Sasuke doesn't have enough hatred, he still has to live an unsightly life

damn that was rad a bit rocky in the beginning switching through the gears but it came together after the first meeting of kyuubi madara & peanut gallery
and it came together quite beautiful you put in a lot of thought and im quite regretful that i could only read up to chapter 12.

i do like the idea of naruto actually joining Akatsuki especially with conan in the mix who is basicly yearning for a family and i did like the writing very much in the first 1/3 of the chapter

but contrary to your claims your precision with terms and timelines could use some work...
"The Third Great Ninja War had only finally ended a little over a year before with the cease-fire signed between Konoha and Kumo. Even that had taken the sacrifice of Hyuuga Hizashi to cement." imo your mixing up ceasefire and alliance/nap

naruto is one year older than hinata... hinata got kidnapped between the ages of 3 and 4... and at the time sarutobi is saying this naruto is selfadmittedly 4.5 and the event should have happened ~1 year before?
also your saying that the open war continued for ~4 years after the kyuubi attack and the 4th death but it was at the victory celebration minato knocked up kushina...
in fact one of the very few conversations we saw from her mentioned that she used the period of relative peace to have her child...

so yeah your mixing up ceasefire and nap
cease fire- open war ends
nap - peace is enforced.

What a shame this was never finished

i hope that the reason the story is abandoned is because you're dead.

please don't put your personal feelings into the story. it's clear you greatly dislike neji, so you write naruto giving this long speech about how neji is disgusting. as this is totally out of character for the naturo you have written, this is clearly a mouthpiece for your own fustrations. don't do that. it breaks the immersion of the story.
disappointing.

Probably the best akatsuki naruto fic out there, shame it's unfinished. nice job

Freaking love this story

For once Danzo is right to be pissed off. I don't know if anyone realizes, but Naruto is the ONLY Jinchuriki who wasn't told of his status. Hell, he didn't start training with Kurama's chakra until he was thirteen.

Why aren't you updating?

The last chapter was a little much with the Neji fight, but this was really well done. This is far and away the best Akatsuki story on this site. It's a shame that you stopped writing but I do hope the bug bites you again and you return. Thanks for the story.

What the hell

I like the Temari thing. She and Naruto go well together even temporarily.

Yoshino is Shikamaru's mother, forgot to say it last chapter oops. My bad! Good fanfic!

good story, some cliches but over all very good, hope you update soon.