AN: As mentioned in the description above, this story was originally posted on MistressWinowyll's profile. I am not intending to steal someone's work nor do I intend to take credits. I have been given explicit permission from the original author in regards of republishing this story. If you have any comments, feedback, or anything you want to say, please feel free to PM me. - iNSaNiTY49

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AN: This story is a spinoff of mine from GET WHAT YOU WANTED, but diverges from the original and is written by DarkSwordMage. He requested I posted this for him and here it is.

There has been a change from the story to the original writing. DarkSwordMage asked me to add them, but in order for everyone to get the full affect I had to repost it. Please, if you've read the story already, it's REALLY WORTH ANOTHER REREAD.

Take it from your Mistress. Would I mislead you?

Respectfully,

Your Mistress.

"When a man is pushed to his limits, he will stand by his convictions."

Chapter 1: Get What You Deserve

Gin couldn't help but toss a triumphant look over his shoulder. "So this is the reason you're going to give up the most beautiful and wonderful girl in the world for? You're really going to let this happen when you can choose to end this right here and now, Tsukune?"

Tsukune's voice was gravelly and soft. "I may not be a human anymore, but that doesn't mean that all humans see monsters as some of us do. I was more than happy to have my children be raised by vampires and learn their ways and customs, however I won't exclude what has made me the person I am today, the person she has fallen in love with and accepted as her mate. I would be lying to myself and to her. No, I won't allow it."

"Then it is chosen. Let's go, Gin." Moka wiped her eyes as she led another man into the bedroom of her and Tsukune's most private place. When she turned to Tsukune, she seemed to offer one last look of hope, one last quiet, regretful plea to not let her do this, to stop her or do SOMETHING to stop the madness she was about to participate in. When he did nothing, she silently swallowed her hiccupped sob and whispered in a thick, quiet voice.

"Please, help me put an end to a decision Tsukune and I cannot come to grips with. I won't allow him to father them. I don't want a human's mentality to taint the upbringing of the next line of Akashiya. Would you do me the honors?"

Gin nodded while he closed the door behind him, allowing the sliver of light that speared the living room get smaller and smaller till it was nothing.

Tsukune was plunged into darkness, where sounds seem to be clearer. He wasn't sure if she was asking him to stop her from doing this or that he should have just let her win.

After the door closed to the bedroom, Tsukune moved for the first time. The very air in him felt heavy, his heart felt like everything beautiful and wonderful was being twisted out of him like some sponge torqued. Forcing himself to cross the room and then sit down next to the door, he sat himself there and heard all the things he had never wanted to experience.

Everything was so painfully clear to his ears.

The sound of their lips touching, the sound of the buttons being unbutton, the slide of cloth over limbs and then hitting the floor, the sighs coming out of the woman he loved more than his own after his friend touched her in a certain way, in an intimate way...all of this seemed to reach him through that small bit of wood from the door.

They were not taking their time to get to the purpose of this night.

He was surprised to be aware of when Gin must have first entered his Moka. He could actually imagine the sound of the springs of the bed settling, as if she was on her back and then him positioning himself over her.

Gin murmured gently, warmly, "I've always wanted to make love you, Moka-chan."

Her response was light and polite, "I know, Gin."

And then there was a spasmodic jerk in the springs and Moka's quick intake of breath.

It was at that same moment he felt something had pierced him through his heart, into his very soul and mortally wound him with fire and ice, poison and rage...

All he did was hold his breath and try not to breathe. It was too painful to make his chest do more then what it could to hold itself together.

Before that moment, everything from there could have been worked out in his mind. Up until that point, Moka and Him were just two people angry at each other, but this act, this very second she had willingly and intentionally lured Gin to their home, to their bed, and into her body against Tsukune's wishes, it was over.

She was no longer his Moka any more then he was her Tsukune.

Their argument had reached such heights, that she had told him that if he wasn't going to let their children be raised away from humans, she would find someone who would. Needless to say, he wouldn't budge and told her she was pushing this issue way to far. Both Mokas had tried to ask him to change his mind, but he would not steer clear of the fact that his children would know his mother, his father, and his friend Kyouko. No matter how softly, tactfully, and adamantly he tried to accomplish her to see things his way, he had only made things worse.

