Tsukune's view,
Written by Lord Of The Land Of Fire
Moka,
You say you love me,
But all you do is hurt me.
You say your heart belongs to me,
But you gave your body to another.
You ask me to trust you,
But all you do is lie.
So how can I love you,
If this is who you are?
It was over.
Both Mokas were released from their succubi's grip, taking one step back with unequal expressions of disappointment and amusement.
When either vampiress wife and mates came to, their eyes instantly looked about to gain their bearings. First in their vision, the most important person and reason for their unintended admittance, was their spouse Aono Tsukune.
And he was livid.
"Why?" He voiced through clenched teeth, through taut vocal cords flexing in his neck, and his fist clenching in rage. "Why didn't you tell me?"
For Outer Moka, this was the last thing she wanted to do to her beloved husband after all she had done to him, but her Inner self was more perceptive.
To her, it was proof of the most very basic forms of emotion: he had to care for her enough to be angry. His apathy may exist, but so did his protectiveness of her.
But was it enough?
"We're sorry, Tsukune," Outer Moka apologized so quickly that it made her Inner self snap her neck around as it to snatch the life from her alter ego.
"Don't apologize to him!" Inner Moka snarled, but it was Outer Moka that surprised her.
Out of all the people she expected to stop her, it was her own self that silenced her in a way that made her blink.
SLAP!
Inner Moka gazed at her Outer self, confused and stupefied with her cheek burning red. Pink hair was still whirling around her shoulders in the spin top like motion as her hand swung around and connected with her silver haired counterpart.
"If we can't apologize to him, then who will ever be good enough to apologize to when we're wrong, Ura-chan?"
"You…" Inner Moka looked at her fingers checking for blood and touching her warming cheek, unable to comprehend what just happened to her. "…hit me!"
"He's our husband and our mate!" She grabbed the silken white sleeves of her arrogant self, "We were stupid for what we did!"
"Don't admit that! We're vampires!" Inner snarled, as if it's the most obvious thing for the world to see.
"We're his wife! He couldn't understand if we hid it from him! He can't read our mind and we…we took too much stock in hopes he would understand instead of just doing the right thing! We…we were upset and hurt, we put so much effort in expecting him to just follow along we didn't see what he would understand if we kept doing what we did with Gin."
"He should have known better!" Inner Moka humph'd, turning away from her softer self, "We needed his support and to understand us, but he didn't even care enough to stop-!"
"We made him believe we wanted it so why would he stop us?"
"Why should we have to when all he needs to understand is that we're right!" Inner screamed back.
"And so is he!" Outer Moka turned to Tsukune, her hands clasped together. "What difference does it make now who is more right when we all lose in the end, Ura-chan? What good is it to be right when we lose everything we are fighting for?"
Inner Moka turned her head and crossed her arms, taking in her fuming husband's glare and matching it with her own.
"We tried to make him see it our way, remember?"
"He didn't know everything we did." Outer Moka murmured as she touched her Inner Self's face to look at her. "He didn't know what we were doing for the two weeks before we asked him to not allow our children to be exposed to a human school or their ways."
"We shouldn't have to-"
"Ura-chan," Pink haired Moka's eyes were running tears down her face in small streams. "What point does it matter now? Can't you see what we've done or what has happened? We've lost everything…everything…"
Red slit crimson eyes took in her Outer self and worried. There was something inside herself that made her iron clad resolve crumble just enough to give her pause. "Omote-chan, what do you mean?"
"Look around us! Don't you see it? Nothing is the same anymore! We lost so much then what could even imagine by doing what we did that day! Just everything… everything…"
"I don't understand." Inner took another appraisal of the room around her, the headmaster in his seat with that eerie grin, the student police wearing different clothing, Ruby off to his side looking as grim and furious as ever.
Her family was there, even her mother and father, her sisters minus Kokoa…
Tsukune…
Her beloved mate and man of her dreams, born from her blood and blossomed into the person of her life through the ceremony of mating and marriage was there, staring at her with so much emotion in his eyes that she really began to latch onto how much she had missed out on since being silenced and removed from the reality that her Outer self was trying to explain to her.
One person had no qualms about catching her up to date.
"You've lost your family, Sister Dear," Ria rose from her seat like some premonition of inevitability from her place, Lord Akashiya's right side. "MY Father knows about you trying to breed with that dirty mutt of yours and has renounced you as his daughter."
When Inner Moka couldn't respond to that, Ria continued.
