[Disclaimer] I do not own any rights to Naruto or Rosario+Vampire nor any of other franchises I might be taking ideas from. I just want to make an entertaining story, so please don't sue me. I don't have any money.
(Author Notes) Long time no see, not dead but life has a way of sucking free time away. Anyway my muse seems to have escaped from whatever was holding her hostage, and I've got the desire and inspiration to write again. I have the next chapter of this story written already, it needs beta-ed and will be out soon.
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It had been a mere two months since Naruto had started school, making a total of three months since he had awakened with almost nothing. No memories, no money, and no friends; He didn't even have clothes on his back. What would have broken others didn't stop Naruto, armed only with the vague idea of his name, cunning and strength he continued on. Now that he was at school, he had a place to sleep, food, and cloths. Also he was surrounded by friends he had made, sure it wasn't all sunshine and rainbows the group of friends still had disagreements especially with the inclusion of the young witch Yukari.
"Why would we do an article on cooking!?" Yukari yelled at Kurumu. "Nobody wants to read about that!"
"What do you know brat!?" Kurumu shot back. "Cooking is a great topic!"
"We need a real story, not something super boring like cooking!" The witch growled.
"Cooking isn't boring, and besides we don't have anything amazing to work on so we might as well have something."
"I refuse to put trash into the paper." Yukari huffed. "Don't you agree, Naruto?"
Naruto looked away from the window he had been staring out of. "Huh? Oh, well I think we might need a lot of different articles, so something about cooking should be alright. But, yeah we really need something more exciting for the front page, you would think that there would be no shortage front page material in a school full of monsters."
As if summoned by Naruto's words Ginei slid the door open, a serious look on his face and a stack of papers in his hands.
"Alright, I got a scoop so listen up." Gin commanded, as he set the papers before them. "In the last month seven girls have gone missing, one right after the other. Now since we go to a school of monsters, people missing isn't super rare. However the rate of disappearance and the fact that there is no trace of them is unique."
"Wait! What?! How often to people go missing?" Tsukune yelped.
Gin gave his fellow club member an odd look. "Well like I said not too often, but for example last year a boar-man ate a matango. The paper did an article on it."
"Ate?" Tsukune gasped, "As in killed and eaten, and what is a matango anyway?"
"Honestly." Yukari huffed. "You don't know anything. There are multiple reasons why the school has the rule of staying in human form, it isn't just for practice. This is a school full of monsters and many different races have millennium long grudges with each other. The fact that the school is able to keep deaths to such a low number is miraculous. Also a matango is a mushroom man, I could see a boar-man seeing them as some sorta delicacy."
"Yeah Tsukune." Kurumu agreed. "How do you not know this? Sure there's some danger in coming to this school but the benefits to monster society as a whole is worth the risks."
"Yeah well." Tsukune started, not liking this line of questioning. "I um, just skimmed over the introduction stuff they sent me."
"Anyway." Naruto interrupted trying to help Tsukune. "Back on topic, what is up with these girls missing?"
"Yeah, so as you can see none of these girls fall below 8 out of 10 on the hotness scale." Gin stated, pointing at each pictured girl. "Besides that I haven't been able to find similarities. So our goals are three fold. First, find the girls and save them, that is sure to lead to our second goal. We'd get a major story for our paper. Lastly but certainly not least these girls are sure to be super appreciative, allowing me to reap the benefits of saving them."
"Perve." Naruto muttered, which gained him an annoyed look from Gin. "Although at least you are using your pervy energies of a good cause."
Any response from Gin was cut short by a knock on the door, before Miss Nekonome walked in.
"Hiya!" She called with a smile. "I hope you are all working hard to make the news-paper the best it can be and to ensure it is I've brought snacks."
"Thanks Teach." Naruto said, taking the bags from the club supervisor. However his enthusiasm was shot down as he looked in the bag only to see raw fish.
"Also, there was this letter dropped outside the classroom." The teacher said with her light smile, holding an envelope towards Kurumu. "It has your name on it."
'A love letter?' Kurumuthought upon reading 'To Kurumu my love' opening the letter the succubus read.
My darling Kurumu. It pains me to do this but you've been a very naughty girl. I don't know why you have been sneaking into the boys dorms, but can I forgive you. Please come to monster tree behind the school.
If you don't I will be forced to spread these pictures around the school. I can't imagine how the student body will react see a succubus flying into boys rooms.
Kurumu read through the letter seeing that there were some scandalous pictures of her showing glimpses of her underwear. However, the pictures that alarmed her the most showed her flying in and out of a window of one of the boy's dormitories.
"Hey Kurumu." Naruto called, interrupting the girls thoughts causing her to shove the letter under some books.
