Burstinatrix's outfit is the Japanese one, you can look it up at the Yu-Gi-Oh! Wiki.

Umbra is concept based of the idea from the role playing game World of Darkness.

I do not own Yu-Gi-Oh! Gx, Rosario + Vampire, or any other franchises used in this story related to the for-mentioned or not. The events and people in this story are completely fictional and any resemblance to real events or people in purely coincidental.

Witch Issues

Later that night Jaden lay awake in his room and thought about the mess he had come across, both Kurumu and Moka were now acting highly territorial and an argument broke out that resulted in a "tug-o-war" that in ended with Moka sucking Jaden's blood.

And there was still the matter of his new "familiars" that needed to revisited, since he really needed some answers. 'Well there's no sense in putting it off.' Jaden thought to himself as sat up put his hand over his almost empty deck case and closed his eyes as he used Yubel's power to sending a message to his duel spirits, 'Staff meeting every one.'

x-x

When he opened his eyes he was in the pocket dimension where the power of his Duel Monsters came together and became the Heart of the Cards, which appeared to look like the lobby of a high class hotel from the 80's.

Yubel and all of the others were there, except for one "Where's Burstinatrix?" Jaden asked.

Yubel shock her head, Jaden really had no clue about women, "The fire manipulator currently has desperate need to talk to you."

"Okay, it's good I'm here then." Jaden said nodding his understanding before he continued addressing every one there, "Everyone, we need to talk."

"Inferno Wing", Jaden said, "You're the only one of the Evil-heroes that remain why is that."

The green haired fiend smiled and said in voice that sounded like Burstinatrix's, "Because, I was the only one of them Haou really had any bond with."

Jaden tilted his head to the side confused. 'I didn't think that Haou ever cared about anything other than fighting.' Jaden thought before he shook his head and continued. "Okay, moving onward."

"Kisara, Filia, Ciel and Mana" Jaden addressed the four spirits, who were in their human forms "What you did was manipulative... but I'm not going to toss you out, because what's done is done, I but don't understand why you didn't just come to me as friends instead of doing what you did."

Filia face became downcast with guilt. The plan to use the Rite of Names had been her Idea and now in hind-sight it seemed very selfish and imposing, she had assumed too much, "Our time with the great pharaoh and Yugi Moto was a time too short that flew by too fast. We wanted something that would and didn't stop to think about what you might want."

"I just really thought you were kinda cool and didn't think ahead, sorry" Mana said sheepishly.

Jaden nodded "And that leaves you, Kisara. Why come to me when you already had a bond with Seto Kiaba?"

Kisara looked down as she felt tears come to her eyes and quietly said in a soft voice, "He turned me aside because he didn't want to have any connection to the ancient past. I was longing for the abyss, until that day you came across the torn card in the shop and the bond tried to form almost instantly after you saw it."

"And you saw an opportunity for a second chance with me?" Jaden asked in summery. Kisara nodded and began to cry as the pain of losing Seto and the memory of meeting Jaden stirred within her and collapsed to her knees. And as the tears really started, a pair of arms wrapped around her and pulled her into a comforting embrace. And so Jaden held the blue eyed woman close and rocked her gently and let her cry it out, and Kisara let lose a torrent of pain and sorrow.

And after everyone had left them by themselves Kisara had fallen asleep in Jaden's arms, Yubel came over took the white haired girl into her arms and said very quietly as so not to wake her, "You know something, Jaden? This one reminds me of... Me."

Yubel let out a soft chuckle at her own words as she thought about the similarities between the two of them, causing the young woman her arms to stir before settling back into a dreamless sleep. Yubel looked up at Jaden, "Why don't you go talk to Burstinatrix about her problem? I can handle things here. You will know which room his hers when you get there." Yubel told Jaden before she started to hum a lullaby to the sleeping dragon.

x-x

After a little several fights of stairs, only to find out about the elevator later, Jaden had found a room with Burstinatrix's card image on a bronze plate hanging the door, indicating that he had found her room. Not wasting time now that he had found the place he knocked on the door. "GO AWAY, YUBEL! I DON'T WANT TO TALK ABOUT IT!" Burstinatrix's voice answered from the other side, it was muffled by the door but it was obvious she was completely upset about something.

