I don't own Naruto.


Rating:M

Be forewarned. I haven't got a Beta. So I'm the only one checking everything. English isn't my first language so there are some mistakes. And my style is kind of heavy. Working on it, uh huh. And I really appreciate any remarks!

Warnings:

Non-canon

Cracky theories

Crazy head-canon

Overpowered morons (or moron)

Yaoi

OOC

Some OC's

Some AU

Language

Smut

Pairings undecided, except:

KakaObi


Two weeks after the pursuit of Itachi. Tobi let Sasuke go free and have now other plans. Plus, Kisame is new partner of Tobi. Kakuzu, Sasori and Deidara is alive. Hidan is missing. Akatsuki has two new members. There's something chilling in the air. Hiruko declares war. During the fight with Hiruko Kakashi discovers terrible truth and Obito decides to use old technique of his former mentor to turn the tides of war to his benefit.

Masked Madara reveals the truth to Kakashi.


Covered in dirt and dust Kakashi slip between rubble after leaving small hole. During his fight with Kisame he created Lightning Clone and real body of him just followed into direction of masked Madara controlling Hiruko.

Konoha Eleven was scattered. Most propably dealing with giant chimera and other Hiruko's creations. Jounin was sure they would be fine and he's out of chakra. Using dopplegangers in situation of delepted stamina level wasn't the wisest choice, yet Kakashi hadn't got much of it. Naruto will destroy Hiruko, Kakashi believed in his student.

The sudden appear of masked man twisted and complicated their plans. Akatsuki.

Better to hurry.

/

"Lightning Blade!"

Obito saw it. The moment when Kakashi channeled lightning chakra through his hands, the tremendous speed of that attack. Double Raikiri.

Twin Kaleidoscopes swayed, following every single step of Kakashi. Force of newest attack would smash that clone to thousand pieces mercilessly. Unless – wind beats lightning.

Kakashi was here, his hands enceased by the crackling and sparkling blue chakra with soften, brighter edges which cause pain in the eyes from too long staring at the perfectly formed mass of lightning. It flashed and cut Obito's skin, not deep but cut itself was enough to made skin bleed.

The skin chirped loudly, hundreds of flapping wings, tiny birds who created blowing flow of air and scattered into all directions. Silver-haired Jounin saw his double Raikiri wearing out slowly under the colossal power of wrens-created wind.

Kakashi ducked and sneaked between the rubble into the direction where his true enemy should be, the one who was controlling Hiruko. Masked man. Madara Uchiha. Tobi. Something flashed in distance for the first time.

"Your chakra reserves are far too small, Copy-nin" when the air cleared, masked man sitting on the pile of the rubble sneered at him.

With lifted mask and only mouth visible, Madara smoked kiseru lazily. Weapons were almost out of his reach and Kakashi panted heavily. Adversary was right, he's almost out of chakra. One, maybe two uses of Raikiri, he would be lucky to use Kamui again.

Unlike the other Madara, that one wasn't encased by strange deep violet and dark blue aura strongly influenced by hatred. Madara created clones of himself, to buy himself time. Kyuubi. They're after Kyuubi and Naruto.

It seemed he's stuck here. In order to get to his student he had have to defeat masked man.

"What's that? Madara Uchiha hiding like scaredy cat?" he waved series of hand seals and Obito frowned when noticing what he's up to. Summoning?

"Shouldn't that eye see the future?" smirked Uchiha. Kakashi threw him sharp, deadly glare, yet Obito had known the truth.

"Summoning Technique: Tracking Fang!"

Second flash in distance. Naruto fought with Hiruko. So the thief managed to escape from the first strike.

Kakashi summons the dogs. Does that mean? He made sure to hide his smell and presence as well as he could. What went wrong?

Pain appeared when eight ninkens caught him. Shins, forearms, neck, shoulders.

"Cunning strategy." He admitted, playing with his kiseru. White goo flowed from his wounds slowly, except that ones on the shoulder and left leg which were bleeding with real blood. "One of five classic strategies."

Kakashi picked up the sword, getting ready to finish off Madara.

"Your future is death" voice hard as steel, merciless. Third flash of light.

Red eyes looked at him understandingly and Tobi nodded slowly.

"Maybe" said with deep, dark yet calm voice. "Impressive. I underestimated you, Kakashi Hatake and you want some answers before we'll see future together."

Copy-nin eyes widened in pure horror.

