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Chapter 38

Harry was struggling on the ground. He turned his face to Dumbledore and said in a very dark, cold and snake-ish voice, which was common to everybody.

" Kill me now, Dumbledore...If death means nothing, then kill me and the boy now."

Just as he felt the aching in his heart, the creature in him released him and the pain disappeared. He was Harry again. Just Harry. He was lying on the ground and a very concerned Dumbledore, two ninja and his friends were looking at him. And he also heard other voices. More voices than there should have been.

" Are you alright, Harry?" Dumbledore asked.

" Yes." he said and narrowed his eyes because of the pain. " Yes, I...where is Voldemort, where...who are these...what?"

The atrium was full with people and Harry noticed, that more and more wizards and witches were popping out of the fireplaces. Another thing that shocked not only Harry but also his ninja friends, was, the sudden appearance of nine more people.

" Sakura...Everybody!" Sasuke whispered and hurried to approach the rosette with an angry expression. " Why the hell are you here?"

" You don't know?!" she growled and clenched her fists "...Ino found out...Pain, the leader of Akatsuki is here. And Kisame, your brother's former teammate. We need to help them and why the hell are you two here?"

" Oh, sorry, we just tried catching Voldemort..." Naruto muttered sarcastically. " How did you actually come here?"

" P-portkey...Professor McGonnagle" Hinata said and pursed her lips, because Naruto looked at her disapprovingly and kinda angry, but mostly concerned.

" Whatever! Move! They need our help! Where are the others?!" Tenten asked with concern in her voice.

" What's going on here?" a new voice added and a small fat man took a step forward from the crowd. " I...Dumbledore! What's happened here? And who are these people?"

" Cornelius. It's rather difficult to explain right now. In a few words...Voldemort was just here and you saw him, these people are shinobi, who are trying to help us and at the moment, Department "Mysteries" is full with Death Eaters and other shinobi, who are on their side. So I suggest that you all leave this building for the sake of your own safety."

" Shi-shinobi..." Fudge paled and looked at the people who were currently getting on one of the elevators. " Im-impossible."

" Quite possible, Cornelius. I hired them to guard Hogwarts and Harry, because I knew that something like this might happen. After we finish this...I'll give you...half an hour from my precious time and then I'll return to Hogwarts and my students...But now I have to first help my friends. "

Dumbledore disappeared together with Harry, Neville, Ginny and Luna.

"Sensei...Peace… I don't know how to get there… but… but someday I'll break the curse. If there's such a thing as peace, I will find it! But unfortunately, it's not here. not today." the man with the piercings and the orange hair said and bored his purple eyes, that indicated the Rinnegan into Jiraya's shocked ones. " And don't call me Yahiko...this person is long gone...and the only thing he left behind was...Pain."

Jiraya gritted his teeth. There was something wrong with that person in front of him. He looked like Yahiko, but his eyes were the same as Nagato's. 'Long gone? Long dead?' Was it possible...was that...

" Nagato?"

The person looked at him with emotionless eyes and raised his arm to perform a jutsu.

" With Yahiko...Nagato disappeared too..."

" Bastard!"

The orange headed shinobi fell on the ground from the strong fist that he has received. Jiraya looked up to the newcomers. Naruto was staying in front of everybody with a fierce expression. Behind him were Sasuke, Sai, Sakura, Ino, Choji, Tenten, Lee, Kiba, Hinata and Shino.

" You try messing with our friends and teachers...you die." Naruto exclaimed before he jumped and attacked the so-called Pain. Konan was immediately surrounded by Sakura, Tenten, Ino and Hinata and they started fighting. Jiraya observed, There was no doubt about it. That was his little student Konan. She was using papers and forming them in little figures. Origami. Jiraya smiled nostalgic, but soon remembered, that she was his enemy now. He breathed in and turned to naruto who was having a fierce battle with the Yahiko-Nagato-Pain. But something else caught his mind. It wasn't that orangeheaded person, but the other five, that appeared on the main door. They had the same purple eyes ad the same shade orange hair. Jiraya frowned, as this confirmed his worst nightmare. So it was Nagato after all.

" Yamanaka!" he shouted and Ino quickly approached him. " Can you contact Naruto?"

" Yes, Jiraya-sama."

" Tell him this...The real one is not amongst them."

" The...ok."

The kunoichi formed a seal and Naruto on the other side of the hall frowned for a second before continuing with the fight. He nodded and Ino turned to Jiraya.

" Done...What happened here, Jiraya-sama?"

" Orochimaru is dead. As well as two of the Akatsuki members. We have these three left. And...whatever, help the others with Konan."

" You sound...miserable, Jiraya-sama."

" They were once my students." he nodded and turned to Pain with narrowed eyes and the suddenly smirked. " But that doesn't change the fact that they decided to take that path. They mess with my apprentice...they die."

Jiraya turned to the five new figures at the entrance and before heading to them, pulled Sasuke.

