Disclaimer: I do not own any part of Rosario Vampire. I am merely twisting the creator's vision into my own dream. If the supernatural, sexuality, or violence is offensive to you, than you should not read this.

Chapter 104

Tsukune woke Wednesday morning to Silver Haired Moka cuddled up beside him, both of them still undressed, and Ruby calling his name softly from beside the bed. Tsukune opened his eyes to the sight of Ruby smiling at the sight of his naked body. It didn't take long for Tsukune's brain to processed the importance of the scene. It was time to get up and get ready for school. Tsukune dismissed Ruby and then turned his attention to Moka.

Moka was surprised to hear Tsukune calling her name. She had been floating in dreams she couldn't remember when Tsukune's voice reached her. When she opened her eyes to see Tsukune's face above hers, she felt a wave of excited, happy feelings wash over her. She reached up and embraced him, pulling him into a kiss.

"Moka," Tsukune said warmly after their kiss. "It's time to get ready for school."

"Hmmmm?" Moka blinked as Tsukune's words took on meaning. "Oh! Oh no..."

Moka scrambled from the bed. She found the seal by the expedient method of stepping hard upon it. She picked it up and turned back to Tsukune.

"You shouldn't have let me sleep," Moka insisted. "Now we have to get ready... Tsukune, thank you. I love you." Clenching her eyes tightly shut, she replaced the seal.

"What?" Moka stumbled, pink hair rippling from the motion as her green eyes focused.

Tsukune had embraced the awakened outer Moka, supporting her as she regained awareness. She looked up into his face for a moment as she regained her sense of self. The last thing she remembered the room had been dark and Tsukune had been asleep.

"Tsukune," Moka questioned. "What's going on?"

"Good morning," Tsukune said. "It's time to get ready for school."

Moka was on the edge of panic. She saw Tsukune's clock and realized that she had over slept by almost thirty minutes. She looked around the room for her things.

"Moka," Ruby said from the doorway. "The bathroom is prepared for you. I will have your uniform ready in a few minutes. Your lunches are packed and breakfast can be served at any time."

"Thank you," Moka said with visible relief. She let go of Tsukune and headed for the doorway.

By the time Moka had herself composed and was ready for school, Tsukune had managed to get ready also. Ruby had anticipated Moka's prolonged use of the bathroom to get ready, so she had filled a basin with warm water in the kitchen and carried to the bedroom for Tsukune to wash with. After a quick breakfast together, Moka and Tsukune went out to face the day ahead.

For Tsukune the day was long and exhausting. He had gotten very little rest the night before, and lost a noticeable amount of blood. Kurumu and Mizore were both quick to noticed that Tsukune and Moka had shared an eventful night together, causing both of them to be a bit more clingy than the day before, which bothered Yukari, inspiring her to try to cling closer to Tsukune as well. Once at school, the day's lectures seemed drag on endlessly, When not in classes, Tsukune's other responsibilities dogged his heels. The twins brought Tsukune his fan mail, along with a report on Student Police activities. One of the Student Police watch commanders had a family emergency, so the schedule needed to be revised. Yuu brought Tsukune a list of things he would need to address during the next Festival Committee meeting. On a day that Tsukune could have used a little extra rest, he was asked to give a little more of himself. After classes and meetings, Tsukune was even summoned to the town koban, to watch the desk for a few hours while the people normally there attended a meeting of their own.

Moka was not having a very good day ether. While she had gotten as little rest as Tsukune, she had the advantage of having drank his blood twice in one night, so her body was full of energy. Where Moka was suffering was within. Guilt over loosing control and hurting Tsukune kept emanating from her inner self. That loss of control had planted seeds of doubt in Moka's heart. Kurumu had been able to do something for Tsukune that Moka could not. By the end of the school day, Moka couldn't even look at Tsukune without remembering what had happened in vivid detail.

'Ura-chan,' Moka thought. 'What's wrong with us?'

'We were not strong enough,' Inner Moka answered. 'We could not resist our desires.'

'What do we do now?' Moka questioned.

'We accept Tsukune's forgiveness,' Inner Moka replied. 'And we work to become stronger.'

