AN: So...it's been awhile guys. College has been beating me down recently. I mean, I meant to update this about a month ago, but all these midterms appeared with back to back Calculus 2 tests. So to make it up to all my readers, and I mean all my readers, I think I'll be doing something for you guys. I'm going to plow through this story and try to get it to the 'season' finale or so. Yes, I'm going to finish part 1 of this series before focusing on anything else. Tell your friends! And here is the new chapter, un-beta-ed since I'm studying math at the moment.

DISCLAIMER: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO OR ROSARIO+VAMPIRE.

"Naruto I need your help with something," Tsukune said as he sat next to his blond friend. Naruto had some ramen noodles in his mouth as his friends spoke. Putting up his pointer finger, Naruto asked Tsukune for a moment. "Oh sure, go ahead and finish eating first." Naruto nodded and brought the bowl of ramen to his mouth, and scarfed it all down in a matter of 30 seconds. When he finished, Naruto let out small burp and a satisfied sigh.

"Ah! Ramen always hits the spot," the blond patted his stomach. Turning his attention to his friend he asked, "What do you need man?"

"I-I think Moka is mad at me." A second passed, then another and then another. When Tsukune didn't hear Naruto speak to him, he turned to the blond who had a gobsmacked face.

"You are talking about the Moka with the pink hair right? Not the one who is insanely powerful and would probably kick your ass if she did hate you, just to be sure."

"Yes, it's that Moka."

"How are you sure that she is mad at you man?"

"She has been avoiding all week." When he saw the blond raise an eyebrow, Tsukune decided to explain. "Well, after class I asked her if she wanted to hang out with us and she declined and said that she was busy."

"Maybe she is busy," Naruto offered.

"With what?" Tsukune snapped. Naruto's eyes widened when he saw the anger in his friend's voice. Seeing his friend's reaction, Tsukune felt embarrassed. "Sorry, I don't know why I snapped."

"It's fine man, I can tell you're stressed about this whole thing. You sure she's not in any other club activity?"

"No."

"Um...extra classes?"

"None that I know of."

"Um...boyfriend maybe?"

"NEVER!" Tsukune shouted, standing up as he did. "Moka would have told me if she had a boyfriend or not!" Now Naruto was looking at him with worry.

"Are you okay man?"

"I'm fine. Like you said, I'm a bit frustrated right now," Tsukune replied. "Can you talk to her about these things at least? I mean just so I can understand?" Running a hand through his hair, Naruto nodded.

"Fine. I mean what are friends for?"

"Thank you." Naruto nodded and stood up.

"I'm off to class man, Yukari-chan said she'd drop another bed pan on my head if I got to class late." Naruto threw his trash away, and with a final wave left his friend. Walking into the building, Naruto was pondering why Tsukune was being so...aggressive as he walked through the halls, that he wasn't paying attention. This had led to him bumping into something, or rather someone. The other person fell down, while Naruto managed to stop himself from falling.

"Itai..." the person said. Looking down, Naruto saw that he had bumped into the person he and Tsukune were talking about.

"Oh sorry Moka. I didn't see you there," Naruto apologized as he offered his hand to help her up. Moka took it and stood up.

"It's okay Naruto-kun," the vampire replied. That made the blond pause.

"Can you repeat that?"

"Huh?"

"Repeat what you just said."

"It's okay Naruto-kun?" Moka said unsurely. In instant, Naruto had a scaled claw at her throat. "N-Naruto-kun?"

"Who are you and why are you impersonating as Moka?"

"I-I am Moka, Naruto-kun!" the vampire shouted.

"Like I'd believe that," Naruto scoffed. "Moka only uses the -kun suffix for one person, and that one person is Tsukune. She uses -san on me."

"I swear to you I am Moka."

"Fine tell me then, what's my monster form?"

"You're a dragon," the rosette whispered. Naruto's eyes widened and he turned his hand back to normal.

"Oh damn, sorry Moka," Naruto apologized. "That whole -kun thing threw me off."

