I honestly can't apologise enough for how terrible my upload schedule has been and with with story in particular. Suffice to say I promise that I am going to start getting back into the swing of things as of now.

I do not own Rosario Vampire, it is owned by Akihisa Ikeda.

Flash forward…

Hell, maybe it could be hurt. Apparently he'd nicked it. A small scrape at most but at least progress was progress. But it was already too late, too late to actually win this now. He had already exhausted what few allies hadn't already abandoned him or died. So few remain, all because of him. Even she was gone, technically anyway. Too far gone at least. Just completely sucked down into the blackest of depths. Now irretrievable and lost forever. And that tore him up inside more than it could ever physically do so on the outside. Then again that was not a statement he wanted to put to the test.

The present…

Peter was, and always had been, a particularly bright pupil. That could easily be proven by his grades back home, even with the interference being Spiderman brought with it. And these exams the academy recently presented as a sort of curveball functioned more or less as a way for his ego to bloat for a good couple of minutes.

Out of the approximate three hundred and fifty scores taken in from the students of all the freshmen classes it was quite a feat for Peter to end up getting in seventh place overall, especially considering that some yokai were smart due to genetics, and thankfully the recent few days had been light on a need for Peter to go and survey the campus so he was in turn able to put all his concentration and effort into his exams for the most part.

But what surprised Peter further was how well Moka did overall, scoring thirteenth place overall. While Moka had never portrayed herself as an idiot by any stretch, Peter certainly did not expect her to have this kind of intellect. Knowing all this, Peter wondered if he could get her input on some potential spider suit upgrades he had been pondering over, he thought that it would be nice to have someone else's thoughts on how things could improve for him. He didn't need to be told that Kurumu wouldn't be much help, it also didn't help that Peter really didn't want to be stuck in a room alone with Kurumu talking about shooting out white stuff all over the place. Those were not the types of conversations that Peter would particularly like having.

Moka of course found him in the dense flurry of students gathered around the results table, although there were now even more students coming out of the cracks just to simply gawk at Moka. Something that was unfortunately not lost on her as she uncomfortably made her way over to Peter, someone who just so happened to have a knack for making her feel better. It was strange how the famous 'Parker luck' Peter always complained about seemed to actually switch priorities when he was in this world.

The same usual greetings were issued to one another and they found themselves swapping praise at both of their respective test scores. Peter was honestly just happy to know that Moka was not one of those jealous types he usually found himself to be around.

"Peter, I didn't know that you were this smart. How long were you even able to study for these considering… um, well, you know.", Peter slightly chuckled at how timid Moka became. It was strange how Peter it did not care nearly as much about keeping his identity secret. Whilst it was obviously his absolute top priority when it all came down to it, it was still nice how Peter was able to play it refreshingly fast and loose at this school with his powers. Although the most we was willing to reveal was the strength and agility, the webs did not come out unless he was dressed in red and blue spandex.

As Peter and Moka continued to converse, something caught Peter's attention in a low key sense. Whilst still looking directly to Moka he was somewhat able to shift in a way which meant he was able to catch someone in the act of watching himself and Moka in the corner of his eye. Whilst it was still quite unsettling his spider sense had not actually directly triggered yet, so he decided to ignore it for a few more minutes. After all, both Peter as well as Moka had unfortunately grown used to people not so subtly watching the two. The purpose of this none too subtle spying was yet to be seen however, so Peter decided to hold back for the time being.

But even through what little vision he was allowed of this watcher he was able to make out that they were wearing some sort of outfit or they had a severely deformed head which came out to looking like a witches hat. His bet was safely of the former but knowing the school like he did the latter option was still definitely on the table as far as he was concerned.

Peter decided to give it a miss. From what he could tell from this distance this watcher was quite short so was likely on the younger side if anything. From experience Peter made the assumption that it was just another one of Moka's fangirls, a group that had grown scarily quick as far as he could tell.

Whatever Moka was going on about immediately became relevant as apparently when he was focusing on this watcher of his he had been say yes to everything she had been saying, this led to her suddenly lighting up with joy which immediately brought Peter's mind back to her and her outburst, unusually slow to catch up for once.

"Oh really!? Oh, thank you Peter! When do you want to do it?", suffice to say that immediately caught Peter's attention, from what he could tell the language barrier around the school occasionally had some inaccuracies with translation.

