Still don't own Naruto
Chapter 57: The Six Paths of Pein
Naruto stood staring at the name Nagato Uzumaki unsure of what to do. 'Please be safe sensei' Naruto thought helplessly as he slowly pulled away from Nagato's name and made his way back along the wall.
The next name he stopped on was that of Meto Uzumaki. 'Guess she was the last Rinnegan user before Nagato huh' he thought before moving on finally stopping on the gold fancy writing of Ryuga Uzumaki. 'I wonder what he would do about the Akatsuki' Naruto thought running his hand over the name.
Naruto sat down in the center of the room and looked over towards his name then decided to find out how closely related he was to the last head of the Uzumaki clan. The last clan head turned out to be Naruto's great granduncle and Naruto was rather happy to see that his father had a sister by the name of Mito Uzumaki and there was a line off that led to Hashirama senju but the line stopped there which Naruto found confusing. On closer inspection of the wall every time an Uzumaki married a Senju and the one instance where one married an Uchiha the line stopped. 'Must be that the Uchiha and Senju bloodlines took over, well it would make sense for the sage of six path's to make his children have stronger DNA than they would have been if they stayed as Uzumaki's' Naruto theorized but didn't look into it any deeper.
(With Jiraiya)
Jiraiya stood in front of Pein with Fukusaku and Shima on his shoulders staring into the rippling eyes of the Rinnegan.
"Summoning jutsu" Pein said and two crouching men with orange hair appeared and began to stand wearing the Akatsuki robes. They both stood slightly behind Pein but when they finally looked up the two toad's and Jiraiya got a fright. Both people that he had just summoned had the Rinnegan.
"There's three of them, what is the meaning of this. How can three people have the Rinnegan" Fukusaku asked clearly in shock.
"There has to be some sort of trick behind his technique or something" Jiraiya said hardly believing his eyes.
"Geez this just had to happen during dinner time didn't it" Shima complained.
"Ma, instead of dinner, how about you focus on the enemy" Fukusaku said.
"Excuse me I am focused, let's just hurry this up I need ta put dinner on!" shima said loudly" The female toad said.
"Ma, could ya forget about dinner for a moment, we have to worry about this guy's eyes that's the most powerful dojutsu in the world" Fukusaku asked exasperatedly.
"Shut yer trap! I'm the one making dinner every damn day! It's tough being a housewife, ya senile old fart!" Shima yelled at the old male toad.
"What the hell's ya problem, woman?. I'm over here worrying about ya and ya just keep mouthing off!" he replied.
The two toad's then descended into in audible bickering that just came out as croaks with an occasional word thrown in here or there.
Jiraiya just stood there looking slightly depressed they were taking the focus away from him. Suddenly one of the summoned men charged forward not seeming to care that there was a slight domestic taking place on the toad sage's shoulders. The charging man was greeted with a kick that seemed to crush his face and sent him flying back into the platform that Nagato and the other summons were standing on.
"Huh Not bad" said Nagato when the smoke cleared revealing the man didn't just disappear like a normal summons would.
"Now can we please save your marital dispute for later, we need to finish up here already" Jiraiya said to the toads and readied himself for another attack.
"Then I guess I'll just fry something up. Kid, you bring the oil. Pa, you bring the Wind!" Shima ordered readying her flames.
"Yes maam... Sage Art: Boiling Oil Bath" the flames and as the three combined together making a tsunami of boiling water fly towards the two men who were left standing.
The other man Nagato had summoned jumped forward and slammed his hands forward into the jutsu. Jiraiya jumped back to avoid the splash back from his jutsu.
"Did we get em" Shima asked as the steam began to clear.
Once the smoke and steam from the jutsu cleared however it showed that all three remained unharmed.
"What the fuck? The oil's gone" Jiraiya said.
"They should have been boiled" Shima said clearly confused.
"Looks like he has a few tricks up his sleeves as well" Fukusaku added in.
"Well it looks like we will just have to figure it out through close combat then" Jiraiya said kicking off the wall and shattering it behind him from the speed at which he was moving. "Cho Oodama Rasengan" he yelled as he slammed the massive ball of spinning chakra into the body of the closest member of the three people standing in front of them.
However the colossal rasengan began to shrink and drain into the man. 'What's with this guy? He can absorb an entire technique' Jiraiya asked himself. As he watched his rasengan fade into nothing.
