A Weak Point

Pussy. Dreamqueen taunted, she was referring to Ben's inability to...'stake the vampire' as she put it, after the sports festival. That was a weak ago. She hasn't let him forget. I mean, you were on the verge of greatness! she exclaimed holding her hand like an Italian, Do you know how much fucking street cred you'd get in the monster world for laying a vampire!?

"I don't care for street cred." Ben replied back, "Also it's not like she is some big name in the monster world or anything, so how much cred could I possibly get? From the sounds of it if I wanted street cred it be smarter to get with you."

SO YOU SEE MY POINT! Dreamqueen laughed as she got in Ben's face causing the teen to fall out of his chair in a fright. Ben got up and got back in his chair he seemed...off, to Dreamqueen. Ben, she started, is there something you aren't telling me? Did something happen to you recently? Ben lied his head against the table, his mood, aside from when he got to spend time with Moka, has been noticeably down lately. Ben, sweety, I can't help you if you don't tell me what's going on. What, did Tsukune spend a whole day with Moka again?

"I'm dying, Dreamqueen." Ben replied. The sudden bombshell completely through Dreamqueen off guard, "I...hadn't told you because I didn't want you to worry. But...truthfully I need someone to vent to." Ben sighed as he clasped his hands together, a few shaky breaths escaping from his mouth.

Dreamqueen looked down in disappointment, How long?

"I have maybe three months at best right now." Ben gulped, "I just...wanted to ask you something." Dreamqueen nodded, a somber expression now on her face, "I just don't know what to do right now. Should I tell everyone about...my situation? Or should I wait until the last possible second? I just don't want to place a burden on anybody."

Sweety. Dreamqueen grabbed Ben's head and pulled it into her chest and began to comfort him while patting his head, You aren't going to burden anyone. These people, your friends, they deserve to know.

"But...I'm scared." Ben said as tears began to crawl down his cheeks, "What am I supposed to say? How do I tell them?"

Dreamqueen tapped her chin a few times before nodding, Okay, don't tell them. But there is at least ONE person that deserves to know. Ben gulped as he figured what she was going to say, Ben...you have to tell her.

"How? It's not like she just pops up whenever I ask, there has to be a specific time when she comes out." Ben complained, "Even then...what if I hurt her? I don't want that."

Meanwhile...

With Moka, she had just gotten back to her dorm room after a long day. "I'm home!" she said as she entered her dorm. Of course nobody was there, but she found it good fun, plus it was kinda like she was letting her other know that she returned, like they were roommates. Though, in this case, they are literally bodymates. She yawned as she took off her shoes and walked to the main part of her room to her desk, "I'm just so tired. Ah, I guess I didn't realize how late it was." she said while taking off her blazer and undoing the top button of her shirt, "I guess I worked pretty hard distributing papers, haha. Well, first I should probably take a bath then head to--Oh! Actually, I should make dinner first." she happily walked to her fridge and opened only to frown at its lack of contents, "Nothing?" she groaned.

Despite that, Moka still smiled happily, "Oh well! For now I'll just go to sleep!" and with that, Moka happily jumped into her bed. No way! How lazy can you get!? Moka's 'Inner' self yelled out, Get your ass up, Omote! Yes, it seems that instead of saying 'Inner' and 'Outter' Moka to each other, the different personalities have opted to giving each other nicknames. Omote for the 'Outer' Moka, and Ura for 'Inner' Moka. To Ura's chagrin, Omote didn't even budge to get up. O-Mo-Te! Moka rubbed her tired eyes, "What is it, Ura? And don't just call me Omote." Shut up, if you can all me Ura, I can call you Omote. More importantly, what the hell makes you think it's okay to just go to bed right away after coming home!? "But.." Look, Ura interrupted, we aren't just separate personalities. Your body is mine as well. I'm not going to let you ignore your...our...health. Ura sighed, So take a bath, make a meal. After you've done everything you need to, then you can go to sleep. she commanded.

Moka could only groan in response as she slowly got up and began boiling water in a teapot. Will you listen! "Yeah, yeah." Moka yawned, "You know, Ura, you seem to be coming out a lot more, huh?" she chuckled. Moka stood in her small kitchen and waited at her stove for the water to boil, "Before you'd only once every two or three days..." Moka stopped and chuckled, "Or whenever Ben was around." Sh-Shut up! We can only talk like this when our minds are synchronized, and I've only recently felt like I perfected it. "Hm, interesting. You seem to have had it perfected everytime Ben was around." Moka teased with a cat smile.

