Hey everyone, here's another update to the fanfic. Hope you enjoy!
Edit: This chapter has been changed a little. More or less the information Gohan spilled out about him is less.
Disclaimer: I do not own Dragonball Z nor do I own Rosario+Vampire. This fanfiction is based purely on imagination.
"W-what? Gohan…what are you saying?" Kurumu asked in shock. The rest of the others exploited some kind of shock. Moka could not believe that it had come to down to revealing the secret. It wasn't even the end of their first year at the academy!
"I'm sorry Kurumu-chan. Moka-san and I had kept it a secret for quite a while but I think you guys should know the truth…Tsukune is a full human who somehow accidentally enrolled in this academy…"
Kurumu and Yukari were at a loss for words. Gin and Haji simply nodded as if this information didn't surprise them. They were sure to have suspected Tsukune being human.
"I've been putting it off but Tsukune have always smelled like human; but I never wanted to start accusations like that," Gin admitted.
Kurumu, who was already a little weak from the door blow, fell to her knees. She couldn't believe that Tsukune, whom she loved ever since he had bravely defended her from the Inner Moka was human. There was no way he could have been human to have lasted this long. Tears formed in her eyes but surprisingly nothing of hate eminated from her, she simply felt betrayed.
"Baka…baka! Why…why did you keep this from me?" Kurumu muttered in thought of her destined one.
Yukari felt awfully confused. She felt like she knew Tsukune ever since the beginning and that she had truly made another kind friend; however, the feeling of hatred for humans conflicted inside of her.
Gohan sighed. "Look, I told everyone the truth. They've already figured out that he's human and it'll be only a matter of time before they could execute him! We can't just stand around here!"
Kurumu attempted to clear away her tears as she slowly got back up to her feet. She looked into Gohan's eyes and nodded. "Whether or not my love's human, he's still my destined one…I can't let him die!"
"Kurumu…" Gohan stated surprised. He wasn't expecting her to continue to stay true to Tsukune.
"Jeez, this is too much. Heh…I guess I can't let him die either…he's okay; I wouldn't want to lose a member of my club, after all," Gin grinned. Haji put his hand on Gohan's shoulders and nodded confidently.
"I may not know much about Tsukune, but I disapprove anyone dying, human or not," Haji explained.
Gohan grinned back. "Arigato Haji and Gin…"
Moka simply nodded; of all, she and Kurumu were the most worried it seemed. Everyone looked at the little witch who was still in deep thought.
Gohan knelt down to math Yukari's height. "Yukari…what about you? We understand if you don't want to help…"
Yukari looked away. "I'm…confused. I don't know what to do anymore…I hate humans but I like Tsukune…he's human so…so…"
Gohan nodded. "…you're human also…you may hate humans but without them, you wouldn't have existed…"
Yukari thought about that explanation and she quivered a bit. She couldn't deny it, witches would have never existed without humans; however, they could not co-exist with humans. Tsukune was different but somehow,. She bravely nodded. "I can't let Tsukune-kun die either!" She cleared away of any doubts, she may hate the humans, but she learned that not all humans are bad.
Gohan grinned. He couldn't believe that his friends still stayed true even if he was human. "Let's hurry! I can feel his energy…faintly...I think I also found out their headquarters!"
"Ugh…where are you taking me…?" Tsukune groaned weakly as he felt himself being pulled by several random members of the police. He looked bruised and fashionably beat up.
"Shut it…" responded one of police members with disgust. He kicked the weak Tsukune and smiled feeling the nice power of control. "I can't believe this guy might be human…I'll say, he sure smells like one…"
"Hey…don't get too excited. Kuyou will make the judgment on this weakling. He might just be a simple worm monster…heh, they're usually underground the humans anyways…"
The others laughed while Tsukune could only think of what mess he got himself in. If he had stayed with the group, he may have never been in this situation; but what difference would it make? He'd be useless anyways.
The movement and rubble-feeling on his legs stopped as he felt himself pulled and strapped to a chair. Tsukune looked around to find himself in a dark room with nothing but a light targeting him. It was apparent that there was going to be some interrogations before he would get killed.
