Disclaimer: I do not own any part of Rosario Vampire. I am merely twisting the creators vision into my own dream. If the supernatural, sexuality, or violence is offensive to you, then you should not read this.

Chapter 48

Kurumu was aware of the pain first. Every muscle in her body ached all the way to her bones. She was feeling cramping tremors running through her body. Even her wings and tail hurt. That didn't make sense to her. Kurumu was aware that her head hurt also. Not just from whatever was making the rest of her hurt. She also had a headache which was made worse by the bright light that penetrated her eyelids. The succubus could not turn away from the light any more then she could move any part of her body. She was held immobile, naked, someplace cold. She tried to remember what had happened.

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Kurumu was in positive spirits. Things had been going well with Tsukune, and her other friends had not been interfering in her plans. She had even managed to plans soft kisses on his cheek without his protesting. Kurumu had to admit that part of her success was because Tsukune was distracted. She suspected it was a combination of Moka and the coming final exams that had him so preoccupied, but that was fine with her. If Moka could keep Tsukune distracted by standing in front of him, then Kurumu was perfectly happy coming up on Tsukune from behind. Once she was close to him, she would work her way around until she crowded the vampire. Moka may be in first place, but Kurumu would do everything she could to come in a close second.

Her recent success with Tsukune was the biggest part of her positive mood at the moment. She was also feeling happy because her mother had come for a visit. Kurumu had received a letter from her mother just a few days ago notifying her of the coming visit. Aghea had made reservations for a place just beyond the shopping district the students visited, and wanted to take Kurumu out for some Mother-Daughter shopping. Kurumu knew her mother would pressure her about Tsukune, but she didn't care. Things were going well with him, and it was always fun to go shopping with her mother.

Kurumu had returned to her house after school to change clothes. From there it was going to be a short walk into the woods. Once she was out of sight of the village, she would transform and fly to the shopping district to meet hear mother. Kurmu remembered the first rush of air of jumping as high as she could, then the force of her wings as she made the first downbeat. Suddenly everything had gone white and pain had exploded though her body.

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Kurumu realized that she had been captured. Someone had trapped her when she had let her guard down. She immediately remembered Sun, and Fairy Tail. A part of her wanted to yell in anger, while another part wanted to laugh. She remembered Tsukune as he destroyed an office full of armed men to rescue Sun and Moka. It was then that the darkness started to set in. It was Moka that he had been rescuing. He was able to rescue her because Moka's little sister, with her strange sister complex, had used her bat familiar to follow where Moka was going. Nobody had been watching over Kurumu like that. Here friends were not expecting her somewhere until Sunday for a study group. Her own mother had been flexible about the time they would meet. Kurumu was alone. She did not know how long she had been unconscious. She had no way of knowing where she was.

Kurumu had no way to tell time. She drifted in and out of awareness and the pain faded from her body. At some point she became aware that she could move again, and found herself curing up into a ball of loneliness and depression. She was alone and nobody was coming for her. Darkness embraced her.

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Tsukune awoke to a pounding at the front door. He had spent the evening on duty with the Student Police, chasing down students that were running a little wild to let off pressure from studying for their final exams. It seamed to him that he had just lay down and closed his eyes when the pounding started. He rolled out of bed and stumbled for the front door when he heard it open.

"May I help…" Ruby's voice sounded.

Tsukune could hear the irritation in his friend's voice before it was cut off. Her words were crisp and formal, almost as if coming from a recording instead of a living person.

"Where is she?" A new voice demanded.

Tsukune came out of the hall and saw Ageha, Kurumu's mother, standing in the front door. The woman was dressed up, as she usually was, but her attitude was very different.

"Where is she?" She demanded again as soon as she saw Tsukune. "My daughter was supposed to meet with me tonight, but you are the only person that could distract her from that."

"Please come in," Tsukune said as the last foggy whips of sleep faded from his mind. "Ruby, please see to her while I get dressed."

Tsukune hurried back to his room. He recognized a worried mother when he saw one. He also recognized a serious problem. He pulled on his uniform and gathered his thoughts. Some small part of him was excited, he recognized the feeling from deep within. But he needed to be serious. When he returned to the front room he was ready to get to work.

