I'm back with a new story. This idea been in my head for awhile now and i got tired of it going in circles so i decided to post it on here. Hope you all enjoy it. Thanks to my co-author mercwiththemouth for proof reading and to you all for taking the time and reading.

I don't own Rosario+Vampire

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It was Halloween night in a small town in New York State. The sky was cloudless, stars twinkled in the sky, bats and owls flew in front of the full moon casting large haunting shadows on the ground and people below. The streets were full of kids and adults alike running from house to house asking for candy. In the middle of it all, a guy about 16 years old walked calmly down the side walk wearing black pants, a black jacket with a white shirt and black boots. He wore a skull pendent and ring. On his back was something wrapped in a cloth all that wasn't was a bit of a wooden handle. The wind blew through his pitch-black hair he held his hair so the wind wouldn't blow it revealing his left eye. He took a deep breath and let it out smiling.

"I love nights like this." He said aloud.

"It is beautiful however we have a job to do." A voice said in his mind.

"I know that Grim. Just got to find out where it is." He said.

He walked down the sidewalk and stopped when he heard soft crying. He looked at the passing people to see if they heard it as well but no one did hear it.

"Found it." He said quietly before following the sound.

The crying led him to a small girl about four year's old sitting with her back to the tree crying her white night grown stain red with blood. Her long red hair covered her face. The boy sat next to her and looked at her.

"You don't have to be sad anymore." He said to her.

She looked at him shocked with tears running down her face.

"You can see me?" she asked.

The boy nodded smiling at her.

"My name is Damon. What's yours?" Damon asked.

"It's Maya." The girl said.

"Maya do you want to see your parents again?"

"How can I?"

"I'll take you to them."

Maya look away from Damon.

"Are you afraid of letting this life go?"

The girl nodded pulling her knees up and hiding her face in her knees. Damon put his arm around her and hugged. She knew who he was only 'he' could see the souls of the dead she expected the cold embrace of death that she heard about however she felt warmth and comfort from him.

"This life is just a temporary one, a stepping-stone to a life that is much greater; an eternal life waits for you."

She looked up at him and he smiled down at her.

"I will take you to your parents if you want."

Her eyes started to shine with hope.

"Really?"

He stood up and held out his hand to her. She took it and stood up with his help.

"Of course, every family should be together in this life and the next."

For the first time since she died, she smiled. She knew he would take her to her family.

"Are you ready now?"

She smiled and nodded at him. A portal of swirling darkness appeared in front of them Maya tighten her grip in Damon's hand. He gave a reassuring squeeze before they both walked through the portal leaving the world of the living and entering the kingdom of death.

The kingdom of death isn't what most people think it is. A giant city that is always expending always growing so there is room for the souls of the dead. Each part of the city was a district, each district was different some were residents others market places but all was a gathering ground for people to talk. In the middle of the city stood a dark castle it rose into the sky and towered over the city. This is the home of death.

Death looked out over the city from a throne room the banners hanging were red, black and dark purple the throne were made of the bones of the reapers that tried to claim his title as the strongest. His dark cloak waved in an invisible wind he pulled down his hood revealing a skull. He was proud of what he accomplished since he existed and he knew one day he would have to step down but that time wasn't close. He snapped out of his thoughts when he heard the giant wooden doors open and footsteps echoing across the marble floor. He turned around and saw the only family he had. His son stood in front of him and bowed.

"I have return father." The boy said.

Death chuckled and walked towards the boy.

"How many times have I told you Damon? You don't have to be so formal." Death said.

He stood in front of the giant doors and waited for Damon to walk to him. Damon walked to him and they walked down the hallway passing Skeleton guards from all different eras in time and house cleaners cleaning up.

"I'm sorry I forgot." Damon said.

"How long have you been living with me Damon?"

"For about six years now."

"Don't you miss it though?" Death asked Damon looking at him.

Despite what people thought about death, he wasn't cold and heartless he cared about his son. He even felt regret for not being a good father not being there when he should.

"Miss what?"

"Miss the human world. Having friends to be around to have a laugh with all that and much more."

"I never had friends. People always avoided me can't really blame them." Damon said sadly.

