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0:00Rain hammered the roof of the black
0:01transport wagon as it crossed the
0:03western border of the land of fire.
0:05Seven-year-old Naruto sat on the floor
0:08with his wrists tied in front of him. A
0:10strip of sealing paper was pressed
0:13against his stomach. The men around him
0:16wore blank masks and spoke as if he were
0:19a crate that might explode. They had
0:21told him that the Hokage had approved
0:24his transfer. They had also told him
0:26that the village would be safer once he
0:29was gone. Naruto had stopped asking
0:31where they were taking him. Every answer
0:33sounded prepared before he opened his
0:35mouth. The wagon reached a narrow bridge
0:38between two cliffs. A sheet of white
0:40paper struck the lead guard in the
0:41throat.
0:43It folded around his mask, hardened like
0:45steel, and threw him into the river
0:47below.
0:48The bridge vanished beneath a storm of
0:50paper wings. Red-haired puppets dropped
0:53from the ropes on hidden wires and drove
0:55poisoned blades through the rear escort
0:58before the root shinobi could form a
0:59defense. Naruto pressed himself against
1:02the wall as the wagon overturned.
1:05The sealing paper on his stomach burned.
1:07Orange chakra leaked through his shirt
1:10and spread across his arms. One of the
1:11attackers landed beside the broken
1:13wheel. She had blue hair, a paper flower
1:16above one ear, and a black cloak marked
1:18with red clouds. Konan had expected
1:21weapons, documents, or prisoners from
1:24the small nations Danzo had been
1:25raiding. She had not expected Konoha's
1:28jinchuriki.
1:30The remaining root captain reached for
1:32Naruto.
1:33A metal puppet tail pierced the bridge
1:35between them.
1:36Sasori stood on the cliff above, her
1:39fingers moving with cold precision.
1:42The captain cut the tail aside and
1:44formed a wind blade, but the clouds over
1:46the bridge twisted inward. A woman with
1:49orange hair and strange ringed eyes
1:52descended through the rain. The pressure
1:54of her chakra pushed every surviving
1:56fighter to one knee. Pain looked at
1:58Naruto, then at the seal on his stomach.
2:01She understood the value of the child
2:03before Konan spoke. The Root Captain
2:06tried to destroy the wagon and everyone
2:08near it. Pain lifted one hand. The
2:11bridge groaned and the captain flew
2:14backward as if the air itself had struck
2:16him. Sasori's second puppet caught him
2:19before he reached the river. She needed
2:21one prisoner alive. Naruto's chakra
2:24flared again. Konan crouched in front of
2:27him and removed the burning suppression
2:29tag. She kept her movements slow, though
2:31the heat from the fox chakra blistered
2:33the edges of her paper wings. Naruto
2:36watched her hands.
2:38No one from the village had ever moved
2:40carefully around him unless they feared
2:42what he might do. Pain ordered Konan to
2:44secure the boy. A living jinchuriki
2:47could force Konoha to think before
2:49sending soldiers into the Land of Rain.
2:51A dead child would release a beast they
2:53could not control and summon every great
2:56village to their border. Konan said they
2:58would decide his fate after reaching
3:00Amegakure.
3:02Naruto found enough courage to speak.
3:04His voice shook harder than the wagon
3:06beneath him. Do not take me back. Konan
3:09paused. Naruto stared at the broken
3:12bridge rather than at her.
3:14He said the people in Konoha already
3:16wanted him gone. If the masked man
3:18returned without him, most of the
3:20village would probably sleep better.
3:22Pain heard every word. Her expression
3:25did not soften, but she changed the
3:27order.
3:28Naruto would be kept alive, fed,
3:30watched, and trained only when she gave
3:33permission. No one was allowed to damage
3:35the seal or experiment on the beast
3:37inside him.
3:39Sasori asked who would be responsible if
3:41the child destroyed a base. Pain looked
3:43at Konan.
3:44That was how Naruto Uzumaki entered
3:47Akatsuki, not as a recruit and not as a
3:50son. He entered as a military asset
3:53assigned to the only woman in the
3:55organization who knew how to make soup.
3:57Three days later, Danzo received the
3:59last surviving Root operative beneath
4:01Konoha.
4:03The man reported that women in red cloud
4:05cloaks had taken the Jinchuriki into the
4:07land of rain. Danzo killed him before
4:10sunrise. By noon, the official record
4:13stated that Naruto had died during an
4:15uncontrolled release of the Nine-Tails
4:17Chakra. The damaged transport and
4:19several burned bodies were placed near
4:21the border as proof. Hiruzen did not
4:23accept the report. Jiraiya did not
4:26accept it, either.
4:27Danzo had arranged the route, the
4:29witnesses, and the remains too
4:31carefully.
4:32Hiruzen confronted him in private,
4:35stripped Root of its official authority,
4:37and ordered its active cells dissolved.
4:39Danzo surrendered empty offices, old
4:42rosters, and shinobi who had never seen
4:45the transport.
4:47The real Root disappeared beneath Konoha
4:50and continued to answer only to him.
4:53Jiraiya followed the Root west and found
4:55three carefully planted trails leading
4:57toward different countries. Each ended
4:59at burned equipment and dead agents who
5:01could not be questioned. For years
5:03afterward, Konoha maintained sensor
5:06teams to watch for the Nine-Tails
5:07reforming after Naruto's supposed death.
5:10The beast never appeared. That absence
5:13strengthened Hiruzen's suspicion, but it
5:15did not provide proof that could justify
5:17an invasion of Amegakure. Danzo
5:20understood that problem better than
5:22anyone. He fed Jiraiya false sightings,
5:25moved Root through private merchants,
5:28and began searching for Naruto in
5:29secret. Naruto knew nothing about the
5:32argument inside Konoha. He spent his
5:34first week in a hidden Akatsuki shelter
5:37beneath the flooded streets of
5:38Amegakure. The base had narrow
5:40corridors, iron doors, and pipes that
5:43rattled whenever the rain grew heavy.
5:45Amegakure still had a public council,
5:48tax collectors, hospital officials, and
5:51ordinary rain shinobi. The council
5:53handled markets, repairs, and disputes.
5:56Pain controlled the military decisions
5:58from behind it, while Akatsuki served as
6:01her small elite force. City taxes and
6:04river tolls paid for public defenses.
6:06Kakuzu funded the hidden bases through
6:08contracts, captured bounties, and
6:10tightly controlled trade. Most residents
6:13knew Akatsuki protected the rain.
6:15Very few knew where its members slept or
6:18why Konoha's lost child lived among
6:20them. Konan gave Naruto a small room.
6:24Pain gave him rules.
6:26Sasori inspected the seal from a
6:28distance. Kakuzu opened a ledger and
6:31began recording the cost of keeping him
6:33alive.
6:34Naruto learned very quickly that
6:36Akatsuki had no plan for children. Konan
6:39tried to create a schedule for meals,
6:41lessons, sleep, and supervision.
6:44Pain added combat training before
6:46sunrise.
6:47Kakuzu objected to the amount of food
6:49Naruto ate. Sasori said a smaller body
6:51required less material to replace if
6:53something went wrong.
6:55Konan removed Sasori from the
6:57supervision schedule for 2 weeks. On the
6:59fourth day,
7:00Naruto stole a red cloud cloak from a
7:03storage room.
7:04It was meant for an adult and dragged
7:06several feet behind him. He walked into
7:08Pain's strategy meeting with his chin
7:10raised and announced that he was now an
7:12extremely dangerous criminal. Kakuzu
7:15examined the mud on the cloak and added
7:17cleaning costs to his debt.
7:19Naruto had not known he possessed a
7:21debt. By the end of the month, the
7:24number covered three damaged doors, 14
7:26bowls, one poisoned needle trap, and a
7:29section labeled emotional damage to
7:32Kakuzu's accounting system. Naruto
7:34argued that emotional damage did not
7:36have a market value.
7:38Kakuzu spent the rest of the evening
7:41proving that it did. The strange routine
7:44made him tearless in a way he had never
7:46been in Konoha. He complained when food
7:48tasted bad. He left sandals in the
7:51corridor. He followed Konan through the
7:53base when nightmares woke him.
7:56No one smiled at him often, but no one
7:58crossed the street to avoid him either.
8:00Pain still called him the asset. Sasori
8:03called him the container. Kakuzu usually
8:06called him an expense.
8:08Then a medicine merchant arrived at the
8:09western entrance. Naruto was carrying
8:12clean bandages to Konan when he saw the
8:14man touch two fingers to his wrist, then
8:16brush his thumb across his palm.
8:19The gesture lasted less than a second.
8:22One of the masked men in the wagon had
8:23used the same signal before the attack
8:26on the bridge. Naruto told Kakuzu she
8:28was counting money from three completed
8:30contracts and did not look up. The
8:32merchant had passed two inspections,
8:35carried the correct seals, and delivered
8:36supplies to Akatsuki for nearly a year
8:39before Naruto arrived. Danzo had
8:41recruited him months earlier as a
8:43sleeping agent and activated him only
8:45after the transport vanished. The
8:47merchant did not know which shelter held
8:49Naruto. His task was to mark every
8:52Akatsuki site he could enter.
8:54Kakuzu did not know that, and she
8:56assumed the boy wanted attention because
8:58Konan was busy.
9:00Naruto followed the merchant anyway. He
9:02kept too close at first and nearly
9:04stepped into the man's shadow.
9:06Then he remembered how the root guards
9:08had moved around the wagon.