"Kurono San," Tsukune said as he sat across the table from the woman who was holding a teacup in trembling hands. "Please tell me what you know." Tsukune's mind was racing. He was borrowing from every detective manga he had ever read or police drama he had ever watched.

"I had made plans with Kurumu to go shopping after her classes let out today," The mature succubus explained. "And then we were going to go out for dinner. My daughter and I have not had a shopping date in a while and I wanted to spend some time with her. When she didn't arrive right away I thought she was just taking her time." The calm expression the woman had tried to assumed started to slip. "But it was getting later and later. I thought that perhaps she was delayed because she was bringing someone with her." She looked directly at Tsukune. "My daughter enjoys few things as much as shopping, so it would be easy to guess what, or who would keep her from an opportunity to go shopping with me."

"I understand," Tsukune said. He didn't want to imply a relationship on the level the woman was hoping for, but he didn't want her getting off the topic. "Please continue."

"When I realized that Kurumu was not coming," Ageha said with a frown. "I came looking for her. It took me an hour just to find this little village of yours." More emotions were coming out as Ageha spoke. She was not exempt from the fear a mother felt when her child goes missing. "I went to her house, but her classmate was of no help. I went to the school to see if she was there, maybe she was being punished. The headmaster was unhelpful, after I finally found him. Finally I decided to come here." Worry was openly showing on her face.

"Tsukune-kun, my daughter may seem strong to you," Ageha said with honest emotion on her face. "But she is still very much a little girl. She has not had enough experience yet. I keep hoping you will push her down and help her grow up a little faster. I don't know what I would do if something happens to her." The mother was on the edge of tears.

Tsukune stood up and moved around the table. He gave Ageha a gentle hug. The woman seamed a little surprised, but only gave a soft sob and hugged him back just as gently.

"Ruby," Tsukune ordered. "Go and wake the others."

"Yes Master," Ruby responded to the firm tone of Tsukune's voice without hesitation.

"I will do everything I can," Tsukune promised.

Ageha was filled with wonder as she watched the boy go to work. She had hoped to find her daughter playing house with the boy, or doing some other playful but sexless thing. She felt no lust from the boy, even though it was thick around his house. When that witch had answered the door, with lust coming off of her, Ageha had though that maybe she might be a part of the reason her daughter was so unsuccessful in seducing Tsukune. But then she heard the boy's voice as he took charge. Tsukune had issued orders and the witch had obeyed them. And then she saw others listening to him.

Tsukune had met his friends on the street in front of his house. He started giving instructions and the street became a scene of ordered activity. One of his friends had hurried off, only to return in minutes with members of the Student Police in tow. More of the student Police continued to arrive and Tsukune sent them off in different directions to look for Kurumu. It did not escape Ageha's attention that some of the searchers blushed when they were told were to go.

A small squad of Student Police were gathered together. Tsukune had directed each one to stand to the side as he ordered out search teams. Finally he turned to the assembled squad.

"I am sorry to ask this of you," Tsukune began. "But Kurumu is missing and I want you to help me find her."

Ageha noticed the determined looks in the assembled student's eyes. Some of them were female. While all of them showed the boy respect, and some admiration. The succubus noticed the desire and affection most of the females carried for Tsukune. She also noticed that they boy was unaffected by those looks of desire.

"I know that you all have animal monster forms," Tsukune continued. "I would like to ask you to use your animal aspects to help look for Kurumu. Please," He bowed to the assembled students.

The boys looked serious. The girls were touched. All of them agreed. The students transformed into a collection of animal youkai.

"Just tell us what to do, Captain," An attractive Red and blonde Fox Youkai said.

Tsukune didn't waste time. He started by walking over to Kurumu's house. A quick look inside confirmed that she had been home after school long enough to change clothes. He brought out her sweater and held it out to the animal youkai.

"I know she can fly," Tsukune said. "But please, track her to the best of your ability."

