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-I can't get a break.

Who'd have thought my self-destructing clone would

prove useless as well?

I think it's about time I revealed

my ultimate work of art.

Art is an explosion, ha!

-It worked.

Just in time.

-Then again, it did create enough of a diversion for me

to get away.

-My arm is being sucked into oblivion

by this wretched jutsu!

-Hmm.

But all is not lost, only up to the elbow.

I just have to find the rest of it, and the ring.

Hmm.

[footsteps]

[footsteps]

-So this is Sasori's true form.

-Look, here it is!

Here it is, Mister Zetsu!

I've found it!

-Maybe now I can become a member of the Akatsuki, huh?

After all, there's an open spot now, right?

-Fool.

Do you really think it's that easy?

-Oh, come on.

Why not let him join?

Toby's a good boy.

[gasping]

-Let's go.

-Wait, wait a minute!

Mister Zetsu, please!

It's right here somewhere.

I'm sure I can-- gah!

Huh?

Mister Zetsu, hey!

Mister Zetsu, hey, wait!

Wait, please!

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[footsteps]

[footsteps]

-How much longer?

-They'll soon be in sight.

-It's Gaara.

[cheering]

-Huh?

That's--

[cheering intensifies]

[crowd chanting "yes"]

-That's what I call a warm welcome.

-Oh, yeah.

-Look at how many people there are.

-Just what you'd expect for the Kazekage.

-No doubt.

[crowd cheering]

-I am happy you're safe thanks to these people.

Naruto Uzumaki, I thank you.

-Huh?

I'm not the one who-- I mean, I hardly

did anything at all, really.

-Lord Kazekage, you people are waiting to welcome you home.

Come.

Lead the way.

-All right then.

Shall we go?

-No, wait.

Not yet.

-Yes, you're right.

-Let us honor the memory of Lady Chiyo.

A moment of silence.

-Well, sis.

We made it back home.

-What?

You're leaving already?

You can stay a little longer, come on.

-Kankuro's right, at least a day or two.

You need time to rest.

-Believe me, I wish we could.

-Me too.

But we must report back to m'lady the Hokage right away.

-I see.

-Besides, if the Akatsuki have managed to penetrate this

far into the sand, I'm worried about the Leaf Village's

safety.

-I understand you want to get back as soon as possible.

-Yes, exactly.

-Even so, in your condition?

-Don't worry.

I have comrades I can rely on to get me there.

-He's right about that.

-By the way, we already dispatched

the preliminary report with Takemaru.

But there was no mention in it of fates of the two Akatsuki

members.

Won't you want to inform your village?

-I'll report that news to the Hokage myself.

You see, there's something else troubling me.

-Hmm?

-Lady Chiyo of the sand was the only casualty.

The Kazekage has been returned to his village safely.

Team Gai and Team Kakashi have completed their missions,

and they're scheduled to return to the Leaf

Village in three days.

-Very well.

-M'lady, if I may?

-What is it?

-Despite the fact that this mission was successful,

I was wondering if Master Jiraiya wasn't

right to question the wisdom of sending Naruto, a jinchuriki,

to face an enemy that we know is on the hunt for the Tail

Beasts?

Even with a former ANBU Black Ops member like Kakashi

along to protect him, wasn't it taking an enormous risk sending

Naruto on such a mission?

-It's because Naruto is what he is that I sent him.

The only one who can truly understand a jinchuriki

is another jinchuriki.

Besides, Naruto's got that mysterious power, one

that makes everyone he meets want to bet on him.

-Is that?

-Lady Chiyo's resting place.

-She didn't want a headstone on her grave.

But despite her wishes, I thought

it was better to have one.

I felt sure that people would want

s place to come to remember her.

-Everyone, say your farewells.

-Let's go.

-Right.

-Sakura, Naruto!

We really should be going!

-Right.

Come on, Sakura.

It's time to go.

-Thank you, Lady Chiyo.

-Well so long.

-Uh, yeah.

-I guess this is where people are supposed

to shake hands and get all choked up.

But I've never really been very good at that stuff either,

so let's just leave it.

[both men sigh]

SAKURA: Can't you two go any faster?

-Sorry about this, guy.

That new sharingan really takes a lot out of me.

Takes me a while to get back up to speed.

SAKURA: Hurry up, will you?

[rock lee grunts]

-Uh.

Guy?

[shouting]

-What happened?

-That's just wrong.

-Grown men playing piggy back.

It's almost creepy.

-Oh, brother.

There

-What the?

I get it, a training exercise!

-Ha ha ha ha.

So you want to see faster?

I'll show you faster.

Gangway!

What's wrong, slow pokes?

Can't keep up with me?

Let's go!

-It looks even weirder when they're in motion.

-Neji, forget it.

-Well, what do you know?

Looks like Deiter has a goner, too.

Blew himself to bits from the looks of it,

don't you think, Mister Zetsu?

There are probably body parts scattered all over here.

-Get your hands off that, you fool.

-Hey, he's alive.

-Where's the jinchuriki?

-Don't look at me.

I did my job.

-Dear, dear.

You must have had a close shave, huh Deidara?

But you're in one piece.

Oops, sorry.

-Toby, even the Buddha loses patience

when insulted a third time.

One more word, and there'll be no doubt

about the cause of yours death.

-You're just going to bomb me to death, right?

-That was the third one.

-Death by suffocation.

-I have made certain that you will

be assigned to team Kakashi.

I've made arrangements.

Not only are you a close to Naruto Uzumaki in age,

you are stronger than anyone of your generation in the village.

Most important of all, you possess

those incomparable talents with a paintbrush.

From today until the completion of your mission,

your name will be Sai.

-Sai.

Yes, I understand.

-And wipe that fake smile off your face when you're with me.

-Forgive me.

If read that, in order to win people over,

one must be able to smile.

I've been practicing, but, creating facial expressions?

It's still quite difficult for me.

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-According to what Sasori told me,

he had a spy in Orochimaru's camp.

And he was to rendezvous with him

at the Tenchi bridge in the village hidden

in the grass in ten days.

-He could lead us to Orochimaru.

-Lady Tsunade, this mission isn't over yet.

Let us finish it.

-And what makes you so sure this information

he gave you isn't bait for a trap?

-What if it is?

If it's a trap, then we fight.

We'll have to fight them sooner or later anyway.

-Next time, "The New Target."

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-To celebrate the safe completion

of this multi-episode story arc, I thought you deserved a party.

So everyone have fun!

-Thanks for all your hard work, guys.

-Hey, thank you.

If you don't mind, what are you thoughts now

that this story arc is over?

-What are my thoughts?

Well, um, I was hardly in it after I get beaten by Sasori,

-How come I was kept totally out of the action?

I didn't have a single fight scene!

-Yeah, come to think of it, you guys

were given all the really juicy stuff.

-Well, it's not my fault.

That's not my department.

-Gaara.

How about putting in a word or two on our behalf?

-Looks like I'm in your debt again.

-It's nothing, don't mention it.

-Hey Naruto, next story arc?

We get double the screen time you do.

-You better believe it.

-Huh?

I don't think you guys are even in it.

-Huh?

-I heard you guys are on a break.

You know, a hiatus from the show.

[both together] Are you nuts?

Without us, this show is nothing!