Prologue:
It was a dark and stormy night near the once Akatsuki base. The wind is howling like a pack of blood-hungry wolves, the rain was coming down hard, and there was a somewhat thick, lingering mist to top it all off. The dry grass instantly became part of the mud as part of the rain shower.
There are two figures running in the rain towards the lair. One was 37 years old, but still looking somewhat young, carrying a large casket-like object on her back. She had dark, cherry red hair with a single purple striek, which was put to the left side, and was wearing a black and red robe. Her determined dark brown eyes seemed to be locked in the distance toward her destination. She is known as Kairi Shinju, known to be the last living person in the Shinju clan, which was wiped out nearly 25 years ago.
The other person was a female around 12 years of age, with piercing olive green eyes and light violet hair, which was also put to the left side. Her small body and nearly pale skin tone was hard to notice with her large robe on her. This girl's name is Naoki.
"Where are we going, Kairi-sensei?" Naoki asked, looking up at her almost-hooded master, as if waiting for her to give out a command.
"We're going to revive an old ally of mine," Kairi responded, trying to speak over the taking out a reddish-purple object with purple steam coming out. "To fulfill a promise I made to him."
As Kairi showed the object to her apprentice, Naoki thought she might have seen one of the faintest of evil smiles, but ignored it, thinking it was her imagination.
Once they were inside the lair, Kairi sat down on her knees and began to take of the casket from her back.
"Naoki, hold the heart." Kairi ordered handing the cylinder over to the young apprentice, which she nodded in response. Naoki looked at the "heart" and observed it. What's master planning to do with this thing anyway? Naoki thought to herself.
When Kairi slowly opened the giant casket, Naoki finally saw what her master had: It was a human body, with red hair, shut eyes, closed mouth, dark gray pants, and a clear white sash covering his waist. But as the girl moved on closer, she noticed something strange: this man wasn't human, but a puppet. Her eyes widened, but not by much.
Kairi now took out the life-size puppet and layed it on the cold, hard ground, and, literally, opened up the puppet's chest, and there was a small compartment inside, that looked like it would fit the item Naoki was holding.
"Naoki," Kairi took out her hand to her. "The heart."
Naoki did as she was told, and handed it over to her sensei.
Kairi then pushed in the heart into the inside of the puppet, and closed the opening. The two then waited.
Then, the puppet man finally opened its light brown eyes.
"Mhmhmh…." his hummed voice rang. He finally stood to his feet slowly, examining his body from head to toe.
"Well well Kairi," he finally said. "Looks like you got all the right things in order."
"It was my pleasure, Sasori." Kairi responded.
"Now that I've got a new body, it's time for my ultimate plan," Sasori said with an evil smirk on his face, revealing nothing pleasant in his dark mind.
But then Sasori noticed the young girl next to ally Kairi. "Who is she?" he asked blankly.
"This is Naoki, my apprentice," Kairi explained. "Don't worry, we can use this gullible brat to our advantage." Kairi whispered to Akasuna no Sasori's ear.
"What did you say?" Naoki asked, confused by what was going on.
"Nothing of your concern, little girl." Sasori said.
"And besides, we have much more important things to discuss," Kairi moved on. "Like what do we do about those insolent Hidden Leaf ninja? They've been interfering with the Akatsuki's business for far too long." She tried to state without losing her temper.
"We'll take care of them in due time, Kairi. In due time we will….."
Then the trio dissapeared into the mist, plotting the beginning of Akasuna no Sasori's revenge...