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

Chapter 281.

"Did you like your party?" Inari asked as she and Tsukune walked up the stairs of their building. Tsukune didn't feel like waiting for the elevator, and Inari was not going to be left behind.

"It was just as much your party as mine," Tsukue pointed out. They were both leaving the police agency after all. "But yes. It was nice. Thank you for your effort in putting it together."

"You really liked it?" Inari pressed.

"Yes," Tsukune said with a small grin. He knew where she was going with the conversation.

"Did you like it enough to..."

"Inari," Tsukune cut her off as he put his arm around her shoulders. "For a crafty fox, your intentions are easy to see."

"Awww..." Inari protested. She pouted the rest of the way to her floor.

She paused at the door to her floor. Tsukune stopped beside her, still with his arm around her shoulders. She gave him a small, hopeful smile.

"Tsukune, would you like to come to my apartment for a little while?" Inari asked.

"I don't think so," Tsukune said with a small shake of his head. "I've seen your apartment before."

"Awww..." Inari pouted, feeling a little hurt.

"Let's go to my apartment," Tsukune continued. "The bath is much bigger, and my bed is more comfortable."

It took a heartbeat for Inari to realize what he had said. When it struck home, she lit up like the sun. Without even thinking about it, she jumped at Tsukune, wrapping her arms and legs around him. She held on to him tightly and kissed him.

XxxxX

When Inari woke up Saturday morning she was alone in Tsukune's bed. It took her a moment to figure out what it was that had brought her out of her slumber. After a moment she realized that someone was prodding her foot. She opened her eyes and looked around, blinking as her brain took in information. The other half of the bed was empty. Sunlight was spilling in through the window. One of the Me sisters was using the handle of a feather duster to poke Inari's foot.

"Huh?" Inari blinked at the maid.

"Lord Master told me to wake you," The maid, Me Midori, explained. "He suggests that you may want to bathe and dress before his guests arrive."

"Oh..." Inari took a moment to think that through. "Yes," She said at last. "Thank you."

She pushed the covers back, exposing her naked body. Her mind cleared as she remembered why she was naked, and the events that had kept her awake until the early morning hours. She wondered where Tsukune got his energy from. He had done most of the work, and still he was up and around ahead of her. As her feet touched the floor, Inari started to look around for her clothes. She had left them on the floor in her eagerness to be with Tsukune.

"Mistress Ruby has prepared clothing for you," Midore said. She gestured to the dressing table where a folded bundle rested.

Inari remembered thinking that it was odd for Tsukune, a man, to have a dressing table. Also called a vanity, they were much more common in a woman's bedroom. But then Inari remembered how many woman wanted to be in Tsukune's bedroom and the dressing table suddenly made perfect sense.

With a stretch and a yawn, Inari made ready to start her day. A good washing and some fresh clothes would feel good. After that, she would investigate her options for breaking her fast. She would have preferred to have slept in beside Tsukune, but waking up in his bed was not the worst way for her weekend to begin.

XxX

When Inari emerged from the master bedroom, she was proudly wearing her new clothes. What Inari had provided for her was a basic black set of undergarments and socks, and a gray track suit. On the back and over her left breast was the triple tomoe of red, green, and black that Ruby had taken to using as Tsukune's crest. Under the tomoe the words 'Private Security" had been embroidered.

Inari realized that the track suit was one of the uniforms, or at least merchandise, ideas for Tsukune's soon to open company. When Inari entered the main room of the apartment, she saw Ruby sporting a more formal uniform. With the tomoe on the shoulders, it was a green, button down shirt, black trousers, and a red neck tie.

The parts of the uniform, or the fact that it even was a uniform registered in Inari's mind a few moments after she saw them. What had stood out first was the way Ruby was not quite wearing the uniform. Her shirt was unbuttoned, exposing her front which had a sheen of perspiration on it, as if she had been physically active just a short time ago. The neck tie was loose around her throat and hung between her breasts, like a red arrow pointing down to her lacy garter belt. The garter belt was holding up her stockings, while the trousers that would normally cover them were in her hands. Inari wondered for a moment why the other woman did not have a bra, but dismissed the question as unimportant as she realized what Ruby's appearance meant.

Tsukune was standing a short distance from his self defined slave, dressed in the same uniform, except that his included a green blazer with red trim. From where she stood, Inari could tell that his shirt was unbuttoned and not tucked in. Inari's face felt hot enough to burst in to flames.

It was the realization of what she had just missed that made her heart race. Tsukune and Ruby must have been making love in the living room while she had still been sleeping. Likely, from there appearance, they had finished about the same time Inari had gotten out of the bathroom. Realizing what she had missed, Inari thought that she may never want to sleep in late ever again.

XxxxxxX

Moka and Kurumu both had small smiles on their lips. Each would have displayed larger smiles if the other had not been around, but they were both still able to enjoy the situation they were in. It was Sunday afternoon and the two women were enjoying a movie. The reason they were enjoying the movie was Tsukune sitting between them. The reason it was a threesome was because of the timing of when the idea had come up.

"So..." Kurumu asked while visiting with Tsukune and Moka earlier that day. "What are you going to do with your free time?"

"I'm not really going to have free time," Tsukune had answered. "Right now I don't have any clients for my company, so I don't have a lot to manage. But that means I need to work on marketing so I can find clients."

"But you get to set your own schedule now," Kurumu argued.

"Tsukune is too mature and responsible to ignore his work," Moka spoke up. "Just because you want to spend time playing around."

