SEEING YOU FOR THE FIRST TIME

Chapter 3B: Daytime and Nighttime Trips

Disclaimer: Nurarihyon no Mago characters are not mine. Also, the last name of Wakana is just a fictional name that was added for the purpose of the story. There are also some original characters created for the purpose of the story.

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Author's note: The story is slightly different than usual. However, I will not move away so much. The overall plan is to end up in the same story. About the onmyoji characters, wait and see.

By the way, Chapter 3 will be broken into three parts unlike Chapter 1 and 2. I guess it can get noticeably hard to read when it gets too long. Again as a slight warning, some personalities can get a little OOC but I'm trying to really make it all fit the main plot. Hope you can bear with it for a while

Today was the day of the school fair. Everyone in the school is very busy to fixing their own booths and assignments. The front of the school was full of several stalls, some selling takoyaki or okonomiyaki, others selling some souvenir items. The school clubs also opened their booths for recruitment.

One of the classes took the otaku course and had a cosplay store. Everyone in the room wore the costume of their favorite anime character. By popular demand, most of them came out wearing something like Naruto, Luffy, and Ichigo of Naruto Shippuden, One Piece, and Bleach respectively.

Another class took the maid café route. To battle them, the other class hosted a butler café. Looking like there's a rivalry going on, they tried their best to invite people, or rather force people to visit their classrooms, which in turn had a slightly detrimental effect, everyone got a little scared to go there.

But other than that, the fair is going smoothly.

Meanwhile, Rihan's class is still fixing their room for the haunted house effect. Most of the designs are finished, since they've been working on it all night. The props committee really did a lot to make the room appear like it's a haunted room. Tons of cobwebs, tombstone designs, hanging skeletons, even the gas effect, they really did one heck of a job. The principal gave them permission to use the entire ground floor of the building as the haunted house. It was a pretty big area, but it definitely created a more haunted effect.

Kimiko ran from the other side of the hall to the assistant committee head, Amina. She was carrying a box filled with rubbed spiders, snakes, and rats that she will be placing inside the haunted "hall" or "classrooms".

"Amina-chan, have you seen the cobwebs?" Kimiko asked as she was putting on the black lights inside the room. "I can't seem to find them. I was thinking of putting these rubber spiders in those."

"Wakana-chan took them inside." Amina replied looking up while digging in a box of props, specifically skulls. "By the way Kimiko, you look nice in your outfit. You look exactly like Sadako."

"Really?" Kimiko giggled while turning around. She was wearing an old white dress, she wore a black wig that covered half of her face. "You look really nice too in your bakeneko outfit, though it doesn't look scary. It looks rather sexy."

Amina is wearing a leather cat suit with cat ears and her hair flowing down to her shoulders. She also had whiskers to complete her look. To be honest, she looked more like the catwoman from batman.

"Well, I couldn't really think of any other costume, so I really thought this would look cute and sexy." Amina looked at herself. "But on the other hand, Sousuke really worked hard in his costume, he looked like a dead man from the Tokugawa period."

Kimiko looked at Sousuke, who's wearing a Shinsengumi outfit that had a lot of blood in it. His face as white as chalk to complete the look, there was a big wound on his head made of make up and food color. He had his hair up in a neat ponytail while borrowing a hair extension from his sister. He looked like an assassin.

"Look at that." Amina commented, "The extensions really did a great job. He looks like a different person."

"Good job Pres." Kimiko made an "okay" sign towards their president. Sousuke gave a nod to acknowledge her but still proceeded to check on the rest of the class. "But, neh, Amina-chan, I'm pretty excited as to what costume Rihan-sensei would wear…gyahh! He'd look great in anything!"

As if on cue, Rihan appeared. Of course to make it easier for him, he appeared in demon form, complete with his hair up, a sword in his waist, and his trademark black and green kimono, to complete the look, with glowing amber eyes. It was a fan girl's dream, basically Kumiko's dream come true. Most of the students gawked at their teacher.

