Disclaimer: No, Am afraid I don't own Naruto, he belongs to Kishimoto-sama, along with his friends. This is a disclaimer for the whole story. Also the next two parts belongs to whoever writes death note, although I modified the second one a bit in order to fit the story.


Prologue, The things Tobi will do for entertainment purposes.


In the future reflected in the fruit, I change my dream into an ideal,
The end that everyone desired.

Within the spreading darkness, We exchange vows of revolution.
I must not allow anyone to stand in my way.

Someday I'll show you..
A brilliant world.


I saw dreams that no one could have seen,
and threw away anything that was not of use to me.
Yet unyielding thoughts reside within my heart..
And I wonder if I made the right decision.

-x-
I'm still in the gorge of reality and idealism.

Even if my feet get caught in the shackles of sacrifice,
My overflowing urges cannot be repressed.

My hearts yearning is so strong,
I feel like I'm missing something, in this aching hole in my chest.

-x-
I'm a shinobi who knows real solitude.
Lies, fear, grief. All kinds of negativity.
Though I'm not weak enough to get captured by them.


"Oh.. If Tobi doesn't hurry up, Deidara-sempai is gonna shove birdies up Tobi's rear end and make them go boom." The spiky-haired shinobi's hands travelled to said area -while he winced- patting his cloak down, as if he was brushing off the unwelcome memories of the last time his ass went for a ride with the little clay birdies, after pissing his sempai off.

The latest member of the Akatsuki organisation was currently strolling among the thick forest trees in river country making his way back to the main base in Amegakure, where his partner was probably waiting. He'd already been gone a week -attending to his private business- and was due back tonight for a mission in the morning with his bossy sempai. It was starting to get dark already, and he really should pick up the pace or take to the trees, but this was Tobi-- A grown man with the attention span of a two year old; no sooner did the thought to hurry cross his mind, that it left.

Something had caught his attention.

Sat atop one of the thick, aged tree branches, was a tiny brown squirrel, with a large bushy tail. The orange-masked nin slowly -as not to startle it- approached the little rodent with mild fascination, and within no time was perched in the tree with his back against the trunk. The squirrel didn't seem bothered in the least by the cheerful shinobi's presents, it just continued munching on the nut it held between its claws.

"Good evening, Squirrel-san." Tobi greeted cheerfully, the little rodent looked up at him as he continued to speak, "Tobi thinks you are so cute!" he practically squealed, reaching out to the brown ball of fur. It leapt into his outstretched hand, and the dangerous Akatsuki member cuddled it to his chest, as he rocked his arms from side to side.

Noticing that the squirrel was not trying to escape his gloved clutches, the masked shinobi started to converse with his new friend in delight. "Tobi likes Squirrel-san already. Does Squirrel-san want to come home with Tobi?" he tilted his head to the left slightly, as if waiting for an answer.

Then one dark eye flicked to the forest floor below, where four cloaked, and masked, figures darted past as nothing but blurs.


Tsunade had placed members, out of her -top, personal- ANBU, into a temporary four-man-team, and sent them off on a quick diplomatic mission, to keep and further secure the political relations between fire and wind.

Of course, they accomplished their mission in a breeze, as it was not a wish of the hokage, nor the Kazekage, to break such a peaceful alliance. It had been five years since the betrayal of Suna, and they had paid Konoha back with all they could. Though Gaara being appointed Kazekage, made it that much easier to learn to trust Suna again and build those unbreakable bonds, everyone held so dear to them now.

The team were currently running along the ground, dodging and weaving through trees, as they silently made their way back home. Neji and Shikamaru were up ahead whilst Kano and Aki travelled a few meters behind.

Kano and Aki had been friends since their early academy days, and had been inseparable ever since. They ended up in the same team for years after they graduated, going through the chuunin and jounin exams together; with their female team-mate Mizuki, who they sadly lost on a mission, nearly a year ago. After the death of their blue haired comrade, they both took the ANBU exams and easily passed.

