Hm… back again. I told you they would be coming faster all the way until the time for the "Grand Reveal" (insert sarcasm). Anyway, I do have a vexing problem. My three anonymous reviewers. I'm more focused on my second and third anonymous reviewers though. Both of you confused me.

The first one… well, they don't matter. I overlook them for four reasons, but I'll only give two: 1. They insulted me. 2. They mentioned other authors in the review, something I don't particularly tolerate. Ergo… they don't exist in my eyes (a statement made even more potent by the fact that I can delete anonymous reviews whenever I want).

However, the second person said that they disliked me calling Tsukune a ghoul or ghoulish… One question: What the hell else am I supposed to call him? In the manga, that's what he is, a ghoul. He's not human anymore (the words of Touhou Fuhai). He's not a vampire (he's too dead to be). He's a ghoul. Horace Pinker confused me by saying that I had OCs. OC, meaning other characters, are characters usually made up by the author, aren't they? I don't use any characters that aren't already in the manga and the story wouldn't quite be complete without all of them.

Hm, maybe I should go a bit easier on the insults… nah, this is WAY better than what I initially wanted to say, after all… I'm only polite to you until you piss me off (hence my more civilized speech towards Horace Pinker than Guest or Reallyjuststop). So with that said… read on and please... enjoy.


"You got your bag ready?" Ura inquired of her sister, seeing the pinkette carrying a small overnight bag down the stairs.

"I've got all of my things I need." Omote affirmed, lifting her bag.

"Toothbrush?"

"Check."

"Shampoo?"

"Check."

"Mr. Hugo?"

"Check!"

Ura nodded, her list complete. "Let's go then. The car to pick us up will be here at any moment."

As if on cue, a horn blew outside and the red-eyed girl turned to glance back. Omote giggled and moved forward. "Ready?"

Ura rolled her eyes and sighed, "Might as well. I just hope something interesting actually happens at this party. It would bite for something not to."

Omote simply shook her head and guided her sister out to the car awaiting them. The driver put their bags in the trunk as the girls climbed into the backseat. As the car drove off, the whirring noises in the basement stopped. There was the sound of footsteps on stairs before the handle to the basement door began jiggling. Slowly, the door opened and a pair of red eyes shone from the black shadows.

Omote looked out the window at the large, iron gate surrounding the Aono Estate. It was completely black with roses sculpted into it along vine-like patterns. Entering the estate, the girls found themselves surrounded on all sides by trees. "There's a forest surrounding their house?" Ura murmured, looking at the tall green plants curiously.

"Maybe it's to confuse burglars and assassins." Omote suggested. "So that it's harder to get to the manor at night?"

"Maybe." Ura replied with a shrug, still gazing up at the treetops.

They traveled through the trees in silence. When they broke free of the treeline, Omote gasped at the beautiful mansion before her. Decorated in hues of blue gold and green, the house was just as grand as Tsukune had always described to her. Seven floors, countless windows and a garden that seemed to stretch on to the horizon. The car wound its way up the path to the house and joined a line of other cars coming from different directions. All of the cars stopped in front of two large mahogany doors where Tsukune was waiting for his guests.

The twins stepped from their vehicle, glancing around to see who all could make it. The Shuzen girls grinned at them all while Kurumu, Mizore and Ruby moved toward Tsukune, Yukari making a beeline for Omote instead. Hokuto stepped from a car with Keito as Fang-Fang, Xia-Ling and Routier climbed from another one. Last to arrive were San, Gin and Haiji, the latter two carrying the former's bags.

"Nice place ya got here, Tsukune." Gin whistled, staring up at the mansion in appreciation. "Bet you can see the moon real nice with windows that huge."

"How romantic." Omote murmured softly, also gazing at the windows. Ura shot her sister a glance before shaking her head. Grabbing both their bags, she carried them inside as Yukari tugged the pinkette inside.

"This is the main entrance hall where most of the action happens during the day." Tsukune called to them all, gesturing to the large open space they all stepped into. Just like the outside, this was decorated in blues and golds, statues of lions and panthers lining the walls between large canvas oil paintings.

"Who are these people on the walls?" Fang-Fang inquired, examining one painting of a beautiful young woman and a baby.

"They're supposedly my ancestors, according to my dad." Tsukune replied dismissively. "All of your bedrooms are on the second and third floors. Girls share a room, boys share a room and couples share a room." Gin moved closer to San and Tsukune revised that last part. "OFFICIAL couples, Gin."

"So then, who's with who?" Hokuto wondered aloud.

