A/N: This idea has been in my head for quite some time so I decided to type it out. Story will take place at start of Shippūden era so time frame for certain events might not match up but this is fiction just go with it. This is my favorite couple in the Narutoverse so I had to do a story for them even if it sucks it sounded decent in my head.
Ages: Naruto:19 Konan:32 Naruto's sister:15 all other ages are the same as canon
Disclaimer: I do not own or profit from the Naruto franchise.
Naruto brushed the rain out of his hair and looked down at the grey ring adorning his right thumb bearing the kanji for zero; he then looked out over 'his' village. It was foolish to call it his village for he knew Konan made every decision regarding it and he was just a figurehead, the rain village's 'god' that was how it had been ever since she had found him those thirteen years ago when he had washed out of the sewer drain and floated downriver when he was six years old, only to be fished out by the Angel of the Rain Village, one glimpse at his purple eyes that had appeared when he hit his head and suddenly his savior had a purpose for him, at first he was skeptical, but she did save him, and she was working toward peace, what nobler goal was there than that? The one thing he didn't like at first was the moniker he had to take, Pein, but apparently her dead friend had the same eyes and abilities he did and she needed him to replace the former Pein as the leader of the rain village as well as the leader of the criminal organization they were running. Also it didn't take long for the name Pein to grow on him; often he used it instead of his real name when talking to Konan.
Once again he brushed the rain out of his short red hair, the red hair he remembered, it was a gift from his mother if he remembered correctly, though he didn't remember much about his parents, just that they were kind people, at least in the few memories he had been able to remember it always seemed that way, his mother had vibrant red hair, and they were both always smiling at him, but there was no point in remembering them anyway he was with his Angel now and they were working toward peace what better goal was there for a god and his angel?
Meanwhile standing at the doorway watching Pein as he sat out in the rain while his six paths where each laying on different beds Konan suppressed a sigh while she watched him and silently wondered what he was thinking about, she hoped it was something other than her, but somehow she doubted it, ever since she first fished the young rinnegan user out of that lake all those years ago and told him that the rains old god sent him to become the new one. Ever since that day he had become completely devoted to her, his Angel. His fanatical devotion was quite pleasing at first, considering that the only reason she was even in a position to pull him from that river was because she was fleeing from the Rain village after Nagato had died due to developing the demonic statue of the outer path, and she did not want to be there went she lost power in both the Rain village and Akatsuki she fled. Only to come across another rinnegan user, once she found him she did her best to get him to take Nagato's place in both the village and organization she first tried to teach Naruto the six paths jutsu figuring as long as the body Pein had used to attend meeting with Akatsuki showed up then they would believe he was still alive, which thankfully they did, fooling top class shinobi was no easy feat and she was playing with fire as it was, but what choice did she have she had to maintain her friends dream. It was so much more difficult to do back when they were deceiving them, but it could be summed up in just a few short words. She told him what to say and he did so. He learned quickly how to use his gifted eyes and soon improved so much that she was no longer stronger than he was, in fact she doubted she would provide a challenge in battle to him at all as he was now, but he still looked to her for direction, it was strange really to have someone so powerful at your beck and call willing to do anything for you, but what should she of expected? After all she was everything to him, when she first found him she was a mother for him replacing the one he lost, than she was his teacher guiding him through the challenges of becoming a skilled shinobi and leader, than she became a friend, listening to the woes he felt and sharing her own bonding to the young man as he grew explaining new things to him and listening and being there when he stumbled and fell only to pick him back up again. Yes she was his friend, she then looked at the boy again and looked away, she was his only friend as she didn't know of anyone else he had other than her, and that made her remorseful considering it was her doing, the fact that he was like this was all on her, but she had her reasons, she had to continue Yahiko and Nagato's dream of peace, plus with a healthy rinnegan user, instead of a crippled one it made it very possible for Madara's life to finally come to an end as well. That was a must for there could never be peace with a man like that around. As much as she may loathe the fact that she turned Naruto into Pein it was for the greater good, so that they could all live in peace. She sighed and entered the room, if he heard her he gave no indication as he continued to sit on the balcony overlooking the village.
"Sasori and Deidera have caught the three tails; it's time to seal it." She informed him
"Very well when shall we begin?" he asked as he used the god realm to open its eyes and get off the bed it was currently lying on, and prepared it to perform jutsu.
"In just a minute, while we are sealing the three tails ask about the status of recovering Orochimaru's ring, it would be an asset to retrieve it soon it will make the sealing process take far less time and it will allow us to add another member to our group." She told Naruto as she put a hand on his shoulder.