Moka-san, Gohan, Yukari-chan, Kurumu-chan…I'm sorry… he thought knowing it would never get to them.
"Alright Tsukune…you have two options, admit you're human…or we'll have to see that you're not human…" Kuyou, whose voice could be heard; however, Tsukune had no knowing of where he was in the dark. He wasn't sure what he should do, admit or find someway free…thing is, there wasn't a way.
"If you aren't human Tsukune, you could easily break free of those ropes. Even the weakest of monsters can find someway of breaking free in a chair."
"I…" Tsukune stammered.
"Transform now! Prove that you are not a human!" Kuyou yelled in his attempt to get Tsukune to admit. That was all that would be needed to allow him to kill this weakling. It would be one step further into destroying the newspaper club as well.
Tsukune was afraid of what was going to happen to him. This really was his end it seemed.
"Hmph…pathetic…" Kuyou finally stepped out of the dark; he was getting quite impatient with the boy. Tsukune's pulse raced as he stepped closer. Without a moment of hesitation, Kuyou brutally kicked Tsukune in the chest causing him to fly into the opposite wall.
"Urgh…" Tsukune mumbled feeling his heart and body quiver like never before. If this kept up, he would really die even before admitting his "nature". Kuyou didn't stop there however; he slapped his foot right onto the human's chest.
"Aagh!" Tsukune screamed in pain. Kuyou made a disgusting look. "Weakling…that's all you are. You're a human and a weakling! Imagine…this is what your friends will feel like…This is their punishment for defying the police!"
"Urgh…leave…them out…of this," Tsukune pleaded as his body was getting hurt every moment.
"Oh? There's no doubt in my mind...caring for your friends so much huh? You truly are nothing but a human…Admit it...it'll be less suffering for you…" Kuyou pressed harder on Tsukune's chest causing him to scream even louder.
"Ah…!" Kurumu stopped suddenly as the Gohan was tracking the ki of Tsukune. More and more, the clock was ticking as Tsukune's life force was getting weaker and it was getting more difficult to track because of that. He wasn't even sure if he had missed where his location was…it was all relative.
The rest of the group stopped when they noticed Kurumu's quivering. "Kurumu-chan, are you alright?" Gohan asked.
She shook her head as distress appeared on her face. "I…I can hear him…screaming…"
Kurumu would have the most connection to Tsukune of course. Gohan remembered when he could hear his dad screaming in battle, even when he was miles away. He could feel his father's presence even when he had died.
"That can only mean we're close! Kurumu, where do you hear him screaming?" he asked as Kurumu quivered even more.
"…underground," she replied.
Gohan tapped his foot on the ground and it did appear to him that the ground was unusually hollow. That could mean only one thing. "Get back everyone!"
It didn't take many of them to realize what Gohan was thinking as he raised his fists and hurled them to the ground. They quickly spread out as quickly as possible, but all of them couldn't realize the radius of Gohan's power; so, down they went as the Earth crumbled.
A large shaking of the ground occurred and seconds later faded. Kuyou grinned, glad that Tsukune's friends had finally arrived. He could feel the shockwave in the ground which he could only assume it was the student, Gohan. It angered him that a man like him would create doubts in the mind of students of who was the strongest. He would soon prove to be the strongest of monsters and demons by destroying him and removing this mysterious threat from the Yokai world.
He looked at Tsukune with a smirk and let go of his foot on him. The woman, who revealed Tsukune to Kuyou earlier, walked up to him from the dark and glared with a disgusting look as she saw Tsukune. His eyes widened as she saw the former art teacher of the school who had been recently suspended thanks to his friends...Ishigami Hitomi.
- Flashback -
(A/N: I rarely do these kind of in-text notes but I feel like I need to here. If you follow with the manga, the group did have another monster-incident with the art teacher. I simply did not put it in this fanfiction since it basically ends the same way like all the rest of the unimportant monsters. I forgot that it was she who found out about Tsukune's nature later on; so, just to make it less like she appeared out of nowhere in the beginning, I'm going to add to the flow a flashback!)
"So…magnificent!" the art teacher, Ishigami praised.
"Um…how long do I have to keep modeling?" Moka asked.
