In England, a lone 20 year old woman sat at her desk. She filled out her paperwork in silence. Her blond hair shined a bit underneath the full moon's light. The strong smell of tobacco filled the air. Her hand that contained the pen stopped. She puffed out another cloud of smoke with her cigar still in her mouth. Her sharp cold blue eyes looked through her glasses down to the small clock that was on her desk. The old fashioned clock's handle just ticked into 12:00 AM.
"What are you doing here, Reborn?" She asked emotionlessly. Her blue eyes looked up behind her to stare at the familiar 8 year old body. "Are you here to just show off that you're actually aging or do you want something from me?"
Reborn sat on the window frame. He wore his usual hitman outfit which was an old black suit and boots with a yellow polo underneath the jacket. His black fedora with its traditional large orange line covered his eyes. The only thing that the woman saw was the smirk that she found annoying so much and his curly sideburns.
"Ciaossu"
A blond thin eyebrow twitched at the answer. She said once more, but with slight anger.
"Just answer the question Reborn."
"Really, Integra, do you always have to say hello in such a way to your older cousin?"
"I swear every time we meet you're getting cockier." Integra growled. It always seemed like her much older cousin managed to crawl under her skin no matter what. "What do you need?"
"I see that you're not as naive as before, the last time I saw you." Reborn pointed out while he climbed off of the window frame and into the dark office room. "You owe me a favor. It's time for you to repay it."
The woman's blue eyes narrowed in suspicion. She held back the urge to scowl at the fact. She hated that fact so much, because she didn't like to owe favors. Still, if he hadn't saved her then she'd be dead, and that was long before she freed Alucard. She watched the man trapped in a child's body in complete silence with a blank face. A few ticks went by when she finally announced:
"What do you want from me?"
"I've been taking the job to train successors into becoming the next boss of their Families. You know that. My current student has turned into a vampire. The strangest part is that she has done it on her own."
Integra's eyes widened in shock, the cigar in her mouth tumbled down until it hit the ground. She must have misheard him.
"What... did you say?"
"My student has turned into a vampire on her own."
"That's impossible!" The 20 year old shouted while she got up and slammed her right palm onto the table. "Nobody can turn into a vampire on their own!"
"Oh, but it is possible, Master." A deep voice said soothingly from the darkness. "But it is quite rare."
A tick mark appeared on the woman's head. She almost growled out:
"How many times do I have to tell you not to listen in on my meetings?"
"Hmmmm, let me see now-"
The voice begun happily with no regret.
"Alucard get out of the shadows. That's an order!"
"You're no fun"
There was a pouty tone to the voice. A figure came out of the dark corner. The figure was taller than most. He wore rather old fashion clothing. The most noticeable thing about him was his red eyes, as they looked over his orange round sunglasses with a dangerous, mischief look. His long hair reached his knees, with a fedora to top off the look. A wide grin was planted on his face, though the traditional maniac look wasn't there. Instead, he looked rather curious.
"Reborn..."
"Alucard..."
The men greeted each other with no emotion. Last time they saw each other was right after Alucard was released. Reborn came over to the manor when he heard about the commotion to check on his cousin. Integra exhaled through her nose to calm down. These two individuals were the cause of her headaches. Unfortunately, whenever she had them in the same room the headaches tripled. She sat back down and picked up the forgotten, useless cigar. She spoke once again:
"Reborn, I'm expecting a detailed report right now."
Her blue eyes watched as his chameleon came out from the inside of the jacket and rest on the fedora like it was his seat. Her older cousin's smile disappeared altogether. He told her the story:
"My student has been kidnapped a little over a month and a half ago. We've found her just recently." A grim look appeared. "We have found her tortured with a dead body beside her drained of blood. The cause is her. I have not spoken to her yet about what happened. I left to come here before she woke up."
"Then how do you know that it was her that drank the person's blood? It could have been a different vampire that came in, drank the blood then turned her."
Integra stated. She lighted up another cigar then puffed out smoke while the object was still in her mouth. The only vampire in the room stared at the hitman with a calculated look, his smile was gone. The hitman answered.
"That's what I thought at first, but there's a few strong evidence that point out otherwise. For one, no ghouls had been found anywhere near, far or between from the place where she was imprisoned." That got a small nod from Alucard and Integra. "Another piece of evidence was that we found blood all over her and mostly in her mouth. We had a DNA examination take place to confirm if she was the cause to the drained body. The results came back positive. She has drunk the blood from the corpse even though she was tied up. There were no reports of any strange sighting of anything that came close to a description of a vampire."
"Vampires are extremely fast. How do you know that the vampire didn't just get away?"
Integra continued the interrogation. Reborn answered without a second thought.
"It's because the change began at the exact time that we came to rescue her. If she was bite, she should have been turned completely right when she arrived to the hospital." The woman exhaled smoke through her nose. She leaned against the armchair, which made it dip backwards a bit. "If these evidences don't point to her doing it on her own, I don't know how else she could have become a vampire."
"Interesting, very interesting, hehe, but you're right. She has become a vampire on her own. She has become the same vampire as I am." Alucard chuckled deeply with amusements at the fact. His red eyes narrowed with interest behind the orange glasses. "This is rather exciting. I've never heard another human being capable of such a thing. The only human turned vampire in history that this ever happened to was me. She must have dug herself quite a deep hole to be so desperate to give up her life."
Reborn took out his gun and shot the vampire in the head, which disfigured it completely. Blood splattered everywhere but the two humans. Gravity didn't pull down the body. Instead, the headless body simply stood there. Slowly, the splattered liquid moved towards the main body. All of it gathered until the previous head returned in its place. The head recovered its previous form and a wide smile was found on his face. The smile was so wide that it revealed abnormal sharp teeth. The vampire bent over and picked up his damaged hat. He faked a pout.
"That was my favorite hat"
"Never, insult my student. Just because she will become a mafia boss, does not mean that she'll be dragged into your sick and twisted world, Dracula."
