Yo, people! Khorale here! Here it is: the first chapter of 'The Seasons of Change'. So it's about a bunch of people got kidnapped by a mysterious group (Gradually revealed in later chapters) of people, the rest of the elemental country are in an uproar and the ninjas must find a way to retaliate before it's too late. Sounds interesting? Good, I live to entertain ya all!

I made this 'cause there aren't nearly enough good Madara fanfictions out here. Yes, there are other main characters, but most of the story is from Madara's POV (third person).

PLEASE READ THIS: This story was made LONG before chapter 559 came out, so that means that in here, Madara is Tobi. (Too tiring to change everything to fit the canon plot)

PS, The author (aka me) will be an OC in the story, taking the role of the newest Akatsuki member with an ability to get a glimpse of the future!

✿ Chapter 1: Madara vs Spark✿

Madara vs a multicolored spark. The spark wins and the loser has to deal with the consequences...

Madara groaned.

His head hurt, and his back was sore.

He glanced around.

Darkness.

He opened both his Sharingan and Rin'negan eyes, but saw no chakra signatures around him. He felt the space around him, memories rapidly returning to him. His finger touched steel bars, and he felt a small jolt of pain.

Ah yes, he had traveled back in time by some freak accident while battling the Kyuubi kid. He had died by a well-placed Rasengan. He recalled a vague memory of the brat's father kicking his ass the same way. Oh the irony. But he didn't particularly care about that right now.

But before it all went black, both of his doujutsu flared without his control, and with a swirl of a space-time jutsu -a different one than the one he used to travel - he woke up in a hotel.

FLASHBACK

Madara read the calendar over and over again. Was this some kind of a trick? He remembered the Kyuubi brat was a famous prankster in Konoha before he made ninja.

He then shook his head. No. The brat didn't know about this mission, the one to capture the Sanbi. So could it be that he was actually back in time?

And if he was back in time, then the Akatsuki members were alive! And that meant...

Madara groaned. He hated the Tobi façade, and was quite pleased when he got the chance to reveal himself to the world in the future. Returning here meant he had to act like a brain-damaged idiot all the time. He was sure doing so would fry his IQ even further, and Madara isn't exactly the sanest man on earth.

He hurried towards the bathroom. There was something he had to confirm.

Madara locked the bathroom with as many chains as possible -just in case Deidara would barge in on him- and then took off his mask. He gasped when he saw the Rin'negan eye. It looked like he'd traveled through time physically rather than mentally, though his mask was still orange and swirly, instead of that awesome white Juubi-eye mask he had in the future.

Madara then put his overly-bright mask on and undid the locks. Racing to Deidara's room, he switched to his 'Tobi' persona and darted inside.

"DEIDARA-SENPAI!" he screeched in an overly cheerful tone. "WAKE UP!"

"Shut up Tobi, un." groaned Deidara, rubbing his ears. "You'll scare away the Bijuu."

Tobi just nodded and bounced away, doing a perfect impersonation of a hyperactive bouncy-ball.

They approached the lake where the three-tails was rumored to be in, and Deidara flew up onto a clay bird. "You capture him, Tobi. I haven't seen you in action before, un."

'And you won't for a very long time,' Madara thought, but outwards he yelled "Ehhhh! This is a water creature! Isn't Kisame-san best for this job?"

"This Bijuu has no host, so it's not very intelligent. And it's time we saw your skills, Tobi, un," said Deidara. But unfortunately, the three-tailed demon turtle awoke, and its blank stare fixed on Tobi. With a huge roar, it opened its mouth, almost swallowing the masked man.

"Waaaaaah! IT'S AFTER ME!" Tobi cried, as he ran across the water and away from the enraged turtle. After dodging a few swipes and blasts of boiling hot water, Deidara decided that the leader would be pissed at him if Tobi died, so he molded a C2 fish and tossed it into the water.

The clay fish swam speedily towards Sanbi, and with a yell of "KATSU!," it exploded.

Tobi was blasted through the air and somehow survived the explosion, to Deidara's surprise. The Sanbi however was knocked unconscious.

"Capturing mission complete!" Tobi cheered and leap onto the unconscious Bijuu's shell.

