The iconic duo of the Naruto world

Once he arrived in this new place, the first thing Nagato did was raise his alertness to the max.

Nagato in his pale and malnourished form glared forth at the two beings in front of him.

He could see his surroundings were full of lush vegetation and overall a nice atmosphere, but nonetheless, that couldn't help his growing anxiety.

They stood at the top of a hill, and Nagato got to observe the two more aptly and subtly.

But his actions couldn't escape their eyes, still, they didn't speak out.

The first one Nagato saw, was a dark-haired guy, who was wearing a cloak and under it a long sleeve button-up shirt with a band on his elbow. He was also wearing a short metal clothing protector that covered his upper chest and passed through one shoulder.

A simple gray pant was worn by him with a purple belt, and dark gray boots with openings in the toes area.

This guy was missing his arm from the elbow down as Nagato could see and his shirt hung limply on the left side covering the missing half of the arm.

The most disturbing thing Nagato noticed, was that this guy had a pair of unimaginably powerful eyes.

He had one Mangekyo Sharingan, and one Rinnegan.

'It's different than mine… and I can feel its stronger… How is that possible?'

This guy whom he was seeing, didn't have any lavish sword contrary to the aura that was radiating from him at this moment. A simple-looking sword hung on his back.

Nagato's eyes moved on to the guy right next to him.

This one was seemingly even more dangerous than the first guy as Nagato could discern from a glance.

But it wasn't a huge difference.

'So much chakra…' The shinobi superheroes, called their mana chakra most of the time, but they did understand that everyone had mana in the world, and it was just depending on the pathways in the body one was born with, each one can do different abilities, much similar to Jutsus.

This guy's features were hard to discern as he was currently engulfed in a chakra-flame-like cloak.

But a simple well-tailored button-up shirt was visible, it just wasn't possible to know the color.

Pants that didn't quite reach his feet were worn by the guy along with ninja sandals and some ninja pouches on his body.

'Who are these people? And where did they come from?'

Although Nagato often called himself as a god, and as did most of his people before, deep down, he truly didn't believe that nonsense and had just embraced the identity for his dreams to reach completion.

That be the case, he knew immediately that these people in front of him were not someone he could fight with.

His already lowered shoulders as a result of bad posture lowered even more.

It was frustrating as he didn't know what was going on outside, or rather as he observed this place, it was more apt to say in Konoha.

He couldn't even see if his attack had worked, did he bring those people pain?

His eyes were bloodshot as he looked at these two people even though he knew he couldn't win.

*Thud*

And then as he blinked his eyes, suddenly some bodies of his group members fell over lifelessly. When he looked at them, they had died without even reacting, so it was painless at the very least.

His eyes widened as he couldn't notice any hint of killing intent before this had happened. When he turned to see if those two were responsible, he suddenly saw the black-haired guy swing his sword to dispose of blood, before he put his sword in its sheath.

'It was… him!'

He was just so fast, that he hadn't been able to see him nor react at all.

This furthered downed his rebellious fighting intent.

And Nagato noticed only some were left, which were Konan, and Kisame. It was sad how quickly the others were disposed of…

Kisame, the shark person, who was known as a tailless beast was sweating slightly as his back was tingling from the fear.

"Such dangerous guys…" He muttered as he directed his gaze to the sword-wielding guy.

The last person left alive wasn't any different than the two.

Konan was terrified as she saw the other fall over, and she feared if she would be the next one.

She didn't yet want to die and leave her only family member Nagato to die after her.

She mustered all her strength and ran to Nagato's side with shaky steps.

She then grabbed two kunais and held them, ready to defend him at any cost.

"Those guys aren't people who deserve to live,"

The black-haired guy spoke up, and his friend beside him had his eyes twitch as he saw what he had done.

"Uhm, Sasuke, can you start the Genjutsu already?" He spoke up and mentioned a certain name and Nagato latched on to that quickly.

'His name is Sasuke…?'

Nagato had his eyes looking intently at Sasuke.

But, then he realized.

'Did he say, Genjutsu? They don't work against me,'

Nagato was still thinking like that when all of a sudden, all the people there including Konan and Kisame were suddenly floating in the sky, above a certain village.

'I-I'm inside his Genjutsu already? When did he cast it?' Nagato was once again shocked, for the thousandth time that he was becoming numb quickly from it.

And then they all heard.

"The world shall know Pain!"

A man with orange hair stood in the sky with his hands stretched forward.

The village under had a mountain where five faces were carved out of stone.

Nagato didn't know what he was seeing but seeing Pain, rather Yahiko, his attention was immediately captured.

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A couple of hours later.

'So, their names are Naruto and Sasuke…' Nagato observed as his eyes retained their calmness, but a hint of sorrow was reflected deep down.

He at least knew who these two were, and now he also knew what they were trying to do.

Nagato was out of the Genjutsu as were the others that were with him. That Genjutsu showed them a lot of things… all of them. And it was so similar to what they were going through that none of them could debunk it as false.

Konan the beautiful and lovely kunoichi was on the ground fallen with no strength to stand back up as she cried sorrowfully. It affected her so much out of them all since she was the most attached of them all.

'Yahiko… Nagato…' Her tears spilled on the ground as her mind was filled with bleak thoughts.

And then, surprisingly and almost shocking, was Nagato who crouched next to her and gently hugged her as she cried on his chest.

Kisame saw this and didn't bother commenting. He was also greatly shaken by what he had seen.

'I was at least loyal to the end…' He clenched and unclenched his eyes as he didn't understand anything at this moment.

He then gently unwrapped his sword the Samehada and looked at it as if his eyes were lost.

And Nagato blinked his confusion away from his eyes, as he still supported Konan.

He was the quickest to understand of them all. And Konan had always been someone he greatly treasured even if he didn't show it, but seeing her die due to his mistakes…

'Obito!' his eyes held a hint of rage as despite seeing everything the duo before him had to show, he couldn't forgive him easily…

'But that's also why the hate cycle never seizes to end…'

Sasuke, and Naruto, had explained what the things they had shown him were, and despite how great that in itself and the origin of these guys before was, he wasn't in a good mood to think about that all right now.

Just moments ago, he was planning on wrecking Konoha, and no he had all of a sudden grasped some details that would not allow him to become a pawn once again.

'even these eyes aren't mine…' Nagato touched his face as he realized the truth.

There was no doubt that what he was shown was true. The only difference was minuscule and was containing things like the world being different with first the superheroes, and also being more modern, and so on.

And since everything was almost 90% similar to what he was going through right now in his current life, Nagato understood.

"It seems like I have been just a pawn all along…"

He chuckled for a rare instance, and his tone was bitter.

Naruto wasn't able to take that easy as this guy was sort of his fellow disciple.

"Don't say things like that, it wasn't your choice as you did the best you could and you were trying to save the world in your own, uhm, unique way, and things happen as you have seen from our lives…"

Naruto kept blabbering, and Nagato sported a thin smile at the guy.

'This is the guy who I chose to believe in…'

Nagato then helped Konan stand up and he had a resolute look on his face.

"Naruto… Sasuke… I have understood what to do now." Nagato's voice grew resolute by the second.

They looked at him seriously.

"I will revive all who died in Konoha this time!"

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