Yay for updating! I tried a little harder with this chapter than with my last "Tobi" chapter, thats right, we're back to the little orange fish. I hope this chapter is alright, I tried to stick with the plot of Nemo more than any of the other films here.
Disclaimer: I do not own Naruto, the Akatsuki, Finding Nemo or anything else Disney related
Tobi was starting to feel dizzy, he'd been bounced up and down in a little plastic bag for some time now. He wasn't sure he liked this adventure anymore. Swishing his little orange tail he circled around his confined space, somehow managing not to bump into the clear walls of the bag. Without warning he felt the water he was in beginning to stir and slip away from him.
"Waa!" cried the swirly patterned clownfish, desperately flicking his fins against the flow of the water. It was now use however and he soon felt himself slipping away with the liquid.
He fell into the awaiting tank with a resounding "plop" before swimming in a little circle.
"Phew," the fish sighed, he was glad that trip was over. He swam to the edge of the tank and looked out, the room looked like a chamber of torture. He gulped, it looked scarier than the time he'd seen Hidan performing rituals in the bathroom.
"'ello little fella!" a booming voice sounded and Tobi was surprised when a huge face appeared in front of him. He jumped backwards, swimming into an ornamental barrel. He watched as the man walked away, talking to someone else. Cautiously he swam back out, this time to be frightened as a chest opened before his eyes, emitting copious amounts of bubbles.
"My bubbles!" squealed another fish, pouncing at the chest. One by one, other fish in the tank made themselves known. Trying to swim away he was caught in the fin of a puffer fish.
"Slow down, there's nothing to worry about," the bigger fish comforted.
"Have you seen the leader, or Tobi's sempai?" Tobi asked the other fish.
"If you mean your friends then they're probably back at the pet store sweetie," a pink starfish detached itself from the tank wall to tell him.
"The pet store?"
"Yeah, you know where you were bought from," probed another fish, a purple thing with a yellow tail. Tobi cocked his fishy head to the side.
"But Tobi is from the Akatsuki, not a pet store," he piped.
"The Akatsuki?" questioned the puffer. The final fish, a blue and white striped one swam closer.
"Is that like the ocean?" she questioned.
"Tobi was in the ocean for a while," mused the clownfish, "but then that big guy over there caught Tobi and he ended up here,"
"Oh my god oh my god!" the yellow and purple fish began to panic. "Jacques! We need you now!" he called out. Tobi looked to where the other fish was shouting. A small plastic diver's helmet lay embedded at the bottom of the tank. The mask of the helmet swung open revealing a small shrimp. It muttered something in a language Tobi didn't understand, before settling above him. The ninja turned clownfish giggled, he had the sensation of being cleaned all over, and was now spinning in the water. He was brought to an abrupt halt and the shrimp scuttled off into its hiding hole again.
Tobi decided at this point to become rather excited about his new friends, swimming in fast little circles around the tank. The fish found it endearing. However excitement soon turned to panic when the little clownfish felt himself being sucked upwards.
He was now stuck in the tanks filter. He began to wriggle about, scared, how could he escape? The other fish too began to fuss.
"Leave him alone," barked a new voice. Tobi wiggled he fishy body to look at the newcomer. All of the other fish backed away from him. Through the plants in the tank another fish emerged. It was a Moorish idol, Tobi could see its black and white face was scarred. "Let the kid escape on his own," the mysterious new fish commanded the others.
"But, Tobi's fin doesn't work!" Tobi protested. The fish looked at him and swan so that Tobi could see his own fins. They too were scarred and damaged.
"It never stopped me," the fish stated. Tobi stared at him, inspired. He began to flip his tail faster and move his body more until eventually
Pop!
He was free! The other fish began to cheer for him. He looked to their leader like a puppy, a silly smirk on his fishy face.
"Tobi did it!" he cried with joy, "Tobi is a good boy!" Tobi was almost surprised to find that instead of the usual cringes, and protests to be quiet, the other inhabitants of the tank crowded around him to praise his efforts. Tobi was a happy fish. While the others surrounded him, he didn't pay much notice to the fact that the Moorish idol and the starfish were talking in hushed tones to each other.
