Naruto 459

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[TN: After returning from Japan, completing a hellish assignment (including losing about two hundred words in a crash and having to retype them from scratch), taking a breather and getting somewhat addicted to Tales of VS, I'm finally back and getting down to work on my backlog! Installment 7: three chapters of Naruto!]

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Naruto
#459: Sakura's Resolve
[Insert text: Supreme command of the alliance goes to... Danzou...?!]
Danzou: If you would have me... // ...then I am willing to take up this duty.
Raikage: The Hokage?! Why?! // This man is synonymous with the dark side of the shinobi world! / We cannot trust a man like him with this!
Mifune: Then who?!
Raikage: Not a single member of Akatsuki has emerged from my village! // A role like this should only be fulfilled by an entirely trustworthy candidate! I myself am most suitable to -
Mifune: I cannot agree with your proposal.
Raikage: What?! // !

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Mifune: I will admit that a certain amount of power and passion may be necessary in order to lead the strong... // ...but a man such as yourself, who wields his power purely as his emotions lead him, would merely splinter this alliance just as you have that desk.
Raikage: Nghhhh...
Mifune: This is a purely impartial proposition from a neutral viewpoint. // The Kazekage-dono is as yet too young to take on so great a responsibility... / He would not have the necessary influence in other countries. The Kazekage name alone is not enough. // The Tsuchikage-dono, meanwhile, is too advanced in years... he has the image of lacking in mobility. / Furthermore, he has made extensive use of Akatsuki... he would find it extremely difficult to gain trust. // As for the Mizukage-dono, the Mist village is said to be the origin of Akatsuki itself. / Her appointment would carry the worry of information leaking to them. // It is possible that her village has spies in its midst.

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Mifune: I know not what Akatsuki intends to accomplish by gathering all of the Bijuu... // ...but we cannot allow the Kyuubi to fall into their hands. // The Kyuubi belongs to Konoha. // It seems only proper that the Hokage should take up this duty...
Raikage: At any rate, I object to the very idea of an alliance!! It would mean revealing my own village's secrets to outsiders!!
Ao: (...Something doesn't seem quite right here... / I think it's time... I took a closer look at the situation.) // Choujuurou... prepare for the possibility of battle.
Choujuurou: Hm?
Ao: (Byakugan!!)

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Ino: Unhh... / Unnhh...
Chouji: Ino...
Ino: Unhh... Unnhh...
Kiba: Stop crying, Ino!
TenTen: Kiba! There's no need to be like that! Ino is...
Kiba: Well, what do you expect?! / Things aren't like they used to be!

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Shino: Are you sure about this? // With Ino like that... / It will only be worse with Sakura and Naruto...
Neji: Let us leave that to Shikamaru. / I trust him to handle things smoothly. // And let us not forget the failure of his first mission as a team captain... // He must feel some responsibility for this situation. / That is why he stepped forward for this role.
Shizune: Naruto-kun is not acting purely because of his promise to Sakura... / He wishes from the bottom of his own heart to save Sasuke-kun!
Sai: I would agree with you on that, as well.

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Sai: However... // Sakura, myself... I think we are all relying on Naruto a little too much. // Looking at Naruto recently... / I found myself able to experience an emotion... // Sadness... // And when I think of Sasuke... something within me seems to burn...

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Sai: I have realised that this emotion is anger. // For Naruto's sake, and for the sake of Konoha... / I feel that we must do something ourselves, without simply relying on Naruto. / Sasuke is -
Shikamaru: It's exactly as Sai says...
Shizuna: Shikamaru-kun...
Sai: !
Sakura: ......
Shikamaru: None of us are kids any more... // We are going to stop Akatsuki. And we are going...

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Shikamaru: ...to stop Sasuke. // ...... // I came here to acquire the consent of the members of Team Seven.
Sai: Consent...? You don't mean...?!
Shikamaru: Yes... I do. // We can't have a war starting between Konoha and the Cloud because of Sasuke. // I'm going to explain this carefully... so listen up. // If the Cloud were to take out Sasuke, then Ino, you... and Naruto would be unlikely to leave it at that. // If Ino or one of you were to do something stupid and get taken out by the Cloud as well... // ...then I, or Chouji, or Inoichi-san, or one of your parents, wouldn't be satisfied until we'd taken revenge.