"The Twins have their own room as do the Shuzens, Kurumu and Mizore are paired together, Ruby and Yukari are paired together, San and Routier, Haiji and Gin, Fang-Fang and Xia-Ling. Keito and Hokuto both specifically requested their own rooms, not being very friendly with anyone else in the group." Everyone's eyes flicked to the pair before going back to their host.

"Go ahead and explore for a while." Tsukune grinned at them all, motioning for them to ascend the large staircase in front of them. The teens all split up, searching the second and third floors for their rooms. To the delight of Yukari, Aqua and Kokoa, Omote and Ura's room was right between the one designated for the Shuzens and the witches.

Omote and Ura paid no mind to this little fact and instead gazed at their room instead. The room was elegant yet simple. It was painted the color of sunset with small birds decorating the walls here or there. Two large queen-sized beds sat on either side of an ornate beside table hosting a cat-shaped lamp and a box of tissues. Two wardrobes adorned either side of the room and there was an ajoined bathroom with a large bath and shower.

"Not bad at all." Ura chuckled, looking around appreciatively.

"Yeah!" Omote agreed, tossing her bag onto the bed closest to the door. Ura made no argument and placed her bag down on the bed furthest from the door. "Wanna go explore?" Omote inquired, her large green eyes wide and excited.

"I see no reason why not." Ura shrugged, rubbing her choker calmly. The two set out to make their way around the floor, memorizing important landmarks that stuck out just in case they got lost within the manor.

"This place is insanely bright for such a supposedly old manor." Ura sniffed, her eyes squinted slightly against the brightness of the lights.

"I think his family renovated it a few years ago so that it passed inspectors' health tests." Omote told her.

"Still, it would be nice for the lights to at least be dimmed." the silverette huffed. "Especially since it's going to be getting dark soon."

"Well, I think it's nice." Omote shrugged, glancing at a large window.

Ura was about to reply when a pair of hands closed around her mouth and another looped around her waist. The albino was whisked through the air, landing in a dark room.

"What's going on?" she hissed, jumping to her feet and looking around, waiting for her eyes to adjust to the darkness.

"This is a very big house." A voice told her as Kokoa and Aqua stepped from the shadows. "So many different rooms to choose from." Aqua went on.

"What are you talking about?" Ura asked impatiently.

Both Shuzen sisters moved forward, pressing their bodies flush against hers. "We're talking about you, us and one room for each night we're here." Kokoa breathed.

Out in the hall, Omote looked around and wondered where her sister could have gone off to. "She wouldn't just leave without telling me where she was going." The green-eyed girl murmured softly, walking down the hallway.

Just then, a hand flashed out and snatched her arm, yanking her into an empty room. Finding herself pressed against the wall, the pinkette looked up to see Yukari's excited eyes staring up at her.

"Yukari?" Omote squeaked. "What are you doing? Where are we?"

"We're in one of the rooms off the hall you were just walking in." Yukari giggled, her fingers drawing circles on Omote's love hollow. "As for what I'm doing… well, I plan on marking my territory so that Tsukune knows you're mine."

"Yours?" the older girl bristled in indignation at being almost compared to an object.

"That's right." The witch breathed, leaning up closer to the vampire's face. Omote's eyes widened as the youthful face came closer, but before Yukari could do anything, she was yanked away. Green eyes lifted to red and Omote sank in relief. Behind Ura, she could see Aqua and Kokoa, both with angry red marks on their cheeks.

"What happened?" she asked, concerned for her friends.

"I had to put them in their places." Ura sighed. "While I'm here with you, I can't let my concentration slip for even a moment. God knows how prone to getting into trouble you are."

"Me?" Omote huffed. "I'm not the one that let Earl Grey eat Mom's favorite apron when he was a puppy."

"I only turned my back on him for a sec-. Never mind. Anyway, I won't let lust distract me from my sister's well-being. So we worked out an agreement together."

"An agreement?"

"I'll tell you later. Come on, let's go settle into our room while these three converse among themselves about what they did wrong and how they can fix it."

"We're not five, you know!" Kokoa grumbled.

"Yet, you have the mind capacity of one if you and your sister thought that ambushing me would be a good way to get me to comply with your needs." Ura shook her head in amusement.

"You mean our needs." Aqua winked at her and Ura turned away, hiding a blush as she hurried Omote from the room. The pinkette would never understand just how her sister could have come to crush on someone as bloodthirsty as Aqua, but she decided not to push since her crush was technically considered dead.

