Sorry! It's been a long time since I updated this. I wasn't really feeling sgt frog for a bit, but then I had a dream last night where someone came up to me and was like "why haven't you updated your fanfics?" and so I immediately updated.

The cover picture was drawn by my sister, and I forget her username on here but I think it's scissors is a nerd.

Anyway a reminder that this story is just my excuse to conveniently throw a bunch of one-shots together that I never got around to writing. This chapter specifically was supposed to be longer but I split it in two cuz I'm trying to write shorter chapters.

What have I been up to while I wasn't updating? School. I also started working on another fantasy au but idk if I'll post it or finish it/it's like based on that monster bridal sacrifice stuff. Idk I just like that trope.

Anyway I also...might Idk write a digimon cyber sleuth fanfic? I might rewrite the entirety of that (in novel form combing the two games, making it gay. Giving the digimon personality etc.) because I have to get back to my roots, digimon and making a mary sue. That's how I started fandom with my mary sue who secretly was blind and had no arms so she had to walk on her hair (don't ask she was weird)

Anyway here's some more kurumois. Hope I can still write.

She's not going to be able to do it. Keroro, and most everybody else actually had no faith in Mois. She was a sweet girl, kind and the key to teaching Kululu a lesson, but she seemed a bit simple minded.

And most importantly if she suspected Kululu was actually suffering from their bet she'd back off in a second. Her kindness would kick in and she would leave him alone. And that was a pity and kindness that Kululu just simply didn't deserve.

Luckily enough, or perhaps unluckily enough, nobody in their right mind were going to just abandon her and leave Mois up to her own devices to "cure" Kululu. They were meddlers and they were going to meddle. Keroro especially just because he liked dipping his hands into things and making it about him.

That was why, Keroro had the brilliant idea to use the invasion as a tool to force Kululu and Angol Mois to spend more time together.

"Our next plan platoon is to invade the pekoponian school system and infiltrate humanity as common people." Keroro announced to the platoon on his little podium. Of course most of the platoon knew that this plan served one purpose and that was to get Kululu to have to spend time with Mois.

Still people like Giroro didn't exactly like the invasion being used as a tool for punishment. He tried not to look too grudging in the crowd as Keroro pretended everything was normal.

Keroro waited for someone (hopefully Kululu) to take interest in his plan and ask questions. Tamama eventually realized he was waiting for interaction and piped up. "Oh! But why? Why would that help with the invasion?" He asked excitedly.

"I'm so happy you asked, private." Keroro beamed. "You see the pekoponian school system was created for the sole purpose of teaching their young how to beat invaders. That's obviously why Natsumi is so strong. So the only way we can learn ahead of time what they're planning is by actually going to the school and pretending to be part of it as pekoponians!"

"Ku, ku, ku. I'm sure Natsumi will just totally miss the fact that there are people in her school with frog heads. That's worked wonders for us before." Kululu commented sarcastically finally listening to the plan.

As an alien he of course bought into the fact that pekoponian schools were teaching people how to stop invaders.

Keroro was silent. He hadn't exactly thought this plan through. His plan was to just make Kululu and Mois go to school. But Kululu was seeing through it easily by actually being a good employee and pointing out flaws in his plan.

"I...Uhh...Have a gun.." Giroro finally spoke up, "That can change us to look more pekoponian." He coughed awkwardly. He knew Keroro was trying and he couldn't let his sacrifice be in vain.

Keroro's eyes sparkled. "Yes! Yes we'll use that to infiltrate Natsumi's school!"

"I wonder if this plan is truly here to learn or if it's just another 'humiliate Natsumi scheme. Ku." Kululu finally clued in to that there might be other intentions in this plan. The captain would never be smart about the invasion. It's gotta be another humiliate Natsumi plan.

"You got it!" Keroro denied nothing because it worked in his favor if Kululu thought completely the wrong thing. If Natsumi got hurt from this plan, no problem. She was the enemy! And also she'd probably support it...If she knew that was.

Kululu grinned. "I'm in then! I'm all for torturing someone."

Keroro's smile cracked. It's so hard to interact with him. I mean even when I'm humiliating Natsumi I don't have such a mean attitude. He tried to quickly recover.

