Alright here is the third one I hope you enjoy also I am looking for a Beta for my "The Angel with a Single Wing" along with my 'Tsviet of Steel' if any of you want to volunteer please PM me


"Atone for my sins? I have no sins to atone for, nor have I forced such a meaningless concept on anyone."-Archer Fate/Stay night


"So" Najenda began as she looked at her fellow of nightraid member. "You picked someone up who you all agreed would be an asset, as this person was able to take on three of you without so much as working up a sweat?" she asked.
"Yes" Akame answered.. "Tatsumi as he called himself, was able to outmanoeuvre Leone and overpower Bulat and myself quite effortlessly as well as he is capable of hiding his presence so that when we attacked him he appeared to be a normal person. He also demonstrated restraint when he could have easily killed me even though he chose not to" Akame explained to the head of nightraid.

"Pray tell why did you attack someone this dangerous then?" Najenda asked.

"Apparently Leone had attempted to swindle him earlier in the day" Akame answered. "Tatsumi was able to make her pay for his drink instead" Akame expanded.

"I see" Najenda commented understanding why Leone had attacked him though not approving of it. "So let me get this straight first" Najenda said. "Tatsumi was from a village on the borders that the empire raided in that raid they had a prototype wepon that they were tsting and his father was killed in it." She asked while the story was believable it was possible that he worked for the empire and was sent as a spy.

To this Akame nodded. "That is what he says I have checked the records the dates and timing match as well as the fact that no soldiers returned" Akame answered.

"Did he disclose this information willingly?" Najenda asked.

"Yes when I asked him he told me" Akame answered. "He said he had nor reason not to tell me though he did add that he had no reason to tell me either."

"The is somewhat concerning" Najenda stated. "I have noticed his eyes glowed. Do you know anything about that?"

"Lubbock took the liberty to ask hi if he knew that" Akame answered. "For once he was not beaten up for asking a stupid question" Akame commented. "Tatsumi answered saying that he knew that he had glowing eyes and that he had always had them, he also stated that he got them from his father. When asked where his father came from he said that his father had told him that he was from an organisation called SOLDIER and that all of their eyes glowed blue, I believe it is from another country as Tatsumi was rather offended when he was asked if they were a mercenary group."

"So his background is somewhat questionable" Najenda concluded.

Akame shook her head "He did say that to Mine that is she denied the existence of his mother he would kill her, that statement was genuine he also said if we wanted to he would take us to his village if we so desired. Tatsumi said that he does not like it when lies obscure the truth and that he dislikes lying in general."

"It still could be a trap" Najenda argued.

"I think the fact that we don't believe him is somewhat insulting to him" Akame answered.

"Still do you believe him?" Najenda asked the important question.

Akame nodded "Yes I do" She answered.

"Can you tell me why?" Najenda asked,

"It is because he is an honest person I can tell that about him though his nature may be confusing as well as his story Tatsumi it seems to be kind person at heart" Akame explained. "Also I might point out that he only said he would join us if Leone left him alone and you know what heppens when Leone wants something"

Najenda sighed in defeat "fine I guess he can stay just make sure he doesn't cause trouble, on that note what has he been doing recently?"

"I believe that he is polishing his second sword the one that he did not use and that he is repairing the third one that he claimed belonged to his friend." Akame answered.

"He's been doing that for twelve hours!" Najenda exclaimed with disbelief.

"apparently so" Akame answered. "When asked why he was doing so he said that the guardsmen who had taken it had in the short time that he had it abused it by using it for something other than its purpose and sharpening it with the wrong kind of whetstone." Akame answered. "I do believe that he was rather agitated by its treatment."

"Fine" Najenda answered "send him in lets get this over with."

"yes mam" Akame nodded politely before walking out of Najenda's office.

"I just hope we aren't making a mistake" Najenda said to herself once Akame was out of earshot.


Lubbock watched in fascination as Tatsumi finished repairing the sword. Tatsumi had requested to use some of the facilities their base had to offer and afterafter a brief discussion was allowed. "Man you must love your swords" he commented. "I mean with way you were so precise and thorough yet delicate with it man you made blacksmithing into an art" Lubbock stated.