When she threw down the gauntlet and said, "You will change your mind, Tsukune or I will have someone else give me children that I can raise as I see fit."

What had been so heart breaking was that this was coming from Pink Haired, Outer Moka? Had it been from Inner Moka, he may have felt like she was being stubborn or elitist, but to hear it come out of the soft, girlish voice of his precious Moka-chan, there had been no real proper or expected way to accept it.

He decided to just see this through, to see for himself what her pride and her promises would be for something that she was uncompromising with as much as he was.

Now there was another man inside of his love, on top of her, with her body naked against his and enjoying her deepest warmth and wetness as he was only so blessed to after a few years after they had met.

Tsukune listened to everything from that point with unintended focus. He was only a few feet away when the two bodies started to make slow, accommodating love on the bed he used to enjoy her on. Then they must have felt more comfortable with the other because it was not long after they were making quick, enthusiastic sex that rattled the head board against the wall and knocked over a picture or two.

Young Aono could feel the vibrations through the wall he was leaning against.

Tsukune stayed there for a little under an hour, but when the two had sated themselves enough for them to talk a little to each other, the first thing he could understand was Gin ask, "Do you think he's still here?"

"I don't know." Moka's voice came out softly, with just the slightest twinge of nervousness in it.

"Do you want me to check?" Tsukune could hear Moka pulling covers over herself.

"Would you mind?"

"No, not at all."

The sound of them kissing reached him.

Tsukune got to his feet and reached to his left wrist. He had told himself if this happened when Gin came over, he would make sure he was ready to let Gin receive the only thing he felt he could do in this current state of affairs.

Gin opened the door and he was face to face with Tsukune. Her scent was all over him and the room began to become heavy with their mixed musk.

Unapologetically, Gin smiled down at him. "Yeah, he's still here."

Pink haired Moka made a show of covering herself up in front of Tsukune, as if the were meeting for the first time and he had not been her lover for years now.

He could tell, by the way her eyes watered and the way her hands trembled as they held the sheets to her chest, she was crying. Had it been Inner Moka, she would have rather laughed or mocked Tsukune for allowing things to come to this kind of conclusion, however Outer Moka may have had her pride, but she did not have Inner Moka's fortitude

'Human' mentality huh?

Thinking that and staring at his former friend and the smug self-satisfied look on his face something inside Tsukune snaps. Grasping the Rosario around his left wrist Tsukune pulls, the cross coming off of his wrist with a barely audible 'plink.'

Both Gin and Moka stare at Tsukune in open surprise as he changes, his demonic aura flaring in unfathomable rage as Tsukune's left arm lances out to wrap around Gin's throat and squeeze it with vampiric strength. Tsukune's rage pounds through him, his blood boiling as some formerly unknown power floods into his system, his eyes glowing crimson red with the light reflecting off of Gin's face, his silver hair waving in his thick demonic aura like it's being blown in the wind. In the half moment it takes the naked young werewolf to realize that he's being strangled his hands come up and futilely grasp at his attacker's grip reflexively, instinctively trying in vain to restore the flow of air to his lungs.

Moka can only stare in awe at her mate. Satanic fury fills his demonic aura, making him look like a demon straight from the pits of hell. That same fury fills his voice and chills her to the very core.

"You dare think you can come into my home and kiss my mate, and steal her from me, and GET AWAY WITH IT!" Tsukune roars in indignation, turning Gin to the left as his fist draws back and slams into Gin's jaw.

The 'crack' of the werewolf's jaw breaking resonates throughout the apartment, the werewolf flying back as though he's been hit by a battering ram. Gin strikes the far wall and goes through it, the sheetrock wall giving away like tissue paper as Gin is sent through the wall and through the railing of the walkway outside Moka and Tsukune's second story apartment. Gin finally falls to the earth outside in the grass surrounding the building with an inert thud.

With his world spinning the naked young werewolf is hardly cognizant when Tsukune appears above him. Tsukune's left hand reaches out and grasps Gin's throat, the werewolf once again under the threat of death by suffocation. Tsukune raises Gin's face to his, glaring into his former friends eyes with blood seeping from Gin's smashed in nose, his jaw sitting at an odd angle that is anything but natural looking.