"I know you don't gather information on girls, but do you think that you could find any guys that were close to the missing girls?" The blond asked.
"Uh, y-yeah." The bluenette stuttered. "I should be able to do something like that. In fact I will go do that right now.
"Wait our meeting isn't over yet." Gin stated but was too late as Kurumu was already through the door.
Gin sighed. "Well I guess its good to see some enthusiasm. The rest of you get to do some investigative journalism."
"Sounds fun." Naruto commented.
"Um." Moka started. "I wanna help, but I'll be busy with an art project."
Sighing again Gin responded. "Alright, but we really need a good story for the paper so the rest of you get out there."
"If there are so many girls going missing shouldn't there be somebody else investigating this?" Tsukune asked.
"There is." The werewolf groaned. "But they only get involved when they want to."
"Well maybe we can check with them see if they have any leads."
"NO!" Gin yelled. "I am saying this as the president of the club. Don't get involved with the security committee."
The remaining members separated once Gin dismissed the meeting. Moka went to her art project, Yukari said that she was going to try some divination.
"So you have any ideas?" Naruto asked Tsukune.
"No." The boy groaned in a sad tone.
"Uh," Naruto muttered hearing his friend's voice. "So what was up with Gin, you know anything about the security comity?"
"No." He mumbled again.
"What's up buddy? You seem down."
"Eh, its just my birthday is coming up soon." Tsukune said. "I was just hoping to have a birthday party were I can spend some time with Moka."
"Hmm," Naruto mused. "That sounds fun, I don't think I've ever had a birthday party."
"Wait do you know when your birthday is?" The average boy asked.
"Nope." Naruto replied crisply.
"Naruto, your issues really put things into prospective." Tsukune sighed. "I wish I could help you with that."
"Yeah it kinda sucks, but until then there is no use stressing over it." Naruto replied with a light smile. "Anyway lets split up and maybe get some leads."
'Where is this guy?'' Kurumu thought, looking around the monster tree.
"I'm glad you came so promptly." A voice called from above her. "I've seen that you can be very naughty, it's good you still have manners."
"I'm Kanou Nagare." The boy said, as he slowly slipped from the tree. "Don't you remember me?"
Kurumu racked her brain trying to remember the sweaty boy in front of her. "Did we meet the first week of school?" She pondered aloud.
"Yes, you promised to go on a date with me, remember?" Kanou said, taking a step forward invading her personal space.
The young succubus stumbled back slightly, the truth was that she couldn't remember agreeing to date him. While she could slightly remember him, the first week was a bit of a blur. Coming to Yokai Academy was the first real time she had been away from succubus controlled territory. Also her view of school was a bit skewed. She had grown up hearing stories about how her mother had come to Yokai Academy and had half the male population wrapped around her fingers. Of course being a young child she had dreamed about being just like her mother. However, reality did not match the perfect image she had imagined. While she did get a lot of attention upon arrival it was all too often that the eyes of the boys shifted from her and onto Moka. Kurumu could just remember Kanou because of the undivided attention that he had given her, however he had been forgotten after the events with Moka and Naruto.
"O-okay." Kurumu stuttered, before recovering, intent on taking control of the situation. "I guess I can go on a date with, you. I'll even postpone my other dates, but as long as you give me absolutely everything you have regarding those pictures I saw earlier."
"Don't want anyone thinking bad about you?" Kanou smiled predatorily. "Don't worry I don't want to hurt you, I just think we could have lots of fun together."
Several days later Naruto met up with Tsukune, the misplaced human wearing a depressed look on his face.
"What's eating you buddy?" He said, before pausing and smiling. "Well besides Moka."
"Ha, ha. Very funny." Tsukune replied dimly.
"Whoa, really whats up, anything I can help with?"
"Not really thanks anyway, Naruto." Tsukune sighed. "It's just that my birthday is coming up and I was wanting to spend some time with Moka. But she's been spending so much time around the art room recently that I can't really talk with her. I was just by there and before I could get a word in she also told me to leave, and I think she sounded a bit angry."
"That doesn't sound like her, I don't really think that she does angry. There's gotta be something else going on." Naruto replied, as a memory of something about the underneath whispered in his mind.
"Yeah I thought something else was going on too, she was acting all embarrassed." Tsukune said before pausing. "Y-you don't think she is doing any nude modeling do you?"
A small blush appeared on Naruto's face as the unbidden image popped in his head, but he quickly recovered. "Yeah I don't think Moka's the kinda girl that would do that. I doubt that Kurumu would even do that."
"Yeah I guess you're right, it must be something else." The average boy agreed. "Speaking of Kurumu, she hasn't been around either."
