A/N: Dear readers, this story indeed take place before Akame change side. This story happens 5 years before the story in the anime/manga. That's all.


A general is strong.

"Kuro, can you cut this bread for me?"

A general is sharp.

"Tatsumi! Please stop sleeping on the hallway." Seryu quickly carries him back to his room. "By the name of justice I have to work extra hard to keep an eye on you."

A general will quickly finish his mission that the king has given him.

"Tatsumi, the king call for you an hour ago!"

"I'm sleepy."

A general never gives up.

"Let's stop playing, It's time for me to sleep." He pushes the game board away and slam his face on the table. It didn't take long for all of them to hear him snoring, Esdeath simply chuckles to see her crush is smiling in his sleep as he mumbles the word 'food'.

Well, I'm sure you guys can already tell what Tatsumi character and personality in this story. So let skip few parts and head to a real challenge shall we?


"Excuse me." Kuro call Liver.

"What is it?"

"Have you seen Tatsumi?"

"Ah . . . You lost him too. Miss Esdeath asks me to search for him since she has a feeling he will wander around and get lost again. She is always right." Liver smiles. "This situation reminds me of the first time I babysit him, it was very stressful."

"Do you have any idea where he is now?"

"No clue." Liver laughs out loud. "You better search for him now before the night comes, it will be harder to search for him if he fall asleep somewhere again." Kuro sighs in defeat as he walk away from that man and start searching for his master like crazy.

"Tatsumi!" The teigu screams.

Meanwhile Tatsumi is walking inside the capital again earning few looks from the people knowing well they all fear him. None of them come close and keep their distant away from him but for those who doesn't know him will have hell to pay since he has a habit of killing lately especially when his in a bad mood.

As he continues to walk he spot a girl walking inside the capital, she's wearing the military uniform that shows that she is a part of Military Assassination Group that also known as (AGKO). Due to curiosity he looks closer and can tell that she is very special. Feeling curious he walk closer to her and surprise her a bit, she looks at him and quickly bow down while greeting him.

"There's no need to be so polite, we're the capital important people after all." Tatsumi tells her with a wide smile.

She slightly blush as she nod her head.

"Is there anything I can do for you general?" She asks.

"I want to sight seeing, can you recommend someplace interesting?" He didn't know why he asks her since he usually just walk around and fell asleep when his tired since it has become Kuro job to search for him and carry him back home.

"Sure." She salutes and walk beside him.

Her heart race like crazy as she walk side by side with the infamous general known as 'Red Flash'. She heard lots of things about him from her friends, she also knows that he is about the same age as her and look very cute as well. He is also the king favorite and have the strength of 1000 warriors. Nobody has ever survive when battling him.

She feel honor to been given a chance to show him around and perhaps show her skill as well to impress the general.

"I forget to introduce myself haven't I, my name is Tatsumi." He says cheerfully.

"I am Akame, it is an honor to know you General Tatsumi." She try to control her happiness as she replies which just make Tatsumi chuckles. "I'm glad you're on the capital side, the king will surely need someone like you working under him."

"Really?"

"Yes, I can see that you're strong by just looking at your movement. If you keep training very hard then you will surely gain the tittle as a general someday." He tells her generously.

Akame smiles as she hear those words from him, she knows that she is slightly stronger than her comrades and her sister but she never thought that she could be strong enough to become a general as well. Well, not too strong like Tatsumi since he did become a general in a very young age.

"So where should we go too?" Tatsumi asks.

"Um, there's a place in the forest that I love to go too. Will it be alright General Tatsumi?" She asks politely.

"The forest." He sound slightly surprise. "I guess it won't be too bad for a change of pace and just call me Tatsumi from now on, okay?"

"Sure."

Without wasting anymore time she shows him the way.

At another place Kuro continue to search for his master in panic, losing his master is the same as being punish by the king, the prime minister and the most dangerous and sadist person known as General Esdeath.

"Where are you Tatsumi?"


The forest is not like Tatsumi imagines, he always thought the forest full of trees only. I'm not kidding, that's how he always thought about living in the wild. But when he found beast living in the forest it gets him excited especially Akame when she found the beast that can be eaten. It looks like she will have another great feast tonight as well.

