no the akatsuki is hunting him instead...

Minato Namikaze, aka the fourth hokage, died sealing the nine-taied-fox into Naruto. The akatsuki leader is Pain, a rain village rouge. his only connection to the 4th is that when he was little he an konan and the another person who died met the fourth's sesei, Jirayai, once.I beg to differ its Tobi aka Madara Uchiha

Akatsuki Kambayashi has written:

'Kambayashi Akatsuki'

'Shuiro no tamago'

He died because he fight against the akatsuki, the leader of the akatsuki. Pain, he is the leader of the akatsuki, Master jiraya was killed by the akatsuki.

No, he never joined Akatsuki. Akatsuki wanted to extract Shikaku (One tailed Raccon) from him which results death but they did it. So there is no way he would join Akatsuki.