"Yeah I thought so too, I asked her about it, and she got all red and said she was busy investigating for the paper. I hope she isn't pushing herself too much and getting sick."
"Maybe." Tsukune muttered, unsure. "I haven't got any leads how about you?"
"Best lead I have is a few of the girls were last seen around the north of the school."
"That's where all the hands on classes are, home-ec, chemistry, art."
"Yeah, but, it could be coincidental, they could have gone anywhere from there." Naruto sighed and shrugged, until turning to a seemingly random nearby tree. "Hey Mizore you wouldn't happen to know anything about a bunch of missing girls would you?"
"Who are you talking-" Tsukune asked, before he suddenly choked on his own spit, coughing at the sudden appearance of the purple haired girl.
"No I don't know anything about missing girls, I have other- things I pay attention to." Mizore asked in a passive tone that barely indicated her annoyance at being caught. "How did you know I was here?"
"I saw your shadow from behind the tree." Naruto answered, as he slapped Tsukune on the back to assist him in clearing his airways.
"W-who is th-this girl" Tsukune managed to force out.
"Oh this is Mizore, she's a friend I randomly found in the woods." Naruto chirped. "She also in my gym class since she's been starting to show up to some of her classes now."
"I'm your friend?" The pale girl asked sheepishly.
"Of course, you're real nice and you kinda remind me of someone that I um- think I used to know." The forgetful blond said scratching the back of his head.
"Ok- I'm not sure if that last part was a compliment, but its nice that you think I'm your friend." She said a faint smile pulled at the sucker in her mouth.
"Don't mind Naruto he um, do you even know how you got your memory problem?" Tsukune wondered aloud.
"Nope, I probably got hit on the head, but I'm sure it involves an epic tale of me defeating a multitude of bad guys when I could only headbutt them into submission."
"What!? Why would that every be a thing?" The average human asked with an edge of disbelieve in his voice.
"Maybe his arms were tied up." Mizore toned.
"Yeah! See she gets it, you gotta work with me man." Naruto cheered. "It was obviously an huge amazing fight, that I wish I could remember. Anyway, anything I can get you for your birthday?"
"Naw, you've already helped me out so much I feel like I should be getting you something. Do you want anything for if you can remember when your birthday is? Tsukune asked.
"Nope, unless you can figure out how to get my memories back I'm good." The blond plainly stated.
"Do you have amnesia or something?" The quiet girl asked. "How bad is it?"
"Its not a big deal." Naruto stated obscuring the issue.
"Maybe you can make up a date for your birthday." Tsukune muttered. "Cause you not having memories of birthdays is sort of a downer idea."
"Yeah, but worring won't help, so I'm gonna find Yukari maybe she can use magic to get some leads." Naruto smiled, leaving his friend with a wave.
"Listen up guys, this is getting serious." Gin stated sternly. "Another girl has gone missing. I will not let this travesty continue. Hot chick are a precious treasure that we cannot afford to lose. Speaking of which, where are our resident hot chicks?"
"Hey! I'm here!" Yukari yelled at the werewolf.
"Yes you are, and while you have cute and adorable on lock-down, give it a few years till you acquire hot. When that happens come and see me and I'll give you all the attention you deserve." Gin said with a sly wink.
"Pervert!" The witch yelled, pulling out her wand and slashing it in Gin's direction.
Naruto sighed as a washbasin materialized smashing Gin upside the head. Naruto decided to ignore the perv, and looked at the picture of the newest missing girl he didn't recognize her but there had to be something tying all these girls together. The forgetful ninja walked over to a nearby bookcase that had a recent year book in it as he pulled it out something else caught his eye.
Right about the same time that Naruto was reading through the letter Tsukune was examining the photograph, and each of the boys were simultaneously coming to the conclusion that their friend was in danger.
"I gotta go!" Naruto and Tsukune each blurted out, rushing to the door. As Tsukune headed the art room Naruto went to find Kurumu. It was clear to him that she was being blackmailed, and whoever was doing it was going to pay. Nearing the monster tree Naruto looked around but was unable to see his friend. Not one to give up so easily, the blond tried his other senses sniffing about Naruto caught a whiff of the bluenette's scent. His nose led him to a nearby supply building.
Wasting no time Naruto wrenched at the door and after a small resistance the door opened with a faint crunch. Upon gaining access Naruto noticed a few odd things. Most alarmingly was Kurumu backed into a corner while what looked to be a giant slug hovered menacingly over her. The fact that she was wearing a revealing maid outfit only caused him to pause a moment before the smell inside the building hit him like a wave. His heightened sense of smell that had led him here was overwhelmed by the toxic scent that turned his stomach. At the worst time his stomach decided to rebel, causing him to grasp the door frame and dry heave.
