Okay um yeah I know I REALLY shouldn't be starting a new fic because I have like four other fics I SHOULD be working on but you know what? I dont give a crap-o-la! I had acually started writing this a WHILE ago but I only finished the first chapter now. Um yeah I guess the main reason is that I'm kinda having a road bloack with the other fics and I wanted to write something a little more light hearted then my other ones.
Anyway a little info this fic is set in shippuden after Sasori, Hidan, and Kakuzu are killed and Tobi is brought into the plot and now that the plot to shippuden is far enough that Itachi's past has been reveled and I know more about the new characters (team snake/hawk) it would be earyer to write this one.
Oh and just a little request if someone could give me the name of the four-tail demon it would be awsome!
disclamer: I do not own Naruto
Chapter One: End Of The Akatsuki
All slept peacefully except for one angry demon. Shukaku had been forced from one fleshy prison (which he at lest didn't completely loath) to one of stone which he hated the most, and believe me a long living demonic soul begins to hate many things over the years. The Akatsuki had made it up to one of his most hated things right next to soap and Yu-Gi-Oh cards.
"Nekomata," the raccoon dog called.
"I hear you," replied the soft spoken two tailed cat.
"Tell the other two to give me there charka," he ordered "with enough I believe I can break these seals."
"Aye," she said.
"I heard you already," the four tails said sending charka into Shukaku.
"I think the fish is asleep," sighed Nekomata.
"Forget that fool just give me the charka!"
"Aye," she replied sending charka into the sand demon.
The eye ball Shukaku had been sealed inside begins to glow red. The others wait listening to what was happening. The eye ball began to expand then contras again as the raccoon dog demon forced as much charka as he could into the walls.
The light glowed more and more and the labored breathing of Shukaku could be heard as he worked on releasing himself. Perhaps a cage of the human soul could hold him but he refused to be held by something as weak as stone.
Pein walked into the extraction area with his partner and Madara. They spoke of the up coming plans to capture the next demon when Pein's blue haired partner Konan noticed the one tailed beast's seal glowing.
"What's the meaning of this?" questions the masked Uchiha.
"It's not my doing sir," Pein said looking at the eye ball.
They watched the eye flicker and soon there ears could sense the hum of Shukaku breaths. All three watch in horror as the stone sculpture begins to crake and buckle.
There is a bright red light and a storm of sand began to flood into the cave.
"After all these years," Shukaku chuckles patting his fat belly and looking over at the two tailed cat. "We are free."
"Aye that we are," hissed Nekomata gazing at the three shocked Akatsuki. "How about we celebrate then?"
"Yes, lets," cheered the four tailed rooster demon. All four demons lean in growling hungrily at the three missing ninja. No one ever heard them scream.
The hide out was going down from above him. He ran through the tunnels heading for the exist; he thought it must have been a leaf village or sand attack.
"Holy shit," Deidara murmurs looking up at a giant two tailed cat eating Leader-sama. There was blood splattered on the stone floor and he could see leader's insides spilling out from were the demon was chewing at him. Deidara pulled his eyes away from the gruesome seen and looked to the ceiling, there was a hole big enough for one of his clay birds so he quickly formed one and got onto it's back.
Deidara began to rise before he felt a weight on his bird. He held his breath thinking the cat demon had gotten him. He looked down over the side of the clay hawk and sighed seeing a blue face looking at him. It was Kisame holding onto the bird's leg with Itachi held around the middle in his other arm. Itachi didn't seem to happy about his position but it's better then being torn apart by demons.
"Your not leaving us behind kid!" Kisame growled.
"Hold on tight un," the younger man said grinning and taking off out of the hole in the lair's ceiling. Kisame and Itachi had somehow climbed up and sat silently behind him. "Were do we go now hmm?"
"Don't know kid," Kisame murmurs "We didn't even see Zetsu so were probably the only three."
"Ha! That means I can bet rid of this shit un!" Deidara grins standing up and taking off his cloak and tossing it away then taking the ring off his finger and throwing it into the forest below.
"That was a bit rash," Itachi murmurs watching the discarded Akatsuki cloak fly away then get meshed into a tree.
"Oh don't make me push you off Uchiha un," Deidara grumbles boldly crossing his arms over his chest "were free now be happy yeah."
"Free to go were?" Itachi questions.
"Yeah it's not like we can just walk into a village without being killed on sight," Kisame said and Deidara shrugged.
"Well I know for sure that if those demons aren't destroyed we are all dead hmm," Deidara said with a nod. "we should tell someone un."
"What?" Kisame growled.
"Think about it," the blond said turning around to face them. "If we help them and fight with the Hidden Villages we will at lest not be executed right? We might even be pardoned all together if we're lucky yeah."
"Kid that's the most retarded thing I've ever heard," Kisame sighed "but it's the only chance we got."
"I say we go to the Hidden Leaf. Knowing those demons there probably going to go back to there respective villages so that's the safest place to go yeah," said Deidara.
