AN: I want to point out that this will be a AU, so there will be differences and less character deaths, but I wont be saving everyone, some have deaths that make sense and are needed, ill be changing the ones in my opinion, added nothing to the story and seemed needless.( also this is the first chapter of the rewrite so unless I state the next is a rewrite, it's not the finished result)
The Capital, a city and land ripe with opportunity and chances for fame and fortune.
"This place rubs me the wrong way." Kenichi stated as he looked out at the city as he and Tatsumi entered.
"Are you kidding?! This place looks amazing!" He looked around eagerly at the surroundings with a look of almost whimsical enchantment.
He let a small smile tug at his lips at his friend's antics. He lifted the sack of the 'Earth Dragon' plates that he rendered, He thought back to those guy's who told them to steer clear of the city. He let out a small sigh, its not like they had a choice with the state of their village.
"Tatsumi, Head to the barracks while I go sell this stuff." The Brunette nodded as they split up, agreeing to meet at the Bar near the bridge after they finished.
Kenichi left the shop holding a tidy profit, having explained to the armorer what he could do with the plate's. He also had to show the man how to shape it without shattering it. He put away the pouch of coin's as he made his way toward the Bar.
"Hey Country bumpkin!" He turned around seeing two guys looking like opposites, and like they were a bit bruised. One tall, large and bald, while the other short, skinny and with long hair. It was the skinny one talking to him. "Hand over the coin, and whatever that is on your belt." He said pointing toward the compacted metal of Kenichi's weapon on the back of his hip.
"And that's a order." The big one said before he just kept walking ignoring the two, paying them no mind.
"Hey you shit I'm talking to you!" The skinny one spoke once more as he grabbed Kenichi's shoulder making him stop. Whom let out a annoyed sigh as he turned grabbing the skinny's arm and twisted it behind said man's back. "ACK?! What the fu-" Was all he got out before his behind was kicked sending him into the fat one's legs. Knocking the large one down on top of his fellow would be mugger.
"YOU FUC-" was as much as he got before his vision was blocked by the heel of Kenichi's boot.
"I'm surprised they let idiot's like that out at night" He merely stated as he continued on his way.
It had gotten much darker before he came upon the bar, when a carriage pulled up next to him.
"Kenichi!" He turned his head toward the voice who was none other than Tatsumi. "I've got somewhere we can stay at" He looked pass his friend to see a blonde girl, her eye's seemed to widen for a moment before shrinking and focusing on his hair.
"You were right, his hair is white" The girl said before giving a smile with a small laugh. "Please, I'd hate to see such promising new-comers sleep on the street." His ear twitched slightly.
"Tatsumi, What does she mean sleep on the street?" He said in a tone that was calm but laced with growing annoyance. Whom it was directed at was slowly losing color from his complexion.
"Heh heh, w-well you see...I lost our money."
"..." Kenichi, first looked in his pouch and saw that he barely had enough for them to spend a night at a inn.
"Kenichi?" Tatsumi stood still as he was growing more tense. Kenichi slowly walked toward the young woman, as he did a small bow.
"Thank you very much for your hospitality, we are very honored by your kindness." He said as he turned around and kicked Tatsumi in the head and into the side of a building. "Shall we get going." He stated as he stepped into the carriage, followed by Tatsumi with a large bump growing on his forehead.
After arriving at the manor of the girl, and hearing how Tatsumi got fooled by a big breasted blonde woman. The girl introduced herself as Aria to Kenichi, brought them in giving brief introductions to said girls parents.
"So Tatsumi, did you and your friend come from the country all by yourselves?" Aria asked as they all had sat around a table.
"No, we came with two other people actually. Two friend's of our's, we came to the city to gain some wealth to help our village to not starve" Tatsumi stated as he looked toward his feet. "We ended up separated when we were attacked by bandit's"
"Oh my" Aria's mother exclaimed.
