The New Akatsuki:Bonds

Chapter one: Pieces of the puzzle

(Ruki's past) (fifteen years ago)

A boy, about eight years old, walked in the pouring rain. His mother's flower shop wasn't that far away, and his blue hair was drenched, annoying him, by not staying out of his bright green eyes. As usual he had forgotten to grab an umbrella. As he got closer to the shop he began to get the feeling that something wasn't quite right. A light in the shop was flickering. He opened to door to see three men inside; two were standing on the outside of the counter and one on the other side. It took the men no time to notice the boy. The man behind the counter had glasses and white hair which was covered in blood; all three of the men had head bands which had the hidden sound symbol on them.

The man behind the counter smiled, as his glasses shined in the light, and spoke softly to the others "take care of this boy". The two others nodded and quickly pulled out Kunai. The blue haired boy saw the blood in his hair and had a look of anger and fear. The boy looked down, and the two men threw the kunai, as they did he looked up again, and his once soft green eyes turned a blood red color with some kind of symbols in them.

He grabbed one of the kunai midair, and used it to deflect the other one, right back into the first sound ninja's throat. This caused blood to squirt out. The second sound ninja quickly made hand signs, and the boy was able to copy them at the same time. He yelled out "Rhythmic style: sound wave" the boy did the same, and two blasts of sound shot out, the sound ninjas barely scraped the boy, and the boy's hit its target, blasting him through the wall of the shop.

The last sound ninjas smiled, moving his glasses "We will meet again Ruki Hiiasbi" then disappeared as if he hadn't even been there. Ruki hurried to the other side of the counter. His eyes widened in anger and agony, as he saw his mother laying on the floor covered in blood. He ran to her side, and she looked at him with empty dying eyes. He held her hand; she didn't have much life left in her, but had enough to say "Uchiha Itachi…is your father…" Tears streamed out of Ruki's eyes as he looked down and grinded his teeth. "My father.."

He took time to bury his mother, then took money out of the register, and packed a decent amount of food, then burned the shop completely down.

(Seven years later)(Ruki age 15)

Ruki walked through the streets of a small village, his blue hair had gotten a decent amount longer, and his green eyes now had a cold tint to them.

On his forehead he wore a headband from the hidden rain village. Snow began to fall and his green eyes turned from the green to the crimson red color. He was following a lead, that there was a person with Uchiha blood in this village.

A woman walking in all black appeared behind him, as he began to reach for the sword on his back. Her long black hair, and fox ears stood out among her other features, her eyes were the same crimson red as his own.

She spoke to him "I wouldn't if I were you, turn around slowly." He put his hand down and slowly began to turn around "you better be prepared".

He looked directly into the girls eyes and she smirked "your trick won't work on me, boy"

He smirked back "it won't work on those who possess the Uchiha blood. My lead was right."

The girl's ear flopped up "your well informed I see, you have the same Uchiha blood"

He glared at her with a serious face. "So then, maybe you know" She looked back at him with a sarcastic look. "Know what?" Ruki moved his hand through his hair. "Where Itachi Uchiha is" The girl looked at him with anger in her eyes as she clinched her fists "Why do you need to know?" she retorted at him.

He looked at her and simply replied "He's my father." She looked down and said out loud "Oi my idiot brother."

Ruki looked at her in sheer surprise "so that makes you my Aunt?" She looked at him "I guess it does, my names Reiri, but call me Rei-chan"

He nodded "my names Ruki" she smiled at him "looks like were on the same quest to find your father." Ruki scratched his head "indeed"

Both of them walked into the distance together, and began the difficult quest ahead of them.

(Traces past)

A boy with all black hair, was running, his medium black hair had red tips, his white in color eyes stood out. While he continued running he almost fell dropping his books, out of his arms. His name tag said "Trace" on it. He walked up to the ninja Academy. He was two hours late, due to his foster parents, not waking him up early enough. He slowly opened the door to the classroom. The teacher looked at him and said "Trace find a seat and listen."

He went to set by Sakura but she said "Eww get away from me looser." He was looking at the back row; he was getting glared at by most of the class.

He then noticed a kid with black hair was waving at him and said "Hey! You come set by me!" Trace walked back to him slowly and sat next to him "thanks my names Trace" the kid smiled at him. "My names Kaeda". Kaeda then handed him some notes to help him catch up.

(six months later)

Trace and Kaeda began training together. Kaeda smiled "wow trace you fight like a girl" Trace retorted "oh yeah we shall see" he made hand signs and did a jutsu that his mother had once taught him. "Steam grip"

Steam then wrapped around Kaeda "oh you can fight huh? Try this" Kaeda disappeared and poked trace in the back of the head. "Maybe next time, you're too slow"

(Three years later)

Trace walked out of the academy, when he received a message that the village was in distress. He looked around to see where Kaeda was, and found no sign of him. As he continued to look around he noticed the village was worse than they had said it was. He walked farther only to find a ninja from the hidden sound, with a drawn blade, it was covered in blood. the ninjas pointed it at trace.

Trace began to make hand signs and looked up, only to see the ninja had disappeared, and reappeared behind him. "Without hand signs your still too slow." He hit trace sending him flying forwards.

Trace slowly got up, and the ninja removed his mask, revealing it was Kaeda. "Join me", he said in a dark tone. Trace glared at Kaeda in pure anger "Never! I will not betray my village!" At that moment of pure anger, traces mind began to split and he activated his Mizuhi activated for the first time. Immediately Kaeda' began to catch fire, but was able to move and put it out, he then called for reinforcements from the hidden sound.

Three hidden sound ninja appeared and Kaeda said to them "take care of them; I have other matters to attend to."

He disappeared and the sound Ninja prepared to attack. Trace screamed in pain as he couldn't control his own actions now.

One of the sound ninja exploded into boiling water and it burned the other two to death.

Two leaf ninja found trace; he was holding his head and screaming in pain. "It hurts!" he screamed as he looked up at them. In seconds the leaf ninja bursts into flames. Realizing what he had done, he ran, catching everything he gazed upon into flames. From that day on he knew he couldn't come back to the hidden leaf village.