Reborn spat out his name like it was poison. Alucard full out laughed in amusements at the threat.
"Kyahahahaha, but my dear friend, isn't the mafia world the same?" He mocked, "Isn't it just as twisted, dark and full of death as mine is?"
The hitman ignored him. He turned his attention back to his quiet cousin. The short black headed man spoke once more:
"Integra, my student needs someone that can teach her how to control her powers. It's her only chance to be able to take her place in the mafia world. I can't provide the teachings that are needed, but I know that this is the place that can do just that."
Blue eyes stared into black eyes. Neither cousin backed down at the request. Integra thought deeply about the decision. If this girl wasn't going to be taught, she'd be a great threat to everybody. The same threat that the freaks that she worked to eliminate were, but much worse. Her icy blue eyes looked at her servant with a calculation look. He was the only one that could do what her cousin requested, but what would the drawback be? She tapped her forefinger against the table a few times in thoughtfulness. She asked:
"Where is she?"
"In a hospital. After she's allowed to leave we'll be returning to Japan so that she could finish her last year of high school." Reborn answered. Integra raised an eyebrow once more. How young was this girl? She sounded about her age. Her unspoken question was answered. "She has turned 18 before her kidnapping. Any other information is classified."
"I need to know who this girl is, Reborn."
"I can't give away too much information. You, of all people, should know that. After all, we don't know who's listening in."
That statement shut the 20 years old woman up. She hated it when he was right. She once again held back the urge to scowl at him. Alucard grinned lightly with amusements when he heard the thoughts of his Master. He spoke up:
"Master, how about I go and teach the little fledgling?"
His master looked at him with suspicious but surprised eyes. She asked him seriously:
"Alucard, do you even realize what you just said?"
Reborn watched in silence as the 'court', as he called it whenever it came between these two, took place.
"Come now my dear Master, you and I both know what kind of a danger she can become if she doesn't get trained."
Alucard replied suggestively. His left hand rested on the cold wood underneath his gloved hand. Integra furrowed her eyebrows and gave him a look of disbelief. She asked him slowly:
"What is this really about Alucard?"
The kind of vampires held his hands up in defence. He looked down at her with innocence, though his smile said otherwise.
"I'm just curious my dear Master."
"That curiosity of yours will get you killed someday."
Integra warned him. That comment made Alucard burst into chuckles. His grin turned into a full blast smile. The light reflected off of his sharp white teeth. Great amusements danced in his red eyes.
"It takes a true man to kill a monster. Curiosity isn't a man, so it'll never be able to kill me."
"It doesn't matter. I can't have you running around."
The woman waved off his ideology. That got her a raised eyebrow from the No-Life King. He hummed lightly. He quite enjoyed it when she missed one or two important details, because he could put her on the spot. After all, he couldn't kill her to set himself free, and every contract had a hidden leak. This was one that unfortunately he still needed to follow her orders. Oh well, at least while he was under her command he'd help her growth with Walter. He wasn't going to be allowed to be controlled over by an idiotic woman.
"You have a whole army trained to kill vampires under your command and it has been a bit quiet lately. The last number of trashes that I eliminated could have been dealt with by your army. I don't see how being gone can change them into any real threats." She opened her mouth to argue, but he cut her off with an added statement. "If there is any real trouble, you can always order me to come back."
This time the head of Hellsing shut her mouth and scowled. Damn these men, she thought with anger and annoyance. There was still one question left.
"Reborn, I already made my decision, but I have to ask you this. Is she a virgin?"
That was the last thing that could determine whether she became a vampire on her own or not. There was dead silence as the two companions stared at the short man. The said short man cursed mentally at the fact that they haven't even checked that. How in the world could it have escaped their mind? On the inside he fumed with frustration and anger at the disgusting suggestion. He bite out uncharacteristically:
"She should have been before she was kidnapped. But we have no idea as of now. Anything could have happened to her while she was there."
That got a hum of thoughtfulness from the Vampire King, but he hadn't spoken a word about it. Integra sighed deeply.
"Alright, you two win, for now."
She glared at them then turned her attention to the vampire, whom snapped out of his thoughts.
"Then give me your order, my Master. Give your faithful servant an order."
Alucard purred. He got the order that he wanted without a pause. The determined look on the woman's face in front of him made him chuckle mentally.
"Train this girl and make sure she isn't a danger to anyone around her."
Alucard smirked widely once more. He rested his right hand over his left chest. He bowed ever so slightly then said:
"Yes, as you wish, my Master."
Dame-Tsuna, you better hang in there until I return. Help is on the way. Reborn thought, as if those words have reached his student all the way to Italy. He hoped that everything worked out well in the end. If it doesn't, God help us all. The Mafia will crumble into chaos.
-ooOOoo-
Tsuna looked at the covered up window with longing. The thought of the sunlight hitting her skin felt like a dream that was just out of her reach. A deep sigh of sadness once more escaped her lips for what felt like the millionth time. It had been two days since anyone had last checked on her. Well, that wasn't true. She knew that somebody always came in. During the day she slept, which was rather uncomfortable for some odd reason. When she woke up, she always discovered new medical blood bags on her nightstand. That told her that somebody still cared about her. Either that or they just wanted to make sure that she didn't go on a rampage for blood.
When Tsuna realized what the blood was for, she refused it, at first. But her protest didn't last for long. By the end of the day she realized that her strength went away much quicker than ever before. Not only that, but her insanity heightened. The only way to get the energy back and to get rid of the insanity was if she drank the blood. It was disgusting. It still disgusted her to the point that whenever she drank the blood bags she felt sick to her stomach. The only thing that kept her going was the fact that this blood wasn't forced out of anybody. It was voluntary blood.
She still felt like a monster. She cried tears of blood. She didn't have a reflection. She drank blood for Kami's sake! She felt safer in the dark when it was the same one that scared her not too long ago. Nothing felt right anymore. She felt trapped inside this new body that felt so alien to her but knew that it was hers to begin with. It felt like she had neither soul nor heart left after what happened to her. Even after these past two days she found it hard to accept what she had become. It was even worse when she knew that she was the cause of this outcome.