"I wasn't talking to you," Kurumu snapped, but without any real heat in her voice. "Besides, I know that you want to do more with him than just the occasion dinner because he is too busy." She turned her attention back to Tsukune. "When was the last time you just went out to just have fun?"

Tsukune had to take a moment to think about it.

"Remember the times we would all just hang out together?" Kurumu asked.

"No," Tsukune shook his head.

"Nor can I," Moka replied.

"I remember going out on dates," Tsukune said. "And I remember studying together as a group. And there were club trips. But the only time I can think of that were were just all out together for fun was when we went shopping for the coming term back at school."

The two women fell silent and considered what Tsukune had said. The scary part was how accurate his words were. Even going to the school festival together after graduation had been as much about his obligations and sense of responsibility as it had been about wanting to have fun.

It was a chilling thought. Moka remembered anew how Tsukune had sacrificed his life for her sake. For the almost nine years that she had known him, even when he had been doing something fun, there had always been a dark reason for it hanging over him. Dating, when they could work it into their schedules, was likely the only thing Tsukune ever did just because he wanted to.

A quick look at Kurumu told Moka that the succubus was thinking similar thoughts. Suddenly Moka felt bad about all the times she had been jealous of Tsukune's time spent out with Inari. Even those dates, Tsukune had explained, had a potential political value to them.

"I have thought about going to see a movie," Tsukune said casually. "Except for one time with Kurumu, I don't think I have gone out for a movie since the start of our second year at the academy."

"Well then," Moka spoke up, eager to catch onto something. "Why don't we all go see a movie."

"What should we see?" Tsukune asked.

"Errr..." Moka was stuck. She did not really know anything about movies. She remembered hearing class mates talking about them, but like many modern human world things, they had just never been included in most of her life.

"Why don't we just go to the theater and see what's playing?" Kurumu suggested. "It will be fun just because it is different."

The idea was unanimously accepted. A short time later, the three of them set off to the movies together. The choice of the movie was left to Tsukune. The trip was about him having a chance to relax and have fun, as both women insisted. Kurumu also kept saying that she didn't care as long as she was with him. As for Moka, she was not familiar with movies did not have an opinion on what they should see.

"If you're both not going to suggest anything," Tsukune warned. "We'll see that one." He pointed to a brightly colored poster that showed people in spandex, large robot animals, and explosions.

And that was the movie they ended up seeing. Adults were the exception in the theater. The majority of the audience were in the junior high school age range. The audience was also about eighty percent boys. It was just that kind of movie.

Moka wondered what made Tsukune interested in the movie. She had read most of the recognized great plays of the world, which was a part of the education of a proper young lady. She understood the power of a moving plot and characters with depth. The movie Tsukune had chosen, she could not see having any of that kind of substance to it.

Kurumu wanted to focus her attention on Tsukune, and just enjoy her time with him, but she could not help but feel the eyes of all they boys watching her as she entered the theater. Their immature lusts were the same as she remembered from when she was their age. She remembered all the tricks she had used back at school to encourage such feeble feelings so she could draw them in. She smiled as she remembered her own immaturity from those days. She could draw in every drop of lust from the boys around her, and it would be like nibbling on cotton candy. It was all there, but it was empty and would be unsatisfying. She felt a renewed gratitude for having Tsukune in her life. Not only had he helped her to grow up so she could understand what real feelings and relationships were, so she could appreciate them, but he also shared his feelings with her. His real and grown up feelings. One night with him was more satisfying than all the shallow urges thrown off by strangers could ever be.

As the theater lights dimmed for the start of the show, Tsukune gave his companions warm smiles. He wasn't expecting a lot from the movie. He expected to be surprised if Moka and Kurumu managed to make it all the way through the movie. At the same time, he felt a kind of happy excitement. He took Kurumu's hand and leaned over to give her a kiss. Then he leaned over to Moka.

"Remember the first day we met?" Tsukune asked her in a low voice. He took her hand in his. "Remember when we first agreed to be friends? Moka, thank you for being my friend."

"Tsukune..." Moka whispered in the darkened theater.

x

It turned out that Tsukune knew exactly what he was doing to Moka. He had broken up any train of thought she could have had going on. He had taken away any ideas of what to expect from the movie. When it started with a flash and a boom, it had taken her unaware.

Moka was surprised as the ending credits began. The movie had been without any real substance or meaning, but she had enjoyed it. It had been like... she had to fumble for something to compare it to. It was like sweetened tomato juice. A kind of candy in a way. She had sucked it in with out even noticing it until it was over. And oddly, she wanted more.

As the ending credits started to roll, Moka blinked and wondered what had happened to her. All around her, young teens, children were cheering. Some of them were yelling out quotes from the movie. She looked to Tsukune and saw him smiling with amusement as he looked around the theater.

"I liked that more than I had thought," Tsukune admitted with a nod. He looked to Kurumu. "What did you think?"

"It was kind of fun," Kurumu said with a small giggle. "I liked how that one guy liked the girl who wore the pink costume, but didn't realize it was the same girl that was in his class."

"What about you?" Tsukune asked as he turned his attention to Moka.

"It was horrible," Moka blurted out. "I mean..." She could not think of how to put it into words. But at the same time, she was smiling and knew she would be happy to see another movie like it again, if Tsukune wanted to. "I mean... How? Ah..."

"Before I met you," Tsukune said. "Stories like that were the most excitement that I had ever known. It's fun to see a story where the good guys win, and they all get to go home with a smile."

Moka just shook her head in confusion. Tsukune gave her a crooked grin. Kurumu jumped from her seat to plop down on Tsukune's lap.

"So," Kurumu said with a mischievous smile. "What kind of fun do you want to have next?"