It was another day at Yokai Academy. A school unlike any other. The classes were normal enough, the students were a lot less normal considering everyone was a monster, with the exception of Tsukune Aono. He's the only human at this school. I, along with one like minded individual, keep his secret from being found out by anyone in the school. Students, and especially staff. He'd be dead if it weren't for us. It's been two months since I had Sai go back home to his family. He had something I didn't and I sort of envied him for it, but I cannot dwell on the past. I can't say that I didn't look back on the choices I made and thought of ways to change what I did. I know I can't change a damn thing, but there were so many possibilities to change everything for the better. I wavered off those thoughts and got ready to attend the Newspaper Club meeting. I could only wonder what we would do to stop the Disciplinary Committee from torturing our fellow students of the school. I may not know these bastards, but I won't let them rule over the academy and make absurd claims that they try to keep the peace and preserve the order. I won't stand idly by and let them continue with their tyranny. I put on my usual all black attire and made my way out of the dorm. Once I was out, I walked to the Academy gates. Ruby greeted me gleefully, but she soon saw the look on my face. Devoid of anything. No emotion, not even cocking a smug grin. She looked worried. Then again, she had the right to be. The Disciplinary Committee began top have suspicions about the Newspaper Club. Understandable, since we had secretly launched an investigation on them. We were going to get this done, with or without Gin. Whether he liked it or not, we were going to expose them for who they really are. Since I was better at stealth than the rest of them. I took pictures of everyone who the Security Committee was associated with. (I don't really care for naming them, so that parts going out the fucking window.)
"So, this is how they're pulling their crap, huh? Good. I should have taken enough pictures to expose these assholes to all of campus, but more than likely, more than half of the school already knows about how shady the Disciplinary Committee really is. Hopefully I can get more dirt on them, but for now this will have to do." I leave my hiding spot and get back to the Newspaper Club room. Everyone looked glum, and for good reason. Our "fearless" leader finally decided to show up. "What the hell do you want now, Gin?" I asked, not wanting to be bothered with him because what we ere doing was for the greater good of the school.
"I need you to stop what you're doing, right now." He replied. "This isn't going to end well, trust me." He continued.
"I'm sorry, all I took from that was "Hi, my name is Gin Moriyoka, and I don't want my Newspaper Club members to help their fellow school mates, because I'm a narcissistic asshole who wants to disband the club for absolutely not fucking reason"." I mocked as I put the photos I took down on the table in front of everyone.
"Please, listen to me. You guys don't know what you're getting yourselves into. You've got to stop, right now." He pleaded.
"Gin, where the hell have your balls gone off to?" I asked, staring daggers into him. "Ever since they resurfaced, you have become the biggest bitch I've ever seen. Trust me, that's no easy feat. We are going to continue with this, whether you like it or not. We will expose the Disciplinary Committee, we will make sure everyone here is can live out their school lives in peace without them breathing down their necks, and we will win this. So whatever it is that's making you act this way, you better figure out what you're going to do soon or else we will do this or without you." I say sternly, taking the camera from around my neck.
"Please, just listen to me." He pleaded again.
"What is it?" I say calmly. "You're wasting our time right now, Gin. So whatever it is you have to say, spit it out now." I said sternly.
"The Disciplinary Committee, they...They aren't to be taken lightly...They've done some very despicable things...That's why I won't take part in this..." He said, almost breaking down. In truth, I did feel some sympathy for him, but that wouldn't be enough for him to convince me we should stop.
"I'm going to tell you this once, Gin: either you be the leader you're supposed to be or you can stay on the sidelines like a bystander while we actually try to put an end to what reign the Security Committee has over the school." I gave him that one ultimatum. That one chance to either join us or just stand aside.
He simply shook his head. Me, along with everyone else looked at our leader in disappointment. The bell rang and it was time for us to get to class. We began filing out. As I walked by Gin, my left shoulder hit his right one. I didn't look at him because I was disgusted with him.
"To think I actually had hope for you. You're just another in a long lists of disappointments that I've met. You're actually no different." I say, leaving the club room. Leaving him to be alone.
After class, we went to lunch. I thought about what I could do to get more on the Disciplinary Committee. It wasn't like I was trying to get revenge or anything. I just wanted them to stop impeding on the popularity of the Newspaper Club. It's annoying to know that there are people who will willingly to out of their way to make sure someone doesn't have fun. It's something that really bothers me for as long as I can remember. Why try so hard to ruin someone's day? Do you know have any better use for your time or anything better to do? A bullshit reason for a bullshit cause. Where haven't I heard that one before?