At first, the two boys had been disgruntled to find that their captain was female -not that they were sexist- and also a newbie just like them. They soon found out the hard way that their captain was a force to be reckoned with. A feisty little spit-fire, as Aki was so brave to put it. It was after a rough sparing match, where the captain took both boys on at once, that she earned their respect. The outcome had been quite bad though, she beat them both to a bloody pulp, for underestimating her. Kano had quickly noted that she was quite sensitive in the area of being underrated, and stored it away for later analyzing. She had quickly slipped into medic mode healing them after, which had earned her an apologetic and thankful grin from Aki, and a smirk from Kano.

Despite being such close friends, the two were so very different; from looks right down to personalities.

Aki had a mess of short spiky-blonde hair, and inky black eyes. Kano had long-silky black hair, and golden orbs. Where as Aki was tall with a slightly muscled body, Kano was short but well built. They were both very handsome indeed, but the golden-eyed shinobi frequently grabbed the ladies attention, which wound the blonde up to no end.

Personality wise the dark-eyed shinobi was as bright and bubbly as his name; often getting himself into sticky situations by acting without thinking. Oh and he could talk, he always goes on about something or other, more-time having to be shut up by his agitated partner in crime. The golden-eyed ninja had always been cool and calm in almost every situation thrown at him. He always acted bored but not lazy, even if something does manage to spark his interest. He is highly intelligent, definitely the brains of the two and he never did anything without thinking of the repercussions.

"Something's not right." the dark haired ANBU quickly realized, though it seemed nobody else had noticed. "Aki, stay close."

And the blonde did so. He knew by now that there was no point in arguing with his partner, he could say I can look after myself as many times as he liked, and the over analytical shinobi would not listen. He had always been the protective older brother type, especially since the death of Mizuki, even though he was actually the youngest. So the blonde always did as he was told, even if it was just to make his comrade feel better.

Not to long later, did the duo hear the calling of their current team member's dojutsu. "Byakugan." he whispered, as not to be heard whilst he scanned the area rapidly looking for signs of danger.

By now everyone's senses were prickling, they were all on guard.

Neji abruptly stuck his right hand in the air signalling to the team, who stopped in their tracks. Stood in the clearing; they all tensed, though not visibly and readied to attack or defend, as hands went in the direction of shuriken and kunai pouches, that were strapped securely to their uniforms.


The dark-haired shinobi had finally caught up to the blurs, that had passed him not five minutes ago, landing on the branch of a tree slightly ahead of them; he immediately recognised the standard jounin uniform and ANBU masks. He understood that system well. They had been on a high ranked mission but not a dangerous one -most likely political- thus the ANBU armour was unnecessary.

"Wow, Tobi didn't think he'd find a bunch of leaf ANBU way out here." he said loud enough for them to hear, from behind his own orange swirl shaped mask; catching the groups attention.

"That cloak.." the blonde gasped.

Tobi watched as he tensed, though it might not have been obvious to another shinobi, Tobi could see his every move. A battle was coming, he could feel it in the rapidly thickening atmosphere. Maybe he could have some fun. If they put up a decent enough fight. Political mission or not, he knew they would be prepared, a shinobi would be stupid not too.

"And its four-on-one. No fair." He went on ignoring the blonde male.

"Its an Akatsuki." A short, dark-haired shinobi growled in confirmation from behind his dark-blue, wolf-shaped porcelain mask. "Be on guard, this is the one we don't know anything about." he warned the team. He was the leader or the brains, the lone Akatsuki member hadn't quite decided yet. And that meant that he was probably both.

"Oh.. That's because Tobi's relatively new, wolf-san. Nice to meet you, am Tobi. What's your name?" He taunted, knowing full well that ANBU didn't give away names unless necessary.

"Don't start acting cocky yet, we haven't even started!" the other wolf-masked shinobi, with blonde hair yelled, clearly from agitation. He was like Deidara in a way, Tobi mused, such a short fuse. This could be more fun than he had thought.

