New Beginnings

Chapter Two: The First Link – Witch + Vampire

As with first chapter, I make no profit from this, don't own any of Rosario + Vampire, please don't copy mah stuffs :P hope you enjoy

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As Tsukune laid away the old rosary, he turned and saw his Ruby hard at work listing all the preparations needed for the new seals. Finally, he could start fully on his new path to coexistence, and as a bonus, perhaps that could bring rest to his guilty mind.

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Walking over to Ruby and smiling at how much effort she was clearly putting in to it, he questioned, "So what kind of barriers did you have in mind?" To which she cocked her head slightly, looking up at the ceiling, and placed the tip of her finger on her bottom lip, and quietly murmured the list to herself to make sure she hadn't forgotten anything.

"Oh, just some simple things, really," she replied, "just some barriers to keep the seals from being magically influenced by anyone except you or friendly peoples, namely Moka-san, Kurumu-san, Mizore-san, Yukari-san, and myself."

Nodding his approval, he followed up with yet another question, "Anything else?"

"Well, I was going to also place some stronger barriers to keep the seals from breaking apart by anyone except you, with Moka-san being the exception, as well as some assisting magic to make the familiarization of foreign yokai blood with your blood, and so on." And by so on, I mean I'm going to include some magic to help those damned dreams whittle away and help him see that what happened wasn't his fault! Not that he needs to know, yet.

"That sounds great, Ruby-san!" He said excitedly, and Ruby couldn't help but flush a bit under his praise. It's surprising how much things can change, he thought, first it was Moka who was dependent on me to be able to remove the rosary, now I may be dependent on her to remove my seals.

He suddenly had a thought, and worried, he asked Ruby, "Also, do you happen to have anything planned to prevent what happened with my Holy Lock from happening again with this, if the worst was to come and it went wrong somehow?"

Looking up into his worried eyes and knowing what he meant, she remembered how the Holy Lock has began weakeningand he almost descended into a ghoul again, except this time with more physical changed than the first time, and how he had almost died when he removed the holy lock and became the vampire he is now.

"Well, considering you're a vampire now, I don't think that should be a problem," she started, but seeing he still didn't look comfortable, she continued, "but I can try to set something so that, if worst does come to worst, as you said, the seals should be able to repair themselves before anything goes overboard." She smiled inwardly at the relief she saw light up in his eyes, and he smiled appreciatively.

"Thank you, Ruby-san," He said, gently patting her and rubbing the top of her head.

Flushing and smiling, she sputtered at first at his affectionate thanks, "Y-you're welcome, Tsukune-san, it's always a pleasure to help you however I can."

Then, of all times, his day went from being peaceful and enjoyable straight into what was surely going to be a hectic day.

There came a loud knock at the door, and soon after, a student came bursting in, causing the doors to slam against the rock walls, at which Tsukune grit his teeth in a somewhat agitated manner.

"Headmaster! Headmaster!" One of them began in a panic, which Tsukune sighed and straightened up from where he was leaned over the table to acknowledge the students.

"What's wrong?" Tsukune asked lazily, wishing that he had been able to accomplish more on his planning before the disturbance, but, after looking over to Ruby working away, he decided she should easily handle it herself, and he couldn't help but smile at how hard she was working for his sake.

"There was another brawl between a freshman and a senior!" The student answered hurriedly, and looked at Tsukune with obvious confusion when all he did was sigh and stretch lazily, "aren't you going to come straighten everything out?" The student asked, and immediately wished he hadn't when Tsukune shot an agitated glance at him, to which he responded by visibly shrinking back a bit and apologizing feverently.

Sighing loudly, and looking over to Ruby and smirking a bit at the amusement on her expression, he turned and picked up his jacket and donned it lazily before turning back to the student, "Yes, I'm going," he started, "but chances are the worst thing it is would be the freshman getting knocked out, surely? That is how most brawls here turn out, after all."

"Normally yes, but on the way up here I saw more students piling into the brawl when I looked out the window!" He replied frantically, emphasizing his words with various hand gestures, the worry clear on his face, then came a loud scream from outside, and the eyes of all the inhabitants in the room widened.

"Tsukune-san I'm coming-" Ruby began, before he cut her off.

"No, you stay and keep working, or take a break and relax, I'll handle this." He said before walking to the window in the room and stepping up on to the ledge.

"H-Headmaster, what are you doing?" The student asked carefully.

