I do not own Rosario + Vampire. This is my original fan fiction story based on the manga series created by Akihisa Ikeda. Its where the story continues on in my heart from where Akihisa Ikeda chose to end his story of Tsukune Aono and Moka Akashiya. I make no money from this in any way. This is just for fun and to increase my writing and story telling skills. I hope you are enjoying this story as much as I am in writing it. I would also like to thank you all for the positive reviews I've been getting as well as the favorites and follows on this story. THANK YOU!
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Moka was just finishing up her hair, placing a jeweled clip to hold her hair in place as they pulled up to the palace gates. They rolled down the window and presented their school id's to the guard who checked their names before returning the id's and saluted them into the palace grounds. The driver then proceeded to drive up to the palace entrance before she quickly got out to open the door for the young couple.
Tsukune was the first to step out in a jet black version of the schools dress uniform with the royal crest embroidered just above the yokai academy crest only being about ¼ the size. A royal purple braid slung around his left shoulder along with a few medals and ribbons he was to receive upon graduation. Mixed with the extremely dark blood red dress shirt, purple power tie and highly polished dress shoes and he looked very sharp minus his slightly unruly hair that wouldn't stay in place no matter he did.
As he assisted Moka out of the limo she was dressed in the female version of the dress uniform, the only difference was that she had both the crest of Shuzen as well as the royal crest embroidered side by side above the yokai academy crest. And instead of a tie, her dress blouse was trimmed with royal purple along the hem where her blouse buttoned together. With her dress boots, jeweled hair clip and poise that held her status of nobility, she was a breath taking sight to behold.
As they approached the palace doors the guards quickly opened the doors as they were greeted by the Prime Ministers secretary.
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Chapter 26
The Imperial Palace
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"Greetings and welcome to the Emperor's Palace Mr. Aono, Ms. Akashiya. The Prime Minister is waiting for you. Please follow me." The Prime Ministers sectretary said with a bow.
As they followed her down the great hallway both Tsukune and Moka let their eyes wander over the many paintings and busts of emperors of the past. They saw various swords mounted on the walls, suits of armor from ages past and statues of hero's from long ago.
They also felt the aura's of several yokai that worked within the Palace.
Tsukune and Moka looked at each other knowingly before they heard a voice speaking in a pitch that human ears wouldn't be able to detect
"Greetings Lord Aono, Lady Aono. Please forgive us for not bowing before you as you pass through the halls. We are the sworn guardians to the Imperial Palace and Family and have been for generations." The voice said to which both Moka and Tsukune nodded towards the yokai that had spoken.
The secretary then opened a door and led them down another hall before opening the door where the Imperial Prime Minister and the XO of the department of paranormal science were waiting for them.
The room was formal, yet casual all at the same time. A member of the Imperial guard was sitting in a ready position at all 4 corners of the room.
A table had been set up for a casual lunch of sushi and tea. There was also a bowl of ice with a few transfusion blood bags next to a ceramic crock pot of hot water mixed with herbs to warm the blood bags to body temperature.
" , Ms. Akashiya are here as you requested." the secretary said with a bow
"Thank you Ms. Mijosa, that will be all for now." the Prime Minister said returning the bow before Ms. Mijosa turned and left the room.
"Welcome and thank you for accepting my invitation on such short notice. My name is Akihito Toranaga and I'm the Imperial Prime Minister of Japan. My friend here is Taka Higamora and he is my XO of the Imperial dept. of paranormal sciences. Mr. Tushanari whom you've already met will be joining us shortly." Akihito said warmly with a bow
"Thank you Prime Minister sir. I'm Tsukune Aono and this is my fiance Moka Akashiya. Both of us are students of yokai accademy." Tsukune said more calmly than he really was, with a bow.
Then they all sat down and enjoyed the food and tea with some light small talk. And out of respect for the offer both Tsukune and Moka warmed and drank one of the blood bags that were offered...(Both hiding the fact that they found it tasting bland and lifeless.)
Afterwords they all relaxed in an adjoining room where they were met by Mr. Tushanari.
