Akame Ga Kill: Killer of the Shadows
Hey guys and girls. This is my own twist on one of my favorite anime and manga Akame Ga Kill
There will be a new character that will be present a lot in this story, but I will also still be focusing on Tatsumi as well and maybe another character that will be part of Night Raid for added depth and twists. Hope you all enjoy.
Prologue: Year 1020
Location: Imperial City
District High Class sector of the city.
The night sky stretched across the capital. The hour was late and all seemed calm, that is until there was a blood chilling scream which came from one of the mansions, after a few moments a lone dark figure jumped over the mansions walls and landed on the street with out a sound. He was still only for a moment and then took off down a nearby street corner as the mansion's gates swung open and guards began to pour out and searching the surrounding area.
"Find the murderer we can not allow him to escape! You, take your squad and search the alleys. The rest of you head back to the mansion and spread out, search the mansion's grounds in case he tries to slip out while we search out here!" The lead guard shouted as he spouted off orders to his men. He never noticed a lone figure looking down on them from the top of a nearby building.
Roy
"Hmm. Seems as they have no clue where I am heh this is way to easy." The lone figure thought to himself as he stood up from his kneeling position. "That makes thirteen in all, thirteen kills in ten days." A small smile crept on the young boys face which was hidden by a red mask that seemed to come up out of vest that was black with red trimming on the edges where the shoulders were leaving the arms exposed. Tribal like tattoos came out of the vest and down the young boys muscular arms down to his wrists where he wore black gloves. On his back he wore a Wakazashi sword which was sheathed in a decorative red scabbard that was made from a durable hide of a Danger Beast. In fact most of mission clothing was made of the same material, light but thick enough to protect him against some attacks. His pants were black and were tucked into his boots that were covered by metal shin guards that went up to his knees.
"Looks like I made quite the reputation in the short time I've been back." He said as he walked to the opposite edge of the building. In just ten days the teen had become quite infamous known as the assassin "Shadow Killer" yet not much was known about him not even his appearance, just that it was said that he could attack from the darkness and melt right back in as if he were the shadows itself. His blue eyes seemed to shine in the moonlight his messy black hair fell into his eyes which did not seem to bother the boy. With a quick leap he was on another building top and from there he took off sprinting and jumping from house to house towards the slums of the Capital. Unknown to him that he was being watched.
Akame
Watching from afar the young girl watched her target. "He moves well and he has completely evaded the guards." she said to herself before taking off after her target. It wasn't long till she had cut around him and waited, when he was close she sprang from her hiding place, throwing her Katana just a few feet in front of him. He dodged off to the side skidding to a stop and looked up to see her landing and drawing her sword out of the ground pointing the tip of her blade at him. "I will Bury You!" she said.
Roy
"What the hell?!" The young kid thought as he dodged the sword impaling the ground in front of him, he looked up to see a young girl about his age landing beside the blade with out making so much as sound when she landed. Watching her draw the blade and then point it at him. slowly he reached for his own sword regretting the fact he was about to have to fight such a pretty girl. He took a good look at her as he drew the black blade from its sheath she was dressed in a white and red dress and had long flowing black hair, red eyes dark as blood with an emotionless stare that seemed to penetrate him to his very core. "I will kill you if you don't get out of my way." he said coolly trying to avoid the fight, but to no avail.
