Chapter 30

Hello guys! I'm sorry for the long waiting but I went on a trip with my family but here it is a fresh new chapter for you! I hope you'll enjoy it!

On a train directed to Mistral

Oscar was looking out the window, he was immersed in his thoughts

"Something is bothering you, Oscar?" The voice of Ozpin asked

"Well…I'm just a little nervous" The boy replied "I never been so far from home"

"I know, but unfortunately is necessary" The former headmaster replied

"Can I ask you something?" Oscar requested

"Sure" Ozpin replied

"How are they?" Oscar asked

Ozpin remained silent for a moment "they are… peculiar. They came from a very far land, a land full of evil and atrocities who have changed them forever. It's hard to describe them"

"Is this why they fight?" The boy asked again

"Mostly because they don't want to see our land become like theirs" Ozpin replied

"I see... Well, I'm tired. I'll get some sleep, wake me up when we arrive" Oscar said as he closed his eyes and fell asleep

Mistral, secret hideout of the New Empire, 4 days after last Tatsumi's communication, night

Esdeath, Najenda, Akame were looking at the plans for the defense of the Haven academy.

"So what we have here?" Esdeath asked

"As we can see the academy is surrounded by forests, there are many buildings but the one that interests us is this one" Najenda said as she pointed on the building in front of the fountain in the map "The headmaster office should in here, since Leonardo betrayed the people of the Remnant, you can kill him." Najenda then looked at both Esdeath and Akame " We have a head start of 6 months to prepare everything, when Tatsumi will arrive with the reinforcements we'll make an official plan" she stated

Esdeath had an amused look on her face "In these months we can train our soldiers" the ice queen made a sadistic smile "The White Fang will be a bunch of novices compared to our soldiers. I'll make sure that everyone will be ready"

Najenda smirked "The only thing that I ask you is not kill them "

Esdeath sighed "You're no fun" She replied

"But will we have enough firepower?" Akame asked

"Don't worry about that, before leaving Atlas I took with me many Atlesian Paladin and many other weapons, also, every huntsmen in our army has is personal weapon" Najenda replied

"What about aura?" Akame asked again

Najenda seemed to not understand but Esdeath did

"You want to unlock everyone's aura" She stated with a gaint grin

Akame nodded "With the aura we'll have less casualties and the soldiers will be more confident"

Najenda assumed a thoughtful pose "This will take time" she said

"We have 6 months, it should be enough to train our soldiers in combat and aura" Esdeath replied

"By the way, where do you learned to use aura?" Najenda asked

"It's like a second Teigu" Akame replied

Esdeath smiled "Well… I didn't get hit from a long time ,but when I wasn't with Tatsumi, I practiced my aura"

Akame rolled her eyes when the blue haired girl mentioned her free time with Tatsumi

Najenda wasn't happy with Esdeath having aura, this means that she will be twice harder to take her down even with Murasame. Najenda sighed and hoped that they'll never have to kill Esdeath again.

"Anyways, Tatsumi should be here tomorrow" Najenda said

Akame gave her a puzzled look "How? It's a long travel"

"I sent my fleet to pick them up, It would be suspicius if a large number of armed faunus cross the borderline, don't you think?"

"That makes sense" Akame said as she nodded, then she looked at Esdeath, who was overjoyed

"Finally I'll stay with Tatsumi again!" Esdeath said with a cute tone that to Akame seemed uncharacteristic

"You know that Tatsumi found his daughter right?" Najenda asked

"Of course I know, I will be the best aunt ever, I'll teach her how to kill her enemies in the most suffering way possible" Esdeath replied

Najenda paled. She did not know if it was more frightening to have Esdeath as aunt or the fact that she wanted to teach a child about his methods of torture.

"I will be her aunt!" Akame stated with a annoyed tone

"Oh? Is that a challenge?" Esdeath asked with a smirk

"I can teach how to kill like a real assassin!" the red eyed girl said

"Oh hell no! Mitsu will be a sniper princess!" A voice said from the other room

Akame, Najenda and Esdeath turned in the direction of the door. After a few seconds Mine slammed the door open

"Mine? I thought you would arrive tomorrow" Akame said surprised

"Nope! I forced the admiral of the fleet to go full speed!" Mine replied

"Where is Tatsumi?" Najenda asked

"Oh he is putting Mitsu at sleep, she was tired of the travel" Mine replied "he said that he will come once he finished with Mitsu"

Najenda nodded while Esdeath and Akame exchanged glares

"Oh! and by the way, since Blake is Tatsumi's sister, she is Mitsu's aunt"

Both Esdeath and Akame remained silent for a minute much to Mine's amusement, then the silence was interrupted by Najenda, who began to laugh.

Esdeath glared at the other general while Akame had a blank expression.

"What's going on here?" A voice asked from behind.

Esdeath turned in the direction of the voice and a smile appeared on her face

"Dear!" She said as she hugged Tatsumi who was standing behind Mine "I missed you so much!"

"Hey! Hands off from my Tatsumi!" Mine shouted with an angered expression

Esdeath tightened her hug and glared at the pink haired girl but something was of since Mine have a disbelieved expression. The ice queen looked at Tatsumi but he wasn't there. Najenda continued to laugh.

"What the hell?!" Mine said "What did you do?!" She asked

"Nothing? I just hugged him" Esdeath replied as she looked at the three...no wait, two other girl?

