Second try on writing fanfiction...
Xanxus + OC. Risk for EXTREM OOCness from Xanxus... because I totaly adore the tought of him having a splitpersonality when falling in-love.
Rated M just to be sure for later Chapters. ∑(ﾟ□ﾟ*)/
I'm just going to let you read on...
Going to school like normal, and starting of the day avoiding being hugged by one of the males from another class I hang my bag by my seat. The feeling of being watched while walking into the building was back. Well, technically the feeling had been haunting me the last few months. Shivering for the feeling I looked around, realizing that I was alone in the classroom. It was about half an hour before the class would start, and the others were probably playing cards in the lounge. A quick glace out the window confirmed that nobody was on the roof and looking at me. This was the top floor, and you could easily walk on the roof outside the windows. I gave of a small sight, nobody was as stupid to break the school rules and walk on the roof, and then went off to find my classmates.
"Oh, you're here today?"
"I told you I would be. Don't look so surprised."
"Well, you do tend to stay at home a lot."
"Not 'cause I want too…"
"We know that Chris."
They smiled at me, the only girl in the grade, and started dealing the cards for another round. I sat down at the usual chair and started playing the usual game with them, teachers and other students said their normal morning greetings as they passed by and I felt that strange feeling again. But in this school that consisted of mostly males it wasn't odd that they stared at one of the few females, so I ignored it. I kept having the feeling every lesson until lunch, and as I was sitting down to eat with my friends I started to feel it again. Every time I had been going upwards, or downwards, the spiral staircase of the school the feeling was gone, but when I entered one of the areas that were more open the feeling was back. Was somebody seriously watching me?
"So… you don't have any lessons after lunch, right?"
"Yeah, going home for the day after eating."
"Well, at least you came today."
"Just what am I supposed to say at that?"
"You don't need to say anything."
I smiled at my friends who seemed happy just seeing me for a few hours. The fact to why I wasn't at school all the time wasn't even asked for, they already knew why. Finishing off my plate and leaving it by the dishwasher that belonged to the school I headed to the classroom once more and grabbed my bag and coat. I smiled at the fact that somebody had texted me and a small noise came from my phone, pulling it up in expecting to see a message from one of my friends, I got annoyed. I did not recognize the number… wait a second, wasn't this an Italian number?
/
Walking out from the school and to the bus I read the message; 'Ciao, hope you had a nice day! Don't mind the strange glare that I know you felt, he is just making sure you don't get hurt. Oh and please tell me what store you got that coat from, it's adorable! xoxo L'. I flinched. No. Way. Somebody had been watching me the last few months, and somebody else was asking me to ignore it? Getting on the bus was for once pleasant. The feeling of being watched did not disappear however. A blond teen sat down beside me even if many other seats were free.
"Ushishishi~ are you ok girly?"
"Do I know you?"
"Didn't Luss text you?"
"So the strange person who sent this message is called Luss?" I shoved the text-message to him before thinking.
"Ushishishi, that's right Christina." I flinched at my name; why did this blond guy, who had silver tiara/crown on his head, know my name?
"Who are you?" I asked trying to tell myself that this wasn't the person that had been watching me even if I had a feeling he was the one.
"Ushishishi, I'm the prince. Call me Belphegor, or Bel, or prince if you want that."
"Huh? You are…" I swallowed. He was way closer than I wanted him to be, and that grin on his face made me feel even more uneasy.
"My, my~ Bel-chan, don't scare Christina."
"Trash, move."
"Ushishi, the prince did not scare her. I just answered her question." He got up and grinned at me. I looked at the males who were standing there. One had long silver hair, another had a strange green colored hairstyle and sunglasses, the third had spiky hair and wait… was that swords on his back? The fourth, and the one that had called Bel trash, had spiky black or maybe dark brown hair and a few feathers falling down on the sides of his neck together with something that looked like the tail of a raccoon. I stared at the male with feathers in his hair; he had scars covering the side of his face and a really interesting eye color.
"Christina." The male I was staring at spoke, he didn't seem bothered by the fact that I stared.
"Y-yes?" I said, a bit hesitating.
"We're here to protect you."
"WHAT?"
"VOOOII, don't yell at the boss."
"Shut it trash."
"Why do I need protection, and who are you?"
