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He barely missed a vital spot. But I think that she's going to be all right.

[grunt] Naruto...

[grunts]

Damn it! Argh!

[explosion]

[screaming]

How dare you...

This is just so... it's unforgivable! All right, that's it! I'm gonna-!

Hey, demon fox! Lend me some more of your power!

I'm gonna take this wall of rock and shatter it to pieces!

This seal is in a whole different league.

It'll be difficult to break even with my power.

And besides, you still can't control my chakra properly yet.

You're drowning in your anger.

Shut up, stupid fox!

Stay strong, everyone! Don't give up!

However, it's probably impossible to completely stop the compression. Ultimately.

For now, I'm going to put my trust in them.

Them?

What? Something inside of me is...

Kushina, what's wrong?

It's the Nine Tails!

Usually, I'm able to keep it stabilized...

but it's irritated and unsettled right now.

Is it because you're expending so much chakra for the Four Crimson Rays?

That's not it, I can also feel that...

there's something happening to the other Nine Tails, ya know?!

Naruto?

Ino, contact the others on the outside! I need to find out what's going on out there!

Got it! Right away, Lord Fourth!

Shikamaru! Can you hear me?

Is that you, Ino?! How are things on your side?

Not good... but we're managing.

Anyway, let me know what's going on out there!

Okay. Naruto, uh, Yahiko...

The enemy used a jutsu to seal him up in a moon-like rock,

Just like what happened to the village.

What?! Naruto was...? Naruto's been sealed?!

Yes. Naruto underwent Nine Tails Transformation and went on a rampage.

So the enemy pulled rocks from the ground, hardened them around him, and sealed him away.

Sealed even in Nine Tails State?

Kushina!

He still doesn't have enough strength... or enough chakra...

No way! You can't do what you're thinking of doing!

If you try that, Kushina, you'll--!

Naruto is my son. I'm his mother.

In order to save him, and to save you and all the people of the village... In order to do that...

But then... I'll...

All right. I know that once you make up your mind, you don't listen to anyone.

I'm sorry, Minato. But it has to be this way.

Right now, I'm the only one who can save Naruto.

Come on, already! Just give me your power, all right?!

Looking at you, I can't tell which one of us is the one in a cage...

I don't get it! How can you stay so calm right now?

If this keeps up, we'll all die!

You know what? Just forget it! Never mind!

I just want to defeat that guy, that's all!

Huh!?

What?! Mom?!

How come you're--?

Listen, why are you so angry right now?

Why am I angry?!

Why else?! That guy who blew up that other village back then got you, Dad, and everyone else!

Oh yeah, and, Hinata, too.

I can't. There's no way that I can forgive that guy!

Yeah, but if you stay angry, you can't use your power properly,

no matter how powerful you might be.

So just calm yourself down and check in on how everyone is doing.

You should be able to sense them now.

[gasp]

(Kushina) The people of the village... all of them... are inside fighting.

Hinata!

Thank goodness! She's still alive!

Uh-huh! One less thing to be angry about, right?

I kinda don't know what to do when you're nice, ya know, Mom!

When you're angry, you can't handle Nine Tails' power!

Mom! Nine Tails! He's right-!

Huh? What the heck is going on?!

Listen, long ago when Nine Tails attacked the village.

Minato sealed half of the Nine Tails inside me,

and the other half inside you, even though you'd just been born.

He believed that in time, this power would come to be helpful to you.

Yeah, but everyone hated me so much.

and it was all because of this stupid monster fox inside of me!

Sorry... Both Minato and I had faith that in time, you'd eventually be able to control

this power... despite its tremendous strength.

So what do I have to do? How am I supposed to control this power properly?!

(Kushina) Like I said, don't get mad.

And pay close attention to what people tell you.

And also think about what the "right way" to use this power should be.

To wield a strong power, you gotta have a strong will, too!

Have a strong will?

That's why... I'm going to use my strong will with the Nine Tails Chakra right now...

What do you mean?

I'm going to pass on my Nine Tails Chakra to you, and then,

when the two chakras, both Yin and Yang, become one, I'm sure that we'll be able to get out of here.

What are you talking about, mom?

You can't! I mean, you're a Jinchuriki too!

So you know what that means! If the Nine Tails leaves your body, then you're gonna die!

I won't! Because I'm gonna make my power and my will, live!

I have no clue what you're even saying right now!

That's exactly why I told you to think.

Y'know, Lord Jiraiya used to say that you might be the Child of Prophecy who will save the future of all shinobi.

"Child of Prophecy?"

Your will is what's going to save the Leaf Village.

But, mom...

You are our son. You are so precious to Minato and me...

I'm sorry. It's the only way.

(Nine Tails) Half will do. Half is enough, right?

That side seems pretty cozy, so I wouldn't mind going over there...

We may have to do this again, too...

Right, Nine Tails. Thank you.

Thanks, mom...

It's in your hands. Good luck!

Kushina! Are you all right?!

Naruto! Go now!

[roar]

How did...?!

Almighty Push!

[gasp]

The real you's not here, isn't that right?

My business is with the real Pain. So just take me to where he is!

I want to go and talk to you face-to-face right now.

You're nearby, right? Not here, but somewhere close!

Aren't you!?

Found him!

(Nagato) Konan, stay out of this.

But Nagato...

(Nagato) It's all right.

Are you him, then? Are you the real Pain?