Both figures stood motionless in their stances neither seemed to blink and for a moment all seemed to stand still till a gust of wind blew past them and the next second they sprang into action, sparks flew as their blades clashed and the sound of steel filled the air. Both fighters seemed evenly matched attacking in combinations so fast that any normal man would have lost sight of the blades, countering and defending against each others counters. The young boy slashed violently striking the girls blade sending her skidding across the roof top from the power of his blow then she leaped straight at him slashing for his throat, which he deflected with his blade now she was driving him back with several slashes and a thrust to his midsection which he jumped to the side barely avoiding the swords edge. He quickly closed the distance and swung for her legs to which she simply jumped over the attack landing a few feet away, he quickly closed the distance and attacked her with a thrust of his own which she almost didn't dodge cutting the upper section of her dress exposing the pale white skin underneath. She stared at the cut in her dress for a moment before viciously attacking him driving him back once again this time her final strike was stopped as they entered a stalemate. Unfortunately the young boys footing was not well placed and the girl broke the lock continuing her strike towards his throat the boys sword was in his left hand and he sent up his right to stop the oncoming attack. "Shadow Scale." He said quietly as the markings moved down his arm into his gloves where he then deflected the blade moving it aside sparks flying as he caught the blade the young girl surprised by this leaped back putting distance between them. However she saw some blood trickling down the edge of her blade. The teen hissed in pain as the blade scratched his wrist drawing blood. "Well better then me getting my throat cut open." he thought but froze immediately realizing something was wrong he looked at his hand and saw black letters making there way up his arm . "Poison." he thought.
Akame
"It's over." she said with a cold voice sheathing her sword as she spoke. The young teen looked at her with horror in his eyes, for some reason this snapped her thoughts to one of pity, but only for a brief moment as she watched him hold his arm out straight. "Shadow Bind!" the kid shouted watching the black markings on his arm wrap around just a few inches above his elbow and tighten with such force she heard the bone snap, his eyes flinched momentarily in pain as he then brought his blade up and severed his arm letting blood fly and spray the ground. Her eyes went wide after seeing the young boy do such an act without hesitating.
Roy
"Arggghhhh!" the teen let out a roar that seemed to echo through out the city. Using his Teigu's ability he stopped the bleeding and looked at his opponent with anger and hatred burning in his eyes. "Crap I can't win in this condition." he thought, turning on his heels he ran putting as much distance as he could manage before mentally activating his ability to Shadow Step, a move that had earned the name Shadow Killer in an instance he had disappeared into the surrounding darkness the young teenage girl stopped in her tracks trying to figure out where he had gone. Looking left then right she sprang down to the streets and began running towards the east side of the city looking in the ally ways trying to find her wounded target. The boy resurfaced out of the nearby shadows of the building sweat dropping from his brow, blood dripping from his blade and arm, his eyes seemed to be closing on their own. Then he quickly turned and ran the opposite direction making his way into the slums he turned down an alley before collapsing. "No, no no no, not now, I can't die now!" he stated in anger grasping his wound and squeezing it tighter most of the blood flow had stopped but a small trickle was still oozing out, he began to lose consciousness as he pulled down his mask gasping for air. The cold wind blowing on his sweat drenched face. The last thing he remembered seeing was a woman like figure running up to and then he passed out.
Two days later.
Leone
"Are you sure he's going to be ok Doc?" the young woman asked in a concerned voice as she watched the local doctor pack up his things and prepared to leave. "Yes I've done what I can for the boy, it's all up to him now." the older looking man said, beside him laid the young assassin bandaged up with a cold damp clothe on his forehead. "Keep him hydrated and change the bandage every four hours." the Doctor instructed before closing the door. Slowly walking up beside the bed she brushed the teens hair out of his eyes. "You're just a kid." She thought looking at him. "He can't be more then fifteen at the most, and yet here you are beaten and fight for your life." letting out a sigh she pulled a chair up next to the wounded kid, placing the clothe in a bowl of water she wrung it out and place back on his brow. "I hope you wake up soon, I have a good hunch of who you are, but I want to ask in person and tell you I am grateful for what you are trying to do." She said in soft gentle tone. "So please... wake up soon"
1 AM the next morning.
Roy slowly opened eyes then blinking a few times he sat up straight suddenly, a move that he immediately regretted. Becoming dizzy he moved his hand to his head catching the clothe as it fell. "Where am I... the last thing I remember was..." His mind flashed back to what he last saw a young woman running up to him. He looked to his right and saw a blonde haired girl laying her head on the bed. He then looked at his bandaged wound gripping it tightly as he fought back the scream in his throat. "So it wasn't a dream, I really did lose that fight." he whispered. Slowly lifting the covers he tried not to wake the young woman, but she shot up. "I'm awake I"m awake." she said as if trying to cover up the fact she was sleeping. There was an awkward silence as the two just stared at each other with blank faces.
