Nanoha FanFiction Discussion

[00-Raiser]

Hehe, well I did do a little harem fic with Nanoha, Fate, and Hayate

http://forums.animesuki.com/album.ph...ictureid=27668

[DezoPenguin]

Originally Posted by Rising Dragon

And now you need to make a harem fic featuring all of those pairings. :V

EDIT: Page claim for harems?

Well, they do generally come in twos and threes.

...Maybe I should start looking out for the virtue of my wife's assorted plush rodents, if he's such a player!

(Yes, I got the Yuuno plushie; he arrived Monday and, yes, he is as completely damn cute as the pictures look!)

[deathcurse]

Originally Posted by RadiantBeam

I... I don't even know how to explain this short. Words fail me.

Spoiler for Fall down, your mind:

A pained gasp, followed by a soft sigh; beneath her fingers, gently gripping the other woman’s arm to keep her still out of instinct, though she knew very well that her victim wouldn’t try to run. It was, as always, an irony that never escaped her.

She didn’t know how long they stayed liked that; a few seconds or a few minutes, she didn’t keep count. Finally, though, she’d had her fill and pulled away, wiping at her mouth with the back of her hand; in the moonlight, there was a flash of blood-stained fangs.

Grimacing, Takamachi Miyuki lifted a hand and gently pressed it to the bite marks on her neck, wondering when this had stopped freaking her out. “Was that enough?” she asked.

In the darkness, she couldn’t see Shinobu nod, but she didn’t need to; the older woman would have kept drinking if she needed more. Wincing slightly at the soft sting, the black-haired girl rubbed the spot to soothe it. Noticing this, Shinobu hastily scooted off the bed and grabbed some Band-Aids.

“Sorry. I bit too hard again.”

“It’s fine.” She smiled sheepishly. “I’m the only person you use for this, so it’s not like you practice much on everyone else.” Accepting the Band-Aid, she pressed it onto the bite; she’d have to take care to keep it hidden until it healed.

“I’m still sorry,” Shinobu murmured, going back to sit on the side of the bed.

“And I said it’s fine. You aren’t going to tell Kyou-chan about this, and you need to get blood from somewhere.” Though deep down, Miyuki couldn’t help but fight the feeling that in a way, they were both somehow cheating on Kyouya by doing this; Shinobu by not telling him about her condition, for a lack of better word, and Miyuki for agreeing to help her handle it.

Sighing and knowing she wasn’t about to get the younger girl to blame her, Shinobu brushed loose strands of purple hair out of her eyes. “Do you want me to walk you home? It’s late, and the news said a storm was blowing in.”

Miyuki shook her head, sliding off the bed and adjusting the hood of her sweater. “I’ll be all right. It’s not too long a walk, and the buses are still running.” She smiled easily and adjusted her glasses, grabbing her bag. “Call me when you get thirsty again, okay?”

Was she the only one who hated how normal this had become? Shinobu got up and followed Miyuki out of her bedroom and down to the front door, both women taking care to keep their footsteps light so no one would hear them.

“Shinobu-san?” She hadn’t answered.

Jolted out of her thoughts, Shinobu shook her head and nodded quickly. “Right. I will.” She opened the door and stepped outside with Miyuki, smiling sheepishly when the younger girl gave her an amused look. “At least let me walk you out.”

“You feel guilt too easily, Shinobu-san.” Shouldering her bag, Miyuki easily bounded down the steps and started off; in the darkness, wearing her usual black sweatshirt, the girl seemed to fade into the night.

She hesitated, then called out. “Miyuki.”

The younger girl paused and looked back. “Yeah?”

“Do you… do you think we’ll ever tell Kyouya about this?”

At that, the black-haired girl laughed. “Which part, Shinobu-san? That you’re a vampire, or that I’m your preferred victim?”

Shinobu was silent; she had no response to that. Turning her back, Miyuki lifted her hand in a light wave and disappeared into the night.

Sighing softly, the older woman closed the door behind her and headed back upstairs. It was late, and she had early classes tomorrow. Noel would be suspicious if she slept in.

She could still taste Miyuki’s blood on her tongue.

Spoiler for What is this I don't even:

1. So yeah. Expanding a bit on Triangle Hearts 3, in which Shinobu is a vampire. Obviously this is set in MGLN 'verse, but still, if Dezo gets to play around with the aspect, why can't I?

2. So, um, I guess this would kind of be a "friends with benefits" situation for Shinobu and Miyuki. Only instead of sex, Shinobu gets blood. And... I don't really know what Miyuki gets out of it. Knowing something about Shinobu that Kyouya doesn't know?

Sadly, I admit to have read one of the recent "teen vampire" series, Vampire Academy (it's because of the interesting main character, I swear!), and this kind of reminds me of the two main characters--one of them feeding off the other because they're friends and they couldn't trust anyone else at that time. So maybe that was why I wasn't really getting a "cheating" feel when I read it.

Or maybe it's because I find myself in the interesting position of being good friends with my sister's boyfriend, and how he and I have a lot of interests in common and we game and discuss shows together when my sister isn't there. But there's no cheating vibe or anything, it's just that we're all good friends with each other so nothing feels weird.

In the case of Shinobu and Miyuki, I guess I see it as the two of them being friends, outside of the fact that Shinobu and Kyouya are girl/boyfriends. Friends keep secrets from boyfriends sometimes, so I don't really see it as a big deal.

Of course, if the blood-drinking is similar to, er, other vampire series where it feels *good*, then maybe it would make things a little odd....but at this point, I don't really see any of that in the fic. So it just feels like a friend helping out a friend, just with a small complication of the fact that the boyfriend is also the other's brother, is all .

Nice fic though, especially the little moments that show how banal their acts have become--it really shows just how close they've become (in whatever sense of the word you'd like it mean).

Originally Posted by sniperk

Well, I had this stashed here for ages, so... Not really what we're talking about but your remark remembered me of it.

Spoiler for It happens:

The images of the fire come back to my mind. I knew what I had to do. But I froze. The image I see before me is only of the fireplace he prepared for us in this hut in the middle of nowhere, but the memories of the accident come back to me as vivid as the day it happened. Five days ago, inside the Library. A book that came from the last expedtion to a dug site. Just a harmless book. At least it seemed that way at first. Until one of the visitors decided to translate one of the passages. Turns out that the passage was actually a seal placed upon the book to safeguard it. The moment the person finished reading the passage, in ancient Belka language, her body was set on fire. She ran around frantically trying to put out the fire without success. The moment I heard the screams from my office I ran to her, but even my spells weren't enough to put out the flame. Suddenly the flames just dissapeared. The spell was supposed to affect the person until the caster was dead. And that's what happened. She was carbonized a few feet from me. And there wasn't a single thing that I could do. Not a single one of my healing spells worked on her. She was only fourteen. The girl had been coming to the library frequently for the last few months. She was one of the few who had a true interest in books and history, and came there just for the knowledge, without any ulterior motive.

A warm hand on my shoulder snapped out of my reverie. "You need to stop thinking about this." He said. How does he know what I'm thinking... Wait. Scratch that. It's probably written all over my face.

I wave it off, while he hands me a can of cold beer. I open it, and while taking the first sip of the bitter liquid he turns on a TV. It's weird actually, that with all of our technology, we're in the middle of nowhere, on a Non-Administered planet, looking at a box that shows only static while he's trying to fine tune on some channel.

While carrying out his task, he starts without turning back to see if I was paying attention. "There's a sport around here called baseball. I don't know if you ever heard of it, but it's quite an interesting game, you know." He finnally finished his task of sintozing the screen on the said game. Of course I knew of baseball, but that was actually the first time for me to watch it live. "It's a weird sport. Most of the guys pass most of the time just watching the others. It's actually pretty boring to watch if you don't root for any of the teams." He continued to rant while moving the couch I was sitting in to face the screen, without as much as asking me to get up. "But there's something about it that I can't really describe it. It's catchy. You find yourself watching them for hours go about the pitches and bats without nothing much actually happening."

I forced a little smile, then downed the rest of the can of beer in one go. Maybe I needed to get drunk, or maybe I'll try to concentrate on this game.

About this time, the batter hit a flyball to the left field that was easy for the fielder to catch, but the sun got in his eyes and the ball droped. The batter managed to get to the first base. The person next to me opened another can of beer for himself. He seemed to be rooting for the team in white that had just batted.

I wasn't actually paying much attention to what was happening in front of me. As the game went on, I started to drift back to the events in the library, but before I could get to that point, he said something else. "Sometimes, you can't always be the hero." That made me turn back to him, but he had his eyes still glued on the screen. "Could you have done something? Yes. You could. Did you try your hardest? Yes, you did under the circunstances. So, no hard feelings. Get your head up and back in the game."

His eyes were still on the screen, where the player that had just missed that flyball was visibly dejected. "You can't be like that forever." Without looking at me, he hands another beer. In the screen another pitch, and it's a low ball that shot right through third base. The runner on first takes off. The fielder rushes in to catch, but still nervous about the previous play, let the ball pass. By the time he manages to recover the ball and throw it home, the runner already scored. An inside the park home-run. He slumps to the ground. "Oh, man. Don't let one error dictate the rest of the game. Get your act together."

I looked at him. It was obvious what he was doing. There was no need to do it in such a roundabout way. I got up from my seat and walked to the screen, turning it off. "Hey. What for?" He said.

I was angry. "I know what you're doing, but you can't compare a error in a game with a person losing her life. She was not a ball that I missed. She was human being."

He looked at me. He wasn't angry, nor he was smiling. "And this is the first time you actually said it."

I was shocked. Briefly recalling the events of the days after the incident leading up to this trip, I didn't ever mentioned to anyone that I considered myself responsible for her death.

"You don't need to say it out loud. I know you. We all do." He gulped from his can a large gulp. "You just need to know that what I said here, is actually how I feel. How we all feel. You didn't made a mistake. You didn't screw up." He downed the rest of his can.

"But I..." I started but was cut off.

"You couldn't do anything. It was an accident. It happens." He got up and stood in front of me. "You can't dwell on it for the rest of your life." He walked past me. "You went to the funeral. You paid your respects." Sighing, he continued. "You paid for the ceremony and even made that promise about going back every time you got a chance to visit her grave. Move on. There's nothing else you can do about it."

At that moment, tears started to roll down my cheeks. "Thanks, Chrono." Was all that I could say between the sobs that swelled down in my throat.

Spoiler for Author Notes:

As always, sorry for the bad english. I hope that I got at least the baseball terminology right.

Nice, the last quarter of the fic really grabbed me and wrenched at the heartstrings, in a very detached, clinical way, which matches the tone very well ^^.

Originally Posted by DezoPenguin

(Yes, I got the Yuuno plushie; he arrived Monday and, yes, he is as completely damn cute as the pictures look!)

I admit that I was uninterested before, but after reading this here I gave in and Googled the Yuuno plushie....and all I have to say is that damn, now I want one too!

[Hooves]

Originally Posted by 00-Raiser

Hehe, well I did do a little harem fic with Nanoha, Fate, and Hayate

http://forums.animesuki.com/album.ph...ictureid=27668

Yuuno is a pimp

[Nanya01]

Been working on this all day.

I'll admit, I was inspired by the image thread.

So...

This one's called...

Spoiler for Due:

Sighing as she shifted through the garbage, she wondered, just wondered, why the hell she had to be stuck in this form. "Reincarnation mode sucks." She sighed and kicked the garbage can over. "From top assassin to a child, how pathetic." Gripping at the sheet around her body, she shivered as a cold wind blew in.

Her hair was dirty, her body was filthy, she couldn't recall the last time she had slept in a good bed, or had a hot meal. Not to mention the clothes she stole from that laundry line were in tatters now. "Everyone thinks I'm dead, I bet." She wondered just why it took so long for her Reincarnation Mode to trigger off, before shrugging it off. Sudden death syndrome from a spear to the gut was hard to shrug off after all.

She supposed it wouldn't be hard to find a homeless shelter or something. Maybe she could grab some kid, knock them out and turn into them so she could at least have one night in a warm bed and warm food.


"But it's always so haaaaard!" She whined and pouted. Another thing about Reincarnation Mode she had found out, very quickly, was that she was basically a child in mind and attitude.

Even her transformation abilities suffered for it. She could only turn into a child version of someone, and only for as long as she could keep her attention up. Which was pretty hard when she suffered from Attention Deficit.. "Oooh! A puppy!" Grinning, she ran over to the dog and held her hand out. The dog growled at her before suddenly sticking its tongue out and licking her hand. "Hee hee hee." There was no collar around the dog's neck, so either it had run away after slipping out of its collar, or it was a stray. "You have no home either, huh?" She blinked as the dog turned its head and ran off at a fast clip. "Hey! Don't leave me!" She ran after the dog, stumbling the whole way, until she lost sight of it. Sighing, she turned and walked back into the alley she had been staying in.

She didn't trust anyone out there. If anyone knew who she was, well, she was certain that she wouldn't like the consequences if someone did find her that recognized her. Another cold wind blew and she shivered. Winter time sucked to not have a home, warm clothes and a hot bath.

As she closed her eyes and curled up upon herself, she idly wondered what her sisters were doing.

(---)

"Achoo!"

"You okay, Sein?" Dieci asked the slimmer girl, who nodded.

"Oh yeah, just fine, must have smelled something unpleasant." They both shared a chuckle as Sein caught the time. "Ick! If I'm not back soon, Schach will have my ass."

Dieci gave her a weird grin. "I thought she had your ass all the time anyway."

"Yeah, but it's not as pleasant when she's upset at me." Sein smirked back as Dieci blushed softly. "Come on, let's cut through here."

Rolling her eyes, Dieci followed after her green-haired sister as they ran through a back ally. "Ack!" She nearly stumbled over as she tripped over something. "What the heck?" She turned around and blinked as she saw something with yellow hair, it was dirty, shivering slightly. "Hey! Sein, wait up!"

"Huh?" Sein blinked and turned around. "What?"

"I found a kid..." Dieci gently picked the kid up and blinked. "She's pretty light too..."

Sein winced at that. "Might be a run-away... Come on, let's at least get this one to the church." At least a hot meal, a change of clothes and a bed would help. "At least Sister Schach won't have a reason to come after me."

