Kurumizo
Kurumu's POV
It was winter break and the newspaper club was finally taking a moment to relax. My rich mom had lent us her summer home for the vacation, but Ruby and I were stuck flying everyone over. Mizore, Moka, and Tsukune were clinging onto me for their lives, while Gin, Kokoa, and Yukari were clutching Ruby.
"Why do we have to carry all of you, just because we can fly?" I moaned in mock-agony.
"With great power comes great responsibility," said Mizore dramatically. Then everyone burst out laughing.
Since the flower offering, Mizore and I had become much closer. We've been hanging out together a lot. It's just so easy to be myself around her.
Suddenly I felt my wing tear. Then I was spiraling towards the ground, with Mizore, Moka, and Tsukune still grabbing on to me. I tried to slow the fall, and it worked to the extent that we didn't die, but I fell to the ground in a bloody heap. Then I saw Ruby's body plunging downwards, and noticed a bullet hole in her wing. I turned my head around to see that there was also one in mine. I was too shocked to react, and before I knew I was swept up by a man in black gloves, holding a gun to my head. I nervously swept the surrounding with my eyes and realized that Mizore and Tsukune were also being held this way, while the others were getting their hands tied behind their backs. Then a man in a tuxedo strolled casually up to Mizore and put his face up really close to hers. I imagined being Mizore and smelling his putrid breath. I would've raked out his heart if I hadn't been trapped.
"Shirayuki Mizore of the newspaper club, second year, snow woman," He recited her information. "I've heard the newspaper club is the best Youkai Academy has to offer. But I've also heard that you guys are so close that if one of you dies, the whole club will fall apart." He laughed menacingly, making me feel sick to the stomach.
"Now," he said. "One of you will have to die today, but I can't have all the fun. So, Mizore, who will it be? You may pick Aono Tsukune or Kurono Kurumu. They are the two we believe, from our research, it will hurt the most for you to kill. Now choose or die. Then penetrating Youkai Academy and making it mine will be a piece of cake!"
"No!" She shrieked. "Why? The two loves of my life!" Everyone gasped. Did I just hear her correctly? She…loved me? I was too surprised to react. Then her voice calmed down.
"There," She started. "Now you know. At least when I die, I can rest assured you know my true feelings." She turned around to face the man with the gun to her head. "Don't kill them. Shoot me."
I shrieked in protest. As the man was about to shoot, all the men fell to the ground, frozen, including the one who had been holding me. I swiveled around to see Mizore's ice dolls behind every one of them. The only one who wasn't frozen was the tuxedo man, who was trembling with fear. I felt so relieved. No one was going to die. When Mizore had offered her life, she was tricking them.
I turned to face the last one standing. "Run!" I demanded. "And never come back."
Then I turned to face Mizore. "Was what you said back there true?"
"Uh…um…no. That was just something to catch them off guard," she stammered, blushing furiously. I surprised myself by noticing a sinking feeling. Had I wanted her to love me?