Out in the ocean, a crocodile surfaced. It had an annoyed expression on its oddly marked face. Had the ships and shipwrecks it appeared between been inhabited, then perhaps one of the people may have remarked on the oddity of seeing such a creature so far out to sea. However, all the people were either gone or dead. So nothing was spoken about the matter.
Zetsu swished his scaly tail in the water as he explored the debris of the fight. Various flotsam and jetsam had clouded his views below the water, so he'd needed to surface to see more. He was sure he'd sensed Kakuzu in this area at some point. He also assumed Deidara had been past this area too, as chunks of charred clay stuck to the hulls of some boats.
"Tick, we're not near anybody I'm not saying tock. Aww you're no fun," Zetsu argued with himself amongst the wreckage. Another member of the akatsuki may have grown lonely the amount of chasing he'd had to do. Having found he could no longer get to the island Zetsu had been attempting to find other members of the akatsuki. He was currently working on following Deidara and Sasori, but he couldn't quite catch up. Luckily, his split personality was always there to keep him company.
An arm floated past and he snapped at it hungrily. He could just make out a ship moving in the distance, and jumped off the bough of the boat to chase it.
Back in the fish tank, Tobi found himself at the heart of another adventure. The other fish had thrown him through a volcano of bubbled, and were currently celebrating something. The leader fish, whose name was gill, had taken him off to one side. He was currently explaining something to Tobi about an escape plan. Tobi however wasn't listening. He'd been distracted by a shiny pebble at the bottom of the tank and was edging towards it slowly.
Then, like a cat, the clownfish pounced. He toyed with the pebble, flicking it in the water between his fins. Eventually he batted at it with his tail. This caused the pebble to go flying, straight into the filtration unit.
"Oops," Tobi whispered, as a large clanking sounded through the tank. The whirring noise of the filter stopped, as did the movement of the water in the tank.
"You did it Tobi!" gill cried out happily. The other fish cheered again. Tobi, quite unsure of what was occurring beamed like the idiot he was.
"Tobi is a good boy?"
"Tick tock! Tick tock, oh for Pete's sake will you stop?" Zetsu called out to the galleon as he drew alongside it. A tanned face appeared over the side, and stared at the water.
"Did any of you hear anything?" Kakuzu's deep voice called out as the face disappeared again.
"No, un"
"I'm sorry Kakuzu I couldn't hear over the brat's art,"
"Oh Sasori no Danna! You admit it's art?"
"That was sarcasm you moron,"
"Will you two shut the fuck up? Seriously Kakuzu, you're hearing shit in your old age,"
"We're down here! Now help us up or we will eat you when we get out of this mess," Zetsu shouted up again. This time all four faces appeared over the side of the ship.
"I swear I heard the plant asshole, but all I can see is a crocodile," Hidan frowned.
"Hi Zetsu, found anyone, un?" Deidara called down. Hidan looked at the crocodile again. He noticed its scary yellow eyes and odd colouring. Jashin damn it that was Zetsu! Kakuzu took the initiative and let down a rope for the croc to snap his jaw onto. They all heaved and pulled up their comrade.
"Tick, tock," panted Zetsu, dizzy from being swung in the air.
"This is seriously fucked," Hidan decided to announce. Kakuzu shot him a scathing look, he didn't need Hidan's commentary on everything.
"So," Deidara asked again, "have you heard anything about anyone?"
The crocodile shook his head and lay back on the deck. Kakuzu brushed his beaded hair out of his face and put a hand on his hip. This was all very strange to him. Hidan had decided to ignore the croc and was currently finding pirate weapons to impale himself with.
"Hmm, well Zetsu may not have found anything, but I think you may all be in trouble," Sasori spoke calmly from the front of the ship. Everyone but Zetsu ran over to where he was looking, a giant waterfall had opened up beneath them.
"Oh crap," Hidan cursed. For once his partner agreed with him.
"My sentiments exactly."
