# E436 - The Masked Man
Source: [Crunchyroll](https://www.crunchyroll.com/watch/GR3VG7ZM6/the-masked-man)
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*Neji and Naruto looked up…*
**[00:29] ---**
*and found themselves in*
*a space different from before…*
**[00:34] ---**
Are you the one responsible
for all of this?
**[00:36] ---**
Hey!
**[00:37] ---**
Let Kakashi Sensei and everyone
from the Hidden Leaf go!
**[00:40] ---**
Or you're gonna get it!
**[00:47] ---**
Naruto! Get away from him!
**[00:50] ---**
Don't butt in!
**[00:51] ---**
I'm about to settle this right now!
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Look at his eyes.
**[00:55] ---**
Huh?
**[00:57] ---**
The Byakugan?
**[01:00] ---**
You're no match for him.
**[01:05] ---**
Who are you?
**[01:07] ---**
How do you possess the Byakugan?
**[01:10] ---**
Don't tell me…
Do you have ties to the Hyuga?
**[01:14] ---**
Look at the cloud of dust…
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Your comrades did that.
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What happened?
**[01:25] ---**
They put their village's rules before
the lives of the children.
**[01:30] ---**
The Hidden Leaf hasn't changed
a bit in all these years.
**[01:37] ---**
What do you know about
the Hidden Leaf?
**[01:39] ---**
Oh, I know plenty.
**[01:41] ---**
In fact, I know more than
anyone presently here.
**[01:48] ---**
Follow me…
**[01:50] ---**
Neji Hyuga.
**[01:54] ---**
If you want to discover
the ugly truth
**[01:57] ---**
the Hidden Leaf has covered up…
**[02:02] ---**
*What?*
**[02:04] ---**
*What is he talking about?*
**[03:44] ---**
*Jiraiya Ninja Scrolls:*
*The Tale of Naruto the Hero-*
*The Masked Man*
**[03:50] ---**
Komichi!
**[04:15] ---**
Shadow Strangle Jutsu, complete.
**[04:19] ---**
You guys…
**[04:21] ---**
…came.
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Hurry, get the child!
**[04:36] ---**
Damn it!
**[04:43] ---**
Komichi!
**[04:46] ---**
Ino!
**[04:48] ---**
Ninja Art: Mind Transfer Jutsu!
**[05:01] ---**
No!
**[05:08] ---**
Nagato, go!
**[05:10] ---**
Hurry and find that monster!
**[05:12] ---**
Leave it to us!
**[05:14] ---**
Her psyche has entered
the child's body.
**[05:18] ---**
That's…possible?
**[05:26] ---**
Ino's probably jumping
around inside of it.
**[05:42] ---**
Konan!
**[06:01] ---**
Now!
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Ino!
**[06:38] ---**
Komichi!
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Big Brother!
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Choji!
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Hey! I almost got blown up!
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*What's up with his eye?*
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– Mommy!
– Mommy!
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Ashitaba! Komichi!
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You two—!
**[07:50] ---**
I'm sorry, so sorry!
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Lord Mashima protected you…
the both of you!
**[07:58] ---**
No, it was the people over there…
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Where did they—?
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Tell us…
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Right from the beginning,
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I didn't get the feeling that
you wanted to kill us.
**[08:23] ---**
You were trying to get us
to do something.
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I was wrong about you.
**[08:29] ---**
You'd never disobey an order
from the Hidden Leaf…
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You can't live outside
the rules of the Hidden Leaf.
**[08:36] ---**
I assumed you were
that kind of shinobi…
**[08:40] ---**
But I was very wrong.
**[08:50] ---**
Through your actions,
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you demonstrated what
Jiraiya Sensei taught us to do.
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You used your powers
to help people in need,
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even if they aren't from
the Hidden Leaf…
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I was really happy that
you came back.
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Thanks to you,
we were saved too.
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Are you joking?
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Would the three of you like
to work with us?
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What are they talking about?
**[09:21] ---**
Didn't they abduct Asuma Sensei?
**[09:25] ---**
Yeah…
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I'm not asking you to join us…
**[09:29] ---**
I don't care if you stay with the Leaf.
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We can travel from nation to nation,
**[09:33] ---**
like Jiraiya Sensei, and cross over
meaningless borders…
**[09:37] ---**
Let's show the world
that we're free!
