The fight was immense but knowing that you just couldn't help seeing yokai hurt, you went to Zen and offered him a hand. He agreed without a second thought. Tsuoki whom had just arrived, sweatdropped yet felt a rush of relief, aware that you were unharmed.

"(name)-sama, next time when you suddenly get kidnapped again, please let out your voice, so we could hear you", he rubbed his temple, "I'm relief that you are unharmed". You smiled up at Tsuoki, "now if you don't mind, help me bring any yokai who is injured".

"except for those who are not in alliance, right?", he raised one of his eyebrows.

"I don't think there are any left...since Tamazuki absorbed them into his sword", Zen replied while still healing the others.

"hey girl....", a familiar voice called out to you with a small blush on his cheek, "I forgot to apologize to you about the other day". You turned your head and smiled, "I know you, you were the guy in the mountain".

"I'm Gozumaru and this guy over here is Mezumaru", he tilted his head a bit to the side to initiate that Mezumaru was there. Mezumaru grinned widely, "hai hai~", he greeted. You stood up and dusted yourself before shaking your hands with them, "nice to meet you Gozumaru-kun, Mezumaru-kun, I'm Yamazakura (name), and you can call me (name)".

"Gozu is fine".

"Mezu is fine~", added the latter.

Tsuoki growled, "hands off", he narrowed his eyes on both of them, while you just laugh it off.

Then you realized, it's already dusk, you and Zen continued the healing at Nura's family mansion, while awaiting for the good news. Tsuoki also informed his twin brother that you and him are going to stay a bit longer in Nura Mansion, since there are a lot of yokais that are in need of healing.

When the others arrived, you quickly went to aid Rikuo who was fast asleep in his human form.

You smiled softly before stroking your fingers upon his cheek, "you fought well, Rikuo-kun".

"(name)...-chan", you could hear him mumble in his sleep.

Yuki-onna watched with jealousy, but she was well-aware that her master likes you.

You started to heal his opened wound so that it would be healed. When you were done, with the help of Yuki-onna, since she helped with putting on bandage on his wounded skin, you decided to heal the others, Kurotabou, Aotabou, Keijorou, Yuki-onna, Kubinashi and so on. That was when you found out that Rikuo's grandfather had returned safely from his journey along with Nattou-kozzou.

"jiji!", you engulfed him in a hug, "okaerinasai (welcome home)", you smiled. "hahaha~ glad you're well lil (name)", he ruffled your head before grinning, "since you're tired and worn out come have a nice tea with me", he dragged you along to have a seat near the pond which was nearby the sakura tree.

You couldn't help but smile, "it's so beautiful...I usually watch the sakura tree in my shrine, but both are beautiful", you giggled before sipping the tea that one of the small yokai had prepared.

"before we left....his son...what did he call himself again? Inugamigyobu Tanuki's son, he said he wanted you to... follow...", Rikuo's grandfather stopped his sentence when he noticed you were fast asleep. He shook his head in disbelief but smiled in the end, he stood up and called Kurotabou who was just passing by to pick you up and tuck you in, in one of the guest room.

When Tsuoki arrived, he already brought with him your school uniform and school bag with your unfinished homework. Since he didn't want to associate with all the other yokai due to his hatred to the other yokais other than those who work specifically under you, he decided to search for you on his own.

Boi he thought it was easy.

Nura mansion was big and was maze-like.

Everywhere he go, he was wrong.

Everytime he thought he was close to you, it was a dead end.

He searched every nook every crane, but he eventually got lost.

He groaned on his own, while stomping his feet anywhere he went. The other yokai just watched him wandering like that. 'her scent is everywhere, goddammit!!', he growled lowly. He almost wrecked the place, until he met karasu-tengu.

"you? You're lil (name)'s familiar, right? If you're searching for her, she's probably sleeping in the guest room....just head straight, then turn right, then straight again and there are two doors, she's resting in the left room", he explained before he flew away to continue while carrying a sewing-kit in his hand.

Tsuoki quickly followed what Karasu-tengu told him, and he breathed out a sigh of relief, but immediately glared the small yokais who were watching you asleep.

