Moons: New fanfiction idea I just felt like doing. If you want me to continue on this, DO SOMETHING! Fav, story allert, pm me, or just leave a simple review. Thank you for your time. ^^
And thanks to emoDeidara13 for helping me with this. -gives cookie-
Edit 10/24/09: 1) I can't put friggin' periods in the title! It's not Akatsuki 20, it's Akatsuki 2.0 (say Akatsuki two-point-oh)
2) Any mistakes in this chapter should be fixed. ^^;
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto! Would I be here if I did! I only own any original characters that show up in here.
"Do you still have contact with Sasori?"
"I'm sorry Orochimaru-sama. The seal he puts on prevents the victims from remembering who he is or that they're on his side. If I find him and treat him as friend, it would be a dead give away that you freed me."
"Damn..." The snake sanin was in a pissed off mood. Not a good time to be anything but a loyal, obedient servant.
"There is still hope." Kabuto offered. "Remember that one kid we found, buried alive?"
"The Uchiha?"
Kabuto nodded. "He's been out on his own and getting close to the cannibal, Zetsu. I won't be surprised if he became a member soon. We can get the requirements for your project from him."
Orochimaru smiled. "Excellent."
And so the order was issued. Under the name of "Tobi", the Uchiha under the influence of Orochimaru's drugs got closer to Zetsu. Zetsu accepted him as friend, unknowing that Tobi had no idea who he really was. Eventually this led to his infiltration of the Akatsuki. He was able to sneak into the bases without being detected by anyone, even Zetsu.
As the members slept, Tobi hovered over them, making sure they couldn't be woken by whatever he did. When the time was right, he placed a seal on scrolls given to him by Orochimaru. First he obtained the easiest sources for DNA: hairs, spit, blood, or skin cells. He sealed them away, a separate scroll for each member. Then he made the seals activate. The seals drained the chakra from the unconscious members of Akatsuki. It seemed to absorb the nature of each member. Some deep part of Tobi's mind, uncontrolled by Orochimaru's jutsu, swore he taking part of their souls.
Tobi got out of the base, Akatsuki unaware that he was even there in the first place.
"Here it is Orochimaru-sama. Just as you asked. Now, could you please recover my memory?"
Orochimaru acted as Tobi had not made his request. He simply took the scrolls from his outstretched hands. Both could feel the powerful chakra of Akatsuki coming from the scrolls. Orochimaru began to walk away.
"What about our deal!?" Tobi asked, his voice rising, "You said you'd return my memories! Please! Give them back!"
It was obvious, however, that Orochimaru was going to follow the deal and give Tobi what he demanded. When Tobi attempted to follow the sanin, Kabuto got in his path.
"Did you really think that the ones who took your memory in the first place would just give it back?" Kabuto asked, "You really are stupid." His hands began to glow and he preformed tai-jutsu at an advanced speed; Tobi wasn't even given time to activate his sharingan. He was forced down to his knees in seconds.
As the man struggled, Kabuto smirked. "You think you know so little now? Just wait. By the time our mind drugs are done, you're going to be a good boy Tobi forever more."
Men wearing grey uniforms, masks that fully covered the face, and sound-nin forehead protectors came and took Tobi away. He would be released a long time later, his mind completely messed up.
Orochimaru examined the names on the scrolls as he sorted them out. "Kabuto, who is Hidan?"
"Newest member of Akatsuki currently."
"Partner?"
"Kakuzu."
"What happened to his other one?"
"Dead. Killed by Kakuzu himself. Sources tell us he can't go long without losing his temper and murdering his partner with his own hands."
"Hmph…won't last long." He placed the scroll next to Kakuzu's. The scroll for Deidara was next to Sasori's. Konan's was besides the Leader's and Kisame's by Itachi's. Zetsu's lone scroll was in it's own spot by itself.
This project Orochimaru started was codenamed "Akatsuki 2.0". Using the DNA and chakra obtained by the brainwashed Tobi, Orochimaru and his top scientists were able create life. They planted the materials gathered into human bodies: real clones.
Months went past. Orochimaru was still working the hardest on "Akatsuki 2.0". There were six clones all together and as much as Orochimaru loved to say that this was all going according to plan, it wasn't.
Almost a year into the project, they should be almost done. They should be around the same level as the original Akatsuki by now, but they weren't. They were meant to be more powerful. An Akatsuki team with the powerful combinations of the partners, each adult still young and strong, and totally and completely loyal to him and him only.
The project was failing. There were three major problems he could make out.
1) The clones were in an adolescent stage. They weren't grown up.
2) The bodies were unstable. Even in all his research, he had yet to create a perfect human clone. He had only mastered cloning small animals, but the human was much more complex than a kitten. These humans were no exception. In fact, with the freakish characteristics of Akatsuki they were even more of an exception.
3) As he monitored the brainwaves, Orochimaru took notice of the chakra kicking in strongly in certain areas, certain emotions. They would have free will.
In the end, Orochimaru accepted the fact that his little project was a failure. In shame, he hid his disappointment away in the dungeons of his hideout in the Sound. They would each die eventually.
Each clone was put in a separate cell. They were underground, deep inside a maze of twisting passageways that only Sound-nin seemed capable of navigating through.
It was in this darkness that the clones first opened their eyes.
When the first one opened her pale eyes to the dark hell-pit, sorrow swallowed her. Something inside her knew that it was a bad place. She longed for the light and warmth of the sun. There was nothing in her cell. It had just enough room for her to walk around in, and that was it. She was wearing a dirty smock, but nothing else.
Then she thought, 'Wait… how do I know what sunlight is? I've never seen it before. I've never seen anything before now. I've never known anything…
What's my name, I wonder.'
As she plundered this, she heard the footsteps of a guard passing. He muttered something that she could barely make out the words of. Or rather, it was a syllable and a word. "Su" and "Freak".
She knew what a freak was, but the word didn't bother her; like she had heard herself called it many times before. Honestly she wasn't that surprised. She had pure white skin. Literally white, not any sign of tan color anywhere. Her hair drooped past her shoulders and was a lively shade of green. She didn't know if her hair was unusual, but the white skin was defiantly odd.
The meaning of the syllable 'Su' was unknown to her. "I guess that'll be my name for now." She said aloud to no one. It was weird, how comfortable she felt talking to herself. "There's no other name for me that I know of."
Su stood up and managed to balance herself on both legs. She was walking for the first time! She paced around getting the feel of moving her feet.
Something in her mind said, "Kagerō (Mayfly)". She stopped walking. Without much willpower she let the ground absorb her. She sunk right through it!
Moons: Okay... hope you enjoyed first chapter.
btw, Kagerō is the jutsu of Zetsu's that allows him to sink into the ground and travel (according to Narutopedia)