Naruto Akatsuki Souzoku

[Xth]

Tsukasa awoke to Soujiro's voice. The other Genin asked him about his behavior calling him stressed. Tsukasa watched as Soujiro left before he could reply to what the other said. He didn't know why Soujiro even said anything. Tsukasa felt the need to speak of Soujiro's own behavior; the cheerful disposition was about to kill Tsukasa. He didn't want to think any further about the topic and so he left the area with his katana sheathed. He began to wonder more about the rest of the mission's details, anxious to do something more than sit around and rewind everything prior to this in his head repeatedly. Thoughts of his family flowed at this point mostly his father whom he wasn't on good terms with throughout the majority of his life. Am I really weak? Tsukasa thought upon seeming to forget his uncle's training as if it was to be taken for granted all these years.

"I wonder where she is..." Tsukasa said to himself remembering Zenith.

[Hip-Hop]

"Heh, and I thought I had messed up dreams sometimes."

Kai slowly meandered his way back to his room from Azuke's, thoughts lingering on the dream his teammate had just shared with him. Giant arm cannon's, faceless people, destroying Konoha, what did it all mean? Was Azuke going to bring about the destruction of the village? Would Kai have to stop him?

"...would I, have to kill Azuke?"

Kai took a deep breath as he spoke the words, now laying in his bed, head towards the ceiling. He wondered if Azuke's dream was real, and he was going to try and destroy the village, would Kai have to be the one to stop him? I mean, he did just promise him he would, but he didn't know if he could bring himself to kill his teammate, his friend. Trying his best to dismiss the thought from his mind, Kai turned on his side, closed his eyes, and drifted off into slumber.

A dream.

Kai awoke on a plain of bright white, extending for as far as the eye could see. He stood up and looked around, seeing no one. He began walking in one direction for what seemed like miles, looking for someone, anyone, in this deserted dimension.

"Hello, is anyone there?" he yelled, "Can anybody hear me!?!?!"

"You must choose, Kagemukai."

At first the voice seemed unembodied, but soon Kai could see some walking towards him on his right. As the figure inched it's way towards him, he made it out to be Rayex-sensai, head down and hands in his pockets.

"Choose what?"

"Your destiny.

Rayex spoke again, only this time his voice was accompanied by anothers. Appearing to the left of Kai stood the Mizukage, a raining rain cloud hovering about his hat adorned head. He too had his head down and hands in his pockets.

"My... destiny?"

All of a sudden, Kai was in the same desolate plain from Azuke's dream. He was standing behind Azuke, who's arm cannon was charging up, aimed directly for Konoha. Glancing over his shoulder, he could see Kirigakure off in the distance. Shinobi from the village were quickly advancing towards Kai and Azuke, Kunai drawn, ready to attack. To the east the sun was setting, and to the west Kai saw something, or someone, far off in the horizon. He couldn't quite make out what it was, though it seemed to be walking towards him.

Looking first at Azuke, then at Konoha, then at Kiri, and finally off into the sunset, Kai head the voices of Rayex, the Mizukage, and now a third, unknown voice for a final time.

"Choose wisely."

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Jolting out of bed with a shout, Kai was sweating bullets. Looking around, he saw that it was still nighttime. Running his fingers through his hair, Kai breathed deeply in an effort to calm himself down.

Great, now Azuke's got me having crazy dreams.

Slapping himself in the forehead, Kai fell back into his pillow and closed his eyes, drifting once more into his subconcious.

[Zero]

Raiden,with a lot of effort finally made it outside with the cane from his medical room and he could barely take it but yet he still kept going.Since he didnt want to wait for someone to find him and help him out he decided to go on himself.When he finally got outside he looked around but saw no one from his team.

"Byakugan!"

He then looked around and saw his team in the village so he set out and then took off his Byakugan and he hoped he wouldnt run into any trouble because in the shape he is in now could probably get himself killed if he fought anyone.After a while of walking and almost falling he finally made it to his teams place and when he got there he got next to a tree,put the cane down and sat there.

[Relliks Ban]

So I guess Doodydo can't post or something, so I'll pp his character until he gets back, that way we can move on.

"Sensei...how strong is your stomach?"

Hotaru watched as Shouten had ordered ramen. But just before that, he had poked Hotaru in the stomach. "Ohohoho. Someone's in a good mood today. Not feeling like killing anyone are we Shouten?" He asked playfully. Hotaru looked at his female student. He knew how much she despised ramen. 'We should leave, she can't stand ramen. But if I do that, then I'll break my ramen streak.' He thought to himself. Hotaru turned around as the old man handed him another bowl of ramen. He turned back around to face Ali, his ramen in his lap.


