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Any time, now, Insomni! You can interrupt any time now!

Cursed Hanako had a grip on my shirt collar, and had me lifted off the ground. She floated in front of me, looking into my eyes; her dark, angry expression with that fanged smile made me incredibly uneasy. This girl wasn't my Hanako, at least not anymore. I darted my eyes over to the door -- no sign of Insomni. She really wasn't going to come to my rescue, was she?

"You're going to regret the day that you looked at her instead of me! You have my intelligence, my cute looks, I'm everything you need! I'll be more loyal than that purple tramp could dream of!" Cursed Hanako shouted at me, with her voice echoing through the small room. "But your chance for that is gone. I'll make sure you fear the name Hanako!"

"A bit cliche, aren't we?" I muttered, for some stupid reason. Why in the world I felt sarcasm was an appropriate response was beyond me, but I was punished for it -- Cursed Hanako threw me against the hard, brick wall, and I fell to the destroyed tile floor. Cursed Hanako looked down at me, and the purple aura around her grew stronger, becoming practically blinding as she floated before me. When my gaze met hers, she scoffed and reached down for me, grabbing me by the neck. I struggled, but she didn't seem to be concerned in the slightest.

"I did never care for that smartass attitude of yours." Cursed Hanako said, tightening her hold on my neck. It wasn't enough to crush my windpipe, but she definitely enjoyed seeing the pain that I was in. "Maybe you'll learn how you should talk to a lady instead of just a one-eyed slut." Cursed Hanako's right hand raised up, and she snapped her fingers -- in a split second, my vision was pure darkness.

...

"Wake up! Hey, come up! Wake up!"

My eyes slowly opened, and so much rushed to my mind at once that I thought I'd be sick. Insomni was floating over me with a very concerned look on her face, and I had a piercing, throbbing headache. I looked around, seeing that I was sitting on the ground and leaned against the school building. When I looked up at her, Insomni instantly dove at me and pulled me into a hug.

"Thank goodness!" Insomni exclaimed. I could hear a sniff come from her; she started crying. "I was so scared! I don't know what I would do if I lost you! I love you so much!"

I patted her on the back and hugged her back, nuzzling my cheek against her face. When Insomni pulled back, her eye was bloodshot from her tears, but her smile was the most beautiful thing I could ever remember seeing. She didn't speak a word -- a moment later, she hugged me once more, crying into my shoulder as she pressed against me.

"Shh, I'm fine now." I whispered, stroking her back with my right hand. "I'm okay, don't worry. I knew you'd be here for me."

"Uh-huh. Always!" Insomni pulled away from me and looked into my eyes, furiously nodding. "You're my partner forever!" She wiped her eye and started to catch her breath, floating in front of me and extending a hand to help me stand. It took me a moment to regain my balance, but I dusted off the seat of my pants and leaned back against the wall.

"Do you know what happened?" I asked. "The last thing I remember was Hanako choking me and snapping her fingers."

"She must have teleported you down here." Insomni suggested. "I heard you scream, and as soon as I went into the bathroom, it was empty. I didn't see you anywhere on the third floor, so I came out here ... I was afraid she had thrown you out a window or something! I kept looking everywhere, and ... and ..." Insomni's tears had returned, and she pulled me into another hug.

"I didn't know she could do that." I said, resuming stroking Insomni's back as she let out her clearly bottled-up emotions. "That's something I'll have to worry about when this is all over with."

Before I could say anything to Insomni, a flash of black flew past us. I turned my head, seeing Hanako floating high above us, in the middle of the schoolyard.

"Don't worry ... you won't have the time to think about it!" Cursed Hanako replied to my comment. Her diary was open in her hands now as she looked down at the pages; was she reading some kind of spell? "I'll show you why I'm called Cursed Hanako now!"

Yep, that was exactly what she was doing. Standing here staring at her wasn't going to help anything. If I could get the diary away from her, then maybe she couldn't use any spells of curses against us. But how could I do that?

"Here." Insomni interrupted my thoughts. I looked at her, seeing her with a hand between her breasts, as if she was looking for something. A moment later, she pulled her hand out and opened it in front of me: Peckpocket's medal was lying on her palm. "You never did anything with this when we got it, so I held onto it for safe-keeping." I took it from her and held it in my hand, looking at her.

"It's still warm." I muttered. "I don't know whether that's kind of hot or maybe kind of weird."

