A/N: Normally, I wouldn't answer reviewer's review because of my... laziness (=o=). But since I can't be helped but wanting to give some spoilers so I will do just that.

Nghtwng77: Thank you for your very first as well as encouraging comment.

Yhaygotlth: I didn't think about Lovecraft's Cthulhu Mythology first, until you mentioned it. That would really be a good idea which I shall include in much, much later chapter.

Shadowman 747: I'm still thinking whether I should make it a TsukunexHarem or just TsukunexRuby. About who Tsukune really is, I could only say that he was far older than any living beings on Earth.

That's it for now. Oh, and btw, Tsukune did not, I repeat, did not take Ruby's virginity in the first verse if you have been suspecting it. She lost something else, which you will understand once you read the first few paragraphs in this chapter.

| VERSE |
| 2 |

Dream, School, and Vampire

Ruby had a dream.

She didn't know where she was, for there was nothing around her but sunflowers and the blue sky with fluffy clouds above her head. The girl had to admit that the flowers were beautiful as they stood strongly no matter what come to them. Ruby then strolled forward and extended both of her hands as she sensed the flowers' petals brushed under her palms.

It feels so real.

Suddenly, someone had called her name, and when the girl turned back, she met an elder woman whose face is unrecognizable, yet so familiar. As polite as she always was, Ruby was about to ask why the woman knew her name, but she felt that her body could not speak at all. Before she even realized it, her height had already shrunk to the size of a middle-schooler, and she was moving toward the elder woman with jolty steps like a little child.

The elder woman smiled warmly at the red-eyed girl as she asked.

"What have you found, Ruby?"

"Oka-sama, look, look!" Ruby felt that her body had spoken up on its own, without her mind to order it to. "A butterfly." She said as she slowly opened her palms, revealing quite a large-sized butterfly inside with dark grey wings.

Oka-sama?

"Oh, an 'Emperor of India'. What is this thing doing out here?" the old woman spoke, wondering what could have brought such a creature to the field of sunflowers.

"I called it here." A boy voiced up as he appeared out of nowhere and approached the pair of the mother and her figurative daughter. "I thought this place doesn't held much liveliness as it should be, so I called a few 'companions' to lighten up the freshness, as well as a present to little Ruby here."

Ruby looked up at the boy – whose hair had mysteriously covered the upper part of his face, leaving only the mouth and nose visible – and she had started talking again against her will.

"Arigatou, Onii-san!" The little girl said as she was beaming with happiness.

Onii-san?

The elder boy only smiled earnestly in return as he gently rubbed Ruby's head, slightly mussing up her hair in the process.

Then, Ruby's vision began to falter, letting the darkness gradually take dominance over her mind. The last thing she remembered was an apology from the boy.

"I'm sorry, Ruby-chan."

"Why are you apologizing?" Ruby muttered as she opened her eyes. She felt quite warm and comfortable despite having to lean on something and tilted her head aside to sleep. However, that 'something' had moved a bit as 'it' spoke.

"Hmm? Come again?"

That had made her jump in surprise. The girl then carefully watched her companion and realized that it was none other than her childhood friend, Aono Tsukune, and she remembered that they were waiting on a bench for the bus to come and take them to Youkai Academy, a school for non-human beings like her and the boy. Apparently, Ruby had fallen asleep on the boy's shoulder and he had heard what she whispered as he asked her again with concern in his voice.

"Ruby, you said that you had a dream. What kind of a dream is it?"

"Nothing, just a weird dream, that's all." The red-eyed girl waved her hands continuously as she was being embarrassed with her sleep-talking. But that didn't convince the boy when his face was still full of doubts as he asked again.

"Are you sure that it's nothing? At all?"

"Really, it's nothing." Ruby said as she stared at Tsukune's face. Somehow it reminded her a lot to the boy who had appeared in her dream.

Tsukune was your everyday ordinary boy with a face that was a bit above average, brown hair that seemed unruly no matter how many times he brushed it, and he practically looked like a 16 years-old boy who had little to none experience around women. In other words, there is nothing special about him.

