It only took a couple of days for the inevitable to happen. While sitting at his desk going over some routine paperwork Tsukune heard a loud conversation in the distance. He knew that Diestra Morturo was going to come to intimidate him, and possibly declare a very ill considered war with his family. While the Morturo Family were very powerful in Southern Europe, there was no way they could match the sheer power of the House of Shuzen. That the man even thought that he could was, amusing.
The loud voice grew in volume until the door to his office burst open, "YOU MURDEROUS COWARD. YOU SLAUGHTERED MY CHILD, AND THOUGHT THERE WOULD BE NO REPERCUSSIONS."
"Would you please quieten down. This is a school, and classes are in session. Would you take a seat," Tsukune barely offered the man a glance.
"I will give the students here the courtesy of that, they are not at fault. You killed my son, and then had the gall to send the knife to me," the hate and vitriol dripped from his tongue in a flood.
Tsukune looked up, "He attempted to murder my son. He failed, but in doing so endangered others who I care for. 'HE', declared war upon my house. I am currently trying to find a reason I should let you leave here alive. Alfonse, was very well known for not doing his own dirty work, unless he had no other choice. Tekeshi, is quite adept at reading energies, and he doesn't forget them. Knowing that you have connections to Fairy Tale, and the recent attacks they have made on my family, and their lives, it didn't take too much to figure out who ordered him to make the attempt."
Morturo suddenly became nervous, "Why should I consider such a rabble worthy of ordering the death of. I have heard of how weak your son is, how he is an embarrassment to all vampires. Why would I do you the favor of removing him from your misery?"
It was the wrong thing to say to Tsukune, "My son is so much more of a vampire than you are yourself. Even with his weakness, he charges into battle with no regard to his own life. He relies on himself, more than what he is. When attacked by one hundred of Fairy Tale's soldiers, he slaughtered forty of them with only a sword. He was torn near to shreds by gunfire and slashes from blades. Yes we had to save him, but even you might not have survived such an attack. You, you are simply dirt beneath his feet. If you remain on these grounds, you will be dead within the hour, and it will be my hand that delivers the killing blow."
"You wouldn't dare. I know how shaky your position with the board of this school is. Killing someone of my profile would not look good. In fact they might not want to retain someone who would kill a student, regardless of the reason. Maybe I should let them know about this event, and demand your head as compensation, or better yet the head of your pretty wife," Morturo while powerful, was not the most intelligent.
While power was one of the guiding principles of vampire culture, and overkill was looked at as reasonable force, there was still a reason overkill was seen as reasonable force. Don't underestimate what your enemy could be capable of. Hit them hard, hit them fast, and give them as little chance to retaliate as possible. Only the most powerful could afford to allow their enemies leeway, and the problem for Morturo, was that there was nobody more powerful than Tsukune Aono.
"Lord Morturo, do you understand what I am?" Tsukune asked calmly.
"What kind of a question is that? You are a vampire, what else would you be?"
Tsukune chuckled as the room began to darken and the door slammed itself shut, "So you are unaware of what runs through my veins. Have you not questioned 'WHY', I have not struck you down yet? Have you really not gathered any knowledge of the enemy you face? Has Gustave told you nothing of the power I command?"
"What is this," panic started to sink in for the European vampire.
"This, is the power of the Shinso. I have the blood of the first of our ancestors pulsing through my veins. I am not the only one, as 'My pretty wife', also carries this blood. Take her head? I would definitely hate to meet any who could do such, for they would be unstoppable. Now, however, you have signed your own death warrant with that statement. Many questions will be asked regarding your disappearance, but none will ever be answered."
Nothing would ever be found of Lord Diestra Morturo. His second son would go on to take over the family, and eventually lead it into destitution. Their enemies within other vampire and yokai organizations would wear away at them, until they no longer were even remembered, and all that from one ill advised order to kill the son of a man so much more powerful, and intelligent enough to know how to cover his tracks.
Tekeshi didn't know how the girls had managed to convince him once he let slip the idea of reviving a family legacy. He was more a fan of reading the news, than writing it, and he didn't know anything about writing it. However that didn't stop them from, with more ease than should have been possible, dragging him into the staff room, and right to a sleepy looking cat. Well it was a woman who was a cat, and seemed too tired to retain her human form at that moment.