"leave", he growled which made the other yokais scurried away.

Tsuoki looked at his watch and it was already in 2pm, "the homework was due today though...I miscalculated". He sat by your tatami, and did your homework for you.

☺☺☺☺☺ Time Skip to a day later☺☺☺☺☺

It was Sunday morning and you were still sleep while holding Rikuo's hand since he was still asleep for two days consecutively. You were worried sick for his welfare, so you tried to heal him so he would have a good dream while he was fast asleep.

Minutes later, Rikuo slowly sat up and looked at himself, bandages all over his body but he doesn't feel that hurt, he turned to his left hand and smiled, "(name)-chan".

With one call, you immediately got up and smiled happily before engulfing him in a warm hug. "good morning Rikuo-kun".

He then thought to himself, 'oh shoot! I'm a student!', "what time is it??", he slid the door behind you and spotted Yuki-Onna and Nattou-Kozzou peeping you both.

"young master, it's Sunday and it's the start of school break", Yuki-onna replied with a giggle.

"young master, you've been sleeping for two days straight", Nattou-Kozzou added.

He then sat properly and smiled at you, "I'm glad you're fine (name)-chan".

Then Wakana passed by and greeted morning before saying, "(name)-chan here stayed here while you were sleeping, she insisted on waiting for you to wake up", she cooed. When you heard what she said, your face burnt bright red as you looked away knowing that Rikuo was intently looking at you with a small blush on his cheek.

He then held both of your hand in his, "ne (name)-chan...". You struggled to make eye contact with him, since you were worried and sad at the same time, you kept thinking it was your fault, eventhough it wasn't.

"I'm sorry for making you worried", he continued. You quickly look up at him and shook your head, "I-it's fine, Rikuo-kun...", you said in a small voice, but he could hear it clearly. He stood up and extended his hand to you, "let's go (name)-chan".

Your eyes widened slightly, "where to?".

"I'm sure the others had worked hard that's why I wanted to meet the others", he pulled you up and laced his fingers with yours, not wanting to let you go.

By now you were confused, you didn't want to be seen as if you're self-conceit or confident and all, but you were curious....

"Rikuo-kun", you called softly while he still dragged you everywhere he go. He turned his head with a what seemed like a proud smile and a small blush on his cheek, "yes?". Then again, you decided to keep it for yourself, so you shook your head, "nothing".

He chuckled before he continued.

Rikuo insisted you to stay for lunch, so when you choose where to sit, you just don't know where to go, you wanted to sit next to Yuki-onna, but Rikuo wanted you to sit next to him. You thought it might be awkward for you to sit by him, since you were a nobody in this Nura family.

However you just sat between Yuki-onna and Keijorou, who stared at you with a curious look.

When Rikuo went into the room along with his grandfather, all the Elderly and Respected Head of yokais bowed their head while saying welcome home to both of them especially Nurarihyon.

You, on the other hand, just smiled on your own, like an innocent good girl you are. When it was eating time, the yokais were getting drunk with the sake.

Keijorou tapped your shoulder, "the more I think about it, and tried to think, why do you smell so nice?? I wanted to hate you but I just can't~". You tilted your head with a wondering look, "smell nice?". Yuki-onna then grabbed your wrist with a small cute pout, "let's be friends... I don't want to be in bad terms with you", she held out her hand to you, "I'm Oikawa Tsurara".

You smiled widely, "your name is so beautiful Tsurara-chan, you can call me (name)". She blushed and looked away with a small frown while shaking your hand, "nice to meet you (name)-chan".

"(name)-chan, come here a bit", you heard Rikuo called you.

"we'll chat later okay, I want to know more about you and this big family", you smiled cutely before excusing yourself. You went to Rikuo and sat by him, "what is it, Rikuo-kun?". "have you met Gyuki-sama?", he ushered to the person who was sitting infront of him.

You nodded your head, "your hair is beautiful, Gyuki-san". He was surprised at your first choice of word but he chuckled nonetheless, "so your family is Yamazakura, hm? Why did you decide to stay in Tokyo? I heard you had a bigger shrine in Kyoto".

