02x72 - Mitsuki's Will

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Who's there?!

Let's go!

Water Style: Syrup Trap!

What is he?!

Wind Style: Wind Scythe!

You're not getting away!

Damn you!

Mitsuki's Will Hey!

Mitsuki's Will

MEDICAL

I leave it to you

Okay.

Captain!

What's the status?

Two chunin guards were attackedand are in a coma.

And the assailant?

So far, we've found nothing,

but we're still in the midstof our investigation.

I see, thank you.

Mitsuki's not here yet.

He's probably stillcrashed out at home.

How would you know?

We're totally in synchwith each other.

I know everything about Mitsuki,ya know?

Is that right?

Still, I wish Big Bro Konohamaruwould have told us yesterday

that our mission's cancelled.

He said something urgent came up.

Oh well, if there's no mission,let's go tell Mitsuki in person!

What?

Yeah um, where's his house again?

Really? How are you two"totally in synch" then?

Mitsuki and I are so close,

we don't need to knowwhere we live.

Hold on, I think it was

Mitsuki! Are you there?

Maybe he's out?

You think someone contacted himsuddenly and he went out?

And not come toour meeting spot first?

That's not likely.

It's open!

Hey

Hey!

Doesn't seem like he's here.

I don't know how to say this,but his place is

so depressing.

Oh

So Mitsuki lives ina place like this.

Did you know about this, Boruto?

Nope.

But I heard he lived alone.

Come to think of it,

we never heard himtalk about his parents

or his life back inhis home village, did we?

Yeah.

Even thoughwe were always together.

We haven't seen him in a while.

I see.

It's because we were all busywith the Five Kage Summit.

Do you know of any placeswhere Mitsuki might hang out?

Hmm

Why don't you know, Boruto?

You two are always together.

Isn't that somethingyou would know better?

Hey!

Well, I guess you can beclose to someone

and be pretty much in the darkabout that sort of stuff.

We didn't find him either!

I'm getting a super nervous vibe.

I think we should alljust go home soon.

What do you mean?

They're telling all the joninto assemble in the Hokage's Office.

No wonder all team missionswere suddenly cancelled.

It's nice to get a break

but all the jonin wouldn't have beencalled up without a reason, right?

I tried asking Moegi Senseiwhat's going on,

but she just brushed me off.

I don't like the sound of this.

Dad and the others arehiding something.

Sorry!

I just rememberedsomething I gotta do.

Hey!

Hold on a minute!

This is turning into a drag

Mitsuki's gone missing?!

What's going on?

Did something happen?

We heard all the jonin wereordered to assemble.

No, it's just a meeting to go overthe Five Kage Summit.

You haven't heard anythingabout Mitsuki?

We can't find him anywhere,ya know!

You know Mitsuki.It's probably nothing.

Aren't you worried, Big Bro?!

Look, I've got to go!

Just stay out of trouble, okay?

Did you pick up on that?

Yeah, Big Bro Konohamaruis hiding something too.

Who's there?

Just a little more!

Shh!

The main troop is alreadyon the move.

If it turns out to be an att*ck

the Police Force won't be ableto handle it alone.

An att*ck?What do they mean?

This doesn't clear anything up.

Seems the other chunin's conditionhas stabilized.

I see. At least that'ssome good news.

Still, it's been a while sincewe've been provoked directly.

Is there a chancethat it's the Otsutsuki?

If it was, Sasuke would havecontacted us already.

But today, the Five Kage havea cooperative relationship.

And there's been nothing unusualwith the other villages.

How about the possibility of itbeing t*rrorists or rebels?

We're continuing our investigation,

but without a statementfrom the attackers,

any sort of conclusionis difficult.

Since they only attackedthe guards at the gate,

there's no wayto read their motives.

Who's there?!

I return from a long tripto all of this, Naruto?

Granny Tsunade!

It's the Fifth Hokage,Lady Tsunade.

What?

She always used to scold mewhen I was a kid

She's really scary when she snaps!

What did you do anyway?

Lady Fifth!

When did you return?

Never mind that.

I heard that Leaf shinobiwere att*cked.

Yeah, before dawn this morning.

The chunin guards at the gatewere att*cked.

Naturally, you're investigating?

What's going on?

Well, you see

This was left at the site.

Does it belong to one of the chuninwho was att*cked?

No. I wanted to verify,

so I asked Konohamaruto attend this meeting.

This belongs to Mitsuki.

Mitsuki?!

He's connected to the att*ck?

As expected.

No one's seen him fromthis morning.

Boruto and the others saidthe same thing

So they were after Mitsuki?

That's a high possibility.

Considering Mitsuki's position,

it's not unusual for himto be targeted.

Mitsuki? Who's that?

That's right

I haven't told you about that yet,Granny Tsunade

We're ready for the investigation.

Please explain everythingto her later.

We need to head tothe medical department now.

MEDICAL DEPARTMENT

Ino's going to use her jutsu now

to check the memories ofthe chunin who were att*cked.

Due to the seriousnessof this incident,

we asked you two advisorsto sit in.

We'd like your input in orderto decide how to proceed.

To think you'd call us in.

What is going on?

Okay, Ino We leave it to you.

Right.

So, this will help find outwho took Mitsuki?

Considering their injuries,it's dangerous to probe too deep.

We can only take a glimpse justbefore they lost consciousness.

That's the limit.

Yeah, that's fine.

We should be able to find outjust what happened.

I found it

I can see images from the incident.

Let's get out of here now.

M-Mitsuki!