"I can't believe you never heard of Nekonome-sensei before now. She was close to our parents, and even fought beside them. How could we not want to do this? Also how do we wake her up without getting cat scratch fever," Harumi was quiet in her excitement, out of fear of what cats were wont to do when their sleep was disturbed.
"I just never paid that much attention, and Aunt Yukari never said anything about her when I would have been. Do you want me to do it," he asked as he noticed the girls step behind him.
"Nyah, even that quiet Teacher can't sleep with you talking, nyah," the cat looking woman started to become more human as she sat up.
"Nekonome-sensei," Machiko still looked a little nervous, probably because she didn't like cats.
"Nyah."
"I am Aono Tekeshi, the ladies here, well most are ladies, are Shiraishi Utsuki, Kurono Harumi, Shirayuki Asusa and Yusa, and finally Wong Machiko. We are here about, uh, the newspaper club being revived," Tekeshi told her, earning a dirty look from the younger witch.
"Aono, are you Tsukune-sama and Moka-sama's son? If so, you are Kurumu-san's daughter, you two would be Mizore-san's, and that would make you Yukari-chan and Fangfang-san's daughter. I am afraid I don't remember having a Shiraishi in the club before, nyah," Nekonome-sensei said, Tekeshi finally realizing she had never opened her eyes the entire time.
Utsuki was finding it hard not to reach up and scratch the cat ears that were still visible on the woman's head, "I'm not related to anyone that was in the club before. I'm just here because Tekeshi-kun is here, and I kind of got dragged along."
"Nyah, always happy to have anyone that is willing. Did Gin-san ask you to do this,nyah? He said he had an idea to bring it back, but I didn't expect this," Tekeshi wasn't going to lie, the frequent meowing was not that endearing to him, however he noticed Utsuki light up every time the woman did it.
"Yeah, Mr. Morioka asked me to think about it, and I have apparently been decided to do it. What would we need to do as far as getting everything set up and such?"
"Been decided, nyah? As far as getting it set up, where is that sheet, ah, all of you sign on this paper,nyah. Then when the formal announcement is made next week we can start getting everything in order to start having meetings. I am so excited, nyah. I think it is koi for dinner tonight, nyah. NYAAAAAH," Utsuki had finally lost the battle.
"'Suki, please don't mo... lest hahahaha, the, hahahaha, teacher's ears. Oh gahahahhaaha, oh god. Come on, hahahhahaha, before, hahhahahaha, this is, hahahaha, a, a problem," Tekeshi picked the girl up and placed her over his shoulder before the group made a hasty retreat.
Once outside the school building, and all of the teenagers had stopped laughing hysterically, Asusa turned to Utsuki, "I can't believe you just scratched a teacher behind the ears. I love this school. Nothing like that ever happened at the human schools me and Yusa went to on Hokkaido. Why did you do that?"
"I really like cats, and they just looked so soft, and pettable. Did I do wrong," she asked.
Tekeshi spoke up, "I think you just sexually assaulted a staff member. I think that the ears are a errogenous zone on nekomusumes. For once you weren't the pervert Machiko, I didn't expect that just trying to sign up for a club. You may have inadvertently torpedoed it, but I can't be mad, that was hilarious."
"Well Dyke, now we know your type. There is a couple of them in my class that I can introduce you to. They, enjoy, whatever company will come to them, regardless of what they have to offer. COOOOOOLD," Harumi was smiling until Yusa froze her panties.
"Bitch," Yusa said, pointing at her with her lollipop.
"Oh my god. Do you think I will get expelled for molesting a teacher,," Utsuki's face was so red, that even Deesseedra had to make an appearance to find out what was happening.
"Lovely Mistress, did what," after the story was relayed the demon wasn't able to contain her fit of laughter and was rolling on the ground.
"It isn't funny Deesseedra," the demon's mistress protested.
"Honestly, Utsuki, it really is. That is the kind of thing I do, well not nekos. I kind of got scratched somewhere by a stray, on a day I didn't have any clean underwear, and I really can't stand cats now," Machiko stated to her.
"I think you were the only ten year old ever admitted to the hospital for getting your kitty attacked by a kitty. Even Uncle Fangfang laughed about it, and he is uber protective of her. Of course that didn't teach her not to wear a skirt while going commando," Tekeshi had no qualms about outing his cousin's embarrassment in the open.
"Really Pervert, how did you even manage that," Harumi asked.