"It's okay. I don't really know why I started calling you that either." Moka then looked at him. "I think my other half is influencing me somehow..."

"Oh? I wasn't sure Moka-chan could do tha...I got to go!" Naruto shouted as he looked at his watch. "I'm going to be late if I don't get to class now!" As he was about to speed away, the blond stopped and turned on his heel. "Do you think you can talk to me after class? I have a few questions to ask you."

"Okay, I don't mind."

"Sweet, see ya later Moka!"

"Bye Naruto-kun!" As he ran away, the blond sighed.

"I wish she didn't say my name like that. People might think things." After thinking that, Naruto redouble his efforts to get to class, barely making it in a minute before the bell would have rang. This saved him from Yukari dropping bedpans on him.

(Time skip)

Just as class let go, Naruto went off to find Moka to talk to her about what Tsukune wanted. As he was walking down the hallway, a voice called out to him.

"Hey you, blond boy," a boy called out. Naruto stopped dead in his tracks and looked to the left. Down the hallway was boy. He had mess white hair and two brown eyes. Though that seemed average, the boy was everything but that. To most people he would be compared to a male model with how his face looked just right to some girls and his body being lean, but not scrawny. Even though the boy was wearing the same uniform as he was, Naruto had to say that it just fit the boy better. Sniffing the air, Naruto tried to determine what type of monster the boy was. He frowned when he came to answer, he couldn't find out what he was. It was like he had no scent.

"You need something? I'm kind of in a hurry here," Naruto stated.

"Ah, just a moment of your time if you will," the boy replied. Naruto took notice of how calm and collected the boy was.

"How long will this take?" Naruto asked.

"Depends on the circumstances. Would you care to follow me to the back of the school?" After that the boy started to walk off without waiting for a reply.

"Damnit I didn't even agree to this," Naruto muttered to himself. Nevertheless, the blond followed the boy to the back of the school, to an empty grave yard. "You know I didn't even get your name."

"Oh, dear me I seem to have forgotten that. My name is Kiria Yoshii, it is a pleasure to meet you Naruto Namikaze."

"Yeah same to you. Though can we hurry this up? I really have to go and talk to someone."

"Oh don't worry, I'll try to make this as quick as possible."

"What is 'this' to be exact?" Naruto asked.

"A test of sorts," Kiria replied. "You ready?" Before Naruto could even formulate an answer, Kiria was gone in a flash of speed, even faster than Gin when the full moon was out in. Naruto's only warning was the whistling of air behind him, forcing him to roll to the side. Just in time to, for if he had not moved out of the way large scythe would have cleaved him in half. Examining it, Naruto found that the scythe was part of Kiria's arm...or it was the arm itself. "Oh my, seems like you were able to dodge that. This will be interesting."

"Hey what's the big idea attacking all of sudden!" the blond demanded. He was just met with a laugh as Kiria charge again. This time Naruto was prepared. Gathering some youki into his hand, Naruto focused it and aimed it at the side of him. Shooting out the energy, Naruto created a large pillar of ice between himself and the scythe as it came upon him. He still had to duck down as the ice was sliced apart. "You're pretty strong to be able to break my ice."

"Is that a compliment?"

"The only one you'll get from me." It was Naruto who charged forward this time. He twisted himself out of the way of the next scythe swing, and punched Kiria in the chest sending him back few meters.

"HAHAHAHA! This is fun!" Kiria attacked again. He swung his scythe down with an overhead swing. Naruto went to block but was surprised when Kiria disappeared again, only to have him appear to his left. This time the swing was an upward diagonal attack. Naruto transformed his right arm into its scaled form and caught the blade.

"What the fuck is wrong with you?" Naruto demanded as he held the blade in his hand.

"Nothing much really. I just thought this would be rather interesting."