9:10They never looked directly at a person
9:13they were watching.
9:14Naruto began using reflections in wet
9:16pipes and shallow water instead. The
9:19merchant entered an unused storage
9:21tunnel.
9:22He removed three metal markers from his
9:24sleeve and fixed them beneath the
9:26drainage grates. Naruto did not
9:29understand the symbols carved into them,
9:31but he recognized the same black wax
9:33used on the suppression tag from the
9:35transport. The merchant turned before
9:37Naruto could retreat. A wire looped
9:39around Naruto's ankle and dragged him
9:42across the floor. The man reached for
9:44his throat. Naruto kicked the wall,
9:46twisted against the wire, and bit the
9:48merchant's wrist hard enough to draw
9:50blood. It was not a shinobi technique,
9:53but it bought him one breath. Orange
9:55chakra pushed through Naruto's skin. The
9:58merchant released him and reached for a
10:00ceiling spike.
10:02Naruto grabbed one of the metal markers
10:04and threw it into the water channel. The
10:06marker flashed. Somewhere beyond the
10:08base, an answering pulse moved through
10:10the rain. Sasori's puppet came through
10:13the ceiling before the merchant could
10:14strike again. Its blade stopped against
10:17his neck.
10:18Konan arrived a moment later with paper
10:20spears spread behind her.
10:22The merchant had been marking the
10:23shelter for a root tracking team. Pain
10:25ordered the base evacuated before
10:27sunset. Sasori traced the signal and led
10:30an ambush against the scouts waiting
10:31outside the city. Kakuzu recovered the
10:33medicine before leaving and charged the
10:35dead merchant for wasting her time.
10:38Naruto expected punishment for
10:40disobeying orders and entering the
10:41tunnel alone. Pain did punish him. She
10:44doubled his morning training and made
10:46him copy the base security rules until
10:49his fingers cramped. Then she informed
10:51the others that the boy had saved the
10:52shelter.
10:54That evening, Konan placed a folded
10:56bundle on Naruto's bed. Inside was a
10:58black cloak with red clouds cut to his
11:01size.
11:02It was not an official uniform. It
11:05carried no rank and gave him no freedom.
11:08Yet, Naruto wore it to dinner and
11:11refused to remove it even after spilling
11:13broth down the front. Kakuzu opened her
11:16ledger. For the first time, Sasori
11:18stopped her.
11:20The child had already paid for that
11:21cloak. Pain allowed Naruto to begin
11:24formal training after that incident. She
11:26did not do it as a reward. A weapon that
11:29could recognize danger but could not
11:31survive it was a poor investment. Konan
11:34taught him how to prepare a room before
11:36a fight.
11:37Sasori taught him to find the one object
11:39that did not belong. Kakuzu taught him
11:42that every kunai thrown without purpose
11:44was money buried in a wall.
11:46Naruto hated Kakuzu's lessons until she
11:50made him recover every weapon he had
11:52wasted during practice.
11:54After 3 hours of crawling through
11:56freezing drainage water, he started
11:58aiming more carefully. His first shadow
12:01clone appeared at the age of 10 after
12:03months of failing the ordinary clone
12:05technique. Pain had taught him the hand
12:08signs.
12:09But Naruto poured far too much chakra
12:11into every attempt. One morning, she
12:14ordered him to complete three sets of
12:16exercises before breakfast and produce a
12:18usable clone before he ate. Naruto
12:21became so angry at the impossible
12:23schedule that his overloaded technique
12:25created a solid second body instead of
12:28an illusion. Both boys stared at each
12:30other, shouted at the same time, and
12:32immediately began arguing over which one
12:35had to perform the hardest exercise.
12:37Within a week, Naruto used four clones
12:40to complete four different lessons.
12:42One trained with Konan. One copied
12:45security maps for Pain.
12:46One helped Kakuzu count supply boxes.
12:49The fourth entered Sasori's workshop and
12:52touched a puppet labeled dangerous.
12:54All four clones disappeared within the
12:56same minute.
12:57The original Naruto received their
12:59memories at once. He fell from his chair
13:01with knowledge of map routes, inventory
13:03prices, paper traps, and the exact pain
13:06caused by a mechanical hand closing
13:08around his head.
13:10Kakuzu discovered that shadow clones
13:12could carry boxes, but could not remain
13:14long enough to receive wages. From that
13:16day, she became the strongest supporter
13:19of Naruto's training.
13:20The years inside Amegakure did not make
13:22Naruto gentle. They made him observant.
13:25He learned that a smile could hide a
13:27knife and that hungry people lied
13:30differently from frightened people. He
13:32also learned that the great villages
13:34called an action criminal when a smaller
13:36nation did it first.
13:38He also learned the habits of the women
13:40around him. Konan checked every exit
13:43twice before sleeping.
13:45Sasori rebuilt damaged puppets during
13:47storms because the sound of tools
13:49disappeared beneath the thunder. Kakuzu
13:51counted money when she was worried.
13:54Pain stood on the highest tower in
13:55Amegakure whenever news arrived from the
13:57border. Naruto never asked them to
14:00become kind. He learned where their
14:02sharp edges were and stopped cutting
14:03himself on them. At 12, Pain placed him
14:06in charge of four young Rain shinobi
14:09during a training exercise.
14:11Their task was simple. Cross a flooded
14:14district, retrieve a sealed case, and
14:16return before nightfall.
14:18Naruto created 12 clones and tried to
14:21handle every part himself. The real team
14:24followed behind while his copies
14:26searched roofs, checked alleys, and
14:28carried the case. Sasori triggered one
14:30hidden trap. Half the clones vanished.
14:33Konan released a second trap across the
14:35evacuation route.
14:37The rest disappeared. Naruto stood in
14:39the middle of the street with too much
14:41information crashing through his head
14:43while his ignored teammates waited for
14:45orders he had never bothered to give.
14:48Pain ended the exercise there. She
14:50explained that command was not the art
14:53of doing every task faster. A leader had
14:56to understand what each person could do,
14:58where each person might fail, and what
15:00would happen when the original plan
15:02broke.
15:03Naruto spent the next month repeating
15:05the exercise with fewer clones and more
15:08trust. On the final attempt, he assigned
15:11the fastest shinobi to scout, the best
15:13sensor to guard the case, and the
15:15weakest member to control the return
15:17route. Naruto kept only two clones for
15:20communication.
15:22They finished before midday.
15:24Pain did not praise him.
15:26She gave him a harder exercise. That was
15:28praise from Pain. When Naruto was 13,
15:31Akatsuki gained another member. Kisame
15:34arrived from the Hidden Mist with a
15:35wrapped sword across her back and the
15:37calm expression of someone who had
15:39already decided how dangerous everyone
15:41in the room was. She had abandoned a
15:43village that treated loyalty as
15:45permission to murder subordinates.
15:48Pain offered her a place in exchange for
15:50strength and obedience. Kisame found
15:53Naruto training near one of the upper
15:55canals.
15:56She had heard that Akatsuki kept
15:58Konoha's Jinchuriki,
16:00but she expected a chained prisoner.
16:02Instead, she found a blonde boy in a red
16:05cloud cloak trying to balance on a pipe
16:08while three clones threw stones at him.
16:10She asked whether he could swim. Naruto
16:12said he could. Kisame kicked him into
16:15the canal.
16:16The current beneath Amegakure was
16:18stronger than it appeared.
16:20Naruto struck the wall, lost his breath,
16:23and sank into black water.
16:25Kisame watched from above.
16:27She had expected fox chakra or panic.
16:30Naruto used two clones instead. One
16:33pushed from below, while the other
16:34caught a maintenance ladder. The clones
16:37vanished, but the movement brought the
16:39original close enough to grab the metal
16:41rung. Naruto climbed out coughing and
16:43tried to tackle Kisame.
16:46She caught him by the forehead and held
16:47him at arm's length while he swung both
16:50fists. That evening, Naruto filled
16:53Kisame's room with water using a damaged
16:55pipe and three stolen seals.
16:58The flood reached her ankles before she
17:00noticed. She laughed so loudly that
17:02Konan heard it from the floor below.
17:05Kisame became his endurance instructor.
17:07She pushed him until his muscles failed,
17:10then taught him how to keep thinking
17:12while exhausted. She never treated him
17:14like a fragile child. Naruto respected
17:16that, even when he spent entire mornings
17:19trying to breathe underwater while she
17:20counted his mistakes.
17:22Itachi arrived the following year. By
17:25then, Danzo no longer held any lawful
17:27command in Konoha.
17:29But Root had survived as sealed cells
17:32inside the village. He used the growing
17:35conflict between the Uchiha police and
17:37Konoha's council to regain influence.
17:41Clan hardliners prepared an uprising.
17:45Root answered by striking first, killing
17:47armed conspirators and families alike,
17:50then placing the blame on Itachi. She
17:53had obeyed enough of Danzo's orders to
17:55be trapped by them. While her younger
17:57brother Sasuke remained within his
17:59reach, she entered Amegakure with a
18:02scratched leaf forehead protector, a
18:05black cloak, and a story about
18:07abandoning Konoha after the fall of the
18:09Uchiha clan. Pain accepted her skill,
18:12but did not trust her motives.
18:14Konan watched her.
18:16Sasori prepared poison for her. Kakuzu
18:18calculated the value of the bounty on
18:20her head.
18:22Naruto noticed something different.
