Chapter 9: Transformation

My dad gave me a small elixir to drink that would make me human. I wasn't sure if it would work or not, but I looked up at him. "What's the catch?" I asked. "Name your price."

"No price." he stated. "Your my daughter, if anyone is paying a price, it's me."

I didn't completely believe him but shrugged and put the bottle in my pocket. "What about side effects?"

"No different than the small fact that you'd lose your immortality and demonic powers, including your foresight, and transformations, though, I believe you're cat traits, such as hydrophobia, will stay with you..." he answered, scratching his chin uncertainly.

I tried to think of some other consequence of the elixir. "What about my age?" I asked. "Would I stay as a teen, or die instantly of old age? I am over a thousand years old after all."

I looked up at the fear in my father's eyes at my question. "Now that, _, I'm not sure." I bit my lip as he sighed. "Theoretically, you should stay in your teenage form, but it's still a theory. Though this elixir has existed for many millennia, no demon has ever tried it."

"If it's existed for so long," Hikaru started.

"Then why does no one test it out?" Kaoru asked.

"How do you know it works?" they asked in unison.

"I don't." My dad answered. "But I do know that this is the only one of its kind. If anything can accomplish what _ wants, this can."

Something still never made since to me. "If this can turn a demon into a human, why haven't you given it to Ciel?"

"The master was born human and turned into a demon." he answered. "You were born a demon-reaper-hybrid, and wish to be human. Transformations that large can only happen once." After a pause, he added, "Besides, the only reason I would turn him human again is for his soul to return, but I'm afraid it is lost forever by now.

"That's another thing, this potion will not give you a soul, though it will allow you to develop one over time."

I thought for a moment before I took in a deep breath. "When do I take it?" I asked.

"It will only work when the moon is at it's highest, at midnight." he answered. "It will work better if you refrain from turning into your demonic form a few hours prior, and the remainder of the night after you've taken it. Based on the studies, the effects are not instant, and once the potion is in your system, you'd naturally want to resist it by going full demon. Just remember, even if your eyes change during this process, you will be unable to change them back once the full effects kick in at dawn." he warned.

"So what?" the twins asked.

"How does glowing pink eyes,"

"Change anything?"

"It can change anything from just her appearance to her sight." he answered. "Humans aren't accustomed to sight through eyes like ours, so if even her eyes change, she could possibly go completely blind. If she grows her cat ears and/or tail, and it stays there when the sun rises the next morning, she would be stuck in that exact form for the rest of her life."

Though the path I laid out was frightening, the uncertainty of the situation was what made me hesitate. I did the only thing I could do and hugged my father. "Thank you dad. I know it must be hard for you, but thank you."

He hugged me back and kissed the top of my head. "If you still decide to have a contract, be careful of who you sign it with." he stated before he went through the mushy, clingy, parenting thing. "Don't talk to strangers." "Don't go down dark ally ways alone." "Don't stick with your boyfriend. I don't like him." "Listen to your friends, they should show you everything you should know." "Don't forget to write." "Call me every day." "Please friend me on facebook."

I could only laugh at his last request as I parted from him with a smile. Hikaru and Kaoru hugged my sides and smiled. "Well, we should head back." Kaoru stated.

"Yeah, don't want the boss,"

"Or Kyoya,"

"To worry too much." Hikaru added. My dad tensed at the sound of my boyfriend's name, but he seemed to let it go after a few seconds. I smiled at my father again and left with the twins right behind me.

3pov

Sebastian watched as his only daughter walked down to the car and disappeared behind the metallic, black door. The twins went around to either side of the car, and the driver started the ignition. The expensive black car stirred the dirt as it went down the road steadily. The butler gazed at the horizon as the car containing his little girl was gone from his line of sight.

"...So," a voice came from behind him. "_ wishes to be human? I suppose this plan worked better than I thought it would."

The butler looked over at his master. "...I'm sorry?"

Ciel grinned as he started back up the stairs and explained, knowing Sebastian would follow him. "_ is a teenage girl, after all. Being my butler is your job, not her's. It's about time she'd be on her own."

It was then when the pieces were put together in his head. "...You planned this from the beginning?"

The master nodded with another grin. "That's why I put her in Ouran Academy, why I signed her up for all those leadership classes, why I allowed her to leave. The only reason I hadn't done any of this sooner was that I hadn't found the correct place to start yet, until now." Sebastian was silent as Ciel continued. "It nearly broke my heart when I saw how sad she was when leaving the manner, leaving her own mother. This way, she can, not only do as she'd please, but now she can be reunited with her mother sooner than she first expected." He then stopped walking and looked back at the butler. "A girl being with her mother is always best, wouldn't you agree?"

