Hey Guys. I'm terribly sorry for not upgrading for my stories. Don't worry. I ain't abandoning them. The problem is that i have another idea for a fanfic story for a long while ever since i watched Akame ga Kill, Nasuverse and Masadaverse: Dies Irae. They are freakin' awesome, i tell you!

Now i have decided that i will make this fanfic story and will concentrate on it more. I will halt my other stories for a while, but don't worry. I will continue to update my other stories when i'm finished with a fair amount of chapters of this story.

Now as always, Enjoy and stay Breezy.


"No! Don't...!"

"Leave Mommy and Daddy alone...!"

"..dow..."

"Stay away, Shadow...I...beg you..."

"HAHAHAHAHAHAHAHAHA! DIE YOU SHITS! THIS IS WHAT HAPPENS TO THOSE WHO OPPOSE ME!"

"...hadow..."

"GO AWAY YOU LITTLE SHIT!"

"Shadow...Live..."

"Shadow"

A pair of crimson red eyes opened to face the rays of the sunlight. A black fingerless gloved hand placed itself on the forehead which was above those eyes.

"Even when awake, this day still haunts me..."

The voice belonged to 18 year old youngster. Said youth had a slightly tan skin, crimson red eyes and black hair that had red lines on it. He was wearing a black leather jacket with white fur lining the sleeves and collar. Said jacket was zipped open to reveal a white half-sleeved T-shirt with the kanji written in red on it translated into 'Ultimate Life Form'. He was also wearing black pants, black fingerless gloves, golden metal wrist bands and white shoes that had holes in its bottom. On the right side of his waist was a katana with a black handle that had the writing 'Murasama' on it. Its sheath was black and it was cross between a normal scabbard and a machine gun, having a gun handle in the middle of it, and a gun trigger where the circular guard of the sword and the beginning of the sheath met.

The man sighed with a bored scowl on his face. Even in the beautiful daylight, there was no such thing called peace of mind here. Nothing can ever change this fact if you have some sort of fucked up childhood.

"Shadow. Don't doze off like this. Your worrying me"

The person who said this was a rather beautiful and breath-taking looking teenager. Despite the fact that she was young, around a year younger than the youngster named Shadow, she had a rather developed figure. She was around Shadow's tall, with K-cups sized breasts, beautiful light skin, sun kissed blonde hair that reached her waist, and beautiful blue eyes. As for her outfit, she was wearing a blue long-sleeved jacket, which had a half-sleeved yellow T-shirt underneath that did absolutely nothing to hide her curves from the top, so if you leaned by a little bit, you would see her cleavage. She also wore a short blue skirt that barely covered her thighs which was fastened to her waist by a black belt, completed by a pair of white sports shoes.

"Huh. What is it, Naruko?" Shadow asked the now known Naruko, who sighed in response before putting her hands on her hips, and looking at Shadow.

"Stop dozing off like this, will ya? Your giving us the creeps" Naruko said puffing her cheeks. Shadow just stood up from the chair that he was sitting on, still having a cold look on his face.

"You do realize that i only sleep once in a year, right?" Shadow asked making Naruko sigh once more.

"You really overdoing it. We are finally out of the Elemental Nations. Chill out for a while" Naruko said.

"You don't have to worry about me, Naruko. I don't need any human needs. I'm different you know" Shadow said.

"Hey! Don't say that! It's as if your saying that you aren't human. Don't ever think about your hybrid status. As long you have your own thoughts, your you" Naruko said with a rather high voice, making people around the cafe that they were sitting in look at her in mockery, as if they think that this talking was impossible here.

Not that Naruko and Shadow payed any attention to them.

Deciding to change the conversation, Shadow looked around him as if looking for someone.

"By the way, where is Menma and Jean? Haven't seen them around" Shadow asked the blonde, who puffed her cheeks cutely with her hands still on her hips.

"They are selling the items we gained from taking down those Danger Beasts we found in the forest to gain money so we can eat. You were dozing off, so you didn't notice them" Naruko said to Shadow, who just sat down on his chair once again, with his face buried in his hand. He seemed troubled by something, even if his face covered it, Naruko could see it, as her sad face was an evidence on this. She then placed her hand on his shoulder, making the black-haired teen look at her with his still emotionless look on his face to see her smiling softly at him.

"Shadow. I know your still angry and sad, and so do i. Maybe we are different in the reasons, but we are the same in terms of the source of our sadness. Just remember that i, Menma and Jean will always be by your side" Naruko said.

Shadow didn't show any expression. He just sighed before speaking.

"Thanks, Naruko" He said in his monotone voice and cold expression, making Naruko opt a sad and worried look on her face.

She couldn't do anything to stop all of this. And she knew the reason. After all, each one of those four had a reason to run from their hometown.

Negligence...

Vengeance...

Pride...

Proof of one's worth...

Those four reasons were so intense in the minds of those four teenagers, and they couldn't abandon it because it was haunting them throughout their childhood, and they needed to fill them.

In addition, they needed to become stronger and more powerful.

Apparently, in this country, The Empire, corruption roamed even after a thousand years of glory and peace. The cause of all of this started when the second Emperor died after someone of his company spiked his drink with poison before killing his wife by shoving poison up her throat, leaving their heir, Makoto, a young naive boy that was literally ruling the capital, with the guidance of the Prime Minister, Honest, who was the main reason all of the corruption started.

With this being said, the people had enough, and eventually, a group of people rose and formed an army called the Revolutionary Army to get rid of the Prime Minister and throw the young emperor out of the throne to achieve the long awaited and wanted peace.

However, what made this very hard was the fact that the Empire possessed relics called Teigu. Teigus are relics that takes various shapes, ranging from swords, knifes, guns, biological beings, and even relics in the form of cups and drinks.

Each Teigu possessed a super ability that made it different from the other, and they are sentient relics, as they are capable of choosing their owners and they require extremely great physical and mental strength in order to wield.

And like any super weapon, a Teigu holds a special ability called the Trump Card, which is the strongest ability of a Teigu, pushing the sentient relic to its extremes to perform feats beyond superhuman standards.

And like the Empire, The Revolutionary Army has their own set of Teigus that they use to strike against the Empire. A very strong example of the Revolutionary Army sides was the infamous assassination group: Night Raid. They were so strong to the extent that the people of the capital make requests from them to kill certain people in exchange for some money.

By so far, the only known members of Night Raid that had posters for them were people that go by the names of Akame, Sheele and Bulat. Funny thing though that Akame beard a striking resemblance to Shadow: The eyes, the hair color, the cold face, and even the style of fighting: Swordsmanship.

Shadow himself seemed to be shocked as if he knew something about it. Naruko made a note to herself to ask him about it.

With that being said, Even the four teenagers had their own Teigus, and they just have mastered them, but they haven't mastered their other powers yet. Yes, they have other powers that are not Teigus.

And all of this was the reason that they entered the Empire. So that they can hone their skills and destroy the corruption of the country at the same time. It's hiting two birds with one stone.

"Alley Op!" A voice said making Naruko and Shadow look at their sides to find two male youngsters walking towards them.

The first one was a 17 year old man with white hair, violet eyes, three whiskers on each cheeks and a slightly tan skin. He was wearing a black tight and sleeveless shirt with sliver accents which outlines his muscles and a metal plate on his collar, and black pants that had two black straps on his thighs, and another two strapped around his shins separate from each other. He was wearing black metal plated shoes, which appear to be attached to his trousers. Alongside a red coat that is actually two separate sleeves connected by a metal plate at the back which covered his arms and was cut off showing his upper torso and midriff, and had a separate red open skirt which ended above his shins with the top fashioned and tied with an agemaki knot, covered by a silver metal plate.

The second one was around the same age as the first one. He had red eyes, light blonde short hair and slightly tan skin. He was wearing a Biker Outfit, which consisted of a black opened up jacket with white lines travelling on the long sleeves, along with two pockets at the side that had zippers, above a white half-sleeved plain T-shirt, and completed by a pair of black cargo pants and black metal plated shoes.

"Menma. Jean. Took you long enough" Naruko said smiling.

"Meh. What can i say? They are so greedy to the extent that they heightened the price on us" The red haired man said in a boring manner.

"Ugh. I'm really sick of this. We must find a permanent house to stay in. This is getting annoying. It's has been 3 weeks now" The blonde man said in an annoyed tone.

"Menma. Jean. Calm down both of you" Naruko said to both of the boys.

"Heh. Sorry, Naruko. It was really full of lots of crab ever since those 3 weeks. We would have been screwed if it wasn't for abilities and Teigus" The red haired man said.

"You betcha, Menma. But put in your mind that what matters in not the weapon, but its wielder" Jean, the blonde man with red eyes, said.

"Are you trying to be wise right now? What if all people here knew that you are a pervert?" Menma asked.

"Hmph. I don't give a bull! I'm a proud pervert, but i absolutely know my limits" Jean said buffing his chest comically. Naruko had a tick mark on her forehead and was rubbing her temples with her fingers, while Shadow was looking at them with his infamous cold and emotionless look on his face.

"Hey! You can at least test me!"

"Stop messing around! You need to win a raffle even for becoming a solider!"

Those two voices came from nearby, gaining the attention of the four young travelers. They went out of the restaurant, with Shadow holding his mug of soya milk in his hand, sipping from it while looking at the scene in front of him with his friends.

What was literally happening was that the assistant for the hiring of soliders for the country kicked out a young boy from the office. Said boy was a young man, around the age of the four youngsters. He was of average height with green eyes and medium length brown hair with a cowlick that falls with its weight. He was wearing a white, high collar jacket over a tan sweater vest, a pair of black pants, brown gloves and combat boots, alongside a double-edged plain sword that he was carrying on his back.

"Applicants are flooding in because of this recession! We can't be looking at each and everyone! There's also a limit to how many we can hire!" The officer yelled angerily at the country boy.

"What? Really?" The boy asked with a sweatdrop on his face.

"If you got it, then scram you fucking brat!" The officer yelled before slamming the door of the office in front of the boy, who sighed in disappointment. Naruko giggled at this cutely, while Menma and Jean sweatdropped and laughed, shaking their heads in disappointment. Shadow, on the other hand, just watched the scene with his cold face while drinking his soya milk in silence.

"Man. Should i cause a ruckus and make a name for myself? But i might be caught..." The country boy spoke to himself, trying to do anything to solve his problem.

"Hey there" A voice from behind called for the boy while he was still sitting on the ground. The boy leaned his head backwards to see something that made him blush uncontrollably.

Right in front of him while he was looking upside down was a rather stunningly beautiful woman that was in around her twenties. Said woman had short blonde hair with two long tufts that frame the sides of her head and golden eyes. She was wearing a revealing outfit with a black tube top, detachable sleeves, pants, boots and a scarf around her neck.

The boy opened his mouth agape in a rather comical way, making Naruko burst out in laughter at the youngster's expression. Menma and Jean chuckled at this, while Shadow still remained cold while soundly sipping his milk.

"You seem troubled, young lad. Perhaps this onee-san here can lend you a hand?" The blonde woman asked the still stunned country boy.

"So this is the capital...?" The brown haired boy thought before standing up and regaining his composure.

"Lad. You must be one of those coming to the capital from the country seeking adventure, right?" The woman asked, shocking the country boy.

"How did you know?!" The boy asked in shock, with Naruko, Menma, Jean and Shadow watching from close.

"If you live in the capital long enough, you could tell outsiders apart in a heartbeat" She said before taking a breath, and continuing her speech.

"So, i know a quick way to get commissioned" The woman said causing the boy to have a comical happy expression.

"Seriously?!" The boy asked like a small kid.

"You wanna know?" The woman asked making the country boy nod his head rapidly.

"Then, treat this onee-san to a meal" The woman said smiling at the boy. The boy, without hesitation, accepted, both of them entered the restaurant that Naruko and her three males company were in. The four watched the country boy ordering a meal for the woman. Naruko, Jean and Menma watched eagerly, while Shadow calmly finished his soya milk and ordered another one, before looking at the boy and sighing in disappointment.

Over what appeared to be hours, the blonde woman with revealing outfit would drink alcohol and didn't seem to be knocked out in the slightest. She finished what appeared to be 200 bottles of sake, and the boy kept watching her until his face comically turned into that of a consumed man that got drained of the water in his body. The woman then placed her jumbo-sized cup of sake on the table, sighing in relief while having a blush on her face, courtesy of the enormous amounts of sake she drank.

"Yeah~! Drinking alcohol in the daytime hits the spot!" The woman exclaimed rather pleasantly.

"'Your drinking without too much regard for me" The country boy said.

"Just drink, lad. Let's have fun~" She said with her breath reeking of alcohol.

"Just tell me how i can get commissioned" The boy said, having lost his patience.

"Oh. That's basically...Connections and cash" She said before taking another swing of her sake.

"Cash?" The boy asked.

"I've got a contact with the you show him money right away" The woman said rather casually.

"I see. Would this be enough?" The country boy asked before taking out a sack full of gold coins and placed it on the table. The moment he did this, the woman had a rather pleasant look on her face.

"Wow! Definitely enough! You've got quite a bit!" She exclaimed happily.

"I was hunting risk species and getting rewards on the way" The boy said making the woman look at him with a rather admiring look.

"Hmm. So your strong..." She said before taking the bag of money, standing up from her place and walking to the exit door of the cafe.

"This will get you to captain without delay. Well, i think it will be okay with 4/5 of this" She said making the country boy perk up with enjoyment.

"Yeah! I will leave it to you!" He exclaimed happily. The woman stopped and turned her head around before winking at him.

"I think you will learn a lot from your meeting with me, young lad" She said causing the boy to opt a confused face.

"Okay. I will go settle this, so wait for me here~" She said before taking her leave out of the cafe.

"Okay~" The country boy said waving to the blonde woman with a pleasant smile on his face. The waiter on the corner sighed with a sweatdrop on his face. Naruko on the other hand, was biting her tongue to suppress her laughter. Menma and Jean were chuckling quietly, barely holding her laughter. Shadow just acted as his usual cold self, before ordering his 15th mug of soya milk.

"What a greenhorn" The 4 youngsters thought at the same time.

"I see. So connections are important" The country boy exclaimed with a rather pleasant look on his face. It was at this time that Shadow groaned in annoyance at the actions of the boy.

"He has surpassed the literal description of an asshole" He thought before ordering his 20th mug of soya milk. Naruko noticed this, and gasped in comical horror.

"SHADOW, WHAT THE HELL?! 20 MUGS IN QUARTER AN HOUR?!" She openly yelled.

14 hours have passed ever since the country boy met the mysterious blonde woman, and Naruko, Shadow, Menma and Jean were watching him from afar, waiting patiently for the blonde woman to arrive.

"Sir, we're closing soon" The waiter said to the country boy, who turned around to face him.

"Oh. I'm waiting for someone" The boy said, making the waiter sigh.

"I was watching, but you got your money taken from you" The waiter said.

"HUH?!" The boy exclaimed in shock.

"To think you would go around believing people in the capital as it is now" The waiter said crossing his arms together.

"T-THAT'S FRAUD! I WILL SUE-" The boy started yelling, but the waiter cut him off.

"Not happening. In fact, it's your fault for getting fooled by a story like that" The waiter said.

This phrase caused the boy to freeze in shock and disbelief at being conned by a rather beautiful woman, having realized how much of a greenhorn he is.

A while later, The boy went out of the cafe, holding his now empty sack of money in his hands rather angerily.

"Damn it. I'm completely broke after i paid for the food" He said before opting a comically angry face with comical tears building on the corners of his eyes, all while squeezing his empty sack of gold coins in his palm.

"DAMN THOSE BOOBS! THAT WHAT SHE MEANT BY 'LEARN'?!" He yelled in the quiet nighttime openly before slumping comically and walking away slowly.

"There is no one in my countryside that would lie like that. Shit" He exclaimed.

"Oh!" A voice was exclaimed, making the country boy look in front of him, only to see a rather thin boy and a fat boy looking at him with smirks on their faces.

"There's a country bumpkin walking around with a sword" The thin boy exclaimed pointing his finger at the boy.

"Give that to us. Of course that's an order. Heh heh heh" The fat boy said.

The boy narrowed his eyes boringly, and was about to clash with them, before suddenly...

"Hey!"

A voice from behind the two thugs was heard. The two turned around and barely had any time to react before two swift punches were delivered to their faces, knocking them out instantly. The boy looked at who done this, only to find a rather beautiful woman with a blue revealing outfit, and with blonde hair, just like the one that conned him.

"Huh? Who are you?" The boy asked the girl in front of him, making the girl smile cheerfully before three other people appeared in a flash behind her, causing the country boy to flinch.

"We mean no harm. Don't be afraid" Naruko said cheerfully.

"And we're not gonna cone you out like those boobs from earlier" Menma said before chuckling.

"Hmph. Asshole" Shadow said coldly before taking out a chocolate bar from his pocket and started to nibble in it.

"Umm..." The boy started to speak, but couldn't find the words to say.

"Oh! i'm sorry. Name's Naruko Izayoi. Nice to meet you!" Naruko exclaimed happily.

"Menma Uzumaki. What's up?" Menma said introduced himself.

"Nice to meet you. My name is Jean Gilgamesh" Jean said smiling warmly.

"Hmph. The name is Shadow Otsutsuki" Shadow said coldly before throwing the paper of his chocolate bar and taking another one from his pocket before starting to eat it as well.

"Umm. My name is Tatsumi...Nice to meet you all" The country boy introduced himself as Tatsumi.

"Sooooo...Have anywhere to go?" Naruko asked.

"Actually, no. Do you guys have any?" Tatsumi asked back.

"Heheh. No" Naruko said scratching the back of her head sheepishly.

"I see. So we are all on the streets?" Tatsumi asked in a rather disappointed tone.

"What does it look like to you, greenhorn?" Shadow asked, having finished his second chocolate bar, and was about to finish the third one.

"Okay then. Let's find an alley or anywhere to sleep in. I'm getting sleepy" Menma said yawning.

"You can come along if you want" Naruko said, but halted once she saw the comical doubtful look on his face, indicating that he doesn't trust anyone around him ever since that woman conned him out of his money. This made Naruko giggle.

"Oh, you silly country boy. How can we rob you when your even out of money? Besides, we also came here from a place similar to countryside, but we came here 3 weeks ago. So we know more than you" Naruko said, but Tatsumi still had his doubtful look. This made Menma sigh before her approached him and placed his arm around the country boy's shoulders.

"I know your worried. Believe me when i tell you that we were about to be conned as well from our money, but if it wasn't for Shadow over there, we would have been broke like you" Menma said making Tatsumi look at the red haired man.

"Huh? What did he do?" Tatsumi asked.

"Well...Let's just say that the guy that tried to rob us won't be capable of making children ever again" Jean said chuckling making Tatsumi gasp in horror before having a comical horrified look on his face.

"Heheheh. Well, that aside, let's find a place to sleep in" Menma said before yanking Tatsumi with him and walked after Naruko, Shadow and Jean. They walked for a set amount of minutes before they found a steady wall. They all sat together and leaned on the wall. Shadow sitting next to Jean, Jean sitting next to Menma, Menma sitting next to Tatsumi, and Tatsumi sitting next to Naruko. When they all sat, Tatsumi noticed that Naruko was shivering from the cold floor underneath her thighs, and was hesitatingly sitting on the floor. Tatsumi, being the good boy he is, took out his black, fur-lined winter cloak and gave it to Naruko, who noticed him giving her the coat.

"Here. Put this underneath your legs. The floor must be cold on you" Tatsumi said smiling, making Naruko blush at this. She lowered her head before extending her hand slowly and took the cloak before placing it underneath her and sat on it. She hugged her legs while still blushing, with Tatsumi looking at her in confusion.