"It is an art" Tatsumi replied. "It is just that you had no appreciation for it until this point" he explained.

"I was wondering why didn't you use that big sword on your back" Lubbock asked "I mean when you fought Bulat, Leone and Akame, surely it would have given you an even greater advantage?" he reasoned.

Tatsumi turned to look at Lubbcok in the eye "Use brings wear, tear as well as rust and that is a real waste" he answered.

"Man how can a sword be that important to you its just a sword?" Lubbock asked.

"My father made it, he thought me it represents his honour, his dreams and his pride passing it receiving it when he died he passed on those to me" Tatsumi said taking his buster style sword out and holding it in front of himself "This sword not only represents the drams and honour of my father but mine as well, It is also so much more than that" he explained as he holstered it back onto his back.

"Well that seems pretty deep" Lubbock commented not being able to find the words to say anything else. "Doesn't it seem somewhat weird to you, well you know to place so much in a sword?" he asked.

"I don't know" Tatsumi shrugged as he answered. "Does being beat up by your fellows for trying to bathe with them seem strange to you?" Tatsumi questioned.

"Well how you I know?" Lubbock asked confused.

"Perhaps I should have said the word 'peek' instead" Tatsumi answered.

"What how do you know about that?" Lubbock asked in disbelief.

"I have been in this room for over twelve hours you came in grumbling about it remember" Tatsumi answered.

"Wait I thought I was being quiet do you have some enhance hearing?" Lubbock asked.

"Yes" Tatsumi answered as if it wasn't a big deal and returned to polishing what was once Ieyasu's sword.

"Can you know like see through walls?" Lubbock asked intrigued.

"No" Tatsumi answered without looking at him. "what gave you that impression?" he asked.

"Uh well because you have enhanced hearing I thought you might have enhanced vision" Lubbok answered.

"Enhanced vision does not mean x-ray vision" Tatsumi stated.

"So do you have enhanced vision?" Lubbock asked.

Tatsumi but the sword down gently and looked Lubbock in the eye. "You do understand that enhanced means that you have improved upon it" he stated "To this end anyone who has trained themselves to notice more has as you put it 'enhanced vision'. Also please take into consideration that I do not know what 'normal' people experience either also you cannot qualify as a normal person dues to you talents as we will put it. On that note how should I know that I seem more than everyone else, all I know is that not everyone notices the things I do" Tatsumi stated.

Feeling a little sheepish Lubbok said "Ah well when you put it that way it does make sense."

"You have my gratitude for being understanding" Tatsumi stated.

"Ah well I guess I should get going now" Lubbock said rubbing the back of his head as he walked out. "Well that was interesting" he thought to himself.

A few minutes later Akame walked in "The boss wants to speak with you" she stated.

"Well it took you long enough" Tatsumi stated. Taking off his swords and carefully placing them down. Noticing that Akame was looking at him he said "what I thought you wouldn't want me to walk in with me swords"

"I guess you can't be too safe but the boss didn't say that you couldn't come in with them" Akame stated.

"Oh in that case" Tatsumi replied picking them up and holstering them to his back "I'm ready" he stated.

"I am intrigued" Akame stated as she walked him to Najenda's office. "about your swords that is" she added. "How is it that you are able to keep it one your back without using a strap?" she answered.

Tatsumi looked at her thoughtfully before answering "well I so happen to have a magnet in built with my equipment to hold it, my father designed it based of SOLDIER's uniform or so he said" Tatsumi explained. "no straps to get in your way or to be used as leverage by your foes. In short very economical" he added.

"Thank you for satisfying my curiosity" Akame said before a large growl emitted from her stomach. Akame evidently embarrassed turned her head away from Tatsumi "I'm sorry I must have not eaten properly" she said. Tatsummi raised his eyebrow and chose not to comment. As they reached Najenda's office Akame came to a stop "I'll wait for you outside she said when another growl came from her stomach.

"I don't think your digestive system agrees with you" Tatsumi noted playfully before entering Najenda's office alone.


