Warmth. It spread throughout her, diminishing the darkness. Confused, her mind pulled away from the void as it grabbed hold of this comfortable sensation. She groaned softly, aware that she was lying on her back and that her head was in someone's lap. Fingers were moving pleasantly through her hair. She was wearing something soft and silky. Her eyes fluttered open, confirming it was her cream chemise.

A heavy sigh caught her attention. She was resting on the pink couch in Moka's suite. Yukari was kneeling beside the couch, withdrawing her hand from Kurumu's breast. The warmth quickly evaporated without the source as the witch settled down on her haunches. The witch was still dressed for school.

Kurumu glanced up, noting Moka hovering over her. The vampire smiled softly, brushing Kurumu's bangs aside. Her other hand was holding Kurumu's right hand. Moka had on that silky white slip with thin straps hanging loosely upon her smooth shoulders.

"What time is it?"

Her voice cracked and her throat was dry. She swallowed painfully.

"About two thirty."

"At night?"

"In the middle of the damn day."

Her frown deepened at the sound of Kokoa's voice. She sat up to look at the kitchen counter, quickly finding the scowling vampire whom was also dressed for school with her arms crossed below her bosom. Kurumu gripped the back of the couch as a wave of nausea and vertigo assaulted her. She gasped and panted, resting her head against Moka whom quickly grabbed her for support.

"Easy, Kurumu. You've been unconscious almost an entire day."

"That's an understatement. Her heart stopped four times last night."

Yukari was angry. She felt Yukari's hands on her back as the witch crawled up on the couch behind her.

"We should tell Mother about this."

"That won't be necessary."

"She's dying, Moka."

There was heavy silence. Kurumu did feel like she could close her eyes and drift off but she resisted the call of oblivion. With slow, deliberate breaths, she tried to calm her aching heart.

"Water."

Kokoa grimaced. Shaking her head, she turned about and stepped up on the stool so she could reach the glasses in the overhead cabinet.

"I don't know what you did, but it clearly wasn't what I asked you to do."

With a white, porcelain tumbler in hand, the vampire stepped down and turned on the faucet.

"What you asked her to do was wrong."

"She needs that idiot much more than my sister does."

Kokoa huffed as she shut off the faucet and turned on her heel. With a scowl, she stalked over to the back of the couch and held out the glass.

"I want her checked out by a real professional. She's not going to make anyone happy if she dies."

Dumbly, Kurumu took the glass. The vampire was right. She had to get better. She had promised to be that cheerful, silly girl she had been for him in the memories she had given him. She carefully took a sip.

"Where's Tsukune?"

"At school."

Kurumu took another sip and nodded.

"Aren't the three of you class managers?"

"Nobody in my class better dare say a thing about me missing half a day of school. Those quitters have no right to judge me."

"I told Mrs. Sunao that you were feeling sick after flexing your powers over a whole third of the school. Moka stayed at home to watch over you and was to call me if you're heart stopped beating again."

Kurumu frowned after another swallow of water.

"Is that why you're both here?"

Yukari sighed heavily, running her fingers through Kurumu's hair.

"I'd rather not deal with that new kid in my computer class. He got both of us sent to the disciplinary room yesterday for disrupting the class."

"New kid?"

"That foreign guy from class six with the long, braided tail which makes him look like a girl. He called me Moka's little sister at the start of the term."

Kurumu nodded, recalling the guy and that he was enrolled in Yukari's computer class.

"He got you in trouble?"

"He accosted me at the start of class, praising Tsukune's handling of this situation and what we had done in Okinawa. He was demanding for me to introduce him to Tsukune and… well… I kind of used magic on him when Mr. Karatsuki arrived. So we both spent our elective hour in the disciplinary room."

"Is this guy going to be a problem?"

"Who knows? Most fanboys are polite enough not to make a scene but this guy's a foreigner. He might not understand proper social etiquette."

Hearing Yukari comment about proper social etiquette was profoundly amusing. Holding back a smart remark, Kurumu took another sip.

"So… why did you cut out of school?"

"Because you said yesterday that you wanted your things from the hospital."

Kurumu paused at the combative tone.

"You should thank me. I blew off my club practice yesterday for nothing. That blond and wolf boy in your club had no idea where any of you guys were. And the only thing Ishiko knew was the witch came for my sister during last period for something and they both left. I ended up coming home and had to wait over an hour before they decided to bring you here and finally explain what the hell had happened."

"You could have checked Kurumu's suite."

