Good to see you again Slave...or hear from you, since I can't actually see you. Thank you for all your kindness, and as for the end, well that won't be coming for a long while, so...yeah. XD

As for the word hilariousness, I do believe it's a word.

To Gamera68, I don't really remember the anime mentioning her age. They seemed around the same age, I personally believed she was several months older than him, so they could indeed go to the same school, in the same year. If your mentioning manga cannon...well I'm writing a story that continues where the anime left off, though my opinion on the manga has changed drastically over the past few months. Which is why people have seen some things that are similar, but drastically different at the same time. The anime version of them, from my point of view. Thank you for trying to help though, I appreciate it.

Anyway, here's chapter two/episode two of season four. Please read, enjoy and review.

As Tsukune trained with Vladimir, he had no idea that Kyouko was busy digging into his sex life.

When Tsukune landed a particularly nasty blow to Vladimir's abdomen that forced him to cough up some blood, the training came to a halt.

Vladimir was hunched over with some of his blood still in his mouth, however that didn't stop him from looking up at Tsukune, only having to do so because Tsukune had grown an inch or so, and he was hunched over, and smirking. "At least I know you weren't slacking over the summer. You've been working on your technique, as well as how to summon even more of your monster energy. I take it you trained with Gin then?"

Tsukune let a smirk of his own cross his face, "Yeah I did actually. Also got a good deal of training with Yukari, Ruby, Mizore and Kurumu."

Vladimir's grin turned into a pleased smile as he stood all the way up, allowing him to tower over Tsukune once more. "That's good, I was going to recommend that you start training with them."

That's when Vladimir's face became grim, and he proceeded to speak, "Your loved ones seem busy, so now is the best time to tell you. I don't know when, and I don't know why, but there is a very powerful individual who is making their way to Yokai academy. I've no idea when they'll be here, but no amount of time will be enough to prepare for the coming battle. This person is far stronger than anyone else you've ever fought before, the only thing we can do is get you and your girls as strong as possible within the coming weeks so that you can at least survive the coming fight."

Tsukune's eyes were wide in disbelief and shock from Vladimir's words, but he was only silent for a few moments, "T-this person...their from Fairy Tale, aren't they?"

Vladimir looked Tsukune directly in the eyes for several long moments, but gave no answer.

This was bad, very bad...

Two hours later...

Tsukune lingered outside the door to his room for several moments, thinking over what Vladimir had said once more. "If that's the case I need to start training even harder..."

After whispering that to himself Tsukune unlocked his door, before entering his room. With him being sweaty and somewhat worn out from his session with Vladimir he decided to take a shower. He grabbed a pair of boxers and and a short sleeved white t-shirt from his closet, before heading to the bathroom.

He spent a good thirty minutes in the shower, most of it spent thinking. But once he was done and dressed, he exited the bathroom, still drying his hair as he did so. He put the towel in his dirty clothes hamper when he was done, after he turned around though he noticed something strange...his window was wide open.

As he walked over to it he couldn't help but mutter to himself, "I could of sworn I not only closed that, but I was sure I locked it too."

It was strange, but nothing to be too alarmed about, so he shut it. However he waited a moment or two before turning around, and when he did he began searching the room with his eyes. His eyes darted to the door, to the bathroom, and to the kitchen. Deciding to check a few things Tsukune began to walk forward, but out of the corner of both eyes began checking things.

"Bathroom door is still open, door is still locked..."

That was with his right eye.

His left eye..., "Kokoa in my bed-"

Tsukune paused immediately. He couldn't help but think, "Did I just see what I think I saw?"

So he turned to his left, and Kokoa was indeed in his bed, under the covers, staring right at him, a blush and a seductive smirk on her face.

Before Tsukune could say anything, Kokoa got to her knees in the bed, letting the covers fall right off her, revealing her in all her naked glory, before getting to her feet while still on the bed.

Both of Tsukune's hands shot to his nose, to keep it tightly closed, so as to keep it from shooting huge amounts of his vital life source, his blood. "Kokoa what-"

He was cut off however when the young vampire in question leapt off the bed and collided directly with his body.

On instinct alone Tsukune caught her, but she seemed to know he would do that as she attacked his lips with hers, keeping him from speaking, wrapping her legs around his waist as she did so.

Tsukune stumbled around for several seconds with a butt naked Kokoa clinging to him and her tongue trying to wrestle his, before he collapsed backwards onto the bed. As he did Kokoa pulled back so as to let Tsukune breath, and as he fought for air she felt something poke her, which caused her smirk to grow, as well as her blush.

