Story: Smart Succubus

Let us divert our attention elsewhere for a little while. Now that Kurumu enjoyed ownership over the hearts and minds of the swim club, it might be a good time to look in on one of the other clubs at Yokai Academy: The Cheerleading Club.

Yes indeed, the Cheerleading Club. It never comes up in either the anime or the manga, believe me I checked <i>thoroughly</i>. By which I mean, a search of the fandom wiki, which would surely mention such a thing. Regardless, it did exist. One might think that such a club would be a prime candidate for Kurumu to take over, spread the gospel of worshipping her perfect succubus booty. But no, they were rather lower on her primary plans for taking over this school than one might expect. She had a different, and honestly much more brilliant scheme in mind to guarantee total victory.

For the time being, the cheerleading club was pretty small. No new recruits yet from the first year, which meant there were but five cute girls standing in the middle of their assigned room, each of them wearing the Yokai academy cheerleading uniform. Pleated skirts, with alternating red and white stripes. And a white crop top that revealed a great deal of midriff, while giving a nice view of what lay beneath through a sizable heart boob window.

"Alright girls, we've had pretty lousy luck on day one," the head cheerleader said. "No new members yet, but today we won't give up! I have my eye on the perfect candidate for our club."

She tapped a whiteboard with a pair of pictures on it. One of Moka. The other Kurumu.

"These two are, without a doubt, the hottest girls in year one," the head cheerleader continued. "If we can get them on team, other girls will flock to us in droves. Our success will be guaranteed through the rest of the year!"

The other four all cheered and clapped.

"Now, now. We do need to approach this carefully," the head cheerleader said. "If we go in half cocked, we risk scaring them off. So! I have a better idea!"

She then put up a picture of Tsukune. The other girls tilted their heads in confusion.

"This boy hangs out with them all the time. If we get him - Yes, Mihara?"

"That guy hangs out with those two girls?"

"Yes, he does."

"But... but he's so <i>plain</i>! They can do way better than him."
The head cheerleader nodded in agreement with that. It had surprised her as well. Nonetheless, this was the best way forward, and she even had the perfect scheme to put him under their -

"Knock knock."

Nothing quite like enacting an evil scheme and finding someone you don't know standing by the door. In this case, it was a girl they'd never seen hide nor hair of before. Purple hair, a lollipop stick hanging out the side of her mouth. Plain white top, tartan pleated skirt, thigh high purple leggings and a sleepy eyed expression.

“Ehh.. do you want to apply? You are a bit late, but we would happily welcome a new member.” The young woman asked, her tone of voice quickly switching from surprised to confident as she returned into her well worn role of team leader.

To their surprise, the girl stretched out her arms and yawned, then walked into the room with a sleepy gait. "You should leave Tsukune alone," she warned. "It's not nice to target people like that."

Now, that got the cheerleader's backs up something fierce. As one, they moved in like a pack, putting their hands on their hips and strutting around this intruder in a tight circle.

"You come into our den and try to tell us what to do?" the head cheerleader asked. "That wasn't very smart of you."

But the intruder didn't react. Not at all. In fact, she simply inspected her fingernails as if nothing was the matter. She even had the audacity to pull out an ice lolly and start licking it.

"Here's what we're going to do," the head cheerleader continued, and the five girls stopped. Turned towards the intruder and put their hands on their hips. Full on bully mode activated. "Not only are we going to make Tsukune our slave, but we're going to make you watch."

"Really?" the girl asked in between gentle licks of her lollipop. Wait, hadn't that been blue a minute ago? Now it was more... white. "And how would you make him your slave?"

"Well, that's easy," the head cheerleader said, while the others giggled darkly under their breath. "We'll blackmail him. It won't be hard to dig up material - or even make it up if we have to."

“Oh.. I was hoping for something a bit more clever than that."

Well that really wasn't the reaction they were expecting. If anything, it was pretty funny. Did this girl not realise how much trouble she was in? Look at her, standing there all sleepy eyed licking her lollipop after issuing that kind of warning. What was she thinking?

"It's clever enough to make sure we always get our way," the head cheerleader all but snarled. "Some monsters use their abilities to get what they want, but we've been watching people. Learning from them. All it takes is the right sort of psychological pressure and you can eat someone while leaving their body intact."

The stranger nodded in seeming understanding while - Wait, that lollipop was red now. Why was it changing colours? When had it changed, for that matter? She was watching it carefully now. Was this some kind of trick?

"I see," the stranger said. "It probably helps that you're an Inugami as well."

The head cheerleader blinked. The stranger then moved the lollipop away at arm's length. Her eyes followed it. So did the rest of the team.

"Inugami often worked with human exorcists, so you know quite a bit about human society," the girl said, then stifled a yawn. "Though a few of you were also acting as exorcists, who swindled people out of their money. So it's no wonder you're talented at manipulating people like that."

"Buh?" the head cheerleader asked. The lollipop was twinkling now.

"Bark like a dog," the stranger said. The entire team did so. "Hrm... Simple effect for simple minds. I shouldn't need my contingencies after all. A shame. I put a lot of thought into them, and wound up coming up with twenty different ways to hypnotise you all with my ice powers."

Twenty... different ways... to hypnotise them with her ice powers? The head cheerleader shook her head, trying to get past the effect. No, don't get hypnotised by some lazy -

Then, colour filled her vision. The stranger was holding an ice crystal that was doing something really weird to the light.

"Almost snapped out of it, did we?" she asked, holding it up to the head cheerleader's face. “Well, at least you are making me work for it a <i>little</i>. Would feel bad otherwise, like stealing candy from a baby.” The girl added, tilting her head and continuing to look like she was about to fall asleep.

"Who are you?"

"My name is Mizore," the stranger said. "As for your next question, what I want is... for Tsukune to breed with me. I have calculated that he is my ideal mate. With his assistance we can assure that my people do not go extinct."

“Breed? Wow, the first years these days are really hurrying up with that stuff.” One of the other cheerleaders said, eyes distractedly following the glittering reflections from the ice.

Mizore smiled. "I have been calculating my perfect mate for over a decade," she said. "He fits my parameters to 99.999, repeating, percent. Which is functionally the same as 100 percent."

"Wh-what do you want to do with us?" one of the cheerleaders asked while sinking to her knees.

"An information network," Mizore patiently said. "I must calculate the best means to seduce him. If you perform well enough, I might reward you by permitting you to mate with him as well. Your offspring will be very, very strong."

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Five minutes passed by, and Mizore sat in the middle of the room wearing her own cheerleader uniform. Not bad. This might appeal to Tsukune's tastes. It required further investigation, of course, but still. Not bad.

"Another drink, Mistress Mizore," the head cheerleader said, offering her a glass of water.

"Thank you," Mizore said after a moment. She sipped from the water and looked over at the whiteboard with the three pictures on it. Moka, the vampire. Tsukune, her human future mate. And Kurumu.

"Well. I had calculated that we would meet again," Mizore said. She yawned and leaned back, forming a pillar of ice for herself to rest on. "I look forward to the chance to test my intelligence against yours once again. How much of the school has already fallen for your charm, I wonder...?"

At which point Mizore dusted herself off, left her cheerleader slaves to set about their tasks and left the room in her typical silent and stealthy manner. By which she meant hiding under a cardboard box and scurrying out under it. Some habits are hard to get rid of.

Kurumu's scheme involves joining the newspaper club
Mizore continues spying on Tsukune to figure out how to seduce him.
Mizore investigates Kurumu's plans, figures out what she's up to.
Kurumu and Mizore confront each other. The two geniuses size each other up.
Something else