Naruto Akatsuki Souzoku

[Xth]

Daaku had caught Tsukasa off guard with his sneak attack from behind. He rose up from the ground and quickly gathered himself to perform a jutsu. He wanted to pick his technique carefully otherwise this would be over just as with Raiden's own training. He readied his Braver Burn and lunged at Daaku, keeping low. From under, he threw an uppercut. If successful, he'd possibly have a slim chance to get away afterwards. His head told him it was highly unlike and he'd end up failing again but it wasn't necessarily the first time he acted recklessly against his sensei.

[S/\|T0]

Sano stared for a moment, Hakumei had dragged him to one of his favorite eating spots. By simply telling him he would buy food, it seemed as though he went into a rush to eat. Sano watched as Hakumei showed pancakes into his face.

While Hakumei was doing so, he tried to start a bit of small talk, talking about the death that had plagued the world, that seemed to never end. He brought up that compared to Sano, that he doesn't have much to complained.

Sano stared blankly, somewhat as his food just sat in front of him. Many things were passing through his head. Overhearing what Hakumei had said the night before, he felt somewhat sad for him.

"Your wife was killed before you eyes... How can you even cope with that...?" Sano could of swore he said at the moment, but all that happened was nothing. If he were to have said something like that, he would of felt guilty in a sense.

"I guess..." He said in response to his comparison. "It can be hard to let go, especially where there are obstacles and people that are in your way of getting over it. Luckly, for me, I have...."

He paused for a moment, trying to rethink his words. He took a bite of the toast that sat on his plate, and watched as the crumbs fell to the plate. Sano would of died mentally if he were to have lost Shira at any moment, she kept him in check.

"Heh, well you know what I mean." He smiled, giving a optimistic look to Hakumei. "Things could be much worse, why we all still have homes surprises me actually. With the power the Akatsuki has at this point, they could of crush every single village without a second word. So many times, I could of died, but for some reason, something must be keeping me around."

Sano ordered Shira's meal to go and payed off whatever else Hakumei was to buy as well.

"I am not so hungry anymore, I am just strange like that. Hurry up, Shira should be done by now, and probably waiting for me."

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Sin stared as Rayex called his team off, ready for the mission. Sin was a bit thrown off by Rayex saying that he would prefer him not going. Sin was rarely ever detected, and Rayex thought that he would of been a burden.

"I will be around, keeping a watchful eye." He told them as they left, following behind in a different path shortly after.

[Chaotic Misery]

Ceon looked around as he noticed Arashi had brought them in to a genjutsu. It was used for training purposes. Ceon had been in something like this with Rayex-sensai, but his was a real jutsu and gave better results after training. Ceon could have just used the burakkurai to get out, but what fun was that. His dad had did all this and it would be a same to waste it. Besides it was his first time fighting alongside Kei as a teammate. "A Hyuuga. Never faced one of those and from what my dad told me, your extremely powerful, lead the main branch, and could basically wipe us out. What is my dad thinking?" Ceon said as he shook his head to his father.

Arashi grinned for a second and his voice could be heard in the genjutsu. "I forget to tell you. This is survival/teamwork training. I'll be back in an hour or so. Hope you can survive till then. Also don't be worried. I don't know my old sensai's abilities now, so this utilize his skill and abilities when I was like 16. You should be good. I think." Arashi said smiling. Zaku looked at Kei and replied "What I can't see? I don't need to see. I use my own taijutsu that mixes Gentle Fist into it. You'll be hurting if I hit you.'

Zaku watched as Kei used some jutsu. The byakugan had already picked up on the jutsu and Zaku jumped into the air. Ceon took his chance as he knew this was going to happen. Charging chakra into his hands that were at his sides, Ceon yelled out "SENHAPPA!" He brought his hands forward and a blue beam of chakra was released from his hands. Moving at a quick speed, Zaku laughed. "Not good enough." Zaku said as he did a handsign, creating a shadow clone. It grabbed Zaku and pulled him out of the way. Ceon didn't think Zaku would be able to manuver in mid-air.

Zaku landed on the lake and did several handsigns. "Tsunami Fukyuu Takai No Jutsu." said Zaku. Water gathered together in the form of a tidal wave and Ceon instead had the tidal wave got into the above, breaking apart. The water rained down upon Ceon and Kei, getting them wait. "What's the point of this?" Ceon said calmly. Zaku grinned and then did a string of several handsigns quickly. "Lightning Dragon Tornado jutsu." He said. A bolt of lightning fell from the sky and was contained within and around his form. He then began to spin in place forming a whirling vortex of wind and electricity. The vortex then took the shape of a lightning dragon and struck out against Ceon and Kei.

