PAIN... FOR REAL
11TH NOVEMBER 2009
DISCLAIMER:
I do not own Naruto, or any of the characters involved.
This is non profit- as in i am not making any money from this.
AUTHOR'S NOTES
I am aware that i have written this story before- there are many things that i am not happy about in the original; grammar and phrasing for example- this is a slightly altered rewrite with the first two chapters rolled into one.
'This' means someone is thinking.
-X- are scene transitions, i.e. from Naruto to the observing crowd and back again.
Words in bold are jutsu names
My belief is that the Pain/Naruto fight in canon sucked. This is my attempt on a real epic showdown between the six cheaps of Pain and a different Naruto (one who's not a weak idiot) with different jutsu.
"Where are we...?"
Uzumaki Naruto appeared from a thick cloud of smoke. Stunned and horrified at the devastation all around them. The village in which he grew up, the place he called home, had been completely destroyed. Only the hokage monument still stood- majestic and powerful amidst vast desolation.
"This... is Konoha?"
Six figures stood in front of him. Corpse coloured skin, black piercings, all wearing the same black and red cloaks and apathetic looks completely uncaring of the genocidal war crime they had just committed.
"This saves me the trouble of looking of looking for you." God realm (Deva path) droned. 'God realm's power will take a while to regenerate...' The supposed head Pain mused as he stared straight ahead at the Jinchuriki trembling with fury.
The Asura path (RoboPain) charged at Naruto with incredible speed, it's goal; to skewer the teenager on the bizarre claw sprouting from its back.
The claw penetrated into Naruto's right shoulder. The moronically grinning Pain recoiled in surprise as 'Naruto' exploded into a swarm of snakes. 'Hebi Bunshin.' The robotic path realised as the summons wrapped around him. He wasn't concerned- his inhuman body was too thick to be penetrated or crushed by such small summons.
His confidence was shattered as the serpents opened their mouths and blue chakra appeared, the energy shaped into azure discs that spun at impressive speeds. The summons known as the shuredda hebi dived at the hideous android. The deadly discs of chakra connected with Robopains body, met a second of resistance then carved through the skin and muscle like mini chainsaws.
'Shape chakra manipulation.' The other Pains realised as the android Pain had several of its limbs hacked off by the summon induced chakra disc cutters. The artificial monster died when a chakra buzz saw penetrated into its neck, vanquishing the monstrosity.
Back with the real Naruto, Katsuyu the slug summon had leapt on to the snake summoning blondes shoulder and was discussing all gathered info on their opponent- or opponents as the case may be. 'Well that's handy.' Naruto was glad he wasn't flying blind against this hyperpowered lunatic.
Chikushodo (Animal path), wasn't going to give Tsunade's summon a chance to bring the returning hero up to speed. A palm thrust to the ground brought forth a gigantic rhino- the biggest (and only) one Naruto had ever seen.
As Naruto prepared his next move a lone ANBU leapt into the fray. He soared above the gargantuan summon, unleashed a bone chilling war cry and called forth a perfectly executed Fuuton: Kaze Yaiba in his dominant right hand.
'I was wondering what the red shirts were doing...'
The blade of wind struck the monstrous pachyderms leathery grey skin... and broke apart. Despite wearing a mask it was obvious the ANBU was stunned at what just happened. "What! Nothing can block a blade of win-aaaaaaccck!" The ANBU was impaled on the invulnerable summons giant horn, then cast aside into the rubble.
Knowing that trying to blast through the charging monsters hide was futile, Naruto decided to try one of the jutsu he developed during his two and a half year absence; creating two Kage bunshin he formed a rasengan in his hand. However this one shrank to nearly half its size then changed colour- its core was white, its outer shell was a darkening purple.
The Jinchuriki knew he only had one shot at this; he stood his ground and waited until the bellowing, bloodstained beast was upon him. Suddenly the three Naruto's thrust their arms forward... and fired the new rasengan (known as Rasen shykyo tama) at the bellowing monster. The purple projectile exploded within the rhino's mouth unleashing a thick cloud of purple energy.
