Authors Note: To Atomic Mushroom who reviewed as a guest As for Reiji, well I needed at least one good friend from Tsukune's life as a human. And as for him giving some smooth moves. I wouldn't call him a womanizer, just a boy on the verge of manhood suddenly given a glimpse of what could be. And yes I meant for him to be forward and brash. After all how often do you see Kokoa put on the spot like that. Will it work out for him. Who knows. He may get somewhere, He may also get beaten to within an inch of his life. You just have to read and see.

As for Kokoa/Kyouko. Yes they are going to find themselves paired together much in the same way that Mizore and Kurumu are. Not in a sexual way, but in a 'I have your back you have mine, now lets kick some Gluteus Maximus', kind of way.

This is to all those that have been following this story. I want to thank you for taking the time to read what I have written. It really has amazed me how many out there have enjoyed this little tale I am weaving.

Chapter 14

Spring Break Part Two

XXX Kyoto Cherry Blossom Hotel

Driving up to the hotel, Reiji saw Tsukune sitting outside next to one of the most beautiful woman he had ever seen, even compared to Tsukune's girlfriend that is. He suspected with that pink hair, and her looks, that she was an older sister to Tsukune's girlfriend.

"Kokoa, who is that sitting next to Tsukune? Is she another older sister of yours?"

Kokoa laughed a bit. "No silly thats my mother."

Reiji's jaw dropped open, as he tried to wrap his mind around that little bit of information. Finally shaking his head a bit, he parked the little car and headed over to Tsukune and the pink haired woman almost at a run.

Akasha looked up as a young human exited a small mini cooper, followed by her daughter Kokoa also getting out of the same car, began to head towards her and Tsukune, almost at a run.

Waiting until the pair reached her, Akasha smiled as she spoke. "Well, young man care to tell me why you are in such a hurry."

Reiji stopped just in front of Akasha and Tsukune, and took a couple of deep breaths. "What has happened to my sister?"

"If you mean the young lady about twenty years of age or so, I suppose she is sleeping right now. She has had a rather bad day, so I suggest you just sit down with us until Moka or one of the others comes down."

Kokoa had come to a stop just behind Reiji and was also wondering just what was going on, but she knew you didn't go against an elder vampire, so she placed a hand on Reiji's shoulder. "I think you should sit down."

Reiji seeing how calm everyone seemed to be, lost a lot of his initial panic and finally took a seat on the bench next to Akasha. He sat there for a few minutes going through the breathing lessons of his kendo classes. Turning to Akasha, now a bit calmer, he asked her again. "What do you mean she has had a bad day?"

Akasha placed a hand on the young mans knee, applying just enough pressure that he could feel the restrained strength in her hand, before she began. "Thankfully, she was saved by Tsukune and Moka before anything bad could happen. Tsukune and Moka were out walking this morning when they heard something down an alley and turned to look. They saw your sister being accosted by some beast of a man, who's only thought was to use a woman regardless of what she wanted. Don't think that we are brushing off what happened. Rather we are being calm for your sake."

Reiji started to rise only to wince a bit as the hand on his knee squeezed letting him know he was to stay seated no matter what. "You mean this guy tried to rape her. Have you called the police?"

Akasha smiled at Reiji. "The proper authorities have taken care of the would be rapist. Now sit quietly, and continue your breathing exercises. They will calm your mind."

Between the strength of her grip, and the recognition of the breathing exercises, Reiji knew she was trained in some form of combat. So he finally let himself relax just a fraction. As he did he noticed now that Kokoa was seated on his other side, effectively pinning him between the two, mother and daughter. Finally he opened his mouth once more. "Tsukune, how can you be so calm?"

Leaning forward a bit, Tsukune replied. "I suppose I am still coming down from the adrenalin rush of combat. You would be surprised what three months of day in day out, six hours a day of training will do. It was like I went on auto when the training just kicked in. I am just glad we got there in time."

After thirty minutes or so, Moka walked out of the elevator. Walking up to the four seated on the bench she stopped. "She is starting to wake up, I think we should go up now. Try not to ask her too many questions, Reiji. She is still trying to come to terms with it all."

Despite the attempt to be all calm, Reiji could sense that there was an undertone of anger in Moka's voice. Looking up at her. "I.. I want to thank you for saving my sister."

Moka bowed slightly at the waist. "I only did what was right."

