. I wasn't exactly good at reading Moka.
It'd probably be better to move onto a different topic. "Moka-san, I'm surprised you haven't speed up to catch Tsukune." Moka seemed surprised herself.
"I left Tsukune alone with all of those women!" She sped off leaving me in the dust. Guess she was lost in the past with the sister thing. At least I could take my time now and go at my own pace to the dorm.
I arrived at the bus stop with three minutes before the scheduled time with a duffle bag full of clothes. Everyone else was already waiting there, even Nekonome-sensei. Yukari started to wave at me like crazy as I came closer. "Onii-chan, are you excited?"
I couldn't help but smile at now excited Yukari was now. Her energy was starting to get to me. Though there was no more nervousness or fear in her voice. I wonder what happened? "It's nothing too exciting." I turned my vision to Nekonome-sensei. "Where are we going anyway?" I saw Nekonome-sensei smile.
"Hmm? I told everyone in the club room." Guess I just missed it. "Whatever. We're going to the ocean!" I felt myself freeze. I instinctually wanted to say that I was going to skip the trip. But there way I could do that since I promised Yukari that I would protect her while we were on this trip. Guess I'll just have to be careful around the water.
"I never packed a swim suit!" We all turned to Kurumu who was now in a complete panic. "What am I going to do?" She turned her head toward the girl's dorm. "Maybe I can make it back in time." Before she could take off the rumbling of an engine entered my ears.
I turned toward the tunnel and saw the yellow of the bus exit through the pitch-black opening. Kurumu started to panic even more speaking complete nonsense. Tsukune walked over to her and tapped her shoulder.
She whipped her head towards him, eyes wide with panic. "Kurumu-chan calm down." I saw her start to take breaths. I was surprised at how well Tsukune was being able to handle Kurumu. Most of the time it seemed like she had all the power over him. "Let's just get on the bus. Then we can go and get you a swim suit before going to the beach."
That seemed to calm Kurumu down instantly. Though I heard growling from someone. I looked toward the sound and saw it was coming from Moka. I looked over to Shirayuki and saw the usual lollipop in her mouth wasn't moving around her mouth like usual. Her eyes were also hyper focused on Tsukune.
This could only go well. Surprisingly it wasn't Moka or Shirayuki to say anything but Yukari ran up to Tsukune and pulled on his arm. "Tsukune, that's not fair." I saw realization hit Tsukune like truck. He looked around to each girl and saw their reactions. He looked to me glanced at me for some help.
I gave him a tiny shrug. I couldn't think of any way for Kurumu to get a swim suit and not the others. Tsukune dug his own grave with this one. Even if I did I did attempt to interfered with Moka and Shirayuki I wasn't stupid enough to risk bodily harm from either of them, much less both.
Tsukune must have seen he was between a rock and a hard place since for the first time I saw him sigh. "I suppose you're right Yukari-chan. Though we can't leave Kurumu-chan without a swim suit." Yukari gave Tsukune the usual pout she gives me when she wants me to do something for her.
I was surprised when Tsukune shook his head at Yukari. "Yukari-chan, wouldn't you want to get a swim suit if you forgot to pack yours?" I saw Yukari's face take on a smirk.
"But Tsukune, I did forget to pack my swim suit." Tsukune stared at Yukari. A loud horn suddenly pierced the air. My ears hurt so much and my head was banging on the inside. I closed my eyes and covered my ears to attempt stop the sound from splitting my head.
I felt a hand on my shoulder and I opened my eyes to see Tsukune looking at me with concern. "Arashi, are you alright?" Not really. My head felt like I got hit by a hammer for an hour.
"I'm fine. I was just surprised." Tsukune stared at me for a few more seconds before smiling. Turning toward the Shirayuki and Kurumu who were trying to get onto the bus at the same time. Yukari's hat in the window showing that she already had boarded the bus.
"Alright, but we need to get going." He walked away from me going toward the evil yellow daemon. Obviously, the noise must have come from there. If that bus wasn't so vital to us I would have shocked it. It hopefully would blow up if I did.
As I took a step forward the pounding in my head increased. I could help but wince and lose my balance. I felt a pair of hands grab my arm and stabilize me. I slowly looked over to the person and saw Moka was holding me up. Giving me a stern look. "Arashi, you are not okay." I wanted to argue but Moka probably wouldn't have any of that.
"You're right. The horn gave me a bad headache." I felt Moka's hands take themselves off my arm before being she grabbed my arm again but in a position with more stability. "What are you doing?" Moka looked at me like I was an idiot as she took the duffle bag off me.