"You thought it would be interesting?" Naruto growled. When Kiria disappeared again, Naruto didn't dodge. He only brought up his arm and was met with a clang. Looking to his side, he saw Kiria had a surprised face. Naruto had brought up his arm after transforming it. "That just pisses me off. People picking a fight with me for no reason." Kiria didn't have time to react when Naruto slammed the clawed arm against his chest. It sent him over to a tree, where he was then frozen by the blond. "I should report you to someone, but I don't think I would like telling the student police I had a fight. They'd have my ass too. So just stay there and...chill for a while." Naruto turned around and left the graveyard and Kiria.

When he left, Kiria sighed. "And the fight was just getting fun. I wonder how long it will take for this ice to melt."

"It would take a long time from what I know," a different voice said. Walking towards the blond was none other than Hokuto. "Why did you go fight him? He seemed like a good prospect for our group."

"Ah Hokuto, I was bored. I just wanted to see why you had taken interest in him and that Tsukune kid. I have to say though. That boy is tough. Wonder what type of monster he is?"

"Who knows," the student body president replied. "Now let's get you out of that ice."

(Scene Change)

"Damn bastard," Naruto grumbled to himself. He was nursing the deep cut on the arm that had clocked the attack. 'How the hell did he cut me? My scales are tough as hell.' Producing a small flame, Naruto lightly cauterized his wound. "That will stop the bleeding at least."

"Naruto-kun?" Naruto looked up from his musing to see Moka looking at him with a worried expression. "What happened to you?"

"Nothing. Just scraped myself on the railing. I wasn't paying attention and had gotten a small cut."

"It looked rather bad though."

"Moka, trust me, it's fine," Naruto said with the most conviction in his voice he could muster.

"If you're sure..." Moka replied unsurely.

"I'm sure."

"So what did you want to talk to me about?"

"Let's talk in a classroom? I want to talk sitting down." Moka nodded and the two entered an empty classroom.

"So let's get to the point. What are you doing after class?"

"Huh?"

"Tsukune is kind of worried about you. Er...rather...um...the fact that you are avoiding him after class."

"I'm not avoiding him!" Moka gasped.

"Then what do you call not talking to him after class and running off?"

"Did Tsukune bring this up to you?" the vampire asked.

"Yeah, I usually won't do this kind of thing. I mean, I don't like being involved with people's personal lives unless they are in some sort of trouble. The problem is here, Tsukune asked for my help. Sorry if I'm bothering you."

"No, it's fine," Moka smiled at him. "It's not that big of a deal really. I'm doing something rather important right now."

"Oh? What is that?" Naruto asked.

"I can't tell you."

"Huh? Why?"

"It's a secret."

"Oh come on, it's not like you have a boyfriend..." the blond paused, "do you?"

"N-NO!" Moka blushed. "I don't have a boyfriend."

"A girlfriend then? I mean, I'm totally cool if you swing that way now. That would make Yukari-chan's day." Now Naruto was being completely serious about this, since he really didn't know if Moka did swing that way or not. This had the vampire blushing even harder.

"N-Naruto-kun don't mess around like that! Of course I don't have a girlfriend."

"Then what are you doing? Chances are I'm not going to stop bothering you if you don't tell me." Moka looked hesitant for a moment before sighing.

"Okay fine. Just don't tell Tsukune-kun please."

"I swear."

"You know his birthday is coming up in a week right?"

"Of course. I bought him...um...some books." Naruto said slowly, using the term books rather lightly for his gift. In all honesty, Naruto had just asked Jiraiya for a copy of Icha Icha that were personally signed. He would have given this to Gin, but...it might have been more insightful for Tsukune on the topic of the female body.

"That's good to hear. What I'm getting him is more personal though." Naruto raised an eyebrow to ask his question. Moka understood and decided to answer him. "I'm painting him a portrait of him."

"Wow, thats great! I used to paint myself." The blond stopped talking before coughing. "Scratch that, they were more like doodles...very, very, very visible doodles...on mountainsides."

"Eh?"

"Nothing~! Please continue."

"Right. For this entire week I've been working with Ishigami-sensei for this. She's been helping me out with the painting."

"Oh? You're studying under her? I didn't know that. So you're the student she's been helping out?"