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"Mrs. Tushanari, I'm so glad we finally meet. My daughter and son talk about your daughter often. They've become fast friends at their school so I've been wanting to meet you for some time now." Mrs. Toranaga greeted warmly
"Lady Toranaga, you honor me with your kind words." Mrs. Tushanari replied bowing low and full of grace
"Then let us talk like friends while the servants bring us some tea. Please call me Sakura." Mrs. Toranaga said as she sat before a small table.
"Yes Mrs. Tora… um.. Sakura. I would like that and please call me Kiyoko." Mrs. Tushanari replied while sitting in an adjoining seat.
"Kiri" Mrs. Toranaga said
"Yes my lady" Kiri replied
"Please escort the young Ms. Tushanari to where my children are." Mrs. Toranaga said
"Right away my lady" She replied before looking at Akari saying "Please follow me"
To which Akari did after making a quick bow toward both Mrs. Toranaga and her mother.
"So… I hear you were at the Dome last night. I've watched the videos but please tell me. What was it really like?" Sakura asked grinning while rubbing her hands together excitedly.
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Arthor Malfient was pacing the room of his workshop after receiving a phone call from a very unhappy Kiria Yoshi. The leader was very unhappy about some video that was playing on youtube about some concert where someone used one of his bullets to try to kill a human singer but ended up shooting Tsukune Aono instead. The worst part is Aono survived. The shooter was caught and now the enemy had a warning about his bullets.
The part that was bugging him was how did the shooter get his hands on some of his bullets in the first place. He had checked his inventory to confirm the phone call and found 20 of the 380 bullets he had made so far were indeed missing.
He went over to his computer to go over security footage to find out who gave the shooter the bullets. What he found made his blood boil in rage… his wife had taken the bullets.
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Yukari was already going through the Bracklewhyte library looking for clues to the possible enchantments on the bullets. She was having to go off just an over the phone description until Scarlet could bring her one, but she figured that by starting now she could narrow the enchantments as well as what could be done to counter them that much faster if she started now. She was flipping through page after page and after she gets the bullet in question she'll use one of her latest invention's that she made to copy one of Kurumu's abilities that allows for lucid dreaming. Where she could do up to a years researching and problem solving in just a few hours. She had already used it to solve her latest projects rather painful problem. After everything her friends and her had been through she wanted to be more useful in a fight… Which ment she needed her magical abilities to become stronger as well as have more mana stored within her to use so she's not just a one super strong spell and then out cold and barely alive. She now wore 2 bracelets with 6 small folci stones surrounding one large crystal set in the center. The bracelet had 5 layers of alchemized precious metals with enchantments on each layer then pressed together. The enchantments not only gathered mana from the world around her it channeled it into her body, slowly increasing the amount so her body could get used to it. The large crystals then filled with the purified mana. She had also put a magnification enchantment on them which would multiply her spells potency while lowering the amount of mana needed for the spell. She made duplicates for Ruby as well after hearing about the attack in Mizore's village.
The project she was currently working on would have to wait until she solved the bullet problem. She knew the implementation of that project would be very painful but with Tsukune being able to heal his friends now the end result would be worth it.
As she thought of how much she would soon be able to help her friends she giggled gleefully as she grabbed the next book and began scanning its pages.
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The Aono's were still stunned after hearing Aqua's heroic tale about Tsukune. And now they were listening to Kokoa's story about her coming to know and mostly accept Tsukune. She admitted that she had hated him because he was able to unseal her when she still had the rosary while she couldn't, even though she was family and Tsukune was just a human. How she came to respect his courage to stand up those far stronger than himself to try to protect her sister and his friends. Even though it made him an even bigger idiot in her eyes but at the same time began to show her why her 'real' big sister had developed feelings for the human. Which of course caused her to start to care about him a little bit… which caused her to want to hate him even more because he had all those bimbo's following and fighting over him instead of setting them straight and getting rid of them. She told them about how Tsukune had been a ghoul and how she was scared for her sisters life not only because she was around him but because anyone who creates a ghoul was to be put to death the elders found out about it. The only thing that had saved Moka's life was the holy lock that was on Tsukune's wrist and that Mikogami wanted to use Tsukune and Moka's power to keep the school safe and save the world from Fairy Tale. Thus he didn't report it and have Moka and Tsukune killed.
