A/N: Hi, it's me again! I decided that I would like to take some break from writing KazaSai several fics for tumblr already. Which is, I intended to write KazaChi once more yay! ^w^ This idea has been kept into my head for a very long time, unfortunately, I forgot to publish since I've been thinking too much about KazaChi SSL fic and KazaSai x"DD

This is one of my fav AU about KazaChi in which is, instead of meeting Shinsengumi, Chizuru had been rescued by three Onis that night :DD I'm really hoping that some amazing authors would write this kind of AU. But since none of them haven't writing yet, I would eventually publish first x"33

Feel free to use this AU for KazaChi fic~ I would love to read your way as to how Chizuru met Kazama and the others :))

Beware, the characters may possibly a bit OOC, especially Kazama. …Well, I'm following Kazama's personality in Kazama-hen so yea… :"3 I love seeing Kazama look bored, grumpy and moody when it comes to Chizuru, especially in Edo period.

Wow, my apologize for babbling too much. I'd just feels the need to speak whatever in my mind that's all x"DD Now enough of my babbling and enjoy~

I don't own Hakuouki nor the characters. All of them were belonging to Idea Factory/Otomate. I do own some several(?) OCs, which is, most of them are not very important much. Since Chizuru met Kazama and the three Onis, the Shinsengumi may probably rarely show up, which means, I pretty much use a few OCs of mine while the rest of it I borrow some characters from Urakata Hakuouki. If you're not familiar with it, I suggest you to play it whether you understand it or not. Even I don't really quite mastery in Japanese language TwT

Warnings: OOC-ness, AU, grammar error, typos, cursed words

Prologue

Yukimura Chizuru

She was running…

She didn't know why she ran for.

But she can tell that someone was chasing her away..

…No. Not one person. There were three people. …Or maybe five of them.

Luck isn't with her this night. She knew she would be dead once they've caught her.

She saw it.

She saw everything that she couldn't tell whether it's just a nightmare or a reality.

She knew Kyoto is a very dangerous place yet she didn't know she would end up see it with her own almond-brown orbs.

It was almost like raining each time she saw they slaughtered the weakling ronins like a heartless butcher. The rain was in a crimson red color. She realized for a moment then it was…

Blood.

The killers were not an ordinary ronins she usually known about. They killed as if those were their hobby. Each time the blood spilled on their katana, the killers' grin began widen as if they've done another good job.

She could've sworn she saw the killers licked on the edge of their swords where the blood spilled after they've slaughtered the ronins.

They're not human anymore, she can tell.

They're almost like a vampire. But far from call themselves as a vampire.

She now realized once more that they killed them weren't because of their hobby. What they've been looking for a whole time… what they've been doing all this time…

…were their lust for blood.

She knew her life would finally end once they've found out of her presence. Her mind kept telling her over and over again that she needed to get out of there. She needs to run. Don't let them found her.

But the moment she accidently dropped one of a barrel near the small shop where she's been hid herself from the ronins that's already dead, the killers faced to her, and there was a same grin as they've killed the ronins. She can tell it was her next to be their prey.

"Blooood… BLOOOOOOOD!"

Their screamed made her chilling down on all over spine. Each screaming she hears it's almost like her life getting shorten and shorten already.

She didn't know why does it ended like this to her. Despite how Matsumoto once told her that Kyoto is a very dangerous place one and warned her not to come there alone, yet she has to. She has a reason why she came all the way from Edo to Kyoto.

And that is, looking for her father.

A month ago, her father left her because the shogunates need him in Kyoto. But he promised to her he would send her letter as best and fast as he could, and he did keep a promise to her.

Until…

A week or so.. her father, Kodou suddenly stopped sending a letter to her anymore. She feared that maybe there's something going on happened to her father. Maybe her father was in deep trouble, in which is, she worried about him even more, and decided to go to Kyoto by herself.

Matsumoto is a very busy doctor so she couldn't able to get a help from him nor able to get a call as well, and so, she went on Kyoto all alone.

