During Pain's invasion of Konoha he confronts several ninja inquiring about the location of the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox, eventually leading his cerca to Iruka. Iruka refuses to reveal anything and is about to be killed. Kakashi Hatake intervenes, telling Iruka to leave with the injured ninja. Kakashi Hatake then confronts Pain's Deva Path, but despite his methodical tactics, Pain proves too powerful for him to land a single blow due to his body's special abilities. He quickly summarizes the bodies and their strengths and weaknesses. Kakashi Hatake is later joined da Choji and Choza Akimichi. After a long battle, Choza is defeated and Kakashi Hatake is left with barely any chakra. Kakashi Hatake orders Choji to go and tell Tsunade about Pain's powers, and activates his Mangekyo Sharingan to save Choji from a fatal blow, knowing fully well that using it in his current state would very likely lead to his death. As he feels himself losing consciousness, he begins thinking about his dearest Friends Obito and Rin. Kakashi Hatake then finds himself in an area surrounded da darkness approaching a campfire with his father waiting for him, and asked him about himself. Meanwhile, Kakashi Hatake and the Asura Path are both rendered incapacitated. Later, when Choji arrived at Tsunade's location, she ordered Choji to get Kakashi Hatake and his father to a hospital, making no commento when Choji asked if Kakashi Hatake was okay, hinting that he is in a critical state if not already dead.