Chapter 2 – The Odd Request

The next few days Mizore stalked Kurayami and watched his every move on Campus.

She followed him when he would walk to school, she followed him when he walked back to his dorm and she even kept a close eye on him in class. She felt that her actions were justified because she believed that helping Tsukune with this problem will make her one step closer to being considered his girlfriend.

She would report to Tsukune with anything she found, but all she found was that he was looking for a club with Okashii, and that he and Okashii are close friends.

"Nothing yet," Tsukune looks down in disappointment. "What if he was telling the truth and he really isn't going to say anything." Mizore suggests to Tsukune. "Well, then I guess maybe your right. This whole spying thing was dumb wasn't it, I was just being delusional."

Mizore realizes that she may not be considered anymore and pitches to Tsukune, "Wait, but I could spy on him one more time and see if he does anything. We can't be sure you know." Tsukune looks back up at Mizore, "Maybe, can you please spy on him one last time and confirm if he really is going to talk or not, please." Mizore blushes, "anything for you Tsukune."

Then she walks off blushing while she thinks of her and Tsukune together. Tsukune thinks to himself, "I can't believe I'm making her do something like this, I should be ashamed, but i can't let Kurayami say anything otherwise I will be kicked out of this school and I'll never see Moka, and the others ever again, I can't let that happen."

Mizore walked through the desolate P.E. field blushing and fantasizing, stopping when she spots Kurayami walk by. He walks slowly with that serious look on his face, he opens the door and enters the building.

Mizore sighs and gets out of the bushes and leans on the pillars of the walkway closing her eyes and thinking about Tsukune.

She suddenly feels an impact in her face and gets knocked down, her vision is dazed and the pain in her cheek is distracting, she hears a deep voice tell her,

"Finally gotcha you little bitch!" She looks up and sees Mr. Kotsubo standing above her smiling sadistically, "You whore, I finally have you all to myself again, but this time, this time I'm going to kill you and that Aono boy or that Vampire slut won't do anything about it."

Mizore tries to summon her Ice abilities but Kotsubo Steps on her hand and kicks her in the face. Tears began to swell up in Mizore's eyes as she realizes she is hopeless. Kotsubo grabbed her by her foot and forcibly sprained her ankle; Mizore screamed but was quickly muffled by Kotsubo who put his arm over her mouth preventing her from screaming. Mr. Kotsubo started backing up trying to take her away from the area, he was chuckling knowing he was about to finally kill her.

Mizore cried and cried but Kotsubo felt no pity and sadistically smiled and whispered in her ear, "Don't Worry Shirayuki, it will be over very soon." Kotsubo chuckled trying to keep his laugh low.

Mizore closed her eyes in fear thinking to herself, "It's over, It's all over for me, I'll never get to see them ever again, Moka, Kurumu, Yukari, and Tsukune…Tsukune, I'm sorry."

Mr. Kotsubo kept backing up until he stopped, Mizore and Kotsubo both froze, both thinking, "What monster energy!" Mizore starts sweating thinking to herself,

"The heat is so intense, it's scary. The monster energy levels are too high to be normal."

Kotsubo turned around to see what was behind them. A tall dark figure was standing above them, before Kotsubo could react, blades ripped through his chest fresh blood splattered all over Mizore and Kotsubo's face, Kotsubo was surprised and in pain, let go of Mizore.

She landed on the hard floor, covered in blood. She looked up only to see Mr. Kotsubo screaming in pain as his body bursts into flames, his body cooking in the intense heat.

Mizore closes her eyes in fear only hearing Kotsubo's screams of pain, she covers her ears and screams, "STOP IT!"

She then feels the heat disappear and a light tap on her shoulder.

She opens her eyes and sees Kurayami standing over her with his arm held outward.

She takes her hands out of her ears; Kurayami kneels down and asks her, "Mizore! Are you alright?!" Mizore hugs his arm, pressing her face and started to cry, he notices her ankle and face all bruised and covered in blood from her encounter.