/

memory

/

"Kakashi" weak voice came from destroyed throat of Uchiha, his mouth covered in blood. "We'll see the future together with that eye I just gave you. Go! Take Rin. Protect her!"

/

end of memory

/

For a mere second Kakashi become distracted. The Akatsuki Leader swung his fingers, creating one-handed Tiger seal variant. He pushed Senju cells to create the shell all over his body, replacing the one already bitten by Kakashi's dogs.

"The cicada is leaving it's shell"

Blurred chain of handseals and wooden shell of Madara sprouted, their growing branches entwined eight dogs almost crushing them. Animals yelped in pain.

"Pull back for now!" Kakashi ordered them and ninkens disappeared in puff of white smoke. When it cleared, Jounin understood.

Wooden shell. Masked man was master of Wood Style, even as good as Yamato. His eye caught the glimpse of inscription written on the red handle.

Karotousen.

Winter fans, summer fire. Which mean useless things. Sword with red handle.

Kakashi swore he saw once man who had used that weapon.

Excruciating pain exploded all over his spine, up and down.

At the same moment fourth flash of light appeared. Fourth and last one.

"Chakra Disrupting Technique" right hand between his shoulders sent the strong pulse of chakra, just across his whole circulating system, making it unstable. Kakashi turned swiftly, cutting of right arm in a blink of an eye.

Obito pulled back, too late. He kicked his own lost hand into Kakashi's direction, before it fell on the ground. Kakashi's movements were impaired and it's time to use Tsukuyomi.

"Never turn your back to enemy!"

Silver-haired danced with that sword. Masked man suddenly closed his eyes. Suddenly something catched Kakashi painfully. It was chakra arm, in shade of yellowish orange. Composed of chakra creature with cruel smile and glowing eyes, like coals in the fireplace.

"Susano'o"

"It's stolen power" Madara smirked, hiding kiseru in his pocket. "It looks like my clone is done."

During disrupting flow of chakra in Kakashi's body he did something else. Chakra draining seal. He shouldn't use this on best friend, but no choice. That fool most likely would be ready to sacrifice himself for Naruto's sake. Obito once let Kyuubi slip between his fingers. The masterplan created recently had the bigger chances of success than his previous ones. He won't let the talking fox escape again.

"Stolen?"

"As you noticed before, my Eternal Mangekyou contains stolen power of Itachi together with my own" he tossed half broken orange mask over his left shoulder. "I'm Uchiha Obito. Madara, Tobi, Masked Man. There were only codenames, just like in ANBU. Hound, Tenzou and many others."

"Why, Obito? You always were a hero to me. Why nuke-nin, why Akatsuki?"

"To revert cycle of hatred. To make things they should be from the start, before Mother of the God stole forbidden fruit from God Tree, Shinju."

"Obito…"

Raven male waved a series of one handed seals.

"Activate"

Tsukuyomi will bring only more suffering to Kakashi.

"Wait"

It was too late. Painful seal has been switched on and silver-haired didn't let even a single moan.

"Why should I? You wouldn't never listen to me or follow my footsteps, anyways. Not the person I've become, just hero you had known. That all Konoha had known"

No time for this.

"So why you're risking your life for me?"

"Because only trash will leave their friends behind. Only person worse than trash would detest the remembrance of fallen comrades…" his voice softened. "I…"

The Akatsuki Leader softened his voice in purpose, making it sound more sad and almost hesitating. One more second. Forgive me, my friend. Only in that way I can save you.

"Obito…"

"Tsukuyomi!" he let too much power slip in this jutsu. Obito clenched his hand above the heart when wide opened eyes closed slowly and Kakashi's corpse lay numb and motionless in strong grip of demonic Susano'o. That hand put Jounin down with care and stabbing pain in Obito's heart remained.

"You've defeated him in nice manner." Kisame grinned behind his back, with hair slightly burnt by lightning-strike.

"He could fool you, but not me." Obito snorted, looking at the sky. Wrens brought him news. "After all, Kakashi Hatake is formidable enemy."

"Obito-san, you were friends. You used that against him."

Twin Mangekyou glared at him in silence. Otherwise, he would lose that battle with Copy-nin. Lowering himself to using such a dirty ways to defeat old friend was unacceptable. This was necessary. The faster Akatsuki gather all Bijuus, the faster Obito could move along with his true plan. And he's got a little time left. That illness would kill him soon. Kakashi was right, about future of him.

