Field Marshall Axurhotep (Ax Ur Ho Tep)carried Gaara of the sand into the Ataksuki base and set him down before the astral projections of its various members. He was wearing his formal uniform of a brown double-breasted shirt with bronze buttons, matching trench coat and breeches as well as black jackboots and a (dictator hat)[you all know what I'm talking about but for the life of me I can't remember what it is called.].
"As p-p-p-proof of my skill I have brought G-g-gaara of the sand, Kazekage of the Land of Wind before you." He said. "Are there a-a-a-any other requirements for me to formalize this alliance."
"No you are free to join us," Pain said. How could someone this pathetic capture a jinchuricki? "We will begin the extraction process at once."
"Actually, as a r-r-responsible Imperial officer I cannot f-f-f-formalize a treaty without knowing what your p-p-plans and goals are." Axurhotep said. "If you want me to fund you, I need to know what I'm paying for."
"You don't get to know what the goals are just by signing up," Hidan said through his astral projection. "Even I don't know what it is."
"I-i-if I d-d-don't l-l-learn w-w-what the g-g-goal is f-f-first T-t-t-the Emperor will remove me," Axurhotep said as he rubbed his wrists together and looked at his shoes. "I-I-I-I d-d-d-don't w-w-w-want T-t-t-the Emperor m-m-m-mad a-a-a-at m-m-m-me."
I don't want to go through this again with someone else Pain thought besides if I threaten him he won't tell anyone.
"Fine." Pain said. "Listen carefully Akatsuki's goals can be broken down into three steps."
"He's been a member for two minutes and you're already telling him" Hidan said.
"He is about to accomplish the first goal," Pain said. "Which as you've noticed is to gather a lot of money. After that we use the money to create the first true mercenary organization the shinobi world has ever seen."
"Huh?" Hidan said. "That's the same thing the ninja villages do now. You take a mission complete it, and get paid."
"S-s-s-stop interrupting." Axurhotep said. "No good plans are so simplistic that they make sense after the first sentence."
"That mercenary force recruiting the shinobi who have been cast aside when the wars ended and using your own Grand Empire troops. We will take missions for less then the rate of ninja villages forcing the smaller countries to higher us. Then we use the Tailed Beasts to start wars and then force them to stop with everyone hiring us we draw more power to Ataksuki eventually even the five great nations will collapse and we will have a monopoly on war. Then the third part will come into play we will control everything."
"I would voice my opinion on that plan," Axurhotep said. "If you weren't lying about it being your true goal!"
Most of the other Ataksuki members were surprised, they had thought this was the plan, but how did he now that this was a lie? Pain was put off by the sudden change for a moment he thought the Field Marshall was using henge his voice now had authority behind it he was standing upright instead of hunched, he had truly underestimated this boy.
"I'm very good at reading when people are lying to me," Axurhotep explained. "When people fake emotion they focus on the brow and the mouth, your eyes on the other hand you over look those completely when you try to hid your feelings. When you described the money you were apathetic, so my guess is you don't need it for your real plan it's just to distract everyone else. You were moderately amused when you talked about starting up a mercenary force, most likely because of the irony that as head of the Village hidden in the Rain you already have one and considering that as an isolationist country you already don't take foreign missions you can probably get through the first two parts of that plan on your own right now. The biggest clue that you were lying came from the fact that despite your efforts to hide it with false excitement when you talk about world domination you're disgusted, you probably had someone precious to you die in someone else's quest for power. I'd also like to point out that since your organization is composed entirely of people who committed treason I have been very much in doubt from the start now tell me the truth or I walk out right now."
"You're good," Pain said. "I guess I have no choice. Once all the tailed beasts are brought together it will create a jutsu powerful enough to destroy an entire country."
There is an irony to that statement he is unaware of Axurhotep thought as pain went into detail of his true plan....
Naruto Uzumaki was heading through vine country with his teammates as well as Shikamaru and Temari when they saw four things fly over head.
"What are those?" Naruto asked.
"Grand Empire Flying Machines," Kakashi said. "They seam to be heading somewhere in Vine country."
"Lets follow them," Naruto said. "We should see where they are going."
"Hang on," Sakura said. "We're supposed to head to the Hidden Sand village."
"They might be doing something that could threaten one of our country's," Shikamaru said. "We should at least see what they're up to."
"Alright," Kakashi said. "We'll follow them and see what their doing."
"I have a question," Axurhotep said after having heard all the details of Pains plan. "What if the nation that is destroyed first is a food exporter?"
"What does that have to do with anything?" Pain asked.
"This is why I hate working with feudalists," Axurhotep said. "They think that only warriors and aristocrats matter. Your plan overlooks everyone who isn't a shinobi or a Feudal lord."
"And you don't?" Itachi asked. Having become very interested in what was happening.