"I agree that being with both parents is always best." Sebastian stated.

"But if both is out of the question, the the parent with contact with most of the family is best." Ciel added.

"If _ goes with Grell after her human life is gone, she will be accepted back in the reaper facility, and be reunited with, not only her mother, but her uncles and half brother as well. The reapers chose their recruits from the souls they reap every decade or so anyway, right? It would make no since if they let her die off and recruit fresh reapers who don't know what they're doing. True, she'd have to be retrained, but she'd already understand the basics."

The crow listened silently. He didn't want his daughter to become a reaper, that was the last thing he wanted, but it seemed as though that was his last hope for her to be happy with mortality, and live on immortally.

1pov

I walked in the host club room with the twins. Everyone seemed tense; Honey wasn't eating cake, Tamaki was staring out the window, Kyoya was clutching his head in front of his laptop, Mori was...just Mori I guess, and Haruhi was pacing. At the sound of the door, all eyes turned to me.

After a moment, Kyoya stood and rushed over to me, hugging me tightly. "Did it work?" he asked.

I showed him the elixir bottle and explained the instructions. "I managed to keep from using my demon powers so far, but I'm not sure I could take this without help."

He nodded and smiled. "Well, it's Friday, so we go home tonight. I'll help you get through it." he promised. "Even if it means staying up all night with you, and doing nothing but hold you and talk to you, I'll do it." I smiled up at him and nodded.

That night at 11:59, Kyoya and I stared at the clock. "Can't you take it now?" he asked. "It's pretty close to midnight."

I shook my head. "It'll only work when the moon is at it's highest, the second 12 o'clock comes."

The seconds dragged by until finally the clock struck 12 and I ripped the bottle open and chugged the elixir down my throat. A few seconds passed and I felt nothing but the cold liquid running through my system and Kyoya's violet-gray eyes burn in me. I took in a deep breath and gulped down some spit to possibly help the elixir go down. "I don't feel any-" Just then I crunched in myself in sudden sharp pain.

Kyoya stood in alarm, pulling me up and holding me close. "It's alright. Don't turn. It'll be okay." he soothed.

My eyes stung as I desperately tried to keep them the green they were. My nails ripped my skin to grow out into claws, but I fought to pull them back in. I felt fangs puncture my lip and I weakly tried to suck them back in.

On and on, if it wasn't one thing fighting to show, it was another. I couldn't possibly keep all the demonic parts hidden from the surface. Suddenly, I felt something rocket up my throat from nowhere.

Seeing my look of pain and hearing my gag, Kyoya steadily took my hand and gently rushed me to the bathroom, where I hunched over the toilet and helplessly yielded to the chunky, black, inky vomit that flooded past my lips. There goes my last meal, he was a great boy too! Then another flood of vomited souls I've consumed in the past cascaded from my throat and in the black, murky toilet water.

No two souls in the stomach lurching mix had the same texture. Some of the earlier souls I consumed came up more painfully, but were less chunky and smaller in size than the more recent souls.

It wasn't long before the toilet was full, so I tried to flush it down, but my hands were so shaky and clammy, I couldn't move without my claws slipping out, at which point, I'd drop my hand back to the seat and pull them back in.

All my boyfriend could do now was rub my back, flush the toilet occasionally, and watch me be miserable. I wasn't anywhere close to a pretty sight. My (h/c), red tinted hair was in knots all down my sweaty neck. My burning red puffed green eyes had dark circles coating under them, deeply embedded in my skull. My face was flushed of any color and white as a ghost, and just as lifeless. Sweat beaded my face, neck, chest, and under my arms. My whole form shook violently. It didn't take long before he couldn't take it anymore.

"_," he said softly and gently. "I'll be right back. Try not to turn." With that, I hissed at him as he steadily backed out of the room and down the hall.

He came back only minutes later to see me still struggling to stay in my human form and shaking uncontrollably. Kyoya hurried down to me and handed me a bucket while helping me up off the floor and out to the car. I weakly stared at the bucket as he spouted instructions to the chauffeur. "Phantomhive Manner! Stat!"

"Yes sir!"

I chuckled a little at the bucket as the car started driving. "...a bucket." I said hoarsely. "...Your family specializes in health care and medical training...and all you have for me...is a bucket."

Kyoya could only shrug as he started rubbing my back again. "Our medical field is in human illness', not demonic potion's side effects. I don't know what else to get you."

