Taming Your Demon (Sealing Series Part I)

Nagato And Naruto Uzumaki: The Battle Ends

Raked with fear, Sakura made her way out of the village followed by Ko, and Sabui, who was suspiciously absent for most of the day but suddenly materialized out of nowhere. She grasped at the last bit of hope that Hiro was right, and Naruto was able to pull his own self out of the tailed beast's rage. If Hinata was truly dead, she knew he was gone forever.

Ko shouted, "He headed this way with Hinata! I can see her ahead... she's still alive! But where is Naruto?"

"He followed that Pain further into the woods." Sabui replied, inspecting the woods with his own byakugan. "There are some others headed this way as well."

"Who?" Sakura kneeled down next Hinata as they approached the rocks where Naruto had left her with Katsuyu. "How is she, Lady Katsuyu?"

"She was badly injured, but she will live."

"Thank god! If something happened to Lady Hinata while Master Hiashi..." Ko kneeled down next to Sakura. "What do you need?"

"Just stay back." Sakura removed Katsuyu from the wound and began healing Hinata by placing her hands above Hinata's body to use mystical palm technique. Not long after they arrived, Lee, Ikko, and Tenten appeared too, running from the woods with their sensei, Guy.

"What happened here?! We just saw a massive amount of smoke coming from the village?" Guy spotted the group and led his team towards them. "Hinata is injured? Is it that bad?"

"Pain showed up... and destroyed the village to get to Naruto. Naruto fought Pain and was captured. Hinata tried to save him, but Naruto turned into the nine tails after Pain almost killed her. The rest of the village was demolished after that... now Naruto is following Pain." Sabui raised a finger east. "That way."

"Who are you?" Tenten inspected the malnourished young man in front of her, curiously. She would have certainly remembered this Hyuga if she had ever seen him before. Besides if one looked beyond his deformities, he appeared to be around the same age as her. He likely should have been in their class.

"He's Neji Hyuga, Lady Hinata's cousin. Lord Hiashi's long lost nephew." Ko interrupted politely, before Sabui could answer.

"Oh..." Tenten and Sabui stood, giving each other the once over for a moment, and then they turned back to the others.

"Guy! You're back!" Shikaku and Inoichi appeared from the direction of the village as well. They greeted the others before breaking off to move deeper into the woods. "We are going to attempt to locate the real Pain by looking at the highest points closest to the village. It's the very least we can do while Naruto fights Pain."

"I'll come too. Lady Hinata is in good hands." Ko stated. "And you'll need a byakugan user."

Shikaku nodded. "That will be helpful. You'll be able to see him easier and possibly see any signals that he is still sending to the remaining Pain. Inoichi has not been able use the recovered dead bodies to pick up the chakra signals so far... he changes frequencies every time one of them is taken out."
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"So you have figured out that I'm not there among the six Pains... first Jiraiya and now you. Impressive." Tendo Pain pulled a long metal rod from his sleeve. "But the time for discussion is over. There are only two ways this ends. You will submit now or you will lose this fight and submit later."

"Well then... I guess I will have to fight you." Naruto spread his legs and raised his arms in a defensive stance as Pain came towards him with the metal rod. "And then I will find the real Pain on my own."

"Really?" Lady Katsuyu asked, hesitantly. "How are you going to do that? You can't access the byakugan with Lady Hinata unconscious, and no one else has been able to even pick up his chakra signals to find him. He changes the signals too quickly."