Sorry it has been so long but I have had some major writers block on all my stories and I had got into a car accident about two months ago ended up breaking my wrist and fracturing two ribs so I haven't been able to write .and even now it still a little difficult. my computer also burned out so I was without that for awhile their as well so stories will be slow going for a few more months. sorry if this troubles anyone with the delays and I hope this chapter can tide you all on so enjoy.

Chapter 11

After the battle with Night Raid had climbed on to the flying Manta ray danger beast that Najenda had brought. The group soon began to relax with Tatsumi and Akame closer to the back; with Akame using Tatsumi's chest as a pillow with a small content smile playing on her lips while the two of them are wrapped in his coat.

Leone and Najenda are laughing with one of the newest members with brown hair. Mine and Labac are huddled in the middle looking rather pale and Bulat and Susanoo are at the front simply watching the clouds pass by them in silence; none notice the looks that Susanoo continues to steal of the sleeping Tatsumi.

The new member who had been introduced earlier as Chelsea then looks over her shoulder at the two sleeping Night Raid members and asks.

"Hey boss is it alright for them to be sleeping like this?"

Leone and Najenda both shrug While Bulat had moved closer to them and pats her shoulder as he says.

"Those two have earned quiet a bit more freedom in this group then the rest of us."

Chelsea looks up at the larger man as she says a little louder then she meant.

"Why and how is that fair!?"

The other three simply laugh as Najenda says teasingly.

"Because they are simply the strongest members of night raid especially if they work together so I've allowed for them to move a bit for free."

Chelsea nods and looks at the two again before continuing to learn about her new comrades.

Much later into the evening their transport lands in a baron wasteland. Akame and Tatsumi stretch and then rub the sleep out of their eyes. The two look around in confusion before following the others off of the Manta ray.

Just as they both land on the solid ground the danger beast takes off. Najenda then explains to Mein and Labac who are freaking out that the manta ray is simply returning back to the revolutionary base.

Tatsumi yawns as Akame's stomach growls loudly, she then turns to stare at Tatsumi who sighs before grabbing his bag and pulls out an expensive looking bag. Akame's eyes then have starts in the as a drop of drool hangs cutely out of her mouth as she quickly snatches it out of his hand.

"OI, Akame take it easy I went to great effort to acquire that!"

The others look interested at this comment but Najenda grabs everyone's attention.

"Alright so for those that were sleeping and missed it."

She tries to send a pointed look at the two but it goes completely ignored for the dried meat that Tatsumi had pulled out. Najenda sighs at the two but then starts the introductions; but before she can she notices that one of the has vanished till she hears.

"Akame-chan you know when I look at you up close your really cute and have such soft hair."

Akame has a small blush at the comment but look a little uncomfortable with some stranger running her hands through her hair. The brunette then holds out a sucker for her as she says.

"I'm Chelsea I hope we can be friends as fellow killers."

Akame takes the sucker without any hesitation and mumbles.

"I welcome you with open arms."

Tatsumi raises and eyebrow at the two girls till he notices another sucker in his own vision as Chelsea smiles at him kindly as she says.

"I hope we can get along so, please treat me kindly."

Tatsumi reaches out and takes it out of her hand unwraps the sweet and puts it in his mouth as he gives the new girl a large smile as he pats her head. Labac and Mine just stare in amazement as they yell together.

"The monster duo was just bribed with something artificial!"

Bulat and Najenda watch silently as Bulat muses softly.

"I've heard of Chelsea from some of the revolutionary army. Apparently she has done as many missions as Akame."

Najenda nods as she adds to Bulat's comment.

"Yes she is a person of amazing talent, or so I've heard."

Najenda then clears her throat to get her teams attention to introduce the next, she had held back from telling before because she wanted everyone to meet him at the same time.

"Alright and this one is a teigu that I received from the revolutionary army 'speed of lightning Susanoo'."

Most of night raid eyes widen at the name then Mein and Labac starts to laugh while hugging and jumping in excitement as Mein exclaims.

"We have a royal on our team now we will be unstoppable!"

Labac laughs heartily and nods his head happily agreeing till Tatsumi crushes their excitement.

"Najenda isn't strong enough to utilize his full power and even if she was she still has no experience in using him properly. So people like Esdese and Budo who have had year of training with their teigu would still come out on top easily."

Najenda nods in agreement but soon freezes as Susanoo walks towards Tatsumi and kneels in front of him.

"It has been a long time sister."

Everyone freezes as they all look at Tatsumi. Mein looks about ready to laugh and make a snarky comment about him looking like a girl but stops as Tatsumi pats Susanoo on the head and says.