"I squatted down to pet a cat, it didn't want to be petted, and it attacked the first thing it could reach. Which was my, well, 'kitty' as he just put it. Mom, I don't even need to explain how funny she found it when she came in the room to do the medical exam. All of you be grateful that your mom is not your primary care physician. Even at ten, having your mother rubbing your crotch with rubbing alcohol and neosporin is embarrassing. Even for me," Machiko wasn't really happy to talk about it.
"Aunt Yukari wished she had taken pictures. She said they would have been perfect to explain to little girls why you should always wear underwear. She couldn't sit right for days afterwards. Unfortunately, I also know she still has the scars from it, and not because I want to. Like I said, she still goes commando with skirts at times."
"You, wear skirts, without panties? Why would you do that, it has to be cold, and drafty," Utsuki asked, too embarrassed to say the other part she wanted to.
Machiko shrugged, "If you don't have clean panties, you don't have clean panties. Besides, it actually doesn't feel all that bad. It is, strangely freeing. I don't do it if I have clean underwear, but I am bad about letting laundry pile up, and I have more suits of clothes than underwear."
"Pervert, and a half," Yusa intoned.
"I, don't think I have ever gone without. I wouldn't be able to though, not with this tail. I would randomly be flashing more than I do now. Though if Tekeshi was the only one who would see, I wouldn't mind," Harumi said thoughtfully.
"It wouldn't be anything I haven't been forced to see before. Whether I wanted to or not," Tekeshi said dismissively of the succubus.
"Snow women go without when we are wearing our Yukatas, but they are longer than the school skirts, and you would see a panty line through them. We do wear a hadajuban though, so we aren't completely naked underneath," Asusa said as she thought about it.
"Ok, I know it was funny talking about this when it was about Machiko getting the sharpest rub ever, but I don't want to be part of this conversation anymore," Tekeshi said uncomfortable.
Machiko smiled evily, "Says mister, 'I can't find any kind of underwear that feels good, so I just won't wear any at all'."
Utskui went red, "You mean, there is nothing hiding anything, if he rips..."
"Not a thing," the little witch, in more ways than one, smiled ear to ear.
"Machiko, I am going to ring your... GET YOUR SCRAWNY LITTLE ASS BACK HERE," he could have used his high speed, but he believed in fair play as he ran after her, abandoning the some conspiratorial looks of the other girls.
"Shizuka, you don't come visit much anymore. How are you doing," Moka hugged the older woman as she entered Tsukune's office.
"I know, nyah. I just get so busy, and keep falling asleep at my desk. Uh, do you know a Shiraishi-san by any chance," Nekonome-sensei asked.
Tsukune looked up from the pile of club applications, "Shiraishi Utsuki, by any chance?'
"Nyah."
Moka tilted her head with a concerned look, "Why do you ask, Shizuka?"
"Well, Moka-sama, she, may have... She touched my ears randomly. All of children of the newspaper club from back then were signing up to restart it, and she was with them. And then, nyah, she was scratching me. I, feel, I feel so violated," she brought her hand up to protect the area.
The two vampires had to turn as they tried not to burst out laughing. It was legitimately sexual assault, they knew that, but they also knew how rather innocent the girl was in most cases. It was just so funny when they thought about it.
Tsukune managed to control himself enough to say something, "I am sorry Shizuka-san. Miss Shiraishi was formerly human, and isn't always aware of when she should or shouldn't do things. I don't know for sure, but I can guess she may have a love of cats, and couldn't control herself. Now, did you let yourself get so sleepy you let your human guise slip again?"
"Nyah," she meowed sadly.
"I won't lie, I kinda wanted to when I was in school. Don't take anything from it, and don't say anything about it, because we want them to work it out themselves, but Tekeshi and Miss Shiraishi are madly in love with each other, and I doubt they would have much interest in anyone else," Tsukune admitted.
"Nyah, if you really want to I might let...," the nekomusume started.
"Shizuka, think very hard, on if you want to finish that sentence," killing intent suddenly started rolling off Moka.
"Oh my, I just realized I still have lesson plans to get ready. I won't be a stranger, nyaaaaaah," Nekonome-sensei wasted no time in getting out of the range of the irate vampire.
"It is moments like this that make me wonder why you were ok with me sleeping with Mizore," Tsukune said as he looked at his wife.
"That was a very different situation. She was reaching the end of when she could have children, and I knew how much it would mean to her. There was also one more thing," Moka said as she approached her husband.
Tsukune smiled as she reached him, "What was that?"
"I participated as well."