Prior To Akame's Defection To The Revolutionary Army...

Having left Najenda and Bulat, along with meeting her assistant, Lubbock, Akame had traveled back to the Empire and reported back to Gozuki about her failure of her assassination mission.

The "Father" of the Elite Seven was disappointed in Akame, but he ultimately gave her another chance, due to how successful she is in the last few missions. However, Gozuki has noted how Akame is always suspicious of the Empire's activities lately. A few days would pass and Akame would meet up with Najenda's spy in the Capital's slums, Leone.

Discussing Akame's escape plan, they decided that Akame would only be able to bring the people that she could, which was affectionately her younger sister.

Currently, Akame was currently fleeing the Capital, Kurome on her back. She had just killed Bill and his staff. While killing Bill would only slow down the operation of using the doping system that the young children would usually use, it did not permanently take it out for good. Despite the preparations that Akame had made to escape into the mountains, she only got far into the forest where Gozuki had caught up to her.

Gozuki: "I've got you now, Akame. I figured you'd bolt quickly. Good job making it this far."

Coming to a halt, Akame turned around to face her adopted father, Kurome still hanging unconscious on her back. He tried convincing Akame to come back, using Poney and Natala as leverage to bring her back, but Akame's heart had already made her choice.

Laying Kurome gently down onto the ground, she faces Gozuki once more and unsheathed her katana.

Gozuki: "Oh! Let me guess. You want a fight to the death with your old man? My darling daughter. I'm still willing to forgive you if you change your mind now."

Akame: "If we keep talking, the others will catch up to us. Before that happens, Father...I'm going to bury you."

Gozuki: "You've had plenty of chances to reform your attitudes, but now it's come to this. You're not my daughter anymore. You are nothing to me. I'm going to finish you off."

Akame knew she had to be wary of Gozuki's Teigu, Murasame. With just one nick of the blade, she'd die in mere seconds, all her preparation would be for naught. While she knew she couldn't be careless in the battle, she couldn't let the fight drag on. Should she do so, the reinforcements that Gozuki had called in would catch up and would most likely execute her.

Akame: "I was able to make it this far because I also have friends with me."

Gozuki: "Oh?"

Akame: "Leone!"

Piqued by her supposed "friends," Gozuki looked to the forest. But it was nothing but a distraction, Akame taking this chance as she sped forward. However, Gozuki knew it was a fake out, but he was surprised by the girl's speed, Akame zipping past him and landing a cut on his lower chest. Gozuki clicked his tongue in annoyance, using his hair as weapons as he had them engage the girl, the ravenette had jumped backwards. 

Gozuki: "I was wrong to think...you're no longer my daughter...that attack you made just now was something you could only do because you're my child and knew me so well...!"

Akame: "I'm going to put you in the ground."

Thanks to his training as a Rakshasa Demon, Gozuki had extended his limbs, having them swirl around the place as he tries to slice her with Murasame. However, Akame had to be wary now as she notices that Gozuki's strikes had begun to make cracks in her own sword. The Shingu were created to be just as powerful as the Teigu, but they never reached that capacity, so in short, the Shingu were much weaker.

Running to the left, Akame once more dodged an attack from Gozuki's hair, which they all came at once as they plunged themselves into the ground. Before she could attack once more, Gozuki stretched his foot, his kick slamming into Akame's side, her being sent further into the forest and crashing into a tree. The initial impact caused blood to come out of her mouth, splattering onto the dirt. However, Akame was resilient, due to her training with Gozuki, so she was able to recover quickly and jump to the nearest tree branch. She begins to flee further into the forest, Gozuki giving chase. Gozuki was then cut off when Akame abruptly stopped, her turning around as the two met in their final clash. Akame was able to make another cut on his lower, blocking Gozuki's last strike with Murasame. But in turn, her Shingu shattered, no longer making it usable.

However, Gozuki tried to have Akame go down with her, using his tongue to try and strangle her, but the length was too short to reach her. Gozuki was severely weakened, him leaning up against a tree. It was quite obvious to Akame that her last strike with her Shingu wouldn't kill him, so she looked her last option. Picking up Murasame, Akame stabs it into Gozuki's chest. The poison then kicks in, killing Gozuki in a few seconds, but not before letting Akame off with one last piece of advice.

Gozuki: "This Teigu possesses a trump card...it involves discarding one's humanity. I was never able to activate it, but you...might just be able to."

