Chapter 10

Flashback

Tatsumi had finished up his training, he mastered and perfected the chidori, perfected the fire release and also the Mangekyou Sharingan. Now all that was left for him to do was to return to the capital and put his plans of eradicating the empire into action but the problem was he could not return as Tatsumi because tatsumi was dead in everyone's eyes, he had to take on a new identity, some ideas ran through tatsumi' mind and an idea clicked inside his brain, he remembered that Obito had given him a scroll, Tatsumi decided to check it. Tatsumi opened the scroll , put his hand on the summoning tattoo and a lot of items appeared, there were some outfits, a mask and a weird weapon , it was a gunbai. "Oh, so this is he wanted to give me, these will be very useful", Obito had told tatsumi about his history , so tatsumi immediately recognised these items. Now the other issue for him was intel, Tatsumi needed the information and intel on the empire and night raid, he couldn't rely on humans so he thought of an another way to collect intel, Tatsumi with his sharingan would command some birds to survey the capital and the night raid base and bring him the information, it was less dangerous this way and it would not even be required for him to be near the capital or night raid to collect the intel on them.

Tatsumi wanted to stir up the empire a little bit and cause tension in the government and the army. He had to do something to alert the empire that there was a great threat to it. Tatsumi thought of making an example, he remembered that Esdeath had stationed her troops in the Northern border to keep the Northern tribe at bay," So I think I should pay the soldiers in the northern region a visit".

Northern Region

Esdeath's troops were patrolling the border, they had easily with the help of their commander stopped the uprising in this region, there was no immediate threat for now but little did they know what destiny had in store for them. A group of soldiers were patrolling around the area and some had gathered and were talking between themselves, suddenly they sensed an attack coming, a large number of kunai with explosive tags were thrown at them, the kunai were coming from every direction at tremendous speed, the bombs exploded killing many soldiers and alerting the others that the enemy had attacked them, the other forces came running to the scene of the crime and saw countless dead bodies and standing in top of them was a masked man. The soldiers realised that this masked person is the enemy and began their counterattack and started firing bullets at the masked man, the masked man easily dodged the bullets, he ran towards the soldiers drew a sword and started swinging left and right and cutting down his opponents, the masked person was too fast for the soldiers, they couldn't even touch him, they were just thinking to themselves who this monster was. The soldiers decided to regroup now, there strategy was to charge and attack him at once, they were going to overwhelm the masked man with numbers, the masked person saw through their strategy, took a few steps back to get some distance between him and the enemy forces, his eyes changed and transformed into what looked like a star. "I have been dying to try this in battle" said tatsumi who had just activated his mangekyou sharingan( his mangekyou pattern was the same as sasuke's ems pattern). Tatsumi through his mangekyou eyes saw the enemy rushing towards him and released his attack

AMATERASU !

as soon as that tatsumi spoke that word , black flames started to appear burning everybody in front of tatsumi to their demise, painful screams were heard all over the place, with just one attack tatsumi had wiped out Esdeath's entire army, Tatsumi didn't strain himself thanks to the training he had gone through, the mangekyou didn't affect his stamina that much. "This will for sure get the Empire's attention, guess I should leave and wait for the next opportunity" with that tatsumi disappeared from the sight and went off to some other place

Flashback End

Najenda's plan was to draw the Jaegers out of the capital by using Akame and Mine as bait, Najenda Mine and Akame were to arrive at the town together but after that Najenda would head to the east and Akame towards the south, this would confuse the enemy and they will split themselves to confront Night raid but Najenda and Akame and Mine will rendezvous with the other members and battle with the half of the Jaegers that try to pursue them. Najenda knew that Esdeath wasn't a fool, she might realise that it is a trap but Esdeath's thirst to capture her would not let her to miss this opportunity. This was Najenda's plan but some other individual had some other plans up their sleeves entirely.

