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SHONEN JUMP MANGA) ¢ }

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Masashi[Kishimoto a a ae
Thanks to everyone's support,
Naruto has now received its first
award in the U.S. | was very hon-
ored that a Japanese manga was
able to win from among so many
American comics. | swear to keep
working hard on this manga.

—Masashi Kishimoto, 2008

Author/artist Masashi Kishimoto was born in 1974 in rural


Okayama Prefecture, Japan. After spending time in art college,
he won the Hop Step Award for new manga artists with his
manga Karakuri (Mechanism). Kishimoto decided to base his
next story on traditional Japanese culture. His first version of
Naruto, drawn in 1997, was a one-shot story about fox spirits;
his final version, which debuted in Weekly Shonen Jump in
1999, quickly became the most popular ninja manga in Japan.

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NARUTO VOL. 41
The SHONEN JUMP Manga Edition

STORY AND ART BY MASASHI KISHIMOTO

Translation/Mari Morimoto
English Adaptation/Deric A. Hughes & Benjamin Raab
Touch-up Art & Lettering/Inori Fukuda Trant
Design/Gerry Serrano
Editor/Joel Enos

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VP, Sales & Product Marketing/Gonzalo Ferreyra
VP, Creative/Linda Espinosa
Publisher/Hyoe Narita

NARUTO © 1999 by Masashi Kishimoto. All rights reserved. First


published in Japan in 1999 by SHUEISHA Inc., Tokyo. English translation
rights arranged by SHUEISHA Inc. The stories, characters and incidents
mentioned in this publication are entirely fictional.

No portion of this book may be reproduced or transmitted in any form


or by any means without written permission from the copyright holders.

The rights of the author(s) of the work(s) in this publication to be so


identified have been asserted in accordance with the Copyright, Designs
and Patents Act 1988. A CIP catalogue record for this book is available
from the British Library.

Printed in the U.S.A.

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Once the bane of the Konohagakure Ninja Academy, Uzumaki Naruto now
serves dutifully among the ranks of the Konoha shinobi—an illustrious group of
q ninja sworn to protect their village from the forces of evil seeking to destroy it
from without and within...
After his former classmate, Uchiha Sasuke, is seduced by the evil Orochimaru,
Naruto makes it his personal mission to find and save his friend from the dark-
ness growing inside him. Sasuke, however, doesn’t want to be found. He only
seeks revenge on the man he hates most in the world—the one he blames for
murdering his parents—his older brother, Uchiha Itachi. Though Sasuke’s quest is
temporarily delayed after he comes into conflict with his brother's associates in
the insidious organization known as the Akatsuki, at long last he catches up to
Itachi...
Meanwhile, Jiraiya infiltrates the Hidden Rain Village on a top-secret mission to
gather intelligence on Pain, the Akatsuki’s enigmatic leader. Little does he realize
he, too, is being watched...
NARUTO
VOL. 41
JIRATYA’S DECISION

CONTENTS

NUMBER 370: UNEASE

NUMBER 371: OLD ACQVAINTANCES!!

NUMBER 372: THE WEEPING LAND!!

NUMBER 373: BACK IN THE DAY...!!

NUMBER 374: ADVAN CEMENT!!

NUMBER 375: TWO GREAT SAGES...!!

NUMBER 376: CHILD OF PROPHECY!!

NUMBER 377: HONORED SAGE MAODE!!

NUMBER 378: ONE TO ONE...!!

NUMBER 379: JIRAIVA’S DECISION!!


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THOUGHT WRONG!
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MASTER
JIRAIYA?

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IN A FLASH,
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LADIES?!
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AAH...
PLEASE THE
LENO ME PUPILS
YOUR AID O' SIX
FOR JUST PATHS!
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WELL,
I'M STILL YAGOTTA
A BABE IN START BEIN'
SWADOLING ABLE TAGO
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TO THE TWO YERSELF,
OF YOU. JIRAIYA-BOY.
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MUST BE
DEGRADIN’
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HIDDEN
HIMSELF
INSIDE A
SUMMONING
CREATURE
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MAKE ITSELF
TRANS-
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YA HAV'TA
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SO EXCITED,
YER GONNA
GET MORE
WRINKLES.
HE'S A
FORMER
STUDENT
OF MINE...
READ
« THIS
WAY
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EITHER WAY, IT SEEMS
IF HE'S HE DION'T
STRAYED, TAKE THE
HE'S GOTTA CORRECT
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ACQUIRING
OISCIPLES...
a
Sih V«
READ
THIS

ONE SUCH
DISCIPLE
WILL ONE DAY
BRING ABOUT
A GREAT
CHANGE TO
THE WORLD
OF SHINOBI.

