I do not own Rosario + Vampire in any way shape or form

Wow, its been a long time huh? What two months or so? Geez time flies

First of all I want to thank those that have stayed for the duration and my infrequent writing style :P

Second, I need a new summery!

And I suck at writing them so I would appreciate any suggestions.

I did include a new writing style for a certain part of this chapter, I'm sure you'll be able to find it and please say in your review if you like the newer style for that type of scene or not.

What are you still reading these for!? Get reading the chapter! This is lovely flavor text!

Yes... yes.. flavor text... begone!

"…!" Tsukune sprang up from his futon on the floor. His deep breathing echoing throughout the room. Tsukune attempted to calm down his beating heart as he brought up a hand and wiped off the sweat from his brow. "Ugh, what the hell?" Tsukune groaned as he doubled over, his heart hammering against his rib cage. A moment passes far longer than Tsukune wished before he can move. His calmer breathing allowing him to glance over to the yelling alarm clock. "Shit, I'm late!" Tsukune yelled before he leaped out of bed and ran into the bathroom.

Tsukune hurried out the bathroom a few moments later, grabbing some clothes from the dresser nearby. Moving quickly as he put on his pants, slipping on his white dress shirt, and nearly tripping over from getting his socks on. He walked over to the noisy alarm, shutting it off before taking one last glance at the time. "Ugh, I can't believe I slept in!" Tsukune yelled now annoyed at himself more. Tsukune moved to the door, slipping on his shoes and grabbing his bag, not bothering with his green jacket.

Slipping out of his room, Tsukune locked the door before he rushed through the hallway. Several people stood in the hall, talking to one another as Tsukune dodged in-between them. "Sorry!" or "Excuse me!" being said as he passed by, each person giving him odd looks as they watched him disappear down the stairs. Tsukune ran down the stairs two steps at a time and out into the moist warm morning air. The temperature had been rising lately in accordance with the days turning to summer. Even in this season-less dome that is tucked away from the human world, it still tries to mimic the outside temperature.

Tsukune continued his run alongside the stone wall that led towards the school, spotting the front gate ahead. Thankfully, or not, one of his objects of desires stands leaning against the side of a statue nearby. A pink-haired Vampire looking around nervously, the red gem of the rosary slightly glowing but not demanding any attention to itself.

"Moka-san!" Tsukune called out to her, causing her to slightly jump at her name being called. Tsukune stopped in front of her. "I'm sorry, I overslept, thank you for waiting for me." Tsukune said surprising himself with the amount of breath he still had from his run.

"Oh, um… I was worried that you weren't going to come today." Moka said, slightly turning away so Tsukune couldn't see her pink-tinted face.

"Moka-san?"

"You, um, might want to button up your shirt Tsukune." Moka said, turning slightly more and averting her eyes.

"Oh right, sorry." Tsukune said as he realized his white dress shirt was still un-buttoned. 'Had I not buttoned it at all?' Tsukune wondered as he quickly buttoned his shirt, straightening his collar. 'Wait, where's my tie!?' Tsukune thought before he frantically started to search himself for his missing tie.

Moka cast a look back to Tsukune, noticing him frantically searching for something. It only took a few seconds but she quickly realized what he was searching for. Stuffing a giggle as she watched him start to tear his bag apart searching for it, causing him to look up. "Forget something?"

"Well, glad someone finds it funny." Tsukune said sighing as he closed his bag again and slipped in over his shoulders, giving up on the search.

"I didn't mean it like that." Moka said quickly in response, realizing how it must have sounded.

"No, it's alright I get it. I just hope Nekonome-sensei doesn't notice." Tsukune said scratching the back of his neck. "Well anyways, we should head inside before the others start without us."

"To late for that." Someone approaching them said, catching their attention. The two turned towards the new speaker that could only be recognized as the school's pervert and their upperclassman. "Come on, help us set up already before the crowd gets here." Gin said as Tsukune and Moka take more notice of what he is carrying and who is behind him.

