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Life for the small group settled into some semblance of normalcy. Tsukune decided to ultimately drink the red vial. There was however, one slight problem in it's formulation. Naruto was unaware that the recipe that he had followed was strengthened and concentrated for Yoko. This is because Youkai overpowers normal Chakra, as such, a Yoko would need a rather concentrated dose. Extremely concentrated, as it turns out. While this did not kill Tsukune, it did make for a rather interesting few days. It got to the point where Naruto sealed Tsukune in his room. The human had tapped into his Chakra quickly, in fact, unknowingly standing on the ceiling as he fought off the technicolored weasel horde that only he saw. While this lasted until his hallucination changed, the resulting drop from the ceiling convinced Tsukune that he needed a jet pack. He constructed this out of his backpack, aluminum foil, three old ramen cups, and oddly enough, silverware that he "liberated from the despotic control of the cafeteria" just for this purpose. Naruto arrived just in time to stop Tsukune from jumping from the roof of the dormitories to test it out.

When classes started again on Monday, Naruto managed to convince Miss Nekonome that Tsukune was merely undergoing one of his species' puberty periods. Many types Youkai were known for having them. Most of the students gave him a rather wide berth once he ran through the courtyard wearing a neon green, pink, and purple full body unitard and a Bride of Frankenstein wig screaming about how he would turn them all into food for his ravaging mutant aphid horde. Most Youkai present knew that the stronger the Youkai, oftentimes the greater insanity period during a puberty phase, that and their powers were stronger during this time due to no psychological limiters and a boost from the puberty period itself.

Naruto didn't question where Tsukune had gotten the clothes. Quite frankly he didn't want to know. He also wondered how Tsukune had escaped his room. The seals were enough to keep a Chunin level threat contained. When voicing this complaint to Mizore, Moka was suspiciously quiet. When Mizore privately asked Naruto if yoko underwent an insanity period during their puberty, because Yuki Onna never did, Naruto said that he doesn't remember anything about such a time period. He then continued, "But if it had happened, I am sure that my parents would have said something, but other than that, I just don't know."

Kushina sneezed while talking with Tsurara about using baby pictures to embarrass their children with if any of Naruto's and Mizore's friends from school came over. That is to say, if the young couple was ever foolish enough to bring them over for a visit. They had just turned on footage from Naruto's training a few weeks before he went with Jiraiya. He had a few days where he had been locked in the Namikaze training room going through the beginnings of yoko puberty. He was ranting about how the evil chipmunks had formed a military and needed to be destroyed. Kushina thought, 'Thanks heavens he wasn't able to build the bomb he wanted to.'

Eventually Naruto and the girls were able to lure Tsukune back to his room knock him out and re-seal the room. After an entire week of such events, when Naruto had checked up on Tsukune before he left in the morning to train, he noticed that the elixir had run its course.

"Morning Tsukune. Feeling better?"

"Naruto, what crawled in my mouth and died then came back to life simply to decide to die again in the most foul tasting way possible?"

"Just the aftertaste of that elixir, nothing too major."

"So is it Sunday?"

"Yep, and by the way, you are excused from all homework from the past week. Apparently if you hang the headmaster's undergarments from the trees around the teacher's offices in a fit of insanity they will be lenient about homework. Who knew? Of course the trick is getting into his personal quarters without being detected and dying a horrible death. He was rather impressed once he calmed down."

Naruto's comment was simply met with a stare that screamed that whatever joke he was playing wasn't funny.

Tsukune, after brushing his mouth for the third time, replied, "Ha ha Naruto. You said it would only last one day, I haven't been that out of it."

Naruto rubbed the back of his head sheepishly, "Um, yeah, about that."

Tsukune merely said, "What have you done to me?"

Naruto looked mildly ashamed, "The dose that I gave you is apparently strengthened and concentrated for my race to allow us to sense our Chakra underneath our Youkai energies. When it didn't wear off after the first day, I sent a rather urgent letter to my parents. Both my parents said that I am in quite a bit of trouble for this." Naruto replied then winced, "Mom said I had to dodge fireballs for at least five hours wearing suppression, resistance, and gravity multiplication seals to even begin to pay for my stupidity."

Tsukune dropped his head into his hands. "What happened?"

