"Look, nii-chan!! The cherry trees are blooming."
"Kaze, don't go too far!" A light blond hair boy with light blue eyes called after the little girl. The little girl giggled as she spun around in the storm of cherry blossom petals falling around her.
"Who are you?" Kaze turned around to see a young boy with spiky brown hair, two red triangles adorning his cheeks and big eyes looking at her.
"I…I'm Obake Kaze. Who are you?"
"Inuzuka Kiba." The little boy blushed as he continued to stare at her. She smiled.
"Kaze!!" The girl's brother ran up grabbing her.
"Hahahaha, Ichi-nii!" The little girl giggled.
"Oh, who's this?"
"This is Kiba."
"Hello Kiba, I'm Obake Ichijin." He shook hands with the little boy as Kaze climbed on his shoulders. Kiba, while shaking hands with the 10 year old boy, stood transfixed by the eyes of Kaze. One was bright green and the other was bright blue. He felt that he could trust her but at the same time he knew they held some sort of dangerous power.
"We have to go Kiba; do you need me to walk you home?" Ichijin asked, thus breaking his trance.
"Ah…no, I'll be fine. I'm getting my first dog today!"
"That's so cool, Kiba. Bring him with you next time, okay." Kaze said with a huge smile.
"I will!" Kiba waved good-bye."
*
"Mommy, I met a pretty girl today." Kiba said as he patted a tiny little dog in his lap.
"Really, what's her name?"
"Obake Kaze." Kiba's mom's eyes grew wide.
"Did you say Obake?"
"Yeah, what's wrong?"
"Kiba, you can't go near the Obake clan. They have strange kekkai-genkais and you could be hurt. They like to betray friendships."
"But Kaze didn't seem bad."
"Kiba, they are out of our league. By the age of 5 they are at jounin level."
"Really!"
"It's nothing to be excited about Kiba. It's great that a clan of their superiority chose to be a part of Konoha, but, they just can't be trusted. Don't go near that girl again, okay?" Kiba looked down, sad that he could not meet his new friend again.
"Okay."
*
"Nii-chan...sob sob sob…" Kiba heard a voice in the trees as he walked Akamaru, his dog.
He looked up to see Kaze sitting in the tree, sobbing. He contemplated just walking by pretending not to hear, but then he decided to climb up to see what was wrong. Placing Akamaru in his jacket, Kiba climbed up on the lowest limb and began to jump from branch to branch as they learned in ninja school. When he got to where Kaze was, he knelt down and said, "Ummm…Hey Kaze, what's wrong?"
"Kiba?...sniffle…my…my brother was kidnapped and I'll probably never see him again." Kaze burst into a new set of sobs, but Kiba stood once again enthralled by her eyes. When he realized he was staring, he shook his head and whispered,
"I'm sorry." Kaze sniffled again and then looked a furry thing in Kiba's jacket.
"What's that?"
"This is Akamaru, would you like to hold him, it might cheer you up?"
"*sniff…okay." Kaze gently lifted Akamaru onto her lap. Akamaru licked her face gently, understanding that she was sad. Kaze giggled sadly and hugged Akamaru close to her heart. "Thank you Kiba. I feel a little better." Kaze looked Kiba in the eyes and smiled. Kiba stared at her eyes. They were so pretty. He was glad that they were friends. "Obakes like to betray friendships." His mother's words rang in his ears.
"I have to go Kaze." Kiba said reluctantly, for he knew he could never see her again.
"Thanks again, Kiba." Kaze smiled a sad smile and handed Akamaru back to Kiba. Kiba jumped out of the tree and began to run back home, leaving Kaze behind.
*
(2 weeks later)
"Daddy, Mommy, get up." Kaze shook her parents as they slept on, sweat pouring off of their faces. Kaze ran out of the house when they wouldn't wake up and ran to the neighbors, but nobody answered. When she entered, they were still sleeping, all sweaty, too. Kaze gasped and went to the next house, and the next, and the next. She was scared.