The five of them walked into the elevator and up to the twelfth floor. As they entered the room, Reiji saw his sister was sitting up in what appeared to be a brand new dress. Keiko followed the eyes of everyone as they entered the room and sat down. There were so many questions that she had. She still couldn't believe it had all happened. As they entered the room. Moka took a bit of time to introduce everyone.

"Sitting by your sister are Kurumu and Mizore, and over in the corner are Yukari and Ruby" As Moka called their names each one waved to Reiji. "Akasha and Ruby are our faculty advisors. The rest of us are all members of our schools newspaper staff."

Moka noticed that Keiko was still shaking a bit as she sat down in front of her. Akasha and Kokoa each took a seat over by Ruby and Yukari.

Keiko looked back and forth before she finally began to speak. "Can any of you tell me just what was that... thing that attacked me." She began to shake. "That... claw... it... wasn't... human."

"Are you sure you really want to know?" Moka asked her.

With a wave of anger passing through her, Keiko almost in a shout said. "YES".

Moka first looked at her mother then back at Keiko. "Very well, but you will probably wished you didn't know."

A bit weaker, Keiko said. "I don't know what I will do if I don't know. You don't know the nightmares I had while I slept."

Kurumu gave Keiko a hug.

Resigned to the girls choice Moka began. "It was a monster. A real actual monster. But it wasn't pure, it was a halfbreed. That's why it was so deformed."

Keiko then looked over towards Tsukune. "And what about him. I saw him change."

"You mean like this." Moka said as she pulled off her rosario, her body gaining a bit of height, as her figure filled out, her hair turning silver, and the eyes blood red and slitted, reptilian eyes. Trying to avoid terrifying everyone, Moka exerted every bit of self control she could to restrain her youkai. Under this massive attempt, she for a couple of seconds had pink highlights in her hair, and green flecks in her eyes. Then, before her self control could crumble, she placed the rosario back on, and her body flowed back into the cute pink self that she was just prior.

Keiko stammered. "What... What... are... you.?"

Tsukune spoke before Moka could. "We are a pair of ayashi, that saved you from a halfbreed ayashi. What he did disgusted us as much as it disgusted and terrified you."

Reiji also watching all this, his eyes as large as two saucers, turned to Akasha. "You didn't call the police did you?"

Akasha smiled at the young boy. "Not the human police, but we did call our police."

"So is he going to jail?" Reiji asked.

"He will be appropriately punished." Akasha replied.

Moka looked first at Keiko, and then at Reiji. "I have to ask you two, if you had the chance to have all of this erased from your minds would you?"

Reiji just shook his head no, he had to many questions to just let it all be swept under the rug.

Keiko was sitting at war with herself. To have this burden lifted, but then she thought what if it didn't work? What if it left her with nightmares? "No, I will keep my memories. I want to get past this myself."

Moka smiled a bit sadly, but smiled just the same at the courage of the young woman.

A bit quieter, Keiko asked, "Are you all the same?"

"Of course not silly." Kurumu said wrapping an arm around Keiko.

As Kurumu wrapped her arm around Keiko, Kyouko walked into the room having heard a little of the conversation as she opened the door.

As she stepped into the room she gave a smile to Reiji. "Hey Reiji san, How did you end up dragged into here?"

Reiji looked up at Kyouko. "Hey Kyouko, are you, you know... like Moka?"

Kyouko grinned. "Oh she is much stronger than I am."

Kyouko turned to Akasha. "So, what is going to happen to them now?"

Smiling Akasha replied "Since they haven't placed themselves under Mikogami's jurisdiction, as long as they keep what they learn here in confidence, then they will remain human. Of course if they want to consider going through the process of a magically fueled transformation, I will speak to Mikogami on their behalf."

Standing there with her mouth open, Kyouko finally spoke as she strove to keep a tight rein on her emotions. "So then I can thank that old man for the situation that I am in. How does he sleep at night playing with peoples lives like this."

As Kyouko's emotions roiled just beneath the surface, red flecks began to appear in her eyes, and a few of her hairs began to shift giving her silver highlights in her hair, then as quickly as it began, they faded away.

Akasha walked over to Kyouko, and wrapped an arm around her as she checked the holy lock for signs of any damage. "You need to keep a tighter rein on your emotions Kyouko."

It was as silent as a morgue in the room, as everyone was lost in their own thoughts. It was Keiko that broke the silence first.

"What do you mean a transformation?" She asked, her voice trembling with a mixture of excitement and fear.