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Kurumu was miserable. She was laying naked on a bare wood floor in a room she could not leave. When she had finally recovered enough to understand what had happened, she wished that she did not. The room was a kind of office. Arcane symbols were painted on the floor and walls and a work bench was against the wall opposite from the only door. In the room with Kurumu was an over weight, middle-aged man that smelled like old milk and incense. When the man had seen that Kurumu was awake and alert, he had been more then happy to tell Kurumu what had happened.

She was bait for a trap, he told her. She had been captured and brought to this place so that she could be used against her friends. He went on to describe what he had done to her. The man was a sorcerer. He used magical formulas to control and manipulate youkai. He showed Kurumu a long slender shard of pink crystal. Etched into the side of the crystal was a name. He spoke the name once and Kurumu understood how truly trapped she was.

The sorcerer had used his power to bind Kurumu and while she was confused and in pain, he had tormented her into revealing her 'True Name.' It was something she had not even known about herself, consciously at least, until he spoke it. He had her 'True Name.' He could compel her to do anything. It was an ultimate weakness for a youkai. It was how Succubi had been enslaved in ancient times. It was by this power that Kurumu was forced to wait in that awful room.

The sorcerer, Kurumu realized, was off his rocker. He talked to himself more then to her as he talked about what he did, and what he planned. He wrote out spells with magical ink on long ribbons of pale leather, chanting as he worked, then laughing about what each strip was for. He was going to turn Kurumu into an assassin, a living weapon. He would turn her into a killing machine and then she would be sent out to kill the enemies of Fairy Tale. First it would be her friends at school. Then she would go wherever Fairy Tale wanted her to go, to kill whoever they wanted her to kill.

Kurumu sobbed quietly as she though of what would happen to her. As the warded room that had become her prison became more and more like a personal hell, Kurumu wept because she realized that this evil man had put Tsukune forever out of her reach. Even if he escaped. Even if he disappeared into the human world, she would never be a part of his life again.

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Tsukune looked at the building his trackers had brought him to. It was in the unmonitored area beyond the shopping district. A part of an area that was older then he could guess where youkai lived as little more then wild things in an imitation of a community away from the reach of humans. Two ape-like ogres in dirty suits stood in front of the door to the building. Tsukune had no doubt that this was the right place.

Tsukune considered his options and resources. He was there with his closest friends, a double handful of Student Police, and Ageha. The unknown of what was inside the building, and what the enemy was planning, is what decided the issue for Tsukune. It was tie to act.

Ageha took care of the guards. As bold as brass, she walked up to them, her inhuman charm wrapped around her like armor. She swayed her hips and flashed her smile. And with a wink, she set the two guards to fighting each other.

"Now!" Tsukuine lead the charge.

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Kurumu heared voices beyond the door. Someone was yelling. And then she felt the Yokai. Something big was coming closer. She could feel the fire of the demon aura as it came closer and her body trembled. The sorcerer started to laugh. And then the door opened.

Once the door was open the warding of the room was incomplete. Kurumu could feel the yokai in the building clearly. Much of it was a jumble of hanger, hate, and fear. But some of it came through strong and clear enough to recognize. Moka and Tsukune were in the building, and they were twin storms of power. Through the open door Kurumu saw a pair of students in their uniforms and arm bands. Members of Tsukune's Student Police.

"Keep them out," The sorcerer ordered.

A sudden compulsion filled Kurumu. With a cry of frustration and anger, she faced the pair of students, ready to fight. The students backed quickly away from the door. Kurumu didn't pursue them because her order had been to keep them out. She didn't want to fight them, so she was glad they had backed off. One of the students stared blowing a whistle.

Kurumu recognized the importance of that whistle. Tsukune would be coming. He would come to that room, and he would see her naked and enslaved, and she would have to fight him. Her heart trembled and Kurumu felt sick. She could feel Tsukune, her Destined One, coming closer, but all she wanted to do was run away.

"No," Kurumu cried in a small voice, tears in her eyes. "Please, no." She prayed to whoever would listen.

"Kurumu," Tsukune's voice called out. "Are you…"

"No!" kurumu screamed, cutting him off. "No. Go away!" She was crying fully now. She was filled with fear and shame. "Leave me, please."

"Kurumu…" Tsukune said as he stepped into the room.

"Stop them!" The sorcerer demanded, his voice breaking with fear. "I'm not ready."