The giant coughed, stumbled around then fell with an earth shattering crash. Dead. While it didn't show on the corpses face the animal realm was concerned, the rhino was its most resilient summon and it had been vanquished with a single unfamiliar jutsu.
Slamming both hands to the ground two more giant monsters emerged from plumes of white smoke; a freakish yak and a multi headed dog. Telepathically influenced, they charged Naruto in tandem.
The blonde Uzumaki hadn't been standing around wondering what Pain's life story was though; he cut his thumb, made hand seals, slammed his bleeding palm to the ground and summoned two giant cobras, the twin snakes were longer than the Pain summons were and didn't remind Pain of any breed he had seen Orochimaru call forth in his time with the Akatsuki organisation. The strange hooded serpents took a deep breath then emitted a bizarre inhuman sound. The air directly in front of them rippled as the sound based genjutsu took effect.
The jutsu was designed to knock enemies off balance and cause extreme discomfort. And it worked as all enemies now seemed to slow down and lose some coordination.
Katsuyu warned Naruto about the Yak summon, "Pain has used this summon before, it's immune to elemental jutsu attack- it takes whatever element is thrown at it and breaks it down into pure chakra which is mostly harmless due to its fluidic nature." "I understand." 'I'm not a retard anymore.' Naruto also knew from the toads that the canine summon could split its body into smaller dogs and attack as a swarm- or pack- or whatever.
Naruto knew how to deal with this; with two hand seals and, "Doton: Nomi Yuma!" he called out and the freakish devil dog sank into a swamp where it would drown beneath hundreds of feet of mud. While the dog summon sank, Naruto zeroed in on the Yak (which wasn't affected by the swamp attack), charged up a ridiculously sized Rasengan, leapt into the air and drove the wildly spinning chakra storm into the back of the Yak's neck cutting the furry giant's massive head off.
Gakido, unaffected by the genjutsu screwing with the other Pains perception charged at Naruto.
Katsuyu again piped up, "Naruto! Ninja techniques won't work on this Pain. He'll absorb any jutsu you use." "Oh yeah! Let's see him absorb this!" He brainlessly yelled, he charged up another giant Rasengan and charged at the fat Pain.
'Please tell me he's not that stupid.' Katsuyu prayed. A split second before the whirling ball of death connected... it disappeared. Gakido recoiled in agony as Naruto booted the Pain squarely in the groin. As Gakido doubled over Naruto grabbed his head and twisted hard, a sickening SNAP! was heard and the reanimated corpse fell lifelessly to the ground.
"Guess even a god can't shrug off a bootful to the balls." Naruto sneered at the remaining Pains.
-X-
'Unusual move. He used the Rasengan as a feint.' One of the Konoha ninja spectators concluded while wincing slightly. 'My leg is crushed by rubble... FROM MY HOUSE! Is my insurance paid up? Does my insurance even cover this?'
-X-
Realising he was in a bit of trouble after having both his walking swiss army knife and his cheap as hell walking shield taken out so easily Deva path (God realm) began monologuing about Pain; my pain, your pain, the worlds pain, my pain again, etc, etc.
'This guys worse than Sasuke! All he did was brood and come across as slightly gay... until he tried to kill me and went off on an ego trip. But even after three years as Orochimaru's concubine he never got this bad.' Naruto shrugged his thoughts off. He didn't give a damn what this freaks mental damage was, he just needed to stop him before the body count rose even higher.
Refocusing himself, the demon container continued his assault generating yet another Rasengan but this one shined a dazzling white instead of bright blue. Also the sound the whirling chakra made was... different. Yet another Pain- Ningendo, this one tall and gaunt charged at Naruto wielding a long, nearly pole like black blade. Its mission was to delay Naruto so God realm could reactivate its gravity shifting powers. Further back God realm stopped chatting and stared at this new incarnation of a legendary jutsu... as it emitted a powerful burst of light and a chakra pulse that blinded and confused the charging Ningendo.
A second later the human path Pain was flying through the air with no head.
