Plot He goes to Moka's room after a fight with inner Moka and notices drawings of tsukune. He decides that the only way to attract Moka is to reach the next level. Who's the strongest in the school? The headmaster. He loses and chases after core harder than ever. The headmaster tells him it isn't his lack of power that keeps him from attracting the pink haired vampire. He asks if he really needs her to fall in love with him. She's just an illusion.

"Sorry I'm late power lifting club held me over." I said as I stepped into the classroom. Wash pans littered the floor along with broken brooms. A little girl cheered waving a pink wand. I made a show of raising my hand and snapping my fingers.

A pulse of aura fired off with the sound blasting my will into the magic in the air. The wash pans clattered to the ground and the brooms stopped moving. The witch's eyes shot wide open and she turned around like a child in trouble. I raised an eyebrow at the girl.

Moka ran to the girl's side. "Morpheus she's young and didn't mean to bother anyone." Moka quickly defended. It almost melted my heart.

I turned my attention to the girl. "What's your name little witch?" She swallowed heavily and met my gaze.

"I'm Yukari Sendo, and I love Moka." Yukari said.

"Really that's interesting. How long have you had that wand?" I asked her.

"My parents gave it to me when I was younger. I don't see a wand on you." She said.

"I don't need one. That was an impressive levitation spell. It took almost half a heartbeat to break. That's some impressive will for someone your age. Train diligently and you'll last even longer against me. My name is Morpheus, are you joining the newspaper club." I let a small smile spread across my face.

"Oh, yes if you'll have me. Moka are you and Morpheus together?" Yukari asked while interlocking her fingers.

"Why would you think that Yukari." Moka asked.

"You're amazing Moka and Morpheus just unleashed a room covering spell ending burst with a snap of his fingers. He battled all my spells at once and beat out my will with his own. That's not talent or a trick. That was hundreds of hours battling against other spells." Yukari spun around with her hands outstretched. "Could you teach me Morpheus sempai?"

I remembered battling wills during aura clashes. Beams of aura would blast against each other. Whoever had the most will, and power would win.

"I can give you some practice but it's up to you how far that gets you." I said.

"That's right you are a supernatural human. One strong enough to fight me hand to hand and manipulate magic. Is your kind rare?" Gin asked.

Golden aura sprang up around me. "I've never met another with my aura. The primary colors are the most common, I doubt you'll ever meet one. I'm the only one of my kind in this world." The light of my aura died down gently.

"You said that Tsukune could learn what you do but you won't teach him." I nodded in Moka's direction. "Why not teach him? You wouldn't be the last anymore."

"Wait Tsukune is a," I put a finger to my lips to hush Yukari up.

"The transition is hard on the body and slow to complete. It could be decades before he gets to my level. Most die in the transition." Gin looked at Tsukune.

"Is Tsukune some kind of weak monster that can be overwritten?" Gin asked.

"Nah, anyone could learn what I do you included. The reward is high, but the risk is higher. If you make a mistake, then your power will act as a poison. It will destroy you from the inside out." I said.

"Why did you go through with it?" Kurumu asked. Her voice carried over the others. I sat in my desk and gave it some thought. A cruel smile came over my face. She gasped and I knew she was reading my emotions. "You don't have to tell us."

"Its fine it was a long time ago. I didn't know how dangerous it was. I was never told. I survived and others didn't. I thought back then that they moved. As the mess hall cleared out until only five of us remained. Then three, two, and I was the only survivor. This was in another life. Don't worry about it." Yukari was hiding behind Moka. "Sorry about that. What's on the agenda today Gin?"

He sighed and took up a thinking pose. "We need to find a story. Something that will get people reading." Gin said.

"Alright the first rule of writing a newspaper is sensationalism. The headline has to be something seemingly controversial and preferably short." From there the newspaper club got to work.

Hours later I was editing some of the first draft of my column on conspiracy theories. Everything seemed to be going well until something pricked my senses. Tsukune suddenly lost control of his arms and began groping Kurono in earnest. He tried to stop himself from moving but he was being controlled.

I weighed canceling out the magic again, then found another spelling mistake. "That's it I've had enough of her. She's out of control." Tsukune yelled. A small smile crept over my face. I finished my part of the paper and placed it on Ms. Nekonome's desk.

A deep fog rolled in off the blood lake. With a flick of my thumb the bottle cap flew off my diet coke. The fun fact part of the label declared the drink had anti depression properties. I took a sip just as the fog blew away revealing inner Moka in all her beauty. Golden light flickered from my finger as a small beam traversed the distance. A fist sized hole opened in the lizardman's shoulder behind Moka. More beams of golden light fired as Moka stood there. Fortunately, at my range the aura beams were non-lethal.

When I leapt off the roof my power took me. It ushered me through the air pulling with my every cell in unison. I landed amongst the blood-soaked ground. None of my blasts were lethal. A few of the lizardmen were already regenerating.

"Hey Moka, is outer real or a personality superimposed by the rosary?" Tsukune returned with the rosary. I raised my hand and it flew to me.