"Captain?" Dororo finally asked. "I assume we won't all be going, correct? Five new transfer students is always suspicious." Dororo tried to keep Keroro's introduction of his scheme rolling.

"Five?" Keroro asked. Oh yeah cuz there's us four platoon members and Mois.

Dororo sobbed.

"Yes! The blue guy is right though!" Keroro grinned. "Not all of us will be infiltrating the school. I'll choose only two of us."

Everybody pretended to look interested, except for Kululu who looked bored.

I'm guessing the captain and Giroro? Suits me just fine. It will be fun to watch something like this disaster. Kululu yawned.

"I'll choose...Kululu and Mois." Keroro finally announced.

Kululu fell off of the arm he was leaning on. "What? Why me?" He was the worst choice.

"Well, umm...It's because you're the only one smart enough to successfully lie and infiltrate anything." Keroro quickly answered.

Kululu just stared at him, "Ku, I guess you're right. I mean I just didn't think you'd make a smart choice." He looked around, "Ku, ku, ku. I'm surprised Giroro didn't beg to come though so he could have some stupid school romance with Natsumi."

"H-hey! I don't want a...school romance with Natsumi." Giroro blushed. "I want a battle roman- I mean no romance." Giroro quickly corrected. "None at all."

Kululu raised a brow. That's odd...He's not complaining about the fact that I'm going to Natsumi's school. "Well I have no complaints about going. It'll let me humiliate Natsumi up close and personal. Ku, ku, ku." Kululu tried to get any reaction out of Giroro.

There was none. Something really odd is going on. Kululu frowned.

"Why am I going, Uncle? When you ask me to take an active role in an invasion plan it's usually to win Gundam models." Mois pointed out. "Wait...Is there something going on at Natsumi's school where the cutest people can win Gundam models? Is that why I'm going?" Mois curiously asked.

"If the cutest people won a gundam model, Mr. Sergeant would send me, not you, dumb broad." Tamama hissed. "Wouldn't you, Mr. Sergeant?" Tamama looked loving at Keroro.

He was ignored.

"Well, it's because Natsumi actually likes you, obviously, Mois. She's fine with you going to a school. Also...You look like a pekoponian. I just thought it would be easiest for you to infiltrate a school." Keroro told her.

"And maybe you could learn a thing or two!" Dororo piped up. "Your Japanese is not very..." He didn't know how to tell her she needed to work a little harder in her phrases.

Mois frowned. She didn't really want Dororo to finish his sentence. "Well I'm all for it! I think it could be fun. Like Kululu said."

Keroro winked at her for a moment, trying to communicate that this was a good opportunity to be alone with Kululu and try to over-expose him a little bit more. He hoped she understood the wink.

Kululu paid no attention to anything. Something is very very weird about this situation. The captain not inserting himself into a plan and making people do his work could be seen as normal but he never turns down the opportunity to put on new clothes. And Giroro not rushing to Natsumi's defense and protecting her from me is just strange.

Something was going on.

It didn't take very long at all to arrive at school at all. And it only took a few file changes to put Kululu and Mois in Natsumi's class.

Kululu, the human, who looked nothing like a keronian walked into the classroom casually.

"Hello, can I help you, sir?" Asked the teacher.

"Nah, I'm just going to class. You couldn't have forgotten about one of your students, right? I mean I'm like the best kid here." Kululu mockingly told her. "And you're not a terrible teacher that would forget your student, right? Ku." Despite trying to pretend that he was always there he just couldn't stop laughing.

Natsumi watched in horror, her hands pined to her desk and her jaw wide opened. Despite the momentary confusion at a completely normal looking human walking into her classroom, she recognized the importance of anime hair. And the laugh and voice instantly gave away that this was Kululu.

I can't yell stupid frog in the middle of class. Oh no...What is happening? Natsumi wanted to internally cry.

"I...I would never forget one of my students!" Her bewildered teacher cried.

Kululu raised...an actual eyebrow, "Really? Then what's my name. I'm sure I've always been here. I mean I'm even in your class list."

