Title: Sister of Dragons

Summary: A series of one-shots revolving around a girl from our world being born into theirs, but not as any regular person, but as the sister, older or younger, of a Dragon. Whether it be the Original Dragons or the Present, expect Fluff and Angst Galore!

Word Count: ~2100

Disclaimer: I do not own anything from Akatsuki No Yona; but Chae-Seon is of my creation.

Notes: A continuation of the previous Twin Sister of Seiryuu Universe, beware for fluff! Sadly, no Shin-Ah in this, but if you love Ao then I think you might like this little fic.

Warnings: Alternative Universe, Original Character, Language, Violence, Blood, Emotional Angst, etc.

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~~~~~~Blue~~~~~~

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Sibling: Shin-Ah

Position: Cursed Twin Sister

Brother's Age: 6 Months

Her Age: 6 Months

Summary: While she wasn't the Seiryuu herself, the villagers believed her to be cursed to have been born at the same time. She's fine with that, she has a brother to go finally meet…but finds said task to be far harder than she expected. Thank the gods that Ao was around at the time.

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Time passed all too slowly in the Seiryuu Village, at least it did for Chae-Seon. Of course, she was pretty sure that it passed like molasses for everyone else as well. Being miserable, afraid, and hateful all the time was sure to make time seem pretty sour…

She really didn't care, however, for the other villagers. As soon as she figured out where and in what she was, she lost all respect or compassion she would have had for those who lived here—not that they didn't treat her similarly. Sadly, even though she was the Blue Dragon's twin sister—though it took her a while to confirm said fact, even with the fact she had memories since the moment she was born in to this world—she wasn't sent to live with her brother and Ao.

Instead, she was kept in the house where her biological mother had committed suicide—she had no idea who or where the man she wouldn't have called father existed, so she was obviously alone in here—after being 'too overcome with grief at having birthed the cursed Seiryuu'. Of course, having a daughter without said eyes wasn't important to the woman, because, even with having memories since birth, Chae-Seon couldn't recall the woman for the life of her. Since then, she had been separated from Shin-Ah and her care was passed off between random neighbors. Mostly old ladies who treated her like she carried the plague and left as soon as possible.

Again, she didn't care.

What she did care for was how long it took her to get control over her motor reflexes!

From head control to rolling over, from grasping to sitting, from crawling to sounding out words, the entire development from being an infant was torture. For literal months, she was literally subject to the movements of those taking care of her. In other words, she was fed and then put back into the sad excuse for a straw mat before being left alone for about five months. It was ridiculous—and cold, lonely, scary—even though she knew that the development of her body was something completely out of the control of her mature mind.

When she was finally able to roll over and crawl, she had one destination in mind.

She had bided her time, making sure to plan to leave after being fed, before escaping—at, an admittedly, very uninspiring pace—out the door of the hut.

It was later she realized what a mistake that was. She really hadn't thought about how different the outside world would be on her body, but she had made a grave error.

A minute after crawling out the door and upon the dirty ground, she realized that she had no idea where Ao and Shin-Ah's hut lived. The brief glimpse of it in the manga certainly wasn't any roadmap, and no one around her had ever mentioned its placement.

Things only went downhill from there.

Deciding that she should probably return to her hut, she realized that she was already exhausted. The scorching summer sun beat down upon her frail and malnourished body, taking what little strength she had from her and causing her to pant. She could see the hut was about ten meters or so away, but it felt like so far for her small body.

Looking around, she realized that she had planned her escape too well because there was no one around. She hadn't really expected it, because there was some sort of council meeting that everyone was required to attend—it was the whole reason that she had chosen now to try and find Shin-Ah!

Fear started to grow inside of her and she tried to turn around her body—only to let out a cry of pain.

Looking down at her small palms, she realized that crawling against the dirt ground in what surmounted to be rags was a foolish idea. She could already feel her knees and legs aching with pain from being dragged along. Actual tears gathered in her eyes as she saw that she damaged her hands, a soft cut upon one of them bleeding.

She whimpered, terror exploding inside of her as her vision swam in the sunlight. What was she going to do? She was panicking. She had to get herself under control, but her mind and body just wouldn't listen! Who had she been kidding? She was more likely to die out here than be able to find her twin brother. And even if she did, what difference would it make? What had she even been thinking—

She sniffled, feeling tears run down her face. Unable to control it anymore, she let out a loud wail—

"…Oi, Brat."

Startling at the voice, she craned her head around and looked up.

The first thing she identified was blue.

It was a large man—and not just because she was about two feet tall—with unkempt, long shaggy blue hair. He was wearing a sleeveless black robe with gray hemlines that were held by a dark blue sash going around his middle. He was wearing bandages at random places and she could see sword was carried upon his back.

The thing she recognized, the most, however, was the gray horned mask with red markings.

Her heart skipped a beat.

She couldn't believe it.

Ao!

Excited—because even if she hadn't found her brother, she had found Ao!—she reached her hands up, her enthusiasm overlaying all her previous anxiety and terror. She waved them at him, hoping that he would pick her up and take her back to his hut to where her brother was.

However, the man just stared at her, just looking down at her as if she was some sort of creature he had never seen before. She would have found it comical, perhaps confusing, if she wasn't so eager to escape with Ao before any of the villagers came back.

