And here we have chapter two of my new story :D

"xxx" talking

'xxx' thinking

Xxx Report

*story start*

Kirito was sitting in his class, arriving with Mizore, who had waited for him before the dorm. Behind a tree. Just observing him for a while and once she revealed herself he almost had a heart attack and with reflexed forged by two years of almost constant fighting reached behind him to pull out his trusted sword and to face the enemy. Until he realized a few things. First, he wasn't in SAO any longer, which meant there was no sword on his back. Second, it was not an enemy but his friend Mizore. Third, either his instincts were starting to dull or Mizore was an exceptionally talented person in the high art on hiding her presence and following someone.

The way to the school was fun, they talked about this and that, nothing to important until they reached the class and seated themselves. Nekonome came with the ringing of the clock into the classroom and Kirito started to feel strange. Something was wrong and he was missing it. Until the teacher came to the name Akashiya Moka with her role call and now he finally noticed that she was missing and Saizo had a way to big grin on his face. The entire thing rubbed Kirito in the wrong way. He would have to look into things but he already had a vague idea what had happened and internally he sighed, 'Day 2 and I am probably going to fight Saizo … Yeah Lisbeth and Asuna were right, trouble is seeking me.'

And Kiritos vague idea was confirmed when Moka showed up for the third lesson, covered in bandages and some really nasty looking bruises on her arms. She told the class that she fell down the stairs, but Kirito knew that those injuries didn't come from falling and were definitely inflicted by a human, no scratch that, here it would be a monster.

Vowing to himself that he would talk to her about it after school, he let himself drift through the class, he had feared he wouldn't be able understand the things that were taught, but most subjects were way too easy for him so a little nap in the class wouldn't harm his grades in any way, even more so since it was only the second day and the first week mostly never covered anything too important.

Mizore too was looking at Moka and came to a very similar conclusion as Kirito and she really pitied the pink haired girl. Saizo could really be described as the enemy to all women and to be in his clutches must be awful if you looked like that just after a day.

She glanced to Kirito who had just moments ago also stared at Moka or better said her injuries and then at Saizo and noticed that he had started a nap. Mizore really liked his sleeping form, it was just way too cute and since she had certain talents she knew how to make it last. She brought out her sketching block and started to draw the scene. She didn't want to boast, but she was a pretty good artist and her drawing was turning out really well. Just as she finished drawing the last line with her pencil and gave the drawing an approving look the bell rang and Kirito woke up.

"Hey did you draw something?" he asked her, seeing her hurriedly cramming her sketching block into her schoolbag.

"Yeah, but it's nothing too impressive." She had a slight red tint on her cheeks and was already rapidly thinking of a way to change to subject, but to no avail Kirito continued: "Oh I am sure it's looking great, can I have a look at it?"

"Fine, but as I said it's nothing special." Even though she said that her cheeks got just a shade of red darker and she was really nervous about showing him the drawing, not because she thought it turned out bad, but some people could react badly to being drawn or photographed without consent.

Taking the picture Kirito turned silent and studied it. Mizore feared the worst, that she had driven away a nice friend she had just made, but than his voice broke her out of those dark thoughts.

"What are you saying nothing special? This picture is amazing. Though do I really look that girly when I sleep?" the last part came out rather quiet and now that she looked at it again she noticed it too, he not only looked way too cute when he slept, but he could also be mistaken for a girl with his effeminate looks. When he was awake it wasn't as clearly see able, but when he slept and you just looked with fleeting attention at him you could really confuse him for a girl. 'How he would look in a skirt?'

Kirito didn't know why but he suddenly felt a cold shiver run down his spine and a part of his brain that controlled his manliness suddenly felt very intimidated.

Shrugging the strange feeling of he noticed that Moka had already left the class and if he wanted to talk to her and help her he would have to hurry to catch up with her. Speed walking, running would probably cause some problems and cost time, he left the classroom and the school building and found Moka sitting next to a vending machine, sad look on her face as she played with a can of Tomato juice in her hand.

