To Love Ru: Secrets

On the last day of school, before summer vacation, Yuuki Rito falls victim to an unknown illness that even Mikado-sensai can't treat. Rito then disappears when his bedroom is destroyed by a powerful explosion. And when a mysterious Devilukean appears, secrets are revealed.

Key: "spoken words" 'thoughts' ("whispers") ["on video phones or TV"] {author}

Ch.1

As the light of the morning sun shines through his window, causing him to stir, he hears a voice he's all too familiar with. "Good morning Rito-san," she says as she places her hands on his chest.

Rito opens his eyes half way and says, "Hmm, morning Momo."

Momo tilts her head, "Are you okay Rito-san?" she says as she sits up.

"I am fine, just tired," He says as he sits up and rubs his neck.

Rito's bedroom door opens, "Rito, time to get up…" Nana stops, eyes wide. "You beast what are you doing with Momo?" She then jumps on Rito and puts him in a headlock.

"Morning Nana." Rito says calmly in her headlock.

She looks at him in confusion, "Ea…" she releases Rito and asks, "You okay Rito?"

He replies, "Fine, just a little tired." Rito than gets out of bed, grabs his school uniform and opens his closet, while saying, "Now, if you'd excuse me I need to get dressed for school." The twins watch him go in and come out in less than five minutes.

Rito then walks out his bedroom door, when Lala comes out of the shower, with only a towel around her body. With a happy voice she says, "Oh, good morning Rito."

Rito looks at her, and says, "Morning Lala." and walks down stairs.

Lala looks at Rito then looks to her sisters, "Does Rito seem, different to you two?"

Nana and Momo reply with, "Yeah, why?" than gave each other a look that said, don't say the same thing I say at the same time I say it.

"He usually turns red when he sees me in only a towel." Lala then looks back to were Rito was "I hope he is okay," she says with worry in her tone and expression.

In the kitchen Mikan is finishing making breakfast, when she hears Rito coming down the stairs, "Good morning Rito, breakfast will be ready in just a few minutes." she says as she sets out the plates for everyone.

Rito stops and looks at her, "Morning Mikan, I am not hungry, now," he then walks towards the front door, "I will see you after school." the last thing heard was the sound of the door closing.

"Mau?" Celine asks from her highchair.

Mikan scratches her chin, 'That's odd, Rito never skips breakfast unless he was late.' she then removes the plate that was intended for him, 'Come to think of it, he didn't eat his dinner last night. I hope he's alright,' she then looks out the window to see her brother as he walks down the street.

Rito has his eyes half-open and his head down, so he doesn't notice a black cat following him on a nearby fence. {Now why would a cat be following Rito? Hmm I wonder… oh ho she's looking at me, with those "golden" eyes, I'm getting out of here! I'll be back later, when she is not. Okay? Okay.}

At school, after dropping Celine off with Mikado-sensei, the three Devilukean princesses catch up with Rito, "Rito wait-up." Lala walks next to Rito, who has his hand on the wall to his right, "Are you okay Rito?"

Rito stops when Lala comes over to him, "I am okay Lala, just tired."

Nana, standing a few feet behind them next to Momo, with her arms folded saying, "Of course you are tired, you beast. You …" when a hand covers her mouth, "Mmmm…?"

Momo standing close to Nana and whispers, ("Ssshhh Nana."){At lest she didn't grab Nana's tail. What is it with those two and their tails anyway?} But she then gets distracted by something on the wall, 'Are those hand prints on the wall?' she thinks as she looks at the wall to the right, from where they came, then to the left where Rito is. 'They are and they are heading towards Rito!'

"Mmmm! … Momo let go of me!" says Nana as she manages to get away from her twin.

"Oh, sorry Nana." she says as she returns to reality.

Nana starts walking while saying, "Well come on or we'll be late." and Momo follows her to their class as Lala and Rito make their way into their class.

In class, while Tearju is giving the last lesson before summer vacation, all of Rito's female friends have noticed his lack of energy. Lala looks over at him, who has his head on his deck, 'Rito says he is tired, but he never sleeps during class, something must be wrong.' she thinks worriedly.

{The other girls look at him worriedly as well, so I'll just say their thoughts and who thinks it.} 'Yuuki-kun doesn't look so good; I hope he's okay. ' Haruna thinks.

'Yuuki-kun, you're not acting like your shameless self. I hope my first crush is alright… why did I just say that?' Yui thinks as she blushes at the last thought.

'Rito is not looking so good, maybe I should take him to Mikado-sensei after class?' Oshizu thinks.

'Rito-kun? The one-day I take off work and Rito-kun is not feeling well.' Run then looks at Lala, 'I bet Lala had something to do with this.' she thinks as squints her eyes.

As class ends, most of the students leave to go tend to what ever it is they do, Rito's friends start to gather around him. Tearju then approaches Rito, "Yuuki-kun? …" she covers her mouth in shock as she finds that Rito is socking wet, "Oh, dear! Lala-san, can you and your friends take Yuuki-kun to Mikado-sensei in her office?" she asks.

