CH 18

NOTE : I haven't written on this story for a while. Sorry, I'd forgotten it wasn't finished yet. Ummm, Ruby has her flails and whips if you feel the need. Anyway, I'm continuing on with it. It ain't done yet.

After dealing with Bishop and his vampires, Tsukune and Moka rushed back to their hotel room, quickly threw off their clothes and had a passionate sex/blood fest of their own, nipping and drinking from each other. Once their primal urges were satisfied, they had another task to perform here.

The full moon was in three days. Then went back home and into Ruby's magic room. With Ruby's help Tsukune followed Josh, Moka followed Nora. They were friends with Aiden, a vampire, but Tsukune wanted to know what they did on a full moon night.

Going home after work the werewolf couple met Aiden as usual. As the sun dipped below the horizon and the moon came out, all three went down into the basement, Ruby scrying on them.

In the basement were two sturdy and roomy cages. Josh and Nora hugged. Josh went into one cage, Aiden locked the door. Nora got into the other cage then Aiden locked her in. Aiden called, "See you in the morning" and went back upstairs.

The full moon came out, the werewolf couple stripped then changed into wolves. They spent the entire night mournfully howling and whimpering at each other.

"That is so sad," Moka noted.

"It is," Tsukune agreed.

"I feel like crying for them," Ruby said in a sniffle. "Wolves are meant to run free. They are caged, and not even together. This has to be torture for them!"

"What can we do?" Moka asked.

Tsukune thought as they watched to wolves watching each other and pawing at the bars. "They are feral," he noted. "Of course, having to spend their wolf time caged up, I can see why. They can't run free, if they do, they have a good chance of mauling or killing someone."

"But Master, this is just …cruel," Ruby whined.

"Tsukune," Moka said thoughtfully. "We spend time learning how to be human. From what I can see, they don't know how to be yokai. The are denying what they are."

Tsukune had never thought something like that was possible. Then again, he was watching it now. "I need to go back there, in their morning," he stated. "Ruby, instead of cages, what if they had a larger enclosure. Say a four acre enclosure?"

"That would let them run and interact," Ruby said. "There is not four acres of land anywhere in Boston they can do that."

"I'll find a place nearby and buy it," Moka stated. "This … caging themselves up is cruelty!"

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Ruby sent Tsukune back to his hotel room in Boston, then worked with Moka to look for a suitable small farm close to the city.

A dawn, Tsukune walked over to the Levinson house. He strolled along, giving Josh and Nora time to reform into humans, get dressed and upstairs. The sun was coming up between the buildings by the time he got there. He could sense them inside. Apparently, they could sense him as well. When he stepped up onto the steps to the door, Aiden opened the door.

"Morning," Tsukune offered.

"Morning. Mr. Aono, thank you for taking care of Bishop and his crew," Aiden offered.

"It was part of a job that needs to be done," Tsukune replied. "May I come in? I need to talk to Josh and Nora."

Aiden quickly said, "They haven't done anything."

"They haven't hurt anyone I agreed," Tsukune said. "They do have another problem we can help with."

Josh, Nora, Aiden and Sally all sat on the couch. Standing on the other side of the coffee table, Tsukune explained. "At the school we went to, emphasis was placed on learning how to be a human, because everyone at the school were yokai of some type. Josh, Nora, you have the opposite problem. You know well how to be human. You don't know how to be yokai, in your case, werewolves."

"What's there to know?" Nora asked with a flail of her hand. "We change, run into anything or anyone we can! That's why we cage ourselves up, so we don't hurt anyone!"

"I know, and I commend you for making sure you don't hurt anyone," Tsukune agreed. "The werewolf part of you is a wolf. Your wolf wants to run and hunt. You have to stop denying them that. Wolves run in packs, wolves recognize pack members. To you and Josh, this, right here, is your pack. At school, Gin would always disappear on the full moon. Well, almost always. Anyway, he'd be off in the woods, hunting and running with his pack. That is what wolves do. Denying your wolf makes him depressed, angry."

