Disclaimer: First Chapter
Story Start!
A scar.
'... Vampires don't typically form scars, our healing powers prevent them...' Akua looked at her back in a mirror, and even though her wound was healed, there was a twisted spiral scar on the right side of her back. It was faint enough that it wouldn't be immediately apparent unless somebody was paying close attention like she was. The average person wouldn't be able to see the scar at all, but with her eyes that were able to notice even the smallest of details, she could see the scar plain as day.
"So, you lost."
"Yes Father, I lost... he was faster than me, stronger than me, and he was able to break down and figure out a way to beat my Jigen-To and Hogetsu Jigen-To." Akua saw her father enter her room. Her father, the current 'strongest' living Vampire, said to be equal in strength to the any one of the Dark Lords. Well, she was on her father's level in skill, but she was nowhere near him in just raw vampiric strength.
He was the peak of what a regular Vampire could achieve without any enhancements of some kind.
Issa Shuzen.
"That is high praise, an assassination target you failed to kill. You expect your sister Kahlua to succeed?" Issa was able to see the scar on his daughter's back just as easily as the girl herself saw. His arms were crossed, but he had an intriqued smile.
"With both of her Limiters removed, she might be a better match than me. Her Regenerative power, endurance, and raw strength might be able to take him down." Akua stated, but her tone was something that struck her father as odd. Her high praise of a target requiring Kahlua to remove both of her Limiters to defeat them using her unrestrained power was something else. Considering that their target was a human, that was extremely odd. "... His strength, his raw strength, exceeds that of a normal Vampire. He broke several of my organs when he kicked me. If I didn't have regenerative powers, his kick would have finished me." Akua remembered that first kick she took.
Issa raised an eyebrow, but kept smiling in interest.
"Oh, he's that strong... a human who possesses the strength of a Vampire... that is something to be interested in." Issa rubbed his beared chin in thought. His daughter had never failed to assassinate anyone before, so her coming back alive only because the target allowed her to live was a first. She was the best killer of all of his daughters as well. Her combat skills and techniques were second to none. Akua was among the fastest of the Vampires as well, boosting speeds that were faster than even a Werewolf under the full moon.
So, a guy who was stronger than her and faster than her didn't seem possible.
"You know how strong Kahlua is, what are her odds of victory." Issa stopped smiling and wanted the actual truth.
"Without her Limiters, she would do better than me thanks to how hard she is to kill. He figured out the best way to defeat me, so I didn't see if he had any tricks hiding away. Also, for a brief moment..." Akua remembered when he created a Rasengan that was much larger than the one used to defeat her. She had used her dimensional sword to cut through it, but she had sensed such heavy, dense power inside of that technique. If she had been struck by the larger form of it, then she wouldn't have survived at all without being crippled for the rest of her life.
That would be if she activated her technique in time to avoid most of the damage.
"Her chances of victory?"
"Slim, but better than mine." Akua decided against sugar coating it. Her sister was stronger than she was, but she was the more talented fighter of the two of them. Depending on how much power Naruto was hiding inside of himself, she doubted even a fully unleashed Kahlua would be able to come out on top in a fight against him.
Issa hummed in thought.
-With Naruto-
"You're kidding... you went with the boring Newspaper club... just wonderful."
"We have to join clubs." Mizore pointed out to Naruto as they walked the halls of the school together. She was suggested by her teacher to join, and she signed Naruto up since he didn't pick any clubs for himself. None of the clubs had interested him, and he had just planned to go clubless the entire school year and pick a new club next year.
They opened the door to their clubroom.
It was kind of crowded.
"Hey Naruto! I didn't know you were picking the Newspaper club too!"
"Hey Yukari." Naruto was greeted with the sight of the little witch running up to him. He saw Moka was with some big breasted beauty, hanging up posters up high in the room. He could see both of their panties even from across the room, and there was an older male student who was oggling their underwear. "... This is the Newspaper club right?" Naruto asked.
The older male student stood up and rushed across the room right before the two girls turned around and caught him peeking.
"Right, the teach told me we were getting another 2 students. Getting 6 new students was a hell of a good thing... and who is this beauty behind you... the name is Gin." Gin was then greeted with Naruto staring him down with a death glare. "... and you're Naruto, I've heard a thing or two about you... and seen a thing or two." Gin rubbed the back of his head awkwardly.
He had felt the battle he had with that strong vampire woman, and he had checked it out for himself, and been greeted with the sight of something that scared him a bit. He wasn't about to pick a fight with this guy, not when that could result in him losing his life. There were few people who could take down a fully grown Vampire, even one as petite as the one he fought.
Tsukune entered the room with a stack of office supplies.
"Oh, Shirayuki-san, you joined the club?"
"I sit next to him in class, he means nothing to me, and I'm not his friend." Mizore spoke to Naruto instead of Tsukune. She wanted to absolutely assure him that she wasn't about to engage in casual conversation with some human boy.
Yes, a human.
She didn't say anything, but after living with Naruto for as long as she did, she was able to recognize a human pretty easily, even if Naruto was not a good example of a human. She didn't want Naruto to get jealous, or assume that she was friends with men other than him.
"Oh, you're a friend of Shirayuki's?" Moka jumped off the ladder she was standing on and approached Naruto.
"Yeah-"
"He's the man of the village I'm from, he's more than just my friend. Stay away from him." Mizore stood between Naruto and Moka to prevent them from shaking hands. Naruto placed a hand on her shoulder, and moved her to the side. She just pouted at him when he extended his hand to shake Moka's extended hand.