"It was between my tits, what do you want?!" Insomni fumed, placing her hands on her hips. She was certainly back to normal. I shrugged and looked at the medal in my hand: Peckpocket in mid-theft, with a green arm reaching for her.

"Thanks." I smiled at Insomni. Her anger faded, and she nodded at me with a smile. "Now then ... show yourself, Peckpocket!" I exclaimed, popping open the classic watch's face cover and pushing the medal into the slot. In a flash, a purple stream of magic started to pour out.

"Summoning ... Eerie!" The watch announced. The purple stream turned into a funnel as Peckpocket appeared, and as usual, the watch belt out a song as Peckpocket started to dance.

"Lookilee, lookilee, flippity dee!" The watch sang. Peckpocket flapped her small wings and moved around in a zip, similar to how she'd stolen things before. "Lookilee, lookilee, babba Eerie!"

"Peckpocket!" Peckpocket announced as the summon ended. Something was quite different: Peckpocket's voice was definitely masculine now, not the female's voice from when we'd met. Peckpocket looked at me, and must've noticed the confusion on my face. "I haven't seen you in a while!" Peckpocket greeted me. "When we met, I was going through a bad cold! Sorry if my voice was weird before!"

Well, that's a quick and easy explanation. That's that, I suppose -- Peckpocket was apparently male all along.

"Nice to see you too." I replied. "Cursed Hanako's using her diary to attack us, or at least I think she's going to. Could you get it before she does something?"

"What's mine is mine, what's her's is mine!" Peckpocket nodded, and with a flap of his wings, zoomed towards Cursed Hanako. Not expecting a fat bird, Cursed Hanako was surprised when a big purple ball zipped past her. "Mine all mine!" Peckpocket exclaimed, snatching the book from her hands. Cursed Hanako gasped, and I could hear her growl as she chased Peckpocket through the sky. "What's mine is mine, what's yours is mine!" he taunted her. "Mine all mine!"

"Hey! That's mine!" Cursed Hanako yelled at Peckpocket, flying after him. Peckpocket dove towards the ground, then just before slamming into the dirt, climbed up into the sky without a moment's pause. He tried spinning in loops, zigzagging his flight patterns, but to no avail. No matter how many tricks he tried, Cursed Hanako was on his tail every flap of the way.

I watched as closely as I could, but the bright sun blocked the dueling Yo-kai from view. All of a sudden, I heard a very loud crash behind me -- I jumped from the noise, but quickly turned and saw Peckpocket head-first in the dirt.

"Her's all her's ... what's mine is her's ... what's her's is her's ..." Peckpocket muttered from his planted spot in the ground. I looked back up at Cursed Hanako, seeing her looking quite satisfied with herself and her diary right back in her hands. Peckpocket felt like my best chance, but Cursed Hanako had all of the same smarts that her shorter form did. Who else could I call?

I was afraid that she would tie Rokurokubi's neck in a knot, but with Rokurokubi being a Classic Yo-kai, she could be powerful. Hungramps could ... make her hungry, I suppose, but I couldn't see what good that could do. I already knew how angry she was, so Espy's powers couldn't do much now. All that leaves is ...

"Show yourself, Komasan!" I called. Insomni quickly floated in front of me, with her eye wide.

"What in the world could he do?!" She asked. "All he does is steal ice cream!"

"I have an idea!" I replied, shoving Komasan's medal into the watch's slot. A pink stream of magic started to pour from the watch's face.

"Summoning ... Charming!" The watch called. Komasan started to appear as a melody began to play.

"Alarming!" The watch sang as Komasan appeared, running in a circle like he was surprised. "Boom boom, walla walla, dance dance, Charming!"

"Komasan?" Komasan announced, sounding confused. When he appeared in front of me, he started to look around. He looked quite frantic.

"Oh my swirls!" Komasan exclaimed. "What am I doin' here, y'all?!" He asked. He looked up at me, but tilted his head when he noticed Cursed Hanako. He pointed at her, and started shivering. "T-That gal up there looks darker than the sky at midnight! What's got a chip on her shoulder?"

"It's a pretty long story." I replied. "Do you think you could try talking to her?"

"What in the Sam Hill could I talk to her about?!" Komasan looked at me, looking completely terrified. "She don't look none too friendly, y'all!"

"You're really kind, Komasan." I said. "You can see what we can do to calm her down, can't ya?"

