Hey guys! The Oblivion Overlord here!

Sorry I took so long in updating my fanfics, especially this one. But you have to understand, I can't always update fast. I have real life for God's sake.

Anyway I have a few things to speak out, I will take even longer to update all of my fanfics, and I hope all of you can be patient for all of them.

I can reveal that of course, Kana has her own Teigu, one that can match Esdeath's if only because it's the polar opposite. Yes, I'm giving her a teigu too, and no. I am not changing it, I already hinted it two chapters ago.

With that out of the way, here is the next chapter of Tatsumi The Black Shogun! Enjoy!

WARNING! Some scenes may be random, I apologize in advance if it weirded you out.

Disclaimer: I own absolutely nothing except for the idea.


Chapter 5 Shadow of the Horizon


- At an unknown village in the north west territories -

Five figures were there overlooking the cliff as the village burns behind them. The citizens of that place were all killed, no… not killed, they were annihilated.

On the far left was a curvaceous woman of 5'4 with slightly pale skin, gold eyes and silver wavy hair going down her back. She could give Esdeath and Tatsumi a challenge when it comes to their bodies. She carries a claymore, and is wearing a silvery gray paladin armor with gold trimmings and a darker yellow cloth piece on the groin and cape attached under her shoulder pads.

Beside her going to the right was a large dark skinned guy with a height of 6'3 and physique to match Budo, along with Tadakatsu. He has red eyes with a black background and his hair, mustache, beard, and sideburns are a dark shadowy purple.

He carries a giant infernal dark red battle axe as tall as he was, and wears a dark red armor with moving red colors making it look like its on fire, it has horns attached on his chest going over his shoulder and pointing upwards, his gauntlets have a horn on each that move up his arm and stops at the elbow, the fingers are clawed, and the boots have a horn on the knee and jutting out arcing upwards slightly.

The next person was a tan male of 5'7 with a somewhat average physique, he has green eyes and long flowing black hair that is tied in a pony tail near the end of his hair. He has two bangs going down the right side of his face.

His weapon is a glowing blue saber attached to his back and two silver submachine guns strapped to his hips. He is wearing a simple blue kimono with darker blue shoulder pads, vambraces, and shin guards, on the back of his kimono there is a black bone with a white flame behind it.

The next one was a pale short girl of 4'7 with a curvy body. She has heterochromia eyes, the left is a shiny gold, and the right is a vibrant green. She also has raven black hair tied in a high ponytail with two bangs framing her face.

She uses a small tanto and shortsword. She is wearing a skintight black suit and white vambraces and shin guards, on her chest is a white metal support bra and on her groin area and butt she has a white cloth with a yin yang symbol that is gold and green instead of black and white.

Finally the last person is a pale skinned male with androgynous looks, he has a slightly curvy body and he has a height of 5'1. He has pale light green eyes that gives him the appearance of being blind and he has wavy scarlet red hair that reaches his shoulders.

He is holding a revolver and a sniper barrel attachment on his hip. He crossdresses by wearing tight blue booty shorts and a tight blue short shirt that reveals his stomach to the world under a white breastplate, with a silver trench coat with the coat tails reach his ankles and split into two behind him and in front of him.

The tall burly dark skinned man turned his head, and snorted as he looked the village with a disappointed gaze. "Hmph. I thought there would at least be one who could at least give me a fun fight." He said with a sigh. The paladin girl next to him looked at him with a somewhat neutral gaze. "Of course there wouldn't be anyone strong here Krieger, this is just a small village." She said with a roll of her eyes.

The girly boy just bowed his head mockingly towards the burning village. "At least their screams were music to my ears when I carved their still beating hearts out. It was simply a pleasant sound to hear." The androgynous male said as he rose back up from his mocking bow. "Ippótis, Yaeger, knock it off. We are here on orders." The blue clad man said emotionless as he looked on off the cliff.

"Aw. Come on Siegfried! Don't be such a spoilsport.~ I mean, you had some fun cutting the people down too, don't lie.~ Back me up Hagane!" Yaeger finished with a slight whiny voice towards the heterochromatic girl.

