I wake up and I'm lying in my bed, my chest bandaged and back feeling like I was lying on nails. I get up to a sitting position and Mizore is asleep next to me. I lay back down and try to go sleep but have no success.

Hey why not try cuddling up like Mizore usually does? She seems to sleep fine. I curl up into a ball and surprisingly it seems to help it. My eyes feel heavy and I let them fall down shutting off the light.

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My eyes open, the light is blinding at first then dims down significantly. I open my eyes again and a maze made of ice is standing in front of me again. It's ice walls were short and the corners were sharp. I look around but there was nothing but flat dark ice. I look up and all there is is a flat ceiling with a few chunks of ice peeking out, all the ice was a light purple to dark blue colour.

Not like there's anywhere else to go I think heading into the maze. I start taking a certain pattern, left, right, right, left, right, right. I eventually find myself at a little open square, in the middle was a big Ice pillar. Something was carved into it but I couldn't read it. Moving closer it turned out to be a list, what does this make? What on earth is some of this stuff? I should probably write this down… *facepalms* of course I don't have a pencil. By the way how did I get here? Ah who cares I guess I'll just memorize this. I spend a few minutes memorizing it but not knowing what it says, it must be in another language. I continue through the maze hitting a few dead ends but repeating the same pattern. I find another ice pillar in the center of an open space, standing a distance away I tried to read it while advancing slowly. It was another list except that this one was in Japanese and in large text it said, "The cure of a frozen h…" the rest was scratched away. cure to a frozen what? I picked up my pace to read the rest of it but everything disappeared before I could see the smaller text below it. Everything went black and I was floating, like I was in space. I hear a voice and instantly recognise it as the voice from my earlier dream.

"Tsukune?"

"Who are you? What do you want with me. Where am I?"

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"Tsukune, are you awake?" I hear except it's just Setsuna's voice.

*sigh* "Oh it's just you" I say getting out of bed.

"Would you mind if…"

"Shhh" I say putting my index finger on her mouth "No need to wake Mizore"

"Let's go" I say taking her hand. Her face turns bright red. She guides me out the window and onto the ground making no noise whatsoever. I wonder who would win for having quieter footsteps Setsuna or Mizore.

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She takes me down a different road, one that's farther into the forest. We both sit down in an open area that overlooks the blood red ocean, it's ruby colour making the sky look a slight pink.

"Ah Tsukune I ah wanted to talk to you about…" she stops mid sentence blushing a lot and rubbing her hands together by her legs obviously nervous.

"Yeah" I say teasingly

"I ah wanted to ah ask you… Ah forget"

"Are you sure?" I ask politely

"Yeah just forget it" she says looking away a little

"Alright…" now's your time to do it so do it, you don't do it now you won't do it ever. Alright I got this. *sigh* "Setsuna"

"Yeah"

"I need to let you know this, this isn't to be offencive but could you…"

"I know what you're going to say and yes, I won't come bother you at night. I'm really sorry"

"It's so much that, it's more that we can be friends and stuff at night just not at little romantic places like this since…"

"Oh my gosh I'm sorry I didn't even realize how awkward this must be since you are with Mizore and everything"

"It's fine" I say giving her a little smile.

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I wake up on my bed at what feels like seconds after I talked to Setsuna.

I don't remember going to sleep or the rest of the night. Mizore is already up and ready, I look over at the clock. "It's already almost time for school" I say tiredly

"Well someone sounds tired"

"What happened last night?"

"I don't know I was fast asleep, sleep that I really needed. You should probably get ready, school starts in a little bit."

"Alright" I say with little energy. I get up out of bed and Mizore leaves out of the window. I take a shower and get ready for school throwing on my school uniform and getting out of the doors still putting on my shoes. I walk down the crowded corridors and into the crowded plaza. I make my way through the huge crowd and through the double glass doors. I look around and Mizore is nowhere to be seen.

Now where on earth did she…

"Hey Tsukune"

"AHH!" I say grabbing my shirt above my heart. "Jesus why do you do this? I'm going to have a heart attack""

"I don't mean to do it on purpose, your just scared too easily"

"No I don't" I say pouting

"Whatever helps you sleep at night"

"Too bad you didn't sleep last night…" Frosty added in

Wow, that was pretty good…

"Aw thanks, you're making me blush" he said making fun

Aaand you ruined it just like everything else you do. I grab Mizore's hand and she leans her head against my shoulder. I hear different opinions, they ranged from

"Why does he have a girlfriend still?" to "They look so cute together, their hands locked and her head leaning on his shoulder."

