I do now own Rosario Vampire, it is owned by Akihisa Ikeda.
I also wanted to point something out in response to an email I got asking to elaborate on which spider suit I am using for this story as they said they had a hard time visualising what I tried to describe. The suit I am using for this story is the Sam Raimi Spiderman movie suit, just more or less redone in the Rosario Vampire format, anime of manga, whichever helps you better visualise the story. Also, the reason for this is because that suit in particular looks the most realistically homemade in my opinion.
Flash forward…
It still called to him, the darkness of the black abyss it became. Even with it satiated with whom it had, it wasn't the same as it used to be. And he still held whatever it lusted after; the pain, the hatred, the despair, and the sadness. It still made that call, even as it was the motivator behind its host currently tearing Peter into shreds. His will may have been limitless but his body however sis have its limits, and those limits had been reached a solid ten minutes ago.
The present…
Against his own wishes, Peter was begrudgingly dragged to class by Moka in the same way a child would be dragged out of a toy store. Although a child probably wouldn't harbour the same amount of self pity as Peter currently did. At least it was moderately justified.
Whatever that blue haired girl had done to him it was still having quite a severe effect of him, he didn't quite understand until now how much he had relied on his spider sense up until this point, he was genuinely struggling to keep balance at that point as trying to quickly adapt to weakened senses overall was already beginning to take its toll, even when that time had only consisted of a moderately short walk from where they were to their home room. It was still jarring for Peter nonetheless, and at that point he was just hoping that the heightened senses he had become accustomed to would come back within hopefully the next five minutes. He couldn't hold his breath regardless however.
Luckily the pair arrived in class mere seconds before miss Nekonome, their homeroom teacher, made herself known and began taking the register. And something that both Peter and Moka immediately took note of was the absence of that blue haired girl. And in a stroke of luck, with Peter's somewhat intact perception he could detect that the room was fully stocked with the exception of one, that one being the spot in which that girls sat, right next to Moka. And with some simple deduction by listening to whom confirmed their attendance, he got that blue haired girls name; Kurono, Kurumu Kurono. At least I have a name, and a solid guess as to what she is.
Peter wasn't an idiot, which could be proven with a simple glance at his grades, and with any second of free time he had gotten recently he used that time to study monsters, or 'Yokai' as he discovered they tend to prefer to be noted as. But with all this studying came some benefits, whenever he would wander around the school, or more appropriately be dragged around by Moka, he could label what kind of yokai and passing student was likely to be. And with some unorthodox sneaking around in the school's archives he would discover he was right a solid ninety-five percent of the time. Apparently this Kurumu girl was a name he just so happened to have not checked over.
But regardless of that, Peter made a strong case in favour of this Kurumu girl being a 'Succubus', not exactly what he had wanted to run into considering what he had read about them, but he just had to play with the cards he was dealt was far as he was concerned.
The class went by uneventfully, nothing ever really happened in homeroom anyway as it was practically intended to be an hour of simply making announcements and killing time, te sort of time when people would have text books on theirs desks and magazines under them, that sort of affair. Although something that Peter admittedly had to appreciate about this time was the quiet as his senses returned to 'normal' and the migraine subsided. But that did not help with the brand new headache arising along with all these new questions in his head, as well as the overarching one of what this school was as a whole. Even after almost two weeks he hadn't exactly got his bearings just yet.
Peter was able to anticipate and thus prepare for the bell signaling a ten minute break between periods, immediately rushing out as to dwell on these questions, basically leaving Moka in the dust. Alright, I have a lot to get done and almost no time to do it, so the usual. First I'm going to need to establish when and how I'm going to get back into the archives so I can confirm any theories I have at the minute, I swear it's almost as if that room adapts to me every time I sneak in there. Then I'm going to need to-
Peter was so completely lost in his own inner ramblings that he all but completely ignored Moka after she just managed to catch up and began to continuously try to get his attention by prodding him in the back. It did not get his attention suffice to say, Moka still had not completely grasped Peter's personality so she hadn't quite figured out how to immediately get his attention just yet. Especially considering that Moka was also trying to stick close to Tsukune as now the hallways were crowded and she didn't want to lose track of her friend who seemed to be completely lost in his own world. Or at least that was until Peter's eyes suddenly shot open only to then turn on his heel to face his left as he simultaneously grabbed Moka and defensively forced her behind him, where Moka then also spotted why Peter suddenly became so reactive. That girl from before was in front and above then sitting on the stairs railing.
"Wow, that was fast, I hadn't even said anything yet. Good to know you can detect things nearby…", the blue haired girl finished with an almost chuckle. "Anyway, we have something to get straight between us Moka!". The girl then leapt down, flashing basically everyone who had crowded round to witness this event an eyeful of her underwear. Perverts.
