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It appears that Fate has decided you and I would fight again.

After the last time, I owe you one!

My own puppet, huh?

However, I no longer care for that body anymore.

Because at long last, I'm finally a true doll that will never, ever rot away!

What I always longed to be.

[gasp]

Run away, Sai.

Captain! The Foundation agent!

He swallowed the clay!

Huh?

Using Lightning Style can neutralize Deidara's detonating clay.

I still have some chakra left.

Ittan, surround the injured with protective rock. Kiri, focus on getting them healed up.

Too late!

Hearrrgh!

Now!

Secret Black Technique! Salamander!

Brother!

"Sai and Shin"

An explosion?!

But we must reinforce. And crush our enemy.

Zaji! How's it going?

Good, I think. I can still sense their chakra. Everyone's alive!

[struggling]

I can't believe we survived that.

Huh? Sai!

The Salamander, huh?

He surrounded the bomb with a defensive puppet he'd hidden underground.

Because of that, the blast didn't have much force. Hmph.

He's just... a bomb...

...to you?

Hmph! You got something to whine about?! You're just garbage! You're not good enough to replace Sasuke!

Shut the hell up weakling!

As long as his soul's bound to this world, he'll keep coming back to life!

I can make him into a bomb over and over!

[laughing]

But Shin... My brother.

I just...

I really don't want to have to hurt you, Sai.

I died...

...and when I did I was freed from the foundation.

I have heard rumors about the Leaf's Foundation. You're raised together from the time you're young, like siblings.

And then forced to fight and kill one another in the end.

A training system that destroys emotions.

Where there's no feeling, there is no doubt.

And that makes for a truly powerful shinobi.

You of the Foundation are just like me.

Don't call yourself an artist just because you can draw a little bit!

True art is an explosion! And I think it's time for another big one!

Just you try it!

There's a drawing I want to show you, Brother.

Oh? Well, then, let me see it!

No, I can't; it's not finished yet.

I'll show you when it's done.

[grunt]

Secret Black Technique.

[grunt] Damn it! How annoying!

I knew I should have detonated myself a long time ago!

It's tasteless to exhibit one's ultimate art over and over, but if I must! Fine! Hmph!

[grunt]

Lightning Style?!

[gasp]

Triple Iron Maiden!

[heavy breathing]

[struggling]

Excellent job, Omoi! You don't have to worry about these two anymore. I'll use my Puppet Jutsu to keep them restrained.

Now go help Sai's brother!

Roger!

I always knew... in the Foundation, I was going to have to face you in battle one day.

So let's settle now what we couldn't back then.

My kunai is in the target. I guess I win.

I'll bet that mine collided in mid-air and was knocked off course.

I'm so unlucky.

Luck is a skill too, you know. Well, it's decided: you're on meal duty today.

Yeah.

[struggling]

[wet coughing]

Are you all right?

Stay back!

Huh?

It's nothing.

Oh... Okay, then.

(Sai) Hey

Huh?

Just how long has it been since both of us came here?

Dunno. Why?

Oh. Well... I was wondering how long we're going to stay.

And I was thinking that you and Lord Danzo are the only people I ever see in this place.

I'm starting to lose track of time here.

Of course, I don't really care!

That's because Shin, I'd stay with you forever if I could!

Me, too.

What is this?

Go on, open it!

It's...

It's a sketchbook.

Yeah.

I know you've wanted one for a long time. So I bougt last time I went into town.

Thank you so much!

You know what... I think I'm going to draw pictures of you and me in here.

Huh?

I'm gonna make this into a picture book that tells the story of you and me.

Sounds great. And you'll show it to me when it's finished?

Seriously! I want you to promise that you'll show it to me, okay?

Mhm.

Huh? Lord Danzo.. what did you say?! Could you repeat that?

The order I gave you is not complicated in the slightest: the two of you are going to fight each other, to the death.

But that's...

This is your final test and your fate. You are members of the Foundation.

After three days, if you two are still alive and you make any attempt to descend from this mountain..

..Then the both of you are going to be killed. Understood?

No, this... can't be.

I can't kill my brother.

Then...

I'll just have to kill you instead!

[gasp]

Brother!

Are you serious?!

[gasp]

Brother!

Huh?

You are far too kind and naïve to survive this.

Brother.

Still you are the one who will live.

Huh?

[wet coughing]

[gasp]

[struggling] I'm... sick.

We have to get you some help!

[struggling] It's useless.

I've already looked into my illness.

There's nothing we can do. It's completely incurable.

No. That's...

Lord Danzo doesn't know anything about this. So when you report back to him just tell him that you got rid of me.

No! I can't.

I knew all along that the final test of the Foundation is to kill acomrade.

