Six Paths of Rinnegan
Chakra Absorber
Gravity Manipulator
Summoner
Mind Reader ( Places hand on victim's head and pulls away the soul along with gaining all the knowledge of the individual)
Mechanical Body/Taijutsu expert
Healer/Reviver
The Rinnegan is a doujutsu (Eye Technique) which grants the user several abilities. The user is given the ability to manipulate all six elements of nature, (Earth, Fire, Wind, Water, Lightning and Gravity). The user can also extend his conscious to dead bodies and can with practice, use them as well as his own body. These bodies retain the abilities that they had when they were alive as well as obtain a new ability given by the rinnegan. These abilities are called as Paths. The 'Paths' also share their vision with the user, thus giving him the advantage of multiple points of view.
The Paths are:-
Deva Realm (God Path)
Preta Realm (Ghost Path)
Asura Realm (Demon Path)
Ningen Realm (Human Path)
Naraka Realm (Hell Path)
Pashu Realm (Animal Path)
Bahya Realm (Outer Path)
Bahya Realm (Outer Path):-
This path gives the user the ability over life and death to revive the dead as well as use the other six paths. The main body of the user is known as the 'Outer Path'.
Pashu Realm (Animal Path):-
This path gives the user the ability to summon various animals and creatures to aid the user in battle. Of a particular note, the user doesn't require to sign any summoning contract, neither does he/she requires blood sacrifice or the use of hand seals.
Naraka Realm (Hell Path):-
This path gives the user the ability to summon the 'King of Hell' statue which can fulfill two purposes: interrogation and restoration. While using the ability of interrogation, the Naraka Realm catches hold of the victim and summons the 'Hell of King' statue which paralyses the victim and allows the Naraka Realm to start his questioning. When the Naraka Realm starts questioning, the 'King of Hell' statue extends hand-like tendrils and grabs any part of the soul of the victim. If the victim lies, the statue proceeds with tugging out the victim's soul and swallowing it. If the victim tells the truth, the victim is then left exhausted unable to do anything.
When the user uses the ability of restoration, the wounded or dead is then lifted by the tongue of 'King of Hell' statue and then consumed. Inside the statue, the wounded/deceased is then revitalized/revived.
Ningen Realm (Human Path):-
This path gives the user the ability to remove the soul of the victim and instantly knowing any and all information that the victim had known.
Asura Realm (Demon Path):-
This path grants the user the ability to summon mechanized armor, augmenting their body with extra limbs and various robotic weaponry.
Preta Realm (Ghost Path):-
This path grants the user the ability to absorb any and all amounts of chakra using the blocking technique absorption seal. This ability is primarily in nature which aids the user to absorb the chakra from any and all chakra based techniques giving the user great defense against any ninjutsu and genjutsu.
Deva Realm (God Path):-
This path grants the user the ability to manipulate the attractive and repulsive forces. The user can use three basic techniques which are 'shinra tensei' (universal push), 'Bansho tensei' (universal pull), and 'chibaku tensei' (planetary devastation).
Along with all these amazing abilities, the rinnegan also enables the user to intimately understand any jutsu (technique) he comes in contact with. Contrary to the 'sharingan', the rinnegan doesn't simply copy a technique. It only gives intimate understanding. As such, the user has to practice and master the technique before he can perform it. The rinnegan is also able to see raw chakra and the tenketsu points, but unlike the byakugan, the user is not able to have 359° nor does the user have telescopic view.
Arc 1: Pre-genin days
"…" – Speech
'…' – Thoughts
Italics – Written Word
Bold – Jutsu
"Bold" – Bijuu Speech
'Bold' – Bijuu Thought
October 10, Evening, a remote place away from konoha
In a big cave like room four people can be seen. A blonde haired man, wearing a white trench coat with blue flames at the bottom, loose easy to move black pants with blue medical tapes wrapped around the bottom of the pant, a kunai and shuriken pouch on each leg, a utility belt with sealing tools around his waist, a mesh shirt under a jounin flack jacket, with various sealing scrolls holstered in it. He had a standard konoha hitaiate wrapped around his forehead, with the hokage hat tied around his neck. This man was Minato Namikaze, the Yondaime Hokage of konoha.
Minato was holding the hands of a pale, red haired woman in hospital clothing who was at present, giving birth to their child and cursing his name to high heavens. "Curse you Minato! See if I ever let you come near me again! Let me get out of here and I will crush your balls so that you can never do this to me again! Aaaaah! You f***ing a***ole! Be thankful that I'm not able to get up. Otherwise you would never be able to call yourself a man again!" This woman was none other than Kushina Uzumaki, the jinchuriki of Kyuubi no Yoko and the secret wife of Minato Namikaze.
Minato paled at hearing this while the other woman helping her with the delivery exclaimed, "Calm down Kushina. Take deep breaths and continue pushing slowly with each contraction. Don't worry. The baby is nearly out. It will be over soon." This woman was Biwako Sarutobi. She was the wife of Sandaime Hokage, Hiruzen Sarutobi.
Suddenly the seal holding back the Kyuubi no Yoko started radiating a red light which was slowly fluctuating. Immediately Minato started performing one-handed hand seals and reinforcing the fluctuating seal. A few minutes later, the cry of a new born baby could be heard, as the seal stopped fluctuating and Kushina finally released Minato's hand.
"Congratulations hokage-sama. It's a boy." Biwako said as she handed the now cleaned baby to Kushina. Kushina looked down at the baby and smiled a heart warming smile as she slowly caressed the baby's cheek. Minato was also looking down in wonder at the small bundle of life when suddenly he heard two small thuds behind him. As he turned around, he saw the dead body of Biwako and her assistant with a kunai jutting out of the back of their necks.