"Huh? How do you know her?" Moka asked.

"I'm in her art class, though I take it for sculpting."

"You sculpt?"

"Not for fun. I'm just honing my skills to show up my senpai from my previous school. Deidara-senpai will never know what hits him when he sees my art!" the blond exclaimed as he got to his feet. "I'll show that bastard up for saying that I've got no talent in art!" Turning to Moka he continued, "By the way I do ice sculptures, not stone ones."

"Oh! So those beautiful ice sculptures in the room are yours?" Naruto nodded his head.

"They still lack fine detail, because that takes so much time, but I've got the basics done. Though those do seem pretty crappy to me."

"They really do look nice. The big swan, the miniature foxes, the dragon...all of those ice sculptures were great looking!"

"They are still missing details. I'll eventually get to it though," Naruto waved his hand as if to dismiss the fact.

"Then what about the last one? The one that even Ishigami-sensei wishes she made it."

"Huh?"

"The sculpture of the woman. That one was the best of all, and was extremely detailed. From her smiling face and clothes to just the small curves here and there for wrinkles in clothes. It was really well done."

"Of course it is," Naruto said with a kind smile. "I would have trashed it if it didn't come out great. It is based on my mother after all."

"That was a sculpture of your mom?"

"Yeah."

"She must be really beautiful then."

"She was really pretty." Moka noticed the distinct sadness that entered his voice.

"Naruto-kun?"

"I'm off to dinner Moka. Thanks for clearing things up for me, and don't worry I won't tell Tsukune anything." Before she could answer, he was already out the door. This had left Moka with a single thought.

'Why did he become sad when we started talking about his mother?'

(Time Skip-Next Day)

"Oh, Namikaze-kun what are you doing here so early?" Ishigami asked Naruto who was standing in the room. The blond student was looking at the ice sculpture he made. It took him about 5 weeks of work, namely to get the details down, but he had finished it. It was an ice sculpture of his own mother, Kushina Uzumaki Namikaze. The sculpture had a smile on her face and arms behind her back. When he made this, he was mostly drawing from his memories and some pictures he had with him. He was hoping it did her justice. After being reminded of his mom the day before during his talk with Moka, he felt like he needed to see the sculpture at least once.

"Nothing, Ishigami-sensei," Naruto replied. "Just reminiscing about the old days. I didn't do anything wrong did I?"

"No, no it's fine Namikaze-kun. I was just expecting some other students this morning."

"Special lessons?"

"You could say that."

"Well, if you don't need me, I'll be going now." Naruto bowed and went to leave the room, but stopped at the door. He took a whiff of the air and tilted his head. "Is...someone crying?"

"What do you mean?"

"I swear I hear someone crying."

"It's just your imagination. I mean we are the only two here right now Namikaze-kun."

"I guess you're right. I'll be here for my lessons later."

"Okay, see you later." When Naruto had left, Ishigami frownd.

"That boy is getting a bit annoying."

(Time Skip)

Everyone in the Newspaper club was sitting in the room, doing their usual things. Kurumu fawning over Tsukune, with Yukari trying to stop her advances. Ginei was trying, and failing to flirt with Moka. Moka herself was busy reading an art magazine. Naruto was staring out the window thinking about what Mizore was doing. She had told them that she would like to join them next term, but for this term she would just sit out, even though the girls had said that it would be okay for her to join them.

"Okay guys," Ginei started as he brought the meeting into session. "We have a big problem to talk about today." The were wolf passed around sheets of paper with pictures of seven missing girls on it. "There are missing girls all around the school. Seven in a month. Now it's not hard to believe that people go missing here with this school being what it is but these numbers are odd. As you can see I've already dug up some information on this."

"Wow you seem serious about this Gin-senpai," Tsukune praised the older student.

"Of course he'd be trying hard. Look at the picture of the girls," Naruto scoffed.

"Huh?" the entire group asked. They did as he directed but they were still confused.

"I don't get it," Yukari stated.

