"Are you sure Gaara and his people left already hm?" Deidara asks with a soft frown as he lands is bird right outside the gates of Konoha, within the lines of the trees. "And both the Hokage and Kakashi are away hm?"
"Yep! Plus, I double checked that whole thing with Orochimaru. His nin girl got in here, smooth sailing. I figure if he can do it with just one girl at night, we can do it with even less of a problem at dusk. Especially with your skill, Deidara-senpai." Tobi answers proudly, making the blonde shrug slightly.
"Alright then. We're here for Naruto and the girl hm?" The taller Akatsuki asks, to which Tobi just nods. "Let's focus on the kunoichi first. If we can recruit her then we can use her skills to try and defeat the kyubi, hm."
"That's a great idea! Alright! Let's go!" Tobi pumps a fist into the air, making his senior colleague twitch.
"Don't you know the meaning of subtlety?"
"Uh… Not really." Tobi responds, turning to the blonde who grumbles lowly before snatching out quickly to lock the taller man into a tight headlock.
"It means be quiet before we're discovered before it's time, hm!" his grip tightening onto the masked man until he has trouble breathing.
"…d-dei..dara… senp-ai I… can't.. breathe…." Tobi chokes out to which the blonde retorts.
"This'll keep you quiet then, hm?"
* * *
Sighing deeply and putting her head in her hand, Tsunade frowns deeply. This is the last thing we needed… "Two of them…?"
"They usually come in twos." Gaara states and then frowns. "Whether there is more than that… I have no idea."
Suddenly, the door bursts open and Shizune charges in. "Tsunade-sama! Oh…! Kazekage-sama…"
While the two kage look to Shizune, and Gaara nods slightly, Tsunade asks. "Is it the Akatsuki, Shizune?"
Frowning gently, then shaking her head, the younger woman sighs. "…Danzo is missing…"
"What??" Standing quickly, a look of worry and anger flashes through Tsunade's brown eyes and Gaara continues to frown before he looks to Rinsu knowingly.
"…Oh! …Oh crap.. Umm…" The young woman murmurs to herself with a frown to Gaara before turning to Tsunade and offering hopefully. "I can fix the Akatsuki at least! One less problem, you know?"
Raising her brows at Rinsu, Tsunade's hands come to rest on her hips. "Alright… What do you need?"
Smiling brightly in pride, the girl only winks as her eyes flash to green and she lifts her hands, turning towards the window. "Nothing, Tsunade-hime. Nothing at all…" A few minutes go by before Rinsu frowns gently, then narrows her eyes and grits her eyes. Another few moments go by before she whimpers once and there's a few resounding explosions within the village, though a bit far away, followed by a few loud calls and screams, though sounding of surprise.
Frowning softly, Gaara turns quickly and leaves the room, rushing from the palace now carrying his gourd on his back. The ground beneath him lifts on a sand disc and he begins scouting quickly for Deidara. I know it's you… It's time for me to take revenge…
But by the time the Kazekage reaches the area of the explosions down the main road, his eyes see a tangle of vines, their roots outside of the village, moving towards the main palace.
Bypassing this tangle, he continues scouring for the blonde Akatsuki member to no avail and frowns deeply. Frowning deeply, he continues his search and only succeeds in finding a weak spot in the ground just outside the village. Furrowing his brows quizzically, the kazekage reaches down to touch the dirt. It's the consistency of a very fine sand… You're under ground, aren't you? Fueling some of this sand with his own chakra, Gaara then pushes it into the hole and continues deeper and onward, flowing through the hole after the personal chakra he feels within.
Moments go by before Tobi can feel the ground beginning to form down around him and he is pushed up through the middle of the street held inside a giant sand fist. "…Crap, Deidara-senpai is gonna be pissed…"
Stepping up, with a few leaf jonin, Gaara's arms remain crossed as he glowers up at Tobi.
Looking around himself, Tobi then chuckles a little before he says mysteriously. "You know the terrible thing about moles? They dig under ground and can even mess with building foundations."
As the leaf jonin suddenly start talking back and forth about an evacuation, Gaara continues to stare up at Tobi who only returns his gaze. After a moment, the Kazekage speaks. "What do you want?"
"A private audience; with the hokage, Kakashi Hatake and the kunoichi from Otagakure."
* * *
"He also wishes that his team mate not be involved in the event that he is captured." Gaara explains to Tsunade as he keeps Tobi tightly wrapped in sand.
Watching Tobi a moment, Tsunade then sighs. "Well the girl is still in serious condition, I don't think that part will be possible."