"Don't make any sudden moves, lets just observe him for now." the dark-haired one ordered in a hushed voice, more so to his masked-twin, who was getting more and more riled up by the minute. "He's out numbered, but we don't know where his partner is, they always travel in two's."

The missing-nin watched on with amusement, as golden eyes scanned the terrain looking for any unnatural disturbances. Yupp. This ones definitely their leader, he thought to himself. He was certainly a cleaver one, but Tobi wasn't about to let them know his partner was not around. It wouldn't put him at a disadvantage to let them know, it was just much more entertaining to see them so on edge, thinking that his clay using sempai may be around and waiting to attack.

"We've still got the advantage!" the blonde shouted out, clearly raring to go.

"Your not taking Tobi seriously?" the dark-haired-nin asked in mock hurt. "Not cool."

"Get out of our fucking way!!" a furious blonde yelled, as he flipped through a series of seals. He then slammed his palm against the ground and suddenly the earth shook as it crumbled and boulders of dirt went flying towards the seemingly unsuspecting Akatsuki member.

"Ghaaagh." he screamed, dodging the bone crushing blows, one after the other effortlessly. When the onslaught of boulders finally stopped, Tobi leapt into the clearing with the leaf-nin and chuckled to himself before saying very sing-song, "Not."

The four ANBU stared at him puzzled, he didn't even have a single speck of dirt on him never mind a scratch.

Maybe he wasn't as harmless as he looked. He may refer to himself in third person and talk in a higher pitched voice than the average male but he wasn't in Akatsuki for nothing, Kano realized.

To say that Aki was pissed was an understatement; that was a very capable jutsu, it should have at-least hit the childish Akatsuki member a good few times. He shouldn't have even seen it coming let alone dodged in time. The blonde could have sworn he seen a few boulders go through him though.

Out of sheer rage, the onyx-eyed ANBU grabbed a few shuriken from his pouch, attaching them to trip wire. All at once he jumped into the air, throwing the shuriken in Tobi's direction; the wires quickly wrapped around the missing-nin's middle, effectively tying him to the nearest tree trunk. Aki landed with the other end of wire in his mouth as he quickly sped through a set of hand seals.

Mi. Tatsu. U. Tora.

"Katon: Ryuka no jutsu." he shouted, through clenched teeth to keep the wire in place. He kept his hands in the last seal and brought them up to his mouth. Inhaling deeply, he focused chakra to his chest and exhaled fire along the cords. A large, devastating flame charged towards the tied down Akatsuki member, who didn't even so much as squirm.

The orange-masked man was engulfed in the flames and momentarily disappeared from sight as the fire vanished, being replaced with a cloud of smoke, the after affects of the jutsu. By the time the thick smoke started to clear he came back into view, in the exact same spot. The tree bark was charred black from the fire but Tobi's clothes weren't singed or damaged in anyway.

"Now, now.. That's not very nice." The spiky-haired nin started, as he waved his hands about. "Stop being mean to Tobi, he didn't do anything wrong, Tobi's a good boy.. A good boy!"he exclaimed in a whiney voice.

"Urasai!!" the blonde shouted at the top of his lungs, if his mask wasn't obscuring his face, everyone would be able to see the frustration and anger etched across his features; instead they could probably feel the waves of killing intent radiating off of him.

"..iiya." the childish Akatsuki member said after a bout of silence for dramatic effect. "Tobi will not. You are so rude, wolf-san. " he continued, waggling his finger at the group to stress his point. "Tobi could have got a boo-boo! ..what would you have done then?" he abased in a voice showing just how serious he was. "You should be ashamed of yourself."

"What the.." confused golden eyes roved over the missing-nin, but with him too wearing a mask his intentions were troublingly unknown.