18:24Itachi remembered every guard rotation
18:26after seeing it once. She always chose a
18:29seat with a clear view of the door.
18:31She never turned her back on the central
18:33stairwell. When rain shinobi used false
18:36patrol signals during a drill, her hand
18:38moved toward a weapon before anyone else
18:40reacted.
18:42She had entered Akatsuki under Danzo's
18:44order. Her task was to confirm that
18:47Naruto lived, locate the main base, and
18:50prepare a route for Root to retrieve
18:52him. Danzo held her younger brother's
18:54life over every decision.
18:57Naruto suspected that she was hiding
18:59something, but he said nothing. He began
19:01joining her night watches. He brought
19:03tea that was usually too sweet and sat
19:06on the opposite side of the roof. Itachi
19:08expected questions.
19:10Naruto mostly complained about Kakuzu's
19:13fees and asked whether all Leaf shinobi
19:16were taught to look as tired as she did.
19:18She gave him no useful answers. He kept
19:21returning anyway. Deidara joined
19:23Akatsuki soon after. Though joined was
19:26not the word she used. A border lord
19:28hired her to destroy an Akatsuki supply
19:31depot and recover explosive clay
19:34that had been seized from smugglers.
19:36Deidara accepted the payment then
19:38decided the depot's ugly stone walls
19:40gave her an artistic reason to finish
19:41the job.
19:43Sasori trapped her inside her own blast
19:45field. Pain offered her a choice between
19:48service and a cell beneath Amegakure.
19:51Deidara chose service and immediately
19:53began explaining why the choice had been
19:55hers.
19:56She was close enough to Naruto's age to
19:58reject every attempt he made to call her
20:01an older sister. Their first argument
20:03began when Naruto covered one of her
20:05clay birds with wet clones and ruined
20:08the detonation seal. Deidara swore that
20:11she would create an explosion he could
20:13never escape.
20:15Naruto replied that she would need to
20:17make one that worked in the rain first.
20:19Sasori watched the rivalry with the
20:21quiet satisfaction of an artist who had
20:24found free entertainment. Tobi appeared
20:27and disappeared during those years. She
20:29wore a spiral mask and acted like the
20:31least reliable member of Akatsuki.
20:34She brought Naruto useless gifts from
20:36missions including a wooden fish a
20:39broken compass
20:40and a hat wide enough to cover his
20:42entire body. She tripped during
20:44meetings, misunderstood orders, and
20:47survived accidents that should have
20:48killed her.
20:49Naruto liked her because she never
20:51treated him as a secret. Tobi spoke as
20:54if his place in Akatsuki had already
20:56been decided. Pain listened to Tobi for
20:59a different reason. Beneath the foolish
21:01behavior Tobi always knew where Root
21:04moved soldiers, where a local lord
21:06planned betrayal and where Konoha had
21:09hidden a supply route. Years of accurate
21:12intelligence had earned her a place
21:13personally approved by Pain.
21:16Though Konan recorded every route she
21:18used, and Sasori searched every gift she
21:20brought into the base.
21:22Pain knew the clumsy act was false.
21:25She believed the woman behind it was a
21:27useful informant who depended on
21:28Akatsuki for protection. Tobi encouraged
21:31Pain to train Naruto harder. She argued
21:34that a jinchuriki who never entered
21:36battle would never become useful. Tobi
21:39had been the one who leaked Naruto's
21:41transport route years earlier. She did
21:43not want the boy dead. She needed him
21:46old enough to control the nine-tails,
21:48and respected enough to command
21:50fighters, while still believing Pain's
21:52authority could direct every important
21:54choice.
21:55She wanted Naruto trained, isolated from
21:58Konoha, and loyal to an organization she
22:01intended to control. By 14, Naruto could
22:04defeat ordinary rain chunin, and survive
22:07a short exchange with Kisame. He could
22:09send clones through omega curare as
22:12messengers, read basic seals, and sense
22:14the first pressure of the fox chakra
22:17before it overwhelmed him. Yet, Pain
22:19refused every request to join a real
22:21mission.
22:22The refusal angered him more than any
22:24punishment. He had lived in Akatsuki for
22:277 years.
22:28He knew every corridor, every safe
22:30house, and every woman who had bled for
22:32the organization. Pain still kept him
22:35behind the walls because losing him
22:37would change the balance of power.
22:39Naruto finally confronted her at the top
22:42of the central tower. He did not ask to
22:44be treated like an adult.
22:46He asked to be judged by the same
22:48standard as every other fighter.
22:50Pain watched the rain gather on his
22:52shoulders.
22:53She saw the child Konan had carried from
22:55the bridge, but she also saw the young
22:58shinobi who had led teams through her
23:00exercises and memorized every defense in
23:02the city. She approved one mission.
23:05Naruto would observe, follow orders, and
23:07avoid using the nine-tails chakra unless
23:10retreat became impossible.
23:12Tobi stood behind a stone pillar and
23:14listened. At last, the weapon was
23:17leaving its sheath.
23:19The mission took them to a market town
23:21near the northern edge of the land of
23:22rain. A mercenary company had seized the
23:24roads, occupied the grain warehouses,
23:27and began selling local orphans to
23:29anyone willing to pay.
23:32Akatsuki had ignored similar crimes when
23:34they happened beyond its territory.
23:36This time, the buyers had been seen
23:38using root signals. Pain sent Kisame,
23:41Itachi, Deidara, and Naruto.
23:44Kisame held command. Naruto was ordered
23:47to observe and help evacuate prisoners.
23:49Deidara spent the first hour arguing
23:52that explosions were the fastest form of
23:54evacuation because everyone immediately
23:56understood where not to stand. The town
23:59had been built across two banks of a
24:00narrow river.
24:02A wooden bridge connected the market to
24:03an abandoned mill where the children
24:05were held. Mercenaries guarded the
24:08streets in visible groups. Root shinobi
24:10hid beneath the roofs and inside empty
24:12houses. Itachi noticed the hidden
24:14fighters first. She also recognized the
24:17arrangement. Danzo used ordinary men at
24:20the front to absorb the first attack,
24:22then sent root through prepared tunnels
24:24to strike the command group from behind.
24:27She could not explain how she knew
24:29without exposing herself.
24:31Naruto saw her attention move toward
24:33three rain barrels placed beside
24:35different buildings. Each barrel was dry
24:38despite the weather.
24:39He sent a clone through a drainage ditch
24:41and found thin breathing tubes beneath
24:43them. Kisame changed the plan after
24:45Naruto reported the tunnels. She would
24:48attack the mercenary barracks and draw
24:50the visible force toward the western
24:51street.
24:53Itachi would enter the mill and free the
24:55prisoners.
24:56Deidara would destroy the tunnel exits
24:58after the children were clear. Naruto
25:00would remain near the bridge with clones
25:02positioned along the evacuation route.
25:04The first part worked too well.
25:07Kisame entered the barracks through the
25:09front wall.
25:10The mercenaries had enough time to turn
25:12before her sword shattered their
25:13formation.
25:15Their commander tried to hold her with a
25:17chain seal designed for large summons.
25:19Kisame pulled the entire ceiling frame
25:22out of the floor and used it to knock
25:24him through a table.
25:25Those men were never a threat to her.
25:27The hidden root force was.
25:29Tobi had sent Danzo the mission route
25:32two days earlier and warned that
25:35Akatsuki might be testing a valuable
25:37young fighter. She did not name Naruto.
25:40Danzo had copied the suppression pattern
25:42from the tag used during the original
25:44transport. He sent 20 root shinobi
25:47carrying those seals in case years of
25:49rumors were finally true. They emerged
25:51before Itachi reached the prisoners.
25:54Three attacked Kisame with lightning
25:56techniques that turned the flooded
25:57street into a trap. She blocked the
26:00first discharge with Samehada, but the
26:02second came through metal wires buried
26:04beneath the stones. Her legs locked for
26:07one dangerous second. The mercenaries
26:09surrounded her before she could recover.
26:12Inside the mill, Itachi cut through two
26:14guards and opened the holding room.
26:16She found 20 free children and six
26:19explosive tags fixed to the support
26:21beams.
26:22Danzo's soldiers had never intended to
26:24preserve the witnesses.
26:25Deidara saw root fighters pouring from
26:28the tunnels and released two clay birds.
26:31One exploded above the eastern roofs
26:34forcing the enemy away from the
26:35civilians. The second never reached its
26:38target. A root blade cut through the
26:40clay and opened Deidara's shoulder from
26:42behind.
26:43Naruto heard the explosion and
26:46understood that the plan had broken.
26:48Kisame had taught him that exhaustion
26:50made people cling to the first idea they
26:53had. Pain had taught him to replace a
26:55failed plan before fear replaced it for
26:57him. He sent four clones toward Kisame,
27:00six toward the mill, and two beneath the
27:02bridge. The original remained in the
27:04center long enough to receive their
27:06first reports. Kisame did not need
27:09rescue. She needed the lightning wires
27:11cut. Naruto's clones entered the flooded
27:14street from the rooftops and threw kunai
27:16at the anchor points rather than at the
27:18enemy.
27:19The third cut a wire. Kisame regained
27:22one leg, dragged Samehada through the
27:24water, and absorbed the next lightning
27:26attack before it reached her body. She
27:28then swept the mercenaries aside with
27:30enough force to end that side of the
27:32battle. At the mill, Itachi could remove
27:35the explosive tags or move the children.
27:38She did not have time for both.
