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Chapter Nine
The Six Paths
Nagato frowned to himself. He knew that close combat will be a thought one against this guy. Since the man can turn himself similar to a ghost, meaning he can faze through him like nothing.
I can hardly face him in long range combat also, he thought, most techniques will simply be just wasting chakra. I can say I'm in a pinch alright.
"If you aren't going to do anything," the masked man said, "Then I will attack."
He then jumped forward, heading straight toward Nagato. The latter's hand suddenly split into pieces as missiles popped out of it, and then fired straight toward his attacker. As he had expected it, they phased straight through the masked man and hitting the tower right behind him.
"I thought that you would have learned by now," the masked man told him, "That doesn't work upon me."
Nagato raised his hand toward him.
"I know," he said.
"Universal Pull,"
The masked man was drawn toward him.
"What?"
"You have to solidify yourself again to be able to do jutsu," Nagato told him, "And that is your downfall."
He is smarter than he looks, the masked man thought.
Then Nagato made to grab him but the masked man simply went through him landing behind him.
"But you're not good enough to take me on," the masked man told him.
Nagato feel something pull against his body, causing him to look down seeing a chain was pulling him by his waist.
When did he pull out this chain?
"But now, I have you," the masked man said, "And you're going to tell me where the Nine Tails is one way or another."
"She is my daughter," Nagato said, "I won't give her up."
"Daughter?" the masked man laughed, "The Nine Tails is nothing but a beast. A chakra beast that is to be controlled and it's a wonder she didn't kill you or destroy Ame itself."
Nagato glared at the man.
"You don't know her at all,"
The masked man looked at him, his sharingan eye now visible.
"I know her better than you," he said, "I know the reason why she was sealed inside that Temple you found her in, and since I see you look up so much to her, I will tell you why. I will tell you the bloody past of the one you know as your 'Yael'."
Bloody past? He thought.
"A bloody past, what are you talking about?"
The masked man chuckled.
"Since you don't really know anything, let me refresh your memory," he said, "Let me tell you of the past of the Fox Clan."
"C'mon Yahiko," Konan said, "We have to get back soon enough."
The orange haired boy chuckled.
"What do we have to hurry for?" he asked, "Nagato can handle the Village by himself for a while. Even so, Nagato is the strongest than of the both of us. He can be by himself for a while."
The woman glanced at him.
"I just want to get back home as soon as possible," she said.
Yahiko looked at her.
"Okay, so what's the deal with you and Nagato?" he asked, "I mean, you're going to marry him soon right…or ask him out or something?"
Konan turned a little red at that.
"W...What?"
Yahiko chuckled.
"Hey, I'm not blind Konan," he said, "I see the looks…I can see it on Nagato's face too. He has feelings for you, just as you do for him."
The woman looked a little ashamed at that.
"Yahiko…I…"
"Hey don't worry about it," Yahiko told her, "I…l'm not really mad about it. What can I say in the face of love? Thought I'm really glad about it."
Konan looked at him, surprised.
"You're…glad?"
"Konan, we were all orphans," Yahiko told her, "We never actually have any kind of love from our parents, enough to remember them. All we had for the past years is each other. Thought I can say that you and Nagato will be great parents, after all, both of you raise that little rascal well,"
Konan smiled.
"Yahiko, thank you," she said.
Then in front of them, a plant like form rose from the ground, causing them to stop. Then the plant like thing opened and a man was there.
"Zetsu," Yahiko said, "What are you doing back here? I haven't seen you in ten years."
"I have felt the chakra, but you and Nagato had done something really bad," the plant man said.
"Nagato, what are you talking about Zetsu?" Yahiko said, "What did you do?"
"I didn't do anything Yahiko," Zetsu said, "But Nagato surely did. He took something that didn't belong to him."
"Something?" Yahiko repeated.
"The last of the Fox, The Nine-Tails," Zetsu told them.
Yael, both Konan and Yahiko thought at the same time.
Nagato could only feel shock. There is no way that Yael had done this. This…this wasn't the girl whom he had raised…it wasn't the girl who he found…
"Now you know why she was sealed in that Temple," the masked man told him.
Nagato was feeling only shock…
Flashback
The young Fox they had decided to bring back was finally awake. They were not in Ame yet, but soon will arrive and he can already smell the rain clouds gathering around them. He looked toward where Konan was seating and talking to the girl.
Her red eyes were looking at Konan with a cautious gaze. She wasn't afraid but she was cautious as to whom they were.
"My name is Konan," the blue haired woman told the Fox girl, "This two are my friends, Yahiko and Nagato."
The Fox girl glanced toward Yahiko and then her eyes found him. Nagato can see a slight surprise in those ruby eyes. Probably from his Rinnegan eyes.
"Do you know what you are?" Konan asked her.
"Yes," the girl said, her voice was raspy as if not used in a long time, "I am a Nine Tailed Fox."
"Are they other Foxes?" Yahiko asked her.
