"'SUKI," the impact of the excited yuki-onna nearly knocked Utsuki over.
"ASUSA, I am so happy to see you. You have no idea how happy I am," Utsuki replied as she hugged her friend.
"Aunt Moka told me to take the day off from class and bring you some clothes. What happened, everyone has been hush about it, and Onii-san just slammed the door in my face when I tried to ask him this morning. You were missing for a week, and no one will say anything. Spill it," the snow girl handed her a bag.
"My father's, well, I have a hard time calling those two family, abducted me. Me and Deesseedra spent a week tied half naked to a post, while, I guess he was my great uncle, yelled at me to join them. Actually, I don't think he ever spoke below a yell the entire time I was there. He would have been horrible to have keep a secret. Anyways, about the time he figured out I wouldn't join them, Tekeshi-kun and my dad come out of nowhere. My dad started a fight with his uncle, Tekeshi-kun hit some random guy that had his sword in the face with a sledgehammer, and I cursed my dad's cousin to have such powerful orgasms she would lose the ability to ever reach one in the future," she said as she dropped her robe and started to get dressed.
"Wow, that is so naughty, but so damn cool. You seem a lot more confident than you did the last time I saw you. I didn't know that ruining a person's sex life would do that. I thought you didn't know how to really use your power though."
Trying to button up her skirt she replied, "I don't fully, but what Mother Madonna has implied is that as long as it doesn't violate the natural laws of the world, I can basically manipulate reality with my willpower. I wonder if I can make my boobs bigger now?"
"Why would you do that? They look perfect on you, and do you really want to have to spend that much on new bras and shirts," Asusa blurted out in horror.
"Your right, so much money for clothes isn't worth it. Well, not for that reason anyways. Do you want yours bigger?"
Asusa looked down, "It wouldn't be too much of an imposition, would it?"
"Hypocrite," the girls broke down into laughter.
Tamiko stumbled into the room, "Why is it so damned noisy? What time is it even?"
Asusa looked at her watch, "9:30 in the morning."
"Who are you," her voice showed how annoyed and groggy she was, and that she was not a morning person.
"Don't take her too seriously, she was much worse before. Mom, this is Asusa, my girl best friend here. Asusa, this is my mother, please disregard anything I may have said about her previously, things, lets say they are complicated and mostly solved. We are still working out some of it," Utsuki didn't seem concerned about the inferred hostility in her mother's voice.
"Asusa, Asusa, I'm going back to bed," she stumbled out of the room, back to the bed.
"Wow, that was the most interesting meeting I have ever had with anyone's mother. It's hilarious. Oh, I heard about Onii-san's bike. That was the only thing I heard about, and only because I saw Aunt Akua earlier. That may have been why he slammed the door in my face. He loved that motorcycle."
"His bike is gone then? I was knocked out, so I didn't know what happened. I was starting to like it too. I wonder what he is going to do now, how do you go from wheels to on foot like that? I need to go see him," she said as she finished pulling her shirt on.
"Every time I see you naked I can't help but wish my skin was as dark as yours. It looks so nice and smooth, and I look like I am wearing a piece of printer paper. Oh well, wanting isn't getting. Lets go see if we can get Onii-san to open the door."
"Dark, I look like a ghost from a cheesy horror movie. As much as I don't want to compliment her, I wish I had Harumi's skin. She has such a nice tan, I hate not being able to tan. It's so bad I can't even get a sunburn. Yeah, lets go see if we can rouse Tekeshi-kun. We can properly introduce you to mom when she isn't grumpy."
Tekeshi lay staring at the ceiling of his dorm room. His father had wanted him to take a couple of more days to rest after everything. If he had his preference, he would have gone right back to class so he didn't have time to think about anything. He wasn't as upset about the bike as he had seemed at first, it was more how to deal with his newly understood feelings.
Emotion wasn't necessarily his best feature. He tended to stay in a constant state of minor amusement, at times peaking to a state of homicidal mania when the situation called for it. Love though, wasn't something he actually understood. He had thought he was in love with Lizzie just a few years ago, but this didn't feel like that. Back then, he just liked being around the banshee, liked going and doing things with her. Utsuki, he wouldn't care if they did nothing but sat and looked at each other until the universe imploded, as long as he was with her. It made him want to tear his hair out.
He raised his hand up to look at the ring on his finger. He kind of wondered if he would have ever met her if he had been born human. Would he have fallen in love with her? Would he have been able to stand up for her? Would he have pink in his hair? Ok, the last one he just wondered typically.
He thought back to Lizzie, and he couldn't understand it anymore. Lizzie wasn't ugly by any means, but she hadn't ever done it on looks all the way for him. She was shorter than him by a huge margin, and her skin was a little mottled when you looked at it closely. She wasn't exactly as gifted as a thirteen year old should have been physically either, and from what he had seen that hadn't changed. It was her personality that was the worst though. He hadn't paid that much attention back then, or rather he had ignored it.
