Akame ga Kill

Killer of the Shadows Chapter 6

Hey guys hope you all are enjoying the story so far and sorry it's taken me so long to get this chapter out, I've had a really busy schedule with class and work but it's starting to settle down. From now on I am going to try and have chapters on a monthly basis. Enjoy!

One week later.

Tatsumi

"Again!" Bulat's voice rang in Tatsumi's ears as he struggled to pull his body up over the tree branch that his bro told him to use for pull-ups, his arms were burning and his grip was starting to loosen. After Akame and Roy had returned from their mission Bulat had taken over Tatsumi's training while Akame was resting from the previous battle, for a few days after they came back Tatsumi noticed they were shy around each other and often had a slight blush when the other was close by. He had meant to ask what was wrong, but something would come up and he'd forget, after a few days though things seemed normal again. That is except Leone kept teasing him about Mine and now Bulat would sometimes give him advice on how to treat a girl and nice places for dates. "Ah shit!" Tatsumi yelled as his grip failed to hold on and he landed on the ground hard.

Bulat walked over and helped him up. "I suppose that will be enough for today I've pushed you pretty hard the past three hours." Tatsumi's friend said with a smile. "Thanks bro." He replied as they both walked inside the base where they found Sheele sitting at the dinning room table reading a book along with Ieyasu making lunch. "Hey guys hows it going?" Tatsumi asked as he sat down across from the purple haired girl. Ieyasu turned holding a full plate of steak and veggies with a smile. "Pretty good. You guys are just in time for lunch." He set the platter down and everyone began to dig in. "Where is everyone today?" Sheele asked as she handed her plate to Ieyasu for another helping. "I think Mine and Leone have a mission and Roy decided to tag along." Bulat answered. "Oh so you have the day off from training then?" Tatsumi asked Ieyasu as he was handed Sheele her second helping. "Yea, Leone said I was coming along really fast and that I could take today off. Think I might go hunting with Akame later." Tatsumi's eyes lit up as he heard this. "Oh sweet I'd like to go too." Ieyasu nodded with a grin.

After lunch was over Tatsumi went off to get ready for the hunt with Akame and Ieyasu. "Now I might get to ask why Akame and Roy were acting so weird for awhile." The boy thought as he strapped his sword to his back and ran out the door to meet his friends.

Imperial Capital.

Roy

Roy was walking along side Mine listening to her as she was griping about how Leone had kept teasing her over the past week when she noticed Roy seemed distracted. "Are you even listening to me?" Roy shook his head and looked at her. "Sorry, just have something on my mind." Mine cocked her head to side confused. "What's going on? This isn't like you." Roy sighed and leaned on the wall next to him. "After Akame and I finished that mission there was a small, well..." He searched for the words as he felt his face start to burn as he remembered the incident in the hot springs. "Hey you two!" Leone said smiling as she jumped on Roy pushing him off balance. "Damn it Leone Roy was just about to tell me something important!" The small teen yelled. "Huh whats wrong?" The blonde asked looking at her friend with concern. Roy shrugged and walked away. "Never mind it's not that big a deal."

"Huh, wonder what's his problem." Leone said out loud as she put her hands behind her head. "I'll tell you what the problem is! You can't keep your nose out of other people's business and you constantly tease them!" The pinkette yelled as she pointed at Leone who flinched at her friend's words. "You know I don't mean any harm by it." She replied with a smile. This caused Mine to become more irritated and began to lecture Leone, after a few minutes Leone just smiled and said. "I'm just giving you and Tatsumi a small nudge is all. Besides I was recently told that another member in our group may have a similar love dilemma." Mine paused for moment and then smiled. "Really who?" She asked completely forgetting how mad she was just a few moments before as she was now eager to gossip with her friend. "Nope sorry it's a secret." Leone said her smile growing as she walked away. When they turned the corner they found Roy walking back towards them. "Hey I got that info from the informant that the Boss said we needed so we can head back now."

