The next morning all seemed to come way too fast. No sooner had it seemed that they had just lain down to sleep when the sun was brightly shining through the window. They would all be leaving for Akashiya Manor that evening. The last two days seemed to fly by, and today they would have to pack for the week and a half long vacation.
Tsukune awoke first. Either it be from the food smell that was coming through the door or from the annoying rays of the sun coming through the window he didn't know, but grudgingly he got up and dressed. He noticed that Moka was still asleep, 'Gosh, what a heavy sleeper', but looking at her serene face, he decided not to wake her just yet, he'd let her sleep some more. With that, he got dressed and headed downstairs to see what that delicious smell was.
Upon entering the kitchen, he saw his mom and Kyouko preparing breakfast. Kyouko was at the counter cutting up some strong smelling vegetables, while his mother was at the stove frying some potatoes and sausage; he also noticed some eggs along the countertop waiting to be cracked.
"Ah, making a western breakfast today? Let's see, omelets, fried potatoes, and sausage?" He asked as he came in and hugged them both.
"Yes, Tsukune dear, if I remember correctly this is your favorite type of breakfast isn't it?" She asked as she took the vegetables and some more sausage and mixed it together with some egg in a frying pan. "Ah…Moka-chan will be able to eat this yes? Or…does she have to stay on blood, with her being a vampire and all?" She asked a little cautiously, to tell the truth, she was still kind of shocked after last night, but she would deal.
"Yes mom, vampires aren't on a strict blood diet, they can eat regular food, though it provides about one tenth of the nutrients that blood does." He stated in a matter of fact tone. To his relief he saw some of the tension in both his mother and Kyouko disperse as he said that. Apparently they thought that they were going to be the first on the list for donations.
"Don't worry, Moka won't eat you guys. She's just as nice as any other girl, hell, probably even nicer."
"I know Tsukune." His mother started, "All I can see Moka-chan as is a girl that is in love with my son, and I am truly happy for you both in finding each other, it's just that I'm still kind of shocked from last night, you know, growing up believing that monsters were not real and all, it's just a lot to take in."
From the bottom of the stairwell, Moka turned to go back upstairs, a single tear made its way down her pale face.
"I know mom, like I said last night, we'll all talk again before we head to Akashiya Manor." Tsukune said as he took the plate of food his mother offered and set it down at the kitchenette. "I'm going to go wake Moka, I'll be right back."
He headed upstairs and took the left hall that led down to his room. To his surprise, he found that the heavy sleeper was already out of bed. He looked out of his room and down the hall to see the bathroom light on. He decided it best to wait for Moka to finish whatever she was doing before he went to check on her so he simply waited in the hall until she was done.
"Feel better?" He asked with a slight smile as she came out of the bathroom.
"Yeah, just washed up a little bit and brushed my hair." She didn't mention the fact that hearing his mother's words brought tears to her eyes, thankfully they weren't bloodshot, but it really did feel good to do things for her that normally would be done by her other self.
"Well, breakfast is ready and mom made plenty extra, come down and eat up." He smiled and left her there at the top of the stairs to decide for herself if she did want to eat. Truth be told, she was hungry. In the end she smiled to herself and went downstairs to join the others.
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"So Moka-chan, what is your home like?" Tsukunes father looked up from his plate and wiped off his mouth. "If I remember right, you said that your father owns a castle?"
"A castle or palace, call it what you may. I always thought it to be a lonely place, all that space but no one to share it with. I mean, there were people there, servants and my little sister, but the servants tended to keep to themselves and my imouto always wanted to spar, although she never won, not once." She looked up with a genuine grin as she seemed to drift off into past memories. "But it is the place that I call home and have chosen to keep some fond memories of that place, I am, if I may, say that I am a little anxious to return and see father and my other three sisters."
"It sounds like you do have some good memories, so why did you seek a life here in the human world? If it's none to personal of me asking, that is." Tsukunes mother chimed in.
"Oh, it's true, I loved it there, what with my father and mother, my aunt, my two sisters and stepsister. There are many fond memories that I savor from long ago, but once my mother was exiled from the castle, it seemed like the light from the castle left with her. It seemed that the estate itself started to grow cold, albeit nobody else showed any signs of this, we have had a good life, but I thought about it and I found that my life should be with my mother. To this day, I still love my family, but I can say little less for some others about their feelings towards me." She finished with a long swig of orange juice. Tsukunes father only nodded.
"So who are these three other sisters of yours?" His mother asked as she gathered the finished plates and stacked them on the counter.