"Helping you to the bus." I didn't have anything to say as she assisted me to the bus. Tsukune was on the steps on the bus looking at the both of us concerned.
"Arashi what happened?" The pounding in my head started to increase in frequency. I put a hand on my forehead.
"He's got a headache." Tsukune nodded and moved for us to get on. Tsukune helped me up the steps and walked me to an empty seat, I leaned my head against the side of the bus. I noticed a lack of noise around the bus, minus the engine's constant rumbling.
I looked over to where the girls where and saw Moka whispering to them, I saw Kurumu and Shirayuki look at me then back to Moka, giving her a nod. Moka gave them a smile and sat down near them.
The bus started to move around after a few more moments. I closed my eyes hoping my headache would calm down a little without any light hitting my eyes. That soothed the pounding a little but it still hurt. Every time the bus hit a bump the pain would spike, not letting me fall asleep.
I heard the seat next to me squeak as someone sat next to me. "How are you doing?" I was surprised to hear how soft Kurumu's voice was. It was so quiet that it didn't hurt my head too much. I kept my eyes closed.
"My head hurts." I heard Kurumu hum for a second before snapping her fingers. The sound making me wince.
"Oh, sorry." Her voice was still quiet and somewhat soothing. "I'm going to look for something for you to put your head on." I felt the weight on the seat disappear. I didn't say anything but wanted to tell Kurumu that there was no way that she was going to find anything on a moving bus.
I let the bus's rumbling fill my head not caring how long it had been. "Arashi-san." Kurumu's voice surprised me. "I couldn't find anything. Sorry." I was surprised at how depressed she was.
"It's fine. We're on a bus."
"Ah, right. Is there anything any of us can do?"
"I just need to rest." I heard Kurumu hum again.
"Alright. Just call if you need anything." While I couldn't hear, her walk away I think I felt her presence move away.
I didn't know how much time had passed but the pounding in my head finally started to smoothen. I opened my eyes for a second before snapping them closed again from the slight light that entered my eyes.
I tried again and my eyes slowly adjusted to the light. I slowly leaned away from the window and looked around the bus. Shirayuki, Kurumu, Yukari, Moka and Tsukune where a few sections away whispering quietly between each other.
Nekonome and Gin where sitting further up near the bus driver. I slowly made my way to the edge of the seat, Yukari seemed to notice me and said something to everyone since they all turned to my direction.
Yukari got out of her seat and rushed toward me, nearly running into me. "Onii-chan, are you feeling better." I tried to hide the wince from her voice drilling through my skull. Yukari quickly covered her mouth with her hands. "Sorry." Her voice much more quiet.
"It's fine." Just please don't speak loudly I don't think my head can take it. "Are we nearly there?" As I spoke I realized that I was asking Yukari of all people.
"Umm…"
"I mean could you ask?" This headache must be messing with my thinking.
"Alright Onii-chan. I'll be back." Yukari walked of back to our group. She whispered something to our group. Moka then whispered something to Yukari. She nodded and started to walk back to me.
"Onii-chan, Moka says we're still about ten minutes away from the location Nekonome-sensei said we're going to be staying at." I gave Yukari a nod and closed my eyes and leaned my head against the seat.
I felt the seat get pushed down lightly and Yukari lean on me. "Yukari?"
"I'm a little tired." Right, Yukari is still a young. I moved a little so Yukari could get a little more comfortable and just sat there, the bus rumbles the only thing making noise between the two of us.
Before too long the bus came to a slightly rough stop. I opened my eyes and saw the outside was no longer moving. I looked over to our group and saw everyone leaving except Kurumu, who coming towards us. She looked a bit surprised when she saw me look over to her.
She quietly made her way over to me, glancing quickly to Yukari. "Arashi-san, are you going to be able to get Yukari without help?" Her voice still quiet. Probably to not wake Yukari.
My head wasn't pounding nearly as hard anymore. I gave Kurumu a small nod, not wanting to test my luck too much. "I should be fine." I tried to whisper myself to make sure Yukari didn't wake up. With that I gently maneuvered my arms so I could pick up Yukari, princess style.
She barely weighted anything as I took her weight off the seat. I stood up and started to follow Kurumu who had made her way to the front of the bus already. I made sure to shake Yukari as little as possible.
I got off the bus without waking up Yukari and minimal head pain. I looked around the area we were dropped off was a sidewalk overlooking a beach. I scanned over the beach looking for any sign of Moka, her pink hair being the easiest thing to spot.
I spotted the pink moving around a little bit down the beach. I then spotted Kurumu who was walking toward the pink hair herself. I gently shifted Yukari, making sure her big hat covered her face from the sun, and started to walk toward our group.