The worried teacher quickly flipped around in her list of students. "Oh yes. I've always known you Curi Prince." She tried to read the name. "Yep. Always remembered every single one of my students." She looked quite ashamed.

Kululu just sat down, grinning to himself.

Natsumi put her hands on her head, internally dying inside. How could you fall for that?

"And this is your other student, Mois-" Kululu tried to let Mois walk in too.

"Shh! My name's not Mois! It's Ao." Mois lied. "I'm not Mois and you can tell because I'm wearing glasses." Mois pushed her her glasses. "Nobody will recognize me." She said proudly.

Kululu winced. "Glasses don't work that way-"

"Who is she?" Koyuki asked bewildered. "She smells a bit familiar….But I can't recognize her! Cool! A new cool girl."

"It's Clark Kent syndrome." Angol Mois stated proudly.

"...You can literally change your appearance at will. I don't...Understand why you didn't use it." Kululu just sighed. This great pranking day was already going downhill.

Natsumi's eye twitched as Mois sat down next to Kululu, the teacher quickly trying to pretend she did in fact know these students.

She waited for Keroro and the others to come too, but they never did. Is...Is this not an invasion plan? If it was they wouldn't have just sent Kululu. Giroro and the stupid frog would be here.

Natsumi realized in horror that it was just Kululu and Mois. Wait...Did the stupid frog send them to my school as some sort of plan to help terrify Kululu? And he didn't ask me about it? She didn't want her school to be casualties in this war against Kululu.

She would have to scold the stupid frog later. Either way school isn't like what it is in manga. Does he think it's all just magically some terrifying shoujo?

Apparently he did. And Natsumi was furious at her school being used as a battleground.

Throughout the entire morning day, Kululu focused more on humiliating Natsumi than learning anything important or being subjugated to any weird moral lesson by Mois. Using a voice changed with pre-recorded lines under the desk, he made sure that whenever Natsumi was called on she said odd and usually embarrassing things.

"What's the square root of 9?" The teacher would ask.

"I'm sorry I need to go to the bathroom because I ate my pencil and now I'm sick." Natsumi would say. She would cover her mouth afterwards and try to defend herself, "I'm sorry, the pencil wasn't even mine! It was yours."

The teacher looked at her oddly and quickly shoved all her pencils in her desk out of Natsumi's sight.

"Natsumi, ummm...Uhh...Could someone else answer the question?" The teacher would quickly say.

Natsumi would keep her hands clamped down over her mouth until someone else asked her something and then she was forced to say something more awkward. She tried to shake her head and refuse to speak but people would just prod her as to what was wrong.

This is terrible! Natsumi cried throughout the entire first half of the day in her mind. And when she looked at Kululu laughing to himself and propping his feet on his desk he didn't even look like he was having any problems at all.

Mois was way too focused on actually trying to learn and take notes for Keroro to actually be working on the bet or making Kululu suffer in any way.

He was unrestrained and having a field day humiliating Natsumi.

It was only at lunch that Natsumi got a little bit of free time. Her plan had been to confront Kululu on the embarrassment he was throwing at her, or try to tell Angol Mois to restrain him a little bit, but she didn't get a chance to.

Instead Angol Mois and Kululu were swarmed by people in the class who were smart enough to know they were new, but not smart enough to know they were suspicious. "Wow! You two seem really nice. What school did you go to before this? What kind of things do you like to do? Are you going to join any clubs?" Those sort of questions swarmed them leaving Kululu unable to focus on Natsumi, having to focus on conversation instead.

"Ku, ku, ku. I went to Tokyo University. Unfortunately I flunked out and now I'm back here." Kululu sighed trying to make all his answers a little weird. "And I'm glad you say I'm nice. You'll definitely stick with that idea." He hissed very sarcastically. He tried very hard to make the boring people leave him alone so he could go back to ruining Natsumi's life.

Slowly people started getting the clue and taking a few steps back from Kululu. However Angol Mois was very happy to answer fake questions with what she thought were reasonable answers. "I never went to school!" And "Do you have a club about learning the fault lines of this planet?"