Mizore was stalking behind Kirito who had rather hurriedly left the class and wasn't not too sure how she should feel about what she was seeing. On one side she was happy that Kirito wasn't obvious to the girl's problems and was probably trying to help her, but on the other side she felt a pang of jealousy for the girl. Why was that? They were just friends, good she saw him as a possible boyfriend/marriage candidate, but at the moment they were friends and he was just trying to help her, she wasn't so selfish as to demand from him to only be concerned about her and she herself had been thinking about how to help the girl.

While Mizore contemplated about her feelings Moka and Kirito had started talking, not about her injuries or Saizo, just about mundane things so Moka could calm herself and later tell him what had exactly happened to cause her such injuries.

"So how did you really get those injuries?" and Moka mood that had steadily improved disappeared again and she looked around herself, only now noticing how empty everything was, there were no other students beside her and the nice boy Kirito and just as she was starting to tell him what had really happened she caught sight of the approaching Saizo.

He still hadn't seen her so she was trying to flee into the woods were it would be rather easy to hide from him. "I don't want to tell you that here, if somebody heard us you could get into a lot of trouble and you really seem nice so I don't want that." She said that while getting up from her seat place and rather hurriedly walking into the forest.

At first Kirito wondered why, but then he too caught sight of Saizo and decided that it would probably be better to follow her and just a moment ago it had looked like she wanted to tell him what happened so if they were alone again she would probably tell him and he could start figuring out a way to help her.

When he finally caught up with her the sight of the Academy was already lost and instead he could already see some spots of red water in the distance, which meant that they were rather close to the bus stop.

"I don't think that he followed us so you should be safe for the moment. So I'm guessing Saizo was the one who hurt you?" Her eyes dropped and she only nodded. It was just one day but what that bastard had done would probably be in her nightmares for the next few weeks. He hadn't raped her but that was only a matter of time and the injuries he caused her, while they were not lasting, did hurt her a lot.

"Don't worry …" he told her reassuringly "… I am going to make sure that that won't happen again and I am also pretty sure that my friend Mizore will help you too, you two would probably make great friends."

"Friends? You think we would be friends?"

"Sure why not? Mizore might be a little bit strange, but she is a great person and I don't see any reason why you two couldn't be friends. If you want too then we can also be friends." When he looked at her he was pretty sure that he messed up big time, because she was crying.

"Ahhh you don't need to if you don't want to be my friend, nobody's forcing you into anythi-"

"No, no, don't worry, I would be really happy if we could be friends, as long as you are okay with someone like me." 'My first friend and maybe I even get another one'. The day had really started badly, but now she would definitely rank it in one of her most favourite days, at least the afternoon.

"That's good and you look like a nice person, I wouldn't know why I wouldn't be okay if you, it should be rather me to ask you if you were ok with me." He said while scrapping the back of his head.

"That's great, you know I never had friends before because I told them I was a vampire and the humans treated me really badly after that." And as she finished that sentence she immediately regretted it. She had told him her monster form, not only did she break the school rules, but she probably also drove away her first friend.

"So you are a vampire huh. Wouldn't have thought of that you really don't look the type. And about the humans, there are good and bad ones and most of them are ignorant so it wasn't like nobody liked you or hated you, you just didn't meet the right people." The smile he was giving her calmed her uprising despair and with surprise evident in her voice she asked him: "It doesn't bother you in the slightest that I am a vampire? Not at all?"

"You didn't kill me yet and you are definitely a nice girl, what does it matter if you are a vampire."

Moka was speechless. Simply speechless. Not one friend in the human world and once she transferred to Yokai Academy it started even worse than in the human schools, but now she had a friend who knew what she was and still wanted to be her friend.

"Thank you."

"But you know that we shouldn't tell the others what monster you are, it could cause you problems with the staff."

"Tehee, it kinda slipped out …"

"Hey there Moka! What are you doing here with this …" he gave Kirito an arrogant look "… weakling, when you have someone as strong and great as me? And you, Kiri-whatever your name was, don't you ever dare come near MY Moka again or I am going to break every single bone that's in that pathetically weak looking body of yours." The longer he talked the smaller Moka seemed to get and unconsciously inched closer to Kirito in order to hide behind him, fearing that now he wouldn't be her friend anymore with the threat of Saizo, only to be surprised by his answer.

