Naruto 401

Sorry for the lateness. These chapters take so long to translate... All those darn sentences that you have to link together (somehow)... :darn
Anyway, here it is. I think I'm satisfied enough, but I might change something later.
Enjoy~ :D

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1p
401：幻術
401: Illusions

取り乱すサスケ…。
Sasuke is shocked...

でたらめだ…
Sasuke: That's nonsense...

ギロ
*glare*

オレは何度も殺されかけた
Sasuke: He tried to kill me again and again.

イタチが本気なら…
Madara: If he had been serious

そうなっていたろう　…確実にな
Madara: he would have succeeded. ...Undoubtedly.

あいつは万華鏡写輪眼の瞳術まで使って　オレを殺そうとしたんだ！
それなのに……
Sasuke: He even used the Mangekyou Sharingan's powers to try and kill me!
How can you......

お前の対処も全て計算の内だ
Madara: He had taken your reactions into account.

あの戦いで　イタチはお前を追い込む必要があった
Madara: In that fight, Itachi needed to corner you.

その理由…
本当はお前ももう気付いてるんじゃないのか？
Madara: As for the reason...
Maybe you too have figured it out by now.

…出るものが出たな…
Itachi: ...You're finally out... (note: literally it's more like "What was to come out is finally out"; ndt)

3p
呪印からの解放…
Madara: The erasure of your cursed seal

そして　最も親しい者の死…　お前に万華鏡を開眼させる戦いでもあった
Madara: and the death of the person closest to you... That fight was also aimed at making you awaken the Mangekyou Sharingan.

あれは全て　お前のためにイタチが仕組んだ戦いだった
Madara: Itachi had planned it all out for you.

お前の眼を奪うという芝居を最後まで演じきってな
Madara: And he pretended to want to steal your eyes until the very end.

飲み込めて来たようだな…
Madara: It looks like you finally understand...

4p
お前は嘘をついている！
Sasuke: You're lying!

九尾に里を襲わせたのはマダラ！
Sasuke: It was you who unleashed the Kyuubi on the village!

お前の仕業だとイタチは言った！
Sasuke: Itachi said that!

十六年前———　九尾が木ノ葉を襲った事件はもちろんマダラが起こしたものだ
Itachi: The Kyuubi's attack on Konoha that took place sixteen years ago was of course Madara's doing.

それも四代目によって阻止されてしまった　つまり…
Itachi: But it wasn't successful, since the Yondaime Hokage stopped it. In other words...

今のマダラは負け犬だ…
Itachi: Madara is now a loser...

うちはの本当の高みを手にするのは奴じゃない
Itachi: He's not worthy of the real summit of the Uchiha.

…あの男　マダラを超え
Itachi: ...I'll excel him

本当の高みへと近付くのはこのオレだ
Itachi: and *I* will be the one to reach the very top.

5p
うちはに濡れ衣を着せた
Sasuke: You accused the Uchiha

イタチと組んで一族を弄ぶために！！
Sasuke: so that you could team up with Itachi and have the clan at your mercy!!

それは　イタチのついた嘘だ…　さっきも言ったはずだ
Madara: That is a lie made up by Itachi... I already told you

万が一にも　お前に真実が伝わることを　イタチは恐れていたのだ
Madara: that he feared even the remotest chance that you might find out the truth.

その可能性を微塵も残さぬよう…
Madara: To erase the slightest possibility of that happening

お前に　オレを信用させない為の嘘をうき
そればかりか　お前の眼に〝天照〟をも仕込んだ
Madara: he lied to you so that you would not trust me
and he went as far as to implant "Amaterasu" in your eyes.

信じられるか…　そんなこと！
Sasuke: There's no way I'll believe that!

あいつは！　イタチは悪だ！
Sasuke: He is.. Itachi is wicked!

一族を殺して　〝暁〟に染まった犯罪者だ！
Sasuke: He slaughtered our clan and joined "Akatsuki", he's a criminal!

6p
ただ一人　決してぬぐえぬ罪を背負い　里を抜けてなお
Madara: Even after he'd left the village, shouldering an indelible sin all by himself,

〝暁〟に入り込み　里にとって危険な組織を内側から見張っていた…
Madara: he entered "Akatsuki", an organization that might pose a danger to the village, to watch it from the inside.

常に　木ノ葉隠れを想いながら
Madara: His thoughts were always directed at Konohagakure.

そして同じく　お前のことを…
Madara: And likewise, at you.

お前を守ると約束していた三代目火影が死んで　すぐにイタチが木ノ葉に姿を現したのは
Madara: When the Sandaime Hokage, who had sworn to protect you, died, Itachi immediately showed himself in Konoha.

7p
ダンゾウを含む里の上層部に〝オレは生きている〟と忠告するためだった
Madara: The reason is that he wanted to warn Danzou and the rest of the government that he was still alive.

お前のことを何より
Madara: You were his most-

やめろォ！！
Sasuke: Cut it out!!

嘘だ！！
Sasuke: It's all lies!!

そんなもの全て——
Sasuke: Everything you say is---

なぜなら　お前は生きている！！
Madara: It is not, because you are alive!!

9p
…人は誰もが　己の知識や認識に頼り　縛られ　生きている
Itachi: ...All people live relying on their knowledge and understanding, and so are bound to them.