As the jutsu finished the first man to attack got back up and jumped around behind Jiraiya. Seeing this and knowing it would be easy to get around him Fukusaku took out a smoke bomb and threw it to the ground.
'We can attack from behind him' Jiraiya thought as he appeared from the smoke and sent a punch aimed at the back of his head only to have him stretch out a hand without turning and catch his fist. 'What the? Even though he can't see, he still managed to block my Sage Mode attack, how?' Jiraiya thought as he jumped away.
'Fine I will go for one of the others first' he thought and summoned a large toad to jump out of the smoke over the top of one of the others. Using that as a distraction Jiraiya sped around behind him on all four's and began shooting spikes out of his hair like needles.
This time however the man he targeted was able to summon a panda to appear behind him to take all of the attack's.
"Not a single wasted move. If he tried to dodge, I would've gotten him. Instead, he used a summon to shield an attack he could not possibly have seen coming from behind. But how does he do it? That's not only once but twice now. Without speaking or eye contact, even if they were all sensory types, they would at least have to see the attack coming to be able to block it so perfectly. Also my Toad Style: Hair Needle Barrage is my fastest attack with a large range. To block it he would need a shield, but he did it without even looking. These aren't your typical clones that's for sure" Jiraiya said.
"This is what you meant when ya said that there's some sort of trick to 'em?" Fukusaku asked.
"what do you mean" Jiraiya replied.
"Earlier, when we got behind one of them and you decided to attack from his blind spot right? At that time, the others we watching us all along" Fukusaku said.
"Yes I noticed that too" Jiraiya admitted. "But they weren't even talking or using eye contact to signal each other" he said.
"Yes but that's it! The eyes, they all have the same eyes. Their eyes must share what they see with each other" Fukusaku explained.
"So that means they can also see a target from three different perspectives" Jiraiya surmised.
"Yeah probably. Still, what in the world are these guys?" Fukusaku said.
'This is bad. If using ninjutsu is useless against them, then fighting all three will be that much more difficult. If I keep fighting them, even in Sage Mode, I'll definitely get myself killed. I never imagined that they would be this strong' Jiraiya thought trying to weigh up his option's on what he would do next.
"Jiraiya-chan, let's retreat for now" Fukusaku whispered.
"I agree" said Jiraiya and he released a smoke bomb to cover his tracks.
Pein widened his eyes when the smoke cleared and Jiraiya was gone but that was all. "Escaping into the pipe's, are we?" Pein said as he stood there with his two summoned body's behind him.
Jiraiya meanwhile was running through the intricate piping system of Ame every so often laying some trap's. "I have been trying ta come up with a plan for dealing with the three of them, but I will need some more time... As different as they look, they all share the same eyes. In other words they all have the Rinnegan" Fukusaku said.
"Even is Nagato is one of them, I still can't believe that there are that many people that possess the Rinnegan. What in the world is going on?" Jiraiya said as he placed another seal before running on.
"Which is the real Pein. Actually finding the real one ain't the biggest problem here. The real problem is that we're facing three people who all possess the Rikudou's Rinnegan" Fukusaku said.
"Pein... Just what the hell are you?" Jiraiya asked nobody in particular.
"I dunno yet, but at least we do know something about him. There eyes are linked, and they share the same field of vision" Fukusaku said.
"So what can I do, if I could separate them I could win no problem, but with there eye's connected like that they will stick together for combination attack's. Ninjutsu is out of the question because it keeps getting absorbed and taijutsu would be far too difficult to pull off a win" Jiraiya said.
"Well then if ninjutsu and taijutsu ain't gonna work, you'll have no choice but to use genjutsu" Fukusaku replied.
"But I'm useless when it comes to genjutsu. I'm almost as bad as Naruto. But then again there is you two" Jiraiya said.
"Well if this is indeed Nagato and he was your pupil, then he will know that you don't use genjutsu, Jiraiya-chan. That could be hugely advantageous to us" Fukusaku said.
"No way! I ain't having none of it!" Shima Said.
"W-What's the problem? Ma, world peace is on the line here! Now ain't the time for being selfish" Fukusaku said.
"Like I care about some prophecy spoken by some senile old fart!" Shima replied.