Naruto for his part enjoyed the contact, Konan was always warm, while it was often cold in the rain village but she never seemed to be cold and it was something he enjoyed greatly whenever he got the chance to. Not that his face ever changed from his perfectly stoic expression he had practiced since he was six years old no expression shows weakness and weakness could get you killed he would always be strong for his angel.
Soon Naruto stood and moved his body out of the rain so he wouldn't get sick while he was elsewhere. He then made the god realm make the Ram sign and the world around him blurred.
Astral projection jutsu
Soon he was in an unfamiliar area with a see through projection of Konan, and three other Akatsuki members so far, an astral projection of Zetsu, while there were solid real forms of both Sasori and Deidera. The latter two had with them a giant three tailed turtle that was incapacitated. With that Pein moved into a wide open area and started making hand signs.
Boar-Dog-Bird-Monkey-Ram
Summoning: Demonic statue of the Outer Path
The ground rumbled and out of it emerged a giant humanoid statue with nine eyes, seven of the eyes being closed, at that moment another team of Akatsuki arrived Kakuzu and Hidan, upon seeing the statue had their projections jumped onto their appropriate finger and waited for the sealing of the three tails to being, all the while Hidan was complaining loudly to his partner who was telling him to be quiet. The foul mouth on Hidan, Konan thought to herself was the first time Naruto had ever encountered such language but she was very thankful that it didn't take with the young boy, instead growing to be a proper talking young man. Shortly the group was joined by Itachi and Kisame's projections, with Kisame saying they were busy with information gathering as the reason why they where late.
"Very well let us begin." Naruto said as he began making hand seals while the others put their hands in the ram sign.
Tiger → Snake → Rat → Ox → Dog → Ram
Sealing jutsu: Nine Phantom Dragons
With that the three day process of draining the three tails had begun. Naruto observed the others talking in hushed voices to each other for quite awhile, he sometimes wondered what they talked about but shrugged it off as unimportant as long as they got their jobs done and answered his questions and call when asked he didn't really care, speaking of questions.
"What is our status on recovering Orochimaru's ring?" Pein questioned in a flat monotone.
"We are still having trouble locating it, it seems the snake is slicker than we thought also we haven't really given it much thought." Zetsu informed him in his strange double speak voice.
"Very well Zetsu I want your main focus to be on locating that ring, Sasori do you know where it could be?" Pein questioned the spy master of the Akatsuki.
"I will check around Leader." Sasori droned out from the interior of his puppet armor. Naruto didn't give an answer, he assumed Sasori to be smart enough to know that was what he should do, the cavern they were performing the sealing in settle into silence for a few minutes before the mummers started back up amongst most of the members with only Itachi and himself remaining silent.
Now Konan who was standing between Deidera and Zetsu and since she wasn't the leader of the organization was often targeted for conversation to pass the time. For whatever reason most of the members didn't want to talk to Naruto, or Pein as they all knew him, probably saw him as a kill joy but they rarely had reservations about talking to her, it was funny considering that Naruto was taking orders from her, but who was she to complain. The only problem with that was that Deidera was one of the most talkative members of the Akatsuki besides Hidan, and he liked to make inappropriate comments often revolving around her relationship with her partner. It was no secret to her that the rest of the Akatsuki thought of them as lovers, nor was it an improbable conclusion to draw, the two of them where always together, and neither of them showed any interest in anyone else, at least that she knew of, but it was hard to picture Pein going around hitting on women in the streets with the way his demeanor had become over the years but he had been a teenage boy, in fact at nineteen he still was a teenager so it was always a possibility, although a slim one. Maybe she really didn't know everything about him, after all he didn't know everything about her, most of everything but not all. It was a long three days for the Akatsuki members; they really needed to retrieve the tenth ring so they could speed this process up, but they sealed the three tails, and another eye on the statue opened up.
"Well that's that, three down six to go." Stated Kisame rather confidently he knew what was next.
"Yes Kisame, you and Itachi will be retrieving the four tails, be careful its jinchuriki is known as Roshi of the lava style for a reason." Pein informed Kisame as the Akatsuki gradually faded away.
Once they were back in the room Naruto moved to look out the balcony again to ensure he had not missed anything in his absents, while the god realm returned to the bed it had previously occupied. Once he was satisfied he had not missed anything he turned around, only to find Konan standing there waiting to talk to him.
"Is everything alright Pein?" she asked, just like she always does whenever he checks the rain for intruder.
"No everything is fine. Konan you should get some rest your low on chakra and you look tired as well." Naruto stated flatly, but he was concerned about her health, what would happen if she wasn't here with him, he would have shuddered at the thought.
