Nihongaeri Releases

Translation: Naruto 433

Fri, 30 Jan 2009 21:18:39 +0000

First trans in about forever...

Page 1
Text: Deva Pain assails a senjutsu-less Naruto!
Naruto: Looks like two's the limit for Ransen-Shuriken, even with my sennin-mode || So with two of "them" left, that lets me use it four times...
Shima: The lil' one's sennin-mode is gone 'n gone, Pa!
Fukasaku: Dammit woman, I have eyes, ya' know!
Shima: It'll be a bit dicey for us, but fusin' with'em now's our only option!
Fukasaku: But we can't do that...
Deva Pain: Now's my chance

Page 2
Shima: Wha'dya say now!? You tellin' me we can't fuse 'cusa the Nine-tails!?
Fukasaku: That seems to be the case...
Shima: Well then what now!?
Fukasaku: Lil' Naruto found his own way to manage things... and now's the time to do just that!

Page 3
Bunta: Pesky lil' fly!
Naruto: Dammit!

Page 4
Fukasaku: Naruto, throw it over here! I take care'a things!
Naruto: Bring it on!

Page 5
Bunta: Step back, kid! I'll handle this!
Naruto: I'm gonna go Sennin-mode! So you and your gang can stand back, Boss! || I don't want any of you to get hit by my Rasen-Shuriken!
Bunta: Grr, fine! Play the hero then!

Page 6
Justu text: Gyaku-Kuchiyose no Jutsu!! ("Reverse summoning technique")

Page 7
Fukasaku: He's here now! Go ahead an' realease the jutsu!

Page 8
Shima: Now that's a new one!
Fukasaku: Lil' Naruto made a couple Kage-Bunshins ahead'a time...

Page 9
Fukasaku: ... then he had 'em gather their own senjutsu chakra and wait on stand-by || So all we hafta do is summon 'em back from Mount Myouboku || Then he releases the Kage-Bunshin and gets himself a fresh ration of senjutsu chakra!

Page 10
Naruto: Him!?

Page 11
Naruto: I see... So this is the one that absorbs all ninjutsu, huh? || But didn't we take him out a second ago?

Page 12
Naruto: What the!?
Katsuyu: It would seem that that Pain is of particular importance
Naruto: So then he's the one that Pa was saying could bring the others back to life...
Katsuyu: One would assume that he is the Pain that manages those powers || And that would explain why he was in the rear when the group of them went into formation || Then there's that one the left... His ability to repel all attacks and pull anything towards himself makes him the most troublesome || He has yet to display his powers, but that does not make sense... Logically there must be something that's preventing him from using them at the moment

Page 13
Naruto: Either way, I'll need to take care of the one in the back first!
Naruto: And some smoke bombs next!
Naruto: And go!

Page 14
Preta Pain: A transformation technique! ... this the real one!?

Page 15
Naruto: You're not gonna avoid things this time! Gotcha!!

Page 16
Deva Pain: Finally, my power has returned
Bunta: He repelled it!

Page 17
Jutsu: Senjutsu - Rasen-Rengan!!
(Let's say... "Sage Technique - Rapid Rasengan")
Deva Pain: What's this!?
Text: A Dead Heat of Marvelous Feats!!
(trans note: yes, I'm trying to make the narration test as corny as possible)

Edited for typos

Terms of Use

Honestly I could care less how anybody uses my translations, with two exceptions:
1. Do not copy the entire translation verbatim and say that it's your's.
2. Generally speaking, if you use it for any other purposes (e.g. scanlations) please do *not* credit me. If you must include a credit line for the translation, credit "anonymous".

Other than that, do with the translation as you wish. If you want to steal a line or two for your own translation, feel free; It boosts my ego. If you want to frame my translation and put it up on your wall, send me a picture.

Translation: Naruto 413

Sun, 24 Aug 2008 05:40:31 +0000

Had a bit of free time on my hands...

Page 1
Text: And thus the transformation occurred...!!!
Title: No. 413: Collapse
Eight: Yeah, boooiiyy!!!

Page 2
Jutsu: Blazin' Blade, Lightnin' Lariat
(Note: ... Umm... Trust me on this one... or don't... whatever... At any rate, in case you haven't realized, this is the Eight's eighth "sword")

Page 3
Sasuke: ... Here we go... It's unmistakable... Just like back then...

Page 4
Eight: Oh? First time someone's dodged my "eighth blade" since big bro'.

Page 5
Sasuke: Damn! He's after them!
//
Karin: Eek!
//
Eight: First *you* meeces get torn to pieces!

Page 6
Sasuke: Guh...
//
Juugo: Ugh!
//
Karin: Uh...

Page 7
Suigetsu: Guh...
//
Sasuke:
He does have speed and power... But he comes straight at you... I won't have any problems reading his attacks with my eyes
//
Sasuke: You OK!?
//
Karin: Yeah...
//
Sasuke: Karin! Try to anticipate his movement by sensing his chakra! Keep track of his location and us updated!
//
Eight: Sure, if you think you'll be quick enough!!

Page 8
Karin: Sasuke!!

Page 9
Eight: Those eyes... the sharingan... a genjutsu, huh?
//
Eight: 'body won't move...

Page 13
Eight: Yeah, Boooiiyy!!
//
Sasuke: UGH...

Page 14
Juugo: He's lost a lot around his chest and neck
//
Kimimaro: In a sense, you could consider him to be myself reborn

Page 15
Juugo: Karin, don't bother... I'll take care of things. With your chakra as it is now, you probably won't be any help
Karin: What are you doing?
//
Juugo: I'll become one with Sasuke's body, offering him, in part, my own body and chakra. His body accepted my cursed seal, so this should work...
//
Eight: Dispelling a genjutsu requires a partner who can disrupt your chakra and awaken you. And my partner is the Eight-tails inside me. Genjutsu simply don't work against a jinchuuriki who's gained control over his tailed-beast
//
Eight: Despair for you is the number eight, as the three of you I devastate! And as a jinchuuriki, my true form's frickin' freaky!
//
Eight: My monstrous action is the center-attraction, a jinchuu-beast, ready to feast, yeah!

Page 16/17
Eight: I'm the eight-tails, ya' ants, so go and piss your pants!
Text: A massive bull trampling down fear itself... What is to become of Sasuke!!?

Translation: Naruto 370

Fri, 14 Sep 2007 20:24:36 +0000

Number 370: A Premonition

Page 1

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

Page 2

Frame 1:
Time to hunt the intruder... Pain rises!!

Page 3

Frame 1:
A god... huh?

Frame 2:
Exactly

Frame 4:
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?

Frame 5:
It's the work of a god. How could we ever hope to know

Frame 6:
I see... Then enough with your god... How 'bout you tell me some relating to Akatsuki?

Page 4

Frame 1:
... No can do... Don't know what that is

Frame 3:
Note your arms and legs... I've got them restrained so you can't move, but that's not all...

Frame 4:
I'm also monitoring your pulse. That mean when you lie, I know immediately.

Frame 5:
Now spill it, anything and everything!

Frame 6:
If you don't, you'll be dining on flies and other swamp bugs for the rest of your life!

Page 5

Frame 1:
Guh...

Frame 2:
Go ahead, make me a frog or whatever! I'm not telling one more damned thing!

Frame 3:
Even us underlings have our pride, that of a shinobi...!

Frame 5:
I don't have anything else to be telling an outsider who doesn't know a thing about our country!!

Page 6

Frame 1:
Heh... Lowly as your are, still a shinobi, huh... Very well... Interrogation doesn't fit my personality well anyhow.

Frame 2:
Our talk will end here. But I'll have you stay here for the time being.

Frame 3:
Perhaps I'll get the rest of my information from that god of yours.

Page 7

Frame 4:
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.)

Frame 5:
Oh no, I'm not planing on more training. Certain circumstances have me wanting you to stay out here for the time being

Page 8

Frame 1:
Stay out, you say? And just what's going on!?

Frame 2:
I'll be fighting a slightly tough opponent, so...

Frame 3:
Heh... Someone so strong you need to let me get away beforehand?

Page 9

Frame 1:
This is just in case... But anyway, I need to be stamping the storage release order now

Page 10

Frame 1:
Alright!

Frame 2:
And how long will you be?

Frame 3:
I shouldn't be that long... But just in case something happens to me, store yourself with Naruto

Frame 5:
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)

Frame 6:
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...!!

Page 11

Frame 1:
Nonetheless, that key was left behind by Minato himself... At some point it should become Naruto's

Frame 2:
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)

Frame 4:
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...)

Frame 5:
... a clear sign that he intended Naruto to one day complete *that* jutsu

Frame 6:
But does Naruto have any need for that in the first place!?

Page 12

Frame 1:
He isn't even capable of controlling the Nine-tail's chakra!

Frame 2:
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.

Frame 3:
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)

Page 13

Frame 1:
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.

Frame 2:
Still, why would one seal the Nine-tails chakra in his very own child?

Frame 3:
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

Frame 4:
I was Minato's master, so I know him quite well...

Frame 6:
He's not the type to do things without reason, you see...

Page 14

Frame 1:
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...

Frame 2:
... You're just thinking too deep

Frame 4:
It's said that the Nine-tails was a naturally occurring disaster that just happened to strike Konoha...

Frame 5:
But recently I've begun to doubt whether that truly is the case...

Frame 6:
Huh?

Page 15

Frame 1:
I'm certain that it was the result of a very intentional summoning...

Frame 2:
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!

Frame 3:
... No... There was one, just one...

Frame 6:
And who now?

Page 16

Frame 1:
Founder of the Uchiha clan... Uchiha Madara

Frame 2:
*ribbit croak ribbit*

Frame 4:
Spare me! Uchiha Madara lived at the founding of Konoha! There's no way he'd be alive just 15, 16 years ago!

Frame 5:
Granted... Uchiha Madara being defeated by the First Hokage at the Gorge of the End is something known to all

Page 17

Frame 1:
Still... I have a really bad feeling... A premonition that just won't go away

Frame 1, Text:
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"...!!

Translation: Naruto 369

Fri, 07 Sep 2007 21:39:39 +0000

Edit: Went through and did a few revisions... Nothing incredibly major though...

Number 369: About Pain

Page 1

Sidebar:
The Akatsuki leader, Pain, bringer of strife. What is the ambition he keeps within those eyes...?

Page 2

Frame 1:
Hahahaaahaha!

Frame 1:
A shinobi roars with laughter!!

Frame 2:
There, now spill it! Tell me everything you know about Pain

Frame 3:
Guh... Pfft... Uh... Ugheh...

Frame 4:
Don't give in!

Frame 5:
I'll never betray... Uhguheh... My... Fellow... Heh... Pfft...

Page 3

Frame 1:
You're a bit tougher than I expected... Seems this calls for my secret weapon

Frame 2:
Wh... What do you mean!?

Frame 3:
If you're not giving me anything, then I'll use my jutsu to... turn you into a frog!
(The Japanese here is a pun, "turn [you] into a frog" = "kaeru ni kaeru", "frog" and "turn into" being homophonous)

Frame 6:
T... Turn you... Into... A frog...
(Restating the pun here... I'll see if I can't think of something later)

Page 4

Frame 1:
Ghahahaah

Frame 2, Nobeard:
Hahahahah...

Frame 2, Beardguy:
Just what is it you want, anyway!!?

Frame 3:
There, now spill it!

Frame 4:
We might be underlings, but we're still shinobi... We'll never betray our comrades!

Frame 5:
You can't do anything to change that! Don't you dare underestimate us!!

Page 5

Frame 1:
Heh... Well then, I have no choice...

Frame 2, Jutsu:
Ninpou - Kaeru Kaeru no Jutsu
Ninja Art - Frog Transformation Jutsu
(The pun again here)

Frame 2, Nobeard:
No... Don't!!

Frame 4, Nobeard:
*Ribbit Ribbit*

Frame 4, Beardguy:
Why you! How could you do something so low!!

Frame 5:
And you're next...

Page 6

Frame 1:
Pain-sama resides within the tallest of the western towers... Or so they say

Frame 2:
Oh? What's this? Seems you betrayed your comrades quite easily... Huh...?

Frame 3:
But whatever... What do you mean by "or so they say"?

Frame 4:
... The thing is... Nobody really knows all that much about Pain-sama

Frame 5:
And by that you mean?

Page 7

Frame 1:
It's said his blood is that of the Fuuma-clan... But no one knows exactly what he looks like, and there's even those who suggest he doesn't truly exist

Frame 2:
Ah, but just from strolling about this city... Almost everyone mentioned his name, and with the utmost respect... Don't trifle with me now!

Frame 3:
In this city Pain-sama is effectively a god... Whether he physically exists or not isn't of issue... He looks over and protects us at all times

Frame 4:
Events of celebration, speeches, decrees... Every one of his words are transmitted through proxy

Frame 5:
But he's your leader, correct? Why would he need to conceal his identity?

Page 8

Frame 1:
For situations like *this*, obviously...

Frame 2:
Very well...

Frame 3:
... You... You're not part of the remnants of the former-Amegakure, are you? Who are you anyway?

Frame 4:
That's none of your concern... But tell me, just what do you mean by "remnants of the former-Amegakure"?

Frame 5:
Heh... You really don't know anything, do you? An outsider, huh...

Frame 6:
Until just a short time ago the remnant faction would infiltrate us at every chance they got, looking to kill Pain-sama... Of course such worries are behind us... If someone could hope blend in here, it'd be an outsider, such as yourself, lucky enough to sneak in undetected

Page 9

Frame 1, Jiraiya:
No more worries? And that would mean just what? I *have* been told you're in the middle of a civil war

Frame 1, Beardguy:
I'd expect as much... This country is quite isolated from the outside world... Here, let me fill you in

Frame 2:
This civil war is over with... We've emerged victorious!

Frame 3:
And that's the reason Pain-sama is a legend... He destroyed Amegakure... All by himself

Frame 6:
Impossible...

Page 10

Frame 1:
Regardless of how strong this Pain may be... Amegakure's leader, "Salamander Hanzou", is renowned to the point that every shinobi everywhere will recognize the name...!

Frame 2:
That's right... And his immense strength was also complemented by extreme caution, to the extent that simply approaching him was a feat in itself

Frame 3:
Personal guards were stationed in rotations, protecting him twenty-four hours a day, and security was to the point that not even a child met him without being searched

Page 11

Frame 1:
And just how was Hanzou killed? What are Pain's abilities?

Frame 2:
I told you already, we don't know anything!

Frame 4:
This battle... In all likelihood, it will end in Konoha's victory... I'll spare you your lives

Frame 5, Jiraiya:
I have no need for mercy! I can still fight!!

Frame 5, Tsunade:
Jiraiya! Don't!!

Page 12

Frame 1:
The three of you are strong... And even within this strife, you survived...

Frame 2:
I, Hanzou... Will hereby honor you as the "Sannin of Konoha"
("sannin" = "three ninja")

Frame 3:
I've given you your lives, now give me your names

Page 13

Frame 1:
I can't believe it... How could Hanzou have been beaten by a single man...

Frame 2:
Heheh... This is a god we're talking about... His jutsu are quite fearsome indeed

Frame 3:
But the true horror of Pain-sama is not his jutsu

Frame 5:
The true horror lies in his strong and ruthless heart of blades

Frame 7:
Those who might threaten his ideals are crushed without remorse

Page 14

Frame 1:
He did not kill only Hanzou himself, but also after murdering his parents, wife, and children, he extended his terror to all of Hanzou's relatives and friends, even their babies

Frame 2:
And then, after burning all their houses to the ground, he turned to the clients from village that maintained connections to Hanzou, killing all...

Frame 3:
Everything was reduced to nothing

Frame 4:
It was judgment...

Page 15

Frame 1:
How could one not call him a god?

Frame 6, Character:
壱
One

Page 16/17

Frame 1, "Bed" Characters (Right, Front to Back):
One, Two, Three

Frame 1, "Bed" Characters (Left, Back to Front):
Four, Five, Six

Frame 1, Text:
There within lie the bodies of six "Akatsuki"... Who exactly is Pain, anyway!?

Frame 5:
Well then... time to hunt the intruder

Preview:
Witness the horror of Pain as he assaults Jiraiya! Next Issue, "Find Him..!"

Translation: Naruto 359

Fri, 22 Jun 2007 20:12:27 +0000

Done!!

Naruto 359: Those eyes...!!

Page 1

Deidara falls towards the landmines atop his C2 explosives...!!

Frame 2, Deidara:
Guh...!

Page 3

Frame 1, Tobi:
Sempaaii!

Frame 7, Tobi:
I always knew this would happen, an explosion! Deidara-sempai, you idiot, how could you die on me!!

Page 4

Frame 1, Deidara:
Shut the hell up, already, Tobi! H'm!

Frame 2, Tobi:
Ah! You're still alive...

Frame 3, Sasuke:
He just won't give up...

Page 5

Frame 4, Deidara:
Those eyes...

Frame 5, Deidara:
It's those eyes...

Frame 7, Deidara:
Dammit all...

Page 6

Frame 1, Deidara:
Akatsuki you say?

Frame 2, Deidara:
Hell if I care about that! Don't interfere with my enjoyment of art!

Frame 3, Sasori:
So I really have to make this brat my partner... He's got spunk, but he the kind that ends up getting himself killed before you know it...

Frame 4, Itachi:
It's the leaders orders... His abilities will serve our cause...

Frame 5, Deidara:
You know about my abilities already? Who are you anyway...

Frame 6, Kisame:
You have been involved in antinationalist terrorist cells in surrounding countries, causing a number of explosions, correct? For what reason would a Rogue Ninja like yourself do such...?
(Note: Contrary to what the popular fanbase translation would suggest, "nuke-nin" does *not* mean "missing ninja")

Page 7

Frame 1, Deidara:
Reason? Why would I need one of those? I merely take on contracts to blow things up... with my art, that is, h'm!

Frame 2, Sasori:
Your art?

Frame 3, Deidara:
Behold! Aren't you impressed? The product of pursuing refined linework matched with two-dimensional deformation!

Frame 4, Deidara:
H'm! Now this is art! But my art doesn't end here! None of my works are static! When they have physical form they're little more than models, h'm!

Frame 5, Deidara:
But this explodes!

Frame 6, Deidara:
And with that explosion its essence is propelled to greatness, at that moment becoming the true work of art I intended!

Page 8

Frame 1, Deidara:
And it's in that fleeting moment of grandeur that I see true art! H'm! Art is a bang!!

Frame 2, Sasori:
... damn he's annoying...

Frame 2, Kisame:
Is he done now...?

Frame 2, Itachi:
Who knows...

Frame 3, Itachi:
Enough already... I'll take care of this

Page 9

Frame 1, Deidara:
What are these eyes...?

Frame 1, Deidara:
You wanna fight me?

Frame 2, Itachi:
If I defeat you, then you'll join Akatsuki

Frame 3, Deidara:
Don't underestimate me... Or my art... My ninjutsu is the very pinnacle of artistic accomplishment! H'm!!

Page 10

Frame 7, Deidara:
Is that all you've got!?

Frame 7, Deidara:
Game over... H'm!!

Page 11

Frame 1, Itachi:
You should take a close look at yourself first

Frame 3, Kisame:
That was the close call... You were just about to blow yourself up

Frame 3, Sasori:
Like I said, he's gonna get himself killed in no time...

Frame 4, Deidara:
Genjutsu...!? When did you manage to...

Frame 5, Kisame:
From the very start... You were bounded by the illusion from the moment you looked into Itachi-san's eyes...

Frame 6, Deidara:
Ah!

Page 12/13

Frame 5, Deidara:
This is...

Frame 6, Deidara:
Art...

Page 14

Frame 2, Deidara:
Tch!!

Frame 4, Deidara:
How could I be taken in by someone else's abilities like this...

Frame 5, Deidara:
You're telling me this is art!? Spare me! I won't admit it... ever!!

Frame 6, Itachi:
You've lost

Page 15

Frame 1, Deidara:
What a joke... I'm the superior shinobi... My abilities have no flaw... Artistic perfection that loses to no one!

Frame 2, Deidara:
I'm superior to you... There's no way I'll lose! Not to... Not to...

Frame 5, Deidara:
Ugh...

Page 16

Frame 2, Tobi:
Ah! If he's eating the detonation clay with his own mouth, that means...

Frame 3, Deidara:
*Chomp*...

Frame 4, Deidara:
This is my finest work, and your doom!

Frame 5, Deidara:
Tobi! Get out of here!!

Frame 6, Tobi:
Aahhh! This is bad!!

Page 17

Frame 1, Tobi:
The C4 Garuda!!
(That's probably what it's supposed to be...)

Text:
An enraged Deidara prepares for his final explosion!!?

Chapter Preview:
What is "C4", Deidara's ultimate and greatest work of art...!? Next Issue, "The End of Everything"!!

Translation: Bleach 279

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 23:36:20 +0000

BLEACH279.Jugulators

Page 1

Frame 3, Ichigo:
... Yhere, there

Frame 4, Ichigo:
That's enough of that face... Nell

Frame 5, Ichigo:
... you too Inoue

Page 2

Frame 1, Ichigo:
Don't worry... I win, no matter what

Frame 3, Nell:
... Ichigo...

Page 3

Frame 3, Ichigo:
We moving away from here... Grimmjow

Frame 7, Nell:
Uuh!

Page 4

Frame 3, Inoue:
... Kurosaki-kun...

Page 9 (Cover)

Text:
Nothing but an desire to kill

Page 10

Frame 2, Nell:
Ichigo... Ichigo...

Frame 5, Inoue:
... Everything's OK... Kurosaki-kun will win

Page 11

Frame 1, Nell:
... H... How can you say that...!

Frame 2, Inoue:
Because, he said he'd "win, no matter what"

Frame 3, Nell:
Every... Everybody says that!! Ichigo scared, I sure of it!! People always say "I'll win, I'll win" whenever they're scared!

Frame 4, Inoue:
Kurosaki-kun's different

Frame 5, Inoue:
Just because he's scared, Kurosaki-kun isn't someone to say "I'll win"

Frame 7, Inoue:
Kurosaki-kun is a real gentle person... Whenever he says something forcefully, it's always like he's making a pact

Frame 8, Inoue:
What he just said, I sure it him making a pact with himself

Page 12

Frame 1, Inoue:
I think it's a pact with himself, one clarified with words so he sees that that desire comes true

Frame 2, Inoue:
... That's why everything's OK

Frame 3, Inoue:
Whenever Kurosaki-kun says he'll win, he always wins, no matter what

Page 13

Frame 2, Inoue:
... So...

Frame 3, Inoue:
... so let's wait... and believe in him...

Page 16

Frame 1, Ichigo:
Getsuga...

Page 17

Frame 2, Grimmjow:
Hahahahahaahahahahahaha!!

Frame 3, Grimmjow:
Awesome!! Just what I was waiting for!! A chance to crush you, with everything I've got!!

Frame 4, Grimmjow:
And I know you feel the same!! Ain't that, right!?

Page 18

Frame 1, Grimmjow:
Kurosaki Ichigo!!!

Frame 2, Ichigo:
I'm not fighting just to crush you...

Frame 3, Grimmjow:
Don't be such a wuss!! Just say it!! Say how you want to frickin' kill me!!

Frame 4, Grimmjow:
You know, as payback for opening a hole in your friend!! I know you want to rip me apart!!

Frame 5, Grimmjow:
... I won't accept anything else...

Frame 6, Grimmjow:
I gotta make you see... know exactly why I've kept this scar you gave me...!

Page 19

Frame 1/2, Grimmjow:
I'm gonna slit your throat...

Frame 3, Grimmjow:
... and show you which one of us is the better!!!

Text:
Boiling point!!

Translation: Naruto 358

Fri, 15 Jun 2007 20:16:16 +0000

All done now!!

Edit: Went back and corrected a few typos.

Number 358: Cornered by C2

Page 1

Frame 1, Text:
A massive dragon, what is this "C2"...!!?

Frame 2, Tobi:
We're doing "that", right?

Frame 3, Deidara:
Right! Get ready to finish him with "that", Tobi...! H'm

Bottom-left Text:
And what is this jutsu!?

Page 2

Frame 3, Deidara:
Counting on you, Tobi!

Frame 3, Tobi:
All on it!

Frame 4, Sasuke:
Is that big thing can create explosives as well? And judging from it's shape, he'll be attacking from the air...

Frame 5, Sasuke:
This'll be a pain

Page 3

Frame 1, Tobi:
Here we go! Let's show this guy the awesome power of your Pop Art, sempai!

Frame 2, Deidara:
Pop's dead! I'm all about Superflat, h'm!
(Note how Deidara and Tobi have conveniently placed hyperlinks in their lines for those with "WTF!!" flashing through their head right now)

Frame 6, Deidara:
KATSU

Page 4

Frame 2, Sasuke:
These one's are different... Looks like they're guided...

Frame 5, Sasuke:
The other one of them's gone...

Page 5

Frame 1, Sasuke:
Guess I'll take him out first then

Frame 6, Deidara:
I remember Kakashi using that! But extending it and throwing it, I'll give you some points for originality of the spatial recomposition

Frame 6, Deidara:
Look like his reach is only five meters

Page 6

Frame 1, Sasuke:
So this guy attacks from a distance... And it seems he's gauged my reach...

Frame 3, Deidara:
This one's got a lot more bang in it!

Frame 4, Deidara:
Doesn't matter what defenses you have, you'll be blown away, h'm!

Page 7

Frame 2, Deidara:
Gotta admit, he is fast

Frame 6, Deidara:
Gotcha, h'm!!

Page 8

Frame 2, Deidara:
We get'em...!?

Page 9

Frame 1, Deidara:
Orochimaru's cursed seal, huh.... And to think he'd even grow wings.... Seems he managed to escape by jumping up and away

Frame 3, Tobi:
Sempai! All the landmine clay is good to go!

Frame 4, Deidara:
Good job, Tobi... Now get out of there

Frame 4, Tobi:
Gotcha!

Frame 5, Sasuke:
Guided explosives from above and landmines below, huh...

Frame 6, Deidara:
C2 is a combination of landmines to stop you and pinpoint aerial attacks to blow you up... It's all about the teamwork

Frame 7, Deidara:
You'll already completely surrounded by landmines... Step on one and it'll detonate automatically

Page 10

Frame 1, Sasuke:
So all this so he could be sure to hit me with the guided explosives... And the bastard's flying just outside of my attack range...

Frame 2, Dediara:
Oh those legs... I wonder if they'll be able to save you from aerial attacks so easily? H'm?

