title: Naruto, Vol. 47: The Seal Destroyed
author:  Masashi Kishimoto 
description: Author/artist Masashi Kishimoto was born in 1974 in rural Okayama Prefecture, Japan. After spending time in art college, he won the Hop Step Award for new manga artists with his manga <b><i><u>Karakuri</u></i></b> ("<b><i><u>Mechanism</u></i></b>"). Kishimoto decided to base his next story on traditional Japanese culture. His first version of <b><i><u>Naruto</u></i></b>, drawn in 1997, was a one-shot story about fox spirits; his final version, which debuted in <b><i>Weekly Shonen Jump</i></b> in 1999, quickly became the most popular ninja manga in Japan.
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  Act 9
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
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  -96:16:02
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Ashes –
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  And a tragic scene to go with it.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  It had been thoroughly ruined, to the point where one could not begin to tell
  what the perpetrator had intended to destroy. It was as though a storm had
  raged through and wrecked the workshop, leaving nothing to remind a viewer of
  its former appearance.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  This was no storm, of course, but deliberate destruction. After all, how could
  a storm wash over this place, in an underground water tank? The carnage
  wrought on Caster’s workshop could only have been caused by the power of an
  anti-army or perhaps an anti-fortress Noble Phantasm.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  “Oh God… this is too much!”
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Uryū Ryūnosuke could do nothing more than weep and wail in despair as he
  looked upon the scene of this tragedy. An onlooker might have been moved to
  sympathy upon seeing his pitiful, agonized form… that is, if they knew nothing
  of him.
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  
  Ryūnosuke and Caster had been busy hunting 