"She's a little weird." People might mutter. "But she's cute so what does it matter! And she must be smart anyway. I mean...She's wearing glasses!" Glasses were the sign of intelligence.

The people surrounding Kululu and Angol Mois seemed quite taken with Mois, and because she sat right next to Kululu they wouldn't stop blocking Kululu's view of Natsumi, stopping his mischief momentarily.

"You seem super nice, Ao. And cute! But you two don't look very much alike so you can't be related. I mean you both have glasses but glasses aren't genetic..." Someone muttered. "Unless people are born with glasses in the womb!"

"They are." Kululu lied.

That person gasped.

"Anyway, what I think my friend was trying to say was...are you two childhood friends? It's odd to have two new students at the same time. And you seem to know each other." Another student pointed out.

Kululu paused. He hadn't thought about a backstory for how he and Mois knew each other. He hadn't cared enough to think up a plausible reason for why they were both here at the same time. "We're..." He paused and fumbled a bit.

"I'm his girlfriend." Mois quickly answered. "We moved here together. People your age live together, right? What do young people do..." She frowned and muttered to herself. She was living on her own at 2000 and that was young. So people Natsumi's age must live on their own with their boyfriend too.

Kululu's jaw dropped. Sure, that was an answer and backstory. But I never really expected to hear those words from Mois's mouth nor was I prepared for it. Despite it being a cover story. It was the cover he wanted least.

He rubbed his forehead trying to calm himself down, and get comfortable with that lie or at least remind himself that it was just the first thing she had thought of and there was nothing about it that he wanted to hear.

Mois, why. People their age don't even live on their own. ...I think? Actually he wasn't too sure about that. Saburo lived on his own. She might have something of value there. But why couldn't they just be 'roommates'.

He was still in utter horror at the idea, when Mois draped her arms around his arm. "Yep! We're like totally dating, so it's not suspicious at all for us to be talking and scheming together and giggling." She tried to continue making up a good excuse. "Right, Kulu—Curi?" She looked up at him hoping he'd confirm her story.

Kululu was dead. He couldn't answer anything. The moment she had put her hands around him, it had felt like his heart had literally jumped out of his chest, packed up it's suitcases and bailed on him. Come back! He wanted to cry. Unfortunately that had worked all too well and now that heart was trapped oddly in his chest trying to throw itself out. The side effect was it felt like his heart was beating way too fast. Maybe I should have let it bail and leave me. Then one of us could be saved.

"Kulu- Curi?" Mois looked up worriedly at him. He hadn't spoken for a long time. He was just staring at her body draped around his arm as if trying to figure out scientifically what was going on.

Ah...I get it...Poor Kululu. His fear is even getting in the way of the invasion plot! And Uncle's plan was so good. She didn't want their cover blown because she was taking this infiltration way too seriously. But at the same time she could easily figure out what was going on.

Maybe...This is for the best though? It's a chance to do a little more of that over-exposure so he can get more used to the idea of me instead of fearing me. And nothing was scary about a girlfriend. Girlfriends were always romantic things and wonderful things. If she acted like a girlfriend instead of a concerned friend around Kululu maybe he'd see that she meant no harm.

Not even he could be afraid of how a girlfriend acted, right? Yes. This will work! He'll get better and feel better. Mois decided. She'd act like his girlfriend. At least for today.

She nuzzled up closer as Kululu just fully froze trying to figure out if he was dying, or if the purity was just now worming it's way into his skin.

His attention was now fully off of Natsumi and how to save himself from the terrifying demon in front of him.

Something is odd. Kululu had had that feeling that something weird was going on for this whole invasion plan.

It was odd how Giroro wasn't inserting himself in it. It was odd how Keroro wasn't dressed up. It was odd that there was no sound of a crying Dororo. And now the way Mois was acting was odd.

He was sure Mois's oddness didn't have to do with the invasion plot but something odd in general was going on. I've gotta be smart. Can't just stare at Mois and think about the fact that she's FREAKIN TOUCHING ME. Kululu told himself.

He didn't notice that Natsumi was staring and grinning to herself like she was finally free. Mois just hummed as she took notes and sat in Kululu's lap, like she thought a girlfriend should do.

