Nana woke up the next morning. Her vision a little blurry as she did so, but returned to normal not so long after. She stretched, and noticed that her arm almost hit a person next to her face. She was silent for a moment and then noticed the arm wrapped around her. Her maroon eyes locked on the dark-haired Dragon Slayer, Rogue who happened to be the person next to her.

Nana's eyes widened as she tried moving out of the bed. However, she fell off instead with one of her prosthetic limbs falling on the floor next to her.

Rogue's eyes opened as he heard the 'thump'. He sat up and looked at the ground where Nana was currently down on. "Are you alright?" he asked, looking at her. It seemed that one of her prosthetic limbs was not attached to her. "Do you need some help?"

"No, I can manage" Nana answered as she picked up her prosthetic limb and reattached it to her body. She noticed Rogue's eyes on her and blushed wondering what he wanted.

"How did you lose your arms and legs?" He asked her.

"Lucy-san did this to me. I was sent to bring Lucy-san back to the facility. However, she won, but she didn't stop there; she ripped off my limbs while laughing. I almost died too." Nana sadly answered, her mind going back to the time where Kaede ripped off her arms and legs.

"Has she really changed since then?" Rogue asked.

"I believe so. However the Voice still tries to control her. It was Lucy-san who did this to me and not the Voice" Nana answered his question.

"Kaede willingly did that to you?"

"Yes, she did. I heard she wasn't treated kindly in her past and that's why she used to kill. You can ask her yourself. However, I don't sense her presence."

Rogue looked at Nana confused as to what she meant by sensing Kaede's presence.

"Oh. We diclonius can sense where each other are over a certain distance. As long as we're in the same town or city we can know where each other are."

"I see" Rogue said while looking away.

Nana wondered why he was looking away from her and began to ask, what was wrong. However, when she was about to he faced her way again.

"We should get dressed" Rogue said to Nana.

'In the same room?' she thought then shook her head to clear those dirty thoughts away. 'No, I can't think that. I'm too young to think those thoughts'

Rogue began to ask what was wrong, but before he could Nana dashed out the door; her face completely red.

XXX

Nana was currently sitting on the couch in the living room of the guild. She was still red in the face and had many thoughts running through her mind.

She heard footsteps and saw Yukino coming towards her to sit on the couch as well. Nana refused to look at her afraid that she would see her blush.

"What's wrong, Nana?" Yukino asked.

"D-dressed. R-Rogue. S-same room." Nana stuttered looking right at Yukino, which made Yukino think that Rogue got dressed right in front of Nana.

'No wonder she's freaking out. I'll have to have a good talk with Rogue when he comes in here'

A few minutes later Rogue walked into the room with his regular clothes on. He saw Nana on the couch looking down at her feet, refusing to look at him. He was curious about the way she was acting and walked up, sitting down on the couch next to her.

'Why am I acting this way towards Rogue? I only met him yesterday. Could this be love at first sight. Impossible there's no such thing or maybe there is.' Nana thought looking right into his red eyes, her blush slowly disappearing.

Rogue raised his hand up to feel her head. "It seems that you don't have a fever"

The action made Nana blush again and think. 'Damn, why do I feel so nervous around this guy'

"Rogue I think you need to get away from Nana for now. It seems that Nana is feeling slightly nervous."

"Alright" Rogue said and walked away to get something to eat in the kitchen part of the guild.

"Nana you can come eat soon if you want to. I and Rogue will be in the kitchen. Sting and Kaede should be coming down shortly as well."

"Okay" Nana said watching Yukino leave.

Hearing footsteps Nana looked to her right to see Kaede and Sting there.

"I see you're awake, Nana" Sting said as she nodded.

Kaede ran up to her and gave her a hug, which shocked her.

"L-Lucy-san what are you doing?" Nana asked.

"Hug" Kaede said getting off of Nana.

'That was strange. Although I should be used to it by now' Nana thought.

"Okay, so who wants to get something to eat?" Sting suggested.

Kaede raised her hand, saying "Nyu!"

"That's a yes for Kaede. What about you Nana?" Sting said, looking at her.

