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"So, have you decided yet?" I asked Tsukune as were taking out the garbage for our homeroom class chore. We had a bit before the first class started so there was no real hurry.
"What do you mean?" He asked back playing dumb.
"You know, very well what I mean. The first month is almost up. And you will get your chance to return to your life as a 'you-know-what'." I said in case anyone was listening. "Are you going to go or will you stay?" I said as I dumped the garbage. He looked down unsure of himself. "Listen man, I understand if you go, but you and Moka average around ten minutes a day just standing around staring at each other and saying each other's names. If you're going to leave then at least talk to her first."
"Easy for you to say." He said more than a little depressed. "You're not the one thinking about leaving." He lifted the garbage and poured out into the larger bin. "I'm still on the fence."
"Just make sure you don't end up with any regrets." I said as we turned to go back inside.
"Not so fast!" We heard three voices behind us cry out. We turned as saw three… uninteresting people. One short fat one, one completely ordinary in every way and a taller skinny one with glasses.
"I'm sorry? Do we know you?" Tsukune said confuse.
"You might not know us, but we know you, Tsukune Aono and Danny Fenton. You are our number one enemies!" The most normal one said.
"What number one enemies?" Tsukune said confuse.
"This is an outrage. I refuse to share my number one spot. I have been public enemy number one for over a year." I joked crossing my arm and chuckling a little at the end. "But out of curiosity, what did we do to earn your hate?"
"You really don't understand? Then allow us to explain." The normal one said again, he seemed to be their leader. But they all chimed in to say. "Formation set."
They pulled off their green school uniform jackets to reveal looser pink jackets each with one of our friends names on it followed by the phrase 'is my life'. My blood froze. "Oh god… Tsu, run." I said not looking at my friend.
"What?" He said in confusion.
"I know what these three are. They are the most dangerous, sadistic, vulgar creatures you could ever imagine." I said shivering a little. Tsukune looked worried. "Fans!"
Tsukune actually felt to the ground. "Danny can't you ever be serious."
"I am dead serious about this. Fans are evil, Tsu." I said daring a glance at him. "They will touch you in ways that will make you never feel clean again and say thing that will may you want to tear out your own ear drums. And whatever you do, never look in one's locker!"
"I think you're over reacting." He muttered.
But then the trio of fans began chanting their introductions which included really weird decorations of love. "Still think I am over reacting." I said shivering more violently. "I think I'm going to be sick."
"Well um… maybe we should just go." Tsukune said trying to back away.
I turned to follow but the leader grabbed me by the shoulder. "Hold it, the only thing you're going to do, is feel our fearsome fan club wrath!"
"Don't you touch me!" I said desperately, kicking the guy in the face sending him back. "Tsu, don't worry about me, just get out of here!"
"Um… Danny… where did you get that bat?" Tsukune asked looking back at me.
"This is the Fenton Anti-creep Stick. The tool of choice when dealing with perverts and people that are trying to ask out my older sister." I said holding the bat in front of me in a defensive stance.
"That doesn't explain where it came from." Tsukune said.
"The art of concealing large weapons is a Fenton Family secret. I can't tell you how it's done." I said going to a ninja stance for a joke before preparing to wail on the fan boys.
The fat one and skinny one came at me swinging their cheer phone things. They were shouting thing like 'for my love'. I felt only a little gilt about introducing them to the inside of the garbage bin. But the third of the three stooges had gone for Tsukune and was hitting him on the head with the cheer phone thing.
I stood there a little embarrassed as Tsukune took it like a wimp. He was even worse then I was before I had gotten my ghost powers. "What is with this guy? He's a wimp." The fan said hitting Tsukune. "I know he is in human form but still. A loser like you isn't worthy of being with my Moka."
Then a large wash pan appeared above the guys head hitting him hard. "What are you doing to Tsukune?" Yukari said as she started running up.
The skinny one shot up out of the garbage. "It's my love." I got a little pissed at that I flipped the lid to the garbage shut hitting him on the head.
"Tsukune are you ok?" Moka was running up know too.
"What's going on?" Kurumu flew down.
"Uh, we must retreat for now, my brethren, until another day Aono and Fenton." Said the leader as he ran away. The other two dragging themselves out of the garbage and following him.
"Wait, get back here?" Kurumu said starting to give chase but Tsukune grabbed her hand and stopped her.
"Don't worry about me. I'm fine." He said. But there was defeat in his voice; a man with a wounded pride.
Later that day after classes were over Tsukune called me aside and told the girls just to head back without us. "I really am a loser… I always have to depend on you and the girls to protect me." He said leaning against the railing on the roof of the school. "Danny… I want to be stronger…" He admitted.
I stood there not really sure what to say to him. But there was only one thing to be done. "Well then… I guess we better start training you." I said and he looked up at me in surprise. "Wishing isn't going to get you the results you want. I'll teacher you a thing or two about fighting. Just make sure you're ready."
He smiled and nodded. "Thanks Danny."
"You won't be thanking me by the time that this is over." I said walking away. "Come on. We need to start now." He looked a bit worried, but he followed.