She then went into the battles they had fought against Fairy Tale all the way to the battle against Alucard. How she thought she had been forced to kill one of her own sisters until a raid at a Fairy Tale stronghold had found Kahlua in a healing container of blood and was able to transport her home. She told them how before they found her, Tsukune had tried to comfort her over what she had been forced to do. He had helped her come to realize that Kahlua hadn't been coddling her because she saw her as weak… but because she had wanted to protect her childhood from being stolen away as hers was. When her mother forced her into being an assassin for Fairy Tale. And how the day they found her sister Kahlua was one of the happiest days of her life.
Which got her nearly hugged to death by Kahlua before being dragged off to play dress up.
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Akari Tushanari stepped into the room where Miya and Sachi Toranaga were watching video after video of the concert at the Tokyo Dome the night before. When they saw Akari the bombarded her with an onslaught of questions. When she told them she had met them backstage they practically tackled her to the ground for more details on all the yokai they had seen in the video.
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Kiyoko Tushanari and Sakura Toranaga were having pretty much the same conversation as their kids with Sakura asking a bunch of questions. Of course after a while they had to stop the kids who were dragging Akari at top speed to where their father was having a meeting with the two vampire high school seniors that had saved their lives.
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After Mr. Tushanari joined them in the adjoining room Mr. Toranaga looked at Moka and Tsukune and started to speak.
"As you are probably aware I've had several meetings with you're current acting Headmaster Issa Shuzen on writing out a bill of rights for yokai who want to live peacefully and fully protected by the law of the land. And seeing as Japan has become the focal point of the world on yokai due to the Alucard incident, the destruction of your home as well as yokai like Mr. Shuzen coming forth and meeting us peacefully to talk about coexisting openly and the benefits it could have for everyone. Like the world energy crisis, waste disposal, medical treatments and cures. The U.N. has asked Japan to be the testing nation for the world. And while we want to make sure that our human citizens are safe.. Mr. Shuzen said that you Mr. Aono would also want to make sure that yokai would not be mistreated or taken advantage of in some way that would or could tip the balance of power among nations or cause the yokai to be treated like lesser citizens. Since many yokai already living among us in secret are hard working tax payers that deserve the same respect and protection as everyone else."
To which both Tsukune and Moka nodded in agreement.
"After seeing what Fairy Tale did to 'convince' several communities of yokai to support them both terms of labor and money. You'd understand the precautions if you'd seen it.
Imagine whole villages held hostage under threat of a massacre if they didn't receive all the precious metals and gems found in the villages mines… Or just to make a few of the local mages and scientists come up with weapons or ways to control yokai against their will. Fairy Tale not only had yokai but humans working for them. Several peacefull villages that refused to join Fairy Tale were wiped out… slaughtered down to the last child. That must never happen again! But likewise yokai attacks on humans cannot be allowed or left unpunished either. In order for coexistence to work both human and yokai must be protected equally with strong punishments for violations to each others basic rights protected by the law." Tsukune said
"Yes and I agree. Between Mr. Shuzen and myself this is a draft on rights as well as some ideas for getting the human population used to seeing yokai without freaking out… I would also like to hear any ideas you two may have on that as well as any ideas or concerns we may not have thought about as you look this over." Akihito said as he handed copies of the rough draft to the 2 vampires as well as Mr. Tushanari.
After looking over the drafts Tsukune and Moka started nodding to each other and asking other questions on the articles and provisions written within the drafts and after they finished Tsukune looked at Mr. Tushanari for a moment and saw the look of concern in his eyes over a few of the qualifications needed for unrestricted and unsupervised movement of yokai among the general populace. So they discussed the concerns Ikki Tushanari had before Tsukune sat back for a moment thinking of a way that would benefit both the yokai and human populace as well as promote interaction of the two and encourage understanding.