Moka took the boiling kettle off the stove and poured its contents into a Cup of Noodles. She hummed in approval as the sweet aroma of her tomato flavored instant ramen came to her. Wait, hold on! You're having Cup of Noodles for dinner!? "Yep," Moka said happily as she blew the steam from the cup, "It's my favorite, tomato flavor." THAT WASN'T THE POINT! If Ura could, she'd be pulling out her hair by now, You need to eat something wirh more nutrition! Moka didn't listen, instead she was happily slurping away at the noodles.What will we do if our skin starts to go dry? Take in more vitamins and fiber and stay away from carbohydrates! "Hmmm...'Our skin'." Moka asked as she tapped her chin, "That's an awfully feminine thing for you to be worried about. This wouldn't...happen to be to appeal to Ben, would it?" Shut up! Moka smuggly took a sip of her broth, "I knew it."

Moka put down her noodles and began to pace around her dorm. As she was pacing she noticed her dresser drawer was slightly ajar, and inside she saw the pair of Web Shooters Ben had given Ura. "Say...you don't get to spend a lot of time with Ben, do you?" Moka asked. What are you getting at? "You know...I sit next to him in a bunch of classes." Still not following. "What if...buddabuddabuddabudda..." What are you doing? "Drumroll. What if for the entire day tomorrow you can use my body!" Moka gave a cheerful smile as if she came up with the most genius idea ever. The entire day? Are you insane! "Yeah! It'll be great! Tsukune can remove the seal!" Don't be stupid, Ura mentally shook her head, We can't do that, who knows what will happen to the seal. If we want it released for a prolonged period of time, we'll need the Belmont. Moka tapped her fingers nervously, "But...we got banned from using it because we stole it last time, remember? Come on, it'll be fun. And you'll see Ben all day long." A-All day? Moka smiled and nodded, "Yeah, girl. All day. Show him what you're made of."

The Next Day...

"And that's what happened." Tsukune said, explaining the situation to the other girls how Moka had explained it to him. "Moka wants her Inner self out for a day, and that's fine by me." With rosary in hand, Tsukune, Mizore, Kurumu, and Yukari watched as Moka strutted her way to class. The only true difference to her appearance, in terms of the uniform, is that she was wearing a boys necktie that was loosened slightly.

"So...did anybody tell Ben?" Kurumu asked. Tsukune opened his mouth, but immediately closed it, realizing that was the one person who didn't know that probably should know. "Hope the dude has an extra pair of pants." she laughed, "He might rip the front from the surprise."

Surprisingly, or not so surprisingly, Moka's new look was the talk of the school. All the boys from different classes came to class 2-1 just to get a glance at the legendary beauty. Of course all that fame led to the halls getting crowded, even the doorway was blocked by all the boys trying to get in. "Hey, just what's going on, Moka?" Kurumu asked, "I mean, just look at all those people, is it really okay to be exposing your true form like this?" she asked as she pointed to the doorway.

Moka just sat coolly and cross legged in her chair, flipping her hair slightly to the side. "It's not like I've been trying to hide it. And I don't really care what happens in school. I mean, what are they going to do? Expel me? They owe us like six favors." Moka waved her hand in the air slightly, reminding herself to get back on subject, "Anyways. It isn't my fault, I'm only like this because the Outer Moka kept insisting on it...and well..." Kurumu cocked her eyebrow in confusion, Just what else could be the reason? she thought. "Besides," Moka let put a breath, "the terms were only until sunset. I'll just spend my time and nothing will happen."

"I don't know." Kurumu said with a worried expression on her face as she looked at all the extra attention Moka was getting. If she has that effect on everyone else, who knows what effect she'll have on Tsukune. Ben or not, a girl can like more than one boy. And she's still connected to the Outer Moka, so she must feel...something. "I'm already have an uneasy feeling about this situation."

"Oh calm down Kurumu." Tsukune said with a smile and a wave, "I'm personally enjoying the change!" Kurumu frowned at Tsukune happy-go-lucky response. "And besides, the whole reason behind all of this was so that the Inner Moka could enjoy a normal high school life like the rest of us! I mean, she's always helping us in fights and stuff, so let's let her relax and have fun too, right?"

Moka let out a light chuckle, "Yes, 'relax' and 'fun' in the same sentence? At this school? You must be gunning for Ben's position of jokester of the group."

Kurumu looked to Moka and Tsukune, and again, frowned. "This might be interesting." Kurumu nearly jumped out of her skin by the sudden voice. Looking to the ceiling she saw that Mizore had somehow gotten above the ceiling boards of the classroom and was sneaking around like some sort of covert spy. The hell is she doing? She's in this class! Kurumu thought. "It's rare we get to see the Inner Moka's daily life." Mizore stated as she hung upside down from the ceiling, poking her head out from the boards, "We could even find a weak spot."

"Why are you spying on us? You're in this class! And how the hell did you evem get up there?" Kurumu asked.

"I think this is more classified as light stalking."

"Please don't say that." Kurumu replied with a sigh. "Regardless, I don't like this situation at all. Maybe I'm just imagining things, but she seems to be hating Tsukune less. I think it may be possible that she has some feelings for him." she grumbled.

"Hm...then it's worse than we thought." Mizore said coolly, "It seems that Inner Moka may be that 'Final Boss'." the two teens continued to look at Tsukune and Moka who were having a conversation about...something weird, Kurumu wasn't sure. "All the more reason for us to find her weak points."