Smiling at his words, you answered him one by one.

Then he said, "I do apologize for giving you a hard time at Mt. Nejireme". You shook your head with you biggest smile, "it's okay, I actually like the scenery, the place itself is quite beautiful". He chuckled, "I like her Rikuo-sama, she's good". Rikuo sweatdropped before smiling at the end.

When Wakana entered and told both you and Rikuo that your friends were there in his mansion, Rikuo was surprised, he got up and laced his fingers with yours and immediately dragged you along with him.

Since you didn't know much of the place, you just let him dragged to the place Wakana said "Dojo".

"minna(everyone)!", Rikuo was surprised at the sight of his friends sitting around with their bags.

You were still in your Yukata while smiling brightly at the others, "hai guys!", you waved with your other free hand from behind Rikuo.

The blue eyed male piped up when he saw you, "(name)-chan!". You smiled at him, "hai there Shima-kun".

"not a doubt, I seriously sense yokai everywhere", Yura frowned to herself while looking at Rikuo with speculating eyes. Rikuo looked away, then sweatdropped when the small yokais just walked past the door from the dojo. All of them saw it, excluding Kiyotsugu who was busy with his bag.

Kana then stood up and walked towards Rikuo.

"um..kana-chan?", Rikuo sweatdropped.

You, who was still holding Rikuo's hand, tilted your head to look at what Kana was doing but only to get a hint of jealousy as you saw Kana's face inches from Rikuo. You looked away and tried to unlace your fingers from him.

"You look just like him", she said, but Rikuo noticed that you were trying to let go of his hand, so he turned his head to look at you, "(name)-chan, what's wrong?".

'I was ignored...', Kana thought to herself.

You simply shook your head while looking down, "it's nothing....I'll take my leave then", you slipped your hand away from him making him shocked. He didn't know what he did wrong. You walked away.

Yura who always speculate everything, literally EVERYTHING, said outloud, "Nura-kun you idiot, go after (name)-chan", she huffed an annoyed sigh.

He nodded his head, "wait here guys", leaving Kana hanging, leaving them all, to go after you.

"(name)-chan wait up!", he ran after you, when he eventually caught up to you, he held your arm and turned you around gently, only to noticed that your eyes were brimming with tears, "(name)-chan...? What's wrong?".

You tried to wipe your tears with the sleeve of your yukata, "it's nothing". "that's not nothing.....just tell me (name)-chan....remember what I told you the other day? To just tell me if you have something in mind", he held both your arm in place so you won't walk away.

"I..... I just don't like it....".

"what is it that you don't like?".

"watching Kana-chan close to you", you pouted to yourself while looking on the ground, avoiding his soft gaze that if you look up you will be drown in his deep pool of brown orbs.

He chuckled and lift your chin up, "Kana-chan is just my childhood friend, you don't have to worry about anything", he tilted his head with a smile, "cute..".

"I like you, (name)-chan".

Your eyes widened in shocked, "hm?".

He smiled as he rest his forehead on yours, "I really like you, (name)-chan, and I like you not as a friend, I want to treat you as my lover, sometimes I wonder if love is worth fighting for, but when I remembered your face and remembered what Tamazuki-kun said, I'd be willing to go for war, just for you".

This time, it was tears of joy that fell from your porcelain-like cheek, "baka Rikuo, I...like you too".

Just in time, the crowds showed up and clapped for you two, who? The yokais who were eavesdropping. They were so proud of their young master to finally become a man even in his human form.

[Miru's note;~ no it's not the end yet!!! AHAHHAHAH it's not even the climax yet!! Stay tune okay lovelies and wait for the next update ☺☺♥♥♥ This is by far the longest chapter with 2k words uwu, and thank you guys for your support if it weren't for you, I would have stopped and continued my life as a university student

Oh and I need your opinions, do you reader-chan want a happy ending or I dunno, bless me with your opinion for the ending...since I'm having a writer's block for the ending♥♥♥♥]