Frame 5, Deidara:
This next one'll be huge, h'm!!

Page 11

Frame 1, Deidara:
Like I'd let you fly! You moron!!

Page 12

Frame 2, Deidara:
That's what you get for blocking with your wing... No more flying for you... Not with just one wing, that is... Heheh

Frame 3, Deidara:
Let's bring this to an end... H'm

Page 13

Frame 2, Deidara:
Like that would ever hit me! Give me a bit more respect, will ya!?

Frame 5, Deidara:
He jumped to the side!? Hahah... Nothing to stand on! So he chose the landmines!?

Frame 6, Deidara:
Still he'll end up losing some else, no matter what!

Page 14

Frame 2, Deidara:
Huh!?

Frame 2, Deidara:
The sword...!?

Page 15

Frame 2, Deidara:
Wait... Did throw his sword there on purpose!? To check for landmines and create a platform!?

Frame 4, Deidara:
What the!?

Frame 4, Deidara:
H... How did you reach me!?

Page 16

Frame , Tobi:
The dragon's losing its balance!!

Frame , Deidara:
The length of the sword he jumped from... And the additional momentum from using his one wing...

Frame , Deidara:
Wait, there is where...!

Frame , Deidara:
Right above the sword!? I see! So that attack was meant to lure me right above the sword... And give him just enough distance to reach me with his chakra sword...!

Page 17

Frame 1, Deidara:
That damn brat!

Frame 2, Deidara:
Guhh!!

Frame 3, Deidara:
Ugh, can't move!!

Frame 3, Deidara:
The shuriken he used just a moment ago...!!?

Frame 4, Deidara:
Not good! There's landmines below here...!!

Text:
The fighting prowess of Sasuke shatters the terror of Deidara! Has this fight been decided!?

Chapter Preview:
Sasuke lands a sharp blow! Next Issue, "The End of an Artist"!!

Translation: Naruto 357

Fri, 08 Jun 2007 20:34:48 +0000

Made a few corrections now that there's a good quality RAW. Should be good to go now!

Number 357: Deidara vs Sasuke!!

Page 1

Text:
Lick, lick, lick! Once you see all three tongues, it's all over. H'm!

Page 2

Frame 1, Text:
Orochimaru now resides within Kabuto...!!

Frame 2, Naruto:
You... integrated him?

Frame 3, Kabutomaru:
Why the surprise... You see, I merely took part of Orochimaru-sama's remains after Sasuke killed him...

Frame 4, Kabutomaru:
And transplanted in into this body of mine, that's all

Page 3

Frame 2, Kabutomaru:
That said, it's truly an amazing life force! I may have integrated it, but it's now trying to take over my body

Frame 3, Yamato:
You're crazy...

Frame 4, Hinata:
What's... that?

Frame 5, Hinata:
Byakugan!

Frame 6, Hinata [thought] (I assume):
It's already taken over nearly a third of his body...

Page 4

Frame 1, Kabutomaru:
But part of me is doing everything it can to resist being taken over!

Frame 2, Kabutomaru:
I can truly sense that part that strives to surpass Orochimaru-sama

Frame 4, Naruto:
Heh

Frame 5, Naruto:
Then keep on striving, by all means! After we shut you away in Konoha's prison!!

Page 5

Frame 5, Naruto:
Alright! We got him!!

Frame 6, Hinata:
Behind you!

Page 6

Frame 1, Kabutomaru:
Hyaahahahahaa!

Frame 2, Naruto:
Dammit...

Frame 3, Kabutomaru:
After I become able to completely control Orochimaru-sama's power... I'll return to fight you, Naruto-kun

Frame 4, Kabutomaru:
But you'll be my second target... First I'll exact revenge on Orochimaru-sama's murderer, Sasuke-kun

Frame 5, Kabutomaru:
Until we meet again

Page 7

Frame 5, Deidara:
Ah, the sharingan... No doubt this is Itachi's brother... And the very reason why he was able to kill Orochimaru was because of that Uchiha blood... H'm

Frame 5, Deidara:
A pathetic loser mistaking the gifts of his heredity for his own power

Page 8

Frame 2, Deidara:
He's fast!

Page 9

Frame 1, Tobi:
Huh?

Frame 4, Sasuke:
One down... You seem to like to talk, so I'll ask *you* about Itachi

Page 10

Frame 2, Sasuke:
What's this...

Frame 3, Deidara:
What's up with you, Tobi! He may be a kid, but don't let your guard down, h'm!

Frame 3, Tobi:
Seriously, his shunshin jutsu is just too fast for us to deal with...

Frame 5, Deidara:
First I'll gauge his movement skills with chakra level C1...

Page 11

Frame 2, Deidara:
Tobi, stand back!

Frame 5, Tobi:
Uh oh!

Page 12

Frame 5, Tobi:
Woah! Sempai, timeout! Don't detonate them!!

Page 13

Frame 1, Deidara:
Tch...

Frame 2, Tobi:
Sempaaii! Behind you!! Behind you!!

Frame 4, Deidara:
Ugh!

Frame 6, Deidara:
KATSU

Page 14

Frame 2, Tobi:
Sempaaaiii!!

Frame 3, Tobi:
*sob sob* He 's a strict sempai, but still a good one... I'll never forget you, Deidara-sempai...

Frame 4, Deidara:
Tobi, quit your whining!

Frame 4, Tobi:
Oh! ... You're alive

Frame 5, Deidara:
I managed to somehow get away with the push from the blast... I'm lucky I was only using the C1 chakra... H'm

Page 15

Frame 2, Deidara:
His movement is definitely too fast

Frame 3, Deidara:
... Which mean this fight calls for C2

Frame 4, Tobi:
Th... That's...

Page 16/17

Frame 1, Text:
A massive dragon! Yet another explosive work of art... What is "that"!!?

Frame 2, Tobi:
Here we go! One of Deidara-sempai's specialty works of art, the C2 dragon!

Frame 3, Sasuke:
So he has the ability to make explosives with his palms...

Frame 4, Deidara:
You know what to do, Tobi!!

Frame 5, Tobi:
Got it covered, sempai! All ready for "that"...!

Chapter Preview:
Next Issue, Sasuke is trapped by Deidara...! "The terror of C2!!

Mid-chapter Chapter Preview:
Deidara vs Sasuke!! What becomes of this massive battle!?

Translation: Naruto 356

Fri, 01 Jun 2007 20:12:24 +0000

Should be done now!

Number 356: Engagement...!!

Color Spread

Text:
A climate of tension descends upon the Shinobi World! My friend, wait for me! A boy runs through the rain!!

Page 1

Text:
An unparalleled artist of explosions. A goof-off newcomer. Akatsuki's makeshift mismatch of a duo closes in on their target... is it Naruto, or perhaps...!?

Page 2

Text:
Who was watching Sasuke!?

Frame 3, Sasuke:
Come out... whoever you are

Page 3

Frame 2, Sasuke:
Anything new?

Frame 3, Bitch-lover:
The scent still isn't clear... But we are getting closer and closer

Frame 6, Bitch-lover:
Really close...

Page 4

Frame 2, Bitch-lover:
... Dammit... The scent's moving away now...

Page 5

Frame 1, Yamato:
Naruto... Hinata... You know what to do

Frame 2, Naruto:
Yeah...

Frame 2, Hinata:
Yes

Frame 6, Naruto:
You're...

Page 6

Frame 1, Kabuto:
Looks like I wasn't hiding well enough...

Frame 3, Yamato:
Yakushi Kabuto, huh... Back in the village you're listed as a wanted criminal and there're orders to restrain you upon confirmation of target... But to have you come to us... You've got quite the nerve...

Frame 4, Kabuto:
Well, I have a little something to talk with Naruto-kun about...

Page 7

Frame 2, Naruto:
Is it true that Sasuke killed Orochimaru!?

Frame 3, Kabuto:
Heh, nothing but Sasuke, same as always... But yes... It's true

Frame 4, Kabuto:
More importantly... I've brought a little present for you, Naruto-kun

Frame 6, Sasuke:
That outfit... You're...

Page 8

Frame 1, Tobi:
So you're Sasuke-kun, huh? Mmm... You sure do look a lot like Itachi-san!

Frame 3, Tobi:
Damn you're scary!!

Page 9

Frame 5, Deidara:
KATSU
(deidara's "detonate" phrase)

Page 11

Frame 1, Deidara:
Heh!

Frame 3, Yamato:
And just what is that?

Frame 3, Kabuto:
Information on Akatsuki that had previously been gathered by our organization

Frame 4, Naruto:
Why did you bring that?

Frame 5, Kabuto:
Why? To give to you

Page 12

Frame 1, Yamato:
So are you planning on trying to make a deal with us or something?

Frame 1, Kabuto:
No... I don't expect something like this to be much of a bargaining chip... Especially when dealing with Konoha...

Frame 2, Yamato:
Well then what? Unlike Orochimaru, it's not like Akatsuki's after you, right?

Frame 3, Kabuto:
This is a mere present... A token of thanks for Naruto... Akatsuki *is* after Naruto, after all...

Frame 4, Naruto:
A token of thanks...?

Frame 5, Kabuto:
You see... After Orochimaru died... I found myself not knowing who I was, again...

Page 13

Frame 1, Kabuto:
Without knowing parent or country, I was taken in by the enemy... From a young age I've moved about countries and villages as a spy... To me things like countries, villages... They hold no firm reality in my mind

Frame 2, Kabuto:
That was, of course, until I found myself under the wing of Orochimaru-sama... But that presence once again left me

Frame 3, Kabuto:
Who am I anyway... The pain of not having an identity... I'd think you should understand... Naruto-kun

Frame 4, Kabuto:
Am I Uzumaki Naruto... Or am I the Nine-Tails... I'm sure you asked yourself such in the past, the victim of the heartless gazes of people surrounding you

Page 14

Frame 2, Tobi:
Looks like he's got some skills

Frame 2, Deidara:
Hah... I still can't believe that Orochimaru was done in by a brat like this... H'm

Frame 4, Deidara:
Oh, such malice, I like these eyes of his, Tobi! H'm!

Frame 4, Tobi:
I'm gonna have to apologize to Itachi-san after this...

Page 15

Frame 1, Kabuto:
But you...

Frame 2, Kabuto:
You chose to believe in your own power, that you are Uzumaki Naruto... With great persistence you overcame the gazes directed at the Nine-tails

Frame 3, Kabuto:
And that's why you came to know your own identity... gaining the respect of friends along with that realization

Frame 4, Kabuto:
But I... I never attempted to surpass Orochimaru-sama, and merely clung to his great power

Frame 5, Kabuto:
But now I truly understand how you felt... You made me become aware

Frame 6, Kabuto:
I decided I too wish to be like you, Naruto-kun... And for that reason...

Page 16/17

Frame 1, OrochiKabu:
With Orochimaru-sama now integrated into this body, I plan on finding a new me, one stronger than Orochimaru-sama himself

Frame 5, OrochiKabu:
Finding a new me... That's a lesson you taught me... And also the reason for the thanks... Naruto-kun

Frame 6, OrochiKabu:
Orochimaru-sama is the symbol of rebirth... And as a goal, a greatness meant to be exceeded by me, he'll continue to live inside me

Text:
The great serpent escapes death... and lives on!!

Chapter Preview:
Next Issue, "Deidara vs. Sasuke!!"

Translation: Naruto 355

Fri, 25 May 2007 22:45:56 +0000

Naruto 355, Title:
Which one...!?

Page 1

Text:
They pursue Itachi and Sasuke... Eight elite shinobi from Konoha begin their search!!

Frame 2, Kakashi:
Alright

Frame 3, Kakashi:
For now we'll use this as a base point and search the surrounding five kilometers

Frame 4, Kakashi:
If we don't find anything we'll move the base point and search within a different five kilometer radius... And we'll repeat as necessary

Frame 5, Sakura:
Five kilometers...? At that range we won't be able to use the radios... Not to mention it's dangerous to be alone when we're so spread out!
(/me notes that Kakashi has yet to specifically say anything about the team actually breaking up...)

Page 2

Frame 1, Sakura:
It's a fundamental rule that patrols are formed in at least pairs... If we run into they enemy, we could...

Frame 2, Yamato:
Sakura, there's no need to worry so much...

Frame 4, Pakkun:
You'll benefit from our yells that echo farther than radios.... and our noses that sense the danger before it happens

Page 3

Frame 1, Naruto:
Pakkun!

Frame 2, Kakashi:
I'll explain team formation now... For this mission we're being cautious and assigning two ninja dogs per member

Frame 3, Sakura:
Two dogs...? Huh? But that means that...

Frame 4, Kakashi:
I expect you to get along with your companions

Frame 5, Dog 1:
I'll help you, Sakura-chan

Frame 5, Dog 2:
You always choose the noisy bitches...
(So many dogs... couldn't resist)

Frame 6, Dog 1:
I'll group *woof* Shino
(Shoot me please...)

Frame 6, Dog 2:
Mmm...

Page 4

Frame 1, Sai:
Hello

Frame 1, Dog:
Heheheheh...

Frame 2, Naruto:
What about me?

Frame 3, Kakashi:
Akatsuki's after you because you're a Jinchuuriki... with that in mind we'll match you with Yamato and Hinata because of her perception abilities

Frame 3, Pakkun:
And loud-mouth Bull as well

Frame 4, Bull:
Woof!

Frame 4, Hinata:
H... Hope I can help, Naruto-kun

Frame 5, Naruto:
Countin' on it!

Page 5

Frame 1, Kakashi:
Kiba and I will each take one dog due to our experience in handling them

Frame 1, Kiba:
Looks like we're set to go then!

Frame 2, Kakashi:
So listen up, everyone... Track Sasuke's scent first... Akatsuki's comes second... But in the event you discover either, stop after locating the target and then regroup here

Page 6

Frame 1, Kakashi:
Head out!

Frame 2, Suigetsu:
I'll be off then

Page 7

Frame 1, Karin:
Perfect!

Frame 2, Karin:
Saasuuukeee... You think the two of us could...

Frame 3, Sasuke:
No, get going already...

Frame 4, Karin:
Tch!

Page 8/9

Frame 1, Deidara:
All in good working order... h'm

Frame 2, Tobi:
So... Which are we after then? Sasuke or the Nine-tails...

Frame 3, Deidara:
Which one indeed... h'm

Page 10

Frame 1, Sign:
"Pawn Shop"

Frame 2, Hired Muscle:
Who the hell are you?

Frame 3, Suigetsu:
Just one grunt couldn't hurt

Frame 6, Smokey:
Go check what happened

Page 11

Frame 3, Scarface:
What the... Who're...

Page 12

Frame 1, Suigetsu:
I hear you manage the books for some guy named Kakuzu, part of Akatsuki...

Frame 1, Scarface:
Uhh... guh...

Frame 2, Smokey:
I... I'll tell you anything... J... Just spare my life, please...

Frame 3, Suigetsu:
'atta boy, now spill it...

Frame 5, Juugo:
Perhaps I could use your aid...

Page 14

Frame 3, Sakura:
What is it?

Frame 4, Dog:
It's faint, but I've picked up Uchiha Sasuke's scent...

Page 15

Frame 3, Deidara:
Found 'em, Tobi... h'm

Frame 3, Tobi:
Holy hell, that was quick!

Frame 4, Tobi:
And so, which is it?

Frame 5, Deidara:
Heh... Follow me, Tobi

Page 17

Text:
A shadow silently approaches the Konoha shinobi. And another gazes at Sasuke... Whose back is being watched by the fearsome Deidara!?

Translation: Naruto 354

Sat, 19 May 2007 02:11:24 +0000

First translation in quite a while... Tell me if you notice anything... "weird"...

Number 354: Targets Set, Head Out

Page 1

Sidetext:
"Hebi", a group formed for but one purpose... yet a swell of action flows through not just them, but begins to sweep the world as a whole

Page 2

Text:
The shortest path to Sasuke is the pursuit of Itachi! However...

Frame 1, Tsunade:
So you'll go after Itachi to find Sasuke... Still... Assuming you do locate Itachi, what do you plan on doing?

Frame 3, Kakashi:
Granted... One squad wouldn't be able to do much of anything

Frame 4, Naruto:
Just what do you mean by that?

Frame 5, Sakura:
If we kill Itachi Sasuke won't have any objective to pursue, so capturing Itachi is the only option... In other words, we need to form an even larger group before taking action

Page 3

Frame 1, Kakashi:
Exactly... Still, while a large group is needed, just 2 squads will fit our needs best

Frame 2, Kakashi:
After all, when the number of targets to be captured is small... 1 or 2 targets for instance... You stand a greater risk of being detected with 3 or more squads, not to mention issuing commands becomes difficult thus limiting our overall mobility

Frame 3, Jiraiya:
On top of all that, capture requires a significantly greater amount of technique than just killing someone... Putting a focus on over all teamwork makes it more prudent to choose members that have done a fair number of missions together...

Frame 4, Kakashi:
And with just that in mind I've called on some shinobi just perfect for this mission

Frame 5, Kakashi:
We're ready now... Come one in

Page 4

Frame 4, Suigetsu:
To think there's a hideout here in these ruins... First I've heard of it

Page 5

Frame 1, Sasuke:
Orochimaru doesn't have anything to do with it... It's a weapons dealer that my clan once used... Here we'll make preparations for battle

Frame 2, Suigetsu:
Same type of passageway, one after another... It'd sure be easy to get lost

Frame 3, Karin:
But jeez, this place is a complete drag... I almost feel like choking

Frame 3, ????:
So sorry our home doesn't meet your standards

Frame 5, Karin:
Huh?

Frame 6, Sasuke:
It been a while... Denka and Hina

Page 6

Frame 1, Denka (guess):
I was wondering if it wasn't little Sasuke...

Frame 1, Hina (guess):
What are you for?
コラ！岸本！わけのわからん言葉を文の最後に付け足すんじゃねぇ！！！

Frame 2, Sasuke:
Weapons, medicine... and whatever else we need... We're here to prepare for coming battles

Frame 3, Karin:
These are...

Frame 4, Suigetsu:
Heh... A talking fox I take it... Come here boy

Frame 5, Denka:
*hiss*!!

Page 7

Frame 1, Denka:

Frame 1, Suigetsu:
Woah...

Frame 1, Sasuke:
These are ninja cats... Don't do anything careless... You'll be ripped to shreds

Frame 2, Hina:
Did you bring us a gift?

Frame 3, Sasuke:
Here.... A bottle of catnip

Frame 4, Denka:
Follow me... I'll lead you to Cat Granny

Page 8

Frame 2, Sasuke:
I'm indebted, Cat Granny

Frame 4, Cat Granny:
I take it you'll be heading towards Itachi?

Page 9

Frame 2, Cat Granny:
I've known you two since you were kids, but to think things would come to this... The two of you are all that's left of the Uchihas... A shame you now have to fight to the death...

Frame 3, Sasuke:
We're leaving now... Thank you for everything, now and before as well

Frame 4, Girl:
Grandma, do we have anything larger that will fit this guy?

Frame 5, Cat Granny:
If you need something large, wrap that curtain around yourself... We're not a clothing store here

Frame 5, Girl:
Grandma, don't you think that's a bit rude, considering we've already accepted payment!?

Page 10

Frame 2, Juugo:
Satisfactory...

Page 11

Frame 4, Deidara:
Well then... Which do we go for... h'm?

Frame 4, Tobi:
Which what? What and what are you talking about?

Frame 5, Deidara:
The nine-tails jinchuuriki being lead by Kakashi.... or Uchiha Sasuke

Page 12

Frame 1, Tobi:
Let's not go for either! We've already met our quotas anyway!

Frame 2, Deidara:
Give me a break... I still have to pay the nine-tails jinchuuriki back for beating on me... Not to mention Kakashi for what he did to my right arm... h'm

Frame 3, Deidara:
And I'm not about to forget how Uchiha Sasuke killed Orochimaru before I had a chance at him...

Frame 4, Deidara:
We're leaving, Tobi!

Frame 5, Tobi:
Awwww, jeeeezz...!!

Page 13

Frame 1, Kisame:
Are you fine with all that? Itachi-san

Page 14/15

Frame 1, Sasuke:
Let's go

Frame 3, Kakashi:
Well isn't this just horrible whether for our departure...

Page 16/17

Text:
Akatsuki and Hebi are on the move... As two familar squads from Konoha also head out!!

Frame 1, Naruto:
Alright!! Here we go!!

Frame 1, Kiba:
It's perfect whether when you have someone who's obviously in need of a cold-shower

Bottom-Left Text:
An Elite Team of Eight!!

Translation: Blue Dragon: Ral Ω Grado 1

Fri, 01 Dec 2006 07:22:27 +0000

Well, it's a start...

Anyhow, as a point of discussion for other transtors doing this manga or just for general reference, here's the namings that I've been going with so far...

ラル = Ral
(Because that's what I've see people using so far)
ゲラド = Grado
(Likewise)
ミオ = Mio
(Just seemed most logical)
ロイ = Roy
(Based on how the Death Note names tured out, this just seems logical)
カゲ = A Shadow, The Shadows
(Capitalization strikes me as being the most logical solution to diffiencating between the monsters and normal shadows... the other option is transliteration, but I've decided to stay away from that)
闇女王オブスキュリア = The Dark Queen Obsqulia
(Complete and total guess at this point)

Original Story - Takano Tsuneo
Manga - Obata Takeshi

Page 1/2

Upper Right:
闇は影を育み影は闇を光へ導く！！
Darkness fosters shadows... And the shadows lead darkness into the light...!!

Title:
ＴＡＬＥ１　Ｐｒｏｍｉｓｅ
Tale 1 Promise

Page 3

Grado:
では目が６つ、足が１２本なんだ
OK then, this one has 6 eyes and 12 legs

Ral:
カゲ
A Shadow

Grado:
正解次、角１５本、毒針の尻尾７本なんだ
Correct... The next one has 15 horns and 7 tails with poisonous needles

Ral:
カゲ
A Shadow

Grado:
正解
Correct

Ral:
グラド、もう２０回くらい答えがカゲが続いてるぞ
Grado, come on, the answer's been "a Shadow" for about 20 times in a row now

Grado:
仕方ないだろうオレも光ある世界のものはまだ人間くらいしかまともに見てないんだ
Not much I can do about that... Humans are the about only thing from the world of light that I've ever gotten a good look at

Ral:
うん俺も何も見た事ないしなカゲだって見た事ない人間っぷくないのはカゲと答えているだけだでもこれじゃつまらない
Right... I mean, I haven't seen anything either... I haven't even seen a Shadow... I'm just answering "a Shadow" for anything that doesn't sound like a human... But this just gets old too fast

Grado:
ではまたおまえの教育係が教えてくれたしりとりという人間の遊びをするか
Well then do you want to play that word-chain game your instructor taught you

Ral:
嫌だよ、飽きたしグラド弱いしあっ！上の扉が開いた教育係（ミオ）がまた来るぞ今度こそここから出られるかもしれない
No way, I'm bored of it... Besides you stink at it... Ah! The door up there just opened... Mio's coming down again... This might finally be when we're able to get out

Grado:
だったらありがたいな
If so, I couldn't be happier

Page 4

Frame 4, Ral:
ほら、いつもより早足だ
Listen, she's walking faster than normal

Frame 6, Mio:
ちゃんと残さず食べてるわね
Eating everything, I see, right to the last crumb

Page 5

Ral:
出られるように上手く現在（いま）の俺達の状態を説明してみるよ
I'll try my best to explain our current relationship well so that we can be let out

Grado:
ああ、ここから出られたら閉じ込めた人間に復習し―闇の世界を壊したあいつを殺す
Yes, and once we get out we'll take revenge on the human who imprisoned us... And then kill the scum that destroyed the world of darkness

Ral:
本当にそれができれば主導権は俺いいんだな？
And if it means we're able to do that, your fine with me being in control, right?

Grado:
人間の方が知恵はあるだからラル、オレはおまえの体内で血肉と共に力を与えたんだ
Humans are wiser, after all... And that, Ral, is why I have provided you with power, from within your body of flesh and blood

Ral:
力か試してみたいな
Power, huh... I'd sure like to try using it

Grado:
大丈夫だ光の下（もと）であれば必ず使える
Don't worry... As long as there's light you'll be able to use it, no matter what

Ral:
光の下（もと）光のある世界、どんな世界だろう？
... As long as there's light... I wonder what the world of light is like?

Page 6

Frame 1, Mio:
ラル、起きてる？
Ral, are you awake?

Frame 1, Ral:
ハイ！！ミオ先生
Wide awake!! Ms Mio

Frame 2, Mio:
ラル、あなた本当にドラゴン（カゲ）と仲良しになったの？
Ral, have you truly become friends with the Shadow, Dragon?

Frame 2, Ral:
ミオ先生、今日は教科書や聖書の勉強じゃないんですね
Mio-sensei, I take it this means we aren't going to be studying textbooks and the bible today?

Frame 3, Mio:
どうせあなた、カゲの勉強の時以外は寝てるか死んだフリじゃない
Well, unless it's about the Shadows, you *are* always sleeping or playing dead

Frame 3, Ral:
ミオ先生、今、外ヤバイんでしょ？僕出られそうですか？
Mio-sensei, it's gotten bad out there, hasn't it? Do you think I'll be let out?

Page 7

Frame 1, Mio:
わかりません私はただの教育係ですからでも
I don't know that... I'm just your instructor, after all... Still...

Frame 2, Mio:
出たいのなら正直に答えてドラゴン（カゲ）を操れるの？
If you want to get out of there, then answer truthfully... Are you able to control the Shadow, Dragon?

Frame 2, Ral:
ハイ！信じてください
Yes! Please, believe me

Frame 3, Mio:
人間に入ったカゲは内側から人間を喰って精神を侵してしまう奴が多いそうですが僕のカゲは僕を食べてしまったらすぐにバレると考え、逆に僕の体内で力を分けてくれたんです
I've heard that many shadows eat humans from the inside of their host, ravishing the mind... But my Shadow figures that it wouldn't be able to keep something like that secret, and instead has chosen to share its power with me from within my body

Frame 4, Ral:
ドラゴンは今のカゲのボスが気に入らないだから僕の知恵と自分の力を合わせカゲを倒すと僕達ならどんなカゲでも倒せます信じてください
Dragon doesn't much care for the current Shadow boss... That why it's said we'll use my wisdom and its power to destroy Shadows... Together we can defeat any Shadow... Please, believe us

Page 8

Frame 1, Ral:
外色？見る？全く想像、つかない
The outside... "Color"? "To see"? I can't even imagine what those things would be...