On the way back Leone and Mine kept bugging Roy to tell them what was wrong and after many times of refusal he finally gave in. "Alright alright I'll tell you." He said as he sat down on a stump and Leone sat down next to him. "After Akame and I got back from our mission the Boss wanted to talk to me. It was about the Teigu I was hit with." Mine became concerned when he said this. "Are you alright?" He nodded and continued. "It's not that, I'm fine it's what happened after. I went to the hot spring and well I..." He started to blush again and got uncomfortable when he noticed Leone mischievously smiling. "And what?" She asked curiosity getting the best of her. "I um well." Mine was now smiling too, it wasn't often she saw Roy flustered. "Just tell us already." She said impatiently. "Ok fine. Akame walked in during the middle of my bath and I haven't been able to get her out of my head since!" He yelled his face now bright red. Mine had a faint blush on her face while Leone had her hand over her mouth to cover her laughing to no avail.

"That is what's bugging you! You are really innocent aren't you?" She could hardly sit up straight due to her laughing. "So why did you bring it up?" Roy looked down and rubbed the back of his neck. "Well to be honest I've never had this issue and it's like there is this tension between us since then so I figured maybe you two could give me some advice or something." Leone, with tears in her eyes from laughing to hard, spoke up. "Ok I wasn't supposed to tell you but, Akame told me about this earlier in the week." "WHAT!?" Roy shouted embarrassed. "Hey don't freak out so much she was just as fluster as you were honestly it's so cute to see how innocent you two really are." Leone teased and stood up. "And it's not so uncommon for a young guy like you to think about sexy babe like Akame. Just give it some time, I'm sure things will go back to normal." She said with a playful wink causing Roy to blush more. Mine had walked away to hide her own blush from the images that had flooded her mind. "What exactly did Akame say?" She heard Roy ask. "Oh she asked if it all boys had things that big between their legs." Leone replied with a huge grin which caused Roy to have a deadpanned look. "Well come on stud we have to get back to base." Leone said swaying her hips as she walked away. "My life is over." Roy thought as he followed the busty blonde with Mine in close pursuit.

Night Raid's Base.

Tatsumi

"Alright! Nice job Ieyasu!" Tatsumi cheered as his friend cut down a huge danger beast the two had been tracking for a couple of hours now. "Looks like all that training Leone had you do is working." Ieyasu smiled and nodded. "Yea it sure has, and thanks to all those hours of learning how to track we found this big guy." The two teens were carrying the beast out towards the base when Tatsumi caught Ieyasu off guard. "So have you noticed that Roy and Akame have been acting weird since their mission together?" His friend had a blank stare and blinked a few times before answering. "Yea now that you mentioned it. They seemed to have been avoiding each other." They started to speculate what may have happened on the mission when they saw Akame up ahead of them sitting on a danger beast that she had killed which was double the size they had caught. "You're here, good let's get the food back to base."

Ieyasu and Tatsumi stared at Akame's prize for awhile and then hurried to catch up with her. "So Akame is everything alright?" Tatsumi asked. Akame nodded. "Yes I'm doing fine. Why?" Tatsumi looked at Ieyasu who nodded. "Well we noticed that you and Roy seemed to be acting alittle strange the past few days." To the boys surprise Akame had a shocked look on her face, but quickly looked away. "No everything is fine, you must be imagining it." Ieyasu smiled and spoke up. "If that's true why have you been avoiding each other?" Akame started to sweat and picked her pace up to avoid the question, but they managed to keep up and pester her with questions when she came up a plan to get away. "You two seem to have plenty of energy here, carry this as well." And with that she tossed her kill on top of theirs and quickly walked away while they struggled to hold the weight of both danger beasts. "Akame wai- Wait!" Tatsumi managed say before he and his friend fell over and were trapped underneath the beasts.

A Few Hours Later.

When Tatsumi and Ieyasu finally made it back to base they found Leone and Akame talking in the kitchen. "That was so not cool Akame." Ieyasu complained only to have Leone snicker and pour out glass of sake and Akame turned to face them. "You're just in time to get dinner started." She said as she handed both of the boys aprons and leaving them with irritated looks. "And now she's avoiding us too." Tatsumi said as he picked up a knife and started to skin and clean the beast they had brought in. "Huh what do you mean?" Leone asked as she sipped her drink. Tatsumi and Ieyasu looked at each other and then told Leone what they had asked Akame. "Oh so you guys picked up on that huh? Well I wouldn't worry so much about it, they just had a well awkward moment when they got back to base." She said with a small trace of mischief in her voice.