"So that's why he didn't hesitate to come when I came to pick him up. He knew he would have a better chance to fit in here then there." Death thought.

One of the guards there was dressed in an old torn confederate uniform walked up to them and saluted.

"Sirs there is a new spirit here." the guard said.

"And?" Death asked looking at the guard

"He knows the Akashiya's.

Damon eyebrows rose while Death nodded slowly thinking.

"You can judge him Damon." Death said.

Damon eyes widen and started to say something however Death silenced him by placing his hand on Damon's shoulder.

"I know you'll make the right call." Death said summoning a file and handing it to Damon before walking away.

"Where is he?" Damon asked the guard.

"He's in the dinner hall." The guard said.

"Thanks you, can continue your duties now." Damon said.

"Sir!" the guard said before saluting again and walking away.

Damon walked down the hallway as he opened the file up to read a little about the life the person lived until this point. He frowned when he saw the name of the person he tapped it a couple of times before sighing and closing the file and looked out at the night sky.

"Tsukune Aono…I was hoping I wouldn't meet you until later on." He said aloud before walking to the dinner hall.

At the same time Death walked down the hallway and stopped when he saw a woman looking out a window at the city she wore a beautiful sliver dress with high heels. She had long pink hair to her back. She turned her red eyes to look at Death. Death let a chuckle escape him.

"I had a feeling you had something to do with this spirit Blooddriver Akashiya." Death said.

The woman said nothing just smiled at him.

In the dinner hall Tsukune Aono looked around confused as to how and why he was there. He saw the room was huge a table that was long enough to sit at least 20 people was in the middle of the room. Giant arch windows let in the moon light and chandeliers with candles hung over the table placed the same distance away. He saw food fit for a king and his court sat on the table the food still had steam coming from it. He looked down at himself and noticed he was shirtless but he had a giant hole in his chest.

"What the hell?-!" he yelled looking at the hole.

He remembered being on the roof of Yokai academy facing against Kuyou of the safety committee. He remembered feeling a sharp pain in his chest and seeing a fire bolt sticking through him before he busted in flames and then…He couldn't remember that's when reality hit him.

"I'm dead!" he said aloud as he started to panic.

"You're not dead least not yet." A calm voice said from the other side of the room.

Tsukune turned to look and saw a guy about the same age reading something in a file. He walked towards Tsukune while still reading.

"What do you mean?" Tsukune asked.

"If you were dead you would be out in the city not here in the castle. The castle is a place that exists between life and death." The guy explained

"So as long as I'm in the castle I'm still alive?"

"Yep now let's get down to business." The guy said looking up at Tsukune.

"I am Damon, I'll be judge, jury and executioner." The guy said bowing.

Tsukune gulped nervously because he didn't like what Damon said. That's when he remembered something; when he was four his neighbor died and he looked out the window at everyone in front of his house but he saw something the others didn't he saw the old man walking around. He walked out and towards the old man to find out what was going on. That's when he saw the portal of swirling darkness appear and a tall man dressed in an all-black suit holding a cane appear from the portal with a boy about the same age has he was. The boy looked at him and walked over to Tsukune. Tsukune was terrified but the boy explained all he wanted to do was to talk. Tsukune and the mysterious boy talked for a little while until the man in the suit walked up to them telling the boy it was time to go. Before he left the boy told Tsukune his name was Damon. In the same portal as they showed up the man, Damon and the newly deceased old man walked through it. Tsukune not hearing from them ever again, that is, until now.

"Damon?" Tsukune asked.

"I see you remember at least a little bit of when we were little." Damon said with a smile.

He sat down at the table and he motioned for Tsukune to take the seat across from him. Tsukune sat across from him still looking at him.

"So you're death…" Tsukune said.

"In a way yes but at the same time I'm not."

"What do you mean?"

"I'm death's son."

Tsukune's eyes widen and Damon chuckled.

"They always react that way when they find out. Anyway down to business." Damon said opening the file.

"Let's see…normal life until high school. That's when you entered Yokai academy."

"Yea but that was a mistake." Tsukune said.

"I'm not so sure about that."

"What do you mean?"

"Everything happens for a reason."