"Hey, Damion, are you okay?" Kurumu asks me with a worried expression on her face. I look up at her.
"Don't worry about me, Kurumu. I'm fine." I respond. "I just have a lot on my mind right now. This Disciplinary Committee is weighing heavy on my mind. And right now I'm trying to work my way around them. Fighting seems like a very viable option to me right now. Given my nature, but the newspaper may be the only way of exposing them in a peaceful manner." I gave it more thought. If the Disciplinary Committee resorted violence, then that would allow me to respond in kind. Self defense and all that.
"Hopefully we can just use the Newspaper and not violence for a change." Tsukune said nervously.
"For once I actually agree with, Aono." To everyone's surprise, they never thought I'd agree with Tsukune on anything. Much less on choosing whether or not if I wanted to fight. "I'd actually like to resolve this without having to resort to violence for once." I say calmly. Not caring about the surprised looks on everyone's faces. I just kept to myself and finished my lunch. "We will get this done, but for now, just go through the day like you normally would." I ordered. "We don't want to give them an edge they need to make them even more suspicious of us. That's the kind of thing we don't need right now." I say, getting up and dumping my tray in the trash. I then returned to them, and they were still looking at me as if I were crazy. "What?" I ask them.
"You don't want to fight?" Kurumu asked.
"Seriously, you've done nothing but fight since you got here." Yukari said as input to my decision.
"I know, and that's the reason why I want to try to resolve this with the newspaper and not mindless violence." I say in retort. "I'm not just someone who lives off of being violent. I do like handling things with reason and logic rather than fighting all the time. I might like to fight a lot, but that doesn't mean I don't like taking things into consideration diplomatically." I grabbed my bag and headed to my next class. As I was in class all I could think about was how I could get these guys out of the position they were in and expose them. Once class was over, I went back to the club room, only to find out something that has gone very wrong. Moka slammed a newspaper on the table, and it was about Tsukune.
"Son of a bitch..." I grabbed the paper and read over it. "It seems like we're running out of options here...The Disciplinary Committee has started an investigation on you, Tsukune." I tell him, much to his dismay. "None of us know what they know, but what's going to happen from here on is that we're going to finish our investigation on them first..." I say in a take charge manner. "Tsukune, what you do is lay low from now on. Don't stick around in one place for too long. If you're approached by a member of the Disciplinary Committee, come find us, we'll deal with them. Mizore, I need to to find out what the students know about the Disciplinary Committee. Witnesses, past victims, and whatever other dealings they had to keep the students quiet about them. Kurumu, Moka, Yukari, get recordings and picture of everything shady that they do. I know we've been doing that, but we need to step it up." I felt like more of a leader than Gin did as of right now. "As for me, I'm going see to it that Tsukune isn't captured by these bastards. I've already had people taken from me, tortured and killed...Not again." I crack my neck and my knuckles. "This time I'm going to make sure that doesn't happen." I vow.
"Wow. Tha-" Tsukune is about to say, but I interrupt them.
"Don't you dare say it or I will fucking destroy you." I glare at him menacingly, making him quiver in his shoes. I didn't care if I was helping him stay alive here at Yokai, I don't like him. And if there's one thing that I don't need from this human dirt bag is his thanks. I wanted this to end, but whatever actions the Disciplinary Committee would take to make this swing in their favor will determine my actions as well. I may like to fight, but I've already lived a life of nothing but violence. I'm not going to let anyone suffer anymore just because they want to justify an unjust cause. I would not let that stand.
We went to class, and as we were in the middle of it, Kuyo, and other members of the Disciplinary Committee were with him, showed up in the classroom. I looked at him, seeing that stupid smug look on his face made me want to punch him. I controlled myself for the time being, but my monster energy wouldn't cease pouring itself from my body. I know he could feel it.
"Damion Castro, Tsukune Aono, Moka Akashiya, Kurumu Kurono, Mizore Shirayuki and Yukari Sendo. You five are wanted by the Disciplinary Committee. Please, don't make this more difficult than it already has to be." Kuyo announced. "On second thought, make it more difficult. It'll be more fun that way." He said, licking his lips. We all go up from our seats and started our saunter toward the classroom door. I walked, glaring at Kuyo as I did. One of his cronies pushed me, as a way of trying to keep me going and to stop looking at the man who I wanted to take down, without a second thought. All that push did was anger me. I quickly turned to him, causing him to put his bo staff up, to protect himself.
