Wednesday, May 1, 2013
0=[==>>Akatsuki
The "Akatsuki" kanji means daybreak,
breaking down the word itself gives us "aka" meaning red and
"tsuki" meaning moon. Akatsuki was founded in the Rain Country by
Yahiko, Konan and Nagato. Yahiko wanted to bring peace to the bloody,
war-ridden country and sought like minded individuals at his side. When he met
Rain leader Hanzou to talk peace, he was betrayed by the man and had to kill
himself to save Konan's life. After being traumatized by Yahiko's death, Nagato
adopted a new harder outlook on how to achieve peace as the group's new leader.
Around this time the group became affiliated with a man claiming to be Uchiha Madara. The masked figure used his power and influence to secretly run the group and draw in new more deadly allies from throughout the world. Under this man, Akatsuki began to attract new S-Ranked criminals. Many of these are missing-nins who fled their villages after causing death and destruction. Over time most of the Akatsuki members were killed or neutralized in battle. There are currently only 2 active Akatsuki members: Tobi (Uchiha Obito) and Zetsu. Most members wear a forehead protector from their hidden village with a scratch through it, and all wear a ring identifying their position in the organization and a black cloak with red clouds. In the early years of the group, they acted as mercenaries for hire, offering their services to villages wary of taxing their own resources. While travelling about, the group members will work in groups of two collecting knowledge of new skills and jutsu.
Akatsuki seeks to capture the Bijuu and their hosts the "Jinchuuriki," meaning the power of human sacrifice. These are the individuals possessing bijuu (tailed beasts) within their bodies. The demons are known by the number of tails their body possesses. When the Bijuu is removed from the Jinchuuriki's body, the host dies. All the captured hosts lost their lives save for Gaara, who was later resurrected with a tensei jutsu. The only remaining Bijuu are the Eight-Tails and the Nine-Tails within Naruto. Akatsuki's current base of operation is unknown, however they have multiple bases to which they can travel. These bases are used to summon the gigantic King of Hell statue known as Gedou Mazou. The statue's mouth is bound and his hands are cuffed. Each respective finger of the statue's hand represents the Akatsuki member. Each statue finger thus represents the kanji and ring finger of the member.
The members have the ability to project their presence to their base, this allows them to remain out and about and still conduct the business of Jinchuuriki demon extraction. This process takes three days and nights due to the absence of Orochimaru. This length of time goes for both free roaming bijuu and bijuu enhanced Jinchuuriki. To begin to leach the power from the Jinchuuriki, the members will use the sealing technique of GenryuuKyuu Fuujin (Mystical Dragon Nine Exhaustion). This causes the mouth of the statue to open. Nine spectral dragons will emerge to coalesce around the Jinchuuriki to begin the extraction process. When extraction is completed, the bijuu spirit will be sealed within the statue and one of its eyes will open denoting a captured bijuu spirit. The Jinchuuriki themselves will fall back to the earth, dead.
Akatsuki's ultimate goal is to control the world. This would be accomplished through capturing and sealing away the Bijuu into the Gedou Mazou statue. The tailed beasts were once part of one more powerful creature known as the Juubi. The first ninja, Rikudou Sennin, split the Juubi's soul from its body and sealed it within himself. He then encased its body in rock to create the moon. When his life was nearing its end, he split the Juubi out into 9 separate Bijuu. Akatsuki sought to recombine these Bijuu back into the Juubi. Uchiha Madara would then embue the Juubi into himself, to gain enough power to cast a permanent Genjutsu on the moon known as his "Eye of the Moon" plan. Because Madara's aging body would prevent him from seeing the plan to fruition, he took on a pupil, the heavily injured Uchiha Obito who would carry out his plan. This plan would make them the supreme power in the world and cause "peace" under their rule. To that end, Obito used the genetic material of Shodai Hokage and the captured Yamato, to greatly bolster his army of White Zetsu. Obito then aligned with the Orochimaru tissue-infected Yakushi Kabuto, who was working towards his own ends. With Kabuto's increase in power, he cast Edo Tensei, resurrected scores of dead ninja, including many former Akatsuki members and the deceased Uchiha Madara in his prime age form. Madara, who had planned to be revived by Nagato's Rinnegan powers, was instead brought back in an Edo Tensei form embued with Senju Hashirama's DNA. This granted him the ability to unlock the Rinnegan and eventually free himself from the binds of Edo Tensei, giving him an invincible body. With a combined army of White Zetsu, the resurrected ninja, Madara and Obito, Akatsuki declared war on the world and the Fourth Great Ninja War began.
