Summary: This is an AU story takes place after the fall of Cocoonn, Orphan, and the ending of the l'Cie and crystal stasis. Serah is awake from her crystal stasis and married to Snow now. Fang and Vanille are not in crystal stasis and are kicking it in somewhere in the wilds of Gran Pulse. Lightning and the gang have lost their L'Cie brands for good…or have they?

Hope Estheim is 15 and ready to enter high school, but what would happen if he found a flyer and application for Yokai Academy? Read onward to find out!

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Hope plus Vampire

Chapter 4: Operation Harem plus Succubus

A month later-

The silveret lay in bed, contemplating the last few weeks' events. It was a very eventful first month of school. He knew that peace wouldn't last long. He made a friend, named Moka Akashiya, and she was a super vampire, albeit, she had this whole other side to her that both terrified and left him in awe of her prowess.

He started noticing a trend, or routine in their daily schedule. First, he wakes up in the morning, does his hygiene, like brushing his teeth and splashing his face to wake up, trying to tame his fluffy silver hair with a bristle brush, but to no avail would it flatten out. No wonder the students still call him a pixie, or any member of the fairy family, like fairy or sprite. Did it look like he had wings? Then again, they probably thought he was good at hiding them.

He studied what a pixie was and determined that they were magical creatures known for their fair looks. He'd received plenty of snide remarks of how 'cute' he was from many of the girls. His trademark wild silver hair, pale skin, girly face, slender frame, and bright turquoise-green eyes were apparently a dead giveaway. He could never tell anyone that he was really a human, but settled for being called pixie. After all pixies did technically fall into the monster category as far as weak demonic auras were concerned.

Anyway, after his morning routine, he'd dress and walk through the forest and to the school, only to meet a surprise glomp from behind by his pink-haired friend, and commence the morning blood-sucking. Moka's blood schedule with Hope was twice per day, one pint in the morning, and one after dinner, but before heading home in the afternoon. He consented long before to let Moka drink his blood, after all what was a vampire to do without it, right?

Through all this happening, the male population would stop and stare for a while and attempt to gain the pinkette's attention through cat calls, any manner of flirtation, and flat-out invitations to date or have sex with them. Then, she would lock arms with his, and drag him to class, while earning threats of murder, extreme violence, and other unspeakable things he shuddered to think about. The female population, however were more discreet in their envy for Moka, and admiration for him. Moka ignored all this, of course while Hope prayed silently that none of them would go on with their threats.

They would go through classes for the day. He had Homeroom (with the cat-sensei for half the morning), first period English/Japanese (A joint class of Shakespeare and human grammar), he would go to second period Home Ec. while Moka attended Art class (because they had different electives), third period science (human biology), go to lunch (weird assortment of food), go to fourth period math (intermediate algebra and geometry), and fifth period history (human world history) and head to gym class (running the track at breakneck speed) at the very end. All of his teachers were insane, by the way.

His teachers were all women, even the gym class teacher, and they all dressed suggestively, and come on to their students VERY provocatively. He learned to avoid temptation and look to the sky and pray to the Maker that he get through this clean and earn good grades. As soon as all this was over, he and Moka would hang out for a while in the cafeteria doing homework until dinner was served, and she would feed on him yet again, and go home, take a shower, brush his teeth and go to bed.

Other than his weird schedule, he would very much consider it a blessing in disguise. Maybe he should get to know Moka a little more. Through all this, he began wondering about the mysteries to Moka's other half, the silver-haired aristocratic vampire. She never made an appearance at all during that time, and fights were never induced either, even though many guys wanted his guts removed.

They probably stay away from him because of the rumors that he put Saizou in the hospital with heavy burn marks on his skin. Technically, he was part of the reason Saizou was no longer active, and thanks to his spell and Moka's kick, all the students were kind of afraid of him. Hope counted his lucky stars that he didn't have to fight anymore, but karma knows that something bigger will happen. Ah well, time to go to sleep.

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Next morning-

Hope was walking to school, which was actually being dragged, with Moka. All of a sudden, Moka skid to a halt and let go of Hope and looked deep into his eyes. Moka's eyes were mesmerizing, as were the rest of her. He couldn't help but admire her figure, and not in the perverted way, surprisingly. She was beautiful, and up close you would think she would try to kiss him eventually. He blushed at that, and almost in response to his blush, Moka's cheeks went bright red.