The teacher just shrugged. She was going on vacation next week anyway. I don't get paid enough to deal with forgetting my students, a student who eats pencils and a student who's sometimes on the ceiling. The teacher sighed. She'd allow it.

I've gotta be smart about this predicament. I'm a genius. Kululu told himself. I know Mois is acting this...affectionate for our cover story. And she's really into it because she just works really hard at the invasion and she might have the wrong ideas of what a girlfriend does…

But there was something odd about it. She was acting TOO affectionate. Even for an invasion plan, he doubted Mois would willingly get all nuzzly with him. It seemed too hard to do and something she might not like. He was a creep after all! She was supposed to be scared and creeped out by him. More so than he being scared of her.

She can't be just that invested in the stupid invasion. Pretending to be my girlfriend even for a day seems too much even for Mois. It seems like the sort of thing she'd complain about to Keroro. Kululu tried to think logically about what he knew about people.

There can only be one explanation then...Kululu decided. I've been sent to some alternate universe with a more affectionate Mois! That's why she's been acting so weird lately and obsessed with spending time with me. Heck..Maybe we even are dating in this universe. He inwardly panicked. What if it wasn't a lie?

He glanced at Natsumi. She didn't look surprised by any of this. And he knew she knew this was him and Mois.

Crap! It's true! We are dating! This was definitely an alternate universe. It never went through Kululu's head that everybody might be in on some big Mois related prank on him. An alternate universe just seemed more believable.

Mois hugged him and Kululu tried not to focus on how it felt at all. You can figure out a way out of this alternate universe. But first you've got to tell this Mois that you're not from around here. Then this onslaught of affection will STOP. Kululu decided.

He just need to figure out a time to confront Mois about how he had figured out things by over thinking.

He found the time to talk to her during gym at the end of the day. Nobody else was really doing anything or moving, due to the fact that their feet were all glued to the floor courtesy of Kululu.

"Augh! Augh! We can get out of this, Koyuki! I know it...And then...Then that frog is so dead!" Natsumi growled, trying to get her feet off the floor.

"Not even my ninja artes can remove this super sticky glue!" Koyuki cried.

"Who could have done this?" The teacher cried.

"Maybe it was the new student. Since this never ever happened before." Natsumi rolled her eyes.

"He's not a new student! He was always here. I would never forget a student!" The teacher lied.

Natsumi sighed.

"Oh...Well...Umm...Weird things usually happen around you that don't usually stick." The teacher responded.

"I stuck!" Koyuki proclaimed.

"Yes, except for her. She stayed. But I'm just assuming he won't be back again tomorrow. Or he'll be expelled. Either one." The teacher shrugged.

Kululu was promptly expelled as firefighters were brought to the school to remove the glue. He happily left on a great note, along with Mois who just kinda followed him.

That's over. That means I can finally confront Mois. Kululu realized. "Mois, I need to talk to you about something." He took an oddly serious tone.

Mois looked at him. "Yes?"

"I'm not the Kululu from your world. I think I might have been transported to an alternate dimension, which is why I've been so confused by how...Well your what it's seemed like sudden display of affectionate towards me- I've figured out that I'm in an alternate world because it's literally the only explanation for your behavior as of lately." Kululu told her bluntly.

Mois stared at him for a moment, dumb founded. So….He thought that I was acting weird for being affectionate but instead of thinking….like anything normal at all like that I wanted to spend more time with him he assumed he was in an alternate dimension? She didn't know how to respond to that without giggling, but she managed to. Even Kululu has his over-reactions every now and then.

"You're not in an alternate dimension, Kululu!" She smiled, "I've just been acting more affectionate lately!" She happily told him.

Kululu stared at her. That can't be it. But she had said it. She had told him directly she was acting more affectionate. "Why?" He couldn't help but blurt out the first thing that came through his head.

He couldn't figure it out. Why would she willingly want to spend time with him? Touch him? If...If I was looking at this from an outsider's perspective I guess it might look like she had a c-crush on me or something, but it's not that. Wait...Is this some sinister scheme? Was she confessing to a crime?