Hagane just stared at him before turning towards the burning village, not saying a single word. Yaeger looked at the smaller girl with an expectant gaze but she didn't respond, so with an overly dramatic sigh, he moved and leaned onto Krieger's hip.

The giant looked down at the smaller male and just shook his head before turning towards Siegfried. "So, any new orders from the Kaiser? My boiling blood needs to be sated." Krieger asked with a hopeful giddiness. Siegfried turned towards Krieger and shook his head. "Nothing special, we are to just return to the Holy Grounds to report our findings, or rather… lack of findings." The blue clad noble said. Yaeger grinned with a slight blush. "I wonder if he'll be so annoyed he'd be rough with me again as my punishment for failing." He finished with clouded eyes and a bit of drool coming out of his mouth.

Ippótis looked at the apparent masochistic and submissive trap annoyed at his behavior and smacked him upside the head with her arm. "Knock it off you masochistic horndog. We have no need for you to imagine whatever Lord Kaiser would do to you in private out loud." She gritted out. Shaking his head to clear the disorientation, he turned his head to the paladin. "Oh?~ Jealous much?~ Bet you wish you have a mate." Yaeger finished with a cheshire cat grin. With a twitching eyebrow she held one hand close to her chest. "The term would be spouse, and no. I am not jealous." Ippótis said with a venom in her voice.

Siegfried just watched the two fight with a deadpanned stare, before he sat down and held his head in both hands. "I have to deal with these two all the time..." He solemnly said to himself, while taking comfort that Hagane was rubbing his back to comfort him.


- The Imperial Palace training ground -


The field is considered a war zone as there were tall pillars of rock and stone, as well as broken and shattered remains of trees scattered around the field. In the middle of the said war zone was a certain child emperor.

Said child emperor is currently wearing a tight form fitting dark green top and bottoms with black line stripes suited for training. Makoto is currently panting in exhaustion, he looks up as sweat slides down his face. He stares at his older sibling who was just wearing black slacks, and a purple tank top and black arm sleeves/warmers, and a wood staff in one hand. "Come on Mako-chan. You have to keep practicing." Tatsumi said with an encouraging tone.

Wiping sweat off of his brow, Makoto looked at Tatsumi with an annoyed stare. "You and I both know that I won't be able to beat you by myself." Makoto growled at him.

Tatsumi looked at him with half-lidded eyes. He promptly disappeared from view with a burst of darkness and materialized in front of the child emperor with a single finger planted on the younger one's forehead, making Makoto blink in surprise.

Before he hisses from the slight poke and push Tatsumi gave him. "It's not about beating me Makoto." The slight serious tone in Tatsumi's voice got him to listen completely to what he was saying. "It's about holding off an opponent who is way stronger than you… I'm teaching you this so you would not die fighting someone you can't beat. I don't want to see you die Mako-chan..." The downtrodden voice made Makoto look down in shame.

Feeling a hand on his head, Makoto looked up to see Tatsumi look at him with kind eyes filled with worry and a little fear for him. Makoto looked at Tatsumi and nodded slowly, before taking steps back just as slowly.

Tatsumi watched him as he moved back and turned around himself before walking to where he was before. Stopping at a certain point, he turned around to face Makoto who got into a stance and raised his right hand up to his face in a way.

Smiling a bit, Tatsumi span the staff a few times before he slammed the tip onto the ground making a small shockwave before raising it and pointing it towards Makoto.

- Fight Beginning in -

No one moved for a bit, until a stray leaf from a broken tree snapped from the gentle wind and started floating to the ground.

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The leaf floated past Makoto's face, his pupil slightly dilated, adjusting his sight slightly.

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Muscles tensed, Makoto's physique was slightly highlighted by his training suit, and Tatsumi's pupils glowed red before turning to normal.

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The leaf was just a centimeter off of the ground. The two got ready to fight.

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As soon as the leaf landed, the air around Tatsumi gave a slight bang as he suddenly exploded towards Makoto pulling the staff back. Makoto immediately clenched his other hand into a fist and slammed it into the ground, making an earth pillar shoot up from below him and raising him up fast from Tatsumi. He then spread out his hands to his sides and clapped them together.