Except for his eyes, that is.

Truth to be told, Ruby had never seen anyone's eyes as beautiful as Tsukune's, those twinkling pools of silver with a few blue spots mixed inside, as if they were sapphires that were shining under the July sky. Sometimes, Ruby had a habit of gazing at them so much that she lost the track of time, just like now.

Come to think of it, Tsukune had always been staying by her side for as long as she could remember. They were orphans so they had no one else but themselves to support. And they had grown along fine, which is why she was being confused about one thing.

What was that dream she had?

Tsukune, feeling the intent gaze that Ruby was giving him, decided to voice up his presence.

"Ruby, I know that I am handsome and all, but you don't need to ogle me like that, do you?"

The black-haired girl blinked a few times, trying to access what the boy had just told her, before she jumped up in embarrassment and shouted in defense.

"I-I'm not ogling you, hentai!"

"The... hell? Why am I the pervert here when you are clearly ogling me no matter how I look at it?" The brown-haired boy retorted, not letting the girl hurting his pride as a male creature.

"I said I wasn't ogling you." Ruby turned around and dropped her bags on the bench, her cheeks puffed up with a cute pout while she declared. "I'm going to the restroom, and don't follow me."

Tsukune could only sigh in defeat as he watched Ruby walked away to the other side of the street.

Just as she vanished around the corner, a yellow bus halted right in front of Tsukune. Its door opened, revealing a creepy driver with eyes that glowed under the shade of his cap. Anyone who met him for the first time would easily get freaked out by his appearance.

Somehow, the bus driver ceased his usual smile when he looked at Tsukune. The brown-haired boy, on the other hand, also glanced at the driver with a blank face.

Those who knew the Bus Driver well would undoubtedly find themselves being surprised by his unexpected behavior, for he never dropped his well-kept façade no matter what the situation was. Yet this new boy was able to pull it off miraculously.

In the end, the Bus Driver burst out laughing maniacally as he addressed the boy.

"Hahahaha. Fascinating! Truly fascinating! I never thought I would be meeting you here, after such a long time, Your Excellency."

Tsukune, feeling a rush of headaches coming onto his mind, pinched the upper part of his nose as he replied with an exasperated sigh.

"Creepy and sarcastic as always. Of all people I could have met again, why does it have to be you?"

The irritation in Tsukune's voice, however, only served to further the Bus Driver's amusement as he spoke.

"Heh heh heh. Aren't you glad being back to this world?"

"If that means to bear with your witty and annoying remarks all the time, then no, I'm not glad at all."

"You made me feel sad, My Lord." The Bus Driver said as he tilted his head, the grin still visible on his shadowed face.

"That doesn't really sound convincing."

"Heh heh heh. You are the same as I've remembered you to be."

The brown-haired boy let his hand down and changed his expression to that of a sterner one as he asked.

"Aside from these tasteless jokes, could you tell me how the world had been coming to?"

Ruby splashed water onto her face as she tried to regain some awareness. Having got awakened from such a realistic dream had left her defenseless, thus she got a little angry when Tsukune teased her when she was being serious.

But that wasn't where her problems lying at. Recently, she got a lot of migraines whenever she recalled some parts of her childhood memory, especially things concerning her one and only friend: Tsukune.

Truth to be told, she didn't remember much of her past because of, according to Tsukune's explanation, an accident which gave her a selective amnesia. Her memory started from when she was 17 years old. Ever since then, Ruby had been staying with Tsukune, which also lead to one odd thing.

How come Tsukune had never changed his appearance even though he should have been 18 years old by now, literally?

Ruby had tried asking that once to Tsukune, and the brown-haired boy had replied that he was a monster, just like the fact of Ruby being a witch. It was quite an acceptable answer, until another question popped up.

What kind of monster was Tsukune?