"Our friendship is over." Tsukune growls with finality while his demonic aura flares around him, his voice promising death to anyone who dare argue. "If I see you again, I swear I'll kill you."

Barely even conscious, Gin is able to nod and mumble an almost incoherent affirmative.

"Mm…" Gin mumbles, his jaw unable to move thanks to the irate vampire standing over him.

Tsukune raises his fist, his face showing his fury he strikes Gin again, except this time he holds back, striking the man to intentionally shake his brain and render him unconscious. As far as Tsukune is concerned his continued existence and temporary refuge from the pain is Tsukune's parting gift to his former sempai.

Staring down at the blood still pouring from Gin's nose Tsukune can only spit in disgust, a sudden vehemence filling him as he stares at the now unconscious werewolf before him.

She would forsake me, for this dog?

Turning around to look back at the hole in not only the wall but the handrail lining the exterior of the walkway Tsukune flexes his hands into fists twice before he slowly walks back to the steps. Walking up the steps to the second floor of the apartment Tsukune steps into the apartment through the hole created by Gin's unexpected exit Moka is now standing in the doorway to the bedroom, their bed sheets pulled up to her neck, the smell of Gin's musk and what has to be his semen coming off her in waves. The pink haired woman staring at him in a mix of shock and fear.

Walking toward his discarded Rosario Moka's Inner self is screaming in her mind. The silver haired vampire wanting out to deal with this unexpected change and the pink haired demure Outer Moka unable to move at what has become of her mate. As he strides toward the spot where his Rosario sits on the floor in front of their couch Inner Moka screams at her other self while her Rosario glows hotly, the jewel in the cross on her chest shining like a demon's eye.

Release me! Take off the Rosario and let me handle this!

What's happened to him? His aura has never felt like this before, he's never acted like this before. What if he tries to kill us?

He won't try and kill us he loves us, he is angry and now that he has punished Gin he will apologize to us and I want to be the one he apologizes to!

Tsukune picks up his Rosario, holding the silver cross in his hand and looking at it a moment before he returns the Rosario to his wrist, the talisman flushing the demonic energy from his body. His body pitching forward Tsukune braces himself on his knees, waiting for the sensation of vertigo to pass. Once he's able to stand straight Tsukune silently walks over to the countertop in the kitchen. His fury still pounds through his system like a drug; intoxicating him and threatening to pull his sanity from him as he reaches into his pocket where he keeps his keys and his cell phone. Tossing both items out onto the counter dismissively the small electronic phone slides off the smooth countertop and falls off the opposite side, landing with a thud on the kitchen rug. The keys scratching nosily across the counter and coming to a stop in the middle of the counter. Tsukune then looks down at his left hand, at the simple gold band on his left ring finger and he feels his anger flare at the sight of it still on his finger. Everything the simple piece of jewelry stands for has been thrown out the window by the woman who was supposed to treasure him above all else. Grabbing the ring he yanks it off as though the metal is poison, and he drops it onto the counter, discarding the ring exactly like Moka has discarded their relationship.

Seeing her mate and the man she loves with her heart and soul take off his ring and drop it like he doesn't care about it Outer Moka feels the blood drain from her face. Standing there the realization hits her like a freight train.

He's leaving us…

The thought of it makes her feel like the wind has been knocked out of her, and staring at him as he slowly turns and walks toward the door to their apartment, it's all she can do to breathe and remain standing.

Let me out! Remove the Rosario NOW!

The jewel in her own Rosario shining Outer Moka doesn't even hear her other self-demanding action, she can only watch as Tsukune stops at the door, her fears collapsing on her shoulders as his hand touches the knob. His voice comes out seething with barely restrained fury, as though the feelings he once had for the daughter of Bloodriver Akasha and the seal on his wrist are the only things stopping him from assaulting her and doing to her what he just did to her would-be werewolf lover.

"You would throw everything we had, the life we could've shared to fuck a werewolf…" He pauses a moment, Moka opening her mouth to say no when his next words cut her off, and hit her like a freight train. "FUCK YOU!"

Ripping the door open Tsukune tosses it aside. Simply not caring about the damage as he storms out of the apartment. His former mate and lover staring in disbelief at what she's seeing, so completely stunned by the entire scene that she can't act, until Tsukune disappears from her sight. Her former lover figuratively and literally walking away from her and the relationship they once shared.