Burstinatrix had been in her room ever since Yubel had made it. It was a nice room; Yubel had taken great care in furnishing it and the others for of all its tenet's wants and needs, so after she had yelled the Elemental-hero instantly felt bad about it. Ever since she had made the hierarchy clear to the rest of spirit Yubel had been taking great of them and she had seen the state that Burstinatrix was in and tried to get her to talk about it but Yubel wasn't the one that she needed to talk to.

"Burst, it's me." Jaden's voice came through the door.

The fire manipulator jumped to her feet and rushed to the door and opened it, revealing the former duelist. "Hey... Can I come in?" he asked.

Burstinatrix nodded, afraid to trust her own voice, and stepped aside to let Jaden in her heart pounding in her chest.

Jaden looked about the room as he interred and heard the door close as Burstinatrix closed the door behind him and chuckled, "Yubel, totally stole all of this from that TV show, Angel, Alexis made me watch. You know the spinoff show of that Buffy the Vampire Slayer show she was obsessed with."

Burstinatrix looked around her and saw that he was right. "You know I hadn't noticed it before but now that you mention it..." Burstinatrix agreed before letting her voice trail off.

Jaden walked over to a coach and sat down and motioned for her to set next to him. Burstinatrix blushed as she went over to him and sat down. "Yubel said you needed to talk to me?" Jaden ask childhood companion.

Burstinatrix shook her head, "I'm fine." she lied "You're lucky to have two of the three Egyptian God Spirits as familiars... You don't need me now." And as soon as she said that Jaden understood what the problem was

"Burst, I have known you from when I was fourteen. I will never replace you, as a duel monster or a friend." he told her "Do you remember the day that I first got you?"

Burstinatrix nodded, she remembered that day. The second Jaden had touched her card she felt as though a fire had begun to light up her soul.

"When I first saw you my first thoughts were 'Wow, she is super hero with awesome fire powers. She's so cool'." Jaden told the fire manipulator, making her blush, "Now that I'm older, I don't how Pegasus was able to sign off on your look being acceptable for a children's card game because you're hot latterly and figuratively."

As Jaden's words slowly rekindled herself confidence, Burstinatrix looked herself over and saw that he was right, her body suit left a large amount of skin showing on her side, the flame like patterns that came up over her beasts barely covered anything, and showed her sizable bust off for everyone, and she had the curves to match.

"So while there may be others who are more powerful, but you'll always be the super hero I saw that day, my super hero." Jaden said to his long time friend.

Burstinatrix was overcome with joy and she showed it by tackling Jaden to the couch and pressing her lips against his in a long and feverish kiss.

After she finely came up for air she laid down on top of Jaden and looked into eyes as she took her headdress off, letting her bangs fall back over her forehead. "As long as I have even the tiniest piece of your heart... I don't care what might happen" she said before closing her eye and snuggling up close to the one who had captured her heart.

x-x

The next couple of weeks passed by quickly, with Kurumu trying use her feminine charm to seduce Jaden and Moka being both cute and scary in her attempts to keep her only friend to herself and drink his blood. Jaden barely had a minute to himself and the time that he did have he was ether training to use his new found powers or spending time with his cards.

Burstinatrix's mood had greatly improved and was now no longer shy with displaying her affection for Jaden, and the others were getting along fine; Filia Mana and Ciel had adjusted to their new lifestyles as Jaden's familiars but Yubel was still passively hostel toward them all except for Kisara who had bonded quite deeply with her and had taken to fallowing the higher level monster like a second shadow, often falling asleep in Yubel's room while the fiend type stayed up late working on whatever project she had recently thought up.

Yubel's projects entailed almost anything from designing new ways to train Jaden in his powers, to remodeling the "Hotel", to formulating shadow magic of mass destruction. Some of her project ideas made Kisara fall on her back form fright and blush bright red, when she was asked to have a look at the blue-prints.

