Miri scattered across the destroyed leaf village in search of the Pains. She found the abusive powers each one holds and what they can lash out. Buildings that were once homes are no more than a pile of wood and rock. The people had it much worse, she found people with limbs torn off and others hidden in fear. Each person she saw hurt Miri inside. She couldn't face the fact her home is in crumbles.
She focused heavily on the giant beasts that ran through the structures. One move and every single one will see her. Miri could fight a single one in solo combat. Yet she didn't want to waste her chakra reserves and battle one for five more to show up a minute later. Miri saved her strength to save the village for her to only have to let the village be destroyed.
Miri traveled across most of the village without the sight of a Pain. She found one, but that one was dead before she could see what power he held. She didn't need Sean's advice for her to run before the other Pain came to revive him. Miri didn't look forward to the full power of the Rinnegan. Just the sight of sections of it made her worry about the future. And Sean carried a portion of this power, how much or what he carried she didn't know. Afraid to ask, she kept her feelings secret.
"Sean, this power of Rinnegan. How do we beat it?" Miri asked. She ducked under a slab of concrete and pressed her body close to a corner.
"We won't be able to beat it easily. As powerful as it is, it has weaknesses. But if we can knock one at a time down, they can be beaten. Alone, I just don't think we have it in us. But I'm sure your strength alone will take out a few before we're overpowered."
"Hopefully I can take out the resurrector before they take out me."
"Miri, it isn't cowardess ti take out him then duck out a bit before we return. I'm not saying we have to take out all of them in a single go, I say we got a few hours in time to take out all of them. If this takes more than a day, we need a whole new strategy and start from zero."
"I understand the situation but all this damage. There has to be something we can do."
"Miri listen to me."
Miri's ears filled up with a deafening siren and blocked out Sean's voice. Miri turned to the center of the village. Her eyes couldn't believe what she saw, a tsunami high wave of rubble, dirt, homes, everything charged right for her. Through the wave of earth, bodies appeared through, most dead but a few still screamed for their life.
She quickly returned to thought. "Spirit style; spirit body!" Her body became transparent and sifted through the wave before it could hit her.
She thought the earth style move was mass devastation. But the scene before her was worse. The land was a giant crater that only went deeper, the farther into the center. There was nothing, just the untouched soil. No building stood, zero foundation, every path was gone. To a new comer this land was not part of the forest and was an anomaly in time.
"Sean, what happened?"
"The Rinnegan happened. We must reach that center point. I hope you recharged enough because we'll be taking on each Pain there."
"Sean, how am I supposed to beat the man that did all this? Even with the Sage mode activated I can't defeat that."
"You did it once Miri. Now it's just one more battle."
This run was the first run Miri felt like she couldn't run fast enough. A straight away to the center point of the village, no obstacles, just a slight decline. She felt the burden of the sprint, her heart felt it was about to give out, every muscle in her legs tore, her lungs were of half use. But she knew she had to keep going. She could see the center and who stood in it.
She planted her feet and launched herself into the air. This was perfect for her, only the lead Pain stood in her way. The reviver was nowhere in sight. And she was directly behind him, something only Miri could say was luck.
She froze her body. She felt the increase chakra take over with the burns and coolness. She opened her eyes, the red cloak around her arm was back and the the wings on her back. She ran her special arm down the red cloak on her head and back.
"Cool, got the same thing to replace my hair." She commented. "Seriousness." She paused.
"Spirit style; spirit bombs!" She pointed out her fingers and formed small bells on each one.
She launched the five golf ball size balls directly for Pain. He turned to Miri and held up his arm. She was shocked, he couldn't have heard or seen her from her position.
"Summoning jutsu!"
She looked up at the female voice. Five more people soared above her, all with orange hair, black and red coats, and black piercings. One of them extended their arms out to reveal the metal workings inside. He extended his arms out and wrapped them around her. She couldn't move, the creature pulled her close to him and smiled. Miri freaked from the smile and struggled to escape even more.
