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THE BIJUU PROJECT - INTRODUCTION TO THE WORKPLACE & TROUBLES

With one step, Hinata entered the Compound, and her world changed. Looking around, she noticed that from the ground she could not see the ceiling of the gargantuan building. There were men and women of many ages hurrying here and there, no doubt on tasks of various importance.

Hinata saw many wonders in her first few moments at the Compound. She saw one man, who was standing on what looked like the ninth floor, make some strange hand sign and disappear in a whirl of smoke, only to reappear seconds later on the fourth floor, and continue on with his business.

She saw a group of people, who were tired of waiting for the ever crowded elevators, gather a few yards away from a wall. With a running start, every member of said group took one step up the wall… and then continued walking, or running in some cases. As people jumped away when they reached their floor, the group got smaller and smaller until there was only one woman left. This woman continued to run up the wall until Hinata lost sight of her.

"I'm glad you decided to join us Hinata. I don't know what I would have done had you decided to leave." Looking back, Konan briefly flashed a smirk at Hinata, then continued walking. "Follow me dear, you will get easily lost if you don't."

So began the beginning of Hinata's new life… being led around by THE Konan Pein, hoping not to get lost in the Akatsuki Compound. Making sure to stay as close to Konan as possible, Hinata could not help but be awed every few minutes by the sights of the Compound. Things she would have never believed could happen on the outside world were happening every second in this place! Soon, even following Konan, Hinata began to fall behind, the shock of the wonders of the Akatsuki to much for her young mind to handle.

Hinata, zoned out, did not notice when Konan took the left side of a fork in the hallway, and left her behind. Still zoned out, Hinata also didn't notice the giant of a man who was stalking closer to her. Totally unsuspecting, Hinata continued to stand and stare (at nothing in particular) as the man slowly got closer and closer. The man reached out, and…

"Hey GIRL! Get out of way!" …Pushed Hinata out of the way. All Hinata saw of this rather rude man was a flash of dark silver hair pushing a cart full of test tubes and lab equipment. The force of the man's push propelled Hinata down the right side of the fork in the hallway. Nervous at the thought that she would meet another frenzied worker of Akatsuki, Hinata continued down the hall, suddenly all to aware of how far behind Konan she must be.

The hall Hinata was in seemed to take many turns, branching off many times in different directions, with Hinata always taking the path to the right. After walking for what felt like hours, Hinata accepted the fact that she was hopelessly lost, and Konan would not be coming for her. Becoming panicked, Hinata felt her pulse increase its pace. Her fear increased with her pulse. Soon her fear grew uncontrollable, and she bolted.

Left… left… down a flight of stairs… right… around a sharp left curve… down another flight of stairs. As she ran, Hinata realized her vision was blurring. She was crying! 'How pathetic.' she absently thought while running. Quite suddenly, a dead end appeared before Hinata. She of course, ran into the wall. This was it, she was lost, and had no way to escape this place!

Just as she was about to lose all hope, Hinata turned and realized that behind her sat two sets of elevators. One set was black, and the other was white. Hinata now had to decide which one to take. After only a few minutes of deliberation, a presence flared to life behind Hinata, watching her. This presence was not like the one she had felt in her dreams. It was not comforting, no, this one was… hungry… Nearly out of her mind in panic, Hinata closed her eyes, and… quickly slammed her finger onto the white elevator's buttons. As swiftly as the doors opened, a freaked out Hinata jumped into the elevator and hammered a button, any button.

Still clenching her eyes tightly shut, Hinata slowly counted to ten, an old trick Tenten-ane had taught her to calm her nerves. After doing this three or four times, Hinata calmed down enough to see exactly where she was going. To her horror, she realized that she had accidentally pressed the bottom floor instead of the ground floor in her panic. Feeling the beginnings of another panic attack coming, Hinata "calmly" tried to stop her descent….to no avail.

None of the other buttons would work, only the last button's light stayed on, silently mocking her. Now Hinata faced a serious problem, wait silently and see what was at the bottom, or keep trying to escape. Being human, she took the… futile option.

