The Monsterhood Friend chapter 28
"I still don't know why were helping her, she actually killed tsukune?" I complained "well kurumu tried to kill him first, why forgive her?" yukari spat back "touché", the girl, ruby is resting on a floor while we looked over here, "so what's going to happened when she wakes up?" kurumu questioned "we get some answers about this hatred she holds for humans and the reason behind the disappearing people" moka responded "ah!" speak of the devil and he shall respond the girl woke up, "What? Wh-where am I Ugh!"
"ahh ruby-san your awake, don't move to much your still injured from the fight!" tsukune reassured "ugh, where, where am i? what are you guys?" so many questioned from the newly awake "well first off, I'm tsukune aono, and I'm human we just arrived here and now we stay at the motel we were planning to stay at"
"Stop lying you can't really be human if so you would be dead and I wouldn't be defeated by you!?"
"true but you would of lost to me, and beside he was borrowing the blood of the vampire over there" ruby looked and saw I pointed at moka "Vampire?"
"yeah, so I'm human, yukari is a witch and those other three are monsters, we are a mix group"
"stop joking around, monsters that's impossible monsters can't be friends with human's nor witches!"
"oh why? I've been friends with tsukune since we were children and yukari doesn't hate anyone here? So how is it impossible?" after my rant tsukune started to acke "Ugh, mmm" ruby just let go of tsukune, then he held his shoulder "that wound, it's that wound the one I sliced" she commented "why did you help me, I tried to kill you back there, don't you hate me?"
"well I did, and I already asked that, but as you see tsukune is extremely forgiving he can't hate anyone so we learn to trust him, also two of our friends actually tried to do that same" kurumu and yukari looked away from my gaze, "and besides, I went overboard as well when I attacked you, knowing that ruby-san is just trying to help a fellow witch I'm really sorry and understand what you did" he threw a painful smile but a nice one at best.
Next day came around and it wasn't calm, "here's your breakfast ruby-san!, by the way these monster and witches' healing abilities are amazing, because ruby-san's face looks a lot better!" is this man trying to get another girl falling for him? Ruby-san didn't seem very happy about the scenario just glaring tsukune down, "hey shiva-kun open wide!" I turn to see kurumu offering her food "ahhh!, mmm" it was just normal rice with a piece of pork, but it tasted great "and now my turn ah!" dam I was fooled into a sharing moment "dammit, okay here you go" I dug up some rice with sauce and meat "Mmm, mm AHHHH!" she suddenly burst out smoke from her mouth "hot! Hot! Hot!" she then gulped down some water I had on me "Oi that's mine!"
"What was that, what did you order!?" kurumu questioned "hot and spice rice curry with burning chicken? What can't handle it?"
"No how can you?!" she was totally confused on how I even have feeling in my tongue "well I love spicy stuff, my entire family too" she just laid dead on the floor "oh shit kurumu are you okay Hun?"
"bahhhhhh~" is all she said, then the sliding door opened "hey welcome back yukari-chan, you said you went for a walk yet you have a bag?"
"hehehe, check this out! I went to a store called super-market I did shopping all by myself!" she sounded extremely proud of her achievements "nice job yukari, when you got here you were very afraid of the city now you went shopping by yourself!" moka congratulated "yeah, at first I gave up letting everyone understand my feelings and now I'm going to get to understand everyone else!" she grown up so much "and it's all thanks to tsukune-san he helped me by coming up with this idea" she gave him a big hug, "Well go for you yukari eventually you'll just do this by yourself and have nothing to fear?" I mentioned she just gave me a determinated nod, "stop joking around" a quite voice spoke up "you guys are so naïve" ruby continued "I'm not going to be fooled because I know how dirty and how selfish humans are, I'm never going to trust them!" she leaped for tsukune, "I'll peel off that monstrous human skin right now!"
"Enough!" I caught her jab "we give you peace and relaxment and you treat us with utter disrespected!" she looked into my eyes with fear "learn to trust people, don't let the past destroy you," I grabbed the drink out of tsukune hands, "listen we understand the witches ranch is being terrorized and we wish to help but hatred will get you nothing," I put it in her hand and closed it "so stop this foolish behaviour and listen and trust us?" I offered with my respect "sh-shut up!" ruby threw the drink away "it's too late now, you can't do anything about it, human's have already angered my master, and punishment is in order!"
"sigh, fine then hate all your life I've tried" I shrugged and sat back down.
Later that night everyone was asleep, tsukune across from me, moka and yukari by his side and kurumu is sleeping in my bed and ruby was awake sitting next to me, I was enjoying the peaceful night until the sound of sliding doors woke me up, and tsukune too, "mmm who's waking me up?" the moment I moved kurumu was complaining "hey~ it's sleep time what's going on?"
"sorry kurumu the witches are moving, hey tsukune you up as well?" I whispered "yeah what's going on?"
"I don't know but I'm stuck so you and moka can go check it out" I waved my hand at him "wait, why me and moka?"
"because it's sleep time and kurumu won't let go" she moaned again from my movement "fine, I'll get moka you love birds stay put and no funny business while I'm gone" tsukune mentioned "yes sir" I saluted and fell back and cuddled kurumu.