Maybe that was why nobody came to visit her, because she was a monster. A freak of nature!
That still didn't stop the feeling of loneliness that haunted her.
It wasn't the worst of it all. Oh no. The memories of the prison continued to haunt her dreams. The torture, the pain, the sick laughter the mockery and the way her tortures spit on her honor. The oddest thing of all was that some of her memories were blank. She had no recollection of what happened during those gaps. Yet, something told her that she locked them away for a good reason. Something horrifying must have happened to her and she wasn't too keen on finding out what it was. The number one thing that she dreamt about was the screaming of the man whom she drank the blood from. The shriek of fear that escaped his lips and entered her ears. The pain from the punches but the determination to not let go. The hunger and thirst that ate away her soul.
Tsuna shivered at the memories of that particular dream.
Her hand clenched onto the white blanket. She knew if it was a solid object, it would have been disintegrated in her hand in a matter of seconds. Yes, she had tested it out with a pen and the same exact thing happened to the poor thing.
She took a deep shaky breath. It was a stupid, waste of time thing to do. Tsuna knew that because she didn't need the ability to breath to survive. But she did it anyways, just so that she felt some sort of normality. It was then that a flashback from two days ago reappeared in her mind.
"No! Stay back!" She swung her arm open and had an open palm face him. "I-I'll end up killing you!"
Timoteo's heart broke at the sight.
"Tsuna-chan..."
"Leave!" The old man opened his mouth, but she spoke faster than him. "Leave!"
A deep sigh escaped the old lips. It appeared that he had no choice. The old boss made his way to the door. Before he left, he told her softly with much love that a grandfather would to his granddaughter:
"Don't worry Tsuna-chan, Reborn left to get you some help. Everything will be alright. Trust us."
Tsuna's once upon a time brown eyes, but now red, looked towards the door with sadness. She knew that what she had done to Nono was unacceptable. But she was afraid that she'd have gone out of control and killed him where he stood. But what had he meant when he said that her tutor, Reborn, left to get her some help? What sort of help? Had they thought that she would lose control any day now and went to get somebody that could either help or kill her?
None of this makes sense
Tsuna's red eyes moved around the room for a bit. Soon enough, they landed on a lion stuff animal that sat beside her on one of the nightstands. It looked a lot like her little lion friend, Natsu. She missed him. On the day that she got kidnapped, she left the weapon box with him inside of it in her room. It would have been suspicious if she brought it to school. Tsuna sighed in sadness. She wondered how he was doing. In silence, she brought the stuffed animal close to her chest and hugged it. The emptiness in her heart only grew.
Tsuna missed everybody. She missed her friends and her family as well as just the feeling of being home.
Tsuna then thought about her guardians. Are they afraid of me? Is that why I never heard even a small noise out of them? Are they disgusted with me? Do they want to leave me or did they leave me already? The more she thought about it, the urge to cry only grew stronger. She was afraid from the moment she first woke up to this moment. She needed somebody, but nobody came.
Where is everyone?
Tsuna looked once again towards the closed off window. The urge to go over there and rip the curtain open just grew stronger the more she stared at the thick sheet of cloth. Without a second thought, she got out of bed only to make her way to the window. She forgot the consequences at that moment. She forgot about the memories of myths (or were they facts?) of what happened when a vampire got into contact with light. Her delicate hands grasped the cloth into tight fists. She took a deep breath then ripped it open.
Blinding sunlight ran into the room. The light was so bright that she nearly hissed at the discomfort feeling that it gave her eyes. After a few seconds, she realized that she didn't melt or burn. She blinked a few times until her eyes grew more comfortable with the light. It felt nice. It felt fresh. It felt amazing. Tsuna greedily drank the sunlight, as if she had been forced into the darkness for decades.
Tsuna looked down at the window frame. There was a little flip with a safety clip on it. She undid the safety clip, flipped the flip then slid the window open. Fresh air zoomed in along with cool wind. Her brown long hair flapped behind her like waves. She took a deep breath and took in the fresh and clean nature scent. She heard the sounds of birds chirping, as if nothing in the world was wrong.
"My, my, I never thought that you'd be immune to the light, Tsunahime-chan."
A male voice said cheerfully behind her. Tsuna gasped in shock and turned around. She would have done her trademark shriek, but she didn't want her ear to bleed. Her red eyes widened when she saw the person that spoke, Byakuran. But he wasn't alone. Right beside him was a familiar young girl with a bright smile on her face.
"B-Byakuran... Yuni..."
She whispered in shock.
Byakuran sat there on the chair that was once occupied by Nono. A rustle noise came from the bag of colorful marshmallows from him opening it. Once it was open it rested in one of his hands. With the other hand he took out a blue marshmallow then ate it happily with his eyes closed. Yuni ran over to the shocked new vampire and hugged her tightly.
"Tsuna-san, it's so good to see you again." Tsuna blinked in confusion as she stared down at the girl. It seemed that they knew what she was. So, why weren't they scared of her? "We're not scared of you Tsuna-san. We know that you'll never hurt us on purpose."
The girl answered the unspoken question with a kind smile. A slow grin began to appear on the brown headed woman's face. She said with an embarrass tone:
"I forgot that you can read minds."
Yuni giggled in responds. The Arcobaleno Sky grabbed the woman's hand then dragged her back to the bed. Without a word, the Vongola's Sky laid back in bed. She watched as the younger female climbed on and rest beside her. The light grin widened a bit. It felt nice to have companies again, even if they were usual. She then remembered something important. Tsuna asked the two relaxed individuals:
"How did you two get passed the security?"
The security in this place was strong. First time she tried to get out, which was her last, she barely managed to dodge the hidden guns. Who needs security guards when you have guns shooting at you, she thought with sarcasm at the time. Even at that moment the thought never left.
