There is a lemon in the beginning.
Tatsumi never realized how grandiose Esdeath's bedroom was until he awoke that morning. The entire room encaptured Esdeath's style, the snow-white walls, the blue tapestries, even the window panes seemed to be dyed blue. It all reflected her mesmerizing elegance, with the only reminder of her brutality being the collar resting on the floor, attached to the left wall by a chain. Tatsumi squinted to the grandfather clock on the right wall and noticed it was 7:30. He slowly inched his way to his edge of the bed, hoping to wash up and take a morning walk. However, Esdeath's arms dragged him back to her bosom as she softly muttered in her slumber, her hold on him tighter.
"Esdeath, I uh…" Tatsumi whispered, unsure if she was awake. "I think we should, uh, go…"
Tatsumi felt Esdeath sniff his hair, than inhale his scent in a blissful sigh.
"Good morning Tatsu-bunny, shall we shower together before we go out, my handsome slave?"
"No, I don't want to shower together. And I'm not your handsome slave" Tatsumi pouted.
"Fine. I thought you would say that" Esdeath sighed. "Slave."
"I'm not your slave!"
"Slave…" Esdeath sang.
"How am I your slave!?"
Esdeath flicked Tatsumi's forehead.
"Don't take it so seriously, you are nothing like my pets, I don't truly think of you as a slave" Esdeath assured. Leaning in to his ear, her hand on his throat, she continued. "You're just so irresistible when you resist me."
His heart became a familiar mix of unfamiliar contradicting emotions. Sometimes he did not know how to feel when he with her. He then inhaled sharply when her knee brushed a part of him he was unsure if he wanted touched.
Esdeath's eyes went wide for a moment, her sultry grin still plastered onto her face.
"Did our slumber together excite you this time, Tatsumi?" Esdeath teased, tracing her finger down Tatsumi's middle.
"St-stop" Tatsumi faltered, his hand covering his morning breath.
"I am well aware of what we went over last night Tatsu-bunny, but..." She reached her other hand under his shirt, caressing his perfect, toned chest and suddenly scratching it. "We can still do other things..."
Tatsumi didn't know what he wanted at the moment. He didn't even know if he wanted her to stop. Perhaps she was an ice-cold succubus that bewitched him, or she was simply a vulture taking advantage of something already laid bare to her in his heart.
"Remember, Tatsumi, I'm doing this because I can see it's what you truly want."
She watched the dazed look on his face grow redder, more clouded. Then she began to unbutton his pants with smooth precision.
"I spared no expense researching how to please a lover when I finally found him. While I am no stranger to genitalia, pleasuring them is a whole other world that I am hoping you can... teach me to become accustomed to."
"Esd- Esdeath..." Tatsumi breathed.
Tatsumi's pants now unzipped, Esdeath ripped open his underwear, the sharp sound seeming to echo in the cold, open room.
"I love what I am seeing Tatsumi" confessed Esdeath, her grin now transformed into a smirk.
Tatsumi couldn't even think. All he desired now was the pleasure that he knew was promised to envelop him, to send him diving deep into dark, pristine waters.
Esdeath's touch felt gloriously sinful. The carnal feeling erupted down Tatsumi's spine, his mind puzzled but his body steadfast.
Her hand around his member, she commanded; "tell me to do it."
"D-do it..."
"What was that, I couldn't hear it."
Tatsumi gulped, his mouth dry.
"Do it."
"I will need more detail than that."
Tatsumi was silent for a minute, his heavy breathing could be heard throughout the room. But then he looked forward to his new lover, a new, a bold look taking over his eyes.
"Pleasure me with your mouth, Esdeath."
"Good boy."
The feeling was of the many new, unusual sensations that Tatsumi seemed to be experiencing more and more often. He let out a shaky breath just from the feeling of her lips. He groaned with every swirl of her tongue. Her tantalizing fingers on his masculine orbs forced him to moan. Every minute made him want to open his mind to the sheer amount of pleasure he was receiving. If he didn't focus, this moment would degrade to a quiet memory. Quivering, shaking, his inexperience forced him to end it soon.
"Esd- Esdeath- wait"
"Mmmmm?"
"I'm going to-"
Tatsumi struggled out a groan, his torso shaking and hip bucking. The slight suctions he felt told him his essences were now to be gone inside of her, her control over his entire body represented to him in her sinfully alluring display.
Esdeath got up, holding out her two fingers, her own essences dripping.
"I couldn't help but pleasure myself amidst all that noise you were making" she revealed.
At that moment the clouded face, the recumbent position, and the submissive aura of Tatsumi pleased her dominant side. She could do anything to him now, he was all hers, and hers alone. She held her hand closer to his face.
"Who do you belong to Tatsumi."
"Y-you."
"Who can you not live without, Tatsumi."
"You, E-Esdeath."
"Who will cherish and love you forever, Tatsumi."
"You."
"Who?"
"You, Esdeath."
"Now suck."
His body moved on it's own, as the calf instinctively feeds from its mother's utters. Her moans excited him, he wanted to please her more. But alas, all things must end.