"By the way," Moka started as she turned to the other girls, "Have..." she stopped when she saw Mizore hanging from the ceiling, but she just chalked it up to Mizore being Mizore, "Have any of you seen Ben?"

"Yeah, where is he? I didn't see him on the way here either." Tsukune mentioned scratched the back of his head, "It'd be good if he knew who was here so he didn't get surprised later."

"...I give my liiiiife/Not for honor, but for youuuuu..." the teens looked up as they heard what sounded to be singing coming through the air vent.

"There's no way." Moka said as she shook her head, "That vent has to be only a little bigger than Yukari."

"In my tiiiime, there'll be no one eeeeelse/Crime, it's they waaay, I'll fly toooo youuuu/I'm still in a dream, Snake Eater..." there was some muffled grunts, followed by the ceiling vent opening popping off and falling to the ground, "IIIIIII'm stiiill in a dream..." the figure popped its head and torso through vent opening before dropping down and landing on their feet to reveal Ben, "SNAAAAAKE EEEEATER!" Ben turned to the teens and bowed, "Thank you, thank you. No please, no need to applaud, I know I'm talented...Okay, well maybe some applause, come on folks!" Some of the students were dumbfounded, but Tsukune broke into a laughing fit, the man was hunched over gripping his gut he was laughing so much. "It's good to know somebody appreciates art. Do you know how hard it was to get through that vent!? Also, while on the topic, what the fuck is with the crowd? I mean, is Kurumu offering free--" Ben stopped mid-sentence when he saw the Inner Moka was out, and sitting in his chair.

Ben blinked a few times in disbelief. He then walked to Kurumu and pinched her arm, "OW! What the hell?"

"I was making sure I wasn't dreaming." Ben said with a shrug.

"Jackass you're supposed to get someone else to pinch you to see if you feel pain." Kurumu replied with an angered expression.

"But...I'm always in pain." the teens blinked a few times at the response, "Too dark? Okay, I'll leave that one out."

The next class for the teens was English, another class where Ben sits next to Moka the whole time. And, much like Homeroom, Ben's expression was that of utter bewilderment. Ben sat slumped in his chair with his eyes wide as can be, his heart beating at a million kilometers a minute as he couldn't stop looking at Moka. What the fuck, what the fuck, whatthefuckwhatthefuckwhatthefuck-- This was what has been replaying in his head for most the two classes. He didn't even bother to listen to the professor of the class, Mr. 'Magnificent' Maki. He was a young looking dude with slicked back medium length hair, polarized aviator shades, and a white suit...actually, he looked like a character from the Yakuza franchise.

All Ben could do was look at Moka, he couldn't even process what she was saying, she seemed to be reciting some Shakespearean soliloquy in perfect English, no stutters not even a hint of an accent. How the fuck did this happen? Why is she here? Why did nobody tell me! Ben thought back to the other night and what Dreamqueen told him to do, I fucking woulf if I could, but I can't even make a sound here! I'm not ready! I wasn't expecting to see her for another two days at least! "Mr. Reilly!" Ben nearly jumped out of his chair as the booming voice of Maki brought him back to reality, "I see you too have been star struck by Moka's excellence. Tell me resident American, are you impressed with her abilities."

Sat something idiot! "Yeah." Ben replied in English completely unintentionally. Moka smirked and even stifled a slight giggle. Maki cheered and the class went on as normal.

Moka placed her hand on Ben's shoulder and he felt like his heart was going to explode, "Relax." she said in a calm tone, "Your heart is racing like crazy. It sounds like you ran a marathon. Something on your mind?"

Again, Ben felt almost speechless. Hey! Wake up dipshit! She's talking to you! Answer her! "Uh...you?" That's it, it's clear I can't help you here. I'ma head out. See you later. Ben could feel his conscience packing its bags and leaving his head. /.../../._ Yes, it seems like he can't even have thoughts right now, it just comes back to him in morse code.

Moka could only look at Ben with a slight blush now, she quickly removed her hand from his shoulder, "O...Oh. I see."

"So...you think that's a weak point?" Kurumu asked as she sat at the other corner of the room with Mizore...who was hiding in a trash can for some reason.

"Ben flirting with her and getting flustered? Nah. That's just normal. She isn't the type to understand directness like that you know?" Mizore mentioned, "Besides, it only happens when Ben does it. And it isn't really something that we can get a one-up against her with."

"Right." Kurumu nodded, "Guess we'll have to find her weak point in a different class."

Second Period: PE (Girls)

The girls' next class was PE. They were playing Volleyball, surely Mizore and Kurumu could find Moka's 'Weak Point' here...right? "OH SHIT!" Mizore and Kurumu shouted in unison as they both got out of the way from a lethal spike delivered from Moka on the other side of the net. The spike was so dangerous that the ball not only created a crater when it landed, but it exploded. "I think getting spiked at a bar would be less lethal than that." Mizore mentioned.

