Title: Witchy Decimo
Summary: It all really started when the bird flew away again. That was when Mama made the call, her face shocked as she watched the bird that had been mauled by a cat fly away.
Notes/Warnings: Cannibalism in later chapters, casual murder, death, Addams Family Au with more murder. Look, this story is me going: How twisted can I be? It is supposed to be creepy and freaky. It is supposed to be gruesome. Please do not read if you are uncomfortable with this.
It all started with the bird on the ground. A kitty had gotten it, and Tsuna had cried in sadness, wishing it was okay.
While he cried, it got up, chirped and flew away- with half it's stomach missing.
Tsuna had been glad, but Mama… Mama had gotten quiet, and then later, she picked up a phone.
The next day she told him they were going to go and meet his auntie K, a woman he knew only from the money she sent every birthday- and Christmas that one time.
The bird was missing half it's organs, and it flew away. It flew away, and Nana's throat catches, realizing what this means. It's a strange feeling as she picks up the phone and calls a number she hasn't contacted in a long time.
But he was excited, so he happily got his things together, and his mother cooked some snacks- snacks he never saw before. But they were really good! The cookies were dark, and crumbly, and had some green stuff in it! One even had a crunchy thing in it! Mama said it was a cockroach! It taste really good.
Tsuna likes the little house they go to, on the edge of a huge forest. It's a small house, with a cute chimney, and a bunch of cats running around the yard.
Tsuna laughs, uncaring most of them are missing parts of them, and Mama giggles as well.
Auntie K comes out then, and she's wearing a brown skirt, with no shoes, and a shawl covering her upper body, with nothing else. Her hair hangs down her back like a limo, lank mop, bones and feathers woven in. Her ribs peak out from under her shawl, her body appearing as if it was on its last legs. Her face is gaunt, her eyes wide and huge like a fish, her lips dry and tight. Her arms and legs are so thin, the skin drawn so tight it looks like her skin will flake off.
Tsuna thinks she's amazing.
Auntie K lets them in, and says she's made supper. It's a soup with eyes and worms in it, and it's really good. Mama and auntie K talk while they eat.
"He brought back a bird?" Kurayami asks her sister, as she watches the little boy eat her soup.
"Yes." Agrees Akuma- or Nana, whatever she's calling herself now. "I'm glad I decided to keep his middle name a secret now.
"I'm glad you had the foresight to do so." Kurayami agrees.
Auntie K takes him out to the forest the next day, and they find a dead squirrel. Auntie K grins, showing her sharp teeth, and then reaches out, her fingers like claws as she sprinkles a black powder over the body.
The squirrel gets back up, with half it's body gone. Tsuna laughs, and auntie K chuckles lowly.
Auntie K takes him all over the forest, and teaches him many things, a grin on her face as she speaks to this tiny child, showing him what mushrooms were the best- but not for humans, because humans aren't like them.
"Human's don't understand our powers little demon." Auntie K tells him while they sit around a black bonfire, and she teaches him to make the powder she used earlier. "They're scared of us."
"Aren't we human?" Tsuna asks, and auntie K cackles, a crazed laugh that makes Tsuna giggle.
"Oh, little demon, we aren't." she pets his head, grinning. "We're something else."
Kurayami knows her little sister is scared, but so proud. Akuma had been more human compared to her siblings. She wasn't like them, and it showed when Kurayami had to bring her sister back to life twice after their siblings played to rough. Marrying that human had driven a gap between most of them, but Kurayami had never left her side.
And now, she's thankful for it.
Tsuna is taught by his auntie everything about the supernatural, while Mama goes into the tiny shop in a village located in the forest and buys things, including a box to send items back and forth.
Auntie K also tells him a few things.
"Names have power little demon, which is why you must never give out your full name to anyone." She warns him. "Your mama made sure to protect you by giving you a middle name."
"What is it?"
"We don't tell children little demon." Auntie K tells him. "To dangerous." Tsuna pouts, but accepts his auntie's words.
"You must always as well make sure to never give any human your food."
"Why?"
"We don't eat the same things- they can get sick." Auntie K tells him, and Tsuna nods.
The Rules- with a capital R- aren't hard to follow.
1. Never tell anyone your name.
2. Don't give humans your food.
3. Never tell humans what you are unless they're part of your coven.
"What's a coven?" Tsuna asks, and auntie K smiles.
"A coven is comprised of supernatural creatures who gravitate around someone with a Ruling Soul. Sometimes there are humans in the mix." She hands him a cup and tells him to drink it.
When he does, she frowns, and then reaches out to touch his head, a yellow flame appearing, before yanking her hand back, hissing. Her eyes sharpen, and her teeth seem to grow.
"We need to go see Chiya-sama."
Chiya-sama turns out to be a woman with long, long, long silver hair that's hung on the trees surrounding the clearing she sits in. She's beautiful, almost to beautiful.
She's just as upset when she touches his forehead. And gives him a drink he takes at auntie K's- while sitting in her bed of decaying animals and rotted wood- and when he wakes up, Mama is by his bed, and it's a week later.
But he feels great, like a cloud has lifted, and he's so happy again.
"Who could have sealed it?" Kurayami asks Nana, who looks lost, so lost. "He could have turned into another Ai-sama!"
"I… I remember Iemitsu coming home once with his boss and… oh, Tsuna!" she sobs, and Kurayami wants to snarl, because she can feel her nephews power now, and she's never felt anything like this since the Crone died…
Oh… Oh shit.
"He's a witch." It's a whisper that makes Nana blink, unsure if she heard it. "His power… he's a witch.'
"…Motherfucker." Nana says, and Kurayami outright cackles, a harsh cackle that raises a dead mouse her cats had killed.
"Oh, this is going to be fun."