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Wish upon the Moon
Things had been going well so far for the newspaper club. The mess with Kurumu's stalker was fixed, and they were able to get the paper finished for printing just in time. The popularity of the club grew greatly among students, mostly because of Moka and Kurumu passed out a lot of the papers, which attracted a lot of boys.
Luffy and Zoro helped out with passing papers, although the swordsman would just set a stack on his lap for people to take while he slept on a nearby tree. Chopper was with Yukari, the two seeming to become closer each day. Robin watched from a window in the school, smiling as she watched the group of friends happily pass out papers. So far things had been fairly easy for them, despite the minor things, but the archeologist knew it was nothing that her captain couldn't handle.
"Man look at the newspaper club, they have Moka-chan!"
"They even have Kurumu-chan too!"
"What a beautiful sight man!"
"UWAA give us some newspapers!"
The growing popularity of the club was for obvious reasons. Of course people were interested in the story, but a lot of the crowd loved the side show of the beautiful women passing out papers. It scared the group because of the aggression, but were able to get used to it after a while. Although, it turns out that the girls weren't the only popular ones in the group.
"Isn't that Luffy-san, the kid who fought the vampire?"
"He's kinda cute now that I see him."
"What about that Zoro though? I heard he beat the whole kendo club!"
"He's so fit, I can see his muscles."
Now fan-girls had joined in the mad crowd of people. Moka noticed a slight aura of irritation spout out of the seal, but quickly vanished. The crew panicked for a little but then smiled, happy to see that things were going well. When the crowd settled down, now just reading the newspaper, the group started to relax a little.
"I'm so happy our newspapers a hit!" Kurumu said jumping on Tsukune, making Moka become livid.
"Kurumu you don't have to hug Tsukune!"
"Why not? He's mine after all!"
The two got into each other's faces as usual, making Tsukune sweat drop and Luffy laugh. When the two settled down, she looked to the swordsman still sleeping on the tree. People took a newspaper from his lap as they passed by, making her sweat drop.
"Hey sleepy wake up!" Kurumu said walking over to him. He continued to snore, and so she complied by kicking him hard in the face.
"What is it morning already?"
"You're supposed to be passing out papers! Come on get up and join us over here!" She said grabbing his arm and trying to pull him up. Meanwhile Yukari was having some of her own problems.
"Wow look a little witch girl! Is that cosplay?" Some boys said surrounding Yukari. She began to freak out and run away after jumping on Chopper.
"Save me Chopper-kun, lolicons are scawwy!" She screamed as the reindeer began to run.
"What's a lolicon?" Chopper asked.
"Aww look a reindeer! It's so cute!" A lot of the girls said, now joining in the chase.
"We do attract a certain kind of crowd huh?" Tsukune said with a sweat drop as he watched them. Luffy laughed again and pointed at them."Yeah they're really funny!"
"Hey everyone, I see the papers a big hit this week!" Gin said, walking over to the group.
"Gin-sempai! There you are, are you gonna help pass out papers?" Tsukune asked, but the werewolf merely waved his hand in front of him.
"Of course not, that kind of work is for underlings!"
"What? No interest from our club leader?" Tsukune said in surprise.
"The only thing hes interested in is pervy stuff! Like a dog during mating season!" Yukari said behind the wolf, who grew a large tick mark.
"Heeey a little flat chest like you is only good for badmouthing people."
The two continued to argue, without noticing the loud murmurs as a group in black approached the tables. Zoro opened one of his eyes and watched them from his spot. He could tell they had come with bad intentions. Zoro picked himself up, grabbed his wrapped katanas and headed back to the group.
"Oh man it's the black suits!" someone yelled from the crowd. A lot of the people cleared a path for a large group of people in black clothing.
"Who're they?" Luffy asked no one in particular, but Gin answered him, now running a cold sweat.
"The Public Safety Commission." He said gravely. The others didnt understand why he sounded scared.
