Over the next week people left Moka, Tsu and I alone the rumor did its job and now I was enjoying a sunny school day by myself. I had learned early on that Tsu and Moka were going to be the annoying couple that everyone knows. I honestly thought that would be me and Sam but Tsu and Moka average around 20 minutes of staring at each other, just saying the others name. Half the time I wanted to just walking in front of them and snap them out of it. But the really annoying part was, besides Moka using Tsu as her breakfast, that they were not dating yet! I mean come on! I thought it was a myth that people acted like that! I at least was oblivious to Sam's feelings, there is no way that the two don't love each other….. Was this how annoying it was with me and Sam? I owe Tuck an apology.
Speaking of my friends it was about time I called them, I dug out my Fenton phones and dialed Sam's number "-ello?" Opps, I forgot I am about 12 hours ahead of home. It was probably 2 in the morning over there.
"Hey Sam." I said gently, I could hear her sitting up and turning on the lamp beside her bed.
"Danny? Why are you calling at—Midnight?" I chuckled at her, dang I was good. "Well its noon here" I said, "and I'm calling because I miss you."
"And you couldn't miss me at a reasonable time?" she asked
"Well over here it is a reasonable time to miss your girlfriend!" teasing Sam was always fun even if she was sleep deprived and going to kick me in the shins with her combat boots next time she saw me. I could practically hear her blushing over the phone.
"I miss you too, Danny. But seriously why are you calling?" I sighed, she always knew when I needed to rant, even in her sleepy state she could read me like a book.
"I just miss you and my friends, Tsukune and Moka are being even worse than we were before we got together. It makes me miss home."
"We? That was all you Danny" she said "But if it helps, yesterday Paulina found out you wouldn't be coming to our school. She practically fainted when she found you left the country." Sam was laughing darkly. I smiled enjoying the thought of my most crazy phan girl fainting.
"That does make me feel better, Sam. Next time I promise to miss you at a reasonable time in your hemisphere." She was getting tired again, I could tell.
"You better! And don't worry about the ghosts Danny when you left your parents closed the portal. Only those lucky enough to find a natural portal ever come by but they are weak."
"That's good." I said "Well my dark princess, I think it's time you go back to sleep. I love you." I heard her gasp and could picture the smile spread over her face.
"Goodnight Danny. I love you too." With that I hung up.
I began walking through the forest to class, clutching my phone to my chest, I couldn't help but picture what would happen if Sam and I did go to the same school. That's what was supposed to happen. Now I am 12 hours away and in no way near Sam. That was a depressing thought. I was passing some trees that lined a lake when I saw a girl with blue hair sitting on the ground clutching her rather large chest.
"What's wrong?" My hero complex acting up again, I learned to ignore it when the reporters started to fake call out for help but apparently at school it saw no reason to not want to help everyone. "My chest is tight." The girl said when she looked up, she was very pretty. My body felt like it needed to help her, she was just too pretty to be left alone. I saw no reason to not to help her, so I offered to carry her to the nurse's office. On the way she adjusted her position on my back and leaned into my neck. My body both sang in pleasure and shivered in uneasiness. I remember this feeling, I felt like this before when Ember hypnotized me and Sam broke my heart.
Just remembering that moment broke whatever spell that girl did to me, I put her down outside of the nurse's office and started to walk away. I wanted to get as far away from that power as I could. "Wait!" she said, grabbing my arm. "Will you be my friend?" great, now she reminded me of two ghosts I don't like. But then again she didn't really do anything bad to me, besides the hypnotizing stuff, so it should be too bad to get to know her right? It's not like I have any chance with a girl like her, besides I have Sam.
"Sure" I said "But no more trying to hypnotize me okay?" She looked shocked that I even knew what she was doing. Blushing, she looked down at her feet "I was just afraid you would say no." yeah, that was totally a lie. She was pouring that hypno stuff out the whole walk here. "I will tell the teacher you don't feel well, what class are you in?" her mouth literally dropped open. I think I broke her….She looked like she wasn't used to being unnoticed. "I'm Kurumu from your class? I sit right behind you? Don't tell me you never noticed me?" I had to laugh at this she acted like everyone in school should know who she was. "Sorry" I said "I tend to pay more attention to the lesson than the people in my class." Unless you know I'm falling asleep after spending all night fighting ghosts, but still.
"So, see you in class." I turned and left as quickly as I could. I had a feeling this it wouldn't be the last time I had trouble Kurumu. Luckily for me the teacher was also late in arriving to class so I had no penalty for not showing up on time. Moka came in just after and sat in her seat, I looked questionably at her. It was rare to see her without Tsukune. She gave a sheepish smile before she whispered 'nurse' to me. Ah, she must have used Tsu as breakfast again and taken too much blood. Poor guy.
I shrugged and turned my attention back to the front of the class, Neko-sensei had finally arrived and started teaching about the different ranks in monster class. This was actually interesting to me because I previously had no idea how they classified themselves.
"Now for vampires, they are the legendary monsters. Who, when there power is releases, become faster than werewolves and stronger than dragons. Both are S class monsters, the only monster that has ever given a vampire any trouble is a ghost. Can anyone tell me why?"
