Naruto 440

Page 1:
Title: Speaking with the Fourth!
Side: The far-off figure he idolized was his own father...and now, he tells Naruto the shocking truth.

Page 2:
Text: The Fourth halts the Nine-Tails transformation!

Pain: What power...forcing his way out of the Celestial Terra Blaster
with brute force.

I'll have to enlarge it...

Naruto: RRrr...
SFX: Twitch twitch

Page 3:
Fox: GRUOOOOOAH! THE FOURTH!
FACE ME! I'LL TEAR YOU TO SHREDS!

Fourth: Now why would I go face someone who's going to tear me to shreds.

Anyways...Naruto.

Naruto: Naruto...? You know my name?

How do...

Fourth: Heh!
Well, I mean, I GAVE you your name.

You're my KID, after all.

Naruto: Kid?

Wait, you mean-

Fox: GRUOOOOOOOOAH!

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Fourth: Yep! Like I just said,
you're my son.

Naruto: Haha...

Fox: GRAGH! FOURTH!

Fourth: This guy never shuts up. Let's go somewhere else.

Page 5:
SFX: SNAP

Naruto: Hehe...

Fourth: I guess the third never told you.

Hiruzen-sama wanted as little information about the Nine-Tails as possible out in the public.

If anyone knew you were my son, you'd have been in constant danger.

...Forgive me, Naruto.

Naruto: Dad...

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SFX: THOCK

Fourth: Ngh...

Naruto: Why did you seal the fucking Nine-Tailed Fox in your own son?!
Do you KNOW how tough it's been living with that?!

I'm happy, I'm pissed as hell,
I dunno what to feel?!

Nn-nnh...

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Fourth: Naruto...how old are you now?

Naruto: *sniff*
Sixteen...

Fourth: Sixteen, wow...
I've...caused you a lot of pain, Naruto.
I'm sorry.

I've caused you nothing but grief...
Some father I am...all I can do is apologize.

Naruto: Whatever...
I'm the Fourth Hokage's son, I can deal.

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Fourth: I sealed half of the Demon Fox's chakra inside you
because I knew you'd learn to use it someday...
because you were my son.

I had a very good reason for it...

Sixteen years ago, when it first attacked the village,
I learned something.

Naruto: What?

Fourth: Someone was hiding in the shadows
controlling the Nine-Tails' every move.

He too was a shinobi of unfathomable power.
No one could ever face him without a very unique set of abilities.

Page 9:
Fourth: I'm sure he'll attack again.

Naruto: The Hidden Leaf Village has been obliterated...
Frouth: Right...I saw, from inside here...

Naruto: You saw that?!

Fourth: I know what happened to Jiraiya-sensei, too.

Naruto: Was Pain the one who sent the Nine-Tails to attack when I was a baby?!
Fourth: No...it wasn't him.

Naruto: Then who?!

PAge 10:
Frouth: A man from Akatsuki
wearing a mask.

Frouth: On that night...he saw through every move I tried to make...
He's no ordinary man...I'm almost positive he's giving Pain orders as well.

Naruto: No way! Pain hates everything the Leaf stands for!
His own village was destroyed by us back when he was a kid!

Fourth: I see...
then that's all the more reason he'd be using him.

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Naruto: Manipulated?
By this guy behind the curtain?!
Why is he so bent on destroying the Leaf?

Fourth: As long as the current shinobi system remains in place,
we may very well never have peace.

He asked you for your solution earlier...
figuring out the answer will be a long, hard road.

War breeds from our desire to protect those dear to us.
As long as there is love, there will be hate, hate used and directed by shinobi.

While this system remains unchallenged, hatred, that monstrous hatred, will eventually give rise to a new Pain.

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fourth: Pain may be Jiraiya-sensei's killer,
but if you think long and hard, you'll realize that he was created by the chaos and strife of our world.

To be a ninja is to be at constant war against hate.
It holds true for all of us.

Jiraiya-sensei made it his mission to end the hate once and for all, a mission he left to you.

Naruto: I can't let Pain go...
I can't let him get away with this!

Page 13:
Fourth: Right...

Naruto: Fourth...tell me.
What am I supposed to do?

Fourth: You'll have to find the answer yourself.
I don't know, either.

Naruto: How the hell am I suppoed to figure out something the Perverted Hermit and freakin' FOURTH HOKAGE couldn't?!
Stop lumping all this crap on me!

If you hadn't noticed, I'm pretty stupid!
I'm not even that good of a ninja!
And plus-

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Fourth: You'll figure it out someday.
I know you can do it.

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Naruto: Really...?
You really think I can...

Fourth: Hey, a parent always believes their kid can do anything, no matter what.

Now, it's almost time for me to go...
my chakra's running out...

I'll redo the seal...
but this will be the last time...

Naruto: Ngh-
SFX: WUUUUUUUUSH

Fourth: The Leaf will grow again...it's in your hands now, Naruto.

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Naruto: Thank you...
dad.

Page 17:
Pain: The Nine-Tails...is gone?

Page 18:
Pain: There's no longer any hint of confliction in him...
what happened?

Text: The Will of Fire still burns within Naruto, fueling him towards his final battle!