"Salutations, my name is Kuyou, leader of the Public Safety Commission, nice to make your acquaintance." The one in front said, he had blond hair that was long, and two dots over his eyes that looked like they might be his eyebrows. Behind him was a larger man, who had his face covered with a bandana and wore a headband. Across his back was a long katana that was the size of his body. He wore a trench coat and had his arms crossed.
"W-what can we do for you-"
Before Moka could finish Gin jumped in front of her and the rest of the group in protection. Zoro and Luffy shared knowing looks, seeing that if Gin would do such a thing, then they had to go on the defensive. Luffy took a step at Gin's left side while Zoro was on the right.
"Guy's whats wrong?" Moka asked but they didn't answer. Luffy and Zoro watched the leader, who seemed to not take notice of their movements. He went over to the table and picked up one of the newspapers.
"This is a fine newspaper you all have written here... however! I do not believe that this was approved by us, now was it?" He said, but now kicking up the table with the papers on it. Moka screamed while Luffy and Zoro prepared to fight.
"What the hell are you doing?" Luffy yelled, ready to charge at Kuyou, but was stopped by Gin, who grabbed both his and Zoro's shoulders and shook his head.
"Do you know how much trouble this kind of stuff causes us? We are the justice of this school! We will severely crack down on any unapproved papers that your club creates from here on out!" He announced as he continued to destroy the papers. Luffy growled in anger but Gin wouldn't let go.
"Hey wait, we're not causing trouble, we're just making papers! Stop!" Kurumu said approaching the leader, but one of the female guards intercepted her. She spit some sort fluid at Kurumu, but it was intercepted by Zoro, who cut it in half.
"Z-Zoro!" Kurumu said surprised and a tiny hint of a blush on her face.
"You dare oppose us?" The girl said. She took a step forward but was stopped by a hand. It was the large man from earlier.
"Thats enough Keito." He said. his voice was deep and stern.
"Ryuuga what are you doing?" She said hissing at him, but he gave her a stern look that made her back down.
"If Ryuuga says to back down Keito, then it's alright. We have made our stance clear on this, newspaper club. Either stop your selfish acts, or we will come down on you all like a storm!" Kuyou said smugly. He motioned for his men to follow him. The group began to leave, while a lingering Keito stared down Kurumu, who returned it. Zoro and Ryuuga looked into each other's eyes sternly for awhile, saying nothing. Finally they all left, and Luffy turned on Gin and grabbed his shirt.
"Oi Gin, why did you stop me? I woulda kicked his ass if you didn't!" Luffy said in anger, but Gin didn't falter.
"You all have no idea who you're messing with. It's time for us to give up." He explained, dusting himself off as Luffy let go. Everyone stared incredulously at him for an answer.
"What do you mean by give up?" Kurumu asked now.
"Exactly what I said. Get all the papers that we printed and burn them."
What?" Everyone said, surprised by his sudden order.
"You heard me, burn the papers. The Public Safety Commission is a fraud. They want us to pay them to let us print, and add or take out whatever they want." He explained to them, but Luffy only grew madder.
"Who cares what they want? Let's just beat their asses and they won't be able to do anything!" Luffy relented, with Kurumu now agreeing.
"He's right, I bet if we let Luffy, Moka and Zoro handle it, those guys won't stand a chance!" She said hopefully, with Yukari nodding.
"It's time for Zoro-nii to show how useful he really is desu!"
"Oi what's that supposed to mean?"
"I already said it, you guys have no idea what you're dealing with... I do." Gin said gravely, making the others turn to him in wonder.
"Gin-sempai?" Tsukune said now, but Gin shook his head.
"Just do what I say and burn all the papers. I'll see you guys later." the werewolf said walking off. Kurumu began to steam in anger.
"That stupid wolf, I thought he would be more supportive about this, but he's just giving up like that! We have to do something!"
"You're pretty much useless to this situation anyway, so what do you care desu?" Yukari said mocking the succubus who promptly knocked the witch on the head.
