Feeling that the shinobi world had nothing else to offer him, Naruto decided that was time to move on from everything he knew. He now sought to learn, witness, and most importantly, acquire everything... Everything that he desired awaited him there, at the top - Beyond the stars...

As vermin are drawn to rotting corpses, so are power-hungry men drawn to weak rulers; moreover, its restless people. The greedy/corrupt humans clung desperately to the quickly dissolving corpse of the Empire. Can Pain stop the cycle of strife in a world where humanity's corruption is abundant?