"We are Varia." The male referred to as 'Boss' said with a smile. "I'm Xanxus. This is Squalo, Lussuria, Levi and Bel." He pointed at the males as he said their names. I nodded to confirm that I understand.
"Are you going to say why I need protection, or at least explain what Varia is?"
"Later."
"I don't like the sound of that."
"You'll understand." Xanxus smirked at my frown. I was getting a headache trying to understand why I could need five males to protect me, was I about to be assassinated or something?
/
After getting home from school and getting an explanation from Lussuria about what Varia was, I was a bit shaken. Why was an assassination squad protecting me? And why did all the males seem to find me interesting?
"Are you ok?" Xanxus cut my concentration off.
"I guess, since nobody has killed me yet." I said sarcastically. He smirked at that.
"If you can make jokes after hearing that, it means you don't get freaked out easily. Good." He sat down in the chair next to my bed, I looked at him from my position on the bed; I had been thinking while reading a book.
"Christina, just so you know…" he started but seemed to think that it might be better to not say anything since he stopped.
"What is it Xanxus?" I said, a bit curious to know just what he was about to say.
"There is less than 10% chance that this 'mission' is successful." He said after being quiet for some moments.
"So, less than 10% chance that I'll be alive after this? Interesting… well, we all have to die at some point." I yawned and started reading again, dying wasn't something that made me upset. I heard him move.
"You don't even flinch at the thought of dying at the age of 17?"
"Why would I? Luss told me about the fact that you have all the information needed on me, so you should know about my condition."
"I didn't read everything."
"That explains it. Well, all the medical info can be a pain…"
"You really don't seem to be 17 when you talk like that."
"I know. My mental age is 40 years." I laughed as I said it; my longish bang fell into my face. I felt a hand stroke the hair away and tuck it in behind my ears. I looked to the side; Xanxus was sitting on my bed with his hand by my ear.
"You don't look like you are just 17 either."
"Huh? Yeah… I matured quite quickly." I responded and sat up on my bed. Lying on my stomach and having a male next to me did not seem safe. He might be on a mission to protect my life, but that didn't make him any less a human male. Apparently he noticed that I had put up my guard and smirked.
"Don't worry, I won't try to do anything Principessa."
"Just reflex since I go to a school that consists to more than 90% of male students." I said, explaining my behavior without knowing why I felt like doing so.
"Teen males have a harder time keeping track or feelings than adults."
"So I should be more careful around Bel than the rest of you?" I raised an eyebrow at his remark.
"Heh, you didn't even react to what I called you. Yet you keep talking back?" He seemed to find it fun that I didn't react to him calling me princess in Italian.
"My parents call me that quite often." I said and tilted my head while looking at him. He looked back in slight shock, and then he patted me on the head.
"I understand why you have to keep your guard up in school." He started laughing as if I had explained something that was extremely funny.
"Why are you laughing?"
"You have no self awareness?"
"Apparently." I frowned. I was maybe over analytic in school, making sure not to do anything that could provoke thoughts of other things than schoolwork. Making sure that the school was peaceful was important.
"Heh, you'll understand later if you don't get it know."
"I'll understand if you explain."
"No."
"Is it something awkward?"
"What makes you think that?"
"Well, you did answer a bit quick and—"
"Bel will be guarding you tonight." He changed the subject before I got to finish, apparently he was feeling awkward about something. If only he told me what.
"Is that wise considering what you said earlier?"
"Squalo might make you stay up all night with his loud voice. Levi can't even stand 10 meters from you without blushing. Lussuria… he might try to do something." Xanxus had stand up while speaking.
"And Bel won't try anything?" I asked I then frowned. "That small kid that was floating around earlier, who is that?"
"Huh? You saw Mammon?"
"Yeah, I saw him earlier… but I didn't really pay attention. I was trying to not freak out over the fact that somebody told me that they were going to protect me."
"Mammon is an illusionist."
"Oh… why are you so shocked over the fact that I saw him?"
"He uses illusions to hide himself. Not many people can see trough those illusions."
"And the fact that I can is strange? Oh, hi Mammon." I saw the kid floating into my room. He jolted at the sound of his name. Xanxus looked over his own shoulder at the kid.
"You used an illusion when entering, right?"
