Get What You Wanted Ch 14
"Yukari...chan?"
Tsukune could not believe his eyes. The same girl wore a more suitable silly hat, cloak, formal button up shirt and skirt with garter belt and yellow thigh high stockings, Sendo Yukari stood before Tsukune four and a half inches taller with a satchel over her shoulder. Mouth gaped open, her large, deep purple eyes wide and glossy, short cropped brown hair, she literally screamed, "Desu! Tsukune!"
Slight and lithe, Yukari had blossomed into a beautiful and alluring creature with the start of some shapely curves that were a far shot from where she was as an eleven year old now close to sixteen.
Tsukune gripped her tightly to him, chuckling when she tried to rock him back and forth.
"Where's Moka? I found a place in the gym where we can have our threesome! I've got boobs now so you can play with my nip-"
Ruby thunked her on the head, causing a nice size goose egg to sprout.
"Owie!" She winced, one eye closed to look imploringly at her sempai. "How mean! I was just trying to tell Tsukune that...Tsukune?"
Tsukune looked away from both witches and outside a window, a dry chuckle escaping his lips.
"Tsukune," Ruby walked up to him, a supportive arm on his shoulder, "Are you okay?"
"I'll be fine, Ruby-chan," He smiled at her, then at Yukari. "You really have grown into a beautiful young woman, Yukari. It really is good to see you again. If you'll excuse me a moment, I want to say good bye to Kary."
"Tsukune, did I say something...Tsukune?" Yukari tried to grip his arm when he patted her shoulder, but he kept walking by, purposely removing her hand and taking one lengthy stride after another away from her.
"Sempai? What happened? Where's Moka, desu?" The younger witch turned to her elder for help, confusion and a desperate desire to find answers.
"I don't know all the details, Yukari-chan, but I'll tell you what I can..."
"Baka," Tsukune grumbled to himself, "running away from a friend I haven't seen in years because she brought up Moka's name. I really am weak."
The door to the lab room opened up, in the far end the glass cylinder with Kary gurgled to life when he entered, the yellow eye thudding hard against it's concave surface. Three tentacles sprouted from the top and waved at him vigorously happy.
"Hey, Kary-chan," he smiled and approached her, letting the 'things' tentacles wrap around his arm. He patted her scaly textured skin with his free hand, offering a half hearted smile. "I'm not mad at you. I'm sorry I couldn't understand what you drew. I found out that you wanted to go home and see your family again, right?"
The droop in the tentacles confirmed his answer, as did the lower of her huge cycloptic eye.
"I know Ruby may have seemed mad at you, but from what she told me she's doing her best to find you a safe place to be."
The vat bubbled and for a brief, split moment, Tsukune could have sworn he 'felt' her say, 'I don't care! I want to go home!'
"I think we all want to go home when we're away, Kary-chan, but it doesn't always end up that our home is the best or safest place for us. As much as I would like to, I know I can't go home myself. It just doesn't exist anymore when the person you consider the most precious, the most important to you purposely sought out your most strongest faith, your most absolute expectation and use it against you. It's silly, but I just can't seem to find my home 'home' anymore. I can't go back to that. I won't." Tsukune said softly, looking down at the encircling tentacle around his arm.
"Not everyone is so willing to flee from adversity when they are confronted with something painful, young man."
Tsukune spun on his heel, surprised that he didn't sense another person with him. In the corner at the other end of the room, a crimson red cloak hooded woman was looking over some charts, her pure white gloved hand peeked from a scarlet red sleeve looking over Ruby's clipboard that she had been scribbling on before. One long finger tapped on it with interest.
"You are the one who made the breakthrough as to our Kary's gender. Is that correct, Tsukune-kun?" the woman's voice was whisper soft in its inquisition.
Licking his lips with fear, Tsukune's whole body shivered like a ripple in a pond just looking at what he could from her. Everything about his senses told him that the lady before him, draped from head to toe, the way she moved, the way she reached to tuck a long stray lock of pink hair from her face behind her ear was Outer Moka.
His very breath wouldn't enter his lungs and it scared him beyond reason that she was here.
"I am not your wife," The woman took some stately steps towards him, her face still hidden in the shadows of her cowl, but as much as he tried to relax, he couldn't. The green eyes staring back at him were slitted like a vampires, but emerald green like the finest gem.
Like hers yet not, he thought.
"Wh-who are you?" he swallowed hard, unable to look away from someone he knew was magnificent and delicate, yet could see the hallow of her neck and the tip of her smooth chin and mouth.
"We are family," She spoke evasively, walking past him to place a delicate hand on the glass that inhabited Kary. "Now, tell me why you can not go home? I doubt there are many crimes that are considered unforgivable, young man. Tell them to me and I will give you my opinion."
Swallowing hard and feeling an unexplainable urge to trust her with his delicate situation, he did.
Speaking to her back, he told her of everything that happened from the beginning of the disagreement between his wife and him that eventually lead up to her very direct and uncompromising tryst that brought him here to be at the Academy.
