Chapter 360: Chapter – 355 Life Hanging on a Thread
Thud… Thud… Thud… Thud…
""""Huff... huff…"""" – everyone heavily gasped for breath as they laid on the ground exhausted,
The current state of Jiraiya as well as the two toads is not so good, even Shisui's Susanoo disappeared…
Looking around, neither of them could find Killer Bee among them meaning that Killer Bee couldn't escape and was thus sealed inside it.
Even Uchiha Shisui doesn't seem to be in the condition to be able to fight as he is more than likely to have exhausted a lot of his Chakra to destroy that Planetary Orb.
Jiraiya realizes that if Tendo Pain, standing in front of him uses the same ability again, then no one will be able to save them, at the same time, he also realizes that among the people present inside Amegakure, nobody other than him can defeat Pain… Therefore, he did not wait any longer and immediately said to the two sage toads, "Boss, ma'am… let's start!"
Both Fukasaku and Shima nodded with a solemn expression and jumped on Jiraiya's shoulder, to help him gather Natural energy and to brew Senjutsu Chakra.
Both Fukasaku and Shima have a long life and many battles through it, and the Pain fellow standing before them is undoubtedly one of the strong and most unusual shinobi they have ever seen, not to mention he is the bearer of the Rinnegan, and just to make the matters worse, there are four of these Pains fellow, each with a pair of Rinnegan.
In Jiraiy's cognition, since the establishment of the Shinobi Village system, and after the death of Senju Hashirama and Uchiha Madara, Pain is the strongest Shinobi to have appeared.
In the face of someone so strong and weird, they knew that even a little bit of carelessness could cost them their lives.
Jiraiya clasped his hands together to enter the Sennin Mode.
Jiraiya has to stand still while the two toads gather the Natural Energy in cooperation.
Tendo Pain obviously doesn't plan to waste his time here as he has to also get rid of other rats, and said indifferently to Jiraiya, "Jiraiya-sensei, it's futile to resist… you cannot change anything, you cannot defeat a God."
Jiraiya shouted, "Yahiko… this is not you… did you not want to change this country? Did you not want to bring peace to this world? What has happened to the three of you?"
Tendo Pain said indifferently, "It's not your fault that you are unable to see it, I am doing just that Sensei…"
"No Yahiko… you are wrong, what you are doing is wrong! Was destroying the Land of Demons peace? What you are doing is not bringing peace…!" – Jiraiya retorted.
"Wrong?" – with a cold snort, Tendo Pain said, "From here on, what's right and what's wrong will be defined by me!"
Jiraiya said with bitter sadness, "Don't get lost in power Yahiko…"
At this moment Konan's words reached them, "Lost in power? You of the great shinobi villages have always been lost in power… you people do not put anyone before your eyes. Now that people who are stronger than the great shinobi villages have appeared, you are asking us to not get lost in power? That's funny Jiraiya-sensei… are we not even allowed to protect ourselves? Are we not allowed to pursue our dreams and goals? Should we just accept the fate that you people of great shinobi villages bind us to?"
Jiraiya looked up at Konan and said sadly, "But what you are doing is starting a war… people are dying…"
Tendo Pain shook his head and said, "No Jiraiya-sensei, we are just reestablishing the order of the Shinobi World… look at everything around you… are we the ones who started this war? Are we the ones who are invading others' homes? Are we the ones ravaging others' villages? You people of great shinobi villages invade others' homes and now you speak to us to not start a war?"
"Why the Akatsuki? Why gather such dangerous nuke-nins? Why incite a civil war within a village? Konan, Yahiko you have to stop all this! You, people, are children who have experienced war, you understand the destruction war brings and the pain it causes to people… it takes generations to be able to forget that pain… do you want to see more orphans appear in the accursed world?" – Jiraiya question.
Konan had a momentary sad expression, but there was not even a trace of hesitation in her eyes.
The foolish ideals of bringing peace to the world with words and understanding died along with Yahiko… now all that's left is pain… the same pain that will bring peace to the world.
"It is because I understand the pain that I know that it is only through pain that people can understand each other… When enough people die, those who remain will be left with the pain of losing… this pain will bring make them naturally avert war…" – Tendo said.
Seeing that Konan and Yahiko could not be persuaded at all, Jiraiya was helpless and asked, "Where is Nagato? Is he alive? And why do you have his Rinnegan? Initially, I believed that the first one I saw was Nagato, but he is not… where is Nagato? And how come there are so many Rinnegan bearers?"
"Nagato… Yahiko… Konan… everyone died a long time ago… now all that's left is Pain!" – Pain said.
