"Okay you all, I know it has been a long ass time since I updated this story, (over a month I believe) which is not a good thing seeming as how I religiously updated this fic. But let's face it, sometimes life gets in the way of things you want to do, and you must do things that have to get done first. With work, weather, vehicle, and other personal things going on, I couldn't really get my head straight.
Again, I apologize for the inconvenience. Now, I will shut the hell up, and let you continue. Enjoy, and please remember to R&R!
"Do you ever leave the house without that knife?" The young, pink haired woman asked Tubolcain as he cut the cornstalk effortlessly.
"Never, you know that dear." He returned with a smile as he looked up over his right shoulder to see Akasha, looking as beautiful as ever.
"I figured you were thirsty, and it is hotter than the seventh circle of hell" the red eyed vampire spoke as she glanced up to the sky, shieling her eyes from the vibrant sun.
Tubolcain reached out for the bucket of water only to turn it up as if he were about to die of dehydration.
"Thanks Akasha, so much. You always make sure I am healthy and well taken care of" he replied with a smile
"No problem, besides, I can't have my food source dying on me" she said with a smirk before bending over and placing a gentle kiss on his cheek.
The stunning vampire shot up from her hotel room bed, forcing herself awake, to keep from reliving that horrible day. "Why now? I haven't had that dream in years, which only means…" Akasha's thought was cut short as three loud knocks came from her door, sending a chill down her spine.
"Who is it" She spoke in a stern, cold blooded tone
"Who do you think it is Akasha?" A familiar voice answered from the other side of the door. "Now, I recommend you open this door before I break the damn thing down and wake everyone with in this forsaken excuse of a hotel"
Akasha stood from the warm comfortable bed and made her way to the door, unlocking it, and made her way back to her bed, taking a seat on the edge before answering "It's unlocked, come in"
The door opened, revealing exactly who she and expected it to be.
"What do you want Issa, I thought we made ourselves perfectly clear about our agreement"
The tall, intimidating vampire closed the door behind him as he looked around the room in disgust. "I will never understand why you choose to live like lowly human filth" Issa insulted as he inspected a chair in the corner of the room next to the door.
"Because unlike you, some humans tend to be kind hearted people, now I am going to ask you once more, what do you want."
"It is about our daughter, Moka. I fear that the headmaster of Yokai academy has something up his sleeve this year for the annual open house and parents day" He replied as he turned up his nose at the chair, deciding he would rather stand.
"Care to elaborate?" Akasha replied, not breaking her cold blooded tone
"I don't want you going, simple as that. I know that is why you are here. It is the only explanation Akasha. You will stay away from my daughter. I do not want her tainted with your sympathetic views of humankind"
"How dare you!" Akasha shouted as she stood to her feet, her monster energy pulsating in violent waves, unlike anything Issa had ever seen from her.
"She is more of my daughter than yours, you son of a bitch. She may have half of your blood, but she has half of mine as well. She lived with me all through her school years till her last day of middle school. Yes, I know the human children made fun of her, and ridiculed her, but I am not going to let you storm in here, and tell me how to live my life any more. If you cared about her half as much as you claim, then you would have made more time with her like I did instead of playing 'business man'."
Issa, now irate at Akasha's sudden outburst of anger, instantly appeared before her, bringing his right hand forward to slap her across the face. Akasha simply put one hand up, grabbing his wrist and snapping it in half, folding his hand backwards towards his forearm.
"You need to remember something Issa, I defeated Alucard, and you are a weakling compared to him"
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"Moka, do you really think it's such a good idea to be over here this late at night? I have wanted to work on your rosary as well, but at 2:30 in the morning?" Tubolcain said to her as he removed his leather gloves, and took the welding mask from atop of his head.
"Yes, I understand that if I were seen here at this time it could look very incriminating, but this time of night is the best time for me to get away without being spotted by everyone in the school" The true vampire responded as she crossed her arms, and leaned against the wall next to the maintenance man's work table in the dusty garage.
"Well, why didn't you have Tsukune come down here with you? Ever since his training I have been wanting to see how well his held up, but I could swear that I heard something let go." He replied.
Tubolcain, standing up from his chair, wiping the sweat from his forehead, walked a few feet towards Moka, placing the choker back around her neck, fastening it at the back.
"How exactly did you get the rosary off so you could come see me anyway?" Tubolcain asked as he turned back to his work bench and retrieved the slightly modified rosary.
"It's was actually pretty simple" Moka began to lie. "All I had to do was have a training session with Tsukune, have him take the rosary off. Simple as that"
"Oh, okay."
Tubolcain handed her the vibrant silver rosary, as Moka looked towards the Holy lock smiths hands to retrieve it, he spoke up again.
"Moka, I have to ask you a few things."
Moka stopped, her hand hovering only inches above his, as she let a sarcastic exasperated sigh, the strong vampire looked Tubolcain in the eyes. She could tell that there was something lying heavy on his mind and heart.
"Sure Tubol, but can we go to a more comfortable place?" she replied. Tubolcain let a simple nod, removing his apron, tossing it across the dirty work bench and walked through a door way into the living room, Moka directly behind him.
"Have a seat where ever you would like Moka, I'm going to get something to drink, want anything?"
"I'll have what you're having" she replied as she sat upon the large couch, glancing around the room noticing how well the headmaster had prepared this place for him. "So, what's your question Tubol?" Moka said as she found a copy of Burnn! Magazine and promptly began to flip through it.