"Huh? Are you alright? Do you have a fever or something?" Tatsumi asked before placing his hand on her forehead, causing Naruko's blush to deepen and expand around her face. It would make tomatoes jealous. This didn't go unnoticed by the three other males. Menma's eyes were sparkling comically, Jean was chuckling softly, and Shadow just 'hmph-ed' at this before taking out a sack of seasoned cheese flavored potatoes and begun to dig in.

"Not only he's a greenhorn, but he is also a dense idiot" Shadow thought.

Menma and Jean went asleep shortly after, Naruko and Tatsumi talked a little about their own life, but Naruko made sure not to tell him about why she left. She only told him that she left to become stronger. As for Shadow, he was still wide awake, showing absolutely no signs of fatigue. Shortly afterwards, Naruko and Tatsumi went fast asleep, with Naruko's head on Tatsumi's chest, and Tatsumi's head leaning on the wall.

2 hours later, a cart passed by. It then stopped in front of the five teens. Shadow narrowed his eyes dangerously at this, having sensed something from there.

"Do those people not have a place to stay? How unfortunate" A young girl with curly blonde hair and a light blue dress said inside the cart.

"Again, Lady Aria?" One of the guards asked the now known Aria.

"I can't help it. It's my nature" She said to the guard before hopping out of the cart and headed to the five youngsters. She then saw that Shadow was the only one that was wide awake. She then smiled at him.

"Hello, young man. Are you and your friends from the countryside?" Aria asked Shadow, who was glaring at her coldly without saying a word, making the girl sweatdrop at this, having felt the slight killing intent that the black haired boy was emitting. This slight KI woke up Shadow's four companions.

"Hn? What's going on?" Menma asked rubbing his eyes. He then looked in front of him to see Aria, with the small girl having cold sweat on her face. Menma blinked before looking at Shadow. He then sighed, having realized that Shadow was intimidating her.

"Stop that, Shadow. Just look at what this young lad wants" Menma said.

"Shadow. Don't do that man. Just calm down. If you felt any hostility from the person in front of you, then don't hesitate to kill them, but this girl doesn't seem to pose a threat. So listen to what she have" Jean said, making Shadow look at him, before he sighed and shut down his killing intent, making the girl's breath become normal. However Shadow still had his cold glare at the girl, who moved to talk to Naruko.

"Are you and your friends from the countryside?" Aria asked Naruko.

"Yeah..." Naruko said rubbing her eyes from sleep.

"If you don't have a place to stay, do you want to come to my house?" Aria asked with a sweet smile. The boys, however. especially Tatsumi. had look of comical distrust on their faces, except for Shadow, who was still coldly glaring at the young girl.

"Well, we don"t have any money" Tatsumi said scratching his head.

"You wouldn't be sleeping here if you do" Aria said smiling.

"Lady Aria can't people like you guys alone" One of the guards said.

"You should just accept her goodwill" Another guard said.

"Well, What do you want to do?" Aria asked. Tatsumi just looked at his companions. Menma and Jean seemed not to mind at all. Naruko just smiled her usual cheerful smile, while Shadow snorted at this.

"If Naruko, Menma and Jean accepted this, then i won't mind at all. Besides, it's better than the woman that swept you under the rug and snatched all of your money of you" Shadow said making Menma burst out in laughter. Jean chuckled, Naruko giggled and Tatsumi had a gloomy face.

"Well?" Aria asked gaining their attention. Tatsumi sighed before speaking.

"Well, it's better than sleeping outside, so we agree" Tatsumi said.

"Then it's settled" Aria said smiling, before the five youngsters stood up and marched towards the cart.


1 hour later

"Whoaaa...?!" Tatsumi exclaimed in surprise.

"Wow. Nice house" Menma said whistling.

"By house, do you mean some sort of a museum?" Jean asked.

"Haah. Well, whatever. I need to go to sleep" Naruko said yawning, before suddenly snatching Tatsumi's arm and shoving it between her rather abnormally large breasts, making Tatsumi blush.

"Let's go sleep together, Tatsy~" Naruko said to Tatsumi.

"Tatsy?" Menma said smiling mockingly before looking at both Jean and Shadow from the corner of his eye. Jean just shook his head with a sweatdrop, while Shadow didn't even look at them. Instead, he looked at his surroundings, making sure to find anything that was rather suspecious.

"Ah. Aria brought some people again" An old man said.

"What a habit" A woman with blonde hair that looked like a older version of Aria said.

The five youngsters just looked around them, not paying any attention to the people that were talking, especially Shadow. Tatsumi looked at the guards that were behind the old man while he was drinking his tea.

"Those men...They are really strong. I wonder if they can even be nice to some unknown guys like us because they have people like these" He thought before having a pleasured look on his face, and comical angels began to surround him.

"That aside, it seems that in the capital there are really nice people like these" He exclaimed. Naruko noticed this and giggled. She giggled even more as she saw Tatsumi bowing to Aria and her parents.

"Thank you very much for bringing us in!" He exclaimed while bowing.

"It's okay! Make yourselves at home!" Aria said happily.

"Thank you!" Tatsumi said again.

"If we help people out, the happiness will eventually come back to us, right?" Aria's mother asked smiling.

"Mom! That's not the reason i'm doing it for!" Aria said.

"Joking, Joking!" Aria's mother said laughing lightly.

This speech between daughter and mother caused Shadow to perk up and glare openly at Aria and her family with wide angry eyes, before hiding his expression so no one would see him.

"Excuse me. I have something else to ask" Tatsumi said making everyone in the room, save for Shadow and the guards look at him.

"Okay. You can tell us about your request, but while we all drink some tea. Sit down, youngsters" Aria's father said.

"Excuse me, everyone. I will take a walk outside" Shadow said making everyone, even the guards look at the black haired boy in question, who didn't wait to hear an answer as he walked outside the large mansion.

"Hey Shadow, Wait!" Tatsumi yelled for Shadow, only for Jean to catch his arm, halting his walk towards the black haired boy. The country boy looked at Jean, who shook his head at Tatsumi, making said boy have a confused look on his face, but didn't question Shadow's actions and kept silent. He then looked in front of him to see Aria's father whispering something to one of the guards. The guard nodded before heading off outside the house with around 20 guards that came out of nowhere from the mansion, right towards the direction where Shadow headed. Aria's father coughed in his hand to gain the other 4 youngsters attention.

"Now, i'm ready to hear your request" Aria's father said smiling as the 4 youngsters sat down and Tatsumi began to talk to Aria's father.


Outside the mansion

Shadow walked rather casually and freely around the garden with his left arm resting on his sword that was fastened to his hip. He took out a candy droplet, unruffled the paper of the candy and popped it inside his mouth as it appeared on the left side of his cheek. He then looked around him as if he was looking for something in particular.

"Since that's a mansion, then there has to be some sort of a warehouse around here. It's impossible for it to be inside the mansion since all of the 3 floors in it have all of the rooms occupied with the rooms of the guards guarding this place. Then that means that it's outside the mansion, and it has to be around here somewhere" Shadow thought before walking further more away from the mansion. He kept on walking until he saw a small room made of metal right behind the mansion.

"Bull's eye" He said before marching towards the room. However he halted seeing around 20 soliders surrounding him with swords and rifles. He looked at all of them boringly and coldly, not even flinching from seeing armed people. A solider got close to him, and pointed at him with his sword.

"Hey. What are you doing here?" The solider asked.

"Me? I'm just taking a midnight walk" Shadow answered. The solider then took notice of the sword strapped to Shadow's hip.

"What do you have here?" The solider asked. This question in particular made Shadow's hair shadow his eyes, and his mouth formed into a twisted grin, showing the fangs in his teeth. He then placed his finger on the trigger at the hilt, and looked at the solider with his twisted grin.

"This?" Once the black haired teen said this, he pulled the trigger. Suddenly, the sword fired off from the hilt like a bullet, slamming the handle into the chin of the solider, crushing his lower jaw in the process and sending him flying several meters to the air. The other 19 soliders looked at their airborne comrade with a stunned expression on their faces. This gave Shadow the chance to jump up to the solider, picked up the blade and slashed the midair solider in half, sending blood streaming in the air. Shadow landed on the ground, with his sword in his right hand. He then stood up, and watched as the two halves of the solider fell on the ground and blood was spreading on the ground. Upon closer look, the sword had a crimson red glowing blade with electricity cackling around it. Shadow casually spun the sword in his hand and then pointed at the 19 soliders, with a light smirk on his face, as if telling them to come at him.

"K-KILL HIM!" One of the soliders yelled making around 10 soliders fire their guns at him. Shadow casually sidestepped all of the bullets. He then pointed his finger at the soliders.

"Chaos Spear" He whispered before a small yellow energy ball formed on his finger before enlarging to the size of a football and fired off from his finger in the shape of a spear towards the soliders, which created a small explosion. However it surprisingly didn't make any sound. Once the energy spear made contact with the soliders, it blew 10 of them apart, with blood, limbs and inner organs flying in the air. The other 9 soliders trembled with fear at this.

"RUN AWAY!" Their leader said, but before any of them could move, Shadow zoomed at them and appeared in front of them in a flash, with his sword sheathed in its scabbard save for a little bit. Shadow's grin disappeared from his face, and he looked at the now 9 frozen soliders boringly.

"Fell honored. You have been killed at the blade of the Murasama" He said before sheathing his sword fully, and once he did this, the 9 soliders turned into large pools of blood in an instant flying in the air before falling on the ground in the form of rain. Once it settled down, Shadow continued his march towards the metal room. His nose suddenly twitched, and he sniffed the air, causing him to groan. The smell that he smelled was coming from the small warehouse, and he could swear that he was smelling 2 weak life signatures inside it. He then dashed towards the room, before slowly opening the door, and what he saw was extremely horrible.

Right in front of him were piles of naked human bodies. Some of them had a limb or two missing. Some of them had a mix of urine and semen in their private areas, indicating that they were raped to death. Some had pale yellow skin with black and brown spots, indicating that they were poisoned by some kind of poison that led to lethal disease. Shadow looked at this with his usual cold expression, looking around for the two signatures of life.

"W-Who's there?" A weak voice said, making Shadow look to his side to see a naked boy around the same age as Tatsumi. He was only wearing his boxers, and had short unruly dark brown hair and brown eyes. He was locked in a cell and was struggling to stand up. Shadow walked to him, and tore the bars of the cell by swinging his arm in the fashion of a sword, slicing the bars to pieces. The boy was about to fall on the floor, but Shadow managed to catch him before he fell. He then placed him on the ground and sat on one knee examining the boy.

"The Lubora. Sounds like a challenge, but nothing is a challenge to me" He said before extending his arm at the boy and opened his palm. His palm then glowed a green color.

"Shadow Heal" He whispered before the green glow grew, and the body of the boy float a little off the ground. Then a green ring appeared around the boy horizontally and the spots and stains resulted from the Lubora disease began to slowly fade away. The process continued until the boy's skin returned to its normal tan color and the stains resulted from the Lubora virus disappeared and the boy started to breathe normally. The green ring faded along with the green glow in Shadow's palm.

"'Huh?" Shadow suddenly felt another weak life signature behind him. He then looked in front of him to see that the life signature came from a naked girl that was hanged from her arms from the roof of the warehouse. The girl had beautiful black long smooth hair and a fair white skin, which was stained with bruises and cuts, and her left leg was missing as well.

"The second life signature..." Shadow whispered before walking towards the hanged girl. He then aimed his sword at the rope and fired the sword by pulling his hilt trigger. The sword hit the roof where the rope was fastened, cutting the rope and making the girl fall. However Shadow managed to catch her in time. He then placed her on the ground, and performed Shadow Heal in the same manner as the boy. The green ring surrounded her body, making the cuts and bruises on her body disappear from her naked body and her leg slowly regenerated and was back as new. Shadow then took off his jacket and wrapped the girl with to hide his privacy. He then extended his arm to where his sword was fired and the sword flew to him and rested on his hand. He then moved to the direction of the boy and picked him on his left shoulder, and then he moved to the girl and picked her up and placed her on the boy on the same shoulder. He then got out of the warehouse, and once he was in front of the warehouse, he stabbed the Murasama on the ground and extended his opened palm towards the opened warehouse.

"Chaos Destruction" He whispered before the place blew up in a purple explosion in an instant, but it didn't make any sound, and all that was left was a small hill-sized purple cloud. Shadow then rested his arm on his side.

"Good thing that i shut down the noise of my attacks" Shadow said before picking out his sword from the ground.

"Night Raid!" A voice yelled from behind Shadow, causing him to look behind him, only to see five people standing on what looked like thin, but sturdy wires. Shadow saw this and just grinned.

"Night Raid...I wonder how are you doing, Akame?"


With Naruko, Tatsumi, Menma and Jean

"I felt bloodlust. Just what is this?" Tatsumi thought while running alongside Naruko, Jean and Menma. They then stopped to see what appeared to be Aria's mother sliced into three pieces: The torso, the head and the lower limbs. Tatsumi gasped in horror and held his hand to his mouth to prevent himself from throwing up his lunch at the horrible sight.

"Let's get going" Menma said and was about to run towards the outside of the mansion, but he then looked at the window and froze in his place.

"Hey guys. You might wanna take a look at this" Menma said making the others look at where Menma was looking.

Right in front of them where 5 people standing on midair on a rather thin, but tough threads. The first one was a short loli girl that had long pink hair that was tied into two pony tails and pink eyes. She was wearing a pink dress, consisting of a tied shawl with a high collar, a pink long sleeve shirt, a gown and black stockings with pink shoes. In her hands was a rather large gray rifle.

The second one was a beautiful girl around the same age as them. She had crimson red eyes and beautiful long black flowing hair that reached her waist. She was wearing a dark sleeveless mini dress with a white collar and a red tie, a red belt that had a red side skirt cover, long black socks and black shoes. She was also wearing red gauntlets and black gloves. All underneath a long dark coat. She had a katana with a red hilt and a red sheath.

The third one was a man from his appearance and muscle built. He was clad in a gray armor with a gray cape flowing from the shoulders. He also had a long spear with a red halberd-spear hybrid head on his back.

The fourth one was a was a young man with shoulder-length green hair that covers his left eye, green eyes and red goggles on top of his head. He wore a long green jacket with a fur-trimmed hood over a white and red ringer shirt and blue jeans with brown shoes. On his hands was a pair of red gloves that had wires around him with metallic fingertips on the fingers, and if one could concentrate, you could see a ring filled of wires fastened to his waist from behind his back.

The fifth one was a woman with long blonde hair, golden slitted eyes, and a buxom figure with perfect E-cups. Her outfit consisted of a revealing outfit with a black tube top, detachable sleeves, pants, boots and a scarf around her neck. She also had lion ears, tail and claws.

The 4 youngsters looked at the five figures, who were looking at them directly.

"Night Raid..." Jean whispered.

"Let's go. Aria-san needs help" Naruko said running towards the exit of the house, with the three males following.

Akame landed on the ground and rushed towards the soliders, dancing through the bullets that were fired at her. She then took out her katana and slashed at one of the soliders. Then the armored man threw his spear at one of the 3 soliders, causing the spear to plunge itself in the solider's heart, killing him instantly. The last solider looked at his comrade that was sliced by Akame's sword. He saw as black marking crawled on his body. The solider watched helplessly in fear before gasping and falling on the ground, dead. The last solider, seeing that his two companions were killed in an instant, threw his weapon and hysterically ran away.

"What are these people?! They are too much like monsters!" He yelled as he ran as fast as he could. However he was shot by an energy blast from above in the back of his head, killing him instantly. The blast came from the rifle of the pink haired petite girl.

"That's pathetic. Running away in the face of the enemy" The pinkie said.

"Well, You would normally run from that" The green haired boy said with a sweatdrop on his face and a nervous laugh.


Inside the mansion

The lion-like woman was inside the mansion, holding Aria's father by the throat with the moonlight being the only thing that illuminated their forms. The man sweated heavily as the lion woman choke him slowly and painfully.

"Guh...Ugh...H...Help me...I have...A daughter..." The man said in between ragged breaths. The lion woman just smirked at him.

"Relax. You will meet her soon where you're going" She said before increasing her grip on Aria's father's throat.

"Even my daughter?! Have you no mercy?!" Aria's father managed to yell. The woman just looked at him boringly.

"Mercy? No idea what that means?"

Just after saying this, The woman increased her grip, breaking the man's throat as he stopped struggling and fell limb in her hand.


Outside the mansion

"My lady! Over here! Hurry!" A guard yelled taking Aria by the arm.

"What's happening?" Aria asked.

"Just go to the far-off shed for now! It will be safe over there!" The guard yelled.

However, once they reached where the warehouse was, they found it in shambles with what looked like purple smoke coming out of the remains.

"W-what is this?!" The guard said.

"We finally found you Aria-san!" A voice yelled making Aria look behind her to see Tatsumi, Naruko, Menma and Jean.

"You just came at the right moment! We will run to somewhere safe and wait for the guards to come! You 4 stop the enemy for us in the mean time!" The guard yelled at the 4 youngsters.

"What?! That's crazy!" Tatsumi shot back in shock, before Akame jumped and landed right in front of them.

"Woah!" Tatsumi exclaimed.

"Well well well. What do we have here?" Jean asked moving in front of Tatsumi smiling.

"Jean! What the hell do you think your doing?!" Tatsumi asked before moving in to stop the blonde man, but was halted by Menma.

"Hey. Just let him be. He knows what he's doing" Menma said smiling. Tatsumi didn't know what did he mean, before he saw Akame dashing towards them. Jean just stood there with a smile on his face and with his hands in his pockets.

"Not a target" Akame said in a calm voice before jumping on Jean's shoulder, then jumping up high, bypassing the four youngsters.

"What?!" Tatsumi asked. He then gritted his teeth before unsheathing his sword and running towards Akame, only to stop when he saw a golden glowing portal appearing out of nowhere in front of Akame, who gasped at this, before stopping in front of the gate. Just as she stopped, The gate suddenly fired something from it that charged at Akame in the speed of lightning. Akame dodged it to her side. She then looked behind her to see that it was a double edged sword. She then looked at Jean, who was smirking lightly at her.

"Yes, Akame. It's me. And this is my Teigu. The Treasures Of the World: Gate Of Babylon. This Teigu allows me to call forth any ancient and historical weapon that the mankind ever knew, even from the ages of the king Arthur himself" Jean said before he began to slowly float in the air. Then thousands of golden portals appeared behind him, with each portal having multiple swords and spears protuding from it. Three double edged English swords appeared on Jean's side. He then picked them in one hand before aiming them at Akame.

"Punishment!" He yelled before throwing the three swords in his hand towards the red-eyed assassin, giving the signal for the golden portals to unleash its wrath of weapons on Akame, who proceeded to swiftly dodge all of the weapons aimed at her. Despite this happening, Jean was still smiling. He then waved his hand behind his back, causing the golden portals to disappear in an instant. He then landed softly on the ground on his feet, his smile still on his face and his arms crossed underneath his chest.

"Well, are you out of breath?" Jean asked. Akame just stood still with her cold expression plastered on her face. She then lifted her sword and charged at Jean. However, Menma came into her view, with two short swords in both hands. One of them was white, and the other was black with red honeycomb linings on the blade, and both blades had a yin-yang symbol on the hilts.

Menma blocked Akame's sword with his short swords. He then pushed her away, before charging at her. He then swung his swords violently at the red-eyed assassin, who seemed to have slight trouble dealing with the savage assaults that the white-haired teen was throwing at her. She then found an opening in Menma's defense, and kicked him in the stomach, making him gasp as his oxygen supply was knocked from his lungs instantly. Ignoring the pain, Menma jumped backwards away from Akame, standing in front of her.

"Let me guess, you have a Teigu as well, right?" Akame asked in her monotone voice, making Menma grin at her.