Water conducted electricity so, there was an 100 percent chance they would get hit. What would they do and could they survive against such a foe?

[Vexond]

"Aye. Nice to meet you Makoto. I'm your sensei, Negavix Kunokai and the leader of Team 29. If you turn around, you'll get better acquainted with your other comrades. Frankly, with the little time we have to expend it will be through the course of time that you warm up to everybody for we can't delay our first assignment."

Makoto finally had a team and now he had his first mission too. The other 3 genin in the team seemed to like Makoto.

Makoto left to get his ninja tools. No one was at home. He put on his sword case a put his Isomae Clan Double ended sword in it. Although he might not need it on this mission, he brought it just in case.

"Ok, Im ready."

He left his home and started for the village gate to meet the rest of the team.

[Nebula Zero]

Meeting with the 'fastest link between the villages', Azuke seemed interested by this person's speed. More like challenged. Kai also seemed interested as well. But with that aside, it was time to go. Azuke looked at his daunting weapon, and figured it may prove to be an easily noticeable object from a distance. So he planted his hand on it, and activated his kekkei genkai. The same lightning-like chakra surrounded it. Slowly, the Einlanzer started to shrink. it did so until it became something interesting. It transformed into a makeshift katana. The rest of the metal had gone under his clothes, it showing from the sleeves of his t-shirt, his collar, and his pant legs. His forearms and hands, and his feet were covered in the near onyx material. His eyes had changed to a light red.

"This vision should help us out.." he said. Kai gave a nod of impression. Azuke put his shortened Einlanzer on his back. Doing all of this would slowly drain his chakra over time, so he minded himself not to overdo it.

"I should be a tad bit heavier..but no biggie!" he said to himself. With a thumbs up, he began his running stance. As soon as he did, the ground below him began to give way, and even crater. With a resounding 'GO!' in his mind, he dashed off, leaving Kai in his dust.

"Tad heavier?! This guy is nuts!" Kai said in an outrageous face. But regaining his posture, he realized he was being left behind. This team sure is interesting, Kai said to himself. With that thought, he accelerated himself, catching up with the others.

[Shadalicious Reminisce]

Kei readily ignored Renzaku's remark, because he knew that he was right. He was just another ninja that felt played by the status of Kei's kekkei genkai. It was just as fine that their opponent jumped over the quake jutsu, because the ground was now ripped up and torn apart from the jutsu which would prove useful for later on in the fight. Ceon failed at using the senhppa on Renzaku, but what he was really looking for was the jutsu that Renzaku used next after he landed on the lake. He looked up, and listened to the words that came from their opponents mouth.

"Tsunami Fukyuu Takai No Jutsu." Kei smiled, a water jutsu. he was making hand signs as soon as he heard the term 'tsunami'. He jumped back and finished the hand signs for his technique.

"Doton: Dobei no Jutsu(Earth Release: Mud Wall Technique" The earth was already broken down from his previous just so his time to liquefy the earth took no time. He clasped his hands together, and the mud shot up from the ground, surrounding him, and Ceon, completely stopping any water from touching them. The next attack collided with the mud wall, but it was very powerful, and Kei couldn't hold it for long. "Damn it, damn it!!! No!!!!!" The mud gave way, and the dragon of lightning slammed into Kei, causing him to cry out and be flung back, the energy hitting him hard.

He staggered up and his body crackled with lightning chakra, his face was covered with a stern look, and his hair stood up spiked and blond. "Damn, pushed me too far." His body surged with the absorbed properties of the intense lightning attack, and he looked at himself. There were marks of lightning on his arms..........

"Heyy Ceon, are you okay??"

[Zero]

Raiden got up from the move that his Senseis Clone just did to stop the Heavenly Spin and was pissed because his Sensei told him to go do something else but Raiden wasnt gonna give up.

"No,I failed last time but not today.Ill follow the rules this time and beat your Clone."

Raiden was the type that couldnt handle losing after the first fail so to make himself better he always pushed himself to his limit to overcome the obstacle.Even though this was just training Raiden didnt care,he feels if he loses he lets down his Clan,his parents.