Though, for some odd reason, both Dieci and Sein felt like they knew the girl.

(---)

For some reason, the cold was gone. "Warm..." She whispered softly and curled up more. Surely this was a dream and she was about to get hypothermia or something.

Something was wrong though, she couldn't feel the cold air anymore... And it felt like she was wrapped up in something... Cracking an eye open she looked around and wondered just why she was in someone's bed. She gulped, remembering the last time she was in this situation. That hadn't been fun. Maybe she could slip out before anyone...

"Are you sure?!" She heard someone's voice, strange, it sounded familiar. Still, no time to ponder. There wasn't a whole lot of places she could hide. Looking around, she just needed some place small enough...

"ah ha!" She grinned and jumped above the door, pressing her body to the ceiling and wall and hoped that they didn't look up.

"No doubt about it." Another female said as the door opened. She could see a woman with short pink hair talking to a green-blue haired woman, both were dressed in church attire. "She has Jail Scagiletti's DNA in her, though slightly modified."

"Eh?" The green-blue haired one, why did she look so familiar to her? Spoke up. "But that's not possible. Uno, Tre and Quattro are in prison, only one other person had the doctor's DNA, and that was Due, but she's dead."

She narrowed her eyes at hearing that. Yeah, everyone thought she was dead, this sucked.

"I know but..." The taller woman trailed off as she got a look at the bed. "She's gone!"

"What?!" The other girl sounded surprised.

"Sein, go check around the hallways, I'll check outside!"

"Got'cha Sister Schach!"

Watching as the pink haired one seemed to teleport through the window and the other one left, she frowned. 'Sein? She lives here now?' Another problem with Reincarnation Mode, she supposed, her memories were scrambled to hell and back. Dropping down, she got a look at herself and blinked, at least they were kind enough to change her clothes into something that wasn't full of holes and cold.

Still, she didn't know what they would do to her if they found her, and she didn't want to find out. Running down the hallway, she just hoped that she didn't get caught by anyone. She came to a screetching halt as she saw Sein's back and gulped, she just knew that Sein was going to turn around and...

"Huh?" Sein spun around and blinked at the young girl that stood in front of her. "Shouldn't you be in class?"

"I'm sorry." The blue-haired, red-eyed girl bowed, though Sein thought she sounded an awful lot like Fate Tesstarossa at that moment, and blushed as she looked around nervously. "I'm new and I got lost."

Sein thought about it, she didn't think there were any new additions lately, but then again, she didn't always pay attention when Carim or Schach told her things. Oh well. "Come on, let's get you to a class until we can figure out what to do with you."

"Okay." The girl followed her as the two walked towards classes.

"Now, here's your class and..." Sein blinked a few times. "Where did she go?" She pouted. If she lost a student, Schach really WOULD have her ass.

From her position behind a pillar, she watched Sein disappear looking for her and cursed the fact that she had seen a penny on the floor, which caused her to drop her transformation. If she could just find her way to the front door, she could just slip away unnoticed.

It wasn't as if she didn't trust Sein. Sein would never harm her.

She didn't trust the OTHER people that Sein was with not to harm her.

After all that Jail did, she wasn't sure that people wouldn't try to use her as a way to get back at him.

"Vivio?" A female voice had her stiffen and slowly turn around. In front of her was a girl with sandy brown hair done up in two pigtails and blue eyes. "Oh, sorry, you just kind of looked like her from the back. Then again, she's wearing different clothes today. You wanna meet her? She's a really nice person."

"Um..." She didn't get much of a chance to say anything when her arm was grabbed and she was pulled into a nearby class.

"Vivio!" The girl waved, getting a smile from a blond haired girl with mis-matched eyes.

"Corona!" The girl grinned happily at her friend. "Hey, who's that?"

"I'm not sure, actually." Corona chuckled and turned to her. "What's your... Are you okay? You look ill."

The Saint Kaiser? Of all the things... She had to run into the Saint Kaiser. "Um, yes, not feeling well... I'll just... Find my way to the infirmiry..." She chuckled nervously and slipped back out of the room, leaving everyone to blink in confusion.

"Weird..." Rio said, wondering why that girl had gone deathly pale when she saw Vivio.

(---)

Panting, she ran down the hallway. She couldn't be caught. After all, after everything she had done before she had died, she just couldn't imagine that anyone would accept her. Not without doing something... She slid and nearly crashed into a wall as she saw two people's shadows moving towards her. Spinning around, she turned a corner and ran down the hall. She hated this tiny body. If she could just find a door outside...

She turned a corner and grinned, there, she could see the door, she was... "OOOMPH!" She crashed into something and found herself on the ground, rubbing her butt. "Oww! That's not fair! I can't do anything! Owwies!"

"I think you hurt her, Cinque." A kind voice was heard, chuckling softly.

"I didn't mean to, Carim..." Cinque knelt down in front of her. "Hey, are you okay?"

Cinque, she remembered Cinque, that girl got hurt years ago, her right eye had been lost. "Uh..."

"Cinque, Knight Carim, I'm sorry, I... Hey!" Sein was heard as she came across the scene. "It's that girl that disappeared from her room!"

She whimpered and looked at Sein and Cinque. She just needed to...

"Who's this?" A soft, almost masculine voice spoke up and she turned to look at a boy with short spiky brown hair in a butler and a girl with a long brown hair wearing a typical nun outfit, she would know, she impersonated a nun for long enough.

Seeing everyone look at her, she did all that she could considering the situation.

"WAAAAAHHHH!!! I'M SORRY!!" She threw her head back and wailed, hoping that they wouldn't do anything drastic to her.

The small group looked at each other in confusion before looking back at the crying blond girl.

"I looked everywhere but I couldn't..." Schach blinked as she came across the scene. "I see that she's been found."

(---)

Looking at the little blond girl as she sat in the office sniffling, Carim shook her head in amusement. "Now... Can you start by telling all of us your name?"

The girl seemed to stiffen and looked around nervously. "Um... Uh..."

"None of us are going to hurt you." Cinque smiled at her, trying to reassure her. Oh how she wanted to tell Cinque who she was, but there was the whole... Killing that priest in her past life, the brains and that general.

...

Well, no one cared about that last person anyway.

(---)

Auris sneezed and felt like she needed to find someone to torment.

(---)

Schach shook her head. "We already know that you're a clone of Jail Scagiletti and..."

"Due?!" Cinque gasped and grasped the girl by her shoulders to look at her closer. "Is that you?!"

She gave a slight nod and was surprised when Cinque hugged her tightly.

"Oh gods! Due!!" Cinque had tears falling out of her good eye. "I missed you so much!"

Before Due could say anything, another pair of arms wrapped around her as Sein joined in on the hug.

Carim looked at Schach, Otto and Deed, all of whom shrugged helplessly. "Due was killed by Zest a few years ago, Cinque... Are you sure that's Due?"

The two pulled away from the tiny blond girl, who looked at Carim and sighed. "I'm Due... Yeah, Zest killed me a few years ago and... Oooh!" Due jumped from where she was and grabbed a pen from the top of the desk. "My pen!"

"...She has ADD?" Cinque asked, dumbfounded. Her older sister, the cold-hearted assassin, had trouble keeping her attention on something more than five seconds?

Carim coughed politely. "Due... If you died, how are you here now?"

"Reincarnation Mode." Due squeezed the pen tightly and rocked slightly. "My body had to canibilize itself and the energy I had in me brought me back to life a couple years ago..."

"Wait... A couple years ago..." Sein blinked. "Then where have you been..?"

"The winters were cold..." Due shivered slightly. "Did you know that a scarf keeps you really warm?" She grinned brightly and put the pen back on the desk. "Hey, Cinque, can I have your eye patch?"

Cinque took off her eye patch and gestured for Due to come over to her. "Yes, scarves are warm and..."

"Hey!" A female voice spoke up and Due suddenly stiffened and went stark white as Vivio poked her head in. "I was wondering if you saw that new... Oh hey! There she is!" Vivio grinned happily. "I'm glad that you're not sick."

Due whimpered. "No... No..." She shook her head and turned, but Cinque grabbed her wrist. "No! Lemme go! Lemme go! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to! I was under orders! I'm sorry!"

"Due!" Cinque looked at her worriedly as her sister tried to get away from her. "Calm down!" She pulled Due into a hug and for the first time noticed how skinny she was. "Shhh... Calm down."

"Huh? What's going on?"

"Waaaahhh! I tricked the priest into stealing the fabric with Olivie's blood on it and gave it to the doctor to use for cloning!" Due cried out, tears leaking out of her eyes.

Otto looked at Deed, who shrugged. Both of them had heard this from Jail before, well, not who did it, but they knew that the shroud was stolen, so, it was kind of interesting.

"I'll be good! Just let me go! I'll go live behind the pizza place during the winter!" She calmed down and trembled, whimpering. "Maybe the stuff won't be too covered in gunk this winter..."

Schach sighed softly. "Well, I didn't want to bring this up, but she's got several signs of someone who's lived on the streets for awhile... Malnutrition... Mental disorders... And several diseases that we can take care of pretty quickly..."

Carim sighed softly and nodded at Schach. "Thank you. As for you, Ms. Due... I don't think that your sisters are going to let me kick you out into the street, at least not as you are."

Due whimpered, tears falling down her face. "You're going to throw me in prison for killing those people, aren't you? WAHHH!! I'm only six years old right now! I don't wanna spend the rest of my life in prison!"

"I think dying kind of absolves you of your previous crimes, Due..." Sein chuckled softly, before her chuckles died off as Due didn't say anything. "...You've been back alive for two years... Why didn't you search us out?"

"Nnnngh!" Due growled and grabbed her head. "Couldn't remember! All my memories were screwed up and my head hurt! Did you know that mice aren't very tasty?"

"You... Ate mice?" Cinque blanched slightly as Due nodded.

"Uh huh... Last winter, they all crowded in that abandoned condemned apartment building. Kinda chilly, but at least they were food..."

"Which would explain the diseases we found..." Schach shook her head. The more she heard from this kid, the less she wanted to let the girl out of her sight.

"Then they blew up the building in the spring." Due pouted heavily. "My scarf went with it! That nice man gave me that scarf!"

"Nice man?" Cinque looked confused as Due turned to her and nodded.

"Uh huh... He got mad cuz I stole his hot food, but then he saw how I looked, gave me his scarf and some money for food or clothes and left. But he was pretty nice, even if his face was all scarred up and hairy. Hey, did you know that puppies are excellent body warmers?"

Due's stomach growled and the cyborg in question winced. "Sorry... I'll just..."

"Sit down while Otto and I go and get some food, sister." Deed smiled at her. "You aren't going to go anywhere until you have a good meal, understand?"

Due blinked at her as Otto smiled and slipped out of the room. "Huh?"

"Just sit and wait for a few moments." Deed smiled as she left the room.

"Uh..."

Cinque sighed softly. "You aren't going back to the streets, Due. We aren't going to let you."

"Besides..." Carim looked at her seriously. "I can't let you go until I've made sure that you're at least medically healthy, so, you're stuck here until the doctors clear you."

Due looked down and trembled softly. "Thank you."

Vivio scratched her head. "So... Are you going to school with me now?"

"Crap!" Sein paled heavily. "I forgot! There was this blue-haired girl and..." She trailed off as Due turned into the girl that she saw before. "...I should have guessed..." Sein hung her head down. "I forgot you could shape-shift."

Due, in her blue-haired form, giggled softly. "Yeah, my transformation ability is still top-notch but... OOOH! A birdie!" She turned back to normal as a bird flew by the window. "Did you know that normal birds don't taste that good? Not much meat, all bones."

"...I guess she can't keep her transformation up if she gets distracted..." Carim shook her head.

Cinque just smiled as she walked up to Due and hugged the young girl. "Glad to have you back, Due."

The small girl hugged her back. "Thank you, Cinque."

...

I can NOT look at that cyborg the same way ever again!

[Keroko]

Neither can I. Bouncy-bubbly Due. How did she ever become a top-notch infiltrator?

[Nightengale]

...

I demand a continuation.

Though I'm quite sure Due's not supposed to know Sein... the only ones of the Sisters she has ever met was the first Uno, Tre, Quattro and Cinque.

[Moczo]

Originally Posted by Nanya01

Been working on this all day.

I'll admit, I was inspired by the image thread.

So...

This one's called...

Spoiler for Due:

Sighing as she shifted through the garbage, she wondered, just wondered, why the hell she had to be stuck in this form. "Reincarnation mode sucks." She sighed and kicked the garbage can over. "From top assassin to a child, how pathetic." Gripping at the sheet around her body, she shivered as a cold wind blew in.

Her hair was dirty, her body was filthy, she couldn't recall the last time she had slept in a good bed, or had a hot meal. Not to mention the clothes she stole from that laundry line were in tatters now. "Everyone thinks I'm dead, I bet." She wondered just why it took so long for her Reincarnation Mode to trigger off, before shrugging it off. Sudden death syndrome from a spear to the gut was hard to shrug off after all.

She supposed it wouldn't be hard to find a homeless shelter or something. Maybe she could grab some kid, knock them out and turn into them so she could at least have one night in a warm bed and warm food.


"But it's always so haaaaard!" She whined and pouted. Another thing about Reincarnation Mode she had found out, very quickly, was that she was basically a child in mind and attitude.

Even her transformation abilities suffered for it. She could only turn into a child version of someone, and only for as long as she could keep her attention up. Which was pretty hard when she suffered from Attention Deficit.. "Oooh! A puppy!" Grinning, she ran over to the dog and held her hand out. The dog growled at her before suddenly sticking its tongue out and licking her hand. "Hee hee hee." There was no collar around the dog's neck, so either it had run away after slipping out of its collar, or it was a stray. "You have no home either, huh?" She blinked as the dog turned its head and ran off at a fast clip. "Hey! Don't leave me!" She ran after the dog, stumbling the whole way, until she lost sight of it. Sighing, she turned and walked back into the alley she had been staying in.

She didn't trust anyone out there. If anyone knew who she was, well, she was certain that she wouldn't like the consequences if someone did find her that recognized her. Another cold wind blew and she shivered. Winter time sucked to not have a home, warm clothes and a hot bath.

As she closed her eyes and curled up upon herself, she idly wondered what her sisters were doing.