"In hindsight, this really should have been expected." Kurumu huffed as she wiped sweat from her forehead. On the other side of the court all of the girl's on Moka's team were applauding her. "Kinda feel bad for Ben though."

"Because Moka could crush him if he pissed her off?" Mizore asked.

"Well, that, but I meant that he doesn't get to see Moka in her gym uniform."

Third Period: Social Science

Third period seemed to be business as usual, Moka didn't get as much props for her intellectual ability because she and the others were in the back and thus were called on less. "This must be an easy class for you, hm?" Moka asked Ben.

"What makes you say that?" Ben sat at his desk with his laptop open and a cord plugged in from his Web Shooters to the computer. "It's just a software update. Make sure all my web functions are...functioning."

Moka gave a slight smile, "I mean that, your everyday life is you observing the people and your surroundings. You must have some sort of interesting view on society, huh? Come on, 'super genius' what do you think makes...let's say...a bad person."

Ben clicked his tongue a few times in thought, "I came to the conclusion a long time ago that it's society itself that makes bad people. People aren't...people aren't inherently bad or evil. It's their environment that makes them that way. Whether that makes them violent, angry, an adict...desperate. That's all because society made them that way. They had nothing else to turn to, they weren't given the chance." Ben took a deep breath and continued, "People become bad because society turned its back on them...and in return those people turned their backs to society. The plan from there on out was to achieve their goals...no matter what. Be it legal or illegal, it didn't matter as long as their goals were achieved." Ben then gave a light smile, "But, it isn't definite. Sometimes, if you're willing to show some care and help those who's society has turned their back on, then maybe the good in them will be willing try and claw their way out of the hole they were forced in."

Moka gave a sweet smile, "Speaking from experience?"

"From both sides, yes." Ben chuckled, "I've helped some people out of their hole and...you guys help me." After Ben's spiel on society he got a quick notification on his laptop. Clacking at a few keys before hitting enter, the suit began to slowly move up and form onto Ben's body. Moka gave a confused look at how the suit slowly moved like it was liquid, "It's installing."

Moka chuckled as she watched the nano-tech crawl up Ben's Body and go up to his face, "It's so surreal, it's like the Venom suit."

"Yeah." Ben laughed. His smile then disappeared as he realized something...very strange about what Moka said. "Wait...what did you say?"

"I...said it's kinda like the Venom suit?"

Ben could only stare at Moka in disbelief. He looked over his shoulder before facing Moka directly, "Moka...I've never told you about that."

"What?" Moka smirked, "Are you fucking with me? I have a distinct memory of you explaining it to me. It was so vivid too. The suit was an alien life form that got ahold of your brother. It made him stronger, but also aggressive. You described the suit as being black...and liquid feeling." the two stared at each other, both confused in different ways, "How could you not remember telling me? The situation...the creature...it's so foreign."

Ben's suit finished installing the update and retracted back to being just the Web Shooters. I never told her about Venom. He thought, Just what the hell is going on?

Fourth Period: Math

Fourth period was practically canceled. When the students entered the class Ms. Ririko had set up a question for all the students, and the only stipulations were that Yukari and Ben were not allowed to answer. If anybody other than them figured out the near impossible formula, then class would end early. Ben figured it out right away, it was a Diophantine Equation. He knew about it because he read about it in an article last year. At the time it still wasn't solved by mathematicians, they asked the help of geniuses like Tony Stark or Hank Pym, but they were 'Too busy with important work'. Ben figured it out in an hour. It is a difficult equation for sure, lot of counting, a lot of integers, but he figured it out. It was almost like a therapy session. He laughed as he remembered still doing the equations in his head when he was fighting crime.

"I've figured it out." Moka said as she raised her hand. Ririko, much like Ben, had a look of pure astonishment, though for Ririko it was most likely surprised that someone was ballsy enough to answer mere minutes into lecture. Moka smirked, she didn't even have paper in front of her with work written down, "x = -80538738812075974, y = 80435758145817515, and z = 12602123297335631. Obviously." Ririko wrote down the numbers that Moka had presented her, constantly checking her notes.

After a nearly five minutes of Rirko looking back and forth between her notes and the answer Moka gave before dropping her chalk. Ririko took off her glasses and was shaking, almost as if she began questioning her life as a mathematician. "She's correct...class is dismissed." the students cheered and began rushing out the door. Ben was astonished, I need to have a trivia night with Moka, holy shit.

"Incredible!" one of the class boys yelled out, "I can't believe she solved that legendary problem that Ririko believed only Yukari and Reilly could solve! And all in her head as well!"

"She's so perfect!" one of the female students praised as Moka walked down the hallway, "Surely she's Ms. Perfect!"

"I heard that people call her 'Inner' Moka!" another one of the girls stated in an almost fangirlly fashion, "KYA! She's just so cool!"