"Taking a faster route, and also, please be more gentle with my doors." He said before smiling back at the student and Ruby the same, friendly smile he had always had, and jumping out of the window; the force he used when he jumped made slightly cracked indentions in the hard rock ledge, and caused a rough wind to blow inside the room from the air in and outside the room being disturbed by the quick motion, and Ruby sighed as she went to begin gathering the papers that had been strewn across the room, He always rushes into dangerous situations without thinking it through when someone is in trouble, she thought to herself, well… I guess that is one reason why we love him, after all. She then looked at the student and waved him away with a smile, and the student hurried out of the room, making sure to close the door gently behind him.

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Running through the trees, Tsukune heard another scream, and gritted his teeth and began running faster, Figures, for every handful of mock brawls there are, there's always one where someone manages to get seriously hurt, he thought worriedly and agitatedly, there weren't even this many brawls when I was still a student here!

Arriving at a courtyard in the school, he saw a bit of blood splattered on the ground and building sides, as well as a few students lying on the ground, who, after being checked, were only unconscious luckily.

"Why can't people just get along?" He sighed exasperatedly, before running again towards the sound of another commotion, and coming upon a brawl between five students, each covered in blood and in torn clothes.

They went at each other again without even noticing he was there, fighting like mad animals, and as they fought, he calmly walked up to the group, and was barely missed by a stray fist, then quickly dodged a fierce kick that had missed its intended target before grabbing the stray fist and ankle and growling as he flared his yokai fiercely and threw two of the students into opposite walls, and knocking the other three back about twenty yards by the force of his yokai.

"Enough!" Tsukune yelled aggressively, flaring his yokai again to show the students his seriousness – and accidentally breaking several windows in the school in the process. "What is the meaning of this?" He demanded angrily, gesturing at the students lying on the ground and the blood everywhere, "Where are the other students? There had to be more than just you eight to cause all of this blood!"

"Some freshmen were trying to say they were better than us," One started, "somewhere along the way other people started joining in while we were showing them their place."

Another smirked slightly and followed up with, "Then in the process, we ended up fighting each other… you know how people can act in mobs like this."

"Yes, I do, and I understand putting someone in their place, but that doesn't mean going this far!" Tsukune retorted, at which the students simply shrugged, uncaring. "Well I'm stopping it. Now. Before you go back to your classes though, where are the other students?"

"Well, they're in the infirmary, some of their friends hurried and pulled them out or carried them off after they got knocked out," a smaller of the group replied, then the largest took a step forward closer to Tsukune and said, "Anyhow, what if we don't want to stop? How is one person like you going to stop all of us?" He asked cockily, and Tsukune sighed and smiled slightly before replying, "Well I guess if you refuse to stop willingly, I'll end up having to show you, but don't go home crying to your parents if you get hurt; you brought this on yourselves."

"No, you brought this onto yourself, headmaster!" One said, before transforming into a peculiar monster that had the shape of his normal body, but it had become slightly transparent, with the addition of what looked like small spikes protruding from the palms of his hands.

Grunting agreement, the others quickly revealed their monster selves, one turning out to be a werewolf, and Tsukune couldn't keep from chuckling at that, Gin, is this yours? Eh, wouldn't put it past you to have slipped up already, big player, he thought.

The others transformed into different types of monsters, one clearly an orc, and another having blades on his forearms and knees, and, upon closer inspection, even on his fingers between the knuckle joints! The last one, he was unsure of, his body hadn't changed at all, or at least not at a first glance, but after a second look it was apparent that his body seemed to have become more rigid, as if he were made out of rock.

"Alright students," Tsukune began, clapping his hands once as if he were trying to gain the attention of a classroom, "today we learn why not to act up and disobey your headmaster." He finished, smiling warmly as if he weren't about to get attacked by a group of angry students.

No sooner than he finished his students, they were on him, each taking their turn, sometimes two at a time, attacking him before letting another or another two take their place, dodging all of the attempted assaults with ease, and lazily parrying punches and kicks, he became complacent, and wasn't expecting it when the one with a transparent body came up from the ground without a sound or physical evidence of doing so behind him and kicking him hard in the middle of his spine.

Gasping in surprise as the student jumped up past – or through, him rather, he glared at the student before the student chuckled arrogantly and thrust his hand outward and driving one of the spikes into Tsukune's stomach, then pulling it back out, resulting in a large amount of blood spewing from Tsukune's abdomen, and following up with a kick from a foot that was at first transparent, both visibly and physically, now turned as hard as steel, to the side of his head, making his vision swim for a bit.

After colliding with the ground hard enough to make a small crater in the concrete, Tsukune was assaulted by the biggest monster, who's body had turned more rigid than anything, slamming a hard fist into his ribcage, making him cough and grunt in pain and spit up blood.

As the largest one went for another punch, Tsukune hurriedly put his hands up to block the punch, then grabbed the student's wrist firmly before springing up out of the crater and throwing the student as hard as he could towards his classmates, and knocked them all down like bowling pins.