"Shainingu Rasengan. Like it?" Naruto yelled at the still apathetic God realm.
Due to her/ its position Animal realm was unaffected by Naruto's innovative flashbang rasengan. She counterattacked by summoning a giant hawk that knocked Naruto flying with a Temari-esque Fuuton jutsu then took off into the sky like a jet.
-X-
Around the battle zone Konoha citizens considered the invaders next move. Hyuga Hinata for example considered that the hawk planned to swoop from the sky out from the glare of the sun. 'But that isn't possible... smoke and ash from fires and explosions have created clouds that are blocking out the sun. It almost... looks like night time here. It was so bright and sunny before...' Hinata used her doujutsu to follow the giant bird through the air hoping her crush had a way to stop this creature.
-X-
Naruto knew the hawk had to be taken out quickly. 'This seems as good a time as any to try this out.' He hurled several kunai into the air at the beast.
'Kage kunai no jutsu.'
The several kunai replicated becoming nearly a hundred forming a deadly cloud of sharp steel that to the eyes of Konoha onlookers (except the Hyuga) disappeared against the darkened sky.
The Hawk saw the kunai cloud coming right at him easily. Whether this was because of the Rinnegan it apparently had was unknown to the villagers below. Rather than go around the metallic swarm the avian creature (presumably being telepathically controlled) chose the more arrogant approach; the monster built up its chakra to release a much stronger wind style attack.
Just as the wind was formed Naruto unleashed his surprise; the kunai weren't average weapons, but in fact extremely advanced fuuinjutsu; they had several seals built into them- the first stored an amount of Naruto's chakra, the second moulded that chakra into an element. Naruto named them the Soshi shokkou. In the case of the kunai that had been hurled at the bird summon they moulded chakra into fire- the result when mixing with the hawk summons wind element attack was catastrophic.
BOOOOOOOOOOOOM!
A massive fireball spread out over Konoha lighting up the smoky sky of the ruined village. Hinata and Hyuga Ko recoiled shutting down their doujutsus at the hellish light. Due to winds weakness against fire the flames were propelled straight at the doomed summon roasting it instantly. Moment later a giant, burnt corpse hit the ground creating a large crater within the much larger crater of Konoha.
'That reminds me, i haven't had dinner yet.' Naruto glared a split second at the roasted bird while reaching into his ninja tool bag.
Throwing a smoke bomb to the ground as the monster bird fell, Naruto disappeared into the smoke. The remaining Pains began scanning the destroyed battlefield for the next attack expecting anywhere except the smoke cloud.
Straight out of the grey gas came another Rasen shykyo tama accompanied by a brace of kunai. Yet another summon from the animal realm- a bird with a freakishly misshapen beak ('A crane? A pelican?' Hinata wondered, her byakugan once again scanning everything carefully, she was considering attacking if Naruto went down) swooped in to catch the jutsu, apparently swallowing the incredibly lethal poison bomb. As the beastly bird zeroed in on where it thought Naruto was the kunai surrounding the second bird summon transformed into several Narutos.
'Raiton; Gian!' Before the animal realm could realise its mistake a bolt of lightning had struck the reanimated female corpse directly above the heart- the reanimated nervous system and organs were disrupted and destroyed.
"Four down." The clones growled. After making certain the deadly Raiton jutsu had hit its mark, the clones henged as Kunai grabbed on to the crane-pelican- whatever's neck and detonated via Bunshin Daibakuha blowing the last summon to shreds.
-X-
The crowd's hopes soared as they saw flaming chunks of meat and feathers from the dead summon. Nara Shikaku expertly analysed the battle of ninjutsu monsters before him; "These techniques Naruto has mastered... he's on a whole other level now... the best thing for us to do is not get in his way."
"In other words we're going to stand back uselessly and do nothing but watch and maybe narrate to ourselves while he fights the ultimate villain single handedly?" His son Shikamaru asked in annoyance.
A pause.
"Pretty much." The elder Nara replied. 'Works for me.' Shikamaru secretly thought.