"It's a secret~"
Byakuran sing sang. He grabbed another marshmallow, a pink one this time, and threw it into his mouth. The woman looked towards the young girl, but all she was given was a mysterious smile that said the same thing. She sighed in defeat. Why did she even bother? Note to self: Never ask anybody from the mafia world questions. They had no idea how to answer like a normal person. Wait, why did she think of it now rather than before? She must have gotten used to their weirdness. After all these years, this was the first time she made herself that note. She snapped out of her mind when Byakuran declared:
"I must say, Tsunahime-chan, that this is a first."
His eyes opened to reveal light purple hues filled with curiosity and amusements. Tsuna looked at him in confusion.
"What do you mean?"
She asked in return. Out of nowhere, there was a slight weight on her lap. Her red eyes looked to her lap and saw that it was Yuni's head. Even though she knew that her heart was dead, for a moment, it felt alive with familiar warmth. Icy cold creamy hand gently stroked the cheek like that of a sibling. The young girl didn't flinch at the sudden cold. This made the woman so much happier, because she wasn't rejected by her friends.
"I've seen some strange things in the other Parallel Universes. But you as a vampire never existed, until now."
"Byakuran-san, be nice."
Yuni tilted her head so that she stared at him with her blue eyes that sent him a disapproval look. The white headed man raised his unoccupied hand up in defence and laughed.
"I am being nice, Yuni-chan, but that's the truth."
"What have you seen exactly, that makes this universe different?"
Tsuna couldn't have helped herself. She was curious. She was worried. Actually, she felt many things all at once when he said that. The white headed man explained to her while he munched on more colourful marshmallows:
"Mm~, this one is particularly good." He got a look. He ignored the look and continued. "What I meant is that all the other universes are pretty normal compare to this one. You don't have parallel selves that are anything else except for human. Instead, you have ones where you are either a boy or a girl. There are some versions where you have an older or a younger sibling, rarely more than one. There is also some where you lived a different childhood compare to the one in this life. You even have a few that you lived a rather normal life with no contact with the mafia. The only thing that your versions have in common is that you and your guardians are never too far apart." His light purple eyes looked into her red pair. "What makes this one so different and unique is because you're a vampire."
Tsuna's red eyes widened. She had no idea how different her other versions sounded compare to herself. She sat there in silence while she thought about her own life.
Tsuna was an only child. Her only living relatives were her parents. Her childhood was pretty normal except for her low IQ and clumsiness, which made her the outcast. She hates her father with a passion because whenever she needed him he was never there. He always gave empty promises. Although, when he had returned all she saw was a drunken man. That same man had only managed to keep her mother around because of a few romantic remarks. Her hatred for him only grew when she learned the truth of his disappearances.
She had no emotional connection to him. It... It hurt. All she wanted from her personal family was not only a mother but also a father to be there for her. Was that too much to ask for?
"Tsuna-san"
A worried female voice spoke. That voice snapped Tsuna out of her mind. She looked into a worried pair of blue eyes. A small sad grin appeared on the 18 years old face. She apologized:
"Sorry Yuni-chan, I didn't mean to space out like that." She then turned back to the frowned Byakuran. "So I guess I'm the freak of my versions. It makes sense, since I'm a monster."
"No you're not!"
Yuni objected rather with determination. Tsuna head snapped to the little girl, her eyes were wide. She stuttered:
"B-But I'm a vampire-"
"That doesn't mean anything!" The little girl's her heart broke when she saw how hard it was for the Vongola's Sky to accept her new self. "You are still the same Tsuna-san that came and rescued me. You're still the same Tsuna-san that will always open her arms to complete strangers. You're still the same Tsuna that can make anybody smile no matter what. Just because you're now a vampire doesn't mean a thing. It doesn't mean that you have fallen into darkness. It doesn't mean that your light has deemed into nothingness. The Tsuna-san that I know will never let that light die without a fight. The Tsuna-san that I know will work hard to show everybody that she hasn't changed one bit." Yuni almost cried when she saw the tears of blood that appeared in silence. The red eyes refused to meet hers, but that didn't discourage her. "You're not the freak of your versions! You're not a monster! You're the one that shines the brightest because of how special and different you are."
"She is right Tsunahime-chan." Byakuran spoke with seriousness, also had taken notice of the tears. All the joking disappeared from his persona. He rested a comforting hand on the vampire's shoulder. "If you were a monster, then you wouldn't be able to feel anything right now. You wouldn't be crying right now."
"But I'm crying tears of blood."
Tsuna protested, her eyes finally looked at them with a wild, confused look. How they saw her astonished her. Even when they saw the way she cried, they still saw the same old Tsuna. Byakuran took no notice of the shout. His face stayed as calm as before while he once more spoke in comfort:
"So what? You're not the only one that can cry tears of blood. Humans do the same. Though rarely. Does that make them monsters?" Tsuna looked down at her fists that clenched the blanket. She sniffled and shook her head. The man smiled at the positive responds. He then thought of a funny idea to get her to smile. "Think of it this way. You're like Superman! The only difference is that I know you can beat him in a fight, since you managed to beat my future self."
He nudged her shoulder like a child. Tsuna grinned a bit, but it didn't please either of them. Yuni almost jumped up and down in her spot from excitement. She told her with awe:
"You can even turn into a bat. That's so amazing. You can fly around. You can see the world through the eyes of a bat. I'm jealous of you. I wish I could see the world through an animal's eyes."
The young girl pouted at the thought. That got a small giggle from Tsuna. She found their inspiration to be ridiculous, but she didn't stop them. She has yet to notice that the tears stopped. Byakuran continued where his little friend left off.
"Just imagine it. Your guardians are getting into a fight and you turn into a bat and fly around their heads to distract them. They look at you in shock and forget about their fight in the first place. Who knows, you could get them to chase after you for distracting them like that."