The byakugan-user stared at the masked-joker wide eyed. He had never heard a shinobi, let alone an enemy complain, about a boo-boo before. The childish antics of an obviously powerful shinobi was so laughable that the Hyuuga genius did just that. He had to muffle his uncharacteristic outburst with his hand, before quickly recomposing himself.

"Oh.. Troublesome." the Nara genius muttered under his breath. This was going to be one ache in the brain. Shikamaru's mind was at work already. Their was one of three problems to worry about. Ichi, the most obvious, where in the hell was his partner? Ni, what was he up too? At the moment it seemed like he was trying to entertain himself. And San, both high level attacks on Aki's part had done no damage whatsoever; but what was more disturbing was the fact that no-one in konoha had encountered him in battle. His jutsu, elements and fighting style was unknown; thus making this problem the Konoha-ANBU's first priority.

"Don't do anything brash, Aki, it could put the whole team in danger. He might be out numbered but he doesn't seem bothered in the least. Its like he's toying with us, be careful." Kano warned his agitated partner, with only one plan in mind. Take down. Bright golden eyes travelled to the strategist of the temporary team, to see if he too had come up with the same idea.

Shikamaru understood what he was trying to relay in his golden orbs and nodded confirmation. They needed to team up, hopefully that way he would be too distracted to use whatever technique it was that effortlessly dodged their previous attacks, and if that didn't work he knew they could very well be screwed. Quickly gaining the attention of the other two members of the group, he simply explained, "Formation Sakura."

Instantly the team got into the formation. The Akatsuki member wouldn't know what hit him, for the only people that knew about it were the ANBU team's Yon and Kyu. Fortunately two members of each team were present. It was a relevantly easy tactic that the said blossom-haired kunoichi quickly thought up when they last got into a tight situation -it rendered the foe useless and sometimes unconscious, particularly good for taking the enemy captive alive for questioning- simply attacking one after the other until Neji could safely get close enough to shut off the foes chakra flow by directly hitting his or her chakra points. With no medic here this time round, they would have to be extra cautious.

Neji and Aki jumped up into the air simultaneously throwing a rain of kunai and shuriken at the orange-masked nin. They continued with the onslaught of attacks- Aki rapidly made the hand signs for his favourite fire jutsu, as he shouted "Katon: Ryuka no jutsu." Neji inhaled quickly -to aid the blonde- and blew out an un-see-able breeze to strengthen the fire dragon; which combined with the wind, blew towards the landing nukenin with deadly accuracy and strength.

Meanwhile Kano and Shikamaru were preparing to immobilize the Akatsuki member. The Nara genius preformed the rat and bird seals, a black shadow formed at his feet stretching out infront of him, moving at great speeds towards his opponent- who was currently getting scorched by the wind educed flames.

Completely taking the brunette aback, the dark-haired shinobi's hands contiguously slipped through seals of their own. Bending down a tinge of raven coloured chakra flared in his hand like a blue flame -though it was not fire natured- and glided along the top if the shadow users jutsu, eventually combining itself.

Without looking at him, Shikamaru asked curiously, "What are you doing?" Nobody had ever combined their chakra with his shadow jutsu's, it wasn't needed; but more so, he was worried that by doing so it would effectively weaken, or interrupt, his technique.

"Just watch." was his reply, as he focused to keep his chakra running through the shadow that was now, joining with that of the dangerous Akatsuki member's.

"Kage Nui no jutsu!" Shikamaru called his battle cry, his shadow splitting off into dark tendrils, slicing through Tobi -as the flames wore off- and binding him in place.

Again, he was not scorched, the fire jutsu hadn't worked this time round despite the much stronger flame; but the shadow-sewing technique had, meaning whatever the formidable jutsu the spiky-haired nin previously used was either not working or he didn't have time to activate it due to the slight distraction. Stuffing that thought in the back of his mind to analyze later, golden eyes sparkled as Kano used his newly created jutsu.

"Omoi, Gekitsuu." he whispered painfully slow.

