E88 - Focal Point: The Mark of the Leaf

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    We are Fighting Dreamers aiming high
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    Fighting Dreamers
    don't care what people think about them
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    Fighting Dreamers
    follow what they believe
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    Oli Oli Oli Oh! Just go my way
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    Right here right now (Bang)
    Hit it straight like a line drive!
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    Right here right now (Burn)
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    Down a difficult road
    filled with endless struggles
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    Where do you think you are going
    following someone else's map?
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    An insightful crow comes along
    to tear up the map
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    Now open your eyes and
    take a look at the truth (Yeah!)
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    There's nothing to lose,
    so let's GO!!!
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    We are Fighting Dreamers aiming high
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    Fighting Dreamers
    don't care what people think about them
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    Fighting Dreamers
    follow what they believe
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    Oli Oli Oli Oh!
    Just go my way
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    Right here right now (Bang)
    Hit it straight like a line drive!
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    Right here right now (Burn)
    We're gonna do it and do our best!
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    Right here right now (Bang)
    Hit it straight like a line drive!
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    Right here right now (Burn)
    We're gonna do it and do our best! BANG!
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    Sasuke…
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    My, my arm!
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    Are you okay, Lord Orochimaru?
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    Please take this medicine quickly.
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    Oh, my…
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    Just as I get back,
    I have to clean the room.
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    Please make sure you to take
    your medicine.
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    I don't need that kind
    of lip service.
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    It's medicine that I prescribed.
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    The pain should subside
    at least slightly.
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    The pain on this arm
    that seems to burn…
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    I never thought that it cause
    this much suffering.
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    Sarutobi…known as Third Hokage.
    lt's his last curse, after all.
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    Enough of the talking…
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    More importantly,
    has that individual been found?
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    Yes… She seems to be at a place
    called Tanzaku Town.
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    Tanzaku Town…
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    Is that so…?
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    But the opponent is one of the Sannin,
    the Legendary Three Ninjas.
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    It won’t be that simple.
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    Good medicine tends to taste bitter.
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    Here.
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    It’s the same one…
    But this is the trick?
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    You’re the type who was yelled at
    at the academy
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    for not having concentration, right?
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    That doesn’t have anything
    to do with me now.
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    Look at this paper.
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    Uh?
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    I’ve seen it.
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    Fine, then.
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    Look at it again.
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    Hmm?
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    So what is this?
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    It’s not something that
    I need to explain in length,
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    but when you first looked
    at this blank piece of paper,
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    you just glanced at
    the whole thing, correct?
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    Probably.
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    Then where do you look on this one?
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    Most likely the point in the middle?
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    When a human being looks at
    just a blank piece of paper,
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    he doesn’t know where to look,
    so the eyes wander.
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    But if you put even a single point on it,
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    the mind focuses there…
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    This is concentrating at a single point
    and as you focus your mind,
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    you become spiritually stable and
    you are able to extract unexpected power.
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    Huh?
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    When you opened a hole
    on the rubber ball,
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    you must have been
    concentrating desperately
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    to fill up the Chakra
    in the palm of your hand.
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    Yeah, yeah.
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    When you concentrate,
    power emerges.
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    But without a target,
    it is difficult to concentrate.
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    That’s why we have this…
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    Listen Naruto, from now on,
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    when you store up the Chakra
    you build in your right hand,
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    try to store it up by concentrating
    on that mark.
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    Concentrate…
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    All right, I’ll try it!
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    Focal Point:
    The Mark of the Leaf
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    Concentrate!
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    Darn it. It’s not supposed to be like this.
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    It has to break like “pang.”
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    Concentrate!
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    Hello… I’d like to make a little inquiry.
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    Dang it.
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    Concentrate.
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    Concentrate!
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    No good.
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    Dang it. What does it mean
    to concentrate?!
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    Damn you, Sarutobi!
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    All right then…
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    I’m going again to gather
    some information.
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    What…? But you just came.
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    I don’t have any time to waste.
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    Hey, hey…!
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    Isn’t there going to be even
    a little soulful game of catch
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    between the master and pupil?
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    You scoundrel.
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    Strike!
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    Here, the game of catch is over.
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    See you later.
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    Humph… I’ll forget about that Pervy Sage
    and work hard by myself.
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    That’s the only way, Naruto…
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    You have to do this training alone.
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    You have the ability to approach
    the Fourth Hokage’s level…
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    Grasp it by yourself!
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    Hmm… Never seen her.
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    If that’s the case…
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    Sorry to bother you.
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    I know the person.
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    As well as where she is right now.
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    I’ll buy you a drink.
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    There’s no need.
    I was able to win a tidy sum…
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    Thanks to that lady.
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    Yeah…you are indeed
    the Legendary Sitting Duck.
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    She lost again, huh.
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    Her losses started to pile up…
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    So she was talking about
    changing her location.
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    Where to?
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    One of the Sannin, Lady Tsunade,
    is staying at Tanzaku Town over there.
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    Then this arm can finally…
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    Even if it’s good medicine,
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    you won’t get away with just
    a bitter taste with that person.
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    It’s fine.
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    Seven, seven, seven…
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    Seven, seven, seven…
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    Seven, seven, seven…
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    Here it comes!
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    Congratulations to the customer!
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    Fever has started
    on machine number 44.
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    Now, please keep on getting it out
    like a flood.
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    Lady Tsunade, a rare thing does happen
    once in while.
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    A 3-7 for me?
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    Oh wow, lady.
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    Yeah, what a great work.