"Aw, shucks, y'all!" Komasan replied to my compliment. "I guess I do try to be a nice Yo-kai, after all ..." He blushed and gently kicked at the dirt. "I guess I can try and see what's on her mind!" Komasan gave me a determined nod with a smile. Well, here goes nothing, then.

"Hey, Cursed Hanako!" I shouted towards her. Although her black, glowing form didn't move, I knew she was looking at me. "Please come down here, I have someone who wants to talk to you!"

Cursed Hanako slowly lowered to the ground, but remained floating slightly above it. With her journal held to her chest with both hands, her eyes moved from me to Komasan. She raised an eyebrow at the sight of the little white Yo-kai. Komasan stepped forward, trembling.

"U-Uh, howdy ma'am!" Komasan greeted her. Cursed Hanako remained silent. "W-Well, I just wanted to ... ask y'all what's got ya so darn angry!" He said. Cursed Hanako's angry expression hadn't left, and she didn't speak a word. "I know that my new friend here mighta done something to get you real worked up, but he's a nice person! I mean, I'm sure he is!"

"Hey!" I protested. "I didn't ... do everything ..."

"I know that whatever he did, he didn't mean it!" Komasan continued, trying to 'defend' me. "City folk are just crazy, so you can't blame him! He doesn't know any better! I figure that us Yo-kai are probably the most folks he's talked to in a long, long time, so he was just nervous!"

Cutting a little deep there, Komasan.

"Sure he ain't the most fancy-dressed, or smart-lookin', but he's a good person! Anyone who can see Yo-kai must have some good in 'em!" Komasan rambled on, staring at Cursed Hanako. "If you can just forgive him, I'm sure he'll never do whatever it was ever again!" With that, Komasan turned and looked up at me. "What'd y'all do anyway, friend?"

"I ... read her diary." I muttered. Komasan's eyes widened.

"You read a lady's private thoughts? That's lower'n a caterpillar doin' the limbo!" Komasan sounded shocked, and his eyes were wide. He turned back to Cursed Hanako, and bowed his head. "Pardon me, ma'am. My friend deserves whatever punishment you have decided for him." Komasan slowly backed away and hid behind me, peeking out from my legs. Some loyal friend.

He's lucky that he's so damn cute. I couldn't even begin to be angry with him. I reached down and patted his head.

"Uh, thanks, Komasan. I'm sure that probably did something." I muttered. I looked at Hanako -- she was now directly in front of me. I jumped back a bit, tripping over Komasan. I heard a muffled "Oh my swirls!" come from under me when I landed on the ground. Komasan crawled out from under me and jumped on top of me, both of us watching as Cursed Hanako slowly approached. Komasan and I hugged each other in fear, shivering as the angry girl floated in front of us.

She grinned. But just as soon as her lips curved up, her frown was right back along with look of fury in her eyes.

As cliche as this is turning out, Hanako's still in there! Or at least that's how it works on TV!

"Her smile's right pretty!" Komasan said with a light blush on his cheeks. "No wonder y'all like to spend so much time with her!"

"Yeah, she's pretty great." I replied. "She's my cute little Hanako-san."

Cursed Hanako blushed, and she smiled -- but only barely. After realizing my idea, she frantically shook her head and flipped open her diary -- the pages moved on their own as she looked down at the book.

I stood up while keeping Komasan in my arms; as I regained my balance, I heard something hit the ground. I looked down, seeing that a few Yo-kai medals had fallen from my pocket. Komasan leapt from my arms and quickly picked them back up, holding them up to me: Rokurokubi's and Hanako's.

"Why'd y'all bring her medal if she ain't cute and little anymore?" Komasan asked. "Can you summon her back to normal and get that scary lady to leave?" I paused at his question: it made too much sense.

Is that something I can do?

I looked at both medals in my hand. If I tried summoning Hanako-san, would Cursed Hanako be affected at all? She isn't Hanako-san anymore, but she seemed to still "exist" inside of her new body somehow. She wouldn't have smiled at our compliments if she was just a rage-fueled teenager. Before I could say anything, I heard Cursed Hanako's voice -- she was muttering something, and her diary was glowing a bright red.

"Get out of the way!"

Out of nowhere, Insomni flew towards me and shoved myself and Komasan out of the way. The instant the three of us were on the ground, a red beam of light shot out of the diary, narrowly missing us all. I blinked, seeing that Insomni had landed on me and her chest was on my face. Now is not the time, boner. Read the mood.

