Minato was walking to school with Tsukune and Moka. The blue-haired boy was a few steps in front of the others when he noticed a familiar girl standing in the middle of the path holding a basket.

"Good morning!" The blue-haired succubus yelled happily as Minato got closer. He continued walking in her direction. He was a few steps away from her when she began talking again. "Minato-kun, I baked you some coo-" Kurumu stopped talking when the Persona User walked past her. The girl hurriedly walked to Minato and held his hand. Minato looked back at her. "I baked some cookies, will you eat some with me?" She asked shyly, Minato merely stared back and looked at the cookies.

"Why?" The Ex-SEES member asked.

The Succubus' cheeks turned bright red as she spoke, raising one hand up to her cheek. "Remember when I said I was searching for my life's one and only destined one? I've decided it's you, Minato!" She said shyly at start and trying her best to be brave when she said it was Minato. The dark blue-haired boy merely stared at the light blue-haired girl.

"You risked your life to protect me, and now I've totally fallen for you!" She said, dropping the basket of cookies which fell without a single cookie falling out as she placed one of her hands on each cheek and began wiggling back and forth, imagining her future life with Minato. Minato just watched her and blinked before walking towards the school, leaving Moka and Tsukune watching shocked at the statement and how Minato didn't seem to react at all. In reality, Minato wasn't in any danger of dying. He doubted that Moka could kill him, she didn't seem to have any type of elemental attacks and if she did, he could just switch persona to counter.

Minato was walking down the hall as Kurumu followed him asking him to hurry up and marry her. Moka and Tsukune followed the two blue-haired people, the vampire and human were both surprised with how straightforward the succubus was being.

That was almost a month ago. Minato was no closer to figuring out what Elizabeth had found and Kurumu was still in love with him. Tsukune was essentially feeding Moka and more than once Minato had secretly healed Tsukune using a Diarahan spell. Nobody knew about Minato's persona, he had tried his best to keep any information about it from spreading. Since the incident with Kurumu on the second day, school had been uneventful, other than Kurumu's constant attempts for Minato's heart.

"Well then, everyone, this academy's goal is to train monsters to adapt to human society just as I've been saying all along. So that means… starting today you're all going to take up club activities!" Ms. Nekonome announced to class, Tsukune clearly surprised. Minato didn't care, back at Gekkoukan he attended clubs that assisted him in fighting Shadows. Nekonome continued, "We'll get a deeper understanding of humans by experiencing human-made activities through some sweat in club activities. To transform into humans perfectly, we must have a clear understanding of humans!" After Ms. Nekonome said this, a student pointed out how bad she was at transforming, the teacher proceeded to claw him in the face. "Understand? Everyone will participate in club activities! Everyone, please visit a lot of groups and decide which one you want to enter! Be sure to visit the Newspaper Club that I'm the advisor for, okay!" She finished.

Minato was going to meet up with Tsukune and Moka to eat but, until then he was going to explore alone… or at least that had been his plan. The succubus trying to hide herself a few steps behind him would not let him out of her sight. Eventually, the blue-haired hero walked away from the crowd, Kurumu was doing her best to keep herself hidden behind objects as she followed him.

"Come out." He said once he was away from the crowd. Kurumu was shocked, she thought she was great at hiding. The succubus walked out of her hiding place, a bit ashamed that Minato caught her following him. What if he thought that she was creepy and hated her for it? The thought terrified Kurumu, she loved Minato ever since he saved her but, he didn't seem to return the feelings. Kurumu was a succubus and succubi feed on love. Falling for someone that didn't love you back was essentially a slow suicide. Minato was sitting on a bench and Kurumu slowly walked over and sat down by him, she was fidgeting nervously. "I'm sorry." Kurumu whimpered as she looked at Minato apologetically. The Persona user merely sighed.

"I've been doing my best to avoid you." Minato admitted for the first time having a hint of guilt in his voice, his words caused pain to appear on Kurumu's face, she had to struggle not to start crying, "But, I guess that was wrong of me. You shouldn't be apologizing I should." Minato admitted causing the pain in Kurumu's eyes to slowly change to relief. "So, to make it up to you…" Minato hesitated before speaking, "Do you want to look at clubs together?" Minato asked, he felt bad for how he treated her. Minato wasn't apathetic as some might assume, not like he was when he first joined SEES. Back then everything was meaningless to him, which was not that surprising once you knew the trauma he went through as a child. Now though, he felt emotion it was just hard for him to convey it and act upon it. Years of not caring and boredom had made him that way. Shadows had made desensitized him to the supernatural, once you had the power to summon ancient gods and legends, things were unsurprising.

