Naruto 303

Pg 01
Title: Sai's betrayal!!
Sidebar: Transcending half a century, he who inherited the genes of a hero!

Pg 02
Caption: Unconcerned, Sai confesses!

Naruto: What did you say...
Sai: I came here for Orochimaru - for the purpose of crushing the village of Konoha.
Sai: This was my true mission... I came here initiate the takeover conspiracy.
Sakura: ......
Yamato: Keep going-
Yamato: Spit out the rest of whatever you're hiding from us.
Naruto: Is there more you have to say about this?! More you know about this?
Sai: ...There's more...
Yamato/Sakura/Naruto: ......!

Pg 03
Sai: Danzou-sama gave me the task of dispatching intelligence regarding Orochimaru back to him.
Sai: In other words, I was to take on the additional duty of being a spy.
Yamato: ......
Sakura: So you were supposed to propose the conspiracy plans to Orochimaru... then stay around and outwit him?
Sakura: ...That's a pretty dangerous assignment...
Sai: ......
Sai: Once Konoha is crushed, Orochimaru would inevitably betray us, right?
Sai: Because of that, we would need to constantly be in a higher position of power.
Sakura: Danzou wants to take over Konoha himself, right?
Sakura: You're just one person - and you're supposed to prepare this all on your own?
Sai: My abilities were paid for, and I was specially selected for this mission, you know.

Pg 04
Sai: I used ink to write the intelligence documents, and transformed the ink itself into small animals. The information can thereby travel out to its intended destination without my having to risk myself physically.
Sakura: ...!
Sakura: If Konoha were to be destroyed, thousands of people would die in the process!
Sakura: Do you even understand what the hell you're talking about? Do you know what you're doing?!
Sai: Well...
Sai: Since I was ordered to do so...
Sakura: Sai... you...
Sai: And one more thing, "Sai" is just the name I was assigned for this mission.
Sai: I'm no one at all.
Yamato: ......

Pg 05
Sai: I am Danzou-sama's arms and legs.
Sai: I don't exist as a person.
Sai: That is why... nothing you say means anything to me.
Naruto: ......
Sakura: ......
Sakura: If that's so, then...
Sakura: Why do you cling to that book as though it were the most valuable possession you have!?
Sai: ......

Pg 06
Sakura: The two children on the front and back covers...
Sakura: They're supposed to be you and your brother, right?
Sai: ......
Sakura: ...Isn't that the one thing that serves as proof of your existence?
Sai: ...?
Sakura: You haven't completely thrown aside your emotions as you said...
Sakura: Even shinobi cannot rid themselves entirely of emotion.
Naruto: ......
Sai: ......

Pg 07
Sai: Why does keeping this sketchbook serve as proof of my existence?
Sakura: You never let go of that book...
Sakura: Because you can't easily let go of your existence as his younger brother.
Sakura: You know why...?
Sai: ......
Naruto: ......
Sakura: That bonds you shared with your older brother were important to you!

Pg 08
Sakura: You can't erase the memory of the bonds you had with him...
Sai: ...Bonds...
Yamato: Sorry, but we took a look inside your sketchbook.
Yamato: Only the center pages were as yet unfinished.
Sai: ...!
Sai: ...!

Pg 09
Yamato: Based on the sequential flow of the other pages in the sketchbook,
Yamato: The center pages should have showed you and your brother fighting each other...
Sai: ......
Yamato: Sai...
Yamato: You're from the ANBU "root" division, I understand.
Yamato: I also understand that, for the Danzou to kill all emotion of his men, he implements a special training method... which you received.
Yamato: In order to quash all feelings of the heart...
Yamato: He implemented a practice similar to the horrific ninja training test used in Chigiri no Sato... Hidden Bloody Mist village.
Yamato: You killed your own-

Pg 10
Sai: That's not true!
Sai: This was a present I was making for my older brother.
Sai: But right before I was able to complete the drawings in the sketchbook...
Sai: ...He fell ill and died.
Sakura: ......
Sai: Even though we weren't related by blood,
Sai: He was always praising my drawings.

Pg 11
Naruto: ......
Sai: The "root" division had a lot of orphans whose families were scattered by the war...
Sai: Through the middle of which, Nii-san and I became close...like real siblings.
Sai: This sketchbook... I wanted to show him the center spread the most, the final drawings...
Sai: But Nii-san died...
Sai: Whatever I was going to draw there... I no longer remember.
Naruto: ......

Pg 12
Kabuto: ......

Pg 13
Yamato: Unfortunately for you, Sai...
Yamato: I'm going to leave you bound here with a bunshin of myself keeping watch.
Naruto: From here on, we're going in to settle this ('ttebayo).
Naruto: It's time to retrieve Sasuke!
Sai: ......
Sai: It'd be better for you to abort that plan.
Naruto: ......
Sakura: ......!

Pg 14
Sai: I met Sasuke-kun.
Naruto: !
Sakura: !
Sai:　Sasuke-kun follows Orochimaru most of the time. If you chase after him, you'll be ripped apart. You'll probably become one of Orochimaru's experiments, and that will be the end of you.
Sai: Additionally...
Naruto: ......

Pg 15
Sai: Sasuke-kun didn't mention anything about you...
Sai: I even told him how Sakura-san said that you thought of him as your own brother, but even so...
Sakura: ......
Sai: For his sake,
Sai: You went as far as to risk everything to fight against Orochimaru. You were prepared to sacrifice your own life, solely to reclaim his companionship, right?
Sai: ...Why would you do so...?
Sai: Even when it wasn't what was commanded of you...
Naruto: ......

Pg 16
Naruto: In the past, I hated Sasuke.
Naruto: But... I came to find that I really enjoyed being together with him. It was a lot of fun... He...
Naruto: He was the one person who truly acknowledged me, accepted me - more than anyone else.
Naruto: ...And because, Sasuke is my friend...
Naruto: ...And I had finally come to share an important bond with him...
Sai: ......
Sai: Bond...

Pg 17
Sai: That's why I said, facing Orochimaru-
Naruto:　Even if my arms were ripped off, I'd kick him to death. If my feet were ripped off, I'd bite him to death.
Naruto: If my neck were ripped out, I'd stare him to death.
Naruto: If my eyes were ripped out, I'd curse him to death.
Sai: ......
Naruto: So, I don't care if I'm ripped to shreds-
Naruto: I'm still going to take Sasuke back from Orochimaru ('ttebayo)!

Sidebar: This "bond" is the evidence of my existence. Never wavering, with determination in my chest, I go to recapture Sasuke...!
Caption: Naruto moves in. And Sasuke-!?
Next chapter: C Color (?) "Reversal of betrayal"!!