A folded table rests under one arm and a clip board is being pushed with the other. Kurumu and Yukari are behind him a few paces, lugging two large cardboard boxes. The two slightly wobbling from the weight of the boxes. "Kurumu-chan, Yukari-chan!" Tsukune called out before rushing over to them, quickly taking a box from Yukari before moving over to Kurumu to do the same. "Sorry, this is my fault."

"Huh? Tsukune-kun? Is that you?" Kurumu asked from behind the box limiting her vision, seeing Tsukune a moment later as he took the second box from her.

"Ya, it's me. Sorry, I overslept and I caused you two to have to carry both of these." Tsukune said turning back to Gin, shifting his weight to compensate for the two large boxes he now had. Moka came over to grab one from Tsukune, but he held the two firm. "I have these, go help Gin-senpai with set up."

Gin rolled the board into a spot before he set down the table in front of it and start to unfold with Moka's help. The two barely managed to unfold it before Kurumu slammed her box down on the table from exhaustion in her arms. Yukari, with Moka's help lifted the box up onto the table that stood as high as her. Tsukune moved around to behind the board, setting his two boxes in the space between the ground and the bottom of the board.

"Good morning Tsukune-san." Yukari said cheerfully after having the box sitting on the table.

"Morning Yukari-chan, again I'm sorry for making the two of you carry twice the amount than usual."

"Yes, yes, morning Tsukune-kun. Now we have to get busy before the crowd gets here." Gin said as Moka and he quickly pinned pages of the newspaper headlines to the board. As if on cue, the mass of students appeared on the horizon from the dormitories. The trampling of the student army quickly closing in on the group, and they have not completed their defenses yet. "Shit! They're already here! Quick, girls grab a newspaper and get their attention!"

"Right!" the three cheer as they moved in front of the table, grabbing a few newspapers from the large cardboard box that Gin ripped open.

"Tsukune, keep feeding us ammunition!" Gin said barking orders to each of the group. "They're coming! Don't give them an inch!"

And so, the day began. Each girl began using their secret weapon whether knowingly or not. "Would you care for a newspaper? It would make me feel so happy…" Kurumu said, putting a finger to her lip in innocence as she cast a look towards a group of boys.

"How can we not with that request!?" The crowd yelled as they fall to the floor, begging for newspapers at Kurumu's feet.

"Newspaper! It's the latest issue of Youaki's newspaper!" Moka called out to the mass, holding a newspaper high into the air for everyone to see.

"It's Moka-san! She's too bright!" The crowd yelled as they shield their eyes from the dazzling light that wasn't there. Yet they move towards Moka, unable to deny her.

"Please read it." Yukari said handing a newspaper to a random girl that walked up before a group of boys in their puberty years rushed up to her.

"She's just the right size! She's just too cute! We can't resist!" They yelled before reaching for Yukari.

Yukari released a yelp as they reached for her, holding up the newspapers as a barrier to block their assault. "AHH! Take the newspaper! Take them all!" Yukari cried, cowering behind many papers form the group as they stopped to look at it before taking the stack in her hands. "If that is what she wishes, it will be done." The group chanted before moving on.

Tsukune and Gin, mainly Tsukune, hauled out stack after stack onto the table for the girls. Tsukune focused on the fast decreasing papers as he struggled to keep up with the demand. Gin slowly putting down a stack or two on the table as he watched the short skirt of a girl catch a bit of wind. His eyes wide as it was about ready to lift just enough to see his passion. A golden tub slammed down from the heavens onto his head. "Ow! Alright, alright I'm working!" Gin called out picking up his pace but not before casting a glance back to the skirt that rested at the girl's thighs. Sighing depressingly, Gin moved back to his job of putting stacks of newspapers on the table.

The army withered away due to attrition from its siege. The army's manpower count at nearly zero. It was a tough battle, but the newspaper club stopped the student army in their tracks. Each person of the student army separating and moving to the front doors with newspapers in hand. "We did it! We really did it! We got rid of all of them!" Yukari cried out as she jumped for joy onto Tsukune.