She waved her hands a bit more insistently, bouncing up as best as she could.

Still, he did nothing.

She scowled, it seems that this wasn't going to be a cut and dry process. If she thought about it, she could understand why Ao would be hesitant to pick up some random baby—especially since all villagers, and thus infants, because who left a baby unattended—besides her that is—given his reputation. If she were any typical villager's child, he would probably he screamed out at best about 'cursing their child' and 'trying to turn them into stone'. But, she was the twin of the Blue Dragon! She was hated nearly just as much as them without any abilities to help her out! So, forgive her, and her hormonal undeveloped baby body, for being a bit impatient to see her brother after months!

Obviously, she had to take extreme measures.

Putting her hands down—and ignoring the pain in her palms—she rested them against the ground and began to crawl towards Ao. She planned to grab onto his pants leg. She knew he probably wouldn't kick her so—

To her horror, he took a few steps back, his expression and any possible chance she had to figure out what he was thinking hidden behind his mask.

She froze, staring at the new distance in between them. It was so small, and yet so far. If only she was in her older body. It wouldn't even be a thought to get to him! To talk to him! To…finally go see Shin-Ah—

Unable to hold it back any longer, she began sobbing. Everything seemed so overwhelming right now. Her frustration at apparently being born in a manga. Her frustration against the villagers hating her brother and her by retrospect. Her frustration at being a powerless infant—

All of it welled up inside of her, causing her tears to fall seemingly without end. She didn't ask for this, okay!? Was it so much to ask for something to right in this damn life!? She just wanted to see her brother! Wanted to grow up with him. Wanted to help him with his pain. Wanted to help Ao and show him that neither of them were monsters. Wanted to leave this gods-forsaken village instead of living in some hole in the ground until Yona finally came in eighteen years!

And, now, there was one of the two people that she wanted to see here right now, and he wouldn't even let her get close!

Fueled by her emotions, she felt words form at her mouth.

"A-Ao." She whimpered. If she was any less upset, she would have felt victorious at finally saying her first word properly, but she was at the end of her rope here.

She lifted her hands again, physically pleading Ao to help her out. "Ao!"

A moment passed and she truly believed that he was going to leave her there when she suddenly heard an irritated sigh.

Before she knew what was going on, she felt herself being literally scooped up into warm, muscled arms and being pressed against a bandaged chest. While it was by no means gentle, she found herself leaning into the embrace, relishing the firm grip, comforting grip around her. She hoped to see him turn around and start walking towards wherever his hut was, but she truthfully wasn't surprised to see him approaching her hut.

"Don't go outside if you're going to get yourself stuck, Brat," Came the rough voice of Ao, suddenly. "Those bastards in the village aren't going to go the extra mile to take care of you, so you can't be stupid—alright?"

She wondered if he expected a response—she had, literally, said her first actual proper word just a few minutes ago, after all—but he kept his gaze going forward as he quickly made it to her hut. He stepped inside, pausing for a moment—she wondered what he was doing—before going over to the mat where she slept.

He tried to let go of her, no doubt trying to do a quick in-and-out, but she stubbornly held onto the cloth of his shirt. He tried to—far more gently than she expected he would—pry her tiny fingers from himself, but she just grabbed on with the other hand when he succeeded.

He huffed, turning to stare at her from behind his mask. "You're really a troublesome one, aren't you?"

She couldn't resist giving a wide, gaped smile in response, and babbling because she couldn't accurately respond.

To her surprise, she heard another huff, but this one being of laughter. He seemed to roll his eyes beneath his mask, staring down at her with those painted black orbs.

Suddenly, Ao's gaze jerked to the right. She knew that nothing had changed inside of the hut, so it must have meant that he was looking through the walls. When she heard the soft sound of footsteps and voices, she knew that the council meeting must have just finished.

"Got to go, Brat."

This time she didn't resist as he pulled her hands away from him, standing and turning around.

Unwilling to leave it just at that, she called out. "A-Ao!"

The man stopped, but he didn't turn around. She supposed that was as good as she was going to get.

"B-buh bai!" She struggled over the parting words—and failed miserably—but, from his snort, she thought that he got the message.

With that, he walked out of the hut and she was left alone once more. It was not a moment too soon, because, despite her disappointment at not being brought by Ao to be raised, she had learned some very valuable lessons today. She really could have died if he hadn't happened along—being out in the sun and unable to move…it would have been bad—so she decided to be grateful for that. It would still be some time before she could be reunited with her brother, but, she knew that she had to judge her future movements much more wisely from now on.

The pain in her palms and legs were tribute to that.

Letting out a yawn, she felt her vision go blurry and she, for the first time, willingly laid down upon the mat below her. It was all too quick before exhaustion claimed her, and she was traveling to the worlds of dreams.

It was later that she wondered how Ao knew what hut was hers. Surely, in such a small village, he knew that it had once belonged to the mother of Seiryuu who had committed suicide?

She got her answer in another month when she accidentally tugged one of her hairs out, and saw that it was blue.

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Sadly, no Shin-Ah yet in this one. But this is where inspiration led me, and I admit that I'm happy with the cute moment with Ao as well as the explanation of Chae-Seon's struggles as an infant with memories from another world. Honestly, I get upset when I am stuck in a hospital bed, I wonder how terrible it would be to be in a body that can't even WALK for over a year?