Kurumu felt her body move beyond her control. Still crying, she launched herself at Tsukune. She lunged for his chest with her talons even as she felt her heart dying within her.

Tsukune saw his friend crying, hugging her self with her arms and wings as she crouched on the floor of the strange room. He heard the man call out an order, and Kurumu moved to obey. Instinctively, Tsukune blocked her attack. Tsukune had seen Kurumu fight before, and knew that the succubus used slashing attacks the most. He stepped in to her attacks and blocked. His chest and forearms received lacerations for his efforts, but they were shallow, lacking the power and effectiveness they would have had if he had not pressed in.

As Tsukune defended himself he tried to figure out what was going on. Kurumu was crying, with her nose running and tears running down her face from puffy red eyes. A look of horror was on her face. Over and over again, she cried in a tiny, pitiful voice.

"Please go away," She cried. "Don't see me like this. Don't make me fight. Please run away."

Tsukune understood. He remembered Kurumu telling him about how Succubi have been enslaved. He saw the arcane decorations around the room and understood that Kurumu was being controlled against her will. Tsukune knew that he had to get to the man behind Kurumu if he was going to save her. He knew he had only a small chance, and he would have to move quickly when it came.

Tsukune calculated his movements. He trained against the unseal Moka, who was stronger and faster then Kurumu, so he knew he could beat her, but that was not his goal. He had to save Kurumu. He let one of her attacks though, taking a deep cut to his left side. The sudden lack of defense left the succubus off balance, and that was when Tsukune grappled with her. He turned about and managed to throw Kurumu out of the room.

"Hold her!" Tsukune ordered to the Student Police that had assembled in the hallway. "Be careful of her talons." That was all Tsukune had time for. He turned his attention on the man.

"What have you done?" Tsukune demanded as he closed with the man.

"I enslaved her," The sorcerer cackled as he held up a crystal shard. "I have trapped a piece of her soul and now she will serve her master forever."

"Release her," Tsukune commanded, reaching for the man's robes with one hand while seizing his wrist with the other.

"No!" The sorcerer yelled, and then his robe became tight around his neck, making it hard to breath. "Rumunoko," He gasped. "Save me."

Tsukune lifted the man off of the floor as Kurumu pulled away from the students that tried to hold her. She cried out as she through herself at Tsukune's back. Her talons dug into his back as he was driven forward by the force of the assault. The three bodies crashed together.

"Aaaaaaaaa," Tsukune yelled.

"Eeeeeee," The sorcerer screamed as his back was broken against the edge of his workbench

Tsukune was filled with pain and anger. As his Yokai flared, he smashed his forehead into the face of the sorcerer, even as he jerked the man's torso forward by the front of his robes.

Tsukune was aware of a wet crunching sound, then several things happened at once. The sorcerer went limp. Kurumu fell away and crumpled to the floor. Several things around the room shattered, and a pain like fire exploded though Tsukune's chest. Tsukune let go of the man and staggered backwards, stumbling over Kurumu and falling to the floor beside her.

As he struggled to get his body to work right he could hear shouting. He heard his name being called out. And something more.

"Kurumu!" Ageha cried out as she reached the room. She hurried to her daughter's side. "Kurumu, my baby." The woman was sobbing as she squatted down and reached to comfort her child.

"Tsukune's hurt," Somebody called out.

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Kurumu felt exhausted. Her body was sore and tired and her head was spinning. Something was happening and she wasn't sure what. She saw her mother's face, and heard her voice, but it wasn't real to her at that moment. Kurumu was aware of Tsukune close beside her. She could feel his presence. She tried to sit up even as her mother embraced her tightly.

"Tsukune's hurt," Someone called out.

Kurumu felt sick to her stomach. She was the one that had hurt Tsukune. His blood was literally on her hands.

"Find something for a bandage," A voice ordered.

"These will work." Kurumu heard as she saw a nest of tangled ribbons flash by as someone tossed them across the room.

"No," She tried to protest, but her voice was lost in the noise in the room.

"What…"

"No!..."

Sparks of pain sprayed though Kurumu's body. Her mind went blank and the room faded away.