[gasp]

That's why I didn't tell you that I was sick before today.

I tried to live with this secret.

So that I could lose to you in our fight.

[groan] But...

[pained groan] I don't think I even have enough strength left to pull that off.

Brother, I also knew one day I was going to have to battle someone.

But never did I imagine it was going to be you!

[small chuckle] So, you knew all along.

Kill your emotions, Sai. Because otherwise, your duty is going to absolutely destroy you.

Now go.

Go and live life for the both of us.

Brother.

I'm still capable... [struggling] ...of ending my own life.

[gasp]

Go! [heavy breathing]

[small whimper]

Don't cry! Didn't I tell you to kill your emotions?! [struggling]

I understand.

[struggling]

[wet coughing]

But I really do wish that I could have seen your finished drawing.

You want to settle our last match?

Hey, Sai. You doin' all right?

Sai, I see. So that's what your name is now, is it?

But you know. It's not necessary.

[gasp]

Brother.

I'm really glad that you finished it.

I finally got to see the drawing that I longed to see. And it's as though...

Your drawing has freed my soul from all of its bindings.

[gasp]

Sai... These comrades who call you by your name...

Cherish them.

Thank you.

What's going on out there?

My threads just went slack.

Sasori, Sakura once explained to me all about the way you do battle.

The girl who was with Granny Chiyo back then.

Get over here!

[attack punch]

[gasp]

I forbade even myself use of this jutsu.

I never imagined I would use it again.

But against you I must.

[grunt]

It's time that we finish this, here and now!

There's so many of them!

It's said the ability of a puppet master is measured by the number of puppets they can use.

I'd expect no less from you, Grandmother.

Granny Chiyo's Secret Multiple Digits. I've heard tell of their glory...

You once destroyed an entire fortress with it...

Secret White Move: Chikamatsu's Ten Puppets.

Ten Masterpieces. All created by the first Puppet Master Monzaemon.

An exquisite collection.

However...

I used these to destroy an entire nation.

[gasp]

Secret Red Move: Performance of a Hundred Puppets.

The true source of your power lies in your soul.

You tried to erase your soul by becoming a puppet, but you didn't fully succeed.

I can still feel it, inside this puppet that you made, where your undying soul dwells.

You may inhabit living flesh now, but that's only a shell, nothing more than a mere puppet.

You were a first-rate shinobi puppet master at one time.

Not just some lowlife that allows another person to manipulate him.

And if I'm not mistaken, you were using Kabuto as your spy back then.

But the tables have turned now; he's the one using you.

A puppet master controlled by another is done for.

Whether it's you or whoever might be controlling you, there's no way that I'm going to lose here.

Because now I am the ninja puppet master of the real Sasori puppet!

Your art, the puppets that you've created, will live on forever.

As long as future generations of puppet masters still remain to inherit the soul that resides within them.

[chuckle]

So that is precisely the true form of art I sought.

Hey, quit messing around, would ya?!

Don't listen, Sasori! Don't pay any attention to that jerk at all, do you hear me?! Hmph!

Art is a solitary flash of light! True art is an explosion!

You hear me, Sasori?!

The soul of the creator dwells within, huh? You're right.

Kankuro...

What is it?

I entrust you with the "Father" and "Mother" puppets.

When you pass, give them to another, so that they may live forever, too.

Because those two are...

Of course. Yes, I understand.

[grunt] Hey! Sasori! No!

It was a sacrificial victim. What's going on here?

We were told that no one who's under the Reanimation Jutsu could be killed.

Maybe Kabuto released a jutsu?

(deidara) Let me out of here, you bastard!

No, it doesn't seem that way. Sasori is gone but that loud one is still here, clearly.

All along we thought that the Reanimation Jutsu had been perfected, but it seems to have a flaw.

Apparently it isn't quite so easy to control someone's emotions.

Looks like it's over.

No. It's just starting...

Sai, Omoi, Zaji!

Set up an ambush!

Yes, sir! Roger! Yeah.

What is it?

Oh, It's nothing at all.

The Reanimation Jutsu... There are still so many mysteries behind it. But I think that I've figured it out.

Madara, you head out to the front line. I'll stay hidden and concentrate on the jutsu for now.

This woman...

She got this close to the hideout...

And Kabuto was aware of it. Did he purposely lead her here?

That snake Kabuto. He's pitting me against the Allied Shinobi Forces.

[chuckle] That will never happen. I'm the one who will use him.

The Reanimation Jutsu. Prove to me right now that it really requires living bodies. And tell me all its secrets.

And if I say no?

You will surely not reach what you desire, and what you desire will become something else. It will be your life!

Next time on Naruto Shippuden: "Secrets of the Reanimation Jutsu."

Very well, I'll explain.