The Second Rinnegan

Chapter 1 - Memories and Discoveries

An eleven year old Nagato stood in the hospital beside his mother's bed, the sounds of battle cries and the kyuubi's demonic roars filled his ears as he watched Kushina Uzumaki take her last breath.

"Okaasan don't go!" he screamed shaking her shoulders as his face contorted with panic, tears falling like rain from his eyes. "Okaasan!" he repeated when she gave no answer.

"She's gone," said Minato sadly as he put his hand on his son's shoulder. Nagato turned to his father and looked at the sleeping newborn baby in his arms.

"Otousan you're not going to……" He trailed sadly.

"I'm sorry Nagato but it has to be done," Minato replied sadly, tears falling down his tired worn face.

"Otousan," said Nagato clenching his fists "Why....." Minato sighed as though the world rested on his shoulders,

"Nagato," he said, his voice deeply edged with sorrow "I love both you and Naruto but this has to be done, please stay strong my son," and with that he kissed Nagato on his forehead and Shunshined out of the hospital with a sleeping baby in his arms.

"Otousan!" Nagato screamed, running outside after his father but he was nowhere to be found. Nagato pushed through the panicking civilians and shinobi to where a large crater had been gouged with red hot chakra lining it's edges.

"Otousan," he whispered again, his lips trembling with pent up emotion.

"I'm sorry kid but your father didn't make it," said a shinobi with spiky black hair " I don't think the baby made it either."

"No!" screamed Nagato "You're lying!" but the shinobi proved true when the medics carried away the Yondaime's burnt body. Nagato fell to his knees holding his head between his hands as the tears flowed like a river and he began to scream from mental pain.

"Okaasan, Otousan, Otouto….why?!" he screamed at the heavens, his young boyish features contorting in agony. "Why?" he asked again as if expecting to hear an answer.

"It will be ok kid," said a medic as he approached Nagato.

"It won't, it will never be! I've lost all three of them, all three!" the Namikaze prodigy cried as a burst of light blue chakra erupted from his body into the heavens, his Rinnegan eyes cold and murderous. "Get out of my way," he hissed at the medic.

"Calm dow-" the medic started but was cut off when Nagato stabbed him in the stomach. Shinobi immediately rushed in trying to hold down the rampaging boy.

"Shinra Tensei," Nagato whispered, blasting away the shinobi, his eyes staring madly as he began to walk through the ravaged village. When he realized that more shinobi had begun to pursue him he quickly Shunshined toward the gates but before he could exit Konoha four ANBU caught up with him and all four of them pinned him down. They proceeded to tie up the struggling boy when his body disappeared in a cloud of smoke, it was a Kage Bunshin. The four ANBU turned to search for Nagato but the sight that met their eyes was terrifying. Face to Face with them was a large three headed red dog with Rinnegan eyes and atop the dog stood Nagato. Before the shinobi could react their lives were over.

Nagato dismissed his summon and Shunshined away into the night, turning back to look at his ravaged village the moon illuminating the tears on his face as he faded into the distance.

Four Years Later

Nagato stood on top of a mountain looking down at the village of Amegakure no Sato below him but his mind was recalling the event that took place in Konoha four years ago.

"Otousan, Okaasan, Otouto," he whispered clenching his fists " I will avenge your deaths and bring peace to this world through Pein with…..Akatsuki." he finished as two figures in black cloaks with red clouds appeared behind him.

Nagato started awake trying to catch his bearings as he realized he had drifted off to sleep.

'That dream,' he thought 'It just won't go away!' The Namikaze shifted slightly in his stone throne as he tried to erase the painful memories from his mind and the Akatsuki leader gritted his teeth in anger as the memories came rushing back despite his attempts to quell it. Suddenly a figure in a black cloak with red clouds scattered across it and a large katana on his back appeared in the dark room, kneeling before the throne.

"What is it Kisame?" Nagato asked coldly.

"I have some news Pein- sama," replied the swordsman not daring to look the "god" in his eye. Nagato stayed silent letting the nuke-nin finish. "We have found a boy in Konohagakure named Uzumaki Naruto." Nagato's eyes widened,

'Could it be him?' he wondered 'after all these years of searching, could it be…………'

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