"The Great Elder told us to work together!" Fukusaku said.
Both toad's once again descended into a domestic that could only be heard as loud croak's. Suddenly they heard a explosion from a way back behind them. "Well look's like Naruto's seals are as explosive as ever" Jiraiya joked before turning to Shima. "What are you getting so upset about anyway" he asked.
"I cant sing no duet with Pa, I'm far to old now. It's embarrassing" Shima said.
"A Duet?" Jiraiya asked clearly confused.
"It's our strongest genjutsu. It's a technique that attacks the victim's brain through their sense of hearing. Unlike the techniques we used to teach you and Naruto-chan" Fukusaku said as they began to run again.
"I get it so you wanted me to run so you could use sound" Jiraiya said.
"Yeah. Since the technique uses sound our position will be given away immediately. Also the tones need to be harmonized so it'll take some time to prepare. If they find us before we finish the song Pein will be eating frog legs for dinner tonight. However if we can finish it before he finds us we will win for sure" Fukusaku said confidently.
Jiraiya ran a bit longer then came to a stop. "Hey what's wrong" Shima asked.
"If thing's get too dangerous I want you both to get off my shoulders and go home" Jiraiya said.
"No way, jiraiya-chan. The fate of the entire shinobi world could be depending on this battle" Fukusaku said.
"I have a plan. It's a bit of a gamble though" Jiraiya said.
"Let's here it" the toad with the gray hair and beard said.
(With Naruto)
Naruto was still in the room that held his family tree but he sat in the middle reading more of his clans history. The beginning's of the clan war's and the Uzumaki clan building there only settlement on the mainland with the help of the Senju clan. Not many Uzumaki lived there but they made a name for themselves with there skills in sealing.
Eventually the Uchiha clan attacked and over ran the village by force of numbers after that the Uzumaki clan kept to themselves on there island. Naruto eventually got the part about Madara and Hashirama. Madara Uchiha who had left Konoha after his clan decided on peace with the Senju's rather than war, had shown up in Uzu looking for ally's. He reasoned that with Konoha now formed they would turn on the Uzumaki clan so they would be the only power in the area.
The leader at the time turned him down of course stating that they were great friends with the Senju clan and the formation of Konoha didn't change that or make them a threat. After that Madara stayed in the village for a few more days trying to gather support but left soon after without a word to the leader of the clan.
Naruto stopped there deciding he would read on later, he had to start to collect all the scrolls and pack up the detailed historical account's of the event's in the diary. So he walked back into the small tunnel and and down into the underground library.
Looking at all the scrolls that contained everything from seal design's to the gold and weapons Naruto decided to send them to where they were safest. And ran through some hand signs "Summoning jutsu" he yelled and summoned the large red toad that was always the first to answer Naruto's summons.
"Hey boss, what do ya need" Gamakichi said once the smoke cleared.
"I have some thing's that I need stored at Mt Myobokuzan" Naruto said pointing out all the scrolls.
"Sure thing. Where are we anyway?" the large red toad asked.
"Under the old Uzumaki compound in Uzu" Naruto said as he began to seal everything into a larger sealing scroll.
"Wow it sure looks old, I thought when I was being summoned I would end up with the elder's. They were summoned about half an hour ago so I figured you were in a tough fight or something but this is easy work" Gamakichi said.
"I didn't summon the elder's" Naruto said. 'It must have been Jiraiya, but he wouldn't do that unless it was really serious because it takes so long to focus on them' Naruto thought now worried about how his sensei was doing in Ame.
"Oh maybe they just went out. They do that sometimes Shima Obaa-chan like's to hunt bug's in Konoha's forest's" Gamakichi said seeing the worried look on Naruto's face.
"Yeah your right, can you collect everything here I need to go seal up the scrolls in one last room" Naruto said with a friendly smile that didn't last long once he was out of sight..
(With Jiraiya)
Jiraiya was standing over the body's of the three Rinnegan user's after having ran there body's through with large swords while they were caught in Fukusaku and Shima's genjutsu.
"It's over. But I taught you never to turn your back on your opponent, Nagato" Jiraiya said sadly as he looked down upon the three impaled body's.
"That duet really dries ya throat out" Fukusaku said as they began to walk away.
"It's also hard to get into harmony with Pa you know, that's why we don't go using that genjutsu very often" Shima said.
