Akatsuki Arrives

Yami's courtyard.

Taking of his mask, Yami threw himself onto his bed with a laugh. He was in a good mood after acquiring Sasuke Uchiha as his disciple by fooling Itachi.

'That went smoother than I thought. I was expecting Itachi to doubt me a bit more, but I guess he is still young and inexperienced. Well to be fair, I am not exactly fooling him, Sasuke will be far stronger as my disciple than in the original plot.'

In Yami's opinion both Sasuke and Naruto wasted a lot of potential during their childhood, because they were completely neglected by Konoha until they were twelve years old. Even after that, Kakashi didn't do his duty as a teacher well and only taught them some basics and one ninjutsu to Sasuke.

If Kakashi was willing to teach Naruto a lot of Wind style ninjutsu, with Narutos huge chakra reserves, he could just spam them on his enemies with his shadow clones.

His combat power in the early stage would soar and even Sasuke would have no chance against him, due to the gap in chakra.

But that didn't happen at all. Until Naruto was twelve, the Nine-tails chakra interfered with him constantly. It's ridiculous that as the son of a super genius like Minato Namikaze, Naruto cannot even do the most basic three jutsus in ninja school.

And eventhough Konoha high level knew about Narutos problem, they did nothing to help him at all. Complete waste of potential.

Sasuke was a bit better, because of his bitter hatred, he worked himself to the bone. But without anyone to teach him, he was still nothing special until he came under Orochimarus tutelage.

As the reincarnation of Indra, it's sad that Sasuke could not even defeat Rock Lee with weights on in the beginning.

Feeling pity about the wasted potential and the points the change of plot will bring, Yami decided to teach Sasuke into an absolute monster. Of course, the awkward and arrogant character from the Anime will have to be beaten out of Sasuke too.

'The other Uchiha member Itachi will decide to save is most probably Izumi. Well her talent isn't bad in the Anime, maybe she has the potential for Mangekyo Sharingan.

The problem is that I have no idea how to raise children...It seems I will have to save Mikoto and let her have a headache with that. She can be the maid in this house, a bit liveliness isnt bad. With Kyoka Suigetsu it's no problem to hide them either.'

With high expectations for the next day, Yami went to sleep.

- The next day-

Tens of kilometres outside of Konoha, a group of people in black robes with red clouds on them is moving through the night unhurriedly in the direction of the village.

Avoiding all Konoha guards with the layout information they got from Danzo, they were ready to exterminate the Uchiha clan tonight.

All current members of Akatsuki were mobilized by Nagato Uzumaki for tonight's action.

Yami who was following them from behind with this stealth skill activated, went though their information in his mind.

'It seems Nagato takes this task very seriously, even taking the risk of exposing some information about them.

Sasori S-rank missing-nin, dubbed as the greatest puppet-ninja genius in the history of Sunagakure, someone who has managed to assassinate the Third Kazekage alone and became the fuse for the start of the Third ninja world war.

He seems to have already completely replaced his physical body with a puppet, making himself the ultimate representative of his ridiculous definition of 'eternal art', but he also lost almost all emotions he once had because of it. Makes sense that he is here, from what I remember he is one of Akatsuki's earliest members.'

Yami's eyes turned to a shark faced guy with a big sword in his hand.

'Kisame S-rank missing-nin from Kirigakure, also called tailless beast because of his huge chakra reserves. Now that I feel it myself, he is indeed worthy of this title. He is also the current wielder of one of the seven ninja swords of Kirigakure 'Samehada', personally recruited by Uchiha Obito and one of the few insiders of the Infinite Tsukoyomi plan. This guy is the only member, who is full heartedly loyal to Akatsuki and has a really good personality, but his murloc-type looks are a bit scary now that I see him in reality.'

Yami then proceeded to observe next robed ninja.

'Kakuzu S-rank missing-nin from Takigakure, someone who survived since the era of Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara. Has five hearts and an unhealthy obsession with money.

Hahaha, Kakuzu is indeed a bit miserable, not only was all the money he earned for the organisation used by Konan for explosion tags, but the higher ups of Takigakure actually gave him the task of assassinating Senju Hashirama, but his future partner Hidan seems to have not joined yet.'

Then Yami saw one of his important targets for tonight.

'Oh and the future number one general under my command, Orochimaru is here too.

Seems I can use Shisui's Mangekyo on him directly tonight.

I will let him stay in Akatsuki as my informant, as long as he does not stupidly provoke Pain like in the original plot, he will be fine, but he has indeed modified his body to an incredible degree, he is actually able to tank Shinra Tensei directly in the Anime.

There is also Juzo, one of the members of the old seven swordsmen of the mist, who got almost annihilated by an angry Might Dai. I don't have a big impression of him, he seems to have died after trying to play baseball with a Tailed-beast bomb, but he has indeed managed to save Uchiha Itachi's life.'

While Yami was observing and evaluating them in his mind, he noticed that the six Pains and Konan were entering Konoha from somewhere else.

'They should be responsible for holding back Konoha's forces tonight, while the other member slaughter the Uchiha. No idea where that sneaky bastard Obito is. Maybe discussing something with Itachi.'