"Tsukune…" Moka finally speaks aloud, tears in her eyes at the mess left by her departing mate.

What are you doing just standing there? If he didn't hold back he could've killed Gin and it's impossible to know who he's alerted to our presence here! You have to get Gin out of here before the humans take him to one of their hospitals and examine him!

But Tsukune…

He will be fine! Her Inner self growls in annoyance. He is able and as long as he doesn't remove his seal in front of anyone no one will notice that he's anything but a normal human! If you don't do something then our existence will be revealed and our relationship with our mate will be the least of our worries!

Hearing the truth in her Inner self's thoughts Outer Moka nods, steadying her own nerves she runs to the now empty doorframe and looks outside. Finding Gin's body lying on the ground unmoving but still breathing Moka dashes back inside. Grabbing her phone from the counter she opens it, the number for the special medical service set on speed dial, her finger finding the number and the phone automatically dialing the proper hospital that can save her werewolf friend's life.

Tsukune, I promise that I'll come looking for you, but I have to protect our secret first, wait for me…

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Sitting in the park 15 minutes away from his former apartment Tsukune can feel his rage beginning to settle. The torrent of raw anger pulling back; his own demonic power no longer churning inside of him like an inferno searching for something to destroy. With every step away from the apartment Tsukune can feel his anger fade and as he sits there with his head hung low and his wrists on his knees the rage slowly flickers and dies. He glances at his watch, noting mentally that it's been 45 minutes since the arrival and subsequent ejection of Gin from his former apartment. Tsukune could hear sirens in the distance not too long ago, the sirens no doubt belonging to an ambulance called by Moka or some other witness to Tsukune's act of retribution against his former sempai.

She would call for an ambulance, uncaring bitch…

Dressed in a plain t shirt and jeans and wearing his seal Tsukune appears to any passerby as nothing more than a normal human. Fortunately for him the park is practically deserted at this time of night, and crime isn't a problem in the neighborhood that he and Moka used to live in.

Thinking back on it now Tsukune feels an emptiness in him that he's never felt before. Sitting there he remembers all the happy times, their vampire mating ceremony, moving into the apartment with her, the time the two of them spent as newlyweds. He realizes that to Inner Moka, the real Moka, it was never real, never anything more than a façade meant to appease not only him but also her pink haired Outer self.

It was all a lie, all she ever really loved was her pride…

The thought leaves him feeling empty inside, like he's a shell of his former self, but he clenches his hands into fists feeling the rage from before come back, nowhere near as strong and nowhere near as sudden, but it is there. He can feel it bubbling within him, giving him direction when all he feels otherwise is empty and numb.

Go to her family, tell them what's happened. Her father will be furious to know she would ever consider having children with a wolf. It will embarrass her that she slept with him, and it will give her what she deserves.

Standing up Tsukune knows that it simply won't be that easy as going to her father and asking for a divorce. He will have to explain why and no doubt she will be called to refute the allegations he'll be spreading but what he's saying is the truth. She had sex with a werewolf and plans to tarnish their precious family line with a half breed, and her father will never stand for that.

Walking toward a pay phone Tsukune stops at a nearby trash can, his hand reaching into his pocket he withdraws his wallet and opens it. Grabbing the picture in the special holder and holding it in his right hand he stares down at it a moment, taking all of it in.

The image is of the two of them during a day they spent at the zoo together. It was his idea and Moka had agreed because they had nothing else to do and she'd never been to a zoo before. They both laughed and enjoyed themselves that day, and that night they'd made love together like they had so many times before.

Gone, dust in the wind. A voice in his mind whispers, his hand wrapping around the photo and crushing it before he tosses it into the trash. Grabbing some money from his wallet before closing it he returns it to his pocket as he strides to the bank of three pay phones.

Slipping the proper amount of money into the phone Tsukune's hand dials the number he's long ago memorized, telling himself then that he would never need to dial it and should never for a moment even consider it, but everything is different now…

Moka would be furious if she knew…

The thought brings a slight smile to his face as the phone rings.

