*Shiko*-flashback
Madara was pacing around the cave, his impatient footsteps making a loud echo throughout the walls. He was waiting. Waiting for his love, waiting for her to be safe.
How, or why? You might ask. Its a long story. For now, its only the time to say that who he was waiting for was someone of great importance to him.
As was said before however, now isnt the time to explain.
Madara growled under his breath, his nerves becoming increasingly worried by every approaching second.
He turned to the "leader" of the Akatsuki, know as Pein.
"Well? How long is it going to take?" He asked in a demanding tone.
Peins eyes moved acrosse from where they were standing to the jutsu that was being used to exract a certain spirit from Captain Yamato, who was currently unconcious and sprawled face-first across the floor. His eyes then shifted back to Madara, whose face was exposed due to the fact he had taken his mask off.
"It's unclear," Pein finally answered. "Not much of the first hokage's DNA is inside Yamato, that is going to extend the extraction time significantly."
Madara growled again and left the room, putting his mask on as he walked out the cave entrance and into the courtyard of the Akatsuki hideout.
He half stomped all the way inside of the main building, and passed the living room and the kitchen, headed towards his room at the end of the hall.
As soon as he opened the door to his room, he locked the door so no one could get in and took off his mask.
He sighed, and laid down on his back, faceing the ceiling of the room with his arms crossed behind his head.
He silently wondered why Pein hadnt grasped the importance of this extraction-this particular extraction of the spirit. As his thoughts drifted towards the one whose spirit was being extracted, a name escaped his lips. "Shiko," he whispered.
She had been his sensei, his friend, and his love... And yet he had let this happen to her...
"No...Why...WHY!" he shouted to himself, not caring if the other members of the Akatsuki heard him, which incidentally, they didnt.
After Madara had calmed himself down, he closed his eyes, and allowed his thoughts to take him back to when he had met Shiko for the first time, 111 years ago...
*He had taken the form of a small, injured black kitten. It was for a mission-Infiltrate the Senju clan by being taken in as an injured animal.
But, it didnt go exactly as planned. As the small kitten, he had managed to find one of the large buildings in the Senju clan base, and stood mewing and yowling pitifully to attract attention from anyone who might have been kindhearted enough to help.
At last, the door to the building opened but the one who came out of it was not even remotely close to what Madara would have expected.
The door had opened to reveal two 14-year old girls. The first one looked relatively normal for those of the Senju clan-Long brown hair, slightly tanned skin, and cobalt-blue eyes. It was the second one that was unexpected. She had pale skin, white hair, and the most un-senju trait of all-she had a permanent Sharingan!
The one with Sharingan said to the brown-haired girl,"Kenna, look, it's an adorable kitten! And look, he's wounded! Come on, we just have to help him,"
The one called Kenna sighed. "Shiko...Sometimes you can be too sweet for your own good, you know that? But not this time. I agree with you about this kitten."
Madara was just standing there in shock. There was an Uchiha...In the Senju clan...*
Madara grinned, remembering that first encounter with Shiko so long ago.. He jumped off of his bed and put his mask back on, bent on at least trying to have a good time while he was stuck in this situation waiting for Shiko.
One of the fun things about being "Tobi" was that he got to drive the other members (particularly Deidara) up a wall. This amused him greatly.
He decided to go and see what he could do to make Deidara's day a bit more miserable.
Deidara was sitting on the couch, watching TV along with Kisame, and Sasori. Yuri, Rina, and Sheena, the three newest members, were sitting on the floor, also watching TV.
Madara, now in his Tobi personality, approached them and sat right down next to Yuri. "Hello Yuri-chan," he said in his child-like voice.
"Oh...um...hey, Tobi," she responded. Yuri was usually a calm person, and didnt get as mad at Tobi as the other members of the Akatsuki did, and also would help him if the other members got too "Spirited" in destroying him.
However, even Yuri had her moments when she would try and murder Tobi. But that was only if Tobi touched her sword.
But in any case, annoying Yuri was not the reason he had come here. Yuri was involved, though.
"Yuri-chan, what do you think of senpai?" Tobi asked, getting the attention of both Yuri and Deidara.
Kisame, Sasori, Rina, and Sheena had seen where this was going, and left the room to avoid getting in the way of one of Deidara and Tobi's more violent fights.
Yuri just stayed there.
"Well Tobi, Deidara is my best friend here in the Akatsuki," she replied.
Tobi, playing innocent, said ,"But Tobi thought Itachi was your best friend. You always spend time with eachother, and sometimes are just alone together...sometimes Tobi hears strange noises coming through the wall. Do you play tag?"
Yuri, her face heating up and eye twitching in annoyance at the same time answered, "Thats none of your buisness, Tobi."
Tobi fake cried and went to Deidara. "SENPAI! YURI-CHAN IS BEING MEAN TO TOBI!" he wailed.
"Go away, un" was Deidara's response.
It was well known throughout the Akatsuki that Deidara was in love with Yuri, but never tried to be with her because Yuri loved Itachi. And vice-versa. And he would be damned before he would stop trying to be her friend, in hopes that some day she would love him back. But that would never happen.
And Deidara was pissed off that Tobi was reminding him that he had lost Yuri to Itachi.
'Damn Tobi' he thought to himself.
"Senpai, why are you mad that Itachi-san and Yuri-chan are best friends too? Senpai, are you jealous?"
This made Yuri a bit uncomfortable, and also drove Deidara over the edge.
"JUST SHUT THE HELL UP UN, OK!" He yelled.
"Senpai, why are you so mad when Itachi-"
"THATS IT UN!" Deidara yelled again. This time, he pulled out some of his clay bombs and threw them at tobi, who ran down the hall screaming, "I'M SORRY SENPAI FOR SAYING THAT YOUR JEALOUS OF ITACHI!"
He then dove into his room for cover, and locked the door.
He heard Deidara banging on the door and threatening him to get him to open it but he just sat there on his bed. He took off his mask and watched the door with an amused face, listening to Deidara's various shouts of "I'M GONNA KILL YOU UN!" and such.
When Deidara had left, "Tobi" burst out laughing, his personality shifting back to Madara.
He grinned. 'Well, that was entertaining,' he thought.
A few minutes later, there was a knock on his door. The said person managed to open the door and get in, even though it had been locked.
Madara's face twisted into a glare. "What is it, Pein," he asked. "It's Shiko," Pein replied. "The extraction is finished."