Yosh! Another chapter! This chapter will start some of the political problems and the beginning of the KakuxTsune pairing!

Warning: If you are not Narutarded as I am and there for is not savy with the entire series and don't like spoilers then I suggest you skip everything until the first line. This chapter has a bit of Peins past and mentions the real leader of Akatsuki.

Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, I own... that woman who pwns everybody (grins evily)

Chapter 5: The beginning of a new dawn, a red dawn.

A man with sort, spiky, bright orange hair sat atop the edge of a tallest tower in Amegakure. The rain was pouring from the sky as usual. He could stop it but chose not too. Rain was important to the natural cycle of things. He didn't stop it unless he had good reason to. He watched the people down below oblivious to his gaze. No one could see him, he was too high up.

Rain country was in civil war right now. He was leading the rebel group against the daimyo. The orange haired Akatsuki, Pein, had every reason to go against him. Not only for the goals of Akatsuki but also for Rain Country itself. This country has seen so much turmoil. Civil war was never a pleasant thing. It caused so much hurt and pain. It took away his and Konan's family. He didn't like it but the memory's flooded back to him.

He and Konan were all alone. They were hungry and scared. More people came by their destroyed village, they didn't dare to come out of their hiding spot for fear that they were looking to kill any survivors. Things changed a bit when they meet Yahiko. He was so strong. He wanted to change rain country. He wanted to fix all of the problems facing it. And when he died Pein took his dream upon himself. He started the civil war in Rain and killed the Hidden village's leader.

"Pein." The blue haired kunoichi, Konan, gently put her hand on Pein's shoulder. Pein looked up into her deep purple eyes. "A skirmish has broken out 10 miles away from here. It seems that some woman is calling for rebellion, but what she aims for is something completely different then what we dream for." Konan watched with worry as Pein's face contorted.

"Who is she?" He hisses.

"We don't know, but she is very powerful. Anyone that get's so much as 10 feet near her drops dead."

"A ninjutsu?"

"That's just it. She doesn't move at all… she-"

"She move's faster then what the human eye can see. If she can move that fast then she must be a powerful shinobi. Withdraw all troops. I will handle this."

"Are you sure?' Konan's voice was tinted with worry. Pein stared into her eyes.

"Do you doubt me?"

Konan sighed and forced a small smile on her face. "No."

"Very good. Stay here while I'll handle this."

Konan looked as if she wanted to protest but keep her mouth firmly shut. She nodded, not trusting her self to speak.

Pein walked out to the ledge of the tall tower. He jumped down. The air rushing past him. With feline grace he landed on the ground and off through the streets to the site of the battle.

Bodies lay in abundance around a single woman with long brown hair wearing a green robe with a high slit. Her dark green eyes shone playfully. Another squad of rain nin were charging at her. She smirked as she moved behind each and everyone of them with such speed that before they even saw her move they were dead. It was easy for her to kill them. All she had to do was touch them. With that single touch she could do anything she wanted. Her smiling face disappeared when she looked around at the dead bodies surrounding her.

"I wish that at least one of them was talented enough to give me a tiny bit of a challenge. Someone who could at least survive the first attack." She kicked over a corpse scowling at it. "Poor bakas. Following that sorry excuse for a leader, their "god". It makes me sick. Following the supernatural like lost little puppies. They should at least have the sense to question this "god" of theirs. I don't believe such crap."

"That's to bad. Because their "god" has come to fight you personally." The woman slowly turned to see the brilliant orange haired Akatsuki member. The woman's smiling face at the hopes of a new play thing disappeared in seconds as her eyes spied the cloak. Rage filled her.

"Ah." She said. "So the (bleep)head Akatsuki that's running around playing demon tamers are finally here to stop me. Tell me, who ordered you here?"

Pein narrowed his eyes. "No one ordered me, I am Pein. Leader of the Akatsuki."

The woman snorted. "Please, don't make me laugh. I know that that (bleep)headed Uchiha is still alive. I did give him the secret to immortality after all." Her eyes glazed over as if remembering a painful memory. Pein didn't waste a second in attacking her.