27:40Naruto's clones arrived carrying wet
27:43blankets from the market. They wrapped
27:45the youngest children and led them
27:47toward the bridge while Itachi disabled
27:49the main trigger. A root captain
27:51anticipated the route. She rose from
27:53beneath the bridge and drove a
27:56suppression spike into the central
27:57support beam.
27:59A field of black script spread across
28:01the wet boards.
28:03Every clone inside the field vanished at
28:05once.
28:07The memories struck Naruto together
28:09along with the pressure of their chakra
28:11being torn apart.
28:13He nearly dropped to one knee. Instead,
28:16he changed the route. Two new clones
28:18broke open the rivergate beside the
28:20mill. Water flooded an old service
28:23channel that led beneath the market.
28:26The older children could crawl through
28:27it while the younger ones continued
28:30across the bridge. Deidara landed beside
28:32Naruto with blood running down one arm.
28:35She wanted to blow the bridge after the
28:37children crossed. Naruto refused. Kisame
28:40was still on the wrong side and the mill
28:42roof had begun to collapse. The root
28:45captain attacked before they settled the
28:47argument. She moved with a short blade
28:49in one hand and sealing tags in the
28:51other.
28:52Naruto met her with three clones. She
28:55destroyed the first with a wind-coated
28:57strike, placed a tag on the second, and
29:00used the resulting seal to freeze the
29:02third in place. Naruto entered from her
29:05blind side and aimed low. She expected a
29:08punch and blocked. His hand opened at
29:11the last moment, releasing a paper
29:13pellet Konan used for marking escape
29:16routes. The pellet burst against the
29:18Captain's sleeve and covered it in a
29:20bright blue stain.
29:22Deidara understood. She sent a clay
29:24insect into the stain and detonated it
29:27with a controlled blast.
29:29The Captain lost her tags and half her
29:31sleeve, but remained standing. Her next
29:34wind blade cut Naruto across the chest
29:37and drove him against the bridge rail.
29:39He was not stronger than her. He had
29:41more people fighting with him. Itachi's
29:44shuriken struck the Captain's blade from
29:46the side.
29:47Kisame's water technique broke the
29:49street behind her. Deidara scattered
29:51clay spiders across the only dry route.
29:54The Captain retreated onto the bridge
29:56exactly where Naruto's two hidden clones
29:59had fixed Sasori's wire traps beneath
30:01the boards.
30:02The wires closed around her ankles.
30:04Naruto pulled.
30:06The Captain fell and Kisame's wrapped
30:08sword hit her once across the ribs.
30:11The fight ended there. She would not
30:14rise again.
30:15The remaining Root soldiers withdrew
30:17toward the mill.
30:18They activated the final explosive tag
30:21as they left.
30:22Itachi shouted a warning.
30:25The bridge was crowded with children.
30:28One support cable snapped.
30:30The center of the structure dropped
30:31toward the river. Naruto created as many
30:34clones as he could.
30:35They caught the side rails, but the wood
30:37continued to split. The youngest
30:39children slid toward the broken center.
30:42Deidara could not use an explosion.
30:44Kisame was too far away.
30:47Itachi had three children in her arms
30:49and no free hand for a technique. The
30:51seal on Naruto's stomach opened a
30:53fraction.
30:54Orange chakra covered his arms and
30:56spread across the bridge in the shape of
30:58thick claws.
31:00The fox inside him pushed anger into
31:02every thought.
31:03Naruto felt how easy it would be to tear
31:06through the Root soldiers on the
31:07opposite bank. He forced the chakra
31:09downward instead. The claws wrapped
31:12around the broken support beams.
31:14Naruto's feet sank into the wood.
31:17Blood ran from his nose.
31:19The bridge stopped falling. His clones
31:22carried the children across in groups.
31:24Every time one vanished, more weight
31:27returned to the original.
31:29Naruto held the structure until Itachi
31:32reached solid ground with the final
31:34child. Then Kisame jumped the river,
31:36caught Naruto by the back of his cloak,
31:38and pulled him away as the bridge
31:40collapsed. Naruto woke inside a safe
31:42house
31:43with Konan beside the bed
31:45and Kakuzu arguing in the next room
31:48about the cost of medical supplies.
31:50Deidara sat near the window with her
31:52injured arm bandaged.
31:54She had already ordered everyone to
31:57remove the section of the report
31:58describing how Naruto carried her out of
32:00the mill after the battle.
32:02The mission freed the children,
32:04destroyed the trafficking route, and
32:06captured two Root officers.
32:08Both carried tongue seals that burned
32:10away names and locations when Sasori
32:13questioned them. They revealed only the
32:15local command structure and confirmed
32:17that Root had expected a possible
32:18jinchuriki.
32:20Kakuzu stored their statements with the
32:21merchant's markers and every recovered
32:23payment seal. The fragments were not
32:25enough to accuse Danzo publicly, but
32:28they were the first pieces of a case.
32:30More importantly, the mission proved
32:32that Naruto could touch the nine-tails
32:34chakra without turning it against the
32:36people around him. At the next meeting,
32:39every woman claimed part of the victory.
32:41Konan pointed to the evacuation markers.
32:44Sasori pointed to the wires. Kakuzu
32:47mentioned resource control.
32:49Kisame credited endurance.
32:51Deidara insisted that the controlled
32:53blast had decided the fight.
32:55Itachi remained quiet until Naruto
32:57looked at her. Then she said his
32:59greatest success had been changing the
33:01plan before the enemy forced him to.
33:04Pain listened to them argue. She gave
33:06Naruto an official Akatsuki ring and
33:09recognized him as the youngest field
33:11member in the organization. Far away, a
33:14wounded root messenger reached Konoha
33:16with a strip of cloth covered in orange
33:18chakra burns.
33:19Danzo had suspected Naruto might be
33:21present. The cloth confirmed something
33:24more dangerous.
33:25The boy was alive, active in the field,
33:28and beginning to control the nine-tails
33:30without root. Danzo held the cloth under
33:33a lamp for a long time. He could no
33:35longer afford to wait. Danzo's message
33:37reached Itachi through a dead drop near
33:40the southern wall of Amegakure. She was
33:42ordered to mark the central base,
33:44identify Naruto's sleeping quarters, and
33:47open a route for root. If she refused,
33:50Danzo would treat Sasuke as the last
33:53useful Uchiha and place him under direct
33:55control. Itachi carried the order for 3
33:58days.
33:59During that time, Naruto never asked why
34:02she had become quieter.
34:04He simply adjusted the night patrol so
34:06they worked together and left a cup of
34:08sweet tea on the roof before she
34:10arrived. She entered the Akatsuki
34:13archive on the fourth night.
34:15Danzo believed the organization kept no
34:18records from Naruto's capture. He was
34:20wrong.
34:21Kakuzu kept every contract, payment, and
34:24recovered item if it might gain value
34:26later. Among the sealed boxes, Itachi
34:29found the suppression tag taken from
34:31Naruto's body and the merchants metal
34:34markers. She also found the broken
34:36testimony seal from the captain captured
34:39at the bridge.
34:40Matching cipher marks had been recovered
34:42from later root officers. None of those
34:45pieces could destroy Danzo alone.
34:47Together, they showed that the same
34:49hidden command had ordered Naruto's
34:51removal,
34:52paid agents inside the land of rain, and
34:55purchased children through neighboring
34:57states. A separate procurement ledger
34:59referred to preserved Uchiha eyes,
35:01grafting fluid, and a living arm
35:03prepared for a senior commander. Itachi
35:06understood that Root had taken far more
35:08from her clan than lives.
35:10Danzo had not been protecting Konoha
35:12from Akatsuki. He had been creating the
35:15enemies and weapons he later used to
35:17justify his power.
35:19Naruto found Itachi in the archive
35:21before dawn.
35:23The documents were open around her and a
35:25Root message burned in a metal tray.
35:28He had known she served someone outside
35:30Akatsuki. He had not known who. Itachi
35:33expected him to call Pain.
35:35Naruto looked at the order threatening
35:37Sasuke and understood why she had
35:39waited. He told her she could leave if
35:42she wished, but returning to Danzo would
35:45not protect her brother.
35:47It would only teach Danzo that the
35:49threat worked. Choose once for yourself,
35:52Naruto said. It was one of the few
35:54things he ever asked from her.
35:57Itachi sent Danzo the location of an
35:59abandoned base in the western marsh.
36:01Root attacked it two weeks later and
36:03found only traps, rotten furniture, and
36:06an invoice from Kakuzu for structural
36:08damage. Then Itachi told Pain the truth.
36:12Pain wanted her executed. Sasori had
36:15already prepared the poison. Konan
36:17argued that a spy who confessed after
36:19gaining access to the main archive was
36:22more useful alive.
36:24Naruto did not beg for mercy. He
36:26presented the false report Itachi had
36:28sent and the records she had recovered.
36:31He also accepted responsibility for
36:33keeping his suspicions secret.
36:35Pain punished both of them. Itachi lost
36:38access to the inner defenses and worked
36:40under direct watch for a year.
36:42Naruto lost command privileges for 3
36:45months. Itachi had entered Akatsuki
36:47because Danzo forced her. She remained
36:49because Naruto had given her a choice.
36:52The next 4 years changed Amegakure
36:54around them. Hiruzen's covert search
36:57continued during that time.
