I'm alive! This chapter I am very proud of myself with what I've written.

First, a reply to a reviewer: Azrael Akuma, I was hoping I wouldn't have to describe Sai's character female as a person with breasts. I may not have put down a "her" when describing him so I'm sorry if I didn't make it clear.

On a different note, this story will not be the killing of Gato just yet but, as what the title suggests, will introduce the superhuman villains of the story.

"Let's hope it's no one like Arclight or Vertigo. I read your notes and they were the LAMEST villains I ever heard."

Wait, Deadpool? What are you doing in the intro? And read my notes? How?

"Well, I got bored during the week you were working out all of the villains and possible future allies and such - by the way great job - so I read your notes. I guess I'm the only one who can do that by the end of the story."

Thanks...but just get ready.

"Okey-dokey!"

Anyway, I hope you guys enjoy.


Project X

Chapter Seven - Akatsuki Revealed!

It's almost midnight, a week since Team 7 had arrived in Nami. The moon loomed over and the stars sparkled like little diamonds. Everyone was sleeping in Tazuna's house. All except our young blonde. He sat on the couch leaning forward, the moon shining on his shoulders through the window, as he watched the clock tick into the next day. He is wearing his outfit with the mask on his lap and both katana on his back.

Ding! Dong!

Naruto stood up when the clock chimed the new hour. He left a note on the table letting whoever woke up first know that he left to train far in the woods again. He silently opened the door then closed it, looking out to the moon. He sighed and moved to put his mask on.

"Nice night, isn't it, Naruto?" A voice said from next to the door.

Naruto turned and was surprised to see Kakashi sitting on the ground looking up at the moon. His left eye was exposed and the headband next to him on the dirt. The orange book he was often reading was opened in his eyes but lazily held on his lap.

Naruto nodded. "Yes, it is, sensei."

"Where are you going?" Kakashi asked as he stood up, grabbing his headband and crutches as he did so.

"Nowhere important." Naruto answered, watching his sensei carefully. He was ready to knock the man out if it came to it.

Kakashi eyed Naruto as he used his crutches to limp over to him. "Are you sure? I don't know if you'd want me to recite what happens if you disobey your superior."

Naruto grinned disarmingly. "I was just going to train. Sheesh, sensei, you have some problems."

Kakashi gave an eye-smile back at the blonde. "If you keep training this early in the day you will surely exhaust yourself."

Naruto shrugged. "Do it so much and it would become muscle memory. If done enough, I'll be able to fight in my sleep."

"I don't think it works like that." Kakashi chuckled before waving his hand. "Fine, go ahead. Just be back for breakfast."

Naruto nodded before jumping into the trees and away from the house as fast as he could. He pulled his mask on and cracked his neck. I wish I didn't have to do this.

'Do what?' Kyuubi's muffled voice asked.

Act like I'm an ordinary Genin. Naruto sighed and closed his eyes. I want to blow shit up without a care in the world. Even behead a few.

'Don't worry, Naruto-kun, once we complete the Chunin Exams we no longer have to be on this team.'

Really? Naruto was surprised that becoming Chunin got him independence. He thought he would have had to stay with his team until Jonin.

'Yes. I'm pretty sure that once that Exam finishes and you will be excused from regular ninja duties.' Kyuubi paused before ending with, 'Or at least that's what I think. Or else what the hell was all of this for?'

Good point. Naruto shrugged his shoulders before stopping on a branch. Below him was a young girl with long black hair and brown eyes. She wore a salmon kimono shirt and sandals.

Naruto jumped down and silently landed on the grass and tip-toed behind the girl to look over her shoulder. She was gathering leaves and putting them in her basket with a rhythmic ease. She showed no signs of noticing him, giving the blonde a ridiculous grin.

Plot convenience! He reached behind him and pulled out an air horn out of nowhere and aimed it in the sky.

Three, two, one…

The large disturbance in the force from the horn could be heard echoing in the woods as Naruto held his thumb on the top. The young girl before him jumped away and threw senbon at him. He ignored the senbon stabbing his jugular, right eye and collarbone while blowing the air horn in a random rhythm like morse code.

The girl stared shocked as she landed on a branch with three more senbon in her hand. She silently watched as Naruto pulled out the needles that were already in him and throw the empty can away.

"Cliche story event when the protagonist gets hurt meeting a beautiful girl in forest and sneaking up behind them." Naruto spoke to himself.

'You make it creepier when you put it that way, Naruto-kun.'

"Who are you?" The girl asked from her perch on a branch.

"Me?" Naruto repeated, getting a nod. "I am the tamer of demons, strongest of all that is male, lover to all that is beautiful and with a set of breasts, Deadpool!"

Haku blinked with a shocked expression and blushed at his comment of women. "Wh-what are you doing here?"

"I'm here to meet no-brows. Where is he?" Naruto asked, appearing over the girl's shoulder.

"No-brows? You don't mean Zabuza-sama?" Haku asked, shivering as gloved hands snaked around her waist. She tried to wiggle from him but he held a tight grip.

"Yeah, him. Where is he?" Naruto whispered in her ear. "I'm his 'helper'."

"You're N-Naruto Uzumaki?" She shivered before pushing herself away when she felt the gloved hand reached her thigh. She lost her balance and slipped off the branch and fell to the grass below.

She clenched her eyes shut but instead of land on the hard dirt she was instead in something more comfortable. She slowly opened her eyes to see the masked face looking right back and his arms holding her tightly.

"You okay?" Naruto asked smiling under his mask.

"Y-yes. Just follow me." The girl muttered as she got to her feet and shot into the trees.