Akasha replied. "Keiko, we are ayashi, youkai if you will. In our blood resides magical power. One of our kind has found a way to transform a human into an ayashi. But it is a long process and so far it has been completed only on one person: Tsukune. Kyouko is in the middle of that process, so I have to monitor her very carefully."

"And you want me to go through that as well?". Keiko asked.

Akasha, a warm smile on her face. "I only want you to know what sort of situation your in. To know how important it is for you to keep what you learn here today to yourself. I don't want you to make any hasty decisions. And I want you to see that I will do what is necessary to protect myself and the ones I love."

Before anyone else could say anything, Moka interrupted. "Mother I am sure she is still tired and in a bit of shock. Keiko, do you have to be anywhere tomorrow?"

Keiko nodded her head. "Work?"

"Why don't you call them and let them know your not feeling well, and will have to take a few days off." Moka said.

Still shaking, Keiko walked over and picked up the phone. After about ten minutes she had finally convinced her boss to give her some time off. Moka suspected it was the trembling and shaking of her voice that was what convinced Keiko's boss.

Akasha placed a call down to the front desk, then turned to Keiko and Reiji. "If you two are willing to stay with us, I can get you a room next to ours."

Both of them nodded yes. With that, Akasha confirmed the reservation. "Good I am glad that is settled. Moka, why don't you go with Keiko to help her gather up a few things for her stay."

Kokoa spoke up. "I will go with Reiji and give him a hand."

Reiji looked a bit surprised, and ran his hand through his hair as he blushed. "I would like that. Thank you Kokoa"

Three hours later saw the group on the Youkai Academy bus, taking a tour of Kyoto. As the day wore on, Keiko and Reiji began to relax and forget some of what had transpired, but it never fully left the back of their minds. Throughout the day, Keiko kept a close on eye on Moka and Tsukune. The images of that early morning though continued to eat at Keiko. She kept having flashes of the monster that tried to violate her, and of Tsukune suddenly appearing, his hair silver and eyes red as he took down the monster. As they pulled back into the hotel, Keiko was still in a bit of a daze, as she tried to put all the pieces together and take back some control of her life if only inside her own mind.

Eleven weary souls walked out of the bus and up to the hotel. They rode the elevators back up to the twelfth floor, Reiji and Tsukune went to one room, Akasha and Ruby to another. Keiko started to go to her room, when the remaining girls pulled her with them into Moka and Kokoa's room.

Watching the scene Reiji asked. "She is going to be okay, isn't she?"

Slapping his friend on the back. "If Moka and the others have any say, she will be. I bet they stay up most of the night talking about boys."

Reiji laughed a bit as he closed the door to the hall and threw himself down on a bed. "Whats it like. You know, being an ayashi."

Tsukune was glad his old friend had said ayashi instead of monster. "Well, if I said its great, I would be lying. I have lost a lot, but I have gained a lot as well. And thanks to Moka and the others, I am still alive."

"What, you almost died?"

Tsukune chuckled. "Yeah, I came close to death more than once." As he said that, Tsukune pulled off his shirt, exposing all his scars, including the large crossed X shaped scar that covered his entire chest centered over his heart.

Reiji gasped as he saw the scars. "What the... How did you get those?"

"I got this one" pointing to the large X shaped scar. "saving Moka san. And what she did to save my life, well... it caused me to change. To transform into something dark and dangerous. If it wasn't for the Headmaster, her attempt to save my life would have ended in failure, and she would have had to kill me."

"Failure? What do you mean?" Reiji asked. His voice full of excitement and maybe a touch of fear and dread.

Tsukune continued, his voice low and somewhat quiet. "Her blood it turned me into a true monster. I was transformed into an unthinking killing machine. But even with the risk, she knew she had to try, or I would have died from the wound to my heart. The headmaster, he is also an exorcist, and he, well he sealed up what was consuming me from the inside until he could devise a permanent solution to my problem."

Reiji his eyes wide as he listened to Tsukune's tale. "What sort of solution?"

Tsukune smiled as he took off his rosario. His body transforming fully into a vampire as the youkai no longer restrained by the seal flooded his body. "I am now like Moka. I am a vampire." And with that, he slipped the rosario back onto its gold chain.

Reiji slowly digested what he had heard and seen, and the pieces began to fall into place. "That means that, Kokoa and her Mother are?"