Once the young man had gotten enough air into his lungs, he quickly asked his question, "What was that all about!?"

"I've been waiting for us to do this again, but you never did anything, so I'm going to."

A very dark blush came over Tsukune's face then, "You could've just said that you wanted to us to...uh, be intimate, again."

Kokoa then gave him a somewhat accusing look, "And so could have you. I've been waiting and waiting, but nothing. I thought I had done something wrong, I thought..."

The look she was giving Tsukune faded and she had to look away, sadness creeping into her voice. "...I thought that because of whatever I did, that you didn't want me like that anymore."

Before Kokoa knew what was happening, Tsukune was sitting up and pulling her into a tight embrace and whispering in her ear. "I'm so sorry Kokoa. I never meant to make you feel like you did something wrong, because you didn't, nothing at all. Our night together was amazing, you're amazing, and I don't want you to ever think otherwise."

Kokoa couldn't help but let tears begin falling, he always made her so happy, and he didn't even know it. So she returned the embrace, "Thank you, thank you, thank you Tsukune. I love you so much."

Tsukune couldn't help but smile, she sounded so cute when she said that. "I love you too Kokoa."

The seventeen year old and fifteen year old stayed like that for several long moments, before Kokoa spoke once more, her tone hushed. "Tsukune, I still want this...please."

The way she said that sent a chill down Tsukune's spine, "Anything for you."

Tsukune then proceeded to lay Kokoa down, before moving lower. Which served to confuse the vampire, even if it was just for a moment. "Tsukune, what are you, ah!"

It wasn't long before Kokoa had Tsukune's head in a vice grip with her thighs.

At the same time, not even fifty feet from the boys dorm Mizore and Kurumu were having one of their more severe scuffles.

It had started when Kurumu had tried to head towards the boys dorm, and Mizore proceeded to cut her off and pick a fight with her. Little could the Succubus know why Mizore was choosing now of all times to pick a fight with her...

Mizore's thoughts, "Kokoa better keep her end of the bargain, I'll hold off Kurumu today and she better hold her off tomorrow."

When Tsukune was done, it only took a moment before Kokoa had him on his back, removing his boxers so violently that they might have ripped, straddling him and proceeding to lower herself down onto him.

There would be noise complaints the next day, Tsukune just knew it...

The next day...

Vladimir couldn't keep from bursting out into laughter as Ruby allowed him to look over all the formal complaints that had been put in against Tsukune, a lot of them complaining about noise, particularly the noise that came from his room last night.

Vladimir had been by the boys dorm last night, he heard some of what they were complaining about, they were somewhat right. Didn't change the fact that teenage boys raised hell when someone besides them was getting laid, and it showed in their complaints. it was absolutely hilarious to the several century old vampire.

Even the headmaster had an amused smirk.

Ruby was smiling too, mainly because Tsukune wasn't going to be punished because of this though.

Tsukune yawned as he stretched out, trying to get his stiff muscles to loosen up. He did this the best he could with Kokoa lying asleep on top him. It was still early, he could tell, so there was no rush. Unlike last time though he had expected to wake up with a beautiful girl in his bed, so only a light blush graced his face when he looked at her naked form on top of him, covered only by his blanket.

It was several minutes later that Kokoa woke up, and she was greeted by the greatest thing in the world, at least to her that is, Tsukune's smiling face, and the scent of his delicious blood filling her nostrils. Without asking, since she knew it was okay for her to do so, Kokoa sunk her fangs into Tsukune's neck and began to feed.

She fed for a short while before pulling away, and when just a tiny drop of blood escaped her mouth and dribbled down her chin, Tsukune felt a stronger urge than ever before to bury his teeth so deep in Kokoa's neck that-

Tsukune cursed his own thoughts, "Bad thoughts, bad! Damn Ghoul blood!"

That's when Kokoa used her tongue to capture the little drop of blood, and then proceeded to smile at Tsukune. "We're doing all of that again, and often, understood?"

That got Tsukune focusing again, his blush darkened several shades as he answered, "I-if that's want you want, sure. I've certainly got no problem with it."

Kokoa's smile widened, "Good."

She then put her head back down, resting it on his chest.

Silence reigned for several long moments, but then what Vladimir had said made itself known within Tsukune's mind. So the young man decided now couldn't hurt, "Hey Kokoa?"

"Yeah?"

