4 Chapter 4 - Battle!

"I want everyone to experience my pain! Ah!!!" Nagato roared, ignoring Konan's worries, and started pouring his chakras as well as vitality to maintain the summoned outer path. The Gedo statue stretched out black rods and pierced into Nagato's body, further draining his life, making him emaciated. The strange thing is that there no trace of blood flowing out of his body.

The price of using the demonic statue of the outer path was the vitality of the summoner itself. It absorbed too much of Nagato's lifeforce, making him instantly skinny and scrawny. The skinny look made Nagato's rinnegan more evil and enchanting.

"Nagato!! Yahiko!!" Looking at the skinny Nagato and the dead Yahiko, Konan wept loudly. She knew the summoning Gedo Mazo price was heavy, and Nagato would never recover his lost vitality in the future.

Konan gently stroked Yahiko's cold face. She knew Yahiko would rather die for her and Nagato's sake than to fulfill his ideal. Thinking about the feelings she had for him, she cried even bitterly. It was ironic that he died before she could even confess to him.

While this was happening, the foreign soul that managed to enter Yahiko's body started recovering its consciousness.

Yes, it is the protagonist of the story, Dragon, or so was he called.

But, before he could figure out anything, he felt tremendous pressure all over his soul. He felt someone tried to invade his consciousness. It was Yahiko's remaining consciousness that tried to take over his soul.

"Damn! Whoever you are trying to take over my soul, I'll never let you get away with it." After yelling, Dragon started a fierce battle with the opposing consciousness trying to resist the soul invasion. Maybe due to the opponent's weakness after death, Dragon managed to defeat it, wipe out its consciousness, and swallow his soul, further strengthening his spiritual energy. He gained all the memories of the former host of the body, Yahiko.

"Konan! Nagato!" After digesting all the memories of the former host, Dragon, or now called Yahiko, recovered his consciousness. He was still in his mental space. There was darkness everywhere, making the environment quite depressing.

"I can't believe I transversed into Naruto world. I don't remember anything after being unconscious. Anyway, I don't have any time for reminiscing. This body is seriously injured and verge on death." Yahiko quickly discovered his body's predicament. His body was already cold with a faint heartbeat, which would soon stop if not properly treated.

"Damn it! Am I going to die without ever experience a new life in this new world?" Yahiko gritted his teeth in frustration and shouted loudly in his mental space. Seeing his rapidly declining vitality, he knew he, at best, have a few minutes left to live.

Meanwhile, The Gedo Mazo that sucked away Nagato's chakra and vitality started roaring loudly, wiping out the black clouds in the sky. At the same, a large amount of transparent lavender energy gathered in the sky.

*ROOOOOOAR!*

The Gedo Mazo roared and turned those energies into phantom dragons. All the phantom dragons rushed to the nearby ninjas draining all their chakras and vitalities.

"You will die if you ever touch that!!" The remaining ninja quickly realized the horror of the Phantom Dragons and rushed to escape. But it was still too late. The speed of the phantom Dragon was too fast compared to an ordinary ninja. The ending of them was the same, death.

"Hump!" Hanzo stood indifferently, watching the outer path slaughtering his subordinates. He narrowed his eyes and stared at the skinny Nagato with wariness. He didn't expect the red-haired brat to give him so much trouble.

"It looks like you're the real leader of Akatsuki! I didn't expect you to have legendary rinnegan. It certainly lives up to its reputation, I must say!" Hanzo slowly said, indifferently seeing the power of the Nagato. He finally remembered the name of those spiral eyes and regretted killing Yahiko. He should've killed this brat before murdering Yahiko. Now there's no time for regret.

*ROAR!* *ROAR!* *ROAR!*

The hateful Hanzo was right in front of him. How could Nagato let him go so smoothly? Many phantom dragons headed toward Hanzo's direction with fierce eyes.

"Body Flicker Technique!" At the last moment, when the phantom dragons were about to touch his body, Hanzo disappeared into a cloud of smoke.

PS: That's it for today folks. I'm not feeling well. Sorry for the short chapter :( Not that it matters though, I just started writing lol.