Tekeshi took his time walking to the dorms. Even as little insight as his father had given him was a lot to process. His sickness had always been a major mystery for him, but the symptoms didn't sound like a sickness to him. Granted his father specialized in highly technical seals and magical formations, not medicine, and his Aunt Yukari had never been consulted due to how fast things occurred. He searched his mind for anything that fit, and came up with poison. Why poison an infant though, even vampire babies were completely defenseless at that stage of development. It wasn't sensible.
He continued to think as he made his way to his dorm room. He needed a change of clothes and a shower. Thankfully his father had considered the needs of specific yokai and had renovations done that placed a shower in every room and each room could be switched to a different plumbing system to account for types such as vampires that couldn't bath in pure water. It also gave privacy to help maintain the no revealing your yokai type, not that that was ever actually punished.
"I'm happy to see that you've been released. I heard what your father said about the sickness, and those symptoms don't add up," Akasha was on his bed as he opened the door to his room.
Tekeshi sighed, "So even the dead woman came to the same conclusion. Usually I would tell you to go away, however I could use some help rationalizing this. Why poison an infant in its crib, what would you gain?"
"Poison is indeed an odd choice to go with, but it matches up better with the symptoms. Especially lesions on the skin. I know that I used to bathe your mother with different herbal mixtures than me or her father used to bathe, they were a little harsher so that I could make sure that the water was safe for her. It wouldn't have been all that difficult to introduce something into them that could cause such with me having realized it. Despite what others think, we do realize just how pungent some of those herbs can be."
"But what would be the end game of such. I now know that I have a seal on my power that basically makes weaker than most vampires, but that isn't that much of a gain since a weak vampire is still more powerful than anything below an S rank monster. Wouldn't a much more direct and easily explained method of killing have provided a more satisfactory result," he pondered.
"Well, it may have been intended to kill you, but your Grandfather gave them the key to saving your life and they didn't get your result. I may have an answer as to whom might benefit from such an event occurring. They could still think they have benefited by not understanding just who your parents are, and how little they value the idea of vampiric arrogance."
Tekeshi looked at the phantasm of his grandmother, "I must say that you have quite a deal of insight for someone who has been dead for almost twenty years. So, who are these mysterious aggressors against my parents."
Akasha only said two words, "Fairy Tale."
"What do you mean he was cleared of charges and released just like that? How does that make any sense? He was moved so that no one could interfere and remove him from those bastards on the school board's reach, wasn't he," Harumi questioned the nurse on duty at the infirmery.
"Miss, I have already told you. He. Is. Not. Being. Held. Any. Longer. His father and two members of the board went in, the board members carried out the chains, and him and his father walked out several minutes later. I don't know where he is now, and I could care less. Now get out of here before I call the PSC on you."
Harumi retreated back to the other girls in a huff. She didn't have much more she could do since the nurse was 1. a woman and 2. obviously not a lesbian. None of them could quite believe that Tekeshi's chances were that good to just be let off without actually facing some kind of punishment.
"Do you think Uncle Tsukune or Aunt Moka threatened them with all out war if they tried to actually harm him. I know they probably wouldn't, but they could have this time," Asusa asked trying to rationalize the information.
"I doubt it. Both of them really hate conflict. They are honestly the least vampiry vampires I have ever met. They prefer negotiation over physical confrontation. There has to be something else going on here for this too be true. I just don't know what it could be," Haruni replied,
"Uncle Tsukune is smart," Yusa chimed in.
"Nobody is denying that, but what kind of weapons did he have in his arsenal to use against them," Asusa stated.
Utsuki was the only one paying attention enough to notice said smart man walking up, "We could just ask him how it was done."
"Really Dyke, you think things are just that easy. First off we would even have to find him."
"That isn't hard since I am standing right behind you Tiny Wings," Tsukune said, surprising the three yokai girls.
"Uncle Tsukune, you know how much I hate that nickname. Is it true then, Tekeshi is off the hook?"
"Completely. This time. If anything like this happens again, I'm not sure if anything could be done. I would rather maintain some civility with the School Board if at all possible, but I am not sure how well that would work. I honestly hate politics with a passion."
"So, when were you going to let us in on the secret," Harumi asked.
"What secret? I have no clue what you are talking about. Could you please elaborate?"
Yusa was the surprise interjection, "Suki. Human. Know. Explain."
"Ok Sis. We really need to have a discussion on your aversion to full sentences except to insult Harumi, or in concert with me. But yes, we have known that she was human from the start. It is like she is just an image with no substance, as most humans are to us. Did you really expect to hide it," Asusa said a little drained from her sister's grammar.
"To be just completely honest, you girls don't exactly have the best track record of noticing what is right in front of you most of the time. Plus I expected that enough of Tekeshi's residual youki would hang on her enough to disguise the fact. A miscalculation on my part, though I am surprised that you are taking it this well. Especially you Harumi."