Smiling Tsukune chuckled "Yep. They are vampires as well. But just them. Kyouko will become one also in time. And the others are different. If you want to know what they are, ask them. I am sure that they will be happy to show you."

In the girls room, Keiko saw all the others flinch just a bit, as she felt something, something... menacing just like what she felt when Moka took that little cross off of her choker around her neck. And then it was gone. Looking over at Moka. "Tsukune, he is like you isn't he?"

Moka, her face literally beaming, said. "Yes, and you don't know how happy I am."

Keiko glanced over at the other four girls and she could feel the jealously in their eyes. Yes, she thought, all of these girls were fighting for the boy's affections, but it looked like Moka was winning. At least for now, best she could tell. It was then that it hit her, a moment of inspiration. "My god, if it wasn't for that power you have, you would be just like any other group of teenage girls."

Mizore, sitting quietly, tossing up a dagger made of solid ice, gave Keiko a quiet smile. "Of course we are. Just cause I can do this, doesn't mean I don't have the same emotions as you." She said as she caused a second ice dagger to form.

"But I also have pressures you will never face." Her eyes sad, with a small tear turning to ice. "You get to live your life, choosing who you will marry once you fall in love. I will have my marriage decided for me, and I will have to begin having children as soon as I can."

Keiko turned it all over in her head, as she watched the rise and fall of those glistening ice daggers. "I see now. It doesn't matter what we are. We all have problems of some sort. I will be happy with what I am. But still... to no longer feel so helpless... it is tempting. Very tempting."

Akasha and Ruby, sat in front of the little cell phone as it was on speaker and listened to the report. The hybrid that had been taken back was a member of the group Fairy Tale. From what Mikogami and his assistants had been able to extract, there were three others also from the group running around in Kyoto. As best that they could make out, this one had jumped the gun so to speak, by about four days. In three more days, these other three would be trying to cause an uproar inside the city.

It wasn't clear, but they suspected that the monsters would be using their natural forms to create as much panic as possible. The possible target was a Shinto shrine, located in the heart of Kyoto. So it was up to them to locate and neutralize these Fairy Tale thugs as quickly as they could. It left a very bad taste in Akasha's mouth, and Ruby was also shaken a bit at the thought of all the damage that these three could do.

With nothing else left to do, Akasha and Ruby turned in for the night. Meanwhile the kids continued to talk for another hour or so before they all settled down for the night.

Akasha and Ruby were sitting in the hotel conference room eating the complimentary continental breakfast when nine pairs of sleepy eyes made their way one by one downstairs. Reiji and Tsukune ran back and forth setting the tables for the girls, while Kurumu and Kyouko made waffles for everyone. Keiko and Kokoa poured coffee and juice for everyone, while Mizore, Yukari and Moka set scrambled eggs on all the plates.

Once everyone was seated, Akasha spoke. "Well it looks like all of you stayed up a little late last night. I hope all of you are ready to be on your toes. Mikogami called last night, after they collected some intelligence from the prisoner. He was a member of a four unit team."

Keiko was the first one to speak. "What... what are you going to do?"

Moka set her tomato juice down. "Hopefully we will find them and stop them before to much damage is done."

"I was wondering if I could borrow Kokoa for a little while and maybe Mizore as well. I think I have something that can help, but I need a couple of test subjects." Reiji asked with a bit of a grin.

"Just what is it that you need a test subject for?" Kokoa glared at Reiji.

"Tasers. I have built some baton style tasers." Reiji replied with a grin on his face. "I hope you like debilitating pain."

At that statement Akasha looked over at Reiji. "I believe I have heard of those things. They are some sort of electrical shocking weapons, are they not."

"Yes they are. I have four units I have been working on. They provide 15,000 volts each." Reiji replied. "These can drop a grown man in a tenth of a second."

"Kokoa, why don't you go with Reiji and collect those tasers. Reiji you won't need to test them, I have heard that they are effective. Maybe not to the extent they would be on your average person, for our purposes, but I think they would help out some of our less physically powerful individuals." Akasha replied smiling.

Kokoa bowed her head a touch to her mother. "As you wish."

Akasha then switched to more innocuous conversation as she saw that the room was starting to collect a few other guests of the hotel. The others also taking the hint and noticing began to talk amongst themselves about dresses, food, high school and other mundane topics. After another half hour or so the group began to break apart. Some went up to their rooms, while Reiji and Kokoa left to take Reiji's electric mini cooper back over to his little workshop in the basement of his home.