それを現実という名で呼んでな
Itachi: They call it "reality".

しかし知識や認識とは曖昧なモノだ
その現実は幻かもしれない
Itachi: However, knowledge and understanding are ambiguous,
thus reality could be nothing but an illusion.

人は皆　思い込みの中で生きている
そうは考えられないか？
Itachi: People live inside of their impressions.
Isn't this fair to think?

その写輪眼…
Itachi: How much can you see

お前はどこまで見えている
Itachi: with your Sharingan?

今のオレの眼は昔とは違う！
Sasuke: My eyes are different now!

オレの写輪眼は幻術を見抜く！
Sasuke: My Sharingan can see through genjutsu!

フッ…
相変わらず強気な物言いだな
Itachi: Uh...
Your manners are aggressive as usual.

その言葉…
Itachi: I'll accept your words

とりあえず　受け取っておこう
Itachi: for the time being. (note: Sasuke said that he could see through genjutsu, that is "illusions"; ndt)

10p
お前の眼は　イタチのことを何一つ見抜けていなかった
イタチの作り出した幻術を　何一つ　見抜けなかった
Madara: Your eyes could not see through Itachi at all.
They could perceive not even one of the illusions he created.

だがイタチは…
Madara: Yet Itachi

友を殺し　上司を殺し…
Madara: killed his friends, his superiors...

恋人を殺し　父を殺し　母を殺した…
Madara: His lover, his father, his mother... (note: that "lover" kind of scares me... Also because, well, he was 13... Was he precocious in this too? XD;; By the way, it's a generic word, "lover", it doesn't specify the gender, thus translating it as "girlfriend" is incorrect... It doesn't specify the number either but OH WELL :nuts; ndt)

だが殺せなかった　…弟だけは
Madara: But he could not kill... his little brother.

血の涙を流しながら　感情の一切を殺して　里の為に同胞を殺しまくった男が…
Madara: A man who suppressed all of his feelings, shedding tears of blood, and murdered all of his fellows for the sake of the village...

11p
どうしても　お前を殺せなかった
Madara: was unable to kill you.

その意味がお前に分かるか？
Madara: Do you understand what that means?

あいつにとって　お前の命は
Madara: To him, your life was

12p
里よりも重かったのだ
Madara: even more precious than the village.

13p
あいつは死ぬ間際まで
Madara: He did everyhting for you, until the last moment...

イヤ　死んでもなお　お前の為に…
Madara: Well, actually, even when he died.

お前に新しい力を授けるために
Madara: He did it to grant you a new power.

————　お前に倒されることで
Madara: --- By having you defeat him

うちは一族の仇を討った——
Madara: he avenged the slaughter of the Uchiha clan.

木ノ葉の英雄にお前を仕立て上げる為に
Madara: And he made you a hero in the eyes of Konoha.

14p
病に蝕まれ　己に近付く死期を感じながら…
Madara: Even as he could feel his death approaching because of an illness that was eating away at him

薬で無理に延命を続けながら…
Madara: he uselessly tried to prolong his life with medicines...

最愛の弟のために…
Madara: For his beloved little brother...

15p
お前と戦い…
Madara: He had to fight you

お前の前で死なねばならなかった
Madara: and to die before your very eyes.

16p
木ノ葉の里の平和のため　そして何より　うちはサスケ…　お前のために
Madara: For the peace of Konoha and, more than anything else, for you, Sasuke Uchiha,

犯罪者として　裏切り者として死んでいくことを望んだ
Madara: he wished to die as a criminal and a traitor.

名誉の代償に汚名を…　愛の代償に憎しみを受け取り
Madara: He received a stained name in return for his honor, hatred in return for his love,

それでもなお　イタチは笑って死んでいった
Madara: and yet, he died smiling.

17p
弟のお前にうちはの名を託し
Madara: He entrusted the name Uchiha to you, his little brother

お前をずっと騙し続けたまま…
Madara: and kept on deceiving you until the end...

たとえようも無きその思い…
His feelings beyond compare

寄せ返す波間に——
are drifting on the waves coming in and out... (note: I personally felt that these two lines were connected, so I left them like that...; ndt)

NO.401／おわり
すべてを知ったサスケに芽生えるものは…。次号、『最期の言葉』へ！！
No.401/end - Now that Sasuke knows everything, something new is arising inside of him... Next, "The last words"! (note: "last" as in "before one's death"; ndt)

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...I must admit... As much as I liked the chapter, one thing still bothers me: Itachi's "lover". No, really... First of all, the mere image of Itachi with a lover is kinda disturbing, but that may be because of how we were used to perceive him. Second, he was 13 when he slaughtered the clan. So far in Naruto we've only seen people have crushes when they were 12-13 years old, not really love stories or any kind of engagements. Did Itachi really have a lover when he was 12-13?? And.. why does Madara know that? :XD He didn't even name Shisui, yet he named a lover... (unless they are the same person :nuts)

Anyway... I don't know.. My brain has mixed opinions about this. One part would like to be enlightened on the matter, the other part would rather be in the dark. I mean, I even wonder about the gender of said lover...

...This said, I loved the chapter <3 And I guess we might soon find out why Madara told Sasuke all of this...

I guess Sasuke will never keep that shirt fastened...
This time he even changed hairstyle. He's so fashion-conscious!

...Sorry, I couldn't help :nuts