Chapter 54: Chapter 36: Pain's Invasion
A/N: Pain's invasion is here also this is going to be very vague and there might be another 2 chapters today regarding the team Taka and the war declaration. While both of them are not much MC-focused he will make a slight appearance here and there in between them.
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In a dark room, a set of tables and chairs made from stone stood. On the chairs, two figures were sitting. One of them had a Straw hat and the other was wearing a master- *Cough* orange swirly mask.
"On which side are going to stand on? Sanemi...Yumikage? " The man with orange mask said in a heavy voice.
"It all depends, when you first called me, I thought we all wanted universal peace but it seems that Nagato and Konan have different ideas. " Sanemi said as too glared as Madara.
"They do indeed, I know you must have realized that this group is divided into two parts...I want a world where everyone gets their dream fulfilled, and Nagato wants peace by making people understand Pain. So which side is going to be on? Yumikage? " Madara asked as the pressure of the room increased.
"Very well then, I will join you in this plan of fulfilling everyone's dreams. " Sanemi said as he stood up and left the room.
'It seems everything is going on perfectly, the new dawn of this world is upon us. ' Sanemi thought as he exited the cave.
'Also it seems my powers are working as expected. No one even noticed it. The stage is set and now it's time for a performance. Akari Takatsuki ' Sanemi thought and then shattered like a mirror.
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Upon reaching Konoha, Pain discussed the battle plans for the invasion. The Asura Path, Preta Path, and new Animal Path will act as diversions while the Deva Path, Naraka Path, Human Path, and Konan interrogated villagers on the whereabouts of Naruto Uzumaki, the jinchūriki of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox either through mind-reading or threat of death. Once preparations were complete, the Asura Path threw the Animal Path into the village where it summoned the other Six Paths of Pain and the invasion began.
Because Konoha only expected one invader, the multiple points of the attack made it difficult for Konoha to react.
The Fifth Hokage called for Naruto to return to the village to aid in its defense, but the messenger toad Kōsuke was killed by Danzō before he could leave, to prevent Akatsuki a chance at capturing the Nine-Tails, as well as in the hope that Tsunade would lose her position in the attack.
Meanwhile, Tsunade remained at the Ninja Academy to summon and use Katsuyu to heal any villager who was injured during the attack.
Kakashi engaged the Deva Path, which was quickly backed up by the Asura Path. Chōza and his team of shinobi along with his son, Chōji came to Kakashi's aid and discovered the Deva Path's unique gravity manipulation has a three-second window.
Despite discovering this secret and the Asura Path being defeated, Chōza along with his team were critically wounded and Kakashi incapacitated, leaving only Chōji to deliver the information to Tsunade.
Konohamaru engaged and defeated the Naraka Path, while Tsume and Kiba Inuzuka engaged the Preta Path.
As the invasion continued, Konan interrogated several Konoha shinobi on Naruto's whereabouts. However, by this time Naruto had earned the respect of every single Konoha shinobi to the point that not one shinobi was willing to give away Naruto's location and would rather be killed.
One such shinobi told Konan to "go to hell" with a smile on his face, despite the hopeless situation he was in. As the Deva Path confronted Tsunade to question her about Naruto, Shizune, Inoichi and Ino Yamanaka discovered the secret of Pain's Six Paths.
The black receivers planted in the body of the body Jiraiya sent back revealed that each body was merely an animated corpse powered by chakra and that Pain's real body was elsewhere.
As Shizune summarised their analysis, the Human Path found and read her mind discovering Naruto was at Mount Myōboku.
Upon finding out and angered by Tsunade's perceived lack of pain, the Deva Path recalled Konan and the other five Paths out of the village where he detonated a powerful Shinra Tensei, destroying most of the village.
Having caught word of Pain's attack, the toads at Mount Myōboku prepared for the counter-attack.
Shima, who was at Konoha at the time, was told to prepare a reverse summoning to bring Naruto, Fukasaku, Gamabunta, Gamaken, Gamahiro, and Gamakichi to Konoha, moments after the Shinra Tensei leveled the village.
