A/N: I just realized something…Updating is HARD! Especially if you have to mix it with O levels in high school (Physics, chemistry and math…), RPing with your friends (Snafu-comics.) , Watching new episodes of Naruto and Death note (awesome), trying to figure a way to learn some Japanese ( I still have no idea how to put words and sentences together…So you have to endure mistakes or English for a while.), playing world of warcraft (Ravenholdt, undead.) and apart of that still managing to have a life…

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Ch2. First light of the red dawn part. 2

The darkness was soothing. The pains of his past life seemed to vanish in the endless abyss. He floated randomly, his direction unknown. His body, he couldn't feel it, his sadness, it was all gone, his anger, forgotten.

It was a paradise for the troubled like him. In one mere moment he had lost everything. Wait. Had he? He couldn't even remember if it was all true, if it all happened.

He let the pure bliss of the shadows, of oblivion, consume him. He was happy, and then it was all broken.

Pain, utter pain; he screamed and his eyes bolted open.

The agony, it came from inside him, it was like something was eating him alive. He desperately tried to move, but it was futile. He found his arms and legs bound on a table of sorts. He looked around him in that but all that broke the gloom was the light above him that illuminated the table and him and nothing more.

"You woke." The voice was empty, emotionless. It was a thing's voice not a persons.

"Who the hell a…Ghaa." He begun but he was interrupted by the same sense of rotting from the inside out.

"Lab rats shouldn't speak." The very darkness its self seemed to move for it to appear.

Clouds. Yes, now he could make out something on the lump of shadows that to walked in the light. Pictures, drawn pictures of red clouds seemed to decorate it in parts.

A head, so it was a person. From the dullness of the voice Naruto could have sworn that it was an object that was talking. He was wearing a long cloak black as the night its self, the high collar of the cloak hid the lower part of his face making the only thing that was noticeable his two haunting green eyes and red hair.

"Sasori-danna. Are you done yet? Hmph." Another figure suddenly sprouted from the darkness. This ones hair was blond and long, one of his eyes was hidden by it and the other had a dark outline around it indicating lack of sleep.

"Be quiet, Deidara. This is art. Something that will remain for ever. Even you should understand that it will take sometime to be completed." Sasori commented, his voice always devoid of emotions.

The one named Deidara grimaced at this.

"Danna! How many times do I have to point out that art is an explosion! Hmph. Art is an emotion, emotions are spontaneous and momentary, that is true art, thus true art is a bomb. Hmph." Through this small conversation they had both ignored the boy that was kicking and screaming on the table in frond of them. "Oh. His awake." Deidara finally noticed. "So. Blond-kun, whats your idea on art? Hmph."

"WHAT THE HELL? LET ME GO YOU PSYCHOS!" The boy screamed but it went unheard by the two men.

Sasori averted his gaze from the Deidara and looked around him. "What are you all doing here? The required process is still semi-completed. Leave my quarters." He said and a faint aggression was obvious in his voice.

"There you go with those fancy words again." That voice! Naruto heard it before.

"Captain-sama wants report."

"So how's the ceremony going?"

"Its not a ceremony you religious freak."

They were coming from all around him. They surrounded him. Four more persons appeared through the blackness. They were all staring at him, examined him like he was an item they wanted and had just bought.

"WHAT'S GOING ON?! Why are you looking me like that? Who are you? LET ME GO!" His answer was a strong punch in the stomach.

"Don't do that Kisame. You might ruin my work." Sasori said mildly annoyed "Besides." He looked at the blue-eyed youngster that was now coughing frantically in frond of him, sometimes spiting a bit of blood. "He deserves to know what will happen to him."

"What…cough….are you talking about?"

"You see Uzumaki-kun. You are about to take part in a very peculiar experiment." Sasori lifted something from under his cloak. It looked like a strange large fruit with a odd marking on it. "See this? This is what some people call a Devil fruit."

"You know what a devil fruit is right Blond-kun? Hmph?" Deidara voiced-out making Naruto growl.

"They are said to be the fruit of the Sea Devil and that the secret to their power is hidden in the Grand Line. The Devil Fruit, when consumed, gives the consumer a power or special trait, most times it alters the eater's body giving it special properties like making it able to shrink or in some rare cases turn to fire." Said someone which the teen couldn't identify.

"That all good and interesting" he said ironically "BUT, WHAT THE HELL DOES IT HAVE TO DO WITH ME?" The boy was getting tired of this game, he was tied on a table and the pain from before has yet to subside.

"I was getting there, Uzumaki-kun." The red haired akatsuki responded. "You see, this fruit is special. It is said that long ago the Devil of the sea had opposition, Demons said to be as equally powerful or more than him. They were nine. They were called the tailed beasts, their power greater the most tails they had with the nine-tailed one the strongest with infinite amount of power in its hands. It is unknown how but it was said that the Devil of the sea managed to seal them in nine of its fruits, and guess what, this is one of them. This is the fruit holding the Kyuubi, this is the fruit your father gave his life to protect and this is the fruit from which we will extract the demon and place it into you."

Naruto's azure eyes grew wide. "W-what?" he said with fear "Why in me? Why don't you take it?! Why do you need me?!"

"The process of transferring is still experimental. You can't just eat the fruit and get the demon. No, that would just kill you and set him free. A seal identical to one on the fruit must be placed on the body before that." For some unknown reason the man begun to seem more as a monster in Naruto's eyes as a strange expression of madness overtook his face. "As I said the process is experimental, and most probably lethal so we need to test it like we did with the previous ones. If you succeed we will kill you and extract it once again for our own uses." His voice finally got a unusual emotion; madness. He clapped his hands and light filled the room.

