Hey, hey, hey everyone! This is my first Tobi/Akatsuki story ever, so forgive me if any of the characters are OOC. Thanks for reading!
orangexswirlz
Disclaimer: I DO NOT OWN NARUTO. I only own Seikuu, from whose point of view this story is told from.
Seikuu:
To Become Nothingness.
That is the name they gave to me ever since I arrived. They've held me here longer than I can remember. But I do remember I used to live with them before they locked me up in here. Who's "they"? "They" are the ones who fear power, like mine. "They" are humans, the ones I despise, even if I am one of them.
It is humans that put me in this empty room, only opening the door to feed me and give me a change of clothes. That's the way it has been for 7 years now, and I'm absolutely sick of it. If only I were able to use my jutsu in this colorless, empty room. I would leave here the first chance I got. I would kill again to get out of here. That's how desperate I am.
Who am I? Why was I born? What is the world like without me?
These are the things I think about. You'd think I'd figure a lot of things out just sitting here. But I haven't answered any of these questions. It's been a while since I've heard anything about the outside world, and I'm aboslutely sick of it.
For locking me in here, these other humans will pay. Whatever it will take to get back at them, I'll do it.
"Kisame, do it." A deep male voice crooned, breaking me from my thoughts.
"Of course, Itachi-san." An equally deep voice grumbled in response, the sound following being a shriek of terror and some loud hacking sounds. A moment of silence passed. "Was that clean enough?"
"Yes, for you. Now, open the door. Someone will have heard that." The voice, by now whom I had figured was Itachi, and the other Kisame of course, plainly replied. I was beginning to wonder who they were, and why they were here, and why someone screamed.
However, my questions were quickly answered.
The door opened, and in stepped two men, one with mysterious red eyes, and the other shark-looking, with bluish skin and a large sword on his back. They both wore a black cloak with red clouds. Past them and into the room behind them lay a man, resting in his own pool of blood.
"Ah, there she is." Kisame said matter-of-factly, stepping into my empty, colorless room. For the first time in a very long time, I was able to see something other than these walls, another color other than gray. I was practically blown away.
There was a long moment of silence as I said nothing, merely staring over my huched-up knees at Kisame, until Itachi spoke.
"You are to come with us. We will give you power." Itachi stated. He sounded more imperative than offeratory. I was assuming he had some kind of strong power, because Kisame seemed to listen to Itachi and act very respectful.
"Why me?" I asked, surprised at the sharpness of my tone. I hadn't spoken in a while. It felt weird to talk again.
"You have a great power our…organization will need." Itachi answered bluntly, careful not to name the organization. It wasn't like it mattered anyway. I wouldn't have known, being holed up in here so long. I stared another long moment, mulling over his sentence.
"Well…Only under one condition." I said slowly, hoping this wouldn't be offensive in any way.
"And what would that be?" Kisame asked, his hand resting on the handle of his inhumanly large sword. Just in case.
"…Get me the hell out of here."
My first breath of the open desert air was indescribable. It was so clean, and so dry, so real. In that room, it was nothing but stuffy and in need of filtering. It was a wonder I hadn't gotten sick, being holed up in there for so long.
"We're taking you to our base. If you know how to manipulate your chakra, follow after us. If not, we'll carry you there. Understand?" Kisame asked gruffly. Even though he was grinning, he still looked pretty intimidating to me. After I nodded, he spoke again. "So, you can use your chakra?" I nodded another time. "Then let's get going."
As the three of us ran across the desert sands, I couldn't help but take everything in: the red color of the sand, the blue of the sky. Once you're away from them for so long, you forget how wonderful they are. But to interrupt my rare happy thoughts, a few more important ones came to mind.
What did these two men need me for in the first place? And what kind of organization were they in? I would have to find this out before we got to their 'base'.
"Say, uh…Kisame-sama…" I began, not sure how to address him. I had no idea how powerful he or Itachi were, but I had to at least ask these questions.
"Yes?" Kisame asked, turning to look at me. Under his gaze, I couldn't help but feel even more nervous and inferior. Lucky me, I was good at hiding things like this.
"I was wondering…How you knew who I was and why you need me in the first place." I asked back, doing my best to withhold his gaze and interest. On my other side, Itachi didn't seem to notice or care I was speaking to his accomplice.
Kisame let out a laugh, which sounded a bit more like a hoarse growl to me, and grinned even bigger still, his sharp teeth brilliantly on display for me to shrink away from in fear.
"Those two questions will be answered soon, Seikuu. Very soon." Kisame assured me, turning to face the front again. I took that as a notion to keep my mouth shut. Only one thing still bothered me.
…How did he know my name?
"Welcome to the base of the Akatsuki, Seikuu." Kisame declared as we stepped down into a large tunnel he had just procured. It had come out from no where, so I assumed it was some kind of genjutsu to keep anyone but the Akatsuki from entering. I followed him and Itachi down the tunnel for a while until we reached a door. Itachi knocked five times consecutively, and it opened, revealing a man with wild blonde hair, and the same cloak as Kisame and Itachi.