"Would you mind helping me train, you know, to get stronger? I still have a long way to go before I can protect all of you, including the other Moka. I need to get even stronger than she is."

Kokoa couldn't help it as those words not only touched her heart, but also her pride, and the thought of making Tsukune even stronger than her sister did that and more. "You know that's going to be harder than anything else you've done so far, right?"

"I do."

Kokoa lifted her head up so as to look Tsukune in the eyes once more, as she replied with, "Okay then, then lets get started."

With that Kokoa slowly got off of Tsukune and his bed, before getting to her knees and pulling a change of clothes out from under his bed that she had hidden there the day before.

Tsukune got up after she did and went to his closet so as to get dressed in another uniform. Just as he was done he turned around, and was then taken completely off guard when Kokoa jumped at him, putting her right foot through the wall where his head used to be.

He had ducked under her kick almost expertly, and when he did he muttered to himself, "Ah man, what have I gotten myself into?"

Kokoa wasted no time in prying her foot out of the wall and turning rapidly, performing a spin kick as she did so.

Tsukune evaded this by taking two quick steps back, and as he did he noticed Kokoa's skirt rise up enough for him to see her white panties, which reminded him of a certain perverted werewolf. So as he proceeded to dodge several more attacks from Kokoa, he thought to himself, "I wonder what Gin is up to right about now..."

Somewhere in the human world...

"Who will it be, who will it be, who will I see taking off their clothes, taking off their clothes."

Gin was currently singing his signature pervert song, while peeping on girls with his camera, all the while thinking, "Man I really have to thank Tsukune for recommending this human college to me, it's a lot frickin easier to do my thing here."

After dodging a few more attacks and creating a few more holes in his room, Tsukune and Kokoa had taken it outside. They were now at the bus stop, however Tsukune was still defending, rather than attacking. He knew he asked for this, but he still couldn't bare the thought of hurting one of his girls, even if it was just when they were training.

This hesitancy to fight did not go unnoticed by Kokoa, so she stopped attacking abruptly and spoke, her tone showing her slight annoyance and her eyes holding a somewhat accusing look. "What are you doing? I thought you wanted me to help you get stronger, I can't do that if all you do is dodge and defend, you have to fight back!"

Tsukune began rubbing the back of his head in embarrassment, looking at his feet, not sure if he could look Kokoa in the eye at this point. "I'm sorry Kokoa, I just hate the thought of hurting you girls, even if it's just when we're training. I love you all far too much, I couldn't bare to bring you harm..."

Kokoa's eyes softened at that, "He never stops, does he...?"

So with a sigh Kokoa tried again, "Listen Tsukune, you know I'm a vampire, an s-class monster, when your fighting me you don't have to hold back or worry about hurting me, I'm not like those other stupid girls, I can take it."

Tsukune wanted to rebuke that claim that the other girls were weak, but decided against it. He understood what she meant, and that was all that mattered. So he got into a fighting stance and began to draw on his monster energy, "I...I understand."

Kokoa let a tiny smirk cross her face then, "Then let's try this again."

And with that Kokoa charged straight forward toward Tsukune, she closed the distance between them before going for a left spinning kick, which Tsukune jumped back to avoid, before charging forward and trying to hit Kokoa with a right hook which she ducked under, and then tried to counter with a left straight to Tsukune's gut, but he stopped it in its tracks with both of his hands just before it could make contact.

Both fighters jumped away from each other then, before coming back for more.

Twelve hours later...

Tsukune entered his room, grabbed a pair of boxers, deciding to forgo the shirt tonight, before entering the bathroom so as to take a shower.

However as he took a shower an incident began to take place in the main courtyard of Yokai academy, concerning two of his girls...

The last of the students were making their way to their dorms, Kurumu included amongst them since she had to stay behind after class. But as she made her way across the main courtyard, heading towards the boys dorm, she was cut off by the last person she expected to do so, Kokoa. And as she tried to move past her, the red headed vampire continued to move and block her path.

After several attempts to get past her Kurumu's annoyance and frustration showed as she nearly shouted, "What the hell is your problem!?"

Kokoa, a scowl on her face, replied almost immediately, "You are, you and the rest of those dumb broads that is. After learning about what those three losers did to Tsukune, I started to dig into what else you stupid bitches failed to protect him from, and the list goes on and on. None of you deserve to be with him."

Kurumu had to bite her tongue hard to keep from screaming at Kokoa for what she had just said, and even then that didn't keep her from doing so, "And what the hell do you know!? You weren't there to protect him, because he didn't even know you existed until a year ago!"