Tsuna imagined just that, her giggle turned into laughter. She laughed so hard that she wrapped her arms around her waist since her stomach begun to hurt so much. As much as she loved her beloved guardians, the thought was just too funny for its own good. Her two friends smiled in satisfaction at the result. Soon, the young woman calmed down. Some tears came back but this time they were of happiness rather than that of sadness. It seemed that Byakuran still had a few things left to say.
"Tsunahime-chan, you're far too kind to classify yourself as a monster or freak. A being that is evil has no emotions. You have a soul. You have a heart. You have a mind. You have feelings and conscious. You know right from wrong. That makes you the same as us. Don't let anybody tell you otherwise."
With a smile so bright that it outshine the sun, Yuni wrapped her arms around Tsuna's neck and hugged her. The young woman, with hesitation, hugged back as gently as possible, so to not crush the girl. She held back the urge to cry once again at how kind these two were for trying to cheer her up. They were right. It was still hard for her to accept, but she had a feeling that she would get it.
This was a start.
"You guys... thank you."
Tsuna thanked them from the bottom of her heart.
The trio fell into comfortable silence.
-ooOOoo-
After a while, Yuni and Byakuran took their leave, which left Tsuna alone once more. The sunset beamed through the room. This gave the white walls brightness and relaxation that the woman found soothing. She looked around her room then sighed once more when boredom began to descend. What was there to do exactly after such a visit?
Why not work on what powers you have?
Her mind questioned her. She blinked a few times then shrugged. Why not? She decided that maybe it was time that she did something smart. She would write down all the powers that she could think of. She grabbed a blank small notebook and a pencil from her nightstand and began to form a list.
What are vampire powers that I know of?
1) Can turn into a bat
2) They could draw a person in with lust and drink blood from them (?)
At that point she put a few question marks. A dark heavy worried aura appeared around her figure. Wait... did this mean that she'd get a lot of admirers? Was that even possible? That was actually rather creepy when she thought about it, since she never had any admirers. She was still considered too strange for society, which meant that no guy approached her. Well, that was a somewhat lie. There were a few guys that approached her but her guardians always acted so weird when those few guys did. When she thought about it, a flashback appeared.
It was Valentine's Day and the 17 years old Tsuna was pretty much all alone. Her male guardians were... preoccupied, by their fan girls. So they had a hard time to get away from them unless a class actually began. But even then they still had notes and stuff sent to them behind the teacher's backs. At the moment, she sat at her desk during homeroom. Yamamoto and Gokudera were at their desks, surrounded by a herd of fan girls.
"Hey Sawada, what are you doing here sitting all alone?"
One of her male classmates asked right in front of her. Tsuna looked up at the guy. She recognized him as one of the more desirable guys in her year, whom was also her ex-bully. He was an ex-bully because, for some odd reason, all the guys stopped bullying her once she hit high school. The only ones that still bullied her were the girls. Rather than her brains or clumsiness, they based more on her looks than anything. How did this guy get the 'one-of-the-most-desirable-guys-in-school' rank? It was just because he was good looking and a bit smarter than most students in this school, and... That was about it. No, really, that was all there was to this guy. He wasn't that special. Tsuna couldn't understand what her female peers saw in this guy.
Wait, what? Did he just say something to her without it being an insult?
"Ano... my friends are kind of preoccupied."
She replied with stiff shoulders as she pointed at her two guardians. He, for some odd reason, smiled at that fact.
"Well, we can't have a pretty girl like you with a lonely frown on her face, now can we? Here."
He gave her a beautiful fresh red looking rose out of nowhere. Tsuna blinked many times. Never once had she realized the dark looks that were sent to the guy from her male friends and to her from female peers. With eyebrows knitted, she took the rose.
"Um... thank you. It's beautiful."
She admitted. Tsuna took the moment to close her eyes and took the scent that the rose provided her. When she opened her eyes, she let out a little 'eh?' at the fact that the guy disappeared.
"What...?"
The Sky boss asked in confusion. She looked around but couldn't find him.
Unbeknown to her, her two guardians swooped in, grabbed the guy and dragged him away. This left her in a room full of confused or angry looking fan girls with small gifts wrapped up in their hands.
"Where did he go?"
Tsuna wondered out loud.
Tsuna blinked a few times at that memory. Hm... I wonder whatever happened to that guy. I haven't seen him since. She shrugged with naivety at the memory and returned to the list.
Um... what other powers do I know of?
Her mind came up blank.
3) Not able to see yourself in a mirror (I guess...)
She put a cute little confused face with question marks on top of the face right beside the 'I guess'. Was that even considered a power? Tsuna stared at her list for a moment then it clicked.
4) Super strength
Tsuna put down the objects, crossed her arms and thought about another one. Once more, another click came.
5) Super speed (Note to self: If I ever get out of this prison, find a place to check if my speed has changed.)
6) Immortality (Is that even the right word? They can still die!)
That last statement in the brackets brought a shiver down Tsuna's spine. At least she knew that she wasn't a completefreak. Death still could catch up to her if she wasn't careful. As far as she knew, though, vampires didn't age. So was the word 'immortal'the right one? These questions began to frustrate her a bit. Maybe I'm looking into this way too deep. She suggested to herself. With a shrug, she looked back at the list. Well, that was pretty much it, when she thought about it. As far as she knew, these were the stereotypical powers that a vampire has. Tsuna had no idea if most of them were true, but made a mental note to check them out later.
Okay... now what?
Tsuna frowned when she stared at the list. It gave her a start (that was for sure) but was that all she wanted to check out about the new species that she become part of? It was good to know about what one was capable of, but what about weaknesses? She flipped a page and began to write once more. This one should be easy... at least she hoped. She wasn't much of a supernatural fan, much less of the vampire genre, so her knowledge was limited.
Vampire weaknesses
1) Garlic
2) Sunlight (?)
She wrote down question marks beside it. After all, she was able to deflect the effects, if there were any in the first place.
3) Strike the heart with wood (I think or was it silver?)
4) Not drinking blood for a while will affect their powers (Happened to me already)
5) Blessed objects (Note to self: Stay away from them until further notice)
6) Cutting the head off
That was it. Her mind came up blank. What else could there be?