"Um, what was that Moka…?". Peter couldn't properly respond to her in any other way. "Our little study date, when would you want to do it?", as least that set Peter's nerves slightly. "Oh, um, I don't mind Moka. Anytime really.", Moka blushed immediately and began to tap her index fingers together, something that Peter had picked up on that she did often to signify that she was nervous or flustered, "so… how about tonight. I could come round yours or maybe… you know.", Moka was not very good at being subtle. "Hmm. Yeah, sure, fine by me. I go to your dorm room later. Is five o'clock alright?", Peter would usually be the gentleman in this situation and invite Moka over to his dorm room to stop her from likely stressing over every feature in her room but due to a recent incident when playing around with his technique when shooting webs, suffice to say his room was a bit of a mess which was taking quite a while to degrade like his webs usually would.

The moment Moka heard that Peter would be coming over to her dorm room later to 'study' she felt like all the butterflies in her stomach had tripled and transformed her into a blushing mess. It was strange to Peter that he found that look endearing.

"O-okay Peter! I-I'll start to clean my dorm the s-second I get home today!". If was not difficult for Peter to guess that Moka was incredibly excited. It is to just study, right?

This awkward conversation came to a halt however as they both could hear what sounded like a some sort of confrontation happening close by, and Peter already knew that it was coming from the stalkers direction.

Moka had picked up on this as well, then again it seemed everyone had. There were three guys currently on the floor after being knocked to the ground by what sounded like a bunch of metal tins being smashed against skulls. Then again, with Peter's enhanced senses it sounded like simultaneous plane crashes happening in his ear canal.

The attacker was a little girl that could have been no older than twelve by the looks of it. She wore a black, witches hat with a belt buckle that had a star printed onto it, the hat was so big in comparison to the girl herself that if it were placed on the ground it would reach her waist at least due to its height.

Instead of a shirt and blazer, or even the cream coloured jumper that plenty others went for, she wore what looked like a purple corset with white highlights and a red undershirt with no sleeves. Over her shoulders was what looked like a white shoulder cap, which kept together due to a yellow bow where most students ties would have been. Although through all of this she still wore the standard schools brown skirt, that alongside her light yellow socks and plains black dress shoes which were also a commonality.

Peter was just able to make out her appearance underneath her hat after she slightly tilted her heads position. Her young age was even more obvious now due to her overall complexion. She naturally had a young face with no blemishes as a result of that. She also featured bright purple eyes which glittered with youth.

The girl laughed at the three guys that were currently trying to recover from getting battered over the head by various iron pots. Although that was something that they apparently were not a fan of. They shot up and continued to yell insult mere inches away from her. It got to the point that Peter was about to pounce on them just to make sure no actual harm was done, but to his surprise Moka was already at the girls aid.

"You really shouldn't bully girls. You should leave.", the bullies themselves were taken aback and lost for words that some random girls had just gotten in between them and the little brat that they almost got their hands on. But they had all began to actually notice the crowd that they had drawn in. Getting this much attention was not a good thing for them. So they made a few more closing insults towards the witch and all left in a huff.

The young girl looked slightly fazed but not threatened, more bewildered than anything else. Like she had just been saved by someone which she technically just had been. It sounded narcissistic of Peter but he had been on the receiving end of that look many times which made him feel a little too proud of himself. Sometimes he needed to think of ways of keeping his steadily rising ego in check, he certainly did not want to end up something like Flash.

Moka, attentive as always, crouched down slightly in order to be eye to eye with the young witch. Moka's own eyes laced with concern and care with the witch's own eyes downcast, embarrassed almost. "Are you ok?, those guys didn't hurt you at all did they?", Moka asked in that sweet voice of hers. The young witch did not respond, she simply stayed silent. However Peter was able to make out a few things which he was sure that Moka herself surely had not picked up on herself, mainly being that the girls heartbeat had increased drastically the second Moka uttered a single word to her, that and the more obvious signal being given out by the girl that she was blushing furiously.

After a few attempts at light questioning the witch finally caved in and simply stated that she was alright. However this did not seem good enough for Moka who insisted that she go with herself and Peter for lunch, a time which Peter hadn't even noticed. He himself remained largely out of this for once. This young witch, although appearing as a simple victim at first glance he deduced almost immediately that there was something 'off'. It now began to bite him that witches had not been one of the species of Yokai that Peter had yet to put time into looking into. However, with his current situation of dealing with a vampire with two polar opposite identities and particularly excitable succubus, Peter for once actually gave himself some leeway regarding the circumstances.

Lunch was an unusual event, Peter and Moka sat there like normal across from one another making occasional small talk about whatever came to mind, although this usually would degrade to Moka asking question after question about New York as well as America in general. Although Peter could not really blame her as they really were worlds away from each other. That and Moka had an almost childlike curiosity and fascination with whatever Peter himself had an interest in. But Peter had to admit it to himself that he certainly found it charming, even cute to a certain extent.

