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Chapter50: Battle at the Valley of the End

Kakashi was running through the forest following his personal summon Pakkun, who was following the scent of the rookies. He was going at top speed in order to reach them before something happened. After running for a bit of time he ran into something that he wasn't really expecting. A forest made of a white stone-like substance. Both him and Pakkunj stooped at the edge of it as Kakashi pressed a hand on one of them. He instantly recognized what it was. "Bone?" he didn't have time to think about it much when Pakkun spoke.

"Kakashi up there."

Kakashi looked down at Pakkun to see he was pointing a paw upwards. Following the path of where he was pointing, he saw a few people on one of the high branches of one of the bone constructs. He jumped up to where they were and saw that it was the retrieval team as well as the extras that followed after them. "Well nice to see you all here."

Everyone jumped when they heard a new voice and turned around to see it was Kakashi and Pakkun.

Shikamaru was the one to speak "Kakashi-san what are you doing here?"

Kakashi eyed smiled as he pointed to Ino, Hinata, and Karin "I came to make sure that no problems came up with these unauthorized extras. Although I am impressed that they were able to catch up to you so quickly since they had a few days head start on you three."

Choji perked up at this and began to speak "you can thank Naru...mmmphh!"

Ino had slapped her hand over Choji's mouth to make sure he didn't say anything about Naruto giving them a ride. 'I don't know if Kakashi knows about Naruto being here with us but I am not taking any chances.'

Kakashi did notice the slip about Naruto and wondered how he actually helped them get here faster. 'Maybe he gave them a ride on his back heh heh.' he had no clue how close to the truth he was at that moment. He then noticed the lack of said person. "Where's Naruto?"

Ino mentally cursed 'damn it.'

Shikamaru pointed into a direction as he spoke "he went after Sasuke. He left before we could get here."

Kakashi nodded his head at this before looking behind him and eye-smiled "well it's good to know you can at least try to keep up."

Ino looked to where he was looking and saw a pair of new arrivals "Forehead?!"

Sakura landed right behind Kakashi and had her hands on her knees as she tried to catch her breath. Behind her was Haku making sure that she was ok. She would admit that training with Haku had helped her out a lot but she was still lacking when it comes to stamina. "Hey …..pig."

Ino put her hands on her hips as she asked "what are you doing here?"

Haku was the one to answer "we have come to help out in any way we can. Kakashi-san had just arrived from a mission some time ago and in the process of leaving the village, he came across us and informed us about the situation. We offered our services and he accepted as he said it would help make things go smoother."

Pakkun took a sniff in the air and chose to speak up. "Don't want to rush things but I smell rain coming. If we don't hurry, we could lose their scent."

Kakashi looked to Pakkun and nodded "then let's move." before he could begin to move out he was stopped for a second by Neji

"We are coming with you."

Kakashi looked to everyone there and could see that they were all in the same boat with this decision. He would have told them to go back to the village and let him handle it but they looked like they would not abandon their friend. 'Their will of fire burns brightly…..Guy must never know I thought anything REMOTELY close to his youth montage.' he nodded to everyone and they began to jump at high speeds towards Naruto and Sasuke.

~Valley of the End~

Naruto glared at Sasuke for multiple reasons. One of which was the foul chakra he could feel coming off f the Uchiha. It was also clearly visible since half of his face had black flame-like markings that seemed to bleed into his left eye, changing its color from the onyx black to a sickening yellow much like Orochimaru's. However, the main reason Naruto was glaring at Sasuke was that he was betraying his home. Now Naruto had no real attachment to the village itself, heck if he wanted he could leave the village and never come back but the people he cared for the most lived there and they are what anchored him to it. They are what made him call the village home and this Uchiha was spitting on it by going to one of the biggest traitors that came out of it. His glared grew when he looked to the boy's forehead.

"So why are you here dobe?"

Naruto shifted his gaze back to the Uchiha's eyes and clenched his fist when he registered the question "you abandon the village to go to that snake that caused us so much trouble, a team is sent after you and you ask why I'm here?" Naruto took a deep breath before smirking "honestly….I'm just here to kick your ass."

Sasuke gave a cocky smirk when he heard this "I'd like to see you try."

Naruto glared at him before sighing "you still don't get it, do you?" he flexed his hand, allowing his claws to come out.