Jaden was currently wearing a few of the finished products of Yubel's designs. His coat, which was now black in color, had reinforced with magic to protect the wearer and enchanted to repair itself should it be damaged. And he was now wearing a pair of black shoes that had a red tongue in front, red metal plates at the heel and a golden ring around the base of the cuff and sections at the soles of the shoes which had a line of gold ring in treads which could fire air from them, acting as jets, enabling the wear to "skate" at incredible speeds, so long as they knew how to use shadow magic and how to steer the contraptions, Yubel would later admitted to stealing the design from Shadow the Hedgehog's hover skates and recoloring the white part on the top black. The black gloves that he was wearing cuffs that reached his halfway up his forearms with five black straps fastened across with sliver clips that doubled as talisman when coked and metal plates on the top of his hand and the between the knuckles and the first joint of the fingers it was the design that Yubel had first promised him and had completed and had finished three days after the time she said it would be done, the purpose behind the design was simple the metal plates would turn shadow magic into kinetic energy increasing the destructive power of a punch and the talismans would and let him change shadow magic into other elements, simple but useful.

As Jaden walked to the announcement board he wondered why he didn't use his new footwear and get there ten times faster and he remembered that there were simply too many things for someone who was new to his skates to run into, like people for instance. That was the problem the gloves too just because he had gotten real nifty new toys did mean he could use them, every time he tried to use lightning he shocking himself. So Jaden resolved to stick to the basic functions of the glove and not use his shadow skates until he had fully gotten the hang of them.

Thankfully Yubel was there to teach him the ins and outs of shadow magic and had already taught him a new term the Umbra which this name for the collective multi-verse of the worlds that where parallel to Earth, the Shadow Realm which was also purgatory and the land of the dead, the World of Dreams, and the Spirit World which were known as the Dark Umbra, the Dreaming, and the True Umbra respectively. Those made a study of the magic pertaining to the Umbra were known as Umbralists, making him an Umbralist in training.

'You know midterms came really early.' He thought to himself as he searched for his name and placement score among the posted scores when he got to the school.

"I know, and you can thank me for the tutoring later." Yubel's voice echoed from within Jaden's mind,

"All though we probably need to take things up a notice if the best you can do is 39th" she added, effectively stifling Jaden's retort that that waking someone up in the middle of the night and giving them a mock test and forcing them to study if they didn't get everything right until it was time for breakfast wasn't tutoring so much torture, making him decided to beg for mercy instead. After several minutes of mental pleading, Yubel consented, "After all my knowledge about recent events and science is somewhat limited as to what I learned by reading in the library at Duel Academy." she admitted.

As people started murmuring about how smart and beautiful some girl was, Jaden smiled, he knew just who they were talking about and who was coming. "Hey, Moka. How are you doing today?" he asked without even turning around, causing the pink haired vampire to completely freeze up completely.

"W-What?" she stammered.

Jaden turned around and smiled at the young woman, "You heard me right the first time, now answer the question. How are you doing?" he said without breaking stride for a second.

Moka was taken aback for second, but soon started chuckling and laughing, "Jaden, you really are very funny, you know that?"

"Oh, I've all ways been funny, underappreciated but funny." Jaden answered his friend before moving on, "So you placed 13th? Not bad at all."

Moka blushed at the praise, "It was just a fluke." she said, "But you didn't do too bad yourself."

x-x

Unknown to the young Umbralist and the sealed vampire a young girl, who looked as if she was around 11 years old, was staring intently at Moka. The way she dressed was a dead give a way to the fact that she was a witch; she had a pointy hat, cape, and the whole nine yards.

"So you're that Yukari Sendo kid who scored first place." a voice came out from behind her, causing the young witch to turn around to see three boys all of which had an argent smirk on their face

'Oh no, it's those boys from my class.' the young girl thought, as they started to make fun of her age. As they continued to laugh at her, Yukari waved her magic wand behind her back causing three washtubs to fall out of nowhere hitting the bullies on the head. "Serves you right for picking on me!" she said as she laughed

"You little brat!" the group's ring leader growled as he picked himself up off the ground and glared at the young child. "JUST WHO DO YOU THINK I AM!?" he roared and he partially changed, making his ears become pointed and his hands to become clawed as he rushed toward the young witch fully intent on killing her, when out of the blue Moka appeared in front him forcing him to stop.

Moka glared at the brute that was about to attack a child, "Stop!" she commanded, "She's just a kid!"

