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-I'm not done yet.

-Over here!

NAGATO: Fate had led us right to them.

JIRAIYA: What do you want?

NAGATO: We finally found him.

Jiraiya-sensei.

-Huh?

-Damn, enemies.

YAHIKO: Run now. get out of here!

KONAN: Nagato, go!

NAGATO: But I couldn't truly accept a Hidden Leaf

ninja as a teacher.

I'm sure that you know what that's like, don't you?

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Please, will you teach us ninjutsu?

You're all ninja from the Hidden Leaf, aren't you?

KONAN: Thank you all.

This is for you.

-These kids-- shall I kill them?

We've seen so many war orphans.

It's always so pitiful.

They'd be better off if we simply put them out

of their misery right now.

-Enough, Orochimaru.

You go on ahead with Tsunade for now.

I'm gonna stay here and look after these three for a while.

-What?

-It's the least I can do after what they've suffered.

NAGATO: My parents were killed by ninja of the Hidden Leaf.

ALL: Thank you for the food!

-Instant grilled fish, thanks to--

NAGATO: But I started to realize that Jiraiya-sensei

might be different.

-Hey, I think I've gotten the hang of fishing, sensei.

JIRAIYA: Oh!

You're becoming more promising all the time.

-The four of us began living under the same roof together.

Soon after, a certain incident took place.

-Incident?

[slap]

-Yahiko!

NAGATO: A renegade shinobi attacked us.

When Yahiko was almost killed, that's

when I struck out and killed that ninja, instead.

I did it without even realizing.

-You all right, Yahiko?

Talk to me.

NAGATO: It seems I had a special power inside me.

The visual jutsu known as the Rinnegan.

After that, Jiraiya-sensei was no longer hesitant to train us,

and began to teach us ninjutsu.

He said that he just wanted us to be

able to protect ourselves.

But in terms of me specifically, I

feel he wanted to help me control

the power of the Rinnegan.

But I feared my own power.

Hate had caused me to go berserk.

I didn't know who might get hurt if it happened again.

I convinced myself that what I had done

was wrong, and became consumed with guilt.

But sensei pulled me from the depths of despair.

-Is it that incident?

-That day, when that ninja hurt Yahiko,

I was just so angry at him.

Everything went blank in my head.

I didn't know what I was doing.

And before I realized it, the guy was dead.

After that, I just became so frightened.

That hatred, it made me go completely blind with rage,

and I killed somebody because of it.

I know that it was wrong.

It was wrong!

-Nagato.

I don't know.

I can't really say whether what you did was right or was wrong.

But, thanks to your actions, Yahiko is still alive now.

You saved your friend's life.

I believe that's always the right thing to do.

No one can fault you for helping a friend.

NAGATO: Before I realized it, I'd accepted Sensei.

-Once you've been hurt, you learn what it is to hate.

But if you hurt another, you become hated

and you shoulder a sense of guilt.

-However, it's because one understands

pain such as that that one becomes generous toward others.

Experiencing pain helps us to grow up, to mature.

And growing up means that one becomes

able to think for one's self and make one's own decisions.

To know and to reflect upon pain,

and then to come up with one's own answer.

Jiraiya-sensei seemed to be asking himself

the same question, but he hadn't figured out a solution either.

Just like you haven't been able to provide any answers.

Back then, I was able to come up with an answer right away.

-All I wanna do is protect those two, no matter what kind

of pain I may be forced to endure for them.

-I understand.

-Tell me, sensei, what are you always thinking about?

What has you so preoccupied?

-There's so much war and hatred in this world.

Sometimes it seems like they're the only things that

really exists.

I wanna do something about it.

And I'd really like to know what the answer to finding

true peace is.

NAGATO: After we trained for three years,

both my body and soul grew stronger,

and I felt as if I had matured.

But Jiraiya-sensei's words always

kept echoing back to me from somewhere deep inside.

He told me that he wondered if the solution to bringing peace

to the world lay with my Rinnegan.

-Once, a really long time ago, people did nothing but battle.

It was all just one, big unending war.

That era was even worse than what we have now.

Then, there came a day when a mysterious monk appeared.

The first to discover the inner workings of chakra.

And he tried to lead the world toward peace.

It is said he traveled across the world,

teaching ninshu, the shinobi creed.

Time passed, and ninshu came to be known as ninjutsu.

Ninjutsu wasn't originally about fighting power.

It's a teaching intended to guide people towards peace.

That monk was known as the Sage of the Six Paths.

He was considered the savior of the world.

And like you, he possessed the Rinnegan.

I am he who shall bring peace and order.