Keito moved through the house, checking all of the names on the doors and wondering where Tsukune's room was located. "Kuyou's not here, which means that I can put my plan of stealing Tsukune's heart into action." She whispered to herself, bug-like eyes surveying the area. "Once he's fallen helplessly in love with me, there will be nothing stopping me from surpassing even the Akashiya Twins in popularity."

The violet-haired girl turned down a new hallway and continued her exploration, searching for any sign that one of the rooms belonged to her new target. Keito felt a hand cover her mouth as she was pulled into an empty room. Turning in fright, she sank in relief when she saw golden brown locks come into view. "Kuyou!" she hissed angrily.

"What? I thought it would be nice to surprise you." The fox-like boy grinned down at his girlfriend.

"You didn't surprise me, you nearly gave me a heart attack!" Keito slapped his arm, crossing her own right afterward.

"Sorry." Kuyou chuckled, ducking his head to press a soft kiss to the lush lips before him.

"So what are you doing here?" the purple-haired girl inquired, hugging her boyfriend close.

"I wanted to see you before the manor shuts itself down."

"Shuts down?" Keito wondered.

"Yeah, every night, the manor's security system closes off every possible exit and entrance from eight at night until someone on the staff team unlocks it in the morning. Aono's parents are super-paranoid."

"Where did you hear all this?" Keito asked curiously.

"Miyabi used to work as one of their gardeners, but quit cause he found them too gushy and overbearing of his work."

"Ugh, that's rough." The spider girl began fiddling with the buttons on Kuyou's shirt, popping the top one free and working her way to the next. "So, since there's still a bit of time before eight…"

Kuyou chuckled at the girl's antics, lighting his whole body aflame to get rid of his clothing and hers. Keito gasped as her outfit went to ash and she glared at her boyfriend sternly.

"What have I told you about that?" she huffed, pressing her body to his and leading him to the bed.

"Not to do it cause then I'll have to walk around naked." Kuyou shrugged. "But I have an extra set of clothes, don't worry."

"Why would you bring an extra set?" Keito groaned, lowering her lips to the tanned neck in front of her, lavishing it with kisses.

"I've got something I need to do a little later tonight. Don't worry about it."

Keito nodded, letting Kuyou push her down onto the bed. "If you say so, Firefox." She purred.

Deep within the shadows of the room, two red eyes narrowed in outrage and a fanged snarl glinted in the faint lighting. The figure the snarl belonged to turned on their heel and strode deeper into the shadows. Neither Keito nor Kuyou noticed the faint glimmer of silver as the person disappeared.

"Dinner's in twenty minutes." Tsukune was telling the group a little later as he showed them all to the sitting room where they could relax. "The entertainment room is right across from here. It's stocked with video games, board games and books in case any of my parents' visitors have kids."

"Sweet!" Gin and Haiji exchanged high fives as Yukari and Ruby discussed the possibility of spellbooks being within the library.

"Alright, I've gotta go check out dinner preparations. I'll see you guys-."

Suddenly, three large slimy creatures appeared from behind the corner, moving steadily toward the group. They had horns poking up from their arms and legs, their mouths were covered over in slime and their large red eyes glowed ominously as they made their way toward the crowd of teenagers.

Omote, Yukari, Kurumu, Kokoa, Kahlua, Fang-Fang, Routier screamed in terror. Omote clutched at Ura, Yukari hid behind Ruby, Kurumu buried her head in Mizore's shoulder, Gin and Haiji stood protectively in front of San, Aqua held Kokoa close as Kahlua moved protectively in front of them both and Xia-Ling and Fang-Fang pushed Routier behind them. All but Ura neglected to notice that Hokuto and Keito didn't bat an eye. The red-eyed girl cocked her head at them as the creatures moved forward.

The sounds coming from the creatures definitely weren't comprehensible as any language any of the teens knew and this caused slightly more panic; a language barrier with the creatures meant that fi they were there to kill, there was no way to stop them except to fight. Tsukune stood in front of the others, his jaw set in determination, ready to unleash a bit of his strength on the monsters if he needed to.

The albino noticed the boy's defensive stance and sighed, realizing that she had to diffuse the situation before Aono did something that could potentially get himself hurt. She knew that ghoul power came with a price, just like the vampire powers she and Omote possessed did. Stepping ahead of Tsukune, Ura shook her head in disgust and strode over to the three slimy… things. Raising her hand in quick succession, she tore off the heads of the monsters.


My reviewers are having a "who's better" argument over authors… oh well. Everyone has their own opinion of authors, so I'll let it continue. Send me a review, I don't even mind if it's another flame! ;-)