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As expected, Tsukune and Moka became fast friends, and they talked about everything from classes to their experiences in middle school. However, Moka wasn't so eager to talk about her childhood as Tsukune was.

"I've never had a friend in human school," Moka explained. "I've always been alone, ever since the beginning. Everyone always made fun of me because I believed in monsters." Tsukune couldn't believe this beautiful girl could have been abused like that, but he made a vow right then and there that he would be there for this girl no matter what happened or who she really was.

"That's really horrible, Moka-san! You know what? I'll be your friend, and I'll always be there for you," he offered. At this, her face lit up like a candle and tackled him in a massive hug. "Oh thank you thank you thank you thank you!" she shrieked, elated she'd found a real friend. After all that nonsense was out of the way, Tsukune glanced at his watch and noticed it was time to head to homeroom, or he'd be late. "It's time for class, we'd better hurry," and with that, he sped off, leaving a slightly pensive Moka to stand there watching him go. She started off too after a moment, and their first day at Youkai officially began.

X-X

Tsukune was seated near the back of the class, doodling on a piece of paper when the homeroom teacher bounced in. "Kaaaaaay! This is class C-2 and I'm your homeroom teacher, Nekonome Shizuka! We all know this is a school of monsters, by monsters, and for monsters, (Tsukune stiffened at that) and we're going to teach you how to blend in with the humans!"

"Why can't we just eat em?" snapped a reclining punk with long brown bangs and piercings all over. A couple of the students were nodding while the others were just shaking their heads in exasperation.

"Why, there are over seven billion of them, silly! They'd destroy us by sheer numbers!" Nekonome said cheerfully. "Now…"

Just then, the door opened with a beautiful shy girl standing there with a hand on her lip. Nekonome noticed and waved her in. "Please introduce yourself!"

She nodded and did so. "My name is Akashiya Moka. Pleased to meet you all!" she said with a little bow. But as she glanced around the room, she noticed Tsukune and flew over to him with another tackle hug and a shout of "Tsukune!" Unsurprisingly, the other students glared at him while the punk just stared at him with a half-interested look in his eyes. He licked his lips and the class continued unimpeded for the rest of the day.

X-X

Tsukune got over the fact that the whole school was full of monsters a couple of days after, along with some fights with Moka and some tears on her part. Being the gentleman he is Tsukune couldn't resist agreeing to stay, but he had his doubts. After all, that punk (whose name he now knows is Komiya Saizou) had started stalking Moka relentlessly and he was getting pretty peeved about it. The two were getting drinks in between classes and were talking about their day cheerfully when Tsukune glanced at a disturbance in the populace.

"That jerk Saizou is at it again," Tsukune muttered to Moka as he came sauntering out of the crowd. She, naturally, had noticed already because of her inner youki detector (he was determined, so his youki was more active than normal) but didn't want Tsukune to know the extent of her powers or Ura-chan would berate her even more.

"Come on, Tsukune. We'd better go," she said urgently. Saizou, however, was persistent and caught up to them quickly.

"Hey Moka, what're you doing hanging out with that wimp Aono? You should be hanging out with a guy like me," he growled while lifting Tsukune up by his collar. "You honestly shouldn't even talk to this guy. Look at him! Not even resisting when he's obviously in for a beating." Saizou threw Tsukune into the courtyard like he was a doll. He was pretty shaken up, but not seriously hurt.

Moka, of course, ran to Tsukune, trying to see if he was okay. Saizou, however, wasn't having it, and proceeded to kick him further into the bordering forest and then down the hill on the other side. Tsukune could only notice the bus stop in the haze of pain his ribs were telling him about.

"Come on, wimp! Fight back already! Or are you too spineless?!" Saizou cackled, slowly making his way to the poor boy's fallen form. He started to transform, growing taller and tearing his shirt, revealing a grotesque monster with vicious-looking claws and teeth.

An orc? Tsukune guessed. Not very strong then, but still deadly to a simple human. Moka finally caught up, screaming his name and trying to stop Saizou from doing any more harm.

"Tsukune! Are you okay?" she whimpered. Tsukune barely had enough energy to lift his head, but he did, and he looked deeply into her quivering eyes, thinking, I'd do anything for her…

He reached up to do something, but he honestly can't think of what it was. Did he want to touch her face, hold her hand, offer comfort? Whichever his motive, his strength cut out, and his hand trembled, finally falling back down to catch on a necklace he hadn't noticed before.

Moka… was Tsukune's last thought before he passed out. He only caught a glimpse of the maelstrom of blood red energy that erupted next to him. He wouldn't remember it, though.

X-X

The world sounded like it was coming in through a radio with a bad connection. He could hear voices, not clearly, but he could make out a deep gravelly voice and one dripping with malice. The gravelly voice seemed to be extremely fearful, as if it were facing its worst nightmare. The other voice, the smooth, honey-like one, was confident, sure of itself, and brooked no argument to its stature. When his eyes finally opened, he couldn't make out anything except two hazy forms, one small and lithe, one huge and muscular. The huge one seemed to be… trembling, though he couldn't tell why.

Voices, both infused with supernatural energy, unclear and short. The conversation was curt but served the same purpose – the huge form stiffened. Just then, his vision cleared a little and he could make out the shape of Saizou and a girl with platinum colored hair; just long enough to witness the silver-haired girl (Looks a lot like Moka, he thought) kick the hell out of Saizou with enough force to send him through multiple trees, hit the cliff face, and bring a cascade of rocks down on his head, effectively knocking him out in one blow. She then proceeded to drag him from the rubble and throw him into the ocean, where he could be seen sinking into the (red?) depths.

Tsukune was now sure this was not a dream and was scared for his short life. He didn't know this girl, but he knew instinctively that she'd kill without question if necessary. To his horror, he could see the girl walking toward him confidently, the images splitting and making doublets, triplets even, as he tried to back away.

Moans were all he could utter as she finally stood over him, hands on her hips. She said something, but he couldn't make it out. He assumed it was a threat and searched for a rock with his unbroken right hand, as the other had been broken in three places during the fall. The girl's eyes narrowed as his hand settled on very sharp rock, and kept it there, waiting. She leaned over, seemingly trying to take care of him (he noticed the choker Moka always wore, although the necklace she had on was not there and therefore he didn't make the connection – he still remembered hitting something with his hand before he passed out), but he wasn't having it. As soon as she was close (and while he was trying his hardest not to look at her newly exposed breasts because of how she was leaning) he slashed out with the sharp rock and cut her cheek shallowly, dripping a little blood onto one of the open wounds across his chest. This went unnoticed by both of them as she became furious, and smashed the rock from his hand with bone crushing force. At the new source of pain, he simply passed out again, useless to the world. For now.

Author's Notes: And that's the 2nd chapter! Sorry for the delay; as I said, I have no computer and have to rely on public ones to write. Sorry about that. I did intentionally not mention the rosary specifically, as well as the almost plagiaristic beginning. Now I can finally get the show on the road. If you have anything that can help, or have questions, please review, or send a PM! I appreciate your time, and as always, thanks for reading! Addio.