"She isn't wrong, I'm the strongest man in the village we come from. She's a bit possessive of me though. I've heard a bit about you, and I saw you running from the pool the other day. You're a Vampire, right?" Naruto wanted actual, real, confirmation that Moka was what he thought she was. She nodded her head with a smile, no hesitation in revealing her monster form to him.
"That's right, and you must be the 'Human' from Yukari's class. The one who embarrassed those lizardmen?" Moka put up her fingers and quoted the human part. Everyone in school was calling him a human-wannabe, since he announced himself as a human while defeating monsters. The rumors of him were pretty wide spread that most of the other students had heard of him, and found the joke of him calling himself human hilarious.
Naruto smiled.
"Well, I am a human, and those lizardmen embarrassed themselves, I just helped them out. So... let me guess... Vampire, Witch, Yuki-onna, Werewolf, and... Imp." Naruto guessed what, or just knew, what most of the monster forms in the room were.
"Imp!? I'm a Succubus, you must have heard of me... Kurumu Kurono?" Kurumu introduced herself, but Naruto just leaned forward to get a better look at her. She was shorter than Mizore was, and was the 2nd shortest person in the group other than Yukari. Gin on the other hand was looking at Naruto.
"You called me a werewolf?"
"It's mostly the cheap cologne and the wolf necklace, also... I don't really know what you are?" Naruto looked at Tsukune with crossed arms. The guy was so average looking, with no real muscle mass on his body, and he wasn't that tall either. He was just an average guy in almost every visible way and gave no indication that he was anything other than the human he was disguised as.
Moka was instantly alarmed, and so was Tsukune.
"Uh, Yokai Academy rules, gotta keep our monster forms secret you know!"
"Yeah, I follow the rule super closely!"
"Oh... oooooooooooooh... okay." Naruto sent them a thumbs up and accepted the answer. Naruto clapped his hands together. "Okay then, lets get to work, what does this boring club do?" Naruto asked Gin.
"Boring?"
"What does this club do exactly, because I can't wait to get started. Need me to investigate something, maybe write up a short story article, or maybe I can go into an article about my life as a human among monsters?" Naruto made several suggestions for what he could provide to the club. "Or a story about how I just beat up a vampire assassin who was after my life."
"Ppffffffft... you... defeat a Vampire... I'll believe that when I see it." Kurumu shrugged and walked off. Clearly the guy was delusional. She didn't get the feeling that he was dangerous at all, just some idiot who talked big.
Moka clapped her hands together.
"Oh, you defeated a Vampire, that's really impressive, and an assassin. Vampires are really scary strong, so you must be really strong too." Moka accepted what he said, since she didn't get the feeling he was lying, and just praised him for it. "Isn't that amazing Tsukune?"
"Yeah, I can't even imagine a Vampire being defeated." Tsukune didn't believe it either.
This was just a man showing off in front of pretty girls, if you asked for his opinion.
"I mean, I could tell you her name, and I know the name of the next Vampire coming for my life. My Master hired Vampires to kill me, to test how strong my training has made me." Naruto didn't mind sharing that information. Naruto raised an eyebrow when Moka looked down at her necklace, and he got the feeling the necklace itself was looking at him. Naruto approached Moka, and leaned his face down to meet her necklace. The seal on her power had a red eye at the center of it.
"Uh..."
"Was that just talking to you?" Naruto asked Moka with a raised eyebrow.
"Huh... how did you know, can you here her?" Moka was shocked. Nobody else had ever heard her necklace before. Tsukune was shocked as well.
"You can hear the Inner Moka!?" Tsukune couldn't believe it.
"Huh?" Naruto turned to face Tsukune, before he stood up and he lifted his shirt. He showed his abs, before he started to mould his chakra, and everyone watched as a spiralling tattoo with markings around it started to appear on his stomach. "No, but I felt like it was watching me. I've got a seal on me too, and the asshole in this seal can talk to me whenever he wants to... so I was just curious if the... Inner Moka you called her... I was just wondering if the Inner Moka in there was talking to Moka." Naruto had felt like he was being watched.
Mizore looked at his seal, and now Kurumu was more interested.
Yukari had taken out a pen and paper and copied down the tattoo on his stomach.
"Amazing, I've never seen sealing magic like this!"
"She usually doesn't talk, I only learned she could talk to me recently actually. She was just wondering what the names of the Vampires after your life were. She also says you're extremely powerful, and that I should be wary of you." Moka smiled at him awkwardly. She passed the message along, even though it wasn't a message to him.
Naruto nodded his head.
"I defeated a girl named Shuzen Akua, and the next assassin coming for me is Shuzen Kahlua." Naruto answered the question all the same.
...
"I see... well... that is..." Moka didn't know what to say. She just sent Naruto a double thumbs up, sweat starting to form on her body. "... I hope you stay alive. Those both sound like very strong and dangerous vampire assassins." Moka was clearly hiding something. "Excuse me, but I've got to... go to the ladies room." Moka excused herself from the room.
"Weird... Tsukune, help little old me put up these posters will you!?" Kurumu took her chance and approached Tsukune.
"She's got a crush on him." Mizore whispered to Naruto.
"I can see that." Naruto muttered back.
He wondered why Moka left in such a hurry?
Chapter End!
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