"Well it's because..." Mois frowned for a moment trying to explain it. Hiding things and lying doesn't help anyone. Maybe Kululu could even help supply ideas on how to help him if he was in on things.

There was no reason in her mind not to tell Kululu the full truth. "I'm trying to over-expose you to me. Have you ever heard of over-exposure therapy when it comes to phobias and things?"

"O-over..Over-expose me?" He had heard of exposure therapy. And while it worked some times it didn't work all the time. "B-but...What was a phobia have to do with you...Touching me?" He tried to process the words she was saving.

"Well...I don't know if you've noticed this Kululu, but you have a huge problem." Mois frowned. "You're...You're really afraid of me. And I feel like that impacts your daily life a lot more than you would like. It stops you from being able to do some things because you're frozen in terror from little old me!" Mois over dramatically covered her mouth.

Kululu narrowed his eyes. Frozen in terror was how he had described it himself, but that wasn't exactly what was happening. He just froze and couldn't think sometimes.

"I wanted to help you. As much as I could, I mean. That's why I'm doing all this." Mois confessed. "I just...Don't want you to have that problem anymore because of me." It was an innocent and kind answer. Although she had neglected to mention anything about a bet, (because she felt like it wasn't her driving motivation and reason), she did tell him the honest innocent truth.

Despite her innocent and helpful eyes and intentions staring at him, Kululu didn't feel any gratefulness in him at hearing what was going on. Instead he felt a little embarrassment that he hadn't figured out that she was doing something for stupid pure reasons along with anger.

"I don't have a problem." He said sternly. Is that what she thought about him? That he couldn't function at all around her and that she needed to do things like this just to get him more used to people? Does she think I'm not used to people or something? He just felt a lot of anger. Mostly derived from the denial of the original problem, and the feeling that she was pitying him.

"I don't want your help." He growled. "There's no huge problem I'm dealing with and I don't need you to fix it. In fact even if I was scared of you, I think you being around and t-touching me...Like that, or like you were doing today would make it worse." Kululu glared at her.

"But you have a huge problem, Kululu!" Mois argued. "Sometimes you can't even finish inventions because I'm just there doing normal things like looking at you! You blew up your computer over this!"

"I do not have any sort of problem at all." Kululu denied again.

"Facing the fear is part of the battle-" Mois tried to negotiate.

"And even if I did, I don't want your pity." Kululu hissed. "I'm not a pity case. You can't just fix me. I'm not injured or diseased and you can't just hug the fear away!" He yelled a bit.

I...I can't believe my fear is so obvious to her that she pities me! That's such a Mois thing to do trying to help me and fixing all the problems. He didn't want that sort of kindness though, and her pity disgusted him. He didn't want to be pitied. It brought him down. Made him feel...like he was lower than everybody else.

"But-"

"I'm not diseased! I don't need a cure!" Kululu crossed his arms.

"But you could have a normal life if I just helped-" Mois tried to stammer. She just wanted to be helpful, she reached out to try to see if she could reach him, but Kululu moved away.

"I don't NEED your help. Listen, Mois, maybe I am afraid of you. Terrified even." Kululu admitted, "But that isn't ever going to go away. And anything you try to do won't fix it and will honestly be horrible for both of us." Kululu tried not to snap at her, and keep his voice in a cold and logical tone.

"I am never ever going to stop fearing you." He told her coldly. It was just natural. He couldn't stop his body from reacting this way, terrified. He had tried to stop the heart palpations before, the obsessive thoughts about her, his skin having goosebumps when she touched him, the worms in his stomach. Nothing worked. And every time he so much as glanced at Mois he just fully relapsed, feeling this odd enjoyment of her company that he just didn't like.

Mois's hopeful look dropped, and if a heart could be expressed on a face it looked like hers had broken. She wanted to believe she could help she really did.

"You're just making things worse." Kululu continued. "So...Leave me alone." He felt tired, from scolding Mois on something he knew she probably should have already known. He wanted to say please leave me alone so she might not look so sad, but he just couldn't.

Mois nodded, trying to respect Kululu's boundaries, even a little bit opened her mouth to say something like sorry, but eventually just walked away.