"Everything's fine...When are we going on our first mission, Hota-sensei?"

Hotaru nodded with a smile. "That's good. And as for our first mission. Well, seeing as the war is going on, I'm sure Shira will give us a mission sooner or later. Maybe if I bring you two up there, she'll see your childish charm and have to give us one." He said with a smile, and began laughing. "I guess I'll go up there and speak with her about assigning us one. I think you guys are ready for your first mission." Hotaru slurped noodles. Hotaru lifted his head from his bowl to see his final student arrive.

"Hotaru-sensei!" Ryuu yelled, running up to the group. He had slept in for some odd reason. "I know you said to be here early." he said, panting. "But I jus-"

"I get it Ryuu." He said with a loving, caring smile. Touching music could be heard in the background as they all sat in silence, Hotaru smiling. It was truly a moment to remember. "Well...this is boring, so, let's head outa here!" Hotaru yelled in an epic tone. He placed his bowl on the counter, the old man taking it. "See ya old man!" He yelled, running off. "Come children, we go to the training ground!" Hotaru ran off into the direction of the training grounds.

[Zexilicious]

Zetsumei quickly took care of Kabuto/Orochimaru. He knew that he would never be able to take them out that fast...eh, but then again, it really didn't matter to him. He just stood there watching as Orochimaru fell to the ground sleeping. He smirked slightly. Wow, and I thought that Kabuto was weak when I fought him. Zetsumei put him to sleep in like a second.

"Child's play... He should be in his happy place for now. Ryoku, take him now."

"Ok, at least we get to go back now."

Ryoku picked up Orochimaru off the ground and held him in his arms. He quickly walked out of the base, not wishing to stay there any longer. He wanted to get back to the Akatsuki hideout as fast as he could. He did a few handsigns once he got outside and summoned up a bird for him and Orochimaru. He probably would have to keep him in his arms, considering that he didn't think he was immune to fire. Ryoku got onto the bird with Orochimaru in his arms. God it was disgusting the transformation they went through.

"Hey Zetsumei, you ready to go?"

[Azazel]

"I guess I'll go up there and speak with her about assigning us one. I think you guys are ready for your first mission"

Hotaru's words echoed in Alizarin's ears. Exactly what she wanted to hear. Anything said after that was irrelevant and insignificant. The only thing that mattered to her was a mission. Boredom enveloped her. She had to do something.

"Come children, we go to the training ground!"
Ali seemed to snap back to reality at her sensei's words. She casually turned her head towards Ryuu and Shouten. Giving them a subtle hiss, she took off closing in on her sensei.

In a flash, she was next to Hotaru, as if she was racing him to the training grounds...

[S/\|T0]

Sano stared for a moment with a blanked eyes expression. It was as if all the information Rayex could possibly obtain slipped out of his mouth in one blurb.

"Let me get this straight... you made copies of yourself, kept tabs on Marx, learned how to go through time and found that four individuals were going to die?" Sano gave him a surprised look. "How crazy is that!?"

He felt as though he had to go grab Rayex's head, shut his ears with his hands and hold him, fearing his brain would slip out. He got up and began to pace around the room.

"What exactly have you been doing for the last twelve years to learn so much? Time Travel, thats the last thing I would ever dream up of." He stared, finally sinking in the info of Onisan. "Onisan is perfect, he can keep tabs on the akatsuki for us all possibly end this disaster. You do keep tabs with him, right?"

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Zetsumei looked over at Ryoku.

"You take the lead this time... I don't care, my interest is thinning." He said as the two headed back to base.

[Chaotic Symphony]

Shaking his head at his sensei's question, he merly smiled and finished his ramen and drank the broth. Giving out a satisfied sigh, he mutterd out a 'yo' towards Ryuu.

As they left the stand, Shouten stared impassively as Ali hissed at him and Ryuu, sometimes he just hated his acute hearing. Rolling his eyes, he stuffed his hands in his track pants and jogged up to Hotaru and Ali, eyeing her by the corner of his eye.

"Sensei....when you say...'mission', please don't tell me it's one of those...D rank missions."Shouten eyed his sensei some more with a narrowed gaze before looking to the front once more and jogging ahead of them slightly.

[Kissui Tensai]

"Let me get this straight... you made copies of yourself, kept tabs on Marx, learned how to go through time and found that four individuals were going to die? How crazy is that!?"

