Tsukune felt like he had woken up from a beautiful dream, and once again he couldn't believe it hadn't been one. Moka really was lying next to him wearing nothing but her wedding ring and her beautiful smile. Between this and the tropic temperature of the island, Tsukune felt like he was going to melt like an ice cube in the sun.

"My God… she's so beautiful… and she's my wife…"

Tsukune couldn't help but touch her. Partially because he wanted to, and partially because he needed to convince himself that this was real.

"It's like a giant marshmallow…"

Tsukune stopped fooling around when he noticed that Moka was starting to stir. The first thing she did was pull him into a kiss.

"Good morning."

"Good morning…"

"Wow, real original… What's wrong, cat got your tongue?"

Every movement Moka made with her body, no matter how mundane, was driving Tsukune crazy.

"I'm still processing what just happened in the past few hours…"

"We had sex, how hard is that to process?"

This was definitely Moka's inner self talking. Tsukune wondered if she enjoyed teasing him like this.

"I… I still can't believe how lucky I am… to have you as my wife."

"Believe it, you big stud…" she said poking his nose.

Moka had been calling him that since he proposed. She never used that word when they were just students at Yokai.

"Well, you certainly know how to make a guy feel special."

"And you know how to make a girl feel dirty… Care to join me for a bath?"

Tsukune could feel his morning wood getting a little bigger.

The bath water was purified with herbs for Moka. The scent was almost as intoxicating as Moka herself. There was very little bathing done that morning. Tsukune and Moka washed each other for a little bit, but then their bodies took over for over an hour.

"You've got a lot of technique for someone who only lost their virginity last night." said Moka.

"I uh… I did some reading these past few months."

"I believe you… I know what's in your heart, I don't need Oberon's magic to read you."

"Moka… you're so beautiful."

"I heard you the first hundred times." she replied still smiling.

"I can't help it… I feel like I married a goddess…"

Moka blushed. It took Tsukune a moment to recognize the look on her face.

"Moka…"

"Why don't you get started on breakfast while I do my hair?"

"Oh… sure thing."

Tsukune got out of the tub and dried off.

"Oh and Tsukune…"

"Yes?"

"I didn't tell you to get dressed…"

While Tsukune and Moka enjoyed their wedded bliss; concealed in a vast forest of the monster world, Titania stood attending to the children in her collection. Fairies were practically immortal, unless they were killed with iron weapons. Titania chose to whittle away eternity by raising children, even if those children weren't fairies. Whenever she saw a beautiful child, it was like a rare gemstone that she just had to have. The children always left the nest when they were old enough, but Titania's collection never seemed to get smaller.

"I'm going to need a bigger nursery."

"Are you planning to wage war on the Shuzen family once Dark Lord to be Tsukune Aono and his wife have children?" asked Puck appearing out of nowhere.

"How long have you been standing there?"

"I'm always around; it's part of my charm."

"The Shuzen family is only as strong as its leader. Even my Lord Oberon can see that Issa is getting soft."

"But his eldest daughter is set to take his place someday, and it's clear that she doesn't like you very much."

"These are the threats of a girl… Now, I do believe you have an assignment."

"Yes, I am to find suitable mates for the succubus and the snow woman. Unfortunately Oberon has forbade me from wreaking my usual brand of hysterical havoc, and making succubi fall in love isn't as easy as it is for humans."

"Ah yes… succubi spend their lives looking for their 'destined one'. From what I understand, this succubus mistakenly thought Tsukune Aono was her destined one after a certain incident a few years ago… but that's not how it works. If Tsukune Aono had been the one for her, it would have been love at first sight… Let's see what fate has in store for her…"

Titania walked over to her mirror and began chanting in some ancient tongue that Puck didn't understand. He may have served Oberon and his wife for millennia, but even then they still didn't trust him with all their knowledge.

"Ah… there he is… I suppose she could do worse."

"You really think she's going to settle for that after laying eyes on the guy who's going to be a Dark Lord?"

"Puck, we are among the most powerful beings in the world; but for all our talents we still can't understand the greatest power in the universe… love. Now get going."

Kurumu sat by herself in a bar in Osaka. She was thinking about how for a few glorious moments she thought she had gotten through to Tsukune before the wedding, but then she woke up the morning after the bachelorette party on the floor with a frozen banana inside of her. It had all been a dream, just like always.

"Moka… always Moka…"

"Rich or handsome?" asked the female bartender.

"What?"

"A lot of women come in here wearing a face like that. It usually means she's lost something rich, handsome, or both."

"Shut up and pour me another…"

Kurumu and Mizore had rented an apartment in Osaka to get away from their mothers. Over the past few months they had tried everything they could think of. They even found a spell that would let them visit parallel realities. They found a few realities where Tsukune had never met Moka, but they always had unfortunate results. In the first reality they visited, the world had been destroyed because Alucard was never defeated; Tsukune had died along with everyone else. The second time around, Tsukune had been killed by the students of Yokai Academy because Moka wasn't there to protect him. But the third reality had been the most traumatic for both of them. Tsukune had escaped from Yokai Academy and became the leader of the human resistance once Fairy Tale exposed the existence of monsters. Kurumu and Mizore were nearly killed by the man they loved, and that was the end of that.

"If it hadn't been for Moka, I never would have met Tsukune… If it wasn't for her blood, he would have died more times than I care to count… And yet it's because of her that my heart is in a million pieces."

"Hey sexy, you look like you could use a dose of the Rooster King to make it all better."

"Fuck off Kokonattsu." said the bartender "This girl's in no mood for your stupid bullshit."

"I'm sorry… I'm not sure I heard you correctly…"

As drunk and angry as she was, Kurumu could only think about how Tsukune would handle the situation. Monsters had enough bad publicity as it was; she wasn't about to make the situation any harder for the man she loved, let alone a future Dark Lord. Using her power of illusion, she made this drunken idiot see the thing he feared most.

"HOLY SHIT! GET THEM OFF ME! GET THEM OFF ME!"

For a moment, everyone in the bar just stared as Kokonattsu ran out.

"Okay… guess whatever he spiked his drink with finally kicked in."

Eventually Kurumu stumbled out of the bar and made her way down the street. She wasn't worried about who or what she may or may not encounter on her way back to the apartment. She had faced things infinitely more terrifying than street thugs. Normally she would have just hailed a cab, but something was telling her to walk home.

"My tolerance must be greater than I thought… oh shit…"

Kurumu spent the next few minutes puking. When she finally stopped she leaned back against the wall of a nearby building.

"Go down the alleyway…"

Kurumu's legs felt like they were being pulled by a magnet.

"What the…"

Kurumu saw that someone was being mugged.

"Monsters and humans aren't so different are they?"

"Well, what do we have here?" asked the gang leader.

"Looks's like she's got enough for all of us."

"Let's see how stupid these guys are…"

Once again Kurumu used her powers of illusion. Much to her surprise, these guys actually bought it. The looks on their faces was priceless.

"AH! GOJIRA!"

"RUN!"

Kurumu laughed as the thugs ran off screaming, and then suddenly something just snapped in her head. She got a look at the thugs' unfortunate victim. He was in awfully bad shape, but for some reason Kurumu's body temperature raised dramatically and her face became flushed.

"What the hell is he wearing… and why is my heart beating so fast?"

Kurumu knew she couldn't just leave this guy here, she resolved to take him back to her apartment. Mizore was still in the mountains, so she wouldn't be there to object. As she took him in her arms, he seemed to be drifting in and out of consciousness.

"Are… are you an angel?"

(To be continued)