Just wanna say, I have no when I will ever update this story. I'm writing this due to the fact that I had a poll on my account with this winning the place of the next drabble I write. I'm putting this in a different story from "Drabbles Galore" because that one circles around Fairy Tail. In all honesty if I do update this fic it might just be another Akame Ga Kill drabble. Well, enough rambling, on to the story.
One last thing. If you don't want to read slightly altered canon then after the 4th wall break skim through until Tatsumi tries out Spectator's abilities. That's when actual alteration happens.
It had been a couple weeks since Zank the Executioner was killed by the glorious Capital Defense Force... Such was the lies spread by the corrupt and heinous higher-ups in the CDF.
It makes sense, would you want to give credit of killing a murderer to the group of people you're trying to make look like monsters who only seek ways to satiate their own bloodlust?
The group itself knew that would happen, but it didn't stop them from being annoyed. Their newest member was the only one to voice his complaints. A country hick by the name of Tatsumi, but he did have a right to be pissed. He did almost die trying to take that maniac down.
While he did complain, a couple of wise words from his senior assassins shut him right up.
But enough with the background explanations. Let's get to the reason the author is making this story.
It was almost 2 weeks since Tatsumi had been seriously injured by the aforementioned serial killer. Now he was near 100% and ready to get back to work. Leading him to be happy when the boss called for a meeting.
"Tatsumi, your wounds are pretty much healed right?" Najenda asked.
The entirety of the infamous assassination group known as Night Raid was amassed in this room. Eight people in total, collectively responsible for the murder of countless corrupt individuals in the Capital . What was important enough to gather the group? Let's find out.
"I want you to try the Teigu you got from Zank." She didn't even give Tatsumi the time to respond.
"W-w-w-w-w-what? You actually want me to use it? Wouldn't it be better if someone else took it?"
"The thing is, we can't, only one Teigu per person." his flowery aura appeared as Bulat spoke.
Tatsumi took a cautious step back.
At Tatsumi's questioning look Lubbock expanded on the oversimplified statement of the Pompadour styled man.
"Using a Teigu drains you mentally and physically. If someone were to use two then, asides from the high possibility of death. The user would be weaker then they were before until they gain control over both, and since we don't want to die and time is a luxury, you're our default choice." Lubbock ended his explanation with a thumbs-up and snarky grin.
Being chosen by default certainly killed Tatsumi's happy mood.
"Don't let the perv bring you down." Leone chimed in, grabbing Lubbock's thumb and twisting it till it nearly broke.
"You earned this thing. Ya killed a lot of bad people and nearly died in the process." Leone… encouraged? With her tone and smile it seemed like that, but her word choice certainly threw the Emerald eyed man for a loop.
"She's right, you are a good killer. If you are able to use this then you can help the cause even more then you already do." Akame reassured in her nearly always deadpan face.
"O-okay then." With that he grabbed the Teigu.
'It might not look the best, but the abilities it had were pretty useful.' Tatsumi thought.
When he put it on he expected more to it. All he really felt was a small weight that was sticking to his head.
"To be honest we don't know what abilities this Teigu might have, it wasn't catalogued in the book."
The fact that there was some book about Teigus flew over Tatsumi's head as he was trying to make Spectator do something.
"It was able to read minds, right? Then try it out on me." Akame offered to be his guinea pig, who was Tatsumi to refuse.
Concentrating as hard as he could, he said the first thing that popped into his head.
"You… want to eat meat right now!"
"Exactly, such amazing precision." Akame uttered.
"Please, anyone here could guess that right." Mine interrupted Tatsumi's happiness with cold hard facts.
"Since I don't want you to try to search around my head. Try to figure out how to use one of the other sights."
'Why does she always act like such a bitch?' Tatsumi thought to himself, he wouldn't dare say that out loud since he would rather not be a charred corpse.
'Okay, something, anything. Activate!' Tatsumi tried to connect to the eye by 'speaking' to it. And just as he was about to reprimand the stupid thought. Spectator opened and activated.
"Well, what do you see." Mine was curious as everyone else.
