Chapter #5Keeping Danger In Mind by: D.t   He breathed a sigh of relief.
After multiple months of torture, both in a physical and mental way, he had finally escaped his jail cell back at the capital; he kicked rocks and had a giant beaming smile on his face as he made his way back to night raid.
All the memories of Esdeaths torture, or the weird and humiliating looks he would get when he was forced to walk around in a dog collar with a leash, all of that would be forgotten once he saw the faces of his friends which he had missed so much; his happiness was in containable, he simply could not bottle all of his emotions together as he let out frequent squeals of pure joy; contrast to the everlasting sorrow and despair he felt when he was forced to be Esdeaths, "pet"
His steps became faster and faster as he didn't want to wait any longer; he had become accustomed to the loneliness of his jail cell, a very clever manipulation tactic from Esdeath ensured that Tatsumi was so broken and lonely to the point that he would be excited to have her company, but now he could return back to his friends who could provide actually warmness.
Fast steps soon became a fast paced run, night raids base wasn't too far away from the jail cell he was kept at; but he didn't want to risk the possibility of one of the jaguars finding him, not to mention his friends were waiting for him.
Back at Night raids base.
"WE HAVE TO RESCUE HIM!" the pink haired girl yelled out suddenly as the other members simply stared into space, no one expected Mine to be so passionate about someone who was only in the group for a short amount of time, but here they were.
"Not so fast..." Replied a much calmer voice belonging to the white haired girl named Najenda, "if we rescue him now we'll be slaughtered, the jail cell in which he is kept at is guarded by multiple Jaguars who could solo our entire team.
To this, Mine simply groaned in frustration as she realized that her anger towards her teammates was misplaced, falling into a vat of despair at not being able to do anything about the situation.
"Y'know, I miss Tatsumi too but you're kinda taking it too far, Mine; I mean, you can't just send us to our deaths like that all for one member!" Lubbock added on to Najenda's sentiment as Mine gritted her teeth.
A loud banging sound could be heard as the pink haired girls hand collided with the wooden table in which the conversation was taking place on, veins could be seen popping out from her head as she started to turn red due to pure rage.
"YOU THINK THIS IS A JOKE?! We're the best assassins of the revolutionary army! We could at least try and fight instead of sitting around and doing nothing, one of our members is probably being held hostage for the capital and the best assassins that the world could ask for are sitting around like ducks only having a discussion about it. Tatsumi's probably being tortured right now as we speak! It's obvious with that crazy bitch Esdeath being his captor, we can't this go on! We can at least plan a surprise attack if we can't fight them head on"
To this, the members of night raid currently at the table only sighed in slight annoyance at the persistence of the pink headed girl; well, except for Akame who was currently stuffing her face with meat.
"Mine....even one of Esdeaths subordinates could wipe the floor with us; we can't do anything, sending night raid would only be a death wi-" Najenda was cut off as the door to the base was quickly kicked over, landing on the ground as it created a small cloud of dust upon impact; the members of night raid quickly grabbed their weapons but just as fast lowered them as tears started to well up in their eyes.
A equally teary eyed Tatsumi stared back at them with a giant smile on his face, the sight of him was so surprising that even Akame stopped viciously devouring her food to stare in awe at the face of a lost member returning back so randomly.
However, before anyone could do anything they were cut off by Mine who quickly jumped from the place in which she was sitting at and embraced Tatsumi into a hug.
The tears blinding her vision fell off one after another onto Tatsumi and wetting his clothing, Mine kept squeezing tighter and tighter as the emotions that were bottled up for months were finally leaked.
"Tatsumi.... You're finally back, escaping Esdeath and the others all on your own, incredible. Though we still need to know how you did it and if you collected any valuable information while being held captive" Najenda tried to stay calm but her voice was more hitched than usual with the surprising sight of one of her comrades back.
"NO! He's been through enough! Let him rest first!" Mine quickly replied to Najenda as she let go of Tatsumi.
"I agree that he needs his rest, but this information is extremely valuable and could lead to the revolutionary army's victory, Tatsumi might not be able to remember much of what happened if he rests now" Akame, for the first time since the conversation started, talked and more specifically interrupted Mine as she wiped her tears and gave a quick nod before turning back to Tatsumi.
"Well, Esdeath has no weakness, unfortunately; and I didn't get to know much of the other jaguars" the members of Night raids simply gave a sigh at this.  indicates the next chapter needs to be written. |
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