Tatsumi was aware of both the Jaegers and Night raid's activities. He had intel on both and knew that were going to battle soon. Tatsumi had his own plans, he wanted both the team's to confront each other with their entire rosters, for this to happen he could not allow the Jaegers to split, Najenda's plan was to split the Jaegers and take them out. Tatsumi thought of an idea to counter Najenda's plans, he used his sharingan to manipulate the spies Woking for the Empire into giving wrong intel to the Jaegers regarding Night raid, the information that they would receive was that Najenda Akame and Mine are all heading to the south, this would result in Esdeath not splitting the team and pursue Night raid with full power and this would also shatter what Night raid had planned and surprise them.

Night Raid were waiting for the arrival of their adversaries, someone soon came into sight, it was Esdeath along with her entire platoon which surprised the night raid team.

Mine- "Why didn't she split the team, did she see through our act"

Najenda-"No, the strategy was well thought of, what led to this could be something else which we don't know about".

Akame- "Let's not waste our breath on what went wrong, get ready for battle they are coming".

The entire Night raid (Najenda, Akame, Mine, Shelle, Lubbock, Leone , Susanoo and Chelsea) was ready for the fight now, their opponents the Jaegers (Esdeath, Wave, Kurome, Seryu, Ran, Dr. Stylish and Bols) had arrived now.

Esdeath- "It's been a while Najenda, I am so much happy about this reunion, why don't the two of us have a chat in my torture chamber".

Najenda-" I don't like that stuff so I think I will pass".

Kurome who was now reunited with her sister was smiling and unsheathing her sword and Akame did the same.

Kurome-"Big sister, I have been waiting to meet you so that I could add you to Yatsufusa's collection and bring you home to the empire".

Akame-" That's not happening".

Seryu had an evil laugh on her face as she was again face to face with Mine and Shelle.

Seryu-" I am going to kill both of you this time".

Mine-"You are the one who is going to die".

Stylish was amused because he was looking at so many potential test subjects, both sides were ready to throw down and heading towards each other when suddenly an explosion occurred between them, which made the two sides fall back a little , after the smoke cleared a masked figure could be seen , the man had an orange mask and a black coloured outfit with red clouds embedded on it. He was now standing in between both the teams. "Hello there Jaegers and night raid fellows" ( in a funny tone) were the first words that came out of his mouth. The masked figure was actually tatsumi who was now under a disguise, he had put on mask, changed his voice, had also used a special flower which could alter his scent so that Leone couldn't recognise who he was.

Esdeath-"Who the hell are you? How dare you interfere with my expedition?"

The masked figure replied "Me, I am Tobi, Tobi is a good boy".

Wave-" What the hell do you want?"

Tobi-" I just came to witness the epic battle between the great protectors of the Empire The Jaegers and the hope of the revolution The Night Raid".

Everyone was curious as to who this person was , and how did he know that the Jaegers and Night raid were going to fight in this place and which side this guy was affiliated with.

Seryu- "Who cares about his identity, he must be with them, let's just get rid of this evil jerk immediately".

Esdeath was cautious, the person in front of them was a mystery, he had concealed his presence greatly, no one had sensed him and he came out of no where, she decided to study his moves, she ordered Bols, Stylish and Seryu to attack Tobi and the three of them charged towards him.

Tobi-"Hey I am not your enemy, I just wanted to see you people fight, not fight my self, besides the three of you are attacking a single defenceless innocent person, how cowardly of you".

Seryu charged at Tobi with a punch which was followed by an attack from Koro, he dodged Seryu and caught Koro and sent it crashing to the ground with great force, Stylish tried to attack him from behind, Tobi had his mangekyou activated all the time so he was able to predict the enemy's movements pretty easily, Tobi saw Stylish's attack coming and stepped aside caught his arm and landed a devastating knee to Stylish's stomach and threw him in the direction of Bols who was now aiming his teigu at Tobi, Tobi realised what their strategy was, they were just testing him and using their team mates attacks as a decoy and attacking him from his blind spot, Stylish had not used his experimental pawns till now and Seryu had not used her ten commandments either. Tatsumi knew what was coming next, Seryu ordered Koro to bite him, Seryu now displayed a maniacal laugh, her arm now was replaced by a huge drill like weapon, she charged towards Tobi to pierce him but Tobi slipped beneath her arm got behind her back and landed a vicious kick to her head that knocked her out, Stylish was now trying to pull some nasty trucks of his own but Tobi quickly shut him off and used a genjutsu on him and made him collapse, Bols was now going for the attack on Tobi and Tobi had enough playing around now, Bols positioned his teigu and now had his target set on Tobi, Bols blasted a huge amount of burning flames at Tobi, Tobi cracked a smile be at his mask, "Flames of that calibre won't even touch me, as you pass into your next life feel honoured that you were perished by my flames"