"Help me…HELP ME!!!!!!!!!!!!" Kaze yelled in the center of the Obake neighborhood, but nobody answered her, only silence. Kaze ran out of the gate towards the Hokage's office. People stared at her, but she ran on. When she reached she tried to go through the door but two jounin stopped her and told her to go home. Tears were streaming down her face as she pleaded with them to let her see the Hokage, but they didn't know she was part of the Obake clan and continued to explain to her that children could not see the Hokage. Kaze ran away and when she got to an alleyway, she decided to try out that new jutsu she was working on. In a gust of wind Kaze disappeared and reappeared in the Hokage's office. It worked!
"Lord Hokage." The third lord looked at the crying child in front of him.
"What's wrong, child?" Kaze looked up at him and he was captivated by those eyes. Then he noticed the symbol around the bandanna she wore around her neck. "Obake," he whispered.
"My family, all my friends are all sick they…" Kaze fainted in a cold sweat.
*
"Kaze, wake up." Kaze opened her eyes a crack and saw a beautiful woman with a blue diamond on her forehead. "Oh, thank goodness, she's okay."
"Mommy," Kaze choked out with a scratchy throat. Water was given to her before Tsunade answered.
"I'm so sorry, honey." Tsunade hugged the little girl. Kaze's eyes were wide with shock.
"Is my mommy…gone?" Tsunade looked at her with apologetic eyes.
*
"Kaze, this is Lord Hyuuga. You will live with them from now on."
"Hi! I'm Hinata, Kaze. I'm so happy, we can be like sisters. I'll be the older one because you're only four."
"Hinata." Lord Hyuuga hushed his daughter with a commanding voice. He then pulled her aside and whispered to her. "Now's not the time to smile, Hinata. She just lost her entire family in this epidemic. She is the only one left. Please be a bit more sympathetic." Hinata nodded and stood quietly by her father. A six year old Negi came in (he is one year older than Hinata and the other mains) and looked at the blonde girl sitting on the bed, looking like a ghost. Her head came up and she looked at him. And like everyone else, her eyes seemed to hold a power over him. "Negi, it's time to go." Negi looked up at Lord Hyuuga, his uncle. As they walked out of the room, Negi looked back at the girl, she still looked at him. On his way out Negi concluded that he would never forget such sad, lonely, powerful eyes.
*
That night, Kaze got out of the bed. She was alone in the little hospital room. Lady Tsunade, one of the three great ninja, already left the village. Kaze jumped out of the window and teleported herself in a gust of wind to the Obake neighborhood. There she packed a traveling pack and packed ninja bags with kunai and shruikin, then she grabbed a sword off the wall. She placed her Konoha headband around her waist, with a big slash across the leaf, and the bandanna with the Obake symbol around her neck.
She walked through the village coming to a part of the wall, far away from the main gate. She placed a hand on it and went right through as if she was a ghost. Obake means ghost in Japanese so the Obakes' kekkai-genkai is ghost-like, able to walk through walls, turn invisible, and control the winds, with out the use of chakra. They also are immune to the effects of genjutsu and the sharingan. Their eyes also showed some of their power. Blue eyes signified that you could control a person's mind and body, by just looking at them. Green eyes, which have not been seen in a hundred years, allow the owner to control the tailed beasts. Kaze had both, and thus could control both humans and beasts. After she got through the wall, she began to walk. As she came over a hill, she looked back at her birthplace, A tear rolled down her cheek and she turned away thinking, "I'll never come back here."
*
A red haired pierced man was walking through the streets of the village Hidden in the Rain, when he came across a little girl with light blonde hair sleeping on a bench. He walked over to her and turned her over and his eyes fell on the symbol around her neck. He smirked and picked her up and carried her back to the tower in the middle of the city.
"Honey? Are you awake?" Kaze's eyes opened slowly and saw a girl with black hair and a paper flower tied up in it. She was wearing a black coat with red clouds on it. Kaze's eyes wandered behind the woman to a red haired man with black piercings and wearing the same coat.
"Who are you?" Kaze asked.
"My name is Konan, and his is Pain." The black haired girl answered. "We are in a group called Akatsuki, whose major goal is world peace."
"Akatsuki…peace…" Kaze was still a little groggy from her nap. "Are you the only members?"
