Still don't own Naruto
Chapter 62: Pein's Invasion Begins
It was a nice day in Konoha not a cloud in the sky, the villagers and most of the ninja were going about there lives without a care in the world. Out side the village there was a large scouting shack and several teams that had been sent to keep an eye out for an attack.
"Did you find anything" a jonnin asked as a small scouting group arrived back at the shack.
"No nothing. This is ridiculous, I don't know why Hokage-sama decided to double the amount of scouts, nothing ever happens here" one of the two men that arrived back complained.
"I'm sure she has her reason's, come on let's go start on the report" the jonnin said.
They turned around to make there way back to the scouting outpost but upon turning around came face to face with Pein's Deva path. The commanding officer went to say something but was cut off as he soon found a chakra rod impaling him in the stomach. The other members of the scout party jumped away.
Two members attacked from the sky grabbing onto Pein. And they motioned to another to run. He received the message perfectly, he needed to go warn the hokage but before he got to the end of the small clearing they were in his comrades were blown away from Pein and he was slowly lifted off the ground.
The man could only look on in fear as he slowly flew towards Pein who was drawing another chakra rod from his cloak. After he was killed the other remaining members of the scouting group were finished off quickly and Pein made his way down towards the village. Once he was close enough he waited as his other path's and Konan arrived from different directions. "The time has come" Deva path said calmly looking over at the large walls of Konoha.
(Myobokuzan)
Naruto was eating a late breakfast with Jiraiya and Fukusaku while Shima trained Yugito outside. "So Naruto-chan have ya found anything out about Pein's weaknesses" Fukusaku asked.
"No, it has no information at all. It seems even in the Uzumaki clan there was little information on how to defeat someone with the Rinnegan. Probably because they never figured they would have to fight one of them" Naruto moaned.
"Well they seem to be affected by genjutsu but I guess that doesn't help either of us" Jiraiya said.
"Guess I will just have to divide the paths and defeat them that way with nin and taijutsu" Naruto sighed.
"It's not over there is still time, we need to keep looking" Fukusaku replied.
"Yeah your right, if any of my clones find anything they will dispel and let me know about it" Naruto admitted.
(With Pein)
Pein's paths and Konan stood infront of a large barrier that while it wasn't blocking there entrance would warn Konoha the moment they passed it.
"A barrier, well that wont be hard to fool. I will throw the Animal path over the village and then she can summon us all, Konoha will only be expecting one person not seven plus our summons. When we get inside we will split up, Animal, Asura and Preta paths will cause a distraction and keep the village busy while the rest will search for the jinchuuriki. Konan, you're with the search team. Starting here the world shall know pain " Deva path said.
Wasting no more time Asura path threw Animal path into the air high above Konoha.
(Konoha Defense Department)
An old sensor was sitting in meditation monitoring the barrier. Once Pein's Animal path crossed the barrier however his eye's snapped open. "We have an Intruder" he said shocking the member's of his team who were currently playing cards. "Single target, sector 1-B, near the west gate"
(Hokage office)
Tsunade was currently at her desk filling out some paper work from mission reports when explosions rocked the village.
She immediately shot out of her seat and moved to the window. 'What the fuck...It's all over the village then that mean's...' she didn't get to finish her report as a man entered the room.
He went to inform Tsunade off the situation but cut off before he could even speak "Sound the Alarm at once" she ordered before turning back to face out the window. 'Is this you Pein? Are you here looking for Naruto?' she thought as she began thinking what she should do to help.
Then an Anbu arrived in her office. "Tsunade-sama, enemy's strengh is reported to be around seven attackers with unknown amounts of summons, and we have found an eye witness of one of the attackers. He wore a black cloak with a red cloud pattern" the Anbu informed Tsunade.
"Then it's time to recall Naruto" Tsunade said.
"Do not do as she says" came the voice of Koharu as the door opened.