Esdeath removed her fingers from his mouth, a strand of saliva tracing along his scratched chest like a strand of web.
"Good boy" she praised with a dominant smile. "Very good boy."
...
Tatsumi dreamed of a dolphin made of ice, exploding from the waves and diving again. As the creature closed the distance, Tatsumi could hear screams and whispers, getting louder and louder. Gracefully, the dolphin continued swimming, diving and exiting the water. The screams died down, only to give way to the terrible whispers. The whispers were insensible, but Tatsumi felt he was dangerously close to understanding their meaning. The dolphin came closer, but it's form was no longer recognizable. It was now a wolf. The sea became Tatsumi's old village, the snow falling in a blizzard. The wolf's dark shape appeared and it's bright white eyes flashed. It slowly stood on its hind legs, suddenly human-like in posture. The snout protruded even longer, and its glowing eyes drew all of the bravery, strength, and power from Tatsumi. It's back stooped slightly, it continued staring him down, until all that was left was fear and bloodthirst. The bloodthirst that came back to Tatsumi like an old friend.
Kill.
The gentle breeze in his face woke Tatsumi up for the second time that day. Slowly opening his eyes, he saw a fully dressed Esdeath blowing on his face.
"Good morning again" Esdeath greeted. "Did you enjoy our little... escapade so much that you fell back to sleep?"
Tatsumi smiled genuinely for the first time in three days, causing Esdeath's heart to flutter.
"Sure did" he admitted.
"I noticed you talking in your sleep. You said 'yes' at one point before I woke you up. You were obviously dreaming of me, weren't you."
Tatsumi thought about it, but his dream had already faded away. He was still unsure of why he had felt so ready to kill something at that moment.
"Yeah, I guess I was."
Red faced, Esdeath strode to the door, adjusting her cap.
"Come, Tatsu-bunny. Brush up and change. Let's get you your new teigu."
Tatsumi suddenly felt excited. He had completely forgotten about teigus since their mentioning at the meeting with the Emperor. Receiving a powerful weapon had always been his dream, reading stories and manga in his village had only further fueled his fantasy. Now, he could tell Ieyasu that he had ridden a dragon, been in the Emperor's throne room and gained possession of a super weapon.
"Yeah, can't wait!" he exclaimed.
...
"We currently have eighteen teigus in our possession, Tatsu-bunny" informed Esdeath, walking into the armory with her arms around Tatsumi's shoulders. Licking his ear, she continued. "Enter the room two doors to your left and you will find one of the rooms where we keep our teigus."
The guard in front of Teigu Storage 1 hurriedly unlocked the vault door and opened it.
"A good morning to you, General Esdeath" he said nervously.
"Polish your boots, soldier" replied Esdeath, not even giving him a glance.
Inside, the shelves held a strange assortment of weapons, jars, shields, sets of armor, and other gadgets. Most of the items did not even resemble what Tatsumi imagined teigus to look like. One of the teigus on a shelf even paralleled in appearance to a book.
"What's someone gonna do with that?" Tatsumi thought. "Read someone to death?"
However, one item caught his eye. A dark bow strung with a golden thread sat in a corner. The many marks and scratches etched into the material showed that it held many users before it. No arrows accompanied it, but Tatsumi believed he wanted it.
"Esdeath, what is that bow over there?" Inquired Tatsumi.
"Last time I checked, it's name and all of it's specialties were still being researched. All I know is that it was recently taken from a dead Night Raid member." Esdeath explained. "However, I do not think that archery really fits your fighting style."
Tatsumi did not take his eyes off of it.
"Yeah, but... it looks so cool- ow!"
"Just because you like a weapon's aesthetics does not mean it is right for you" Esdeath scolded, rubbing the spot on his buttocks that she pinched.
"You could have told me that sooner!"
Tatsumi realized that Esdeath was right, if he were going to choose a weapon, he would have to put more time into making his decision.
"Most teigu-users find their weapons because the teigu chooses them" Esdeath explained. "I'm sorry, I should have told you that before you began to browse. I know the Demon Extract called for me, I knew what weapon I was to get because I could hear it speak to me."
"That's just creepy."
"Don't be afraid, if the weapon chooses you, then you shouldn't feel any fear."
"I can't hear any voices in here."
They browsed two more teigu storage rooms but Tatsumi could not find a suitable weapon. Steadily growing in frustration, Tatsumi finally browsed through all the different rooms, with no weapon claiming him.
"Strange" Esdeath observed. "I thought for sure you would have the strength to procure a weapon, or at least get a good feeling about one. But they all refused you."
Tatsumi's eyes grew dark with disappointment.
Then a large grin grew on Esdeath's face.
"Unless..." She retorted. "You are only compatible with one of the more secret teigus. And if you are..."
She bit down on Tatsumi's ear, blushing at his yelp of pain.
"...it would mean that you're more like me than I thought."
Tatsumi wasn't sure if he could possibly be compatible with the mystery teigu, he didn't think he and Esdeath were similar at all.
