Naruto 416

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SFX: Thock thock thock thock thock

Ninja: You ready to meet the grim reaper yet?
I've played enough tag for today.
Text: Behold Jiraiya's Tale!
Title: 416 - Ultimate Guts - A Ninja's Story

Bubbles: Huu
Haa
Glove bubble: Clench

Bubble: Haa
SFX: Roll roll

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SFX: Swip

SFX: POOOOF

Ninja: Smoke bombs!

SFX: Ting ting ting ting

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Naruto: GUAH!

BubbleS: Haah
Haah

Ninja: Give it up.

Naruto: Can I...say something?

Ninja: I'm sick of listening to you! Now DIE!
SFX: WHAM

SFX: THOCK

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Naruto: You need to give up...

SFX: POOF

Naruto: On telling me to give up.

SFX: WHAM
SFX: CRACK

SFX: SkrrTHUD
Ninja: A shadow clone?!

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Ninja: Kh...
You can kill me, but more will attack your village in my place...

Kheheheh...
As long as we live...in our cursed shinobi universe...we'll never know peace.

Naruto: Then...

I'll break the curse.
If "peace" truly exists, I'll latch on to it and never let go!
I refuse to give up!

Ninja: Who...who are you?

Naruto: My name...is-
SFX: Whoosh

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Book: Ultimate Guts - A Ninja's Story
SFX: Sniff sniff

SFX: Flip flip

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SFX: Drip

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Naruto: Sasuke said he was cutting his ties to me in order to grow stronger...
That I didn't understand anything about him.

You and Orochimaru used to be friends, right?
Why'd HE leave the village
and then try to destroy it?

Jiraiya: Orochimaru changed after his parents were killed.
He became obsessed with learning forbidden techniques.

He may have wanted to see them again...or take revenge on the Leaf for forcing them

into the situation that got them killed.
And I don't know what it's like to have your parents killed.

He said the same thing to me.
That I didn't understand anything about him.
Maybe he was right...maybe I didn't.

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Jiraiya: But even still...
I can tell that hatred is becoming the dominating force of the shinobi world.

Naruto: Hatred...

Jiraiya: I want to do something about that hatred...
I still haven't figured out what that should be, though...

But someday...
Someday an age will come where we all TRULY understand one another!

Naruto: Sounds like a big job.

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Jiraiya: If I don't end up finding the answer, I'm leaving the job to YOU!
SFX: Salute
Naruto: Yes sir!
If YOU want me to do it, how can I refuse?

Jiraiya: Nwahahahahaha!

Naruto: What? What's so funny?
Jiraiya: That smile of yours is gonna save us all.

Naruto: Hehe...

Jiraiya: I'm glad I took you on as my pupil!

Naruto: R-really?!

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Jiraiya: But I haven't given up yet!

Book: Writing Notebook
SFX: flip
Jiraiya: My plan is to change the world through my novels!

Naruto: No one's gonna buy that thing.

Jiraiya: You little philistine! This'll sell like hotcakes!
And when it's the #1 book in the world I won't sign YOUR copy no matter how much you beg!
Naruto: Like I'd even WANT it!

...Because you've already given me something more important.

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Sasuke: Huu
Haa

Juugo: You're sure you're okay, Sasuke?
Sasuke: Yeah, let's just go.
We're almost at the rendezvous point.

SFX: THUNK

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Sasuke: Here's the Eight-Tails, just as we promised.

Madara: Excellent work.
I knew you had it in you.

Where are you going?

Sasuke: First we're going to heal up...
And then...

To the Leaf.

SFX: Turn

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Madara: I need to ask you something important.

Now that you know the truth behind Itachi's life,
you could still take up his mantle of protecting the Leaf Village.
Be honest with me...what do YOU want to do?

Sasuke: You've shown me what lengths Itachi went through to protect the village.
But the details of his life, to me, don't compare to the grief I've endured from losing him.
I've made my choice.

I have no intention of protecting the "peaceful" world that sacrificed him.

Now that my eyes have been opened to the truth, I could never protect the Leaf in the way that he wanted.

And I could never pardon those three Leaf councilors.
Lounging around, enjoying a peace paid for with Itachi's life...something the rest of the Leaf is just as guilty of.

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Madara: I thought you only wanted to take down those three?
Sasuke: No...Personally, I want to kill every last person in the Leaf.
I only said that for Hawk's benefit.

Madara: Are you absolutely sure?
You're willing to throw away everything that Itachi lived for? That he tried to protect?
You really feel that way?

Sasuke: You said it yourself.
Itachi couldn't bring himself to kill ME.
That means my life was MORE important to him than the village.

Sasuke: And I feel the same way...
His life meant more to me than the village.
That's all there is to it.

They ostracized the Uchiha!
Made my brother kill his parents!
The leaders who drove Itachi to his death,
and the citizens who revered the Senju!
They're all rotten to the core!

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Sasuke: All targets of my revenge!

Go ahead, call me a child throwing a tantrum. A boy acting on emotion.

"Inheriting Itachi's will" is nothing more than pretty words,
to be politely suggested by people who don't understand true hate.

If there are people who oppose how I choose to live,
I'll murder every last person they ever cared about!

Maybe THEN they'll begin to understand...

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Sasuke: The depts of my hatred!

Madara: The moment people come to know love,
they run the risk of carrying hate.

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Raikage: Killer Bee's been abducted?!
SFX: Clench clench

CloudNin: One of them was an Uchiha...
My senpai is trailing them as we speak.

CloudHottie: How shall we handle this, Raikage-sama?

Raikage: I'm gonna make Akatsuki pay!
SFX: CRASH

Raikage: Just wait for me, little brother! [H: Great, now this moron's getting into
the act]
Text: The Raikage's Rage!