36:59Jiraiya found two abandoned Akatsuki
37:01shelters and enough signs to know the
37:04organization had once held a child, but
37:07Danzo's false routes and Amegakure's
37:09sealed borders kept him months behind
37:12every move. Konoha's sensors still found
37:15no sign that the nine-tails had
37:17reformed. Hiruzen became certain that
37:20the official story was false.
37:22He still could not prove where Naruto
37:23was or who had taken him. Naruto grew
37:27from a narrow-shouldered boy into a tall
37:29young shinobi who could cross the city's
37:32highest pipes without slowing. His
37:34clones became part of the city's daily
37:36defense. They carried warnings during
37:38floods, helped repair damaged roofs, and
37:41relayed orders between distant patrols.
37:44He led missions against smugglers,
37:46mercenaries, and local lords who treated
37:48the land of rain as an empty road
37:50between greater nations.
37:53Control over the fox chakra came much
37:55more slowly.
37:56Konan built layered practice seals
37:58around an empty reservoir outside the
38:00city. Pain watched from the barrier
38:02tower while Naruto learned to draw out a
38:05thread of orange power and stop before
38:07rage chose the amount for him. During
38:10one failed attempt, he broke the
38:12reservoir wall and flooded three storage
38:14rooms. Kakuzu charged him for every
38:16ruined crate.
38:18By 18, Naruto could spread a thin cloak
38:21through a limited number of clones, but
38:23he still could not release the
38:25Nine-Tails fully and remain certain of
38:27who would be standing when the power
38:29ended. He did not win every mission
38:31cleanly.
38:33Once he followed a false trail and lost
38:35an entire supply caravan. Kakuzu made
38:37him negotiate the replacement cost
38:39himself. Another time, he trusted a
38:42village chief who sold information to
38:44Stone. Two Rain shinobi were wounded in
38:47the ambush.
38:48Naruto spent the next month rebuilding
38:51the patrol system that had failed them.
38:53Pain watched him learn from each
38:55mistake.
38:56She began giving him control of larger
38:58groups.
39:00Hidan entered Akatsuki when Naruto was
39:0216. She arrived with a three-bladed
39:05scythe, a religious symbol painted in
39:07blood, and an argument with everyone who
39:09questioned her methods. Konan banned her
39:11from teaching Naruto anything after
39:14Hidan tried to explain the spiritual
39:16value of ritual sacrifice during
39:18breakfast. Hidan ignored the ban.
39:21What she actually taught Naruto was how
39:24to continue moving after Pain destroyed
39:26his rhythm. She made him train with
39:28weighted cuts across his arms and
39:31laughed whenever he dropped his guard.
39:33Naruto hated the method, but it saved
39:35his life more than once. By 18, he no
39:38longer looked like the child in Konan's
39:40old reports. He returned from a
39:42two-month border mission during a storm.
39:45His cloak was torn at one shoulder. His
39:48hair had grown longer and a shallow scar
39:50crossed his jaw. Deidara met him in the
39:53entrance hall with an insult prepared.
39:55The words disappeared when Naruto
39:57removed the wet cloak and handed it to
39:59her without noticing her expression.
40:01Hidan noticed. She announced to the
40:03entire base that the future leader had
40:06finally become old enough to require a
40:08wife.
40:09Kisame suggested that any candidate
40:12should survive a combat test.
40:14Deidara threw a clay spider at both of
40:17them.
40:18Itachi stepped close, repaired the loose
40:20clasp on Naruto's collar, and asked for
40:23the mission report. Her calm movement
40:25produced more silence than Deidara's
40:27explosion.
40:29Konan ended the discussion by creating a
40:30new rule against marriage disputes
40:33during active operations. Kakuzu asked
40:36whether that rule also covered paid
40:38sponsorships.
40:40Sasori began describing a screening
40:42process for anyone who intended to
40:44approach Naruto.
40:45Naruto escaped into Pain's meeting room
40:48and discovered that commanding armed
40:50criminals was easier than understanding
40:52them.
40:53Pain gave him no time to recover. She
40:55appointed him field commander of
40:57Akatsuki's mobile forces
40:59and told Konan that the position would
41:01reveal whether Naruto could become more
41:03than a battlefield captain.
41:05Konan understood that Pain had begun
41:07testing a successor, though Pain never
41:09used the word. Naruto's first week in
41:12the position created a different kind of
41:14campaign.
41:15Deidara replaced the nameplate outside
41:17his office with one that listed her as
41:19permanent partner. Kisame submitted a
41:21formal request for the place and
41:23attached a proposed combat test.
41:25Itachi quietly reserved the late patrols
41:28when Naruto reviewed reports.
41:30Konan removed all three schedules and
41:33issued assignments herself.
41:35Naruto discovered that the women
41:36followed his battle plans more easily
41:38than his office rules. Tobi stood at the
41:40far end of the room and clapped louder
41:43than anyone.
41:44Her mask hid the first sign of alarm.
41:46The rank itself was not the problem.
41:49Naruto had received it after learning to
41:51challenge Pain instead of obeying her
41:54automatically. Tobi moved before Naruto
41:56could settle into command.
41:58A military governor on the eastern
42:00border received weapons, money, and 50
42:03trained mercenaries from an unknown
42:05sponsor.
42:06He seized a river town that supplied
42:09nearly a third of Amegakure's winter
42:11grain.
42:12The governor placed soldiers inside
42:14homes, stored explosive tags beneath the
42:16central streets, and threatened to burn
42:18the grain before opening an old river
42:21dam if Amegakure attacked. Two
42:23evacuation teams failed to enter.
42:26A captured courier showed that the
42:27governor expected reinforcements by the
42:29following night. Pain had already
42:31attempted negotiation and a limited
42:34rescue.
42:35Both had failed. She prepared a wide
42:38gravity strike as a last resort to break
42:41the enemy formations before the
42:43reinforcements arrived.
42:45Even though the fortified district would
42:46collapse with civilians still inside.
42:49Naruto asked for one day.
42:51If his plan failed, Pain would still
42:54have several hours to use hers. He
42:56entered the town with 12 clones
42:58disguised as workers, traders, and
43:01wounded soldiers.
43:02The clones mapped food stores, guard
43:05shifts, and the hidden tags. One was
43:07discovered and destroyed.
43:09The returned memory showed Naruto that
43:12the governor's men changed positions
43:14whenever bells rang from the old water
43:16tower.
43:17Instead of attacking the soldiers,
43:19Naruto attacked their schedule.
43:22Konan's paper birds cut the bell ropes
43:24across the district. Sasori's smallest
43:26puppets entered the storehouses and
43:28spoiled the mercenaries reserve water
43:30with a harmless red dye.
43:32Kakuzu bribed the governor's
43:34quartermaster, then sold false
43:36information to three officers who
43:37already hated one another. Hidan blocked
43:40the river after midnight and left the
43:43occupied district with one day of clean
43:44water. The mercenaries began accusing
43:47each other of betrayal before Akatsuki
43:49launched a single strike.
43:52Naruto used clones to guide civilians to
43:54maintenance tunnels beneath the grain
43:56warehouses.
43:58Itachi placed the first group of guards
44:00under Genjutsu long enough for families
44:02to pass.
44:03Deidara shaped tiny clay charges that
44:05broke locks without collapsing walls.
44:08Hidan stood in the central road and
44:10challenged the loudest mercenary captain
44:12to stop her.
44:13The captain accepted, believing her
44:15isolated. He spent the next 10 minutes
44:18learning why no one in Akatsuki worried
44:20when Hidan was stabbed.
44:22The governor tried to activate the
44:23explosives under the town. Naruto had
44:26expected it.
44:27Sasori's puppets had replaced the main
44:30trigger seals with blank paper during
44:32the evacuation.
44:34When the governor pressed the control
44:36plate, nothing happened except a small
44:38cloud of glue dye that covered his
44:40hands. Naruto walked into the command
44:42house while the remaining mercenaries
44:44surrendered outside. The governor
44:46reached for a hidden blade. Naruto
44:48struck once, broke his wrist, and pinned
44:51him against the wall.
44:53The man had never been strong enough to
44:54require a real battle. His power had
44:57come from hostages, supplies, and
44:59frightened soldiers.
45:01Naruto had removed all three.
45:03The town survived intact. Its governor
45:06was removed. The surviving soldiers were
45:08disarmed, and a local council chosen by
45:11the residents took control of the grain
45:12stores under temporary rain shinobi
45:14protection.
45:16When Akatsuki returned the grain stores
45:18to the residents, people crowded the
45:20streets in the rain.
45:21They did not call Naruto Konoha's
45:23missing weapon. They called him the
45:25commander of Amegakure.
45:27Pain heard the name repeated from the
45:29tower.
45:30The victory should have satisfied her.
45:33It protected the land of rain and
45:35humiliated a lord who had sold its
45:37people.
45:38Instead, she watched shinobi wait for
45:40Naruto's orders before her own. She had
45:43built Akatsuki around fear, discipline,
45:46and her strength. Naruto was building
45:49loyalty by giving people a place in his
45:51plans.
45:52Tobi found Pain alone that night. She
45:54suggested that Naruto's mercy would
45:56eventually make the organization weak.
45:59The great villages did not respect towns
46:00saved through clever evacuation.
46:03They respected ruins and graves. If war
46:06came, Naruto would have to release the
46:08nine-tails completely or Amegakure would
46:11die while he searched for a gentle
46:13answer.
46:14Pain did not agree.
46:15She also did not dismiss the warning.
46:18A week later, reports reached the city
46:20that root forces were gathering near
46:22three borders.