She hooked her left arm around his waist, brought him closer in the process and hooked the other arm around his head, and leaned her head down to his neck. He knew what would happen, and just closed his eyes and waited for the pain and the blood sucking to commence. Moka closed her eyes as well, and punctured his neck in the same spot she always dug into, and-

Chu~

She let him go, did a pirouette and did a curtsy to no one in particular. Hope stumbled a little before his vision started to blur and he was steadying himself on a nearby tree. He didn't know how much more of this he could take, but because Moka was happy, that was all that mattered to him. Moka turned her satisfied gaze towards his and her expression turned around into concern.

"Um, Are you okay, Hope?" Moka asked. "I didn't drink too much that time, did I? 'Cause if you want me to stop, I'll stop."

Seeing her sad expression, Hope opened his eyes to clear away to blurriness, and shook his head to steady his balance.

"Um, no that's alright. Really…" Hope smiled as best he could, which brightened Moka's face too as he did that.

"Really! I'm so glad! Your blood really is the best!" Moka glomped him and he was suddenly being dragged toward the school.

By the time second period came along, Hope and Moka separated to go to their electives and had to change buildings to head over to where the Home Ec. class was. Apparently, it was held in a side building, as was the other electives, like marching band, orchestra, and other arts.

On his way to the building, he trudged through a bunch of trees, because that was the shorter route, and ended up almost walking past a sound of moaning. Hope stopped in his tracks and turned around to look at wherever the sound was that came from behind the trees.

"Hello! Is anybody there?" Hope hollered, and looked behind the tree to see a girl with blue hair, on her knees and clutching her stomach in what looks to be like she was in pain, so he asked. "Are you alright, miss?"

The girl's head whipped around slowly, until her eyes were looking up at his. She was very beautiful, almost as beautiful as Moka, but she had sky blue hair pulled back with a purple ribbon, very bright, almost playful amethyst eyes, and creamy skin. What was most impressive, much to his shameful observation, was the size of her well-endowed breasts. She was indeed bigger than Moka, by a lot, which Hope definitely wasn't comparing them to. She was wearing a yellow sweater vest instead of the standard green blazer.

"Oh…I…I don't feel so good…" she groaned. "You see, I'm…I've been weak all my life…and my chest…it just started hurting all of a sudden…" she stood up a little and pushed her chest out and pressed it against Hope's to be sure. "I…It feels like it's about to burst! Ooh!"

Hope inhaled a long breath, afraid to exhale while she had her arms around his waist. Yet another girl pushing herself onto him, yet he wasn't used to it. Hope blushed bright red and carefully extracted the bluenette off of him, and held her by her shoulders at arm's length.

"Ahem! Would you like me to take you to the nurse's office?" Hope asked, still blushing at her dreamy stare.

"Yes, I would like that." She said. "By the way, my name is Kurumu Kurono. Will I ever know the name of my savior?" she asked, playfully when a moment ago she looked in pain. Hope raised a silvery eyebrow in suspicion, but just went along with it.

"I'm Hope. Hope Estheim." Hope said. "Can you walk?"

Kurumu stumbled to the ground as soon as he let her go, but he caught her before she could. Hope was worried now.

"Ooh…I don't think I can do it!" she shouted. "The pain's coming back! You'll have to carry me, I'm sorry for the inconvenience!" She stared into his eyes and clutched his hand with both of hers. There was something mesmerizing about those amethyst orbs staring at his, but Hope couldn't put a finger on it.

Hope immediately felt a wave of some emotion he couldn't put a finger to: love, concern, worry, anxiety? He never felt this way about a girl he first met before, but then shrugged it off and averted his eyes, which startled Kurumu, but she hid it so fast he didn't notice.

Hope blushed, before he turned around and went into a crouching position, as if he was ready to give a piggyback ride, which he was.

"Wh-what are you doing?" Kurumu asked incredulously.

"I'm giving you a piggyback ride, since you can't walk by yourself." Hope said while blushing. "You did say you couldn't walk, right?"

She frowned, but turned him around so he could face her one more time.

"Please, I only need to go to the nurse's office, and it's crucial that you carry me!" Kurumu exclaimed, surprising Hope. "I mean, uh, wouldn't you rather carry me…uh, bridal style?" Her eyes did the same thing as before, but Hope blinked and it was over.

"Why should it matter how I carry you? You're in pain." Hope said, oblivious.

"Arrgh!" she shouted.

"You okay?"

"I just remembered!" Kurumu exclaimed and moved a hand over her stomach as if to feel it. "…Hey, it's gone now!"

"Wh-what's gone?"

"The pain." Kurumu said simply, and tried once more, but failed to get any reaction out of Hope.

