Back at the house Kurumu was cooking breakfast. She never knew what Tsukune always left the house for. She had tried to follow him many times but he would always seem to just disappear, so eventually she gave up. She would question him about it and all he would say is that he went for a walk. Even though, she knew that's not what he was doing. Sometimes he would come back and his knuckles were bruised or his clothes were scuffed up but she decided not to push the matter farther. She put a plate of food down on the table for Tsukune.
"Hmm, he's late," Kurumu mumbled to herself.
Tsukune always seemed to show up the exact moment breakfast was ready, it sort of became a routine. Before Kurumu had time to get worried the door opened and in walked Tsukune.
"Sorry I'm late. I ran into. . .a friend." Tsukune told her.
He couldn't tell her it was Fong-Fong, it would just bring up painful memories, but he didn't want to lie to her either.
"A friend?" Kurumu asked suddenly very intrigued.
"Ya he is just a zombie that I meat at school." he told her.
"Oh." Kurumu said sadly she had hoped it was somebody she knew.
They sat down and ate breakfast, her food was always delicious but he never commented on it, he just never had the urge to, always deep in his own thoughts. Tsukune thought of what Fong-Fong told him. He sat there considering his feelings for Kurumu. She had always been a great friend but as hard as he tried he couldn't think of a happy moment with her without being reminded of their friends. Even though they were happy memories, he couldn't help but become sad and angry with himself.
"Tsukune? Are you okay? Your not eating." Kurumu asked him, she looked how he felt, heart broken.
He knew that there was no room in his heart for love but he would try for Kurumu's sake. He finished his breakfast, stood up and said, "Thank you Kurumu. It was. . .good."
Kurumu sat there a little shocked, he hadn't complimented her on anything in years. She watched him walk into the kitchen and started to do the dishes.
"Tsukune. . ." Kurumu had said softly to herself.
Just as the last ember was about to die, one single compliment had rekindled her hope.
"Here let me help." Kurumu said as she walked over to help him with the dishes.
They stood there doing the dishes as Kurumu leaned on him a little.
Tsukune was deep in thought as he and Kurumu scrubbed the dishes.
Kurumu seemed to have noticed and asked, "What's wrong?"
"Um, nothing. I was just thinking that we should go somewhere. . .today" Tsukune said thinking that he would take up Fong-Fong's advice.
"Like the park?" Kurumu asked looking at Tsukune.
He looked down into her eyes and saw them sparkle, something he hadn't seen in years or something he didn't notice till now, he wasn't quite sure.
"I was thinking of something a little more. . .exotic." he told her and went back to doing the dishes.
"Like where?" Kurumu said a little confused.
"Just a little island called Hawaii, have you heard of it?"
He turned to Kurumu with a soft smile. He had hoped to make her laugh or at least smile but she was crying and he didn't understand.
"He. . .smiled" Kurumu thought happily to herself.
"Kurumu I'm sorry I didn't mean to make you sad." Tsukune said softly and pulled her into a hug.
"I'm not sad. I'm happy. . .and of course I've heard of Hawaii. I have always wanted to go there since I was a little girl." Kurumu told him crying tears of happiness.
Kurumu knew that he still hadn't developed any feelings towards her but at least he was trying. She wanted to ask why the suddenness of this vacation but she didn't want to ruin anything.
"I'll go pack my things." she said excitedly.
"Just one step at a time and maybe. . .just maybe he will start to love me." Kurumu thought while she packed her bags.
Tsukune stayed and finished the dishes. It was hard to act happy when all he could think of was Moka, it was her day after all. He then silently entered the bedroom and begin packing his bags too.
Too the happy surprise of Kurumu, Tsukune had hired a limousine to drive them to the airport, complete with a bottle of champagne. Tsukune had even booked a private jet to fly them to Hawaii.
They sat on a nice leather couch together and the stewardess brought out some chicken wrapped sandwiches and some more champagne. Kurumu happily ate her sandwich and drank some more champagne. She also ate his sandwich when he told her he wasn't hungry. After a grew minutes, Kurumu began to get sleepy. The stewardess brought her a pillow and a blanket. Tsukune wrapped the blanket around Kurumu and she leaned against him.
"I love you Tsukune." Kurumu said softly to him.
Tsukune stared down at the top of her head and for the first time in years he felt like crying.
"I'm sorry Kurumu." Tsukune whispered to her but she was already asleep.
He then got up off the couch and laid her down and put the pillow under her head. He looked at her kindly as she murmured in her sleep. Tsukune walked to the back of the plane where the stewardess was. As he walked up behind her he saw that she was holding a syringe. The stewardess suddenly felt his presence and she swung around with the syringe aiming for his neck. Tsukune easily caught her wrist and twisted it making her drop the syringe which Tsukune then smashed with his foot. He twisted her arm behind her back and pushed her up against the wall.
"Your supposed to be unconscious!" she said with her face smashed against the wall.
