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406 - Unlock the Future
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Tsunade meets with Ibiki Morino and brings with her one of
Jiraiya’s frogs which is still holding a shinobi from the
Hidden Rain Village inside. Ibiki mentions that Jiraiya had
told him about something like this before he left and asks the frog to
enlarge itself.
Fukasaku’s words still linger in
Tsunade’s mind. In her office earlier, he explained
to Naruto that Jiraiya never wanted to fight with Pein. But
when they fought, Pein was beyond anything they could handle.
Jiraiya did everything he
could to salvage something out of this lost battle. He willed
himself back to life just so he get his vital message back to
Konoha. Tsunade walks away and tells Ibiki to not hold
anything back while interrogating their captured Rain ninja.
Inside a surgical room at another location in
Konoha, a medical team begins their dissection of the corpse of one of
Pein’s bodies which Jiraiya managed to slay.
Elsewhere at the cryptology squad’s headquarters, Shikamaru
asks for an update on the progress in decrypting Jiraiya’s  code.
The chief of the department responds that the code is definitely not
written in any of the Leaf’s algorithms. He
suspects that Jiraiya’s code can’t be very complex
as he made it just before dying. A female member of the
cryptology team named Shiho suggests to Shikamaru that Jiraiya probably
made the code so that only someone close to him would have access to
the right “combination” to crack it. She
suggests that Shikamaru try talking to those who were close to Jiraiya
in order to seek out some clues. Shikamaru thanks them and
says he will come back if he needs more help. Shiho stares
after him as he leaves, all the while blushing. The chief
says he is going home, but Shiho touches up her hair in the mirror and
insists on staying behind.
Shikamaru visited Tsunade first but turned up no new
information on the code. Next, he catches Kakashi to see if
the numbers ring any bells for him. Kakashi sees the number
‘106’ and pauses for a moment. He
remembers back to an incident in the past where Jiraiya murmured that
very number while standing next to him on the street.
However, Jiraiya was starring at Tsunade’s breasts at the
time and what he meant was 106cm - his estimate of Tsunade’s
bust size. Kakashi immediately throws out that  idea
as a possible clue for the code. He recommends that Shikamaru
go see Naruto next and, if anything, to try to cheer him up.
Shikamaru is greeted by a depressed and gloomy Naruto at his
home. Inside the room, he shows Naruto a picture of the code,
but Naruto completely blanks out. Shikamaru gets up and tells Naruto to
come with him for a minute. They arrive at the Konoha
hospital where a very much pregnant Kurenai Yuhi exits from its
doors. Naruto is astounded, but for the wrong
reason. He assumed
that Kurenai must have eaten too much barbeque and had to get treated
at the hospital. Shikamaru comments that Naruto is even worse
than Choji and tells him that Kurenai is carrying a kid in her womb,
not beef.
Kurenai smiles and tells Shikamaru that he
doesn’t need to come see her off everyday like this, but
Shikamaru replies he is obligated to because he promised Asuma he
would. As Kurenai walks away, Shikamaru tells Naruto that one
day Asuma’s child will become his pupil. He says to
Naruto that he knows how he feels regarding Jiraiya’s death
because he himself also lost his sensei.
Shikamaru’s advice for Naruto is to move on because nothing
will happen if he keeps dwelling on this.
Both Asuma and Jiraiya had taught them a lot of
things, and soon it will be time for Naruto and Shikamaru to stop being
students and start being adults who pass on knowledge to the next
generation. Shikamaru tells Naruto that they can’t
remain as kids forever - not if they want to grow up into great shinobi
like Asuma and Jiraiya. These words bring a smile to
Naruto’s face and brightens his day. Shikamaru
holds up the picture of the code again and tells Naruto to get back on
track because they have a job to do.
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