Kurayami quickly takes off his jacket and covers Mizore up with it like a blanket and tells her to hold on to it. He wipes some of the blood off her face and smiles, "don't worry, I'm here for you."

Mizore blushes as he lifts her up and takes her inside to the infirmary. Mizore looks up at Kurayami and notices the metal cross he uses as a toothpick and remembers her lollypop.

Kurayami looks down at her and they both gaze into each other's eyes for a second then both look away blushing.

When they reach the infirmary Kurayami lays her down onto the bed, Mizore is about to hand the jacket back to Kurayami, he smiles, stops her and tells her, "Keep it for now, you're jacket's all bloody and its white so that'll leave a bad stain."

She blushes and tells him, "Kurayami…." he looks back, "yes Mizore?" She continues blushing and tells him, "Thank you, for everything you've done."

Kurayami blushes, scratches the back of his head and tells her, "Anything…Hey Mizore, can I ask you a question." Mizore turns and nods her head up and down, "Well why were you spying on me for all this time."

Mizore freezes mouth wide open and thinks to herself, "WHAT! HE KNEW THIS WHOLE TIME!"

Kurayami shrugs, "I knew, but I never said anything. I guess I found it cute." Mizore calms and uncomfortably tells him, "Tsukune freaked out when you found out his secret, the truth is…..he is human."

Mizore looks down in disappointment thinking to herself, "Why did I just tell him, crap now he actually knows, Tsukune is going to freak." Kurayami looks unmoved, "I know."

Mizore lifts her head up in surprise. He continues, "I knew he was human, quite frankly I don't care. Whether you're human or not the value in one's life is no different."

Mizore blushes and smiles feeling satisfied, Kurayami smiles as well. Kurayami turns to Mizore, "Mizore," Mizore looks back at him, "yes," he continues, "I don't believe we've been properly introduced, my name is Shiriasu, Kurayami, and yours?"

Mizore blushes and responds, "My name is Shirayuki, Mizore."

Kurayami shakes her hand, blushes and tells her, "Mizore I would like to be you're friend, and get to know you a bit more, I have no friends here except Okashii and I'd like to be yours."

Kurayami smiles, Mizore feels her cold body warm up inside and her cheeks become bright red, Mizore responds in a gentle voice, "I'd like to be your friend too."

Kurayami blushes as the nurse walks in. "Oh my, what happened, you're covered in blood!" Kurayami gets up and tells the nurse, "Please take good care of her, she's been through a lot."

Kurayami looks back at Mizore and tells her, "I'll visit you after class." he smiles, nods to the nurse and leaves.

The nurse looks back at Mizore and tells her, "Such a nice young man, you have a good friend there."

Mizore smiles and tells the nurse, "yeah," She looks down contemplating, "What is this feeling? Tsukune never looks at me that way or cares that much for me. Kurayami actually cares about me."

Kurayami walks down the hall, stops and looks up seeing Okashii leaning against the wall. "Okashii…" Anthony walked closer to Kurayami and tells him, "You looked happy, I've never seen you that happy before."

Kurayami's face was emotionless, "Yeah I guess I was happy," Kurayami grins, "I've met someone special."

Okashii smiles, "I'm happy for you bro," he puts his hand on Kurayami's shoulder, "I've never heard that from you in years."

Kurayami nods and tells him, "bro we should look for a club." Okashii takes his hand off his shoulder, "Yeah Ms. Nekonome gave me this list of clubs."

Okashii pulls out a paper and begins to read, "Bro let's not look for one now, I'm beat." Kurayami says as he walks away,

Okashii's eyes narrow and he tells Kurayami in a serious tone, "Oh, another thing I wanted to talk to you about….Be careful about revealing you're monster identity or using you're powers. As of now you should refrain from using you're powers until you're done developing them, you wouldn't want anybody in this school to be hurt."

Kurayami stopped walking; eyes narrowed and told Okashii, "I know," Then continue walking forward.