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"--ko."

Aoko stirred in her sleep, pulling the covers over her head.

"Aoko!"

'Who's calling me?' She curled up into a ball, pulling the covers closer. 'Probably Tousan… I didn't call him yesterday when I came home after all…'

'When I came home…?!'

Aoko shot up from her bed, her heart suddenly beating quickly. The first thing she became aware of was that there was an absence of pain. She gingerly touched at her forehead. There was no bandage. There was nothing. She brought her legs to her chest, burying her head into her knees.

"It… was a dream…?" Aoko whimpered, the beginning of tears in her eyes. "Just a dream…" 'It felt so real…'

"That's because it was real, Ao-chan~!"

And the next thing Aoko became aware of was the other person in the room. She stiffened at the voice, mechanically turning her head in order to come face-to-face with herself. It smiled.

"Yo~!"

"KYAAAAAAAAAA!!!!" Aoko jumped back. Her hand suddenly slipped, making her fall down; her face became reacquainted with the floor.

"Oi! That's mean! What kinda person yells in somebody else's face when they say 'Hi'?" The shadow asked, faking a look of hurt.

"What Kind Of Person Says 'Hi!' Right In Someone's Face When They're Still In Bed?!" Aoko countered, scrambling to her feet and grabbing the nearest thing for a weapon: a hairbrush. "Person?--err--- Whatever The Heck You Are!! Shadow-Thingy Who Has My Face!!"

Shadow Aoko chuckled at Aoko's "weapon". "Well I guess I have some explaining to do, don't I?"

Aoko suddenly threw the brush in her hands at her shadow, only to watch it go threw her and hit the wall with a loud thud. 'Oh, great. It made a dent…' Aoko hung her head in despair; Shadow Aoko sweat dropped. But Aoko quickly recomposed herself.

"The ONLY thing I need to know is to NEVER trust strangers!! Especially weird Shadowy ones! With those weird eyes!" Aoko pointed at her, her hand trembling. Shadow Aoko scratched at her cheek. Her patience running thin.

"Haven't you realized it yet? I thought I told you! I.AM.YOU." Aoko was speechless.

The door suddenly swung open and her father walked in, a look of confusion on his face.

"T-Tousan!"

"Aoko, what the hell are you doing?! What'd you do to that wall!" Nakamouri gaped at the dent.

"Tousan! The Brush Just Went Right Through Her! She Broke Into My Room! Arrest Her Or Something!!" Aoko shouted in one breath, pointing a finger at the amused Shadow Aoko. Nakamouri blinked.

"Aoko… Are you okay?"

Aoko's mouth suddenly dropped open. She was barely aware of the snickering coming from her shadow.

"You got to be kidding me… Right there! She's right there!" Aoko motioned to where her shadow self was. Said shadow just erupting into a laughing frenzy as Nakamouri looked at her and just shook his head.

"Damn… First you make me worry for never calling me… Now this? No more sleeping late for you, Aoko. Maybe I should stop buying sugary cereals too." Nakamouri grumbled, walking out of her room and closing the door behind him. A stunned Aoko just stared at the door.

"Hahahahahaha~!! The look on your face is Priceless!" Shadow Aoko laughed, wiping a tear from her eye.

"H-He can't see you? Does that mean…. I'M CRAZY?!?!" Aoko panicked. Her shadow shook her head, finally a lot calmer.

"No, not at all. And Tousan is a Blank. Of course he can't see me." Shadow Aoko scoffed, saying it like it was common knowledge.

"A… Blank?" Aoko tilted her head in confusion. A couple minutes passed; her anger returned at full force. "And since when is he Your Tousan?!"

"I'm You. You're me. That makes him My Tousan too." The shadow pointed out.

"I don't want you to be me! So go find someone else to bug! Go away, Shadow Aoko!" She yelled one last time. It was silent for a moment.

"Midori."

"Eh?"

"My name. So you don't get confused." Midori stated in a bored tone. "I'm your Shadow self. Not an exact copy."

Aoko blinked once. Twice. Her anger returned once again.

"Shadow Aoko. Midori. Whatever!! I can't believe I'm even talking to You!! I said Go Away! I Don't Want To Be Crazy!" Aoko turned around, her back to the shadow girl.

