Naruto 446 Page 1 : The Young ones aiming for the Top of the world stand still ! Title : I just want to keep them both safe. Young Nagato : Sob ... Sob Yahiko : Nagato, will you just stop crying already ? If we just stand there and cry nothing will change. Just like the rain in this country I'll change that country. Page 2 Yahiko : But we're all talk now, we need power. Young Nagato : ... Yahiko : We'll study Ninjutsu ! Nagato : Then ... we spent our time searching for Shinobis. Then we found the ones who fought Hanzou : Master Jiraiya. Jiraiya : What's with you, brats ? Page 3 Nagato : But deep down, I never trusted any Konoha Shinobi. Nagato : It's something I think, you should be able to understand. Page 4 Orochimaru : Why don't we just kill the brats ? Orochimaru : I saw a lot of war orphans, their lives will be brutal and tragic. I think by killing them, we're preventing them for suffering too much. Jiraiya : Stop that Orochimaru. Go back to the village with Tsunade, I'll stay here a bit to take care of thoses kids. Tsunade : Huh ?! Jiraiya : Until they can defend themselves, it's the least I can do. Nagato : Master Jiraiya was different from the others. Then we started living the 4 of us. Then something happened Naruto : Something ? Page 5 Nagato : A ninja refugee attacked us. When Yahiko was about to be killed, I killed this Shinobi. and I was unconscious. Nagato : It's then I understood I had some kind of special power. The doujutsu named Rinnegan. After that, the ninja training started. Master Jiraiya agreed to teach us Ninjutsu. He said that was "Ninjutsu to defend ourselves". But for me, back then, I couldn't control the power of the Rinnegan. Page 6 Nagato : I was afraid of my own powers. I let go of my hatred. I was conviced that I did something really bad. I was tortured by that. But then Master Jiraiya helped me overcoming that. Jiraiya : Nagato ! I don't know myself if what you did is wrong or not. But, thanks to you Yahiko is safe. I know that protecting your friends is the right thing to do. Jiraiya : Nobody would blame you for this. Nagato : I didn't realized it, but I aknowledged him as a Master. Page 7 Nagato : Then he said this "Sometimes peoples feels hate when they're hurt. And sometimes peoples feels guilty for hurting others." Nagato : And that's because they know this pain that they can be nice to others. It's exactly because humans knows this Pain, they can mature, grow up. I wondered myself "what can I do to accomplish that ?" Maybe ... To know the pain, I was thinking about an answer to guide myself. I even asked Master Jiraiya but he didn't know the answer. Just like you. Page 8 Nagato : Laster, I found my answer, my own answer ! Young Nagato : I just want to keep them both safe, Whatever the pain I must go through. Jiraiya : I see. Young Nagato : Master ... What are you thinking about ? Jiraiya : I think this world is a war. It only spreads hatred. And I think I want to to do something about it. Something like peace, even if I don't know how. Page 9 Nagato : 3 years later, our heart and our body matured. But the words he said were still trapped in me. I was like he left the answer to my Rinnegan to find. Jiraiya : During the old times, there was only war. It was far more horrible than our era. Then, in this troubled era, a monk appeared. We were introduced to the energy known has chakra. He brought back peace to the world. That's when the world changed, the shinobi was born. And with that, the strange arts that came along with it called The Ninjutsu. we weren't taught the ninjutsu to use as a military power, but to keep peace in check. Page 10 Jiraiya : The man was called Rikudou Sennin, The sage of the 6 paths. He was knoww as the savior of this world. And, just like you, he had the Rinnegan. "I am the one who bring peace and order" Thoses were his words, or so it seems. He had faith that sometime people would really be able to understand eachother. You know, maybe you are the reincarnation of Rikudou Sennin. I have the feeling that in your eyes lies the will of the sage. Nagato : I was entrusted with how to bring peace ... Then Master left. Nagato : With Yahiko as our leader, we began our activity, then our organization became famous before we knew it. Page 11 Nagato : Everyone knew this peace couldn't be achieved by military means. But Iwa, Suna and Konoha were still having a war in the hidden rain. The boss of the Hidden Rain, Hanzou, heard rumors about us. He couldn't ignore us no longer. Hanzou met us personnaly. He was about to conduct peace negociations with the 3 countries. We were finally be able to have peace negociations with Iwa, Konoha and Suna. We agreed on cooperating. Page 12 Nagato : But all that was the start of a calamity. We were just kids. Naruto : Calamity ? What happened ? Nagato : Because of that, Yahiko died. Naruto : He died ? Nagato : That was just Danzou's trap. We had scruples about stealing The Hidden Rain's sovereignty. Yahiko died just because of that. Page 13 Nagato : Later ... The one who awaited us at the place where the negociations were supposed to be held ... Were Konoha's Anbu and Hanzou's soldiers. Hanzou, in an effort to put an end to us, teamed up with a man, a man named Danzou, from Konoha. Danzou teamed up with Hanzou to steal and take the place of Hokage. Hanzou, him, teamed up with Danzou to protect his status of Hidden Rain leader. Hanzou : For me, you whole organisation is an eyesore ! Yahiko ! Since you're the leader, your life ends here ! If you try anything to resist, this girl dies right here, right now ! Page 14 Hanzou : Hey ! Red Haired boy ! Kill Yahiko, Now ! If you do this, your life as well as the girl's will be spared Konan : Stop that, Nagato ! You two forget about me, run away ! Yahiko : Nagato ... Yahiko : Kill me ! Page 15 Young Nagato ( Flashback ) : I just want to keep them both safe, Whatever the pain I must go through. Yahiko : Nagato ! Konan : STOP ! Hanzou : Hurry up, will you ? Don't you care about this girl's life ? Page 16 *Stab* Page 17 Yahiko : You must survive with Konan by any mean. You're the savior of this world. I know you can do it. Konan : Yahiko ! Nagato : That was the second Pain. We were supposed to have matured, but in the end nothing changed. This was exactly like when my parents died. That's when I realized that the answer I found before was just bullshit. Sidetext : Nagato's awakening.