Taking the break he had to catch his breath, Tsukune looked down at the wound in his abdomen and ground his teeth together in a vain effort to relieve the pain a bit, Damn, they're not that bad, he thought.

After catching his breath, he drew his arms up and stood in a defensive position and closed his eyes, expanding his yokai radar to detect any motion of the students towards him, and scowled grimly when he noticed one was headed for him at a very impressive speed, and the others were still just getting up, it seemed.

Opening his eyes just in time to see, no surprise, the werewolf descending from a jump onto him, he jumped and rolled out of the way of the teeth and claws coming his way, but no sooner than he did that was the student on him again, clawing and biting at him furiously, and managing to land several scratches on him, but nothing major, then Tsukune grunted once and landed a mighty kick to the student's jaw and heard a sick crack at the impact, Whoops, Tsukune thought.

Taking of the jacket he had and sighing at all the tears in it, Tsukune said, "Alright, it's time to get serious about this before I make myself look bad!"

Taking that as a warm welcome, the ghost-like yokai and the werewolf, as well as the one with blades on his arms and knees, were all on him, kicking, punching, and clawing as fast and as hard as they could, but growing agitated as he dodged them all time after time with his hands in his pockets, then, out of nowhere, he flipped himself backwards, caught himself on his hands, and spun himself with his legs outstretched in a split, landing devastating kicks to all but the ghostly student, and sending them crashing into some trees.

"Idiot! Haven't you realized you can't touch me!?" The one student said.

"Well then," Tsukune replied, "I guess I'll have to try something else." And with that, he conjured up the weapon he hadn't used in years, his Tonfas of Light, and went quickly to using them in a test run to see if they would work against his subordinate.

What the fuck are these!? The student thought to himself in anger and fear at the technique he had never seen, and was in even more fear as he missed dodging one of the headmaster's strikes and a cut appeared across his stomach, luckily not deep, but still just enough to draw blood.

"So these will work, huh? Great!" Tsukune said before lunging forward and slashing both of the tonfas across the student's chest and stomach, causing blood to spill from the wounds, and quickly after followed up by screaming loudly and flaring his vampiric energy enough to send the student flying through a wall in the school.

Looking over to count out the two students that were left, he walked over to them before asking the orc, "Why have you been slacking?"

"I was waiting for you to get tired out!" He laughed before thrusting a giant fist at him, which Tsukune caught with ease and suddenly vanished, leaving the poor student to look around confused to figure out what had happened.

Reappearing behind the student, Tsukune said, "Fighting lesson one: Never underestimate your opponent, and be wary of their speed." And sent a swift kick to the side of the student's neck, sending him flying sideways and crashing into a large tree, unconscious.

Sighing at how pitifully the orc faired, he thought to himself, Well, I guess you were a grower but not a shower at all, huh? The, walking back to the last student, who was looking at him fearfully, Tsukune questioned "Well… Not so tough now, are you?"

"I-I'm sorry! Please don't hurt me!" He pleaded frantically, and he raised his hands defensively as Tsukune extended a hand, expecting a brutal strike.

"Go to the infirmary," Tsukune started, grasping the younger man's hand and pulling him up, "tell them to send a box of blood packs to my office, and tell them to send help for your friends, and the other students that may be lying around injured."

"Y-yes sir! Right away sir!"

"Oh, and one more thing, never approach me like that again, same for your friends and anyone else. I am headmaster for a reason." Tsukune said coldly, despite it not being in his nature, and began his walk back to his office, tying his ruined jacket around his waist as a make-shift bandage to try and stop some of the bleeding.

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From the roof, two girls had seen the fight, and looked at each other in a bit of surprise.

"Well, we know the headmaster is more than worthy of the right now, everyone does." One said.

"Yeah… And he's really cute too!" The other replied, blushing a little and tapping the tips of her index fingers together shyly.

"Hell yeah he is," The first said, "we should try to schedule up an appointment to meet him soon."

The other nodded her agreement, and the two headed off to the girl's dorms to work on their studies… Which would probably turn into a bout of gossips.

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Arriving back at his office and walking in with a sigh, Tsukune sat down next to Ruby, trying not to show the pain he was in. And failing.

"Tsukune-san, what's wrong?" She asked, worried curiosity written all over her features.

"Nothing, just a little scrape, waiting on some blood packs." He answered, trying not to talk much because it felt like it made his wounds hurt worse.

