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Tsukune had been keeping up with his martial arts practices every day. Additionally, he had been adding sword work into his daily training routine. He wished Kokoa was there, seeing as her martial arts was reliant primarily on the use of weapons (in Kokoa's case, her shapeshifting bat Ko). She was quite a proficient weapons master, and even though they had their differences at one point, they had become good friends.

Louise found out that her childhood friend, the queen of Tristian, was coming to the academy to see the familiars preform, and to judge the performances. She went to Tsukune, with whom she had started to develop a friendship, and good deal of respect for, to ask him to preform to the best of his ability for the upcoming show. He agreed to help her impress her friend by doing some martial arts sparring with some training dummies. After he agreed, she left him, as she needed to head out to her classes.

Later on that day, the queen of Tristian arrived at the academy. As princess Henrietta left the chariot, Tsukune noticed she was kind of cute. Most of the boys, and many of the girls, thought the same thing. Even the bombshell named Kirche had started feeling a bit insecure.

The phase "Wow. She is pretty cute" accidently left his lips. This caused Kurumu and Mizore to look at the ground, feeling insecure. Tsukune sensed this, and said some words from the heart that would reassure them that he cared deeply about them. "Don't worry girls, she doesn't hold a candle to the flame you girls are" he told them. "You mean that, Tsukune?" Mizore asked. "Of course! By the way, I have a question I need to ask you sometime. I get the feeling it is important we talk about it" Tsukune stated. "Okay, Tsukune. Sure thing" Kurumu stated, feeling a bit worried as to what the question would be.

Louise returned to her classes after the princess had arrived and started to get settled into the room she would be borrowing whilst at the academy. Tsukune got together with Kurumu and Mizore to talk with them while Louise was learning. "Ok girls. I know this is out of the blue, but, as you know, even more girls have fallen for me. Also, the chances of us getting back to our world do not look too good as of right now. So I was wondering: would you girls still be willing to be in a polygamous relationship with me?" he asked them. "I know I am very much a monogamous person, but I don't want you guys, or anyone else who is close to me, to be hurt" Tsukune told them. "While I don't like the idea of having to share you, as long as I am with you, my life is complete. Besides, until we came here, I was feeling weak, and had been getting ill more often. Us succubi die if we aren't with our destined ones, you know" Kurumu stated with a wink. "Yeah, Tsukune. As long as we are together, I am happy" Mizore stated, a smile painted on her face.

That night, Tsukune was walking the halls, heading to the room Louise occupied. He was going to check on her before they all went to bed, to make sure she was safe. They had mended the damage she had caused since he had gotten there, and she had actually been treating him with quite a bit of respect. They were on good terms, with her gaining confidence and opening up to him more than she had to almost anyone in the past. She even was finding new friends at the academy, such as Montmorency, Tabitha, and even Kirche, now that Kirche had stopped teasing her as much since Tsukune asked. It seemed all she had needed was that one initial friend from which she could make more.

As he neared her room, he saw someone in a dress and a hood heading to the young pinkette's room. That person knocked on her door, and proceeded to entered swiftly. Tsukune knew from experience that this could very well be an assassin attempting to kill his young master. He quickly made his way to Louise's room, waited 5 seconds after the cloaked figure entered his master's quarters, and breached the door with a quick shoulder slam into the door.

Upon bursting through door, he saw that the person that snuck into her room was not an assassin, but the queen he had seen earlier that day. "What are you doing barging in here like that?!" Louise yelled at him. "Sorry for coming to make sure you were ok, and being worried about you" Tsukune stated. "Oh. Sorry for yelling at you. It was very nice of you to check up on me, Tsukune" Louise said apologetically, embarrassed for yelling at her new friend who was trying to do his duty as her familiar, not just because it was his job, but because he cared about her as well.