"Wow, I'm impressed." At Saizos confused look Kirito continued, "no really, you are great, the looks, your mannerisms, how you talk, how you treat others, you are the best stereotype asshole and school thug I have ever seen in my life and I have to say I already met quite some assholes."

Saizo was quite for thirty seconds, then his brain had finally processed what he had said and with rage boiling in him said: "I think I just misheard, but did you weakling just insult me?"

Moka was definitely not ready for his answer. She expected him to run, to apologize, a small part of her had hoped that he would protect her, but she definitely didn't think he would go out and taunt him. 'He has to be a really strong monster if he can do something like that with that much confidence.'

"Nooooo, what gave you that idea? And to answer your question from before, hell will freeze over before I abandon one of my friends!" The killing intent rolling of from him let Saizo hesitate slightly, the guy infront of him didn't look like much, but he had a lot of confidence and the amount of killing intent that just started rolling of from him was definitely nothing to laugh at.

But the hesitance was soon replaced by rage, he was the rogue monster orc Saizo Komiya, how was it possible that he would falter, even if it was just for a split-second in front of such a weak looking kid?

Kirito knew that he was playing a dangerous game, but since he was only human he needed an advantage over Saizo, who just started transforming into a monster, 'looks kind of like an orc, how fitting, all muscle no brain, he couldn't have been a more fitting monster.' and he knew that an enraged opponent was stronger but also a lot easier to read and since Kirito was at a probably abyssal disadvantage at the strength department already it didn't really matter if he gained a little bit of rage inducted strength, so he tried to make his attacks as predictably as possible and nothing is easier to read as an enraged, untrained opponent.

Alone from the movement of Saizos shoulders and the position of his feet Kirito knew that a straight punch for his left shoulder was coming and had little trouble evading it by twisting his body slightly and throwing his own punch with his right into Saizos stomach, enhancing it with his spinning movement and packing his entire body behind the punch.

Normally that would have winded an opponent, but this opponent was a monster based of brute strength and Kirito was still weak from his time in the hospital, but after hitting the stone wall that was supposed to be Saizos stomach he kind of doubted that he would have achieved more if he was back at his old strength.

From the corner of his eye he saw Saizos other arm coming and jumped back out of his reach or that would have been the plan if he wasn't so slow. He really needed to get his body in top condition again, if he had been then Saizo would have definitely not reached him with his arm and left an ugly looking gash on his chest.

"KIRITO!" Moka screamed when she saw the blood, at first she believed he had a chance, when he evaded Saizos first punch and countered it he looked like someone who was doing it his entire live. No hesitance, no unnecessary movement, just a precise and calculated evasion and a follow up attack. But then he was to slow to completely evade Saizos second attack and now blood was flowing from a cut on his chest.

While never leaving Saizo, who stood just four meters away from him, out of his view Kirito whispered to Moka: "It's not looking too great for us, any great ideas?" At Mokas headshake he continued: "And if you drank my blood? You said you are a vampire, would that unlock your powers?" Kirito grasped at straws, he had expected that his opponent was faster and stronger than him, but the gap was so huge that he wouldn't be able to compensate with skills alone, even though he could read Saizo like a book, he was simply to slow to evade and counter everything and he was also pretty sure that Saizo was the one with the better stamina so a drawn out fight would just bring him bigger problems.

"Sorry, but it doesn't work that way, for my powers to unlock I would have to somehow detach the Rosario from me."

"And you probably need a key for doing that right?" 'If not she would have probably removed it a long time ago.' At least he was reassured that his assumption about her being a strong monster were right.

"Not a key, my mother said that only a person who was good of heart and who would not betray and protect me could remove it."

"Well, I could try to remove it." Kirito had turned his head to her against his better judgment and as soon as those words left his mouth he knew he had made a mistake. Saizo was at first in a slight stupor, the second attack was just a reflex, because his first punch didn't hit and instead he was countered like a novice. He had expected to be hit by a wave of pain then and there, but he almost didn't feel the punch, which greatly confused him, since he had expected him to pack quite a punch with all the boasting and confidence he had before.

