Naruto: Shippūden quotes

Gaara

Naruto. I will have you know that this is also a battle to protect the Eight-Tails and Nine-Tails, mainly you. So for the sake of the shinobi world and as Kazekage, I will make sure to protect you at all costs. And if as an Akatsuki subordinate, Sasuke were to stand against our Allied Shinobi Forces, I will not show mercy. [flashes back to his confrontation with Sasuke] I'm afraid that Sasuke doesn't see you anymore. The only thing he sees now is darkness. Naruto, you told me that you would become Hokage one day. Well I've become Kazekage. And if you've truly resolved to become a Kage, then you're going to need to do what must be done as Sasuke's friend.

Temari

We've said everything we came here to say so let's go, Gaara. We're going to head back home to our village now. Kakashi Hatake, the Sand will proceed as if you will be confirmed as the Hokage. As an ally we ask that there be no confusion in communications.

Kakashi

Understood.

Gaara

[to Naruto] I consider you a friend. In the past, "friend" was just a word to me. Nothing more, nothing less. But after meeting you, I realized something. What's important is the meaning of that word.

Karin

[to Sasuke] You okay? Hurry, go on, bite down!

Danzo

[Last words, regarding the Third Hokage] You were the tree leaf upon which light shone. I was nothing but a foundation hidden in darkness.

Sakura

[flashing back while going to kill Sasuke] Sasuke, when did I fall in love with you? It seems so long ago but back then, I was just infatuated with how cool you were. And then, even better than I could have hoped, you became my teammate. Together we were Team 7. Being teammates didn't change my feelings. I was still hopelessly in love with the cool Sasuke. Just gazing at his handsome face was enough for me. I never gave a moment's thought to who he really was behind that pensive face. You carried a shadow inside you, and when I finally noticed it was too late. Naruto knew. He knew about your shadow, your dark burden. I was the one left behind. But even then my feelings didn't change. I tried in my own way to catch up to the two of you. But Sasuke is no longer the person we once thought he was. He's far beyond our reach now. But I'm also grateful. However, I've already decided. I'm going to take care of Sasuke myself.

Karin

[as Sasuke prepares to kill her] I wish I could've seen your face from those days just one more time.

Kakashi

Sasuke, I've told you this before and I don't like to repeat myself, but I'll say this once more. [flashes back to saying these words] Let it go. You've got to forget about revenge.

Sasuke

[Laughs maniacally] Itachi, my father, my mother, my entire clan! Bring them all here to me! Do that and I'll quit right now!

Kakashi

I don't want to kill you.

Sasuke

Do you really think you can kill me at any moment you wish? Stop acting like you're still my sensei! Go ahead and try something if you like, I'm just itching to kill you, Kakashi!

Kakashi

[having to kill Sasuke] Now I finally understand what the Third Hokage must have gone through.

Kakashi

I think deep down you know the truth.

Sasuke

[insane] All the laughter, every one of you is laughing! Itachi sacrificed his life but you're still laughing, cackling together like fools you're just ignorant of EVERYTHING! I can hear nothing but contempt and jeering in your voices. I want to change those laughs to screams and wails of misery!

Sasuke

Not long ago I finally got my revenge on the one behind Itachi's betrayal. I took down a high ranking Hidden Leaf elder right here, the one called Danzo.

Kakashi

What? Sasuke killed Danzo all by himself?

Sasuke

I've never felt like this before. I can feel the tainted Uchiha name becoming cleansed, I feel the Uchiha at last being freed from this rotting shinobi world. You couldn't even begin to understand it. And besides, isn't what I'm doing exactly what you Leaf shinobi have wanted all along? You've always snubbed and put down the Uchiha clan, so I'll simply help erase the Uchiha from your memories... by killing all of you and then destroying the Hidden Leaf Village! Severing all bonds with the Hidden Leaf will be the ultimate purification and that shall lead to the Uchiha's true restoration!

Sasuke

Naruto, no matter what you say to me, I'm not changing. I'm still going to kill each and every person in the Hidden Leaf, including you! I'll get revenge for the Uchiha clan.

Naruto

But is that really the only way Sasuke?

Sasuke

Your only choices are to kill me and become the hero who saved the entire village, or get killed by me and be known as a loser!

Naruto

If you attack the Hidden Leaf, I'll have no choice. I will fight you, don't doubt that. Until that day, save your hatred. Then you can throw all of it right at me. I'm the only one who can handle all that hate! Do you understand? I'm the only one who can fulfill that duty, so I'll bear the burden of your hatred, and I'll die with you!

Sasuke

What is it with you huh? Just what in the hell do you want from me?! Why are you so fixated on me?!

Naruto

Because you're my friend.

Sakura

Naruto stands her with clear resolve... [flashes back to his words] While my courage and determination do nothing to waver. I'm a Shinobi too, but I'm always crying and relying too much on Naruto. I came here thinking I was past all that, but still I hesitate. I haven't really prepared myself at all. I can't do anything, I can't say anything. All I can do is to trust them.

Sakura

Naruto, as always, thank you. Because of you I still don't have to give up on my dream that Team 7 will laugh together again one day.

Sasuke

[After having Itachi's eyes transplanted] They fit quite nicely. I feel Itachi's visual prowess. I can tell that I've already become so much stronger.

So what that you've come up with some autograph!? What a joke! Everyone in the village is just falling over themselves to deceive you. They've been lying to us since we were kids, inventing stupid rules and making us outcasts. Don't you remember that?! It was always so hard, and so painful too. I'm the only one who will ever understand you. You can't trust any of those villagers!

Naruto

Maybe. The villagers are important, but there's someone else that I have to trust more first. What I need to do right now is believe in myself. I need to trust the me that all the villagers believe in.