Kokoa's scowl grew at that, "That may be true, but at least I didn't abandon him."

Kurumu was in Kokoa's face in an instant, her long claws out and at the ready. "What did you just say!? I never abandoned Tsukune!"

"I talked to my sister, my real sister, and she told me everything, including the time where you and the snow bitch abandoned him because you found out he was human. Tsukune deserves someone better than that, someone who won't abandon him just because he's different."

"You bitch!"

Kurumu then tried to impale Kokoa's face with her right set of claws, which the vampire stepped to the left to avoid. But that didn't stop Kurumu from trying to stab her once more, and when she dodged she tried again and again. As Kurumu tried to gut her, and Kokoa continued to dodge, the young succubus tried to defend her actions. "Tsukune and Moka lied to me, kept the fact that he was human a secret, they betrayed my trust! I was upset, I wasn't thinking, but I did come back for him!"

That's when Kokoa's voice began to rise in volume, her anger starting to show, "And you were almost too late! If it had just been you Tsukune would have died!"

Kurumu's attacks became even more frantic at that point and tears began to fall as well, "That's not true!"

"And haven't you ever wondered why Tsukune didn't tell you his secret!? It's because he didn't trust you, he thought you'd turn your back on him if you knew he was human, and that's exactly what you did! And what does he do!? He forgives you! But you don't deserve it! Not his trust, or his love!"

That's when Kokoa decided to fight back, so as quick and as hard as she could she slammed her right foot into Kurumu's gut, causing her to cease attacking, double over in pain and spit up some blood. As she was on her knees Kokoa spoke to her once more, "I can't stand pathetic beings like you."

With that she walked away. Even to her that was a pretty harsh way to keep someone busy, but she had let her anger get the better of her, and she let out all the resentment she held for the rest of the girls out on Kurumu. She really did feel that none of the other girls deserved Tsukune, except for her real sister, but that didn't change the fact that she still wanted him all for herself. But as she walked away she assured herself that she wouldn't ever let those feelings get the better of her again.

Kurumu didn't even attempt to get to her feet as Kokoa walked away, she just broke down and began to cry her eyes out. After the pain of the kick subsided though she eventually got to her feet, before sprouting her wings and racing to her room where she would continue to stir in her newly found misery.

Neither Kokoa or Kurumu noticed the fact that Yukari had been there, watching as it all went down, or the fact that just before the young witch could reach her to try and comfort her Kurumu flew away.

Kurumu lie on her stomach, face buried in her pillow as she cried harder than she ever had before, when there was a knock at her door. It went unnoticed by the distraught succubus, until the knocking got louder and more insistent. She tried to ignore it, and yet it continued for a several minutes, not stopping once. Since she wanted to be left alone, she screamed at the person knocking to get lost. "Why won't you just go away!? I wanna be alone! So just leave!"

What the succubus didn't expect was to hear Yukari's voice on the other end of the door, "Not until I know your okay, so let me in!"

"Go away Yukari, I don't have time to fight with you!"

"Listen to me! I saw what happened between you and Kokoa, she said awful things to you, things that weren't true at all, but they hurt more than anything didn't they? Believe me I know, I've been on the receiving end. Sometimes words can hurt much worse than blows, so...so let me help you!"

A long thick silence hung in the air for several moments...before the sound of Kurumu's door unlocking broke it.

As soon as the door was open Yukari was inside and the door was shut once more and locked again.

Kurumu said nothing as she walked back over to her bed, before lying down and breaking down once more, her tears coming just as fast as they were moments ago.

Yukari had no idea what to do, so she did the only thing she could do, she crawled into bed with her rival, before embracing her and beginning to try and comfort her. And as she did this, Kurumu curled up with her as she continued to cry her eyes out, using her for said offered comfort.

Back in Tsukune's room...

Tsukune had just exited the bathroom, closing the door behind him, before throwing his towel into the dirty clothes hamper, when a voice startled him, "Hey there Tsukune."

The young man in question nearly jumped out of his skin in surprise, nearly yelping in the process. However he recognized that voice, so it only took a moment for his heart to stop it's erratic beating, so he turned around to face the ever so sneaky snow woman, who had somehow gotten into his room. And just as he thought, there with her back to his door was the ever elusive Mizore, and she had all her clothes on too, which spared Tsukune from the head rush that he got yesterday with Kokoa, as well as the barely stopped massive nose bleed.

So he chuckled good naturedly before saying, "Oh, hi Mizore. Didn't expect you over, or anyone else for that matter."

