Chapter 17 "Not Four"

There was an audible noise resembling a gunshot but lacked the ear shattering aspect one before two grunts were heard as two adult bodies collided on a mattress.

I groaned in pain and the shock, I hadn't used the Hiraishin technique in a while so the sudden intensity of the movement got to me. Integra sounded like she fared no better, "What the damned hell was that?" She whisper out in a hoarse voice, her stomach was probably doing flips. I opened my eyes and grabbed her chest and back to lay her on her stomach with her face over the bed so she had a clear passage to vomit. I couldn't let her choke on it now, could I? She was laying on my lap sideways and my hands were on her shoulder and the other under her to keep her steady. She was gasping, so I pressed some fingers to her throat and saw she had no issues breathing so I was confused as to why she was gasping. That was until I noticed I had seized her breasts with the strength of a crazed Uzumaki. My pallid skin became heated as I blushed and I released her chest quickly. I panicked because I felt her nipples through her multiple layers clothing since I practically crushed them with how hard my adrenaline-filled hands squeezed her boobs together together. I coughed and bowed, "sorry...I r-really didn't mean t-to um...are y-you alright?" I asked. Integra looked at me with a small blush and was...panting, "I-I'm fine...little bruised most likely though. I know it's hard to be a chaste teen but don't be so desperate boy..." She said quietly before a small tired smile appeared on her face. Integra rubbed her chest to soothe the pain causing me to feel even worse for doing such an inappropriate thing.

I bowed lower so my forehead touched the mattress, "I-I thought you may have vomited from the Hiraishin since I did the first few times. I d-didn't want you to choke s-so I...I'm sorry once again." I said, blushing at her words, I didn't think of me as desperate for...that though. People tended to look down on unwarranted sexual acts and treated them as taboo but I wonder why people fixate on it all the time then. I also wondered why Integra felt the need to stay chaste, most adults had no such reservations. Perhaps, she was more conservative when it came to relationships like I was, not a fan of slutty, I mean consensual hooking, I mean...meaningless fucking. Perhaps, she was staying a virgin in case she was mortally wounded...it is better to have an undead Hellsing then no Hellsing right? Though...acting high and mighty aside, between Seras, Integra and Katsuye, I ended up around multiple likable, attractive women for the first time...ever. To be honest, it feels very strange for me to be around females I didn't want to just break out of anger, I wouldn't have tried to prevent some bitch from coughing a little bit. Integra was my boss, she didn't speak much and was always confident and calm but when she told that traitor off...yum.

I cracked my neck and sat up when I noticed she must've just nodded or not responded at all. To my final apology. I cut around the seal I placed on the bed sheet the cloth, placed it around the handle of a kunai and tied it off to stay. It was a shitty version of the Fourth Hokage's Jutsu, I can put my seals on any object but I need to carve or draw the seal formula by hand. So planting seals on people with a single touch like the Second or Fourth Hokage isn't possible for me at the moment as I had no formal training in the technique. This seal-bearing kunai could come in handy though, I looked at Integra and said, "I can search around the area for allies and hostiles using one of my abilities." I suggested, she just nodded. I sat on the bed and breathed deeply before dark green pigment appeared around my eyes and the streaks traveled down my jaw and my neck before moving out of sight. I immediately felt the undead everywhere as well as dying humans before finally finding Katsuye, Seras and something...else. "They seem to be traveling together but it's possible they are being followed if the creature is skilled enough the stalker." Kurama said, giving me his perspective on the matter which I agreed with. "Seras and my friend are alive, as are a large concentration of the Wild Geese on the first floor. The girls are close to the Wild Geese, we should go to them, Sir Integra." I suggested, she was a bit too flustered to speak but nodded. I tucked a finger under her chin and guided her head up, "I know I'm pretty gross but get over it and focus. I don't want to lose the best boss I've had." I said causing her to swat my hand away and stand up straight in response. She recollected herself as I realized how strange my actions were. I had never openly admitted that I cared for someone one in a while...since I was a leader myself in the ANBU. I adjusted my jaw and started walking towards the door. I didn't want to think about how being here was changing me but...I kind of liked being different. I truly cared for these people, I felt like we were...friends. I smiled.

I discovered I was a floor under the one Seras and Katsuye were on. I was. Glad we were close so my next worry that accumulated in my head was if Katsuye was behaving herself, that snake could be catty as hell at times. We had one more staircase until we were on the correct level and I just so happened to find a refreshment cart in the hallway leading to the staircase. I grabbed some alcohol and kept moving, Integra trusted my judgment so she remained silent and didn't question me. I caught myself smiling again.

Upon reaching the end if the hallway to the stairs Kirisuto held a hand up to ensure I remained silent. He listened in and held up three fingers before walking up the wall and listening to a spot on the roof. I sighed at the unusual sight, my brain would break if the boy looking at me disrespected the laws of physics any longer. Unfortunately, vampires can hear a lot better than I remembered and the three vampires burst in from the door to the stairway. Before they could even speak, liquid was poured on them and an even stream of fire caught the liquid and engulfed the vampires covered in it. They were scorched and collapsed screaming before Kirisuto finished them with shuriken. "W-what was that?" I asked a bit shaken at his sudden action and the sneer effectiveness of the combination of elements. "The Dragon Fire technique, it doesn't take much outta me but needs a conductor for the fire to travel through. Most use wires and rope but alcohol would carry the flame faster and intensify it." He said as he took a breath. He was running low on chakra but knew a solution. He handed his gun and a kunai knife to the sole female companion he had, me. "I need to get more power. What I'm about to do will take a while and I'll be defenseless but when I get it...we'll kick ass. I entrust my life to you, Integra Fairbrook Wingates Hellsing." He said before he sat on his calves, his legs tucked under his bottom and his back straight. I blinked before smirking. He closed his eyes as I said, "well do your best to hurry up at least, I am not that patient of a woman." I said as I held his high-caliber pistol, the Adder, with both hands. He chuckled and started to breathe deeply, I noticed the center of his eyelids gained a dark green pigment.

