"Something must have gone wrong during the extraction process," says Nagato as he looks at the empty cave where the ten-tail husk used to be.
"Yes, I think so too," Tobi replies through his orange mask.
"What was the last bijuu we extracted?" Tobi asks as he looks at one of Nagato's bodies.
"The last one was the four-tails," comes Nagato's response.
"Then, there must be an anomaly during the four-tails extraction." Tobi says, frowning. "Call the rest of the Akatsuki and bring them here, Nagato. I want to question them one by one."
"Yes, Leader-sama."
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"I have a new mission for all of you." Nagato tells the members of the Akatsuki as they assembled in their hideout. "The ten-tail bijuu has disappeared during one of our extraction process, but Tobi has located where the Bijuu has landed. However, it appears to be in a different world than ours. I will send all the members of the Akatsuki to search for it, and I mean all of you, Itachi, Kisame, Deidara, Hidan, Kakuzu, and Sasori. You will all be participating in this mission. Tobi has already gone and went ahead to scout for us, but he will be coming back to transport the teams to this other world once you're ready."
"How long will the mission be, if you don't mind asking Leader-sama?" Kisame asked, scratching his head.
"An indefinite amount of time," Nagato replied, "It depends in your cooperation with each other and tracking abilities."
"Does this assignment require us to blend in well with our environment?" Sasori inquired.
"As much as possible, you mustn't draw attention to yourselves, which entails no unnecessary acts of violence and bloodshed in front of eye witnesses, especially civilians." Nagato said, looking at all of them with his Rinnegan. "And judging from Tobi's reports, majority of the population of that world are civilians. So I ask that you must be careful in presenting yourselves to the public, especially you Sasori, and that means no hiding behind your puppet."
"Sure, that sounds easy enough, hn." Deidara said, crossing his arms in front of him while nodding his head.
"Undestood, Leader-sama." Sasori replied, albeit begrudgingly.
"What is the world called, Leader-sama?" Itachi asked in his normally stoic tone.
"The place where the Bijuu might have landed is called Westeros, Itachi." Nagato answered. "Tobi will be providing us the map of the place once he returns. In the meantime, I want all of you to prepare your belongings and get ready for departure. Tobi will be here soon to take you to Westeros once he appears."
"Yes, Leader-sama." All of the Akatsuki members replied.
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In the Wolfswood
"Benjen, look!" Lyanna said as she spotted the great white tree in awe. The tree appeared to be similar to a weirdwood tree but Lyanna could see a single fruit hanging from it.
"How come there is a tree there now?" Benjen asked, almost to himself. "There wasn't a tree like that in here yesterday!"
Lyanna ignored Benjen's comment. She was drawn to the fruit so much that she began to climb up the tree without thinking more of it.
"Lya! Be careful!"
She heard her little brother called out.
"Don't worry, Benjen! I will!" Lyanna replied as she continued to climb up the tree until she finally got close to the fruit.
Completely mesmerized by the gleaming fruit, Lyanna slowly reach out to pluck the fruit out from its branches. Then after carefully inspecting it closely, she took a hasty bite from it.
It taste delicious! She thought as she continued to consume the fruit until there was nothing left of it.
"Oh come on, Lyanna! Couldn't you just have left something for me?!"
Lyanna heard her brother complained as she licked the juices from her fingers a moment later.
"I'm sorry Benjen, but the fruit was calling to me. I couldn't help but eat it." Lyanna said as she grinned down at her little brother.
"You're so greedy, Lya!" Benjen called out, pouting up at her.
In response, Lyanna just simply laughed as she slowly descended to the ground.
"Stop pouting, Benjen, and I'll buy you a blood orange instead. I bet the blood orange would taste better than the fruit I just consumed." Lyanna said, trying to placate her little brother.
"Oh, alright Lya!" Benjen said, already running towards their horses "I'll race you to the Winter Town then! The last one to get to the Winter Town will need to buy a dozen blood oranges!"
Benjen challenged as he climbed unto his pony while Lyanna was still climbing down from the tree.
"Ok, Benjen! You go on ahead! I'll catch up with you!" She said as she watched Benjen prodded his horse into a gallop and road away from there.
Afterward, Lyanna followed her brother to the Winter Town, not knowing that she had just consumed the fruit of the God Tree and she now had a target on her back as a result of her misplaced curiosity.
Author's Note: Just another idea that I couldn't resist writing. ahahaha