Hello! Newbie writer here! This story here actually came to be from a dream I had months ago. I started writing down this story when I dreamt it, then forgot all about it, and now am trying to recollect everything about this story before I can write anything else. Unfortunately, this is the only chapter I've written. Sorry if the story's not that great. I can imagine things, but I can't ever word them out beautifully at all.

I believe there should be a disclaimer claiming my non-rights to the KHR series somewhere here...

Summary: Dame-Tsuna is forced by school bullies to enter a haunted mansion and unexpectedly meets a vampire. An attraction begins the moment their eyes met.

Ch. 1: The Noise Upstairs

"Ooh, why am I doing this again?"

Sawada Tsunayoshi is currently inside an old abandoned mansion, walking through the hallways of the first floor. Earlier, he was bullied by his classmates and dared (more like forced) to enter the moss covered structure and explore it until he finds the phone one of his bullies supposedly lost inside the mansion when they went inside it some other day ago.

"I'm so stupid for agreeing to do this- HIIIIIIIII!"

Tsuna accidentally bumped into a table with a rusty old vase. Luckily, he didn't bump too hard so it fell back in place.

The mansion is claimed by the government as a historical site dating back to the Taisho Era, thereby allowing this rusty site that will probably never be cared for to exist even to this day. Rumors say that this place is even haunted, so haunted that the government does not dare enter this place at all, making it a target place for ghost dares.

"Don't forget my phone's on the second floor!" he remembers the bully yelling at him before he entered the building.

"Where's the stairway?" Tsuna asked out loud. "I really wanna hurry out of here."

Lo and behold, Tsuna turned to his left towards another hallway to find the stairway up ahead. The hallway was dreary and dark – the epitome of scary and haunting. Tsuna gulped.

"...Maybe I should just forget it and let them beat me up," Tsuna suggested to himself, turning around towards where he came from. "Yeah, that sounds better than getting lost in this big house."

Looking back, Tsuna realized that it looked even worse and scarier than before. Besides that, he doesn't even remember what twists and turns he took getting to this spot.

"Oh my god!" Tsuna screamed, grabbing his head and rocking it back and forth. "I'm lost! What am I going to do?"

THUMP!

"HIIII!" Tsuna jumped and turned towards the direction of the sound. It was coming from the stairs, even though there was no wind that could come into the mansion, nor were there any animals like rats and whatnot running amuck. "W-what was that?"

THUMP! THUMP! THUMP!

The noise was similar to footsteps from the second floor, although the movement sounded a little too soft for it to be a person's. Tsuna, stiff as a stick, heard the footsteps moving closer towards the stairs. He was so quiet, he could hear his own heart beating so fast.

"...?" Tsuna was wondering why there was no noise after the footsteps reached the stairway. Suddenly, the thumps were moving away from the staircase and coming towards him. Tsuna followed the movement and possible location of the footsteps with his eyes.

CREAK! CLICK!

Tsuna was pretty sure that was the sound of a door closing.

Could that have been an actual person? He thought. No, no, no! It probably IS a ghost and it's just playing with me! Calm down Tsuna! The ghost wants to freak you out! And that's not good at all!

It must be his classmates pranking him again inside. Or it could be a homeless man living upstairs since no one bothers with the mansion at all.

"Eheh," he lightly laughed. "It's not a g-ghost. It's not a ghost. I know it's not. A-and to prove it to myself, I will go upstairs and introduce myself to the homeless man living upstairs in this supposed haunting house. Yeah. I'll do that."

Thirty seconds later, Tsuna still hasn't moved from his spot.

Why aren't I moving at all? HIIIIIIIII! It's not a ghost! Damnit! It's not!

There was a light tapping possibly from the room the "homeless man" entered.

"HIII!" Tsuna jumped in shock to the sudden sound.

...Was the "homeless man" waiting for him? Was it a homeless man at all? Why is he claiming it to be a homeless man?

"It has to be!" Tsuna reaffirmed himself before he finally moved from his stationary position and walked towards the staircase. "It's not a g-ghost!"

Thinking his bravery would only last him until his first step onto the staircase, Tsuna shut his eyes as his right foot landed on the first step. Somehow, that first step led him to taking another step up the stairs, and another and another. Tsuna's opened his eyes upon finding that he took another step up the stairs and continued until he reached the top of the stairs. Judging from what he remembered, the sound of the light footsteps would lead to the last room on the left.

"It's not a ghost," Tsuna repeated to himself like a mantra while walking down the hallway towards the third door. "It's not a ghost. It's a homeless man. It's not a ghost."

Finally reaching the door, Tsuna looked at the doorknob. It looked safe and clean, had no rust even though the mansion is so rundown-looking, and really, there was nothing wrong with it. His gut feeling even told him so. He took a long intake of air and exhaled it all out of his system.

I can do this, he told himself as he inhaled another large breath of air.

He grabbed the doorknob, turned it and pushed the door wide open.

"SUMI MASEN!" he yelled.

Tsuna looked around. For a mansion that's rundown and unkempt, the room looked fairly clean and the furniture looked new and not faded. The strangest thing was that there was no one in the room, which was not what he was expecting.

"...Huh?" Tsuna said. "I was so sure they went into this room. Maybe it was the other one then?"

He closed the door and turned around and met blood red eyes glaring down at him.