"Only for a little while," her eyes glimmered under her mysterious cloth covering her head, "I assure you that this is the last modeling, and then your debt from learning how to paint will be done."
Moka nodded in her white dress; however, time was getting short especially in the Yokai world. She knew that Tsukune's birthday was coming up, and it would be only a short time she would have to finish the painting of Tsukune as his birthday present.
"Done, absolutely gorgeous! You are a well addition to my masterpieces!" the teacher finally finished.
She bowed her head, "Arigato. I can leave now?"
An evil grin appeared on Ishigami's face. "My masterpiece cannot just simply leave…"
"So these are the missing female students?" Gohan asked as Gin gave him several photos of some rather attractive students.
He nodded. "Yep, pretty cute too. I know we're not an investigation team but since you seem to help many students, I can only assume that you would figure out all this."
Gohan scratched his head sheepishly, "It's not like I try to."
Tsukune lowered his head on the seats, apparently not paying attention to the situation. All he could was worry and feel depress as many of his friends seemed unaware that his birthday was approaching soon.
"Kyyaaaaa!"
Tsukune took a large shock to his body as he got up hearing a high-pitch scream. Gohan fell alert and realized who that was; so did Tsukune.
"Moka-san!" they both shouted and ran out the door.
Kurumu walked just after Tsukune left only to see it was Gin who was left in the club room. "Huh? Where's my Tsukune-kun and Gohan?" she asked.
Gin grinned. "Oh they're busy. Why don't you come make busy with me, huh?"
Kurumu slapped Gin and walked out of the room just muttering how perverted the sempai was.
Gohan and Tsukune reached where they heard Moka's struggles and screams. They were surprised as they reached the art room; however, it was locked. Gohan kicked the door open easily but was immediately met with hostility as two hair braids with biting teeth extended out towards them! Gohan dodged unaware that Tsukune was behind him.
"Aaah!" Tsukune yelled as the hair braid bit on Tsukune's arm. It retracted back and Tsukune looked in shock as his arm started to turn into stone!
Gohan looked at Moka who was already midway turned into stone and back to Tsukune who was starting to turn into stone. He looked at the apparent art teacher with anger. "You bastard…"
"Hoho! A very muscular student indeed! I will be happy to add you to my collection of masterpieces!" The art teacher's vicious braids of hair struck again at the half-saiyan. Gohan shifted away slightly and grabbed the strand braid. He easily snapped it off of her head but was surprised as he saw blood coming from the hair.
The woman screamed out loud in pain getting immensely angry.
This woman…is a lot similar to a female my dad told me about on snake way. She has hair-like snakes except she's not exactly a full-fledge snake herself. I have to make sure those braids doesn't touch me. He thought.
"You…you infidel! I'll make sure you pay for that! Aragh!" she sent about a dozen deadly braids at him. Gohan tossed himself into the air, dodging all the incoming attacks and surprised the art teacher as he faces her closely up.
"I don't know why you're doing this, but I won't let you turn my friends into stone!" Gohan thrusted his fist into her stomach causing her to go into shock. She stepped back a bit feeling the force of the student's attack.
"I will…get you for this…bastard…" she weakly coughed and finally fell into unconsciousness. All her vicious snakes retracted away and squealed in a sharp hiss as they felt their master's pain.
Gohan frantically looked at Moka but felt relieved as her body turned back to normal as did Tsukune's. Moka stepped and hugged Gohan crying. "Gomen Gohan! I shouldn't have made a deal with her! All I wanted was to get good at painting so I could make a gift for Tsukune's birthday…"
Gohan turned to look at Tsukune who had apparently fainted from the change. He felt a little ashamed as he had no clue that his friend's birthday was coming up. "Er…I knew that…I have a present for him too…" he lied. He thought quickly of a present for the upcoming birthday, maybe an I-O-U? He wasn't sure…
"Really? What sort of present were you going to make him?"
"Uh…"
"Help! Is anybody in here?" a plead came from the lockers of the room. Gohan checked and opened the doors only to find a girl stumble out!
"Wha-what happened here? Wait-" Gohan looked at the girl's face only to find that she looked exactly like the picture Gin showed him!