"Yo!" Rihan smirked, one eye closed. "How are you guys doing with the set-up?"

"Kyaaaaaaahhhhh!" Every girl within the 5-kilometer radius shouted like crazy. Rihan winced at the sheer volume but still continued to look around the area

He didn't realize that screaming girls would be really fatal. He focused his eyes on Amina who was just smiling at him and then shook her head proceeding to the box of skulls. Kimiko on the other hand, no longer looked like scary little Sadako, instead she looked like a normal girl, gawking at him in his awe-inspiring moment. He really just had to add that one up to his observations. Surprising him a bit, a woman dressed in a traditional kimono came out of the room. She was running with a worried expression on her face.

"What's wrong?!" She looked around with a worried expression.

Wakana emerged from the room wearing a kimono that looked like it came from the time of Nurarihyon the first. It almost looked drastically similar to what Yohime wore before, it made Rihan think deep if anyone in the Nura household let her use his mom's old clothes. The beautiful black and white kimono was designed with red flower petals. Its length is extra long, covering her feet entirely. To add to the exceptionally traditional look of a traditional Japanese maiden, she wore hair extensions that made her hair reach up to her waist.

Rihan's eyes widened at her appearance. Needless to say, he was speechless. She was extremely beautiful. No, correct that she was not just beautiful, she was beyond that. Wakana, on the other hand stopped in her steps when she saw their teacher in his demon form. Her eyes widened with her mouth gaping wide.

In DEMON FORM?!

How can he…

Oh my gosh…

Wakana couldn't even believe her eyes when Rihan came in demon form. But how can everyone see him this time, he's in demon form. But she surmised that he could probably manipulate his presence. But to come in this form, in broad daylight, in the midst of his students, looking very arrogant to add to that was something that she never thought he'd do. This was beyond her logic. Rihan walked towards her direction while covering her sight and the rest of the class, as if to simply look at her and force her to look at him. To be honest, he didn't need to, she was really looking intently at him.

"Inspired by my looks?" Rihan teased the woman in front of him.

"In demon form, ?!" Wakana whispered but placed a strong stress in the word "sensei". "You definitely lost it."

Rihan shrugged. "This was the easiest. As a matter of fact, its pretty easy to go out and well, this is really comfortable. I don't have to dress in that suit."

"Ugh." Wakana placed her hand on her forehead. She closed her eyes while shaking her forehead.

"But…." Rihan continued. "To be honest, you took me back to the past when I saw you."

Wakana looked up only to see Rihan looking away. His eyes appeared a little distant as if thinking about a fond memory. She looked at him for a while, then to herself, then back to him, then to the rest of the class who were all staring at them curiously. She felt a blush start to crawl to her face. She suddenly pushed a box filled with props towards their teacher, almost knocking him out of breath at the sudden gesture.

Rihan now held a box filled with blue LED lights that are shaped in candle forms.

"Ah, ah, sensei, thank you for volunteering to place these…uh…lights!" Wakana stammered as if finding an excuse to run away. Some of her classmates whispered a sigh of relief, others simply nodded in amazement, others still curious but no longer looking like they were about to kill her.

"Ahh, Rihan-sensei, you're so nice!" Kimiko commented rushing to their side. "Helping Waka-chan to set up the place. I'll help you with that sensei!"

She grabbed their teacher's arm pulling him inside the haunted hall area alongside other fans of their teacher. Rihan allowed himself to be dragged inside although still looking at the direction of Wakana who is now talking to Amina. Wakana glanced at his direction and then blushed when their eyes met. She bent her head a little until Rihan vanished inside one of the classrooms with Kimiko and some other students.

Amina looked at the slowly disappearing figure in the sea of fanatics then back to Wakana who is as red as a tomato. She giggled a little bit.

"You know, your relationship is pretty interesting." Amina teased while taking some cobwebs in the box that Wakana was holding.

