Warning: This fic will contain strong language, yoai, incest, changes in this story from the series, and possible spoilers. Yoai will most likely not occur untill later on.

Disclaimer: I don't own Naruto… This is probably why.

"Call a group meeting," was the first thing, a groggy eyed, Pein heard when he woke up that morning.

Madara had woken and decided to tie up some loose ends that may lead other villages, particularly Kanoha, to the Akatsuki's base. Since Pein was the mock leader for the time being, the meeting had to be announced by him.

After announcing the meeting to half of the base Pein went back to 'Tobi's' room and spoke with the leader about what the meeting was about. He only needed to tell half the base because the other half were partnered to the one's that were told and would be there regardless.

When the others finally were told of the meeting the responses varied.

When Itachi announced the meeting to Kisame, Kisame just sighed and sat up in bed. By this time the Uchiha had already left and was nowhere to be seen. Kisame just lowered his head before he started to get dressed for his meeting, 'Why doesn't he ever talk to me. We've been partners for two years now and he still is just as isolated, if not more, as when he joined.' Kisame kept thinking about this as he got ready. He didn't care for Itachi much either, but he was still a kid in Kisame's eyes and because of that Kisame worried for him.

When Kakuzu had told Hidan about the meeting, Hidan just mumbled something about it being too early and a few more profanities, then rolled over. "Wake up brat, Leader said for everyone to be there in 10 minutes." Kakuzu said this while walking over to his stack of money and soon began counting it. He knew this drove Hidan crazy and would get the Jashinist to wake up. Within the next two and a half minute Hidan was up dressed and screaming profanities as he walked out the bedroom door. Kakuzu then pulled out a notepad and scrolled down the number he had reached when Hidan woke up. He then scanned the other numbers and chuckled slightly when he realised that it was a new record for how quickly he could get Hidan out of the room.

Zetsu had been told by Pein about the meeting and 'Tobi' already knew, so he went to tell Diedara about the meeting and came back out a minute later screaming about being a good boy while running away from a very ticked off looking Diedara with three little clay spiders in his hand.

Konan had still been asleep when Pein had come into there shared room to tell her of the meeting, but she didn't stay asleep long as a loud explosion was heard down the hallway there room was on. At hearing this she awoke and was instantaneously in a defensive position by the bed holding a Kunai in one hand and staring in Pein's direction with a look the made you feel like you were trapped in ice. It was only for a second but it still took affect and Pein had to hide the chill that went up his spine. He then proceeded to tell her about the meeting in 10 minutes before excusing himself from the room.

Within six minutes all the Akatsuki members were seated in their Meeting Room and waiting for Pein to start the meeting. Their 'Meeting Room' wasn't really anything special. Really it was just one of the vacant living room areas with a round-ish table in the middle of it. There were 13 seats even though the largest the group had ever been was 10, but Kakuzu had found it for 100 yen less then a table for 10 so they ended up with the 13 seater instead.

Kakuzu and Kisame were sitting next to each other and decided to joke around a bit quietly while waiting. Kisame started by whispering the announcement, " Ladies and gentlemen, we are gathered here today to witness the joining of… who should it be this time?" Kisame asked since they had teasingly paired Sasori and Diedara during the last meeting. Unfortunately they didn't realise how true what they were saying was until the blonde had come back from their mission to capture the one-tailed beast and virtually shut down from the loss of the puppeteer. The two felt horrible afterwards but that had been months ago and wouldn't stop them from joking around.

"Good question. Hm… how about." Kakuzu's suggestion was cut short by Pein announcing that the meeting had now started.

"This meeting was called because it is time that we tie up loose ends with our old friend Orochimaru. I know how much you all have missed him in his absence so we're going to pay him a visit. I've come to understand that he has been keeping a profile on us as we have on him but he has also been giving out information about us to the neighbouring villages. This is why our latest attempts to capture the Tail-beast vessels have been more difficult. To my knowledge our location has not been given up yet but that may only be a matter of time.

I've decided that in order to prevent anymore of our classified information to leak out to the villages, we must go to the Sound Village and find Orochimaru. When we have infiltrated his hideout we will search the entire hideout in order to find him. If he is not there I know the location of 7 of his other 9 hideouts so we will methodically search each one leaving no traces they we were ever there. We will all work as a group in order to cover more ground at a faster rate and if we do find him it will take all of us to take him down in the case that he has any of his…'experiments' with him.

Any questions?"

Pein then sat down and waited for any questions.

"When do we start; how long will it take?" Zetsu's two sides asked after a short pause.

" We start in two days, and it will take between three days to three weeks." Pein replied.

"Why two days?" Kisame asked eager to get out of the base. Itachi and Kisame had gotten back a week ago and had been sitting around the base with nothing to do.

"I have received information that says Orochimaru is currently not at an of his bases because he just attacked Kanoha about a month ago and Appears to be waiting on something or someone. The report wasn't clear on that part." Pein answered to the best of his abilities. He hadn't been able to see the entire report of Madara's but when it came to what Orochimaru was waiting for all it said was that he was waiting on something from Kanoha.

Itachi had stopped listening when he heard Pein mention Orochimaru's attack on Kanoha because he had a flashback to when he and Kisame had been sent there to capture the nine-tailed beast and he had ran into Sasuke. He then began to think about how much his brother had grown and was glad to see that he was getting stronger. He knew that Sasuke would never believe him, but Itachi still cared about Sasuke. He wished that he could have a chance to explain everything to his younger brother but he doubted that he would be given the chance. And even if he did explain, would Sasuke believe him? These thought had plagued Itachi's mind ever since the fight. He knew that Sasuke hated him and he wanted Sasuke to in order to get stronger and revive the Uchiha clan. He knew that Sasuke would never allow the Uchiha clan to try and take over the Leaf Village like their father and uncles tried. Or at least the Sasuke that he had watched grow until the age of eight wouldn't. By doing this he was making him stronger so that he would be a valuable asset to Kanoha…

Itachi then stopped that train of thought as he realised that the meeting was almost over. With his mind now set on the upcoming mission, Itachi hoped that he found the rotten snake that had always leered at him when he first joined and had endangered his younger brother and attacked Kanoha. If he found him first he would kill him before anyone else showed up and say that he had to because Orochimaru was attacking him or trying to escape.

"Ok. Well if there are no more questions then this meeting is now over. Be ready to leave by tomorrow night, get a good nights rest tomorrow night because we leave at five in the morning. I will give each of you a map with a trail to follow. They all lead to the same locations but the trails are different so we don't cause suspicions by travelling in a large group. On each trail there will be four places with times on them. These are were all the trails cross so we can make sure that we all arrive at the same time to the hideouts."

He looked at all of the Akatsuki member's faces then to see if he could detect any sign of a question or some confusion and was glad to see that there was none on any of them's faces.

"Dismissed."