"Wait, this young man looks a lot like the man that attacked Count Mott, as reported by his guards" the young princess of Tristain stated. "Yes, indeed I did. He was going to do reprehensible things to my friend against her will. In addition, he had been doing so to many young girls before her" Tsukune stated. "Oh. I see. Well, then, I will do my best to make sure he cannot do that to anyone again. Thank you for stopping him from continuing such terrible acts. You must be a noble person to help friends like that" Henrietta stated. "I just did what anyone would do. I just try to help people that need it" Tsukune stated. "That is so sweet! Louise must be very lucky to have someone like you not just as a familiar, but as a friend as well!" Henrietta stated. "Thank you very much" Tsukune stated as he bashfully scratched the back of his head.

Henrietta got done chatting with her old friend, and left for the room that the school had lent her. "T-t-thank you for checking on me. It was very thoughtful of you" Louise said to Tsukune, a blush evident on her face. "Not a problem, Louise. I am glad you are ok. If you need anything, let me know, ok?" he told her. "O-o-ok. I will do that" Louise stated.

Tsukune exited Louise's room, and headed for both Kirche's and Tabitha's. He had to thank them for keeping his secret. He arrived at Kirche's room and knocked on her door, and she answered. "Why hello there sexy! Come to see me for any special reason tonight?" she said in a sultry voice, with a wink. "I just wanted to see how you were doing, and to thank you for keeping my secret. I overheard you asking Tabitha if you were prettier than princess Henrietta. I wanted you to know that you shouldn't be so self-conscious. You are beautiful in your own way. Never sell yourself short" He said with a blush, twiddling his thumbs with a little bit of nervousness. "Well, I am going to head off. Think about what you want me to do for you, and remember to keep it within reason" He replied to her. "Before you go, I have something to tell you. Get closer, it's a secret" Kirche told him. As he leaned in to listen to what she said, she grabbed his face, and gave him a deep and passionate kiss. "Thank you. You are the kindest person I have ever met. I think that is why I have fallen for you" she stated, a tear of joy falling down her face. "If you want we can meet up sometime next week. You seem like you could use some more people in your life" he offered. "Thank you. I will take you up on your offer" she stated.

He proceeded to Tabitha's room after he was done talking to Kirche. As he neared it, he could hear her crying in her room. "He knocked on her door, and after a few minutes, she answered, wearing her blue nightgown. "Is everything ok, Tabitha?" Tsukune asked. "Yeah. Just missing someone" Tabitha stated. "Follow me" Tsukune told her.

She followed him as he walked to the courtyard. "As I am sure you know; I am from another world. There are many people that I love dearly, and miss. When I find myself missing them, I like to come out here and look at the stars. It reminds me that even though we are not even in the same world, we are linked by our hearts. It helps me find peace when I miss them" Tsukune told her.

"Thank you. Please, hold me" Tabitha told him. "Sure" he replied to her, as he gave her a big hug. "By the way, have you put any thought into what you want as a thank you for keeping that secret?" He asked. "Some. I still need to think on it some more" She told him. "If you want to spend some time with Mizore, Kurumu, and myself, I am sure I could talk them into it" Tsukune stated. "Thank you. I will do that. Can I ask a favor, just for tonight?" Tabitha asked. "Sure" he replied. "Please let me stay in your room. I am feeling down today and would like to be near someone I feel I can trust" she pleaded with him. "Of course. I hope whatever is bothering you get resolved quickly" he told her. "Thank you" she stated plainly, debating on whether or not to tell him what was going on in her life.

Meanwhile in Japan:

Moka was feeling calm at the moment. She could feel Tsukune missing her, and his love for her. She could also sense through Tsukune's emotions that Kurumu and Mizore were taking good care of him. Moka was thankful that they were there to keep him company, and make sure he didn't get hurt, but she would be lying if she said she wasn't jealous that she wasn't the one that was there to make sure he wasn't lonely, and to protect him, instead of her two friends. She also could sense that Tsukune was acquiring more allies to help him in his journey, as well as to aid in his overall wellbeing.