"How often is she ever there? There was no reason for me to check random places for her."

"I'm sorry, Kokoa."

Kokoa huffed, turning her nose away.

"Whatever. I was about to go back to school when brat here showed up and decided to lecture me again over how horrible a person I am for telling you to remove Tsukune's first impression of Moka which made him choose her over you."

"I didn't know you were here, you egotistical maniac."

"I've about had enough of your mouth."

Yukari smirked at the sneering vampire.

"Do you think your familiar is the only thing of yours I've hexed? You won't win the second round."

Kokoa glowered, backing off a step.

"Cheater."

"Let it go, Kokoa. You'll only embarrass yourself."

Kokoa simmered with frustration.

"Fine. It's not like this brat is worth my time."

Kurumu could sense Yukari wanted to respond to that but the witch held her tongue. After quaffing down the rest of the water, Kurumu held the empty glass out to Kokoa.

"How is Tsukune doing?"

Kokoa huffed, snatching the glass and stalking back to the counter.

"He's worried. When he came out of your charm, you were in the middle of your first heart failure. Tora and Mizore rushed him out of the room."

Kurumu whimpered at Moka's revelation. That was not what she had wanted for him. Clutching her aching breast, she closed her eyes to block out the pain.

"Water."

Kokoa scowled, turning the faucet on and filling the tumbler.

"Ordering me around like that. I'm a noble vampire."

Yukari stroked her hair and rubbed her side while Moka held her close. She felt loved. Focusing on that helped diminish the strangling of her heart. After several painful seconds passed, Kokoa returned with another full glass. Kurumu weakly took the vessel, gulping down a mouthful.

"So what exactly did you do?"

Kurumu lowered the glass, glancing up at Kokoa.

"Nothing."

"Nothing my ass. These two told me that you charmed a third of the school. This brat was trying to argue with Moka about whether or not you were having sex with Tsukune."

"It's frightening how believable it was."

Kurumu relaxed her shoulders, feeling her beleaguered heart wilt.

"But it's true…"

"Kurumu… there was a flaw in your charm."

Moka rubbed Kurumu's shoulder.

"You told them that I was mostly immune to your charm. So… when Yukari was talking about how amazed she was with the level of your illusions regarding your sex with Tsukune… well… I kind of told them that you were having sex with him."

"And that's when I realized you would do something dumb like this. You didn't charm us into believing he was your boyfriend. You charmed everyone to believe that he never was."

Kurumu swallowed thickly.

"Does everyone know?"

There was an uneasy, painful silence.

"Well… I didn't go to school…"

"From the few classes I attended before cutting out to the hospital, I can say that the rumor of you charming the whole school is being passed around. Nagisa asked me what was going on and I played dumb. I had her stay behind to look after Ishiko when I took Hikari and Hotaru with me to the hospital. They also knew about the rumor since you got several girls in their gymnastics club."

"It's definitely being talked about. And everybody remembers that you took off your gym shirt and flew off with Tsukune."

Yukari paused with a heavy sigh.

"But I'm the only one that realizes you were lying to us. Everybody in class is baffled over why you came clean only to fly off with Tsukune."

Kurumu smiled softly before taking a sip.

"I just wanted to be away from everyone when the daze of the charm ran out and impulsively decided to take him with me. He asked if I could remove those illusions so we could be friends."

She could feel their concern. With a sniffle, she took another sip.

"I… know I'm going to regret this, but Tsukune mentioned that you fixed his memories at lunch. What did you remove?"

Kurumu swallowed down the water. She glanced back at Yukari.

"Every intimate moment we shared. The sex. The flirting. Any thoughts of desire he harbored for me. All of our serious conversations about a future together. I took it all away."

Yukari shook her head slowly with pain in her eyes.

"You're so dumb."

"I'll say. You don't do that to someone you love."

Moka sighed, squeezing Kurumu tightly against her.

"Leave her alone."

"She should have fought for him."

Yukari shot up off the couch.

"He dumped her!"

"So."

"So? She can't charm him the way you asked her to. They just broke up. How could she see that as anything but a huge, selfish act?"

"Love is selfish."

"No. You are selfish. Kurumu didn't do this because she thought it would make her feel better. She did it because she thought it would make him feel better."

Kokoa backed off a step, shaking her head.

"That's just stupid."

"When you love someone, you do your best to make that person happy."

"But not at your expense."

"Sometimes compromises have to be made. Not that you would understand compromises."

Kokoa scowled at the witch.