Sasuke tensed his muscles as he activated his Sharingan. "And what don't I get?"

Naruto crouched into a very low stance with his hands on the ground.

A drop of water fell from the sky between both boys

Sasuke got into a stance, readying himself for the fight

"...you aren't that strong."

The drop of water landed in the water at the top of the waterfall and as if that was the cue, both boys charged at each other.

~Naruto vs Sasuke, choose your music~

Naruto dodged the fist that was aimed for his face and ducked low to send a hard fist into the Uchiha's solar plexus.

Sasuke felt the air leave his lungs but he would not let this stop him. Gritting his teeth he brought up a knee and hit Naruto in the face which was strong enough to get the blonde off his feet

Naruto used the momentum of the kick to flip in the air and brought his foot up hitting Sasuke in the chin and sending him into the air.

Both boys were sent back and spun in the air before landing on their feet

Sasuke used his right wrist to wipe the blood dripping from his mouth

Naruto rubbed his nose as it was sore but not broken. He could feel his healing factor already dulling the pain

"You've drawn first blood! Destroy this arrogant little shit and rid the world of another Uchiha!"

'Tou-chan! You have that masked Uchiha to hate. This one is mine.'

"Fine but you better end him, kit."

Naruto rolled his eyes. He knew his father hated Uchihas and he himself wasn't really fond of them either but this was his fight. He charged at Sasuke and delivered a kick that should have sent the boy flying but to his shock all it did was cause him to skid the water a bot.

Sasuke felt his arms numb a bit from the kick but was able to push through it. When he stopped skidding, he moved forward and caught a still stunned Naruto by surprise as he lowered himself and lifting his leg to start his "Lions Barrage!"

Naruto felt the kick send him upwards and mentally shook himself out of his shock as he then felt another kick on his side. 'His hits are harder.' after the second kick was done he rotated himself in the air and caught the next kick.

Sasuke could see it but he just couldn't believe it and his Hsairngan was memorizing what was happening. Naruto stopped his assault. He then felt himself be pulled forward and saw Naruto send a left hook into his face. It was followed by a spin kick that sent him flying towards the edge of the waterfall. Sasuke saw that he was about to fall off the edge and in a quick motion he pulled out a kunai and ninja wire. With the wire already tied in the loop, he sent the kunai towards Naruto.

Naruto saw the kunai and leaned out of the way but he was confused when he saw a wire attached to it. His confusion was short-lived as he saw Sasuke give a tug at the other end of the wire and the kunai changed direction and the wire began to wrap around him.

Sasuke used all his strength to pull the still airborne Uzumaki towards him causing both of them to fall down to the bottom of the waterfall.

Both boys fell into the water hard causing both to feel a bit disoriented.

Sasuke was the first to break the water surface. Getting up to stand on the water he looked at the wire that was still in his hand. It had wrapped around it and he began to try and undo it. He stopped when an explosion came out of the water just a bit away from him. Looking he saw Naruto land on the water, free from being wrapped up.

Naruto had the wire in his left hand and felt the need to pay Sasuke back. Bring his hand back he yanked the Uchiha towards him. Getting ready he pulled his right fist back and punch Sasuke hard in the face when he was close enough.

Sasuke was sent flying but his flight was cut short when the wire wrapped around his hand forced him to stop abruptly in the air. A loud pop could be heard and he knew that his arm was forcefully dislocated "ARG!" he landed on the water and glared up at Naruto. Slowly getting to his feet he gritted his teeth as he forced his arm back in place. Breathing heavily he looked to the wire still wrapped around his hand. Pulling out a kunai with his free hand he cut the wire and freed it. Noticing that Naruto still had the other end in his hand he thought of something. Grabbing his end he flung it around a bit making sure to get the wrist movement right.

"Kit! Let go of the wire!"

Naruto looked down at his hand in time to see the wire loop around his wrist. "Shit!"

Sasuke spun on his feet and used all his strength to begin swinging Naruto around.

Naruto felt the world begin to spin and not just because he was actually spinning. He pulled himself to the wire and with his claw, he cut the wire from his wrist. Unfortunately, due to the speed, he was sent flying to the other side of the ravine into the wall.

~top of the ravine~

Kakashi and the rookies arrived at the top of the ravine net to the statue of Hashirama Senju.

