# E440 - The Caged Bird
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Has your so-called test
produced a result?
**[00:35] ---**
I believe it's already been proven that
they consider the bonds of friendship
**[00:38] ---**
more important than
the rules of the village.
**[00:44] ---**
Hmm… So there's no need to
continue this test.
**[00:49] ---**
You will release all the Hidden Leaf
Shinobi you've abducted, right…?
**[00:54] ---**
Father?
**[00:55] ---**
*What?*
*The Masked Man is Neji's—?!*
**[01:01] ---**
I figured it was about time
you'd want this…
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How thoughtful of you!
**[01:11] ---**
Here you go.
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Whoa…
**[01:19] ---**
That sure hits the spot!
**[01:22] ---**
All right, the continuation…
**[03:01] ---**
*Jiraiya Ninja Scrolls:*
*The Tale of Naruto the Hero-*
*The Caged Bird*
**[03:10] ---**
That's fine…
**[03:11] ---**
Where are you keeping everyone?
**[03:14] ---**
I trust they're safe…
**[03:15] ---**
Of course.
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I'll have the three lead you
to them immediately.
**[03:18] ---**
You can go and gather everyone.
**[03:22] ---**
All right.
**[03:26] ---**
I have to tie up some loose ends,
I'll join you afterwards.
**[03:36] ---**
You got that, everyone?
**[03:38] ---**
We're joining up as one team
**[03:40] ---**
to look for Asuma, I mean our friends,
and rescue them!
**[03:44] ---**
Right!
**[03:45] ---**
All right, let's get going!
**[03:47] ---**
Hold it, Naruto.
**[03:49] ---**
What is it?
**[03:50] ---**
You're the one who said
we're going to rescue our friends!
**[03:53] ---**
Yeah, I did.
**[03:54] ---**
But we don't even know
where they are.
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Not even one clue…
**[03:59] ---**
Unless, Naruto,
you have intel that we don't.
**[04:03] ---**
Yeah, yeah!
**[04:04] ---**
You think I'd have
that kind of intel?
**[04:07] ---**
– Huh?
– Huh?
**[04:11] ---**
Your fighting skills
may've improved slightly,
**[04:13] ---**
but your brain's still the same.
**[04:14] ---**
What?!
**[04:16] ---**
Hey! Stop fighting!
**[04:18] ---**
I guess that's
the Tracking Team's cue…
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I don't think you'll be needed…
**[04:24] ---**
Huh?!
**[04:29] ---**
Neji, I'm glad you're safe.
**[04:32] ---**
Sorry to have worried you.
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What happened to the enemy?
**[04:35] ---**
– Did you bring him down?
– No.
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You let him get away?
**[04:39] ---**
No, that's not it, but…
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Then what happened?
**[04:42] ---**
Naruto!
Give Neji a chance to speak.
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Damn it.
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Oh, okay…
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So? What's going on, Neji?
**[05:01] ---**
Finally, we're up.
**[05:03] ---**
I've been bored to death.
**[05:07] ---**
The test is over.
**[05:09] ---**
So I'm dismissing the mercenaries.
**[05:12] ---**
You can't do that.
**[05:15] ---**
Take a look.
**[05:16] ---**
My art has been damaged and
you expect me to just leave?
**[05:21] ---**
Everything is complete.
**[05:23] ---**
I was able to verify the truth.
You're dismissed.
**[05:28] ---**
Huh? Hey wait, partner!
**[05:30] ---**
The job's complete.
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Once we get paid, we're done.
**[05:35] ---**
Guess it can't be helped.
**[05:37] ---**
Huh?! Huh?!
**[05:38] ---**
H-Hey! Wait a second!
**[05:43] ---**
I'd like you to tie up
some loose ends.
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"Loose ends" you say?
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Help the evacuated villagers
return to their homes.
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We'll be happy to do that.
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And there's one more thing
I'd like to request…
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Anyway, that's it.
**[06:03] ---**
So you're saying everything
that happened
**[06:05] ---**
was just an experiment
by this masked man?