"Me neither," Moka and Kurumu replied. The girls turned to Tsukune who shook his head, before looking back at Naruto. This made the blond sigh.

"It's obvious why he's working so hard. The girls are hot," he explained.

"Damn right they are!" Ginei exclaimed. "If I-er, we save them, there is a chance that I, I mean, we will get to know them better." That caused everyone save for Naruto to face fault. "Okay you guys are dismissed. Do what you can to figure this stuff out." Naruto waved him off and decided to ignore it until later. He was hungry. As he stepped outside, Tsukune ran up to him.

"Naruto, please wait up," Tsukune said to him. The two walked down the halls in silence before Tsukune spoke again. "So, what did you learn about Moka-san?"

"She's taking an extra class after school," Naruto told him. Looking out of the corner of his eye, Naruto was glad to see that his friend didn't have another small outburst of anger, but instead looked highly relieved.

"Oh thank goodness. For a moment I thought she had-"

"A boyfriend?" Naruto interrupted with a smirk. This made Tsukune pause and blush. The boy nodded his head to answer him. "Yeah that was the first thing I asked too. She became all flustered, gave me a good laugh. Then I asked if she swung for the other team, now that made me laugh harder too. Although I was a lot more serious than she thought I was." When he saw Tsukune giving him a weird look, Naruto shrugged his shoulders. "What? She might have been lesbian for all we know."

"I see..." Tsukune coughed. "Thanks for helping me man. I don't know what I would have done if I didn't know what she was doing."

"You probably would have followed her around and found out what she was doing, I know that much. What I don't know is what you would do if you didn't like what she was doing."

"What do you mean?"

"Um...you just seem more tense now, for some reason. So, I'm a bit worried man."

"It's nothing, just don't worry about it." Naruto stared at him for a moment longer before shrugging.

"If you're sure man. I have to get to art class now, so take care dude."

"Yeah, see you later Naruto." Naruto took his time walking towards the arts building, which looked like a haunted house, all the way down to how it had some paint peeling off and the fact that there was mold in some places it shouldn't be. The inside of it was a different story all together. It was cleaner than most of the other class room and a bit more modernized too, and rather spacious for large classes. Naruto walked to his classroom, and was met in the form of a classroom full of girls. The girls quieted down, and looked at him.

"Am I...early?" Naruto asked, noticing that all the girls were staring at him. "I mean...I'm usually the only one in here at this time." None of the girls answered him.

"Ah! Namikaze-kun! Glad you came," Ishigami said as she entered the room. Naruto turned to his teacher and looked confused. "I had decided to let some of the girls from my other classes come right now, since they seemed so excited to work on their art. They were also so excited to see who had made these beautiful ice sculptures."

"Uh...They're not that great," Naruto replied sheepishly. "They still need a lot of work, I mean I can't do it the right way. I have to use my monster form to get the quality to this detail. If I use the human ways to do it, I tend to destroy the sculptures in an instance."

"Ah but they are amazing Namikaze-san!" a girl praised him.

"Yeah! I don't think I've seen sculptures as good as these before," another girl commented on it.

"Are you an ice monster by any chance?" yet another girl asked. "I mean I've seen these from the beginning of the term, and they are still here."

"They are great works Namikaze-san!"

"Can you show us how you did it?"

Now, Naruto loved getting attention, he really did, but all these compliments and praises were rather flattering to him, that he was blushing like a tomato and feeling light headed. He had to catch himself before he fell to the floor.

"Naruto-kun!" he heard someone shout. Looking up he saw Moka walking up to him. "Are you alright?"

"Yeah, I'm fine," Naruto replied. "I'm just not so used to this many compliments."

"Huh? Don't you get complimented by your parents?"

"Oh I do, I do. I just have never been complimented by these many beautiful girls before." The words were out of his mouth before he knew it and he regretted it almost immediately. All around him were girls giggling at the compliment. "Guh, me and my big mouth." Fixing himself, he looked towards his sensei. "So what do I do now? I mean, there are a lot of people here."

