Chapter 1

The sun shone bright on a tall purple man who was just rising from where he found himself. His attire consisted of an armored trench coat-like outfit with armored boots, all of which were in shades of purple-grey and dark teal. As he opened his eyes his red pupils shown in the morning. He was Hit, the most legendary hitman of Universe 6 and as he walked down the dirt road he found himself on he thought.

"How did I get here? Whatever, I'd better find my way to a city, I'll figure this out latter." As he walked along he felt someone slams into his back, though it wasn't enough to even budge the tall assassin, and caused the person to fall backwards. In his typical stoic manner Hit turned around and saw a young man of around 15 or 16. His eyes shown a darkish green and he wore a pair of blue jeans and a tan shirt and combat boots. Hit also saw that this kid had a sword on his back and judging by his manner and chi it was likely that he was a somewhat skilled swordsman… by normal humanoid standards.

The legendary hitman looked down at teen, "What's your name?" The young man looked up at Hit after getting up off the ground and recoiled a bit at his alien appearance.

"Um… my name's Tatsumi. Uugh… if you don't mind me asking, just what are you?"

Hit just ignored his question with his normal impassive look and continued to question him. "Where're you headed? A city?"

Tatsumi then with a smile on his face proclaimed to the stoic alien, "Yeah, I'm going to the Empire to help raise money for my village!" Hit was lightly entertained by the young boy's enthusiasm, it reminded him of his new rival/friend Son Goku.

"In that case can I travel with you?"

"Sure, I don't see why not." As the two of them traveled along Tatsumi managed to get Hit talking and they shared a bit of their backstories. Hit admitted that he was a deadly alien assassin (he had to, annoyingly, assuage the teenager that he wasn't going to kill him) who utilized a unique fighting style, though the teen was unable to get any specifics, and that he was actually over a thousand years old. While Tatsumi, doing most of the talking, shared stories of his village, training, and good friends Sayo and Ieyasu. As the unlikely pair were getting closer to their stop, Tatsumi asked Hit an unusual question,

"Hey Hit."

"Yes Tatsumi."

"We're friends right?"

"What brought about this question?"

"Well I mean we know a little more about each other now and I'd say we have bonded a little so I figured why not?"

Hit thought for a moment about what Tatsumi said and came to a simple conclusion, "I'd say we're friends, why?"

Tatsumi inquired further, "Would you say we're best friends."

Hit then side eyed Tatsumi, "I wouldn't go that far." Though he'd likely never admit it, if he had a 'best friend' he'd likely say that Goku fit that bill, as the powerful Saiyan was the only one who ever rivaled or seemed to understand him.

However, before the pair could continue talking they saw a wagon under attack by a class 1 danger beast, an Earth Dragon. Tatsumi yelled to Hit that they had to help them began his assault on the huge danger beast. Like a blur, to the people in the wagon at least, Tatsumi rushed the dragon and with clean precision he cut off its arms causing it to cry out in pain. The monster then turned towards slowly approaching Hit who simply activated his Time-Skip as he took one hand out of his pocket and reeled it back, clenching his fist with his index and middle fingers slightly cocked out, and thrust it forward. Unseen by anyone else an air-like purple "bullet" of energy fired and struck the beast in the heart crushing the organ and killing it.

Hit then ended his Time-Skip with his eyes closed and stated, "Target eradicated." With the beast dead, the two wagon drivers thanked the strange duo before warning them (mostly Tatsumi) that the Capitol was a dangerous and unsightly place. With that both Tatsumi and Hit made their way towards the Empire's Capitol not knowing what would happen next, but with the assassin already planning for problems.