Disclaimer: Nope, still don't own Rosario + Vampire. Drat.

- Start -

Kokoa was having a bad day. "Bad? Try HORRIBLE! Get it right!"

Geez… okay, Kokoa was having a HORRIBLE day. Her thoughts were as jumbled as they were two nights ago and over the same thing: Tsukune.

- Flashback -

Kokoa was sitting at her desk during math, scribbling down random words as she gazed out the window. She was pissed when a ruler was slammed into her desk, though her anger level went down when she saw it was her math teacher.

"What are you doing Ms. Shuzen?" asked the teacher, peering down at her student's paper. "And why are your notes covered with the same name?"

Kokoa looked down in slight fear to see Tsukune's name all over her notes. She covered her paper in embarrassment, though the guy next to her was able to read part of it.

"Hey, that's Aono! Are you part of his harem too?"

Kokoa glared at the guy, who tried to move himself and his desk away. He didn't get far; Kokoa slammed her fist into his head and knocked him out. She was quite satisfied with her achievement until she looked back in front of her to see her teacher holding out a detention slip.

"Crap…"

- End Flashback -

Now she sat in the clubroom, typing up an interview about one of the teacher's. She looked up from her work to see Kurumu enter the room. "I can't believe I'm about to do this…" thought Kokoa, walking over to Kurumu.

"Hey boob- er I mean Kuruno," said Kokoa, "Can I ask you something?"

"Yeah what is it?" asked Kurumu as she set down materials for the paper.

"I just need some advice…" said Kokoa, her voice becoming hard to hear at the end.

"What?" asked Kurumu, looking at the vampire suspiciously. "You need to speak up a bit."

"I'm having… boy trouble…"

"Just a bit louder now. I thought I heard something."

"I'm having boy trouble alright!" shouted Kokoa, slapping her hand to her face. "I can't believe I just said that out loud."

As expected, Kurumu burst out laughing. The red-haired vampire was about to hit her on the head when Kurumu jumped up and hugged her.

"And here I thought you weren't a normal girl!" said the succubus, still laughing. "So who's the guy?"

"Well he's…" started Kokoa but she wasn't sure if she tell Kurumu off all people. "Wait a minute, you thought I wasn't normal?"

"You try to bring out your 'real' sister on a daily basis and cause a lot of trouble. Now stop trying to change the subject! Tell me who the guy is," demanded Kurumu.

"I just had to pick her to talk to, didn't I?" thought Kokoa "Who said I had to tell you?"

"Some boys are different. Just tell me!" Kurumu squeezed Kokoa harder. Kokoa sighed; she was definitely the wrong person to talk to.

"Do I have to?" Kokoa was ready to smack the older girl if she said yes.

"Fine I won't force it out of you," said Kurumu, taking her arms off the younger girl, "But it'd be a lot easier if you just told me. Can you at least tell me about him?"

"Well he's really nice to everyone and cute and has the sweetest blood ever and-" Kokoa cut herself off, a look of horror coming to her face. She didn't mean to say all that!

"Ah, young love," teased Kurumu, "I know what that feels like."

"And look where it got you," said Kokoa rudely. "A year and a half and you still don't have Tsukune."

"I will wait until the end of time for him if I have to," declared the succubus proudly. Kokoa just backed away slightly.

"Yeah, just keep telling yourself that," said Kokoa. "I really hope that doesn't happen to me."

Just then, the door opened up and Moka and Yukari walked in. Kurumu snapped out of it and ran over to her two friends. "You're not going to believe this: Kokoa has a crush on a boy!"

"What? Really?" Oh dear god, why did she go and tell Kurumu for?

"Kokoa that's great!" said Moka, going over to hug her sister. "I'm so proud of you. What's he like? Has he asked you out yet? Who is he?"

"I'm not telling you who it is!" shouted Kokoa as she struggled to break free of the hug. Moka finally let go when she saw the younger vampire trying to free herself. "I need some fresh air." Kokoa stomped out of the room.

"Someone's grouchy."

The three girls turned around to see Mizore, who had once again managed to sneak into a room undetected. Despite being around her for a long enough time, it was amazing how the snow girl managed to get everywhere.

"You think a vampire would be happier after drinking someone else's blood," continued Mizore.

"Wait, she drank someone's blood?" asked Moka. "Who?"

"Oh, just a certain someone she's crushing on," answered Kurumu, "She wouldn't tell me who though."

"I can answer that," said Mizore. She lifted her hand and her sleeve fell down to reveal a camera. "Take a look."

Moka grabbed the camera and started scrolling through the pictures, a look of shock coming to her face. "WHAT?"

Yukari pulled the camera out of Moka's hands, Kurumu bending down to take a look. After scrolling through a few of the pictures, Kurumu started laughing.

