I may have been a bit overeager with my revenge.
In my defense I thought that only the third Hokage would try to protect Danzo due to his misplaced friendship that was more than likely repressed sexual tension. How was I supposed to know that Namikaze Minato of all people would try to protect him.
Wasn't this blond guy supposed to be the most moral ninja of all time, why the hell are you protecting the guy who taught Orochimaru how to kidnap babies and experiment on them!?
Of course the answer was some sort of 'I am Hokage, blah blah, he is a part of our village, blah blah, I must protect him, blah blah, revenge won't bring back what you lost' bullshit. It must be rather easy to say that when it was my family who got murdered because he couldn't hold Danzo's leash tight enough.
At least he was smart enough to teleport us away from the village. I wouldn't shed any tears for people I would have to go through in order to get to Danzo but not having to do that is nice.
What is even nicer is that they didn't have Jiraiya sensei with them. He might be a perverted old toad and very much all of his students seem to get a bad end but I still liked the guy and owe him quite a bit.
Just not enough to give up on revenge.
"Rasengan!" I barely managed to dodge the spiraling energy in the hands of the fourth Hokage and tried to stab him with a kunai, only for the man to disappear in a yellow flash, appearing beside the armored third Hokage.
Which meant I was free to attack Danzo who, surprise surprise, already had an arm made out of Hashirama cells. No Sharingans in them though. Shame, I was hoping that I would get to kill him more than once.
As I ran towards the decrepit fuck who caused my friends' deaths, I swung my arm towards Danzo.
Showing that he hadn't wasted all of his years, the darkness of the Shinobi jumped away, and the tress behind him were all sliced apart.
"Katon: Karyuu Endan(Fire Dragon Flame Bullet)!" White hot flames approached me from third Hokage's mouth, seems like the old man didn't appreciate me trying to off his old friend.
I could have dodged it, but I wasn't gonna play around anymore. So I raised my hand towards the encroaching flames.
"Shinra Tensei!" And then the flames disappeared, along with a huge chunk of earth and all the trees I was facing, courtesy of a wave of kinetic force that had sent the old monkey through the trees.
"Come now! You three are supposed to be the best and the strongest of Konoha! I am sure that there is no way that you all can't touch one guy from a minor nation like me!" I yelled out as I swung my fist down and caused the earth to tremble and rocks flew out towards my enemies.
It might have made Senju Tsunade famous but honestly, her chakra strength method had been ridiculously easy to reverse engineer.
"Just stop this, Nagato-san!" Minato yelled as he threw another kunai at me.
"I'll stop after you people give me that decrepit fossil!" I yelled back before spitting a fireball at the fastest shinobi in the world.
It was a waste. I felt that if we had met in any other situation, Minato and I could have been pretty damn good friends. Meet Kushina and have an actual family, introduce them to Yahiko and Konan. Work towards Jiraiya sensei's ridiculous dream of world peace and maybe even succeed! It could have been possible with Yahiko and Minato working together.
Instead here we were, trying to kill each other because the Yellow Flash and the Professor were too incompetent to properly hold Danzo's leash!
"This battle won't help any of us!"
"If you are here just to spout your bullshit, then just give me that old fucker and piss off!" I yelled as I clapped my hands and the ground beneath us itself became my weapon and tried to skewer the trio of Konoha shinobi with spikes made out of rocks. How unfortunate that they were able to avoid them.
"Kuchiyose no Jutsu!" Before I could send my next attack, a giant cloud of smoke enveloped me and then what had to be the trunk of an elephant, belonging to Baku; Dan's very own summoning beast. A giant hybrid of a creature with trunk of an elephant and tusks of a boar, a beast that is said to devour dreams; though it seemed like rather than dreams, it wanted me on it's menu.
"Not today, ugly!" I yelled as I tapped into the power of the eyes of Samsara I wielded, and let another path fill me with power; the path of Shura!
Through it, a hole appeared on my palm and my fingers extended with metal like substance between them.
"Let there be pain!" And then there was pain for Baku as a beam of concentrated chakra erupted from my palm and engulfed the beast's head and then the light died down, letting all see the headless corpse of Baku before it disappeared in smoke just as he had appeared.
"Goton: Dairendan(Massive Combo)!" But before I could celebrate or gloat over my victory, I was encircled by the four shadow clones of the Professor and the old man himself, who was attacking me with each of the five elements at the same time.
Seeing no other option, I spread my arms wide open with my palms facing the attacks and created a bubble around me using the Preta Path and absorbed the incoming attacks, much to the shock of the great Professor whose moment of surprise cost him his clones as the earth beneath them turned into spikes and pierced through their chests. The only reason their creator stayed alive was because he was saved by his successor with a yellow flash.
"If nothing else, you are good at running away, Namikaze Minato." I said with a smirk at the blonde Hokage who stood by the two elderly shinobi.
"Stop this Nagato-san! This isn't a battle you can win, not against the three of us!" Minato yelled as he drew a three pronged kunai and held it in a reverse grip.
"That is your fault, sissy boy. You and your whole Konoha ilk, always assuming. Tell me..." I said with my Rinnegan glowing as I held out my hand and then brought my index finger down just as Minato's arm went up...
"...when did I claim that I was serious in this battle?"
...separate from his body as blood sprayed out from his shoulder and painted the grass red.