Hinata was looking around as she figured that they came to where the two were and was worried about Naruto. "Where is he?"

They all heard an explosion and looked down into the ravine to see something impact into the wall opposite them.

Ino saw that Sasuke was standing in the middle of the river. She quickly deduced that it must have been Naruto that impacted the wall. "There!" she pointed at the dust cloud

Everyone looked towards where she pointed and saw a flash of orange

Kakashi was about to jump in and intervene but was stopped by Neji.

"Hold on. Let them fight."

Kakashi looked at him as if he was insane. "We have to stop this now."

"I'm with Neji on this."

Kakashi turned his gaze towards Shikamaru with the same look.

Shikamaru just sat at the edge "I understand the mission but regardless of what happens down there, it should still end the same." he shifted his eyes to Kakashi "besides I would like to see how this goes really."

Choji plopped down next to Shikamaru with a bag of chips "I'm *munch* surprised that you *munch* are actually interested in this."

Shikamaru shrugged his shoulders as he said "it would just be too troublesome to stop the fight really."

Kiba was grinning at the fight bellow and was internally rooting for Naruto.

The rest of the rookies all either stood or sat down to watch the ongoing fight.

Hinata and Ino sat together watching worriedly for the blonde they cared about.

Kakashi knew he was outvoted at this. He knew his orders but if everyone with him were against him, then he couldn't fight it. He turned his gaze back down in time to see Naruto get out of the dust cloud. He felt a drop of water on his nose and looked up in time to see that it had begun to rain. Although from how everyone was more focused on the fight, he supposed that they didn't care

~back with Naruto~

Naruto walked out of the crater he made in the wall while dusting himself off. It had hurt hitting the wall but it was a minor pain. He then turned his gaze towards Sasuke who stood there waiting for him. "All that strength and you didn't even earn it."

Sasuke glared at the blonde at the remark. "And what do you mean by that?"

"Your strength is from cheap shortcuts. You've never had to work for anything, you were just given everything you wanted on a silver platter. And from all this, you still call yourself strong!" Naruto bolted forward towards Sasuke while pulling something out of his jacket.

Sasuke was barely able to see Naruto move and he was unable to stop the spinning kicking to the head. He felt something being slapped on his wrists before he felt another kick to the stomach that sent him flying in the same manner Naruto was sent flying. He grunted in pain when his back hit the wall. He gritted his teeth as he shimmied himself out of the body-shaped hole in the wall and fell face-first to the ground. As he shut his eyes from the pain he felt something else being slapped on his ankles. Lifting his head he saw Naruto land in front of him with his arms crossed as if he was superior to him.

"You don't deserve to wear that hitai-ate." Naruto said as he pointed to the Hitai-ate still wrapped around it

In anger, he began to get up…..or at least he tried. He couldn't lift his arms or move his legs. Turning his gaze to his wrists, he saw slips of paper with a sort of seal on them wrapped around them. "What the hell are those!"

"Gravity seals. I use them every day to help me get stronger but look at you. You can't even get up."

Sasuke glared at Naruto. "Damn you Naruto!"

Naruto could feel the hatred coming off of the Uchiha but right now he didn't care about that. He had beaten the arrogant prick. He was about to knock him out but he suddenly felt a spike of the foul feeling chakra. Naruto quickly moved forward to punch Sasuke in the face to knock him out but to his shock, it was blocked…..by a large webbed hand that came out of Sasuke's back. He was forced back when the hand swung around, Naruto landed on his feet and glared at the hand. He was shocked again when he saw Sasuke getting up with a small purple aura around him.

Sasuke slowly got to his feet as he struggled to keep his arms from dropping. "You are strong Naruto but I won't let myself be beaten!" he activated his curse mark, causing his skin to darken into a dark burgundy color, his hair elongating and turning grey, his nails getting slightly longer and sharper, fangs growing from his canines, the white o his eyes becoming black and a black star showing up on his nose in between his eyes. He slowly brought his hands up and ripped off the seals on both of his wrists before he bent down and did the same tot he ones on his ankles.

Naruto couldn't help but scrunch up his nose at the feeling of the chakra coming from Sasuke. He already didn't like the feeling the Sharingan gave him but with the foul chakra powering it, it just felt like he would need a bath when he got home. Naruto chose not to give Sasuke the chance to attack so he charged at him but 3hen he threw a punch

*FOOM*

…it was caught.