(---)

"Achoo!"

"You okay, Sein?" Dieci asked the slimmer girl, who nodded.

"Oh yeah, just fine, must have smelled something unpleasant." They both shared a chuckle as Sein caught the time. "Ick! If I'm not back soon, Schach will have my ass."

Dieci gave her a weird grin. "I thought she had your ass all the time anyway."

"Yeah, but it's not as pleasant when she's upset at me." Sein smirked back as Dieci blushed softly. "Come on, let's cut through here."

Rolling her eyes, Dieci followed after her green-haired sister as they ran through a back ally. "Ack!" She nearly stumbled over as she tripped over something. "What the heck?" She turned around and blinked as she saw something with yellow hair, it was dirty, shivering slightly. "Hey! Sein, wait up!"

"Huh?" Sein blinked and turned around. "What?"

"I found a kid..." Dieci gently picked the kid up and blinked. "She's pretty light too..."

Sein winced at that. "Might be a run-away... Come on, let's at least get this one to the church." At least a hot meal, a change of clothes and a bed would help. "At least Sister Schach won't have a reason to come after me."

Though, for some odd reason, both Dieci and Sein felt like they knew the girl.

(---)

For some reason, the cold was gone. "Warm..." She whispered softly and curled up more. Surely this was a dream and she was about to get hypothermia or something.

Something was wrong though, she couldn't feel the cold air anymore... And it felt like she was wrapped up in something... Cracking an eye open she looked around and wondered just why she was in someone's bed. She gulped, remembering the last time she was in this situation. That hadn't been fun. Maybe she could slip out before anyone...

"Are you sure?!" She heard someone's voice, strange, it sounded familiar. Still, no time to ponder. There wasn't a whole lot of places she could hide. Looking around, she just needed some place small enough...

"ah ha!" She grinned and jumped above the door, pressing her body to the ceiling and wall and hoped that they didn't look up.

"No doubt about it." Another female said as the door opened. She could see a woman with short pink hair talking to a green-blue haired woman, both were dressed in church attire. "She has Jail Scagiletti's DNA in her, though slightly modified."

"Eh?" The green-blue haired one, why did she look so familiar to her? Spoke up. "But that's not possible. Uno, Tre and Quattro are in prison, only one other person had the doctor's DNA, and that was Due, but she's dead."

She narrowed her eyes at hearing that. Yeah, everyone thought she was dead, this sucked.

"I know but..." The taller woman trailed off as she got a look at the bed. "She's gone!"

"What?!" The other girl sounded surprised.

"Sein, go check around the hallways, I'll check outside!"

"Got'cha Sister Schach!"

Watching as the pink haired one seemed to teleport through the window and the other one left, she frowned. 'Sein? She lives here now?' Another problem with Reincarnation Mode, she supposed, her memories were scrambled to hell and back. Dropping down, she got a look at herself and blinked, at least they were kind enough to change her clothes into something that wasn't full of holes and cold.

Still, she didn't know what they would do to her if they found her, and she didn't want to find out. Running down the hallway, she just hoped that she didn't get caught by anyone. She came to a screetching halt as she saw Sein's back and gulped, she just knew that Sein was going to turn around and...

"Huh?" Sein spun around and blinked at the young girl that stood in front of her. "Shouldn't you be in class?"

"I'm sorry." The blue-haired, red-eyed girl bowed, though Sein thought she sounded an awful lot like Fate Tesstarossa at that moment, and blushed as she looked around nervously. "I'm new and I got lost."

Sein thought about it, she didn't think there were any new additions lately, but then again, she didn't always pay attention when Carim or Schach told her things. Oh well. "Come on, let's get you to a class until we can figure out what to do with you."

"Okay." The girl followed her as the two walked towards classes.

"Now, here's your class and..." Sein blinked a few times. "Where did she go?" She pouted. If she lost a student, Schach really WOULD have her ass.

From her position behind a pillar, she watched Sein disappear looking for her and cursed the fact that she had seen a penny on the floor, which caused her to drop her transformation. If she could just find her way to the front door, she could just slip away unnoticed.

It wasn't as if she didn't trust Sein. Sein would never harm her.

She didn't trust the OTHER people that Sein was with not to harm her.

After all that Jail did, she wasn't sure that people wouldn't try to use her as a way to get back at him.

"Vivio?" A female voice had her stiffen and slowly turn around. In front of her was a girl with sandy brown hair done up in two pigtails and blue eyes. "Oh, sorry, you just kind of looked like her from the back. Then again, she's wearing different clothes today. You wanna meet her? She's a really nice person."

"Um..." She didn't get much of a chance to say anything when her arm was grabbed and she was pulled into a nearby class.

"Vivio!" The girl waved, getting a smile from a blond haired girl with mis-matched eyes.

"Corona!" The girl grinned happily at her friend. "Hey, who's that?"

"I'm not sure, actually." Corona chuckled and turned to her. "What's your... Are you okay? You look ill."

The Saint Kaiser? Of all the things... She had to run into the Saint Kaiser. "Um, yes, not feeling well... I'll just... Find my way to the infirmiry..." She chuckled nervously and slipped back out of the room, leaving everyone to blink in confusion.

"Weird..." Rio said, wondering why that girl had gone deathly pale when she saw Vivio.

(---)

Panting, she ran down the hallway. She couldn't be caught. After all, after everything she had done before she had died, she just couldn't imagine that anyone would accept her. Not without doing something... She slid and nearly crashed into a wall as she saw two people's shadows moving towards her. Spinning around, she turned a corner and ran down the hall. She hated this tiny body. If she could just find a door outside...

She turned a corner and grinned, there, she could see the door, she was... "OOOMPH!" She crashed into something and found herself on the ground, rubbing her butt. "Oww! That's not fair! I can't do anything! Owwies!"

"I think you hurt her, Cinque." A kind voice was heard, chuckling softly.

"I didn't mean to, Carim..." Cinque knelt down in front of her. "Hey, are you okay?"

Cinque, she remembered Cinque, that girl got hurt years ago, her right eye had been lost. "Uh..."

"Cinque, Knight Carim, I'm sorry, I... Hey!" Sein was heard as she came across the scene. "It's that girl that disappeared from her room!"

She whimpered and looked at Sein and Cinque. She just needed to...

"Who's this?" A soft, almost masculine voice spoke up and she turned to look at a boy with short spiky brown hair in a butler and a girl with a long brown hair wearing a typical nun outfit, she would know, she impersonated a nun for long enough.

Seeing everyone look at her, she did all that she could considering the situation.

"WAAAAAHHHH!!! I'M SORRY!!" She threw her head back and wailed, hoping that they wouldn't do anything drastic to her.

The small group looked at each other in confusion before looking back at the crying blond girl.

"I looked everywhere but I couldn't..." Schach blinked as she came across the scene. "I see that she's been found."

(---)

Looking at the little blond girl as she sat in the office sniffling, Carim shook her head in amusement. "Now... Can you start by telling all of us your name?"

The girl seemed to stiffen and looked around nervously. "Um... Uh..."

"None of us are going to hurt you." Cinque smiled at her, trying to reassure her. Oh how she wanted to tell Cinque who she was, but there was the whole... Killing that priest in her past life, the brains and that general.

...

Well, no one cared about that last person anyway.

(---)

Auris sneezed and felt like she needed to find someone to torment.

(---)

Schach shook her head. "We already know that you're a clone of Jail Scagiletti and..."

"Due?!" Cinque gasped and grasped the girl by her shoulders to look at her closer. "Is that you?!"

She gave a slight nod and was surprised when Cinque hugged her tightly.

"Oh gods! Due!!" Cinque had tears falling out of her good eye. "I missed you so much!"

Before Due could say anything, another pair of arms wrapped around her as Sein joined in on the hug.

Carim looked at Schach, Otto and Deed, all of whom shrugged helplessly. "Due was killed by Zest a few years ago, Cinque... Are you sure that's Due?"

The two pulled away from the tiny blond girl, who looked at Carim and sighed. "I'm Due... Yeah, Zest killed me a few years ago and... Oooh!" Due jumped from where she was and grabbed a pen from the top of the desk. "My pen!"

"...She has ADD?" Cinque asked, dumbfounded. Her older sister, the cold-hearted assassin, had trouble keeping her attention on something more than five seconds?

Carim coughed politely. "Due... If you died, how are you here now?"

"Reincarnation Mode." Due squeezed the pen tightly and rocked slightly. "My body had to canibilize itself and the energy I had in me brought me back to life a couple years ago..."

"Wait... A couple years ago..." Sein blinked. "Then where have you been..?"

"The winters were cold..." Due shivered slightly. "Did you know that a scarf keeps you really warm?" She grinned brightly and put the pen back on the desk. "Hey, Cinque, can I have your eye patch?"

Cinque took off her eye patch and gestured for Due to come over to her. "Yes, scarves are warm and..."

"Hey!" A female voice spoke up and Due suddenly stiffened and went stark white as Vivio poked her head in. "I was wondering if you saw that new... Oh hey! There she is!" Vivio grinned happily. "I'm glad that you're not sick."

Due whimpered. "No... No..." She shook her head and turned, but Cinque grabbed her wrist. "No! Lemme go! Lemme go! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to! I was under orders! I'm sorry!"

"Due!" Cinque looked at her worriedly as her sister tried to get away from her. "Calm down!" She pulled Due into a hug and for the first time noticed how skinny she was. "Shhh... Calm down."

"Huh? What's going on?"

"Waaaahhh! I tricked the priest into stealing the fabric with Olivie's blood on it and gave it to the doctor to use for cloning!" Due cried out, tears leaking out of her eyes.

Otto looked at Deed, who shrugged. Both of them had heard this from Jail before, well, not who did it, but they knew that the shroud was stolen, so, it was kind of interesting.

"I'll be good! Just let me go! I'll go live behind the pizza place during the winter!" She calmed down and trembled, whimpering. "Maybe the stuff won't be too covered in gunk this winter..."

Schach sighed softly. "Well, I didn't want to bring this up, but she's got several signs of someone who's lived on the streets for awhile... Malnutrition... Mental disorders... And several diseases that we can take care of pretty quickly..."

Carim sighed softly and nodded at Schach. "Thank you. As for you, Ms. Due... I don't think that your sisters are going to let me kick you out into the street, at least not as you are."

Due whimpered, tears falling down her face. "You're going to throw me in prison for killing those people, aren't you? WAHHH!! I'm only six years old right now! I don't wanna spend the rest of my life in prison!"

"I think dying kind of absolves you of your previous crimes, Due..." Sein chuckled softly, before her chuckles died off as Due didn't say anything. "...You've been back alive for two years... Why didn't you search us out?"

"Nnnngh!" Due growled and grabbed her head. "Couldn't remember! All my memories were screwed up and my head hurt! Did you know that mice aren't very tasty?"

"You... Ate mice?" Cinque blanched slightly as Due nodded.

"Uh huh... Last winter, they all crowded in that abandoned condemned apartment building. Kinda chilly, but at least they were food..."

"Which would explain the diseases we found..." Schach shook her head. The more she heard from this kid, the less she wanted to let the girl out of her sight.

"Then they blew up the building in the spring." Due pouted heavily. "My scarf went with it! That nice man gave me that scarf!"

"Nice man?" Cinque looked confused as Due turned to her and nodded.

"Uh huh... He got mad cuz I stole his hot food, but then he saw how I looked, gave me his scarf and some money for food or clothes and left. But he was pretty nice, even if his face was all scarred up and hairy. Hey, did you know that puppies are excellent body warmers?"

Due's stomach growled and the cyborg in question winced. "Sorry... I'll just..."

"Sit down while Otto and I go and get some food, sister." Deed smiled at her. "You aren't going to go anywhere until you have a good meal, understand?"

Due blinked at her as Otto smiled and slipped out of the room. "Huh?"

"Just sit and wait for a few moments." Deed smiled as she left the room.

"Uh..."

Cinque sighed softly. "You aren't going back to the streets, Due. We aren't going to let you."

"Besides..." Carim looked at her seriously. "I can't let you go until I've made sure that you're at least medically healthy, so, you're stuck here until the doctors clear you."

Due looked down and trembled softly. "Thank you."

Vivio scratched her head. "So... Are you going to school with me now?"

"Crap!" Sein paled heavily. "I forgot! There was this blue-haired girl and..." She trailed off as Due turned into the girl that she saw before. "...I should have guessed..." Sein hung her head down. "I forgot you could shape-shift."

Due, in her blue-haired form, giggled softly. "Yeah, my transformation ability is still top-notch but... OOOH! A birdie!" She turned back to normal as a bird flew by the window. "Did you know that normal birds don't taste that good? Not much meat, all bones."

"...I guess she can't keep her transformation up if she gets distracted..." Carim shook her head.

Cinque just smiled as she walked up to Due and hugged the young girl. "Glad to have you back, Due."

The small girl hugged her back. "Thank you, Cinque."

...

I can NOT look at that cyborg the same way ever again!

Well, I was going to read this story. Then a kitty ran by the front door, and I had to chase it until I saw a birdie, and then I encountered some mice and it became a whole big thing. I found my pen, though!

... Due is so cute! And believe me, those are four words I never thought I'd type.

[Thunderbird]

Originally Posted by Nanya01

Been working on this all day.

I'll admit, I was inspired by the image thread.

So...

This one's called...

Spoiler for Due:

Sighing as she shifted through the garbage, she wondered, just wondered, why the hell she had to be stuck in this form. "Reincarnation mode sucks." She sighed and kicked the garbage can over. "From top assassin to a child, how pathetic." Gripping at the sheet around her body, she shivered as a cold wind blew in.

Her hair was dirty, her body was filthy, she couldn't recall the last time she had slept in a good bed, or had a hot meal. Not to mention the clothes she stole from that laundry line were in tatters now. "Everyone thinks I'm dead, I bet." She wondered just why it took so long for her Reincarnation Mode to trigger off, before shrugging it off. Sudden death syndrome from a spear to the gut was hard to shrug off after all.

She supposed it wouldn't be hard to find a homeless shelter or something. Maybe she could grab some kid, knock them out and turn into them so she could at least have one night in a warm bed and warm food.


