AN: If you are new to this story, please bare with me. I recently (as of 02/11/14) have updated a new version of The Crimson Life and am still in the process of writing this chapter(3) and all that follow. Please be aware that the storyline will remain the same; the rewrite is to add more detail and close some of the holes I've found thus far. Thank you for reading!

I do NOT own Rosario+Vampire; it's rights belong to its' respective owners.

Chapter 3: Selfish Desire

Moka tensed up as she tried to prepare herself for what was going to happen next. "Tsukune, how long do you think you will live?"

"Um...I don't know. Moka what does that have to do with anything?" Tsukune answered getting wary of where this was going to go.

"The average human life is what, around eighty years? Tsukune, how long do you think vampires live?" Moka pressed. He would need to know sooner or later.

"Well from what I know about vampires, they are immortal right?" he replied. Only once the words were out of his mouth the words sunk into his mind. He began to see what she meant. "Oh god, Moka are you immortal?"

"Yes Tsukune. I will live forever, that is unless I'm killed." Moka's voice had been reduced to a whisper. She could only imagine what he was thinking. Would he hate her now that he knew she would never grow old with him?

"How old are you?" Tsukune asked in an emotionless voice.

"I'm 16. I will age normally until I reach maturity. Then I will stop, I'll look just under 30 for the rest of my life after that." Moka said dully. She needed him to grasp the fact that he would die before her. "Tsukune, I... I can't be with you. I don't think I can do that to myself."

Tsukune held Moka's shoulders out in front of him. He couldn't believe what she had just said. "Moka, what do you mean we can't be together?!" It was as if his world would crash if she didn't explain. It made no sense, why would she make her feelings known if they couldn't be together?

"You will die before I do. You can't ask me to watch you die and live on without you. It would destroy me Tsukune. There is nothing I want more then to be able to hold you forever, but I can't." Moka said quietly but decisively. "I can't be with you if you are human."

" 'If I'm human.' Moka, I know you and you wouldn't have shown your feelings if we weren't able to be together in the end. I'll do anything for you. What are you getting at?" Tsukune said as he stared back at her, just as firmly as she was looking at him.

"I might be able to change you into someone like me, but it would be painful. More painful then anything you have ever felt. You would need to die, in a way, for you to be like me." Moka said as she tested how serious he was.

"So if you tried to change me, after all of the pain I would be a vampire like you?"

"There IS a risk... not everyone can survive the change... Do not take this lightly Tsukune. If I were to change you there would be no going back, you would never be human again. However, you could also die from the venom if your body rejects it." She still wasn't sure if he understood the entire picture she was trying to show him. But then he replied in a way that wiped away all of her doubts.

"I would live to see everyone I know die, I would watch as my parents die. That would be almost unbearable, but Moka, as long as I am with you nothing else matters. My feeling to you out shine anything else by far. After all we have been through I couldn't imagine a life without you in it. I would rather die." He refused to back down. He had made his choice and he was going to see it through no matter what.

"Tsukune, are you sure? I..." Moka said but was pulled into another kiss from Tsukune. When it was over, before Moka could say anything Tsukune gently moved her head to his neck. He angled his neck to make it easier for her. "Tsukune..."

"Moka, I'm ready. Please do what you need to, do it Moka. I love you and want to be with you for forever." Tsukune said softly as he caressed her.

"Tsukune, please forgive me for being so selfish. I want you for forever as well. I'll try to make this as least painful as I can. I love you." Moka said before she first kissed his neck. Then Moka pushed Tsukune back so that he was lying on her bed. She positioned herself over and carefully bit into his neck and began to suck out his human blood. It filled her quickly but she needed to drain him almost completely dry before his blood would be able to accept her blood. When the flow into her was almost gone she started to inject her own blood into him.

The instant her blood hit his system, Tsukune let out a sharp excruciating scream.

All Tsukune could think and see was fire. He was being burned alive. Then as if none of it had happened; his mind went completely blank. Darkness, all around him was black. Forward, behind, side to side. Nothing, he was alone in a barren world.

As if something was pulling him, he started to walk. 'Why am I here? How long have I been here? More importantly, where am I? Tsukune thought as he continued to walk forward, at least he thought it was forward. All Tsukune knew for sure was that something was pulling him, forcing him to move. After a while Tsukune heard a sound, it sounded like a waterfall. It was still far away, but what ever was forcing him to move was bringing him closer to it.

Screams echoed through the building, luckily at Youkai Academy hearing screams wasn't uncommon. Moka clamped her hand over Tsukune's mouth to cut off his scream. 'Hopefully no one heard that, it wouldn't be good if the others interrupted.' Tsukune started to shake violently, Moka had to hold his head still with her hand over his mouth and she wrapped her legs around his so that he couldn't kick her off. It took most of her strength to hold him down and still pump her blood into him.

After a few excruciatingly long seconds, she finished injecting her blood. Moka sealed the wound and focused on Tsukune since he had stopped thrashing around. She took her hand from his mouth and looked at him; Tsukune's eyes were still open, but they held a glazed look.

Moka was getting uneasy about Tsukune, the second she injected her blood into him, Tsukune screamed in pain. She knew it was going to be painful from the start. But when Moka had finished, he went still as stone. Tsukune stopped thrashing and screaming all at once. Then he started to get a burning fever. Moka was rushing back and forth to get rags wet with herbal water, she wasn't sure if water would hurt him yet, she tried to use them to keep his fever contained. Moka was losing him, so she decided to take him to the infirmary. Moka carefully picked Tsukune up bridle style and carried him out of her room. Unfortunately, his earlier screams had attracted the other girls. When Moka carried him out of the girl's dorms, Mizore was the first to spot them.