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    Wish I could be favored
    by good fortune too.
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    – Oh, here it comes again!
    – Here it comes again!
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    Yay…it’s “fever” again!
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    A person like me pulls
    a big hit like this…
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    I have a bad premonition.
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    I also have some knowledge
    regarding Lady Tsunade…
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    I did use to be part of
    the Medical Corps, after all.
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    She was the first person to propose
    what is now an accepted practice
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    of assigning one medical specialist
    to a small squad of four.
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    This was a very revolutionary- idea…
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    A small combat unit that doesn’t
    even have emergency medical skills,
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    what would happen to them in a battlefield
    is clearer than seeing fire.
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    Countless experiences in war
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    simply became knowledge
    to equip themselves with.
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    Many who were sacrificed
    led to the creation of that style.
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    A person understands the nature
    of things for the first time
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    after losing them.
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    And the thing created by
    one of the legendary Sannin,
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    who is known as the medical specialist
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    is that sacrifice.
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    Not working…
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    I got to concentrate even more.
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    Concentrate, concentrate.
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    Concentrate, concentrate.
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    Concentrate!
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    Concentrate…
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    Concentrate on one point.
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    Strike!
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    Strike!
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    That stupid perve’s face floats up
    in my head
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    and I can’t even concentrate.
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    Oh boy…
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    Some gal somewhere is talking
    about me again.
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    Pinball Games
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    Wait for me, Lady Tsunade!
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    What’s the matter?
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    Your winning this much is like a miracle…
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    But you don’t look pleased at all.
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    This town.
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    Huh?
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    I get a bad premonition.
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    We’re going to hurry up and leave.
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    But this is a tourist resort…
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    We should take our time and
    go see the famous castle and all.
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    Then we’re going to hurry up
    and see it so we can leave.
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    But…Lady Tsunade!
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    Lord Orochimaru!
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    Let’s get this business over with.
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    Even if we have to use
    a slightly rough method.
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    I got to do it.
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    Ouch!
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    Ouch… It hurts so much,
    I can’t even build up my Chakra…
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    He might be reaching his limit soon.
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    Just a bit…just a bit more rest.
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    Hey!
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    You guys, we’re in class right now.
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    You…fools!
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    You guys have no concentration at all…!
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    This is not the way to
    become fine Ninja.
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    How can we stay still at a table,
    right, Akamaru?
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    I’m hungry.
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    Sensei, if it’s a scolding,
    do it quickly.
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    What the--?! You, you guys…
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    From now, we will have
    an after-school lesson
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    to teach you guys more concentration!
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    – What?! – What?!
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    What’s this?
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    You guys are going to do from now
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    what the predecessors of
    the Leaf Village
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    used to perform every day
    as a concentration method!
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    It is training to build up Chakra
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    by concentrating your entire energy
    on the leaf on your forehead.
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    It’s an ancient way of learning
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    how not to become distracted
    from anything else
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    by concentrating on a single point,
    the leaf.
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    The one who hones his concentration
     is truly a great Ninja…
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    This is the origin of the Leaf Symbol
    on the headband.
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    That sounds like a lie.
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    Aren’t you making that story up
    to force us to try harder?
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    I’m not making this up!
    lt’s a true story.
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    Anyhow, can you really become
    a great Ninja
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    by just polishing your concentration?
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    At any rate,
    a great Ninja is a guy who’s strong.
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    Hey, you have a point.
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    This stuff…
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    Bye, bye Sensei!
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    Hey, hey, you guys wait a minute.
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    – We won’t wait!
    – We don't have time for that!
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    Hey! You misfits!
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    This is the same thing.
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    I should have paid more attention
    to what Iruka Sensei was saying…
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    I’m so stupid.
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    But nothing will start
    if I just keep on regretting.
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    All right, I’m going to master this!
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    Concentrate, concentrate…
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    Concentrate!
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    Wow! Tanzaku Castle sure does have
    a commanding presence!
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    It’s worth being designated
    as the cultural heritage.
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    Don’t dally…
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    We’re going to hurry up
    and leave this town.
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    Lady Tsunade, please look more carefully…
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    It costs nothing to view.
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    Lady Tsunade?
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    What is this chill?
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    Now!
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    What a kid…
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    Raising the density in Chakra
    to the point that it burns the palm.
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    He never ceases to amaze me.
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    It broke.
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    Good! The second step seems
     to be complete.
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    Hurry… The third step.
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    That will come later.
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    We’ll now go meet Tsunade.
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    That’s…
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    Orochimaru.
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    I found you.
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    A cycle of hardship, right?
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    Inside, we were crying, right?
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    But the one thing we won't give up
    is the dream we've chosen, right?
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    It's a secondary role,
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    a role in the shadows
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    But in reaching for that dream,
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    let us stay centered,
    let us stay true
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    Over and over,
    we hung on without giving up
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    Over and over,
    we kept coming back up
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    Over and over,
    we believed and dreamed
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    Over and over,
    we've seen fools
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    I can master the third step while walking?
    Give me a break!
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    Fool! If we don't hurry it up,
    we'll lose Tsunade!
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    Besides, she's short-tempered
    and impatient!
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    Where are we heading?
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    If she's here in this town, we'll just
    look for her from somewhere high up.
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    – So we'll climb up a castle.
    – Castle?!
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    – Can't you see over there?!
    – Which way is "over there"?
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    I'm saying…
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    Oh! What the--?!
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    Next time: "An Impossible Choice:
    The Pain Within Tsunade's Heart"