"Did you also know that Lord Akashiya isn't your biological father? Your mother was bedded by someone else-"
"Ria, shut up!" Lord Akashiya came to Akasha's defense in a show of honor, snapping over his shoulder to his eldest daughter. "You don't understand the situation, but it is not like that. I knew what happened to Akasha then and I accepted her still."
When Ria's cowed head lowered, a rare look of pain crossed his steel gray eyes when Akasha and Issa's gazes met.
"Yes, Moka," Issa said with a mildly weary breath, but his resolve was as strong as the mithril blade he was so proud of, "I am not your father and if you were my daughter I would disown you. What you have done disgusts me and as far as I am concerned you have no place within my family. Your mother has made it clear that no matter how much I have loved you, placed you above all else, raised you and taught you everything you know till now, I am still not good enough to punish you as I see fit. So be it, I acknowledge it is her place to decide. Since I have no control over you anymore I see no reason to accept you as part of my family or clan. That is still my right."
He glanced deliberately over at Akasha.
Saddened by the admission, she gave a single nod to prove his point valid.
"As of now, Kahlua, Ria, and Kokoa are no longer your sisters. My place as your parent is forfeit. If you wish to seek family elsewhere then do so in another clan or with Tsukune if he'll have you. Your place as their sister, as my daughter, in our home is gone."
"Issa!" Akasha hissed what was obviously in the thoughts of her daughter. "I will give you back Fairy Tale and the castle, but don't deny Moka this part of her family!"
When Inner Moka could only stare in muted disbelief, her father continued.
Turning his austere gaze to Akasha's shocked green eyes; Issa lifted his chin in defiance. "We don't need anything from you, Bloodriver-sama. If you feel I am so inept at raising your daughter after all these years and her place within the family is below your standards, then you can take up the reigns where I have left off with my blessings. Since I've failed to teach my daughter her place as a mate to Tsukune, what it means to keep the purity of our bloodline pristine, and to keep her word as a member of my clan and as my daughter, then she is disowned to me as her mate has disowned her."
"But…" Inner Moka could barely get the word out.
"I am here, now, for Tsukune, my son, and Tsukune only. Do what you will with me if you feel the need for retribution. I am ready."
Steel and righteous pride speared both Moka's and Akasha, relentless and unforgiving.
While not as powerful as Akasha, there was no doubt who was the stronger in resolve.
"Daddy…" Inner Moka's eyes filled with uncharacteristic tears, her hands reaching out for the father who she has known all her life. All this was new and jarring. No matter how hard and unforgiving he father had been at times he had loved her and protected her in his own way.
Outer Moka was there to stop her, unable to look at either that part of her proud self crumbling at the thought the one firm foundation in which she could base all of her ethics, her beliefs, her strength and her courage off of was now refusing her…
…and taking sides with the man who she was trying desperately to hold on to.
"Daddy!" Inner Moka was screaming, clawing to get over Outer Moka, pulling her hair and pushing, shoving and hitting. "Don't leave me! Daddy!"
A voice broke through her cry like a scythe to her screams.
"You paralyzed Yukari, Moka."
It was Tsukune's voice.
Calming her in a way ice water would any vampire, she whipped around to face her beloved. Soft steps approached his side, dark flowing raven locks and violet eyes confronted her with equal malice. "She may eventually recover, but not until after many years of therapy, if then. Sendo Yukari, my little sister, my apprentice of the weave probably won't be able to walk for at least five more years. I thought you should know that had it not been for Tsukune's blood, she would have died."
"I…I just wanted to talk to Tsukune alone…then she touched me and I thought it was one of your plants." Inner Moka took a step back, but it was Mikogami's voice that cut through the drama of everyone's outburst.
"So you did strike Yukari out of rage and anger?"
"I didn't know it was her, I swear it!" Inner Moka called out towards the headmaster, but he was not moved by her words.
"That doesn't make what you did any less real, young lady." Mikogami turned to Kuyou, "Let the record show that Sendo Yukari showed honor and valor in her attempt to subdue Aono Moka during a confrontation with her and the prisoner Aono Tsukune. During that time, my aide's assistant was struck with intent to kill or obliterate-"
"I didn't-"
"-one of our kind by the daughter of Dark Lord Akasha Bloodriver."
"Yes, Master," Kuyou's wide grin left no doubt he wouldn't leave anything out and would be recorded verbatim.
