It is time to return

It was not like Riku to decide to wait against an assasination. It was code to go for to get the kill immediately for that is the way assassins are. But he could wait and so could the apprentice. There was no need for him to rush it, the Daimyo would be occupied and with that in mind, he could return back to fire country and perhaps, back to Konohagakure. He smiled at the thought that he would return back just days after making sweet love to one immortal human being. The thought of giving pleasure to such a creature was euphoric.

He promised that he would return. Though verbally not said, he did leave an impressionable aura that will make him return. He had to return regardless. He needed to talk to the Hokage. Bold as it was. Riku always been a audacious assassin, let alone the amount of forwardness he sometimes portrays, even the smile almost seems bold. He knew if he talked to the Hokage, he would begin to understand his role in this and perhaps he would understand the role of being a Hokage of this era.

He walked the path out of Sunagakure, the desert heat that was humid had change into a more dampen and dew smell. He could sense in the air that it was raining. The weather was beginning to change dramatically. With the change of whether and the change of scenary, he was in fire country far faster than he assumed. He must've been thinking. When he thinks sometimes, he'll begin to run on instnct. Such an annoyance being a Shikyo when it came to the simple things in life.

He slowed down as he reached into the forest. He was in fire country, that he had no doubt, but if he were to continue at his speed he would reach Konohagakure before he wanted to reach it. He would take his time, he had time for now. It would not be long before he would have to face against this damn army that was coming to obliterate everything they say shinobi. It wasn't a war that he wanted to partake in but he truly had no choice in the matter. He had a feeling that there is something much deeper than just a war.

His father told him once that the wars he had began was used as a distraction so that he in the end, he would be the victor no matter who won. The stragiest would be puzzled as they tried to figure out his movements and they were stumped when his father literally broke apart every strategy they had when going against Kirigakure. He wondered if this was the same tactic and if so, who was the one dealing the cards.

He would have to discuss this with the Akatsuki. He knew he would have to assemble them sooner or later, rather than being the past Akatsuki, violent and all about war, they were like the creed his father created which was secretive and unknowing. The villages knew there was a terrorist organisation but unaware of who leads it and who was in this groupd. It was time for them come together.

He clapped his hands together and slowly began to pull apart a black ooze that dripped out from his palms. It was the shadows he commanded. It was like a sludge consistency and as it dripped on the ground it formed tarantula like creatures. They would be the messengers. He looked them, his eyes of red and yellow gave the message to the spiders telling them they would meet in Amegakure at night. The eyes of the spiders would be his eyes and he would see the auras of the Akatsuki for he knew them well. The spiders went there ways towards the assign shinobi they needed to give the message.

"Interesting" he said overlooking at passing black cloud "A thunderstorm is coming"

There where duties in the akatsuki that where more intresting than other`s, for an example eating corpses was always a good start of a day, not only did he get payed for doing it, it also made wonders for his taste buds, a bit rotten was never a bad thing either he could handle it... The true problems started when people started questioning and confronting his duties as an akatsuki member truly they had no respect for the work he did, but could he blame them? off course he could! if there was a sympathetic moment in his life then it was dedicated in the sole purpose for Riku along with his respect. Ah Riku the "child" prodigy never seased to amaze him, while he might have worn the beatiful soft skin like other humans of his kin he was far from human... but beyond that, not only more beatiful but also much more powerful. Something that Soren held in high regard, he had potential to become so much more than just the leader of the akatsuki...

In his deepest of meditation Soren was waked up by something a certain voice he reconized as one of the leaders messengers, it was clearly time to wake up, Soren knew what was going on and dispatched the tarantula like creature, to let the leader to know he got his message... there was a lot of work to do, he would have to find all the members and pollinate those that had not been covered with his pollen, he had already set everything up in amegakure as he had been waiting for the leader to send his message. He easily rose up from the ground, taking a good look around him in the forest that he was in and split his body in two when he was sure no one was around.

He let his other part of him handle the pollination of the other members while he himself [the black side] would find the leader, at the moment it was easy he was about 100miles away from him a distance he could travel in the matter of less than 30 seconds, it was raining clearly more than what Soren had anticipated, yet he had no problem to locate the leader he was after all coated with his pollen, hardly visible to the naked eye, and every time that the user who was coated with these pollen was using a jutsu of some sort or simply in the middle of a battle [where you often let your chakra out a bit more carelessly than otherwise] or otherwise harmlessly letting out the chakra he could sense it... off course Riku was beyond even his range but as long as there was a transmitter he would have no problem in locating him... he once again merged with the earth itself only this time alone.

After a few moments Soren emerged from the ground before Riku his appearence looked diffrent from before more parts of his chest and arms where exposed and his skin was entireley black, knowing Soren Riku would know that the meeting was quickly set into motion Is it time? Soren asked with a cold and low toned voice, as his body slowly merged from the mother earth, ready to set loose his pollen/spores into the air around the leader, his Akatsuki cloak was no where to be seen as judged by the appearence of his entireley black cloak... will you join us? he asked half heartedly. Besides his yellow eyes and his extensions he was a completley dark figure, while trying to remain in the shadows of the forest. He fixated his eyes to clearly stare at the leader as he awaited his answer, his eyes where missing a fragment of pupils and only the yellow area of his eyes covered it, while the white dots on his face revealed his facial structure like his ears and nose that reminded a lot of the human counterparts that he so vigilantly disgusted.