Unfortunately, whenever Ruby inquired him on that, Tsukune would always change the topic, or simply laughed away and pretended that nothing happened. It made her a little sad that he didn't trust her enough to leak out his identity, and it hurt her even more when she realized her feelings for him.

Ruby would never admit it, but she indeed had a crush on the brown-haired boy, despite his insensitivity and the constant tease from him. Without Tsukune by her side, the girl would never know what could have occurred to her in this vast world. The thought alone made Ruby twist uncomfortably as she gazed at her own face in the mirror.

Ruby didn't want to sound like she was boasting about herself, but even Tsukune acknowledged that she was a beauty, with black silky locks that looked like the starless night sky, red eyes which were similar to those of a vampire replaced by small rounded pupils in the center instead of vertical slits, a curvarous body that accentuated in all the right places that made most men drool over her, and an angelic face yet full of mature aura emitting. The girl was practically 19 years old by now, but age didn't matter when you enrolled at Youkai Academy – you are a freshman as long as it's your first time studying there.

Feeling that she was wasting enough time inside the restroom, Ruby washed her hands for the last time and strolled out, and it was that moment when a woman chose to step in, resulting in them colliding with each other: Ruby ended up having her butt against the ground while the woman had her back against the walls.

"Itai!" Ruby said as she stood up and rubbed her butt. "Gomen, I didn't watched where I was going. Are you hurt somewhere?"

The woman – Ruby could clearly see her now that all the turmoil gone – she had jet black hair that tied into a bunch with the hair's end spread out behind like a peacock's tail, deep red eyes with glasses, looked like in her late 20s, and especially her huge bouncy breasts that was dangerously about to explode from her barely fitted office clothes. The black-haired woman was also rubbing her aching back as she stuttered a response.

"I-I'm fine, it's nothing. I'm sorry for not watching, too."

Ruby could only smiled back reluctantly as she watched the woman trying to regain her composure. Then Ruby walked out while still facing the woman and spoke.

"I'm sorry again for the trouble, but I have to hurry. Someone's waiting for me." The girl bowed before she ran back to the bus station, leaving the slightly dazed woman behind.

However, if Ruby turned around once more, she could have seen the sinister grin that was splattering on the busty woman's face, like an impending curse that was treading slowly down the path of oblivion.

"Hmm, what's wrong, Your Excellency?" The Bus driver quirked an eyebrow as he saw Tsukune shuddered.

The brown-haired boy didn't reply at first when he changed his gaze into the corner where Ruby had gone to a few minutes ago, and then he spoke, slowly yet full of distrust.

"I felt a... familiar presence."

"Familiar?"

"I don't know." Tsukune twitched his eyebrows in confusion, as if it was his first time being bewildered. "It was very weird, like a human but not entirely human, and not a monster either. It tasted a little bit of... Chaos."

"Could it be...?" The Bus Driver didn't like the mentioning of that word since his voice lost its creepily humorous as well as carefree tone.

"No, it can't be. I would have known it if it was really one of them." Tsukune shook his head, trying to expel every negative emotion he had. "I guess I'm being paranoia."

As if on cue, Ruby approached them and stopped right before the brown-haired boy while she recovered her breath. Seeing the small sweats on her forehead, Tsukune couldn't help but asked.

"Eto... what's happened? Why are you running like that?"

Ruby looked up at her childhood friend and was about to answer him, until she remember his tease from before. Then, without another word, the girl took all her bags lying on the bench and proceeded onto the bus, not sparing a second glance at Tsukune. That had made the boy call Ruby out with frustration as he followed after her.

"Ruby? Ruby-san? Ruby-sama? Ruby-hime? Hello?"

"Heh heh heh heh heh heh. Looks like someone is being ignored." The Bus Driver laughed lightly, not bothering to hide his amusement at the scene. "The one and almighty Lord got whipped by a mere witch. I wonder how the others would react when they saw you like this."

"Oi oi, just shut up and do your job properly. Don't we have to go to the school by now?" Tsukune turned around and pointed at the man angrily, which seemed to be useless as the Bus Driver only returned to his seat gracefully.