"What?" Wakana's eyes widened at the conclusion. "Amina-san, we…we don't have a relationship…"

"Yet." Amina continued. "Yet my dear, yet."

"Ehhh?!" Wakana raised her hand in defense. "Um, I…I have never thought of sensei in that way, and I don't think I will ever…"

Amina waved her index finger in front of Wakana, "I don't think you should speak as if it would never happen. You don't know what will happen in the future, Wakana-chan."

Amina smiled and then continued, "And besides, I don't think he thinks the same way you do. And, on a personal note, I kinda like it."

Wakana blushed and Amina simply laughed. She proceeded towards the entrance hall to check the tickets. Wakana held her face as if feeling the slightly growing blush. She looked to the side, hiding half her face in the kimono sleeve. She noticed someone coming towards her, this time, it was Sousuke.

"Wakana-san." Sousuke greeted with a warm smile. "You look more beautiful than scary."

"Haha, is that even a compliment, pres?" Wakana smiled, "You mean to say I'm not scary?"

Sousuke shook his head. He boldy took one of her hands and placed the back of her hand to his lips. Wakana's eyes widened in surprise. Sousuke looked at her and said,

"So scary that it makes my heart beat faster…"

Wakana blushed.

What's with today?!

Wakana couldn't help but think if there was some sort of enchantress today that was aiming to make her life really difficult.

In a hidden corner inside the haunted hall, Rihan placed the final LED light inside the room. He could really see the effort done by his students. The place looked like it was picked up from the cemetery and placed inside the school. It was perfect.

Great job. This looks like a really haunted area.

He smiked.

But to add to that, I think a little bit of reality would be helpful.

Rihan was laughing within. He actually invited some of the Nura clan demons to play with the humans today, of course, that's with the proper rules and regulations that they should not touch any of the visitors, cause any form of harm, and make sure that they understand that this is simply a "scare the human game".

Out of the corner of his eye, the small demons who Wakana met, like the one eyed demon, the little red oni, and natto were playing with some of the props.

"Neh, neh, Rihan-sama, these things look like the real thing." Natto commented showing him a plastic spider.

"Oi Natto, look at this! Scary right?!" The oni held out a rubber snake that absolutely looked like a real snake, only that it's not moving. "We should tie a string to it or something then drag it so that it can look like its moving!"

Rihan nodded. He knew that these three would probably do their best to scare the guests. He looked at the other side to see a dejected looking Kubinashi and a smiling Kejoro. Rihan walked towards them.

"Rihan-sama…" Kejoro greeted, "This is really exciting. But honestly, I think I'm a little too beautiful to be scaring someone."

"Well, Kejoro, this time your beauty will be too scary since its already surreal as it is. Feel free to scare them as much as you can." Rihan teased.

Kubinashi was silent. Kejoro looked at him and teased him.

"Lucky you! Your neck-less effect will be a total winner!" Kejoro teased making Kubinashi look at her with and annoyed expression.

"Well excuse me for being neck-less~!" Kubinashi retorted. "Rihan-sama! This…this…"

"This is going to be fun!" Rihan laughed.

"Rihan-sama…." Kubinashi sighed in disbelief.

The class finished the decorations for their haunted class. Looking at the entrance hall, the can see a long line of students excited to go in the haunted class. The entire ground floor was covered with their effects and dimmed by covering the windows and all light sources. All school items were moved to the storage rooms to avoid any breaking glass or equipment. To be honest, the class was quite proud of their accomplishments.

The rest of the class took their respective places. Some of them were in the entrance hall, others in the sound system area, some of them went to the back area, and a few more inside the hall to add to the fear factor. The president and the production head, Amina went to the front to greet the long line of guests.

"Shall we open the gates, president?" Amina inquired towards their Shinsengumi captain.

"Do as you wish." Sousuke was in character. He drew his fake sword and then pointed at the crowd. "Welcome to our haunted hall."