46:23Danzo had acquired mercenaries from the
46:26same governor, sealing specialists from
46:28a ruined clan, and support from
46:30officials who wanted the land of rain
46:32divided again.
46:34His soldiers wore no leaf symbols. If
46:37the attack failed, Konoha could deny
46:39everything. Several reports were
46:42genuine. Others had been altered by Tobi
46:45to double the estimated force and
46:47conceal weaknesses in the western
46:49approach.
46:50Pain saw an army large enough to break
46:52the rain barrier, seize the flood
46:54controls, and open the city to a second
46:56wave. She ordered the western districts
46:59evacuated and told Naruto to prepare the
47:02nine-tails as a final weapon if the
47:04central tower fell. The proposed release
47:07corridor passed through two residential
47:09districts and the lower hospital.
47:12The hospital could not move its patients
47:14before the estimated attack. The narrow
47:16streets would also trap families during
47:18evacuation.
47:20He refused.
47:22Pain reminded him that she had preserved
47:24his life
47:25because his power could defend the rain.
47:27If the tower fell and the flood controls
47:29were taken, every district would be
47:31exposed. She believed one ruined
47:34corridor was a terrible price, but
47:36smaller than the death of the entire
47:38city. Naruto's hand tightened around the
47:40edge of the table. He answered that his
47:42life had never belonged to her. He would
47:45defend the city, but he would not save
47:47its stones by killing the people beneath
47:49them.
47:50The room went still. Konan watched Pain
47:54rather than Naruto.
47:55Sasori's fingers rested near her chakra
47:57threads.
47:59Kisame shifted her sword against one
48:00shoulder. Itachi kept her eyes on Tobi.
48:04Pain ended the meeting without changing
48:06the order.
48:07The argument spread through Akatsuki.
48:09Deidara demanded a place in Naruto's
48:12team before teams had even been
48:13assigned.
48:14Hidan suggested a tournament.
48:17Kisame said the choice should be based
48:19on combat strength.
48:20Kakuzu opened a betting pool and charged
48:23an entry fee.
48:25Konan confiscated the money and assigned
48:27the units herself. The laughter did not
48:29last long. At midnight, the rain barrier
48:32over Amegakure went silent. The western
48:35gate opened from inside. Root entered
48:38through the maintenance tunnels beneath
48:39the western district.
48:41The first units carried sealing poles
48:43that locked the city gates open. The
48:45second released smoke mixed with chakra
48:48suppressants. The third moved toward the
48:50central tower using patrol routes known
48:53only to Akatsuki's inner circle. Naruto
48:55woke when the first explosion shook
48:58water from the ceiling.
48:59By the time he reached the upper bridge,
49:02the western skyline had turned orange.
49:04Pain stood on the central tower and
49:07tried to restore the rain barrier.
49:09A spiral of space opened behind her.
49:11Tobi's hand passed through the defensive
49:14rods around Pain
49:15and pressed a prepared seal against her
49:17back. The Rinnegan belonged to Pain
49:20herself
49:21and the rain barrier was tied directly
49:24to her chakra. Tobi had spent years
49:26studying that barrier through the
49:28reports and routes she supplied.
49:30The seal did not weaken the Rinnegan
49:32itself. It flooded the sensory network
49:35with false signals and made every wide
49:37technique risk striking defenders as
49:40easily as enemies. Pain turned and
49:42released a gravity wave, but Tobi
49:44allowed the attack to pass through her
49:46body.
49:47The returning force shattered the tower
49:49floor. Tobi struck again during the
49:52instant pains technique recovered.
49:54Pain fell through two levels and landed
49:56among broken stone. A black suppression
49:59rod pinned one sleeve and the seal
50:01across her back kept feeding false
50:03positions into the rain barrier.
50:06She remained conscious and dangerous at
50:08close range, but the wide techniques
50:10that could stop an army were no longer
50:13safe to use. Tobi disappeared before
50:15Konan arrived. The enemy plan depended
50:18on confusion. It nearly succeeded. False
50:21orders sent Sasori toward the southern
50:23wall. A forged message accused Itachi of
50:26opening the gate. Root teams cut the
50:28pipes that carried alarm signals between
50:30districts. Mercenaries reached the
50:32hospital before local defenders
50:35understood that the western attack was a
50:37distraction.
50:38Naruto created 30 shadow clones on the
50:41upper bridge.
50:43The number was dangerous.
50:45Each clone divided his attention and
50:48every destroyed copy returned fear,
50:50pain, and information to the original.
50:53He used them anyway. Two went to every
50:55Akatsuki unit. Six entered the civilian
50:58districts. Four climbed the
51:00communication towers. The rest spread
51:02through the canals to find where Root
51:04had planted sealing poles.
51:06The first reports struck him within
51:08seconds. The hospital was surrounded.
51:11The northern floodgate had been chained.
51:14Itachi was under arrest by rain shinobi
51:17who believed the forged orders. Deidara
51:20had already ignored her assigned route
51:22and flown toward the western fires.
51:25Hidan was laughing somewhere near the
51:27gate. Naruto handled the most dangerous
51:29lie first. A clone reached Itachi and
51:32repeated a detail only Naruto and she
51:35knew. Danzo's abandoned base had
51:38contained an invoice from Kakuzu.
51:41Itachi understood that the order came
51:43from the real Naruto. She surrendered
51:46her weapons rather than fight the rain
51:48shinobi holding her.
51:50Konan arrived carrying a fragment of the
51:52same spiral seal that was burning across
51:54Pain's back. The residue matched the
51:57western gate and none of Itachi's known
51:59techniques. It was enough to release her
52:01under Konan's direct watch until the
52:03battle ended. Naruto then redirected
52:06Itachi to the western command tunnels.
52:08No one understood root signals better
52:10than she did. Kisame reached the
52:12hospital before the mercenaries entered.
52:14The attackers had placed lightning tags
52:16the flooded street expecting her water
52:18techniques. Kisame did not give them
52:20water.
52:21She drove Samehada through the stone and
52:23tore open a dry underground pipe.
52:26Naruto's clones moved through it,
52:28emerged behind the ceiling team and cut
52:30the tags from their anchor points. Once
52:32the lightning net failed, Kisame
52:34released a wave that filled the street
52:36to the second floor. The mercenaries
52:39were ordinary fighters trapped in water
52:41with the strongest swordswoman in the
52:42city.
52:43The fight ended quickly. At the western
52:46gate, Hidan had allowed three root
52:48shinobi to surround her.
52:50One drove a spear through her shoulder
52:52while another cut her leg. They believed
52:54they had found an isolated fanatic.
52:57Hidan used the spear still inside her
52:59body as an anchor, pulled the attacker
53:01close and marked the ground with his
53:03blood. By the time Naruto's clone
53:06arrived, two enemies were down and the
53:08third was trying to understand why Hidan
53:10looked offended rather than injured.
53:13Naruto sent her to hold the gate
53:14controls. She complained that command
53:17had made him boring,
53:18then obeyed. The northern floodgate was
53:21the next problem. Root had chained it
53:24shut so rainwater would rise behind the
53:26city and burst through the lower
53:28district. Sasori could cut the chains,
53:31but the enemy had filled the mechanism
53:33room with explosive tags.
53:35Deidara wanted to detonate the roof and
53:37release the pressure from above. Naruto
53:40saw the risk through a clone.
53:42The blast would send the entire gate
53:44into the homes below. He ordered Deidara
53:48to create six narrow charges instead of
53:50one large explosion.
53:52Sasori placed them along the rusted
53:54hinge pins. The first two blasts failed
53:57because the metal had been reinforced
53:59from inside.
54:00Root archers opened fire from the
54:02opposite walkway. Sasori's puppets
54:05covered Deidara while she crawled across
54:07the gate and shaped the final charges by
54:09hand. A wind blade cut the strap beneath
54:12her foot. Deidara slipped over the edge.
54:15Naruto's clone caught her wrist.
54:17But the weight pulled both of them
54:19toward the flood channel. Deidara
54:21pressed a clay bird against the wall and
54:24detonated it beneath them. The
54:26controlled force threw her back onto the
54:28walkway. The clone vanished in the
54:31blast, returning the pain of a broken
54:33arm to Naruto across the city. He nearly
54:36lost control of the other copies.
54:39Orange chakra flickered over his hands.
54:41The fox seized on every injury and
54:44offered a simpler solution, break the
54:46gate.
54:47Drown the soldiers. Tear open the
54:50western district until nothing remains
54:52to threaten him. Naruto planted both
54:55feet on the central bridge and forced
54:57his breathing into the rhythm Kisame had
54:59drilled into him. He did not push the
55:01chakra away. He divided it.
55:04A thin layer of orange power flowed into
55:07each surviving clone.
55:09The clones became strong enough to lift
55:11fallen beams, carry patients, and hold
55:14broken pipes closed. Across Amegakure,
55:17people saw figures wearing Naruto's face
55:20moving through smoke and rain. The
55:22nine-tails chakra that Konoha had feared
55:25became a network holding the city
55:27together.
55:28At the floodgate, Deidara's final
55:30charges broke the hinge pins. Sasori's
55:33largest puppet pulled the chain free.
55:35The gate opened slowly, releasing water
55:38into the outer channel instead of the
55:40lower district. The invasion changed
55:42direction.
55:43Root had expected Akatsuki to gather
55:45around Pain.
55:47Instead, every unit received new orders
55:49through Naruto's clones. Konan folded
55:52maps into paper birds and sent them
55:54above the smoke.