"Sayo and Ieyasu are strong, so handling bandits should have given them no trouble" Kenichi chimed in as he gave his friend a reassuring pat on his shoulder. He thought about Sayo and hoped she was okay. "Though, Ieyasu's sense of direction is horrible, they might be wandering in circles" poking a jab at his friend as he could almost hear him respond to the minor insult. They all shared in a small laugh before long and being shown to the rooms they were staying in.
The next morning Kenichi woke from a restless sleep as he looked at the ceiling annoyed at his still continual dreamless slumbers. Tatsumi and himself agreed to at as bodyguards to Aria for the time being.
"Mr. Kenichi, are you alright?" Aria had asked as he left his room.
"It's fine miss, I've always been like this as far back as I can remember." She smiled with a nod as she made her way down the hall.
After a day of shopping, Kenichi thought about the day. The corrupt government, and the assassination group 'Night Raid'. The moon was high in the sky, but something seemed to give it a red hue.
"Someone's going to die." He said before he leaped from his bed and out the door, he ran pass a window as time seemed to slow. Out the window he five people in the air, almost floating but he could see they were on wires. His golden eye's met with a pair of crimson before he turned away and sped down the hall. He came upon the body of Aria's mother, her body cut in half and the blood creeping along the floor.
He looked out the window and pulled his weapon out taking the handle in both hand's as he ran to the wall. He jumped planting his feet on the wall as he set the tip of his weapon to it as well.
"CLU-CHING!" The sound rang in the air as he was propelled at and through the window. He rolled to the ground before once more "CLU-CHING!" He glided at high speed toward where he saw where Tatsumi was. He was squaring off against the girl with Crimson eye's, He saw her stance showed she was about to lunge. He twisted on the last push spinning as his weapon's blade sprang out to around three and a half feet.
The girl charged ready to strike as she heard the sound of wind being cut.
"CLA-CHING!" The tip of her blade was met with another, she followed the blade that was stabbed to the ground at a angle. Her eyes met with gold in a cold glare similar to her own. Her eyes quirked in surprise for a moment before she leaped back as he swung the blade pushing her off and rending it from the earth.
"Move, that girl is my target." She said in a leveled tone without emotion.
"What are you after? Why are you after this girl's life?" He received no answer as she readied to strike again. He didn't say more as he readied himself, moving his blade behind him and angling the tip to the ground and the pommel toward the girl. Before either of them could twitch though.
"Hold up." A blonde said landing in between them.
"What are you doing?" The raven haired red eye'd girl spoke in her same tone.
"We still have time..." She looked at Kenichi briefly before looking toward Tatsumi "I own Old man hair's Friend a favor" Getting Kenichi's eye to twitch slightly. He disliked it when people would sometimes mistook him as a old man from behind. He brushed it off as he sent a quick gaze to Tatsumi for clarification. "I wanted to pay you back." She said with a wink.
"Your the Boob's!" he exclaimed pointing at her accusatory like. Kenichi immediately knew who he meant as he told him who stole their money.
"Yep, your beautiful big sis." He wasn't going to argue her about her beauty, but that didn't stop him from looking at the girl annoyed. But the blonde's expression darkened as she walked toward the large shed. "You want to know why we're after the girl, allow me to show you." She stated with a hard kick against the doors breaking them open. "See the darkness of the capital."
Tatsumi's and Kenichi's eye's widened in shock as they saw a sight that churned they're stomachs. people in cage's , blood everywhere and body's mutilated in several and brutal ways. Kenichi's eye's stopped on one in particular as he felt his heart drop and clench, It was Sayo.
"S-Sayo?" Tatsumi said while Kenichi was silent and standing at the door.
"Someone you knew?" The blonde said as Kenichi nodded as his mind raced, his eye's becoming shadowed as he looked at the ground. "Oh no you don't!" He heard Aria struggle, but he didn't turn.
"You don't honestly believe these people over the person who sav-"
"Keni...Tat...sumi" Tatsumi looked to a cage, and saw Ieyasu. "That girl...she brought us here. They drugged us and she tortured Sayo to death!" He lost his footing and dropped to his knee's.
