Akame Ga Kill: Rewriting the Past

Chapter 2: The Horror Mansion

At Aria's Mansion

"Looks like Aria brought home another guest," Says Aria's Father owner of the mansion.

"Oh my, so it would seem, how many does that make it this week," exclaims Aria's mother.

"Mother!" Aria shouts looking flustered.

"Um… thank you for having me in your home," Tatsumi says while bowing in respect.

'Those guards look tough, no wonder they can let strangers like me in their house, these people seem really nice at least compared to Leone from earlier,' Tatsumi thinks.

They drink tea and have some small talk, talking about Tatsumi's goal to join the military and seeking fame and fortunate here in the capital. After an hour of talking everyone heads to bed, one of the guards show Tatsumi to the room he'll be staying for the night.

The next day Tatsumi is forced to go shopping with Aria and her guards, Tatsumi points at some posters and asks who they are.

"Those people are known as Night Raid, a group of assassins who're targeting nobles in the capital," one of the guards explains while carrying some cloths.

Later that Night

Tatsumi has a dream, it's strange and doesn't make much sense some guy with light brown hair and dark blue eyes wielding a sword with a golden hilt and measuring in the short sword class, and on his waist is two swords that look the same in length, but one has a purple hilt and a blue hilt. The boy himself looked around the same age as Tatsumi. Before the dream could progress Tatsumi woke up in a cold sweat smelling blood.

Somewhere in the Mansion

Aria's mom is walking down the hallway looking at what seems to be a journal.

"Ah another entry for my diary, what a hobby this is," She says to herself. For a spilt second Aria's mom is one, the next she's cut in half by a purple haired woman.

"I'm sorry for what I have done," She says to the dead mom while bowing.

With Tatsumi

"This can't be good, there's something going," Tatsumi says as he rises out of bed and throws on a shirt and grabs his sword and bolts out the door. Tatsumi runs down the hall and passes a window, and out that window is 5 figures. All of them seem to be floating in the air or they're standing on something super thin but strong. One is wearing armor, one has black hair and red eyes, one has pink hair with pink eyes, another one has green hair with green eyes, and the last one has blonde hair with yellow eyes, she looks like Leone, but Leone doesn't have animal features.

"It's them, it's Night Raid," Tatsumi whispers as he takes off down the hall.

"What do they want, why are they here," Tatsumi asks himself as he continues to run down the hall. Tatsumi looks out the window to see several guards going outside to meet Night Raid in combat.

"Do I help them or protect the family," Tatsumi asks himself again. As he continues running down the long hallway.

With Night Raid

"Hey Akame, there's some soldiers coming out," said the one with green hair.

"I'll take care of them Lubbock," Akame said as she falls, landing on her feet. Behind her the one in armor follows her down landing with a crash. Akame unsheathes her sword, and the one in armor pulls out his spear with a red tip.

"Don't let that sword cut you, you'll die instantly," one soldier said readying his sword, the others got their weapons ready. "Let's go!"

One soldier charged but he was to slow as Akame cut him in the throat, Akame's sword has a bright red hilt, some words on it and finally it's a single edged sword. The one in armor threw his large spear at another soldier piercing him through the chest.

"I knew of the curse and yet… I couldn't escape it," says the soldier Akame cut as he falls with strange symbols covering his body from head to toe.

"W-who are these monsters," one soldier yelled trying to make a run for it but gets shot in the head by the pink haired girl.

"Not much of a body guard if he's just going to run away," she says looking down at the dead body.

"Yeaahhh, I think anyone would run from that," Lubbock says looking at the same dead body.

With Tatsumi

Tatsumi continues to look out the window only to see the soldiers all dead on the ground. Tatsumi runs to try and find Aria and her family to protect them.

With Aria's Father

"P-please spar me and my family," he begs as he's being held by the throat by the blonde haired one.

"Don't worry they'll be joining you soon," she responds increasing her paws around his throat.

