Matsuo made the finishing touches tp his novel, fixing some errors before he wrote the last character down. In all truth he could do better, but it was enough for now.
With the last character done, the book started to float. And Matsuo was a bit, underwhelmed, he did take a year or two to do this but it shouldn't be that good.
It glowed a bit, then fell down to the floor. Matsuo was happy for his new asset, a book that automaticly harvests nature energy and stores it like a battery. Unlike others below it that only use nature energy when its open, it takes it in all the time.
This does kinda put a target on his back by people that can sense nature energy on a high enough level, but those are far and few between. With that I mean sage people, and there only two people that have it right now, Jugo and Jiraya.
Those two, lets say, aren't known to stay in konoha for long. So its not that big of a risk to let it suck in nature energy for now, he could turn it off if he wanted to run away from one of those two. After using the new book in his hands as a reference.
On it read 'fuinjutsu 101', Matsuo had a lot of these a long time ago. After reading through it a few times it dissapeared, Matsuo made a laugh, that slowly grew into a crazed laugh 'Fucking finally! I can restock my bomb tags!' Though he could only make weird fireworks, after some practice.
He took everything he had with him into his inventory, he ran as fast as possible out of the town and anything in his way was ignored. he ran towards konoha without making a detour. When he took a break for the night by sleeping in a tree.
While he was having a nice rest a pervy sage woke him up "You, how are you taking in nature energy." Matsuo's eyes open immeadiatly and, not being able to turn it off yet, said "The fuck you talkin' about? you disgusting child molestor." Right now he was acting like a wondering shinobi that was still in his teens.
He used a fun technique called 'shadow clone true substitution jutsu' he made, and now Jiraiya was talking with a shadow clone while the real one was running away. Though the nature energy harvesting stopped, Jiraiya thought it was because Matsuo was interupted.
Matsuo ran away with a few body flicker-ish jutsu he made, they weren't that good but they did the job. He also left a few explosion tags on the shadow clone, he may've also faked an overload of nature energy to make the explosion. He went with snake sage stuff, because that's the sage style that he's planning on learning.
It was pretty easy to dissapear from Jiraiya's searching range, the clone he left behind to laugh at him when the fake snake clone dissapeared to add salt to the wound.
Jiraiya dramaticly screamed into the sky "I will take my revenge!" Before the clone could kick him while he's down, so to make it a bit more reasonable "Stop over reacting Jiraiya, nobody else will even know this happened. If you want to catch me next time, git gud scrub. Bwhahaahhahaha."
Jiraiya laughed "I'll get you next time, but can you give me your name for now?" Matsuo laughed "Sure, why not, not like I'm actually using it. Name's Matsuo Uchiha, master of nin-ja-oh, former konoha academy student, book of power producer, and up and coming fuinjutsu master. I have few more, no, actually a lot more." He then leaned forward and said as if it was a secret "Also, if you need to. I may be able to bring a few of your more 'exotic' creations to life, deal or no deal?"
Jiraiya was tempted by his pervy ways, but was able to resist the devil's temptation "Maybe later, but you wouldn't expect some nature energy user to be this casual." At this Matsuo said, while salty "Sadly, I can't use nature energy. I got lucky with a big project that was able to absorb nature energy on its own, I wish I could use sage mode."
Matsuo let his transformation jutsu stop, and said, while Jiraiya was in shock "Hope we don't end up enemies, also don't worry, I'm not going to destroy konoha or something." Then the clone threw a little packet and dissapeared into a cloud of smoke. The sannin looked at what was in it and saw a million ryo with a piece of paper "What do you expect? Books of power are a luxury good, anyway, you can consider this a bribe. So don't get in the way of my mission, ok? ok."
A mile away, by the konoha gate a wealthy looking merchant with his child was getting into the village with a mix of bribery and intimidation. The kid said "Dad! I want to eat that!" The father said to him "In a bit horu, I still have to do something."
Horu, who had goggles that hid his eyes, said "Okay." sadly.
The father son duo rented a house with a big back yard, the son stayed behind while the father set up a mission to show his son some basic jutsu. He threw a few thousand ryo at the problem, then no one had a problem with his mission.
Meanwhile, Matsuo, the boy, was reminicing. Jiraiya had brought out one of his most treasured memories.
