Wow... Sorry for the wait, school, internet, friends and little sister getting sick messed with me, I was meant to update weeks ago but my internet was completely screwed. My beta has had t go out on a tour of duty so now I'm looking for a new one, if your interested send me a P.M. An Anime convention came up so now my hair is pink (I went as Moka), a couple animes have also caught my attention so now I am trying to write a new story or two. Hope this is up to the standard.
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Tsukune sat in the tree, watching and waiting for the right moment to move. He studied the guard patrols trying to find the pattern and the flaws. The guards were set on an intricate patrol route; to others it would appear to be spontaneous and random, but Tsukune saw the movements for the coordinated undertaking that it was. Knowing that it was almost impossible to break but there was an unwatched area, he jumped out of the tree and landed without making a noise. The sun had being rising when Tsukune had left, but now it was setting, giving way to darkness. To think he had sat in that tree for practically forty hours was unmanageable.
He skirted around the patrols and made a break for the entrance, rolling underneath the window to avoided detection. He opened the door to the underground base, sprinting down the hallways at impressive speeds, through bluish-grey corridors. They looked all the same; whether that was proof of smart design to confuse intruders, or cheap construction, it was a detail Tsukune remembered. He used his inhuman senses and searched for yokai energy, finding several low-level yokai, four high level yokai, and dozens of humans.
The most powerful of the monsters were on the lowest levels, while the others were higher up. Noticing the nearest was in the next hallway, Tsukune peered around the corner, finding only a middle age woman clutching a book and walking into one of the rooms, the door slid shut behind her.
A witch? Tsukune questioned his assumption, Why are there yokai here?
He started off at a run down the hallway, seeing a young man talking to a group of armoured guards. The gentleman in question appeared to be in charge, but the soldiers' disrespect was obvious. The vampire switched off the light and dashed around them, using the wall as a leap-pad to jump around them as they looked around for the switch. He dodged them all until he came to a halt in front of a huge red door, using all his strength to pry it open.
He could sense that there were only twenty people in this quarter of the base, one of them another vampire. Moving until he came to a large hall, he observed a woman talking to more of the troops, concluding that this was the vampire he had sensed. He could tell she was using a charm on the crowd of about six and it appeared to be working. That was damn good for a vampire, but nothing compared to a succubus.
Tsukune moved past them and began searching for the ghouls, Tsukune heard the meeting break up as he came to a halt at a dead end corridor, the guards were coming his way, Tsukune snuck into what he assumed was the barracks and looked around, two of the guards were sleeping, three were playing cards and the last one was sharpening a brutal looking knife.
Tsukune looked over the schedule and found someone who had gotten off their shift within the five minutes before his infiltration, he started pulling on the man's uniform, it fit reasonably well, the shoulders and chest were meant for someone less muscular but the height was about right and Tsukune finished pulling on the slightly too large helmet as the other guards walked into the room, Tsukune left silently and avoided the attention of the others.
He walked down to the central hall again and began to search for the ghouls, he could sense a set of barriers a small distance from the hall but unfortunately he picked up the attention of the vampire, she was following at a distance but she was definitely following him and she would catch him regardless of speed. Tsukune tossed the large helmet to the floor and began to run, the woman ran after him, he came to a cross roads, the woman would arrive in the corridor in moments.
'Running straight will get me caught, running left or right will lead me away from the ghouls' Tsukune thought, as he looked up a smile crossed his face.
The woman arrived at the crossroads and looked down all the hallways, her hair had some small charms in it and her appearance resembled Moka. Tsukune held himself above her and watched her take the left path, he waited a couple of seconds before he was sure she left and then he fell to the floor and sprinted down the hallway, he ripped his shoulder and arm armour off of his right arm and tossed it before he ripped open the sliding doors that kept him from the ghouls and three humans.
He kicked one of the two guards in the head sending him into a wall, the other raised his assault rifle and opened fire at Tsukune, Tsukune rolled under the spray of fire and knocked the rifle out of his hands as punched the guard in the chest skipping him across the floor like a pebble on water, the other recovered in the two second fight and charged Tsukune with pistol in one hand and knife in the other, Tsukune disarmed his weapons and knocked the guard out with head trauma.
The fight was over before it had even really started, Tsukune looked towards the young man who sat in a lab coat, on a small stool with a clip board in one hand and the other groping for the intercom.
"You can call the guards, just please let me deal with them before you do" Tsukune said as he pointed his thumb over his shoulder.
"What do you intend to do with them?" The man asked his voice laced with fear "You can't let them out, they've been exposed to a... Creature's blood, it changed them".
"Did you know them?" Tsukune asked as he gazed into the large cells.
"Yumi, she and I were going to get married but... That... Woman, she used her as a test subject" The man said looking sadly at the female ghoul.
"Would you love her, even if she was one of the monsters your group hunts?" Tsukune asked pitying the man.
"Yes... But how would you save her?" The man asked looking at Tsukune as a last resort.
