Author Note: Hello and welcome to a new project of mine. I've spent some time working on a character for Akame ga Kill and I think I finally got it solidified enough to present him in a fanfiction. I hope you guys enjoy Aome ga Kiru.

Kill the Tragic Beginning

Year 1020: 4 years from present day

It all started as a normal day, little different from any other inside Sakai Town. It was a relatively small but thriving town right in the middle of the borders of the Western Nation, Northern Nation and the Empire. Since the town was within the border of all three nations, it was frequently a resting place for travelers planning on heading out to any of those three nations. Additionally, the place was also a hot spot for trading both due to the high quality iron mines that were close by the town as well as unique plants that only grew around the area that were useful for many herbal remedies.

Sitting among the hill just outside of town, looking over the horizon was a teenager who is sixteen years old. He had blue eyes, orange hair with brown roots, with bangs and two longs bangs at the side of his head that reached towards his eyes. He was currently a deep blue linen jacket with black pants and brown shoes. He was currently gazing at the horizon his mind left to wonder.

"It's quite peaceful here. Outside of the occasional dangerbeast or bandit attack, it's a quiet life. I honestly could stare at the lowering sun like this all day…."

"Kanshin, dear!"

The young man turned around to see that an orange haired, green eyed women in her mid forties was right behind him.

"Your father wants to come join him in the backyard for training."

"Coming, mom!" Kanshin replied.

You see, there was a bit of a tradition within Sakai Town. Everyone was taught basic combat abilities and to become proficient with at least one weapon of choice. This was to mainly ensure that able bodied people would always be readily available in case of dangerbeasts or bandits. Especially considering that there was high quality iron and herbs within the vicinity of the town, outsiders would not be above attempting to take it for themselves. So the town in response decided to take action to ensure that there would never be a shortage of people that can effectively defend themselves.

It was now time for Kanshin to meet up with his father who was currently teaching him how to be able to handle a sword. He was a man with dark brown hair, blue eyes with a handlebar mustache.

"Are you ready, Kanshin?" he asked.

"Always." Kanshin replied with confidence.

Kanshin was now held a wooden single edged sword and steel buckler in his right and left hand appropriately. Neither wasted any time in starting the drills on parries with the buckler. So far, Kanshin has been doing exceptionally well. He's been among one of the fastest among his age group to pick up on weaponry and has consistently won most sparring contest with most of the children within the town. Within the drills, he has successfully managed to parry ever attack. They soon switches to exercises to counterattacks, more specifically, to be able to create openings with parries and react accordingly. Kanshin's father came at him with fast and unpredictable strikes, but Kanshin was able to quickly spot some patterns and was soon able to parry then counter attack, another parry then another counterattack. The entire process went on for about 10 minutes before Kanshin dropped the wooden sword and steel buckler and switched to a wooden longsword and the training resumed once again.

The father and son training had finished by the time night had fallen and they were now having some water relaxing within the yard.

"You're making great progress my son. I think you right around the same skill level back when I was your age."

"Really?" Kanshin asked.

"Nah..." Kanshin's father said, giving his son a noogie.

"Hey!" Kanshin said in a pouting manner.

"I brought you guys dinner." Kanshin's mother called out bringing the two of them some dangerbeast soup.

"Thank you, honey." Kanshin's father replied. "Oh, that reminds me. I got something to show you."

He disappeared back inside the home for a few moments in order to get whatever it was along with his mother.

"I wonder what it is that he wanted to show me?" Kanshin thought to himself as he enjoyed the dangerbeast soup. About a minute or now later, Kanshin's father had returned with a basket-hilted backsword that was within its scabbard. He sat down near Kanshin and pulled it out, revealing the blade in all of its glory.

"Back when I was your age, this was the weapon of choice that I had used. It had served me well time and time again in many battles." Kanshin's father told. He then pushed the sword's hilt within Kanshin's reach.

"I think it's time I passed down this blade to you. You have proven yourself that you are ready to wield it."

Kanshin eyes lit up in surprise to the news that he just heard. This blade, this beautiful sword, he was just going to give this to him?

