A small lone figure with medium length brown hair and green eyes was slowly making its way across a frozen forest. The figure was wearing torn clothes no doubt from wandering for many days. When the rays of the moon hit this lone figure, it revealed that this was Tatsumi. The fire crackled as he sat by it in his small camp in an attempt to keep warm while trying to fall asleep. He had been traveling for what seemed an endless amount of days. The reason he, a ten-year-old was wandering alone hundreds of mile from any village was because his was destroyed. He still remembered what had occurred three days prior.

The soldiers rushing in and soon resulting in blood tainting the streets. Cruel laughter echoing throughout the whole place while it was slowly but surely being encased in ice. The terrified looks of his best friends Sayo and Ieyasu as they were frozen in their icy prison.

Tatsumi still had no idea how he had escaped that frozen hell all he knew was that he had started running and didn't stop until he did not recognize the place he was in. This was how it had been for the past three days just only running until he no longer could, walk for a bit, and run again. He had no idea where he was going and what to expect but he had only two thoughts on his mind, one being how evil the empire was and how it should be destroyed and the other just looking for a family and the feeling of being safe again. His thoughts were soon interrupted by twigs snapping to his left.

Tatsumi pov

As soon as the sound of twigs snapping breached my ears I stood up and took a defensive stance and drew out my short sword. While many people would think it was cute a ten year old could even hold a sword I knew better. Despite my age I was highly intellectual in both knowledge and skill, thankfully one of them being knowing how to start a fire with scratch. I have been trained in many arts with my best being combat with a sword. Scanning my surroundings I noticed a couple densely packed trees to my right that could be used for climbing up or just dashing through in attempt to escape a target. Returning my attention to the direction of the noises two figures soon emerged. Both were females with dark raven hair one with black eyes the other with red. Probably sisters I thought. Soon the duo saw me and both of their eyes widened in alarm. The older looking of the two that looked around my age said in a shaky voice "We don't mean no harm, we've been running for a long time and are just looking for a clearing to rest."

Sensing no deceit in her voice I calmy sheathed my sword and said "Well I know how tiring it is to run long without a good rest so if you two would like You can relax by the fire. Flashing him a grateful smile the two soon hurried over and sat down by the fire with their palms facing it in an attempt to heat up their cold bodies. I Chuckled slightly to myself as I sat back down.

Several moments passed before the younger of the duo finally spoke, "Thank you for letting us rest by your fire I am Kurome, and this is my older sister Akame."

I took a look at Kurome before replying "It was my pleasure, it has been many days since I've seen a friendly face, and my name, by the way, is Tatsumi." Wondering to myself to why such young girls would be running I decided to ask them.

"If you don't mind me asking why are you two running anyways?" A look of sorrow and pain flashed across Akame's face while anger and resentment flashed across Kurome's, but as soon as they appeared, they vanished. It looked as if they were having a mantle debate if they should tell me or not so I said something before they could.

"It's okay if you would rather not share that piece of information I know myself how hard and unforgiving life can be."

A confused look appeared on them and before they could ask I told them my story of how the empire eliminated my village and how I was probably the only survivor. After I had finished my story, I was nearly in tears just from thinking about Sayo and Ieyasu. Closing my eyes in the attempt to stop the tears from escaping, I stayed like that for who knows how long until I felt a warmth from either side of me. Confused to where this mysterious heat was coming from I opened my eyes to find the sisters hugging me in comfort. After what seemed like hours but what in reality was minutes I finally managed to calm myself down.

"Thank you I sorry you two had to see that," I said to them. Suddenly two sharp slaps echoing throughout the night as they both slapped that. I turned to Akame demanding a reason to why she slapped me but was met with her stern glare.

"Don't you ever apologize for crying while mourning your friends it shows you have a heart and more importantly it shows you're a good person." I turned to Kurome to see if she had anything to add but all I got was a sharp nod from her. Apologizing again "Sorry, and thank you two." A warm smile had appeared on their faces before Kurome spoke.

"For telling us your story we shall tell you ours." Taking a deep breath she told me the story of how she and Akame were from a village not too far from mine and how they had one night heard their parents speaking to an official from the empire. Apparently, he was offering large sums of money to them in exchange for their daughters. Akame then picked up the story on how as soon as they heard their parents agree they rushed out of the village without a look back." I honestly pitied they had such terrible parents, but before I could put my thoughts into words, I was interrupted by twin growls. The source of the noise came from their stomachs.

I chuckled before asking "Hungry?" The only answer "Shuffling through my bag one of the possessions I rarely parted with I pulled out some meat I had wrapped in a cloth and stuck it to a stick lying on the nearby ground before cooking it over the fire. After It had finished cooking, I cut it in half a gave a piece to each sister. I barely had time to put the cloth back in the bag before both chunks of meat were devoured. Looking at both of them with awe I said: "Is that your normal appetite or have you just not eaten in a long time?"

Both of them looked at me and replied "Both."

Chuckling I asked them "So do you two have any plans as to where you're gonna go?"

They gave me a sad smile before saying "We have nowhere to go, we have no family and no idea where any safe place is."

Pondering how similar both of our situations an Idea slowly formed in my head. "I have a proposition since all three of us have no family left how about we form our own family and keep each other safe?" I barely had time to ask before they both tackled me into a hug screaming "YES!" Later into the night after talking and sharing many jokes and laughs and the fire long died out we decided to go to sleep. Laying down on my back I slowly drifted off to sleep with my last thoughts being concerned with my new family before sleep overtook me, but just a couple seconds before that I felt two warm presences on either side of me.