Sasuke grinned at the stunned look on Naruto's face but he was internally wincing in pain. Yes, he caught the fist but the force caused his hand to hurt. Bringing his leg up he kicked the blonde away.

Naruto skipped on the water until he stopped himself. He placed a hand on his stomach as he grimaced in pain. "ok ….that one hurt." he heard a ripping sound and looked up in time to see another large webbed hand come out of Sasuke's back. To him, they now looked like a weird set of wings. "Whatever….lets end this." he charged at Sasuke ready to beat him into the ground

Sasuke charged at Naruto and with the increase in speed met the blonde in the middle and began a fierce taijutsu fight. Thanks to the speed boost and the Sharingan he was able to somewhat keep up with Naruto. Unfortunately, he was still being hit after he blocked at least two of them. Not only that he kept getting cuts and gashes from Naruto's claws.

Naruto was surprised by the power boost that Sasuke gained from the transformation. He didn't expect it which is why he was caught off guard by the sudden backhand the forced him back. While taking a few steps back he suddenly felt wire wrap around him. Looking down he saw that he was tied up by wire again

Sasuke didn't know how long the wire would last so he jumped up in the air and performed his hand signs "Katon: Gōkakyū no Jutsu!"

Naruto channeled chakra into his arms and broke free of the wire. Unfortunately for him, he was fast enough to avoid the fireball

*BOOM*

~Kakashi and rookies~

"Naruto!" Ino panicked when she saw Naruto be hit by the jutsu. She would have gone down there to help but was stopped by Hinata.

Hinata shook her head "it's alright Ino-chan."

"But….."

"Just watch." Hinata pointed to the fight which everyone looked towards in anticipation

Sasuke landed next to the fire that was still burning brightly and tried to look through it to see the downed form of Naruto. Much to his surprise, he was suddenly grabbed by the neck by a hand that burst out of the flames.

"I've felt hotter."

Sasuke was sent flying in the air from a hard uppercut

Naruto walked out of the flames as if they were nothing. The only difference was that he had lost his jacket and shirt with his pants showing holes in them from the fire "well there goes all my seal tags. I need to learn some water jutsu." he looked up and was stunned to see Sasuke using the large hand wings to just float in the air while wiping off some blood from his mouth. "Of course he can fly." he said exasperatingly. This made the fight a little harder since Sasuke now had an aerial advantage. "Well might as well try it. It will give me a speed advantage on ground level…..if I can get it right." he created two shadow clones with both jumping to the side to give each other space. "Here we go!"

The three Naruto's began to run on the water towards Sasuke. With each step, they kept lowering their feet until they bearly left the water. Channeling chakra a certain way in their feet they stopped moving their feet altogether and were now gliding on it with the water behind them spraying upwards. In doing this they each gained a massive speed boost and were aiming to finish Sasuke off.

Sasuke lost sight of the three and the only way he could tell where they were, were the large waves that came from their movement on the water. He focused more on one of them to see if he could catch sight of the blonde. He didn't notice that they began to circle him until he found himself in a large waterspout. "Shit!" he remembered Naruto doing something like this during the Chunin exams but with fire instead of water. He didn't know what this was going to do but he didn't want to risk it. He flew to the wall in order to escape. He figured that since it was water instead of fire, the only thing he would need to worry about is the pressure. Unfortunately, as he got closer he was suddenly punched in the face by a clone that came from the wall. Floating back he looked down to see the clone dispel. He tried again on another pat bu was met with the same result. Soon it became a game of dodgeball as Naruto clones began to burst through the water at random angles aiming to hit him

Outside the spout, Naruto was sending clone after clone up the walls of the spout using the same method he used on the water. He would have joined in but he still hasn't perfected this yet as clones would often get up the wall only to be flung off. He noticed that the two clones he had making the spout begin to get weaker so he had to finish this. Creating a clone and dispelling it, he relayed the message. He began to take off his bracers and grieves, letting them sink in the water, before making a normal Rasengan.

