Journey of Desires

On the way to Amegakure, the rain village, Kisame was sitting near a cave, and next to him, half of a strange creature's body was sticking out of the ground, a half-black, half-white man with strange growths like Aloe.

- Kisame-san? What happened, where is Itachi-san?

- Zetsu? Orochimaru and his subordinates attacked us...

- Really? He dared to do something like that? Kisame-san! Kisame-san! Where is Itachi-san?

Kisame looked at the plant-man with a gloomy look, which greatly frightened the white half, who had been talking all this time, but still gave an answer.

- Zetsu... Go to the leader and tell him that Itachi-san died at the hands of Orochimaru.

- Huh? Really..?

An evil look pierced Zetsu, and he, realizing that there was no point in delaying, went to report to Pain.

***

A few days later, Ban and his sister were sitting at a table, the place they were in was something like a restaurant in Kumogakure.

Yesterday they visited the turtle island, a rather unusual and beautiful place, the likes of which they had never seen before.

They spent about five hours there, and during this time, oddly enough, Naruko managed to pass the tests, which turned out to be unexpectedly easy, and defeat Kurama, of course, she was helped, unlike the canon where Naruto was helped only by Kushina, Minato and Kushina provided help for Naruko, and Kiliya also helped her with her skills.

When Minato and Kushina saw a strange girl in their daughter's subconscious, they were wary, but when they heard the explanations, they were glad that their daughter had a person who was even ready to help in the battle with Kyuubi in the subconscious.

Thanks to such help and the presence of the Kongo Fusa chain, the fight with the biju was quite easy. Now it is safe to say that no one below the Kage level will be able to defeat Naruko.

Having increased several more levels, having the Uzumaki clan chains, and high characteristics due to the system, she is a very strong Shinobi, it is unlikely that she would have been able to become so strong in the same time if she had stayed in Konoha.

Now she was fighting Hikari and Killer B, training in managing her new power, and the brother and sister were enjoying dinner.

Everything would have continued like this, they would have gone to their rooms, played something and went to bed, now it was the third day since they arrived in Kumogakure, and they did not plan to return to the Sound village for at least another month.

But at one point, the snake hidden in the small fuin on Ban's clothes came out and then began to hiss and its eyes began to glow a bright yellow color.

This signal means that something happened, and judging by the fact that Orochimaru, who had already managed to become very strong, gave this signal, someone very strong attacked him.

The proud Orochimaru would not ask for help, but would rather simply retreat from the battlefield, but apparently he cannot leave, why it happened they still have to find out.

Getting up from the table and leaving a few coins on it, which were enough to pay for the food, Kilia went to her brother, took his hand and they disappeared into the distortions.

***

At the main base, Orochimaru gave a loud roar, if you follow the exit, you can see how the area near the base is heavily destroyed, and many bodies of Sound ninja lie throughout the area.

Right in front of the entrance stands a very tired Orochimaru, he no longer has the chakra to support Susanoo, and Manda, summoned earlier, was already sent back to the world of summoning.

The only thing that protects him from Shinro Tensei attacks and soul extraction is the Fujin technique, which simply disrupts the flow of Pain's puppets' chakra when approaching Orochimaru.

He cannot leave this place, too many valuable samples, including Itachi's body, are here now, if everything goes on like this, then there will be nothing left but to leave the base, but he still has hope, he gave a signal half a minute ago, and during this time the snake in the seal should have already received the signal.

While help had not yet arrived, he turned his attention to his enemies, right in front of him were four red-haired people, as well as two "immortals" from the Akatsuki, who were familiar to him.

Of the 6 bodies of Pain, he was able to destroy the paths of the beast and the path of Naraka, but four more paths, as well as Kakuzu, and Hidan, who had become much stronger since their last meeting, were too formidable opponents.

Orochimaru was covered in blood because Hidan had changed a lot, he had a new level of regeneration, and the technique of transferring damage to the enemy no longer required the enemy's blood, Orochimaru had not yet understood what its new working condition was, but he felt well how his body had broken through many times from transferring damage from Hidan.