Father, where are you…?, she thought herself, still running from the ronins as they laughed in maniacally, and screamed a word of blood. Tears starting to form from her eyes, streaming down on her cheeks like a waterfall while she gripped her hands tightly and prayed to Kami to protect her life.

"Save me.. Save me… somebody, save me..!," she kept chanting those words over and over again, and maybe someone would come to her. Maybe someone would save her…

And maybe.. her father would come to her too…

"Ahhh!"

The brunette suddenly tripped on the hard ground as she's been run around the night street with non-stopping to get away from the maniac killers. Her face turned into horror then as they stopped in front of her, grin became even wider. She knew her life is going to end by them. She knew she'd failed to find her father in Kyoto.

What's going to happen when she die?

Would her father knew she's no longer in the world after then?

If the only..

If the only she hadn't come to Kyoto, she would've continuing on her normal life already. If the only she hadn't come to Kyoto, she would've able to continue on sending a letter to her father even if it'll take years for her to receive.

If the only..

Accepting her fate of what's gonna happen to her then, Chizuru shut her eyes tightly and covered her face with a shaking palm of her hands so that she wouldn't know what those maniac ronins done to her after then, as well as a way of her to feel less pain when death comes.

She didn't know whether luck has always been there or not, but she could've sworn she'd just heard another person yelled in pain instead from hers.

The moment she took a peek on whatever going on of one of the maniac ronin that's been killed, she met another person who seemed to be in an elder age, yet nothing much old to her. He has a very gentle aura however. She wasn't sure if that man is her enemy or an ally to come and rescue her from them.

This man in front of her is not an ordinary human nor ronin, however. He seemed to be powerful one. Seeing how he killed them with just his fist only one round. He's not even using a sword to kill them.

"Yare yare… it seems that everyone wouldn't able to sleep in peace if we let these abominations alive." The elder with a crimson hair sighed heavily, still using a defense pose to prepare another attack to the maniac ronin.

"Blood.. I WANT BLOOOOOD…..!" one of the silver-haired ronin screamed as he was about to launch an attack to the older man.

"I do not have any reason to fight you, but..," he used the final blow to his enemy with his fist once more."..when it comes to the abominations, I would not hesitating let you exist here."

The brunette watched him finished off the maniac ronins with widen eyes and mouth, care less if the flies would come into her mouth then, because she was amazed of him. She has never seen such a strong ronin as him could defeat them with just a fist.

This man in front of her is definitely not an ordinary ronin.

As she was about to move backward despite she'd still on the ground, a bullet suddenly shot on the right side and hit one of the maniac ronin's chest, lying his body on the ground. Chizuru's body became to freeze once more.

If she had moved on to the right side, she would've died already… If she had moved on the right side, the bullet would've aim to her head already…

Hesitatingly, she turned her face behind to see whoever just shot that ronin and it seemed to be another powerful ronin. His clothes were not in Japanese style as the crimson-haired man one, but she can tell that the gunslinger must be an elder's friend.

"Hey, hey, Amagiri. Why don't we play around with those fake demons?" the gunslinger joked. "Killing them seriously is no fun, you know?"

"I wouldn't do that, Shiranui. We came all the way here to erase the abominations' existence. I doubt that he wouldn't like it as well." A man named Amagiri said, his expression changed into grim then.

"Yeah, yeah, whatever." Shiranui sighed. "You're really boring sometimes, Amagiri. And that bastard can be really pissed me off sometimes."

Upon of listening their conversation, Chizuru looked at them in a little perplexed.

He?

Could it be that there's another person who would come and kill those maniac ronins beside these two? Who could possibly be then? So many questions filled in her minds already.

As the brunette watched them finished off the bloodlust ronins once more, she told herself once more to get away already. Things would've become even worse if she kept watching them slaughtered each other. She used her palm of hand this time to support herself on standing then, intending to run from the couple unknown ronins and the maniacs too. But suddenly, another insane ronin appeared in front of her, raised up his katana to slice down her. Looking in horror in front of her, her body became parayzled, couldn't avoid his attack.