55:56Kakuzu opened hidden weapon stores, but
55:58only after recording which unit took
56:00what.
56:01Kisame secured the hospital.
56:04Sasori and Deidara controlled the
56:05northern waterway.
56:07Hidan locked the western gate behind the
56:09attackers. Itachi entered the command
56:11tunnels wearing a stolen root mask.
56:14She listened to free signal exchanges
56:16and found the pattern Danzo used to move
56:18reserve units. Naruto adjusted the
56:20defense around that information. Empty
56:23streets were left open. Root followed
56:25the apparent weakness and entered the
56:28abandoned market district. Sasori's
56:30wires closed behind them.
56:32Deidara destroyed the empty bridges.
56:35Konan sealed the rooftops with layers of
56:38paper. The reserve force found itself
56:40trapped in a district with no civilians
56:43and no route back. Then, Tobi appeared
56:45beside Naruto on the central bridge. Her
56:48foolish posture had vanished. The spiral
56:51mask faced him while the city burned
56:54behind her.
56:55She admitted that she had leaked his
56:57transport route when he was a child. She
56:59had removed him from Konoha, placed him
57:02in Akatsuki, and spent 11 years shaping
57:05the organization around him. In her
57:07mind, that made Naruto the greatest
57:10weapon she had ever created.
57:12Naruto looked at the western district
57:14where his clones carried civilians from
57:16a burning building. Tobi had chosen the
57:18road that brought him here.
57:20She had not chosen what he became on it.
57:23Tobi attacked before he could signal the
57:25others. Her hand passed through Naruto's
57:27first punch and closed around his
57:29shoulder. Space twisted. Naruto released
57:32the clone before she could pull it away.
57:34The explosion of memory told the
57:37original exactly how long her body had
57:39remained solid.
57:41Three more clones attacked from
57:42different angles. Tobi allowed two to
57:45pass through and caught the third.
57:48Naruto expected that.
57:50The captured clone carried a paper
57:51marker from Konan beneath its sleeve.
57:54During the instant Tobi became solid,
57:57the clone slapped the marker against the
57:59skin of her exposed wrist just inside
58:02the edge of her glove. Konan felt the
58:04marker activate.
58:06Thousands of paper sheets rose from the
58:08bridge supports and folded into walls
58:11around Tobi's likely exit points.
58:13Deidara arrived above them on a clay
58:15bird. Sasori's wires spread across the
58:18gaps. Itachi took position on the
58:21eastern roof and watched Tobi's eye
58:23rather than her body.
58:25Tobi understood the trap and moved
58:27toward Naruto. She could still pass
58:30through every attack. What she could not
58:31do was attack while remaining
58:33intangible. Kisame struck first with
58:36Samehada. Tobi let the blade pass.
58:39Deidara detonated a small charge behind
58:41her, forcing her toward Sasori's wires.
58:44She passed through those as well.
58:46Naruto's clones kept closing the circle.
58:48Each attack timed a fraction later than
58:50the one before it.
58:52Tobi reached for the original Naruto.
58:54Itachi called the instant her hand
58:56became solid.
58:58Konan's paper wrapped around Tobi's
59:00wrist.
59:01Samehada hit her side and absorbed
59:03enough chakra to interrupt the
59:05space-time technique.
59:06Tobi twisted free before the full blade
59:09connected. Deidara's second blast
59:11destroyed the stone platform beneath
59:13her.
59:14She tried to retreat through space, but
59:16Sasori's wire tore away her sleeve and
59:19exposed the marker still fixed to her
59:21wrist. Konan followed the marker through
59:24the distortion.
59:25Itachi read the turn of Tobi's eye and
59:28called the only clear exit left between
59:30the paper walls. Naruto met her there.
59:33He drove a chakra-covered fist into the
59:35center of the spiral mask. The impact
59:38cracked the mask and threw Tobi through
59:40the remains of the bridge. She was still
59:42too dangerous to capture. Space folded
59:45around her before Kisame reached the
59:47lower platform. Tobi escaped, leaving
59:50blood on the stone and half of her mask
59:52in Naruto's hand. Her control over
59:54Akatsuki ended that night.
59:57Naruto picked up the broken half of her
59:59mask. A small wooden fish lay in the
1:00:01same debris, fallen from a pocket inside
1:00:04Tobi's cloak. She had given him one
1:00:06exactly like it when he was nine. He
1:00:09could not tell whether the old gift had
1:00:12been part of the performance or whether
1:00:14some piece of their friendship had once
1:00:16been real. He put both objects inside
1:00:18his cloak and returned to the battle.
1:00:21Danzo remained.
1:00:22Itachi traced his command signal to an
1:00:25old pumping station beneath the western
1:00:27tower. Before entering, she warned
1:00:29Naruto about the procurement ledger in
1:00:31Kakuzu's archive. Danzo had obtained
1:00:34stolen Sharingan and prepared a grafted
1:00:36arm. She did not know the exact
1:00:39technique, only that killing him once
1:00:41might not end the battle. Naruto,
1:00:43Itachi, and two clones entered through a
1:00:45drainage shaft while Konan directed the
1:00:48final defense above. Danzo waited with
1:00:50four root guards and a bandaged arm
1:00:52covered in stolen Sharingan.
1:00:55He triggered a silent seal that cut the
1:00:57chamber off from Naruto's remaining
1:00:59clones. Then, he filled the room with
1:01:01compressed wind blades. Naruto's first
1:01:04clone lost its head. The second threw
1:01:06the original behind a turbine housing
1:01:08before vanishing. Itachi deflected one
1:01:11blade, but another opened her side.
1:01:14Danzo moved directly toward her, certain
1:01:16that the threat to Sasuke would still
1:01:18control her. Itachi did not hesitate.
1:01:21Her fire technique forced back toward
1:01:23the water pumps. Naruto attacked with
1:01:25two new clones in a crossing pattern.
1:01:27Danzo allowed the first strike to hit
1:01:29his chest. His body collapsed, then
1:01:32reappeared beside Naruto as one
1:01:34Sharingan on his arm closed. Naruto did
1:01:37not understand the technique, but Itachi
1:01:39recognized the principle.
1:01:41Root seals linked the stolen eyes into
1:01:44short records of Danzo's body and
1:01:46chakra. When he suffered a fatal result,
1:01:49one eye closed and forced him back into
1:01:51a state recorded moments earlier.
1:01:54A battle of simple force would only
1:01:56spend Naruto's chakra while Danzo waited
1:01:59for an opening.
1:02:00Naruto changed the chamber. One clone
1:02:03broke the main water pipe. Another
1:02:05jammed the turbine. The floor flooded
1:02:08ankle deep carrying oil from the
1:02:10machinery across the room. Itachi
1:02:12scattered shuriken into the ceiling
1:02:14supports rather than at Danzo. He
1:02:17dismissed them as missed attacks. Naruto
1:02:19rushed him again and allowed a wind
1:02:22blade to cut through a clone at close
1:02:23range.
1:02:25The returned memory gave him the exact
1:02:26moment another Sharingan closed. Danzo's
1:02:30rewritten life lasted less than a minute
1:02:32and he could not control which dangers
1:02:34followed him into the next one. Itachi
1:02:37pulled the wires attached to her
1:02:39shuriken.
1:02:40The ceiling supports dropped around
1:02:41Danzo pinning his path between metal
1:02:44beams. Naruto struck the jammed turbine.
1:02:47Sparks fell into the oil fire across the
1:02:50water.
1:02:51Danzo used another eye to escape the
1:02:53flames. He reappeared where the
1:02:56technique had recorded him seconds
1:02:57earlier inside the cage of fallen beams.
1:03:02Naruto's remaining clone was already
1:03:04waiting there with a suppression tag
1:03:06taken from the root supply boxes. The
1:03:08clone fixed the tag to Danzo's bandaged
1:03:11arm.
1:03:12His stolen Sharingan closed beneath the
1:03:14seal.
1:03:16Danzo cut the clone apart and turned
1:03:18toward the original.
1:03:20Naruto crossed the flooded chamber
1:03:22before he could form another wind blade.
1:03:24The first punch broke Danzo's guard.
1:03:27The second drove him into the turbine
1:03:29housing. Itachi placed a blade at his
1:03:31throat while Naruto tore the bandages
1:03:34and control seals from Danzo's implanted
1:03:36arm. Danzo reached for a final curse
1:03:39mark hidden beneath his chest armor.
1:03:42Itachi trapped his hand in Genjutsu for
1:03:44the single second Naruto needed to
1:03:47strike him unconscious. The battle was
1:03:49over.
1:03:51Inside the pumping station, they found
1:03:53the current invasion orders and a
1:03:55personal cipher key.
1:03:56They also found a payment seal used by
1:03:59Root's mercenary network and a compact
1:04:02transmitter linked to Danzo's hidden
1:04:04command cells. He had carried only what
1:04:06he needed to control the assault.
1:04:08The full case against him was assembled
1:04:11later. Kakuzu matched the payment seal
1:04:13to the merchant markers and the
1:04:15governor's accounts. Sasori used the
1:04:17cipher key to decode fragments preserved
1:04:19inside the damaged testimony seals taken
1:04:22from captured officers.
1:04:24Itachi used the transmitter to recover
1:04:26short directives still stored in the
1:04:28Root relay, including the order to seize
1:04:30Naruto and burn the Western Station. The
1:04:33evidence did not explain every
1:04:35disappearance, but it tied Danzo
1:04:37personally to the invasion, the child
1:04:39trade, and the original transport
1:04:40operation.