"Wah! Hey!" Tsukune called out as he nearly tumbled to the ground after Kurmu doing the same.

"Looks like the issue of the newspaper was another big hit for us! Yahoo!" Kurumu said happily as she attempted to smother Tsukune in her mountains.

"Hey, how about we hold a celebration?" Moka asked causing Kurumu and Yukari to stop clutching Tsukune so tightly and allowed him to escape with his life. "Like, bring some snacks and such for after school." Moka said causing Kurumu and Yukari to look at each other in wonder.

"That's a great idea Moka-san." Tsukune chipped form the background.

"Agreed!" Kurumu called out fist pumping into the air.

"Yeah! And I can drink sake too!" Yukari called out happily earning a round of laughter around her.

"What the heck are you talking about Yukari-chan?" Tsukune asked patting Yukari's head as he struggled for control over his laughter.

"I want to drink though…"

"Hey, where's Gin-senpai?" Moka asked, looking around and noticing it was only the four of them now.

"Ah, that thing… he must be off trying to flirt with another woman. We don't need him."

"He's the enemy of all women!"

"Hmm… you guys are weird." A girl's voice sounded behind the group from the front gate. Turning around to see the girl who spoke to them. "The newspaper club gets along together so well, I don't understand that kind of stuff." The girl said. The girl had long wild purple hair reaching down past her shoulders. Her eyes a pure blue with only a few shades separating the pupils from the iris. She wasn't wearing the typical school uniform but instead, a light brown pleated skirt, white sweatshirt with long dark blue sleeves, and a black singlet underneath. She had long dark and light purple striped stockings with a belt tied to her left leg. A yellow pendant hanging from her neck and the end of a sucker sticking out of her mouth.

"Hey! What's that supposed to mean!?" Kurumu demanded, moving onto the stranger.

"Newspaper…" The girl said holding out her hand. The group looked at her in wonder, not understanding the meaning of such strange words. "Can I have one?"

"Oh, sure as long as you don't mind if it's all folded up." Tsukune said as he stepped past the group and handed her a crumpled paper that had been under his arm. The girl took the paper, but leaned in closer. "Um, ah…. What are you doing?" Tsukune asked, growing slightly nervous from the random girl stepping so close to him.

"So you're Tsukune-kun…" She said before she popped the sucker out of her mouth. "You're cuter than I expected." She said, popping in the sucker again before she turned on heel. "I'll see you later, thanks for the newspaper." She said looking slightly back, walking off towards the school.

"Who was that?" Moka asked narrowing her eyes at Tsukune slightly, a tick mark growing on the back of her head.

"Uh, I don't know her." Tsukune said waving his hands around, feeling an annoyed Moka's attention focused on him.

"Well, I don't like her." Kurumu said crossing her arms and huffing in disapproval.

"Hey, hey it's okay. It's not like we'll ever see her again." Tsukune said hoping to calm down the growing irritation among the group.

"Well anyways, let's have an awesome party today after school!" Moka said causing the group to jump into action. The four cleaned up the stand and grabbed the board, the party after school on everyone's minds. The thoughts of the strange girl they probably would never meet again, leaving them.

The group split as they walked into the school building after a trip to the club room to return the table and board. Kurumu and Yukari headed off to their own respective homerooms. Moka and Tsukune continued onto theirs. The two entered homeroom a few moments before the bell. Nekonome wasn't in the classroom yet and only a handful of students remain out of their seats. Moka moved along the back wall, taking her seat in the back left of the room. Realizing a moment later that Tsukune wasn't sitting down in front of her. Casting a look back to see Tsukune standing behind a desk, the owner of the desk and Tsukune watching each other.

"What runt?" Saizou asked causing the room to suddenly look back at Tsukune standing behind Saizou and starring down at him, an annoyed expression coming over Saizou's face. "What!? You asking to get your ass kicked runt?" Saizou asked as the class remained silent. Tsukune continued to stare down Saizou for a few seconds, minutes, hours, no one is sure how long.