Just a few minutes later I was back with our group. Gin and Tsukune had sent up a tent while Moka and Kurumu had put up multiple umbrellas with some towels underneath. I had no idea where Shirayuki was but I was sure she was around. Also, Nekonome-sensei was missing, wasn't she supposed to be supervising us?
Gin waved me over to the tent. "Arashi, put Yukari-san into the tent. We put some sleeping bags inside." He unzipped the opening to the tent and I saw five sleeping bags. This was probably the girls tent. I glanced around and saw five bags, each one from one of the girls.
I put Yukari on the centermost sleeping bag. She squirmed around for a few seconds before settling down and going back to her normal sleep. I made my way out of the tent and rezipped the opening.
Looking around Gin and Tsukune were setting up another, albeit smaller, tent. I felt an arm grip me from behind. I flinched, suppressing a yell. I turned around and saw Shirayuki behind me, completely stoic with her usual lollipop. "You scared me Shirayuki-san."
"Mizore."
"Excuse me?" What was this girl going on about? She pointed to herself.
"Call me Mizore. You use everyone else's first names." I stared at Shirayuki for a second. That was a sudden proposal. I nodded my head, a bit stiffly, to her.
"Alright. Mizore-san." I saw the girl nod before walking in the other direction. I blinked and she was gone. I felt a little unnerved. There is nothing but a tent nearby, how the hell was she able to do that!?
"Arashi!" I turned toward Tsukune's voice and saw him running up to me. "Would you be willing to keep an eye on everything? I'm going with Kurumu to get her a swimsuit now." He lowered his voice probably to keep the other girls from hearing him.
"Sure." Honestly, I didn't have anything else to do. I didn't have a reason to change out of my uniform since I couldn't go swimming. Yukari was asleep so I didn't have to worry about her somehow pissing off some type of horrible creature from the fifth dimension. Kurumu would be with Tsukune so she wouldn't do anything too rash… I hope. Moka and Mizore would handle themselves.
That left Gin but if anything happened to him that would be his own fault since he should be making sure that we didn't get into any trouble as our senpai, not the other way around.
I watched Tsukune walk off and talk to Kurumu for a second before the two of them walked off toward the city behind us. I turned my vision back around to see Gin sneaking around the changing rooms. I also noted a distinct lack of Moka of the beach.
I wonder if Moka was getting into a swimsuit and Gin was trying to peak at her. I casually made my way over toward Gin. Though a good question is why Moka was getting changed. She couldn't go into the water without a serious amount of pain. Either way I probably should stop him before Moka catches him and kills him.
Actually… I slowed down my steps a bit. Maybe if I was accidently too late to save Gin no one would be too sad. At least this would be making us even for all those chores he made me go through when I first joined the club.
It seemed like Gin finally found the perfect position just in time, slightly in front of the door of the stall next to the one he was trying to peek in. Just as he raised his head to look the door slammed open outward and smashed Gin, crushing him between the one stall's wall and the newly opened door.
Out of the stall Moka did step out, instead of her school outfit, she was wearing a white one piece swimsuit. I could tell that she wasn't exactly comfortable with her choice. Which made me wonder why she even changed in the first place again.
Moka started to look around, when she saw me she made her way toward me, attempting to hide her body with her arms as much as possible. "Um, Arashi," Moka started to look around again, a blush forming on her face. "Do you know where Tsukune is?"
"He went to get Kurumu's swimsuit." Moka's face quickly dropped. So Moka was wearing the swimsuit to try to impress Tsukune. "Good job on splatting Gin-senpai." Moka gave me a curious look. I pointed back to Gin who was on the ground holding his nose.
Moka saw him and turned back to me her face showing that she was creeped out. "I forgot that Gin-senpai was on this trip." Her voice was laced with hate. She gave a sigh before giving me a smile. "Are you going to change?"
I shook my head which seemed to confuse her. "I can't go near the water so why get in a swimsuit?" My logical went to Moka to but I didn't feel like putting her on the spot. Moka didn't seem pleased with my answer though.
"But we're at the beach. Shouldn't you at least get in the spirit?"
"That's just a waste of energy to get changed."
"Aren't you going to get hot?" Why was she being so persistent? She's probably just trying to distract herself until Tsukune comes back.
"If I do then I'll just take off my jacket." Moka didn't say anything for a second before she looked at me oddly.
"Ura says that you're just weak and don't want to show off your weak body. Sorry, Ura told me to say that." I just nodded and glared at the rosario who's gem was bright red. What was Ura playing at?
