Missions of Love

Cell phone novelist Yukina Himuro has decided that, in order to satisfy her fans’ demand for love stories, she must experience romance firsthand. But with her icy reputation, how can she find someone willing to play the part of boyfriend? By blackmailing the most popular boy in school, of course!

Shigure learns Yukina’s weaknessthat she is terrified to have people look at her without her glasses onbut his threats of exploitation aren’t enough to stop her. Fed up, he decides to teach her a lesson by taking her glasses in front of a pack of jealous girls.

Yupina’s cell phone novel gains a major boost in popularity with the introduction of the typical love story tropethe love triangle. What does this mean for Yukina’s real life? Her cousin Akira has confessed his undying love for her, and both she and Shigure become unsure of their true feelings.

Now that she’s back after a long sick leave, Mami Mizuno, the girl every boy in school has a crush on, never leaves Shigure’s side. Never, that is, except for when she’s pestering Yukina. She claims to want to help Yukina win Shigure’s heart, but what is she really after?

Mami invites everyone to the amusement park for fun, thrills, and intrigue. She has devised a plan to make Shigure stay away from Yukina permanently, and it involves a carefully orchestrated ride on the Ferris wheel. They say that any couple who kisses on the ride will be together forever...

When Akira helps Yukina recover from a bad cold, she realizes that the two of them share a much deeper connection than she will ever have with Shigure. She tries to further understand that connection so as to win more readers for her novel, but Shigure is not amused.

RIVALS Faced with the knowledge of Mami’s true feelings for him, Shigure has a choice to make...can he reject the girl who loves and needs him? When Yukina realizes the future of her missions is in peril, she decides she may have to make up his mind for him. From the Trade Paperback edition.

Shigure’s plan to get close to Yukina by helping her overcome her weakness gets off to a good start, but runs into trouble when Yukina meets into an old acquaintancethe preschool teacher who traumatized her in the first place. Can Shigure keep Yukina’s old wounds from reopening? From the Trade Paperback edition.

After coming to the realization that Kirishimasensei was her first love, Yukina goes to face him on her own to finally know the love that she’s been seeking all this time. Meanwhile, Shigure hears a rumor that reveals Kirishimasensei’s dark past and rushes off to tell Yukina, but before he can catch up with her, Yukina is whisked away by Kirishimasensei in his car. Can Shigure reach them in time before Kirishimasensei repeats an action from his sordid past?

CROSSROADS Having been preoccupied with recovering the feelings of first love, Yukina accidentally lets her novels drop in the rankings, and her rival author Dolce has taken over top billing?! Determined to remedy the situation, Yukina declares a date mission where either Shigure or Akira must successfully make her their girlfriend. Will Yukina choose Shigure, who makes her heart race? Or will she choose Akira, whose devotion is unwavering?

Cell phone novelist Yukina Himuro has decided that, in order to satisfy her fans’ demand for love stories, she must experience romance firsthand. But with her icy reputation, how can she find someone willing to play the part of boyfriend? By blackmailing the most popular boy in school, of course!

When Yukina goes to Shigure’s house to apologize, her attempts are thwarted by the appearance of Shigure’s brother Hisame! This twisted sibling will do anything to discredit his brother and torment his beloved Mami, but what is he plotting this time? Meanwhile, Yukina and Akira are technically still a couple…

FALLOUT At the end of the last mission, Yukina finally committed to Akira as her boyfriend, hurting her relationship with Shigure. She’s still reeling from her upsetting apology call to Shigure, but the popularity of her novel is surging after the added drama! And now that Shigure’s unpredictable brother, Hisame, is here to stay, the love missions are going to get even more dangerous.

Yukina and Shigure are reunited after too long apart, and their emotions begin to deepen as though to make up for the lost time. Meanwhile, Mami and Akira’s fake relationship is in danger of becoming more than a ruse, but how is Mami going to cope with her act when real feelings are on the line?

After secrets, lies, and betrayals, Yukina has finally realized her feelings for Shigure. Now their love can begin to grow. But where does this new development leave Akira, who was always by Yukina’s side? Meanwhile, Hisame’s crush on Mami reaches a shocking turn when Mami confesses her love to someone else! All five want to move toward their own goals, but can they make it through the fog of so many tangled feelings?

UNPREDICTABLE Yukina and Shigure are now finally on the same page when it comes to their feelings, but their first foray into true love is no easy feat! What adventures await them in their new relationship? Meanwhile, Hisame has had a crush on Mami for a long time, but when he works up the courage to confess to her, neither of them are prepared for what happens!

Hisame has discovered Yukina’s secret, and he wastes no time using it to exploit her. Yukina won’t go down without a fight–she’s determined not to play Hisame’s little game. But when she tries to get her own dirt on him, he turns it all around on her…

Yukina is set to go on TV to discuss her novel, but if she’s not careful, Shigure will discover that she’s been writing about him all along. The threat should be averted as soon as the TV show is over, but Hisame informs her that Shigure will be in the live studio audience, and he will personally make sure her secret is exposed unless she agrees to do everything he says…

"MISSION OF LOVE After all this time, Yukina finally realizes that her love for Shigure is real–but Shigure isn’t so easily convinced. He’s learned that their whole relationship was research for Yukina’s novel, and now he can’t tell fact from fiction. Will he accept Yukina’s sincere confession of love, or will they say goodbye forever? FINAL VOLUME!"