Long ago those words of yours freed me from the shackles of fate.
Why would you go so far for me? Even give up your life? Why?
[last words] Because you called me a genius... [thinking] Father, I finally understand the freedom you felt, choosing to die to protect your comrades.
Didn't you say you wouldn't let any of your comrades die? Naruto! You said "I'll never let my comrades die". Those were your words. Now look around you and try to say it again! I said try to say those words again! As the bodies of your comrades grow cold in your arms, take in their deaths!
Hizashi, forgive me. Neji is...
This will just keep happening and all your flippant words and ideals will become lies. This is the end result of ideals and hopes. This is reality. Naruto, what is there for you in this reality? Your mother and father are gone. Your master Jiraiya too. And if you keep standing against us, you'll lose all your friends one by one. This shall become a world where no one that acknowledges you will exist.
Obito.
The only thing that awaits you is your worst nightmare, which you know very well. Solitude!
You have become almost exactly like the old me, Obito. Naruto will fall shortly, which will break the will of the Allied Forces.
So why keep living in this reality huh? Now come join us, Naruto!
[slaps Naruto to snap him out of it] Neji just said that in your hands you hold more than one life. Do you understand what he meant? Do you? "I'll never let my comrades die". Those words and the conviction behind them are not lies! For he stored them in his heart and lived them out til the end. Neji really did. It isn't just you, it's all of us. We all hold those words and feelings in our hearts. They're what bind our lives together and make us comrades. If we were all to give up and just discard those words and feelings, Neji's act will have been for nothing. And that is when your comrades truly die, for you are no longer comrades then. That's how I feel. So please stand up together with me Naruto, because never going back on one's word... That is also my ninja way!
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