-X-
Smiling at the carnage, the real Naruto began sealing to eliminate the last two Pains, he caught a glimmer in the corner of his eye; 'The chakra eating Pain! Didn't i kill him?' He glared at the once again live and charging Gakido, then back to the last two Pains; god realm (that he assumed was the boss) and another Pain hiding behind all others... 'Of course the Pain in back must reanimate the other Pains when they die! I've gotta take him out!'
Forming his favourite seal and creating two more shadow clones Naruto went back to throwing smoke bombs, blanketing the whole area with choking grey dust. Immediately out of the blinding smoke cloud came the purple orb now instantly recognisable as the long range and much more lethal version of the Rasengan. On instinct the Preta path leapt into its path to absorb the projectile poison orb... only for it to explode into the form of Uzumaki Naruto.
'He used henge to disguise himself as a ninjutsu attack.' The pierced psychopath realized. Gakido fell into a taijutsu form he learned from his murdered sensei Jiraiya and threw a right hook at Naruto. He had learned from the Akatsuki's many spies that Naruto wasn't a defensive fighter.
The two exchanged high speed taijutsu for several moments, the failure of the chakra sucking path to nullify his opponent by simply connecting blows proved this was the original (bunshinjutsu didn't function if internal chakra was disrupted in any way).
Just as God realm saw an opportunity to intervene, another Naruto appeared, ran right at the fighting ninja and hurled a scroll that landed and unfurled right behind the now grappling Preta path. The scroll was originally designed to deal with Samehada, Hoshigaki Kisame's infamous chakra eating sword- it was designed with a seal that would break and release what was inside when its chakra was absorbed by an outside source. A puff of smoke and an arsenal of glistening spikes and razor sharp tips from Kunai and various blades were released onto the unfurled scroll. The other Pains couldn't see what was happening so Preta path unwisely turned to look. Naruto seized the moment by Judo tripping the distracted corpse onto the spikes, impaling him/it through the spine, kidneys, neck and head.
Preta path was killed for the second time that day.
"Stay dead this time ya prick!" Naruto growled.
The smoke finally cleared and the two remaining Pains glared at their supposed prey. Naraka path had almost completed resurrecting another of the fallen Pains via King of Hell when an extraordinary pain assaulted his ears. The singing snakes hiding within the rubble had singled him out for their sonic genjutsu causing the dead raising Pain to stagger around in agony as his ears began to bleed. The singing stopped though the deafened Pain didn't realise it-he did realise something striking him from behind. God realm turned and saw another of Naruto's accursed shadow clones slam a rasengan into Naraka's back. The swirling ball of chakra drilled into him destroying his spine and liquefying inner organs before launching the fifth Pain face first into the dirt.
"No more corpses to hide behind." Naruto mocked the god realm, its expression finally went from apathetic to enraged. Naruto guessed that it annoyed Pain to no longer be able to defy nature and any real gods up there by raising the dead on a whim. 'Or maybe he's thinking 'How dare this child resist my divine will and take away my godly ability to defeat death'.
Feeling full of himself Naruto prepared to unleash the attack for the final kill.
This was where Naruto's luck ran out, the final Pain known as God realm suddenly stood up straighter and stared straight ahead at the attacking blond, "Shinra Tensai." It droned and everyone and everything around it was blown away by an invisible force...
NOTES
The whole point of this story is not to be some kind of epic, but to write a story where Naruto actually defeats Pain on his own. The biggest problem (in my opinion) with the Pain/Naruto battle in canon was that it was supposed to be Naruto's shining moment; the part where he proves that he actually is the main character of the manga by using hard earned skills to soundly defeat the major bad guy all on his own.
Instead he uses possibly the most blatant, unimaginative and badly executed eleventh hour power up yet, needs help from Hinata after getting skewered, falls back on the Kyuubi crutch and goes through eight tails worth of demon fox chakra, is stopped from killing himself by the ghost of the Yondaime (or whatever the hell that was) and then uses every single non perverted jutsu and trick he's ever come up with in the entire series just to destroy the badly weakened last of the six paths. He then hunts down Nagato and instead of doing the smart thing and killing the genocidal lunatic terrorist right there he instead decided to listen to stories of his crappy childhood. I'm not even going to mention the game breaking god no jutsu Nagato pulled out of his ass after Naruto's response to Nagato's frankly ridiculous and boring sob story.