"Well I think if they grew up in the human world and went to human schools with no serious violent episodes in their record or if they've lived in the human world for 5 years or more with no serious criminal or violent crimes they should be given an automatic unrestricted and unsupervised qualification. Other than that be a yokai accademy graduate and have at least a 1 year home/roommate stay with a human volunteer before they can get a work release. If we open a yokai/human university and give a tuition discount for human volunteers willing to sign a waiver and be responsible for helping the yokai assigned to them adjust to living with humans not just hiding among them. As well as to remind them of the rules when they start to let their instincts take over. The volunteers would first spend a semester at yokai accademy where they will be in a class of senior's looking to go to college and further their education. The semester would be a classes going over all the rules and punishments for breaking the rules as well as human customs and a class for the humans to learn yokai customs and taboos. I don't know how many times I accidentally offended one and nearly got killed because of it lol. They would be under the protection of volunteers from some of the vampire clans that would like to raise their family status among the vampire nobility." Tsukune said
"Yes and after they graduate from the university with no serious problems they should be well adjusted to living with humans so I think restrictions then would be unnessesary. Sexual relations between them should be discouraged unless they've lived together for at least six months to a year and the feeling is mutual between the two." Moka added
"As for policing the project… a Human agent of the government project in charge of a team of yokai consisting of at least 1 vampire, 1 werewolf a powerful witch or warlock along with a yokai that can fly like a siren or succubus preferred as both can subdue suspected subjects nonviolently with either a lullaby or a charm and yet also be able to respond with violence if it is absolutely necessary. I know there's probably a few succubi that would rather have a respectable job rather than working the water trade. And all applicants would have to pass a background check from both sides, human as well as the yokai world. " Tsukune said
"That sounds quite reasonable, but what about the yokai wanting to do manual labor instead of going to a university?" Ikki Tushanari asked.
"Hmmm… Well we could see if there are any construction and or skilled manual job companies out there that would have some employees willing to teach trade school classes at yokai academy that also have some human employee's willing to take them in after they graduate. With the incentive of more consideration for Government contracts and large tax breaks for employers willing to pay half the teachers pay at the trade school which would also be a screening process for that company to hire the best fitting yokai for their company. Other companies can only receive tax breaks for hiring and providing employee's willing to house them for at least 2 years." Moka said
"What about military service? I'm sure many of our top military officers would love to hire yokai." Ikki said
"Ah… That would fall under tipping the balance of power among nations of the world." Akihito Toranaga replied
"True but I don't think having them in a national guard type military force as a deterrent to any nation that might want to act aggressively with or without yokai troops would be fine. They would also be very useful in rescue operations for national disasters like earthquakes, mudslides, tsunamis and terrorist attacks." Tsukune added
"Oh! I like that idea as we all know there are a few nations out there that will do their damnedest to build a yokai military force." Akihito said
"Well one of the things we will be declaring at the next world summit will be any nation that builds that kind of military to act aggressively to other nations. Shall see first hand what a real yokai military is capable of. That nations Government and military will be wiped out completely. No prisoners, No mercy and the nation shall then be handed over to the U.N. until the people can rebuild their country." Tsukune said in a serious tone.
Then they all went over a few of the other articles in the draft voicing concerns as well as ways to make things safer for everyone. By the time they finished up that part of the meeting Akihito Toranaga, Taka Hagimora and Ikki Tushanari had a real feel for the kind of person Tsukune was. This was a leader who would work hard to insure everyone benefits from coexistence. Where old fears are calmed and true understanding and working together peacefully towards a brighter tomorrow. He was honorable, honest to a fault, passionate and determined to protect everyone...human and yokai alike. He had seen and survived things that would have broken most of the toughest men in the world, leaving them completely catatonic. But instead of breaking this young man had thrived. He had become stronger in mind, body and spirit. After meeting him it was hard to remember that he was barely 18 years old and still in high school.
Then they were joined by their wives and children who were excited to meet Moka and Tsukune, thus they wound up staying for dinner at the palace before heading back to the yokai realm and Shuzen Castle.
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