As she continue to stare at the beast greedily, Tatsumi glance at her and find it funny to see that impression from the finest teigu user the capital can have. It reminds him the first time he met Esdeath, the woman known as Empire strongest suddenly proclaim her love which surprise him for a while.

After that she continue to show great interest in him and he start to get use of her trying to seduce him all the time. Maybe he didn't feel her charm yet since he is still young but remembering that the corrupted noble has start raping girls at the age of 10 cause him to be confuse. Does boys from the noble family always reach puberty in their early age?

"Meat." Akame grip her weapon tightly.

"So you're a glutton." Tatsumi says before looking back at the beast.

Even stupid people can tell that Akame wants to eat the beast when they see her hungry face, Tatsumi simply chuckles as he take out his own sword and point it at the beast. He wonders how the fight will turn out if he fight the beast with the glutt- Akame.

"Bon appetite." He says and together they jump toward it.

It didn't take long for the beast to die since Akame handle most of the work and Tatsumi hasn't use his full power at all as he cut it to half. Once the beast has die, Akame quickly prepare the fire place and grab the spice she founds around them. Tatsumi sit on the log as he wait for her to prepare to cook.

"Maybe I should make fire."

He brush his hair to the back to reveal silver earings, the mark on it start to shine and with a snap of his fingers a small fire start to form.

"Perfect." Akame says cheerfully and stab the meat with a long thick stick and hang it up high. All she do now is spin it so the part of the meat will be cook and Tatsumi continue to sit there and watch. This is the first time he will be eating outdoors and it has been long time since he last eat meat. Usually his breakfast, lunch and dinner mostly contain sweets and more sweets.

The girl seems over excited when the delicious scent of aroma can be smell.


"Where's Tatsumi?" Esdeath give a disappointed look at Kuro.

"I lost him."

Esdeath gives him a glare which is enough to make the teigu beg for his life to be spare before she walks away.

"I will find him by myself."

Her steps are loud as she walks making the servants around her to step back and give her some space. Kuro gulps and quickly follow her from behind since something tells him that Esdeath will find Tatsumi easily than him since she has some sort of connection with Tatsumi. It remind him of the accident with the bear when Esdeath pick it up knowing it belong to her precious crush.

Is her love that deep?


"That was delicious." Tatsumi pat his tummy.

"Of course, the spice I found is good quality."

Tatsumi wants to asks her about the wild life but stop when he notice that his shoe seems dirty and frown.

"Is there something wrong Tatsumi?" She asks worriedly when she sees the expression on his face.

"It's dirty." Tatsumi points at his shoe. "My boots."

"You can clean it at the river nearby."

"Clean it?"

Because of this unknown knowledge of cleaning Tatsumi follow Akame to the river, she first take off her own boots and start cleaning the dirt away. Tatsumi gulps when he sees how easily she scrub it off with her hand and slowly lean down.

"Clean. . ." He says the word slowly.

"Do you need some help Tatsumi?" She asks noticing that Tatsumi hasn't clean it yet.

"I never clean before, it has always been someone job to clean my equipment and clothes so I never did it by myself." He says. "Never once in my life I have never touch a brush or soap since I'm too lazy. If it wasn't for my skill I would have consider worthless to the capital since I never can do things by myself."

He didn't know why his telling her about his life but he suddenly feel like he can tell her everything about him. Akame, there is something about her that he feels like he can open up to despite the fact that they just met.

"I can show you." A confident look shown on her face.

Tatsumi slowly take off his boots on his own for the first time, he gulps slowly to see his toes. A bit of the cold water splash on his feet which make him shiver so he quickly step back.

"Do you hate water?" She asks.

"No." He quickly says. "It is just too cold."

Akame dip her hand inside the river to feel the temperature and for her it is quite normal but it looks like Tatsumi doesn't like it. Tatsumi put his boot back feeling a bit depress that he fail an easy task to clean his own things.

"Here." She gives him her handkerchief.

"Eh?"

"Dip it inside the water for a bit and then wipe it on your boots."

She . . . Did she just order a general? But, Tatsumi take the handkerchief and does as she say and once he wipe a bit of the dirt away she compliments him. "Good job." She says happily sounding like she totally meant it.