"No, our leader is…" They both looked at the doorway as a figure wearing the same coat and an orange mask that looked like a lollipop with a hole in the right eye space walked in.
"So this is the Obake girl you were telling me about, Pain." The man looked at her and his sharingan was visible through the hole, but it had no effect on Kaze whatsoever. "You were right, she is an Obake. What's your name, child."
"K…Kaze."
"Well Kaze, how would you like to join our group? You'll be able to travel a lot and you will get paid."
"I can travel?" Kaze thought about it and concluded that world peace was a good thing. "Okay, I guess I'll join you."
"Very good." The leader placed a ring in her hand and gave her a coat and a hat. The coat was far too big for her so Konan hemmed it up a bit for her and gave her some string for the ring which was too big for her tiny fingers. "Now, before we begin our ultimate mission, we need more members."
"I…I can go." Kaze stammered. She didn't really feel like fighting for peace at the moment so she thought that finding members might be better.
"You want to find new members?" Pain asked.
"Yes." Kaze had a new look on her face. It went from scared, to confident.
"Very well, you may go." The orange masked man said.
*
Kaze was in the Village Hidden in the Rocks, listening to rumors and to conversations, hoping to pick up on some information that might lead to the discovery of a new member. She sighed; so far nobody was talking about anything useful to her. Just then a huge explosion was heard to her left. Debris scattered everywhere.
"Deidara!! Your experiments have cost me my shop!! Get out you worthless child." A thirteen year old boy with blond hair, bangs that covered one eye, and short in the back was grabbed by the scruff of the neck and thrown onto a pile of rocks.
"My experiments are art!" Deidara yelled as he walked out of the debris of the shop. Kaze looked at him and smiled. He might be a good addition to the group.
"Excuse me."
"Geez, no one appreciates my work, hmm."
"Uh…excuse me."
"WHAT?!!" Deidara whirled around with a frown on his face, which quickly faded when he saw it was a little girl he was yelling at. "Ahh…sorry, what, hmm?" Kaze took off her hat and her eyes captivated him.
"Umm… My name is Kaze, and…I was wondering if you wanted to join a group that I'm a part of." Kaze smiled. Deidara looked at her a little suspicious.
"What kind of group, hmm?"
"Well, the goal is world peace, and we need members."
"World peace?" Deidara laughed at that. "If they don't like the idea of world peace, just tell them that their power will be increased if they join." Pain's words echoed in Kaze's mind.
"Also, if you join, your power will increase." Kaze looked up at him again.
"Now power is much more appealing than 'world peace,' hmm." Deidara laughed.
"So you'll join?" Kaze said with a pleading look.
"I guess." Deidara put his arms behind his head looking carefree.
"Great!! Meet me outside the village at midnight." Kaze said as she walked away waving.
"Is that girl really that young, or does this 'group' make four-year-old girls members. Hmmm." Deidara walked to his apartment to get ready to leave, for good.
*
Two figures wearing black coats with red clouds walked into the Village Hidden in the Sand. One was really short and the other one seemed to tower over her.
"Kaze, what are we doing here?"
"In the little village we stopped in last night, I heard a story about a puppet master."
"Puppets…"
"Yes. Sasori of the Red Sand, I think. I was hoping that he would join Akatsuki."
"Fine, let's find the guy and get going, I'm bored." Kaze giggled at Deidara. "Hey you," Deidara said to a young man that they passed. "Can you tell us where we can find a guy by the name of Sasori…?"
"You shouldn't seek that guy out, boy. He's dangerous. The last person who went to his house never came out. The villagers think he experiments on those that dare go to his home, making them into…" The man motioned them closer and whispered, "human puppets."
"Thanks for the warning, buddy, but can you just tell us where he lives." The man sighed and pointed to a raggedy old house. As Kaze and Deidara walked towards it, Deidara asked Kaze, "Are you sure you want to ask this guy? He seems like a psycho, hmm."
"He's powerful, though. I was told to gather powerful people."
"Ah, so that means that you thought I was really powerful, hmm?" Kaze looked at him.
"You could use a little work."
"WHAT?!!" Kaze giggled as they walked up to the door. Deidara knocked and they waited. The door squeaked open and the two entered.