After lugging the huge turtle to base, Tobi saw Sasori, who was alive for some reason.

Madara's mind was overrun with questions but as he glanced at Deidara, he saw no confusion so he decided to react later and find out the information then.

"The mission was successful, un," said Deidara. "Though Tobi was quite useless."

"Oi, Senpai! I did distract the Sanbi for you!" Tobi cried.

Sasori only grunted and walked away. "The sealing will begin three days later. Now return to your rooms."

'Rooms?' Madara thought, puzzled. 'what do you mean rooms?' but he wisely kept from questioning Sasori.

Madara wandered through the hallway. He was lost. Why was a secret lair here anyways? He knew -or he thought he did- that the Akatsuki slept in hotels, and only met in holograms. This clearly was not the case. He needed to find Pein, who hopefully would have an answer.

"Hi there!" a voice called out behind him. Madara whirled around.

She had short black hair curled to frame her face and warm green eyes. She wore a lazy expression and a blue baseball cap on her head. She also wore a black jacket and stretchy sky-blue pants.

"Tobi wonders who you are." said Madara in a high-pitched childish tone. The person giggled.

"Ah, no need to do that, Madara." she said.

Madara tensed. "Who are you?" He asked. The stranger was not at all concerned that the secret leader of the akatsuki was glaring at her. She was quite amused, actually.

"I'm Khorale. I want to join this little group of yours." she said simply.

Madara's eyes narrowed. "What's in it for me?"he asked.

"Information. It's part of my contract. Here." she said, handing him a certificate.

KHORALE WILL HELP THE AKATSUKI ON THESE CONDITIONS:

1. She must not hurt anyone in any way, or aid anyone in battle.

2 She will give out information when asked, no holding back, though no answering personal questions.

3. No relationships with anyone.

And beneath that was Khorale's messy signature.

"So..." she said, "ask away."

"Why is that puppet boy alive?" Madara demanded.

"Oh, when you arrived here, there was a ripple in time. You know, the butterfly theory: A butterfly flaps its, wings and causes a tornado on the other side of the world. But your case was... special. When you arrived, the ripples affected not only the future, but the past as well. I really have no idea how this worked," she said, shrugging.

"And we live in a lair because...?"

"That," she smiled, "was my fault, actually. You see, I am the author of this whole story, so I had to do random things to spice up the plot. The fact that you all live together is not really important to the plot, but it will provide some comic relief when things get REALLY interesting."

Madara was curious. "How so?"

"I have only a vague idea on it. Something was blocking my view to the future. Though I knew that the fourth shinobi war would be earlier than expected, and for some reason you're not the one declaring it. The image of it was blurry, but still there."

Madara nodded. "And what of this timeline?"

"Glad you asked. There were only minor differences with the past, unlike the future. For one, Gaara wasn't captured, so Sasori didn't die. And since Deidara failed, Pein assigned him to you as a punishment. Itachi isn't going blind, and doesn't have the disease. It was some kind of forbidden jutsu Sasori found while breaking into the Sand for that Ichibi mission. Sasuke didn't murder Orochimaru, choosing to flee the base in secret the day before Orochimaru tried to take his body. And that's all."

Madara nodded. "So, now I have to hold up my end of the bargain. Welcome to the Akatsuki, Khorale-chan." He walked away. "I'm taking you to Pein to officially admit you in and explain my little 'adventure.'"

He walked on for a few moments, then stopped. "Damn it! I forgot I was lost!" he exclaimed.

Khorale laughed. "And you forgot that I know everything. Come on!" She dragged the embarrassed Uchiha into Pein's office.

"Come in." said Pein, Konan by his side. Pein raised an eyebrow at Khorale, but chose to stay silent, not sure whether to address him as Tobi or Madara.

"It's me," Madara said simply. Pein nodded. "I have come to you to admit the tenth member of the Akatsuki. She will get Orochimaru's ring."

"Madara,is there a reason that you have admitted her into the Akatsuki? She does not seem strong."

"I'm sure she will explain to you. I'm leaving." Madara disappeared in a swirl.