Midori finally snapped. She grabbed Aoko by one of her shoulders, yanking her so she was facing her again. Aoko's eyes were wide with shock.

"You don't have to act like such an ungrateful little brat!!" She shouted angrily. "If it wasn't for me, Your Corpse Would Have Just Been Found Right About Now!!"

Aoko froze, the memory of the previous night flashed before her eyes. Leaning her back against the door, Aoko slid down until she was sitting on the floor. When her hands touched the cold floor, she winced. Looking at them more closely, she noticed tiny scrapes on her palms. "That… really happened. But..?"

"I was able to get rid of most of the serious wounds. But as you can see I can't handle everything. Whenever I make your wounds disappear, they're not gone, but carried over." Midori explained.

"Carried over? What do you---?!" Aoko cut herself off with a gasp. She never really looked at Midori, other than the fact she had her face. But now Aoko noticed her dark self was injured. Black blood stained through Midori's white shirt on her side. One of her arms was just dangling limply on her side; a dislocated shoulder. Bruises, burns, cuts… all that Aoko had sustained the night before were on Midori. She smiled at the horror on Aoko's face.

"When wounds are carried over, it means just that. I took the liberty of taking your wounds and living through a hell of agonizing pain. Its like hiding your secrets in the dark." Midori laughed slightly at her own remark.

"Will you be okay?" Aoko asked worriedly.

"Of course! No need to worry. My life comes through you at the moment. As long as you don't overexert yourself, I can keep these wounds. No problem!" Midori assured her. "The whole point of carrying over wounds is that you can heal without having the weight of it dragging you down. Plus it helps you heal faster. Aaaaand no one will ever find out about the whole shadow thing. Last thing we need is Blanks freaking out." Midori snorted at the thought.

"Oh yeah. You called Tousan a Blank too. What's that?" Before Midori could answer her, Nakamouri's voice interrupted them.

"Aoko!! Are You Going To School Or Not?" He called out from downstairs. Aoko snapped her head around to her alarm clock. The numbers read 7:30.

"Aaaah!! I'm Late!!" Aoko cried, jumping up off the ground, dashing to her closet. She pulled out a fresh set of her school uniform, changing at the speed of light. Midori stared in mild amusement as Aoko tossed aside her pajamas her way. Just like the brush, it went through her.

"Oi, Ao-chan. You're exerting yourself. Calm down." Midori laughed at her.

"Urusai! I don't need to hear that from you! This is my second tardy!" Aoko exclaimed, grabbing her bag and heading for her door. Midori suddenly disappeared, going into Aoko's shadow.

At first, Aoko was shocked. But that quickly passed. She'd have to get used to it.

'Thinking back on it now… that guy's tentacle thingies came from the shadow at his feet.' Aoko thought, running carefully down the stairs.

"Yeah, pretty much. He was a shadow after all. The hunter-type. Though he was taking it easy on you." Midori's voice rang in her ears. Aoko yelped, her father giving her a concerned look as she went into the kitchen.

"Ah, I mean… I forgot to make you breakfast!" Aoko laughed nervously. But on the inside she was cursing loudly. '$!*^%?!&%!!!! You're In My Head?!?!'

"In a sense." Midori couldn't help but laugh at her. Aoko freaking out was just too funny. "I guess if you really tried you can keep things to yourself, but we have a special connection. Plus if you spoke out loud, people would think you're weird. Like how Tousan is looking at you probably wondering if you're…'Right in the head'…" She laughed again.

"Ah, I'm alright. I just fixed myself a cereal." Nakamouri said, keeping his eyes on his daughter. "Would you like a ride to school?"

"No, its okay! I'll walk! Fresh air is good, you know!" Aoko rushed out the door. "I'm off!"

"Umm.. Take care…" Nakamouri scratched the back of his head. "That girl….. Nothing but a worry."

-o-o-o-o-o-

"Aoko~! Stop walking so fast! We're pretty far from your house now." Midori chuckled. Aoko slowed down her pace with a sigh.

"Right, right…" She said out loud. There weren't any people around so it was fine. Casting a side-ways glance at Midori that suddenly appeared beside her again, she smiled. "I mean… who wants to go to school right? Plus this gives us a chance to talk. Explain. Now. Got It, Shadow Me."

