My blood,My pain: a Batman/Deadman Wonderland crossover
Hey it's Raymoney, coming at you with another fanfiction and if you're reading this congratulations you're reading my tenth story, like always it will have an OC and like most my stories it is from my OC's POV. Alright, let's get started.
Summary: Before being sent to the Deadman Wonderland, Karako Koshio was able to hide her brother Kichirou Koshio and keep him from the torture of that sadistic prison. She asked her friend in Gotham city, Barbara Gordon to take him in and hide him in away from corrupted officials from using his powers for personal gain. Like his sister, Kichirou is infected with the blood disease known as the branch of sin known as the "eagle talons"now he's the new Nightwing helping out helping out the Blackbat aka Cassandra Cain look after Gotham and constantly searching for any sign of his sister the only biological family he has left ready to help her in the Deadman Wonderland.
Disclaimer: I don't own Deadman Wonderland or Batman
Prologue
A dark skinned ten year old boy with white hair and brown eyes is seen with his twenty year old sister at an airport in Tokyo, the sister was crying her eyes out trying to hold her composure and trying to comfort her brother, while the boy himself looked saddened himself not ready to leave the woman's side.
" Flight 259 to Gotham now boarding."
Karako smiles weakly trying not to make a scene in front of her only brother in the terminal.
"Well, that's your cue."
Her brother Kichirou looks up at her with a saddened expression on his face
"Do I have to go?"
"It's the only way to keep you safe. Don't worry Babs will look after you in Gotham."
Kichirou hugs Karako tight not wanting to let go.
"But it's my fault you're going to jail, I should be punished the one not you sister."
"Don't say that again Kichirou, I don't regret stealing that medicine for you, besides that trial was a joke they just want me for entertainment purposes no sense for the both of use to go down."
Karako pulls out a sterling silver cross out of her pocket and places it on Kichirou's neck.
"This cross was a gift from mom when she first met dad, it was the only thing of value I've kept from being sold because I know they would want you to have it. Now before you go do you think you could give your big sister Karako one last smile before you go, huh?"
Kichirou gives Karako one last half smile and just then a young flight attendant walks to the siblings.
"OK are we ready to go?"
"Yes we are, oh and do me a favor when you guys touchdown in Gotham call the number on this paper."
Karako hands a piece of paper to the flight attendant
" Will do miss, here little guy stay by my side you don't want to get lost here."
"Yes, ma'am."
"Oh, wait."
Karako catches up and places a pill bottle in the boys hand.
"These defeat the point of me stealing them if their not with you."
"Thanks,sis."
The boy hugs his sister one last time before the flight attendant leads him to the gate.
The flight attendant leads the sad boy to his seat. The boy was amazed at the interior of the plane.
"OK, this is your seat.
He has a window seat next to a woman who's asleep in her seat
"Have you ever been on a plane before?"
"No ma'am."
"Well, let me show you how it works here's the air, the light and if you need anything press this button and I'll contact you about your problem."
"Um, how long do flights take."
"Well, going to another continent it takes a couple of days but, we can keep the passengers entertained until we make it."
After an hour in the sky, the plane experiences some turbulence slightly startlingly the first time flyer and waking up the sleeping woman next to him. She recognizes the boy right away.
"Oh god, little Kichirou Koshio is that you."
Kichirou has a little trouble recognizing the woman.
"It's me Hinata Ito, your sister and I are good friends, we went to high school together, I used to babysit you while she was working."
"Oh hello."
"What are you doing on this flight."
"Karako is going to jail so now she sent me to live with a friend of hers in Gotham."
"Oh right, the medicine."
Kichirou starts to tear up.
"It's all my fault, she's gonna suffer because of me."
"Hey, never for one second say she'll suffer because of you I know for a fact she would be miserable without you and if that meant committing a crime to save your life she'd do it in a heartbeat no questions asked, OK?"
"OK. Um miss Hinata?"
"Yes?"
"Why are you going to Gotham?"
"Well, I'm going because I have been asked to join the GCPD, hopefully I can do a lot better there then those jokes in our old slump. Oh, Kichirou one more thing how's your English?"
"Good, Karako has been teaching me for Gotham."
"Splendid!"
48 hours later
After the flight, the flight attendant kept her promise to Karako and called the number on the paper. Just then she comes out showing Kichiru to a bench in the terminal.
"OK cutie, I just talked to a Barbara Gordon she said she'll be here in a couple of minutes you have a good day."
While Kichiru was waiting for his new caretaker he couldn't believe the changes in his life, a new country, a new house, a new family, it all seemed like too much and he was on the verge of a panic attack, until a hand is placed on his shoulder the hand belonged to a woman in a wheelchair with red hair and green eyes wearing a pair of glasses.
"Why, hello you must be Kichirou I swear the resemblance to your sister is uncanny."
"Hello miss Gordon."
