Well, chapter three is here, when I should be developing my other stories, I'm here. I know I shouldn't keep writing more stories and making more chapters for the new ones before being even close to finishing my already out ones but what can I say? Nothing. I either have Lazer focus or the attention span of a flea.

Chapter 3

I got murder on my mind, unfortunately, it's not my own

Jaden P.O.V

Fragments of the future invaded my mind when I wrapped my arms around the younger boy. Let me rephrase that before I tell you about his death. I hugged him, that's it, after saying no homo.

There, so this is what I saw.

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Tatsumi was in dragon-like armor that was greatly damaged and he was bleeding far too much to survive. He was barely standing.

Akame came into view.

"I'm sorry," Tatsumi said forcing a pained smile onto his bloody face. "I couldn't keep my promise"

Akame rushed forward and caught him before he could fall over. She held him tightly as the light faded from his eyes.

"You promised me! You said you'd survive!" Akame screamed, with her voice dripping with grief and sadness. She began to cry, shaking slightly as she held him close.

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I let go of Tatsumi. "Hey man, not that the hug wasn't nice and all, but why did you hug me, and why are you crying?"

I touched my left cheek to be greeted with a small bit of wetness. Crying huh? Benn a while.

You know, just cause you are the 'Grim Reaper' doesn't mean you have to act like you are not human sometimes

I don't

My bad, you just act so robotic at times I forget

I wiped my face and patted him on the back. Contact with Tatsumi was safe now. "I activated a power of mine. It's growing stronger so I might not be able to hold it back"

Tatsumi started to get excited at the mention of me telling him another power of mine. "That sounds dope! What is it?"

I picked at the eye patch covering my eye. Should I tell him?

"For now when I get into a decent amount of contact with someone, I get to see a few moments before their death. It doesn't work if they have a natural death or death by a sickness far down the road." I said staring out ahead of us.

"Oh. You have the power to do that?"

"Yeah and I just got to see you die in someone's arms"

"Really!"

I gave him the side-eye. "I can't tell you about that. I tried to save someone once and after I told them, they had a massive nosebleed as memories of what will happen to them were shoved into their mind. Then they went crazy, and died far more painfully than they were going to."

"How did they die?"

I flicked up the eye patch and rubbed my eye, after concealing it. "They were supposed to die after getting food poisoning. They died falling into a 50-foot spiked hole that was the home to 10 thousand small snake-like danger beasts"

The brown-haired boy fell silent.

"They also liked to spit acid on their prey, the person survived the drop with several broken bones and was subjected to several days of skin melting agony"

More silence.

When we made it to the base, he gave me a "goodnight" and went off to his room. And I followed him, my room is right next to his.

"Why are you following me? Are you gay or something?"

I felt a tick mark appear in my eye. "My room is right next to yours...I have been here a few days already and you never noticed! I woke you up yesterday by knocking on your door! I brought you breakfast in bed the day before that because you complained about the distance to the dining area!" I whispered yelled at him.

He held his hands in a false surrender. "I'm sorry, I've had other things on my mind"

What, like leone's boobs? Maybe flat chested Mine? Average sweet girl Akame? Air-headed Sheele? You got a lot of chicks here to choose from. If it's not girl-related with that mostly hormone-filled brain, then it must be about me.

I gave a light shrug and said "I get it."

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(Three days later in the capital slums)

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I watched Leone and Tatsumi, go from nice greetings to being chased by three men asking for money that Leone owes.

Once they got separated I cursed under my breath. I quickly scanned the area below the roof I was standing on and ripped off the eye patch. Causing an eerie blue light to erase the shadows in front of me. I closed both eyes and saw myself, the ugly mug I own, and zoomed out. I quickly tried to locate Tatsumi, I knew Leone knows this area like the back of her hand after being raised here.

I found Tatsumi in an ally but I saw an orange-haired girl dragging a small dog-like thing that sent chills down my spine.

I know that girl. She is the reason I have nightmares about some people's deaths.

I rushed there as quickly as I could, not bothering to apologize for any accidents I may have caused in my wake.

I leveled my breathing and slipped on my eye patch before taking the last turn.

"So do you have a problem?" Seryu(Her victims normally heard her name from people nearby) asked with a bright smile.

Steeling my nerves I call out. "Hey! There you are, buddy!"

Got to be careful not to let our names slip in case she pops back up again.

"Ah, do you know him?" Seryu asked, not giving me anything that indicates suspicion.

I can't believe I practically created this monster. She has the most twisted version of justice I've ever heard of. Her father wouldn't be proud of the way she took the touch.

"Oh yeah, we have been best friends for a few days now," Tatsumi said, trying his best to create a cover. Note to self, ask the boss to give Tatsumi to me for a day and teach him to act.