[Zexilicious]

"Best we get going, I rather get this done as quickly as possible. No rituals, ok?"

"Ah, Zetsumei-san, you never let me have any fun." Ryoku said as they walked out of the cave. Zetsumei firstly did some hand signs and smashed his hand into a rock next to him. As he smashed his hand to the rock, smoke emitted from it. As it subsided a giant creature that looked like a raptor was roaring. Hmph, nice, Ryoku thought.

"I would assume you have your own mode of transportation, bird brain. "
"Of course, and don't assume, it makes an ass out of you and me. And I prefer to not be an ass, thank you very much." Ryoku responded.

He made his own hand seals, it was pretty simple for him. After his hand signs were finished, he opened his mouth and a small bird flew out. Ryoku caught it in his hand and sat it on the ground. He took out a kunai and slit his wrist slightly, releasing blood onto the bird. As the blood dropped into the bird, he tripled in size. Ryoku climbed on the birds back.

"Well lets get going shall we?"

Ryoku kicked the birds sides and it flew up into the air and started to fly forward at a steady pace. He started to fly away from the cave, on his way to Orochimaru's base.

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Ryoku stood stiffly, staring at the school. Tenga-Ryu School, he thought it was called. He raised his eyebrow firstly, and then reached into his bag for his mask. It was an interesting mask. It was fully black with lightning strikes striking down the sides of the mask and spikes for the eye brows. He put his mask on and remembered his alias, "Shikyo." He walked inside, ready to learn something productive, that could also be used to his advantage.

"Hmm, didn't Rayex's Senpai start this school? What was his name again...hmm...Daaku Raito wasn't it? Oh yeah, that's it...hmm he always was strong, but I always thought he was a strange man. His daugher Ayumi was extremely hot though."

[Hallelujah]

Sin misunderstood. It was not that he was jeopardize the group by increasing their size, but interfering in the furthering of his team of the next generation of shinobi. In battle, they needed to act swiftly and not fear the enemy, in the event they should be attacked, the enemy will spare no expense in going in for a rapid kill. Shinobi; Above all attack at the moment when defense is the weakest and go for the strongest, mainly Rayex. After he's been eradicated, they pick off the lesser knowns, stated the genin in general.

"It's going to be an interesting day..." Rayex said briefly being mindful on this possibility.

Steadily, they'd suddenly slowed the pace to a slightly above moderate speed. The trees around them were blowing to the north. The slight chimes from bells were suddenly heard from the air, a vast echo around them. It was all of a sudden Rayex stopped as he was the closest to the sound. A bead of sweat traveled down his face, his vision ruptured just slightly. Slightly impaired, he began to worry, with the sound of the bells screwing with his equilibrium he'd be at seeming vulnerability.

Then came the first came with the bell tied to illuminate this jutsu screwing with his head. Pivoting back, Rayex hand planted on his palms and stuck out his left foot. Chakra infused as he spun in a simultaneous manner pushing chakra into his feet to catch the bell driven kunai and repel it to crash into another that came without a bell attached.

"Baka. Thats a classic sound shinobi screw up, first the sound, then the silent. WHO THE HELL DO YOU THINK I AM?!" He was targeted as expected.

From the bushes, behind him out lashed a chained claw with a partner to follow it. Rayex swiftly made his flight jump, not expecting a third to body slam him down with a surfing sound ninja. As he was falling to the bladed chains bound to the tree. Two more shinobi in a team effort, slide across the chains holding chakra bladed spinning saw to rip through Rayex constantly tearing the outisde of his flesh. As he hit the tree, the released the buzzing blades and he splattered, and the remains hit the ground. Instantly jumping away with rapid eyes set on the three genin and Sin as well.

"GET THE KIDS!"

Quickly throwing down a smoke bomb into the lot, the sound shinobi evaporated their trail of sound and viciously launched the steel chained claw into the smoke.

((Quick note, Rayex isn't dead, if you were wondering that lol.))

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Negavix had moved to the opening. The Great Mist Abyss was their villages' greatest defense. In all seriousness, Negavix wasn't completely intent on following through this fog bank. It was easy to get lost and wander around for days if one didn't know the way through it, with proper light they could navigate. Thing about it, Negavix had not any effective type of tracking or navigational jutsu other than flying black distortion. And since his sharingan had no copied image of the Great Naruto Bridge, he had no way to instantly fly there with his students.

"Oi, i'm not really set on this mist abyss." Negavix said to himself.