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Shikamaru: The Cloud shinobi would feel the same way... they'd come for revenge. // And then if I, or Chouji, were to get killed... / ...this time it'd be our parents going on the attack, and before we know it, there's war. // Judging from the information the Cloud messengers gave us, / Sasuke is being treated as a serious criminal on an international level at this point. // If Sasuke associates with Akatsuki any further, keeps on making himself any more enemies... // ...then I feel it is Konoha's duty to deal with him. // I think you know... what I mean by that, Sakura... // That's why I need your consent... / Sakura... you...
Sakura: Shikamaru... // .........

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Sakura: ...Just don't say... // ...any more...
Shikamaru: ......
Sai: ......
Shizune: ......... // (Sakura...)

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Naruto: (Sasuke... where are you right now? What are you thinking? // Do you still even think about me, about Sakura-chan... about Kakashi-sensei......?) // ...... // (You've defeated your brother, Itachi... // You've had your revenge... // Has that satisfied you...? // Or have you just ended up in more pain...? // Sasuke... // Why don't you come back to Konoha...?)

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Naruto: (...Have you been defeated by hatred, Sasuke? // Have you really become no more than a criminal...? // I'm starting... // ...to feel like I don't even know who you are any more...)
HawkMembers: ! / Hm? Where did that guy go? // !
Sasuke: Hmph...
Tobi: Ready?
Zetsu: --SURE--

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Tobi: Then begin.
Shikamaru: I'm sorry, Sakura... but it doesn't matter what you think; I'm going to do what I believe is best for the future of Konoha. // I need to tell this to Naruto as well... / Where is he right now?
Sai: ...Naruto has left... for the Iron Country. / To meet with the Raikage...
Shikamaru: ! // He's going that far...? // This isn't going to go too easily, huh...
Sakura: I'll talk to Naruto... myself...
Shizune: !
Sai: !
Shikamaru: !

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Sakura: ...He's the one who's fool enough to have feelings for me... // ...so I think this role should be mine. // (I was the one causing Naruto the most pain... / I never do anything but get things wrong and screw things up... / I don't want to get things wrong any more... don't want to screw up any more.)
Ao: (Wh... What is this...?! What does it mean? // His right shoulder and arm... and the colour of the Chakra in that right eye... there's no doubt about it...... // It belongs to Uchiha Shisui!! // He was a formidable enemy to me once... I could never forget that colour!)

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Ao: Hokage-dono. I would like to take a look at the right eye you have concealed under that bandage!
Mizukage: ?!
Danzou: ?!
Tsuchikage: What is the meaning of this?
Danzou: ......
Ao: That right eye... it would appear you stole it from Uchiha Shisui and implanted it into yourself. // Shisui's eyes had the ability to enter the enemy's mind... / ...to produce simulated experiences, indistinguishable from the target's own will, in order to manipulate them... // A doujutsu of the highest level... even the target remaining unaware that he is being manipulated!
Raikage: Hokage... Have you been manipulating Mifune...?!!
Mifune: ......?!
Ao: My own right eye is the spoils of a past battle with a member of the Hyuuga clan... // As such, I am hardly in a position to judge your actions... / But this is the eye that penetrated the genjutsu placed upon the Fourth Mizukage; it cannot be fooled by one such as yourself. And -
Raikage: You scum...!!

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Raikage: !!!
Zetsu: Hey there~~~~~~!
Mizukage: !!
Tsuchikage: !!!
Danzou: !!
Gaara: !
Raikage: And who might this be?!
Danzou: Akatsuki?!
Tsuchikage: ...Indeed.
Zetsu: Uchiha Sasuke has infiltrated this area. / Now then... where do you think he might be hiding~~~~?
[Insert text: Chaos ensues...!!]