"You don't sacrifice yourself like this! Love doesn't require you to be a damn martyr."

"I know that!"

Yukari trembled on the brink of tears.

"I know that. I never thought they should break up. It's not like I want him with my Moka."

"Then you should be on my side."

"It's not the same. The Moka he wants is the seal. I don't know how that works out so that's why I've never encouraged him to go that way. There was never a need to sabotage that relationship when he had no logical reason to pursue it."

"Since when does love bow down to logic?"

Moka loosened her grip on Kurumu, letting out a sigh.

"I… want to be with him. But I understand how Kurumu feels. I don't know if that's what would be best for him. With Tsukune, it's always charge forward and retreat."

Kurumu sniffled, taking down another mouthful of water.

"Well… maybe he won't back down now that I've permanently removed myself from being a love interest. I'm just his friend now."

"Maybe it's best if we all stay friends."

"I doubt Shirayuki will be so agreeable to that. She was super clingy with Tsukune at lunch today."

Kurumu quaffed down the last of her second glass. Swallowing, she held the empty vessel out.

"I need to fix her."

"What do you plan to do?"

Kurumu smiled as Kokoa took the cup from her.

"There are a few memories of hers that I need to take."

"Kurumu. You shouldn't."

"It's no good, Moka. I can't leave her like that. Most of the things she did was because of me. If I don't do something, she's going to make the same mistakes I did."

Moka bit her lip, taking in a deep breath.

"What exactly are you planning to take?"

"Not much. The time she watched me have sex in the laundry room."

Moka flinched. After a moment, she nodded.

"That's probably okay. She might think that was an illusion."

"Maybe so, but if it's gone, she won't have that influencing her actions. I'll also take out all her awkward conversations about having our baby."

Yukari snickered.

"That would be fine."

Moka frowned.

"I guess…"

"And um… those few times when she slept alone in his room with him."

Moka let out a slight groan.

"Kurumu… what if those are precious to her?"

"They weren't precious to Tsukune. He was so uncomfortable with that but too polite to throw her out."

"You have my approval to lobotomize the idiot. I don't care."

"Make her forget she had any interest in him."

Kurumu pouted at Kokoa.

"No. We all care about Mizore."

Kokoa regarded her dubiously. Moka nodded but Yukari looked away.

"Come on, Yukari. You don't hate her."

"I don't. I was agreeing to what you suggested, but would feel horrible if you actually lobotomized her."

"Good. Because I still want her to be our friend when this is all done."

"I'll be fine with her as long as she doesn't get all uppity about you and my Moka."

Kurumu grinned, grabbing Yukari by the sleeve.

"It will be fine. This will be a new direction for us. Friends first."

Moka smiled, nodding.

"Friends first."

Yukari sighed heavily.

"Not like I ever had a choice of being something more."

Kokoa huffed, shaking her head as she stalked over to the counter to set the glass down.

"I swear that you are too pure for your own good. Your body will never accept this 'friends' thing. It will always lust for him."

"And I will always have feelings for him as long as I drink his blood. Some things can't be helped."

Kurumu took in another deep breath.

"Do I need to charm a few more people?"

"What for?"

"I was thinking I would have to charm all of Tsukune's dorm buddies. Make them forget all of my stupid antics. And all of Mizore's while I'm at it."

There was a pause. Moka was looking at Yukari whom shrugged indifferently.

"I guess that wouldn't be a problem."

"What about Akari, Nikki and Kiba?"

"What about them?"

"Well… they eat lunch with him."

Yukari shook her head.

"Those three knew about the rumor at lunch. Tsukune confirmed it along with the statement that you had removed those illusions from him. I doubt they'll need more than that."

"What about your friends?"

"My girls don't care about Aono's relationship problems."

Kurumu nodded, trying to think of anyone else that she might want to charm.

"Rubi?"

Yukari paused, glancing at Moka.

"… maybe. I'll try talking to her first."

"Kana?"

"I don't know how aware that girl is about anything. I still need to give her back those Gravitation volumes that I'm done with."

Kurumu chuckled, shaking her head. She took in a deep breath.

"Kiki and Michiko?"

"Give it time, Kurumu. Other than Mizore and those boys on Tsukune's floor, I don't think you have to run around campus making people forget things."

Kurumu nuzzled the side of her head against Moka's breast. She waited a long moment in silence, feeling relaxed and at peace. Her heart ached but it was bearable. As long as she had friends, she would be fine.