Naruto followed her, but zigzagging as he landed on the branches, trunk and other parts of the trees. "What's a pretty thing like you called?"

"H-Haku." She responded, blushing to her ears.

"Oh~! So you're the beautiful Hunter-nin from before. How about you and I go to a nice quiet place after Gato is dealt with and do the boogie-woogie?" Naruto giggled when he saw the girl slip in her step but kept at her speed.

Haku stayed quiet the rest of the way, her face and ears burning intensely.

(O!o) Meanwhile (o!O)

Danzo looked at a map of the Elemental Nations in the Hokage's office with Hiruzen in his chair and Jiraiya leaning over it. On the map are four red X's and one black circle.

"So the X's indicate the Akatsuki hideouts?" Danzo asked, sitting in a guest chair in front of the map and got a nod from Jiraiya.

Jiraiya motioned with a finger around the whole map trailing from X to X. "As you can see, they have them spread quite evenly. They are in the Land of Hot Water, somewhere near Takigakure, Land of Rivers, and even Tanzaku Quarters." He then rested his finger on the big black circle in the Land of Tears. "But they are mostly resided inside Ame. I don't know if the leader has something to do with it but he is barely ever seen by the public. He's revered as a God and is said to be responsible for the reasons that rain stops from time to time."

"Stop rain from falling?" Hiruzen repeated, shocked at such a man's power. "And in a place named for its rain, that's got to be very hard."

Danzo nodded to himself. "I can understand how a man is seen as a God by doing that but to not be seen by the public? What kind of informant is giving this to us? Are they trustworthy?"

Jiraiya nodded. "Oh yes, he is scared of the leader and what the residents call 'Angel'. She is supposedly his messenger, arriving with white wings to give orders when the rain stops. Anyway, he has been a resident of Ame since he was born but informs us that if anyone from outside the village enters they are always under surveillance. If they are a threat they disappear and are never seen again."

"Can we get anything closer from within the organization? Maybe their power of numbers. All I heard from Danzo is that they are nothing we've seen."

"Yeah, well." Jiraiya took out a manilla folder and tossed it on the desk. "What's in there is what was given to my informant one night. He never saw who it was but the contents are what scares me."

Danzo opened the folder and was met with a blonde haired man with fluorescent green eyes and green tinted fair skin. His ears were pointed and a wicked grin graced his lips with a certain sadistic glee that only one man was able to accomplish. He wore an armored bodysuit with patches of green and a weird futuristic glider hovering in the air.

"That's Orochimaru." Jiraiya muttered, fury laced in the very words he spoke. "He's now called 'Green Goblin' and is the leading Akatsuki scientist."

Hiruzen was quiet as he took the photo of his student. He just stared with his pipe in his mouth.

"There are five others and one...uh, beast." Jiraiya muttered the last part, unsure of what to call something.

Danzo skimmed through the papers. A girl named X-23 that can push bones from her knuckles but is stronger than the strongest metal known to man. Then a girl named Kimura, who is also X-23's caretaker, is invulnerable to attack and can control density. The perfect person to combat X-23's powers. A man named Sabretooth who has the ability to strengthen his fingernails and cut through trees whole. His bio spoke of him being from an unknown clan with a barbaric, animalistic nature.

Then the Spider Duo. The two beings are weird symbiotes that were found on the moon, which shocked Danzo since no one has been to the moon. The first was a black being called Venom that can cling to most surfaces, has a limited camouflage, and enhanced strength. The second was a red, sleek being called Carnage. Unlike its partner, which can let out poison from its mouth and a long tongue, Carnage had the same power of strong fingernails like Sabretooth but with enhanced speed, strength, agility and endurance.

Lastly was the beast, Predator X. It was a large being made of non-toxic mercury, toxic saliva, accelerated healing, sharp claws and teeth, and enhance strength and speed. This thing was surely dangerous by itself.

"So, someone on the inside is trying to prepare us." Danzo spoke after a while of staring at the each of the people. "We need to know who and when this organization is going to start attacking Biju. We must not let them get their hands on a single Jinchuuriki."

"But how can we protect them if none of the other villages trust us or each other?" Hiruzen asked from his silent spot.

"The Chunin Exams." Danzo answered, his voice serious and his eyes staring at his friend. "Invite every village that has ninja. But speak of how we will pay for their shinobi expenses to our village. We must get the village Kage here so we can discuss this mess."

"They won't come." Jiraiya interrupted, crossing his arms. "Kumo's Kage doesn't trust the Jinchuuriki out of their village unless with a large team. Iwa has lost contact with both of their Jinchuuriki Hans and Roshi. Suna has their Jinchuriki going around doing missions way above Genin. Taki I hear have their Jinchuriki living safely taking care of their big tree. But the Kiri Jinchuriki are a different story. Their Kage, Yagura, who is also the holder of the Three-Tails, is currently exterminating the clans that hold any form of bloodlines. Their other Jinchuuriki, Utakata, is on the Rebellion side but wishes that this ends without Yagura's death."

"Then we call a Kage Summit." Danzo replied. "Send our new ninja with our letters so that they aren't intercepted by any chance."

Hiruzen took an inhale of his pipe and exhaled. "When Team 7 gets back then we will."

Suddenly, Jiraiya giggled. Hiruzen and Danzo looked at the man expectantly. "There's a disturbance in the force."


"Perfect! Best piece of work about me ever!"

Be quiet and go read a book about manners, will ya?

"But you don't have any."

...Shut up. I hope everyone liked this chapter. Have a good day!

R&R