A While Later

I'm soooooooooo hungry!

"Apples! Apples for sale! With small discount for the first customer!" Huh, FOOD!

"Can I have one Apple?" I jumped down from the roof and asked the person drooling at the apples sight and smell of the apples.

"Sorry, these apples aren't for sale!" He walked away with the cart of apples.

But he just said he was selling them. I stared down at the floor seeing my feet covered in dust because I was wearing worn out shoes. This world is so cruel! If people can be cruel then I'll be as well! "I'll take that, thanks a lot!" I stole an apple from the cart then ran.

"Hey come back here thief!" He chased me leaving his cart behind. I wasn't looking where I was going so I bumped into a wall. "Oww!"

"You backstabbing thief! I'll make you pay!" He swung an axe at me. I shut my eyes tight but it took too long so I opened my eyes seeing a boy hold the axe in front of me.

"Who-who are you?!"

"The name's Tatsumi, why don't you pick on somebody on your own size?!" He wing his sword at him.

"But she stole my apple!"

"It's true, I'm sorry!" I reached into my pocket paying for the apple. "Sorry for stealing it!" He snatched the money and looked at it all puzzled. I pulled down my hoodie trying to hide my face.

"This isn't enough for even a quarter of an apple!" He yelled waving the coin in front of my face.

"But it's all I have!" I checked all my pockets once more finding nothing!

"I'll pay for it!" Tatsumi handed the man money as he they both walked away.

"Wait!" I ran after Tatsumi seeing he stopped and turned around. "Thanks for helping me back there, I appreciate it!"

"No prob! Stay out of trouble, ok?" He patted my head then walked away.

"Can I repay you?" I asked, he stopped and smiled at me as I turned around. "I see you have a sword, do you want me to teach you some swordsmanship? I know, I'm only 14, I shouldn't be even touching such a thing but I'm really good. Trust me!"

"Umm .... Ok?" We walked into an empty arena and faced each other. I took out my sword and pointed it at him.

"Come at me!" He charged his sword at me. I dodged it, kicked him on the head and jumped onto his back, twisting his arm slightly. "Told ya I'm good!" I laughed.

"Owww, my arm!" He cried.

"Oh, sorry!" I got off him blushing a little with embarrassment. "I did this for more than half of my life, I should've known some people wouldn't be matched with me!"

"It's ok, well you found something to work on!"

"What do you mean?" I tilted my head, putting away my sword.

"You should protect the city instead of stealing things! When we meet again, I'll be the one breaking your arm!" He joked pointing at my right arm.

"Promise that we'll meet again, Tatsumi!" I smiled as the wind blew my hoodie down showing my face.

"Wow, you're really cute! Don't use that hood to ever hide your face again, you hear me?" He pointed at my face.

"Ok, my name's Jan. Don't forget me!" I lifted out my hand and shook his hand.

"We'll meet again one day for sure! And when we do, I'll beat you!" He joked letting go of my hand.

"I promise I'll work harder so you won't get any closer to me!" I laughed walking away, waving goodbye.

He was the nicest person I've ever met. I promise I'll repay you one day. For sure!

Later That Week

"I would like to join the Imperial Army, please!" I placed my application form onto the table.

"Sorry, we're not accepting Women at the moment-" he took a tiny peek of the form and gasped,"you're the one working with Akame and the others! You're by far the strongest one in the area!"

"So does that mean I'm in?"

"You're in! You're in!"

"Thank god!" I let out a huge sigh of relief.

"But you have to go through this test. This way please!" He opened the door into the staff room.

I walked in seeing a room full of crazy science stuff and experiments. There were different weapons everywhere but they all looked unique in a way.

"Please take a seat", I took a seat on a chair behind me and started looking around. "Do any of these weapons catch your eye?" A man came out of nowhere pointing at the weapons around me.

I looked around seeing different types of things but nothing caught my eye. Until I found a sword being rapped in huge, bloody red vines in the wall.

"What's that?" I pointed at the sword.

"It's 流血の願い (Ryūketsu no negai) (meaning: bloody wishes), it's a sword that grants wishes using blood. It's the only Imperial Arm that has more than 1 trump card. They are unknown at the moment since no one has even tried to use it. They say if you're not worthy enough, you can become insane after using the sword or even ..... die."

"Can I have it?" I asked touching the vines rapped around the sword.

"But .... no one has ever survived!"

"It caught my eye, and also ...... I think it's calling out to me to grab it", I held the top of the sword and tried pulling it out of the vines. The vines slowly opened up by themselves and let me take the sword out. "It worked!" But just then, I felt a pang of tremendous pain in my heart. I fell on my knees still holding onto the sword, I couldn't let go. It hurt for 5 seconds then it seized letting me to stand up, still holding the sword.

"Well, this is unusual. Congratulations, you have made the sword yours. No need to go through the test. Use it wisely!" I thanked him and walked out still not realising that it changed my outfit and appearance.

Author's Note: I made up the Sword! Cool right?