"I knew she had another reason for following us around," said Kurumu after she stopped laughing. "Who thought it would've been Tsukune?"

"Why did I let this happen?" Kokoa wondered out loud. She was lying on the school roof, watching the clouds roll slowly by. "Why didn't I just leave him alone?" The door opened up and Kokoa jumped up to defend herself when she saw it was only Tsukune.

Wait, Tsukune? Crap…

She started to walk towards the door. The last thing she needed was the problem to her troubles.

"What do you want?" spat Kokoa. "Can't you see that I want to be alone?"

"I heard you had been having a bad day and would want someone to talk to, that's all," said Tsukune with genuine concern. "A problem shared is a problem halved."

"Why does he have to be concerned about me?" thought Kokoa. She sat down cross-legged and rested her head in her hands. "You sound like my fake of a sister."

Tsukune sat down next to her. It put the vampire a little on edge. "Do you want to talk about whatever's bothering you?"

"Not with you!" Kokoa sighed. She could always resort to violence...

"There's a guy I like and I don't know what to do!" said Kokoa. It came out a little louder than she expected. Even Tsukune looked surprised.

"Have you talked to him at all?"

"Yeah, right now," was what Kokoa wanted to blurt out. "Yeah, but sometimes I have a hard time talking to him without getting weird thoughts." Some of those thoughts were of strangling the boy while he complicated her thoughts. "Other times I have no problem at all."

"Have you told him how you feel?" asked Tsukune. Kokoa gave him a mean look, which made Tsukune want to retract his question.

"If I did, I don't think I'd be having this problem." Kokoa continued to look at the students below to distract herself. "I don't know what to do and I have no one to help me."

"What about your sister or the rest of our friends?"

Kokoa snorted. "Pfh, after seeing them fight over you I don't expect any of them to be any help."

Defeated for the moment, Tsukune looked down at the students below in an attempt to brainstorm an idea. After a minute, he brightened up again.

"How 'bout I help you? You could practice trying to ask out the lucky guy with me."

If Kokoa had been drinking something, she probably would've spit it out. "WHAT?"

Thankfully she didn't blurt that out as well. The last thing vampire needed was to look stupid in front of the guy she wasn't sure she liked. Too bad she couldn't hold back her blush.

"Uh- I-I don't need help from you!" said Kokoa, waving her arms in front of her. "Freakin' naïve helpfulness!" She stood up and walked to the door, leaving Tsukune alone.

"Was it something I said?" asked Tsukune. Kokoa responded by slamming the door.

"I have no idea what's going on anymore," thought Kokoa as she walked back to the clubroom. Unlike when she went up to the roof and knocked over students like they were nothing, the vampire was too absorbed in her own thoughts. "Do I like him or not? Is there some reason that I'm drawn to him? Why do I have to be so freakin' indecisive about it for?"

Kokoa was so into her thoughts that she didn't realize she ran into someone and was knocked back. After she rubbed her face, she instantly put on her angry face.

"Watch where you're going jerk!" she shouted. It was then she got a good look at the person she ran into.

From the looks of it, it was an older boy, most likely a third year. The unknown boy gave off an imposing aura but Kokoa wasn't impressed. She could take him down easy. The older boy just looked at her and walked by her like nothing happened.

"Jerk. He knocks me over and doesn't even apologize," mumbled Kokoa as she brushed herself off. She half expected her familiar to say something when she realized the bat wasn't there. The vampire wasn't too worried about it; Ko-chan was probably flying off with some bat friends.

A few moments later, Kokoa walked into the clubroom. She suddenly wished she hadn't.

"So you like Tsukune, huh?" asked Kurumu, her arms crossed over her chest. "Well you won't be getting to him that easy. You've now become a part of the war for Tsukune's heart!"

"I don't want to be apart of your stupid war," said Kokoa, "And what's this crap about me liking Tsukune?"

Kurumu handed her the camera, a picture of the red head biting Tsukune's neck. Kokoa instantly went pale. "Where did you get this?" she asked, trying to restrain her anger and fear.

"From our resident ninja. Who else?"

Right on cue, Mizore was right behind Kokoa, an ice kunai pointed at the younger girl's neck.

"You do anything to hurt him and you die," said the snow girl.

"Whatever, like I'm afraid of you." Kokoa walked over to one of the desks and buried her face in her arms. When there was a tap on her shoulder a minute later, she looked up to see Moka giving her a smile.

"I didn't think you liked Tsukune," said Moka, "I guess we both finally have something in common."

Kokoa put her head back down. She didn't want to talk to her outer shell of a sister right now. Especially about him.

"There's one more thing."

Kokoa looked up again to see a detention slip in front of her face.

"Ms. Ririko told me to give this to you since you didn't show up to detention today."

Kokoa moved her arms off the table and slammed her face into it. "Worst. Day. Ever."

- End Chapter -