Naruto 443

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[Side text: Pain, annihilated by a Rasengan!!]

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Naruto
#443: Meeting
[Insert text: He falls...!!!]
Deva!Pain: Guahh...!
Naruto: Nghh!

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Nagato: *pant* // *pant*
Konan: Nagato...
Nagato: ...The final Pain has been defeated.
Naruto: *pant* // *pant*

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Naruto: Pain was moving thanks to the Chakra he received through these things... // If I take them out, this body won't be getting back up.
Flashback!Deva!Pain: What you and I seek is the same. // We wish to establish the "peace" for which Jiraiya-sensei strove.

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Flashback!Deva!Pain: You and I are no different from one another. // We act in the interest of our own ideas of "justice". // The justice that I have administered to Konoha... / ...is no different from what you are attempting to do to me. // Everyone feels the same pain upon losing that which is precious to them. // You and I are two fellow souls who know that pain. // You for your own justice... and I for mine...
Naruto: ......
Flashback!Deva!Pain: ...Have you perhaps come to understand pain a little? // Unless you know their pain, you can never truly hope to understand others. // And even once you do, that by no means guarantees that mutual understanding can be reached. // ...This is a fact.

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Naruto: !
Flashback!Deva!Pain: Thus the chain of hatred is forged. // That is the nature of history. // We must awaken to the fact that men, by their very nature, can never truly achieve mutual understanding.

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Flashback!Deva!Pain: The world of shinobi is driven by hatred.
Katsuyu: Are you going after him? // We should call for reinforcements at this...
Naruto: No... that's no good! // I'm going alone...!
Hinata: Thank you, Sakura-san...
Sakura: ...... / You shouldn't do such crazy things...
Katsuyu: Naruto-kun has defeated the sixth and final Pain.

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Everyone: ! // !
Lee: That's Naruto-kun for you!
Sakura: How is Naruto? / Is he badly injured?!
Katsuyu: He is certainly exhausted... but he is all right.
Hinata: (Thank goodness... // Naruto-kun... thank goodness you're okay...!)

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Guy: So... where exactly is he?!
Katsuyu: Right now... he is heading to the location of Pain's real body, alone.
Neji: Why is he doing a reckless thing like that?!
Sakura: !
Negi: Guy-sensei! We should go after him.
Lee: Right!
Katsuyu: But... Naruto-kun himself does not wish for reinforcements.
Negi: Forget that! He's done enough alone! // Naruto must be in a fairly weakened state by now! // Take us to where he is right now!
Katsuyu: .........

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Hyuuga: !
Shikaku: What is it?
Hyuuga: It's Naruto...
Shikaku: Naruto!
Naruto: !

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Naruto: You guys...
Inoichi: If you are here right now... / ...does that mean that you have defeated the sixth Pain?!
Naruto: It doesn't matter in the end... / ...whether I won or lost...
Inoichi: ...?!
Shikaku: ......
Naruto: ......
Shikaku: What happened?

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Naruto: ...... // I can't really put it into words...
Inoichi: !
Shikaku: ......
Inoichi: Can't put it into words... what exactly does that mean?!
Naruto: ...At any rate, I'm on my way to find Pain's real body. / Don't come with me... I want to do this alone.
Hyuuga: You know where Pain's real body is hidden?!
Naruto: Yeah... I found it while I was in Sennin Mode.
Inoichi: But what do you mean, you want to go alone?! / What's going on here?!
Naruto: There's something I want to find out...

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Inoichi: To "find out"...? / Find out what?
Naruto: I want to speak with the real Pain myself.
Shikaku: .........
Inoichi: What on Earth do you think you are saying?!! // Certainly, we are thankful to you for defeating Pain. / However, this is not an issue that can be settled with words alone!!
Naruto: Then what...?! // You think that we're better off settling it by destroying him... and his subordinates... and whatever villages get in our way...?! Is that the best way to settle things?!!

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Inoichi: What will be achieved by talking to him?! // The man is an enemy of Konoha itself! We cannot forgive him!!
Naruto: You think... // You think I don't feel the same way?!! // You think I can forgive the guy who annihilated my master... my village... who did all this to everyone?!!
Inoichi: Well, then...!
Shikaku: Inoichi... // I think we should do as the boy says and let him go alone...
Inoichi: Shikaku... you...!
Shikaku: He is the one who defeated Pain. / ...I am sure there is reason behind his actions.
Inoichi: ...Still...
Shikaku: Come now... just let him do this.

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Naruto: Thanks for that, old man Shikaku...
Flashback!Shikamaru: Where've I been? ...I just gave Naruto a bit of a talking to, that's all... Told him not to get so damn depressed. // Bit of a pain, but I couldn't help myself... // ...Naruto has something that the rest of us don't... // He's going to become a very important shinobi to this village... // When you're with Naruto... // ...he just somehow... makes you want to walk alongside him.
Shikaku: ......... // Let us leave this to Naruto.

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[no text just Naruto finding Nagato]

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Nagato: Konan... Fall back.
Konan: Nagato...
Naruto: Is that your real body back there?!
Nagato: So peace has come along of its own accord...
[Insert text: They meet!! What will Naruto and Nagato do now...?!]