Over the past year, the Jashin fanatic had been looking for ways to become stronger, at first he tried to make as many sacrifices as possible, but this did not bring any benefit, after a while they heard about the demon Moryo from the Demon Country, Kakuzu did not want to go that far because of some rumors, but Hidan, who had been repeating for a week, was still able to convince him.

Once in the Demon Country, they freed the monster, at first he thought that they were his followers and had come to free him, but when he felt a strange connection between Hidan and an unknown creature, he realized that something was wrong.

Their battle cannot be called interesting, since the demon was weak to the Jashin fanatic, and by killing a creature of such power, Hidan's abilities reached a new level.

Regeneration at an incredible speed, and changing the condition of transferring harm from the target's blood to contact with a glance made him too dangerous for almost any person on the planet.

When they returned from the Demon Country, they received news of the death of a member of their organization, and when Pain called the Akatsuki members for a meeting, it was decided to eliminate Orochimaru, since he knows many secrets and poses a danger to the organization, which he proved by killing Itachi.

Kisame was exhausted in the battle, besides, he had already shown that his abilities are useless against Orochimaru's people, and it was decided to leave him at the base.

Hidan, who was eager to fight, was able to convince them to take him and Kakuzu on this mission.

Back in our time, Kimimaro is without legs and has regenerated a lot of damage, while Kabuto was sent to the lab to evacuate important samples.

The Sound Four, along with Guren, went on a mission to the base where Jugo was, and besides the Sound ninja, there were no people close to Orochimaru here now.

- Orochimaru... Your actions and your choices led to this result, for betraying and killing Itachi... You shall know pain, accept the Pain!

Pain in Yahiko's body put his palms one to one, and a small black ball appeared between them, which flew into the sky and began to attract various trees and stones, and when clods of earth and large stones began to rise into the sky, the situation on the field changed.

The sphere that had begun to form was covered in a strange visual effect, as if space was being distorted by the heat above the fire, and black particles, Chibaku Tensei disappeared in an instant.

Pein frowned and looked down at the two new people that had appeared near Orochimaru.

- Wow, a redhead with purple eyes, Pain herself! This is going to be fun!

Ban was happy with such a formidable opponent and wanted to rush into battle, as he noticed two more people nearby, Kakuzu had not changed at all since their last meeting, but Hidan, whose eyes had become bright yellow, surprised him a little, and when Ban looked into Hidan's eyes, the second smiled madly and instantly became covered in a skeleton, after which he stabbed himself in the throat with a kunai.

... The next moment, she saw that Ban's neck was cut, and the ground nearby opened with blood, but the reaction was the opposite of what was expected, Pain, Kakuzu and Hidan already had Ban's abilities, he was not surprised that the wound was restored in a second, but the head of Akatsuki here was imprinted, and wanted to say something but was interrupted by Ban.

- Haha! Hidan, I see you found a way to become stronger, good! If everything turned out that my enemies will be you and Kakuzu!

- @#+@ @#&*"@ +-@@#"*!

Hidan's word was unpleasant and a little incomprehensible, but Ban did not pay attention to it, and said, turning sideways to his sister.

- Emo boy at you!

After his disappearance, the Akatsuki immortal duo also became covered in changes and disappeared.

Kilia, sighing and realizing that this time she would have to, and she, among other things, looked at the four bodies of Pain, and then returned to Orochimaru.

- You killed two?

- Yes.

Having accepted the answer and nodded, she returned to Pain, and he began his monologue.

- Are you an ally of Orochimaru? It was in vain that you came here, since you decided that his antivirus will also know Pain... Pain wanted to say something else, but was interrupted.

Today, Kilia was not in a very good mood, and she does not want to mess around with her opponent for long.

That is why the entire sky in front of Pain's eyes was covered with ice spears in a couple of seconds, the area turned into an ice rink, and ice skates formed on Kilia's feet.

The ice element is a side version of the water element, in magic, unlike chakra, it is not necessary to have an improved gene to master ice.

Pain became serious at the sight of the global attack table, and Kilia waved her hand and sent a huge number of ice projectiles into attacking Pain.