Moka hit the door to Tsukune's office like a freight train. The receptionist nearly snapped her neck as she followed the speeding vampire with her eyes. Closing the doors she hurried over to her husband's desk, starting to wonder why it was thirty feet from the door to the desk, placed her hands on the edge and stopped to breath. The whole time she had been running from the hospital wing to the office she had been trying to work it out in her mind, but there was no way it made sense. Her mother had used an annihilation spell. Her, Touhou Fuhai, Tenmei Mikogami, and Alucard were all in the radius of the spell and were destroyed. There was no way that she could still be around, even though it would make Moka happier than she could express, it just wasn't possible.
"Uhh... I can't tell if you are mad, or distressed. All I know is that you rarely are out of breath aside from some rather personal activities we do when we're alone. I will wait until you can breath again before asking you what happened," the man sitting behind the desk asked her.
She looked into her husband's eyes with one of the most serious expressions she ever had, "Tekeshi saw mother. I don't know how, why, or even if it is possible, but he described her perfectly. He hasn't ever seen a picture of her, and we've never talked about her in front of him. He described her right down to where she was from, and even her favorite style of clothing. Please tell me you can make sense of it."
Tsukune sat there for a few seconds before speaking, "Slow the hell down, and explain what happened in detail."
"Tekeshi was running from Harumi, and at some point ran up a tree. While he was there he claimed he spoke to a woman named Akasha who was sitting in the tree with him. His description of the woman was a perfect double for mother. We haven't ever discussed her in front of him. Could the seal be breaking down since he removed the limiter, or could he be falling into insanity."
Tsukune sat further back in his chair. This was something he had not heard of before. What could cause someone to see an image of a deceased individual. Schizophrenia was a possibility, and was prominent in people who had IQs over 150 like Tekeshi did. They were proud their son was a genius, something that neither one of them could lay claim to themselves, but it was possible that children of two Shinsos could be prone to mental illness, as far as they knew Tekeshi was the first so there was so little known about them. A breakdown in the seal was possible as well, maybe that power was manifesting itself as something from his son's genetic memory. Yukari might be able to make more sense of it than he could.
"Moka, I will get in contact with Yukari. She might be able to make more sense of this than we can, or might know of someone who could. It may be him developing Schizophrenia or something dealing with him being born of two Shinso vampires. If it is a breakdown of the seal I need to find a way to examine it without him finding out. For now just stay calm. If he says anything about it happening again then we definitely need to do something about it. Just keep your head clear, remember that school starts tomorrow so we need to be at the top of our game in case anything happens."
Tsukune got up from his chair and walked around the desk. He took Moka in his arms and just held her. Partly to help her calm down, and partly to keep himself in check. He had spent so much time trying to get over the loss, but something seemed to want to torture them. If it was possible she was still alive somehow, then he wanted to bring her back into their lives. For both of their sakes.
Utsuki ducked in to the room while the other three were arguing over responsibility for Tekeshi's head injury. She didn't know what to think of the succubus. The only thing that crossed her mind is that she could cosplay as a Japanese Dolly Parton. Bust size not withstanding she couldn't understand how an accident could make the girl think she was a lesbian. Had she been looking where she was going, like she had been telling Tekeshi to do, then it wouldn't have happened, but now she knew there were going to be stories about her within hours of school actually starting. Her life now showed that, yes there was a way for it to get worse, and that it would at a moments notice.
Walking back towards the little cubicle that the doctor had placed Tekeshi in she heard bones cracking. Ready to slap him for being stupid she stopped when she reached the curtain. There in front of her Tekeshi had an orc, in full monster form, eating the floor. He had its arm twisted almost all the way around, and his foot pressed in the back of its head. His limiter was still on so she didn't understand why he was able to look so bored.
"If you're finished gawking at me, would you be so kind as to go find someone to deal with him. As much fun as it would be to rip his arm off dad would frown upon it. Not to mention he smells like he hasn't bathed in a year, and for all I know he hasn't since he is an orc," The man in the limelight said rather dryly.
"Where did he come from?"
"How do I say this. When a mommy orc and a daddy orc encounter each other the daddy orc usually rapes the mommy orc. After nine months a baby orc is born. Any other questions?"
"They have to rape female orcs, its not consensual?"