"As you wish, My Lord. Heh heh heh."

The Bus Driver started the engine while Tsukune walked to the back of the bus, where Ruby was sitting with a pout, and plopped down beside her. The brown-haired boy knew that it would be wise not to say anything for now as the bus was steadily crawling through a tunnel.

Here they were – after being dropped off by the Bus Driver – standing in a country road that led to a huge mansion with numerous lightning bolts striking on the background, dead trees lining up alongside the road with many ravens flocking on their branches, bloody red sea stretched across far beyond the horizon. There was also one pumpkin-headed scarecrow with a sign that read: Youkai Private Academy.

"Soooooooo, this is the notorious Youkai Academy, huh?" Tsukune spoke as he surveyed the whole area with analytical eyes and his right hand on his forehead like an explorer. "It was more... inspired than I have thought it to be."

"Don't get so excited like a kid." Ruby said as she faintly elbowed her childhood friend. Somehow, she was able to calm down a bit during their journey, mostly due to Tsukune's insistence on cheering her up with his various jokes. "Anyway, shouldn't the school ceremony be starting in an hour?"

"Was it?" The brown-haired boy glanced back at Ruby with a crap-I-just-saw-an-alien look.

The girl beside him nearly wanted to bang Tsukune in his head if not for a desperate shout behind them. When they turned back, a pink-haired girl riding a bike was crying out with her eyes closed.

"COMING THROUGH!"

Unexpectedly, the brown-haired boy and the raven-haired girl had moved in sync by stepping to their respective side, letting the new arriver to crash upon a tree. The bike flew at least 5 meters in height and fell right onto the road's sign, creating a mess while the girl in question was lying on the ground.

Sensing no movement from the pink-haired girl, Tsukune and Ruby immediately ran to her and helped the girl up. The pink-haired girl, still being fuzzy from the accident, tardily opened her eyes.

"Ugh... It hurts." The girl whimpered as she tried to regain her consciousness. Now that they have a clearer look at her, Tsukune and Ruby was quite astonished with her beauty.

The girl had long sleek pink hair that almost reached her knees, sparkling emerald eyes, a figure not as busty as Ruby but still enchanting nonetheless, and she was wearing the standard Youkai Academy uniform for girls with a green jacket and a dark brown skirt. By the way, Tsukune was wearing totally different clothes with a plain long-sleeved black T-shirt underneath an unbuttoned short-sleeved white shirt, black dusty pants that seemed to have lived longer than it looked; Ruby, on the other hand, was wearing a black halter sleeveless Gothic Lolita dress with a white veil underneath and a pair of arm-length fingerless gloves.

"Gomen!"

The pink-haired girl hastily jumped out as she realized that she was inside the arms of a teenager boy, only to be tangled with his legs and fell onto him, making the situation became more awkward with her lying on Tsukune like a lover.

"Tsu, Ku, Ne!" Ruby grunted angrily at her childhood friend while the boy thrust his arms around frantically in denial.

"Wait! This isn't on my intention, I swear!" Tsukune said as he turned to the girl hanging on his neck. "Can you please stand up?"

For some reasons, the pink-haired girl couldn't pick herself up as she drew closer to the boy's neck, her mind being clouded over the brown-haired boy's scent.

"Hey, hey, what the...?"

Tsukune wasn't able to finish his speech as the girl had already bit his neck and sucked some of his blood, leaving his mouth agape in shock. When she had enough her fill of the crimson liquid, the pink-haired girl licked Tsukune wounds to close them up and finally stood up on her own while the boy still hadn't returned to his normal state of mind.

"I'm sorry again, but I can't help it. I am a vampire." The girl apologized as she bowed.

Tsukune blinked his eyes for few times before his mind could actually process with the new information given, then he also stood up while whining.

"Geez, why don't you say so sooner? If you want to suck someone else's blood, please ask before biting them off like that."

