Tskune: Supernatural Detective

By: R3aper27


The night looked even darker than should be natural, even with the light of the moon. Tsukune wandered the halls of Yokai Academy. The throbbing in his side had kept him from sleeping, despite the strange medicine the school nurse had given him. Instead of sleeping, he had chosen instead to wander the school since it was still open, he assumed because half the school seemed nocturnal.

The school looked like any other school even in the strange dark of the night. He had passed a couple students, including one that was hanging from the rafters in the hall. At this point nothing would have really surprised him after getting knocked around by a huge monster.

The route he wandered was a random one, but he soon found himself standing inside the doors of the library. He hadn't seen it on his original tour. As a matter of fact he had never seen anything like it before here or in the human world.

Just standing in the doorway he could see thousands of books. The center of the room was an atrium with plenty of desks and tables to work at, but ringed around that were four floors. Each floor had at least 20 bookshelves standing perpendicular to the railing around the atrium, and that was just the ones just against the edge.

A thought suddenly passed through his head. There were plenty of books on monsters in this room. Maybe if he could learn a little bit about them, he would be able to survive in this school full of monsters. Or at least he might last longer than 30 seconds the next time one wanted to kill him.

He didn't know what exactly to do first. He figured a basic book on monsters would be a pretty good place. Even after narrowing it down in his mind, the library was far too monstrous to ever find his way through.

Eventually he found the Librarian on the top level at the far end of the library. She sat in a round desk that sat up off the ground so she seemed to loom over everyone. She seemed rather normal, well that was till he told her what he was looking for. Then a dozen tentacles came up from behind the desk and slid across the ground in all directions, searching the shelves throughout the library before eventually returning with several books. They stacked them on the desk in front of Tskune before returning to their place under the desk.

It took several trips for the human student to take all the books to a table nearby and sit down. He sat down and rubbed his sore ribcage, before opening the first book he saw. It was a huge tome with very small print and very few diagrams. It was going to be a long night, he could already tell.


By the time Tsukune had realized what time it was, he had missed breakfast the next day. He ended up taking a couple of the books back to his room to eat some ramen and grab a quick nap before dinner.

He was awoken for dinner by some rather loud knocking. He opened the door to find a very tall student standing at his door. The boy was so tall that Tskune couldn't even see his face behind the door frame.

"Some pink haired girl asked me to find you." The seemingly headless young man said. "She is out front."

Tskune thanked the boy before closing the door and getting dressed. When he stepped outside he found Moka standing nervously outside waiting for him.

"Hey." He said equally nervous.

"Hey."

A pregnant pause developed between them after the greeting. They hadn't said much about the fight at the infirmary and neither one really knew what to do.

"I didn't see you at lunch. I was wondering if you wanted to go to dinner with me at the dining hall?" She finally said blushing and looking at her shoes.

"Yeah I would like that." He answered. She just smiled and fell into step next to him as he walked towards the dining hall. They started up an uneasy conversation about school the first day of school coming up the next day, but the more they talked the more relaxed they got. By the time they made it to the dining hall it was as if the argument had never happened.

"Oh. I almost forgot." She said stopping just outside the dining hall. She dug around in her backpack for a moment before pulling something out of her bag. "It took some time but I found it."

Tskune was confused for a moment before he realized what she was holding. It was his father's cross and tags. He hadn't even realized that they had been missing. If he had lost the cross he wouldn't have known what to do. It was one of the few things he remembered his father by. Nothing else made Tskune feel close to his memory of his father like his old necklace did. Tskune started to choke up with all of the emotions the thought of losing his cross made him feel.

"The chain broke, but we can buy a new one in town next weekend if you want." Moka said unaware of the whirlwind of feelings that had taken over Tsukune.

"Its fine. Thank you Moka, you are a good friend." Tskune said unable to get much more out.

Moka's face broke out into a smile. Those words meant the world to her.

Tskune took the tags and cross and put them carefully in his breast pocket so he wouldn't lose them, then pulled Moka into a tight hug.

"Thank you." He said again quietly.

Suddenly it hit him that he had just hugged her. She smelled amazing, like cherry blossoms, and her chest was pushed up against him. He blushed beet red from the embarrassment of his actions, as well as his thoughts, and quickly started to let go of her. She just gripped tighter though and her next words threw him off.