The guy who was going to attack Yukari, was about to yell at the pink-haired bitch, who was interfering with him making the paint sized brat pay, to get out of the way and to mind her own business, with a few very choice pro-nouns and adverbs, before he remembered the rumors about a vampire with pink hair and some freaky yokai she liked to hang out with.

He scoffed, he didn't know whether or not the stories were true or not and wasn't stupid enough to try to find out in the open with so many possible witnesses, "Fine, I'll let her go this time" he said with a self-righteous attitude before muttering, "But hiding behind some one less is just what you'd expect from a witch" loud enough for every on there to hear him as he and his two cohorts walked away, none of them planning for this to be the end.

"Well, that was interesting." Jaden said drawing attention to the fact that he was standing barely five feet away and making Yukari and Moka jump in surprise.

"WHERE DID YOU COME FORM?!" the eleven year-old yelled loud, causing Moka to flinch at the young witch's volume and Jaden to start hearing a ringing sound in his ears.

But somehow he managed to appear unfazed and answer the child's question, "I don't know. At first my parents said I came from heaven, and then they I said that I was left on the door step by the stork, and then they said I was unceremoniously dropped down the chimney by a pterodactyl." He said unable to pass the chance up

x-x

At the school cafeteria Yukari and Moka were sitting opposite of one another as Jaden felt his power to see someone's true intentions and look past illusion reacting to something. It wasn't malevolence, nor was it an attempt manipulating him or anyone else... It was more like a warning that something had the potential to become dangerous, if he ignored it. But, it wasn't all that strong, so he turned his attention to the young witch in front of him.

"Thanks a lot." she said as smiled at Moka, "If you hadn't stepped in when you had, I'd probably be done for right now."

Jaden zoned out before, keeping half a ear open to what Moka and Yukari were saying since he need to figure out what he was going to do about his visit to the his shrink, or psychological therapist if you were being politically correct.

"I WANT YOU TO BE MY GIRL-FRIEND!" Yukari yelled, before she leaped of over the table and tackled Moka to the floor, needless to say that got Jaden's attention.

As Moka tried to reclaim the power of coherent thought, Yukari had her head in between Moka's breasts as she cupped them with her hands making it even harder for the pink-haired vampire to think.

Blushing, Moka desperately racked her mind for an answer, "W-Well... I guess I could be a friend... and a girl?" she said making her answer sound more like a question then an actual response.

But the obvious hesitation in voice went unnoticed by the paint-sized witch as she squealed in-delight.

As Jaden saw all of this he began to understand why his ability was giving him a warning. While, this young witch's love was innocent in nature and a little bit funny, it could also be dangerous after all he knew the dangers of blind love his past with Yubel was a prime example of love gone wrong... But rushing in needlessly could be just a dangerous, the best course of action for now would be to keep an eye on things and see how things pan out.

x-x

"Okay, enough is enough!" Jaden said firmly, "I have been trying to keep to myself about this and be open minded to love in all its forms, but now things have gotten just plain creepy. You need to take a step back and slow down."

Yukari had been trailing behind Moka where ever she went and hadn't let go of the older girl's breasts since they left the cafeteria.

Looking out form around Moka, the young witch glared at the former duelist, "You just want Moka for yourself!" she accused the older boy.

"But I won't let you have her so I, Yukari Sendo, witch extraordinaire, am declaring war on you!" she yelled and pulled out her wand, a ridicules pink thing with a heart shaped loop on the end that had a five pointed star made of mystic energy, and spun around in what she that was a dramatic pose and enchanted the items in a nearby cleaning closet to come to life and attack Jaden only for them to shudder to a stop.

Jaden smirked as patted the de-spell card he had in his pock discreetly and said, "You do have some talent but I'm afraid you skills a just- AGKK!"

The rest of Jaden's speech was cut off when an extra large washbasin hit him out of nowhere.

Jaden sat on the hospital bed he had been assigned. Apparently one of Moka's other fans had charged him while he was detracted by Yukari's rouge cleaning supplies and was knocked unconscious. And now his "nurse" was refusing to let him leave.

Jaden grimaced as Kurumu applied disinfectant to a scrape on his cheek that Yubel hadn't healed because of its location. "At least I don't have to go to therapy today" he muttered just loud enough for the succubus to hear him.

