The Tenth Akatsuki

Chapter Three: Internal Darkness

I feel horrible. It's already been a week and it's so boring staying with my parents. I want to protect people, help the Akatsuki, but most importantly I want to make sure Yahiko, Konan, and Nagato are okay. If I don't check on them I'm going to go insane. 

I know I made an agreement with my Mom, but for my own mental health today I'm going to break it. I walk outside to get some fresh air and think about how I almost died. One thing from that moment that really taught me something is to count my blessings. I cherished everyone, and I'm thankful I met such a great instructor like Yahiko that later introduced me to some more amazing people, Konan and Nagato. I felt pretty bad how I treated Konan, after all the sarcastic comments I made, to me getting too involved in the relationship. I made accusations, when in reality Konan is having a really hard time dealing with reality. I told Nagato not to get involved with the relationship, but instead I was the one that got involved. 

I Ninjutsu over to Yahiko's location, at the Akatsuki base. When I arrived, Yahiko and everyone else was so surprised and joyous to see me. They thought I was dead. We were all just so happy to see each other, like the feeling you get when you have visitors that you haven't seen in a long time. "Joshua what happened? I'm just so glad that your okay," said Yahiko. "Yeah some ninjas attacked the house I was living in so my parents wanted my duties to be suspended. I just came because I had to make sure your okay. I'm ready to go back on duty though," I said. "That's strange, they have to be against the Akatsuki, those ninjas. They attacked our house too," said Nagato with a very informative expression on his face. "Yeah, but we survived by going out the trap door we installed in case something like a surprise attack happened," said Yahiko. "We should continue to be careful, they probably still want to kill us," said Nagato very concerned. 

I look behind Yahiko and Nagato's shoulder, and I see Konan shadowing behind their bodies. She looked as if she was really concentrated on something, but she was just probably listening to the conversation very intently. "Konan, during the missions, I've been judgemental, and for that I'm sorry," I said. She just looked at me and smiled with understanding, accepting my apology. 

"Ok so what's next," I ask Yahiko ready to move on. "Today I still don't want to draw much attention against the Akatsuki, so I don't think we'll be fighting anytime soon. However, I do want to meet up with someone by the name of Madara Uchiha. The goal is to help us with the future of the Akatsuki and the Third Shinobi World War that is taking place," said Yahiko. I nod in understanding before we all prepare to meet up with the client. 

After we prepare we Ninjutsu over to the meeting place, in the cave under the city of the Hidden Rain Village. We wait and then all of a sudden we see a man in a black cloak with a white mask. We couldn't tell who was under the mask. "Who are you?" said Nagato very firmly. "I am Madara Uchiha," said Madara. When I turned around to look at him I stumbled to the ground, crying, feeling pain around my whole body! 

Everyone just looked down with confusion until Yahiko and Konan tried to help. I got the worst migraine anyone ever had, and I felt my throat close. It felt like someone was choking me, like I was losing life. I was able to open my eyes for a second to look at Madara, was he trying to kill me? When I looked at him I saw fire and lava surround everything I looked at. I saw black figures creep towards evil humans, murderers, people who have committed the worst tragedy's in history. This man was so powerful that the most fearless, unforgiving, evil people in history had so much fear in their eyes looking at the black figures I could see their eyes bulging out of their face. Madara looked so evil that he made other evil people look good. I saw those black figures tear out the human's soul, from the inside out, making them powerless, nothing but Madara's pawn. 

I quickly turned back to reality and all I could see was Yahiko sobbing and Nagato talking angrily to Madara. No matter how hard I tried to stay awake I couldn't see Konan.