Chapter 1: Realization

It started as a nightmare. Everything seemingly fine. Until everything started crashing down. His world shattered in only a few seconds, seeing the one he loved for years gone her beautiful face splattered with blood, and a gaping hole through her chest. Her eyes wide, she started chocking up her last words. Everything went fuzzy after that, he vaguely remembers screaming and pleads of mercy. Everything felt cold, nothing mattered anymore, the world didn't matter anymore. Nothing absolutely noth-

"Tobi!" A irritated blonde half-yelled. "Wake up, un! We need to get moving"

His eyes blinked open, focusing on his partner. He sighed to himself, he had been having the same nightmare for a month now. He put up his foolish font and he jumped up from the ground, and started jumping up and down clapping his hands. "Deidara-Senpai! It's so good to see you! Thank you for waking Tobi up!" He falsely cheered.

Deidara's eyes twitched, he turned around to pick up his bag then turned back around to face Tobi again. "Let's go, un. Leader-Sama has summoned us" he started to walk away, not even waiting for Tobi to get his things.

"Wait, Deidara-senpai!" Yelled Tobi, as he started hurriedly packing his things, while trying to forget his nightmare.

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"So senpai, why did leader-Sama want to see us in person instead, and not through the holograms?" Question Tobi. They where both walking through the deep forest, passing by plants and trees.

Deidara simply shrugged "I don't know, un. Apparently it was something important, un"

"Hey senpai, why are we walking instead of flying with your clay bird?" Questioned Tobi once again, he tilted his head to the side.

Deidara shrugged "I don't feel like making a bird right now, un" Deidara replied.

"But senpai, you said it was urgent. Wouldn't it be faster if we ride on your clay bird?" Tobi asked.

Deidara twitched slightly, but he only shrugged,

"Hey senp-"

Deidara punched Tobi on the head "will you shut up already, un!"

When Deidara and Tobi arrived at the base, they where greeted by Kakazu and Hidan.

"I guess we weren't the only ones invited to the fucking party" stated Hidan, with a small grin. He was fairly tall, of course not the tallest but still tall. He had grey hair that was cut right above his shoulders. And grayish-purplish eyes. He was a fairly muscular man. And something about him screamed 'cocky.'

"It seems so, do you know why leader-Sama wanted us here, un?" Asked Deidara.

"From what I heard from Kisame, it's some sort of tool that could help us catch the jinchuuriki" Kakuzu mumbled.

Tobi started to clap excitedly "Ooh! Maybe it's a easy-bake oven! We could make cupcakes, and do a bake sale! And then the jinchuuriki will HAVE to come" Tobi on the inside cringed a little about what he just said, of course acting came at a price.

"What the fuck is a easy-bake oven?" Asked Hidan. Deidara and Kakuzu shrugged.

The door opened and Konan came out. She had dark blue hair with a dark blue rose attached to her hair. She had dull orange eyes and a beautiful face. There was a couple of piercings that covered her face, and she had the Akatsuki cloak over her.

"I see you guys arrived, come in" said Konan, her voice was calm.

Kakuzu, Hidan, Deidara and Tobi all walked in. Itachi, Kisame, Zetsu and of course Nagato other wise known as Pein where already in the room,
They where all wearing their akatsuki cloak.

"Welcome" Pein said, he gestured them to sit down, and so they did. "you may all be wondering why I summoned you all here." His voice was cool and like Konan's calm. His eyes didn't give away anything either.

After receiving a couple of nods, he continued. "Well recently, I have discovered a device that can bring us to the past and future" he raised a small dark-purple cube, it had a couple of buttons on it and it was glowing faintly.

"If I may ask Pein-Sama, how do you know if the device works?" Itachi asked, he looked a little intrigued. Everyone else nodded in confusion. Except for Tobi, who was in deep thought.

Konan stepped forward "well, you see. Both me and Pein tested it out, we went to a time before we where born" Konan clarified, Pein nodded in confirmation.

Hidan suddenly laughed "and what did you do? Fuck your grandmother?" Nobody else laughed.

Konan cleared her voice "no, we captured the five and six tails" some of them looked astonished, Hidan looked away muttering to himself.

Tobi stared at the purple box in Pein's hand, he wondered about what he could do with it. What he could discover with it. And What he could change with it. Suddenly a smiling brunette appeared in his thoughts. His hands clenched.

Kisame then asked "so, how'd you do it? Catch the tailed beasts I mean"

"After we did some research, we went back in time to find the weakest jinchuuriki at their weakest point and so on" replied Pein.

Zetsu looked towards Pein "so, which beast are we going for right now?" Asked the white half of him. His eyes showing a twinkle of amusement for whatever reason.

Pein though for a second "well, why don't we vote on it. By raise of hands, who votes for the one tails?"

Nobody except for Deidara raised his hand. Deidara slouched in his seat, slightly annoyed "if we're going to do this, we might as well do it in order un" he mumbled. He only got a couple of shrugs in reply.

"For the two tails?" Asked Pein. Nobody raised their hands. It went like this for a couple of minutes until they reached the nine tails "nine tails?" Everyone except Deidara and Tobi raised their hands. Everyone looked at Tobi confused, he was awfully quite today. Pein looked at Tobi questionably.

