Akatsuki (Ash)

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"Peace? Peace is nothing more than a whimsical wish by those who are incapable of protecting themselves in this harsh world. It is a concept that the sheep flock toward; after all, they are nothing more than livestock. But peace cannot — will not — exist in this world! It is unallowable by the very conventions of nature! All that pervades within this forever shifting world is Chaos! Chaos will defy Order, blanketing the world in the red Dawn once more!" — Nobunaga's ambitions with reviving the ideal of "Akatsuki".

Akatsuki
Akatsuki (暁, Akatsuki, Literally meaning: Dawn or Daybreak) Underground (黒い世界, Kuroi Sekai, Literally meaning "Dark World")
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Team Info
Leaders	Nobunaga

The Akatsuki (暁, Literally meaning "Dawn" or "Daybreak") are no longer a simple organization, but rather, an era, an ideal that descended upon the world, shaking it till its very core. It was once a humble vigilante group started by three, young ninja with the intent to rid war. However, their innocent goals were corrupted by external influences, whose elaborate plan threatened to sink the entire world into a state of false utopia. Of course, with the advent of the legendary figures Naruto Uzumaki and Sasuke Uchiha combined with the Allied Shinobi Forces, the masterminds were stopped for good.

However, no matter how many are killed, ideals and memories are not so easily rid of. The Akatsuki would soon pervade the minds of people as a force that was very nearly successful in their conquest over the world. Such thoughts would give rise to others of such intent. Time and time again, these rising evils would be vanquished. But peace would not pervade in the world forever. Endless struggles revolving around power, wealth, territory and nationalism forced the world into a state of tension. Here, a single man, through nothing more than whispers, gave rise to the advent of Akatsuki once again.

He is now regarded as Nobunaga, an enigma among the world whose infamy now surpasses even those criminals stationed at Hōzuki Castle. The man's ambitions are simple, but their scale sends shivers down the spines of all who hear them. His wish is but one: forcing the world into a perpetual state of chaos. No matter the scale, all the man desires is the wheel of conflict to revolve eternally, for it is only this wheel that can truly allow mankind to prosper, even if sacrifices are littered across the way.

Wardrobe

The renewed Akatsuki symbol.

Members

The majority of the members within Nobunaga's Akatsuki are grunts, lowly criminals, illicit business owners, corrupt politicians and the like. They extend from the simple underground all the way to the surface, making it almost impossible for the average individual to determine one's affiliation to the ideal, particularly because, at this point, Akatsuki's monopolization over all underground criminal syndicates has made it next-to-impossible to completely extinguish their membership.

Core Membership

Nobunaga's conquest to bring the entirety of the world's criminal empire under his knees had a specific team of elite Shinobi, among others, to be successful. As such, much like the previous generations of Akatsuki, their primary membership is constituent of various S-Rank ninja, each of whom are Missing-nin of the highest notoriety within their respective nations and even outside of them. Each of these individuals possesses complete authority over a criminal syndicate that epitomizes the functioning of a certain illegal activity, ranging from thievery to terrorism. Accordingly so, all of these individuals are regarded as some of the greatest threats to world stability, particularly given that they act mostly independent of any authority.

Name	Role	Epithet
Nobunaga	Leader	Enlightened King of Hell (奈落の名王, Naraku no Meiō)