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Ria's personal cell phone rings, the sharp cheep of the phone loud in the warm air of the hotel room. Reaching out Ria grasps the device and looks at the screen, wondering to herself who could possibly be calling her at this time of night. Her father is busy with a meeting of the Vampire Elders and both Kahlua and Kokoa are busy working for their father's company Fairy Tale. Neither her younger sister Moka nor Moka's mate Tsukune ever calls her and they are the only other people who know the number.

Opening the phone Ria answers it neutrally, the idea that it could be one of those people calling her from a foreign phone crossing her mind as she raises the device to her ear.

"Sekitan Ria."

The line is quiet for a moment, and then Tsukune's voice comes through the small speaker.

"Ria-san…" He finally speaks, and Ria's eyebrows rise in surprise, Tsukune never calls her willingly.

"Oh me oh my, is there something I can do for you brother dear?" Ria asks sweetly, feeling the man beneath her shift his dick inside her. The human surprised that she can speak on the phone without even a hint of arousal in her voice.

"Something has happened, and I would really appreciate it if you would come pick me up and bring me back to the castle, Ria-san." Tsukune says in a low voice, his tone hollow and lifeless. "Please don't speak about this to Moka."

Ria blinks in surprise, Tsukune's last statement confirming for her that something has in fact happened between her sister and her mate. Smiling to herself Ria speaks in a sweet loving tone, like an older sister who actually cares about her younger brother-in-law as more than a tool to hurt her younger half-sister.

"Of course I can do that brother dear." Ria says as the human continues to thrust into her, barely causing any feeling from her loins as he continues on his quest for orgasm. "Where can I find you?"

"I'm in the park fifteen minutes from the apartment complex."

"I know the one. I'll be there in twenty minutes."

He hangs up then and Ria closes the flip phone, looking down at the dark haired human beneath her she feels her lips curl in a smile, her fangs glinting in the low light. She opens her mouth wide and leans down, chomping on his neck and tearing his skin open with her teeth sucking the delicious warm liquid down her throat like it's the nectar of life. The man screams in sudden agony, his arms grabbing her by the shoulders to push her off but Ria grabs him by the back of neck, holding onto him like a primal animal sucking the man dry as quickly as his still beating heart can pump the blood to the wound.

In less than five minutes he's been sucked dry and Ria pulls away from his neck. Grinning down at the now drained human body before her she gets off the bed, grabbing her nearby underwear and putting it on before she gets dressed. Pulling her dress and neck to toe covering outfit on in less than two minutes she turns away from her handiwork and picks up her purse and phone from the end table before walking toward the door. Flipping the phone open Ria dials the number for the special cleaning service her father provides for their family. Her thoughts focus on Tsukune and what could've possibly happened between him and his mate to force him to call her as a man answers the phone and Ria prepares to deal with the corpse.

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Sitting on the bench in the park, Tsukune's mind keeps coming back to the events of this night, and the ramifications inherent in them.

I was never anything more than her pet, and she never wanted anything more than an obedient little servant to please her and tell her how great and powerful she is and to placate her and bend over backwards for her. That's all I ever was to her, just a well-treated pet or her servant…

The thought at first hurt him to even think it, and two months ago he would've dismissed it out of hand as impossible, but sitting there thinking that over and over he becomes numb to the pain it causes. Eventually he only feels a numb acceptance of the truth. That he simply never was her lover and she never truly loved him.

Her pride was always what mattered to her.

The sound of an engine pulls him from his thoughts, and he looks up to see a black limo pulling up on the path in front of him. The car stops with its rear doors directly in front of him. The door on his side opens and Tsukune can smell Moka's older sister Ria the woman who forced him into her bed and threatened to expose his human family to her father Lord Akashiya unless Tsukune became a mated pair with her. He'd barely been able to get out of that, and only did it by going to Akashiya and telling him the truth of his former status and saying that he is now a member of the Shuzen family and is only maintaining a relationship with the Aono's for appearances sake. Even though it had been a lie Akashiya had believed him and Tsukune once and for all removed any and all blackmail material from Ria's possession.

Standing up he slowly approaches the rear door of the limo, slipping inside he closes the door behind him. He takes note that Ria sits in the rear forward facing seats, so Tsukune takes a seat setting perpendicular to her with his back against the passenger side wall of the car.