When Moka finally broke away to attend to their guest Peter only then realised that Kurumu was absolutely nowhere to be seen. Whilst she was certainly a friend, or whatever Kurumu saw herself as, Peter did have to honestly admit that he required quite a lot of stamina to deal with her regularly. That and full lungs because god knows that whenever she was nearby there would be suffocation in his near future due to her 'unique' way of showing her affection.

Peter was brought back from his momentary daydream by a loud collision, that and the apparent disappearance of Moka as well as the witch. However what was most strange was that Peter could still clear make out the sound of Moka struggling accompanied by a child's excited giggles and mutterings.

Peter leaned over the table to see that Moka was on the floor with the witch lying on top of her, both of them writhing about trying to do opposite things; Moka trying to get away, and the witch… continually groping her. That alone got Peter's undivided attention as the then shot up from his seat and vaulted the lunch table to try and pry the young girls away, only to be met by the surprise that the girl had one hell of a grip on Moka.

"Y-Yukari!? What do you mean, what are you saying?", Moka seemingly trying to get herself in order, something which Peter did not blame her for struggling with regarding the circumstances. But at least Peter now had a pretty good idea of what the witches name was now so at least progress was being made in some regard.

"I mean what I just said, I want you to be my girlfriend!", Yukari stated with immeasurable glee. To say that Peter momentarily paused to take in what he had just heard would be inaccurate to say the least of the situation. The fact that one of the two he had his attention on at that moment was wearing what was cosplay as far as he was concerned was not helping the situation by any means.

Peter was so fazed out of the current situation that he had not even noticed that Moka and Yukari were currently nowhere to be seen, although by everyone's confused and embarrassed stares currently centred on the still swinging cafeteria doors then Peter summarised that it was probably a pretty safe bet that Moka and her assailant had headed that way.

Peter sprung to his feet and went into pursuits, trying to achieve the most casual looking run possible. The second he opened the doors fully he was met by clusters of students lining the walls looking in the direction that he assumed he was now unfortunately headed.

Meanwhile, Moka was not doing particularly well herself either. Whilst at the relatively short time she had been here at Yokai Academy she was more or less accustomed to garnering countless looks from either side of the populace for her looks alone. She was not particularly comfortable with it be she had grown somewhat fine with it as it became the norm for her, that accompanied by the multitude of jealous glances shot towards Peter for always being by her side. Something which he himself claimed he had grown resistant towards from his prior schooling experiences.

But what Moka was definitely not used to was entire hallways being cleared for her as literally everyone stared directly at her. This alone would have made Moka uncomfortable enough on its own but having this be accompanied by a twelve year old clinging on to her like a vice on her breasts. Moka walked a lot faster than usual with a downcast gaze as she continually tried to get Yukari to let go in the most polite manner which she could muster. Although she could see that this had little to absolutely no effect on the young girl.

Eventually Moka was coming towards what seemed like salvation in the form of Peter coming right towards her, and to make it even better he did not wear the same flustered and confused expression that seemingly everyone else in the school wore. Confusion for certain but at least he was not just staring directly at the child attached to her breasts. Or at least not in any perverted way, more just a sense of pure confusion.

Peter finally halted Moka and Yukari in their tracks in order to try and digest the situation. A situation which even to himself he found to be on the stranger side of things. "Okay Moka, so… what's going on exactly because I don't know about you but I'm lost.", Peter stated being completely honest. Moka couldn't come out with much more than embarrassed stutters, herself trying to wrap her head around the situation.

And after a few awkward moment where no words were exchanged, Yukari eventually peeked her head out from behind Moka with a face that could only be described as 'immaturely smug'. "So, you must Peter Parker then hmm? Really not much when up close.", Yukari's face morphing from smug to proud and mocking in an instant caught Peter off guard slightly. Before Peter could retort in any way, shape or form the young witch continued in a way which particularly grated on Peter.

"You're the transfer student from America, despite your incredibly high grades you display little to no personality as far as anyone is concerned, the only thing that you have demonstrated thus far is that you cling to my precious Moka like a parasite.", the last part may have gotten to Peter slightly but he had never been one to back down from a little verbal conflict, "I'm guessing that you don't understand what irony is, do you?". Despite the situation, Peter was actually quite proud of himself for that one as Yukari showed off a visible reaction to his comeback. Something which really did assist in showing off how young she actually appeared to be.

Yukari came back at Peter clearly annoyed by him. "Hmph. I'll show you for being rude to me!", and with that she pulled what looked like a cheap toy store wand out of seemingly nowhere and waved it above her head whilst muttering some nonessential phrases which was soon followed by a bright flash and sparkle. Peter felt and heard nothing different until suddenly his spider sense went off like a blaring fire alarm as he detected what had to be at least multiple objects, each having their own detection.