**[06:08] ---**
Hold on!
**[06:10] ---**
Guy Sensei and the others
are safe?
**[06:12] ---**
Yeah. He promised he'd free
all the hostages and lead us to them.
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"Lead us to them"?
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What does that mean?
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Who the hell are you guys?!
**[06:26] ---**
We're not your enemy.
**[06:29] ---**
First of all, we want to show you
a sign of mutual trust.
**[06:32] ---**
We apologize for getting you
involved in our employer's test.
**[06:36] ---**
The test is over.
**[06:38] ---**
Your friends will be freed.
**[06:41] ---**
Are you serious?
**[06:43] ---**
We are Hidden Rain Shinobi.
**[06:46] ---**
We travel around the land
in search of those
**[06:48] ---**
who share our vision for
the future of the shinobi world.
**[06:51] ---**
We're Team Jiraiya.
**[06:53] ---**
Team Jiraiya?!
**[06:55] ---**
You guys know Pervy Sage?
**[06:58] ---**
Yes. He saved our lives and
he was our ninjutsu master.
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I get it now.
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When we were attacked,
I didn't sense any malice.
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Because it was just a test.
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So, did we pass the test?
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I believe so.
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That's why we're telling you
where your friends are.
**[07:19] ---**
Konan.
**[07:32] ---**
Shinobi Ageha Butterflies…
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The butterflies will guide you
to your friends.
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We must go return
the villagers to their homes.
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So we'll be leaving.
**[07:45] ---**
Hold it.
**[07:49] ---**
Damn it! I wanted to hear more
about Pervy Sage.
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So we just follow…them?
**[08:01] ---**
Neji…
**[08:21] ---**
Shinobi Ageha Butterflies…
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They're over there!
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That structure, huh?
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All right!
Let's go save everyone!
**[08:30] ---**
Wait! There could be traps—
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He's not even listening.
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Damn it.
**[08:39] ---**
Everyone!
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This is embarrassing.
**[08:45] ---**
Guy Sensei,
I'm so glad you're okay.
**[08:48] ---**
Oh! I'm super-overcome
with emotion!
**[08:52] ---**
To be rescued by my pupil
is more than I ever deserve…
**[08:58] ---**
Ouch!
**[09:00] ---**
Can you be a little gentler?
**[09:03] ---**
But it's just a scratch.
**[09:04] ---**
Asuma…
**[09:05] ---**
Are you hurt anywhere?
**[09:08] ---**
No…
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Sorry we made you worry.
**[09:12] ---**
I'm so relieved.
**[09:14] ---**
Anyway, what was this incident
all about anyway?
**[09:18] ---**
Are you guys able
to explain it to us?
**[09:21] ---**
Y-Yeah.
**[09:22] ---**
Allow me to me explain.
**[09:40] ---**
Wait.
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He's no longer our enemy!
It's all right.
**[09:49] ---**
Okay, then.
**[10:02] ---**
No way…You're—!
**[10:19] ---**
You're…Hizashi Hyuga…
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Impossible…
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You're supposed to have died
when I was three years old…
**[10:29] ---**
What?
**[10:30] ---**
Well, let me explain that part.
**[10:32] ---**
Neji…
**[10:35] ---**
When Lady Hinata
was three years old,
**[10:37] ---**
a major crisis hit
the Hidden Leaf Village.
**[10:40] ---**
Shinobi from the Hidden Cloud
attempted to kidnap you…
**[10:43] ---**
but Lord Hiashi killed them.
**[10:47] ---**
The Hidden Cloud was at fault.
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Naturally, relations became strained
and the threat of war loomed.
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In order to prevent fighting,
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the Hidden Leaf secretly negotiated
with the Hidden Cloud
**[10:58] ---**
and accepted their conditions.
**[11:00] ---**
Rather, they had no choice
but to accept.
**[11:03] ---**
What was the condition?