Entering the room, the two elders and and Danzo stood before of Tsunade's desk, clearly wanting to talk to the Hokage.
"What do you mean, we need Naruto back here if we want do be able to defeat Pein" Tsunade said.
"Pein? You mean the leader of the Akatsuki. The one who defeated Jiraiya?" Koharu asked.
"Are you saying he has come after Konoha so soon after defeating Jiraiya?" Homura added.
Danzo didn't say anything he just stood there. "That is exactly what I am saying, he probably want's us dealt with before we can learn any of his secrets" Tsunade replied.
"Then that is the reason why you can not recall Naruto. They are hunting the Bijuu and it is believed that they already have most of them, to bring the Kyuubi here would be giving Pein what he want's" Danzo finally spoke.
"And despite this you are trying to summon Naruto back. Such a thing will be like pouring oil onto a fire" Homura said.
Meanwhile out in the village thing's were going from bad to worse. Fire's raged uncontrollably and Pein's summons had ran right through more than a third of the village. The ninja forces had just been alerted via the alarm but by that time it had been rather obvious that the village was under attack.
Kakashi and Asuma had just finished off a large centipede when Asuma saw another one heading towards the apartments where Kurenai lived.
"Hey Kakashi can you take care of this, I need to get Kurenai to safety. After all, its important to protect the king" Asuma said.
"Sure thing I can handle myself" Kakashi informed Asuma and the pair split up.
Asuma arrived just in time. Whipping out his chakra blade's he removed the head of the large centipede just seconds before he crushed into Kurenai.
"We have to get you to safety, come on. The underground tunnels are not far from here" Asuma said and he grabbed Kurenai's hand and began escorting her towards safety.
In the hospital all the beds had been filled with the injured and now the waiting room was so full there was barely space to walk. Sakura who had been off that day ran as fast as she could to the hospital once the attack started but had only just arrived.
"This is horrible" She said as she entered the waiting room.
"Oh Sakura thank Kami. We need all the help we can get, we need these people moveable incase there is a full evacuation called" a nearby doctor called out.
"Where is Shizune" Sakura asked.
"Shizune-san isn't here, that mean's your in charge" the doctor called before standing up and moving to another patient after wrapping his wounds.
"All right, we need to treat patients via priority, critical first, and so on, if people can still walk or have relatively mild injuries give them some pain medicine and send them to the underground tunnels, we cant waist any time" Sakura ordered.
Back in the Hokage office the heated debate on whether or not to recall Naruto was still going on.
Tsunade finally lost her cool and lifted both elders up by the front's of there robe's. "Tsunade... What are you doing, Unhand us!" Koharu said.
"Who do you think you are? How long do you intend to treat him like a child? He's not a hidden weapon to be used by Konoha just when there is a war. He is a ninja who has sworn to protect Konoha He's one of if not the strongest ninja we have. And he will defeat Pein, I believe in him" Tsunade yelled before dropping the elders on there rear ends.
The two elders stood and turned around in shame. "Do as you please" Koharu said before they walked out Danzo followed them but he eyed Tsunade and the messenger toad one last time before leaving.
As they left Shizune entered to provide a report on what she had found from her autopsy of the first Animal path that Jiraiya had killed. "Messenger Toad get ready to return to Myobokuzan to summon Naruto, I need to go to the roof so I can monitor the situation better" Tsunade said after listening to Shizune's report.
The occupants of the room left and the toad began to focus on finding Fukusaku to save him some time once he returned to Myobokuzan. But with his eye's closed he didn't see the man reenter the room. Danzo who was leaning on his cane stood up straight and pulled a hidden sword from his walking stick before impaling the toad killing him before he could dispel.
"The elder's are useless all they have done is grow old. I don't care if Tsunade managed to make them side with her, I will keep the Kyuubi caged and safe until I need it" Danzo said to himself.
Back in the village Konoha's troops were in a bad way, the large summons were distracting most of the higher ranking ninja and Pein's body's and Konan were easily dispatching the lower level ninja as they engaged them.
