When I published this story, I was not expecting this many reviews, which makes me extremely content about it. Thanks everyone, that means a lot. As I'm writing this new chapter (and reading the reviews of the first one), someone mentioned a very important thing I've forgotten to say. I'm not such a big fan of romance stories, and absolutely hate harem (no disrespect if you like it, I just feel most of these stories make no sense whatsoever and feel uncomfortable with them). Beyond that, I also am not a lemon writer. So hereby I think it's important for me to make a few things clear:
1. This story will not have focus on romance. It may still happen eventually, but won't be a major thing, nor the focus of this story.
2. There's no way in hell I'm gonna make this a harem story, nor will I write lemon scenes just for the sake of it. Perhaps implicit sex will occasionally be mentioned, but it'll be an even lesser thing than romance. Also, most of it will be through jokes or something, not the real thing as I see no point in writing a sex scene storywise.
3. I'm definetely not writing: Nagato x Lucy, Nagato x Erza, Nagato x Mirajane, Nagato x Ultear, Nagato x Meredy, Nagato x Sayla or something like that. I'm very tired of those girls. While I like most of them, I'm tired of reading so much about them, especially Erza (don't get me wrong, Erza is my favorite character in Fairy Tail). Also note that Nagato is a thirty-five (35) years old man right now and the story at the moment takes place around X776, and Erza, Mira, etc. are all around eighteen/nineteen at X784, making them 10-11 years old atm, and most of the others even younger, though some do not have their actual age officially confirmed. So there are only a few pairings that I feel would make sense to write about, because I'm not coupling him with girls - children at this point - who are 20 years younger than him.
4. As of those of you who may be worried about me doing crazy timeskips just to get to canon, there's no need for concern: I'm not doing that. I'll develop Nagato and his relationship with the world around him with a lot of patience and if you're here just because you wanna see a random romance story, you were warned. Canon characters may still appear occasionally, and canon events (from the timeline) may happen in the story, but I'll try to twist them somehow so that they do not become too predictable, and if they do happen 'on screen' there will be a reason (in the story) for that to happen.
Thanks if you read this, now let's not lose time anymore.
Warning: as of 12 June, 2022, this chapter has been edited. No content of the story was changed, I've only altered a few words and corrected grammar errors. If you still find something wrong with the grammar, please point it out so that I can correct it. Chapter 6 has been entirely rewritten — if you have read it prior to the aforementioned date, I'd recommend you to read it again.
When Nagato woke up again, he was confused to see himself laying on a bed. What happened? At first he tried to jump out of the bed and get up, knowing from experience waking up in an unknown place wasn't a good sign. But as soon as he moved, the red haired man was forced down once again by a very strong headache. For a moment his vision was such a mess he thought he would faint again, but Nagato managed to keep conscience.
"Don't move!" A familiar voice yelled. When Nagato looked around, he saw that same old pinkette lady - Porlyusica, was it? - standing at the door of the room he was inside.
Nagato's confused gaze didn't pass unnoticed. Sighing, Porlyusica approached him as she prepared for what could be a very long conversation. "Right now, you're totally out of magic. Just calm down and get some rest, you shouldn't even be able to wake up" She didn't realize Nagato got another confused look as he heard the 'magic' word. Does she mean chakra? "Gods... I don't even know how you are still alive!"
"What you're trying to say, Porlyusica-san, is that I am stuck here until I can walk without passing out." The redhead looked around the room again. The walls weren't different from the paper tree Konan had cast to hide them against the Hidden Leaf ninjas. "Looks like you've dragged me here somehow, so... thank you." He did his best to sound grateful as he said that. "But can you tell me where am I?"
"My house. I brought you here when you passed out. I..." By now, Nagato had already realized the woman was trying not look at his eyes. He couldn't blame her, since Nagato himself always found the Rinnegan to be pretty intimidating. "What is the thing with your eyes?" Porlyusica knew she should remember something about eyes like the man's, but she just couldn't.
Nagato looked at her for a few seconds. "I was born with this dōjutsu."
"Dōjutsu..." She repeated the strange word. "Are you a stranger or what?"
"I don't know. Just woke up here... but where here is, I don't know." Nagato's eyes were suddenly on Porlyusica's front door, a few meters away from the open door of his room. "Someone is there."
As soon as the Rinnegan bearer said that, someone knocked at the door. Porlyusica would've asked how could he know that, but she knew pretty well the voice that called from outside. "Porlyusica, please open! I need your help!"
"Makarov, I've already told you to keep that freaks from your guild away" She yelled angrily and went to the door. As the door opened, Nagato saw an overly short old man, but he knew there was someone else. "What is it this time?! You know I hate humans!"
"I know, I know!" The old man raised his hands in defeat. "But Erza here needs your help, please..." Who Nagato supposed to be Makarov stepped aside and a red haired girl timidly walked forward. One of her eyes was covered with an eyepatch, while the other one ran around the place. For a second her gaze went upon Nagato, but she quickly looked away.
"Of course she does. What happened to your eye?" Porlyusica raised her eyes - well, and lowered it again. Makarov wasn't a tall man afterall. "Where did you find her?"
"I didn't. Rob did." Makarov had a saddened face as he said that, but smiled as he looked at the girl. "He's dead, Porlyusica."
"I see..." The pinkette crouched to have a better view of Erza's eyes. "I think I can fix it, but right now..." Her gaze went to Nagato. Makarov saw for the first time the redhead sitting on a bed inside Porlyusica's tree house. "I haven't the right ingredients, since I had to use them on him. If you give me a few days to get them..."