He stopped to see they were listening intently. "Your wolf does not go completely away when you are in human form. Neither do you go completely away when your wolf is out IF you are taking care of each other. They are here listening also, inside you. You take care of them and they will take care of you."

"What do we do?" Josh asked. "We can't change out in the city."

"No, that would be dangerous," Tsukune greed. "Right now, Moka and Ruby are searching for a place where you can let your wolf run free and be a wolf."

Josh and Nora smiled. "We'll be able to do that?" Josh asked.

"It may take some time, but yes, you will." Tsukune assured him.

More animated, Josh said, "You know, if we get some hams and, I don't know, maybe hang them from tree branches so our wolves can find them and eat, that may help?"

"Or find a place where there's plenty of rabbits, so we can hunt?" Nora asked.

Tsukune grinned. Even though their wolves had receded, they had not yet faded back. "Good ideas, both. And knowing they will have a real experience and not be caged up, the transition from human to wolf may become easier for you. Gin fully accepted he was a werewolf, yes the full moon made him stronger, but he could change whenever he wanted to."

"He did?" Aiden asked.

Tsukune nodded. "Sometimes it helped, others, not so much. My point is, he had full control of himself."

"Can we talk to this guy?" Josh asked.

Tsukune winced. "I know he can help you but he does go after any female on two legs or four."

'Oh," Josh said and glanced at Nora. "Maybe not then."

Sally chuckled.

"Myself or Ruby will let you know when we find a place to let your wolves run free. Have a good day, folks," Tsukune said. He went to leave and Josh sprung up and held his hand out. "Thank you!"

Tsukune shook his hand.

Nora just plowed into him with a hug. "Yes, thank you!"

"You're welcome," he said and patted her back. "Take care."

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Most of the vampires left here had jobs around town, and the few who didn't worked at the funeral home. It was clear that they would not make any more of themselves, and Tsukune would be watching. Moka and Ruby were working at a safe place for the wolves to run. For the moment, the trouble in Boston was over.

Tsukune decided it was time to go home for a while, check on things there and relax for a while. Well, he did get home. By the lusty gazes Uzume and Kumuru were casting him, rest was out of the question

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Luckily, Kahlua went with Moka to find a suitable area for Josh and Nora to run in. Ruby had found a place that looked good. Plenty of land 30 miles outside the city. The area was hilly and had plenty of animals running around. It was also marked as private property.

Walking up the long driveway, Moka strode along while Kahlua skipped and danced her way beside Moka. "This is nice!" Kahlua beamed. "It's all open woods! I bet they could run forever here!"

Watching ahead, Moka noted people were behind the bigger trees ahead. "Kahlua, there are people ahead," she said firmly.

Still 50 yards away, men stepped out behind the trees with guns. Moka also noted they had wooden stakes in bags at their sides.

"Stop, right there!" a man bellowed.

Kahlua spun to him in her dance and waved. "Oh, hi! Do you own this wonderful place?" she asked.

"What do you want?" the man asked in a hard tone.

Dancing toward him, Kahlua said, "We got werewolf friends in that city back there. They are so miserable! Instead of running and hunting like a wolf should, they lock themselves in cages, and not even together! It a very sad sight." she explained and frowned at him.

Moka added, "They need a pack. They don't know how to be wolves. Someone needs to teach them."

The man shifted his gaze between them. He sniffed the air. "Why would vampires want to help wolves?" he asked, curiously.

"To make them happy!" Kahlua cried.

"They are miserable and scared," Moka said firmly. She stopped a few yards away and scanned the men. "You have a decent sized pack here. Will you add two more to help your own kind out? Josh and Nora need your help."

A shorter man eyed them. "I doesn't make sense vampires would help us."

"Here, no," Moka stated. "Both your kinds are acting too crude and arrogant to be able to work together. Blinded by your dislike for each other, you can't see that we are all yokai and need to stick together."