"WEAKLING!" screaming that while launching himself at the black haired boy in the moment he took his eyes of him he launched his right fist into his direction.

"Shit!" cursing Kirito shoved Moka to the side and braced for the impact that would undoubtedly shatter some of his bones and was surprised to see Saizos fist stopping inches before his body, encased in ice.

Looking to his right he saw Mizore, her purple hair turned to ice, her arms turned into ice claws and a slightly worried look on her face. "Beautiful" Kirito whispered so silently that only Moka, who was near him, could hear it.

"Kirito are you alright?"

"Yeah just peachy, thanks for the save, that was rather close."

Before they could continue Saizo had broken out of the ice that had encased his arm and roared: "HOW DARE ANOTHER ONE STAND BETWEEN ME AND MY GIRL!" Saizo was now definitely pissed beyond reason and he was about to attack again when Kirito noticed he was holding something in his hand.

When he had shoved Moka out of the way of Saizos punch, his fingers had grasped the Rosario and yanked it off and since he expected to be on the receiving end of a bone shattering punch he had ignored it.

Moka too looked dumbly at the Rosario in her new friends hands. 'It got off.'That was as far as she got when she felt a presence stir inside of her, gently pushing her own consciousness to the edges of her perception and taking over the command of her body, releasing the massive amount of yoki that was being suppressed by the Rosario and stunning the other three into silence.

It was not only the amount of Yoki that she emitted into the area, but her body as well that changed. Her pink hair turned snow white, her irises changed to a red with dark red, almost black vertical slits and poking out of her mouth were two fangs. By every definition she now looked like a real vampire and by the amount of Yoki and killing intent she was giving of nobody would be able to even think that now standing in front of him was a super monster.

"This is … This is a super Vampire?! Just like the legends say, the amount of Yoki is unreal –" Saizo was definitely panicking now, the boy had made him nervous, but turned out to be weak, but Moka, no she no longer was Moka, was definitely the real deal and he could have all the rage inducted strength he wanted, in front of a real vampire it meant nothing.

But before he could even contemplate that he was met with the vampire's right kick, breaking in his nose, jaw and destroying several of his teeth, sending him flying through several trees and gravestones, only stopping when he went over the cliff and gravity proved to be stronger than the speed inducted through the kick.

And that was what saved Saizos hide, he was half dead, but because of his strong body he survived the fall and Moka couldn't get into the water herself to finish the job.

"Know your place imbecile, did you really think a low class monster like you could even hope to touch me?! Be happy that I didn't kill you and never again wander under my sight!" Some of her anger vent she turned to Kirito, who had fallen to his knees, but to her surprise it wasn't in fear but more due to the fact that the cut on his chest was deeper than he would have liked.

"Huh, what a brave human …" at that inner Moka reeled 'Oh my god, he was human and defended me with his frail body?!' she now definitely believed his words when he had said that there were also some good humans, " … to defend the other weak me against a monster is no small feat."

"As far as defending goes I would say I did a rather bad job." He was trying to stand up and after testing if his knees would hold his weight he steadied himself and continued, "If it wasn't for you and Mizore I would have had a really big problem."

"Don't underestimate your role, even if it bought only a little bit of time, it was still enough for your ally to arrive and don't forget, you awakened me from my deep slumber." While saying that Moka observed Mizore doing first aid on Kirito, better said she froze to cut so that it could be stitched in the infirmary. Nodding to Mizore she grabbed the Rosario in Kiritos hand and while reattaching it to her chain said: "I am still tired, watch over the other me for me, while I am not here." 'An interesting guy, he didn't show the slightest bit of fear when he faced me and even though I didn't direct my killing intent at him, any normal human would have been close to unconsciousness by the amount I was giving of, really, reallllly interesting.'

Once the Rosario was attached again the sudden loss of strength combined with the switch of personas operating the body Moka fell forward, directly into Mizore and Kiritos arms, who both looked at her with concern in their eyes.

"Are you ok Moka?" Kirito was the first to break the silence.

"Yes, I'm fine, thanks to your and Mizores help."

