[Tsunade: "Isn't that fighting power way too ridiculous...?"]
[Zabuza Momochi: "Are you kidding me? That's the Nine-Tails, the strongest of the Nine Tailed Beasts!!"]
[Mizukage Mei Terumi: "This Pain really intends to take the Nine-Tails head-on? That's insane!"]
The footage continued.
Pain's figure flickered in and out of sight amid billowing steam.
"Here I go!"
Pain stepped onto the water's surface,
and shot into the distance like an arrow from a bow!!
In the distance, blood-red arms burst violently through the water.
Pain moved in a spiral,
dodging the grasp of several blood-red arms
as he leaped swiftly into the distance.
After he rounded a wall, the arms remained hot on his heels.
Pain raced ahead,
and when he saw the blood-red arms reaching for him, he leaped decisively into the air.
In an instant,
the Nine-Tails' arms smashed the entire mountaintop to pieces.
Pain lay prone on the ground, both hands extended in front of him.
In the billowing smoke ahead,
several Tailed Beast Bullets came flying out like cannonballs. (In the original, the Nine-Tails fired bright red shells, not Tailed Beasts.)
"Boom, boom, boom, boom!"
Shinra Tensei unfolded in front of Pain, blocking several attacks.
The aftershocks of the Tailed Beast Bullets struck the rocks behind him,
causing them to crumble violently.
Pain watched the Tailed Beast Bullets turn to ash and dissipate before him,
then let out a disdainful sneer.
"Hmph, is that all you've got...?"
However,
the moment Pain finished speaking, his expression froze.
"Bang!"
From the billowing smoke in the distance,
several more fireballs, red as blood, shot out.
He had just used Shinra Tensei,
and the skill still had five seconds left on its cooldown, so he could only find a way to dodge.
"Boom!"
The entire surface of the sea exploded, sending Pain flying high into the air before he quickly landed.
"You've got some tricks..." Pain raised a hand and aimed it into the distance.
At that moment, the Nine-Tails' chakra was still gathering.
Using repulsive force,
Pain instantly sliced the supporting foundation above the Nine-Tails in half.
With the foundation gone, the rocks came crashing down, trapping the Nine-Tails at sea level.
But in the very next second, the Nine-Tails stretched out his body and burst straight through the rocks.
Pain immediately pulled out the Black Rods and raced toward the Nine-Tails.
"Boom!"
Deafening explosions rang out one after another,
and the whole scene looked especially eerie, like an ink-wash painting...
The Nine-Tails' body kept expanding, instantly pulverizing a mass of rocks.
Just then,
the necklace on Naruto's chest suddenly burst with green light.
As though alive, the green light quickly wrapped around Naruto.
But by now, Naruto had been completely consumed by rage.
"It's a Sealing Jutsu..."
Pain looked into the distance, his gaze cold.
The next second, Naruto crushed the necklace in his hand.
"The seal has been broken..." Pain trailed off.
The Nine-Tails plummeted from high above.
"Here he comes..." Pain's expression grew especially cautious.
The Nine-Tails vanished from where he stood in an instant,
his speed stirring up the entire sea surface
and sending the violent currents into a frenzy.
So fast! Pain was startled.
He stood on a small rock,
while the Nine-Tails churned up the sea around him,
forming a vast expanse of water
that surged like a tsunami,
washing over the rocks tumbling below.
Pain swayed, constantly looking around.
In the distance, several arms burst from the sea and came flying at him.
Pain raised a hand to block the attack,
but soon,
one of the Nine-Tails' outstretched arms smashed the rock beneath him with a punch.
"Shinra Tensei!!"
With nothing left to brace himself against, Pain had no choice but to use the technique.
"Boom!"
A powerful repulsive force surged outward,
forcibly parting the surrounding seawater.
[Ōnoki: "The fighting power of these two is way too ridiculous..."]
[Hiruzen Sarutobi: "Is this the power of the Nine-Tails...?"]
[Deidara: "Holy crap, our boss is going to win, right?"]
[Hidan: "He'll win!"]
The footage continued.
Several of the Nine-Tails' arms suddenly reached out of the seawater.
In the blink of an eye,
the Nine-Tails extended a huge hand and grabbed Pain by the face.
Immediately afterward, several more tails burst out of the ground.
Pain hurriedly stretched out both hands,
struggling to push the Nine-Tails' hand away.
His eyes were full of anger as he followed up with a kick at the Nine-Tails.
However,
in the next second,
Pain's expression froze.
The Nine-Tails actually resisted Shinra Tensei's repulsive force and forced his way forward.
"Impossible. He can actually resist Shinra Tensei..."
Pain gritted his teeth, his face full of disbelief.
Soon,
his body flew backward out of control,
throwing up huge sprays of water as he crashed across the sea's surface!
After being tossed about,
Pain's body slammed heavily into a distant mountain and rolled along it.
In the blink of an eye, his body was embedded in the mountainside.
Meanwhile,
countless rocks rained down from high above, striking his body.
Just then,
the Nine-Tails surfaced from the water and began gathering energy in his mouth, preparing to form a Tailed Beast Bomb.
[Second Mizukage Gengetsu Hozuki: "The aftershocks of their clash shattered the mountaintop. They're so strong..."]
[Mizukage Mei Terumi: "Indeed, they're absurdly strong. Both of them have probably reached the super Kage level, haven't they?"]
[Sakura Haruno: "I never imagined a monster like that was sealed inside Naruto..."]
[Boruto Uzumaki: "...Did Dad have it that rough when he was little?"]
The footage continued.
The Tailed Beast Bomb took shape,
and the entire sea began to boil violently!
Just then,
a hand suddenly emerged from the ground, and both hands clapped together.
"Banshō Ten'in!!!"
Pain emerged from below, his upper body exposed,
and quickly sent a massive boulder flying high into the air. The boulder then plummeted down.
The boulder pinned the Nine-Tails firmly against the sea's surface.
Immediately afterward, the violent Tailed Beast Bomb exploded!
In an instant,
the entire ground was engulfed in dazzling white light.
Under the intense heat, the sea rapidly evaporated, boiling furiously.
A fierce wind battered Pain's upper body, and he stumbled and fell to the ground.
Looking at the thick smoke spreading in the distance,
Pain quickly freed himself from the rocks and leaped high into the air.
At that moment,
he had only one thought:
he had to capture the Nine-Tails, no matter what!
Just then, a multitude of the Nine-Tails' tails suddenly emerged from the ground.
Half of Pain's clothes had been torn apart, leaving him looking rather battered.
"The power of the Nine-Tails really is formidable..."
Pain looked at the tails in the distance and the Nine-Tails, who was emerging from the ground, and muttered to himself.
Without hesitation, Pain raced into the distance.
He planned to use that technique...
to seal the Nine-Tails!
"Boom!"
The Nine-Tails strained and burst through the rocks,
sending great clouds of steam billowing upward as the entire sea rapidly began to disappear.
Pain sped toward a canyon between the distant mountains,
with the seawater stirred up by the Nine-Tails behind him
pursuing him like a raging wave.
Pain moved faster and faster,
his cold gaze fixed on the Nine-Tails in the distance.
A steep cliff lay ahead.
Without the slightest hesitation, Bro Chao
leaped down to the ground and instantly pressed his palms together.
His movements alternated between fast and slow,
and his body feinted from time to time.
Soon,
Pain stood on a tree branch
and began carefully surveying the surrounding terrain.
(This fight was quite a classic in the original. If you're interested, you can check it out.)
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