EITHER GREAT
STABILITY
OR GREAT
ODESTRUCTION...
THE LIKES OF
WHICH THIS
WORLD HAS
NEVER SEEN

AND
EVENTUALLY,
THERE SHALL YOU
COME A WILL
GUIDE
DAYWHEN ==
THAT
YOU WILL eae
BE FORCED \ id
TO MAKE A “TION.
CRITICAL
SELECTION./_ =
WAY THE
CHANGE
GOES.

OREAM,
YOU WALKED
THE WORLD,
WRITING
BOOKS.

I00 NOT
KNOW
EITHER...

«BUT PERHAPS
IT MEANS YOU
SHALL TRAVEL
WIDELY, SEEING
ALL THINGS IN
THIS UNIVERSE.
<ii«
«. WHO THAT A
WOULD BE HUMAN
GRANTED CHILD
TOAD WOULD ONE
POWER OAY WANDER
ANOA INTO MOUNT
PROPHECY... MYOBOKU...
Doi] yousrine
ane
Ne avor 377: Honored Sage Modell
Y¢1 Aa = TES
. ll ‘ . sa
<iie«

SHALL WE
START WITH
ADISPLAY OF
PRE-BATTLE
POSTURING,
SAGE
VERSION?!

FROM
THIS
MOMENT
ON, LET
SAGE
JUTSU
PREVAIL!!
WILL YA
QUIT
YER
YAKKIN’
IN MAH

Occ
y
SoSog
Se
KiSSS
\\

KEEPS GETTING
INTERRUPTED ~_
TooRy:
READ
« THis
WAY
PAY THAT FELLA'S
ATTENTION! OCULAR
THIS IS JUTSU'SA UP QUICK!
TOP-NOTCH MUCH BIGGER AH NEED TA
OCULAR CONCERN GIT HOME!
JUTSU! THAN SUPPER!

OILEMMA OF
WHAT TA COOK
DAY IN ANO
OAY OUT!
Wt

Wan
Cie
NOW, KIN
WE PUT
SPOUSAL
OIFFER-
ENCES
ASIDE...

HERE
OVER
WITH?!

9 HUNPH...
I THINK I'M
GONNA STIR
uP SOME
FRIEO PAIN
TONIGHT!
Winall
THU.
TEN
SN
TAN
SES SESSION
NS
SSS
Q SEY
WS
AS

QC SVR
Cie

ABSORBING
MY JUTSU?!
BACK!!
<ii«

KEBARI
SENBON! ty f
READ
< THis
WAY
AND WHEN I NOTA
TRIEDTO ATTACK SINGLE”
FROM BEHIND, HE WASTED
BLOCKED ME WITH _MOVE-
ASUMMONING?) \MENTA

4} \THREE WERE| |
|'SENSORY TYPES,
| THEY STILL HAVE
|| TOSEEAN |
| ATTACK COMING
IN ORDER TO 1}
COUNTERIT,

|| |ismy | |
||| FASTEST |
J q | |JUTSU| |
|| 7 {WITH THE
1 ys) ]wicest
Tad VATTACK |¢}7
ONESELF
ABSOLUTELY . AGAINST-
WORTH
~ IT 1S WITH J
LOOKIN’
INTO,
JUST LIKE
YASAIO,
JIRAIYA-

«CHOSE
YOUR JUST HAVE YOU
TARGET, AND NOw, YOU NOTICED? j
ATTACKED TOOK
FROM HIS THEIR
Yu™
BLIND SPOT, BACK...
Cie
BUT
THERE’RE
NO SIGNS
THEY'VE

«WHETHER
VERBALLY
OR WITH EYE

THEIR EYES THAT'S IT!


SHARE IT'S THEM
WAGE
WIT! ONE THE
eee THREE THERE
EYES...
ANOTHER || sHaRe WHAT ALL THREE
?
THEY SEE HAVE EYES!
THE
WIT’ ; EACH SAME

ARE THEY?
: One To One...!!
|| i alta

I NEVER
IMAGINED
HE WOULD
BE THIS
STRONG*.
UR
“N\A \ ii Wy

04,
e \ {i ti
el ee
Sumber 3 18 ° One |ne9 /One se all

WE NEED TA
SKEDADOLE,
JIRAIYA-BOyY.