"Well let me see," She started, and before he could stop her, she had removed his jacket and shirt and gasped loudly, putting her hands over her mouth and eyes wide, at the wound in her loved one, "Tsukune-san, this is a lot more than just a scrape!"She almost screamed, and exhaling gently, he replied, "Yeah, I know, just didn't want you to worry. The blood packs will be here soon anyhow."

"Uhm… We're out of blood packs, actually…"

"What? How can we be out of blood packs? In a school of monsters how can we be out of one thing we need more than most other things?" He asked.

"Well… The blood packs we did have were set aside for you for the most part, we haven't had a chance to order any more because where we normally get them from are already using them or have sold out of the blood packs they could sell… And we've already had to use up the ones we set aside for you…"

"Ah…" Tsukune replied, and closed his eyes, unsure of what else to say.

"Tsukune-san…" Ruby started shyly, and averting eye contact despite his eyes being closed, she continued, "if you want… you could drink my blood…"

His eyes darted open and he looked at her, eyes widened and eyebrows raised at the sudden offer, "But Ruby-san – "

"Tsukune-san, it's okay, you need the blood now, you can't afford to wait; we don't know how serious that wound might actually be," and with that, she flicked her hair back to expose the pale flesh of her neck, "now drink."

Unable to fight the blush on his face, all he could say was, "Thank you, Ruby-san." And as he lowered his lips towards her neck, he inhaled her scent, unknowingly making her shudder by doing so, and he found that she smelled incredible; she smelled like a patch of beautiful flowers and dried sunflower seeds, and, gently pressing the tips of his fangs into her soft skin, she shuddered again and closed her eyes, her masochistic side kicking in as she resisted the urge to rub her thighs together, and as his fangs punctured her neck and his lips closed against her neck while he gently sucked the crimson liquid out of her, she bit her bottom lip in a failed attempt to stifle a moan, but she at least made it quieter than it would have been, and her arousal peaked at the pain she got so much pleasure from; it was all one and the same to her, pain and pleasure, and she could no longer fight the urge and began rubbing her thighs together and began breathing more heavily, which all made Tsukune's blush deepen more.

Her blood tasted amazing to him, it tasted as if he were getting the sweetness straight from a wild growing honey suckle, and combined with the slight taste of sunflower seeds it had, it was like nothing he had ever tasted.

Finally, after he was done, he withdrew his fangs from her neck, and the sad, almost pleading whine that it earned boosted his own libido past what her moan and breathing changes did earlier, and he tried his best to ignore it; and as the puncture holes closed, he softly licked the rest of her blood off of her neck and kissed it softly, earning another shiver and squeak of pleasure from her.

"Ruby-san?"

"Yes, Tsukune-san?
"Um… I was wondering if you would mind letting me use some of your blood for the first link…"

"No, not at all!" She replied happily, and quickly got up and walked away hugging herself and still thinking of how amazing it felt when he bit her, and she searched through her small desk until she found a small dropper like one would use to count out individual water droplets, and she picked up a knife and cut the tip of her finger enough for it to bleed out into a small tray she had set on the desk, and, turning to pick up a chain link that they had made a while back with a hollowed cross inside of it, she dripped her blood from the dropper into the cross until it was completely full, then she placed a spell on it to crystalize the blood somewhat so that it wouldn't spill out.

"Thank you, Ruby-san." He said, smiling warmly and scratching the back of his head a bit.

"You're welcome," She replied kindly, smiling happily as she wiped her finger clean of blood and put a bandage on it, "anything for you! Now, you should go get some rest, you've had a long day. Sleep well, Tsukune-san!"

Smiling and replying, "Same to you, Ruby-san." Tsukune decided she was right, and so, having had a long day, Tsukune went off into his room that was connected to the office, and Ruby did the same in a room next to his to conduct her own research further into seals and spells while he slept and allowed his wounds to heal.

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Meanwhile, in the girl's dorm, as well as the boy's, the story of Tsukune's encounter with the students earlier was growing and spreading like a wildfire, and the two girls from earlier sat in their dorm room and looked through the old publishes of the fabled News Paper Club in an attempt to find out more about their headmaster and his assistant.

"Let's go meet him tomorrow! I can't wait very long before meeting him, I wanna do it as soon as possible! I wanna see how cute he is close up!"

"Yeah, sounds like a plan… But we should sleep first, so good night, we'll go tomorrow as soon as possible."

"Yay! Good night, sis!"

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Well, I got a few pretty good reviews on the first chapter, which I appreciate, I hope you all like this just as much, sorry about the ending possibly being rushed seeming for this chapter if it is to you, I just kinda ran a little dry towards the end on things I could do with this one, having the people being introduced a bit so far are asleep or going to sleep, and the characters that took up a bit of space earlier are in the infirmary by now, etc.