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Tobi's P.O.V
I sighed to myself wandering the forest, I'd finally become a member of Akatsuki and the first thing they did was to send me on a mission to collect the Zombie Twins' rings. I scratched the back of my head and looked at my ring. "I wonder why Zetsu-san isn't getting the rings this time?" I asked myself looking around for signs of a battle as I remembered the last trip I went to get the rings.
Finally I found a tore up field with a dead body up towards the side of it. Walking over, slightly hesitant of approaching my now dead former comrade I realized all the masks had been broken." So that's how they did it…" I said speaking out loud merely to get rid of the unnatural silence. I knelt next to Kakazu and slid the ring of his middle left finger and into my pocket. Staring at his corpse I realized that even if I hadn't liked him much I couldn't let myself just leave him like this to be picked at by vultures. Noting a cliff nearby I took a stance and preformed several hand seals. "Earth Release: Rock Lodging Destruction!!" I watched as the rocks fell around Kakazu a quick makeshift burial. Turning I walked away and paused at the edge of the clearing. "I hope you get more of a use out of that jutsu than I did Kakazu-san. It's the reason I'm here in the first place." I called before going to look for Hidan.
As I looked for the large pitfall where Hidan was I couldn't help but smile beneath my mask. The last time I'd seen my friends from Konoha had been more than ten years ago but here I was right where my old teammate had been not three hours after he left the area. I wondered briefly if they would come back to examine the remains of Kakazu and Hidan and what Kakashi would think of the jutsu I used to bury him. After all it was meant to kill me originally.
As I walked I heard the tell tale signs of Hidan being near. They went something along the lines of 'I'm going to murder those fucking bastards trapping me, ME in a god damn hole! It's complete bullshit for me to be taken out by a fucking teenager! He'll be the first to go I'll torture him nice and slowly…yes I'll relish his screams as he begs to die! Yes that'll be nice…' I walked towards the noise noting that it was in fact impossible to kill one of the two Zombies.
Walking toward the crater I had to repress a laugh as I smiled beneath my mask. You could just see bits of Hidan's cloak as he cussed all the leaf ninja to hell. I lept down, and onto a rock, "Hidan-san?" I called.
Hidan stopped cussing for a moment. "Tobi? What're you doing here you little midget? Wait why the fuck does that matter just get me out of here now!"
I sighed 'Good old Hidan. Always straight to the point' I studied the rubble and realized that I'd have to move the rocks by hand. Groaning I shifted the rocks first off his legs and began to work my way up to the rocks near his head. About ten minutes later there was Hidan laying in a crevice between some rocks looking practically helpless.
Standing at the side of the crevice I spoke. "You alright Hidan?"
Hidan replied in the expected way, "What do you think you little squirt!? Just be useful and go get my scythe!"
Smiling at his predicament I looked around finding his precious scythe and handing it to him. Using it pike side down as a crutch he managed to sit up. Suddenly a different look crossed his face. "Hey squirt? What'd the leader say about me and Kakazu?"
My one eye winced and a mentally groaned noting how typical I would get to tell him this news. "Leader-sama considers you and Kakazu dead. He sent me here for you rings."
Hidan growled. "I knew I hated that goddamned fucking leader! He knows I can't die!"
I sighed 'how to put this gently' "Hidan-san. The reason I could join Akatsuki was because leader san could repair most of the damage with a clone and Kakazu's threads….Even if…even if he didn't consider you dead your wounds can't be repair completely." I was really hoping he wouldn't take out his anger on the poor messenger boy at this point. I decided not to mention the other part of that particular jutsu.
Hidan just looked at me for a moment, studying me. I was terrified, crippled or not he still had a scythe and he defiantly knew how to use it. He muttered something under his breath all I could make out was. "Fucking….Kazeme…..Bastards…happy." He seemed to remember I was there. "Oy do me a favor would you? Go look around to the North East for some caves would you? When you find something that doesn't belong bring it here."
I just nodded wondering what exactly didn't belong and why Hidan seemed to care. Shrugging it off I realized I wasn't sure if I pitied Hidan or not. On one hand the organization he served just said 'you're not good enough now leave.' But on the other hand he was lucky he wasn't mismatched like me. When the left side of my body had been crushed by the rock ninja it had been replaced by one of the leaders' clones and sewed on by Kakazu. But that part of my body still had no soul so they'd done something unheard of. Using a technique similar to the one used to seal demons they'd sealed the spirit of Madara Uchiha inside of me, making me the leader above leader-sama. However over the years I'd become skilled at suppressing him till it was just an occasional thing.
Gazing around I realized I could sense something…I think. It was a human but not a ninja and defiantly not a strong one. I suddenly realized that in my musings I'd gotten farther away than I'd intended and shrugged. Looking around I saw some caves and decided to poke around and see if they were the ones that Hidan had mentioned. Looking in the first and second ones I discovered that they were empty. However in the third one I saw a pile of leaves in one corner with something sticking out. Eyeing it warily I walked over and moved the leaves to see a child only two or three looking back at me. I just stared "…….Well…a two year old sure doesn't belong in the forest…" I muttered picking the boy up.
It took me much less time to get back to Hidan as I tried to figure out the mystery of the child. Arriving at the crater I saw Hidan up and standing, well leaning propped up against a tree. I walked in front of him"…Hidan….was this what you were looking for?" I asked holding up the child.
Hidan didn't meet my eyes and muttered a barely audible yes. I gaped "WHAT!!!" I shouted pretty positive the Konoha ninja could have heard that.
Hidan glared at me. "Shut it Tobi! I killed the kids' father one day when Kakazu had something to turn in to the bounty hunters near my village. I didn't go in; his dad found me and attacked so I killed him. Apparently his mom was dead so they handed him to me."
I blinked in confusion. "They handed a two year old to a mass murderer?" He nodded "And you've kept him hidden?" another nod "Did Kakazu know?" He shook his head seemingly having gone temporarily mute. I grinned broadly under my mask.
Hidan seemed to have gained his voice back. "That fucking Kazeme clan better be happy. At least now I can take care of their precious kid. Bastards." I looked at Hidan who seemed perfectly comfortable cussing in front of a two year old and I knew I couldn't stop him. Suddenly I remembered the ring in my pocket. I couldn't take Hidan's knowing full well that he was still alive but it felt odd to separate the rings. I fished in my pocket to find the ring and handed it to Hidan who gave me a blank look. "You're still alive so I can't take your ring" I explained "And I figure you should keep this one too."
Hidan just nodded and I turned ready to head back and say I couldn't find the rings when Hidan called out to me. "Hey Squirt, I owe you one." I just nodded and vanished committing that to memory.
---------6 months later---------
I sighed paying my respects to the now dead leader, murdered by Naruto Uzumaki when he tried to take the Kyuubi. Suddenly I realized the facts, Akatsuki was leaderless, I had the spirit of the founder in me, and I was the new leader. I felt Madara's spirit burning to let me release it. To claim my place as leader and restart the organization to make it bigger, better, I fought it though. I didn't want to be the leader, I wanted to leave. Suppressing the spirit I watched as the others left, of to live their lives and wondered what they would do….after all there were so few of us now.
Vaguely I wondered what I should do now. Suddenly the image of Hidan and that Kazeme child popped into my head. I smiled slightly. Hidan did say he owed me one. With that decision I went to go find them, after all I couldn't let Hidan corrupt him completely.