So it seems the strong has come to punish the weak, is that it?

You're the one behind all this, the one who was manipulating all those other Pains?

Yes. And the final Pain that you defeated was Yahiko.

Yahiko?

Yes, he is no longer of this world.

He died three years ago in that village when you Leaf Shinobi killed him.

He's...?

...I see. But still, we weren't the ones who blew up that village!

Back then, the Hidden Leaf feared that a scandal involving them would be uncovered,

so they destroyed that village in order to hide the truth.

You see, that's how the Great Nations save face.

Guess it's the obvious way to avoid being ridiculed by other villages.

You're wrong! Until now, we thought that it was you guys who were behind what happened to that village.

Right now, it doesn't matter even a little bit who may have thought what.

It still doesn't alter the fact that my comrade Yahiko was killed in that incident.

Your comrade?

Believe me... I know just how hard it is to lose a comrade...

Hm?

Right now my friend is in danger of being turned into Orochimaru's vessel.

We've been rivals since we were kids, and we trained together.

He's a very important comrade to me.

Yahiko was a very important comrade to both of us, too.

Sasuke... is going through a rough time,

and he set out for Orochimaru's on his own.

I just have this feeling that he'd understand if we could only have it out in one more fight.

As his friend, I want him to have another chance...

What do you mean? What are you talking about?!

Yeah, that's right... We're friends, so we should be able to reach an understanding.

That's why I'll never give up on my friends!

I'll never give up! We keep being tossed around by the Great Nations...

But we'll rescue people like us who are suffering, and we'll make them our friends...

Of course! Yes, that's it!

Huh?

We just have to become friends with everyone!

And then we'll be able to come to an understanding with them instead of always having to fight!

We won't have to have wars!

That's the reason why we just have to keep on making Team Jiraiya grow bigger and bigger!

[gasp]

Nagato...

Because if I were to give up then there's no way that I'll ever become the Hokage!

But I will become the Hokage and become friends with shinobi from all over!

No, not just with shinobi, but with the kids too! Anyway...

If we're all friends, then fights like this one don't have to happen!

Is this... some kind of coincidence?

We just have to become friends with everyone!

And then we'll be able to come to an understanding with them instead of always having to fight!

And that means you guys won't have to fight anymore either!

[small gasp]

Anyway, look, I'm not asking you to be my friend... At least not yet.

Just let me join Team Jiraiya.

After all, I was Pervy Sage's student, too, remember?

[gasp]

I'm not asking you to join us... You can stay with the Leaf.

I want our goals to be united along with yours.

Just what are...?! What are you?

Nagato...

I'm just asking you to let me join Team Pervy Sage.

But before that I have to save Sasuke...

... and also save my comrades in the Leaf.

I promise to take on Pervy Sage's will.

It's Team Jiraiya!

[laugh]

It's very mysterious. The two of you... really are alike.

You're right. They are.

[grunting] Release!

What are you doing, Nagato?

I released the jutsu.

You know, you really are quite a mystery.

The things you say, It almost feels like someone set it all up.

In fact, perhaps the truth... might be that Sensei--!

Well, in any event, whether or not you're suitable to become a member of Team Jiraiya...

...depends on if you can save that friend of yours...

Yahiko was a man who held his friends in very high regard.

If you're as much like him as you seem... then we can definitely be friends.

Yeah... I'm gonna prove it to you. I will save him!

Your command of the Leaf Police Force was nothing short of exemplary.

Thanks to you, there were no casualties.

I'm very grateful.

Oh, no... It was an emergency, and I just did what was expected of a Leaf Shinobi, nothing more.

That aside, your son has developed into a fine young man.

Whereas, I have failed as a parent, I'm sorry to say...

We're still continuing to search for the two of them.

But regretfully, we haven't gotten any encouraging leads yet.

All this for my sons... For your support and that of the Village, I'm truly humbled.

The consequences I'm suffering are my own fault, because I only paid attention to Itachi.

I'm sure Sasuke felt suffering of his own,

constantly being compared to his older brother.

Kugaku...

I keep picturing them together, getting along.

I wish that I could see them even just once more before I die.

Yes...

This Chakra Nature! This is a Change in Chakra Form I've never seen...

...Who is it?

[gasping]

[difficulty breathing]

The poison...

[grunt]

I know you... you're from back then.

Itachi's your older brother, right?

We are the Akatsuki.

We've had our eyes on you since you went to Orochimaru.

That's why we saved you.

So, a word of gratitude would be nice.

Did you kill your brother?

Why, you--!

You kept shouting deliriously. It was easy to figure out.

Get lost.

Why did your brother have to die?

The ones who should have died, didn't.

Naruto...!

(Hiruko) Will you forgive them?

Forgive me... Sasuke.

[gasp]

This irony... This contradiction. Why don't you make it right?

The Akatsuki will lend you a hand.

Tell me. What is it that you want to do?

My only goal is to destroy those controlling the Uchiha...

To destroy the Hidden Leaf!

(Tsunade) Orochimaru is dead. And it seems Sasuke Uchiha did it.

(Naruto) What about Sasuke? Is he safe?

(Tsunade) Yes, he is...

But we've received intel that he's targeting each and every Shinobi Village

alongside jonin-level Rogue Ninja known as the Akatsuki.

(Naruto) Next time on Naruto Shippuden: "The Shinobi Unite"

(Naruto) What the hell is he doing?!