Story: Smart Succubus

Yukari was no fool. She could plainly tell that Moka was far too dangerous for her to mess around with by herself. If she tried anything remotely funny against Tsukune to test him, it would bring nothing but bad news down on her own head. Moka might decide to outright brainwash her as well!

"Ah... Yukari, you saw my Inner self, right?" Moka asked. "Could you please keep that a secret?"

Guh! She was already starting! Those cute bright eyes completely hid the wickedness that was truly boiling underneath! No question of it. Going it alone wasn't going to cut it. So when she caught sight of Kurumu across the hall a few minutes later, wearing a pair of glasses, she felt a tremendous sense of relief.

"Oh, Kurumu! Hi, Kurumu!" Yukari yelled, skipping on over to her new friend and ally who was in no way shape or form taking advantage of her youthful naivete. "I made some new friends! Would you like to meet them?"

Kurumu quirked an eyebrow and looked over at the pair of them. Then she beamed a smile and walked over with a much more shy and unconfident gait than Yukari would expect from someone so confident and brave and smart.

"H-Hi there," Kurumu said. "You're friends with Yukari? That's wonderful! She- she's been having a really tough time of it lately making friends."

An amazing performance. Completely unthreatening. Almost reverential in her approach towards Moka and Tsukune. Yukari was left in awe at it, her act was truly astonishing.

"Huh? Aren't you the girl from the bus?" Tsukune asked.

"Th-that's right," Kurumu said. She wrung her hands and nervously shifted weight from foot to foot. "I remember you now, that's right. Um, Tsukune wasn't it? And you must be Moka. Everyone's talking about you already, you're really turning heads."

"Ah... Am I really?" Moka asked. Hah! Amazing, this is what it was like to see two master of acting go up against each other. "Say, how do you and Yukari know each other?"

"Oh, she was being bullied a little earlier on," Kurumu said. "Some monsters have it in their heads that might makes right, and witches aren't really popular... I helped her hide, but maybe if she has some more friends it'll help keep the bullies away."

Moka nodded in understanding. That was pretty good. It was close enough to the truth that it wasn't likely that Yukari would slip up later on, and Moka wouldn't even be able to investigate it clearly anyway. Not that she'd likely have any need to.

"Huh..." Tsukune mumbled. "You seemed a bit more confident on the bus before..." He muttered to himself.

"W-well, I'm a little bit intimidated," Kurumu said. "I didn't realise you had such a cute girlfriend already."

"G-Girlfriend?!" both Moka and Tsukune exclaimed in unison. Then they looked shyly towards one another - and just as quickly looked up at the wall. Aw! If one of them wasn't a bloodsucking vampire seeking to turn the other into her personal slave, that would have been almost cute.

Kurumu giggled a bit at that. "Sorry!" she said. "Listen, why don't we become friends too? It's still a monster eat monster school, even if they are trying to teach us how to fit into the human world. Having some people you can rely on is always a good thing. Right?"

Tsukune twitched, and the smile on his face seemed oddly awkward for a moment. Which Yukari took as her cue to enter the conversation, linking arms with both Moka and Kurumu.

"Yay! We'll be a big happy group!" she yelled. Or at least they will be. Once Kurumu breaks the spell that has been cast over poor Tsukune. "So? So? Can we hang out? Please? Can we, huh?"

"Well... The school does require students to all join a club," Kurumu said. "We're supposed to be told tomorrow, but I've heard a few things already from our seniors. It would be nice if we could all join the same club together."

"Did you have something in mind?" Moka asked.

"Well... I was going to try out for the swim club," Kurumu suggested. Devious. Taking advantage of a vampire's weakness to water. You could see it on Moka's face, too. Utter dread. Compare that to Tsukune, who was blatantly imagining both girls in bikinis. Oh, it seemed that the boy had no clue regarding the famous weak points of la Nosferatu.

"S-Sorry, I can't swim," Moka said. Which was, strictly speaking, completely true.

"Well, that's what a swim club is for," Kurumu said. "I'm sure they'd be more than happy to teach you a thing or two about swimming. Doesn't that sound like fun, Tsukune?"

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A pretty girl has many weapons when it comes to getting the attention of a young man. Sure, there is the obvious example of showing off a lot of cleavage. Kurumu was most certainly not lacking in that, but it was far from the only part of her body that was appealing to the male. Even more important than the body though, was the presentation, the *weapon* which would fire straight into the heart of her target.

One of the most deadly weapon in any cute girl's arsenal was, of course, the swimsuit. Ah, how pleasant it was. Combining two distinctive missions into the same one. Investigating the clubs, and getting close to the mystery boy and the powerhouse vampire. Both in one fell swoop.

"Ah, Moka! You look soooo cute!" Kurumu beamed, grasping her arch-rival's hands and - for the time being - holding off on trying to charm the girl. This wasn't even a lie. While Moka didn't have quite the same level of appeal as Kurumu, she more than made up for it with a really cute innocence that belied her darker nature. In this case Moka was wearing a flower print two piece bikini that Kurumu had specifically picked out for her. "No wonder Tsukune's interested!"