"Yellow." Tatsumi said, staring at the wall. He then turned to Mine. "Bright Pink."
"What do you actually see, don't be a smartass and just say colors."
He looked at her face. "Peach."
"Why you-" her no doubt soon to be violent outburst was stopped by a voice of reason.
"This could actually be one of Spectator's abilities." Najenda inputted.
"Seeing colors?!" Mine asked irritably.
"I actually don't get this either." Tatsumi conceded. Now seeing black when he turned to face his leader.
"Zank targeted Tatsumi as a victim, no? If he got close to him then Akame would have sensed him no doubt, but she didn't notice anything out of the ordinary. Meaning he had to have watched him from a distance. Maybe the sight that Tatsumi's currently using is letting him see things humans can only see with a scope or binoculars?"
"Okay, that's great and all, but how do I stop this?" Turning around to see if he could tell what anything was. Having such a magnified view in a room was not a good combination.
"Do the opposite of what you did to get there."
"Got it." He really didn't have the will to complain about such a, in his opinion, stupid set of instructions.
'How weak am I? I'm already struggling to keep my breath and I just started using this Teigu, maybe the next sight will be better.'
With that he tried to do what Najenda said. He clenched his eyes shut and focused. When he reopened them he was treated to a different view.
"Bro, why are you in your underwear?" During his gaze around the room he managed to stop turning right in front of the Hundred Man-Slayer: Bulat.
"What do you mean Tatsumi?" He motioned to his body. He still had all his clothes on. "I'm wearing what I always wear, or is that-"
Before Bulat could turn that into something sexual. Akame chimed in.
"When I fought Zank, he said something along the lines of me not having any hidden weapons. This sight might be what he used when he said that."
"That's an astute observation Akame." Najenda praised.
"Yeah, that is smart and all, but why are you keeping my head facing bro?" True to his words, since Akame started to speak she held his head in place. Keeping it from turning to her or the other girls behind him.
"That's simple, if you can see through clothes then you'll see us in our underwear." That opened up a can of worms.
"Damn it, you lucky bastard!" Lubbock roared.
"I KNEW YOU WERE A BUMPKIN, BUT A PERVERT TOO? LEONE, LET GO OF ME SO I CAN SHOOT HIM TO BITS. WE DON'T NEED ANOTHER LUBBOCK HERE!" Mine raged, luckily for our protagonist he had was saved from peril thanks to the aid of Lionelle's user.
"Calm down, he didn't try to make this happen." Leone reasoned to the enraged rosette.
"Tatsumi's a pervert? But he was so nice and sweet to me when we were alone in the forest." Sheele remarked to herself.
"Aaaggghhh, the newbie just joined and he already scored!?" Lubbock made Sheele's bad statement even worse.
"SEE, HE'S A PERVERT, LET ME GO AND GIVE HIM WHAT HE DESERVES!" Sheele's words only added fuel to Mine's fire.
"This is Sheele we're talking about. Things are definitely lost in translation here. Plus Lubbock always thinks up perverted fantasies at every word."
"LOOK AT HIM, HE ISN'T EVEN DENYING WHAT HE DID!" Mine reeeeeaaaallly wanted Tatsumi dead.
Her words were true however, Tatsumi had yet to say anything about being able to see their underwear. Whether to freak out or freeze in shock. Any reaction would be normal for the naive boy.
Akame knew something was off. So she moved the brunette's head back enough for her to look at his face.
Her blood ran cold.
"The Teigu's rejecting him." The room immediately became serious as Bulat and Leone rushed to the two.
Without wasting a second, Akame removed the teigu immediately after she saw his face. It gave her chills thinking that her new friend might die. The blank look in his half lidded eyes. She couldn't get it out of her head.
When everyone saw that the now unconscious boy was alright. They had time to think while he rested.
"This doesn't make any sense. Teigu compatibility happens instantaneously when the powers are invoked. That means that Tatsumi was under the effect of rejection for a couple minutes and didn't die. How could that be possible." Lubbock said more to himself than the room.
As he looked around the room, his comrades seemed to be in their own little world.
Akame had her worrying deadpan face on.