"It's alright you can have a rest now" Jiraiya replied.
They walked a couple more step's when Jiraiya froze in his tracks. Right behind him was a new body with the same black piercing's "Didn't you just tell me not to turn my back on an opponent, Jiraiya sensei" he said before kicking Jiraiya through a wall sending him outside onto the water and costing the toad sage his left arm.
Then from the hole he made when he flew through the wall six men came out. "Behold the Six Path's of Pain" Pein said this time from a new body again.
"Six? There's sex of 'em?" Fukusaku said disbelievingly.
"And look the three we just killed are there too" said Shima equally as shocked.
"A new one must be able to heal them with a jutsu or something!" the gray haired toad said.
"There ain't no technique that can bring three people back to life though, are they even human?" Shima said unable to take her eye's away from the six path's.
"Pein... what the hell are you" Jiraiya said holding what was left of his wounded arm.
"Pein... That... is a name shared by all six of us!" one of the men spoke standing at the front of the group.
"How... How can there be six people with the Rinnegan? Wait... you're, That face. Is that you, Yahiko" Jiraiya said unable to contain his disbelief any longer. "What the hell is going on didn't you say Yahiko died long ago. Also, those eyes... Yahiko never had those eyes. It was always Nagato who had the Rinnegan" he said in anger.
"So you can still see Yahiko in me. However, Yahiko is long since dead. All that remains is Pein" the man Jiraiya called Yahiko said.
"Enough of you're bullshit how is it that Yahiko has those eyes" Jiraiya demanded.
"What's going on, Jiraiya-chan?" Fukusaku asked.
"Another one of my former students is among them. But he never possessed the Rinnegan" Jiraiya said.
"What do you mean, they all have the sage's eyes I can see it myself" Shima said.
"I know somehow he has it now and now that I think about it Nagato's hair was never orange it was red. I know because it was the same shade of red as Kushina-chan's. Actually none of the six look anything like Nagato at all. But somehow, there's one that looks like Yahiko, but possesses Nagato's Rinnegan" Jiraiya said to the two elder toads. "Are you Yahiko... or are you Nagato? What the hell are you already" Jiraiya yelled in frustration.
"We are Pein. We are god" the man said. And all six of them jumped down onto the water surrounding Jiraiya And attacked.
Jiraiya dodged several punches and kicks and charged forward slamming his good hand forward in an attempt to punch the one that looked like Yahiko. However he blocked it easily.
"Yahiko, why do you have Nagato's eyes, tell me!" Jiraiya demanded his small square pupils filled with rage.
"Even if you were to understand why, you'd still be incapable of victory" he said before throwing Jiraiya with little effort against a wall.
When he landed the man that kicked Jiraiya through the wall grew rocket's out of his hand and shot them at Jiraiya forcing him to flee up the wall in order to escape the explosions.
Jiraiya went to leap over to another building but with a move of Yahiko's hand a huge piece of cement came from the wall and forced Jiraiya underwater.
Two toad tongues stretched out and pulled down the body that had been summoning all the animals earlier. "His Presence has disappeared" Pein said
Inside Jiraiya's barrier he had just sent the body flying into the water with a rasengan when he landed on the ground.
"You got em, jiraiya-chan" Fukusaku said. But he celebrated too early from the stomach of the toad he summoned as a barrier the body he had just hit with a rasengan appeared and with it's final breath sent a long black sharp pole right at the toad sage. He tried to block it but it traveled right through his arm and shoulder easily before the man seemed to finally die.
When Jiraiya snapped the rod off with senjutu he coughed up a bit of blood. "Jiraiya-chan what's wrong" Shima asked concerned.
"It's my chakra it's going berserk" Jiraiya admitted wincing in pain.
"It must be this thing" Said Fukusaku and he removed the spike extending from his shoulder that was covered in his blood. "They ain't just weird looking, but they use crazy weapons too" Fukusaku said.
The Ame Hetai-ite fell off of the man that he killed lying infront of him and a scar could be seen on his forehead. And then Jiraiya remembered the persons face. "This can't be Nagato. This man, I've fought him before. I gave him that scar on his forehead" Jiraiya said.
"So what do ya think he is doing here" Shima said.
"The more we learn about this Pein the less we understand" Fukusaku said.