"I can't help myself."

He didn't have time to ask what she meant before he felt her bit into his neck. The world turned a hazy shade of pink and his senses were overridden by the smell of cherry blossoms.

When she stepped away from him he half stumbled back into awareness and gasped loudly.

"You are so tasty." Moka exclaimed sighing and throwing her hands up in happiness.

Tskune just rubbed his neck and blushed. It was going to be a very long year.


Forget a long year, the first day alone was going to kill him. The morning assembly had lasted forever. The Headmaster had droned on and on about the importance of peace between the monsters and humans. Then Tskune had gone to each of his classes to meet his teachers.

On top of all his academic worries, it seemed that every guy he came across had a negative reaction to his presence. In fact he might even go so far as to say that he was fairly sure most of them outright hated him.

On the other hand it seemed like all of the boys admired Moka. It wasn't that Tskune didn't understand. She was beautiful and smart. If there was a competition for the most popular Tskune was sure she would win. He didn't know why such an amazing young woman liked him while everyone else seemed mad at him, but it was fine with the human. That made it easier to hide his humanity. Beside he was here to study hard.

His schedule included the usual classes, like math and history, but also included a class on humans and the human world. At the end of the day they all had club activities. Since it was the first day their homeroom teacher told them all about club activities. They were required to join one of the clubs on campus, and there was to be a club fair the next day so they could figure out which one to join.

Then after the explanation they were released early. Moka had to stay behind though to talk to someone about her special dietary needs. Tskune waited around for her by the drink machine since she told him it wouldn't take long.

It took far longer than he thought it should have. Tskune was quickly growing tired of waiting when he heard something in the woods. It only took a few steps for him to recognize it as someone's voice. Not only that, the voice was calling for help.

"Help. Please someone help." The voice said.

Tskune pushed through the bushes around the patio and headed into the woods. It didn't take long for him to find the voice. It belonged to a young woman with blue hair. She seemed to be in physical pain. She looked up at the human boy as he walked up.

"Please, would you lend me a hand?" She asked.

"Of course, can you stand?" Tskune answered running to help her. "I'll help you to the infirmary."

"Oh thank you." The girl sobbed. " My chest just hurts so bad."

She collapsed against Tskune's chest.

" Please hold me tight. It hurts so bad. It feels like I'm going to burst."

His teenage hormones couldn't help but cause him to blush as he felt her breasts against his chest. He brushed it off and steadied the girl. He could deal with his embarrassment later.

"Look into my eyes." She said grabbing his shoulders and raising her head so he could finally see her face. His last thought was how pretty her eyes were. "My name is Kurono Kurumu. Please be my very special friend."

A fit of vertigo hit him and everything spun. When it all stopped it all seemed like a dream. He watched himself through his own eyes as the girl talked to him. Whenever she was talking, or whenever she was in sight, she was the center of his focus. Everything else seemed to happen around her. Everything that wasn't her was just background noise. She was always louder than everything around her, not too loud, just enough to drown out the ambient noise.

It wasn't until he was sitting in his bed alone that night that he came to his senses. He hadn't even realized he had brushed his teeth and gotten ready for bed. All his thoughts had been on the blue haired girl that dominated his thoughts. His body had just been on autopilot.

He jumped out of bed and scrambled to his desk. Something in the books bugged him. They had talked about a few creatures that used mind control on humans. It didn't take him long to compile a lengthy list, and there seemed to be no end, not only to the kinds of monsters, but the kinds of mind control.

There were illusions, compulsions, domination, fear, lust, even full on subconscious telepathy. He read about Jokers, and demons. When he started coming across things like magic or cursed items he had to stop. There was just too much. There was very little in his books about the effects of the abilities he had read about so he had no way to discern what monster he had run into. All he knew was she hadn't tried to hurt him, so maybe he could just avoid her until he talked to Moka about it.


The next morning Tskune made sure to keep a lookout for Kurumu as he made his way to the school in hopes of running into Moka. He finally saw her through the crowd in the hallway outside their classroom.

"Moka." He said relieved that he had made it to his target.

The feeling didn't last long as a familiar face appeared from above. Kurumu had jumped from the level above and landed right in front of Tskune.