"How are you able to use such fine control over magic without a wand?" Yukari asked.

Golden aura appeared around the rosary. "What are you doing? Moka needs that to return to her normal self." Tsukune yelled.

"Does she? Last time I checked this is the true Moka. Why does she need a completely different personality to fill in for her? Why is this device so complicated?" I asked.

"Morpheus, I don't have those answers. Someone who loves me will remove my rosary. That's all I know." Moka said.

"It has sympathetic sensors that scan for dopamine and certain neuron patterns. This rosary is sending information to something. It isn't just filling you in on your life. I'm surprised your personality hasn't been overwritten by it." I yelled.

"My mind is my own and I'm still here. Something bad will happen if I remove it permanently. That's all I know." Moka said.

"Then help me master my aura." I opened my mouth to speak more then shut it. "We don't have to leave it off forever. You deserve more than being released for random fights."

"Is power lifting not enough. Do you want real training?" She asked.

"If it will help me master my aura then yes." She held out her hand and I gave her the rosary.

"Fine you can remove the rosary and we'll train during the weekend. You'll also take me shopping." She declared. "Also, I need something else."

She stepped into my personal space and I dropped my shielding. Her mouth opened and she scrapped her fangs searching for the vessel. Then she bit me. Her eyes shot open as she drank. After a few heartbeats she stopped.

Moka pushed herself away gasping for breath. My barrier quickly returned to place. I reached out and caught her. In less than a heartbeat, I reclaimed her once more. In that moment Moka was mine. This silver haired beauty clung to me like a maiden. A bit of red covered her cheeks and I drew closer.

She wanted me to kiss her. I could feel her emotions leaking out of her. She pushed her demonic aura against me, and I could feel her. I kissed her forehead and placed the rosary back on her choker.

"I hope you have sweet dreams." While she dreamed, I'd figure out why she needed the rosary. I'd reach core and prepare to battle something to even Moka needed to fear. Outer Moka looked up at me with an odd expression.

"Do you hate me? I could hear you from the rosary. This body isn't even mine is it." My eyes widened, was my body really mine either.

"You are Moka, how can you think anything differently?" Tsukune yelled.

I placed a hand on her shoulder and smiled. "Your minds are connected, and you share the same memories. Probably with different points of view. Some memories are more important to you than inner." I should have lied. She was so fragile, I couldn't lie. Not to someone I loved. I reached out and took her hands in mine. I looked her in the eyes.

"You're the bubbly, charismatic, and kind girl that drew Tsukune and I in. I love fighting with your inner self, I could fight with her for the rest of my life. You are the Moka who is outgoing." I said. My heart was racing as I searched her for any signs of despair. This needed to be fixed immediately.

"What if I'm not real?" She asked.

"You're here and with us. That means your as real as we are." I said. She smiled and drew away from me. I let her leave my arms and fall into another's. She wasn't real. I scanned the rosary enough to know that. A lot of what I knew was guess work and happenstance. Outer Moka existed only in the rosary.

I watched her hug Tsukune and watched Yukari grab her butt and take off running. Nothing was simple. Even knowing outer Moka was a program a mind transmitted from elsewhere by the rosary, I loved her.

I focused my sixth sense towards the direction the rosary led. The connection was still strong. Whoever the rosary was broadcasting was still alive. The real outer Moka was alive. Why override Moka's day to day? I didn't feel any malignant feelings from the tether. What I felt was love and desperation.

Might controls everything. That was the way of my people. The strong rule and the weak obey always waiting until they can become strong. This was a school and I had no idea how strong monsters could become.

"You messed up bud." Gin said after the others left.

"I'm not much of a liar, am I?" I asked.

"No, you might have ruined your relationship." Gin said.

I turned and started to walk back towards the gym. "Where are you going?" I looked down at my scrawny arms. I needed more physical strength. The stronger my body the more I could empower it with aura.

"To get stronger." I said.

It was late in the evening when I reached the gym. I put weights on bars and began lifting with no enhancements. While I lifted my aura flowed naturally. As I lifted, I felt my pours burns as dead or defective cells were pushed out. A metric ton on a bar wasn't considered impressive except with my body weight. I worked through the night lifting and working.

Late in the night after I'd made progress up to 1300kilos a girl walked in. She was tall, well-muscled, and grunted at my weight. She went over to the super heavy dumbbells and started lifting a ton in each hand.

I stopped benching and changed to the squat bar. I piled on the weight until it was 3 metric tons. When I picked it up, my muscles screamed from pain. She smirked as I struggled to lift the massive weight. I finished one rep then two. Each rep was harder than the last. My body healed at an incredible pace, but everything has a limit. Twenty reps later I put the bar back.

My legs gave out and I fell to the ground. She walked over and held out her hand.

"If you keep trying to impress me, you're going to die. I'm Hinami Deva second year of the culinary club. That's some impressive lifting for such skinny arms. If you don't mind me asking what's your diet like?" Hinami asked.

"Morpheus and I don't really eat at all. I can but my body doesn't really need it." I said.

