A/N Hey guys, I'm back. I have the character pics, including Ankoku's new form in this chapter and other stuff for the characters that need it on my profile underneath the ones from the first part. Enjoy.
-UPDATE- changed the name of Noboru's blades from the "Blades of the Shinigami" to the "Blades of Death" and his nickname from "Shinigami" to "Reaper of Souls" due to conflicting nicknames from Horō Yamato in Chapter 4
Jutsu Translations at bottom
Chapter 2 - Making Preparations
Indra had reached the outskirts of the city with little effort, the law enforcement not having seen or heard of his escape. He stopped in his fleeing and gazed back at the city, smirking at the giant neon Akatsuki cloud sign glowing on the tallest building.
"Now then...to assess my resources…" he said as he looked himself over carefully.
"In the body of a former Bijuu, the Kyuubi no less...Interesting. I've already subjugated its chakra and melded it with my own, all I need to do is change my appearance and I can begin." he said to himself as he closed his eyes and formed three hand signs.
"Eizoku-teki jiko hontai henkan no Jutsu."
His body instantly started to morph and shift as the jutsu transformed his entire body structure into that of a man with long black hair, with two locks wrapped with bandages framing his face . A black cloak fastened with six buttons and a large hood formed over his clothes and chain materialized around his right wrist and continued out and up, eventually attaching to a handle that connected to a developing ganbai. At the tip of the ganbai a small blade formed for cutting open flesh to make the war fan all the more lethal.
Then a white porcelain mask started to cover his face, a red circle painted on the forehead and a nose forming, a smile with pointed edges covering his mouth and two eyeholes, his red swirling eyes peeking out from them.
He closed his left eye and opened his right eye wide, his eye starting to rapidly spin. His body began to distort and spiral into his eye until he had fully disappeared, traveling thousands of miles until he returned to the crater that was once the secret hideout of Madara Uchiha.
He looked around at the sides of the crater until he found a small hole, blinking a couple of times before he walked towards it and seemingly phased right through the rock into a tunnel within the ground. He reached its end and made a left, arriving at a seal protected iron door, smirking at the complicity of the seals.
"Amatuer." he said as he broke the seals in a matter of seconds and opened the door, arriving in a large laboratory with an operating table in the center, a rolling table lined with medical scalpels and tools, and lining the walls on three sides, reaching up to the ceiling, were storage containers filled with preservative liquids and...a pair of Sharingan eyes.
Each container had a small label on the glass, a name, what forms it had unlocked, and what jutsu it could perform. He walked slowly along each wall, reading each name and jutsu of the Sharingans within.
"Naka Uchiha...Unlocked the Mangekyo Sharingan, able to use Tsukuyomi, Amaterasu, and Inzanagi…" said Indra as he stopped at a pair, noting where they were before continuing on.
"Naori Uchiha...Unlocked the Mangekyo Sharingan, able to use Izanami…could be useful." he said at a pair a couple of columns over.
Then he spotted the only single eye in the room, smirking at its description.
"Shisui Uchiha...Unlocked the Mangekyo Sharingan, able to use Tsukuyomi, Izanami, Inzanagi, and Kotoamatsukami." he recited before he pulled out the container, along with the two he read before it and placed them on the operating table.
He opened them and pulled out each pair, placing them in the container that held Shisui's left eye before closing his own eyes and putting his hand over the container.
"Gedo - Chakura tensō no Jutsu." he said, the eyeballs starting to glow with a slight red glow before the chakra still contained within them starting to ooze outward and float up towardsIndra's outstretched arm.
It left the liquid and began to seep through Ankoku's skin, flowing through his arm, his veins, his very blood until they began to swirl and form a new tenketsu (chakra point) on the palm of his hand. The skin split apart and opened, a socket digging into the skin, nerves forming and eventually, an eyeball. A single pupil formed and it blinked, Ankoku opening his eyes and withdrawing his hand to look at the newly formed eye.
He pumped the chakra he gained from the Sharingan into the eye and it blinked,Indra smirking as a Sharingan formed then morphed into Naka Uchiha's Mangekyo Sharingan. The eye blinked again and it morphed into Naori's, then a third time into Shisui's. Indra smirked as he grabbed some tape and wrapped it around his hand, the eye closing tightly..
Indra left the lab and returned to the crater outside, taking a deep breath of air.