The girl shook her head.
"I don't know."
"What do you mean you don't know?" Konan asked putting a hand upon the girl's shoulder in comfort.
"It mean, I don't remember anything of my life before…waking up in that Temple," the girl said, in a sad tone.
Nagato approached closer to her and kneeled beside the Fox girl, whose tails instantly wrapped around herself as if to shield her body.
"Don't worry," he said, "Konan, Yahiko and I will take care of you. You will have a new family and we will make new memories together. You'll see."
The Fox girl looked up at him, a hopeful look upon her face.
"You promise?" she asked.
Nagato smiled.
"I promise Yael," he said.
The girl blinked.
"Yael?"
"That's your name," Konan told her, "The one I gave you."
"Yael," the girl repeated.
Then she grinned, a completely feral grin.
"I like it."
End of flashback
The masked man approached Nagato, taking hold of the ninja's body.
"You will tell me all," he said.
Then he activated his space time jutsu to absorb Nagato when he felt his chakra diminishing.
W…What is going on? My chakra?
He looked down seeing that Nagato had his hand upon him and was absorbing his chakra.
He is…
The masked man phased through his form and landed a little farther away from him.
That was no ordinary jutsu, he thought, Could this be one of his Rinnegan ability? This guy has more control over the Rinnegan than I have ever seen…for someone who seems to not have a master to teach him.
"Yael…is not a beast," Nagato said standing up letting the chain fall down around him, "She is nothing but a girl… and I won't let you get in her way. There is no way she had done what you have told me by herself."
The masked man frowned.
"The Yael I know want to live with a family that love her," Nagato continued, his fist shaking, "She want to protect the people that are close to her heart with all her strength."
Nagato raised his head, glaring at the man, his Rinnegan eyes seemingly glowing.
"I won't allow you taking her away from her home," he said.
Then he put both his palms together.
"Summoning Technique," he said.
A seal appeared behind him then a large beast appeared there, roaring with three horns upon his head. Then, the best charged straight toward the masked man who simply dodged the attack by jumping over the summoned creature.
Then when he looked up, Nagato was there, flying straight toward him as a long black chakra receiver but he simply went through the man.
"A frontal attack will never work upon me," the masked man.
"That's what I was hoping for," Nagato said.
The masked man looked behind him as Nagato aimed his hand straight toward him.
"Universal Pull," he said.
The technique took hold of the masked man who was now getting drawn toward Nagato who threw out a kunai with two paper bombs tied to it.
"Eat this," he said.
The kunai which was aimed straight toward the masked man's head phased straight through him as if he was a ghost, continue to fly straight out of the man's head and Nagato then raised his hand once more.
"Almighty Push,"
The masked man was thrown backward toward the flying kunai and Nagato put his hand into a seal.
"Kai,"
Then an explosion took place in the sky as he landed on the side of a building, looking at his feat. Then out of the explosion, the masked man flew out of it before landing on a building. He was favoring one of his arms.
I got him, Nagato thought, smirking.
To be able to wound me, the masked man thought, he is quite skilled and with his Rinnegan eyes, he will be able to match me even with my jutsu. His eyes are quite advancement…then maybe…
Then Nagato's summon came flying toward him, roaring angrily when he suddenly started to do seals.
"Wood Style: Genesis,"
From below the man, trees grew out of the metal wall, enveloping the creature entirely in a deathly snare.
He…He can use Wood technique? Nagato thought, that's the skill the First Hokage of Konoha was famous for…just who is that guy?
The masked man jumped straight toward Nagato, and then he simply dashed at incredible speed.
He…He is coming, Nagato thought.
"You are a good ninja," the masked man said, "I could have used a man like you."
"I don't work for people who wish for destruction and warfare," Nagato said.
He blocked the kunai.
"I'm a child of war," he said, "An endless cycle of hatred, and needless killing. I will not wish that on any Nations, nor race."
"An admirable goal," the masked man said.
The two continued to fight the kunai and the chakra receiver hitting each other with clangs.
"But there is no peace in the world of ninjas," the masked man said, "Nor there ever be one."
"Almighty Push," Nagato yelled
The jutsu caused another explosion sending the masked man backward.
"Summoning Jutsu," Nagato yelled again as a seal appeared.
A large brown dog pull out the seal, charging straight toward the masked man, who side stepped it, throwing his kunai toward Nagato who blocked it, causing the kunai to fly sideway.
The masked man put his hand together in a seal and they approached straight toward each other and Nagato threw his hands out catching the masked man.
"What? I…I can't escape," he said.
"This is Hungry Ghost Realm," Nagato told him, "And your soul is mine."
Then he pulled out the man's soul from his body, the blue energy in his hand…
That is until a kunai stabbed him straight in the middle of his back.
"Sorry, but I'm not ready to die yet," the masked man's voice said.
W…hat? Nagato thought.
An unexpected ending...
Next time: A crying Rain
Jacques0 out.
R&R.