"Look, I can bust out of here now, if you'd rather. Or… You can do what I said, and I can…help you." She states vaguely, turning off slightly. "Information is worth much more than money."
Sighing gently, Tsunade utters as she picks up a phone. "…Let me call the hospital first.."
* * *
"Kakashi said it was in here. Friend of his was an Uchiha..." Daisuke utters as Senka nods slightly, frowning gently as she opens a large tile from under a mat in the Uchiha main house.
"Well… Since there aren't any other ones, I guess, aside from Sasuke and Itachi, you're pretty much all that's left; especially with Kiyoko wanting nothing to do with it." "She states, pushing it out of the way and jumping down into the underground area.
Following after his team leader, Daisuke shrugs before walking to a set of scrolls. Taking one down he sets down the small oil lamp he carries and begins looking it over. "…It's a family tree. Look; Kazuki Uchiha is listed as deceased. Do you think they actually sent someone to kill him, or just presumed him dead?"
"Probably sent somebody." She states simply and almost assuredly as she crosses her arms and leans against a wall, slumping down to the floor.
Setting this scroll aside, he picks up the next one and begins to peruse it. "Family history.. I'll come back to that…" The next scroll he opens, he makes a thoughtful sound over. "Here. This one is explaining the levels of the sharingan……….." Reading to himself, Daisuke's face slowly goes from curious, to further concerned before he finally sighs. "…Okay, I officially can't really blame Kiyoko. She could never do half of this stuff anyway. Hell, by the way this scroll talks I'm basically backed up. The first one comes just through stress. Stress through training, or however. The second tomoe opens when you witness something traumatic…because it enlightens a darker part of the mind." Pausing a moment, thoughtfully, he then mutters. "…I guess we know how that happened…" Then shaking his head he offers. "This third one… it has to be obtained due to the death of someone important to the user." Scratching his head a moment, Daisuke frowns. "It's almost like I'm… backed up."
"Well, sounds like you need training then." The brunette female offers with a smirk. "Lots…and lots…of very, very hard…training."
"It also says that continued use has an adverse affect on the user's natural ability to see." He mutters as his eyes squint a moment. They then open quickly and snap back toward the opening above them. "You actually hear someone… moving around this time, right…?"
"I sure hope so…" Senka answers as she jumps to her feet, pulling her katana quickly from her back. "Wanna hide behind me just incase it's a pissed off ancestor? Heh."
Peering at her a moment, Daisuke just snorts. "They'd probably only be pissed because you're down here."
"They can get over it." She retorts, moving up against the wall and holding her katana slightly downward while Daisuke blows out the oil candle, thrusting them into darkness.
In the dark, the sound of metal on metal rings out several times before twin sounds of pain echo in the dark.
Shit! Daisuke's eyes widen as he quickly reaches into his pocket for a box of matches. Even in the low light, providing enough for them to see the form of Sasuke, with Senka's sword stabbed shallowly into his right shoulder as he stabs his just as shallowly into hers.
"Sasuke!" Senka states suddenly in surprise, withdrawing her blade and taking a few quick steps back.
Still keeping his weapon posed, Sasuke questions incredulously, at the same moment as Daisuke.
"What are you doing here?" Causing the two a shared glance before the brunette chunin grunts once and drops the match, shaking out his hand.
"Gh! Damnit…"
"I thought you were in prison." Senka states into the darkness, the sound of something tapping fabric resounding in the three's acute ears.
"I was, until Orochimaru staged a prison break." The Uchiha explains before he sighs and grunts. "That's regardless to the point. Get out--"
"Have you checked in yet? Can't just be wandering around you know." She cuts in, having little regard for his words.
"Yeah, besides, we have permission to be here." Daisuke offers, feeling Sasuke's eyes on him before asking directly.
"From who?? This place, and the knowledge within is reserved specifically for only those of the Uchiha line!"
"Like I said, we have permission to be here." Daisuke repeats.
"He's a little dense, isn't he?" Senka questions with a soft chuckle, as the three still bathed in darkness, though their eyes are almost fully adjusted.
"…I didn't believe it at first either. What gives him any reason to?" The brunette male returns.
"To be honest, I thought he was smarter than you." Senka states, making Daisuke grunt defensively. "Though I'll admit, a lot less trusting."
Looking back and forth a moment, Sasuke then frowns. "This is a trick… or a joke! Either way, I don't appreciate it--"
"If you want, go ask Kakashi. Or maybe Tsunade-hime. Though I bet they're probably both busy. Either way, you're kinda getting in our way." Senka states, waving a hand in the dark. "Don't be so freaked out, I'm not even reading anything."