"But it's always so haaaaard!" She whined and pouted. Another thing about Reincarnation Mode she had found out, very quickly, was that she was basically a child in mind and attitude.

Even her transformation abilities suffered for it. She could only turn into a child version of someone, and only for as long as she could keep her attention up. Which was pretty hard when she suffered from Attention Deficit.. "Oooh! A puppy!" Grinning, she ran over to the dog and held her hand out. The dog growled at her before suddenly sticking its tongue out and licking her hand. "Hee hee hee." There was no collar around the dog's neck, so either it had run away after slipping out of its collar, or it was a stray. "You have no home either, huh?" She blinked as the dog turned its head and ran off at a fast clip. "Hey! Don't leave me!" She ran after the dog, stumbling the whole way, until she lost sight of it. Sighing, she turned and walked back into the alley she had been staying in.

She didn't trust anyone out there. If anyone knew who she was, well, she was certain that she wouldn't like the consequences if someone did find her that recognized her. Another cold wind blew and she shivered. Winter time sucked to not have a home, warm clothes and a hot bath.

As she closed her eyes and curled up upon herself, she idly wondered what her sisters were doing.

(---)

"Achoo!"

"You okay, Sein?" Dieci asked the slimmer girl, who nodded.

"Oh yeah, just fine, must have smelled something unpleasant." They both shared a chuckle as Sein caught the time. "Ick! If I'm not back soon, Schach will have my ass."

Dieci gave her a weird grin. "I thought she had your ass all the time anyway."

"Yeah, but it's not as pleasant when she's upset at me." Sein smirked back as Dieci blushed softly. "Come on, let's cut through here."

Rolling her eyes, Dieci followed after her green-haired sister as they ran through a back ally. "Ack!" She nearly stumbled over as she tripped over something. "What the heck?" She turned around and blinked as she saw something with yellow hair, it was dirty, shivering slightly. "Hey! Sein, wait up!"

"Huh?" Sein blinked and turned around. "What?"

"I found a kid..." Dieci gently picked the kid up and blinked. "She's pretty light too..."

Sein winced at that. "Might be a run-away... Come on, let's at least get this one to the church." At least a hot meal, a change of clothes and a bed would help. "At least Sister Schach won't have a reason to come after me."

Though, for some odd reason, both Dieci and Sein felt like they knew the girl.

(---)

For some reason, the cold was gone. "Warm..." She whispered softly and curled up more. Surely this was a dream and she was about to get hypothermia or something.

Something was wrong though, she couldn't feel the cold air anymore... And it felt like she was wrapped up in something... Cracking an eye open she looked around and wondered just why she was in someone's bed. She gulped, remembering the last time she was in this situation. That hadn't been fun. Maybe she could slip out before anyone...

"Are you sure?!" She heard someone's voice, strange, it sounded familiar. Still, no time to ponder. There wasn't a whole lot of places she could hide. Looking around, she just needed some place small enough...

"ah ha!" She grinned and jumped above the door, pressing her body to the ceiling and wall and hoped that they didn't look up.

"No doubt about it." Another female said as the door opened. She could see a woman with short pink hair talking to a green-blue haired woman, both were dressed in church attire. "She has Jail Scagiletti's DNA in her, though slightly modified."

"Eh?" The green-blue haired one, why did she look so familiar to her? Spoke up. "But that's not possible. Uno, Tre and Quattro are in prison, only one other person had the doctor's DNA, and that was Due, but she's dead."

She narrowed her eyes at hearing that. Yeah, everyone thought she was dead, this sucked.

"I know but..." The taller woman trailed off as she got a look at the bed. "She's gone!"

"What?!" The other girl sounded surprised.

"Sein, go check around the hallways, I'll check outside!"

"Got'cha Sister Schach!"

Watching as the pink haired one seemed to teleport through the window and the other one left, she frowned. 'Sein? She lives here now?' Another problem with Reincarnation Mode, she supposed, her memories were scrambled to hell and back. Dropping down, she got a look at herself and blinked, at least they were kind enough to change her clothes into something that wasn't full of holes and cold.

Still, she didn't know what they would do to her if they found her, and she didn't want to find out. Running down the hallway, she just hoped that she didn't get caught by anyone. She came to a screetching halt as she saw Sein's back and gulped, she just knew that Sein was going to turn around and...

"Huh?" Sein spun around and blinked at the young girl that stood in front of her. "Shouldn't you be in class?"

"I'm sorry." The blue-haired, red-eyed girl bowed, though Sein thought she sounded an awful lot like Fate Tesstarossa at that moment, and blushed as she looked around nervously. "I'm new and I got lost."

Sein thought about it, she didn't think there were any new additions lately, but then again, she didn't always pay attention when Carim or Schach told her things. Oh well. "Come on, let's get you to a class until we can figure out what to do with you."

"Okay." The girl followed her as the two walked towards classes.

"Now, here's your class and..." Sein blinked a few times. "Where did she go?" She pouted. If she lost a student, Schach really WOULD have her ass.

From her position behind a pillar, she watched Sein disappear looking for her and cursed the fact that she had seen a penny on the floor, which caused her to drop her transformation. If she could just find her way to the front door, she could just slip away unnoticed.

It wasn't as if she didn't trust Sein. Sein would never harm her.

She didn't trust the OTHER people that Sein was with not to harm her.

After all that Jail did, she wasn't sure that people wouldn't try to use her as a way to get back at him.

"Vivio?" A female voice had her stiffen and slowly turn around. In front of her was a girl with sandy brown hair done up in two pigtails and blue eyes. "Oh, sorry, you just kind of looked like her from the back. Then again, she's wearing different clothes today. You wanna meet her? She's a really nice person."

"Um..." She didn't get much of a chance to say anything when her arm was grabbed and she was pulled into a nearby class.

"Vivio!" The girl waved, getting a smile from a blond haired girl with mis-matched eyes.

"Corona!" The girl grinned happily at her friend. "Hey, who's that?"

"I'm not sure, actually." Corona chuckled and turned to her. "What's your... Are you okay? You look ill."

The Saint Kaiser? Of all the things... She had to run into the Saint Kaiser. "Um, yes, not feeling well... I'll just... Find my way to the infirmiry..." She chuckled nervously and slipped back out of the room, leaving everyone to blink in confusion.

"Weird..." Rio said, wondering why that girl had gone deathly pale when she saw Vivio.

(---)

Panting, she ran down the hallway. She couldn't be caught. After all, after everything she had done before she had died, she just couldn't imagine that anyone would accept her. Not without doing something... She slid and nearly crashed into a wall as she saw two people's shadows moving towards her. Spinning around, she turned a corner and ran down the hall. She hated this tiny body. If she could just find a door outside...

She turned a corner and grinned, there, she could see the door, she was... "OOOMPH!" She crashed into something and found herself on the ground, rubbing her butt. "Oww! That's not fair! I can't do anything! Owwies!"

"I think you hurt her, Cinque." A kind voice was heard, chuckling softly.

"I didn't mean to, Carim..." Cinque knelt down in front of her. "Hey, are you okay?"

Cinque, she remembered Cinque, that girl got hurt years ago, her right eye had been lost. "Uh..."

"Cinque, Knight Carim, I'm sorry, I... Hey!" Sein was heard as she came across the scene. "It's that girl that disappeared from her room!"

She whimpered and looked at Sein and Cinque. She just needed to...

"Who's this?" A soft, almost masculine voice spoke up and she turned to look at a boy with short spiky brown hair in a butler and a girl with a long brown hair wearing a typical nun outfit, she would know, she impersonated a nun for long enough.

Seeing everyone look at her, she did all that she could considering the situation.

"WAAAAAHHHH!!! I'M SORRY!!" She threw her head back and wailed, hoping that they wouldn't do anything drastic to her.

The small group looked at each other in confusion before looking back at the crying blond girl.

"I looked everywhere but I couldn't..." Schach blinked as she came across the scene. "I see that she's been found."

(---)

Looking at the little blond girl as she sat in the office sniffling, Carim shook her head in amusement. "Now... Can you start by telling all of us your name?"

The girl seemed to stiffen and looked around nervously. "Um... Uh..."

"None of us are going to hurt you." Cinque smiled at her, trying to reassure her. Oh how she wanted to tell Cinque who she was, but there was the whole... Killing that priest in her past life, the brains and that general.

...

Well, no one cared about that last person anyway.

(---)

Auris sneezed and felt like she needed to find someone to torment.

(---)

Schach shook her head. "We already know that you're a clone of Jail Scagiletti and..."

"Due?!" Cinque gasped and grasped the girl by her shoulders to look at her closer. "Is that you?!"

She gave a slight nod and was surprised when Cinque hugged her tightly.

"Oh gods! Due!!" Cinque had tears falling out of her good eye. "I missed you so much!"

Before Due could say anything, another pair of arms wrapped around her as Sein joined in on the hug.

Carim looked at Schach, Otto and Deed, all of whom shrugged helplessly. "Due was killed by Zest a few years ago, Cinque... Are you sure that's Due?"

The two pulled away from the tiny blond girl, who looked at Carim and sighed. "I'm Due... Yeah, Zest killed me a few years ago and... Oooh!" Due jumped from where she was and grabbed a pen from the top of the desk. "My pen!"

"...She has ADD?" Cinque asked, dumbfounded. Her older sister, the cold-hearted assassin, had trouble keeping her attention on something more than five seconds?

Carim coughed politely. "Due... If you died, how are you here now?"

"Reincarnation Mode." Due squeezed the pen tightly and rocked slightly. "My body had to canibilize itself and the energy I had in me brought me back to life a couple years ago..."

"Wait... A couple years ago..." Sein blinked. "Then where have you been..?"

"The winters were cold..." Due shivered slightly. "Did you know that a scarf keeps you really warm?" She grinned brightly and put the pen back on the desk. "Hey, Cinque, can I have your eye patch?"

Cinque took off her eye patch and gestured for Due to come over to her. "Yes, scarves are warm and..."

"Hey!" A female voice spoke up and Due suddenly stiffened and went stark white as Vivio poked her head in. "I was wondering if you saw that new... Oh hey! There she is!" Vivio grinned happily. "I'm glad that you're not sick."

Due whimpered. "No... No..." She shook her head and turned, but Cinque grabbed her wrist. "No! Lemme go! Lemme go! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to! I was under orders! I'm sorry!"

"Due!" Cinque looked at her worriedly as her sister tried to get away from her. "Calm down!" She pulled Due into a hug and for the first time noticed how skinny she was. "Shhh... Calm down."

"Huh? What's going on?"

"Waaaahhh! I tricked the priest into stealing the fabric with Olivie's blood on it and gave it to the doctor to use for cloning!" Due cried out, tears leaking out of her eyes.

Otto looked at Deed, who shrugged. Both of them had heard this from Jail before, well, not who did it, but they knew that the shroud was stolen, so, it was kind of interesting.

"I'll be good! Just let me go! I'll go live behind the pizza place during the winter!" She calmed down and trembled, whimpering. "Maybe the stuff won't be too covered in gunk this winter..."

Schach sighed softly. "Well, I didn't want to bring this up, but she's got several signs of someone who's lived on the streets for awhile... Malnutrition... Mental disorders... And several diseases that we can take care of pretty quickly..."

Carim sighed softly and nodded at Schach. "Thank you. As for you, Ms. Due... I don't think that your sisters are going to let me kick you out into the street, at least not as you are."

Due whimpered, tears falling down her face. "You're going to throw me in prison for killing those people, aren't you? WAHHH!! I'm only six years old right now! I don't wanna spend the rest of my life in prison!"

"I think dying kind of absolves you of your previous crimes, Due..." Sein chuckled softly, before her chuckles died off as Due didn't say anything. "...You've been back alive for two years... Why didn't you search us out?"

"Nnnngh!" Due growled and grabbed her head. "Couldn't remember! All my memories were screwed up and my head hurt! Did you know that mice aren't very tasty?"

"You... Ate mice?" Cinque blanched slightly as Due nodded.

"Uh huh... Last winter, they all crowded in that abandoned condemned apartment building. Kinda chilly, but at least they were food..."

"Which would explain the diseases we found..." Schach shook her head. The more she heard from this kid, the less she wanted to let the girl out of her sight.

"Then they blew up the building in the spring." Due pouted heavily. "My scarf went with it! That nice man gave me that scarf!"

"Nice man?" Cinque looked confused as Due turned to her and nodded.

"Uh huh... He got mad cuz I stole his hot food, but then he saw how I looked, gave me his scarf and some money for food or clothes and left. But he was pretty nice, even if his face was all scarred up and hairy. Hey, did you know that puppies are excellent body warmers?"

Due's stomach growled and the cyborg in question winced. "Sorry... I'll just..."

"Sit down while Otto and I go and get some food, sister." Deed smiled at her. "You aren't going to go anywhere until you have a good meal, understand?"

Due blinked at her as Otto smiled and slipped out of the room. "Huh?"

"Just sit and wait for a few moments." Deed smiled as she left the room.

"Uh..."

Cinque sighed softly. "You aren't going back to the streets, Due. We aren't going to let you."

"Besides..." Carim looked at her seriously. "I can't let you go until I've made sure that you're at least medically healthy, so, you're stuck here until the doctors clear you."

Due looked down and trembled softly. "Thank you."

Vivio scratched her head. "So... Are you going to school with me now?"

"Crap!" Sein paled heavily. "I forgot! There was this blue-haired girl and..." She trailed off as Due turned into the girl that she saw before. "...I should have guessed..." Sein hung her head down. "I forgot you could shape-shift."

Due, in her blue-haired form, giggled softly. "Yeah, my transformation ability is still top-notch but... OOOH! A birdie!" She turned back to normal as a bird flew by the window. "Did you know that normal birds don't taste that good? Not much meat, all bones."

"...I guess she can't keep her transformation up if she gets distracted..." Carim shook her head.

Cinque just smiled as she walked up to Due and hugged the young girl. "Glad to have you back, Due."

The small girl hugged her back. "Thank you, Cinque."

...

I can NOT look at that cyborg the same way ever again!

The life of a 6-year old...

Only thing I can say is...wow.

That was really cute and I was laughing through most of it, especially because of the ADD fits and the little "knowledge facts" shed throw in

[DezoPenguin]

Originally Posted by Nanya01

Been working on this all day.

