Chapter 9
Tatsumi had finished up burying the villagers, he was now taking rest in his house, he had received information about this new sharingan from his sensei and he received a scroll too , Obito had told tatsumi that the scroll contained some special items and weapons. Obito had also told tatsumi that he might be able to increase elemental attacks in his arsenal, he could have attained affinity for some other element too. Tatsumi took out a piece of paper that he got from Obito, this paper would allow tatsumi to know about the other affinity he might have gained. Tatsumi channelled his energy into the paper and saw the paper get wrinkled, this meant that he had gained affinity for lightning as well, Tatsumi was excited that he would be able to add more stuff to his repertoire and at the same time he was still curious about the Mangekyou Sharingan. Tatsumi now decided that he had to learn lightning attacks master them and perfect his fire based attacks too, once that is done he will move onto the Mangekyou Sharingan.
Tatsumi wondered what type of lightning attacks he would use, he remembered something about a friend of his master named Kakashi. Obito usually used to sit down and talk to tatsumi about his life, he would always mention his friend who was a great and strong ninja, he was a master at using lightning style and he had created a special move called 'chidori' which later became 'raikiri' after Kakashi cut down a bolt of lightning in half with it. "That's it, I wonder if I could learn and master that technique, I fulfil both the requirements needed for that attack, I have the sharingan and the affinity for lightning" thought tatsumi. Tatsumi knew it would not be easy to recreate Kakashi's attack, but it didn't meant that it was impossible, he would not give up on learning the technique. Tatsumi also had received some new high level fire based jutsu from Obito, the blue print was laid all that tatsumi needed was to put in the effort and get stronger.
Tatsumi began his training, Chidori required two things, first was the change in chakra form and the second the change in nature. Tatsumi didn't knew anything about change in form or lightning change in nature, so he had a huge mountain to climb, it was like he was not learning a technique but creating one. It took tatsumi about two weeks to master change in form after putting in a lot of effort, the next step was the change in nature, Tatsumi was able to master the next step easily than the previous one but he was still too far from the finished product.
One month had passed and now tatsumi's chidori started to take form and looked like a lethal attack. Apart from mastering change in form and change in nature, Tatsumi also paid attention to his other attributes like speed stamina etc. Tatsumi knew that if he was faster his chidori would be more powerful as it was an attack that relied on it and if he were to increase his physical attributes he would be able to get his body ready for the Mangekyou Sharingan as well which he heard from his master was very draining. Tatsumi was training day in and day out and getting stronger because he knew that he only had himself to depend upon now, he had no comrades but a long list of strong and lethal enemies, he had to become stronger than all of them. He had decided not only to learn chidori but take it even further, further weeks passed and now tatsumi had mastered chidori and improved it too.
Night Raid Base
Around three months had passed since the tatsumi incident, night raid that shifted to a new base and were laying low for a while, they were taking very few mission requests, they were emphasising more on training and honing up their skills as they knew that they would be battling the Jaegers and the Empire's strongest Esdeath. There were other blocks in their paths as well such as General Budo , so night raid had to get stronger if they wished to overthrow the empire and bring in the revolution. All the members were doing fine, they did loose bulat and tatsumi but they had received two strong replacements in Susanoo and Chelsea and Mine and Shelle had healed up as well. Najenda called for a meeting and everyone gathered in the meeting hall.
Najenda- "We have been keeping low for a while just to make ourselves more powerful, the time has come for us to battle the empire now, we will begin our work sooner. I assume you all must have heard about a religion called 'path of peace'.
Shelle- "I don't think I have heard of it".
Mine- "You have, you just forgot about it as usual".
Chelsea- "They are the ones who believe that a person's good deeds determine their happiness and longevity of their life".
Najenda- "In the past ten years, more and more people have joined it, it is very influential in the eastern part of the capital, we have reasons to believe that they are going to pick up arms, they are looking to start a religious rebellion, the job is to use that to our advantage. But there is a hurdle in our path, the founder of the religion has a advisor named Borick, this advisor is actually a spy from the empire working for the Minister, Borick's plan is to takeover the religion and stop the uprising, he is also drugging his followers by mixing it in their food".
Lubbock & Susanoo- " So he gets to play with the women and mixing something in someone's food is unforgivable".
Najenda- "I appreciate the enthusiasm, but we have to take care of the Jaegers too, as long as they have Esdeath playing the cards it is safe to assume that the Jaegers are currently the Minister's own private army".
Mine- "So what do about them".
Najenda-" In twelve days time, we will begin our task of weakening the Jaegers, I will reveal the plan later on."
Oblivious to everyone in the base a crow was watching them and had now collected the information about their plans.
Time skip: 11 days
Imperial Palace
Esdeath just finished up talking to the Minister, the Minister had given her some really bad news, she was now heading to meet up with her subordinates and discuss some matters.
Meeting Hall
Esdeath entered the room and it appeared she wasn't in a good mood, her face showcased her emotions and it was quite clear she was very angry. Everyone was now a little scared because they didn't knew what the commander was going to talk about and to worsen the situation she looked very angry.
Esdeath- "I have been informed that the troops that I had stationed in the Northern border to supress the Northern tribe have been completely wiped out."
Everyone was shocked, Esdeath had already weakened the Northern tribe and the army now had the upper hand on them so how this could have happened.
Wave-" Ma'am but this must be impossible the northern tribe is not powerful enough to do it".
Seryu- " Who could it be , must be those evil revolutionary scums".
Esdeath-" No it wasn't them, we don't have proof that it was their doing, this was done by someone else completely, someone who possess tremendous power, I can say that because my troops are no weaklings, they were all very strong, I have been informed by the Minister the entire northern area has been turned into a graveyard and there is one more thing that intrigues me."
Ran- "What"?
Esdeath- "They say that the entire area has been engulfed in some weird black flames and they have been burning for the last seven days continuously without extinguishing."
Seryu- " Must be someone truly evil, let's find the people who did it and slaughter them".
Esdeath- "I also want to crush the culprits , but we don't have a clue besides we should really focus on our primary job, that is to find and eliminate night raid, they have been hiding for too long, they could begin to show themselves now, I have a hunch it's going to happen and when they doo we crush them.
Jaegers-"Yes Ma'am " .
Night Raid Base
The night raid assassins had gathered for a strategy meeting called by Najenda.
Najenda- "Tomorrow we begin our task to eliminate the Jaegers, here's the plan, Akame and Mine you will roam around the area outside the capital so the enemy notices you both, your job is to lure out the Jaegers, our primary targets are Kurome & Bols ".
Akame & Mine- " Yes ma'am".
Lubbock- " That's okay but did you hear the news about the Northern area and Esdeath's army".
Najenda- "Yes apparently all of Esdeath's troops were wiped out by some unknown people".
Leone- "Who could have accomplished that , they must be extremely strong to have done something of that magnitude".
Lubbock- "That's not all, all of Esdeath' s troops were burned to death by some weird black flames, the incident took place around a week ago but they say the flames are still burning there, they haven't been extinguished yet".
Akame- "It could be a teigu which is unknown to us".
Mine-"Yeah we will figure it out later, let's first focus in the Jaegers" .
Akame and Mine left to draw the Empire's attention and other members began their preparations for the battle that was going to take place tomorrow.
Somewhere in the forests a masked figure with red eyes was sitting on a tree in wait of something, a crow came flying to the masked person, the person looked into the crow's eye and said "Oh so that's the plan".