**[09:42] ---**
What does that mean?
**[09:43] ---**
Well, it's kinda unclear…
**[09:48] ---**
In other words,
be like Team Jiraiya, right?
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I want our aspirations
to be united…with you.
**[09:57] ---**
You haven't even told us where
Asuma Sensei and the others are…
**[10:01] ---**
We're not that naïve…
**[10:03] ---**
First, you have to help us
get Asuma Sensei back.
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Yeah, that's right.
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We can't help you with that.
**[10:17] ---**
There's someone else
pulling the strings, isn't there?
**[10:21] ---**
This "test" doesn't seem
to be your idea either.
**[10:26] ---**
Sorry. They haven't given us
the details.
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You don't have the details,
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but you have some idea
of what's going on.
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What a drag…
**[10:43] ---**
I guess it means
we'll have to fight it out…
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If we're at odds with each other…
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there's no other way.
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One of yours?
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Yeah, three plus a dog.
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And they're strong.
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Are you implying that we're weak?
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Shikamaru! Choji! Ino!
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Hey.
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We were waiting for you.
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You're late.
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Oh, we ran into some trouble.
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Wasn't someone else just here?
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No…
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It's just been us all this time…
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Strange…
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I caught scent of a few others…
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Oh, really?
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Anyway…
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What do we do, Shikamaru?
**[11:55] ---**
Yeah! That's why
we rushed over here!
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Yes, we'd like you to take the lead.
**[12:06] ---**
Our first priority is to report
on the situation to the village.
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We need to get instructions
from Lord Fourth.
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Of course…
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We'll do what we can to get Asuma
and the others back!
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In order to allocate the tasks,
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we'll join up with
Teams Kakashi and Guy.
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It's a drag…
but let's wrap this up quick!
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We can't waste any more time.
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We'll return to the village immediately
and report on the situation.
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We can't afford any more casualties.
**[12:47] ---**
What are you saying?!
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We've already lost Guy Sensei.
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And now, even Neji is missing!
**[12:52] ---**
And Naruto from your team!
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This all started because
he took off on his own.
**[12:59] ---**
After I warned him not
to make a move…
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We're from the class
ahead of yours,
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so we don't know him that well…
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But isn't he an important friend
and member of Team 7?
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Friend?
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Not only that…
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He's the precious son
of the Fourth Hokage.
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Who cares?
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That has nothing to do
with the mission.
**[13:25] ---**
How can you be so cold?!
**[13:27] ---**
To me, Guy Sensei is
a dear mentor!
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And Neji is a precious friend.
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I can't just turn my back on them!
**[13:36] ---**
Lee, calm down!
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Anyway, I'm going to look
for Guy Sensei,
**[13:41] ---**
Neji and the others!
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They're bound to be
somewhere nearby.
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So there's no way I'll stop looking
and return to the village!
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I won't let you.
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We have no clue
what the enemy will do,
**[13:56] ---**
so we can't split up
our fighting power.
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We must move together.
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Oh! Neji, Guy Sensei!
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I'm coming to rescue you!
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Okay, Lee! I get it!
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I'll help you, so please—!
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I'm surrounded by idiots.
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But…
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What are you going to do?
**[14:28] ---**
The two teams did
meet up perfectly…
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But now, they're moving
in different directions.
**[14:34] ---**
I wonder if something happened…
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Can you tell anything specific?
**[14:40] ---**
One group is moving away
from the village.
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The other one is frantically
scrambling around the village.
**[14:45] ---**
That's got to be Lee…
**[14:47] ---**
So then Team Kakashi is trying
to leave the village?
**[14:50] ---**
Are they heading back to
the Hidden Leaf Village?
**[14:53] ---**
It's plausible.
**[14:55] ---**
That's because Sasuke,
who's cool-headed and rational,
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is on Team Kakashi.
**[15:01] ---**
Anyway, we'll regroup with
the ones closest to us.
**[15:03] ---**
That would be the group
in the village, right?
**[15:06] ---**
Yeah…
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If we're going to rescue
Asuma and the others,
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the last thing we need is someone
making a fuss and standing out!
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We need to go and
calm Lee down first.
