Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN BEN 10 OR AKAME GA KILL. THEY BELONG TO THEIR RIGHTFUL OWNERS. BEN 10 IS OWNED BY MAN OF ACTION AND AKAME GA KILL IS OWNED BY SQUARE ENIX.

YES I'M BACK WITHOUT WARNING!

Hey guys sorry for the long hiatus. I've just been overwhelmed by everything in my life that I never thought I had to deal with. It's very concerning. I needed time to fix and repair everything I have broken and pushed away. Everything in my life is so messed up that I just don't know what to do. This is getting really serious folks. It really is.

So pretty much things were sucky for me this year...especially when it comes to earning money. I'm so sorry if I had to have y'all wait. Working a full time job can rob you from getting your education and doing your hobby.

I love to thank everyone and I hope you all accept my apology. I don't know what's gonna happen after this. But I did make outlines as I did back in high school, so you may get at least 5 or 6 updates this month. 5 or 6. Just a heads up. And hey...maybe in December it may jump to 7. Just food for thought.

Anyway, let's get back to the story.


o ビーチを殺す

XLIII: Kill the Beach

Ben stood in complete silence. He didn't know what to think - how to think or anything. Akame was gone - dissapeared right in front of his eyes. Fear trickled up to his spine freezing his nerves, His heart raced faster than a Lambhorghini at full speed. Fear - it was all he had left.

Drenched in his own sweat, Ben began to worry how his new friends, Night Raid, would react to Ben's failure. Until that was when a purple flash blinded the poor teen hero. Emerging from the light was - Akame! She had tons of battlescars, cuts, and bruises but she was aliver and well. The over exstatic Ben caught her, before she hit the ground, exhausted as it seemed.

"Ben," Akame said in a soft, tender voice. This caufght Ben off guard but he quickly got over it. He was glad his friend was okay.

"Akame! I'm so glad you're okay!" Ben said, "What happened to you? You look like you were fighting animals!"

Akame locked her eyes on Ben; she caressed his cheeks, again catching Ben off guard, with an embrace, warming him up with her sweet, tender smile soon swallowed up by fear and worry. She briefly turned away before giving him a very serious eye.

"We got to go back," Akame said.

"Go back where? The Hideout?" Ben asked, "Isn't that where we are going anyway?"

"Correct, and its where you will be staying for the time being. It's too dangerous."

At this, Ben's ego would have nuked on overdrive, but however, after seeing what had transpired, he began to listen, "What do you mean too dangerous? What's going on?"'

Silence.

"You're in grave danger," she said, "I have to get you home."

MOMENTS AGO...

Akame woke up. Her head throbbed from out of nowhere. She groaned from dizziness, her vision, a blur. It cleared form the moment her sight returned. She was on a beach, a nice quiet beach on an island of unknown origin. She was unaware of where she was. She got up, with her sword now grasped from the sand, her mind rewinding to the event that transpired from the moment before she disappeared. It was strange and yet...soundly alien. It was quiet. It was static. Static. Like everything, she had ever felt her whole life.

Then it sparked.

Her emotions slowly boiled up like a shaken pop fizzing up to the open. Her heart echoed in her ears, pulsating in her chest like a prisoner waiting to get out. Her heart only roared as she stared out to the sea as the wind whistled in the air, blowing on her raven black hair.

Unfortunately, it didn't last...

"So, the cold-blooded killer has a weakness I see," said a new voice. Akame turned to see Esdeath struggling to get up after that beating she was given by both combatants, "Love isn't your strong suit is it?"

"You're still alive I see," Akame said coldly.

"Observant and cold, a wonderful mix for a brilliant corpse," Esdeath said pulling out her blade.

"You are in no position to fight - let alone walk. I would advise you stand down," Akame warned.

"And I supposed to take an order from a criminal?" Esdeath quipped.

"Yes. Both I and your body are telling you the same order to stand down. I can imagine the pain..."

"Blah-blah-blah! It's what you Night Raiders always do. You mouth off the mouth when you know your end is near. Honestly, I'm more at composure than you were moments ago. What was it I said?"

Akame tightened her grip on her sword, "Oh yes," Esdeath continued, "Your team has the most powerful man in the history of this planet and yet you baby him as if he is some Messiah. Especially you. However, if I don't know better, I can bet that your loyalty is no longer on your team."

"It's always been on my team," Akame said.

"Oh is that it? What a brilliant little lie. If you were gonna protect that little ego you have, you could have killed me right then and there, but what did you do? You stopped right there and gave me a chance to live, though not by your own volition, but through your ardor, your passionate infatuation for Ben Tennyson," Esdeath said prompting Akame to immediately take out her sword.

"Ooooh, did I touch a nerve?" Akame launched at Esdeath with everything she got. Esdeath blocked her attack by forming an ice shield around her arm. They parried each other blocking and countering each other's moves until Esdeath kicked Akame to the ground. Akame backflipped up to her feet. They go again.

"What's wrong, princess? Is it more than just an infatuation? An obsession? Or is it something more? Because if not..." she blasted Akame with a powerful ice blast; Akame narrowly dodged it, "I can take him off his hands for you and perhaps train him, house him, feed him...play with him," Esdeath licked her lips. Akame's eyes widened.

Rationality.

Logic.

All of that left. Akame thrust forward, roaring as she savagely attacks Esdeath, "There you go! That's the way!"

