Naruto 436

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Naruto
#436: Peace
[Side text: The feelings of a man worshipped as a God... of a man whom none could approach due to his "pain".]

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Inoichi: I think I've got it! / I know where Pain's real body is hiding!
Shikaku: Did you notice something new?
Ino: What do you mean?!
Inoichi: Yes... // It's something from when I was looking through the head of the Rain Village shinobi Jiraiya-sama captured. // His job was to carry bodies, along with his friend.
Flashback!Dude1: We're always transporting bodies to that tower, the tallest one in the village... / Do you know what that place is?
Shikamaru: Carrying bodies?
Inoichi: That's right... It was what you said just now that made me realise.

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Inoichi: Look... first of all, / ordinarily speaking, when transmitting chakra signals, you want to be as close to the receivers as you can manage. // Meanwhile... the place that man was transporting those bodies to... / ...was the tallest of all the many towers in the Rain village...
Flashback!Dude1: Truth is... I've heard rumours that Pain-sama himself might be in that tower.
Inoichi: ...and it would appear that there were rumours in the Rain village that Pain was inside that tallest tower. // What's more, the woman who appeared here as one of Pain's bodies... // ...looked identical to the female corpse which was transported into that very tower... // From this, we can assume that the tower in question was being used as a laboratory of sorts, where those black receiver things were being implanted into corpses, turning them into new Pain bodies.
Shikamaru: So...? / How does that tell us where the real Pain's body is hiding?

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Inoichi: In order to transmit his Chakra over a wide area and large distance... // ...he had to position himself in the most efficient location; the village's very tallest tower!
ANBU: I see...... In other words... // Pain's real body is likely stationed in the highest point in the vicinity of Konoha village...
Shikamaru: Right! / In that case, we should move to investigate all the highest points, one by one!

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Naruto: Ngh...
Deva!Pain: The question you put to me was "Why are you doing this?"... // ...but I doubt that anything would change as a result of my simply telling you that. // However, if I explain slowly and carefully... / ......yes, I wonder... // The goal that I hope to achieve... is that which Jiraiya-sensei was unable to accomplish... // As I said before...
Naruto: .........

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Deva!Pain: It is to bring about peace and establish justice.
Naruto: Peace...? / Justice...? // Don't screw with me... / Don't screw with me, dammit...! // My master!! / My teacher!! / My comrades!! // My village! // You do all this to all of them... / ...and you think you have the right to go on about that crap?!!

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Naruto: *pant* // *pant*
Deva!Pain: Well, then... what is your goal?
Naruto: I'm gonna kick your ass... / ...and bring peace to this shinobi world myself!!
Deva!Pain: I see... how very admirable. // Truly, that would be justice. // But then... what of my family? // My comrades? / My village?

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Deva!Pain: You shinobi of Konoha did to them almost exactly what I have just done to this village... // Why should you have more right than I to prattle of "peace" and "justice"?
Naruto: ......?! // What the hell are you talking about?!
Deva!Pain: The Country of Fire... and Konoha... had grown too large... / In order to protect national interests, there was a need for war between the Great Countries, war that would be of advantage to them... // Otherwise, the citizens of the country... of the village... would have starved. // But the battleground for this war between Great Countries was our small nation and its village. // In the process, our country was devastated, laid to ruin.

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Deva!Pain: Over the course of many wars, the Great Countries obtained stability. // Leaving nothing but pain for our small nation.
Naruto: .........
Deva!Pain: What you and I seek is the same. // We wish to establish the "peace" for which Jiraiya-sensei strove. // You and I are no different from one another. // We act in the interest of our own ideas of "justice". // The justice that I have administered to Konoha... / ...is no different from what you are attempting to do to me.

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Deva!Pain: Everyone feels the same pain upon losing that which is precious to them. // You and I are two fellow souls who know that pain. // You for your own justice... / ...and I for mine... // Both you and I are ordinary humans, spurred on by a form of revenge known as "justice". // Yet if one is to call "revenge" by the name of "justice"... / ...then that "justice" will only bring with it further revenge... // ...and thus the chain of hatred is forged.

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Deva!Pain: We live in the midst of events, knowing of the past and predicting what lies ahead... // That is the nature of history. // We must awaken to the fact that men, by their very nature, can never truly achieve mutual understanding. // The world of shinobi is driven by hatred.

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Naruto: .........
Flashback!Jiraiya: You know, even I... // ...can at least understand that this ninja world runs thick with hatred.
Flashback!Naruto: ...Hatred...
Flashback!Jiraiya: I'd sure like to be able to do something about all that hatred... // ...but even I don't know yet what should be done about that. // But I believe...... // ...that one day, an age will come when people will truly be able to understand one another!!
Flashback!Naruto: Sounds kinda complicated.

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Flashback!Jiraiya: If I never find that answer, then I guess I'll leave the task of finding one to you!
Flashback!Naruto: Gotcha!! // If it's you asking, I guess I can't say no!
Naruto: .........
Deva!Pain: How would you choose to face this hatred and bring about peace?
Naruto: ......
Deva!Pain: Let me hear your answer.

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Naruto: ......... // I don't know... / ...a thing like that...
Deva!Pain: As for me... // I created Akatsuki for the purpose of breaking that chain of hatred. // I know that I can accomplish this... but to do so, I need the Kyuubi... I need its power. // With the power of all of the Bijuu, I will create a Bijuu Weapon, with many tens of times the power I used to destroy this village. / A weapon with the power to destroy a country in an instant.

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Naruto: ?!
Deva!Pain: I will show the world the face of true pain... / ...through the fear of that pain, put an end to conflict... // ...and lead the world to stability and peace.
Naruto: ......Come off it... that kind of "peace"... // ...It's just a downright lie!!
Deva!Pain: Humans are not naturally wise creatures. // It is impossible to forge peace in any other way. // ...As the decades go by, even this pain will begin to heal. // Its power over them will decline, and men will once again turn to war. / When they do, they will themselves use the Bijuu Weapon, and once again learn of true pain.
Naruto: ......

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Nagato: And once again, a temporary peace will be restored. // To forge even a temporary peace borne of pain, in the midst of this endless chain of hatred... // ...That is my wish.

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Nagato: *cough* / *cough*
Konan: ! // Nagato... please, do not push yourself so... / You are already using a considerable amount of chakra.
Nagato: *pant* // *pant* // That peace lies right before my eyes...
[Side text: The peace that Pain - that Nagato - perceives with those eyes...]
[Bottom text: Having heard what Pain has to say, what will Naruto do now?! Next issue, a sudden development!!]