"It's really complicated, with new skills that I ascertained, they've only seemed to blow up in my face. It leads me to the last and most important thing you should know." Rayex sighed as Sano held his head.

"What exactly have you been doing for the last twelve years to learn so much? Time Travel, thats the last thing I would ever dream up of. Onisan is perfect, he can keep tabs on the akatsuki for us all possibly end this disaster. You do keep tabs with him, right?"

"From time to time I do, but it's hard to keep tabs over a large gap of space and not draw attention to him. I had him where I white mask as to conceal his likeness to me." Rayex folded his arms.

"Sometimes...I wish I could turn back time. It's possible for me to do that, but not in the way I want it with the sentiment alone. Daifu...what if we could go back to the start of things...you know, before our time apart, before the war, before your rescue and capture. Before our paths even crossed...would we be so much different as people? We'd have to meet each other all over again, an unprecedented consequence, but I'd meet different people too. What I'm saying is, more and more lately a set of decisions have been making themselves precedent and it's all pointing to one thing..." Rayex's voice faded.

"My death..." Rayex wasn't sure how this would sink in but it was a sporadic change. "Thats correct...a physical rewind so far back, taking all I've got at the cost of starting over. I figured this from the get go Daifu, and suddenly my mistakes...became my salvation of a new life. Aside from Onisan, I made 12 other figures like him, only their not physical and they rest within null space. They're figments of my chakra and the last pieces of Neo that I have if I should die or expire in my plan. You need to know the truth about what I became over the last 12 years. I became so endowed in this feat and grandiose leap of power that it's making my physically sick to my stomach, I just want to start over, with no prior memory of anything, but leave you and potentially someone else with their memories intact. The saidan would disappear, my mother would still be alive, and Marx would never have left us. Its just something I feel would really make me content, but things would only continue to worsen the way they are now."

Rayex sat, his fingers laced tightly clamped.

