Pain raised one pale hand.
The terror was not in the explosions. It was in the silence that followed each Shinra Tensei . The shockwave would roll out—a perfect, invisible sphere—and where a bustling street of ramen shops and family homes once stood, there would be only a smooth, glassy crater. The sound of splintering wood, the screams of children, the barking of dogs… all of it swallowed by an absolute, godlike quiet. pain naruto destroying village
A young genin, pinned under a fallen rafter, reached a trembling hand toward a charred forehead protector. He didn't reach for a weapon. He reached for the symbol of the Leaf, now half-melted into the mud. As his fingers brushed it, the air pressure shifted. He looked up. Pain raised one pale hand
