Sage Naruto vs. Deva Path! The Battle Grows Tense!

[Uchiha Izuna: "He's so fast. Even if I activated my Mitsudomoe, I wouldn't be able to react..."]

[Sarada Uchiha: "That's the Seventh Hokage for you!!!"]

[Minato Namikaze: "Does that mean... Naruto will become Hokage in the future?"]

[Konoha civilian: "Seriously? He's that amazing?"]

[Mask vendor: "Hahaha, I knew that kid would amount to something!"]

(This book isn't going down the conspiracy-theory route. Danzo takes the blame for everything. Tag me if you spot any bugs, and I'll fix them!)

[Naruto Uzumaki: "I-is that true?!"]

[Naruto Uzumaki: "@Boruto Uzumaki (young adult) Dad, did you see that? I'm going to be Hokage!!"]

[Boruto Uzumaki: "No, no, no, you're my dad..."]

[Naruto Uzumaki: "Huh? I'm your dad?"]

[Naruto Uzumaki (young adult): "Was I really that clueless as a kid..."]

[Sasuke Uchiha (young adult): "Heh..."]

[Minato Namikaze: "Naruto, what are you talking about? I'm your father!!!"]

[Kushina Uzumaki: "And I'm your mother!!!"]

The footage continued.

The people of Konoha

looked at Naruto in the distance.

He had defeated one of the Pains with a single blow, instantly shocking everyone!

"Naruto's way too strong..."

There was surprise in Gamabunta's voice.

"Grandpa, did you see those two familiar figures from behind..."

Sage Fukasaku chuckled. "Yes, it seems little Naruto has surpassed his predecessors..."

"Naruto Uzumaki..." Pain said.

"Let's finish this!!!" Naruto cut Pain off.

The atmosphere abruptly grew tense.

Pain had just used Super Shinra, and his chakra had yet to recover.

"In that case..."

Four of the Paths of Pain quickly gathered around Deva Path to protect him.

Naruto's eyes blazed with anger. "Gamakichi! Take Granny Tsunade somewhere safe first!"

"Got it!"

Naruto looked at Tsunade resolutely and said,

"Granny, I'll take care of this from here.

Tell everyone in the village to stay out of it. It'll be harder for me to fight if I have to protect everyone at the same time!"

Tsunade was silent for a moment, then handed Katsuyu to him. "Take her. She might be of some use. She has information on those guys..."

Naruto nodded, and Katsuyu crawled onto his shoulder.

"Though maybe I shouldn't be asking this right now,

I can absorb Natural Energy and sense everyone's chakra now. Where's Kakashi-sensei?"

Naruto asked curiously.

Tsunade still didn't answer, and Naruto's eyes grew angrier.

"I see... Let's go, Gamakichi!"

In the distance, Animal Path crouched with one hand on the ground

and promptly summoned a giant rhinoceros.

The rhinoceros charged out of the smoke.

Naruto immediately raised both hands,

caught the rhinoceros by the nose, and hurled it into the sky!

"Summoning Technique!"

Animal Path slapped both hands against the ground again.

Several more summons appeared in the smoke in the distance.

Seeing this, the two sages immediately leaped high into the air.

"Sage Art: Frog Song!"

The toads' Genjutsu swept over them, and two summons fell silent.

"Shadow Clone Technique!"

Naruto formed Hand Seals with both hands,

summoning two Shadow Clones.

At the same time, they held their hands behind them and began forming Rasengan.

His original body charged forward,

while the two Shadow Clones sent the summons flying with Rasengan in hand!

These Rasengan were much more powerful than before!

"Little Bunta, little Ken, little Hiro!" Sage Fukasaku called anxiously.

The three toads nodded and rushed to support Naruto.

At that moment,

Demon Path charged over, pulling a black rod from his sleeve.

"Naruto, Ninjutsu won't work on this Pain in front of you!

He'll absorb every Ninjutsu attack!" Katsuyu warned.

"Is that so? Then I'll use Frog Kata!"

Naruto nodded and punched Demon Path in the face.

The next second, Demon Path said,

"Pain's eyes are connected. Attacks from a blind spot are meaningless unless you get out of everyone's sight!"

Naruto did several backflips to put some distance between them.

"Then I'll show them an attack they can't see!"

Gamabunta promptly kicked the hellhound above him away.

Gamaken swung his steel fork and slammed a rhinoceros into the ground.

Hiro swung his twin blades, pinned the rhinoceros in front of him to the ground, and pounded it.

At that moment,

Naruto used his invisible fist

and quickly sent Demon Path flying into the distance!

The three toads also quickly dealt with Pain's summons!

Bang, bang, bang!

Three clouds of smoke began to rapidly dissipate. Only the hellhound was still struggling in its death throes.

"I clearly dodged it, yet this still happened..."

Seeing this, Pain's eyes turned cold as he began considering a countermeasure.

Sage Fukasaku watched the scene in the distance and smiled in satisfaction.

"Frog Kata makes use of the Natural Energy surrounding the user.

That energy becomes a part of Naruto..."

"Sage Mode's heightened perception of danger and increased attack range are beyond what an ordinary person can match!"

"There's no time to waste. Let's settle this in one shot with the new Ninjutsu!"

Naruto's two summoned Shadow Clones said.

Pain watched the scene in the distance, his eyes cold.

"I see. Have you become a sage? You've learned the same Ninjutsu as Jiraiya-sensei..."

"Did you say Jiraiya-sensei?" Naruto asked.

"I also learned Ninjutsu from Jiraiya-sensei.

Jiraiya was once my teacher. That makes me your senior. We learned from the same master, so we should be able to understand each other!"

"Master always hoped for peace..."

"Bastard, what kind of joke is that!!!"

Naruto cut Pain off, raising a Rasenshuriken in his hand.

Granny Shima saw the scene in the distance and spoke in shock.

"What powerful chakra! Did you teach him that?"

Sage Fukasaku sounded just as shocked.

"No, this is my first time seeing anything like that... It never appeared even once during training. What is little Naruto trying to do?"

The people of Konoha also looked down in shock.

"You're the ones who did all this! Where's the peace in any of it?!"

Naruto's eyes were filled with anger.

"You see a tree but not the forest. You simply don't understand the meaning of peace..." Pain said.

[Hashirama Senju: "Enough. You'll never achieve peace by using violence to fight violence!"]

[Tobirama Senju: "Big brother, you're too naive..."]

[Madara Uchiha: "Hashirama, I told you back then that as long as you kept all the Tailed Beasts under the village's control, there would be no war in the Shinobi World..."]

[Hashirama Senju: "But..."]

[Uchiha Fugaku: "First Hokage, Lord Madara has a point..."]

[Sasuke Uchiha: "Enough. All of you, shut up. I'm trying to watch the video and study the techniques carefully. Don't bother me!"]

[Deidara: "Holy shit, who are you? Talking so arrogantly! Yeah!"]

[Sasuke Uchiha: "I'm the one who'll kill you, whenever the mood strikes me..."]

[Deidara: "You think you're worthy? If you kill me, I'll eat it, yeah!!!"]

[Hidan: "Then I'll eat it too!"]

[Sasori: "Two idiots, sigh..."]

[Kisame Hoshigaki: "That'd be pretty good..."]

(You're so good-looking, surely you'll give me some free support out of love, right? (ó﹏ò｡) )