Tatsumi stopped before he hit the pillar and looked around, seeing different pillars of rock shoot from the ground or from the other rock pillars. The rock pillars started heading towards him and some of the broken trees' leaves glowed a more lively green. The older sibling jumped on one of the moving rock pillars before infusing the staff with darkness, turning his head he saw the other rock pillars turn towards him and the leaves started shooting towards him like knives.

Jumping from the rock pillar, Tatsumi kept hopping from one rock pillar to another, and started deflecting the leaves. He raised his other hand and created three black orbs before tossing them in various places while he hops.

Makoto's eyes watch Tatsumi as he left several black orbs, he was slightly cautious of them but Tatsumi was more dangerous. Raising both of his hands, his right hand clenched around the air and formed a stone great hammer with a glowing green gem in the middle of the hammerhead, his left hand clenched around the air as if holding a ball, he formed a green sphere in his hand and threw it towards the place Tatsumi was about to hop to and jumped very high.

Tatsumi saw the green orb and infused darkness into his feet and 'landed' on air which should be physically impossible, and leaped away from the orb, he saw different rock pillars try to clothesline him but he just used his flexibility to move through a narrow opening before he snapped his fingers.

The black orbs pulsed with a red glow in the center before firing beams of darkness at any of the rock pillars, hearing a slight ruffling sound Tatsumi looked around and saw Makoto about to slam a hammer on him. Seeing he couldn't dodge Tatsumi fused more darkness into the staff and formed an ethereal black axe head and swung an uppercut strike towards Makoto, who just swung and rolled once before swinging the hammer in a down head motion.

The two weapons collided and created a small shockwave launching the two away from each other. Jumping back, Tatsumi raised a free hand towards Makoto and the black orbs started firing continuous beams of darkness at him from all around. Makoto slammed the glowing green hammerhead onto the ground and a thick wall or rock and stone rose up around him to defend him from the beams. He pulled the hammer back to his side with one hand and charged the front where he could sense his older sibling.

His charge broke through the stone and he swung his hammer to hit Tatsumi when his swing only met air. Looking around, Makoto couldn't see Tatsumi anywhere but sensed him nearby, a shadow below his peripherals made him look up and see a boot before being hit in the face with it. He felt a hand grab the back of his head before he felt himself lifted up and thrown across the training ground.

Tatsumi saw Makoto slam back-first against the wall, looking at his tired form Tatsumi clapped his hands. "That is enough for today Mako-chan. You did well." He said as the axe head dissipated from his staff and he slammed the staff into the ground before walking to the tired kid.

- Fight End -

"Still not enough to beat you Onee-san..." Makoto replied panting before sliding down the wall and sitting down on the ground with a near silent thud. Smiling at that, Tatsumi just ruffled Makoto's hair with a free hand, making the younger one whine at him. A feminine chuckle brought the attention of the two males. Esdeath looked at them with a small smirk while leaning on the frame of the doorway. "I'm impressed that Mako-chan is that skilled, and at his age too." She said while also using the nickname that annoys the young emperor. Judging by the look on Makoto's face, the nickname is succeeding.

Makoto looked at Esdeath with a bemused and slightly betrayed gaze. "I'd rather you not use that name." He finished with a twitching eyebrow. Tatsumi awwe'd at the younger one and pinched both his cheeks, making him whine again. "But you are soooooo cuuuute!" Tatsumi gushed at the blushing emperor.

Esdeath shook her head at Tatsumi's antics before she looked at Makoto. "My emperor, I was hoping to request something from you." She started, glancing a bit at the knowing look in Tatsumi's eyes. Makoto, whose cheeks are still being stretched by Tatsumi looked at the general and nodded before turning his head at Tatsumi with a silent plea to let go of his blushing cheeks.

Smiling a bit at the cute expression, Tatsumi indeed let go but after that he kissed him on the forehead and waved bye bye to both of them, ignoring the now neon red emperor and the chuckling general.

The blushing emperor shook his head to get rid of the embarrassing blush on his face, before looking at Esdeath and trying to sound dignified, asked. "What is the request General Esdeath?" Though he accidentally made it a pitch higher but he didn't need to know that. Esdeath stopped chuckling and looked at Makoto with a half amused, yet more serious gaze. "I'd like to form a group of Teigu users."