"A-Are you serious?" Kanshin asked.

His father simply smiled and nodded. "She's all yours."

Kanshin nervously took the blade and inspected it. It was beautifully crafted, the blade having a great shine to it as though it was just came out of a forge. The basket hilt carried a gold-yellow color with a black padded cloth to make it easier to grip.

"Do you like it?" Kanshin's father asked, handing him the scabbard. "I had one of the blacksmiths touch up on the weapon to effectively make it brand new."

"This is...this is awesome!" Kanshin said joyfully, putting the sword back into its scabbard. He then gave his dad a hug.

"Thanks, dad!"

"You're welcome, Kanshin. Now then, I think it's time we call it a day and get some rest. Since I've now entrusted you with that blade, that means you are ready to begin hunting dangerbeasts as far as the town is concerned, so we got a big day ahead of us tomorrow."

With that bit said, both of them finished up their dinner and returned home. They went to bed shortly after, both excited for the dangerbeast hunt that was to occur tomorrow.

The next morning, Kanshin woke up not to his father calling him, but instead to the town bells. Normally this would signify that the town was under attack so, understandably, Kanshin woke up with both surprise and worry.

"Dangerbeasts or bandits must be closing in." Kanshin thought to himself.

At that moment, Kanshin's father burst into the room. He immediately went to Kanshin saying with desperation and urgency.

"Take the sword I just gave you as well as your buckler and get out this town!"

"W-What? Why? What's going on?"

The town has been attacked a few times before so Kanshin wasn't a stranger to that, but unlike the previous times, Kanshin's father's face was filled with palpable fear.

"No time, you need to get out of here while you still can!"

"But-"

"If you don't get out of here right now you may never do so, do you understand!?" Kanshin's father yelled.

Kanshin was really worried now. He had never seen his dad act like this before. He knew that his father was far from weak. From the stories that he has told him and how Kanshin is quite a bit above his peers because of his father's training, Kanshin knew, without a doubt, that his father has a ton of experience when it comes to combat. Hell, he's been able to tackle and bring home trophies of 2nd and even some 1st class dangerbeasts and come out with little injuries, if any. If he was in such an out of character state, it could only mean that whatever was going on was nothing short of extremely life threatening. To Kanshin, the evidence was mounting that the best course of action was to listen to his dad and leave Kasai Town as soon as possible.

"I-I understand."

"Good." Kanshin's father gave a quick, but tight hug. "Be safe, now go!"

With that Kanshin bolted for his buckler and newly acquired backsword and parted ways with his father.

As soon as he made it outside, he immediately understood why his father was so worried. The town was under siege and whoever it was responsible was far more adequately equipped than the average bandits. The many of the town's buildings were either destroyed or set ablaze by catapult fire. There were already a multitude of corpse or both townsfolk and the attackers alike. Gunshots and arrow fire could be heard both close by and in the distance. The town had literally become a battlefield for no real adequately explained reason. Kanshin, not wanting to disobey his dad, swiftly headed towards the back exit of the town. If the place was to be attacked, it would likely be one of the places that the soldiers would be the most likely to avoid simply due to the steep cliff.

He had steadily started to make his way down the cliff as swiftly and carefully as possible. As soon as he managed to get onto stable land, several people garbed in gamberson and mail armor made themselves visible within the cliff's clearing.

"Colonel Torio was right, someone's trying to escape!" One of them said.

Kanshin had recognized the symbol that these people were wearing. It was a heater shield with a dragon surrounding it. These soldiers belonged to the Empire. But what were they doing here of all places? As far as the known laws are concerned, the denizens of Sakai village haven't broken any laws and if they did, they sure as hell weren't informed of such.

But Kanshin had no time to ponder that as the first soldier had already began to close the distance. Kanshin quickly pulled out his backsword and buckler and prepared to intercept to the warrior. The older soldier had charged almost recklessly very clearly underestimating Kanshin. As the soldier's sword came down to try and kill him, Kanshin easily parried it and before the soldier could retaliate, Kanshin shoved his backsword right into his left eye socket, killing him almost instantly.