"You had just hit the spot! My Teigu is The World Of Swords: Tracer. This would allow me to copy any type of weapon i come in contact with, even if it was historical and ancient. That also includes your Teigu, The One Cut Killer: Murasame!" Menma exclaimed before his two short swords disappeared in a flash of light from his hands.

"Trace On!" He yelled before light gathered in his two hands. The light faded to reveal an exact replica of Murasame in Menma's hands, causing Akame's eyes to widen in shock. Menma entered a battle stance, while grinning.

"That's enough, you two" Naruko said making Menma drop his battle stance, with Murasame's replica disappearing from his hands. He and Jean then looked at her.

"What is it, sis?" Menma asked.

"I have finished the guards around the mansion, and i have met with Shadow. He had two weird people with him on his shoulder. Our mission is done here, seeing that the parents of this Aria brat are killed by Night Raid. Now all that is left is to kill the little blonde over there" Naruko said.

"Two people?" Jean asked in a confused tone.

"Yeah. He told me that he took them from the warehouse that he blew up over there. He also told me that the warehouse was filled with dead bodies and that he saved those two from it" Naruko said making Tatsumi gasp in shock.

"Filled with bodies?! What the hell?!" Tatsumi exclaimed.

"Yeah. The two are with me right now" Naruko said before walking to a nearby tree. She lightly punched it, making two bodies fall from the top of it. Naruko caught both of them with one arm before they could fall on the ground. Tatsumi narrowed his eyes at the two bodies, before gasping in surprise and shock.

"Sayo?! Ieyasu?!" Tatsumi exclaimed in shock and disbelief.

"So you know them?" Naruko asked.

"Yeah. They are my companions that i told you guys about. My friends from the country. What happened to them?!" Tatsumi asked while examining his two friends to make sure if they are not harmed.

"Hmm. What's this? You haven't finished, Akame?" The lion woman asked having entered into view. Tatsumi gasped comically once he saw her.

"YOUR THE BOOBS THAT CONNED ME OUT OF MY MONEY!" Tatsumi yelled while pointing at the lion woman.

"Yep! The beautiful onee-san from that time~" The lion woman said with a toothy grin.

"What are you doing, Leone? Have you finished your target?" Akame asked the lion woman now known as Leone.

"Huh? Yeah, i did. I happened to pass by the back side of the mansion, and i found this beautiful blonde over there beating the shit out of a 100s of guards with her bare hands. You were so cool, girl!" Leone said pointing at Naruko before giving her a thumbs up with a toothy grin, which Naruko replied to by playfully showing her tongue and giving Leone a peace sign.

"What can i say? Someone must show the boys that girls are not slacking off" Naruko said flashing a toothy grin.

"I hope i haven't stopped your pointless chit-chat" A voice said from behind. Everyone turned to the source of the voice to reveal that it was Shadow with Murasama in his right hand resting on his shoulder with blood sliding from the blade like water with said blade glowing crimson red with lightning cackling from it.

"Shadow! Where have you been?" Jean asked Shadow.

"Taking a walk" Shadow said rather casually, making everyone, including Akame and Leone, sweatdrop. His attention was reverted to Akame, and his eyes widened slightly. He then slowly approached her, with Akame not moving from her place. She then looked at Shadow, who extended his hand towards her face, gently stroking it, with Akame not even flinching from his gentle touch.

"You have both her eyes and hair...You do look like her..." He whispered, which didn't go unnoticed by Akame herself, who raised her eyebrow in confusion. Their stare towards each other was interrupted by Naruko coughing in her hand, snapping them out of their stare to each other.

"Shadow. The girl" Naruko said with her hands on her hips and a comical deadpan look on her face with her eyes being black dots, making Shadow roll his eyes, before snapping his fingers. Then a purple oval portal formed out of thin air, causing Akame and Leone to gasp in shock and disbelief at what happened.

Then suddenly, Aria was shot out of the portal, falling on the ground. She then squirmed and tried to escape, but Leone caught up to her and caught her by the collar of her dress from behind.

"Oh no you don't. You ain't goin' anywhere, miss" Leone said with her smile now gone, and replaced by a menacing look of dread and hatred.

"Hey! Let her go!" Tatsumi said, but Menma caught his arm, making Tatsumi look at him.

"Menma?! Let me go! She's gonna kill Aria!" Tatsumi yelled at Menma, who was silent while holding his arm.

"Don't try to stop her, greenhorn. You have no idea what this girl had done" Shadow said making Tatsumi look at him.

"What do you mean?" Tatsumi asked.

"This brat and her family is the responsible for torturing your friends" Shadow said.

"What?! What the hell are you saying, Shadow?!" Tatsumi exclaimed.

"See this smoke cloud over there?" Shadow asked pointing at the purple smoke cloud ahead of them.

"I'm the one who did this to the warehouse that had multiple mangled bodies. Two of them were your two friends over there. One of them had Lubora and was about to die, while the other was mangled to the core with her right leg missing, and i fixed all of this before destroying this warehouse" Shadow explained to Tatsumi with his monotone cold voice, causing Tatsumi to opt a look of horror at what he heard.

"The guards were keeping quiet about it, so they are similarly guilty" Leone said while still holding the in-vain struggling Aria, who tried to escape from Leone's strong grip on her.

"The mistress here enjoyed infecting the people they imprisoned with the Lubora disease and writing how they were doing in a diary" Akame said calmly.

"I-IT'S A LIE! I DIDN'T KNOW THERE WAS A PLACE LIKE THIS! ARE YOU GOING TO BELIEVE ME, THE ONE WHO SAVED YOU, OR THESE GUYS, TATSUMI?!" Aria shouted to Tatsumi, who stayed in a look of pure shock.

"Hnnn..." A groan voice was heard. Tatsumi looked in front of him to see Ieyasu groaning before opening his eyes.

"T...Tatsumi...? Where..Where am i...?" Ieyasu tiredly asked.

"Ieyasu! Are you okay?!" Tatsumi asked loudly to his friend, picking him by the head. Ieyasu's sight weakly traveled around him, and once he set his eyes on Aria, his eyes widened in shock and fear, and all of the tiredness escaped from his eyes instantly.

"This...This girl...!" Ieyasu said trembling in fear.

"What is it, Ieyasu?! Take your breath!" Tatsumi yelled at his friend.

"This girl invited me and Sayo...And after we ate, we lost conscious...And we were at some sort of a warehouse when we came in..." He said before breaking into tears, gritting his teeth while glaring at Aria at the same time.

"Th...That girl...Tortured Sayo to death...!" He said between his gritted teeth with malice and with tears flowing down his cheeks.

"You mean the girl beside you in the ground that is sleeping while sniffing on my jacket?" Shadow asked, making Ieyasu look at him, before looking beside him, only to see Sayo sleeping peacefully with a smile on her face while hugging Shadow's jacket that was wrapped around her naked body, snuggling her nose into the fur of the collar of the jacket.

Ieyasu gasped in surprise, before bursting into tears right immediately. He then turned around to Shadow.

"But...I could have sworn...that she and i was..." He began to talk, but was stopped by Tatsumi.

"You should rest Ieyasu" Tatsumi said with his hair shadowing his eyes, and tapping on Ieyasu's chest.

"What's so wrong?!" Aria yelled before slapping Leone's hand, breaking her grip. Her face then changed into a psychopathic and deranged look, with her hair flailing wildly around her head.

"YOUR JUST WORTHLESS HICKS FROM THE COUNTRY, RIGHT?! THE SAME AS CATTLE! I SHOULD BE FREE TO TREAT THEM HOWEVER I WANT! BESIDES, THAT GIRL WAS SO IMPERTINENT FOR HAVING SUCH A SMOOTH STRAIGHT HAIR FOR A CATTLE, EVEN THOUGH I'M TROUBLED WITH MY UNRULY HAIR! THAT'S WHY I AGONIZED HER SO METICULOUSLY! IN FACT, SHE SHOULD BE GRATEFUL I TOOK SUCH GOOD CARE OF HER!" Aria yelled like a mad woman. Everyone looked with malice at her. Aria looked around her in extreme fear, realizing that she has no where to go, with the guard that was guarding her having been sliced in half by Akame.

"A group of sadists that takes the guise of samaritans...Sorry for getting in your way, Akame" Leone said, making Akame catch Murasame in her hand.

"Eliminate..." She whispered.

"Wait" Tatsumi said, making Akame halt in her advance. He then stood up, his eyes were still shadowed by his hair. He then moved towards Aria slowly.

"Don't tell me...Are you trying to defend her again?" Leone asked.

"No..." He answered before unsheathing his sword from his back, before slicing Aria at the stomach with a horizontal slash, cutting her in half.

"I will kill her" He said quietly as the blood gushed out of Aria's abdomen, before she fell on the ground, dead. Tatsumi then wiped his sword off the blood before sheathing it on his back. Leone whistled at the country boy's action.

"She was hateful, but to kill her without hesitation..." She thought.

"Mission complete. Let's go" Akame said turning to leave.

"Hey, why don't we bring those lads with us?" Leone asked pointing at Tatsumi and his accompanies.

"Huh?" Akame said.

"Our hideout is always short-handed after all" Leone said before looking at Naruko, Menma, Jean and Shadow.

"I don't mind! It sucks going around and killing people alone" Naruko said smiling.

"Hey! Where did i go?!" Menma said with comical tears in his eyes after hearing what Naruko said.

"I'm cool with it" Jean said smiling softly.

"Anywhere that Naruko goes, i will be going" Shadow said crossing his arms with his cold look on his face.

"What about you, country lad?" Leone asked Tatsumi, who looked at her and sighed.

"What's wrong with this capital?" He asked.

"Well, you will find out when your with us" Leone said.

"Don't worry, greenhorn. I can't sense hostile intents from them. They mean no harm" Shadow said to Tatsumi.

"Will you stop calling me greenhorn?!" Tatsumi yelled comically at Shadow, who glared at him very menacingly, with his eyes widened, and his red irises glaring holes at Tatsumi, who immediately shut off his mouth. Leone laughed at this.

"HAHAHAHA! We're gonna have some great time together!" She exclaimed before dragging Tatsumi by the back of his collar, with Shadow taking Ieyasu underneath his arm, and placing the still unconscious Sayo on his shoulder before jumping they all begun to walk away from the mansion. They then followed Leone, who jumped up high in the air. They then reached the wires that were connected to the roof of the mansion, which supported the other members: The pink haired rifle wielding loli girl, the green haired boy, the armored man and a slender woman with long purple hair and purple eyes. Said woman was wearing a revealing sleeveless lilac cheongsam with detached lilac arm sleeves, white boots and glasses and had a scar on her right cheek. She also had a pair of over sized scissors with a panda bear sticker on one of its handles on her back.

"Oh! They are finally back!" The armored man said.

"It would be bad if we don't retreat soon" The green haired boy said holding a pocket watch in his hand and showing it to the others.

"YOUR LATE! WHAT WERE YOU DOING?!" The pink haired loli yelled at Leone and Akame.

"I feel that my eardrums exploded at this one" Shadow said in a monotone voice, causing Naruko, Menma and Jean to burst out in laughter, and the pink haired loli to growl in anger. She then noticed the newcomers.

"Wait. Who are those?" She asked.

"Newcomers" Leone said holding a struggling Tatsumi bridal style.

"WHAT?!" Tatsumi yelled before Leone dropped him on the roof.

"Huh? I didn't tell you guys?" Leone asked before she and Akame walked towards their friends. She then smiled and waved her hand in the air.

"Starting from today, you guys are from us. Welcome to Night Raid!" She exclaimed happily.

"..."

"..."

"..."

"WHAT THE HELL'S UP WITH THAT?!" Tatsumi yelled in horror.

"Give it up. Leone won't listen once she gets started" Akame said with a comical deadpan look on her face.

"As expected of my bud. You know my well" Leone said while chuckling and patting Akame's head.

"Bulat, i will this lad to you" She said before picking Tatsumi and throwing him to the armored man, but the armored man, now known as Bulat, didn't have time to catch Tatsumi, as Naruko came in view and caught him in her hands, before throwing him in the air with an extremely inhuman strength, causing everyone, save for Shadow, Menma and Jean to stare wide eyed and mouth agape at Naruko's strength. Tatsumi then landed on Naruko's hand before she hoisted him up on her shoulder.

"I'm gonna keep Tatsy with me~" She said smiling.

"LEMME GO! I HAVE NO INTENTION OF BECOMING AN ASSASSIN!" Tatsumi yelled trying to break free from Naruko's grip on his waist, but to no avail.

"Relax. It will get better soon" Bulat, the armored man said.

"What will?" Tatsumi asked, but got no answer in return.

"Mission Complete. Let's go" Akame said before everyone took off to the sky, with Naruko who was holding Tatsumi, Shadow who was holding an unconscious Sayo and a now sleeping Ieyasu, Menma and Jean following them.


3 days later

"Ahhh. What a very great development. It's really more comfortable here" Menma said lying on the grass, with Jean lying beside him.

"Your right. It's better than moving around with nowhere to stay in" Jean said.

"I don't feel any development...Not a good one at the very least" Tatsumi said sitting in front of Menma and Jean, right in front of the cliff of the hideout, with a gloomy air around him.

"Relax Tats, we're safe here" Menma said, making Tatsumi turn his head around to face him.

"How can you tell?" He asked.

"As long as Shadow says something, you have to trust him in it. He knows what he is doing" Jean said making Tatsumi sigh before looking in front of him.

"I wonder...What will happen to us from now on...?" He asked himsef. However, he was snapped out of his thoughts when he felt something heavy, but soft on his head. Realizing the familiar smell, he stood up backed away from the now appearing Leone.

"HEY! WHAT ARE YOU DOING ALL OF A SUDDEN?!" He yelled at Leone.

"Don't keep sulking forever. It has been three days ever since then. Have you made your decision to become a part of Night Raid?" Leone asked smiling.

"My opinion will not change. I'm in" Menma said lazily.

"Count me in" Jean said.

"Like is said before, I-" Tatsumi started talking, but he then stopped as Leone got near him and poked his face with her finger, making the country boy blush.

"I think that you have a natural for murder though. Onee-san guarantees it~" She said playfully before taking Tatsumi's neck in a vice grip and dragged him with her to the building on the mountain they were in.

"At any rate, i will show you around the hideout today" She said.

"HEY! MY NECK!" Tatsumi yelled. Menma and Jean stood up and followed them.

"Hey! Wait for us!" Both of them said.

"By the way, This is in the mountains, 10 km north of the Capital" Leone said not bothered with Tatsumi's protests about gripping his neck tightly.

"Is it okay leaving it so open?! Aren't you assassins for hire?!" Tatsumi asked but got no answer in return.


Inside the hidout

The woman with purple hair and glasses was sitting in the meeting room, drinking a cup of tea while reading a book. She then noticed Leone, Tatsumi, Menma and Jean.

"Have you made your decision to join us?" She asked.

"Those two hot men behind me had decided to join, but the other lad over here didn't" Leone said pointing at both Menma and Jean, then pointing at Tatsumi. She then patted the country boy on the head.

"Sheele, can you shower him with some warm words for me?" She asked the purple haired woman, now known as Sheele. Sheele then opted a thinking pose.

"Well, since you now know the location of our hideout..." She said before her eyes were shadowed by her glasses.

"...If you didn't join us, then you will be killed on the spot" She finished, making Tatsumi have a comical tear building on his eye.

"That's so warm it's making me tear up" He said.

"You should think it over carefully" Sheele said before returning to reading her book. Tatsumi noticed this, and looked at the cover of the book.

"100 ways to fix airheadedness?! So this is a gather of weirdos after all!" He thought.

"HEY!" A voice yelled from behind. Everyone, save for Sheele, turned around to see the pink haired short loli with an obviously angry look on her face.

"WAIT A SECOND, LEONE! WHY ARE YOU LETTING THOSE GUYS INSIDE THE HIDEOUT?!" The pinkie screeched making Menma and Jean cover their ears, having being the closest to the pinkie.

"God! She reminds me of Sakura Haruno!" Menma said.

"Well said" Jean complied quietly.

"Because they are from us" Leone simply replied to the pinkie's question.

"THEY ARE NOT FROM US YET, ARE THEY?! THEY HAVEN'T GOT THE BOSS' PERMISSION EITHER!" She yelled, before turning around to look at the three males. She stared at them for a couple of seconds, before crossing her arms and sighing arrogantly.

"Not qualified. It doesn't seem like they will be able to work with professionals like us, from the looks of their faces" She said making Tatsumi and Menma fume with anger, while Jean was smiling quietly and calmly.

"WHAT WAS THAT MISS BITCHY?!" Menma yelled.

"WHO ARE YOU CALLING BITCHY, WALKING TOMATO?!" Mine yelled butting heads with Menma, and a thin line of lightning could be seen traveling in between their eyes.

"You two are gonna get along together" Jean said with his innocent smile, making the two in question look at him.

"THERE'S NO WAY IN HELL I'M GONNA GET ALONG WITH THAT PINK COMPASS OVER THERE!" Menma yelled pointing at the pinkie.

"YEAH RIGHT. LIKE I WILL GET ALONG WITH THAT RED POLE THAT REEKS OF NODDLES!" The pinkie yelled pointing at Menma.

"It's okay. Mine's like that to everyone" Leone said.

"Hmph!" Mine huffed.


In the training grounds

"This is the training grounds, and the guy that reeks of sweat over there, is Bulat" Leone said pointing at the man with black hair, shaped in a heart-like mohawk. The man was shirtless and was violently, but skillfully swinging a spear around, creating wind slashes in the air. Tatsumi looked at him in shock, while Menma and Jean whistled

"Amazing! Such spear handling!" Tatsumi thought. The man noticed them and stabbed the spear on the ground before picking up a nearby towel and resting it on his shoulder.

"Oh! It's Leone! And you guys are the dudes from before!" Bulat exclaimed.

"How do you know us?" Tatsumi asked.

"I'm the man that was in armor the first time we met" Bulat said.

"Oh!" Tatsumi said.

"'Name's Bulat. Pleasure's mine" Bulat said shaking the hands of Menma and Jean, and then he shook Tatsumi's hand.

"Be careful. He's gay" Leone said, making Tatsumi flinch at this.

"'Hey Hey. He would misunderstand, right?" Bulat asked while blushing and if one could concentrate, you could see red roses behind him and the weather became somewhat bubbly.

"Deny it for me, please" Tatsumi though with a comical stunned look on his face.


Near the riverbed

A man was crawling on the hill on both legs and hands. He stood up to reveal he was the green haired boy from the night before. He was grinning perversely with dirt staining his clothes.

"It's almost Leone's bathing time! I won't think twice about the danger if it's for a glimpse of those tits!" The green haired boy said blushing. Suddenly, a shadowy figure appeared behind him. The figure was illuminated by the light to reveal that it was Leone who had a comical deadpan look on her face with her eyes being black dots.

"Then how about i break two of your fingers?" She said before a crack was heard, and the green haired boy screamed in pain. Leone then knocked him on his face to the ground and stomped on his back while holding his two fingers.

"You never learn Lubba" Leone said.

"FUCK! I CAN STILL GO ON, FOREVER!" The boy yelled.

"Then it's one arm next" She said before turning around to the three males.

"And this idiot here is Lubbock" Leone said referring to the grinning green haired boy.

"No, in fact this is better in and of itself!" He thought to himself.

"Man! I wish i was in his place!" Menma thought.

"If i was still a pervert, would that have been my fate?" Jean thought.

"This place really is full of weirdos" Tatsumi thought.


On the riverbed

"I think i have had enough already" Tatsumi said walking with Leone, Menma and Jean.

"Ahahaha! It's a pretty girl next so you can look forward to it!" Leone exclaimed.

