Pain's Assault

The Invasion of Pain was the planned invasion of Konohagakure by Akatsuki leader/Amegakure leader Pain and his teammate Konan. The Invasion was nothing more than Pain's hunt for the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox sealed within Naruto Uzumaki. However, during the beginning of the invasion, Naruto was not even in the village at the time.

The Invasion of Pain arc is set from Naruto chapters 419 to 438 as of March 8, 2009.

Plan
Nagato descended on Konoha with his Six Paths of Pain and his partner Konan to its front gates. Pain choose to use the Animal Path, Asura Path, and Preta Path Pains as a diversion while the Deva Path, Human Path, and Naraka Path went in on reconnaissance alongside Konan.

The "Diverson Pains" would be used to create a disturbance in Konoha while the "Reconnaissance Pains" and Konan would go in search of Naruto and kill anyone who got in the way.

Upon finding Naruto, the six Pains would capture him and leave Konoha.

Battle
First, Animal Path Pain was hurled into Konoha and as he landed, he summoned the remaining Pains and Konoha and the battle began. Animal Path summoned a giant centipede into battle but after a while Sakura Haruno arrived and killed it. She was then sent to the hospital to aid the injured as Asura Path started to destroy the surrounding buildings. The Pains and Konan became surprised to find that no one was willing to surrender Naruto to them but they continued searching. Konan soon ran into Shino Aburame and the Aburame clan but it is still unknown what happened during their confrontation.

Tsunade seeing the destruction decided to call Naruto back so he could help but elders Homura Mitokado and Koharu Utatane were against it. Tsunade became disgusted at their viewing of Naruto as a weapon and their lack of care for the villagers so threatened them to have more faith in the next generation. The elders left angered and Tsunade left to aid the village. Kousuke then was about to get Naruto but elder Danzo stabbed the toad in the back, killing it. He then declared that the Nine-Tails was "Out of the way".

Tsunade then summoned Katsuyu and divided her so she could use her healing powers through her and help Pain's many victims.

Pain vs Kakashi
Soon, Deva Path ran into Iruka Umino and as he was about to kill him Kakashi Hatake appeared to save him. Deva Path admitted he was honored to meet him and the two began to battle. Deva Path proved to be more than a match for Kakashi and as Asura Path appeared Kakashi was almost killed by the two as Deva Path revealed a form of gravity manipulation. However, Choji Akimichi and Choza Akimichi arrived to aid Kakashi and they quickly defeated Asura Path. Despite their efforts, Deva Path overpowered them and almost killed Choza and Kakashi but Choji retreated to inform Tsunade of Deva Path's powers. Asura Path tried to kill him but Kakashi used the last of his chakra to save him. After, Kakashi appeared to have died from draining his chakra, Deva Path left to continue his search.

Pain vs Konohamaru
Naraka Path began searching for Naruto and Konohamaru Sarutobi saw his abilities. After finding Konohamaru, Ebisu tried to rescue him by sending the greatly outmatched Konohamaru away. As Naraka Path questioned Naruto's whereabouts, Ebisu told him about how Naruto was greatly helping Konoha so he, nor anyone else, would tell Pain anything. Hearing this, Naraka Path decided to kill Ebisu, but Konohamaru returned to help him. Konohamaru was quickly outmatched but as Naraka appeared to kill him, Konohamaru revealed he was a Shadow Clone and Konohamaru used a miniature Rasengan at point blank range to incapacitate Naraka Path.

Pain vs the Inuzukas
Preta Path arrived at an autopsy room where the old Animal Path was once being studied upon by Konoha's medics. He quickly removed the chakra receiver piercings from the body to hide the secret of the bodies. However, Kiba Inuzuka and Tsume Inuzuka arrived with their ninja dogs Akamaru and Kuromaru to battle him (they were not aware of the pericings though). What happened during this battle was unknown as it was not shown.

Pain vs Ino's Group
Pain's other bodies, Animal Path and Human Path, soon found that Ino Yamanaka, Inoichi Yamanaka, Shizune, and Ibiki Morino were quickly discovering the secret of Pain. So the two went to their location to stop them by destroying the building they were in with summoned animals. A few ANBU ninja made quick work of them and Ibiki led them in battle against Animal Path as Ino's group ran away. Human Path secretly followed them, and as Shizune and Inoichi deducted that there was a controlling body to Pain, Nagato, Human Path jumped down and captured Shizune. He then warned the others not to try anything or he'd kill her as he scanned her mind for Naruto's location. However, upon finding Naruto's location, Human Path unhesitatingly killed her.