"What about the Kyuubi?" asked scarred male, coughing out blood.

"It looks like he killed Hiruko."

Obito nodded, sure that kekkei-genkai snatcher should enjoy the show prepared especially for him earlier.

"We're out of time. We will take him at once."

Kakashi's corpse swirled right into his pocket dimension.

/

Hiruko and 'Madara' - Genjutsu

/

"You were too weak to steal the Sharingan from a living Uchiha." twitter of the birds spreaded everywhere. It was coming from all sides, slowly becoming one.

The silhouette of the man, created from many, tiny birds silhouettes. That mass was enthropy, chaotic - head, beak, tail, wing, tail, beak, tail, head. They were blurry or clearly. That mess made his mind histerical, histerical helpless. Too much information, the sounds of the birds grinding into his brain,
in front of his eyes blurry, flickering shadows. They were there even when he closed them.

"Genjutsu?"

"I call it Little Bird Song."

The vibrating air made him feel insane. His all body was shaking uncontrollably and he felt ringing in his ears. Chakra flowing in his chakra circulatory
system went wild. It was wandering like lost signal for random recipiement, then next and next, non-stop.
Even with his multilated body he managed to do a few hand seals. It hurt like a hell, but the two diamond-shaped signs were ready for action.
The tone of song changed.
Hiruko stopped series of hand seals and his fingers became numb, then started to tremble. Just like before, he couldn't do anything. Even if he tried and struggled, nothing happened. All fingers flexed and extended for the last time.
Many birds covering Madara scattered. We wore an elegant yukata, black one with red clouds on it. His vision became blurry on the corners. Madara closed his eyes and smoked kiseru, with slightly raised orange mask. Madara holded that kiseru in his lips and looked at him impassively.

"What the hell is that jutsu?" asked. His voice was weaker, but watery, red eyes looked at him with an anger. "You're Madara and you don't seem to be affected with that jutsu."

"Come on, little thief." replied bluntly. "I'm Uchiha Madara. Besides, it's a shame to be wounded by your own technique, don't you think, Hiruko-sama?" he snorted and breathed the smoke straight into lying enemy face.

Hiruko coughed and looked at the visible part of his face.

"They aren't age wrinkles, but scars, Madara."

"Perpahps."

"You controlled me before with your hatred."

Birds sang again. Hiruko's body arched, as he felt the excruciating pain and tried to resist that cold, hateful presence of masked Madara.

"So you were too weak to deal with my clansmen. Am I right?" he stuffed his kiseru once more.

"Yeah."

"It's just as I thought before." sighed heavily, looking for a lighter. "You wanted the power of Sharingan for yourself. You spent twenty years planning that and I have to admit, I'm impressed." sneered.

Hiruko blinked.

"I'm dying and I don't need any compliments. Just who are you? Show himself. I lost my chance to become perfect, immortal being."

Obito curled his lips, enjoying the new flavour of the tobacco.

"This brand is just like smoked plum. Heavy, but I like it." said, delighting with that smell.

"Don't fuck with me!" shouted angered Hiruko. "If I only have the Sharingan power, you would be long dead, 'Madara'!"

Obito snorted once again.

"You said anything?" tiled his head. "Okay, let it be."

After that words he removed his mask. Damn, he was more handsome and looked younger that he supposed to for his age. Madara was very old. Scarred half of face brought disharmony here. Masked Madara, whoever he is, looked just like proud, aristocratic Uchiha. His partially closed eyes looked at him with a bored expression.

"The logic of ones born with the power."

Obito giggled.

"You're jealous?" pressed his fingers against his stomach.

That must hurt, because of loud, unhumanly howl coming from Hiruko mouth. Enemy panted heavily and Uchiha smiled widely.

"Why do you need Kakashi's Sharingan?"

Obito didn't say a thing, just starring at him in silence, with menacing light in his eyes.

"Who the hell are you? Why are you calling yourself Uchiha Madara?"

"You're persistent one. Got hit by four Rasenshurikens and still alive. Just like that little child with one, cute Sharingan. He bleeded out when I gouged
out his right eye."

"I'm very powerful."

Rolled his eyes.

"I want to play with you. Riddles. Hot of cold. Make mistake and I'll cuddle your stomach again."

"That child gave his Sharingan to Kakashi."

"Oh, you saw it?" raised an eyebrow, suprised.

"That inspired me." looked into his fingers. "You're an Uchiha. You survived the Uchiha Clan Massacre."

