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Konnichiwa mina san. and Happy New Year!! this is my first story for the new year but it's not my first on fan fiction even though its the only one for naruto.. I've been workin on it ever since kishi revealed a ten tails (which doesnt exist in japanese mythology like the other 9) o.O
Well i hope you enjoy it as much as i did with writing it. BTW I have no Beta so if you find any mistakes please tell me, but i think i did good anyway.
In this story, which i hope to continue, im gonna use a lot of the characters from Shippuden. (this actually takes place in shippuden but its my alternate version of my imagination.. which can get quite wild sometimes... this means naruto and the others are 16 and stuff.)
Oh and in the beginning of MY story, the akatsuki disbanded (after orochimaru left) for unknown reasons but are comin back together under madara's order a couple years later.. well you read and try to figure it out.
I hope you like it!!! I take construction criticism but no flames at all (i.e calling me a douche bag for something i did wrong like making a character OOC) i tried my best to keep them in their orignal personality... OK enough of this... read my story now please! :) p.s. just wait until i get to Guren: crystal style FTW!!!

Prologue: The Beginning

Hovering above the western horizon, the sun had yet to set, but its light moderately radiated in the dull skies creating elegant colors of violet, blue, pink, orange and other pastel colors that made themselves partially hidden among the gray cumulus clouds.

Tears from the heavens trickled on parts of the parched earth below, making the ground soften up a little for travelers. A wanderer attired in a black cloak stitched with crimson clouds, outlined in white, leisurely walked down the broad path. Small rounded bells hung by the red thread fastened to his uniquely obtuse cone shaped hat, and rang softly every few steps.

As the traveler came across some dry trees on the sides of the path, an abnormally pale goliath beetle perched itself on one of the thick, dead branches and remained still. The voyager stopped and looked up at the materializing full moon and glanced at the lingering light in the darkening skies. His dead, black eyes and distinctive streaks on his face were slightly visible in the dim light of the evening; he looked ahead and continued on his way.

After a while, the white beetle kicked out its wings with a click and after a few seconds, quickly zoomed down in front of the traveler with extreme speed. The wanderer stopped where he was and stood still as the wind blew. Slowly, he looked up to see this creature before him; as he did this, the breeze turned into a strong gust.

"Ka…"

The beetle immediately pulsated and blinked sporadically as it became bloated. Then it lit up and engulfed the surrounding area in its brightness. The person in the black cloak became nothing more than a silhouette fading in the expanding illumination.

"…Boom."

The wanderer looked forward extremely fast causing the bells on his hat to jingle; his widened dark eyes now rose-red, and his black locks swaying in his face. The insect exploded with intense force, making the ground itself shake and disintegrate, obliterating everything within a 15 ft radius with a red and yellow blaze sending boulders, decaying wood and dust soaring into the atmosphere.

Minutes after the smoke cleared and the debris fell back to earth, a crater 5 ft deep became visible with broken and smoldering earth, and chunks of trees and roots lodged in it.

One of the gray clouds in the sky parted in two and a large white bird descended from them, carrying a passenger on its back. The bird like creature was of the same lusterless shade of the bug that had just detonated, leaving behind a circle of destruction 30 ft in diameter. The mysterious person was clad in the exact same garb as the wanderer.

As the pallid beast touched the ground, he who sat on it gave a wide grin. He jumped off his creature onto the rigid ruble and looked around. His blonde hair and white ribbons extending from his rice hat blew over his face and jade colored eyes.

A crow drifting with the wind had roosted itself onto the trunk of an uprooted tree and squawked to the sky. The still searching, blonde man paid little attention to this bird until several more had begun screeching and jumping around. He stopped for a moment as if realizing something, then gained another smirk and took of his hat before briefly laughing out loud. "Mm, Itachi; we both know that wasn't enough to kill you; I've seen through your dull illusion for a little while now; show yourself!"

After yelling into the atmosphere of the vicinity, he looked up with widened eyes and saw dozens of the black birds swirling around him in a cyclone-like fashion. The crows all dived down to where the first crow was settled and their bodies kept fusing together until the shape of a man was made out. "It's been a while hasn't it, Deidara?"