None of the core of the Mongrels liked her. Sweet little Chun-hee had even threatened her life more than once, well everyone thought Chun-hee was sweet and innocent. She felt entitled, and made sure everyone knew it. If everyone wanted to hit up a burger joint, she wanted to get chicken. Hit up an action movie, she wanted to see a chick flick. If they went hiking she would complain that was boring and they should go to the mall. He didn't want to admit it, but she was an absolute raving bitch.
'Hey, Tekeshi. Are you ok? You seem off,' Jakkasu intoned into the vampire's mind.
"I'm just trying to rationalize some things in my mind. Trying to figure out what I saw in the girl that was leading the group that nearly offed me at the mall. It wasn't all that long ago, but now, I just can't understand it. All my friends hate her, thought she was scum of the Earth, and I can't figure out why I couldn't see it. How I felt for her, doesn't feel like what I feel for 'Suki. I may be a damned genius, but that is useless when it comes to things like this. I just don't know how to understand it."
'Love isn't necessarily something you understand. It just is. I have not had many masters that fell in love, most were complete bastards that just put their pickle wherever they could. Whether the woman, or man, was willing and wanting, or not. The heart, is simply a muscle, things like love and hate are more a product of the soul. May you two die, and are reborn you may find yourselves falling in love centuries later, and never understanding it even then. Love just is.'
Tekeshi was taken aback, "Are you a sword, or a poet. Never mind. I just wish I knew how she feels, so I know whether I could tell her or not. Oh goddammit, who is at the door."
Tekeshi was not interested in company at the moment. He had even slammed the door in Asusa's face when he opened his door and saw her earlier that morning, and he loved her almost more than anything else that he didn't have romantic interest in.
"Hel- uh, uh, agh. AAAAHAHHAAAHAHA," the burning he felt as some kind of blade was shoved in his gut was intense.
He didn't see who it was, but it hurt, it hurt so bad. This was a pain he had never felt before, pain he couldn't even have considered existing. It wouldn't stop, and it wasn't trying to heal. In fact it felt like it was trying to get worse. It had to be pure silver, without any kind of coating on the blade. The perfect way to stop a vampire.
Some of the few slackers that didn't care enough to go to class stepped out to see what was going on. The only others were the two girl sprinting to the screaming. His vision was blurring until he felt the blade in his gut pull out and his body start to repair itself. It was such blissful relief.
"Tekeshi-kun, are you ok? Who did this," Utsuki was his angel.
Getting himself leaned back against the door frame he replied, "No clue. Shit, that hurts so damn bad. I wouldn't worry too much about it, worse happens at this school on a regular basis. That feels so much better, but now I need to change my shirt."
"Onii-san, random stabbings are not that common here, especially not with a silver knife. Someone was coming after you specifically, we need to tell Uncle Tsukune about this now,"Asusa looked intently at the weapon.
"Don't worry about it, I will tell Dad about it later. Honestly, this doesn't even top the list of the worst things that have happened to me lately. Whew, the pain is gone now. What are you two doing here?"
Utsuki grabbed his arm to help him up, "We were wanting to check on you. Thankfully we did, given we just found you bleeding out. Are you sure you didn't see who did it?"
"Wow you are strong now. No, I opened the door, knife went in. I didn't have a chance to see who did it. I'm fine now I doubt that they are going to try again. Lets go hit up the arcade and see about getting something to eat."
"Onii-san. You, are going to the infirmary so that Aunt Yukari can check you out and make sure you are completely fine. If you disagree, I am going to freeze you up to your balls, and drag you there clawing at the ground," the ice girl wouldn't be denied.
"Kahlua, I have missed you so much. I can't believe you are back, what happened. Did they make you somehow," Moka was so excited to see her sister.
"They did, or rather a child did. Some girl that came from the U.S. noticed that I seemed just too perfectly airheaded. Hokuto didn't believe it, but everyone else seemed to realize she was right. I'm not that upset though, I was getting tired of being used as a living sexdoll for that tiny prick. Tsukune, you have no idea how much self-control I am having to exercise to not come over this desk and rape you right now," the eldest Shuzen was a little twitchy as she sat there.
"Well, that is intelligence about him, but not any I wanted to know in any regard. I am so sorry that I put you in that position. If I knew that was happening, I would have pulled you out as soon as I could have. Why didn't you say anything," Tsukune unconsciously scooted his chair a few inches further away.
"The value of the information I was getting, was worth more than the value of my chastity. Daddy is probably disappointed in me though, or would be if he ever finds out. I can't believe he just up and disappeared, do you know why?"
Tsukune shook his head, "After Tekeshi was born, and he told us how to save his life, he just faded away. We saw him less and less, and then one day he was gone. It really hit Kokoa bad, Akua took it in stride, and we looked for him for a while, but we didn't have any luck."
"Oh. OH. Who's Tekeshi?"
Moka deadpanned, "Right, you went under before I got pregnant. Tekeshi is your nephew. He just turned 17, and he is, unique. I don't know if you are quite ready to meet him yet," she told her, and then under her breath, "at least until you get a couple of rounds in bed behind you."
