This is a companion to 18 Drops of Blood, though it can be read alone. This fic is also a series of drabbles, though they are far longer. These drabbles are centered entirely on the reactions of others to the relationship between Alucard and Usagi.

Each chapter will deal with a different person and feeling. Some of these chapters will be short, others will be fairly long.

Thanks to both sarhea and pyrobabe7713. They both asked for a continuation of 18 Drops of Blood, and before I knew it, I was writing like a person possessed. ^^

Disclaimer: I own nothing. Takeuchi Naoko owns Sailor Moon, and Hirano Kohta owns Hellsing.


From A Splintered Vein

Part 1: Bewildered: Tsukino Kenji

By: Ceris Malfoy


Tsukino Kenji is not quite sure what to think about all this.

Above all else in his mind is the knowledge that he isn't ready for his only daughter to grow up, never mind that she is 17 going on 18. He doesn't want to admit that his sweet baby-girl is more than ready to face the world on her own. And he sure as hell is in no way prepared for the world that is generally known as dating.

Coupled with this not-readiness, is the fact that the man standing before him asking his permission to court his daughter isn't even human. This throws him for a loop twice over. Once because no one, not even that college student he knows was sniffing around his daughter for almost a year, has ever asked his permission to court Usagi. There were boys, all interested, but Kenji can not once recall anyone other than his daughter asking him if it was all right. Second, because this being with his otherworldly presence, glowing hell-fire eyes, sharp teeth, and leering grin was death and danger and insanity all wrapped in one convenient package.

Kenji is horrified that this being wants his permission to date his daughter. Kenji is mystified that Usagi wants him to give said permission.

He looks at his daughter, sees the same look of contentment and love he often sees on his wife's face, and his mind boggles at the implications.


This particular drabble is a companion to #4 of 18 Drops of Blood. Kenji is a difficult man fo me to write - he's currently the reason why Moonlight Sonata is going absolutely nowhere. -.-