Hey all, I had an idea for an Akame ga Kill fanfic and I don't know if I have enough time to do this now so I wanted to see if anyone actually thought this was interesting. It will take characters from both the prequel and the manga. There will be some things changed in the past so it will have a slightly different world history and some characters will be changed from the canon. The most prevalent character will be Seryu but some other characters will have slightly different backstories and places throughout the story. More focus will be put on different characters such as Lubbock and Chelsea since I like them more but every character will have their own moment to shine. If you all could tell me if you like this that will be great to see if I should continue this or not. Thank you for anyonethat at least gives this story a read, I hope you all enjoy it and if you have any questions feel free to contact me. Without a further do, my Akame ga Kill fanfic: Bringers of Revolution- Night Raid

Snowflakes glistened as the fell down on the ground, It was that time of year again, winter. The snow from the sky above had already covered the ground in it's cold blanket. Once again the callous winter had been set upon them, however this was without a doubt the worst winter that they had ever seen. If it kept up then some drastic measures had to be taken.

Rubbing his exposed skin, Tatsumi looked up towards the sky. It was dark and gloomy, for this time of day, that was a pretty bad sign. From his experience that either meant a storm was coming or the temperature was going from bad to worse. Neither of those were delectable to anyone in the village. Sighing, Tatsumi took his eyes off of the dark winter sky.

Instead Tatsumi focused his attention down at the sword on his side. It was cold, obviously a result from the surroundings. Soon his time to use it would come, after all, he had been preparing for almost all of his life. His time would come when he would need to help the village out, for him to his duty to the town, and to Kami-sama. Letting go of his sword, Tatsumi turned back to look at his village. Since he had never lived anywhere but here, it was his home and everything he knew.

"Tatsumi come back in, Sayo says you should have a coat on if you're outside in this weather." It was his first and best friend, Ieyasu. Or rather, as it seemed now, Sayo's messenger. Before walking back to the house, Tatsumi watched a white cloud of air leave his mouth until it disappeared into nothingness

"Then why didn't she come out and tell me herself?" Tatsumi asked sarcastically as he walked inside. It was certainly a lot warmer inside than it was outside. After both cleaning off his hair and shoes of snow, he walked into the main room of the house.

The scene was just as it had always been. None of the furniture had been moved around other than the table. This wasn't an extreme change of pace as Sayo had almost always moved it into the middle whenever she had the chance. According to her, no matter what was going on in the house, her game was without a doubt trumped everything else.

"Come on Ieyasu, it's your turn." Sayo groaned as soon as the black haired teenager entered the room. If Tatsumi had to guess, Ieyasu was taking too much time, and by that, he had taken more than a couple of seconds to decide which piece to move.

"How about you move it for me then." Ieyasu stated as he fell on to the chair he had been sitting at. Tatsumi to found himself sitting at the table looking at the gameboard between the two players. Even with his limited knowledge of chess, he knew that no matter what Ieyasu did, he was going to lose. All he could do now was delay the inevitable.

"That wouldn't be any fun, where's the fun in winning against yourself, Now choose." Sayo stated as she grabbed the top of his head a pushed it down so he was looking at the gameboard.

"Not cool." Ieyasu said as he ruffled his hair back to the way it was. To Tatsumi there was no difference in his hair, they both looked as though he had just came out of bed and slapped a headband on. At least he tried to keep his brown hair in check, albeit not with much success. "It's not like I will win anyways." Ieyasu said as with almost no confidence moved his queen.

"Thank you." Sayo smiled as she swiftly maneuvered her piece through to forest of its brethren till it was in the right position. "Check mate." Sayo stated as she flicked Ieyasu's king out from the corner it had been hiding in. Ieyasu proceed to then knock over every single piece that was on the board.

"He blew up." Ieyasu stated with a blank face. This face did not last long and when it finally broke, Tatsumi joined him in his laughter. They had even gotten Sayo to giggle a little bit. After the number of times they had been absolutely annihilated by Sayo, they had learned how to make their failures epic.

In under a minute, Sayo had already set up the chess board for another game. "Hey, Tatsumi, do you want to play some?" Sayo asked as she looked at him with a smile on her face. Tatsumi had long since stopped playing chess with her. Ever since he had lost Nine Hundred and Ninety Nine times against he wasn't willing to push that number into quadruple digits. Thankfully, Ieyasu had taken the bullet and had well over Tatsumi's total, and yet hadn't won a single game.

