Akatsuki Organization

Akatsuki Organization
A criminal organization led by highly dangerous S-ranked or higher level ninja. The top of Akatsuki is usually dominated by ten of the most powerful ninjas in the organization. There are also numerous suboordinates working for Akatsuki as well as sleeper agents inside various ninja villages. Akatsuki's goal is to force all the ninja villages into submission and achieve world domination. For that they need to accumlate large sums of money, mostly through underground criminal activities. The money will be used to field a vast army of mercenary ninja that will take on any mission at lower costs compared to all the ninja villages. This will force the hidden villages to crumble due to lack of funding, and all the countries will have to depend on Akatsuki. Akatsuki is also in the process of collecting the nine tailed beasts and sealing them. The purpose is to harness the beasts' powers and use them to start wars in countries. The symbol for Akatsuki is a red cloud over a black background.

Pein (Akatsuki Leader) Deidara Sasori Itachi Uchiha Kisame Hoshigaki Tobi Hidan Kakuzu Zetsu Konan Orochimaru (former) Madara Uchiha