Inner Moka was trying her best not to hyperventilate, but Outer Moka was already there, holding her, stroking her hair. It was a bit odd that the pink haired 'weak' version was the one who was being strong. "Just stop…please, just be quiet and let me talk, Okay?"
Wearied by her sudden waking and all these horrifying revelation Inner just gave a despondent nod.
"What…what's going to happen to us?"
"Nothing," Mikogami called out, "you are not being convicted of any crime, Aono Moka. Your husband and mate is."
Everyone turned to Mikogami as if he had just said time was actually moving backwards instead of forward.
"What?" Issa jumped to his feet. "You cannot blame Tsukune for Moka's actions! He didn't lay a finger on Yukari! He saved her!"
"On the contrary, I can do as I will in my realm," Mikogami's voice never raised above normal speak, "Within this dimension I am the sole law and I say Tsukune's purpose here was to act as a spy on behalf of Akasha's family."
"That's ridiculous! You saw for yourself, Tsukune came here after Moka cheated on him!" Aghea was calling out in his defense.
"That is true," Mikogami conceded. "But vampires are known for their cruelty and Tsukune willingly became part of the family so what he endured through their manipulations isn't my problem. His decision to come here is."
"He just wanted to see me, Master," Ruby stood forward, "I sensed no malice or desire to harm anyone! He loved being here and he sought refuge."
"If he wanted refuge he should have asked for it," Mikogami told his assistant. "The family that followed has done nothing but try and undermine my station since their arrival. Isn't that right, Kuyou?"
The kitsune demon and eldest daughter of Issa shared a glance. His smile almost touched his ears.
"Since Akasha's mate and his daughters have made their presence known, they have inquired as to the details of your world here and how many people occupy it. They have been seeking to recruit agents into their service. After a," Kuyou's eyes narrowed mockingly to Ria's, "competent seduction, Sekitan Ria offered to reward for any information regarding your devices and powers, Master. I accepted for the sake of learning how things worked in her realm for your benefit. I look forward to completing that task in its entirety."
Mikogami gestured as if to say, I rest my case.
"Tsukune had no idea that we were inquiring about such things," Akasha stood up in his defense, "We were trying to find any way to help him. He is my daughter's mate and husband. It's only natural for us to seek out any way to help him."
"And it is my law and the right of every Hades Lord within their own dimension to carry out justice as they see fit." Mikogami reminded his peer with a frosty bite to his words. "Remember, since the moment he stepped foot into my realm, without my permission, his body, his name, his precious blood all now belong to me. It is my right to decide his fate however I see fit. Am I wrong, Hades Lord Akasha?"
Working her jaw, she could feel every eye on her from vampire to witch. "No."
"So if his presence has caused all of you to come here and stir the peace I have made, then intentionally or not, he is the one to blame. As all the rest of you are here as guests I will not punish you though you have conspired against me. He must suffer for all the crimes committed against me."
"Then let's take him off of your hands and bring him home with us. We'll leave and go with our apologies." Outer Moka called out with her hands clasped, but it was Ruby who answered her.
"He can't leave without setting an example to other families who have attempted to come cross the boundaries without repercussion. Everyone from every race, every status or social climate has had to receive punishment and," She swallowed hard, trembling at what her words that followed, "none have stopped them from continuing to do so at their whim."
Issa was the first to realize where this was going. "You're going to make an example out of him."
Mikogami tilted his head to the side, obvious amusement in the answer the herald of the other Hades Lord came up with. "Exactly."
"But he's a good person! He was a human who loved this place! He came here for comfort and you're going to punish him for that?" Outer Moka cried.
"What better way to show how serious I am about the protection of this realm than to sacrifice someone of such a high standing? He is a vampire of the prestigious Akashiya clan and connected by mating to a Hades Lord. If I do not hesitate to punish him then all others will think twice before crossing my borders."
"If you harm him, there will be consequences and retribution, Mikogami," Akasha stood up menacingly.
Ria, Issa, both Moka's, Kahlua stood up for his defense and backed Akasha's words.
Ruby raised her wand in front of them, "Stop! You don't want to do anything like that! This place is sealed to extinguish vampires!"
Everyone paused and looked around them. The runes that were glowing were pulsing with a stronger glow, eerily thrumming with some holy magic.
"Is that so, Akasha Bloodriver?" Mikogami had yet to move, turning his white cowled head like some demonic puppet towards Tsukune. "Then it would be fair for me to assume your words are an open threat. Shall I have you all killed right here and now?"