The other two soldiers, realizing that Kanshin was an adept fighter, decided to come charging in together this time. Kanshin managed to sidestep a mace swing from one and shortly after being forced to block an axe from the other. With him now outnumbered and the soldiers being a lot smarter than the previous one, Kanshin was now on the defensive.

"Damn, they are not making anywhere near as many openings as the last one."

Forced to dodge yet another axe swing, that's when Kanshin noticed that their legs were not very well protected. The guy with the mace took another swing at Kanshin. Taking advantage of the fact that the mace wielder could not easily stop the momentum of his weapon, Kanshin ducked and managed to get his backsword at his calf cutting them open. Kanshin, no longer having to worry about a two on one fight, easily managed to parry the incoming axe and his sword was now heading towards the axe man's throat, victory all but assured.

Or so Kanshin thought. Just before the blade could land the killing blow, he felt his sword arm being pierced by something. Kanshin was confused for a moment, he was certain that nobody else was around and yet he felt the sensation of getting it. Once he had realized who or more specifically what had stabbed him, the pain registered and Kanshin gave out a loud scream. His sword arm was stabbed with what looked like to be a stone spike that just came out of the ground.

"You guys are completely and utterly pathetic!" a women's voice had shouted from where the soldiers came from.

A women in her early twenties had come out from there. She had dark purple hair in the shape of a bob cut with matching eyes. She also was fully garbed in plate armor barring the usual helmet. She, just like the soldiers had the exact same symbol of the Empire, but on the opposite shoulder, she had what looked like to be an officer's insignia engraved into the armor.

"Colonel Torio, ma'am!" The axe soldier shouted, immediately turning towards her and saluting her. "I-"

The soldier didn't get a chance to finish his sentence as the colonel immediately kicked the soldier away from her.

"I've spent an immense amount of time training you imbeciles and you let some backwater country kid beat you!?"

The colonel took a step closer towards Kanshin, who was desperately trying to free himself from the stone spike that was lodged into his arm, but only successfully managing to only further injure himself. They locked eyes for a moment before a smirk appeared on the colonel's face. The spike was pulled almost instantly back into the earth and right after, she had delivered a powerful strike to Kanshin's ribcage with her knee.

Kanshin easily felt several ribs crack at the impact. He was tossed several feet and had dropped his backsword as he flew. Torio had noticed this and picked up the weapon to inspect it.

"This thing's got a surprising amount of craftsmanship. Far greater than what I would expect from a bunch of hicks."

Kanshin was barely conscious by the time he managed to get his barrings after being hit. He was having a hard time breathing with his ribs cracked. If she hadn't punctured a lung, she must have been very dangerously close to doing so. Kanshin saw the Torio standing over him with the weapon his father gave him before his strength had finally left him.

Shortly after Kanshin had fallen to Torio, the town had been easily overrun. Plenty of the townsfolk had been killed, but a rather unusual amount of them had been left alive and unharmed for the moment. Only the attackers had any clue as to why that is. While the denizens of Sakai Town didn't exactly know the whole story, from what the travelers that were coming from the capital had foretold the townsfolk, they knew the Empire wasn't exactly renowned for its courtesy to adversaries or those outside the Capital's walls. Once the remaining people that were captured were herded to the center of Sakai Town and Colonel Torio had made her declaration.

"Citizens of Sakai Town! You have violated Imperial law by selling and trading weaponry and other goods to known enemies of the Empire. As of right you are all under arrest and are to carry out your sentence effective immediately. As of today, Sakai Town is now under control of the Empire and is a Sanctuary Town!"

Many of the soldiers cheered hearing the news. The citizens were clueless as to what the colonel was talking about. Only after the day had come to a close did they realize just what kind of horror was soon to be unleashed upon them.