Madara wandered around the base, taking in every detail, and memorizing every pathway. The Sharingan was such a useful technique here. It was not called the 'Copy wheel eye' for nothing. He walked past several rooms, coming across the strange sight of Hidan and Kakuzu fighting over a remote control. Madara chuckled and walked on.

Suddenly, there was a crash, and somebody bumped into him. "Hey! Watch where you're-" Madara paused as he recognized the person that had bumped into him. It was Deidara, and Madara had almost busted his own cover. "I-I mean, sorry, senpai!" Tobi squeaked, and hurried away.

Deidara stared at Tobi's retreating figure. "Well, that was weird, un," he said, and walked on. Though he did not show it, the clay-bomb artist was suspicious. He had noticed that Tobi had spoken in a deeper voice, a more serious one. There had also been a red glow behind the eye-hole of the bright orange mask. Could Tobi be...?

'Nah, he's too stupid to be one.' thought Deidara, shaking his head and walked on.

Madara continued on as he strolled through the lair. The building was underground in a cave below Ame. There were twists and turns that led far deeper into the cave than anyone had ever dared to explore. No one dared to wander too far, or risk entering a path without the lanterns lighting the way. Even S class criminals were afraid of the dark. But really, no one knew where those paths led to, and those whom had tried never came back.

Madara came across the sight of Pein's Preta Path running away from a spider. "Need help?" he asked.

"Please!" Preta cried pitifully. Though the dead bodies were controlled by Nagato, the corpses still retained some of their original personalities. And in Preta's case, he has arachnophobia before he died.

Madara stomped on the spider and killed it and Preta breathed a sigh of relief. "Thanks."

Madara finally found his own room and looked inside. It was blank, except for a wardrobe filled with sweets (both Madara and Tobi had quite the sweet tooth. Plus, Madara needed a LOT of sugar to keep up with the hyperactive act. It showed how dedicated to keep his identity secret.) and a bed. Simple and neat. If the others barged into his room, they wouldn't get much information about him.

"Yo." Madara looked up, Khorale stood over by the door. "I finished the talk with Leader-sama. Can we talk?"

Tobi gave her a huge grin and said. "Of course, Khorale-san!"

Khorale looked at him strangely. "Why are you-?" but Tobi shushed her.

"Shhh. Deidara-senpai is listening right now! Tobi will take you to a safe place!" Tobi cheered. And before they vanished, Tobi called out "Tobi is a good boy, senpai, and Tobi will not reveal secrets!"

Deidara fumed, and stepped away from the fake rock he was hiding behind. The rock melted into a bundle of clay, and shrank to fill Deidara's clay pouch. Tobi was acting suspicious, he knew. From the voice when they bumped in the hallway, to the fact that Tobi could sense him even under his best disguise. Tobi was more than he seemed, and Deidara promised himself that he would find out the truth.

Madara and Khorale appeared inside the box dimension (What I call Madara's dimension, since it's filled with cubes.), and Khorale began to explain.

"While I was talking to Pein, I got another flash of the future," she said hurriedly. "Your Tobi cover will be busted soon after something major happens. I don't know the specific date, but the facade will crumble. You will not be at the base at that time, so I advise you to write a note explaining all of it. I have no flash of you returning, so you will probably be in trouble,and you can't return to explain in person."

Madara nodded curtly. "I will." He dug up a piece of paper from his pocket (yes, the Akatsuki uniforms have pockets, they're on the inside). "Here. When it all happens, hand them this." Khorale nodded.

"I think I should explain more about the fact of why I can't fight. You see, I'm just a clone. The real author is typing away right now to support the story. After all, if my real self's here, who would write this? And if I'm a clone, one hit, and I will disappear. It's true that my real self knows everything that will happen, but when she created me, she was very careful to keep that out of my memories. She said it would 'spice things up nicely."

Madara sighed. "Alright, so you can't fight. You have to do something for the Akatsuki or they will not let you stay."

"I could be house-keeper."

"Hn," Madara shrugged, not bothering with an answer.

The two of them reappeared in Madara's room. "Goodnight." said Khorale and she left the room.

Madara turned off the lights and slept peacefully, something that had not happened in a long time.