Peters eyes shot open in surprise as he instinctively pulled off a backwards somersault and went directly over whatever triggered his alarm. And as it turned out, it was actually a varied assortment of janitorial tools; brooms, mops, buckets, even a couple of boxes of what he could only assume was soap and other cleaning fluids.

He landed behind the flying equipment, suddenly realising that the tool were now mere inches away from smacking directly into Moka. However this momentary lapse in judgment caused Peter to not notice that every single thing that had been headed directly towards him had all simultaneously turned around faster than anything he had ever seen and due to the close distance he was unable to properly avoid them and decided instead to hold up his forearms in defence and then thrashed his arms outwards to then smash through all of the equipment and smash them all to pieces or at least knock them away.

This worked for the most part, except for the fact that he had slightly misjudged from the break everything as a single stray bottle of unopened bleach struck him directing in the forehead. This impact having enough power to knock him down to his back in an instant.

Moka let out a surprised yelp and did a quick check to make sure that Peter was alright, Yukari finally letting go in order to quickly study the fascinating events that had just taken place from a distance away.

After Moka helped slightly to lift Peter into a sitting position she lightly rubbed where the bottle of bleach impacted, on his forehead just above his left eye. Honestly Peter was just happy that the large plastic bottle was unopened, he did not want to add chemical burns to the list of permanent scars he had received thus far. A list which grew incredibly quickly when in a word where direct physical violence was not as heavily discouraged, more par for the course than anything else.

"Interesting, there are few Yokai that posses the mental and physical capacity to avoid that kind of barrage. I would call it impressive if it was not the likely case that it was of instinct rather than any actual skill.", Yukari stated, still seemingly claiming superiority over the current situation. Moka, already having gathered that Yukari would not be one to listen to whatever Peter and his quick mouth was about to say tried to calm down the current tension regarding the situation.

"Yukari! You can't just attack Peter like that, you could have hurt him. Look, you gave him a massive bruise!", Peter honestly did appreciate Moka, but even he had to admit that she was not the right kind of person for taking the heat away from certain situations. Or at least this part of Moka wasn't. Peter had no doubts that if the other Moka was dealing with the current situation than she would have likely knocked out Yukari for groping her long ago. And now that Peter was thinking about it, he was pretty sure she would knock him unconscious as well for no other reason except that she was not particularly fond of him as is.

"Oh Moka, if only you understood that I'm much better than he is… ah well, we'll get back to this later!", and before anyone else could say anything more, Yukari had already taken off running whilst cackling more and more as she went. To say that both Moka and Peter had been taken aback by the whole situation thus far would not come even close to the reality of it. Apparently the old 'Parker luck' was still somewhat present despite Peters previous prayers.

During Peters guided trip to the infirmary, the duo ran into Kurumu, evidently having slept in most of the day due to her still lightly yawning when the appeared to the two. Moka begrudgingly spilt off in order to look for Yukari, already knowing that with Peter there she either hide or throw more thing at him. Although Kurumu certainly had no complaints in being told to take Peter to the infirmary to help him with the small bruise on his forehead. What improved the situation for Kurumu was that the infirmary was completely deserted, although this was not a rare occurrence as most students would simply go and buy their own medical help be it bandages or painkillers from the school store.

Peter sat himself down on the edge of one of the beds despite his own opinion that he was find and that a light bruise was nothing to worry about, but despite his continuous insistence it seemed that Kurumu wanted to play doctor and this was something that she was not giving up on. Peter eventually losing the will to go against finally relented and let Kurumu go through a small medical check up which he suspected was going on a bit longer than it probably should have. But after a while the two finally struck up conversation on the current matter.

Peter summarised the event which had come up throughout the day, with a small bit of commentary from Kurumu herself saying how she forgot to actually check what she got on her tests with a heavy dose of optimism, only for Peter to then knock that down by informing her that she was two-hundred and eighty-sixth overall all whilst keeping his own grade a mystery.

"So, you said that the witches name 'Yukari', right? I'm gonna' guess that it was 'Yukari Sendo' that you ran into. Hm, figures.". Peter was confused by this, why would Kurumu know of this young witch? "How do you know about her? What, she have a reputation or something?", Peter asked retrying to get some information on his assailant. "Ha, you could say that.", Kurumu stated still unintentionally keeping up this field of anonymity.