"Well, my youngest sister is called Kokoa; she's very rowdy, and extremely competitive. She was the one I used to stay in the mansion with. I'm third in the family line so my next sister is older than me, her name is Kahlua. She acts like a child most of the time and has a very demure attitude towards things. She is very talented in the art of assassination." She figured she might as well get this out of the way, and as she thought, everybody save herself and Tsukune paled.
"Assassination?" His father chocked out?
"Let me remind you otou-san, we are a family of vampires, we have different morals and views then humans may have, in the monster world, death is a part of everyday life. Now I know that you may not agree with this viewpoint but I do ask you to keep an open mind about this." She knew that they'd be troubled about this, but after what they'd heard this should have been nothing.
"I see." Was all his father could say at the moment. "Please continue then."
"Very well, as I was saying, Kahlua is the family's best assassin. Once a long time ago when I was little, Kahlua didn't always act like a little child; she used to act like a fifty year old when she was only fifteen. One day, father had some very important diplomats over for a meeting. They had stayed for only an hour but on their way out, one of them gave her a lustful look and Kahlua lost it. She killed the man on the spot and scared the others off. The next day father took her away for a week to punish her. When he came back Kahlua never was the same, and father never told to anyone what he did to her. The only time she cries is supposedly when she remembers a glimpse of what exactly that punishment was. The only thing I can tell you is to not make her cry or anger her in any way. The reason she's the best assassin is because when she fights, she cries. When she cries, she feels no pain, no remorse, nothing at all, and she becomes the perfect killing machine." She finished with a sigh.
"I thought you said that she was ditzy?" Tsukune asked.
"You will have to meet her to see what I mean. Anyway, she is a good person so long as you keep her happy." She paused; she never liked talking about her last sister, but decided to push on. "Now my last sister, well technically my stepsister, her name is Akuha, she is the oldest out of us but still looks to be in the later teens, maybe early twenties. She's sweet on the outside, cunning and deceitful on the inside. I tell you this now; do not believe a word that she says. Make small talk with her, be formal, and keep out of her way. Father will order her not to harm you, but she doesn't always listen. When she came to live with us, she took on my aunts' last name of Shuzen. She is smart and devious; I have no doubt that she will try something while we are there." Fear flickered over their faces at this. "But do not worry, you will have me and Tsukune there and if she does try anything I owe her a little payback that is past due for some time now." She finished, feeling a little accomplished with herself, she managed to keep her anger in check when that about her.
His father and mother kept some small talk going for some time after that. Maybe asked a couple more questions here and there but Moka became a little bit restless.
"Say, is there a dojo or training ground around here? I want to spar with you some Tsukune. I also ask that you three." Indicating towards his father, mother, and cousin, "come and watch this and see how truly amazing you son is."
"Well there is a section of the park around the block where people work out and train, there's also some sparring mats there so I guess we can head there." Tsukune concluded.
"Well that's that." Moka said as she got up and headed upstairs to get ready, "By the way Tsukune, keep your rosary off."
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A little less than an hour later they had all made their way to the park. The three spectators placed a sheet on the ground where they had deemed a good spot to view from. Both Tsukune and Moka kept a close check on their auras. They kept it to almost nothing at all, but they couldn't hold all of it back, but it was still enough for the human population to not notice.
There was some body builders over apparently taking a break from what seemed to be am extreme workout session. Tsukunes mother walked up to him as he watched, "Hey Tsukune, aren't those guys…"
Nodding, "Yeah, those are them, and it's time for a little payback." Leaving his mom, he grabbed Mokas hand and went over to the training grounds.
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One of the body builders looked up to see who the newcomer was. "Well, well, well. If it isn't Tsukune, the little bitch back from 6th grade. Last time I seen you, you was three feet shorter and the laughing stock of the whole school. Where'd you little ass disappear to?" Crossing his very well built arms over his very well built chest, he peered down at the couple. Soon the other four body builders joined and did the same thing.
"Yeah, it has been a long time hasn't it Riyuki?" He nodded towards the other four. "Tama, Mikoto, Sanzou, Tohara."
"What, come to get yer little ass beat again?" The one named Tohara spoke. "And what's with the hair dye, that a new faggot custom of yours? The others laughed at that, but Moka growled low and vicious.
"Oh? Got a feisty one do you? I bet you two little emo's tell each other sob stories all day don't you?" He looked at Tsukune and got right up into his face. Moka was about to step in between when Tsukune stuck out his arm and stopped her. "I bet she's a freak in bed."
The others howled with laughter as Tsukune glared this one in the eye. "I'd take that back if I were you."
The others heard this and laughed even louder.
One even mocked him. "Oh no….I'm quaking in my kickers! Haha! Right, what the fuck are you gonna do you little bitch. Are you sure you don't just want another ass whopping? The guy all the way to the left named Tama mocked.
