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Nearly all members of the organization Akatsuki were assembled with the Jinchuuriki of the Six-Tails, Utakata, in a big cave in the Land of Rivers.
The official leader of Akatsuki and his partner had captured the Jinchuuriki of the Six-Tails and after securing him in front of Gedou Mazou, got some distance and waited. Both Shinobi knew that Tobi was just a persona played by Madara. Over the last two extractions, the two Shinobi got some doubts about Madaras goal. Something did not add up and after the extraction of the Six-Tails, Konan and Pain would plan an investigation.
Obito was satisfied, as he watched the Jinchuuriki of the Six-Tails through the little eye hole of his orange mask. Everything was ready for the extraction of the Bijuu and so far everything went as it should - beside the Six-Tails, they already extracted the Two, Three, Four, Five and Seven-Tails. As soon as they extracted the Bijuu before him, there would only be three more left.
The One-Tail was sealed in the newly appointed Kazegake of Sunagakure. After this extraction, Obito would order Pain to send out Sasori and Deidara to capture it. Sasori was a Nukenin from Sunagakure, therefor he knew the terrain and would do this mission fast and without much difficulties. After that, he would send out Kakuzu and Hidan to Kumogakure to get capture the Eight-Tails.
The only hindrance in his plan, was that he had no information about the Nine-Tails. Obito knew, that the Jinchuuriki of the Nine-Tails was Naruto Uzumaki, a Genin from Konohagakure. Itachi and Kisame were there some weeks ago, but the Uzumaki brat was not! Wherever the brat was, Akatsuki would capture him and extract the Nine-Tails. Obito was sure of that. In his Tobi persona, Obito decided to jump around and annoy the other members till the last team, Hidan and Kakuzu, arrived.
Itachi leaned with closed eyes on the cave wall on the opposite side from Pain and Konan. He really hoped, that this extraction would be over fast, because his lungs and eyes were hurting. Itachi Uchiha was a stubborn and proud man, he would not start to get in to a coughing fit in front of a group of Nukenin. There were only two other members of Akatsuki that knew about his health: His team partner Kisame and Konan.
Near Itachi sat Kisame, on a little bolder and while he re strapped his sword Samehada with new white bandages, he also sent his partner some concerned looks. If you work long enough together with a person, you know them and the swordsman knew that Itachi was not in the best mood. He struggled with whether he should say something or not but a loud whining Tobi distracted him. The blue-skinned man sighed and dedicated himself again to wrapping his sword.
As usual the art duo of Akatsuki had a discussion about the true meaning of their creative calling: Was art eternal or for the moment? The blond artist was louder then the red haired one and while his red headed counterpart was quieter, his tone got colder with every word he said. If Tobi would not have decided to try to argue with them and Deidara would not have retaliate this interruption with a fist to Tobis head, Sasori would probably have thrown some poisoned senbon at his team partner.
As Tobi whined, Zetsu complained that he was getting hungry before half merging with the cave floor and rambling to himself about tasty human flesh, Kakuzu and Hidan entered the large cave.
Kakuzu was a man, that rarely cared about anything besides money. Maybe it was the fact, that Hidan was acting weird since they left their camp this morning. It began, as Hidan was awake earlier than every other day followed by doing his daily prayers to Jashin quietly and then he, for some reasons unknown to Kakuzu, didn’t say a word the whole time they needed to reach the other members. Even now, he was quiet. Kakuzu decided to observe the silver haired Jashinist and enjoy the silence but somehow, it felt… off.
Of course, there was a reason for Hidan's silence and this reason was his god, Jashin. The previous night, when Hidan slept, Jashin blessed him with a vision. His god was not a deity, that interacted often with his followers, so Hidan was over the moon, when he woke up. There was just one problem. Hidan did not understand the visions meaning and that was bad. How should he fulfill his gods wishes, when he did not understand them? Therefore, the first thing he did after waking up was doing a ritual. It did not help.
Hidan said it himself, he was not the fastest or the most intelligent of their organization and that was okay. He did not need to be the best or the smartest, all he needed was to serve his god. There was just one thing he needed at that moment and that was to understand his gods task for him and if that would mean to do ritual after ritual and thinking about every possible meaning of the vision after this extraction, he would do it! To miss the extraction was not an option. Pain would skin him and Kakuzu, that bastard, would gladly help him. Not him, his team partner oh no, he would help that orange pincushion. What ever he did to annoy Kakuzu today, he saw the looks thrown his way!
The Jashinist got determined and seconds after seeing the Statue, he got on his position for the extraction and bellowed: “Come on, motherfuckers! I have some rituals to do afterwards, so let us extract that stupid Bijuu now!”
Silence. For two seconds, there was pure silence in the cave and then Tobi squealed and with a loud “Oh yes Hidan! Tobi is a good boy!” he jumped to his position. This seemed to get movement into the gathered Shinobi because Pain followed, Konan shortly after and with that the rest of Akatsuki. Pain and Konan did a good job knocking Utakata out because he only got conscious again as the chakra of the Six-Tails first cloaked him and then it was forcefully ripped from him.
