Naruto 372

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Naruto
#372: The Weeping Country!!
[side text: Those eyes filled with ruthlessness; another Pein. What is the secret of this form?!]

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[insert text: Jiraiya and Konan... What relationship do they have?!]
Jiraiya: I always thought you had died... // Who would have guessed that you had scattered into sheets of paper...
Dude1: Ahh... You... // The angel envoy...
Jiraiya: An "angel" this time, huh...? / I guess that means you're serving as messenger for this so-called "god", Konan.
Dude1: ......

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Dude1: Th... this man is an intruder! // Please hurry and eliminate him!
Konan: Fall back.
Dude: O - of course!
Jiraiya: Who, or what, is Pein?
Konan: That does not concern you, Sensei.
Jiraiya: ......!

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[TN: I <3 Konan. Wings are always über. Those wings... ultra-über.]
Jiraiya: Those things part of your "angel" act?
Konan: My orders come from God. / You must die.

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Jiraiya: Gama Yudan!!
[TN: Literally "Toad Oil Bullets"]

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Konan: !
Jiraiya: You can't flutter apart when you're covered in oil! // You always loved origami... and you were always the nicest of the three...
Konan: .........
Jiraiya: What happened to the other two? // The rumour that they died... that's not true, is it?
Konan: .........
Jiraiya: As I thought...

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Jiraiya: Pein... / He's one of them, isn't he?
Konan: What do you mean by appearing before us after so long?!
Jiraiya: I didn't mean to at all. // But you're members of "Akatsuki". // I heard that you had died... // I never would have thought that you had actually ended up like this...
Konan: Back then... // If you had only done as Orochimaru said back then... / That's what you're thinking... // But you saved us instead. // It's too late... / We act according to his wishes now.
Jiraiya: Pein... // He's got to be that kid.

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Jiraiya: ...What's with you?
Yahiko: Please, give me some of your food!
Jiraiya: Don't you have parents?
Yahiko: They were killed shinobi in the war.
Jiraiya: ......... // Here, have some crackers.

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Yahiko: Nagato, Konan, you can come out... // They don't seem to be bad guys.
Tsunade: !!
Jiraiya: Hmm......
Tsunade: We already gave you our food! / Why are you following us?!
Yahiko: Please, would you teach us ninjutsu...? / You're shinobi from Konoha, right?
Jiraiya: !

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Konan: Thank you... // Please, have this!
Jiraiya: ......... // (Origami, huh...? From the wrapping of the crackers...)
Orochimaru: Shall we kill them? These kids...
Yahiko: Wha - ?!
Orochimaru: We've seen a lot of children orphaned by the war... it's terribly cruel. // It would probably be easier on the children, too, if we killed them right here...
Jiraiya: Stop that, Orochimaru! // ...You and Tsunade can go on ahead of me to Konoha. I'll stay and take care of these kids for a while.
Tsunade: Huh?!

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Jiraiya: It'll just be for a while, until they can take care of themselves. / This is the least we can do to atone.
Kids: Itadakima~su!
Yahiko: So you can cook a fish in one shot with a Katon jutsu...!
Nagato: .........
Yahiko: Sensei! I've learned how to do that fishing trick!

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Jiraiya: !
Nagato: Uu... Uuuuu...
Yahiko: Nagato, what's wrong?
Nagato: ...I just remembered... my family... // And...
Yahiko: Don't cry! You're a man, aren't you?! // This sort of thing is why everybody calls the men of the Village of Rain weak!!
Jiraiya: .........

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Jiraiya: But the three Great Countries surrounding the Village of Rain aren't stable right now. // But this war... it won't go on so long. // By the time you guys have grown up... // Those countries will have achieved peace, and there will be peace here, too...
Yahiko: The hell are you talking about?!! // All our families have been killed! // If we make up with them, it'll be after we've put them through what they put us through! / It's like when a match is called off because someone got injured, right?!
Jiraiya: .........
Yahiko: But... I know at least this much: that's never gonna happen. // So this war isn't really going to go away!

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Yahiko: I hate the rain. // This country is always crying... / It's weak. // I'm going to change this country. // I'll protect everyone!! // And so... Jiraiya-sensei! // You've got to train us to use ninjutsu!
Text: (If we make up with them, it'll be after we've put them through what they put us through! // So this war isn't really going to go away! // I'll protect everyone!!)
Konan: Jiraiya-sensei, it's terrible! // Yahiko and Nagato are...!!
Jiraiya: Don't worry, Konan!!
Konan: I've brought Sensei!
Yahiko: Uugh.........
Jiraiya: What happened?
Yahiko: He told us...

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Yahiko: "Give me your food, or anything valuable"... / That refugee shinobi... // ...But then... Nagato... he...
Jiraiya: ...This is a Chuunin from the Village of Rock... // How on earth...? // !!! // Th... those eyes......!! // Could this... kid be...?!
[insert text: The moment of Pein's birth...?!!]
[bottom text: The past reveals his true identity! And...!! Next issue, "To the Reunion"!!]