The pain that was once on Kurumu's face that had turned to relief was now joyful. She grinned from ear to ear as she leapt onto Minato, hugging him tightly. The succubus' face was buried in Minato's shirt. Thoughts echoed through her mind, "I'm gonna get to spend the day with Minato! We might even join the same club! I can't wait! Is this a date? I'm not ready for a date! B-but, I don't want to leave him so that I can get ready!" Dozens of thoughts like those echoed through her mind. In reality, Minato didn't see it as a date, he thought it was merely a way to apologize for how he had been acting. The Succubus didn't care if it was or not, she saw it as her first time being alone with the man she loved and him allowing her too, unlike all the other times she was with him. When the succubus finally got off of Minato, she was still happy, her eyes still full of glee.

"Thank you, Minato-kun!" Kurumu said, unable to find the words to explain how happy she was. Minato stood up and Kurumu followed gripping his arm as she walked by his side, refusing to let go of him. She leaned on him, resting her head on his arm as they walked.

"Do you like any of them?" Minato asked the succubus who was still leaning on his arm. So far they had looked at ten clubs and Minato had been letting Kurumu lead the way. Before the blue-haired girl could answer, they heard screams coming from the nearby school pool. "Let's go." Minato ordered Kurumu who nodded as they ran, side by side, to the pool. They arrived in time to see Moka dive into the water.

"Kurumu! Minato!" Tsukune yelled at the two people who just ran to the edge of the pool.

"Tsukune! If we don't hurry and save Moka, she's gonna die!" A look of panic shot onto Tsukune's face before Kurumu continued, "Don't you know!? Vampires can't go in water! Because water drains a vampire's energy… Is she nuts, jumping into water like that?" The Succubus explained, Tsukune froze for a second he didn't know that! This whole time Tsukune had been accidently taunting her, making fun of her weakness to water. Grief filled his face as he swam searching for her. Once he saw her at the bottom of the pool he swam to her, pulling on her Rosary. Minato wasn't sure what to do, if only he had a weapon. He had his Persona but, should he use them? He did not have time to finish the thought as an explosion of water appeared and in the center was a silver-haired vampire. It was Moka.

"How dare you...How dare you treat me like this!? I'll get rid of you for good!" Vampire Moka roared. The silver-haired beauty trudged towards the mermaid.

"I don't know how strong you are, but in our territory, a mermaid will always be victorious! If you're going to beg for your life, now's the time!" The Lead Mermaid threatened as Moka slowly approached.

"Hmph… Coming from a low class fish that can't think about anything but food! Don't make me laugh!" Vampire Moka retorted, two mermaids leapt at Moka from her sides but, Moka effortlessly jumped out of the water.

"You're too slow. Though you talk tough, it seems you're totally weak!" The Mermaid cackled before she leapt at Moka from the water. "You're a great target in midair! Die!" The Mermaid laughed, "Got you!" The mermaid said as she grabbed for Moka. Moka's elbow connected with the side of the mermaid's face. Kurumu commented on how a midair fight isn't a mermaid's territory.

"To take the bait and be caught so simply… you have to be a fish! Now realize your place!" Vampire Moka said before kicking the mermaid in a cartwheel-like mermaids landed in the water unconscious and Vampire Moka walked over to Tsukune before slapping him. Kurumu looked surprised, Minato kept his normal face, giving no hints of emotion.

"The other Moka cried… Due to her inferiority complex over being different from others, she blamed herself… for not being able to swim. She's always had to live with being hurt in human society like that!" Vampire Moka glared at Tsukune, "The kind of men who are unable to think about anything but themselves have no right to come near me! Stay out of my sight, Tsukune!" Vampire Moka threatened, venom flowing from her words.

Moka didn't come to school the next day. Three days later, Tsukune, Minato, and Kurumu were pulled out of class by Ms. Nekonome. The three of them, along with Moka, were the only people that haven't decided on a club. As Ms. Nekonome asked them, confessing that nobody had joined and if they didn't it might get shut down, Moka appeared, volunteering for the club. Tsukune was ecstatic about seeing Moka again so, he joined to, he wanted to be with Moka. Minato decided to join to have peace and quiet and Kurumu joined so that she would have more time with Minato.

Two days later...