" You take care of the fish. The others...stay away from the people with the purple eyes. They are too dangerous."

" But-"

" I said...you take care of Kisame."

" R-right... What about Orochimaru?"

" He's dead."

With that, Jiraya pushed himself and disappeared, leaving Sasuke with a shocked expression. He said that so carelessly? So emotionless? Even he, who had before betrayed and left Konoha felt much more inside him when it came to his comrades...But Jiraya...That was a man to admire, indeed. Sasuke sighed and looked back at Naruto, who was fighting the leader of Akatsuki.

' Good luck' he thought and the finally turned to the blue skinned former teammate of Itachi and narrowed his eyes at him. He was rather disgusting and looked really abusive. He sighed and charged, followed by Kiba, Shino and Rock Lee.

The sight in front of them was scary. Harry pursed his lips.

" It's my fault...It's all my fault. If it weren't for me, then they wouldn't have been like that!" he said and felt the tiny fist of Ginny on his shoulder.

" Shut up! It's not because of you, but because of...You-know-who!"

She gritted her teeth and looked at the shinobi once again. Tsunade was currently on her knees, healing Neji, who seemed like he had been pierced multiple times with something, because he had ugly, bleeding wounds on his chest. Shikamaru was lying next to him and seemed like he was unconscious...or at least, that's what she wanted him to be. Yamato and Kakashi were lying next to them, too, but they were slightly moving their heads, indicating that they were still alive. She turned her head to the other part of the hall and immediately spotted the members from the Order. All of them seemed to be fine and most of the Death Eaters were lying in their feel, all tied up. But another thing caught her attention. Jiraya was fighting five men with orange hair, piercings and weird purple eyes. Naruto was fighting one man like that too, but in the other corner and seemed to have some difficulties. Hinata, Tenten, Ino and Sakura were against a young woman with dark purple hair, whose body seemed to be made of paper. And last, but not least, Sasuke, Kiba, Shino and Rock Lee, who were clashing with a scary man with blue skin and gills. Ginny shook her head.

" We can't help them...if we try, then only more people will die."

" You are absolutely right...we can't help them with the fighting, but we can help them with the healing." Dumbledore nodded, caught the robes of the young teens and apparated next to Tsunade, who didn't seem like she cared, that they were there, until Dumbledore pointed his wand at Neji.

" What are you doing?''

" Helping."

" You can heal?"

" Not as good as you, but yes, I have quite some knowledge about that, too..."

Tsunade stood up and Dumbledore looked at her surprised.

" Then I'll leave this to you, Dumbledore-sama. I will bring the other hurt people and then I'll go help my people."

After the man nodded, she took off in such speed, that it was almost impossible for the wizards to see her. She came back in a minute with the bodies of Hermione and Ronald.

" They're fine...Just let them rest."

She laid them next to Kakashi and Yamato, who were also covered in blood and wounds. She turned to them for a second.

" Hang in there, please...Katsuyu will come after a second. I have to..."

She stopped. She smelled it. The blood. She heard it. The body falling to the ground and the agonizing and full of pain scream of Naruto. She turned around and saw it. And fell to her knees. The man was lying on the ground with a few metal rods sticking out of his back. That must have been the reason for his death, the medic in her pointed out, but she ignored that voice. The five figures around him were carrying emotionless expressions and they charged at her other shinobi. She immediately stood on her feet and in a matter of seconds reached Jiraya. Automatically, she activated her Mystical Palm Technique and placed her hands on him.

" N-no..." she heard him say. " The...The real one...is not here...Find Nagato...he's somewhere here...stop him...and this all will end..."

" Don't talk!" she screamed, but felt his hand on her knee. She trembled. " DON'T MOVE, YOU IDIOT!"

" Tsunade..." he said and smiled at her with closed eyes. She couldn't stop the tears coming out of her eyes. " The Will of Fire...has always been...so strong...within you..."

Nothing. No chakra circulation. No pulse. Nothing. He was gone. He died in her arms. She cried out in her pain and embraced his huge body. She lifted it and quickly took it to the corner of the room, where Orochimaru's body was. She laid Jiraya next to him carefully and kissed him on the cheek. She noticed how Naruto literally crashed the Yahiko-Pain for a brief second, before turning to her former comrades once again. The boy had orange shading above his eyes and the Slug princess smirked.

" Sage mode, huh? You were one hell of a teacher, Jiraya..." she turned back to the two dead men " You better wait for me over there, both of you! I will come!" she said and stood up without crying anymore. She turned around and narrowed her eyes at the Akatsuki members that were currently clashing with her people and were destroying the building, as if it didn't matter. "It's been enough. You attack my people. You cause so many deaths...I, as the Fifth Hokage and the granddaughter of the Fist Hokage, won't let you hurt any of my people anymore! Begone!''

In just one punch, she beat one of the other Pain-freaks and turned to Naruto.

