Club Activities And A Run-In With The Swim Club

"Please, Tsukune! Just this once...you'll let me...right?" Moka looked up at me with puppy eyes and I found myself unable to resisted as I leaned down and put my arms around her waist and picked her up to my level.

She giggled excitedly as she wrapped her arms around my neck and her cheeks blushed heavily as he breathing picked up.

"Just this once, Moka, so don't get any ideas, okay?" I sternly said but seeing her cute nod, my stern expression melted away and was quickly replaced by a gentle smile as I leaned in closer to her.

Her breathing hitched up as I looked her dead in the eye.

"I'm...I'm so happy, Tsukune," she breathlessly said as I felt her little heart beating a mile a minute, "It's the first time..." she said and just as our faces came close enough for a kiss, I sighed and she moved her mouth down to my neck before whispering, "...That you've let me suck your blood in the morning!" she said with a little too much joy before sinking her teeth into my skin.

As this happened, I found myself wondering how sharp her fangs are to get through my ultra-tough skin. A knife wouldn't be able to pierce my skin and yet those two little fangs can? My ego is injured beyond repair, I guess.

She continued to suck as her arms wrapped around my neck and one of her hands started stroking the back of my head, messing with my hair. Once I felt that she'd had a few mouthfuls, I tapped her back and she groaned in annoyance before releasing me and taking her fangs from my neck.

Bringing a bunch of tissues to my neck, I stemmed the bleeding and before I knew it, my body had swiftly clotted the blood and produced two small scabs there in the shape of small circular incisions.

Throwing the tissues into a nearby bin, I turned to see Moka looking at my neck, specially the scabs.

"I wonder, Tsukune...are you sure you're human?" Moka wondered aloud before covering her mouth and going red in embarrassment, "S-sorry, I didn't mean for it sound like that!" she worried covered for herself and I just laughed before patting her head.

"Don't worry, I'm not that easy to offend, Moka," I stroked her hair, returning the favor for how she just did it to me and I gained a hum in approval before I continued, "I'm just a very special human. I was made to be stronger and faster, and to heal quicker as well. You could say I was made to be the best of what humanity could offer," I listed off some vague origin which wasn't too far from the truth. I was made to be stronger, faster, and overall better than even the best humanity had to offer.

What I didn't tell her, however, was what I was made for. Which was killing monsters. I didn't want to sour what relationship and trust we currently had. Though I knew lying to her was bad, you could say that I was scared of her reaction. She's already shown an aversion to humans in general.

Who knows how she'd react to knowing I was a human made to hunt her kind.

Internally shaking myself away from such a thought process, I took my hand from Moka's head, attributing to much of her disgruntled look and pout and the two of us walked to class, talking about things that interested us and what today would hold for us.

. . .

Tsk. I was really hoping this wouldn't happen.

"We'll get a deeper understanding of humans by experiencing human-made activities! Club activities, to be exact!" Nekonome-sensei spoke in her usual enthusiastic way which completely went against how tired and lazy her current expression looked. "To transform into humans perfectly, we must have a clear understanding of humans themselves and their lives!" she said as she slapped the board with her pointer.

The board had [Club Activities { Human Sports, Human Arts, Human Values!] written across it and I could get what the school was trying to achieve.

By emulating a human atmosphere monsters would come to sympathize with humans instead of hating or looking down on them. The normally arrogant monsters would come to admire humans for what they've made instead of looking at them as ants because they're weaker than monsters.

"Uh, sensei," a male student from near the front spoke up, his hand raised into the air.

"Yes?" Nekonome-sensei said, a patient and understanding smile on her face.

Hearing her, the student pointed behind her bringing everyone's attention to a long blond tail that ended in a black, "But sensei, doesn't that mean you'd get an F in transforming then?" he asked with a teasing smile.

Sensei followed his gaze and saw her own tail before the air sudden went frigid around her. Her smile was frozen as she suddenly appeared in front of the student and began to scratch his face up.

Then she went back near the podium at the front of the class and acted as if she hadn't just nearly blinded one of her students, "Everyone will join a club, understand?" she said with a smile that didn't really look like a smile.