"Kisame, Itachi. I see you've completed your mission." The man spoke, looking past Itachi and at me. He was even more eerie to me than Kisame, which was really saying something. I couldn't help but feel this man was important by the way Itachi spoke to him.
"Yes. She agreed to come with us, but we haven't explained the details to her quite yet." Itachi replied, looking back at me with his cold, red eyes. I couldn't help but suppress a shudder. No one could ever have a gaze so intense like that. No one normal.
"Ah, then step inside. I'm sure Zetsu's new apprentice will gladly explain everything to Seikuu." The man airily said, gesturing into the room. Kisame gave me a quick and rough push in the back, and I clumsily stumbled into a large room. It looked strangely like an average home. There was a kitchen, a TV and couch, and a few more doors leading to who-knows-where.
"Sit. We'll be back out shortly." The blonde man said to me, and I quickly obeyed, hastily walking over and plunking down on the squishy couch.
Kisame gave me another little grin as he passed by before stepping into one of the other doors with the leader and Itachi, leaving me completely alone. I looked around with interest, and spotted a poster on the wall. The title was "Bijuu" and had nine drawings of animals with tails, the first picture having one, the second having two, and so on. I could only wonder what "Bijuu" meant and why there were animals on the poster.
"Well, hello!!" A happy voice called out, causing me to jump and turn my head to the source of the noise. It turned out to be a boy with messy black hair and an orange mask covering his entire face, swirls ending at his right eye socket. I immediately relaxed upon seeing him. He definitely wasn't a threat to me. Actually, he didn't look like much of a threat to anyone. "You must be Seikuu-san!! I'm Tobi. It's nice to meet you!"
"I'm…Seikuu." I replied uneasily, the side of my mouth twitching. This would be great. I would be staying with someone as annoying as Tobi. "How...did you know my name?"
"Oh, Zetsu-san was talking about how we'd be training together once you arrived. This is going to be so much fun!!" Tobi laughed, jumping up and down in excitement. Now that he was a bit closer, I could tell that he was around my age, maybe a year older. But by the childish way he was acting, I'd think a year younger.
"Zetsu?" I asked hesitantly, wondering who on Earth he was. Then it occurred to me that there were probably other members of this "Akatsuki".
"Yes! Zetsu-san is a kind person and will be training us so we might be able to join the Akatsuki and fill in the remaining two open spots. But that's not likely to happen, sadly. It'll take us many years to get as strong as them." Tobi sighed, striking a strange, dramatic pose.
"Tell me, what does the Akatsuki do, exactly?" I asked yet again. If Zetsu was going to train Tobi, then Tobi must be the one who the leader was talking about. He would be able to answer my questions. Hopefully.
"The goal of the Akatsuki is to track down the tailed beasts. Tailed beasts, or Bijuu, are demons with incredible power and are usually sealed up away in a Jinchuuriki to prevent destruction. The Akatsuki wishes to extract the Bijuu from the Jinchuuriki in order to obtain the chakra. They will do this so they will be able to rule over the entire continent, and then eventually the entire planet." Tobi recited cleverly, brightly smiling underneath his mask afterwards, evidently proud of himself for remembering all of that information.
"Oh…" I replied, not sure how to react. So, to sum it up, the Akatsuki wanted world power, and Tobi and I were to be trained to help them reach their goal. That sounded pretty simple. I guess it was the least I could do for them. They did let me out of my "prison", after all. "How will we be trained?"
"I actually don't know yet. I arrived a few days before you." Tobi honestly answered, giggling. This only made me more convinced he was young.
"How old are you?" I asked, raising an eyebrow suspiciously. I was expecting 14, or maybe 15.
"I'm 17! Just turned." He giggled again when my eyes widened a bit. I shook it off. How could childish Tobi be two years older than me?
"Stop laughing like that." I snapped after a minute of hearing his soft giggling, folding my arms. This Tobi person made me really irritated for some reason.
"Awww. Why? Don't you like laughing? It burns calories, you know." Tobi laughed again, probably just to piss me off even more.
"Stop." I snapped again, this time with more intensity.
Tobi took a moment to snicker some more.
"...Start."
"I'll kill you!" I growled, finally snapping and lunging for the annoying, orange-masked boy.
"Seikuu!" Kisame's voice growled loudly and angrily from behind me. He caught me by the collar and lifted me up around a foot off the ground. All I could do was grunt in surprise. "You and Tobi are to get along perfectly. I'm sure he explained everything to you accurately. Listen to him and Zetsu while I'm not here." With that, he dropped me to the floor. Luckily, I caught myself on my feet before I collapsed even farther down, to the ground.
"Fine." I murmured angrily, swearing at him profusely under my breath as he and Itachi left through the same door we entered from.
Tobi snickered at my anger.
I cursed him to his grave.
Tobi snickered again.
"I'll KILL you!!!'
...Need I go on?