The Akatsuki member then squealed at the top of his lungs, evident fright seeping into his voice, "Iiya, yamero! Tobi promises to be a good boy! Please don't hurt Tobi." he ended in a pained whisper as the raven-coloured chakra evolved into silent but deadly, electrical currents in the blink of an eye.

Mercilessly, gaze unyielding, he resumed his offence against the helpless, pleading member of Akatsuki. Keeping his jutsu going, Kano's left hand flowed through more seals, "Raiton: Senbon Naiyou."

Still wrapped around the orange-masked shinobi through the shadow binds, the lightning manipulated chakra spitted sparks, like little senbon -rather than out wards, manoeuvred towards the immobile nukenin and entered his body without breaking the skin- hitting his chakra points at such a speed that the spiky-haired nin wouldn't have been able to stop them even if he wasn't bound, and rendering him useless.

His body numb and bleeding profusely, the unconscious man slacked against the shadow binds as the lightning-element chakra retreated back to its user, with a resounding fizz.

Kano stood tall and proud at his experimental accomplishment. He smirked to himself knowing that it wouldn't be seen from behind his wolf shaped mask. He looked around at all the pleased looks everyone was giving him, that for an unknown reason, even to him, made the twenty-year-old swell with happiness. "Neji-san, if you would be so kind as to check on Tobi, it would be much appreciated."

And he did. The brunette byakugan user walked cautiously over and felt for a pulse on the enemy's wrist, he found one of course, albeit a rather erratic one. "He's just unconscious, though his body seems to be stemming the blood flow and healing the wounds already."

"Strange." Kano thought aloud. Could he be a medical nin? He personally didn't know Akatsuki had one-- although they didn't know much about this particular member. Well in any-case, if they had just snagged Akatsuki's medic that could only be a bonus.

"Indeed." Analytical silver orbs glared at the still form dumped on the ground; now that the shadow-user had released his binding jutsu.

"So.. What do we do with him?" a calm blonde asked, sounding very curious, now that he had reigned in his anger. It was getting increasingly darker now and the older shinobi of the group really wanted to get moving; it would still be a day's before they arrived home.

"Take him back with us for questioning." Shikamaru drawled, like the answer should be obvious.

"Well lets get a move on, id like to make it home preferably some time tomorrow." Aki threw back at the spiky-pineapple-haired nin.

"Alright, alright." Shikamaru added slyly, "But your carrying him."

All eyes flicked to the seemingly docile male, wearing a black cloak, adorned with silver outlined, red ominous clouds.


A/N: So here's the prologue! Am so excited and a little nervous. Hmm…

I noticed there wasn't many Tobi stories out there -but I just love him, you cant deny just how utterly adorable he is- and so I decided to write this.

I tried my best to help you understand the personalities and looks of my two OC's, Kano and Aki, as they should be staying throughout this story. And yes, before you ask, they will be similar to Sasuke and Naruto in some ways but completely different in others. Basically their supposed to be complete opposites of each other, yin and yang. Yuumei.

I apologize for those who may be disappointed with the fight; but I generally find it hard to picture battling scenes whilst reading them and so I wrote it to how I could picture it. Oh, and Kano's attack's: Omoi Gekitsuu literally means mind intense pain, which was the closest I could find to mind numbing pain; though Senbon Naiyou should be more obvious, one-thousand needles internal use.

As you can see this is my first posted FF. Ive got other bits and pieces lying around and that, mainly my scheme-y little plots but yeah-- I would hugely appreciate any reviews, whether they are good or critical. And by critical I mean written wise; I don't mind people pointing out grammatical mistakes 'cos they too will be appreciated as they may very well help further my writing skills. No flames though, but do let me know what's going round that brain of yours. XD

So long as I get atleast one good review, I will write the next chapter, and thus this story will be continued. I promise.

I hope you all enjoyed reading it as much as I loved writing it.

Ja ne.
Rudiieee-Mikomi. x