Deidara eyed the figure of a man in the distance with a familiar voice. The man became more visible with each passing second, and was sitting on the fallen tree quite comfortably. "Itachi, your speed hasn't slowed, but your 'trite' artistic quality gave you away; I'm meaning the genjutsu of your sharingan. However, I'm almost positive you couldn't see my attack coming in time to avoid it…yeah."

Itachi stood up, took off his hat and opened his eyes "You're one to talk, always using the 'same' clay for explosives. But, it can't be helped I suppose; that's what identifies a specific ninja."

"What the… Don't speak to me like that! Whatever I create is different in each outcome, idiot." Deidara screamed in rage while he reached his hands into the bags strapped to each side of his thighs, and pulled out clay that condensed into his palms. "Now take this!" he said with a twisted smile as two canaries of clay flapped from his hands and flew towards Itachi.

"That may be true, but there are endless variations from genjutsu at my disposal, and there are secrets of the sharingan that you know nothing about." As Itachi finished saying this, his eyes became red again, and three black tomoe in his eyes appeared.

Itachi was cut off; a large, wooden, spine like object zoomed in front of the explosive birds, right before they could get close to their target. The birds exploded when they touched the rugged object and created a very thick wall of smoke that blocked Itachi and Deidara's vision of each other.

Surprisingly, after the explosion, the backbone-like tail hadn't been obliterated, let alone sustained any minor form of damage. It was then drawn from the smoke by the same invisible force that trusted it forward; Deidara and Itachi watched it carefully.

"Ah, if it isn't master Sasori…" Deidara grinned as Itachi's normal eyes stared in stillness.

The tail had slid itself under the cloak of Sasori. The body beneath the shroud was rounded like a large bulb, while the lower part of his face was covered by a dark bandana. "Deidara, these past few years haven't made you a better "artist" and you're still obsessed with defeating Itachi. Let me be the first to tell you… You can't beat him."

"Oh is that so? If you hadn't showed up, we would have found out." Deidara spat out.

"And just what were you going to tell the other members if you had killed Itachi; that he jumped off a cliff because you told him to? Forget it. Let's just head to the hideout; we've wasted enough time." Sasori sounded irritated.

Itachi turned his back to them to look at the path ahead. "That's right; you two shouldn't waste time standing around and chatting. I'm already farther than you two."

"What? Are you f***ing dense? We're all in the same place here." Deidara yelled with a raised eyebrow shaking a fist that secretly had a clay bird forming in it.

Itachi looked back to them with his dark eyes "Not exactly, I've been gone since you first attacked me. Deidara, try not to cause too much problems and Sasori, keep an eye on him; until we meet again…" After saying this, Itachi's body dissolved and crows formed from it and flew away from the area.

"Damn, so from then…Tch he must have gotten away when the beetle blew up, then he created a clone and fled to make it look like he wasn't caught in the blast or ran away when in truth it was the latter, upon which, that clone must have used genjutsu on me before revealing itself sitting on that tree over there. He was convincing though, awakening his sharingan like that when I was about to strike. Not bad, I might have been fighting a clone all day." Deidara said to himself.

"You're sure slow Deidara. You know, Orochimaru was my old partner, but this time around I hope it's not you."

Deidara put back on his hat and jumped on his bird and started pondering out loud. "Yeah, yeah; but you know I'm pretty sure Itachi didn't see my attack coming and only dodged at the last second, but on the other hand…"

"Deidara…" Sasori interjected as they were about to continue the path, "shut up!"

Meanwhile elsewhere, in a dark place, a moving mechanical device and footsteps walking on damp earth and puddles are heard and finally come to a stop. In the dimness, as the exact same garments can be made out, the people clothed in them stood in front of a wall which held illegible text and characters.

A masculine yet feeble voice broke the silence, "This looks like it; I'll now interpret as best I can." In the faint light, eyes unhurriedly opened and revealed a glowing ripple effect-like pattern coming from the pupil and extending to the edge of the eyes. Through the light of his eyes, the undecipherable text became clear.

