Chapter 17

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Headmaster office

" I will treat you like a transferred student so you will join team ELSK. I know that there are many of your former enemies in team ELSK but there is also your sister and I believe in the proverb 'keep your friends close and your enemies even closer'" Ozpin stated

Akame nodded

"oh yes, I believe that Miss Rose would gladly help you find a new weapon" Then he looked to Esdeath "You also need a weapon" Esdeath was about to complain but Ozpin stopped her by raising his hand "I know you can create swords made of ice but I would prefer to see you with an actual weapon, and the same thing goes for all of you except Mister Tatsumi, Mister Bulat and Miss Seryu and Kurome who have an actual weapon" Ozpin stated "you are dismissed"

The two team bowed to Ozpin and left the room, waiting for them there was Team RWBY and JNPR

"Sooo your friend is gonna stay here?" Ruby said with curios tone

"Yes, she will join my team." Esdeath replied

"Ooh that's Awesome!" Ruby cheered as she approached Akame "I'm Ruby Rose! And this is my weapon" She said while showing her Crescent Rose

Akame thought that was the normal way to present herself

"I'm Akame…just Akame and she is my partner" Akame replied as she putted her hand on Murasame

"wow you are like Jaune! You like the classics!" Ruby exclaimed, making Akame confused

Then Ruby tried to touch Akame's sword but she quickly stopped her by blocking her hand. Yang glared at her

"I'm sorry but you can't touch her, nobody can except me. This is a cursed weapon if cut yourself with her and you are dead" Akame coldly said

"Why everyone must have so cool weapons!" Jaune exclaimed

Akame looked at him with a serious look "she is not as cool as you think, in order to use her at her best you need to sacrifice something about yourself " She said

"What do you mean?" Yang said

Tatsumi putted his hand on Akame's shoulder and looked her with a worried look

"It's okay, you said that they are gonna be our new companions on our project…so they need to know" Akame said while looking at Tatsumi with a smile. Then she took a deep breath and closed her eyes

When she opened them her eyes were black and red, on her skin red markings began to appear. A dark aura appeared on her

"this is the cost of using her" Akame said

Blake looked somewhat scared of this transformation

Ruby thought that was similar to the semblance of Yang

Weiss was amazed. Team JNPR had similar reaction

Then Akame turned normal but she seemed tired

"let's return to our room we have much to discuss" Esdeath said with a calm tone

Team ELSK room

"So what did you discover" Tatsumi asked

"As we thought the White Fang had an hideout in the Southeast. The base was under mount Gleen, they had a train full of explosives. Their plan was to blow up the train under Vale in order make a hole for the Grimms, fortunately we managed to detach some of the wagons, so the explosion wasn't big enough to do some real damage" Blake said

"Excellent, did your professor found out anything about us?" Esdeath said while crossing her legs

"No, professor Oobleck doesn't suspect anything" Weiss took word

"Good, we have to keep a low profile" Tatsumi said

"We know" Blake said "But there isn't something that we can do to prevent the worst?" she asked with hope on her voice

Tatsumi sighed "I know that you would prefer avoiding violence, so do I, but…it's far too late for that, now we have to prevent the death of the civilians. Both Human" He paused "And Faunus" He said with more emphasis

Blake nodded in reply

"All of you did a great job, but I have one more thing to ask at Ruby" Esdeath said while looking at Ruby

Ruby looked surprised, Yang in the other hand looked worried by the sudden request

"The headmaster want us to get new weapons, and he said that you could help us" Akame said

Ruby was….very happy, she had sparkles in her eyes "What type of weapon do you want?!?!" she asked excited

"A simple Katana is enough" Akame said but Ruby looked unhappy with that statement "Are you sure? I like to work on complicated weapons!" she exclaimed, grabbing Akame's hands

Akame blushed a little "Well, I have some problems when it comes to long ranges" She admitted

"leave it to me!" Ruby said with a big smile then she looked to Esdeath and at the others "And you?"

Esdeath was the one who spoke first "A sword will be more than sufficient for me"

Ruby looked at liver "I know that your semblance needs to have some water, maybe I can make a weapon that use some blue dust" She said

"I would appreciate it" Liver coldly said

The rest of the day was spent talking about concepts of weapons. In the end Wave asked for similar at Tatsumi's lance. Run instead asked for a sniper rifle in order to shoot from the sky the enemies.

Later that night

"So, how is Akame?" Esdeath asked while looking at the shattered moon in the sky

She was with Tatsumi on the roof of the academy, she really liked this moments, she could be relaxed, she didn't need to be the cold woman, she was known to be.

"she okay now, but when we first found her, she was really desperate" Tatsumi admitted

"What do you mean?" Esdeath asked

"She is been very lonely especially after Kurome passed out" Tatsumi replied

"oh I see…I don't think that I can understand Akame completely but I think that sucks for her" Esdeath admitted

"Oh I forgot about your pas-" Tatsumi was interrupted by Esdeath who pressed her finger on Tatsumi's lips

"There is no need to talk about my past" Esdeath said with a smile "You are the only one who seemed to care about my past, I like this side of you but you have to understand that for me it doesn't matter , as long I have you" She continued, leaning her head on Tatsumi's shoulder

"okay then….but I have a favor to ask" Tatsumi said while blushing

"Anything" Esdeath quickly replied

"Could you please protect Akame?" Tatsumi asked, surprising Esdeath

"I don't understand, she more than capable to defend herself" Esdeath asked confused

"that's not what I meant, she will be in your team and the only one she can trust is her sister" Tatsumi

"You're asking me to be her friend?" Esdeath asked

"I know it sounds crazy but…" Tatsumi said

"I can do that, she is the one who was able to beat me, she already have my respect" Esdeath stated