- With Tatsumi -

Walking down the hallway, Tatsumi looked bored as hell, looking to the side with his hands behind his head and taking long ridiculous strides to try and alleviate boredom. Looking to the side, he sees nothing but a fountain and another hallway on the other side, and looking to his other side, he saw nothing but rows of doors.

Tatsumi groaned in annoyance and just walked to the palace's main plaza and saw quite a sight. Tadakatsu and Budo were having an arm wrestling match, with Keiji and Nene who liked yellow cheered for Budo, while Ina and Nobuyuki cheered for Tadakatsu. Turning his head right he saw Kotaro doing…. Kotaro things, namely standing horizontally on the wall doing the kazotsky kick, while Nyau was standing a little away from him looking at the ninja with an amused stare.

The effeminate boy turned his head to the left to see Nobunaga and River playing chess, it seems both of them look slightly frustrated, and a little away from them Yukimura and Daidara having a friendly spar, though they look like they are trying to kill each other, but they are really just sparring. Woah, Yukimura almost lost an arm.

Shaking his head, Tatsumi just continued walking to the plaza and sat beneath a tree and was about to doze off when he heard a fluffing sound of cloth meeting grass, turning his head Tatsumi saw Oichi, who looked a bit shy. "Uhm… Mama? May I lay my head on your lap?" Asked the blushing Oichi. Tatsumi's face softened and moved his legs a bit to position them as comfortable as possible. The sweet girl cheered softly and got down to lay her head on her mama's lap and closed her eyes with a serene look on her face. The said mama shook his head softly in amusement before he started to pat her hair and straighten it every so often.

Turning his head, Tatsumi looked towards the two who were having an arm wrestling match, inwardly laughing that even though they find who's stronger there, they'd get scared of him if he's angry. Frankly, it's quite hilarious to see a much bigger man be extremely scared at the sight of a person not even half his size. But, he was to blame about that, he may have gone a little overboard that day.

He was about to be lost in his memories when he saw a part of the shadow of the tree move, indicating his spy has returned. To not arouse any suspicion, Tatsumi took hold of the inky blackness and started forming a small eagle no bigger than his palm, while forming several more birds that flew around him and even acting like real birds. After checking Oichi to make sure she is asleep, Tatsumi let the eagle grow a bit bigger and perch on his right shoulder.

"Any leads?" Tatsumi telepathically messaged the dark eagle. He felt a rather negative emotion flow through the bird, before mentally speaking with a deep baritone voice. "Sort of my lord… The bases of the Crusade are in rather obscure locations with no prominent landmarks, the fact that it's under heavy illusion is not helping. We were however, able to identify a group of warriors called the 'Templars' of this faction. The Templars are powerful generals that answer only to their leader to what we can only identify as being called 'Lord Kaiser'." The effeminate looking boy looked at the others to keep the illusion he's just watching over them, while deep in thought.

"The Lord Emperor? Sounds like a guy who has a massive stick up the ass. Ok, what can you tell me about the so-called 'Templars' of the 'SOM Crusade', any names or locations?" He asked with slightly narrowing eyes. The bird on his shoulder flapped its wings agitated, and with a message to his master. "The only thing we could dig up was that their names and looks are. Ippótis – The Silver Paladin, Yaeger – The Death Artist, Krieger – The Ultimate Warrior, Hagane – The Hidden Blade, and Siegfried – The Celestial Star. I'll send you the images of each of them now. My scouts found that they slaughtered a village in the North West Territories, leaving no survivors." Tatsumi looked over the mental images, while humming to himself, finally looking away from the others as he became submerged in his thoughts.

He began thinking a mile a second. "They were looking for something weren't they? I know that much, they'd lay waste to a random village only if they had leads, no matter how misleading they could be." He felt the bird on his shoulder nod. "Yes my lord, they were looking for clues as to where the slate is, the Lord Kaiser apparently doesn't know where it is yet. But is checking every place while avoiding the eyes of the Empire and the Revolutionary Army." Tatsumi nodded and looked at the bird for one last time. "Anything else?" He asked as he looked back to see Makoto and Esdeath come into the room and spotted him. He waved at them and Makoto started jogging to them, while Esdeath just follows up by walking.