"Well, like I said, all coursework is considered excused. Miss Nekonome decided to give you full credit for all of the assignments after you jumped through the window and tackled someone who muttered something about her tail. You know, publicly threatening in a rather creative fashion to horrifically scar someone mentally and physically probably wasn't the wisest move. But on the bright side, most of our class, and a good chunk of the school now believes you to be either a really strong Youkai or a one not to cross just because of everything that you did. But these things happen with different types of Youkai, so it wasn't seen as too bizarre." Naruto chuckled nervously. He then continued, "The Nurse tried to tie you down until it passed, but apparently you unconsciously molded your chakra to pull a substitution jutsu with her. I heard rumor that there is a betting pool among the teachers on who you would humiliate next."

Tsukune merely sat, stunned at what was revealed. After a while, he was able to sputter out, "You mean I didn't get into trouble?"

"Nah, and if you behave normal again, most if not all of the students and staff will overlook it. A temporary bout of insanity and being greatly irrational is normal for many types of Youkai, but they usually happen at a younger age. All you did was show that your 'species' has a late puberty. Not necessarily uncommon, but most are understanding of it. Just act normal and a lot of those here will forget it ever happened."

"Now that the elixir has run its course, are there any side effects?"

"None really, but my dad said that given the concentration of the elixir and the fact you are human, it's hard to tell. But he thinks that after while it won't be an issue. He also said with seventy five percent certainty that there won't be any relapses."

The look on Tsukune's face could have served as a rather contorted model of abject horror, disbelief, anger, fear, and shock. The art teacher on campus suddenly felt like she missed a chance to petrify, um, immortalize something that would likely never be seen again.

Naruto continued heedless, "If you'd like, you can join me training and we can get you started on a few basic exercises and jutsu that should be fine for you."

Tsukune just sat rather hard on the floor. His brain seemed to have stopped processing any information.

Mizore was taking a rather odd delight in making her mobile targe… student jump around as she threw ice kunai at him. She had been informed by Naruto about the plan for Tsukune to act like a shinobi. She didn't like the idea of breaking the rules, but, like Naruto, she didn't have anything against humans in general. Regardless of her current activities, she didn't think that they should be hurt or killed mostly because they stumbled across a secret Youkai location. Any men who came into Yuki Onna territory were often kept in the village anyway. After this had continued for some time, Naruto said, "Tsukune, this is for your survival. You have to get better."

"I am trying Naruto."

"Tsukune, because you were able to do it without being trained, I know that you can do it. You seem to lack the necessary motivation."

"Naruto! How do you expect me to be able to do this?" Tsukune yelled at the blonde.

"Memorization mostly. The rest would be determination. That is how everyone does anything. You can't quit. Even if you master just one or two of the jutsu that I am trying to teach you, it can be used to help you and save your life."

Mizore piped up, "In the meantime, I get to practice my abilities and throw pointy things. It is a win-win situation."

Tsukune sobbed, "You scare me when you are like this."

Mizore simply replied, "I'm not that big of a psycho. I do have limits you know."

"You just want to hurt me you psycho purple-haired demoness."

Far away, another purple haired woman let out a rather violent sneeze. This caused her to drop a skewer of dango. "Why do I feel like there is a student out there just waiting to be taught what I know?" After some consideration, she shook her head then decided to order more dango.

Naruto just shook his head as one of his clones beheaded another with a well executed linked sword attack. "Look, time is up for today. At best, we might get you done with the basic three in the next few weeks. But you have to really apply yourself Tsukune."

"I'm not all that good at applying myself here. This is different from anything I have ever done."

Naruto's tone was rather dry with his response. "Tsukune. That would be extremely obvious. You probably thought that ninja were people going around in black pajamas. Well, high school is about taking steps towards becoming who you will be. At least that is what my parents said about it. Thus far, I haven't really been impressed," Naruto replied.

"I was hoping to disappear into the crowd and just be another student. I didn't want this." Tsukune replied.

"Tsukune, this isn't a normal school. Ever heard that plans never survive the first encounter with reality?" When Tsukune didn't respond, Naruto continued, "You made the decision to stay."

"I didn't know it would be this hard."