True Pain
Deva Path soon found Tsunade and the two began a short conversation about his goals. He soon realized, through Human Path, that Naruto was not in Konoha and he decided to leave. However, Pain became angered at Tsunade's remark of him being nothing more than a terrorist so he chose to show her "real pain". Animal Path then raced outside the village and summoned Konan and all the Pain's except Deva Path and they all collapsed. Upon seeing this, Konan began to worry about Nagato as Deva Path rose to the shy above Konoha and used Shinra Tensei to level most of Konoha.

With the destruction, Tsunade saved most of the citizens with her healing chakra but still many of the ninja were too immobilizes to continue fighting. However, the Toads discovered something was wrong and they got word from Shima about Pain's invasion and they prepared to take action alongside Naruto.

Naruto vs Pain
As Pain finished his attack, he noticed a grand summoning in which a Sage Naruto, Fukasaku, Gamabunta, Gamakichi, Gamaken, and Gamahiro arrived. He then was pleased Naruto came to him so he could stop searching. The other Pains arrived thanks to Animal Path and they were fully repaired thanks to Naraka Path, however Konan refused to continue fighting and chose to go to Nagato to look after him as he used the Pains to battle Naruto who did not recognize Konoha due to its destruction.

Tsunade, filled with rage, tried to battle Pain again to fulfill her role as Hokage, but Pain was not interested and decided to have Asura Path kill her. Asura was nearly successful in killing her with one attack but Naruto killed him in one attack instead and declared he'd take care of Pain and wanted Tsunade to rest and keep Konoha out of this fight. Pain was only amused by this remark.

Naruto vs The Paths
First, Animal Path tried to summon multiple summons into battle, but Sage Mode Naruto and the toads made quick work of them. He then killed Preta Path with one punch and then he killed Human Path with the Rasenshuriken. After that, Animal Path died with a Rasenrengan while inside Gamabunta's mouth.

Pain then tried to use the moment Naruto lost Sage Mode to try and capture him, however Naruto showed he had a trick to instantly get back into sage mode and as he fired another Rasenshuriken, a newly revived Preta Path absorbs it. Naruto then devices a plan to kill Naraka Path (the repairing Pain) and Deva Path. The plan appeared to work but Deva Path's powers returned and he easily repulsed the next Rasenshuriken.

Preta Path then caught Naruto with Deva Path's help and started to absorb his sage chakra apparently knocking Naruto out in the process; with this, Pain stated he had won. Surprisingly, Preta Path instantly turned into a toad statue due to not knowing how to use natural energy and Naruto escaped. But Pain realized Fukasaku and Shima's genjutsu was about to be cast and he used the time to kill Fukasaku and pin Naruto down with his Chakra Disruption Blades. He then explained to Naruto his vision of peace and goals for the world and the only way to get it was to capture the Tailed Beasts. He then blasts Shima away after she says Naruto is destined to save the world and remarks that Naruto's death is what will lead to peace.

Hinata vs Pain
As Pain prepares to take Naruto, Hinata Hyuga intervenes to stop him declaring she will not allow Pain to take him. Pain becomes surprised that reinforcements arrived and Naruto begins to worry about Hinata. Naruto tells her to run as she has no chance to defeat Pain alone, Hinata's only remark is that she already knows this. Hinata then begins to tell Naruto how he changed her life with his never give up attitude and that she is quite alright with dying for him. Naruto then becomes speechless as Hinata confesses her love for him as Pain looks on annoyed. After her confession, Hinata bravely charged Pain only to be easily repelled by him. Pain then looked down at her as she was out of Naruto's view and looked back at him with a chakra blade in his hand. Naruto pleads for Pain to stop, but Pain apparently stabs Hinata claiming that love only brings sacrifice and not peace.

Enraged, Naruto's anger transform him into a six-tailed transformation.

Six-Tailed Naruto vs Pain
Six-Tailed Naruto started the battle by destroying the First Hokage's Necklace (which was trying to seal his demonic power) and he charged Pain. Pain tried to repel him, but the strength of Six-Tailed Naruto sent the force back at him. It was then revealed that Hinata was actually alive and Pain apparently didn't stab her as Six-Tailed Naruto prepared a Six-Tailed Fox Menacing Ball but Pain made him fire it prematurely. Pain then realized the power of Naruto and decided to even the playing field by luring Naruto closer to Nagato so he could do Chibaku Tensei.

As he fired it, the earth around Naruto started to be drawn to him to him. Pain then annouced that he caught the Nine-Tailed Fox.

(Battle Pending)