"What do you mean awkward?" Ieyasu asked as he started to cook the meat Tatsumi had cleaned. Just as he finished his question Roy walked in and Leone smiled. "Well why don't you ask Roy?" hearing this Roy froze and looked at Leone with a look of suspicion. "Ask me what?" "Oh the boys just noticed that you and Akame had been acting weird." Leone answered with a wink that caused Roy to cringe. "Yea what happened?" Tatsumi asked as he noted the assassin's reaction. "Um nothing really." Tatsumi looked at Roy with disbelief. "Right, then why do you seem just as flustered as Akame did when we asked her?" Roy quickly looked around and then gave Leone an icy glare. "You're just imagining it." He said as he rushed towards the door and left causing the two boys to grin and look at Leone who simply chuckled and gulped down another glass of sake.

Akame

Akame was just outside the room listening to the conversation, her face slightly red after hearing Leone subtly hinting at the hot spring incident, Akame started to walk away when the door behind her opened and Roy came bolting out straight at her. "Oh crap look ou-!" Roy sentence was cut short when he collided into the raven haired teen and knocked her to the floor with him landing on top. "Uh I um..." Roy stuttered to find words to apologize as his face grew red from embarrassment. Akame started to blush as well just as the Boss came around the corner. "My my what's going on here?" The Boss asked in amusement causing Roy to jump off and go to his knees repeatedly bowing to both the Boss and Akame. "I'm so sorry it's not what it looks like?" This caused Najenda to laugh while Akame got up and dusted her clothes off, the blush now fading from her face. "It's alright." She calmly said and turned to face the Boss. "Welcome back how did the meeting go?" Najenda shook her head before speaking the smile never leaving her face. "It went just fine thank you. Roy I had the chance to look over the info you gathered and I want to speak with everyone as soon as possible if you would go and gather them." Roy stood up and answered. "Sure thing Boss." before leaving, nodding to Akame as he opened the door.

Five minutes later.

When everyone had been gathered Najenda sat down and took a deep breath before starting the briefing. "The target this time is the rumored serial killer that has been plaguing the capital these last few days. It is unknown exactly how many people he's killed, but our intel has it around three dozen." Tatsumi felt a chill run up his spine as he heard this. "So those weren't just rumors, there is an actual serial killer in the capital." "At least a third of them have been guards so it's safe to assume that the target is pretty strong. He stalks his victims late in the night and cuts off their heads." Roy's voice broke Tatsumi out of his thoughts. "Then there is no doubt about it, it has to be Zank the Beheader." Lubbock said earning a puzzled look from Tatsumi and Ieyasu. "Um who is that?" Tatsumi asked. "You really don't know? Man you really are from way out in the sticks aren't you?" Mine said pinching the bridge of her nose, Sheele spoke up as she said this. "I don't know who that is either." She said raising her hand slowly. "Honestly Sheele I think you just forgot." Mine said starting to be irritated by her friend's air headed question. "So who is he?" Ieyasu asked.

"Zank the Beheader used to work at the Empires largest prison as it's executioner and because of the Prime Minister there was never any shortage of people that had to be executed. After many years of severing the heads of those who were pleading for their lives it became an addiction and eventually he started to kill outside of the prison." Mine said with closed eyes, Tatsumi and Ieyasu had shocked looks as they heard about the evil this man had done. "I guess working at a place like that would be enough to drive anyone mad." Tatsumi finally said, a hint of sympathy in his voice. Bulat chimed in as he continued the story. "When they sent a detainment force to find him, he disappeared after stealing the warden's Teigu. Never thought he'd turn up in the capital though." Bulat put his finger on his chin as he finished. "How do we know it's really him?" Ieyasu asked. "One of our informants in the Capital saw a man just two days ago cut down a group guards. He was dismembering all of them the exact same way by cutting off there heads." Najenda answered causing the teen a shiver. "So he's a deranged psycho we need to take out. So let's do this already!" Tatsumi yelled in determination. "Easy there killer, we don't know what Teigu he managed to steal so it's be a good idea to work in teams. Plus there is also an unwritten rule that goes with us having Teigus, if we fight another opponent who is equipped with one with the intention to kill... only one of them will walk away alive. It's been an iron clad rule since the creation of Imperial Arms." Roy said causing Tatsumi to blink a few times confused as Bulat ruffled his hair. "He's right, we need to work in teams just in case if it turns out to be a... Rough Ride." The young teen shivered as sparkles in Bulat's eyes. "Did you really have to say it like that?"