'What must I do, how do I make the right choice to save the world' Jiraiya thought as he sat still in contemplating the old sage's prophecy. "You two get out of here" Jiraiya said.
"Are you insane boy, they got you out numbered and they wont be falling for that barrier trap twice! He ain't onto us yet, so we need to get outta, here now!" Fukusaku said.
"True, I will most likely get killed if I go out there again, but there is also a chance that I'll learn his true Identity. If I don't do it now, then there is a possibility that no one else will ever get this close to him again. This is the only chance we have at uncovering the truth maybe Naruto will succeed where I fail. You two, please return with all the information we've uncovered about Pein as well as this corpse. Also tell Tsunade that-"
Jiraiya was cut off however by Fukusaku. "If that's all you want, Ma can handle that herself. I couldn't look Naruto-chan in the eyes if I left you here alone" Fukusaku said.
Jiraiya reappeared on the surface and tried to sneak up on one of the paths by throwing his demon shuriken but he ducked under it and the other paths soon showed up in order to confront the white haired toad charmer.
'I knew it. There all people I have met in the past. That's it, I've figured out Pein's true identity!' Jiraiya thought but before he could tell it to Fukusaku he felt something move below him and a hand came up and crushed his throat before impaling him into a cement block along with the other path's.
'I have to tell Fukusaku-sama before it's too late' Jiraiya thought but when he tried to talk no word's came out.
"Hang in there Jiraiya-chan" Fukusaku said frantically but in truth he had no idea what he could do, if Jiraiya didn't get medical attention soon he would bleed out even if any of his vital organs were not hit.
'It's no use. My throat's been completely crushed. Damn at this rate... I cant help it I'm passing out. Am I …. Dying? Have I failed again?' Jiraiya thought as he lay there motionless and the path's of Pein left him to his fate. 'When I look back my life was full of failures. I was always turned down by Tsunade-Hime. I couldn't stop my friend. I failed to protect both my student and my teacher. Compared to the deeds of the great Hokage's my accomplishments have all been petty and insignificant. I always wanted to die like them. The tale of life is decided by how it ends. I lived believing that my failures would build character, and they were trials that honed my skills and made me stronger for them. I would in the end accomplish a deed so great that it would obliterate all of my failures, and I'd die a death worthy of a true shinobi. But this is my death nothing but another failure?. It was prophesied that I would lead a revolutionary that would bring change to the ninja world and that I would have to make a bid decision. I decided to defeat Pein, put a stop to the Akatsuki, and then save the world from ruin, but in the end, I even failed at that. How pathetic. I never imagined that this would the the end of my tale. What a worthless story' he thought still unable to move.
Jiraiya then thought back to a time he said that about a book he wrote and Minato said he liked it. It was the day he was named as Naruto's godfather. Then he started to think of all the time he spent training Naruto and one day in particular stuck in his mind while he was training him at Myobokuzan.
FLASHBACK
Naruto flew at Jiraiya only for him to side step the boy and get knocked to the ground. While Gamakichi and Fukusaku watched on from atop a stone toad.
"You know you should really just take the loss it would be less painful if you just stayed down" Jiraiya laughed.
"No way, I'll never give up, and I never back down, just you watch Erosennin. I will beat you, then I will defeat the Akatsuki, and once that is over I will become the greatest Hokage ever" Naruto said as he got back to his feet and charged again.
"He's got gut's, he reminds me a lot of you Jiraiya-chan" Fukusaku said from where he was sitting.
END FLASHBACK
'Naruto... Now that I think about it, you really did turn out like the character from my first book. Your father would be so proud. And if never backing down and never giving up on your word is your ninja way then I have no business complaining. So I will not die here I will endure this and get back up at least long enough to send a message to help you as your master that is my responsibility' Jiraiya thought as he slowly lifter himself up with his hands and raised his head.
In front of Jiraiya there was a a small wooden box that Naruto gave him before he left and as he struggled to reach for it he collapsed onto the ground again. However he was lucky in that he was able to reach it. But he was struggling with the latch.
"Jiraiya-chan I cant get off your shoulder or your Sage Mode will fail and you will die. Pass me the box my boy, you need to rest if they see you moving they will come back" Fukusaku said sadly as Jiraiya coughed out a another load of blood.