"Hai, Hai! And its Midori. Get over the Shadow Me." Midori chuckled. They walked slowly, side-by-side. Midori took a breath.

"There is a world parallel to this one. It is a shadow world, and it is my home, Lune Noire. That's were that hunter guy came from too."

"Lune Noire... Hunters? What is that exactly?" Aoko asked, deciding to ask on the important things first.

"Hunters. They are a dangerous sort of shadow. Remember that bullet he hit you with?" Aoko nodded here. "It has the what we call the Hunter's Scent. Basically its this sort of strange aura surrounding it. If I hadn't carried it over, he would've been able to sense it, find you, and finish you off. Be happy, you aren't a Blank!"

"You're still making zero sense…" Aoko sweat dropped, turning at some corner to take a longer route to school. She suddenly snapped her fingers in realization. "Hey, hey! The Hunter Guy! Could he be the one responsible for the recent murderers occurring around midnight?"

"That fits their M.O. Hunters have this thing about murdering people. And midnight, well… he was trying to stop an, particularly our, Encounter…"

"Our what?"

"Its basically when you and I met." Midori said. "Well anyway, as I was explaining, Blanks are regular humans. They can't see Shadows like us. Unless of course we take a human form or literally take over a human. But those are both really hard to do! I'm lucky I was able to even move you! You're heavy!"

"Hey!"

" The Hunter Guy only had a human figure. Not really a human form per se but it does well in fooling blanks as long as they don't see his eyes. Anyway you can see shadows and feel their presence. You're a DoAlm. We both are. That's the name they give us."

"DoAlm?"

"I don't know what it the word really means, but its what we're called. A human and their shadow-self partnering up are given that name. That's where the whole Encounter thing comes in. The meeting of the shadow and the human DoAlm is what we call an encounter. But only few become it… You must have been descended from the original DoAlms… WOAH! THIS IS YOUR SCHOOL?!" Midori looked up at it in shock when they went through the gates. Aoko face palmed. There went the serious conversation. And it still made absolutely no sense to her.

But it was familiar in a way...

"Uhh… yeah… Why do you ask?"

"Its just sooo… BIG! So unlike my school… all the boring small thing. Stupid parallel world can't be perfectly parallel…" Midori pouted childishly. Aoko sweat dropped.

With a sigh, Aoko reached the door to her class. It was surprisingly a bit quiet besides the English teacher's voice. Yes, she had missed one class. 'This is just great… Stupid me… making me late…. Wait. So I made myself late…?'

Midori chuckled, returning to her spot in Aoko's shadow. Aoko opened the door to her class, her eyes cast down to the floor in shame. She could feel the stares of her classmate's and teacher's on her. "….I'm here."

"Nakamouri-san, Glad that you could join us." Her teacher spoke in English. But he switched back to Japanese. "Do you have an excuse with you?"

"No, Seta-sensei…" Aoko sighed again, turning around to close the door. 'Unless you count my story of almost being killed an excuse…' Midori chuckled again.

"Please excuse me for inter--- WAAAH!" Aoko jumped, away from them, up against the door. Being stared at was starting to feel very uncomfortable, but she couldn't help but be surprised.

"What's wrong, Nakamouri-san?" Seta-sensei asked with concern, taking a step toward her. That didn't help the situation.

Around Seta-sensei, and everyone else in the room, Aoko could see their auras floating about them. It wasn't like it was visible, but more of a feeling type of thing. How she didn't notice it until now was beyond her… And Seta-sensei's yearning for… things… felt creepy. Someone else was upset over something, another had a jealousy feel, and then there was one full of love, and another confusion...? Taking it all at once, Aoko wondered how she could even keep her sanity.

"Ummmmm…. Please excuse me for a bit…" Aoko forced a laugh sliding open the door then closing it behind her. Her silhouette was still visible to the class inside, as she leaned against the door.

".........."

"Ano… Aoko-chan?" Midori poked at her afraid of the silence.

"$!^%^&%!*!`'+$?!&%~~!!!!!!!!" Aoko's voice echoed through out the school. She took a deep breath before entering the room with a smile. "I'm done."

She did her best to ignore their gapes, and sat down at her desk. Once at her seat, she let her forehead drop on the desk with a loud thunk.