"No please don't kill them, have mercy on us," the man pleads.

"Mercy? I'm not sure I'm fresh out of that," she replies snapping his neck.

Back with Tatsumi

"There you are Aria," Tatsumi shouts running towards Aria and her guard.

"Tatsumi!" Aria says with a smile.

"Okay great, I'll hide the young lady and wait for the guards, see what you can do about Night Raid, got it," the guard orders pulling Aria towards a large red shed.

"Wait what! What do you expect me to do against Night Raid!?" Tatsumi shouts/asks throwing his hands up in the air. As he says that Akame lands behind him. Tatsumi yelps and turns around to face her and unsheathes his sword.

"Well no turning back now," Tatsumi mutters as Akame charges him swiping her sword to the left.

"You're not my target, get out of my way," Akame says surprising Tatsumi, she jumps off his head and charges Aria and her guard. The guard opens fire trying to hit Akame but the bullets missed her.

"But you are," Akame says in a cold emotionless voice closing in on the guard and cutting his head off. Akame approaches Aria who's backing up, then falls on her butt. Akame looms over Aria ready to cut her.

"You deserve this," Akame says swinging her sword, but before the blade could make contact, Tatsumi blocked the attacked with the blunt of his sword. Akame jumped away and Tatsumi helped Aria up.

"As I've said before you're not a target, so get out of my way unless you want to die," Akame said raising her sword once more.

"Yeah well, I can't let you kill an innocent girl," Tatsumi says raising his sword, but Akame just stared at him like he's an idiot.

"So, you won't step aside," Akame says in a cold tone.

"That's right, I'm not going to back down now," Tatsumi says not backing down the fight.

"Then you've made your choice," Akame says as she charges Tatsumi.

"Aw man that was an easy job, wonder if Akame is done yet," the yellow haired girl said to herself walking towards the shed, only to fight Akame locking swords with Tatsumi.

"Oh no, what has this kid gotten himself into," she mutters rubbing her temples. The blonde-haired girl starts running towards Tatsumi, and Akame.

'She's clearly better than me, that much is for certain, I don't stand a chance,' Tatsumi thinks pushing Akame away and getting into a defensive stance.

'But, if I can't even save one girl, then how can I hope to save my village,' Tatsumi thinks as he readies himself against an opponent that he knows he can't beat. They both charge locking swords, Tatsumi pushes against Akame, Akame uses that momentum to side step and trip Tatsumi.

"Game over," Akame says as Tatsumi gets up and stabs Tatsumi in the heart. Tatsumi lets out one breath and falls over. Aria screams and calls Tatsumi's name begging him to get up.

Tasumi smiles and gets back up. He pulls out a small statue with a large cut in the center.

"Looks like the gods of my village are looking after me in this fight," Tatsumi says while smiling.

"So that's what I hit, I thought you were wearing armor," Akame says raising her sword up.

'This kid is something else, he's survived longer in the fight against Akame, and looks like he some luck on his side as well,' the blonde-haired girl thinks off to the side while watching the fight.

"She must die, get out of the way," Akame says pointing her blade towards Aria, who's hiding behind Tatsumi.

"Wait hold on one sec, I thought you said you wanted this girls' money, there's no reason to kill innocents this isn't a war," Tatsumi asks while backing up a step. Akame charges faster than normal and swipes her sword to the right, aiming for Tasumi's head.

Before Akame's sword connected with Tatsumi's head, Akame was pulled back by the blonde girl from the side.

"Woah there Akame," she said holding Akame's collar.

"What are you doing Leone," Akame asked clearly annoyed.

"We got some time left, plus I owe this guy for the drinks he bought me, and I'm pretty sure he'd like to cash it in now," Leone replied while winking at Tasumi. Everything stopped for a second, then two.

"Wait a second, you're the one who toke off with my money earlier today!" Tatsumi shouted while pointing at Leone.

