Naruto Akatsuki Souzoku

[Kissui Tensai]

Akatsuki's Inheritance.

For the last twelve years, all has been rather chaotic, as pain surfaced from every turn. The seventh year marked the brink of war and instability between villages and breaking the tides of alliances and new ones formed. This massive disruption became known as The Fourth Great Village War. Going on even now, it has had it's origins. Lurking as a super power, controlled by the tyrants dub thee "Akatsuki" the long intermission, with 12 years to strengthen, they are out in the open yet still discrete. Holding among them, all nine tailed beast. Their clutches have become so dreaded, no one dare challenge their power as they were war sharks during this period. A collection of new and yet old faces, the line-up not one to pass. Pein, the harbinger of pain in that very sense. His firm hand at the ready steadying his powerful rinnegan to oversee the treachery he spreads.

"Are the preparations complete?"

"Yes they are Tobi. Begin the first test, target a minor village, say...Orochimaru's old base in the mountains?"

"Perfect. I'll ready the Kyuubi, summon the others to our weapon." Tobi, with authority uttered behind his mask.

From the shambles of the hidden rain off to the far west. The great statue rose, hands outstretched with fingers extended. This leviathan was nothing in comparison to the actual power it had consumed over ages of planning. The breathing peace around it's mouth suddenly dropping hitting the ground profusely. The nine eyes on it's masked face, alive and moving around, these were the yang forms of the bijuu they'd collected and such devious power they each held it was time for the first gathering of akatsuki. Appearing on each finger, one at a time in a holographic form if they weren't present in the village.

The Weapon.

More than one masked assailant in the akatsuki. Newly joined, baring a vague input, yet still dark with malice behind his eyes. A spector with great potential, referred to as "The white spirit". Standing present in Amegakure on the spot at which replaced Kisame Hoshigake (left hand, ring finger). Wearing the blue ring left behind, beside an astral Zetsu, the one he'd first been in contact with since joining. Still a rookie, it was him that was the newest addition and no longer Ryoku who joined a few years before he did. He was fairly quiet and only spoke when he felt the need presented itself.

"Lets get this started, yeah!" His enthusiasm was promising.

"Is Zetsu at the right location?"

"I'm in place. Observing from afar, on ready fire it up."

"So be it. Pein, lets get this started."

Tobi, his arms extended with the revealing of one special eye through the hole in his mask, the eyes flickered and the process had started.

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The bell had rung. Dismissing the students as they passed in to collect their squad of three, a class of twenty seven graduated students in total. This would be the shocker, when these twenty seven would get sliced down the middle leaving only nine to actually stay and pass giving their chances less than that of 66%. Still as brutal as ever, there would only be one rookie nine for Konoha, passing the classroom and collecting his underlings. This would be an unusual day to say the very least, heading to training ground 3, he didn't have the liberty of getting choice, all predetermined by lord hokage sama, Kakashi. A fitting place, to teach what was soon to be, Team 17.

Training Ground 3.

Three stumps, three students, go figure?

"Alright. Lets get things started shall we? Introductions are in order, I'll start first and you can work off what I said to introduce yourselves. My name is Rayex Kunokai, I'll be your jounin instructor, this isn't my first time teaching kids, but you'll be happy to know I have a high standing so your in for some rigorous endeavors. I will say this much, the essentials will always come back, but as long as we're here lets make the most of it. We'll start from left and go over." Rayex paused, pointing to the far left (Azuke).

"You there. Whats your name?"

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(They never elaborated on Kirigakure's appearance, looks like I have to cover it in full.)

A wondrous village hidden in the mist. Kirigakure is what they called it, an island off the coast mainly in water, by early mourn one would wake up to the greeting of the tender touch of the thick mist. Divided by chakra, navigation was a breeze as it was their cover and how they attacked. Houses built on docks, even the academy far out on a small island where they students came and learned the basics. The elimination of the gruesome genin exam was still omitted, and they had other ways of becoming shinobi by first being approved fit by their jounin sensei. This was a much harder task than deemed fitting, but they had to persevere.

