Naruto 381

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[insert text: Jiraiya vs. Pain... how will this battle end...?!!]
Jiraiya: Nghh...

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Naruto
#381: His True Identity
[insert text: ...In Jiraiya's territory!!]

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Jiraiya: Dragging you into this kekkai... / I finally got one of you, huh...
Mother: You hanging in there, kid?
Jiraiya: ...Heh... Pretty much... // !! // My body...?!! // Something's happening to my Chakra!!
Father: ! // Is it this?! // Ngh!

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Jiraiya: Ugh!
Father: So it's not just his form that's odd... he's using some very odd kinds of weapons as well.
Mother: I don't think we can call these people human... they're something entirely different.
Jiraiya: Ungh...
Flashback!Dude1: Nobody has seen his face... / There are even people who think he doesn't really even exist.
Jiraiya: (That face... // Without a doubt, that guy is Yahiko.)

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Jiraiya: (And yet, he possesses the Rinnegan that belonged to Nagato... // It it possible that he stole them from Nagato for some reason? // ...But then... // There are all those other pairs of Rinnegan... // How would I explain those? // ...Besides which...)

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Flashback!Jiraiya: It's precisely because we have these feelings that we can also treat people kindly. // That's what being human is.
Flashback!Nagato: ......... // What... do you mean...?
Flashback!Jiraiya: It's called growing up.
Flashback!Nagato: Growing up... / ...What do you mean by that?
Flashback!Jiraiya: What to do... that's something you decide for yourself.
Jiraiya: .........

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Flashback!Pain: Too many people die in this place. // Their pain was what caused me to grow up.
Jiraiya: ......... // Surely that means that you must be Nagato after all...? // ....! // !!

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Jiraiya: That's right... I remember! // This guy isn't Nagato at all!!
Mother: ?
Father: What is it?
Jiraiya: This guy in front of us... I've met him just the once before... // It was back when I'd just started my journey in accordance with the Great Toad Sennin's prophecy... / A man from the Fuuma clan, who attacked me upon the mountain path. // I gave him that wound upon his forehead.....
Mother: But what is a guy like that doing here now?
Father: The more we find out, the more of a mystery this Pain seems to be...
Flashback!Elder: In my dream, you were travelling the world and writing a book.
Flashback!Jiraiya: A book...? / But why would I...?
Flashback!Elder: Perhaps you wished to traverse the globe and witness all of its wonders.
Jiraiya: Could it be...? Thinking back to the prophecy...

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Jiraiya: I have to go out there and see them all again... there's something I need to check for myself... // The two of you should go back.
Mother: Whaaaat?!
Father: Impossible! If you go out there again now, you'll be killed for sure!! / He has even more eyes now! And this kekkai trap isn't going to work on them a second time!! // Right now, they haven't worked out where we are! / This is our only chance to run for it!
Jiraiya: ......... // If I go out there now, there's a good chance I'm going to die. / But there's also a good chance I can work out the enemy's true identity... // If I let this chance go, there probably won't be another man who can get this close to Pain ever again. / This is the only opportunity to find out what he really is... // Besides...
Father: ?

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Jiraiya: This, right now, is the time to make the choice foretold in the prophecy! // ......... // I need the two of you to take all the information on Pain we've gathered so far, as well as the corpse of this one, back with you. / ...Tell Tsunade everything...
Father: ...Kaa-chan alone would be enough to do that.
Jiraiya: But...
Mother: Make sure you get home in time for dinner.
Father: Yes... Once this is all over, we'll come home for dinner - me and Jiraiya-chan both.
Mother: .........
Jiraiya: ......... // (Thank you so much...)

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Jiraiya: (Just as I thought! // Every single one of them is a shinobi who I've met at some point in the past!!)

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Jiraiya: !! // Of course... I get it now! I know who Pain really is!! // ?!!

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Father: Jiraiya-chan!!
[insert text: At the moment he finally uncovered the answer...!!]