"I case you didn't already know, my name is Kurumu Kurono. And you are beginning to become a real thorn in my side Moka Akashiya", she better back off sometime soon, as of recently Peter had become quite defensive of Moka when she wasn't in what Peter dubbed her 'Scary demon satan thing form'. It didn't quite roll of the tongue as he had hoped.
Kurumu continued. "And as you can guess, I can't have that.", Peter could tell that Kurumu was making multiple attempts to approach Moka, but he could also tell that she didn't want to go through someone, least of all him in particular. "Now, I obviously can't tell you everything can I? But to put it simply, you'd better say goodbye to your friend here.". And then Peter's spider sense went off.
He could tell she was trying to do what he assumed was that hypnosis trick again, but it wasn't as forceful as it was before. But that was because Kurumu was simply using it as a distraction. As Peter's spider sense was preoccupied he didn't immediately detect that Kurumu had suddenly clung to him like Velcro and was sensually rubbing her chest against him again, to the shock and confusion of Moka. "Hey Peter, you want to ditch Moka here and hang out with me for a while, right?", and then the mental attacks were in full blast once more, and just as painful as before.
Although he physically handled this pain much better than before, it still hurt about as much as getting his brain run over by a freight train. The main problem was that whilst spider sense detected any kind of danger it was without doubt more or less built for detected more physical danger such as punches or kicks, whereas in the case of mental attacks it would still detect them but since if didn't know what to do with the invading force it simply went into meltdown as a defensive countermeasure to ensure it wouldn't get in. It still hurt like hell. But even after saying all that, Peter hadn't had the abilities for a particularly long amount of time, only about five months overall and about four as Spiderman. So maybe all of these estimations were completely wrong and his head just wanted to also do some damage to him, after all for all Peter knew Kurumu might have just been staring awkwardly.
It genuinely took everything he had to not headbutt Kurumu as hard as he could, but to distract himself his eyes darted around the area, and with that he found some particularly interesting information. Everyone boy there, as well as the few girls scattered about, just looked to be in a loving daze as they all looked they they were drunk. Well, I can at least officially say that Kurumu is definitely a succubus. So is this the part we're the wings and claws come out or is that later.
It felt almost as if Kurumu could read Peter's thoughts as she became more and more annoyed and stared harder into his eyes. Or at least that was until Moka aggressively shoved Kurumu back, which was amusingly met with no reaction from the crowd, and wordlessly both Peter and Moka disappeared into the crowd and Peter guided the two of them outside, which caused Moka no small amount of confusion.
"Wait one second, why did you bring us outside Peter?", she asked with genuine curiosity, "Moka, I'd give us about five minutes until Kurumu is out here and trying to claw us apart, she a succubus!". Peter delivered that news a bit more urgently then he probably should have but at least the message got across to her. "Oh.. well that actually makes sense, it also explains why she was-", and Moka was unable to even finish her sentence as Peter's guess as to when Kurumu would attack was off by about four minutes and forty-five seconds, admittedly not his best gamble.
Kurumu had wordlessly picked up Moka by her shoulders and she flew into the distance amongst the forest. "Moka! Kurumu stop!", it was pointless as they were already out of earshot. "Damn! I need to go save her!", but just as he was about to start swinging into the trees he remembered that he didn't wear his suit under his uniform today, and today of all days too. And so Peter quickly made a snap decision and sprinted as fast as he could towards the student dorms.
Meanwhile with Moka, she and Kurumu had gotten into a heated argument after Kurumu dropped Moka from the air and she explained here side of the story, interlaced with a multitude of threats and incoming attacks, nearly losing a limb of every attack. Kurumu explained how succubuses were supposed to find a singular 'mate of fate' who they were supposed to stay with forever and apparently it was Kurumu's duty to her race to round up as many males to find any suitable candidates to assist in continuing their existence, in the process basically making those select males slaves until their untimely end. Kurumu said all this as she stood proudly over Moka injured form which was currently leaning against a tree as dodging one of Kurumu's attacks led to Moka being blindside by a stray branch.
"Hm, sound pretty miserable if you ask me.", the voice came from an unknown origin, or at least it was unknown until a bright red and blue figure came from nowhere and connected their foot directly with Kurumu's face sending her flying back a couple feet and directly into a tree. From which she immediately got back up and demanded answers. "Hey! Who the hell do you think you!", Kurumu's frustration was only amplified further when she was completely ignored by this strangely dressed individual who instead focused on and assisted Moka in getting back on her feet. At least now Kurumu had a better, much more annoying bullseye to aim for now.