Mizore stepped away from the door and slowly began making her way over to Tsukune, "I'm here because a certain someone reminded me of just how shy you can be."

Tsukune couldn't help but gulp in nervousness at that, "Wh-what do you mean by that?"

Mizore had finally closed the distance between her and Tsukune, so she pushed her body against him, purposely trying to get him aroused as she began to rub up against him, although in a somewhat less provocative way than her succubus rival usually would. And after only a few seconds it began to have the desired effect. "Tsukune what I mean to say is, that I'm here to let you know that you can have me wherever, whenever and however you want, all you have to do is say the word."

Tsukune had to reach up and keep his nose closed once again, so as to keep the river of blood that was threatening to spill out, in. The young man, who now had the darkest blush ever, tried to reply, but it was all broken up, "You...you surely, I mean you can-can't mean that-"

That's when Mizore let her hand slide downward and grasp Tsukune through his boxers, before whispering in his ear, "That's exactly what I mean."

Before Tsukune could even try and form a coherent sentence to reply to that, Mizore took her hand away and had Tsukune back up several paces, before sitting him down on his bed. "Now let me make you feel good."

That's when Mizore bit down on her lollipop, breaking it into a bunch of teeny tiny pieces, before swallowing them all, giving Tsukune a small show. She took the stick out of her mouth and set it on Tsukune's dresser, before getting to her knees and grabbing a hold of Tsukune's only item of clothing, before sliding it off. He tried to protest, "Wait Mizore, you don't have-oh god!"

But once she had him in her mouth, all words died in his throat.

She pulled up after a few seconds, before giggling as she whispered to herself, "It's like my own Tsukune flavored lollipop."

Of course no less than a second later she was back to it, and vigorously.

Vladimir sat at his desk in his office, tapping his fingers of his right hand against it repeatedly, which he had been doing for the past ten minutes.

Jessica of course had noticed, but only mentioned it now, "Sir, am I correct in assuming you have one of your hunches again?"

The bald vampire didn't even bother to look at his assistant as he answered her, "Right on the money Jessica. I don't know why, but I've got a bad feeling about tomorrow. And I can't ever ignore these when I get them, because if I do-"

"Yes sir I know, because if you do then it'll turn out to be true, just like every other time you decided to ignore something and it came back to bite you in the ass. Right sir?"

Vladimir was now staring at Jessica, not in amazement, but in annoyance, and she could tell this even with his sunglasses on. "You know sometimes having an assistant who knows you as well as you know yourself can get really annoying, and sometimes I can't help but think it's more-"

"Trouble than it's worth sir, yes I know."

Vladimir narrowed his eyes at his now smirking assistant, "Do you want me to dock your pay Jessica?"

"I'd be delighted sir, it would just mean I'd have to work more hours, and you know how much I love this job."

The several century old vampire sighed then, "Alright alright, no docked pay. I was just joking, you didn't have to threaten me ya know."

"Of course not sir."

"Jeez, do you have to be so sarcastic?"

"Of course not sir."

Vladimir gave a very exaggerated sigh then before saying, "You never stop do you?"

"Of course not sir."

"And now your repeating yourself."

"Of course I am sir."

Vladimir let his head hit his desk at those words, "Okay I know what you want know, go ahead and cancel all my appointments for tomorrow, like you know I was going to ask you to do, and take the day off, as well as the rest of tonight."

Jessica's usual smile widened then, "Right away sir."

As she walked out the door Vladimir grumbled to himself, "Of all the assistants I could have chosen, I just had to pick the one who's so passive aggressive and so sarcastic that even one of the three dark lords would want to blow his brains out after dealing with her for a year didn't I?"

Vladimir sat there and pouted for several seconds, before that bad feeling washed over him again. "Alright this is no time to be joking around, time to get serious. All of my appointments for tomorrow are canceled, so that lets me keep eyes on Aono and his harem, since it's inevitable that the trouble that's coming is going to find them...or be because of them. No one ever knows with that bunch."

That almost made the shades wearing vampire smile, he really did like those kids.

Tsukune's heartbeat was already erratic, but when Mizore made a show of swallowing he almost had a heart attack. After this happened he couldn't help but think, "If this keeps up these girls are seriously going to kill me!"

And yet the night was still young...

The next morning...