"Hello?" Kaze called out. The door slammed behind them and this huge tail type thing came towards them. Kaze pushed Deidara to the floor and let the tail go through her. She walked to the side, so that the tail was not in the middle of her chest anymore. Deidara looked at her, shocked. A figure came out of the shadows, a large…puppet?
"Who are you?" the puppet asked.
"I'm Kaze, and I was wondering if you wanted to join a group that we are a part of. The group is called Akatsuki and our goal is world peace. Also, if you join, you could become more powerful than you are now." Kaze breathed in. She said that entire thing in one breath because she was still shaken up by the attack Sasori used on them.
"How does this group give me more power?"
"I'm not exactly sure, I wasn't told how, but I do know you won't regret joining."
"Sounds interesting." The puppet opened up and a red haired boy stepped out. "I'm Sasori of the Red Sand." He held out his hand to Kaze, and she grabbed his hand with a huge smile on her face. Sasori then looked at Deidara. "Who is this weakling?"
"What?! I'm not a weakling!"
"You were saved by a three year old."
"I'm four!"
"I'm sorry." Sasori then noticed her eyes. He was confused; he never saw such eyes before. He stood there for a while enchanted.
"Come on Kaze, we don't need this freak." Sasori looked at Deidara and pulled his hand towards himself and Deidara was tripped by chakra threads that Sasori attached to Deidara's legs.
"I'll join this, Akatsuki."
"Thank you so much!" Kaze smiled and told him to get all his stuff and to meet her and Deidara outside the village at midnight.
*
(Back at the Village Hidden in the Rain)
"Good work Kaze." Pain said as he looked at Deidara and Sasori. "Will you go out and find some more?"
"Sure." Kaze smiled and in a gust of wind, disappeared.
"She's a cute child." Deidara said after she left.
"I agree." Sasori said.
*
"The Village Hidden in the Mist is so huge." Kaze said to herself as she walked into the misty gate. She looked around a few shops and then walked into a field. The mist suddenly got thicker and she put up her guard, listening. She heard a splash of a nearby pond and looked around her. Then she jumped out of the way just in time for a huge bandaged sword to come crashing down right where she was.
"If you're another bounty hunter, you won't live to collect your money." The man swung his sword again and Kaze ducked and dodged.
"Wait…I'm not…" another swing of the sword caused Kaze's sentence to break off. As they fought, Kaze dodged as the man swung his sword around. "Enough!!" Kaze yelled. The man stopped in mid-swing and looked at her. Her hat fell off during the fight and he saw that she was clearly a little girl.
"Hey, you can't be a bounty hunter. You can't be no more than four." The mist cleared and Kaze saw the man clearly. He had blue skin and slits on his cheeks that must have been gills. His teeth were pointy and his eyes were small. His spiky blue hair stuck out of his headband that had a slash through the symbol.
"No, I'm not a bounty hunter." Kaze walked up to him, her eyes locked on his, keeping him at bay. "My name is Kaze." She smiled and held out her hand in a friendly gesture.
"Hoshigaki Kisame." He stared out her outstretched hand. "You're not scared of me?"
"Why would I be?"
"I have blue skin, and I'm not exactly the cutest thing on two legs."
"Just because someone is a little different does not mean that they are scary." Kisame looked at her. This was the first time anyone had ever been kind to him, because they were always scared of him. He took her hand and shook it. "The reason I came here was because I was wondering if you would like to join Akatsuki."
"Akatsuki?"
"It's a group that I'm a part of that is working towards world peace. If you join you'll become more powerful." Kaze smiled at him.
"Okay, I'll join."
"Really?"
"Sure."
"Yay. Let's go." She grabbed his arm and pulled him towards the edge of the village.
*
Kaze stood staring down at the village from a hill. She didn't want to go there, but she needed to find out if a rumor she heard in the Sand Village was true.
"Are we going down to Konoha or not?" Kisame asked Kaze as she stared at it.
"You stay here, I'll go alone." Kaze started walking down the hill towards her birthplace. Before she got to the gate, she turned invisible and walked past the guards and walked unseen through the streets of the village, listening.
"I heard that he used a special jutsu that no one knew about to kill them."