"I don't know how to thank you…" Tatsumi said when suddenly he was pulled by Esdeath

He felt Esdeath's lips pressed on his then Esdeath broke the kiss

"For now, this will be enough" she said with a smile

Tatsumi smiled back and together looked at the stars

Few days later, morning

Akame opened her eyes, the first thing she saw was the face of Kurome, who was sleeping. Akame stood up and looked at the window, she saw Esdeath looking out of the window

"you are already awake eh?" Esdeath said breaking the silence

"Yes…" Akame replied

"it's awkward isn't it?, your greatest enemy is right in front of you" Esdeath had a point

"Yeah it is" Akame

"But now it is my duty ,as a leader, protecting you" Esdeath affirmed

Akame didn't say anything

"but I also want us to became friends" Esdeath stated

"I beg your pardon?" Akame asked

"You are one of greatest warrior that I ever meet and you already have my respect an-"

"You are serious with Tatsumi?" Akame asked while looking in Esdeath's eyes

"Yes" Esdeath replied

"Are you planning to use him as a puppet? Like the first minister did with the emperor?" Akame continued

"absolutely not!" Esdeath said almost shouting and making an angry look

"You dropped your mask" Akame said, making Esdeath blinking

"Now I beg your pardon" Esdeath replied

"You have always kept a strong attitude but not when it comes at Tatsumi. I'll be friend with you and I'll forget about the nasty things you have done" Akame began to say "But if you betray Tatsumi, I'll kill you" she concluded

"I won't" Esdeath replied

"good" Akame said but suddenly Akame's stomach grumbled, Esdeath heard it and smiled

"Let's get something to eat, shall we?" Esdeath proposed and Akame nodded

The two left the room and went to the cafeteria

"Oh! Hi guys!" They heard someone calling for them, they turned in the direction of the voice and found Ruby waving her hand

"Oh, good morning Ruby" Esdeath said, noticing somebody behind her "Who is with you?"

"Oh yes! Guys this is my father Taiyang Xiao Long" Ruby said while pushing her father in the direction of Akame and Esdeath

"Calm down Ruby!" The man said "greetings! As my daughter said I'm Taiyang Xiao Long but you can call me Tai" He said, bowing to the two ladies "Ruby you didn't tell me that you friends were so beautiful" Tai said while looking at Esdeath but then he looked at Akame

"Black hair and red eyes" Tai whispered

Akame narrowed her eyes "excuse me?"

Tai returned to his senses "Oh I'm sorry, you remind me of my wife"

Akame tilted her head in surprise, even Ruby was surprised

"I didn't mean to interrupt your meal" The man bowed again and then the rest of team ELSK and team TRWB

"Oh guys I have a great news for you!" Ruby yelled, attracting everyone's attention "You weapons are ready!"

Ruby putted a big bag on the table and opened it

"Alright the first one is for you Akame!" She said as she took out of the bag a sheathed katana

Ruby offered the katana to Akame, who unsheathed it. The katana was black and the blade was Red, the hilt was bigger than a normal hilt and there was a trigger

"In the hilt there is a machine gun, and the blade is heated, it could cut through the thickest armor! " Ruby said with a joyful tone "the blade change color depending which ammunition you are using! If you use green dust, the blade will be green" she paused "You should name her"

Akame looked at the katana "Kiriichimonji" she said

"what a peculiar name" Ruby admitted

"It was the name of the sword that I wielded before Murasame" Akame explained

"Oh I see!" Ruby replied

"thank you" Akame said with a smile

"don't mention it! I used Blake's weapon as a model" Ruby replied then she looked at the others "Alright now it's the turn of Esdeath" Ruby took a sword out of the bag "You told me to do a normal sword but I took the liberty to made some changes"

Esdeath took the sword and looked at her carefully, she noticed something. The blade was white and very fancy but what caught her attention was the black cross of the clan Partas that was on the hilt "How did you…" Esdeath began to ask

"Tatsumi told me that was the mark of your family" Ruby explained

Esdeath looked at Tatsumi, who was smiling at her.

"she's beautiful, thank you Ruby" Esdeath thought for a brief second "I'll call her Eis"

Ruby nodded and then she took out a pair of blue gloves "These are for Liver, these gloves are made of synthetic material so they can't be cut and if you press right here" Ruby pointed at one button on the palm "They use Blue dust in order to create water"

Liver thanked her with a nod

Ruby took out of the bag something that looked like her Crescent Rose "Run you asked me a sniper rifle but I kinda overdid so I made a scythe like mine" She opened the strange object and it transformed into a scythe, the scythe was white and gold "You have angel wings so I thought about the-"

"angel of death" Run stated while he grabbed the scythe

"Exactly" Ruby said

"I'll call you Reaper" Run said at the scythe while Ruby giggled

"Okay then" Ruby looked at Wave "Don't worry I didn't forget about you!" She said giggling then she took out a rifle out of her bag "This is an automatic rifle" The rifle was blue and had a anchor printed on the barrel and had some white patterns "but! with the pressure of this button " She pressed a button near the safety and the rifle transformed in a two sided halberd "It transform in an halberd " She concluded

"Wow! You did an excellent job Ruby!" Wave exclaimed amazed

"Thank you" Ruby replied "now we are all ready for the Festival!" Ruby cheered

"Yeah!" Everyone cheered with her "we'll kick them in the ass!"

"And we'll break their legs" Nora yelled, popping out of the nowhere

"Nice weapons you got there" Yang said followed by the rest of Ruby's team

"This year the Beacon will win the tournament! We have Pyrrha, Esdeath And now Akame ! Who managed to defeat Esdeath!" Nora exclaimed

"Yes, we'll win" Tatsumi yelled as he raised his arm