Chapter 4

Beginning of the End

Ten years Later

True to his word Madara trained Obito and Indra to his best. Their training would have killed a lesser man but both Indra and Obito prevailed. Despite having the Mangekyo Obito could only use "Kamui" which allowed him to own a personal dimension, the technique also served as a teleporting jutsu and it allowed Obito to go intangible and exist in both worlds at the same time saving him from any material harm, Obito was also trained in the use of a gunbai and fire style Ninjutsu. Obito's talent in genjutsu was exceptional to a point where he could change the very mind of a person, though having half of his body made of Hashirama's cell Obito's use of "Mokuton" was fairly weak compared to Madara and Hashirama. The most astonishing thing about Obito was that he never went blind by his overuse of sharingan; Madara had theorized that Hashirama's cells didn't allow him to go blind and kept healing Obito's eyes. Obito was more of a behind the scenes person and Madara despite his utmost efforts failed to impart all of his knowledge onto him. Indra however was everything Madara wanted to be in his heir, he was exceptionally skilled in all the shinobi arts and his use of gunbai was second to none. Indra took up everything Madara taught him like a sponge and never complained. His eyes were more powerful than any pair Madara had seen, when he was training Indra in the use of Mangekyo his eyes started to go blind in 3 years however he kept using his original eyes until he mastered the Mangekyo, only when he was nearly blind he implanted his mother eyes in his sockets refusing Madara's eyes (his new design is three scythes with curved handles). Indra's "Susano" was truly a sight to behold; it was dark purple in color and its armor was made of "Amaterasu" flames which covered all of its body leaving its eyes which were strangely also a sharingan, the Susano looked like a flaming knight. The most surprising thing to Madara was the weapons Indra's "Susano" held, in its right hand the Susano had the infamous "Sword of Totsuka" capable of sealing anything it stabs and in its left hand was the "Yata Mirror" capable of blocking every attack. Madara had stated that Indra's Susano was the most powerful Susano he had ever seen. Indra had also gained an ability from his sharingan and that was "Enton", the ability allowed Indra to control "Amaterasu" in all shapes and types. Though skilled in genjutsu Indra preferred to dance with his opponents as opposed to Obito who wanted to finish the job quickly. Madara had taught Indra everything he knew regarding sharingan, Ninjutsu and the gunbai. During this time period Black Zetsu had brought them startling news that Minato was now Hokage married to Kushina Uzumaki. Now Indra had more reasons to hate the Yondaime Hokage, Zetsu had also brought them news that Indra was declared an S-rank missing ninja wanted alive for questioning to which Indra had just scoffed and continued his training. The most interesting thing that happened in the ten years was Indra awakening the "Rinnegan".

Flashback

A 16 year old Indra was sparring with Obito and winning with Madara watching them with pride visible in his eyes, originally he had planned on using both of them as pawns however training them and spending time with them made a bond between them. Now Madara saw them both as his sons, the 6 years also formed a brotherly bond between Obito and Indra. When they both fought together Madara saw himself and Izuna in them, they were very deadly combination capable of feats unseen since the sage of the six paths. Madara was busy in his thoughts when suddenly Indra fell on his knees clutching his eyes and grunting in pain, Obito and Madara rushed towards Indra but a burst of black chakra with silver flecks stopped them. Madara was confused at the color of the chakra as chakra was originally blue. Indra stopped grunting and the chakra receded causing Indra to fall unconscious.

Indra's Mindscape

Indra found himself in a sewer with ankle length water and a purple background, when Indra looked up he found himself staring at the same man he saw when he performed the fireball jutsu for the very first time. "Indra Otsutsuki" said Indra while looking at his ancestor, Indra Otsutsuki smiled "so you recognize me". "Yes it was you wasn't, helping me all along" said Indra. The Otsutsuki smiled "yes I have always kept an eye on you after all you are my reincarnation. Indra was flasterbagged at all the details but he calmed himself down and asked "what do you mean by reincarnation". Hearing this Indra Otsutsuki gave a laugh "even though I and my brother died our chakra never disappeared and kept appearing in the descendants who were worthy, you my descendant are my current transmignant and the one I chose to give my power to" the Otsutsuki continued "my dear descendant as long as there are losers and winners hatred and revenge will always be there so only through power one can achieve peace. Now hold out your left hand I wish to give you something", though confused by the strange request Indra complied nonetheless and when he grasped the elder Indra's hand he felt a rush of memories and power coursing through him. After a few moments Indra removed his hand and looked at his palm where a glowing crescent moon was present, "I have transferred all my powers and memories to you, this will be the last time we meet until you achieve your goal and remember beware of the Black Zetsu he is not the will of Madara but of someone much greater and terrifying". As the Otsutsuki disappeared Indra noticed that he had gained a Rinnegan in his left eye which had six tomoes.