Frame 2, Ral:
これは自分の手、顔も触れる触る事で確かに俺がここに居る事、大体の姿もわかる後は壁そしてグラドとの頭の中での会話だけ理屈ではカゲってヤツが俺に入ったんだとわかるけど、こいつも実態は無い生まれてから１５年ずっとこの中俺にとってはこれが普通ここが安心だった外に出るのが恐ろしくてここで死ぬのも悪くないそう考えていた時もあったでも、いざ出られるかもしれないとなった今はなんとしても
This is my hand, and with it I can touch my face...... Through touch I can tell that I'm here, and even know my general form... After that, there's the wall...... And the conversations I have with Grado in my head, but that's it... Supposedly this thing called a "Shadow" is inside me, and I understand that, but it doesn't have any form... I was born 15 years ago... And have always been in here... To me, this is normal... And I was comfortable here... The thought of going outside was so freighting that even dying in here didn't seem that bad... There were times I used to think like that... But now, now that I finally have a chance to get out of here, no matter what, I must...

Page 9

Frame 1, Ral:
外を見たい、実感したい試したい
I want to see the outside, to feel it... I want to put things to the test...

Frame 2, Soldier:
ミオ
Mio

Frame 2, Mio:
ハイ
Yes

Frame 3, Soldier:
ロイ様が最後の話し合いをと早く上へ
Master Roy has ordered a final meeting... Upstairs, quickly

Frame 3, Mio:
わかりました
Very well

Frame 5, Ral:
出られるかな？
I wonder if we'll be let out?

Frame 6, Grado:
外で人間を襲っているというカゲの凶暴（つよ）さ次第だな
That depends on how strong the shadows attacking the humans outside are

Page 10/11

Frame 1, Soldier:
うわああ
Uwaaah

Frame 3, Soldier:
城に近づけるな何としてもこの砦を死守するのだ
Let them no closer to the castle...! Defend this tower with your lives, protect it at all costs!

Frame 3, Soldier:
駄目ですカゲの大群第三砦を突破！！
It's no use... The Shadow swarm has broken past the third tower!!

Frame 4, Group:
ロイ様、もはや封印したドラゴンに託すしか
Master Roy, surely relying on Dragon is the only option left...

Frame 4, Group:
１５年前、ドラゴンを宿した赤ん坊を城の地下に封じたのはもう皆知っています
It's already well known to all that fifteen years ago a baby baring a Shadow, Dragon, within itself was sealed away in beneath the castle

Frame 4, Roy:
しかしラルあのカゲを光の下に出すのは
Still... Ral... Bringing him and his shadow into the light is still...

Frame 5, Mio:
あのカゲは出しても大丈夫だと私は思います
I am confident that it is safe to let this Shadow go free

Frame 5, Roy (?):
ミオ！
Mio!

Page 12

Frame 1, Mio:
カゲ今、この世に生きる物は二分される
Shadows... That which lives in this world can be divided into two groups

Frame 1, Mio (Explanation):
ひとつは光のある世界に生きる私達そしてもうひとつは―
The first is us, that which lives in the world of light... And the other is...

Frame 2, Mio (Explanation):
光の無い世界で生まれた物そこは次元もひとつ少なく、立体としての体を持たない闇を彷徨う魔獣（モンストール）それがカゲ神が邪悪なものとして闇に留めたのだと言い伝えられてきた
... that which is born into the world without light... In that world there exists one less dimension, and monsters lacking a solid form roam about a realm of darkness... Those would be the Shadows... That which is said to have been sealed into the darkness by God for being an embodiment of malevolence

Frame 3, Mio (Explanation):
しかし長い年月を経てカゲは限りなく闇に近い場所でできる生物の影から光のある（こっちの）世界に入ってきたカゲは実在した
However, with the passage of a great number of years, the Shadows entered this world, the world of light, by way of the shadows produced by living beings in places that approach true darkness... The Shadows truly did exist...

Page 13

Frame 1, Mio (Explanation):
宿った生物に許可されればその影から自分の姿を具現化できる寄生型（ファースト）
That which, with the permission of its host, is capable of manifesting itself from the host's shadow... A "First", the parasitic form

Frame 2, Mio (explanation):
宿った生物の内側から食い、肉体も精神も完全に自分の物とし、自由に二つの姿になれる侵食型（セカンド）
That which, after devouring its host from the inside and gaining complete control over both its mind and body, is capable of manifesting itself as either form... A "Second", the corrupting form

Frame 3, Mio (explanation):
そして最も破壊力を持つ増殖型（サード）
And finally, that which holds the most destructive power... A "Third", the reproductive form

Frame 4, Mio:
現在、この３タイプが確認されていますが、ラルは少なくともセカンドではない牢での毎日の会話はドラゴンに支配されていてできる会話ではありませんでした
Currently these three types have been confirmed, but, if nothing else, Ral is not a Second... The conversation I witness every day is not something that could be done if he were controlled by Dragon

Page 14

Frame 1, Roy:
万が一、増殖型（サード）という事は？
But what if he turned out to be a Third?

Frame 1/2, Mio:
ありえませんサードとはさらに他の生物やセカンドを食べ、相手の能力を得たカゲです
Such is impossible... A Third is a Shadow that has devoured other living beings or Seconds and acquired their powers

Frame 3, Mio:
人間をはじめ、食べた全ての生物の姿、その複合型に姿を変えられますが、人間を食べても知能の増加はわずかです
While it can change itself into the form of a lifeform it has devoured, humans included, devouring a human only provides itself with a marginal amount of mental faculty

Frame 4, Mio:
そもそもカゲは全くの闇では影ができないため姿を現すことはできません
Besides, to begin with, a Shadow is unable to manifest its form in true darkness, as shadows cannot be produced

Frame 5, Mio:
この１５年、ラルは一度もあの闇から出ていないドラゴンは他のカゲとの接触どころか、現れる事もできずにいるはず
For the last fifteen years, not for once has Ral ever left that darkness... Far from merely not having contact with other Shadows, Dragon should have been unable to even manifest itself the whole time

Page 15

Frame 1, Roy:
１５年前、カゲが入り込んでいる事など知らず我々人間は領土を奪い合い醜い争いをしていた
... Fifteen years ago, unbeknownst to the presence of the Shadows... We humans engaged ourselves in a shameful struggle over territorial control...

Frame 2, Woman:
この子は可哀相な子だよ生まれると同時に母親が死ぬなんて！
How wretched this child truly is... To have his mother die at his very moment of birth!

Frame 3, Ral:
外がうるせえっ
Tell the people outside to shut up!!!

Frame 3, Womana A:
えっ今、この子、喋った
Huh...? The child, it just spoke...

Frame 3, Woman B:
まさか
Impossible...

Frame 4, Ral:
外がうるさくて眠れね―っ
It's too loud outside for me to sleep!!!

Page 16/17

Frame 1, Roy:
赤ん坊から現れた、それはドラゴンだった一瞬で見渡す限りの山々を焼き、岩をも溶かした
That which appeared from the baby was Dragon... In but a moment all of the mountains it surveyed were scorched, and even rocks were melted

Frame 5, Roy:
カゲ亡き父に聞いた事がある影から入る闇の魔物
A Shadow... I've heard of them from my dead father... Monsters of darkness that appear from shadows

Frame 6, Roy:
カゲを封じる手段はひとつ全くの闇に封じ込める事
There is but one method of sealing a Shadow... Trapping it in complete and total darkness

Frame 7, Roy:
こうしてラルは光が入らぬ様、何重もの扉を付けられた城の地下深くにある牢に閉じ込められた確かに１５年、あの中に
And thus, such that no light would reach him, Ral was sealed away in an enclosure located deep beneath the castle, closed away by any number of doors... There's no doubt that he's been sealed for 15 years...

Page 18/19

Frame 1, Roy:
しかしあの時点で相当数のカゲがラル以外にもこちらの生き物に寄生していたのだそしてすぐにその存在を現し、瞬く間にカゲは光の下（もと）でその数を増やしていった現在（いま）、カゲを率いているのは闇女王（オブスキュリア）と呼ばれる者その目的は人間がこの星を滅亡させる前に全ての人間を排除する事この１５年でこの地に生きるものの半分がカゲに侵されたとも言われているカゲと人間の力の差は明らかこのままではこの星の全てをカゲが侵すのもそう時間のかからぬ事だろう
But even at the time of his sealing, a great number of Shadows had already attached themselves to lifeforms other than Ral... And wasting no time in manifesting themselves, they began to increase their numbers in this world of light... Currently it is the Dark Queen, Obsqulia, that leads them... Her goal is to exterminate all humans before they can cause the destruction of this planet... It is said that as much as half of the lifeforms in this land have been devoured by the Shadows... The unbalance of power between humans and Shadows is quite clear... At this rate, it surely will not be all that long before the Shadows devour the entire planet

Translation: Naruto 331

Thu, 16 Nov 2006 21:11:59 +0000

Title:
ナンバー３３１：第十班が行く！！
Number 331: Team 10 Sets Out...!!

Page 1

Frame 1, Text:
―第十班、三人一組が目指す先は！？
... Where is the Team 10 three-man cell headed!?

Frame 3, Tsunade:
待て！
Stop right there!

Page 2

Frame 1, Tsunade:
どこへ行く気だ？
Just where do you think you're going?

Frame 2, Ino:
五代目さま
Tsunade-sama...

Frame 3, Shikamaru:
任務命令は継続中っすよねまだ十八の小隊は散らばって動いてるオレらは新しく隊を編成して、これから任務に向かうとこっすよ
The mission orders are still in effect, right? ... The 18 other squads are still deployed and in action... The three of us formed our own squad and were just about to head off on the mission

Page 3

Frame 1, Tsunade:
身勝手な行動は許さん！
You're not allowed to make missions yourself!

Frame 2, Tsunade:
敵が戻ると言ったポイントにはちゃんとした小隊を送る
I, of course, plan on sending a squad to the position where the enemy said they'd return

Frame 4, Tsunade:
シカマルお前はこちらで再編成した小隊に組み込むそしてしっかりとした作戦（プラン）を立ててから行かせる
Shikamaru... You will be added to a squad that I will arrange myself... And then you'll go after having come up with a solid plan of action

Frame 6, Shikamaru:
後で増援送ってくれればいいっすよいのとチョージとオレの線ですでに作戦も立ててありますから
You can just send us backup afterwards... Ino, Chouji and I already have a plan set up for ourselves

Page 4

Frame 1, Tsunade:
いい加減にしろ！！
That's enough!!

Frame 3, Tsunade:
アスマは死んだ今のお前らは三人きりだ
Asuma is dead... There's only three of you left now

Frame 4, Tsunade:
小隊は四人一組が基本！隊長のいないお前らに
A team of four is the foundation of a squad! Without a captain, you're...

Frame 5, Shikamaru:
アスマはオレ達と共にいる
Asuma is with us

Frame 6, Tsunade:
弔い合戦でもするつもりか！お前らしくもない犬死にしたいのか！
So you're planning a battle of vengeance!? This isn't like you at all... Do you want to just throwing your lives away!?

Page 5

Frame 2, Shikamaru:
オレ達だって馬鹿じゃないっすよ死にに行くつもりなんて毛頭無いっすから
The three of us aren't stupid... Don't worry, we don't have the slightest intention of leaving just to die...
（確かに「馬鹿」ではないのだが、「猪蝶鹿」ではあるくだんない冗談ですんまへん）

Frame 4, Shikamaru:
ただ
That said...

Frame 5, Tsunade:
ただ何だ？
"That said"... "That said" what?

Frame 6, Shikamaru:
このまま逃げて筋を通さねェまま生きてくような
Just leaving things be, living without sticking to what we believe in is just...

Page 6

Frame 1, Shikmaru:
そういうめんどくせー生き方もしたくねーんすいよ
We just don't want to live like that 'cuz it's a pain in the ass

Frame 3, Tsunade:
成長しろ忍には死がついてまわる
Grow up... Death is a constant companion for us shinobi

Frame 4, Tsunade:
時には受け入れ難い死もあるしかしそれを乗り越えねば未来（さき）は無い
Occasionally there will be deaths that are hard to accept... But if you don't get over them you have no future...

Page 7

Frame 2, Shikamaru:
この形見のタバコこれふかしてっとアスマ先生が近くにいるようなオレらを守ってくれてるようなそんな感じがするんすよ
These cigarettes Asuma-sensei left me... When I'm smoking them it's like he's right here... Like he's here protecting us... I just get that feeling

Frame 4, Shikamaru:
この戦いのケジメがつくまではこのタバコとも一緒だ
... Until somebody puts an end to this fight, he's here with these cigarettes...

Frame 5, Tsunade:
現実を見ろお前らは三人だ
... Step back into reality for a second... There's only three of you...

Page 8

Frame 1, Kakashi:
小隊は四人いればいいですよね
Things'll be fine as long as there's four to a squad, right?

Frame 2, Tsunade:
カカシ、お前！
... Kakashi, what did you just...!

Frame 3, Chouji:
カカシ先生！！
Kakashi-sensei!!

Page 9

Frame 1, Kakashi:
第十班にはオレが隊長として同行しますそれでどうですかね？
I'll accompany Team 10 as their squad captain... Will that work for you?

Frame 1, Tsunade:
お前！
Why you...!

Frame 2, Kakashi:
止めたところでコイツら行っちゃいますよだったらオレが付いてけば監視役にもなりますしムチャはさせませんから
Even if you try to stop them, they'll still go... But if I'm will them I'll be able to watch over them... and keep them from doing anything stupid

Page 10

Frame 1, Tsunade:
分かった好きにしろ！
Fine... Have it your way!

Frame 2, Kakashi:
どうも
Why thank you

Frame 3, Chouji:
やったー！
All right!

Frame 4, Shikamaru:
ナルトはいいんすか？カカシ先生
'sit OK to be leaving Naruto behind, Kakashi-sensei?

Page 11

Frame 2, Ino:
その右手
Your right hand...

Frame 3, Kakashi:
なーにオレはもうアイツにとっちゃ用済みだま！それに今は別の隊長も付いてるしな
What do you mean... I'm not of any use anymore as far as he's concerned... Besides! He already has a new captain assigned to his squad

Frame 4, Shikamaru:
フン
Heh...

Frame 4, Shikamaru (Thought):
ナルトの奴
That Naruto...

Frame 5, Kakashi:
それじゃアスマ班行きますか！
Well then, Team Asuma, are you ready!?

Frame 6, Shikamaru:
感謝するぜ、カカシ先生！
Thanks a ton, Kakashi-sensei!

Page 12

Frame 4, Leader:
良し
Good...

Page 13

Frame 1, Leader:
Now for the Two-Tails

Frame 4, Sign:
取調べ室
Interrogation Room

Page 14

Frame 1, Ibiki:
これからアンタの罪状認否を取る
We'll be conducting your arraignment now...

Frame 2, Ibiki:
それとアンタが接触していたこの男この男の事を話してもらう
And... About this man you were in contact with... We need you to tell us what you know of him

Frame 3, Hitaikizu:
フンチクリはやらねェ
Please... I don't rat out my clients

Frame 5, Ibiki:
なら、話してもらうのは止めだ
In that case, there's no reason for me to wait for you to tell us...

Frame 6, Ibiki:
I'll just use my own methods to force it out of you!

Page 15

Frame 1, Kakashi:
シカマルまずお前の作戦を聞こう
Shikamaru... Let me in on your plan first

Frame 2, Shikamaru:
カカシ先生が入った事で少し作戦を変更したいんすけど
Since you're with us now, Kakashi-sensei, I'd like to change our strategy a bit

Frame 2, Kakashi:
分かった説明してくれ
Very well... Please explain

Frame 3, Shikamaru:
いくつかのパターンに分けて説明する全員しっかり頭に叩き込んでおいてくれよ
I'm going to explain things by dividing it into a number of scenarios... Make sure the three of you remember all this to a T

Frame 5, Tsunade:
ナルトの修行はどんな感じだ？
How's Naruto's training going?

Page 16

Frame 1, Sakura:
カカシ先生が言うには何だかコツはつかんだらしくて完成までにはもう少しかかるって言ってましたけど
According to Kakashi-sensei it seems Naruto's started to get the hang of things... Although it looks like it's still going to be a bit before he completes it...

Frame 2, Tsunade:
そうか
... I see...

Frame 3, Sakura:
第十班にカカシ先生が入ったって事は第十班と連係の取りやすい第七班私たちの小隊が増援に行くべきだとそういう事ですよね
Since Kakashi-sensei is part of Team 10 now... It'd be best that a team with good compatibility, Team 7, be sent a backup... In other words, our team... That's what you're getting at, right?

Frame 4, Tsunade:
察しがいいなさすがお前だ
... Excellent observation... Just like always...

Frame 5, Shizune:
しかし、ナルト君の新術がいつ完成するのかも分かりませんし、別の小隊を向かわせたほうが
Still, we don't know exactly when Naruto-kun will complete his new jutsu, so perhaps we should think of sending another squad...

Page 17

Frame 1, Tsunade:
サクラヤマトに伝えろ
Sakura... Relay this to Yamato

Frame 2, Tsunade:
あと二十四時間でナルトの新術を完成させろ！それが出来なければ別の小隊を増援に向かわせるとな！
Tell him to have Naruto complete his new jutsu in the next 24 hours! And that if he doesn't I'll be sending a different squad in your place!

Frame 3, Sakura:
ハイ！
Yes sir!

Frame 4, Tsunade:
シズネ間に合わなかった場合を考えて、スケジュールを見て第十班と連携の取れる小隊の編成案を至急で出せ！
Shizune... In the event that Naruto doesn't finish on time, look and the schedule and come up with a squad that work well with Team 10, on the double!

Frame 5, Shizune:
分かりました
... very well

Frame 5, Shizune (Thought):
このクソババァが
Damn old bitch...

Frame 6, Tsunade:
さてこれからだ
... Well then... Now things really begin...

Sidebar:
第十班が、カカシが、そして綱手が！報復そして里を守る戦いへ！いざ！！
Team 10, Kakashi, and Tsunade all look towards a battle of retribution... and a battle to defend the village!!

Chapter Preview:
次号、七周年突破記念巻頭カラーで衝撃情報が！「標的捕捉」へ！！
Next Issue, Shocking information is revealed with the first pages in color to celebrate the 7th anniversary of Naruto! "Target Acquired"!!

Chapter Preview (Mid-chapter):
シカマル達が早くも暁に接近！！そこで見た衝撃の光景は！？
Shikamaru's team encounters Akatsuki!! What shocking sight do they witness!?

Translation: Naruto 330

Fri, 10 Nov 2006 02:19:27 +0000

Late as always...

Page 1

Title:
ナンバー３３０：悲しき報せ！！
Number 330: News Most Depressing...!!

Side Text:
温かい大樹の下、それぞれの才は芽ぐみ、第十班（おれたち）は結実した。あなたを忘れない。
At the base of a great tree of nurturing, our talents budded, bearing fruit to be called "Team 10". You will be forgotten not.

Page 2

Frame 1, Text:
―悲しき報せが木ノ葉にもたらされる。
... News most depressing makes its way back to Konoha.

Frame 3, Tsunade:
そうか
I see...

Page 3

Frame 1, Kotetsu:
あの紅さんには
What... What about Kurenai-san...

Frame 4, Tsunade:
お前たちは関係者に葬儀の連絡をしろ
You three will inform all relevant parties

Frame 5, Tsunade:
紅には私から
As for Kurenai, I'll...

Frame 5, Shikamaru:
いやオレが伝えます
No... I'll tell her

Frame 6, Shikamaru:
アスマ隊長からの伝言もあるので
Besides, I have a message to give her from Asuma...

Page 4/5

Frame 1, Naruto:
やった！何かコツがつかめてきたってばよ！
All right! I'm starting to get the hang of this!

Frame 3, Kakashi:
なるほどねお前の思い付きってそういうことだったのね
So that was it.... This is what you figured out

Frame 4, Kakashi:
そもそも螺旋丸でさえチャクラ放出係と形態変化の係の二人組みでやってたからなお前は
Even for the Rasengan... You had to use a clone, having one person would generate the chakra and the other "spatially recompose" it...

Frame 5, Kakashi:
その発想が生まれるわけだ
... And that explains where you'd get the idea

Page 6

Frame 1, Naruto:
そ！三人目のオレでもって風の性質変化をやる係を作れば良かったんだってばよ
Right! All I needed to do was get a third person to handle the "elemental recomposition"!

Frame 2, Naruto:
一人で左右を同時に見る事が出来ねーなら右見る奴と左見る奴に分身して、役割分担すりゃいいだけの話だったんだってばよ！
... If I can't look both ways at the same time by myself... All I have to do is split into two and look right while my clone looks left!

Frame 3, Kakashi:
さっきのオレの影分身がヒントになったってわけね
... And would mean you got the idea from my clone stunt a moment ago

Frame 4, Kakashi:
とは言っても、そりゃあチャクラと影分身のあるナルトだからこその方法論だオレはともかく、四代目であっても不可能なやり方だったくコイツは
... Although, it's still an approach only available to Naruto with all his chakra and shadow clones... I, of course, wouldn't be able to do it, but even for the Forth, it would've been impossible... Naruto really is something...

Frame 5, Kakashi:
さすがは意外性№１の忍者だなナルト何だかな
I must say, you do live up to your title of "most unpredictable ninja"... Naruto... How should I put it...

Page 7

Frame 1, Kakashi:
オレはお前の事がものすごく好きになってきたぞ！
I think I'm starting... to fall in love with you!

Frame 3, Naruto:
うわぁ！
Uwaha!

Frame 4, Naruto:
いきなりキモい事言うなってばよ！コノヤロー！！ビックリしてせっかくの術が弾けちまったろー！！
Don't surprise me with by saying sick things like that! Jeez!! My jutsu blew up in my face just when I was about the get it!!

Frame 5, Kakashi:
イヤそういう意味じゃんくてねなんて言うか、その
No, no... I didn't mean it like that... It's that, you see...

Frame 5, Naruto:
近寄るなー！！
Not one step closer!!

Page 8

Frame 1, Izumo:
連絡です
I have a message

Frame 2, Naruto:
なんだろ？
What's going on...?

Frame 3, Yamato:
カカシ先輩！いったん修行を中止して里の方へ！！
Kakashi-sempai! We're putting the training on hold to head back to the village!!

Frame 4, Naruto:
えーっ！
What!

Frame 5, Kakashi:
いったい何？
What happened exactly?

Page 9

Frame 1, Yamato:
猿飛アスマさんが亡くなりました
Sarutobi Asuma-san... has died...

Page 10

Frame 3, Gravestone:
猿飛アスマ
Sarutobi Asuma

Page 11

Frame 1, Konohamaru:
アスマ叔父ちゃん
Uncle Asuma...

Frame 2, Kakashi:
アスマ
... Asuma...

Frame 3, Ino:
シカマルはどこ？
Where's Shikamaru?

Frame 3, Chouji:
家に寄ったらもう出かけたっておばちゃんいってたのに
I went by his house, but his mom said he'd already left...

Page 13

Frame 6:
(Shikamaru is moving the knight piece (桂) that Asuma previously used to describe Shikamaru)

Page 14

Frame 3:
(And now, given its movement of an L shape, note how the knight piece is poised to take the both the Rook (飛) and the Bishop (角)... these characters, through what is certainly not coincidence, are the same as those that appear in the names of Hidan 飛段 and Kakuzu 角都)

Frame 5:
玉
(The King piece)

Frame 6:
木ノ葉図書館
Konoha Library

Page 15

Frame 4, Shikamaru:
フッ！
Fuh!

Page 16

Frame 5, Ino:
準備出来た？
Are you ready?

Frame 6, Chouji:
行くよ、シカマル！
We're leaving, Shikamaru!

Page 17

Frame 1, Shikamaru:
... Indeed

Text:
第十班残された三人一組が目指すは―！！
"Team 10", what is the destination of the now Three-Man-Cell?!!

Translation: Naruto 329

Fri, 27 Oct 2006 23:34:04 +0000

Mes hads somes times todays sos...

Title:
ナンバー３２９：その目的！！
Number 329: Ambitions Unveiled...!!

Page 1

Sidetext:
舞台は再び修行へ―。まだ見ぬ新術開発を目指し、ナルトの苦闘が続くッ！
Our story returns to the scene of training... In his effort to develop a still unclear new jutsu, Naruto's trial of pain continues!

Frame 4, Naruto:
おい！みんな、気をつけろ！また九尾化してる奴ってばよ！！
Hey! Everyone watch out! We've got another one turning into a Nine-Tails!!

Frame 5, Naruto:
ヤマト隊長へループ！！
Captain Yamato, SOS!!

Page 2

Frame 1, Kyuuruto:
ウォォオ！！
WaaoaAA!!

Frame 1, Text:
想像絶する苦しみの中に！
An scene of unimaginable pain!

Frame 2, Kakashi:
テンゾウ、来たぞ
Tenzou, there it is!

Frame 2, Yamato:
くそ！
Damn!

Page 3

Frame 1, Naruto:
ぐあ！うぎゃ！
Guh! Uggh!

Frame 6, Naruto:
フー
Woah...

Page 4

Frame 1, Kakashi:
大丈夫か？
You OK?

Frame 4, Kakashi:
螺旋丸に風の性質変化を加える修行に入って丸一日影分身は二百人程度一人での修行時間として換算すると四千百時間まだまだ足りないか
It's been a full day since we started the training to "elementally recompose" the Rasengan with "wind"... You've had about 200 shadow clones... That's 4800 hours if you convert it to solo training... Guess it's still not enough

Frame 5, Naruto:
けど、この修行チャクラコントロールがムズすぎて影分身は二百人が限界だってばよ
Yeah, but this training... The chakra control is way hard... 200 clones is the limit for me

Frame 6, Naruto:
なんか、永久にできねー気がするってばよ
... You know... It just feels like I'll never be able to do it

Page 5

Frame 1, Naruto:
そもそも螺旋丸を作るのにすっげェ集中力が要んのにその上、性質変化なんて、ムチャだってばよ
I mean, the Rasengan takes a crazy amount of concentration to make as it is... But now I've gotta "elementally recompose" it as well... It's just ridiculous...

Frame 2, Kakashi:
いつになく弱音吐くねお前らしくないそれでもお前オレの知ってるうずまきナルトか？
... Can't say I'm used to hearing you whine... This isn't like you at all... What happened to the Uzumaki Naruto I've grown to know?