"I thought it was horrible a minute ago?"

"It…just comes and goes, yeah, that's it!" Kurumu said and with that she disappeared, leaving Hope confused and utterly embarrassed.

"Ugh! I'm late for class!" Hope glanced at his watch, realizing that he was ten minutes late for Home Ec. His teacher was so giving him detention!

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During lunch break-

Moka ran up to meet Hope by the stairs to the entrance of the school where they usually had lunch, only to be met by a gust of wind and a bunch of stares in one direction specifically. There were murmurs and whispers about something, and Hope and Moka wondered what it could be, and looked to the source.

"Woah, who's that girl!" came one comment.

"She's got white panties!" came another.

"Forget her panties! She's got huge knockers!"

"She's just as sexy as Moka!"

"Go out with me!"

Up on the stairs was the blue haired girl from earlier, only now she had a smug look on her face and had her arms crossed.

She neglected to see how much effect she had on the male population. Her skirt was riding up so they could plainly she her panties (commence massive nose bleeds), and it looked like she didn't care as long as she got attention. She laughed before jumping up and skipping the flight of stairs before landing perfectly on the ground. (Commence more nose bleeds) Hope blushed at her flat-out entry, and turned away before the girl was in front of him already.

She looked to Moka, who had her arms locked with Hope's, and looked back to Hope. The girl was just as tall as Vanille, Hope reckoned, and with her standing up right and looking defiantly at their faces, she pointed at them.

"You! You are Moka Akashiya of Class 1-3, am I correct?" Kurumu demanded, and Moka nodded nervously.

"And you're Hope Estheim, Class 1-3's resident pixie-boy, huh?" another assent came from Hope, who was just as nervous. "I challenge you, Akashiya!"

"Huh?" came the ridiculously loud chorus from the student body.

"Ever since you came into the picture, all the boys were admiring you more than me! I'll make each and every boy my slaves! You're a vampire, aren't ya? Well, I don't care! I've decided to make your life a living hell, starting by taking away all you hold near and dear!" Kurumu laughed evilly.

"Um, what's she talking about, Hope?" Moka whispered to Hope.

"Shut up! I didn't say you could talk!" Kurumu snapped, before looking up at Hope. "Oh, Hope~! Would you like to be friends with me, instead of this…blood-sucker?" Kurumu turned up her 'charm' and Hope's face and eyes became void of all emotion. He was basically a zombie, something Moka missed entirely.

"Yes…Kurumu-chan. I would love to be your friend." Hope said, voice completely monotone, but Kurumu paid no mind.

"Well, your reaction is surprisingly dull, but no matter! Oh, Hope, come with me~! I have a treat for you!" Kurumu winked, and Hope unhooked Moka's arms from his and walked over to Kurumu's side. Wide eyes full of panic, Moka shouted to him.

"Wh-where are you going!"

"Away from a blood-sucker like you." Hope said so coldly and emotionlessly that Moka was terrified and extremely heart-broken from. Tears leaked from the corners of her eyes, and she ran away.

"Now that she's out of the picture, let's get acquainted, Hope-kun!" Kurumu proclaimed excitedly.

"Yes."

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Later, in the forest-

Moka was once again crying with her back to the tree, and her knees brought to her chest. Moka was very sad, and this reminded her of the first time she and Hope first had an argument, and Hope said she was only there for his blood, but that wasn't true at all! A dull ache settled in her heart, and she wanted nothing more than to scream, but she didn't.

"Get a hold of yourself, foolish girl!" a voice rang out in her mind, not entirely her own.

"Wh-who s-said that?" Moka looked around. Tears stopped flowing, but they trailed uselessly down her face.

"I did. The other you." Moka looked down to find the ruby of her rosario glowing slightly. The voice came from the rosario, and it was the other her.

"You? You're me?" Moka hadn't had contact with her other self in years, but up until recently, she forgot who or what the other Moka was, for this was how she lived. For the most part, the other Moka was the original one, and she was just a mask to control her demonic powers, that was about all she knew. Now, it was surprising to her that she was able to talk to the other one through the rosario.

"Listen. That boy is being lured into a trap! That girl, she is a Succubus. Succubae are a small race of she-devils that's only purpose is to tempt men and find a 'Destined One'. Hope is in danger, and if she kisses him while he is charmed, he will be hers to control forever! Do you understand?"

Then, realization dawned on Moka. Hope was himself up until Kurumu showed up, and she realized that Hope must have been hypnotized right in front of her! That Kurumu was taking her Hope! Wait, what? Never mind, that wasn't important!