Mizore just shook her head in tandem with Naruto at this remark. She spoke before Naruto could, "Tsukune. Very little that is worth doing is going to be easy, but it is the most rewarding. Naruto has trained for years to get to where he is and so have I. Did you expect to be able to do what he can in just a short while? Naruto is cutting out quite a bit and focusing on making sure you can at least seem to be one. This is not easy. If you want to transfer, then you need to focus on this training in case there is a confrontation, and also you need to get good enough grades so that you can transfer out to a fully human school."

Tsukune didn't reply to this and once the timer had gone off, he headed back to the dorms to get cleaned up. After taking down the barrier seals, Naruto and Mizore did the same.

Another weekend

A small explosion ripped through a dormitory bedroom, knocking a few things off the shelves, and causing a wooden spoon to bury itself over half-way the handle in the far wall of the room, a small flame burning merrily from the tip of the wooden handle.

As the smoke cleared two figures could be seen from taking cover behind an overturned table.

"You weren't lying. I didn't even know that could be explosive." Kurumu stated, slightly awed at the sheer amount of destruction a simple cookie baking lesson could make.

Mizore threw her arms up in disgust. "I give up! My abilities cause all these problems. I don't see why you even need an oven!"

"Now Mizore, I know you don't like the heat of the kitchen, but things need to be heated up to cook properly." Kurumu chided Mizore trying to lure her back into the kitchen that was attached to Mizore's bedroom.

Mizore at this point was rather irritated. "Prove it."

Kurumu sighed, and then continued, "Cookies, muffins, cupcakes, bread, sauces, glazes, meats, french-fries, cheesecake, doughnuts, pasta… Do I really need to continue?"

"But it gets so hot. It hurts to cook like that! When I hurt, that is when things go wrong."

Kurumu stopped, this little fact hadn't occurred to her. "Then why do you want to learn to cook?"

Mizore mumbled.

Kurumu replied, "What was that? I didn't hear you."

Mizore looked away from the succubus who was rapidly becoming a friend outside of the torture sess… cooking lessons. "Because Naruto deserves it." Tears started to leak from her eyes, "He has done so much for me. I want to do this for him."

Kurumu was taken aback by this admission. "You let the heat possibly hurt you for him?"

Mizore nodded. "He means that much to me."

Although Kurumu was a succubus, a Youkai that until they bonded with their Destined One focused mainly on manipulating a target's lusts, her inner romantic couldn't help but be awed and squee loudly by this level of devotion. "Did he ask you to do this?"

"No. But what kind of wife would I be if I let him cook all the time just because the kitchen was too hot for me?"

Kurumu was again astounded by this admission. Without thinking she gave hit upon an idea. "What about wearing a sleeved cooking smock? Does that help?"

"Not really. If I have to do anything, they get hot fast."

Kurumu mused for another moment. "Use your ice to make it easier then. A layer of ice on the inside of the smock would keep it from getting in the food, and help keep you cool."

Mizore looked stunned. She had never thought of that. In fact she had never even heard of another Yuki Onna doing so.

After a moment she managed to force out, "That…might actually work."

"You could even put it inside of a hot pad to keep your hand cooler." Kurumu added.

Realizing the implications of her cooking tutor's idea, Mizore gave Kurumu a quick hug. "Thank you, thank you, thank you. It will take me a bit while I see if I can get it to work. Mizore then started digging through a few boxes in her room, after several minutes, she surfaced with a knee length smock with sleeves. "This will take a few minutes to see how to manipulate the ice to make it work." With this she shut herself in the bathroom.

Kurumu took a minute to look around the room. Seeing the mess that the other girl's accident had left, she started to clean it up. After a few moments she found a small stack of photos. She decided to look through them. She found several pictures of Naruto and Mizore together, some of the photos were obviously older, and the adults in the pictures Kurumu decided were their parents. She stopped at a picture that was taken at night, yet seemed to be very recent. Naruto was in his dorm room, obviously just returning from a shower, he was slightly turned to the side, with an orange towel wrapped around his waist, that it looked like he was about to drop in the photo. Beads of water were on his chest and his hair was spiky from toweling. Kurumu's eyes were glued to the picture seeming to memorize every detail. Seeing that the following picture was identical, she quickly stuffed it into her pocket and put the rest of the photos away. She might have to re-evaluate her promise to not try to seduce Naruto. He was just too good looking to leave alone. They were friends after all… maybe she needed to research this a little more.