In their heart, they are nothing more than ghosts of the past, their sole purpose of existence is to make Yahiko's dream come true.
Jiraiya sighed, "Could you please just stop with the world play…"
"Yes… It is time I kill you and be done with it." – speaking so, he slowly landed on the same street as Jiraiya and started walking towards him.
Tendo Pain with his Rinnegan can see the changes happening in Jiraiya and understands that it would be pointless to wait any longer… There are probably more battles to come, so he does not want to waste any more time talking with Jiraiya.
With this intention, he raised his hands and shouted, "Bansho Ten'in!"
And suddenly a strong force started to act on Jiraiya making him fly towards Tendo Pain.
However, Jiraiya was prepared this time, and he immediately shouted, "Ranjishigami no Jutsu!"
In an instant, Jiraiya's hair grew, split into several strands, and was firmly nailed on the ground, stopping his body from flying towards Tendo Pain.
Seeing that his attack failed to bring Jiraiya towards him, Tendo Pain shook his hand, and two black rods slid down through his sleeves and were caught in his hand.
Holding these black sticks Tendo Pain slowly walked towards Jiraiya, at the same time… one after another… several silhouettes fell from the sky surrounding Jiraiya at the center.
Jiraiya looked at the faces of these silhouettes and his face changed drastically.
'These five are…' – A total of five people fell from the sky and counting Tendo Pain approaching him, there were a total of six people… and each of them had the same ripple pattern eye, each of them had a Rinnegan pair.
Whoosh… Whoosh… Whoosh… Whoosh… Whoosh… Whoosh…
With the sound of breaking wind, all six-pain rushed towards Jiraiya with Black Rods in their hands.
A battle between Jiraiya and Pain Rikudo broke out… This was undoubtedly the most overwhelming battle he had ever fought… within just a few breaths he was knocked out.
Whether it was 'Choodama Rasengan', 'Senpo: Goemon', or some other techniques, none of them worked, the ninjutsu were all absorbed by one of them, while Taijutsu battle against six at the same time was proving to be extremely difficult even for Jiraiya in the Sennin Mode as all of them can share each other's vision.
In just a few short minutes, Jiraiya was kicked heavily and flew out.
Shisui wanted to help but was unable to do so as a constant rain of explosive tags kept coming at him.
Looking at Jiraiya with disdain, Pain said, "Jiraiya-sensei, you cannot defeat me… I am God!"
Boom…
At this moment, Kakashi and Guy rushed out of the smoke, and behind them several multiheaded dogs. NO matter what they did, there was simply no method to kill the dog, although they did manage to resolve the other Kuchiyose, that wasn't the case with this dog.
Pain turned to glance at Kakashi and Guy who were running from the multiheaded dogs and said lightly, "Ah… the other rats are also here, although I am wondering where the last member of your team, that is Hyuga Kuroto, has gone, but anyway… I will first get rid of all of you at once then go after him, I really have some questions for him that I would like to get answers to."
Even if they have realized that the visions of Pain Rikudo are connected, neither of them could pose a resistance… Might Guy after opening Hachimon Tonkou posed some resistance, but it wasn't strong enough to subdue Pain Rikudo.
Seeing that none could defeat Pain Rikudo, Jiraiya felt guilty, 'He was responsible for guiding the child… and he failed…"
Each Pain stretched out a Black Rod, pointing at the heads of several shinobi, and said, "It's over for all of you…"
And with that, he brought down his hands…
Everyone closed their eyes, as they all knew that without a doubt, they will all die, and accepted their fate, accepting their death…
A second passed, another second passed, and more and one more, but the expected pain did not come… the expected death did not come…
Confused they opened their eyes and checked the situation, only to notice that all six Pain have fallen to the ground and inexplicably lost consciousness at the same moment.
Thud… Thud… Thud… Thud… Thud… Thud…
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Chapter 361: Chapter – 356 The Puppeteer behind the Puppets
In a dark room with no light, Kuroto who was currently in his Yama disguise retracted his hands from the wooden mechanical walker.
At the same time, at the place where Kuroto initially pressed his hands, a series of sealing symbols spread out, and further covered the surroundings.
This wooden mechanical walker is exactly the device to which the leader of the Akatsuki Organization, Uzumaki Nagato is affixed, curtesy to his immobility because of his leg injury and from here he controls the Pain Rikudo.
Lifting his head, Yama glanced at the body of Nagato. Nagato had the same red hair as Karin symbolizing Nagato's Uzumaki descent, but contrary to a healthy Uzumaki body, Nagato's body is greatly emaciated, although not as thin and frail as Yama remembers from the Canon, weak nonetheless.
