E37 - Surviving the Cut: The Rookie Nine Together Again!

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    Press down hard on the gas
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    That’s right, there’s no compromise
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    We'll slip through the night
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    At the final moment push hard
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    That's right, all the way to zero,
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    Until we wipe away the days
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    Gently open your heart
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    If you pull it close to you
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    It will reach you, without a doubt
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    It will come, closer
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    Now
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    We’re speeding through life,
    squeezing it for all of its worth
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    Our feet are tied
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    But we still keep going farther
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    Even if I take it back, and grasp it
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    If you’re not the one
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    There will be no meaning
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    And so we’ll go far off into the distance.
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    If “Heaven” does not exist,
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    enrich your knowledge,
    and prepare for the chance.
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    If “Earth” does not exist,
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    run the fields in search
    of an advantage.
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    Open the series of Heaven and Earth,
    and the perilous way shall be redressed…
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    This is namely the secret of
    “the one that guides…”
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    What’s that?
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    It probably has to do with the scroll.
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    I think this means we’re supposed
    to open the Heaven & Earth scroll.
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    Okay then, I’m going to open it.
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    Huh? What’s this?
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    A man…?
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    A person…?
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    This is…a Summoning Jutsu!
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    Naruto! Sakura!
    Let go of the scroll!
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    Oh...
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    Wha--?!
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    Y-You…
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    Hi!
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    It’s been a long time.
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    Surviving the Cut!
    The Rookie Nine Together Again!
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    W-What’s going on?
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    It appears you guys have had
    a rough time of it.
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    What?!
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    Why are you appearing with
    a Summoning?
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    At the end of this second exam,
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    we Chunin are to
    welcome the test-takers.
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    I just happened to be given
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    the important task of being
    the messenger for you guys.
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    Messenger…?!
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    Just in time.
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    Everyone…
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    Congratulations on surviving
    the second exam.
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    To celebrate your passing,
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    I’d like to treat you to
    some Ichiraku ramen, but…
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    Ohh... Cool!
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    Uh-oh…
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    H-Hey, Naruto!
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    – Listen to the end…
    – Cool! Cool!
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    Ramen! Ramen! Believe it!
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    I’ve done great job!
    I’m the greatest!
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    I so want to eat ramen!
    Believe it!
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    He’s got so much energy.
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    Yaaaay!
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    Shut up!
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    Man, that scatterbrained part
    of you is the same as always, eh.
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    I see.
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    Huh?
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    If we had looked at the scroll
    in the middle of the exam,
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    what were you going to do, Iruka Sensei?
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    Sasuke, you’re a sharp one,
    as usual.
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    You guessed right.
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    The rules of this exam were to test
    your conclusive mission execution ability.
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    To put it simply,
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    in the case of the scrolls being opened
    contrary to the rules…
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    In the case of them being opened…?
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    I was ordered to knock unconscious
    the test-takers in front of me
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    until the end of the exam.
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    Good thing you didn’t open the scroll.
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    Kabuto, thank you!
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    Phew!
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    That was seriously close…
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    Oh yeah, Sensei!
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    Huh?
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    By the way,
    what’re the letters on that wall?
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    They’re kind of vermiculated and
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    we don’t understand
    their meaning at all.
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    Never mind, never mind!
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    We passed!
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    No…explaining that is
    one more of my duties.
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    What, really?
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    I’m saying that’s right.
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    Give it a read.
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    These are Chunin instructions
    Master Hokage recorded.
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    Instructions?!
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    That’s right!
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    Heaven in this text
    refers to the human head.
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    Earth refers to the human body.
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    No kidding…
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    If “Heaven” does not exist,
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    enrich your knowledge,
    and prepare for the chance.
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    In other words…
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    If your weaknesses are
    inside your head, Naruto…
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    learn various logics in
    preparing for your missions.
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    Hah! So meddlesome!
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    If “Earth” does not exist,
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    run through the fields
    in search of an advantage.
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    If your weaknesses are in
    your physical strength, Sakura,
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    it means you must not
    slack off on your daily training.
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    And if you combine both
    Heaven and Earth…
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    Any perilous mission is the right way…
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    In other words…
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    what can also be called a rule
    of might and become a safe mission.
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    Then, what about
    the spot with the missing letter?
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    The letter refers to Chunin.
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    The one letter for “person” that
    was in the scroll from earlier goes there.
