~The Next Morning~
"mhmmm Tsukune..." mumbled Moka still deep in her dreams.
Tsukune had been up staring at her for the last few hours. Somehow halfway through the night, his hands must have accidentally knocked off the rosary. It lay forgotten between the couple's legs. Sighing in content, he absent mindedly began to stroke her face. Moka nuzzled at his hand like a kitten and moved closer to him.
A doorbell downstairs woke Moka up. Opening one eye, she studies the lines in front of her. With a smile, she closes her eyes again and slowly falls back into her sleep. Suddenly, her eyes shot open as she felt around for her rosary.
"W-what's wrong Moka?" Tsukune stuttered completely confused by Moka's sudden movement.
"My rosary! It's gone!" she shouts and shoves Tsukune off the bed. Looking at him with a tiny bit of remorse, she begs him to help him look. As Tsukune sat on the ground, still stunned from the push, Moka's eyes faded from remorse to annoyance.
"Omote, are you there?" she asked in worry. Although she could feel the outer Moka somewhere in this room, she didn't seem to want to respond to her call. In fact, it was almost if she was ignoring her.
She continues to dig for the rosary. "Don't leave me please! You are the reason why Tsukune first loved us," she said to the rosary subconciously.
"It's here Moka," said Tsukune worriedly as he retrieves the rosary. She snatches it up quickly and attaches it.
A sharp light filled the room and the outer Moka lay peacefully on the bed. Tsukune gazes at Moka softly "She's so beautiful..." he thought.
When Moka finally woke up, she looks up at Tsukune's caring face. A tinge of jealousy hits her and she felt her heart in pain. "He loves my inner self more than me," she thought.
The door creaked open and Kasumi peeked in. Watching Moka using her son's torso as a pillow made her smile. "She will be there to take care of him when we leave," she whispered.
"It reminds you of us doesn't it?" evasdropped Koji.
"Yes... shall I call them?" she asked.
Koji walks up to her and gives her hand a gentle squeeze in confirmation and heads downstairs. "Moka! Tsukune! Breakfast!" she cried.
Tsukune seeing the hurt on Moka's face, holds onto her tightly and gives her a kiss. "I'm sorry for ignoring you all this time. Today, I'll spend the whole day with you," he whispered excitedly.
Moka still slightly upset replied "O-okay". She wasn't sure how she could be brought back so easily to him but resigned to think about the rest of the day. As she gets up, she notices something shiny on the table. Tsukune, sensing her rising curiousity in something other than him, moves the key away from Moka's grasp.
"Sorry Moka, no peeking. That object is off limits even for you," he said dangerously.
"You know you can tell me whatever it is. We are a couple now," she answered with hurt.
Tsukune sighed. The Bus driver had given this to him secretly behind Moka as they got off the bus. "Moka... it's not that I don't want to share but the Gatekeeper made me promise not to tell you until the right time comes," he fibbed. It had hurt him so much to lie to her and he already regretted it as the words left his mouth.
Hearing the Gatekeeper's name, she accepted that it was best to wait. She was still skeptical about how Tsukune said it but she couldn't do anything about it and risk their relationship. "Let's get up then," she surrendered.
~Later that day~
As Moka wraps her arms around Tsukune, she felt him stiffen in surprise. Tsukune shifted the weight of the shopping bags to his other arm and wrapped an arm protectively around Moka as if his arm could protect against the jealous stares of the men after seeing Moka. She loved his arm, it was so warm. The snow started to thicken on the ground and she begins to shiver. Although, since her vampire powers keep her warmer than most humans, she found that the snow was extremely cold. Cuddling close to Tsukune for comfort, she senses something wrong.
"There's something strange in the air but I can't tell what it is, ura-chan," she said to inner Moka.
"I know... this feeling makes me uneasy. We've felt it before but I don't know where," inner Moka replied.
Tsukune suddenly stops in his tracks. He looks up into the sky and quickly glances at Moka to see if she had felt that feeling too. Moka, feeling his gaze, looks up to him in confirmation. She tries to put on a brave look but the fear in her eyes still lingered.
"This is the same feeling I had when we fought that man from fairytale," said Tsukune.
Moka looks in surprise and tries to remember the man he was talking about. It had matched the man with the strange mask. She whispers "It can't be him. We killed him already".
Tsukune looks away from Moka until his worried face was replaced with a more neutral one. "Last time we beat him, it took everyone. It's only the two of us now. How can we stop someone like him again," he thought.
Grabbing Moka, he carries her bridal style through the trail that led to his house. The wind had picked up and the trees shook menacingly at them. Tsukune glanced over at the oak trees on both sides ahead of him. As he reached the oak trees, he noticed that some of them had shifted or even completely disappeared.
"Tsukune! Behind you!" Moka shouted.
Tsukune turned his head and saw those misplaced trees throwing leaves. He continues running until one of the leaves had been able to hit him. "Owww... what are these leaves made of?" he thought.
Picking up his pace, he outdistances himself from the first wave of moving trees. "Moka, please take out that leaf. It's really hard to run with it in my shoulder," he asked hurriedly.
Moka carefully reaches for the leaf and looks towards Tsukune. Tsukune's eyes softened as they stared at each other. Moka stared deeply into his eyes and pulled the leaf out of his shoulder. Before he could scream in pain, Moka went for his lips and sealed his voice with a kiss.
She keeps her lips on him until his heart beat begins to regulate again. "I'm sorry Tsukune. Are you all right?" she apologized.
Tsukune smiled brightly and with confidence he kissed her on the forehead. "Yeah, I'm fine. Lets go home," he said.
Careful to watch out for more attacking trees, he sped across the trail. At last, they had reached the front door of the Aono home.
"We're finally back," he said with relief.
She gets off Tsukune's arms and holds him tightly. "Finally," she agreed.
~Inside the house~
The corridors were dark and all the rooms were empty. Tsukune rests Moka on the couch and searches the rooms frantically. "I can't sense them! Where could they have gone?" he thought with fear.
"Tsukune... there's an opened package here," Moka whispered from down the hall.
Tsukune raced back to the living room couch where Moka was already completely absorbed in reading the letter on the package. "Trip for two to the Bermuda Islands?" she said in surprise.
Tsukune reaches over and wraps his arms around her waist and looks over her shoulder to read the note. His fear subsided and his gaze softened further into the note. Moka leans on his neck and rests her head for a few minutes while Tsukune reads the letter.
"I'm glad they are safe... but who sent this package?" Tsukune asked Moka.
"I don't know. They can't have left very long ago and there's no sign of trouble," she answered.
Tsukune groaned as he felt his stomach begging for food. Moka who was resting on his stomach, heard the sound and looked up amusingly at Tsukune. "I'm hungry," he stated obviously.
"Alright, I'll be right back," Moka said as she leaned in for one more kiss before heading to the kitchen.
As she left the room, Tsukune reached inside the package and pulled out a glowing cube of blue. It was hollow and wrapped in very delicate metal wielding. The center of this extravagant cube reminded him of the sea except trapped in a cube. "What could this be," as he stared at the waves inside the cube.
He closes his eyes recalling his memories of the ocean. The line of blue in the background and Moka lying in her white bathing suit on the sand after a game of volleyball. His body grows warm just thinking of Moka in that position with a playful smile on her face.
Sorry for not updating in a while but I'll start again. This is more of a filler chapter and doesn't really apply to anything except the beginning and the end. I haven't run out of ideas but I could really use a few ideas to add. This story is M rated for later chapters. I don't think this was a good time to put it in so I haven't yet.