Return, Sad Sakumo and evolution

'ugh fuck! Almost there and then I can take a bath and eat something nice! I haven't had a bath in months! Inn food is complete garbage! I feel disgusting... I can't wait for a 5-hour-long bath!' Akame makes her way through the trees and sees Tobirama and hundreds of Anbu.

"Tobi! I'm back!" Akame and Tobirama are very close and they have nicknames for each other Akame yells for him.

Tobirama comes over and hugs Akame and has tears in his eyes that stain Akame's tattered hooded cloak.

"I thought the worse when team 9 reported what happened... You are an idiot... But you are an idiot I am very proud of Kame!" Tobirama smiles with tears going down his face.

"I'm sorry to worry you, Tobi!" Akame pats the old man's shoulder. Tobirama is in his late 40s and has lost too much already and he doesn't want to lose his new friend.

"It's fine... You look like shit by the way haha!" Tobirama makes fun of Akame in a good-natured manner.

Akame looks down at herself and sees her Shinobi armor is tattered so badly that they hardly cover anything and her Anbu Cloak barely helps her resist the cold of winter.

"I've had it rough for quite a few months... But I've dealt with worse. I just want to take a hot bath eat a hot meal and slam face-first into my comfy bed! HAHAHA!" Akame and Tobirama speed up and arrive in Konoha. Tobirama buys her a nice Kimono as a present and it also covers her up as she is just too exposed. Akame knows she is just 9 years old and no one will look at her lewdly except for people not in their right mind that is. So she strolls through Konoha with her chest bare.

"Thanks for the Kimono Tobi! I was feeling cold... I hate winter..." Akame's hair darkens her expression when she remembers how she dealt with Winter in both lives.

"No need to remember those sad times! Just look forward and don't take any steps backward! Keep moving forward and continue finding happiness!" Tobirama isn't so eloquent when motivating people but it works.

"Your right Tobi... But it's hard to forget... I don't think I will ever forget... Now I'm going to go take a bath eat some Yakiniku and then go to sleep..." Akame yawns.

"Come over to the Hokage Mansion to get your payment for the mission tomorrow afternoon. You probably will sleep in till noon. You deserve a vacation after everything you went through. And... Welcome Back home Akame" Tobirama smiles kindly when he welcomes her back.

Akame takes a bath and dresses up casually and goes to the Hatake Mansion.

"Hey it's m-" Akame was going to announce herself but Sakumo opens the door lighting fast and nearly tackles Akame as he hugs her.

"Please don't ever do that to me again! I can't bear it again!" Sakumo looks up with little tears in his eyes. Akame has a shocked expression but remembers that this Sakumo is just a child right now and not the battlefield-hardened Anbu Commander she knows from the show. Her expression softens and hugs him back.

"I'm going to Yakiniku wanna tag along? My treat Sa-Kun!" Akame ruffles his silver hair.

"No! I will pay for my half okay?" Sakumo has a stoic face but it makes Akame giggle because a stoic expression on Sakumo just makes him seem like a cute kid that mimics his father.

"Alright deal now let's get going! To Yakiniku!" Akame enthusiastically points her hand in the direction of the BBQ restaurant.

"mmm! So good! Haven't had proper food in months! I've only had moldy bricks of bread and tough meat and cold veggies!" Akame chows down and eats like a pig.

"HAHAHA! A-Chan slow down it's not like the meat has legs and will walk away!" Sakumo eats the meat properly.

"You don't understand! The food I ate might as well be from a garbage can when I was recovering from my wounds! I had very little Ryo on me so I had to rest and recover in crappy inns!" Akame goes back to eating the meat in a rude way.

"Akame I want you to know that our team didn't abandon you... Even the Hokage was pushing to go rescue you... But the civilian council and some clan heads disagreed and wanted to leave you for dead! I felt like killing them all when I was in that meeting with my father..." Sakumo clenches his fists so hard that he draws blood.

Akame grabs his hands and uses a healing palm and the wounds on his palms seal up and leave no scars. Akame's talent in Medical Ninjutsu is great but Medical Ninjutsu only goes so far. Akame would have had hundreds of complaints if a hospital back on earth operated with Medical Ninjutsu only.

"It's okay Sakumo... I'm back alive and well right?" Akame smiles showing her pearly whites. But the scars that are left by Murasame's trump card mode are much darker and now it looks like scars that are black as ink.

"..." Sakumo has tears falling down his face.

"Sakumo?" Akame has a confused face.

"Why do you push yourself so far? That cursed sword has turned most of the skin on your body black as ink... I can tell they are permanent... What forced you to use it for such a long period of time?" Sakumo hiccups as he speaks.

"Sakumo I had no choice but to use it... I had to kill Kirigakure Shinobi that kept chasing after me... Even after that, I was forced to use it so that I wouldn't drown in the sea... I had to run across the sea to the land of lightning... Don't mind these scars Sakumo..." Akame goes back to eating meat.

If Akame wasn't immortal the curse of Murasame would have killed her every time she used it. The Scars are no longer unsightly like battle scars but are now like Poisonous Ink in the form of ritualistic tattoos. The Black Tattoo marks across her body glow blood red when she uses Trump Card mode.

Akame's continuous use of the Trump Card has forced her to evolve into a Half-Demon. She is no longer completely human even the Sclera of her eyes is now pitch black her iris are red and the pupil is vertical. Akame will find out that Being a half-demon will come with its own difficulties.