"See? The one over there's Akame. Isn't she cute?" Leone said pointing at the black haired girl that was sitting on a chair in front of a large fire, with a large bird being cooked on said fire. Beside her on both sides were Naruko and Shadow, with Naruko on the right, and Shadow on the left.

"Wow, Akame-chan! You know how to cook danger beasts very good!" Naruko exclaimed in a happy tone.

"It's cool" Shadow said in his usual monotone voice, before swiftly and in a blur, he ate the piece of meat in his hands. The three then turned around to see Leone, Menma, Jean and Tatsumi.

"Menma, Jean, Tatsy! Come! The food here is delicious!" Naruko said waving to her friends. Akame then ripped the leg of the giant bird, and threw it to Leone.

"You should eat too, Leone" Akame said in her monotone voice.

"Oh thanks!" Leone said before biting in the roasted flesh. Akame then turned around to the other three males.

"Is that an Evilbird she's eating?!" Tatsumi asked in shock.

"If memory serves, only one of the Evilbird species are known very well to be capable of destroying villages. That's rather impressive" Jean said.

"Huh. Shadow's really a lucky bastard for having a sister like her" Menma said whispering to Jean, to make sure no one heard them.

"Have you joined us?" Akame asked.

"Well, me and Menma did, but Tatsumi didn't" Jean said before he and Menma caught a piece of meat in their hands. Then Akame turned to Tatsumi.

"As for you, i will not be giving you any meat" She said to Tatsumi.

"I'm okay with that! God, this chick has already tried to kill me twice. I better watch out for her" Tatsumi thought.

"But still, Aren't you extravagant today?" Leone asked.

"The boss is back" Akame said pointing to the side. Everyone looked at where Akame pointed, only to see a woman with short silver hair and purple eyes. She was wearing an eyepatch where her right eye is. She was also wearing a black suit that shows her cleavage and had a mechanical right arm instead of a normal one.

"Yo" The woman said smiling.

"Welcome back, boss. Do you have any souvenirs?" Leone asked waving her hand at the boss of Night Raid.

"That aside, Leone. In the job three days ago, It seems that you went over the operation time, eh?" The boss asked flexing her metallic arm's fingers, making a small creak sound. At this, Leone was sweating bullets.

"Crap..." Was what Leone thought before taking off away from the boss, who fired the wrist of her metallic arm at the retreating Leone, catching her by the scarf and dragging her towards her with a rather awful screeching sound.

"It's not good to enjoy fighting with a strong enemy too much. Do something to fix this habit of yours" The boss said with a small smile on her face.

"I GOT IT, SO STOP THAT SCREECHING SOUND!" Leone yelled while being dragged. The boss noticed the newcomers.

"By the way, who are those youngsters?" The boss asked Leone.

"Oh! They are new people! They are very talented, i can guarantee you that, boss" Leone said in an excited tone. The boss just smiled before standing up and fixing her coat.

"Akame, gather everyone in the meeting room. I want to hear the results of the previous operation in detail, including those youngsters" The boss said before walking away.


In the meeting room

Everyone of Night Raid were standing in a room, surrounding Naruko, Menma, Jean, Shadow and Tatsumi, while the boss was looking at each one of them.

Tatsumi told them about what happened with him, starting from when he entered the Capital to when he met Naruko and her male friends, and up until their meeting with Aria. Naruko told her about everything about her and her other friends, except from where they originally came. She decided to tell them about it when the right time comes.

"Hmmm. I see. I understand the situation completely..." The boss said before extending her metallic arm towards the five youngsters.

"Tatsumi, Naruko, Shadow, Jean, Menma. Would you all like to join Night Raid?" The boss asked the five youngsters.

"Are we dead if we declined?" Tatsumi asked.

"No, that's not going to happen, but we can't let you go back. We will have you work as a laborer in our workshop. At any rate, you all won't die. Given that, what do you think?" The boss asked. Naruko just crossed her arms underneath her ample breasts, making them bounce. Lubbock held his nose tightly to make sure not to bleed at the sight of Naruko's jugs.

"I really don't mind. Considering the fact that we have nowhere to go. I entered the Capital to make sure that i'm away from my hometown, considering the fact that we had some sort of...special issues" Naruko said with her head lowered and a depressed look on her face. Menma then placed his hand on her shoulder, making her look at her, and he give her a small gentle smile, making her smile in return. Menma then looked at the boss with his hand still on Naruko's shoulder.

"I'm Naruko's twin brother, and as her brother, i have a duty to protect her and go with her anywhere. So count me in" Menma said smiling confidently.

"Boy. I'm not gonna argue. I'm their companion after all, so i will be with them whenever they go" Jean said smiling.

"Whenever Naruko goes, i will be going" Shadow said crossing his arms and leaning on the wall, without looking at anyone in the room. Leone chuckled at this.

"It seems that you are making lots of friendships, Naruko" Leone said to the other blonde smiling.

"And you, Tatsumi?" The boss asked the country boy, making everyone look at the boy in question, who clenched his fist.

"I...was planning to go out to the Capital and become successful, to save my village, which is suffering from poverty, but even the Imperial Capital is rotten to the core" Tatsumi said.

"The countryside is poor and suffering because the center is rotten. Don't you want to uproot the source of the rot? As a man!" Bulat said with his teeth flashing.

"Bulat was originally a skilled imperial solider, but he learned of the Empire's corruption, and became one of us" The boss explained.

"After all, our work is to eliminate those evildoers in the Capital. It's better than working under those rotten people" Bulat said.

"But even if you just kill bad guys little by little,the world won't greatly change, will it? In the end, places in remote regions like my village won't be saved by that" Tatsumi said making the boss smile at what he said.

"I see. Then Night Raid fits you even perfectly" The boss said.

"How come?" Tatsumi asked confused.

"In the far south of the Capital, there is the hideout of an anti-Imperial force, the Revolutionary Army" The boss said.

"Revolutionary Army?" Menma asked.

"The Revolutionary Army, which started out small, had grown into a large scale organization by now. Then envitably, a unit to handle covert jobs, such as assassination and gathering information, was created. That's us, Night Raid. Right now, we're exterminating the Capital's ticks, but in the event the army takes action, we will take advantage of the confusion, and the Prime Minister, which is the cause of the corruption...We will take him out by ourselves" The boss said clenching her metallic arm into a fist at the last part of her speech.

"Take out...the Prime Minister?!" Tatsumi exclaimed.

"That's our goal. There are others, but i will leave them for now. Although i can't say anything specific about when they will rise into action, we have prepared a plan to win. When the time comes, this country will change for sure" The boss said.

Tatsumi just spaced out for a while. He was confused to be in that astonishing development, and happy that his two friends, Sayo and Ieyasu, were well. But to save an entire country, he did realize that his and the others' lives were at stake. One mistake, and your dead. This job literally puts someone's life at the line, and nothing can guarantee the safety. In fact, there was no safety at all in this kind of job.

"I see. So i can guess correctly that what you guys are doing is not for justice or something? I mean, no matter how you look at it, all what you guys are doing is murdering. Someone that do these kind of things does not differ from those corrupted bastards in the Empire. The only difference that i can see is the fact that you guys have a goal in mind. In addition, i can clearly see that this is no easy thing. It's like going to the guillotine by your own legs. You can't guarantee your safety, and you can die at anytime" Tatsumi said with his head still down.

"I misjudged you" Shadow said making Tatsumi and everyone in the room look at him.

"Shadow?" Tatsumi asked.

"It turns out that you have just proven that your not a full greenhorn..." Shadow started, making Tatsumi smile.

"Thanks Shadow. I apprecia-"

"...But that doesn't mean that there is still some percentage of idiocy behind those wise words. Just try to erase it" Shadow completed making Tatsumi's smile falter, before returning shortly to his face.

"It is as you say, Tatsumi. Each person here has their own reason to fight, but they are all prepared for the outcome. So, will your opinion stay the same?" The boss asked.

"Will i, Sayo and Ieyasu get rewarded?" Tatsumi asked.

"Yeah. If you work properly, you would be able to save your hometown" The boss answered.

"Then it's decided! Let me join Night Raid! If it's for a goal like that, then i won't hesitate!" Tatsumi yelled with resolve.

"You might be unable to return to your hometown" Mine said.

"'It's fine. As long as the people in the village are happy, then i don't care what happens to me" Tatsumi said making Mine cross her hands and huff.

"Then it's settled" The boss said before extending her mechanical arm towards the five youngsters.

"Welcome to the path of carnage, Naruko, Shadow, Menma, Jean, and Tatsumi" She exclaimed. Suddenly the wires on the wheel on Lubbock's glove began to rotate violently, making him gasp.

"Intruders, Najenda-san!" He said to the boss, now known as Najenda.

"How many are they and how much?" Najenda asked.

"According to the reactions of my wires, they are around 8 people, and they have infiltrated close to the hideout" Lubbock answered making Najenda take out a black cigar and a lighter from her pocket. She then placed the cigar in her mouth and lighted it up, before huffing a small cloud of smoke from her mouth.

"They are good. To sniff out this place means that they are probably mercenaries of another race. There's no other way. Don't let any of them return alive" Najenda said, making everyone bolt out of the meeting room, however before Shadow continued to follow the others, he stopped in front of the door, making Najenda look at him with a confused look on her face. He then turned his head around to face her.

"Can i trust you?" Shadow asked in his cold expression.

"Umm...Yes?" Najenda answered with confusion. Then Shadow's hair shadowed his eyes, before he looked at Najenda again.

"I see. Then i'm the one who should gain your trust. Here's something for you: When i return, i will do something about your arm and eye. Just remind me when i return" Shadow said causing Najenda's lone eye to widen in shock at what Shadow had just said. She didn't get a chance to demand an explaination as Shadow dashed out of the meeting room. Najenda then kept staring at where Shadow was previously standing, before looking at her metallic arm, then putted it on her eye patch that covered her lost right eye.

"Just what did you mean by that?" She thought.


Outside the hideout

"Bulat-san!" Tatsumi yelled making Bulat look behind while running to see the person that called for him running beside him.

"Oh Tatsumi! Do you want to come with me?" Bulat asked.

"Yes!" Tatsumi exclaimed.

"Also, call me Bro or Handsome" Bulat said.

"Okay, Bro!" Tatsumi said making Bulat flash a toothy grin.

All right! Feels great!" Bulat exclaimed before skidding in his run, making Tatsumi stop and look at him. Bulat then stood on his knees.

"I will show you something cool as a reward. Stand back" He said making Tatsumi take a few steps back, before Bulat slammed his palm to the ground.

"INCURSIOOOOOOOO!" Bulat yelled before a small tornado surrounded him, followed by a ring of fire, then a large armor that appeared behind him. The armor was then engulfed by a whirlwind before engulfing Bulat. It then faded to reveal Bulat was encased with the armor that he was in the night Tatsumi and the others saw him in.

"WOW! AWESOME!" Tatsumi exclaimed in excitement.

"Right? This is the Teigu, Incursio" Bulat said.

"I really don't get it, but it's getting me pumped up!" Tatsumi said still over excited.

"So you understand what is so good about this!" Bulat said before putting one hand on his hip and using the other to point at Tatsumi.

"Alright. Now i will tell you your first job. It's important, alright?" Bulat asked.

"Yeah!" Tatsumi exclaimed still shaking in excitement.


With Akame and Shadow

Akame and Shadow were standing in front of three bandits, with their hands tapping on the hilts of their swords. Both of them looked at the bandits emotionlessly, with said bandits smirking.

"The fact that Akame's here means their hideout really is somewhere around here. It was worth searching steadily" One of the bandits said.

"Heh. Such a cute girl over there" Another bandit said.

"Looks like we will have some fun after we kill her. Just screw the boy as you want, but don't damage the girl's body" The third bandit said.

However, in the moment that they were thinking to come near Akame and Shadow, both of the black haired duo zoomed past the three guards in a flash, with their swords spreading blood streams in the air before they sheathed them in the same speed they released them in it.

"You guys are too relaxed in enemy territory" Akame said coldly.

Just after she said this, blood bursted out of the three bandits' necks before two of them fell on the ground, dead. The other bandit clutched his throat, and took out his knife.

"At least i will take one of them down with me-?" He said before suddenly, he felt his heart stop instantly.

"A curse...from the wound? Poison?!" He said before falling dead on the ground.

"One slash, certain death" Akame said, before she noticed Shadow's gaze on her. She then turned around to him.

"Can i now ask, what did you mean about the thing that you said three days ago?" Akame asked making Shadow look at her silently for a couple of seconds before speaking.

"Your full name is Akame Otsutsuki. Akame...your my sister" Shadow said making Akame gasp at this before her cold look returned to her face in an instant.

"How can you tell? I didn't have any brothers" Akame said.

"I can prove it to you. In the meantime, why don't we talk about it while we return to the base?" Shadow asked, but did not wait for an answer as he walked past Akame at the direction of the hideout. Akame just stared at him for a little while, before following him silently.


At another side of the hideout

Mine was at a hill far away from one of the thugs that was running towards the hideout. She then sighed in annoyance.

"He's far away from my reach. I will have to expose myself like that to be able to hit him" Mine said. Suddenly, a bandit jumped behind her from the trees grinning with his cleaver aimed to rip her in half.

"Gotcha!" He said. However instead of even turning around, Mine flashed a toothy grin on her face, and at the same time, Sheele appeared behind the thug and slashed through the thug with her scissors, cutting him in half from the waist.

"I'm sorry" Sheele said.

"Thanks Sheele. That was a good pinch. Now i will be able to reach the bastard" She said before her rifle built up yellow energy at its tip, before firing a yellow energy beam from it. The bandit that was running noticed this, but didn't have time to react as the beam hit him head on, vaporizing him instantly. The beam was so powerful that it caused a cylindrical crater that traveled across the length of the forest.

"Alright! Right on target! The more danger i'm in, the more powerful i become!" Mine exclaimed with a victory smile while flashing her teeth.


At another side of the hideout

"Oh! That was Mine's Pumpkin!" Leone said while being in her beast form, and sitting on one of the bandits, who was bruised and beaten to death. She then looked at the bandit that she had beaten the crap out of.

"On that point for me, i turn into a beast and just beat them to death! Easy to understand!" She said flashing a grin on her face while clenching her bloody fist.

"Oh come one! I wanted to have something! Why didn't you spare something for me?!" Menma asked rather disappointed.

"Better luck next time, whiskers" Leone said winking at the red haired swordsman.


At another side of the hideout

Lubbock and Jean were literally standing in front of a restrained girl that Lubbock tied up into the air with his wires.

"I thought that the weight of the threads felt light, but it was a girl" Lubbock said clenching his fist, making the wires tighten on the girls body, drawing blood from every body section of the girl and making the girl herself groan in pain.

"Save me, please! I will do anything!" The girl said with tears on the corner of her eyes.

"Nope!" Lubbock said, before he clenched his fist more, but then Jean caught his arm, telling him to stop.

"Huh? What is it, Jean?" Lubbock asked.

"Don't do that, man" Jean said making the girl smile, thinking that she is saved. However, what happened was that a golden portal appeared above both Lubbock and Jean's heads. The tip of a beautiful decorated spear emerged from the gate. Jean snapped his fingers, before the spear shot faster than a lightning bolt at the girl. The spear found itself stuck in the girl's chest, particularly where her heart was. She then fell limb and lifeless while still hanged on Lubbock's wires. Lubbock sighed at this, realizing that Jean wanted to have the kill instead of him. He then retracted his wires, making the girl's body fall to the ground.

"I know a guy who died by getting tricked by seduction" Jean said smiling softly at Lubbock, who sighed before looking at the girl's dead body and scratched the back of his head.

"Ugh. What a waste. It's such a painful occupation at times like these" Lubbock said making Jean chuckle lightly.

"Relax. We will get over it since that's how our job walks" Jean said smiling.


At another side of the hideout

Tatsumi was literally lying on his stomach, hiding behind a bush as if waiting for something. Then suddenly, something bursted out from the bushes nearby, however Tatsumi relaxed once he saw that it was a rabbit. He then sighed before remembering what Bulat told him to do.

"Listen. If the enemy were to run away, there is a large possibility they will come through here. Even slowing them down is okay. Just somehow fight back"

"What a total newbie role. Is the enemy really gonna come?" Tatsumi asked.

And just as he was about to sigh again, a bandit that had the body of a man, but the head of a wolf passed by Tatsumi, and noticed him. Tatsumi quickly stood up, and unsheathed his sword.

"So they had even stationed someone here!" The bandit exclaimed.

"I can't let you pass!" Tatsumi said.

"Even though your a boy, i won't hold back" The bandit said grinning before unsheathing his sword.


With Mine and Sheele

"I wonder if the newcomers died" Mine said balancing herself on a log.

"I think it won't be a problem" Sheele said.

"It's rare for you to evaluate someone, Sheele" Mine said.

"Well, two of them did cross swords with Akame and survived after all, with two of them having been acknowledged by Leone herself. While the black haired one seems to be some sort of an enigma, i can still see that he is no slouch either" Sheele said.

"Hmph" Mine huffed.


With Tatsumi

Tatsumi panted with his sword drenched in blood. He was literally towering over his enemy, who was heavily injured.

"P-Please, i beg of you! Let me go! If i die, my village will-" The man said before coughing out blood. Tatsumi looked at him with a surprised look.

"He's also fighting for his hometown?! But..." He thought. However, he didn't notice the man picking up his sword and standing up with astonishing speeds.

"HAHAHAHAHA! Your naive, young boy! I will kill you for my clan!" The man roared and was about to cleave Tatsumi's head off, but he was too late as Akame and Shadow appeared out of nowhere and stabbed both of their swords into the man's back, killing him as the two swords stabbed through his heart, pulverizing it in the process. Akame and Shadow took out their swords, before setting their cold gazes at Tatsumi.

"Don't waver, greenhorn. The enemy won't wait for you to kill him" Shadow said.

"You should land the killing blow promptly" Akame said.

"Hiya! Has the enemy appeared? I will take care of everything!" Bulat said running towards them.

"It's over already" Akame and Shadow said with a comical deadpan look on each of their faces.

"Huh?!" Bulat exclaimed in surprise.

"Oh man! I didn't have anything to kill!" Naruko said emerging from the bushes.

"Don't worry Naruko. I'm sure you will have your share next time" Shadow said as cold as ever, but Naruko just smiled.

"Thank you Shadow-kun!" Naruko exclaimed happily.


A couple of hours later

As a celebration for taking down the group of bandits, the group of assassins decided to make a large feast in front of the hideout. Bulat was standing on the middle of the feast table drinking heavily from a rather over sized mug of bear, Lubbock was talking with Menma about rather pervert things if you took the perverted grins on their faces in consideration, Akame was munching on multiple Evilbirds' legs in a blink of an eye, Naruko and Leone were in a heated arm wrestling, Mine was watching all of this with an annoyed look on her face, Sheele was sitting reading her book about getting rid of air headedness, Shadow was standing beside Najenda, who was talking to Tatsumi and Jean was eating quietly in the middle of this comical chaos.

"Nice work, Tatsumi. You and your friends have done a splendid job on your first battle" Najenda said smiling.

"Y-Yeah...Right" Tatsumi said with his head lowered.

"But hearing from Akame, there seems to be some sort of obstacles. In order for you to survive, i see that you need someone to teach you lots of things" Najenda said before turning to Akame, who was munching on an Evilbird's leg with a comical deadpan look on her face.

"Akame, your the one who is going to train Tatsumi" Najenda said making Tatsumi gasp at this.

"Uh Huh" Akame said.

"If you saw that he is a hinder to you, feel free to kill him" Najenda said.

"Understood" Akame simply said.

"Understood?!" Tatsumi thought.