The mechanical man smiled more and lifted Miri above his head. Her body was faced toward the ground to watch her fall. She felt her speed increase the arms release from her. The Path of Pain tossed her right for the ground. She couldn't defend herself in time and crushed herself in the dirt.
A strong attack yet Miri was still able to move. She stretched out her arms and lifted herself up to her feet. She was a little wobbly as she stood face to face with all Six Paths of Pain.
"You got the Deva, Asura, Human, Animal, Preta, and Naraka Paths." Sean said. "One absorbs chakra, summons animals, machine beast, reviver, force manipulator, and the last sucks out life."
"What do we do Sean?"
The small female stood in front of the ground and placed her hand on the ground to summon. A large smoke ball blocked each others view. After the smoke cleared, a giant black rhino with the purple eyes appeared.
"When I entered your conscious you made a subconscious agreement of a summon. Do it."
"Summoning jutsu!" Miri placed her own hands on the ground and created a puff of smoke. Her's was a lot smaller than the animal path.
The smoke cleared for a bald man, a long white and black patterned trench coat with the symbol of two integrated triangles with three lines through them both. Miri knew who this summon was. She broke a smile and drew tears down her cheeks.
"There's no time to cry, Miri." The man turned around, his entire face was flat with no features except his eyes. The Tozoto eyes. They were different than Miri has seen before. A solid circle in the center and three jagged circles surrounded it and a magatama in the very center. "I told you I didn't die, I just moved to a different life." His clothing was more exposed, his coat had full sleeves, and a raised collar that touched the bottom part of his chin and had a line of magatama all around it. He wore it open to show his muscular upper body. He faced the group of Pains again. "Create a few clones, we'll need you as a Sage for as long as possible."
Miri did as commanded and created three blue clones through her back. The three lined up shoulder to shoulder and stood. "Why couldn't you tell me this?"
"Get ready Miri."
The rhino charged at Sean. He lifted both his hands and raised four swords from his back. Each sword had a black handle and extended another double edged blade from the butt end. He lined all four up and twirled them into a blur. At this time the rhino was only a few feet from him. Sean kept his composure and maneuvered the sword in front of him right as the rhino was on him. The beast's face tore in half before it puffed away in smoke.
"Earth style; underground wind system." Sean placed his hands on the ground and created four holes around him. His swords dove in each one.
"Take formation!" The deva path demanded. The deva path stood in the center with the naraka and had everyone else surround them.
"Wind style; speed sound." Sean teleported at the animal path "Wind and lightning combination jutsu; white lightning lightning blade" he forced his hand and pierced through her cloak.
"Spirit style; double scythe strike." Miri jumped above Sean and swung both her scythes diagonally into the animal path's chest.
Miri didn't see Sean's left eye change over to the Rinnegan. A hand grew out of Sean's neck and reached behind Miri. His fingers stretched open for the metal workings to show and snatched the giant spinning blade before it could reach Miri. She didn't even see it coming, she jumped off from the girl and high into the air.
"Spirit style; spirit bomb." Miri held out her fingers to shoot five balls at the group.
The preta path pushed through the group and created a barrier around them. Her jutsu was nullified by it and was ducked into the barrier with no damage caused. Sean's mechanical arm twisted the saw and tossed it back. Sean then used his arm to grab one of the preta's arm and spun him around. The barrier gave way just as two of Sean's swords to escape out of the ground and stab through the preta's chin.
"All mighty push!"
Sean tried to lift his own arm before the strike but failed as he was tossed along with Miri to the other side of the crater. One of the blue clones rushed behind Miri and sucked itself inside her when she flew past. With more sage mode energy, she dug her claws into the ground to stabilize. She reached out with her other and grabbed Sean.
"Thanks for that." Sean brushed off the dirt on his coat.
"Our efforts were in vain." Miri commented. Both of them watched the naraka path bring back the two paths they just killed.
"I got a plan to get them separated a bit. But I can't promise your or my safety."
"Doesn't matter."