AMATERASU!

Black flames emerged in the area and collided with the flames produced by Bols's teigu, the black flames burned the red flames but didn't stop there, they destroyed Bols's teigu and afterwards Bols himself got engulfed in the black flames, painful screams could be heard all around, at last he fell victim to the unforgiving flames, he reflected back on his life as an executioner and his wife and daughter. Everybody else was dumbfounded and speechless, they now realised who was standing before them. Tobi now ditching his funny gimmick spoke with a heavy voice (Madara's voice)

Tobi-"No you might have gotten an idea of who I am".

Wave was all emotional now, his teammate was killed in front of him, he got ready to attack but was stopped by Esdeath.

Esdeath – "You are the bastard who killed my troops".

Tobi-"Indeed I am, I am the one who put your troops out of their misery and their pathetic existence ".

Esdeath-" What are the reasons for your actions, I am certain you are not allied with the revolution, so then why take this course of action".

Tobi- "Who knows may be I did it for war, may be I did it for peace or may be I did it on a whim".

Esdeath-" You might be the one who can satisfy my appetite , let me ask it again who are you".

Tobi- "Well that's getting too personal, but if you don't like the name Tobi, I will give you something else that you can remember me by, as of right now you in the Empire can call me Pain because that's what I am going inflict on you, be ready for despair and the end of your lives, I have no use for the justice girl but I am taking the doctor with me".

Esdeath – "You are not going anywhere , you will fight me now".

Pain- " I was not asking you for permission, as the way you are right now you can't hope to beat me go train yourself and your lackeys and then I will fight you take that as a promise because you will all meet your end by my hands".

Pain now shifted his eyes towards Night raid, " and you don't think that just because I am their enemy, it make me your ally, if you get in my way I will destroy you, take that as a final warning".

Najenda- "Don't under estimate us".

Pain-" I am not even estimating you, do you really think I have the time to think of you and your team of weaklings, you must really think very high of your self, with your meagre strength you won't be able to kill me, to be honest if I hadn't showed up you all would have been slaughtered if you really wish to overthrow the empire and bring in the revolution, you are goanna have to work harder".

Pain had taunted both the Jaegers and Night raid and he expected a reaction, as he was busy talking Lubbock had surrounded him with strings , Wave who was pissed at Pain also charged to attack, Lubbock called for Akame to strike Pain down with Murusame. Akame did as suggested, Pain cracked another smile beneath his mask, this had gone just he had predicted he was successful in luring them in, just as Wave and Akame were going for the finishing blow, Pain used a new attack

Chidori Nagashi!

Electricity started flowing from Pain' body and the lightning struck Wave and Akame, Akame was able to reduce the effects of the attack because she had dodged most of it but the areas of her body that had been hit by the attack were hurt badly, Wave was completely paralysed by the attack and was cursing himself for not using his armour, Lubbock shared the same fate as Wave because the strings that were binding Pain, conducted the electricity from Pain's body and as Lubbock was also connected to the strings , he was struck by the attack too and paralysed.

Ran-" He can also use lightning based attacks".

Pain-" I have power even beyond your comprehension".

Pain picked up the doctor and put him on his shoulders, "Well till next time", he used a lightning style teleportation and disappeared.

Both the night raid and Jaegers had been done in by Pain and both sides had injuries , so they decided it was better to retreat and not fight each other because now Pain had also entered the picture and he was a mystery so it was better to retreat and refocus their strategies.