"N-Nakamouri-san… Should I be concerned about this?" Seta-sensei sputtered. Aoko just waved her hand in a motion meaning "Forget it." And the class continued, almost like normal.

"Ao-chan?" Midori was beside Aoko, trying to get some sort of reaction out of her. "Are you mad at me?"

No answer.

"Just so you know…. This is the first time I felt such a thing… Well, my ancestors used to have the power to feel people's moods but that's long been gone. It was new to me too… Aoko?"

Again no answer.

"Hey, hey! Aoko! Aoko!!" Aoko grit her teeth.

"Aoko?"

"WHAT?!?!" Aoko snapped her head around, only to come face to face with a shocked Kaito. 'Did… I just yell that out loud?'

"Yes… Yes, you did." Midori face palmed. Aoko could feel the heat rush to her face. The embarrassment too much to bear.

"Nakamouri-san?" Sure the teachers and the class were used to such outbursts, but not ones like this. It didn't even look like Kaito was enjoying himself.

"I-Its… W-well! Hahaha!" Aoko tried to laugh it off. But it didn't seem to work. With a sigh, she dropped her forehead back on the desk.

'I'm going to have to do a hell of a lot of lying…' Aoko sighed again, feeling nauseous.

"No kidding…"

-o-o-o-o-o-

****flashback****

"Aoko! Aoko!!" Kaito called having dressed out of his Kid uniform. He ran through the park, searching for the girl who had gone missing. "Dammit! Where Are You, Aoko!!"

It was then, Kaito noticed a figure near the fountain. "Aoko!"

He reached out to grab the figure by the shoulder, turning the person around to reveal their face.

"A-Akako? What are you doing here? Where's Aoko?" Kaito asked angrily. The witch knew something. She was acting weirdly just that afternoon. Akako pulled away from his grip, a serious look on her face.

"She's not here… I got here the same time you did by the way… I'm sure I felt her around here though…" Akako thought out loud looking around.

"Don't find us… Please, Please… Don't find us." Midori whispered quietly, holding Aoko protectively in her arms. She had put up a barrier around them after carrying over most of the wounds Aoko had gotten from the hunter.

Breathing heavily, Midori pulled Aoko closer. They were resting on the edge of the fountain, Akako right next to her. All she needed to do was lean her forehead forward an inch, and she would be able to touch her. After all, with her straining to maintain somewhat of a physical form to hang on to Aoko, Akako would most likely feel her.

So she stayed still. Move too far back, and she and Aoko would hit the water, and they'd be found. Move too forward and they'd still be found.

"Oi. You were acting weird today. What does Aoko have to do with this? Where is she?" Kaito asked, making his voice and his expression emotionless.

"I felt this strange feeling around Aoko. It worried me." Akako explained. "So I had Lucifer look it up. Even he was stumped on it. All he could tell me was that there would be things we wouldn't be able to understand… As for where she is… I don't know."

"Things we wouldn't understand…? Agh… damn. That doesn't matter! Where is she now!?" Kaito kicked at the edge of the fountain. Midori flinched. "She was here then?"

Akako nodded. "At least I think so…"

They agreed to look around in the park each going their separate way. When they were far enough away, Midori took a breath, preparing herself. In a few seconds, Midori disappeared into a shadow cloud that went over Aoko's body. With the barrier still up, Aoko opened her eyes, her pupils white.

"All I need is run… Get far away." Midori whispered lowly to herself, her words coming out of Aoko's mouth. And she took the chance, running the direction Aoko was heading before. Unfortunately for her she stepped on a twig, the crack attracting both the magician's and witch's attention.

"Who's There?!" Kaito shouted, running after the invisible Aoko/Midori.

"Forgive me for this, Aoko's special someone…" Midori mumbled. She lashed out her arm behind her, a gust of dark wind heading for Kaito's direction.

"Gwaaah!" Kaito shielded himself by putting an arm in front of him. But the gust was too strong. It knocked him down on his feet and cutting up his clothes; a scratch also appeared on his cheek.

"Kuroba!" Akako called out, staring at the sudden wind. She rushed over to him when the wind had subsided. At that moment, however, she felt someone brush past her. She turned around to find the source, but the area was empty. And no sound could be heard.

"What the heck was that?" Kaito stood up, brushing off the dust.