Leone
"You're awake!" She practically screamed into his ear. "I was so worried that you wouldn't make it." tears began to flow down her tanned cheeks as she hugged him tightly. Becoming alittle uncomfortable by this the boy asked "where am I, and who are you?" "Oh right. My name is Leone, I found you in one of the alleys unconscious and brought you here and got you patched up." She replied with a smile on her face wiping of the tears she had just shed. "Don't worry the only people who know you are here besides me is just the doc who saved your life." She said trying to reassure him that he was safe. "And you are the infamous Shadow Killer that has been causing quite the inconvenience to the empire as of late, right?" she asked with a slight flirty smirk.
"Yeah I guess so." he replied with a small look of confusion on his face. "Thanks for helping me, and saving my life, but why? Why would you risk the possibility of being executed and help me out when you could have turned me in and claimed the reward?" He asked. She paused for a moment before answering "Because even though you're a murderer I know the people you've killed were evil and corrupt, I've seen this empire become cesspool. And I know you are trying to help even if your way was taking out a few of the people guilty of horrible crimes." This caused the teen to look at her with a quirked eyebrow. "That is what you're doing right?" He sighed "In a way I guess I'm doing that, but I have another reason too. I want to take revenge on this corrupt nation because they killed my family." This caused Leone to gasp alittle before continued. "My Father told me of a time when this nation cared for it's people, when the emperor actually would protect his citizens, but now that fat twisted monster is controlling the young kid, filling his ears with lies just as he did to his father."
Leone grabbed the young teenager's hand and squeezed it. "I'm sorry. I didn't know your wounds went that deep." she said in sad tone "But you're still alive for a reason bigger then just revenge and while you may not see right that right now I'm sure you will soon." the teen looked at her with a surprised face and lowered his head "Thank you." "So whats your name?" he hesitated, but then turned looking into her golden eyes. "It's Elroy, Elroy Blackmane, but my sister used to just call me Roy." Leone smiled "Well Roy, what do you say? Are you hungry?" His eyes perked up at hearing the offer of food. " Yeah defiantly." a smile now grew on his face. She got turned to leave the room, as she reached the door she turned her head to him. "I'll be right back." flashing him a bright smile.
After a few minutes of waiting she returned with a huge tray of food in her hands and a warm smile. "Here we go hope you're hungry." "Oh you have no idea." Roy thought eyeing the food with alittle bit of drool starting to hang from his mouth. As he began eating a huge piece of meat she caught by surprise saying "Oh just so you know I'm not exactly made from money so I had to kinda take some of yours to help out." " What!?" he replied in shock beginning to try and add up how much the meal and medical treatment probably cost. "I'm sorry, I'm sorry." she waved her hands in defense. "But I don't make very much money working at a massage parlor though." Sighing he decided it was fine. "Don't worry about it I guess." Shrugging it off. "By the way how long was I out?" Looking at her just as she took a bite out of a sandwich. "Oh I guess about two days and one night now." "Huh?" he said in surprise "I was out that long?" "Well you were pretty beat up and needed the rest." she smiled taking another bite and taking a swig out of a bottle of booze. "Um, aren't you alittle young to be drinking?" "You sure you want to ask that to the girl who saved your life?" she smirked taking another swig. "Whatever." he thought returning his attention to the food in front of him.