"Don't worry about it Namikaze-kun," Ishigami assured him. "Just do your work. They'll be doing their own projects while you do yours."

"If you say so," the blond shrugged. Going over to his locker, Naruto took out his equipment for his project. He was still going to try the human way before doing it his way. Walking over to a corner to work by himself, Naruto placed his stuff onto a table before rolling his sleeves. He was about to start working, when Moka appeared next to him.

"Naruto-kun, do you mind if I work next to you?" the vampire asked.

"No problem, I didn't know you were going to be in this class time though."

"It just worked out this way." Moka set up an easel next to him and put pain on a palette. Naruto transformed his hand, and gathered his energy into it. Blasting it at the floor he created a small pillar of ice, about two feet tall and placed it onto the table. Taking a chisel and hammer, he lightly tapped it on the ice. Just like every time he did it, the ice broke instantly into many pieces.

"Why does that always happen?" Next to him Moka giggled, as well as other girls around him. After remaking the ice chunk, ice retransformed his arm. "Might as well do it the regular way." He started to cut into the ice using his claws, to cut into the ice slowly. After starting, he went into his own little world as he began chipping and cutting his way into the ice.

It was at the end of the class that Naruto came out of his trance. Looking at the ice in front of him now, there was a crude bouquet of roses on the table. He then looked around him and saw that a lot of girls were watching him, even Moka was doing so. "Um...how long were you girls were watching me?" he asked awkwardly.

"A little a while ago actually," Ishigami answered for the girls who blushed and looked away at being caught. Walking over to her student, she examined the bouquet of ice. "Rather small scale this time Namikaze-kun?"

"Meh, most of the large scale ones take a long time to do." Naruto put away his stuff and stretched his arms. "Well, see you next time Ishigami-sensei. I'm rather hungry and want lunch." Looking over to his corner and at Moka he waved at her. "Later Moka!"

"Bye Naruto-kun!" she replied back.

(Time Skip-Next Day [Canon story line happens during the time skip, so Moka beats the shit out of Ishigami for attacking Tsukune])

"Let me get this straight," Naruto started talking in the clubroom. "Ishigami-sensei was the one kidnapping the students, and had turned them into the stone statues where she keeps the art stuff?"

"Hai," Tsukune replied. He had been sent to the infirmary after the incident. He was bit by Ishigami, who was a gorgon, and had turned him into stone. From what Moka had recounted to the club, Tsukune had taken of the rosario before being bitten. So Inner Moka utterly destroyed Ishigami by ripping out her prehensile snake hair and gave her a super kick to the face. After that, all the student transformed statues were turned back to normal.

"Well, at least it's over now," Moka replied.

"That's right!" Yukari cheered. "Now we got a big report on the newspaper!"

"Also, we got another reason to celebrate today," Kurumu replied.

"Yup!" Naruto smiled this time.

"Eh?" Tsukune asked.

"Since, you were in the infirmary yesterday, we decided to do something special for you," the blond replied. In that moment Yukari, Kurumu, Moka, Gin and Nekonome all pulled some party poppers.

"SURPRISE! HAPPY BIRTHDAY TSUKUNE!" everyone shouted. Tsukune smiled and almost teared up, almost.

"Th-Thank you guys!" That afternoon, everyone spent partying for Tsukune's birthday. However, one person wasn't into the party the entire time. Naruto's mind kept straying off.

'If anything,' Naruto thought to himself, 'this is a marker of worse things to come. I mean Ishigami only got fired, she can comeback.' Turning to his partying friends, Naruto shook his head. 'I shouldn't be thinking about this today, I should party. If I keep brooding, I'll end up like Sasuke-teme.'

"What's on your mind Naruto-kun?" Nekonome asked him, breaking him out of his thoughts.

"Just wondering who they are going to assign as the new art teacher," Naruto lied.

"Since we are under staffed at the moment the headmaster assigned me as the teacher for that class."

"EH!"

"I finally get you as my student Naruto-kun!" Nekonome smiled at him.

(END CHAPTER)

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