"You gonna tell the vampires here that?" the man in the middle asked.

Moka cast a smirk at him. "We already did. The survivors have agreed to leave wolves, or any other yokai alone."

Kahlua skipped over and hugged Moka from behind, dropping her head over Moka's shoulder. "My sister is sooo wonderful! And Tsukune, Ohhhh! I can't wait to get home!" she said in a gush, doing a wiggle dance.

Moka rolled her eyes. Firmly, she said, "Kahlua, we need to stick to the topic at hand. Getting Josh and Nora help."

This ... guy, he's a vampire too?" Another man asked.

Kahlua bounced in front of him, beaming him a smile. Clasping her hands she cried, "Tsukune is so much more than that! He's a Dark Lord! Yes, he is part vampire, he's also part Succubus, part ghoul, part Sekerei …" Kahlua then put a finger to her lip and asked Moka, "Since Tsukune can do magic spells now, is he part Witch?"

Moka eyed her. "Josh and Nora is who we need to be discussing." To the man in the middle who seemed to be in charge, she said, "Can you help Josh and Nora and teach them to be wolves?"

"This is really odd," the man said, looking at Moka blankly. "Sure, we'll help them. I take it you're not typical vampires."

"You could say that," Moka agreed. "My point is we don't want them locking themselves away in cages every time the moon is full. It's not good for either part of them." She pulled out a folded paper and handed it to him. "This is their address and phone numbers. So you know, they have a vampire and a ghost living with them. Be decent to them, they will be decent to you." She then turned to leave. "Kahlua, come."

Kahlua frowned a her. "But, we just met a whole pack of wolves! Moka! Isn't this exciting?"

"We have things to do. Let's go."

"Oooh!" Kahlua whined but followed Moka. In a spin she turned and waved. "Bye wolfies, it's been good to meet you!" She then skipped after Moka.

The man beside the leader leaned close and whispered, "Did we just see a retarded vampire?"

The leader looked at the paper. "I think the blonde might be a bit out of her head. We do need to check this out."

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Ruby brought Moka and Kahlua back home, then sent Moka to the Levinson residence to give them the good news.

Sally was sitting on the couch, stareing at noting when Moka appeared. Sensing her, Sally turned. "Moka? How did you get in?"

"Ruby brought me." Moka said. "You can tell Josh and Nora we found a wolf pack that will help them. They are out of town to the west and have a good place to be wolves. You should hear from them in a couple days."

"That's great!" Sally gushed. "I'll go tell them now!" She the disappeared.

Moka turned and went back through the portal.

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Going home, Moka went down to the construction site to find they had a little over half of Tsukune's home town finished. With that, insurance companies were paying up, giving her much more money than was required for wages and the equipment she had to buy. She also found out another devastated town was asking for their help. There too, it was a small town and no one had yet to bid on rebuilding. Many of the residents were forced to move away. Others had collected debris to make themselves shacks to live in. It looked like the Aono Construction Company had more work to do.

Moka selected two witches and a barrier crew and a cleanup crew to head to this other town. It would slow work down here, but at the moment, people here that had whole homes, were hosting others who were waiting for their own homes to be finished. Leaving Ruby in charge here, she left with the crew for this other town to make sure things got started off right.

On the way to this town, Moka was glad she'd come along. Going up a mountainside, they came to a police barrier stating the road was closed. Moka had her barrier crew took those down and put up a couple of their own barriers and left a barrier watch. Not half a kilometer later, they came to what was left of a bridge. The bridge was cracked and part of the road surface was missing, then chunks were farther down the mountainside. This had to be part of the reason why no one had gotten up here yet.

The witches conjured a new bridge and they kept going to find some men clearing felled trees from the roadway. The cleanup crew helped, removing smaller branches and debris from the road. Moka pushed a few felled trees down the mountainside. Working their way towards the men, a couple men cheered them on.