"I have a nephew? Why wouldn't I want to meet him, I love family, and children, and puppies," Kahlua would always be Kahlua.
Tsukune chuckled, "Oh, boy. Tekeshi is, not a child as you may be thinking. I have to look up, to look him in the eyes. He is almost two meters tall. His hair is brown, but is streaked up with silver and pink, and he hates it so much. He has green eyes with red streaks in them. He also dresses in large amounts of black, and until recently rode a motorcycle. I gave him the motorcycle, and someone tried to murder him, and destroyed it."
Kahlua cocked her head over, "Our family is definitely not boring. Is Akua still being creepy about Moka?"
"She is, she is. I quit trying to get her to stop years ago. I am not altogether sure, but I think she may still be stealing my panties when we spend time with her, or her with us. At least my laundry comes up uneven a lot.," Moka confirmed.
"If you don't wear panties, that doesn't become a problem. It also makes it easier to go to the toilet. Makes men go wild too, so there are issues," one could not ever tell when she was going to be mature, or childish.
"Coming back to you being outed, what exactly happened? Do you know anything about the girl?"
"Oh, her name is Elizabeth. She is a bitch, I mean a BITCH. I think someone said she, screams, and peoples brains turn to liquid. They kept shooing me away every time I got close enough to try to figure her out. Kuyo hates her, so she probably isn't that bad. She acts like a princess that just deserves her position. I think she more just put her mouth to work on the right people."
"Tsukune, she said Elizabeth. Screams and brains turn to liquid," Moka pointed out.
"Kahlua, did she have red hair, and seemed somewhat pixie like," Tsukune asked.
Kahlua thought, "She does, I wanted to kick her, but I thought I would kill her if I did she was so small. She doesn't even have boobs she is so small. I didn't kick her because I didn't want to kill her, I don't want to kill anyone. I want sex. Real sex. I want an orgasm."
"Oh god. Kahlua, I am going to kill Hokuto, do you want to kick him in the balls before he dies?"
"Can I? I would like that."
Moka groaned, "My family is so damned weird."
"Kahlua, I am so happy to see you. How are you doing," Issa said as he embraced his daughter.
"Daddy, I missed you! Why aren't you with everyone else? Do you not like them anymore," she asked as she was enjoying the contact.
Issa sighed, "It is a little more complicated. I am the family's spymaster, and considering the enemy we face, I avoid notice. I have been informed of what that worm was doing to you, I am quite unhappy about it."
"Don't call him a worm Daddy."
"Why not?"
"Worms are much bigger than he is, and girthier."
"I, uh, I didn't want to know that, but I will always laugh at an enemy with a small member. I won't say why though," the elder vampire said with a smirk.
"Gifu, she was telling us that a girl from America is who made her. The girl she described matches up with Tekeshi's ex-girlfriend. I don't know how she may have gotten mixed up with Fairy Tale, but I do know that she hates humans. Her stepfather was human, and after finding out what her and her mother were, he murdered her mother, and almost killed her."
"What is she," Issa asked curious.
"She is a banshee. I wasn't very familiar with them, so I did some research. Apparently in Irish folklore they herald the death of family members. In reality their wails and screams emit at such a frequency they can liquefy soft tissues. Eyes, cartilage, internal organs, and brain tissue. She, may be more dangerous than most of them. She wouldn't pose much of a threat to a vampire, not even the weakest. If she is involved in the attack on the school that Kahlua warned us about..."
"What attack," Kahlua asked confused.
Issa turned his head to his daughter, "You sent us a message about an attack of Tsukune's home, and on the school."
"The only message I sent was telling you they were going to be placing them under intense surveillance in preparation for an attack. I believe they are trying to determine where everyone will be and when, to attack the trans-species summit that you and the Imperial family have planned."
"The summit. It hasn't been finalized. The security arrangements for the Imperial Prince are running into difficulties. How would they know about it though? Oh no, there has to be a mole, and I think we do have to worry about an attack on the school. They may have had suspicions before, and someone was intercepting and and modifying the messages. If they tell us the truth, but leave her in the dark, it suddenly throws off anything she could say," Tsukune reasoned.
"And if they make a fool of the head representative for the Yokai side, it could end the chances of the summit going through, and ruin ten years of preparation for trying to start your coexistence project again. It seems reasonable, the issue is trying to find the mole. You and all of your women are still very close knit," Issa continued.
"They aren't mine. Only Moka is mine. But yes, we are all still close. I never brought Gin and San into it. The Huang family, has nothing to do with it. I don't know who it could be. Definitely not Gustave, I make sure he doesn't have any information that could be used against me. I don't trust the Morturo's, and having one here gives me less reason after he tried to square up to me, so I definitely don't trust someone they sent. It isn't Miss Shiraishi, she hasn't been around long enough, and I haven't even told Tekeshi about it. There isn't even a guarantee of it going off if everything goes perfectly now."
Kahlua took a sudden interest in the cuff of her blouse sleeve, "You two are boring now. I want chocolate."