One year later

One year. One long, agonizing year had passed ever since the Colonel Torio and her company of soldiers had attacked and officially made Sakai Town into a Sanctuary Town. To the soldiers, it was an easy life. A free food, supplies and plenty of women to sleep with. To the townsfolk, it was a living nightmare. Every man was worked to the bone to procure the ore that was within the mine close by to the town. It was common for many men to be driven to death by exhaustion working within the mines. For the women, they were forced to service the soldiers as maids and waitresses. Rape was a frequent occurrence, regardless if they complied with the soldiers demands. The children were also subjected to similarly horrendous crimes. Many of them were evicted from the town, to be sold off as slaves. Those that were still around were put in the same category as the grown men and women. During the time, there were several brave souls that attempted to fight back against the occupying soldiers. The lucky ones were simply stabbed, shot or beaten to death. The less fortunate ones were tortured for hours on end, it could be anything from receiving lashes from whips designed to tear into flesh to being flayed and doing things like pouring alcohol or acid to make the execution be both as painful and long lasting as possible. Some of the more sadistic soldiers would frequently either involve the rebel's loved ones or worse, force the rebel to watch as the people the care about being tortured or killed in front them, powerless to stop the soldiers.

Kanshin himself was still around the village and while he was covered in plenty of injuries due to the beatings and whippings he received, he was still alive and kicking. Fortunately for him, both of his parents had made it as well despite the physical and emotional pain both of them were in. More often than not, they were all separated from one another. The only real time that they could be together was during the night when the majority of the soldiers were sound asleep. They held onto to held onto one another during this unjust occupation, telling each other that it would all be okay, ignorant of the fate that awaited them.

The next day, soldiers had come per usual, forcibly grabbing Kanshin and his family. However, instead of the mines, where Kanshin and his father were usually dragged off to, they instead were being hauled to the center of town and they weren't alone. The entirety of the remaining population of Sakai Town was present, all of them were kneeling by weapon point and in front of the crowd of people was no other than Colonel Torio, the leader of the company that invaded this town. After everyone was gathered, that's when she made her announcement.

"Citizens of Sakai Town! Since you have violated Imperial law and no longer have the means of being able to pay up in neither iron or gold, by my right as a colonel of the Imperial Army. I hereby sentence you all to death!" she gleefully announced.

Everything seemed to slow down for the remaining townsfolk. Some could only briefly hear the sounds of stabbing and gunshots. Others didn't get a chance to hear anything as they dropped dead. As for Kanshin, he once again felt the familiar sensation of being pierced. It almost felt like someone had poked him from both his back and front. He looked to his chest and realized that he had been shot. By the time the pain had started to register within him, his sense had dulled and darkness had swiftly overtaken him again.

With the mass execution done, the soldiers had began to toss the bodies into the mass grave that they had already built for the resisters. The whole process took about a half hour with the majority of the soldiers working on it. They were starting to prepare to torch the bodies and the entire town with them when a courier showed up to deliver a message to the Colonel Torio.

"Colonel Torio, ma'am. Orders from the Emperor that you are to return to the Capital at once." The courier declared.

"Tch. Damn annoyance, undoubtedly it's either because of the Prime Minister or that old meatsack Budo. What a pain..." Torio muttered.

"Alright men! Change of plans! Leave the bodies, gear up and let's move out! We got orders to make our way back to the Capital!"

With her word, the soldiers stopped what they were doing at once and quickly grabbed everything they had and all the goods that they could carry with them. By the end of the hour, the company was ready to move out and wasted no time in leaving the now desolate town.

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"….uuuuuuurrrrggg..."

"hhhuuuuhh…..?"

Kanshin had woke up several hours after the company had left. Despite how weak he felt, he could still feel the bullet holes that were created from him getting shot. Once he managed to get a bearing of his surroundings, he realized that he was laying with one of the mass grave among rotting corpses. He began to crawl his way back up from the grave. Thankfully, the soldiers were long gone at this point. Despite the sorrow and anguish that spread into his mind, his survival instincts took hold of him. He knew that if he wanted to continue to live, he would have to get his injury treated and soon. Kanshin headed back to his house, trying to see if there was anything that the soldiers left behind. To his luck, among the ruined remains, he had managed to find some spare herbs that he could use to compile a disinfectant. After making it, he used some water and cloth that the soldiers likely couldn't take with them to treat his bullet wounds as best as he could.

