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Sidebar:
Coming back from her assignment of border patrol! With her eagerness all over her face, where is Temari headed...!?
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Title:
Number 270: Miscalculation...!!
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Frame 1, Kankurou:
You're late.
Frame 2, Temari:
I may not look it, but I was in a hurry getting back. But more to the point, you were too late in giving me the job of border patrol.
Frame 3, Temari:
It's your fault for not making good preparations!
Frame 4, Kankurou:
It may look that way, but I was still recovering, so I just let you have your way. You shouldn't be saying things like that.
Frame 5, Temari:
Heh...
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Frame 1, Kankurou:
Well then...
Frame 1, Temari:
Let's go
Frame 3, Kakashi:
Wait up, Naruto! Don't go too far away from me!!
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Frame 3, Deidara, Thought:
Well... I said I was going to take care of the Jinchuuriki, but I don't even have any explosive clay left, and now even that copy ninja Kakashi is after me.
Frame 4, Deidara:
What to do... hmm.
Frame 5, Kakashi, Thought:
We've gotten too far away from Sakura and the rest. Not just that, but at this distance we can't use the radios.
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Frame 1, Kakashi, Thought:
I can't be messing around like this... No other options, guess I need to end this, with "that".
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Frame 1, Sasori:
All that brute strength, and you call yourself a girl.
Frame 3, Chiyo:
She is quite the girl... In this short period of time, she's already starting to pick up on Sasori's attack patterns.
Frame 4, Chiyo:
Enough that she can do this even without my help... To think she'd be this capable... that Tsunade... she has quite the pupil.
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Frame 1, Tsunade:
Listen up, Sakura. For a medical ninja, your ability to attack is of secondary importance.
Frame 2, Tsunade:
You know why, right?
Frame 2, Sakura:
A medical ninja plays the team's support role. More so than attacking, battle backup and medical duties come first!
Frame 3, Tsunade:
違う!!
Wrong!!
Frame 4, Sakura:
え!?
Wha!?
Frame 5, Tsunade:
A medical ninja must never be hit by the enemy's attack. The most important thing is your ability to evade attacks.
Frame 6, Sakura:
... Why is that?
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Frame 1, Tsunade:
... If the medical ninja dies, who exactly is going to care for the team?
Frame 2, Tsunade:
... Starting now I'm going to go after you for real. This is training where you'll dodge all my attacks... I won't hold back.
Frame 3, Sakura, Thought:
Their fingers move before an attack without fail. That's the weak point of a puppeteer... And I'm starting to be able to read the direction of this guy's attacks through the movement patterns of his fingers and arms...
Frame 4, Sasori, Thought:
The girl won't take her eyes off me. If things stay like this, this could take a while. It'll use a bit of chakra, but there's no way around it. Guess I'll finish her with "that"...
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Frame 1, Jutsu Text:
Satetsu Kaihou!!
(Literally... umm... "Iron Sand World Order"? I guess. Phonetically it could also be something like "Iron Sand Released". Hell, why don't we just call it "Iron Sand Gone Wild".)
Frame 4, Chiyo, Thought:
No!
Frame 5, Sakura, Thought:
That thing's going everywhere!!
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Frame 6, Chiyo:
Sakura!!
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Frame 1, Chiyo:
Sakura, are you alright!?
Frame 4, Chiyo, Flashback:
Even a scratch will be a fatal wound.
Frame 6, Chiyo:
She was cut!
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Frame 1, Sasori:
That's why I told you... I said "that's not everything".
Frame 2, Chiyo:
So you had mixed poison into the iron sand after all...!
Frame 6, Sasori:
Heheh... The poison's started working I see. Your body goes numb right away, and then stops moving. If left alone, you'll last three days, but...
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Frame 1, Sasori:
I don't intend to do that.
Frame 3, Chiyo:
This rock...!!
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Frame 6, Chiyo:
Sakura... You're...
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Frame 1, Sakura:
I have antidotes... This last one, I'll leave it with you, Chiyo-baasama.
Frame 2, Chiyo:
When did you manage to...
Frame 3, Sakura, Subframe:
I'll be able to make three uses of the antidote.
Frame 3, Sakura, Main:
When I made the antidote for Kankurou-san, I was able to make just three.
Frame 4, Sakura:
I knew that our enemy was using poison, so I brought the antidote along in shot form.
Frame 4, Chiyo:
I see... So that's how...
Frame 5, Sakura:
However, the effect of the antidote only lasts for about three minutes. During that time you can take on any amount of poison, and through the effect of the antidote it will all be changed into harmless proteins.
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Frame 1, Sakura:
I couldn't let Sasori know that I had this antidote...
Frame 2, Sakura:
My best chance was to wait until he revealed his hand and wasn't expecting anything. That's why I couldn't use it until the last moment.
Frame 3, Sakura:
Now I have about another three minutes where poison has no effect. These three minutes is our chance to win!
Frame 5, Sasori:
Fine... Let's finish this then.
Sidebar:
The strongest puppet is completely destroyed! In a battle of extremes, a beautiful talent blooms! And now, Sakura and Chiyo enter into a final, decisive battle!!
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