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Chapter 1: A Mysterious New Friend

"Alright class. As you all know, midterms are little over a week away." Miss Nekonome purred, "I hope you all will study hard."

Mizore sighed as she stared out the window. It was her last year at Yokai Academy and none of her friends were in any of her classes. The bell rang which meant lunch, the only time Mizore could see her precious friend Tsukune.

When Mizore arrived at the spot in the courtyard where she would meet up with her friends, Kurumu was up to her usual antics. Moka noticed Mizore walking over, and waved over to her. Just as Mizore approached a giant crash shook the ground and a plume of dust emerged from the treetops. The group of friends saw this and almost like they read each other's thoughts ran in the direction of the dust cloud.

When they arrived at the scene, a girl with brown hair, presumably a first year student sat crying on the ground. Distracted by the girl, Mizore failed to observe the man towering over the girl. The Man wore a black trench coat with a hood and was pointing a sword at the girl's throat. The sword had two parallel blades and was made of black steel.

"Stop!" Tsukune yelled, not wanting the man to kill the girl.

"Please, don't let him hurt me!" The girl cried.

"Step away!" Kurumu yelled as she extended her claws. "You don't understand!" The man barked back, "this girl is dangerous, she's not as innocent as she seems." Just as he finished his sentence the girl on the ground lunged at his through with claws like that of an animal. The man was able to dodge her attack by rolling out of the way and simultaneously planting a well-placed kick from the heel of his foot on her face. The girl slid across the dirt ground. As she stood up with a stager she began to take her true form.

"Fuck!" The man growled, "She's a big one!"

The group of friends stood in awe and confusion as the once innocent girl transformed into a weasel like monster the size of a two story building. As the battle ensued the man with the swords remained I his humanly form and skillfully dodged any fatal blow of the monsters enormous claws. The group of friends still stood off to the side; unsure of what side to fight for. Fed up with using its claws; the monster flicked its giant tail at the man. As the tail came hurtling at him the man disappeared into a cloud of black smoke, but still in the path was the group of friends. Tsukune grabbed Moka and dove to the ground. Kurmuru spread her winds and flew as high and as fast as she could with Yukari holding onto her tail. As Mizore went to dive for cover, she tripped on a root. With the tail almost upon her Mizore closed her eyes and braced for impact. When she opened her eyes she was no longer in the path of the tail, she wasn't even on her feet. The man in black had saver her and was carrying her bridle style. She blinked and stared up at his now exposed army green hair and emerald eyes. "Don't worry you're in safe hands." He cooed. He set her on her feet and dashed at the monster. He ran up its back as his sword materialized in his hand. When he got to the neck he jumped in the air and performed a front flip. He came down like a guillotine and lobbed off the weasel's head. As he stood from the corpse his sword disappeared into the same type of smoke that he had earlier.

"Mizore!" Tsukune yelled as he ran over to her and the man, "are you ok?"

"Yeah, I'm alright, thanks to him." She said pointing to the man who was standing up.

When the man walked over to the two friends Tsukune noticed that the man was about a head taller than Mizore.

"Thank you for saving my sir." Mizore bowed.

"Please, don't call me sir, call me Kuro.

"Kuro what was that, and why did you have to kill it?" Tsukune asked.

"That was an angler monster. It reels in its prey with that appearance of an innocent girl or child. They will eat anything, human, animal or monster. To answer the why, simple, it is the reason behind the recent disappearances."

During his explanation, the rest of the crew arrived.

"Well I must get going. Hopefully we'll meet again, under more pleasant circumstances." He sighed. With a wave of the hand the monsters body disappeared and him with it.

The next morning, Mizore sat at her desk, and stared out the window like she had the previous day. She was ripped away from her thoughts when Miss Nekonome purred, "Class, please welcome our new student, Kuro Onikisu."

"Hello Kuro." The class said unenthusiastically.

"Kuro please take the seat behind Mizore." Miss Nekonome purred, and pointed to the empty seat in the back right corner of the room. As he walked to his seat, Mizore could hear murmurs through the room. Miss Nekonome started her lesson and Kuro attentively took the notes that were on the board. Mizore still had her suspicions about him and planned her reconnaissance as the teacher continued on the lesson.