Jiraiya slid the box over towards the elder toad who very slowly and carefully removed the latches.
"I was sure your heart had stopped. You are becoming quite the annoying one to kill sensei" came the voice of Pein from the the hole he had kicked Jiraiya out of earlier.
Fukusaku looked up in fear because he knew Jiraiya would not be able to get back up as second time and all five of the remaining body's returned from out of the hole. Jiraiya didn't seem to care he was focusing on the contents of the box. All he could see that was inside was a picture of Naruto and him both asleep shoulder to shoulder under the shade of one of the ferns of Myobokuzan with a smaller Gamakichi sitting on the leaf to create more shade.
Jiraiya made a snatch for the picture as the path's of pain landed on the waters surface. But due to blood loss he knocked over the box when he grabbed the picture and he didn't notice the small blade fall out of the box and clatter onto the ground. But the small toad who had been pulled away from the sight of the approaching Pein noticed. 'My word. That's... But it cant be.' he thought as he sent his tongue to pick up the three pronged kunai that had landed on the cement.
The body of Yahiko who had been the one to spot Jiraiya's revival broke away from the other six and walked forward a chakra rod extending from his robe and all Fukusaku had time to do before the black rod began to shoot toward the head of Jiraiya who was still looking at the photo no longer caring what happened to him was slam the kunai into the ground.
"Stay down this time, Jiraiya sens-"
"Rasengan!" Came a roar from behind Pein as Naruto appeared behind him in a yellow flash.
"Shinra-" but it was too late. The ball of chakra slammed into his side sending him flying away from Jiraiya.
"Sensei!" Naruto cried out and went to kneel by his master's side.
Jiraiya looked up and his eyes widened in shock and he tried to say Naruto's name but he couldn't manage it and only coughed up more blood.
"He cant talk Naruto-chan, his throat has been crushed. It's a miracle he is still alive even now I need all of my focus to help him keep his heart beating" Fukusaku said sadly.
Naruto began shaking in anger and his rectangular eye's changed to add slit's as he turned around. To face three of the remaining four path's Naruto found the other by sensing him over near where he sent the first one. "This is the Six Path's Jutsu" Naruto said disgusted by the body's in front of him.
All the Pein's eyes widened upon Naruto's statement. "How do you know that? Information like that is not common knowledge, jinchuuriki" Pein said.
"Let's say it's a family secret. Now which one is the real you, or are you all just Path's" Naruto replied trying to contain his anger so he didn't loose control as that would be as good as handing himself over to Nagato at this point.
"Naruto-chan, what are you talking about. We have been trying to figure this guy out for over an hour how is it you already know something we couldn't figure out" Fukusaku said.
"Now isn't the time, we can talk when we get out of here, I left Gamakichi who is going to throw a kunai in two minute's for our escape. How long can you keep Jiraiya sensei alive like that" Naruto said slowly removing several kunai from his pouch as a tear rolled down his cheek at the sight of his defeated sensei who was desperately tying to speak to Naruto.
"It's hard to say, probably half an hour at the most" Fukusaku admitted.
"Then we are going to have to act fast once we get to safety. I will put him into stasis, that will buy us some more time but with injuries this bad, I am not sure that even with my best seal how much time it will really give us. Then Kichi can return to Myobokuzan and take one of the Hirashin Kunai to get us there. We can then send Shima to Konoha so she can set up a reverse summons so I can get sensei to Baa-chan" Naruto said.
"Couldn't ya just use your Hirashin now to get us back there" Fukusaku said.
"Unfortunately no. I have only just figured the jutsu out and I'm still working out the kink's, I can only use a seal for about thirty seconds after it has been activated and I don't know how to reactivate them from a long distance yet" Naruto admitted, still trying to control the rage he was feeling towards Pein.
"Are you finished" Pein asked and Naruto turned around to see that the first body he killed had returned.
"How are you back to your feet I just killed you. And where are your other two body's or haven't you completed the set yet" Naruto spat, his eyes frequently changing from normal rectangles to rectangles with slit's.
"What ya mean two body's. We killed one and sent it back to Myobyokuzan before we take it to Konoha later. Are you telling me there are more of these thing's" Fukusaku said.
"Basically yeah, but only one more. But from what I know the main body is supposed to be close to it's path's" Naruto said.