"Moka, are you alright?", who one she came to now know as Spiderman asked with genuine concern. She still did not quite know how to react to seeing Peter in full costume, staring into those wide, white reflective lenses. It was strange, despite not being able to see through the lenses at all there was still so much humanity in them. She didn't know how to express. But that was until suddenly he shouted for her to get back as she was pushed away with strength as she was now out of the way of the oncoming Kurumu, of whom Spiderman simply did a backflip to get out of the way to then land in a strange sort of pose.
The pose he struck was the same one she had seen from the the newspaper articles from New York she had looked for as to get more information. It was almost a sort of squat, except his back was leaning down with one arm placing its hand to lightly touch the ground as his other arm was more or less raised at about shoulder height. It was a strange pose for certain but even after seeing such limited exposure it still seemed so iconic to his persona, it was strange for certain.
After Peter made his long awaited appearance Moka mostly just watched the fight play out the same way any of the residents in New York usually would as they admired the spectacle. And something that was made very apparent was that Peter definitely knew what he was doing here, or at least it looked like he did, because from what she found in the research she carried out suggested that Spiderman hadn't actually encountered any sort of Yokai in New York, mostly just bank robbers with their own weird personas and bloated egos. But suddenly Moka was rudely taken away from her daydreaming as she saw a red and blur blur head straight towards her, which she was luckily able to get out of the way from Spiderman Falling from the sky, but not without somehow losing her rosary during it that brief encounter. In the last moment of conscious Peter had he saw a bright red light emanate from Moka which quite clearly signaled that his last second plan had worked out. So far it had at least.
For some reason, Peter decided to take a two minute nap to recuperate from being thrown into a tree. But just has he once again revived access to eyesight he saw that Moka had returned to her Scary demon satan thing form again, white hairs and red eyes once more. And even after only being awake for a solid couple of second he could tell that Moka's transformation took up most of the fight. And he was about to let the two girls settle this themselves until he heard a tiny little detail to do with Moka mutilating Kurumu. And that's where I draw the line.
Inner Moka was making her way towards the distraught Kurumu of the ground, begging for mercy, and just as Moka considered going for a lung just for an added effect, that colourful idiot suddenly stood in front of the brainwashing succubus in a somewhat defensive stance. She knew what this meant, even with no words on his behalf, that wouldn't stop her.
"You do know she was going to attempt to make you a slave and she actually went ahead with trying to kill the other me right,", Moka decided to humour herself by messing with his game of dress up by playing along, ",and that useless friend of hers certainly wasn't of any help, was he?", she finished with a smirk. "No, he wasn't…", Peter knew what this sadistic side of Moka was trying to do and it didn't help that as he said that her already unsettling smirk turned into an almost mocking grin. "Well, I think I'll have to make the other me severe ties with that Peter kid if he going to act this way…", she said as she continued further. Taunting him.
Throughout all of this Kurumu listened to none of it as she held herself back from breaking down, that was until a red, gloved hand placed itself on to her shoulder, and she begin to slowly left her head to make out the suit from the before except when she reached the head there was no mask. Peter was there with a reassuring smile, and Moka was a few feet away with a somewhat normal scowl across her face as she waited for the rosary to be handed back already. And by this point Kurumu just let the floodgates loose and cried into Peter's understanding embrace.
After that it was an eventful affair as Kurumu apologised for her actions and released everyone from her 'charm'. The only unresolved thing was something the outer Moka wasn't told as it was clear that there was tension between Peter and the inner version of herself, but honestly that was a hornets nest that she did not dare prod at.
It seemed that for Peter was once on time to walk together with Moka, and from their actual dorms no less. They had a silent and peaceful atmosphere between the two that neither wanted to be disturbed, both thinking of separate thing the company of one another. Or at least they were until they were both jumped by a far too over excited succubus. Kurumu! And she has!... Cookies?
"Good morning you two?", Kurumu greeted with a friendly tone, outer Moka being far more accepting immediately with her own pleasant greeting. With Peter responding with a suspicious, "... Hi…?". For the first time in a long time he was genuinely confused. Although he wasn't particularly ashamed to admit that he was slight getting ready for a premature fight as he ever so slightly rolled up a tiny part of his blazers sleeve to reveal a bit of his costume underneath, after yesterday fiasco he finally figured out a way to comfortably wear his suit underneath his school uniform.
"I made these for the two of you, I hope you enjoy them.", Kurumu said as she outstretched her arms to give a small basket of cookies. And then Moka asked the first of many questions to eventually come. "So, Kurumu, why are you showing such hospitality all of a sudden?", That's one way to put it, "Well.", Kurumu continued, "because of yesterday and all the things that happened, something hit me.", yeah. I know. Me.
"I've fallen totally in love with Peter!". Kurumu grinned ear to ear, whereas not Moka and namely Peter had reactions fairly similar to one another. "Wait, What!", I actually kind of wish I still had that major headache from yesterday right about now...