"You're taking things too far!" Inner Moka cried out, but it was the voice of the one person being fought over that silenced them.
"I accept the blame." Tsukune called out, facing Mikogami with a brave face. "I chose to come here. Although I didn't know I was committing a crime or that they would follow me, they are my family and they are here for me. Don't punish them for trying to protect me. Whatever the punishment is I will accept is alone."
Turning to face his vampire family, his witch and friend, even his adulterous wife and her split ego, he nodded to each and everyone of them. "I was not born a creature of the night, but they have shown me everything that has made me what I am now: the good and the bad. I will take the punishment fully. So I beg you all to stop this."
Mikogami nodded and turned to Kuyou.
"By accepting the responsibility of Aono Moka, Sekitan Ria, Akasha Bloodriver, you are going to be judged by the Headmaster, the Exorcist."
"Master, please don't-" Ruby was rushing to the front desk, but a length of chain shot out from the ground through a rune, wrapping itself around her. Snaking itself to keep her in place, one part even squeezed her neck to silence her.
"Ruby!" Tsukune was about to dash at her, but was soon facing the same fate as his dark haired friend.
Four sets of chains shot out from the ground, wrapping each one of his limbs in their metallic embrace.
"Tsukune!" The two Mokas were already making their way towards him, but the voice that stopped them all was that of the Lich himself.
Mikogami's other self, chains sprouting through out his withered, skeletal apparition body writhed around him like sentient serpents waiting for his command.
"Stop!"
No one moved.
Ruby's chocking gasps and Tsukune desperate call to her made everyone unsure what to do.
"The next person who moves without permission will be ripped asunder. Am I clear?"
Everyone nodded, even Ruby.
Pulling his corporeal self back into his physical body, Mikogami's eyes became alight and his grin plastered perfectly on his face as if it never left him.
"Good."
Ruby and Tsukune fell to where they were, just a few feet in front of each other.
Panting, Ruby heard Tsukune calling to her from under her raven locks. "You knew this was going to happen, didn't you?"
Shrugging her bare shoulders, she merely nodded. "I love you dearly, my friend, however I still have a duty to my Master. I only expect that you were to be used for some political maneuvering, nothing more. I truly believe he needs you for some other purpose then what is being told. He wanted you to take the blame and severe yourself from your vampire family. I don't know why, but I think there are things are not what they seem."
Her off dark violet eyes looked up at him remorsefully, regretfully. "Are you angry with me?"
Crawling over to her, he embraced her to his chest, stroking her long dark locks of hair with so much affection and tenderness everyone couldn't deny their feelings for each other. There was definitely more then friendship at hand.
"You did what you had to, but you still defended my family and I, Ruby. Thank you."
Holding the other close, Tsukune had a look of peace within himself that had not been seen in many days. It was very refreshing.
Both Mokas were also aware of what they were spectating.
"Don't touch him," Inner Moka whispered with a severity that was the pinnacle of her world coming undone, her eyes large and wounded. "Don't touch my mate, Ruby…"
It was the viscerally anguish in her other self that made her realize that she had yet to be made aware of everything that had transpired between her and Tsukune. Yet, all of her fears that were voice so many times about Ruby trying to take her mate were being made real before her.
"I told you, Ura-chan, we lost everything."
If Outer Moka had not had her attention before, she did so now. "What do you mean?"
"Tsukune," Small fists curled into her eyes, "doesn't love us anymore."
The news made her Inner self stand statue still. "That's impossible."
"He told me!"
"That. Is. Impossible!"
"It's true, Moka-san." Tsukune called from the embrace of the elder witch's arms. "I told her just last night."
Striding forward till she was standing behind Ruby to look directly at Tsukune's eyes, "I am here now. Tell me."
Glancing at Ruby in a silent gesture of communication, she gave him a nod and his space. Bringing himself close enough to be in Moka's personal area, closer then arms length and with a voice that was friendly, he said something that nearly doubled Outer Moka.
It enraged Inner.y
"I want you to find another man to be happy with. You're a good person with a good heart, Moka-san, but you made a bad decision. Even if I do understand why you did it, that doesn't mean I forgive you for it."
Aghea looked away from her sister's 'I told you so' smirk.
"I do care for you, but that part of me that desired you as my mate and my wife are gone. What is left is just the memory of what we were, in here." He touched his heart. "When I get a chance or when I'm allowed, I'm divorcing you and asking that our status as mates is severed."