"Well I guess some people don't hate my guts now, that's a surprise" I say as we walk through the corridors to homeroom.

"Well you haven't talked to almost anyone else besides me and Setsuna for awhile, plus you've gone through alot lately. I guess they see you as a nice guy who just so happens to have a lot of girls hanging around him." Mizore said sincerely as we entered homeroom and sat down. After we sat down people started to flow in like something had been unplugged from a faucet. People almost tripped over each other.

Not sure why everyone is coming in all at once, did something happen and I missed it? No I would've seen or at least heard it. I bet someone just dropped their stuff at the door. Everyone took their regular seats while people were still taking their seats. At the very end of the group of people I saw Setsuna, Moka, Kurumu and Yukari all talking to each other. They all were laughing and Yukari left without saying anything, she only waved as she walked away to her own homeroom. Setsuna, Moka, and Kurumu all went to their seats at the back by me.

"Why not talk to them, you haven't talked to them in forever, in fact you've been ignoring them" Frosty asked

Why do I feel this is kind of trap?

"Or don't, I don't give a fuck. Thought i'd be nice and this is what I get, you can forget me being nice ever again."

Oh quit it Frosty "hey" I say to the four of them as they walk up to their seats. Setsuna gives me a smile and sits down

"Hey Tsukune, good morning" Moka says with a big smile on her face.

"Tsukune!" Kurumu said shoving my head into her chest. "You haven't talked to us in ages, how come?" she says as she finally lets go of me.

"I've had a lot on my mind, haven't really been myself lately." I say wondering why she let go. Then I see Mizore, kunai in hand and the face of a serial killer.

Oh, that's why. We spent most of the day hanging out, joking and catching up with each other. Club came around and we were all swamped with helping everyone else with their own articles that we didn't get time to even start thinking about what we wanted to do. Gin confronts me, Mizore, Moka, Kurumu, Yukari after everyone leaves. Gin tells us not to worry about making our own articles unless we really want to. We all pack up our stuff and start to leave but I see Setsuna sitting in the corner doing something.

She's probably just writing her article, I don't think she brought it to any of us to look over. I stop

Maybe I should see if she needs help with whatever she's doing.

"Tsukune come on" Kurumu says with a smile on her face

We were all going to have a little party for… well I don't really know.

"I'll catch up, I gotta take care of something" I say putting up my hand to show that i'd be there in 5. I turn around to face Setsuna and start walking towards her. She doesn't notice me at all, she's just sitting in the back of the room with what looks like a notebook on her knees. She rested her feet on a chair she pulled close, her knees were pointing up and her eyes trained on the notebook in front of her. When I get closer I notice she has earbuds in.

That's why she hasn't heard me yet. Finally I step into her view and she quickly shuts the notebook and starts to stuff it in her backpack

Well okay then "Hey ah Setsuna I saw you back here and thought you might have needed some help with your article"

"No, i'm good. I was just finishing it" she said flustered

"Alright, we're all going to be having a party, you wanna come?"

"Ah i'm…"

"Come on it'll be fun" I say cutting her off already knowing her answer.

"Alright, I just need to put my stuff in my dorm"

"You want me to walk you there?"

"Sure" She says finally getting her notebook into her backpack.

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After I drop Setsuna off at the dorms I lean against the wall next to the doors, crossing my arms and legs. *Yawn* I need to get some more sleep, I can close my eyes for a few seconds. I wake up to my face heading straight to the ground but someone caught me right before I hit. I look to see Setsuna was standing next to me holding me up near my gut. I pull myself up off of her arms "Thanks Setsuna I really appreciate you catching me"

"You okay Tsukune?"

"Yeah, I just decided to fall asleep, not such a good idea I guess"

"No shit Sherlock, how'd you find that out."

Come on Frosty cut me some slack, I was tired. She gives me an inquisitive look

"Ready" I say trying to change the subject which she ends up buying

"Sure" she replied and we both went to go join everyone else.

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We spent about 3 hours talking and having fun before we all went to our own dorms. Even Mizore went to her own dorm room tonight.

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