# E338 - Izanagi and Izanami
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It makes it easier to cast
my real Visual Genjutsu on him
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by keeping him trapped in
a small loop like this.
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So Kabuto's trapped in
your loop now?
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And that's the Izanami?
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When did you cast it?
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The first time Kabuto stabbed me
with that blade.
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Back then, huh?
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But how?
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You mentioned a Visual Jutsu
that is possible without sight.
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How can Visual Jutsu work
without eyesight?
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Izanami is a Visual Jutsu that
works with the physical senses
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of both yourself and your opponents.
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The physical senses of two people?
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As you are battling your opponent,
you take a record, like a photograph,
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of the physical senses that
both you and your opponent
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are feeling during that instant,
with your Visual Jutsu.
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We'll call that A.
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As time progresses,
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you find "B" is a more
important moment,
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then you record "C" and
so on with Sharingan.
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Then you recreate
those exact physical senses.
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So you're using your powers to
create an exact copy of A.
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We'll call this A'.
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FLOW OF TIME
By overlaying
and connecting A to A',
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FLOW OF TIME
the Izanami also links
a path for B' and C'
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FLOW OF TIME
to create fluctuations within
a fixed time.
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In other words, it's the power
to create an infinite loop.
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Naturally, all in exchange for
one's own sight of course,
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exactly like Izanagi.
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So Kabuto's consciousness
is trapped inside
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fighting a phantom you and
a phantom me for all eternity.
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No.
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There is an escape route built
into the jutsu.
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The Izanami was developed
to admonish
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and save an Izanagi user.
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What does that mean?
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You know a little about
the Izanagi already.
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It's called the perfect
Uchiha Visual Jutsu
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designed to change destiny.
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If something does not go
the way you want it to,
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you can just erase that outcome
and start all over.
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Ultimately, you can pick
and choose
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the most desirable end result.
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What I'm about to tell you now
is the story
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of the Uchiha's Izanami,
and how it came to be.
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I want you to know this too.
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The Uchiha's Izanami…
the story of its creation?
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*Izanagi and Izanami*
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Long ago, there was
a great battle
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that the Uchiha Clan could not
afford to lose.
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The Izanagi tuned out
to be invaluable.
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*Go!*
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*Damn it! They had set a trap!*
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*What?!*
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*Die!*
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*As long as we have the Izanagi,*
*we can't lose!*
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However…
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There's a bigger risk than
just blindness
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to a jutsu that allows the casters
to choose their own ending.
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Most who used this overly
powerful Visual Jutsu
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could not handle it and
abused their power.
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It was fine,
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as long as there was
only one user of the Izanagi.
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However, when two or more used it,
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there was a scramble
within the Uchiha Clan
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to see who could get the best result.
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*You are not the only one*
*who can use Izanagi!*
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*I don't like you bossing us around!*
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*But I'm the one who*
*accomplished it!*
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*In the shinobi world,*
*results count for everything!*
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*Well then…*
*I shall rewrite that result…*
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*with my Izanagi!*
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*You're only talk.*
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*I shall rule the Uchiha…*
*no, the entire shinobi world…*
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*with my Izanagi!*
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*I'll take over your wish…*
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*with my Izanagi!*
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What was created
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in order to stop this inter-clan
rivalry over the Izanagi…
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is the Izanami.
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Normal vision-based genjutsu
is powerless
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against Visual Prowess…
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*If you intend to oppose me too,*
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*I have no choice.*
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*There has to be a way to*
*settle this without fighting.*
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*My hands are already stained*
*with blood.*
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*As if I'm going to stop!*
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*You don't know yourself!*
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*You don't know your own true strength!*
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*Oh, shut up!*
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*It's not too late to*
*turn back right now!*
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*If you have the will,*
*take my hand!*
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*I won't be fooled!*
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*If you still refuse to listen,*
*I'm prepared as well.*
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*Sneaking up behind me, nice work!*
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*But as long as I have Izanagi,*
*you cannot beat me!*
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*It's over for you!*
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*I don't believe this!*
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*My right eye…*
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*I should have gone blind*
*with the Izanagi!*
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*The Izanagi that you depend on so much*
*will not protect you.*
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*Shut up!*
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*N-Not… Not yet!*
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In the first place,
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reality is a product of chance
that we call fate.
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We can't predict it.
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But Izanagi can twist around
an inconvenient reality
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and lead it to a new fate.
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REALITY
At a whim,
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IZANAGI ACTIVATED
the user can change
the original reality into a new one.
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NEW REALITY
IZANAGI ACTIVATED
the user can change
the original reality into a new one.
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NEW REALITY
IZANAGI ACTIVATED
To the enemy,
a fallen opponent will revive,
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ANOTHER REALITY
IZANAGI ACTIVATED
To the enemy,
a fallen opponent will revive,
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so it's an intolerable jutsu.
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IZANAMI ACTIVATED
The Izanami is set up to take someone
who is using the Izanagi
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IZANAMI ACTIVATED
to change the outcome
to benefit oneself,
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IZANAMI ACTIVATED
and cause them to endlessly
circle around in a loop.
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I believed that Izanagi was
the ultimate Visual Jutsu.
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But that means the Izanami is
a far superior Visual Jutsu.
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Izanami forms a loop
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around the physical sensation
of Izanagi twisting reality.
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The Izanami is a jutsu meant
for stopping the Izanagi.
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There's an escape route built
into the loop.
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Originally, it was a jutsu
to save Uchiha comrades
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from arrogance and negligence.