THE SIX PATHS OF PAIN (PEIN RIKUDO)
(1) Deva path (Tendo/God realm) - once believed to be the real Pain as it is the one that does the most talking, it's main ability is manipulating gravity, although it has been seen using many other jutsu including astral projection, controlling the rain (presumably a suiton jutsu), and various fuuinjutsu, including the removal and sealing of Bijuu into the demonic Gedo Mazo statue.
(2) Chikushodo (Animal realm) - this Pain summons a variety of large summons from various species (omni summons)- it apparently does this without summoning contracts or blood sacrifices.
(3) Gakido (Preta path) – appearing as a large, bulky man this Pain has the power to absorb chakra either through its skin or as a large bubble around itself, in this way it nullified all ninjutsu. Basically a walking shield it showed no other abilities and was weak against physical attacks.
(4) Ningendo (human path) – appearing as a tall, more or less gaunt man with long hair. It has the ability to read minds simply by touching an enemy's head, more lethally it could rip an enemies soul out of its body killing them. Given that its abilities only work at point blank range this Pain was used mostly for interrogation not combat.
(5) Shurado (Asura path, aka roboPain) – the most bizarre of Pain's bodies, despite supposedly once being human it appeared as an incredibly advanced android with six arms and three faces; one happy (most common), one angry and one neutral. It's powers had more variety than other Pains due to body alterations allowing it to attack with bladed weapons, fire its own limbs as missile-like projectiles, and even fire a beam weapon from its head that could destroy whole buildings in a single shot.
(6) Jigokudo (Naraka path) – appearing as a tall muscular man, this Pain utilised an unseen demonic being known as the king of hell. The KOH was used for two purposes; interrogation and resurrection; if the Naraka path grabbed hold of someone and asked a question the King of hell would rip out the targets soul if they lied or refused to answer- if they told the truth however they would be spared. The king of hell also apparently swallowed fallen Pains then released them later fully healed from anything including death. This Pain was always located at the back away from combat signifying its extreme importance.
JUTSU LIST
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Fuuton; Kaze yaiba= Wind release; wind blade (A-class in canon, B- class in this fic), this jutsu transforms chakra into air, after the user precisely manipulates its pressure it creates a blade of wind that can carve a man to pieces, it is supposedly unblockable because of winds intangible nature.
Rasengan= spiral sphere (A-class jutsu), Naruto's signature (as in he spams it ridiculously) jutsu. It uses shape chakra manipulation to grind and carve through objects. In canon this jutsu doesn't have much of an effect on targets (C-level Katon jutsu causes more damage)- in my story it is far more destructive-getting hit be this even if the user if standing still is instant death, if the user is moving at high speed it can cut an enemy in two. An example of what is does is when Naruto uses this jutsu to decapitate one of the Pains- this happens when he drives the jutsu into the Pains upper chest/ neck area.
Cho Odama rasengan= super great ball spiral sphere (A or S, doesn't require senjutsu in this story), basically a rasengan on steroids, it is larger than Narutos entire body, can be used as a sheld and is capable of wounding if not killing a super sized boss level summon. If this jutsu explodes it can hollow out an entire mountain.
Kuchyose no jutsu= summoning technique (A rank space time jutsu), a jutsu that allows ninja to teleport in powerful creatures to assist them in battle, in this fic Naruto has a summoning contract with snakes not toads, and unlike Orochimaru and Sasuke of canon he doesn't use them as disposable pawns or as living shields.
Hebi bunshin= snake clone (B class in of itself i'd guess), using snake summons Naruto can create copies of himself, when struck the snakes break away and can either reform or attack the enemy. This version of Naruto uses this jutsu as a set up for venomous bites, acid spitting attacks or the Shuredda hebi.