"Well, just don't make a habit of putting yourself danger just so you can skip out on meeting your psychologist." Kurumu said playfully.

"Don't worry I won't." Jaden said with a chuckle, before he frowned "Although, I am a kinda worried."

Kurumu looked at her destined one with concern, while she didn't have his abilities; it was clear from the look on his face that he was deeply troubled by something.

"I mean this whole thing with Yukari." Jaden clarified for the blue haired girl, "I can tell by my gifts that she been alone for a while now and that she doesn't want to be alone and yet has contempt for almost everyone and everything at this school, but I can't figure why. And I can't do anything until I know that."

That statement shocked Kurumu given how the entire school knew, "What you mean that you don't know that she is a witch?"

Jaden turned to look at the succubus with a mixture of curiosity and suspicion that made her flinch slightly. "I am aware of her race, but I don't know what that has to do with the price of eggs in Denmark" he said prompting the succubus to explain the strained relationships between witches as a boarder creature with other yokai and human

Meanwhile outside of the room where the young Umbralist and succubus were talking, young Yukari was preparing for her next attack, "I have you now." she said standing up as she pulled out a small figure made of straw and exclaimed, "This is my voodoo-doll!" before she pulled strand of light brown hair out of her pocket, "Now, all I have to do is-"

"Look up, think carefully, and then make your move, partner." someone said, putting a heavy Taxes drawl on the end, making Yukari look to the speaker to see Jaden was leaning out of the window and was holding real big book over the little genius's head.

Jaden smiled as Yukari slowly put the doll down. "Smart move." he told her as he set the book down on the window sill.

The second he had done that however, Yukari snatched up her voodoo doll and stuffed the hair in side it, and before Jaden could shove the book out of the window and on top of the young witch, she had manipulated Jaden into grabbing the book and hitting himself with it.

Kurumu dashed toward the person who dared to hurt her life-mate and was half way to the window when Yukari had Jaden tackle her to a bed and grope her large breasts.

And as luck would have Moka came into the room at that moment, however Yukari had ducked down so all the pinkette saw was Jaden fondling Kurumu's boobs. Thinking that the worst had or was happening she turned and made for the door tears in her eyes.

"Moka! Wait! It's not what you think." Kurumu shouted after the vampire, having somehow managed to get off the bed and tried to get to her friend so she could explain. But because the effect of Yukari's doll was still in place, Jaden's hands stayed on the succubae's breasts and were dragged along with them. "YUBEL! HELP!" he yelled.

And Yubel, quick to answer, appeared in front of Yukari just as she preformed one last trick. Deciding not to let this go any further Yubel grabbed the young girl by the throat with one hand and tossed her through the window only to see as she disappeared, that she was too late. Yukari's last trick had been the most devastating... she had made Jaden finally release the blue-haired girl's chest in order for them to be used for an act that many would consider to be unspeakable. She had made him take Kurumu's panties off and they were now adorned around her ankles for all to see and letting Jaden receive an eyeful.

As the voodoo doll flew out of Yukari's hand, Jaden felt control over his body return and dived across the room from where he was laying and caught the doll as it fell to the floor and let out a sigh of relief as held the troublesome object in his hand.

"Wait a minute... Isn't that a voodoo doll?" Moka asked recognizing the figurine.

x-x

After the doll had been disposed of under the instructions of Yubel, who explained to Jaden that he hadn't been shielded from the voodoo doll's control by her powers because it was targeting his body and not his mind and the coat was for physical attacks, Yukari had found her voice.

"WHAT WAS THAT THING?!" Yukari screamed, both frightened and confused, once she had recovered from seeing Yubel. She had read about a lot of yokai before coming to the academy, but the one that had almost chocked her to death before shoving her through a window was something that didn't match any form of the descriptions she had read.

Jaden smiled, "That was Yubel, and she is a she not a "thing"." he said, his simple answer making Yukari even more confused which translated into a blank look. "Okay, who is Yubel?" she asked.

"Spirit guide, fiend bound to my soul that serves as my guardian and servant, childhood friend and confidant, take you pick" Jaden said dismissively.

"But we have other things that need to be addressed. Such as figuring out what to do about you" Jaden said looking straight the youngest one among them "You can't keep this up."

