Tatsumi had found his way back to Jacob's tavern and was sitting at one of the tables in the empty bar. "Well at least it was clean job." Jacob said to him sitting on the other side of the table.
"Yeah. Tomorrow I'm going to do a few more missions."
"Smart idea, the money will help establish the Brotherhood here. Speaking of that have you found a place that would suit as a headquarters and some potential recruits?"
Tatsumi shook his head, "Not yet." He finished his drink and handed it to Jacob. "I'm still looking though."
Jacob took the pint and pointed at the clock. "If you want to start early tomorrow I suggest getting to bed soon."
'Oh shit it's already midnight. I should get in bed I have an early morning tomorrow.' Tatsumi stood up and started walking to his room, "Night." He said to Jacob.
"Night." He answered back.
Tatsumi was passive at the moment. Well he was in the middle of a crowd of civilians hiding from a patrol of guards that were searching for him. One of them however were an enforcer, which was making it a bit hard to get out of here. So instead of making a break for it he decided to assassinate him in the middle of the crowd, that would at least make it little easier.
Soon enough though he saw his chance, the enforcer was way too far away from his men for them to be useful. He slowly started to make his way behind him so that he could assassinate him without being spotted. "Assassin!" Tatsumi was unsure how, but the enforcer had spotted him. Although his back was still turned so he could easily assassinate him. Tatsumi quickly ran to retracting his hidden blade and quickly sinking it into his back.
Tatsumi guided the man towards the ground as the crowd began to run away from the sight which blocked the way for the guards to come rushing. After Tatsumi had set the man down he realized another Assassin was standing close in front of him.
"Goddamnit, man! Why are yo….Tatsumi?" Tatsumi instantly recognised the voice.
"Seamus?" He stood up and offered a hand to his old friend. "I thought the entire Capital branch was wiped out." Seamus took the hand and got up.
"Did you seriously think you could get rid of me that easy?" The comment provoked a laugh from Tatsumi.
"Well I haven't had to deal with you for the last three years haven't I, guess I have bit of a debt to pay."
Seamus slapped Tatsumi on his back, "How about we go and catch a drink, something had to happen since I came to the Capital." Tatsumi looked back to see that a few of the guards were starting to break through the stampeding crowd.
Tatsumi and Seamus were sitting in the tavern he was staying at for the past month and a half having a couple of drinks. "So the old man at Alamut sent you here by yourself to rebuild the Brotherhood."
"No he sent Sayo and Ieyasu and a few others with me too." He told his friend.
"Speaking of them," He said pouring another pint for him and Tatsumi, "Did you ever ask Sayo out?" Tatsumi's face turned from his happy expression to sad. Seamus quickly picked up on what he was felling. "When?"
"There was this mansion, family of nobles tricked people in and murdered them. I took a contract out on their lives and decided to investigate the shed. That's where I found…" Tatsumi begin to struggle with the final part of the sentence.
"Sayo and Ieyasu." Seamus finished his sentence seeing a weak head nod from Tatsumi. "Remember my last night back at the village and we somehow got Ieyasu to try and get that beehive."
"And he got stung like hell." Tatsumi said starting to smile again and laughed. "Then there was Ieyasu's first leap of faith."
"Didn't he break an arm?" Seamus asked. Tatsumi nodded his head as he took another drink. Seamus chugged the last of his and put it down, "You probably have other things to do than talk to me so I'm just going to go, got a job that needs doing. Where are you staying out of?"
"The Yellow Dragon Tavern." Tatsumi answered.
"Jacob's place?" Tatsumi nodded. "I would have went there, though I thought it a bit risky. So is there somewhere we can meet? I have something that I need to show you."
"I've just been filling out contracts today, meet me in the main square later."
Seamus slapped Tatsumi on the back, "Alright meet ya there. Oh, and by the way Tatsumi, to officially welcome you to the Capital the drinks are on me."
"Thanks man." Tatsumi replied.
He finished his drink and was getting ready to leave when the barmaid walked up to him. "If you're finished with your drink you can leave after you pay." She said stressing the after part.
Tatsumi looked at her curiously, "Didn't my friend pay for me?"
"No, he said you'd pay for you and him."
Tatsumi sighed he should have known that he would have done that. "Alright how much? 15 coins?" Tatsumi said as he started reaching for his coin purse."
"No, 2,034 coins." Tatsumi literally felt his heart skip a beat or two. "He said you also offered to pick up his tab." Tatsumi's mind was split, one part was trying to figure out how to work a way around this and the other started to imagine him killing Seamus. 'Well fuck'
"Get back here you little bastard!" The bar's owner shot his rifle hit the shop across the street after barely missing Tatsumi who was running out the door. When he looked back he say the man chasing him with a butcher knife.
"FUCK!"