"Yeah, what did you come over here for, your nothing but a weakling who couldn't even defend himself, what do you think your gonna do now?" Tohara asked.
"Tsukune are you just gonna sit there and take this?" She moved in closer only to have Tsukune stop her again.
"Oh? Got to have you emo bitch of a girlfriend defend you h…" He stopped. Tsukune moved faster than he could even comprehend. One second he was five feet away, the next a fist was crashing into his stomach.
"That's for the school days." He let the other man fall to the ground. "Better get him to the hospital, I might've ruptured something." He laughed.
The others didn't. With howls of rage, they all charged Tsukune head on. He didn't move, he didn't block, and he just stood there while they grappled, hit and surrounded him. He didn't feel anything anyways.
After a direct hit to the jaw, he just cocked his head a little bit and asked, "All these years of body building and that's the best hit you got?"
The one named Sanzou reared his fist for another blow, only to have it caught in Tsukunes hand, and crushed with sheer strength. He howled in pain as he dropped to his knees. Tama managed to get him in a full chocker hold, only to have Tsukune gently remove his arms with what seemed to be no resistance, although Tama was struggling as hard as he could. Tsukune had his index and thumb wrapped around both of the other mans wrist. With a small squeeze, he shattered the wrist bone and Tama fell to the ground to writhe in agony. Mikoto tried to deliver a kick to Tsukunes kidney but Tsukune, with his reflexes had grabbed and twisted, enough to not only break his leg in six places but to also launch and spin him a couple feet away, lord knows he was out. Last up was Riyuki.
"Seems the bastard child has grown some." Riyuki noted before charging in.
He went for a straight right hook aimed for Tsukunes face. Tsukune was about to grab and crush his hand, when he suddenly dropped and launched his knee straight into Tsukunes solar plexus. If he'd been human, this would have definitely knocked him out, still he really couldn't feel any pain but it still surprised him.
"Tougher now too…" He again noted.
"More than you could ever know." Moka chimed in.
"Are you not supposed to be in the kitchen playing the bitch housewife?" Riyuki asked.
This momentary distraction had ended the fight. Moka was also outraged.
Tsukune closed in and grabbed a hold of his arms and snapped them. Through the pain, he somehow managed to attempt a kick only to have his leg snapped like a twig. Now he was on the ground. Tsukune got right in his face.
"I think you owe someone an apology."
"I'm sorry for all the past years of bullying you Tsukune! Please forgive me!"
"Oh, it's not me you need to apologize to. I've got my revenge." He looked to Moka.
So did Riyuki, but being the sexist bastard he was, he wasn't going to apologize.
"Fuck off you bit…" That was as far as he was able to get. Moka was already standing over him, and only had to drop to reach under the bottom two ribs on each side and snap and crush. This left the man howling in pain.
Tsukune looked around and noticed the others were staring at him with genuine fear. "I suggest you all carry your lame asses to the hospital."
And somehow, despite everything that was broken, they managed to make it out of there, albeit some had to help another.
"Sexist pigs, what kind of person thinks a woman belongs in a kitchen?" Moka snarled.
"Ah…well I'm not going to answer that." Tsukune chuckled. "Anyways lets start out match."
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1 Hour Later.
"Kaa-san, look how Tsukki and Moka-chan move! So graceful." Kyouko was awed.
"Must be a monster thing." His father added.
His mother only laughed.
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3 Hours Later.
"God, don't they ever get tired? They've been going at it for what? Three hours?" His father sighed.
"I don't know honey, but we've got to show our support." His mother said, if not a little tiredly.
"Go Tsukki!" Kyouko shouted.
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5 Hours Later.
Kyouko was snoring loudly over her aunts' lap, who was in turn nodding off on her own. Their fighting was amazing, but for people who were never into fights in the first place, it was easy to fall asleep. Although in the past five hours, a crowed began to gather to watch and cheer.
"Knew that kid had something in him, he never seemed to get tired before." His father yawned.
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"Well Tsukune, that was a really good workout. How long did we go?" Moka pondered.
Someone from the crowd shouted, "'Bout five hours!" She laughed to herself. It was easy to lose track of time when you did something fun.
All of a sudden the crowd began to chant.
"Kiss her!"
"Kiss her!"
"Kiss her!"
"Well, Moka it seems we made another fan club." He turned away from the crowd and looked to her as she came up and embraced him.
The crowd all held their breath.
"Kiss me Tsukune!" With that her lips found his and they kissed longingly and passionately.
At that the crowd cheered at the top of their lungs.
They both waved goodbye to their onlookers and said some goodbye's.
"Come on Moka lest go pack and get ready to go to your fathers place."
"Alright Tsukune."
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A/N: I had too….lol
~~Till next chapter.