Frame 4, Naruto:
でも、今回ばかりはムリだってばよ
... But it's just that this time, it really is impossible...

Frame 4, Kakashi:
それでもやらなきゃな
But you've still got to do it, right?

Frame 5, Naruto:
だったらカカシ先生は右見てる時に同時に左を見ろって言われて出来んのかよ！？
Well then, Kakashi-sensei, if somebody told you to look right while looking left at the same time, you think you could do it!?

Frame 7, Yamato:
確かにそりゃ無理だ
Well, yes, that is impossible

Page 6

Frame 1, Kakashi:
なるほどそういう事かなら、出来ない事もない
I see... So that's it... In that case, there is a way

Frame 4, Kakashi:
影分身の術！
Kage-Bunshin Jutsu!

Frame 5, Kakashi 1/2:
右を見ながら左を見るってのは
To look right... While also looking left

Page 7

Frame 1, Kakashi:
こういう事だろ？
Like this, right?

Frame 4, Naruto:
そっかァー！
Now I get it!

Frame 5, Kakashi:
何か分かったの？
... Did he figure something out?

Page 8/9

Frame 3, Leader:
三尾が終わり次第、二尾も封印するこれから六日はかかる覚悟しておけ
As soon as the Three-Tails is done with we'll seal the Two-Tails as well... It'll be six days anyway... So be ready for a marathon

Frame 4, Hidan:
六日かよ長げーな！こっちは雨だぜ
Six frickin' days!? ... That's hella long! We've got rain where we are!

Frame 5, Kakuzu:
飛段お前が言うな
Hidan... You're not the one to be complaining

Frame 6, Hidan:
木ノ葉の奴らもう少しで皆殺しに出来たんだぜ無神論者どもにジャシン教の存在をしらしめてやるところだったのによォ！
Hey, if I just had a little bit more time, I coulda massacred those Konoha flies... It woulda been the perfect chance to make those godless bastards see the glory of the Faith of Jashin

Frame 7, Leader:
木ノ葉は無神論者では無い先代を神とし、火の意思を思想に行動する
Konoha is not godless... They place their previous generations as gods and act with "the will of fire" as their driving ideology

Page 10

Frame 1, Leader:
まあ、そんなものは戦う為の大義名分だとも言えるがな
Although, you could also say that such things are nothing more than justification for one to fight...

Frame 1, Hidan:
てめェそりゃオレを馬鹿にして！言ってんのか、あァ！？
Bastard... You saying that to mock me, huh!?

Frame 2, Leader:
いやお前の戦う理由を別段馬鹿にしたつもりは無いオレも同じ穴のムジナだからな戦争の理由なんてのは何でもいい
No... I had no intentions of singling out your motives to fight for ridicule... We're both of the same breed, after all... Motives for war are not of concern

Frame 3, Leader:
宗教、思想、資源、土地、怨恨、恋愛、気まぐれどんなくだらない理由でも戦争するだけの理由になってしまう
Religion, ideology, resources, land, spite, love, or "just because"... No matter how pathetic the reason, it's enough to start war

Frame 4, Leader:
戦争は絶対に無くならない理由は後付けでいい本能が戦いを求める
War will never cease to exist... Reasons can be thought up after the fact... Human nature pursues strife

Frame 5, Hidan:
誰もてめーの長ったらしい話は聞いてねーんだよ！オレにはオレのやり方ってもんがあるオレ自身の目的もある全てを組織に委ねるつもりはねーからな！
Nobody wants to hear your long-ass lectures! I have my own ways of doing things... I have my own objectives... And I definitely don't plan on giving it all up for the organization!

Page 11

Frame 1, Leader:
暁という組織に属している以上、その目的にも協力してもらう暁の目的が達成されればお前の願いもすぐに成就するだろう
As long as you are a part of Akatsuki, you are expected to contribute to its goals... And when our goals come to fruition, your desires will surely be realized as well

Frame 2, Hidan:
フンあれこれ格好つけたところで暁の目的はただの金集めになってるじゃねーか！
Whatever... You go and make yourself sound all special, but Akatsuki's "goals" in the end are nothing more than making money!

Frame 3, Hidan:
角都と同じだ戦う理由で一番嫌いなタイプだぜ！！
You're the same as Kakuzu... And as a reason to fight, that's the one I hate most!!

Frame 4, Leader:
そうだ確かに当面の目的は金だが、本来暁の目的は別の所にあるその目的の為に莫大な金が要るんだ
Correct... Our goals for the time being are financial... But Akatsuki's true goals are still different... And the accomplishment of those goals requires massive amounts of money

Frame 5, Hidan:
オレはトビの次に新入りだからなオマエの口から詳しいことも聞いたことねー！オレのいねーとこでコソコソと
Hey, I'm the newest member after Tobi... So I still haven't heard anything specific coming from your mouth! You just go and decide everything when I'm not around...

Frame 6, Leader:
すねてるのか？フなら、そろそろ教えてやろう
... And you have a problem with that? Heh... Then how about I tell you now

Frame 7, Leader:
暁の最終目的は段階を踏むことで達成できるそれは全部で三段階まず第一が金だ
The ultimate ambition of "Akatsuki" is to be accomplished in stages... Three stages to be exact... And the first of those is money

Frame 7, Hidan:
チィ
Tch...

Page 12

Frame 1, Leader:
そして、第二段階が、その金を元手に、忍世界初の戦争請け負い組織を作ることだ
After that, the second stage is to use that money as capital to create the Shinobi-world's very first contracted organization of war

Frame 2, Hidan:
オイオイ、それじゃ他の忍里のやってることと同じじゃねーか依頼をこなして報酬を得るってことだろーが
... Hey, how the hell is that any different from all the other Shinobi Villages... You'd just be collecting money for work rendered

Frame 3, Hidan:
てめーは召し抱えてくれる国も無ぇ小さな里の長にでもなりてーのか？くだらねぇ
I mean do you plan on being the leader of some puny village that doesn't even have a country to serve, or what? Pathetic...

Frame 4, Leader:
フッまるで違う国お抱えの里とはな順を追って説明してやる
Heh... We'll be completely different from villages in service of countries, actually... Here, I'll explain things slowly for you

Frame 5, Leader:
協力な忍里を持つ国にとって忍ビジネスはその国の収益において大きな役割を担っている忍里は国内外の戦いに参入することで莫大な金を稼ぎ、国の経済を支えていると言っていい
For countries with powerful Shinobi Villages, "Shinobi Business" represents a large percentage of that country's income... The Shinobi Villages participate in internal and external conflict, thus earning a massive amount of money and effectively supporting the country's economy

Page 13

Frame 1, Leader:
つまり、国が安定した利益を得るにはそれなりの戦争が必要になる
In other words, in order for the country to obtain a stable income a certain amount of war becomes necessary

Frame 2, Leader:
しかし、今の時代、小さな戦いこそ数あれ、かつてのような大戦は無くなった国は里を縮小し多くの忍が行き場を失った
But in this day and age, while there do exist any number of small conflicts, the great wars of the past are no longer to be seen... Countries have scaled back the villages and many a shinobi have lost their place of being

Frame 3, Leader:
忍は戦うために存在する国の為に命がけで働いた見返りがこの有り様だ
Shinobi exist for battle... Yet this peace is the "reward" they receive for putting their lives on the line for their country

Frame 4, Leader:
忍び五大国はまだいい国も里も大きく、信頼もある他国からの依頼も多く、安定しているが小さな国はそうもいかない
The "Five Great Shinobi Countries" still aren't that bad... Both the countries and their villages are large, with much trust still placed in them... Contracts still pour in from other countries, and their existence is secure... Still... The same can't be said for smaller countries

Frame 5, Leader:
忍里の保有には戦時と同じかそれに近いレベルで平時にも莫大なコストがかかるだからと言って、里を縮小しすぎれば突然の開戦に対応できない
Maintaining a Shinobi Village, even in times of peace, requires massive funding equal to or approaching that of times of war... But if you try to scale back the village you become unable to respond to unexpected conflicts

Page 14

Frame 1, Leader:
だから、我々暁が作るのだ！国というものに属せず、必要なときに必要なだけの忍を用意し
And that's where our organization, Akatsuki, comes in! Paying no allegiance to any country, we will provide our clients with exactly the amount of shinobi needed exactly when they need them...

Frame 2, Leader:
必要な力を持って、あらゆる小国や小さな里から金で戦争を依頼として請け負う組織！
Amassing an appropriate amount of power, we will create a contracted organization that fulfills the warring needs of small countries and villages everywhere!

Frame 3, Leader:
最初ははした金であらゆる戦争を一手に引き受け、戦争市場を牛耳り、さらには尾獣を使い、市場の大きさに合わせて戦争を引き起こし
At first we will take on all wars for trifling amounts of money, thus dominating the market of war, and, furthermore, in relation to the size of that market we will use the Tailed-Beasts to cause more conflict...

Frame 4, Leader:
やがて全ての戦争をコントロールし、独占支配する！
Eventually we will control all war, establishing a monopoly!

Page 15

Frame 2, Leader:
それに伴い、大国の忍里というシステムも崩壊暁を利用せざるを得なくなる
... And with that the system of Shinobi Villages in larger countries will collapse... People will be forced to rely on Akatsuki

Frame 3, Leader:
そしてその先にある本当の目的に我々はたどり着く
And thus we will arrive at the realization of our true ambition...

Frame 4/5, Leader:
目的の第三段階
The third stage of our objectives...

Page 16/17

Frame 1, Leader:
世界を征服する
World domination...

Frame 1, Text:
眼下に全てを―。その恐るべき野望が宣言される！！
Control of everything... The terrifying ambitions of Akatsuki are finally declared!!

Translation: Naruto 323

Thu, 14 Sep 2006 23:40:59 +0000

岸本はんよ、頼むで！将棋の喩えはもうえぇ加減止めなはれ！こっちは翻訳すんのがほんーまにしんどいねんから！

Page 1

Title:
ナンバー３２３：神の裁き！！
Number 323: Divine Judgment!!
(Translator's note: We still don't know whether Hidan is practicing a monotheist or polytheist religion)

Text:
殺せない男恐るべき暁を今、目撃する！！
He who cannot be killed... Witness the horror that is Akatsuki!!

Frame 5, Kotetsu:
どういう事だ急所を貫いたのに？
What's happening...? He should be dead!

Frame 5, Hidan:
グリグリすんな痛てーんだよ、コラ！
Stop moving so much... That hurts, god dammit!

Frame 6, Izumo:
こいつ不死身か？
... Is this guy... immortal?

Frame 7, Hidan:
見りゃ分かんだろでてめーらは何者（なにもん）だ？
Isn't it obvious...? So... who the hell are you two anyway?

Page 2

Frame 4, Hidan:
はぁー、マジかよあんなくせー換金所にまた行かなきゃなんねーのかよ
Oh jeez, spare me... Don't tell me we're going to be going back to that cesspool again...

Frame 6, Asuma:
地陸
... Chiriku...

Page 3

Frame 1, Asuma:
オレ達は木ノ葉の忍だお前ら暁を拘束、又は抹殺するよう命を受けてきた
We are the shinobi of Konoha... We come under orders to restrain you, or otherwise eliminate you

Frame 2, Asuma:
お前ら暁は二人一組（ツーマンセル）で行動するまずは一人を片付けてからもう一方を拘束するつもりだったがさすがにいい能力を持ってやがる
Akatsuki works in pairs... We *were* planning on capturing your partner after taking you out... but it looks like your abilities are going to present problems after all...

Frame 3, Shikamaru:
これが暁か何てふざけた能力だこれじゃ影縫いも
So this is Akatsuki...? How do you deal with powers like that...? Not even Kagenui will help here...
(Kagenui = "Shadow Stitch" -Thanks Taylor)

Frame 4, Hidan:
てめーら、狙う順番を間違えたな
Well, looks like you chose the wrong man to "take out" first

Frame 5, Asuma:
もう一人はどこだ？
Where's your partner?

Page 5

Frame 1, Hidan:
術がハズレた！
The jutsu's gone!

Frame 4, Asuma:
コテツ！イズモ！下がれ！！
Kotetsu! Izumo! Fall back!!

Page 6

Frame 2, Kakuzu:
やはりあの真ン中珍しく金に縁があったな、飛段
I figured that was you in the middle... Looks like *you've* hit the jackpot for once, Hidan

Frame 3, Hidan:
角都てめーは手ェ出すなこいつら、オレの儀式用だ金はてめーにやる
Kakuzu... Don't you dare touch them... They're all part of my ritual... I'll let you have the money though

Frame 5, Kakuzu:
それならいいだろうただ気を抜くな死ぬぞ
Fine, whatever you want... Don't let your guard down... You'll die

Frame 6, Hidan:
だから
Every damn time...

Page 7

Frame 1, Hidan:
それをオレに言うかよ殺せるもんなら殺して欲しーぜ
That's not something you say to *me*... If they can kill me, I couldn't be happier

Frame 3, Hidan:
まぁ無理かァ！？
Although... I don't think they can!

Frame 4, Asuma:
オレが突っ込む隙をついて不死身男を影縫いで縛れ、シカマル少しの時間でいいすぐに首をハネて動きを止める
I'll go in... Shikamaru, you look for an opening to hold him down with your Kagenui... I only need a second... I'll lop off his head and stop him that way

Frame 5, Sikamaru:
それじゃリスクが高過ぎっすよアンタらしく無い
That'd be way too risky... This isn't like you...

Frame 6, Kotetsu:
私も一緒に
I'll go to...

Page 8

Frame 1, Asuma:
分からないのか！それが今打てる最善の手だ！！奴らはオレよりはるかに強い！イズモ、コテツ、お前らはもう片方の暁に気を配りつつ、シカマルの護衛だ
Don't you get it! This is the best move we can make right now!! These guys outdo me by far...! Izumo, Kotetsu, you two will keep an eye on the other one while guarding Shikamaru

Frame 2, Sikamaru:
アスマのこんな顔初めて見る
This is the first time... I've seen Asuma like this

Frame 3, Izumo:
相手の力が分かってるならなおさらここは一旦退いて作戦を立てるのが
Knowing their strength now is all the more reason... Shouldn't we retreat for now and think of...

Frame 3, Asuma:
あいつら相手に簡単に退かせてもらえると思うな
Don't even begin to think that they'll let us go that easy

Frame 4, Asuma:
戦意無く逃げようものならオレ達は全滅するそうなれば木ノ葉のリスクはさらに高まる
If we try to leave with our tails between our legs we're done for... All that does is put Konoha in even greater danger

Frame 5, Asuma:
敵陣突破の先兵だたまにはこういう指し方も出来ないとな
"The vanguard that breaks enemy lines"... That's the kind of move we need to be making right now...

Page 9

Frame 1, Hidan:
イテテテテテあー、イテェ！グサグサ刺しやがって痛てーな、てめーら
Hell that hurts... Oh, man! You go and stab me all over... Damn both of you...

Frame 2, Hidan:
人の痛みを知らねェクソヤローには神の裁きが下るぜ
Divine judgment awaits heathens ignorant to the pain of others

Frame 4, Shikamaru:
銀棒なんてアンタには向いてない
... "The Climbing Silver"... Can't say you're the right choice for that role
(Yea! Shogi!)

Frame 5, Asuma:
へへただの捨て駒にはならねーよお前がいるんだからな
Heheh... I'll be more than just some sacrifice... I've got you looking after me, after all

Page 12

Frame 4, Kotetu:
アスマ隊長！！
Captain Asuma!!

Page 13

Frame 2, Sikamaru:
くっ！
Guh!

Frame 5, Asuma:
ピンポイント攻撃が当たらないなら
If precision isn't going to get me anywhere, then...

Page 14

Frame 1, Jutsu:
火遁・灰積焼！！
Katon - Searing Ash Cloud!!
(Seriously... Anything more literal would sound moronic... I think... Probably...)

Frame 3, Hidan:
フン
Heh...

Page 15

Frame 5, Hidan:
痛てーだろ？なァ？
Hurts, doesn't it...? Well...?

Page 16

Frame 1, Hidan:
裁きが下ったなぐくっ
Divine judgment has been made... Heheh...

Frame 3, Izumo:
どういう事だ？
What happened?

Frame 4, Hidan:
どうだ？少しは他人の痛みが理解できたか？
How's it feel now? Perhaps you've come to understand the pain of others?

Frame 5, Asuma:
オレの腕まで奴の術か何か？いや
Even my arm... Is this his jutsu or something? No, this is...

Page 17

Frame 1, Hidan:
すでにてめーはオレに呪われたこれより儀式を始める
You've already fallen victim to my curse... And now the ritual begins...

Frame 2, Hidan:
さアァ！！オレと一緒に最高の痛みを味わおーぜェェ！！！
So come on!! It's time for the two of us to savor suffering sublime!!!
(Hurrah for corny alliteration!!!)

Sidebar:
捨て身の攻撃も通じず敵は不気味な変貌を遂げる！！その儀式とは！？
As an attack of despiration ends in failure... the enemy undergoes a disturbing transformation!! What is this ritual!?

End-Chapter Preview:
何故？の答え出せぬまま、アスマ倒さる！？次号、「呪いの儀式」へ！！
With the question of "why won't he die" unanswered, Asuma is defeated!? Next Issue, "The Ritual of Curses"!!

Mid-Chapter Preview:
遂に修行完成！！そこへ衝撃の報が舞い込む！？
As the training finally comes to an end, shocking news makes it way to Konoha!?

Translation: Naruto 321

Thu, 31 Aug 2006 22:34:07 +0000

Page 1

Title:
ナンバー３２１：口上手！！
Number 321: A Way With Words...!!

Page 2

Frame 1, Text:
修行大詰めカカシの指導（アドバイス）！？
The training nears its end... Kakashi lends his advice!?

Frame 1, Kakashi:
ナルト、お前に面白いものを見せてやるよ
Naruto, I'm going to show something you'll find quite interesting...

Frame 2, Naruto:
おもしろいもの？
What do you mean "interesting"?

Frame 3, Kakashi:
食休みも兼ねて色々と説明したい事もあるしな
Well I also have a number of things I want to explain before we end our lunch break

Frame 3, Naruto:
え～～！またややこしい説明かよ～！
What!? I've had more than enough explanation already!

Frame 4, Kakashi:
大丈夫オレは口が上手いから、お前を上手くノセてやるよ
Don't worry... I have a way with words, so I'll get you in the mood, no problem

Frame 5, Ramen Shop:
まいどー！
Thanks for coming!

Frame 6, Kakashi:
ヤマト、コレよろしく
Yamato, here, if you wouldn't mind

Frame 6, Yamato:
えー！こういうのは普通先輩が持つもんでしょ！
What!? Isn't it the sempai that's supposed to pay in these situations!?

Frame 7, Kakashi:
自分が認めた男に先輩も後輩も無いよま後輩の中でオレが認めた男ってのもお前くらいだけど
In my eyes, once I respect you, "sempai" and "kouhai" mean nothing... Granted... You're pretty much the only kouhai I've ever respected...

Page 3

Frame 1, Kakashi:
まあ、でも確かにここはオレがー
Although, I suppose I should...

Frame 2, Yamato:
いえ！いえ！ボクが払いますよ！
Oh no! I'll take care of everything!

Frame 2, Naruto:
シシシシ
Heheheh

Frame 2, Naruto (Thought):
確かに口が上手いってばよ
Gotta admit, he's got a way with words

Frame 4, Naruto:
何見せてくれんの？
So whacha gonna show me?

Frame 5, Kakashi:
まあ、待て物事には順序ってもんがある
Now hold on there... There's an order to everything

Frame 6, Kakashi:
まずは確認だが
Let's review first...

Page 4

Frame 1, Kakashi:
この修行を始める前に、チャクラの性質変化ともう一つ大切なテクニックを説明したろ？覚えてるか？
Before we started this training, I told you about one more technique... A chakra control technique just as important as "elemental recomposition"? You remember that?

Frame 2, Naruto:
あ！アレだろえっと
Oh! I remember... It's, uhh...

Frame 4, Kakashi:
忘れたってことで話を進めるけどいいか
I'll take that as meaning you forgot... so listen

Frame 4, Naruto:
へへ
Heheh...

Frame 5, Kakashi:
もう一つは形態変化だチャクラの形を変化させる
The other technique is "spatial recomposition"... where you change the shape of your chakra

Frame 6, Kakashi:
千鳥で説明したろあの術はチャクラを雷に性質変化させるだけじゃなく、放電するように形態変化させて攻撃の威力とその及ぶ範囲を決めてるってな
I explained it using chidori... Using that jutsu, not only do you "elementally recompose" your chakra into lightning, but you also "spatially recompose" it to discharge, thus determining the strength and scope of the attack, remember?

Page 5

Frame 1, Yamato:
いいかいチャクラに性質変化だけじゃなく形態変化を加えることで忍の攻撃力は飛躍的に高まる
This part's important... A shinobi's attack power is increased enormously when he also "spatially recomposes" his chakra, as opposed to only "elementally recomposing" it, that is

Frame 2, Yamato:
まあ性質と形態の両方の変化をセットで扱える忍は稀だがな
Granted, the number of shinobi who can recompose their chakra both "elementally" and "spatially" at the same time are quite limited

Frame 3, Kakashi:
さっきまでの修行でお前は風の性質変化を手に入れたそして、お前はすでに形態変化も持ってる
With the training we just finished, you've acquired "elemental recomposition"... And you already know how to "spatially recompose" your chakra

Frame 5, Kakashi (Flashback):
その意味で螺旋丸は千鳥とは少し違って形態変化だけを極めた術と言える
In that sense you could say that, unlike chidori, rasengan is a jutsu relying only on extremely advanced "spatial recomposition"

Frame 6, Naruto:
螺旋丸
... rasengan...

Page 6

Frame 1, Kakashi:
そうだ
Right

Frame 5, Naruto:
じゃあ、オレってばもう二つとも持ってるってことかァ！？
Wait, so that means I already know both of them, right!?

Frame 5, Kakashi:
まそういう事になるな
Yes... That is what it means

Frame 6, Naruto:
よっしゃああ！これならあっちゅー間に新術が出来そうだってばよ！
Alright then! I'll be able to come up with a new jutsu in no time!

Page 7

Frame 3, Naruto:
なんだかカンタンにいけそうだってばよ！
This sounds like it's going to be a piece of cake!

Frame 4, Kakashi:
フッそれならオレは千鳥を開発する必要はなかったよ
Heh... If that were the case then I wouldn't have needed to develop chidori

Frame 6, Kakashi:
これがお前に見せたかった、面白いものだ
This is what I wanted to show you... You'll find it quite interesting

Frame 7, Kakashi:
ハッ！
Hah!

Page 8

Frame 1, Kakashi:
螺旋丸！！
Rasengan!!

Page 9

Frame 1, Naruto:
カカカシ先生も螺旋丸出来たのか！？
K... Kakashi-sensei... You can use rasengan also...!?

Frame 2, Kakashi:
ああだが、ここまでだ
Yeah... But this was all I could do

Frame 3, Kakashi:
オレは螺旋丸の形態変化に雷の性質変化を組み合わせることが出来なかった
I wasn't able combine my "elementally recomposed" "lightning chakra" with the "spatially recomposed" chakra of the rasengan

Frame 5, Yamato:
性質変化と形態変化を組み合わせるにはものすごい技術が要るというより、才能とかセンスと言った方がいいかもしれない
It takes an incredible amount of skill to combine "elemental" and "spatial" recomposition together... Or rather, it might be better to say natural talent or sense

Frame 6, Kakashi:
ここまでだったのはオレだけじゃないこの術を考案したオレの師でさえそうだった
... It's not just me who made it only this far... Even my teacher, the very person who devised rasengan, couldn't get any further

Page 10

Frame 1, Kakashi:
そうだ四代目火影でさえ、それは出来なかった
That's right... Even for the Forth Hokage, the task proved too difficult

Frame 3, Kakashi:
四代目は形態変化を最高レベルにまで高めた状態を作り上げたそれが螺旋丸だ
The Forth Hokage produced a form of "spatial recompostion" of the absolute highest level... That being the jutsu "rasengan"

Frame 4, Kakashi:
ただの形態変化だけで会得難度はＡランクここまでならオレでもどうにかコピー出来るだが、問題はその先だ
Just regular "spatial recomposition" has a "rank A" acquisition difficulty level... At just that level I can somehow manage to copy it... But that's where the problems start

Frame 5, Kakashi:
もともと螺旋丸は四代目が自分の性質変化を加えることを前提として開発した術だった
Rasengan was originally a jutsu that the Forth Hokage had developed with the intention of adding his on "elemental recompostion" skills to

Frame 6, Naruto:
んじゃ、螺旋丸はまだ途中段階の忍術だったってことか？
... so then, does that mean that rasengan still isn't fully developed...?

Page 11

Frame 1, Yamato:
そういうことになるね
That's exactly what it means...

Frame 2, Kakashi:
まだ見ぬその先の忍術は会得難度Ｓランクかそれ以上かもしれないそれどころか、そもそも不可能かもしれない
Whatever that fully developed ninjutsu might be, it has a "rank S" or possibly even higher acquisition difficulty level... Or it might even be impossible to begin with for all anyone knows...

Frame 4, Kakashi:
これから先は教わるんじゃなくお前が見つけるしかないんだ
From here on out you're not going to be taught, you have to find out what to do on your own

Frame 5, Kakashi:
なぜなぜこんなことをお前に話すか分かるか？ナルト
Naruto... Do you know why I'm telling you all of this?

Page 12

Frame 1, Kakashi:
四代目火影を超える忍はお前しかいないとオレはそう信じてるからだ
It's because I have great expectations for you as a shinobi, Naruto... I believe that only you can surpass the Forth Hokage

Frame 4, Kakashi:
ま話はこれくらいにして、もう少し食休みしてから修行に入りますか
Anyway... That's enough talk for now... We'll break for just a little longer before we start training

Page 13

Frame 1, Yamato:
さすがですね、カカシさんやっぱり口がお上手だ
I've gotta admit, Kakashi-san... You do have quite the way with words

Frame 2, Kakashi:
いや
No...

