The battle continues. Naruto throws the rasenshuriken to the remaining four Pains. As the others evade, it ends up beating Shingendo Pain (the long haired). Looks like Shizune was avenged. Fukasaku is surprised that Naruto could throw and maintain the direction on such compressed dense jutsu. Gamabunta, Gamaken and Gamakichi keep fighting the dog creature, as the other two were already defeated. Considering the fierce dog divides itself when slashed, the three toads can only hold on, as Gamaken says. In the meantime, Shikamaru is told by Katsuyu that Naruto dominated sen jutsu, is fighting alone against the Pains, and demanded no help from villagers. He can't believe why he wants to fight alone, and wishes to help him despite his injured leg. But Shikaku corrects him, if Naruto mastered sen jutsu, he is another league, so the best way for them to help and use teamwork, is to not intervene. Back into the fight, Naruto realizes that his Sage mode will end soon given the five minutes limit. Tendo Pain and Fukasaku notice as well. So, the los toad helps Naruto to defeat one more Pain in time. He throws Gamabunta to block the others Pains vision, whi ends up "crushing" Naruto and the invoker Pain, whom he was fighting. This way, the hero fights against the invoker Pain inside Gamabunta (in the dark), as the big toad followed Fukasaku's orders and swallowed them. Inside, Naruto easily defeats his enemy using rasengans and a rasenshuriken (and so, the dog creature disappears). When he leaves Gamabunta, he is back to normal mode again, yet at least, the invoker Pain is finished. Tendo Pain sees this, and chases Naruto. They exchange some blows, the hero is not useless in normal mode. Fukasaku helps Naruto recover the Sage mode: he had a trick before coming, he left two clones gathering natural energy in Mount Myoboku, so when the time needed it, one could be summoned to give him back the Sennin power. That's why Naruto carries a big scroll ln his back. Fukasaku gets the scroll, summons the clone, and then Naruto is on Sage mode again. Still, he knows that the five minutes allow only two rasenshuriken because they consume much chakra. Plus, if he has another clone waiting on Mount Myoboku, now he has two third parts of his total amount of chakra. Anyway, back on full power, he inmediatly tries to take down Tendo Pain with a rasenshuriken. But out of sudden, the absorber Pain appears to protect him. Only now, and with Katsuyu's information, Naruto realizes that one of the Pains, the Naraka, is usually at the back and can resurrect the others, he recently resurrected the Pain absorber (the third most important). So, he must defeat him first. But Tendo Pain finally has his power back, and uses a Shinra Tensei to attack Naruto. He is left unharmed thanks to Sage mode, but before another attack, the three giant toads help and distract the two Pains. Katsuyu informs Naruto about the five second lapse between Tendo's attack, so, he takes the opportunity and uses two clones after throwing a smoke bomb: one transforms into a false rasenshuriken to deceive the Pain absorber and knocks him, the real one throws a rasen shuriken to Tendo Pain, who blocks it with his rejection power, while the other clone comes from upside to strike two rasengans againt Naraka Pain. This way, he sacrificed the second rasenshuriken, but as a deception to defeat Naraka Pain. Now, the others can't resureect. Still, the battle is not over, Tendo uses another Shinra Tensei, and the three toads are sent away, and look defeated. Fukasaku and Shima tell Naruto that they still can use gen jutsu like they did when Jiraiya was fighting. Only two Pain remains, and now there are only Naruto and the two old toads.
The battle goes great. There's a strategy to follow, as Naruto has to think very well every move. The trick of leaving two clones behind concentrating natural energy was a good idea. He thought this considering what Fukasaku told him, while one fights the other gathers the energy for sen jutsu. They can't fuse given the Kyuubi, so the solution are clones. Naruto divides himself in three, but it's known that he can do this thanks to the big amount of chakra he has. And when he recollected the first clone, he also acquired part of the total chakra. Then, the way he defeated Naraka Pain was very good. Coherent, a great plan, deceiving Tendo Pain by making him think that he was more important than the Naraka Pain. About why the Naraka resurrected the absorber, and not the others, this is because he was more important. The invoker, the Shingendo or the Shurado wouldn't be really helpful here. Nagato thought how to stop the rasenshuriken, so he decided to resurrect the absorber first. Fortunately, Naruto and Katsuyu saw this, in order to defeat the most important Pain. Still, Tendo is the second most important, so the hero must defeat him somehow. For all this, the sequence of events was very well written. About Shikaku's remark, It's clear, he knows they can't help Naruto now, he would worry too much. He trusts him, as he trusted Jiraiya.
The battle goes great. There's a strategy to follow, as Naruto has to think very well every move. The trick of leaving two clones behind concentrating natural energy was a good idea. He thought this considering what Fukasaku told him, while one fights the other gathers the energy for sen jutsu. They can't fuse given the Kyuubi, so the solution are clones. Naruto divides himself in three, but it's known that he can do this thanks to the big amount of chakra he has. And when he recollected the first clone, he also acquired part of the total chakra. Then, the way he defeated Naraka Pain was very good. Coherent, a great plan, deceiving Tendo Pain by making him think that he was more important than the Naraka Pain. About why the Naraka resurrected the absorber, and not the others, this is because he was more important. The invoker, the Shingendo or the Shurado wouldn't be really helpful here. Nagato thought how to stop the rasenshuriken, so he decided to resurrect the absorber first. Fortunately, Naruto and Katsuyu saw this, in order to defeat the most important Pain. Still, Tendo is the second most important, so the hero must defeat him somehow. For all this, the sequence of events was very well written. About Shikaku's remark, It's clear, he knows they can't help Naruto now, he would worry too much. He trusts him, as he trusted Jiraiya.
