Naruto 448

Page 1:
Text: "I won't kill you..." Does he really mean that?

Title: Inheritance
Nagato: You will believe in what Jiraiya-sensei believed in...?
I see...that's your final answer?

You're telling us...
To sit around and wait for YOU to bring peace to the world?!

Fuck you!
You think I could put my faith in Jiraiya NOW?!

There IS no peace!
And there never WILL be as long as we continue to live in this cursed world!

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Naruto: I...will lift the curse.
If any kind of peace exists, I'll grab hold and never let it go.

I refuse to quit!

Nagato: You...
How did...

Konan: Nagato? What is it?

Page 3:
Nagato: Those words...I...

Naruto: Yeah...
They're all from this book.
The perverted hermit's first novel.

He wanted to change the world through his writing.

The last page thanks a certain pupil for giving him the inspiration he needed to get started...
You, Nagato.

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Nagato: It can't...
It must be a coincidence!

Naruto: And the name of the main character...
Nagato: It...

SFX: slurp slurp

Nagato: Sensei.
SFX: Sliiide

Jiraiya: What's up?

Page 5:
Nagato: Am I interrupting?
Jiraiya: Well, I'm trying to write a book, but I can't come up with any ideas.
I figured I might think better on a full stomach.

So...everything okay?

Nagato: Remember our talk about how hatred is the prevailing emotion in the world?
I've been thinking about it for a while...

Jiraiya: Hunh...
So, did you come up with something?

Nagato: I...
I don't know the correct path to peace any more than you.

But...

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Nagato: Someday, I WILL lift the curse.
If any kind of peace exists, I'll grab hold and never let it go.

What's important isn't the WAY to bring peace,
but the inner strength to believe that it's possible!

Jiraiya: I see...very insightful.
You may be on to something.

Page 7:
Jiraiya: Oh ho HO!
Nagato: What is it?
Jiraiya: You just gave me a great idea for a book!

Okay!
Now, what should I name the protagonist...

Konan: You can't cry forever, Yahiko...we'll see him again someday.
Yahiko: ::sniff:: Sensei...

Page 8:
SFX: sliiide

SFX: step
Book: The Tale of the Gutsy Ninja
By Jirayia

SFX: Flip

Page 9:
?Nin: Say your prayers, eh?
I'm tired of playing tag with you.

Page 10:
?Nin: Smoke bombs!

Page 11:
?: GUAH!

Bubbles: Haah haah

?Nin: Give it up.

Naruto: Lemme tell you something...

?Nin: I don't wanna hear it! Now DIE!

Page 12:
Naruto: Why don't you quit trying...
SFX: POOF

Naruto: To make ME quit trying.

?Nin: A shadow clone?!

Page 13:
?Nin: Ngh...
Go ahead and kill me...there will be others...your village will be attacked again.

Kheheh...
Ours is a cursed world...as long as we shinobi exist, there will be no peace.

Naruto: I...

...will lift the curse.
If any kind of peace exists, I'll grab hold and never let it go.

I refuse to quit!

?Nin: Wh-Who...are you?

Naruto: My name...

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Naruto: ...Is Naruto!

Naruto: My name's one of his gifts to me!
If I quit now I'd disgrace him and everything he gave me!

I'll become the Hokage!
And when I do, I'll bring peace to the Hidden Rain along with everywhere else!

BELIEVE IT!

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Yahiko: You're...the savior...of the world...
You...can bring...real...

Nagato: The inner strength to believe that it's possible!

Naruto: I will trust...
...in what he believed in.

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Nagato: I was his pupil before you...
Earlier, I said that having shared a master should make it easy for us to understand one another...

I meant it as sarcasm...but now...

You're a strange man.
You remind me of my old self...

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Konan: Nagato...

Nagato: I couldn't find the strength to have faith in Jiraiya...
...or myself.

But you...You chose a different path...and in you, I see the glimmer of a new future.

SFX: Sprk sprk sprk

I will try putting my faith in YOU,
Uzumaki Naruto...

Text: With a newfound faith in Naruto, what technique is Nagato about to unleash?!