"I can tell you this," Akako narrowed her eyes at the direction where she felt the person run, "it wasn't natural."

"Now what?" Kaito looked over at the witch. His eyes widened suddenly. "You're bleeding!"

Akako looked down at her robe, and sure enough there was blood. "… The person--or thing-- that caused that wind, was injured." She crinkled her nose in disgust. Blood was never something she was fond of. And she was a witch that performed all those rituals were you used blood as a price.

Before Kaito could say anything, the blood suddenly vanished into nothingness. Leaving behind two very confused teenagers.

"W-we… should continue to look for Aoko-chan." Akako said, breaking the silence that had overcome them.

"Right…"

****flashback ends****

Kaito rubbed at the make up on his cheek that hid the scratch. If he had a band-aid, Aoko would worry. And right now, he needed to get answers from her. Not vice versa. Though even if he had a band-aid, the way Aoko was now... it didn't look like she'd notice. He along with the rest of the class who had decided to stay and eat lunch in the classroom, cast glances over at the direction of where Aoko sat. She still had her head down, once in a while mumbling something about "Creepy shadows" or something.

No one dared to go near her. It just didn't seem right too.

After a while, Keiko gathered up what little courage she had and walked over to the still unmoving Aoko.

"A-Aoko-chan… Are you alright?" Keiko said nearly inaudible. Aoko sighed turning to look at her with a tired face. She managed a smile.

"Peachy, Keiko. Just freaking peachy…" Aoko muttered. 'So freaking peachy, in fact, I don't deserve to eat peaches. Other wise that'd be cannibalism. Poor, poor peach friends that I'll be eating later in the future.'

"Wow… You have a really morbid sense of humor when upset." Midori pointed out. She chuckled though, finding the situation a bit funny. The shadow girl was currently sitting on the desk right beside Aoko, just in front of Kaito.

'Shut it.'

"'Just peachy'? It doesn't look like your feeling 'peachy', Aoko." Kaito laughed lightly, walking over to her. Hakuba and Akako followed suit as the tension around Aoko lessened considerably.

"Don't worry about a thing, Kaito. I'm feeling fine. Really!" Aoko sat up straight, smiling at the four of them. Kaito looked at her in disbelief.

"Aoko-chan… What happened to you last night?" Hakuba looked at her in concern. Aoko froze.

"Something did happen then?" Akako narrowed her eyes at her.

"Aoko? What happened?" Kaito took a step closer to her, trying to get a good look at her hidden eyes.

"Aoko?" Keiko breathed, worried about her friend. The room was silent trying to listen in.

"Wow. Everyone's worried about you." Midori stepped off the desk, going through Kaito to stand in front of Aoko. She looked at the people surrounding her, suddenly frowning. "Their auras… you can feel the worry coming from them."

'I know that. That just makes things worse! Knowing how they can tell something's up…' Aoko grimaced. The feeling in itself was still new. Now it had to go and make her feel guilty. 'I'm just… too easy to read, aren't I?'

"Nothing happened. I swear!" Aoko looked up at them, still forcing a smile. She waved her hands in front of her to deny everything. "I'm just not feeling well, is all."

"Aoko?" Kaito reached out, touching her gently on the shoulder. Aoko gasped at the touch, feeling a shock run through her body as the feelings of Kaito's aura increased ten-fold. She pulled away quickly. "A-Aoko?"

"What the hell was that?" Midori's eyes were wide, having felt the same thing Aoko did.

'How would I know?'

"L-Look! Nothing bad happened, ok? So don't worry about it!" Aoko laughed shakily. The group could only stare at her, not knowing what to say. Keiko suddenly gasped sharply.

"A-Aoko! Don't tell me! Y-You…" Keiko looked around before leaning in close to Aoko. She whispered only loud enough for their group to hear. "You… were… raped?"

The trio's eyes widened in shock, finally getting to were Keiko was. It would make sense then, that Aoko had pulled away from Kaito like that.

"Eh?" "Eh?" Aoko and Midori both said at the same time.

(Aoko's Crazy Imagination)

"Kyaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaa!" Aoko screamed, running through the park. A dark figure chased her, catching up to her quickly and knocking her down. They were near the water fountain at the center. The young man with white orbs for eyes grinned menacingly.