[Shadalicious Reminisce]

Daaku smiled and his replicas vanished completely. They were now more the kind of genin to be proud of it. He looked at all of them, Zen whomhad guarded against then attack, Raiden whom was not going to give up regardless. His nephew was already showing such skill in taijutsu, and even Tsukasa had not done bad. "You all pass, and I acknowledge your skill as genin on my squad as of now. This is what I was expecting. I am a bit concerned about your well being though, after this if we get called on a real mission, the peril is going to be very real, so I only hope you are all prepared for what the future may bring."

"Hmm, don't know what you all want to do, but I will pretty much tell you, or do anything you ask for the rest of the day, as long as it isn't too time consuming and all." Daaku sat down on a bench outside of the lake area, and just sighed. He was still uncertain as to Zen's motives. She had gotten angry and refused to leave his team. That would have to be cleared up soon, than later.

[Novaix]

Ky headed to the entrance, he had brought with him his sword, his kunai, his shuriken and a torch. He walked up to Negavix who had already arrived " Hey sensai," Ky said to him as he slumped against the entrance wall. Ky started thinking about the Great Naruto Bridge, he had heard that it was named after Naruto Uzumaki a ninja from the leaf village who helped protect the bridge builder, he turned to his sensai and spoke "Is there going to be enemy shinobi on the way there, if there is please tell us so we are ready," Ky stared at him with intent, in realilty Ky was frightend.

[Stark]

Vergil slowly sat up as his new comrade Makoto walked in as well as Asumo. Asumo giving a slight little hello Vergil smirked. But before he can say anything Negavix spoke

"Aye. Your mission, as always with grace you have adjusted. Concerning your mission, though its your team's first one, as well, its a C+ Rank. Recently we've captured A Sunagakure Spy from the outskirts of Kirigakure. There is a time that has been set up from here on in, we're to do an exchange for some supplies. Simple enough correct? However it's a hazardous bargain, and in the event we are deceived, do not give up the spy to the enemy. I strongly advise you all take the proper precautions and equip yourselves well. The intersection point has been scheduled on The Great Naruto Bridge, at it's dead center. It's to be handled Tomorrow at Noon on the bridge, from here you'd need about a day to reach the outskirts...be wary of their misdeeds, and by all means, don't let down your guard for a moment."

Alright guys. Gather your ninja gear and meet at the villages entrance dubbed, "Mist Abyss" We've not need for doors, but it keeps out enemies out not only from the water, but fear of being ambushed and not realizing it. You may want to bring some form of illumination, it may be morning, but even so the mist doesn't let up on whats in front of you. Now let us go and prepare

Vergil let out a big yawn as Negavix disappeared. "Nice to meet you Makato" Vergil said as he stood.This was going to be difficult going into the Mist Abyss. You can hardly see anything and you could get lost. Only way he could get through is if he used his Kekkai genkaii which helped him see through darkness or even mist if used correctly. His kekkai genkaii had the ability to see through anything that prevented the eyes of seeing.

Vergil slowly packed up his ninja toolls he had with him which was some explosive tags and kunai. And he went towards the mist abyss without saying a word to neither Makoto or Asumo. When he reached the abyss he noticed Negavix and Ky standing there waiting. Why did it always seem Vergil comes second when meeting up.

[Dark Heart 2]

"I guess ...it can be hard to let go, especially where there are obstacles and people that are in your way of getting over it. Luckly, for me, I have..." Sano's voice seemed to trail off as he drew to the end of his sentence. Hakumei knew that last thing to his words was going to be 'Shira', but he seemed to think that he would have been somewhat offensive if he spoke that, and Hakumei understood why.

"It's alright, Sanosuke." Hakumei began, playing with the remnants of his breakfast that lay upon his plate. His fork was still somewhat lathered in syrup, and so it was covering everything else with the sticky substance. "I miss my wife deeply, more than one would probably think, but after the amount of time I've had to live with it..." He ceased messing with his food, placing somewhat of a stern expression on his face. "I'm not sensitive to the subject anymore." He spoke rather firmly, though in a mild tone of voice.

Looking the Uchiha straight in the eyes, he continued on the subject. "I'm happy for you, Sano. Though we don't exactly know each other all that well, I'm glad you haven't had to go through the pain of losing your wife." His expression somewhat lightened. "I wish both of you a bright and happy future. I'm going to do my best to defend this village, as well as the love that you two share."

