colour.//shin soukoku

Chapter 1: Red

The boy with sickly demeanor walked along the alleyway. If his plan was successful, the weretiger would be there. Akutagawa stopped when he reached his destination and as he expected, Higuchi had the target cornered there, while the others who were caught up in the mess were left half dead.

Akutagawa looked at the weretiger. He observed him. Silver locks draped down on one side at shoulder level, a stiff stature and fearful eyes. What a coward, Akutagawa thought. Just as he was about to approach the man tiger, he noticed a presence behind him. Akutagawa couldn't even care to look back, he just sliced through the orange head behind him like it was nothing. He looked back at the now angered were tiger. "You! How dare you!" He cried out as he activated his ability. Merely paws and a tail showed up. How weak, he couldnt even use his gift entirely. Akutagawa breathed a sigh and raised Rashomon to attack his target.

He cut and sliced but it was no use. The were tiger was too fast in that form. Akutagawa managed to cut off a limb, but his target only grew it back. The mafioso clicked his tongue in annoyance. Why couldn't he defeat a coward like this? Was he really that weak? Before Akutagawa could try anything else, a very familiar man came between them and nullified both abilities.

"Dazai-san!" Akutagawa called out surprised to see his former teacher siding with this were tiger. Dazai had disappeared not long ago, leaving him undisclosed and discontent. He wanted to show Dazai his artificial strength, he wanted Dazai to know that he was capable. He wanted to be acknowledged, maybe that would give him some sort of colour.

"Ah Akutagawa, still as weak as I left you." The brunette retorted, a grin plastered on his face. "My new subordinate is better than you." Dazai looked towards Atsushi. Akutagawa felt a burning hatred build up in his stomach. He glared at the man tiger, but before he could dare to attack, reinforcements from the ADA arrived. He had no choice to flee. Flee like the coward he was.

His world was black and white, at least until now. This weretiger had let him see the first colour in a long time. Akutagawa could only think of how much red he was going to see once he killed that weretiger.