Flashback End

When Indra woke up with his "Rinnegan" activated he had told Madara that he was fine and just feeling a bit exhausted. Madara had told him to go to sleep saying that the training would continue tomorrow. The next years were spent mastering the Rinnegan, Madara had trained Indra in everything he knew about the Rinnegan and Madara had then told him that Indra was now perhaps even stronger than Madara himself was. Indra had mastered the six paths very easily as Madara himself had done it, Madara also taught Indra to use "Limbo" which allowed a rinnegan user to create copies of himself which only another Rinnegan user could see. Indra's Rinnegan also gave him an ability to teleport to short distances, the ability itself was a "Juikan Ninjutsu" which created a rip in space-time and allowed Indra to enter it and exit at his desired spot. Indra had also spent most of his time mastering "Onmyoton" and by using and by using the famous jutsu of the Rikodou Sennin "Banbutso Sozo" he created for himself a beautiful chokuto which had all the properties of Kusanagi with a silver blade and black hilt with no guard.

Now a 20 years old Indra and a 22 years old Obito stood infront a dying Madara, Obito had changed his clothes to a black suit with a black hooded cloak and a orange mask with a single eye hole with a flame pattern with black gloves and black boots, he had kept his hair short and spiky. Indra wore a black high colored black shirt with a silver vest over it with black fingerless gloves and black pants with grey shinobi sandals, on top of everything he wore a black cloak which was worn like a cape (Sasuke's outfit in Boruto the movie) with a chokuto strapped to his back. Madara looked at both of his pupil with pride and a genuine smile "go forth my students; I leave my legacy to you. Collect the tailed beasts and when the time is right force Nagato to use the "Gedo: Rinne Tensai no Jutsu" and revive me. I leave everything to you my heirs Obito and Indra Uchiha" with these words Uchiha Madara breathed his last. Indra formed a handseal "Onmyoton" and a coffin encased Madara's body raised on a marble platform with the Uchiha clan crest on the top "until we meet again sensei" with these words both Obito and Indra turned to leave the hideout they spent the last ten years in. "Zetsu lead us to Nagato, I wish to see how well the bearer of sensei's eyes dances" Zetsu nodded and told them to follow him.