"What the fuck?" Kurumu asked as she listened in to the students, "Now she's popular with the girls!?" Kurumu was practically pulling out her hair.

"On top of that, it seems the boys are now viewing her as unapproachable and are keeping a distance." Mizore, still in trash can, mentioned.

Lunch

Ben, Moka, Tsukune and Yukari all sat together at a lunch table. Each had gotten what they normally get, however, Moka seemed to go with a different dish than her other would normally get. The 'Outer' Moka would go for a soup, something light and easy on the stomach, but the 'Inner' Moka opted for a large plate of butter and salted pasta with vegetables and chicken. Weirdly enough, that was the same plate that Ben had. "Wow Ben," Yukari chuckled, "Copying Moka, are we?"

"The fuck? I always eat this." Ben defended, he then pulled a fork out of his pocket and grabbed a heaping scoop of pasta before shoving it in his mouth, "I foking loff pastha!" he said with his mouth full before swallowing, "I'm from Queens, baby!" Ben said, switching to English, "I'm a fucking New Yorker." he continued switching to an Italian New Yorker's accent. He then rolled up his sleeve and flexed his muscle, pointing at his bicep, "I gots the ravioli and alfredo sauce running in my veins! I'm practically Italiano, zoopity boppity doo!"

"Holy shit, he switched like three cultures." Tsukune laughed, nearly choking on his food.

"Well," Moka smirked, "It looks I made it through the morning with 'nothing' happening."

Tsukune laughed again, "As if that's true, you caused a huge commotion! You're the biggest thing since sliced bread!"

"Yeah, I'm still hung up on that equation." Ben mentioned as he drank a can of tomato juice, "Like, are you actually a super genius and didn't tell me? What's up with that? I'm thinking we need to have a trivia night or something."

Moka shook her head with a slight smirk, "Truth be told I only learned of that equation rather recently." she explained, "I remember reading an article last year talking about it, the mathematicians hadn't figured it out yet. So I spent some time with the equation and solved it in an hour." Ben's eyes widened slightly, That sounds...familiar.

"Truly amazing!" Yukari clapped, "I'm seriously impressed."

"Anyways," Moka continued, "I'm just trying to pass today with nothing happening so that the me tomorrow won't have a hard time." she stated as she put a small forkfull of pasta in her mouth followed by wiping her lips.

"The you tomorrow?" Tsukune questioned, but he seemed to snap in realization, "I see, so in other words you don't want to cause trouble for the other Moka. You're actually quite considerate, you know?" he smiled. Moka seemed a little shocked at the praise and wasn't sure how to process it, but she nodded all the same.

On the other side of the cafeteria, Kurumu and Mizore hid behind a potted miniature palm tree. "You know, the way she tries to hide her gratefulness is just...one of her adult charms, huh?" Kurumu mentioned and Mizore nodded silently. The two continued to watch Moka and take note of the expressions she makes, "Somehow, she seems like she's having fun. I mean, she even laughed at Ben's dumb joke. I haven't noticed but...when she's not fighting, she's actually a really nice person." Kurumu sighed and she looked around the cafeteria and realized how ridiculous she looked crouched by a plant. "Ah hell, aren't we kinda acting like assholes? Trying to find Moka's 'Weak Point' when she's just trying to enjoy school."

Mizore nodded and held her stomach as it made a loud growling sound, "It's not just sad, but I'm getting hungry too."

Kurumu sighed, "Dammit, what were we even worried about? She clearly only cares about Ben." she exclaimed, "She was practically attached to his hip all day, what the hell were we thinking?"

"Jealousy is a cold bitch." Mizore said with a nod, "Oh well, let's just finish the day. How bad could it be."

After lunch, and heading to fifth period, Mizore and Kurumu walked past a sign. It said 'Fifth Period: Girls - Home Economics, (Boys have Dodgeball game). "Home Ec?" Kurumu asked.

Inside the Home Economics room, dozens of girls all stood with aprons on and some wearing bandanas to pull their hair back and keep it out of their eyes. The normal professor seemed to be out for, unsurprisingly, food poisoning that she may or may not have received from one of her not to stellar students. So, to replace the professor, a substitute teacher was put in charge for the time being, that sub happens to be Ruby. Apparently she has more than adequate cooking ability and that was how she scored the temporary position.

Now, the class was supposed to be only girls, however, Moka noticed there was someone in the room that was not like the others. "What the hell are you doing here?" she whispered to Ben who was standing next to her, "I thought boys were playing Dodgeball?"

"Did you not hear?" Yukari chimed in, tugging at Moka's apron to gain her attention, "Ben isn't allowed to participate in dodgeball anymore." Moka cocked her eyebrow in confusion while Ben snickered.

"I styled on the opposing team last time." Ben chuckled, "And used my adhesive ability to catch the balls as soon as they touched me." Ben covered his his mouth and laughed quietly.