**[11:06] ---**
The head of the Hyuga who possessed
the Kekkei Genkai, the Byakugan.
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In other words, they demanded
the Leaf hand over
**[11:13] ---**
the corpse of Lady Hinata's father,
Hiashi Hyuga.
**[11:16] ---**
And so,
Hiashi Hyuga's younger twin,
**[11:20] ---**
my father Hizashi Hyuga
became his stand-in…
**[11:24] ---**
and peace in the village
was maintained.
**[11:28] ---**
As for my father's decision and
the circumstances behind that,
**[11:30] ---**
you saw it for yourself, Naruto.
**[11:35] ---**
The terrible system
of the Curse Mark
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that's been passed down within the Hyuga
to protect the Main Family.
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We are alive, but are unable to
change the currents of fate.
**[11:45] ---**
What you saw was my father,
who by his own will,
**[11:48] ---**
chose to defy his fate.
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Kakashi…
**[11:53] ---**
This has caused everyone
much stress.
**[11:56] ---**
You're supposed to be dead,
so how—?
**[12:00] ---**
At first,
I didn't understand either.
**[12:03] ---**
But after a long slumber,
I awakened…
**[12:05] ---**
…and found myself within
a certain man's hideout.
**[12:09] ---**
*You have been revived*
*thanks to my Reanimation Jutsu.*
**[12:15] ---**
*But it was also because your heart*
*still had attachments to this world.*
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*I have no attachments.*
*I wanted to die…*
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*…for the sake of the clan.*
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*It was your wish to*
*give up your life, you say?*
**[12:29] ---**
*But if your death was in vain…*
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Perhaps that man was right.
**[12:38] ---**
I did feel that way at the time.
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That is why I planned
this incident.
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I hoped that my death
was not in vain…
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That my death would
provide the impetus…
**[12:51] ---**
for the Hidden Leaf Village
to rethink
**[12:53] ---**
the cruel rules and destinies
which took away my life…
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Well, all that doesn't
matter anymore.
**[13:01] ---**
I'm a man who should
not exist in this world.
**[13:04] ---**
However, it seems I cannot
undo this jutsu myself.
**[13:09] ---**
I want you to return to the village and
look into how to release this jutsu.
**[13:13] ---**
But before that…
**[13:15] ---**
I would like to speak
with my son Neji, alone.
**[13:38] ---**
Neji, do you remember that day?
**[13:46] ---**
*Neji… You must survive.*
**[13:49] ---**
*You have been blessed with*
*the gifts of the Hyuga,*
**[13:51] ---**
*more so than anyone else*
*in the clan.*
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*How I wish you had been*
*born into the main family.*
**[14:01] ---**
Although it was to protect
the village, our clan, and you,
**[14:04] ---**
the result of defying
the fate of the Hyuga,
**[14:07] ---**
has brought you nothing
but sadness.
**[14:11] ---**
On top of that,
I was worried about your future,
**[14:14] ---**
tied as it was to
the Hyuga's destiny.
**[14:17] ---**
Yes.
**[14:18] ---**
It was only natural,
having lost you,
**[14:21] ---**
I used that as motivation
to live every day
**[14:23] ---**
resenting and cursing
my destiny as a Hyuga.
**[14:33] ---**
But meeting a certain genin
changed my way of thinking.
**[14:46] ---**
*I'm destined to bear the burden*
*of a mark I can never remove…*
**[14:50] ---**
*How can you possibly*
*even understand?!*
**[14:53] ---**
*I do understand.*
**[14:57] ---**
*And, so what of it?*
**[15:02] ---**
*Quit trying to show off.*
**[15:05] ---**
*You're not the only one*
*who's special.*
**[15:08] ---**
*Everyone is desperate to*
*defy their own destiny.*
**[15:13] ---**
*You're no different.*
**[15:18] ---**
*I'm definitely gonna bring you down*
*and prove it to you!*
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*The Hyuga destiny of whatever*
*that you despise…*
**[15:26] ---**
*If it's too much for you,*
**[15:29] ---**
*then forget about it and*
*don't do anything.*
**[15:32] ---**
*When I become the Hokage…*
**[15:37] ---**
*I'll change…the Hyuga!*
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Naruto Uzumaki taught me.