"You're the missing girl! Don't tell me you had been turned into stone!"
She nodded solemnly. "There are other girls that were victims too! I'm so glad you saved us!"
- End of Flashback -
The ex-art teacher grunted as she remembered her position being taken away. After they figured out her plans, she was ridiculed and exposed by the newspaper club. She wanted to exact revenge on them especially on the man who destroyed her beautiful braided hair! After one of her hairs had bit Tsukune, she knew that he was human from the taste of his blood. There was no mistaking it along with the foul smell he exerted.
"Why do you have to get him to admit it…he's obviously human. His smell is unlike no other on this campus," she explained.
Kuyou simply nodded. "I know that…but getting him to admit will save me some trouble as people start to question this event. Did you bring the substance?"
The woman pulled out of her pocket a small tube of glowing blue liquid. Kuyou smirked. "So the potion's club finally finished…I'll be sure to reward them for their effort."
"Remember our deal…I'll get to be the one to destroy the newspaper club. They deserved to destroy by my hands!" she reminded. Kuyou chuckled.
"Unfortunately, that's not going to happen. The newspaper club is coming with no reason but to save their friend. Under the rules, that amounts to death for association with a human. I am justice and I will be the one to enforce this happening."
The woman got angry. "How dare you! We had a deal!"
"There was no deal…you should have been killed for your criminal act rather than suspended." He growled.
The group had fallen into what seemed to be an underground hallway beneath the school grounds. It only seemed fitting that the student police would make their headquarters where it could not be seen.
"Oh my god Gohan! You could have given us more time to evacuate! I almost broke a nail!" Kurumu complained. She blinked as she noticed she was in the arms of Gin; Yukari was in the arms of Haji; and Moka was in the arms of Gohan.
"It's fine, we'll make sure you guys won't get hurt," Gohan promised. Gin couldn't help but drool as he saw those luscious breasts being held in his arms.
"Kyaaa! Let me go you perv!" she pushed away and gracefully landed back onto her feet.
"You too!" Yukari shouted as she struggled away from the lolicon Haji. He was in no mood be get hit by another object so he let go of the girl. His hands secretly twitched though when he thought of a young girl in his arm.
"Sicko…" Yukari murmured as she brushed off the earthly dust off.
"Um…I guess I can get walk by myself," she looked up to Gohan, blushing. Gohan turned his head away as he couldn't help but blush from looking at Moka's cute face.
"Sure…no problem," he let go of Moka, he turned back toward the direction where he felt Tsukune but this time, he felt another presence clearly around Tsukune.
That ki…it feels so familiar, Gohan thought as he tried to remember when he had felt this kind of presence before.
"Let's go!" Kurumu pushed along as she ran toward the direction Gohan was facing. Gohan snapped away from his thoughts and nodded. The group continued getting very close to Tsukune and Kuyou. Gohan couldn't help but feel a slightly strange but small aura that was near to Kuyou. It wasn't the familiar presence or Tsukune…it was something else and he couldn't help but wonder who it might be.
Miles away from the academy in a small, dark island. Piccolo grimaced as he was mediated on the stranded part of the strange world. Piccolo could only think about how he was going to get back to Earth. He exhaled largely and tried to concentrate. It would eventually come to him on how to escape without waiting a year to simply catch a bus.
However, he couldn't concentrate at all much less meditate. Unlike Earth with its calm, peaceful atmosphere, this strange world was dark and would always somehow interfere with Piccolo. This was going to drive him nuts if he didn't find a way out.
"I swear Goku, how were you able to stand a demanding woman like ChiChi…" he muttered.
Alright, I am glad I got to work on another chapter. As of this day, I have one more exam…one more effing exam…which will be tomorrow; and then I can work up on this fanfiction as much to my desire.
So, originally, this chapter was going to be the start between Gohan and Kuyou; however, I felt the need to put a little history on why the ex-art teacher exposed Tsukune (in the last chapter) and hates the newspaper so much. So essentially, you're getting two chapters in one (I guess?).
The next chapter will definitely be the start of the battle which I'm assuming all of you are waiting for.
Until next time (which will be soon), Ciao