Still, I used the bucket and filled it of the inky, black, tar-like vomit. With how fast the car was moving, we made it to the manner not long at all. As the car slowed to a stop, Kyoya looked out and turned to me. "Stay right here, and don't turn. I'll be right back with help." With that, he left the car and ran in the booming thunder and drumming rain that started about half an hour ago. I watched him as he ran in the rain, ignoring the chauffeur's offer of an umbrella, and knocked on the door.

3pov

Sebastian had just put the master to bed when there was a large boom ringing through the mansion that didn't sound like thunder. He figured it had to be the door, so he started down the stairs to answer, regardless of the small fact that it was nearing 2 in the morning. He opened the door and considered just slamming it shut when he saw the face of Kyoya on the porch.

The teen was soaked to the bone. His glasses were coated in drops of rain. The short, black hair stuck to his skin, as well as his button-up shirt, which had a few buttons undone at the top and bottom of the line. "Mr. Michaelis," he shouted over the rain. "Please! You have to help me! I don't know who else to turn to!"

"I'm one hell of a butler, not one hell of a mind reader. What do you want?" Sebastian asked sourly.

"It's _." The butler perked up at the sound of his daughter's name. "She took the drink you gave her a couple hours ago, and now she's scaring me with how she's reacting." He explained to him how she had the sudden pain, how she vomited some unknown black stuff, and how she was in so much pain, she could hardly move. "She's in the car now, but I didn't know what else to do."

As instant as the lightning that flashed light on their faces, Sebastian was rushing past Kyoya and to the black car. He opened the door and just froze at the sight of his little baby girl as she slept with a pained look on her face. Though her eyes were closed, she still spread her lips and ground her teeth that faded to sharp fangs before flattening back to teeth, and her hands tensely and tightly cling to the bucket as her claws continued to attempt to push themselves out, only for her to painfully draw them back in.

Sebastian took off his coat and covered _ in it before picking her up and carrying her back inside, the coat acting as her umbrella.

The butler turned to Kyoya as he passed him before he sighed. "There's an extra towel up stairs, second door to your left. Once you're dry, come back down here and meet me in the third room to the right in the servants quarters just beside the kitchen." The teen followed the butler's instructions precisely as the man carried _ to the room in the servant's quarters.

1pov

I groaned and opened my blurry eyes to see white everywhere. I shut my eyes tightly to try to clear them as I saw two black dots at either side of me. "...(end of name)..." they called. "..._, can you hear us?"

I looked over to my left and saw Kyoya with a look of worry as I still fought the demonic features from showing. Over to my right was my dad, who I was more than happy to see. "...Dad..." I groaned. "What's going on? I thought the side effects were just that I'd lose my demonic half, not lose control of it."

With a sigh, my dad gave me a bar of chocolate. "I didn't know it would be this painful on you." he answered. "Eating human food should help sooth your pain, and chocolate is the only human food we have, apparently."

I could see Kyoya face-palm at that little fact. "If I had known that, I would've given her a feast!"

My dad ignored him as I nibbled on the sweet. Already, I could feel the demonic part's have weaker attempts to show, though it was still painful to conceal them. "Human foods bring out the inner human of which, you want to show, and overcome your demonic, savagery nature, weakening your demon half at the same time." my dad explained. "How long have you been like that?" he asked.

"As soon as I took the elixir, I felt pain." I explained, having an easier time keeping my fangs, eyes, claws, ears, and tail in as I chewed on the dark chocolate. "What time is it?"

"Just after 4." Kyoya answered.

"4:12 to be exact." my dad corrected, snapping his prized silver pocket watch shut and slipping the small clock in his coat. "You just have to hold out until dawn, which is just an hour and 48 minutes. Whatever you have at dawn, however you look like, or what you can do, that's how you will be the remainder of your life." he reminded me.

I took in a deep breath, the wave of nausea finally settling down, but leaving me starving. I tried to push that from my mind as I just talked with Kyoya and my dad to try to distract me from the pain. Kyoya and I talked about the great times we'd have when this was over, how he'd treat me to ice cream, and I'd stay with him, possibly get a job in one of his hospitals or something.

Soon, I figured my dad felt left out, so I talked with him about how great times in the past were, like the field trip we had to the Greek Underworld, the Egyptian pyramids, all the balls we were invited to, and all the great adventures we had. Most of the fun in that conversation was explaining it all to Kyoya and seeing his reaction, usually one of loss and confusion.

Suddenly, my head got a splitting headache, causing me to clutch my head and shut my eyes with gritted teeth. I was getting a vision of the future.

I saw myself, much older, over 70 maybe, and I was dieing. My mom was right next to me, collecting my soul and reading my cinematic record.