Frame 5, Kakashi:
本当にそう信じてるのさ
I really do believe what I said

Page 14

Frame 2, Hitaikizu:
またすぐに次のやつをお願いしますよ、ダンナ
Hope to see you with another corpse soon, sir

Frame 2, Kakuzu:
悪いが当分は来ない人柱力を探す為に木ノ葉へ行く
Sorry to say, but you won't... We're headed to Konoha to look for a jinchuuriki

Frame 4, Hitaikizu:
一つアドバイスしておきますよあの連れの方はやめといた方がいい金に縁遠い顔してますよ
I'll give you one bit of advice though... You should probably ditch that partner of yours... Can't say he looks all that interested in money

Frame 5, Kakuzu:
分かってる
... I'm well aware

Page 15

Frame 4, Shikamaru:
アスマ先生よ
Asuma-sensei...

Frame 5, Shikamaru:
地陸ってひとは先生とどんなカンケーだったんすか？
What kind of relationship did you have with that Chiriku guy anyway?

Frame 6, Asuma:
何だ、急に？
What's this, all of a sudden?

Page 16

Frame 1, Shikamaru:
ヘビースモーカーのアンタが二日もタバコを吸ってねェアンタがタバコをやめてる時は決まって何かあったときだからさ
Heavy a smoker as you are, you haven't lit up in two whole days... I mean, whenever you quit, it's always because something's happened

Frame 2, Asuma:
よく見てるなお前に心の中を見透かされるようじゃ、オレもまだまだ甘いな
Quite observant... If you're seeing through me like that, looks like I'm not hiding things well enough

Frame 3, Shikamaru:
いや、将棋指してる時はいつもバレバレなんすけどね
Actually, whenever we play chess, I'm always reading you like a book

Frame 4, Shikamaru:
こんなの三代目が亡くなった時以来だ
But quitting like this is the first time since the Third died

Page 17

Frame 1, Asuma:
地陸とオレは守護忍十二士の仲間だった
Chiriku and I both served together as members of the "Twelve Shinobi Guardsmen"

Frame 3, Asuma:
そうだなお前とチョウジみたいなもんだ
To put it easier... We were pretty much like you and Chouji

Frame 6, Shikamaru:
禁煙なんてそう続かないもんすよ
... You know... Smoking's one of those habits that just doesn't break

Translation: Naruto 319

Thu, 17 Aug 2006 20:57:49 +0000

Page 1

Title:
ナンバー３１９：つき動かすもの
Number 319: The Source of Determination

Sidebar:
(Stupid movie ad)

Page 2

Frame 1, Text:
暁狩りへ―いざ！！
The hunt for Akatsuki begins!!

Frame 4, Asuma:
誰かがやらなきゃな
... well, somebody's gotta do it...

Frame 6, Asuma:
行くぞ
Let's go

Page 3

(Translator's Personal Thought: "Yep, Asuma's as good as dead")

Page 5

Frame 1, Naruto:
ハッ！！
Hahh!!

Frame 5, Naruto:
くっそー！水がちょいハネる程度か
Dammit...! Nothing but a little splash...

Frame 6, Naruto:
カカシせんせー！！
Hey Kakashi-sensei!!

Page 6

Frame 1, Naruto:
これじゃ影分身の数が少なすぎんじゃねーの？
Don't you think I should be doing this with a few more kage-bunshins?

Frame 2, Kakashi:
大量のチャクラを風に性質変化させなきゃ滝は切れない人数が多すぎれば一人一人のチャクラが分散しちまうそれに、なによりその滝の幅じゃ十人並ぶのがやっとだ
If you don't "elementally recompose" a massive amount of chakra into "wind", the waterfall won't break... And the more of you there are, the less chakra each of you will have... Besides, with a waterfall that size, ten of you is the most we can fit up there

Frame 3, Naruto:
だったらちっとぐらいうまくやるコツ教えてくれってばよ！
In that case, give me some pointers about how to do things better!

Frame 4, Kakashi:
作った風のチャクラを体内に溜める時間が短すぎるもっと時間をかけて丁寧にやれ
You're not letting your "wind" chakra stay in you body long enough after making it... Take your time and do things a bit more carefully

Frame 5, Naruto:
でもちんたらやってたら実戦で役に立たねーじゃん！
But if I'm messing around and being "careful" there's no way I'll be able to do this in a real battle!

Frame 6, Kakashi:
今は修行中だ実戦の事まで考えなくていい慣れりゃ速くなる
This is training... There's no need to think about battle for now... Once you get used to it, you'll get faster

Page 7

Frame 1, Kakashi:
いいか、性質変化は本来何年もかかる修業だ葉を切るのだってホントなら半年はかかる
Remember, the training for "elemental recomposition" usually takes any number of years... Even cutting just a leaf should be taking 6 months anyway

Frame 2, Kakashi:
それをたった数時間でクリアしたことを考えりゃ焦る必要はないよ予想より何倍も早く進んでる
Once you consider that you cleared that part in just a few hours, there really isn't any reason to rush... You're progressing any number of times faster than I was expecting

Frame 3, Kakashi:
天才肌のサスケでさえ千鳥を教えた時、雷の性質変化にはかなりの日数がかかった
Even for someone as talented as Sasuke, when I taught him Chidori, it took quite a large number of days to get him to learn to "elementally recompose" his chakra to "lightning"

Frame 5, Naruto:
オレはそのサスケに追いつかなきゃならねーんだぞ！！
And it's that very Sasuke that I need to catch up to!!

Page 8

Frame 4, Kakashi:
ったく
... oh jeez

Frame 5, Yamato:
分かりました
Very well

Frame 7, Naruto:
うわぁあああ！
Uwaaaahh!

Page 10

Frame 3, Kakashi:
さすがにきついか？
Guess *that* was pretty hard on you, huh?

Frame 3, Yamato:
いえまったくハァハァそんな全然ゲホッゲホッ、平気ゲホッ
No... Not at... *pant pant*... all... I'm completely... *cough cough* fine... *cough*

Frame 3, Kakashi (Thought):
きついんだな
Yeah, it was hard on him...

Frame 4, Kakashi:
これで文句無いだろ？
You're happy now, right?

Frame 4, Naruto:
へへ
Heheh...

Frame 5, Naruto:
多重影分身の術！！
Mass Kage-Bunshin Jutsu!!

Page 12

("ZOMFG! Just when you thought she was just feeling sorry for herself, Sakura's mastered the "elemental recompostion" of "water"!!!)

Page 13

Frame 2, Naruto:
流れ星か
A shooting star...

Frame 6, Naruto:
サスケ
... Sasuke...

Page 15

Frame 1, Naruto:
多重影分身の術！！
Mass Kage-Bunshin Jutsu!!

Frame 3, Naruto:
ハァハァ
*pant pant*

Frame 4, Naruto:
いっくぞォー！！
Let's do this!!

Frame 5, Naruto:
ハァ！！
Hahh!!

Page 16/17

Frame 2, Naruto:
よっしゃー！！
Alright!!

Frame 4, Yamato:
この修業、なかなかのもんでんねあのナルトがこんなに早く
... I have to admit, this training method is quite impressive... To think that Naruto, of all people, would progress this fast...

Frame 5, Kakashi:
いや、この修業方法のお陰ばかりじゃないよ
No, the training method isn't the only reason for all this

Frame 7, Kakashi:
サスケがそうさせるんだ
Sasuke is what makes him so determined

Frame 1, Text:
大瀑布を真っぷたつ！！―強い思い、願いがうねり、困難ぶっとばす風を生む！！
An enormous wall of water is cut in two!! A great gust of passion and determination swells, giving birth to "wind" to blow away all troubles!!

Chapter Preview:
ナルトの修業、最強段階へ！！次号、「新術の正体！！」だ！！
Naruto's training reaches its final stage!! Next Issue, "The New Jutsu, Revealed...!!"

Chapter Preview (Midchapter):
木ノ葉二十小隊が暁を追う！！その先には！？
The twenty squads of Konoha trail Akatsuki!! What awaits them!?

Translation: Naruto 318

Fri, 04 Aug 2006 16:13:19 +0000

Back from my wedding in Japan!

Page 1

Cover Test:
それは勇気の物語。そして友情の物語。
A story of courage. A story of friendship. A story of goddamn fucking advertisements.

Title:
ナンバー３１８：順調なる修業
Number 318: The Training Progresses

Page 3

Frame 1, Kakashi:
よーし！ここら辺りで経験値を蓄積しておくぞ修業を頭の中で反芻しながら影分身を解け
Alright! This'll be a good time for you to reassimilate your kage-bunshin's experiences... Just let them disappear while you reflect on the training

Frame 3, Naruto(s):
オッス！
Got it!

Page 4

Frame 1, Yamato's Hand:
座
"za"
(means "to sit", "seat", "position of status", etc...)

Frame 2, Yamato:
ふぅー
Phew...

Page 5

Frame 1, Naruto:
いけるもうすぐやれるってばよ
I can do it... Just a little further...

Frame 4, Kakashi:
経験値と一緒に精神的疲労も蓄積してしまうのが難点だな
And this would be the major drawback... Along with all the experience, he also ends up reassimilating all the mental stress his copies incurred as well

Page 6

Frame 1, Tobi:
やったー！！
OH YEAH!!

Frame 2, Tobi:
デイダラさん！見ました、オレの術ぅ！？こいつイチコロですよ！
Deidara-san! Did you see my Jutsu!? This thing was nothing for me!

Frame 3, Tobi:
暁のメンバーになっていきなりこんな大役を任されるのもうなずけるってもんでしょう！オレってやるもんでしょう！？
Even as an Akatsuki rookie, it's no wonder I was given such an important task, don't you think!? I'm pretty damn good, right!?

Frame 5, Deidara:
いやオイラの起爆粘土がアートしただけだろオイラの芸術のお陰だろーが、うん！
Please... You wouldn't have gotten anywhere without the artistic contribution of my explosive clay... It's my art that deserves the praise here, h'm!

Page 7

Frame 1, Deidara:
手を貸してやったのも忘れて一人で盛り上がってんじゃねーよ！暁のメンバーなら口数は少なくもっとクールに振る舞え要するにクール＝アートだ
Stop getting all full of yourself, forgetting the help I provided you! Akatsuki members aren't talkative, they act calm and cool... To make it simple, being cool is being artistic.

Frame 2, Deidara:
いいかアートってのはな、クールな感情からかもしだされる情熱的な一瞬の
Listen up, 'cuase I'm going to let you know what art is... It's the product of a cool mind giving birth to a fiery moment of...

Frame 2, Tobi:
先輩の方こそ口数多いっすねハハハ
Deidara-san, you're pretty talkative yourself for being part of Akatsuki, huh...? Heheh...

Frame 4, Tobi:
って冗談うぎゃああああ！
Just kidding... Ugyaaaah!

Page 8

Frame 1, Naruto:
やったー！
I did it!!

Frame 2, Naruto:
出来たってばよ！やっぱオレってばスッゲーのか！？
You see that? Right in two! Guess you'd have to say I'm pretty awesome after all, huh?

Frame 3, Naruto:
この調子であっちゅー間に新術マスターかァ！？
At this rate I'll have a new jutsu mastered in no time, huh!?

Frame 4, Kakashi:
いやこの修業方法だから早いのオレのすごいアイディアのお陰だから
Actually... It's the training method that let you be so quick... This is all thanks to my ingenious idea, you see...

Page 9

Frame 1, Naruto:
んなことよりさっそく次の修業を頼
Yeah, whatever, let's just get on to...

Frame 3, Kakashi:
ま！ナルト、お前だから出来るんだけどな
... well, of course, it's because you are who you are that you can do all this

Frame 4, Kakashi:
ヤマト、ついでに少し休憩にしよう
Yamato, this would be a good time for a rest

Page 10

Frame 1, Kakashi:
気が付いたか
Looks like you're awake

Frame 2, Naruto:
アレオレってばまた
Again... Don't tell me I...

Frame 3, Kakashi:
この修業方法は疲れも溜まりやすいからなもう少し休んでから修業の続きを始めるぞ
Well, this training method will tend to wear you out... We'll move on with the training after resting a bit more

Frame 4, Kakahsi:
次のステップだ
Time for the next step

Frame 6, Naruto:
次は何すんの？
What're we doing next?

Page 11

Frame 1, Kakashi:
今度は滝を切る
This time we're going to cut a waterfall

Frame 2, Naruto:
滝を！？
A waterfall!?

Frame 2, Yamato:
滝に手を当てて風のチャクラを思いっきりぶつけて切るんだそれには瞬時に多重の性質変化を起す必要がある
You're going to put your hands up against the waterfall and cut it with all the "wind" chakra you can manage... In order to do that you'll need to instantaneously produce massive amounts of "elemental recomposition"

Frame 3, Kakashi:
この段階がクリア出切ればとりあえず実戦で使えるからな
And if you can clear this stage then, if nothing else, it means you can use it in real combat

Frame 5, Naruto:
それが出来りゃオレもまず一つの性質変化は出来たってことか
So if I complete this, it means I've acquired my first "elemental recomposition"

Page 12

Frame 1, Kakashi:
あの不器用なナルトがここまで早く性質変化を起せるようになるとは思ってもみなかったこの修業方、大正解だったな
Can't say I was expecting Naruto to be able to produce any "elemental recomposition" this quickly, even in the slightest... Looks like this training method was the perfect choice...

Frame 2, Naruto:
休憩終わり！さっさと修業再開だってばよ！
Enough resting already! Time to get started with the training again!

Frame 3, Naruto:
多重影分身の術！！
Mass Kage-Bunshin Jutsu!!

Page 13

Frame 1, Deidara:
いいか、トビ図に乗るんじゃねーぞ！うん！
You listening, Tobi...? Don't you ever get too full of yourself! H'm!

Frame 2, Deidara:
三尾は人柱力じゃなかったぶん、弱かっただけだ力をコントロールする頭が無かったからな
Because the Three-tails lacked a jinchuuriki medium, it was all the weaker... It lacked a mind to actually control the power, after all

Frame 6, Deidara:
おいトビ、そこまでクールに口数減らすことはねーよちゃんと返事くらい
... Hey, Tobi, I said not to be overly talkative, but that's too quiet... A reply would be...

Page 14

Frame 3, Tobi:
うぎゃあああっ！！
Ugyaaaah!!

Frame 3, Deidara:
てめえにゃあちょーどいい目覚ましだ、このヤロー！うん！！
Hey asshole, time to wake the hell up! H'm!!

Page 15

Frame 1, Kakuzu:
次はお前が持て
Here, you carry him for a while

Frame 2, Hidan:
おいおいおい、金金言ってんのはてめーだろ最後までてめーが運べ
Hey now, just one second, you're the one yelling about the money... So shut the hell up and carry it the whole way

Frame 5, Hidan:
何だよォ、そのめんどくせー目はよォ！？
Hey now, what's with the eyes!?

Frame 6, Kakuzu:
お前はいつか必ずオレが殺してやる
One of these days Alice, pow, right in the kisser, I swear I'll kill you

Frame 7, Hidan:
だからそれをオレに言うかよ角都
Again and again, that's not something to say to *me*... Kakuzu

Page 16

Frame 2, Tsunade:
話はここまでだ何か質問のある者はいるか？
And that's the end of the briefing... Do any of you have any questions?

Page 17

Frame 1, Tsunade:
何だ？
What is it?

Frame 2, Asuma:
あそこには元守護忍十二士の地陸がいるはずです彼はどうなったんです？
Chiriku, a former member of the Twelve Shinobi Guardsmen, should have been there too... What happened to him?

Frame 3, Teruteru Bouzu
地陸様はそやつらの手にかかり、死にました
Master Chiriku died by the hands of those two scoundrels

Frame 5, Waistband:
火
"Fire"

Page 18

Frame 1, Asuma:
あの地陸が馬鹿な
They killed Chiriku...? That's impossible...

Frame 3, Tsunade:
奴らの目的も知りたいがかなりの手練だ身柄の拘束が不可能な場合は抹殺しろ
I would like to find out about their plans, but these guys are quite dangerous... In the event capture becomes impossible, eradicate them

Frame 4, Tsunade:
火の国から逃がすな必ず見付け出せ
Don't let them out of the Fire Country...! Find them, no matter what...! Go!

Frame 5, Tsunade:
散！！
Dismissed!!

Page 19

Frame 5, Asuma:
さて、じゃあオレ達は火の寺からあたるぞ
Well then, we'll start our search at the Temple of Fire!

Sidebar:
難敵の侵攻に備え編成されていた精鋭小隊、その数二十！そしてそこにはアスマ班も！いざ暁狩りへ！！
In preparation for the attacks of a vile enemy, a whole 20 squads of elite shinobi are formed! And included is Team Asuma! The hunt for Akatsuki begins...!!

Chapter Preview:
暁と木ノ葉、交戦開始！！そしてナルトの修業は！？次号、「災禍」！！
Akatsuki and Konoha, the battle begins!! And what of Naruto's training!? Next Issue, "Disaster"!!

Chapter Preview (Page 9):
ぶつかり合う木ノ葉ＶＳ暁！！激闘の行方は！？
Konoha and Akatuski clash!! What is the outcome!?

Translation: Naruto 314

Sat, 08 Jul 2006 18:12:53 +0000

Finally got around to finishing my 314 translation... Borrowed a few lines from Iwanin (and bless his soul)...

Page 1

Title:
ナンバー３１４：暁侵攻！！
Number 314: Akatsuki Strikes...!!

Sidebar:
やー諸君！久し振りにコイツ鍛えますんで、ひとつ応援よろしく。
Hey friends! I'm going to be training this guy here again, so cheer us on if you can.

Page 2

Frame 1, Text:
狩りを終えた暁その二人の前に
After finishing their hunt the Akatsuki pair is greeted by...

Frame 3, Zetsu (Abnormal-Speech):
ドウヤラ済ンダヨウダナ長ッタラシイ儀式モオワッタカ
It would seem you two are done... And I take it that tediously long ritual is over with as well

Frame 4, Hidan:
どいつもこいつもうるせーヤローだ祈りを知らねー無神論者どもが
Sure, why don't you all just gang up on me... You're all just infidels, completely ignorant of prayer

Frame 5, Zetsu (Normal-Speech):
悲しい時は身一つ
When you're sad and alone

Frame 5, Zetsu (Abnormal-Speech):
信ジラレルノハ己ダケダ
... all you can count on is yourself

Page 3

Frame 1, Kakuzu:
いや、違うな信じられるのは金だけだ
No, you're wrong... The only thing you can count on is money

Frame 2, Hidan:
あー出た、それ！お前のバイトのせいで人柱力探しが遅れてんだぜ、大体よー
Oh, there you go again! You realize that it's your little side job that has us running behind schedule, right?

Frame 3, Kakuzu:
宗教は金になると言ってきたからお前と組んだんだ暁のサイフ役を任されてるオレの身にもなれ
Hey, I paired with you because you said that religion would be a good source of money... I have to manage Akatsuki's finances, why don't you try wearing my shoes for a moment

Frame 4, Zetsu (Normal-Speech):
お金は大切だよね
Money is important, for sure

Frame 4, Zetsu (Abnormal-Speech):
ソンナコトヨリスグニ次ヲ探索シロ二尾ハオレガ預カル
But that's enough talk, carry on with your assignment... I'll look after the Two-Tails

Frame 6, Sign:
火寺
"Hi No Tera"
The Temple of Fire

Page 4

Frame 1, Sign:
火寺
"Hi No Tera"
The Temple of Fire

Frame 1, Hidan:
寺じゃねーかよこんなとこにいんのか？
Hey, this is a temple... You telling me our target's here?

Frame 1, Kakuzu:
さあな
I wouldnt know...

Frame 2, Kakuzu:
だがただの寺ではないからな可能性は高い
But this isn't any ordinary temple, you know... So there's a good chance

Page 5

Frame 1, Marumaru Bouzu:
何事だ？
What happened?

Frame 1, Hage Pikapika:
封印鉄壁を破ったものがおる！
Someone has breached the Seal Gates!

Frame 1, Higesori Misosori:
地陸様に報告しろ！
Alert Chiriku-sama at once!

Frame 2, Hidan:
ジャシン教には改宗してくれそーにねーツラしてんな、どいつもこいつも
Doesn't look like anybody here would be willing to convert to the faith of Jashin

Frame 3, Mikka Bouzu:
あの衣今噂の
Those cloaks... They match the rumors...

Frame 3, Shiranu Ga Hotoke:
間違いない暁だ
There's no doubt, they're from Akatsuki

Frame 7, Bouzu Atama:
侵入者です！
We have intruders!

Frame 7, Chiriku:
何者だ？
Who are they?

Page 6

Frame 1, Bouzu Atama:
暁の手の者でございます！
They come under the banner of Akatsuki!

Frame 2, Chiriku:
いつかは来ると思っていたが
I had feared that they should one day visit, but still...

Frame 3, Chiriku:
ワシが出る他の者は援護しろ
I shall confront them... The rest of you are my support

Frame 6, Hidan:
また徳の高そーなのが出て来たぜぇ
Looks like we've got ourselves another high-and-mighty to deal with...

Frame 7, Kakuzu:
徳だけではない、こちら側の手配書（ビンゴブック）では三千万両の賞金首だ
According to our wanted list the reward on his head is high-and-mighty as well, a whole 30 million coin

Page 7

Frame 1, Hidan:
オイ金儲けが狙いじゃねーだろうな？そんなのでボウズを殺ると地獄へ落ちるぜ
Hey... You're not looking to make a haul here, are you? Kill a monk for something like that and you burn in hell

Frame 2, Kakuzu:
地獄の沙汰も金次第だ望むところ
They say money makes the *underworld* turn as well... Can't say I'd complain

Frame 3, Chiriku:
貴殿ら何用かは知らぬが大人しく帰られよ！
I know not of your purposes, but return from whence you came!

Frame 4, Hidan:
無益な殺生はしねーってかだがこっちの宗派じゃそうはいかねェ
I guess that means you don't kill without reason... But, you see, *my* religion's reason *is* killing

Frame 5, Kakuzu:
火の国に火ノ寺ありと謳われた忍寺だ僧侶は皆、仙族の才と呼ばれる特別な力を操るといわれる
This is the world-renowned shinobi monastery of the Fire Country, "The Temple of Fire"... The monks here all have command of a special power known as "theurgical enlightenment".
(My apologizes to anybody who would actually concern themselves with the finer semantic details of the word "theurgical")

Page 8/9

Frame 1, Kakuzu:
特にあの三千万両は火の国の大名を守る守護忍十二士に選ばれた事もあるエリート忍者だ
And that guy with the 30 million coin head is particularly dangerous, having once been selected as one of "The Twelve Shinobi Guardsmen", the escorts of the Fire Country daimyo

Frame 2, Hidan:
守護忍十二士？へーそんなにスゲーの？
The Twelve Shinobi Guardsmen? Is he really all that powerful?

Frame 3, Kakuzu:
あの火の国の紋の入った腰布がその証
The insignia of the Fire Country on his waistband is proof of it...

Frame 4, Kakuzu:
気を抜くな死ぬぞ
If you let your guard down... you're dead

Frame 5, Hidan:
だからオレにそれを言うかよ、角都！
Like I said, no need to tell *me* that, Kakuzu...

Page 10

Frame 2, Kakashi:
さーて修業だ
Ok, time to train

Frame 2, Naruto:
ヘヘへ
Heheheh

Frame 3, Kakashi:
何だ？
What is it now?

Frame 3, Naruto:
いやさいやさ何かカカシ先生との修業って久し振りで
No, no, it's nothing... It's just that when I think about being able to train with you again...

Frame 4, Naruto:
何でか分かんねーけど嬉しーんだってばよ
... don't know why, but I just get all excited and happy

Frame 6, Kakashi:
笑ってられんのも今のうちだぞ、ハハハ
Well, laugh it up while you have the chance, hahahah

Page 11

Frame 1, Kakashi:
時間は待っちゃくれないからな
Time isn't waiting up for us, after all

Frame 3, Kakashi:
病院でも言ったが、今回の修業の目的はお前だけの最強忍術を作ることにある螺旋丸を超える術だ
Just like I said back at the hospital, we're going to be training to have you develop an ultimate ninjutsu to call your own... A jutsu superior to even rasengan

Frame 4, Kakashi:
それにはチャクラの性質変化と形態変化の二つのテクニックが不可欠だ
To do that you'll need to have command of two chakra control techniques, "physical and spatial recomposition"

Frame 5, Naruto:
ケータイヘンカとセーシツヘンカ？
Physical and spatial... recombatation...?

Frame 6, Kakashi:
そうだ例えば千鳥チャクラを電流のように性質変化し、放電するように形態変化させて攻撃の威力と範囲を決めてる
Exactaly... Take Chidori... You physically recompose your chakra to resemble electricity, then you spatially recompose it to discharge, thus determining the strength and scope of the attack

Frame 12

Frame 1, Kakashi:
その意味で螺旋丸は千鳥とは少し違って形態変化だけを極めた術と言える
In that sense you could say that, unlike chidori, rasengan is a jutsu relying only on extremely advanced "spatial recomposition"

Frame 2, Kakashi:
チャクラを超スピードで乱回転させて圧縮する術だから性質変化は必要としないわけだ
Since the jutsu compresses chakra by spinning it at violently high speeds, it doesn't have any need for "physical recomposition"

Frame 3, Naruto:
んー、セイシツヘンカねェー
"Physical reconstitution"... I see, I see

Frame 4, Kakashi:
螺旋丸以上の術を習得するには性質変化は絶対に必要になってくる
"Physical recomposition" will be an absolute necessity for you to acquire a jutsu surpassing rasengan

Frame 5, Naruto:
なるほど！よっしゃ、セーシツヘンカか！
Makes sense to me! Alright, time for "physical recombination"!

Frame 5, Kakashi:
あんまり分かってないようだけどどっちみち体で覚えるタイプだからいいか
Doesn't seem like he's getting this... but either way he learns with his body, not his head, so I guess it's all the same...

Frame 6, Kakashi:
けどそのテクニックを会得するには膨大な時間がかかるさっきはその時間を大幅に短縮する方法を説明するつもりだったんだよ
But acquiring that technique takes an enormous amount of time... I was just about to explain how we're going to greatly reduce that time penalty back at the hospital

Page 13

Frame 1, Naruto:
なるほどでその短縮方法ってのは？
I see... and so... how're we going to reduce it then?

Frame 2, Kakashi:
あまり引っ張ってもアレだからなその方法は
Well, there's not much reason to beat around the bush... The method is...

Frame 3, Grave:
火影
Hokage

Frame 5, Asuma:
今ならアンタの言ってた事も少し分かる気がするよ
... I think I'm finally starting to understand what you were talking about

Sidebar Preview:
暁VS木ノ葉上忍！！想像を超える戦いの結末は！？
Akatsuki vs. Konoha's Jounin!! What is the conclusion to this battle exceeding all imagination!?