A single jounin sitting on the water a few feet from the land, looking over his collection of potential genin candidates if they could pass his examination. His eyes were shut, then opened to converge the sharingan for much more analytical means. A stiff disposition and a cruel tendency, he needed to lessen this on kids without the same inflection towards him...this would frighten them which is something he didn't want.

"Welcome to Team 29. I am your sensei, Negavix Kunokai, with me your going to be going into the ninja world as upright adults with more responsibility. I don't know what it is you've been taught at the academy, but here things will be different, things will count and come back to bite you if you haven't mastered the basics. Your part of a great cycle of future shinobi. Stand now before me, and address to me your names, even tell me a little about yourselves. We'll start with you, in the middle. (Asumo)

He awaited a reply.

[Hip-Hop]

It's finally over, now real shinobi life begins.

Kai Kagemukai had a slight grin on his face as he meandered his way out of the classroom for what he sincerely hoped would be the very last time. After being nothing but an academy student for so many years, even if he was one of the strongest academy students ever, had made graduating from it all the sweeter. Not to mention the fact that he had got chosen to be on a team with the one ninja in Konoha he quite possibly looked up to outside the Hokage, Rayex Kunokai. He couldn't wait.

Now out of the building, he was rebounding happily of the rooftops, want to shoot past his house for a moment. He arrived in through the window, stepping into his dark bedroom. He walked to the bathroom connected to his bedroom and looked solemnly in the mirror, producing is Konoha head band from one of his pockets. Taking it out, firs he tried it tied around his forehead, but he didn't like that. Then, he used to cover up one of his eyes like the Hokage, but then he couldn't see. Finally, he ended up tying it losely around his neck, liking that style the best. Walking back into his bedroom, he stopped when h reached his nightstand, upon which sat a picture of his mother back in Kirigakure. Picking it up and looking at it for a long minute, he sat it back down and then jumped out of the window and headed for training ground 3.

Minutes later, he reached his destination, the last to arrive. There stood what would be his comrades, for now atleast. Azuke, Yuki, and, of course, Rayex-sensei. My my was this going to be interesting. Walking over and standing casually in between Azuke annd Yuki, the young boy stared straight into Rayex's eyes as he spoke. Even then he could feel a certain chemisty between these four, and he could tell that they were all in for much more than they most likely expected.

[Zexilicious]

Ryoku had been sitting on a rock above a big cave in which he usually hides out in. He was waiting for something to happen, or to be given a mission, or just something. It sure was boring just sitting on a rock. He wanted to kill something. He jumped down off the top of the cave to the ground. He walked inside and then sat down in there. Now he was admiring his vast collection of body parts and skins and bones. He then decided to plunge into his mind about his first extremely malicious kill. How he completely destroyed his body. How he ground up the brains of Daisuke and crushed his heart into a raisin.

"Ahh, that was a good night, so enlightening, so relieving. I love to just replay that scene over in my head all the time."

Soon after, Ryoku saw that his ring was glowing brightly. He knew what this meant, it was time to perform the ritual. He knew made a hand seal and teleported his holographic self into the real Akatsuki Hideout. He stared up at the weapon from what he could see. He still loved looking at the giant carving of a face in the rock and how it would glow when all 10 rings were in place. It was a great sight and Ryoku couldn't get enough of it.

Shit, I hate doing this kind of stuff, takes so long! I wonder what we are doing now...

Apparently, they were going to do something like destroy something, Ryoku didn't know the details, but it was best not to ask. Once Tobi motioned to start the process of doing this, Ryoku focused all of his chakra into the giant statue and started thinking of how long this would take...

[Xth]

Deleted for new posts after realization of my mistake.

[Nebula Zero]

"Am I here? Man, I get lost easily."

