A Tale of an Akatsuki Jewel by 011890Angel

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto or any of the characters created by them… and I never will…

A/N: My first ever fic! I'm so happy! Anyway, please note that I made up some of the characters and their names, the lead character is one of them, as well as some of the techniques here… others were taken from existing ninja console games.

And so I decided to leave Akatsuki for good. I don't want to have anything to do with them anymore. The person I swore my allegiance to was no longer alive and two decades of living for Akatsuki was more than enough. Besides, their plan to capture the boy with the Nine-tailed Demon Fox, Uzumaki Naruto, will only be in vain… and that's because they'll have to go through me first…


Chapter One

My name is Mikage Yukina. I'm the youngest and the only female member of Akatsuki.

I was only a baby when Sagara Hotsuma, the Akatsuki Leader, found me, took me in and raised me as his own. You could say I grew up within the group. I learned their ways, their code… even their techniques. I was only five then when Hotsuma brought me along with him and his gang out for a kill. He allowed me to help him and his men with their… 'work.' I can't say I didn't like it though… I rather enjoyed doing it. After our kill, I saw two of Hotsuma's men take something from, I think, two ninjas we fought beforehand. It seems like we went out not just for a kill but also for a larceny.

"You did a good job, Yukina."

"Hai, Hotsuma-sama…"

On our way back, I heard noises… more of wails actually… from a nearby village. I decided to check it out on my own. Little did I know, Hotsuma and the others followed. As I was standing on the edge of a cliff, looking at the village from afar, I felt a sudden chill run down my spine. What I saw was out of the ordinary without a doubt and for some reason, something about what I was looking at was pulling me to it… the Nine-tailed Demon Fox was tearing down the Hidden Village of Konoha. I felt that I should go there…

"Yukina, let's go." said Hotsuma. "Leave the village as it is… they deserved it…"

I looked at Hotsuma for an instant then back at the village. "No." It was the only thing I said before I jumped off the cliff, spread my wings and headed towards the village.

I was no ordinary kid… I had wings for some reason… neither white nor black in color but in a shade of ash gray… can't say I'm an angel though…

As I was getting near the village, I felt the aura of the Demon Fox getting stronger and stronger. As soon as I landed, I ran towards the Demon Fox… opposite the direction of the crowd running away from beast. I saw several people fighting off the fox… I presumed they were the village's ninjas. I was only a few meters away from them when a blinding light shone. I bet it was coming from one of the ninjas. After a few seconds, the light dimmed down and all that was left was a baby and a man lying beside each other. All the other ninjas I saw combating before were nowhere to be found. I went closer to the two beings to check them out. Both of them had blonde hair and cool cerulean eyes… coincidence? Maybe so but if one were to ask me, I'd say they're father and… son.

I looked around and searched for the Demon Fox… but I saw nothing. I tried to feel for its presence… still, I got nothing. Then I looked at the baby, 'Is it possible for this child to be –? It can't be!' But if it were so, a sealing technique was executed in order to stop the fox's outrage. The man had paid the price for the technique… and judging by the power of the technique used, the man was no doubt a high level ninja… a kage.

"You sure they're here?"

I heard men coming towards us. I had to act fast to avoid detection. I decided to take the baby with me and hid behind the bushes. I overheard the men's conversation as they stopped by the Hokage's lifeless body.

"Tch… it's just the 4th Hokage's body. Dammit! Where's that darn demon host!"

My guess was right… the baby I have in my arms… was none other than the Jinchuuriki of the Nine-tailed Demon Fox. But what do they want from him? What are they planning to do to him?

After minutes of searching, the men were almost ready to leave and search in another area… a good chance for me to leave unnoticed. I thought my worries were about to end when the baby suddenly started crying out loud. It attracted the ninjas' attention and made them look at our direction. I felt I had no choice but to run away from them. I wouldn't have done it though if it were only me they'd spot but since I have the baby they were looking for in my arms, running seemed more appropriate. And so I did… but they were able to catch up after only just a few seconds. I had to make a move to lose them.

"Kazu no Ryu!" I unleashed a flame dragon to get rid of my chasers… didn't think it was as easy as that though.

After eliminating my adversaries, I stopped on top of a mountain where there were four faces etched on it. I sat there for a while with the baby still in my arms and looked down on the ruined village. I then looked at the baby and saw that he was no longer crying. He was smiling and was happily tugging my hair, playing with it. I then realized that we were alike. He and I, we're both demon hosts… we both have demons residing in our bodies. Maybe… that's why I feel at ease when I'm with him… like siblings, as if he were my younger brother.

I have thought of bringing him back with me… but chose not to in the end. I couldn't bear the thought of having him go through what I had gone through. I didn't want him to have a life like mine. I may still be a little kid but what I had gone through was incomparable to what any ordinary ninja would've gone through thrice my age. And knowing the people I mingle with, it might have an effect on him, on how he'll end up after a few years. One Jinchuuriki in Akatsuki was enough. Moritsune might see it as an opportunity to conquer the countries having two Jinchuurikis in the group.

I think differently from the children my age. I'm more advanced… I no longer fuss about what games to play, what toys I'd get for my birthday and so on. I sometimes get the feeling that I was an adult just stuck in a five-year-old girl's body actually. Anyway, I think about what I need to do to survive. I live in a world where the rule of Survival of the fittest, as Hotsuma told me, was germane… 'The weak shall perish and the strong shall subsist'… something like that. It was either kill or be killed for me… that's how I looked at my life.

Having made up my mind, I went down the mountain and headed to what looked like the Main Building of the Hokage's. I knocked on the door and put the baby down. He wasn't smiling anymore. It seemed like he sensed that I was going to leave him all alone. I didn't want to but I know what I had to do.

"Daijoubu… someday, I'll get to see you smile again."

As I sensed a person closing in, I gave the baby a peck on the cheek before I hid behind a nearby tree. I waited there until I saw the person take the baby inside. After that, I left the village and went back to the lair.


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