Page 14

Frame 1, Asuma:
木ノ葉を離れたり好き勝手な事ばっかりして悪かったな
Leaving Konoha behind... Doing whatever I felt like while disregarding others... I'm so sorry...

Frame 2, Asuma:
後悔はしてねーけどな
although I can't say I regret any of it

Frame 4, Asuma:
今は猿飛一族に生まれたのも悪くねーと思えるぜ
... Gotta admit I'm feelin' pretty good about bein' born into the Sarutobi clan now

Frame 5, Asuma:
アンタはちゃんと里長としての役目を果たした
You sure lived up to your role of village elder

Page 15

Frame 1, Asuma:
かっこいい親父だったよ
You were one damn awesome dad...

Page 16

Frame 1, Hidan:
どうやらここには人柱力はいなかったみてーだな祈りが終わり次第次へ行こうぜ
Well, it looks like there's no jinchuuriki here... As soon as my prayers are done, let's move on

Frame 2, Kakuzu:
いや
No...

Frame 4, Kakuzu:
こいつの死体を換金所に持って行くまずは金だ
We need to go exchange this corpse for its bounty... Money comes first

Frame 5, Hidan:
あのさァオレ、お前に一回キレていいかな、ホント
Hey... You mind if I get pissed at you for once, seriously

Page 17

Frame 2, Boroboro Bouzu:
木ノ葉へ知らせなければ
I must inform Konoha...

Frame 4, Kakuzu:
火の国は広いじっくりいくぞ
The Fire Country is quite big... We're taking things in stride

Frame 5, Hidan:
やっぱ色々と出遅れてんのはてめーのせいだろ、コラ！痛って！！
Goddamn, you realize it's you, not me, who's holding us up, right? Ouch!!

Sidebar:
二人の暁行く道、遮ること罷り成らぬ！火の国を焦土と化すべく、脅威は侵攻する！！
Nothing stands in the way of the two Akatsuki! The pair continues their journey of destruction across the Fire Country...!!

Chapter Preview:
衝撃に包まれる火の国。そして木ノ葉が動く！！次号、「急報」へ！！
As shockwaves radiate across the Fire Country, Konoha makes its move!! Next Issue, "An Urgent Message"!!

Translation: Naruto 313

Thu, 29 Jun 2006 21:23:38 +0000

Page 1

Title:
ナンバー３１３：新たなる二人組！！
Number 313: The New Pair!!

Sidebar:
闇夜を流れる赤き雲は、不吉の予兆―。新たなる敵、暁に目を覚ます！！
Red clouds flow through a dark night's sky, a foreboding sign... Enter a new pair from Akatsuki!!

Page 2

Frame 1, Text:
暁が追う者は！？
Who is this person that Akatsuki chases...!?

Frame 2, Kakuzu:
やるぞ
Let's do this

Frame 3, Hidan:
ちょい待ち
Hold on there

Frame 4, Hidan:
アレやる前にはちゃんと神に祈りを捧げねーとな
Before we do *that* I need to be sure and offer my prayers to God
(Assuming his religion is monotheistical)

Frame 6, Kakuzu:
いつもいつも面倒くさい奴だ
There you go again with those stupid prayers

Page 3

Frame 1, Hidan:
オレだってめんどくせーけど、戒律厳しーんだからしょうがねーだろ！
Hey, I don't like 'em either, but the dogma of my faith is strict about this stuff!

Frame 3, Woman:
ふっアンタら、私を追い込んだつもりだろうが、そうじゃない
Heh... You two probably think you've cornered me, but that's not the case

Frame 4, Woman:
私がアンタらを誘い込んだのさ！
You see, I lured you here!

Page 4

Frame 3, Woman:
アンタらが暁と分かった以上、逃がす訳にはいかない
Now that I know you're with Akatsuki, I can't let you go

Frame 4, Hidan:
あーあふさがれちまったぜ、角都
Oh jeez... Looks like she's got us trapped, Kakuzu

Frame 5, Kakuzu:
問題無いむしろ好都合
No problem... Things are actually better this way

Page 5

Frame 1, Yugito:
雲隠れの二位ユギトの名にかけて殺す！！
I swear on my own name, Nii Yugito of Kumogakure, that I will kill you!!
(The name here, "Nii", literally means "rank two", and it could potentially instead be intended as "Yugito, No. 2 of Kumogakure"...)

Frame 2, Hidan:
ハア？何？その殺す！とかさ何かそういう意気込みみたいなのぶつけられるとさイラッとくんだよね
Huh...? Kill us? Oh jeez... You know when someone yells a battlecry like that... It just plain irritates me
(Pretty sure Jump had a typesetting mistake here... 意気込みみたいな not 意気込みたいな)

Frame 3, Hidan:
でイラッとくると頭に血が昇る頭に血が昇ると
And... when I get irritated, I get all hot-headed... And when I get hot-headed...

Frame 3, Kakuzu:
うるさい、黙れ、飛段
That's enough, shut up, Hidan

Frame 4, Hidan:
はいはいでもよー、頭に血が昇るともう目的なんてどーでもいいや、ぶっ壊しちまおうって気になんだよ
Yeah yeah... but still, when I get hot-headed, I get all like "Ah, to hell with our objectives, I think I'll just destroy everything"

Frame 5, Kakuzu:
いい加減にしろ、飛段目的は絶対だ
I said that's enough, Hidan... Our objectives *are* everything

Page 6

Frame 1, Hidan:
大体今回の仕事（ノルマ）はオレの宗派にゃ合わねーんだよジャシン教は殺戮がモットー半殺しは駄目だと戒律で決まってる
You know, this assignment we've been given really doesn't mix well with my beliefs... Carnage is the key precept of the faith of Jashin... The dogma doesn't let me leave someone *half* dead
("Jashin" could potentially be intended as 邪心 "evil heart" or 邪神 "evil god")

Frame 2, Hidan:
戒律破るような仕事端からやる気にゃならねーぜ、ホント
An assignment where I have to break the dogma... Never could get myself in the mood for it from the very start, seriously

Frame 3, Hidan:
オレはこう見えても信心深いんだぜ！という訳で殺せねーのはめんどくせーから
I may not look the part, but I'm quite religious! ... So you know... since it's such a pain to have to *not* kill you...

Frame 4, Hidan:
ここは話し合いで解決しないか？
Why can't we just negotiate a solution to this?

Frame 5, Yugito:
話し合いだと
What do you mean "negotiate"...?

Frame 5, Yugito (Thought):
何だ、こいつ
What is with this guy...

Page 7

Frame 1, Hidan:
大人しく捕まってくんねーかな
I mean, can't you just roll over and let us capture you...?

Frame 2, Yugito:
フン
Heh...

Frame 3, Yugito:
ふざけるな！！
Get real!!

Frame 4, Hidan:
アレ？ダメみたいだな
Oops...? Guess that was a "no"

Frame 4, Kakuzu:
お前は馬鹿か
Are you stupid or something?

Page 10

Frame 2, Hidan:
何だ、この人柱力完全に尾獣化してやがるぜ
What is with this Jinchuuriki... it's turned completely into its bijuu

Page 11

Frame 2, Hidan:
あーあァ
Oh jeez...

Frame 3, Hidan:
ヤベ！
Uh oh!

Page 12

Frame 3, Hidan:
熱ち―！こいつ、猫舌じゃあねーのかよ
Damn! Cat didn't get my tongue, but it nearly roasted my ass!
(Ok... Yes, it sounds corny. It's supposed to. The Japanese is more literally something like "What, so this thing doesn't have a cat-tongue?"... In Japanese "cat-tongue" is usually used in relation to someone who is really sensitive hot food or drink. Hence, since the "nibi" they're fighting is a giant cat who apparently breathes fire, this becomes a play on words here.)

Page 13

Frame 1, Hidan:
こいつが生霊と言われる二尾の化け猫か
So this is the "two-tails", a monster cat said to be a living sprit of vengeance...

Frame 2, Hidan:
オレはまさしく袋のネズミってわけだなクク笑えねぇ
I guess you'd say that I'm trapped like a rat, then... Heheh... This is so not funny...

Frame 3, Sign:
木ノ葉病院
Konoha Hospital

Frame 4, Kakashi:
話って何だ？
So what'd you want to talk about?

Frame 4, Asuma:
実はな
Well you see...

Page 14

Frame 1, Kurenai:
いたいた
There you are

Frame 2, Kakashi:
何だ、紅か何か用か？
Oh, it's just Kurenai... You need something?

Frame 2, Kurenai:
ここにアスマが来てるって聞いてね
Well, I heard Asuma was here and so...

Frame 4, Kakashi:
ふ～んで、アスマ、話ってのは？
Ok... Anyway, Asuma, what'd you have to say?

Frame 5, Asuma:
いや、また今度、ゆっくり話す悪いな
Oh nothing, I'll just catch you when we have more time... Sorry

Frame 7, Kakashi:
すごい気になるな
But I want to know now...

Page 16

Frame 2, Kakuzu:
三十分も経ってるぞまだか、飛段
It's been thirty minutes already... You done yet, Hidan?

Frame 3, Hidan:
うるせーよ！儀式の邪魔すんな！！
Let me be! The ceremony can't be interrupted!!

Frame 5, Hidan:
痛って
Ouch...

Page 17

Frame 1, Kakuzu:
毎度毎度のその悪趣味な祈り少しは省略出来んのか？さっさと次へ行くぞ
Each and every time you go on with those creepy prayers... Don't you think you could shorten it a bit? It's time for us to move on

Frame 1, Hidan:
オレだってめんどくせーけど、戒律なんだからしょーがねーだろ
Hey, I don't like to do it either, but it's part of the dogma!

Frame 2, Hidan:
それに省略って何だ、省略って！神への冒涜だぞ！！
And what the hell do you mean "shorten it"! That'd be sacrilege!!

Frame 4, Kakuzu:
オレたちのノルマはあと一匹しらみつぶしだな
We were assigned to capture one more... This is becoming a literal combing of the countryside...

Frame 5, Kakuzu:
次は火の国だ
Fire Country is next.

Sidebar:
人柱力をすら容易に捕獲するその恐るべき能力（ちから）！！次は火の国二人の暁が木ノ葉に接近する！？
Shocking strength allowing for an effortless capture of even a Jinchuuriki!! Fire Country is next... the Akatsuki pair heads towards Konoha!?

Chapter Preview:
人柱力を探し求める暁。その目的とは！？次号、「修業開始」！！
Akatsuki continues its search for Jinchuuriki!? What are its plans!? Next Issue, "The Training Begins"!!

Translation: Naruto 312

Thu, 22 Jun 2006 10:21:14 +0000

I think I'll go with "seriously" for Hidan's tag "honto", and "dude" for the tag "anta"...

...

...

Meh... Whatever...

Done anyhow...

Edit: Altered Hidan's last line due to (*gasp*) mistranslation. Still don't like it stylistically though, so I'm going to sleep on it and think about it again tomorrow.

Page 1

Title:
ナンバー312:忍び寄る脅威!!
Number 312: The Silently Approaching Menace

Sidebar:
天に、己に、愧ずること無き道を往く。たまの一服、愉しみながら。
Without regret, he lives his life, true to himself, with puff here and there, helping him along the way.
(Marlboro - The Official Cigarette of Naruto)

Page 2

Frame 1, Text:
その修業とは!?
What is the training...!?

Frame 1, Naruto:
カカシ先生を超える?
... surpass you, Kakashi-sensei...?

Frame 2, Kakashi:
そうだ
Right

Frame 5, Kakashi:
この修業ではオレがつきっきりになるで、今までとはかなり違った修業になる
During this training I'll be with you the whole time... Also, it's going to be quite different from any training you've had so far

Frame 6, Naruto:
どどんな事するんだってばよ?
... Wh... what'll we be doing...?

Frame 7, Kakashi:
お前だけの最強の忍術を作る
You'll develop an ultimate ninjutsu to call your own

Page 3

Frame 2, Kakashi:
つまり螺旋丸を超える新しい忍術を身に付けてもらうただし、それなりの力を手に入れるにはそれに見合った膨大な時間と努力がいる
In other words, we're going to have you acquire a new ninjutsu greater than even rasengan... However, in order to acquire such power, one must spend an equally massive amount of time and effort to do so

Frame 3, Kakashi:
小説の主人公みたく数日でポンポン強くなれるわけもないそれに螺旋丸の様にすでに出来あがってる術を丁寧に教えてもらいながら会得するのともわけが違う
It's not like you're going to get stronger overnight, like the main character of some novel... And this is completely different from learning something like rasengan, a jutsu previously thought of and one that is acquired through close instruction

Frame 4, Naruto:
膨大な時間ってさっきも言ったけど、もう時間がねーんだってばよ!サスケはもう
A massive amount of time...? We just told you, we don't have any more time left! Sasuke's going to...

Frame 5, Kakashi:
だからそれを短期間でする方法を思いついたのさ
Yeah, but I thought of a way to do it all in a short period of time.

Frame 7, Naruto:
どどうやって?
H... How's that...?

Frame 7, Kakashi:
それはな
Well, you see...

Page 4 (Cue timely entrance of Team Asuma for cliffhanging effect)

Frame 1, Ino:
アスマ先生、ノックくらいしなさいってば!
Asuma-sensei, you're supposed to knock first, you know!?

Frame 1, Chouji:
こんにちは
Hello

Frame 1, Asuma:
体調はどうだ、カカシ
How's the body doing, Kakashi?

Page 5

Frame 1, Shikamaru:
何だ、ナルトとサクラじゃねーか任務はもう
Hey, if it isn't Naruto and Sakura! Did the mission already...

Frame 4, Shikamaru:
お前はあんときの
You're that...

Frame 5, Chouji:
あ!
Ah!

Frame 7, Sai:
どうも
Nice to see you

Page 6

Frame 2, Tsunade:
報告ご苦労だったな
Good job on the report

Frame 2, ANBU:
では私はこれにて
I'll be going then

Frame 4, Shizune:
暁の行動がいよいよ本格化してきましたね奴らがまた木ノ葉周辺をにぎわす様になるのも時間の問題ですね
Akatsuki is finally starting to get serious... It's only a matter of time before they pay a visit to the area around Konoha

Frame 5, Tsunade:
確かに大きな危機ではあるがそれは奴らをたたくチャンスでもある
... Granted, it's becoming quite the problem, but it's also a chance for us to take care of them

Frame 6, Tsunade:
いよいよちんたらしてられないな
It's about time we stop messing around

Page 7

Frame 4, Chouji:
な~んだ、そういう事だったんだ
Oh, was that all it was?

Frame 5, Sai:
サイって言いますどうか呼び捨てにして下さい
My name is Sai. Please, don't worry about using any name-suffixes with me.

Frame 6, Ino:
へーなんか結構カッコイイじゃなーい少しサスケくん似だしー
Wow... You know, he does look pretty good... and he has a face similar to Sasuke-kun...

Page 8

Frame 1, Sakura:
見た目はね中身はだいぶ違うから空気読めないし
Yeah, but that's how he looks... He *acts* completely different... And he's socially clueless

Frame 3, Shikamaru:
サスケの事は綱手様から聞いた今度はオレも何かあったら協力するぜめんどくせー中忍試験も終わったしな
I heard about Sasuke from Tsunade-sama... I'll help you out next time, if something comes up... Those pain in the ass Chuunin Exams are finally over with, after all

Frame 5, Naruto:
ああ
Yeah...

Page 9

Frame 1, Asuma:
お前ら先に焼肉Qへ行っといてくれ良かったら、カカシ班のみんなも一緒に行くといい
You guys can go ahead to "Yakiniku Q"... And if everyone from Team Kakashi wants, you can come along too
(Yakiniku is a type of BBQ popular in Japan)

Frame 2, Chouji:
イエ――イ!ヤキニク―!
OH YEAH!! YAKINIKU!!

Frame 2, Ino:
賛成―!
I'm in!

Frame 2, Ino (Thought):
サイくんの隣に座る―!
I think I'll sit next to Sai!

Frame 3, Asuma:
オレはカカシと二人でちょっと話がある焼肉はオレのおごりでいいからな
I need to talk with Kakashi alone... And I'll take care of the bill for the yakiniku

Frame 4, Naruto:
ってちょい待ち!!あのさ!あのさ!カカシ先生、修業の話の続きはどうなんだってばよ!?
... hey, wait a sec!! So aren't you gonna tell me about the training, Kakashi-sensei?

Frame 5, Kakashi:
そうだなんーま!またあとでな
... oh yeah... hmm... Well! We'll just do it later

Frame 6, Naruto:
え―――!すっげー気になるってばよ!
Huh! But I want to know now!

Sidebar Preview:
里を襲う悲劇。木ノ葉が怒りと悲しみに暮れる!?
The village is visited by tragedy... Konoha is overcome with anger and sorrow...!?

Page 10

Frame 1, Sign:
焼肉Q
Yakiniku Q
(Probably a play on the word "BBQ")

Frame 2, Sakura:
アレ?シカマルは?
Hey! Where's Shikamaru?

Frame 3, Chouji:
親父さんと薬用の角を取りに行かないとならないから帰るってさ
He said he had to get back to help his dad go get some horns that they use for medicine

Frame 4, Ino:
ふぅーんいつも任務の打ち上げには必ず出てたのに珍しいわねー
Huh... He's always really good at showing up for meetings about our missions... this's pretty strange for him...

Frame 5, Chouji:
よーし!シカマルの分も食べるぞー!!
Alright! I got dibs on his food!!

Frame 6, Ino:
ってチョージ!食べる前にサイくんに私たちの自己紹介しないとさーあ
Chouji! Before you eat we need to introduce ourselves to Sai-kun!

Frame 6, Chouji:
ああ、そうだねェ
Ah, guess you're right...

Page 11

Frame 1, Sai:
どうも
... please, go ahead...

Frame 1, Sai:
早く打ちとけるには初めが肝心だからなあだ名や愛称をすぐに決めなきゃ
First impressions are important for getting to know people quicker... better think of some nicknames now...

Frame 2, Chouji:
えっと、ボクは秋道一族の秋道チョウジよろしく、えっと、サイだっけ
Umm, I'm Akimichi Chouji of the Akimichi Clan... Nice to meet you, err, Sai, was it?

Frame 3, Sai:
よろしくえっと
Nice to meet you too, umm...

Frame 3, Sai (Thought):
特徴特徴
Characteristics... Characteristics...

Frame 4, Sakura:
まさか
He wouldn't...

Frame 5, Naruto:
もしかしてあの禁句を!
He's not going to say the "forbidden word", is he?

Frame 6, Sai:
デ
... Fa...

Page 12

Frame 2, Naruto:
サイ!チョージの前じゃデブってのはぜってー禁句だ分かったな!
Sai! Don't ever, ever say "fatso" in front of Chouji! Got it?

Frame 3, Chouji:
今何か言いかけた?
Did you start to say something just now?

Frame 3, Sakura:
アハハいや何も
Ahaha... No, it's nothing...

Frame 3, Sai:
あだ名ってのは難しいな
Nicknames sure are hard...

Frame 4, Ino:
私は山中花店の娘で山中いのって言いますよろしくー!
I'm Yamanaka Ino, daughter of the Yamanaka Flower Shop! Nice to meet you!

Frame 5, Sai:
女の人の場合は特徴をそのまま言えば怒らせることになるつまり、その逆を言えばそうはならないってことだから
With women, if you tell them exactly how they look they get mad at you... So if I say the reverse then everything will be all right

Frame 6, Sai:
よろしくえっと
Nice to meet you... Umm...

Page 13

Frame 1, Sai:
美人さん
Ms. Beautiful

Frame 4, Sakura:
何でいのん時はそうなんのよー!しゃーんなろー!!
Why the hell is it "beautiful" with Ino! Shaannaroo!

Frame 4, Sai:
うぐっ!
Uguh!

Frame 5, Bubbles:
ハア　ハア
Hah Hah

Page 14

Frame 1, Woman:
ハア　ハア
Hah Hah

Frame 4, Woman:
ぐっ
Guh...

Page 15

Frame 2, Voice 1:
よーくよけるねェ、アンタ
You got some moves there, dude

Frame 3, Voice 1:
んーオレの攻撃スピードは暁一のろまでヘタだから当たりゃーしねーよ、ホント
Hmm... My attacks are the slowest in Akatsuki and the least skilled, so I just can't hit anything, seriously

Frame 5, Woman:
そうかやはりお前らが暁か
I see... So you two *are* from Akatsuki then

Frame 6, Voice 2:
あとはお前だけだ
You're the only one left

Page 16/17

Frame 1, Hidan:
いやー、やる方だよ、アンタさ
But really, you're not all that bad, dude

Frame 1, Text:
暁本格始動新たなる二人組現る!!
Akatsuki becomes "seriously" active... A new pair makes their appearance!!
(Yea! I get to use "seriously"!)

Frame 2, Kakuzu:
オイ、飛段、こいつは二尾の人柱力だ気を抜くな死ぬぞ
Hey, Hidan, this one is the "Two-tails" jinchuuriki... If you let your guard down... you're dead

Frame 3, Hidan:
それをオレに言うか、角都よどうせなら殺してほしーよ、ホント
No need to tell *me* that, Kakuzu... I *want* her to kill me, just to get it over with, seriously

Translation: Naruto 311

Thu, 15 Jun 2006 19:10:27 +0000

Page 1

Title:
ナンバー311:あだ名
Number 311: Nicknames

Sidebar:
ひさしぶりの長期休暇が病院ベッドの上なんて…。ま…アリか。(右手に注目♡)
The first extended vacation I've had in a long time, and it's on top of a hospital bed... Oh well... It's all good. (Note right hand)

Kakashi's Right Hand:
イチャイチャ・タクティクス
Make-out Tactics

Page 2

Frame 1, Sign:
木ノ葉図書処
Konoha Library

Frame 2, Text:
図書室で一人ブツブツを…。
Someone sits in the library, mumbling to himself...

Frame 3, Sai:
…他人にいち早く自分を理解してもらうには…まず、他人との心の距離を近づけることである…
... In order to hasten the development of understanding between yourself and others... the first thing to do is reduce any emotional barriers...

Frame 4, Book:
よりよい人間関係の築き方の本
Fostering Better Interpersonal Relationships

Frame 4, Sai:
…例えば、相手の呼び方…“さん”や“くん”などを付けて呼んでいては…
... For instance, when addressing someone... by using name suffixes such as "-san" and "-kun"...

Frame 5, Book:
コミュニケーション
Communication

Frame 5, Sai:
他人行儀でいつまでたってもその距離は縮まらない
... you will remain distant from that person, never seeing any reduction in emotional barriers

Page 3

Frame 1, Book Title:
他人とすぐに仲よくなる方法
How to quickly become friends with people

Frame 1, Sai:
まずは思い切って相手の名前を呼び捨てにしたり…あだ名や愛称などを決めて呼んでみてはどうだろう…
To combat this, one should first take the initiative to stop using such suffixes... Alternatively, assigning nicknames or other terms of endearment may be viable options.

Frame 2, Sai:
そうすれば、特別な存在として…ずっと身近に感じてもらえることが…なるほど…
By doing such, one is able to... position themselves in a particularly special and close relationship... Hmm, makes sense...

Frame 3, Books:
薬物による作用
The Effects of Medical Drugs
劇薬とその作用
Powerful Medicines and Their Effects
薬の調合
The Preparation of Medicines
青キノコと太陽草
Blue Mushrooms and Solar Grass
(Pretty sure this comes from *somewhere*)
グリーンハーブとレッドハーブ
Green Herbs and Red Herbs

Frame 4, Sakura:
あった、あった…
Here it is...

Page 4

Frame 1, Sakura:
あれ…?サイじゃない…
Huh...? Hey, it's Sai...

Frame 2, Sakura:
画集でも探しに来たの?
Did you come here looking for some art books or something?

Frame 4, Sai:
サクラさん…
Sakura-san...

Frame 5, Sakura:
へー、本とかも読むんだ…
Oh, so you're a reader...

Frame 6, Sai:
まあ…少しはね
Well... Just a bit of one

Page 5

Frame 2, Book:
よりよい人間関係の築き方の本
Fostering Better Interpersonal Relationships

Frame 3, Sakura:
サイも結構人間くさいとこあんのね…
Sai sure has a real "human" side to him...

Frame 4, Sakura:
あ!そうそう…
Oh! That reminds me...

Frame 5, Sakura:
これから私とナルトでカカシ先生のお見舞い行くんだけど、サイも一緒に行かない?
Naruto and I are going to go visit Kakashi-sensei at the hospital... Did you want to come too?

Frame 6, Sai:
カカシ…先生…
Kakashi...-sensei...

Frame 7, Sakura:
アンタも同じカカシ班だし、顔合わせしといた方がいいしね…
Well, you are in Team Kakashi with us, so it'd probably be best to meet him once anyway.

Page 6

Frame 5, Sasuke (Flashback):
オレにとっては復讐が全てだ…復讐さえ叶えばオレがどうなろうが、この世がどうなろうが、知ったことじゃない
Revenge means everything to me... As long as I can have my revenge, I could care less what happens to me, or the whole world for that matter

Frame 6, Sasuke (Flashback):
大蛇丸にオレの体を差し出すことでそれを成し得る力を手に出来るなら
If I'm able to accomplish my goals through nothing more than offering Orochimaru this body of mine...

Page 7

Frame 1, Sasuke (Flashback):
こんな命、いくらでもくれてやる
... then he can have my life, and my afterlife for that matter

Frame 3, Naruto:
サスケ…
Sasuke...

Frame 4, Sakura:
ナルトー!
Naruto!

Frame 5, Naruto:
あっ…
Ah...

Page 8

Frame 2, Naruto:
なんだってばよ…サイも一緒かよ
What the... What is Sai doing here!

Frame 2, Sakura:
図書室で偶然会ったから
I happened to run into him at the library, so...

Frame 3, Naruto:
なんだァ…せっかくサクラちゃんと二人でデートっぽく歩くプランねってたのによォーーお!
Jeez... And I was just devising a plan for the two of us go on a walk, almost like a date!

Frame 3, Sakura:
そんなヒマがあったら忍術の勉強でもするっての!
If you have the time to do that, then you should go study ninjutsu or something!