Kurumu elaborated on what she knew of Yukari. A few of Peters own speculations were proven correct as for one he was able to confirm that she was a good deal younger than what made up the majority of the school's populace. One thing however that caught Peters attention in particular was the history that Kurumu gave on how Yukari was bullied relentlessly until she eventually got back at everyone by pulling mean and embarrassing pranks on all of them. So if ended up causing a cycle of mutual hatred. Peter certainly did not expect to catch himself feeling pity after hearing all of this, but damn if that was not what was running through him right then.

Through all of this Kurumu finally recognised a good opportunity to increase in standing towards Peter. After all was said and done, she finally started to make her awaited move.

Kurumu changed her tone to be a one which possessed much more seduction behind it. She then went on all fours towards a now cornered Peter. Until eventually the two of them found themselves in a particularly compromising position. Kurumu continued to press herself further into Peter whilst inching her face closer and closer to his.

Peters mind was racing as he tried to find a way out of this which did not involve accident,t kicking Kurumu into the wall. That was until something else much more important took priority. He was practically paralysed. Not by Kurumu and her attempts at trying to seduce him, he knew for a fact that he was currently experiencing full body paralysis.

Peter forced whatever senses he had control into overdrive to try and find out what was going on, this is when he realised that there was so much tension in both of his arms that they both genuinely felt like all the bones in the. Were about to snap into. But when he went out of his way to ignore this, anything that Kurumu was doing falling by the wayside. Using his enhanced sense Peter was able to pick up on sounds coming from the nearby window, it was a definitive combination of a light crackling noise accompanied by a voice sounding frustrated, as if they were trying to get something to work. Peter immediately noticed that the voice had to be Yukari. And after a great deal of effort he was able to slightly shift his eyes in the direction of the window to where was eventually able to see that the top point of a witches hat was only just visible outside the window.

Peters mind raced further as he tried to think of a way out of this. But somehow during this, Moka had opened the doors to the infirmary only to then drink himself and Kurumu in that same compromising position. Kurumu finally got off of him and got involved with Moka in an argument about the two of them doing dirty things in a school building. The two of them all but completely ignoring Peter.

Peter forced his arm out in an attempt to reach something, anything, that could possibly help him. This whole time hearing a muffled Yukari outside the window trying to do… something. Peter managed to gain a bit more control as he could now somewhat comfortably move his head from side to side. And through this he turned his head to his right and saw the tin medical kit that Kurumu had fished out still right beside him on the nearby desk. She had already closed it back up and therefore had some necessary weight behind it.

After much trouble he finally got a good grip of the meat box, the argument Moka and Kurumu had falling by the wayside as an almost white noise to him. Peter only just managed to adjust his arm enough in order to get a good throw at the window, enough to break it and hit his target.

Finally, Peter through the tin at the window, shattering the glass completely and hitting his target perfectly. The tin struck the top of Yukari's hat, and knocking it off due to the force it was hit. Peters plan went perfectly as he finally regained full control of his limbs, promising to forever appreciate full motor control from that moment forward as heavy beads of sweat made their way down his face as we also lightly massaged his aching arms.

Moka and Kurumu broke away from their argument to notice that the back at the other side of the room had been completely smashed due to a medical kit being thrown through it, and with this they were met with the sight of Yukari shooting upwards, clearly incredibly annoyed, as she shouted at a heavily breathing Peter for knocking her hat off.

At this moment with everyone equally distracted, Yukari was the only one that noticed the doll being snatched away from her hands and into a how very much active Peters. He quickly summarised that this all must've been the doing of a voodoo doll, something which confused Peter as he had absolutely no idea at what point Yukari had been able to procure a sample of his hair. Peter gave a moments thought as to how to quickly stop what was going on, deciding to make what was potentially and incredibly stupid idea and ripping the dolls head off. Thankfully, nothing else happened excepted for the most aggressive head rush of Peter's life, one which he had to readjust himself to afterwards, and them moving the decapitated dolls arms a bit to make sure that the connection had been severed, and d coding that it had been the then threw the dolls head into the nearby trash can, making sure to keep the body on him for the sake of safety and examination later on.

To say that Yukari's plan had crashed and burned wasn't the half of it. She had hoped that with the use of the doll she would be able to make Peter grope Kurumu and cause a distressing scene when Moka were to walk in. But somehow he held out against the effects of the doll and managed to get rid of it. And to make it worse, a usually passive Peter now wore an incredibly annoyed expression as he rose up from the bed, arms shaking as they recovered from the incredible tension that they had just been put through.

"Yukari… mind explaining what the hell you just tried to do?...", questioned a now incredibly irritable Peter. He felt just like he did the one time he had to lift a four ton truck from slipping off a bridge, his arms felt like the bones were about to Pierce through the skin and leave his body in the now sweat ridden bed which now sported a series of tears which Peter had unknowingly inflicted through his pained struggles.