"Then what is your objective?"
Pain continued to insert black rods into Naruto's body, questioning Naruto's goal.
Naruto glared, "I will defeat you and bring peace to the ninja world!"
"Is that so, this is your justice, a truly remarkable idea." Pain continued until he had inserted five black rods into Naruto.
"However, it was your Leaf Village ninja who made my family, my comrades, and my village like the current Leaf Village."
"The Land of Fire, the Leaf Village, has prospered to a certain extent, and thus provoked war to secure benefits for its own village, otherwise some people would go hungry and cold."
"But it is we, the small countries and small villages, who become the battlefield for the wars of these great nations. After the war, your great nations gained benefits, while we small nations were baptized by war, and many people lost their homes and loved ones, leaving us with nothing but pain."
"Our objectives are the same, all to achieve the peace that Master Jiraiya hoped for. The justice that I uphold for the Leaf Village is the same as what you are trying to do to me now. You for your justice, I for my justice."
"The pain of losing someone important is the same for everyone. Like you, I am just an ordinary person seeking revenge in the name of justice."
"However, if revenge is called justice, then this justice will only breed more hatred, and in turn, will lead to new revenge, a cycle that will never end, and true peace will never come."
"Humans are inherently incapable of understanding each other. The world of ninjas is dominated by hatred! That is why I am collecting the Tailed Beasts and creating a weapon that can destroy the great nations in an instant, so that people can feel the pain, fear this power, and thus dare not easily initiate war. Even if decades pass and people forget this fear, when war comes, I will use this power again to end the war. This way, true peace will come!"
"Peace is within reach, Naruto. The Nine-Tails within you is the path to peace! Come with me obediently! There is someone in the Akatsuki who can completely extract Tailed Beasts, and I can have him spare your life!"
After a long speech, Pain wanted to lift Naruto from the ground, but Naruto's eyes were still filled with anger.
"Peace obtained through war is not true peace at all! I will defeat you here!"
Before Naruto could surrender, Pain randomly pulled someone from the surrounding ruins. Coincidentally, this person was a ninja from the Hyuga clan, Hyuga Tokuma.
"He's the one who used the Byakugan in the card game, a member of the main family with extremely pure Byakugan. I can't bear to see Hinata get hurt, and I'm not writing any subplot romance here. I'll leave aside the Minato couple. If I write it like this, perhaps my Xingxing will need a side story later, and the plot won't conflict."
Pain directly inserted a black rod into Hyuga Tokuma's heart, "It seems you still haven't understood pain. In the past, Leaf Village ninjas also killed my parents in front of me. It is because of love that hatred is born, and thus pain is known!"
Seeing a fellow villager die before his eyes, coupled with the death of Sage Fukasaku earlier, Naruto's eyes immediately turned red. A powerful wave of energy swept through the surroundings, instantly breaking free from the black rods Pain used to suppress his chakra.
"Pfft, you blew dust into my cup. Did the Nine-Tails just erupt? Then it's time for me to enter!" Li Xing stood up, stretched, and began to remove his makeup and change his clothes.
Naruto was now covered in a layer of red chakra, no longer resembling a human at all. Furthermore, four tails erupted at once.
"Hate me? Look at yourself now, do you still think humans can understand each other? But my pain is greater than yours!"
Pain punched out, creating an underground river. This punch distorted the art style, making even Li Xing laugh.
Immediately after, the Tailed Beast-transformed Naruto unleashed countless Tailed Beast Bombs. Pain blocked them one by one with Shinra Tensei. However, Shinra Tensei could not be used continuously. Under Naruto's indiscriminate attacks, Pain was blasted away.
After a series of attacks, Naruto's anger grew. His body had already transformed into a fox's skeleton. However, at this moment, the necklace on Naruto's chest began to emit a green light.
It was the sealing jutsu placed on Naruto by Yamato, the Fuinjutsu: Katon no Jin, Kakuja no Torii. However, Naruto had lost his reason and reached out, tearing off the necklace from his chest, preparing to crush it.
But at this moment, Li Xing descended from the sky, pressing Naruto's head into the ground with one hand, and snatching the necklace with the other.
"If you don't want this thing, you can give it to me. But I already have a necklace, so I'll use this as an earring!"
Then Li Xing looked at Pain, "Sorry, for interrupting you. You can continue."
As soon as the words fell, Li Xing instantly disappeared from Pain's sight and returned to Tsunade's side.
"Then there's no need to waste time. Let's end this quickly!"
Pain also stopped delaying. He clasped his hands together, then released them, and a black sphere ascended into the sky.
"Chibaku Tensei!"
Immediately, a powerful gravitational force emanated from the black sphere, pulling countless stones and ruins from the ground onto the sphere. The Tailed Beast-transformed Naruto was also sucked up.
Naruto began to struggle frantically, then unleashed the power of six tails, with half of his body breaking free from Chibaku Tensei. Seeing this, Pain clapped his hands and roared. The stones sucked into the sky became faster and more numerous, and the six-tailed Naruto was completely enveloped.
Meanwhile, Yamato, who was on a mission outside, suddenly found that Naruto had broken free from his sealing jutsu. He reached out and a "six" appeared on his palm. He immediately disregarded his mission and returned to the Leaf Village without delay.
In Naruto's mental space, the Nine-Tails was instigating Naruto to tear open the seal and unleash all its power. Naruto's eyes were lifeless, and he was slowly reaching out to tear open the seal.
Outside, Naruto had already become eight-tailed and was struggling to break free from Chibaku Tensei. Pain had not expected the Nine-Tails' power to be so immense.
However, in the mental space, when Naruto had torn open half the seal, a man with yellow hair suddenly appeared and stopped Naruto's actions. The Fourth Hokage, Minato Namikaze, made his appearance.
In the mental space, Minato Namikaze said a lot to Naruto, explaining the truth of the Nine-Tails attack on the Leaf Village 16 years ago, which was controlled by a masked man. He made Naruto realize that perhaps Pain was also being manipulated, and clarified how peace could be achieved. Originally resentful of Pain, Naruto, after Minato's education, was no longer lost. He knew he shouldn't harbor hatred, as it would only breed more hatred. (This is why Naruto's optimistic genes are hereditary.)
Outside, Pain was preparing to create an even larger Chibaku Tensei to seal the Nine-Tails, but the Nine-Tails suddenly disappeared. Standing within the Chibaku Tensei was Naruto, who had used his last clone and entered Sage Mode again.