"Of course boss. Hey you" Mammon pointed at me "have you ever thought of becoming an illusionist? It isn't easy to see though the illusions that I create."
"No, never thought of it." He snorted when he heard me say that. Maybe he found it annoying that someone like me had seen through his illusion.
"Mammon… she is the girl."
"I know that boss. Too bad that I can't take her as a student."
"huh? What are you two talking about..?"
"Nothing. Mammon, Bel is keeping guard tonight, can you make sure he don't try anything?"
"Fine by me, the pay on this job is good."
/
I was staring at the pattern that was created on the floor when the rays of light fell through the window. Bel was sitting in the chair next to my bed, he was starting to move. A yawn came out of his mouth. I pulled my blanket closer since I knew that my nightgown might show a bit too much skin, and even if I knew that Varia had training… Xanxus did say that teen males had a harder time controlling emotions. Better safe than sorry. Bel turned his head towards me.
"Ushishishishi, bou'n giorno principessa!" he said grinning at me.
"Morning Bel." I responded, not changing position.
"Shouldn't you get up?"
"Are you supposed to sleep when Xanxus told you that you to keep guard?"
"Ushishishi, if it is about the nightgown I've already seen you in it. Remember that I've been watching you for quite some time." His grin became wider.
"Oh right, the prince is a perverted man who likes to watch when I sleep." I said in a monotone voice.
"I'm not perverted."
"The fact that you only denied that part makes you perverted." I responded.
"So watching a beauty sleep and thinking that it's great to be able to do so is wrong?" he didn't smile, or grin, at me when talking.
"I'm going to ignore that you said that."
"Why?"
"Since you probably can't see very well with you bang in the way."
"What is that supposed to mean?"
"that you- Bel what are you doing?" He had grabbed me and pulled me of the bed and down on the floor. I didn't need him to explain since I got the explanation from another source. The window was shattered and some bullets were sticking to the wall next to the bed. The prince disappeared for a few moments before returning.
"Sorry principessa, did you get hurt?" he helped me up from the floor.
"No. I'm fine. Was that the reason you thought I should get up?"
"Ushishishi, so you understood that after being thrown to the floor?"
"Yeah, sorry for being slow." I smiled at him. "And thanks Bel." I gave him a kiss on the cheek.
"If you are going to say thanks to the prince by a kiss, do it properly." He said, but was smiling.
"VOOOOIIIII, why is the window broken?" Squalo entered before I could respond.
"Somebody tried to kill me by firing bullets." I said and pointed at the wall. Squalo looked at the bullets.
"You aren't hurt are y-" he noticed the way I was dressed and his eyes widened.
"I'm fine, Bel pulled me of the bed just in time."
"Bel-chan, Christina, I heard bullets… Oh my~ Christina, you look good in white." Lussuria had entered the room and grabbed my arm.
"Good morning Luss." I smiled. I then saw Xanxus standing by the door. Levi was standing behind the boss of Varia and was blushing more than I thought was possible.
"Christina…" Xanxus was looking at me in a strange way, he then blinked. "Put some clothes on."
"Give me a minute." I opened the door to the closet and pulled out a shirt and a skirt before heading to the bathroom. Since the window to my room was destroyed I couldn't change there. I changed into the white dress shirt and the black skirt and washed my face. I didn't have any black circles under my eyes for once. Leaving the bathroom and walking over to Varia who now was sitting in the living room I got surprised looks from the males.
"What?" I asked when they eyed me.
"Ushishishi, the principessa looks like she belongs in the mafia."
"Christina-chan, you look amazing in that outfit."
"VOOOOOIIIII, why didn't you have that yesterday?"
"Can't have a skirt in school. The male students stare too much." I responded to Squalo. Levi had turned his head away.
"Heh, it fits you." Xanxus smirked. I smiled at him and was about to sit down on the couch when he grabbed my wrist.
"What is it Xanxus?" I tilted my head to the side as I looked at him. That strange look from before was back.
"If you sit down next to one of those they will eat you alive." He stated. I rolled my eyes; did he really distrust the members of Varia that much?
"I don't thi-"I didn't get to finish what I was about to say before I was sitting on Xanxus lap.