I climbed back up the stairs, unbuttoning a few of the buttons binding the collar of my dress shirt together, revealing the bite mark scars on my neck. I did this more out of necessity when I felt the heat intensify as we got further into the mansion. I stepped out of the dust kicked up and released when the grenades I stole from that grenadier went off and suddenly felt better. "They must have put silver shrapnel in them since they were coming for me...stay out of the dust." I ordered my summon and he nodded, Katsuye just mimicked my movements. The girl seemed to be getting a bit uneasy since she was separated from her master and didn't understand me very well... I shared her apprehension. Katsuye removed her jacket and untucked her white t-shirt from her pants, I didn't know why Katsuye always copied Kirisuto's state of dress or why but I definitely couldn't wait to tease him about it. I grinned and walked around the dust cloud to the room where the Wild Geese were supposed to have held down the line but the barricade was broken and I could hear no gunfire. I tensed at the sound of a man screaming and darted towards it. I came around the corner in time to see Pip's right hand man get his head chopped down the middle by a scythe.

"Police girl..." The woman that wielded the blade hissed out before she grinned and came at me. She swung so the blade came at me up high, to my right and diagonally. Katsuye jabbed Kirisuto's sword in front of where the scythe's blade was attached to the handle to halt the movement of the scythe completely. I brought my shotgun to bear but the woman seized the barrel and aimed it lower. I fired Kiri's shotgun anyway so the recoil would loosen her grip and took advantage of her arm weakening from the gun's jolt by kicking her knee. She cursed and leapt backwards before taking cover do I couldn't hit her. "Where is the leader of the mercenaries?" I said as pulled the lever on the shotgun and exchanged the spent shell in exchange for a new one in the tube. "Do you not care about learning who I am first!?" She asked causing my eyes to narrow and for me to grit my teeth, I couldn't give less of a fuck about this bitch. My face must have answered her question so the woman continued. "I am Zorin Blitz, your man is dead. You will join him in a few moments." My eyes widened and a frown set on my face before it turned into a open mouth as I charged at Zorin, she slammed a hand on the ground.

The hollow girl and her monster disappeared from my sight as everything went black, the light became tinged a deep violet as I started to shakes violently. "No...n-not here. Please..." I muttered as I felt my knees grow weak before I collapsed so I sat on my shins. I was back in the pantry dish that was my crib, the place I rotted for over fifteen of my twenty years of life. It all came back to me, every day they would inject me and I'd feel my bones, my flesh...my genetics be violated and molded into whatever they chose. My vestigial arms and legs grew as my scales receded and I began to devolve until I was no longer a snake, nor a reptile. I then re-evolved into some freak that was part mammal...part human which was their sick goal. I cried out as I grew lighter scales over parts of my skin and hair grew from my scalp. "Stop! Why!? Why are you making me this?" I screamed as the 'brave, dedicated trailblazers of the scientific community' continued to hack away at my limbs to get samples. They'd also remove organs to nurture into replacements for future missions they would send me, no...my children to fight on. I was to made into a farm for organs and limbs before I was to have my eggs harvested and they'd make me into a vegetable as my stimuli was no longer needed. I was told this by the head scientist on the day before I was to be put down, like an animal. "We thank you for the sacrifices you made, because of you we will be able to utilized summon creatures of any breed in new ways. They will be able to change shape and even species like you have partially, the first of which being your descendants. Your memory will be honored, 4." He said emotionlessly as he didn't have the decency to be concerned that I was unstrapped into my dull metal table of a bed. My muscles had atrophied from my absolute lack of movement on my own two legs...I never got to walk now that I thought about it. I slithered as a hatchling but after I was captured I never got to exercise in the slightest...I couldn't even do that...be treated like an animal. I teared up at the brutal humiliation I felt, to be harvested like a plant, not given the dignity to die like an animal nor walk on my son like a person. I looked up to him with ferocity in my eyes and a sneer, "I am Katsuye, not four. Just like how you are a sick pervert on a power trip instead of a decent being in any capacity. You can't even comprehend how much you are mocking the natural order of things, as if any summon would let you violate their identity. Especially my own fucking kids!" I screamed before I turned on my side, slamming my abdomen right into the corner of the metal side table. I kept slamming the flesh protecting my uterus over and over until the scientist tried to restrain me as he reached for his communicator, I widened my mouth and my hollow fangs sprung out. The head scientist was shocked as I refused to show them that I could manifest any properties of my reptilian form by will. I enjoyed hearing the beginning of his loud, effeminate scream become a hushed gurgle as I bit his neck hard and kept biting until he stopped moving. My venom parslyzed after the first bite but I had to kill the bastard. He got back up though and started to choke me as he started to strap me back in, he remained emotionless. "No...you died. You died. You died...you are supposed to die! I get away! I suffer and suffer alone until...until Kiri saves me!" The man looked at me with cold eyes as he restrained me and got a scalpel. "No. You die here, you're insane and a danger to yourself so I will remove your eggs right now." He said before he rubbed antiseptic liquid on my skin, I scream as I felt his blade dig in.

Katsuye began wailing and crying incoherently on her knees as she gripped her lower abdomen. "You die!" She screamed before throwing her weapon and babbling. I turned to Zorin and saw her smirk before her arm touching the floor flexed and she disappeared. I didn't know it but in a few moments I started to cry and scream as loud as Katsuye and Zorin picked up her blade.

Integra stood by Kirisuto standing guard, unaware that pitch black eyes watched her from every blotch of darkness.

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