Azuke reached what he though was the training grounds. He was easily excited after graduating from the Academy, wearing his headband..on his shoulder. It wasn't a headband anymore, thanks to a few tweaks. Now it would help protect him, should the situation arise. He saw three people in the distance, and assumed was his new team. Like him, they were new Genin as well. Grin against the wind, he lifted his trusty weapon and made it over there in a minute or two. Panting slowly, he made it in time for introductions.

"Alright. Lets get things started shall we? Introductions are in order, I'll start first and you can work off what I said to introduce yourselves. My name is Rayex Kunokai, I'll be your jounin instructor, this isn't my first time teaching kids, but you'll be happy to know I have a high standing so your in for some rigorous endeavors. I will say this much, the essentials will always come back, but as long as we're here lets make the most of it. We'll start from left and go over."

"You there. Whats your name?"

He pointed at Azuke. He looked at his fellow teammates, to make sure he was pointing at them instead of him. But he soon realized that he pointed at the right person. He was a bit nervous at first, scratching his side even though he didn't feel itchy at all. He simply sighed. Might as well get it over with, he thought to himself. He stepped forward and brought his behemoth of a weapon with him. It seemed to tower over his team, but Azuke didn't mind. It wasn't like he was gonna use it on them, anyways. He gently put his weapon on the ground, but the weight from it seemed to form small cracks on the ground.

"My name is Azuke Kakumei, of the Kakumei Clan." he said aloud. His nervousness seemed to disappear. Lazily, he took a step back and dragged his weapon along the ground, dragging some earth with it as well. He sat cross-legged, and with one heave, plunged his weapon into the earth, propping it up nicely beside him, the handle sticking up directly into the sky.

And so it begins.

[obbsessed fan]

'Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep' The alarm clock rang.

“Mm.... Come on... not now I still wanna sleep” she growled at the alarm clock.

'Beeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeeep' It still rang.

“Gah! Shut the hell up!!!” She yelled as she chucked a kunai at the alarm clock. It fell to the the ground with at 'beeeeeeeumpth....plop'

'Crap.... I don't want to get up, today is team day, which means the jounin sensei is going to run us ragged the first day, I don't want to do anything, man this is going to suck' she thought as she went through her morning routine of taking a shower getting dressed and eating breakfast.

“Goooood morning Yu-chan!” Her mother greeted with a smile and a kiss to the cheek.

“Ack, Mom don't kiss me... And don't call me Yu-chan either.... it's embarrassing” Yuki said in that morning drawl eyes half closed.

“Whatever you say Yu-chan” Yuki scowled at the nickname “Make sure your eat all of your breakfast, you want to be all nice and energized when you meet your new team” Yuki's Mom Fuyuko said with a smile.

Yuki ate her breakfast and thought 'Nothing special.... it's just one step further until I get recruited for the war...'

“Up up up! Your going to be late!” Fuyuko shooed her out the door.

'Man this sucks...' Yuki took her usual route to school, noting the damage that has yet to be repaired on the poor side of town. As she got to the academy she noted all the new genin with their headbands some place on their body which led her to think that one of them could be her new teammates. ' No, I doubt it will be one of them, I just barely passed the exam because I stayed up the night before it training and I used up all of my chakra because I forgot the test was the next day. Based on my test scores I will be placed with the most capable genin to balance out the team, Man how demeaning... that system sucks, it just makes you the soar thumb on your team....Crap...'

Yuki walked into the academy and took her seat then slammed her head on the desk and started sleeping 'school starts too early' was her poor excuse. She didn't much pay attention to anything Iruka said, it was just a goodbye and don't screw up speech anyway. She only payed attention when she heard her name being called.

“Team Seventeen! You are Azuke Kakumei! Yuki Kanakure!” Yuki's ears twitched at the sound of her name and brought her head up “And Kei Kagemukai! You are to meet your sensei at training ground Three! Head there immediately!” Iruka ordered.