Mine was toying with the fray of her dress.
Sheele was probably wondering what was wrong.
His dear sweet Najenda was taking anxious drags of her cigarette.
Leone looked like she really wanted something to drink.
It wasn't until Bulat spoke up a few minutes later that the tense attitude dissipated slightly.
"I think it means one thing, Tatsumi is a monster. Well, is going to be a monster."
"So you're saying that bumpkin is that powerful?" Mine could not believe that.
"Like I said, he might be rough around the edges, but with his ability to survive rejection for so long… He has immense potential. I have no doubt that he will be a key figure for the Revolution in battles to come."
"Well, even if your assumption is right, we don't have time for him to get that strong. Esdeath is in the North to take down Numa. That buys us a year. It's physically impossible for anyone to get close to her lifetime of strength in such a short amount of time." Lubbock stated, it was times like this he wished they had a Hyperbolic Time Chamber like they did in Dragon Ball Z. The bookstore owner couldn't help but sigh in sorrow.
"You have a point there, Lubbock." Najenda said. "But, you should know that the possible and impossible merge when Teigus are in play." She opened the Teigu book, how long she had it, the author didn't know.
It was lucky for her that Teigu were placed in alphabetical order, it only took her a few seconds to flip to what she was looking for. When she found it, she turned the book to the other Night Raiders to show what she landed on.
"Power Surging: Balzac?" Sheele read aloud in confused tone. "What does it do?"
"If you can read then just look lower." Mine said, use to her friend's airheadedness.
"When worn, Balzac can tap into the wearer's body and mind and unlock its potential by 100%, giving the wearer super speed, super strength, lightning-quick agility and unparalleled intelligence. After all of the wearer's potential is unlocked, it cannot exceed that person's limits." Najenda spoke, knowing the abilities of her ex-lieutenant's Teigu like the back of her hand.
"So you're saying that if this accepts Tatsumi that it's going to make all the years of training he needs to do, happen instantly?" Leone asked.
"When it accepts him, yes." Najenda knew Blazac would like Tatsumi, anyone with a plethora of untapped potential already had a good standing with it, but if their predictions were true. Tatsumi would become the strongest of them all whenever the mask was on. Ironically being the weakest when it was off.
"This is great, if we get this from wherever the Revolutionary army is keeping it then we could clean out the Capital quicker and easier." Lubbock was glad, this would mean less work being dropped in his lap.
"This is certainly a useful ability, but what is the drawback?" Akame knew no Teigu could be so powerful and not hold any repercussions.
"Well, it's quite simple really. If someone is stronger than you when you have the mask on, then you will most definitely lose." That was how her lieutenant gained the prefix ex- to his title. His unleashed potential was no match for the Empire's Strongest.
"That's it?" honestly Lubbock found the weakness to be underwhelming. "No "it destroys your body", or even a "The Teigu will try to take your soul?"" None of his imaginative worst case scenarios were even close to being that bland and simple.
"Does Crosstails have an extravagant weakness?" Lubbock winced at that remark. "I rest my case." Najenda took a drag of satisfaction at Lubbock's lose.
"Ssssssoooo, you should probably get to writing to home base about wanting to check out that Teigu, right?" As much as Leone loved to see Lubbock lose to the girl he holds dear, the quicker they received the Teigu and tested if it worked, the better.
"You're right," she moved to leave the room before she said bid farewell with a "Don't bother to cook dinner for me, it'll take all night to write a convincing piece for the higher ups to let go of this Teigu. Anyways, dismissed, enjoy your night." Having ending her goodnight, she proceeded in entering the maze like halls of Night Raid's base to reach her office and not leave until she was convinced they would obtain the mask.
Hmm, this doesn't really seem like a great place to end but this will compel me to want to write Tatsumi getting and testing out the teigu. If you enjoyed be sure to leave a review. Any questions feel free to PM me. Also, to any hardcore fans out there; I know Balzac is in Imperial hands, but for the sake of fanfiction. Let's just have Esdeath unable/uncaring to find it through the sea of blood and guts that were Najenda's men.