After using the Naraka Path to repair the destroyed Asura Path, the Animal was launched back into the village and re-summoned the rest of the paths back into the village to fight the jinchūriki.
Using his newly learned senjutsu techniques and a perfected Wind Release: Rasenshuriken, Naruto saved Tsunade and handily defeated the Asura, Human, Animal, and Naraka Paths, before the Deva Path regained enough strength to fight on its own again.
When he was finally caught and held by the energy-absorbing Preta Path, Naruto used the senjutsu chakra to disrupt the Preta Path's chakra flow, turning it into a frog statue, before finally facing the Deva Path, Pain's last and most often used body.
Pain quickly dispatched the giant toads and gained the upper hand, killing Fukasaku in the process. Using another gravity manipulation technique to grab and immobilize Naruto, Pain then pinned him to the ground with his Chakra Disruption Blades to take him away.
Before departing, Naruto asked Pain why he had done everything, to which Pain replied that the world could never have the peace Jiraiya fought for because the world was too full of hatred, and, therefore, the only way to create world peace was through force.
By using the tailed beasts, Pain planned on making a weapon strong enough to destroy a country, and the fear of that weapon would prevent more fighting.
Shikamaru Nara, having survived the destruction of Konoha, met with the Yamanaka group carrying Shizune's body. When they were told what information she knew, Shikamaru concluded that Pain's real body was somewhere close to the village, at a high enough place that he could send his chakra across a large enough distance to control the Six Paths with no difficulty.
Hinata Hyūga came to his rescue after confessing her love for Naruto but was quickly struck down and critically wounded. Believing that Pain had killed her, Naruto lost control of his anger and slipped into his six-tailed transformation.
The First Hokage's necklace reacted to this and tried to suppress the Nine-Tails' chakra, but was removed and destroyed. With the Nine-Tails in control of Naruto's body, it fought and overwhelmed Pain, causing him to retreat from the village to get close enough to Nagato to use Chibaku Tensei.
With the Nine-Tails controlling Naruto, and Pain out of the village, Sakura Haruno ordered all who could help to tend to the wounded and for a team, including herself, to help the critically wounded Hinata. Team Guy, who was returning from a mission, passed the injured Gamabunta, who informed them that Konoha was in danger.
Elsewhere, Yamato, who was with Sai and Anko Mitarashi on a mission hunting Kabuto Yakushi, sensed that Naruto had released six tails of the Nine-Tails, and headed back.
While still being pursued by the Nine-Tails, Pain, through quite some strain of Nagato, used the Chibaku Tensei to create a giant miniature moon in an attempt to capture the Nine-Tails.
During this time, Naruto, locked in his subconscious and lost in despair, called out for help to respond to Pain's visions of peace. In the end, while the 'evil' Pain had a plan to deal with the hatred in the world, Naruto did not.
Taking advantage of his pain, the Nine-Tails convinced Naruto to destroy everything in the world by releasing the seal. This caused the seal to distort.
Despite the strength of the miniature moon, the distorted seal allowed the eighth-tail to grow, partially breaking free of the sphere.
In his mind, just as he was about to remove the seal to release the ninth tail, Minato Namikaze, the Fourth Hokage, appeared, and spoke with Naruto.
Minato revealed to Naruto that he was his father, and he sealed the Nine-Tails into him because he too felt that the Nine-Tails were forced to come to Konoha, and believed a masked being within Akatsuki was behind the attack.
After easing Naruto's fears that he couldn't change the world, Minato repaired the seal and sent Naruto back to finish his battle with Pain.
With the Nine-Tails' chakra suppressed, Naruto and Pain resumed their battle, with Naruto tricking Pain into using a Shinra Tensei on dozens of shadow clones, giving Naruto enough time to strike him with a Rasengan during the three-second window.
The last body of Pain was defeated, and Naruto used its black receivers to track down and confront Nagato himself.
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A/N:
Akari : Bright Moon
Takatsuki : High Moon.
Together they mean Bright High Moon the readers are free to make theories on that is as they please.
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