"hey yukari where is my magu?" ruby questioned "in order to use magic witches need to something to control nature's power, and I can't go back to where I live without it"
"you should stay here a little longer, I'm tsukune wants to be your friend?" yukari tried to reassure but ruby just felt pain "my hatred for human's is a bit stronger then some friendship, my parents died in a car accident in the human world when I was young. Humans were the ones who took my precious parents away from me" she cupped her mouth and let tears fell "while I was alone, all I did was hate human, hate this city I hated everything to do with them" she was devastated remembering memories of painful past "you're very lucky yukari-san you have friends like tsukune-kun that is why I'm jealous of your life," she had yukari confused "I wish I have meet you guys a lot sooner" ruby bid her farewell and took off running down the stairs and came with tsukune and moka eavesdropping, "hey, ruby-san wait!" yukari tried to slow her down but to no avail, "it's too late for me to change my lifestyle" ruby thought to herself "I've found you, I've come to pick you up I've brought you stick too hurry master is angry" a crow spoke to her. "ruby! Where are you!" tsukune tried to find her along with yukari "look yukari up there!" tsukune found her in the air, "ruby-san!" yukari tried to catch up, but she just mouthed goodbye and took off faster.
I was once again awaken by the door opening, "ahhh~ who is it this time?" I saw the sad face of tsukune and yukari enter "ohh let me guess ruby ran off?" I questioned "I thought we could be friends, but she just left us" yukari spoke with extra sadness in her eyes "well I'm sorry but ruby is a complicated person, she as been hurt in the past and refuses to get help, those type of people are finicky" I replied. "hehehe is this really what you want? If you let it be she is going to kill more people" out come the bus driver slithering about "when did you get here?" I questioned "just now, but the mastermind behind as finally took her step, I'm guessing she's going to bring an army to destroy this city with the help of ruby-san? They'll kill any human who interfere just to protect her ranch" he told his theory which was more like a conclusion on the matter, "So what are you going to do young one? The relationship between human's and witches are deeper then you think can you stop them if it's even on the table?" he's not very reassuring "well we know where they live, so were going to bring ruby-san back" tsukune stood up taking change "I truly understand why ruby-san would hate the humans but we can't just sit here, a massacre between humans' and ruby-san won't solve anything" he was like an inborn leader "let's go back, back to the ranch!" he stated loudly finally waking the sleeping bun "wh-what's going on? It's still night?" she spoke rubbing her eyes "sleeping time is over, and fighting time as begun!" I told her, but she didn't understand "I don't know what we're doing?"
"just get dress we're going to save ruby!" she woke up and gave me a slight nod.
We all hoped on the bus, and we sat at the front, "hold on you guys" everyone grabbed the railing in front off them, he pushed the break and the accelerate "ummm, what are you- AHHH!" the next minute we launched off to the road and started driving fast, and not a normal fast, "hehehe, I told you to hold on" he remarked "are you getting my bus driver was a lot faster then this!"
"oh are you talking about the southern bus driver, jem!" so that's her name "yeah, if she was here she'll call you a whuss for worry about road safely!" I pushed him on "hehehe, you know how to get a man riled up!" he glared at me and picked the pace up and jumped a hill "YAHHHOOOO!" I was excited but the others were terrified screaming in terror, "AHHH! Why did you provoke him!" I heard kurumu yelled "we're racing against time are we not?"
"Yes you sure are kid hahaha!" the driver responded we jumped another hill and found ruby tied by some vines by a shady older person. "hehehe, we're here was that fast enough for ya?"
"you call yourself a bus driver that was insane!" kurumu yelled terrified "don't blame me I was provoked" he went off to smoke leaving us with the two people "so it was your bunch? Seems like you've taken good care of my ruby?" the old woman replied "what do you mean yours? I don't remember a carer being so rude as to treat their own kind like that!" I shot back "that was your doing you poisoned her with your false expectations!" she was extremely delusional, "hey you there, young witch, we are the same race, I'll give you another chance, come and be part of our group, we are far greater then the human race, we will show our superiority and exterminate them" yukari was scared and attached to tsukune instead, "fine, this is indeed a shame, Then You All have To Die HERE!" she waved her hand and the ground began to shake, "I knew it this sunflower patch isn't a regular patch guys look"
"you see, plant manipulating is my specialty, this is a monster that I've grown with all my care, It's a man eating plant!" from the ground came a creature of sharp teeth and vine like body, "this is a good chance for me to analyse its combat skill, Kill them all!"
"Look out!" I pushed tsukune away while everyone back off "Come on ugly fight me!"
"no shiva don't attack it!" tsukune pleaded "what are you planning tsukune? this thing is dangerous!"
"please we're only here to talk! We want to help protect this place that doesn't involve fighting!" tsukune proclaim but to no one's surprise she refused, through letting her monster attack "you make me sick, now you're begging for your life, foolish humans, die already!"
"shit tsukune are you okay!" I ran over protecting tsukune from further attacks "Your wrong… ruby-san, we saw ruby-san suffering from hating human's all the time! A fight would only deepen that wound!" he tsukune with all the passion he could carry "instead of fighting, you should try to understand each other and eventually become friends?!" he cried because he really didn't want to hurt others but the cold heart of the witch was too cold for tsukune to reach "don't make me laugh, what kind of babble is this human talking about! A trash like you can never get along with the witches that day is never going to happen!" she sent her monster to attack "Die!"
"Not on my watch!" I went to punch it but something came from the other side "Stop! Please stop hurting those people!" ruby has driven one of her wings through the beast then sliced the rest through, "ru-ruby you.."
"master is it really out of control?" ruby responded "is it true that a battle is the only way to settle this? Ruby argued against the witches choice "I.. want to trust and believe in tsukune-san and the others, please!" ruby was in tears hoping her words can fix things, "Ruby-san!" everyone became relaxed fools mistake, "gyak!" was the pain ruby made when she was pierced by a vine, "every… single… one of you… is a fool, just foolish pests!" the older witch was angry "that's it I will destroy everything myself