"I guess I can get some food too" Nana said then thought. 'Although with Rogue in there I feel nervous'

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Yukino was sitting on the opposite side of Rogue with a stern look in her eyes. "What did you do to Nana?" she asked him.

"I did nothing. All I said was that we needed to get dressed and then she bolted out of the room" He answered her.

"I see. So she must've misunderstood you" Yukino said.

"I wonder what she could've misunderstood" Rogue wondered.

"She must've thought that you two would get dressed in front of each other"

"So basically she had her head in the gutter" Rogue sighed out as he thought about Nana.

"Yes" Yukino said and wondered if Rogue was thinking of Nana. "What are you thinking of, Rogue?" she asked.

"Nothing," He lied as he saw Sting, Kaede, and Nana come to the kitchen. It seemed that the food was already placed on the table.

Nana immediately ran up and sat right beside Rogue, despite her being nervous around him. Nana flashed him a smile, but it seemed that he didn't see her. She frowned and focused her attention on the food.

Kaede and Sting sat down by each other, but they didn't eat. Not until Frosch and Lector got into the room too.

"What's taking Frosch and Lector, so long?" Yukino asked.

"I don't know" Sting answered worried because Lector was taking too long. He and Kaede decided to go down because Lector was still sleeping and he refused to wake him.

Rogue was also waiting for Frosch.

"Fro is here!" Frosch yelled out flying down with Lector after him.

"Wait up, Frosch!" Lector yelled back to him. In no time the two exceeds were at the table too. Frosch and Lector landed on the table in front of their plates which were also set out for them by Yukino.

Frosch took a piece of muffin and put it in his mouth. "Fro thinks this is good" He went to take another bite.

Nana smiled at Frosch and said to him, "You're cute"

"Fro thinks so too" Frosch said taking another bite of muffin.

Nana took a bite of her own too, and in no time she was done eating. Frosch was done too.

However the others weren't. They were taking their time eating their breakfast.

"Fro wants to know your name?" Frosch asked Nana as he jumped into her lap.

"Well, I'm Nana. What is your name?" Nana answered him.

"Fro name is Frosch but you can call Fro, Fro" Frosch said, smiling at Nana obviously liking her.

"It seems that Frosch has taken a liking to you" Yukino said to Nana finished with her muffin.

Nana smiled slightly at Yukino and turned her attention back to Frosch.

"Can Fro ask Nana, something?" Frosch asked.

"You can ask me anything" Nana replied.

"What are those on your head?"

"They are horns. Do you want to feel them?"

"Fro wants to feel" Nana then picked up Frosch and placed him on her head letting him feel her horns. "They are hard"

After a minute of feeling the horns, Frosch hopped off of Nana's head and onto Rogue's lap.

"Rogue. Fro likes Nana. He thinks Nana is nice"

"I like Fro too" Nana said, patting Frosch's head even though he was on Rogue's lap.

The gesture made Rogue smile at Nana. Nana caught that and smiled back.

'It seems that you like this human.' A voice in Nana's head said in disgust.

"Y-you" Nana stuttered out scared out of her mind. It was her Voice. She thought she'd suppressed it and it had worked. So far her Voice hasn't talked to her in years, but now it suddenly was talking to her again. That thought frightened her.

"What's wrong, Nana?" Sting asked and saw Nana get up.

"I have to go" She answered.

"Go where?" Yukino asked as all of them were finished with breakfast.

"N-no time." Nana stuttered and ran out of the guild to get away from her friends. Just in case her Voice decided to attack them. She had a good control over her Voice but it seems that she can't control it forever.

"Nana, wait!" Yukino yelled out.

"Nyu!" Kaede yelled out too wanting Nana to come back.

"I'll get her" Rogue offered.

"Fro is going too" Frosch said, but Rogue stopped him telling Frosch to stay with the others. Frosch reluctantly agreed.

"But Fro wants to be with Nana" Frosch said as the green exceed in the pink frog costume watched Rogue's retreating back.

XXX

Nana was a few miles outside the guild, but stopped to catch her breath. It seemed she was in a town full of humans.

'This isn't good' Nana thought, but her Voice disagreed.