"Here, you won't even have to go that far." Daisuke offers helpfully, lightning another match and using it to light his lamp again. He then closes his eyes, focuses for a moment, and opens them again, revealing his single opened tomoe.
His eyes widening slightly, Sasuke's three tomoe'd eyes look back into Daisuke's disbelievingly for a moment. "How is this… possible? You're my same age, I would have remembered you."
"He didn't live in town." Senka offers, only now moving to sheathe her blade at her back.
Glancing at Senka, Sasuke then seems thoughtful before he shakes his head. "By that logic, there could be …dozens of Uchiha still alive outside of Konoha."
Raising his brows, and letting the tomoe in his eyes close again, Daisuke offers. "Come to think of it, there's at least four others. I'm the oldest of six. And yeah, seriously Sasuke? The way I know Senka, you could let her carry this stuff and she wouldn't read it." Then looking to the older brunette he grins almost cattily. "As long as you didn't tell her she wasn't allowed." Which only prompts her to stick out her tongue and grin with another soft chuckle.
"Smart ass…"
"…You said you're the oldest of six… What kind of ninja training do your siblings have?" Sasuke asks curiously to which Daisuke sighs and shakes his head.
"None. My stepfather has a personal disliking for ninja. I won't bother going into detail, it's just… stupid." Daisuke mutters, shaking his head.
Blinking a bit, Sasuke then sighs. "I see…"
"Three brothers, one sister; aside from Kiyo." Daisuke adds before grinning slightly. "I figured you were probably gonna ask that next."
"…We should talk. I want to know more about this person. Because right now, he's doing all of us an injustice by keeping those kids away from their real potential." Sasuke mutters thoughtfully, his usually hostile nature completely diffused.
"He won't stop." Senka offers in warning, putting a hand on her hip. "The only thing that would do those kids any good would be to take them out of the situation."
Blinking again, this time at Senka, a slow smirk starts to grow on Sasuke's face. "We could do that.."
"I would help." She offers simply, throwing up a hand.
"Hell, so would Kiyoko and Rinsu." Daisuke agrees, nodding slightly.
"We'll have to plan for this, all the loose ends involved. Kidnapping is still highly illegal, and if anything is leaked back to Konoha, it'll give us a bad precedence." The Uchiha male speaks thoughtfully.
* * *
Looking up from where he sits, Kakashi slowly stands as Tsunade and Gaara escort the captive Tobi into the hospital room.
"Y'know… to do this properly, I'm going to need at least partial control of my hands." The red masked nin states before he suddenly becomes quiet, looking down at the half-conscious kunoichi. "How… did that happen?"
"She's recovering from the effects of Orochimaru's cursed mark." Tsunade explains as Kakashi stares on inspecting. "Her cells are trying to repair the erosion it's done to her body."
"I see…" He states before turning off with a sigh. "I fought for a long time to get her out of Orochimaru's grasp. But I suppose, in the end, maybe the two of you really are meant to be together." With that, he chuckles light-heartedly, though a certain amount of bitterness is carried along with it before he offers simply. "Sure makes the last years of my life seem like a waste."
Furrowing his brows slightly, Kakashi still seems skeptical as he inspects this man from a distance from his hair, singular eye opening, and his black and metallic attire. "…Who….are you…?" The way he's talking, he reminds me of …him… but there's no way he could be.
Turning to Kakashi, the copy-cat ninja can almost feel the odd smile invade upon him. "You already know, you just don't want to believe it. Your mind is working against you. But I guess I can see why. Still… At a time like this, what would one more ghost from your past be?"
"Gaara, I think that you can release at least one of his hands now." Tsunade offers making the kazekage furrow his brow a moment before slowly pulling his sand back from Tobi's left hand up to the shoulder.
Stepping a bit closer, Kakashi continues to stare. "Hm. But why would you… ally yourself with someone like them? If it really is you?"
"It's because… of who I used to be." He explains quizzically.
* * *
"Sasuke, you know anything about this?" Daisuke asks while he and Senka make further plans on the kidnapping plot. "'The eternal sharingan grants the user everlasting life. However, the price for such power involves taking the eyes of one's blood brother. The two must have obtained the mangekyou sharingan. This process is not fatal, but will render the sacrifice blind for the rest of their life."
Blinking a bit, and turning to look at Daisuke, Sasuke frowns. "Eternal life..? I've never read that one… but if that's true, then.. Could it be one of the reasons my brother pushed me to obtain it?"
Raising his brows at Sasuke, Daisuke then shrugs before he goes back to reading.