Her normally pale skin pulsed with blood so hard a forked vein around her cheek and forehead began to darken.
"How dare you." Inner Moka's sultry, desperately quivering voice was just a whisper. "How dare you wish that of me! How dare you say that you want me to be away from you! I saved you! I brought you life when you were dying and this is how you treat me! I gave you eternity! Immortality! You owe me! Just because I was trying to save our children from your own ignorance you…you renounce me!"
"Everything I thought was beautiful in you is gone, Moka-san." Tsukune answered her without a break in his tone or conviction.
He meant it.
"I trusted you, cherished you, desired you, and believed in you." Shaking his head, he could barely look at her. "I don't feel any of those things anymore. When you took Gin into our bed and laid with him, you purposely defiled everything about you that made you special to me and threw it away."
"Tsukune, I was just-"
"I know what you were doing and what you were trying to convey to me. I got the message." Tsukune took in all the eyes of his family and his once beloved Outer Moka's quivering lips. "That's okay, though, because after being with my friends and seeing how you just expected me to follow along without consequence then, no matter how much your intent was to protect our children or our future, I realized something."
"What did you realize, Tsukune?" Inner Moka's straight backed spine lost its steel, unfolding her arms to reach out to him.
"You're not worthy of me anymore."
She was sure everyone could hear her heart beating with the way it pounded in her ears. Inner Moka prided herself in everything she did. She was perfection, a vampire, a creature of passions and cruelty, strength and intelligence.
Working her mouth, she had nothing to say that could equate to what she felt. Even her Outer Self was left speechless.
No one made a noise. No one breathed to see what anyone would say next.
"You took my trust, my love, and nearly kill my friend. You say I don't understand anything about you, but everything you knew about me you purposely used to your advantage to hurt me."
He walked away from Inner Moka and approached Outer, each step a nail into the coffin that was their relationship.
Thump.
Thump.
Thump.
Thump.
Standing in front of Outer Moka, he said the one thing to her she never would have realized she had turned to in his eyes.
"You're nothing more then a bully."
The green in her eyes dilated and her breath came out of her like a punch to the gut.
He was right.
The realization was obvious now that she looked at it through his eyes. She had become what she hated most and used it against the people who meant the most to her. Just like so many times, both sides of her glanced at the other and said, "What have we done?"
As he walked away from both of them, he heard Inner Moka's voice calling out to him.
"I'm…sorry, Tsukune."
Inner Moka's words stopped her husband in his tracks.
Looking over his shoulder, Aono Tsukune could see that it took an insurmountable amount of pride swallowing to say that. Quivering impotently, she let fall her tears as quickly as she fell to the floor.
"Look, Tsukune," Inner Moka's sculpted body bent forward, tears falling down her nose and onto the glowing runes of the courtroom. "Look at me."
Issa tilted his face down enough to see what his son did as well.
"I'm doing as you said I should, Daddy," Hiccuping, Inner Moka's normally proud and aristocratic voice croaked with the image of what she has become in her Tsukune's life. "Tsukune, do you see me? Your wife? Your mate? Do you see what I am doing that I would do for no other?"
There were no words, no valid amount of describe what it must have took for Moka to submit herself like she was.
Rushing next to her in a fuchsia and pink streamer of hair, Outer Moka also pushed her face next to her alter ego.
"We mean it, Tsukune."
"With all our hearts and all our soul…"
"We love you, Tsukune and we're sorry…"
"We want to be your wife and mate again, no matter what it takes, I'll do it."
"There has never been anyone else in our lives, in our worlds until we met you, Tsukune.
"We were wrong to hurt you like we did. So, so wrong…"
"Please, please forgive us Tsukune."
Issa rubbed his jaw, turning to look at his once mate, "I've said what I've needed to. I am done with you, Moka. Live and fulfill your eternity with your mother since she has chosen to take such a stand in your life now."
"Daddy…" Inner Moka watched a part of her life, the one who had molded her and pushed her beyond her limits walk away from her…
…gone…
"Tsukune," Outer Moka's focus was on her husband, her mate and…
…and…
…he was in pain?
"Why…now?" He seethed through his teeth, fist so tight the muscles in his arms flexed. "Why did we have to go through all of this, Moka? Why does it take a monumental loss for you to see NOW what could have been spared? Why…Why…Why…"
"Tsukune…we're…sorry." Outer Moka called out softly, but it was the other woman, her other self that took a stand.