1:04:42Naruto carried the unconscious man into
1:04:44the rain. Above them, the last Root unit
1:04:47surrendered inside the trapped market
1:04:49district. Morning revealed what the
1:04:51battle had cost.
1:04:53Three bridges had collapsed.
1:04:55The Western District had burned across
1:04:57two streets. 17 Rain Shinobi and six
1:05:01civilians had died.
1:05:02More than 40 people filled the hospital
1:05:05with burns, broken bones, and seal
1:05:07damage.
1:05:08The hospital itself still stood. The
1:05:11floodgates still held.
1:05:13Most civilians had escaped because
1:05:15Naruto's clones reached them before the
1:05:17fighting did. Amegakure rationed grain
1:05:20for the next 2 weeks while crews
1:05:22repaired the western roads.
1:05:25Funeral lanterns floated through the
1:05:26canals on the third night. Naruto
1:05:29attended every service and listened
1:05:31while families named the people his plan
1:05:33had failed to save. The victory remained
1:05:36a victory, but the city carried its
1:05:38price in bandages, empty rooms, and
1:05:41bridges that ended above open water.
1:05:43Pain recovered in the central tower
1:05:46while Konan removed the seal from her
1:05:47back.
1:05:49She could have blamed Tobi, the broken
1:05:51barrier,
1:05:52or the timing of Danzo's attack.
1:05:54Instead, she studied the reports.
1:05:57Her order would have released the
1:05:58Nine-Tails through the western corridor.
1:06:01It would have destroyed Root. It would
1:06:03also have destroyed the hospital, the
1:06:05lower district, and thousands of people
1:06:07who now crowded the shelters beneath the
1:06:09tower.
1:06:10Naruto had protected the same city with
1:06:12the same power and paid a smaller price.
1:06:16The seal left Pain's chakra channels
1:06:18unstable. During the next 3 weeks,
1:06:21Naruto directed repairs, ration patrols,
1:06:24prisoner transfers, and the
1:06:26investigation into Root's remaining
1:06:28agents.
1:06:29One supply route clogged because too
1:06:31many clones carried identical orders.
1:06:34Kakuzu forced him to rebuild the
1:06:35schedule by hand. By the end of the
1:06:38third week, the council, the rain
1:06:40captains, and every Akatsuki unit were
1:06:42already bringing their final decisions
1:06:44to him. The recovery also produced
1:06:47quieter battles.
1:06:48Deidara claimed the chair beside Naruto
1:06:51in the hospital while her shoulder was
1:06:53treated. Itachi arrived with the actual
1:06:55medical report and remained on the other
1:06:57side.
1:06:58Hidan began taking bets on which one
1:07:00would be ordered out first.
1:07:02Konan removed all of them when the
1:07:04argument woke three injured shinobi.
1:07:07Pain called Akatsuki together after
1:07:09those three weeks. Danzo sat in a sealed
1:07:12cell beneath him.
1:07:14Copies of the assembled evidence had
1:07:16already been sent to neutral lords,
1:07:18border commanders, and several officials
1:07:21inside Konoha. The Leaf could deny
1:07:23knowledge of Root's actions, but it
1:07:25could not openly demand Danzo's return
1:07:27without admitting that the documents and
1:07:30his personal seals were real. Pain stood
1:07:32at the head of the meeting table.
1:07:35Naruto expected another argument about
1:07:37command. Instead, she placed her ring on
1:07:40the map of Amegakure.
1:07:42She said Akatsuki had been created to
1:07:44make the great nations fear the rain.
1:07:46Fear had kept enemies at a distance,
1:07:49but it had also kept the organization
1:07:51dependent on whoever possessed the
1:07:53greatest destructive power.
1:07:55During the invasion, Naruto had held
1:07:57Akatsuki together after that power was
1:07:59removed from the field. Pain announced
1:08:02that she would remain the guardian of
1:08:03Amegakure and oversee the rain barrier,
1:08:06while Naruto took leadership of Akatsuki
1:08:09and its operations beyond the city.
1:08:11She then required every senior member to
1:08:13state her position.
1:08:15Naruto would lead only if the
1:08:17organization chose to follow him.
1:08:19The decision did not pass quietly. Konan
1:08:21supported it because Naruto had saved
1:08:24the civilians and then managed the
1:08:25recovery.
1:08:27Sasori accepted it because his plan had
1:08:29used every fighter with precision.
1:08:31Kakuzu pointed out that preserving the
1:08:33grain stores, the hospital, and most of
1:08:36the city was financially superior to
1:08:38total destruction. The contracts and
1:08:40river tolls could sustain the new patrol
1:08:42network if Naruto stopped approving
1:08:45repairs before asking their price.
1:08:47Kisame respected the only commander who
1:08:50had turned the Nine-Tails chakra into a
1:08:52shield across an entire battlefield.
1:08:54Itachi had already made her choice years
1:08:57earlier.
1:08:58Deidara moved to Naruto's side before
1:09:00Pain finished speaking. Hidan claimed
1:09:03she had predicted the result.
1:09:05Though several people remembered her
1:09:06predicting three different results
1:09:08during the battle.
1:09:10Naruto accepted the ring. He did not
1:09:13promise to turn Akatsuki into heroes.
1:09:16The women around the table were still
1:09:18missing-nin, killers, thieves, and
1:09:21fugitives. Some had crimes that could
1:09:23never be repaired by a new title.
1:09:26He gave them a direction they
1:09:28understood. Akatsuki would protect
1:09:31Amegakure. It would break the networks
1:09:33that sold children and jinchuriki as
1:09:36weapons. It would offer shelter to
1:09:38people discarded by the great villages.
1:09:40Any nation that used the land of rain as
1:09:42a battlefield would answer to them.
1:09:45The announcement spread faster than
1:09:47Naruto expected. Small countries sent
1:09:49secret requests for protection.
1:09:52Border villages offered supplies in
1:09:54exchange for Akatsuki patrols.
1:09:56Great villages sent spies to learn
1:09:58whether Pain truly had surrendered
1:10:00command to Konoha's last jinchuriki.
1:10:02Naruto's first official meeting as
1:10:04leader lasted less than 5 minutes before
1:10:07becoming a disaster.
1:10:08Deidara placed her chair on his right.
1:10:11Itachi quietly sat on his left. Hidan
1:10:14demanded that the organization establish
1:10:16rules for choosing the leader's future
1:10:18wife.
1:10:20Kisame proposed a combat trial. Kakuzu
1:10:22suggested selling viewing tickets.
1:10:24Sasori wanted full access to the
1:10:26background of every possible candidate.
1:10:29Konan declared that marriage discussions
1:10:31were forbidden during military meetings.
1:10:33Pain watched the argument from the far
1:10:35end of the table.
1:10:36The seal wound across her back still
1:10:39required rest, but she appeared far more
1:10:41comfortable as an advisor. She was no
1:10:43longer responsible for stopping Hidan
1:10:45from challenging Deidara to a wedding
1:10:47duel.
1:10:49Naruto looked around the room at the
1:10:51women who had once called him an asset,
1:10:53an expense, and a container. They now
1:10:56argued over who would stand closest to
1:10:58his chair.
1:11:00He ended the meeting and escaped to the
1:11:01tower roof.
1:11:03Konan found him there with three
1:11:05unopened reports.
1:11:07One came from a mountain village that
1:11:09wanted protection. One came from
1:11:10officials in Konoha asking for
1:11:12negotiations over Danzo.
1:11:15The final message had no national seal.
1:11:17It had been written by another
1:11:19Jinchuriki.
1:11:21The writer knew that Naruto had
1:11:22disappeared as a child and survived
1:11:24inside Akatsuki. Their own village had
1:11:27responded to the news by tightening
1:11:29their restraints and moving them to an
1:11:31underground prison.
1:11:33They asked Naruto to do for them what no
1:11:35village had ever done for him.
1:11:37They asked Akatsuki to help them escape.
1:11:40Naruto did not accept the letter at face
1:11:42value.
1:11:43Tobi's broken mask and the wooden fish
1:11:46still rested inside his cloak. He
1:11:48ordered Itachi to examine the writing,
1:11:51Kakuzu to trace the paper and ink, and
1:11:54Konan to send birds toward the prison
1:11:56named in the message. If the plea was
1:11:58real, Akatsuki would move. If it was a
1:12:00trap, they would learn who had set it.
1:12:02Several days later, far beyond the land
1:12:05of rain, Tobi entered a chamber where
1:12:08unofficial military agents and advisers
1:12:10connected to several great nations
1:12:12waited around a stone table. Half of her
1:12:14mask was missing. A bandage covered the
1:12:17wound Naruto had left across her face.
1:12:20She placed a map of Amegakure before
1:12:22them and explained that Pain was no
1:12:24longer the greatest danger in the rain.
1:12:26Naruto Uzumaki had turned Akatsuki into
1:12:29a home for weapons that no longer obeyed
1:12:32their owners.
1:12:34If the first Jinchuriki reached him,
1:12:36others would follow.
1:12:38Small nations would follow them.
1:12:40The balance that protected the great
1:12:41villages would collapse. Back on the
1:12:44tower, Naruto folded the prisoner's
1:12:46letter and slipped it inside his cloak.
1:12:49Below him, Akatsuki prepared for its
1:12:51first mission under a new leader.

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