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    These five days of survival
    were to test
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    the test-takers’ fundamental
    abilities as Chunin.
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    And you guys cleared it in fine style.
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    Chunin is of unit-leader class.
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    They have the responsibility
    of leading a team.
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    Be more deeply aware of
    the necessity of physical strength…
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    and knowledge in missions!
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    I want you to take on
    the next step,
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    never forgetting these
    Chunin instructions.
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    That is all of the messenger task
    I was given.
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    Got it!
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    Huh?
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    But, as for the final third exam,
    don’t push it too far.
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    Especially you, Naruto.
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    – You’re the biggest worry…
    – Iruka Sensei.
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    From when I received the
    Leaf headband,
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    I was no longer
    an Academy student, you know?!
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    There’s nothing to worry!
    Believe it!
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    Also, this is the proof you
    gave me that I’m full-fledged, right?!
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    That I’m scatterbrained may
    not have changed,
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    but I’m not a kid anymore!
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    I'm now...
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    A Ninja!
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    I see.
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    I’m sorry, Naruto.
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    I know their strength the best.
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    If it’s futile anyway,
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    I would like to give them
    the final word personally.
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    If you’re that hung up on it,
    I can leave that team to you.
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    To think you’d play the devil’s advocate…
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    Thank you very much.
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    But, they’re Kakashi’s, right?
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    If he’s the one who
    recommended them,
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    I thought I could count on them.
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    Stay out of it!
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    They’re not your students anymore.
    They’re my subordinates now.
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    The one who might truly understand
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    the strength of these kids.
    might be you, Kakashi.
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    How is it?
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    Does the Curse Mark still hurt?
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    No.
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    Thanks to you,
    it’s gotten quite a bit better.
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    Anyway, Orochimaru is one
    of those three legendary Leaf Ninjas, right?
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    He’s a S-rank bingo book
    rouge Shinobi
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    who even the Anbu couldn’t touch, right?
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    I heard that he’d already died, but…
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    Why’d he come to this village now…?
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    There’s a kid I want, you see.
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    This kid inherits the abilities
    of the Uchiha clan, so…
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    It's...
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    It’s probably Sasuke, right?
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    Huh?!
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    Master Anko!
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    Twenty-one second exam
    finishers have been confirmed.
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    As for the third exam, according
    to the regulations of the Chunin Exams,
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    preliminaries are planned for
    the first time in five years.
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    The second exam is over.
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    For the time being,
    continue the exams as is,
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    but while keeping
    an eye on his movements.
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    Yes…
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    First off, congratulations on
    finishing the second exam.
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    There were seventy-eight
    test-takers for the second exam.
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    To think twenty-one have
    made it this far.
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    I said to make it less than half,
    but I’d really thought about single digits.
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    I’m hungry!
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    There are still this many remaining?
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    This is such a major pain.
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    Sasuke and others have passed, too.
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    Of course…
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    We went to that much trouble
    to save them…
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    It’d all be for naught if they didn’t pass.
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    Your team didn’t do too bad.
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    I guess they were lucky.
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    But as long as my team is around,
    they can’t go any higher.
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    After all, whether you
    like it or not,
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    ability talks at the next barrier.
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    Well, adolescence can sometimes
    be bittersweet and
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    can sometimes be harsh, Kakashi…
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    Did you say something?
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    Oh my God!
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    Not bad, my rival Kakashi.
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    But that part of you is so hip...
    which is what annoys me!
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    So that’s Guy Sensei’s eternal rival, eh?
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    Guy Sensei totally loses visually…
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    Guy Sensei is the hippest
    of all the teachers!
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    He shines!
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    Okay!
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    Please watch, Guy Sensei!
    I’ll shine, too!
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    I don’t ever want to see
    tears of those dear to me again.
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    So…
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    I won’t ever lose again!
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    Guy Sensei.
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    Sure enough, the outstanding candidates
    have gathered.
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    Sasuke Uchiha, eh?
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    I’ll get you back for my arms,
    Sasuke Uchiha…
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    At any cost.
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    To think a mere seven teams
    are left of the twenty-six…
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    Sure enough, Gaara is unhurt.
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    Akamaru’s acting strange…
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    Those Sand Village guys…
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    Naruto passed, too.
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    Thank goodness…
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    What, all the Leaf Village
    rookies are here.
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    Say! Say!
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    Old man Hokage and Iruka Sensei and
    even Intense-Brow are here. Believe it!