"What's so wrong?! THEIR JUST HICK'S, THAT GIRL HAD THE NERVE TO HAVE SUCH STRAIGHT HAIR, WHEN I HAVE TO DEAL WITH MY UNRULY MESS EACH DAY!" Aria bellowed after yanking her arm from the blonde.
"Disgusting, a family of sadist's disguised as Samaritans. Sorry for getting in your way Akame." Leone looked at Aria with disgust.
"Eliminate" The newly named Akame stated as she drew her blade.
"Wait" Kenichi said as he turned around as he and Tatsumi began walking toward Aria.
"Don't tell me you two still trying to defen-"
"Shut up." Kenichi said without looking at her. "Aria, that locket" He pointed to the locket around Aria's neck. "You took it from Sayo." He said, but not as a question. The blade in his hand seeming to hum as flames began to form in the top three sections of the blade. Small balls of fire seemingly screeching in the holes of the section's.
"Yes, the barn rat probably stole such a lovely trinket." The girl said in a almost insane tone, apparently unaffected at the display of the blade. The other's watched, the female's wondering where Kenichi got such a weapon.
"Actually Aria, It was Kenichi's" Tatsumi said as he pulled out his sword.
"It belonged to my Mother and I gave it to her" He looked her straight in the eyes where her terrified blue met his. They were different now, his Scalar were a dark blackish red, while his golden Iris's glowed like flames. The border other Iris seemingly broken with licks of golden fire, in a expression as cold as ice. A Expression showing in Tatsumi's green eyes as well, but lacking the fire.
'Burn! immolate! CINDERS! ASHES!' A voice in the back of Kenichi's mind quietly screamed as the flames of the blade blazed brighter.
"What the-!" Aria began to scream before she for a few brief second's her body was in three pieces. Both of the male's had slashed her. Tatsumi slicing through her midsection while moving under Kenichi's blade as he cut her from the crook of her neck and across her chest. The Locket hanged in the air for a moment before Kenichi snatched it. He looked down at it in his hand as Tatsumi set his hand on his shoulder.
The female assassin's watched on as they saw white flames curling off of the white haired teen's head, some of his hair curled up like horns.
'She was hateful, but to kill her without hesitation...and that fire..." The blonde thought as she watched the white haired swordsman pocket the locket and looked at his as thankful for his concern.
"That's Kenichi and Tatsumi for ya, that was great...HACK!" Ieyasu vomited a huge amount of blood as he collapsed.
"IEYASU?!" Tatsumi and Kenichi yelled as they ran to their friend. Kenichi severed the hinges of the cage as Tatsumi caught Ieyasu.
"It's the final stage's of Lubora, the mistress enjoyed poisoning people here, she would write in her diary how they reacted, there's no cure." Akame said with a emotionless expression. Kenichi gritted his teeth as he kneel'd by Ieyasu the flame's having dyed down and his eye's normal once more.
"You know guy's, Sayo didn't submit once to that fucking bitch, even in the very end." He said as he clenched his fist on his chest "She wanted you guy's to know, she'll miss you two, got anything you want me to tell her?" He said with a small smile as his eye's started to dull.
"I'll miss you guy's too." Tatsumi said tear's welling in his eye's.
"Tell her...big brother will fix thing's like usual" Kenichi said with a small sad smile.
"keep it real you two." Ieyasu smiled as life left his eye's. Kenichi stood up and set his blade on the floor. "CLU-CHING!" In a swipe he cut the rope holding Sayo in the air. He caught her before wrapping her in his cloak. Which had gotten tattered slightly from going through the window. He helped Tatsumi do the same with Ieyasu with a clean table cloth.
"Let's go." He said as he walked out of the shed, followed by The two Night raid members and Tatsumi. They followed the two girl's to the roof, meeting up with three other's. Kenichi didn't really pay attention to them as he held Sayo. "What do you want?" He said looking at the blonde.
"As of Today, you two are now part of Night Raid!"
AN: Okay you guy's tell me what you think. This is something a really want to do, and I hope you enjoy it. I'm going to try and work on this regularly, till next time.
