Episode 46: The Assault
After the Akatsuki decided on who their next member should be, Pain readied to leave. "The Akatsuki going to the Leaf. And I'm going myself. Konan, at my side."
She nodded, and her body turned to paper and she flew beside him.
"Have fun!" Kisame grinned.
"Barragan. You brief Ichimaru." Pain said as he was walking out without turning around.
"Fine." Barragan growled.
Kenpachi and his squad were on a mission, delivering an important document to the Hidden Leaf.
"I can't believe they sent the strongest squad to do something sooooo trivial." Ikkaku complained.
"Shut up." Kenpachi growled. "Not every mission needs to have killing in it. Even if I'd prefer if it did."
"Wow, Kenny! I didn't think that you would take your ninja missions that seriously!"
"Yeah, I know. Taking our missions seriously during war time is the first priority."
"War time?"
"We aren't in a straight up war," Said Yumichika. "We are however in a war with the Akatsuki- however unorthodox it is."
"I still don't know why we didn't just storm the Akatsuki base."
"We don't know where it is. And most of the time with the Akatsuki it takes quite a bit of people to take out one of them. We'd need half an army to take out all ten of them at once."
"All ten of them? Didn't we take out quite a bit of them?"
"Ikkaku, the Akatsuki fills the positions of each of their fallen comrades."
"Shut up for a second." Kenpachi suddenly stopped. The rest of them stopped.
Everyone was silenced, even Yachiru.
Something isn't right. Should we head back to the Steel and check things out there? No. It's not there. He thought.
"What is it?" Asked Ikkaku.
"Shut the hell up." Kenpachi growled. "Unless you want me to cut your head off, then continue to speak."
Kenpachi looked around. Is there something wrong with Naruto? No. There must be something wrong with the Hidden Leaf. Damn. He suddenly darted forwards. "Everyone move faster! We need to make up for the time that we just wasted!"
But you were the one who was wasting time... Thought Yumichika, but he didn't dare say it out loud.
"What's happening, Sensei?" Asked Ikkaku.
"I don't know."
This is just like when the Metal was under attack by those terrorists. Thought Yumichika. Something bad must be happening.
Starrk had finished telling the Takdesu that Pain was going to the Leaf.
I can't allow him to have all the fun. Thought a man. He had long red hair, and he was very large. He had a sword at his hip. I'm going to give him back up.
Naruto was sitting down on the ground, his knees against his chest. Sakura was sitting beside him, both of them looking at the picture that Jiriaya sent for him.
After quite some time, they figured it out. Naruto was looking down in Jiriaya's latest book, Make Out Tactics. "The real one is not among them.." Naruto mumbled.
"Do you know what it means?" Asked Sakura.
Naruto's eyes dropped. "Damn... No I don't."
Kenpachi and the rest of Squad Eleven made it to the Leaf. They stopped just outside of the gate.
Kenpachi looked up to see a man with orange hair and a bunch of piercings floating in the air, like a god.
A wounded Leaf Ninja crawled over to them. He had red hair, and silver eyes. He was wearing the standard Leaf Chunin outfit. "Are you...Steel Ninja...?"
"Yes." Kenpachi answered. "I'm sorry. But none of us are medics. You'll have to hold out until someone else comes to save you."
"No... Pain... is going for Naruto Uzumaki."
"Who the hell is Pain?"
"The leader of the Akatsuki... He posses the Rinnegan."
Kenpachi's eyes suddenly darted to Yumichika. "Get to the Village now! Tell them everything!"
"Yes, Zaraki-sensei." Yumichika ran off.
"GET BACK!" Kenpachi suddenly cried.
A bright light flashed. And then a giant shock wave was sent from the center of the village outwards, destroying everything.
Dust filled the air, and rumble flew everywhere. Kenpachi stood in front of the wounded Leaf Ninja, taking any debris that would have hit the Leaf Chunin.
"Ikkaku. I want you to do reconnaissance. Scout the area, find any survivors. Try to avoid fighting if possible. If there it can't be avoided, then fight him."
Zaraki-sensei isn't himself. Thought Ikkaku. Avoid fighting?
"And if you get anyone killed... then I'll take your head off. Got it?"
Now he's back to himself. Ikkaku nodded. He darted off.
"Yachiru. Stay with me."
"Right, Kenny." Yachiru was uncharacteristically quiet.
Kenpachi walked forwards. "PAIN!" He roared.
Pain slowly floated down to the ground.