"We need to move out from here as fast as possible." Xanxus started to speak, holding his arm around me so that I wouldn't move. What was I, a cat?
"Should we head back to Italy then? Nobody is stupid enough to try to attack her if she is at the HQ." Squalo said calmly. Lussuria nodded in agreement.
"The one who attacked her was a hired hitman. He was about to run when he saw me." Bel said bored over the conversation.
"So we have no clue to if it was a family or a single person who hired him?"
"No, he refused to even say his own name before being killed."
"And you didn't recognize his face?"
"No."
"That's bad, if we can't figure out which families that tries to kill her it will become difficult to handle this mission."
"Boss, you know that this isn't the normal kind of mission. And the stats…" Levi stopped, he seemed to think that I would overreact to the stats about the mission.
"I already know that the success rate is under 10%." I stated and felt Xanxus body getting tensed when I said it without any emotion.
"So you know that you might die?"
"Yeah. And everybody dies at some point, so why get so worked up about it?"
"Ushishishi, you have a point there principessa."
"To be expected of somebody who have tried to take her own life and lives in chronic pain." Luss smiled at me, I smiled back at him. He had read the info throughout.
"She what?" Levi stared at me, so did Squalo and Bel. I felt Xanxus flinch when he heard what Luss said. I tried to ignore the fact that they overreacted.
"I tried twice. Last one was about 3 ½ years ago I think." I stated. Xanxus pulled my head around.
"Don't ever do it again." He looked angry when staring at my face
"Relax, I won't. I know that it was stupid to try." I said, why did he have to hold me this close to him and why did he get so angry over the fact that I had tried to kill myself years ago?
"Good." His grip softened, yet he was still tensed.
"Boss, why don't we go back to Italy and try to work things out from there?"
"Fine, make sure that the plane is ready in a few hours."
"Yes sir." Levi and Lussuria got up and left, I didn't see it though since Xanxus was holding my face turned towards his own.
"Ushishishi, the prince is going to leave now." Bel disappeared, followed by Mammon who had been quiet the whole time.
"I'll just…" Squalo left too, not giving himself time to come up with a reason. Xanxus just kept looking at me the whole time.
"Are you going to let go of my chin any time soon? My neck starts to hurt." I said after waiting a few minutes in silence. Xanxus let go of my head quickly, I stretched my neck and massaged it to get away the stiffness.
"So when you said that when taking you condition into consideration it wasn't a big deal if you died…"
"Yeah, I was talking about the fact that I live in constant pain and have tried to take my own life."
"If I had known…"
"But you didn't, and I didn't tell you back then. Maybe I should have…"
"It was good you didn't."
"huh?"
"Never mind…"
"Hey, if you have something on your mind, tell me." I said and looked at him.
"You would not be able to handle it." He stared at me while he let the hand that wasn't holding my waist rest on my leg; well rest was wrong word since he was moving his fingers in circles along it.
"Fine, be like that." I turned my head away from his; his arm was still holding me down so I couldn't get up.
"How did you try?" his voice was quiet.
"Pills, second time I used alcohol too."
"What do you mean by pills?"
"Medication, I used to take a lot of painkillers."
"No other drugs?"
"No way, I don't even drink. I just tried to drug myself at that time."
"Don't like alcohol?"
"I don't have a problem with it; I just don't see the reason to drink something that makes one lose the self control."
"I can control myself better when drinking." I turned my head; Xanxus had said something that seemed strange.
"But aren't you sober at the moment?"
"Well I guess." He smirked at my reaction.
"So, at the moment you might try something?" I joked; he seemed more relaxed when I looked at him.
"Are you trying to provoke me?" he moved his head forward; I moved my own away from him.
"No."
"Then don't say such things while you are on-top of me." He smiled at my shocked face.
"You know that what you just said could be interoperated as something else than what you meant?"
"The fact that you can come up with another meaning is funny." He moved the arm that was around my waist so that his hand touched me.
"What are you-?"
"Boss, Christina, we have arranged- Oh my, just what are you two doing?" Lussuria had returned. And I realized that Xanxus and I weren't in a position that looked like we had just been talking.
/
"So you and boss were having fun together?" Bel had become even more annoying after he saw a picture Luss had taken of me and Xanxus. Of course it was taken in a way that made it look even more like we had done something completely different from what we had done.
