Year 1941, Nihon, Kitami-shi. Itami stared blankly at his superior officer. The officer's face stiff and serious. "Pardon?" Itami asks, extremely hoarse, like he hadn't drunken anything for weeks.

"Your parents have been murdered, Itami."

"What? But…wait, what about my sister?"

At this question, Koichiro turned his head away. Head lowered, eyes on the ground, he steels himself for what he was about to say. "Itami, I'm sorry to say this, but your sister has been raped to death."

Itami stood rigid, turned to the Officer and ground out the raging question in his mind. "Who. Who did it?"

"It was one of your platoon mates, Hizashi Ryoma. When questioned, he revealed that he was jealous that you were able to climb so quickly in the ranks, so he decided to make you suffer as you climbed. At first, he stole from your family, breaking and entering. Then, when you got into the Officer School, he decided to kill your parents. Unfortunately, your sister came home from school just as he had finished, so in his bloodthirsty state, he attacked, defiled and killed your sister. Luckily, someone nearby heard the screaming and recognized your sister's voice, so he contacted the local police and caught him in the act."

"But it was too late wasn't it?"

"Indeed. I'm sorry, Warrant Officer, for your loss. I have their final testaments in my office, and their funeral will be held tomorrow." Lt Col. Koichiro handed him a piece of paper. "Those are your orders, you will be set on mourning leave for 3 days, before rejoining your team." He then walked away with a pat on Itami's shoulder.

Itami stood there for a while, then stiffly marched up to his room. Just as he was about to enter, the door to the left opened and out came the 1st Lieutenant. "Warrant Officer, I am 1st Lieutenant Akiyama Sato. As much as I would love to chat, I can see you've had a rough day, and will probably be that way for a while. I understand that, and I apologise for your loss. I will see you tomorrow and I expect you to be ready for duty when your leave is over. Goodbye, Warrant Officer." The 1st Lieutenant said as he walked down the stairs that Itami had just walked up from.

Getting into the room, Itami noticed it is rather sparse, but he was too tired to care anyway, so he put down his personal effects and quickly laid down. Almost immediately, whatever the Lt Col. And the 1st Lt. said hit him and hit him hard. Itami began bawling his heart out, knowing full well that his parents had not condoned to him joining the military and they had separated on bad terms. He had hoped to be able to get some leave after his promotion to go home and prove to his parents that joining the military wasn't a bad choice, but now, now there is no way of doing that.

"Is this my punishment? For defying my parents?" Itami whispered. He pulled a picture of his family. "Maybe…" He drifted of into the realm of nightmares.

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Three days later, Nihon, Kitami-shi. Itami walked up to Akiyama Sato's Office. His leave is over, and he felt a lot better than he had 3 days ago. Knocking on the door, Itami walked in as he was called.

"Good morning Akiyama-Chui! Yoji Itami-Jun-I reporting for duty!"

"Ahhh good, you're here. I had thought you may have forgotten, considering everything."

"No Sir! I would never do that!"

"Good, anywho, I think we can drop the formalities, call me Sato, we are supposed to work together very closely, you are my XO after all."

"Hai, Sato-san."

Nodding, Sato pulled a folder from beneath his desk. He hands the folder over to Itami who began to read. The document is actuallu activation orders for his platoon. Instead of being attached to a division as a platoon would normally, they would be deployed differently, in which they were supposed to go to Rossija and do flanking attack on the Karrak.

"Sato-san, a platoon of no more than 33 people and 4 vehicles cannot be used as a flanking asset. Surely you are aware of this?" Itami asked, sceptical.

Sato laughed heartily. "Yes, that is indeed true, and that is why we will be going with 3 other platoons."

"Wouldn't that make a Company? You know, lead by a Captain?"

"Thing is, Itami-san, the 3 platoons are all trainee platoons. They have just finished training yesterday and is graduating today. They will be attached to us as the 1st, 2nd and 3rd Special Infantry Platoons, together we shall be the 32nd Expeditionary Motorized Company, Led by me and you."

Itami stared a Sato for a little longer before reading the Orders Document some more. The it came to him. "I see, so these people are actually excess infantry from the recruitments, aren't they? Command has run out of places to place them and have run out of trainers to get them specialized."

Sato nodded as he smiles. "That is correct, Itami. It seems that your papers are correct after all. Here is another folder, this contains our assets and inventory for the duration of our deployment. Read it carefully and understand the dangers and supply shortages we may or may not face. You will be in charge of largely this, most of the actual command stuff I will handle, but you may be called in should it be needed."

Itami opened the folder, mostly depicting the state of supplies in terms of food, water and medicine, as well as ammunition for both the infantry weapons and the vehicle weapons. The amount of fuel was also recorded, however, that is mostly to be filled via fuel truck. What truly interested him was what kind of vehicles they may be receiving. Being a Motorized Company, gaining any form of armour would be greatly favourable.

The Vehicles that they would be receiving would be 13 251 Armoured Half-tracks, courtesy of the Kaiserland, they claim the vehicle is hot enough that there sould be no need for a heater. 2 Chi-Ri Medium Tanks and 2 Skirted-Panzer IV with experimental 88mm Cannons. For small arms, they would be receiving standard Nihon Army Weapons, namely the Type 100 SMG and the Type 4 Experimental Rifle. Kaiserland weapons as well, namely the MP40 and Gewehr 43. For Anti-Armour capabilities we have the Kaiseland Panzerschreck without a blast-shield, and the M1 Bazooka from Mapla.

All in all, it was a rather advanced Unit for a band of Rookies. Outside of the Lt's Platoon, the other Platoon are much like he was, inexperienced. Itami raised an eyebrow, but the look in Sato's eyes told him not to question it.

"Very good Itami, I think we will work well together. You are to assemble at the Square tomorrow at 1000 hrs sharp, we will be meeting the infantry of our Company. You are dismissed."

Itami saluted and left the room, mind reeling.

Woo! Another chapter down the drain. Note that I don't have a set updating schedule, so what comes, comes. Please review if you like it, if not, then review and tell me why. Danke, and auf wiedersehen!