While he still felt weak, at the very least, he longer had to worry about the wound being infected. With his life no longer being in jeopardy, he could only look in despair as he looked throughout the wreckage of his town. There was nothing left. The place now looked like a ghost town and everyone that he grew up with; his family, his friends, the other townsfolk that he had come to know for the past 16 years of his life, all of it was gone. He, understandably, broke down and began crying seeing everything that he ever valued was taken from him all in one fell swoop. He was so caught up in his anguish that he didn't even notice the presence of a being that was behind him.

The presence in question couldn't really be defined by anything most folks would be familiar with. It certainly wasn't human but nothing like any type of dangerbeast that people would recognize. It was instead some kind of black, humanoid-shaped incorporeal mist. There was only one thing that was for certain. Whatever it was, it was malicious.

"Yes. Another soul filled with despair and misery that is ripe for the taking…...wait. This is …. hah, hah, hah. It's been a long time since I've last encountered a host anywhere near this level of compatibility. Perhaps he will be far more interesting than the last one."

He began to enter Kanshin's body through all of his orifices. The process was swift and silent and Kanshin was more once, unawares until the being was already inside him.

In the middle of his weeping, Kanshin felt a dark presence enter him, but he didn't care. He just wanted to be left alone, he wanted his family and town back. The presence Kanshin felt vanished for a second before it happened. Kanshin's mind was assault by a cacophony of emotions. Sadness, hatred, fear, despair, agony. They were all there relentlessly tormenting him, threatening to consume his mind.

"W-What the….what is this..?" Kanshin thought, trying to keep himself together.

"You will be my new host, mortal." a deep, dark voice replied.

"Who are you?" Kanshin internally replied.

"That is irrelevant to you. Now…...submit!" the voiced harshly commanded.

As soon as those words were spoken. The emotions got even stronger, tearing away at Kanshin's sanity. He was having a harder time defending himself from the mental assault.

"Stop! Stop it!"Kanshin commanded out loud.

"You will submit! You will submit or you will die!" the voice growled out, further strengthening the emotions.

"AAAAAAAAGHHHHHHHHHHH!"Kanshin screamed out.

The voices were equivalent to having several high caliber guns fired right at one's eardrums. His entire nervous system was now set ablaze as the emotions and the associated voices that came with them continued to compound, whittling at Kanshin's resolve.

"Make it stop….make it stop…." Kanshin began to plead as he started to lose himself.

"Pitiful….and here I thought that he would be an interesting host to bind with after losing his pathetic town." the voice condescendingly stated. "I'll just kill this fool and move onto the next one…..huh?"

The being's train of thought was interrupted as Kanshin gained a second wind and began to push back against the negative thoughts and emotions.

"Pathetic? My town was not pathetic! I'm not going to fall here. Not here, not now. Not when I just managed to survive against all odds! I will not FALL!"

As Kanshin began to fight back, he started to become surrounded by a mix of black and dark purple energy. It was circling around him like a mist or an aura. After about a minute, he gave out one final shout and all of that energy that he gathered was let loose into a powerful burst of energy.

Somewhere along the road to the Capital

Colonel Torio and her company where making their back towards the Capital when they all felt the enormous power. It was coming from the direction of what was once Kasai village. None of them could quite explain but if they had to go with a gut feeling it felt like...darkness...like all the joy and light of life had just extinguished and was replaced by unending waves of hatred and terror. Not even Torio for all of her strength was not unfazed by this new feeling. And just as it looked like it was about to get worse, it vanished as quickly as it came.

"What the hell was that!? It came from the direction of the town that we just came from, but everyone within that village should be dead...no, even if someone somehow did manage to make it out alive, I still have my orders." Torio thought.

"What do we do, Colonel?" A captain had asked, not sure as to how to response to the phenomenon.

"We keep moving, we have our orders." Torio decreed, deciding to keeping back to the Capital.

At the Imperial Palace

The current Emperor Makoto, Prime Minister Honest and Generals Budo and Esdese were currently within in the throne room inside the palace. The Emperor was sitting on this throne. Prime Minister Honest was standing just beside them. And both Esdese and Budo were kneeling before the Emperor. They were all gathered there because the Emperor(with the suggestion of the Prime Minister) had summoned the generals to deal with an ongoing issue with rebels that were occurring as of late.

