Volume 1 Introduction

Itachishinden: Kōmyō-hen

Itachi’strue story: Book of Bright Light*

by Takashi Yano

(Onthe right flap of the book cover)

This is the story of the glory and thefrustration of a Shinobi who was called a genius, and of his determination.

Tableof contents

Chapter1: The young bird that lives** in the dark nighthasn’t left the nest yet. (, , , )

Chapter2: The brilliant chick doesn’t know the silenceafter the dusk. ()

Chapter3: The jet black*** crow shivers for the grief ofhis brethren that squirms in the moonlight night. (, )

Charactersintroduction

Shimura Danzou: head of the Anbu’s “Root”.

Uchiha Itachi: Shinobi of the Village ofthe Hidden Leaf

Sarutobi Hiruzen: Third Hokage

Uchiha Fugaku: Itachi and Sasuke’s father,commanding officer of Konoha’s Military Police Force

Uchiha Mikoto: Itachi and Sasuke’s mother

Uchiha Shisui: Shinobi of the Village ofthe Hidden Leaf

Uchiha Sasuke: Itachi’s younger brother

Uchiha Yashiro, Uchiha Inabi, Uchiha Tekka:Konoha’s Military Police Force

(Here’s the picture of the page… I thoughtyou might want to see it)

—Foolishlittle brother…

Ifyou want to kill me, resent me! Hate me!

Andlive in an unsightly way…

Run…run…

Andcling to life.

(Onthe left flap of the book cover)

YanoTakashi (矢野 隆)

won the Shōsetsu Subaru Rookie of the Yearaward with “Jashū” in 2008. He wrote a great number of books as an expert onhistorical plays. He wrote the novels “Naruto– Shikamaru hiden”, and the comic “assassin’s Creed 4” among other things, andhe’s spreading his field of activity.

NOTES:

*Bright light also with the meaning of‘hope, bright future’.

**Uhh there’s a part I don’t understand,because apparently arishi is anoutdated form of the verb aru (tobe/live/exist), but aru is used withinanimate objects… I’ve seen another translation of the chapters, butapparently they didn’t translate arishiat all… *shrugs*

***I like this expression so much, injapanese it’s literally “black as the wet feathers of a crow”.

So, here’s my little preview… The cover(which I had to remove, seeing what had become of Sasuke’s Shinden’s one, whichgot all ruined – especially because initially I kept opening it on the wrongside) is now widely known, while the book in itself has manga panels of Itachithrowing shurikens and some writings (which I began translating, but since Idiscovered they are words Danzou says to Itachi at some point of the novel,there’s no point I continued, you’ll read it anyway sometime).

The very first page it that infamouspicture of Itachi and Shisui, and since I’ve already seen a lot of goodpictures of it I’m not gonna bother scanning it (also, considering the amountof time it took me for scanning that damn characters page… ugh).

Like for Sasuke Shinden, I’ll keep thispage updated with the translations as I complete the sections.I’ll try to be a good translator and post 1.1 this saturday, but I can’t promise anything…

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Traduzione di Melamoney

Itachishinden:Kõmyõ-hen

Lavera storia di Itachi: Libro della Luce Abbagliante.

Di Takashi Yano

Questa è la storia della gloria e dellafrustrazione di uno Shinobi che venne definito genio, e della suadeterminazione.

Indice:

Capitolo uno: l'uccellino che vive nella notte oscura non ha ancora lasciato ilnido. (, , , )

Capitolo due: il brillante pulcino non sa del silenzio dopo il crepuscolo.()

Capitolotre: il nero corvo trema per il dolore dei suiconfratelli che si dimenano nella notte illuminata dalla luna. (, )

Introduzione ai personaggi:

Danzo Shimura: capo della ‘Radice’ degliANBU;

Itachi Uchiha: Shinobi del Villaggio dellaFoglia;

Hiruzen Sarutobi: Terzo Hokage;

Fugaku Uchiha: padre di Itachi e Sasuke,ufficiale comandante della Polizia Militare di Konoha;

Mikoto Uchiha: madre di Itachi e Sasuke;

Shisui Uchiha: Shinobi del Villaggio dellaFoglia;

Sasuke Uchiha: fratello minore di Itachi;

Yashiro Uchiha, Inabi Uchiha, Tekka Uchiha:membri della Polizia Militare di Konoha.

- Sciocco fratellino…

Se vuoi uccidermi, nutri rancore versodi me! Odiami.

E vivinella sofferenza…

Corri… corri…

E aggrappati alla vita.

Takashi Yano:

Nel 2008, vinse il premio Shōsetsu Subarucome l'Esordiente dell'Anno con “ Jashū”. Scrisse un gran numero dilibri come esperto di opere teatrali storiche. Scrisse l'adattamento in romanzodi “NARUTO - Shikamaru Hiden”, e il fumetto di “assassins Creed4” tra le altre cose, e sta ampliando il suo campo di attività.

NOTE:

LuceAbbagliante include inoltre il significato di: 'speranza, radiosofuturo”.