Tsuna looked up at the clock on the wall. She saw it read 4:50. Her red eyes looked back to the outdoors, where the sun slowly descended into the sea. The sky and reflection of the water gave off warm colors of red and orange. As if it soothed everybody that watched it only to bid them farewell.
She tilted her head to the sky and stared at the sun that began to disappear. It acted as if the sight of her kill was a sin, which it was in many religions and cultures around the world.
Tsuna gasped at the flashback that hit her like a punch in the face. She grabbed her head and felt how her body shake. That day that she was rescued. The moment she committed the sin. The emotions, the thoughts, and the acceptance that she bowed her head with exposed neck to death itself. It wasn't much, the flashback, it was short, but it frightened and hurt her. Shaky breaths escaped her lips. Her red eyes blinked a few times to try to comprehend what she just witnessed. Tsuna took the blanket off of her only to wrap it around her form except for her face with hope that it gave her comfort. The notebook and pencil flew off of her only to land near the doorway. Her eyes stared at the notebook. The light from the sun lowered with nonstop. It started from the bottom of the doorway until there was no light left on the notebook. The objects were left behind to be consumed into the greedy darkness with no mercy.
Tsuna's eyes widened at the sight. She quickly got off the bed and crawled into the corner, in which she curled up tightly into a small ball. The 18 year old closed her eyes tightly. She felt the urge to cry once more. Why did her life have to take such a nasty turn? Why wasn't she careful when she walked to school? She should have waited for her guardians. She was such a fool. She truly believed that nothing bad would happen to her since the walk wasn't that far.
Stupid! Stupid! Stupid!
Tsuna cursed at her own stupidity. Her Intuition screamed at her not to go, but she went anyways because she listened to her mind rather than her instincts. That one time-one time-and looked at what it cost her.
She blinked away the red tears that escaped her hold, but a few dodged even that and descended her cheeks. The tears reached her chin and landed on her patient gown only to make it stain with redness.
The door opened. Her teary eyes looked up at her newest visitor, only to come face to face with Shamal.
"Shamal-san..."
Tsuna asked quietly with a harsh tone. After these past few days, with only one visit while she was awake, she was a little angry. She just wasn't in the mood for his perverted self.
"Tsuna-chan, why are you in the corner?"
The man asked her, ignoring her slight harshness and the bloody tears. He shrugged the blood with the thought that it was a normal vampire-ish thing. Shamal frowned a bit at the fact that sunlight was let into the room. Once he realized that the window was opened and uncovered, he ran up to it. He relocked the window as well as closed the curtain. The whole room turned back into nothing but darkness. He walked back to the door where the light switch was and flipped it upwards. The light bulbs flickered a bit before they completely brightened the room.
Tsuna didn't flinch once at the light, but did with the darkness. Shamal took notice of it, which made his frown deepen. He walked over to her only to kneel down in front of her. The woman flinched back a bit, but the thoughts stopped when he opened his mouth.
"Are you okay Tsuna-chan? Do you need a kiss to make you feel better?"
Tsuna froze at the words. Her eyes widened in fright when she saw him about to kiss her. The more she stared the more she saw his big lips ready to devour her! All her previous thoughts about the darkness stopped.
"Hieeeeeeeeeee!"
She cried out, completely had forgotten about how much her shriek hurt her ears, and ran behind him. The blanket was left forgotten at the corner. When the perverted doctor got up, he went back to try to plant a kiss on her. Once more she began to panic.
"Get away from me!"
Tsuna cried out in horror. Forget about being a blood-sucking vampire, she had better things to worry about!
"Tsuna-chan~"
I have to get out of here! Tsuna thought with panic. Next thing she knew, she ran out of the room in lightning speed that was inhuman. Right behind her was a horrified Shamal when he realized what he had done. He chased after her in hopes to catch her before she disappeared. The male doctor ran by the scenes of nurses, doctors, patients and even visitors who were on the ground. Some groaned in slight pain but others stared down the hall in confusion. If not down the hall, then they would look at the person beside them as if they knew what just happened. Shamal ended up at the entrance where everybody stared at the door.
Shamal's heart dropped to his stomach. Oh no- this couldn't be happening! He turned to the extremely cute receptionist that just got up and asked her:
"Did you by any chance see a girl that's 18, this tall," He demonstrated Tsuna's height. "Brown long hair and extremely pale run by here?"
All he got was a shaken finger that pointed at the automatic opening doors. Shamal panicked visibly. He cried out:
"Oh no! Reborn will kill me if he finds out!"
"What will I find out?"
Shamal's mouth hung in horror, his face paled dramatically and his heart just stopped. He slowly looked behind him and saw Reborn with a tall terrifying looking guy behind him. He was so dead! The doctor hoped that there were really cute angels in heaven.
-ooOOoo-
Tsuna didn't know where she ran off to, but she let her legs guide her. She ended up in the dense forest that was located behind the hospital. At some point, she stopped in her tracks. Birds chirped around her from every corner, before they started to quieten down. The sun was completely gone at this point. Her red eyes looked through the darkness, which looked a whole lot like day to her. She frowned a bit at the thought with wonder.
Okay... check off super running and put in 'can see through the darkness'.
Tsuna thought back to her list.
Now... which way was which?
-ooOOoo-
"You-did-what?!"
"I didn't mean to chase her away. She was just so gloomy I wanted to cheer her up."
Shamal cried out while he tried his best to dodge the bullets. Everybody at the entrance ran for cover long ago. He was left alone with Reborn and the mysterious person. Unfortunately for the doctor, the hitman shot even more bullets at him at the answer.
"Out of all the stupid and idioticthings that you have ever done, this has got to be the worst of them all."
"Mercyyyy"
Shamal cried in mercy, tears of rivers ran down his cheeks. Out of nowhere a huge green hammer slammed into him. It sent him into the closest wall, cracking it like spider webs around the figure. The short man muttered dark promises. The mysterious man, Alucard, chuckled with great amusements at the strange sight. This black headed hitman reminded him quite a bit of his Master's moodiness. His Master gave him quite the entertainment during those moody days.