"I'm glad that he is out of the village."
"He's a dangerous person."
"He killed every one of his clan."
"He left his little brother alive."
"That Uchiha Itachi…"
Kaze listened to the gossip going around, thus confirming the rumor she heard in the Sand Village. She walked to the Uchiha neighborhood. Wooden barriers had the words KEEP OUT written on them. Kaze went through them and walked the silent streets of the neighborhood, passing white corpse bags as she moved smoothly. She came to a lake with a dock over it. On the dock sat a small, spiky haired boy, with the Uchiha symbol on the back of his shirt. She materialized as she looked at him. "He's just like me, all alone." The boy looked behind him seeing a short figure in a black coat with red clouds and a hat hiding its face. He stood up with angry teary eyes.
"I don't need your pity!!" He yelled. Kaze looked at him with hidden sympathetic eyes and turned around to walk away.
*
"Kisame, we're going to find Uchiha Itachi." Kaze said as she came back to the hill outside the village.
"If he's an Uchiha, shouldn't he be down there?"
"No, he killed his entire clan so he left the village."
"Why are we looking for a psycho killer?"
"He's strong, and he has nowhere else to go." Kaze turned on her heel and Kisame followed her.
*
A man in the Akatsuki coat was on the horizon. Kaze looked at him, Kisame by her side. As they came closer, she realized it was who they were looking for, but why was he wearing the coat?
"Uchiha Itachi?" Kaze asked when they got closer.
"Yes." Kaze was about to ask where he got the coat when Pain came from the forest with another person. At least she thought it was a person. It looked like a plant with legs.
"Kaze, I want you to go find a certain person for me." Pain said as he handed her a piece of paper. "Ask them if they want to join. I'll take these three to headquarters."
"Who..?" Kaze asked, wondering who the plant was.
"This is Zetsu and Uchiha Itachi." Pain said as he pointed to each of them. "Who did you get?"
"My name is Hoshigaki Kisame, one of the seven swordsmen of the Mist." Kisame seemed a little annoyed.
"I am grateful that you joined us. Kaze?"
"Yes."
"The person on that paper is the last member we need. Konan found two others; they are at headquarters at this moment."
"Okay." Kaze seemed a little shocked and scared by Zetsu; she shivered when she felt him looking at her.
"Little girls taste the best." Zetsu said as he licked his lips.
"You can't eat any of the members, Zetsu." Pain said, but Kaze was already running away down the path. In a gust of wind, she disappeared, teleported herself far away.
*
Kaze was breathing really hard. She was so scared of that new member. Once she caught her breath, she took out the piece of paper and gasped when she saw the name written on it. She put the paper back into her coat and decided to go to the nearest village and gather some information, if there was any, about the person.
*
Kaze approached what seemed like an abandoned laboratory in the middle of nowhere, but she knew who was inside. She walked down a long hallway to a stone wall. She gulped and went through the wall. She gasped, trying not to scream. Bodies lined the walls that were stained with blood. Organs in jars with preservatives sat on shelves and dozens of dissecting tools lay on the blood stained table. Kaze shut her eyes to the horror. A voice came from a room to her right.
"Who's there?" Kaze opened her blue eye, to see a pale man standing in the door way. His long black hair hung around the Konoha headband, slashed, on his forehead. The purple outlined yellow snake eyes as he stared at her. Kaze gulped; this was who she was looking for: Orochimaru.
*
"Now that we have all the members we need, let's introduce ourselves. Say your name, where you're from, your specialty jutsu, and why you're classified as a criminal. We'll start with you." Pain pointed to Deidara.
"I'm Deidara, I'm from the Village Hidden in the Rocks, my specialty jutsu is art, and I've blown up many buildings in my village." Deidara smiled and the mouths on his hands smiled too.
"I'm Sasori of the Red Sand. I'm from the Village Hidden in the Sand, my talent is puppets and I used some of my neighbors as experiment subjects."
"I'm Hoshigaki Kisame. Seven Swordsmen of the Mist. The Village Hidden in the Mist. Murder."
"Itachi Uchiha…"
"Kakuzu. I like money and I'm from the Village Hidden in the Waterfall, I robbed banks and killed a few people in the process. I have six hearts." Everyone stared at him after he said that.