"Well, your blood was too delicious so I kinda lost my rationality there. I'm sorry, eh Mr..." Then the girl widened her eyes as if she remembered something. "Ah, I haven't gotten your name yet."

The brown-haired boy, after hearing that, cleared his throat as he began to speak ludicrously.

"I'm Zeus." Tsukune said as he made a striking pose with his left hand on his hips and his right hands pointed toward the sky.

Ruby instantly facepalmed at his ridiculous self-introduction while the pink-haired girl made a blank face for a few seconds, then she hesitantly asked the brown-haired boy, not being sure of what she had heard.

"Umm, you meant Zeus in the Greek Mythology?"

"Hmm, what are you talking about?" Tsukune replied with a nonchalant face, as if he hadn't announced himself as the King of Olympian Gods. "I told you that my name is Odin."

This time, Ruby got some of her veins popped, while the pink-haired girl was being confused furthermore from the absolute nonsense. The poor girl couldn't utter one single word as the boy seemed to refuse telling her his real name.

"Fine, fine. I'm gonna let you off for now." Tsukune waved his hands as he cleared his throat again and put on a serious face. "My name is Izanagi..."

BANG!

Before the boy could even finish, the dead trees had extended their branches and knocked him off onto the sky. When the pink-haired girl turned her gaze to the elder girl beside her, Ruby was holding a glowing wand and it seemed that it was her who commanded the trees to attack Tsukune. The brown-haired boy landed 10 feet away from them with his face burying in the ground.

Ruby then retracted her wand and turned to face the pink-haired girl, her expression somewhat between concerning and apologizing.

"I'm sorry for the bullying that he had put you through." The raven-haired girl bowed slightly and smiled as she introduced herself. "My name is Toujou Ruby. I'm a witch. And that 'thing' over there..." She pointed toward the unmoving boy. "...is Aono Tsukune, my childhood friend... supposedly."

"Eh? Oh uhm..." The pink-haired girl was startled a bit as someone suddenly being polite to her. "...I'm Akashiya Moka. As you have already known, I'm a vampire. It's nice to meet you."

"Nice to meet you, too." Tsukune, who had been unconscious a few seconds ago, abruptly stood in front of Moka and stretched out his hand. Not even a small wound was seen on him despite the fact that he had just been violently treated.

The pink-haired girl, after her first not-really-that-normal-impression of Tsukune, reluctantly stretched her own hand out and shook. However, the brown-haired boy's eyes look like they were sticking on the Rosario attached to Moka's choker – which had a vampire-eye-shaped gem in the middle, and he let his curiosity took over as he spoke.

"Is that a seal for your vampiric power?"

"H-How do you know?" Moka was startled again. Mostly anyone who met her for the first time would only think of it being an accessory, which made her think that this boy seemed to know more than he let on.

"Isn't that obvious?" Tsukune replied, not sounding one bit proud at his own knowledge. "I mean, you said that you yourself is a vampire, and most vampires have an extraordinary demonic aura (A/N: I don't want to use 'youki' since it reeks too much of Japanese cultural in it. Besides, the Japanese Youkai lore doesn't have vampire.) that is almost impossible to hide. But you don't emit one single leak of that aura, which could only be explained by the Rosario acting as a seal."

"I-I see..."

"I've never known that you are so well-informed about things like these." Ruby said as she eyed the brown-haired boy suspiciously.

"Aw, come on. Even I have some redeeming qualities myself." Tsukune jokingly retorted.

"Ano..." Moka timidly spoke up, not certain of how to initiate the topic. "...if it is okay with you guys, can you be my friends? I was feeling lonely since I don't know anyone here."

"Sure, if we are not troubling you." Ruby replied with a smile.

"Of course. Who would ever refuse being a friend to such a beauty as you?" Tsukune replied, not that honesty as his childhood friend.

"Umm, you guys aren't bothered by the fact that I am a vampire?" The pink-haired girl asked while she holding onto the Rosario, as if fearing for it to drop off.