"Your lucky that a cute girl like Akame would be the one to teach you. Do your best so you won't get killed" Najenda said before turning her attention to Shadow.

"Now Shadow. You told me that you would do something about my eye and arm. What did you mean by that?" Najenda asked. Shadow just looked at her with a cold void look on his face.

"I wanted to do this right in front of the others, but considering the causalities of the current situation right now, i think this would be impossible" Shadow said causing Najenda to raise her eyebrow in confusion.

"What do you mean?" Najenda asked. Shadow didn't say anything. He just lazily pointed his finger in front of him, making Najenda look at said direction. Right in front of her was Bulat, roaring comically, having got drunk to the core on the table, with Leone encouraging him to take off his clothes, while Mine yelled at her to stop. Najenda sweatdropped at the scene and chuckled. She then looked at Shadow again.

"So be it. Make it tomorrow" Najenda said smiling in front of Shadow's cold gaze.

"Tomorrow it is" Shadow said calmly.


The Next Day

Tatsumi smiled while being in front of the sink of the kitchen. Sayo and Ieyasu were close to full health, and this was good news. He then caught a knife and was chopping some vegetables. Beside him were Naruko and Shadow, with Naruko stirring a vegetable soup while the pot was on fire, humming happily, and Shadow was peeling some potatoes with his infamous emotionless look.

"You know..." Shadow said calmly making Tatsumi and Naruko look at him.

"...I have traveled to four ninja villages, faced bounty hunters that posed threats to countries, destroyed building-sized animals, and defeated village leaders, with one of them being a midget that can catch country-sized meteorites with his bare hands and prevent them from falling..." Shadow said before pausing. Naruko and Tatsumi could notice that his right eye was twitching rapidly and dangerously.

"...So why?..." He asked before his face slowly morphed into that of anger.

"...Why am i reduced to being a cook to these people?!" Shadow finally yelled, letting out his anger.

"I want more!" Mine said.

"Me too!" Bulat said.

"Me three!" Leone said.

"Me four!" Lubbock said.

"Please" Sheele said.

"Shut up! Your food is coming!" Shadow said slamming his fist into the kitchen table so hard it cracked on contact. Tatsumi chuckled nervously at this before he stopped chopping vegetables, and took a small bowl and filled it with rice.

"Believe me, Shadow. I know how you feel. We're on the same boot after all" Tatsumi said. However, he got no answer from the black haired teen. Shadow sighed in frustration, before running his hand through his jet black spiky hair with red lines lining several hairs. Naruko just giggled at Tatsumi's appearance with an apron.

"Hey, Tatsy. Don't you worry, it's so normal. That's what happens after all if you got a job. You get humiliated to the last possible second" Naruko said happily.

"You seem to be rather happy about it" Tatsumi said.

"What can i do? You must bear with current situations to stay alive after all" Naruko said smiling. Tatsumi just sighed before smiling softly.

"Wow. I may have met your a couple of days ago, but you sure know how to cool the situations, Naruko" Tatsumi said. The instant he said this, Naruko's face blushed heavily to the extent that it would put tomatoes to shame. Her smile disappeared from her face, replaced by a hesitated look, before Naruko poked her fingers together.

"T-Thanks a-a-a alot, Tatsy" Naruko said stuttering, causing Tatsumi to look at her with a confused look. This scene caused Shadow to roll his eyes at how Tatsumi was such a dense idiot.

"Come to think of it, I don't see Menma or Jean around. Where are they?" Tatsumi asked.

"Your talking about me?" A voice from behind the three teens called. They turned around to see something rather hilarious.

Right in front of them stood Menma, but with a rather new outfit. He was wearing a white cleaner suit with yellow boots and gloves. In his hand was a mop and beside him was a bucket filled with water.

Tatsumi and Naruko immediately bursted out in laughter, while Shadow looked at him with his rather cold look.

"What is that, Menma?! Why do you look like Ieyasu's grandmother?! BWHAHAHAHAHAHA!" Tatsumi said laughing loudly while holding his stomach.

"It can't be helped. Miss Pinkie Pie over there told the boss to give me this job. I swear that one day, she will pay for thinking about messing with me" Menma said gritting his teeth while pointing at Mine.

"By the way, where is Jean?" Naruko asked wiping a tear from her eye.

"He's meditating underneath the waterfall behind the hideout. God, what a slacker" Menma said growling in anger and annoyance. Tatsumi just sighed at this before taking an apple and started to peel it.

"We're all on the same boat. I mean, Damn it! I'm an assassin and all i do now is cooking!" Tatsumi said gritting his teeth while peeling the apple.

"It can't be helped. I'm responsible for cooking the base's meals, and naturally that duty falls to you as well" Akame said while popping a grape to her mouth. She was wearing an apron as well, with her hair also tied into a pony tail. Tatsumi sweatdropped at this.

"Cooking? All i see you doing is sampling the ingredients" Tatsumi said causing Akame to look at him with a comical deadpan look on her face.

"That's not true" Akame said.

"Your not good at lying, you know" Tatsumi said.

"For newcomers, a cook's apron and a cleaner's outfits are the best. They suit you well" Mine said causing both Tatsumi and Menma to turn around to the source of the voice with comical angered looks on their faces. Tatsumi crushed the apple in his hand, while Menma snapped the stick of the mop in his hand in half. They then looked to see that Mine, Sheele, Bulat and Lubbock were fully equipped with their Teigus.

"Huh? Your going somewhere?" Tatsumi asked.

"Yup. A request to kill someone in the Capital has arrived" Mine said.

"Oh. I see. Well, good luck, everyone!" Naruko said rather cheerfully.

"Please take care of the place while we are gone" Sheele said to the five youngsters smiling.

"Akame and the new guys are house maids! So just stay here and chop cucum-OW!" Mine started her taunt to the five teenagers, however, she was halted in her speech as Shadow threw a utensil on her face. He then gritted his teeth comically, holding multiple kitchen tools in his hands.

"Yeah! Say that to the person who's cooking your food i dare you!" Shadow yelled angerily, and was about to walk to Mine, probably to show her how to...chop cucumbers, but Naruko and Menma stopped him by grabbing both his arms.

"Get outta his sight now, pink compass! He's already fuming!" Menma said making Mine huff before waving her hand and walking away with the other members to go to their mission.

"Seriously. Why does she feel the need to be so overbearing?" Tatsumi asked.

"Okay. Now, shall we go take some lives?" Akame said taking off the ribbon that tied her hair, making her hair flow.

"You mean hunting for dinner, right?" Tatsumi asked.

"Oh good. You understand" Akame said before taking off her apron and walking outside the base, with Naruko and Tatsumi following her. Shadow stayed in the base, since he decided to have a talk with Najenda.


At a cliff in the mountains

"Wow. What a nice place" Tatsumi said, holding an empty basket on his back while looking at a waterfall running down a small river. He then looked to see Jean underneath the waterfall...sitting on the water.

"H-How...?!" Tatsumi trailed in his speech seeing no reason for what was happening in front of him. Jean noticed them, and waved while smiling.

"Hey guys" Jean called.

"We must eliminate the underwater prey" Akame said before proceeding to take off her T-shirt, causing Tatsumi to gasp at this, while Naruko was still smiling. Tatsumi quickly covered his sight from Akame undressing herself.

"Why are you nervous?" Akame asked making Tatsumi remove his arm to look at her, only to see her in a white bikini. He sighed in relief at this.

"Oh. Your wearing a swimsuit" Tatsumi said.

"The targets are large river tuna" Akame said before jumping immediately into the river.

"Huh? She can't possibly mean the exceedingly rare and dangerous fish that-" However, Tatsumi couldn't finish his speech as he saw multiple river tunas flying from the river into the air, and right into Akame's basket.

"A FISH EXPLOSION?!" Tatsumi yelled in shock at the short show that played in front of him. And at the same time, Akame emerged from the river, with her body still submerged in the water.

"Conceal your presence and swim along the riverbed. When the prey comes close, strike in that instant" Akame said.

"Okay. My turn" Naruko said before swiftly taking off all her clothes. However, what Tatsumi had literally noticed was that Naruko had absolutely nothing to cover her top half, leaving her rather abnormally humongous breasts bounce in the air once she took off her clothes, with only a white thong being the only thing that covered her lower private area. Tatsumi, upon seeing this, clutched his nose with both hands as hard as he could to prevent blood from gushing out like an endless foundation to not die through blood loss. Naruko saw this, and just giggled, before jumping into the river bank. After approximately five seconds, multiple large river tunas bursted out of the river and right into the basket. Naruko popped her head out of the river, smiling pleasantly at her handy work.

"Okay Tatsy. It's your turn now" Naruko said. Tatsumi saw this, and smiled rather confidently, before taking off his sweater and T-shirt.

"Bring it on!" He yelled.


Later in the base

"So, Naruko caught 13 and Tatsumi caught 5. Not bad for the first try" Najenda said, while she sat and ate the fish alongside Leone, Tatsumi, Akame, Menma, Jean and Shadow. Tatsumi, however, was crying comical tears.

"I really don't feel like being complimented. Considering the fact that i didn't even reach half of what Naruko and Akame gathered" Tatsumi said sadly.

"I heard from Akame that you said something like 'Bring it on' while you were undressing" Leone said before chuckling.

"Relax, Tats. We all went through all of this. It just takes some time to get used to it" Menma said putting his hand on Tatsumi's shoulder to comfort him. Najenda then placed her chopsticks on the table, and cleared her throat, gaining the attention of the people around here.

"Leone. Tell me about the request we received a few days ago" Najenda said making Leone opt a serious look on her face.

"Our targets are Ogre of the Capital guards, and an oil merchant named Gamal. What the client told me was that Ogre has been accepting bribes from Gamal. Everytime Gamal commits a crime, Ogre would frame someone to take the fall for him, and that her fiance was framed for one of those crimes and was sentenced to death. She told that her fiance heard both Ogre and Gamal talking to each other while he was in his cell, and before his execution, he sent her a letter so that she would know all of this. She begged me afterwards to clear this regret from her heart" Leone finished her explaination before looking down in sadness. She then took out a rather large sack of money and placed it on the table.

"This is the payment for the job" Leone said pointing at the money bag.

"That woman saved up this much money?" Tatsumi asked.

"I caught the scent of a venereal disease from her, so she must have been selling her body to earn all of that" Leone answered.

Once she said that, shocked looks came from Tatsumi, Menma, Naruko, Shadow and Jean. Shadow was more like angry rather than shocked at this.

"Did you check out her story?" Najenda asked.

"Yes, they are guilty. I observed them for a time from the attic of a merchant's shop" Leone answered. Najenda nodded at this, before lighting up a cigarette and puffing a cloud of smoke from her mouth. Her face looked that of suppressed pure anger.

"Fine then. Night Raid accepts this request. We will deliver punishment on those evildoers, and sent them straight to hell to rot their in the afterlife" She said.

"Gamal will be a piece of cake, but Ogre is a formidable opponent" Leone said.

"If memory serves, Ogre spends his time out on patrols with his subordinates, but other than that, he hangs out at the garrison headquarters. Gamal comes to him to give him the bribes in his private room. And due to his station, he leaves off the headquarters in his days off, and spends the day drinking on the main streets, close to the Capital" Najenda said.

"So that means that the only time to attack is on his day off" Menma said.

"However, the security around the palace will be tough. For Akame, who is on the Capital's most wanted list, this will be a dangerous mission" Najenda said.

"Shall we wait for the group to come back?" Akame asked.

"But we don't know when they will finish their job, right?" Jean asked.

"Yes" Akame simply answered.

"Then if that's the case, just send us. We can take care of this!" Tatsumi yelled standing up and slammed his hand on the table, making everyone in the room look at him.

"Oooh...Are you saying you can kill Ogre yourself?" Najenda asked smiling.

"Eh?" Tatsumi said with a sweatdrop.

"Normally, this would be a piece of cake for me, but it almost sounded as if you wanted to take him on yourself, huh?" Leone asked flashing a comical grin on her face.

"As you are now, you stand no chance" Akame said causing Tatsumi to have a tick mark on his forehead.

"While we sit here debating, there are innocent people which are framed for crimes they did not commit! If that's the case, i'll handle myself! Having the most precious person in front of you being taken away...I don't want anyone to experience this loss!" Tatsumi angerily exclaimed, causing Akame to silently look at him.

"Understood. I appreciate your decision. Go kill the demon" Najenda said smiling with her cigar still in her mouth.

"How about that, Akame?! When it's time, i can step up!" Tatsumi exclaimed proudly to the red-eyed assassin, whose hair shadowed her eyes.

"Where does this confidence come from? You haven't given your report about a successful mission to begin with. As you are now, so full of yourself, you will just end up dead" Akame said sternly before turning around and walking away, leaving a fuming Tatsumi, who was boiling in anger at Akame's words.

"Wha-?!" Tatsumi exclaimed.

"Leone. I believe you have said that there was a report about another case" Najenda said to Leone, who nodded before taking out a picture from underneath the table. Said picture was of a woman with slender figure and long red hair that covered the left side of her face. She was having eye shades underneath her blue eyes. She was wearing what looked like a gray cyborg outfit.

"That's Mistral. One of the three Winds of Destruction. She was the one that destroyed the nearby village during one of the raids of the Imperial guardians" Leone said.

"Can i take that one?" Shadow asked making everyone look at him.

"Huh? Why is that all of a sudden?" Najenda asked.

"Boss. Let him have it" Menma said to Najenda.

"What do you mean?" Najenda asked in confusion.

"Trust him boss. He knows what he is doing" Naruko said, making Najenda look at her, then at Shadow, before closing her eyes and sighing, letting out a cloud of smoke from the cigar in her mouth.

"Fine. I will give you details about her" Najenda said.

"I won't need that. I already know her" Shadow said, causing Najenda's lone eye to widen in shock.

"But how...?"

"There is no time for this. Tell me when i can take her down" Shadow said coldly, causing Najenda to sigh again.

"You can meet her at night at the Abkhaizen refinery plant, right behind the Imperial Castle, but that would be very dangerous considering the fact that you would be near the eyes of the Empire" Najenda explained before warning the black haired teen. However, to her surprise, Shadow instantly switched from being cold and brooding to having a twisted psychotic grin on his face that somehow reminded the former general with a certain blue haired general that can control ice.

"Heh. This would just make it more fun" Shadow said in a rather menacing screeching voice, along with his psychotic grin made him look just like a true evil guy.

"Okay. Fine, but just make sure not to die, and do not leave a trace of the enemy" Najenda said making Shadow's expression change to his usual cold look in an instant, before nodding and strapping Murasama to his hip and heading to the door. Najenda then looked at Leone.

"Leone, you and Akame are going to handle the oil merchant while Tatsumi handles Ogre" Najenda said.

"Sure thing, boss" Leone said grinning.

"Hey boss. Can i go with Tatsumi at this mission?" Naruko asked.

"Hmm? Why is that Naruko?" Najenda asked.

"Well, i'm here doing nothing for 3 days. I want some action, and besides, Tatsy might get hurt, so i must be with him, considering the fact that he has no Teigu" Naruko asked, blushing light pink at the 'Tatsy' section. She then heard kissing sounds. She turned around to see Menma clasping his hands together, closing his eyes and blowing kisses from his mouth to Jean, who was chuckling at this. Naruko's face twisted into comical anger, before she delivered two swift punches to the heads of her two male companions, causing two comical steamy bumps to find their places on Menma's and Jean's heads. Najenda chuckled at this with a sweatdrop.

"Okay, but does that mean that you have a Teigu, Naruko?" Najenda asked the abnormally busty blonde.

"My Teigu is The Sixteen Nights: Last Embryo" Naruko said proudly, causing Najenda's and Leone's eyes to bug out comically.

"You mean that relic type Teigu that gives its wielder superhuman physical characteristics, power destruction and light manipulation?! It's one of the four forbidden lost Teigus! How did you get it?!" Leone asked in complete shock and disbelief, causing Naruko to adapt a rather cute thinking pose with her fingers underneath her chin.

"I found it" She said smiling cutely and stuck out her tongue, causing Najenda and Leone to sweatdrop at this.

"Well, we all found our Teigus on our own ways. And they just happened to be the four forbidden Teigus" Jean said making Najenda drop the cigar from her mouth.

"You mean that Shadow's Teigu..." Najenda trailed with her talk.

"Blade of the Ripper: Murasama" Menma said casually.

"A blade that vibrates with 9 Decillion times in a nanosecond, allowing it to cut through virtually anything. It also allows its user to channel lightning through both the blade and his or her limbs. Like some Teigus, it also depends on the user's imagination regarding energy attacks" Jean explained.

"So, i think Shadow has this bitch in the bag" Leone said.

"While i would agree on this, considering the fact that i was with Shadow all the time, if it was another person, i could easily tell you that it would depend on the wielder, not the weapon. However, even without a weapon, Shadow is still lethal to the core. Actually, Shadow is not a full human" Naruko said with a sad tone.

"What does that mean?" Najenda asked.

"I'm not the one to answer this question for you, boss. These are Shadow's priorities. Once he feels that he can trust you guys, he will say everything" Naruko said.

"Okay. I understand, Naruko. You can go with Tatsumi on his mission against Ogre" Najenda said causing Naruko to have a face that would put Rena Ryuuguu's Kawaii Mode to shame, before she tightly grasped Tatsumi's arm. And because she is no normal human with her physicality, Tatsumi's arm was screaming in agony as he literally felt his arm being crushed in between Naruko's melons.

"Oh, Tatsy~" Naruko said with a small blush on her face, with the man in question crying for mercy for his poor arm.


2 hours ago - Nighttime

Tatsumi, Naruko and Leone were walking around in the streets. Tatsumi and Leone were looking around them while Naruko was walking beside them, happily humming with a smile on her face.

"So, where are we going exactly?" Tatsumi asked.

"If we head straight, we are going to reach the main street" Leone asked.

"Oh! Okay" Tatsumi exclaimed. Leone then looked for a little while at Tatsumi before speaking again.

"You want to know something about Akame you two?" Leone asked making both Tatsumi and Naruko look at her.

"When she was young, Both Akame and her sister were sold by their parents to the Empire. This is actually common in these days. Anyways, she and another girl in her situation were trained in assassination. She survived in this hellish situation, and moved under the orders of the Empire. She was the perfect assassin. Eeach time she carried out her duty, she would feel the darkness of the Empire more and more. The boss, who was her target at that time, succeeded in persuading her to defect from the Empire, and join the Revolutionary Army that cared only about the people. By that time, i think that most of her comrades that she had grown up with were dead. Do you understand what i'm trying to say, you two?" Leone explained before asking the two teenagers.

"I...kinda feel what she was in. Since Shadow was in something similar. Maybe even worse than what Akame was in. But this is just so sad" Naruko said with sadness imprinting her beautiful white face.

"Well, i can't say that i don't understand, considering the fact that she had lost her precious person at that time" Tatsumi said with his hands in his hips, and huffing. Leone just softly smiled at this.

"Well, you two will find out when your successful in your mission" Leone said, before Tatsumi yanked Naruko underneath his arm, causing the woman in question to blush heavily.

"Wow...What nice smell..." Naruko thought looking up at Tatsumi to see him looking at Leone with a goofy smile on his face, waving at the lion girl.

"'Yeah! We're definitely gonna do this!" Tatsumi proudly exclaimed, causing Leone to raise a thumbs up to him.

"Good hunting!" Leone said.


Several minutes later

Naruko and Tatsumi were walking in silence, with Naruko poking her fingers together with a small blush on her face. Tatsumi noticed this, and spoke.

"What's wrong, Naruko?" Tatsumi asked.

"Do you...wanna know about my past?" Naruko asked making Tatsumi stop in his walk, causing Naruko to stop as well.

"Why are you saying this to me?" Tatsumi asked.