When Tsukune awoke his vision was filled with Mizore's hair and his nostrils were full of her scent. He was spooning her from behind, both completely naked under the blanket that was draped across them. Once again he was more expecting of this, so his blush wasn't as bad, although it was still pretty dark considering her ass was pressed against his groin. Nevertheless he enjoyed holding Mizore like this very much, and while at first she was cold to the touch, it didn't take long for her body to warm up, he had learned this their first night together. Not to mention, just like all the other girls, Mizore had a very sweet scent. And despite his best efforts the urge to bury his non existent fangs, at least non existent at this moment, in her neck and drink from her was growing greater and greater. After a few more seconds he was almost entranced by the sight of Mizore's defenseless neck, he was beginning to want nothing more than to drink of her blood, however he fought against it, he had been fighting against it for so long now it was hard to remember not doing so. And as the urge slowly began to pass, Tsukune was sure he had once more refused to give in to his ghoul blood.

And yet Tsukune soon had to bite down on his bottom lip as the urge began to creep back up, but thankfully after several seconds it receded once more. "It just keeps coming back, this is bad, really really bad..."

The young man's train of thought was derailed as the beautiful girl he was spooning began to stir. Tsukune watched Mizore's face as her eyes fluttered open, and as she proceeded to give a yawn that was incredibly cute for some odd reason.

The snow woman's eyes found Tsukune behind her, so she rolled onto her left side, so Tsukune was now holding her where they were face to face. She closed the distances between their lips and kissed him, and as she pulled away she said, "Good morning Tsukune."

Tsukune's heart swelled at the bigger than average smile Mizore had on her face, she usually stuck to tiny smiles or smirks, to see one like this...the young man wanted more than anything to continue to see that smile on not only Mizore's face, but all the other girls's faces as well. "Good morning Mizore."

Tsukune couldn't help but think, "Today is shaping up to be a great one..."

Or at least that's what he thought...

Both Tsukune's and Mizore's attention was yanked towards the door as someone began incessantly knocking, more like banging, on it.

The young man wasn't too sure who it could be, but nevertheless he got out of bed and started getting dressed. Mizore still lie in bed, a scowl on her face at this point. That's when whoever was knocking spoke up, "Tsukune, open up, it's an emergancy!"

Tsukune nearly fell over as he realized, "That's Yukari!"

So he kicked aside his shoes in socks and neglected to pull a shirt on, with nothing but his pants on he rushed to the door before unlocking it and swinging it open. "What's wrong Yukari, are you okay!?"

Yukari didn't look too good, she had dark bags under her eyes and said eyes were somewhat bloodshot, she looked like she had stayed up all night while being stuck in a stressful situation, which she had been. Tears were also just on the edge of falling from her eyes.

"It-it's Kurumu, she...she..."

Tsukune began to grow frantic, "What, what!? What happened to Kurumu!?"

Mizore was already dressed in a clean version of her usual outfit that she had stashed in Tsukune's room the night before, this was obviously serious so she wasted no time. Now that she was dressed she grabbed Tsukune's shirt as well, since she was sure he'd have to put it on in a minute.

Tears finally began to roll down the young witch's face, and she couldn't help but let a sob break her sentence in between, "I...I closed my eyes, bu-but only for a minute! Bu-but, when...when I opened them she wasn't moving...I thought she was asleep, but she was cold to the touch, an-and she wasn't breathing!"

That's when the young witch fell to her knees and broke down, beginning to cry and sob uncontrollably.

In mere seconds Tsukune went from near top of the world, to feeling like he was falling into a pit of despair, and his heart was in a vice that was slowly crushing it.

Without saying anything, without even thinking, Tsukune was out the door, rushing down the boys dorm halls and then steps and then right out into the courtyard. He had to get to her, he had to be by Kurumu's side, now.

As Tsukune did this Mizore approached Yukari and helped her to her feet, before they followed after Tsukune, although he was already so far ahead of them they couldn't see him.

Tsukune had crossed the courtyard and had barged into the girls dorm, earning a great deal of shrieks and angered yells when doing so. He didn't care though, he had to make sure Kurumu was okay, Yukari had to be wrong, is what he kept telling himself. He rushed down a few halls before coming to her door, which he wasted no time in throwing open. The sight that greeted him was Kurumu lying motionless on her bed, her chest perfectly still, no rise or fall to it.

Tsukune's eyes widened in shock and fear, before he rushed to her side and checked her pulse...she didn't have one. "No, no!"

Tsukune then checked her heartbeat directly by putting his head to her chest, ignoring how intimate this would be in the right situation, doing his best to listen for any kind of sign she was alive. It took a second, but he heard it, it was faint but he was sure he felt and heard her heart actually beat. She was still alive.