For the first time in what seemed like years, Hakumei felt as though he was actually, truly smiling, from his heart, and not common courtesy.

Sanosuke seemed to be absorbing and contemplating Hakumei's reply, though it didn't take long for him to say something. "Heh, well you know what I mean. Things could be much worse, why we all still have homes. Surprises me, actually. With the power the Akatsuki has at this point, they could of crush every single village without a second word. So many times, I could of died, but for some reason, something must be keeping me around." The man said this with an optimistic smile, seeming quite happy with the way things were right now... with the exclusion of the Akatsuki predicament.

Sano abruptly cut in with one more thing. "I am not so hungry anymore, I am just strange like that. Hurry up, Shira should be done by now, and probably waiting for me." Hakumei chuckled at the remark. Agreeing with his comment, the two began the trek back to the Raikage Mansion, Sano quickly paying off the bill.

Both Hakumei and Sano again were casually talking about random things, any subject that came to their minds. It had been many, many years that Hakumei had opened up to someone like this (not including Daaku, Hotaru, and Raito). It felt kind of... nice to get all his thoughts through his mouth. It was interesting to have a real conversation with someone. The only times he really talked with anyone these passed several years was when he was applying for odd jobs, or receiving information on an assassination or things of that sort.

Hakumei was quite enjoying the time with Sano. Though, ever since the mention of the Akatsuki, the back of his mind seemed to be concentrating on that more than anything else. As if spontaneously, Hakumei finally let out his thoughts on that subject.

The blue-haired Jonin sounded somewhat serious as he spoke about this. "Sano, the Akatsuki have been controlling our fair country with power and fear for a long time now, haven't they?" Pausing for a second, Hakumei began phrasing the next part of his sentence as best he could. "Would... would you believe me if I said I was developing a power that could match that of the Akatsuki? Even overpower them?" He chuckled a little as he said his last bit. "Or would you think I'm just a delusional depressed psychotic who's clinging to an impossible dream?"

[Nebula Zero]

An ambush!

Azuke watched as his sensei was railed against the tree with chains and blades. But the smoke bomb surprisingly did not catch him off guard. It was because of his 'vision' that he was able to see right through, so to speak. This vision gave him the ability to 'lock on' to chakra signatures. Everyone had a specific chakra signature. When they were locked on, a small rotating circle pinpointed their location. A chain came towards him from a circle from the corner of his left eye, and managed to grab the chain in reaction.

"Get over here!" he said, reeling in the ninja with a mighty heave. The sound ninja was sent flying towards him, and with one mighty swing, punched him into the ground, the earth crackling beneath him. Azuke loomed over his attacker, raising his right fist into the air. With one heavy blow, he said,

"Asshou!"

The fist went straight into his rib cage. The sound of bone breaking could be slightly heard. The impact of the hit created a crater around his easily subdued opponent. The whites of his eyes were clearly showing, bleeding slowly from the mouth. A circle moving in Kai's direction, he looked over to him.

"Kai, quick, to your right!" said Azuke. Kai nodding, brought his hands together and formed several seals.

"Kaze no Yaiba!" he said, gathering the smoke into his right hand. With one swipe, several trees, including the sound shinobi, were cut. The sound ninja, now in mid-air, gave Kai the incentive to finish him off. Gathering the rest of the smoke, he used his chakra to form it into a ball.

"Fuukan Renkuudan!" he said, launching it towards the ninja. The ball pounding against the attacker's chest, it sent him flying back in a whirlwind of pain. Kai panting, he made his way beside Azuke, the smoke now gone.

"So..there's more to your eyes than looking cool." he said. But there was still one more ninja left. They hoped that Yuki could deal with him.

[Ebikyou'gami]

"You all pass, and I acknowledge your skill as genin on my squad as of now. This is what I was expecting. I am a bit concerned about your well being though, after this if we get called on a real mission, the peril is going to be very real, so I only hope you are all prepared for what the future may bring." Daaku said to her and the team. "what a drag, that was to easy" she thought to her self.

"Hmm, don't know what you all want to do, but I will pretty much tell you, or do anything you ask for the rest of the day, as long as it isn't too time consuming and all." she didn't know what to say so she turned around and looked at the lake. She was trying to figure out if she wanted to stay or leave. She put a smile on her face and walked straight up to her sensei "who's team will I be on, if I chose to leave, what is there location?".