"Tobi, I swear if you throw one more piece of your waffle at me..." I growled, standing up from the table me and Tobi were sitting at, angrily clutching my fork with the points towards Tobi threateningly. After two days, I thought I'd get used to him.
But no, he decides to make my life hell instead.
And yes, flicking bits of his already chewed, burnt waffle covered in syrup is the perfect way to do it.
"What? It's not my fault you hate waffles..." Tobi muttered, innocently shying away from me.
"Well, yeah, I kind of hate them when they've already been in your mouth!" I shouted again. "Whatever Zetsu-san said about you being a 'good boy' yesterday was complete and total B.S.!"
"You don't have to be so harsh, Seikuu-san. I was only trying to have fun." Tobi whined. He put on the most adorable face he could muster, and even I had to admit it was incredibly cute. For some reason, Tobi seemed to bring out a lot of emotion from me, especially when he wasn't wearing his mask. To tell the truth, besides Kisame-san, the only person I really did enjoy being around was Tobi, in a way. He makes me feel more human, at least.
"Yeah, well..." I took a moment to cool off. "Just...throwing things at me that are covered in saliva isn't the best idea. Stop."
"Yes, ma'am..." Tobi whimpered. You had forgotten to wipe off the death glare you had been wearing and that only scared the poor boy even more. If you weren't so icy, you'd feel bad for being so mean to such a sweet kid.
"And stop eating those waffles. They're disgusting." You sneered, eyeing the rich, fluffy, syrup-covered waffle with intense enmity.
"You don't like waffles?!" Tobi gasped, hunching over his morning sweet treat protectively. You replied by making a face, while you sat munching on your own bland cereal. "Oh, come on. Everyone likes waffles, Seikuu-san."
"Everyone but me, I guess." I replied, taking another slurp of my cereal. It actually tasted terrible, but I'd rather die than eat one of those sickening, vile, nasty things called waffles.
POKE.
Tobi's waffle was shoved into my mouth by none other than Tobi himself. He wore a triumphant grin as he removed his chopsticks from my mouth. After a minute of being in shock, I finally thawed out and exploded.
"YOU IDIOT!! I COULD HAVE HAD A HEART ATTACK AND DIED! I COULD HAVE CHOKED ON THAT STUPID FORK! I COULD HAVE CONTRACTED A DISEASE FROM YOUR DISGUSTING SALIVA!!!! I'M GOING TO KILL YOU!!!" I shrieked at the top of my lungs, preparing myself to jump and attack Tobi. He looked absolutely terrified. But I didn't blame him. I was ready to rip off his head, chop it into pieces, pour cooking oil over it, and boil it in the dark greasy depths of-
"Hey, what's going on here, un?" A voice said from behind me. I fell anime-style and Tobi leaped up from his chair, running out of my line of vision to where the voice had come from.
"Damn...So close." I muttered, grasping the thin air where Tobi's neck would have been, had I had caught him.
"Deidara-senpai!! It's great to see you again!" I looked up from my misery to see a blonde man being cuddled by Tobi, whom was all too happy to see him.
"Shut up, Tobi. And get off me." Deidara snapped, pushing Tobi away from him. He gave Tobi a glare, almost comparable to mine. Deidara sighed and looked around the headquarters, seeing me, finally. "Are you Seikuu-chan, un?"
"Um...Yes, I'm Seikuu." I replied lamely. The 'chan' part kind of caught me by surprise. Nobody had ever addressed me so informally before. I mainly found it weird because I had just met the guy.
"Right. I'm Deidara. I hope Tobi here didn't make you want to commit suicide, un." Deidara apologized rolling his eyes at Tobi's frequent ranting about something pointless, which we were both ignoring. Well, at least Deidara sounded serious about this.
"Actually, I was more focused on killing him. Trying to make me eat waffles...Dis-gus-ting." I spat, putting extra emphasis on every syllable. No wonder they never gave me waffles back in the Sand Village. They were nasty.
"You don't like waffles, un?" Deidara asked, apparently shocked.
"OH KAMI-SAMA, MAKE IT STOP." I cried, clutching my head and crouching down in defense. No way in hell would they make me eat another one of those things. I wouldn't be able to take it. Plus, half of my conversations this morning had been about waffles. I had to admit...that was a little...weird.
"Just asking, un." Deidara nervously laughed, taking a careful step away from me. He turned to Tobi and immediately wore a placid expression. I now knew I liked this Deidara person. He hated Tobi as much as I did, which was really hard to believe. "Listen, Tobi. Leader-sama told me come and help out with your training. I can't tell you what it is until later, un."
"Why later?" I asked, recovering quickly from my moping at the word 'training.'
"You'll find out eventually." Deidara stated simply. He gave me another weary glance before asking me yet another pointless, waffle-centered question
"Are you sure you don't like waffles, un?"
"AGHHHH!!"
Yes, this is sadly the end of Chapter 1. Not very long, but I guess it's okay. : )
Thanks for reading!
Hope you liked it.
With LURV, OrangexSwirlz