Alucard hummed when he felt a vampire presence behind the hospital.
"Great, now where is Dame-Tsuna?"
Reborn muttered while Leon returned to his normal chameleon form.
"I'll be right back"
Alucard announced. Before the physical 8 years old spoke a word, the man was gone.
-ooOOoo-
Rustle
"Hieeeeeeeeee! Ow-ow-ow"
Tsuna whined as she grabbed her sensitive ears. Where is the hospital? She whined mentally. For a hospital that was huge in both length and size, it was a rather surprising hard task to find the building. Her red eyes looked at the branch that she broke not too long ago with frustration. It was the same one that smacked her in the face out of nowhere for the last 5 times. Noooo! I'm back where I started. She cried mentally. The 18 years old sat down on a big rock. She rested her face on her fists and pouted. Now what? She had no way to get into contact with anybody. She had no way to distinguish a human blood from an animal blood either. Without the ability, she couldn't follow the scent back to the hospital.
Wait a second... I forgot to add that ability to the list. Number 7 or 8 or whatever, the ability to smell blood, check. Tsuna thought with sarcasm. She looked around at the trees for any signs of an exit, but came back with nothing. She sighed.
With her so deep within her thoughts, she didn't realize that her Intuition begun to go off the charts.
"Found you little fledgling."
Out of nowhere a pair of arms appeared behind her. The red clothed arms wrapped around her and dragged her into the darkness. It was the same darkness that swallowed up her characteristic shriek.
-ooOOoo-
Back in Tsuna's medical room, Reborn and a beaten up Shamal waited for the arrival of the two vampires. During that time, Reborn informed the doctor of the mysterious arrival. If he wasn't so injured or too scared of what Reborn would do to him, he would have ran out of the hospital long ago. He wasn't about to stay around long enough for Dracula to suck out his blood. No sane person would.
Out of nowhere, two figures appeared out of the darkness. The tall individual let go of the smaller one, which caused the latter to collapse onto the floor. The figures were an amused, curious Alucard and a horrified Tsuna.
"Dame-Tsuna-"
"Reborn!"
Tsuna cried out in relief when she saw him. If she wasn't a girl, Reborn would have kicked her in the head. Instead, he shot at her direction only for the bullet to hit at the floor a few inches in front of her face.
"Yeek!"
Tsuna squeaked. She sat up in a flash then crawled to the previous corner where the blanket was still abandoned. The shortest guy in the room sighed at the sight that played out in front of him. It was just so pitiful. Why did he even bother? He spoke in a calm tone so that the woman would stop being so frightened:
"Dame-Tsuna, stop looking like an idiot in front of your new teacher."
"T-Teacher?"
Tsuna asked with confusion. She rose up in few stages, her body stiff, but she stayed in the corner with narrowed, calculating eyes. Her mafia tutor explained further:
"Do you know the type of vampire that you are at the moment?"
"Type... of vampire?" The woman blinked many times. She frowned. "Aren't all vampires the same?"
That question got a snort out of the tallest man.
"The both of us aren't like those garbage that you're thinking about. We're the true kind."
Tsuna watched the wide psychotic but proud smirk that stretched across his face. Her eyes darted to his sharp teeth. Her red eyes widened in horror.
"Reborn, what's the meaning of this?!"
She cried out. Finally she listened to her Intuition. Her Intuition screamed at her the danger that radiated off this creature. His aura was like waves of screams that cried out for blood.
"Snap out of it Dame-Tsuna, this isn't the time to freak out." A snapped statement got thrown in her way. "He's not going to kill you. He is here so that you can learn how to control your powers."
Tsuna looked over at Reborn with narrow eyes. She knew that she needed the training, but this was the last thing that she expected. Well, this was a better option than the other thoughts that she had when she first heard where he ran off to. This still didn't explain who he was.
"Who is he?"
Tsuna snapped back, with a jerk of a head towards the tallest figure. She had enough stress already, so she wasn't in any mood to play along with her tutor's games. Unfortunately for her, Reborn smirked. The strange man that kidnapped her spoke with deep amusements:
"My name is Alucard, little fledgling."
Tsuna puffed her cheeks at what he called her. She knew what he called her, she wasn't that stupid.
"My name is Tsuna. It's not fledgling and I'm not little."
She was a tad bit sensitive about her height from the bullying. It wasn't her fault that she was taller than most Japanese young women her age by a few inches, 5 at max! It was her Italian genes' fault. Yet, compare to her, this guy was a giant. Just the tip of her hair managed to brush against his chin. Either way, this guy started to get on her nerves, somehow more so than Reborn.
"Hm~, very well then, little tuna fledgling."
Here Tsuna thought that all the weird guys came from the mafia world. She was proven wrong, because she just so happened to gain a vampire teacher that was even more annoying and frustrating. She decided to turn her attention back to the perverted doctor and her mafia home tutor.
"How long am I going to stay in this prison?"
"Not until the mansion is finished."
Shamal was the one that answered the question through his damaged face. The woman tilted her head to the side with a couple of blinks. She completely ignored his injury (as she knew he deserved it somehow, perverted doctor!) and whispered:
"Mansion?"
"Yes, due to your... special circumstances, we're having a mansion built just outside your home town. You'll be living with your guardians there."
The doctor made a pouty face at the last statement. This didn't lessen the confusion. Without her need to question, her tutor started to explain to her:
"Your guardians are in Japan. They've been helping with the mansion this whole time so that you can come home sooner and be safe. You should be getting mail from them soon."
Tsuna couldn't help it. She smiled with brightness that reached her eyes. For a moment there, she thought that everybody just didn't want her to be near humans, so to do so they needed to isolate her. To know that wasn't the case, with her Intuition helping prove it further, made her dead heart warm.
