Six a Dearth

A young man sat staring out of a hotel window, as the rain covered the land of Tea. His forehead bore no hitai-ate, his body carried no armour, and yet the man held himself with a certain surety that marked him as a warrior. Bizarrely, he sat like a monk or sage, completely at ease with the world around him. He was a jounin of Kirigakure, on a solo undercover mission. His name was Utakata, Jinchuuriki of the Rokubi no Namekuji, the six tailed slug.

Clad in a blue kimono, his thoughts turned to his past. He'd graduated from the bloody ritual slaying of a classmate at the academy with ease, thanks to how they scorned him and treated him like a monster. Of course, when he became an apprentice under one of the seven swordsmen, he found out that it was pretty much true. He'd learned much under his master, how to wield weapons effectively and with deadly efficiency, how to draw power from his prisoner, how to take advantage of the benefits being a host gave him, and how to create techniques for his esoteric arsenal. The main advantage was the ability to utilise bubbles, to surround his opponents with something that looked harmless, but in the end was more than deadly enough to surprise even the most experienced of veterans. They combined his natural affinity to water, with a trained affinity to lightning to make them a shocking prospect to fight. He could get you with a big bubble, or he could get you with hundreds of tiny bubbles that the eye could barely follow, and the body was unlikely to evade. He could control the Suiro no Jutsu from a distance, not requiring his proximity or taking up one of his hands. He could use it multiple times, once trapping seventeen bandits at the same time, then crushing them with immense water pressure.

After his master deemed him ready, he was tested as a jounin, passing with flying colours. His days as a weakling were definitely over, and his stock began rising in shinobi circles. He was listed as an A-ranked threat in many bingo books, most notably Iwagakure's, Sunagakure's and Kusagakure's. Iwa and Suna hated him for being able to use water in dry regions thanks to his bamboo pipe, while Kusa had been on the receiving end of too many electrified bubbles to forgive him. Not that he ever asked for forgiveness.

As a jounin, almost all of his missions had been solo, mostly due to his first mission when he mentally scarred three chuunins so badly that they were retired from normal chuunin duties, and put alongside the Kaguya clan. Only insane people weren't afraid of them, and those three feared no-one other than Utakata from that day forwards. So he worked alone. And he liked it that way. He enjoyed the peace, quiet and solitude that his unique life offered. If his career didn't pan out well, he could always try the lifestyle of a monk. The Rokubi was fairly laid back most of the time, and spent a great deal of time sleeping. However, the rest of time it spent trying to escape in more and more brutal ways, reminding Utakata that despite its almost bipolar personality, it was still a Biju and a powerful one at that.

As he stared out of the window, a thick mist that had been slowly making its way towards the inn covered the surrounding area. As paranoid as all good ninjas are, he used his chakra sensing skills to check the fog. There was no chakra in it, but as he was about to relax, the Rokubi shouted out a warning. He caught it then, the slightest flicker of chakra from the very edge of the mist. Someone had used the theory behind the Kirigakure no Jutsu to harness a natural mist and herd it gently towards him. It must have taken a lot of chakra, and the only reason to use it would be if the target was a good chakra sensor like him. The only problem was that only his sensei knew just how good he was, and that meant that whoever this was knew Hoshigaki Kisame, one of the most infamous missing nin of Kiri. This looked bad, if they knew of his abilities, it was probably....

A loud bang rocked the room, as two figures crashed through the wall. One carried a large three bladed scythe, while the other had a covered mouth and bizarrely coloured eyes. They wore large black cloaks with red clouds on them, which marked them both as members of Akatsuki. This was likely to be hard work.

Ok, so I figure that Madara has other reasons to pick members of Akatsuki other than S-rank missing nin status. Some may have a connection to the Jinchuuriki of their home village. I also got a little bored with all the Jinchuuriki being in a genin team, so I tried something a little different. I also put Hidan and Kakuzu in since they're both so fun. If you're immortal or close to it, why not smash through things for fun. I also decided to slightly update my previous chapters, so the Biju, and Han's name are right. Though I like Kiyoshi, so won't change that name, or sad tale. Thanks to sportygurl1997 for the name, and thanks to Cybertoy00 for Testu (though it has now changed, I'm still grateful). Many thanks to Soike, for pointing out that the names and Biju were now known, and actually giving me the names.

So timeline goes a little like this:-

Gaara; 1 year after Yashimaru (The Kazekage mentionned is the Yondaime)

Yugito; 4 years before start of series

Kiyoshi (yes I know it's now Yagura, but I like the name); 6 years before the start of series

Rōshi; first year of time skip

Han;a full 16 years before series

Utakata; Second year of time skip

Oh and I still don't own Naruto.