"I am as well, Tsukune. I'm…begging you…Please…"
"Heh," Tsukune made the smallest noise, a high pitched chuckle. "Hehe…"
"Tsukune?" Inner Moka was close enough now to see something…wrong.
His blood red eyes were darkening…darker…darker…
An emptiness began to whorl in them, turning into something unjust, unholy and…very, very angry.
The runes on the floor began to respond to him, humming with a power that spoke of incomprehensive power.
"It can't be," Akasha touched her neck, unable to fully grasp what she was seeing and witnessing.
SNAP!
SNAP!
SNAP!
SNAP!
Barbed chains shot out of the floor, launching and striking at Tsukune like lethal serpents coiling around their prey, attempting to squeeze the life out of him, suspending him off the ground to keep him from gaining any kind of footing.
"Hehehehee…." He continued to chuckle, unaware the links of chain were cutting into him, wrapping around his limbs, his torso, his neck. "I'm…angry…"
"No," Ruby's large violet eyes grew even more so. "No! You can't! You promised he was just going to-"
"Aono Tsukune," Mikogami called out with a deep voice, standing on his seat to give judgement. "As Hades Lord, I am judging you guilty and you are to be executed for your crimes against my realm."
"Execution!" Ruby screamed, throwing herself at Mikogami, but was quickly snatched from where she stood with a firm gut deep punch from Kuyou. "You…you said…"
Seeing Ruby fall and that everything was falling into Chaos quick, the two Mokas were quick to respond.
Chaos soon followed.
Whrrrrr!
"What is the meaning of this!" Issa called out, raking his hand across the lighted runed barrier that encaged him and his daughters. "Ria, I want this taken down immediately!"
"Yes, my lord!" Ria closed her eyes, whipping her hands in front of her to pull at the weave of mana…
…but found none.
Glancing down at the floor at her feet, more intricate glyphs flared to life when the first of her spells came to mind.
"He's anticipated this!"
Off to the side, Kahlua had already taken off her rosario on her ear, scything away at the barrier with her wicked bat like wings, attempting to slice through physically.
It didn't work.
Issa was about to call for Akasha's help, but she was rooted still, looking at Tsukune and placing her hand over her neck as if some dreaded memory had come to life.
"It…can't be…"
In the center of the hall, the chains that held Tsukune were now holding both Mokas. Outer was straining to Tsukune while Inner was struggling, near to succession of separating herself from the binds that kept her in place.
"Just…a bit more…" She struggled, separating several of the magical links with her mighty strength, but other's came in place.
"Look at me, Tsukune!" Outer Moka was as trapped as her husband, her mate. "I'm here! I won't let them do this to you! I love you! Do you hear me? I'm sorry I did everything and you are the world to me! Please, look at me! Tsukune!"
While the chains continued to constrict around Tsukune, his lips were not horrified or angry. If anything, he appeared happy and…delirious.
"Aono Tsukune," Mikogami called out, his voice clear over the caphony of the room. "Before I kill you, is there anything you wish you could have done before your life ends?"
Turning with as much strain as the ripping chain links would allow him, he turned his head slowly left and right, eventually falling to the floor.
"I…I would have returned to the snow world and finished where Mizore and I left off in the snow flower fields," he turned his head to Aghea and Shade, who were now being held in place by Mikogami's personal guard. "I would have spent more time with Kurumu and returned the affection for her that she had for me. I would have been the Destined One she deserves."
The chains around him cinched tighter, making him scream.
"Moka, now!" Ruby called from her spot, throwing her hands out towards her vampire rival and once friend. "Save Tsukune!"
A bend in the light around them soared from Ruby's hands and towards Inner Moka's binds. The links holding her in place were turned to metal confetti. Released, Inner Moka charged towards Outer Moka and Tsukune, but a voice from the side caught her attention.
"You don't have my permission!" Mikogami called out, flinging his hands at the floor in front of Inner Moka.
A barrier appeared between her, Outer Moka and Tsukune.
"Damn it!" She slammed her fist into the barrier, burning her skin to sizzling. "Aaaaah!"
"What else, Tsukune?" Mikogami's attention came back towards convicted. "What else would you have done if you had a second chance at life?"
Looking past both Mokas and towards Ruby's crumpled form, he voiced softly that only those close enough could hear, "I wanted to help Ruby find Kara's home and then repair the mansion at Witch's Knoll. I wish I could help Yukari get back on her feet and see that when the right man comes along for her, she wasn't so hard on him."