-Another flash back-
It had been a month since his last challenge, he required a week to recover from his recent shock. After his mind had recovered, he started to consolidate his winnings. Like reading all those 101 books, he had way to many on hand. When he fully understood those things they dissapeared into the aether, or something like that.
While he was doing that he entered the village of sound, he didn't care to learn its name. He came in and bought some supplies and bought a night in a hotel, he started to wonder what to do now.
He wasn't considered a missing-nin, probably. But he would still be hunted down, having the Uchiha after you is dumb. Its smarter to kill the only remnant that wants to destroy konoha instead of being lazy.
Matsuo needed some place that konoha people couldn't look through, that meant a passive agressive relation in needed. The one that wouldn't help konoha search in their borders or do it themselves to show their superiority is the lighting land, in extension the lightning village.
While Matsuo was resting a terrorist attack happened, and a lock down happened. Nothing in or out, this was a problem for him when he was about to leave for the land of hot water.
How did he fix this problem? he first needed a way to make a big boom, or explosion. He remembered something from the anime vaguely, some gigantic amount of bomb tags linked together. He didn't remember the details, but this was his chance to leave so of course he would find out how it worked.
The idea that worked after a few hours of practice was; use the seals on the bomb tags as an anchor for chakra. Appearantly this was considered a ninjutsu, after he used handseals to do it of course. After using handseals everything is considered a ninjutsu, or him using handseals made it easier or something. he was talented in one way or another though.
When Matsuo looked at the two bomb seals, connected by an invisible chakra string. He felt that this would take at least a month to set up, if he didn't want to get discovered by ninja that is. Which he doesn't, living is nice, y'know?
Now, mascerading as some random old guy, he put a bunch of bomb seals down. He even faked some PTSD when he talked to some kids, they think he's a war veteran now. Now he was able to use those kids as an alibi, the thing he was most suprised by was that no sensor types picked up on his evil plan.
'How lazy!' Matsuo thought, he was happy, but it was dissapointing. He made a mental note in his mind 'Note to self; make fake evil plans to test subordinates if a ninja village is made.'
He then made another bit of bomb tag stuff, he also made a little framing operation. Well more like making a persona, but who cares?
He made a clone to stand on top of the highest roof top, he wore a black mask on top of the old man persona, but more healthy. A straight back and a muscled body giving the visage of youth, counteracted by the gray hair on his head.
Actually he also put on the akatsuki cloak on, on an impulse. Who wouldn't want to wear one of those things? They're awesome.
Imeadiattly some ninja jumped up "Why are you here!?" The clone laughed "I felt like adding some salt to the wound." He made a tiger seal and the real one activated the chain next to the border of the village.
The clone then dissapated as if he never existed, this was a little trick called; removing useless garbage. The clone jutsu has that explosion cloud thing in its design, and it got in the way for a few operations, so Matsuo removed it.
But this little change in effect made everyone believe that the akatsuki member ran away, then they saw all the explosions. And an old man changed akatsuki member was gone from the land of sound.
And the day after a ninja ran over to the sound village saying "Sonkage! I've found a piece of paper to do with the akatsuki member!" The sonkage said "Give it to me!"
When he read it, it said "Hope you liked the present; Aether"
-Flashback over-
Matsuo was still filled with pride at that, he used that identity a lot more after that. In reality, Aether the akatsuki member became a legend. He always appeared at random and caused chaos, konan and nagato were extremely confused how everybody thought Aether was an akatsuki. But they didn't deny the free publicity, but they were searching for the man that dissapeared a year ago.
Though Matsuo didn't know this, jk. He knew, and well at that. He met Itachi once while he was playing the role of Aether, and he kept asking who he was while fighting his shadow clone. though he did get owned, Itachi is a genius. But that's a tale for a later date, it was time to act once more.
The ease of the mission he set up was so attractive that a certain pervy sage picked it up chosing to accomany a ninja team, he quickly opened the door with the father that was under genjutsu.
Matsuo who saw Jiraiya was a bit shocked and Jiraiya recognized the nature energy that was being drained by Matsuo "Look who the cat called in." Matsuo made a face filled with his true feelings; annoyance "God damn it, why the fuck are you here? At least tell me that you won't get in my way today, or was all that ryo wasted."
Jiraiya said "I came here for some easy cash, you wanted these newbies to show you some jutsu so you can copy them?" Matsuo shrugged and said "Anyone will do as long as its a basic jutsu." Matsuo said as if it didn't matter "Sure, why not?"