"Oh please, you can call me Babs you're Karako's brother after all. Now let's get your bags and let's get some breakfast, what do you want to eat?"
"I have a choice?"
"Kid, I've got a lot to show you about Gotham."
The two leave for bag claims.
Chapter 1
5 years later
Gotham at night, I don't think there is anything more beautiful of course it would be more beautiful if there weren't any costumed baddies trying to take over Gotham. Then my Bluetooth went off.
"Blackbat to Nightwing."
"Go ahead, Cassandra."
"Do you see him?"
"Yeah I see him, Killer Croc, I'm in pursuit as we-oh god!"
"Are you OK there?"
"Yeah, I'll live my just heart's acting up again."
I found him in an alley when unfortunately he pounced on me top of me and got the best of me.
That giant reptile man had me in a headlock trying to choke the life out of me and my side was still hurting because this jackass rammed me into the wall and my heart decided to have issues at this exact moment, when suddenly I found a piece of broken glass and used it to cut an open wound on my hand causing my branch of sin to activate. Luckily Cassandra and I were able to subdue the jolly green lizard long enough for the police to take him back to Arkham.
Just then my alarm clock woke me up for the day and thankfully my heart wasn't acting up like last night. Hmm, maybe last night was a dream I examined my side looking at a big purple bruise around my ribs, ow! OK no that was real and that pain it was excruciating how did Dick Grayson do this all those years? I then shouted for Barbara.
"Hey Babs, do we have any painkillers?"
"Yeah there is some Tylenol in the bathroom."
"Thanks."
I then went into the bathroom with a glass,I poured myself a glass of water and took a couple of Tylenol's to ease the pain in my side and I put my glasses on my face and I put my cross around my neck.
After finishing up in bathroom, I went out automatically remembering what today was,I changed into my clothes for the day and then went into the living room to see Barbara finishing up her physically therapy for the day.
"Good morning, Babs."
"Morning, birthday boy."
She said as she was getting back into her wheelchair.
"Oh come on, let's not make a big deal out of this."
"Come on that is just crazy, it's your birthday being a year older is nothing to take light, especially in our line of work."
"Especially with my heart."
"Come on, dad is coming over for dinner,I even got you a gift, the whole nine yards, don't you think it's time to stop blaming yourself for what happened?"
"Alright, alright I'll bite, I don't know what it is about you why I can't say no but since you've went to some trouble, let's have a little celebration"
"That's the spirit, come back here after basketball practice."
"Sure thing, later."
I left Babs in the apartment but not without putting a nitroglycerin patch on my chest and putting my bottle of beta blockers in my bag.
Well, I guess it's time you get to know me, my name is Kichirou Koshio, I'm fifteen years old as of today and I've lived in Gotham city with Barbara Gordon for almost five years. Before that I was an orphan living in a slum in Tokyo with my older sister Karako who is about ten years older than I am. Our mother was the first to go she was a missionary from South Africa when she met our father, she always had a weak heart and was at risk of dying from childbirth, Karako's birth caused a massive strain on her body but not her spirit and when the doctors found out she was pregnant they advised her to abort me or die in labor, she decided keep me and sacrifice her own life. The next was my father, from what I remember he wasn't a saintly man but Karako told me mom brought out the best in him, it was only after her death did he lose his faith and all the good aspects of him vanished and he constantly blamed me for her death. He made the first five years of my life a living hell he'd beat me, whip me, burn me, basically anything to leave me bruised and bloody letting me know he would of rather have his wife here than me I still have the scars to this day, his death came during one night of heavy drinking, he brought one of his handguns out of one of his hiding places ready to kill me, he loaded it up ready to kill me when suddenly Karako showed up and tried to wrestle the gun out of his hand only it went off shooting him instead, he bleed out cursing me as he died,I pray to God he has forgiven me for the death of mom.
After that is was me and Karako in some crumby bungalow and here was the kicker, the heart disorder that took my mother from me now affected me. It caused me to be a sickly child and it forced Karako to work odd jobs for stuff like food, water and nitroglycerin we lived a poor life but it was ours. Ah and the reason I live here in Gotham city is because when I was ten years I needed beta blockers for my heart because my heart was failing only they didn't have any at the free clinic but there were some at the hospital where Karako had a nursing job, she couldn't pay for them and the hospital wouldn't give them away she decided to to steal them for me. After a month of stealing the medicine, she was finally caught and sent the sadistic prison known as the Deadman Wonderland for imprisonment but, before she was sent to the prison she used her savings to buy a plane ticket here and had arranged for her old pen pal Barbra Gordon to take me in and make sure I stay safe, in fact for the last five years Babs put me into basketball as a coping mechanism which in a way it does help.