"It's dangerous to be out alone this late at night, Hime-sama." He cackled.

"Hime-sama?" Aoko sniffled.

"You really don't know what I am? This generation of 'heroes' is very disappointing, old man…" The man laughed. His demeanor suddenly changed, a look of an idiot on his face. "But Daaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaaamn~! They certainly look Rape-Able~!!!"

(End of Aoko's Imagination)

"Rape-able…?" Midori asked quietly. Both she and Aoko were silent for a second.

"Pfffffffffft! HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAAHAA~!! OMIGOSH! HAHAHA!!!" Aoko erupted into a fit of laughter, her shadow doing the same.

"A-Aoko?" Kaito stared at his childhood friend. First she was upset, and now she was laughing. This wasn't something he was used to. Not to anyone.

"Rape-able!! What the hell?! What kinda voice did you just give him! And that look!! Hahaha!!" Midori laughed, replaying Aoko's imagination again.

Aoko banged her fist on her desk still laughing, tears literally streamed down her eyes. "Hahahahahaha!!! My Sides!! It Hurts!! St-Stop It!! Hahaha!!"

Several minutes passed before her laughter subsided. She wiped away the tears with her sleeve, giggling once and a while whenever Midori brought it up. Aoko stood up from her chair to stretch. She smiled at Kaito and the others.

"No, nothing like that happened! That'd be so weird!" Aoko bit her lower lip to stifle her laughter. "I was just having a bad day, you know? Nothing like that happened, so don't worry about it!"

"I-Is that so… We never would have guessed." Akako blinked. The others nodded dumbly. There was definitely something weird about Aoko. But Akako couldn't place her finger on it, and Lucifer wasn't much help either.

"Jeez, Aoko! Make a guy worry for nothing!" Kaito grinned at her, like he always did. Aoko raised her eyebrows at him.

"Looks like that takes away some of their worries." Midori pointed out.

'I… guess,' Aoko studied Kaito's aura. Although he was grinning like there was nothing to worry about, his feeling at the moment were that of immense relief enough to make a person cry. And there was still a huge amount of concern, more so than the others.

Aoko shook her head, ridding herself from those thoughts.

"So Aoko-chan, do you care to explain why you didn't call when you arrived home?" Hakuba smiled, Aoko's laughter had put him in a good mood.

"Huh? Ah, well you see…" Aoko rubbed the back of her head timidly. 'Yeah, that's right. I didn't call… Where did I leave my phone?'

"Oh that's simple." Midori piped up. But when Aoko glanced over at her, she was suddenly nervous.

'Don't just stand there! I need to explain to them!'

Midori took a breath. "I was in your body, ok? Just saying. You know because that's what we were talking about before. So when I was walking home…"

"When I was walking home…" Aoko repeated. 'Ok, so you were me. But you didn't make the call?… And?'

"Well, I knew they'd expect you to call. But you were hurt! You wouldn't be able to do it! And I couldn't do it because I was already out of energy!" Midori said quickly. Aoko furrowed her brows at her and was about to ask her what was up when she continued. "I noticed this really big rock."

"I noticed this… really big rock?" Aoko was just as confused as Kaito and the others. But she shrugged it off and smiled at them.

"So I took out your phone…"

"So I took out my phone…"

"…And I smashed it to itty-bitty pieces."

"And I smashed it to itty-bitty pieces~!" Aoko chirped happily. That is until she finally realized what Midori had said a second later. "AND I SMASHED IT TO ITTY-BITTY PIECES?!?!?!"

'What The HELL, Shadow Me!?!'

"There Was Nothing Else I Could Do!!!"

"Why would you do that?" Keiko asked for the stunned group.

"What an excellent question!" Aoko opened her mouth, as if she had a good reason.
"…I have no idea!"

The group face planted, feeling as if though Aoko had finally gone crazy. Aoko who was able to feel their emotions, hung her head.

'How the heck can I keep these weird things as secret, if I can't lie!!' Aoko cried in her head. Midori almost felt sorry for her. 'I mean Come On! I've already accepted that you are real! I even have conversations in my head! Why the hell me?!?! I don't want to be a Doe Palm or whatever it was!'