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Ogono Aiko sat in her dorm room, outwardly quiet, but with her mind working hard. Following the Summer Break, she had written a letter to Aono Tsukune. It had been a polite, informal letter that she had written and sent to be friendly. She also sent the letter just so she could claim to have written to a boy. To her surpise, Tsukune had written back. His penmanship was not elegant, but it was clear and legible. Aiko had been told that a person's true nature could be seen in their handwriting. Tsukune's penmanship and grammar were a reflection of what she knew of him from personal experience. His pen had kept firm contact with the paper, keeping his kanji clear and uniform. While her teachers would have marked down any papers written the same way, Aiko liked the basic, dependable style. It made reading it easy, while his grammar was polite and clear. Tsukune's letter hand been open and friendly. He had even included words of greetings from his female friends, letting Aiko know that he had shared her letter with them. Tsukune's openness had inspired Aiko to share his letter with her friends at school who also had good memories of him.

Tsukune and his friends had made an impression on Aiko's classmates. Aiko had never suspected that talking about Tsukune would cause any problems. She had been surprised when word started to spread around school that Tsukune might actually be a bad person to be associated with in any way. It seemed that someone had started asking a lot of questions about him, and they were the kind of questions, from the kind of source, that raised suspicion. The dean of her school had even gone so far as to pass word, through the counselors and homeroom teachers, that if any questionable contact with Aono Tsukune took place, it would be reported. Aiko was never clear on what was considered questionable, or who it would be reported to, but she did not intend to just cut off all contact with Tsukune. This left Aiko with the question of what she should write to him. She had decided to let Tsukune know what she could about what was going on, but she didn't know much, and didn't know the best way to share what she did know. With determination, Aiko set herself to the task of writing to Tsukune, not knowing what repercussions may come from it,

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Lieutenant Tanaka of the Imperial Guard had left the Aono house feeling frustrated enough to chew rocks. He could not believe how dense the Aono boy's parents were. They had held back nothing from Lieutenant Tanaka, not that he could tell anyway, but it seemed that they knew next to nothing about their son's life at school. Aono Kasumi had happily shared all the letters she had saved from her son, and his friends. He had read through the letters, and found them to be very much like the ones his own daughter sent to her mother, which made them almost useless to the captain's investigation. He had taken down the names of the friends from the letters, noticing that they were all girls, and added them to his list of leads to investigate.

As he settled into the driver's seat of his car, Tanaka Ito revised his assessment of the Aonos. They had sent their son away to high school, much as he had sent his own child, for the sake of a good education and the hope of a good future. If their son had experienced a change in personality after discovering a new lifestyle, the Aonos would only know about it if somebody told them. Perhaps he had found a spoiled rich girlfriend that was drawing him in, and had taught him how to play the system and his parents. Lieutenant Tanaka sat in his car for a few minutes and considered his next course of action.

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Tsukune sat at his desk with a frown on his face. He had just read Aiko's latest letter, and it had not been good news. Somebody was investigating him, but it was unclear why. Tsukune suspected it was something to do with Fairy Tail. They were a criminal organization, so the police at some level had to be aware of them. If that was the case, then they might have heard about Tsukune and were just investigating a lead. Tsukune let out a long sigh. This was going to be a problem. He reached up to play with the curved bead he wore around his neck. The Magatama he had been given during the trip was usually with him, even if he forgot about it much of the time. As he fingered the bead, Tsukune thought about what he should do next. Aiko's letter just added a new layer of stress to Tsukune's life.

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Mizore had been watching Tsukune and waiting for a chance to advance her relationship with him. The last time she had gotten him alone had been nice, but it had been as friends. Mizore wanted to be more than Tsukune's friend. She wanted to be his wife, his lover, the mother to his children. There was no denying that he and Moka were lovers. He had also grown closer to Kurumu during their dancing job. Mizore felt like she was getting left, if not behind then off to the side, and that was not what she wanted.

Mizore realized that her problem came from meeting Tsukune too late. By the time she had worked up the courage to talk to him he already had Moka and Kurumu in his life, so he had not been lonely enough to just run away with her. She wasn't lonely any more ether, but she would give up her other friends to have Tsukune all to herself. Tsukune had made a life for himself at school, Mizore realized. He didn't like it when she or Kurumu acted too forward, at least in public. He did respect honest feelings, even if they did not match his ideas of proper. During school hours, Tsukune was determined to act respectable and responsible, including his time spent with committee meetings, the student police, and any other training he was involved in. That right there limited Mizore's chances to improve her relationship with Tsukune.