Frame 4, Naruto:
…勉強ねェ…二人っともよくあんなかたっ苦しいとこ行けるってばよ
... Studying, right... How can you two even stand it at the library, it's so uncomfortable there

Frame 5, Sakura:
ナルトこそ体ばっかりじゃなくて頭の方も少しは鍛えたほうがいいわよ
You'd do well to go once in a while, Naruto... training involves the head as well as the body.

Frame 6, Sakura:
アンタ、ホントバカなんだからさ
I mean, you're just so stupid as things are

Page 9

Frame 1, Sai:
やっぱり…サクラさんもナルトくんの事を呼び捨てに…
I see... so Sakura doesn't use any name suffixes when talking to Naruto-kun...

Frame 2, Naruto:
サクラちゃ~ん、そりゃ言いすぎだってばよ
Sakura-chaaaan, that's saying way too much

Frame 3, Sai:
ナ…ナルト…サクラ…
N... Naruto... Sakura...

Frame 4, Sai:
ボクも会話にまぜてもらっていいかな
Would you mind if I join the conversation as well?

Frame 6, Sai:
…あ!…いや…本で読んだんだ…他人とすぐに打ちとける方法とか…
... Ah! ... Err... I read this book... about getting to know people and stuff, and...

Sidebar Preview:
木ノ葉の里に衝撃の報が…!!激震、走る!!
Shocking news hits the village of Konoha...!!

Page 10

Frame 1, Sai:
それで本には名前を呼び捨てにしたり、あだ名や愛称で呼べと…そうすれば親近感が出てすぐに仲よくなれるって…
... it said that I should drop name suffixes, or use nicknames and such... by doing so it creates a feeling of closeness, allowing people to become friends quickly...

Frame 4, Naruto:
ヘヘ…サイ…お前もそんなこと気にすんだな
Heh... Sai... I didn't think you actually cared about that stuff

Frame 5, Sakura:
それでさっき図書室で…
So that's why you were reading those books...

Frame 6, Sai:
…うん
... yeah

Page 11

Frame 1, Sai:
で…二人のあだ名とか愛称とか考えたんだけど、上手く思いつかなくて…とりあえず呼び捨てで…
But... while I thought about it for a bit, I couldn't think of any good nicknames for you two... so for now I just drop the suffixes and...

Frame 2, Sakura:
…サイがそんなに真剣に私たちとの事考えてたなんて…
... I can't believe how serious Sai was in thinking about our friendships...

Frame 3, Naruto:
そんなの考えなくても自然に決まってくもんだってばよ!
Nicknames aren't something you think about, they just happen, naturally!

Frame 4, Sakura:
愛称とかあだ名なんてその人の特徴とか言えばいいのよ…たとえば、ホラ、ナルトなら…
If your going to make a nickname then you can, for instance, use someone's characteristics... Like, here, take Naruto...

Frame 5, Sakura:
バカナルトとかアホナルトとかね~
He'd be "stupid Naruto" or "idiot Naruto"...

Frame 5, Naruto:
サクラちゃ~ん、そりゃとびすぎだってばよ~~
Sakura-chaaan, that's way overdoing it...

Frame 6, Sai:
なるほど…特徴を…
Characteristics, huh... I see...

Frame 7, Sakura:
あのサイが…初めて会った時とはすごい違い…
I remember Sai when we meet him first... He's so different now...

Page 12

Frame 1, Sai:
ありがとう、コツが分かったよ…ブス
Thanks, I think I got the hang of it... Ugly-Dog

Frame 3, Sakura:
しゃーんなろー!
Shaannaroo!
("Why you!!!")

Frame 3, Naruto:
サイ!そりゃぶっとびすぎだってばよっ!!
Sai! That's way, way overdoing it!!

Frame 3, Sai:
…え?何がです?
... Huh? What do you mean?

Page 13

Frame 1, Sign:
木ノ葉病院
Konoha Hospital

Frame 2, Kakashi:
そうか…君が新しいチームのメンバーの…サイだっけ…よろしくね
I see... So this is the new team member... Sai, was it? ... Nice to meet you

Frame 2, Sai:
…はい
... Thank you

Frame 3, Kakashi:
ちょいサクラ、こっちこっち…
Sakura, come here a sec...

Frame 4, Kakashi:
あの二人、ケガしてるけど…ケンカでもしたの?ケンカっ早い…ナルトのことだから想像はつくけど…
Both of them are hurt... did they get in a fight or something? Naruto's a bit short tempered... so it doesn't surprise me, but...

Page 14

Frame 1, Sakura:
い…いえ、別に何も…みんな仲いいですよ!
Oh... no, it's nothing, really... We're all really good friends!

Frame 1, Kakashi:
あ…そうなの…それならいいんだけどね
Oh... Really... Well, then things are OK, I suppose

Frame 2, Sakura:
アハハハ…
Ahahaha...

Frame 3, Sai:
この人が“根”でも噂されたあのはたけカカシ…ボクの事も調べ上げてるに違いない
The great Hatake Kakashi, much was said of him when I was in "roots"... No doubt he's looked into my past already

Frame 5, Sakura:
ナルト…
Naruto...

Frame 6, Naruto:
うん…
Yeah...

Frame 7, Naruto:
カカシ先生…オレたち今回の任務で…
Kakashi-sensei... Our last mission, it...

Page 15

Frame 1, Kakashi:
ヤマトから全部聞いたよ…サスケのこともな…
I've already heard everything form Yamato... he told me about Sasuke as well...

Frame 5, Naruto:
もう、時間がねーんだってばよ…このままじゃ…もう少しで、あいつ…
We don't have any time left... At this rate... In just a bit longer, he'll...

Frame 6, Naruto:
それに今の力じゃサスケを連れ戻す力が足りねェ…サスケは強くなりすぎてる…
And with where we're at right now, we aren't strong enough to bring Sasuke back... He's gotten way too strong...

Page 16

Frame 1, Kakashi:
ま…だったら…それ以上に強くなればいいだけだろ
Well... In that case... You only need to become stronger than him, right?

Frame 3, Sakura:
私の目から見てもサスケくんの成長スピードは尋常じゃなかった…
Even as I looked at him, it was clear that the speed at which he's gotten stronger isn't normal at all...

Frame 4, Sakura:
綱手様に聞いたら…修業に禁術や薬物投与を用いてる可能性もあると…あっちにはあのカブトもいるから…
After consulting Tsunade-sama... she told me it's possible he's been using forbidden jutsu or has been given drugs during his training... and with someone like Kabuto working with him, well...

Frame 5, Sakura:
人体実験をしてるような奴らの考えをこんな本じゃ調べようもないだろうけど…
And while I probably can't hope to learn anything from books like these about how people who experiment on humans think, well...

Frame 5, Book:
薬物による作用
The Effects of Medical Drugs

Frame 6, Kakashi:
だったらこっちもそれ以上に急激に強くなるしかないでしょうよ
In that case, you'll just need to get even stronger than him, at a faster rate

Page 17

Frame 1, Sakura:
でも、どうやって?
Yeah, but how?

Frame 2, Kakashi:
オレがただ何も考えずに寝てるだけだと思った?ずっと考えてたんだよ…で…思いついた
You don't think I've just been sleeping here without thinking, do you? I was thinking the whole time... and... something came to me

Frame 3, Kakashi:
ただし、この方法はナルトに向いてる…と…いうより、ナルトにしか出来ないやり方だけどね
Still, this particular method is best for someone like Naruto... or rather... I should say, that it's really something that only he is capable of doing

Frame 5, Kakashi:
その修業で、ナルト…お前はある意味ではオレを超えるかもしれないな
With this training, Naruto... you might even surpass me, in a way of speaking

Sidebar:
“イチャイチャ…”から離された瞳には恐ろしいほどの自信が浮かぶ!カカシの思いついた“修業”とは…!?
Raising his eyes from his "make-out" book, Kakashi's face beams with confidence! What is this "training" that Kakashi has thought up...!?

Chapter Preview:
課せられる修業は…そして木ノ葉に新たなる災厄!?次号、「修業」!!
The training assigned to Naruto is... And what disaster awaits Konoha!? Next Issue, "Training"!!

Translation: Naruto 310

Tue, 13 Jun 2006 18:48:31 +0000

Finally got around to translating the chapter...

Page 1/2

Intro Text:
木ノ葉の風待月。里も木も少年も熱風を待っている。
Summer begins in Konoha. The village, its trees and its boys all wait for winds of passion.

Title:
ナンバー３１０：タイトル
Number 310: The Title

Page 3

Frame 5, Naruto:
また止められなかった
I couldn't stop him... Again...

Frame 7, Naruto:
オレは
I'm so...

Page 4

Frame 1, Naruto:
弱えェ
weak...

Page 5

Frame 1, Naruto:
うっうっうっ
*sob*...*sob*...*sob*...

Frame 2, Sakura:
泣いたってサスケくんは帰って来ないでしょ！
You know, crying isn't going to bring Sasuke-kun back!

Page 6

Frame 1, Sakura:
私もいる！私だって一緒に強くなる！！
I'm here too! We'll both get stronger, together!!

Page 7

Frame 1, Sai:
時間あと半年近くはあるんだよね
There's almost another half year left...

Frame 3, Sai:
二人より三人の方がいいに決まってるそれに僕は結構強いからね
And three's better than two, obviously... besides, I'm pretty strong myself, you know

Page 8

Frame 1, Naruto:
へへサンキューだってばよ
Heheh... Thanks a lot, guys

Frame 2, Yamato:
さて
Well...

Frame 3, Yamato:
これからだな
Looks like we're just getting started...

Page 9

Frame 2, Tsunade:
そうか
I see...

Page 10

Frame 2, Tsunade:
で？
And so...?

Frame 3, Naruto:
オレたちはあきらめねェ！
We aren't giving up!

Page 11

Frame 1, Tsunade:
フン
Heh...

Frame 2, Tsunade:
ではこれよりお前たちにはすぐに次の任務を言い渡す
Very well, I guess I should tell you four about your next mission then

Frame 5, YODAnzou:
任務をしくじるとはお前らしくないな
It's not like you to fail your mission...

Preview Sidebar:
新展開！！木ノ葉の里に新たなる激震！？またまたナルト達に危機！！
New developments!! New shockwaves rattle the village of Konoha!? Danger yet again awaits Naruto and friends!!

Page 12

Frame 1, Sai:
一つお願いがございます
... I have one request to ask of you

Frame 1, YODAnzou:
願いだと？
A request you say...?

Frame 1, Sai:
ハイ
Yes...

Frame 2, Sai:
この名のまましばらくカカシ班に身を置かせては頂けないでしょうか
I would wish that I be allowed to remain with Team Kakashi for the time being, with my name as it is...

Frame 5, YODAnzou:
この笑い顔は
What is this smile of his...

Frame 6, YODAnzou:
その話なら綱手からも受けている
Yes, I've been informed by Tsunade

Frame 7, YODAnzou:
しかし分かってるな、サイ感情は憎しみを作り出すそして憎しみは戦いを作り出すものだ
However, let me remind you, Sai... Emotion leads one to hate... and hate leads one to conflict and war...

Page 13

Frame 2, Sasuke (Flashback):
兄との憎しみっていうつながりがな
Fraternal bonds, forged through hate...

Frame 3, Sai:
確かにそうかもしれませんね
... that may be the case

Frame 3, Sai (Thought):
でも
Still...

Frame 4, Naruto (Flashback):
あいつは誰よりもオレの事を認めてくれた一人だサスケはオレの友達だから

Frame 5, Naruto (Flashback):
やっと出来た大切なつながりだから

Page 14

Frame 3, Scroll:
仲間
"Friends"

Frame 4, Naruto (Flashback):
お前、仲間って言葉知ってっか？

Frame 5, Sai (Flashback):
もちろん知ってますがそれが何か？

Page 16

Frame 1, Naruto:
オーイ！サーイ！！
Heeeey! Saaai!!

Frame 3, Naruto:
次の任務の打ち合わせだってばよ！
We're meeting about the next mission!

Page 19

Frame 1, Scroll:
仲間
"Friends"

Sidebar:
感情を取り戻したサイが描き始める絵（これから）それは初めてタイトルが付けられる絵。仲間たちと共に。
Sai, having regained his emotions, begins to draw a "picture" of his future... the very first picture he has ever given a title to. His journey begins with his "friends".

Chapter Preview:
木ノ葉の里に激震再び奴らがやってくる！次号「烽火」へ！！
The village of Konoha shakes yet again... "They're" coming! Next Issue "Signal Flare"!!

Translation: Naruto 309

Fri, 02 Jun 2006 01:03:45 +0000

Page 1

Title:
ナンバー３０９：九尾との対話！！
Number 309: Pillow Talk with Foxy!!
(Number 309: A Talk with the Nine-Tails!!)

Sidebar:
あの男に伝えろ。人外の域で待つと。
Now it's my snake that's bigger. You might even say inhuman.
(Tell him that I wait... Tell him I wait beyond the fringes of humanity.)

Page 2

Frame 1, Text:
そして対話が始まる！！
And thus the pillow talk begins!!
(And thus the talk begins!!)

Frame 2, Foxy McSpinglebar:
ナルトの中のワシが見えるまでになるとはな忌わしきその写輪眼呪われた血統の力という訳か
Impressive that you've become able to see me, here inside Naruto... Such would be the power of that accursed Sharingan... and your forsaken ancestry

Frame 5, Sasuke:
どうやらこの眼はじめてではないらしいななら
Well, it would appear... this isn't the first time you've gazed into eyes such as these... Which would make you...

Page 3

Frame 1, Sasuke:
お前が九尾の妖狐か
... the nine-tailed demon fox, no doubt...

Frame 3, Foxy McSpinglebar:
その瞳力とワシ以上に禍々しいチャクラ
Eyes with such power and chakra even more sinister than my own...

Frame 5, Foxy McSpinglebar:
かつてのうちはマダラと同じだな
Not at all unlike what I once saw in a certain Uchiha Madara...

Page 4/5

Frame 3, Sasuke:
知るかよそんな奴
Pop goes the weasel, bitch...
(And you expect me to know that person why now?)

Frame 4, Foxy McSpinglebar:
まさかワシの力を押さえ込むまでとはな
Impossible... That would make you the monkey...
(Unbelievable... to think you'd even be able to suppress my power...)

Frame 6, Foxy McSpinglebar:
最後になるかもしれんが一つ言っておく
... but where is... the... mulberry... bush...
(... I may not see you again... but... I... warn... you...)

Page 6

Frame 1, Foxy McSpinglebar:
ナルトは殺すな
Don't... kill... Na... ruto...

Frame 3, Foxy McSpinglebar:
後悔することに
... you'll... end... up... regretting...

Page 7

Frame 2, Naruto:
くっ
Guh...

Page 9

Frame 2, Sai:
くっ
Guh...

Frame 5, Naruto:
サスケ
Sasuke...

Page 10

Frame 1, Naruto:
何で分からねーんだ！！もうじきお前の体は大蛇丸にとられちまうんだぞ！！
Why don't you get it!! Your body's going to be stolen by Orochimaru anytime now!!

Frame 5, Sasuke:
そうなったらそうなっただ
If that happens... then it happens

Page 11

Frame 1, Sasuke:
子供のままだなナルト
You're still quite the kid... Naruto

Frame 2, Sasuke:
オレにとっては復讐が全てだ復讐さえ叶えばオレがどうなろうが、この世がどうなろうが、知ったことじゃない
Revenge means everything to me... As long as I can have my revenge, I could care less what happens to me, or the whole world for that matter

Frame 3, Sasuke:
はっきり言うとだイタチは今のオレでも大蛇丸でも倒せない
Let me make it clear for you... For both me and Orochimaru, right now, killing Itachi would be impossible

Frame 4, Sasuke:
だが大蛇丸にオレの体を差し出すことでそれを成し得る力を手に出来るなら
But if I am able to accomplish my goals through nothing more than offering Orochimaru this body of mine...

Page 12

Frame 1, Sasuke:
こんな命、いくらでもくれてやる
... then he can have my life, and my afterlife for that matter

Page 13

Frame 1, Yamato:
話は終わりだナルトとサクラ君たちの手前彼に手荒なマネはしたくなかったが
That's enough talk... Naruto and Sakura... with you two here... I had hoped not to have to resort to any of my cruder methods...

Frame 2, Yamato:
悪いがもう本気でやるよ
... but, unfortunately, it's time I get serious...

Frame 3, Sakura:
ヤマト隊長！
Captain Yamato...!

Frame 4, Sasuke:
木ノ葉かお前たちはもういい
Konoha indeed... I'm through with you...

Frame 5, Sasuke:
終わりだ
Now things end...

Sidebar Preview:
サスケ＆サイ編ついに決着！！その結末は果たして！？
The "Sasuke and Sai" arc finally reaches its conclusion!! What will it be...!?

Page 14

Frame 1, Orochimaru:
その術は止めておきなさいサスケくん
Now, now, there's no need to use *that* jutsu... Sasuke-kun

Frame 3, Sasuke:
離せ
Remove your hand

Page 15

Frame 1, Kabuto:
こらこら大蛇丸様に向かってまたそんな口の利き方を
There you go again... forgetting exactly *who* it is your talking to...

Frame 2, Sasuke:
止める理由はない
... I have no reason to stop

Frame 3, Kabuto:
今の暁の動きを君も知ってるよね
You know quite well what Akatsuki is up to

Frame 4, Kabuto:
この木ノ葉の人達には暁を始末しておいてもらいたいんだよ一人でも多くね
We want to have our guests here from Konoha take care of as many of them as possible... even just one would be fine....

Frame 5, Kabuto:
他の暁に邪魔されると君の復讐も上手くいかなくなるだろ
If the other Akatsuki members get in your way... your plans for revenge could hit a snag, right...?

Frame 6, Sasuke:
情けない理由だな
... that's quite the pathetic excuse

Page 16

Frame 1, Kabuto:
復讐の可能性を１パーセントでも上げるためだよそうだろ？
But surely you'd allow it if it meant increasing the chances of your revenge succeeding by even 1%... right...?

Frame 4, Orochimaru:
行くわよ
It's time we leave, my darlings
(Yes, Orochimaru is this creepy)

Page 17

Sidebar:
熱望した再会も想い届かず。ただじっと、己の無力をかみしめ。
The long-awaited reunion leaves hopes unfulfilled. The only thing left for Naruto to do is silently reflect on his inability to do anything...

Chapter Preview:
サスケ去るそしてナルトは！？次号、巻頭カラー「タイトル」！！
Sasuke is the monkey... but what does that make Naruto!? Next Issue, "The Title"!!
(Sasuke is gone... What of Naruto!? Next Issue, "The Title"!!)

Translation: Naruto 308

Thu, 25 May 2006 19:24:50 +0000

Page 1

Frame 2, Sakura:
サスケくん！
Sasuke-kun!

Sidebar:
サスケが刃抜くッ！！
Sasuke... draws his blade!!

Page 2

Frame 1, Text:
立ち塞がるはサイ！！
He who stands in the way is Sai...!!

Frame 1, Title:
ナンバー３０８：サスケの力！！
Number 308: Sasuke's Strength!!

Frame 3, Sasuke:
その防ぎ方正解だったな。
Your choice of defense... quite correct.

Page 3

Frame 5, Yamato:
よし！
Great!

Page 4

Frame 1, Bubble Right:
ぐあ！
Gwah!

Frame 1, Bubble Left:
ぐっ！
Guh!

Frame 1, Jutsu Text:
千鳥流し！
Chidori Nagashi!
Sink of a Thousand Birds!
(... Kidding... Let's call it "Chidori Discharge")

Page 5

Frame 1, Naruto:
ぐっ
Guh...

Frame 5, Sakura:
全身から千鳥を！
Chidori, coming out of his entire body...!

Page 6

Frame 1, Sakura (Flashback):
今度は私も一緒に！
Next time I'm going to help too!

Frame 6, Sakura:
サスケくんは私の力で止める！
Sasuke-kun... I'm going to stop you with my own power!

Page 7

Frame 3, Yamato:
あの目こいつ、ヤバイな！
Those eyes... This guy's dangerous...!

Page 8

Frame 5, Sasuke:
Your choice of defense... quite the mistake.

Page 9

Frame 1, Sakura:
ヤマト隊長！！
Captain Yamato!!

Frame 3, Sasuke:
オレの草薙の剣は少し特別でな。ガード不可ってヤツだ。
You see, this sword of Kusanagi I hold here is a little special. It's the kind that can't be blocked.

Frame 4, Yamato:
体が痺れる。これは刃に千鳥を流しているのか？
... body's going numb. Is he... sending his Chidori through the blade...?

Frame 6, Yamato:
そうかそれで斬れ味を極端に上げた上に斬りつけた後も痺れで動きを
So that's it... By doing so he not only makes the blade extremely sharp... he also deprives his opponent freedom of movement through numbness...

Page 10

Frame 4, Naruto:
ぐっ
Guh...

Frame 6, Foxy McSpinglebar:
ククチャンスだぞナルトよ
Heheh... This is your chance... Naruto...

Page 11

Frame 1, Foxy McSpinglebar:
ワシとお前の力を見せつけてやれ。
Show him... Make him see how our powers are not to be trifled with.

Frame 3, Foxy McSpinglebar:
どうした？何を躊躇している
What's wrong...? Why the hesitation...

Frame 5, Foxy McSpinglebar:
ワシの力が必要なのだろう？さあ
You need my power, right? Well then...

Page 12/13

Frame 1, Foxy McSpinglebar:
誰を殺したい？
Who do you want to kill...?

Page 14

Frame 1, Naruto:
もうてめーは出てくんな！
Your face... I don't want to see it anymore!

Frame 3, Foxy McSpinglebar:
何を怖がる？
Why is it you grow fearful?

Frame 4, Naruto:
うるせェオレにはもうお前の力なんか必要ねェ
Shut up... I don't need your power anymore...

Frame 5, Foxy McSpinglebar:
ククグハハハハ
Heheh... Ghahahaha...

Page 15

Frame 1, Foxy McSpinglebar:
今まで事あるごとに力を貸せとぬかしてたのはどこのどいつだ？分かっているハズだぞ、お前は一人では何も出来ん。
And just who was it that, up until now, came shouting "lend me your power" every time something came up...? You should know quite well, you can't do a single thing without me.

Frame 2, Foxy McSpinglebar:
封印は完全に解け！そうすればお前に全ての力を託してやる。
Remove this seal, once and for all! If you do, then I'll entrust you with all of my power.

Frame 3, Naruto:
失せろ！
Talk to the hand, bitch, the face ain't listnin'...!

Frame 5, Foxy McSpinglebar:
お前は
... You're...

Chapter Preview:
ナルトを圧倒するサスケの力その全てが明らかに！！
Naruto is completely overcome by Sasuke's strength... all of it is revealed!!

Page 17

Frame 1, Foxy McSpinglebar:
そうか、うちはの者かよくここまで成長したものだ
Ah, so you're one of the Uchiha... Allow me to congratulate you on making it this far...

Frame 2, Naruto:
どうしてお前が！？
Why are you here...!?

Frame 3, Sasuke:
今なら見えるこれがお前の未知の力だったか
Now I am able to see... So this was your secret power then...

Frame 4, Sasuke:
まさかお前の中にこんなモノがいたとはな
Hard to believe... that something like *this* existed inside you...

Sidebar:
封じられた獣の檻ナルトの内部（なか）に彼は現れ、その眼に全てを映す！九尾も知るうちは、その力とは！？
The cage of the sealed beast... In this place internal to Naruto *he* appears, his eyes reflecting all! The name of Uchiha known to even the Kyuubi, what power does it represent!?

Chapter Preview:
サスケが告げるナルトの最期！！そして！？次号、「懇願」へ！！
Naruto's end announced by Sasuke!! And then..!? Next Issue, "A Plea"!!

Translation: Naruto 307

Thu, 18 May 2006 20:55:22 +0000

Page 1

Title:
ナンバー３０７：気まぐれ！！
Number 307: At a whim...!!

Sidebar:
追い求めたその姿。変わらぬ面差しいま近きに在りて、されど果て無き遠きにあるが如く。
The longed-after, familiar figure of a friend. Little of his face has changed... But now, as close as he may be, it is almost as though he is separated by endless distances.

Page 2

Frame 1, Text:
見上げた先に友（サスケ）がいる！！
Looking upward... there stands Sasuke!!

Frame 2, Sasuke:
ナルトかお前までいたのか。
And now Naruto... So you came too.

Frame 4, Sasuke:
なら、カカシもいるのか？
Does that mean Kakashi's here as well?

Page 3

Frame 1, Yamato:
カカシさんじゃなくて残念だけど、ボクが代理だ。これからカカシ班は君を木ノ葉へ連れ帰る。
Unfortunately Kakashi-san couldn't be here, but I'm here in his place. We, Team Kakashi, are going to be taking you back to Konoha.

Frame 2, Sasuke:
カカシ班か
Team Kakashi, huh...

Sidebar Preview:
戦いの後に生まれたものとは！？希望！？
That which is born from the battle is...!? Hope...!?

Page 4

Frame 1, Sakura:
サイ！アナタやっぱり！
Sai! I knew it!

Frame 5, Sasuke:
そいつがオレの穴埋めか？ナルトとオレのつながりを守りたいだの何だの言ってたが
So he's my replacement then, is he? ... He was spouting some kind of nonsense about protecting the bonds between Naruto and me...

Frame 6, Sasuke:
またぬるい奴が入ったもんだな。
One more pansy for the group, quite the fit I'm sure.

Page 5

Frame 1, Sakura:
え？
... Huh?

Frame 2, Sai:
確かにボクの極秘任務の命はサスケくんの暗殺だった
... It is true, my top-secret mission was indeed the assassination of Sasuke...

Frame 3, Sai:
けど命令はもういい今は自分の考えで動きたい。
But those orders don't matter anymore... Now I want to think and act for myself.

Frame 4, Sai:
ナルトくんが思い出させてくれそうなんだボクの昔の気持ちを
... Because of Naruto-kun, I feel like I might be able to remember something... Remember how I used to feel.

Frame 5, Sai:
何かとても大切だった気がするものなんだ
Something which I can't help but feeling was very important to me...

Page 6

Frame 1, Sai:
ボクは君の事を良く知らないけどナルトくんやサクラさんがここまで必死に君を追うのには何か訳がある
I may not know you all that well... But there's a reason why Naruto-kun and Sakura-san chase after you with so much passion...

Frame 2, Sai:
君とのつながりを切るまいと
In order to prevent their bonds with you from breaking...