"I see," The woman said in deep contemplation. "It's not like you're not enjoying yourself, though, Tsukune-kun. I am sure your wife would not appreciate you sharing the bed and the body of your friend. Or, may I assume, this was your petty way of getting back at her? Since she got to sleep with a friend of yours, you slept with one of hers?"
"No! It wasn't like that. I thought it was my Moka-chan. I was sleepy and really thought it was her, but we didn't do anything that couldn't be explained. We stopped before we went too far. I wanted it to be her, to be Moka so bad." He closed his eyes and his fists, trying to hold back that burning feeling that was starting to get easier to pull back then it was just those few days ago.
"So it makes it right for you to lay in bed with another? You thought it was her, so you touching her, kissing her, taking her nipples into your mouth-"
"How did you know-"
"I know a lot of things, Tsukune-kun," She mildly retorted, but kept those mysterious eyes away from him, clearly more focused on Kary then on him. "However, are you more in the right then your Moka-chan? Just because you did less, does that make one sin less then the other?"
"Yes," He answered firmly. "She purposely intended to hurt me, purposely set up the a time to meet another man in front of me, kiss him in front of me, dress, primp, take him to our bed, and have sex with him to purposely get pregnant with his children to raise as she sees fit instead of seek mine. I had no intention, no reason to seek Ruby in that capacity and had I known earlier that it was her I would not have even gotten so close to her as to kiss her, touch her as I had. The only person I wanted to be intimate with is Moka."
Those same green eyes took him in now, weighing his words curiously.
"She wanted his children instead of yours? That is interesting." She nodded to herself. "That does make things a bit more problematic, especially if Lord Akashiya has anything to say about it."
Tsukune squinted at her, trying to peek into the folds of cowl. "Who are you?"
"A friend, Tsukune. Family, a loved one to many and someone who admires you." She circled him, her eyes still on his, but carefully detached in a way that made him more wary of her then take to her warmly.
"You didn't answer my question."
"I have answered enough, that is all that should concern you." She said quietly, politely, making it so he knew he was about to overstep boundaries he was sure where he stood. "Tell me, young man, how long have you lived in a vampire society?"
Tsukune scratched the back of his neck. "About four to five years now."
"So you believe you can deduce what your Moka has done based of your knowledge of four to five years and think she's in the wrong?"
Tsukune frowned. "Yes."
"Why so? You who are just recently legitimately noticed as her mate through the eyes of Lord Akashiya have a lot of say and pull as his son, but it is not Lord Akashiya nor you who can determine the will or the way of a woman's heart who is born a vampire and lived our ways all of her life. Yet just because you have earned his trust and her love, you cry and weep when you don't get your way and are shown your place before friend and family when you have been given the gift of eternity? How utterly unmanly and cowardly."
"Excuse me?" He growled.
"I called you a coward and less then a man, Tsukune-kun." She said serenely, clearly. "You did not lift a finger to stop her. A man enters your house, knowingly going to take your bride, your wife, your mate into another room to desecrate what was purely and wholly yours and you don't remove his throat, thrash him in the streets to rip out his guts, or even a slap on the wrist. You just up and let him. That is so very pathetic of you. How Moka ever became enthralled with you is beyond me. I was afraid she would become attracted to the weaker race of humans and I am going to guess she found the weakest one and bound herself to him through blood and vows. I really must spend more time with her to see that this matter is resolved quickly and without any delay. Thank you for your time, Tsukune-kun. You may leave."
Turning her back on him, she pulled her cloak over her eyes and flipped a few pages, reading over a few more things that Ruby scribbled down.
"Now hold on-" He took a step forward, but she raised a single finger at him in warning.
"You can either leave here standing and fit, or I can send you through that door inside out in a quivering mass of pain."
Her womanly lilt sounded like a kind woman asking him to close the door as he left. For some reason, every sense in his body that was human and vampire warned him that she was more then capable of putting her threat to heart.
Deciding this was no longer worth talking about or worth talking too, he lifted his chin and turned to Kary. "I'll see you soon, Kary. Take care of yourself."
One lone tentacle waved as he closed the door behind himself.
When his steps were dull and far away enough to ensure he was leaving, the woman in the room pulled her cowl off her head, revealing lush pink hair and flawless glowing skin with slitted emerald green eyes. "You may be a coward and less then a man, Tsukune, but that doesn't make you weak. I wish to hear what Moka has to say in her defense."
Wrapping her regal red cloak around herself, she engulfed herself in black flames and was soon gone.
Tsukune stomped into the courtyard with a few suitcases stacked on top of the other. Yukari jumped onto him again, wailing in tears that he needed to go back to his home and fix things with Moka.
"You have to fix this, Tsukune! You can't break up with Moka! Desu!" She was tugging at his arm, but he gently gripped her small hand with his.
"I have no choice, Yukari. She doesn't want my children and I will not be mated to someone who will purposely do this to hurt me just to get her way and try and show me my place. It is over between us."