After a slight chuckle, I said "You suck with directions, I know where the bar is." I gave a polite bow to the psycho before saying. "Thank you for finding my friend here, not sure if I would have found him without you stopping him"

I walked over and wrapped my arm around Tatsumi's shoulders. "Come on, your admirer can't wait to shove your face into her boobs again"

"Hey! It's not like that!" Tatsumi said frantically as he turned red.

As we walked away I heard Seryu talking about feeding her Imperial Arms 5 condemned criminals but I could feel her gaze.

"Come on, you know you like it at least a little bit!" I said teasing him. "You can't say you don't cause you never fight her"

"She's stronger than me! What am I supposed to do?"

"Tell her to back off although that might be hard with a muffed voice"

We made it to the bar. As she walked off, my hearing picked up on the sound of her grinding her teeth.

When I was sure she wasn't listening any more I let go of him. I could feel the killing intent from her, seeping out in waves.

She's not safe to be near. She's grieving over someone in the army. No way she's this high strung over the death of her father who I killed a while ago. Is it captain Ogre? Were they close? That means.

I looked at Tatsumi. You need to be careful. She's out for the blood of Night Raid and Tatsumi has the blood of Ogre on his hands. I confirmed this when I asked the boss if Tatsumi was the person that killed him.

Tatsumi seemed to share my feeling on this topic. We should report as soon as possible.

(That night)

I was stationed inside the capital, due to my enhanced senes directed towards people, I had a target that was a bloody killer but got away with it. The boss told me to kill the target and report back when I can.

Although, I set that aside to watch over my comrades who had missions of their own. I hadn't touched anyone else yet. Not like that. To see their future deaths. I'm honestly scared to do it. I don't want to get close and see their deaths, and when it happens, not be able to do anything.

The most frustrating thing about the visions I get, is I have no context whatsoever. I get death, that's it. Just a bit before. With a group like this, seeing them die in some painful way will keep me up at night and scar me more. I already have to bring Tatsumi back to life when the time comes, so that includes everyone else or that wouldn't be fair. The chances of me being able to handle what Tatsumi and my sister went through is low. My sister got her throat slit and Tatsumi looked like he just went through hell and back. Not to mention my senses will be gone.

I watched silently as Leone declared that she and Tatsumi were just a couple of bitches.

I almost snickered at that. My target was sleeping nearby so I can kill him and be on my way. I pulled out the file. "Captain Tokino, you are sentenced to death for abuse of power, 30 known cases of murder. 5 cases of child endangerment, and 17 cases of rape"

I lifted my foot, after quickly checking to make sure no one was watching(My cloak was getting cleaned), I slammed my foot into the roof and summoned a sword into my hand.

I landed feet first, sword in the air over the now awake captain. "Ah Sir, You're awake. Allow me to judge your soul" I said before dropping my sword through the man's chest.

I got off, closed his eyes, and placed the file on his chest.

As I exited through the door like a civil person I was struck with a bad feeling. I checked on Tatsumi and leone, they were heading back to base. No problems besides Leone marking him like an animal.

I quickly went to check on Mine and Sheele. I didn't pay too much attention to them because I thought they were highly capable. Once I found them in a park facing off against...FUCK Its Seryu!

I cut off the vision and choose to help them instead of asking for backup. It would take too long for them to get the message.

I dashed off to the closest path to get me to them. As I ran random fragments of memories pricked my mind.

Skylah's death, Tatsumi's death, Akame's grief, and tears, the glare of my sister, and so many more.

If you cant save one of them, what chances do you have to save anyone else?

Hey, kid, don't be so hard on yourself. You almost-

SHUT YOUR STUPID MOUTH! I NEVER WANTED TO BE THIS WAY! I should have thought out my options at the time but I didn't. Ok, I'll live and die with that fact.

As I arrived I saw Sheele take a bullet through the chest. After quickly scanning the area I could see that Mine and Sheele were winning, Seryu had Koro activate a trump card and Sheele took her eyes off Seryu to save Mine who had been captured.

I could hear Sheele muttering about her body not moving. As she fell forward, I watched in slow motion.

I turned my gaze to an armless Seyu. Koro got ready to chop down on Sheele. My fear and any sympathy for this girl had gone out the window. I will kill her. I will kill her when she's at her lowest, begging for life, and I will take pleasure from my Sythe going through her skull.

Kid maybe calm down a bit

I threw my sword into the gaping mouth of Koro before willing the shards to explode.

All the debris missed Sheele but I knew that there was nothing I could do to save her now.

Once the rock around the sword exploded, Koro's head went with it. I moved with more speed than I knew I had and grabbed Sheele's body.

"Is-is that you Jaden?" Mine asked covering her eyes with her one good arm.

I am boosting you now, your eye is glowing with the intensity of a thousand suns.

I grabbed the hilt of my sword that was sticking out where Koro's throat would be and shifted Sheele into one arm.