Two hours later after Tatsumi had just left Najenda found herself even more confused than before. It was not that Tatsumi was lying it was that he was being brutally honest abut everything and he didn't hesitate to say what he beloved.

Najenda sighed "This is very contradictory an open book like Tatsumi seems to be the most mysterious and confusing" she complained. "The boy himself is a contradiction" she stated. While Tatsumi was idealistic he was also very pragmatic she had been able to make out at least that from her conversation with him. Taking and lighting a cigar to relieve herself "his enemy is all that causes suffering huh?" She asked herself "I don't believe he will but lets hope that he won't turn on us because of those ideals just in case."

Just then Lubbock walked in "boss I heard you decided to let Tatsumi join" he stated.

"Are you concerned about his character?" Najenda asked. It was a very valid question.

"Well for starers when I talked to him about a couple hours ago I became more confused because of his behaviour, though he does seem to value honour and dreams a lot." Lubbock answered truthfully. "On a side note I am not sure if it is relevant but he does seem obsessed with the concept and with his sword as well" Lubbock commented. "Heck he even talked about his sword representing his dreams on honour that is some weird stuff."

"I agree" Najenda said "His personality as well as his reasoning is confusing though he seems to be an honest person I can't help but feel he is hiding something from us."

"Well he did meet us today no matter how honest a person is he is not going to tell us everything" Lubbock reasoned.

"I guess you are right I am only concerened if Tatsumi is a spy" Najenda admitted.

"If he was a spy then by our logic we would be dead by now" Lubbock stated. "After all that is how the empire does things."

"I know but it is my job to watch out for these sort of things" Najenda stated.

"You do have a valid point but I don't think Tatsumi trusts us either, after all he made his distaste at us being killers for hire before we even reached here, I think Leone's nagging might have been the key factor to him joining" Lubbock stated. "If he was an empire spy he wouldn't have been as reluctant to come with us and Akame would have been able to find him out straight away." Lubbock said.

"Thank you for your input Lubbock as always you can be counted on" Najenda thanked him.

Lubbock turned away to walk out as well as hiding his blush "thanks boss" he managed to say before he made his retreat.


"And that's how the Murasame works" Akame finished her explanation to Tatsumi.

"Well that is one dangerous blade, just one clip and you die" Tatsumi commented in his distant tone. "Though you seem to be pretty lethal without it" he noted.

"Well yes, thought it does make it hard to sharpen it" Akame stated "though what are you doing?" she asked.

"Just watch" Tatsumi answered. They had taken down several Horned Tigers togetheer while they had gone out to collect food for Akame's appetite Tatsumis had bent down to the one whom he had incapacitated and went to its open wound.

Akame was interested so she didn't interfere. She was somewhat confused when Tatsumi picked out a small knife and pricked himself on the finger letting a small drop of blood fell into it. "What does Tatsumi hope to achieve by that?" Akame thought as she continued to watch what ever it was she felt that she mustn't interfere.

Tatsumi rose and turned to face her the small prick already clotted in mere moments "Now lets watch" he said walking next to her and sitting down.

Following his lead Akame too sate down "what are we waiting for?" she asked

"Come its started why don't you watch" Tatsumi said in a dispassionate tone.

Akame turned her attention back to the Horned Tiger. The danger beasts body had started to undergo some sort of change there was a strange noise like stiching comin from it. Akam wathed in morbid fascination as the wound it had received began to knit itself as well as its fur began to change. Where its colour was an orange come yellow yellow it now became a pure silver. Its main became a darker shade of silver and its horns twisted back so that they were facing upwards as they drained out of colour as they straigtened. Two wings sprouted from its left side both of them white thought one was noticeable larger than the other. Its three eyes began to shine with the same sapphire light that Tatsumi's did. Finnaly behind the mane came a face that was identical to Tatsumi's only that it was white and that its eyes were closed. "What on earth?" were Akame's thoughts as she witnessed this scene.

The transformed danger beast walked up to Tatsumi who gently stroked its head "Go" he commanded before it leapt with greater seed than any horned Tiger should possess and took off into the undergrowth.

