Naruto 418

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Title: Naruto, the Sage!
Side: I'm getting stronger, one step at a time. You think the Perverted Hermit's watching, too?

Page 2:
Text: "Keeping perfectly still" perfected!

Fukasaku: Now he's got it.

SFX: Womwomwom

SFX: womwomwom

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SFX: Woooooooooom

Fukasaku: He's really doin' it...
I can't believe he's performin' so well without the oil.

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SFX: SHING

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Fukasaku: Yes! That dark pigmentation's th' sign of a true sage. He did it!
There ain't a single bit of frog transformation, neither! Maybe Naruto-chan's a sage to eclipse even Jiraiya-chan!

He's drawin' out more Senjutsu chakra than he was with th' oil, ta boot.
What's it feel like?

Naruto: Heh...
It really DOES feel like being one with nature...

SFX: flap flap

SFX: perch

Naruto: UWAAAH0
SFX: SKRRK

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Naruto: AAAAAAAAAAAAAAAAH-

SFX: CRAAASH

SFX: BOOM

Naruto: Owwww...
SFX: crumble crumble crumble...

Naruto: wwwwait a sec.
That...didn't really hurt.
SFX: Crack

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Fukasaku: Yer in Sage Mode, boy.
Yer body's been "activated" in a number 'a ways.
SFX: Hop

Naruto: Freakin' awesome...
Sage mode!

Fukasaku: Now that ya can enter Sage Mode, we can start th' final step.
Naruto: F-FINAL step?!
You mean there's still more?

Fukasaku: A fightin' style usin' all that Senjutsu chakra ye've learned ta create.
It's time for me ta personally pount th' art of "Frog-Fu" inta ya! [H: HAAAAAAAAHAHAHYES - Oh, it's read as "Kawazu Kumite" if you wanna not be hilariously awesome.]

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SFX: splish splish splish splish

SFX: point

SFX: Stik stik stik

SFX: BOOM

Page 9:
SFX: Dash

SFX: dash dash dash

SFX: Sk0

Guy: Jay?!
Guy2: We're too late...

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Naruto: I think I got it!

But it's not perfect yet...
I need to keep practicing it in Sage Mode...
SFX: sweat sweat sweat
bubbleS: Huu
Haah

Naruto: And I have to make sure no one sees me.

Fuka: Snxxxxxxxx

Page 11:
Sign: Cryptography Unit

Shika: The code reads, "The real one isn't with them."

So perhaps those six "Pains" were just using genjutsu...
And that other, female Akatsuki member had some kind of special technique...
She could've launched the real attacks at Jiraiya-sama while they hid her.

Sakura: I don't think so.
Remember what that elder frog, Fukasaku, told us.
Jiraiya-sama was physically stabbed and killed by all six of them at once.

Though...he ALSO said Jiraiya-sama killed three of the six with a weapon himself, and then they came back to life...
It could've been done with an extremely complex genjutsu, but it just seems too far-fetched.

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Shikamaru: There's no "too ANYTHING" when it comes to Akatsuki.
This is a group that had two honest-to-goodness immortals in their ranks.

shiHO: In any case, we'll have to continue following
whatever patterns we can find until new information comes in.

Ino's Dad: What an incredible genjutsu shield...no wonder our truth serums had no effect.

SFX: Blink

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Ino's Dad: It's no good...someone's placed safeguards inside his brain.
Ones that will be very tricky to slip through.

Ibiki: It must be one of this "Pain" character's techniques.
Please use caution - he may have set genjutsu traps, as well.

Ino's Dad: I'm aware.

SFX: WOMWOM

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Sign: Autopsy Room 3
Supervisors: Shizune
Oyone
Kumatori

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SFX: Tak tak tak tak

SFX: tak tak tak

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Pain: This is nothing compared to the pain the world will suffer.
Text: Pain has arrived! [H: So tempting to put "The Pain Train has reached the Station!]