"You don't think I could sense your killing intent? I sensed it miles away, before we even got to the air port." Tsukune told her calmly.
"That's impossible. Not even Gyokuro Shuzen could do that!" she said viciously.
"That's because I stole her technique and made it better. If you can wield it, there is nothing stronger than the rage of a broken heart." Tsukune said and as if to prove a point he threw her at the plane's pilot who had been trying to sneak up on him.
They both went tumbling down the isle. Tsukune walked towards them as they both quickly got up. The pilot charged at him with some remarkable speeds. Even if he was fast enough, his killing intent gave away his every move. Tsukune dodged a right jab followed by a left hook. He stepped into the hook and locked his right arm around the pilot's left arm, brought it up sharply and snapped the bone in his arm. The pilot doubled over in pain and Tsukune grabbed him by the head and kneed him in the face knocking him out cold. Tsukune looked down the isle for the stewardess.
"Stay right there, Silent Reaper." the stewardess said coldly.
She was holding up the unconscious body of Kurumu with a gun to her head. Now Tsukune was really angry and he didn't feel like being the nice guy anymore.
"You think I would let another one of my friends die?" Tsukune said menacingly suddenly behind her, having used his greater speed.
She went to swing her elbow back into his head but screamed in agony as the most intense pain erupted from her back and spread throughout her whole body and she collapsed onto the floor. Tsukune scoped Kurumu up in his arms before she hit the ground and placed her back on the couch. He looked at the girl in pain on the floor.
"I wouldn't move if I were you. I dislocated six of your ribs which are now pinching you spinal cord. I also dismantled your gun." Tsukune said holding up the pieces of the gun in his hand.
"Who are you?" she asked practically paralyzed by pain.
"The Silent Reaper." Tsukune said for the first time accepting the name that was bestowed upon him.
He grabbed two emergency life jackets, a parachute and an emergency life raft. He put on one life vest and the parachute on the unconscious pilot. He moved to put the other vest on the stewardess but she was confused and scarred.
"Please don't hurt me! I'll tell you whatever you want!" she pleaded.
"I'm not going to hurt you and I don't care who you are or who you work for. But if you ever, harm Kurumu, I will hunt you down and kill you. I will kill everyone in whatever organization you work for, I will kill your friends and I will kill your family. I can and I will. So be sure to spread the word." Tsukune said to her menacingly and a cold dark fear crept into her heart as she stared into his lifeless eyes.
She wanted to scream and cry but her words were paralyzed with fear. Tsukune then put the life vest on her and strapped her to the unconscious pilot and brought them to the air locked door.
"You might want to hold onto this." Tsukune said putting the life raft's strap in her hands.
He opened the door and all of the pressure in the plane escaped and the plane lurched. He quickly stood them by the door and pulled onto the parachute strap and they were gone. Tsukune closed the door and the plane rightened itself and the pressure went back to normal.
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Tsukune was sitting in a chair across from Kurumu when she woke up.
"Are we there yet?" she asked a little drowsy.
"Not quite." Tsukune told her. She tried to sit up but the process made her head dizzy.
"I think I drank to much champagne. How long was I asleep?" she said holding her head.
"About three hours." Tsukune said handing her some aspirin and a glass of water.
Tsukune just counted down in his head, three, two, one.
"Why do I smell blood?" Kurumu said right on cue.
Tsukune knew he could never lie to her, so he just told her the truth.
"Well the stewardess and the pilot attacked me after they had drugged you. So I threw them off the plane." Tsukune said nonchalantly and as if on cue Kurumu saw the cockpit door swing open to revel the absence of the pilot.
"This isn't funny." Kurumu said getting scarred.
"I wish it was a joke. Put that on." Tsukune said and handed her a life vest.
Kurumu frantically looked around the plane but didn't see anyone but Tsukune.
Kurumu then lost it.
"What do you mean they attacked you!? Why would they do that!? Did you kill them!? You threw the pilot off the plane!? Why would you do that!? Can you fly a plane!? Are we going to crash!?" Kurumu yelled frantically.
"Kurumu everything is going to be alright. I didn't kill the pilot or the stewardess and I don't know why they attacked me." Tsukune said calmly.
"YOU THREW. . .THE PILOT. . .OFF THE PLANE!" Kurumu said making hand motions and talking slowly as if he were a child.
"I guess that was kind of stupid." Tsukune said thinking back on it, scratching the back off his head.
"Please tell me you can fly a plane!" Kurumu asked pleadingly.
"Nope." he said simply.
"I don't want to die!" Kurumu screamed and hugged him tightly.
"Everything will be ok. . .trust me." he told her and held up a parachute.
"Tsukune! We are over the middle of the ocean we will freeze to death." Kurumu explained.