"They are little better than beasts. NOW GET SOMEBODY TO SPIRIT HIM AWAY BEFORE I DIE OF THE STENCH!"
The yell echoed throughout the entire wing bringing everyone not in a hospital bed to investigate. Including two of the few security guards employed by the school. No one was sure why there was only a few instead of an army, but they only seemed to show up when no one really needed them, but they would still be useful to have at that moment. In what could only be considered a circus, which entailed Tekeshi repeatably punching the orc in the face, and the two goblins security guards, who happened to be closely related to orcs though smaller, weaker, and greedier, getting batted about like they were insects, the beast was finally subdued and carted off somewhere for who knows what punishment.
Tekeshi returned to the bed with a scoff, "Well I can see how my high school career is going to go. Should I go ahead and paint a target on the backs of all my blazers now, or wait awhile."
"I'm sorry for all the trouble I'm causing you," Utsuki said quietly, honestly hoping that he wouldn't hear her.
"'Suki, you aren't at fault. Sooner or later I was going to end up in this situation whether or not you ever entered the picture. You just have to remember, monsters typically follow their baser instincts more than humans do. A monster like an orc has to prove it is stronger than anyone else, or any other race. Vampires rarely think about proving supremacy due to our natural abilities, and we honestly don't care if any of the other races recognize that as long as they don't insult us. Like what that bastard did the day before yesterday. Honestly, though most won't admit it, humans are much scarier than anyone you are likely to meet here. You managed to harness the power of the frickin sun for christ's sake, most yokai still won't even touch a gun. Even if you aren't all powerful you don't have to be, you have me to watch out for you," the crooked smile he gave her reminded her of when he passed the bus just a couple of days earlier.
"Thank you, but why did you call me 'Suki? It doesn't mean the same as Utsuki."
"Given that Utsuki and Suki are both stand alone names without a meaning I don't see what the problem is, besides it is just a nickname. I just cut off the ut to make it easier to say."
She gave him a cold look as she stood to leave, "I will thank you to leave my name alone, Tekeshi-SAN. I don't go around calling you Tek now do I?"
Tekeshi smiled, "Most of my friends in America do, and there is one more reason I'm calling you 'Suki."
"What is that," she said as she turned around.
"It's a contracted form of vampire."
"I've never heard of anything like that," the voice from the receiver replied.
Tsukune groaned, "All that extra studying you did and you never came across anything similar. Tell me, Yukari-chan, what was the purpose if you learned a bunch of useless facts."
"Studying is fun, maybe you should try it sometime. Remind you of what your students have to do all the time."
"No fair. I barely managed to study half the time we were in high school thanks to you, Mizore, and Kurumu. I don't want to start trying again after twenty years, my head might explode."
Yukari giggled, "Then get Tekeshi to help you, him and Machiko are always top of their class. I wouldn't be surprised if he doesn't beat the grade record I set. It does still stand, doesn't it."
"We can't all be geniuses. Most of us are lucky if we can even do long division in our heads. Anyways, say hi to Fong-Fong and Machiko for me and Moka. And try to make it over for the school festival if you can this year."
"Will do. Give everyone my love when you see them. Bye."
"Bye, Yukari."
As he was setting the receiver down Moka walked into their suite. It was accessed by an elevator hidden behind a painting in the headmaster's office, making it very useful for scaring the wits out of students waiting to meet with him to discuss punishment. It also made it impossible for the majority of the staff to find him when he wanted to be inaccessible. As far as he knew only he, Moka, and Ruby knew where the entrance was and how to activate the elevator.
"Did she know anything," Moka asked, seating herself in Tsukune's lap.
He shook his head, "Yukari may know more about magic than most living beings, but she doesn't know everything like you get the impression from her. She promised to look into it though. I might look through some of Mikogami's papers and tomes, he always seemed to know the right action to take, so maybe he had some contingencies written out for me just in case I needed them."
"It worries me. If only father hadn't pulled his disappearing act, then he might have answers for us. He always had the answers when we were starting out. I know that after mother died he lived in half seclusion, and that it only got worse when he decided that you were at a level equal to him. After he told us how to save Tekeshi's life he just seemed so despondent, and then he seemed to cease existing."