Tatsumi reached the top of a roof after losing the Bar Owner. On the roof stood one of the Assassin's pigeon coup, opened up a pigeon coup and grabbed a pigeon took the message out and read about his next target.
Guards Captain George Francis. He does not appear to have any connections with the Templars however he's been kidnaping, falsely accusing, and executing innocent civilians for his own sadistic purposes. He can always be found at the execution grounds.
Mein and a few other members of Night Raid came into the capital to get some supplies for the base before they moved. However instead of getting supplies Mein decided it was time break off from the others and perform a retail investigation and visited one of the local dress shops. She bought two new pink dresses and was beginning to return to others. Well at least she was before she saw white robe walk gracefully through the crowd.
"Tatsumi." She muttered.
"What'd ya say Mine?" She turned back towards the voice of Sheele. Behind her stood Lubb, and Leone wearing a confused look on their faces. Without saying anything to them she turned back towards where she saw Tatsumi. "Mine what's up?"
"Tatsumi, I just saw him over there." She towards where she had just seen the Assassin. The other three instantly understood her.
"Alright, if Tatsumi is here we should try to find out why." Leone said in a commanding voice.
Execution Square
Mein, Lubbock, and Leone walked to the edge of the square. "Did you find him?" Lub asked the two women, both shook their head. "Damnit Nagenda going to be pissed after we tell her about this."
"NO! PLEASE FOR GOD'S SAKE! I'M INNOCENT! PLEASE SOMEONE HELP ME!" They looked over and saw three guards dragging a young women to a cross lying on the ground and a man wearing the armor of a Guards Captain.
He backhanded the young women, "SHUT IT, BITCH!" After his men picked the sobbing women he pointed to the cross. "NAIL HER TO THE BLIGHTED THING ALREADY." Two of the bastards started forcing the girl onto the cross while the other grabbed a hammer and large nail.
"Let's not look it's worse that way." Lubbock and Leone turned around until Mein noticed someone.
"Look! I think it's Tatsumi!" They both looked at the young man approaching the execution platform gently pushing people out of the way. He reached for something on his back and pulled it out, it looked like a crossbow. They saw the recoil of the crossbow and the guard with hammer and nail fell after reaching up and grabbing his neck. He unsheathed his sword and rushed the closest guard and aimed his attack at the man's leg almost severing it then raised his sword over his head and bringing down the blade into the man's collarbone. He took a knife from his belt and flicked it towards the final guard. He rushed towards the captain jumped retracting his hidden blade. He used his momentum and weight to break the soldier's defense and sunk his hidden blade into his neck killing him almost instantly.
The tortured women ran away from the platform as several guardsmen arrived covering the Assassin's possible escape routes. "Sir, come with me!", the leader of the group said approaching him. Most of the civilian elements of the crowd had left the square, leaving only Tatsumi, the guards, and the three Night Raid members.
Tatsumi glared at the men refusing to answer the officer. The officer looked at him confusingly. Suddenly a gunshot rung through the square and a red cloud sprung up from the officer's head and he dropped. The other guardsmen took their aims at Tatsumi. However the young assassin dropped a smoke bomb sending a cloud of smoke up obscuring their sight.
Suddenly a dart flew out of the smoke hitting one the guards in the chest and pulling him into the cloud. This repeated itself five more times until the cloud had mostly cleared itself and the could now see the outlines of the otherside.
"If we charge him we can kill him!" A random guard yelled charging in with many of his friends. Tatsumi parried the first strike from the guard and stabbed him with his hidden blade. The second guard tried to use a spear against him. Tatsumi simply dodged the attack the spear causing it to impale another guard behind him. The assassin pulled the spear out of the guard whilst stabbing the guard holding the weapon. He used it to strike a guard in the throat, another guard attempted to grab him from behind. He was quick to counter grab him and throw him over his head and impaling his abdomen. He saw a fifth guard approaching quickly, he pulled out the spear and quickly threw it at the oncoming soldier. The spear hit him in the dead center of the chest dropping him instantly.
Two guards started to charge him from the left, he quickly grabbed two of his throwing knives. Both knives hit their targets spot on. Suddenly Tatsumi felt his feet lift off the ground and flew across the ground of the square. He looked up from where he was lying and saw a large brutish looking guard holding a mace approaching him. Without saying a word he throw it over his head and was getting ready to bring it down on top of him. He considered rolling away from him although he saw another guard standing one his other side.
Suddenly a second shot rang out hitting the guard in the head. The unnamed guard fell like a freshly cut tree, dropping his mace. Tatsumi reached out and grabbed the mace and in one fluid motion swung at the other nearby guards legs causing them to shatter. Tatsumi swung the mace down on the guard again to, this time, deliver a killing blow. He turned around looking at the handful of guardsmen that remained. They looked far too scared to try anything, but when Tatsumi eithdrew his pistols they broke into a rout. Seemingly pleased he put away pistols and strolled away from the gorish sight.