"Because...well...We may have met for a short while, but...i...well...you actually are a kind guy, and i think that i should tell you" Naruko answered. Tatsumi then scratched his head before sighing. He then pulled Naruko by the arm, and walked to a nearby restaurant. They then sat on two chairs before Tatsumi ordered two drinks from the waiter. Once the waiter went to have the drinks ready for them, they began to speak.

"We still have time before our mission. We can talk in that time" Tatsumi said, making Naruko take a deep breath before telling Tatsumi about her life.


At the Abkhaizen refinery plant

The place that Shadow was slowly walking in was what looked like a garbage factory with several oil tanks in it. He was literally standing on a platform, with said platform making a clattering sound which echoed every time his feet hit it while walking. He then saw a figure leaning its hands on the railing of the platform they were in. He then narrowed his eyes dangerously at the figure, who smiled at this while not even looking back.

"I was wondering when you would come, Eclipse the Ripper" The figure, which turned out to be a woman, judging from her voice, said.

"No one calls him that anymore. Monsoon and Sundowner. Where are they?" Shadow asked.

"Oh? So eager to meet your fate? I can show you a better time than those two clowns" The woman said.

"..." Shadow remained silent.

"What is it, Shadow? Won't you give Mistral onee-sama a hug?" The woman asked walking two steps away from the ceiling. Cold wind blowing the hair covering her left eye.

"And you...Your reputation in the Elemental Nations proceeds you. Born in Konoha as a normal person but in actuality, your 1/4 human, 1/4 Gear, 1/4 succubus and 1/4 Hadou entity. A natural killer, even as a child" She said with a calm look on her face.

"That was a long time ago" Shadow said glaring at Mistral.

"I was born in Algeria myself, you know. I'm only half french" Mistral said.

"And?" Shadow asked.

"We had our own civil wars in the 90s. So you see? We're not in the Elemental Nations. Those fools who don't know anything about modern technology" Mistral said.

"You already know that here is rotten as this place. Nothing is actually different" Shadow said, resting his left arm on his sword in a casual manner.

"What i meant to say that we're cut from the same cloth. You and i" Mistral said.

"You don't know me" Shadow said starting to feel angry, and slowly unsheathing his sword.

"Oh Shadow. But i do know you. I was one of your torturers after all" Mistral said.

"How the hell you think that we are similar?" Shadow asked raising his voice a little in anger.

"I lost my whole family, everything..." She said, causing Shadow to look down with his eyes narrowed as if he felt some pity for Mistral, who raised her hand before clenching it in a fist.

"...But i butchered those fuckers" She said in a rather stern voice causing Shadow to look at her with little surprise on his face.

"My family's killers. That's when i realized...I'm a killer too. And a good one at that" She said before putting her hands on her hips and walking rather causally towards Shadow.

"I slaughtered dozens in Iraq, in Afghanistan...I'd found my calling" Mistral said before Shadow unsheathed Murasama and pointed it at Mistral's face.

"Proud of that, are you?" Shadow asked.

"What happened, happened. To be honest, i found it quite dull" She said before reaching for the button fastening her jacket on her. Once she opened it, The jacket fell from her body, revealing what looked like a cyborg suit, with what looked like a bag with stubs for electronic arms on her back.

"My enemies fell like dominoes. One after another. Not once did i felt threatened" She said walking around Shadow, who walked as well matching her gaze. At the same time, black creatures with three long arms were climbing the tanks before reaching the platform the two fighters were in. Shadow just looked at all of this lazily while matching Mistral's bored look with a lazy glare of his own.

"I was adrift...Without challenge...Without purpose...At times, i even envied my prey. At least they had a cause to die for. And then...i met him" Mistral said before one of the Gekkos jumped at Shadow, but said person casually positioned his fist in front of the black mini robot, causing it to collide with it as if it hit a stone wall. The Gekko fell on the ground, twitching as electricity surrounded its injury: A fist imprint which made a small hole in its ball-like body.

"Who? It won't be Minato" Shadow asked, or more like demanded an answer.

"Minato Namikaze is such a pathetic creature. He is not worth the time of 'him'" Mistral said.

"Who is that guy your talking about?" Shadow asked once more.

"And i knew what i had been missing. His ideals gave my life meaning. Ideals, Shadow. What are yours?" She asked approaching the downed Gekko and gently touching its wound, before looking at Shadow.

"I...protect the weak" Shadow answered causing Mistral to smile softly, before chuckling softly. She then caught two of its arms and stood up. She then stepped on the third arm, her stare never leaving Shadow.

"Still..." She trailed before effortlessly ripping the two arms of the poor Gekko, causing electricity to weakly cackle from where the arms connected to the stubs.

"...So naive" She finished.

"And if i must kill to protect them...Then so be it" Shadow said pointing his sword at Mistral, who just walked casually towards the black haired teen, placing one Gekko arm on her shoulder and twirling the other. She then stomped on the Gekko's head, who was squirming, before his head was cut in half by her wolf-like hind legs.

"It seems we have less in common than i thought" Mistral said causing Shadow to scoff at her.

"I'll take that as a compliment" Shadow said with the Murasama still pointing at his opponent. He then saw Mistral slamming the two arms from the shoulder place.

"If you would for your ideals, then your surely ready to die for them" She said before twisting the 'stick' causing the two arms to twitch before becoming solid. Several Gekkos then approached Mistral hastily, climbing all around her body, attaching their limbs in the bags of stubs on her back. With each limb connecting, she was moaning and blushing. Several limbs were also attached to her 'stick', causing it to become a long wand around twice her tall. After a couple of seconds, the Gekko's heads fell limb from Mistral's body, and she had around 10 limbs, with 5 on each side. She then crossed her arms underneath her bust and smiled at Shadow, who took a swordsman stance. Mistral picked up a mini knife from her thigh, and placed it at one end of L'Etranger, her staff. She then opted a fighting stance.

"Come, mon gars" She said, signing the beginning of the showdown.

Several Gekkos jumped at Shadow, who swiftly slashed all of them, with his sword releasing red arcs of electricity with each time his swings Murasama. Mistral twirled L'Etranger at Shadow, which surprisingly worked out like a whip, but Shadow managed to block it with his sword. He then pushed her, making her stumble back. He used this advantage, grabbed his sword with both hands and slashed at her whip staff, cutting it in half from where each limb connected. Mistral gritted her teeth before jumping on one of the containers. Shadow lazily looked at her, with him standing waiting for any surprise, with the Gekkos pummeling him with punches, and some pummeled him with energy beams. However, they won't make any scratch on his body. It was as if his body was made out steel.

Mistral didn't stop on this. She then pointed one of her limbs at Shadow, before firing what looked like fire balls. Shadow effortlessly dodged the barrage of fire balls that caused average-sized holes on the ceiling ground. Shadow then watched Mistral landing on the ground, before spinning, aiming to whack Shadow away with L'Etranger, but Shadow blocked it with his sword. Sparks flew from their weapon lock, before Shadow pushed one of the limbs away, causing it to revert to the left. Mistral, however, didn't flinch, and whacked Shadow to the sky, but Shadow spun in the air before landing on his feet. Mistral then twirled her whip staff and swung it at Shadow, but instead of hitting him, the hand at the other end of the staff caught Shadow by the leg before sending him to the sky. Shadow closed his eyes, and to him, time seemed to slow down, but it was actually him moving at insanely fast speeds. He then rapidly and wildly swung Murasama at the staff, slicing it from several places, causing Shadow to fly into the air, and towards one of the pipes connected to the tanks. Shadow then caught the pipe and spun on it, making a loop turn towards his enemy, delivering a rocket drop kick to the cyborg woman, causing her to drop L'Etranger and to scream as she fell off the platform and unto one of the large pipes that connected two tanks with each other. Shadow ran and jumped towards her, landing a few meters away from Mistral, who stood up and dusted herself, flexing her 12 arms with a smile.

"Heh. I'm starting to enjoy this" She said before skating on the pipe away from Shadow, causing sparks to emit from the friction. She then jumped on top of one of the large containers. She then begun to do some signals with her arms, causing Gekkos to climb the pipe and head towards Shadow. There were hundreds of them. Shadow just swiftly, and in less than a split second, Shadow blitzed all of the Gekkos with red lightning arcs cackling from the single slash, with the Gekkos having turned into a pile of screws and wires.

Needless to say, Mistral was impressed by this.

"HAHAHAHA! Keep trying, boy!" She said before multiple Gekkos ripped off their arms to form L'Etranger in Mistral's hands once more. She then jumped back on the pipe. Shadow intercepted her, and begun to slash wildly at her, never leaving an opening for his opponent, with his blood red electricity arcs that were released from his sword and the orange color of the energy that L'Etranger produced every time it was whipped on Shadow was the only thing that was illuminating the pitch black night. However, despite all of this ruckus happening right behind the Imperial Castle, no one, not even a solider of the Empire came in to give help to Mistral.

"Concentrate on the fight, Bitch!" Shadow yelled with fury before slamming his sword on L'Etranger, immediately causing it to be knocked off Mistral's hands. Mistral immediately jumped on the container, and begun firing Gekko balls which were engulfed in fire at Shadow, who effortlessly sliced through them and that which he missed and hit their mark caused absolutely no harm to him, not even his clothes had a single tear in them.

"You can't hurt me, Mistral! This is my invulenrability! You can't lay a scratch on me!" Shadow said with a mad grin on his face. Mistral, out of ideas, formed L'Etranger again and jumped out of the container, pursuing Shadow once again. She split L'Etranger into two shorter staffs and jumped, before slamming both of them at Shadow in the form of a whip, which destroyed a section of the pipe, particularly where Shadow was standing, but Shadow jumped backwards to avoid falling. Mistral jumped from the gap that she destroyed. She then landed on the side of a container, creating a dent in it, before jumping again towards Shadow underneath the pipe, and while in midair, she sliced most of the pipe down, making it fall down, but Shadow dodged it and managed to land on the small remaining part of the pipe. Seeing that her opponent was fine even after that assault, angerily and wildly slashed everywhere and fired Gekko balls everywhere, causing several explosions to occur around the refinery plant and fire was around the place. Shadow then jumped out of the top of what remained of the pipe and onto the ground below the containers and the platform they were previously on. Both fighters stood in front of each other, glaring at each other, with Mistral holding L'Etranger in her hands with multiple Gekkos behind her.

"This ends now!" Mistral yelled.

"I couldn't agree more" Shadow said smirking devilishly.

Mistral slammed her whip staff onto the ground, but Shadow jumped out of the way rather casually. He then zoomed towards her, slicing all the Gekkos that came in his way. He then reached Mistral and the two begun slashing with their weapons wildly at each other. While Shadow was heavily wounding Mistral with his slashes with blood filling the floor, all of Mistrals hits would either be missed or would bounce off Shadow's skin once it comes in contact with him. Mistral then jumped and spun in the air, aiming to whack Shadow into a bloody pulp with L'Etranger.

"It is over!" She yelled before slamming at Shadow, who blocked it with his sword. Sparks flew from the struggle with Mistral gritting her teeth, trying to overpower her opponent, who was clutching his sword with one hand rather casually, and looking at Mistral with a bored face. Shadow then ran towards her, dragging Murasama along the length of L'Etranger, before hitting Mistral with the hilt of his sword, causing her to lose the struggle and to make a back flip to back away from her opponent. Smirking, Shadow ran away from her.

"Don't fuck with me, boy!" She yelled before running after Shadow. Who reached a dead end upon meeting one of the containers in front of him. However, he read what was written on it.

"Liquid Nitrogen?" Shadow said before an idea popped in his mind. He smirked upon seeing Mistral, aiming to stab him with L'Etranger. Shadow then jumped on the container, before kicking it and making a backflip in the air, avoiding the blade on the tip of Mistral's whip staff, causing it to stab the container and to get stuck in it. Shadow landed on the staff, sitting casually at it while smirking at Mistral.

"Au revoir" He said before catching Murasama in a reverse grip and slashed the container horizontally before jumping away from Mistral, causing the liquid nitrogen seep out of the container. Mistral screamed in horror as the gaseous liquid nitrogen engulfed her, turning her into an ice statue. Shadow, still in midair. closed his eyes and declared one of his trump cards.

"Trump Card: Zandatsu!" He yelled before time for him slowed down. He then begun to slash at Mistral's frozen form. Blood flew away and seemed to be frozen in midair with each successful slash executed. After what looked like 20 slashes, time returned to normal, and Shadow descended to the ground with his sword in both hands, and slashed one last time at Mistral, effectively slashing her in half. He then turned around with a bored look and his eyes closed, before sheathing Murasama, and once he did this, an explosion engulfed the tank that Shadow slashed, reducing it into a burnt piece of metal. Shadow then turned around, looking at Mistral's remains.

"I..lost...Heh...so this is how they felt...dying...for a cause...You...were too much, Shadow...but i know...'you' will never fall...Je t'aime...de tout mon coeur..." Those were Mistral's last words which sprout from her head that was severed from her body. Shadow silently looked at her with wind blowing away his hair. He then looked at L'Etranger, which was on the ground. He then picked it up, before he waved his fingers in thin air, causing a small spatial rift to open. He then placed the whip staff in it, before the rift disappeared along with the weapon.

"Hey! What's going on here?!" A voice said causing Shadow to look behind him to see Imperial guards with swords and guns equipped running towards him. He then sighed and scratched the back of his head.

"Chaos Control" He whispered before disappearing in a flick of white light, escaping the scene. The Imperial guards entered the scene, and found Mistral remains.

"Commander Mistral of the Winds of Destruction...is dead?!" One of the guards asked in shock.

"It must be...Night Raid! We must report to commander Monsoon and Commander Sundowner immediately!" Another guard exclaimed.


With Akame and Leone

Inside a luxury japanese restaurant, An overweight, out-of-shape bald man with spots on his head, a small nose and a big mouth, which gave him a toad-like appearance. He was wearing an orange kimono shirt with matching pants and black boots, as well as a green cloak with two circles resembling toad's eyes printed on it. The man was sighing while walking.

"Hahh. I need to use the toilet. I wonder if i will have to take it again" The man, known as the infamous oil merchant Gamal, said.

"Don't worry. I will give it to you, Gamal" A voice from behind Gamal said, making the man gasp, and before he could react, two yellow lion-like hands bear-hugged him. Gamal couldn't even blink before Akame stabbed her cursed sword to his chest, then the man fell limb in Leone's grasp, dead.

"Heh. Your lucky to have been killed by two beauties" Leone exclaimed at the dead oil merchant on the floor, who was lying emotionlessly in a pile of his own blood.

"Now then, I wonder how Tatsumi and Naruko are doing with the tougher target" Leone said, with Akame looking at her with her cold face in silence.


With Tatsumi and Naruko

Tatsumi and Naruko were sitting in the restaurant. A comically enormous amount of handkerchiefs were beside Naruko who was crying in front of Tatsumi, who was giving her handkerchiefs, with a seemingly angry look on his face.

"Damn those bastards! How dare they do this to you and Menma?!" Tatsumi nearly yelled in anger.

"I'm sorry that i told you this...*sniff*...but i couldn't...*sniff* hold it anymore...*sniff*" Naruko said between tears, sniffs and blowing her nose inside handkerchiefs.

"Naruko" Tatsumi said causing Naruko to look at him, only to see the man in front of her looking at her with a gentle smile on his face. He then stood up and placed his hand on her shoulder.

"I promise you...that as long as i'm here, you will never cry again" Tatsumi said. Naruko stopped crying and blushed at this. Finally, a person that could see who she was and not what she was. Even when she told him about her past, this didn't let him leave her.

Tears built on Naruko's eyes as she was about to cry again. However, Tatsumi placed his hands on her cheeks, before using his thumbs to wipe out her tears.

"Now, no more tears" Tatsumi said with his kind smile on his face. Naruko used the long sleeve of her jacket to wipe out her tears. She then looked at Tatsumi with her bright smile.

"Umm" She said, making Tatsumi's smile grow brighter.

"Awww. Would you look at this dear? Two blooming couples on a romantic date. Such marvelous!" A woman on another table said, causing Tatsumi and Naruko to look at her before looking around them, only to see that all eyes in the restaurant were set on them. The two assassins blushed furiously at this, then Tatsumi took Naruko by the hand and slowly got out of the restaurant. Once they were out, both looked at each other for a brief moment before giggling at the hilarious moment they were in.

"Hehehehe. That was fun" Naruko said.

"Yet embarassing" Tatsumi said wiping a tear from the corner of his eyes.

"Okay. Rest time is over. Now back to our mission" Naruko said with a face of thrill and excitement, bumping her fists together.

"Can't agree more" Tatsumi said before both of them walked together to their destination.


In the streets of the capital

Walking in the streets drunkard was a large muscular man with black hair with gray outlines, a red right eye with a star-shaped scar over his missing left eye. He was wearing a suit of armor typical for the Imperial Police, alongside a sword on the left side of his waist.

"Hu~Wah~! Sake is so good after a thorough interrogation~!" The man exclaimed with a blush on his face.

"Ogre-sama" Two men called the drunken guy now know as Ogre, who looked at the two men calling him.

"We wanted to thank you on a job well done" One of the two men said.

"And thank you for the other day" The other man said, making Ogre smirk before waving at them.

"No problem! Come to me with whatever problems you have any time!" Ogre exclaimed before walking away from the two men, smirking evilly.

"I'm the king of this city. The highest authority. I can do whatever i want, as much as i want!" He thought.

"Ogre-sama" Tatsumi said with his hoodie on, causing Ogre to boringly look at him.

"What?" Ogre asked.

"I have something i would like to speak with you about" Tatsumi said.

"Spit it out then" Ogre said with his hands on his hips.

"Talking about it in the open would be a little problematic" Tatsumi said, making Ogre sigh.

"Fine" Ogre said before following Tatsumi to a nearby alley. While walking, Tatsumi remembered the plan that he and Naruko discussed.


Flashback

"This is gonna be a little tricky, Tatsy. While this guy has no Teigu, he is still a dangerous man" Naruko said.

"So you have something in mind?" Tatsumi asked causing Naruko to smile innocently at him.

"It's just simple. You confront him head on and battle him. And if i see that your overpowered, i will interfere" Naruko said causing Tatsumi to sweatdrop.

Flashback end


"Your not the best strategist, Naruko" Tatsumi thought with a comical laugh and a sweatdrop on his face.

"Hey. This alleyway is good, right?" Ogre asked while glaring at Tatsumi.

"He doesn't even seem human..." Ogre thought. Tatsumi then fell to his knees, and placed his hands on the ground, bowing to Ogre.

"I beg of you! Please allow me in the Capital defense forces!" Tatsumi exclaimed with fake comical tears. Ogre blinked at this, while Naruko sweatdropped at this while hiding nearby.

"Your not the best strategist, Tatsy" Naruko thought.

"I must earn enough money to send back to my home in the country, sir!" Tatsumi exclaimed.

"Hahhhhh. I thought it would be something like this. Then apply through the normal process, you idiot" Ogre said before turning around to leave. Tatsumi saw this, and placed his hand on his sword that was strapped horizontally to his waist.

"But...in these hard times, it's very difficult to get in. That to be expected, isn't it?" Tatsumi asked slowly unsheathing his sword. Ogre felt a shred of killing intent from behind him, and placed his hand on his sword.

"So, I take it that you weren't strong enough to pass the entrance test?" Ogre asked.

And in a blink of an eye, Tatsumi zoomed towards Ogre, and casually blitzed him, slashing him with his sword across his gut, causing Ogre to gasp and fall on the floor, with blood splatting across the floor of the alleyway.

"I did it!" Tatsumi exclaimed, before he remembered what Akame told him.

"You haven't had a successful mission until you have given your first report"

"Ah! That's right! I need to give in my report-"

"TATSY! WATCH OUT!"