I turned my gaze onto Seryu. I could hear my voice distorting as I spoke. "Your quarl isn't with NIght Raid about your father. It's with me. As for your Captain, he deserved to die. If you want Night Raid you have to go through me!" I snared at her.

Seryu backed down for a moment, fear throwing away whatever fight she had aimed at me.

"Mine, get out of here! Take Sheele" I said as I lifted my head to the sky. A bright blue flash rang out as a group of guards rushed towards Mine.

After the flash settled, all there of us were long gone.

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(Back at the park)

The guards were able to finally see again. When the blue hue left their eyes, they started investigating the area. All they could find of the three Assasins was the scissors Imperial Arms, Extase, a puddle of blood, a crap ton of black rocks, and scorch marks here and there.

"Damn what a fucking mess" one guard commented as he observed the park that severed as a battlefield. The guard turned to Seryu, who was leaning against her Imperial Arms, on a water fountain. "Seryu, you ok?"

Everyone who heard her reply cringed when she returned the question with insane laughter.

"HAHAHA! Daddy..." Seryu laughed like a maniac as she lifted her armless stumps into the air. "I defeated a villain! Are you proud of me?! I shed the light of justice on the world! AHAHAHAHA!" When Koro suddenly whined Seryu turned to her weapon. "I'm sorry Koro, that Jackass with the glowing eye didn't leave anything for you to eat. Don't worry, you'll taste Night Raod flesh someday." Another Crazed bout of laughter erupted from the girl. "And we can't forget you will get the chance to eat the flesh of a master of death, the Grim Reaper himself!"

(An hour and a half later at the Night Raid base)

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Rain, that was all you could hear. Pouring rain as everyone processed the story I had to tell. I carried both of them here. Sheele had died along the way. I carried Sheele on my back and Mine in my arms. Mine passed out on the way, swearing vengeance. Sheele had asked me to apologize to everyone for her.

During my story, Mine had woken up and took over the storytelling, filling them in on all the details I missed. As she took over, I abandoned where I was sitting and pulled Sheeles body over to a tree that could cover us from the rain. There I just lightly stroked her hair as if she was just sleeping.

I could barely hear the words coming from her mouth, as tears stung my eyes. We had lost Sheele, one of our own even if I wasn't here for long. She left a hole within our hearts.

As the rain soaked into our bodies making our bones cold, we all cried bitter, hot tears but not anyone dared make a sound.

Finally, the only one who could at this time, Tatsumi broke the silence.

"Where...Where is the one that did this? Mine! Jaden!" Tatsumi walked up to Mine and placed his hands on her shoulders. He gave me an angry look, his anger directed elsewhere. Wherever we point it. He had this desperation in his eyes.

"Wait." Najenda, stopping Tatsumi from doing anything he could regret. "What are you planning Tatsumi?"

"What else!?" Tatsumi exclaimed. "I'm going to kill her and avenge Sheele!"

I ignored them, somewhere along the line Bulat punched Tatsumi to shut him up and knock some sense into him. I stood up as the boss started another speech about her death not being in vain.

I walked over and grabbed Tatsumi by the collar. The boss paused for a moment. "Do you have something to say Jaden?"

I held back a snarl. "Tatsumi get your ass off the floor," I said, voice low, ready to erupt.

I yanked him to his feet and I stabbed a finger into his chest. "You need to shut your mouth. You are reckless, far too reckless to survive. I recognize I'm the same way at times. I'll be patent with you" I pulled my finger back and poed his chest again. "BUT Don't you dare! Say any stupid shit like revenge around me. If you go around revenge killing, you'll never do what you set out to do."

I looked at the boss. "Sure I get we are supposed to be killing important figures in the Capital and make this place better while collecting Imperial Arms, but what does that drug ring have to do with it? Hmm? They were pretty insignificant."

"Well-"

"Well, nothing boss!" I cut her off. "Instead of wasting our time with our better workers with jobs that any one of us could handle, we lost someone today because she didn't have adequate backup! You had me working on someone that Tatsumi could have killed easily in his sleep! Sure I've been going after people like that but do you know how many people think I'm just a coward going after the small fry? If you had left me to find my own target, I might have had a chance of being there for her!"

I threw my hands in the air. A pointed to that tree. "Go ahead, someone put me in my place! I had carried a dead body of one our own and the unconscious body of someone that nearly died!"

As I finished, I turned my gaze back to Tatsumi. "You need to get stronger if you want to live through this. Tatsumi, you got potential and I hate to see you die. Train your ass off first, and then I'll push you even further."

With that, I stormed off into the woods.

After I killed a danger beast that was scaring some locals in a village a pretty good distance from the base, I felt a chill run through my spine.

I could feel something coming, something that I don't know If I had the firepower to stop.

Chapter done. Before I forget, thank you to Espritu salvaje, the first *cough and only cough* follower to this story of mine