"Insomni." I muttered. She moved up and looked down at me, blushing.

"Sorry, sorry!" She apologized. "I just didn't want you hurt!" She and I looked down at Komasan, who was rubbing his rear in pain as he stood up. She looked back at me, looking me up and down. "You seem okay, but have you figured something out? You can't keep playing tag with her, she'll just get mad and hurt someone!"

"I have." I nodded. "Watch swap, please."

"At your service!" Insomni smirked, placing her hands on her breasts and sticking her chest out. I shoved my hand down her cleavage and watched her bust glow. Even in the face of danger, Insomni moaned when my arm touched her bare skin. I blushed, but tried my best to focus on the problem at hand.

"Oh mah swirls, city folks are dirty ..." I heard Komasan whisper.

I yanked my hand free, seeing the Type Zero Yo-kai Watch on my wrist. As fast as I could, I popped in Rokurokubi's red medal and turned the crank to 1.

"Please assume your summoning pose." The watch instructed. Cursed Hanako, Komasan, and Insomni were all watching me with interest. I sighed.

"Show yourself!" I commanded. I planted both feet on the ground and thrust my right arm up, pointing forward like I was fascinated by the clouds. The girls and Komasan all looked embarassed FOR me. "Hey, I tried this time!" I argued. From the watch's face, a large, swirling rainbow path appeared.

Rokurokubi started to walk down the path, twisting her long neck into various shapes along the way. A question mark, a swirl, and somehow even a peace sign. As she reached the end of the path, her neck returned to normal position and she bowed while on her knees, greeting me. I cranked the watch to 2, and the success tone played.

"Summoning Slippery." The watch said.

"Rokurokubi." Rokurokubi calmly stated her name as she appeared. Her long neck moved around as she examined her surroundings. When she saw me, she smiled. "Oh, my human suitor! It's very nice to see you again!"

"Suitor?!" I heard Cursed Hanako ask, growling after she spoke. "How ... could ... you?!"

"Not the time, Ms. Roku!" I frantically looked between Hanako and the long-necked woman. "Please, if you can, keep Cursed Hanako still! I need her unable to move!"

"Oh, is that all? Simple!" Rokurokubi smiled. With speed that put Insomni's stripping time to shame, Rokurokubi's neck swirled around Cursed Hanako and squeezed tight around her like a rope, keeping her perfectly still. Cursed Hanako struggled to get free, and when she realized that she was indeed stuck, her diary's pages started to flip at an amazing speed.

"I apologize miss, but I can't let y'all do that." Komasan calmly walked to her, taking the diary from Cursed Hanako's hand. He adorably waddled back to me, and held up the book. "Now DON'T y'all look at this again!" He disciplined me, wagging a paw at me. "It ain't gentlemanly!"

"Understood." I replied. With my free hand, I reached down and stroked Komasan's furry head, avoiding his flaming-blue eyebrows that seemed to grow brighter when he gave me that look. He smiled at me. "Thank you very much for all your help today, Komasan. You're a very good friend."

"It ain't nothin'!" Komasan smiled, blushing. "Any time my friends need me, I'll be around! You know who to call!" Komasan looked at Rokurokubi and Cursed Hanako, seeing that our problem looked relatively handled. "I'm gonna head on home to Komajiro now, so just call me if you need me!" Komasan waved at us all as he waddled off, holding onto his bag as he walked.

"What exactly do you have in mind?" Insomni asked. "Are we just going to leave her there?"

"I'd ask that you don't." Rokurokubi said. "This is rather tiring already."

"Nah." I replied. "Just keep her held a little longer. Komasan gave me an idea." I popped Rokurokubi's medal out of the watch, and dropped it in my pocket. I looked at the remaining green medal in my hand: Hanako-san's. The art of her leaning against a bathroom stall door, and the green, see-through frame of the little pog was a memory in itself. Hanako had taught me about Type Zero medals, was my second Yo-kai friend, and my other roommate. I didn't want to have to picture life without her.

"Let ... me ... go!" Cursed Hanako fumed, kicking Rokurokubi's neck wrapped around her. "Don't let him do it! DON'T LET HIM TAKE THE REVENGE AWAY!"

"Whatever you're doing, do it quickly, please!" Rokurokubi said, tightening her neck's grip. "She's beginning to get a tad annoying!"