"Now, does everyone have their ingredients?" Ruby asked. She seemed to have gone through a long explanation on why she was teaching the class for the time being...an explanation that nobody seemed to pay any attention to. "Great! Since it's the afternoon (and we already had a lunch) I thought we'd try making sweets in class today!" Ruby smiled as she reached behind the teacher's desk and pulled out a pumpkin, holding it high and proud for everyone to see, "So I decided we'll make everyone's favorite, pumpkin pie!" she began to hold the pumpkin close to her chest and caressing it...for some reason, "So let's go ahead and take things slow today."

"Pffft. Phrasing." Ben chuckled.

"Oh," Ruby gained a serious expression, "And even though I told you to enjoy yourselves, don't start rubbing yourself with the cream." the class of girls began to snicker to themselves.

"Uh...phrasing?" Moka said with a confused expression while Ben was trying to hold himself back from bursting out into laughter.

Ruby slammed the desk with a blush on her face, "This is no laughing matter! Something that dirty is too hardcore to enjoy at school!"

"Oh she did know what she was saying." Moka and Ben said in unison.

Yukari chuckled, "Well, at least Ruby seems to be enjoying herself. Though it's still weird she brings her masochism wherever she goes." Yukari snapped to attention when a thought came to her, "Say, are you even good at making sweets, Inner Moka?"

Moka tapped her chin a few times and shrugged, "Who knows, I'm always sealed away so I never tried." she stated as she began to walk to her station where all the ingredients were laid out for her. "But I'm always watching my other when she cooks, so I should know the basics."

Yukari gave a frown that said she was unconvinced, "Ura..."

Moka flinched a little at the name, "And just who do you think you're calling 'Ura'?" she asked with a menacing expression while she held a large knife in her hands. Ben, who was behind Moka at his station, shuddered, Oh...my Spider Senses are tingling.

Yukari gulped at the sight, "W-Well, Moka is pretty good at cooking, so it stands to reason that Ura would be pretty good...too..." as Yukari said this Moka seemed to gain a hyper focused look and a menacing aura began to flow around her, "Ooooh...my Spider Senses are tingling." Yukari whimpered.

Mizore and Kurumu, late as ever, finally showed up to Home Economics, and they were more pumped up than before. Both wearing their aprons and even Kurumu wearing a frilly headband to keep her hair out of her eyes. "Ya-hoo-hoo! Finally, my time to shine has begun!" she stating excitedly with a large grin plastered on her face, "I mean, I'm, like, totally the best when it comes to making sweets! I even have my own recipes printed in the (school) newspaper. That," she smirked smugly, "and at least I know that my breasts are two things that I know the Inner Moka can't beat me in."

"Yeah, too bad she beats you in everything else." Mizore smirked.

The two continued walking and began noticing that things looked...doom-ish as they continued to walk to the other side of the class. "What happened here?" Up ahead they saw Yukari leaning against one of the work stations with all sorts of cuts in her uniform. She looked almost Traumatized, like she was in shellshock. "YUKARI!" Kurumu shouted as she rushed to the young witch, "What happened? Who did this to you? Are you okay?" Kurumu asked as she held the witch in her arms.

Yukari let out a slight cough as she reached her hand out to Kurumu's face and brought her closer, "Don't...point cutlery at yourself...or...others...blegh." she whispered.

Kurumu was slightly confused. "Huh...pumpkins are unexpectedly difficult." Kurumu heard a voice and the terror in her eyes would make you think she just witnessed a murder, "I guess I underestimated cooking. Maybe I should hold it down before cutting it." Kurumu turned around to see the horror of Moka holding a pumpkin that was serrated all over the place, but worst of all Moka was trying to cut the pumpkin by holding it against her stomach and bringing the knife towards her as if she was committing seppuku. "Here we are." Moka said calmly as she got the tip of the large knife into the fruit.

"What the fuck are you doing!?" Kurumu shouted out, her eyes practically popping out of her head.

Moka looked up with a confused expression, "What? Is something wrong?" she asked coolly as she stuck the knife deeper into the pumpkin.

Kurumu, now with a more worried expression, was shaking thinking that Moka was going to hurt herself, "NO, stop! You're gonna end up commiting seppuku!"

"Seppuku?" Moka asked as she used the knife like a handle to slam the pumpkin against the table until it broke into pieces.

"STOP!" Ben shouted as he jumped over his station to hers, "Jesus fucking Christ, you are giving me a migraine, a heart attack, and an aneurysm...all at the same time." Ben took a couple of deep breaths, "Please, let me help you." Moka looked up to see Kurumu, Mizore, Ruby and Yukari, nodding their heads frantically.

"Fine." Moka said with a sigh.

Ben let out a breath he had been holding in, "Thank God." he began pushing all of Moka's things to the side and threw away the pumpkin she was working on and brought over his pumpkin which was uncut. Ben looked up to Moka and saw she had all sorts of things on her apron and even some of the cream had somehow gotten onto her forehead, "Pfft. She said not to rub the cream on yourself." he chuckled as he got a towel and wiped the cream from her face.