"Nope, not at all. To me, all kinds of monster are the same. I only care about one's personality when I befriend someone. And in my eyes, you are a good person. Although..." Tsukune's voice trailed off at this point. "...you bit me out of nowhere for our very first impression of each other."

"I-I'm really sorry about that! I promise I won't ever do it again, without asking you beforehand..." Moka started to blush when she began to realize the meaning of that. It sounded as if she was treating him like a living snack.

However, contrary to her expectation, the brown-haired boy didn't get mad at her words as he responded casually.

"Apology accepted..." The pink-haired girl breathed out in relief, but that wasn't the end as Tsukune continued. "...with one condition."

"Eh? Condition?"

"Yup, let me touch your Rosario. Is that alright with you?"

Moka contemplated the offer for a bit, then she nodded, seeing that it would bring no harm for a person to touch her Rosario since only her closest family members could remove it, or that was what she thought.

Tsukune, having gotten the permission, reached out and held the Rosario with his forefinger and thumb.

Ruby could have sworn that she saw her childhood friend narrowed his eyebrows with a stern expression, which was extremely rare for him to do so. The raven-haired witch was on the verge of asking what was going on in his mind, when Tsukune pulled the Rosario closer to his face in an attempt to examine it better. However, they didn't foresee what came next...

Click!

With that void of liveliness sound, the Rosario detached naturally, as if it was designed for this sole purpose.

"""Eh?"""

It went without saying that the three of them dropped their jaws wide open at this turn of event. But that didn't last long as a swell of demonic aura rose upon them, making Ruby step back at its destructive explosion of Mana (A/N: the core of all magical power, at least in this fic), while scaring all the ravens around them away.

In Tsukune's case, he could only look at the pink-haired girl in front of him changing: her hair steadily being overwhelmed with a silver color, her eyes being occupied by crimson red color, just like blood itself, with reptilian black slit pupils, and her expression, which was usually kind and gentle, turned into that of a growling one. Apparently, the true vampire self of Moka wasn't happy with this unanticipated discovery as she started to spoke; her voice echoed in the air, being filled with the authority and mightiness of an S-class monster.

"How can such a lowly creature like you take off my Rosario?"

To most people in this kind of situation, they would probably either pass out or get petrified by the vampiress' aura alone, yet Tsukune didn't even flinch at the new Moka's tone of voice. Rather, he gave a gentlemanly smile at her, which unpredictably made her flustered. And before Moka could even react, the brown-haired boy had already put the Rosario back to where it should be, causing all the demonic aura to flow back into the vampiress' body in a rush.

Moka gradually returned to her sealed form and fell down as she lost her strength. Luckily, Tsukune had grasped her body beforehand.

The brown-haired boy sighed as he looked at the unconscious pink-haired girl in his arms, again, much to his dismay. The entrance ceremony hadn't even begun, and Tsukune had to meet trouble after trouble. He then glanced at the sky, wondering what else of the day would bring him: it couldn't get any worse, right?

Oh, he had no idea.

Verse 2 Concluded

A/N: Someone must have already noticed the mistakes I made in first chapter, which consisted of two things:

- It should be Toujou Ruby, not Ruby Toujou.

- The elder witch's name was Oyakata according to Wikipedia. I followed the manga's first translation of her name, which resulting in Yukata.

Anyway, this fic will have some OCs (the names only, not the characters themselves, such as Tsukune's real name, Oyakata's name: Rangda) as well as bunches of Multi-Crossover characters and materials. I'm here to warn you guys first because some people might be offended when the main cast is being mixed with outsiders. (Also, anyone who could say the name of the woman that collided with Ruby in the restroom scene shall receive my greatest blessings. Hints: she is an antagonist of a visual novel that takes some references from the Cthulhu mythology.)

So, how well this chapter went in your opinions? Good, bad, great, terrible... just tell it straight to my face. I'm ready to receive any kind of comment since I am a bit thick-headed. (^.^)

Kni9ht's off.