Despite the information that had been passed around about Pein only some of the jonnin had yet received it, so by the time a jonnin with the information on Pein would arrive most of the others had already fallen and Pein would target the higher ranking ninja first as they would be more likely to have the information that Pein needed.
Tsunade had arrived on top of the hokage tower flanked by Anbu and had summoned Katsuyu. "Tsunade, it seems the village is in a bad way" the mammoth slug said.
"There is no time for that now, I need to you go attach yourself to every civilian and ninja that is still in the village" Tsunade ordered and Katsuyu began splitting up into thousands of smaller slug's. 'I will protect this village no matter what!' she thought as her summons dispersed throughout the village.
Elsewhere Kakashi was searching the village, he ignored all of the summons, he knew that the only way to stop them for good was to find the body that controlled them. Jumping up on top of a pile of rubble that used to be a large three leveled building Kakashi looked down upon Iruka kneeling down helpless in front of one of the paths.
Deva path drew a chakra rod. "Tell me where the Kyuubi jinchuuriki is, or you will die" He ordered from Iruka.
"I have no intention of telling you anything" Iruka stammered back.
"Very well then" Pein said and he moved his hand to thrust into Iruka's chest but found his arm stop within inches of his target.
"So, you create a diversion with loud explosions and summons so that you can investigate without encountering any of the stronger members of the village" Kakashi said giving an accurate summary of Pein's plan.
"Clever, then I guess I should ask you. Where is the Kyuubi jinchuuriki" Deva path said.
"What you are doing is pointless. The people here will never sell out a comrade, even if it means dying" Kakashi declared.
Kakashi snapped the chakra rod he had in his hand and ducked just under a kick before running through some hand signs and creating a large wall around them with a Doton justu.
Pein then extended a new chakra blade out from his robe piercing Kakashi's shoulder. Kakashi didn't complain, instead he charged a Raikiri and moved his hand forward to send his fist into Deva paths face. However at the last second a huge pressure built up and his body moved just slightly to the side out of his control causing his hand to ram into the wall.
"Kakashi Hatake, the Copy Ninja... I'm honored to meet you. Tell me where is the Kyuubi" Pein said flatly.
Kakashi jumped back yanking the chakra rod from his shoulder and activating another Raikiri. "That's a stupid question" he said before he jumped forward.
He got within an inch before Kakashi seemed to stop in mid air. Kakashi seemed to stay still for what seemed like an age before he was rocketed back and the whole area around Deva path crumbles and flew away.
The explosion from the force of Deva Path's jutsu shook the entire village and the buildings and anything in the area were tossed up into the air and thrown away causing a huge dust could.
Kakashi removed himself from a pile of rubble 'That jutsu, it was certainly different from a shock wave, this must be the body that controls gravity, but how do I beat him if he can repel anything that gets even remotely close, absolutely everything was blasted away with him at the epicenter' Kakashi pondered. "Well then how will you counter this" Kakashi said reactivating his Raikiri and sending a dog made from lightening straight for the Deva Path.
Pein just stood there and when the lightening grew close enough to strike He simply widened his eyes to activate his jutsu again and the pressure forced the jutsu to dissipate. 'Not just physical attack's, but jutsu as well. Impressive. Now then, how should I...?' Kakashi was cut off mid thought when he felt something move behind him. "Another one? Shit" Kakashi said to himself as Asura path landed and shot missiles toward Kakashi.
There were several large explosions but Kakashi managed to avoid them all and sneak up behind Asura path and Raikiri active took a swing for the back of his head only for Asura to duck easily underneath. 'What the fuck... I see, the report said there eye's are connected. The other one saw me' Kakashi thought realizing he was now in quite a difficult situation. Deva path would be hard to beat by itself but if he had back up, he would be far harder bordering on impossible to defeat. 'And Jiraiya-sama took on six of them at once. That is insane' Kakashi thought as he looked for a weakness he could expose.