They went quiet as Damon kept reading the file. Finally, Tsukune couldn't handle it he had to ask.

"Am I going to die?" Tsukune asked his voice full of fear.

Damon looked up at him he knew that most people feared what they didn't understand so he decided to try and explain it to him.

"Tsukune do you know what dying really is?" Damon asked.

Tsukune tried to figure it out but he couldn't come up with an answer. He shook his head looking down.

"Dying is just passing from a temporary life to an eternal one. That's all it is. So live life until you can't anymore."

Tsukune nodded his head and understood a little but he agreed with what Damon said "live life until you can't anymore".

"As for your question. I'm willing to give you a second chance."

Tsukune looked up at Damon surprised.

"However there is one slight problem."

"What is that?" Tsukune asked nervously.

"Equivalent exchange."

Tsukune looked at him a little confused.

"It's pretty much the one rule that everything has to follow even my father has to. For you to live another must die and take your place."

Tsukune paled and his mouth dropped open.

"I know you didn't want to hear that but that's the only way you can live." Damon said sadly.

"Who are you going to take?" Tsukune asked fearing it was one of his friends.

"That's the beauty of this part you get to choose who takes your place." Damon said with a small smile.

"I choose?" Tsukune asked in a daze.

Damon nodded and looked at him.

"I know you're type Tsukune, you're kind and carrying for everyone, playing god is one thing you don't like to do." Damon said knowingly.

"How do you know?" Tsukune asked a little surprised.

Damon chuckled and moved his hair from the left side of his face revealing his left eye, which had a blood red iris while the pupil was a soulless black that seemed to pierce Tsukune's heart and soul. He couldn't help but shiver at the sight of it. This caused Damon to laugh.

"You have nothing to worry about Tsukune your soul is pure and innocent, now about who will take your place." Damon said covering his left eye back up.

"Can it be anyone?" Tsukune asked if so he had someone in mind.

"Yes it can be." Damon said nodding.

"Then I pick Kuyou." Tsukune said remembering everything he done to him and his friends.

"Somehow I figured you would pick him." Damon said standing up.

"I'll go let father know until he arrives feel free to eat and relax." Damon said before bowing and walking out.

Tsukune sat there looking at the food. Mostly eyeing a chicken that sat close by. He grabbed one of the legs ripping it off. He sniffed it to make sure it was safe to eat. When he decided it was he took a bite of it and his eyes widen. It was delicious! He never had anything so mouthwatering good in his life, not even his mom's cooking was that good. He kept eating until a bony hand was placed on his shoulder. He shivered at the touch because it sent a chill down his spine. He turned to look at the person the hand belong to and saw Death standing there looking at him with his empty black soulless eye. Tsukune yelled before jumping over the table and landing on the stone floor with a thud. He looked at Death who started to chuckle.

"I'm sorry for scaring you little one." Death said as he walked around the table towards him.

As he walked his form changed and he became a man in his late 40's with jet black hair like Damon's just a little longer wearing a full black suit with a cane. Tsukune recognized him as the man he saw when he was four after his neighbor died. Death helped Tsukune up off the floor grinning at him.

"I guess I don't need to introduce myself but I shall as a formality. I am the grim reaper but just call me death." He said grinning and holding out his hand to Tsukune.

Tsukune was nervous that was easy to see but one thing he didn't want to do was to disrespect death. He shook his hand and another chill went down his spine.

"Tsukune Aono." Tsukune said.

"I admit I'm surprised to see you here this early in your life. You had such a bright future. I think Damon saw that as well that's why he is giving you another chance in life." Death said.

"Thank you sir." Tsukune said.

Death just chuckled and pointed his cane at Tsukune.

"I'll see you in the world of the living." Death said.

Tsukune saw the bottom of the cane form into a small blade. Death stabbed Tsukune with it in the chest. Tsukune felt pain so strong and so intense now he wished he picked death but just as fast as it started, it stopped.

Tsukune woke up to find himself in the school infirmary. He sat up groaning and saw his chest was bandaged he lifted up the bandages to see if that hole was still there. To his relief it was gone all that showed he had a hole was a large circler scar where he was struck. He laughed in relief, which got the attention of a group of girls on the other side of the room.