"Alright, I will assign everyone a partner for this mission be on your guard and take this sicko out!" Najenda said as she laid out a map. Mine you will be positioned around here, pick a high vantage point and provide cover for the rest of the team, Roy I want you to watch her back. "Understood." Roy answered giving Mine an approving nod receiving one in return. "The rest of you will be searching sections of the city. Tatsumi and Akame, you will take this area. Leone and Sheele, you will take the one east of that, Lubbock, Ieyasu and Bulat, you are in charge of this larger area." Everyone looked over the map to get familiar with area they would be patrolling and then left to get ready for the mission.

That night in the Capital.

Tatsumi.

Akame and Tatsumi were walking down the street looking at their map. "Looks like we have the second largest area to cover." Tatsumi said as he put away the map. "Guess we will have to be very thorough." He eyes narrowed as he heard footsteps. And quickly along side Akame ducked into an alley avoiding the guards that ran by. "Looks like we will have to be careful of random patrols too." He added Akame agreeing pulled out candy bar and started nibbling on it. "By the way there is something I've been meaning to ask." "Don't worry I brought plenty for both of us." She answered showing him a pouch filled with more candy bars. "No not that, it's well it's two questions actually the first being what exactly are Teigus?" Akame stood still for a moment before holding her sword in front of Tatsumi's face. "This is a Teigu." This caused the boy to blink a few times before shaking his head. "That doesn't really answer my question." Akame sighed and moved to a nearby bench. "Alright I'll tell you. Have a seat."

Roughly half a mile away in a tower.

Mine was scanning the area through her scope, looking for any traces of their target. A few feet behind her sat Roy, his sword stabbed into the wood planks with black web like markings surrounding the two assassins. "See anything?" Roy asked breaking the silence only to have Mine shake her head. "You know you've been really quiet ever since we got here. What's up?" She let out a small sigh. "I don't know what to do with Tatsumi, I admit I like him, but I don't know if he feels the same." This caused Roy to scratch his head as he thought of what to say. "I'm sorry, I'm no real expert when it come to matters like this." Mine turned and smiled. "Oh trust me I can tell." Receiving a groan from her partner. "You know I was gonna back off the whole subject with you and Tatsumi, but now I think I might just tell him." "What?! That's so not fair!" She whined seeing his mischievous smile. "Alright you do that and I'll tell everyone else about your incident with Akame." She threatened, her own smile growing on her face.

"Oh now that is just low." Roy said frowning. "Alright I'll help you if you help me." Mine was curious now. "How so?" "I'll tell you if Tatsumi has an interest in you and you can help me out with figuring out why Akame has been acting shy and quiet around me." "Huh, not a bad deal. Alright I'm in. How long has she been acting like that?" She asked hoping to get some good info from the blue eyed teen. "Ever since that night at the hot springs." Mine quirked an pink eye brow. "Well it could be she's embarrassed, just cause she's killed a lot of targets doesn't mean she's used seeing guys nude. Especially seeing how she asked Leone questions about your um well anatomy." Roy cringed as she reminded him of the earlier conversation with Leone. "Yea I guess that's true, but it's seems to be more then that. I don't really know how to explain it, she just seems well different when she's around me."

Mine thought for a minute when it finally clicked. "So that's what Leone meant." She smiled and looked in her scope to find Akame and Tatsumi talking on a bench. "So you have feelings for Roy? Who would have guessed." She said quietly with a smile. "Huh? You say something?" She looked back at Roy to respond. "Nope just thinking out loud." And inside her head laughed as she couldn't wait to talk to Leone about what she had figured out.

Akame.

After finally finishing her explanation on what Teigus were to Tatsumi she spoke up again to ask what the other question was. "Well, I really want to know if everything is ok with you and Roy, you two seem well different around each other after that night of the mission." This caused Akame to sweat alittle, but seeing that Tatsumi was really concerned she decided to at least partly answer him. "I just felt bad knowing he was in pain from that Teigu he was hit with, it brought up a lot of bad memories from his past and I could tell they were painful. So I guess I just feel guilty that maybe somehow I could have prevented that from happening." Satisfied with her answer she started to stand. "Oh ok. You really seem to care about him huh?" Akame froze as he said this and started to panic inside. She was still unsure with how to talk to Roy with how she felt and now Tatsumi seemed to pick up on it, then a thought came to her mind. "The same could be said about you and Mine." She answered turning to face Tatsumi who was now blushing.

