An orange-haired figure clad in a black robe could be seen flying above a range of tall mountains.
From this height, a village could be seen hidden by these mountains.
With a dark gaze, the figure solemnly raised his arms above his head, but the figure didn't act right now, because it could hear someone speaking to him to his main body.
"Nagato...this will reduce your life span significantly...are you sure?" - Konan
"They are two Jinchurikis in this village...I would prefer to take them by the order of their tails, but if I'm already here it would be a waste to not take the Eight-tails as well...but even I would be troubled if two Jinchurikis and the Raikage fought me at the same time, so I'll surprise them...and this will accelerate our plan the most, so I don't mind using my life for that..." - Nagato
Konan had a worried expression but didn't say anything else.
The Deva Path stopped listening to the faraway conversation and breathed in: "This world...shall know pain...Shinra...Tensei!"
With those words, he decimated Kumogakure!
But no one at the Chaotic Battle could know of it.
Especially Eiji who indirectly caused it.
The butterfly effect Eiji feared so much, didn't happen because of Danzo's death as he worried, but because Hidan and Kakuzu weren't on Yugito's track to hunt her, she was in Kumogakure.
In the original timeline, she would die only after Team 7 meet with Sasuke at Orochimaru's hideout, which was in the current timeline still weeks off.
Since Nagato send Kakuzu and Hidan to the Chaotic Battle, no other Akatsuki team was currently able to hunt the Two-tails and since he didn't want to lose time unnecessarily, he decided to capture her himself plus B who were in the same village.
This development was something that would later shock Eiji since he experienced how fate made sure that everything stayed on the "right track".
But he was naive to think that fate worked for everyone the same.
The highest priority was that Naruto would unite all tailed-beast and bring peace to this world, and other personal fates like the death of Hayate were only a natural occurrence through karma and consequences rather than something written in stone.
In other words: as long as it didn't concern the great strings which were spun eons ago, someone powerful enough is indeed able to change his own fate!
However, the one who would change fate isn't Nagato, since he is still the "Child of Prophecy" like Naruto...
At Mount Myoboku, the Great Toad Sage was sleeping peacefully when he suddenly opened his eyes.
"Nghi!" - Gamamaru
"What's wrong, Great Honourable Geezer?" - Fukasu who was about to fall asleep, rubbed his eyes and tried to fight his drowsiness.
"I just foresaw a new destiny..." - Gamamaru
"A new prophesy? What is it this time about?" - Fukasu turned serious and his drowsiness instantly disappeared when he heard that.
"...I forgot because my mind is a bit slow after just waking up..." - Gamamaru
"...sigh...it's because you are senile and not because you just woke up..." - Fukasu regretted not just falling asleep.
"!!!!!?!???!?!??!!??" - Black Zetsu swore that he felt how he shit his pants, even though with his body, he isn't physically able to do so and was sharing a body with the carefree White Zetsu.
"...hey calm down...if we get exposed it would be bad, you know?" - White Zetsu
"...this disgusting cockroach! How dare he speak mother's name with his disgusting mouth! I'll kill him! Wait no...I need to find out what he meant by this first! There is no way..." - Black Zetsu was still startled.
"I don't think he meant something by this though...if the information we got on him is true, he occasionally says something nonsensical..." - White Zetsu
"You idiot! There is no way he would know mother's name just like that! The few people who know about her existence only know her as the Rabbit Goddess!" - Black Zetsu
"Hmm...wait, you are right! What will we do?" - now even White Zetsu realized how serious this was.
Eiji didn't know that with his thoughtless remark, he brought Zetsu's mind in complete turmoil and that he was targeted by a really dangerous individual from now on!
that village was so worthless that fate did not care.
"This development was something that would later shock Eiji since he experienced how fate made sure that everything stayed on the "right track"
naruto and sasuke are gods and rest are just dirt in uncaring universe. Fate doesn't care if one or billion die it only care about naruto.
OHHHHHH!!!!
You just blew my mind! Kumogakure was destroyed instead of Konohagakure. That in itself changes a lot! Pains attack was increadibly important to the series in many ways:
1) I noticed how you made Naruto not cooperate with Eiji to help Sasuke despite it making the most sense to do so in the last chapter. That is a great move because at this part of the story Naruto still is an annoying, immature child rather than a real shinobi. In the original story this changed with Pains attack on Konoha. Naruto saw real-world consequences of fights by having his village destroyed, got to experience the pain and anger of losing someone dear(Kakashi, Hinata), met his Father('s Chakra) and learned to compromise by not just attacking Nagato. He also got accepted by the villagers and hailed as a hero afterwords. Unless Pain does a second attack on Konoha this whole development disappears, meaning that Naruto got to have his character Arc advance in other ways since its immensely important for the progression of the story because Naruto acts based on his ideals which are influenced by his character.
2)Kumogakure is a ninja-powerhouse as well. Simply because they mostly focus on quality over quantity. That's why losing huge amounts of elite-ninja should have bigger consequences for them then for Konoha. Unless Nagato decides to bring back their dead this would lead to an imbalance during the Kage-Summit where cooperation for the war on Akatsuki was decided originally. Originally, all villages were on the same level during that conference, with Konoha being nerfed down a bit since their defenses where all blown away by Pain. Cooperation was therefore agreable. Now Konoha would be the by far strongest village and Kumo would be both inferior to the other villages and still be recuperating from the attack. Perhaps A wouldn't even show up or would refuse joining forces since his remaining shinobi could barely protect the rebuild village.
3) If Pain were to attack konoha afterwards he might not have the lifespan to bring people back to life after fighting Naruto. Or the Edo-tensei-people Eiji might conveniently line up to resurect Hayate, Sasuke's Clan, Sakon, Kuchina, the four Kages, Neji's dad etc.
Little question: Lifespans and life energy seem to be a thing in the Narutoverse. Would that mean that Nen from HunterxHunter could potentially work in Naruto
Thank you for this awesome chapter and ... SUCK IT; ZETSU!
I forgot to add that Pains was the one nerfing Konoha down to the level of the other villages since it was actually superior in military strenght and that Pains attack could be part of why Akatsuki was perceived as such a threat by the other villages.
@Goblowitz Reducing lifespan was also a thing in One Piece when Luffy would use Gear 2 to pump blood into his brain, until he could bypass that flaw after training. There are a bunch of other manga/animes which use lifespan for really powerful attacks/techniques, but I can't remember which one right now.
For Nen, since Chakra is just another form of Energy or Chi, it should be possible. I guess even Wuxia cultivators might use their martial arts there. Using chakra to enhance their body like gathering it on feet to increase speed is pretty standard of the common idea of Chi in the real world (like Shaolin Monks gathering it on their heads to smash bricks or something). With hand signs it gets more complicated, but you can argue that it's similar to mages drawing magic circles for their spells.
Ah yes. I know all the naruto stuff and therefore understand everything!
So uh, when does that one guy uhh do the thing.
Honestly I like your story but it has far surpassed my knowledge. Thanks for the enjoyable ride!
Can't say that I care about that village, aside of B they are just a bunch of troublemakers.
Meatbun Delivery~
Thank you for the chapter ( ●w●)
Gamamaru: *goes back to sleep*
Thanks for the chapter
Thank you for the chapter~
Good riddance!
Things are heating up.