"Well… he won't have to fight for my blood anymore."

Moka laughed, rubbing Kurumu's shoulder.

"Yes. Now it's me he would have to fight for."

"I'm glad you're both supporting me in this."

Yukari sighed dramatically.

"What choice do we have? You nearly killed yourself. If we fight you here… we don't know if your heart could take it."

"You're my hostages."

Moka squeezed her gently.

"It seems that way."

Kokoa grumbled as she placed her hands on the back of the couch close to Kurumu.

"I'm not going to out you for being stupid. But if this seal agrees to not chase after him, then I'll take this 'compromise' of you just being his friend. You honestly could do better."

"It's not much of a compromise when you had nothing to gain or lose in this."

"I nearly lost a friend. He isn't worth that."

"Don't you mean servant?"

Kokoa huffed at Kurumu, looking away.

"I said what I said. I wanted you two together because I thought it was better for everybody. You were much happier that month before summer break. This past month… you were dying. I didn't see it right away because of the thing with Nagisa… but I realized it the moment things went back to 'normal'. And I'm sorry for that."

Kurumu reached over to touch Kokoa's hand. The vampire drew away.

"Don't touch me. I'm still angry with you. For hurting yourself. Your life isn't yours to throw away."

Kurumu said nothing for a long while. She took in deep breaths while held by Moka. Yukari occasionally brushed her fingers through her hair.

"It's Thursday."

Yukari and Moka both laughed at her declaration.

"I need to print out those pictures for Nerume."

Kurumu pulled away from Moka, taking in another deep breath. She felt light headed.

"I need to write her too. Let her know about this whole craziness."

"Yea… have fun with that. I'm going back to school."

Kurumu smiled as the vampire stalked off to the entryway to grab her schoolbag and slip on her shoes. As Kurumu waited for her equilibrium to return, Kokoa pushed out into the afternoon and locked up the door behind her.

"So… are you going to write her the truth?"

Kurumu grinned at Moka. She slipped off the couch, standing up tall.

"What is truth?"


September 22nd

It feels like forever since I've written a letter to you.

First thing I'm sure you noticed is that we got some fancy paper to print all those pictures of my summer break. Moka bought herself a printer which took us forever to figure out how to get working with our laptops. And that was with Yukari's help. I guess her genius status doesn't include printers.

I'm returning the photos you sent me. It was cool seeing your whole family. I wouldn't mind meeting them some day.

I'm sorry the copy of the paper isn't an official one. I was kind of out of it this week so it didn't cross my mind to keep one. But thanks to Moka's printer and figuring out how to resize the plot file… okay the text is probably too small to read. I can sort of do it, but that's because I know what it says.

Let me know if you can't read it. We can try printing it out again. Maybe as separate files? I don't know. But I figure I'm sending you enough junk with all these photos that I don't want to do that right now. And you might be able to read it with a magnifying glass.

Where should I begin?

The last time I wrote to you was right that weekend before classes began. I mean… I didn't ship the letter out right away, but I didn't write about any of those things.

I suppose I could drop a big bomb from the start since you were getting angry that I was keeping secrets from you. So… here goes.

My mom died on my birthday.

I didn't find out right away. I felt it right away, but I didn't realize what was going on. It was like this big hurt in my heart and an immense need to see her. Some nasty guys that are after Moka's blood decided to kill my mother because I got in the head of that Yoshii Kiria fellow. At least that's why I think they did it. They thought I would be there too, but I was off at Tsukune's house. So I guess I'm lucky.

The operation I had to replace my baby organ was a few days later. Mommy was my donor. It wasn't that girl. You know the one I went to the funeral for. Yea. I thought it was hers before I got the operation, but I know it wasn't. I knew it the moment my body reacted to Tsukune again because they say certain mates are biological. A sister of mine would also go crazy for Tsukune.

So… yea. I will always have a piece of mommy forever.

Anyways, another big blow to my heart came the day after the wedding. Tsukune got some succubus blood and he suddenly realized he didn't love me. I guess my charm has been slowly eating away at him since we first met. Slowly changing him to be more the way I want him to be. So, being part vampire, the moment he got blood from a succubus cleaned up the charm inside him.

He loves Moka.

I've always sort of known this. Even when he was with me, he would always look at her with longing. I could tell he was fantasizing about having threesomes with us. My charm mostly works the way I believe it will. So I believed he wanted me and I never could convince myself that he didn't want Moka. I think it would have hit me worse if I had been so delusional to think he only wanted me.