"HELP! SOME ONE! HELP! PLEASE!" Screaming at the top of her lungs, Hinata continuously bashed the elevator doors with her hands. This was, as aforementioned, a futile attempt, as the doors saw no reason to open, and did not do so.

Two floors left before the elevator would reach its destination, two floors left before Hinata would walk onto an irrevocable path of life and death, creation and destruction, good and pure evil, hope and destitution, and she would not be alone….

One floor left…

(WITH KONAN)

Taking the left path, Konan continued on down the hall of the, to her, familiar Complex. She wondered on many things as she walked. Would this new volunteer be enough to hand the "Project"? It was, at its most base level, much more dangerous than Konan would ever admit to a civilian, even a civilian being trained to be military personnel.

The "Project" was more than Konan would ever admit to the public. As she had said to Hinata, the Sage was immensely powerful, and that power had been split nine times. Over the years, one or two pieces would be found, and Akatsuki would zero in on them. Then, for whatever reason, be it internal treason or some greedy businessman's mercenary team, those pieces would be lost again, for a time. What Konan had not admitted to Hinata was that in the last century, Akatsuki had obtained all nine pieces. Learning from past mistakes, the past Presidents of Akatsuki, also its Directors, including her husband Nagato Pein, had kept the discovery of each piece from the majority of the rest of the Organization. Thanks to this method, for the first time ever, Akatsuki had completed one of its Prime Directives. It was in possession of every piece of the Sage's power, all at one time.

Then, they put them to use.

The combined minds of Akatsuki's leading scientists had proposed a daring scheme. Place the nine pieces of the power of the Sage into humans. This would insure that each piece could not be as easily stolen, and the power could be used for the benefit of people of the land. Imagine! Nine humans who could fundamentally change the world for the better! They would stop war, end hunger and drought, and promote the enlightenment of the human race!

But, complications arose. The power of the Sage was wild in nature, as it came fundamentally from nature itself. Subjects imbued with a piece of the power would soon be bombarded with senses and feelings that would inevitably drive them to insanity. Hundreds of subjects were used up to find an adequate way to stop this condition, which Akatsuki named "Feral". Then, a break through.

Itachi Uchiha.

Somehow, someway, he had a natural way to settle the minds of those who held the power. He was one of the only people that could pull a "Feral" patient back to sanity. Thanks to him, nine fierce and resilient subjects who were raised and prepared all their lives for their power were able to keep their sanity long enough to fully synchronize with their power.

After that, everything went downhill. Orochimaru was discovered to be using Akatsuki supplies and personnel to further his own twisted experiments. Four of the nine subjects were taken from the main Complex and hidden away so that if he turned his eyes on them, he would not get them all. Unfortunately, that turned out to be a bad idea.

Two of those four subjects were stolen away by unknown forces after their convoys were ambushed. The other two fled when their convoys were attacked, and have never returned to any Akatsuki base. The remaining five were their only hope, until even more disaster hit.

One day, three of the remaining subjects broke out of their rooms and disappeared. One was temporarily captured, but outside influences released the subject before Akatsuki could firmly reintegrate it. The other two, no trace was ever discovered.

Currently, only two of the subjects were left in Akatsuki's "care". The weakest, who was prone to spells of going "Feral", and the strongest of them all, who for some reason had suddenly become apathetic to the world. The weakest was transported to the base in Suna, where there were many specialists in gaining control of the body and mind. The strongest was kept in Konoha, were it was born.

Coming out of her thoughts, Konan turned to make sure Hinata was still behind her… she was not.

This… was bad…

(WITH HINATA... SORTA)

In a dimly lit corridor, a set of white elevators hummed to life for the first day in a week. The girl inside had fainted when her panic attack had forced her heart to work too hard. Since she was no longer conscience, no one heard the rumble as the single inhabitant of the floor came awake at the sound of moving machinery. No one heard the gasp of hope that the inhabitant made as the thought of freedom went through its head.

Also, no one heard the hiss of disappointment that came from the sewers right below the floor.

The inhabitant of the floor waited as the elevator slowly settled down, and waited, waited for that one sound that meant someone had finally come for it, even if it was only to bring food or water. It waited…and…finally the elevator stopped, and a single noise reverberated throughout the floor.

…PING…

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