"That boy who freed me...I sensed turmoil inside of him, and after what I was able to sense from him as I fled, his father, that annoying Uzumaki, reprimanded him and left him broken...A tool that I can sway to my side." he thought as a figure appeared from the ground behind him, its skin white.
"Did you retrieve what I asked of you...Zetsu?" he asked without turning, the white and black man fully emerging from the ground, still adorning the Akatsuki cloak.
"Of course, I gathered a lock of hair from each of them." said White Zetsu as he held his hand out, a scroll in his grasp.
Indra took it and opened it, finding a lock of orange hair in six different seal marks, and a red lock of hair in a seventh, ready for a special jutsu.
"And have you prepared some clones?"
"Yes, they are ready." spoke Black Zetsu as six White Zetsu clones emerged from the ground behind him.
"Good, let us begin." said Indra as he placed the scroll on the ground at his feet, the seals instantly lancing outward and surrounding the White Zetsu clones, solid black circles forming under their feet.
Indra performed the necessary hand signs then clapped his hands, his chakra exploding into the seals.
"Kuchiyose - Edo Tensei!"
The White Zetsu clones didn't even scream as ash and dust began to crawl over them and cover their skin, eventually their heads disappearing in the pile of the stuff. Then they started to grow higher and form into a human like figure, grey cloaks forming over the bodies. Seven figures grew orange hair, one with slicked back hair tied into a short, spiky ponytail, another with waist length hair, one with a waist length ponytail and a fringe running down the right side of its face, one being a woman with her hair tied up in a short, onion like bun, one that was tall, stocky with shaggy, spiky orange hair, and the last with short, spiky orange hair and a necklace around his neck that bore a resemblance to Hagoromo's magatama necklace. They all shared a common characteristic...all of them bore black piercings in their body. The eighth figure though had long, chin length white hair, his body emaciated and left looking like a corpse.
"Welcome back to the land of the living…" saidIndra as the seven figures all bore the same cloaks, their skin slightly pale and small cracks appearing in their skin.
"Jigokudo, the Naraka Path of Pain,"
The tall, stocky man opened his eyes, revealing the ominous Rinnegan.
"Ningendo, the Human Path of Pain,"
The man with waist length long hair followed after the Naraka Path.
"The Animal Paths of Pain,"
The man with the long ponytail and the only female of the group opened their eyes.
"Gakido, the Preta Path of Pain,"
The large man with the small ponytail opened his eyes and huffed.
"And of course, Yahiko, the Deva Path of Pain...and Nagato Uzumaki...the Outer Path of Pain." finished Indra as the last two people opened their eyes, their Rinnegans joining the other Paths.
"Where am I? Why am I alive? And...Why are these piercings in my body?" questioned Yahiko as he looked at Nagato with confusion and shock.
"Yahiko...I have some explaining to do." said Nagato before Indra coughed.
"I'll allow for you to do that later." he said before five coffins rose from the earth and closed around the other path's before vanishing.
"Right now I need you two to do something for me."
"You tell us where we are, now." growled Yahiko as a chakra receiver slid into his hand while he aimed its point at Indra's throat.
Yahiko looked at the rod and had no idea how he was able to form it.
"Like I said...A lot of explaining to do…" sighed Nagato.
"Very well, I guess I should inform you of where and when you are." shrugged Indra, Nagato raising his eyebrow in confusement.
"What do you mean by when?" he asked,Indra chuckling a little.
"Currently since you were last alive, Yahiko you being used as a Path of Pain by Nagato, it has been 18 years, and the world is at peace. The villages are allies with one another and with help from the Daimyos, they have constructed Taiyō City, a sprawling metropolis that is inhabited by denizens and shinobi from all the villages." explained Indra, Nagato's and Yahiko's mouths dropping to the floor.
"Who accomplished this feat?" asked Nagato, already having an idea on who it was.
"The man was none other than Naruto Uzumaki." said Indra with hidden disgust in his voice.
"I knew it." smiled Nagato while Yahiko remained confused.
"I'll tell you about him during my explanation of my actions while you were gone." he said with a glance at his friend before he returned his glare to Indra.
"How is he?" he asked, Indra growling a little at the thought of the man who imprisoned him.
"Currently, he is one of the most well known shinobi in the world and a successful businessman. Not only is he now a full fledged Bijuu, the Kyuubi to be specific, but also he is the recognized leader of the Akatsuki Organization and the CEO of the Akatsuki Corporation, and international company based around the world. Although, before he became the man he is today, took revenge on those who wronged him and his kind and obliterated Takigakure, Otogakure and...Konohagakure."