Nagato could hear pretty well what they were saying. As he noticed it was his fault, the man simply knew he couldn't let things just be. All... this... could it be a chance for him to make up for what he had done? Nagato didn't know, but he also didn't care right now as he got up from the bed.
"Don't...!" Nagato ignored Porlyusica's words. He felt his vision become a blur, but forced himself to stay up as he approached them. Erza avoided eye contact - Nagato supposed it had something to do with his Rinnegan -, while Makarov watched with a both interested and shocked look on his face. It can't be... his eyes... As experienced as he was, Makarov could recognize pretty well a pair of eyes so unique as those. Porlyusica noticed Makarov's face and knew he had figured out what were the man's eyes.
"I'm fine, Porlyusica-san. Thank you for worrying." The man half smiled, then his eyes lowered to the redhead girl's level. "Erza-san, is it?"
"Erza is just fine" She muttered, still looking at the floor.
Nagato touched her shoulder as he crouched, feeling her body shift quickly. "Don't be nervous, I will help you. Looks like I've used whatever Porlyusica-san needed to help you with your eye, but... I can still fix it for you."
Hearing that the girl finally looked up. Makarov and Porlyusica watched in interest as Nagato put both his hands together and closed his eyes, gathering only enough chakra in order to summon the King of Hell. "Look, what is going to happen is creepy, just like my eyes are" He whispered to her. "But don't be afraid. You can close your eye if you wants to" As he said that, a giant face suddenly appeared. Purple flame was all under it, but it's existence didn't do even a scratch to Porlyusica's house.
Even Makarov stepped back as the King of Hell showed up. Just like Nagato, the creature had the Rinnegan. Erza tried to get away, but Nagato stopped her. "Calm down, it'll do no harm to you. Just close your eye." He noticed her hesitant look. "Close your eye, count up to ten. Then blink three times. It'll be gone. I promise you."
Even scared, Erza did as she was told. The King of Hell suddenly wrapped the girl with it's tongue, but if Erza felt it's touch, she didn't show it. Four... five... She tried to stay calm as she counted. A green energy surrounded her body. Eight... nine... As she reached ten, the girl blinked. At first she almost screamed as she noticed for the first time the thing's tongue was around her. But at the second time, the tongue was gone, though the creature was still staring at her. Something scratched under her eyepatch. As she blinked again, the thing was gone also. She once again felt the scratch under her eyepatch, but this time she really had to rub it.
"What..." The girl felt a very familiar thing as she rubbed. In a second her eyepatch was ripped off - under it, another widened brown eye showed up.
How? Porlyusica tried to understand what just happened, and so did Makarov. "You... my eye... what..." Erza touched it again, as if she was trying to make sure it was still there. And it was. Not only it was, but she could see perfectly through it.
"Looks good for me." Nagato struggled as he tried to get up, still refusing to faint as his vision blurred once again. "What you think?"
"I..." Erza knew she had to say something, but just couldn't find the right words. Just saying 'Thank you' was nowhere enough. For the first time she really understood she had her eye once again. As tears ran down her face, the girl quickly stepped forward and hugged him. It was his time to be nervous, not used to this kind of physical contact or display of emotion. "I just... I... Thank you, I..."
Makarov smiled at the sight, and so did Porlyusica - though she probably would never admit that -, but he still couldn't stop himself from poking the old lady's arm in order to get her attention. Once he managed to do so the old man stepped out of the house and she followed him, closing the door in the process.
"What is it?" She asked, not even bothering to keep her angry voice.
"Porlyusica, where did you even find him? His eyes..." Makarov looked at the door, as if worried the man could overhear them.
"I've noticed it, Makarov, but what are his eyes anyway? I just can't figur-..." Before she could even finish off, the Fairy Tail master cut her.
"Don't tell me you couldn't figure out... his eyes... they are Rinnegan!" Porlyusica's eyes widened as Makarov said that, her entire body tingling in surprise.
"No way. The Rinnegan... isn't it just a legend?" She remembered reading about the 'eyes of god', as they were called - supposed to give their bearer a godlike power.
"Or so I thought until today. But this man... he has it. Purehito told me about it" The Fairy Tail master looked at the door again. "Things are changing. If the Rinnegan appeared, we're about to see a great revolution in the next years."
"But what can we d-..." Before she could finish speaking, the door opened . They both looked and saw Nagato and Erza talking to each other, but apparently they hadn't caused it to open.
"Right now, the only thing we can do is watch." Makarov said quickly to her. "But he's a good person. I can feel it. I'm gonna ask him to join Fairy Tail." For what I know, this guy could well be a god walking among us. God or man, however, one thing was certain - things were soon going to change. Fate was beginning to play through.
I just thought Nagato's King of Hell could be used to restore people. At first I thought it was a Pain-only thing, but then I noticed he used King of Hell in order to bring all those people in Konoha back to life - not only that, but many of them should've been crushed under heavy things, so it's pretty obvious Nagato also restored their bodies just like their lives. Even if it is not the case in the canon of Naruto, this is fanfiction, so there's nothing wrong with making a few things up (as long as the change makes some sense) along the road. I do intend to give Nagato some new powers as the story goes on, but do not intend to make him godly overpowered (will not downplay him just for the sake of it either). I don't think I need to say it again, but only to make sure: this is NOT a Nagato x Erza romance story.