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The school year passed surprisingly quickly. There were the usual stresses like studying and taking exams.
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"Aw this is awful!" Kurumu wailed. "I got a 48 on my test!"
"Amazing," Yukari said. "Your score matches your bra size."
The little witch was forced to run for her life.
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There were little ordeals connected to club activities.
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Moka and Tsukune were in vampire form fighting off a furious winged monster that was a mix of woman and bird. As they were fighting to hold her off the girls were trying to free Gin from the stake he'd been tied to.
"What sort of idiot dates a harpy?!" Kurumu yelled. "Everyone knows they always eat their ex-boyfriends!"
"I couldn't help it," Gin whined. "She put out. I'm a guy! What was I supposed to do?"
The three girls looked at each other.
"I say we leave him," Mizore suggested.
"I agree. Desu!"
"Serves him right," Kurumu said. "He probably didn't even call her afterwards."
"Oh come on!" He cried as the girls walked away.
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Then there were those personal problems that everyone deals with in High School.
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"Ruby I need that report on the freshman admissions…" The Chairman halted as he entered his subordinate's quarters.
There was Aono Tsukune dressed in one of his spare robes with Ruby over his knee. Her bare and red ass there for all to see.
Ruby turned her head up and spoke in a calm professional manner. "I will have the report on your desk first thing in the morning sir. Right now I am on my own time."
"Yes, of course, tomorrow will be fine." He said and looked directly at Tsukune who still had his hand up in the middle of a spanking motion. "Oh, and Aono?"
"Yes sir?" He replied weakly.
"Nice outfit." He grinned and left.
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There were disagreements that would pop up from time to time.
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"Tsukune! Prepare to die!" Kokoa shrieked furiously.
Tsukune and Moka both sighed wearily.
"I guess it's that time again," he said. He would need to get close enough to look her in the eye and charm her again. Then he would have several days of peace before the effect wore off.
"Kokoa!" Moka called out. "Tsukune is my mate! Could you please stop trying to kill him and just get along?"
"Never!" She shouted. "After all the times he's charmed me there is no way I will ever forgive him!"
"I only charmed you because you kept trying to kill me!"
"That's no excuse!" Grabbing her pet bat she did what she always did, transforming him into some weapon.
Tsukune pulled off his rosario and readied himself to face an oncoming Kokoa wielding a broadsword or battle axe or huge mace.
He was rather caught off guard when instead her familiar transformed into a long metal tube which she brought up to her shoulder. "A bazooka?! Since when can you do that?"
"I've been practicing," she said proudly. She opened fire and Tsukune ran for his life.
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All the usual dramas that make High School what it is.
Before they knew it the semester was mostly gone and the time for the Cultural Festival had come around again.
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"This is just wonderful Tsukune-kun," Nekonome said peering out at the long line of waiting customers. "This will easily be the most popular booth in the entire festival!"
"That's great Nekonome-sensei," he answered with a distinct lack of enthusiasm. He couldn't help but notice that a lot of the people lined up were ones who'd challenged him to fights and gotten beaten to a pulp. He was currently dressed in a tuxedo with a long cape, a classic Hollywood image of a vampire, sitting on a wooden bench attached to a metal lever suspended over a tank of water. (The water had of course been mixed with various herbs.) "Whose idea was this again?"
"Some boys in class suggested it to me!"
"It figures," Tsukune muttered.
"What?"
"Nothing," he sighed and waited on top of the dunk tank. He reminded himself it was all in good fun.
"Step right up!" Nekonome shouted. "Dunk the vampire! Two balls for a hundred yen!"
The first boy in line stepped up. Tsukune recognized him as an ogre he's sent to the hospital for a couple of days. He plopped down a bunch of notes. "I'll take a hundred!"
Nekonome meowed in delight. Tsukune just sighed; it was going to be a loooong festival.
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Kurumu had opened a kissing booth which was the second most popular attraction. She had on a black halter top and mini skirt with go go boots. She was determined to go all out and had set up different price ranges for different kisses. She was a succubus after all.