The pain in the place where his two halves connected became more intense. Itching.

Hiruko howled again.

"You're part of it."

"Yes. My all family is dead now." grinned widely.

"Murderer. You're Madara Uchiha. Only he is capable of that."

"Hot." raised his finger. "That's only half truth."

"Wha-?"

"Madara Uchiha survived his fight with Senju Hashirama, but not with me." Obito killed his sensei during their training. But Madara was weak, a mere shell of himself, dependant from the Gedou Mazou. Obito destroyed the roots that were sustaining his sensei life. Even a child could kill Madara in that state."Before I killed him, I took everything he knew. All his power and knowledge."

"You're lying."

"I don't care."

"Madara Uchiha survived and had a partner? I would knew about it."

"You were focused on Kakashi and his Sharingan, Hiruko-sama. It's truth that I don't care what you're thinking about it. You dare to raise an arm on my own easy meat and I don't like it."

"You're a monster." panted. "Are you going to use Kakashi for your own ends?"

"I'm a darkness, that's right."

"That boy under that rock was half crushed."

"You don't believe me."

"It's impossible to survive that extensive damage."

"Warm" touched his modified, multilated body. "We're alike."

"No! I just wanted to be perfect, because the Sannins don't want to train and be friends with me anymore. You're a psycho who wants to see theworld burning. We're not alike."

"Nice story. At the end, you're not that powerful. You weren't able to touch me. The one with an untouchable ninja opinion."

"So you're an Akatsuki Leader, Uchiha Obito."

"Why?"

"Past mistakes." opened his left eye, with Mangekyou pattern. "It's time to fix them."

"You wanted the Sharingan power, right? Amaterasu!"

The black flames enfluged his multilated body. Obito jumped at safe distance, took kiseru out of his pocket, stuffed it and lit it again. After that, his
clone disappeared in puff of the white smoke.

/

Fourth Rasenshuriken of Naruto dissipated slowly, leaving only dead corpse behind. They won't need Hiruko anymore. Only purpose of that man was getting fox and Kakashi. Thanks to Jinchuuriki enemy has gone, just like boy's chakra reserves.

It's time.

Obito's clone released his Will Materialisation and stood up.

"Fox Boy. What a suprise." mused the man in red armour, partially destroyed.

"What have you done to Kakashi!?"

"I'm afraid Hiruko has already absorbed your sensei just before you've killed him."

Akatsuki Leader passed nonchalantly dead, multilated corpse of Hiruko, not paying any attention to fallen enemy. He swing his fingers to release the roots and branches hidden under the earth surface.

Naruto had no time to mourn Kakashi. He jumped and evaded some of them, but Kisame already got his back. They danced a while, giving Obito enough time to prepare the next step. Taking over Kyuubi by Sharingan had been impossible since Minato-sensei placed the Contract Seal onto his Sharingan. From the another side, demon fox is aware about powers of that eyes, so using the justu they might don't recognize was the best option. That may be dangerous for him too, but there's no place for doubts.

"So you knew about it from the begininng, Madara?"

Uchiha chuckled in response. Waved series of hand seals and the bird song came from distance.

"It was your plan." Naruto was catched between vicious branches. Clone, not the original.

Obito grinned. After using four Rasenshurikens he was still standing. Okay, but where's Kisame?

"You know how your parents died?" asked teasingly. "It was fiveteen years ago."

There's silence, but Naruto chakra also changed. He was out of his own, so that's the Kyuubi chakra.

"So it was you, too?"

"I've failed to obtain Kyuubi because of your father, Yondaime Hokage" came cold, cruel response.

"Yondaime Hokage was my father?" asked unbelievingly.

Masked man laughed loudly and appeared in front of him, ready to launch another wave of wooden roots. Before that he shall tell the boy truth, during the time of undisturbed talk. Konoha Eleven should come soon.

"You weren't so talkative when I've killed your parents, Naruto" pointed his finger into him accusingly. Another lie.

Tails. Six tails appeared from red chakra cloak and attacked him. The dense forest splited them, hundreds of tree rots and tree branches restrained the angered Kyuubi, but that's still not enough.

Then wrens came. They were singing a song.

"I hate you so much!" roared Naruto.

"Seven Little Birds Song." exhaled, clapping his hands, then evading another thunder of six tails. Chaos of wood splinters, the broken branches replaced by new ones. Suddenly the tails started to swing slower and slower. It worked.