The woman snapped back to reality just in time. With no effort she dodged his attacks. She couldn't help but smile. 'This guy is good'

Jiraiya scowled. He Naruto and Shizune were back in Konoha. Shizune had told him that she was going to try to be the next Hokage. Jiraiya agreed, grateful that he didn't have to take the job himself. He trusted Shizune and her judgment. Sure she was more of a follower than a leader but it was only temporary until a better candidate could be picked. He took some pills for his headache that he got from Naruto's constant complaining and begging him to train the orange clad gennin. Naruto took his loss against Kabuto very hard. The nin had beat him so easily. The usually hyper active nin sulked the whole way back to the village. He looked out the window of the Hokage building. It was a nice sunny day despite the cloudy black and gray clouds that hid deep inside of him.

"I wonder where Tsunade is." He whispered softly.

Tsunade had wakened up in a room she had never seen before. She had already restored her youthful image and was going through many scenarios of how or why she was here. Though she didn't have to wonder for long since Kakuzu walked through the door at the other end of the room.

"Good, you're awake." He said.

"Where am I?" Tsunade demanded. She was almost at full strength.

"A hotel room."

"I figured that that much, now where am I?"

"Gekakurge. A village on fire country's border."

"Gekakurge?!" Tsunade gasped. They were a day and a half away from Konoha and a day away from the village where Orochimaru had found her. How long was she out? It couldn't have been that long could it?

"Do you have a problem with it?" Tsunade shook her head. "Good not get up, were leaving."

"Wait a second! How long have I been out? And why the heck would I go anywhere with you?" Tsunade planed on finding these guys, she was going to join Akatsuki after all. What she didn't understand was why they took her with them.

"At least three days and our leader has offered you a position within the Akatsuki." He said it as if it was the most obvious thing in the world.

"And why should I join Akatsuki? What's in it for me?"

"You'll just have to wait and see. By the way if you learn anything about the organization before you are a member or something of the sort we'll have to kill you"

"Heh, Fine. I'm not afraid to take a gamble. The higher the sakes the better the pay out."

"Just come on already, time is money." Tsunade grumbled at this. She'd had plenty of time but never enough money.

They meet Hidan downstairs and set out. Tsunade walked a ways behind them, experience had told her all too well to never drop your guard. The two Akatsuki may actually mean to take her to the Akatsuki's base and meet their leader and become a member, but then again it could all be trap.

Soon they were out of fire country and into Rain. Tsunade marveled at how they got into the country so easily. She was one of the few outsiders that knew of the civil war going on in Rain. The country was desperate to keep it under wraps. Anybody that wanted to enter the country had to announce their propose, how long they were staying and were escorted by a Rain nin their entire stay. So far they meet no resistance. They came across not a single soul.

Of course rain country being Rain country it, rained. Atlas, it didn't just rain. It poured in rapid torrents. Kakuzu and Hidan were fine. They had their long cloaks and straw hats, and what did Tsunade have? A slightly thick green jacket that was soaked through in seconds. It did little against that pounding rain.

"Why does it have to rain so friggen much!" She spat. Her arms were tired from holding her soaking wet jacket over her head.

"Rain's, rain get used to it. It rains here nearly every friggen day." Hidan smirked at her wet misery. He was perfectly dry. "You're looking a little wet there old lady."

Ooh did that tick Tsunade off. She returned the favor in the form of giving him an upper cut to the jaw and snatching his cloak and hat off him.

"That you for graciously giving me your cloak and hat." She teased Hidan who was covered in mud from landing on the wet road. She slipped the cloak and hat on, ignoring Hidan's obscenities.

"Oy! Kakuzu! Make her give my friggen cloak and hat back!"

"Quit acting like a child and live with it." Said the ex-falls nin.

Tsunade turned to look at Hidan smirking. "You're looking a little wet there boy." She snickered. The man just scowled and secretly wished that he had worn a shirt under his cloak.

"Were almost there." Kakuzu finally said after hours of drudgery walking through Rain country. They still had encountered no one.

" 'Bout friggen time. I'm soaked." The rain had let up a little but not by much. Hidan was rubbing his arms, trying to bring warmth back to his cold limbs.

"If you just had a cloak you wouldn't be soaked." Tsunade punched him playfully in the arm.

