About one month had passed since Tsukune had changed. Life had fallen into a rather predictable pattern.

During the first few days everyone and his best friend had seemed to want to challenge him to a fight. He had at first wanted to run away and avoid all the pointless violence. But Moka and the other girls had convinced him not to.

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Flashback

A mummy was groaning lying in the middle of some wrecked tombstones. The students on the way to class were looking on and whispering to themselves. By the end of the school day he was everyone would know that he had gotten in and won yet another fight.

"That's it!" Tsukune said. "I am not fighting anymore! This is pointless anyway, who cares who's the strongest? From now on I'm running away whenever I get challenged."

"You can't do that Tsukune," Moka said. "It'll be much worse if you don't fight when you're challenged."

"Worse? How can this get worse?"

"If they think you won't fight when they challenge you they'll try and find a way to make you fight." Moka said.

"Like say kidnapping the girl you secretly love," Kurumu said and batted her eyelashes at him.

"Right!" Yukari agreed. "In which case Moka will be kidnapped!"

Bonk!

"Owie!" Yukari went down with a lump on her forehead.

"Besides that," Moka said. "Once you've firmly established your reputation this will stop. My own father had to fight a few idiots who wanted to challenge him." Ah unhappy look crossed her face. "Of course he wound up killing all of them because they challenged him."

Tsukune grimaced. From the way Moka described him he wasn't so sure he wanted to meet her father even if it did mean possibly getting a rosario. Moka had informed him the earliest they could go see him would be during the break after the semester. For now at least, he was still planning to go with her when the time came.

"I don't want to kill anyone Moka!" He hoped with all his heart that he would never have to do that again. "All I want is to be left alone."

"Then I really think you need to keep fighting Tsukune," she told him. "I know it bothers you, but eventually they will leave you alone once they accept you are the strongest. Besides none of them are any real danger to you."

"Not only that Tsukune but you're becoming a much stronger fighter!" Kurumu said happily. "Try to think of it as training!"

Mizore nodded. "It's good to be as strong as you can in case you ever run into a really dangerous enemy."

"Like my sisters!" Moka agreed.

"Your sisters?" Tsukune asked warily.

Moka nodded. "I have one younger sister and two older ones. The younger one is no match for my unsealed self, but both my older ones are stronger and more dangerous."

Tsukune paled. "They're stronger and more dangerous? Uhm, how do you think they would react to me? I mean as your friend and as a former human who is now a vampire."

"Hmm," she tapped her lips with a finger. "You know I've never really thought about that. Karua and Ria can both be a bit scary at times. But I'm sure if I tell them how much you mean to me they'll accept you."

"Well that's a relief."

"Probably."

"Probably?"

Moka shrugged helplessly. "My sisters can be a little hard to predict sometimes."

Tsukune shut his eyes and suppressed a groan. "Moka you're really not making me look forward to the break."

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In the end he had decided to keep fighting as it was the lesser evil. Now after a month things had finally started to quiet down; he only had one or two challenges per week.

He was still planning to go with Moka to visit her family and try to convince her father. Though he was less than eager. According to Moka her father was what was referred to as an 'Elder Vampire' and over a thousand years old. He was very powerful and strict and rigid in his way of thinking.

He also seemed to have a habit of destroying people who upset him.

But that was for the future. Right now he was busy not just with the occasional challenge but with his studies, the newspaper, and with his duties as class representative. He's been working with the student council on getting the Cultural Festival ready. He had actually been put in charge of the Festival Committee by the Student President Hokuto. Strangely the two of them had rarely spoken, he suspected the man a little intimidated by his being a vampire. Yet despite not knowing one another Hokuto had still appointed him to the very important position. Dealing with the festival was consuming almost all his free time. It was almost as though the President wanted to keep him busy.

On the plus side Anti-thesis had left him and his friends alone ever since he killed Midou. He assumed that was because his reputation scared them off. If so then all the fights had served at least one good purpose.

Beside all of that there was one other important constant in his life.

His dreams.

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He dreamed of her every night.

The dreams were always incredibly vivid and he always remembered them. Very often they were about sex. In them he seemed to experience every sort of erotic pleasure. She was always the dominant one, and sometimes she was a little bit rough. But the pleasure they shared was amazing.

But not all their dreams involved sex.

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She was in a red dress. It ran all the way down to her ankles but was slit down the side to reveal the occasional flash of leg. It was backless and revealed her shoulders and neck and a good bit of cleavage. Her silver hair was done up and she had just the right amount of make up to accentuate her lips and eyes.

"You are so beautiful," he told her. Sometimes he wondered how such a girl could ever possibly want someone like him. Even as a vampire he felt completely unworthy of her.

"Thank you Tsukune," she answered demurely. "You are very handsome."

He was dressed in a formal black suit and together they were dancing across a ballroom floor. The walls of the room were all hidden in shadow. An elegant music played out from the darkness and they danced slowly to it. He had never been any good at dancing, and had never been taught such classical steps, but in his dream he moved with a practiced ease as he guided his beauty across the empty floor.

"You dance wonderfully," she said.

He smiled at her. "Only in my dreams." He had come to realize these vivid dreams were only that, but eh knowledge didn't make them any less real to him. He treasured these moments when he really did feel like he was with her. "If this were the real world I would be stumbling around."

She shook her head slightly. "I do not believe that. Your movements come with a simple ease that are best shown when you have to fight. You have the ability to be a fine dancer; all you are lacking is the proper instruction."

He grinned at her. "You really believe that?"

"Of course," she told him. She looked at him with a tender affection. "I believe in you Tsukune, I have always believed in you."

He stopped and she stopped as well. He did something he knew he would never have the courage to do in the real world. He pulled her close and he kissed her. She was caught off guard, even in the dreams he rarely took the initiative. But as he began to kiss her she eagerly kissed him back. As they kissed the music continued to play.

His heart was racing as he broke the kiss. Even after all their little adventures just kissing her was enough to make him shake.

"What would you do if I did that in the real world?" He asked.

"I would do the same thing I did just now," she told him. He looked at her with such longing it made her ache.

"I wish all of this were real instead of a dream."

Moka hesitated as though she wanted to tell him something. Then she seemed to reconsider. "If this is what you really want Tsukune then you must be the one to make it really happen. You must show me how you truly feel. You must show me I am the one you choose."

"You always tell me that, but the real you, the one who isn't a dream, would probably kill me if I tried."

"Do you expect it to be easy?" She asked him and pulled away. "Do you think my heart such a cheap prize I should simply give it away to you?"

"No! What I meant was…"

"That you want me but only if you can have me without taking any sort of risk," she said. A cold look he had not seen in awhile entered her face, ruining the soft beauty that had been there just a moment before. "I have my pride Aono Tsukune. If you truly want my heart it is yours. But you must earn it. I will not simply offer it to you. If you do not consider me a prize worthy of a risk then you obviously do not deserve me."

She turned around and began walking away from him.

"Moka-san where are you going?"

"All dreams end Tsukune," she called back. "Sooner or later we must deal with the world we call real." She walked into the shadows and was gone.

Leaving him all alone.

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He woke up in his bed. "Moka-san."