"I was like her... But as time goes by the blood synchronizes with your body and in the meantime you are sealed" Tsukune said.
"If you did it I would give you anything" The man said.
"Can you copy all the data that your group has?" Tsukune asked
"Help her and I will do that" The man said.
"First I will deal with the other one" Tsukune told him as he walked towards the cell that held the black mass that was once a man.
Tsukune destroyed the barrier that stopped it from escaping, and he walk towards the monster, he dodged a clumsy swing and started destroying the creature, the sedatives held it in a tranquil embrace and stopped it from being a threat, Tsukune finished it in seconds.
'Now to help that girl' Tsukune thought as he activated the contamination destruction in the cell, he threw the other two pieces of Alucard into the fire and watched them burn.
Tsukune deactivated the barrier to the woman's cell, the woman gave a bestial growl and watched him as she rose up off the floor. Most yokai held a pack mentality, only a few ever prefered solitude, ghouls, on the other hand, were nothing but animals, wild beasts that held very little intelligence but enough instincts to make them deadly to all but the highest caliber monsters. Ghouls weren't numerous, there were very few ever in existence, Tsukune was the only one ever to master his ghoulish side all others were executed, apart from the one in front of him.
When he had first turned into a ghoul he had hurt people and given Kurumu a small scar on her hip. It was something he had been terrified of when the last seal of the holy lock had broken, he had only become stronger after becoming a ghoul, what if he had lost his humanity completely and killed someone he cared about. It was food for thought, had the ghoul been him or just his instincts, he tried not to dwell on it.
Tsukune charged the ghoul and it gave a lazy swipe and sliced his after image, the ghoul appeared confused, but Tsukune's knee in her back took her to the floor with him pinning her to the floor, Tsukune traced a small symbol on the back of her neck and his fingers left a small purple neon trail, the ghoul's muscles tensed up and she stopped in place.
Tsukune moved his fingers to her left shoulder blade, her clothes were torn so he didn't need to rip it himself, he traced an intricate symbol, he brushed his hand over the symbol on her neck and she became limp, Tsukune picked her up and walked towards the man at the computer.
The man looked at the girl and took her from Tsukune's arms as he handed a large hard drive over, he opened her eyes and looked at them.
"No, she is still a ghoul, now she has her personality, appearance and intelligence" Tsukune told the man before he asked.
"You're like her aren't you?" The man asked as they walked to the hidden elevator on the other side of the room
"I was" Tsukune confirmed, intentionally vague, the man took the hint and didn't ask further into the subject.
"Why would you stay with her if she is one of the yokai your group hate?" Tsukune asked
"'The Trident' don't hate yokai" the man said
"What?" Tsukune asked "Aren't you called 'The Hunters'?"
"How do you know about 'The Hunters'?, not important" the man said "'The Hunters' are a team in the second cell, this was a science team named 'Taskforce: Future Warfare', we fall under the third cell, we were a group dedicating to studying yokai but after head command sent that vampire we began studying..." The man looked at the woman he held.
"Ghouls, specifically Shinso ghouls" Tsukune finished for him.
"Shinso?" The man asked.
"You know your fiance is very strong willed, to survive even a single injection of Shinso blood is good but to become a ghoul, you can count all of them in history on one hand" Tsukune changed the subject
"What is Shinso?" The man asked again
Tsukune ignored him and opened his phone, he scrolled through the contacts untill he called Fang-Fang.
"Hello?" Fang-Fang asked
"Fang-Fang, I need an extraction, I am at the base, I have two others we need a fast pick up" Tsukune informed him
"Meet the helicopter in a town a few minutes drive away, we can't get closer without possible damage to the helicopter" Fang-Fang said
Tsukune hung up and began walking towards his car he brought, it was a few minutes running but with the woman slowing the man down it would take twenty minutes, Tsukune grabbed the man and the woman and ran.
They made it to the car in time to hear the alarms go off, they drove off quickly and made it to the helicopter, The pilot handed Tsukune a small piece of paper and Tsukune quickly read the chinese writing.
Tsukune, we will meet you in Kyoto, the pilot will bring you, there has been a complication - Fang-Fang
Tsukune and the other two boarded the helicopter and it began to take off.
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They set down at the airport and Tsukune was split from the man and woman, Tsukune climbed in to a car that held Moka, Kokoa, Kurumu, Ruby and Fang-Fang, Tsukune knew it was going to be trouble.
"Tsukune, while you were gone there was an attack on your home in the ice village" Fang-Fang began.
Tsukune tensed up and looked at the others faces, no one was crying so no one had died or been kidnapped, so Tsukune listened on.
"They burned it to the ground" Kokoa continued "Luckily no one was home but now Mizore is kind of pissed at you"
"I will apologise immediately and meet my new daughter" Tsukune relaxed
"What how do you know?" Kokoa asked
"If everyone was out of the house then they were at the Frost Pilliar, and the daughter was just the logical conclusion" Tsukune said with a shrug "That and Kurumu told me, just now"
"Hey!" Kurumu yelled "Don't give away our secrets"
"Sorry" Tsukune apologised "Can someone wake me when we get there"
Kurumu kissed him and sat next to him, he laid his head on her lap and fell into a deep sleep, Kurumu brushed his head and closed her eyes.