"Konoha?! What happened to the village?" asked Yahiko, remembering his and Nagato's former sensei Jiraiya, unaware of the fact that he has been dead.
"Right now, in its place is literally a giant hole, straight to the center of the earth. Everyone in the village perished." said Indra, Yahiko's legs folding underneath him, making Nagato catch him before he collapsed to the ground.
"You can reminisce later, I'm getting tired of talking about him." said Indra, Nagato eyeing him.
"Just who are you anyway?"
"You could say that Madara Uchiha...was one of my descendants."
"Descendants?" asked Yahiko as he regained his composure, the chakra receiver at his side.
"Yes, along with the now extinct Hyuuga clan. You see...my eyes carry the DNA of the Dojutsus of the Uchiha and Hyuuga clans." said Indra, Nagato's eyes widening a little is sudden realization.
"No way…" he uttered, Indra sneering behind his mask.
"My name is Indra Otsutsuki, Eldest son of Hagoromo Otsutsuki, the Sage of Six Paths. And I am definitely not friends with the Uzumaki brat. And my original plan was to cast the Infinite Tsukuyomi over the world...but I have changed my mind. I have every intent to make him and everyone he loves or cares about feel pain to the highest extent, and I know just how to do it."
"You bastard, I cannot allow that!" growled Nagato as he formed a chakra receiver and swung at Indra's throat.
The blade never reached its target, instead it clanged against the face of another, Nagato looking back in shock at Yahiko, the procurer of the other blade, the same look of shock on his face. Indra snickered as he formed a single sign and Yahiko and Nagato grunted as he forced their arms to lower against their will.
"Kehehehe, I reincarnated you two through the use of the Edo Tensei. I have total control over both of you, every move you make will be orchestrated by me. And If I must, I can eliminate your personalities and turn you into mindless, cold hearted killers. I won't have any insubordination." said Indra while Nagato and Yahiko scowled at him.
"Now with that matter settled...I need you two to *collect something for me…"
-Taiyō City - Akatsuki Tower-
Naruto had the entire tower on lockdown and had released all of the workers to their homes. He was in his office surrounded by all the Akatsuki members, either present in the room themselves or there through the use of the Magic Lantern Body Technique. The only member not present was Menma.
"I've called you all here to present a dire matter. My son has just released Indra back into the world, so we must capture him as soon as possible." said Naruto to start off the meeting.
"Fantastic…" muttered Naoshi, who was currently at his home village of Kusagakure.
"How was he released? I thought no one could break the crystal that contained him." asked Kakashi, being one of the only present members with Genkaku and Suzaku.
"Actually, there was a way that the crystal could've broken. If a person possessing my chakra, the Kyuubi chakra, touches the crystal, it will shatter and free Indra. As you know, Akayuri possesses this chakra because of her ring and with being my wife, enough said, and all of you as well because of your rings. Menma possesses it because of course, he is my son."
"Well, what are we supposed to do?" asked Yahiko, now the Jinchuuriki of Saiken, the Rokubi, after Isobu's death 20 years earlier.
"I'm going to reinstate the two man teams. Each team will be positioned in each of the villages as protection. I will inform the Daimyos and the Kage of this dilemma after this meeting and I have already decided the teams based on your personalities, chakra levels and so on. The teams are as follows...Genkaku and Kakashi,"
Said members glanced at each other and nodded.
"Suzaku and Naoshi,"
Naoshi sighed deeply while Suzaku smirked and blew out some smoke.
"Yahiko and Seiryu,"
Yahiko crossed his arms while his new partner, the Suna shinobi named Seiryu rolled his eyes. He was a former pupil of the Kazekage and held a special ability. He could not only perform all the techniques the Kazekage could, but also had the ability to form sand from his own body. In fact, he was so in control of this special technique, he could turn parts or his entire body into sand at will, giving him a sense of immortality.
"Chomei and Matatabi,"
The two Bijuu looked at each other and smiled at their pairing before returning their attention to Naruto.
"Sankaku and Konan. Your city is automatically Amegakure because Konan is the Amekage." said Naruto, Sankaku and Konan nodding their heads in unison.
