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Chapter 1: Nagato's Legacy

As Nagato uttered his dying breaths after casting the Rinne Tensei (Gedo: Art of Rinne Rebirth) he opened his mouth to say one last thing before dying of chakra depletion.

"Uzumaki Naruto, I have one last parting gift for you. Please take my eyes."

Nagato was breathing heavily, only due to his will was he still alive.

"Please take my eyes."

Nagato will was falling, he could only say one last thing before death would come take him.

"Please use eyes to bring true peace to this cursed world."

After saying these last words Nagato collapsed, and his soul left the world of the living. Konan remained calm even though Naruto could clearly read her face, she was struck with grieve. She walked to Nagato and layed her hand on Nagato's head.

"Goodbye, my dear friend."

She then turned to Naruto,

"Uzumaki Naruto, will you accept this last gift from Nagato?"

Naruto was surprised by Konan, she did not blame him even though he was the one that drove Nagato into death. He actually hadn't even realized how great the gift was that Nagato left him behind, and in his confusion he could only nod. Konan turned back towards Nagato and said,

"Please bear with the pain."

Konohagakure

All the people who had died during Pein's invasion were brought back to live, Sakura couldn't believe it.

"What is causing this?"

She had asked it to no one in particular but a part of Katsuyu came out of her clothing.

"Naruto-kun has spoken with the one controlling the Pein's and as a result of that talk the seventh Pein decided to bring everyone he has killed in the invasion back to live."

"He did what!"

Sakura simply could not understand Naruto's reasoning, a man destroy's his village. But instead of killing him he just talks to him.

Well, I suppose I ought to be happy. It made all the villagers come back to live.

To her right Sakura heard Fukusaku,

"Ma, what happened?"

He could barely finish his sentence because of the surprised shout and soon following hug of Shima.

Everywhere around Konohagakure people were hugging each other and shedding tears of joy and relief as they hugged the ones that they thought to have lost.

Elsewhere in Konoha Hatake Kakashi was also coming back to live, cutting off a conversation with his deceased father. When Kakashi showed signs of being alive again the first thing he heard was Chouji exclaiming how glad he was.

In front of Ino's eyes Shizune had died but Ino now experienced her sitting up and asking questions like she wasn't dead. She was to ask Shizune if she knew what had happened when Katsuyu came out of her cloths and relayed to them the same story as she had to Sakura a few seconds ago.

Near Konohagakure

Konan wrapped Nagato in papers, as well as the Deva Path Pein.

"The body of the Deva Path was Yahiko's body, he was very dear to Nagato and myself. That is why I am taking him as well, I will lay them in their final resting place together."

"What are you going to do now? Are you returning to the Akatsuki?"

"I am returning to Amegakure, not the Akatsuki. With Nagato gone the Akatsuki has become meaningless to me. It was Yahiko who started and was the leader of the Akatsuki. When Yahiko died Nagato took over and I could accept that, but now that Nagato is gone the Akatsuki will stray from his belief and start pursuing other goals. That is why the Akatsuki is nothing any more to me, that is why I will leave the organisation."

"I would like to ask you to stay here but I am afraid that the village would not approve of that."

When Naruto mentioned the word 'village' his voice and emotion changed a little. Konan did notice it but did not mind it, she knew what is was like to lose someone or something.

"Uzumaki Naruto, do lift the curse of this world."

That was the last thing Konan said to him before growing paper wings and flying towards Amegakure. Naruto then walked towards the village, and even though he barely had enough energy left to walk he forced himself to it. He decided to put his newly obtained ocular power to the test, and he started pouring chakra into his eyes. Immediately his vision changed, the world changed into grey-tones, except for chakra. Chakra was the only thing that had colour. When he looked at himself the chakra was blue, but when he looked to the place where the seal was he saw dark red chakra. When he looked ahead he could see a whole bunch of chakra's, the chakra from the villagers. Naruto was delighted because the number of chakra's was high, which meant that Konan had spoken the truth and that Nagato had revived everyone in the village. He also noticed one person that was coming towards him. Naruto deactivated his eyes and looked at the direction that he had seen the person come from. But the usage of his eyes had drained the last of his energy and Naruto fainted before he found out who was approaching him.

When Naruto opened his eyes again he found himself laying on someone's back, in a second he recognised it to be Kakashi. Naruto was relieved to find that his sensei had been revived as well.

"Kakashi-sensei?"

"Ah, Naruto. I am glad you are awake. We are nearing the village."

"I see."

Kakashi stopped on a tree branch and set Naruto down against the stem.

"What happened between you and Pein?"

Kakashi wanted to have some intel about Naruto's encounter with Pein as he had noticed that Naruto now possessed the Rinnegan.

"Nagato, his name was Nagato."

A silence fell before Naruto continued because he wanted to force Kakashi to remember that his name was Nagato and not the name Pein he gave to himself.

"Nagato told me the story of his pain. He told me how Konoha shinobi had killed his parents before his eyes, he told me how his best friend was killed before his eyes. And after he had told me about all the pain he had experienced he asked me how I would change the world."

Naruto stopped for a moment to catch his breathe since he was still exhausted.

"I answered that I would change the world according to the idea's of Pervy Sage. I told him that it was him that inspired Pervy Sage to write the book that would change the world. After that Nagato changed and wanted to do one last thing right. That is when he casted the jutsu that has brought everyone back to live. And in his dying breath he asked me to take his Rinnegan and use his eyes to change the world."

Kakashi did not really know how to respond, his pupil he had just gotten the Rinnegan. Naruto was going to have a hard time controlling the Rinnegan. Kakashi based this on what he had heard from Jaraiya about training Nagato.

"Naruto," Kakashi said, "You have done well."

And after saying that Kakashi picked Naruto up again and continued his way to the remnants of Konohagakure

Konohagakure

Naruto had dozed away a little on Kakashi's back, but when they arrived in Konoha he found himself facing masses of people cheering, calling out his name ans saying that he was a hero. Naruto stared at the phenomenon with wide open eyes of amazement, the people of Konoha were acknowledging him. Right in front of him. He slowly got off Kakashi's back and walked towards the people. A group of children ran towards him, asking him all sorts of questions about the enemy and himself. Over the heads of the children he could see his friends cheering for him, this had to be one of the best moments of his life. When he gave the crowd a better look he saw all kinds of familiar faces, Old man Ichiraku, Ayame-chan, Iruka-sensei, Konohamaru with his three-man cell, and lots more. In the distance he saw Gamakichi, with Fukasaku and Shima on his head. There was only one thing Naruto missed and that troubled him, for she would not want to miss this.

"Sakura, where is baa-chan? Where is Tsunade? He asked.

That is it, the first chapter of my story. This is my first time writing a fanfic so reviews and suggestions are more than welcome. I will soon start working on the second chapter which will concentrate on Naruto trying to master the Rinnegan. As soon as it is finished I will post it. Thank you for reading and tune in again for the second chapter.