Kululu turned around trying to ignore her going. He had other things to do like reporting on this invasion.

Mois tried to think as she walked. There was a certain sadness that seemed to ache away in her body about the conversation, like how Kululu had directly said he would always fear her no matter what. Don't repeat it in your head. Mois instructed. It hurt, after all. But she needed to focus on what was important.

This was never about her feelings, this was never about making Kululu like her more. This was about helping Kululu. It's about making Kululu's life better, being helpful and kind to someone else. Not...How I feel.

It was about how Kululu felt. And she had to think about what he had said.

Is...Is not trying anymore really for the best? Because it's hopeless and he's never stop being afraid? She wondered. Kululu had seemed so mad. Insulted even by the fact that she was trying to help him.

It was just like Kululu to be insulted by someone offering to help out or an act of kindness. That was just Kululu.

He didn't want my help. And he seemed like in a way he didn't even want to be cured. Is...Is his fear helpful in anyway to him? In a way it seemed like he wanted to keep it. Like it was a crutch. But that didn't make any sense. Why would Kululu want to have something like that?

I wonder if he doesn't want my help because I went about it the wrong way, going the physically affectionate route through over-exposure. Maybe she had messed up a little bit. Or...Does Kululu just not like help?

Both were valid answers. At least she thought so. Should I give up?

She tried to imagine a world where she gave up on helping Kululu. A world where Kululu just continued to live in fear of thought about how much fun they had at the zoo together, talking in the tech team, watching Keroro's invasion plans on the sidelines and sometimes gossiping about them. She liked watching Kululu invent, and she knew deep down he liked explaining things to someone.

Those sorts of things...Hanging out with Kululu..They're all fun! And I'm absolutely certain I'm not the only one who thinks so! The Kululu in her memories looked like he was having fun too. He was always smiling and laughing. He was just so filled with joy, even if it was nefarious.

We could do lots of fun things like that if he just didn't have this fear. We could hang out all the time! Mois realized. And he would enjoy it too! He seemed to genuinely like her company at times even if he denied it.

Deep down, they were friends, he had to accept that. And she wanted him to enjoy the time he shared with her instead of fearing for his life.

I've been thinking about this situation all wrong. I've been thinking about helping Kululu have a normal life, but this situation...It's not just a Kululu problem. It's OUR problem. It affected her just as much as Kululu.

She shouldn't just ignore her feelings in it. A relationship was built around two people after all. And the only way to have a real friendship with Kululu one that he was happy with along with her, was to cure his fear.

This was for both of them, and not just Kululu. And Kululu despite having some say couldn't stop her from trying to fix a problem that specifically had to do with her. If his fear was of something normal like bugs or dark spaces, yes he'd have every right to be angry with me for trying to help if he didn't feel comfortable talking about it. But it's not. His fear is of me. And she hadn't done anything to ignite this fear to her knowledge.

This was her and Kululu's problem and she had to help.

I want to work on not just his fear, but our relationship! I never did give up on anything. She was tenacious. She was still biding her time to destroy the planet, and she hadn't given up on Keroro. I won't give up on Kululu. Even if he wants me to. He'll face my tenacity!

She smiled to herself. This was good though that he knew her goals now. There was no reason to hide the fact that she was trying to help him and over expose him.

I don't have to be sneaky anymore! She grinned. It might be much easier to just be upfront about things. Now that Kululu knows I'm trying to get rid of his fear I can work even harder!

There was no giving up on this. Get ready, Kululu! I'm going to cure you anyway! And then we'll be able to be much closer friends!

I just wanted to play with the 'highschool au' or human trope in this one, which is dumb but surprisingly fun. Someday I hope to write another human-y au in this sort of way of them all just being stupid aliens except without just Kululu. You know where they just try to invade? But without any shoujo tropes and just Natsumi standing there the whole time being like "HOW COME EVERYBODY IS SO STUPID? THEY'RE ALIENS?" That's the sort of school au I want to write.

Anyway I procrastinated on this chapter for so long because despite the fact that this chapter is my apology for never having a highschool au it's so hard to make a school au. It's so hard.

Please forgive me