At this laughter sounded around the classroom. "Ghosts?" a student asked "are they supposed to be the weakest?" another said. "Yeah! Who is scared of a bed sheet?" these guys obviously had never met a real ghost before. It irked me a little that the ghost stereotypes were used in the monster world too.
Nekonome-sensei straightened her back and stormed up to the student. "Oh?" she said. I could see the vein in her head twitching in anger as she continued. "So you shouldn't be afraid of something that can turn intangible to avoid your hits and can possess your body to do whatever it wants? Those are just basic abilities that these ghost have. They have a few who are classified as S class in their own ranking. Now think on this, what would their strongest be classified as?"
The entire class went silent, not even the trouble makers knew what to do with this new serious sensei. I felt pretty proud of my ghost half and couldn't help grinning at myself. Sadly Nekonome-sensei saw this and tried to claw my face for being disruptive or embarrassing her. I dodged but she still managed to get the tip of my ear. At this time the bell rang for lunch and everyone cleared out.
As a parting note Nekonome-sensei yelled to her retreating class, "Tomorrow we will be going over recent events, including the asteroid that almost ended everything." It was weird how she said that so happily.
I went to my usual spot on the roof and pulled out a pill for lunch, it was unusually quiet today. I looked around for any monsters around but found none. Not even in the courtyard below. That's strange…. Usually the roof was crowded with monsters who want to watch Moka and the courtyard had the rest of the students. Where was everyone? Well Moka is probably at the infirmary with Tsu so maybe they were there. I stood and walked to the infirmary tossing the pill up and catching it in my hand I almost dropped it when I heard glass crash to the ground.
Knowing both Tsu's and my luck I ran into the infirmary to find Moka dusting off glass from her hair, she looked upset and looked out the hole made in the window. "Tsukune is gone." She said. I jumped out of the hole and started running in the direction where I felt my senses telling me where danger was. I am still very protective of my friends so Tsu being kidnapped did not make me happy. When I found them Tsu was being held in the air by a winged Kurumu and trying desperately not to look in her eyes. I felt the power that she used on me before radiating off her as she struggled to hold onto the struggling human.
The bat came again and said something about a succubus but I wasn't paying attention, Kurumu finally lost her hold on Tsukune and he was falling toward the ground. I ran forward and caught him just in the nick of time. "Danny!" both girls said. Moka had managed to catch up to us when I wasn't paying attention. "What are you doing?" shouted Kurumu.
Moka ran forward and grabbed Tsukune checking him over for any injuries. Tsukune grabbed the Rosario and pulled it off in a quick jerk. Again all of my senses screamed out at me, this time instead of saying to stay still they told me to run as far as I could. And I almost obeyed them. The sky turned red and Moka's hair and eyes changed to reveal her true vampire form.
"Sorry to keep you waiting" she said to Kurumu who was still flying in the sky. Kurumu looked scared "No you can't be one of the s-class monsters! I'm on a mission to find my destined one, we succubi are a dying race we choose the best partner from a horde of men under our charm…. I can't let you stop me!" She screamed and dive bombed at Moka. Who, simply dodged to the side.
"What a pitiful reason to pick a fight with me." Moka grabbed Kurumu's tail and flung her deep into the forest, she crashed through tree until her momentum stopped her against the trunk of an old oak. "I'm sorry, I won't do it again." She was trembling on the ground near tears.
"I have no guarantee of that so I am going to rip off your wings and tail, know your place." Moka said. I had enough of this, even though I was still nervous around Moka's vampire I couldn't let her do that. Fighting was okay for me, Kurumu was out of place when she tried to force Tsu but to rip off her wings and tail was going too far. It would be making her a servant to Moka, one who would be tied to Moka's life force in order to survive. Moka could cut off that force at any time, and make Kurumu die for her. It was an extremely sadistic practice and frowned upon by all monsters alike. I ran in front of Moka and took out my quarterstaff readying myself for a fight. I may not really be friends with Kurumu but I will not allow something like that to happen to anyone. Ever.
"That's enough, Moka. She said she wouldn't do it again, leave her be." Moka's red eyes glared at me and for a moment I thought I would really have to fight her. Instead Moka sighed, tension falling from her shoulders, and walked toward me. I stood my ground and waited until she was right next to me. "Fine but she is your responsibility." She whispered before she leaned in and licked my ear. I forgot that it was cut and bleeding from when Nekonome scratched it about 8 minutes ago.
The bat showed and stated the time again "This battle only lasted 76 seconds."
I slapped a hand over my ear and glared at the now smirking vampire who turned and walked to Tsukune to put the Rosario back on. The sky returned to normal and my senses stopped screaming at me for being an idiot and stepping in front of a killer vampire that likes my blood. I relaxed and turned to carry Kurumu back to the nurse.
Knowing these girls will come back and bite me (pun intended) later, but at least school wouldn't be as boring. Tsu and I walked in silence as we finished dropping the girls off and headed back to the men's dorm. "Hey Danny?" he asked
"Yeah?"
"Will you help me study for the mock exams? They start next week."
"Shoot, I knew I forgot something!"