"Akame..." She said as she understood what happened

On the rooftop of the hideout

"Seems like you saved me again" Tatsumi said as he sighed then he looked at Akame

"I just thought that you were tired from the mission and those two were suffocating you " Akame replied with a gentle smile

Tatsumi nodded and silence fell upon them. It wasn't a awkward silence, the two assassins were enjoying the peace of the the night. Akame had a calm expression and Tatsumi was enjoying the breeze of the night.

"Akame, I-" Tatsumi began to say but Akame interrupted him

"I know, you don't have that kind of feelings for me, but it's alright it was just a good fantasy. After all I don't think I deserve such feelings after all I have done…all the people that I killed…I'm not so different from the old Esdeath" she said with a sad smile as she admired the view that the rooftop provided

"Don't you dare to say such things about yourself! I have done what was necessary for a greater good" Tatsumi said as he putted his hands on Akame's shoulders and made her face him "You deserve happiness just like any other girl" He paused for a moment "No, ESPECIALLY you deserve happiness. Your childhood was taken away but I'll make sure to provide you the happiness that you deserve" Tatsumi had one of the most serious expression that Akame had ever seen him do and she felt his eyes looking directly in her soul. Akame felt her strength disappear and her knees gave way, Tatsumi quickly grabbed her and slowly putted Akame in a sitting position. The two stared at each other and slowly their faces come closer to one other until their lips touched. Akame closed her eyes, her heart was beating that loud that she could hear it, she felt tears on her cheeks and a warm sensation all over her

'So this is how a kiss feels…' Akame thought

Tatsumi broke the kiss, and Akame looked at him with dreamy eyes, Tatsumi stroke her hair and wiped away her tears "I'll do my best to make happy" he whispered

Akame took his hand and rubbed her cheek on it, she closed her eyes again and enjoyed the warmth of Tatsumi's hand. Tatsumi couldn't help but smiled.

The two remained like that for a couple of minutes like this until Akame reopened her eyes and smiled

"We should return to the others, probably Mine and Esdeath will be very pissed" she quietly said

Tatsumi smiled back "I'll take care of them" he said

Akame and Tatsumi got up and together returned inside the hideout.

The next day, morning

After Tatsumi dealt with both of Mine and Esdeath, he immediately went to bed too tired to do anything else. When he got up he found Esdeath and Mine lying beside him. He sneaked out of bed and went outside. He saw the soldiers in line with Najenda checking their uniforms. Tatsumi made his way to his former boss

"Wow, I never seen you acting like a real general" he said with an amused tone

"You do remember that I was a general back in the Empire, right?" She replied with a smirk

"Well, when we were in the original Night Raid you didn't checked our clothes" He replied

"We were a secret squad, but now we are an army, and now discipline is needed" Najenda replied, then she saw a soldier that had only the coat but no shirt…and this soldier was Sun.

"Well, look what we have here, why I'm not surprised?" The general said "Why you don't have your shirt ,soldier?" she asked

Sun gulped "Because I don't like it ma'am" he replied

"I see…" Najenda said as she putted her hand on her chin then she took a deep breath "WELL THEN! MAKE ONE THOUSEND OF PUSH UPS WITH THE COMPLIMETS OF THE SOLDIER SUN" She shouted and quickly all the soldiers followed her order, the Najenda looked at Tatsumi "Come with me, we have some plans to do"

Tatsumi nodded and began to follow her

The two arrived at the HQ, Najenda reported the situation to Tatsumi. After a few hours of discussing about possible strategies, Tatsumi came up with a plan and decided to gather everyone to inform them. Once everyone came, Tatsumi began his explanation of the plan

"We all know why we are here, innocent people are in danger and we have to save them. With the intelligence we retrieved from an our source" Tatsumi gestured Ilia, who was sitting beside Blake "We are certain that the enemy will strike at Haven Academy six months from today. Our top priority is to keep safe the students and defeat Salem's followers." A map of the Haven Academy appeared behind him "The academy is surrounded by forests, it has two communication towers, a big square in front of the main building, which is our target, and the student dorms. We know that the headmaster Leonardo Lionheart as joined Salem, this makes him one of our targets. We also know that…" Tatsumi sighed "There is the possibility that the Wild Hunt will be there to lead the soldiers of the white Fang" Everyone gasped at this news

"Those freaks are here too?!" Wave asked with an angry tone

"Those beasts" Run hissed

Esdeath sighed and lowered her hat while Akame narrowed her eyes and tensed up

"Anyway" Tatsumi said, silencing everyone "Me and General Najenda came up with a plan. The colonel Mine will create a Task Force of snipers that will support the ground unit from the forests. When Vale was attacked, the White Fang used many Bullheads to transport their troops, therefore as a countermeasure the fleet of General Najenda will shoot down any hostile aircraft and the Captain Seryu will create an anti-aircraft squad. Lieutenant Bols will form a mechanized squad formed by the Atlesian Paladins modified by doctor Stylish, their objective will be to support the ground forces. Agent Chelsea will create a Special Force with the objective to infiltrate inside the students dorms and defend them. There will be two main squadrons, the first one will be the one lead by me and the second one will be leaded by General Esdeath. The two squadrons will directly fight the enemy troops. If everything goes as planned the victory will be ours. Any questions?" he said

Everyone remained silent

"Then let's get started" Tatsumi stated