Akatsuki Naruto

Chapter 1

It was a cold and rainy night and three figures stood in the distance in a valley, two of them shocked at what had just occurred in front of them. And around them on every side of the cliffs there were men wearing porcelain masks and ninjato strapped to their backs waiting for their order kill.

The first figure on the ground was a woman with ocean blue hair she stood behind the other two, her hand over her mouth as a steady stream of tears stained her face. The second was a man with bright orange hair. He stood there leaning on the third one with a small amount of blood coming from the corner of his lip, and a knife in his chest bleeding heavily. The third and final one had blood red hair stood there in disbelieve as his best friend was leaning on him dieing of blood loss, and all he could do was stand there and watch.

They all wore the same thing a black cloak that went all the way from their ankles to the bottom of their chins. The one with red hair was brought out of shock when his friend started to speak.

"Nagato" he said weakly " What is it Yahiko?" he asked franticly. He leans in a little further and whispers in his ear "I sent a message to Jiraiya sensei, (cough) he will be here shortly. He told me a few days ago to send him a letter when we finally secured peace, (cough) but it looks like we still aren't there yet."

He coughs up more blood as he slowly becomes a bit paler. "Don't talk Yahiko we're going to get through this and get you out of here. Then we are going to meet Jiraiya sansei and move our resources closer to the leaf" he said this the some amount of confidence in his words, but he knew in his heart that there was a very real possibility that they may not walk away from this alive.

"You are mistaken if you think that any of your resources are left.," the man in the middle who appeared to be the leader of the ANBU company said coldly "WHAT! What are you talking about we said this was between us and Hanzo why are you even here to begin with!" Nagato said with all the anger and rage he could muster. "Simple you are threat, and it is our duty to neutralize all threats to our village." said leader.

"All we wanted was for our home to finally be free of war, to live in peace for once! The woman shouted. "Konan save your strength Nagato will need your help with defeating all of these guys." She was about to say something else until Yahiko started to breath much faster and cough up more blood. He grabs Nagato as he is falling back and asks him one last request. "Promise me you won't do what think you are about to do. Because it's not worth it you don't have to do this entirely by yourself my friend (cough cough) you can let Konon help you please (cough) don't become a slave to yourself."

And with that he died. Nagato stood there absolutely still tears beginning to fall and mix with the rain.

"Kill them both," the leader commanded. And with that a force of roughly one hundred men leapt towards them. And with that Nagato immediately what to do and whimpered "Forgive me Yahiko, but I'll have to break that promise before I even made it."

And with that he was about to do the very thing his best friend's dieing wish said not to he was going to use the Gredo statue to kill them all when. "Kuchiyose no jutsu." And with that a giant cloud of smoke appeared an even more gigantic toad with a scar across his left eye, a blue jacket with the sign for toad on the back, with a sword in one hand, and sipping sake from a gourde with the other and on top of the toad was a man in a red jacket, wooden shoes, a black shirts, and fish net shirt appeared before them. And with him a small army of 250 leaf shinobi. Those who were not crushed by the toad quickly knew that they were both out numbered and out matched so they quickly retreated back into the forest behind the cliffs with leaf nin in hot pursuit trying to at least capture one alive for questioning. But every tome one was caught he would either crunch on a poison pill or burst into bright blue flames.

"Jiraiya sensei you got Yahiko's message" Nagato asked. "Yes I did, but I knew that something was wrong I had a bad feeling that something was going to happen so I sent a toad to follow you guys until the peace meeting was to take place." He looks over to the dead body of his student and sheds his share of tears for the fallen.

"So what will you do now there is nothing here for you anymore," he asked. " I don't know. I truly don't know what to do anymore all that's left is Konan and me everyone else was killed." Nagato said with sadness dripping from every word he said.

"What if you come with me? My offer still stands you can become automatic jonin at your skill level. I'm sure of it. My toads have told me about what you can do and I must say you probably could have beaten all of those men buy yourselves," he said with a mixture of emotions, confidence for what he said, and sadness because of Yahiko's death.

Nagato turns to Konan to see what here reaction would be to all of this and she looked like she was having mixed thoughts about this whole thing. He could tell that she was weighing her options and finally she looked like she had come to a decision. "Nagato," she said he turns to her "I was thinking about what sensei said and the more I think about it the more I realize that it would be the best thing to do for the both of us. Yahiko would want us to survive this and come out better people because of it." He looks down still with a sad expression on his face. He looks up and replies, "We don't have anything to bring so we can leave now if you want. It doesn't matter to me if you want to leave now or later."

It was eerily quiet for a moment and then she finally said, "I don't feel taking a walk down a path of painful memories, I think it would be best if we just left now and didn't look back." For Yahiko that's the least we can do, that and become stronger." Jiraiya stood there and simply nodded. "Well then we better get moving we have quiet a shit storm to deal with when we get back to the leaf."

Nagato looked puzzeled for a while before asking "Why would there by trouble at the leaf?" "Well lets say I have a feeling I might know who is behind this." At this Nagato's blood boiled over with anger "Who" was all he asked. Jiraiya looked at him and said in a discusted voice "That basterd's name is Danzo. But there is someone you might want to meet in Konoha Nagato" His redheaded student looked at him again puzzeled at this his sensei smiled her name is Kushina and she is your cousin." At this Nagato went from confused to complete and utter shock. All he said after that was "When do we leave sensei."

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