Each respective finger of the statue-s hand represents the Akatsuki member. The statue-s mouth is bound and his hands are cuffed. These bases are used to summon the gigantic King of Hell statue. Previously they met at a cave in the River Country, which was later destroyed. Akatsuki-s current base of operation is unknown. It is unknown if this was a wild bijuu or a Jinchuuriki. At some point after Gaara-s capture and before Yugito-s, the group managed to capture and seal away another Bijuu. All lost their lives save for Gaara, who was later resurrected with a tensei jutsu. Yugito, Gaara and two or possibly three other unknown Jinchuuriki have had their Bijuu removed. The only known Jinchuuriki are Uzumaki Naruto, Gaara of the Sand, Nii Yugito and an unnamed elder Jinchuuriki. Shukaku is the One-Tailed Tanuki, Nibi is the Two-Tailed Cat, Sanbi is the Three-Tailed Turtle, Yonbi is a Four-Tailed demon and Kyuubi is the Nine-Tailed Fox. The demons are known by the number of tails their body possesses. These are the individuals possessing bijuu (tailed beasts) within their bodies. The stated goal of the group is far reaching and it requires the capturing of the bijuu and "Jinchuuriki," meaning the power of human sacrifice. What Tobi wants with the Bijuu and powerful Sharingan of Uchiha Sasuke is unknown. Tobi was revealed to possess the Sharingan and even possibly be Uchiha Madara himself.
However it has recently been revealed that Pain and the female member reported to Tobi. It should be noted their goal and plans have been explained by Pain, the man acting as leader. With all that in hand, the group can achieve Step Three, to control the world. In the end they plan to control all the wars and be powerful enough to even collapse the shinobi villages of the large countries, forcing them to rely on Akatsuki as well. Then using the bijuu they can create new battles and new wars and gain a monopoly over the whole market. With this force they will undercut all the other villages and fight their battles for cheap. Akatsuki will form their own fighting force with no country allegiance. The Five Great Shinobi Villages could handle the downtrend, but the smaller villages could not. Because there have not been any large scale wars in approximately the last decade, the ninja villages were being reduced in size. Shinobi villages make money for their country, and for the money to be steady it requires war. Step Two is to create the first mercenary group. Step One is for the group to attain money. Their ultimate goal is to control the world this will be accomplished through three steps. When the organization members leave to travel the country they will work in groups of two collecting knowledge of new skills and jutsu. Most members wear a forehead protector from their hidden village with a scratch through it, and all seem to wear a ring identifying their position in the organization and a black cloak with red clouds. The group replaced Sasori with "raw" recruit Tobi, who was eager to do his part. With the departure of Orochimaru, the deaths of Sasori, Kakuzu, Deidara and the neutralization of Hidan, there are 6 active Akatsuki members. Many of these are missing-nins who fled their villages after causing death and destruction. This Organization is a collection of S-Ranked criminals. The Akatsuki kanji means daybreak, breaking down the word itself gives us "aka" meaning red (a common color in the group) and "tsuki" meaning moon.