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Red Vapor. The blood vapor... that's peculiar to all eight gates being open.

Heh! But now, actually seeing it with my own eyes... it's almost the

color of dead autumn leaves that've fallen off their tree...

I'll admit, you're not wrong. But they're not falling without reason or purpose!

Hm?

They'll become the nourishment for fresh green leaves!

And thus the period they bridge, until the new spring when fresh leaves bud once again...

...is the climax of youth! When it burns most crimson!

"The Eight Inner Gates Formation"

Now, First Step!

Go for it, Guy Sensei!

I am already... I am.

[yelling]

[struggling]

Guy, is- is that your-?!

Sensei's Sekizo, The Evening Elephant!

Second Step!

Ah!

He stopped partway?!

Sekizo should be a continuous attack that can be shifted up in speed from

one to five times.

I see... What unbelievable pain!

But I've acclimated. Next time I can keep going without giving him an opening.

Great stress is placed on the body even through the Fifth Gate of Closing...

I bet the Gate of Death's level of pain is something that exceeds my imagination!

A Taijutsu move that bombards one with blows of punched air...

A kind of air cannon...

Getting hit by four or five of those would be bad.

And... I should definitely avoid getting hit by the fists that are creating them.

Did he succeed?!

[gasping]

One rarely gets to fight the Eight Inner Gates Formation! All right I'm game!

I'll play with you.

[grunting]

Madara still can't be taken down, huh...?

But what exactly has Might Guy done?

The Eight Inner Gates Formation.

It lets someone draw out their maximum power by releasing all the limiters

that are placed on it.

This is the final stage of the jutsu Lee used against you in the Chunin Exams so long ago.

Releasing all eight limiters results in power tens of times greater than that of

the Five Kage.

But it's only temporary. And afterward...

... the user will inevitably... die.

He's making his way towards me by kicking air!

...he is my student. And also because he is precious to me.

Rock Lee, are you...?

No, I am not sad!

Showing compassion or sorrow to someone who has resolved himself... would be an affront!

[yelling]

We have to go lend assistance to Guy, so listen up!

Sensei, those black weapons of Madara's are troublesome.

They don't activate from nothing. They're an always on standby type that undergo...

Change in Form...

And also... their impact points...

...disappear. But there's clear sensation if they make contact with you. He can

only send them about seventy meters out before losing control.

Since they physically exist and can be traced and followed, your

Kamui should be able to work on them, Kakashi.

By sending them away, we can prevent Madara from controlling them.

To be frank,... I'm starting to lose sight in my left eye.

I'm going to have to get pretty close to them to target them accurately.

Gaara, can you ready some sand?

In order to transport Kakashi, is that what you're thinking?

But it won't be fast enough to avoid Madara's attacks.

Don't you worry. That's my job.

Kakashi will carry one of my kunai.

Eight Inner Gates: The Sixth Gate of Joy!

Open!

[gasping]

You've mastered the Eight Inner Gates, too?!

I can only open up to the Sixth Gate.

I have never cursed my own lack of power as much as I do now!

No. It seems to me that it's plenty, Lee.

Huh?

You're still a fresh new leaf... that Guy wants to risk his life to protect!

Lee, I want you to stay here to support and guard Gaara.

And one other thing... Take one of my kunai.

First Step!

[gasping]

He's fast!

Second Step!

Third Step! Fourth Step!

[grunting]

I can't move!

Fifth Step!

Just keep forging on, Guy! Go!

Here he comes!

[yelling]

Great timing, Lee!

Kamui!

[coughing]

[heavy breathing]

Huh?!

You're the first since Hashirama to make me this excited!

You can still dance, can't you? Do you have any other moves?

Come on, give me some more fun!

He got up... from a Sekizo barrage?!

[gasping]

Where am I? Does this mean...?

...I'm dead?

What makes thee think thou art dead?

[gasping]

Thine ethical viewpoint on death differs much from that which prevailed in my time.

To so easily replace oneself with the term 'death', thou must gain mettle, oh fledgling.

Who are you?

'Tis quite precise question for this place but...

I am quite uneasy over whether thou shalt be able to connect my name with my

actions as a herald...

Uh--

I am he who shall achieve peace and order...

And my name is Hagoromo.

But on the other hand...

I had already foreseen that thou wouldst end up in such a state as that one, after all.

Uh... I don't really understand what he's saying... He seems to be one

of those annoying geezers!

Hey... Sorry, gramps, but I--

Now then...

No way! Those eyes!

Rinnegan!

Thou dost appear to possess observant eyes.

All that remains is for thee to pragmatically comprehend thy circumstances...

Firstly, thou hast not died as of yet... This place is thine own inner mind.

I understand thine haste--

This geezer's not an enemy... But...

Look, a lot simpler, please! Can't you just speak using easy, normal words?!

Forgive me. I'm an anachronism.

Over the passage of much time, cultural traditions and notions, ethics, have

managed to bring about some rather significant changes.

In each instance where I cross time and meet a reincarnate, I have come to

sense greatly the differences between myself and the other....

I was also able to formalistically regulate and learn new mores and words,

however-

Shut up, already!

I don't have the time to be sitting around and listening to some weird

geezer prattle on, you know?!

Not just searching for words... But there also remains some ambiguity in

scholarship.

If communication of wills can't be achieved in addition to difficulty of

definition...

I can see that I shall have to speak simply...

...taking into account current idealistic and materialistic thinking.

Listen, are you an alien or something? I mean, you do seem super dignified but...

That's a bit much dontcha think? An alien? Seriously? [chuckling]

Huh...?!

Well, maybe that ain't too far off. Anyway...

Hmm?

You still don't understand?