The development of the teleporter that Yukari was developing with the technical college students was running a bit behind schedule, as they had run into a few hiccups making the magitech. However, it was progressing rather nicely, overall. The young men at the tech school that were producing it were doing a good job, and were more motivated now that they had met and had been getting close to some cute young Yokai girls that Ms. Nekonome had introduced them to. Yukari and Ruby were confident that the machine would be up soon. They didn't want to give a timeline, but they knew the delays had not been significant to the overall goal of finding their friends.

Moka knew Tsukune would be fine. His physical attributes were better than hers, and his martial arts had surpassed hers long ago. There was not much he couldn't handle. He was a shinso vampire, and the only other shinso vampire in existence was herself. Vampires were the most powerful yokai, and shinso vampires were leagues above even the most powerful members of the most powerful vampire families.

She could also see she was not the only affected by the loss of Tsukune. Aside from his parents (which was to be expected), Yukari and Ruby were feeling the pain of not having him around almost as much as she was. Yukari loved him as much, if not more, than she loved Moka. She was working so hard on the magitech that she was getting little to no sleep a night, and it was starting to affect her health. Moka noted she would have to talk to Yukari about not working herself into the ground, for both her benefit and the overall progress of the project.

Ruby was working hard as well. When Tsukune had been around her, she would take whatever life threw at her and keep on keeping on. Moka now noticed Ruby smiled less, moved slower, with less energy one expects of one who displayed the love for life that Ruby had always exibited. She had trouble concentrating on all tasks as well, both big and small, which was a new behavior for her. Ruby always considered herself as a potential "plaything" for Tsukune, but Moka could see her affection for the young Yokai was beyond sexual attraction. She loved him. She may not have considered herself a potential mate due to an inferiority complex, low self-esteem, and the fact she was going against monsters more powerful that had known him longer than she had in the bid for his attention and love.

Even Moka's sister Kokoa, who said she the only reason she came was to offer support to her sister, seemed down-in-the-dumps. Kokoa had never been too outwardly hostile towards Tsukune. Usually the worst of what she did was to lay into him verbally, and that had occurred infrequently at first. While it was true that Kokoa never thought him worthy of having Moka's hand in marriage at first, she had come to see him as more than worthy since they battled Alucard. She and Tsukune were very good friends before his disappearance, each with a mutual respect for the other one. They respected each other's fighting styles, their personalities, etc. Kokoa was too proud to admit it, but she was missing her friend.

Though she would never let it show, Moka knew that Tsukune's cousin, Kyoko had started to cry herself to sleep at night. There was no disputing how close she had always been, and always would be, to her cousin, nor how much she cared for him. She had missed him greatly while he was at school, but at least he would come home every so often to visit his family, and kept in contact with both her and his parents often.

Even Gin missed Tsukune. He had settled down and married San. Gin respected Tsukune, even before he became a ghoul. Tsukune stood up to Gin even as a human. That took guts. Tsukune also stood up to Kuyo as a human. That took even more guts.

Gin was missing his friend fiercely, though he wouldn't admit it, or downplay it heavily. He realized that Tsukune was a keystone in the yokai community, and without someone to keep the peace and model good behavior, things might start to deteriorate between the yokai and humans. In addition to all these reasons, Gin had never been close to many guys. Tsukune was perhaps his first, and definitely his best, guy friend, and he missed hanging out with him.

If they didn't have any more setbacks, they would be testing the machine out in roughly 3 weeks to 1 month and 2 weeks' time. Delays in new technology could be expected, especially technology that combined the dissimilar worlds of magic and human technology. This did not mean that Moka was happy about the setbacks, only that she understood that they happened. She would grit her teeth at times and go get some jasmine tea. It calmed her nerves, and it reminded her of Tsukune, as it was his favorite tea.

That evening, she went to bed, and dreamed sweet dreams of Tsukune. She saw castles, dragons, and two moons. She saw a small girl with blue hair, a tall, tan girl with a large bust, and fiery red hair. She also saw a young girl with hair that was almost as pink as her mother's was. She felt annoyance and friendship with this young girl from Tsukune. She also felt something odd in her dreams… magic, maybe? She felt as if this was, perhaps, related to wherever Tsukune was, but she couldn't be sure.