**[15:47] ---**
That even a caged bird,
if it's smart enough,
**[15:49] ---**
will use its beak
to open the latch…
**[15:51] ---**
Because it wants to fly
free across the sky.
**[15:55] ---**
In any case, maybe I'll end up
in the same place.
**[15:59] ---**
But when people have a choice,
**[16:02] ---**
they can strive hard towards
their goal in life.
**[16:05] ---**
And, for someone to have that,
means they are truly strong.
**[16:10] ---**
And Father…
**[16:13] ---**
I have just one goal.
**[16:16] ---**
To become stronger.
**[16:18] ---**
To become someone who
cannot be defeated.
**[16:20] ---**
That's how I feel right now.
**[16:26] ---**
You've made a wonderful friend…
**[16:29] ---**
Neji.
**[16:31] ---**
Although right now, he's a rival…
**[16:39] ---**
Father!
**[16:46] ---**
Seems like we don't need to find
a way to release the jutsu.
**[16:50] ---**
Yeah.
**[17:00] ---**
You've grown up well.
**[17:06] ---**
Father!
**[17:21] ---**
Father…
**[17:45] ---**
Guy…
**[17:47] ---**
It seems Hizashi's greatest regret
**[17:50] ---**
was not being able to
guide you into adulthood.
**[18:11] ---**
Yes.
**[18:22] ---**
I'm glad the villagers are back home
and peace has returned to this village.
**[18:28] ---**
Yes. So what do we do now?
**[18:31] ---**
Are you thinking of joining up
with the Hidden Leaf Genin?
**[18:34] ---**
Yeah…
**[18:35] ---**
Although we're from different villages,
I feel like we can call them comrades.
**[18:39] ---**
Perhaps the day will come
when we'll team up with them.
**[18:46] ---**
Nagato, what's that?
**[18:48] ---**
Doesn't it belong
to those children?
**[18:50] ---**
I found it on the road
to the village.
**[18:52] ---**
It was chaotic,
with everyone trying to get home,
**[18:54] ---**
and they probably dropped it.
**[18:57] ---**
They're probably making a big fuss
about their missing stuffed animal.
**[19:01] ---**
All right,
I'll go return it to them.
**[19:04] ---**
Yahiko…
**[19:05] ---**
I'll be right back. Wait here.
**[19:15] ---**
All right!
**[19:16] ---**
Let's hurry home,
so I can report to Dad.
**[19:19] ---**
All right then Naruto,
let's race back to the village.
**[19:23] ---**
I won't lose!
**[19:24] ---**
Neither will I!
**[19:25] ---**
I said I'm not gonna lose!
**[19:27] ---**
Same here!
**[19:28] ---**
Me too!
**[19:29] ---**
Me!
**[19:31] ---**
Where does all that
energy come from?
**[19:32] ---**
Really…
**[19:33] ---**
Hey, wait.
**[19:36] ---**
My body's still not…
**[19:38] ---**
W-Why don't we rest a bit?
**[19:43] ---**
Oh boy…
**[20:02] ---**
What? What is going on?
**[20:13] ---**
Yahiko…
**[20:36] ---**
Nagato…
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Damn it, Jiraiya!
**[22:40] ---**
Why did he write something that
leaves such a bad aftertaste?
**[22:43] ---**
I need to know how
the story continues…
**[22:46] ---**
I thought you might like
a little something for tea…
**[22:48] ---**
Perhaps this was a bad time?
**[22:50] ---**
No, not at all!
I was feeling a little hungry…
**[22:56] ---**
Next time on Naruto Shippuden:
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"Returning Home."
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All right, the continuation!
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JIRAIYA NINJA SCROLLS:
THE TALE OF NARUTO THE HERO-
RETURNING HOME
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Tune in again!