Around this time the group became affiliated with a man claiming to be Uchiha Madara. The masked figure used his power and influence to secretly run the group and draw in new more deadly allies from throughout the world. Under this man, Akatsuki began to attract new S-Ranked criminals. Many of these are missing-nins who fled their villages after causing death and destruction. Over time most of the Akatsuki members were killed or neutralized in battle. There are currently only 2 active Akatsuki members: Tobi (Uchiha Obito) and Zetsu. Most members wear a forehead protector from their hidden village with a scratch through it, and all wear a ring identifying their position in the organization and a black cloak with red clouds. In the early years of the group, they acted as mercenaries for hire, offering their services to villages wary of taxing their own resources. While travelling about, the group members will work in groups of two collecting knowledge of new skills and jutsu.
Akatsuki seeks to capture the Bijuu and their hosts the "Jinchuuriki," meaning the power of human sacrifice. These are the individuals possessing bijuu (tailed beasts) within their bodies. The demons are known by the number of tails their body possesses. When the Bijuu is removed from the Jinchuuriki's body, the host dies. All the captured hosts lost their lives save for Gaara, who was later resurrected with a tensei jutsu. The only remaining Bijuu are the Eight-Tails and the Nine-Tails within Naruto. Akatsuki's current base of operation is unknown, however they have multiple bases to which they can travel. These bases are used to summon the gigantic King of Hell statue known as Gedou Mazou. The statue's mouth is bound and his hands are cuffed. Each respective finger of the statue's hand represents the Akatsuki member. Each statue finger thus represents the kanji and ring finger of the member.
The members have the ability to project their presence to their base, this allows them to remain out and about and still conduct the business of Jinchuuriki demon extraction. This process takes three days and nights due to the absence of Orochimaru. This length of time goes for both free roaming bijuu and bijuu enhanced Jinchuuriki. To begin to leach the power from the Jinchuuriki, the members will use the sealing technique of GenryuuKyuu Fuujin (Mystical Dragon Nine Exhaustion). This causes the mouth of the statue to open. Nine spectral dragons will emerge to coalesce around the Jinchuuriki to begin the extraction process. When extraction is completed, the bijuu spirit will be sealed within the statue and one of its eyes will open denoting a captured bijuu spirit. The Jinchuuriki themselves will fall back to the earth, dead.
Akatsuki's ultimate goal is to control the world. This would be accomplished through capturing and sealing away the Bijuu into the Gedou Mazou statue. The tailed beasts were once part of one more powerful creature known as the Juubi. The first ninja, Rikudou Sennin, split the Juubi's soul from its body and sealed it within himself. He then encased its body in rock to create the moon. When his life was nearing its end, he split the Juubi out into 9 separate Bijuu. Akatsuki sought to recombine these Bijuu back into the Juubi. Uchiha Madara would then embue the Juubi into himself, to gain enough power to cast a permanent Genjutsu on the moon known as his "Eye of the Moon" plan. Because Madara's aging body would prevent him from seeing the plan to fruition, he took on a pupil, the heavily injured Uchiha Obito who would carry out his plan. This plan would make them the supreme power in the world and cause "peace" under their rule. To that end, Obito used the genetic material of Shodai Hokage and the captured Yamato, to greatly bolster his army of White Zetsu. Obito then aligned with the Orochimaru tissue-infected Yakushi Kabuto, who was working towards his own ends. With Kabuto's increase in power, he cast Edo Tensei, resurrected scores of dead ninja, including many former Akatsuki members and the deceased Uchiha Madara in his prime age form. Madara, who had planned to be revived by Nagato's Rinnegan powers, was instead brought back in an Edo Tensei form embued with Senju Hashirama's DNA. This granted him the ability to unlock the Rinnegan and eventually free himself from the binds of Edo Tensei, giving him an invincible body. With a combined army of White Zetsu, the resurrected ninja, Madara and Obito, Akatsuki declared war on the world and the Fourth Great Ninja War began.
History
In its early days, Akatsuki gained fame and
recognition in Amegakure, drawing the attention of Hanzō
of the Salamander — a world-renowned ninja and then leader of the
country. Believing that the group was becoming a threat to his rule, approached
the organisation and falsely claimed that he wanted to use them as the axis to
negotiate peace between Konohagakure, Iwagakure,
and Sunagakure.