Esdeath enjoyed this. Akame was fighting with raw power. all the technicality was lost. She was fighting like a pure animal. Esdeath shot ice crystals from her hands, Akame, without even trying, sliced them up. Her body and mind were on autopilot. Like a rogue warrior, consumed by anger and hate, Akame went all out. Within a split second, not only did she sliced her ice crystals into dices, but she delivered a powerful roundhouse kick to her face sending her through two trees.

But it wasn't over. AsEsdeath was about to get up, Akame grabbed her by the neck and threw her back to the beach. She leaped over her, towering over the Ice Queen. Esdeath smiled, "Got another one in you?"

Akame knelt down and presumed to punch and beat the living hell out of her. She was beating her face like a boxer punching raw meat for she was finished, Esdeath spat out the blood and Akame rose her sword above her face.

"You're done," she said.

Esdeath giggled, "Go on," she spat out blood, "Do it. Kill me. It's your nature to kill. You were bred to be an assassin...a killer. Listen to your instincts," Esdeath taunted. Akame rose the blade above Esdeath, ready to deliver the final blow but then...she froze. Esdeath frowned; Akame dropped her blade.

"You're right. I was bred to be an assassin," Akame said, "But, I'm not a stone, cold killer, like you," she said.

"You don't want to kill me because of your new master huh?" Esdeath asked.

"Ben does not control me. He never has. He earned my trust," she said.

"And why is that?"

Silence. Akame, for the very first time finally came to terms with her own feelings. Her heart synced with her mind. She could not deny it anymore. All the good Ben has done, the power he wielded, everything.

"You're in love with his power are you?"

"At first," Akame admitted, "Ben was the most powerful person in our team. He had bested us as well as saved us-he saved me. He protected me. He made me feel...special. Like I...I was..."

"So you loved the watch?"

"I loved his power...but eventually I fell in love with the man with the power, and eventually,"

"You..."

Akame turned around and faced Esdeath, "I love him and I will give my life to protect him," she said.

Esdeath got up, a serious look painted her face, "Hehe, looks like she's not alone," she said.

"What do you mean?" Akame asked.

"Have you ever hated something so bad that you become obsessive over that said thing? You hate someone so much that you track everything they do?"

Akame nodded, "Explain."

"I believe that you heard of Seryu, is that right?" Esdeath asked.

Akame tightened her fists, "I do," she said darkly.

"So I guess your hatred for me is less so than her," Esdeath smiled.

"What does that monster want?" Akame asked.

...

They sat around a bonfire. Akame was feeding it trying to keep the fire lit for the night, "It's common knowledge that Seryu of all people would hate Ben Tennyson," Akame said.

"It's all she would ever talk about," Esdeath explained, "Day in and day out. She's like a psychopathic fangirl who won't shut up about a book she read. Ever since he defeated her that fateful night. It was just a friendly rival conversation. He was someone she needed to take down...someone to imprison...someone to kill," she said.

"Not surprising," Akame said.

"Yes," Esdeath continued, "The problem is not her hatred. It's her obsession."

"Obsession?"

"Yes. Once hate felters inside the mind, the host becomes obsessed, then with obsessions comes rage, from rage comes infatuation, from infatuation to..."

"Love?" Akame said, "W-wait, you mean she loves him?"

"No...at least not yet. Seryu's can extend when Ben is dead. Using that little trinket on her wrist..."

"Trinket?"

"Yes, that little watch she wears around. I was told..."

Akame started to panic, "That's the Nemetrix!"

"Neme-who?"

"That's Ben's! The Nemetrix can transform the user into the Predators of the aliens Ben turns into! If she uses that she'd be unstoppable!" Akame warned.

"Seeing how powerful Ben's watch is does seem...oh my god," Esdeath said.

"What?" Akame asked.

Esdeath gets up, "Whenever or however we get home, you need to warn your team. Because if that watch Seryu has on is just as powerful as Ben's...just think of this. Once you see the world in black and white, everyone is a criminal," Esdeath warned, "I'll try to stop her myself. However as it pains me to say, I need your help," Esdeath warned.

"What is she planning to do?" Akame asked.

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Seryu's room was dark. A dim red light lit up the corner of the room occupied by a crazy girl in a messy bun with her white dog tied up to a chair as he watched his master slowly going mad. She giggled and laughed, snickered and cried as she looked at the Nemetrix like it was a psychedelic drug. She toyed around as she saw the silhouettes of the monsters hiding in the watch.

"Remember Remember, the Fifth of November, the Gunpowder, Treasons and Plots!" she giggled as she croaked, "I know of no reason why the gunpowder treason whall ever be fuckgot! Hahahahahaha!" she laughed as the Nemetrix hummed, "Hoo hoo hoo! Ben Tennyson. Ben Tennyson...my baby boy. My sweetheart! My arch nemesis! I finally found something that can rival your power! Isn't it fun! FUN AIN'T IT KORRO?"

Korro happily nodded.

"Yes, with this watch, we will kill Ben and anyone that STAND AGAINST JUSTICE! And to make my point true, I'm gonna start painting the palace walls red because there are a few decenters!" she claimed, "WAVE! GET YOUR ASS HERE! I require your assistance! - Please!"

Outside the door was an angry Kurome trying he best to contain her anger, "You'll pay for what you did, you monster," she said.


AN: Well that's that. I'm a little rusty but I'll get back in the game soon. What do you like about it! Please tell me in the comments below! Until next time, I bid you all an adieu and...

PEACE!