Naruto 373

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Naruto
#373: Master And Pupil...!!
[side text: Back before he was known as a "legend", as the foliage grew wild in midsummer, he met them.]

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[insert text: What are this boy's eyes...?]
Jiraiya: (That shape... that rippling pattern...! // I can't believe it...!! // Those eyes... the ultimate eyes, greatest of the Three Great Doujutsu... // The Rinnegan!!)
[TN: Literally, "Samsara Eyes", samsara being the Buddhist cycle of rebirth.]

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Jiraiya: The man known as the original shinobi, the Rikudou Sennin...
[TN: Literally, Hermit of Six Paths.]
Jiraiya: It is said that all the ninjutsu that exist today were created by the Rinnegan possessed by that Sennin... // It has been called both the "God of Creation" bestowed upon him from the heavens when the world was in chaos, but also the "God of Destruction", with the power to reduce everything to nothingness... // I had always thought it was a mere legend, but... // For a person possessing the Rinnegan to actually exist...

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Jiraiya: I've decided to teach ninjutsu to you kids.
Yahiko: S - Seriously?!
Jiraiya: There may be more times when your life is placed in danger. // Ninjutsu will allow you to protect yourselves.
Yahiko: All right!
Nagato: .........
Jiraiya: .........

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Yahiko: Thanks for helping us out back there, Nagato! // I'm sorry I ever called you a weakling! // If anything happens again, I'll make sure I protect you and return the favour!
Nagato: Th... thank you, Yahiko.
Konan: Eeeeeeh? But, Nagato's stronger than you are, Yahiko!
Yahiko: Well, we're gonna be training from now on, so I'm gonna get stronger! // So don't say things like that, all right!

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Jiraiya: Okay! Well, shall we begin? / First, we have to train you to mould chakra.
Kids: Yes, Sensei!!
Nagato: Uuuhhh... // Uuaaahhh... // Uuuuuhhh...
[TN: They're crying noises. Feel free to change them ~_~]
Jiraiya: !

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Nagato: Uuaaahhh...
[TN: Ditto.]
Jiraiya: It looks like something's up... why don't you tell me about it?
Nagato: ! // Sensei......
Jiraiya: Is it about before?
Nagato: Back then...... // When Yahiko got hurt back then... / I just felt really angry at the guy who hurt him. // And then my mind just went completely blank... // I was lost in the anger...

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Nagato: ...And then when I came to, the enemy was just lying there... // After that, I just got really scared... / It's terrible... I just lost myself completely and did that...!! / What I did... it has to be wrong...! // There must have been a better way...!!
Jiraiya: Nagato...!!
Nagato: ......!
Jiraiya: I can't really say either whether what you did was right or wrong. // But it's thanks to you that Yahiko didn't die back then. // You protected a friend...... I think you must have done something right.

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Jiraiya: Nobody can blame you for what you did... // When somebody hurts you, you feel hatred... // And when you yourself hurt somebody, you feel bitter... you can even be tormented by feelings of guilt. // But it's precisely because we have these feelings that we can also treat people kindly. // That's what being human is.
Nagato: ......... // What... do you mean...?
Jiraiya: It's called growing up.
Nagato: Growing up... / ...What do you mean by that?

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Jiraiya: What to do... that's something you decide for yourself.
Nagato: ............ // When Konan and me were starving, and crying from the pain... / Yahiko saved us from that. // He even went so far as to steal people's food...
Jiraiya: .........
Nagato: I just want to protect the two of them. // No matter how much pain it brings me to do that.
Jiraiya: ...I see.

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Yahiko: Suiton: Mizurappa!!
[TN: "Water Style: Turbulent Wave"]
Konan: Kamishuriken!!
[TN: "Paper Shuriken"]

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Nagato: Fuuton: Reppuushou!!
[TN: "Wind Style: Gale Palm"]
Yahiko: All right!

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Jiraiya: To think that you could defeat my own Kagebunshin...
Yahiko: How's that, Sensei?!!
Jiraiya: Now I can return to my village in the knowledge that you are safe.
Konan/Nagato: !
Yahiko: Huh...?
Jiraiya: You can carry on by yourselves from here on out! // You've worked hard for these past three years! // Oh, no, don't cry, Yahiko. People will think you're a weakling.

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Jiraiya: Konan... I'm sure you'll grow up to be a beautiful woman... / I'd like to see you again when you're a little older.
[TN: freakin' LOL. Jiraiya is made of win.]
Jiraiya: This country is poor... I'm sure you'll all have your share of troubles in the future. // But when that time comes, use your power to work towards changing this country. // Nagato... the three of you have all grown up. // Isn't that right?
Nagato: ......... // Thank you... Sensei.

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Jiraiya: A few years after that, I started hearing your names here and there... / You made yourselves pretty well known in various incidents... but after that, I heard that you'd died...
Konan: You know nothing of what happened to us since then.
Jiraiya: That's certainly the case. // But what Akatsuki is doing is wrong!
Pein: That's only your own conclusion...

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Pein: Jiraiya-sensei.
Jiraiya: Your appearance has changed a lot, but those eyes... // You really were Pein after all... / Nagato. // It looks like you didn't really grow up in the right way... // What happened?
Pein: You don't need to know... / After all, you're an outsider.
[side text: Stretched out before the teacher and student, an empty time... and cold hostility. Jiraiya VS Pein... the battle is unavoidable!!]
[bottom text: Pein's ability threatens Jiraiya!! What could it be...?!! Next issue, "The First Blow"!!]
[TN: "The First Blow" is just my interpretation. Literally, it's "sensei", the word for "preempt" (not the word for "teacher"). It's used in the phrase "sensei no ichigeki", which literally means "the first strike". I figure that's probably what it's referring to.]