After a few more hours of rest he got up and looked outside. Seeing that sun was almost up he turned to Leone and said. "I have to leave today. I know I just woke up, but the longer I stay here the more danger I put you in. And I don't want to drag you into this any more then I already have." She looked at him with a sad face "But, you're not in any condition to travel" concern obvious in her voice. "I'll be alright I am a lot tougher then I look." He said flexing his arm and chest a bit to show off getting a giggle in return. "Man if you weren't so young I might have tried to seduce you." she grinned with small blush on her face. "Whaaa!" he replied in shock not expecting that at all from her, she just started laughing almost rolling on the floor after seeing his reaction. "You should see the look on your face." she blurted out between laughs. "Alight well lets get you ready to move then." getting up off the floor and pushing him down on the bed causing him to blush. Leone helped him with his boots as well as his under shirt that was a red tight sleeveless turtle neck that was long enough he used it to cover his face on missions. This action caused him to blush redder then a tomato and it didn't help that she was giggling with a hint of seduction in her eyes.
"Well you're all set." handing him a bag of gold coins which with about thirty pieces of gold or so were left in the leather pouch. "Thanks" he said using his teeth to help open it and taking ten gold coins out he handed it to her. "Thanks again for helping me." "Oi are you sure, won't you need them more then me?" She asked in surprise. He shook his head no, "I won't need that much to get where I'm going." he replied. Then getting up off the bed he grabbed his Teigu and slipped it into his belt under his right side. Then putting on a dark blue cloak to cover it and his injury he then proceeded to the window and jumped down he was surprised when Leone followed him "What are you doing?" "It's alright it'll be better if the inn keeper doesn't know we both left in case the guard comes looking for you and plus this way I don't have to pay for the room." Nodding in agreement he proceeded to walk down the street.
Just before they reached the gate Roy noticed some movement in the alley beside them, he walked towards it to find two guards picking on a young girl with pink hair. He gritted his teeth in anger. "Harassing a girl just cause she's a foreigner." He thought and before Leone could say anything he leaped at them. Jabbing one in the throat crushing his windpipe he proceeded to spin and catch the other with a heel kick to the jaw, breaking it along with the guard's neck, both fell to the ground as he turned to the young girl and asked if she was alright. Surprised she nodded with tears in her eyes she had noticed he was missing his arm when he had done that last attack as well as seeing the sword on his right side. He then moved his cloak aside and grabbed the coin pouch opening it with his teeth taking fifteen more coins out he placed it into her small trembling hands. "Here use this to buy some food and shoes." he said with a smile then turning to Leone who was still in shock with what she just witnessed he asked "Hey could you look after this girl? She looks like she could use someone to help and watch over her just like how you did for me? With a smile on his face Leone managed to give one herself and nod. With that Roy began to walk towards the gate to leave when the pink haired girl grabbed his hand. "Thank you." She said with a warm smile that stopped him dead in his tracks, it was almost as if this was the first real smile she had given in a long time. "Of course." "My name is Mine." she said introducing herself. H smiled before replying "I'm Roy, pleasure to meet you Mine." rubbing the top of her head he nodded towards Leone. "And that is Leone she will help you out and watch over you." giving her another reassuring smile he then turned and made his way out of the city.
Roy
"Ah man is sensei going to give it to me good when I get back." Roy thought as he walked down the road towards the Eastern border "He'll probably have me do all kinds of hellish workouts for leaving against his will and coming here way to early, but I have definitely learned my lesson." he continued looking towards where his arm used to be. Sighing he continued his journey back home.
Well that's the prologue, kinda wanted to set the stage alittle and give the characters some background with each other so they would have a pretty neat reunion when Roy returns. There will be a lot of tension between Akame and Roy at first due to the fact she is the one who forced him to cut of his arm, but they will grow past that an develop an interest in each other later.
As for Leone and Mine I always wondered how they came to join Night Raid so I decided to give my own little sneak peak into how they met each other and continued on from there no doubt Leone going to the Revolutionary Army wanting to make a difference like she saw Roy was, and Mine following her cause she's now kinda like her big sis in a way, don't worry I'll still have Leone teasing her and Mine's attitude will still be present so that won't change to much just now those two are alittle closer together. Anyways that's all for now. Please comment and give your thoughts and opinions as well as any suggestions you may come up with. Thanks in advance enjoy. This TheScourge7181 signing off.