"Oh it's Tskune." She said sweetly, wrapping her arms around his neck and looking into his eyes. "Thank you so much for yesterday"

Tskune started to feel a very familiar feeling. The dizziness set in and he felt as though he had fallen to the ground, when it stopped though he was still standing looking at Kurumu.

"Please believe me Tskune. This girl is dangerous." Moka said to him "She is going to eat you."

Kurumu moved so that he could see her and his vision snapped into place around her. He heard a voice telling him that it didn't seem fair for Moka to point fingers when she was drinking his blood.

'That isn't the same.' Tskune thought to himself.

Kurumu seemed perplexed for a moment before she turned and said the exact same thing that Tskune had heard in his head. His vision shivered for a moment, as if losing focusing and then refocusing. Moka's eyes started to tear up and she turned to flee from the emotional abuse but Tskune's hand grabbed her sleeve.

"Tskune what are you doing." Kurumu said angrily. "You aren't supposed to stand up for her. Stop it I command you."

Tskune heard the words and his focus snapped back to her. His brain however was working just fine.

"Tskune what is going on. What is wrong." Moka said reaching out to the arm that had grabbed her.

"Tskune look at me, and only me." Kurumu said putting her hands on the side of his face and looking up at him.

'Oh shit. Her eyes.' The human thought. 'It's her eyes.'

He reflexively clamped he eyes shut.

"NO!" He shouted stepping away from both of them.

"It can't be." Kurumu gasped stepping away.

Moka on the other hand stepped up to him and wrapped her arm around his head and pulled it down onto her shoulder.

"Are you ok?" She asked holding his head gently and whispering into his ear.

"Do you hate me?" Kurumu's voice made them both turn towards her. "Is she REALLY THAT MUCH BETTER THAN ME!?"

Tskune opened his eyes just in time to see wings tear out of the back of her uniform.

"Watch out Tskune, she is a Succubus." Moka said pulling him behind her. "Take off my cross quick before she attacks us."

Tskune reached around her and grabbed for her rosary. Before he could pull it off though Kurumu shouted something.

"GET THEM!" The succubus screamed.

Several boys stepped forwards out of the crowd and moved towards them. Before Tskune could pull the seal off, he was separated from Moka by a pair of male students. Another one grabbed Moka and pulled her back.

"NOW I'm pissed." Kurumu said stepping forward. Her nails lengthened to the size of daggers. " I am going to destroy both of you."

She put her nails up against Moka's throat and snarled at the girl.

"No one is better than me." She said throwing her hand back ready to strike.

She never did though, because a noise behind her made her stop and turn. She barely saw a shape move under her arm as she spun around.

Tskune had slammed his head back into the nose of the boy to his left, and then stomped down on the ankle of the boy holding his right side. Whether it was the sudden unexpected attack from a weaker boy, or if the pain had momentarily thrown off Kurumu's charm, something allowed Tskune to escape their hold and dove forward under the Succubus's arm to grab the Rosary off of Moka's necklace.

The air grew uncomfortable with the aura Moka was throwing off. Her hair and eyes changed color and she stepped forward with ease, dragging the poor student that had her arms, behind her.

"What a joke." Inner Moka chuckled cocking her head to the side and looking at her prey like a hungry predator. "You think that you can beat me. Your ego needs correcting. I will beat some respect into you."

The signal to start the fight was the sound of Tskune's fist slamming into the nose of the boy holding Moka's arms. Kurumu dove at the vampire, who sidestepped and caught the succubus by her wing. Tskune heard bones break as the vampires grip tightened, just before she swung her enemy by said wing batting both of the charmed boys that had also joined in.

Tskune lost track of what was going on with Moka as the student he had sucker punched regained his senses and stepped forward. Luckily he didn't change into anything to scary, he just threw a regular punch. The blow seemed laughably slow and Tskune was able to duck under it and throw an uppercut. He was to close though and instead of snapping the boys head back he just stumbled and coughed as it landed where his chin met his throat.

Dodging again in that situation wasn't possible though. He felt the boys fist slam into his solar plexus. He gasped for breath and the pain in his ribs exploded from a dull pain caused by strained movement, to a throbbing agony.

