Naruto: Ultimate swordsman by Isom

Chapter 24: Final Confrontations! The Akatsuki Strike Back!

Konoha was in a relative state of peace. Kids were playing in the park, parents were watching them to make sure that they didn't hurt themselves, and the shop keepers were selling as much as they could. There was a strange sense of foreboding. Ever since the sun rose up there had been this sense of fear about all of them. Since that everyone seemed to be on edge. They weren't on a knife edge, but everyone was still on alert.

They were right to be on guard.

Nearby on a mountain near the gates of Konoha six figures stood looking down at the hidden leaf village.

They were a man with red hair, multiple rods in his back, and purple eyes with rings surrounding the black pupil. The second was a man with long blonde hair and a fake arm. The third was a man who looked half white and half black with weird eyes and looked like he had the head of a Venus Flytrap growing out of his shoulder. The fourth was a man with an orange mask that only had one hole in it. The fifth was a woman with purple hair, orange eyes, and an origami rose in her hair. The sixth and final figure was a man wearing a blue ninja outfit and mask with cold blue eyes and his arms looked like they were frostbitten.

The one thing that they all had in common was that they all wore black cloaks with red clouds on them.

These were the final members of the Akatasuki: Pain, Deidara, Zetsu, Tobi, Konan, and Subzero.

(AN: I know that Nagato (Pain) was crippled in his confrontation with Hanzo, but I decided to ignore that because it adds some extra zing to things. Besides he may be strong, but I didn't want him hiding behind those Paths of Pain.)

Deidara turned to Pain and said, "Leader-sama, not to question you, but are you sure this plan is going to work?"

The red haired man turned to the blonde and said, "Yes. Now then...how would some people would say...lets raise some hell."

The red haired man's eyes flashed as he held out his arms and said, "Heavenly Push."

A focused ball of distorted air formed in the man's hands and he fired a large blast of gravity that met with the ground in the middle of the main square. A split second later there was a huge outwards explosion forming a large crater.

"Split up the teams," Pain said, "The Nine-tails will fall by my hands alone."

Throughout the village panic and madness reigned supreme. Civilians were running for their lives. The Shinobi from chuunin to jonin were running toward the madness trying to see what was going on.

As soon as they got close to the crater sheets of paper came out of the the air and sliced through them like knives through butter.

When the bodies started dropping everyone made it through to the village square as fast tas they possibley could. When the Konoha 12 teams, plus, Tsuande, Jiraiya, Itachi, Kisame, Team Scorpion, and Kira's team got there they were greeted to the sight of the Akatsuki members landing in the middle of the crater and facing them.

"So you are the clowns that have been kidnapping the Jinchuuriki," Naruto growled, "I was wondering when you guys would get off your butts."

Jiraiya stared angrily at them until a glimmer of recognition flashed in his eyes.

"Konan? Nagato?" the toad sage asked in shock, "Is that really you?"

Tsuande looked at the old pervert with a shocked expression and asked, "You know these two?"Jiraiya answered, "Yeah. Unfortunately I trained them."

Nagato looked at the man and said, "I didn't come here for a trip down memory lane. Give us the nine-tails and we'll let you live."

Tsunade glared at the man and said, "Like we're going to listen to the words of a group of terrorists."