For a while Tatsumi feels like his heart lighten. This is the first time he actually did something for himself without having anyone to do it for him.

"Let's go back, it is going to turn dark soon."

Oh no.

That means Tatsumi bed time is coming but he has to be sleeping somewhere in the capital if he expect someone to find him but if he sleep in the forest nobody will search for him here.

"Okay." Tatsumi replies and start to run.

His eye lids start to get heavy but he quickly shake it off, even though Akame is here but he doesn't want her to see his only weakness. The fact that his body will be in complete shut down when midnight comes. Akame looks confuse as she follow her general in the same pace but didn't say anything.

This is when Tatsumi regret for leaving Kuro behind and decide to explore alone, he shouldn't have left the capital when he know he couldn't take care of his self. If it wasn't because of all of his teigu then he wouldn't have been in this condition. The more teigu he possesses, the weaker his body will be.

If it wasn't because of his boots (teigu) he wouldn't have the speed to kill all his enemy.

"Tatsumi!" Akame shouts his name.

A beast suddenly jump in front of them, Tatsumi take out his weapon quickly and easily slice it to half but more beast suddenly shown up in front of them.

"How could this be? These types of beast don't usually attack people unless we attack them first." She take out her teigu slowly as she eye on each of them.

"Someone try to slow us down." Tatsumi hiss in anger when the sun beginning to set. "Let's finish this once and for all."

Who exactly that try to slow them down?


"There is no sign of General Tatsumi!" One of the military report.

"Then work harder and find him!" The prime minister orders.

"But sir, we have search everywhere but there is no sign of him!"

The king pout look sadly at the man before him.

"Tatsumi . . . where could he be?"

"We will find him I assure you." The prime minister gives his sympathy but in the inside he is mad. If the military still can't find him then he would execute them all if he have to. "I'm sure he is just sleeping somewhere again."


Esdeath hop off from the beast and Kuro follow from behind.

"How can you be sure that he's in the forest?" Kuro asks.

"Instinct." She says confidently and walk inside.

Once she step inside they were immediately ambush by wild beast, Kuro quickly create lightning bolt in his hand while Esdeath look annoy as she look at those monsters. The teigu throw the lightning toward one of the beast and manage to hit it at the eye.

"Do you have any other attack than those two?" She asks.

"None."

"Very well then." She sighs.

In an instant hundreds of ice were created around them, an evil smirk can be seen clearly on her face.

"If only my dear Tatsumi can see how cool I am when I fight."

The ice is throw toward the beast around them leaving none of them alive, Kuro gulps to see how fast and powerful she is in defeating all of it. What would happen if Tatsumi and Esdeath decide to become partner in battle? Surely they will be the strongest in the capital once they team up and no one can ever stop them.

One by one of the beast collapse and without warning Esdeath create a circle of ice around them before it shoot up and become a mountain.

"Ah!" A cheerful smile shown when she sees her crush while ignoring the shivering teigu when he found himself so far from the ground.

"Oh god." His voice is shaking as he look down.

As he continue to be afraid and realize his new fear of heights, Esdeath emotion changes when she spot two persons with her Tatsumi and becomes annoy.

"Troublesome." Her tone grows darker and the teigu can only sit at the edge hoping that Esdeath will bring them down soon.


The night has come and Tatsumi can feel his body growing tired. It is not because of the beast earlier, it is more due to his bedtime is near.

"Tatsumi, you look sleepy."

"No." He says. "Let's continue to walk."

"But . . ."

How pathetic.

He has killed hundreds of armies with his own hand but can't handle his body when his sleepy, his shutdown is coming soon and the capital is still far away. Why does he even bother to find a new place to sight see or walk so deep in the jungle just to eat some meat? WHY?

"As I thought, you're the weakest when midnight comes." Syura step put from the shadow and reveal himself.

"Who are you?" Akame quickly stand in front of Tatsumi to protect him.

"You!" The stranger points at the girl. "How dare you point that weapon at me, the son of the prime minister!" He shouts in anger.

"Prime minister son?" She startles.