When he said it, all lights turned off and then there were screams of fear. The only source of light was the LED floating lights shaped like flames. The entrance door was closed allowing only around three pairs to go inside. The rest of the students are waiting excited for their chance to go in the haunted hall.

A loud effect greeted the first entrants.

"Let the haunting, begin!"

Tons of screaming, shouting, yelling, running could be heard in the entire hall. Some of the students were hiding inside, ready to scare their guests. It has been almost an hour since the hall opened and from the reports of Amina and Sousuke, the class project is the most popular. Up to now, there is still a long line of guests waiting for their turn.

One of the students, Eru ran towards the class president and the assistant project director to report the activities.

"Pres, Amina-san, it seems that we have extremely good feedback with our haunted hall." Eru proudly reported.

"Really?" Amina smiled. "What did they say"

"They said that it was really the best. And to add to that, the best parts were seeing a beautiful long haired woman facing the mirror, smelling that old rotten natto scent that made their stomach whirl, seeing the little red demon with a Cyclops, and lastly, meeting the neck-less demon. They said that all the props are ingenious." Eru proudly placed a hand on the shoulders of the two higher-ups. "Congratulations!"

The two continued to smile. When Eru left, they looked at each other with a proud gesture.

"Seems like everyone really got serious with their costumes. I wonder who were those." Sousuke remarked.

"Well whoever they are, pres, they're doing one hell of a job!" Amina proudly commented.

Wakana sat in the farthest end of the room. From this side, she could almost see everything. The faces of those who were really scared, the couples running back and forth, and of course, the presence of those "TRUE" demons in the area, like natto, Cyclops, the oni, Kejoro, and Kubinashi. He really did bring them here to add to the fear factor.

She was taking a step back when she bumped onto something. She looked up and saw Rihan looking down at her.

"Hey ya!" Rihan grinned. "Nice effort right?"

Rihan was referring to the demons that he bought with him. He looked like a pretty smug commander right now.

"I'm sure Kubinashi-san is pretty pissed right now, although I think Kejoro-san is pretty pumped up." She looked at the direction Kejoro was going, she was gliding towards some students who was running away from her.

"Well, that can be expected, but it was them who wanted to go with me, so here's the payment." Rihan justified. "By the way, nice outfit."

Wakana looked at herself and smiled. "Thanks."

Not used to wearing a long kimono, Wakana took a wrong turn by stepping on the backside of her garment. It caused her to slip backwards, fortunately falling towards Rihan who failed to put himself in a steady position since he was simply leaning on some empty boxes.

From afar, everyone heard the falling boxes, which made the atmosphere even scarier. Screams came as soon as the sound was over. Rihan, calmly placed a hand on top of Wakana's lips to keep her quiet. He kept his fear on and covered them both as if vanishing in plain sight. After a few moments, they both reappeared, but under a series of boxes.

"Hehe…the guests got scared." Rihan was looking up. "Neh…Wa…."

His eyes widened, not realizing the position they were in. She was on top of him. He was lying down on the ground in the middle of empty boxes. One hand was leaning on the ground as if to support them and the other hand was on Wakana's back as if holding her closely to him. Wakana on the other hand was facing down. Her hands were on his chest and kneeling in between his legs. Her long hair draped down to her shoulders. Her head was close to his chest, from that vantage point, he could feel her very quick heartbeat.

Wakana could not make anything out of the situation except for the feeling of nervousness. This feeling was uncanny. The silence in the room only made her heartbeat more audible than usual.

Calm down.

Calm down…

Calm down!

Alas, it's not really working. She decided not to look up or lift her head up in any case to avoid being teased by this half-human, half-demon as to how red her face is right now. In fact, no one needs to tell her about it since she practically feels how hot her face is.

She was suddenly jolted out of her thoughts when Rihan held her shoulder and suddenly pushed her up to the point that they were face-to-face. Their eyes met, their nose almost touching, her hands resting on his chest and his on her arms. This time, aside from her heartbeat, she could hear his.