"I'd rather not." Tatsumi stated as per usual and Ieyasu easily slotted into his role as the failure against Sayo's ever expanding repertoire of moves she had accumulated. Out of the three of them, Sayo was without a doubt the smartest. Their teacher however had always commended Ieyasu on his raw strength and skill, while Tatsumi had always had a fair balance between the two.

Tatsumi watched as Ieyasu kept making bad mistake after bad mistake. It seemed as though he never learned, and somehow Sayo never did the same move twice. Out of the three of them, Sayo had the greatest chance of becoming a general in the Imperial Army. Especially with two impressive female generals before her, she could easily gain the general rank. However Tatsumi and even more so Ieyasu were screwed in that regard. Their skill sets geared them towards being the a foot soldier rather than a commander.

A loud pounding sound echoed from the front door and Ieyasu immediately jumped to go answer it. While Tatsumi had absolutely no problem answering it, Ieyasu just wanted a break from being slaughter by Sayo.

"Tatsumi, the chief is here for you, he wants to talk." Ieyasu said as he returned to the room at sat down in what he had dubbed, the throne of mistakes. By this point it was more of a kingdom. Ieyasu proved this with the very next play he may. It resulted him losing his pawn formation. After bidding his two friends an unceremonious goodbye, he walked outside to meet the chief.

"I remember just yesterday when you were this tall and could barely walk on your own two feet." The chief said as he ruffled Tatsumi's hair. While none of the teenagers in the village ever liked him talking about them in such a fashion, Tatsumi was fine with it. There would come a time when he left this village and even the chief's annoying tendencies would bring a smile to his face.

"Thanks." Tatsumi said as he set his hair back into the right place. "What did you want me for?" Tatsumi asked the chief. It was rare for him to come outside of his cabin at this time of year. His old age had finally caught up with him and the winter just added on to it. At least, the chief, unlike Tatsumi had actually dressed for the occasion.

"I have something to give to you, I've been hesitant of giving this for you for a while now however with you now about to head to the capital, the time had come for me to make a decision, so here." The chief had took out a clay doll and handed it to Tatsumi. This particular clay doll he had seen many times inside the chief's house. It had always been on a shelf, and quote, should not be touched under any circumstance. Everyone had wanted to touch and Tatsumi was no different. And now he had it in his hand

"Carry it with and Kami-sama will always protect you, as long as you are are willing to ask." The chief said as he let go of the doll and left it in the green eyed boy's hands. "Good luck, Tatsumi." The chief bid his final words before turning to leave, this attempt was stopped before he could add two more footprints into the snow.

"Sir, there is four people from the capital coming in on horseback, they should be here any minute." It was one of their messengers, and significantly out of breath at that. He had used all of his strength to get back to the village in time.

"Who was it?" Tatsumi asked immediately, anyone to make them run like this was certainly dangerous.

"General Esdeath." Or simply referred to has the empire's strongest. Even the extent of her strength had reached out all the to this small village in the north. They were in for a world of hurt if Esdeath came, no one even had a chance to survive.

"Tell everyone to run, now, they take no prisoners." The chief said as he ushered of the messenger. Not even saying another word to anyone else, Tatsumi ran inside to tell Sayo and Ieyasu immediately. They needed to get out of her, they were the people that Tatsumi cared about most and he wouldn't General Esdeath have her with them

"Ieyasu, Sayo the empire is here, we have to leave now!" Tatsumi yelled at the top of his lungs as soon as he entered the quaint house. They didn't make sound of objection, not even Sayo who was most likely beating Ieyasu again. The both of them were at Tatsumi's side in less than ten seconds, only with weapons in their hands. Tatsumi was in and out of the house in less than ten minutes.

As soon as they walked outside they say four people on horseback at the edge of the town. Three of them were males however the one called General Esdeath was the one female of the group. That didn't mean that the other three next to her didn't look menacing. There was only one thought in each of the teenagers minds, Run!