The car glides into motion, and Ria looks him over for a moment after he sits down, taking in his sealed form she remembers the many times she slept with him in that state, and how much it pleased her to feel his cock ramming up into her. The elder vampiress unable to keep a slight smile from her face at the memory.

"Oh me oh my it's rather rare to see you in true form brother dear." Ria says sweetly, taking in the lost look in Tsukune's eyes, the slouch in his walk from the bench to the car.

Something did happen indeed…

He's dressed in a t shirt and jeans, and looks completely unassuming with his seal on his left wrist.

"It's nice to see you too." He mumbles hollowly, and Ria remembers everything: his tone, his words, everything, filing it all away like positioning the pieces of a chess game for the final killing stroke.

"We're heading back to the castle brother dear." Ria says matter of factly, and Tsukune nods toward her, his eyes still fixed on the window across from him.

"Thank you, Ria-san." He says formally, never once looking at her.

"If something is bothering you brother dear I would happily listen if you want to talk?" Ria offers sweetly, her tone sincere and comforting but even in his current emotional state Tsukune remembers who he's talking to and he recognizes one of her lures for gathering information.

"It isn't something I want to do discuss." Tsukune avoids the question, and Ria keeps her face neutral, shrugging indifferently.

I'll find out sooner or later…

"Is Akashiya-sama home?" Tsukune asks flatly. "I need to speak with him, it's important."

"Father is unfortunately away for tonight, but he will return tomorrow morning and you are more than welcome to stay at the castle until he returns." Ria answers him, keeping her questions to herself. "The castle is your home anytime you wish to live there, brother dear."

Tsukune is silent at that, and Ria can see she struck a chord when she spoke about living arrangements and she quickly files the seemingly useless information away, her next question on her lips before Tsukune can say anything.

"What is it you wish to speak to Father about? He will want to know the reason for your sudden and unexpected return and it is my duty to tell him."

Tsukune looks at her a long moment, gauging the question and thinking about what to say in response to that. He knows that it's another attempt to garner information, but it is also true that it is Ria's duty as their father's right hand to apprise him of any business concerning the family that he isn't aware of.

"I want my bond with Moka abolished." Tsukune says flatly, and Ria is surprised by the words, blinking twice she looks him over, searching for a sign of deceit but she doesn't find any.

"Are you joking brother dear?" Ria asks cautiously, and Tsukune's face remains serious, not a flicker of doubt in him as he speaks.

"No, I'm not." He confirms for her, and the opposing pieces on the board begin to take shape for the eldest daughter of Shuzen Akashiya Issa.

Ria can't help but laugh, raising her hand to her face to cover her lips she giggles joyously, the news making her feel exalted.

"Oh me oh my, what did my dear younger sister do to deserve that brother dear?" Ria asks, suppressing her own laughter.

Tsukune looks at her seriously, his eyes never once flinching away as he meets her gaze, staring into her dark eyes without fear or hesitation.

"That is between Akashiya-sama and me." He answers frostily, and Ria sighs, still smiling in spite of Tsukune's answer.

"As you wish brother dear, I'll find out sooner or later."

XXX

Standing in the bedroom of the apartment she shared with Tsukune Moka looks herself over once more in the bedroom mirror. No longer is she dressed in the cocktail dress she wore to welcome Gin but instead a white t shirt and jeans. She's already called for a special ambulance and made sure that Gin was picked up by the ambulance before returning to her apartment and showering before changing clothes. Walking through the door to the apartment proper it's like walking into the aftermath of a disaster, the door ripped off the hinges, the hole in the wall created by Gin. Her gaze travels to the counter top where Tsukune's keys and ring still rest and just behind the counter where his cell phone fell.

Walking toward the counter Moka picks the wedding band up, looking at the ring that's nearly identical to the one on her left ring finger. Turning the band in her finger she can see the words 'T and M' engraved on the inside of the band, and she sighs as she wraps her hand around the ring, closing her eyes solemnly.

He's left us, left his ring, his keys and even his phone.

He hasn't left he's just angry. He will come back in time and he will apologize for his stupidity and we can work together to get things back to how they should be.

I don't think he's coming back. We need to go look for him.

We can't go look for him! If we go looking for him then it makes us look weak and HE is the one who needs to come back to us!