I felt a little hit to my pride but I did my best to ignore it. "Guess Ura-san isn't as smart as she seems." The gem didn't seem to get any brighter but instead a cat like eye appeared on it, staring me down.
"Oh, ah, Ura's not happy." Moka's face started to show worry. "Ura says that she's going to show you vulpine when she gets released again." I went to retort from the vulpine insult until I processed that Ura wanted to dish out physical pain. I felt the blood run out of my face.
"Ura-san, you do know I was kidding, right?" Great now I had to look like an idiot because I had to backpaddle. Moka looked confused for a second and looked at her rosario. She then looked back at me.
"Ura says that it's good that you know your place." Though it was statement she ended it with a question-like tone. I went to ask her went Shirayuki popped up behind Moka, now in a two-piece swim suit.
The top was purple with white stripes. The bottom piece was a pair of shorts in the same shade of purple as her top. It made me question on how I missed her coming up from behind Moka while wearing such colours. Though it did match her hair quite well. "Arashi, do you know where Tsukune went?" Her words making Moka jump. Guess she didn't know Mizore was there.
Why was everyone asking me? "He took Kurumu-san to get her swimsuit." I noticed Mizore's mouth move very slightly. I think she was biting the stick of her lollipop. Although I was surprised I noticed such a small thing.
"I see." Mizore started to walk away from us. I was surprised she just didn't disappear again like a ghost. I turned back to start to talk to Moka again when I felt a tug on the collar of my jacket.
Before I could react, the tug turned into a pull and I was knocked off balance. I looked towards the offender and saw Mizore was pulling me while looking in the other direction.
"Mizore-san." She kept pulling me. "Mizore-san." I finally got my balance and forced her to release me. Mizore turned toward me.
"Arashi-san, what are you doing?" I took there a second not fully understanding. Did she think me forcing her to release me was the problem here?
"You were dragging me." I saw her nod.
"I wanted someone to swim with me. Tsukune isn't here so my hide and seek partner is the next best person." Okay. So, there was reason to her madness, I guess.
"Mizore-san, there are a few problems with that." I pointed to myself. "First I am still in my school uniform. Secondly, I'm a raiju remember? Raiju can't go be touched by water or we might hurt others or ourselves." It took Mizore for a second to seemingly to process the information.
"So, you can't swim?" Again, I noticed the fact that her lollipop was pointed downwards slightly. I gave her a nod. "Alright." Mizore grabbed my collar again and started to pull me toward the towels and umbrellas. I'm just thankful that we were the only ones on the beach and Yukari was asleep.
When we finally got to the towels Mizore laid down on her stomach. She didn't say or do anything else. I felt out of place and didn't know what to do. Did she want me to lay down to? "Um, Mizore-san."
"What Arashi-san?"
"What am I supposed to be doing?"
"Relaxing." She said it like it was the most obvious thing in the world. Though I had to admit now that I was in the shade I realized just how warm my jacket made me.
Just sitting down and relaxing probably was the best thing to do. Though it probably would be easier if I didn't have my jacket on. I unbuttoned and took off the green jacket leaving me in just my white undershirt. If I needed something else I had some casual clothes in my duffle bag.
I sat down on the towel next to Mizore and laid down on my back. I closed my eyes and just let the sound of the ocean fill my head. It would have been better if I had brought a book or something. I wonder if I could get some time to go shopping?
Though thinking about it I didn't have my card on me so I couldn't get anything. I couldn't even get any human money from an ATM. I sighed internally. This school 'vacation' just got way longer without anything to occupy my time. Though I suppose I could catch up on my sleep.
Though even I could only sleep so much. Plus, everyone might need me in some rare instance. Or more likely to babysit Yukari to make sure she didn't do anything too rash.
I heard someone walk up to near my head. I didn't bother opening my eyes. It probably was just Moka going to lay down to. "Arashi." I opened my eyes when I heard Gin's voice. I looked to him and saw that he was towering above me, looking down right at me.
I also noticed that he was no longer in his school uniform but in a pair of gray swim trunks with a dark blue vine-like design on the left leg. "Gin-senpai, what do I owe the pleasure?" Because whatever caused to you come near me must be shocked.
"As club president I am making a decree that you must get into a swim suit." I stared at Gin processing he's words. Why would he want me to get into a swim suit? I could understand if he said that to Moka or Mizore, but they were already in their swimwear.
Though there was no use to thinking about this. I closed my eyes and made my head comfortable. "I can't. I didn't bring any swim trunks with me." There conversation settled. Please get away from me, you're making my relaxation time very unrelaxing.
"Don't worry I brought any extra pair with me." Or not. I opened my eyes again.