"Thanks, other me!" Moka said, and hopped to her feet. She wiped her face of the tears and ran toward the school, where she knew instinctively Hope was.

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Inside the infirmary-

"Oh, you're such a kidder! You flatter me!" Kurumu laughed while she sat on Hope's lap with her arms encircled around Hope's neck. His expression was blank, but she acted like he was some kind of comedian.

Why did I say that to Moka? She cried because of me… Hope wondered slightly. Why does Kurono-san have such a grudge over Moka?

"I…I want to apologize to Moka." Hope said blankly, interrupting Kurumu's drabble, and earning a hate-filled glare in return.

"Are you still resisting me?" Kurumu slapped Hope in the face, leaving a pink hand mark, but he didn't cry out. "You still on about her? What's so special about her anyway?"

Just then, the door slid open, and Moka stepped into the room. On her face was a very unpleasant scowl. To say she was angry would be the understatement of the century.

"Let Hope go, now!" Moka shouted, and Hope snapped back to reality.

"Moka?" Hope asked, dazed. He woke to find a blue haired Succubus sitting on his lap, but struggled to get her off.

"Huh?" Kurumu was shocked. "You dare to interfere! You bitch! I have had it for the last time! I will not be outdone by a stinkin' vampire!" Kurumu exclaimed and transformed.

In Kurumu's true form, she sprouted bat-like wings, a devil's tail, and her nails grew into razor-sharp, nine-inch claws. She was getting angry as well, and before either Hope or Moka could do a thing, Kurumu wrapped her tail around Moka's neck and they both crashed through the window, hovering just outside it. Hope rushed over to the window and jumped after them, and caught one of Kurumu's legs.

"Let Moka go, now!" Hope shouted.

"Hey, I can't carry all this weight! This bitch is heavy enough as it is!" Oh, she did not just go there!

"Fira!" Hope shouted, and fired a fireball at Kurumu, which was not meant to cause any damage but to only get her to release her hold over Moka's neck, which led both Hope and Moka to fall at a fast rate. Hope tried to grab a hold over Moka to save her, but instead missed and pulled her rosario instead. He knew what that meant, and in Moka's place came the regal silver-haired vampire.

They were still falling to their death, but Inner Moka used the momentum in the air to land and propel herself upward Hope to catch him before he hit the ground, and possibly die.

Moka put Hope down and turned to face the hovering succubus. She was circling, none too happy about the earlier fireball attack.

"You! It's true! You are a super vampire, just like the rumors say!" Kurumu exclaimed. "But, I don't care if you're one of the elite monsters! My race is nearing extinction, and the only way for us succubae to survive is to create a massive harem out of men, and choose our Destined One, to marry, and have his children!"

"All of that for this!" Hope shouted incredulously. "Why did you have to involve Moka into all this?"

"I told you that earlier, idiot!" Kurumu said. "She gets all the attention without even trying, whereas I have to resort to sabotage and 'charm'! It's not fair!"

"Oh, boohoo! The she-devil just turned into a pathetic, whiny brat." Inner Moka taunted. "Once things turn against you, you complain like a spoiled brat! No wonder the succubae are nearing extinction. They should be extinct!"

"How dare you! I'll kill you for insulting me, you bitch!" Kurumu raged, and sped toward Moka with her wings. She was surprisingly fast for someone who could fly, but Moka was a bit faster. Kurumu couldn't get a solid slash or stab at her, and the only things that would be cut were the trees.

She slashed through them like they were butter, and Hope shuddered to think if even one of those claws skewered flesh.

"Die!" Kurumu shouted.

"You'll never know the true power of us vampires." Moka smirked before her mouth dipped into a frown. She pulled her leg back and caught Kurumu in the stomach really hard, and sent her through a few dozen trees, scraping the ground in the process. "Know your place!"

Kurumu was badly beaten and bruised, and blood was dripping from her temples, but she managed to push herself to her knees, but didn't progress further and only glared at Moka.

"I can't die here! I…I have to find my Destined One! You will not stop me!" Kurumu exclaimed, defiance clear in her eyes.

"Hmm, you seem so dead-set on making a mate out of the men. You also seem to care so much about these wings and tail of yours." Moka got behind Kurumu in an instant, and grabbed her wings and tail in one hand hard, prompting Kurumu to scream in pain. "I should tear these off so you can never use those powers of yours again. A Succubus' power comes from these appendages, do they not?"

Kurumu's eyes widened in fear, and she slowly turned her head around, fearing Moka would tear her beloved appendages off.

