A/N: Ok, here's chapter 2, and while the fight scene may be a little lacking, it's only to set up the fact that Jiraya gets pissed. So, I hope you enjoy this, and reviewers... Do your thang!

(I don't own Naruto, but I will one day, MUAHAHAHA!!

"Start talking"

Naruto took a deep breath, looked over to Sakura for reassurance, and started his tale. While he was talking, his friends would sometimes add in things that he had forgotten or neglected. But on the whole, no one spoke a word as Naruto told his tale.

"We had arrived in the clearing at about midnight, in dead pursuit of Pein..."

Jiraya turned around, shouting towards the ninja group he was in command of. The hokage and pulled out all the stops for this mission, and he had to make sure that all the soldiers under his command was ready for the biggest fight of their lives.

"Alright guys, the target shinobi is up ahead. He is S-Rank criminal. Be on your guard for Kami's sake. I don't want any soldier killed or left behind. He is extremely dangerous, and while he may lack some skills in Taijutsu, he will most certainly decimate you with ninjutsu"

With that said, he turned around again, and continued bounding through the trees. Behind him, Naruto smiled nervously, trying to calm down. He had been training for years for this specific fight. He wouldn't lose. Sakura turned over to look at him.

"Aren't you at least a little worried?" she asked, the anxiousness visible on her troubled face.

Naruto grinned at her, trying to reassure her, in spite of his own personal feelings and worries.

"Not at all Sakura-chan! I'm sure we'll win, we've been training for this the past 2 years!"

Suddenly, he felt a tug at his heart. Here in front of him was his lover, the girl who he even planned to marry one day. But on this mission, it was very possible that either Naruto or Sakura died. And he might not ever get another chance. On the sput of a moment he closed the gap between them, and gave her a tender kiss, knowing full well that it was possible that he'd never see her again. She tasted like sweet cherries, and he tried the make the moment last. Sakura deepened the kiss as well, knowing that it could be their last time together too. After a full ten seconds they broke apart.

"I love you, Sakura-chan"

They finally caught up to him at midnight. Pein was standing in a large-ish clearing, a smirk spread across his already smug face.

"Ah, the Konoha shinobi have finally come to play, huh? I was wondering when you would get here. I actually had time to wait for you slowpokes," he gestured at the small stumps of wood next to him, evidence of his short amount of training done before the Shinobi arrived.

"How did he do that?!" Neji exclaimed, clearly surprised. The whole time, he had been watching Pein barely ahead of them, with his Byakugan. The fact that he was fooled by some kind of bunshin only insulted his skill.

"Oh, it was some regular old Kage Bunshin, albeit with some extra chakra," he shrugged before continuing "I didn't want to let you think it was hopeless chasing me, when you didn't see me for five days. His next comment was so casual, so "off the shoulder" that even Naruto shuddered at the coldness in such simple words. But those six words said it all.

"But now, I can kill you"

Jiraya's face was impassive at the threat decidedly directed at him. He had know of Pein's want to kill him for a long time now, and it didn't faze him a bit. He retaliated with a threat of his own, not about to be put down by some Akatsuki member.

"Just try. I will personally break every bone in your body. Starting with..." as he said this, there was a white flash, and he appeared next to Pein. Bracing himself, he cocked a fist, and smashed in painfully against Pein's face. There was a sickening CRUNCH when his fist connected. He smiled. Everyone else, including Lee was impressed by such speed, so much speed that he was simply a white flash while he moved.

"Your nose"

Pein was awestruck to say the least. The injury wasn't grave, or even painful. It was more a matter of pride than anything else, and in that department Pein had now just received a bitter injury. Jiraya cracked his knuckles.

"Who's killing who?" he taunted, then launched a jutsu. He flashed through some hand signs and yelled out its name

Earth Style: Earth Pillar jutsu!"

As he spoke a massive pillar of stone erupted from the ground and threatened to impale Pein if didn't move. Even so, even as he moved, he could feel the stone pillar impaling his left leg. There went his mobility.

He landed hard, on his good leg, and turned to examine the wound. The leg was gone, and all was left a stump of blood and flesh. Concentrating a bit of Chakra into his leg, he quickly re-grew the leg he had lost. The smirk found its way back to his face.

"Nice try. But honestly, you're going to have to try a lot harder then that!"

In a blink of the eye he dashed forward towards the closest Shinobi, Kiba, and began to pound him with hand to hand combat. He threw a left hook, to which Kiba slipped under, trailing his foot, trying to trip over Pein. Pein jumped over the leg, going for an overhead crescent kick aimed at breaking Kiba's trailing leg, but Shino stepped in with Intercepter swarm that blocked the kick. Pein looked surprised at the small black cloud that held his leg in place. Then he heard the scream.

"RASENGAN!"

Out of the corner of his eye, he saw a blue glow, and tried to turn to catch the rasengan enhanced punched, but only met resistance, as his leg was held still by the bugs. But by then it was too late. So easily defeated, he tried to supress a scream as the blue orb churned it organs, and melted everything inside of him, blowing out in a final explosion, his blood and guts flying everywhere. The whole process took only a humiliating 10 seconds, easily beating any records for defeating S-rank criminals. It only came to show the Leaf Nins skills.

"AUUUUGHH!!" he screamed, unable to hold back the pain. That's when he began to fall, and hit the ground with a muted thud.

But he was not out of the fight yet. He still had his secret weapon. He flashed through more hand seals, and then shouted out the technique's name. Pein regretted that he had to use this almost straight into the battle, but he could tell that he was outclassed by some of the ninja in the taskforce, and that the Intercepter/Rasengan combo was only a small taste of the Konoha ninjas' strength.

"Shadow arts: Death Renewal!" and as Pein shouted, his body slowly began to change in front of the awed Konoha ninjas. The whole in the back closed up, and all the organs where restored. He stood up, and his body began to change even more drastically. First him arm increased in muscle mass drastically, the ripples of muscles the size of Naruto's head. The arm grew so big, that it became red, the blood in the arm visible over the taut skin. Then, the other arm grew to the same incredible proportions. his head began to grow too and horns began to sprout out of the top of his head, and each grew to the length of a meter. His teeth became long a pointy, obviously designed to bite and tear through flesh. Pein's nails lengthened too, becoming claws. But by far, his eyes were the most disturbing thing of all. They were red, with no pupils visible, and were large like saucers. It was simply un human, almost demonic. He stood at a immense 4 meters, almost the peak of a Ninja's non-chakra enhanced jump.

All the nin were severely rattled, and their feelings were pretty much summed up when Ino said

"Holy CRAP!"

"I will KILL you all!!" Pein declared, his voice suddenly having a double-tone quality to it. He dashed forward and with a single claw almost mutilated Naruto's arm, leaving a deep gash to the bone up Naruto's left arm.

Naruto shrieked wordlessy, the essence of his pain in the sound of his voice.