The Okinawa trip was rough. I had lost my mommy and my boyfriend in the span of two weeks. That last night of summer, he told me he wanted to break up with me and ask Moka out. I refused, saying it would only be official if Moka said yes.

She told him no. But we never felt like a couple again.

So that brings me back to Yokai Academy in this state of bleh. And what do I have waiting for me?

Your letter, which was awesome. And a carton in my freezer which had my mommy's heart in it.

My mother's heart was torn out. They never found it. But this guy at the wedding told me that I was heartless for choosing to be with my lover instead of my mother. Or rather, he told me I was heartless because I didn't die over the loss of my mother. Succubi have this nasty habit of dying from a broken heart if we lose someone very dear to us. So since I wasn't dead, he mocked me for not caring about my mother. And then he had someone stuff her heart in a fast food container and leave it in my freezer.

They hired this guy to do it. I guess he was encouraged to rob the bank so he got these other two and pulled it off. That's the bank robbery guys in the paper. We wrote about them. But yea, we didn't write about their connection to these guys after Moka. It would be too confusing and would sound like a silly conspiracy theory. I think our school was sick of hearing those.

Anyways, since these guys robbed the bank and the Headmaster paid off his debts to Mr. Tensai for all those contracts he had done for the school over a decade ago, this Fairy Tale officer made the false conclusion that the Headmaster had hired thugs to rob the bank and pay off his debts. Tora's article talks about this Lord Chiki guy. We didn't write much about him anywhere else.

Sadly, we didn't do much about the situation at first. I was busy throwing myself into my articles so I wouldn't have to think about all the crap I was dealing with. I did the band and gymnastics clubs this time. The band article was huge. There's like fifty students in it. And many were so very nice. They had a concert on the tenth which I wrote about. The choir also performed and I got to talk to some of those girls again for the first time in months. It was cool.

Okay, I'm going to write about the killers and Lord Chiki because that seems so important to do. Those killers had cut up two girls before we arrived and a third during the first week before travel to Mononoke became strictly prohibited without being accompanied by a faculty member or the PSC.

One of those girls named in the article was a close friend to someone Kokoa cares deeply about. And this really put Kokoa in a bad mood. Because her friend, Taniguchi, stopped coming to school because of it. They had a whole boycott going on that included over half of the girls in school by the third week. It was starting to feel like I was attending a boys' school.

That third week the killers grabbed another trio of girls from the drama club. I feel like this was the point that broke Lord Chiki's patience. I mean, technically he had detained a few people for 'questioning' prior to this, but it had all been wild leads. He had nothing serious. He honestly never did.

But he arrested a couple members of the PSC and started torturing them for answers. That night when the drama club girls got grabbed was also the night Lord Chiki arrested Ginei and Ms. Rin. We had just finished doing the pictures for the gymnastics article.

That's the last picture of Ms. Rin alive.

Anyways, a couple days later, Lord Chiki executed Ms. Rin because he believed she was part of some conspiracy to cover up crimes the Headmaster was doing. Apparently the Headmaster asked Ms. Yoshino to burn the bodies of the first three girls which they had found so Lord Chiki wouldn't cause them more trouble. Ms. Yoshino did so and I guess Mr. Utsubari and Mr. Sabaku were aware of it. I don't know if Lady Hineri knew or not and I suppose it doesn't matter. They were doing what the Headmaster had told them to do. And Ms. Rin was killed over it.

Lord Chiki arrested a few more teachers. I found out he arrested Coach Yaisoku and Ms. Iwasaki because they had both known about the girls being dead and had helped identify the bodies. Ms. Iwasaki is the advisor for the kimono club which the older girl had been a part of. He also arrested Ms. Yoshino because Mr. Utsubari had ratted her out. He arrested Ms. Nekonome and nobody seems to have an exact reason as to why. He arrested Mr. Yokoyama because he was the one in charge of the Headmaster's finances. He arrested Ms. Hitori for being an unregistered Eternal, which I guess was against the law? I don't know. I've known she was a phoenix for months so I never thought about it. He arrested Mr. Fujita for speaking out against him in public. He arrested the entire PSC. And he arrested the entire newspaper club.

So… yea. He was a nutcase.

But before we got arrested, Kokoa deduced that the killers could be hiding in the old prison. When our scouts, Lady Hineri and Ms. Zanzou, didn't return, she ran down there with only Moka. Tsukune took Fukai with him, because she has sonar to track people. They met up and got jumped by the killers. They dragged Tsukune and Moka off, leaving one guy to finish off Kokoa and Fukai.