Most people nodded with cold sweat going down their backs. I just sighed as I really didn't wanna join a club.

Why? Because I don't really have many hobbies outside of fighting.

Though I could probably use my talents for something else. Like journalism or something. I wonder if this school has a newspaper club. Could be fun, I guess.

"Everyone, please visit a lot of groups before you decide which one you will be a part of!" she said and as if reading my mind, she continued, "And be sure to visit the Newspaper Club which I'm the advisor for, okay?!"

Huh, so there is one. I'll have to check it out with Moka. Maybe Kurumu will want to come along as well.

Thinking about the blue-haired Succubus, I actually found myself smiling for some reason. Through her actions and turning around her demeanor from a, well, from being a bitch to being a nice person, she'd slowly elevated herself near to Moka's position. She was my second friend in this world and she was pretty sweet when she's not trying to fool people that she's some kind of big bad Yokai.

Once sensei said this, she said that we could go and check out the clubs available and I soon walked out of the classroom with an excited Moka in tow.

"What do you wanna check out, Moka?" I asked, looking around at the absolute mess this club activities thing had made of the hallways of the school.

People were packed in like sardines in a can and I found myself shielding Moka from the majority of the male student body. Horny pigs.

Before she answer, I pushed a guy away who was coming at us with a camera. He gave off a creepy aura and despite knowing that could just be because of what monster he was, he was also looking at Moka with a bit of lust and wanting in his eyes. That ticked me off, so I got rid of him as Moka and I walked deeper into the crowd, Moka unaware of my actions.

"Hmmmm~" she wondered with his finger on her chin before she pointed to a nearby stand that red [Cooking Club], "That one! Can we please go and check it out, Tsukune?" she gave a small smile as she looked behind and up at me and I nodded and she excitedly rushed ahead.

Sighing with a smile, I picked up my speed and joined her at the club where I saw them putting insects into a pot.

Though having gone around Asia a lot in my training, I wasn't as against eating bugs as most Westerners were. They were quite nice if done correctly anyway.

. . .

Walking away from the stand, I thanked the girl cooking for the bag of grubs she'd given me as a tester. Dipping my hand into the bag, I pulled out a fried scorpion before throwing it into my mouth and chomping down on it with a crack.

"Mhm," I gave an audible sound of appreciation as I continued chewing it, the flavors exploding in my mouth.

If I had to compare it to anything, it was like some really good beef jerky. Well, if the beef jerky was covered in an exoskeleton. It also had a slightly fishy flavor but that didn't deter me as I put my hand into the bag for another.

"Tsukune...how can you eat those...?" Moka asked me with a slightly pale face as she watched me eat.

Looking to her, I smirked, "Because they're nice. Wanna try one?" I lifted out a scorpion and put it in front of her face. Moka went pale and squirmed away before pouting and sticking out her tongue at me.

"Stop being a meanie, Tsukune!" Moka said and I brought the treat to my mouth and ate it.

Moka came back to my side and I wondered what she'd do if she knew what kind of stuff I'd eaten in my past life. These nicely done and well-seasoned scorpions were nothing compared to some of the things I had to eat from dumpster diving when I was on the run from the police or some of the live insects I had to eat during my survival training.

Why did I have to dumpster dive while on the run from the police? Long story. It includes an Incubus who'd embedded itself quite deep into the community, it having slept with most of the women of power and blackmailing all the men of power, and me, killing it and being found doing so.

...You'd think they'd be grateful but nooo, some police commissioner's wife made him put out a search for me.

As I came to the end of this thought, a group of bikini clad girls appeared in front of us.

"It's the swim club!" multiple guys started to clamor around as they gawked at the girls coming towards us.

And I could see why. While no way near close to Kurumu or Moka, each of them was a beauty in their own right with an athletically tone body, big breasts and a perky ass.

But what I noticed mostly was that most of them were looking at me.

Don't get me wrong, I am aware of my attractiveness but this went beyond that...it was like they were looking at food, or prey to be more exact. It unnerved me and made me want to get away from these girls.