He then succumbs to the poison, dying with a smile on his face. In his final thoughts, he dreamed of the Elite Seven as children, all of them extending their hands out to him. Although he never deserved to see this in his dying moments, putting them through a harsh and horrifying ordeal, a father is still a father when all's said and done.

Heading back to the clearing, Akame picked up Kurome's unconscious form. But she stopped when she heard running footsteps and voices. The Empire's reinforcements had caught up to them. So she began to run further into the forest and heading towards the mountains. But due to her injuries with her fight against Gozuki, this slowed her down. Coming out of the forest, she came across a gap, hearing running water below. Her current way of escape with Kurome was to jump into the river, she wasn't able to. A shot rang through the air, the ravenette having a bullet wound to the side of her abdomen, her dropping Kurome to the ground. Behind her was a gunmen with several Imperial grunts heading her way. She swiftly cut them down, the rest of the Imperial reinforcements Akame has Murasame in her possession.

Now that close range was no longer an option, more gunmen arrived and began unleashing bullets upon her. Akame couldn't block all of the shots, the ones weren't blocked giving her bullet wounds near her abdomen. Due to this, she was being pushed back and fell into the river, leaving Kurome to the hands of the Empire.

Minutes later, Poney had arrived on the scene, standing over a dead Gozuki. She crouched down and begun weeping tears for her dead father.

Imperial Soldier: "Hey. Hurry up and help track down Akame! You need to avenge your comrades. She was injured, so she can't be far. We just need to find her."

Poney: "I've lost everyone...why would Akame do this!?"

Imperial Soldier: "I already told you! Because she's a traitor!"

Poney: (thoughts) 'I don't understand how Akame could kill Daddy. Nothing's making any sense. Is she being manipulated by the enemy!? Should I fight Akame!? If only the chief...if only Najasho were here.'

Imperial Assassin: "Poney. Aren't you going to get up? Can you not do the mission?"

The auburn-haired girl froze. The person talking to her will kill her should she be unable to continue. Standing up, she heads for the forest.

Poney: "I'll look for her."

Imperial Assassin: "So you finally over it? Then go."

With her orders, Poney ran off searching for Akame. Should would be if she weren't heading for the opposite direction. Hearing from eyewitnesses, Najasho was acting like a wild animal, running through the mountains and heading westward. 

Poney had no one else left in the Capital. Coming out of the forest, the mountains westward came into view. Poney's new mission was to search for Najasho, him heading westward as the blonde was determined to head that far in that direction. Down by the river, Akame would eventually be found by Leone and later taken to a small hut in the forest to be tended to her wounds.

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Months later, the Revolutionary Army created their own assassination unit. Night Raid. The members consisted of former general Najenda, former soldier of the Empire, Bulat, Leone, Najenda's spy in the Capital, Lubbock, Najenda's assistant, Akame, a former assassin of the Empire, and Sheele and Mine, one belonging to the Empire's industrial district and the other being a foreigner from the west. Both Kurome and Natala were moved to the Dark Squad, the assassination unit led by Kairi in the Empire. However, Natala would later perish, being killed by Kurome in the village of Tekido, him being on the verge of death due to an attack by the Rebel Army. Night Raid's Akame, Bulat, and Lubbock would assist with the villagers of Tekido leaving the area, Akame and Kurome having a small battle against each other. 

In the west, Poney had went back to the city of Potulu, only to find information that Najasho had got on a boat to the continent of Kuja. The state of the Elite Seven's No. 2 is unknown, his status being MIA after fleeing the battle at Mount Hakuba. However, east of the Empire, there have been several reports of a cloaked assassin going around killing soldiers of the Empire with a scythe, leaving nothing but ice fragments at the scene of the battle.

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-:Status of Elite Seven:-

Leader, Gozuki: Deceased, Defeated by Elite Seven's Akame
No. 1, Najasho: Alive, Fled westward to the continent of Kuja and onward
No. 2, Akira: MIA, Location Unknown
No. 3, Guy: Deceased, Defeated by Gravekeepers' Weneg
No. 4, Cornelia: Deceased, Defeated by Oarburghs' Taeko
No. 5, Poney: Alive, Fled westward to the continent of Kuja and onward
No. 6, Green: Deceased, Defeated by Retribution Group's Mashiro
No. 7, Akame: Alive, Defected to Revolutionary Army's Night Raid
No. 8, Kurome: Alive, Moved to Dark Squad and later Group of Terror
No. 9, Natala: Deceased, Defeated by Dark Squad's Kurome
No. 10, Gin: Deceased, Defeated by Oarburghs' Merraid Oarburgh