Now the blond youngster stared around him in pure horror. Everywhere, pinned on the walls, hanging on the ceiling, lying on the ground, were corpses on strings. Women, girls, men, children were all watching him with their lifeless eyes in an almost sympathetic manner as he was about to pass thought the same horrors as they.

His eyes shifted on the green eyed puppeteer truly filled with anger and hate but in his moment of paranoia he didn't notice the angry gaze.

"And when you die you will remain here for eternity! As the one that freed the Monster and helped us to take over the Grand line! As the one that brought the world to chaos! And as my three hundredth human puppet!"

Naruto tried to scream, tried to wake him up from the madness, to reason with him, not if fear but in anger, but he was silenced by a strong punch to the head by the one named Kisame. Darkness came like a wave to tranquil him and put him to peace.

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The moon was covered by the clouds ensuring full darkness on the deck of the Akatsuki.

'Perfect.' Sasuke thought as he climbed on the ship. He was calm, he had been preparing for something like this all his miserable life, even before he had killed his family. He made sure that the boat he had used to come to this location tied strongly with the ship ensuring that when he returned it would still be there. It had been hard to keep up with the swiftest ship in the five elemental islands, but this was a matter of pride and vengeance.

He walked along the mass, of the colossal ship; revenge or not, he could not afford to be reckless. The most possible outcome of being seen would mean certain death. No matter how much the navy looked down on the pirates, they were strong and their skills of perception were higher than most. Of course he wasn't here to start a war between him and them; he would just find the one he wanted, kill him and leave, even if he had to die trying.

"Captain-sama!" Sasuke to froze on his tracks, his eyes widened considerably "There's someone on the boat!" The raven haired teen slowly lifted his gaze. Someone saw him. Someone was standing in frond of him blocking his path.

The man wore a bright orange mask with no holes for either his eyes or nose along with the customary Akatsuki cloak. Even if his eyes were unseen, Sasuke could feel the man staring at him behind the swirling orange mask.

'Wait; footsteps, someone else is coming!' This was getting dangerous he needed to get out of sight before anyone else saw him.

"What? T-TOBI?! What the hell are you doing here? How many times do I have to tell you? You aren't a part of this crew!" The voice seemed to appear out of nowhere. Tobi foolishly turned to face the person and as soon as his eyes were lifted from him Sasuke dove in the shadows and tried vanish for the second one's sight, who knows? Maybe he won't believe the orange masked freak.

"Bu-But Captain-sama! I found some on board! Truly! Tobi is a good boy! Please believe Tobi and let him join!" Tobi was practically begging the other man who was still lurking in the shadows.

"What? Tobi you retarded sea weed there's no one there!" He could almost see the vein popping from the captain's head through all the darkness.

"What?" Tobi turned around only to find the teen missing. "Where'd he go? Tobi knew that he should have told him to stay where he was. Now he left. Tobi is sad…" The next thing that Tobi knew he was soaring through the air away from the ship with a boot mark on his butt.

"That's that." The leader said and begun to walk away; Sasuke watched the whole exchange from the darkness, he was sure that at that moment he was the luckiest bastard on the face of the earth.

He made sure that the captain had left before he begun heading below the deck to the crew's living quarters. 'Gotta keep moving.' He seriously had no more time to waste.HH

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"It's finally over." Sasori signed and slumped on his wooden chair. It had been a long process and to say the truth it had been tiring, even for him. It had taken long but it was done.

"Now al that's left it to feed him the fruit and…" He was interrupted by a knock on the door. He made no move to open it.

"What is it?"

"Hey danna! Is Blond-kun's tattoo done yet? Hmph."

"Deidara I am in no mood to listen your foolishness. What do you want?"

"Captain-san wants a report. Hmph."

"The project hasn't even begun yet. I don't even know if the seal will hold you have to tell him to…"

"No! You have to tell him yourself! If I go with out you he will skin me alive! Hmph!"

"What are you waiting for then? Go and I'll come after the screaming is done."

"So mean, Sasori-danna!"

"Fine, fine, I'm coming." He said and finally stood up. He sent a glance at the boy that still lay unconscious, with his upper body bare, on the surgery table. "I seriously doubt that he will wake up anytime soon anyway. Especially with that drug I gave him." He muttered more to him self than to his fellow pirate.

"Good! Now come! Hmph. The longer we spend here the higher the probability that captain-sama will kill me! Hmph." Sasori could sense Deidara's anxiousness even behind the closed door.

"But just to be sure…" He took a strange looking, swirl marked fruit from beneath his cloak and grabbed a knife.

"Oh come on! Hmph!"

"One second you clay loving bastard." He cut a small piece of the fruit. He placed it in the teen's mouth.

'When he wakes up we will unconsciously swallow, this is nothing but a precautionary measure just in case he wakes up before we come and wake him our selves. I would really hate it if this experiment took any longer, if he wakes up the procedure will continue even after my absence for the report. The fact that he wakes up alone is highly unlikely because of the drug but…' His thoughts were roughly interrupted by an impatient scream from his partner.

"Oh my God! What the hell are you doing in there?! Hmph! Making another puppet? Come on! Move it! Hmph!"

"You seriously need to work on your patience my bird brained friend." The red head walked out of the room with a sigh.

"Finally!" Deidara said irritated as he saw his master open the door of the room and walking out of it without closing the door.

"Don't you ever shut up?"

"It's a curse I'm afraid." He said with irony marked on his face.

Back inside the Sasori's workshop Naruto still slept, unaware of the events occurring around him.

Well…That should do for now. Next up: Escape from the Akatsuki, the 'Konoha pirates' make their appearance! And Luffy shows his face (a bit)….At least this is what I have planned; you never know for sure what could happen!

It will take some time to update again because as I already said I have a lot of things to do! But I will do my best. I still don't get how people manage to update without losing half their life though.