The prices were:
Chaste kiss: 100 yen
Regular kiss: 200 yen
French kiss: 500 yen
Make you forget you girlfriend's name: 1,000 yen
Make you forget your name: 5,000 yen
"How can you kiss other boys? Desu?" Yukari demanded.
"They're only kisses," Kurumu told her. "The rest of my body is for the exclusive use of my Destined One. Anyway I have my own moral code, and it's not like Tsukune is exclusive with me anyway."
"But that outfit make you look like a cheap tramp! Desu!"
Kurumu looked upset to hear that. "What do you mean cheap?"
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Mizore and Moka were both working at a maid café. Mizore had begun to show the signs of her pregnancy and so worked in the kitchen putting together the drinks and simple foods that they were serving. Moka was naturally the most popular of the girls who were acting as servers. She was happy to help draw in business for their café but didn't really enjoy all the excessive male attention. She would duck back into the kitchen with Mizore to escape when she could.
During one of these short breaks the two friends talked a bit.
"Will you really leave school when your child is born?" Moka asked. They were nearing the end of their second year. "Don't you want to be here with us for your senior year?"
"Sure, but taking care of my baby is more important." Mizore did not sound even slightly resentful.
"Does it ever bother you that Tsukune is going to be with me?" Moka asked. It was not a comfortable question to ask, but one that had been playing on her mind for awhile.
Mizore looked at her with her clear blue eyes. "I would like to have Tsukune with me always," she said. "I love him, of course I'd be happier if he was always with me and we could be a regular family. But I knew when we started this that he would be with you. He'll be with me some, and I'll settle for that."
"So you're not upset at all?"
With a soft smile she placed a hand on her belly. "How could I be upset? I'm going to have a baby with the one I love. How could I feel anything other than joy?" She peered closely at the pink haired vampire. "Why are you worried Moka? I would expect you to be the happiest one of all. Tsukune is your mate. Doesn't that make you happy?"
"Of course it does! Being with Tsukune makes me happy beyond words! It's just…" She frowned looking troubled. "It's just that things are going to start changing. You won't be around next year. Eventually we'll graduate and have to leave."
Mizore nodded, not seeing the problem. "You didn't expect to stay here forever did you? Things always change, that's part of life and part of growing up. You just have to try and make the changes for the better."
"That's just it though!" Moka exclaimed. "What if they're not? I was miserable before I came here and met all of you, and I'm worried what the future will be like too." She did not mention anything specific, like a certain wicked half sister or the expectations of her father. "What if this time now is the exception? What if the only time I'm ever happy is when I'm here at Youkai?"
Mizore looked at her in surprise. "You don't expect to be happy living with Tsukune after you both graduate?"
"Tsukune's not the problem, I have other worries."
"Life is never completely perfect," Mizore pointed out. "Just think about everything that happened here; Kuyou nearly burning Tsukune to ashes, Midou almost killing him, and what happened at the last festival. Despite all that though you think of your time here as the happiest in your life don't you?"
She nodded.
"Even if there are problems that doesn't mean you have to be unhappy. Good times come with the bad, just work to make sure they outnumber the bad and you'll be happy." Mizore told her with certainty.
Moka thought about it and smiled a bit. "Thanks, that makes me feel a bit better." She giggled slightly. "You sound kind of wise and motherly."
Mizore patted her stomach again. "Just getting a head start I suppose."
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When Tsukune finally got out of the dunk tank wet was not a proper word to describe his condition. Inundated might have been more accurate. He'd stopped counting at twenty, but if he hadn't been dropped into the water over a hundred times he would eat his rosario. Nekonome naturally was excited at all the customers they'd received.
"I'll see you tomorrow Tsukune-kun," she told him. "Oh by the way someone delivered this for you."
Tsukune was surprised to have her hand him a letter. He was even more surprised when he noted whose handwriting was on it. "Sensei who gave you this?"
She frowned and her 'ears' twitched in irritation. "I don't remember, someone just handed it to me and asked me to give it you when you were done."
Tearing it open he read the contents. The expression on his face was a serious one.
"Is it bad news Tsukune-kun?"
"I'm not sure," he said. "My father wants me to visit him in Tokyo. He says there's something very important he needs to talk to me about."