Asura Path seemed to morph and grow extra faces before ripping off his cloak to reveal six arm's and a tail that looked like a sharp serrated blade. Deva Path moved to stand behind his Asura path and held his hand out. "Bansho, Tennin" he stated calmly and Kakashi felt a pull on his body that he couldn't resist that sent him flying forward.
Unable to stop himself Kakashi was impaled on the tail like blade of Asura path. But Kakashi then started to glow and exploded in a scream of electricity. Asura path who was mostly made of metal was shocked badly. 'A Raiton clone!' Deva path thought but before he could think any more on the development he had to jump out of the way as two massive fists slammed into the ground. Asura path who couldn't move thanks to the Raiton chakra was crushed.
Choji and Choza arrived in the clearing, that Pein made with his gravity jutsu, along with several chunin. "Hey Kakashi, are you alright" Choza called.
Kakashi pulled himself up out from some rubble that was behind the group of Konoha ninja. "Well I'll manage" He said as he walked over to the others.
"A trap clone... Clever, to have planned it out from when I first pushed you back" Pein complemented before charging.
The ninja all attacked at the same time from different angles. However once again just before they hit everything stopped. "Shinra Tensei" Pein said and all of the attacks were simply blown away like they were never even there.
Choji managed to hold himself in place and eventually send several kunai flying toward Pein but the Deva path was easily able to avoid the blades.
'That's odd he didn't use his jutsu again' Kakashi thought as he attacked a smoke bomb to the end of another kunai and threw it. This time however Deva path did prevent the attack from hitting with his gravity jutsu.
The smoke bomb still went off and gave Kakashi and the team of Konoha ninja time to retreat. "There is an interval of time before he can use his gravity jutsu again, we need to aim for that if we want to beat this guy" Kakashi informed the others. They had already lost most of the group that had arrived to help Kakashi when the weapons they had thrown were sent back right into them.
They sat and made up a plan in order to get close enough to Pein's Deva path to test how long the interval is. They decided on getting Kakashi to attack from underground with a lightening charged kunai. This attack inevitably failed and Kakashi was sent flying away along the ground.
"You move quite well. And you have a wide range of jutsu. People like you need to be killed, you may pose a problem later" Deva path said before drawing another chakra rod to finish Kakashi once and for all.
Before he had a chance to kill Kakashi however Choji and Choza rolled out in an attempt to crush him. But they were too slow, and Pein repelled the. "Too slow" he said as he sent the two Akimichi flying. This however was another distraction and both father and son pulled on large chains wrapping the Deva path up tightly. 'Kakashi Hatake... He planted this chain underground before attacking from below! Truly a great plan' Deva path thought as Kakashi ran his fist forward with his Raikiri to finish off the Deva path only for Asura path to appear and take the hit.
'No I have to get through, this is our best chance we will have' Kakashi thought but before he could move forward the time between Deva paths jutsu ran out and a huge force erupted around the area sending Kakashi flying back.
Once the smoke cleared again Kakashi was in a bad shape and Choji and Choza appeared to be at least unconscious if not dead.
"You're inability to move does not seem faked so I can assume you are not a clone, but just to be sure I will not approach you" Deva path said and he used his control over gravity to retrieve a nail from the ground and held it out ready to finish Kakashi once and for all.
The time limit just ended and he was ready to kill Kakashi when he felt something move beside him. Turning he just had enough time to repel the chakra blade of Asuma.
"Asuma Sarutobi. Former member of the twelve guardians. It seems I need to deal with you as well" Pein said flatly.
"Hey Kakashi, you don't look so good. Is this guy really that tough" Asuma asked the cigarette not leaving his mouth.
"Yeah he is, watch out he repels all attacks. You need to get close to him with in five seconds of him using his jutsu" Kakashi said coughing up a small amount of blood.