"She has missed you as well Suu and she is glad too see that you are still in high spirits."

Leone looks just as confused as most of night raid but as she looks around she sees that three of them don't look confused at all and asks.

"What the hell is this about?"

Before anyone of them can salvage this situation to keep the princes secret just that, Susanoo answers.

"This young man wields my sister Tsu-"

Tatsumi covers his mouth but the damage has already been done. The four laugh nervously as the other members stare at them. Najenda sighs as she looks over at Tatsumi who looks very annoyed at this turn of events.

"Alright so we haven't really been all that honest about Tatsumi's origins. You see Tatsumi isn't really who he says he is."

Her eyes then turn deadly serious as she stares at everyone in night raid coldly.

"And if this gets I'll kill you myself is this understood. Under no circumstance is Tatsumi's real identity as the crowned prince Xanadu or that he is the wielder of Tsukiyomi to ever leave this group."

In the capital Esdese silently Listens to her subordinates report that they had found Dr. Stylish's body crucified upside down with a symbol that none of them had recognized. Although she kept quiet Esdese had known what it stood for almost immediately. Esdese sighs as she says more to herself then the other three in the room.

"The idiot went to his death alone, their is nothing we can do about that."

Once Bols and wave are dismissed River looks out the window.

"Looks like Seryuu has lost another savior."

Esdese nods her head as she gives River an order.

"Give her some comfort but I want you to keep an eye on the girl. With this she may become unstable and detrimental to our plans."

River nods in acceptance and bows to his mistress before leaving.

"Become stronger you two for I feel the day of our paradise may come sooner then anyone expected."

A sadistic grin pulls at her lips as she chuckles darkly at the thought of an all out war that may be fastly approaching.

Back with the night raid group everyone had just say to dinner a small silence descends upon them as none can believe that the crowned prince Xanadu who was hailed among the entire empire as a prodigy not seen since the first and second emperor's.

Mein lowers he head in thought as she remembers a conversation that she had with Najenda a few short weeks ago.

*Flashback*

Mein sits on a rock looking into the pond with a scowl on her face. The team had just returned from their mission to kill the prime ministers nephew and Tatsumi had called her useless. She then growls and continues to glare at the pond when she feels something soft cover her shoulders. When she looks up she sees Najenda standing there lighting a smoke.

"So I heard about what happened on the mission, want to talk about it?"

Mein's glare just intensifies a the pond as Najenda sighs softly as she takes a drag from her smoke.

"I knew I should have stepped in sooner when you had started calling yourself a prodigy."

Mein looks over at the boss in shock but doesn't say anything so Najenda continues.

""Listen Mein don't get me wrong your good but trust me on this you aren't a real prodigy by any shot of the word."

Mein lowers her head a little in depression of what her boss is telling her but Najenda continues on to her point of this.

"Mein you have to understand a true genius and prodigy are people like Esdese and Akame. Hell even the great general Budo isn't even those he had to work very hard for to attain what he has. But even they have nothing on who I think Tatsumi might have been talking about."

Mein's head looks at her in confusion as she asks softly.

"Who could that country bumpkin know that even surpasses them!?"

Najenda sighs at the girl who had become her heir to pumpkin as she begins to explain.

"Tatsumi was apparently trained by a retired soldier of the empire who constantly compared the two and it wasn't in a nice at all. But that's not the point who he was talking about is the crowned prince Xanadu ."

Mein once again looks up at her in confusion not really recognizing the name so Najenda explains how he was trained by two generals plus the emperor at the time. That he had soaked everything he was taught like an empty sponge, and that he is to this day the youngest to ever form a bond with a teigu.

Mein looks incredibly shocked was Tatsumi that country bumpkin really constantly compared to this guy even if it was in a bad way. She then asks Najenda softly.

"What happened to him I've never heard of him before and isn't the current emperor's name Makoto?"

Najenda turns to leave as anger flashes in her eyes and aura.

"He was Makoto's older brother the true heir, and he died, murdered before he was even a teen."

*Flashback end*

Mein comes out of her memory just as Najenda says.

"Tatsumi until further notice we are going to lay low. I want you to start leading everyone's training sessions. Since we no longer have to hide your identity we can fully utilize your advanced knowledge of the teigu's get every here to the next level."

Tatsumi nods his head in agreement as he answer seriously.

"Very well however I ask that no one call me Xanadu I have left that name behind. Nut keep this in mind that my methods for your training will seem like torture to ninety percent of the world."

Most of night raid pales at this statement besides Akame who shows him a small smile as she places a hand on his shoulder before nodding and Bulat who looks ready to burst in excitement.