He was angry when he left and-

Tsukune is wrong and he needs time to realize that! Once he does he'll return and apologize.

Slipping the ring into her pocket Moka looks toward the counter and stares at the keys still sitting there. Walking to the counter Moka walks around and picks up the phone lying on the ground, checking the phone in vain hoping to see Tsukune has called it, but the phone has not rung since Tsukune left it here. Setting the phone down on the counter Moka stares down at the keys and phone, feeling solemn and depressed.

He's left his ring and phone and everything, what if he doesn't come back?

He WILL come back we are vampire mates and he owes us his life. If not for us he would've died in Yokai.

Of all the fights we've had this one is the worst.

We have pushed him away but he will return. Our relationship has survived Ria and her meddling it will survive this.

Ria didn't leave him a choice, she forced him into her bed. We called Gin willingly to our bed that we were supposed to share with just Tsukune.

We didn't have a choice! Tsukune forced us to do what we did this is his fault! We were only doing what we threatened to do if he didn't yield and if he hadn't interfered then we'd still be having sex right now!

Shaking her head Outer Moka sighs aloud.

I never wanted this…

Neither did I. If Tsukune had merely relented this never would've happened…

As if on cue Tsukune's phone rings, and Moka grabs at it frantically opening it without thinking hoping that it's her mate on the other end of the line, it isn't.

"Tsukune!" Moka answers the phone, and it isn't her mate that answers her.

"Ah, Moka-chan! My son must be indisposed at the moment. Well, you can answer my question too. Are the two of you still coming over here for dinner tomorrow night?" Tsukune's mother, Aono Kasumi asks curiously.

"We…" Moka mutters, remembering what Tsukune's mother is talking about.

We were supposed to come over to his house tomorrow night for dinner…

Tell her everything is fine and that we will be there. Tsukune will return by the end of the night and everything will be fine by tomorrow, so there's no reason for her to know that anything's happened.

But what if he doesn't come back? What if he means to leave us and he calls her and tells her we're getting a divorce?

He won't. We're bound and married.

"Moka-chan?" Kasumi's voice comes from the speaker, and Outer Moka blinks in surprise, making a decision.

"We had a fight." Moka answers her. "Something came up and he needed some time to think about things."

"Where is he?" Kasumi asks curiously, and Moka shakes her head.

"I don't know. He hasn't been home in over an hour and I haven't gone looking."

"He hasn't been home and you haven't gone looking!" Kasumi asks incredulously.

"He…He needed time to think, and I wanted to give it to him."

"Well, go look for him!" Kasumi growls anxiously. "I'll call all of our relatives and see if he's contacted them."

"Please call me if you hear anything, I have his phone and if I find him I'll have him call you."

"You better." Kasumi mutters before hanging up and Moka closes the phone, ignoring her Inner self's earlier protests.

Grabbing his keys she grabs her own phone and her own set of keys before walking to the now open door, not even thinking about how to secure their former apartment before she sniffs, searching for Tsukune's scent.

Just stay put Tsukune, I'll find you soon!

XXX

The limo pulls to a stop in front of Castle Akashiya and Ria is the first to step out with Tsukune close behind. Walking toward the front door Tsukune is careful to keep his eyes on Ria as she turns around, looking down at him carefully.

"Until Akashiya-sama returns tomorrow morning it is just you and I Tsukune-darling."

Tsukune looks away from her, not in the mood for her advances even with everything that's happened to him.

"I would like a guest room, it's late and I'd like to get some sleep, and please don't call me darling. I've told you already that I'm not interested in you romantically and even after everything that's happened to me I'm still not interested in you."

"Are you sure Tsukune-darling?" Ria asks, stepping forward into his personal space, putting herself close to him and putting her gloved hand on his arm. "If you have sex with me I promise I'll take good care of you, and Moka will absolutely hate you for it."

Tsukune shakes his head, taking a step back away from the older vampiress.

"Please prepare a guest room." Tsukune says again.

"You would have a much better time with me Tsukune-darling, especially since you aren't wearing your ring."

Looking down at his left hand Tsukune slaps his right hand over it, trying to cover the absence of his wedding ring on his left hand.

"Please have a guest room prepared Ria-san." Tsukune insists, and Ria finally relents.

"As you wish." Ria finally concedes with a sigh.