"Don't worry the plane is on autopilot, the pilot only actually controls the plane for about three minutes, on the takeoff and on the landing. When they attacked me the plane hadn't change course and they wouldn't have had enough fuel to anyway. I checked the compass and we are still flying east and since Hawaii is the only place you can land a plane for hundreds of miles I'm pretty sure it's heading to Hawaii. And based on the distance and speed traveled we should be there in about twenty minutes." Tsukune explained to her as if it was a common occurrence.
"How did you get so smart?" Kurumu asked him in awe.
"I used to be fascinated with planes as a kid and all I used was a simple distance formula." Tsukune told her scratching the back of his neck.
Kurumu didn't know what to think, but she trusted him. Tsukune stood up and put the parachute on. He looked down dismayed that it did not have straps for a second person like the other one did. An idea had occurred to him, and he went to the front of the plane and pulled out two seat belt extenders. He walked back to Kurumu who now had on her life vest. Tsukune looked out the window and he could she a rough outline on an island.
"We are running out of time." he thought.
"This is like some crazy James Bond stuff." Kurumu said in awe, watching his every move.
Tsukune pulled Kurumu by the hand to door at the back of the plane. He buckled the two belt extenders together and wrapped Kurumu and himself together. The belts did not have and straps to tighten, so he just tied the two of the them together, sharply pulling a startled Kurumu as close to him as he could.
"Hold on tight." He told Kurumu and she squeezed him as tight as she could.
Tsukune threw open the door this time letting it fall to the ocean below. The plane lurched from the loss of pressure and it lurched again when it came off auto pilot. Tsukune waited till he was close enough to the island before he jumped out with Kurumu.
Kurumu had kept her eyes shut the entire time and all she felt was the rushing of wind and the sudden loss of gravity when they jumped out. She then felt a sudden and scary jerk when Tsukune pulled the parachute. After a couple of minutes she dared open her eyes. She could see that they were heading towards the island but it was still so far away. She stared at the beautiful sight of the islands with the sunset in the background. She looked up at Tsukune, he was busy controlling the parachute.
Kurumu then moved her hands from around his waist to around his neck. Tsukune looked down at her and she pulled herself up to kiss him.
"This is so romantic." Kurumu thought as they floated off into the sunset.
"Um. . .were not quite going to make it." Tsukune said to her and she lifted her head off his chest.
They were about a two-hundred yards up and still had more than five-hundred yards to go. They landed in the water about fifty yards from the beach. Tsukune quickly untied themselfs and took off the parachute. They found out that it was surprisingly shallow with little to no waves. Tsukune picked her up out of the water and carried her towards the beach and Kurumu was loving every moment of it.
The beach was a relatively small beach about two-hundred yards long with a sheer cliff face expanding from both ends and turning out of sight. The area that they were in was surrounded by cliffs shaped sort of like a horseshoe. Tsukune wasnt worried about getting out, there was a large slow moving river that ran into the ocean that they could follow out.
While Tsukune gathered some wood to make a fire Kurumu held her knees to her chest and looked out onto the ocean. It was a beautiful sight, the stars shined brighter then she had ever seen them and the reflected of the ocean like diamonds.
As Kurumu looked out onto the ocean something had caught her eyes. A large black object surfaced out of the water followed by another large black object.
"Those are whales." Tsukune told her as he sat next to her.
Kurumu was fascinated, she has never seen such a large, 'friendly' creature before. As she continued to gaze at them she began to hear a deep resonating noise followed by a clearer, richer noise.
"They are signing to each other." Tsukune said next to Kurumu noticing her confusion.
"It's so beautiful. It is like they are in love." She told him in awe and Tsukune wrapped his arm around her.
A much higher and happier tune was heard across the beach.
"Oh look! They're a family." Kurumu said pointing happily at a much smaller whale appear out of the water.
Kurumu went silent and sadly looked down at herself. There was only one thing she wanted as much as Tsukune's love and she placed a hand on her belly.
"Tsukune. . ." Kurumu said softly without looking up.
"I'll start the fire." he said and quickly stood up.
He took his time to start the fire to give himself and Kurumu time to think. Tsukune had once wanted a family but that dream had been robbed from him three years ago. Kurumu didn't know how to approach the subject, she felt so scared. She had badly wanted a child but Tsukune didn't love her and she would never love anyone else. With the fire now going Tsukune walked back over to sit next to Kurumu. He could see that she was very sad and he felt like he had to explain.
"Kurumu. . .I had once wanted a family. . .but those dreams were destroyed long ago." Tsukune said thinking about Moka.
"I know." Kurumu said as she laid down and turned away from him to hide her tears.
"I shouldn't have said anything. It is her day after all." Kurumu thought thinking of the future that could never be.
Tsukune knew that she was crying so he laid closely behind her to keep her warm.
"Maybe some day." Tsukune thought and he slide his hand under her shirt and placed it on her belly.
She felt his warm body against hers and she felt his hand on her belly. She couldn't tell if it was an apology or something she could hope for. Kurumu placed her hands on his choosing to believe in hope and they both fell asleep.
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