Naruto 370

Number 370: A Premonition

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This beauty of a Kunoichi flutters about troubled times. Akatsuki's Konan springs to action alonside Pain.

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Time to hunt the intruder... Pain rises!!

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A god... huh?

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Exactly

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Well then, what is it exactly this god of yours is trying to do? Low ranking as you may be, you should know at least something, right?

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It's the work of a god. How could we ever hope to know

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I see... Then enough with your god... How 'bout you tell me some relating to Akatsuki?

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... No can do... Don't know what that is

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Note your arms and legs... I've got them restrained so you can't move, but that's not all...

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I'm also monitoring your pulse. That mean when you lie, I know immediately.

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Now spill it, anything and everything!

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If you don't, you'll be dining on flies and other swamp bugs for the rest of your life!

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Guh...

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Go ahead, make me a frog or whatever! I'm not telling one more damned thing!

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Even us underlings have our pride, that of a shinobi...!

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I don't have anything else to be telling an outsider who doesn't know a thing about our country!!

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Heh... Lowly as your are, still a shinobi, huh... Very well... Interrogation doesn't fit my personality well anyhow.

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Our talk will end here. But I'll have you stay here for the time being.

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Perhaps I'll get the rest of my information from that god of yours.

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Jiraiya! Just what do you think you're doing, bringing me out here! You know quite well about "Naruto's key"**...
(** this is probably a reasonable translation of the line here. Be very weary of any translations that say "Naruto's key is already...", cause we're probably going to see some and they'll almost certainly lead you to bark up the wrong tree of prediction.)

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Oh no, I'm not planing on more training. Certain circumstances have me wanting you to stay out here for the time being

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Stay out, you say? And just what's going on!?

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I'll be fighting a slightly tough opponent, so...

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Heh... Someone so strong you need to let me get away beforehand?

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This is just in case... But anyway, I need to be stamping the storage release order now

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Alright!

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And how long will you be?

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I shouldn't be that long... But just in case something happens to me, store yourself with Naruto

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What the heck are you saying!!? It's my belly that has the key matching Naruto's Hakke** seal drawn on it!
(**"Eight Trigrams", I believe)

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And with each year the Fourth's seal weakens! This key was left so that the seal could be reinforced should the need present itself! How could you think of putting such an important key on the very safe it matches...!!

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Nonetheless, that key was left behind by Minato himself... At some point it should become Naruto's

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F: He isn't ready yet! Surely you haven't forgotten what happened before after you persuaded me to twist the Shishou** Seal just a bit... because I can't imagine you have!
(**""Four Symbols", I believe)

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No, I haven't... But Minato's choice to entrust the key's jutsu design** is, for me...
(**I'm going to have to think a bit more about this translation...)

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... a clear sign that he intended Naruto to one day complete *that* jutsu

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But does Naruto have any need for that in the first place!?

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He isn't even capable of controlling the Nine-tail's chakra!

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Quite the contrary, from just opening the seal a crack, Naruto's chakra was pushed aside, the Nine-tail's chakra gushed out, and Naruto was taken over by it.

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Speaking of the Fourth's intentions, it's safe to say that opening the seal more and causing Naruto to fully become the Nine-tails would be strictly against them!

Frame 4:Minato only sealed the Nine-tails Yin chakra using the Shiki Fuujin**.
(**ShikiFuujin is the death-god sealing jutsu used, for instance, by the Third in the fight with Orochimaru)

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The very reason Minato went to the trouble of splitting the Nine-tails chakra into two, only sealing the Yang chakra into Naruto, was so that he could leave it for Naruto.

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Still, why would one seal the Nine-tails chakra in his very own child?

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Who knows? Perhaps Naruto happened to be his most or only viable option for the jutsu... Or if not, surely wanting to leave power behind for one's child is the very definition of parental love

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I was Minato's master, so I know him quite well...

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He's not the type to do things without reason, you see...

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Minato knew of something, something of grave importance, and if because of that something he chose to entrust the Nine-tails to his own son...

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... You're just thinking too deep

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It's said that the Nine-tails was a naturally occurring disaster that just happened to strike Konoha...

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But recently I've begun to doubt whether that truly is the case...

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Huh?

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I'm certain that it was the result of a very intentional summoning...

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Are you crazy!? The Nine-tails is a age-old natural disaster that suddenly appears from nowhere when human malice collects and festers! Besides, no one could possibly exist capable of summoning something such as the Nine-tails!

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... No... There was one, just one...

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And who now?

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Founder of the Uchiha clan... Uchiha Madara

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*ribbit croak ribbit*

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Spare me! Uchiha Madara lived at the founding of Konoha! There's no way he'd be alive just 15, 16 years ago!

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Granted... Uchiha Madara being defeated by the First Hokage at the Gorge of the End is something known to all

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Still... I have a really bad feeling... A premonition that just won't go away

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Out of all possible places, there "he" stands... What is it he sets his sights on!?

He who seeks and he who chases, an encounter, inevitable!
Next Issue "The Past Known"...!!