An older man, sweating from exertion, climbed over a few trunks to meet Moka. Beaming her a smile, he said, "Welcome! I am Iwasaki Tomi, the mayor. The road is open now?"

"After we clear the road here. We rebuilt the bridge that was out." She then bowed. "I am Aono Moka, our Construction Company is coming to rebuild your town. Are there any supplies you need?"

"Indeed there is! We have food, and wells for water but the electric is out so pumps do not run. When the weather cools, we will need heat also."

In clearing the road, Moka noticed some of the town workers fade back, a few fled. She sensed they were yokai. Curious, she asked the Mayor, "What type of yokai do you have in your town?"

The mayor cast her a quizzical look. "Excuse me, what do you mean?"

"I think a few of your people are afraid of me. That's why I was asking. We came to rebuilt, not harm," she explained.

He looked back at his workers and saw some had left. "Why would they be afraid of you?"

"I'm a vampire. Please let everyone know we came to help. We are not gong to harm anyone." Moka explained.

He chuckled. "A vampire? Here, out in the daylight?"

"Yes," she said firmly. She extended her fangs and told him, "Please let them now there is nothing to fear. They can sense me, and fled. There is no reason to."

He gaped at her. "Such things are real?"

"I'm surprised you don't know about us already, but yes we are real," Moka stated.

Nearby a fox peeked it's head up from behind a log. Seeing it, Moka waved it forward. "You can come out. No one's going to hurt you," she announced.

The mayor watched as the fox shifted into human form.

"Tomika?" he asked, shocked at seeing her.

The young lady with medium brown hair cascading down her back bowed. "Hello, Mayor," she said meekly. She then asked, "Akashiya Moka?"

Moka nodded. "Aono Moka now. You look familiar to me."

Tomika beamed her a smile. "I was in the class behind yours! You, Tsukune, Kurumu, Ruby, you're all famous! I never thought I'd see you again."

"We have come to help rebuild. Could you go inform everyone there's no need to fear us?"

"I will! Welcome to our town!" Tomika beamed. She changed back into a fox and darted off.

"But … I've known Tomika since she was a baby! She helps with the community gardens," the Mayor said breathlessly. "She's a yokai?"

"Most yokai hide their true identities," Moka told him. "We fear humans finding out and driving us away, or trying to kill us. It has only been very recently we have let ourselves be known."

"That's incredible!" he cried. "Right here … so Tomika's family are all yokai?"

"That could well be. Half your town could be yokai, and unless they show you who they truly are, you'd never know."

"Fox spirits are said to be good luck," the Mayor said vacantly.

"And you have at least one whole family in your town," Moka said with a grin.

That made the Mayor grin also. In a loud voice he said, "Let's get this road clear!"

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With the town workers and Moka's crew the had the remaining road cleared in short order. They even cut the trees and branches up an stacked them by the road so if anyone needed fire wood, it was here.

The small town was a wreck. It was on the eastern face of the mountain which saw the worst winds. People came out to see Moka and her crew, Tomika was in front of them and pointed to Moka.

"I know Moka! She's not mean, she's a wonderful person! She came to help us fix our town up!"

Moka bowed to the crowd. "Please allow us to rebuild your town."

"Yes, please do!" a woman cried.

Moka turned to her crew, "We will begin uphill and start rebuilding houses. Cleanup crew, set the safety borders and finish the area after each house is restored. Be careful with the power lines!"

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Kurumu was happy to get a recording contract. What she wasn't happy with that the studio was in Komatsu, on the opposite coast of Tokyo. Using her Charm she talked to the producer and the owner, and convinced them they should move to Tokyo, even though Tokyo was more expensive.

Kurumu got Tsukune to agree to put the recording studio in the building that had been for defeated Sekerie, and was now vacant. He even let them come in for a rent lower than what they were paying now. At this news, they were happy to move to Tokyo. The Board of MBI agreed, they would be getting rent from that unused building. Overall, it wasn't but a drop in the bucket, but it was many drops that filled a bucket. Two other buildings that were also vacant now were cleared out and put up for rent.