'*Sigh*... so it starts.... Kei and Azuke....' She pondered ' Well.... Kei also has ice and wind chakra so we should go well together battle wise... hes at the top of the genin class... pretty funny, I laugh at some of his jokes at Iruka's expense. I've noticed the Kunoiichi tend to lean towards him, He's an okay kid I guess, never got on my nerves, I can handle being on a team with him.

She looked towards Azuke. 'He always seems to be staring off into space whenever I see him, and I never seen that smile off his face, he's also at the top of the class...Gigantic sword too...she thought it was cool. She usually sees him stay after school a lot and he probably trains at home too. What an interesting chakra type too... Wind and Lighting... to opposing forces mainly... I wonder if that reflects on his personality in anyway...' She wondered as she was walking to the training grounds.
'...Man I got lucky, they should be competitive with each other, hopefully they'll mostly be to wrapped up in beating the other that I wont have to do anything, maybe this wont be as horrible as I thought.' She thought with a lazy smirk as she stood in line as she looked up at her sensei... and at that moment when she looked into his eyes, she could see years of experience and struggle. She only seen that look in one other person... the current Hokage Kakashi-Sama. 'Man... I should listen to this guy... he's... intimidating...'

“Alright. Lets get things started shall we? Introductions are in order, I'll start first and you can work off what I said to introduce yourselves. My name is Rayex Kunokai, I'll be your jounin instructor, this isn't my first time teaching kids, but you'll be happy to know I have a high standing so your in for some rigorous endeavors. I will say this much, the essentials will always come back, but as long as we're here lets make the most of it. We'll start from left and go over."

"You there. Whats your name?" She heard her new sensei say.

"My name is Azuke Kakumei, of the Kakumei Clan." Azuke said with a nervous smile

She gave a small sweatdrop 'Sure sensei asked what his name was, but he could've introduced himself more, oh well, it's not well for one to pry'

It was her turn. She leaned her pole staff on her shoulder and said “My name is Yuki Kanakure, I'm only here so I can move a step further to my goal of having a comfy desk job at the Hokage's office, they barely have to do anything there, it's my dream job, doing practically nothing and get paid for it, I could care less about fighting, fighting takes work” she said with a slanted mouth and bored eyes.

She awaited the response from her other teammate and briefly wondered what her team thought of her response... normally people look at her with a scolding look and called her lazy when they hear that.

It looked like Kei was going to say something so she turned her attention to him.

[Optical Justice]

Kaito lay backwards on a rooftop observing the village. It was graduation day for the students of Kumo. he smiled brightly as he thought back to the day he had gotten his chance to become a genin. but those visions also brought with them bad memories of the death of his family. He shook it off and raised a eye to the sky." This should prove interesting to say the least".

He leaned over the edge of the roof and fell into a free fall landing softly on the ground with the wind control. He preceded to walk to the academy grounds where just in time it seemed they were being dismissed. " Well well now look what we have here." He wondered where his old friend Hotaru had been off to. " Runnin a bit late Raiken arent you." he said while laughing. The Young nin all showed promise which brought more happiness into the life of The Jounin.

[Hip-Hop]

OOC: Just FYII, my characters name is Kai, but since people keep saying Kei I'll just change it to that.

"My name is Azuke Kakumei, of the Kakumei Clan."

"My name is Yuki Kanakure, I'm only here so I can move a step further to my goal of having a comfy desk job at the Hokage's office, they barely have to do anything there, it's my dream job, doing practically nothing and get paid for it, I could care less about fighting, fighting takes work.”

Kei had rather mixed emotions towards his fellow genin, both good and bad. First there was the spacey Azuke, Kei always viewed him as a bit of a headcase. He was skilled, Kei had to give him that, but as far as intelligence and perception go he wasn't too sure. Then there was Yuki, the only female on his. She was cute, atleast Kei thought so, but her work ethic was atrocious. Definately something to watch out for though. As Yuki finished her introduction, Kei took it as his turn to speak.

"As if you all don't already know, it's Kagemukai. Kei Kagemukai. The next great Konoha Anbu agent."