However, Hanzō betrayed Akatsuki and, working together
with Danzō
Shimura of Konohagakure's ANBU, kidnapped Konan
and orchestrated Yahiko's death. After synchronising with the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path and
attempting to exact revenge on Yahiko's killers, using his friend's corpse as a vessel and
going by the name Pain, Nagato became the new leader of the Akatsuki and took
control of Amegakure after the resulting civil war.
Following the Third Shinobi World War, Akatsuki
became a mercenary group for hire and Nagato presumably began taking direction
from Obito, who acted as the organisation's collaborator and benefactor. In
times of peace most of the ninja villages, rather than increasing their own
armaments, employed Akatsuki to fight in wars, spy on enemies, or carry out
assassinations. The Fourth Raikage claims that only Kumogakure has
never used Akatsuki's services, and during this time it became widely believed
that Akatsuki was founded and based in Kirigakure,
perhaps due to Tobi's influence over the Fourth
Mizukage. Eventually, Akatsuki would begin capturing the tailed
beasts, in the process antagonising many of its former clients.
Events relating to Akatsuki before the start of Part
II have only been given in fragments. Sasori and Orochimaru were
partners for a time and were apparently very effective. Kakuzu had a
number of partners that he killed in fits of rage. For this reason he was
partnered with Hidan shortly
before the start of Part II, Hidan's immortality meaning there would not need
to be constant replacements. Itachi
Uchiha apparently joined before carrying out the Uchiha clan massacre for which he
defected from Konohagakure, though his membership seems to have come
with the stipulation that Akatsuki could make no direct movements against
Konoha. When Itachi joined, Orochimaru attempted to steal his body in order to
gain the Sharingan.
This failed and he was forced to defect. Deidara was
recruited to replace Orochimaru as Sasori's partner, but because Orochimaru
took his Akatsuki ring with him he could not also replace Orochimaru's
position. Akatsuki also captured two tailed beasts before Part II, which in the
anime are indicated to have been the Five-Tails and
the Seven-Tails.
Akatsuki becomes much more active in Part II, with
Deidara and Sasori making their move to capture Gaara for theOne-Tail.
Though they succeed in the extraction, Sasori is killed. Taking advantage of
the open membership, having created the identity of Tobi to pose an Akatsuki
flunky, Obito replaces Sasori to oversee the group's affairs. Next are the Two-Tails and Three-Tails,
though Hidan and Kakuzu are lost during an unrelated scuffle with Konoha ninja.
After obtaining the Four-Tails, Deidara dies during his fight with Sasuke
Uchiha with Tobi managing to convince Sasuke to work with Akatsuki
after Itachi's death. Although five Akatsuki members are lost, Tobi claiming
their sacrifices were worth winning Sasuke's loyalty, the organisation takes
more drastic measures to make up for diminished numbers.
In the anime, Nagato goes to capture the Six-Tails (the
beast having been caught at some earlier point in the manga). He and Konan are then
sent to Konoha to capture the Nine-Tails.
Konoha is destroyed, but they fail in their assignment; Nagato dying and Konan
leaving the organisation. At the same time, Sasuke and his team are tasked with
capturing the Eight-Tails, but they too fail to complete their
assignment. Akatsuki's actions finally provoke a response from the ninja
villages, who hold a Kage Summit to discuss what should be done. Tobi,
wishing to accelerate his machinations, infiltrates the meeting and declares
war against the Five Great Shinobi Countries and the Land of Iron, promising to
use the seven tailed beasts Akatsuki has already captured as weapons. The
villages and their associated countries form the Allied Shinobi Forces to combat
Akatsuki, beginning the Fourth Shinobi World War.
In preparation for the war, Kisame
Hoshigaki infiltrates Kumogakure to gather intelligence on the Shinobi
Alliance, as well as to learn the location of the two remaining tailed beasts.
He dies in the process, but not before sending what he has learned to Obito.
Obito, meanwhile, goes to Amegakure to retrieve Nagato's body and the Rinnegan, as
well as to kill Konan for her defection. Kabuto
Yakushi, a new ally of the organisation, then captures Yamato, allowing
him to strengthen an army of 100,000
White Zetsu Obito amassed.[4] After
Kabuto utilises Summoning: Impure World
Reincarnation to supplement Akatsuki's forces with ninja famous during
their lives, Akatsuki marches off for war.