It had been a month since night raid had entered the unexplored region and true to his mission and promise Tatsumi's training was a living hell that had left at least one of the members crying every day and at least once a week the whole team dead to the rest of the world.

At this time Akame and Susanoo are quietly sitting in a small boat fishing while Akame is munching on a small snack. The two then feel the boat rock and prepare to reel in their catch only to have a large twenty foot catfish danger beast rise from the lake and attempt to swallow them whole. Susanoo quickly goes on the offense and spears it through the under belly. Akame grins at the living teigu as she says.

"Great job Suu tonight will be a feast!"

Susanoo simply nods as the two begin to head home with their catch.

Later that night everyone is in different forms of relaxation all of them comment about how good Susanoo's cooking si while while thinking about how at the beginning of the month they would have been to exhausted to even think about food.

Leone then looks over at where the boos is sitting as she says.

"You know Suu sure is amazing I can understand why is is classed as one of the three royals."

she then gets a pensive looks as continues.

"I've also fought Tatsumi while he uses Tsukiyomi the power he is able to wield is unreal. Boss you sure are amazing to be able to react with Suu."

Najenda grins smugly as she says with only a hint of arrogance in her tone.

"Yes, it must be my amazing charisma."

Susanoo then looks over to the two as he says in a monotone voice.

"Najenda looks like my old master."

At this Tatsumi buries his face into Akame's shoulder trying his hardest to hold back his laughter, which goes unnoticed by everyone buy Akame who looks at him in confusion as Najenda says proudly.

"Yes, she must have been a helluva woman!"

Tatsumi sorts getting most of the rooms attention to see his body shaking uncontrollably but before anyone can ask Susanoo exclaims.

"HE was a wonderful general!"

The room goes silent as then Tatsumi burst out laughing falling off his chair and taking Akame with him, this causes some of the others to start laughing along with him much to Najenda's embarrassment. She glares at both Leone and Tatsumi but as she can only reach Leone hits her on the top of the head before berating the girl.

Soon after a kitten walks into the room and starts to cuddle up with Mein looking at her cake longingly. As Mein's guard lowers and she is about to share a piece with it, the kitten takes the entire plate and runs to where Tatsumi and Akame are before transforming back into Chelsea as she smiles teasingly at Mein.

"It's my win again, meow"

Mein glares at the girl but she simply laughs as she continues to tease the pink haired girl.

"Mein has far to many opening for me to exploit."

Then just as she is about to take a bite the cake begins to vanish into thin air. Chelsea and Mein look around till Leone holds up a note with a large grin on her face. The note simply read.

'Enemies can be in plain sight write that down. P.S You both will be starting two hours earlier and Mein will also be on laundry detail for the next three days.' It was signed with a chibi Tatsumi and Akame giving a victory sign.

Mein pales and starts to cry as Chelsea sighs as she shrugs.

"Looks like sensi wins another round...Also is it just me or does he seem to now go out of his way to make someone cry at the end of the day."

The rest of the group just shrugs as they watch Mein continue to cry before she points at Chelsea.

"This is your fault if you hadn't taken my cake."

Chelsea then pokes the girls forehead as she says.

"For your information this is also part of sensi's training for me and everyone else. You have far to many openings Mein and you may be the next one to die because of it. Besides your surprised expression is just wonderful and amusing."

With that she starts laughing as she walks away.

The next afternoon Tatsumi stands on a cliff looking down and watching with a calculating look as Leone and Bulat slaughter a large pack of danger beasts. A small smirk slowly replaces his neutral expression as Incursiro finally evolves.

It's cape splits in two almost like wings while the gauntlets form danger like claws. As Bulat turns to slash at another one of the beast one of the wing like capes cuts through a different beast.

Tatsumi's attention then turns to Leone who no longer acts like a simple brawler, but is now starting show the graceful movement of a lioness as well as less wasted movements.

"They'll keep on calling more reinforcements unless they find and kill the leader...Show me that you learned something Leone."

Down below with the two night raid members they are thinking the exact same thing as their observer. Leone looks around concentrating on her hightened senses to find the leader of the pack while using her instincts to dodge. A few moments later her nose catches the scent of the alpha, her eyes then lock onto her new target as she vanishes in a boost of speed. She grins as she appears at eye level with the beast and strikes quickly with her claws.

The alpha isn't able to dodge in time and as punishment for it lose it's right eye. It roars in pain as it starts it's own assault on Leone. The girl easily dodges as she taunts.

"If you think after a month of getting my own ass handed to me by either of those demons that I would be hit by your slow ass attacks your insane."

Her eyes then gain a crazed look as she begins a brutal counter attack.