"Okay Tearju-sensei, Rito really has me worried, so having Mikado-sensei check him out will help. " Lala says as she walks towards Rito.

"I was thinking about taking him to Mikado-sensei's office anyway." Oshizu states as she joined them.

"Okay, Rito get up we're going to go see Mikado-sensei." Lala says as she puts a hand on Rito's right shoulder.

"Okay, why?" Rito asks as he lifts his head.

"Because you don't seem like yourself." Yui states.

"I am fine Kotegawa, just tired." Rito says as he gets out of his desk and walks out the classroom followed by the girls.

As they walk down the hall towards Mikado-sensei's office, they hear two voices from behind, "Sis." "Onee-sama."

Lala turns around to see; Momo, Nana, and her redheaded friend, "Nana, Momo and Mea-san." she says in a happy tone.

"How is Rito-san?" Momo asks as she reaches her older sister.

"Same as this morning." Lala says as they continue to walk.

Oshizu hearing what's behind her, she says, "So, we're taking him to Mikado-sensei to see what is up."

Walking between Nana and Lala, Mea asks, "What's wrong with Rito-senpai?"

Nana folds her arms, "Besides the lack of beastly acts." she says in an irritated tone.

On the other side of Lala, Momo says, "Rito-san didn't eat dinner last night and he has not eaten anything today."

Mea taps her chin with her right index finger as she says, "I suppose humans have to eat to stay healthy?"

Nana then turns to Mea saying, "That's right, you were an assassin before you came to Earth right? So you probably didn't eat a lot, did you? "

Mea response with "Yes. But after I left Mast… I mean Nemesis; I've tried many foods. I especially like Mikan-chan's cooking."

With a happy voice, Lala says, "So does Yami-chan."

Ahead of them Oshizu looks to be deep in thought, 'I don't think she'd leave Nemesis so easily. There must be more to it than that?' {Come on Oshizu don't be distrustful of Mea. Anyone and everyone can change, even those with a dark past. Besides, you are the one who went in her mind and was almost trapped by the darkness… don't look at me like that, (your worst then the cat from earlier).}

"Hay, where is Rito-kun?" Run asks.

"He's at the stairs just ahead." Haruna answers, pointing at Rito.

"For someone who's not feeling well, he sheer walks fast. " Yui sighs.

"Ho oh, look who's at the top of those stairs." Oshizu says with worry.

Rito is standing at the bottom of the stairs looking up. At the top of the stairs looking down is Yami, "You saw them, didn't you? Please di…"

Her hair moves just a little when, "Aaugh!" Rito then grabs his mid section and falls to the ground twitching and yelling in pain.

"Rito!…" Lala yells as she rushes to Rito, "We need to get him to Mikado-sensei, now!"

Yami jumps down the stairs and lands next to them, "I'll take him there." she says as she picks Rito up with her hair and starts running towards Mikado-sensei's office.

"Okay, Yami-chan, we're right behind you." Lala says as she and the others follow Yami.

'That's weird, Yami-oneechan didn't even transform and Rito-senpai… something must be wrong.' Mea thinks to herself as she runs after her onee-chan.

In Mikado's office, she and Rito are behind a curtain and the girls are around the office looking worried, walking around, taping their toe or looking out the window. Celine, in Yui's arms, asks, "Mau?" to which Yui whispers, ("I know Celine. I'm worried too.")

"How long have they been behind that? It's getting really late." Momo asks as she looking out the window, watching the sun as it began to set.

Oshizu reassures everyone by saying, "Mikado-sensei can help Rito, she is the best in the business."

Mikado opens the curtain, "Well, I can't help Rito." she says.

"What?" Lala asks.

"Why not? And what's up with all those ice sickles?" Run asks as she points at Rito, who has thousands of small ice sickles all over him.

Mikado looks at Rito, shakes her head and says, "I can't treat what I don't know, and I've never seen anything like this. And I've seen a lot, so that's saying something."

"So, is there anything you can tell us that can help Yuuki-kun?" Haruna asks.

Mikado picks up a clipboard by Rito's bed, "Well, he needs food, his food in tank is extremely low. "

"Rito didn't eat dinner last night and hasn't eaten anything all day." Lala says.

"Well, until I find out what's wrong with Rito, the best thing to do for now is to take him home and put him in his bed." Mikado says. She then turns towards Oshizu, "Oshizu, go with them, I want you to monitor Rito and if necessary force feed him."

"Okay sensei" says the ghost girl.

Lala looks at her friends and sees that they are very worried, "Would you guys like to spend the night and keep an eye on Rito with us?"

"I'll go, I just need to tell my sister." Haruna says.

Run says, "I'll go, no problem." happily but worriedly.

"What about work?" Yui asks.

"As long as Rito-kun needs me, work can wait." Run responds.