**[15:49] ---**
Now, follow me…
**[15:52] ---**
If you want to discover
the true nature of the Hidden Leaf.
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What is this?! What's going on?
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Old Man Third! And…
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Who are the others?
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Hey, hey, Neji?
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Be quiet!
**[16:40] ---**
You can make
all the noise you want.
**[16:42] ---**
These are just images
of past occurrences
**[16:46] ---**
in the Hidden Leaf Village.
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It can't be helped.
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If my life alone will save the village…
**[16:59] ---**
Hiashi… Don't be hasty.
**[17:03] ---**
The Hyuga Kekkei Genkai is
a crucial secret weapon
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for the village.
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It is your duty as the head
of the main family to protect it.
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But if my duty to my family
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results in embroiling the village
in a hopeless war…
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I understand.
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That is why there is a branch family.
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We have no choice,
but to hand over…
**[17:27] ---**
Hizashi's body as your stand-in.
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*Father…*
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Who's that guy?
**[17:41] ---**
Do you know him?
**[17:43] ---**
Hizashi Hyuga…
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He's my father.
**[17:48] ---**
*It went down exactly*
*as Lord Hiashi told me…*
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Where is the strong-willed Hiashi
I've always known?
**[17:56] ---**
The magnitude of this is greater
than anything we've faced before.
**[18:00] ---**
I can't just agree to it.
**[18:06] ---**
Hizashi, you…!
**[18:08] ---**
Please let me go.
**[18:11] ---**
But you have…Neji!
**[18:17] ---**
Why would you choose death
for the sake of the main family?
**[18:23] ---**
You are wrong.
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I've always resented
the main family.
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Truth be told,
I even hate it now.
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That's why…
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I want to die,
not to protect the main family…
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but to protect you,
my older brother.
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This is the first time in my life
**[18:40] ---**
where I have the freedom
to choose.
**[18:47] ---**
I have shown Neji
only the hateful side of me.
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So…
**[18:53] ---**
Please relay this to him…
**[19:00] ---**
I am not being killed in order
to protect the main family.
**[19:04] ---**
I have chosen death
of my own free will
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to protect him, my brother,
my family and the village.
**[19:13] ---**
Are you saying that choosing death…
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is freedom?
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Elder Brother,
just once in my life,
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I wanted to change
my destiny as a Hyuga.
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That is all.
**[19:34] ---**
Do you get it?
**[19:36] ---**
Do you understand how
he must have felt?
**[19:38] ---**
Having no other choice
but to say those words.
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He had to die for
the Hidden Leaf Village.
**[19:44] ---**
It was a fate
he could not change.
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The one sliver of freedom he had
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was choosing to die
to protect the ones he loved.
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You're wrong!
**[19:57] ---**
The Hidden Leaf isn't like that!
**[20:00] ---**
That's my hope too.
**[20:03] ---**
It's now the era of
the younger generation…
**[20:06] ---**
and I hope there is change.
**[20:09] ---**
H-Huh?
**[20:11] ---**
However…
**[20:12] ---**
You are already bound
hand and foot
**[20:15] ---**
to the code of the Hidden Leaf.
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You have no choice
over your future
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or the future of the village.
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I know that now.
**[20:25] ---**
That's not true, you—!
**[20:27] ---**
And now that you know…
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What will you do?
**[20:31] ---**
If the village cannot be changed
from the inside,
**[20:34] ---**
there's nothing left but to force
a change from the outside.
**[20:39] ---**
What do you say?
**[20:41] ---**
Would you like to follow me?
**[20:45] ---**
Neji! You're not thinking of—!
**[20:56] ---**
Imagine finding you here…hiding.
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It's been a long time…
**[21:02] ---**
Orochimaru.
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Are you telling me you can change
the Rules of the Leaf?
**[22:42] ---**
Yes.
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To do so, I need collaborators.
**[22:46] ---**
Come with me!
**[22:48] ---**
I understand…
**[22:49] ---**
Neji! Don't go!
**[22:51] ---**
Wait here. I just want to hear
what he has to say.
**[22:55] ---**
Next time on Naruto Shippuden:
"The Sealed Power."
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No! I won't let you go!
**[23:02] ---**
Jiraiya Ninja Scrolls:
The Tale of Naruto the Hero-
The Sealed Power
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Tune in again!