"You can imagine the stress I must be feeling...this is such a burden. I'm not a child anymore, so I bare it until i'll be buried in my grave. I've layed my pieces on the shougi board, Onisan and Negavix will become the new me if I intend to go through with this phenomenal jump. I'm just afraid of several obstructions, having to meet you all over again as well."

~~~~~Negavix Edit here~~~~~

Feeling the bracing gales brush against his torso. The rupture of the surface of his body began to ripple apart, just like water. Sliced and torn in all directions, Negavix suddenly severed in half scattering what appeared to be his fluids in the air. He's been using a water clone from the start, from leaving the village with the cart, while he remained hiding beneath it cloaked by an invisibility technique. He dropped down next to the shinobi out of a dimensional pocket holding a kunai to his neck and a ripping white noise to his right kidney.

"Betrayal is it? Your associate isn't going to be freed by such feats."

"We never intended to make the trade in the first place."

"Oh? So this little stunt was just to mess with the Mist was it?"

"Rattling the enemies cage is what we prefer to do, it was to free our comrade and have him slaughter your little to defenseless village. Pure strategy of the Kazekage-sama."

"You sand rats are all the same. Now taste your own blood!" Negavix's tenacity he kept sealed to use only on Rayex had arisen.

In his left hand, a bloody kunai, jabbing into into his enemy's neck, watching it coil down and drench his hands. The sound of white noise being run through his back and holding in his hand one of his organs, the back kidney. An agonizing screech from their leader muffled by the sound of Negavix's jutsu which would impale the trained ear. Releasing the organ to fall into the water, the blood mixing in, he ripped his hand back out and left his foe to sink to the bottom of the lake he stood on.

"I'll let my students handle..." Negavix stopped seeing the cart tip over the bridge and fall bust open.

'This is bad!'

With rapid footsteps he ran across the dark night sky on the water's surface already loosing sight of his prisoner. Where the water pushed up on the bridge, he didn't have night vision so only made things all the more complex. A drop of water rippled on the surface, and a man flash fluttered. It was mind boggling, within the next second, Negavix had mercury drawn for his defense parrying another man's steel.

"Kouji Nawatari."

"Huh?"

"It's courtesy to know the name of the man that will slay you."

"Hmph. Negavix Kunokai, it's not my mission to kill you but bring you back, lets not make a mess out of the moonlight."

[Relliks Ban]

Hotaru kept a slow, steady jog. He didn't want to over work himself before the real training started. All of a sudden, Ali appeared next to him. It was good that she was able to keep up, but each time he felt she was going faster than him, he would pick up the pace. After that they were joined by Shouten.


"Sensei....when you say...'mission', please don't tell me it's one of those...D rank missions."

Ryuu smiled at Shouten, wording 'yo' back with widened eyes. He ran up to the rest of the group. "Dammit, why am I last at everything today!?" He yelled, running quickly to catch up. Upon hearing Shouten's words, Ryuu spoke. "Ya, like picking up cat crap, or picking weeds in an old lady's yard. Missions like that seem like....picking up crap!" Ryuu said with a laugh.

Hotaru looked at Ryuu. What he said after Shouten made him laugh. "I laugh children, because I had those same missions when I was a genin. And I know you're thinking I'm going to say missions like that build character. They make you appreciate being a Shinobi." Hotaru smiled, still jogging. "But the truth is young genin. Those missions do nothing. It's like ordering a bowl of ramen, and asking for no ramen." Hotaru looked at his students. "Hopefully we can hit the Raikage up on something big." Hotaru smiled and took his jog to a run, passing all his students. He was soon out of sight.


Ryuu watched as his sensei ran off. "Old man! You're not supposed to be able to run! You need to use a cane!" he yelled after Hotaru. Soon he approached the training ground, to see Hotaru standing there, waiting. "Finally, I'm not last!" He yelled, taking in big breaths.

Hotaru laughed and folded his arms. "If you wouldn't mind Ryuu, I would like you to sit this one out." Hotaru said in the most serious tone he could pull out. "Ali and Shouten are creating the most tension between the group. This won't be normal training, they'll have to work together."

Ryu's mouth dropped. "But I was so ready!" He yelled in a groan. "But I get it. Friendship, teammates. Ya."

Hotaru nodded. "Good." He said, smiling.

[Dark Heart 2]

Shira quickly responded with a sarcastic tone, apparently sounding convinced that all of the villages were hidden. Well if they're 'hidden', why are they so easy to find... Hakumei made a mental comment at her sharp reply, not wanting to prolong the subject anymore than it had to be.

After her small rambling, she then handed him a map of the surrounding areas. Shira also had made a brief note on the general coordinates of the Waterfall Village, however other than that, he would have to locate it on his own. In his years of travel, he had heard a number of rumors about this place, much gossip.

Apparently, it was supposed to be hidden behind a big waterfall, one which acted as a veil to the village. Another interesting fact that Hakumei had heard was both about the village, and it's shinobi. Though it sounded as though the ninja there didn't have a skill level or power that matched to the Fiver Great Shinobi Nations, apparently there was something about the water surrounding the village that aided them in that matter. Seeing as how he couldn't expect much information on this place, anything that seemed legible to him would suffice, and would keep it in mind if ever it came in handy.

Again, returning to her sarcastic tone, Shira made a final comment in a somewhat humorous manner. "Well, now, can you finally leave? You're such a bother."

Though he didn't make it quite that noticeable, Hakumei placed a slight grin upon his face, but still wanting to keep his tough, serious demeanor. "Fine, fine, I'm off. See yah around, oh Lady Raikage."

Hakumei then turned around and began heading towards the door, but suddenly stopped a few feet from the archway. Turning his head sideways, from the corner of his eye, he looked to the woman with a devious smile, allowing a small chuckle to escape his mouth. "Oh, and please, keep it in your pants, Shira. You're the Raikage now, you've got work to do! You can't be having dirty fantasies of of Sano overriding your duties." And with one final outburst of laughter, a yellow light enveloped Hakumei and zoomed him away, allowing him to exit the Mansion before Shira even had the time to reply.