"Yea I guess so, but I have no Idea how to talk to her about it." The young teen answered looking at the ground. Akame was surprised by this and decided to press on with more questions. "Do you really like her?" Receiving a nod she smiled. "Then the only way you will know if she likes you is if you talk to her and find out." She said reciting the words Leone had told her. Inside she already knew Mine did, she had over heard the many times Mine had complained to Leone to stop teasing her about her feelings for Tatsumi. "Yea, you're right thanks Akame." Tatsumi said standing up and walking to a corner of a building. "I'll be right back." "Is nature calling?" She asked receiving a small jolt from Tatsumi who simply nodded before continuing around the building.

Akame was left alone to think about the conversation she and Tatsumi just had and tried to think of a way for her to follow her own advice she had given Tatsumi. After a few minutes she noticed that he was still not back and decided to check up on him. "Hey what's taking so long?" She asked only to find that no one was there. Akame immediately assumed the worse and began to run down the alley searching for any trace of Tatsumi.

Tatsumi

It was to good to be true she was actually alive and standing only a few feet away from him. Tatsumi was almost in tears at seeing his dear friend Sayo who he thought was dead just as he was about to walk forward and embrace her he stopped. "No. This isn't real I saw you dead back at the mansion, I've been to your grave! It can't be you!" He said unsheathing his sword and stepping back into his stance. "Oh my you're quite perceptive aren't you? This is going to be so delightful." A chilling voice said as the figure that appeared to be Sayo disappeared and a tall muscular man stood in her place. "Who the hell are you?" Tatsumi demanded to know, enraged that this man used someone he cared about to draw him away from Akame.

"Oh you should know Night Raid." The man grinned and his eyes went cold as two hidden blades came out of his sleeves. "Zank the Beheader." Tatsumi said just above a whisper. "Right you are!" "How did he hear me, and how on earth did he make me see Sayo instead of him?" Tatsumi looked closer at his target and noticed an eye like head gear. "That's your Teigu isn't it?" "Oh my you really are perceptive and yes it is, it's called Spectator. It allowed me to show you the one you care for the most and drew you to follow me and it also allowed me to find you from so far away, just one of the many gifts it provides." Zank said his smile growing as he ran towards Tatsumi swinging for his throat to have Tatsumi dodge and fake a cut at his legs to set up a thrust for his throat. "That was a good counter, but to slow." Zank boasted as he dodged the attack.

"How did you?" Tatsumi started only to have Zank cut him off. "How did I dodge? Oh it's quite simple really Spectator also allows me to foresee attacks from my opponents so I can react accordingly." He dodged to the side narrowly missing Tatsumi's blade and continued talking while keeping out of harms way. "Damn it! I can't touch this guy." Tatsumi thought in anger as he attacked again only to have Zank dodge, this time calling out Tatsumi's attacks right before he executed them and sliced him across the stomach. Luckily for Tatsumi his reflexes were sharp and a he managed to only have a small cut.

"That was Splendid! More! Give me more entertainment!" The crazy man yelled as he charged at Tatsumi, but his eyes went wide in shock as Tatsumi ducked under his swing and cut him along the side. "But how? His mind was empty when I charged him." Zank looked down to see the blood dripping down his side and gritted his teeth in anger. "A small trick Akame taught me." Tatsumi said with a smile. "By emptying my mind it's harder for you to read my moves." Zank stood there silently for a moment before speaking. "So Akame has been training you? Well then forgive me for going easy on you." a sadistic smile now started to appear on the psychotic killer. "This is going to be absolutely Delightful!"

Mine

Roy and Mine were talking about the events that had happened after they had first met when Mine saw something out of the corner of her eye. "What was that?" She asked as she raised her weapon and took a closer look to see Tatsumi temporally come into view and then move out of sight due to a building blocking part of the area Tatsumi was at. "What is going on there? I can't really see." Mine leaned closer and gasped as she saw a tall man sprint in the same direction Tatsumi had. "Damn it I think Tatsumi is fighting Zank!" Roy shot up and grabbed a pair of binoculars to look for himself. "Where's Akame? Why is he there by himself?" Mine gripped Pumpkin harder as she realized she couldn't get a clear shot. Tatsumi came back into view and she saw he now had numerous cuts all over him, he soon fell to a knee and started to breathe heavily, his face showed that he was in pain and being overwhelmed.