(The next morning at the Akatsuki base)

"RISE AND SHINE, EVERYBODY!" Tobi yelled as he ran into the kitchen. Kisame was making himself a peanut-butter sandwich, Sasori was doing morning exercises, Pein was reading the newspaper, and Khorale was munching on a piece of toast.

"Tobi," Pein nodded and sipped a steaming cup of coffee.

"Two more days, and we'll seal the Sanbi!" Tobi was literally bouncing off the walls.

"Who gave the idiot sugar?" Tobi heard Deidara grumble sleepily from his room.

"Tobi's going out! Saronara!" Tobi said and dashed away.

Madara walked calmly through the streets of Ame, watching a speck of multicolored light descend down. People bowed before him, recognizing his outfit as one associated with their precious god.

He paused. A multicolored light? Madara turned, and decided to investigate. He reappeared in a clearing a moment later. Madara watched as the speck high in the sky got bigger, and the air around it rippled. A humming noise got louder by the second, and the temperature rose rapidly. Madara shielded himself, and watched as the multicolored speck hit the ground and exploded. A shock-wave ripped outwards, invisible in the air but not to Madara's Sharingan. The air shimmered and twisted with energy. And then, there was nothing.

FLASHBACK END

Madara shook himself, and felt around the steel bars. He felt another jolt of pain passing through his body and winced. Just where the hell was he?

He felt the floor around him. It was smooth, and there were no cracks. Madara growled in frustration, and lit a fireball.

The problem was, instead of a huge fireball, he got a wisp of flame, barely enough to light up the place he was trapped in.

Madara glanced was inside a cage. He saw a seal on the bars. So he was kidnapped. Just great.

The seal dampened chakra, and sent a jolt of electricity to anyone touching the bars,which meant that even the strongest attacks would barely make a flicker.

"Shinra Tensei!" Madara yelled, and pushed the gravity release to maximum power. It was strong enough to level cities and flatten mountains, but it only made a small crater in the floor.

Panting heavily, Madara collapsed onto the cold floor. He had used all of his power, and it had barely made a dent!

The floor was already fixing itself, the crater grew smaller and shallower, until there was no trace that there was ever a mark there.

Madara felt his remaining chakra being sucked out of him. The cage was leeching off his chakra to repair the damage! Unfortunately, the cage sucked away more chakra than Madara could afford. Now, this would kill a normal person, but since Madara was immortal, he only fainted. Not that it was much better.

"Deidara."

"Yes? un"

"Have you seen Tobi?"

"No." Deidara growled. "The idiot probably gotten lost somewhere."

Khorale nodded and walked away. Madara is capable of protecting himself, and she knew that the author won't let her main character die so quickly. Oh well, she might as well hand that note to Pein.

Madara wondered what the time was as he wandered the hallways of his mind. As his body was recovering from extreme chakra exhaustion, he might as well try figure things out.

He was kidnapped by someone, for some reason. The enemy had taken him completely by surprise. He still didn't know what had happened. It took a LOT of stealth to sneak up on the great Madara Uchiha! And the person knew a lot about seals, as the one on the cage was a seal so advanced that only a Seal Master on the level of the Toad Sannin Jiraiya or the Yondaime Hokage could craft it. But he was sure it wasn't any of them.

Had anyone wondered where he had gone yet? Madara was sure that nobody at the base would be worried, since Tobi had been gone for a longer time in the past. But what time was it right now? He estimated it had been about three hours or so.

It would take more than that to concern the Akatsuki. Tobi had once been gone for five hours, and nobody had batted an eyelash. But they had to seal the Sanbi soon, so Pein would know that he wouldn't leave the base, except for an important reason.

Just who had captured him? Madara doubted it was any Konoha shinobi, as most of them didn't have enough power to restrain him. None of them could make that multicolored thing either. None of the other villages knew of his existence, or the fact that he was not dead. Most missing nin were quite friendly with the Akatsuki, and wouldn't dare even touch them. Orochimaru did not even dare step foot in Ame.

And what had caused his kidnapping? Madara counted several reasons inside his head. He was the founder of the Uchiha clan, he was the secret leader of the Akatsuki, he was the secret Mizukage for a while, and he was one of the most powerful men in the world.

"Just where is that idiot? It's been eight hours!" Hidan muttered

"It is strange," Pein mused. "Konan, go around Ame, and scout for information."