"No problem, I couldn't let that brute hurt such a nice girl as you and I am sure Mizore was also thinking something along these lines right?" he looked at Mizore and got his answer, but by the look on her face he knew he wouldn't like some parts of it.

"Yeah, by the way Kirito, what gave you the grand idea to attack a monster when you are a human? And by what I saw you aren't even in top condition." She narrowed her eyes at him, she had noticed it, he had anticipated his enemy and was moving in ways to evade his enemy, but his body wasn't able to keep up.

"Hahaha, funny thing, I didn't really plan on fighting him, it just kind of happened?" Oh he so didn't like the direction this talk was taking; well they had already reached the school compound again, so once they reached the infirmary he could flee from it.

"But didn't you taunt him really bad? I was totally sure that you were a strong monster when you did that and that you would mop the floor with Saizo." Moka was feeling good again and was helping Mizore supporting Kirito and thanks to the innocence her voice held in that sentence he just couldn't bring himself to be angry at his new pink haired friend.

"That was part of a plan…" "Really?" Mizore said, doubt evident in her eyes, " Yes, not my fault that my body is still recovering from hospital stay, if I was in normal condition I could have easily evaded that second punch."

"And what would you have done after evading that punch?" She definitely hit the weak point in his argument, because they both knew that sooner or later one punch would have hit him and he was too weak to seriously hurt Saizo, not to mention his lesser stamina.

But he was saved by the appearance of the infirmary room. "Look we are here, time to get me stitched up again." He said while opening the door, which caused the doctor to hear his last sentence.

"You shouldn't talk about it so lightly …" the doctor said while looking at the wound " … if it was just a bit deeper your rips would have probably broken and punctured your lung, you would have either bled out or suffocated."

In that moment Kirito was really happy that at least his reflexes were still top notch, because if it weren't so that cut would have definitely been way more lethal. Another thing he was glad about was that the doctor didn't need to see his monster form, that could have caused him quite some troubles.

"Well since it didn't go just a bit deeper it will heal normally and with a few stitches, some of my ointments and a bandage you will be as good as new in about five days to a week.

"Thanks doc, till five days when you pull the stiches."

"And don't show up any sooner again, would be a pity if I had to fix your body up again when my first work isn't even healed."

"I will try my best." Even though he said that he had a feeling that he would probably end up being a regular here and he was starting to really miss some things from SAO, what would he give for a heal crystal or his beloved and trusted swords.

"And we will make sure that he keeps his word." Mizore and Moka reassured the doctor, standing beside Kirito and after saying their goodbyes accompanying him back to his room.

"Kirito you should rest a bit, then your wounds will probably heal sooner." Moka told him while they positioned him at his bed, only to touch her head with her free hand and closing her eyes.

Kirito, after the ointments started taking effect and reducing the pain to a slight throbbing looked at her with concern, noting that in the corner of his eyes Mizore was also looking at their new friend and asked: "Are you alright Moka? You don't look too good."

Moka, called out about it, tried her best to put on a reassuring smile and told him that she was fine and that he should be more concerned about himself. But right after that she went to the door and excused herself, saying that she still had something to do.

Now being alone again with Kirito Mizores adrenaline started to recede and one of her worse fears started to take root again.

She had once known another human boy and she was willing to say that he was her first love. In her village love and family was one if not the most important aspect of live. She had truly loved the boy back then, it was a foolish and rushed decision, but Mizore was young and thought not about possible consequences, so when the boy told her too that he liked her she had led him to a field of snow flowers near her village, luckily not showing him the village and had told him what she was.

She had expected that his love for her would prevail and he would accept her, but it was not to be. He looked at her with fear in his eyes and ran away.

She just sat there, trying to comprehend what had happened until her mother found her and brought her back home to console her. But that event had left her with a fear of disclosing her identity to others, it wasn't really bad with monsters and she had convinced herself that her reluctance to tell others what she was, was only her being cautious, but now standing next to her friend, if she was still allowed to call him that, she realized that it was the simple fear of being left alone again once she opened up and allowed other to know about herself. That fear was naturally a lot bigger with Kirito, since he was also a human, like the boy who had first shattered her young and innocent feelings. Monsters were at least ok for her, as long as it was just her form, but a human was on a completely different scale for her and she was already waiting for Kiritos dooming words, telling her to leave and never come back, with either fear or rage in his eyes.