Overall, the west coast land Tsukune gave to Lord Shuzen was only a small dent in MBI's income. A few purchases of buildings up in Sapporo offset and loses. Issa did become a stockholder, but that didn't affect MBI.

A boon for MBI was a medical equipment sale to Italy. Talking with Santos, the guy who gave up his bid for Moka in exchange for friendship and trade, Tsukune made a deal. Advanced medical equipment for high grade steel. The freighter would go to Italy, unload the medical gear, then load up with steel and return. Once, China was low cost steel, but lately, the price kept going up. Santos offered Tsukune the steel at a lower price than what China was. That would also help with some of the current rebuilding efforts.

The land dispute over a swamp was settled also. Tsukune went to the area and found out The developing company was angry due to it 'paid' for the land, and the seller would not refund their money. Tsukune talked to the group and using charm he had gotten from Kurumu, convinced them that since they had gotten that swamp from a land grant many years ago, the grant was voided, and they had to give the company their money back. They didn't like that but agreed, and paid the grumbling company.

Tsukune also found out land ownership now was becoming a problem. He was called to meet with the Emperor's Minister for land management. Thankfully, they agreed to meet with Tsukune in one of the MBI building's meeting rooms.

Moka was busy with working on a town up in the mountains, Kurumu was busy with the recording people, he had no one knowledgeable to attend the meeting with him. He asked Minato's mother if she had any land ownership experience. She didn't. To his great surprise, Kahlua did.

"Tsukune," Kahlua said firmly, "I went to college and land ownership and use was one of the things I studied. Let me come with you."

He was reluctant to bring Kahlua into a serious meeting. "Ah, Kahlua, this is serious, and it's with humans. We will have to behave ourselves."

Clapping her hands on his shoulders, she said, "I know. This is an important meeting, and I know you are trying to smooth out relations between yokai and humans. Let me help you."

He cringed but agreed, and told her they must not get angry or hurt anyone for any reason. Kahlua agreed, and even changed clothes for the meeting. Instead of her gown, she scared up a proper dark blue business suit with a cream colored top and she didn't even have her tiara on.

Going to the meeting, Tsukune and Kahlua saw they were the first ones there. They still had ten minutes before the official meeting started. Not long after they arrived, two men walked in. Tsukune and Kahlua rose to meet them.

Exchanging bows, the men were Kawa Hiromasa and Matsumoto Miaso from the Imperial land management division.

Hiromasa frowned slightly at Kahlua's name. They sat down across from each other.

"Please, Gentlemen, explain the problem to me," Tsukune asked.

"It is a situation we have never come across before," Miaso explained. "At the moment, we have several disputes going on. The swampland problem has been resolved, the preservation of it does fall under preserving natural habitats. One that is not so easy to solve is the Shiriyuki ski resort. Many people go there to ski, and as I understand there is a town up there also."

Tsukune nodded. "Yes, I've been to both places."

Hisomasa said, "Although we know the resort is popular, and discovered it has been there for a long time, we have no records of it or the town!"

"That town is mostly yokai, and the yokai run that resort. You won't have any record of it." Tsukune told them. "Remember, until just recently, Yokai hide from humans."

"That is the problem," Miaso explained. "I'm sure you know property taxes must be paid. We don't even know how big the property is up there, or how long they have been there!"

"May I make a suggestion?" Kahlua offered. "I can tell you that clan of yokai have been there for many generations. Possible longer than humans have been in Japan. That is yokai land, not human land. Your best option is you find yokai land, is to mark it as such, and not try to enforce human made rules on it. Yokai in human lands do pay their taxes and follow human law. They blend in, not even noticeable to you until just recently. If humans come into yokai land, then they will also need to respect what the yokai law in that place is. That will prevent conflicts."

"Agreed, but there has been no taxes on this place, ever." Hiromasa stated.