"Nothing else my lord. Shall I take my leave?" Tatsumi looked at the bird and nodded, the dark eagle flew and the dispersed, just as the other smaller shadow avians burst into dust. He looked to see Makoto on his right looking at Oichi in jealousy. He smiled and motioned with his eyes, in a silent question if Makoto wanted to join Oichi. Makoto gained a blush because of that but nodded nonetheless. Tatsumi's eyes softened and he used his power to gently move Oichi without waking her a bit and the young emperor laid his head beside Oichi's and fell asleep with the same serene look that Oichi shared.

Esdeath looked at the spectacle with amused eyes and looked at Tatsumi, who turned to look at her and waved. Esdeath was about to say something when a triumphant sound was heard and they turned to see Tadakatsu nodding with crossed arms pleased with himself that he beat Budo, while Budo was just looking at his hand in annoyance. Ina and Nobuyuki congratulated Tadakatsu, while Keiji and Nene consoled Budo.

Tatsumi and Esdeath looked at them with amused gazes and shook their heads. Esdeath sat beside Tatsumi and laid her head on his shoulder. "Mako-chan approved of my request for Teigu users." She began. The androgynous male looked at her from the corner of his eyes before looking back at the scene of Budo demanding a rematch in a dignified manner.

"That's good, Budo told me earlier that he is going to be heading down to the Imperial Armory with his most loyal warriors later to see if there are any that would become Teigu users, either under your command or his." He muttered, Esdeath just leaned even more. To the extent that Tatsumi was actually a bit worried that his spine will snap from bending too much. "Uhh… Es-chan? Please lighten up on the leaning." Tatsumi asked with a slight worried tone, but Esdeath just shushed him and just stayed like that.

Tatsumi quietly had crocodile tears falling from his face as he was going to be sore later when they all get off.


- Unknown – (WARNING: This is a half-Lemon scene and it may be harmful to IQ. PREPARE YOURSELF! YOU HAVE BEEN WARNED.)


"Ahn!~ Ahh!~ Yes, master! I've been a very bad boy! Punish me more!~" Were the words that were heard from within room, the room was a massive bedroom with dim green lighting and dark gray walls. There were two doors, one presumably the entrance, and another would be the bathroom. Near the middle of the room was a massive bed with two figures on it.

A naked tan man of 7'2 was currently slamming himself ruthlessly into the ass of one submissive and masochistic Yaeger, who had his hands tied behind his back and his ass red from the rough whipping. He was fully erect from the abuse he is receiving from his lover/leader, and his eyes are nearly rolled behind his head and his tongue lolling out of his mouth. "You useless little slut, I told you what would happen if you and the group returned without any leads." Lord Kaiser said without even panting.

While he was busy abusing Yaeger's hole with his massive 13' meat stick, he heard a flutter of clothes and slightly turned his head to see Hagane kneeling near the door with her head bowed. "My lord." She called out. Kaiser favored Hagane and Siegfried, Hagane even more so because her words were straight forward and no bullshit.

"Ah, Hagane." Kaiser started, not caring that she looked up and saw him carry Yaeger and turn around before sitting on the bed and grab his waist before slamming him on top of his cock without reprieve. Hagane didn't even flinch when she saw Yaeger scream loudly and cum on the bed sheets. "What do you have for me?" The leader of SOM Crusade asked with a nonchalant tone.

Ignoring the whimpers of the trap, Hagane bowed again curtly. "The Black Shogun is currently in the capital of the Empire." Her words made him raise an eyebrow as he just slammed Yaeger onto his cock, burying it all into him and started cumming inside the smaller male. "And this is supposed to interest me how, exactly?" Kaiser questioned, not really tired from his second ejaculation, he had plenty of stamina to keep going for the entire night.

Hagane shook her head. "Emperor of the Empire, is the adopted sibling of the Black Shogun." Her words served to surprise him, as his eyes widened and a his mouth parted as he processed the information. He grinned, even before Yaeger feebly tried to raise himself up and down on his cock with want. The man gripped his waist with one hand and slammed him down again, using him like a cock sleeve as he stood up and walked towards Hagane, who stood with an emotionless gaze as she looked into his eyes, not caring that his cock was currently plowing into her comrade just mere inches away from her face.