" Find the real one and leave the rest of them to me."

" To us, you mean." somebody corrected and Tsunade turned around to face Sakura, Hinata, Sasuke and Kiba. She threw a look at Dumbledore, who was currently healing Kakashi, but on the line were staying Tenten, Shino, Ino and Rock Lee. She smiled and looked around. Kisame was lying in the both sides of the hall, cut through the middle and Konan seemed to be beaten by a cut on her throat. Tsunade turned back to her apprentice, the hyuga, the Uchiha and the inuzuka, who were all in a pitiful state. She pursed her lips and finally smirked.

" Yosh! Let's beat them before Naruto even finds the original!"

" Go, dobe...you better do a proper job this time!'' Sasuke smirked and Naruto laughed darkly.

" The guy would wish to not have been born, teme..."

With that, Naruto drifted off and Tsunade and the left teenage ninja turned to the remaining four bodies of Pain.

Naruto had to hurry. he perfectly knew that his Sage Mode wouldn't last much longer and if he found that person he didn't intend on staying still to collect nature energy. He quickly checked on his clone on Mount Myoboku and sighed in relief. Of course, he could summon him at any time and the Sage Mode wouldn't be a problem. Mount Myoboku...Jiraya...The blonde gritted his teeth and ordered himself not to let a single tear fall out of him eyes until he was over with the things here. He sensed the huge amount of chakra coming from the inner rooms of the Mysteries department. He wasn't sure if that was the person Tsunade was talking about, but he decided on trying. He barged in one of the rooms and was surprised to see a room, whose floor was covered in pieces of glass. He carefully stepped in.

" So you found me that easily?" a tired and weak voice said. Naruto raised his kunai immediately and turned to the direction, where the noise came from. " I am not surprised, since you're Jiraya's apprentice."

The man was hanging from something weird and had metal rods coming out of his back, piercings on his nose, ears, hands and chest. His hair was red and his eyes were the exact same as Pain's.

" Don't speak his name!" Naruto growled and looked at him once again.

'' I guess you're right to react like this...Sensei was an amazing person, indeed." the man said and Naruto's eyes widened. " Yes, don't be so surprised. I was his student once. We were like a family, all four of us. but then he had to go. He had to return to his village and he left us. We were not mad. We decided on following his path. All we wanted was peace...For the sake of peace, we lost Yahiko and our ideals immediately lost sense. he was gone. A part of our family was gone. And me and Konan realized what peace meant. If there is any profit in the war, we couldn't fulfill our dreams. So we decided to put an end to this. In order to achieve peace, we..."

" You had to kill your own teacher!" Naruto growled and gritted his teeth. The redheaded man pursed his lips with difficulties.

" He was in our way... And we have to find peace."

" YOU KNOW NOTHING ABOUT PEACE!" the Jinchuuriki screamed and the man looked at him confused. " Your thinking...it's wrong! And if I put an end to you now! Well, the world's chances of peace will be bigger!"

" You may be right, Uzumaki Naruto." he said. " We have always lived in war. Our parents, our families, they were all killed in war. And there was nothing left for us back then. We had nothing else, but hope, that someday, we'd eventually see the world free."

" I have no parents and family. But...I am not like you...is that what you really wanted? What you really imagined?" Naruto asked. " You wanted peace, and instead you were the ones who started the massacre! If that's what your peace means...then I don't want it."

The man didn't answer, so Naruto continued talking.

" Jiraya was a great man, who always dreamed of a calm, nice world, without wars and fights. I inherited his dream. And I will make it come true! But...not the way you try to! We may have had the same master, but...we are not the same person!"

The man looked at him and a weak smile rose on his face.

" You are right, Uzumaki Naruto...I can see it. the future without wars and without fights...But it's not me, who caused this...I see this future...with you."

When I read the last two chapters it was sort of confusing, actually...:D

So I decided on writing the battles here:

1. Tsunade, Jiraya vs. Orochimaru, winner: Tsunade and Jiraya

2. Shikamaru, Neji vs. Hidan, winner: the Konoha boys

3. Kakashi, Yamato vs. Kakuzu, winner: the Konoha guys

4. Harry, Dumbledore, Naruto, Sasuke vs. Voldemort, Bellatrix, winner: none

5. The Order of the Phoenix vs. The Death Eaters, winner: The Order

6. Jiraya vs. Five of the paths, winner: Five paths

7. Naruto vs. Deva Path (aka Yahiko), winner: Naruto

8. Sakura, Hinata, Ino, Tenten vs. Konan, winner: the Konoha girls

9. Sasuke, Shino, Rock Lee, Kiba vs. Kisame, winner: the Konoha boys

10. Tsunade, Sakura, hinata, Kiba, Sasuke vs. Four of the paths, winner: unknown, yet...

Well, I guess that's it for today... Please, REVIEW!

I'll post soon, I hope :)