"Generals Budo and Esdese. It has come to my attention that there have been problems with some rebels as of late. I have called you here in order to suggest some ideas from military standpoint on how to handle them. Isn't that right, Prime Minister Honest?" the Emperor decreed.

"Yes, that's correct my Emperor." Honest confirmed, with a less than altruistic look. "There have been quite a few citizens that have been heavily upset with how things have been run recently, so with the Emperor's permission, I have decided to arrange this meeting to discuss some ideas as to how to get rid of them."

"Let the weaklings do whatever they so wish. I say we shouldn't waste our time going after them." Esdese boldly declared.

Honest, Makoto and Budo all gave Esdese looks of both curiosity and disbelief.

"The weak will always grumble and grovel against the strong. Besides, these rebels have no level of organization or any level or strength that would even register as threat to the Empire. For now, I'd say we keep an eye on them and let them do what they want. Let them reveal themselves and make themselves known to the public because the minute they think they got any ground, we'll crush them!" Esdese continued.

Honest simply chuckled in sadistic glee hearing General Esdese suggestion.

"I like the way you think, General Esdese. Quite an efficient strategy too. To lure the rebels into a false sense of security and then to destroy them all at once instead of actively hunting them all down like rats in a maze."

General Budo didn't bother to comment. He just stood there silently, trying to take in as much information as he could.

"I hate that I can't do anything. As long as that disgusting pig has the Emperor's ears, nothing I say to him about Honest will mean anything. Now with these rebels showing, it's just going to set me back even further, making my plans on getting rid of both Honest and Esdese even more problematic. Because now, not only do I have to worry about dealing with them both without having the Emperor suspecting foul play at hand, but now our attention is going to be divided on dealing with the rebels instead of dealing with the problems the Prime Minister is causing."

Before the meeting could continue, all four of them felt a presence. It was faint and it could barely be felt, despite that, it was there are it felt like a miasma of lifelessness and pure, unfiltered hatred. Despite its origins not being anywhere near the capital, the presence could still be felt all the way from within the throne room. It was almost insane that the atmosphere was becoming heavy even though whatever was causing the change in atmosphere was an absurd distance away. Then suddenly, it disappeared in an instant, as though the past 30 seconds never happened.

"What was that?" the Emperor asked, being as clueless as ever.

"Oh no….it can't be..." Honest thought, losing his appetite recalling what that was.

"No…..it has found a new wielder!?" Budo thought with a worried expression, being familiar with that feeling.

"That's quite the display of power. I've never felt anything like this before. I'm can't wait to meet the one who wields it." Esdese gleefully smiled, curious as to what kind of being could hold such power.

Back at Sakai Town

After the massive burst of power, Kanshin feel to knees, exhausted both from the power he just emitted and from battling the emotions prior.

"Kanshin, was it? You have surprised me. You've gone beyond my expectations, mortal. From now on, you will be able to wield my power to lay waste to your enemies." The voice commended.

"Who are you?" Kanshin asked again.

"You may call me Uratamashi, mortal. I am what you would call a Teigu."

"Teigu? As in a legendary weapon forged by the first Emperor?" Kanshin responded in shock.

"That's correct. And for the record, you don't need to speak to talk with me. I am bound to you now so I can hear you thoughts just a clearly as any voice." Uratamashi answered.

"Now then, it would wise if you gathered as much as you can from this place and get going. The dangerbeasts are liable to pick up the scent of corpses at any time now and will be all over the place."

Kanshin had realized that he was right. He had to get out of here and quickly. As he was now, there's no way that he would stand a chance against if dangerbeast decided to make their way here.

Kanshin began to salvage what he could from the remains of his hometown and began to make his way out of Sakai Town. Once he turned to leave Sakai Town, he didn't look back.

Author's Note: And that's it for the first chapter. I hope you enjoyed and I shall see you guys within 2 to 3 weeks from now.