The clouds in the distance started to build up a bit. It was clear that the weather was much clearer here than on his earlier location, never the less a comfort he enjoyed the sun shining down on him at times...

HIs legs discontinued going towards Konoha and made the turn necessary going to Rain country, a country that dreaded the pouring rain of the men and women who fell into war with regret and absolute sadness. The aura of that place, it was neither comfortable but it wasn't a place to avoid. The shadows abide him. As he walked to Amegakure, a dark tarantula came towards him and began to seep into the shadow behind his own. The messaged had been sent, he had a feeling that he would have been the first one to recieve it. Now, it was a matter of time before he came. Perhaps he didn't have to wait too long and not to his own surprise, the man known as "the one whom consumes all" had arrived.

The creature of black and white that sprouted through the earth and towards the emptiness of this world had finally showed himself again to Riku. His yellow stared at him, the eyes of gluttony. He could see the aura of his body, a hungry color of orange and red that wrapped him in a sort of blanket that could not be seen but sensed. He had stopped as he stood only a few feet away, he could feel his inhaling and exhaling the scent of everything but not the smell of that bloodlust his eyes asked for.

Soren was the quintessential Akatsuki man who did not mind being open about his association. He had told all of the Akatsuki members to not wear there cloaks in public only to hide away from the villages. He wanted to be more of the secret society his brotherhood had establish rather the brashness the Akatsuki once were in the past. But he never enforced it, rather, if they chose to wear it, he would like for them to be more inconspicious.

He talked and Riku listened. He sounded more distant than where he was speaking currently. He blinked and his eyes turned a hazy green and for a second it turned to a omnious purple "Oh yes. I believe it's time for a bit of intervention. We've been in the shadows and that is all fine and well but perhaps we need to handle things that might force us into the open" he glanced at Soren. He wouldn't mind coming out, he had a fear that was past the physical body this being had to offer. If he walked with him, that was fine. If he didn't, that was fine to. He could always entertain himself either way

"You may walk with me if you wish, perhaps you can tell me about how you've been" it wasn't like he didn't want to talk to the person, he was very much a lover of conversations and love to make those whom he work with laugh. But Soren was a man or rather a creature who was more in tune to working alone and getting his job done. Things the occupied both minds was the only conversation that he needed and small talk was one of the question. He couldn't assume that right away, however. People have a tendency of surprising him "I had The Apprentice with me in Sunagakure and I was curious as to see if he would attempt to assassinate the Wind Daimyo" his voice drifted away.

He turned his head to the storm that coming over. It's clouds did not seem merciful, the darkness of the clouds turned the early afternoon to the night sky he saw in the days of Kirigakure where cloud cover was frequent and when dark clouds arrived, there was the storm that drove not only physical things away but mental things as well. He turned back to Soren 'Unfornuately we were...preoccupied with another thing that's been attacking the villages on the Northern Hemisphere. I'm sure you are aware that there is a large army coming towards this side of the world yes?"

Soren did not show any emotion as Riku explained, only his orbs occassionally blinked at times while he still clearly listened to his every word carefully, As Riku made a proposal that he could walk along with him Soren got slightly suprised, but showed neither that he was suprised by his request nor bored of his company. It was fine his duties as where being full filled as they spoke. It appeared as if Riku wanted to be in the meeting in person but he did not question his decision, it really did not matter much anyway. He pulled his legs from the ground solidifying into two pair of feet. A small grin appeared on Soren`s face revealing his razor sharp white teeth, he tried his best to be ask kind as he could to the child he respected the most, he had nothing against taking a walk, in fact he had not been able to take a decent walk for quite some time and speak to someone at the same time you know me... i have a wide variety of a meal everyday breakfast lunch and dinner, i eat every kind of people black, white, etc. And im avoiding to devour the sick, im working hard for the organization mostly within ame or around its perimiter. He paused for a moment as he had spoken with the usual creepy tone. He too started walking

I have prepared everything for the meeting in amegakure, the seals are in place and im currently looking out for the other members in case they would need some... "guidance" he took a few seconds to say the last word as if he was concidering how he would explain it the best... he followed the leader by his side walking trough the forest as he futher listened to the leader speak about what he had been doing in suna and about his Apprentice, it was intresting enough the few details he could get where most of the time intresting it was not much but he appriciated it no less. When Riku finally mentioned about the army at the Northern Hemisphere Soren turned his head to look at Riku. His face being quite serious, he had been aware of the army for a while now, it was hard to miss, even some commoners knew about it, it was the main rumors in the south... Soren simply nodded to Riku awaiting that he would continue of whatever he knew about this army...