Mikan no Tsuki .:. The Moonlight Bandits .:.

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Mikan no Tsuki by Haruko Iida is a shoujo (aimed at the female audience) manga that was later renamed "Crescent Moon". This manga is about a girl named Mahiru Shiraishi, who it seems that whomever she touches, she gives good luck to, but she herself appears to be unlucky. Mahiru lives with her aunt because in her childhood, her parents were killed in a car crash. After her parents' death, Mahiru experiances a strange re-occuring dream about a princess, a song (that nobody heard of), and a demon with intense eyes.
After experiancing a bit of bad luck Mahiru went to her "special spot," which is a place down by the ocean. Sitting there she meets a boy with intense eyes, who seemed to be injured. Upon touching him, in her attempt to help him, he turns into a demon. Frightened Mahiru runs off. The next day at school, Mahiru went to the library to do some research. There she meets another boy, Nozomu Maegi, who she finds knows the song that is in her dream. From there Mahiru finds herself among a small group who are apart of the Lunar Race. In this group there is a Kitsune, a Vampire, a Werewolf, and a Tengu. From them she learns that she is a decendent of a Princess who had made a promise to a demon, but did not keep it. The group invokes Mahiru's help in their attempt to recover the stolen "Teardrops of the Moon"...

The Song From Mahiru's Dream:
Princess, Princess, why do you cry?
In the forest painted by the setting sun,
I made a promise to a demon boy,
That when the full moon ascends the sky in ten,
I'll become his bride.

Princess, Princess, Why do you laugh?
Behind a veil of bamboo blinds,
The minister explains that he'll protect me,
Just as clouds do the moon in a hazy sky.

Princess, Princess, why are you scared?
In the far-off reaches of the highest mountains,
I hear the cries of a demon boy,
That if women are truly as fickle as the phases of the moon,
Then surely I shall capture and devour her.

Demon Lullaby

Demon child,
demon child.
Why do you cry?
In the deep of the forest that the sun sets upon.