"Yup that's me, but can you listen for a second, earlier you said you were concerned with us killing innocents, right?" Leone asked Tatsumi with a serious look. Aria's face changed to that of horror.

"Yeah, why are you asking," Tatsumi asks back looking Leone as she walks towards the shed.

"Well, if that's the case, you should check INSIDE!" Leone shouts as she kicks the large metal doors. Tatsumi eyes went wide with horror, inside the shed was several rows of bodies being hung from their arms. All the bodies looked though as if they've been tortured to death.

"You wanted to come to the Capital, well welcome to the Capital then kid, we found out this family liked picking up new comers from out of town and putting them through hell, for GAMES!" Leone shouts with anger. Tatsumi looks up at the body of a girl with black hair and his eyes couldn't have looked more scared.

"S-sayo, what did they do to you," Tatsumi asks himself to look at Sayo's dead body. Aria tries to walk away but Leone grabs her by the head and pulls her back.

"Ops did you think we forgot about you," Leone asks in a tone that made Aria not respond.

"These people really did this," Tatsumi asks, to both Leone and Akame.

"Yes, they did, and their guards are just a guilty, for keeping quiet," Leone responds.

"They're lying Tatsumi, I had no idea anything like that was going on! Who would you believe, me who gave you a place to sleep, or the murders" Aria shouts towards Tatsumi.

"T-tatsumi… is that you," a voice asks to the left of Tatsumi, Tatsumi looks right to see a boy with black hair reaching towards him from bars.

"Ieyasu… is that really you," Tatsumi asks looking at his best friend.

"It really is you *cough* that woman invited us to stay at her house, they were nice enough until they drugged us *cough*, we woke up here, and then that girl she... SHE KILLED SAYO," Ieyasu shouts out falling to the ground.

"FINE, I did it alright, I killed the girl. BESIDES THESE, TRASH ARE NOTHING BUT FLITH, THEY CAN BE PLAYED WITH HOWEVER I SEE FIT! AND THAT GIRL, I GAVE HER SPECIAL TREATMENT BECAUSE THAT TRASH DOESN'T HAVE THE RIGHT TO HAVE SUCH BEAUTIFUL HAIR, MINE IS ALWAYS GIVING ME TROUBLE," Aria shouts gaining the look of a murderer, taking deep breathes.

"Sorry honey, I hate to interrupt your little tantrum, but your kind of disturbing," Leone says, Akame readies her sword to cut down Aria.

"Wait," Tatsumi asks Leone and Akame.

"You're still going to defend her," Leone asks clearly annoyed.

"No, I'LL DO IT," Tatsumi shoutes while grabbing his sword and cutting Aria across the throat killing her instantly. Leone looked shocked as well as Akame.

'That was certainty quick, killed her instantly,' Leone thinks watching the blood drip down Tatsumi's sword.

"T-thank you T-tatsumi, I needed to see that *cough*," Ieyasu says, before he could say anything else he throws up blood in his cell, Tatsumi runs over to Ieyasu, slashes the lock to his cell and drags him out.

"He's been poisoned, most likely the mother's doing since she enjoyed testing out poisons on different people, it's too late to save him," Akame says from the door. Tatsumi looks at Akame then back at Ieyasu.

"Tatsumi, you should know that Sayo never broke for that witch over there, she stayed strong until the very end," Ieyasu explains looking at Tatsumi then the ceiling. Before he could say anything else the life left his eyes, and his pulsed stopped.

"His strong will was the only thing that kept him from dying sooner," Akame says as she starts walking away. Leone grabs her shoulder and faces Akame.

"Akame we should bring him along with us, we need the extra pair of hands," Leone suggests grabbing Tatsumi's collar with her yellow fur hand. Tatsumi struggled and was about to say something but that headache from earlier kicked back in, only it was strong enough to give Tatsumi a nose bleed and for him to barely be awake. He couldn't make out what the others were saying, only he felt himself being lifted but by a suit of armor. Then his mind couldn't take it anymore and he passed out cold.