Hearing Naruko's yell, Tatsumi's eyes widened before he used his sword to block a sword strike from Ogre. While he did block the lethal hit that would have cut him in half, the strike was so strong that it sent him flying a few meters away. Ogre looked at Tatsumi with a furious mad look on his face. Naruko ran towards Tatsumi, standing beside him with a fighting stance.

"Are you okay?" Naruko asked her companion.

"Yeah. I think so" Tatsumi answered standing up with his sword in his hand. The two glared at Ogre, who was obviously angry.

"Did you think...that i, Ogre the demon...would be killed by the likes of a snot nosed little shit like you...?" Ogre asked in silent anger.

"The weak don't matter. Only the strong matter in this city...I PASS JUDGEMENT ON PEOPLE! DO YOU THINK YOU CAN JUDGE ME?!" Ogre yelled with a rather scary and disgusting angry face. Tatsumi, in respond, jumped high in the sky.

"Don't just say whatever you want!" He declared before descending on Ogre, slamming his sword on his. But Ogre proved to be stronger, as he pushed Tatsumi to the ground, forcing him in an endless struggle before slamming his sword hard on Tatsumi's sword, causing the ground to crack and for Tatsumi's legs to be buried underneath a small crater the size of his legs. Ogre just smirked evilly at him.

"I see. You two are from Night Raid. Am i right or what?" Ogre asked his smirk widened even more.

"Who hired you to kill me? You happen to know a lot about me. Was it possibly the bitch fiancee of the guy who was executed the other day?" Ogre asked, but then his smirk faded as he saw Naruko jumping at him with an emotionless cold look on her face, positioning her right fist to punch Ogre, who jumped away from Naruko's range, evading the punch and breaking the sword struggle between him and Tatsumi. He then saw Naruko pulling Tatsumi out of the small crater he was buried in by hooking her index finger on his hoodie before casually yanking him out of the small crater and placed him on his feet. Tatsumi didn't question her absurdly immense strength because it was not the time for it. He just clutched his sword tightly while glaring at Ogre, who looked at Naruko, specifically her abnormally large K-cups, and grinned lustfully.

"Heh. What a hot babe you have here. I will break your limbs, before catching and fucking her right in front of you. Then i will kill you before i take her with me to make her my cum bucket. Then i will find that bitch that hired you to kill me, then i will find the rest of her family and arrest them as criminals. Then i will force her to watch as they are executed one by one...BUT ONLY AFTER I HAVE KILLED YOU!" Ogre said yelling the last part, and before he knew it, Naruko was in front of him in less than a blink of an eye, causing Tatsumi to gasp at the speed, before he saw Naruko punching Ogre in the stomach so hard that Ogre coughed out a large amount of blood and he staggered away from her a few steps back and dropped his sword.

"You talk too much" Naruko whispered menacingly. Tatsumi snapped out of his shock and zoomed towards both Ogre and Naruko, and with a swift slash, Tatsumi slashed off Ogre's arm before swiftly twisting acrobatically in the air above Ogre, who was shocked to see both of his arms falling on the ground. Tatsumi then looked at Ogre with a menacing look on his face that showed absolutely no mercy, striking fear in the demon. The last thing that Ogre saw was Tatsumi in the air with his sword drawing a stream of blood of his own before Tatsumi descended upon him, before swiftly blitzing Ogre, cutting through him with his sword and drawing a large amount of blood from the large wounds inflicted by him. Tatsumi stood up, wiping his sword out of the blood before sheathing it. He then looked behind him at Naruko, only to see said person smiling brightly and giving him a thumbs up, which made him smile as well.


At Night Raid's base

"Good job dealing with the target you two! Excellent!" Najenda said smiling at both Tatsumi and Naruko. The latter smiling brightly in return, and the former puffing his chest and crossing his arms proudly.

"Ehehe. Thanks" Tatsumi said before turning to Akame.

"Not bad huh, Akame? I have done my job and given my first report. Though Naruko helped me in it" Tatsumi said to the silent red eyed girl, who just walked towards him.

"So now you will have to acknowledge m-" Tatsumi started talking proudly with his nose comically becoming long, but he couldn't finish as Akame stepped in and lifted his T-shirt up before dropping it on the ground. Tatsumi blinked at this for a couple of seconds, before gasping in shock.

"W-WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU DOING?!" He yelled in shock.

"Oh. Oh. Me too" Naruko said before she swiftly yanked Tatsumi's pants off, leaving him in his boxers.

"NOOOO!" Tatsumi yelled covering his boxers with his face burning from the rather awkward situation he was in.

"Oh. This seems like fun" Leone said reaching for his boxers, but Tatsumi desperately held on the last piece of cloth that was hiding his modesty in front of the four females in the room. Najenda stood up and restrained him by grasping his arms. Akame then turned around with a comical blank look on her face, looking at Tatsumi's body from all corners. She then stood in front of him for a couple of seconds, before suddenly, a small blush appeared on her face, along with a bright smile on her face, causing Tatsumi to gasp at this, having seen the emotionless assassin that looked absurdly like Shadow smile.

"I have seen friends die from poison because they wanted to be tough and not report the wound. But you seem to be undamaged. The morality rate for those on their first mission is high. You did very well" Akame said before extending her hand to Tatsumi to shake it, and Tatsumi accepted it with his hand, shaking her hand.

"Thanks!" Tatsumi exclaimed.

"Akame was hoping for you two to live. She would have been lonely without both of you" Leone said to both Tatsumi and Naruko.

"Ah! Akame-chan! Just know this, i die hard. I have been in situations worse than than. I have battled a three-tailed building-sized turtle that can obliterate large islands in a flash. This Ogre guy was nothing to me. I could actually handle him by myself" Naruko said proudly, before looking with a pure smile at Akame.

"But...Thank you for your concern. I really appreciate it. Thank you" Naruko said before extending her hand to Akame, and both shook hands as well.

"You know, you learn to communicate with your comrades while cooking. You learn to kill through a difficult hunt. Did you notice that everything you have done in those days was beneficial to you?" Najenda asked Tatsumi.

"Oh! Really?" Tatsumi exclaimed. He then turned to Akame.

"Sorry Akame. I misunderstood you" Tatsumi said with his head down in shame.

"That's okay. From now on, please continue on coming back alive, Tatsumi" Akame said.

"Sure! Please take care of me, Akame!" Tatsumi exclaimed while smiling, before he heard giggling, and turned around to see Leone and Naruko giggling at him with their hands on their mouths, trying to restrain their laughs.

"Oh my god. That's so adorable and cheesy and the fact that your almost naked makes it even more ridiculous" Leone said.

"Hey Tatsy. Can i jump in those boxers of yours?" Naruko asked playfully.

Those two phrases caused Tatsumi to blush red like a tomato with steam emitting from his ears.

"HEY YOUR THE ONES THAT STRIPPED ME! AND NO, NARUKO!" Tatsumi yelled before picking up his clothes and quickly putting them on.

"Okay. Next you and Menma will be working with Mine. So do your best" Najenda said causing Tatsumi to comically gasp at this.

"Out of the frying pan and landing right on the fire, huh?" Leone whispered to the still stunned Tatsumi with a comical grin on her face.

"SHE'S EVEN WORSE!" Tatsumi yelled, causing Mine, who was with her other teammates that were leaving for a mission in the Capital, to shiver. She then looked behind her, particularly at the base.

"For some reason, i just got the goosebumps" Mine said.


The next day

Tatsumi was walking alongside Mine and Menma. Shadow was working with Sheele, while Jean was working with Leone. Both looked around them on the people, and saw that each person had sad looks on their faces. Some even seemed to be broken.

"Finally at the capital. But now that i get a good look, there are lots of people with sour looks on their faces, huh?" Tatsumi asked.

"That's actually normal here. If your in a place where terrorism regions, then that would be the case. Looks like my former home village, though not too much" Menma said scratching the back of his head with his right hand, with the other hand being inside his pocket.

"Mr. Whitey is right. That's no wonder if they are under a region of terror and there's recession" Mine added, with Menma being a little annoyed with the nickname.

"Is it okay for us to walk out around in broad daylight so openly?" Tatsumi asked, causing Mine to point at four paintings on the wall in front of her. The pictures were of Najenda, Akame, Sheele and a fourth guy.

"Well, the only ones with wanted posters are those four" Mine said.

"Who's that in the middle?" Tatsumi asked pointing at the picture of the guy.

"That's Bulat" Mine answered.

"Oh. Bulat" Tatsumi said.

"..."

"..."

"..."

"WAIT A MINUTE! THAT'S BRO?!" Tatsumi yelled.

"He changed his look since joining Night Raid" Mine said, before Tatsumi visioned Bulat's current picture on that on the wanted poster. Then the image of Bulat made a peace sign, causing two comical stars to emerge and drop on Tatsumi's head, who was dumbfounded at this.

"Oh great. Just another picture to haunt me in my dreams" Tatsumi said.

"Well, We have a mission to complete" Mine said causing the two males to look at her.

"Bring it on. That's the reason you brought us along with you after all, right?" Tatsumi asked with a confident smirk on his face.

"Heh. I will dig in as well" Menma said flashing his own grin.

"Alright! Let's start with the inspection of the city's condition" Mine said raising her fist in the air with a smile.

"I don't know what does that mean, but Woo-Hoo!" Tatsumi exclaimed raising his fist in the air as well.

"I'm gonna put my two cents on this thing that you said that i know shit about!" Menma said raising his fist as well.

For the next few hours before afternoon, Mine, along with the two males with her would go to places she pointed at. First, they went to a food stand, where Mine ordered a chicken crepe and was cutely nibbling in it, while Tatsumi ordered an apple juice and was drinking it while looking around him. Menma on the other hand, was questioning the shop owner on how they don't have Ramen here. When the owner said to him that they don't sell this gruesome kind of food, it caused Menma to clutch the shop owner into a sleeper hold, chocking the life out of him. Next, they went to a female clothes shop. While Tatsumi was flustered from the various women undergarments around him, Menma was drooling to his heart's content due to obviously being a pervert. Mine then bought a maid outfit that perfectly fitted her. While Tatsumi was looking blankly at this, Menma was blushing heavily at Mine's beautiful view in not only the clothes, but also the smile that she had on her face. It was the first time he saw the pink tsundere smile innocently like this. It actually made him think about how cute Mine was. Maybe underneath this rough and bitchy attitude of hers was a marvelous garden of cutesy and innocence. This made the tracer crack a smile on his lips, which didn't go unnoticed by Mine, who blushed at this. Though Tatsumi didn't notice this. After what looked like eternity, but was actually a couple of hours, Mine, Menma and Tatsumi walked away, with the two males holding lots of various clothes in packages. While Tatsumi was struggling not to make the immense amounts of packages fall, Menma was busy looking at Mine in front of him smiling with a small blush on her face, which led him to throw the packages that he was holding and it perfectly and surprisingly fell on top of Tatsumi's own package, causing said youngster to become buried underneath the enormous mountain of packages as it fell on him. Finally, the three settled in a cafe, with Mine drinking a cup of coffee, while having a large cup of ice cream in front of her. Menma took the same ice cream that Mine ordered, while Tatsumi was contended with a cup of water, considering the fact that it was hot in spring, and the fact that he was looking sucked up in a rather comical way.

"Phew. We bought a lot. As expected, pink clothing is the trend in spring" Mine said sipping from her coffee.

"I guess" Tatsumi simply answered.

"Heh. Glad that your happy" Menma said smiling, causing Mine to blush, and before he knew it, he was blushing as well, realizing what he had just said.

"'Uhhh...Umm...What i meant was...that you looked cute with it" Menma said causing Mine's blush to harden at this, making Menma blush more in return.

"I mean...Uhhh..." Menma didn't know what to say and kept stuttering in front of the pinkie. Deciding to change the subject, Mine coughed out and finished sipping her coffee, before regaining her composure, smiling brightly.

"Okay! Mission complete!" Mine happily exclaimed. At the moment that she said this, Tatsumi rose to his feet and waved angerily at her.

"WHAT THE HELL DO YOU MEAN?! ALL WHAT WE WERE DOING WAS SHOPPING!" Tatsumi yelled after hearing what was considered to him to be the most greatest time wasting strategy he had ever saw in his life.

"Insolence" Mine said with a comical deadpan look on her face, and once she said this, she punched him swiftly in the face, making Tatsumi spin around in the air comically and fall onto the ground. Menma saw this and gasped.

"My God! That was terrifying, yet awesome. Sorry for not helping you, Tats" Menma thought. He then saw Mine stomping in front of the fallen Tatsumi, whose cheek was swollen from the punch he had on his face, with comical tears on his face.

"I'm above. Your below, and don't forget that! A subordinate shouldn't take back!" She said before stomping on Tatsumi's back, causing said person to scream in comical pain as the pinkie stomped on him several times while speaking.

"You should be grateful that i let you carry my bags" She said.

"Your my superior temporarily, though!" Tatsumi yelled back, causing Mine to smile menacingly at him, with Menma watching all of this with a smile on his face, biting his tongue to make sure that he won't burst out in laughter at this.

"Don't underestimate the power of the one in charge, newbie" She said before taking out a pen from a pocket in her dress. She then begun drawing in a roulette circle before finishing in a matter of seconds.

"I could use this roulette wheel to determine which other manga should i banish you to!" Mine exclaimed pointing at the roulette wheel behind her.

"Wow! Your a 4th Wall Breaker?! Awesome!" Menma exclaimed.

"Look, even your beloved Hatsukiai is in there" Mine said to Tatsumi, pointing at the name of said manga, which was at a small corner between two large corners that had 'Corpse Party' written on them.

"But i'm too scared of what happens if i miss it! Please make the one with the cuties a little wider!" Tatsumi exclaimed before sighing. He then noticed a commotion of people in front of a certain sight.

"What's all the commotion?" Tatsumi asked causing Menma and Mine to stand from their seats.

"Probably the public execution of someone who defied the Empire" Mine answered.

"That's a usual thing in the capital, Tats" Menma said rubbing the back of his head with an annoyed look on his face.

"H-How cruel..." Tatsumi said with a horrified look on his face, seeing mangled naked bodies tied to crosses with each body losing an arm or a leg and was shot by arrows and rocks. This scene caused Mine's hair to shadow her eyes

"Because the prime minister says it's okay...It was thanks to the shrewdness of the minister that the current young emperor won the battle for succession. But i...I won't be like them. I will definitely live...and see this fight to the end!" Mine exclaimed causing Tatsumi and Menma to look at her. The latter, however, was looking at her with a rather sympathetic look on his face. He then moved towards Mine, and caught her hand with both his hands, causing her to look at him in surprise.

"Then...Mine, i promise you...That i will live and won't die for the sake of your dream coming true!" Menma exclaimed to Mine. Luckily, Tatsumi was still in his thoughts about how much of a demon the prime minister was while looking at the imperial castle.

Mine blinked at what had just happened all of a sudden, before blushing hard at the current situation. She wanted to pull her hand out of the white haired boy's grasp, but the shock of being in the situation she was in right now didn't even help her to think about it at all. Menma himself blinked at this, before realizing what he had done just now. He then gasped before letting go of Mine's hand. He then looked away while blushing and scratching the back of his head. Mine herself was poking her fingers together while pouting cutely with a blush on her face.

"Uhhh...Umm...I'm sorry..." Menma said stuttering at the flustering situation he had put himself and the pinkie in.

"Th...That's okay. It's...nothing..." Mine herself stuttered.

"A...Anyway, since the mission is complete, then let's go home" Menma said before walking rapidly ahead of both Tatsumi and Mine.

"Oh God! That felt like i had a day in heaven! If only catching her hand feels like this, then what would happen if-" Menma trailed in his thoughts until he entered his perverted imagination.

"W-Why am i like this? He's just an ordinary boy, and he was only with us for a few why i-" Mine thought with her face heating up.


The next day

Menma, Tatsumi and Mine were on a tree in front of a luxurious compound. Apparently, they had a mission to assassinate a blood relative of the prime minister called Iwokaru. This man abducts girls from the Capital, then he rapes them before beating them to death alongside his five bodyguards.

And the three young assassins were on the spot where they would snipe Iwokaru, with the rest of the team waiting for the bodyguards to finish them off.

"So that's the compound where Iwokaru is" Tatsumi said looking with the googles in his hands on the compound.

"Honestly, this is boring. I can just shoot down the entire compound" Menma said holding a large black bow in his left hand.

"We can't. There are innocent people there" Mine said before adjusting Pumpkin.

"I won't be able to hit him from this distance. I will have to wait until he comes out of the compound to strike" Mine said.

"Then it will be my turn to strike after the shooting, right? Leave it to me!" Tatsumi exclaimed.

"Hmph. Don't get your hopes up" Mine said before in an instant, both she and Menma had a rather cold and silent look towards the compound. Menma held his hand out, and light engulfed his hand before fading to reveal a beautiful silver drill-like arrow in his hand before the arrow compressed into a glowing golden thin rod. Menma then placed the golden rod on the string of his bow, closed one eye and looked in front of him with concentration. Mine was also looking through the scope of Pumpkin, waiting for Iwokaru to emerge.

"He's come out" Mine said.

"Yeah. I can clearly see it. Concentrate on the sniping point" Menma said.

"Hold up. Are you two going to snipe while there are innocent people?" Tatsumi asked.

"It doesn't matter" Mine simply answered before pressing the trigger of Pumpkin, unleashing a laser beam that flew towards the compound, and hit Iwokaru right in between his eyes, killing him instantly. Tatsumi was agape at this, before he saw Menma releasing his grip on the string of his bow, unleashing the golden rod that flew at speeds faster than light. The rod collided with the compound, effectively blowing it up in an enormous explosion that left an enormous amount of fire along with a giant smokescreen.

Needless to say, not only Tatsumi was shocked, but Mine as well, despite the fact that she didn't wan't to admit it.

"H-How...?" Tatsumi asked.

"I'm just a genius archer. I can go against the genius sniper with my skills" Menma said smirking slyly at Mine, who puffed her cheeks at this.

"Whatever, let's go" Mine said.

"Tats. Go and help the others. Me and Mine will make sure to see there are no pursuers" Menma said making Tatsumi nod without questioning, before he hopped off the tree and ran towards the direction of the other assassins. Menma and Mine then descended from the tree and begun to walk into the opposite direction.

"Aw Jeez. Those roots are hard to walk on" Mine said struggling to walk on top of the pile of tree roots.

"If i'm not wrong, the bodyguards who are pursuing us are trained at the Koukenji dojo, the best martial arts temple in the Empire. Am i right or what?" Menma asked following Mine from behind. They then begun climbing a small cliff, with Mine climbing above Menma, who blushed and got a small nose bleed upon taking a view of her pink panties which were covered by her leggings from underneath her skirt. Luckily, the pinkie didn't notice this as she was busy climbing the cliff.

"Yeah. Your right. Besides, if your a relative of the prime minister, the grades of your bodyguards goes up. Doing whatever he wants using his relative's name for cover...is the type of thing i hate the most" She said before both finished climbing the cliff. Mine dusted off her dress, before looking at Menma, and raised an eyebrow in confusion upon seeing his a stream of blood coming out of his nose.

"What's the matter with your nose? You got hit or something?" Mine asked Menma.

"Uhhh...Yeah. A rock hit me in the nose, but that's okay. My healing factor allows me to regenerate even if i was burnt to ash" Menma said grinning.

"Wow! You have something like this?! Amazing!" Mine said in awe, causing Menma to look at her in confusion.

"Whoa. It's the first time i see you excited like this" Menma said making Mine gasp at this.

"I wasn't excited!" Mine said blushing while buffing her cheeks cutely, making Menma cover his mouth to restrain his laughter with a blush on his face, with tears building on his eyes.