"Bel, stop it."
"Did the principessa start to think that she could just leave the prince?"
"Bel, leave her alone." Lussuria seemed to think that the prince was staring to cross the line in his attempts to talk to me.
"Trash, what are you doing?"
"Nothing boss." Bel looked like he was angry, maybe because he had to stop annoy me.
"Christina, come. The old man wants to meet you."
"Huh? Who?"
"His father is the boss of the Vongola familia."
"Wait, what?" I stared at Luss who had explained who it was that I was supposed to meet with. Xanxus looked annoyed.
"She did not need to know that." He said before taking my hand and pulling me along to what I suspected to be his office. When entering I saw an old man who smiled at us. I smiled back, not sure what I was supposed to do.
"You look even more beautiful than in the pictures." He didn't get up from his chair when saying it. I then realized that he wasn't in a normal chair, but a wheelchair.
"Thank you, but that is hardly true." I responded while blushing. For some reason the feeling that the old man gave of was different from what I expected. Xanxus gave away a sight before pulling out a chair for me to sit on. I smiled at him and sat down; he sat down on the chair beside me.
"I heard what happened this morning, you didn't get hurt..?"
"No, I'm fine sir."
"Just get on with it old man."
"Do you even have an idea to why anybody would try to kill you?" the sudden question felt strange.
"No, none. I don't really get at all why somebody wants me dead." I responded.
"Do you know what this is?" a flame appeared around the old man's hand. I gasped.
"Don't worry, it won't hurt him." One of the men that had been standing behind the old man smiled at my worried face.
"It's called dying will flames."
"Why?"
"I'll explain to you later." Xanxus seemed like he wanted this meeting to get over with fast.
"… Either way, we believe that you have a type of flame that is different from the normal types that we have come across so far."
"In what way?"
"They have different colors… the sky elements are 7, and then we have the earth elements that are 7 as well. But you might have a flame that is different from those."
"Wait, are you going to say that you think I have a white flame?"
"How did you know?"
"Well, if my flame is different on a level that could make people want to kill me it has to be something extreme. And the thought of a flame that is white is on that level."
"How did you come up with it?" this time Xanxus asked.
"Combine all the colors in the world and you get white. Take all the colors away and you get black." I smiled at his surprised face.
"Want to try if you can bring out a flame?" the old man smiled at me.
"Sure, why not? Just tell me what to do."
"Hey old man, she will need some training before being able to emit any flame."
"Then train her. You seem to have gotten to know her quite well." The voice of the old man seemed a bit like he was pointing something out. Xanxus seemed to get angry on the hidden meaning.
"What the-"
"Xanxus, please don't…" I put a hand on his arm without thinking. He looked at me in surprise.
"What is it?"
"If I need training as you stated, why waste time on getting angry when we can start training?" I said to change subject. I had thought that Xanxus was going to start screaming and cursing, yet he had stopped when I told him to.
"Please don't mind my son, he has a terrible temper."
"The fact that you say things like that can't help his temper get any better."
"How dare you say that to the ninth?" the men that had been standing in the background looked at me in shock.
"I don't see why not since it is a fact."
"Hahahaha, you sure are fit to be a principessa Christina." The old man laughed and looked at me as if he saw his own child and was proud.
"Let's go." Xanxus had gotten up from his chair and took my hand again. I followed him without complain. He seemed angry, yet at the same time like he was happy about something.
"Xanxus? Why did they act like I was crazy for stating the truth?"
"Nobody dares to say anything against the ninth, unless it's me saying it. They probably were shocked to see a young lady do so."
"Don't call me lady, it don't really fit me."
"You don't mind being called principessa, but lady is a big no?" he had turned around in surprise.
"I've grown up hearing my parents call me principessa, so I'm used to it. But lady seems so… strange." I bit my lip and looked away, not sure how to face him.
"Should I explain how the flames work?"
"Please do." I was eager to learn how to use those flames, to see if I had a white flame like they thought.
"Heh, do you always look this happy when somebody is about to teach you something?"
"No… but when I find something interesting I tend to get excited."
"Do you know how wrong that would sound to most people?"
"Eh? Wait… what part of it sounded strange?"
"Either way… to start explaining the flames…"
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