"Naruto!" Kurumu yelled, as her emotions jumped from despair, to relief to gut wrenching concern.
"Oh? I was wondering If I would have to deal with you." Kanou glubbed. "Luckily for me, you seem to be highly affected by my abilities."
The forgetful blond struggled to upright, but the pain in his stomach was too intense causing him to stumble backwards falling at the roots of the monster tree.
"Well, well ,well I guess this going to be easy." Kanou said slithering forward. "Deal with you then I have Kurumu all to myself."
The idea of what this creep wanted caused Naruto's blood to boil, energy started to flow through him allowing him to recover from his weakened nauseous state. Just as he was about to get up and tear into the slug man they were both stopped short.
"NO!" Kurumu's voice screamed from the open door of the shed. "You don't get to do anything like that! I could deal with what you were forcing me to do with those outfits and poses. But this, you even try to hurt Naruto or my friends and I'll kill you!"
Visible Yokai started to pour from the succubus and her wings sprung from her back. Suddenly it felt like the ground shook, just as shocking the roots of the monster tree sprang up like a many tentacled beast. Kanou freaked out as the Cthulhu-esque monster tree targeted it's wrath on him. Kanou yelled as with a quick strike the grasping roots snatched him wrapping around his body. Naruto however thought there was something wrong, there wasn't a smell of freshly uncovered earth. Although it looked and sounded correct it seemed off. It felt like the ground shook with the tree's actions but that wasn't quite right. Then a spike of pain shot though Naruto's head as a ghostly deep voice echoed though his mind.
'Once you've identified that you're trapped in an illusion cut your own chakra and blast it out to disrupt it.' The deep voice recited and he remembered the technique he had been taught to deal with illusions.
Taking deep breath and closing his eyes Naruto relaxed and suddenly he flared his energy and when he opened them he saw an amusing scene before him. Kanou was rolling on the ground screaming his head off as Kurumu glared down at him her eyes seemed to glow in a soft purple light. Then her face turned into a snarl as she shot forward wings giving her a boost in speed, and with a swipe of her long sharp nails raked deep furrows down Kanou's side. The combination of fear and pain caused the slug-man to pass out in a pathetic gurgle.
"Naruto." Kurumu gasped, jogging over to Naruto.
Getting to his feet the boy was nearly tackled back to the ground as the soft weight of the succubus fell onto him. His arms instinctively wrapped around the girl's frame as few soft hiccups slipped from her mouth.
"I was so concerned that you had some sort of hyper weakness from his poison!" She moaned, tears tracing lines down her cheeks.
"No I'm fine, I didn't notice the poison. He just stunk really really bad." Naruto groaned, the faint stench still in the air. "What about you, are you alright? He didn't do anything to you did he?"
"No, he just took some pictures of me. Although he might have tried something but then you showed up." She sighed taking a half step back and looking up at her would be rescuer. "Why are you here, how did you know about this?"
Looking down at the the girl still in his arms he blushed and tried his best to look away. Because of their positions and Kurumu's short stature the maid outfit she wore gave him an eye-popping view down her generous cleavage. "I um, I found the letter he sent you with the blackmail and stuff."
"Oh, I c-can explain!" She stuttered, causing Naruto to look back and see her bright red face, and fresh tears forming at the corners of her eyes. "I'm sorry I didn't mean, I- Please forgive me!"
"Explain what? T-those pictures of your aren't something you have to worry about, unless. "Naruto stuttered, not sure how to deal with the succubus fearing that he was in an emotional mine field. That was until something clicked in his mind. "Wait I didn't get a good look at the dorm room before I came here, who's dorm room were you flying in and out of?"
"I'm sorry, I'm sorry. Please let me explain!" Kurumu gasped pulling herself out of his arms fearing that Naruto could take her actions in the wrong way and she would lose him.
"Whoa, whoa, calm down don't worry so much I trust you." The blond sighed motioning his hands in a calming manner. "Was that my room?"
"Uh- yes." Kurumu squeaked her face bright red again. "I needed to um understand you better."
"I'm a bit confused, I thought that I woke up a few times recently with your scent in my room but I thought that was because of th-the d-dreams." It was Naruto's turn to grow red as her remembered several of racy dreams he had featuring Kurumu. "Um do succubuses have dream powers?"
"Y-yes we can enter the minds of others, and often their dreams." She answered reluctantly and swung her tail up between them. The tip of her tail opened up briefly into what looked like a jagged flower before quickly closing again. "I was hoping to learn a bit about you, like what your true form is. But I guess I'm no good at the dream thing. It's like your memories are all a jumble. I'm sorry I used you, please don't hate me!"
