Authors Note: Well then, this is my story. BIG thanks to 1Noir on this site, I met them online and they gave me the confidence to write this, and helped to beta the first bit. Without them and my new beta this story wouldn't be near legible. I plan/hope to have a chapter AT LEAST once every two weeks, sorry for the delay but I have made numerous spelling mistakes in this note so far that you will never see, so feel bad for my betas, please give me a review on how to do better, I doubt this is anywhere near good and I really want feedback. Ratings and follows are nice but if you do anything, give me ideas on how to make it better.

Naruto? Do I own it? Well you see this reminds me of a story from my youth... Wait! Don't go I never owned Naruto just listen to my story!

KONANS POV

"I think I shall believe in you…. Naruto Uzumaki"

My last friend raised his hands to a snake seal.

"Gedō — Rinne Tensei no Jutsu"

My mind was on a different clock to my body, running through everything that had happened. This child, he had not only destroyed all 6 of Nagato's paths, but he had found the hidden area where they were transmitting, and managed to remove Nagato's unshakable confidence that what he was doing was right, and then he….

My mind replayed what happened over again. Madara had sent us to get the Jinjuriki of the Nine Tails. We fought the village, trying to find his location and found that he was at the hidden village of the toads. Nagato called a retreat and then used Shinra Tensei to destroy the village.

Then, this child was summoned here. He proceeded to destroy the 6 paths, even when they started to bring them back, he managed to get down to just the deva path, before seeing that girl get killed. He transformed into his nine-tailed-beast form. Nagato tried to trap him in the Chibaku Tensei. He not only escaped, but he managed to control the Kyuubi and take down the deva path. Then he came here and somehow managed to shake Nagato's unbreakable assurance that he was right, so much so that he, he…

NARUTO'S POV

I looked over as her last friend slumped over. Her eyes were glazed over. She wouldn't- or couldn't- respond to me talking. It was almost as if she was hearing me from far away, but couldn't focus on me.
She muttered to no-one, "This is all wrong this is all so wrong…"

Shaken by what had just occurred, I stood there. I tried to call out to Konan about what was happening. Just moments ago, I had just convinced Pein- no- Nagato, that he didn't have to go through with all this suffering, that there was a better way to peace. When he performed some jutsu, I watched my fellow student slump over and Konan looked on in shock.

The tree they were standing in started to tear apart, paper flying everywhere, causing a whirlwind effect. The paper flew across the room, slicing into his and Nagato's skin. This wasn't what worried me. I looked over to Konan, and saw that she was the epicenter of the paper. All of the paper, it swarmed onto her… she became the center of the maelstrom.

As I watched on in horror, her body started to turn to paper. This paper, it was tainted. A red fire design scrawled across it, before it stopped. The fire design soon turned into a ugly black pattern, covering the other design entirely. I didn't know what was happening to her. With one look at the Paper Maiden's face, I knew she had seen incredible pain and anguish. I had to help her somehow... so on pure instinct, I jumped into the center; a tiger seal on my hands. I started to use my body alongside my clones-clones bodies to contain the distraught girl that was starting to dissipate into paper.

As close as I now was, I could hear her whispering to herself, "Not again, I can't stop it... I can't stop this. I won't stop..."

Hearing how upset she was, I gave her my signature smile as I spoke, my back being battered by hundreds of sharp edges of paper.

"I don't know what's going on, but I'm not gonna let you be in pain any more, everything's gonna be fine, believe it!"

We stayed like that for a while, even after the paper storm dissipated. The paper tree that was once there dissolved, leaving them sitting on the ground.

I finally spoke up to her, "So are okay okay now? Your skin was turning black, it didn't look like you had control over your transformation anymore."

Konan smiled, wiping a stray tear from her eyes and replied back to me in a soft tone "Yeah…. I think I'm gonna be okay."

"Well then," I started. "What are you going to do now? Nagato decided to give up the the Akatsuku, and it seems to me that neither of us want to fight each other and cause more pain... so where do you plan on going?" I inquired.

Konan let out a sigh and looked up to see leaves blowing in the wind, "I'm not sure, but don't you have to get back to the hidden leaf?"

"Yeah, but I need to make sure that you're okay. You never got listed as a missing nin, right? You never went on missions for them and you won the war against Hanso, why don't you come back to the hidden leaf, you can help rebuild and-"

I was cut off mid sentence by a dry laugh from Konan.
"You're sweet, Naruto, but my fate is sealed. I wasn't caught doing anything before, but I helped Pein interrogate people for your location." Konan started to raise her voice, filled with anger. "I killed your fellow villagers. I will be-"

This time it was my turn to interrupt, "I don't care, as I said, I want to forgive people. I'm done holding grudges. I get that sometimes I might have to fight someone, but for the most part, I wanna try forgiving people... not fighting them."

I stood up, extending my hand to help her up, "Now, can we get going, I need to be there when they… when they bury my Sensei."

Upon saying that, Konan looked up at him with a smile on her face, "Naruto, the rinne rebirth jutsu that Nag-n did, it wasn't to cause his rebirth… when used it sacrifices the user's life to bring back a large number of souls. He gave up his life to revive your village, everyone that… perished will be back by now, you can go into sage mode and check."

I let out a laugh and turned my mind to focusing on sage mode "That's great! Now they will have to let you stay in the village, I'll go talk t-" I stopped talking, realising that I was finished with my search. Even from this distance I could sense them all... Kakashi, Sakura, Baa-chan. I thought I sensed two strangely familar chakra signitures, but they vanished in a burst of chakra, and that wasn't was caused me to stop my train of thought anyway.

I moved my focus to try and find that last familiar chakra… but it wasn't there.

"N-no this can't be…." I muttered to myself.

Konan pulled herself to her feet as she looked at me, worried.
"Naruto, what's the matter?" she asked with concern evident in her voice.

I turned to face her, "Th-that girl that saved me, I can't feel her chakra at all..."