Like yesterday, there was this invisible black hole that was drawing them to be near each other. However, unlike yesterday, the pull was a lot stronger.

This scenario was very different. His eyes were different. The way he looked at her was entirely in a different level. Rihan didn't know what was going on. His hands moved on it's own. Hearing her heartbeat was something that made a part of him very excited, very enthused.

And what happened next was something that she did not expect and neither did he. He touched her hair, gently caressing it, coiling some of it in his fingers. Her eyes widened in an obvious surprise. He gently pushed her head down, inching closer to his face. Their nose now touching, his other hand let go of her arm and went towards the small of her back. Wakana knew that she should be moving out now, but her body doesn't seem to respond to her wills. She was taken in by the look in his eyes. It was too absorbing, too electrifying, too enticing for her.

And then, slowly, Rihan lifted his head, tilting sideways, he whispered…

"Right now, it's not me as your teacher…" Rihan's eyes brightened a bit, making it look like it's glowing, "It's just me, Nura Rihan…"

Wakana nodded as if in a trance. Rihan took this as a sign as he closed the gap, pulling her closer to him. Their lips met. Wakana's eyes widened a bit, and then closed it as if being drawn into that black hole, unable to escape. His hands travelled towards the small of her back to her tiny waist. Her hands moving from his chest to his face, until…

"Rihan-sama…" Kubinashi voiced out, a few steps away.

The two broke it off, Wakana pushing herself away in a swift movement. She stumbled to her back, falling on her behind. Rihan sat up still in a daze. He looked at Wakana who was also in a daze, confused as to what happened. She looked up to him, blushed profusely and ran out of the area.

She failed to notice Kubinashi who stood a few steps away. She bumped onto him, but he stood a firm ground and held onto her.

"Oh, Wakana-sama." He smiled.

"Ah, ah…hello Kubinashi-san…" Wakana smiled nervously, trying to cover her face by raising her hand with the sleeves of her kimono.

"You look wonderful, Wakana-sama." Kubinashi complimented.

"Ah, thank you Kubinashi-san, also thanks a lot for helping!" Wakana made a polite bow. "I'll be going ahead…"

She waved at Kubinashi and vanished in thin air. The demon raised a fine brow, curious as to what happened. He looked at the direction where she came from but, he saw nothing there. He thought to himself,

Weird…

She's acting like she saw a ghost or something.

Maybe…

He looked back again, but there was nothing but empty boxes. Kubinashi went back to his post. He was looking for the second but he was nowhere to be found. He thought that he was probably outside.

I wonder where Rihan-sama went?

He was just around this area a while ago…

Kubinashi left the area and proceeded to look in another place. He went to the direction where Kejoro stood in a perfectly mummified position to scare the guests. She was definitely making a career out of this.

Rihan undid his fear and appeared in the middle of the empty boxes. He was sitting with crossed legs trying to sense any other presence in the area. This time, thanks to his demon classification, he can perfectly hide his presence. He didn't even sense Kubinashi until he spoke, fortunately and unfortunately. He held onto that thought.

Unfortunately?

Why would I think that…

I should have…

Been grateful that he spoke…or else as a teacher…

This behavior is unacceptable…

But, deep down inside, it was not really that. In fact, most of himself thought that it was fairly unacceptable that Kubinashi intervened with the moment. But…

But more than that, he was perturbed. What got to him? Why did he do that? It was as if at that moment, everything was simply uncontrollable. It was as if he was in a trance. Was he in some sort of spell?

He unconsciously raised his hand, reminiscing how it felt to hold her close, how it felt to have her on his chest, and most of all, the feeling of her lips to his.

This time, instead of a barrage of questions, he simply smiled.

That was pretty…

Good…

Rihan smiled to himself, reminiscing the moment alone in the middle of those empty boxes.

To be continued to Chapter 3C.

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