Thoughts of the future and three reasons.

"Pakkun will scout ahead. Everyone get some shuteye while you can, we're going up against the Akatsuki... You'll need all the strength you can muster." Akame's commanding presence made Kakashi's eyes twitch.

"Will you not help us?" Kakashi asked but already knew the answer.

"Yes and no." Akame closes the door and intends to take a nap.

An hour later, while everyone except Anko on overwatch duty was taking a small nap while Pakkun was running back, they had a strange dream. No, it's more like a memory that was not their own. A blurry figure saw the battlefield devoid of life. All around the figure were dead shinobi from Konoha and Suna. It showed how she lost her sister and the awakening of the Blurry figure's Mangekyou Sharingan.

It then showed her Domain. It was an infinite expanse of snow and blizzards. Weapons of all kinds of untold power surrounded her, but the one thing they paid attention to the most was the blurry figure stabbing those weapons into the ground with tears that turned into ice as they fell on the snow.

The figure was finally visible and it was none other than Akame whose face was twisted in anguish, the sky turned black and the scream of despair from Akame's voice was too much to bear for Naruto, Kakashi, Sakura, Temari, and others.

They saw how she was looked at with many gazes from unkind to hatred due to being the great-granddaughter of Madara Uchiha.

The final thing they saw in their dream was Akame sitting on a block of ice and gazing into the distance. All of them woke up simultaneously, they saw a legacy of death, destruction, and above all else... failure all around Akame, just in time for Pakkun to give them information about the whereabouts of the Akatsuki to Kakashi and his two students.

"Okay, so we know where they are. Let's get this over with. It would seem some Sand Shinobi will join us." Akame frowned at Temari and Baki who didn't get angry this time around. They looked at her with pity.

Akame ignored the old lady talking to Kakashi and her thoughts drifted to the very near future.

'I have some spare Airgetlam in my Domain. Maybe I can give them to Naruto and Sasuke? It would be just as if they never lost an arm. The only defining trait that will let them know is that it's made out of Fairy Metal despite them being able to feel whatever they touch with the legendary prosthetic. We must prepare for the Otsutsuki Clan's invasion, the scouting force such as Ishhiki is nothing... What I am preparing for is a large-scale invasion... We must all give our everything to survive!' Akame was brought out of her musings by Kakashi.

"Let's get going." Kakashi was already used to Akame giving that spaced-out look.

'How far can your eyes see Akame? You are always trying to get stronger as if fearing some unseen force. Is it the Akatsuki? No, you can mop the floor with all of them, whatever it is that you fear is something so despair-inducing that you are always gazing into nothing as if seeing a future so dimming that you continue to surpass your limits over and over and still it seems to never be enough.' Kakashi kept giving subtle glances to Akame as they moved through the trees.

"Naruto, can I ask you a question? How long do you think the Akatsuki have been after you?" Sakura was worried and rightfully so.

"I don't know." Naruto said with a strained voice and went further ahead.

"Two Akatsuki members came to Leaf looking for Naruto once. It's been three years since then... And no sign of them, and now they're back." Kakashi spoke solemnly.

"But why do you think they waited so long to make another move?" Sakura asked.

"Three reasons I can think of, not of enough personnel, or they haven't gathered some sort of resource needed to carry out their mission, three, perhaps they wanted to do earlier but for some reason or another they couldn't." Akame spoke.

Akame knew that it was a lack of resources, namely the chakra needed for a full extraction of a tailed beast from its host, not everyone is born with immense amounts of chakra but there is a method to increasing the volume of your chakra, and also a method to improve it's quality, Pain most likely went the easier route and had the members increase their chakra volume. A Jutsu that can extract the full body/Chakra from a tailed beast and put it inside of the Ten-Tails husk must have extreme requirements. Something the anime/Manga didn't show... It makes sense that the requirements are steep.

"We're hear." Kakashi gazed at the sealing tags on the stone door.

To Be Continued~