Big mistake.

Kokoa is a vampire. She tore that guy apart. Literally. He was in pieces when we found her. Fukai is okay. She was knocked out but has made a full recovery since then.

We learned that these guys were using magic to hide themselves. That's why Lord Chiki never found them. Anyways, we went to look for Moka and Tsukune since Yukari has tracking spells on them both. Moka has the rosary and Tsukune has the holy lock. These are things they can't remove, so Yukari can find them whenever she wants to.

That main guy I talked about came out to fight us. He could change forms. He looked like Tsukune but Yukari saw through it because he lacked his holy lock. He kicked the crap out of us. But the real Tsukune showed up and he was in poor shape. He had already killed the other guy that he had been left with. And he then fought the guy we were losing to.

Tsukune took the guy out but was in berserk mode. You know how he got crazy that time when Moka was kidnapped and those guys broke your back. Yea. He was like that. I had to kiss him and modify a few memories in his head to convince him we were the best of friends and he would never hurt me. While I was doing this, Rubi cast a sealing spell on him which knocked him out.

So when I come to, I find out that Lord Chiki has arrested Moka and Kokoa for killing the killers. He had decided that the Headmaster told us where those guys were and wanted us to kill them before Lord Chiki could get them to confess. But a huge hole in his conspiracy was the bank money. The killers still had most of it. So his premise that the Headmaster stole the money to pay off his debts was blown.

Yukari and I escaped from the hospital before he could arrest me. We talked to Kaneshiro, the student council president, and he took Yukari with him to talk to the last killer. They were going to make him a deal, but it failed. The guy didn't need what they were offering. He stole Yukari's body and took one of her invisibility stones. He then came straight after me, since he knew where I lived. He had copied me before and I guess he felt he could copy me. He fooled me. I opened the door for Yukari only to get stabbed several times. So I broke out this Lilith's eye trick I learned a few months ago. I trapped him in my mind and that's when I learned all about his past and his connection to Yoshii Kiria.

He died inside my mind. I was taken to the hospital again. I was later interrogated by Lord Chiki. He accused us of helping the last guy escape so I could kill him. Which made no sense. If we could get to the guy in prison, we could have killed him there. No reason to have him come to my room and stab me multiple times. The guy was crazy.

And then I learned how evil he truly was. The Headmaster had been missing for a few days. He took off the day Lord Chiki killed Ms. Rin. He had spent that time teaching Rubi the sealing spell. He then left the barrier to get some help.

He brought a strong succubus.

This woman revealed the past fifty or so years of Lord Chiki's life. I saw how twisted the man had become since the death of his wife. He was a lonely person, abusing young girls. The first one he genuinely cared for. But each one after, the connection was less and less till it was practically nonexistent. He was killing these orphan girls so they wouldn't tell anybody about his crimes. He was doing that because his third victim, Ms. Yoshino, had tattled on him and got him thrown out of kitsune society.

This woman made Lord Chiki concede defeat. He withdrew from Mononoke and issued a formal apology for how he had handled the situation. There are some people suspecting me of doing this, because it is something I can do.

I can make people do what I want.

And I can also change how people remember things.

The paper doesn't cover these things. Mostly because Ginei didn't want to write about Lord Chiki, and that's fine. I don't blame him. I'm worried about Ginei. I think they hurt him.

I should probably mention that Ginei was arrested for treason. Lord Chiki had read the article about them taking down the rebel Fairy Tale faction in Okinawa, which apparently isn't the official statement. So he arrested Ginei and his three friends in for their role in that. I suppose Udetama and Ms. Okumura were lucky he had not mentioned either of them being directly involved in that.

Ginei was also under suspicion because there was a prankster slasher running around cutting up the clothes of girls she felt had become too close to Ginei. This also isn't in the paper because Ginei didn't want to bring any attention to it.

Oh, Ginei has an official girlfriend now. Hajihachi Mika. She's a second year that has admired him for a long time. She was at the going away party you attended. Smoky black hair often pulled up in twin tails. She's an okami girl. She was supposed to help Kiki with that kimono article but she got arrested for being a victim of the prankster slasher. No kidding. She was arrested for getting hurt.

Kiki also quit the club. She's joining the kimono club. Fukai is part of that club and is her classmate. I think there's another girl from the kimono club in that homeroom. I can't remember at the moment. But yea… Kiki is gone. I'm sure we'll still see her on Sundays when we do our flying stuff. So it's not like we've lost her for good.