"Ahhhh!"

She screamed as she crossed her arms in front of her face, hoping that was the only thing she can do.

Not long after this, a sword suddenly slicing on the ronin in front of her into half. The dead corpse laid down on the ground and slowly turned into grey ashes. The moment her eyes laid on whoever killed the ronin in front of her, that person has the most gorgeous figure she could ever seen and it's almost like a great design of porcelain doll. He has a very mysterious aura that she couldn't tell whether that man is an enemy or an ally. But those crimson-blood orbs were the most horrify thing she had ever seen.

Those orbs were very cold like an iceberg. There was a dull and bored expression on his face as if he's been doing this job in forceful.

"It seems that you have an unfortunate fate today, Human." He sighed lazily.

She blinked for a moment, her body starting to feel weak once more. Without realizing, she had fell on the ground once again.

"Blood... Bloooood...!" the unknown ronin spotted another insane ronin behind him. Turning around as he looked at the silver-white monster in disgusted. "I WANT BLOOD. BLOOD. BLOOD. BLOOD. BLOOD. BLOOD. BLOOD. BLOOOOOOD!"

The monster chanted those words over and over again before readying himself to launch an attack to the blonde-haired ronin.

"Pathetic." The man snorted in despise before ending his life with a single slash.

The brunette shut her lips with a palm of her hands, whimpered quietly upon of watching men getting slaughtered very closely, blood splattering everywhere in the night of Kyoto. The smell of dead corpses along with blood were suffocating to her. She finds herself hard to breathe at the unpleasant stench.

At that, he and the two powerful ronins began to finish off them with a split second. It wasn't taken any long then they've finally killed them all, and all what's left is just only ashes. A man with a sword sheathed his sword back, looked at disgustingly down on him.

"To think the Shinsengumi gone too far when they knew it's hopeless even if they had to pay their humanity for the sake of power. Trash..." The crimson-blood orbs man mumbled under his breathed, though she wasn't sure if that man was talking to himself or to his two allies.

"It seems that the rasetsus' state in the Shinsengumi has gotten worse." Amagiri said, sighing in exhaustedly. "There may be a chance that their number will eventually become increasing then."

"Well we might as well be preparing of what's gonna happen then. When it comes to the abominations, we can't sit there and do nothing." The blonde-haired Oni replied back.

The brunette had listening to their conversation, clueless of whatever they talking about. Rasetsus? Shinsengumi? What do they mean by that? Has this always been like this in every night of Kyoto?

"A-Ahhh!" She shot her mouth close once more, too shocked and stunned upon of hearing a familiar group calling themselves as the 'Shinsengumi'. She had heard several bad rumors about them; they were known as a very cruel men who cut people down on the street without showing any pity for them. Is Shinsengumi really those kind who's mad for blood and murdered innocent people? She knew the word of 'cruel' very much but she had never thought that Shinsengumi were definitely that kind of machine killers.

As she thought very deeply, the gunslinger then went forward in front of her, couldn't tell what kind of expression he used right now. But somehow feeling a little regretful for not running away when they were having a conversation.

"So Kazama," Shiranui began. "What are you gonna do to this guy? He doesn't look like a rasetsu to me."

Chizuru looked at the gunslinger in confused at first because how he stated her as a guy but remembered then that before she ready to go to Kyoto, she pretend herself as a boy by wearing a male clothes just to keep her safe from dangerous. She was glad to Kami that none of them noticed of her gender.

Including these powerful ronins such as them.

As she laid her eyes on the man named Kazama, she gave a begging expression so that the crimson-blood orbs man would pity her and lets her live, but she failed in the end. His face was cold and seemed to be care less of the brunette's life. There was no concern or guilty for her.

Instead, it was only filled with disgusted similar as how he looked at the insane ronins.

"Isn't it obvious?" Kazama finally answered. "Just kill him already. He would eventually die like most of pathetic humans."

Her face changed into horror once again. Feared of how would they take her life away without listening her story as to how did she ended up here.