Those were said to be the sage's words.

I think he believed there would come a time when people truly

would understand one another and live in harmony.

Perhaps, Nagato, you're actually the reincarnation

of the Sage of the Six Paths.

I have the feeling that your eyes

may realize the hopes of that sage.

NAGATO: Sensei entrusted me with his quest,

conferring his wish for peace on me,

and then left the three of us.

We started gathering comrades.

With Yahiko as our leader, our organization

quickly gained fame.

People approved of our philosophy

of trying to construct a peace that was minimally

based on military might.

However, the world was caught up in a war between the three

great nations.

The Stone, Leaf, and Sand.

Hanzo, the leader of the Hidden Rain,

heard rumors of our organization and approached us.

He could no longer ignore our existence.

He proposed to make us a nexus in the effort

to launch peace negotiations between the three

great nations.

Our power would be used to illicit mutual agreement

from all the parties.

We decided to accept his proposal.

But that decision would lead us only to misfortune.

We were naive children.

-Misfortune?

What happened to you guys after that?

-What happened is, Yahiko died.

-He died?

-It was all merely a trap that Hanzo had laid for us.

He was paranoid that we were going

to steal his power over the Hidden Rain,

and for that petty fear, Yahiko.

The next day at the rendezvous point

where the negotiations were to occur,

Hanzo's subordinates and the Hidden Leaf's ANBU Black Ops

were already there.

Hanzo had allied with a man from the Hidden

Leaf named Danzo to eradicate us.

Danzo wanted to usurp the seat of Hokage,

while Hanzo wanted to protect his own position of power.

-Your organization has become a nuisance to me.

Yahiko, you're the leader, so you must die.

Resist and I'll kill her instead.

You.

Redhead.

Use that to kill Yahiko.

If you do, I'll spare you and the girl.

-Don't, Nagato!

Forget about me.

Just get away, both of you!

YAHIKO: Nagato.

Just kill me.

-All I wanna do is protect the two of them,

no matter what kind of pain I'm forced to endure.

-Nagato!

-Don't do it!

-Hurry up.

Do you want this woman to die?

-Konan.

Yahi--

-You and Konan must survive, no matter what.

You are the savior of this world.

I know you can do it.

-Yahiko!

-I have big dreams, and I'm gonna make them come true.

-Kill him.

-If all of this useless fighting doesn't stop,

then I'll become a god and make it stop!

-He repelled them.

-How?

-Did we get him?

-Nagato.

-Konan.

Hold onto Yahiko and stay still.

-Impressive, boy.

You escaped even while being hit by my Fire Style Jutsu.

You're no ordinary brat, are you?

Those eyes.

-Get him!

-Summoning Jutsu.

Gedo Statue.

-But that's--

-What?

What is that?

-Nagato.

No, don't use that.

-Run!

If it touches you, you die!

[shouting]

-It appears you were in the shadows as the real leader.

That you possess the Rinnegan is quite a surprise.

-Nagato.

-Teleportation Jutsu.

-Yahiko died, and from then on, I

took over as the leader of our organization.

I thought that I had grown up, but nothing had changed at all.

It was the same as when my parents died.

I was wrong.

I realized then that the answer I had given Jiraiya

was worth nothing.

I owed Yahiko my life.

He gave me my dream.

He was an irresistible friend for whom

I would've given everything.

Yahiko's loss.

That was my second great pain.

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MAN: It appears to have ended.

MAN: And how did it turn out?

-It's as my vision foretold.

Although I never thought it would turn out like this.

Perhaps it's possible that in that moment when Jiraiya chose

not to give up, all this became preordained.

NARUTO: Next time on "Naruto Shippuden."

The Tale of Naruto Uzumaki.

That's my answer.

-Boy, it sure has been a really long time since the three of us

got together, hasn't it?

-Yeah, you got that right.

-Not since we all reunited during the invasion

of the village.

-Not to mention it's been years since the Ino Shika Cho

trio was famous across the nations.

-Hey, we're not has beens yet, you know.

-Say, why don't we do it once more for old times' sake?

-Sounds good to me.

-All right, let's do it!

-Formation Ino!

-Shika!

-Cho!

-We still got it.

-Yep.

-You just can't beat hanging out with old friends, can you?

-Hm.

Wait.

Didn't we invite someone else to join us today?

I could swear that we just saw him yesterday.

-Oh, yeah.

We talked about getting together.

-So who was it?

-Think hard.

They say the memory's the first thing to go.

-Sir?

-Huh?

-Can I take your order?

-I ordered two hours ago.

-Sorry!

-I guess that being forgotten runs in the family.

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