"Minato-kun, today we start going to the club together right?" Kurumu asked happily, Minato merely nodded, Tsukune was to his left and by Tsukune was Moka. Kurumu went to hug Minato and place his head between her breasts but, Minato swiftly dodged. Fighting Shadows did have it's benefits. Kurumu silently stated that Minato was her destined one and that she was going to deepen the relationship between her and Minato's into love and that she wasn't going to lose to Moka. Kurumu had no idea that Moka was more interested in Tsukune than Minato.

The classroom was almost empty, with only five people in it. In the room was Minato, Tsukune, Moka, Kurumu, and of course, Ms. Nekonome. That fact, however, didn't seem to bring down Ms. Nekonome's spirits.

"Well then, everyone thanks for joining my club! So let's begin the club activities for the Yokai Academy Newspaper Club!" Ms. Nekonome cheered while holding up a newspaper. The room was silent for a few seconds before Kurumu, Moka, and Tsukune yelled out their question, were they the only members?

"Sensei… I just fell into this club and I don't know anything about it but, is it really just the four of us?" Tsukune asked with his hands raised, Ms. Nekonome told him not to be silly and as if on cue, the door opened and the late-member yelled "Excuse me!"

"See here he comes, the only other member!" Ms. Nekonome announced.

"Man, I'm sorry! Here I am, late on the first day. Greetings." The man walked in, The man had dark black hair and a white headband holding back his bangs. He held to bouquets of red roses as he entered, "I'm the president of this Newspaper Club, Ginei Morioka. Pleased to meet ya!" The man introduced himself before walking over to Kurumu and Moka. "Ooh! The teacher told me about you, what beautiful new club members you are!" Ginei told the vampire and the succubus. "You can call me 'Gin'. Ahh… Red flowers are always suitable for such lovely ladies!" He finished. Tsukune was visibly surprised at the man's personality.

"Gin-kun is the only second year club member. Just ask Gin-kun anything you don't know about this club, okay?" Ms. Nekonome said while gesturing towards the boy with the white headband. Gin stated that they can always count on him. Kurumu silently scooted her desk a little closer towards Minato, her nervousness visible on her face as she looked at the boy she had fallen for. Kurumu was horrible with flirty guys, and didn't like them. Ms. Nekonome announced that she had to leave for a staff meeting and told Gin to take care of the rest of the club. Gin proceeded to announce that he could do it and Tsukune questioned his teacher, surprised at the responsibility Ms. Nekonome was willing to give Gin. The Cat-Woman apologized before waving goodbye and telling everyone to become good friends.

"Hmm, well let's see. First, I'll give you the explanation of just what kinda club this is! The goal of the newspaper club is to publish the school newspaper! Most of your activity will be reporting on all kinds of things within the academy and putting them in the newspaper! We'll be put into dangerous situations time after time for the sake of reporting! I'll tell you right now, this ain't gonna be no easy ride! Once you've joined, you should prepare yourself." Ginei said ominously and the room went silent. It was the pink-haired vampire that spoke next.

"He seems like someone we can depend on, right? More than I thought!" She said the last sentence in a bit of a mumble. Tsukune agreed, although Minato suspected that Tsukune was just agreeing because of the brown-haired boy's obvious feelings for Moka. Minato also noticed the miniscule grin that Ginei got. Minato had a bad feeling about this.

"Just messing with ya! Let's have some fun without all the strict talk. This is our poster ad, let's put it up on the back wall!" Ginei said with a grin, the two girls and Tsukune agreed but, Minato could detect very, very small hint of fear in Kurumu's voice. Minato was listening with music as they put up the poster. It did look strange, it was a bunch of words and Ms. Nekonome pointing at a poster.

It was Kurumu and Moka that were putting up the poster, suspiciously high above the black board. Tsukune was grabbing the posters off a desk and Ginei was telling the girls where to put them. "Sempai, is this high enough to stick the posters?" Moka asked, getting a response for her to put them even higher, and after that even higher, and then much higher. Tsukune wondered about how Ginei could be flirty sometimes and serious other times and then, he and Minato saw why Gin wanted the posters so high. Gin squatted down and stared at the two girls panties. Tsukune was visibly shocked but, Minato merely blinked before reaching for something nearby. Kurumu was visibly have trouble reaching so high due to the fact that she was shorter than Moka, who merely looked at Kurumu a bit concerned. Tsukune proceeded to freak out, calling out their club president for what he was doing, who merely asked Tsukune what he was talking about. Tsukune continued to freak out about the whole thing. Gin said he wasn't the type of guy to do something so lame. Then the vampire and the succubus walked over to them.

"What's going on?" Moka and Kurumu asked, to which Ginei motioned towards Tsukune.