"Tamura and Arashi,"
The two newest members of the Organization, Tamura and Arashi Junko from Shimogakure reacted differently from each other to the statement. Arashi said nothing while Tamura sighed deeply and waved his hand a little.
Tamura was a powerful swordsmen from the Junko clan, wielding a specially made sword that he can power Shimogakure's iconic Frost Release and Ice Release through the blade itself. He also had similar arm enhancements like what had happened to Naoshi, only he still had arms, they were metallic and able to extended far beyond the reach of a normal human's arms.
Arashi on the other hand was cold and calculating, and was silent most of the time, speaking only when it was needed. He was a special and rare case in his clan and the village, only emerging every 100 years. Everyone in the Junko clan could only use Ice and Frost Release, which is passed down through the clan's DNA has a mutation that makes the inheritor, in this case Arashi, could not use those specific Kekkei Genkai, only the Fire Release...with some side effects.
He has to keep his body constantly wrapped up with thermal heat absorbing bandages because with the mutation, his internal body temperature is over 500 degrees, while his brother and the rest of his clan has a temperature of under -40 degrees, and wear a specially modified gas mask that keeps his superheated breath from escaping, similar to how everyone in his clan wears a mask that keeps their breath, which can freeze objects if made contact with, contained.
"And finally, Noboru and Byakko." finished Naruto as he leaned onto the desk and looked at the last two members, one with shaggy and wild black hair and another with messy neck length red hair.
These men were Byakko Tora and Noboru Yamato. Byakko was a famed shinobi from Kumo that could utilize the Lightning Release and the Third Raikage's special Storm Release, the one who taught him being Darui, the Fourth Raikage's right hand man. He was named "White Tiger" by the people for a special jutsu passed down through his clan that allowed him to cover his body in lightning and form a tiger completely out of it around him.
Noboru on the other hand was a calm and collected individual and respected Naruto and the Bijuu deeply, especially for Naruto for the man as a child had saved his village. Noboru though was the only member of his clan left alive, for as a child, he was experimented on by the clan's best scientists in an attempt to create a super soldier through mental torture, since their mindset was the stronger the mind, stronger the bloodline. In retaliation he killed his entire clan and stole the Blades of Death and Raven Summoning Contract as he fled the village as a S-Class Criminal and Missing Nin.
He travelled from the Land of the Moon to go into solitary isolation deep in the mountains of Lightning Country until he was found by Byakko, the two becoming friends on their journey to Taiyō City. Noboru possessed a special Kekkei Genkai that allowed him to utilize his soul to capture, suck out, or utterly destroy another person's soul, similar to Dan Kato's Spirit Transformation Technique. The Blades of Death have earned him the nickname of "Reaper of Souls", due to the blades being made of a special material that allows him to transfer his special Kekkei Genkai to the blades and cut through someone's very soul.
"Each group has a specific village to protect, and I will send word on the village you will protect once you depart. Everyone except Genkaku, Kakashi and Akayuri is dismissed."
Suzaku left the room while the rest of the members left, their astral forms dissipating with a buzz, leaving Kakashi, Genkaku and Akayuri alone in the office.
"Now, you two will have a change of objectives. I'm sending two fox summons to Sunagakure to protect it while you two are outside the village." said Naruto, Kakashi raising his eyebrow in wonder.
"And what is this different objective you will be giving us?"
"You two are to hunt down and capture or kill Indra before he becomes too much of a threat. This mission is beyond dangerous, so I trusted it to you two, some of my most loyal members."
"What about Suzaku? He is a member of your clan, do you not trust him?" asked Genkaku, Naruto sighing a little.
"I do, its just that when he gets to killing...He can't stop. He was the Vermillion Bird after all for a reason." said Naruto, Genkaku nodding at the answer.
"So, can I count on you two? If you cannot capture him, just relay his position to me through your rings." asked Naruto, Kakashi slipping out his Icha Icha book from his sleeve and opening it.
"You can count on us. Come on Genkaku, we have some hunting to do."
A/N Jutsu Translations
Eizoku-teki jiko hontai henkan no Jutsu / Permanent Self Body Transformation Technique
Kuchiyose - Edo Tensei / Summoning - Impure World Reincarnation
Gedo - Chakura tensō no Jutsu / Outer Path - Chakra Transferal Technique
-Credit goes to Shadowbroker13 for the creation and name of Noboru Yamato. His picture will be on my profile (DemonLordGalm on deviantArt)-