Naruto 166

Title: A shinobi's talent...!!

Orochimaru: Talentless though you may be, this is a new low.../Looks like Tsunade has tampered with you... Kuku (tn: evil laugh).
*glance*
Kabuto: That technique of yours requires sacrifices./ She was probably thinking ahead. And she drugged him in order to sap his strength.../To make him a sacrifice.
Jiraiya: Sheesh. (It didn't take him long to figure out my handicap...!
Oro: As unsightly as ever...
Naruto: *gnash* 'He's making a fool out of Ero-sennin. That kinda pisses me off.)
*flap* flap* *flap*

Naruto: Kuchiyose no jutsu!! (Summoning technique) *BAM*
Oro, Kabuto, Jiraiya, Shizune: !
Oro: This is the Kyuubi kid I met during the Chuunin exam.../ I should have killed him then and there, after all... But I thought I'd let him be for the time being. Out of concern for the Akatsuki organization...//But it would take someone like a member of the Sannin/myself included//or Sandaime, to dispel the Seal of the Five Elements...
Kabuto: Which means Jiraiya-sama might have undone it for Naruto already...
Oro: Probably, yes... If by any chance, he's able to use the Kyuubi's power...

Naruto: ...!!
Oro: ... Looks like he's not...
Kabuto: Huhu......//He wasn't exactly blessed with the talent to become a shinobi in the first place.......
Naruto: Whyyyy?!
Gamatatsu (Tatsu, from now on): A good day to you.
Jiraiya: ...... (Just as I thought. He still has a long way to go...)
Gamakichi (Kichi, from now on): What did you come out here for, Gamatatsu?
Tatsu: Ah! Gamakichi nii-chan!

Tatsu: This is the first time I get summoned.../I'll try to do my best.
Naruto: Sigh... *drop*
Kichi: You dope! Go hide yourself before you become someone's snack! (tn: arbitrary translation)
Tatsu: Eeh?! We're gonna get snacks? Yaaay!
Oro: I'll take Jiraiya...// You can deal with the others. *HHIISSSSS* *jump*
Kabuto: A shame... I wish I could have tested my mettle with the Sannin Jiraiya.
Jiraiya: !!
Shizune: !
Naruto: !

*WHAM*
*BAF*
Shizune: !!
*step*
Shizune: !
Naruto: !
*step*
Naruto: Damn it!
*CRACK*
Naruto: !!

Jiraiya: !
Oro: If you're gonna fight someone, fight me! *ZOOOM*
Jiraiya: !// (Doton...) Yomi Numa!! (Earth Release: Swamp of the Underworld)
*BLOB*

Jiraiya: (It won't be able to sink in a tiny swamp like that... /The drug's effects haven't worn off yet. Damn.) Sheesh!/But the great snake can't move around either. *WOOOOOSHHH*
*pow* *pow* *pow*
*swish*
Shizune: !! *WHAM* *swish*

Shizune: Gasp...//(Ninpou: Dokugiri!! (Ninja art: Poisonous Cloud) *Sssshhhhhhhh
Kabuto: (One breath alone and I'm in trouble.....)
*POOF*
Shizune: ..... *shh*
Shizune: !! *sharp pain*

*grind* *grind*
Shizune: Argh! (The tendons in my legs...!) *Paf*
Naruto: Gnnnn.../ I'm not getting eaten a second time, I'm tellin' ya...//Yahoooo!! *snap*
*WHAM*
Naruto: !

*ZBAM*
Naruto: Gwaaaaah!!
*crackle* *crackle*
Naruto: Gasp!//(... My leg...)
*WOOOOOSHHH*
*swish* swish* *swish* *Flap* *Flap* *Flap*
*Step*

Jiraiya: Ninpou: Hari Jizou!! (Ninja Art: Spiky Patron Saint) *ZZZ*
*thrust*
*clap*
Jiraiya: Ah!
*GNASH*
Jiraiya: !!

Jiraiya: (Crap! My techniques are coming out wrong...) Gahah!!
Oro: We're both handicapped, but there's a clear difference between us.../Give up already.
*POW*
Shizune: !//Guh! *SBAM*
Tsunade: ....! *startle*

*pant* *pant*
*TODOM* *TODOM**TODOM*

*swish* swip*
*Pash*
Tsunade: Waaah!
*frown*
*kick* *kick* kick*
Naruto: (Cra.../ I feel heavy...)
*pant* *pant* *pant*
Oro: Huhu... They called you the town's madman, back in the day./You're abasing yourself, dragging a kid like that around and slaving for the village.......

Oro: I have an eye keener than anyone else's for talent... In my eyes, this kid is mediocrity incarnate.
Naruto: Guh! *sbam*
Jiraiya: Precisely. That's why I took him.
Oro: .........
Jiraiya: I have no use for an Uchiha kid./Where's the fun in teaching to a genius who's already good right off the bat?
Oro: Kuku... So you can't ignore him because he reminds you of your old self?/ This kid can't compete with and Uchiha, a natural heir of the shinobi asset that is Sharingan. Because Sharingan is something Naruto-kun does not have.// A shinobi's talent is measured by their mastery of every jutsu that exist, or the lack thereof./As the name suggests, a ninja is someone who can use ninjutsu.
*grin*

Jiraiya: This is nowhere near what a shinobi's talent is about./You're still not getting it, are you?
Oro: ...!
Jiraiya: A shinobi/Is someone who withstands and endures. (tn: Etymologically, Jiraiya's right. 忍ぶ or "shinobu", which gives us the word "shinobi" means "to conceal oneself", as well as "to endure". Indeed, ninjas were often assigned to arduous and ungrateful tasks. E.g. Spending hours on end in hiding, crouching in some rat's hole until you could assassinate your target was certainly no vacation).
Oro: We don't share the same opinion, I see.
Jiraiya: I'll teach you scum about something.../The one most important gift of a shinobi is not the number of jutsu they possess...//What really matters *clang*
Kabuto: !

Jiraiya: Is to have the guts to never give up. *DOOOM*