Wasting no time, he began mouth to mouth CPR. He did his best to try force air into her lungs, before beginning chest compressions. "Come on Kurumu, breathe, breathe!"

He repeated this process for several moments before checking her heartbeat once more. He nearly breathed a sigh of relief since it was now a little faster and had a little more presence, but he couldn't just yet because she still wasn't breathing herself.

So, out of options, Tsukune scooped Kurumu up into his arms before racing out of her room and the girls dorm altogether.

Vladimir sat alone in his office, once again tapping his fingers incessantly against his desk. He was sure that whatever was going to happen, would happen today, so he just had to wait.

And as Tsukune burst into his office with one Kurumu Kuruno in his arms, he couldn't help but think to himself, "Speak of the devil."

Vladimir could already tell it was an emergency, so he was immediately on his feet. "What's going on!?"

Tsukune was near tears as he replied, "Kurumu isn't breathing, I can't feel her pulse, her heartbeat is slowing down and even CPR isn't doing much! The nurse wasn't in her office and I don't know where to find a hospital that treats monsters, I'm out of options! I don't know what to do!"

Vladimir nodded firmly as he said, "Quickly then, lie her down on my desk."

Tsukune did just that before taking a few steps back so as to let Vladimir examine her.

The bald vampire started by checking her pulse, and just as Tsukune said there wasn't one, or at least he couldn't feel one. So he put his ear to her chest and he could indeed hear and feel her heart beating, but it was so slow that it most likely wasn't even pumping blood. So he then pulled out a small flashlight that was within his desk, he'd have to thank Jessica for that, and forced the succubus's right eye open and began checking for a reaction. No matter what he tried though he couldn't get one, this wasn't just bad, it was grave and the look on Vladimir's face reflected this to Tsukune.

Vladimir's mind was running a thousand miles an hour as he tried to figure out what was wrong with the young succubus, but the only thing he could think of was..., "It couldn't be...could it?"

Vladimir's head snapped up and he spoke hurriedly, "Tsukune tell me, did anything happen between you and miss Kuruno before this happened?"

"Huh? Like what!?"

The incredibly old vampire let some heat into his voice, "Did anything happen between you two like a fight or something of that nature!? Did you say something that you knew would hurt her!? Tell me man!"

"What!? Of course not!"

Vladimir grit his teeth at that, "If Tsukune didn't do it...maybe it was one of the other girls. It's got to be, this has to be it, so someone must have said something to that affect."

Tsukune couldn't take it, the suspense, the dread, the mounting guilt, "What the hell is going on!? Tell me what's wrong with her!"

As the shades wearing vampire checked over Kurumu once more, he did his best to reply, "I'm pretty sure I know what's wrong with miss Kuruno, but I'm not a hundred percent. She's displaying all the symptoms, but something would have to trigger what I'm thinking of, and if I miss-diagnose this we'll lose what little time we have to save her life."

"A little vague don't you think!? Just tell me what could have done this to her!"

Vladimir couldn't help but grit his teeth harder to keep from saying too much, but he did eventually reply with what Tsukune wanted to know, "I believe miss Kuruno is experiencing something completely unique to succubi that have found their destined ones. You see if a succubi's destined mate rejects them they'll die, but there's another way this person could cause their demise. If a succubus has reason to believe that their destined mate hates them, or that they themselves have caused irreparable harm to them, they lose their will to live and their bodies and minds begin to shut down...permanently."

And with those words Tsukune's knees buckled and he fell to them, his eyes wide and staring directly at Kurumu.

"I know what caused this."

Both Tsukune's and Vladimir's full attention was pulled to Mizore, who was now standing in the room with all the other girls, albeit still at the doorway.

Moka's eyes were dead center on the motionless Kurumu.

Ruby's eyes were on Tsukune, uncertainty within them.

Yukari's eyes raced from Tsukune and Kurumu.

Kokoa couldn't look Tsukune in the eyes, or look at anyone at all for that matter, her eyes were on her feet.

Mizore's eyes were on Tsukune and Vladimir, as she was the one who spoke. "Yesterday, as well as the day before, Kokoa and I kept Kurumu away from Tsukune by whatever means necessary. While doing so we both said things that would upset her as we tried to fight her, but Kokoa took it a step further and broke the succubus down. According to Yukari she was more upset than she had ever been before, does that meet the right criteria for this?"