Mine frantically searched for the attacker only to find he was just far enough behind the building to stay out of her sight. "Damn it I don't have a shot!" Her hand was starting to shake when Roy put a hand on her shoulder. "Look closer. Tatsumi may be in tight spot, but I can see he has something up his sleeve. Mine looked at Roy and then quickly looked at Tatsumi again to see a small smirk as he bent his knees and in the blink of an eye disappeared. "Wha- Where did he go?" Roy shook her shoulder. "Come on let's get closer and try to help."

Tatsumi

"This guy is way stronger then I am, even after all my training with Akame he can still stay ahead of me. Well then I'll just put all I have into this one attack!" Tatsumi assumed a stance identical to the one he had seen Roy take and closed his eyes. The dust around him blew back as he released all his blood lust and power at once and he seemed to fly towards Zank at incredible speed. The psychotic killer couldn't dodge in time and received a deep cut along his chest as Tatsumi attacked with all his strength. Tatsumi landed a few feet away and slowly turned to face his opponent, but stopped as a wound appeared on his back and he fell to the ground. "Heh and you claimed to be a master at beheading people, you're nothing but a useless shit bag." Tatsumi sneered watching his words enrage Zank who now charged at him. "SHUT UP!" Tatsumi was sure that this would be his final moments and was completely surprised when he saw a familiar sword impale the ground between him and Zank.

Akame landed gracefully, pulling out the blade and falling into her stance in one motion. "You did well Tatsumi, emotionally speaking you won this fight." Her eyes went wide as she saw the extent of Tatsumi's wounds. "I will be back to tend to your wounds as soon as I have dealt with him." She said a dark aura appeared around her as her eyes turned to an emotionless stare. "Oh my, the ill reputed Akame has finally shown her face. I've been waiting oh so patiently to fight you to the death." Zank's eyes went cold and an evil smile followed. "I've wanted to meet you as well, seeing how it is my mission to take you out." Zank smiled again as he used his Teigu to search for any hidden weapons on his new adversary. "Akame be careful, he can read your thoughts!" Tatsumi shouted as he noticed that Zank was using his Imperial Arms. "I see, so that is the power of that Teigu. However just because he can read my mind, doesn't mean anything if he can't keep up with my movements."

Tatsumi watched as sparks flew from the clashing steel, his eyes widening as he watched Akame and Zank attack each other with amazing speed and power. "All this time she's been training me. I don't think she's even once used half her strength against me."

Akame blocked several attacks and dodged to the side spinning into a back kick which pushed Zank back a few yards. "My my not only do you have speed but power as well! This fight is truly spectacular!" Akame closed her eyes and launched herself towards the psycho only to have him block the attack and counter. Thanks to her reflexes though Akame managed to dodge, but flinched as a slight pain ran through her body and blood trickled down her leg. "You thought that if you emptied your mind you would have the advantage didn't you? Well unfortunately for you Spectator can also predict the future by judging the moments of your muscles, and not to mention that your friend tried that very same trick." Akame frowned as she watched the blood from wound continue to flow. "I can't believe she actually took a hit!" Tatsumi thought with a look of shock as he watched his friend and teacher struggle with her opponent. "I must say that it doesn't seem very fair. All it will take is a small scratch with that sword of yours and it's over." Zank said with a small smile gesturing towards Akame's sword. " I would say we're even seeing how you can read my thoughts." Akame replied resuming her stance.

"Tell me Akame, how do you deal with the voices?" Zank suddenly asked. "The voices?" Akame asked confused. "You know the ones that call out from the depths of hell. They keep telling me to come join them and they're cries become louder every day, I talk to drown out the noise and I was curious to see how you deal with-" "I don't hear them." Akame flatly stated catching the killer off guard. "Those voices, I have never heard them." Zank hung his head before speaking. "I see, I was hoping I could discuss this with an assassin such as yourself, but it seems that I alone have this problem. How disappointing!" He shouted as the eye on his head opened and Akame was surprised to see a familiar girl standing in front of her. Tatsumi immediately noticed something was wrong and tried calling out to her only to receive nothing in return. "It's useless the hypnosis she's under is strong and right now she is seeing the one she loves the most." Zank said as he slowly began to walk forward. "So that's how you made me see Sayo, you bastard!" Tatsumi yelled only to have Zank's smile grow as he charged Akame. "It's time to die at the hands of the one you love!" Zank's eyes went wide as he narrowly blocked the slash meant for his throat and jumped back to a safe distance. Akame's eyes had gone cold and she wore an emotionless face that seemed to freeze Zank in place.