"Sorry." Tsukune said before he started moving towards his seat. But Saizou was up a moment later, grabbing Tsukune's shoulder to stop him from sitting down.

"What the hell was that runt!? You just…" Saizou started to say, his grip increasing before Tsukune interrupted him.

"Sorry, I thought I was looking at someone important." Tsukune said before the bell rang signaling homeroom as Nekonome entered the room, looking over to the back wall.

"Why are you two out of your seats? Class is beginning." Nekonome asked. Saizou huffed in annoyance before letting Tsukune's shoulder go. Moving back to his seat, and sitting down while Tsukune sat in his own. "Now, as we were discussing yesterday…" Nekonome said moving into her lesson from yesterday.

A tap on Tsukune's back causing him to look back. "What was that about?" Moka asked worriedly.

"I…" Tsukune started to answer before the door opening caught their attention.

Looking over to the door the girl from that morning walked into the classroom. "Hm?" Nekonome hummed, looking to the back of the room as the girl walked along the back wall and sat down in front of Tsukune.

"No way… that girl…" Moka said, quickly forgetting about Tsukune's words with Saizou and become replaced with a stranger event.

"You're late Shirayuki-san…" Nekonome said disapprovingly earning a simple nod from her. 'She finally came to class though…' Nekonome thought before addressing the class. "Well then, let me introduce you to the class again. This is Shirayuki Mizore-san. Due to some reasons she hasn't been coming to school, so everyone please make friends with her." Nekonome said before moving back to her lesson.

Tsukune sat quietly in class, tuning out the lesson and drifting into his own thoughts. The girl was hardly a surprise, it would never have been that easy to not see her again. His pencil moved on its own through the notebook, taking all the notes he would need. 'What came over me? Why did I say such a thing like that? I shouldn't be drawing attention to myself like that but…' Tsukune thought as he cast a glance over to Saizou who had not averted his gaze towards Tsukune. '…I don't know…'

The class ended about as usual as it could end with its beginning. A few degrees drop in temperature, but no real cause. The two exited class. Moka and Tsukune met up with Kurumu in the halls shortly after, discussing the party. "Then, let's meet up in the clubroom after we finish buying everything." Moka said earning a nod from both Kurumu and Tsukune.

Except, Kurumu moved past Moka, placing her chest up against Tsukune. "You better be looking forward to my homemade sweets, Tsukune-kun." Kurumu said causing Tsukune to blush and squirm slightly from the action.

"Kurumu-chan, you're too close to Tsukune!" Moka called out annoyed as she reached out and grabbed Kurumu. Moka roughly hauled a fighting Kurumu away from Tsukune.

Tsukune sighed as he scratched the back of his neck per habit, but froze. Sensing someone watching him, Tsukune looked back behind him. Purple hair and blue eyes darted back behind a column upon his glance. "Who's there?" Tsukune asked, wondering who would hide form him.

Mizore peeked from around the column, giving Tsukune a soft smile. "Hi." Mizore said quietly, coming out from behind the column.

"You're… Shirayuki-san, anything I can do for you?" Tsukune asked as Mizore walked up to him, pulling out a newspaper.

"I read it, the news that you wrote is interesting as usual."

"As usual?"

Mizore put a hand into the front pocket of her sweat shirt, pulling out a small blue leather book with a bunny playing a trumpet on the cover. The name 'Mizore' written in fancy bold letters on the bottom. "Look." Mizore said handing the book to Tsukune. "When I was away from school. I always requested Nekonome-sensei to send me copies of Youkai's newspaper. I've been gathering your articles into this scrapbook."

"Oh wow, I'm flattered." Tsukune said giving a nervous laugh before he opened the book. His eyes nearly popping out from their sockets.

"How is it? I even wrote some comments about them."

'What the hell!? There's some strange and small words written in here! The ink even sank into the paper!' Tsukune thought as he lightly pushed it back as a small fear of demons leaking from it grew.

"I love the news reports that you write. You always write from a weak person's view, which I can relate to. Your personality and way of thinking is just like mine." Mizore said before stepping closer to Tsukune, grabbing his arm and pushing it into her chest.