I'm jumping all over the place in this letter but I should go back to some early things.

First week back, Yukari proved that the seal Moka was a soul and not a magical being. I believe that to be a good thing. She's been working on teleportation magic to teleport Moka's soul out of the rosary. The rosary will remain a seal for the vampire Moka, but the seal Moka would be separate. We need a body to put her into. That seems to be the big issue. We have no place to put this seal Moka's soul.

I know that will be confusing, but it's one of the crazy things we are dealing with.

Another rough thing we had to put up with was Kokoa's attitude. With Nagisa and an increasing number of her classmates refusing to come to school, she vented her frustrations out on Moka. By the end of the first week back, she challenged Moka to a fight for Tsukune. I don't think she has ever seriously wanted him because she always talks down about him. But she was angry at us. Her mother told her to not get involved in a big matter at school, which we all assumed was this situation with Lord Chiki and the killers. So she was frustrated that we were taking so long to fix it. That's part of why she ran down there by herself with Moka to catch the bad guys.

But back to that first fight… I was reminded how durable Moka is. She gutted Moka with a sword. Well, actually it was a familiar. Some magical beast she had found several years ago which she keeps as a ribbon in her hair. It can change shape into whatever she wants. But yea… she stabbed Moka and Tsukune in that fight. She was being very unreasonable. Moka had to take some of Tsukune's blood which allowed her in that moment to remove her own seal. And then she walloped Kokoa.

Okay, it was more of an even fight. But Moka took out Kokoa's legs which sort of ended it. They still argue over who won that fight.

That second week when I was doing my band article started with Kokoa being asked to pick a club. Yukari reluctantly helped the vampire. Still in her foul mood, she fought with the karate club. Then she took some growth drops Yukari has which makes you look older. But it has a side effect which reverts you to an even younger state for twice as long as the older state had been. Kokoa got in a fight with her older body but she reverted to a little kid.

It was adorable. We also had an itty bitty Yukari which was the absolute, most precious thing you would have ever seen. Kana was right. We should have taken pictures. It was so freaking cute. But yea. Moka had this idea that we should all turn into little kids and help Kokoa out. That way she wouldn't feel so inadequate. Since Kokoa is very annoyed that she's fifteen and is very underdeveloped. She's pretty short and doesn't have much in the boob department.

After things settled down and we all returned to our normal bodies, Kokoa decided to join the fencing club. She seems to get along well with them. Sort of. She's such a handful. I often feel like I have to be like a mother to her, since she's very simple minded and quick to resort to violence to settle any problems she encounters.

I guess that's how vampires are raised. The big reason why Moka is different is she spent all those years in human schools after she got her seal. So Moka learned to not be a jerk. Kokoa is going to be a work in progress. But her heart is good. She really fights hard for the people she cares about.

I've also been to a few birthday parties this month. The first was Nikki's birthday. She's one of the okami girls Tsukune eats lunch with. She's on the track team. She has this massive crush on a senior on the soccer team. She hopes to make a good impression on his family when they come for the cultural festival. She's from Ashikantai while he is from Morihochou. Most okami in Niigata come from those two villages. I think we were the only people at her birthday party not from those communities.

That's when Ginei started officially dating Hajihachi. She sort of proposed to him. I don't know if their engagement is official or not. He has to talk to her mother whom is coming for the cultural festival. I am glad that he finally picked a girl. I think it also made Tora feel better. She's always had a small crush on him. I'm hoping he doesn't flirt so much with us as he used to.

He promised never to touch us again, and he sort of has kept that promise. He only broke it to flush out that stalker that was slashing up girls talking to him. He tried having Zanzou help him at first, but then Kokoa stumbled on a scene which had her conclude that he was slashing up girls. He used us as bait to flush the real culprit out and then it all fell in place.

The other birthday party we went to was after we met up with Ginei and did some paintball. Which is different. I'm hesitant to call it fun, since it was very uncomfortable and you are shooting at people you care about. But I guess if you look at it like a water balloon fight, it's easier on the mind.

The other party was for Aku, whom is Tsukune's neighbor and was at Tsukune's birthday party. It wasn't a big event. He had invited Sakamori over and we drank ourselves silly. It was more fun than paintball.

Sakamori Hinoko.