The next flash was my soul with my mom and uncles, debating on what they should do with me before my Uncle Undertaker suggested to re-recruit me. Uncle William argued that I was too old, but Undertaker just laughed and claimed that to be an easy fix. With the snap of his fingers, I was a teen again, and he gave me back my scythe, a pair of long, thin, maroon scissors, as well as my new recruit glasses.

In the next second, I saw myself as a fully realized reaper once again, my newer purple square glasses, my new, larger, leaner, sharper chainsaw scythe in my hands. This scythe was different from my mother's. While his was boxy, large, and red, mine was thinner, leaner, and maroon with small, sharp blades going both ways. I was a tutor at the facility for a specific group of new recruits from Japan. You guessed it, the Host Club was chosen as new recruits, all of their youth recaptured as a gift from my mother and uncles to make the training easier.

All the club members flashed in my mind in their forms after they passed the final exam.

Tamaki's glasses were thin and rectangular with a silver chain around his neck. His scythe, an old fashion Medieval European knight's sword with a white-green hilt.

Kyoya's glasses were just a little thicker than the ones he wore already. His own blade, a small knife you'd find in a doctor's office, but the very end of it was lavender, and the blade was much sharper.

Honey's glasses were pink, thick, large, and round with little silver skulls spotting the sides of the frame. The scythe in his hands were a pair of kage-nui with pink handles.

Mori's glasses were thin, small, black, square, and professional with a thin string of skulls hooking the frame to his neck. His weapon being a samurai katana with a dark blue handle.

The twins, as always, were identical to each other with the exception of color with their spectacles being fairly thick and oval shaped, Hikaru's pair being hot pink with a blue skull on the left side of the frame, Kaoru's the exact opposite, blue with a pink skull on the right side of the frame. The scythes of their choice were claws with handles that looped around their fingers like rings. Hikaru's claw handles were teal blue, while Kaoru's were bright orange.

Haruhi's glasses were large, square, thick, and brown with black skulls near her ears. Her death scythe was a simple, basic dagger with a red hilt, nothing fancy or eye catching about it. (A/N: I tried to make scythes that would make since for the characters, and I tried to get the colors right. If there's a mistake, or you have a different/better idea, please let me know)

At first glance, I didn't believe I saw the club members, due to their eyes being lime green instead of the colors I've grown accustomed to, but the poses they had in each flash made their identities unmistakable.

I blinked out of my trance and lowered my hands, looking up at Kyoya's and my dad's looks of slight fear. "What?" I asked. "What's wrong?"

"..._, do you realize what time it is?" my boyfriend asked.

My dad then pulled out his watch and clicked it open. "It's half past 6." he answered.

I looked out the window and saw the sunlight pouring in the room. It was then when I noticed my pain was gone, and my hands weren't clammy anymore. I jumped up and looked in a mirror to see for myself, and sure enough, I looked like any normal teenage girl with my green eyes and (h/c) hair, no fangs, claws, or anything demonic about my appearance whatsoever.

But there was only one way to know for sure that it worked. I ran out of the room to the bathroom, filled the tub, and dunked in the freezing water with a big splash. When I resurfaced, I was overly joyed when my cat ears didn't pop up from my head.

No matter how happy I was to be human, the two boys didn't seem as thrilled. "What wrong?" I giggled, leaping from the water, not caring that my now soaking, see through cloths clung to my skin, and grabbing Kyoya's hands, spinning him around in pure joy and excitement. "What could possibly get you two so down? It worked!"

My dad clutched Kyoya's shirt in his fist, making him jerk to a stop, and me stop spinning as well. "_, what happened after you had that headache?" he asked.

It took a while for me to remember what he was talking about, but I answered, "I had a vision with my demonic powers that I used to have." I answered with another giggle. "It didn't last til dawn, so it was the last vision I'll ever have in this life!"

The two boys looked at one another and shook their heads. "You tell her." My dad said to Kyoya. "She's had enough disappointment in me to last another millennium."

"Why me?" Kyoya asked right back through gritted teeth. "You can explain it much better than I can. I'm just a 'stupid, inexperienced human', remember?"

I could see my dad growl as he turned to me with a sigh. "...You were still in your vision when dawn came." he stated. My eyes grew wide as he continued. "You'll keep your foresight for the remainder of your life. That's just how the elixir works. Dawn is the marker...and though your appearance didn't change from a human to a demon, you still have your demonic power. These effects are permanent."

I know this is a long chapter, but it's to make up for those shorter chapters that were half the size of normal sized chapters. I'll try to keep the rest of them more consistent, unless you all like chapters this long. I don't know, maybe the next chapter should be the last, or maybe even this chapter. Let me know your thoughts.

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