I'll admit, I was inspired by the image thread.

So...

This one's called...

Spoiler for Due:

Sighing as she shifted through the garbage, she wondered, just wondered, why the hell she had to be stuck in this form. "Reincarnation mode sucks." She sighed and kicked the garbage can over. "From top assassin to a child, how pathetic." Gripping at the sheet around her body, she shivered as a cold wind blew in.

Her hair was dirty, her body was filthy, she couldn't recall the last time she had slept in a good bed, or had a hot meal. Not to mention the clothes she stole from that laundry line were in tatters now. "Everyone thinks I'm dead, I bet." She wondered just why it took so long for her Reincarnation Mode to trigger off, before shrugging it off. Sudden death syndrome from a spear to the gut was hard to shrug off after all.

She supposed it wouldn't be hard to find a homeless shelter or something. Maybe she could grab some kid, knock them out and turn into them so she could at least have one night in a warm bed and warm food.


"But it's always so haaaaard!" She whined and pouted. Another thing about Reincarnation Mode she had found out, very quickly, was that she was basically a child in mind and attitude.

Even her transformation abilities suffered for it. She could only turn into a child version of someone, and only for as long as she could keep her attention up. Which was pretty hard when she suffered from Attention Deficit.. "Oooh! A puppy!" Grinning, she ran over to the dog and held her hand out. The dog growled at her before suddenly sticking its tongue out and licking her hand. "Hee hee hee." There was no collar around the dog's neck, so either it had run away after slipping out of its collar, or it was a stray. "You have no home either, huh?" She blinked as the dog turned its head and ran off at a fast clip. "Hey! Don't leave me!" She ran after the dog, stumbling the whole way, until she lost sight of it. Sighing, she turned and walked back into the alley she had been staying in.

She didn't trust anyone out there. If anyone knew who she was, well, she was certain that she wouldn't like the consequences if someone did find her that recognized her. Another cold wind blew and she shivered. Winter time sucked to not have a home, warm clothes and a hot bath.

As she closed her eyes and curled up upon herself, she idly wondered what her sisters were doing.

(---)

"Achoo!"

"You okay, Sein?" Dieci asked the slimmer girl, who nodded.

"Oh yeah, just fine, must have smelled something unpleasant." They both shared a chuckle as Sein caught the time. "Ick! If I'm not back soon, Schach will have my ass."

Dieci gave her a weird grin. "I thought she had your ass all the time anyway."

"Yeah, but it's not as pleasant when she's upset at me." Sein smirked back as Dieci blushed softly. "Come on, let's cut through here."

Rolling her eyes, Dieci followed after her green-haired sister as they ran through a back ally. "Ack!" She nearly stumbled over as she tripped over something. "What the heck?" She turned around and blinked as she saw something with yellow hair, it was dirty, shivering slightly. "Hey! Sein, wait up!"

"Huh?" Sein blinked and turned around. "What?"

"I found a kid..." Dieci gently picked the kid up and blinked. "She's pretty light too..."

Sein winced at that. "Might be a run-away... Come on, let's at least get this one to the church." At least a hot meal, a change of clothes and a bed would help. "At least Sister Schach won't have a reason to come after me."

Though, for some odd reason, both Dieci and Sein felt like they knew the girl.

(---)

For some reason, the cold was gone. "Warm..." She whispered softly and curled up more. Surely this was a dream and she was about to get hypothermia or something.

Something was wrong though, she couldn't feel the cold air anymore... And it felt like she was wrapped up in something... Cracking an eye open she looked around and wondered just why she was in someone's bed. She gulped, remembering the last time she was in this situation. That hadn't been fun. Maybe she could slip out before anyone...

"Are you sure?!" She heard someone's voice, strange, it sounded familiar. Still, no time to ponder. There wasn't a whole lot of places she could hide. Looking around, she just needed some place small enough...

"ah ha!" She grinned and jumped above the door, pressing her body to the ceiling and wall and hoped that they didn't look up.

"No doubt about it." Another female said as the door opened. She could see a woman with short pink hair talking to a green-blue haired woman, both were dressed in church attire. "She has Jail Scagiletti's DNA in her, though slightly modified."

"Eh?" The green-blue haired one, why did she look so familiar to her? Spoke up. "But that's not possible. Uno, Tre and Quattro are in prison, only one other person had the doctor's DNA, and that was Due, but she's dead."

She narrowed her eyes at hearing that. Yeah, everyone thought she was dead, this sucked.

"I know but..." The taller woman trailed off as she got a look at the bed. "She's gone!"

"What?!" The other girl sounded surprised.

"Sein, go check around the hallways, I'll check outside!"

"Got'cha Sister Schach!"

Watching as the pink haired one seemed to teleport through the window and the other one left, she frowned. 'Sein? She lives here now?' Another problem with Reincarnation Mode, she supposed, her memories were scrambled to hell and back. Dropping down, she got a look at herself and blinked, at least they were kind enough to change her clothes into something that wasn't full of holes and cold.

Still, she didn't know what they would do to her if they found her, and she didn't want to find out. Running down the hallway, she just hoped that she didn't get caught by anyone. She came to a screetching halt as she saw Sein's back and gulped, she just knew that Sein was going to turn around and...

"Huh?" Sein spun around and blinked at the young girl that stood in front of her. "Shouldn't you be in class?"

"I'm sorry." The blue-haired, red-eyed girl bowed, though Sein thought she sounded an awful lot like Fate Tesstarossa at that moment, and blushed as she looked around nervously. "I'm new and I got lost."

Sein thought about it, she didn't think there were any new additions lately, but then again, she didn't always pay attention when Carim or Schach told her things. Oh well. "Come on, let's get you to a class until we can figure out what to do with you."

"Okay." The girl followed her as the two walked towards classes.

"Now, here's your class and..." Sein blinked a few times. "Where did she go?" She pouted. If she lost a student, Schach really WOULD have her ass.

From her position behind a pillar, she watched Sein disappear looking for her and cursed the fact that she had seen a penny on the floor, which caused her to drop her transformation. If she could just find her way to the front door, she could just slip away unnoticed.

It wasn't as if she didn't trust Sein. Sein would never harm her.

She didn't trust the OTHER people that Sein was with not to harm her.

After all that Jail did, she wasn't sure that people wouldn't try to use her as a way to get back at him.

"Vivio?" A female voice had her stiffen and slowly turn around. In front of her was a girl with sandy brown hair done up in two pigtails and blue eyes. "Oh, sorry, you just kind of looked like her from the back. Then again, she's wearing different clothes today. You wanna meet her? She's a really nice person."

"Um..." She didn't get much of a chance to say anything when her arm was grabbed and she was pulled into a nearby class.

"Vivio!" The girl waved, getting a smile from a blond haired girl with mis-matched eyes.

"Corona!" The girl grinned happily at her friend. "Hey, who's that?"

"I'm not sure, actually." Corona chuckled and turned to her. "What's your... Are you okay? You look ill."

The Saint Kaiser? Of all the things... She had to run into the Saint Kaiser. "Um, yes, not feeling well... I'll just... Find my way to the infirmiry..." She chuckled nervously and slipped back out of the room, leaving everyone to blink in confusion.

"Weird..." Rio said, wondering why that girl had gone deathly pale when she saw Vivio.

(---)

Panting, she ran down the hallway. She couldn't be caught. After all, after everything she had done before she had died, she just couldn't imagine that anyone would accept her. Not without doing something... She slid and nearly crashed into a wall as she saw two people's shadows moving towards her. Spinning around, she turned a corner and ran down the hall. She hated this tiny body. If she could just find a door outside...

She turned a corner and grinned, there, she could see the door, she was... "OOOMPH!" She crashed into something and found herself on the ground, rubbing her butt. "Oww! That's not fair! I can't do anything! Owwies!"

"I think you hurt her, Cinque." A kind voice was heard, chuckling softly.

"I didn't mean to, Carim..." Cinque knelt down in front of her. "Hey, are you okay?"

Cinque, she remembered Cinque, that girl got hurt years ago, her right eye had been lost. "Uh..."

"Cinque, Knight Carim, I'm sorry, I... Hey!" Sein was heard as she came across the scene. "It's that girl that disappeared from her room!"

She whimpered and looked at Sein and Cinque. She just needed to...

"Who's this?" A soft, almost masculine voice spoke up and she turned to look at a boy with short spiky brown hair in a butler and a girl with a long brown hair wearing a typical nun outfit, she would know, she impersonated a nun for long enough.

Seeing everyone look at her, she did all that she could considering the situation.

"WAAAAAHHHH!!! I'M SORRY!!" She threw her head back and wailed, hoping that they wouldn't do anything drastic to her.

The small group looked at each other in confusion before looking back at the crying blond girl.

"I looked everywhere but I couldn't..." Schach blinked as she came across the scene. "I see that she's been found."

(---)

Looking at the little blond girl as she sat in the office sniffling, Carim shook her head in amusement. "Now... Can you start by telling all of us your name?"

The girl seemed to stiffen and looked around nervously. "Um... Uh..."

"None of us are going to hurt you." Cinque smiled at her, trying to reassure her. Oh how she wanted to tell Cinque who she was, but there was the whole... Killing that priest in her past life, the brains and that general.

...

Well, no one cared about that last person anyway.

(---)

Auris sneezed and felt like she needed to find someone to torment.

(---)

Schach shook her head. "We already know that you're a clone of Jail Scagiletti and..."

"Due?!" Cinque gasped and grasped the girl by her shoulders to look at her closer. "Is that you?!"

She gave a slight nod and was surprised when Cinque hugged her tightly.

"Oh gods! Due!!" Cinque had tears falling out of her good eye. "I missed you so much!"

Before Due could say anything, another pair of arms wrapped around her as Sein joined in on the hug.

Carim looked at Schach, Otto and Deed, all of whom shrugged helplessly. "Due was killed by Zest a few years ago, Cinque... Are you sure that's Due?"

The two pulled away from the tiny blond girl, who looked at Carim and sighed. "I'm Due... Yeah, Zest killed me a few years ago and... Oooh!" Due jumped from where she was and grabbed a pen from the top of the desk. "My pen!"

"...She has ADD?" Cinque asked, dumbfounded. Her older sister, the cold-hearted assassin, had trouble keeping her attention on something more than five seconds?

Carim coughed politely. "Due... If you died, how are you here now?"

"Reincarnation Mode." Due squeezed the pen tightly and rocked slightly. "My body had to canibilize itself and the energy I had in me brought me back to life a couple years ago..."

"Wait... A couple years ago..." Sein blinked. "Then where have you been..?"

"The winters were cold..." Due shivered slightly. "Did you know that a scarf keeps you really warm?" She grinned brightly and put the pen back on the desk. "Hey, Cinque, can I have your eye patch?"

Cinque took off her eye patch and gestured for Due to come over to her. "Yes, scarves are warm and..."

"Hey!" A female voice spoke up and Due suddenly stiffened and went stark white as Vivio poked her head in. "I was wondering if you saw that new... Oh hey! There she is!" Vivio grinned happily. "I'm glad that you're not sick."

Due whimpered. "No... No..." She shook her head and turned, but Cinque grabbed her wrist. "No! Lemme go! Lemme go! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to! I was under orders! I'm sorry!"

"Due!" Cinque looked at her worriedly as her sister tried to get away from her. "Calm down!" She pulled Due into a hug and for the first time noticed how skinny she was. "Shhh... Calm down."

"Huh? What's going on?"

"Waaaahhh! I tricked the priest into stealing the fabric with Olivie's blood on it and gave it to the doctor to use for cloning!" Due cried out, tears leaking out of her eyes.

Otto looked at Deed, who shrugged. Both of them had heard this from Jail before, well, not who did it, but they knew that the shroud was stolen, so, it was kind of interesting.

"I'll be good! Just let me go! I'll go live behind the pizza place during the winter!" She calmed down and trembled, whimpering. "Maybe the stuff won't be too covered in gunk this winter..."

Schach sighed softly. "Well, I didn't want to bring this up, but she's got several signs of someone who's lived on the streets for awhile... Malnutrition... Mental disorders... And several diseases that we can take care of pretty quickly..."

Carim sighed softly and nodded at Schach. "Thank you. As for you, Ms. Due... I don't think that your sisters are going to let me kick you out into the street, at least not as you are."

Due whimpered, tears falling down her face. "You're going to throw me in prison for killing those people, aren't you? WAHHH!! I'm only six years old right now! I don't wanna spend the rest of my life in prison!"

"I think dying kind of absolves you of your previous crimes, Due..." Sein chuckled softly, before her chuckles died off as Due didn't say anything. "...You've been back alive for two years... Why didn't you search us out?"

"Nnnngh!" Due growled and grabbed her head. "Couldn't remember! All my memories were screwed up and my head hurt! Did you know that mice aren't very tasty?"

"You... Ate mice?" Cinque blanched slightly as Due nodded.

"Uh huh... Last winter, they all crowded in that abandoned condemned apartment building. Kinda chilly, but at least they were food..."

"Which would explain the diseases we found..." Schach shook her head. The more she heard from this kid, the less she wanted to let the girl out of her sight.

"Then they blew up the building in the spring." Due pouted heavily. "My scarf went with it! That nice man gave me that scarf!"

"Nice man?" Cinque looked confused as Due turned to her and nodded.

"Uh huh... He got mad cuz I stole his hot food, but then he saw how I looked, gave me his scarf and some money for food or clothes and left. But he was pretty nice, even if his face was all scarred up and hairy. Hey, did you know that puppies are excellent body warmers?"

Due's stomach growled and the cyborg in question winced. "Sorry... I'll just..."

"Sit down while Otto and I go and get some food, sister." Deed smiled at her. "You aren't going to go anywhere until you have a good meal, understand?"

Due blinked at her as Otto smiled and slipped out of the room. "Huh?"

"Just sit and wait for a few moments." Deed smiled as she left the room.

"Uh..."

Cinque sighed softly. "You aren't going back to the streets, Due. We aren't going to let you."

"Besides..." Carim looked at her seriously. "I can't let you go until I've made sure that you're at least medically healthy, so, you're stuck here until the doctors clear you."

Due looked down and trembled softly. "Thank you."

Vivio scratched her head. "So... Are you going to school with me now?"