"Do that again, he won't be the only one getting his ass kicked soon. I will end you." I spoke with disdain and hatred. At this point I really wanted to fight, but I restrained myself and walked out of the classroom to join Moka, Tsukune, Kurumu, Mizore, and Yukari. They then took us to another room where we were interrogated about Tsukune. I was tied down to a chair and had my arms held, so I couldn't break free. I sighed at this and glare at them angrily.
"Tell us what we want to know asshole." One says aggressively to me, which made me chuckle slightly, because he was trying to be intimidating. "Look, we can do this the easy way or the hard way. I can make you feel pain like you never have before." He said, with an evil grin. This caused me to laugh.
"Please, skip the foreplay and get straight to the main even with me, big boy. I don't like beating around the bush." I said, with a smile on my face, which angered him, causing him to punch me in the face. I didn't budge. The only thing that happened was now my bottom lip was bleeding. "I've taken harder hits from my sister, and trust me she's made from tougher stuff than you." This earned me a growl from him, as I was only gaining more joy from making their job that much more difficult. "Come on, you gotta do better than that. I know you can do better than that. You guys killed a group of students for speaking out against you, so why should this be any different? Show me what the fuck you got, because so far I'm disappointed." I spoke casually. This wasn't the first time I've been tortured. This sent him over the edge and he started punching me with all his force. Once he ran out of energy to keep punching me, I started laughing manically. "Come on! Don't tell me that's all ya got, Chief! You weren't even close to making me feel that! Saizo did more than you, and that says something!" I turn my head to spit out some blood on the floor. "If that's all you got, then get the hell out of my face." I say to him. He then got in my face.
"I'm gonna make you talk one way or another, you son of a bitch." He grab me by my hair as he spat his distasteful words at me. I headbutted him in his face, breaking his nose, causing him to let go and fall to the floor, holding his nose.
"Then stop fuckin' talkin' and get to it already, motherfucker! You're wasting my goddamn time! Do something, bitch!" I shouted, as I broke free from the grip of his subordinate and freeing myself from my rope restraints. As they tried to stop me, one by one they began to fall. I turned to look at the one whose nose I broke. He was still on the floor, holding his nose, but he was looking at me. He was scared, looking as if he had seen something out of his worst nightmares. I walked to him and grabbed him by the collar of his blazer and lifted him off the ground. "I told you to do something, but all you continued to do was waste my time, and now, you're going to end up like the rest of the, bloody, beaten, and broken." I grabbed his face and slammed his head into the floor. Kuyo appeared in front of his fallen comrades. "So you do care about them. How very touching." I say, glaring at him, with my eyes glowing and my monster energy flowing. "Too bad that doesn't matter. I'm only here to take you the hell down and that's all. And there's no one here that's gonna stop me." I say darkly, ready to take him on.
"I don't think so." He snaps and I see bubbles of what's happening Tsukune, Moka, Kurumu, Yukari, and Mizore. I'm awestruck by what I'm seeing, but it also causes me to begin seething with anger. "Oh, you actually care about them. How touching." Kuyo says mockingly, with a sinister smile. "Tell me the truth about Tsukune Aono, and they will all go free, along with you of course. Any further uncooperative behavior and they will be subject to torture, and you will die along with Aono." He gave the hand signal to show me a little of what they had in store for them, excluding. I growled at this. I didn't want to rat him out, but I didn't want to see them hurt either.
"I may not like him or care much for him, but I'm not gonna betray him." I said with valor. I saw the gleam in Tsukune's eyes.
"Thanks Da-" He began saying, but I cut him off before he could even finish his sentence.
"Don't. You. Fucking. Say it." I demanded, glaring at him intensely. "Whatever it is you want to know, I'm not the one who can give you that answer. Why don't you ask the kid yourself, instead of trying to justify your cruel actions on those who mean you no physical harm? Because as I see it, you're just another puppet in the system of assholes who I'll gladly beat into oblivion soon." I say, clenching my fist as dark fire surrounds it. "When that time comes, I'll enjoy sealing your fate with the fires of Hell in tow." I dispelled the fire surrounding my hand. Kuyo chuckled lightly at me, and turned his attention to Tsukune.
"Tsukune Aono, tell us what you are, or your friends suffer." He said as he gave the signal for his compatriots to increase their punishment. Tsukune watched in horror as his friends were being tortured. Their pain was evident. He then looked to me and saw me standing behind Kuyo, calm and collected. This bothered him, knowing I cared deeply for Mizore the most out of everyone.
"Damion, how can you stand all calm and stoic?! Don't you see what's happening to them?! Don't you care at all about, Mizore." This made me turn my head away from him, but smile at the same time. I looked back to him and shrugged my shoulders. He was shocked at my uncaring mood.