"I see, close combat is my specialty but if he can repel attacks how can I get in close?" Asuma asked talking to himself mostly.
"I don't know, you will need back up, and I can barely move" Kakashi admitted as he supported himself on a cement slab that had managed to survive the assault of Deva paths Shinra Tensei.
Asuma was still contemplating how he could win in a fight against Pein when Deva path charged and thrust a chakra rod toward Asuma's chest.
Asuma was not an elite jonnin for nothing however and he rolled out of the way using his trench knives to slice the chakra rod before it could strike. Rolling behind Deva path Asuma went to kick Pein in the back only to be repelled before his attack hit. "I take it that was how he repels the attacks?" Asuma asked.
"Yeah only way we have found around it is a two staged trap there is a gap of around five seconds before he can use his jutsu again" Kakashi said as he once again tried to stand.
"We need to get that information to Tsunade-sama. As it stand's I don't stand a chance against this guy alone" Asuma admitted before he had to jump away in order to avoid another strike from Deva path.
Kakashi couldn't stand on his own legs at the moment due to injuries but he managed to support himself enough to stumble over to check on Choza and Choji. They were both alive but Choza needed medical attention and quickly.
Asuma was keeping Deva path busy but was clearly not getting any close to landing a decisive blow. Every time he would get close Deva path would simply blow the Fuuton user away like he was a fly.
"I am growing tired of this game, now tell me where Naruto Namikaze is" Deva path said. His fave still completely void of all emotion.
"Heh do you really think anybody here would sell him out. Even the civilian population wouldn't tell you anything about Naruto" Asuma said panting slightly.
Deva path was about to use another high powered Shinra Tensei when he received information from his human path who had just removed the soul of Shizune. "It appears he is not in the village at the moment, well then I guess we can change out tactic's a bit then" Deva path said ominously before disappearing in a puff of smoke along with the busted corpse of the Asura path.
"What does that mean" Asuma said shakily, he was badly beaten from constantly being pushed away from Pein.
"Nothing good I assure you" Kakashi said as Katsuyu arrived and began to check on the ninja in the area.
"Kakashi your injuries will be too much for me to heal here you need to get yourself and Choza to the Hospital, the boy will wake in a few moment's" the slug said before separating and attaching herself to each of the ninja.
Back on the Hokage tower Tsunade was meditating channeling her chakra through Katsuyu to aid in keeping the villager's and her ninja safe.
She was brought out of her trance however when someone landed behind her. "It appears the Kyuubi jinchuuriki is not in the village" Deva path said.
Tsunade turned around and prepared for a fight. "You...Why are you doing this?" Tsunade asked.
"This is all for peace" Deva path said flatly.
"Peace? What of this is peaceful? You have killed hundreds of people. That is not peace" Tsunade spat.
"It seems you don't understand pain, allow me to enlighten you" Deva path said.
'No! What ever he is planing I have to stop him, damn it Naruto what is taking you so long. Looks like I am going to have to use this' Tsunade thought as she pulled out the kunai Naruto gave her. "Your looking for Naruto right?" she said hoping to stall Pein while she drew the kunai from behind her.
"That is correct, but it has become clear that he is not in the village. So now Konoha shall know pain!" Deva path said and slowly began to lift into the air.
"You want him... Fine here he is" Tsunade said as she dropped the kunai into the ground at her feet.
The seals on the kunai began to glow and half a second later there was a yellow flash and appearing in front of Tsunade separating Pein and Tsunade was Naruto.
"Hey Baa-chan, why didn't you send our messenger toad, things look pretty bad here" Naruto said not taking his eye's off of Deva path.
"It seems you are here, then I guess we can begin... Shinra Tensei" Deva path said extending his hand's to direct his jutsu toward Naruto only.
End Chapter!
I kept Konoha standing so that Pein can use Deva path for the entirety of the fight with Naruto, that will make them that much stronger and gives me a better terrain to work with rather than empty crater.