"So this is the end." Naruto sighed as he clutches his injury.

"Never thought you would be a quitter." Kurama snorts through their mental link.

"Then again, this might not be so bad…" Naruto ignores his old-time partner as he stared at Boruto tightened his headband in front of him.

"Never thought after all that, this is how the shinobi era ends." The fox grunts his reply.

"Hahaha, there is still hope yet and besides you can finally be free." The blond smiled.

"Good, it has been a while since I enjoyed freedom," Kurama grumbled.

Naruto and Kurama watch in silence as Boruto faces off against the destroyer of Konoha. One smiles in pride, while the watches unhindered.

"Hey, Kurama?"

"What?"

"Thank you for everything…"

"You better be."

"…"

"…"

"…Naruto?"

At that moment the Nanadaime Hokage breath his last.


"GRAUGH" Kurama roars.

A pain he remembers flashes over his body… this was not the pain of death. His head burns in a very familiar feeling. The Sharingan…

The fox bristles his fur as he roars and thrashes in fury.

AGAIN? HE WAS NO TOOL. CURSED UCHIHA.

Kurama rampage as he tries to escape the commands in his head forcing his actions. It was dark he has no idea where he is, but he doesn't really care about that. He just lashes out at everything he can see. Into suddenly he felt the stinging control gone… replace with the chill of another being.

The Shinigami himself.

This would not do… he refuses to be sealed, he refuses. He lashes out where he feels the summoner.

He would kill the seal master then he would hide from the world of man. With a thrust, he felt resistance as his claw tore something, but he still the vacuum of the seal forcing him to persist. So, he uses a little trick he picks up in the time he has been with Naruto.

From the tip of his nail, a small amount of nature chakra molds into a sharp energy piercing forward. The seal only sucks away his chakra. Success, he celebrates as the suction from the seal weakens. The host is now dying, and a corpse cannot contain his might.

"NARUTO!" Two voices mixes and echoes in immense despair and rage.

Naruto?

Kurama focuses his eyes, wiping away the blood rage. He enhances his eyesight with chakra. He see's the 4th Hokage and Kushina dying on his claws again.

And his nature chakra piercing a baby.

Wait what is going on?

He can feel it more of his strength being sap away this time from a different source. Minato glaring at him as now in spite and self-loathing he can feel Minato trying to seal more than the amounts he already stole. He resists as more of his chakra is slowly being torn from him.

This would not do.

No, not at all.

He the great Kyuubei cannot understand what's going on… wasn't it moments ago when Naruto died? But he refuses to let this stop him as Minato struggles as death meets him when he tried to seal more of Kurama's chakra.

The Ninetails instead sends more chakra towards the belly of the baby.

It is a half-made seal, incomplete by his hand, but for a century he curses the same seal that prisons him. He knows more about the seal then he should have so what's next is simple. Portions of his chakra not being taken by Minato yet. Enters that seal pulsing through it as he alters… finishes it.

More portions enter the newborn trying to repair the damage done.

This reminds the bijuu of the time when that Uchiha friend of his pierces Naruto's lungs. He remembers that Naruto did die for a few seconds.

Like now.

Time was against him.

This is the body of a baby being turn to stone by the side effects of nature chakra that invades the system earlier.

Clearly not yet grown to the body that houses his and the power of nature chakra.

But.

But who is he?

HE IS KURAMA THE NINE TAILED BIJUU.

He ignored the Hokage's last attempts to take more of him while crying tears.

He forces the rest of his chakra… he forces himself in the wounded infant.

Naruto would not die by his hands.

Not like this.