A Certain Underling...

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-(A Few Years Ago)-

(3rd Person POV)

As the boy walked down the dirt pathway, his clothes...ripped and ragged. Cuts and bruises on his hands and legs, shivering as the night wind blew past him.

For all he knew, he could die any second....but he still needed to find it...his reason...to....

But as he walked towards an opening in the woods, he came face to face with a man sitting on a log. It looked as if...he was waiting for the boy to show up...

"Why hello there young lad." he smiled, as he stood up with his hands in his pocket. But the boy didn't answer, he just stood there and watched as the man made his way towards him. "Hmm...lad may I ask you a question?"

"....."

"Don't wanna talk huh?" the man wrapped his arms around himself, staring at the boy as if looking into his soul. "Ryuunosuke Akutagawa, I wish to offer you a choice." The man said, catching the boys attention now. 

The boy thought as to how the man knew his name....

".....and what choice is that...." he asked, his voice hoarse and strained. But just hearing his voice, brought the biggest smile to the mans face.

"From what I've heard, you have a skill...a dangerous one in fact.." The man gave Akutagawa a threatening glare, causing him to react. He tried attacking him with his skill...

"Hm, not bad I say." The man was still standing still, and to Akutagawa's shock he wasn't bleeding or in pain. But he could've sworn he used his skill on him-

That's when he noticed the black blade he had made to kill the man was blurry and disoriented....it stayed like that for a few seconds before disappearing entirely.  What's more, the man's hands were touching the blade....yet he received no cuts or bruises.

"How-,"

"Like you Akutagawa, I am a skill user....I just happen to have a skill that cancels skills." the man shrugged. Akutagawa felt a chill go down his spine as he realized something...

A skill that cancels other skills....there was only one person...one man who had such a skill...

"You're......Osamu Dazai..." he said, backing away slowly.

Osamu Dazai....a man who's reputation and actions have been heard by many. He's a sort of special person in the dark world. No matter how difficult the enemy...or the task...he would get deal with it in no time...

"Mhm, that I am." Dazai said, looking up at the sky. "This may be a little weird, but I happen to know a few things about you..." his face suddenly grew hard and cold. "Ryuunosuke Akutagawa, orphan and skill user. After running from your orphanage with your trusted friends and sister, you have found out something that you weren't supposed to see....a mafia gang that happened to be smuggling drugs behind our backs."

Akutagawa felt his face go pale as the memories resurfaced.

"Then on that day, all of your friends were killed....hoping to keep what you children saw a secret. You and your sister escaped however...but you both are now alone in the world.." he knelt down now, looking Akutagawa straight into the eyes.

"......and what......what does that help you with.....knowing who I am...."

"Hm, you see lad I got promoted today....apparently I'm one of the top bosses of the Mafia. Basically I have a whole lot of power and whole lot of new responsibilities..."

Akutagawa stood frozen in place now, not knowing what exactly this man had wanted.

"I also...get to have one underling....a person who follows my every command." 

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