The girl at the front, a mature-looking girl with long turquoise hair and soft yellow eyes. She was by far the oldest and most developed of the girls who'd appeared, as was displayed by her tight upper bikini and the thin fabric she had wrapped around her waist as an impromptu skirt which did nothing to hide her wide hips and thick, athletic thighs.

Said girl came to me and as she approached I heard her take a long whiff of me before he eyes went dazed and she put a hand on my chest as she arrived in front of me.

Off to the side of me, Moka had grit her teeth and looked quite annoyed at the girls close proximity.

"The ladies will end up give lots of special attention to any of the boys who join our club because up until now the swim club has been all-female!" she seductively said but I wasn't exactly drawn into her speech.

In fact, her saying it was an all-female club up until this point only made me suspicious.

Suspicious enough to want to go against my earlier thought of getting away from these girls and going to investigate what was happening at the swimming club.

"Let's go check the swim club out, Moka," I said and Moka's face went a bit blanched before she awkwardly nodded. Seeing this, I narrowed my eyes before getting a bit of distance away from the mature-looking girl and bringing Moka with me. "It doesn't matter if you don't want to swim or anything, Moka but these girls are...very suspicious. I want to see what they're up to," I said and Moka's awkward face instantly turned hopeful.

"So...you don't want to just go and ogle at beautiful girls in swimsuits?" Moka said, wanting me to confirm.

Smiling with a teasing glint in my eyes, I put on a difficult face, "Well, not just ogle at beautiful girls, Moka. I want to make sure the place is safe," I teased and my face crumbled away into a smile when I saw Moka get red with frustration as she pinched my arm, "Okay, okay, I'm sorry for teasing you, Moka. I'd only ever want to look at you in a swimsuit anyway," I blurted this out before I could stop myself and I averted my gaze away from Moka as I continued walking.

Well done, Tsukune. Probably thinks you're a perv now.

But looking back, all I saw was Moka taking glances at me with a bashful and red face, making me feel a bit surprised she wasn't looking at me with disgust or aversion.

"Well, i-if Tsukune wants me to, I wouldn't mind wearing a s-swimsuit for you," Moka got out with a stutter and I couldn't believe my ears as I heard the sincerity in what she was saying. What a lucky guy I am, huh?

After this, it went quiet between us. But it wasn't an awkward silence. More like the two of us were just thinking about the exchange we just had.

I wonder...is the excitement I feel when I think of Moka in a swimsuit just a physical thing or is it something a bit more, well, emotional? Not that I'd know what that feels like but it's a definite possibility, isn't it?

As I thought about this, the possibility of seeing a blue-haired Succubus in a swimsuit also popped into my head.

...Must just be puberty kicking into overdrive.

That's what I internally thought as we finally arrived at the swimming pool.

"In case some of you don't know, my name is Tamao Ichinose, and Welcome!" she said with a loud voice, before waving her arm at the pool behind her which was in pristine condition, "To Youkai Academy's Swimming Club!"

All the guys went wild as Ichinose-senpai walked off to the side before opening a box and pulling out a pair of rather tight-looking swimming shorts, "We have spare shorts, so let's get swimming!" she said before placing the box down and walking over to me and lightly slapping the shorts against my chest, "Put these on and we can have a little fun in the pool," she gave me a sultry smile before turning around.

Grabbing the trunks before they feel to the floor, I turned to an angry-looking Moka and gave a wry smile.

"I'll swim around for a bit and make sure nothing weird is happening, and then we can leave, okay?" I asked and Moka nodded with a frustrated expression.

Why was I being nosy and looking for problems? Old habits die hard, I suppose.

Taking off my blazer and undoing my belt, I got a few weird looks before Moka gave out a cry as she covered her eyes with her hands, though I could see her emerald eyes peeking through the gaps in her fingers, "Tsukune, w-w-what are you d-doing?!" she gave out a whispered shout as her face went beet red.

Looking around, I just gave her a straight answer, "I'm getting undressed so I can put these trunks on."