Desperation took hold of the wounded human and he shoulder tackled his enemy into the wall behind him. The two boys broke apart as Kurumu's slave slid down the wall and Tskune fell back onto a bench that had been next to him. Tskune took a moment to gasp for breath but he didn't have long as he saw the other boy trying to gain his feet.

The human grabbed something on the wall above him and pulled himself up. He saw the boy finally manage to stand and kicked the bench into the side of his knee. The monster's legs buckled under him, and he fell sideways. Tskune heard a loud thud as his opponents head bounced off the bench on his way down.

Tskune slid down the wall, but found the bench was just a little too far away to land on. He crumpled up on the ground as the force of his landing jostled his rib. A pair of white women's shoes appeared in his vision and he looked up to find Moka standing over him with one of Kurumu's other slaves thrown over her shoulder.

"You almost have a use." The girl said dropping her brutally beaten cargo on the ground. "I would be impressed if that hadn't been an E-class monster."

She turned to where Kurumu was panting on her knees. One of the succubus's wings hung at a strange angle, and the left side of her face was swollen and bruised from a blow of great force.

"What was that about being better than me?" Moka mocked stepping forward and kicking her enemy in the back.

Kurumu flew into the wall across from Tskune and fell in a crumpled heap. The human could see the wide eyed look of fear in Kurumu's unswollen eye.

"Know your place."

Before the final blow could land though Tskune lurched to his feet and stumbled between Inner Moka and Kurumu. The vampire's blow stopped short and she had to step back to keep from falling from the sudden change in direction.

"You can't." Tskune choked out looking up at Moka.

"Insolent whelp, you think I care what you say." The vampire said stepping forward again and grabbing him by the front of his uniform. He felt his feet leave the ground as she hoisted him up into the air.

"No. I don't. You are far superior to me." He coughed out. He looked down at the cowering monster below him. "You are even superior to her. But you forget one thing."

"What have I forgotten?" Inner Moka hissed dangerously.

"That we all have a weakness, even you." Tskune said letting his head roll back in exhaustion. "And you aren't superior to this."

She realized too late that he had scooped up her rosary when he had moved to stand in front of Kurono. She felt her power flowing out of her as electricity began to jump across her skin from the feeling of her seals cold metal against her chest. She allowed a smile to cross her face for just a moment as she realized the irony.

"I will allow her to live this one time." Moka said growling at Tskune. "I do this not for her though. It takes some backbone to stand up to me, especially for you. Not only that but you actually won a fight. For that reason I will let her go."

Tskune sighed in relief.

"But if you EVER stand between me and someone that needs to learn their place, I will show you your place as well." She growled making him flinch.

Tskune fell to the ground as Moka went limp and fell to her knees. He collapsed hard making sure he didn't land on his bad side. He could see Kurumu looking at him with something he couldn't quite understand in her eyes.

"I AM SO SORRY." Moka said scaring Tskune as he hadn't seen her wake up. She pulled Tskune up off the ground. "Let me help you get to the infirmary."

Tskune just waved her off and pointed to Kurumu.

"Help her." He croaked. Then he looked around to find several people had already helped the boys under the succubus' charm up and were taking them away. "I can manage."

Moka just nodded worriedly before grabbing the girl by her tail and dragging her away. Tskune went to rebuke her but thought better of it. Even nice Moka was upset, and Kurumu probably deserved it. He followed behind hoping there was a little red potion waiting for him in the Infirmary.

There was, and the pain in his rib began to subside. He was even allowed to go to his next class. It amazed him just how negligent the academy's staff seemed. He didn't really know what to expect from monsters though. From the way everyone reacted it seemed like fighting was pretty normal. Especially since everyone seemed to heal quickly. The boy Tskune had knocked out shouldn't have been able to get up, but Tskune had seen him walk away under his own power.

Moka's voice pulled him out of his thoughts.

"How were you able to keep from being compelled?" Moka asked curiously.

"I don't know." He answered truthfully. "I read that some charms are weakened when you realize they are being cast on you. I guess that had something to do with it."

"Oh." Moka replied looking down. She seemed disheartened by the events of the day.

"Come on." Tskune said trying to cheer her up. "We will just make it to the Club Fair. Let's find a good club to join together."

"Yeah, that sounds nice." Moka said shyly taking his arm and letting him lead the way.