Naruto 421

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[insert text: Konoha is engulfed in the flames of battle!!]
People: Aaahhh! // Hey - stop shoving! // Run for it~~~!! // Quickly!
Tami: Ahhh!
People: Run for it!! // ! // Tami-chan!

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Naruto
#421: Get Naruto Back Here!!
Sakura: HELL YEAH! // Are you okay?!
Tami: Y - Yeah...
Woman: Thank you very much!
Tami: Unhh...!
People: The centipede is collapsed... / It looks like that girl defeated it. // !

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Sakura: Oh, good! Your wound isn't that deep at all.
Tami: Thank you...
Iruka: Sakura!
Sakura: !
Iruka: Are you all right?
Sakura: Iruka-sensei... // What exactly is going on?
Iruka: It's Akatsuki! / They've mounted a direct attack on Konoha in hope of finding Naruto!
Sakura: Akatsuki?!
Iruka: Tsunade-sama has been informed of the situation. / The alarm should be sounded soon.
Sakura: They actually came and attacked the village...

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Iruka/Sakura: !
Woman: !
Tami: Ahh!
People: Let's move, Iruka!
Iruka: Sakura, you head over to the hospital and take care of the injured! / They're packed to the brim with wounded over there!
Sakura: Right!
Frog: Right! / I'll call Naruto back right away!
Tsunade: We're counting on you!
Elders: Absolutely not. // Naruto should remain at Mount Myouboku.

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Tsunade: ! // What?!
Elders: According to our information from Danzou, / the one responsible for the current attack upon the village is the leader of Akatsuki. // Furthermore, his objective is the Jinchuuriki, Naruto.
Tsunade: What about it?
Elders: We let it pass before, but this time things are different. / Naruto is still but a child! The intruder is a man who defeated Jiraiya himself! // If Naruto were defeated and the Kyuubi were to pass into their hands -

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Elders: Ngh...! // Wh... What are you doing?!
Flashback!Naruto: I'm never gonna die until I become the Hokage!! // I'm gonna avenge old Ero-sennin myself! // I can't just hang around doing nothing!

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Flashback!Jiraiya: Our job is to provide good role models for the next generation, and lend them our help. // For their sake, we can smile as we put our lives on the line.
Flashback!Fukasaku: I can see now that that child truly and fiercely loved Jiraiya-chan. // I find myself unable to keep myself from hoping... from wishing that he truly is the one. // Jiraiya-chan entrusted everything to that child...
Elders: S... Stop this! Release us, Tsunade...! // What exactly are you playing at...?! / We are your advisors!

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Tsunade: I'd like to know what YOU'RE playing at! // How long do you plan to keep on treating him like a child?!!
Elders: Wha...?!
Tsunade: Konoha's Will of Fire has been inherited! // He has grown up! // Even now, Naruto is trying to surpass Jiraiya!! // He is no secret weapon to be held in reserve like a tool! // He is a shinobi named Uzumaki Naruto, sworn to protect Konoha!

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Elders: Wha...?! // Ngh...
Tsunade: There's something that Jiraiya had, that Sarutobi-sensei had, that even Chiyo-sama of the Sand had, but the two of you lack... // Do you know what that is?!
Elders: ...... // ......

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Tsunade: The power to believe!! // ......

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Tsunade: Just as my grandfather, the First Hokage, believed in you, and left Konoha in your hands! // Now it is your turn to believe in our children and entrust it to them!!

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Elders: ...... // ...... // ...Do as you wish...
Shizune: Tsunade-sama! // !
Tsunade: Shizune! // Have you found anything?

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Kakashi: (What... is that technique? // It didn't feel like a shockwave... so what?! / Everything around him was blown clean away... // How will he handle this?)

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Kakashi: (Physical attacks... and even ninjutsu are simply repelled... // What an opponent... Now, how am I supposed to...?) // Another one...

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Shizune: It's this! // It acts as a form of receiver, picking up Chakra signals. / And they were embedded all over Pain's body! // From what Fukasaku told us, we know that there were similar items all over the faces and bodies of all six of Pain's bodies.
Tsunade: So are the six of them receiving some kind of Chakra signals throughout their whole bodies and acting based on them? // ...A "receiver"... it could be some kind of means of transmitting Chakra itself between the six bodies...
Shizune: And just now, this one here was picking something up... // It has to be connected to the secret of Pain's strength! // Combine this with the interrogation team's findings, and we'll work it out!
Tsunade: According to the Intelligence department, the enemy is after Naruto... / And there can be no doubt that the enemy who has invaded the village is Pain.

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Tsunade: We should make sure that Fukasaku-sama is informed of all of this. / Messenger frog! Whilst you're fetching Naruto, pass on this information as well!
Frog: Roger that!
Tsunade: Shizune - gather your autopsy information and get in contact with the Intelligence department. // Find out exactly what this Pain is!
Shizune: Right!
Tsunade: Team Ro of ANBU is to protect Shizune! / And while you're at it, guard the interrogation team as well! / Don't let anyone near them!
ANBU: Yessir!
Tsunade: And I'll be on the roof, awaiting new information and using Katsuyu to attend to the injured! // I will protect the village with all my might! // Move out!!

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Frog: Right! Time for me to head back to Fukasaku-sama!
Danzou: ...That should keep the Kyuubi safely locked away.
[insert text: Danzou moves in the shadows!!]
[bottom text: Will Naruto be able to return to Konoha?! Next issue, "Kakashi's Feelings"!!]