Yukari thinking that she was going to get a speech about how she would wind up alone started "Why not I don't care about what-"

"No, you don't care," Jaden interrupted, "and that is why I am warning you. If you can use a voodoo doll to turn me into a puppet without feeling any remorse you're on a path that will make you lose yourself and become someone who can murder without a second thought."

Yukari froze at Jaden's words; they put her actions in a new light. Before she hadn't seen them as anything more than her protecting Moka and away to get back at bullies, but... No, he was just trying to get her and Moka to break up, "And how would you know?!"

"Because, I have seen it all before" Jaden said, feeling uneasy about talking about a subject that was so close to home but keeping it from showing. "A person who has been alone most of their life meets the one that they believe is destined for them, hangs on to tightly... and then it all goes to hell in a hand-basket." he said with small strained chuckle, "I'm one of those unfortunate souls who learned the hard way."

Yukari's eyes were wide with disbelief but couldn't say anything. Jaden took a step forward and Yukari unconsciously took a step back which made her remember how her legs worked ran out of the room before any one could say or do anything.

"JADEN! You didn't have to be that hard on her she's just a child!" Moka rebuked the former duelist.

Jaden's eyes turned to the pink haired vampire. "Actually, I did." the young man said bluntly, "The pain of loneliness is enough to make anyone into a bloodthirsty animal."

Moka opened her mouth to respond but then she closed it rethinking her response and then said calmly, "Which is why she needs compassion and real friends." before running off to look for Yukari.

"Wow that is so like a witch." Kurumu said, making Jaden turn to face the blue-haired succubus and smiled, a little too sweetly, and ask in a voice that was not hostile but unnerving nonetheless, "Kurumu could you tell me what you meant by that last comment?"

Kurumu quickly told Jaden about how witches were considered half monsters and how they have been decremented against for ages by monsters and humans alike, "So, she has probably been alone from the start." she finished in a humbler tone then when she finished saying all that out loud had made her think about what the young witch must have gone through.

Jaden sighed and looked up at the ceiling. Now that he knew what the source of the young witch's conflict it was obvious what needed to be done, "Okay... let's go." he said as he quickly stood up and walked to the window

Kurumu who had been in mid leap was shocked so much by that instead of saying anything about how Yukari would be fine with Moka and pressing her breasts against her "Destined One's" back. Instead she missed him and fell onto the floor down as Jaden climbed out the window and rocketed off at remarkable speeds thanks to his hover-skates.

"H-hay! Wait up!" Kurumu shouted after the black blur that was disappearing into the forest as she followed in the air after changing into her true form.

x-x

The scene that Jaden and Kurumu arrived when they got to the lake was the three from that morning had been seen bullying Yukari standing in their true forms, lizard-men, and Moka kneeling to hold the young witch in a comforting embrace... with her back turned to what appeared to the three lizard-men, one of which was about to attack while they weren't looking.

"DON'T IGNORE US! WE'RE THE YOKAI ACADEMY DISCIPLINARY SQAUD!" the leader roared as he charged at the two, finally reminding them that they were not alone, fully intent on slash into them with his claws in order to kill them and then eat their still twitching bodies.

Only for a wall of thick vines to block his way to the girls and to cause him howl in pain as he ran into them, their sharp thorns cutting into him.

As he thrashed on the ground Jaden stepped into the clearing, noting how much better his attempt at Yubel's technique was as he let the vines recede back into the ground and making his presence known, "Sorry, if I'm late." he said as he walked next to Moka and Yukari, "Kurumu kept slowing me down."

Ignoring the indignant outburst from the succubus and the other quips from the young man in the black coat, the lizard-man had stopped thrashing around form the pain the wounds the vines had given him and was now glaring daggers at the group in front of him. He was going to let some walking dress-coed violation with hair that was obviously dyed to be two different colors make a mockery of him. If the punk valued lives of his bitch friends they would be the first to die! Starting with the prepubescent witch!

Jaden's reaction to the lizard-man's intentions came too late for him to use Yubel's vine technique to stop the reptilian without making them so close to Yukari that she would be hurt by them, so he used his shadow skates so launch toward the young witch, pick her up and roll away from the lizard-man's attack. The of stopping to pick the 11 year-old took two seconds too long and he wound up being grazed across the back of his left arm but his coat did its job and kept him from being hurt.