"Crap!" Sein paled heavily. "I forgot! There was this blue-haired girl and..." She trailed off as Due turned into the girl that she saw before. "...I should have guessed..." Sein hung her head down. "I forgot you could shape-shift."

Due, in her blue-haired form, giggled softly. "Yeah, my transformation ability is still top-notch but... OOOH! A birdie!" She turned back to normal as a bird flew by the window. "Did you know that normal birds don't taste that good? Not much meat, all bones."

"...I guess she can't keep her transformation up if she gets distracted..." Carim shook her head.

Cinque just smiled as she walked up to Due and hugged the young girl. "Glad to have you back, Due."

The small girl hugged her back. "Thank you, Cinque."

...

I can NOT look at that cyborg the same way ever again!

So...CUTE! I loved her childish distractions...and her frustrated self-awareness of her own childishness during the moments when she could think clearly, although some of her ADD seems more pronounced than mere kid-like-ness, which ties in to what Schach was saying about symptoms of mental disorders, to which the stress of death and regeneration isn't helping, plus the stress of living on the streets for two years. The various "flashbacks" triggered by assorted events also play into this underlying poignancy that jars against the overlay of cuteness.

The bit with Auris was especially funny.

@deathcurse: I think the implication of cheating comes largely in the fact that Shinobu and Miyuki are exchanging an intimate act about which centers around a secret about Shinobu, and the fact that the two of them have to sneak around behind not merely Kyouya's back, but everyone's, even Noel's, in order to engage in it. That makes it not just "something private that Friend A knows and Friend B doesn't" but a central fact of her life.

It's also aggravated by the fact that Kyouya and Shinobu are the same age and, so far as I know, knew each other first--that is, Miyuki is "my boyfriend's sister" to Shinobu, instead of Kyouya being "my friend's older brother whom I fell in love with." Note that the entire vibe of the scene changes if Shinobu knew Miyuki first and they were doing this for a while. Then it becomes a question of whether Kyouya and Shinobu's relationship develops to a point that he'd be let in on the Big Secret.

[RadiantBeam]

Originally Posted by DezoPenguin

It's also aggravated by the fact that Kyouya and Shinobu are the same age and, so far as I know, knew each other first--that is, Miyuki is "my boyfriend's sister" to Shinobu, instead of Kyouya being "my friend's older brother whom I fell in love with." Note that the entire vibe of the scene changes if Shinobu knew Miyuki first and they were doing this for a while. Then it becomes a question of whether Kyouya and Shinobu's relationship develops to a point that he'd be let in on the Big Secret.

Now I wonder if I should check and see if anyone who knows about TH3 can confirm who Shinobu met first. From what I recall with MGLN, I think Shinobu and Kyouya were friends from high school (or middle school, or something; point is, they were friends for awhile before they got romantically involved), but it's never detailed on if she met Kyouya first and then met the rest of the family through him, or if by some random fluke she met Miyuki and then met Kyouya through her. More than likely Shinobu and Kyouya met first, but it's still something I'd like to confirm if I could.

[DezoPenguin]

As usual, I am wholly dependent on RadiantBeam to give me prompts for NanoFate stories (it's literally true--"Mending" is the only one that wasn't done that wasn't based on something she wrote or something she asked for). So, forthwith, I hereby present the newest entry in the Shadows stories, set directly after "Long Distance Goodbye" Chapter 2:

Throwing Light on a Shadow
http://www.fanfiction.net/s/6336134/1/

Okay, that's a little too much pomp and circumstance for a one-shot, but enjoy anyway!

[Nanya01]

Posted up Lutecia

[00-Raiser]

Originally Posted by Nanya01

Been working on this all day.

I'll admit, I was inspired by the image thread.

So...

This one's called...

Spoiler for Due:

Sighing as she shifted through the garbage, she wondered, just wondered, why the hell she had to be stuck in this form. "Reincarnation mode sucks." She sighed and kicked the garbage can over. "From top assassin to a child, how pathetic." Gripping at the sheet around her body, she shivered as a cold wind blew in.

Her hair was dirty, her body was filthy, she couldn't recall the last time she had slept in a good bed, or had a hot meal. Not to mention the clothes she stole from that laundry line were in tatters now. "Everyone thinks I'm dead, I bet." She wondered just why it took so long for her Reincarnation Mode to trigger off, before shrugging it off. Sudden death syndrome from a spear to the gut was hard to shrug off after all.

She supposed it wouldn't be hard to find a homeless shelter or something. Maybe she could grab some kid, knock them out and turn into them so she could at least have one night in a warm bed and warm food.


"But it's always so haaaaard!" She whined and pouted. Another thing about Reincarnation Mode she had found out, very quickly, was that she was basically a child in mind and attitude.

Even her transformation abilities suffered for it. She could only turn into a child version of someone, and only for as long as she could keep her attention up. Which was pretty hard when she suffered from Attention Deficit.. "Oooh! A puppy!" Grinning, she ran over to the dog and held her hand out. The dog growled at her before suddenly sticking its tongue out and licking her hand. "Hee hee hee." There was no collar around the dog's neck, so either it had run away after slipping out of its collar, or it was a stray. "You have no home either, huh?" She blinked as the dog turned its head and ran off at a fast clip. "Hey! Don't leave me!" She ran after the dog, stumbling the whole way, until she lost sight of it. Sighing, she turned and walked back into the alley she had been staying in.

She didn't trust anyone out there. If anyone knew who she was, well, she was certain that she wouldn't like the consequences if someone did find her that recognized her. Another cold wind blew and she shivered. Winter time sucked to not have a home, warm clothes and a hot bath.

As she closed her eyes and curled up upon herself, she idly wondered what her sisters were doing.

(---)

"Achoo!"

"You okay, Sein?" Dieci asked the slimmer girl, who nodded.

"Oh yeah, just fine, must have smelled something unpleasant." They both shared a chuckle as Sein caught the time. "Ick! If I'm not back soon, Schach will have my ass."

Dieci gave her a weird grin. "I thought she had your ass all the time anyway."

"Yeah, but it's not as pleasant when she's upset at me." Sein smirked back as Dieci blushed softly. "Come on, let's cut through here."

Rolling her eyes, Dieci followed after her green-haired sister as they ran through a back ally. "Ack!" She nearly stumbled over as she tripped over something. "What the heck?" She turned around and blinked as she saw something with yellow hair, it was dirty, shivering slightly. "Hey! Sein, wait up!"

"Huh?" Sein blinked and turned around. "What?"

"I found a kid..." Dieci gently picked the kid up and blinked. "She's pretty light too..."

Sein winced at that. "Might be a run-away... Come on, let's at least get this one to the church." At least a hot meal, a change of clothes and a bed would help. "At least Sister Schach won't have a reason to come after me."

Though, for some odd reason, both Dieci and Sein felt like they knew the girl.

(---)

For some reason, the cold was gone. "Warm..." She whispered softly and curled up more. Surely this was a dream and she was about to get hypothermia or something.

Something was wrong though, she couldn't feel the cold air anymore... And it felt like she was wrapped up in something... Cracking an eye open she looked around and wondered just why she was in someone's bed. She gulped, remembering the last time she was in this situation. That hadn't been fun. Maybe she could slip out before anyone...

"Are you sure?!" She heard someone's voice, strange, it sounded familiar. Still, no time to ponder. There wasn't a whole lot of places she could hide. Looking around, she just needed some place small enough...

"ah ha!" She grinned and jumped above the door, pressing her body to the ceiling and wall and hoped that they didn't look up.

"No doubt about it." Another female said as the door opened. She could see a woman with short pink hair talking to a green-blue haired woman, both were dressed in church attire. "She has Jail Scagiletti's DNA in her, though slightly modified."

"Eh?" The green-blue haired one, why did she look so familiar to her? Spoke up. "But that's not possible. Uno, Tre and Quattro are in prison, only one other person had the doctor's DNA, and that was Due, but she's dead."

She narrowed her eyes at hearing that. Yeah, everyone thought she was dead, this sucked.

"I know but..." The taller woman trailed off as she got a look at the bed. "She's gone!"

"What?!" The other girl sounded surprised.

"Sein, go check around the hallways, I'll check outside!"

"Got'cha Sister Schach!"

Watching as the pink haired one seemed to teleport through the window and the other one left, she frowned. 'Sein? She lives here now?' Another problem with Reincarnation Mode, she supposed, her memories were scrambled to hell and back. Dropping down, she got a look at herself and blinked, at least they were kind enough to change her clothes into something that wasn't full of holes and cold.

Still, she didn't know what they would do to her if they found her, and she didn't want to find out. Running down the hallway, she just hoped that she didn't get caught by anyone. She came to a screetching halt as she saw Sein's back and gulped, she just knew that Sein was going to turn around and...

"Huh?" Sein spun around and blinked at the young girl that stood in front of her. "Shouldn't you be in class?"

"I'm sorry." The blue-haired, red-eyed girl bowed, though Sein thought she sounded an awful lot like Fate Tesstarossa at that moment, and blushed as she looked around nervously. "I'm new and I got lost."

Sein thought about it, she didn't think there were any new additions lately, but then again, she didn't always pay attention when Carim or Schach told her things. Oh well. "Come on, let's get you to a class until we can figure out what to do with you."

"Okay." The girl followed her as the two walked towards classes.

"Now, here's your class and..." Sein blinked a few times. "Where did she go?" She pouted. If she lost a student, Schach really WOULD have her ass.

From her position behind a pillar, she watched Sein disappear looking for her and cursed the fact that she had seen a penny on the floor, which caused her to drop her transformation. If she could just find her way to the front door, she could just slip away unnoticed.

It wasn't as if she didn't trust Sein. Sein would never harm her.

She didn't trust the OTHER people that Sein was with not to harm her.

After all that Jail did, she wasn't sure that people wouldn't try to use her as a way to get back at him.

"Vivio?" A female voice had her stiffen and slowly turn around. In front of her was a girl with sandy brown hair done up in two pigtails and blue eyes. "Oh, sorry, you just kind of looked like her from the back. Then again, she's wearing different clothes today. You wanna meet her? She's a really nice person."

"Um..." She didn't get much of a chance to say anything when her arm was grabbed and she was pulled into a nearby class.

"Vivio!" The girl waved, getting a smile from a blond haired girl with mis-matched eyes.

"Corona!" The girl grinned happily at her friend. "Hey, who's that?"

"I'm not sure, actually." Corona chuckled and turned to her. "What's your... Are you okay? You look ill."

The Saint Kaiser? Of all the things... She had to run into the Saint Kaiser. "Um, yes, not feeling well... I'll just... Find my way to the infirmiry..." She chuckled nervously and slipped back out of the room, leaving everyone to blink in confusion.

"Weird..." Rio said, wondering why that girl had gone deathly pale when she saw Vivio.

(---)

Panting, she ran down the hallway. She couldn't be caught. After all, after everything she had done before she had died, she just couldn't imagine that anyone would accept her. Not without doing something... She slid and nearly crashed into a wall as she saw two people's shadows moving towards her. Spinning around, she turned a corner and ran down the hall. She hated this tiny body. If she could just find a door outside...

She turned a corner and grinned, there, she could see the door, she was... "OOOMPH!" She crashed into something and found herself on the ground, rubbing her butt. "Oww! That's not fair! I can't do anything! Owwies!"

"I think you hurt her, Cinque." A kind voice was heard, chuckling softly.

"I didn't mean to, Carim..." Cinque knelt down in front of her. "Hey, are you okay?"

Cinque, she remembered Cinque, that girl got hurt years ago, her right eye had been lost. "Uh..."

"Cinque, Knight Carim, I'm sorry, I... Hey!" Sein was heard as she came across the scene. "It's that girl that disappeared from her room!"

She whimpered and looked at Sein and Cinque. She just needed to...

"Who's this?" A soft, almost masculine voice spoke up and she turned to look at a boy with short spiky brown hair in a butler and a girl with a long brown hair wearing a typical nun outfit, she would know, she impersonated a nun for long enough.

Seeing everyone look at her, she did all that she could considering the situation.

"WAAAAAHHHH!!! I'M SORRY!!" She threw her head back and wailed, hoping that they wouldn't do anything drastic to her.

The small group looked at each other in confusion before looking back at the crying blond girl.

"I looked everywhere but I couldn't..." Schach blinked as she came across the scene. "I see that she's been found."

(---)

Looking at the little blond girl as she sat in the office sniffling, Carim shook her head in amusement. "Now... Can you start by telling all of us your name?"

The girl seemed to stiffen and looked around nervously. "Um... Uh..."

"None of us are going to hurt you." Cinque smiled at her, trying to reassure her. Oh how she wanted to tell Cinque who she was, but there was the whole... Killing that priest in her past life, the brains and that general.

...

Well, no one cared about that last person anyway.

(---)

Auris sneezed and felt like she needed to find someone to torment.

(---)

Schach shook her head. "We already know that you're a clone of Jail Scagiletti and..."

"Due?!" Cinque gasped and grasped the girl by her shoulders to look at her closer. "Is that you?!"

She gave a slight nod and was surprised when Cinque hugged her tightly.

"Oh gods! Due!!" Cinque had tears falling out of her good eye. "I missed you so much!"

Before Due could say anything, another pair of arms wrapped around her as Sein joined in on the hug.

Carim looked at Schach, Otto and Deed, all of whom shrugged helplessly. "Due was killed by Zest a few years ago, Cinque... Are you sure that's Due?"

The two pulled away from the tiny blond girl, who looked at Carim and sighed. "I'm Due... Yeah, Zest killed me a few years ago and... Oooh!" Due jumped from where she was and grabbed a pen from the top of the desk. "My pen!"

"...She has ADD?" Cinque asked, dumbfounded. Her older sister, the cold-hearted assassin, had trouble keeping her attention on something more than five seconds?

Carim coughed politely. "Due... If you died, how are you here now?"

"Reincarnation Mode." Due squeezed the pen tightly and rocked slightly. "My body had to canibilize itself and the energy I had in me brought me back to life a couple years ago..."

"Wait... A couple years ago..." Sein blinked. "Then where have you been..?"

"The winters were cold..." Due shivered slightly. "Did you know that a scarf keeps you really warm?" She grinned brightly and put the pen back on the desk. "Hey, Cinque, can I have your eye patch?"