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It's to stop you from taking
the easy way out with jutsu.
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*Why?!*
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*There's no destiny that*
*Izanagi cannot change!*
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*Accept the things you've done,*
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*and take hold of the future*
*that awaits you!*
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*There's no way I can be forgiven*
*for the blood on my hands.*
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*Still…*
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*Take hold of it!*
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*I won't rely on Izanagi anymore.*
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*I'll accept reality*
*and move forward…*
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IZANAMI ACTIVATED
Once one accepts the original outcome
and stops trying to run from it,
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REALITY
the loop will stop.
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This jutsu guides you toward
accepting your fate,
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instead of relying on jutsu
to change it.
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But a jutsu that has an escape
is too dangerous to use in actual combat.
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That's why Izanami is
a Forbidden Jutsu.
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If Kabuto stops trying
to transform himself,
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he can stop the loop.
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The strife-filled history
of the Uchiha…
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The arrogance and recklessness
of those who used Izanagi…
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and how they clashed and
were stopped by Izanami…
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I understand now
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why both Izanagi and Izanami
came to be Forbidden Jutsu.
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And I see how one must learn
from the past
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and accept one's fate
and move on.
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But…
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But why bother casting this
on Kabuto?
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If there's a way to escape…
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He reminds me of the old me.
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He thinks by acquiring all there is,
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he can accomplish
whatever he wants.
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He makes himself
believe that he can't fail,
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and lies to himself.
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I stopped listening to anyone else.
I stopped trusting anyone.
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In Kabuto's case,
he is so deluded
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that he thinks all these powers
are his and his alone.
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I empathize with him.
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We were both used by
the shinobi world…
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He can neither forgive himself
nor accept himself for what he truly is.
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What he is doing is certainly wrong.
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But he's not completely to blame
for not being able to realize that.
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My chance has passed,
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but he can still forgive himself
before he dies.
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Why would you ever feel
like you need to help him do that?
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He is not like you.
You were perfect!
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Sasuke…
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I tried to control you
with the Visual Jutsu
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called Koto Amatsukami.
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I treated you like a child
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because I thought you
needed my protection.
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I didn't trust your strength.
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It may be that
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a perfect being does not
exist at all in the world.
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Sometimes two who seem
to be opposites
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are actually two sides
of the same coin.
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They can only succeed when
they actually work together.
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Like the Izanagi and Izanami.
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Look at me,
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and find in yourself what
I was unable to find in myself.
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Do not say I was perfect.
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First of all…
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Impossible!
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I will be a perfect being!
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This is…not me!
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How long will you
imitate Orochimaru?
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If you want to exit this loop,
reexamine your mistakes!
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Shut up!
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*I know he's going to come at me*
*with a Fire Style Jutsu.*
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Water Style…
Water Dragon…
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Water Style…
Water Dragon Missile!
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*He anticipated that jutsu*
*with Sharingan!*
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*How did I get this wrong?*
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*Where did I…*
*make a mistake?*
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*All I ever wanted was someone…*
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*to appreciate…*
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*who I was!*
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*All I wanted was to*
*be acknowledged!*
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Where is the mistake in that?!
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First of all…
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you had to accept yourself
as you were.
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Then you wouldn't have
had to lie to anyone.
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To you…or to me.
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If you lie to yourself,
how can you have friends?
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How can you trust or
be trustworthy?
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Lies will keep you from
ever seeing your true self.
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*If I wasn't trapped here…*
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*I'd have won this war by now.*
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I'd be sleeping by now.
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Damn you, Itachi!
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It's 9 o'clock already?
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Something wrong?
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No…
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I just wish we could
wrap this up quickly
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so I could get a good night's sleep.
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They never tell us lackeys
what's going on.
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That's true.
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So, what are you gonna do
when this war is over?
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Well, I'll start by going home.
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If the war ends and
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the Five Great Nations
continue to be allies…
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then maybe my little brother who's been
on a mission for a long time,
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can finally come home.
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I envy those who have
a home to return to…
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You want to come with me?
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Huh?
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My home is an orphanage.
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And if my kid brother's back,
he can take a look at your wounds.
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I appreciate that, Urushi!
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*I really hope*
*you come back this time…*
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*Kabuto.*
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I'll stop the Reanimation Jutsu now.
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And…all the reanimated dead
will fade away.
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That should end the war.
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But…
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you'll be gone too, Brother.
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I'll have protected my village as
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Itachi Uchiha of the Leaf
once again.
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I have no more regrets.
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Why?!
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Why help the very village that
put you where you are now?
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You may be able to forgive,
but I cannot!
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You have no more regrets?
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What about what
you've made me become?!
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*I leave Sasuke to you.*
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*I tried to do everything myself…*
*and I failed.*
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*This time… I will leave it*
*to my comrades.*
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I'm not the one who can
change you, Sasuke.
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But I can stop this jutsu.
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That will fulfill my promise
to Naruto, at least.
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I will stop the Reanimation Jutsu!
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Tell me the signs!
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*Tsukuyomi!*
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*I kept my promise.*
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*I leave the rest to you…Naruto.*
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I hate the Leaf Village for causing
you so much pain!
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I hate it more than ever!
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It's because I'm your brother that,
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no matter what you say,
you're not going to stop me!
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Even if you protect the village now,
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I will still destroy it some day.
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Next time on Naruto Shippuden:
"I Will Love You Always"
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Good bye…Big Brother.
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I WILL LOVE YOU ALWAYS
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Tune in again!