Naruto 368

368: Reconnaissance

Page 1.

"His name is known to all! Yet even the gallant Jiraiya may find today's mission bit of a challenge."

Page 2.

“Come to the Uchiha Hideout! Itachi sets a stage for their fateful encounter!*”

*I was a bit liberal with this line, but only because it doesn’t really matter to the overall plot.

Page 3.

Suigetsu: Sasuke!

Sasuke: I thought I told you not to come until I gave the order.

Suigetsu: Well, we got worried when Karin said she felt some else's chakra in here.

Karin: Feathers?

Sasuke: We’re leaving… follow me!

Page 5.

Pain: Konan*... I’ll stop the rain. You use your jutsu to locate the intruder.

*Konan = "small south." Let the deluge of dirty jokes begin!

Konan: Leave it to me.

Pain: Here goes...

Konan: Ready!

Page 6.

Guy A: Some rain, eh?

Guy B: How 'bout we have ourselves a drink while we wait for it to abate?

Guy A: Like we're gonna find a place all the way down here!

Guy A: Guess we’re gonna have to go higher.

Guy B: So we’ll be going up to avoid the rain…getting rained on all the while.

"CLUB FROG: Grand Opening! Drink 'til you drop for 500 ryous*!"

*Ryou is a currency used way back in Japan.

Page 7.

Guy A: Looks like today's our lucky day!

Bartender: Welcome! Step right in!

Guy A: Two, please.

Guy B: We'll have our sake and some appetizers.

Guy B: You know, it’s not Sunday today.

Guy A: 'means Pain-Sama's preoccupied with something.

Guy A: Guess he might be going off abroad soon...

Guy B: 'thing is, until now it's never rained on any other day of the week, buddy.

Page 8.

Guy A: Well, maybe the errand’s gonna require that much of his power.*

*Ah, I *thought* the spoiler text was fishy. The original spoiler text had a typo, which threw this non-native Japanese speaker completely off. For those of you who read the original spoiler trans, this is the correction: Guy A is saying that whatever errand Pain’s going off abroad for requires enough of his power that he won’t be able to simultaneously keep it from raining.

Guy B: Still, this much rain, you know...

Guy A: Oi! Pain-sama's breakin' his back for us in this city!

Guy A: Just put up with it for a little, will ya!

Guy B: Yeah, I guess.

Bartender: All ready!

Guy A: Hey - !

Guy B: I don’t see our order anywhere!

Bartender: Ah, you see, today's our grand opening special commemorative service, so...

Page 9.

Guy B: What? Really!?

Bartender: You Sirs are in for real treat!

Guy A: Wha - hey! Who the hell are you?

Jiraiya: I'll be the one making the questions here, and lots of them...

Page 10.

Guys: Wooooaaah!

Page 13.

Pain: Now... Konan!

Konan: Right!

Page 16.

Jiraiya: Alright then…

Jiraiya: Seeing as how you were wielding kunai just now…

Jiraiya: I’ll assume you’re at least *technically* shinobi.

Guy B: Dammit!

Guy A: Where are we?

Jiraiya: Oh, inside the belly of a frog.

Page 17.

Guy A: You… who the hell are you?

Jiraiya: I believe I said *I* would be the one making the questions…

Jiraiya: Remember?

Guy A: What…what’s the idea with the feather?

Jiraiya: Tickling!

Jiraiya: If you two don’t wanna die of laughter, you’ll answer all my questions…*

*Something tells me it's the Frog's stomach Jiraiya will be tickling next chapter.

Jiraiya: About your leader, Pain...

"Akatsuki pursues the intruder...meanwhile, Jiraiya begins interrogating his "sources." Time to learn about Pain! Just who is this leader of Akatsuki's? Next time: The secret of Amegakure!"