"W…wait a…" Tsukune started to say before Mizore cut him off.

"You must be lonely, right? I also know how it feels." Mizore said causing Tsukune to lose his stutter and blush.

"Lonely?"

"Yeah, we're the same… come on!" Mizore said tugging on Tsukune's arm causing him to walk with her.

The two walked down the halls, well as much as one can walk when you have a girl clutching and hanging on your arm in her chest. The whispers and stares of people while they pass causing Tsukune to wish he could just disappear. 'Geez everyone's starring at us… Where are we even going?' Tsukune wondered before turning to Mizore. "Shirayuki-san, where…"

"Mizore, please."

"Huh?"

"Please, call me by Mizore instead of my last name." Mizore said, a small smile taking place on her lips.

"Oh… okay, Mizore-san…" Tsukune said noticing the slightly smile grow that she held before continuing. "Where are we going exactly?" Tsukune asked, hoping not to be under all the stares of the hallway dwellers much longer.

Mizore stopped suddenly causing Tsukune to nearly trip from the sudden change in movement. "Hmm…" Mizore hummed, putting a finger to her lip in question. "There's a small lake off in the forest, we can go there and do something." Mizore said, her smile returning to her face after deciding on a favorable destination.

'Wait, so she didn't know where she was going before? Were we going to walk around aimlessly till she thought of something?' Tsukune wondered but sighed as Mizore began her pace again, pulling on Tsukune's arm. 'Huh… all well, the party doesn't start for a while anyways. I can spend some time with Mizore-san.' Tsukune thought

Times slows down, the students continue starring, Mizore walks with a slight skip in her step. A smile on her face as she clutches Tsukune's arm tightly, not fearing who sees her in this current moment. Except, an alien object is in Tsukune's awareness causes him to become aware of it finally. A fist is traveling for his face, it's only a few inches away, ready to smash his head against the hard wall beside him. 'What the…' Tsukune thinks, he can see the fist slowly coming for him. He can freely move anywhere to avoid it, no that's wrong. He already has moved.

Time returns to normal, Tsukune tugs Mizore forward, but he himself remains. The fist connects with the side of his head, and puts him in the wall. His vision blurs, his senses dull from the impact. Except, who needs senses when your target is so close? Tsukune whips his own arm back and backhands the attacker.

He comes back from the wall immediately. The attacker must be stunned from the counter attack as they don't engage back. Tsukune has his arm free from Mizore, how, he does not know, nor does he care, but he has it. He grabs the thick throat of the attacker and slams the attacker's head into the wall.

Tsukune's other fist connects with the attacker in the face again. The attacker's throat is released as they start to slide sideways. Tsukune's fist digs into their rib cage. The attacker doubles over. Tsukune steps back, allowing them to fall forward.

The attacker meets Tsukune's rising foot. Tsukune kicks the attacker in the face as they fall to the floor. The attacker hits the floor a moment later on their back.

The fight is over, Tsukune's senses don't return, but he knows the attacker lays on the floor in pain and probably won't get up. A person is tugging on Tsukune's arm, dragging him away from the scene.

Okay, now for the real updates for those of you who are interested.

This fanfic will be my main focus still but...

I will be rewriting my original 'Another Try' chapters for that direct story in the style that I have developed over the year. A few minor changes in plot, somewhat minor ;)

During the two months or so that I was away, I've had plenty of time to think.

I no longer consider this fanfic a rewrite of 'Another Try'

But simply the next act or book of the series. (whatever you prefer... flavor text for the win XD)

In terms of where this fanfic sits in the 'Another Try' timeline, this would be the last act.

AKA it would be the 3rd or 4th act, I haven't decided yet.

So that means... Yep! A lot more writing for me lol

Now, I will either be uploading the next chapter soon.

Or, I will be rewriting the chapters of 'Another Try' then come back to this.

So... let's see, I don't think I missed anything.

If I think of something, it will be in the next chapter flavor text. Have fun all and rawr!