156
<iie«

SIX PATHS:
NEED AND SET
some UPA

THEY
EVEN IF IN SHORT, MAY LOOK
NAGATO THEY ALL OIFFERENT,
IS ONE HAVE THE BUT THEY'VE
OF THE SIX PATHS ALL GOT
THREE... RINNEGAN... THE SAME
PUPILS...
ICAN'T
BELIEVE
: THERE'D BE
iA) THAT MANY
RINNEGAN
MILLING
AH DON'T
THINK IT
MATTERS
SO MUCH
WHICH IS
THE REAL
CRITTER.

THERE EXIST
THREE

THAT’S THE THAT THEIR


ABILITY VISION IS
THEM EYES
«AND EACH
OF THEM CAN EACH OF
SEE ALL THREE THEIR EYES
IMAGES AT ONCE, CAPTURES
LIKE WATCHING SEPARATE
THREE SENTRIES IMAGES...
SHARING A
SINGLE BRAIN.

IN SHORT,
AS LONG
AS ONE OF
+. THE OTHER
THEM |S
TWO KIN TIME
‘N SWITCH WATCHING
TA EITHER THEIR
OFFENSIVE OR TARGET...
OEFENSIVE
ACTION WITHOUT
KEEPIN’ THEIR
SIGHT TRAINED
ON THE
TARGET.
ANDO UNLIKE
THE BYAKUGAN,
THEY KIN ALWAYS.
GUARD EACH
OTHER'S BLIND THE
SPOTS WITHOUT SIGHT OF }
WEAVIN' SIGNS OTHERS.
ORMANIPULATIN’

POSITIVE Y MEANSWE
ICAN HAVE TO
WIN ONE SPLIT THEM INVINCIBLE
ON ONE... UP AND FIGHT COMBINATION.
EACH SEPA-

wa TM BUT
NINJUTSU pi ae SURE THEY AGAINST
WILL JUST BE (\ ISN'T GOING TRAIN ASA THE LIKES
THREESOME, OF THEM...
TAKING CARE
NEVERTO
SPLIT UP...

IF
NEITHER
AGAIN, I «.BUT TAMA TAIJUTSU
SEEMTO OUD WHEN IT NOR
RECALL... COMES TO NINJUTSU
GENIUTSU... IS GONNA

THING LEFT
HERE IS
SOME OF
THAT THERE
GENJUTSU,
« «
READ
THIS
WAY

IF THEY'RE
FORMER
OISCIPLES

IS HINGIN’
ON THIS
BATTLE,
AH CAN'T
SING NO
OUET WITH
PAAT THIS
PLUMP RIPE
OLD AGE!

OUR MOST
POWERFUL
GENIUTSU

5 OPPONENT'S
} SENSE OF
HEARIN’ WITH
SONG...

«TO COMBINE GENJIUTSU IS


THE SOUNDS POWERFUL,
ANO CREATE THE BUT ITS
MELODY THAT WEAKNESS IS
TRAPS THEM IN THAT ONCE
THE GENJUTSU. WE START
SINGIN’, OUR
LOCATION
WILL BE
BETRAYED.
<ii«
BUT ONCE
THEY GIT
UNDER OUR

ALTHOUGH
ITISA
<iie«
Ciie«
THAT BIG
FELLOWS
JUMPED
INTO
ABSORB
THE JUTSU! SUCCESS!

© JUSTASI 7
SUSPECTED, ~
EACH OF
THEM
POSSESSES
ONLY A
SINGLE
TYPE OF
JUTSU!
Bi
/ \ )
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/ is
WEY
WEAN \ea

if | iS |
LEDS IT
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ON
+1 WISH YOU
HAO MOVED PAST
THE PAIN AND
HARNESSED YOUR
POWER TO BRING
ABOUT PEACE IN
A POSITIVE WAY.
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ONE SUCH
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YOu

ALL
RIGHT?!
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READ
Mm « THis
WAY

\
HEY, LOOK
CLOSE! DA
THREE WE
JUST DIO IN
ARE THERE
TOO!!

PERHAPS
ONE OF THEM
THERE NEWLY
SUMMONED
ONES REVIVED
‘EMWITH SOME
SORT OF
JUTSu.,.?!

CAN'T BE
THAT MANY
JUTSU THAT
KIN REVIVE
THREE
FELLAS
THAT WERE
ASSUREDLY
OEAD?!!

188
Ci

189 TO BE CONTINUED IN NARUTO VOLUME 42!


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