"You aren't making me miss dinner!"

Even as he watches and hears Leone's declaration as he scratches his cheek he says out loud.

"Huh, I think I might have scarred the girl."

He then laughs nervously at the brutality of crazed blonde lioness's attacks.

Bulat pales as he walks over to the heavily breathing Leone. The man then pats her shoulder as she starts to calm down a bit. The remain silent as they watch Tatsumi slide down the side of the mountain towards them all the while smiling.

"Well done you two. Bulat congrats on finally getting incursiro to evolve."

Tatsumi then walks over to Leone and pats her head affectionately.

"You have come a long way from that brutish brawling fighting style a month ago well done."

With that Tatsumi turns around as he grabs the alpha's tail.

"Let's go back."

With that the two follow and watch as Tatsumi lifts the alpha over his head with one hand effortlessly. Bulat then whispers for only Leone.

"It's scary even after all that brutal and hellish training the gap is still so wide."

Leone can only nod as she watches even with such a large beast over his head just how graceful Tatsumi moves.

Najenda smiles at her team as she compliments them on their improvements over the last month, she then address Chelsea.

"So what do you think of night raid after a month."

Chelsea smiles and nods in agreement.

"Yes, they are far stronger then my last team and thanks to sensi even more so... However that isn't enough I've read the old reports that girl that was killed in action Schere and even you Bulat and Mein would have died had it not been for sensi. You all maybe favorable as people but as killers you are failures...You should do something about how soft you are or the next battle maybe your last."

With that Chelsea turns and walks inside. Mein glares at the spot that Chelsea was as she grits her teeth.

"She..Everything she says and does just pisses me off."

Najenda sighs and shrugs as she says in exasperation.

"As always shes so blunt."

Tatsumi till this point had kept quiet and watched but then uncrosses his arms and walks over to Akame as he says coldly.

"She isn't wrong.. But for now Suu, Ame let's cook ourselves a feast."

Suu nods as he stands beside the two in front of a mountain of danger beasts.

"Yes, we wont leave one untouched."

Akame nods as she gently leans into Tatsumi's side while looking behind her.

"We'll fill our stomachs."

Tatsumi grins down at the girl as he gently rubs her head.

Later that night sitting around a campfire is Mein, Labac, and Bulat. Bulat sighs as he looks at the youngest members of night raid.

"So what did you want to talk about Mein?"

Mein continues to stare at the fire as she speaks up.

"Aren't you annoyed how she talked about you and Schere today?"

Bulat sighs loudly as the other two look at him, he then shakes his head as he answers.

"No because what she said was accurate. Because River had been both a friend and superior I couldn't fully bring myself to kill him. Had it not been for Tatsumi I would have died that night."

With that Bulat stands and walks away without saying another word.

Once Bulat laves Mein huffs in frustration as she stares at Labac.

"You're on my side right. We'll make her speechless then tell her 'You're also full of openings'."

Labac looks at Mein for a moment before nodding his head in agreement.

Back in the capital Esdese and Ran are walking through the streets while every now and then Ran notices his general searching through the crowds. After the fourth time he finally asks.

"Is something wrong captain you seem kinda distracted?"

Esdese looks over her shoulder at him with the hint of an unknown warmth in her eyes as she shakes her head in the negative. Esdese then looks into Ran's eyes as she asks.

"Tell me Ran can you keep a secret?"

Ran stares at her questioningly but then after a moment of thought nod his head. Esdese not seeing any hint of deception from her subordinate give me a very brief and small smile.

"It seems that ever since a reunion I'm constantly searching for him in the crowds...Excuse me."

With that Esdese walks over to a vender of different dresses.

Ran simply stands there as he processes what his commander has told him.

'How confusing, I thought a woman as sadistic as her or that would ally themselves with that fat prime minister would be nothing more then scum. Yet she has proven to be interesting and a work place that is this comfortable...It makes me want to put a delay on my original objective.'

As Ran silently debates to himself Esdese looks at the many different dresses trying to imagine her and the miko in them and Xanadu's reactions. She then looks up at the sky .

'What a strange feeling of both excitement and unease. Will I meet Xan soon or is a large battle drawing near.'

In the outskirts of the empire's boarders a group of almost humanoid danger beasts devour an entire mine of workers. All the while an unknown in a waistcoat and a hood covering his face grins in sadistic pleasure of the slaughter taking place in front of him.

And the latest installment of the fallen prince. please review what you thought of this honestly so far this was one of my favorites to write so far and for those that have followed any of my other story's a chapter for dragon of the whirlpool should be out some point Saturday and depending how I feel by some point next week a chapter for demon, dragon, and gods.