Chapter 17 – Kurome

Blake rushes Kurome with her sword in one hand and her sheath in the other. She uses both to keep pressure on the black eyed assassin with dual attacks. Kurome jumps back to regain distance. Breathing heavily if as she feels a stinging pain in her shoulder. Wave looks over at his comrades weakened stance.

"Kurome, we should fall back now. You are still hurt from the last battle." Wave says after pushing back both Nora and Pyrrha. Kurome does not break eye contact from Blake as she answers Wave.

"No! I am killing this girl if it's the last thing I do." The black eyed assassin then reaches behind her back into her bag of snacks and eats a handful of her drug dosed treats. Blake and Wave notice a black aura surrounds her as she lunges back into the fight against the cat Faunus. Blake notices a change in the ferocity in her enemy's attacks, having a harder time parring the assaults.

"Kurome, what did you do?" Wave calls to his comrade in confusion and concern. Pyrrha tries to attack with her spear at the distracted Wave but he intercepts the attack. He lifts Pyrrha and tosses her as hard as he can into the distance. She flies over a hundred meters with her impact on the ground leaving the red haired woman barley conscience. Wave moves in for another attack, when Nora rushes him with her hammer and strikes him on the chest. Wave blocks and absorbs the force of the attack. He then begins to push back at hammer as he stares into Nora's eyes, which are a mix of anger for him hurting her friend and excitement for what she wants to do next.

"If you wanted to play, How Far Can You Send Someone Flying, you should have told me. I am the current Champion after all." Nora says with a smile.

"…What!?" Wave comments as he tries to push back against the weapon.

"Let me show you." Nora says smiling as she applies more force and fires a blast form the head of her hammer. She sends the armored jaeger flying across the sky, only a slight glim of light in the distance and screaming fading away told her the fight with him was over. She tries to see where he landed but could not find passes the darkness, even after making binoculars with her hands.

"I think that is a new record now. What do you think Pyrrha?" Nora says happily as she sees Pyrrha trying to pick herself up. She looks over at Ren, "What about you Ren, new record?"

"Yeah, good job Nora. Now please help me up." He says as tries to stop his wound from bleeding out. Nora helps him as she then looks around to notice something missing.

"Where are Blake and that girl?" Pyrrha says as she walks over to the two. Ren lifts his hand to point at the roof of the warehouse. Blake and Kurome had continued the fight to this location.

Kurome's katana slashes grow swifter as she cuts through any clones Blake makes to dodge.

"That trick will not save you." She say as she finds the real Blake and slashes above her head. Blake dodges the worst, but her enemy's katana had cut through her bow and, by extension, her right Faunus ear. Blake steps back as she realizes what she has just lost.

"Oh, so you are one of those freaks that Adam guy was talking about." Kurome say as she points her blade at a Blake, how looks in shock as she see her cat ear at her feet, "How about before I kill you, I cut of that other ear. That way you will have a few moments of looking like a normal human." Kurome says as she rushes to Blake. She swipes downward over the cat Fuanus' head. However, Kurome gasp when Blake blocks the attack with her sheaths.

She looks up at Kurome with revengeful for another thing she has taken away from her. With her sword, Blake stabs the black eyed assassin in the stomach. Kurome back up before the blade could enter too deep into her body. Blake does not break eye contact as she changes her sword into a pistol. She shoots at Kurome as she grits her teeth.

The black eyed assassin block all bullets, until she feels a pain in her shoulder from her earlier fight with Sun. Blake takes advantage of this and stabs her in the same shoulder with her sheath. Kurome screams in pain as she backs off from the fight.

"You are an irredeemable person who only enjoys causing pain." Blake says with dead stair as she changes her pistol back into a sword, "Nobody will care if you die."

"YOU DO NOT KNOW ME! I will make you pay for thinking you could kill me." Kurome screams to Blake as grabs and eats a second handful of her snacks. She then is surrounded again by a black aura. Blake gasps as she tightens the grip on her weapons. Kurome smiles as she holds her katana and runs at Blake.

"You do not know how to kill me, I will finish this fight right now. Prepare to di…." Before she could finish her last sentence she dawns a face of horror. Blake looks in confusion as Kurome falls down on her face, hyperventilating as the bag of snacks falls near the cat Faunus. Blake knees down to pick up one of the cookie snacks, she smells it and become wide eyed over a realization.

"These things are drugged, how are you alive after eating so many of these." Blake says as she sees Kurome's black aura loses control as it eradicates violently before disappearing in a flash.

Kurome tries reaching back into her bag of snacks, but were out of her reach. Blake drops the snack so she walks over to her enemy. She raises her sword over her head, wanting revenge over all his girl had done to her, Neptune, and Sun.

Kurome looks off in the distance, scared and in pain. She says, "Sister, I am sorry?"

"Sister?" Blake thinks as she stops her attack, "What do you mean, sister?"

"I am so sorry, I should have tried to help you instead of work for the Empire. Please forgive me Akame." Kurome then continues to breathe heavily and coughs up a chunk of her blood mixed with her half eaten snacks.

"Akame…" Kurome says as she looks up at Blake as she her tears are mixed with blood, raising her hand to the cat Faunus. Blake looks down at the girl with eyes of pity, realizing the girl had lost her mind due to overdosing. She was seeing someone else instead of her enemy.

Pyrrha climbs up to see Blake lowers her weapon and kneel down to the Black eyed girl, grabbing her trembling hand.

"I forgive you, just get some rest now." The cat Faunus says in a sincere tone. Kurome smiles see looks at who she thinks is her sister.

"Thank you Akame." Kurome says with her final breath. Her body went limp as her eyelids slowly close, her breath stops.

Pyrrha walks over to her friend standing back up, "Blake, are you okay?"

"I will be fine." She lies as she puts her sword back in its sheath.

"Blake, after what that girl did, how could you say that?" Pyrrha says as she looks down at Kurome's corpse. Blake looks down at her body also, saying I a monotone, "I hate for what she said and did to Sun. I wanted to kill her so badly, more than any Grimm I have encountered." Pyrrha looks at Blake in confusion still.

"But she has done more to hurt herself than I could have done. 'I' cannot forgive her, but I could not turn a blind eye to someone suffering." Blake says as she looks over distance to see the police coming.

"Ren and Nora called the police. However most of the White Fang members fled before the fight started." Pyrrha say to Blake before looking back at Kurome.

"She looks younger than us." Pyrrha say in remorse.

"I know, she mentioned a sister, I wonder where she is." Blake says as she looks down at Kurome.