About the name of Tatsumi's Teigu, I was thinking, that if a human has more control over water than a water god, then the God could be killed like that. Although you could think of it whichever way you want.
Funny:
Earlier today, me and my brother were eating chicken strips from a restaurant, when he was all like, "Dammit! I'm eating mashed potatoes!" I of course looked at him like he was stupid before asking what he meant by that. My response was, "I founded FOPR, Federation of Potato Rights, a few days ago, and I'm eating mashed potatoes right now!" That led to me teasing him and laughing a him of course.
Also sorry for my raging earlier. The guy who wrote the major copy of this story actually deleted his story's chapters, and says their gonna start anew...
I give thanks to the few who decided to review/PM.
His eyes twitched. An eye squinted open. The ceiling slowly came into focus as Tatsumi woke up.
He yawned before realizing it was already late in the day. The sun was high in the sky in the limited view his window provided him. "Didn't I agree to make breakfast..? Oh well. Their fault for not waking me up."
As he walked into the room he noticed only Leone and Akame were there. He yawned, "Where are the others?"
Akame stared at him silently, while Leone chuckled before answering,"They got a request to kill someone. Why'd you sleep in?"
"I don't know, though I'm kinda suprised you didn't wake me up..." He eyed Akame, his partner, as he expected her to say something. Maybe ignoring this or perhaps just not wanting to, she remained silent.
Leone ended up laughing at the staring contest between the two. Their 'contest' went on for over a minute in silence while Leone watched intently.
"Since you woke up late we'll have to make dinner instead. Let's go take some lives." It seemed Akame finally decided to speak, for food. She looked away in favor of getting prepared, not noticing Tatsumi's triumphant smirk. That is, before he realized his new task.
"You mean hunting don't you." He deadpanned before following her. Even if he didn't want to, she was technically in charge of him. She merely nodded.
Afterwards he ended up following Akame through the forest, large baskets on their backs. At the top of a steep hill Akame stopped. "We've arrived."
"Ooooh, a pool?" As said, a waterfall pooled water in a large clearing. Rocks lined the edge of the seemingly shallow pool.
Tatsumi turned to Akame only to see her holding her hand out, looking at him expectantly. He noticed her basket was near the edge of the rock they were standing on.
"What?"
"Our targets are underwater. I will not allow you to use your Teigu."
"Of course..." He gave sword-and-sheath to her waiting hand, sighing all the way. "So what are we hunting?"
"Large River Tuna."
"If you say so. But how deep is this pool? Those guys are so 'rare' because they always live at least 50 feet under the surface in freshwater." He followed Akame's example and put his basket down near the edge.
"30 yards."
"EH?! But it looks so shallow."
"You need to erase your presence and strike when you get close. Swim along the riverbed. Come on." She dived down closely followed by Tatsumi.
The underwater world was comprised of algae and water plants covering the rocks at the floor tiny fish fled from the two intruders while their targets swam down below.
Tatsumi followed Akame's instructions, and soon enough he had caught his first fish.
Later That Day
"So, Tatsumi caught almost as many as Akame? I'm suprised. I didn't think you were good with stealth." Leone was eyeing him while eating her meal.
Najenda however, was just as shocked as Leone, "For a first-timer, you did very well. Have you done this before?"
"Fishing with my bare hands? No. Sneaking up on things? Yes." Najenda seemed content with his answer.
"You won't need as much work as I thought." Akame was playing with a fish's head when she said this.
I'll take that as a compliment.
"Leone. Tell me about the request we received a few days ago."
"Our targets are and oil merchant named Gamal, and Ogre of the Capital guards." As she explained about the client and Ogre's wrongdoings, Tatsumi tuned her out while pretending to listen.
Ogre huh? That one-eyed idiot who doesn't know how to lay low? He's only a Captain, but I guess I shoudn't go easy on him. He is known for being cautious.
"All right Night Raid will accept this mission. We will deliver punishment to these monsters and send them to the afterlife."
"Taking out Gamal will be easy but Ogre is a Captain, he'll be a little difficult."
