Rosario to Elf
Disclaimer: I do not own Elfen Lied, Rosario + Vampire, or any characters associated with either of the series.
"talking"
thoughts
How is this for a Story?
Kohta took a deep breath of the morning air as he and Nyu had now stepped onto school grounds.
"Although it's been a while, it's feels like it's been forever since we've been back to school" said the tanned youth.
"Yeah" smiled Nyu.
After the witch ranch incident many movements were made in the human world to preserve the sunflower fields as people from all over stood up to save the garden. With great perseverance and hardwork, they succeeded as the garden was now protected property by law.
Then after some work, the two clubs wrote up their newspaper prepping it for the next school semester as the newspaper club wrote up the articles while the photography club overlaid the pictures.
Now as this was all being done in Yokohama, Kohta couldn't find much time to visit his cousin to which he could only imagine how worried sick she was for him. But then again he would have a hard time explaining his group as they weren't very tuned to being in the human world and more than likely would have said something very odd which would have aroused his cousin's suspicions. So it was probably best that he visited her when he was around more 'normal' company.
So now at the start of the new semester, Tsukune graciously offered to share credit with them as they handed out their newspaper. But of course both Kohta and Nyu had to decline as they were just happy to help. Seeing the kind of attention they were getting, it was best they left the task up to them as hoards of guys just seemed to surround their table. Now if either of them decided to stay for just a bit longer they would have noticed a mysterious ice maiden with purple hair now approaching the newspaper clubs table to which this mysterious girl had her eye more specifically on a certain male.
~ Youkai Academy (English Class) ~
"Come on! You've got to be kidding me!"
"Yeah! Why do we have to get stuck with this?"
"A project this early in the semester?"
The flamboyant English teacher simply waved this off as he continued to flash and turn as if he were a rock star. "Well what better way to kick off a new semester nee?"
"Oh come on!"
"Lousy teacher!"
"This is tyranny!"
"Now now don't be like that" he then said. "It's not like this project will be due tomorrow. I'll be giving you the entirety of a month to get this done".
"Umm sensei" as Kohta raised his hand. "What will the subject of this book be?"
"Anything you want. I give you all full approval to use any kind of literature you see fit".
At this statement much conversation were being bumped around as some of the students talked amongst themselves.
"And furthermore you're all free to work as individuals or in groups. However my limit is two to a report understand".
~ Youkai Academy ~ (afternoon)
"Since we're working as partners I have just the book I wanted to do this on!" chimed Nyu as her eyes twinkled a bit.
"What's that Nyu-san?" Kohta smiled back softly.
"I have no idea!"
The tanned youth blinked at this. ". . . . What?"
"I'm not really sure what the books name was but I'm pretty sure it was mythology".
"Mythology huh? Sounds interesting. So where is this book? At the school's library?"
Nyu shook her head as she then smiled brilliantly to him. "I found the book in your library. I wanted to use that to do our report on".
Kohta blushed as he knew exactly what she was going to ask now. "Nyu-san! You can't sneak over to my room again!"
"Ahh, why not" she then pouted cutely too.
The tanned youth sighed as her puppy dog eye look would always get him every time. However he had to draw the line. If Nyu visited his room again, temptation might get the better of him and that was something he wanted to avoid. So he had another plan in mind, "come with me" to which without thinking he grabbed her hand leading them to a cherry blossom tree nearby. Then taking a seat, he patted the ground motioning for Nyu to do the same. "We can do the link here every afternoon under this tree where we usually hang out. Is that alright?"
Nyu slightly frowned at this, but soon conceded as she smiled to him. "OK" as she laid her hand on top of his. Then resting her back to the tree, "let's begin then shall we?" With that the pair looked like they fell asleep as they were now leaning against each other. If anyone else passed by them at this time they could have sworn it was the cutest thing they've ever seen.
~ Inner World ~
"So what is this book you're talking about?" as Kohta closely followed behind his friend.
"Well I know it's around here somewhere . . . . Ahh! Here it is!" as Nyu removed the book with much glee.
The tanned youth eyed the book with curiosity. "That's weird. Why doesn't it have a title?"
The ditzy girl could only shrug at this as honestly she had no idea. Although there was a sign on the aisle saying what these books were, it wasn't in Japanese which struck her as odd. Simply when she really took a hard look around some of the contents of the library were somewhat mismatched in relation to their language. But then again she simply shrugged it off as it didn't seem very important. "Kohta-kun must be a very well informed person".
So then walking back to the main hall, the pair took their seats as Nyu sat down with Kohta right next to her.
"So what mythology is it?"
"Japanese I believe".
". . . . What do you mean? You don't know?"