Cinque took off her eye patch and gestured for Due to come over to her. "Yes, scarves are warm and..."

"Hey!" A female voice spoke up and Due suddenly stiffened and went stark white as Vivio poked her head in. "I was wondering if you saw that new... Oh hey! There she is!" Vivio grinned happily. "I'm glad that you're not sick."

Due whimpered. "No... No..." She shook her head and turned, but Cinque grabbed her wrist. "No! Lemme go! Lemme go! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to! I was under orders! I'm sorry!"

"Due!" Cinque looked at her worriedly as her sister tried to get away from her. "Calm down!" She pulled Due into a hug and for the first time noticed how skinny she was. "Shhh... Calm down."

"Huh? What's going on?"

"Waaaahhh! I tricked the priest into stealing the fabric with Olivie's blood on it and gave it to the doctor to use for cloning!" Due cried out, tears leaking out of her eyes.

Otto looked at Deed, who shrugged. Both of them had heard this from Jail before, well, not who did it, but they knew that the shroud was stolen, so, it was kind of interesting.

"I'll be good! Just let me go! I'll go live behind the pizza place during the winter!" She calmed down and trembled, whimpering. "Maybe the stuff won't be too covered in gunk this winter..."

Schach sighed softly. "Well, I didn't want to bring this up, but she's got several signs of someone who's lived on the streets for awhile... Malnutrition... Mental disorders... And several diseases that we can take care of pretty quickly..."

Carim sighed softly and nodded at Schach. "Thank you. As for you, Ms. Due... I don't think that your sisters are going to let me kick you out into the street, at least not as you are."

Due whimpered, tears falling down her face. "You're going to throw me in prison for killing those people, aren't you? WAHHH!! I'm only six years old right now! I don't wanna spend the rest of my life in prison!"

"I think dying kind of absolves you of your previous crimes, Due..." Sein chuckled softly, before her chuckles died off as Due didn't say anything. "...You've been back alive for two years... Why didn't you search us out?"

"Nnnngh!" Due growled and grabbed her head. "Couldn't remember! All my memories were screwed up and my head hurt! Did you know that mice aren't very tasty?"

"You... Ate mice?" Cinque blanched slightly as Due nodded.

"Uh huh... Last winter, they all crowded in that abandoned condemned apartment building. Kinda chilly, but at least they were food..."

"Which would explain the diseases we found..." Schach shook her head. The more she heard from this kid, the less she wanted to let the girl out of her sight.

"Then they blew up the building in the spring." Due pouted heavily. "My scarf went with it! That nice man gave me that scarf!"

"Nice man?" Cinque looked confused as Due turned to her and nodded.

"Uh huh... He got mad cuz I stole his hot food, but then he saw how I looked, gave me his scarf and some money for food or clothes and left. But he was pretty nice, even if his face was all scarred up and hairy. Hey, did you know that puppies are excellent body warmers?"

Due's stomach growled and the cyborg in question winced. "Sorry... I'll just..."

"Sit down while Otto and I go and get some food, sister." Deed smiled at her. "You aren't going to go anywhere until you have a good meal, understand?"

Due blinked at her as Otto smiled and slipped out of the room. "Huh?"

"Just sit and wait for a few moments." Deed smiled as she left the room.

"Uh..."

Cinque sighed softly. "You aren't going back to the streets, Due. We aren't going to let you."

"Besides..." Carim looked at her seriously. "I can't let you go until I've made sure that you're at least medically healthy, so, you're stuck here until the doctors clear you."

Due looked down and trembled softly. "Thank you."

Vivio scratched her head. "So... Are you going to school with me now?"

"Crap!" Sein paled heavily. "I forgot! There was this blue-haired girl and..." She trailed off as Due turned into the girl that she saw before. "...I should have guessed..." Sein hung her head down. "I forgot you could shape-shift."

Due, in her blue-haired form, giggled softly. "Yeah, my transformation ability is still top-notch but... OOOH! A birdie!" She turned back to normal as a bird flew by the window. "Did you know that normal birds don't taste that good? Not much meat, all bones."

"...I guess she can't keep her transformation up if she gets distracted..." Carim shook her head.

Cinque just smiled as she walked up to Due and hugged the young girl. "Glad to have you back, Due."

The small girl hugged her back. "Thank you, Cinque."

...

I can NOT look at that cyborg the same way ever again!

Cute, though under the cuteness there are some surprisingly serious topics like homelessness and murder What she had to eat remind me of Metal Gear Solid 3 and now I can see Due on a mission asking "But how does it taste?"

[vic-vic]

Originally Posted by Nanya01

Been working on this all day.

I'll admit, I was inspired by the image thread.

So...

This one's called...

Spoiler for Due:

Sighing as she shifted through the garbage, she wondered, just wondered, why the hell she had to be stuck in this form. "Reincarnation mode sucks." She sighed and kicked the garbage can over. "From top assassin to a child, how pathetic." Gripping at the sheet around her body, she shivered as a cold wind blew in.

Her hair was dirty, her body was filthy, she couldn't recall the last time she had slept in a good bed, or had a hot meal. Not to mention the clothes she stole from that laundry line were in tatters now. "Everyone thinks I'm dead, I bet." She wondered just why it took so long for her Reincarnation Mode to trigger off, before shrugging it off. Sudden death syndrome from a spear to the gut was hard to shrug off after all.

She supposed it wouldn't be hard to find a homeless shelter or something. Maybe she could grab some kid, knock them out and turn into them so she could at least have one night in a warm bed and warm food.


"But it's always so haaaaard!" She whined and pouted. Another thing about Reincarnation Mode she had found out, very quickly, was that she was basically a child in mind and attitude.

Even her transformation abilities suffered for it. She could only turn into a child version of someone, and only for as long as she could keep her attention up. Which was pretty hard when she suffered from Attention Deficit.. "Oooh! A puppy!" Grinning, she ran over to the dog and held her hand out. The dog growled at her before suddenly sticking its tongue out and licking her hand. "Hee hee hee." There was no collar around the dog's neck, so either it had run away after slipping out of its collar, or it was a stray. "You have no home either, huh?" She blinked as the dog turned its head and ran off at a fast clip. "Hey! Don't leave me!" She ran after the dog, stumbling the whole way, until she lost sight of it. Sighing, she turned and walked back into the alley she had been staying in.

She didn't trust anyone out there. If anyone knew who she was, well, she was certain that she wouldn't like the consequences if someone did find her that recognized her. Another cold wind blew and she shivered. Winter time sucked to not have a home, warm clothes and a hot bath.

As she closed her eyes and curled up upon herself, she idly wondered what her sisters were doing.

(---)

"Achoo!"

"You okay, Sein?" Dieci asked the slimmer girl, who nodded.

"Oh yeah, just fine, must have smelled something unpleasant." They both shared a chuckle as Sein caught the time. "Ick! If I'm not back soon, Schach will have my ass."

Dieci gave her a weird grin. "I thought she had your ass all the time anyway."

"Yeah, but it's not as pleasant when she's upset at me." Sein smirked back as Dieci blushed softly. "Come on, let's cut through here."

Rolling her eyes, Dieci followed after her green-haired sister as they ran through a back ally. "Ack!" She nearly stumbled over as she tripped over something. "What the heck?" She turned around and blinked as she saw something with yellow hair, it was dirty, shivering slightly. "Hey! Sein, wait up!"

"Huh?" Sein blinked and turned around. "What?"

"I found a kid..." Dieci gently picked the kid up and blinked. "She's pretty light too..."

Sein winced at that. "Might be a run-away... Come on, let's at least get this one to the church." At least a hot meal, a change of clothes and a bed would help. "At least Sister Schach won't have a reason to come after me."

Though, for some odd reason, both Dieci and Sein felt like they knew the girl.

(---)

For some reason, the cold was gone. "Warm..." She whispered softly and curled up more. Surely this was a dream and she was about to get hypothermia or something.

Something was wrong though, she couldn't feel the cold air anymore... And it felt like she was wrapped up in something... Cracking an eye open she looked around and wondered just why she was in someone's bed. She gulped, remembering the last time she was in this situation. That hadn't been fun. Maybe she could slip out before anyone...

"Are you sure?!" She heard someone's voice, strange, it sounded familiar. Still, no time to ponder. There wasn't a whole lot of places she could hide. Looking around, she just needed some place small enough...

"ah ha!" She grinned and jumped above the door, pressing her body to the ceiling and wall and hoped that they didn't look up.

"No doubt about it." Another female said as the door opened. She could see a woman with short pink hair talking to a green-blue haired woman, both were dressed in church attire. "She has Jail Scagiletti's DNA in her, though slightly modified."

"Eh?" The green-blue haired one, why did she look so familiar to her? Spoke up. "But that's not possible. Uno, Tre and Quattro are in prison, only one other person had the doctor's DNA, and that was Due, but she's dead."

She narrowed her eyes at hearing that. Yeah, everyone thought she was dead, this sucked.

"I know but..." The taller woman trailed off as she got a look at the bed. "She's gone!"

"What?!" The other girl sounded surprised.

"Sein, go check around the hallways, I'll check outside!"

"Got'cha Sister Schach!"

Watching as the pink haired one seemed to teleport through the window and the other one left, she frowned. 'Sein? She lives here now?' Another problem with Reincarnation Mode, she supposed, her memories were scrambled to hell and back. Dropping down, she got a look at herself and blinked, at least they were kind enough to change her clothes into something that wasn't full of holes and cold.

Still, she didn't know what they would do to her if they found her, and she didn't want to find out. Running down the hallway, she just hoped that she didn't get caught by anyone. She came to a screetching halt as she saw Sein's back and gulped, she just knew that Sein was going to turn around and...

"Huh?" Sein spun around and blinked at the young girl that stood in front of her. "Shouldn't you be in class?"

"I'm sorry." The blue-haired, red-eyed girl bowed, though Sein thought she sounded an awful lot like Fate Tesstarossa at that moment, and blushed as she looked around nervously. "I'm new and I got lost."

Sein thought about it, she didn't think there were any new additions lately, but then again, she didn't always pay attention when Carim or Schach told her things. Oh well. "Come on, let's get you to a class until we can figure out what to do with you."

"Okay." The girl followed her as the two walked towards classes.

"Now, here's your class and..." Sein blinked a few times. "Where did she go?" She pouted. If she lost a student, Schach really WOULD have her ass.

From her position behind a pillar, she watched Sein disappear looking for her and cursed the fact that she had seen a penny on the floor, which caused her to drop her transformation. If she could just find her way to the front door, she could just slip away unnoticed.

It wasn't as if she didn't trust Sein. Sein would never harm her.

She didn't trust the OTHER people that Sein was with not to harm her.

After all that Jail did, she wasn't sure that people wouldn't try to use her as a way to get back at him.

"Vivio?" A female voice had her stiffen and slowly turn around. In front of her was a girl with sandy brown hair done up in two pigtails and blue eyes. "Oh, sorry, you just kind of looked like her from the back. Then again, she's wearing different clothes today. You wanna meet her? She's a really nice person."

"Um..." She didn't get much of a chance to say anything when her arm was grabbed and she was pulled into a nearby class.

"Vivio!" The girl waved, getting a smile from a blond haired girl with mis-matched eyes.

"Corona!" The girl grinned happily at her friend. "Hey, who's that?"

"I'm not sure, actually." Corona chuckled and turned to her. "What's your... Are you okay? You look ill."

The Saint Kaiser? Of all the things... She had to run into the Saint Kaiser. "Um, yes, not feeling well... I'll just... Find my way to the infirmiry..." She chuckled nervously and slipped back out of the room, leaving everyone to blink in confusion.

"Weird..." Rio said, wondering why that girl had gone deathly pale when she saw Vivio.

(---)

Panting, she ran down the hallway. She couldn't be caught. After all, after everything she had done before she had died, she just couldn't imagine that anyone would accept her. Not without doing something... She slid and nearly crashed into a wall as she saw two people's shadows moving towards her. Spinning around, she turned a corner and ran down the hall. She hated this tiny body. If she could just find a door outside...

She turned a corner and grinned, there, she could see the door, she was... "OOOMPH!" She crashed into something and found herself on the ground, rubbing her butt. "Oww! That's not fair! I can't do anything! Owwies!"

"I think you hurt her, Cinque." A kind voice was heard, chuckling softly.

"I didn't mean to, Carim..." Cinque knelt down in front of her. "Hey, are you okay?"

Cinque, she remembered Cinque, that girl got hurt years ago, her right eye had been lost. "Uh..."

"Cinque, Knight Carim, I'm sorry, I... Hey!" Sein was heard as she came across the scene. "It's that girl that disappeared from her room!"

She whimpered and looked at Sein and Cinque. She just needed to...

"Who's this?" A soft, almost masculine voice spoke up and she turned to look at a boy with short spiky brown hair in a butler and a girl with a long brown hair wearing a typical nun outfit, she would know, she impersonated a nun for long enough.

Seeing everyone look at her, she did all that she could considering the situation.

"WAAAAAHHHH!!! I'M SORRY!!" She threw her head back and wailed, hoping that they wouldn't do anything drastic to her.

The small group looked at each other in confusion before looking back at the crying blond girl.

"I looked everywhere but I couldn't..." Schach blinked as she came across the scene. "I see that she's been found."

(---)

Looking at the little blond girl as she sat in the office sniffling, Carim shook her head in amusement. "Now... Can you start by telling all of us your name?"

The girl seemed to stiffen and looked around nervously. "Um... Uh..."

"None of us are going to hurt you." Cinque smiled at her, trying to reassure her. Oh how she wanted to tell Cinque who she was, but there was the whole... Killing that priest in her past life, the brains and that general.

...

Well, no one cared about that last person anyway.

(---)

Auris sneezed and felt like she needed to find someone to torment.

(---)

Schach shook her head. "We already know that you're a clone of Jail Scagiletti and..."

"Due?!" Cinque gasped and grasped the girl by her shoulders to look at her closer. "Is that you?!"

She gave a slight nod and was surprised when Cinque hugged her tightly.

"Oh gods! Due!!" Cinque had tears falling out of her good eye. "I missed you so much!"

Before Due could say anything, another pair of arms wrapped around her as Sein joined in on the hug.