After a small bit of talking it was decided that Tatsumi and Akame were going against Ogre. Leone taking Gamal.
"The target will be eliminated."
"Alright! Let's go bust a head in!"
Honestly...
Later on
As Akame and Tatsumi traveled through the Capital to reach Ogre's location, both were silent.
Later that night, when Ogre was finally done drinking, the two assassins trailed him. Akame was on the roofs of the buildings while Tatsumi walked silently behind Ogre, on the ground.
Elsewhere
A man who's face looked oddly like a turtle walked down a hall, two furry hands reached out from the shadows.
With out much of a sound the turtle-man also known as Gamal was strangled.
With the Remaining Target
After a few twists and turns, Ogre stopped at a dead end.
"Hmph, if you wanted to trail me you could at least do it better." He spoke loudly. "Why don't you come out so we could talk?" When he said this Tatsumi could barely keep his face straight, as he had a very big urge to smile sadistically.
"Sorry Ogre, but my mission isn't to talk to you." Tatsumi stepped out of the shadows.
"Mission? Are you apart of Night Raid?" His eyes had narrowed dangerously, but he still made no move to attack.
"Bingo. Now do you want to do this the easy way or the hard way?"
Clearly annoyed, Ogre charged at him, weapon drawn. "As if! I'll just kill you first!"
This time Tatsumi couldn't keep the sadistic smile off his face, "Hard way it is then. Oh I wonder how long you can last..." He held his hand out as if to grab something, while Minakami seemed to magically float into his hand. In reality the water in the atmosphere collected enough around the sword to support it enough to bring it to its wielder's hand.
As the first sounds of metal upon metal were heard, Akame observed the battle.
Ogre's first move would have been a massive blow, had it hit. Tatsumi jumped over the horizontal slash and aimed to cut of his arms only for neither slashes to hit. Ogre ended up kicked Tatsumi away, lest he end up minus two limbs. Tatsumi flew away but regained his balance soon after stopping.
He frowned maybe he underestimated Ogre a bit too much. That was when, from the air, water droplets formed. In seconds they joined together in a water sphere as big as Ogre himself. The mass of water formed into thin half-rings of water. When Tatsumi slashes his blade down the curved water shot forward.
This time Ogre arms really were cut off.
With a pained scream, Ogre fell to his knees. Tatsumi walked up to him, pulling out a small knife.
"Taking the hard way was choice." As Ogre stared at him with a confused yet still pained stare Tatsumi smirked.
"Oh didn't I tell you? The easy way is always boring." Then he showed his true colors. "But the hard way is so fun!"
Pained screams could be heard throughout the night.
When the duo got back it was already past midnight. And while Akame looked like her usual emotionless self, Tatsumi didn't. Splatters of blood were on his face and clothes. His hands were covered in blood and an oddly content smile was on his face.
When they walked in the the meeting room, Akame went in first.
"Akame! What happened? Why did y'all take so long?!" Najenda asked clearly she had been worrying.
"Nothing happened. Or at least nothing bad. Neither of us were hurt."
"Then why did you take so long? It's been hours!"
"Look at Tatsumi, it might give you an idea. Good night."
When she walked out they turned to look at Tatsumi, noticing his 'condition'.
Najenda sighed. "Tatsumi I'll let this pass for now, and I should've told you earlier, but there is a time limit on the missions. Passing the time limit will get you in trouble. And besides, we're not supposed to have 'fun' killing!" She sent a glare to Leone who, with and akward smile, quickly left the room.
"Is that so? That's kinda disappointing... But sorry, I didn't know. It won't happen again." With another sign Najenda left the room. A few seconds later Tatsumi followed.
I know. I know. This isn't NEARLY a as long as the other chapters. Sorry 'bout that. I'll try to make the next chapter longer but no guarantees.
In case you hadn't noticed, Tatsumi sadist nature will show through occasionally...
And I wanted to get this out there but, I read the manga before a watched the anime. So, from my perspective, Tatsumi is the only one able to land a solid hit on Esdeath, rather than someone who took on a giant Teigu and, against all odds, won. So there's that.
Later~