"Every one matters, everything is important, which is why everything must be watched and controlled." Axurhotep said. "If the first country wiped out is a major exporter of food can any of you guess what will happen?"
"There will be a famine," Kazuku said. "Which will lead to refugee's fleeing to countries that still have food."
"Those country's may not be able to support the refugee's," Axurhotep said. "And when they try to block them out the overly elite understaffed hidden villages will be overwhelmed by the resulting resource war and by the way fear of annihilation means absolutely nothing to people that are starving to death."
"I'll make sure that the country that is destroyed isn't a food exporter." Pain said.
"Your plan removes other areas of infrastructure," Axurhotep said. "and I'll bet you can't name a country that doesn't export a vital resource because you never even thought of this before. Your plan will bring chaos not peace."
"My plan..."
"... has two other flaws, odds are fifty-fifty if you distribute this weapon to everyone it won't be used against just one nation then have everyone stop fighting out of fear. If it gets used once then everyone will use it over and over again in retaliation. Then there will be no country's just weather warn survivors shivving each other over scraps. The other flaw if you miraculously manages to avoid the first two is that the end result you're hoping for is in fact a state of peace followed by a state of war followed by a state of peace in cycle. THAT IS LITERALLY THE CURRENT STATUS QUO YOU ARROGANT MORON. What is the point of making the peace last longer if the war is more devastating I MEAN SERIOUSLY. The alliance is off I will not work with someone that stupid."
Field Marshall Axurhotep picked up Gaara and headed towards the door.
"Where are you going with him," Dedria asked.
"I am returning him to the Village hidden in the sand."
"Why?" Sasori asked.
"I brought him here to finalize an alliance," Axurhotep said. "No alliance, no prisoner."
"If you try to take him Dedria and Sasori will kill you and take him anyway," Pain said. "I'll let you go if you leave him."
"I am an imperial officer," Axurhotep said. "I must make the decision that will be in the Empires interest not my own. I cannot have the Sand and Leaf villages coming after us yet."
"You think they are a greater threat then Ataksuki?" Pain asked. "You will find you are very wrong."
"Nine mercenaries or the two strongest military powers? You can either make this into a fight, or you can get him back later." Axurhotep said. "Not forming an alliance is no reason to start a war."
"Leave the host hear or..."
"acetylsalicylic acid," The Field Marshall interrupted.
"What is that supposed to mean?" Pain asked.
"I should think that would be obvious," Axurhotep said as Pain and Konan's astral forms disappeared. "It is the signal for my men to kill you." He drew his two pistols and fired one at Dedria blowing a hole clean through his skull and the other at Sasori causing major damage to the face of his puppet. Sasori leaped at him and drove his puppets tail into Axurhoteps chest.
"That pain your feeling is my poison it will slowly kill you over the next three days," Sasori said while Axurhotep writhed on the ground. "You will remain completely paralysed as it painfully..."
"Do you people ever shut up," Axurhotep said.
Sasori picked up the two pistols and examined them they were each slightly different. Then he heard a clicking noise, Axurhotep was up! Impossible he thought as Axurhotep aimed the cylinder he had been caring on his back at Sasori and fired a rocket. Sasori leaped out of the way, only for the rocket to change direction to meet him. Not having enough time to do anything else he jumped out of his puppet just before it exploded into pieces. Sasori landed, Axurhotep shot him in the head with a revolver blowing away a chunk of his artificial face.
He messed up my vision Sasori thought I need to get him talking to buy time. "How many of those weapons do you have?" Sasori asked when he noticed that Axurhotep was using a new pistol.
Axurhotep fired two more shots. "Fourteen," Axurhotep said. The first hit Sasori where his spine should be just as he summoned a new puppet, the second hit him right where his heart should be dropping him and his puppet to the ground. Axurhotep sat down on the ground he took off his trench coat revealing a large number of pistol holsters, four on his back, one on each thigh, two at his waist, and two on rib holsters. He unbuttoned the double breasted shirt he wore under the trench coat revealing the badly dented armour that had been made by collaboration between his own experts, and shinobi from the two villages that had joined him. He took it off took a deep breath as the large dent no longer constricted his breathing. He took some pills from a bottle swallowed them.
"Field Marshall Axurhotep to Col Wulf are you there?" He said as he laid down.
"Yes sir," Col Wulf responded over the Field Marshall's radio. "We are outside the cave, the security barrier will take a while to disable. General Tyran is attacking the Village Hidden in the Rain."
"Excellent," Axurhotep said. "Col. I want you to make a note the team that designed and made that new armour they all get Medals and special commendations."
"Yes Sir" Field Marshall Axurhotep waited patiently as his men came to retrieve him.
A/N I didn't go over Pains plan because I needed a break to show Naruto and the gang following the choppers to the cave and we all know what it is from reading the manga right? I have a whole story planed out I know I sometimes don't break it up as well as I should I am sorry about that.