I was so wrong. Today was not a good day, it started bad, had its good moments, then got bad again. I had completely forgotten that today, of all days, was the day to get my spirit lock off. So much for seeing Mizore. After months I was finally going to explain my feelings, I was ready for this day, and now the day is ruined, and I can barely move.

Earlier today

"Aren't you excited?" Kurumu prompted yet again that morning, while essentially dragging me by the arm along the path to get to the headmaster. Dear god woman, slow down, I can only take so much abuse in one day.

"Of course I'm excited Kurumu, how could I not be?" I replied. The rest of them were hanging around close by, trying to keep up the brisk pace set by Kurumu. Moka looking rather depressed still. What's going on with her today? Did I do something to upset her?

I craned my neck a bit to try and get a look at Mizore, she was looking rather bored, but then again it was Mizore, she almost always had a rather bored expression on her face. Why am I so obsessed with Mizore lately? She hasn't done anything out of the ordinary. Am I getting closer to telling her? Or am I still to nervous about what might happen when I do? God damn it man up Tsukune!

I started thinking back to the past few weeks, I have been thinking about Mizore more and more lately, when did it start? A month ago? Two? Did my decision have something to do with it?

Flashback - two months ago

I was utterly exhausted, I had just gotten back to my dorm from training. It was late, the full moon shown through my window, I collapsed on the bed and almost immediately fell asleep. Inner Moka had not been taking it easy on me today, or for the past few weeks, every day presented new challenges and sometimes even worse pain than the days before. How did I get myself into this mess? Although I knew exactly how, and why this was happening. I needed this, I needed to get stronger, I needed to be able to protect them, all of them. I need to be able to control this power and use it.

I don't know when I exactly started having specific feelings for Mizore, it just started happening, I think it was around this time though. Right when I started thinking about making my decision, and started thinking about what I liked and didn't like about all of them.

Yukari was immediately out of the question, no offense to her but she is 12 years old! And that severely bothers me, I'm sure in time she'll find someone her age who she likes and end up with them.

Now, the others were a slightly different story, they were all my age, and all three of them were insanely beautiful, so using looks to determine who I wanted was out. Not only is it selfish, but I felt it was a terribly shallow way to determine your true love, looks would definitely help though, I thought, thinking of Kurumu's huge boobs and Mizore's perfect skin, Moka's innocent cuteness.
And I love all of them, to a certain extent. I remember Moka telling me that I can't keep stringing them along, I have to make a choice, and I intend to.

I started with Kurumu, she has a great body, but I couldn't be with her, and I know exactly why. The problem with Kurumu is that if she kisses me I will become her slave, and I don't know what will happen to me once that comes to pass. Will I even be myself anymore? I think it's safe to say that Kurumu is out of the running as well. I'm sorry Kurumu, it just can't happen between us.

The real question is Moka, or Mizore? I love them both, and would hate to hurt either of them. Still, a choice had to be made, so I started weighing my options, on one hand I had Moka, beautiful, innocent, cute, devoted Moka, and her split personality with the other Moka, a harsh, punishing Moka that keeps giving me mixed signals.

Then there was Mizore, gorgeous, sexy, quiet Mizore, i think out of all of them she was the most, human. She really understood me, and I understood her, not to mention that she wasn't a proud vampire or a sex obsessed succubus. Out of all four of them, I felt that I connected with her the most, even though I've known the others longer, I still loved her just as much as the others, if not more.

So honestly, if I really thought about it, Mizore would have to be best for me, so I made my decision, now I just have to figure out how to let all of them know about it.

Earlier today

Maybe that's it, maybe it's my decision that I will try to be with Mizore that let me think more about her, and they are very nice thoughts.

"Hey Tsukune, snap out of it." I heard Mizore's voice very close to my ear, "you're dozing off." She put her cold hands on my cheeks to try and wake me up, I had no idea that I was sleeping.

"I'm awake." I managed to blurt out, I opened my eyes and found that I must have really dozed off, we were in quite a different spot from where we were when I closed my eyes,"sorry guys, I must be a little more tired than I thought." Tired enough to sleep while walking.

"Don't scare me like that!" Kurumu said, rather loudly I might add, she was pacing a few feet away from me, "we were just walking along and suddenly you start hanging on my arm, I thought you were in trouble, your eyes were closed and you just fell to the ground."

Mizore glared at Kurumu, "he passed out because you woke him up too early." Her voice came from rather close by, I looked up and realized that she actually had my head sitting in her lap, how she won that battle I have no idea, "I knew we should've let him sleep longer, I know it's a big day but it'll be ruined if he can't even make it to the ceremony in the first place." A ceremony? I looked at her with no small measure of disbelief.

She looked back towards me and smiled a bit, her lolli was moved to the side. I loved how her smile seemed to light up her face, especially her eyes. When I first saw her eyes I was rather surprised, they have no pupils, so her eyes are very blue, an amazingly soft, yet vibrant blue, but I have gotten used to it over time. I have come to enjoy those beautiful eyes, so warm for someone who seemed so cold to most people. I felt myself blush a bit, I hope she doesn't notice. As much as I wanted to lay there in her lap and just stare into her beautiful eyes and smile, there were others watching, glaring in the cases of Moka and Kurumu. How did I ever get this much attention from girls?

We were walking again, this time I was walking of my own free will, Kurumu was persuaded that I, 'did not need to be dragged by a bimbo to my ceremony' in the exact words of Mizore, and was sulking at the back of the group. I was walking next to Mizore and Moka, not sure of what was going to happen next.

I don't know what exactly I expected, just not this. We made it to the 'ceremony chamber' and it was quite a chamber. The ceiling was high and arched, gothic style, the room must've been thirty feet wide and one-hundred-fifty feet long. I was struck just by the sheer size of it, it didn't look this large from the outside. There were ornate carvings in the ceiling, depicting everything from war to peace, angels and everything in between, along the sides of the room there were large columns made from who knows what, some sort of black rock, obsidian maybe? And the floor looked to be marble, near the far end of the room there was a raised area, sort of like a stage, with a weird looking podium type thing in the middle of it.

The headmaster came out of a door on the far end of the room, walking onto the stage he gestured for us to come closer, "Tsukune, come onto the platform please, and place your left arm on the podium." I did as he told me, being careful not to mess anything up, Moka had told me earlier about how if even the slightest mistake happened we may never be able to take off the spirit lock, or even worse, I could become a ghoul. I definitely made sure to not mess it up.

He paused for a second then looked at me, "Tsukune, we are going to begin shortly, but I must tell you that after the lock is removed, you will have trouble moving for a few days as the vampire blood blends with your own, normally this would cause ghoulification, but you have been training for this for a long time, and I believe that you will be able to keep hold of your, humanity, throughout the transformation. When this is over you will be changed, but only slightly more than the changes you have already encountered. I doubt there will be any visible physical changes, but you will be able to access your powers more readily now, though not as strong as a pure born vampire, you will be incredibly strong. Now, let's get started shall we?"

I nodded, unsure of what was to come, he started chanting quietly in a different language and pulled out some sort of key from his robes. He then put the key in to lock and click, just like that, it was off. I smiled for a second then felt something change, the world became a little sharper than before, I could smell, hear, see things that I couldn't before, this is what being a vampire feels like? I smiled even larger and looked over at the others, I was about to speak when I felt a searing pain throughout my body, my throat clenched and I couldn't speak, my legs collapsed right before I passed out, I thought I heard someone calling my name, but I wasn't sure who.

The pain disappeared and when I woke up again I was in my room, thinking about what I did two months ago, and wondering what I was going to do now. So much for talking to Mizore today.