The hidden Head

by bennr01

A story diverging from canon after book 16. The Yotsuba do not publicly name Miyuki their next head, keeping it a secret instead. After Maya's abrupt death, the other heads are searching for her successor. After all, the Yotsuba are out for vengeance and nobody wants to leave this bloodlusting family unsupervised. Rated M for deaths.

1. Preface

The hidden Head - Preface

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Disclaimer

This fanfic is based on the light novel Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei, also known as the irregular at magic high school. Mahouka Koukou no Rettousei is written and owned by Satou Tsutomu.

I am not a native english speaker and this is my first fanfic, so please forgive me my mistakes and do not strip me of my number due to incompetence. I would be very pleased if you could provide me with constructive criticism and point out my mistakes. Thanks in advance.

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About this story

The hidden Head takes place directly at the end of the Yotsuba inheritance act in book 16. The goal of this fanfic is to explore a what-if story in which the Yotsuba do not announce Miyuki becoming their new heir, but is forced to become the new head. For the sake of the plot, this fanfic assumes the following changes to the canon story:

At the Yotsuba's new years family gathering, Miyuki is named the new head of the Yotsuba. Maya claims Tatsuya as her son and announces his engagement to Miyuki. She informs the clan that this is to be kept secret until the time is ripe. Due to this, most of book 17 does simply not happen as it was mostly centered around the revelation of Miyuki and Tatsuya.

The rumors regarding the Kuroba being part of the Yotsuba were dismissed in the eyes of the public. No public entity or magic family believes the Kuroba being part of the Yotsuba. This story requires Maya to be the only known Yotsuba. The only exceptions are:

The 101 IMEB knows of Tatsuya and Miyuki

Kudou Retsu knows of their connection to the Yotsuba

Saegusa Kouichi speculates that Tatsuya and Miyuki are Miyas children, but he does not know for sure.

There is a change to the background of the terrorist attack on the Ten Master Clans Conference, but you will see this during the story.

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Short introduction to the formating:

Bold: headerlines (time/place/POV). The POV will be omitted for most of the story, in which case it defaults to an outside perspective.

Italic: thoughts and interludes. And of course sound effects. (Edit 08.02.20: after reading your feedback, I have decided to change speech into normal text formating.)

Normal: text and speech.

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I hope you will enjoy this story.

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