"But how, you were supposed to see the one you love." He asked as his voice began to shake. "It's because she's the one I love that I want to give her a swift death." Her words shocked not only Zank but Tatsumi as well. Zank started to recover when Akame spoke up again. "This fight will soon be over." Her answer rang in the killer's ears as he realized his hidden blades were started to crack. Akame moved first and began striking at him with incredible speed forcing him to block with his blades causing the cracks to spread and the weapon's integrity to slowly be compromised. "Enough!" He yelled as he managed to create a small space between them. "If I am going to die I'm taking at least one of you with me!" He shouted and in a fit of rage charged towards the wounded Tatsumi. Akame was in close pursuit but it would be to late to stop Zank's attack and just as he was in a few feet a shot rang out and hit the ground in between Zank and Tatsumi.

Zank jumped to the side and looked in the direction of the shot to see Mine crouching on a nearby rooftop aiming her Teigu at him and out of the corner of his eye he saw a figure land next to him and black tendrils coming at him forcing him to once again avoid being hit and getting close to Tatsumi. "Looks like we made it just in time." A voice called out. "Akame, I got Tatsumi, go ahead and finish this asshole off." Roy said as he picked the young teen up and gave a reassuring nod to Mine before looking towards Akame with a smile. She nodded and looked at Zank who was confused by the reinforcements and began to charge at him with an icy look in her eyes and sliced at the killers stomach to have him block the attack. "You're finished." She said coolly and brought her blade up destroying his weapons. "Damn it!" Zank shouted as he felt his throat being severed by Akame's blade in one swift and deadly motion. "Those voices shouldn't bother you anymore." She said as she swung her katana to the side to remove the blood. "The voices they... they've stopped." Zank whispered as his vision began to fade. "How delightful, thank you Akame."

Back at the Base,

Mine

"OWW! SON OF A BITCH!" Tatsumi shouted as Mine poured cleansing alcohol on his back. "Oh shut up will you it can't hurt that bad." She said and proceeded to wipe the blood away before applying a bandage to his wound. "I have to say I'm impressed with how strong you've really gotten." Mine said trying to break the awkward silence. "Yea, but I'm still no where near as strong as Akame or anyone else here." Tatsumi replied closing his eyes as he recalled the fight from which he had received his wounds no more then two hours earlier. "Don't sell yourself short, you went up against a Teigu user and still held your own for awhile. That's pretty good in my eyes." Tatsumi looked over his shoulder to see Mine with a small smile as she finished patching up his last cut. "Thanks, I appreciate that." He said was he stood up. "You should probably rest, your wounds may start to bled again if you push yourself to much." The pinkette said, a small hint of concern was in her voice. "She's been really nice to me ever since we got back. I wonder what's up with her?" He stood still for moment before turning to face her. "Hey Mine, I just wanted to say thanks. You really saved my ass back there and well I'm glad to know that you have my back." This caused Mine to blush a bit before nodding her head. "Of course anytime." She smiled and started to pick up the medical supplies she had used before telling Tatsumi to go and get some rest.

A few minutes later Roy walked in and sat down in a nearby chair. "So how's he doing?" Mine shrugged her shoulders. "He'll be alright, just make sure he doesn't overexert himself for the next few days." Roy smiled and stood up. "Sure, and how about you? Are you doing alright?" Mine quickly turned around with a shocked look. "Of course I am, why wouldn't I be?" "Well for starters you did almost see the guy you like almost get his head cut off so I'd be willing to bet that you're alittle shaken up. Have you told him how you felt yet?" Roy's words stung as she heard them. "No, I don't know how to go about it." she answered hanging her head. Roy walked over to her and laid his hand on her shoulder. "Look after tonight I can understand why you would be on edge, the guy you like almost died and you haven't told him how you felt, I don't know what you should say but honestly in this line of work we never know how long we have, so in my opinion I'd take the shot and go for it. You may be surprised." Mine nodded and gave him a bright smile. "Alright I'll tell him. How about you? You talk to Akame yet?" The smile faded from Roy's face as he looked away. "Oh I see, easier said then done huh?" Mine giggled "What's so funny it's just an awkward moment we have to discuss. That's all." He said with a confused look. "You still haven't figured it out yet have you? Man guys can be so dense." Mine said with a smirk before walking towards the door. "Wait what do you mean?" Roy asked before she closed the door. "You'll figure it out soon enough, I'm sure of it."