Frame 3, Sai:
つなぎ止めておこうと必死になってる
In order to keep them intact, they're doing everything they can...

Frame 4, Sai:
ボクにはまだハッキリとは分からない。けど、サスケくん、君には分かってるハズだ。
I still don't have a very good understanding of it myself. But you, Sasuke-kun, you should know why.

Page 7

Frame 1, Sasuke:
ああ、分かってた。だから断ち切った。
Sure, I did know. And that's why I severed them.

Frame 4, Sasuke:
オレには別のつながりがある
I have other bonds I carry...

Page 8

Frame 1, Sasuke:
兄との憎しみっていうつながりがな
Fraternal bonds, forged through hate...

Frame 3, Itachi (Flashback):
何故弱いか足りないからだ
Let me tell you why you're weak... It's because your heart is lacking...

Frame 4, Itachi (Flashback):
憎しみが
... lacking in hatred...

Frame 5, Sasuke:
いくつものつながりは己を惑わせ、最も強い願い大切な思いを弱くする。
Having too many bonds causes one to lose focus, weakening their strongest wish, their greatest desire.

Page 9

Frame 2, Sasuke (Flashback):
親も兄弟もいねえてめーにオレの何が分かるってんだよ
You never had parents, you never had a brother... So what would you know about me anyway...

Frame 3, Sasuke (Flashback):
初めから独りきりだったてめーに！！オレの何が分かるってんだ！！！アア！！？
You were alone from the very start!! So why the hell would you know what I've been through!!! Huh!!?

Frame 4, Sasuke (Flashback):
つながりがあるからこそ苦しいんだ！！それを失うことがどんなもんか、お前なんかに
It's because of my bonds I had that I've suffered!! The loss of those bonds is something you can never understand...

Frame 5, Naruto (Flashback):
ホントの親子や兄弟なんて、確かにオレにゃわかんねェ
A true parent, or a true brother, like you say, those are things I can't understand...

Frame 6, Naruto:
それなら
... If that's true...

Page 10

Frame 1, Sasuke (Flashback):
何でだ
Why...

Frame 2, Sasuke (Flashback):
何でそこまでしてオレに
Why do you go so far just for me...

Frame 4, Naruto (Flashback):
オレにとっちゃやっとできたつながりなんだ。
Because to me... you represent bonds I've waited so long to make.

Frame 5, Naruto (Flashback):
だからオレはお前を止めるんだってばよ！
... That's why I'm going to stop you from going!!

Frame 6, Naruto:
それならなんであの時
If that's true, then why...

Frame 7, Sasuke (Flashback):
だったらそのつながりをオレは断ち切るまでだ！
In that case, I only need sever those bonds!

Page 11

Frame 1, Naruto:
オレを殺さなかった！？それで断ち切ったつもりかよ！サスケェ！！
Why didn't you kill me back then!? Is that what you call severing bonds!? Sasuke!!

Frame 3, Sakura:
ナルト
Naruto...

Frame 4, Sasuke:
簡単な理由だお前とのつながりを断ち切れなかったんじゃない
... The reason is simple... And it isn't that I wasn't able to sever my bonds with you...

Frame 5, Itachi (Flashback):
お前もオレと同じ
You, just like me...

Frame 6, Itachi (Flashback):
万華鏡写輪眼を開眼しうる者だただしそれには条件がある
... possess the potential to awaken the Mangekyou Sharingan... But there is one condition...

Frame 7, Itachi (Flashback):
最も親しいともを殺すことだ。
You must kill... your closest friend.

Page 12

Frame 1, Sasuke:
あいつに聞かされたやり方に従って力を手にするのがしゃくだっただけだ。
I simply didn't want to give *him* the pleasure of seeing me attain power by submitting to his plans.

Frame 3, Naruto:
どういうことだってばよ！？
What do you mean by that!?

Frame 4, Sasuke:
お前に説明する必要はない
There's no need for me to tell you...

Page 13

Frame 1, Sasuke:
ただ、お前に言えることはあの時
Still, the one thing I can say to you... is that back then...

Frame 3, Sasuke:
お前の命はオレの気まぐれで助かっただけだということだ。
I chose to spare your life at nothing more than a whim of mine.

Page 14

Frame 3, Yamato:
速い
He's fast...

Page 15

Frame 1, Sakura:
いつの間に
When did he...

Frame 3, Sasuke:
そういやお前には火影になるっていう夢があるんじゃなかったか？
... Come to think of it, isn't becoming Hokage a dream of yours...?

Frame 4, Sasuke:
オレを追い回す暇があったら修業でもしてりゃ良かったのになァナルト。
If you had the time to go around looking for me, you would have been better off training... Don't you think... Naruto?

Frame 5, Sakura:
ササスケ君！
... S... Sasuke-kun...!

Frame 6, Sasuke:
だから今度は
And that's why this time...

Page 16

Frame 1, Sasuke:
オレの気まぐれでお前は命を落とすんだぜ。
... you're going to end up losing your life, all at a whim of mine.

Page 17

Frame 3, Naruto:
仲間一人救えねェ奴が火影になんてなれるかよ。そうだろサスケ。
Like there's any chance someone who can't save a friend could become Hokage. Don't you think... Sasuke.

Frame 4, Sasuke:
フン
Whatever...

Sidebar:
気まぐれで救い、気まぐれで殺す。言い放つその表情には一点の曇りも無く時は冷たく、友（サスケ）を変えていた。
Sparing a life at a whim and taking a life at a whim. As he says so, Sasuke's expression leaves no room for doubt... Time has turned the heart of a friend ice-cold.

Chapter Preview:
容赦なくナルトを襲うサスケの刃！！次号、「サスケの力」へ！！
With no remorse, Sasuke's blade assails Naruto...!! Next Issue, "Sasuke's Strength"!!

Translation: Naruto 306

Sat, 13 May 2006 01:51:35 +0000

Damn... This chapter is so short and simple, even a monkey could translate it! Let's see how babel fish does!

Oh! BTW, while you're reading, remember that Sai = rhinoceros, Sakura = cherry tree, and Sasuke = suspension.

Page 1

Title:
ナンバー３０６：再会の時！！
Number 306: When meeting again...! !

Sidebar:
あ～。ず～っとこ～してたいってばよ～。夏の大冒険の前にひとやすみ、ひとやすみ。
Well. Directly, like this it has done saying. Before the large venture of the summer one day off and one day off.

Page 2

Frame 1, Text:
サイがサスケを捕らえた！！
... The rhinoceros caught the suspension!!

Frame 1, Sasuke:
つながり？
Being connected...?

Frame 3, Sasuke:
そんなことの為にオレの眠りを邪魔したのか
Because of such a thing... disturbing my sleep...

Page 3

Frame 5, Yamato:
何だ？
It is what...?

Frame 6, Kabuto:
サスケくんが寝起きは機嫌が悪いからねあの子は
Because the suspension... as for lying down and getting up mood is bad, don't you think?... as for that child...

Page 4

Frame 2, Naruto:
何だ！？
It is what!?

Frame 3, Sakura:
あっちの方ね。
... Don't you think? that one.

Frame 3, Yamato:
サイのチャクラだ。
It is chakra of the rhinoceros.

Frame 6, Sai:
ぐっ。
Guh.

Page 5

Frame 4, Sai:
さすがですねボクの術を強引に振りほどくとは。
It is as expected, don't you think? ... it shakes my technique coercively and undoes with.

Page 6

Frame 4, Naruto:
サイ。
... Rhinoceros.

Frame 7, Sakura:
見つけた
You found...

Page 7

Frame 6, Sakura:
アンタ！本当は何が狙いなの！？私たちを何回裏切れば気が済む
You! As for truth something being the aim! ? If no time you betray us, the air is completed...

Frame 6/7, (Unknown):
サクラか
Cherry tree...

Page 8

Frame 2, Sakura:
この声
... This voice...

Page 9

Frame 4, Sakura:
サスケくん。
... Suspension... -kun.

Page 15

Frame 2, Naruto:
サスケ
... Suspension...

Page 16/17

Frame 1, Text:
見上げるは情熱見下ろすは冷静二年半の時を経てついにその時が訪れる！！
Finally seeing it lifts passion... it disdains calmness... passing the time of two year half, that time it visits! !

Translation: Naruto 305

Mon, 08 May 2006 00:34:40 +0000

Late, late, late...

Page 1

Frame 2, Jutsu Text:
潜影蛇手
Sen'ei Jashu
(Think I went with a translation of "Hidden Shadow Hand of Snakes" before.)

Frame 5, Orochimaru:
やはりそちら側のようねサイとやら。
Looks like you choose to side with them... Sai or whoever you are.

Sidebar:
自分を取り戻したサイその心変わりを知り、大蛇丸が二人を襲うッ！！
Sai reclaims his true self... Learning of this change of heart, Orochimaru assails him and Naruto...!!

Page 2

Title:
ナンバー３０５：キミとのつながり
Number 305: The Bonds between You and...

Frame 1, Naruto:
ここはオレが止めるってばよ。サイ、お前はサスケを探してくれ。
I'll deal with things here. Sai, you go look for Sasuke.

Frame 3, Naruto:
早く！
Now!

Frame 4, Sai:
分かったサスケくんはボクが見つけて助け出す。
OK... I'll find and rescue Sasuke-kun then.

Sidebar:
班（チーム）として機能サスケへ！！
Acting as a team... Off to find Sasuke!!

Page 3

Frame 1, Orochimaru:
サスケくんを連れ戻しに来たってわけね。君の執念は凄いけどそう上手く行くかしらね。
So you've come to take Sasuke-kun back, have you? I must admit, you do have conviction, but do you truly think things will turn out so well?

Frame 2, Naruto:
ああ！お前を倒してサスケを連れ帰る！
Yeah I do! First I'll defeat you, then I'll take Sasuke back!

Frame 5, Sakura:
ここもいない
Not here either...

Page 4

Frame 1, Yamato:
ナルトのチャクラだ。何かあったらしい行くよ！
It's Naruto's chakra. Looks like something's happened... Let's go!

Frame 3, Sakura:
はい！
Right!

Page 5

Frame 1, Jutsu Text:
忍法・超獣偽画
Ninpou - Choujuu Giga
("Ninja Art - Imaginary Beasts Imitation Picture")

Frame 4, Naruto:
ハァハァ
*Haa Haa*

Frame 5, Orochimaru:
さっきの勢いはどうしたの？
Oh my, what happened to all that spunk you had a moment ago?

Frame 5, Naruto:
ハァハァ
*Haa Haa*

Page 6

Frame 1, Yamato:
また大蛇丸か
So it's Orochimaru again...

Frame 2, Orochimaru:
フン
Heh...

Frame 3, Orochimaru:
ナルト君君はまだ生かしといてあげるわせいぜい暁を一人でも多く始末してちょうだいね
Naruto-kun... I'll let you live for the time being... Just try make sure you kill at least one more Akatsuki member for me...

Frame 4, Orochimaru:
それより私はサイの方に用があるからこれで失礼するわ。
But more importantly I have some business to take care of with Sai... So if you'll excuse me.

Page 7

Frame 1, Naruto:
くっ！
Grr...!

Frame 2, Sakura:
フー
*phew*...

Frame 3, Yamato:
サイは？
Where's Sai?

Frame 4, Naruto:
サイはサスケを探してるってばよ！大蛇丸に見つかる前に何とかしなきゃ。
Sai went looking for Sasuke! We need to do something before Orochimaru finds him!

Page 8

Frame 3, Naruto:
チャクラ使い切っちまうけど多重影分身で探すから、ヤマト隊長とサクラちゃんはそっち側を。
It'll use the rest of my chakra, but I'll use my Tajuu Kage-Bunshin to search, so the two of you can take that direction!

Frame 6, Sakura:
これって
What's this...?

Frame 8, Naruto:
あいつ思い出せたんだそれは兄さんに見せたかった二人の夢の絵なんだってばよ。
Sai... He finally remembered... He wanted to show that to his brother, the picture of their dreams.

Page 9

Frame 1, Sakura:
二人とも笑ってる
They're both smiling...

Frame 2, Naruto:
あいつその絵描いた時、初めてホントに笑ってた心から。
Sai... Once he finished that picture, for the first time, he smiled for real... straight from his heart.

Sidebar Preview:
サスケが遠ざかる！追い詰められたナルト！！
Sasuke moves out of reach! Naruto is forced into a corner!!

Page 10

Frame 3, Yamato:
これは
This is...

Frame 4, Sakura:
どうしたんですか？
Is there a problem?

Page 11

Frame 1, Yamato:
サイのバッグの中にあった
... This was in Sai's bag...

Frame 2, Yamato:
これは暗部の者が己のターゲットを記す暗殺リスト、いわばビンゴブックだ。
This is the book an ANBU member uses to list his assassination targets, a "hit list" if you will.
(I choose to hereby do away with the term "bingo book")

Frame 2, Naruto:
暗殺リスト？
A hit list?

Frame 3, Sakura:
このⅩ印何なんです？
Why are those entries crossed out?

Frame 4, Yamato:
これはおそらくターゲットをすでに抹殺したという印だろう。
It probably means that the targets have already been eliminated.

Frame 5, Yamato:
何でそんなものをサイが
Why would Sai carry something like...

Page 12

Frame 1, Yamato:
見ろ
Look...

Page Text:
うちは　サスケ
Uchiha Sasuke

Frame 2, Sakura:
ここれって
Th... That's...

Frame 3, Naruto:
何でサイの暗殺リストにサスケの顔が？
... Why would Sasuke's face be on... Sai's hit list...?

Frame 4, Yamato:
まだⅩ印が付いていないそうか。そういうことだったのか！
It hasn't been crossed out yet ... So that's it. It all makes sense now...!

Frame 5, Naruto:
どういうことだってばよ！？
What makes sense now!?

Frame 7, Yamato:
サイあいつの任務は大蛇丸とダンゾウのパイプ役になることなんかじゃなかった本当のサイの極秘任務は
Sai... His mission wasn't to become a go-between for Orochimaru and Danzou, not at all... Sai's real top-secret mission was...
(Let us all just pray that Sai doesn't end up having a "really real top-secret mission")

Page 13

Frame 1, Yamato:
サスケの暗殺だったんだ。
... the assassination of Sasuke.

Frame 5, Naruto:
そんなそんなことあるわけねーってばよ！
That... That's just not possible!

Frame 6, Naruto:
だってさっきあいつはサスケを助けるってそれにホントに心から笑ってたんだ今までと違って、あいつはもう
I mean he just said that he was going to rescue Sasuke... And he really was smiling from his heart... He really has changed, he wouldn't do...

Frame 7, Sakura:
それが全部ナルトを出し抜くための芝居だったとしたら！
But if it was all staged just to trick you Naruto, then...!

Page 14

Frame 1, Yamato:
このビンゴブックの持ち主ならやりかねないよ。これを見ろ
... Such a tactic would be more than a possibility for the owner of this hit list. Just look...

Frame 2, Yamato:
このサスケの隣に載ってる男霧隠れの上忍で木ノ葉に対し強硬姿勢を示していた男だ
This shinobi listed next to Sasuke... He's a jounin from Kirigakure that had taken a hard-line stance in relation to Konoha...

Frame 3, Yamato:
サイは木ノ葉に対する危険人物の処理にあたってたのかそしてサスケもその人物の一人
So Sai was assigned the task of disposing those who stand to harm Konoha's interests... And Sasuke was listed as one of those individuals...

Frame 5, Sakura:
笑顔は目的を達するためにそういえば私がサイを殴った時
In order to reach one's goals... Now that you mention it... After I hit Sai he...

Frame 6, Sai (Flashback):
厄介事をやり過ごすには笑顔が一番、それが作り笑いでもね。以外とみんな騙されるそう本に書いてあった。
A smile is the best way to get oneself out of a tight spot, even if it is a fake one. Surprisingly enough, everyone takes it at face value... I read that in a book.

Page 15

Frame 1, Yamato:
ダンゾウの目的は大蛇丸の新たなる肉体（からだ）サスケを葬ることだった。そのためにサイは大蛇丸に近付こうとしたんだ。木ノ葉を裏切ったワケではなかった。木ノ葉のために武闘派の考えそうなことだ。
Danzou was after what is to become Orochimaru's new body... He intended to take Sasuke out of the picture. And to accomplish this he attempted to move Sai in near Orochimaru. He didn't betray Konoha after all. He was working for us... in his own militaristic fashion.

Frame 2, Yamato:
早くサイを見つけるんだ！
We need to find Sai now!

Frame 4, Sasuke:
誰だ？
... Who's there?

Frame 5, Sai:
バレちゃいましたかでもボクはもう先手を取ってる。
Caught me red-handed... Still... I've already acquired the upper-hand here.

Frame 6, Sasuke:
目的は何だ？
What is it you want?

Frame 7, Sai:
ボクは君を
... I intend to...

Page 16

Frame 1, Sai:
木ノ葉へ連れ帰る！
Take you back to Konoha!

Frame 3, Sai:
もっとも最初はキミを殺すつもりで来たんだけど
Although granted, I did originally come here in order to kill you...

Frame 5, Naruto (Flashback):
あいつは誰よりもオレの事を認めてくれた一人だ。
He's the person that, more than anyone else, accepted me and my existence.

Frame 6, Sakura (Flashback):
ナルトはサスケ君のことを兄弟みたいに思ってるから。
It's because... Naruto thinks of Sasuke as though he were his own brother.

Page 17

Frame 1, Naruto (Flashback):
その仲間を救う為ならなんだってやるさ。お前とだって組んでやる。
If it means that I can save that friend, I'll do anything. I'll even work with someone like you.

Frame 2, Naruto (Flashback):
たとえバラバラにされようがオレは大蛇丸からサスケを奪い返してやるんだってばよ！
Even if it means getting torn to pieces, I'm going to take Sasuke back form Orochimaru no matter what!

Frame 3, Naruto (Flashback):
サスケはオレの友達だからやっと出来た大切なつながりだから
Sasuke is my friend... And he represents bonds that I waited so long to receive, so that's why...
(There's a mistake in the Japanese typesetting here that I took the liberty of correcting)

Frame 5, Sai:
ボクは彼が必死にたぐり寄せようとしてるキミとのつながりってのを守ってみたいんだ。
... I want to see if I can't protect the bonds between you and him that he clings so strongly to.

Sidebar:
思い出した記憶とひきかえに任務は捨てた！ナルトが信じたサイがサスケと対峙する！！
In exchange for his revived memory Sai abandons his mission! The Sai that Naruto put his trust in... faces off with Sasuke!!

Chapter Preview:
駆けつけるナルトそして遂に再開！！次号、「つながり」へ！！
Naruto finds his way and... finally, the reunion!! Next Issue, "Bonds"!!

Translation: Naruto 304

Mon, 24 Apr 2006 07:33:27 +0000

Just a *tad* bit late this week...

Page 1

Title:
ナンバー３０４：裏切りの裏側！！
Number 304: The Other Side of Betrayal!!

Sidebar:
闇に燃える炎―裏切りはその時を、息を殺して待っていた。
A flame which feeds off of darkness - The traitor was waiting with a deathly silence, looking for its chance to strike.

Page 2

Frame 6, Yamato:
見張りを作ったら行くよ。
Once my clone's ready, we're going.

Page 3

Frame 5, Kabuto:
サイその様子からすると君は捕まったようだね。
Sai... Judging from your situation, I suppose this means you were captured.

Page 4

Frame 3, Kabuto:
裏切ったわけじゃなさそうだからここは信じよう。
Since it doesn't seem you've betrayed us... I'll trust you, for now.

Frame 5, Sakura:
しつこいわね
This guy just doesn't give up...

Frame 6, Naruto:
お前ら邪魔するってんなら、容赦はしねェってばよ！
If you two are going to get in my way, then I'm not going to be holding back!

Page 5

Frame 6, Kabuto:
ムダムダ。
So pointless.

Page 6

Frame 1, Naruto:
やってみるまで分かんねーだろーが！！
Fights aren't decided 'til the very end, and we're just getting started!!

Frame 2, Kabuto:
違う。そっちの話じゃあない
No, no. That's not what I'm talking about...

Frame 3, Kabuto:
君を見てるとホントに憐れだよ。
... Watching you makes me truly feel pity.

Frame 4, Kabuto:
人は変わる。サスケくんはもう昔のサスケくんじゃないんだよ。
People change. Sasuke is no longer the Sasuke you used to know.

Page 7

Frame 1, Kabuto:
な！？
What the!?

Frame 5, Kabuto:
どういうつもりだ！？
What are you doing...!?

Frame 6, Sai:
人は変わるならボクもそうだ。
You say people change... and here I am.

Frame 6, Kabuto:
なに！？
What!?

Page 8

Frame 1, Sai:
でも変わらないモノもある
... But there are also things that don't change...

Frame 2, Naruto:
サイお前
Sai... What are...

Frame 3, Sai:
つながりそれを確かめたいんだ。
... Bonds... I want to see what they're really made of.

Frame 4, Sakura:
サイ
... Sai...

Frame 5, Yamato:
サイ！そのまま捕まえてなよ。
Sai! Just keep him still like that.

Sidebar:
ナルト、大爆発！！激しき想いが突き動かす！！
Naruto unleashed!! A tempest of emotion drives him forward!!

Page 9

Frame 3, Naruto:
サイお前一体
Sai... Why did you...

Frame 4, Sai:
君が何故そこまでサスケくんとのつながりにこだわるのかそのつながりってのが何なのか知りたくなってね
Why is it that you place so much value in the bonds between you and Sasuke-kun... What exactly are those bonds you speak of... I decided I need to know the answer to these questions myself...

Frame 6, Sai:
君たちから見たらボクも兄さんとのつながりってのを消せないでいるらしい。
According to the two of you... I've been unable to get rid of the bonds that formed between me and my brother.

Frame 5, Sai:
ボクにとってそれがそんなに大切なモノなら君とサスケくんのつながりを見れば何かが分かるのかもしれない。そう思っただけさ
... If those bonds are so important to me, then I might be able to figure something out if I see the "bonds" between you and Sasuke-kun. That's all...

Page 10

Frame 3, Kabuto:
君たちは本当のサスケくんを知らない
The four of you don't know the real Sasuke-kun...

Frame 4, Kabuto:
クククククッ
Heheh... Heheheh...

Frame 5, Sakura:
何がおかしいの！？
What's so funny!?

Frame 6, Yamato:
サスケはどこにいる？
Tell us where Sasuke is.

Page 11

Frame 1, Kabuto:
今頃、修業を終えて、さらに奥の部屋にいるだろう。ここではいくつもの部屋がバラバラに並んでいる。手当たり次第に調べれば見つかるかもね。
He should be done with his training about now back in his inner chamber. There are a large number of rooms strewn all throughout the lair. If you end up looking in each as you go, you might find him.

Frame 2, Kabuto:
ただ、ヘタすると藪をつついて蛇を出しかねないよ。大蛇丸様の居室もそこにあるからね。
Still, if you aren't careful, you might chance upon a snake as well. Orochimaru-sama keeps his quarters in the same area, after all.

Frame 4, Yamato:
正直に話してくれてありがとよ。
I thank you for being so honest.

Frame 4, Kabuto:
いや、礼には及ばないよ。
Oh no, you really shouldn't be thanking me.

Frame 5, Yamato:
返り討ちに合うと？
You expect us, the hunters, to become the prey then?

Frame 5, Kabuto:
ああ。
Precisely.

Frame 7, Yamato:
それこそやってみるまで分かんないよ。
Now now, just like Naruto said, fights aren't decided 'til the very end.

Page 12

Frame 2, Yamato:
ここから２チームに分かれてサスケを探す。ボクとサクラ、ナルトとサイの２チーム。
We'll split into two teams to search for Sasuke. Sakura and I will form one, Naruto and Sai the other.

Frame 3, Yamato:
何かあったらチャクラを練るんだ。それだけで体内の木の種が反応を示すからすぐに駆けつける。
If something comes up, focus your chakra. That will be more than enough to produce a reaction in the seeds I have in your bodies. I'll be there for you at a moments notice.

Frame 4, Naruto:
サスケ
Sasuke...

Page 13

Frame 2, Naruto:
ここにもいない
Isn't here either...

Frame 3, Sai:
ここのフロアはこの部屋で終わりだ。次のフロアへ行こう。
That's it for the rooms on this floor. Let's go on to the next.

Frame 4, Naruto:
ああ！
Yeah!

Frame 6, Naruto:
ぐっ！
Guh!

Page 14

Frame 2, Sai:
ナルトくん二手に分かれて探してるんだ。あわてず少し休んだ方が
We've already split into teams to do the search. We have time to rest. There's no need to hurry so...

Frame 3, Naruto:
うるせェ！休んでなんかいられっか！もう少しでサスケに
Like I care...! I can't rest at a time like this! Sasuke is just a little bit...

Frame 4, Naruto:
くそっ九尾化した時のダメージがまだ
... Damn... The damage from when the Kyuubi took over is still...

Page 15

Frame 1, Sai:
まったく君はよく似ている。
... Oh jeez... You two are so alike.

Frame 3, Sai:
兄さんにだよ口やかましく慌てん坊で、品がなくてそれにチン
You and my brother, I mean... He was loud, impatient, unrefined... And his peni...

Frame 4, Sai:
まあそれはいいや
Well, it doesn't really matter...

Frame 6, Sai:
だけどそう君のように何をするにも必死だった。
But still... Yeah... Just like you, he took on anything he did with everything he had.

Frame 7, Sai:
君を見ていると何だか兄さんの事を
Watching you somehow brings back memories of...

Page 16

Frame 7, Naruto:
それって
Is that...?

Frame 8, Sai:
思い出した思い出したんだ
I remembered... I remembered what I was trying to...

Page 17

Frame 2, Sai:
兄さんに見せたかった
I wanted to show my brother this...

Frame 3, Sai:
二人の夢の絵を
This picture of our dream...

Page 18

Frame 6, Orochimaru:
さてサイアナタはどちら側につくのかしら？
Well then... Sai... Which side do you intend to take?

Sidebar:
つながりの記憶、本物の笑顔をサイが取り戻す。喜び。ーしかしその場も凍る最悪の事態大蛇丸、再び！！
Sai reclaims the memories of his bonds and his real smile. All is well... But the celebration is greeted by a circumstance that freezes everything in place... Orochimaru reappears!!

Chapter Preview:
対峙するナルトと大蛇丸。その時サイは！？次号、「真相」へ！！
Naruto and Orochimaru face off. How does Sai respond!? Next Issue, "The Truth"!!