Now it's not time for regrets. Yes, Kisame came with his Giant Shark Bullet. Obito used that time to get the news about Konoha Eleven. They're still trapped in that barrier jutsu erected by Hiruko, but time is ripe. He added some subtle genjutsu there.

The wrens sang five songs when the red chakra cloak finally dispersed and Naruto fell on his knees. Obito checked once again if that's not the clone. No, he was lucky. But five songs? Damn it. His senses were still affected, but he couldn't take a break before taking Naruto to Mountain Graveyard. He panted heavily and started the hand seals sequence. Kisame noticed his attempt to put that seal on Naruto and touched his shoulder.

"Madara-san, I'll put that seal on him." said Kisame. "Due to my Sage Mode I'm partially immune to your jutsu."

"Just hurry up. They're finished with that Chimera." looked at the sky. "You drained Kakashi when he was still covered in that Chimera substance, hm?"

"He was lying in the water, so I took advantage from that one, too."

"I'm glad you're my partner, Kisame."

The marks covering Naruto's body slowly faded away. Kisame sighed and grinned.

"That's more complicated than I supposed before. Huh."

"Our business here is finished."

They disappeared in subtle vortex of Kamui, soon. As the Konoha Eleven came, only dense forest, broken tree roots and branches and mutilated corpse of Hiruko remained here. No sign of Naruto or Kakashi.

/

Konoha Eleven

/

"Hinata, Neji."

"No sign of them." said Hinata. "That one is dead."

"Shikamaru, take a look." shouted Sakura. "There's message on one of the tree roots."

"Akatsuki. Masked man. Pain. Kakashi's gone. My body is burning. I can't see. Everything is dark. Bird's so-" read Shikamaru. "Sakura, that last word, help me."

"I suppose it's about bird's song. Naruto has the habit to write it that way."

"His handwriting is messed. They're harder to read with the time." mused Sai. "Song? The sound induced genjutsu?"

Shikamaru shook his head.

"Something more complicated. The sound induced genjutsu works that way, indeed. I suspect sound related jutsu that affect all seven senses."

"They were in hurry." mumbled Sai.

Hinata checked the dead corpse.

"He sustained heavy damage. His whole chakra circulatory system is ripped and cut like with so many, tiny blades."

"Fuuton: Rasenshuriken. Naruto used that jutsu again." said Sakura. "Bad, he might be injured by impact, too. That's why Akatsuki managed to get him so easy."

"No wonder they knew everything." Shikamaru sighed. "It's troublesome."

"It's possible to have so many spies?" asked Neji. "As you said before, Shikamaru. Hinata-sama, do you see something?"

"No. I extented my Byakugan range, but I get nothing."

"Birds. Naruto wrote about birds, right?"

They nodded. Shino adjusted his glasses.

"You all should pay attention to your surroundings and the species of animals here. Especially, birds."

"What?" Kiba scratched his head.

"The tiny birds, brown ones with raised tails." explained Ino. "They're not sparrows. They're wrens."

"So the masked man uses birds as his spies. Clever." admitted Shikamaru. "Many people may mistaken the wrens with the sparrows."

"Including you."

"So far we know that Naruto and Kakashi are gone." summed Sai. "The masked man used powerful jutsu on Naruto and Yamato's Wood Release, too to get him. He uses birds as his spies so he knew everything. Naruto killed Hiruko with his special technique, but where's Kakashi? What shall we do now, Shikamaru?"

Ino sat down with joined hands.

"We will wait for report from Konoha." decided Shikamaru. "Then we will report the situation and try to get permission to look for Naruto."

"Tsunade-sama said that they had killed two Akatsuki members who had attacked Konoha. The situation on the borders was tense, but there's nothing to worry about. Pein got Six Tails, but he was seriously wounded and our skirmish ended with no result. If we are alive it means our mission succed."

Shikamaru put his arm on Ino's shoulder.

"We lost Naruto, Tsunade-sama. Kakashi died together with Hiruko. The Time-Release Seal didn't work, so instead Naruto most likely used the Rasenshuriken. Hinata confirmed that Hiruko's chakra pathway system is destroyed in similar manner to Kakuzu's. Tsunade-sama, we've failed you and we let them get our friend. Please, let us go and retrieve Naruto."

"You won't go alone. I'll send the squad and you'll meet in the Land of Frost. We managed to label Pein and we shall be able to pinpoint his current location, soon."


A/N: Hope you enjoy!