The Jinchuuriki screamed and screamed. It was so painful!
As a Jashinist, Hidan sacrificed living beings - normally humans - in his rituals for his god. He knew screams, knew how to goat them from his victims throats, knew how to enjoy them, knew how to ignore them and concentrate on other things like his rituals. This scream was annoying! He was not able to concentrate on this stupid extraction and more importantly to solve the mystery about his vision! So the chakra he sent to the statue was restless. Kakuzu who was still observing his partner, was shocked. You can say about the silver haired man what you want, but loosing control over his chakra was not a Hidan thing to do! Not while doing something simple like pushing chakra to a statue and now Hidan did it, he got him, Kakuzu, to worry and with that… Kakuzus own chakra got restless. Just for a second, but it was enough.
The blue-skinned swordsman was also starting to get more worried about his team partner. Extractions for Itachi and Kisame usually follow one schema: Both get to their positions, sending chakra to the statue and afterwards, they would book it out of the cave as soon as possible. Get away from the lingering echos of the screams, make camp somewhere and rest to fill up the chakra that they used. Nowhere in that schema was Itachi, at least for him, visibly in a bad mood and definitely did it not include for Itachi to open his eyes with active Sharingan! Kisame knew that the Sharingan took also from Itachis chakra, why would he do that know? It was, like with Kakuzu, just a short moment but the moment Kisames chakra was restless was again enough.
From this moment on it was like a domino effect that happened to three other Akatsuki members.
As mentioned above, Itachis lungs and eyes hurt, he was in a bad mood from the beginning and while he focused on his chakra flow, something suddenly started to feel wrong. He couldn’t stop himself, he activated his Sharingan and saw the restless chakra from Hidan and the short moment of chakra spikes from Kakuzu and Kisame. What happened? His own focus was broken and Itachis chakra flow was uneven. God, did his eyes hurt!
Konan had to give it to the black haired Shinobi. Itachi Uchiha was able to put his emotions behind a uncaring and disinterested mask that was hard for her to break but call it women intuition: As soon as he and Kisame entered the cave she just knew something was up. Was he in pain again? Was performing an extraction too much for him today? Could, or better, should she even say something to Madara or Pain? Pain would listen to her concerns, but Madara… Madara would draw a fit if she even hinted to postpone the extraction and she really did not want to fight him. As she observed Itachi, her instinct told her again that something was wrong. She stood straighter at her position and looked around. Suddenly some of the chakra flows of the other Akatsuki members become restless and uneven.
Concerned she looked to Pain at the same moment that Pain looked concerned to her.
So in tune with his long time team partner, Pain opened his eyes as soon as Konan started to stand more in attention and looking around. With his Rinnegan he scanned his surrounding and his members. The fluctuation of some chakra strings were like signal fire for him and he just had to look to Konan.
As soon as their gaze met, both felt the feeling of foreboding that something big would happen and the next two Shinobi of Akatsuki, even if it just was for a mere second, lost control of a steady chakra flow.
If the whole situation would have happened for one moment longer, surely the other members would have recognized too that something was happening. We will never know, if the rest of the Akatsuki members would also have lost control of their chakra or if Obito who had his eyes closed and was going through some plans in his head would have seen it with his Sharingan.
As soon as the sixth chakra flow was different something unknown in the Gedou Mazou was triggered. Obito, who summoned Gedou Mazou, was flung away with an immense chakra push, crashed in the cave wall behind him and landed unconscious on the floor while the other members of his organization were paralyzed where they stood. They could not even move one millimeter and were forced to watch the unknown jutsu to revile itself.
The Jinchuuriki of the Six-Tails was hovering in the air and screamed even louder than anyone of the assembled Shinobi ever heard. Utakatas body was so much covered in his Bijuus chakra, that if anyone entering the cave would only see a massive chakra ball hovering in the air.
Suddenly the screams went quiet, the wild chakra ball stopped moving and for one short moment there was pure silence again in the cave. Then the chakra ball exploded with a loud bang and a bright light.
When the group of Nukenin were able to open their eyes again, nobody knew what to say.
Utakata was lying on the floor, in front of him laid two strangers with their back to the Akatsuki members. One with light brown hair in a messy bun, the other with short, black hair. Behind Utakata sat a young woman in strange clothes. She had strawberry blond hair, in a neat, tight bun and big, round sky blue eyes. Eyes with tears in them, some even rolling down her cheeks.
The young womans gaze went over each Shinobi and stopped at Hidan. With a quite and shy voice, nearly a whisper, she said: “Hidan? Träume ich?” A small, shy smile entered her lips and then she lost conscious and her body fell to the side.
A wave of calmness waved over Hidan as soon as his and the strangers gaze met. Then she spoke and the Jashinist sprang into action.
Her eyes and her voice were exactly the same as in his vision.
He caught her shortly before she hit the floor. The language she spoke was unknown to him, but he understood his name. She knew him and the she was in his vision. He would successfully do the task that he got from Jashin and this woman would help him.
Hopefully he could learn her language easily. Or she his.