Miri's eyes opened back into reality. She could still feel the effects of the dream. Her eyes opened more for the scenery to expand. She heard noises she never heard before and smells she didn't know existed. All these little details took a toll on her and felt a migraine rush in.
Hant placed a hand on Miri's. Her eyes matched with his, he was no more than a than an arm, neck, and head. "It is time for me to do the last path that I am able to do. The rest of the way you must do on your own."
"How am I supposed to do that? I can't do this thing that you do."
"This entire path I set on you on was to place as little explanation for this entire reason. But now that I'm gone, I only have one left in. As I teach you the Path of the Sage, it's also to hold in your future. I selected these memories with people to guide you through the Sage. Anko's memory showed you the start, first trying to get nature energy and the original pain was to stop you from killing your own body with it. Kakashi showed two important things, the copying of the Tozoto and you mastering the ability to take in the nature energy. Inoichi was to teach you how to harness the abilities, the enchanced speeds, chakra, reflexes, senses, all aspects of a ninja."
Miri's eyes filled with tears. "If only I can thank him for all this. But." She swayed her head. "But did he have to do this?"
Hant moved the rest of his body over to Miri. His wrists opened up for his smoke to open up and surround Miri. Miri didn't notice in time before the smoke filled all of her senses. She opened back up, the world around her was nothing but blue skies and crystal clear water that showed every fish underneith.
Soft steps filled the calm air. Miri instantly noticed Sean step closer to Miri. He got close to Miri and stopped a little closer than an arm's length from Miri. Sean smiled but didn't get one back. Miri back handed Sean across the face, his body constricted back and brought up one hand to his face. He recouperated and raised one of his eyebrows in confusion.
"What the hell?" Sean yelled at Miri.
She wrapped her arms around his shoulders and pulled him to wrap her body fully around his. "What the hell were you doing?" She whispered. She pushed him away and slapped him. "Why'd you turn on us?" She screamed. "You killed your sister, you twisted against the village, took hostages, why do I love you when I want to kill you!"
"This is why I'm here to tell you. The night I left, the night where Sakura believed she sent me off, those people you saw. It's not what you think."
"Then tell me what I should know! Why should I forgive you!"
"Amari was a sacrafice." the two paused. "I was swayed by Itachi's words but not for his reasons. I went there for the power of the Tozoto, I knew they were powerful and had something I could steal. I already know the powers it has with the Sharingan and the Byakugan. I quickly learned of the Moygenko Sharingan and wished to get it myself, hence Sakura. But unfortunity, I couldn't bring myself to do it. So I knew I had to kill my best friend, either you or Amari."
"Did she know about it?"
"Yes, I told her that I was going to kill either her or you. But I knew I couldn't tell you, so Amari took on the risk either way."
"You killed her for those eyes. You murdered this family, tore it apart." Miri pushed her brother. She started to cry again. "Sharingan." She punched him. "Byakugan." She punched him in the gut again. "This Sage thing!" The ground started to shake.
Sean's calm demener changed to panic, he tried to keep his balance against the small waves. "Miri, you don't understand what you are thinking."
"Don't know what I am thinking?" She took a step that shook the ground even more. "I am exactly in control of my mind!" Her chakra shaped out of her body.
"Miri it's the incision in your neck. It's making an unnormal expansion of your chakra that isn't being well balanced with your new chakra nature!"
"Everything you've done! Was for the god damn Tozoto!"
Sean teleported in front of Miri and opened up his mouth. The smoke flushed out of his mouth and covered Miri's face with it. Miri opened back up to the real world, she breathed long and calm strokes. She felt for her neck and didn't feel the tube in their anymore. Other than a small indent of a ring, it was like it was never there.
"Oi, I thought you were a goner there." Kiba grabbed Miri's arm and side and pulled her to her feet.
"What the hell happened?" Miri asked confused as she rubbed her neck and scanned the area."
"I'm not quite sure myself." Kiba chuckled. "I was giving Akamaru a walk and then I saw that tube in your neck disinergrate then you fell."
"The chakra from it must've been a strong corossive for it." Miri tried to play off what happened. She didn't want many more questions. "And the reaction must've knocked me out."
"Miri, the truth is I came here because me and Akamaru smelt something weird. But when we got here, there was nothing. Do you know anything?"
Miri turned serious. "It doesn't concern you my friend." Miri pushed past Kiba. "None of this concerns you." Miri stopped but didn't turn to look at Kiba. "Tell me, where is Pain's body."