I nodded, and popped Hanako's medal into the watch. I cranked it to 1.

"Please assume your summoning pose." The watch instructed. I started to move, but felt Insomni tug on my shirt sleeve.

"No, honey." Insomni said, shaking her head. "I beg of you. Have some dignity."

I stopped in mid-pose, rather annoyed. As usual, the rainbow path appeared. Hanako-san wasn't on it.

I examined the path; it was broken in pieces, and some sections were flickering -- it looked like an old, broken video game's graphics.

"Cannot summon Yo-kai." The watch said. "Please insert another medal. Cannot summon Yo-kai. Please insert ..." The warning continued, repeating the same words each time. Without anything else to try, I turned the dial to 2. To my surprise, the watch responded. "Summoning an Eerie."

Rather than making a Yo-kai appear, something happened which none of us seemed to expect - even Cursed Hanako looked surprised. As the watch confirmed a summon, Cursed Hanako's dark aura turned into a peaceful-looking green. The black aura seemed to stream away from her body, pouring into the face of the Yo-kai Watch. After a few moments, the stream ended -- Cursed Hanako's aura was flickering from black to green, but after a few moments, the black color would return. Cursed Hanako growled again, frantically kicking her feet.

"NO!" She shouted. "DON'T LET HIM TAKE ME AWAY! DON'T LET HIM!" She looked at Insomni, and bared her fangs. Her eyes turned red. "ARE YOU NOT ALSO AN EERIE YO-KAI?! YOU'RE LETTING A HUMAN TAKE MY POWER AWAY? WHERE IS YOUR RESPECT FOR YOUR TRIBE?!"

Insomni looked annoyed, not scared in the slightest. Without speaking, she reached down and took the watch's dial between two fingers, quickly waving it between 1 and 2. As she cranked it, the watch started to speak, albeit broken.

"Please assume your-Summoning an Eerie-Please-Summon-Ple-Sum-Pl-Summ ..." As Insomni moved the crank, more and more of the black, angry aura poured from Cursed Hanako into the watch. Insomni's annoyed look, her eye half-closed -- her poker face made me want to laugh a bit -- it seemed she just took this as putting up with Hanako thinking she was more intelligent than Insomni was. After enough talking that I was afraid the watch would break, I grabbed Insomni's hand.

"I think we're fine." I said. "Look."

Rokurokubi slowly un-wrapped her neck, gently placing something on the ground -- a sleeping, exhausted Hanako-san. In her little red suspenders and skirt, white shirt, and black bob-cut hair. Hanako was back. In front of her lie something small, round, and green -- could it be what I think it is? I picked it up and examined it: indeed, Cursed Hanako's Yo-kai medal.

It showed Cursed Hanako, holding her diary in her right hand. It's like the art was looking at me, with Cursed Hanako's evil eyes and fanged smile in full view. A purple explosion of magic was surrounding her in the background. What could I possibly do with this, since Hanako was back to normal? I certainly didn't want this Yo-kai back.

Rokurokubi walked to me, holding Hanako in her hands. She gave me a warm smile as she handed the shorter Yo-kai to me, and I took Hanako and hugged her close to me. Rokurokubi bowed her goodbye, and Insomni and I bowed in return. Without another word, the three of us parted ways. Insomni and I were headed home.

...

"Is she going to be okay?" Insomni asked as I gently placed Hanako on my bed. "She was pretty furious at the end there."

"Oh, just at the end?" I teased. "Yeah, she was such an angel when she was choking me. I think she'll be fine, the world's best fashion designer wouldn't go down this easy."

Hanako slept soundly as Insomni and I talked. I leaned down, kissing Hanako on the forehead. Rather than be annoyed, Insomni just smiled.

"Will things be okay between you two?" I asked. "You keep saying I'm a one Yo-kai human. Can you not learn to share?"

"I suppose, if I must." Insomni nodded. "However ..." She floated towards me, reached down, and grabbed me through my pants. "You're going to pay me a lot more attention to make up for it."

"I can ... totally do that." I replied. "But now's probably not the best time. I'm actually kind of tired myself."

"I am too, oddly enough." Insomni agreed. She pushed me into my office chair and floated down, sitting on my lap. She buried her face in my chest and slowly closed her eye. I closed my eyes as well, and in no time, all three of us were asleep.

As I snored, I didn't see a smile cross Hanako's sleeping face.