"Well the characters I recognize as Japanese. But the story is something a bit different from what I heard of".
Kohta scratched his cheek at this. "Well if it's in my head then I must have heard of it at some place or another. So tell me Nyu-san, what is the story about?" He then looked up as he gave a bit of a nervous chuckle. "Actually my mythology is a bit rusty, so would you mind telling me who was part of these stories again?"
"Of course!" she smiled. Then flipping the book open, "the story begins from centuries long ago during the time when the world was still young. From the birth of creation were born two gods, Izanagi and Izanami. Although they were born as a fated pair, tragedy soon befell them as Izanami died. So in his grief Izanagi transverse into Yomi to bring her back. However upon discovering her rotten form, he became horrified of what he saw as he fled from her sealing her within the underworld. At this betrayal, Izanami swore she would take a thousand lives to which Izanagi in return would give back a thousand lives".
"Thus setting up their statuses as the god of life and the goddess of death, right?"
"Yes" said Nyu. "So as Izanagi departed Yomi, he was bathed in the evil aura of the underworld. So taking purifying water he washed his left eye, his right eye, and nose".
"That gave birth to the three noble children. Hmm, what were their names again?"
"There was the god of darkness and protector of the night Tsukiyomi who watched over the world from the moon. The goddess of light and protector of the day Amaterasu who watched over the world from the sun. And then there was the god of the skies and protector of the heavens Susanoo who watched over the world from above. With these three deities created the trinity for life to begin on Earth. Then from there other gods were born to govern different roles in the world like water, earth, fire, and wind for the lands fertility. As well as emotions, knowledge, and medicine to govern the lives of mortals".
"Wow that's a lot of information" said Kohta giving a slight chuckle. He then looked up in thought. "Hmm . . . . but how did it all end?"
"What do you mean?" as Nyu now looked up from her book.
"Well it's usually common in most mythologies that they talk about the end of days which usually meant the end of the gods or life itself. Like in Norse they talked about Ragnorak and in Christianity it was Armageddon. So was there anything like that for them?"
The ditzy girl began flipping through the pages of the book speed reading as she went along. Her eyebrows then curled as she looked up. "There's nothing here that talks about their end I'm afraid".
"Were there any other books on the shelf?"
"Not that I saw" as Nyu shrugged at this. "I couldn't read some of them and I didn't know you knew so many languages".
"Ehh, I probably just looked it over once sometime long ago and it just ended up here".
"Ok, so what do you want to base our report on?"
"Can't we talk about all of them? There is enough time isn't there?"
She simply shook her head. "The report has a word limit so we can't talk about them all. Plus we have to add pictures and references. So taking this all into account we only have enough room to make our report on one of them". Nyu then smiled to him, "so who do you want to make the report on?"
"Don't you want to decide Nyu-san?"
"I don't mind, whoever is fine with me".
Kohta took the book from his friend as he began looking over the pages of each of the gods that were mentioned. "Hmm, they're all very fascinating characters. But who should I choose? They would all make such good reports on . . . ." But he soon sighed as he passed the book back to her. "It's alright, I'm fine with anyone you choose".
Nyu blinked at this as she then looked up in thought. Then getting into her thinking pose she began to think harder about it until she began to hold her head as if she were in pain.
"Nyu-san, you don't need to think that hard . . . . "
"I got it!" as she popped back to her usual self. "Let's do our report on Tsukiyomi!"
"The moon god huh? Any particular reason to your choice?"
Nyu's eyes then began to twinkle as she looked up dreamily as she clasped her hands in front of her. "Because isn't it just romantic? The night, the moon, the stars, all the right ingredients for the perfect romance story".
Kohta gave a strained laugh at this as he rubbed the back of his head. "Girls and their ideas on romanticism . . . . " as he gave a bit of sigh. "Well if that is your choice then I'm fine with it".
"Thanks Kohta-kun! I can't wait to get started!"
The tanned youth nodded as he soon stood up. "Well in relation to the real world, it ought to be time to return back to class now, right?"
"Yep!" chimed Nyu as she stood up, but then looked to the book in her hand. "I better return this before we leave".
"Alright, hurry back then" said Kohta.
The ditzy girl soon ran off to the aisle and spotting the missing spot placed the book back from once it came.
As she ran back to her friend, there was something she had completely overlooked.
The name of the aisle she got the book from was 'Animus', the Latin word for memory. If she had just looked a bit further down the hall, she would have come across a badly damaged book. In this book was a record of seven years ago. But in relation to Kohta and Nyu . . . . What really happened seven years ago . . . .
To be continued . . . .
Author's notes: That concludes another chapter.
Anyways, I thank you all for reading this fic and I further extend my gratitude if you can review it as well.