Naruto 459

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p.1
[Title] Chapter 459: Sakura's Decision
[1] If you'll have me, / I'll shoulder this responsibility.
[Inset] Danzou as the leader of the alliance...!?
[2] Why the Hokage!? / This guy's name is synonymous with the 'Darkness of the Ninja'! / We can't entrust it to a guy like that!
[3] Then who!?
[4] Not a single Akatsuki has come from my village! / Someone who's untrustworthy is unfit! I'll undertake-
[5] I cannot consent to that. / What!?
[6] SUTSU*
*rustle

p.2
[1] I understand that passion and strength themselves are required to organize the strong, but... / someone who wields strength according to emotions like you would shatter the alliance like you did that table.
[2] PURUPURU* / Grr...
*tremble
[3] I suggest this from the composed viewpoint of a neutral country.
[4] The Kazekage is too young to wield this supreme authority... / He's an unfamiliar face to the other nations. It's difficult to even call him by the title of 'Kazekage'
[5] On the other hand, the Tsuchikage is too old, and has the image of lacking mobility. / Also, he made too much use of Akatsuki... His trustworthiness is therefore the most questionable.
[6] Mizukage, just by being from the Hidden Mist, the birthplace of Akatsuki, / raises concerns of information leakage. / There're also concerns about spies.

p.3
[1] I don't know what Akatsuki intends to do with the Bijuu, but... / we can't let them have the Kyuubi...
[2] The Kyuubi belongs to Konoha. / I believe it's appropriate to have the Hokage take charge...
[3] I won't accept an alliance in which my village has to reveal its plans!!
[4] ...Something's not right... / I should check on the situation... / Choujuurou... Be ready for combat
[5] Eh?
[6] Byakugan!! / PIKIKIKI* / GIN*
*vibrate / *shing

p.4
[1] *sniff*... / *sniff*...
[2] Ino... / *sniff*... *sniff*...
[3] Quit crying, Ino!
[4] Kiba, watch how you talk to her! Ino is-!
[5] There's no choice! / It's not like it was in the past!

p.5
[1] Is this okay...? / If Ino's like this, / Sakura and Naruto will...
[2] Let's leave it to Shikamaru. / He'll be able to find the words... / Besides, he failed at his first mission as assistant team leader...
[3] He must feel largely responsible... / That's why he volunteered to convince them...
[6] It's not just Naruto-kun's promise to you, Sakura! / He has a heartfelt desire to save Sasuke! / Of course, I agree that that's the case.

p.6
[1] But... / Sakura and I... All of us, actually. We're all relying on Naruto too much.
[5] Recently, when I look at Naruto / I'm able to feel...
[6] sadness...
[7] And when he thinks about Sasuke... His guts heat up...

p.7
[1] I've come to understand that that's rage.
[3] For Naruto's sake and for Konoha's / rather than leaning on Naruto, we've got to do things ourselves. / Sasuke is-
[4] It's just as Sai says.
[5] Shikamaru-kun... / SUTSU*
*rustle
[7] We're not kids anymore... / ZATSU* / We'll stop Akatsuki. And...
*fwip

p.8
[1] Stop Sasuke.
[3] I came to get the consent of the members of Team 7. / Consent...? You don't mean...!?
[4] Yeah... that's right / ......We can't let Konohagakure and Kumogakure go to war over Sasuke.
[5] It's a little roundabout... But listen. / If Kumogakure takes out Sasuke, for starters you and Ino won't stand for it... nor will Naruto.
[6] If you or Ino were to do something rash and be killed by Kumogakure, / Choji and I, Inoichi-san, and your parents would definitely take revenge.

p.9
[1] The other side wouldn't sit still after that, and come to take their own revenge. / Then if Chouji or I were killed, / then our dads would head out, and before you know it you have a war.
[2] According to the messenger from Kumo, / Sasuke's already being treated as an international threat and a major criminal. / If Sasuke's going to continue to sympathize with Akatsuki and spread hatred,
[3] I think Konoha needs to dispose of Sasuke itself. / You understand... what I'm saying, Sakura...?
[4] POROPORO*
*drip drip
[5] Sakura, I want... / your consent to do that...
[6] Shikamaru...

p.10
[1] Don't say... / any more than that... / PORO PORO*
*drip drip
[4] Sakura...

p.11
[2] Sasuke... Where are you now, and what're you thinking about?
[3] Do you ever think about me, or Sakura... or Kakashi-sensei......?
[4] GORON*
*roll
[5] You've already defeated your brother Itachi... / You have your revenge... / Did you get it out of your system...? / Or are you suffering even more now?
[7] Sasuke... / Why aren't you coming back to Konoha...?

p.12
[1] ...Have you been consumed by your hatred, Sasuke? / Have you really become just another criminal...?
[2] I... / GUTSU*
*clench
[3] I don't understand you anymore...
[4] Huh? Where'd he go?
[5] Heh...
[6] All set? / Yeah...

p.13
[1] Begin.
[2] KUI*
*wipe
[3] KUI*
*wipe
[4] Sorry Sakura, but regardless of your answer, we'll do this for the sake of Konoha's future. / I'll tell Naruto too... / Where is he?
[5] ...Naruto... has gone to the Iron Country / to meet with the Raikage...
[6] He went that far...
[7] Looks like this'll be trickier than I thought... / I'll... tell Naruto...

p.14
[1] ...I'm the one that idiot fell for / ...so let me fulfill that duty.
[2] I'm the one who made Naruto suffer the most... / I've just been getting it wrong... just been screwing it up... / I don't want to get it wrong anymore... don't want to screw it up anymore...
[4] Th... this is...!? What's the meaning of this? / The color of the chakra in his right shoulder and arm... and his right eye as well... It's unmistakable......
[5] It's the color of Uchiha Shisui's chakra!! / I fought that formidable man once... There's no way I could forget that color!

p.15
[1] Hokage-dono! Let me see your right eye under those bandages! / ZATSU*
*fwip
[2] What's the meaning of this?
[3] That right eye... It appears you've stolen Uchiha Shisui's eye and transplanted it. / Shisui's doujutsu was able to enter the opponent's brain / and, as it were, manipulate others by implanting false thoughts that they'd think were their own...
[4] And as long as they're being manipulated, they won't notice... It's a top-class jutsu, even among doujutsu! / Hokage... Is Mifune...!?
[6] My own right eye is spoils of war from a battle with a Hyuuga... / I'm the same in that sense, so I can't cast stones, but... / this right eye, which saw through the genjutsu the Fourth was under, can't be fooled. And--
[7] You bastard---!! / BATSU*
*bang

p.16-17
[1] Hello~~~~~! / ZUZUZUZUZU*
*glurp
[2] ZAZAZAZA*
*fwip (x4)
[3] It's just one thing after another!!
[4] Is it Akatsuki!?
[5] Looks that way.
[6] Uchiha Sasuke is breaking in. / Now then, I wonder where he's hiding~~~~
[Inset] Chaos ensues...!!