No way! It can't be!

He ran toward the setting moon

then the memory cuts off.

Are you absolutely sure about that?

Yes

He wasn't kidnapped.

He left of his own free will

What about the possibility of someoneusing a Transformation Jutsu?

It's possible,but for what purpose?

As long as we don't knowwhere he is,

we have to assumethis was indeed Mitsuki.

This is turning into a drag.

What's up with that?

It's got to be some mistake,ya know!

If this shinobi named Mitsuki isconnected to the assailants,

we can't let him go.

Yeah, I know that.

Just a minute.

Isn't it premature to concludethat Mitsuki's a traitor?

He isn't the kind of person

who would do something like thiswithout a reason.

We should first contacthis guardian.

I believe he's fromthe Hidden Sound Village.

The Hidden Sound?

We should be able to contact himimmediately through a monitor

Are you sayinghe's been under observation

even before this incident?

Naruto! Just what are you hiding?

What's the meaning of this,Lord Seventh?

Konohamaru,

Mitsuki is

Orochimaru's son.

What are your intentions, Naruto?!

In the past, Orochimaru causedthe Hidden Leaf irreparable harm!

You saw it with your own eyes!

Yeah, there's no way I'd forget that

However, I accepted Mitsuki

as simply a shinobi.

“ However ”! “ Besides ”!

Orochimaru has no reason to makea move at this time.

His moves aren't somethingyou can rationalize.

Yes, but the data fromOrochimaru's research

will be critical to the Ninja World whenthe time comes to battle the Otsutsuki.

It was from that reasoningthat Naruto

Then what about Mitsuki?

Do you intend on leaving him be?

In any case, it should clear by now.

Orochimaru's son poses as much dangerto the Hidden Leaf

as his parent.

He is the son of the shinobiwho k*lled the Third Hokage.

Isn't it common sense to consider hima dangerous presence to the Leaf?

Mitsuki isn't like that!

If we can't count on Dad andthe others doing something,

we have to do it!

I just don't get it.

Get what?

The memories that Ino sawweren't lies or illusions.

You heard whatBig Bro Konohamaru said!

Mitsuki isn't the kind of person

who would do something like thiswithout a reason.

But we don't know everythingabout Mitsuki, do we?

That's not true!

We didn't even know anythingabout Mitsuki's parent.

You mean aboutthat Orochimaru guy?

I met him just once, but

He was conducting strange research

and he felt like someoneI didn't want to get near.

What's that got to do with this?

Mitsuki is Mitsuki!

But when he heard that Mitsuki's fatherwas Orochimaru,

Konohamaru Sensei wasreally shocked.

The others said he wasa dangerous presence too.

You must know deep downin your heart too, right, Boruto?

That there's a lot thatwe don't know a lot about Mitsuki.

Still

Mitsuki is our friend, isn't he?

If we don't have faithin him right now,

who will?!

I want to trust Mitsuki too.

“ Then ”! “ But ”!

We're shinobi.

We have to put asideour emotions,

and analyze every possibilityout there.

Even if it involves a friend who

Betrayed us?Is that what you want to say?

Do what you want.

Wait!

We're not done talking!

Listen, Sarada

What?

The Hokage that you want to become

Is it just a shinobiwith amazing skills?

I thought you, of all people,would have given Mitsuki

the benefit of the doubtuntil the very end.

Later!

THUNDER BURGER

I heard about Mitsuki.

Shikadai!

Just now,

the village went into a temporarymaximum level emergency security alert.

Anyone leaving the villagewithout authorization

will be treated as a deserter.

Then what about Mitsuki?!

An official tracking team is supposedto be formed to go after him.

In the worst case, as a criminal.

Why doesn't anyone trust him?

Hey!

Don't think aboutdoing anything stupid.

I'll behave myself.

I'm just exhausted.So many things happened today.

Where the hell did you go?

Hey, you're Mitsuki's ”!

What's going on?

I'm not gonna let you have it!

What was that?

Boruto!

Boruto!

This is

This is

my

will.

"My will"?

What the hell is going on?

AUN

Sarada.

Isn't that ”!

I got a message from Mitsuki.

What did he say?

"This is my will."

That's all.

Does that mean he left the villageof his own free will?

Maybe.

But there's no wayto verify it staying here.

There's no way I can understandwhy he left.

Even thoughwe were always together,

I wasn't able tounderstand him at all

It's only after Mitsuki leftthat I realized it.

You're right.

That's why I want to see him again,and make sure

what Mitsuki's will is.

If you leave the village now,this time,

you'll be the one huntedby your friends.

Do you know that?

Yeah I've made up my mind.

I'm gonna trust Mitsuki.

Right now, that's my will.

Let's take that snake toOrochimaru's research lab.

We can probablyget more information there.

Until we find outwhat Mitsuki's thinking,

I'll keep you company.

Are you okay with that?

You'll end up being pursued too.

You and Mitsuki aren'tthe only members of Team !

I want to knowwhat Mitsuki's will is too!

Sarada

Besides,

if I leave it all up to you,

who knows whatyou'll end up doing?

Oh, shut up!

Hey, about Mitsuki's snake

Will we really find out more justby asking this Orochimaru guy?

Probably.

I think asking him about the snakeis the quickest route.

All right!

Let's get some clues quicklyand find Mitsuki, ya know!

But Orochimaru conductssome really questionable research

Next time on BorutoNaruto Next Generations:

"The Other Side of the Moon"

Wait for us, Mitsuki!

THE OTHER SIDEOF THE MOON