Sasuke was growing tired of dodging the clones and soon found himself being hit and slashed at. He was thinking of using the Chidori but he wasn't given the chance to form the necessary hand signs. He then noticed that the lower part of the spout was free of any clones and decided that it was his only chance. He let his wings go limp and he fell to the ground. On the way down he formed the three handsigns and formed a Chidori which turned black due to the influence of the curse mark. He landed on the water and brought electricity to the wall. He heard the screams of the clones and barely saw the poof of smoke signifying them dispelling. The water began to fall down and he caught sight of the Naruto he knew to be the real one. Once all the water fell, he charged at Naruto, Chidori in hand

Naruto saw the charging Uchiha and decided to respond in kind. His blue eye became slit as he knew this would end it.

Both boys aiming to end this fight once and for all with their handheld jutsu.

Everyone watching were on the edge of their seats waiting to see how this ends

Kakashi could only grimace at the idea of his own jutsu being used on Naruto.

Once close enough both Naruto and Sasuke thrusted their jutsu forward…..but they didn't impact each other

The Rasengan was a good distance away from hitting Sasuke and the Chidori was only inches away from Naruto.

The difference between the two were that Naruto had stopped his Rasengan from moving forwards while Sasuke's Chidori was stopped

Naruto had caught Sasuke by the wrist, stopping the Chidori from impacting.

Sasuke was wide-eyed at this as he was unable to see it coming due to the immense speed. What he did notice was that Naruto's bracers were off

Naruto glared at Sasuke as he held back the electrical attack "I don't feel like gaining a hole in me today." with that said he shoved his Rasengan into Sasuke's stomach.

"gggrrrrrrraaaAAAAAARRRRGHHH"

Sasuke was sent spinning back until he once again found himself buried in the wall of the ravine. But this time he was bleeding profusely, could feel several of his ribs broken, and he no longer had the energy to coughed up some blood as he tried to stop his vision from spinning

Naruto moved to be in front of Sasuke as he spoke "you know, I once thought you and I were the same. You and I lost people we cared about. We both had to be alone because of it and we are both one of the last of our clan. But now that I look back, that was all we had in common." Naruto reached over and grabbed Sasuke by the neck, pulled him out of the wall, and held him in the air. " While you had everyone wanting to be with you, I had to one willing to stand with me. While you got help from teachers and other shinobi to become stronger, I was sabotaged by every instructor to make sure I stayed weak. While you slept safe and sound in a high-class apartment, I had to shiver in cold while fearing for my life in a rundown apartment hoping that I would be attacked again. You go into a store and they lower the price for you by 90%, I go into the store and have the price tripled for rotten or worn-out products. You had the love and praise of the entire village while I had their scorn and hatred! I trained to protect the very few things that are important to me, you trained only for yourself and your own ego. When was the last time you ever cared about anyone but yourself?"

Sasuke could barely breathe from the grip Naruto had on him but he felt the need to answer this "ri...ght...now."

Naruto quirked an eyebrow at this and loosened his grip to allow the beaten Uchiha to speak

"I….am going to Orochimaru….to get the strength to….bring my brother home."

Naruto could tell that Sasuke wasn't lying so he let him continue

"My brother….gave up….so much to….protect the village. He is …...in danger…...and he is the last…...family I have. I…..want to bring…..*cough* him home."

Naruto looked into the Uchiha's eyes while trying to ignore the feeling of the Sharingan on hm. He trusted his ability to feel out lies but seeing the sincerity in those desperate eyes just gave him a bit more reassurance. An odd thing that happened was that the two tomoes in Sasuke's eyes became three. "About time you started doing something for someone else."

Everyone could tell that the fight was over.

Hinata and Ino were happy that Naruto was ok from the fight.

Kiba was in awe as well as being jealous at the amount of power Naruto showed

Shikamaru sighed at how troublesome this whole thing was.

The sand siblings were impressed at how these two fought.

Lee was shouting out how "youthful" this battle was

Choji enjoyed watching the fight while enjoying his bag of chips

Sakura felt jealous at the amount of skill her two teammates had but she felt better when Haku placed a hand on her shoulder.

Neji felt the need to train in order to catch up to Naruto since he was a year older yet he was far behind him

Karin was grumbling to herself as she knew she would need to help these two as well

Kakashi gave a sigh of relief that they stopped and that neither of them were going to kill the other. 'Let's hope Lady Tsunade doesn't chew me out on this.' as he was thinking this he caught sight of movement not far from the two boys. Eye wide he shouted out to the blonde "NARUTO LOOK OUT!"

