Semester Requirements

Mai grumbled as she furiously patted her gown straight. It was beautiful, really, exquisite even. Soft to touch, pleasant to the eye, and it accented her body in all the right places.

If only she was in the mood for it, then she would feel like a princess.

That obviously meant that she wasn't in the mood, of course, for who would be when you were just informed that the deadline for a 10-pages long paper would be tomorrow by the professor himself. What was worse was that he had told her so casually that she wanted to throw the champagne glass on his face.

"Have you finished your final paper about the course this semester?" He asked, his fingers reaching for the tips of her hair just below her neck.

Mai lowered the glass, looking away from Masako to face Naru, "What final paper?"

"You'd forgotten tomorrow would be the last day before the semester ends?"

Mai gasped, paling considerably as she recalled. Yes, there was the paper, and yes she had forgotten. She slapped his hands away from her, "Whose fault was it that I forgot?"

He pulled on his favorite look, the usual blank face.

A few weeks earlier, she had been adamant to start it.

But Naru would always stray to her seat, burying his nose in between her neck, progressively distracting her from being, well, progressive.

'It's not due yet,' he'd murmur.

"Would you like it if I failed and had to repeat the class again?" Mai scoffed at the growing smirk in his face. She pushed her glass towards Masako, and stomped away right after she had cried in frustration. "I can't believe you!"

So now she had resorted to looking for a cab home, because she didn't want to bother any of the Davis, nor the Koujo's. She knew Masako would have driven her home, but she rode with Eugene so it was hopeless.

A cab pulled over for her, and she was about to take a step in when her nose took a whiff of some strange smell and a damp cloth blocked the lower half of her face. The last thing she saw was the surprised face of the driver and she thought; she didn't even have her phone with her.

When she came too, she was already situated in the floor, with her ankle chained down to a post. Her hands were free, but everything within her reach was clean. Her hand looked for the pin on her hair, and found that none of the accessories she wore were on her anymore.

At least (it looked like) her dress was untouched.

Mai tucked her hair back behind her ear, standing up to test the chains.

It was heavy and noisy, and the metal rattled whenever she moved.

Mai grumbled, "Great. Now I really won't be able to finish the paper on time, let alone start it."

She heard a squeak of a chair, at least she thought it was a chair, and a person appeared from behind the stack of boxes.

The person, she observed, was incredibly beautiful. She wouldn't be surprised if she found her in a magazine.

"I hope you aren't hurt anywhere," the lady said.

Mai nodded, she really wasn't. Except for the bitter taste of the acid she had been forced to smell, she was clean. She patted her hair down, unsure of what she was here for if it weren't to hurt her.

Maybe she could haggle?

"If you need money," Mai gulped, thinking of Naru, and all his fortune. "There's actually a better candidate for you to kidnap, I'd even gladly help you."

"I know who you're thinking of," she said. "Shibuya Kazuya, isn't he?"

Mai had to stop herself from clicking her tongue, so this was what it was about. Probably one of the women who Naru trampled on, he seemed to be perfectly capable of doing it without even being aware that he was doing it.

"Right," the lady said, her heels clicking on the floor as she approached Mai. Her long nails tickled Mai cheeks as she caressed her face. Mai blushed, because somehow the room had gotten hotter. "And I really want to know what is it about you that had… lured him."

Mai turned her eyes away from the beautiful lady, ignoring the way her touch made her shiver. She stiffened when the lady's hand brushed past her lips.

"You must be so tasty," she said.

Mai blinked, trying to shake off her wandering thoughts. She laughed nervously, "Well, I wouldn't say I am tasty."

"Please," the lady said, whispering. "I'd beg to differ."

Mai was in a daze as the lady leaned in to kiss her, but was stopped before they could touch. When she broke out of her daze, she was already tucked so tightly in Naru's arms.

She frowned, "Naru?"

"How did you manage to get kidnapped by a succubus right after I take my eyes off you for just a minute?" Naru growled, anger evident in his voice.

Mai isn't sure if it was because of her, or if it was because of the lady, because Naru was watching the lady with a glare so hard it could put a hole in someone's head, if it worked that way. Lin and Eugene were combating the beautiful lady.

Then her mind back-tracked to what he said, "Wait, what? A succubus? Like, seducing men and all?"

"I am aware of what they are, Mai." He sighed. When the lady was taken down, quite literally and in handcuffs, Naru turned back to her.

"I'm still mad at you." Mai harrumphed, turning away.

His finger rested below her chin to make her face him, a smirk on his face. "Because I caused you to be kidnapped or because I lied when I said the deadline was tomorrow?"

Mai snapped her head up to face him, "The deadline isn't tomorrow?"

He raised an eyebrow at her, "What kind of professor would I be if I failed to remind my student about her school works?"

Mai pursed her lips, stepping on his feet. "A jerk!"

A/N: Aaaa, because I love this AU I'm probably going to keep updating whenever I can think of a story for this. Who wouldn't love a so-deeply-in-love-professor Naru and a college student Mai?