Tubolcain returned with two Asahi's in his left hand, and a can of green tea in his right. He found his seat next to Moka on the couch. Without breaking her concentration on the magazine she had found, he sat back, and tapped her shoulder with the cold beverage, only saying the words 'green tea'.
Moka, slowly closed the magazine, placed it back on the coffee table, and reached for the cold beverage. She pulled the tab up, letting a small crack of the seal breaking, and immediately took a drink. She looked at Tubolcain to her left, just to see him do the same thing to one of the beers he had brought back from the kitchen.
"I said whatever you're having Tubol" Moka said as she placed her drink across from her on the table with a sly, sarcastic smile.
"Come see me when you turn twenty" He replied as he placed his beer down
"So, what's your question?"
"Well, how were you able to speak through the rosary while it had your true form sealed?" Tubolcain asked as he relaxed, letting the soft couch pull him into a deep, almost hypnotizing embrace.
"I guess since Tsukune removed it the first time, I have been able to talk to my outer self through her mind. After the fight with Kuyo, when my outer self thought that Tsukune was killed, it pushed her emotions to the brink. Ever since then, it has been easy to speak through it."
Tubolcain nodded in understanding as Moka explained.
"Okay, so it was weakened just a little when that happened, but as long as you don't let her become too emotionally stressed, you should be good to go. Now my second question…"
Tubolcain paused as he stared at the floor, grabbing his beer from the table, letting it hang in his hand as he leaned forward. "Did your mother, honestly, love me?"
Moka's head snapped to her left, as her right arm came back, preparing to slap him hard across the back of his head. As he spoke again, it froze the vampire in her tracks.
"Mikogami said that he couldn't find her, and that she has been on the run ever since she sealed Alucard away. I mean, why? Why would she never come see me Moka? I have searched and searched for hundreds, even thousands of years, I could never find her. Why Moka?"
Moka let her arm slowly fall back to its natural place at her side as she saw a single silent tear fall to the ground, his medium length hair covering his face to keep hidden from her.
Moka lifter his head, forcing him to look her in the eyes as she brushed his bangs out of his face so she could see his. "Tubol, Listen to me," she spoke in a soft and sincere tone.
"My mother spoke of you often. She never told me that you two were in love, probably out of fear that I would say something to father. But I know, beyond any shadow of doubt, that my mother thinks the world of you. She would tell me how much you loved music, and how you enjoyed working with metals. She never once told me how you two met, or how long you have known each other. But after seeing you like this, I swear, if I find my mother before he does, then I will bring you two back together, where both of you belong."
Moka released her hold on the metal workers face, as she began to take another drink from her green tea. When she finished her drink, the silver haired young woman stood and began to make her way to the front door only to stop as she grasped to cold metal knob to turn back and look at Tubolcain, and continued, "Besides, you never know what can come tomorrow"
Tubolcain Looked back at Moka, taking a large swig of the Asahi, before replying "But tomorrow is the open house, parents day, bring your mom/dad to school day, or whatever you want to fucking call it"
"Oh, it is isn't it? Well, I guess I better go back to my room and get some sleep"
"Yea, I think I'm going to run over these songs just one more time without the others here, just to make sure I have everything down"
"Thanks for taking a look at this for me Tubol, try not to stay up to late ok?" Moka said as she opened the door and began to make her exit.
"I'm not going to make any promises" he replied.
Moka turned and glanced over her shoulder, seeing Tubolcain stand from the couch. "He needs to clear his head. But he also needs to learn this song" she thought to herself as she began to whistle the same tune that Mikogami had in the woods the other day.
Tubolcain stopped dead in his tracks, listening to every note that escaped Moka's lips as she whistled. "I know that song. Maybe she's right, maybe there is still hope" he thought to himself as he continued where she left off as she exited the home, closing the door behind her.
"Did you get it taken care of? What did he say? I know he was pretty pissed off the other day when he left the headmasters office" Tsukune said, still leaning against the wall of the metal workers home, next to the front door.
"Well, he looked at it, only had to repair a small crack in one of the links in my choker." Moka replied to her lover as she took his hand in hers and began walking back towards the school.
"And as far as the incident with Mikogami, it upset him a great deal. I initially thought that my mother was pretty much just stringing him along the entire time that they were together." She continued talking as Tsukune listened with undivided attention.
"Tsukune, do you have any idea how hard it was for me not to ruin what the headmaster has planned? That man is the most mysterious, and stubborn person I have ever met, even worse than my father. There is so much to him that we may never know Tsukune. And to see someone who always tried to hide his true emotions, just break down like that, it would burn the hearts of even the fiercest beings"
Tsukune just dropped his head, trying to visualize what had occurred within the home. The young couple continued most of their walk in silence. As they drew nearer to the girl's dorm building, Tsukune slowly came to a stop, and Moka tried to keep walking, pulling on his arm forcing her to stop.
"Tsukune, what's wrong?" She turned back to look at her ghoul with a look of concern across her face.
"It's nothing Moka, you know I can't go into the girls dorm" He replied with a smile.
"Tsukune, please, it will be alright, you won't get into trouble, just please. I want you at my side tonight." Moka said as a small blush began to cover her cheeks. Tsukune was shocked to see that she wasn't trying to hide her face, or even look away. She kept eye contact with him as she said this, melting the teen's heart. Tsukune simply nodded his head in agreement with a broad, kind and gentle smile, as the two entered the girl's dorm.