Amegakure no Sato

"Kill the boy or she dies" spoke Hanzou the Salamander holding a kunai close to a blue haired girl. Nagato could not believe how wrong the things had become; they were here to talk with Hanzou but that thrice damned Danzou and his root forces were also present, apparently Danzou wanted his Rinnegan and Hanzou wanted the "Akatsuki" out of Amegakure so they both were working together to take down Akatsuki and now Konan was captured and Hanzou was demanding him to kill Yahiko who was the leader of Akatsuki so here he was holding a kunai unsure of what to do. Yahiko knew that Nagato could never kill him so he took the initiative and ran towards Nagato and stabbed himself on the kunai Nagato was holding, time seemed to freeze as Nagato watched life seep out of his friend's eyes and suddenly rage overtook him, Nagato held out his hand "Bansho Tenin" and Konan same flying to him. Hanzou seeing the situation collected some explosive tags and threw them to Nagato who held his hand out again "Shinra Tensei" and all of the tags were repelled. Danzou and Hanzou gave a signal to their shinobi to attack when Nagato made a few handseals and slammed his hand to the ground "Kuchiyose: Gedo Mezo" and a huge statue made its way out of ground roaring with Nagato atop its head with several black rods emerging from his back which connected to the statue. The Gedo Mezo destroyed the shinobi attacking the duo and forced both Hanzou and Danzou into retreat. When the dust cleared and the statue disappeared in a poof of smoke a wide eyed Nagato could be seen kneeling on the ground with black rods emerging from his back and Konan placing a hand on his shoulder to comfort him. After a few moments when Nagato tried to get up he found out that his legs were useless and he could no longer walk, before he could think more about this matter a swirl appeared infront of him and two figures made their way out of it, one of them wore a black hooded cloak with a mask having a single eyehole showing the Mangekyo Sharingan but it was the second person which startled both him and Konan, it was his left eye that made Nagato gasp because he also had the Rinnegan though it had six tomoes in it. The masked man spoke with a grave tone "and now you finally know true pain, the pain of losing someone; someone you loved dearly". Before Nagato could retort in anger the other Rinnegan wielder spoke "yet you could have saved him, only if you had pulled the girl earlier without freezing, it was your mistake that cost Yahiko his life but you could learn from your mistake" Konan on the other hand could take it no longer "who are you people and why are you doing this"? The masked man relied in an apologetic tone "ah forgive I failed to introduce myself, well no matter my name is Uchiha Madara and this is my accomplice Uchiha Indra, and the answer to why is that I'm interested in what path to peace will you take now that you have seen the reality of the world". Though it was surprising that Uchiha Madara was still alive, Nagato turned towards Indra "you wield the Rinnegan too so what is your answer to peace". Indra spoke after a few moments "as long as men like Hanzou and Danzou exist they would never let peace exist, for peace to exist such men can't exist so my answer to peace is power, power to do what you believe is correct. It is said that those with the Rinnegan would either destroy the world or bring eternal peace; the sage of six paths was a fool to believe that chakra would connect humans. Humans are violent; they can't help but crave war so they must be guided by those with the blessed eyes, the sage gave humans peace yet they raged wars, the sage's philosophy has been tried and failed too many times. I'll accomplish what the sage failed to achieve, the peace I'll bring will be swift, it shall be righteous and it will be without mercy. But the question remains Uzumaki Nagato now that you have seen the truth of this world how shall you bring peace, remember that it was peace through love that killed Yahiko". Konan looked at Nagato who appeared deep in thought and then she looked towards Indra and had to fight down a blush that threatened to appear on her face, she considered what Indra had said and she knew no matter how harsh it may be Indra was right in his views. Nagato looked at Indra with his Rinnegan blazing and nodded, a tiny smile appeared on Indra's face which vanished shortly "very well but we must train you in the use of Rinnegan and then you could kill Hanzou and take a step towards peace, Today marks the rise of "Akatsuki".

The next few months were spent training Nagato how to use his ocular powers. Despite his handicap Nagato was able to use the six paths by applying chakra receivers on dead bodies and giving them control over one path each which were connected to the main Nagato. Nagato now called himself Pain so his technique was named as "Six Paths of Pain". Nagato chose the body of Yahiko as the "Deva Path" as to believe that Yahiko was still there and fighting with them. Due to his handicap Nagato could never reach his full potential however Indra and Obito deemed him strong enough to continue their goals and so began the civil war in Amegakure which ended with Hanzou's death and the people of Ame accepting Pain as a messiah.

In a dark room alit with torches four chairs were present and on them sat Indra, Obito, Konan and the Deva Path. "Ame is fully functional now and we are ready to begin our path to peace however you never told us how you would attain it Indra" said Konan in an emotionless tone. Indra hummed, he and Obito had discussed what to tell them but in the end they decided to go with truth but leaving the part of reviving Madara and tinkering the story of sage to their liking. "To bring peace you must first know of how the shinobi world came into existence" and so Indra told them the story however in his story Hogoromo had three sons and one of them was the ancestor of Uzumaki to make Nagato believe that he was indeed the direct descendant of sage and the Rinnegan was his. During this whole time Obito had to keep himself from laughing at the sheer magnitude of bullshit Indra was sprouting. "You say the peace reigns eternal in this dream world of yours and anything would be possible in there" asked Konan to which Indra nodded "peace in reality is nothing but an illusion so to find it one must venture into the depths of fantasy, my way of peace is absolute without any drawbacks and threats of rebellion and war so what do you say". After a lot of careful consideration both Nagato and Konan nodded as they eager to see Yahiko and their parents again. Obito spoke "first we need to find members for Akatsuki" then he turned towards Nagato "you, Konan, Indra and zetsu are four members, I believe to start Akatsuki fully we need seven more members". Nagato frowned "and you will not be joining yourself Madara", Obito shook his head"I need to act behind the scenes and when the time is right I shall join Akatsuki". Indra stood up and whispered ""as long as there is light there would also be darkness, as long as there are winners there will also be losers, so let us all come together and form a world that only knows peace, a world that only knows love, let the "Project Infinite Tsukyuomi" begin". And so began the Akatsuki.