"Biwako-sama!" Minato exclaimed as he stepped towards them when Kushina let out a cry. He immediately turned around and saw her looking towards her left with a fearful look and empty hands. Minato followed her eyes and saw an orange masked ninja with a single eyehole for his right eye as he was holding his son in his arms. Minato narrowed his eyes as he asked calmly, "Who are you?"
The masked ninja replied in a calm silky voice, "Who I am is of no concern to you Namikaze-san. I have your new born son in my hands right now who isn't even an hour old. You wouldn't want anything happening to him. Would you?" Minato gritted his teeth as he tried to stay calm and slowly asked, "What do you want?"
"Now that is the question of the day, isn't it? What I want Namikaze-san, is the Kyuubi jinchuriki, and it would be helpful for your son's health that you step away from her." He threatened as he lifted the baby in the air while placing a kunai beneath him. Minato's eyes widened as he raised his hands in a placating gesture as he said, "Now calm down. No need to be hasty and cause unwanted accidents."
"I am perfectly calm Namikaze-san. You are the one who needs to calm down." The masked ninja replied serenely. He suddenly tossed the baby in the air and raised his kunai beneath the baby. Minato immediately disappeared with a yellow flash and appeared mid air next to the baby. Then he disappeared with another yellow flash and appeared next to Kushina. Minato's eyes hardened as he looked at the masked ninja and said, "You just made a very big mistake shinobi-san."
The masked ninja chuckled as he replied, "Oh? Are you sure about that?" Just as he said that, a sizzling sound came from the baby's blanket. Minato immediately tossed the blanket towards the masked ninja as he disappeared in another yellow flash and arrived at his and Kushina's house. He placed his baby inside a cradle as he shushed him and said, "Stay calm big guy. I just have to save your mummy. I'll return soon." After placating his son, Minato immediately made a dozen shadow clones and instructed them to look after the baby.
With Kushina
As soon as Minato disappeared, the masked nin took Kushina to an open space and quickly laid her down. He then placed his hands on the seal on her stomach and performed quick hand-seals exclaiming, "Come out Kyubii!"
The kyubii appeared outside in all its glory and looked down at the masked nin with a snarl. The masked nin looked up at the kyubii and a sharingan gleamed in the single eyehole of the mask. The masked nin then took the Kyubii under his control and then appeared on its head. The nin then teleported the Kyubii in the middle of konoha where it started its rampage.
With Minato
After instructing the clones, Minato closed his eyes to sense the Hiriashin seal which he had placed on his wife and disappeared with a yellow flash. Appearing next to his wife, Minato picked her up in his arms murmuring her name. Kushina's eyes fluttered open as she looked at Minato looking down at her with worry. She clutched his sleeves in panic and exclaimed, "Minato-kun! That man extracted the Kyubii from the seal!" She choked back a sob as she continued, "We have to seal the Kyubii in little Naru-chan."
Minato sighed and held her close holding back his own tears. He then gave her a blood replenishing pill and a soldier pill to help her stabilize, and then said to her, "Let's go. We have Kyubii to deal with." Kushina nodded in agreement with a determined look and they both blurred as they sped towards Kyubii's location.
Centre of Konoha
Minato and Kushina blurred into existence in front of the Kyubii and started firing combination jutsus to try and distract the Kyubii and the masked nin. As soon as they were sufficiently distracted, Minato and Kushina appeared on the Kyubii's head and Minato teleported the Kyubii along with Kushina to a distant clearing behind the Hokage Mountain.
With Minato and Kushina
As they appeared in the clearing, they saw Hiruzen Sarutobi waiting with a contingent of ANBU protecting Naruto who was placed on an alter with glowing symbols around it. Minato and Kushina soon started fighting with the masked nin while half the ANBU with the samdaime were keeping the Kyubii distracted.
Minato and Kushina started fighting with the masked nin in earnest while the nin was phasing through all of their attacks, but soon Minato tagged him with a hiriashin seal and was able to fight him on equal grounds. Frustrated with his lack of success, the masked nin fled the scene.
As soon as the masked nin fled, Minato and Kushina appeared in front of the Kyubii and started conversing with the sandaime while dodging Kyubii's paws and tails. Minato said to the sandaime in a tired tone, "Sarutobi jii-san, I see that you have brought Naruto with you. Keep the Kyubii distracted with Kushina and the ANBU while I will perform the 'Dead reaper seal'."
The sandaime had fire in his eyes as soon as he heard Minato say that. He said to Minato in an angered voice, "You will do no such thing Minato! If you have ever respected me then you will consider this my last order to you as your jii-san. You will let me do the sealing and will lead Konoha and take care of your wife and son. Do you understand me?"
Minato wanted to argue but saw the look in Hiruzen's eyes and knew he won't be able to convince him. Agreeing with tears in his eyes, he prepared to take on the Kyubii with his wife and the ANBU.
The Sandaime, seeing that they were not in need of any help, quickly went near Naruto and took out three different colored pills. These were the Akimichi food pills which gave a very high boost in chakra. But these required high amounts of fat stored in the body. As Hiruzen was lean and wasn't an Akimichi, these were a guaranteed death ticket for him. But as he was going to die due to performing the 'Death reaper Seal', he took them anyway.
As soon as he ate the three pills together, his chakra grew exponentially and he immediately started performing the hand seals. Finishing the Hand Seals, he placed his hands on the seals on Naruto's stomach and exclaimed, "Dead Reaper's Seal!"
But… he made a mistake.