Project Logos

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Hinata Hyuuga sipped her tea in silence, staring out the window of the coffee shop and into the dimly lit street beyond. They may have been on ground level, but here in the city that meant little of the sunlight above actually made it down, and the cheap solar panels for the street lights only stored enough energy for a soft glow. She hadn't spent much time in the city, she and her cousin had only arrived two days ago, but she already wished she could return to their estate as quickly as possible.

She was here on a mission though, and this dingy little coffee shop, picked for it's inconspicuous location in the lower levels of the city, was the rendezvous point for the organization, so as not to draw attention. She had to admit to being excited for this, they'd been planning for weeks and weeks and now they were here, and tomorrow they would have their day of glory.

Her thoughts were brought back to the table, and the situation at hand, as her cousin, Neji Hyuuga, sat heavily down beside her, a scaldingly hot cup of some fancy coffee based confection clutched in one hand. She had to stifle a small smile at his appearance. Neji had always looked like he'd belonged in the Hyuuga family, his attitude and appearance conveying the calm and aristocratic grace of such a prestigious old blood family as them. Still, he was not the real heir to the legacy, Hinata took that seat, albeit reluctantly. Still, she knew she would always have her cousin at her side, to help her along, knowing Neji would practically run things for her, become the shadow king of the empire.

Today was no different, really. This had been Hinata's passion, this group had been pulled together around her ideals, and Neji served as the resource for the most part, getting what needed to be gotten, making the necessary arrangements. He smiled over at her, their pale eyes meeting, as he set down his coffee, drawing a cardboard tube from the satchel at his side, tapping it against the table thoughtfully.

"The blueprints?" Hinata's voice was quiet, but firm, less of a question than a statement. Neji nodded, turning just in time to see the two girls who rounded out the information gathering members of the team pulling up to the table. They both smiled, sitting down with a wave. Neji, however, was noting if not laughably polite. He bowed his head.

"Sakura, Ino, you are both looking splendid this evening. I take it you are both feeling well enough to participate in our little field trip tomorrow?" They both nodded, their faces growing grim in the face of the impending mission. Neji nodded back silently, spreading the rolled blueprints out on the table in front of them, giving a quick tutorial on how they were getting in, where they were going, and how they were getting away.

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The Logos building was large and sleek, towering from the base of the city to the topmost walkways, 75 stories in the air. Logos was, on the surface, merely a scientific company, dealing mostly in biomedical research and technological discovery of new materials, made from renewable resources in an attempt to keep the planet self sustainable well into the future.

Inside though, beneath the boardrooms and open labs, beneath the press-rooms and the office, beneath a thousand quiet computers, humming a tune of progress, there are 13 subterranean levels, each with it's own set of labs and corridors, offices and computer banks, all kept under heavy guard, behind thousands of dollars worth of lock and key. It is here that the Logos top secret team is held, a group of brilliant, if not entirely sane, scientists and researchers that report directly to the Uchiha group, the company that owns Logos, not that a paper trail for such a fact could ever be found.

It is Uchiha Itachi that runs this lab, for the mostly absent man who was once acting chief of the whole company. Those 13 floors, never declared on official records, do not officially exist and thus have no real name, bear no real image. Those who know of it call it simply Akatsuki, dawn of a new era.

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you will get more when i get back from the cape, in a couple days i guess, if anyone actually wants more. if not, it will die here. *sigh* too many projects i guess...