"Alright, it's decided. Nine-tails it is" he took out a book in his drawer and flipped through a couple of pages. "It seems like we got a couple of options, there is Mito Uzumaki, Kushina Uzumaki and of course Naruto Uzumaki" he looked up from the book "which one?"

"I think we should go for Naruto Uzumaki" said Itachi, Kisame and Kakuzu agreed.

"Oh! Oh! Tobi thinks that we should go for Mito Uzumaki!" Tobi said excitedly, worried that they'd choose Kushina. And if they did, he was afraid they would find out the truth about him.

"Like hell i'm agreeing with you, un! We should go for Kushina Uzumaki" Deidara crossed his arms, the rest of the Akatsuki agreed.

Pein nodded "Kushina it is, there isn't a specific time that I know of that she has been weak. However I'm sure it's fine" everyone else also nodded.

Tobi froze slightly, it seemed as if Pein was ignoring him. Which was odd.

Pein put in the date, time and location. "Everyone gather around me" he ordered. Once everyone surrounded him, he pressed the button. Everyone was zapped, and in a flash everyone in the room was gone.

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The akatsuki members found themselves in a small clearing. They all groaned and rubbed their backs.

"That hurt like a bitch" groaned out Hidan. Everyone else nodded in agreement.

Tobi noted that far in the distance, the village hidden in the leaves stood proudly. With only three heads. His old home.

"Let's separate to avoid suspicion" he threw everybody an ear-piece (don't ask me where he got them) once everyone was with their partners Pein showed them all a picture of Kushina. "This is who we are looking for, contact us immediately if you find her. And remember to use a henge" and with that Pein and Konan henged and left.

"Should Tobi be a girl or a boy Deidara-senpai?" Asked Tobi.

"I don't care" said Deidara as he henged into a civilian person with a very forgettable face.

"Ok" Tobi nodded, he henged into a short green haired teenager. "Let's go senpai!" He marched forward, with Deidara behind him.

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Unlike the rest of the akatsuki members, Deidara and Tobi didn't try sneaking into the village. Instead they looked outside the village.

"And remember I do all the talking" Deidara said.

"Of course senpai!" Said Tobi nodding. They where both surrounded by trees, some sun shining through the leaves. When they suddenly saw a young red-headed girl. She was walking to her house, and she clearly looked upset about something. She was fiddling with the door keys and went inside.

"Whys her house outside of the village?" Mumbled Deidara to himself. But of course Tobi heard and replied.

"Maybe she likes her privacy!"

"Still makes no sense" Deidara whispered back.

Tobi shrugged, he ran towards the house and knocked on the door. Deidara felt like screaming and blowing up Tobi, but that would just ruin the situation even more.

"Hello? It's Tob- I mean the Girl Scouts! And Tobi has cookies!" Said Tobi while knocking on the wooden door.

'No one is that stupid to-' Deidara's thoughts where interrupted when he heard the door slam open. The young jinchuuriki looked up at Tobi excitedly.

"DO YOU HAVE RAMEN FLAVORED COOKIES?!" Asked Kushina excitedly, her eyes where sparkling and she was drooling. Tobi stared at her for a few seconds flabbergasted before nodding swiftly.

"Yeah! Tobi has some! Just follow Tobi and you can get as many as you'd like!" Said Tobi cheerfully. Feeling a little weird talking to the younger version of his sensei's girlfriend. But he didn't show it.

"Lead the way mister!" Kushina said.

Deidara's eyes twitched, she was dumber than he thought. He turned on his ear-piece and said "Pein-Sama we have found the jinchuuriki" after a few seconds he got a reply "we're on our way"

Deidara saw Tobi and the kyuubi jinchuuriki nearing him, when suddenly she pulled out a kunai. She had a mischievous grin on her face. She was ready to strike him from behind, but she had missed. Tobi stepped to the side shaking his head slightly "Tobi doesn't like bad girls, and bad girls don't get cookies" he said in his usual high-pitch voice.

"Well too bad dattebane!" With a wide smile on her face, she struck a pose and said "I'm Kushina Uzumaki, the red hot habanero!" She stuck her tongue out at Tobi "I'm not dumb enough to follow a stranger!"

Once again Kushina attempted to hit Tobi again, but he kept dodging. "Hold still dattebane!" She jumped up on a tree branch and threw a couple of shuriken at him. "This is my first time fighting a bad guy dattebane!"

Deidara shook his head, 'she must think this is all a game, not like I blame her. If I fought with Tobi, I'd think it was all one big game too!' He continued to watch their fight.

Kushina managed to punch Tobi on his shoulder. But what she didn't know was that he let her do that. "Ow! You hurt Tobi!" Tobi started to rub his shoulder. "Tobi won't let you go until you apologize!" He crossed his arms

"As if, you big cry baby!" Kushina said with a grin.

You big cry baby those words stood out to Tobi.

Deidara noticed that Tobi wasn't moving, "what are you doing?" He whispered to himself harshly. Kushina pinned another punch on him, this time to the face. Which caused Tobi to stumble and fall to the ground.