Nagato is extremely skinny with skeletal structure clearly protruding and visible to the naked eye… it seemed as if he has been suffering from malnutrition for years now.
But Yama knows that what Nagato has been suffering from is much worse compared to just Malnutrition.
Then there are many Kuroki Jushinki (Black Receivers) embedded in his back and are the primary cause of Nagato's body being emaciated.
In the face of the sudden appearance of the other party behind him, Nagato did not panic.
He glanced at the 'Shisho Fuin' (Four-Symbols Seal) that has spread over from the mechanical walker all the way to his body, then turned his head with disdain and anger to look behind him…
Looking back, he noticed a person dressed in an outfit that although he has never seen before, is extremely familiar with that person based on the intelligence collected by the Akatsuki Organization.
While Nagato was looking, the other party's body was covered in a Cyan Chakra Cloak, and there was only one guess in his mind, "You are… leader of Amatsukami… Yama?"
"..." – Yama did not reply to Nagato, after turning on his Tenseigan Chakra Mode he brought out 'Gudodama' (Truth-Seeking Balls).
About a minute or so before Jiraiya, Shisui, Kakashi and Guy were about to be killed by Pain Rikudo, Yama had discovered the exact location of Nagato, however, when it came to sneak attack and finish Nagato in one shot, Yama noticed that the location around which Nagato was hiding was embedded with multiple Kuroki Jushinki (Black Receivers) as well as several sealing techniques, which formed a spherical induction sphere around Nagato that helps him sense his all chakra fluctuations around his surroundings to the utmost degree.
In such a condition if there appeared even the slightest of chakra fluctuations, then it would have been noticed by Nagato. So, Yama was left with no choice, he gave up on directly using the Golden wheel Reincarnation Explosion because the formation of 'Gudodama' (Truth-Seeking Balls) will cause high chakra fluctuations which would alert Nagato.
He decided to sneak inside the building while continuing to use the Chakra Suppression Technique and then sealed Nagato's Chakra with the paper seal of 'Shisho Fuin' (Four-Symbols Seal), he had prepared beforehand.
Of course, Yama doesn't expect 'Shisho Fuin' (Four-Symbols Seal) to be able to completely subdue Nagato, as long as it can seal Nagato's for as much as fifteen seconds then that would be enough for Yama to condense Golden Sword out of 'Gudodama'
At this time, Yama's body was covered with a Cyan Chakra cloak and Gudodama were circling at his back, looking at these changes Nagato's disdainful expression changed into a horror one. He could feel the danger emanating from those Black Balls.
A sense of crisis that he hasn't felt for such a long time suddenly emerged in his heart, he immediately got into action, one hand was put on the Fuin symbols while the other towards Yama.
The first hand absorbed all the Fuin symbols through, 'Fujutsu Kyuin' (Blocking Technique Absorption Seal), thus giving him access to his chakra, which he used directed towards his right hand and shouted, 'Shinra Tensei!'
'Shinra Tensei!' – Yama also raised his right hand and used the same Jutsu.
Boom… Boom… Boom…
Instantly two explosively large repulsive forces of nearly equal magnitude collided against each other… The point of collision even appeared to be distorted and blackish, as if space was about to tear at that part but it was just extreme compression of air.
However, the change in pressure and impact was so severe that the surroundings all distorted then blew up because of the change in pressure of the system (a bit of physics not, the gaming reincarnation system).
Nagato was taken aback… his face became more solemn.
Even Yama's expression under the mask was not so good.
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Back to the side of fallen Pain Rikudo.
Looking at the Pain Rikudo who have fallen to the ground as if in an unconscious state, everybody was a bit confused.
Whether it was Shisui, Jiraiya, Fukasaku Shima, Kakashi, or Guy they all looked at each other hoping to get an answer for the sudden strangeness.
A few seconds before all of them were so close to death but out of the blue situation reversed, however, they are now in another predicament as it is very difficult to determine the exact cause of such a situation reversal.
Shisui was of course different from everyone, he knew exactly what was going on… the fact that Pain Rikudo has stopped functioning and fallen to the ground helpless must mean that Yama has made his move, as for whether the result would be a success or a failure is hard to figure out for him at this point.
At this moment Guy jumped off the ground with a Kip-Up and stepped forward to check the body of Shurado Pain, which was apparently closest to him.
The body of Shurado Pain was also covered with multiple Kuroki Jushinki, and the body was also cold with a pale skin texture… it was not too hard to determine that it was nothing but a corpse.