On that last remark Kurumu had made a heart shape with her hands and winked at Moka. Oh! That blush! "No, no, we're just friends..." Moka said, but you can't lie about affairs of the heart to a succubus, never mind a genius like her. Heck, she was pretty sure a lay person could tell: Girl was into that boy. And since the boy had a working pair eyes, he was probably into her as well.

That was a point that Kurumu intended to change ASAP, and this swimsuit was a definite shot in the heart from cupid's bow. A heart print one piece, with a cut out heart shape around her navel. One might think she'd go for "around the bust", but Kurumu wasn't planning on going that obvious yet. Besides which: Bend over a fraction and she'd be showing off enough to send Tsukune's libido into overdrive.

The two of them left the girl's changing room to find Tsukune and Yukari already playing around in the pool with a ball, passing it back and forth between the two of them. Ah! So cute!

"Last one in is a rotten egg!" Kurumu jeered, sounding all playful about it when she knew damned well that Moka couldn't enter the pool. She rushed over to the side and dove in with the practised grace of a professional diver, then came up under Tsukune and ducked him under the water. She could easily charm him right here and right now while Moka was watching, but...

No. Not yet. Even if it worked, challenging the vampire even next to a major source of water could be rather dangerous. It would be a fight with her having the high ground, but Kurumu preferred to fight battles when she was sure that she couldn’t lose. Or better still had already won.

And why, there was no rush. The vampire seemed uninterested in showing any aggression unless attacked. So why not take advantage of that?

“Bwah!” Once that thought was finished, Tsukune resurfaced, mouth opening wide to get some air in his lungs. "Hey, Moka! Come on, the water's fine!"

Ah, poor Moka. Sitting on the side of the pool. Unable to enter, watching the three of them have fun. Unwilling to admit to her weakness. Was it vampiric pride? Probably. The girl was almost certainly working up the courage to try to mention that, oh no, the swim club wasn't for her at all.

Speaking of the swim club... They weren't using the pool right now. Of course, Kurumu already knew they were all mermaids, and - considering the students that had gone missing shortly after joining the swim club - they were definitely eating boys that were lured in by that ultimate weapon. The alluring swimsuit, promising those lecherous naughty boys such pleasure and delights. Only to be eaten alive!

Well, today Kurumu would be the one doing the eating. Just as soon as her meal was ready...

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It might be hard to believe but Moka didn't have any friends growing up. While she was always pretty and cute, the humans she grew up with... Found out that she was a vampire, and things went pretty badly from there. The tendency to bully those different never quite goes away in some humans, but it's always present towards the start of their lives. Which meant that the people she tended to interact with the most were her sisters...

She hadn't really expected Yokai Academy to be any different. But then she met Tsukune, and in short order Yukari and Kurumu as well. Three friends almost right away! She'd never felt so happy and content... But now she was sitting at the edge of the pool watching them play, knowing that she couldn't enter the water. Come to it she shouldn't even be this close.

For a girl like that the possibility of ruining their fun by telling them that she was weak to water was... Well, it was unthinkable. Tsukune and Yukari knew that she was a vampire, but... Tsukune was human so he wouldn't know and Yukari was a witch, presumably raised in the human world. She didn't know what Kurumu was -

<i>Succubus</i>

"Huh? Is someone there?" Moka pondered aloud. Then she looked down at the rosario nestled in her cleavage. Weird. It felt like the voice came from... down there?

<i>That girl is a succubus. Be very careful in letting her get too close to Tsukune. She might try to enslave him.</i>

Enslave him? Kurumu? That hardly seemed likely. The two of them were engaged in a splash fight at the moment. Not to mention that Kurumu was only just getting out of her shell given how shy she had asked earlier. The pink haired vampire then noticed that Kurumu had grabbed onto Tsukune and now his arm was nestled against her sizable chest

For some reason, Moka felt annoyed at the sight. Perhaps Kurumu was getting a bit <i>too</i> touchy.

"Moka, Moka! Come on, come play!" Yukari cheered. The little witch looked so happy. She tossed the beach ball right for Moka's head, and on instinct Moka caught it. She caught... the wet ball...

Moka jumped up to her feet as pain coursed through her hands. Tears welled up through her eyes as she tossed the ball back into the pool, and then she ran off - passing a group of girls coming out of the locker room in the process. This was silly. It was a silly idea.

<i>You shouldn't have gone near something like a swimming pool in the first place! Wouldn't it have been better to tell them? If they were really your friends, they would understand and let you join another club!</i>

"I know!" Moka sobbed. "But... But they looked like they were having so much fun!"

Little did she know, that was just about to change.

Kurumu immediately sets about charming Tsukune while Moka's back is turned.

The swim club arrives, thinking these three will be an easy meal.

Tsukune has rushed after Moka to find out what's wrong.

Yukari heads after Moka to find out what's wrong.

Something else