A/N Damn, I feel like a piece of shit, three goddamn months and no updates, no nothing, not even a little hiatus tag tacked onto the description. Anyway here it is, the long overdue chapter fourteen of the imperial. So if any of you remember the competition from the last chapter, he/she who could find the most references gets a scene of their choosing added to the chapter, well the winner is… chase8999, and he wanted an "echi nose-bleed" scene if I remember correctly, but I'm a noob when it comes to stuff like that, so just look for the part where Tsukune starts bleeding. ENJOY!
Chapter 14- Cold as Ice
It was now mid-December, two months had passed since the Headmaster assigned Tsukune the task of becoming a master swordsman. Tsukune still wasn't happy with the arrangements and constantly made everyone around him aware of his displeasure. "I just don't get why I have to learn how to swing this stupid sword, I mean it's going to do jack shit in a real fight, so what's the point?" Tsukune said to Mizore one day as they walked to his house after school. "Well the headmaster did say the sword was fairly powerful, it has a name and all!" Mizore said, she didn't really know much about the sword besides what Tsukune had told her, but from the way he talked about it, it seemed like it was powerful. "Eh, you're probably right, I just don't get it. I suppose I'm just tired from all the training the headmaster is making me do." Tsukune said, "Well just look at the bright side of things, you always got me!" Mizore replied with a light blush to Tsukune, "Yippee…" Tsukune mumbled. Mizore was taken aback a bit, normally he was much more polite, but lately he had just been plain rude. Then again, now that she thought about it, lots of things about Tsukune had changed. Before, he only wore the school uniform and was very quiet, now he wore suits to school almost every day and was very outgoing and loud. She wasn't mad about it, if anything she thought it would be perfect if they were in a relationship that way he would balance out her introverted nature. As they arrived to the house Tsukune opened the door then ran to his basement to go practice his swordsmanship. Mizore just sighed, she missed talking to him after school, now all he did was practice swinging a sword, she hated that stupid sword, but for different reasons than Tsukune. She went around putting out all the things for dinner then went upstairs to do her homework.
Tsukune and Mizore both continued their respective tasks for about two hours before heading to the kitchen to prepare dinner. During the preparations for dinner Mizore brought up winter break, "Soo… winter break starts in a couple weeks, you remember the plan, right?" Tsukune made a pained face as if trying to remember something that continued to elude him. "Uh… I know we're not going to be at school?" Mizore shook her head, how could he forget the promise he made! "We're going to my village, just the two of us! How could you forget, you were the one who made the plan!" Tsukune gave her a sheepish smile before scratching the back of his neck, "Well I have been pretty busy with…" Tsukune saw that Mizore wasn't buying any of it, "Alright, alright, fine, I knew about it, but I didn't say anything because… you get a cute face when you're angry, yeah that's why!" Mizore obviously didn't buy it, but sighed and continued to prepare what she needed to. They continued cooking in silence until the meal was done and they went out to the table to eat. While they were eating, Mizore couldn't help but think about how she was here, after her first night at Tsukune's house she had come over every day. this continued for about a week, this morning rush, where she would wake at six, run to her dorm, get ready, then run back just to walk to school with Tsukune. It was very tedious, and Tsukune had seen that she was getting extremely tired because of this schedule, so in Tsukune-like fashion, he had offered to let her move in with him, if she was going to sleep there every day it makes sense to have her amenities nearby instead of half a mile away. As Mizore continued to think, she noticed Tsukune smiling at her. "What are you smiling at?" she said in a suspicious tone, "Oh, nothing, I just find it funny how deep you've been thinking lately. Before you were pretty straightforward, you just thought about what you wanted to do, and how you were going to do it, now you're all deep and mysterious, heh, kind of like Batman!" Mizore scrunched her face at this, "whose Batman?" Mizore saw Tsukune freeze as he dropped his food and fork, his eye began to twitch before he slowly turned to her, "You don't know who Batman is?!" He said, Mizore slowly shook her head, not knowing why he was being so dramatic. "Well that's outrageous! Tonight we are going to have a Batman marathon." He said in a matter of fact way, leaving no room for discussion. Mizore tried to say it was okay, but he put his finger up to her lips and kept shushing her every time she tried to speak, "Hurry up and finish your food, then prepare to get your mind blown!" he said, making little explosions with his hands.