"No," Itachi snapped getting looks from the other two. "Not Konoha."
"Itachi-san I'm sorry but I'm going with the kid on this one," Kisame said in a soft but reasonable tone. "I don't think any other village would be as…kind as the Leaf ninja are. No, one else will believe us."
Itachi looked out to the dark horizon the roars of the demons they where leaving behind still being heard by the three missing ninja. Itachi said something under his breath that the other two hadn't heard.
"We are missing and wanted because of these things. One wanted revolution," the Uchiha glanced at Kisame "one wanted freedom," he looked over at Deidara "and I wanted peace." Slowly he unbuttoned the Akatsuki cloak and he let it fly away behind him. He didn't watch it go like Deidara did, he didn't believe in art and he didn't like it so he allowed for that fleeting moment to go unwatched.
Kisame soon got rid of cloak without another word. He also hadn't watched it go but he watched Deidara watch it. The kid was so happy to be free; he'd watched all three black and red flags fly off into the distance so he could remember this moment forever. Sometimes Kisame wished he had the same positive live in the moment attitude as Deidara did but Kisame was a realist and he knew that the trio's future was probably very bleak.
There was no real need for celebration. No, one had been in a real mood to party well until the sake came out anyway. Team Kakashi, Gai and InoShikaCho where all crammed in Naruto's tiny apartment. They where suppose to be plotting on how to track down Itachi more effectively but it somehow ended with a complete drunk fest.
Sakura had always been able to hold down her liquored so she was really the only one not completely smashed (except for Lee he wasn't allowed to touch the bottle.) She watched the seen in amusement.
Naruto had fallen asleep and Sai was happily drawing on his face with a sharpie marker. Ino was giving free lap dances to Shikamaru (who looked to have also be asleep but she wasn't really sure because his eyes where open) and Choji. Lee was complaining about how un-youthfull it was that he was the only one not allowed a drink. Neji and Tenten where ignoring there green friend in the best way they knew how to in there completely drunk state…by making out on the sofa.
It was all very hilarious so like any good friend Sakura took out her cell phone and began to snap pictures of her oblivious friends. Black mail was one of the greatest joys in life. She was especially going to like Temari's reaction to Shikamaru being molested by his team mate. And Sakura was sure Tenten would like to be able to remember her heated make out session.
"This is awesome," the pink haired kunoichi snickered as she flashed a picture of Naruto's face. She took another swing of her drink and that's when the sirens went off.
"That's red alert," Lee said as the other smashed shinobi looked up. The only one who didn't notice what was going on was Naruto because he was still asleep.
"That means all chuunin and above are needed," Neji sighed as he got off of Tenten who also groaned in annoyance.
"I can't stand," Shikamaru slurred trying to still sound smart "forget fight."
"Here let me help you Shika-kun," Ino said putting two fingertips to Shikamaru's neck and using her charka began to burn off the alcohol in his blood till he was at lest able to function. She and Sakura did this to all the others (except Naruto since he was a Genin and wasn't needed anyway.)
Once everyone was at lest able to think correctly the eight of them headed out the siren still sounding across the village. Every single ninja in Konoha was moving swiftly through the night and heading to the wall that enclosed all of the village.
They neared the wall but found that there was no real fighting. More like everyone was in a stiff confused stance watching something outside the village. Kakashi however was the only one visibly away from the crowd and reading his book aloofly leaning on a street sign. The eight confused and slightly drunk teens went over to the white haired ninja.
"Um Kakashi-sensei…what's going on?" asked Sakura.
Kakashi looked up from his book as if it was the first time he had noticed them standing in a cluster in front of him. "Have you guys been drinking?" he asked obviously having smelled them all.
"Just tell us what's going on Kakashi," Neji growled still annoyed he'd been interrupted with Tenten because of the siren.
"Yeah fine well three Akatsuki just showed up at the front gate," he sighed looking back at his book.
"Which ones?" Ino asked her clear blue eyes widening.
"Um the blond one, the blue one, and oh yeah Uchiha Itachi," Kakashi replied with a slight shrug.
"ITACHI?!" the group screamed all at once.
"Yeah but the three of them have been detained and seem to be coming in quietly," the Copy ninja said.
"How do you know?" Tenten demanded and the white haired man sighed.
"Well there right behind you actually being taken in by ANBU," he said.
All eight of them blinked and turned around to find the three S-Class criminals being led off by a squad of ANBU Black. The blond one seemed to be laughing and talking with Kisame while Itachi stayed silent. They weren't wearing there cloaks or the Akatsuki rings even there marked out head bands had been discarded except for Kisame's but it seemed he had just pulled the metal piece from the leather and kept his ear protecting headband.
It seemed so unbelievable that the young shinobi just stared in awe. All of them where very happy that Naruto was asleep at his dinning room table because things would have been so much more difficult if he had come.
"No. Freaking. Way." Tenten said her mouth just as gapped as the others.
"That just about sums it up," Kakashi said from behind them.