"That's stupid!" She yelled out. Her voice echoed through the empty gym. "I mean that's silly. Just because you can live without consuming food. Unless you're a robot you need to eat." I opened my mouth to argue, when she lifted me over her shoulder. She wasted no time leaving the gym.

"Not eating, give me a break. That can't be good for you. You're light as a feather. I could throw you over the school building with one hand." Hinami muttered.

"I'd just fly the second I left your hand." I said.

"You don't smell like a bird or bat yokai. Or were you making a crack about my muscles. Answer me first year." I raised and eyebrow then sighed. I floated myself off her shoulder until only the arm she held onto connected us.

"You're not that muscular." I said.

"Why are you taking care of me?" I asked.

"Hmm. You smell like a human, so maybe I want to fatten you up before I eat you." I hopped off her shoulder descending nearly eight feet. My legs still felt wobbly. Even aura had its limits when adapting to a hard workout. Healing is different.

"You win this round. I don't think I could run away if I tried." I turned my head towards the girl's dorm then back to the direction we were heading. "This isn't the way the girl's dorm." I said.

"It seems a lack of food has made you soft in the head. We aren't going to the girl's dorm. We're heading to the culinary club's kitchen. I have two whole cows butchered to perfection. Once you try my food, you'll beg me to be your wife." She declared.

"Aren't we moving a little fast?" I asked.

"I could always pick you up and carry you again." We entered the building and she flipped some lights on.

She quickly opened a fridge and pulled out twenty steaks. Just seeing them made my mouth water. I didn't need to eat but I was still human. Who knew what effect this would have on me? My stomach gurgled for the first time in a long time. She took out a skillet and turned on a stove.

"My steaks have been soaking in marinade since last night." She flicked her hair back revealing a tiny scar on her cheek. "You're one of the lucky boys chasing after Moka Akashiya."

"Yea, before you tell me I know it's a fool's errand. She's already chosen Tsukune." I said.

"Love is worth it isn't it. People go their whole lives looking for that special someone and never find them. You should enjoy your time with her." I wanted to laugh in this teens face. But I'd never insult the one who feeds me.

"If you were me would you kill Tsukune?" I asked.

"I'd have picked the flesh clean and tossed the bones in a pot to boil. Rival's bone broth is a delicacy. I snorted at her words.

"Tsukune isn't a bad guy. If not for Moka we'd be friends." A shadow came over my face. "Your idea came to mind in the past, but I couldn't get behind it. I can win the war, even if I must concede a few battles."

The steak browned quickly in the skillet. She forked it out and replaced it with a raw steak. She tore off a piece of it and handed it to me. When I put the piece in my mouth flavor exploded over my senses. I chewed the tender chunk of meat and swallowed it. My eyes snapped open. That's what I was missing for my body. A lack of food couldn't kill me, but food was a resource I wasn't exploiting.

"That was the best steak I've ever had." I said with conviction.

She tossed a piece in her mouth. "Its good. Not the best I've ever done."

"It doesn't matter if Tsukune is a good guy or not. You should kill him and take Moka over his corpse. If she really is a vampire, then she'll see it as romance. That's the way I want my first time to go. Vampires are warriors when you get down to it. Ferocity and blood shed are in their blood. Their instincts will react despite the human morals many of us have taken up." Hinami said.

"What you're describing is very human? Life is too easily extinguished. If he was a match for me physically, I'd do exactly that. There's no triumph in crushing and ant." I said.

"They say he's tough that he beat Saizo." She said.

"Nope, that was actually me. Tsukune was on the bus running scared of the big guy. That one was a fun fight. In the end, I had to use ranged abilities to finish him off." I said and chewed on another strip of steak. My legs were already feeling stronger than before.

"Do I owe you anything for the meal?" I asked her.

"No, I'll see you at the gym." I nodded and found my way out.

Over the next few weeks, I started putting on muscle. My chest became broader. My shoulders larger and my body more defined. Outer Moka kept her distance from me occasionally giving me odd looks when I wasn't looking. I also noticed that she spoke a little less with Tsukune. Tsukune didn't seem to notice it. Her smile was a little dimmer and her bites a few seconds shorter.

"Hey Moka, I wanted to talk to you." I said. She froze when I appeared.

"Really, is it time for your spar with inner already." I stared her into silence.

"I want you to know I love inner and you. From now on I'm going to walk you to art class and I'm going to keep an eye out for you." I waited for her to speak.

"Does this have something to do with the disappearances?" She asked.

"We don't know what happened to the girls taken. Normally my sixth sense is enough to ensure your safty. The girls all have one thing in common." I said.

"What did they have in common?" Moka asked.

"It doesn't take much digging or asking around to learn they were all in art class." I reached out and took her hand.

"What are you doing?" She asked.

"Consider this a deterrent. Anyone who tries to take you away from me, must pry you from my cold dead hands." Her eyes widened.

"You don't have to go so far." Moka said.

"Let's go you don't want to be late." I said to her.

Author's note: Thank you for reading the chapter. Leave a review and tell me what you think.