"Anyway, I'm Hidan; I'm from the Village Hidden in the Hot Springs. I am a very religious man, and as a reward for being so loyal to my religion, I am immortal. I have killed countless people and sacrificed them for my god."
"My name is Orochimaru. Need I say more?"
"My Name is Zetsu…I have a split personality…I like eating human flesh hehehehe."
"I am Konan…"
"I am Obake Kaze, the youngest member of this organization…I've never really committed any crimes…"
"And I'm Pain, the leader of this organization." Pain stood proud and tall in the front of the group.
"I would like all of you to go out into the world and train so that your power will increase. I will now pair you up. If you do not like your partner, I don't care, live with it." Pain looked evil as he said this. (If you've ever seen an anime, it's as if he is a demon you know.) "The first pair will be Itachi and Kisame."
"Why do I have to be paired up with this psycho…?!"
"I said I don't care." Pain interrupted. "The next pair will be Deidara and Sasori."
"Oh, wonderful." Deidara said in a sarcastic tone.
"The next pair will be Kakuzu and Hidan, and that leaves Orochimaru and Zetsu."
"Snakes are yummy too." Zetsu said while drooling.
"Wait! Who's Kaze's partner? You're not going to make a four-year-old…"
"I'm five now!"
"Fine, a five-year-old, walk around by herself?" Deidara seemed a little worried about Kaze.
"She'll be on a special mission."
"Plus, I think I'd prefer to be alone, but thank you for your concern Deidara-nii." Deidara blushed a little, like he was her real older brother.
After the others left to go train, Pain turned to Kaze. "I don't expect a little girl like you to fight and kill, so gather as much information as you can until I call everyone back, understand?"
"Yes." Kaze looked up into Pain's face, then disappeared.
*
(6 years later, Kaze is 11, Naruto and others 12; they turn 13 in middle of series)
"Now that we are all gathered, I will explain how our goal will come to be." Pain stood in front of everyone. "The key to world peace is, Jinchurriki." Kaze gasped.
"Jinchurriki! How will they…"
"I'll explain. I found a device that can remove the tailed beast from a Jinchurriki, and with the beast we can receive more power in order to create world peace."
"But if we remove the beast, the Jinchurriki will die! Peace is not about death!"
"In order to achieve our goal, sacrifices must be made." Kaze stared at Pain, shocked and a little angry. She turned her head away. "Do you know where the Jinchurriki are, Kaze?"
"No. You didn't tell me to look for Jinchurriki." Kaze said in a cold voice.
"Then you can start searching for them now. It will take a long time to get the device running."
"Fine." Kaze disappeared in a gust of wind.
*
"Stupid Pain. 'Sacrifices must be made.' What does he know anyway?" Kaze was sitting on a bench in the Village Hidden in the Clouds. She had her bandanna with the Obake symbol turned the other way so that the symbol wouldn't show and a Cloud headband around her waist. She had her coat off, folded up in her traveling pack and her hat was next to her on the bench. She sighed.
"Oi! Sakura, wait up!" A girl with short pink hair walked stopped in front of her and looked back at a blond spiky haired boy in an orange jumpsuit. Kaze felt annoyed just by looking at that stupid grin. A black haired boy banged the blond on the head calling him a dobe. "Uchiha Sasuke." Kaze looked at him with sad eyes. "He's not alone anymore. If I stayed in Konoha, would I have friends my age?" Kaze felt a warm tear flow down her cheek. She quickly wiped it away and looked at the blond kid again. A sudden knowing came to the front of her mind. She sensed a tailed beast within the boy. The nine tailed fox! Kaze looked at him, confused. How could such a…dobe…be a Jinchurriki? "I'll tell Pain later." Kaze hid her eyes behind her knees which were pulled up to her chest. She felt so alone.
"Excuse me?" Kaze jerked her head up. The girl called Sakura gasped when she saw her eyes, but then smiled and sat down next to Kaze. "My name in Haruno Sakura. What's yours?" Kaze was confused, was she trying to be her friend?
"Kaze, just Kaze." Sakura stared at her eyes, believing her, trusting her.