"Remember," Ruby started, "The key to making sweets is following the recipe! And," she looked around the room before leaning to Moka and whispering in her ear, "Love. Think of who you want to give it to and put your heart in it." Moka's face turned slightly red as she looked at Ben who was getting everything ready. Can I really put love in it if he's helping?

"Okay Moka!" Ben clapped his hands and Moka snapped back to attention, "The best way to truly help you is to let you get 'hands on experience' so, why not do this like in Ratatouille?"

Moka blinked a few times before shaking her head, "What?"

"Ratatouille, it's a Disney movie. Guy can't cook but a rat can, so the rat controls the human like he's a mech and cooks food that way. It'll be the same idea." Ben walked over to Moka and got behind her, which surprised her slightly, then he stretched his arms out and put his hands on top of hers so that his fingers were on top of hers. This way it'd be Ben controlling, but Moka would still be feeling everything that happens. "I'll use my adhesive abilities to control your hands...assuming you don't struggle." Moka looked over her shoulder so that her face met with Ben's, "Yes, 'phrasing', I know." he chuckled. Ben began to moved his fingers and, in doing so, Moka did the same. "See. Free puppetry lessons, no strings attached!" he joked. Moka groaned in response, "You don't get it? No strings. Haha."

Ben walked over to the pumpkin he had set out. "Okay, I'll let you try first before I kick in. Go ahead and grab a knife." Moka immediately stretched for the largest knife there, but Ben stopped her, "Yeeeeah, no. Let's go for something more modest." he moved her arm to the smaller Utility Knife. Grabbing with the right hand Ben made Moka do a couple spins with it.

"Hold on...I thought you were left handed." Moka pointed out.

"Actually, I'm ambidextrous. I just choose to use my left hand." Ben chuckled. Ben had Moka hold the knife in a reverse grip as the jabbed down on the top of the pumpkin. They then began cutting off the top, almost as if they were making a jack o'lantern. "You know, in Ratatouille the rat would control the human by yanking on his hair. I felt this was a better option...unless you like getting your hair pulled?" Moka clicked her tongue and slammed her foot on top of Ben's and it took all his strength not to cry in pain.

After the top was cut off, Ben had Moka start scraping the guts and seeds from the insides. "You know, I was wrong." Ben stated.

"What now?"

Ben shook his head, "This isn't like Ratatouille." he chuckled as they continued to scrap out guts, "This is more like that really old movie Ghost. When the dude comes back as a ghost and he starts making out with his still alive wife while she's doing pottery." Moka forced the two to stop and she looked at Ben with half lidded eyes before stomping on his foot again.

Somehow, through some miracle, Ben and Moka were able to finish the pie. "I've gotta admit, I had doubts that they'd be able to do it...but it seems that Ben knows exactly what he's doing." Kurumu said with a smile.

"Yeah, they still destroyed the pie though." Mizore stated as her, Ruby, Yukari, and Kurumu stared at a burned pumpkin pie. Off to the side stood Moka with her arms folded and an almost disappointed expression on her face. Ben was the complete opposite as he had his face buried in Moka's shoulder, laughing. "Well, at least Ben is having fun."

"Hahahahahahaha," Ben tried to suppress his laughter, but it just wasn't working, "I'm so sorry. I totally fucked us." he laughed, "I can't fucking believe I forgot that the oven was in Celsius, and not Fahrenheit!"

"I can't believe you." Moka said, shaking her head. She turned around and walked out of the Home Economics room.

"Oh, wait, Moka, Moka! Ah!" Ben threw his hands in the air, "Moka please come back, I'm a fuck-up we all know that. Ah...shit." Ben walked over to the pie and sighed, "God damn it, what a time for the Parker Luck to bite my ass." he pulled his fork from his pocket and put it in the middle of the pie, "Better not let it go to waste." he said before he took a bite. There was a slight bitterness to the flavor, but after a couple of seconds he could taste the sweetness of the pumpkin, "OH SHIT! MOKA! IT'S SALVAGEABLE!!" with a wide grin Ben ran out after Moka.

Kurumu looked around the room with a smug look on her face, "Alright ladies, we all felt that right."

"Yeah/Yep/Of course." the many girls of the class responded.

"They aren't a thing?" another asked.

"No, but Ben's trying it seems like." Yukari answered.

"Let me know when it's definite! I'll rock that American's fucking world!"

Moka walked down the hallway after leaving the Home Economics room. God dammit. she thought, I was actually...she frowned, Kinda excited about it. As she was walking she ran into FanFan. "Oh, sorry FanFan." she waved lazily. As she passed by FanFan he glanced over to her with a questioning glance.

"Strange." FanFan said as he rubbed his chin, "I could have sworn a weird creak."

Moka eventually made her way to the roof. While there she looked out onto the horizon. "Sunset..." she sighed, "I...wish I had more time with him."

"MOOOOOOKA!" Moka heard the voice of Ben calling out for her.