She was one of the drama club girls that was kidnapped. She's alive but her mind was a mess. The poor thing tried to kill herself. She somehow got up on the big chandelier and was going to throw herself down to the floor. But she got scared stiff and sort of waited till someone noticed her. That's when she let go. But Ginei was fast and caught her. So she's okay now.

I took away her memories of the whole kidnapping. I can do that stuff. Take memories away. Alter them. It's something people don't think about when they think about what a succubus can do. They like to believe that we are limited to making men lust after us. It makes us sound weak and pathetic, because it's terrifying what we can do. We can cover up big messes in the human world by making everyone forget that it happened. We're actually quite valuable to Fairy Tale.

What else…?

Yamabato Kamitsuku had his birthday. He's from your homeroom and lives on Tsukune's floor. I don't know if the film club celebrated it because Sangi was arrested with Ginei.

Tobuyoku Suzume also had her birthday this week but I think we're celebrating that this weekend. She's one of the track girls from your homeroom and is Kiki's friend. I'm sure you remember her.

There's another big issue I have to talk about, but I should also mention that we got four new teachers at the start of the year. Moka did an article about them. One of them is Ms. Shuzen, whom is my new math teacher. She's different.

The other three I don't know a whole lot about. One is for the second years and the other two teach the first years in classes five through eight. One is the older sister to this new kid in class six that started school this term. He lives with her in Mononoke. Yukari has him in her computer class and can't stand him. I don't know much else about him.

I guess that leaves the other big issue.

Tsukune officially broke up with me in front of the other members of the club. I took it hard. I decided the only way we could remain friends is if I convinced him that we had never been dating and that it all was some big illusion I was making. I charmed a whole third of the school into believing that. Our gym period. So… a lot of our friends no longer think I had ever been Tsukune's girlfriend. You could ask Satsuki or Kakeru. They were both there in gym. Both will tell you that it was all an elaborate illusion.

I know you'll think I'm being stupid, but I think this was the only course of action for me. As hard as it was. Moka is aware of what I did. And because I told everyone that Moka was immune to my charm, which she mostly is, she helped Yukari overcome my powerful mental suggestion. Both of them know why I did what I did. Neither of them think I should undo it. They're scared it might cause my heart to break. They're probably right.

Kokoa also knows about it. She also doesn't understand privacy and read some of the other pages of this letter. I had to take this to the bathroom and lock the door. She's mad that I didn't tell her about my mother dying. She would probably break the door down if she had read the part about her.

Anyways… I took away some of Tsukune's memories. He doesn't remember any of our sexual encounters or any of our serious talks about being a couple and having a future together. I got rid of all of that. He will see me as a silly girl that tries too hard to get his attention. He thinks we're both virgins.

We're going to see how things play out in the next few weeks. There were not many witnesses to the things I did with Tsukune. The big ones that I might need to do something more with are the guys on his floor and Mizore. Moka and Yukari were reluctant to encourage me to mess with more heads, but I think they understand that it will make things easier on Mizore and Tsukune. We should all be friends. That's what I want more than anything. For all of us to be happy.

It hurt a lot to do this. I guess I nearly died. But I'm through the darkest part and now I am finally walking towards an open future with no boundaries. It's scary because I have no clue what I want to do. I truly understand what Suzume meant when she talked about her boyfriend dumping her over the summer. It's like the whole vision of your future has changed. You don't know what is out there for you anymore.

I'm hoping that the rumors will do their work. That everyone will conclude I'm a naughty, stupid girl that tried way too hard to take Moka's boyfriend away from her. And the funny thing is… she's still unsure if she should date him. And that's not out of concern for me. That's because she's a vampire and he's supposed to defeat her in combat. Which he refuses to fight her. So… that's why she said no the first time. I don't think that will change now.

There's one other crazy thing that I've learned how to do. Since I had an undine birth mother, I've figured out how to rapidly heal myself. I've always had amazing regeneration which I chalked up to being a monster. But I guess I've had the potential to heal even faster. So I've been tapping into that lately. It helped me survive that time I got stabbed. It might have also helped me when I got crushed by Tsukune when he went berserk.

The doctor at the hospital claimed I had a broken back. The whole 'you may never walk again' stuff. But I was walking before the end of the day. Yukari says they might have misdiagnosed me, which certainly is possible. But I really want you to come see me soon. Maybe I can fix you. Maybe. It's hard to say. My healing might only work for me. I don't know. But I want to try. I want so much to get you back on your feet. That would make me so happy.

I think that's it. I don't have anything left to say. Please do your best to attend our cultural festival.

I love you so much. See you soon.