That conversation would pose such a complex challenge...

No! No, no! That was fine just now!

No, I finally get you! I was just shocked 'cause your speaking style changed so much, ya know?

Oh, yeah, for real? Then I'll keep going like this. I'm much pleased!

Uh, yeah...

[groaning]

Oh... uh... but those words don't really match up with your face at all, so it's

kinda super-scary...

And he loses all dignity too...

I guess... dial it back a touch and be a bit formal...

Or else you sound kinda lame.

Now you're going too far, no? What do you mean by lame?!

Although, considering how I was talking, I guess I can't blame you...

So... does this sound all right, then?

That's it! All right! That's just perfect!

Indeed. I'm getting the hang of it, too.

Oh, man, finally, I can talk with you!

So, anyway, who are you? And if you know a lot about this place, I want to know how to

get out of here, all right, gramps? I'm in a hurry!

Don't ask everything all at once!

I'm someone from the past, someone who is already dead.

A monk wandering the world as chakra, crossing generations, ascertaining

the course of Ninshu, the Ninja Creed.

My name's Hagoromo. I'm the founder of Ninshu, the Ninja Creed, known as the Sage of Six Paths.

The Sage of Six Paths?!

You mean that you're the sage that Nagato and Pervy Sage told me about?! Really?!

Oh, so you know of me?

Yeah, of course I do! You're the one who first created Ninjutsu right?

No, not ninjutsu, but ninshu... the Ninja Creed that I had meant to be

something that gave birth to hope.

Do not confuse it with ninjutsu, which just breeds conflict.

Oh, well, in any case, if you're the Sage, I've got tons of things that I wanna ask you.

But first, right now...

Huh?

You are my son, Ashura's.

In any event, right now a lot of conditions have lined up...

There are things that I must entrust you with.

What is all this? Ashura? Entrust me?

Look, no offense, but quit spouting nonsense and let me get out of here, all right?!

I apologize, but unfortunately that's not something that I can affect.

That all depends on the actions of those outside.

For now, I can only relay things to you.

We're back to this? You're starting to lose me again here, Gramps.

It means that right now... trying to rush won't make any difference.

So, I'd like you to listen to me. No! You must hear this.

First, I'll tell you about my mother and my sons.

My mother, Kaguya Otsutsuki, came to this land of yours from a faraway place in

order to claim the fruit of the Divine Tree.

The chakra fruit of that same Divine Tree that you have seen in this very war.

Kaguya consumed the fruit, gained power, and subdued this land.

So where did Kaguya come from, anyway? And is she stronger than you?

Well, I guess that all moms are pretty scary when they're mad, huh?!

It matters not from where she came. Yes, Mother was powerful. More powerful than any other.

Some called my mother the Rabbit Goddess and others a demon. They both worshipped and feared her.

Later, Kaguya would give birth to two sons. I was one of them.

We brothers, to atone for the crimes mother left behind, battled Ten Tails,

an incarnation of the Divine Tree, and sealed it inside me.

The Divine Tree, robbed of its Chakra Fruit, went on a rampage in an attempt to recover it.

And then... much, much later, I had two sons of my own.

I named the elder Indra and the younger Ashura,... and I taught them the Ninja Creed.

But there was a huge difference between the two of them.

One possessed the genes that contained my powerful chakra, and the other one did not.

This manifested in the most extreme manner.

Uh, it's starting to get hard to follow you again, you know?

What does all this stuff mean?

In short...

There was the exceptional older brother Indra and the dunce younger brother Ashura.

So he was a dunce, huh? Even though his dad's the Sage of Six Paths?

Perhaps there's no need to say this to you, but...

No matter how exceptional both parents may be, there's no guarantee one

will inherit outright either of their abilities. Sound familiar?

Just as it seems to have been in your case, Naruto.

[sighing] For some reason, I understand that completely.

And you are truly quite similar to Ashura. In your actions, as well.

Huh? What do you mean, my actions?

Indra and Ashura walked very different paths in life.

Elder brother Indra possessed strong Visual Prowess and senses from

birth... and was called a genius.

He always did everything by himself, leaning only on his own strength, and came to

understand that his powers were different and special.

He perceived that power could achieve everything.

On the other hand, nothing ever went well for little brother Ashura from the time

he was small, and he couldn't do anything on his own.

In order to attain the same power as his older brother, he always needed the

cooperation of others in addition to his own effort.

While struggling through training, the power of bodily chakra awakened

within him, and he attained power rivaling his brother's.

He understood that he became strong thanks to the cooperation and help of

those around him.

He learned of the love for others that arises from thinking about them...

...and perceived that it was love that can achieve everything.

I believe that I caught a glimpse of new possibilities

within younger brother Ashura's way of living.

I partitioned the power of the Ten Tails that was inside of me, named each of the pieces...

...and believed that the bond known as cooperation was true power.

Hm.

And I then named the younger brother Ashura as the leader and as the guardian of the

Ninja Creed...

...believing that his older brother Indra would cooperate with his younger brother.

However...

Huh?

Indra did not accept my decision. And thus, from that day on...

... interminable conflict raged.

Even after their flesh perished, the chakra that the two honed continued to

reincarnate across time, without vanishing...over and over.

That's creepy. It kinda sounds like being haunted by a ghost.

So, is it still possessing someone even now?

It possesses you, Naruto.

Huh?!

Younger brother Ashura has reincarnated as you.

If all chakra were to be reunited into one again, a new Chakra Fruit would take shape.

That must be prevented at all costs or this world will end.

I would like you to stop Madara.

I feel the possibility exists there... in your maverick nature.

Next time on Naruto Shippuden: "The Sage of the Six Paths."

So you still believe in us. Thank you.