Mine slowly made her way to Tatsumi's room, when she arrived she stood in front of the door for a few moments before reaching up to knock when she heard voices from inside. "You seriously just let the moment go? Man you are really bad at confessing your feelings." Leone's voice came from the other side followed by Tatsumi's. "I just didn't know what to say." Mine put her ear to the door to listen to the conversation. "Well the moments gone so you will have to bring it up later. I guess I'll let you rest and seriously Tatsumi you need to tell Mine how you feel about her." Mine's heart skipped a beat when she heard this. "Yea I know, I will just... have to find the right moment." A smile started to grow on Mine's face as she quietly tip toed to the nearby corner and waited for Leone to leave. "Tonight. I am going to get him to tell me his feelings tonight."

Leone

"Damn I wish that kid would just man up and talk to her already, this is just to painful to watch. I've even given him a huge hand and told him how she feels and he still won't go in for the kill." Leone said out loud to herself as she started down the hall towards her room she was about to turn the corner when her ears picked up the sound of faint footsteps. She quickly turned around to see a small figure sneak towards Tatsumi's room and slowly enter. "Now who could that be?" Leone thought as she began to snicker and slowly walk back to find out what was going on. When she got there she pressed her ear to the door and listened to hear what was going on. "Mine what are you doing in here?" She heard Tatsumi asked and waited for Mine to answer. "I just wanted to see how you were doing and I really wanted tell that I well I'm glad you're alright, I would have been sad if you had died tonight." "Oh this is getting good." Leone's grin got bigger and waited with excitement to see what would happen. "Oh well thanks. Like I said earlier I'm happy to know you guys are there for me." Tatsumi said with a small chuckle. "Damn it why can't I just tell her!" He tried to appear normal, but he could tell he wasn't doing a good job. "Are you cold? You seem to be shaking." Mine said as she walked over to him.

Leone almost couldn't take it as she was practically squeezing the door frame so hard she was surprised it didn't crack. "Eh no I'm ok, just alittle tired I guess." Tatsumi let out a nervous laugh and stopped as he felt Mine's hand touch his forehead. "You don't have a fever so that's good." Tatsumi swallowed hard and made up his mind that he would confess how he felt to Mine that night. "Hey Mine. Can I tell you something?" Mine cocked her head to the side and nodded. "Sure what's up?" Leone was now jumping up and down inside with excitement. "Oh I can't believe it! He's actually going to do it!" Tatsumi looked deep into Mine's soft pink eyes and took a deep breathe. "I well, I just wanted to tell you that I've really enjoyed getting to know you, and I'm really happy to have met you." Mine started to smile before she answered. "I've enjoyed getting to know you too." Tatsumi swallowed hard and continued. "There's also something else I've been meaning to tell you,but I never really figured out how to say it." This caused Mine to blush as she felt her heart beat faster in excitement. "Mine I.. I really like you, and well I wanted to ask if you would like to go on a date with me?" To Tatsumi's surprise Mine practically jumped on him and holding him tight to her. "I've been hoping you'd ask me that for awhile now." She said with a huge smile on her face. "I would love to go out with you." Tatsumi was shocked by this but managed to get a hold of himself a huge grin on his face. "That's awesome!" was all he could manage to say.

The two embraced each other closely. Not knowing that Leone was now screaming internally and jumping up and down happy as she could be as she made her way to her own room with a huge smile on her face. "Now I just have to work on Akame and Roy." she thought as she closed her door and fell into her bed as she kicked her boots off and snuggled next to her pillow before falling asleep.

Well that's chapter 6. So Tatsumi confessed his feeling to Mine and the two are going to be going on a date soon in an upcoming chapter. More to come soon and hopefully not as long of a wait this time I plan to develop Akame and Roy and have a pretty good idea on how that is going to happen anyway hope you guys are enjoying the story so far.

Before I finish I have a question for everyone who has been following the story. I'm thinking of starting another Fan fiction that is something I have been working on for awhile now. It is based off a few different anime and cartoons such as Fairy Tail and Avatar, but the story is one of my own creation as well as all of it's characters. Just to be up front this nowhere in the near future as I am still working on a few major details, but tell me what you guys think I look forward to your thoughts. Have a good night everybody. This is TheScourge7181 signing off.