"Tsukune, are you okay?! Moka, what did you do to him?!" Mizore said as she tried to keep up with Moka's pace.

"There's no time to explain. Mizore, can you try to cool him down?" Moka desperately asked.

"S-sure..." Mizore placed her hand on his face, only to quickly take it away. When she touched his face she had felt his intense fever. "He's burning! I can't touch him. He'll burn my hand. Maybe I can get some water on him and freeze it a little..."

"No." She didn't know if the water would hurt him or not. If he was turning into a vampire it would be his greatest weakness. Putting water on him now could kill him. "Don't let any water touch him. Instead, use...use his sweat. Freeze that instead."

"O-okay...I'll try..." Mizore concentrated as she ran next to Moka and Tsukune, but she was still having trouble. "I… can't. It's not working!"

'His body must be so hot that the ice won't form around him!' Moka picked up the pace as she took the lead and led them towards the underground tunnels.

"The rain has stopped, you don't need to use the tunnels."

"How does someone like you even know about the tunnels?"

"I've used them to skip gym class..." Mizore never left their side, she walked ahead of them to clear the way. The sound of running noted that the succubus was not far behind.

"Tsukune! What's going on? What's wrong with Tsukune?!" wailed Kurumu as she caught up to them outside. "Moka what did you do?!"

"No time to explain!" Moka said as she took off towards the school. Soon they were inside and the vampiress bounded up a set of stairs, the infirmary was at the end of this hallway. As they approached the door, Mizore opened it and before she could close it behind her, Moka had Tsukune in a bed and had dashed out of the room again.

"Forget her, Kurumu go find the doctor. I'll try to cool him down again." Mizore said as she turned to Tsukune.

To Mizore's surprise, Kurumu didn't argue she just turned and ran to find a medic. When Kurumu left Mizore ripped open Tsukune's shirt and transformed into her true form. Her hands became huge ice claws and her hair turned into ice. Mizore put her hands on either side of Tsukune's chest, ignoring the pain from his heat, and cooled his body until it would have been frozen solid. But his body didn't cool down at all. Mizore was blown away by this; no human would be able to do that. She tried again with the same result. Kurumu then came back into the room, doctor just behind her.

"What is the patient's condition?" asked the doctor.

"Well sir, we aren't sure what happened. But he has a very high fever, his eyes are glazed and he's sweating a lot." Mizore answered.

"Okay, would the two of you please wait out in the hall?" the doctor ordered Kurumu and Mizore.

After they were gone, he got to work on checking Tsukune's vitals. The doctor then pulled out a cell phone and began to whisper into it quickly and fiercely. All of a sudden the doctor snapped the phone into two pieces and threw it away. He then proceeded to tie Tsukune up and open the window. In no more then a minute, someone was clinging to the second story window sill. The doctor passed Tsukune to the man, who seemed to disappear once he had the boy. Once the doctor cleaned the bed where Tsukune had been, he too jumped out of the window and disappeared.

Meanwhile, Moka had run to find the chairman. She noticed Ruby sitting just outside the chairman's office, but Moka just ignored her and burst through the double doors.

"Pardon my intrusion sir, but there is an emergency."

The chairman was sitting in his chair behind his desk looking over some papers. He lifted his head just enough to be able to see his chin and lips, his eyes remained covered by the shadows of his hood. "What is this emergency, Ms. Akashiya?"

"Aono Tsukune, sir." Moka took a deep breath and continued, "His body is in the process of the Change brought about by vampire's blood. Tsukune is in the infirmary, stuck in a state of comatose. I brought him there before coming to seek an audience with you. As rare as it may be, I have done my best to research myths and legends of similar situations in which humans may be the one and only species that is able to adapt with vampire's blood in their veins and... become a vampire themselves; however, Tsukune's body seems to be rejecting the change. He may not have much time left."

"Well then my dear, we should probably go check on him, hm?" he cackled.

"YES, let's go now! If we run fast..." Moka started.

"Oh dear no, we will not be running. We will travel by sand." the chairman said while rummaging through his desk. "Where is that old thing...AH! Here we are..." The chairman pulled out an old tattered pouch. He stuck his hand into it and retrieved from it, something that looked a lot like glitter. The glitter like material was the purest white, it glowed like each piece was a star in the night. It reflected beams "This Ms. Akashiya, is called star-burst sand. You need only to think of where you want to go, throw the sand out in front of you, and walk through it."

"Yes okay, now may we please hurry? Tsukune might not be able to hold on much longer." Moka said impatiently, the old man was stalling for some reason.

"Yes, I suppose. Don't forget, think of the place and walk through." He flung his hand out and threw the sand, once it was in the air the both of them walked through it.

"Moka and the chairman! Thank god you are here! Tsukune is being treated as we speak." Yukari exclaimed. The witch had run into Kurumu and Mizore in the hall. They had explain the situation to her.

"Tsukune... where is he?!" Moka thundered. "He isn't here anymore. What happened to him? Why weren't you watching him?"

"What makes you think he isn't there? Mizore just checked on him a little while ago." Kurumu said with a shaking voice.

Moka strode past the shock girls and went to open the door. She flung it open with unnecessary force and fiercely said "He isn't there. Look for yourself if you don't believe me."

Neither Tsukune or the doctor were anywhere in sight.

"Well, since it appears that no one here needs me I'll go back to my work." said the chairman as he turned to leave.

"Wait! Can't you do something?" Moka shouted as she stepped towards him.

"No, I can not. But you, Ms. Akashiya, can." He said with his infamous creepy voice. Moka and the others couldn't see his face but if they could, they were sure to see his glowing eyes brighten slightly.

"The key to finding him is you."

With that last comment, the chairman abruptly disappeared.

"What the hell is that supposed to mean?" she replied to the thin air where the chairman was just standing.