Blinking a few more times in confusion times, Naruto looked at the distressed girl. "I could never hate you Kurumu, you're my friend and I care a lot about you."
"Oh Naruto." Her voice hitched and she threw herself into his arms again. "You're too good, why are you so perfect. I think that I lo- no I know."
"Know what?" Naruto gasped his mind extremely confused by this entire situation while his body reacted to hers as she pressed into him.
"Ever since I've met you I've been drawn to you." She sighed leaning into him. "At first I thought it might be your power, and I tried to take your advice in seeking my destined one. Of course it didn't work and I've always been drawn back to you. I cherish the time I've spent with you, you're all I can think about these days. Now my mind has accepted what my heart has been trying to tell me all along. You are my destined one."
"What! Wait, yeah we're friends but you really don't know me." Naruto blurted, unnerved by the devotion in her voice. "It's not smart and you really don't even know me. Hell! I don't even know me."
"What your true form is doesn't matter to me anymore. I can't help loving you." Kurumu squeezed him even tighter. "You're my destined one because of who you are, not what you are."
"No you don't understand" The forgetful blond gasped, as her chest pressed pleasantly into him. "I can hardly remember anything, I don't know what my true form is but I think I'm human."
"Human? How can you be human, don't be silly you couldn-" She quirked, turning her beautiful eyes up to get another look at him. But she stopped after seeing the serious look in her would be lover's eyes.
"I told you I can hardly remember anything. I have like amnesia or whatever." He sighed placing his hands on her shoulders and gently pushing her away. "I can't transform, and everything I can do is like some sort of technique that I know I was trained in, but I can't remember who trained me or how it really works. Me being human feels right, as best as I can tell."
"So you can't transform, are you a warlock?" Kurumu asked "Maybe your magic is different from Yukari."
"No its not magic, I'm pretty sure of that." Naruto replied.
"But when you got angry your eyes turned red and it felt like you had yoki." Kurumu muttered, and paused as she thought a delicate finger placed on her lip in a thinking pose. "Maybe it was because of your amnesia that I was having so much trouble. It felt like your mind was fractured or something, I didn't have any control over which memory I saw."
"Wait so those dreams with you, those were my memories?" Naruto asked.
"Yeah I think so, but I thought the were a bit too weird." She muttered and then started to poke her fingers together as he face turned red. "I think I was replacing some girl in those memories and I got a bit carried away, b-but I couldn't focus on the technique when we started to get a little too, you know."
It was Naruto's turn to grow red. "So wait if those were my memories then I made out with a princess?"
"N-no if that was an actual memory I changed it." The succubus muttered, but her face shifted to a mischievous smirk.. "It was a pretty neat dream, dream you is an excellent kisser. You wanna give the real thing a try."
"You temptress." Naruto grumbled, but the desire to let her kiss him was still there. However her shoulders were still in his hands, and through a feat of will he was able to keep her at arms length.
"That's kind of our thing." She smirked as she gently skimmed her fingers alone the arms that held her back. "I'm a succubus remember."
"And I don't know what I am." The blond grumbled. "Listen I'm all messed up right now, I don't think its a good idea for you to decide that I'm your destined one or whatever."
"It's already too late." Kurumu sighed happily. "I can't go back, It wouldn't even matter if you were human. But I can understand, maybe we both need some time. I can wait, because I know that you and I are destined for each-other."
The next few days were interesting. Turns out that when he had gone to save Kurumu, Tsukune had gone to save Moka. The mystery of the disappearing girls had been solved, because the art teacher was a medusa and had been using her powers and turning girls into statues. She had intended to make Moka her next victim, however due to Tsukune's unexpected interruption he was able to distract the medusa. The boy had been bitten several times but was able to remove Moka's rosario and the art teacher got the crap beaten out of her. Dispite getting bitten several times and being involved in another potentially deadly situation Tsukune was quite happy. Turns out the reason Moka was being so distant was because she had been making a present for him for his birthday.
After everything was sorted out Gin wasted no creating the front page article detailing the Art teacher's involvement with the missing girls. Sadly for him the rescued girls didn't lavish praises on him but the News-Paper Club was able to complete everything needed for the year's first edition.
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(Author Notes) Shorter chapter and if you didn't notice I squished two manga/anime episodes into one for this chapter. Two reason I want to get to the next part of canon as soon as possible and I needed the Art disappearances to stay mostly the same because its the driving force behind exposing Tsukune as a human. I could just kill two bird with one stone this way.