"Oh, well this dude says he got an eyeful of your panties." Gin said as he pointed at Tsukune who was visibly shocked.

"Eh!? No! It was sempai who… wait, it's a misunderstanding! I mean I did kinda accidentally see your panties too, but it was sempai who.." At that point, both of the girls slapped Tsukune and started running towards the door but, were cut off by Minato, who was standing in the doorway holding a camera.

"Gin's lying." Minato spoke before showing the girls the picture he took with the camera. It showed Gin looking up under the girls skirts but, not Tsukune. From the angle of the picture, you could tell that Minato couldn't see their panties from his resting place. Both of the girls walked over, slapped Gin, and apologized to Tsukune. Then the two girls left.

The next day, Gin got Tsukune and the two of them went outside. Minato had turned a corner and saw this and of course Kurumu, who was following him, did as well. Kurumu and Minato were hiding behind a nearby building, peering at the two from a corner. Kurumu couldn't help but get a bit fidgety at how close she was with Minato. Gin took a picture of Tsukune and informed the human that Ginei would make Moka his own before running off. The girls that were changing in the room looked out and saw Tsukune. The girls climbed out the window and chased Tsukune. Kurumu grabbed Minato and flew up in the air, hugging the blue-haired boy against her as she flew. The Persona user was a bit heavier than she expected, she started to wonder how Minato looked without a shirt and quickly landed on the roof of a nearby building, shaking the thoughts out of her head.

"You're heavier than you look, Minato-kun." Kurumu began but then quickly realized her accidental insult. "Er! Not in a bad way! I mean, uh, um, do you workout or anything like that?" The Succubus corrected herself, Minato seemed to stare off into space at that comment, as if remembering something that happened long ago.

"I spent a long time fighting, so if you consider that exercising then, I suppose so." Minato said, he hadn't paid attention to what fighting the Shadows and the training he did with Akihiko. Now that he thought about it he was more muscular than Tsukune.

"You were a fighter?" Kurumu asked, to which Minato merely nodded. The succubus had so many questions about the boy she had fallen for. She wished that Minato would open up to her… that thought only seemed to strengthen her resolve she clenched her fist. She would make Minato come closer to her and explain himself.

A while later, Minato and Kurumu heard someone shouting and banging on a door. It was Tsukune, who had been beaten, tied up, and thrown into an old, locked room. Minato and Kurumu proceeded to help their friend out the window and questioned him about what had happened. Apparently, the girls had caught, tied up and beaten Minato. Moka had found out about his accidental and it greatly upset Moka, who ran off. As he explained it to them, they heard a faint scream. Kurumu, Tsukune, and Minato ran in the direction, the scream had came from the rooftop of the academy building.

"Moka!" Tsukune yelled as he saw a beast-like figure attacking Moka. It was clearly a werewolf and Minato recognized the feeling he got from anywhere. It was Gin.

"Tsukune! Minato! Kurumu!" Moka yelled happily as she saw her friends running towards her.

"You… weren't you locked up?" Gin asked, his voice a bit deeper than it was in his human form. He glared at Minato and Tsukune.

"Kurumu-chan and Minato rescued me!" Minato announced as he ran towards the werewolf, Kurumu flying above Minato and Tsukune.

"No one believe us but, we saw it! Gin-sempai called Tsukune over, and after that, I saw him make Tsukune peep!" Kurumu announced as the trio approached Moka.

"Back off!" Gin roared, become even more beast-like. Tsukune mentally commented on how Gin's true form was a wolf, just like his personality.

Tsukune ran towards Moka, he shouting about how he had to save her. Minato and Kurumu told him not to, Kurumu adding that werewolves and vampires were equally strong and how Moka could even lose in her true form. As Moka and Tsukune neared one another, Tsukune felt his legs kicked out from under him.

"Don't even think you have a chance, idiot!" Gin growled, standing casually behind where he knocked Tsukune down. Tsukune and Moka still closed the distance between them, and the werewolf named Gin caught up in half a second.

"I guess you want to die, since you can't keep your hands off Moka-san, Tsukune-kun!" The werewolf began before stabbing his clawed hand down at Tsukune, "So, hurry up and die!"

Tsukune got lucky, as he was falling he managed to pull off the Rosary that contained Moka's power. The girl changed, her pink hair turning silver-white and her eyes become red with slitted pupils. Her breast became larger as did her rear, making her more curvy.

"Red eyes… could it be? Could it be she's a vampire!?" Gin roared in surprise, to think lovely little Moka was hiding that power, "Heh! This is… this is Moka-san's true form!"