The man raised his free arm for the small girl. She understood and hopped up to stand on her leader's arm like a bird. He raised her to meet him at eye level, ignoring the sounds of butt slapping hips and moans. "You've done well with bringing me this information Hagane, for bringing me this interesting piece of information, you may go have the next three days to yourself. Take some time off." Kaiser growled happily as he felt the male on his cock spasm a bit before groaning and cumming, as he was used.

Hagane closed her eyes and bowed to him before fading out into shadows. The lord watched the inky black shadow disperse before looking back at the sub on his cock. "Now, I'm still not done with you, you little slut." He let go of Yaeger, but walked towards some more pleasure devices, making sure to have him bounce on his cock every step he takes. "We still have all night." Kaiser chuckled as he finally ejaculated the third time, filling the smaller male up, making him mewl.

(WARNING: It is finished.)

- In a familiar place -

Ippótis was lost in thought as she pondered the fact that the only ones getting punished, were Yaeger, and Hagane. She and the other two didn't know that Hagane didn't get punished at all, and that was just a front for Kaiser to send her out on reconnaissance. Krieger and Siegfried left to go spar, as Krieger was annoying Siegfried for a fight. She didn't even know what to do with her free time, until she remembered an old village she used to visit. Smiling, she knew now to go there and give the kids a surprise.

She prepared a crate filled with different toys and got a horse and small cart for her use. Ippótis left as soon as she wrote on the registration that she left for the time being and that the estimated time to return would be one day later.

The silver clad paladin left under the light of day and followed the road until she reached a familiar intersection. She smiled a bit and went off road to head off to a familiar village. The villagers were at first worried at who she was, but remembered that she used to visit 2 years ago. One villager ran to an orphanage and hollered out words before a stampede of kids ran him over and charged towards Ippótis.

Who wisely set her sword on the seat before getting down onto the ground on one knee with arms open wide. "Miss me gakis?" Her question was responded by the sounds of multiple children talking at once. She saw a familiar face and waved at him. "Good evening, honored elder." She stood up and made for a bow. The kids adorably copied her, with chorus of "Good evening, honored elder." The village elder looked amused at the kids and did a curt nod at her.

"Please, call me grandpa Rob." The old man just waved his hand with a nonchalant smile. Ippótis returned the smile before she remembered and walked to the cart and carried a crate off of it and onto the ground, where all the children gathered around it. Asking what was in it. Ippótis smiled and just opened it to show an entire army of toys, the kids squealed and began getting some toys for them to play with.

The paladin turned to the elder before looking around. "Say, where are Sayo and Ieyasu? I miss those brats." She asked, the elder's smile dimmed a bit, worrying her. "They are fine, too bad you weren't here last year to see them 'go onto their adventure', their words. Not mine." Old man Rob said with a small smile.

Ippótis looked surprised and even a little sad. "Shame really, I would have asked them if they could join me back to my home. I like those brats." Her words made Rob chuckle. "What's not to like? It's amusing to see them argue over the simplest of things." His words made her chuckle as well. Ippótis shook her head and walked towards the horse and started leading him with her. The elder decided to walk beside her. "So, what did I miss the last two years?" She asked, not noticing the pair of mismatched eyes watching her from the shadows.

Chapter 5 Shadow of the Horizon End

Hey guys! The Oblivion Overlord here!

Sorry for being so inactive lately, but it's finals right now, and I won't be able to post fast, I'll try to post some more but I'll be very busy.

So a few things I need to say, one thing that is not related to this story or any story at all, is that I currently have a poll for a new story. You should see it on my profile page, or a forum under my supervision.

Another thing is that, yes I'm going to be adding 'lemons' to this story. As well as graphic things, now the reason I gave that warning is not only for the lemon, but also if the wording is kind of strange and all over the place.

Now, yes Ippótis knows Sayo and Ieyasu, and vice versa. They told her stories that Tatsumi would tell them, and she was interested to meet him, she still doesn't know that Tatsumi and The Black Shogun are one and the same.

One last thing is that yes, Kaiser and Yaeger are an item, and he likes to be dominated by the bigger male. So there is no trouble.

That is everything! I guess, I hope you like this chapter! This is The Oblivion Overlord, signing out!