Tatsumi glare at the guy in front of him, he is the only high rank and important person in the capital that he hates. Since Syura has tried to kill him many times before in the past because the prime minister prefer him than his own son.

"Why are you back in the capital?"

"Is it wrong for me to be back here, shortie?"

Tatsumi crack his fingers when he hear the insult.

"Now I understand why your dad never like you."

"Shut Up!"

Syura come running in fast speed that even Akame can't catch up, Tatsumi quickly release his teigu 'Drill Bracelet' that circle around his arms. The curl changes into a straight weapon form like a blade to protect himself from Syura attack. Despite that Syura teigu doesn't involve any defense nor attack but it doesn't change the fact this person is strong like a general should.

"CURSE EYES!" Tatsumi shouts.

Syura closes his eyes so the teigu won't work on him and the young general use this chance when Syura is off guard. He uses the speed given by the teigu to attack his knee but Syura movement is fast to block his attack. Soon they disappear in front of Akame making the girl gasp when she turn to look up to see two flash of lightning keep appearing and disappearing above her.

They move so fast that she can't catch up to their fight, her grip on her katana tighten when she feel useless for not able to help her general.

"They're too powerful." She starts to talk to herself. "Does someone like me can match to their power?"

As she continue to stand there, Tatsumi start to use his other teigu 'The Invisible Weapon' that only let the user to see its true form.

"Wind Tornado Level 1!" He shouts and a huge tornado start to form.

"Fuck! Not this again."

The invisible weapon is swing as it follows the rotation of the tornado to make his strength and movement faster.

"Level 2!"

The tornado go faster and Syura who had experience this before quickly move away letting the invisible weapon to hit nothing but it turn out it was one of the biggest mistake he ever make.

"Final level!"

The tornado switch direction and the weapon goes to the back and hit Syura back.

The wind dies down and they both fall on the ground, Akame come running toward Tatsumi when he suddenly closes his eyes and his teigu return back to normal. She wonders where the invisible weapon has gone to but choose to ignore it as she presses her ear on Tatsumi chest to hear his heart beat.

"I won't die that easily." He whispers.

"But, why do you look so tired?"

"I'm sleepy." He starts to mumble before his body goes into a complete shutdown and soft snore can be heard.

She blinks a few times when Tatsumi start snoring in peace.

"That was unexpected."

Behind her Syura slowly stand up in pain and pull out a dagger from his back.

"This time I will . . ."

"Will what?" Esdeath interrupts.

"What are you doing here?" He turns around to look face to face with the general.

At that time he didn't notice a lightning bold and a ball of fire is shoot toward him from opposite direction, by the time he notice the attack it was too late.

"Tatsumi can still fight in his sleep? That's new." The general laughs as she pierce a rod of ice into Syura body.

"If you weren't the son of the prime minister I would have kill you." She chuckles. "Good work Kuro." She praises the teigu before pulling the ice out.

Kuro run toward his master and take him away from Akame.

"Tatsumi." The teigu says worriedly.

Esdeath glare at Akame as she tilt her hat.

"I hope today will be a lesson to you for not taking Tatsumi to far from his home, the capital has been a chaos searching for him." She warns. "Today I want you to reflect on your action and never sees Tatsumi again since Tatsumi is the type that easily trust those who are loyal to the capital. If he trust you too much then you will make his life shorten due to your careleness for not thinking of his safety."

"I'm sorry." Akame looks down on the ground since she can't bear to look at the older girl eyes any longer.

"Let's go Kuro." Esdeath call teh teigu.

Even though Esdeath is not her master but Kuro follow her order and carry Tatsumi away from that place, Akame heart beat fast when she watch Tatsumi is being carry away further from her. She knows they live in different world and never meant to see or speak to each other at the first place. But it doesn't stop her from her heart to break.

"I just met him but why . . ."

Why does she fell in love with him?


Esdeath can't hide her anger seeing Tatsumi with another girl, the only girl who can spent time with Tatsumi and touch him is only her.

"Don't you ever take your eyes off Tatsumi again!"

"Yes." The teigu quickly replies.

They both never know that Tatsumi just had a precious moment to remember for being able to clean his own stuff for the first time. It was the greatest accomplishment he ever have.