"Tsukune you're alive!" one yelled as she jumped on Tsukune wrapping her arms around his neck. She had dark brown hair wearing a witches cape and hat with the school skirt, which was plaid.

"Yukari….I can't breathe." Tsukune managed to squeak out.

"Hey let him go you flat chested witch!" another girl called out.

She had blue hair tied in a small ponytail she wore a white sweater and a yellow shirt pulled over it with a large red ribbon. She pulled Yukari off Tsukune and hugged his head into her giant breasts.

"Don't worry Tsukune I'll make you feel better" she said seductively before an ice kunai hit her in the forehead squirting blood out of the wound and making her fall to the ground. He felt a chill when two arms wrapped around him from behind him and the head of a girl with purple hair leaned her head on his shoulder. She wore a white hoodie with black sleeves that revealed the strips of a black top. She also had black and purple striped socks and a belt attached to her right leg. A sucker stuck in her mouth.

"Ignore Kurumu Tsukune I'll make you feel better the only way a snow woman can." She said.

"What was that you snow skank?-!" Kurumu yelled as she stood up with the ice kunai still stuck in her forehead.

"What's going on in here Mizore?" a voice asked from the hallway.

In walked the most beautiful girl that Tsukune ever saw she had green eyes pink hair and the body of a goddess. She wore the female version of school uniform a white shirt, green blazer a plaid skirt and a red ribbon.

"Hi Moka." Tsukune said looking at her.

Moka's eyes lit up when she saw Tsukune sitting up in bed. She smiled and ran towards him hugging him and knocking him out of bed with Mizore still hanging on to him.

"I'm so glad you're alright Tsukune." Moka said close to tears.

"I'm sorry for worrying you all but can you help me get back up in bed?" Tsukune said.

Moka and Mizore helped Tsukune back in the bed and they all gathered around him happy to have him back. But they all suddenly felt the chill of death creep into the room and touch them from the door way they heard someone clear their throat. They turned to look and saw a man in a black suit with a can and pitch black hair that went to his neck standing there.

"I apologize for interrupting this tender moment but may I speak to Tsukune in private?" the man asked politely.

This threw everyone off because this man smelled of death and the chill they felt defiantly came from this man. The girls looked at Tsukune and Tsukune nodded at them and smiled.

"I'll be fine." He said.

The girls were hesitated at first but they left the room leaving Tsukune and the man alone.

"They really care for you." The man said walking towards Tsukune.

"I know they do." Tsukune said smiling a little.

"I've been wondering around this place looking I may sign Damon up for this school. He deserves to have a normal life before he takes over. Who knows he may even find love here." the man said looking out the window.

"With all due respect sir death needs love?" Tsukune asked.

"Of course every living thing needs love. Then again, I'm not quiet living am I? Still I loved and a person loved me back that's how Damon was born after all."

"Why are you here?"

The man chuckled and looked at him.

"Visiting a couple of old friends of mine and also came to give you a warning Mr. Aono." He said

"What warning?" Tsukune asked nervously.

"A good friend of mine has high expectations and hope for you do us all a favor and don't let her down and stay on her good side. Spirits are already backed up waiting for judgement."

"I'll keep that in mind." Tsukune said.

"I will say one thing about her though."

"What is that?"

"She values her family above all else. I would move heaven itself to see my son happy and safe. She would raise hell itself to see her family safe and happy." The man said seriously.

Tsukune gulped in nervousness at what the man said.

"Still I'll admit I'm curious to know where you will go in life. So I'll give you and your friends a gift."

"What gift is that?" Tsukune asked curiously.

"The protection of death." The man said.

"Now if you excuse me I have a soul to collect. Until we meet again Mr. Aono." The man said.

He walked out into the hallway and looked at Moka and the other girls. He gave a small bow before walking down the hallway. The girls didn't know what Tsukune got himself into but they knew it could be dangerous. But how dangerous it could have been they didn't know and even if they did there would be no way for them to be prepared for it.

There you have it everyone. I hope you enjoyed it. If you want me to keep writing this story please let me know. Comments help me a lot. Also if you want me to continue writing this story please let me know who Damon should be paired with. Thanks for taking the time and reading the story.