"I think I heard of an autopsy or something. But what does that have to do with your mental state?"
"Everything." Miri continued to walk off.
Miri's knewly sensitive ears started to pulse loud screaches. The few second paces between the loud ear pounds closed quickly to one long string. The next thing she knew her ear drums bursted. She couldn't feel anything now, her ears heard nothing and her body felt nothing. Her eyes opened up to a large daze, everything in her vision rotated with a pair of itself. She barely figured out how to shake her head to lower the effects of the concusive blast. She looked down at her chest and used most of her strength to shove off the large piece of wood. The air rushed back in her lungs that forced her cough. She pounded her chest, the coughs slowed.
"Got." She coughed. "To get up."
Miri grabbed around her sides till she felt a grove in the wall behind her. She pulled herself to her feet but stumbled within the first second. Her leg gave out and dropped her to a knee. She rubbed her face, she stopped instantly. She almost couldn't pull her hand back to her vision. She slowed her breath down and pulled her hand back. Her hand dripped with the crimson red blood. She knew this wasn't a normal explosion, no explosion has ever crushed her skull.
She closed her eyes and focused. In only a few seconds she could feel the natural chakra flow into her body. "All mighty push!" Miri recognized the voice and jutsu used. It felt as time froze for her, her breath stopped, the dust in the air froze around her. Only her eyes moved around. She looked down to her chest, a pair of arms pulled out of her arms and pushed on her abdomen. The arms yanked out the rest of its body, it was shaped like a human but carried no features as one except for the generic shape.
Time returned for her and only a small gust of air brushed against her. A man walked inside the destroyed home. She raised one side of her upper lip, she didn't need to see the clothes, the hair, or even the eyes to know who she was against. "How the hell did you get in here?" Miri took stance.
"With Sean and Jiraiya gone, I'm surprised you were able to learn such abilities." Pain didn't react to anything Miri did. He lowered a black bar out of his hand. "Now tell me where Naruto Uzamaki is."
"If you want to know where he is I need something in return!" Miri straightened. "Let me connect with you."
"All mighty push!" Pain's hand was up and launched the pipe at Miri.
"Spirit style; spirit body!" Her body phased through the the attack. Miri walked up to Pain. She held her own arm out. "I need you one more time Sean."
The smoke from her arms escaped and made its way around Pain. His eyes locked with Miri, a cockiness move in Miri's eyes. Her eyes opened up to a familiar sight, the structure style reminded her of Amegakure. She recognized most of the people in the room, evenly spaced out in a square. Pain, Konan, Sean, and a masked man she knew nothing of.
Sean leaned on his foot and crossed his arms, his headband was in his hands. Both of his eyes were open, one blue, and the other purple with the black rings. "What?" Sean asked unnamused.
"I'm surprised you didn't run while you had the Rinnegan in your possession." The masked man commented. "Return it."
"You said you were familiar with the Tozoto, why would I leave it with the likes of him?" he pointed at Pain, one eye was the Rinnegan and the other was the Tozoto.
"So the Tozoto can replicate eyes but not replicate itself. So, return the eye and you'll recieve my side of the deal." Sean only stared at the masked man. "I'm guessing you can't return the eye."
"How can I trust you will fill up your side of the bargin? I return Pain's eye to the fullest and I'm left with a Sharingan and a Rinnegan to fight against."
"I thought the Genkai Stealer would be smarter than he leaves off. But you're just a bad liar after all. You don't have the Rinnegan activated, and you also didn't give Pain the Tozoto do you?"
Sean chuckled. "Release." both of Sean's eye and Pain's eye puffed up in smoke. Pain's eye returned to the Rinnegan state and Sean's eye revealed to be the Moygenko Sharingan. A thick pinwheel shape with lines stretch from various places of the pinwheel. "And you tried to put me under a genjutsu."
"Pain, I trust you will do what you must for this traitor."
Sean closed his fist, in a second four sword with threw the opening and straight to the masked man. Two of the swords went straight through the man before he dissappeared. The other two followed behind and struck the wall along with the first set. Sean changed his attention to Pain. His palm was up and to Sean.
"Don't do this Pain." Konan begged. "He's not the enemy."
"Don't try to convince him, Konan." Sean smirked at Konan and winked. "I'll get through this. I alway do."
"All mighty push!"
"Kamui!"