The rest of the day went on as usual. When the lunch bell rang, Kuro got up from his seat and left the class room with the crowd of students. Mizore began her mission to find out about the mysterious Kuro. Mizore watched Kuro walk down the hall and into the men's room. She waited for him to emerge and when he did she continued her pursuit. Kuro followed a normal path to the cafeteria. When he purchased his food he left the cafeteria and sat on a park bench and ate alone. Intrigued by him, Mizore continued watch him as he ate.

"I knew it." Kuro muttered to himself as he watched Mizore spy on his replica that he had created. "Time to go."

Kuro commanded his replica to enter the bathroom. When the clone was in the bathroom Kuro climbed through the window to reunite with his clone and dismissed it. Kuro then exited the bathroom as the real Kuro. 'She'll never suspect a thing.' He thought.

"Looks like he's not a bad guy after all." Mizore sighed. "Hey Mizore." Kuro said as he walked up to her. "You look like you waiting for someone."

"Oh, no not really, I was just enjoying this beautiful day. 'Does he think I've been following him?' She thought.

"Yeah you're right it is a nice day. Just don't enjoy it too much and end up late for class." Kuro chuckled.

"I'll make sure I won't." She said as she waved goodbye. When he was out of sight she let out a sigh. When she turned around Kurumu was in her face.

"So who's that guy?" Kurumu sneered. "He's kinda cute. Do you have a thing for him? Oh wait, that's that guy from yesterday. Were you spying on him?"

"What. No. Yes. I don't know. Please slow down you're asking too many questions." Mizore said trying to keep up with all the questions. "I need to get to class."

When the end of the day came around, Mizore had fallen asleep on her desk. Kuro still continued to take the notes. When the bell rang, the class rushed to the door and Mizore kept sleeping. After Kuro finished packing up his books, he gently shook her shoulder. She slowly raised her head off her desk and stared blackly around the empty room.

"Time to go sleepy head." Kuro hummed.

Mizore rubbed her eyes out with her sleeves and stood up.

"How can I join the newspaper club? It sounds interesting." Kuro asked.

"Come with me to the meeting after school." Mizore yawned with a stretch.

By the time Mizore and Kuro had arrived, everyone had already arrived and was up to their usual antics. Yokari was the first to notice Mizore and Kuro.

"Mizore you made it." She cheered. "Who's this?" she asked now noticing Kuro standing next to Mizore.

"He's a new student and is looking to join the newspaper club." Mizore answered.

"Hey, you're that guy from yesterday. Aren't you?" Kurumu barked.

"Yeah. Do you have a problem with that?" Kuro glared; something very different from his normally kind persona.

His stare caused Kurumu to squirm as she sputtered, "n-no. It's ok. You did save us."

"Good so then we can all be friends then I hope." Kuro laughed; changing back into the kind hearted person Mizore knew.

"Then let's get to work." Gin announced. Since he failed his previous year he was held back and had to repeat his last year of high school.

Gin got up from his seat and walked up to Kuro. "Nice to meet you. The name's Gin." He said extending his hand.

"Kuro, nice to meet you too." Kuro said shaking his hand. As the two shook hands a photo fell out Gin's jacket. "I'll get that for you." Kuro said as he bent down to pick it up.

Kuro blushed when he looked at the photo of half-naked girls in the locker room. Kurumu snatched the photo out of Kuro's hand.

"Pervert!" She yelled; chasing after Gin.

The rest of the club members began to work on the last issue of the newspaper before the midterms started. Tsukune and Moka wrote an article about the mysterious disappearances, with the help of Kuro. Yokari wrote an article on fortune telling and Kurumu had written an article on the best places to visit in the human world. Kuro had nothing to contribute to the newspaper.

When everyone was finished with their newspaper articles, Kuro sighed, "Sorry guys. I didn't have anything to contribute to the newspaper."

"Nonsense, you helped us write the article on the disappearing students." Moka assured him.

"Cool so let's print these so we can distribute them tomorrow." Gin cheered.