Wammyman: I give my DEEPEST apologies for not updating for so long. My teachers LIVE to give me homework. Plus I joined my school's production of "The Boys Next Door" and had to prepare for the ACT. Not to mention I have two other fanfics in the works. Thank you for your patience and please keep reading.
Disclaimer: I do not own Death Note or Naruto.
Chapter 5: The Battle
As the battle began, Jiraiya painted blood marks on his face. He then clapped his hands together.
"Mr. Gamaken," he said to the toad, "I'm storing up chakra for another summoning. I need you to hold them off in the meantime."
"Well," the toad replied, "I'm clumsy, but I'll try." So the great toad plunged his weapon toward the beast's heads as it charged forward. But then the heads separated and gained their own bodies. Mr. Gamaken leaped with great speed as he slaughtered the beats in a blood bath.
"You're quite skilled," the sannin complimented.
"Oh no, I'm clumsy," Gamaken replied.
"If this is clumsy then I wonder how he would fight if was coordinated," said Ryuk. As Gamaken wacked one hound, two new ones took its place. Eventually, the great toad was single-handedly fighting nearly a dozen mutts.
In the midst of all the bloodshed, one of the dogs managed to sink its teeth into Gamaken's ankle. Mr. Gamaken tripped causing Jiraiya to tumble farther away. The sannin desperately ran away from the hounds while keeping his hands clasped together.
"Finally," Ryuk thought, "this is what I came here for!" Eventually Mr. Gamaken was able to reconnect with the sannin. Blood was pouring out all over the toad's body. Jiraiya then gained a stroke of luck by finding a place to hide.
Neither Pain nor his dogs could find their enemies. So Pain sent the mutts back to wince they came. Meanwhile, Jiraiya had finally finished storing up chakra.
"Alright Mr. Gamaken," said the sannin, "you can go home now. Thanks for the help."
"Oh thank you," Gamaken said exhausted, "glad I could help." And with that, the bleeding toad disappeared back to his home. So then the sannin did a series of hand signs to perform another summoning. Ryuk eagerly waited to see what would pop out next. In the meantime, Pain summoned two new comrades. On was bald, while the other had short orange hair. They had different arrangements of face piercings, but the three humans shared a single trait. Those purple, rippled eyes.
"Search for Jiraiya-sensei," ordered Pain. So the three men split up to search for the sannin. The man with short hair heard echoes from a nearby tunnel. There were two elderly voices along with Jiraiya's voice.
"Lord Fukasaku, Lady Shima," Jiraiya whispered, "I need you two to get me into sage mode."
"But Jiraiya-boy," said the ancient masculine voice, "I thought you hated sage mode because it gave you warts and webbed feet that made you less popular with the ladies."
"He's not that popular with them now," muttered Ryuk.
"Pa just shut up and gather energy," said the voice of an old woman. The owners of the voices crept out of the shadows. On Jiraiya's shoulders were two ancient toads. One was male, and the other was female. Atop the male toad's head was a white Mohawk, while the female toad had a purple, lumpy, bald head. Ryuk couldn't help but wonder why Jiraiya sacrificed Gamaken for these old prunes. From his perspective, Jiraiya would've been better off keeping Gamaken, since he was young and could fight. Still, this new strategy could get interesting. And hopefully, it would be enough to fight pain and his allies.
After doing a series of hand signs, Jiraiya blew out a blanket of fire. The enemy then opened his arms and embraced the flames. He completely absorbed the flames without even a scratch. Soon afterwards, Pain and his other comrade rushed over in pursuit. The bald man instantly shot missiles out of his arms. Luckily Lord Fukasaku grappled his slimy tongue onto a pipe and swung the sannin to safety. Pain then slipped a sharp rod out of his robe and launched it at Ryuk. However, the rod harmlessly passed right through Ryuk's body.
"Sorry," mocked the shinigami, "but it's going to take a lot more than that to hurt me." Pain's allies then tried to get the jump on Ryuk, but they phased right through him as well. These feeble attempts to harm the shinigami only made him laugh louder and louder.
Meanwhile, Jiraiya was hidden at a higher level, watching Pain in complete stillness.
"Good Ryuk," thought the sannin, "just keep them busy long enough for me to get into sage mode."
"What the hell are they doing," asked a confused Fukasaku.
"Who cares," hissed Shima, "now's our chance to gather energy." As the toads gathered energy, Pain continued fighting Ryuk. The shinigami could only laugh at their ignorance. So much so that he ended up falling on the floor laughing.
"Why can't we touch you," asked Pain in frustration. But before he could figure that out, the bald ally spotted a giant spiraling ball hurtling towards the trio. So the short haired man leaped into the air and absorbed the massive sphere. Once the sphere disappeared, Jiraiya safely landed on the moist ground. However, he was different now. The sannin's nose grew large and warty, he now had a beard as white as snow, his eyes were surrounded by red, and he had webbed feet.
"Ehh," said Ryuk, "and I thought he was ugly before."
Fukasaku and Shima remained on the sannin's shoulders and were stunned at the sight of Pain's rinnegan. For they believed the eyes to be little more than a legend. Jiraiya on the other hand wasn't sure what to do.
"If I fight all three of them at once, even in sage mode I'll be killed," thought Jiraiya, "And chances are Ryuk's not gonna help me again." The enemies made a jump for Jiraiya, but Shima was able to swing him to safety with her tongue. Suddenly, Fukasaku got an idea.
"Say Jiraiya-boy," the toad said, "maybe Ma and I could put them under a genjutsu so that you can finish them off."
"How would that work," Jiraiya asked intrigued.
"Well, Ma and I would sing a duet, and once they hear it they'll be under the genjutsu and become easy targets."
