Hello! Eriph, here! I am proud to say that this is my first fanfiction for an anime !(other than an attempted Dragon Ball Z Christmas special when I was nine.)

Warning: OCs are based off of real life people, and while the AP Academy is a separate school in the fanfiction, it exists in real life. Some experiences were also based off of real experiences between me and my friends. So just... you know... don't judge.

And for those who are new to anime, here are some terms I will be using:

Tsundere: Hard on the outside, sweet on the inside

Kuudere: Emotionless on the outside but sweet on the inside

Senpai: A higher-up, as if a senior to a freshman in high school

Kohai: Lower in status, as if a freshman to a senior in high school

Enjoy! :)

Wow… this school is a lot bigger than I thought, Tatsumi thought to himself as he gazed upon his new school. While he was excited to be here, he was also frightened. He had heard the AP Academy was hard, and it was not uncommon to have some dropouts; at the same time, he heard that the people who were willing to stay got college credits and saved money when they applied.

Advanced Placement Academy…. otherwise known as AP Academy, it was a school for gifted children high school age. It was place where you spent four years, like a regular high school, except there were dorms, like a college, and all of the classes were college level or at least honors level.

It had been hard saying good-bye to Sayo and Ieyasu, but Tatsumi knew his friends supported him whatever the situation, even if it meant leaving the town they grew up in and transferring to a new school. Speaking of friends, I better check to see what dorm I'm in, Tatsumi thought. He looked at his schedule, informing him of his classes, locker number, and dorm.

Night Raid.

Night Raid?! What the heck is that?! Tatsumi wondered frantically. Please don't tell me that's the dorm for all the psychos!

After getting hopelessly lost, Tatsumi finally found where the dorms were located. He stumbled upon a building with some sort of bird as graffiti on the side of it. On the door was a sign that read "Welcome to Night Raid!" I swear; they're all crazy, thought Tatsumi. Still, he took a deep breath and ran up to the door.

In a dorm known as Night Raid, a senior with silver hair and an eyepatch immediately looked toward the door when the doorbell rang. "I'll get it!" a blonde sophomore girl exclaimed, bolting off of the couch and towards the door.

"Hold it, Leone!" shouted a pink-haired sophomore, going after her friend. "If it's that transfer student-ˮ

"It could be," a purple-haired sophomore girl said, looking up from a book. "We're only supposed to be getting three new members this year, and none have arrived yet."

"And two are guys, for once!" cheered Lubbock, a green-haired sophomore and one of the only guys in Night Raid.

"No one minds if I get to torture them, right?" the pink-haired girl asked with an evil grin.

"Mine, you seriously need help," Leone sighed, which earned her a whack on the head. Rubbing her head, the blonde opened the door.

A brown-haired boy stood in the doorway and smiled nervously. "This is Night Raid, right?" he asked.

"Yeah, can't you read?!" retorted Mine, gesturing to the sign.

"Mine, you better calm down before I get really mad," Leone snapped. She turned to Tatsumi and grinned. "You're right!" she told him. "Welcome to Night Raid!"

"Thanks," the boy smiled, extending his hand. "My name is Tatsumi. Nice to meet you."

"The name's Leone!" The two shook hands, and Tatsumi's jaw suddenly dropped. "Is something wrong?" the blonde asked.

"Uh… n-no," answered Tatsumi, obviously lying. Who has boobs this big?! He wondered to himself, trying not to stare.

"This is Mine," Leone continued, gesturing to the pink-haired girl, who ignored Tatsumi with a snotty "Hmph!" He may be a sophomore, but in my book, he's still a newb, Mine thought to herself. He didn't have to suffer college courses as a high school freshman, like we did.

Tatsumi, after giving Mine a death glare, was introduced to the rest of the dorm members who were in the house. They didn't seem like complete weirdos or mean, as he had previously thought, but they definitely had their quirks. Lubbock was an openly-admitted pervert, Sheele was an airhead, Bulat (a black-haired sophomore with big muscles) was gay, and the dorm supervisor, Najenda, had a flipping eyepatch, for crying out loud!

"Where's Akame?" Najenda asked her fellow dorm members, lighting a cigarette. ("She's 18; it's legal," Lubbock explained when Tatsumi began to panic.) "She said she would be back in time to meet the new members."

"You know how she likes to go by the river when she needs to think about things," Sheele pointed out.

"And Chelsea's a no-show either," pouted Mine. "She always pisses me off like this!"

A knock came on the door, a knock only a Night Raid Member would use or recognize. Leone got to the door before everyone else did in, anticipating that she would see her best friend. And sure enough, a black-haired girl with a red tie was in the doorway, along with an orange-haired girl sucking on a lollipop, and two kids whom everyone assumed were new members.

"Hey, we were just talking about you two!" Leone shouted joyously, throwing her arms around the black-haired girl. She then turned to Tatsumi and grinned. "Tatsumi, say hello to my best friend, Akame!" she introduced, one arm still around her friend.

