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After looking angrily in one direction. Ranko seemingly just left quickly towards it.

"Where is she going" Naruto was asked by everyone there with him

"Must have realized the real Pain was not here" he said

"What do you mean he was here as he standing right there," Sakura said pointing towards where Pain was just standing

"That's not the actual Pain as none of seven(including Konan) were they real Pain" he told her "The true mastermind is controlling them from afar because that what Jiraiya learned and the final message he left"

"Though interesting how Ranko knew that despite this being the first time seeing Pain" he continued

"That because Ranko is basically blind at this point" Gamatatsu said

This go shocked expression from everyone there

"If she is blind how was she able to act like that as she seemingly saw everything Pain did easily" Sakura asked

"Traditionally blind maybe. Since Ranko can no longer see as a normal person can. However, when comes to natural energy all around. She sees mostly through that. It seems that in her sage mode she see far more detail and distance though"

Ranko noticed that string that leads far away but did not really care until she pushed too far. Have not seen this as an actual fight until she was pushed into doing so and in an act that royally pissed her off

"Should we let her kill the real Pain as he might be able to restore the lives of those lost today one then suggested" Gamatatsu said

Once again this shocked everyone there

Meanwhile...

Konan and Nagato were not really sure about their next move. They had plans for Naruto but not this girl that came with him and was seemingly a cat sage

"I am going out there. Hopefully staling for some time, while you try to call them back," she said

Though that thought was dashed when Nagato used his walker's legs to push her down

Just in time avoid being slashed in half along the tree they were hiding in. It barely touched Nagato missing him by just a few feet.

Though the walker's leg was not so lucky though as it was sliced instead.

Acting quickly before she even consciously realized what she was even doing. Konan managed to grab hold of Ranko with her paper and fling her away from her with strength she was not even aware she had

Ranko recovering from this hissed after correcting herself and landed on all fours.

From here on Konan fought as best she could though Ranko not only cut through her paper with ease but control it herself to a degree as well. With attacks being caught be her tail and throwback at her

After receiving a massive blow to the torso leaving three claw marks across it. Konan collapsed to the ground having died from the blow. Yet her body was flung far away from the sheer force of the blow she took from Ranko.

Nagato would have been done for it not Gamatatsu showing up and managing to calm by the enraged cat like sage girl.

Sometime later...

Konan's eyes then blinked as she realized she was alive again...however that meant that he must have done it already and they might already be.

"We were talking when he noticed you had died trying to protect him," Naruto told her

"Then why did not you stop him than" Konan demanded

"He chooses to bring you back but in the process brought everyone else that died today back too since he did not know exactly where you were" Naruto continued

"Why did you stand there and let him kill himself" Konan wanted to know.

"Why did you help him kill our sensei" Naruto countered

As Ranko was being calm down by Gamatatsu. Naruto got Nagato's story from him which was not that hard to do. After all should he had not agree then they could have easily had Ranko finish what she started. Thus he learned about Nagato's past and why he was doing what he was doing. What eventually lead him to attempting at least saving Konan.

Konan wanted to say more but she passed out. She was on the very edge of revival justu. The scar she got from Ranko was still marked across her chest and torso though.

Naruto could wonder just what exactly Ranko did that scared Konan so deeply that even being brought back from the dead could not fix

The girl in question was happily purring as her head was being petted by Gamatatsu.

"Do she always act like this in her sage mode" he asked

"Not really as this the first time she entered sage mode at least while in that state" Gamakichi said

"Actually she since awaken from being a statue she has always been in sage mode that just her entering that form while also in sage mode," the elder said.

"So she has been stuck in sage mode this entire time but how is that possible" Naruto asked

"Not sure but she somehow must have learned while she was a statue as she constantly taking in and balancing the natural chakra in her body as if it was merely second nature to her" Fukasaku said

The girl that wiped the floor with Pain and actually killed Konan once blinked as she looked around confused.