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    It feels like everyone’s assembled.
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    Humph…I don’t have a very good feeling.
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    To think this many are left…
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    Moreover, of those left, almost all are rookies…
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    So that’s why they fought
     in recommending them.
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    Now then, we will now have
    the explanation of the third exam
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    from Master Hokage.
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    Listen carefully, everybody!
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    Now then, if you will,
    Master Hokage.
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    All right.
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    Before the explanation of
    the third exam that we will start from now,
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    I have just one thing I want
    to tell everyone flat out.
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    About the true purpose of these exams.
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    True purpose…?!
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    Why do allied nations conduct
    the exams on a conjoint basis?
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    Huh?
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    Raising the levels of the shinobi
    and friendship among allied nations.
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    It won’t do to have the wrong idea
    of the true meaning of that statement.
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    These exams are so to speak…
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    So to speak…?
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    A microcosm of battle
    between allied nations.
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    What does that mean?
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    If we look back on history,
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    the allied nations of today were
    once neighboring nations
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    that continued to vie with
    each other and battle for power.
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    In order to avoid a futile crushing
    of each others’ military strength,
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    those nations mutually selected
    a place to battle.
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    And that was how the
    Chunin Exams originally began.
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    W-Why do we have
    to do such a thing?
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    We’re not doing this to
    select Chunins?!
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    There is no question that these exams
    are to select Shinobi
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    worthy of becoming Chunin.
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    But on the other hand,
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    these exams also provide a venue
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    for Shinobi who carry their nation’s pride
    on their backs to fight for their lives!
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    Nation’s pride…?
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    Many feudal lords and those of
    prominence from many nations
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    who request Shinobi for work
    are invited to this third exam as guests.
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    And, the feudal lords and
    Head Ninja of each Village
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    of the nations will watch your battles.
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    If the gap in national power
    becomes unbridgeable,
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    the strong nations are inundated
    with job requests.
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    The requests of nations deemed
    weak, on the other hand, decline.
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    And therewithal,
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    we can exert pressure upon
    each neighboring nation...
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    That is to say, just how much military
    strength our Village is developing and has.
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    Even so, why is it necessary for
    us to fight for our lives?!
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    The nation’s strength is
    the Village’s strength.
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    The Village’s strength is
    the Shinobi’s strength.
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    And the true strength of the Shinobi
    is created only in a fight for one’s life!
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    This exam is a place to see
    the strength of home country Shinobi,
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    and a place to display this as well.
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    It is because it’s an exam where
    you truly fight for your life
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    that this has meaning.
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    It’s for this very reason that
    your forerunners fought in this exam,
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    a dream worth striving for.
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    Then why…
    use the expression “friendship”?!
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    I said it at the start, didn’t I?!
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    That it won’t do for you to have
    the wrong idea of the meaning!
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    It’s a custom where balance is
    preserved by fighting and removing life.
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    This is the friendship
    of the Shinobi world.
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    This is a fight for life with
    the pride of the village and
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    one’s own dream on the line.
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    Heh, I’m convinced.
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    Anything is fine.
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    Just tell us the content of
    that fight-for-life test.
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    Very well.
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    Now then, this is where I’d like to
    explain the third exam.
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    But actually…
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    Master Hokage, please allow me,
    Hayate Gekko,
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    who was given the task of judge,
     to speak first.
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    I leave it to you…
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    Nice to meet you, everyone…
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    Umm, there’s something…
    I'd like you all to do...
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    before the third exam.
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    Hey, can you hear it?
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    The clear, blue sky goes on and on
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    The ocean spans limitlessly
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    Please keep that smile on your face forever
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    Or else I’ll cry
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    You won't have to search around you
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    It’s all ok now.
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    Everyone is inside
    this hand
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    when you want to cry, and you want to run away
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    When you forget what happiness is
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    Just sing.
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    Light is born, and darkness was born
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    The two are one
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    Harmonia, feel the telepathy
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    Hey, can you hear it?
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    What's the idea?
    Sudden preliminaries?
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    Didn't we just get to the tower?
    Also, something's wrong with Sasuke.
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    It's too much for you, Sasuke!
    Please, drop out!
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    You're in no condition
    to fight properly!
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    No matter what you say,
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    I'm going to tell the teachers
    about that bruise.
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    Next episode: "Narrowing the Field:
    Sudden Death Elimination!"
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    Sasuke, I'm scared.