"Urggg." Tsukune grunted as I had hit him down for the twelfth time with a kendo stick. He laid on the ground panting.
"Get up, Tsukune." I said my voice serious. "You will never win if you don't get up."
"I… I can't win… you have your… monster strength." He said from his position on his back. "I can't win against that… I'm only human."
"That is a dumb excuse, and you're wrong. I have only been using my human strength this entire time. Even against Saizou and all that other monsters I have fought here, I only used my human strength and my weapons." I said while I stood there waiting for him to get up. "I only needed to use my inhuman strength against Moka's vampire form and the giant cobra, but the cobra was only because I was unarmed. And I used my powers on the lizardmen only because they pissed me off."
"Are… are you serious?" He managed to ask as he gasped for air.
"I have seen humans take on monsters a lot more powerful than the ones you're up against. You are right that they are stronger, faster, and more versatile than your human body. So your only shot is to be smarter than them and better prepared." I said as he started to pull himself to his feet.
He managed to get to his feet and assume a defensive stance. "You're leaning too far back. Your center of balance needs to be towards the front if you don't want to be overwhelmed. Your elbows are too far in and your shoulders too stiff." I criticized him as he stood there. "But you'll learn." I said and pressed the offense again. Tsukune's eyes widened as I approached. He was trying to fix his stance but he needed to learn that there are things that must come without thought. He has a long way to go.
The next day we were all sitting around a table for lunch. "Tsukune what happened to you? Did those three guys from yesterday try to attack you again?" Moka said in concern.
"No…" He said nursing a couple of his bruises. "I was…" He fell off on his explanation. He didn't want to tell them that he was embarrassed at his own weakness and trying to train to be strong enough to protect Moka instead of her protecting him.
"Hey has anyone else seen those three creeps from yesterday around a lot lately?" Yukari asked changing to subject. "I think I have seen that tall one with the glasses around a lot. He is always taking pictures and claiming he is from the year book club." She said annoyed. "To think the guy was some kind of creepy fan."
"I think there is a phrase involving a glass house." I said chuckling a bit. "But I guess it isn't as creepy when you're a younger girl idolizing a older one."
"She's right though. I've seen that fat one around a lot to. He's always standing there staring at me and posing." Kurumu said and shivered. "What a creep."
"And they seem to be targeting Tsukune and Danny." Moka said with her motherly concern.
"Well we don't need to worry about Big Brother, but we should probably act as body guards for Tsukune for a while." Yukari said causing Tsukune's shoulders to dip with the shame.
"Yeah, that way when they show up we can just take them down. It will be like killing two turds with one bone." Kurumu shouted happily.
"I think you mean two birds with one stone." Yukari said sighing at her friend's use of words.
"I don't know, turd might be more appropriate for this situation." I chuckled.
Tsukune got up. "It's alright, I don't want to be a burden to all of you." He said before he started to leave head down hiding his eyes from the world. Moka went chasing after him.
"That idiot's ideas about 'boys are supposed to protect girls' will get him kicked in the balls some day." I said returning to may meal.
After school that day I headed to the roof as usual. 'Today is the day.' I thought sadly. 'One whole month has gone by and Tsukune has to choose between human world or Moka.' I went through the door to the roof and saw Moka standing there alone.
"Hey, is something wrong?" I asked her as I came up.
"Oh… hi Danny." She said hardly looking at me before she put her head back on the railing.
"Did… did he say goodbye then?" I asked sadly.
"What!? No!" She said jumping as if the very thought of him leaving was scary to her. "He… he was just saying that he didn't want to hold us back… but he was so hurt. I know he says that they didn't attack him. But he was injured."
"Moka… he didn't want to tell you all this. But he got those injures sparing with me." I told her feeling a little like I was betraying Tsukune by telling her. But she needed to know. "He wanted to be stronger so that he could be the one that protects you instead of the other way around. So I offered… ok so I didn't really give him a choice in the matter… but I showed him how to fight with a human's strength in a way that would help him out against monsters."
"So… he was like that because he wants to protect me?" Moka said a little touched by her boy toys determination.
"Looks like it." I said with a shrug.
Just then Yukari burst out onto the roof and ran to us. "Guys, while I was sweeping up I saw Tsukune and he had a really serious look on his face." Yukari said. "He also had his bag with him."
Moka's eyes widened. "But… if he had his bag with him, then that means…" The words disappeared on her lips. "He wouldn't leave without saying goodbye would he?"
We rushed out and Kurumu joined us along the way. We had to get to Tsukune before he left.
We were flying towards the bus stop, Kurumu was carrying Moka and I was carrying Yukari. "You never told us you can fly, Danny." Kurumu said as we went along.
"I can't do it very well in my human form. It… it really is taking quite a bit out of me." I said concentrating of staying afloat and maintaining speed.
"Then why don't you just transform." Yukari asked a little hopeful that I would.