Shuredda Hebi= Shredder snakes (A class), jutsu original to this fic, basically a combo of rasengan principles and summoning jutsu. Snake summons are taught by Naruto to shape and rotate chakra in their mouths into a disc shape sharp and powerful enough to cut through steel.
Rasen Shikyo tama= Spiral death bullet (S- Class), combo of rasengan and poison based ninjutsu. In canon Naruto merges the rasengan with elemental manipulation to create the frankly pointless Fuuton rasengan, then later the Fuuton rasenshuriken. Here he merges rasengan with poison based ninjutsu like Shizunes Dokugiri (poison mist). The result is a jutsu which is fired like a projectile, hits a target drills into the target until the outer shell is penetrated (if it hits a human in the chest this happens after it has torn through skin and pectoral muscles and shattered ribs), at which point it releases a highly compressed cloud that can spread across up to a hundred feet killing anyone with a single breath.
Shainingu rasengan= Shining spiral sphere (A class), modified rasengan, it has a forth step in its construction- a layer of unstable energy outside the normal rasengans outer shell. The energy layer generates a blinding flash of light that can permanently damage doujutsu users who look into it. After the flash a conventional rasengan is left fully formed and intact, the idea is to attack when the enemy is stumbling around blindly. Also generates a chakra surge to disrupt anyone tracking or scanning a target by their chakra. Basically a rasengan flashbang grenade.
Doton Yomi Numa= Earth release; swamp of the underworld (A class), this jutsu creates a gigantic swamp, when done correctly this jutsu can encompass miles of ground and bury an enemy under hundreds of feet of mud.
Hebi kashou= Serpent's song (A class), a jutsu original to this fic as this Naruto summons snakes. This is a genjutsu caused by specific snake summons, similar to the toad song of canon.
Bunshin daibakuha= clone great explosion (A-rank bunshinjutsu), a jutsu that creates a shadow clone that will explode on command from the creator; the explosion from the clone is enough to kill anyone in close proximity.
Raiton Gian= lightning release: false darkness (B-class jutsu ), a ninja (in this case Naruto) emits a spear of lightning from his mouth, the spear can then split apart to strike multiple enemies.
Soshi shokkou= Element weaver (original jutsu, S-class fuuinjutsu), a jutsu Naruto created with Jiraiya's help using some of the principles behind the Hiraishin no jutsu. The jutsu involves applying several levels of seals to weapons (usually kunai). The first set stored an amount of Naruto's chakra, the second level moulded that chakra into an element, even one that Naruto does not know how to create (in this story his elemental affinity is lightning, he has mastered a number of earth jutsu from Jiraiya, he has no fire jutsu which is what the weavers use against Pains summon in this chapter).
Kage kunai no jutsu= shadow kunai technique (A-class jutsu), allows the user to create shadow clones of kunai. The user throws a single (or several) kunai then uses the technique to create multiple shadows clones of it, giving the user more chances to hit the target and also giving the user an advantage by catching the target off guard from the sudden increase in number.
Hebi kashou= Serpent's song (A class), a jutsu original to this story as this version of Naruto summons snakes. This is a genjutsu caused by specific snake summons, similar to the toad song of canon.
Shinra tensei= Divine judgement (Unrated, kekkai genkai jutsu), a jutsu that enables the Deva path to manipulate gravity to repulse (push away) enemies and/or objects, with enough force to shatter stone. By using this technique as a defensive measure, almost any ninjutsu and taijutsu attacks will be deflected, rendering them useless. The only downside to this technique is that there is a short period when it is unusable after being used (approximately five seconds). Also if the target is sufficiently rooted to the ground, the repulsive forces can be resisted. Shinra Tensei can also be used on a large scale for massive destruction. Before it can be used, Nagato (the proverbial wizard behind the curtain) must break his connection with all Pains except the Deva path (presumably to channel all available chakra through it). A massive gravity well is created above the target, crushing everything beneath in an explosion large enough to take out an entire village. In this fic Pain has used this jutsu to take out Konoha before Naruto makes it on the scene. This will have consequences...
END PART ONE