"Question, has the human government ever did anything for the resort or that village?" Tsukune asked.

"We didn't even know it was there."

"Then why do you want them to pay taxes to you, when you have done nothing for them?" Tsukune asked.

"It's required," Miaso said.

Kahlua spoke up again. "The human law states that for providing basic services, taxes must be collected to provide services that the residents use. If they use no services, and you were not even aware of them, how can you claim they owe you anything?"

"There are roads there, are there not?" Hiromasa asked. "Electrical, sewer and water?"

"Ones the yokai did themselves," Tsukune replied. "They are self sufficient up in their mountains. They build everything they need with no outside assistance. Kahlua is right, you did nothing for them, they owe you nothing. Myself, I do live in human lands and pay my share. So does my family. When we work in areas that are run by yokai, we don't pay human taxes."

"We were under the impression that yokai wish to merge with humans in Japan," Miaso said.

"Not merge," Tsukune stated. "Acknowledge we are here. Accept the fact that yokai do live here in Japan, and yokai have just as much right to be here as humans do. Yes some do live in humans lands. Others choose to keep themselves separated."

"Perhaps we should meet with the Prime minister and a representative of the Emperor to discuss details," Kahlua said. "I can promise you that if you move on yokai to begin demanding things, it will not turn out good. We want peace and cooperation, not conflict. Believe it or not, humans do not rule the world, only the world as you see it."

"Yes that seems so," Hiromasa agreed. "I will ask for such a meeting. Peace and prosperity are best. From what you are saying, there are very many yokai."

"There are," Tsukune agreed.

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After the meeting, Tsukune held Kahlua's hands and said, "My dear Kahlua, I am very proud of how you handled yourself. You did very well."

Kahlua beamed him a smile. Leaning closer, she asked, "Can we go play now?"

Tsukune laughed and hugged her. "I suppose we can."

When Kahlua took him up to her room, he was thinking she wanted sex. Nope. Upon entering, she got a silver tea set out and put it on a low table and grabbed two of her stuffed animals.

"Tsukune, this is so great you'll play tea party with me!" Kahlua gushed.

OK, well this was Kahlua.

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"Kasumi!" Jessica called as she ran into the house.

Kasumi poked her head out of the kitchen. "In here, how was your day?" she asked.

"Wonderful!" Jessica said with a bounce that made her big breasts bounce a little more. She happily clasped Kasumi's hands with a bright smile on her face and announced, "I'm going to have my first litter!"

"Litter?" Kasumi asked. "You mean, you're…" Kasumi did NOT was to say pregnant.

"Yes! I'm pregnant with my first litter!" Jessica beamed. "You know what this means?" she asked in an excited voice.

Kasumi knew it meant babies and many more than one. Suddenly, she didn't feed so good.

"I means I really am truly accepted, and I can finally be a mother!" Jessica said as she bounced with joy.

"How many?" Kasumi asked weakly.

"Oh, first litters are only three or four, but after that I can have as many as seven in one litter," Jessica happily explained.

Kasumi felt dizzy. Of course, there was a risk of Jessica getting pregnant, but all those babies at once? And in this house? Her dizziness got worse. She passed out.

"Kasumi?" Jessica asked. Having a hold of Kasumi's hands, Jessica lowered her to the floor gently.

It took Jessica a while to bring Kasumi around. She got Kasumi to sit up and got her a drink of water. It was then Koji came home.

Coming into the kitchen, he asked, "What happened."

Jessica beamed at him, "I'm going to have babies!"

Kasumi glowered at him. "You need to go get say, five cribs to start with," she said in a heavy tone. "And all the baby supplies you can find."

Koji itched the back of his head. "I ahhh, guess we'll need them?"

"That's for a start," Kasumi stated. She have Jessica a hug. "Congratulations, dear."

"Thank you!" Jessica gushed and hugged her back.

Why did it have to be a rabbit girl Koji got mixed up with? Kasumi wondered.