Shocked, Guy once again confirmed, then said to the rest, "There is no physical injury on the body… it's just that…"
Kakashi questioned, "Just what…?"
Guy said, "It's a corpse… whoever he was, has been dead for a very long time… there is no pulse, no heartbeat… no breathing… there are no signs of lives, even the body temperature is cold…"
Everyone can't help but be more confused by what Guy said they all got up from the ground, looked at the other five Pain with vigilance then at the various Kuchiyose.
All the Kuchiyose have suddenly stopped moving or attacking everyone, they were also affected in the same way as the Pain Rikudo who have suddenly stopped functioning and have been standing still in their positions, as if they are in a daze, then disappeared one after another leaving behind nothing but white smoke.
At this time, one shinobi ran towards the crowd. Everyone raised their heads to see who he was and sighed in relief after realizing that he was not an enemy.
Shisui was the first one to ask, "Kuroto-san, did you find anyone?"
Yup, it was Kuroto who came towards them… or not exactly Kuroto… this person is actually Sandaime Kazekage Puppet who is now covering up for Kuroto's absence.
The reason why it is difficult to distinguish him is that Kuroto has used 'Shoten no Jutsu' (Shape-Shifting Jutsu) on Kazekage Puppet similar to how Pain used this Jutsu on two of Suna Jonin to transform into Uchiha Itachi and Hoshigaki Kisame in the canon during Gaara Rescue Mission arc.
And Kuroto doesn't even need to worry about remotely controlling this puppet as he has already practiced this technique with Kazekage countless times so Kazekage can perfectly imitate Kuroto'
Shisui is of course aware of this, therefore, he spoke to Kuroto without any hesitation.
Kuroto shook his head, "Nothing I did not find any of the two, neither Nii Yugito nor Samui…"
Everyone nodded then focused on Rikudo Pain.
For a brief moment, Jiraiya looked up and found that Konan was no longer there after sighing he focused his attention on Pain Rikudo.
Jiraiya spoke, "Hyuga Kuroto, can you confirm whether these six are corpses or not? Or something strange within their bodies that is worthy of attention…"
Kuroto nodded and activated his Byakugan, as asked by Jiraiya he carefully studied the six corpses one by one… after a few seconds of analysis, he said, "There is no heartbeat, pulse, breathing, none of their other autonomy is functioning… even, not even chakra formation, so they are indeed all corpses… but…"
Jiraiya raised an eye at Kuroto's emphasis, and asked, "But what…?"
"Well, there is no cell degradation or bacteria breeding… so I would say that although these bodies are all corpses, they are not disintegrating… there is one more thing, although these bodies are not producing chakra on their own, there are traces of chakra being present within them… what's stranger is that the chakra signatures in all six corpses are exactly the same…" – Kuroto said.
Kakashi questioned, "But how is that even possible? How can six different people have the same chakra signatures?"
At this time, Jiraiya shook his head, and spoke as if he has just realized something, "No… actually, it is possible…" – After a pause, he questioned Kuroto, "Look more carefully, there has to be something more you will find…"
Kuroto said, "Well, there is no need to look, the last thing that seems odd is the arrangements of those piercings… well aside from the facial piercings, the majority of the other black piercings are in the key nodes in the chakra pathway of a human… but because these bodies are not producing chakra on their own, and yet they have chakra, I would say that these piercings are the cause of chakra flowing through them… and with the way these piercings are arranged in all six of them, it can only mean that…"
Shisui continued, "It can only mean that these are some sort of Chakra receivers…"
Kakashi, Jiraiya, Fukasaku, Shima, and Kuroto nodded, on the other hand, Guy was looking at them with a confused expression… and asked, "So? What does that mean?"
Kakashi explained, "It means that these are all puppets… being controlled by a seventh person… those piercings are what gives them chakra as they are all chakra receivers… and up until now we were only fighting against mere puppets, the true person behind them, the person we are up against is a Puppeteer, a very good one at that, he is very skillfully hiding somewhere…"
Jiraiya nodded, "For some time I have been thinking about some things… it was difficult to remember at first, especially with all those changes that have happened to them, but when I thought about it deeply and analyzed all the information we have up until now… I can conclude that all six of them are people I have met at some part of my journey… At the same time, I have also figured out who is the person behind all of them… who is the real Pain…"
Fukasaku questioned, "And who is the real Pain…?"
Jiraiya looked down with sadness and muttered ever so slowly, "The Puppeteer behind these puppets is… Nagato… the person I believed to be the 'Child of Prophecy'."
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