Naruto 391

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[insert text: Beneath a storm-gathering sky...]
Zetsu: A jutsu like Amaterasu... / ...absolutely inescapable?! // What kind of jutsu could he mean?
Itachi: !
Zetsu: !

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Naruto
#391: Alongside The Thunder
[insert text: Stormclouds hang low over the battlefield... and lightning flashes wildly down across the terrain! // What exactly is Sasuke's final jutsu?!]

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Itachi: .........
Zetsu: --NO WAY! SO THIS IS WHAT SASUKE'S KATON JUTSU WAS FOR?!-- // What do you mean? // --WHEN HE MADE THAT KATON ATTACK BEFORE, HE WAS NEVER AIMING FOR ITACHI AT ALL...!-- // What are you talking about? // --HE SENT HIS KATON JUTSU INTO THE SKY ON PURPOSE-- / --SO THAT HE COULD CAUSE THE ATMOSPHERE TO SUDDENLY HEAT UP, CAUSING UPWARD AIR CURRENTS-- // --CUMULONIMBUS...-- / --HE CREATED A STORMCLOUD!!--

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Zetsu: Yeah, but what on earth could he be... // --HE'S NOT USING HIS OWN CHAKRA ENERGY...-- / --HE'S USING THE ENERGY OF THE VAST ATMOSPHERE ITSELF-- // --IT'S SOME KIND OF RAITON JUTSU!-- // What kind...? // --WHATEVER IT IS, THIS IS ON A COMPLETELY DIFFERENT LEVEL TO SIMPLY MANIPULATING THE NATURE OF ONE'S OWN CHAKRA!--

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Itachi: .........
Zetsu: ! // --I SEE...-- // --HE LURED ITACHI OUTSIDE SO THAT HE COULD USE AMATERASU'S HEAT, TOO, TO FUEL HIS OWN JUTSU--

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Sasuke: In essence, this jutsu is simply lightning from the heavens. // My role is simply to guide that power to you.
Zetsu: --JUST AS I THOUGHT... HE'S RIGHT, THIS REALLY IS AN INESCAPABLE JUTSU...-- // But why?! // --LIGHTNING REACHES THE GROUND IN UNDER A THOUSANDTH OF A SECOND... IT IS FASTER EVEN THAN SOUND!--
Sasuke: This jutsu is named "Kirin"...
Itachi: !
Zetsu: Wh - What is it? // --HAS SASUKE TRULY TAMED EVEN LIGHTNING ITSELF?!!--

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[no text just OH SHIT KIRIN]

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Sasuke: Vanish alongside the thunder...

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[no text, just slightly epic]

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Zetsu: Guaaahhh!!
Sasuke: *pant* // *pant* // *pant*
Zetsu: Ugh... // --SUCH POWER...--

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Sasuke: *pant* // *pant*
Zetsu: Did Itachi actually die...?

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Sasuke: ......... // *pant* // *pant* // *pant* // *pant*
[sFX: deactivating-sharingan-noise]
Sasuke: ...ver... // ...It's over... // .........It's finally over...!!
Itachi: So this is... my "manner of death"... that you wanted to make a reality...?

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Sasuke: !!!

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Sasuke: WHY, YOU...!!!
Zetsu: ! // That's...!

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Itachi: If I didn't have this... I would have been done for...
Sasuke: ?!
Zetsu: --WHAT'S THIS?--

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Itachi: You truly have... // ...become strong...... Sasuke...
Sasuke: !
Itachi: Now it's my turn... to show you the final trick I have up my sleeve... // "Susanoo".
[side text: As though in answer to his brother, who has lain everything bare, exhausting every last effort... Itachi, too, begins one final jutsu. What is this "Susanoo"?!!]
[bottom text: How can Sasuke fight back with all his chakra gone...?! Next issue, "The End"!!]