Akarui Backstory

Akarui Shi was born in a town called Karasu. He was raised by his mother Kazumi Shi. Akarui never really knew his father as he left right after he was born. Akarui never took interest in finding out more about his father as he resented him for leaving him and his mom. All that he left as a strange mark on Akarui's chest. Also, Akarui was born with a red left eye. This eye never really came up in conversation thus Akarui thinking it was normal.

The last time Akarui asked about his father, Kazumi would just tell him that his father had to go away in order to save the family. She would explain to Akarui that they are part of a very rare Blood Hunter bloodline and things went wrong with the Blood Hunter Guild called "The Blade" that forced them into hiding. It seems that there was an war going on within the guild. Kazumi didn't really tell Akarui much about it further as the less Akarui knows, the safer he will be.

Kazumi does how ever teaches Akarui how to wield his Blood Hunter powers in order to protect himself when the time comes. She thought him how to fight as she too was a very adept swordsman. She explained to Akarui how their blood is able to call upon the power of the shadows to their chosen weapons. This however only applies to the male and not the female.

One one rainy night, Kazumi woke Akarui up in tears and tells him that everything is going to be okay and that she has to leave to go where his father is. Akarui struggled to get up but his mom had him binded somehow on the bed and suddenly, he was put to sleep. The next morning, Akarui woke up very upset, he felt like what happened was just a nightmare. He came by his mother's bedroom and found a note. The note tells Akarui not to worry about them and that if they don't come back, then Akarui should live a normal life or any life he wants. Akarui spends the next few weeks just training and waiting for his mom to come back. For food and money he took up random jobs around Karasu mostly bounty hunting. He never really wanted to go further away from Karasu as he still hold hope of his mom's return.

A few weeks has passed, a knock came by Akarui's home. When Akarui carefully opened the door, there was a large man fully armored with another smaller man beside him. Akarui recognized him immediately as Ryuzaki, the Emperor of Xu, and bowed down right away. Ryuzaki lifted his head and told Akarui that there is no need for that. Ryuzaki came with bad news of Akarui's mom passing away. Akarui half expected this already but still, anger and sadness took over and suddenly felt very warm inside like something inside of him is wanting to get out. However, Akarui managed to control this in time and just stood there staring blankly. After a while, Ryuzaki told Akarui that he's willing to adopt him as his own. Akarui sadly accepts and finally left the house for the first time. Ryuzaki ensured that this house will always be available to him and won't be touched. They then make their way back to Kimomaki.

Along the way, Akarui and Kurai bonded really well. Akarui never really had someone else that he can call his friend, and now he has a brother. They actually pretty have a lot in common too and there is just an unexplainable bond between them. Along the way, there was a bandit attack out of nowhere but the three make quick work of them. Ryuzaki saw Akarui fight for the first time and saw that he was a formidable fighter and noticed that he is of Blood Hunter bloodline. However, he didn't ask further about it, like he knew.

Upon reaching Kimomaki, Mei Ling welcomed Akarui with open arms and treated him as one of her own. Akarui and Kurai bonded together and trained together a lot. They even earned the nickname "Akuma Brothers" because of how quickly they rose up to the ranks until they became leaders of the Squad 1 and Squad 2 of the army. It was also because they were ruthless and merciless when it came to missions to defeat invaders and rebels.

Years have passed, the Mizayaki clan and it's "High Wizards" has presented their selves to Ryuzaki offering an opportunity to enhance the soldiers but doing experiments on them. There was a couple of demonstrations that was successfully implemented and Ryuzaki was very impressed. Ryuzaki agreed and thus the alliance with Mizayaki was formed.

The Mizayaki at first was very kind to the army, making sure that the experiments were okay and safe and most of the time it was. They then gave a theory of more complicated experiments that they can perform and wanted to perform it on their best soldiers. After long and hard deliberations, Akarui and Kurai agreed to undergo this procedure. They were aware of the difficulty of this process but believe that they can become a lot stronger once successful. The experiments were long and painful. For Akarui, it seems that he is not feeling anything different. The experiments were starting to feel like torture but still hoped and pushed on with the experiment.

One day after one of Akarui's experiments, Akarui decided to walk off the pain and went to where Karui was being held to check up on him. That is when he saw the wizards somewhat celebrating as if the procedure was successful. A smile took over Akarui's face and was about to present himself, until another humanoid presence came out of nowhere to the room and started to congratulate the wizards and talked about how they are now closer with their main goal with taking over the Xu Empire.

Shocked and scared, Akarui managed to sneakily go back to his room and started to plan how to get Kurai away as soon as possible. He saw a chance when everyone was called downstairs for an important meeting. He pretended to be asleep incase someone checks on him and someone did. When it was clear, he packed his things and went to Kurai's room and grabbed him along with his things towards the stable.

In pain, Akarui managed to bring Kurai to the stables through sheer will and took their horses and rode away. Then the alarm from the building where their experiments were being held went off. Akarui knew that there was no time to get to Ryuzaki for now and decided to take Kurai and hide until he wakes up to tell Ryuzaki. He rode towards outside the city, towards south. Kurai woke up in the middle of this and asked Akarui what was going on. Akarui explained and Kurai tried to stop him to return to his father. At that point, a large explosion came from the Emperor's room. With horror and fear taking over the Akuma brother's faces decided to seek help and find out more information about the Mizayaki and what happened.

They make their way south which will eventually lead them to travel to Cazar.