"...Long, long ago around the genesis of jutsu, there existed a holy shrine in the midst of a forest known as the Shrine of Life and Death. This cryptic shrine was bestowed with the secrets of the universe and was encased by heaven's light during the day and sheathed by black haze at night. Time and again, when the sun rose, the shrine symbolized birth and rebirth, and at sunset it signified death and destruction.

The people of that time prayed and worshiped at it during the daylight in exchange for prosperity and having their deepest desires realized. However, they were never to go to the shrine after nightfall; if they did, their prayers would still be answered…but at a terrible price, and the outcome of the wish would also have a negative outcome.

Many were granted their trivial requests, while others had great desires fulfilled. But during this era, battles were fought as wars took place for territory and control. The wars caused hatred and rage to overwhelm the people and threw the world into chaos.

The chaos of the world had instigated the rise of an almighty shape shifting beast of malice which wandered the Earth. This beast's powers were unimaginable and everywhere it roamed was twisted into havoc and discord as calamity broke out…"

"…Is that all?" a firm feminine voice asked.

"Some parts of it have faded completely, but that is where it ends. Could there be more?" the male voice asked.

The man and woman stood there in silence as if waiting for a sign from heaven. "…Actually there is." Another male voiced in the dark. He was shrouded in the unknown and could partially be made out by the bags under his eyes and short black spiky hair.

"Ah, it's you. We didn't even sense when you came in." the female said with a plain face with monotone. "Did you catch any of that, or does Nagato have to read it again?"

He put a mask over his face before speaking again. "Ah, that won't be necessary, Konan. I heard every word, and I couldn't be more elated. Ha-ha this looks like the beginning of a wonderful tale." The man laughed before folding his arms and walking up to the wall. "This is just the first of many tablets which indirectly tell the tale of the birth of the ninja world. If you think of them as a series this would be part one." he said rubbing the wall lightly as not to damage its ancient contents.

"Well, now that we've found this, we can put the first part of our plan into action; let's step outside, shall we?" the masked man said in a deeper, more serious tone.

The three beings walked out of the dark cavern as the same mechanical sound was audible. "Now Pain, awaken the hidden powers of the Jūbi."

Six men in the black apparel swiftly appeared in a circle and placed there hands on the rocky ground, and began to insert their chakra into it as it started to illuminate in a ripple pattern one at a time.

The man in the mask took notice of how slow the rings were appearing, and squinted his eyes before whispering to Nagato, "I wonder if there's enough chakra. This task may require more than what I posses… maybe even that of a bijuu. Perhaps we should have waited for Hoshigaki Kisame to arrive."

"Its ok, the rinnegan is essential here, and besides, from this range, chakra and chakra control are more then adequate." He answered calmly before clasping his hands together, to exert more chakra. By this time, six glowing rings had formed underneath the six Akatsuki members.

"Ninja Art: Jūbi Awakening" the six along with Nagato shouted in unison as the ground began to shake and break after a while and steam erupted from the ripples. Light quickly expanded from the ripples and shot up into the dark indigo sky, targeting the still forming full moon. A circular gust of wind blew away the wind and gushed outwards, disbursing over the land. The moon gave a strong glow of white that lasted only for a second, and then faded along with the ripples. During that second, it became almost like a second sun; it's light revealed everyone below and a nose bleeding, gasping red head, situated in a large mechanic chair of some sort with black rods protruding out of his back.

The sun began to set below the horizon as the six men lifelessly collapsed with a thud. "You've done it… Nagato; take a rest." Konan comforted him, giving an unsure smile of happiness or concern.

"Phase one is now complete." Madara smiled under his mask.

As the sun continued to set, the wind swayed carrying the orange-red leaves of autumn in the progressing starry atmosphere. Someone in dark clothing crawled on the forest floor gasping for breath. They looked up at the full moon in the sky with their dark, lifeless, violet colored eyes and coughed. "The time is imminent… that feared creature… will once again enter this world." The dark figure mumbled calmly as it rested its head on the ground. They clutched their pendant that was positioned on the ground beside their head, as it gave a dim lavender glow. Then slowly, they closed their eyes as everything around them seemed to fade.

Ok, there's the prologue. :) im sleepy... goin to bed.
o and R&R please... no negative comments .
(im already a goods ways into chapter 1, but i'll get back to that later)