At this moment two things happened at the same time, but quite a distance apart.

In the bathroom, Mizore felt an inexplicable wave of rage, and some ice spikes erupted through the door, narrowly missing Kurumu as she had bent over to pick something else up, and embedded themselves in her wall.

As he sat outside of a hot springs bath of the town he was in, Jiraiya sneezed loudly. "Hmm, someone might want to take up the mantle of a super pervert. I must find them. But first…" he turned back to the fence but noticed that the public bath was now empty.

Behind him a throat cleared.

Turning, he saw all of the women who had been in the water now out of it, brandishing various weapons. "Ladies! Now, I know this looks like…" His prepared speech was cut off as the first of many clubs and other blunt objects connected.

Mizore left the bathroom, seeing Kurumu staring at the ice shards that had perforated the door to the bathroom and were now protruding from the wall, spoke up. "I'm so glad you didn't get hurt. Sometimes, the strangest things happen. I just get really angry for no reason, then it's like I can't stop myself I have to attack something."

Kurumu was sweating bullets. She had to get out of here. Her voice unnaturally calm, she replied, "Don't work about it. You practice on getting the ice layer to work, and I'll go get something to patch the wall." Beating a hasty retreat, Kurumu left for her room. She would have to hide the photo. Since some of the photos of Naruto were obviously taken in what looked like a tree of some sort since there were leaves obscuring parts of some of the shots, Kurumu realized that Mizore likely had access to some rather good spying equipment. She then proceeded to hide the photo in the one place Mizore probably wouldn't look. She hoped anyway. Going to the dorm supervisor for drywall patches and spackle, items that were used frequently in a Youkai dorm, she then made her way back to Mizore's room.

Moka looked hesitant. "What do you mean that you want to spar against my inner self?"

Naruto looked at the pink haired vampire. "I thought that would be self-explanatory. Since coming here, she is the only one who has been able to push me. I'm guessing that she is a mid to high S class?"

The pinkette nodded. "Of course. But what do we get out of it?"

Naruto shrugged, "I thought that would be obvious. If you, or your counterpart, are able to beat me, Mizore won't stop you from sucking my blood after the spar. You can fill up the tank so to speak."

At this the Rosario rattled, and Moka's eyes flashed red before returning to green. "But how will you get the Rosario off Naruto?"

"Simple. I don't have to. It is a type of seal and I have learned from some of the best in that regards." Holding up a piece of paper with a seal array inscribed on it, Naruto continued. "This will sidestep the seal without weakening it. If that Rosario works like I think it does, every time it is removed, it weakens slightly."

Moka's reply was an eloquent "Huh?"

Naruto restated, "Every time that Tsukune pulls that off, The Outer you becomes less dominant, and the Inner you won't be repressed as much. Eventually, Pink Moka will cease to exist, and Scary Moka will be all that will remain. I don't think that either of you want that. I figured your Inner nature is one that is repressed for a reason, and from what I know about Vampires, that reason is likely to be rather important."

"But won't that affect the seal?"

"Not really. Think of it like instead of forcing a rusty door open, it temporarily creates a window on the other side of the room."

Moka merely looked confused.

"Both of you will be aware while this is on the Rosario. Both of you will have some impact on what your body does. You may want to take a backseat while fighting, but not only that, if you win, both of you win. Do you want to at least try?"

Moka nodded. If anything it was a chance to enjoy the taste of the blonde enigma's blood again.

She shuddered at the sensation of this particular transformation, while her body shifted, her hair partially changed. The top two thirds of her hair was silver, the bottom third was still the bubblegum pink that it was normally. Her eyes were heterochromatic. One eye was mostly green with a hint of red in the iris, the opposite a slit-pupiled mostly red iris with a hint of bright green. Her voice was halfway between the bright cheery of outer and the lower tones of her inner side. "What have you done?"

"I already told you. Speak with your other side for a moment for all of the details, I think you only heard that you would get to suck my blood if you beat me."

After a moment, the vampire's face took on a rather pronounced smirk. "I am going to enjoy this." She said as she lunged at the blonde.