"What did you do?" Akame asked staring at Tatsumi transfixed. "You changed it how is that possible?"

"I reshaped it in my own image" Tatsumi answered her not bothered in the least.

"How is that possible?" Akame asked. The thought that such a thing was possible was truly fascinating as well as down right horrifying.

"It is something I learnt from my father" Tatsumi answered "after he died." He added.

"People can be thought this?" Akame asked scared of what the possibilities might mean.

"No" Tatsumi answered. "At this moment I am the only being alive who can do it" he explained. "It was a genetic trait from my father that I inherited. Like him I am able to copy traits as well as pass them along to others, in short it is a two way conduit. I also am able to control and influence those who I have remade into my copies"

"Amzing" Akame said. "but you said that you learnt it from your father after he died.?" Akame asked confused.

"Do you remember the crow from last night?" Tatsumi asked.

"Yes I do recall seeing a peculiar bird" Akame answered "is it one of those you made?" she asked.

"No Tatsumi answered. "It is my fathers you see even after he died he will was strong enouht that anything unfortunate enough to intake his genetic material will be still influenced by him" Tatsumi explained. "In a way he is helping me from beyond the grave" Tatsumi stated before a memory of a smile flashed across his face "as always even in death he's selfless."

"Unfortunate why?"" Akame asked.

"You see while it will take some time all of them will eventually degrade and die" Tatsumi answered. "The rate may vary depending on the potential of the recipient but they will degrade none the less. Also even if it is a person who has been made into a copy even if they retain their sense of self they will still be influenced by the originals will"

"You can use it on people?" Akame asked horrified.

"For an Assasin you seem to have some strange morals" Tatsumi commented. "But yes I believe it has been done before at least to one person" Tatsumi answered.

"You said it was a two way conduit, what does that mean?" Akame asked questions bulging inside her head.

"I gave already said it but I can also copy those who I make into my copies traits by assimilating them" Tatsumi answered. "Also we are connected so we can communicate over long distances."

"What is the one that you just made gone to do?" Akame asked.

"I sent him home to keep an eye on the village and to help the other one out." Tatssumi answered.

"What other one? How many have you made?" Akame asked.

"So far two though the first one is an achievement if I do say so myself" Tatsumi answered. "While I was fighting it I discovered this ability."

""What was the danger beast?" Akame asked wanting to know more from the way Tatsumi spoke it was as if he had faced a difficult battle.

"ah it was little over two years ago when we were still looking for a place to settle down in. I was not as strong as I am now but I was still good. That is when I faced it, that is when I was able to say that I could walk on my own two feet, When I fought the dragon type danger beast the Tyrant to a standstill" Tatsumi answered a hint of passion creeping into his voice.

"A tyrant danger beast" Akame stated with awe. The tyrant Danger beast was one of if not the most powerful Danger beast out there. It was said that the dragon type was said to be ever evolving getting stronger to survive and defeat any opponent. Bulats armour had one subjugated within it and even then it kept evolving. "Did you assimilate it then?" Akame asked. "It would explain his strength if he did" she thought.

Tatsumi just looked at her with an 'are you serious' face. "I do not believe in taking shortcuts to becoming stronger to protect others, I find it insulting that some people think so" he answered. "I would only assimilate them if it was absolutely necessary to ensure those I hold dear's survival and nothing else" he stated.

Akame was somewhat shocked that Tatsumi had gotten this strong on his own. "Why are you telling me this?" She asked.

"I am simply returning the favour you deccided to tell me something about yourself even though I didn't ask, so I did likewise" Tatsumi answered.

"Oh" Akame replied. To her it seemed as though Tatsumi was indeed an honest person but that didn't mean that he was naïve.

"Do you want to cook what we caught here or should we take it back to base" Tatsumi asked gesturing at there kills. He had almost said camp at the end of it but had been able to restrain himself. Not that Akame had noticed anyway.