"No, please! A Succubus' wings and tail are dearer to her than her life! I'm sorry! Please don't rip them off!" Kurumu pleaded, eyes filling with tears by now, which Moka ignored and proceeded to tug a little on her wings, causing Kurumu to yelp in pain again.

"Moka, let her go!" Hope stepped forward, and Moka did so, and Kurumu fell on her stomach none too gracefully.

"Why should I? She tried to kill both you and I." Moka said, grasping onto Kurumu's wings and tail again, an evil smirk set on her face, the shadows making her even more deadly.

"I know that, but I think she's not all that bad. She just did what she felt was right, even if it was a desperate move on her part." Hope said. "She said she was sorry too, right?" Kurumu nodded, and Hope continued. "Now. Let. Her. Go."

"Or what, pixie?" Moka taunted, but lightened her grip on Kurumu's appendages.

"Or you'll deal with me…" Hope said, and brought his hand up so that it was charged with lightning. "I don't want to fight you over something so unnecessary."

"Very well." True to her word, Moka let Kurumu go, and she scurried toward Hope, bowing and scraping at his feet. "I think this is punishment enough. But if she tries to kill or take control of you again, I'll kill her, you understand?"

"I understand." Hope shrugged off the death threat, let the lightning dissipate and held a hand out to the sobbing succubus. "Hey, you okay, Kurono-san?"

Kurumu peeked out from behind her fingers to stare wide-eyed at Hope's outstretched hand.

"Y-you're g-giving me a-another ch-chance?" she stuttered through sniffles.

"Of course. You were just misguided in your quest, that's all. If all you needed was a boyfriend, you could just ask the traditional way, right? You didn't need to follow through with a harem plan." Hope said. "Why don't we start over? I'm Hope Estheim. How about you?"

Kurumu hesitated before taking Hope's hand and shaking on it.

"Kurumu Kurono. Call me Kurumu."

"You're too soft, you know that?" Moka said to no one in particular, say yourself. "You are interesting, Hope. But, I guess that comes with the quirk for being a human." With that, she departed the scene by placing her rosario back onto her neck, returning her to her pink-haired, outer form.

"Oh, Hope~! It's dinner time!" Moka announced, and proceeded to chase Kurumu down the forest path with Kurumu on his back so he could take her to the infirmary.

"No! Wait till I get Kurumu to the nurse first! Ahh!" Hope exclaimed.

Chu~

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A week later-

Moka and Hope were walking to school as usual, but this time it was different. The crowd had parted, allowing someone to sneak up behind them and glomp the poor silveret between her giant breasts.

"Good morning, Hope-kun!" she exclaimed, prompting many nose bleeds and a jealous female population.

"Kurumu-chan! Where have you been?" Moka gasped, and clenched her teeth.

"I've been rejuvenating in my dorm. After all, the beating your other side gave me took over a week to heal. Now, I'm back and ready to rock!" Kurumu fist pumped, while holding Hope's face in between her breasts.

"Let him go, Kurumu-chan! He'll suffocate if you go on any longer!" Moka's face flushed bright red, as in angry red.

"At least it's better than you sucking his blood!" Kurumu shot back.

A murmur escaped the silveret, and Kurumu looked down, oblivious to his flailing limbs. He finally managed to escape her massive breasts, and turned away from her in sheer embarrassment.

"I couldn't breathe, Kurumu! And no, nothing is better! They're both bad!" he shouted.

"Huh? What are you talking about, Hope?" Kurumu wondered, oblivious to his embarrassment.

"Hope! It's time!" Moka shouted unexpectedly, and without warning she bit down on his neck and fed on his blood again.

Chu~!

"Hey, don't let her suck your blood! Come to me instead!" Kurumu complained while the poor boy wallowed in miserable happiness. (Can you be sad yet happy at the same time?)

Glomp!

Kurumu grabbed Hope from Moka's drinking fest, which he was draining in blood from, and dragged him the whole way to class with his arms locked with hers. It didn't help much that her breasts were rubbing on his arms. Moka caught up with Hope and grabbed his left arm in hers (cue jealous crowd) the whole while glaring at each other. Hope sweat dropped, and just hung his head down in defeat. He must either be the luckiest boy in the world, or the most unfortunate one.

Why me?

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A/N: Well, here's to another chapter, like I promised! Kurumu is finally added to the group! Only time will tell whether Hope will survive his time in Yokai Academy! Please don't forget to review and spread my story to the rest of the world! I need reviews, people! Don't be shy!

Next chapter: Midterm Grades plus Witch