"Moka, in the few years I knew your father I determined that he was a man of unknowable motivations. He only did things that would affect him and those he held dear, the rest of the world be damned. I will admit it was fun to watch him and my father in the same place, I would have put money on my father passing out, instead he talked your father into starting an investment firm and putting him in charge of it."
Moka chuckled lightly, "I don't think father even realized what happened for a few days after, who knew your father had it in him. Still, there has to be some reasonable explanation for why father just vanished without a trace. Vampires aren't known for being spontaneous, and with as much power as he held someone would have to have noticed him."
"It may have been in his plan. We know that he had connections to Mikogami, besides your mother that is. It took me several years to become his equal, and I don't think I actually reached that point. I really think he just got tired of dealing with me," Tsukune said, desperately trying to lift the mood.
"I think it actually hit Kokoa harder than me or Akua. She got over it better than any of us were expecting. She got over that better than us actually getting married, anyways nobody was attacked during the aftermath."
"She just wanted affection from him. Even if she is a proud vampire, she was still a young girl at that time. Honestly she should start trying to get out there and settle down. I do feel sorry for the man who marries her," he said with a genuine smile.
Moka punched him rather forcefully in the shoulder, "Just what do you mean by that? That my sister is a barbarian, or a spoiled brat?"
"I mean she has a very unpredictable personality. She can seem sweet and innocent one second, and then she takes out several square yards of woodlands because she misinterpreted something someone said to her. There are still bets going on out in the world whether Gin will ever have children after she kicked him when he gave her those flowers with another girl's name on them," He replied as he felt bones shifting themselves back into position.
"That was his fault, how was Kokoa supposed to know that he was giving every girl on campus a bouquet of flowers to apologize for his behavior during the time he attended school here."
Tsukune deadpanned, "I don't know, maybe the three wagons full of flowers behind him, and the sudden prevalence of girls walking around with flowers."
"You win that one. What prize are you going to take," Moka asked in a husky voice.
"Let's discuss that behind closed doors."
"I see no reason to keep you any longer. It has to be something related to both your parents being so powerful. I have worked on several vampires in the years since I started practicing medicine, and none of them healed this fast. Try not to show yourself around here too often, I would hate to have to work on you as often as I did your father," the doctor said as he finished examining Tekeshi during the aftermath of the attack.
Standing and pulling his shirt back over his head he mumbled something to the effect of "thanks doc" and then headed off to find Utsuki. He had a feeling she was going to be near Yusa and Asusa, and now that she was here, Harumi. The three yokai girls tended to stay close together when they could, and that usually spelt some kind of trouble for someone, quite often Tekeshi. If they somehow meshed Utsuki into the group who knew what could happen, all of them were already going to have a gaggle of lovestruck boys following them. If they weren't careful the boys could become quite militant in their pursuit.
"It wasn't my fault for the last time. I didn't tell him to hide up a tree and fall out of it, he did that on his own," he could tell that Harumi was up in arms trying to prove her innocence of his injury.
Utsuki spoke next, "He wouldn't be running if he wasn't scared of the 'Destined One' talk you keep spouting."
"Who but a destined one would save a girl's life like he did," the succubus asked smugly.
"Maybe the person who thought of the girl as their younger sister?"
"Use what ever logic you want, but he will be mine, Dyke."
At that he decided to speak up, much to his chagrin, "Harumi, don't call 'Suki a dyke. Besides being impolite, I don't think that it is actually true. Also, she is right."
Harumi screwed up face up trying to appear cute, "But Teki, you had one of them saying he was the bitch of the human race and he gave it up for free."
Tekeshi grew a bit warm at that reminder, "Yeah, I was a horrible child. It doesn't change the fact that you are family. I just can't bring myself to think of you, Yusa, or Asusa in that kind of light. I'm sorry, it just won't happen."
Before he could comprehend he had three girls hanging off of him, and Asusa whispering in his ear, "They say that incest is best, hehe."
Tekeshi looked over to Utsuki with a pleading face, "Please help me for the love of all that is sacred in this messed up world."
Utsuki just shook her head, "I am not involved in this in any way. Have fun."
A/N: I have had to move to a place I don't have regular internet access, so I honestly can't say when I will be able to update anything. Please those of you who enjoy my work please bear with me. Read, Review, and give me ideas. Flames will be used to ward off horny Yuki-onna.