The icily calm way Mizore said that nearly sent a chill down Tsukune's spine.

Vladimir let up some of the pressure on his teeth as he replied, "Yeah that'd do it alright. So it's just as I thought, she's lost her will to live and her body is shutting down because of it."

Kokoa didn't care a thing for the succubus, but the way Tsukune was currently staring at her, as if she had stabbed him in the back, as if she had betrayed him in the worst way, it filled her with the worst shame she had ever felt. She dare not look Tsukune in the eye after those words had been spoken, so she kept her head down, even as tears stung her eyes as they began to fall she dare not look up.

Tsukune's eyes left Kokoa and went to Kurumu and Vladimir once more, "Isn't there anyway we can save her?"

Vladimir shook his head as he replied, "I've no idea how. A powerful succubus like her mother would probably know how to fix this, but there's no time to get her to her, or get her mother here. And I don't know who else would know how to deal with this sort of thing."

Tsukune shook his head vigorously in return, "There has to be a way!"

He stopped shaking his head and followed up with, "What about the school director!? He's one of the three dark lords, surely he can fix this!"

Vladimir sighed before replying, "We're out of options, at least it's worth a shot. I'll take her to the school director, Ruby you come with me. As for the rest of you, just in case wait a minute after we leave before following, no time to explain."

With that he scooped the young succubus up before leaving, Ruby in tow.

In only thirty seconds after the shades wearing vampire left, Moka, Yukari and Mizore followed, the two former not wanting to wait the allotted time.

Kokoa was going to follow behind, but two words shook her world and rooted her to the spot where she stood. "Why Kokoa?"

The red headed vampire kept her head down, but she just couldn't move, and yet she couldn't bare to look up at Tsukune.

Said young man was now on his feet and took several steps towards her. "Why would you do something like that? Why would you say things that hurt Kurumu so much that it hurt her like this on purpose?"

Kokoa's tears increased their pace as she struggled with herself with whether to reply or not, but figuring he was already going to condemn her for what she had done, she decided to tell him why. "Because she doesn't deserve you."

Tsukune's eyes widened a fraction at those words, he was sure he had heard her wrong, "What?"

Kokoa just couldn't take it, she stamped her right foot down as she near screamed, "Because she doesn't deserve you! None of those stupid bitches do! Your the kindest, sweetest, greatest person I've ever met, and their all weak and stupid, and most of them tried to hurt you or kill you, and they failed time and time again to protect you, and you forgive them and even love them in return! They don't deserve you at all!"

Kokoa couldn't help but flinch as Tsukune took two rapid steps towards her, she was expecting him to do something, she just wasn't sure what. But as Tsukune shoved her roughly up against the wall she couldn't help but gasp. Tsukune forced the young vampire to look him in the eyes, anger, disbelief and desperation were in his eyes, and his voice as he spoke. "That's why!? You've put Kurumu on her deathbed because of me!? What the hell is wrong with you!? All of your lives are infinitely more important than mine, you should never put them in jeopardy for my sake! I'm not worth it! I'm not worth it! Fuck! Why don't any of you understand!? I'm not special in any way, at all! I'm nothing but a pathetic loser! Why can't any of you see that!? I'm not even worth your time, but here you all are saving me, fighting over me, risking your lives for me, it's not right! Goddamn it it's not right!"

Tsukune once more fell to his knees as tears began to fall and his body began to be racked with sobs, he gripped Kokoa's skirt tightly, his head down as he continued to cry.

Kokoa was caught completely off guard, she thought that she and the others had been healing him and that he thought at least a little better of himself, but it was obvious his opinion of himself had only grown worse.

The young vampire sunk to her knees as well, before pulling Tsukune into a tight embrace, resting his head on her bosom as she began to stroke his hair and tried to comfort him. "Shh, it'll be okay. It doesn't matter what anyone else thinks of you Tsukune, to me your fucking perfect."

That's when Kokoa's eyes were drawn to Mizore, who no one realized had stayed behind in secret to watch over Tsukune, who was now coming over. She said nothing at first, she instead got to her knees as well beside Kokoa, before leaning into the vampire and more specifically Tsukune, trying to offer him comfort with her presence. That's when she spoke, "Kokoa's right, it doesn't matter what anyone else thinks of you, and despite what you think, to us, all of us, your nothing short of perfect. You deserve nothing less than the world, and we're going to do our best to give it to you."

All three of them held each other to comfort one, so as to take his pain away, and yet there would still be many hardships ahead of them...

To Be Continued...