"Uncle Tsukune, I haven't feared humans since I was six. Give me some credit, I'm not little crybaby Tiny Wings."
Yusa spoke, "Now your just a bitch."
"Damn it Yusa. We are having a major talk with Mom when we go home for holiday," Asusa stated.
A hot shower was the best way to relieve sore muscles regardless of whether you were human or yokai. As he dried the herb laden water off himself he once again wondered if he could just take the human world by storm and make a huge paycheck as a model. Though that would just have him hanging around a bunch of air-headed bimbos all the time, and that gave him the shivers. He wasn't gay or anything, but that kind of woman was a turnoff to him. He wanted someone that could actually hold a conversation that didn't include the words 'credit card' or 'Versace'.
He only bothered to get half dressed, not planning to really get out much the rest of the day. He reached over for his guitar as he sat back against the wall on his bed. He liked music a lot, enough that he took up the guitar a couple years after he moved in with his Aunt Yukari. Like most things he excelled at it easily, which would usually have annoyed him since he rarely found a challenge in anything, but instead he liked that it came to him so easily. He fell in love with rock music. Most Metal genres, Hard Rock, Alternative, Punk, and Ska all had places in his repertoire. Granted that nobody else in the house had any love of them like he did.
"What to play, what to play. Maybe some My Darkest Days," They weren't a particular favorite, but they had some good music to their name.
"I'm the Devil's son straight out of Hell
And your an angel with a haunted heart
If you're smart you'd run and protect yourself
From the demon living in the dark
There's nothing to be gained cause I can never change
And you can never undestand..."
"Now why did I start singing that one. I like it and all, but I can't really remember it being on the top ten, huh. Why is 'Suki coming to mind at that?"
He put the guitar down and laid back as he thought, 'Why is she coming to mind. If I was thinking about almost killing her I would understand, but that's strangely far away in my mind. I'm actually thinking more about her smile. It is a really nice smile, wish she would show it more. Not to mention how she tries to hide it when she is laughing, it's honestly really cute. And those warm gray eyes, it's a little weird, gray eyes are typically somewhat cold. She really does look like a china doll like most of the guys say, almost like she would break if someone barely touched her.'
"That's an awfully big smile. I remember seeing one like that on your Grandfather's face the day your Mother was born, not that Issa would have admitted it to anyone outside of that room. He always did dote on Moka more than the others, which gave Kokoa such the father complex."
"I hope you aren't about to tell me that my Grandfather was a creep or something, cause that would cap off this week quite nicely," Tekeshi said rolling his eyes.
"He could be at times, but never in that way. He would kill himself if he knew the stories I could relay about him running off girlfriends. I know he would have taken more wives if they could have stood him like Gyokuro and I could. I miss him so."
"Great, no one ever told me he was a polygamist. I thought you were just his mistress or something, I didn't know you were actually his wife. That being said, I had forgotten you even existed as nobody ever talks about you. I guess you weren't that important to them."
Akasha looked at her grandchild sadly, "Actually, it is more likely because of how precious I was to them. For years I actually was your mother in a way. I was, sort of a constructed personality that was used to seal away her Shinso side, to prevent a very bad event that still occurred. During that event I was given flesh one more time, and subsequently erased myself from the world with three others with an annihilation spell. That is the reason I don't understand how I can even be here."
"One of the primary laws of nature is that energy and matter cannot be destroyed, only transformed between one or the other. Science and Magic both have to follow that law. Aunt Yukari's signature pan spell doesn't just make a pan appear, it changes the state of energy to draw particles together to change atomic state into iron and form into the shape of a large wash pan. All you did was go from being a physical entity, into one of energy."
"I don't quite understand what you mean. Magic isn't the same as science, it doesn't follow the laws of nature."
Tekeshi sat up, "Most witches didn't think so either. Aunt Yukari actually proved that it did several years ago, and had a paper published on it. The laws of nature are the laws of nature. They can't be ignored no matter how badly we wish they could. One of her other bits of research was on gender transfiguration, and it even showed that even if the body was transformed it didn't change what the chromosomal make up was. A man changed to a woman still showed XY make up, and a woman to a man still showed XX. Honestly I wish she would calm down on all that, she really ticks off people more than she should. If she wasn't married to a Triad boss, I would for her health."
"And that might explain why I could be here," she asked.
"Possibly, you still have to exist. Though I would have thought your energy would have dispersed once nothing was binding it together. So there are still many questions as to why you get to screw with my life."
Akasha started to pout, "That isn't anyway to talk to your Grandmother. Ghostly energy entity or not."
A/N: Ok, I do like My Darkest Days, and for those of you who understand, I chose Save Yourself for a good reason. If you can leave a review stating that reason I will give you a character cameo in an upcoming chapter. Keep it PG please.