Tatsumi examined the girl. She looked his age, so he assumed she was a sophomore. Her black hair was down to her knees, and she was wearing a black V-neck with a red tie and skinny jeans. However, what Tatsumi noticed right away were her red eyes. (Okay, apparently mostly everyone here is wearing colored contacts, he thought to himself, noticing everyone's weird eye colors.)

Akame's eyes were also examining Tatsumi. However, she didn't say a word to him. Instead, she turned to Najenda and explained, "I ran into the two freshmen joining our dorm on my way back here."

Tatsumi still couldn't help staring at Akame. While it had practically no emotion in it, her voice still had something nice about it...

"Well, welcome back," Najenda greeted her. "And welcome to Night Raid, freshmen!"

"Thanks," said one of the freshmen, a girl with black hair in a ponytail. "My name is Sam. Nice to meet all of you."

"And I'm Freddy," introduced the other freshman, a blonde-haired boy, as he extended his hand.

Everyone was introduced to Sam and Freddy… everyone except Mine, that was. She immediately walked up to the orange-haired girl with the lollipop and glared at her. "And where were you, Chelsea?!" she asked harshly. "You just left me alone with these people to greet the newbs!"

Chelsea simply laughed. "FYI, I was giving the 'newbs' a tour of the school," she answered. "Juniors are supposed to team up with the seniors to hold tours for freshmen. Remember, tiny chest?"

Mine started spitting out a stream of bad words none of the freshmen had ever heard before, causing Tatsumi to take the liberty of covering their ears. When she was done, the pink-haired girl started to go upstairs, her face beet-red. Freddy, attempting to comfort her, told her, "If it helps any, I like your chest the way it is!"

If looks could kill, Mine would've burnt Freddy alive before running to her room upstairs.

"Wait! That came out wrong!" the blonde called after her, but the damage had already been done. Sam was giggling uncontrollably, and so were Leone and Lubbock. "So… Akame, right?" Tatsumi asked the red-eyed girl.

"Yes?" she replied.

"Do you stay in the same dorm until you graduate?"

"Yes."

"Actually, Akame is a special case," Najenda explained. "She came to us in the middle of her freshman year. Her dorm members… well…" She looked towards Akame, who seemed very interested in the floor. "She'll tell you about it if she wants," she finished.

This statement of course made the new members curious, but they also didn't want to upset their fellow dorm member. "So, what kind of classes are you taking, Akame?" asked Sam, trying to lighten the mood.

Akame took out her schedule and read all of her classes in order: Geometry honors, AP Biology, Driver's Ed; she alternated between English and Seminar (a fake class where you talk about material you have read), Asian History honors, Japanese 3, and Cooking.

"That's almost the exact same schedule as I have!" Tatsumi informed in excitement. "Except I have US History 1 honors, and the language I'm taking is Spanish. Just out of curiosity, why are you taking Asian History?"

"It's because I'm part Asian," explained Akame. "My name actually means 'red eyes' in Japanese."

"Cool!" Sam exclaimed. I guess those aren't colored contacts after all, Tatsumi thought.

The rest of the day had just been filled with tours, explanations of classes, and room assignments. Nothing truly eventful happened, except for maybe Freddy's epic fail to try and comfort Mine. The Night Raid girls slept upstairs, while the guys slept downstairs. Luckily, each room had enough space for four beds, as many guys there were in the dorm.

Once Tatsumi and Freddy climbed into bed, they heard a banging on the ceiling. "It's 9 o'clock! Get to bed, losers!" Mine's voice was yelling. Freddy was slightly scared and gripped his blanket tightly.

"Don't worry," Lubbock assured. "That's Mine's way of saying 'good night.'"

"If you're scared, you're welcome to sleep in my bed, if you want," offered Bulat. Luckily, Tatsumi and Freddy were fully aware of what this could mean, and they declined.

"But seriously, what the heck is her problem?" Tatsumi wondered aloud.

"Tatsumi, in case you couldn't tell, everyone in Night Raid has problems," explained Lubbock. "Mine has a severe tsundere complex, I'm a pervert, Leone's a little crazy, Akame is… well, I don't know how to describe it… she's not clinically depressed, but she's been through a lot. She even tried suicide."

"She WHAT?!"

"You heard me."

"Well, that actually explains a lot," Freddy said. "She said to me and Sam that she was by the river because she was upset about something, and she has… well, I don't know… darkness surrounding her."

"Sheele unwittingly found out, since Akame had borrowed her scissors to do it," Bulat went on. "And no one touches Sheele's scissors. She stopped her just in time, we all talked to her… we all told her to try and talk about it next time she feels like that. Since then, she's been fine."

"And on that happy note," began Tatsumi, the sarcasm clear in his voice, "I'm going to get to bed."

"Yeah, so am I," agreed Freddy, turning off the lamp in the room. "Good night!"

"If you get nightmares about it, my offer is still on the table," Bulat pointed out.

"Give it up, man!" groaned Lubbock, covering his head with the covers.

Tatsumi yawned once more and stared into the darkness. Akame… why did you do it? He wondered as his eyelids became heavy and closed without warning. If… If you want, I'll… help you… but… how…can I…? These were the last fragmented thoughts that crossed Tatsumi's mind before falling asleep.