There was a long silence between the Night Raiders before Lubbock broke the tense quiet. "Holy shit that was so quick and awesome!" Lubbock was starting to freak out. "That's like something out of a manga!"
Leone punched him causing him to fall down, "Oh concentrate will you! The boss will want to hear this."
Tatsumi walked over to Seamus who was sitting on a rooftop across from the execution site with a large sack lying next to him. "Did you really have to announce your presence like that? I thought that we're suppose to be a blade within the crowd?" Seamus mockingly stated.
"You saw what they were doing. If I didn't intervene like that girl would have died painfully for no reason." Tatsumi countered.
"Fair point." Seamus stood up and stretched, "So is there anything that needs to be done today?"
"I need to kill some Templar bastard then I was thinking about checking out a possible headquarters."
"Well I got an idea for a location."
"What is it?" Tatsumi asked.
"It'd be better to show you, but first check this out." He grabbed the large sack and handed it to Tatsumi. He reached inside the bag and pulled out a small red cube.
Tatsumi's eyes widened, "This is a blood vial!" He looked back at Seamus and handed him the blood vial. "Who's is it?"
Seamus took it and looked into it, "I've no idea. I found them inside of a Templar's home that I assassinated last night and figured it would be best to take these and send 'em back to Alamut."
"Alright that's a fair idea." Tatsumi grabbed the bag and gave it back to the other assassin.
Seamus grabbed his rifle and turned to Tatsumi, "So who's the bastard you're gunning for."
Night Raid's Base
"Tatsumi saved the young girl and skillful killed several guards with that much difficulty." Najenda stated as she tried to recap what her subordinates had told her.
"Yeah and he's definitely not alone either. During the whole thing two of the guards were killed by a rifleman." Mine said. "Not that they're anywhere near my skill level, but fact aside, it's still troublesome." She added to the discussion.
Najenda rubbed her forehead trying to prevent the oncoming headache. "This only confirms what Akame reported, that there's a second member of Tatsumi's group. It also means it may be more difficult to capture him."
"But Boss, we have Akame plus there's seven of us and two of them. Surely we can deal with just two people." Leone said to her trying to relieve her stress.
"If you remember Leone, Akame was hard pressed against a boy who claimed to not wield an Imperial arm of his own and he has at least one person helping him out. Not only that but this report only furthers the fact that he is skilled." She puffed on her cigarette and thought for a minute. "In order to capture him and eliminate this threat we'll need to set up some sort of trap. One where we can control the battle."
"Do you have any orders Najenda?" Lubbock asked. "Anything pertaining to Tatsumi that is?"
"I do actually, Leone, I want you to track him. We need to find out where he gets his contracts, and how he gets paid. If we find this out we maybe able to discern his motives."
Leone shook her head, "Alright boss."
"As for the rest of you, just be careful if you investigate Tatsumi. He;s proven he's dangerous and I can't afford to risk your lives for something this trivial." The rest nodded their heads in response.
The Southern district
The two Assassins were walking through the wide streets of the Southern district. The Southern district held one of the highest population densities in the cities save for the three ghettos. The southern district was also the primary place to come for newly arriving immigrants from all over the Empire.
"Hey Seamus that thing you wanted to have me check out, where is it?" Tatsumi said wondering when he would be able to finally see the next possible base for the Brotherhood.
"It's still over in the next district over by the canal."
Tatsumi shook his head and continued to follow his friend. However eventually they came across five soldiers and large man arguing over something. "I said it isn't fair for you to do this! This people still need to make a living!"
The officer in charge didn't take kindly to the man's shouting. "Well who the FUCK cares what you think, brute!" He pushed the man backwards. "I could easily have you arrested, jailed, and fined for obstruction of justice!"
The man reached into his pocket and pulled something out, "NOT ON MY WATCH!" He buried a cleaver into the officer's neck and grabbed the bastard sword he carried.
Several civilians ran away from the fight while Tatsumi and Seamus stood watching. Seamus turned to Tatsumi, "Your wanting to help, aren't you?" Tatsumi looked at his old friend and retracted his hidden blade. "I feel the same way my friend."
Seamus retracted his hidden blades and the two Assassins runs towards the remaining four guards. They pushed their hidden blades into their backs severing the guards spines. The large man that was about to fight the four other men looked at the two hooded figures. "Who the hell are you?"
Tatsumi offered his hand to the man, "Tatsumi." The man shook Tatsumi's hand.
"Seamus." He said as he offered his hand which the man quickly accepted.
"Name's Flint, Flint Nordell." They heard the sounds of men running in armor, they looked over and saw they around twenty or thirty guards running towards them. "Ahhh, do you guys want to fight or run?" Both Tatsumi and Seamus looked back at him like he was stupid, "Ok run it is."