"I... I guess I'll give it a try" he said slowly.
Esdeath grabbed his hand and led him away from the three storage rooms and into a dark corridor. As they ran she explained that they would have to reach the end of the west hall to arrive at the vault. Tatsumi observed the many barrels of gunpowder stored in the various rooms both left and right of him.
"So is this super-secret teigu explosive?" He asked.
Esdeath only chuckled in response. Eventually Esdeath seemed to grow impatient, and her pace quickened.
"I really hope this works out, Tatsu-bunny" she proclaimed, the pair of them practically running now.
Tatsumi began to feel apprehensive about the ordeal. Anything to excite a woman who makes frozen Christmas trees out of humans can't be good, he reasoned. The fact that it was apparently hidden at the end of a dark corridor at one of the lower floors of the palace only strengthened Tatsumi's wariness. However, his curiosity made him push on with his blue vixen of a lover.
They reached the end of the hall after a minute of running, Esdeath excitedly blabbering to Tatsumi about the teigu the whole way. The vault door looked exactly like doors of the last three storage cells they had visited before. It was round, metal, and needed a key inserted in the middle to open. A crank on the left wall opened the vault after it was unlocked.
"Oh, no" exclaimed Tatsumi. "How are we gonna open it with no key."
Esdeath punched through the circular door and ripped it off its hinges.
"Oh" stated Tatsumi. "A lot of times I forget that she can kill me with her bare hands" he continued to himself.
The inside of the vault was dark. Esdeath patted the wall for a moment until she found the switch to activate the light. A dim lamp on the ceiling revealed a vase set on a mossy pedastal below, light blue and unimposing. But Tatsumi felt a strange mixture of dread and excitement when he laid his eyes on it.
Come closer
"What the hell was... did you hear that?" Tatsumi asked.
"All I hear is the wind blowing through the vents, Tatsu-bunny."
I said come
His hands seemed to have minds of their own. They reached for the vase like the starving man reaches for the fruit. Tatsumi heard the most horrible gurgling noise alarm in his ears, he glanced at Esdeath but she didn't seem to notice. As his hands lifted the vase, the gurgling began to create words, almost impossible to discern from the terrible sound.
My madness is yours
The vase was carried to his quivering lips, his scream drowned by the burning cold fluid hosted inside.
Yes
His vision clouded around the edges, darkness crept into his sight like water spreading through cloth.
"Es- help" he coughed.
Inject me
His stomach filled with warmth, which graduated to a cold so freezing that it soon burned with a chilled fire. The pain spread through both sides of his back, The fluid now fully dissappated from his throat, he could finally scream.
Hurt you hurt me hurt kill kill kill kill
Tatsumi could no longer see, all his senses were numbed so that all he could feel was the internal pain, his organs screaming for mercy like tea kettles.
No you no me no us yes us
The sensations began to slow, Tatsumi could now speak, although the pain continued.
I hurt you with no ice start to- I will kill
"NO!" Tatsumi screamed, his voice echoing through the cellar.
Find him find you find her kill him kill her kill you kill me kill me me me I like it
"I-"
You like she like it he like it
"Destroy... you!"
I feel her intestines destroy
"I'm the one... I-"
Destroy my hell it will be your hell now
"I DOMINATE."
I-
"I AM THE ONE WHO CONTROLS YOU, YOU CAN'T DESTROY ME."
Test her fear for you to be the only one to eat flesh
"YOU ARE MY FOOD, MY FLESH I OWN."
Esdeath had a good idea of what she was seeing. Her own teigu attempted to drive her mad at first as well, but this teigu of Tatsumi's seemed to be much worse. It seemed to be manipulating his already existing fears and anxieties, to kill him from the inside. However, he was quickly gaining control over the teigu,
"His potential is amazing; I have no doubt that he will take control of the teigu" Esdeath reflected to herself with a smile. "When he tames his weapon he will inevitably surpass me in strength one day."
Suddenly frost flooded the walls, icicles formed on the ceiling in less than a moment. Esdeath stared wide-eyed at Tatsumi, his appearance had changed drastically. He was on all fours, his heavy breathing slowly calming to a normal pace. She could count four misty protrusions on Tatsumi's back, swaying left and right like tentacles. Ice water dripped down his body, freezing on contact with the floor. His shirt was ripped to pieces, the bits of cloth frozen into the walls and floor. As he carefully stood up to face Esdeath, she could see the frosty protrusions weren't the end of it. Blue veins etched through his body, all seeming to sprout from the left side of his neck, and continuing to the left of his face. His now silver hair clasped to his head, specks of frost steadily grew on his crown. He gazed at her with glowing hazel eyes, a powerful look that sent proud shivers down her spine.
"I destroyed its will Esdeath" he stated weakly. "I have.., controlled it-"
Tatsumi collapsed into Esdeath's arms unconscious, his cold breath tickling her chin.
"Rest Tatsumi, rest" Esdeath soothed. "This teigu will serve us well."
Possess your being