Kenpachi drew his sword, and then darted towards the orange haired menace.
Suddenly five other orange haired people appeared they all had piercing.
Now that Kenpachi was closer, he noticed they all had purple eyes with no whites, and extra rings.
"So you're the famous Kenpachi Zaraki I've heard so much about." Said the lead Pain.
A woman with blond hair wearing a green kimono stepped forwards. She was panting.
"Lady Hokage!" Called a Leaf ANBU.
"I can take care of this." Kenpachi said. "Stay back. I don't want anyone else getting hurt." He gripped his sword.
"Kenny can handle them!" Yachiru said.
"You can handle me?" Asked Pain. "Well it doesn't matter. I'm after Naruto Uzumaki, not the likes of you."
"Oh yeah? Well I'm not just going to let you get passed me." Kenpachi's eyes darkened, and a sadistic grin appeared on his face. "I'm going to cut every last one of you into a million pieces!"
"So be it."
One of the Pains charged at him.
Kenpachi slashed at an insane speed, but he dodged it.
"Hokage get back. Or you'll be killed by this next technique."
The ANBU teleported Tsunade out of the way.
"Yachiru. Take off my eye patch."
She did, and Kenpachi's chakra exploded all around him.
Konan suddenly appeared next to Pain. "I'm going to be busy here. Send Barragan to attack the Steel."
She was about to teleport away, but Kenapchi was suddenly right in front of her slashing at her.
"You think I'd just let you leave?"
She managed to dodge it.
All six Paths flew at Kenpachi all at once.
His sadistic grin broadened, and he spun around and he stabbed one of the Pains in the chest.
"Amazing..." A Hyuga said, who was watching the battle with his Dojutsu. "That man just took out one of the Pains with a single slash of his swords..."
"That is no man." Said Ikkaku, who was standing behind him. "That is my sensei. His name is Kenpachi Zaraki. He is a demon. Make sure that the Leaf knows not to join in on this battle. If they get in Zaraki-sensei's way... he'll kill them by accident. He doesn't know how to hold back, and that can be a good thing. But it makes teamwork impossible."
The Hyuga nodded. "I'll send word." He suddenly disappeared.
"Summoning Jutsu!" Called one of the Pains. A large rhinoceros appeared and charged at Kenpachi.
Kenpachi slashed down, cutting the animal in half. He then stabbed at Konan, who started flying away.
"Ikkaku!" He called.
Ikkaku teleported next to him.
"Take her down before she reaches the Akatsuki base."
Ikkaku nodded, and charged at her.
But then another fighter appeared. It was the red haired ninja.
"Edrad Liones. I did not ask for your help." All of the Pains stopped.
He smiled. "Don't worry. I won't get in your way. I'll just take out this insect for you."
"Take your battle else where." Warned Pain. "Or else you'll be crushed by our charkas."
Liones nodded. The two fights took off to find somewhere else to fight.
Kenpachi turned back to the Pains. "No more distractions. Now we kill each other!" He charged at the Pains.
Ikkaku and Liones where quite a distance away from the other battle.
"I won't go full power. Because if my sensei saw that I went full power... then he'd be pissed."
"Fine. We'll take this battle further away from them. I won't fight an opponent who isn't strong."
"Oh yeah?" The two continued to run further from the battle.
Yumichika was running to the Village. I'm almost there. I hate running like this... but if Zaraki-sensei found out that I wasn't hurrying he'd take my head off. He thought.
`Konan was headed towards the Akatsuki base, and she was almost there. I better send reinforcements for Pain as well. She thought. If he loses this fight...
`Naruto had finished telling the Kinkage what the message meant.
"Hmm... Is it possible that you miss-read it?"
"No." Naruto said.
"Well, intel has told me that Pain is the leader of the Akatsuki. There's six of them. All of them are similar, and they all have the Rinnegan. Maybe... maybe there is someone who is controlling the Pains..."
Notes: With this episode, I actually had to go back and watch parts to remember what happened. I occasionally do this with the fights for Bleach canon, but I almost never watch a full episode. Also, I'm currently directly after this arc in Naruto. I was careless to not watch any when I was writing during the previous arcs. Because of this, the fights will become longer, and the production of the episodes MAY slow down.
If there are any fights that you'd like to see in this story, then please message me telling me what that fight is. It doesn't even have to be canon, like Kenpachi versus Grimmjow, or Tatsuzo versus Ulquiorra.
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