"Okay I will, thank you, wake me if anything happens out here." she stated giving him a smile, as she made her way out of his 'storage' room and toward her own quarters. He almost broke into a smile himself when she smiled at him, it always made him feel better about whatever was going on at the time, the only time he ever saw Konan smile was when the two of them were alone and he was using only the outer realm, his original body, she wouldn't smile at, or call any of the other realms Naruto. Pushing his overly complex relationship with Konan aside he began working on his realms once again, each realm being able to use one of the rinnegan's abilities was very helpful but currently he was trying to get each realm to use a type of nature transformation in addition to the rinnegan ability, so far he had been able to infuse the demon realm with lighting style, and the human realm with earth. Currently he was trying to infuse water style into the hell realm.
Three days later
The god realm was currently walking through the halls; just moments ago Pein had been told that Orochimaru had been found, so now it was time to deal with the wayward Sannin and Akatsuki member. He suddenly came to a stop after detecting a sinister presence.
"What are you doing here?" Pein asked as he turned to face the intruder, not that he expected an attack from him, no he was too valuable an asset for the man to even consider it at the moment.
"Sharp as ever I see, I heard you all just located Orochimaru's ring." The masked man that claimed to be Madara said.
"And if we have?" the god realm questioned
"I want it, it's time for me to take a more active role in the Akatsuki." The masked man stated.
"Who will be your partner than if you join the only one with a partner is Zetsu." Pein stated in a matter of fact tone.
"I talked to Zetsu, he is willing to give his ring to someone else and function as a spy full time without interruptions." The masked man told him.
"I will think it over." He stated dismissing the masked man much to the man's ire and began to walk away to meet with Zetsu.
Arriving in the main room Pein was greeted to the sight of Sasori and Zetsu both in the room with Konan standing a little ways apart from them. Pein walked in and stood in the middle of the room, Konan immediately moved to stand by his side while Sasori and Zetsu both stood in front of him but a decent distance apart from one another.
"What have the two of you learned?" Pein questioned the two spies of the Akatsuki.
"Orochimaru is currently hiding in the land of rivers in a base he set up there; he has Sasuke Uchiha and Kabuto Yakushi with him." Sasori informed.
"Very well, Sasori, I want you and Deidera to stay here till morning and await new orders, your dismissed." Pein informed the great puppeteer. Once that was done and he exited the room he turned to Zetsu, and spoke.
"I heard you were willing to give up your ring and become a full time spy, is this true?" Pein asked the plant like Akatsuki member with some skepticism.
"Yes it is. It would be better if we had five teams instead of four." Zetsu informed him.
"Very well, I will tell you when we find a suitable person to give your ring to in the meantime continue with your original assignment of tracking the five tails." Pein told the spy.
Once Zetsu left both the god path and Konan started making their way upstairs in silence words were not needed between the two, and once they made it to the entrance of Pein's storage room he unlocked it and they went in to discuss the matters that had just transpired.
"Madara came he told me he was ready to join Akatsuki and wants Zetsu to become a full time spy and wants to be partnered with someone else." Pein informed his angel.
Konan's face held slight shock before she started to contemplate their next move. "You and I will go and retrieve Orochimaru's ring ourselves, if Madara wants to join fine we will let him, but we will make Deidera his partner and we will get Sasori a new one, have anyone in mind?" she ask Pein.
"Yes how about Hiruko, I have had my eye on him for some time. He managed to thwart an assassination attempt by the Sannin many years ago, he also has developed a technique that allows him to steal kekkei genki from other shinobi, but he can only absorb five of them if our intelligence is correct and so far he has four, at least he had four last I knew." Pein informed Konan of his suggestion.
"Are you sure bringing him around you and Itachi would be wise than if he steals kekkei genki?" she asked the god of the rain.
"It will be irrelevant by then, because I planned on capturing Sasuke and offering him as a trade to Hiruko for him joining our ranks." Pein informed Konan of his idea.
"Itachi won't like it, but it may be the best course of action. Okay that's what we will do then" She stated matter of fact as she fought off a smile at the progress the young rinnegan user had made in terms of leadership and decision making.
"Very well I will give Deidera and Sasori the order to start searching for Hiruko, while we prepare ourselves for Orochimaru." Pein confirmed her orders as he turned and exited the room to seek out the artists of the Akatsuki and give them their task.
