Here's my new fic that stars Max and Akashi! This has been in my mind since 2014 started and I thought that this would make a great addition for the Max/Akashi fics. Like...what if Akashi raised Max as a brother, friend and father figure at the same time and Akashi ends up learning something from Max. This is dedicated to The Master of Stories and I was inspired by one of this fics, 'A Dark Past' and I hope I did it justice! Enjoy!

Raising Maximus

by: Terrell James

Chapter 1: First Meeting

One cloudy evening somewhere in some parts of China, a young white wolf was walking around the forest to make his way back home and he seemed a little troubled while he was walking by and a lot of things were on his mind and he just didn't know what to do to handle this or even deal with those feelings too, but it just affected him deeply over what happened in his past. Yet despite all of this, he just wanted to move forward with his life and embrace his new life after everything he's been through.

He heard the sounds of thunder across the skies and looks up to see that it's about to rain soon and just puts on his hood and proceeded to head home and not more than a few seconds later, his ears perked up something and it was the sound of someone screaming and crying and he quickly went over to see what it was and what he saw completely left him devastated and outraged.

He witnessed one white tiger dragging her son on the ground while the young one was screaming and crying and begging her to let him go and promising her that he'll try to do better and her response was that she snapped and ended up getting clawed by her and pushed down on the ground and the wolf was totally disturbed by what he just saw.

"Did she do that to her own cub?" the wolf whispered, in disbelief.

"I've had enough of you, Maximus! You're a waste of time, space, energy and life and I wished I never gave birth to you!" the mother shouted.

As the wolf listens to everything she's saying, part of him wants to go out there and unleash his daemon powers on her and break out his sword to show her who's boss and defend the cub, but he held himself back because he wouldn't want to scare the cub and cause any psychological damage. Yet, he still doesn't like hearing everything and seeing everything between these two tigers.

"Mama, please! I'll try to do better! I promise!" Maximus cried.

The mother had definitely reached her wit's end and she snarls and roars directly at his face, blaming him for every unfortunate thing she's been through in her life and goes as far as spitting out that she has no regrets on molesting him and that part completely angered the wolf more because it was the most disturbing thing he's ever heard to take advantage of a little boy like that.

But nothing prepared him for what she was gonna do next; she shoved him down towards the ground and watched him roll down until he hits the ground and she just stood there with a cold and evil look like she's enjoying this and just walked away with her saying, "I wish that little brat would die. That would be the best day of my life."

Soon after she left, the wolf immediately went out of his way to go to that hill to get the little cub and the rain has already started pouring down on his fur, but he didn't really care as his focus was only on the cub and when he looked at him, he can tell that he was being beaten really bad and just didn't want him to live in suffering and fear.

Before he could get to him, a group of different wolves surrounded the cub and they were looking at him like he was their torture toy and one of them started looking at the cub and sniffed him and said, "Looks good, boys."

"Yeah, he'll definitely be our dinner tonight!" another wolf said, licking his lips.

The young wolf hid from behind a tree and overheard everything they were saying to the cub and he's super glad he's not one of them, but he's not gonna let them harm this boy and he brought in his sword and almost immediately, he comes charging at them and all the other savage wolves looked at him and the lead wolf asked, "Who are you?"

"They call me Akashi."

"Ain't you one of our kind?" another wolf asked.

Akashi growled in response to that and said, "In the same species, but not in your pack. Now...leave the cub alone."

"You can't tell us what to do." the lead wolf stated, with a snarl.

Akashi lowered his eyebrows and lets the other wolves know that he means business and he walked towards the cub and shielded him from them and one of the wolves said, "Move, man. He's our dinner."

"Get out...or you'll be dinner yourselves!" Akashi shouted.

The lead wolf was definitely looking for a fight and he was gonna lay the first punch on Akashi, but Akashi grabbed him by the paw and just punched, kicked and slammed him down hard and all the other wolves were ready to fight back, but Akashi was ready. He brought out his sword to attack them and he ended up taking up all of these wolves in a short amount of time.

Meanwhile, Maximus was crouched down, feeling completely scared of what will happen and then...one of the savage wolves came at him to torture him and knocked him out and he was ready for the final showdown...when he got stabbed in the back and laid down on the ground, lifeless in a pool of blood.

Akashi panted heavily as he took the bloody sword out of him and saw the cub laid there and he picked him up and took him home with him as it was raining hard. He grabbed his coat and placed it on him so he wouldn't get sick and headed straight for home.

Meanwhile...all the other savage wolves saw what had happened and the lead wolf walked over to their slain member's body and anger was coursing through his mind and said, "That young wolf...is gonna pay for this."

Intense, wasn't it? Stick around for more!