He said this with a bit of a smirk on his face, both because he was trying to hide how nervous he was and because he always smiled when he spoke of his dream of being an Anbu agent. Ever since he came to Konoha and found out that Hokage Kakashi-sama used to be anbu, he had wanted to join their secret ranks. It was this dream that pushed to do alot of what he had done, like develop the still developing Deadly Explosive Fist Style. He was going to achieve his dream, no matter what people said.

For moment, things fell awkwardly silent as the four just stood there pretty much looking at eachother. All of a sudden, Kei jumped into the air and speedily glided over to one of the three stumps; a little trick he developed using his wind chakra. Standing on top of the stump and looking over at his new sensei, Rayex spoke.

"Well, what are we waiting for Rayex-sensei? Let's do this!"

[Xth]

Deleted for new posts after realization of my mistake.

[Kissui Tensai]

Rayex listened attentively. He picked up the noticeable traits, from left to right, to the center where the heart was it seemed. Anxious, Timid, and lastly confidence, was what was placed in front of him. Looking them over once more with his silver eyes, this would be a real challenge handling these kids. Kei was well roundly assertive and he took that as a positive. As they'd cleared to playing field, all level on means of who the person was next to them, it was time to get things started.

"Well, what are we waiting for Rayex-sensei? Let's do this!"

"Aye. I like your enthusiasm Kei. Well I'll start by presenting you with the truth, I have some...bad news. Best you hear it now, because this kind of pressure should be your motivator. Of the twenty-seven students that just graduated, ONLY NINE WILL ACTUALLY GET ACCEPTED AS GENIN."

The tension began to build, oh how Rayex savored this.

"Thats right. 33% of you will move on, while the remaining 66% will be shipped back to the academy. Konoha hasn't changed it's policy about military and you guys are it. What determines whether your fit to stay in this team, team 17, is we're going to have a little genin assessment. An exam if you will, but it's more practical than written. The rumors of this, I'm pretty sure you're all aware of."

Rayex reached from his side back and pulled out two bells.

"Yes. The bell training, a classic used by the predecessors that created this very village. It is a symbol of the potential groups in some fashions, but let me explain it for those who haven't been in Konoha for the ages. There are two bells, your job is to take them from me. Sounds easy right? WRONG! For the two that get the bells, they will pass while the bell-less one will be tied to the stump and shipped off to the academy in the morning. Lastly. If you intend to get these bells from me, you better be prepared to come at me with killing intent. We'll start on my mark."

He paused waiting for this all to sink in finally as it was his goal to create stress, pressure, and confusion.

"GO!"

[Novaix]

A boy with sliver and blue hair sat waiting for the boy named Daeus, the boy's name was Ky Iacima he was the heir to the Iacima clan and carrier of his unique Kekkai Genkai the Iacimago, a trait which allows the user to freeze the oppoment's internal organs. He looked around at his team members, 'Hmmm, these guys look.......strong I think we will be fine,' he thought to himself. He then looked at his new sensai, Negavix Kunokai, he looked at his eyes......they looked almost....... child like. He then looked at the boy to the left of him Vergil, Ky had no idea abou this boy so he did'nt ponder much on it.

OOC: sorry my post is crap can't do much without chariot starting

[Shadalicious Reminisce]

"I can't really even say that I am actually surprised at this. Of course Zenith my new students are supposed to be here, and simply put they aren't." He had been thrilled about start of something new, but regardless he hated when those training under him were NOT on time. It urked his nerves to the point where he just started doing random things, not even bothering to watch out for Zenith's well being. She wouldn't stop asking questions, and he looked down at her from a low hanging tree branch. He was waiting for both of his other students to arrive, but other than that, Fang was bored. Very bored. He had been going by the name for quite some time now, ut he still got called Daaku a lot. Either or, he didn't mind.......