"Hahaha! Awesome! Even after transforming, You are still beautiful, Moka Akashiya!" The werewolf growled lustfully before leaping up, "I could care less that you are a vampire! I will definitely defeat you and make you my woman!" Gin roared in delight. Tsukune mentally commented that even as wolf, his personality doesn't change.

"Don't mess around with me!" Vampire Moka threatened as she did a chop-like attack. By the time her hand was close to him, he was several feet away on the roof of a short structure on the roof.

"What are you doing fighting way over there?" Gin cackled at the vampire, who was surprised by the wolf's speed. Tsukune and Kurumu commented on the werewolf's speed. "If a vampire's power is strength, then a werewolf's power is speed! And the strength of the moonlight also strengthens my speed! Tonight, the full moon is shining brightly as ever!" The Wolf cackled gleefully, Minato cursed under his breath. There wasn't a cloud in the sky. "On the night of a full moon, a werewolf is invincible!" The werewolf taunted as he dashed around Moka and the rest of the rooftop so fast he was nearly undetectable.

"What?" Vampire Moka shouted in defiance, she couldn't keep up with this Yokai.

"Give it up! As long as the full moon is out, it will be my victory!" The werewolf boasted as he struck at the vampire. Moka wasn't fast enough to react to the Wolf's speed. Moka stood no chance and she was leagues stronger than Kurumu and Tsukune. Minato grimaced. He had to help her, it was time for him to reveal his secret. It was time to use a persona, and he knew the perfect one. How ironic, he was going to reveal his power on top of a building, just like he did at Gekkoukan.

Minato took a few steps forward before pulling his Evoker from it's holster. "Hey." Minato shouted the wolf paused, once again on top of the small structure on the roof. Everyone looked at Minato, then to the gun and the wolf merely laughed.

"Even if you do have silver bullets, there's no way they can touch me!" Gin growled, Minato wasn't going to shoot Gin, instead he raised the gun to the side of his own head, an insane looking smile appeared on his face. Kurumu and Tsukune weren't fast enough. Before they could get near him, he uttered a single word before pulling the trigger.

"Persona."

A cold feeling exploded through Minato's head as he pulled the trigger and then the sound of glass shattering filled the area. Then, behind Minato a blue light began glowing. There was a figure there emanating with power the likes of which none of the other students had felt before. It and Minato gave off the same, terrifying aura. The aura flowed like it was the embodiment of death and destruction but, the aura wasn't all, behind Minato stood a creature.

The monster behind Minato was wearing a black outfit. It's head was a skull, though what creature the skull came from was anyone's guess. It didn't have eyes, instead black voids gazed from the openings of the skulls. The creature wielded a single-edged sword in it's white gloved hands and had pauldrons with chains coming from them on it's shoulders. Those chains seemed to connect to the chains attached to it's cloak. The cloak was equally freaky, it was made of coffins that were chained to one another. The same aura was leaking out of Minato. The creature did a scream-like roar in honor of it's summon, the roar instantly shattered every window in the building. Minato spoke the creature's name.

"Thanatos."

The Persona took Minato saying it's name as an attack command and zoomed forward, the werewolf overlooked his instincts and lunged at Thanatos, hoping to use his speed to surprise the Persona. Thanatos merely swatted the wolf-like Gin with the back of his sword, making the wolf fly into the small structure, loose debris falling onto the werewolf.

"Don't kill him." Minato ordered and the creature grunted in acknowledgement as it walked up to Gin, who had a puddle forming under him. Thanatos growled before hitting the creature in the head with the blunt side of it's sword, knocking the wolf out. Then Thanatos disappeared, returning to Minato's sea of souls.

Nobody said anything. None of them knew Minato had such power in him. The boy was arousing more and more questions. It was Kurumu who did anything next. She swooped at Minato, grabbing him in a tight embrace. "Who knew my precious Minato-kun was so strong!" Kurumu cheered, then Tsukune cheered, Vampire Moka grabbed her Rosary from the brunette's hand and reattached it without uttering a word.

The group of friends celebrated, Kurumu couldn't believe the boy she had fallen for was so powerful! Now she wanted him more than ever!

The next day, they were giving out their first newspaper, the headline? Tsukune Aono Innocent: The actual perpetrator in the Peeper Riot was Ginei Morioka from second year class one.

Author's Note: I originally planned on making Minato more focused on figuring out the secret to sealing Erebus. But, after writing the club booth scene with Minato and Kurumu I became more satisfied with how he ended up.