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Itachi was walking down a forest path, without his partner, Kisame. He was on a solo mission and had completed it, and was heading back to the base, taking his time, when he sensed a powerful chakra signature coming towards him. He paused and waited for whoever it was to stand before him. The signature was familiar, and after the briefest of moments he recognized it.
The young shinobi stood in front of him, and looked up steadily into his eyes. Then he carefully took off all of his weapons and, placed them on the ground and pushed them towards him. Itachi raised an eyebrow fractionally in surprise. "Itachi-san, I do hope you will allow me to explain myself." There was no malice, deception or anger in his voice, but there was a slight quiver that betrayed that something… something had happened.
"Hn" Itachi responded neutrally, but his eyes softened a little.
"Danzo, and ROOT took over Konoha. Danzo, had apparently planted similar such things in all of the villages… Well except for Rain… As far as we can tell as… Danzo had ordered all of the shinobi to assemble in the Hokage's tower… There he… He…" The young shinobi whom Itachi had known before he had left Konoha had started to shake and tears gathered in the corners of his eyes, but he continued, voice wavering "He called out Kakashi-sensei, Gai-sensei, Asuma-sensei and Anko-sensei, as well as a couple of other anbu and jounin. He had several ROOT nin hold each of them, then showed all of us Tsunande- baa-chan's dead body. It was obvious she'd been killed as well. He also showed us Ero-sennin's body. He said that he and the council ruled konoha. Before we could do anything he had the ROOT kill Kakashi, Gai, Asuma, Anko and the others. There are apparently more ROOT than just anbu… Most of the shinobi are working for him… We, the Konoha twelve, minus our senseis had managed to escape… The academy students don't know… The academy teachers stayed because they knew they probably couldn't get free… and to try and help their students… The rest are too scared to escape. This happened in every ninja village, except, as far as we can tell Amekageru, as there are no shinobi from that village in our group, but the borders are now closed to all but civilian traffic, so all we know none of them could or would escape. Except that Gaara isn't dead, he was just forced out of office in exchange for his older siblings lives. Those three were the only sand shinobi to escape. Baki and several others were slain." The young shinobi paused for a moment, clearing his throat and continued "We managed to combine from the different villages we escaped from to where we are now. All of us have been searching since, one person at a time to find an akatsuki member."
"Why?" Itachi asked, in his typically monosyllabic way.
"All of us wish to give our loyalty. We discussed the three options available to us. Become a group of rouge nin, but you Akatsuki have the loyalty of all missing nin. It's useful having a Kage in the group who is privy to such information. The second option is to go to Amekageru, but we don't know how stable Ame is, nor who controls it… and besides the Amekage is downright terrifying and not quite sane from the way Gaara describes him. This brought us to our third option. Seek out the Akatsuki ourselves and offer our loyalty, as well as our reasons for offering it so you won't kill us as spies."
"How many?"
"Total, about thirty, thirty-five. If you wish Gaara and I have no qualms of going alone to your base and being drained of our demons and killed in the process if that's what it takes to convince you people we mean what we say."
"What makes you think The Akatsuki wish to kill all the Bijuu, Naruto-kun?" Itachi asked.
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