"Its too much even for me to eat here we will have to take it back to base" Akame answered. Tatsumi just picked up several of the animals they had killed and began walking back to Night Raids base. Akame followed him with two of them from behind. Staring at Tatsumi's back she thought "what else can he do?" Needles to say she was intrigued by his mysterious nature even though he was an open book.

"If you want to share what I've told you with your friends, feel free to do so" Tatsumi said to her. From what he was able to tell of Akame was that she wasn't someone who liked hiding things from her comrades.


After they had cooked the animals and eaten them Akame went and asked Najenda to assemble Nightraid so that she could Ask Tatsumi to tell them what he had shown her. "He showed you something that he can do?" Bulat asked. Putting his arm around Tatsumi's shoulder. "hey man come tell us" the tall musculat man asked Tatsumi.

"Please can you refrain from touching me" Tatsumi asked politely "There were only four people in the world I allowed to do that, now three of them are dead" he explained.

"What did you kill them" Bulat asked in mock fright though he did let go of Tatsumi as was asked of him.

"No two of the were those corpses I burned last night" Tatsumi said calmly. "It would be unwise to underestimate him after all he is the hundred man slay" he thought. "Well according to Akame at any rate."

"Well I'm sorry" Bulat apologised feeling bad that he had made a joke about a memory so fresh.

"Don't" Tatsumi answered "you didn't know."

"Well I'm interesteed in what Akame said" Leone stated. "She said that it would be best explained if you showed us so we got you a kitten" she said behind her bringing marg panther forward.

"seriously?" Tatsumi asked "fine then just don't go all animal cruelty on me" he stated as he made a cut in the small adorable cats arm before repeating what he had shown to Akame with them. At the end of it all of the Nightraid members stood in shock looking at the now fearsome yet still cute looking marg panther.

"Its completely changed" Leone stated as she picked it up and stoked its fur. "Its fur is no longer soft and flucffy now its fur is bristly and hard" she stated.

"Of course it is" Tatumi deadpanned at her."Now have you had enough after you forced me to transform something so innocent into a killing machine?" he asked.

"How did you do that?" Sheele asked.

Tatsumi was slightly irritated that he would have to explain the same thing twice in one day but he didn't let something like that show. Starting from the beginning he explained the whole process.

At the end of it it seemed that the members of nightraid were impressed. "I'm surprised you didn't show this before" Lubbock stated. "If I had a gift like this I would totally use it over time."

"Are you sure that you would?" Tatsumi asked. "Are you sure that it is a gift?"

"Well yeah" Lubbock answered confused at Tatsumi's question.

"Perhaps have you thought about what will happen to them or did you miss the bit about the degradation?" Tatsumi asked.

"Oh yeah I forgot" Lubbock said scratching the back of his head.

"You didn't tell them about the tyrant" Akame stated.

"I haven't told you about it either" Tatsumi replied. "besides that is something I am not willing to share at the moment to people I have know for a total of twenty six hours and seven minutes" he stated.

Lubbock checked his watch "holy shit he's right" Lubbock stated.

"Enough" Najenda said "Tatsumi we thank you for sharing this with us, I know it must be difficult to have to work alongside strangers but I believe you will do fine" she stateed. "I also believe that some of us have duties to perform, so get back to it" Najenda said with a playful smile on her face.

Some of the Nightraid members groaned but left to do what was required. After they had left Tatsumi asked Najenda "Is there anything required of me?"

Najenda smiled at this "well you have good work ethic at least but take the night off, we've got a contract tomorrow so be at full strength" she said.

"Understood" Tatsumi answered.

After he left Najenda ran her non mechanical hand through her hair "I hope no one else finds out about this" she said to herself. "I don't know what would happen if Doctor Stylish or that Alchemist girl I've heard of finds out."

Meanwhile Tatsumi reached his designated quarters taking off his three swords and putting them down he closed his eyes in a brief moment as he picked up his buster style sword in meditation "Father grant me the strenght to do what is right" he said before he laid the sword down and lay in the bed made for him "No matter how I dress it what I am doing from here on is murder" he thought. "Father please try to understand" he said closing his eyes embracing the darkness


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