"Maybe we should listen to Gin guys, I don't want to start a big fight over this." Moka said reasonably, but Kurumu wouldn't hear about it.
"Come on Moka, don't tell me that you're giving up too!"
"I agree with Kurumu, let's go kick their asses!" Luffy said pumping his fist into the air.
"Hold on now, we can't just settle our problems by fighting them, we don't want any of our friends to get hurt right?" Tsukune said raising his hands to calm them down.
"We should assert our position in this matter and let them know that they cant bully us like scared children." Zoro now added.
"You're not helping my case Zoro-san!" Tsukune yelled.
"But I do think that if we're gonna do this, we need to all be on board, including the wolf." Zoro added once more, surprising the rest of them."We're not in charge of this club, he is. We shouldn't be making any moves without his say so, as stupid as that sounds. Unless they try something, we should stay put."
"Since when do you not wanna fight, muscle brain?" Kurumu said angrily in his face.
"I didn't say that idiot, I said we should wait and all agree on it! He's right, we can't just rush in blind or someone could get hurt! Especially someone like you because your weak!" He retorted.
"I just think you're scared, huh?" Kurumu said turning her head away from the swordsman, who now grew a tick mark on his head.
"What was that?" He shouted, but she ignored him and left, now grabbing Tsukune.
"How about while you sit here and do nothing, me and Tsukune will pass out the rest of the papers, and we'll see what they do then!" She shouted back. Tsukune struggled but didn't say anything to disagree.
"That stupid woman doesn't listen, now she's just provoking a fight she can't do anything in!" Zoro said slamming his fist into the wall.
"I didn't think you would disagree to a fight like this, Zoro-nii." Yukari said to the swordsman.
"Yeah! If we just beat their asses now, we won't have to worry about it!" Luffy said simply, making the swordsman shake his head.
"Whatever then. Once you've convinced yourself of something there's no stopping you. Fine then, let's go get the stupid woman and Tsukune before they get into trouble before we can plan." Zoro said rubbing his head. Luffy nodded happily and ran after the way she left.
"...Please just leave us alone! We just want to complete our activities like a normal club!" Tsukune pleaded. When they had left, Keito of the Public Safety Commission had attacked Kurumu and Tsukune, taking away the newspapers they were ready to pass out.
The woman's eye twitched in irritation at Tsukunes plea, and she lifted the papers into the air.
"Leave... you... alone?" She said slowly. She opened up a fire pit and threw the papers in.
"Watch your mouth, you little brats! Do you have any idea who you're talking to?" She shouted furiously. Tsukune and Kurumu watched in dismay as the papers began to burn.
"Huhu, your newspapers burn quite nicely~!" She said taunting them. Suddenly she spit something out and threw it, wrapping around the two
"What's going on?"
She threw them against a nearby tree, making them stick to it.
"My power of spinning threads won't let you escape, so I'm going to end you all right now!" The crazed woman shouted heinously. Suddenly long spider like legs came from her mid section.
"By the way, as the Public Safety Commission, we're allowed to use our powers on campus to acknowledge our force!"
Her entire body became spider like, including her face. She grabbed Tsukune and licked the fangs on her face.
"I'll make an example out of you, and suck all the fluids from your body!" She said now,baring her fangs for the kill.
"Tsukune!" Kurumu yelled, but to no avail as Keito ignored her.
"Oi spider, I thought you were trying to burn these!" A voice shouted, sounding like Luffy's. She stopped and looked back to the fire pit, to see the strawhat boy standing there with a under his arm, showing signs of being burnt. His hands showed signs of burns, but he didn't seem to care.
"How dare you try to burn these!" Luffy said raising the box in his hands, now pulling out a newspaper that was partially burnt.
"These papers represent our time together as friends! We won't let you spit on that!" He yelled fiercely. Keito grew even more angry and dropped Tsukune from her grasp.
