So, I think that FanFiction's editing stuff changed in the Doc Manager, because I can't seem to find the line break tool anymore... so please bear with me since I will simply have to write LINE BREAK as my line breaks... sorry!

EDIT: Thanks to a reviewer, I found the linebreak... you have to go back and edit the document after initial upload :p


The man in the swirl mask looked at Itachi, his sharingan's red glow pierced through the eyehole in his mask. "Do you have anything to say before you die?"

Itachi's right eye widened suddenly. "Amaterasu!"

Black flames scorched the woods behind the man in the mask. The intense fire brought down the trees in the area, and smoke billowed high into the air.

The intended target began to walk towards Itachi. "You can't beat me. You made the wrong choice Itachi." He reached his hand out to touch him, but Itachi did not shy away. His hand stopped short, and then he suddenly began to laugh. "You really think a cheep trick like this would work against me?"

The masked man was still standing in his original spot where they had first made eye contact. The woods behind him were unscathed. He stood motionless as Itachi's kick from behind passed harmlessly through him. The moment Itachi went by completely, the man reached out and touched him. In an instant they were pulled into a different world.

White space filled the horizon of the dimension. As far as they eye could see, there was nothing.

Laughter filled the void as the swirl masked man looked at Itachi. "I have won."

"Foolish." Itachi replied. His body suddenly began to smoke and glow. The form began to fade to its true appearance. Thousands of paper bombs.

"Shit!" The masked man's body began to swirl.

As his body transferred back to the normal world, he found himself staring at Itachi's face.

Itachi's right eye was again wide open. "Amaterasu!"

He didn't have time to dodge. He could not go back to the other dimension with impending explosion. "Dammit!"

Black flames erupted all over his body. Searing heat consumed his body. The flames grew stronger peeled and burnt his flesh and cloths away.

Itachi let out a sigh of relief, and turned away. "I have other matters to attend to now."

The sound of steal piercing flesh reached Itachi's ears before he even felt the pain. He struggled to reach for the blade near his left shoulder blade. Finding the handle, he pulled the kunai out, and then faced his attacker.

The man with the swirl mask was fully clothed; there was not even a hint that flames had ever touched him. The only difference about him was the hole where his sharingan should be. The eye was closed.

"If I could have seen you, that would have been the end of your life. But it seems I missed any of your vitals in my blindness." He reached for his mask and removed it to reveal a disfigured right side of his face. But on his left side, he still had an eye. "I guess I can't fight with this mask on anymore." He tossed it aside. "To think you would force me to use Izanagi so easily." He began to form seals. "You will pay for making me lose my sharingan!"

Blood continued to pour from Itachi's wound, but he had no way or time to treat it. He rapidly formed the same seals as his opponent. "Fire style, fireball jutsu!"

An immensely powerful surge of chakra and flame collided. The resulting explosion blew ground, rock, and trees alike completely apart. Everything within an eighth of a mile was reduced to a desolate wasteland.

Both men standing at its center removed their cloaks with red clouds. Their edges danced in red flames that slowly ate their way up the fabric.

Itachi's eyes narrowed as he tried to clear his fogging mind. I have to beat him before I lose consciousness.


Many cloaked figures stood before the front gate of konoha. Not far in front of them, a group of leaf nin guarded the gate.

One ninja stepped forward despite his fear and yelled to the members of Akatsuki. "If you don't want to experience a world of pain, then run away now!"

Purple eyes with seemingly endless rings in them looked on emotionlessly at the group. "What do you know of pain?" He raised his hand before him. "Let me show you true pain."

A wave of force crushed into the group of ninja, and blew them away. The attack continued right into the front gates, and obliterated them.

The bodies of the ninja were scattered around. They were all broken and bloodied.

A green spandex clad ninja standing just inside the opening were the gates used to be looked at the carnage. "Thank you for your sacrifice comrades! I will not let the loss of your lives be in vain!" He widened his stance. "Sixth Gate: Gate of Joy! OPEN!" His body vanished in an instant.

The next moment, Guy's fist smashed into the blocking figure of some other Pain that had come seemingly out of nowhere and taken the hit for the head Pain. The new Pain's arms broke, and he was sent flying.

Pain remained calm. "So that attack was not a jutsu? Interesting." Four other Pains emerged seemingly out of nowhere. The head one turned to the other Akatsuki members. "I will deal with him. Proceed with destroying Konoha."

The Akatsuki began to rush towards the opening into the village.

Guy yelled. "Like I would let that happen!" He dashed towards the nearest enemy.

"Universal Pull!"

Guy found his body being dragged in the opposite direction from what he intended. As he neared Pain, he found a disturbing looking path of Pain shirtless before him. A metal saw like blade was ready to skewer him. He turned in mid air and prepared a strike.

"MORNING PEACOCK!"

In the moment before his body was pierced, Guy unleashed a furry of strikes that ignited the very air in flames. The attacks smashed into the path of pain, and with each hit, its body was broken apart. In the half second it took for Guys' body to reach it, it had already been reduced to scarp.

The head Pain's eyes opened wider as Guy rocketed towards him ready to strike. Just then a cloud of smoke appeared in front of Pain, and a centipede was before him, and intercepted the strike. The amazingly powerful blow dispelled the summoned creature instantly.

Guy jumped back as a rhino plowed through where he had just been standing. With distance between him and the Pains, he looked around and saw seven summoned beasts standing with them. Even more disturbingly, the two Pains he had only just destroyed where both now standing with the other four, completely rejuvenated.

Guy again widened his stance. "I guess this won't be that easy." The ground around him began to shake under the pressure of his aura. "Seventh Gate: Gate of Shock! OPEN!"


As the Akatsuki poured into the village, they were meet by a barrage of jutsu and weapons from all directions. They dealt with the attacks easily and skillfully as the continued in before they branched off in teams to begin their destruction in their own locations.


Deidara and Sasori went stright to the heart of the village where they were meet by Tsunade and Sakura.


Konan began widespread destruction with her paper bombs. Entire buildings crumbled easily as she destroyed block after block, making here way through the village. Countless ninja tried in vain to attack her paper form. Bodies littered the area in the wake of her onslaught.


Hidan and Kakazu found themselves surrounded by hundreds of ninja. Kakashi was at their head.


Zetsu watched on pensively from the roof of a nearby building as if not noticing the ninja around him. A dozen corpses surrounded him as a group of frightened ninja backed off slightly.


Naruto found himself trapped in a series of nightmares. His village was being destroyed, and his friends slaughtered. Innocent villagers were being killed by the akatsuki, and he couldn't do anything. It was as if he was floating above Konoha, but could not go down to help. He kept seeing the faces of ninja that he knew, but did not know their names, as they were wiped out.

He saw the gates of Konoha smashed apart on the ground. Outside the gate, he saw Guy fighting Pain.

Naruto looked over the destuction and felt a chill run down his spine. "What... is… this?"