"Hai."

"Wait!" Khorale said, running toward the Akatsuki members with a piece of paper in her hands. "He prepared a note in case this happened!" but Konan had already left.

"Show us," said Pein. "We'll tell Konan later."

Madara felt himself slowly return to consciousness, and groaned. Every part of his body ached, and his joints were stiff. He must have been like this for hours. Why hadn't anyone come to see him yet?

The cage bars rattled, and a pile of food suddenly materialized from thin air. He sighed, and started to eat. The food was quite sweet, and it seemed like they knew about his sweet tooth. How had the food come in anyways?

...

Madara snapped his fingers and got an idea. If he used his intangibility to phase through the bars, he could escape! But that may not work, as the chakra dampening seal was still there.

He made himself intangible and counted. O-

Dammit! Only half a second!

Normally, it would have last up to five minutes, but it seemed that the seal was really, really powerful.

Madara sighed. Half a second was not nearly enough for escaping. He would have to wait and see what happened next.

Konan turned into paper, and flew up high in the air above Amegakure. She embedded each piece of paper with a part of her consciousness and spread out, each piece going in a different direction. She flew above the busy streets and the ninja academy, the huge crater and the people gathering arou-

Wait, what?

Every part of Konan gathered, and pieces of paper folded back into her. She stepped towards the gathering crowd.

"Excuse me, but what happened here?"

The gathering people gasped at the sight of her. "God's angel!" they cried, bowing down.

"What happened here?" Konan repeated. "Did you see a man with an orange mask around here?"

"Yes, we have!" a ninja said, eager to please the 'angel'. "It was earlier this morning, and we saw him walking here. There was a strange speck in the distance that kept getting louder and closer. It made this crater, and the man disappeared in a flash of black."

"Can you tell me what the speck looked like?"

"No, it caught the sunlight, and was too bright."

They talked some more before Konan nodded and left. "Thank you for the information," she said, and disappeared in a swirl of paper.

She reappeared in Pein's office, where all six Paths and the Akatsuki were leaning forward to read a note.

"Leader-sama," she said, "I have returned."

Pein nodded. "Madara left a note explaining his identity to the rest of the Akatsuki. He explained that Khorale had foreseen trouble ahead, and so he was prepared."

Konan nodded. "I have gathered that, in the morning, Madara came across a speck of light that caused his current disappearance," she finished, and Pein looked at her strangely.

"Speck of light?" he asked incredulously. "Don't you have a better description of it?"

"They said it was like a comet shooting down, and was shimmering as it landed, but was too bright to fully see. It was noisy, and the temperature shot up. They also said that when it landed Madara disappeared in a flash of light."

"I still can't believe that cheerful little brat is the founder of the Uchiha!" Deidara groaned.

"True," said Sasori. "We had no idea of what his true personality was."

"PIZZA TIME!" yelled Hidan, bringing in a plate. It was night already, and was dinnertime.

The Akatsuki shuffled into the kitchen and started eating.

Madara tried many different ways to damage the cage, but each time a crack appeared it fixed itself.

"Kuchiyose no jutsu!" he said,but instead of a huge multi-headed hellhound (one of his animal path summons) appearing, a puppy was chasing its tail. It looked at him adorably before disappearing in a puff of smoke.

Madara's world spun as he fainted again, a huge amount of chakra drained from the summoning.

When he woke up, he noticed that the cage was larger than he remembered, and someone else was also in there, unconscious.

"Amaterasu!" Black flames sprang out and suspended in the air. Normally, the flames would last a week, but Madara calculated that it would only last five minutes here,though five minutes were enough. Madara finally got a look at the other person's face.

"Tsunade!"

Next chapter: Naruto and Jirayia head for Amegakure, Tsunade and Madara got drunk, and a battle between Akatsuki and Konoha!

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Madara read the note out loud, and Tsunade snorted. "UI? That could mean many things. Uchiha Itachi?"

"I REALLY doubt it was him."

"Umino Iruka?"

"Is that even possible?"

"Uchiha Izuna?"

"He's dead."

"I can't think of anyone else," said Tsunade, rubbing her head.