"Now you all are really asking to be put down! We of the Safety Commission will destroy your club!" She shouted, but Luffy looked unwaveringly at her.
"I wouldn't be so sure about that." Came Zoro's voice now. She looked behind her to see that the binds on Kurumu and Tsukune had been cut off.
"I told you not to do anything stupid, succubus." Zoro said looking at her from the side of his eyes. She looked down in disappointment of herself.
"Sorry..." she lamented. Zoro let out a huff of air.
"It doesn't matter, at least you guys are fine now. We decided to fight anyway, there wouldn't have been a way to stop Luffy even if we tried." He explained, now unsheathing Wado, but Luffy raised his hand.
"I've got this one Zoro." He stated, now making Zoro put away his katana.
"You're really cocky if you think that you can challenge us, you stupid brat!" Keito said rushing at him with her legs raised to try and stab him. When she was only a few feet away, Luffy gripped her spider leg, nearly breaking it. She let out a scream in pain as he held tightly.
"You don't control what we do! We're free to choose what we do with our friends, and you can't stop us!" Luffy shouted as he picked her up into the air.
"Y-you dont know who you're-
Before she could finish, Luffy slammed her hard onto the dirt ground. She gasped as the air rushed out of her body. She tried to pick herself up, but Luffy stopped her.
"Tell your leader Ku-guy to bring it on!" He shouted as he launched his arm far back, aking it streatch.
Gomu-Gomu No Bullet!
He brought his fist hurling back into her stomach, sending her flying away. Luffy smiled back at the two now.
"You guys ok?" He said with a chuckle.
"Yeah, thanks Luffy-san." Tsukune said happily.
"Yeah thanks, and you even saved the papers! How did you-" Kurumu began but then got a good look at his hands. He had burned them when he reached into the fire pit to pull it out.
"It was no big deal, I got them back in time! Too bad we lost some." He said happily. Kurumu felt bad as she looked at his hands, but Zoro stood next to her.
"He's fine, he's been through much worse than some small burns. He did it for the club anyway, just remember you're not the only one who enjoys this club." Zoro stated, making her nod in understanding. The group began to walk back to the club room now.
"Now that I think about it, you were worried about us back there huh?" Kurumu said out of nowhere, surprising the swordsman.
"What are you talking about?"
"You said we were too weak to defend ourselves, while that's kind of an insult, you're actually saying you were worried we would get hurt huh?" Kurumu said, trying to tease him, but the swordsman's face remained neutral.
"Yeah right, I just didn't wanna watch Luffy destroy the whole school if you guys got hurt." He said, making the succubus grow a tick mark.
"You're an idiot you know that!" She shouted suddenly, making the swordsman sweat drop.
"What are you getting mad about?"
"It just infuriates me how much of a jerk you are!"
The two continued like this the whole way back, with Luffy ignoring it while Tsukune sweat dropped at the scene.
The news of Keito's defeat had spread fast through the school, especially to the Public Safety Commission. Kutyou grew irritated by the resistance of the same club as the year before.
"Do those fools really wish to challenge us? They are more foolish than I thought." Kuyou relented. Ryuuga stood close by listening to Kuyou talk.
"What exactly would you have us do master?" He asked.
"We'll end this once and for all, and destroy them with our bare hands!" Kuyou said furiously. Ryuuga nodded in agreement, but saying nothing.
"Whoa there, you may be the Public Safety Commission, but that doesn't mean you can go around and just destroy a club for no good reason." A new voice said, grabbing both men's attention.
"You're that teacher..." Ryuuga said, reaching for his blade, but Kuyou raised his hand for him to stop.
"What are you doing here?" He asked now.
"Why to give you that reason of course, a way to make it so you could outright destroy the newspaper club." She said further, now gaining Kuyou's full attention.
"And what might that be?"
"The suspicion... that Tsukune Aono... is a human!" She finished now, coming out to reveal Ishigami...
TBC...
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