The two of them walk into the castle proper, and Tsukune and Ria are both greeted by a group of ten maids, servants lined up shoulder to shoulder to greet the right hand of Akashiya and his only son.

"Greetings Ria-sama, Tsukune-sama." The maids say in perfect unison.

"Take Tsukune to a guest room." Ria orders them, and one of them a blonde blue eyed woman nods obediently.

"As you wish, Ria-sama." The woman agrees.

"Thank you Ria-san." Tsukune thanks her, and Ria shrugs her shoulders.

"I have things to do anyway." She says dismissively, and Tsukune walks away to be shown to a guest room.

Watching him walk away Ria puts her hand on her hip, smiling inside as his back recedes down the hall.

Something has happened between you and my sister Tsukune, and I will find out what.

XXX

Following the maid Tsukune just puts one foot in front of the other, trying desperately not to think about everything that's happened and everything that he's lost.

"This is it Tsukune-sama." The maid says, opening a door to a sparsely decorated guest room.

"Thank you." Tsukune offers to her as he steps into the dark room, his vampire eyes adjusting to the low light almost instantly.

"Have a good rest Tsukune-sama, if you need anything don't hesitate to ring and summon one of us."

"I will." Tsukune assents before closing the door.

Turning around Tsukune walks to the bed and flops onto it, feeling totally exhausted by the events of the day, and wanting nothing more than to just go to sleep and forget everything that's happened.

XXX

Standing in the park near the apartment Outer Moka looks around curiously. She followed Tsukune's scent all the way here, and now she can't seem to follow it any farther.

And what is Ria's scent doing here? She shouldn't even be in the country.

Opening her phone on a hunch Moka dials her elder sister. The phone rings twice and then her elder sister greets her coldly.

"Yes sister dear?" Ria answers the phone.

"Tsukune and I had a fight…" Moka begins, and she can almost see her older sister grin at her on the other end of the connection.

"Really? I had no idea. You and Tsukune always seem to be the picture of happiness, what happened between you that you would call me?"

"That business is between Tsukune and me." Moka answers quickly.

"Then what do you want from me?"

"I'm in the park near our apartment and I can faintly smell your scent. Were you here to pick Tsukune up?"

"Why no dear sister. I haven't been anywhere near that park and I have no idea how my scent got there."

That's got to be a lie. The problem is we don't have any proof to call her on it.

"Have you seen Tsukune Ria, tell me?" Moka insists.

"I haven't heard from your mate in weeks and I haven't seen him in three times as long." Ria assures her.

"How can I trust you?" Moka asks suspiciously.

"I swear I haven't heard from your mate." Ria says with a sigh. "The moment I hear from him I'll call you sister dear."

"I don't trust you Ria." Moka says matter of factly.

"Oh please sister dear." Ria says sarcastically. "I've put my machinations against you and your mate to bed years ago."

"Please call me if you hear from him."

"I will dear sister." Ria says before hanging up the phone.

We can't trust her. Tsukune probably went running to Ria to have sex with her again to try and get back at us.

We don't know that… It's possible that he just went out for a walk and right now he's back at the apartment waiting to talk to us.

I wouldn't bet on it. He can't just up and disappear, and since his scent just disappeared it's obvious he got transportation to go somewhere.

It's possible… Unless you have some idea as to where he might be all we can do is go home and wait.

XXX

"Yes my daughter?" Shuzen Akashiya Issa answers his phone.

Standing in her room in the castle Ria holds her phone to her ear, keeping her tone even and crisp.

"Tsukune has just returned to the castle and he is seeking an absolution of his bond with Moka."

"And why is he asking to be separated from Moka?" Issa asks inquisitively, and Ria shrugs her shoulders.

"He would not tell me Akashiya-sama." Ria answers him curtly.

"I'll speak to him immediately as soon as I return tomorrow morning." Issa explains for her, and Ria scoffs on the inside.

Of course you would. Tsukune is Moka's mate after all… Ria begrudgingly thinks.

"I will have Tsukune ready to greet you tomorrow morning Akashiya-sama." Ria continues curtly, and on the other end of the conversation Issa nods approvingly.

"I'll be returning at 9 am tomorrow." He explains for her.

"We'll be there."