Konan was upstairs packing and thinking about their current situation with Madara, she wondered if it would be too soon to strike him yet, or if they could kill him now, Naruto had become strong, probably stronger than Nagato was she was hoping they wouldn't have to bide their time for too much longer, she couldn't stand Madara. Finishing her packing and sealing it into her scrolls that then melded to her body thanks to her paper techniques she pulled on her Akatsuki cloak and walked over to Naruto's room hoping that he was ready to leave now, as she had handled all the packing of gear and he just needed to get his different bodies ready. When she arrived she was greeted to the sight of Naruto and all six of his paths standing there ready to go, each had their headbands and cloaks on as well as their sedge hats with the concealing strips placed on their heads. He gave a curt nod when he saw her enter and moved forward.
"Are we ready to go?" Naruto asked the blue haired woman in front of him.
"Yes Pein." She said placing her own hat on her head and turning around to head out. She didn't see it under the hat he had now donned but Naruto gave a slight frown, he asked that question, not the god realm, were his lines becoming so blurred he couldn't separate himself from his persona anymore? But without thinking on it anymore he followed her out with the outer realm and the animal realm, both traveling toward the land of rivers to confront and kill their old comrade Orochimaru. They moved in relative silence for a short while until Konan asked an unusual question of Naruto.
"Pein what do you remember of your life before I found you?" Konan questioned mainly because she found it unusual that they had never talked about it before, but considering the boy was so young and was mostly in shock when she found him she didn't think it would be a good idea to bring up his past.
Naruto took a second to think it through before he responded to his teammate. "I don't remember where I lived, but I remember a kind old man, I think he was my grandfather, and my mother she had red hair just like mine, and my father was tall, and both of them where always smiling and seemed happy." He paused and gave it more thought trying to drudge up long forgotten memories. "I was playing in the park and wandered off while the babysitter was watching me, I feel into a sewer drain and hit my head, the next time I woke up I was looking up at you." He explained to Konan after that it seemed Konan was more comfortable talking with him again, whatever had her ruffled or been the cause of her agitation forgotten for the moment as they made their way toward Orochimaru.
Land of rivers secret base
Looking at the base in front of him Naruto wondered how much of a challenge Orochimaru would pose to him, most combat he had since he killed the three tails jinchuriki wasn't to a very high level. But then again he wasn't risking hunting and killing another jinchuriki it had taken the three-tails quite a while to reform itself and that really set them back, also it made Konan upset with him, and that was one thing he couldn't stand. Suddenly he was pulled from his thoughts as a tree made of paper formed around the two paths of pain and his angel. He looked over at Konan for an explanation.
"Don't use your main body unless you have to, against someone like Orochimaru it would be too dangerous." Konan inform and he nodded his head and proceeded to leave the confines of the tree with the Animal realm and enter Orochimaru's hideout. Clapping its hands together it summoned the giant snake tailed chameleon and proceeded to climb inside of it and turn invisible and began its search of the hideout. It didn't take long to locate where they were, the hideout seemed to be one giant dojo, with a very high ceiling, and lots of space to practice techniques. With his summon invisible on the ceiling Pein observed the proceedings with mild curiosity. He saw Sauske turn and leave the area, once Naruto could no longer sense him in the hideout made his move, the mouth of the summon opened and he jumped to the floor discarding his hat along the way.
"Hello Orochimaru it has been awhile." Pein stated seeing the confused look on Orochimaru's face disappear once his eyes locked with his own purple rippled eyes.
"Kukukukukuku, so I'm worthy of the attention of the leader himself, I must say I'm flattered." He stated all the while feeling the nervousness building inside of him, Orochimaru knew he could school most the cloak wearing freak show that called themselves Akatsuki, but he never knew how strong the leader was and he was nervous about engaging him in a fight, hopefully he could find a way to escape soon.
The animal realm slammed its hands together and two puffs of smoke appeared on either side of it indicating the arrival of two other realms, the hungry ghost realm and the demon realm. Both wearing their Akatsuki cloaks and slashed rain village headbands.
"Shall we begin?" the three different realms all asked at the same time.
With Konan
Konan meanwhile saw their barging chip exit the hideout and make it appear as though he was heading toward town, so she decided it was time to grab him as well. Making a pair of paper clones she moved them around to attack the Uchiha teenager. Swirling paper above her head for a moment she created her jutsu and fired.
Paper chakram
The Uchiha narrowly avoided getting sliced to ribbons by it but the surprise attack did cause some damage as he turned to glare at whoever attacked him.
"Sorry boy you're coming with me." Konan stated
"I don't think so you're messing with an elite Uchiha" Sasuke said as he activated his sharingan.
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A/N: So yes Konan is manipulating Naruto somewhat, and Naruto's parents are alive and Naruto didn't lead a terrible life.
So anyways I love this couple and wanted to try and write a story for them please enjoy, read and review.
GOD BLESS