When she finally assembled all of her willpower she looked at him again and found neither in his eyes. Instead they were filled with concern and confusion, but manly with concern about her.

Kirito was slightly confused and definitely worried about his friend. She had gotten quiet, way more quiet than usual and the way her body seemed to get smaller and smaller and all her muscles tensed he knew something was wrong, but what? She wasn't injured in the fight, of that he was pretty sure and afterwards nothing really happened that could have hurt her. So if it wasn't physical maybe it was psychological? But what could it have been? Did he do something that could have hurt her feelings? Not that he remembered, but he also couldn't say that he understood woman to good, at least if he believed what Asuna, Lisbeth and Silica had told him about that matter.

Deciding a direct approach was as good as any other and would prevent him from getting a headache he was just about to let the question loose if she was okay, only for her to finally raise her head and starring into his eyes, trying to find something he wasn't too sure about what it was.

"Mizore are you alright?" that did snap her out of the eye gazing she just did but when she answered him her voice was barely over a whisper and was slightly cracking.

"No every...everything's alright. It's just …"she trailed of a bit only continue with probably all the determination she could muster, reading herself for the second time to lose a friend and a possible love because of what she was, "It's just are you still ok with me?"

"What's kind of question is that? Why would I not be ok with you?" if before he had a little bit confusion in his gaze, it was now the dominating emotion.

Gaining a bit of hope, even if it was only a silver lining on the horizon Mizore continued with a slightly stronger voice: "You saw my true form, aren't you afraid of me? Won't you leave me, abandon me and curse me for deceiving you?" she was only seconds away from crying when one word stopped her. Just one word from him, one that she had little hope would come but it still happened, just as with Moka before her thoughts came to an abrupt stop with just one simple word, consisting of only two letters.

"No." it wasn't loud, it wasn't quite, it was said with earnest and in an even voice and he continued with it, "Why should I be afraid of you? You are my friend and defended me against someone who could have killed me in a situation that was also dangerous for you and …" his face turned to a rather red shade and now it was his voice that turned rather quite so that she almost didn't hear the last words he said, "… and you looked really beautiful."

Mizores face lit up like a Christmas tree and stuttering she excused herself from his room, telling him she was looking forward on seeing him again tomorrow and trying rather desperately to regain control over her emotions before she vanished into the shadows and ran to her room, recollecting about the things that had happened, but she was already sure of two things, she had gained a nice new friend and Kirito made a very huge jump in the rankings of possible boyfriend/partner in marriage, not that he had anyone to overtake but now she was seriously considering him, before it was just that she wouldn't have minded him, but now after showing that he accepted her and countering her mostly unconscious fear of being rejected feelings were starting to bloom inside of her. She still wasn't sure what feelings and everything was moving quite a lot faster than she would have liked, since her race normally took their time to accurately get to know possible candidates for marriage/boyfriend, but thanks to Kirito and his actions and mostly her own feelings and emotions were developing way faster than she would have ever thought possible, but she reassured herself with the fact that she still had more than a year to get to know him accurately and if two days were enough to cause this, who knew how she would feel about him after a year.

Thinking about this and other things that were going in the same direction time went by and before she knew it, it was dark outside and she let herself sink into a nice deep slumber.

AN:

Well, that chapter got out pretty fast, is it just me or are my characters getting OOC (more so than the influence through Kirito should cause)?

And everybody who is waiting for the next "The Dark Knight" Chapter, it will take some time, I am still deciding about some things that will happen and writers block hit me pretty hard with that one story, but fear not it will definitely be continued and finished ;D

SO as always:

Tell me what you thought about this chapter through a review, even if it's just a 'good work' or 'nice chapter' it really helps to motivate me ;-)

I will proofread this at a later date, so there probably are some mistakes, if you find them I have nothing against you if you would point them out in a review :D

Disclaimer: I own neither Sword Art Online nor Rosario + Vampire, if I did both would have AU stories with a different pairing (I like the canon pairing but I just love Mizore and Sinon too much)