The fight pushed Naruto to his limits. He favored heavily the air style, diverting the powerful strikes of the vampire. Naruto held it to a point of pride to only go into his kitsune form while fighting the vampire. However, he had worked extensively to keep to only one tail. Moka wasn't exactly the best at keeping secrets. Most had already deduced that she was a vampire. He did NOT need any other yoko in the school to come looking for him. That and it made the sparring interesting. He flipped back and slid on gravel, before he could regain his balance, a powerful kick stuck him in the side, switching tails, he brought out his water affinity to help him respond and evade better, since he was starting to get worn down. He countered a kick with a punch that pushed the vampire back. Then, pulling water from the air, his created a plate-like armor to protect his more vital areas.

At this, Moka backed off. "I am finished."

Naruto panted. "Yeah right."

Moka tilted her head to one side, "You really don't know do you?"

Naruto thought for a moment, "It's just regular water, it is just to soften the blow, you are really putting me through my paces. But then again, I don't want to risk breaking my swords. One hit from one of your kicks and those would be broken fast." Naruto left off the large attacks that he could use as well. The collateral damage was just too noticeable. They were also meant to be used between high level yoko; not in spars.

Moka leaned against a tree. "It's not just holy water. Regular water drains me of my powers too."

Naruto mused at that for a moment then let the water fall to the ground then jumped away from it. "When I fight in a spar, I leave dirty tricks elsewhere. If you were fighting against me to hurt someone I care about I would cover you head to toe in it. If I win in a spar I want it to be honest. Besides, the point of training is to get better. The problem is that you can't do that if you rely on tricks all the time. Once someone has a way around them it is easy to beat you."

Moka straightened. "You would throw an advantage? Are you not taking this seriously? You mentioned swords of some kind. Why do you not fight me with them?" She sounded rather offended.

"Simple. Like I said, I like my swords in one piece. I can't do any of the flashier stuff since it would draw too much attention, besides you are rather amazing at hand to hand, if slightly predictable. The power behind your moves is something that is really difficult to face, but I have learned that you only get stronger by fighting people better than you anyway." Naruto had to duck a kick aimed at his head for the predictable comment. He continued, "Admit it, how long has it been since someone you faced off against has held out this long?"

Moka said nothing, but smiled, starting to get into the fight, using moves that were obviously practiced but hadn't been used in quite some time.

'If she makes some of those moves work as fast as some of her most common moves, I would be down and getting drained right now.' was the thought that ran through his mind as the tempo increased.

Eventually, even Naruto's stamina started to wane, but the same could be said of Moka. He missed a block then got his legs swept from underneath him. Moka landed heavily on his chest. "Now it's time for my reward." With this, she sunk her fangs into the prone boy's neck. As she drank, she clung to Naruto. The longer she drank, the more she started to rub her body against his.

Just before it would look like an extremely compromising position, she was kicked off of Naruto and pinned down with multiple ice staples on her arms and legs.

"I may have said you could drink as much as you like, but do NOT get that friendly with my boyfriend."

Naruto, stood up slowly, then leaned on Mizore. "Why does she look like that?" Mizore asked, having taken in the vampire's new appearance.

"The seal I came up with. It lets both Mokas out to play. I figured it would keep Inner Moka from being too angry at me. I haven't had that good of a fist fight in quite some time. But you are still better than me with blades Mizore."

"That is because I can make as many as I want. You are limited to those swords of yours. Besides, I can wear you down but you always pull something off."

Naruto hobbled over to Moka and pulled off the paper that he had adhered via chakra to the Rosario. Moka's hair returned to its pink shade. Unlike previous times, Moka only shook her head instead of passing out. "I'm sorry Mizore, I don't know what came over me. Can you let me up?"

Mizore waved a hand, causing the restraints to shatter.

Moka smiled at Naruto, "We should do that again, it was fun. Even though I don't really like fighting, it was fun to be able to feel what was going on instead of just seeing the memories. I know that my Inner self really enjoyed it too, but she would never say that." Moka walked away with a slight limp. "I hope it was good for you too." She said as she left the clearing.

Mizore helped pull down the seals that prevented others from seeing what was going on, "Naruto, I hope that I get a better reward than her if I beat you. After all, I need to mark my territory." Mizore said before she leapt away.

Naruto knew that she wasn't talking about the drinking blood part of Moka's victory. He groaned as he picked up his duffel then leapt away as well.