She couldn't believe it, eight movies in one night, they had just finished watching the most recent movie when she looked over and saw that it was three in the morning, thank god there was no school tomorrow! She thought. Just as she was about to go to sleep, however, Tsukune got up to go shut off the T.V. "So… how did you like it? Eh, eh, come on I know you loved em, those right there were true classics!" Mizore gave him an exasperated sigh, "Right now the only true classic I need, is sleep!" she said, "That doesn't make any sense." He replied, she threw a pillow at him trying to get him to stop, "Okay, okay, sorry!" he said before crawling into bed. As they sat there trying to go to sleep Tsukune decided he needed to ask Mizore something, however, as he turned around to face her he put his hand down on top of her. At first he simply removed his hand, but then he fell down, when he finally managed to get stable he stuck his hands down and took a deep breath, then she moaned. At first he thought she was having a dream, but then he realized that his hand felt weird, he looked down trying to find out what was causing his hand to feel so weird, he looked around in the dark for a minute before finally realizing that his hand was on her chest. He calmed down a little bit, but then realized his hand still felt weird, he turned on the light only to find to his horror that he had accidentally pulled up her nightgown in his attempt to steady himself. His eyes bulged at the full frontal view he had before he made a sort of wheezing sound and ran out of the room trying to stop the full throttle nosebleed brought on by the sight.
The next morning Mizore left for school, confused as to why there was so much blood everywhere. She gave Tsukune a hug and left, leaving Tsukune to his own devices. "I wonder what the Headmaster is going to make me do today…" Tsukune asked himself as he walked towards the headmaster's office. As Tsukune walked along the path swinging his sword absentmindedly he heard some rustling in the bushes. "Who's there?" He shouted. When there was no response he continued to walk, a bit more cautious, filing the incident away as his mind playing tricks on him. Tsukune kept walking, until he heard the sound of footsteps approaching fast behind him, he turned around just in time to see the Headmaster barreling into Tsukune. The Headmaster tackled Tsukune to the ground before standing up on top of him. "First lesson of being a swordsman: ALWAYS be prepared!" The Headmaster shouted as Tsukune stood up grumbling. "How can that be the first lesson you old coot, you've been teaching me for months?" Tsukune asked. The Headmaster stared at Tsukune for a few seconds before smacking him, "Don't call me old coot, for your information I'm only three century's old, I'm practically fresh out of the womb!" Tsukune shivered, the fact that his mentor was practically senile hammering even further into his mind. "So what are we going to do today?" Tsukune asked with a sigh. The Headmaster gave him a sickening grin, "You're gonna regret asking that!"
A few week had passed and Tsukune had improved greatly with his swordsmanship. "Now remember Tsukune, just because this is winter break doesn't mean you get to shirk on you sword practice." The Headmaster scolded Tsukune the way a father would a son as Tsukune prepared to leave with Mizore. Tsukune shrugged in acknowledgment before leaping into Mizore's mothers car along with Mizore who giggled as Tsukune quite literally threw her into the car along with the luggage. As the trio began leaving the school grounds Mizore's mother asked Tsukune a question, "So how long have you two been going at it, huh?" Tsukune looked confused before Mizore's mother continued, "You know 'cleaning her pipes' or 'doing the bedroom tango' or 'the dirty~" "YAH! I get it, no need to continue, and to answer your question, um, we haven't…" Mizore blurted out before her mother could continue her tirade of vulgarness. Tsukune chuckled lightly as Mizore continued arguing with her mother, saying that asking people about such things was rude. "I don't see what the problem is, I mean you live in the same house, sleep in the same bed, and I'm certain things have gotten a little 'steamy' between you two!" she gave them both an exaggerated wink at the last part. "In any case I'll make sure to remedy that while you stay with us…" she mumbled under her breath.
After a few hours ride, they finally made it to Mizore's family resort, surprisingly unlike their last visit, the place was packed with humans running around everywhere. "Welcome to 'Shirayuki Park'" Mizore's mother said with a big grin and flourish of her hands. "Here are your cards, you are welcome to use any of our services while you are here, and Tsukune please call me mother, I mean it's only a matter of time before its's official anyway, Tata!" and as soon as she handed to silvery looking cards to the two teens she vanished.
"Well that was… something. Did your mom just rip off Jurassic Park?" Tsukune asked, mostly to himself, "Look at the bright side, at least she stopped talking about the bedroom tango!"
A/N Tada! Anyway, if anyone wants a list of all the references from the last chapter pm me, or if enough people ask I'll update this chapter with the list. I know this chapter was short, and I feel like shit, kinda like I sold my soul, but whatevs… anyway I need to ask you all a question for the future of this story, do you want some overarching bad guy, or do you just want fluffy goodness with a bunch of girls and Tsukune, I have fighting in the story, just cus I would go batshit insane if I had to read luvy dubby Tsukune for more than two chapters at a time. Last but not least, I am officially putting this story on Hiatus for a while, I will update it, but only as my schedule allows
(I only mean that I will update pretty sporadically maybe days apart or months, at least until I have more free time) as I kinda have a job so my days are pretty full, and I don't think my boss would appreciate me writing fanfics while working so… I am going to post some other story's on my account that have been fermenting in my head but I'll leave a little note in them saying that they are there more for filler so that I don't forget my ideas. Anyway as always leave suggestions and stuff like that for anything in a review or pm, follow favorite review, imp not your real dad do whatever the hell you want, PEACE OFF!
(PS: any fans of Gravity Falls out there reading this story? Just a question was wondering if aToTS made anyone else fan girl the hell out.)