"Oh shut up beeyoch."

Kakuzu stopped. Tsunade looked at him questionably. The masked man's only reply was. "We're here."

The Akatsuki base to say in a word was, impressive. They were in the heart of Rain country just outside of the hidden village. The base's entrance was hidden in a large bramble of bushes and was mostly underground. The kitchen and a front entrance room was above ground with everything else below. Leader was not back from a personal mission in the city so she hung out in one of the rooms. She was not allowed to wander around the base until she meets leader. She had a sense of de ja vu when Kakuzu entered the room.

"Leader is still not back yet if your wondering." He said taking off his cloak and throwing it over a chair and sat down at a desk with many piles of paper heaped on top of it.

"What is all that?" Tsunade asked curious though mostly because she was bored.

"Bills" he replied simply.

"Bills?"

"I don't repeat myself." He pulled out a simple but primitive calculator and did some number crunching. Tsunade watched with dull interest. She imagined what she could be doing now if she had become Hokage. 'It'd more interesting than watching a member of the feared Akatsuki do number crunching.' She mused. A smile played at her lips.

"Does anything interesting ever happen around here?"

No reply.

"Is the word fun even in your vocabulary?"

Again no reply.

"Am I just talking to myself or do you just like to think before answering a question?"

He growled and turned his head slightly towards her. "Yes, yes and you are talking to yourself." He turned back to the papers on his desk with rapt attention.

Tsunade grumbled a few curses at him and laid back on the bed. She wanted to close her eyes and sleep but again she knew only too well what dropping your guard could mean. She sat up. A nagging question popped into her head.

"Why did you help me fight Orochimaru? And why did you help me when I fell unconscious?"

The sound of a pencil snapping was prominent. Kakuzu was silent but she knew it was because he was thinking of an answer.

"Orochimaru" he said. "Was once a member of Akatsuki. But a while back he left after trying to take Itachi's body. He took his ring with him. It became high on the organizations priorities list to kill him. As for why we helped you… we need more members, especially those who are trained in medical jutsu. You fit the bill. That's all." Tsunade glared at him. Her woman's intuition told her that there was more to it but she didn't press the issue.

"I'm going to go see if leader is back yet." He said suddenly standing and stomping out of the room. Tsunade now really thought that there was more to it than he let on. With a sigh she stared lazily around the room.

Meanwhile Kakuzu was walking rather hurriedly down the hallway. He didn't know why but there was something about her. His thoughts strayed to the fortune teller almost all the time. Her words hung like dead weights in his head. Back then and even now there was something about Tsunade that made his heart act oddly, all five of them. He shook his head at all of his crazy ideas.

'I'm sure it's nothing.' He though rubbing his temples. 'I must be getting sick or something.'

With a start he stopped mid step into the living room. There he saw Konan carrying leader on her back. The left side of his face, his right arm and left leg covered in blood.

"Oh pie." He cursed and took his injured leader from Konan's arm. He was in bad condition. "He needs to be treated right away. I don't think that I can-" he would have slapped his head in any other situation as he remembered Tsunade in his room. He turned to Konan. "Go to my room and bring the woman in there."

Konan nodded grimly and did as she was told. Kakuzu started to stitch up the open wounds on leader. The man's eyes fluttered and he coughed violently.

"Forget me… call the other's… together… threat… now!" he hissed through the pain then passed out. Kakuzu was at a loss at who in the world could be powerful enough to hurt leader like this.

'Whoever they are.' He thought solemnly. 'They must have immense skill and power.'

Yosh! Another chapter done! I would have this and many other stories updated if it weren't for… dun dun dunnnn! Hurricane Ike! Yes Ike! Ike graciously sent 60 mph winds though my lovely home state of Ohio causing a huge black out. I got out of school for two days… but had no electricity. I just got power today (cheers loudly) so I can finally update. So yeah I hope you like this story. And there was KakuxTsune fluff. It was just really hard to see. I really want them to stay in character so I have to slowly develop their relationship so yeah. If you wanna flame me then please visit my profile were I left you a little message and please review! Tell me what you think! Anything! Just please click that "go" button. Pretty please with sugar and a cherry on top?