Midori ALMOST felt sorry. But all that silliness disappeared. Now it was time to be serious. "Aoko, I wasn't done completely explaining. You see DoAlms exist…"

"Ne~! Aoko!!" Kaito grinned, feeling it was time for a change of topics. "….What color?"

"Huh?" Aoko wasn't expecting it. She should have, since it was Kaito. But the seriousness in Midori's tone had caught her off guard. She felt a brush of wind as Kaito flipped up her skirt. Midori burst out laughing at Aoko's currently red face.

"Ah! What lovely red! Matches your face!" Kaito laughed. Aoko twitched.

"K-K-KAITOO!!!" Aoko shouted angrily, reaching for the mop in the corner. She swung at him, Kaito escaped by jumping onto a desk. He smiled gently. This was the Aoko he knew and loved… Wait, what? Kaito barely missed being hit by the mop, his feelings mixed.

"Stop daydreaming or you might be hit!" Akako called out; she was glad, like their other classmates, that Aoko was back to her usual self.

"Aoko-chan… please hit him." Hakuba muttered quietly. Of course he knew what Kaito was thinking about. It had crossed his mind too. Aoko was back to the one they knew… and loved. Akako glanced over at him, noticing the slight pink on his cheeks.

"Mr. Detective sure does get jealous easily…" She snickered as Hakuba stared at her in disbelief.

"Do not! Th-That's not--!" He stuttered.

Aoko swung with all her strength, the stress and the embarrassment that she had all but dissolved into nothingness. Sure she did find the aura thing to be a bit strange. Kaito's had changed so dramatically from one thing to another. The weirder thing being, he didn't even let it show. His face remained that same smirk. Though he did falter for a bit.

"STOP MOVING KAITO!!" Aoko jumped over a table, running over Midori.

"Oww!! Hey! What The Crap! You can hit me, if you haven't realized it! Watch Where You're Going!!' She yelled, rubbing at the injury on her side. 'Stupid knife wounds… hurt like hell…"

'Sorry!' Another swing. Another miss…. Well a desk was knocked over.

"No, You'll Kill Me!!" Kaito replied with a laugh.

"That's The Point!!" Aoko chased after him. She swung again, but when it collided with him, he exploded into a puff of pink smoke. Confetti flew through the air. "Stupid fake…"

The chase from yesterday suddenly came to Kaito's mind. He whistled. "Woah. Déjà vu."

"Its exactly the same as yesterday." Keiko giggled, catching Hakuba's and Akako's attention. "Its just missing one thing…"

Rubbing at the knife wound Aoko had so "graciously" stepped on, Midori suddenly felt the pain lighten. Her eyes widened in fear.

"Aoko! St-Stop!!" Midori tried to get her attention as she ran by. She reached out to grab her, freezing when she saw her right hand out stretched in front of her. That was the arm that had been unable to move. The one with the Hunter's Scent…

"Missing? What could it be missing?" Hakuba asked. He paused. "Oh, right."

"Right, Mr. Detective." Akako scoffed. "That last mop chase ended with Aoko just stopping. A weird turn of events."

"AOKO!!"

When Midori's screaming of her name finally reached Aoko's ears, it had been too late. In front of the class, just as the bell had rung for the end of lunch, Aoko froze. The mop slipped from her hands. A spasm of immense pain shot through her body. The mop clattered noisily to the hard floor.

Somewhere in the city, a young man hiding in the shadow's of an alley grinned. "Have you decided to show yourself… Hime-sama?"


So yeah. There goes another chappie.
Hope it was to your liking and stuff. It may be a bit confusing now, but the story will develop.
Lune Noire is French for Black Moon. Obviously I got it from the Title and all.

AOKO: O.o What the heck?
MIDORI: Are ya still in shock, Ao-chan? *laughs*
AOKO: Am I Even Human Anymore?!
ME: Yes, yes. You're Human. No worries.
AOKO: I still don't know what going on!
MIDORI: Yes, you do. Remember~? DoAlms. You're mothe--
ME: STOP!! No Spoilers!!
MIDORI: Awww!
AOKO: ??
ME: Alright, alright! You guys, you know what I paid you for.
AOKO: You don't pay us at all... *sweatdrops*
MIDORI: Yeah...
ME: Guys... *glares*
MIDORI & AOKO: R-right!! Please Review!! WE WANT REVIEWS!!!