"Sounds good to me," Jiraiya replied, "Let's do it."
"I can't sing around this many people," wined Shima, "it's too embarrassing,"
"Ma," snapped Fukasaku, "just suck it up and get ready to sing!"
"Oh great," Ryuk mumbled, "more singing. As if I didn't get enough of that from the mermaids."
"Alright, you two get ready while I distract them," said the sannin. Jiraiya did another series of hand signs. He then let another huge blanket of fire out of his mouth. Then the short haired man absorbed the flames once again.
Suddenly, loud croaking echoed about. The croaking paralyzed the three men while putting them under a trance.
"This is what genjutsu does," asked Ryuk, "turn people into zombies that stare into outer space? I guess that's pretty useful." It was then that Jiraiya summoned another toad and pulled three large swords out of its mouth. After instructing the toad to hide, the sannin plunged a blade into each of the bodies as they fell to the floor. After that, the sannin walked away with a feeling of triumph and a lack of sympathy for his former student.
Once Jiraiya completely let his guard down, Pain yanked the sword out of his body and charged over to the sannin to attack. Pain slipped another sharp rod out of his sleeve and stabbed Jiraiya in the shoulder. Jiraiya then flung Pain over his head, thus breaking the rod and leaving a fragment of it lodged in his body. Pain was able to get a grip on the sannin as the two shinobi tumbled through a tunnel of stone and steel. Eventually, Jiraiya managed to get Pain and himself into the mouth of the toad he had summoned earlier. The two shinobi were briefly separated, but Pain managed to locate Jiraiya and stab him with two more rods in the same spot. Luckily with Fukasaku's and Shima's help, Jiraiya trapped Pain in the toad's belly, killing him this time for sure.
Jiraiya rested inside the toad's body. Fukasaku and Shima removed the rods' remains from his shoulder. Unfortunately, they couldn't do it painlessly, nor could they prevent the sannin's right arm from falling off. Once the pain left his system, Jiraiya tried to piece everything together. First, how could Yahiko have gained Nagato's rinnegan? Second, how could he also give it to other people and animals? And third, what was with those face piercings? Then Jiraiya realized something. This might really be Nagato's doing. It would make sense. After all, the one who wields the rinnegan has power comparable to a God. Surely he could control several bodies at once.
In the midst of all this confusion, Ryuk decided to take advantage of Jiraiya.
"Hey Jiraiya," he said in a menacing tone, "if I were you I'd use the Death Note. It could be your only hope of getting out of this fight alive." Upon hearing this Jiraiya knew that Ryuk was right. If he wanted to see another day, he would have to kill Nagato immediately.
So the pervy sage used his only arm to take the notebook out from his vest. Surprisingly, the Note was completely intact.
"Jiraiya-boy, what are ya doing," shouted Shima, "now's not the time for writing a book!"
"Shut up," hissed Jiraiya, "I don't need your guys' help anymore!"
"Are ya sure Jiraiya-boy," asked Fukasaku.
"Yes, now go!" So the two toads warped back to their home. Jiraiya set the notebook down, opened it to a blank page, and then wrote 'Nagato' in blood with his thumb. He then blew the blood dry. This was the sannin's last hope for survival. Once the blood was dry, Jiraiya and Ryuk climbed out of the toad's mouth and hid underwater.
Meanwhile up in the highest tower in the village, there was a man. The man had short, red hair; all sorts of machines connected to his body, and possessed purple, rippled eyes. Konan stood by his side. She was worried that the man would strain himself too much, thus killing himself. At first everything seemed stable. All of a sudden, the man screamed in agony.
"Nagato," cried Konan.
"Find Jiraiya-sensei," said the man with blood spilling from his lips. Then the man's head dropped and he grew silent. Konan placed two fingers on his neck.
"No pulse," she exclaimed. Tears streamed down her cheeks. Filled up with rage, Konan left the tower to find, and kill, Jiraiya.
Down on the battlefield, Jiraiya's head peeked out of the water. He saw other men scouting about that didn't see him. Suddenly, all the scouts fell to the ground. So the sannin carefully crept out of the water, with the Death Note in his hand, and kicked one of the bodies. There was no reaction. Jiraiya could now safely assume that Nagato, the true Pain, had died.
"Well, what do you know Ryuk," Jiraiya laughed in relief, "it actually worked."
"Of course it did," Ryuk replied, "the Death Note never fails." Jiraiya kept chuckling.
"Now that that's over, I guess I can give you that apple I…" Jiraiya's sentence trailed off as he got dizzy. The sannin's head kept spinning and spinning. Eventually, Jiraiya dropped the notebook and fell to the ground. Then Ryuk laughed manically at the pervy sage.
"See Jiraiya," he said, "the Death Note never fails. You fought someone tooth and nail, used your notebook to kill them, then you died from your wounds. Just as I wrote." Soon afterwards, Konan entered the scene. After finding Jiraiya's body and making sure that her old sensei was dead, she found the Death Note. Once it was in her hands, she could see Ryuk as clear as day. Ryuk startled Konan and made her jump back a little.
"Hello Konan," he greeted, "my name is Ryuk. I'm a shinigami, and the former owner of that notebook. Nice to meet you."
"Nice to meet you too," Konan said trying to hide her fear. Soon after discovering the shinigami's existence, Konan headed over to another Akatsuki hideout. She knew that Madara would want to see this.
Wammyman: I apologize for not capturing the battle between Jiraiya and Pain perfectly. I wrote this chapter out a long time ago after watching the battle an even LONGER time ago. Then again, it is a fanfic. Overall, I hope you enjoyed this chapter. Please be patient for the next one.