Carim looked at Schach, Otto and Deed, all of whom shrugged helplessly. "Due was killed by Zest a few years ago, Cinque... Are you sure that's Due?"

The two pulled away from the tiny blond girl, who looked at Carim and sighed. "I'm Due... Yeah, Zest killed me a few years ago and... Oooh!" Due jumped from where she was and grabbed a pen from the top of the desk. "My pen!"

"...She has ADD?" Cinque asked, dumbfounded. Her older sister, the cold-hearted assassin, had trouble keeping her attention on something more than five seconds?

Carim coughed politely. "Due... If you died, how are you here now?"

"Reincarnation Mode." Due squeezed the pen tightly and rocked slightly. "My body had to canibilize itself and the energy I had in me brought me back to life a couple years ago..."

"Wait... A couple years ago..." Sein blinked. "Then where have you been..?"

"The winters were cold..." Due shivered slightly. "Did you know that a scarf keeps you really warm?" She grinned brightly and put the pen back on the desk. "Hey, Cinque, can I have your eye patch?"

Cinque took off her eye patch and gestured for Due to come over to her. "Yes, scarves are warm and..."

"Hey!" A female voice spoke up and Due suddenly stiffened and went stark white as Vivio poked her head in. "I was wondering if you saw that new... Oh hey! There she is!" Vivio grinned happily. "I'm glad that you're not sick."

Due whimpered. "No... No..." She shook her head and turned, but Cinque grabbed her wrist. "No! Lemme go! Lemme go! I'm sorry! I'm sorry! I didn't mean to! I was under orders! I'm sorry!"

"Due!" Cinque looked at her worriedly as her sister tried to get away from her. "Calm down!" She pulled Due into a hug and for the first time noticed how skinny she was. "Shhh... Calm down."

"Huh? What's going on?"

"Waaaahhh! I tricked the priest into stealing the fabric with Olivie's blood on it and gave it to the doctor to use for cloning!" Due cried out, tears leaking out of her eyes.

Otto looked at Deed, who shrugged. Both of them had heard this from Jail before, well, not who did it, but they knew that the shroud was stolen, so, it was kind of interesting.

"I'll be good! Just let me go! I'll go live behind the pizza place during the winter!" She calmed down and trembled, whimpering. "Maybe the stuff won't be too covered in gunk this winter..."

Schach sighed softly. "Well, I didn't want to bring this up, but she's got several signs of someone who's lived on the streets for awhile... Malnutrition... Mental disorders... And several diseases that we can take care of pretty quickly..."

Carim sighed softly and nodded at Schach. "Thank you. As for you, Ms. Due... I don't think that your sisters are going to let me kick you out into the street, at least not as you are."

Due whimpered, tears falling down her face. "You're going to throw me in prison for killing those people, aren't you? WAHHH!! I'm only six years old right now! I don't wanna spend the rest of my life in prison!"

"I think dying kind of absolves you of your previous crimes, Due..." Sein chuckled softly, before her chuckles died off as Due didn't say anything. "...You've been back alive for two years... Why didn't you search us out?"

"Nnnngh!" Due growled and grabbed her head. "Couldn't remember! All my memories were screwed up and my head hurt! Did you know that mice aren't very tasty?"

"You... Ate mice?" Cinque blanched slightly as Due nodded.

"Uh huh... Last winter, they all crowded in that abandoned condemned apartment building. Kinda chilly, but at least they were food..."

"Which would explain the diseases we found..." Schach shook her head. The more she heard from this kid, the less she wanted to let the girl out of her sight.

"Then they blew up the building in the spring." Due pouted heavily. "My scarf went with it! That nice man gave me that scarf!"

"Nice man?" Cinque looked confused as Due turned to her and nodded.

"Uh huh... He got mad cuz I stole his hot food, but then he saw how I looked, gave me his scarf and some money for food or clothes and left. But he was pretty nice, even if his face was all scarred up and hairy. Hey, did you know that puppies are excellent body warmers?"

Due's stomach growled and the cyborg in question winced. "Sorry... I'll just..."

"Sit down while Otto and I go and get some food, sister." Deed smiled at her. "You aren't going to go anywhere until you have a good meal, understand?"

Due blinked at her as Otto smiled and slipped out of the room. "Huh?"

"Just sit and wait for a few moments." Deed smiled as she left the room.

"Uh..."

Cinque sighed softly. "You aren't going back to the streets, Due. We aren't going to let you."

"Besides..." Carim looked at her seriously. "I can't let you go until I've made sure that you're at least medically healthy, so, you're stuck here until the doctors clear you."

Due looked down and trembled softly. "Thank you."

Vivio scratched her head. "So... Are you going to school with me now?"

"Crap!" Sein paled heavily. "I forgot! There was this blue-haired girl and..." She trailed off as Due turned into the girl that she saw before. "...I should have guessed..." Sein hung her head down. "I forgot you could shape-shift."

Due, in her blue-haired form, giggled softly. "Yeah, my transformation ability is still top-notch but... OOOH! A birdie!" She turned back to normal as a bird flew by the window. "Did you know that normal birds don't taste that good? Not much meat, all bones."

"...I guess she can't keep her transformation up if she gets distracted..." Carim shook her head.

Cinque just smiled as she walked up to Due and hugged the young girl. "Glad to have you back, Due."

The small girl hugged her back. "Thank you, Cinque."

...

I can NOT look at that cyborg the same way ever again!

Heh, i can`t believe Nanya you make me want to hug Due tightly and make her fell comfy. Good work.

[SNobleJr]

Originally Posted by Nanya01

Been working on this all day.

I'll admit, I was inspired by the image thread.

So...

This one's called...

Spoiler for Due:

-snip-

...

I can NOT look at that cyborg the same way ever again!

HNNNNNGGG-

...okay, okay. The cuteness overload is over. Calming down now.

Seriously, though, how do you people do it? First Moczo made emotionless Sette... well, still emotionless, but in an adorable way. Now you've just turned Due, an unrepentant murderer, into an unbelievably cute little girl. I'm beginning to dread the moment someone takes Quattro and successfully applies this arcane, mysterious moefication process of yours to her, of all characters...

About actual, meaningful comments... well, there's not much that hasn't been said already. It's lolified Due being cute, with the other Numbers also getting some attention, and some serious undercurrents below the sweetness.

I've got one thing that no-one else seems to have brought up so far; I'm getting some slight Last Order vibes from the opening paragraphs. Bubbly little girl in a tattered sheet wandering the streets alone, and all that. Was this intentional, or just a coincidence?

And I'm seconding the demand for a continuation.

[Nanya01]

To everyone who commented, thanks. ^_^

But...

WHY do you do this to me?!

Now I wanna continue it!

Spoiler for Due 2:

A few days later...

Cinque looked into the room. "Hey..."

"Cinque!" Due cheered and ran for her, hugging her tightly. "Mmmm! You bring me toys? Or maybe a knife set?" Her eyes gleamed. "I found these birds outside, I wanna know what they taste like, no one brings me birds to eat!"

Cinque patted her on the head. She had gotten used to Due's... Odd mental patterns as of late. "No toys, no knives, sorry."

"Drat." She kicked the ground. "I'm bored, they won't let me wander around without someone around. I'm not going to kill anyone, I can barely open the doors around here! I'm not the same Due I was before. I was so meeeeeaaannnn!" She started to whine before she grabbed Cinque's coat. "I'm sorry I made Quattro into such a meanie!"

"It's... Okay, Due. I could have done more myself." Cinque patted her on the head. "I think they want someone with you so that you can open the doors." From what Sein had told her, Due could barely lift a basketball right now.

"But I don't like being stuck in the hospital wing of the Church! It's boring!"

Cinque chuckled softly, Due was nice when she was childish. "I suppose it is boring, huh?" She looked at the table near Due's bed and mentally sighed as she saw the empty pill cups. Most of that was antibiotics to deal with the physical diseases Due had, though Cinque wondered if they were giving her any drugs to help with her ADD or other mental diseases she most likely had.

"Can we go play?" Due's eyes sparkled. "Otto, Deed and Sein keep getting pulled away and Ixy's no fun to talk to, she just sleeps all day. Is Tre still a grumpy face? When can I tell everyone I'm alive again? Can I ride a pony?"

"The last time I saw her, Tre was a bit of a grumpy face, and we can't let you go tell the Doctor that you're still alive, Due, not until you're better, okay?" The girl pouted and nodded at him. "As for the pony, well, I can't get one of those in here."

"Aww!" She pouted and whimpered. "But I want a pony! I wanna ride it until my butt hurts!"

"You're pretty loud for someone who was an assassin." A male voice spoke up gruffly as a blue and white wolf walked into the room, causing Due's eyes to sparkle.

"PUPPY!" She squealed and glomped him. "Oh! Big puppy! Can I keep him?"

Cinque giggled softly. "Sorry, but Zafira doesn't belong to me or you."

"Awww..." Due sniffled and teared up and Zafira shook his head and lowered his body down. "Huh?"

"You wanted to ride something, right?" He asked her and her eyes lit up as she jumped on his back. "You can get on too, Cinque."

The silver haired cyborg shook her head and blushed. "No, I couldn't..."

"Please, Cinque?" Due looked at her with big eyes that seemed to water up. "I wanna ride with my sister!"

"..." Cinque had a hard time resisting those eyes and she looked at Zafira, who nodded.

Twenty seconds later, Zafira was walking down the hallway of the Saint Church with Cinque and Due on his back, both of them chatting happily with each other.

He nodded to Carim as he walked downstairs so that Due could go near some of the other paitients that were in the hospital. They weren't letting Due go outside, since it had started snowing lately and they weren't sure if she'd go off and find some squirrels to kill to see what they tasted like.

Sighing softly, Carim turned to Fate, who had brought Cinque and Zafira in on Hayate's request. "What are your thoughts?"

"For someone who's cloned from Jail and taught Quattro, she's remarkably... Innocent." Oh sure, Fate had heard what Due had said, granted that had been second-hand information, but she had heard it still. "Why was she in that sheet?"

"She said that it was better than running around naked on the streets." Carim said softly and Fate looked at her in shock. "Apparently, Reincarnation Mode just fixes the body, not the clothes or weapons."

"Still... It's amazing that she can be cohierent at all..."

"I'm still worried about her though." Carim shook her head. "She eats like I expected her to eat, worried that someone will take it, or if she doesn't hurry up, the food will go bad."

"She does know..." Fate trailed off as Carim nodded. "What about her health?"

"It's amazing that she's not down at this moment. By all accounts, her body should have given out so it could work and heal her."

Fate winced, she didn't doubt it. Eating birds, mice, garbage, all those couldn't have been healthy for her, especially since she was only physically six years old.

Carim smiled softly. "Thankfully, she's responding well to treatments. Most kids would probably take a year at least, I think she'll be fully healed in under two months."

Fate nodded, she couldn't imagine how hard it had to have been for the girl out there. "Can't believe that I'm feeling sorry for her..."

"I know." Carim nodded at her. "Still, we've been doing all we can to off-set the malnutrition she suffered." Heck, that first night they had to put Due up on an IV drip overnight because they were worried she wouldn't make it through the night. "Maybe she'll grow up into a productive member of society?"

Fate smiled softly. "It's not how you're born after all, it's the people around you that helps you."

(---)

"Hey!" Sein grinned as she saw Zafira walking down the stairs with Cinque and Due. "Sorry I haven't been around, Due, but Sister Schach won't let me sluff off in my duties at all."

Due pouted at her. "My room's boring! I don't like being there!" Her eyes watered up. "Can you get me a kitty? Please? Then I can talk to someone all the time. Mice aren't good listeners, they alway try to run away and when you catch them all they do is scream until you bite their heads off to make them shut up, but then they don't wanna talk anymore and it's no fun."

Sein sweat-dropped, sure, she was even more used to hearing the odd things that came out of Due's mouth than Cinque was, but it was still... Odd, hearing them come out of a six-year-old's mouth. "I don't think that I'm allowed to get you a kitty."

"Awww!" She crossed her arms and pouted. "That's no fun! Alley cats aren't nice, they scratch your arms up and leave you all scarred, see?" She pulled her sleeves back and revealed lots of white marks on her arms. "Then again, some dogs aren't nice, there was that one dog that bit me before running off, that was no fun at all."

She blinked as she felt Cinque pull her into a hug. "Cinque? What?"

"I'm sorry, Due..." Cinque sniffled softly behind her. "If I had known you could reincarnate, I would have looked for you." Though, now she knew why Jail had called her a masterpiece, if she had this kind of skill.

"I didn't even know I had this mode!" Due pouted more. "The doctor never told me that I could do this!"

"Kind of makes sense, if you think about it..." Sein scratched her head. "It would be pretty hard to make more combat cyborgs, since even cloning them is a tricky business, so, the doctor probably put it into Due, since she was the most likely one to die."

"Don't you think he would have said something though?" Cinque asked, getting a shrug from Sein.

"Don't ask me. Quattro and Uno were the only two that knew what was going through his head at any time."

Cinque was about to say something when she felt Due lean back, her eyes closed as she let out a soft snore. "Huh?"

"I was wondering if the drowziness would catch up with her." Sein chuckled softly. "Those were some powerful antibiotics."

Zafira shook his head and turned around. "I'll stay in her bedroom so that she's not alone."

Cinque smiled at that as he carried them back to Due's room. "Thank you, Zafira."

[SNobleJr]

Originally Posted by Nanya01

To everyone who commented, thanks. ^_^

But...

WHY do you do this to me?!

Now I wanna continue it!

Spoiler for Due 2:

-snip-

Aaand, there's some of the creepiness back. Due's starting to edge into Grotesque Cute territory here.

[Nanya01]

Originally Posted by SNobleJr

Aaand, there's some of the creepiness back. Due's starting to edge into Grotesque Cute territory here.

She lived homeless for a couple of years, it's not like she's got a lot that she can say that wouldn't creep people out.

And she's mentally just a young girl.

[SNobleJr]

Originally Posted by Nanya01

She lived homeless for a couple of years, it's not like she's got a lot that she can say that wouldn't creep people out.

And she's mentally just a young girl.

Didn't mean to imply it was implausible, just pointed it out. It actually helps keep the fic from becoming outright saccharine.