"I can't swim either."
"Moka-chan can't either and she's still in her swim suit." Moka why did you have to change? That was a good reason I had to but since you changed it made my reason too weak.
"I need to be ready to make rounds around the city."
"Why are you so against wearing a swimsuit."
"It's a waste of energy." I saw Gin was confused on that one.
"What does that have to do with anything?"
"It's a waste to change if I can't swim. Isn't that the purpose of swimwear?" Gin frowned at me. He crossed his arms and gave me a stern look.
"It doesn't matter. It's an order from the president." Did I really have no choice in this matter? Moka would know the rules for clubs. Hopefully she does.
"Hold on." I pushed myself up from the towel and scanned the beach for Moka. I saw her pink hair exiting the tent. I walked past Gin and straight toward Moka. Moka saw me coming and started to make her way toward me.
"Moka-san, could you clarify something for me?"
"Sure?"
"Can Gin-senpai order me to wear a swimsuit?" I saw Moka's eyes widen before glancing toward her rosario before looking at me.
"Um, if it's nothing immoral then yes." She looked at the ground for a second, refusing to look me in the eye. "Sorry." Why was she saying sorry?
"Don't worry about it. You didn't force this on me." I turned my vision toward Gin who was now holding the swim trucks he was talking about. They were dark red without any design on them.
I gave Gin a glare as I walked towards him and took the trunks without saying a word. I walked toward the changing stalls without saying anything. All of them weren't being used so I grabbed the closest one and locked the door.
I unbuttoned my shirt and slid it off. Then I unbuttoned my pants and slid them off not bothering to keep them off the ground. I slid my underwear off and quickly slipped the swim trunks on.
Looking at my clothes on the ground I grabbed my shirt and put it back on. I was trying to keep my shirt on to hide the scar from the bite from the lizard man who took a chunk out of my shoulder.
There was still an outstanding scar there the skin a lot whiter than the surrounding skin. I didn't want to make everyone feel awkward my having them stare at it any attempt to ignore it. I learned that people did that when Pia first saw my scar. I nearly forgot I had it until she brought it up.
I rebuttoned my shirt. I put my underwear inside my pants and folded my pants, hiding my underwear inside. I made sure my shirt was good before turning around and unlocked the door.
I walked out and saw Gin, Moka and Mizore, near the umbrellas, all turn toward me. I stared back at all of them. I wonder what they're doing. I made my way toward them.
As I got into decent talking range I noticed Moka winced. "Moka-san are you alright?" My question left my mouth before I could really think about it.
Moka looked like she was suddenly put on the spot. "No. Wait I mean yes. Some water just touched me that's all." I nodded. Guess even if a tiny amount of water touching her could be painful. Guess the beach was more dangerous to her than I thought it was.
"Hey Arashi, why are you still wearing your shirt?" I looked toward Gin. What was up with him? First the trunks and now my shirt. It was almost like he was trying to undress me. Wait. Could Gin be gay and wanted me to undress for him!? Just using the cover of a pervert to cover for his insecurities?
Though even if that wasn't true it was a great way to get away from my shirt being the topic. I gave Gin a small bow. "I'm sorry Gin-senpai. I like women." I looked to Gin with a straight face. I nearly bursted out laughing when Gin looked surprised and hurt.
"Arashi! I am not into men. My pictures should be enough evidence of that." I saw Moka both giving me a stern look and suppressing a laugh while Mizore had a tiny smile on her face.
"If you say so Gin-senpai." I walked past him and walked onto the towel I was laying on before. Closing my eyes and pushing my head into a comfortable place into the sand.
Maybe I didn't need books for this vacation after all.
ClyxicRyse - Thanks, I will
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FIREKING217 - Thanks for the review.
I didn't see a reason for Arashi and Mizore to be at ends right away, unlike the other girls. Arashi had no interaction with her until he helped fight Kraken-sensei. Arashi also while not fully enjoying the fact that she 'hunts' him and everyone else it's a sort of nostalgia from his childhood and he's trying to better himself at the same time. I don't know if I made that clear in the story.
I think you're more correct in the testing part than the flirting part concerning Ura Moka, but who knows what Ura is doing.
The girl you are thinking about is Emiri and I can tell you for now no, she will not be showing up during spring break. Though if she does show up in the story again and meet Yukari it's might be hell for Arashi to deal with both of them. Question is would they have a rivalry or join forces?
Though your fleet comment made the idea that what would happen if this suddenly turns into a TsukuneXEveryone story pop into my head. I laughed. Hard.
Next chapter: A Midnight Dance with Sunflowers