Following her instinct, Chizuru tried to get up, feels the need to get away from them even if her death would've become even more horrible than giving up on them.

Her ears twitched slightly as she heard the gun was getting ready to release the bullet to shot, but she'd still ignored it, continued on running away from them.

"It's hopeless to run!," Shiranui raised his voice, shot the brunette on her sleeve, which ended up her fell down on the ground, held her arm tightly.

"U-Ummmprgh…!" Chizuru groaned painfully, tried to fight back her tears from her eyes, and endured the pain on her arm as hard as she possibly could.

Opening her eyes in hesitantly, her eyes laid on her arm where the gunslinger shot. Soon, she shot her eyes widen open in perplexed as her wound began to knit her skin slowly. It was as if there was an invincible thread and needle was sewing her skin elegantly until there's no deep wound anymore.

Blinking in confused, she gazed into her arm in puzzled.

It… healed?, she thought.

But how? She wondered deeply. As she's still kneeled down on the ground, she laid her eyes on the powerful ronins then, who looked at the brunette in shocked and surprised, as if they saw she had six arms instead of two.

"His.. his arm was healed…?"

The gunslinger gapped like a fish, eyes still widen like a saucer.

When Chizuru took a gazed upon on them longer, she soon realized that a man named Kazama wasn't there between them.

Not long after then, she could felt something was stabbing her with a sharp katana very deeply with just a stare. A little hesitating then, she turned her head around, meeting her horrify almond-brown orbs into the crimson one, who looked at her with suspicious and confused expression behind on that ruby eyes of Kazama's.

The longer she looked into his eyes, the brunette has finally sees his true expression behind on that dull mask of the blonde-haired Oni.

"You…," Kazama finally spoke, looked at the brunette very deeply. "You're not a human. Who are you?"

"Who.. am I?" She murmured softly, not knowing what to say.

"Obviously that you're not a mere human." The gunslinger then said as he and the red-headed man turned their heels to move behind the brunette girl.

"Eh?"

Chizuru blinked upon of Shiranui's words. Too confused and puzzled of whatever they're talking about now. What does that mean? Were they trying to tell her that she's not a human too?

She soon returned back to the reality as she hears a lazily snort of the golden-haired man.

"If you're truly not a mere human," Kazama began. "..then, let me show you what we are."

The atmosphere around them suddenly began to turn tense, gives the brunette chilled down all over her spine already. Strange aura began to form around the blonde-haired Oni. His crimson-red orbs glowed into golden one, his fascinating blonde hair began to turned into silver white hair like among of those insane ronins, four horns then began to grow on his forehead sharp like a dagger, his figure is much elegant and beautiful than before. But at the same time, she also could felt feared upon of seeing this kind of form from Kazama Chikage.

He's not a human…

She thought.

At the same time, however, he's not like among of the-so-call-abomination.

Who is he? What is he? How could she meet these three powerful ronins at a place like this? At a time like this?

She had only hoped this would be a nightmare. She had only hoped she soon woke in a small house in Edo, who still waiting her father's letter.

But she knew that this is real.

She knew that this is reality.

She didn't want to accept this fate however.

This man in front of her scared her greatly. Just seeing those cold golden orbs of Kazama's made her frightened to death already.

Upon of gazing him longer, she soon realized that her hair starting to turn into silver white as well, her almond-brown orbs slowly glowed into golden. Her body began to shaking in fear upon of feeling this unfamiliar aura.

She finds herself hard to breathe as the strange aura that Kazama form began to become stronger. Her heartbeat began to swift like non-stop as if it was about to explode already.

His words then echoed inside her head before she fell into a pit of darkness.

"As I expected, you're definitely one of us."

There you go guys~ is it good? Bad? Horrible?! Please review what's your mind about this story. I would love to know your opinion about my story(beside grammar error). Let's see what's more… ahh yes, this chapter is mostly about Chizuru's POV(with a slight several Onis POV too), which means, the next one probably about Kazama perspective.

Thank you for reading and please review~ ^w^