"O Look some of the villagers are running, they're like little kids." It was one of the males speaking, a higher voice than was expected. It was the voice Tatsumi had when he was thirteen, and now, his nineteen year old self could only scoff. Someone with that voice like that must not be well respected. "General, can I take some of them to play?" He asked in a quite disturbing tone.

"I think I want to play with them this time." The female, General Esdeath stated nonchalantly. "Nyau, play your flute, let's see if they can stay awake."

The high pitched Nyau scoffed loudly as his feet touched the blanket of snow, "It's not a flute, it's a recorder." A smooth sedate melody filled the air and quickly spread throughout air as the recorder's music started.

Tatsumi didn't even slow down, he wasn't even listening, all Tatsumi was doing was running. In front of him, Ieyasu started to slow down, whatever the flute or recorder was doing it wasn't good. However, him and Sayo were unaffected and kept on running. That was until Ieyasu face planted into the snow.

"Ieyasu!" Sayo turned back around and yanked his head out of the snow by his untamed black hair. Upon running further, Tatsumi saw the downcast face of Ieyasu, and that itself was an oddity. Sayo pulled her hand back and slapped the back of her palm across Ieyasu's face, instantly waking up.

"Ouch, what was-" Ieyasu said he seemed to pop out of a trance

"Doesn't matter, Run!" Sayo yelled as she pulled Ieyasu onto his feet by the hair. There was a slight whimper of pain from Ieyasu but he didn't complain or speak up against the unnecessary pain.

Not letting himself fall behind again, Ieyasu took off in a sprint. There was no inherent problem with that other than the fact that before doing so he grabbed Sayo arm. As a result, Sayo was nearly taken off her feet and dragged by Ieyasu. However, Sayo there was no way in hell that she would let that happen, so she ripped Ieyasu arm off of her and took off like Ieyasu, only faster. Tatsumi followed in suit, but only for mere seconds before he felt an intense shot of pain come from his leg.

His blood stained the white snow crimson red where he fell onto the ground. It was as though a bullet had just tore through his lower leg but instead of being small and metal, what had shot through him definitely was not. Lying just a couple of feet in front of him was a shard of scarlet ice. It had tore through the born in his lower leg like it was nothing and came out of the other end. The bone in his lower leg bone had offered up absolutely no resistance against it.

"Those three have some speed, I can take them out?" It was a new voice, and it was eager for action. Tatsumi heard the patter of horse's hooves moving forward. Tatsumi quickly looked down at his lower leg, which had been wounded quite badly. The blood was pouring out of outer side of his lower leg.

"You can take out the last two, don't touch the first one, he's mine." General Esdeath had spoken up once again. Her voice was cold and frightening yet somehow still had a feminine touch to it, even if it chilled Tatsumi to his very bones. In response to this one of the horses started to gallop against the snow.

"Sayo, Ieyasu run, Now!" Tatsumi yelled as he managed to get himself onto his feet. The moment he stood up his leg gave way and he fell back on the ground. It was as if weighed time as much and that he had sledgehammers constantly being banged against the side of his leg, the pain was unbearable. Using his sword as a cane, Tatsumi managed to get back on his pain was nowhere near bearable, in fact it was almost enough to make him black out, but he managed to keep himself standing. He heard both Sayo and Ieyasu yell something back at him but he was in way too much pain to decipher the words. Instead he yelled his response back at them, "GO!" Tatsumi yelled as he turned around to face the four people on horseback.

One of them was running towards him, the largest one of the four. He wore an incredible smug grin with a ridiculous horns on the top of his head. Both of his hands were on the reins of his horse. Tatsumi had to give Ieyasu and Sayo the best chance to escape. Holding his short sword with both of his hands, Tatsumi readied his blade. Then Tatsumi instantly put his hand down to try and least keep himself upright, his leg was still screaming out in pain. The male behemoth didn't seem to notice this, he just past right on by, not even noticing Tatsumi. That was until Tatsumi took out of the horse's legs, crippling it.

Tatsumi watched as the huge man, landed on the ground with both feet, not even phased by what had just happened. For a split second he looked back at Tatsumi before taking after his two friends. If Tatsumi could only pursue, maybe then they would actually have a chance to survive. However there was a couple of things stopping him from doing this. The biggest of course being there other three that were behind him.

