Does It Hurt? But... My Pain Is Far Greater Than Yours!!
[Fourth Kazekage Rasa: "Real men never go looking for women!"]
[Zabuza Momochi: "Hiss∽ Do they go looking for men instead?"]
[Zabuza Momo-shiro: "Lord Zabuza (ᐡっ ̫ •̥⸝⸝ᐡ)"]
[Kakashi Hatake: "Wait, you guys..."]
[Sasuke Uchiha: "Heh, listen up. You're Pain from the Akatsuki, right? If the mood strikes me..."]
[Pain: "What are you trying to say?"]
[Sasuke Uchiha: "To beat you, I only need one finger. No matter what you do, you won't be able to touch my forehead!"]
The scene continued.
Hinata struggled weakly to her feet,
gasping for breath as her eyes gradually began to lose focus.
Even so, she continued to drag herself forward, one difficult step at a time...
Thud.
Her strength finally gave out, and she fell heavily to the ground,
yet her eyes remained fixed on Naruto in the distance.
Then,
Hinata struggled to her feet once more, her face covered in blood and no longer recognizable.
"Hinata, don't come any closer!"
Naruto couldn't bear to watch and shouted at her.
But Hinata kept moving forward as if she hadn't heard him.
In her mind,
all the things Naruto had taught her kept coming back to her.
This time,
it was her turn to protect Naruto. No matter what, she couldn't fail...
Just as she was getting close to Naruto, Hinata's legs gave out again, and she fell to the ground.
Unable to stand, she slowly crawled forward...
Pain watched her, a complicated look flashing in his eyes.
Hinata crawled forward inch by inch,
until she was almost close enough to reach Naruto.
"I don't understand... With so little strength, why do you still oppose me?" Pain asked, looking puzzled.
But
Hinata didn't answer. She merely raised both hands with difficulty and gripped the Black Rods beside Naruto.
"Why do you keep fighting?"
"When you know you'll die..."
Pain's voice carried a trace of complicated emotion.
Hinata pulled with all her might, but the Black Rods didn't budge.
"I keep my word and never give up..."
Hinata spoke weakly, her voice faint but unwavering.
At that moment,
Naruto, who had kept his head lowered, slowly raised it, his eyes full of shock.
"Because that's my Ninja Way!"
The moment she finished speaking, a force swept Hinata high into the air.
Naruto looked up helplessly, his eyes filled with despair.
Hinata's body spun uncontrollably in the air, and she was utterly powerless to resist.
Pain swept his hand sharply downward,
and Hinata plummeted like a meteor, slamming into the ground.
"Boom!"
The ground shook violently.
Pain then walked slowly forward,
gripped the Black Rods tightly, and drove them mercilessly into Hinata's abdomen.
Naruto watched the cruel scene before him,
his eyes were strangely calm,
so calm it was frightening...
"That's exactly how it was... My parents were also killed by you Konoha Ninja, right before my eyes."
Pain's voice was flat.
But Naruto didn't look at him at all.
His gaze remained fixed on Hinata, on the tragic sight of her death...
"It is because there is love... that sacrifice and hatred are born, and that we can know pain!"
Naruto's eyes gradually became bloodshot, his once-clear blue pupils turning blood red.
"Thump, thump, thump..."
Naruto's heartbeat began to race, as if it would burst through his chest.
"Yes, know pain."
Pain watched the scene before him, his eyes still calm.
"Boom!"
In an instant,
a violent hurricane surged up from beneath Konoha,
and the surrounding buildings were buffeted until they threatened to collapse.
From the ground,
a blood-red beam of light shot straight into the sky, piercing the clouds and reaching high into the air!
"That's..." Sakura's pupils contracted sharply at the sight.
Looking at Naruto's terrifying form before him,
Pain's eyes unexpectedly flashed with satisfaction.
"Do you hate me?"
In the distance,
the blood-red afterimage continued to expand...
"Is this the Nine-Tails' power?" Pain's eyes were full of surprise.
The red afterimage, like a frenzied beast,
began tearing wildly at the surrounding hurricane.
Pain's cloak flapped fiercely in the gale.
"It seems Naruto and the Nine-Tails have begun responding to each other because of his anger..."
Naruto slowly rose to his feet.
His body began to undergo a strange transformation,
and he soon became a blood-red beast!!!
The blood-red beast's body continued to swell,
and it took on more and more of a Tailed Beast's form.
"Whoosh!!!"
A fierce hurricane swept across the land with Naruto at its center.
Pain spun through the air several times,
then landed steadily on the ground.
He immediately unleashed Shinra Tensei, trying to block the terrifying attack.
Seeing this, Naruto stretched out his arm and instantly lifted a great number of stones.
The stones rose in irregular patterns,
and the visual style of the whole scene became increasingly bizarre!
Pain watched the mass of stones falling before him like rain,
breaking apart,
his eyes filled with particular caution.
But he wouldn't fear them. After all, he considered himself a god!
[Mizukage Mei Terumi: "Is this the power of the Nine-Tails, the strongest of the Nine Tailed Beasts...?"]
[Fourth Kazekage Rasa: "Holy crap, that's insanely powerful..."]
[Deidara: "Don't panic. Our leader can definitely beat him!"]
[Hidan: "That's right, there's no need to panic at all!"]
[Hashirama Senju: "This is really making me angry. Come on, Nine-Tails, do your best to kill this Pain!!"]
The scene continued.
The Nine-Tails threw back his head and roared, his body spinning as he slammed into a pile of massive rocks.
"Aaagh!!!"
Pain let out a shout,
dodging several massive rocks while raising a hand to blast numerous others apart.
The smoke slowly cleared,
and another enormous rock came hurtling toward him from afar. Pain immediately raised his hand to block it.
The next moment,
the Nine-Tails charged in and smashed a fist into Pain's face.
Pain was sent flying through the air,
and countless stones came crashing down on him.
Pain tried to retreat and dodge,
but he couldn't react in time, and a stone struck him in the head.
"Boom, boom, boom!!"
His body sank deeper and deeper,
until he was embedded in the ground with only his head sticking out.
"Do you hate me?"
Seeing the power in the distance continue to grow,
Pain broke free of the rocks and leaped onto one of them.
"Even after this, do you still believe people can truly understand one another?"
Dark clouds churned overhead,
thunder rumbled,
lightning flashed,
and bones began to grow on the Nine-Tails' body.
The heavens and earth changed color in an instant!
The wind howled. Pain looked at the scene and nodded.
"That's right... But...
My pain is far greater than yours!!!!"
Pain recalled the past, pulled back his fist, and smashed it into the ground.
"Boom!!!!"
The strike broke through to Konoha's groundwater, and water erupted in torrents.
The immense water pressure generated clouds of steam,
which rapidly swept toward the distant Nine-Tails.
[Konoha Anbu: "Holy crap, Konoha's groundwater got blasted right out of the ground..."]
[Ōnoki: "Awesome!!!"]
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