"Your knowledge on me is both amazing and unwanted. But you did at least save me the trouble of finding you later" Pein said before the one of the path's shot forward.
Naruto reacted quickly and sent two kunai flying one straight toward the approaching path and the other up into the city.
Naruto bent down to grab onto Jiraiya and he vanished.
"This is troubling. But he cant run forever" Deva Path said.
"Well actually, I don't need too. I only need to run for about another minute" said Naruto who was removing his kunai from a wall and placing it back into his pouch. His rage had for the moment subsided but he could feel it simmering away ready to explode should something else trigger it.
"His fast" Deva path said turning to face Naruto.
"Thanks but compared to my father I am like a little genin" Naruto said.
"Enough of this. Bansho Ten'in" Deva path said and caused Naruto to fly uncontrollably towards him.
"Woah!" Naruto yelled as he flew forward about to be impaled by a chakra spike.
Naruto deciding that instead of fighting the pull he would just go with it formed a Oodama Rasengan while he repositioned himself.
The Deva path quickly lowered his rod and Pein's Preta path came forward and absorbed his Oodama Rasengan.
"What the Fuck" Naruto said but he had no time to relax as a powerful kick came from behind that Naruto narrowly ducked under. However the act of ducking seemed to expose his back and he had to roll out of the way of four chakra rod's that were directed towards his back.
Naruto pulled out of the roll and kicked off into the air sending a kunai flying behind Pein's body's while he ran through some hand seals.
The four of the path's were completely focused on Naruto, while human was the only one that seemed interested in the kunai. The moment the kunai hit a cement platform over the water Naruto vanished appearing behind the majority of the path's he sent two strong burst's of compressed air out from his palms.
"Shinra Tensei" Deva path said calmly with his back turned to Naruto and the water underneath him rippled and there seemed to be a great pressure be expelled from Deva paths body and it canceled out Naruto's jutsu.
'Damn it, so one of them can absorb my jutsu, while another can some how create an outward pressure that cancels out my jutsu. Not only that, I'm nowhere near ready to use the Hirashin in a battle like this' Naruto thought his hatred for the men in front of him still growing after what he did to Jiraiya.
"How. How could you do this. Jiraiya was your sensei, Nagato" Naruto spat.
"You would not be able to understand, his death is the will of Kami and as I have to pass out divine judgment on those who seek to prevent me from completing my aim's and speaking against my word, the word of god" Deva Path said while Naruto replaced his kunai in his pouch.
"So what you think your a messenger for Kami" Naruto said.
"Messenger? No. I am, Pein. I am god, nature life and death all bend to my will. What I say becomes reality. Now hand yourself over" Pein said in a monotone.
'Pein, huh. He must have lived a life similar to Meto Uzumaki. She called her path's the path's of sorrow' Naruto thought before her felt a pull in the receiver seal for his Hirashin jutsu. 'That must be Fukusaku I'm out of time here' he thought.
"I have to leave now, but if you ever harm anyone I care about again or if I ever see you or any of your path's, I will kill you. Nagato... Uzumaki" Naruto said before disappearing in a yellow flash.
'Uzumaki? What is he talking about. I have no family, I need no family' "We will meet again soon Kyuubi, and then I will make sure you know pain" Pein said and after a few moment's the remaining five path's of Pein left to head back to the western tower.
End Chapter!
Hope you don't mind I kept the fight between Jiraiya and Pein basically exactly the same as the manga. It was such a well done fight I didn't know what to change. Other than that I hope you enjoyed the very brief teaser for Naruto vs Pein. I will probably make the fight between them completely different from the manga though.
I know most of you were thinking Jiraiya will die and Naruto will get the Rinnegan. That was indeed what I had planned when I thought up this fic.
But I have decided against giving Naruto the Rinnegan at least for now. I just figured that Naruto, having just finished the Hirashin, is a big enough power boost. Giving him both the Hirashin and Rinnegan in one go, would be overkill and make Naruto way too strong for where we are in the story.
Naruto would just be able to crush Nagato with ease if he had the Rinnegan especially having just found all of those jutsu in Uzu. And with the main body having all of the ability's the path's have, it just wouldn't work out. I have an explanation worked out as to why he wont get the Rinnegan yet. And I will go into that next chapter. Hope everyone is not too disappointed.