"H-Hey! What are you laughing at?!" Mine asked rather loudly.

"Oh my God! So fucking cute i can't stand it anymore!" Menma said while restraining himself from bursting out in laughter on the extremely rare cutesy.

"Hmph. Whatever" Mine said huffing before turning around with her back.

"Say Mine. Can i ask you something?" Menma asked making Mine look at him with a curious look on her face.

"Can you...tell me about your past? I mean. what made you join the Revolutionary Army in the first place?" Menma said, making Mine huff again before looking at him.

"Fine. I will tell you about my past" Mine said.

"That was too quick!" Menma exclaimed in his thoughts.

"I was born and raised on the western border of the Empire. And half of my blood is foreign. I was mercilessly ridiculed. Nobody accepted me. My childhood was made of misery. But you know, the Revolutionary Army formed an alliance with the people of the west. If we made a new country, diplomatic relations would grow, many races would mingle, and there will be no more kids who will suffer like me...Never again, will i let there be any form of discrimination!" Mine finished her story, with Menma watching and listening, starting to see Mine in a new color.

"Mine..." He trailed before suddenly, Mine turned around to face the red haired tracer, with her serious expression gone in a flash, replaced by a comical arrogant look.

"Not to mention that after all i have done for the sake of the success of the Revolution, i will get repaid handsomely and live like a celebrity in a life of complete and eternal luxury! OHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOHOH~!" Mine exclaimed laughing comically at Menma's face, causing the tracer to opt a comical look which mixed both comical anger and disappointment on his face.


With the rest of the group

"Huh. What a drag. They were nothing" Naruko said boringly.

"Haah. I feel so refreshed~" Leone exclaimed happily after killing one of the guards with a charge punch to the face. Akame looked around her, which didn't go unnoticed by Shadow.

"Your thinking what i'm thinking?" Shadow asked making Akame nod in respond.

"That's strange. There should have been five bodyguards" Akame said as cold as ever.

"I didn't get to kill any of them" Lubbock said puffing his cheeks.

"That means that half of your reward goes away, lover" Leone said smirking at the green haired boy.

"EHHHH?!" Lubbock screeched. Suddenly, Jean gasped and held his head with wide eyes. Everyone looked at him.

"Huh? What's up, Jean?" Bulat asked.

"Sha Nagba Imuru..." Jean whispered.

"What?" Leone asked confused.

"Shadow. This is bad. The Akatsuki is here" Jean said causing Naruko to gasp and Shadow to look at him with a stern look.

"We don't have much time. Menma and Mine are in grave danger. Let's hurry to the meeting point" Shadow said before running ahead of the others, who followed him on suit.


With Menma and Mine

The two assassins were walking up the hill. The two were walking in silence until a sakura tree with its petals dancing in the night sky appeared in their view.

"We're almost at the meeting place" Menma said.

"That means mission accomplished" Mine said.

"Your still on a mission until the minute you give your report!" Menma exclaimed with a grin, making Mine smile lightly before seeing Menma reaching the tree.

"Those are Akame's words, right?" Mine asked, but she didn't get an answer. She only got Menma, who opted a look of danger on his face, before he ran towards her and pushed her to the side.

"WHA-?!" Mine started to question the sudden action of her comrade pushing her to the ground, only to have the answer upon Menma forming his two twin short swords to block a direct hit from sword that looked like as if it had scales, with bandages wrapped around its lower half and the hilt was dull yellow with a skull at the pummel. Menma then pushed his assaulter from him, allowing himself to gain a good view of who attacked him.

It was a very tall, muscular man. He had a distinctive shark-like appearance, complete with pale, green skin. He has small, round, white eyes, 3 sets of curved facial markings under his eyes, gills on his shoulders, and sharp triangular teeth. He also had blue hair in the form of a shark fin and wore dark-purple nail polish. His outfit consisted of a black cloak with red clouds on it, and he had a yellow ring on his left ring finger with the kanji 'South' written on it.

"My. You sure have the power, kid" The man said flashing a smirk at Menma, showing his shark-like teeth. Menma then took notice of the metal headband on the shark-like man's head. It had 4 water wave-like strips on it and the metal headband itself was carved with a thick horizontal scratch on it.

"A missing ninja. And from Kirigakure no less. Also judging by the cloak...Your from the Akatsuki, right?" Menma asked the man while glaring at him.

"That's right, boy. You just hit the nail" The man said before spinning his sword casually, then he pointed it at Menma.

"Now kid. Come with us nice and calm. And we won't hurt neither you nor the pink loli that you have" The man said snickering.

"I won't come with you or anyone. And that pink loli that your talking about...is mine!" Menma exclaimed, making Mine blush heavily at this, with steam literally coming out of her ears.

"Is this is necessary right now?" Mine asked with her blush deepening even more.

"No. I just felt like saying it" Menma said chuckling at Mine's expression. The pinkie's expression suddenly changed into that of horror.

"Menma! Watch Out!" Mine yelled to her comrade who looked in front of him to see the shark man in front of him with his sword raised above his head, ready to cleave Menma in half. Menma then jumped backwards to avoid the overhead swing that would have killed him instantly. Menma looked at the sword of his opponent, eyeing it carefully. His eyes then widened upon realizing what this sword was.

"That's Samehada. One of the legendary swords of the Seven Swordsmen of The Hidden Mist. That means that your..." Menma trailed in his speech.

"Yes. That's right kid. I'm Kisame Hoshigaki. The one and only" The man, now known as Kisame, exclaimed proudly.

"Hm. Then that means that i will have to step this battle up a notch" Menma said before his twin swords blinked out of existence.

"Trace On!" He exclaimed before light gathered around Menma's hands. The light faded to reveal an oversized flint axe sword made out of pure rock, with bandages surrounding its hollow hilt. Mine was amazed at how Menma brought a sword as giant as that out of thin air, and despite it looking extremely heavy, Menma was spinning it around rather casually! And with only one hand no less!

"Oho?! You can create weapons out of thin air?! Amazing needless to say!" Kisame said in excitement.

"IT MAKES ME WANT TO KILL YOU!" He yelled before charging at Menma, who stood still in his place and closed his eyes.

"Menma! What the hell are you doing?!" Mine yelled to the white haired tracer, who stood still in his place.

"Trace on. Trigger off..." He whispered as Kisame was nearing him at astonishing speeds, and just as Kisame was a mere inch from slicing him apart...

"Nine Lives Blade Works!"

In what looked like an instant to both Mine and Kisame, Menma executed 8 rapid slashes at Kisame, which were faster that the speed of light. Said 8 slashes ripped off Kisame's right arm, left leg, right half of his face, right leg, hair, left arm, torso, and ribs. Kisame gasped at the sudden assault which he didn't even have time to react to. Menma then took this chance, and roared fiercely before delivering a forward stab to Kisame's chest, pulverizing his heart and effectively executing 9 sowrd strikes at the missing ninja of Kirigakure. Menma then swung the axe sword upwards, effectively ribbing off what remained of Kisame's body in half. All of the 10 body parts of Kisame fell on the ground emotionless. Menma then looked at the body parts with a serious look on his face. It then dissolved into water, shocking Mine.

"W-What is that?!" Mine asked in shock.

"That...was a water clone" Menma answered, causing Mine to tilt her head in confusion.

"A water clone? What does that mean?" She asked.

"It means that he's still alive" Menma answered before moving the sword above his head to block a downward slash from Kisame's sword. Mine decided to help, and aimed Pumpkin at Kisame, before shooting an energy blast on him. Kisame just smirked before positioning Samehada in front of the incoming energy beam, then the sword suddenly grew shark spikes on it before twisting into unnatural angles, and a mouth with an abnormally long tongue appeared from the tip of the sword. The mouth opened, and swallowed Mine's energy beam, causing the sniper to gasp in shock and disbelief. Menma then took this chance, and pushed Kisame away from him. He then dismissed the axe sword in a flash of light, before he jumped towards the airborne Kisame. He then extended his arm and gently touched Kisame's chest, who raised an eyebrow at this. Suddenly, Kisame gasped and his face held a shocked look as a hole that looked like a luck leaf found itself on Kisame's chest. Strange thing though that there was no blood that came out of the hole, and Kisame's heart was nowhere to be found. Menma then grabbed Kisame's motionless body, using it as a support to jump higher in the air, such that he would be above the body of his seemingly dead opponent. Light then began to form in Menma's hands, before fading to reveal a double-edged sword with its blade being thin, and it had a blue hilt. Menma took a deep breath, before roaring a sky splitting cry.

"Excalibur Galatine!" He exclaimed before waving the sword, unleashing an enormous blazing arc of fire that had the same heat as the sun. The fire wave flew downwards at Kisame's airborne body, before making contact, creating a soaring explosion that could be seen from the top of the mountains away from forest the fighters were in. Said wave blazed Kisame's body on fire, effectively annihilating it out of existence. Menma landed on his feet on the ground, looking at the seemingly burned forest, with the sakura tree in the middle remaining unscathed due to not having a contact with the fire wave. The sword in Menma's hands disappeared in a flash of light.

"What the hell...was that...?" Mine asked, having seen all of the magical show that Menma had done, and the display of massive strength in complete awe and shock visible on her face. Menma, seeing this, bit his lip to fight the urge of laughing. He then placed his right palm on his mouth and closed his eyes with a small blush on his face and tears building on the corners of his eyes.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU LAUGHING AT?!" Mine screeched in a comical angry tone with her twin pony tails rising up to the sky comically.

"Oh fuck. So fucking cute..." Menma said with his hand still in his mouth, causing Mine to blush at this and opt a childish pout on her face. Menma saw this as well and blinked, before bursting out in laughter while holding his stomach tightly with both arms, with his head raised up to the sky and his mouth wide open in laughter.

"S-Stop laughing already!" Mine retorted with a blush on her face. This continued for a couple of seconds, before Menma stopped laughing, and was grinning at Mine, wiping the tear in the corner of his eyes.

"S-so, what was that?" Mine asked.

"What do you mean?" Menma asked opting a confused look on his face.

"I only know that you can create swords, but what was that when you made a hole in that guy's chest by only touching it?" Mine asked.

"Oh! That one! That was called Zabaniya: Dead Heartbeat Melody" Menma answered.

"Excuse me?" Mine asked in confusion while crossing her arms above her rather petite chest.

"That's a Noble Phantasm" Menma said.

"A Noble Phantasm?" Mine asked again.

"Yeah. It's a weapon crafted upon mythological and historical heroes. Like King Arthur, Lancelot, Iskander, Archimedes, Gawain, and so on" Menma answered.

"Oh. So you can call forth weapons from the past or something?" Mine asked.

"More or less" Menma said.

"Huh?" Mine asked.

"I actually trace them. Once i know the structure of the Noble Phantasm along with the wielder of said weapon, i can project the weapon that i desire into reality. Although not the original one, i can still copy its properties to the fullest and even enhance it beyond its true powers and capabilities, giving it more power and more characteristics" Menma explained briefly to the sniper.

"So, i take it that by 'tracing' and 'projecting', you can also copy others' weapons?" Mine asked.

"Yeah. I can do that too. For example, i can make a more refined and more perfected copy of your Pumpkin. Also, once the weapon is in my hands, even if it's not a sword, i can swiftly use it like a pro, even if i didn't have any past experience with it" Menma said.

"Wow! All of this?" Mine asked in surprise.

"Yup. And as an answer for your question, Zabaniya: Dead Heartbeat Melody is the Noble Phantasm of Hassan-i-Sabbah. Or as you assassins know him as the Old Man of The Mountain, and the leader of the Hashshashin" Menma said, causing Mine to widen her eyes at the rather surprising discovery and rather valuable information.

"That's awesome! I never knew that a pervert like you would have all this kind of knowledge!" Mine said, causing a vein to pop on Menma's forehead, and a comical tick mark appeared on the back of his forehead.

"DO I TAKE THAT AS AN INSULT?!" Menma yelled in comical anger at the pinkie sniper, who scoffed mockingly on him.

"Take it as you like, Red Pole" Mine said mockingly. Menma then butted heads with her, with both of them glaring at each other in comical anger with gritted teeth.

"Then i take it that you want a fight?!" Menma asked.

"Hell yeah! Bring it on, Metal Head!" Mine shot back.

Suddenly, Menma gasped in shock, before he grabbed Mine and switched places with her rapidly. Mine was about to complain, but stopped once Menma was sent flying away from her to the ground as someone punched him so hard that the daylights were literally knocked out of his eyes. Mine then looked at the one responsible for this with gritted teeth.

It was a young man with long blonde hair that was tied in a long braid that was dangling from the back. He wore a black and white battle suit with belts around it. He had a grin on his face while looking at Mine.

"That guy...The assistant instructor for the past ten years...He's strong as expected" Mine said through her gritted teeth.

"My skills surely have dulled" The man said smugly. Mine then forced a smirk of her own at his face.

"Full of yourself, aren't you?" Mine asked before raising Pumpkin towards the man.

"Let's take you down a peg!" Mine exclaimed before shooting energy blasts at the blonde man, who effortlessly dodged all of them with a smirk on his face and his hands crossed underneath his chest. Mine gasped in shock at this.

"No way..." She said, and before she knew it, the man was right in front of her, with the same smug smirk on his face.

"Time to get rid of evil! I will be delivering you to the minister alive. I hope your prepared!" The blonde martial artist exclaimed with his smug smirk plastered on his face. Mine clutched Pumpkin tightly, and gritted her teeth in anger and fear. Though she didn't show it, it can be easily told that she was indeed afraid judging by the cold beads of sweat that were running down her face.

"Don't joke!" Mine exclaimed trying to muster what guts and courage she could feel inside her. The two didn't notice that Menma, who was obviously pissed at the cheap shot that he took, had gotten up to his feet, gritting his teeth in anger. He then opened both of his palms, summoning Kanshou and Bakuya in his hands. He then dashed towards the blonde martial artist, creating a sonic boom behind him, which altered the man about his presence from behind. He then turned around just in time to catch a downwards swing from Menma's Kanshou. Menma then took this chance, and stabbed Bakuya into the man's right shoulder, causing the man to grunt in pain, and get distracted by the pain for a split second before shrugging it off and threw Menma away from him.

However this split second was all that Menma wanted as before he got thrown away, he stabbed Kanshou into his left thigh, causing the man to grunt in pain again. Menma then fluidly spun acrobatically in the air before gracefully landing on his feet on the ground. He then smirked at the blonde martial artist, causing the man to grit his teeth in anger.

"YOU LITTLE SHIT! JUST HOW THE HELL DO YOU THINK YOU ARE?!" The man yelled in anger. Menma responded by crossing his arms and opening his palms right in front of the man, who was confused by this act.

"Kanshou and Bakuya: Trace Overedge..."

The blonde man barely heard this whisper, before suddenly, Kanshou and Bakuya that were stabbed in the man's left thigh and right shoulder respectively grew bigger in an instant, and looked like a pair of wings, with Kanshou being white and Bakuya being black. The man screamed at the sudden pain. Menma then took this chance to run towards the blonde man and grabbed him by the waist in a firm grip.

"Now Mine! Shoot!" Menma yelled to the pinkie sniper.

"Menma...To give your life for me..." Mine said with comical tears running down her eyes.

"I'M NOT SACRIFICING MYSELF, MORON!" Menma yelled with comical anger plastered on his face.

"Your a genius sniper, aren't you? I believe in you, even if you shoot me with it" Menma said grinning at the pinkie. The blonde martial artist, hearing this, proceeded to bash Menma on the head with his good arm.

"Shit! Let Go!" The man exclaimed in panic while hitting Menma rapidly on the head.

"HURRY!" Menma yelled, before Mine opted a smile on her face.

"Hmm. You cocky newbie...I WILL DO AS YOU LIKE!" Mine exclaimed before aiming Pumpkin at both Menma and the blonde martial artist, with the gun Teigu swelling with spiritual energy. The blonde man gasped in horror at this.

"W-WAIT A SEC-!"

The man barely yelled before Mine fired an energy blast at both him and Menma, who was still firmly grabbing the man in a bear hug. The beam passed through, barely missing Menma's head by a hair, and created a good hole through the martial artist's torso. The man then coughed up blood and glared at Mine with his body shivering from the pain.

"Guh...Ah...You guys...Since you laid hands on a relative of the minister...Don't you think...this...is...over..." Those were the last words of the blonde martial artist before he fell on the floor and right to his death, dragging Menma, who was still bear hugging him to the ground. Mine then walked towards Menma, who was still on the floor, towering over him with Pumpkin in her right hand, and the light breeze blowing both her hair and the sakura petals away towards the endless pitch black night.

"Oi. It's seems that you have some guts" She said before blushing lightly and closing her eyes.

"I can't help but be a little bit impressed by-" Mine started talking but was halted as Menma got up and flicked her forehead. She then clutched the spot where she was flicked with both hands, and with a cute expression on her face.

"Say what you want, but that shot was far too close" The white haired tracer said calmly before he pointed to his hair, which was literally steaming with black smoke.

"LOOK AT WHAT THAT PUMPKIN DID TO MY FREAKIN' HAIR!" He yelled with comical tears streaming down his cheeks while pointed at the spot that was smoking. Mine then blushed at this while having an annoyed look on her face due to her comrades actions.

"WHAT UP WITH YOU?! I WAS FINALLY WILLING TO ACCEPT YOU!" Mine yelled.

"SHUT UP! YOUR NOT A GENIUS SNIPER! YOUR STUCK SOMEWHERE ON THE STUDENT LEVEL!" Menma yelled back.

"WHAT?! OF COURSE I'M A GENIUS!" Mine yelled.

"AND BY THE WAY, GENIUSES WOULDN'T CALL THEMSELVES GENIUSES!" Menma yelled once again.

What both of them were unaware of was the fact that the rest of the Night Raid were watching them while chuckling, save for Akame, who was sweatdropping at this.

"Maybe you were so worried, Jean?" Leone asked the blonde youngster.

"What? No! Sha Nagba Imuru would never lie! I foresaw that an Akatsuki member was going to ambush them" Jean retorted back.

"And you were right" Shadow said calmly.

"How can you tell?" Bulat asked the black haired man.

"I can tell from the scent. I have met every single Akatsuki member in the battlefield. Unfortunately, however, he seemed to have escaped. What Menma was fighting was actually a clone of the original. However, judging by the remains of the Chakra in the air, the Akatsuki member must have pumped the clone with immense amounts of Chakra. So it was like as if Menma was fighting the original one" Shadow explained causing each member of Night Raid to look at him in awe, save for Naruko and Jean. Shadow looked around him with cold and narrowed eyes at his comrades.

"What? Did i say something wrong?"


Several meters away from the forest

A fair distance away from the battlefield, Kisame was shaking while walking slowly. His body was reeking of sweat and he was gasping heavily for breath.

"Damn it! That kid is so strong! If i was in the place of my water clone, i would have turned into roosted fish!" Kisame exclaimed before stopping in his walking. He then turned his head around to look at the forest where the battle between his clone and Menma happened. He then forced a smile on his lips despite the extreme fatigue resulted from pumping his clone with all of his Chakra.

"Heh. That kid is no joke. I hope i get to meet him again, and this time, i will be the one to personally fight you" Kisame said before continuing to walk away.


And Done! Oh God! The first chapter, and it took me around 3 weeks to make it. I had installed around 4 chapters of the Akame Ga Kill Manga in this one.

And by the way, yes, There will be lemons, and that's a female Naruto neglect fanfic, alongside some...unique traits in it. I will also post the pictures of the characters that are gonna appear in this fanfic on my profile page afterwards.

Next Chapter: Night Raid vs Zank the Beheader.

Until Next Time and Next Chapter!

Kyukyoku Rinnegan, Out.