"Succubi tricks" Kokoa grumbled before watching the city go by.
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Tsukune stepped out of the car and walked inside with the others, he made his way up the stairs to where Mizore was, he could also feel a faint aura next to hers, it was his new daughter, Kurumu had told him, in his mind, that she had named her Kokoa jr.
Mizore was usually so imaginative and creative, why she had not given their children names of their own confused him a bit but she was adamant on the names and Tsukune wanted everyone to be happy so he let his wives have final decisions on names, Tsukune was always asked his opinion but only Kurumu ever agreed with him, apart from his first daughters name in which she chose.
Tsukune opened her door quietly and walked into the room, closing the door behind him Mizore was napping in a chair next to the cradle that held their new born daughter, the baby looked content as her father picked her up, Mizore had a natural inborn grace with children while Kurumu could enter their minds when they began to cry Mizore seemed to know what they wanted before they cried, Tsukune looked into his daughters pale indigo eyes and sat down in the chair next to Mizore's, his daughter was swaddled in a pink blanket and the air conditioner was running at its maximum output, it was a bit below freezing, uncomfortable for humans but nice for snow maidens.
Tsukune watched his daughter for a while, she gurgled and went to sleep so Tsukune placed her softly back in her cot, he moved Mizore without waking her to the bed in the corner. Mizore would wake soon expecting an apology so Tsukune was content to wait, he would rather apologise to a well rested Mizore than when she was exhausted, Tsukune watched what would be Mizore's final child with a watchful eye, she was cute as most babies were, and Tsukune smiled as she made noises trying to watch her father.
Mizore liked to sing lullabies to her children when they were small, the songs of her people made easy for children, her voice seemed to echo like the wind through the mountains of her homeland, Tsukune couldn't match her but he began to mumble the end of the songs his mother sung.
His voice was a bit too deep to make it sound as his mother had but the message was what mattered, Mizore began to stir at the last sentence and her daughter began to sleep.
"- And fly little wing, let no one choose but you" Tsukune finished as Mizore stretched.
"What was that" Mizore asked.
"An old rhyme, I only remember the last few sentences but the message is something to do with choosing your own fate" Tsukune answered as he kissed her "I am sorry for not being there, that is inexcusable, what can I do to make it up to you?"
"Could you look after her, I am just so tired, if you do I will forgive you" Mizore said
"You've had six kids before you think you would be used to it by now" Tsukune teased her
Mizore just shot an irritated look over her shoulder, Tsukune looked at his daughter.
"Ain't that interesting Tsubasa?" Tsukune looked at her.
She answered with a small gurgle and fell asleep.
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Tsukune sat scrolling through the data he had gotten from the young man at the base, he must have had a high level of clearance, it had the majority of information on the group called 'Trident', it was a small group but it held deep connections to monster hunter groups from centuries ago. The group wasn't too powerful but they had a lot of information, far too much for just a group of humans, they appeared to not be anti-yokai but just pro-human, Tsukune hadn't shown the others the information, they didn't really need to know, Fang-Fang would need to know but that could wait, Tsukune's foot slowly rocked the crib that held his daughter.
Ruby sat watching him as she worked some embroidery into a small shirt she had made for the young girl in the crib, she didn't ask Tsukune what he was doing, the two of them would talk but apart from that they would just wait in comfortable silence.
"Can I have a daughter?" Ruby asked with a strong sense of longing.
"Okay... Why do you want a daughter?" Tsukune asked as he closed the computer.
"I can only take a girl as a apprentice, I taught Yukari but if I had a daughter I could teach her much more" Ruby explained
"Are you alright to wait, a little bit, I mean..." Tsukune said
"I didn't mean I would want a child right now, I meant a bit down the track" Ruby elaborated
Tsukune gave a sigh, he had far too many children, he had thought Ruby had understood his feelings, Ruby kissed him on the forehead.
"I can see your tired, I will let you think about it, you always try so hard to make everyone happy, you can say no" Ruby said as she hugged him.
Tsukune's head rested on her chest, they both knew he wouldn't deny her but Ruby was offering the option if he really wanted to, it meant a lot for the young man, Ruby was planning for a few years away, so Tsukune had time to get used to the idea, the only problem was if he had too many kids he wouldn't be able to have a close relationship with all of them.
"Why don't you go too bed, I will wake you up in a few hours" Ruby promised him
"Have I told you how much I love you Ruby?" Tsukune asked as he stood up
"Couldn't hurt to hear it again" Ruby said with a smile
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1054SS325MP was my beta.
This chapter felt a bit off to me but the couple people I showed didn't seem unimpressed. Without internet I went a little off my rocker. Remember I need a new beta, See you all later!