[S/\|T0]

'Hmm... makes sense to conceal him.' Sano thought about what Onisan could possible do for the better.

"My death..."

Sano's eyes shot up in a spark of attention.

"...I'm just afraid of several obstructions, having to meet you all over again as well." Rayex finished as he spoke about redoing everything.

"You think that would work Ray? What is stopping your mother's death if you could fathom restarting the past..." But he paused once again as Rayex brought up the finishing notion of such an event. "A replacement?"

Sano stood still in his tracks, staring for a moment as if into the air itself. He found it fascinating, yet disturbing, what Rayex's ideals were. Could he really rewrite all these things from happening?

"It... How would that even work, your saying that the recreation of yourself would replace you in this current time line, and then you would go back with no memory what so ever? You have gone way farther than I have ever expected, and I know you speak the truth, because you would never lie to me..." Sano collapsed somewhat mentally in the thought repeating the whole process in a whole alternate time. "What would stop this, only you giving me and others memory of the "future". I don't know..." "

He thought for a moment, and came to a conclusion.

'Could he possibly want me to save his mother with the memoir of this time!?'

"What about your step father, the one that was apart of the clan in this very village... What would happen to Joi... Shira... I don't know if I could relive this all missing that much in my own mind." He thought out loud, many images of the past and even the present flowing through his mind. "Rayex... If you do go through this, I wouldn't doubt you meeting me again, if it came down to it, you might even hunt me down if it got that far."

Sano slightly cringed at the thought of possibly having to meet him that way.

"It just seems so hard to think about it, it isn't something I think about..." Sano stopped suddenly trying to gather himself.............

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Raikage Office...

"Oh, and please, keep it in your pants, Shira. You're the Raikage now, you've got work to do! You can't be having dirty fantasies of of Sano overriding your duties."

"WHAT!!!??? I WILL KILL YOU!!!!!" She yelled in a sudden outburst, but Hakumei was long gone. "Your lucky..."

Joi stared in a peculiar manner.

"What's wrong!?" She spoked somewhat shocked in the door way, look as if she had mad dashed from her room to see what was wrong. "Momma, you ok?"

"Oh, nothing hunny." She smiled, quickly catching her cool. "Sorry, if I scared you. I thought I saw... a bug or something."

[Kissui Tensai]

"You think that would work Ray? What is stopping your mother's death if you could fathom restarting the past...A replacement?"

"Starting over from the beginning were I picked up on things. I would like to keep my bliss, as for my mother, potentially she'd still be long since gone, I haven't thought but so far as if things would've changed if she were with me. If she were alive, I wouldn't want to kill you for killing my father because I never knew him and even though I'll still be that naive kid you met in the hidden sand fifteen way back, I'll of already known about my father's death and most likely not have the details. If anything, my step father may fade again on the second timeline, only as a flip side, my stepbrother will be living with us as well. So things could be drastically different."

"What would stop this, only you giving me and others memory of the 'future'. I don't know..."

"You'd be the only one that knew daifu. Though I can't impose a request on you, it'd be like your living your life through a repeat, and I can't levy that on you either. I know for certain that we may end up meeting again as two completely different people. Junsei maybe gone, but I'll still be able to see him when I master my eyes at least before the chuunin exams. I would like desparately to save those that I let die on this timeline...it gives me the opportunity to fundamentally restart in the most effective way possible. It'd make me happy to see you again also, even though i'll forget, there will be a faint sense of familiarity or deja vu ya'know?"

Rayex smiled as his spine actually tingled from the thought.

"As per our family currently, it may grow again and maybe things will be different. I actually want to be here for my sister's birth and teach her a few things as I mature and become a better man because of it. My nindo, which has always been there, I always believed in fighting in what I believe in and passing on my influence to those around me. I've changed so many lives, for better and for worse, and a chance to restart would be great. Still it'd be potentially difficult to meet a new girl because I'll have my obsession back about Hinata or possibly another young woman I may end up infatuated over."

He laughed at the last part of his statement.

"Even if I die. This Rayex you see before you will join Junsei and watch all of you from the other side be you in this portion of time, or the earlier phase that will change. Lastly daifu, I have to say, it is getting late and if there is anything else you have to say this concludes my 12 years of absence."

Rayex awaited his father's digression before he went to bed.

[Chaotic Symphony]

Sighing slightly at his sensei's words, he couldn't help but agree. He didn't really know why but Ali just seemed to 'hate' him for a reason. Shrugging it off as paranoia, he still looked back at Ali time to time as if some sort of answer would come.

Plugging his headphones and blaring it at full volume, he jogged over to Ryuu and Hotaru, his mood slightly improving. He leaned against a wall, to wait for the last member to arrive.

OOC : Shorter than usual,sorry bout that.

[Chaotic Misery]

Arashi's burakkurai was activate and he stood upon a tree branch, looking around. Something wasn't right. Where ever Rengoku would go, his brother was surely behind him. "Where the hell is Taigoku?" Arashi asked underneath his breath. Just then he saw Kei approach him from behind him. Kei asked him something and Arashi replied "I was looking for something. Seems like I can't find what i'm looking for. Where's the others, so we can get moving to Suna?"

Ceon could only think of how much he disliked his father. All the attention going to Kei as if Kei was his son. He acted Ceon was some piece trash not worthy of being his son. It just seemed all wrong. "Dad you suck." Ceon said calmly as he began walking the way Kei and Arashi had went. Zenith could make her way to the others.