Kushina lifted him up by his collar, or tried at least. And shook him. "So why are you here huh? Are you a spy?! A stalker?!" Then she gasped "or even worse! A ramen thief dattebane!"

Deidara decided to intervene, stepping away from his hiding place "hey! I suggest you let my partner go"

Kushina's head snapped up, she glared at Deidara with two sets of violet eyes. "Are you here for my ramen too?!" KI suddenly radiated off of her. Which, embarrassingly enough for Deidara, made him flinch.

"N-no! I mean…no! We are here for you!" Yelled Deidara at her.

She stared at him for a few seconds before giving him a blank look. "Are you guys pedophiles dattebane?"

"What?! No, we are here for your tailed beast!" Yelled Deidara annoyed, however he instantly regretted saying that.

"What!? You wan't the kyuubi dattebane!?" She started laughing "why would anyone want him? Besides you'd kill me in the process of extracting him!" She laughed even more.

Deidara stared at her. She stopped laughing "wait your serious?" Asked Kushina. Deidara only nodded.

Deidara un-henged. And grinned. "You can make things easier for me and not struggle" he ran forward. Which caused Kushina to squeak and run from him.

Tobi un-henged too, after snapping out of his momentary trance. "Hey come back here Tomato-chan!" He stood up and followed after her. And so did Deidara.

Kushina continued running until she was suddenly stopped by a shark-like man. He gave her a toothy grin "gotcha" right behind him where, Itachi, Hidan, Kakuzu, Zetsu, Konan and Pein.

"Uh…can't we talk about this over ramen? I really don't want to die young!" She nervously chuckled walking backwards slowly, until she bumped into Deidara. She only had one kunai, and she knew even she couldn't fight nine people at a time.

"HELP DATTEBANE!" She yelled. They all started surrounding her. She started to panic.

"Hey!" Somebody yelled from a tree. They all looked up to see a young blonde haired boy. "Leave her alone"

Kushina looked up at him "hey! You're that girly boy in my class that never stands up for me dattebane! I'm doomed…"

The boy chuckled a little "sorry…" he said awkwardly

However the rest of the akatsuki only stared at him. They all recognized him, he was the fourth hokage. Said to have surpassed every previous hokage but the first. They all had to remind themselves that he was only twelve.

"Awe! The fourth hokage looks so cute and tiny." Kisame laughed, he received a couple of chuckles from the rest of the group.

The boy looked slightly confused "the fourth hokage?" He mumbled, "I don't mean to be rude" started the blonde boy "but we are only on the third!" He yelled to the group.

"Yeah yeah, believe what you fucking want" Hidan yelled back.

The blonde boy coughed "anyways, can you please leave Kushina alone? She doesn't seem to want to be near you guys"

"No duh, un" Deidara grumbled

"Tobi was just trying to make a friend! We promise we will be quick!" Tobi whined to the blonde boy.

The boy sighed and pulled out a couple of shuriken "why don't we introduce ourselves, I'm Minato Namikaze" he threw the shuriken at them, which they all dodged. Except for Tobi, he was pinned to a tree now.

"Tobi's name is Tobi!" Tobi yelled back gleefully to his old (young?) sensei.
He pulled out the shuriken from his shoulder. Yes, Obito could've dodged it, however Tobi wouldn't be able too.

"Not telling you my name, un!" Yelled Deidara back, he grabbed some clay from his pouch and started to mold it with his hands. He made a small turtle thing and threw it at Minato. Which Minato was able to jump off the tree branch before it exploded.

Hidan and Kakuzu where drawing their weapons while Kisame and Itachi prepared their attack. Zetsu was at the back of them all, just watching.

"Everyone with-draw" Pein ordered, everyone turned to him even Konan with a questionable gaze. "We don't have time to fight, we can find another jinchuuriki" everyone nodded, they all surrounded Pein and they disappeared in a flash.

Minato and Kushina just stared at the area that they where just in, Kushina's jaw hit the floor "WHAT THE HECK JUST HAPPENED DATTEBANE!?"

"We should go report this to the hokage, would you like to join me?" Minato smiled, Kushina blushed a little and mumbled a sure before leaving with him.

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"We are going to have to fight eventually" Konan whispered to Nagato.

He nodded "I know, but it just didn't feel right fighting with a child. Especially if that child is destined to be our sensei's future student" he whispered back.

"Alright, I trust your judgment Nagato" said Konan

"Where did you take us? Hopefully someplace worth of value" muttered Kakuzu.

Pein cleared his throat to get everyone's attention "I brought us back to the time when the Shodaime still lived, however I don't know when specifically. The Shodaime may even be a child right now"

"So, there's a possibility that the beasts are somewhere freely roaming?" Questioned Itachi, which he received a nod back from Pein.

"I don't see any villages around here, only a very familiar looking mountain" said Kisame, pointing towards a generally small mountain.

Itachi stared at the mountain for a few seconds, before he spoke again "it is the hokage monument" he stated "except without any of the hokage's heads"

Everyone soon realized how far they went back.

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