Who is in the akatsuki in Naruto?

Answer 1

Akatsuki, Dawn in Japanese, is an organization bent on controlling the tides of war. Made up of nine, previously ten, members; Sasori (deceased), Deidara (deceased), Kisame, Itachi (deceased), Pein/Nagato (deceased), Konan (quit), Hidan (MIA), Kakuzu (deceased), Orochimaru (quit and deceased), Zetsu, Madarra/Tobi. It originated under the control of Nagato, who intended to collect and utilize all nine of the bijuu, or great tailed beasts. In order to do so he was requierd to capture all of the jinchuriki, or hosts the bijuu are sealed inside, and extract them. This in turn would kill the host. Naruto and Killer Bee are the only Jinchuriki left. (Gaara is not dead, he was revived by Granny Chiyo) So Nagato's original plan was, once he had posession of the bijuu, he would use them to control war and put the five great shinobi villages out of business. Pein's invasion of Konoha changed his mind though and Nagato, as the tenth path of Pein brought everyone that he had killed back to life. After that Madarra took over as head of the Akatsuki organization. It was revealed that Madarra was using the members of Akatsuki as pawns to collect the bijuu to combine them to create the original ten tailed beast, sage of the six paths, for himself.