My favorite arc in the Naruto Shippuden series is the Pain Assault arc. In my opinion, The Six Paths of Pain should've been the main villain/ antagonist of the anime. He has all the characteristics of a good villain. To me, the Six Paths of Pain is much more menacing compared to Madara Uchiha and even Kaguya Otsutsuki. They should have kept it that way then it would have been more interesting and fewer plot twists and turns as it wouldn't hurt to have The Six Paths of Pain as the main antagonist of the series. In this arc, the Six Paths of Pain (Tendo, Shurado, Gakido, Ningendo, Chikushodo, Jigokudo) personally came to Konoha to capture Naruto Uzumaki to extract the Nine-tail beast out of his body. After negotiating with Tsunade, the 5th Hokage, and being refused to be handed Naruto. Pain Tendo, was not taking a no as an answer and decided to destroy the whole hidden village in the leaves using 'Almighty Push'. After finishing his senjutsu training in Mount Myoboku, Naruto returned to the konoha together with Fukasaku, Gamabunta, Gamaken, Gamahiro and Gamakichi. After knowing this, Pain Chikushodo summoned all the Pains to battle and capture Naruto. Having learnt the Senjutsu was able to defeat Shurado, Ningendo, Jigokudo, Chikushodo, and Gakido with his strongest wind style technique: Rasenshuriken. Pain Tendo was not faze by this, he single-handedly defeated Naruto using his gravity manipulation techniques and immobilizing Naruto. He then pinned Naruto to the ground using his chakra disruption blades in order to prevent him from being able to move. Naruto asked why is Pain doing all that he has done, to which Pain replied that the world could not have the peace Master Jiraiya fought for because the world is full of hatred. Pain plans to use the tailed beast to create a weapon strong enough to destroy a whole country and provoke fear in others and by fear and pain, people will stop fighting. Their chat was interrupted by Hinata Hyuga (Best Waifu). She came to rescue Naruto and was asked by Pain why she would do such a foolish thing when she has zero chances of defeating him, to which she replied that she is in love with Naruto and confesses her feelings. Pain struck her down and was critically wounded. Naruto thought that Pain had killed her and lost control of his anger and was transformed into his six-tailed transformation. With the nine-tails controlling Naruto's body, it easily overwhelms Pain Tendo as it was much stronger than he anticipated. Tendo used Planetary Devastation and creates a giant miniature planet to capture the nine-tails. Naruto called for help to oppose the Pain's power, in which the nine-tails replied telling Naruto to remove the seal and to release him. Naruto with no other choice and desperate to defeat Pain almost removed the seal and was stopped by Minato Namikaze (4th Hokage) It was revealed that Minato was Naruto's father and he was the one responsible in sealing the nine-tails into him. Minato repaired the seal and was able to calm Naruto down. With the nine-tails chakra being suppressed, Naruto resumed their battle. He was able to trick Pain to use Almighty Push on his shadow clones, giving him enough time to defeat him with a Rasengan. The last body of The Six Paths of Pain was defeated. This arc has a lot of emotional moments and amazing battle and fight scenes and it makes me feel that the anime would've been better without the 4th Great Ninja War. If you read up till here, thanks for reading my post. This is my opinion on what was the best arc in the series and it might be different for you. Thanks again!!

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