Stopping a safe distance away from the attacker, Jaden set the youngest student of Yokai Academy down, "Are you okay?" he asked the child who he had saved twice now.

"Why?" Yukari asked, she was completely bewildered, "Why would you risk your life for me?" nobody had ever done anything like that before and this guy hated her like everyone else, right?

Jaden just smiled and, simply said "What else are friends for?"

"Friends?" Yukari couldn't believe it. He considered her his friend after everything she had put him through?

"Yes. Moka, Kurumu, and I all care about you and want to be there for you." Jaden told her, as both of the teenage girls walked up behind him and looked Yukari and smiled relieved smiles that both she and the former duelist were mostly unharmed.

"ENGOUGH WITH THIS TOUCHY-FEELY CARP!" the lizard-man in charge yelled at the top of his voice, "HUMILATING ME IS A DIRECT VIOLATION OF SHCOOL RULES THE PENLETY OF WHICH IS DEATH!" he shouted as he and his goons charged toward the three and a half teenage.

Moka, thinking fast, reached out and grabbed Jaden's hand and used it to take off her rosary and awaken the inner-vampire that Jaden had dubbed "Fangs". Fangs stretched to loosen her body up, while the lizard-man showed how idiotic they were by not running right then and there. "

WHAT THE HELL?!" the leader yelled as he tried desperately to overcome the instinctual fear that the awakened vampire instilled just by standing there and started to naming any breaks in school regulation in a feeble attempt, "DYEING YOUR HAIR IS AGAINST SCHOOL RULES! THAT SKIRT IS WAY TOO SHORT!"

'You know now that he mentions it... Moka's womanly assets actually do slightly increase when that seal is removed; I wonder how that works…' Yubel shamelessly commented, making Jaden wonder why she would say something like that before turned his attention back to the "fight".

"Humph, the only way you three cowards can win at anything is by ganging up someone weaker then you. Truly pathetic" Moka said, she was not amused, and unless these weaklings got out of her sight she would make them.

"GET HER!" the leader yelled, completely in raged at being called a coward and pathetic, and the trio rushed at Moka thinking that they would be able to win if they all charged at her at once.

They were dead wrong... The two that would have reached her first were sent flying into the branches of a tree where they both remained unconscious, hanging like a towel on a clothes line.

And before the disciplinary squad's leader could do anything in response Moka had crossed the gap between them and delivered a powerful round house kick to his face, which sounded like a sonic-boom when it connected, with a shout of "KNOW YOUR PLACE!" sending him flying to the lake where he skipped across its the surface twice and would have gone farther if he hadn't run into a rock in the middle of the lake which caused him to stop and sink to the bottom.

As Yukari watched the sliver-haired vampire she couldn't believe that she was the same Moka who was so caring form mere moments ago, Jaden looked at her with a smile and said, "I don't think that they'll be bothering you anymore." in a tone that was as casual as if he was talking about the weather.

"Why would you put yourselves in danger for me?" Yukari asked, she still just couldn't understand it, she had been treated like dirt by every non-witch she had ever met so what had been happening was an alien concept.

"Come on you still don't get it?" Jaden asked with tired smile, just how many times did he have to explain it to the young witch, "I already told you why, you're our friend and means that all of us are going to be there to stand by you whether you want us to or not, and even she would deny it I'm sure Fangs feels the same" Jaden said with Kurumu standing next to him smiling kindly, while the unsealed vampire stood off to the side making a valiant attempt to be the poster child of being uninterested.

And little Yukari finally reached her limit broke down crying.

x-x

Time soon flew by and couple of days had passed and Yukari was doing allot better as Kurumu told Moka, as she and the pinkette carried some supplies back to their class room. Everything seemed to be looking up...

But the sight that greeted them when they opened the door was proof to the contrary, Jaden was back up against the wall with his hands on Yukari's head flailing who her arms about in attempt to grab the former-duelist.

Seeing the other girls, Jaden wasted no time in explaining the situation and asking for their assistance, "Moka! Kurumu! Help! Yukari is going after me now!"