"Tsukune, don't be so damn dense...Then again, I think even that is too difficult for you...If you think what you're witnessing is real, then allow me to demonstrate another form of my power to you." I say as snap my fingers, erasing the illusion, showing that the girls were fine. "If they were hurting them, don't you think I would have killed everyone who had anything to do with it in here already?" I ask him. "If you really do care about them Tsukune, you will tell him what you really are, and make sure this stops." I stare right into his eyes as I say this, making sure that the message is loud and clear. He nodded almost invisibly.
"I'm...I'm a...human..." He announced for the entire room to hear. "It's the truth! I'm a human!" He shouted this time. " Please, just let them go! Please!" He begged.
"You finally have the balls to do something right for once." I say, mostly to demoralize him. "Outside of that, Aono, you've earned some of my respect." I say, reassuring him with a nod as he looked at me. The girls, however, were shocked to find this out, excluding Moka, who already knew about this. Myself as well.
"Tsukune, the penalty for hiding out among monsters and in Yokai Academy, is death." To which he and Moka were shocked. I couldn't care any less. Kuyo looked at me. "Thank you for cooperating with us, despite the casualties you've elicited us today." He said, with his shit eating grin. I couldn't wait to punch his teeth down his fucking throat whenever I got the chance. The girls and I were escorted out. Moka being the rowdiest of all of us, trying to get to Tsukune. After that, Tsukune was taken to a prison cell and chained to a wall. The girls and I had our time to reflect on what happened moments after we left. Moka and I returned to the club room, Kurumu and Yukari went off somewhere on campus, and Mizore went to go think about life in her room. Moka and I sat in chairs opposite of each other. I sat there with a cold look on my face, not really caring if Tsukune was going to die or not.
"Damion, how can you just sit there, like you don't care?! Do you know what's about to happen?!" Moka asked me, with tears flowing down her cheeks. "Tsukune's going to die!" She screamed.
"And you expect me to care, Moka?" I asked, much to her shock. "I don't care about him. I never cared about him. Just because you do, does not mean I have to. I may have kept his secret for this long with you, but that was only out of respect for you, and that's it. I never agreed to keep him alive, I never wanted to keep him alive, but out of respect for you, Sai and I did all we could and more just to appease you. But it seems like even that wasn't good enough for you. All you care about is a human who, just like the rest of them, hold no real value to this world, only to just destroy it and rid it of its resources. For a long time, I may have done what I've done for you just for the sake of seeing you happy, but this...this is something I want nothing more to do with, but you don't get that, and you probably never saw it until I hit you with it right now. For all I care, he could die today and nothing about my life would change. One less problem out of it." I say, getting up to go see Mizore. As I go to the door, I heard Moka get up from her seat.
"So, does that mean you don't care about me anymore...?" She asked, with hurt in her voice. I turned my head to her. "Because if you still do, you would do something to save him...You would do something to save, Tsukune for me...!" She hollered at me. I hated this, yet it seems I couldn't escape it. Fucking ultimatums. I thought about this for a few seconds, but no more than five.
"You know, as much as I want to just walk over to you, and punch you dead in your face, Moka, you'd better feel lucky that I still have respect for you as kin." I said, much to her delight. "I will do what I can to help Tsukune, but not now. I need to check on my girlfriend." I said, leaving the club room and heading to Mizore's dorm room. When I got there, I knocked on her door. She opened it and hugged me immediately. I know she felt betrayed by Moka and Tsukune for not letting her Kurumu, or Yukari know that the bastard was a human all this time. "Mizore, I may have known, but I only kept it a secret this long out of respect for Moka. Nothing more. That was my entire involvement." I say as I hug her back. She nods at this and leads me to her bed. We're sat down there. I'm simply comforting her as she continues to just hold onto me. I then saw a raven land on Mizore's windowsill. "Don't worry, Babe. We're gonna save him from execution, and no one, not even Kuyo, will stop us from doing so." I say, with determination. "Besides, there's gotta be someone to knock him off this goddamn high horse, and it might as well be me." I say, with a faint grin. The pieces are in place for the Disciplinary Committee. Either we save Tsukune, or he dies later on today.
(I know I haven't gotten back to this in a very long time, but I have been working on other stories and some other personal business. I still very much hate this anime, but I can at least make something out of it. I've also been playing a lot of Overwatch and getting pissed as a result. And because of said result, I haven't been doing a lot of writing for anything. Sorry, but when I get angry, I just stop caring about a lot of things. I will continue to do this, though. Just because I remember this and this is my first fanfiction that is has the most views, which is awesome. You guys are awesome.)