He rolled his eyes, aiming fro a spot under the tree, yet knowing that by the time he dropped over there, Zenith would be up to no good again. From his still hanging position, Fang dropped to the ground, turning and landing gracefully on his hand. He snickered, turning and looking at Zenith, whom was very obviously hiding in some shrubs. He decided that it would better to just leave her there then actually say anything, so he turned his attention to other matters.

One of his other students was walking up, he wasn't sure which one, but they looked to be very promising. "My, I can tell already, everything is off to a very great start." He smiled again, the sun beaming down as he stared down at himself, admiring what he liked to call perfection.

The usual silk black, and green pants that covered Fang's legs were tied right at the shin, already covered by a pair of boots made of light material that both protected the feet, and allowed for comfortable movement at the same time. Still being as much as an exhibitionist as he was in his earlier days, Daaku was wearing no shirt, and a garment called a body wrap that covered his waist and extended to about his knees. This wrap was adorned with green star symbols, and he was wearing green wrist-guards and gloves.

His burakkuai always active, the dark eyes that revealed the darkness made light winked as he stepped, and in most senses vanished from sight, reappearing inches from his new pupil, lade extended. "Lesson 1, reaction is a must, and Zenith come out of those bushes....."

[obbsessed fan]

'So, Kei wants to be an ANBU? Man, thats a steep goal to have, but I guess it suits him. He is brazen though, calling out to Rayex-sensei like that. Can't he see that Sensei is way above our skill level?'

“Only 33% ?.....Man this sucks....” Yuki looked at the stump. 'More than likely that will be me there.... Meh.... it's not like I really care that much, I can stand another year at the academy, I only sleep there anyways, it's just might be another year before I have to do anything serious. Yeah I wouldn't mind, all genin do anyways is remedial D rank missions, like picking up garbage and whatnot.'

'...But this shouldn't stop me from trying at least, I at least want to go back to the academy with honor for trying....But... how to get the bells back....' Yuki pondered... 'Well.... like I said before, he is way above our skill level, theres no way a frontal attack will work...Maybe I should try the other direct approach... it will take less work then any other tactic I know of.

With that thought, Yuki solidly walked up to Rayex-sensei, Stopped and looked him straight in the eye. She held out her hand and with a mellow tone she said.

“Can I please have a bell Rayex-sensei?”

[Nebula Zero]

"The bell assignment.." he said, standing up. This is where the tides in his actions suddenly took an overhaul. He stood up more predominantly, with a somewhat ominous aura surrounding him. I will not fail! I've come too far to fail now, he thought to himself. His eyes widened a bit, grasping the handle of the Einlanzer. His other hand grazed along its' surface, soon touching the end of a scroll. With one mighty pull, he unraveled his weapon with grace. It really did look like a sword, but something was not right about it. The scrolls were not cloaking Azuke, acting like a garment of sorts for him.

"All righty! Let's do this!" he said, resting it on his shoulder. His eyes did not stray from their target, the bells, but his voice was directed somewhere else.

"Kai."

He said, in a calm tone. He wanted to see if there was a loophole to this. He did not want one of their own to be sent back to the drawing board.

"Let's see if we can do this together. But we will need each other's cooperation. Okay?" he said, spinning his weapon above his head, gaining great momentum. With one heave, he plunged his blade into the ground, and turned the handle of his weapon 90 degrees clockwise.

"Explosive Tags!" he said to himself. Upon saying it, pillars of fire and brimstone burst from the ground, surrounding their mentor in a way.

"Go for it!" he said to them, dashing towards the flames. But he did not run for long, taking a giant leap upwards. He turned the handle of his blade 180 degrees counter-clockwise, a sword slipping out of the hilt. He was directly above his sensei. He called 2 bunshins to his aid mid-flight, all of them with Einlanzer and sword in each hand. Then with a burst of strength, he plummeted towards Rayex with full force, with his bunshins following suit. He did keep in mind of Yuki, and hopefully she would not get in his way.

[Zero]

OOC:Can someone delete this I made a mistake with my first post.