"You're quite cute." General Esdeath stated as she dismounted her horse. Her light blue hair gently fell onto her shoulders after she did. Looking at her now, Tatsumi thought that she was totally in place with the cold snowy winter that they had this year. Like her, they winter had taken them by storm and was dangerous. Though now that she was off the horse, Tatsumi sincerely doubted that anyone that she wanted dead could escape. If someone could, it certainly wasn't him.

"Nyau, keep playing your flute, Liver make sure everyone is asleep, anyone who isn't you have permission to kill. Also, find the Oracle." Esdeath stated as she started to walk towards Tatsumi. Almost instantly Tatsumi clenched up and his whole entire body became stiff. It was as if a cold aura had somehow overtaken the winter and surrounded him in it's cold embrace.

Then without warning, Tatsumi's body jumped into action. Ignoring that absolute pain that it put him in he dashed at Esdeath with his full speed and sword over his head. Before he could bring down his sword on her, Esdeath approached him out of nowhere and slapped him across the first. The result of this had him crashing into the ground, completely out of breath. Tatsumi could feel his skin start to bruise in the cold snow.

"Huh, it looks like I was wrong about you." His opponent said in a bored expression. "You were no challenge at all." Esdeath stated as she posed herself to attack her enemy. Then she stopped almost as fast as she had started. Then Tatsumi out another grunt of pain. It felt like his stomach had just been emptied at the wrong way then filled back again, and finally mixed. The kick to the stomach by Esdeath had given Tatsumi pain like he had never known before. "Get up, I'm not down with you yet." Esdeath said walked away, giving him ample space to get back on his feet.

Aching, Tatsumi obliged and got back onto to his feet, no matter how much it hurt. If he was going to do die, he was at least going to give a good show. "Is that the best you've got?" Tatsumi asked with almost no air, he was no situation to talk.

"Feisty, I like it." Esdeath licked her lips as she unsheathed her rapier from her side. "Show me what you're made of." Esdeath yelled with a sadistic grin on her face. Knowing that this couldn't lead to anything well, Tatsumi ran at Esdeath with all he had. Unfortunately for him, all he had didn't amount to anything meaningful, at least up against the general's skill. Tatsumi ran at Esdeath and unlike last time, she stood there, waiting for his attack. No matter how much it looked like a trap, Tatsumi still went on, producing an upwards arc at Esdeath. However this arc was intercepted by Esdeath's sword, bisect his own in half.

Tatsumi watched as his sword, the sword he had for nearly four years, broke in half. The sword that he had created himself, with his own hands. With metal that he had found himself, Tatsumi had made that sword, and no it was broken, no even offering up resistance against the other. Esdeath's sword cut the side of his face, but to everything else, this seemed to just and salt to the wound.

"Looks like you survived longer than your sword did, at least you can have that as an accomplishment." Esdeath stated mockingly as she once again walked away from Tatsumi had gave them a good distance between each other. "So, can you fight without your weapon, or are you just going to stop here, and die." Esdeath stabbed her sword into the cold ground and cracked her knuckles. "If you do, I'll personally make sure it's incredibly painful." Esdeath sounded as though as though savored the thought of that.

"Like hell!" Tatsumi yelled as he clenched the hilt of his broken sword. Even if it was broken, it could still serve a purpose. Tatsumi, even though every fiber of his being was telling him to stop, went back into action. Leading with his broken sword, Tatsumi attempted to attack General Esdeath.

Using his broken sword as though it was a broken sword, Tatsumi placed both of his hands on the hilt and attempted to bring it down upon Esdeath. However, any chance of this was prevent by Esdeath, who caught the blade with her palms, then proceeded to crush it into fine grains of metal. Tatsumi instantly dropped what remained of the sword then went into an upper cut from his right hand. This was counter from Esdeath's left by a short jab downwards which hurt, a lot. It felt as though some arteries and ruptured. Tatsumi's left hook was surprisingly, less successful. Esdeath caught it and brought him to the ground in a second.

Instead of falling back into the ground like he had done last time. Tatsumi pushed of the ground and back onto his feet only to met by an intense blunt hit to the side of the head. It instantly took him off the ground and the last thing he remembered was the intense pain circumventing his body as his head hit the ground. All he could remember afterwards was complete and utter darkness.