"I'll go, but only to make sheer my target is healthy. " Yami states.

'There she goes with that 'target' thing again. Why won't she admit to Rito-san that she likes him? If she didn't like him, she would have killed him by now.' Momo thinks as she looks at said blond.

"What about you Yui?" Lala asks the black-haired cat-lover.

Yui blushes as she says, "I don't know."

Momo then walks up to her and whispers, ("Aren't you worried about your first love, Yui-san?")

"Ea, who told you?" Yui panicked.

"No one." Momo says innocently.

"Well Yui." Lala asks.

"Well… alright, I'll meet you at your house Lala-chan. I just need to get some things." she answers and heads towards the office door.

"Me too. I'll meet up with you later." Haruna says as she too heads for the office door.

"I'll carry him then." Yami states as she picks Rito up with her hair, which causes most of the ice to fall off, and walks out the door with the other girls.

As they walk out the front gate of school, a black cat with eyes of gold watches them then follows. {Man, why can't she give it up? She can't have Rito too herself, she'd be better off sharing… oh ho she's looking at me again! I'm going back to the house were no one looks at me like that.}

At the Yuuki household Mikan is working on making dinner when she hears the front door open, "Mikan we're home." Lala shouts.

Mikan walks out to greet them, "Welcome home Lala…" but stops short when she sees Rito out cold in Yami's hair, "What happened to Rito?" she asks worriedly.

"Well you see…" Lala explains what happened at school to Mikan.

Oshizu and Yami move past them to the stairs, "Yami-chan, let's take Rito to his room okay."

"Okay, Oshizu-san." Yami says as she and Oshizu take Rito up stairs and put him in his bed.

"Dinner's done." Mikan yells as she turns the stove off. "Oshizu-san you take this soup to Rito, okay. " she says as she hands Oshizu a bowl of soup that Mikado-sensei had recommended.

"Okay." was all she said as she heads up to Rito's room with the bowl of soup and a metal spoon.

Run, sitting at the table with Haruna on her left and Yui on her right, says, "Mikan-chan, dinner looks good. Too bad Rito-kun can't join us."

About ten or fifteen minutes later Oshizu comes back down stairs, covered in the soup, with the bowl on her head, and her hair all spiky, muttering, ("That…was…weird…")

Momo, seeing Oshizu, smirks and asks, "Oshizu-san, you look shocked. What happened?"

"I don't want a talk about it." was all said to the third princess.

Mikan, being the good hostess, says, "Well, go change out of those and come join us."

After dinner the girls are in their pjs in the living room watching Lala's favorite show, "Go Kyouko Go!" Lala yells.

"Lala-sama, what will you do if Rito-dono doesn't get better?" Peke asks from the top of Lala's head.

"Don't say things like that Peke, Rito will be fine." Lala says worriedly to Peke, while her eyes stay on the TV.

Then out of no were the entire house starts to shake, "What's this!?" Mea yells.

"Earthquake! Everyone get down!" Mikan yells as she gets down on the ground with her hands over her head.

After the quake a, "AAUGH!" can be heard with a loud 'bang' from upstairs.

"Rito! Rito-san! Rito-kun! Yuuki-kun! Rito-senpai!" they all yell.

Lala was the first to go up the stairs saying, "Rito!? Rito!? Are you alright?…" she opens Rito's bedroom door and cries, "No…Rito?"

"What happened Lala?" Mikan asks as she joins Lala up the stairs followed by the others.

"Rito's…gone…" Lala cries.

"What!?" everyone asks. Everyone looks past Lala to see no sign of Rito or his room for that matter all that was there was a big hole of where it was.

"I'm calling Zastin!" Momo says with tears in her eyes as she pulls out her D-dialer.

On Zastin's ship, in Earth's orbit, Zastin is finishes giving Gid his report. ["Is that all you have to report, Zastin?"] Gid asks.

"Yes, Gid-sama."

["Good, I'll…"]

Another screen pops up with a crying Momo, and in the background you can hear the cries of the other girls. ["Zastin!"] she cries.

"Momo-sama? What's wrong?" Zastin asks worriedly.

["It's Rito! His room was completely destroyed and there's no sign of him anywhere!"]

Momo explains as tears continue to roll down her face.

"I'll be right down!" Zastin states as Momo's screen vanishes. He then turns to Gid, "Gid-sama, I have to go."

["Go, I'll arrive on Earth in a few days."] Gid says sternly as his screen vanishes.

Zastin then teleports down to the house and kneeling next to Lala saying, "It'll be okay Lala-sama, it'll be okay. We'll find Rito-dono and the person who caused this."

Oshizu, with several lines of tears going down her face, thinks, 'I think I know who caused this.' she then looks at Mea, who is also very teary eyed, 'And, so does Mea.' {Don't jump to conclusions Oshizu, it is very likely, but I don't think she would. What about Lacospo or any other alien with a grudge against Rito?… Great now she's ignoring me.}