'Actually, this is quite good. Great even. You've lost your touch in killing humans and this will get you back in shape.'

'Fuck off. I've never killed a human and never will' Nana argued.

'Language my dear Nana. What would your 'Papa' think if he heard you curse'

"P-Papa" Nana said and began crying. "I miss Papa!"

The actions Nana was making made people passing by giving her strange looks. They noticed her horns and pulled their kids who were trying to go to Nana away from her.

'Look at all those humans. You know they hate us. Why would you love those filthy creatures'

'Not all humans are bad. Papa wasn't bad.'

'You knew that he never thought of you as his daughter. You were just a replacement for his real daughter. What was her name? Ah, I remember. It was Mariko.'

'Papa never thought of me as a replacement'

'Then why did he go and die with her'

Nana refused to believe the Voice. She refused to believe that she was a mere replacement.

'It's not true. It can't be true.'

'It is. Oh look I see some humans coming towards us. Let's kill them'

'NO! I refuse to let you kill them. Go back to where you came from and never return!'

'Fine, but you'll regret your decision later' the Voice then went silent. She knew what the humans were going to do and only wanted to protect Nana. Even if it meant killing.

Nana saw two humans walking up to her. They were Travis and Jason.

"What do you want?" Nana asked them knowing something was wrong.

"What do we want? We want you"

"Look Jason. Those horns look like the ones that other freak had" Travis pointed out.

"The one that burned us?" Jason asked.

"Yes, that one"

"Then let's rough her up"

Nana was scared out of her mind and was backed into a corner. No one was around to help her out and she refused to harm these humans.

"You're not going to hurt us?" Travis asked.

Nana stayed silent, refusing to talk.

"That's good," Jason then ran up to her and kicked her in the stomach, knocking the breath out of her.

Nana tried to stand up, but Travis held her back not letting her move a muscle.

Jason smiled sadistically and pulled out a knife. She glared at him as he brought it closer. He thrust it right in her stomach, causing her to scream out in pain.

She now wanted to use her vectors to get out of there, but she was in so much pain that she couldn't even summon them.

Jason twisted the knife and pulled it out, leaving a deep wound there.

'Diclonius like me may heal faster than humans, but if I don't get help soon I'll die' Nana thought as she felt her vision go black.

A hard punch to her face caused her to wake back up.

"You are not sleeping anytime soon. This is my revenge for what your friend did to us" Travis said as he released his hold. Nana fell down on the ground, unable to move. She just took the blows that were directed at her.

Nana started crying, afraid now for her life. "Rogue" she said afraid that she couldn't see him again.

"Who's Rogue?" Travis asked Jason who only shrugged signaling that he didn't know either.

Travis lifted her up by her hair and asked "Who is Rogue?"

Nana looked in fear of her attackers afraid of them, but she lied saying "I don't know," she was afraid that if they can beat up a diclonius like her this badly. They can hurt Rogue too.

The knife went into her stomach again and she cried out. Her prosthetic limbs unattached themselves and she landed on the ground with a thud unable to move.

Nana heard footsteps and saw that Rogue was right behind her. She smiled weakly at him before fainting.

Rogue looked at Travis and Jason with an angry look in his eyes. He refused to waste any time and attacked the two with his shadows. He attacked with his Shadow Dragon's Roar which knocked the two out easily. He proceeded to tie them up with magic binding rope just in case the two can use magic.

Rogue ran up to Nana and kneeled down next to her. "Nana" Rogue said clearly worried for her.

Hearing his voice Nana woke up. "Rogue" she said and saw his face. She smiled, but soon the smile went away as pain coursed through her body. She couldn't even summon the energy to grab her prosthetics with her vectors and put them back on.

"My arms and legs" Nana said and Rogue looked at them understanding what she meant. He grabbed them in his arms and put them in his cloak. Grabbing Nana, he lifted her up and began walking back to Sabertooth.

"Sorry" Nana said as Rogue rushed to the guild. He refused to talk to her. It wasn't like he didn't want to. He just wanted to get her to safety.

He arrived quickly at the guild and rushed inside.

"I need help. Nana is severely injured" Rogue said.