"Christ, why do you make me feel this way." Moka tried to suppress a smile, but she just couldn't.

"MOKA! IT'S SALVAGEABLE!" Ben shouted as he finally made it to the roof. "Jeez, you really made me work to get here. Anyways, good news, the pie isn't that bad. You wanna try?" Ben asked as he held out a forkfull of pie.

Moka shook her head, "No, Ben. I don't want any--UMPH!" Moka was caught off as Ben shoved the food in her mouth. Moka turned and looked at Ben and pointed at him, You and your stupid...smile. And this stupid...Moka blinked a few times, FUCK THIS TASTES GOOD! "Okay, it's pretty good."

Ben, again, had a stupid grin plastered on his face, "It's kinda like you." Moka looked to Ben with half lidded eyes, "Because like, it seems rough and unlikable on the outside, but it tastes really good on the inside."

"I'm sorry?"

Ben clicked his tongue, "Yeah, no, that was a weird analogy. I don't...know what you taste like." Moka's expression became more confused. "Yeah, I'm just gonna move off the 'taste' thing. Um..." Hey I'm back. You have to tell her, genius. Ben took a deep breath and clapped, "You wanna...take a seat." The two sat at the edge of the roof top and looked out at the sun together. "This is nice." Ben smiled, "I wish...we could do this more often. Just you and me."

"Yeah." Moka nodded, she saw that Ben had scooted himself closer to her and she did the same.

"I guess I just want to see you out more, in general. I just...I wish there were more days." he looked down with a saddened expression, "More days to...to tell you..." Ben realized that he was thinking outloud and he looked up with a scared expression. Oh no...Nonononononono! Too soon! Not ready!

Moka tilted her head and gave Ben a curious look, "Tell me what?" Ben could only stare at her, he wanted to tell her, he really did but his voice just got stuck in his throat. "Ben, why do you want more days? To tell me what?"

Ben's heart began rapidly beating, Well, you have to say something now dumbass! Ben swallowed a lump in his throat, "I...wish there were more days so that I could tell you..." Dying. I'm dying! I'M FUCKED! LISTEN TO MY SCREAMS FOR HELP!Ben took a deep breath, "I love you. I want more days to tell you that I love you." Moka's eyes widened slightly as Ben's hand was now gripping her hand. She tried to reply and say something, but Ben had already moved forward and initiated a kiss. Moka wasn't sure what to do when the kiss started, but she relaxed and kissed him back. I'm a coward.

"MOKA!" the two teens quickly pulled away from each other, both having a large blush on their face. Fucking cockblock. the two teens thought in unison. The two turned around to see Tsukune heading towards them, except he had Ruby, Yukari, Mizore and Kurumu trying to stop him...they were just a little late. "Guys, what's your problem?" all the girls had their arms wrapped around Tsukune trying to stop him in his tracks, "What the hell, let me go!"

Moka looked to Ben and gave him a sweet smile before standing up and walking to Tsukune. "Okay, I get it." she nodded, "It's sunset, so it's time to go." Tsukune gave a sympathetic look, even though he didn't see (supposedly) what happened between the American and the vampire he still understood that this wasn't a situation that the Inner Moka usually finds herself in. "Please, don't give me that look. I had fun, really." she swallowed a lump and glanced to Ben, "Some...I had more fun with than others." Moka took the rosary and smiled as she began to twirl it in her hands like Ben had her twirl the knife earlier. "Tell the Outer me, that I said thanks for letting me use the body...and also sorry that I didn't ask first for that last thing. It just kinda happened." Ben's eyes widened and he mentally punched himself.

Finally, Moka put on the rosary with everyone watching with an almost sad expression. Though they may have not been used to her, they were able to see that there are more sides to her than meets the eye. "Huh?" Moka opened her eyes and to both her surprise and everyone elses, she didn't revert back to her other form. "That's strange, the rosary is attached but..." Moka's eyes widened in fear, "Oh my god, the seal is broken."

"WHAT!?" the others yelled in unison, "What do you mean 'It's broken' how could it be broken?" Ben asked.

"Wait, so what happens to the Outer Moka?" Tsukune asked with a worried tone, "If you can't get sealed again...what happens to her?"

"Aha! That's what I expected." the others snapped to attention at the sound of a new voice, "That's why I heard a 'creak' whwn Moka walked by. The seal is becoming unsteady. After all, the greatest weakness of this type of seal is that it's meant to be momentarily. So if you stay like this, the seal with surely be destroyed."

The group turned around in surprise to see FanFan and Rinrin. Tsukune gulped, "Wait, how do you know that, FanFan?"

To be continued...
A/N: Welcome back mother fuckers! It's been a good break, but I'm been gone for long enough, it's time to start producing again. So next up we start the new arc, and that ladies and gentlemen...will quite literally be the beginning of the end...I say that because it's pretty much one major arc from here on out.

Alright, I don't have much to say here other than, it's good to be back. Here's to a good year.

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