A large percentage of the male student body was lined up to buy newspapers, despite the happenings around the school being the least of their preoccupations. They really just wanted to get their disguised claws/talons/paws/other on the female members of the club ...
"Extra! Extra!" A brown haired girl in a witch's hat hollered, "Strange men seen lurking around the school grounds! Read all about it!"
Moka Akashiya was currently fighting off some of the more 'grabby' members of the male student body, doing her best to remain as polite as possible, at last Kurumu Kurono coming to her rescue. Mizore had succeeded in pawning off some fresh, albiet slightly frozen, papers to many of her adoring fans
Indeed, today had been a great day for selling newspapers. Although it seemed lonely without the girls' mutual love interest around...
"Moka, have you seen Tsukune-kun today?" Kurumu asked her pink haired friend. Tsukune Aono was, much to everyone's worry, no where to be seen today.
"Sorry Kurumu-chan, Tsukune said he wasn't feeling well today..." Moka said sadly, shifting her gaze to her feet, avoiding the desperate gazes of her fellow rivals for the lone human student's affection.
"Maybe I should make Tsukune-san a healing potion?" Yukari Sendo, youngest of the foursome, ventured
"The last time you made him a healing potion, he turned green for a week" Mizore stoicly shot down the witch's idea
"Well, at any rate, maybe we should go see him before the Boy's Dormroom closes." Moka did her best to soothe the near-tears Yukari, "That'll make him feel better...."
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"I forbid"
Nora instantly fell to the ground, the collar around his neck instantly tightened to the point of choking the poor demon. "oWIE" he squeaked, a very unbefitting sound for a cerberus of his stature.
Though most eyes would never have guessed that he was the mighty dog of disaster due to his human sealing spell which forced him into a human appearance, he indeed was a Cerberus. After the dreaded collar loosened around his neck, he continued to berate his partner with insults
"I sense one little hint about Ugly's Soul Stones, and you go balistic!"
"I forbid"
The white haired demon fell to the ground once again, shouting random obscenities at Kazuma
"I thought you wanted to bribe her Hellishness with the stones so you could get out of our little contract?" Kazuma questioned his near-impossible familiar spirit. Nora gagged a little bit before he could answer
"I do! But then you dragged me all the way out here!!" He yelled, "I don't even know where the hell we are!!"
Kazuma's eyes widened slightly, "I thought you were leading us" he grumbled, obviously bored, angry, and tired.
There was an akward pause...
"WHAT?!" Nora screamed, "BUTWHAT'REWEGONNADO?! IDON'TKNOWHEREWEAREANDHOWAMIGONNAGETHOMEIF--"
"I forbid"
Nora's worried rant was cut short and he started gagging as he desperately pawed at the wretched black collar around his neck. "I hate you!" he managed, "The feeling's mutual, mutt..." Kazuma sighed as he dragged his familiar through the autumn leaves.
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"Achoo!" Tsukune rubbed his sore nose, "Ugh..."
If anyone in the academy was going to catch a cold, it would be Tsukune Aono. He WAS the only human here after all. "Gahzuntite!" Ms. Nekonome said as she handed her student his homework for the day. "Thank you..." he looked over the papers, nothing too hard. Maybe he could get Moka to come over and help him out with it anyway...
"Get well soon, Aono!" Nekonome chirped in her usual perky tone, "Tell Shirayuki that she has a math exam to make up!"
Tsukune smiled gratefully back at the cat-woman as he headed back into his dorm room. He placed his work on the desk and collapsed back onto his bed, bored out of his mind without his friends. Aono sighed as he counted the bumps on his ceiling. There were 534 from what he could see and he damn well knew it, but he was REALLY bored.
He instead decided to look out his window: Gin was flirting with a group of girls. Moka, Kurumu, Yukari, and Mizore were walking towards the back entrance of the Academy, coming to see him perhaps? Ruby was running some errands. Gin was getting attacked by the same crowd of girls. A kid with black hair was dragging a bigger kid with white hair with a collar
He turned back around, eagerly anticipating the arrival of his friends. Even if Tsukune was dying a slow and painful death, Moka's beautiful smile was enough to get him through it. He sighed as he fantisized about smooching his crush... without Kurumu breaking them up and suffocating him with her breasts... without Mizore trying to impale Moka's cranium with an ice shuriken... without Yukari throwing herself inbetween them...
He loved his friends dearly, and would die to protect any one of them... but Moka was special...
He started to think over the preperations he would need for their visit, "Brush my hair?" he checked the mirror, "A shower?"
Tsukune looked down and blushed, "A cold one, maybe?"
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Kazuma pressed TALK on the dreaded Dark Leige's pretty pink cell phone. "Is it working?" Nora asked, lazilly slouched over a nearby bench.
Kazuma scowled, "I'm on the phone, dog, be quiet."
"Geez, I was just asking if-"
"No answer." he said as he slammed the phone shut. "Figures, the one time we actually want to talk to her, we can't get her." Nora grumbled, "I told you we shouldn't have gone through that tunnel!"
"Aren't you the one who sensed the soul stone?" Kazuma retorted, a malignant sneer on his face.
"Forget about that already!" he groaned, "I'm hungry... we need some food!". Kazuma checked his backpack, nothing. Not even the dog food he liked to tease Nora with. He checked his pocket, just enough for some melon bread, or maybe a soda
Nora stood up, "I hear that change! Give it here, human!"
Kazuma merely started walking away, "HEY!!" Nora whined, "DON'T IGNORE ME!!"
"Thanks for helping me decide what I was gonna buy from the vending machine." his face darkening with another smirk. It sent chills down even the great Cerberus' spine...
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"Hey, I'll be up in a sec guys." Moka broke away from the rest of her friends, "I'm just gonna go grab a soda for Tsukune!" She earned some dirty glares from the rest of Tsukune's followers. "If you're going to get him a soda, I'm getting him two." Kurumu narrowed her eyes at the innocent vampiress
"THREE~!" Yukari squealed, eager to join in on the fun. "I have a feeling that Tsukune is going to have a huge waterbelly by the time the day is over..." Mizore sarcastically murumered to herself. But nevertheless, she was not one to be outdone.
It wouldn't seem strange to a normal bystander to see four very hot girls flocking together (Here, the female readers should take this opportunity to smack Saru) so to a human, who didn't really care who or what they were, it was just something to be ignored. Kazuma rudely pushed through the women of Yokai Academy like annoying cattails to get to the soda dipenser.
"Wh-Why are we at the soda machine?!" Nora couldn't help but ask his contract holder. Kazuma said nothing, he just dropped in the coins and looked over his choice of weaponry...
"Hmmm... Snips Snails and Puppy Dog Tails, Herbal Water, Tomato Juice, Lemon Lizard, Marmalade, Essence of Human... we really don't have these brands at home..." he quietly listed to himself
Nora looked at the four girls, who in turn looked back at him. One look of lust, four looks of "um, excuse me!" Finally, someone said something: "So... you guys are hot..."
Moka, Kurumu, Yukari, and Mizore's faces quickly turned from faces of interest at a new student to disgust of another pervert. Nora was unaffected.
"What?"
Suddenly, a gold basin was conjured up from nothing and promptly fell on Nora's skull. "Owie." was all he muttered, it echoed throughout the pot. "Now then." Kazuma lifted the pot angrilly, "a little belated lesson on manners."
He shook up the can, pulled the tab, and aimed for his personal demon. However, Nora managed to duck fast enough for it not to fizz all over his face...
But into Kurumu Kurono's.