There's one more thing I'm the new Nightwing,I found out about Barbara's connection to Batman right away when I overheard Barbara on one of her Oracle assignments I swear I envy her for not letting her handicap slow her down. Anyways, when the original Batman Bruce Wayne retired, Dick Grayson took up the mantle or cowl in this case, and he and Barbra trained me to become the new Nightwing and it does help that I have a power well, not really a power but the blood disease known as the branch of sin. For those who don't know what I'm talking about, branch of sin is the ability to control my blood from day a cut on my person mine is unique if I cut my hands or my feet I can control the blood to cause claw like appendages they're amply named the eagle talons.
As I made it to Gotham high school, things ran smoothly until lunchtime then our idiot star football player who calls himself the Bull and his crew of lackeys comes in my direction.
"Well, if it isn't the Piglet."
"What do you want Muttonhead?"
"Oh the bacon cheeseburger, I didn't know pigs were meat eaters."
"They're omnivores Numbskull, are you here just to talk about my dietary habits?"
He then dumps a bottle of soda on my head.
"Clever, did it take you to all three minutes to come up with that?"
I pulled out a clothe out of my pocket to clean my glasses.
Just then, Cassandra came walking by.
"Is there an issue here?"
And the Bull and his crew left in a huff, cowards. Cassandra then day next to me kinda neat at night we're Nightwing and Blackbat but here we're just Cassandra Cain and Kichirou Koshio two freshmen with troubled pasts.
"Why do you just beat them? You know those assholes a taste of their own medicine?"
"I would but it's more funny to see them cower, anyways who so we have tonight?"
"From the looks of it we have to deal with Poison Ivy."
"I'll get my gas mask for tonight."
After my basketball practice,I made it back to the complex to see a GCPD patrol car, commissioner Gordon didn't drive a patrol car so the logical choice was it belonged to officer Hinata Ito, an old high school friend of Karako's from Tokyo.I then unlocked the door, and was greeted by Hinata giving me a big bear hug.
"Hello little Kichirou, how are you?"
"Fine how are you Hinata?"
"Good, Barbra's in the kitchen if you need her."
"Thanks."
I then made it to the kitchen to see Barbara working on the meal.
"Hey Babs, you didn't tell me Hinata was coming over."
"If I did you would spend all day moping about the past, now come on show me less Nightwing and more Kichirou."
I smiled to her, weakly but she took it.
"There we are, now let's get ready."
A knock on front door was heard and automatically we knew who it was.
"Oh it's dad, let him in."
"Sure thing Babs."
I then opened the door.
"Hello,Commissioner Gordon."
"Kichirou, happy birthday."
End of chapter 1
Chapter 2
I went to meet Cassandra on the roof of Ivy's greenhouse.
"Hey Kichirou, how was your birthday?"
"OK I guess, I got some nice gifts and a card from my sister."
"Good maybe now you can stop being the Hamlet of our missions."
"Oh come on! I'm a lot less depressed than Hamlet"
My attention was then shifted from our conversation to a giant flower in the middle of the greenhouse.
"Is that Ivy's latest experiment?"
"Looks like it."
"I swear if that's a bomb."
I put on my gas mask and investigated.
As we examined it the flower was opening up, I cut my hands ready to activate my branch of sin only instead of a weapon there was a girl who resembles Poison Ivy emerged from it, it wasn't a bomb it was a faux uterus for a what looks like a plant/human hybrid girl she looked around the age of Cassandra and I. She was about to fall, when I caught her.
"Easy, easy there, are you OK miss?"
With her eyes half opened she looked at me for a couple of seconds and went back to sleep.
I then looked at Cassandra, wondering.
"What do we do with her?"
"Let's take her back to the clocktower, Oracle and Batman will help us."
Back at the clocktower while Barbra and Dick were examining her, the mystery girl woke up and automatically to a liking to me, she placed one hand on my cheek,I talked back to her.
"Do you remember anything?"
"No, sir."
"Do you have a name?"
"No, I was never given one."
"Well, would Rose work?"
She smiled at the name I gave her, Dick then spoke.
"You can stay at the Wayne manor if that's OK with you Rose."
"Yes, sir."
Rose then looked at me.
"What's your name?"
I took off my mask
"At night I'm called Nightwing but in public view I'm Kichirou Koshio."
"Pleased to meet you Kichirou."
"Back at you, Rose."
Babs then had an idea.
"For the time being she can go to Gotham high where Cassandra and Kichiru can keep an eye on her."
Dick responded,
"That works."
When back at the apartment Babs and I were talking.
"Looks like someone has a girlfriend."
"I'm just being a good gentleman."
"Just as clueless as the first Nightwing."
"What was that?"
"Nothing, oh hey you forgot to open Karako's birthday card before you left."
"Oh right thanks."
I opened up her card and read with excitement, but something caught my eye, it was worded differently like Karako was trying to tell my something and it in some coded words I could make out the words Help us. I didn't know what was going on but I knew one thing was for sure, I had to go to Deadman Wonderland and help Karako, fast!
To be continued...
That's it for this installment, like always if you have suggestion let me know, nothing inflammatory.
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