Naruto 378

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[side text: With even his ultimate mode's attacks coming up short, Jiraiya is unable to hide his impatience! What is the secret of these shinobi with the "Rinnegan"?!]
Jiraiya: (This isn't good... with him able to nullify my ninjutsu like that... / ...taking on all three of them is a pain in the ass. // At this rate, fighting against them... // Even with this Sennin Mode, I'm going to get killed. // Who would have thought he was this strong...?)

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Naruto
#378: One-On-One
[insert text: Now that things have come to this...!!]
Father: Jiraiya-chan, it's time to retreat.
Jiraiya: ...Yes.
Pein: ......... // Escaping through the pipe, is he...?

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Mother: So why are we running, exactly?
Father: We need to make a thorough analysis of the Rikudou and come up with a plan. / We'll need a little time to pull that off. // Those guys... their appearances may be different, but they all have those same eyes... // In other words, they all have the Rikudou's "Rinnegan"...
Jiraiya: Even if we assume that one of them is Nagato, / I can't imagine that there would just happen to be three of them with the Rinnegan. // What on Earth is going on here?!

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Jiraiya: Which one of them is the real Pein...?
Father: I don't think we should be concentrating on working out "which one is real". / The important point here is the existence of those three separate pairs of the Rikudou's Rinnegan.
Jiraiya: ......... // Pein... what exactly is he?
Father: We don't have any sure answer to that right now. / ...But what we can do is try and take a guess. // The three of them are sharing one another's vision; they're sharing ownership of those eyes. // We can assume this is a special ability of those eyes.
Mother: But what kind of ability is that? / What real advantage does it give?
Father: Well, to put it fairly simply...

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Father: It's like they all have a constant security camera system. // They can see what's happening from all of those perspectives at once. // In other words, all it takes is for one of them to catch sight of a target, // and the other two, without even seeing the target themselves, will be able to time their actions, their attacks and defences, perfectly.

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Father: They have three times an ordinary person's field of vision. / And unlike with the Byakugan, even when they're forming seals and moulding Chakra, they can cover one another's blind spots. / They have an ultimate combination.
Jiraiya: In that case, the only solution is to split them up. / If we duel one-on-one, I could defeat them... // But with those eyes they have, // They're sure to go about things in tandem, never straying too far from one another. // I can't defeat them with taijutsu... // ...but at the same time, they can just absorb my ninjutsu.
Father: If taijutsu and ninjutsu won't work... // ...all you're left with is genjutsu.
Jiraiya: .........But I'm honestly no good at genjutsu... // Ah, but the two of you...

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Father: If they're actually your former pupil, then they should know that you aren't able to use genjutsu... // Perhaps we can use that to our advantage.
Mother: Hell no! // I don't like this one bit!!
Jiraiya: Wh... what are you talking about...?!
Father: *sigh*... // Listen, Kaa-chan, the peace of the entire world is resting on this battle! // This is no time to be acting selfish!
Mother: I don't care one bit about that old fart's prediction!
Father: But didn't the Great Elder tell the two of us to get along nicely?!!
Jiraiya: Wh... what exactly is your issue with this, anyway?

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Mother: I don't want to go around singing a duet with Tou-chan at this age! // It'd just be embarrassing!!
Jiraiya: Huh...? / "Duet"......?!
Father: Our ultimate genjutsu makes use of a song to aurally entrap the opponent...
Jiraiya: Aurally... I see, so that's why you drew back.
Father: That's right... // This is a very powerful genjutsu, but its weakness is that when we use it, we reveal our location to the enemy. // And the enemy will only fall into the genjutsu... / ...after hearing a certain sequence of notes, that is, a melody. As such, it takes a little time to come into effect.

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Father: If the enemy discovers our location and tracks us down before he is caught in the genjutsu... / ...then we're sure to lose. // On the other hand, if they are caught in the genjutsu... / then we're sure to win.
Jiraiya: Jiraiya: ......... // If your lives are endangered... / ...you should vanish from my shoulders at once.
Mother: !
Father: ! // Don't be ridiculous! / The fate of the shinobi world is resting on this battle!
Jiraiya: ...I think I have an idea. / Though it's a bit of a gamble.
Father: Let's hear it...

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[sFX: croak croooak]
Pein: ! // (What is that...?)

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Pein: This is... a frog's voice... // ?! // (Is this... a genjutsu?!) // It's coming from over there!

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Pein: Ngh...!

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Pein: (A Kagebunshin...!)
Jiraiya: KATON: DAIENDAN!!
[TN: Fire Element: Great Flame Bullet]
Pein: (So that's how it is...)

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Jiraiya: (All right! I win this bet! // That big one did run off to absorb the jutsu! // The first guy just kept on using Kuchiyose... // And the one absorbing my jutsu was that big guy both times... // Just like I thought, each one of these guys can only use one kind of technique! // Right now, the big guy's eyes are focused on the jutsu... // ...and another one's eyes are useless. // Right now, there's only one pair of eyes left...

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Jiraiya: ...looking at me!!
Pein: Over here, too?!

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Pein: !
Jiraiya: (Gotcha!)
Pein: Ngh... // (This is Yominuma...!)
[TN: Yominuma = "Hades Swamp", an Earth technique that Jiraiya uses]

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Father: (Just a little longer...!!)
Jiraiya: Now I can fight you one-on-one!!
[insert text: Time for that "sure win"!!]
[bottom text: Jiraiya VS Pein, the conclusion?! What is the outcome?! Next issue, "Secret"!!]