"Tsukune, please…please, look at me!" Outer Moka struggled against her binds, her wrists bleeding down to her elbows.
"I…" Tsukune took Moka's eyes and gave her the first smile she had seen in the longest time, and it was only for her. "I want to create a world where Monsters and Humans can live together, so your children won't have to endure what you and I went through."
"Our children, Tsukune," Moka struggled harder, her clothes ripping at her shoulders. "We can make it happen, just…just live and I'll help you!"
Moka could only stare impotently as Tsukune's had started to chuckle, but his eyes rolled into their sockets and he cried…
"There is no going back Moka. We get one life and that is all. Everything we do, good and bad, is all a part of it. We have to take the responsibility for all of it Moka. Remember that when I'm gone." When he felt the chains cut into him again, growing tighter and tighter, he called out in a choked voice. "It…hurts…so much…"
The blood fell from him now, pieces of 'him' were falling to the ground like meat.
"We can, Tsukune…as soon as we leave, we can go home and…"
"You hurt me so much, Moka…"
And she could say nothing after that. Here he was, being ripped to pieces, and all he could confess to her, dying in front of her and all he could feel was what she did to him?
"I want to go back in time and stop this! I hate myself for what I did to you! Do you hear me? I want to take it back…" Outer Moka whimpered, but was interrupted by someone.
"Moka! The chains at your feet! Break them!" Ruby called out, but was quickly punished for her actions.
With a harsh chop to the back of her neck by Kuyou, Ruby crumpled to the floor fighting consciousness.
"Tsukune…" She fought to keep her eyes open…to see her precious friend literally about to be pulled to pieces.
"Uuuuurrgh!" Tsukune's head canted at an awefully unnatural angle…the bones in his body starting to break…the barbs scraping against his skin, ripping him into long channels of flesh.
These were his last seconds…
"AAAaaaaaaah!" Inner Moka reached down, realizing what Ruby was talking about. At her feet were the chains that breached the barrier between herself and Outer Moka. Taking the barbed magical steel in her hands, she flared all the youkai she could muster, digging her fingers between the links and pulled with all of her strength with both hands and using her feet to pull as well…
…the links started to give…
Blood was coming out of Tsukune's eyes…his mouth…his ears…
"NO! Tsukune! Don't…just…look at me! Okay, Please! God! Don't do this! Punish me! I did this to him! I hurt him! I need him! Tsukune! Please, look at me! I love you!"
Gurgling noises came out of his blood frothed lips as a south of taut springs becoming relaxed and their clink, clink, clink of metal scraped across the floor…
…only to be smothered by the sound of blood splattering.
One of his arms had been, literally, ripped from his shoulders.
"TSUKUNE!" Outer Moka pulled with all of her might, with Inner Moka on the other side of the confiding barrier, was enough to severe the bonds that kept her in place. Instantly, her arms wrapped around him, holding him so close she could smell his blood leaving him where one bloody stump was now.
She cursed herself for feeling, even now, that his sweet, ambrosia like blood was falling and it was her fault! Her love, her mate, her husband…everything she could imagine was being torn to pieces!
Clink, clink, clink…
A leg was ripped from his body
The pain she could feel through the contact of his skin was shared in the way he hitched his breath next to her…
"Moka…san…" His delirious eyes took her in and…looked over at her with a curious wonder.
"Tsukune! I'll help you! Please, just hang on I'll-"
"Moka," His voice rang out soft and clear, loud enough for only her to hear. "You smell different."
Her eyes took what he said into another level of consciousness, into another level of reality that she could not begin to fathom.
She felt her arms that had once held her precious husband, her high school love and destined eternal partner become wet and then his very substance become mush. In a flash of writhing chains and an explosion of blood, her Tsukune…the man, the son, the second born vampire was no more…
Plop, plop, plop….
In slow motion, both Moka's and her separated family, subdued witch and succubi, personal dark guard and the glowing content smile of Mikogami witnessed at the human who had survived Youkai Academy and loved both monster and humans body parts fell in where the chains took them.
Aono Tsukune was no more.
Mikogami watched everyone become utterly silent, unable to believe that after everything they had tried to do, to compromise and work around the intricacies of what should have just been a political ceremony for bidding over power had become an unnecessary murder. Standing up and taking in all the faces of his court, he called out softly…
"Justice has been served."
THE END.
