Disclaimer: if I could own CM, the only part of it that I would really want for keepers would be the font they use on the cover. Keep Mahiru and Mitsuru, keep Akira and Nozomu—I want the font, and that's it.

My first CM fic ever—please be kind. It's going to be humorous, and it's obviously going to be romantic…so bare with me. Expect rather slow updates…at least until after next Thursday (and maybe next Monday)—that's when all the obligatory stuff in my life ends and I'm left with the summer to myself.

Capture Me Care for Me:

Shirogane has gone missing, and it looks like the Moon Bandits may be the only ones able to locate the Emperor. And with things getting serious with Mitsuru and Mahiru, what will happen when a human suitor turns up? Three years after the series.

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The Introduction to the Introduction

A/N: this is just after the series has ended, three years before the previous chapter

Mahiru couldn't believe it.

She. Could. Not. Believe. It.

She stared at the papers, and then looked up at her aunt with a stricken expression. "But…Auntie, I'm sure that they couldn't have written this. They died when I was little—why would they do something like this?"

She shrugged. "Mahiru, the family lawyer found it. He said that, since you've been eighteen for a year now, it makes sense. Your grandmother left strict orders that upon your eighteenth birthday you were to be tied into this family line. I'm sorry, dear."

Mahiru couldn't even see the words any more. The only thing that she remembered about her grandmother was learning "Princess, Princess" from her while visiting in Kyoto. How could she leave orders like this for a grandchild that she hardly knew?

What would she tell Mitsuru?

The tears spilled down her cheeks unheeded, warm streams of pain flowing from her heart into the world. She couldn't tell Mitsuru…

It was just too eerie, her emotions aside. Hadn't this happened to the princess, with much more battling and much less virginity?

Mahiru would die before she was put into an arranged marriage. She would never leave her demon boy, no matter who it was that she was supposed to marry.

"Mahiru, the family lawyer is looking through candidates and records tonight. We're paying him overtime, and he'll have the results tomorrow," her aunt explained. "Honey, I know this is hard for you. But you're going to have to—"

"No, auntie!"

Her aunt frowned. "But Mahiru, what will you do? The family lawyer says that it's all legally arranged already. We just need to contact the other family. Your graduation is coming up, and you're the perfect age."

She shook her head. "You don't understand…I…I—I…"

"What? You what?"

Mahiru simply shook her head, the words caught in her throat. She couldn't voice it—she couldn't defy her aunt. The older woman was right, after all. It was legal; she could see it all…

Trapped, she turned and ran from the table. She ran out of the house, tripping down the walkway to the house and rushing down the sidewalk.

Princess, Princess/Why do you cry?

Tears fell from her face as if a faucet had been turned on. Fish were swimming around her head, she couldn't see straight…

Mahiru crashed into something solid and collapsed.

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Mitsuru wasn't sure what to do with Mahiru. He had taken her back to his apartment and made sure that she didn't have any wounds, after her flight from her aunt's house straight into him. It was slightly unnerving that she had found him so easily, but he wasn't upset about it. Shrugging off the humans that he had been working with, he picked her up and took off for home.

She stirred on his bed, and he set a glass of water down on the nightstand. Watching as her eyes fluttered open and she looked around in alarm, he smiled as her panic dissolved when she recognized him.

"Mitsuru," she said, her voice barely a whisper. "Mitsuru…"

"What's going on, Mahiru?" he asked softly, sitting down next to her. "Is it something I can help with?"

"Mitsuru, I need to get away. I need to get away from my aunt and my family. I…" she sniffled, her head dropping into her hands. "I can't afford to return to them! I hate leaving so much…"

"What happened?"

Her face flew up, and she looked absolutely terrified. Mahiru looked just as horrified as she had the first time she laid eyes on him. Mitsuru cringed at the reminder and took one of her hands in his own.

"Mitsuru…the family lawyer found some papers from my grandma. She requested that last year, I marry into a bloodline that she had selected. The lawyer thought that it was due time, and they want me to choose someone after my graduation. So I need to get away—I'm not going to let it happen. But I can't say no to my auntie."

He put a damper on his own feelings for a moment and pulled her into a hug, kissing his way from her ear to her mouth and lingering in the embrace for a while. The stripes of anger had appeared on his cheeks—but there was nothing he could do about it.

"Does your aunt know where you are?" he asked.

She shook her head. "You're the only one,"

"Then we'll keep it that way. How many more days of school do you have?"

"Less than five,"

Mitsuru smiled. "Once you graduate, come to me. We'll live together,"

She wiped her face. "Really?"

"Yeah," he said happily, ruffling her hair. "I'll take care of you, okay? So stop worrying, princess."

Mahiru finally smiled. Relieved that he had managed to find a solution, Mitsuru resumed the process of covering her face in kisses. Giggling, she ran her hands through his hair and caressed his face.

"My amazing demon love," she whispered.

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Mahiru ran out of the doors of her High School with reckless abandon. She had fidgeted through the entire ceremony, looking through the crowd for her family. Avoiding them cost her a bit of reputation and politeness, but she managed to pull it off.

Mitsuru was waiting across the street. Flinging her graduation cap into the air, she threw her arms around him and squeezed her eyes shut as they rose off the ground.

Goodbye, Auntie. Goodbye, school. I'm living with the Moon from now on.

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so…yeah. Review, once again. Tell me whatcha think. There's not much of this fanfiction out there! Woot!