"No! You can't! Please tell me it's all a lie!" She was pulling on his arm again, gripping it so hard her little nails dug into his hand.
"I'm sorry, Yukari. It's very true and I won't go back on what I said. Her and Gin will have a life now that will involve children and their upbringing." His dry throat made the words come out coarsely, but he still meant them.
"Then why are you still wearing her ring! You're still married and you're still a vampire! If you wanted to be away from her you would stop-NO!" Yukari screamed at him when he leveled his elbows parallel to the ground, gripped his ring with his right hand and removed the simple wedding band.
Grabbing her hand, he slapped it into her palm hard enough to make her wince.
"How much more proof do you need, Yukari? Huh? What do you want me to do to tell you it's over? I am very happy to see you and I missed you, but if you don't stop talking about Moka and I getting back together then I must say that it has been wonderful seeing you again but I have to wish you all good bye!"
"Tsukune," Ruby's hand was on his shoulder, trying to sooth him with her touch. "It's not her fault. This is the first time she has heard of you and Moka in so long and the first thing she hears is such horrible news. Please don't take it out on her. I felt the same way as her and I still wish there is a way for you two to somehow fix this. You two mean so much to each other."
Tsukune grit his teeth and took a deep breath. Yukari was hyperventilating in front of him, large purple eyes pleading for him not to go. "I just want my friends to be happy, Tsukune! You two were meant to be together always! Don't leave her for this! Please? If you're angry then take some time off or go train somewhere. Yell into the heavens, scream at me! Hit me if you want, but don't stop loving each other! Please? Desu?"
Ruby walked between Tsukune and Yukari, embracing the young woman to her heart like she had so many years ago when Kurumu was taken from her.
"It is not your place to ask him that, Yukari-chan. This is a problem for both of them who have sworn vows to each other. You have no say so in it."
"But," she hiccupped, "But...I love them! They're my friends and...and...if they separate, then they'll both leave each other and then they'll leave us! I won't see them again and then it'll be like Kurumu and then who's next? Mizore? Sun? All our friends are disappearing and we'll be lonely again!"
"Yukari," Tsukune rubbed her head to make her look at him, "I promise no matter what, I will always be your friend and I will come see you as often as I can."
Yukari bit her lip, wrapping her fingers onto his shirt to gaze into his eyes. "You promise?"
"On my life," He murmured to her, feeling her wracked with grief.
"What about you and Moka? You two were so happy and in love and..."
"Not all great things stay great, Yukari." He chided gently. "My time with Moka is over."
"Here," She gave him back his wedding band, but he shook his head.
"No, it doesn't belong to me anymore."
"Tsukune," Ruby took the ring from her hand and offered it to him. "As a man, as her husband, and as her mate, do the honorable thing and at a minimum, give it to her yourself so there is no doubt or obligation in her mind to be your wife since you will let her know you are no longer her spouse."
With a heavy heart, he agreed. Poking his finger into the loop, he picked it up with his pinched fingers and stuffed it into his wallet. He noticed the stacks of luggage and wondered out loud. "I guess we're ready to leave soon?"
Beep! Beep!
A clackety rumble of a combustion engine got their attention along with the glare of two headlights. In the not so far distance, a familiar bus was coming into view.
Watching it go over some hills in the distance, Tsukune turned to his companions. "Is there another person here to look over Kary?"
Ruby blinked at him with confusion. "There is no one allowed to be here except us, Tsukune. Did you see someone?"
He nodded. "Yes, she had long pink hair and green eyes. She reminded me of Moka, but she wasn't her. Everything about her said she was, but she seemed so different. Her clothes were old fashioned and red...just red. She seemed older and powerful in a scary way. Do you know who I'm talking about?"
Ruby and Yukari shook their heads. "No one around her matches that description, Tsukune. Was there anything else about her that she said? Maybe something else to help identify her?"
"She mentioned something about being a friend and family. Do you know anyone else that she could be talking about? Maybe Moka has another older sister other then Ria?" he pondered out loud.
"Maybe," Ruby agreed, but pointed out with her hand, "But we would have sensed it, Tsukune. It would take a person of unimaginable power to be able to get past our security systems here at the Academy. Someone so great it would equal that of a Hades Lord or greater."
"I see. So it was my imagination again." Tsukune frowned. He would have sworn what he saw was real, but with what happened that morning with Ruby, he couldn't take a chance as to what was real and what wasn't.
He just had to be careful.
"So where are we headed next?" He watched the bus pull up slowly next to him, opening the folding door with the bus driver smiling eerily at him with that ever present cigar between his lips.
Ruby and Yukari giggled at him. Yukari seemed to be in an extremely exuberant mood, glowing with delight that she tries to carry three bags all by herself without asking for Tsukune's help.
"Hurry Tsukune so we can go see her!"
Tsukune fell on his ass when he didn't move fast enough and got knocked over by Yukari shoved him out of the way and struggled to get through the narrow door.
"Careful, Yukari! Her who?"
"Where else! To see a cow in the desert! Desu!"