"Well Kaze, are you okay? You looked like you were crying."
"Oh, I'm fine, just tired."
"Okay, so you're a citizen of this village right?"
"Yes."
"Do you know a guy by the name of Siyo Mitsuru?"
"I know who he is, but he's not in this village. He's in the Village Hidden in the Waterfall. He left because of a crime he committed against Konoha."
"Oh…yeah…How does this girl know so much? Ummm…I'm on a mission to find him, so thank you for that information."
"Oh, when you get to the village, go to the temple on the highest hill. Inside there is a dragon statue. If your whole team puts a hand on it, then you'll have good luck." Kaze smiled.
"Thank you so much Kaze. Hey, if you're ever in Konoha, look for me, we can hang out and talk some time." Kaze's eyes grew wide. Could she have possibly made a friend her age?
"I will!"
*
Kaze waved goodbye to Team seven.
"Who was that Sakura?" Kakashi-sensei asked her.
"Kaze, a resident of Cloud."
"She seems familiar somehow. Must be my imagination." Kakashi shrugged the matter off and they continued to Waterfall.
Kaze sighed, "I hope they go to the temple first, because by pulling the dragon hand down, a secret door will open and Mitsuru is inside." Kaze watched the group disappear, then she walked out of the village to Rain.
*
"The nine-tailed is in Konoha, Pain." Kaze said when she walked in the door.
"Very good, tell…Itachi and Kisame to get the nine-tailed. Give them all the information they need so they can kidnap him without a big ruckus."
"Fine." Kaze walked out of the tower and went to find Itachi and Kisame.
*
"Itachi-nii, Kisame-nii!" Kaze called to them as she ran up the path to meet up with them. "Hey, so Pain wants you to go to Konoha to get the nine-tails. The Jinchurriki is Uzumaki Naruto. He has blond spiky hair and an annoying aura around him. Right now, he is in Konoha."
"We'll be on our way."
"Oh, you should make it very soon. Orochimaru just attacked the village and killed the third lord. He's wounded because the Hokage used a special jutsu on him, but anyway, the village is in ruins."
"Geez, Orochimaru should have just stayed with us." Kisame grumbled. "Why did he leave anyway?" Kaze looked at Itachi.
"He was impatient for power." Itachi answered. "Let's get going Kisame." The two turned around and started heading towards Konoha.
*
(Look in book 16)
"They've escaped complete annihilation. But it appears they've suffered heavy losses." Kisame said while looking down on Konoha.
" For such a prosperous village… it's pathetic." Itachi glared. Kisame grinned,
"That's unlike you…so you still have lingering affection towards your homeland? Even you have nostalgia…"
Itachi interrupted Kisame, "No…none at all."
*
(Still in book 16)
Kisame and Itachi were walking on the outside road of the village near a huge lake, when Asuma and Kurenai arrived on Kakashi's order.
"You're not from this village…what's your business here…?" Asuma asked, keeping his guard up.
"It's been too long…Asuma…Kurenai…" Itachi said without lifting his head.
"You could only know our names if you were shinobi of this village." Asuma continued. Itachi lifted his hat up, revealing his sharingan, which caused a shocked reaction from Asuma and Kurenai.
"Y…You're?!" Itachi started lifting his hat off. "…Humph. There's no mistake… Uchiha Itachi." (Read rest in chapter 141-part of 143 until Itachi and Kisame leave)
Kaze motioned to Itachi, while the backs of the Konoha shinobi were to her, through the trees near the lake. "Kisame…I'm calling it off. We didn't come here to start a war….Tempting as it is, this is not the way to do this…Let's go." Kisame humphed at Itachi then noticed Kaze through the trees. He put away his sword saying,
"They don't know how lucky they are…" Then they vanished and ran to the forest where Kaze was hiding.
"I saw Naruto in the next village over. I'll take you there my self." Kaze linked arms with Itachi and Kisame and with a swirl of wind, transported them to the village where Naruto was. "He's in room 501 in this inn."
"Thanks, Kaze." Kisame said as they walked into the inn.
"I probably should have told them that Jiraiya is with Naruto…Oh well." Kaze walked off through the streets.