Naruto was so focused on the Uchiha that he barely heard the warning. As if suddenly switched on he felt malicious intent aimed at him. Unfortunately, he was unable to react as he felt something pierce him through the heart. Looking down he saw a fingerless gloved hand covered in chakra coming out of it. Slowly turning his head to look over his shoulder he couldn't help but smirk at who it was. "That's a nice look for you….Kabuto."

Kabuto would have smirked if he wasn't forcibly smiling already. The left side of his face looked like it was rotting away with the skin of his mouth gone, showing his teeth underneath. He no longer had an eyelid for his left eye so it was basically just an eyeball that looked like it was blind. Half of his hair was gone since that side of his head had the same look as the rest of his rotting face. His left hand was in a sling as it looked like it was far skinnier than it should be. (think two-face from the Dark Knight). "I have you to thank for that Naruto." he pulled his right hand out of the boy who had let go of Sasuke.

Naruto collapse to the ground, feeling massive strain coming from his entire body.

Sasuke was in shock at seeing Naruto like this. He usually saw the blonde being confident or ridiculously cocky. In al honesty, he didn't really hate the blonde, he just hated the idea that he was weaker than him when he wanted revenge. They weren't friends at all but he never asked for his death really.

Kabuto saw that Kakashi and the rest were coming down towards them so he quickly picked Sasuke up and began to run away from the area. 'Thanks to the delay, lord Orochimaru had to use a stronger body possession on someone else. He won't be able to take over Sasuke for a while but this just gives us the time to make you more worthy of my lord.'

Everyone arrived next to Naruto as Karin began to look him over. No one cared about Kabuto's retreating form.

Kiba began to shout "can't you heal him like you did us?"

"My chakra can't heal this kind of wound! This would need surgery in order to heal!"

Gaara immediately unleashed his sand and swirled it around the surrounding rock until he had the amount that he needed. Despite the rain, he commanded the sand to lift Naruto and everyone else onto Sand platforms before they all began to fly back towards Konoha.

Hinata and Ino were at Naruto's sides panicking at the state he was in.

Naruto, despite the state he was in, opened one of his eyes and gave a grimacing smile "don't worry guys. I don't plan on dying here. Still have to eat my celebration ramen from my last mission."

Despite themselves, they all gave a small worried smile at how well he was taking having a hole in his chest.

~later, Orochimaru's lair~

Kabuto opened the door to one of the spare rooms that they had. "This will be your room for now. Lord Orochimaru is recovering at the moment so you will speak to him tomorrow. I have healed you to the best of my abilities so all you need now is to rest."

Sasuke didn't say anything as he walked in with his pack on his back. Once he heard the door close and looking to make sure that he was really alone he moved over to the beds on the far side of the room and placed his bag down. Reaching up to his forehead, he slowly pulled off his Hitai-ate before placing it on the table next to the bed. Opening his pack, he looked for the other item he had taken from his apartment. Finding it, he pulled it out and placed it above the Hitai-ate before whispering out "You better survive D….Naruto. I want a rematch when I bring my brother home."

Above his Konoha Hitai-ate, was the team 7 group photo.

"And next time I will prove to you and my brother that I am strong enough."

END OF CHAPTER 50 WHOO!

Surprise!

Anyone expecting that ending for this fight?

I wanted the rookies to actually watch the fight between the two so I had them follow Naruto instead of them all being crippled like in canon. Good thing I had Karin join the party. It was hard to come up with a reason for Sakura and Haku to go but I think it was ok. I would have put Tenten and Shino but I could not think of anything that would work and if I put them in it would seem so out of place. At least with Sakura being on their team, it would make a sort of sense and with Haku being her boyfriend, it works

The water gliding thing came to mind when I remembered Pain did something like that in his fight with Naruto. I just felt like using it earlier. I think of my version as the next level of water walking. I also hope you guys understand that Naruto has NOT mastered it yet as I put in a line that states that and a few clones were flying off.

Hope you guys enjoyed the chapter. Not much I have to say about the chapter really as I think I made things clear enough in this chapter and previous chapters that had Sasuke in them.

Next chapter will have a few more things revealed so look forward to it.

I was notified about Ino knowing about Kakashi knowing about Naruto back in ch 34 so I changed the wording a bit to make it consistent.

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