"And ruin my suspenseful unveiling on flying from point A to point B. Why would I do that?" I joked as we went along. "Besides, it isn't like we're in any hurry. The bus isn't going to get there before us and Tsukune's not in any real danger."
But as were managed to get passed the forest and could see past the last of the trees into the clearing we could all see Tsukune being attacked by three of the lamest monsters each wearing a pink cheer squad jacket. "You just had to jinx it didn't you, Big Brother?" Yukari commented as we started to descend.
Tsukune was tossed up into the air as each of the three monsters turned to us. "Our goddesses!" They shouted. If I wasn't catching my breath from the flight over there, I would have hurled.
"I got you, Tsukune." Yukari said waving her wand. "Magical water seat!" She said and a cushiony sky blue water chair appeared out of nowhere and caught Tsukune.
"Tsukune are you ok?" Moka said running up to him.
"And again you guys had to save me." He said depressed.
That got on Moka's nerves and she delivered a back hand across Tsukune's face. "Is that what all this is about? Don't you understand that we are friends, Tsukune? That means you can depend on us. So don't just run away by yourself!" Moka shouted. Yukari, Kurumu and I were all there with her.
"I thought she was going to kick you in the balls. You got off pretty easy." I said with a shrug.
"There he is. Stealing our women right in front of us." The monsters were crying. "That bastard must die."
"Wait a second, I'm in love with Danny, not Tsukune." Kurumu said dragging my head into her chest again and holding me there.
"I told you to stop that!" Yukari said trying to get Kurumu to let go of me.
"It's not fair!" The monsters shouted and they charge. The girls moving to intercept, but… the monster were just too gross.
The one after Moka was a weird umbrella monster whose upper body was replaced by an umbrella, he had one eye and a mouth with a tounge that seemed not to go back in. He was spinning the top half of his body around and saliva was coming out and showering Moka how was backing away in disgust.
Yukari on the other hand was being chased by a head on the end of a long neck. The monster was saying suggestive things about wrapping around her that made me feel sicker.
Kurumu was the only one actually trying to attack her opponent, and she wasn't having any luck. The fat blob that he was driving her nails into wasn't showing any response.
Tsukune was sitting there on the chair looking miserable. "You just going to sit there and watch them?" I asked before holding out a weapon to him. "Or are you going to help them."
He went wide eyed and nodded taking the weapon. "Ha, stop that!" Tsukune shouted at the monsters. "You guys aren't fans. You're just disgusting perverted stalkers!" Tsukune shouted at them gripping his weapon.
"Is that…" Yukari started looking at the weapon.
"That's right." I said. "The Fenton Anti-Creep Stick."
"That's just a baseball bat." Moka said in surprise.
"Correction, it is a baseball bat with the word Fenton on it." I said with a straight face causing Kurumu to laugh.
"So now even he is mocking us?" The monsters were crying. "Well no more." They jumped into a pile. "Combine!" It had to be the worst combination that I had ever seen. It was a blob with short limbs, a head on the end of a long neck with only one eye, and an umbrella on top of the body. It had all the weak points of all three monsters.
"Tsu… his limbs are short. So he won't have much of a reach. Plus with his large mass and his center of gravity shifted too far forward by the long neck, it will be hard for him to stop once he starts running at you." I whispered to the human. "Come on Tsu, these guys are pushovers, show them who's boss."
Tsukune nodded nervously as the combined monsters charged him. The monsters gave a swing but Tsukune could easily duck around the short arm. Before the creature could do anything Tsukune hit him in the back leg with the bat and he toppled over. "What…" The monster said disoriented.
"And stay away from my friends!" Tsukune shouted and hit their single head on the long neck with the bat. After about five hits the monster shifted back into the three monsters that made it up. Each was unconscious. "I… I did it." Tsukune said in disbelief.
"Do not underestimate the power of a bat with the word Fenton on it." I said simple as Tsukune stumbled back drunk on his small victory.
The girls came up to congratulate him, but then Moka said what we had all came there for. "Tsukune… are you really leaving?" She asked using the legendarily powerful puppy dog eyes.
"What? No, I was just going to send some mail back home." He said pulling out some letters. "It isn't like I can call my parents here?" He said pulling out a normal phone and looking at it.
"Wait, that is why you're out here? Why didn't you just ask to barrow my phone?" I said pulling out the Fenton Phone Mark II. "Unlimited interdimensional minutes." I joked tossing him the head piece phone and the dial pad.
"You have a phone that can make calls between dimensions?" Yukari said amazed.
"Yeah, my parents invented them. They also tone out any outside noise that is meant to hypnotize the listener. So as long as you wear them you're safe from sirens and banshees." I said as I showed him how they worked. "And like everything else made at Fenton Works it won't break from anything short of an angry vampire going at it." I said shooting Moka a look that caused her to be embarrassed.
"Why didn't you tell me about this?" Tsukune asked me.
"I never thought about it." I said with a shrug. "So let's start going back to school before dinner is over." I said as we walked along the path. So Tsukune is going to be along for the ride. It will be nice to have the human around.
... I think I can see some small cracks in the fourth wall.