When Tsukune was not involved with his many responsibilities, he already had companionship. Ruby was his slave, seeing to his needs and home, blocking the chance for Mizore to get close to him by playing cook or maid. Moka was his most visible girlfriend, and Inner Moka was his partner for fight training. Kurumu was his second companion when it came to quiet moments. Mizore could follow along with the group, but she wanted more than that. So she watched and waited, and looked for an opportunity to get closer to Tsukune. She also tried to think of ways to create an opportunity to get closer, but her plans all had the same key flaws. She would ether have to kidnap Tsukune, or get rid of the other women in his life. Tsukune would look down on ether action.

Mizore wondered if she could get the others to go off to some hot-springs woman's beauty resort if she made them think they won a contest and sent them tickets. A women only resort would mean leaving Tsukune behind. Hot-springs and Snow Maidens don't mix well, so Mizore would have a good reason to no go with the others. That would leave her behind with Tsukune, and give her the chance to get closer to him. The problem was that the others would not leave Tsukune behind, especially with someone who wanted to get closer to him. Mizore sat in the garden watching Tsukune's house while her mind wandered in circles.

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Yukari was feeling lost. She didn't want to give up on her dream of being together with Tsukune and Moka, but she had been told that it would never happen. The problem was that she was still allowed to be their friend, but that was as far as it went, for now at least. Moka had made it clear that she was not interested in girls. Tsukune might be interested in girls, but had not shown any interest in Yukari. As the little witch lay in her bed she wondered if she was doomed to end up alone.

When not studying, or hanging out with her friends, Yukari liked to sit and read mangas. They were comforting for her. In a manga, the relationships developed following predictable formulas. Yukari could put herself in the role of any of the characters she wanted, and enjoy the romance and passion. She had shared her love for light novels with her housemate, Kuna. The two of them had gathered a collection of mangas that they shared back and forth. Yukari favored ecchi romance and harem stories that had adventure and action. Kuna tended to collect the ones that were more about daily lives, usually with a yuri or shoujo-ai themes. At least once a week they would sit together for a couple of hours reading mangas and discussing romantic pairings. It was a fun way to spend time, Yukari felt. Recently she had been reading with Kuna.

"Too bad I don't have someone like Tsukune to do this with," Yukari had sighed.

Yukari liked her mangas, and wished life was a little more like the stories she read. She had not thought that she might have a better life if she didn't spend so much time hiding from reality. She never noticed the gleam in Kuna's eyes.

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"To Dame Akashiya Moka of the Argent Cairn," The letter was addressed to Moka.

When Moka had received the letter, delivered by unseen hands, she had felt a touch of apprehension. She opened the letter, worried that she was going to be called upon to do something unpleasent. By accepting the title of Dame, Moka had accepted certain responsibilities. While her title my only be real among the shadowy world of of youkai, it represented power.

"You are hereby summoned to the court of Lord Brone Gray of the Sutherland cairns and coast..."

The letter was a summons to a court event. Moka felt a mix of nervousness and relief. A formal event usually meant nothing more than making a show of status and power. Moka, as a member of Lord Gray's court, would be expected to be in attendance to show her support. The letter told her the dates of the event and that transportation would be provided. All she had to do was pack a few clothes and plan to be on her best behavior for a weekend. As long as no unpleasant surprises came up, it would be much like attending one of her father's dinners.

Moka looked at the letter and frowned. She was going to have to spend a weekend away from school, and Tsukune. It was the last part that was the most bothersome.

'Too bad we can't take Tsukune along,' Inner Moka's thoughts sounded.

'What?' Moka gave a small jump of surprise. Normally Inner Moka would not be so perseptive. 'How long have you been awake?'

'I have not been fully asleep since my last night with Tsukune,' Inner Moka answered. 'I am unsure why, but it is as if you and I have become closer.'

'Is there something wrong with the seal?' Moka worried.

'No,' Inner Moka answered. 'I am still restrained. Perhaps it has to do with how much we have shared with Tsukune.'

Moka took a moment to think about that. It was true that her two sides could talk when they both were focused, and Tsukune was something they both liked to focus on. Perhaps it was as inner Moka had said. By sharing enough of their separate lives with Tsukune they may be creating something that could bridge their minds together.

'If Tsukune was not so busy,' Inner Moka observed. 'Then he could be our escort to court.'

'I know,' Moka sighed.

'At least he will be too busy to get into any trouble with that succubus.' It was unclear where the thought had come from, but both sides of Moka were in agreement.