"Reborn"
Alucard finally spoke up from his spot up against the wall. He had watched the trio for a long time in silence during their conversations, just to study them. He had a suspicion of something ever since he found her. She was too innocent for what he had in mind, which was the final evidence that she was just like him. Just the thought made an inhuman growl come from deep in the back of his throat. The look that he sent to Reborn said enough.
"Dame-Tsuna, we'll be right back." He got a nod from Tsuna. He then turned to the doctor and spoke with promised darkness. "Shamal, I swear if you're going to pull off your usual stunts, you'll regret it."
Shamal wasn't stupid. He valued his life thank-you-very-much. He gave a nod that satisfied the hitman and the duo left the room. Just before they closed the door they heard from Shamal:
"Tsuna-chan, now that you're awake while I'm around I'll need to ask you a couple of questions."
"O-O-Okay"
A stutter came from the female.
The door closed with a soft click. The two walked into the room next door for privacy and closed the door. Reborn turned to the angry looking vampire, whom spoke first:
"Is her room soundproof? What of this room?"
"This whole floor has soundproof rooms. We placed her here because we know how sensitive vampire hearing is. What is this about?"
Alucard leaned against the wall right next to the door. His red eyes looked over the orange glasses up to the ceiling. The entire sadistic persona that so many people became familiar with him disappeared. Reborn cocked his head upwards to face the vampire completely. He didn't like the sudden change of personality one bit.
"I'm sure you remember when my Master asked you, if your student is a virgin."
Reborn's eyes narrowed. Why had he brought up such a sensitive, heavy topic out of nowhere? He didn't like it one bit when his cousin had done so, but with this man it was a hundred times worst. He answered with cautious:
"Yes"
"She isn't"
Silence
No, he can't be serious... she has to be a virgin. Reborn thought with his heart in his stomach. It was such a taboo. Although after he saw the injuries himself... no, he had to stop these awful thoughts.
"You're lying"
Red eyes looked flashed towards the hitman. Those eyes turned redder from the anger that boiled inside the vampire. Alucard growled:
"You humans are all the same. You all think that others are lying when the truth is right in your face."
"How do you know that she isn't a virgin?"
Reborn asked while he ignored the hateful comments that got thrown towards his direction. The Vampire King snapped at him with irritation:
"Let me explain to you pathetic human how you can become someone like me." The coldness in his voice matched the tone in the black eyes that looked up at him. "You cannot be a virgin when you give up on God to become like me, a true vampire. If she got bitten by another vampire, she would have either turned into a ghoul or a lower version of a vampire. She has made no signs that she wants to go look for a master and she hasn't turned into a ghoul. That and if she was a virgin and still drank the blood, she would still be human. She is like me, which means that she has thrown her life away for immortality and she lost her virginity."
"She couldn't have been... even in the mafia that's-"
Reborn begun to argue back, but he got cut off with annoyed bright red eyes.
"Even a fool can see she's too innocent. You said so yourself. That leaves only one option."
"You are a cold beast to speak of such a subject with such lightness."
Out of nowhere, Alucard grabbed the hitman by his collar and lifted him up. He slammed the small form into the wall, which got spider webs cracks around the figure. While he did that a familiar, vampire-killing gun pointed to his face, but he ignored it. The vampire snarled so much that allof his sharp teeth shined underneath the bolt lights above him. If Reborn was anybody else, he would have been terrified. But he wasn't and made a point out of it by glaring right back. The vampire sneered in disgust and mistrust:
"You and my Master know nothing about me."
Alucard let go of the short man from the tall height that he lifted him up to. If his Master wouldn't punish him, he would have killed this moronic human right where he stood. He left the room only to slam the next room's door open. This got a surprise squeak and jump from the girl and only a jump from the injured man. He made his way to the duo only for him to push the doctor to the side.
"What do you-?"
Shamal started, but he stopped when a snarl got sent to his direction. The eyes didn't help it one bit, especially with how bright they were filled with anger. Alucard bite out:
"Do you have a coffin built for her?"
"C-Coffin!?"
Tsuna squeaked at what she heard. No one paid attention to her. The dark headed doctor nodded.
"Go get it. She's not going to sleep in a human bed. I can't even believe- no, wait, I can considering you people are humans. She's a vampire.She needs a coffin to sleep in you moronic buffoons."
"Right away"
Shamal didn't like the insults, but one thing for sure: he didn't want to stay in the same room as this male vampire. He left. Just as he left an angry looking Reborn walked right back in, looking ready to murder someone. He was completely ignored by the two vampires, since their attentions were on each other.
"W-Why do I need a coffin?"
Tsuna knew it was a stupid question, but it worried her when she saw how angry the man looked and acted. What was so special about a coffin that just sleeping in a bed was a taboo among vampires? Alucard looked at her with a harsh glance, but stopped when he saw the flinch and concerned look. With a frustrated, unamused twitch, he forced himself to calm down a bit. He forgot how fragile women were. His Master's actions didn't help remind him one bit. She could pass for a man with the harshness that she inflected on her allies and enemies. With his old tradition mind, that was strange. He grew up with fragile women that were mothers and wives, nothing more, nothing less. He explained with forced calmness:
"We sleep in coffins for a few reasons. One is to keep our strength up while another would be to give us a sense of protection."
Tsuna listened with interest at the explanation. What she heard made sense to her when she thought about it. It explained why she always woke up rather grumpy like she hadn't slept at all with a body that ached all over. It also explained why she felt so weak, even after all the blood that she drank. The fright and lack of protection was another thing explained. She was so deep in her thoughts that she hadn't noticed that the King of Vampires watch her with sympathy.
Alucard snorted at the feeling, but he didn't stop it. He knew that once it would finally dawn on her as to what happened to her, she'd be in a world of emotional pain. He suspected that she might have blocked those specific memories. Those sorts of things left emotional scars on everyone, even him. Alucard said to the man that he hated the most in the universe:
God, you have failed another child of yours. How many more will you fail until you come down from your heavenly throne?