Here is the big fight with Naruto's Shadow and everyone will be in BIG trouble.

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"Persona!" normal speech

"Damn it!" thought/mind speak

"I am a Shadow." demon/shadow speak

Chapter 11: Fighting the 9th's Pain

*Shadow World; Uzumaki/Dojima Sewage Plant*

Everyone stared at the Shadow before them in a horrific fashion as the hanging body moved around, despite hanging from a noose. Are these Naruto's true thoughts? Sakura asked herself as she felt multiple shivers down her spine, Why did you have to suffer so much when you should have been praised? Rise was near the real Kurama/Naruto as she looked at the Shadow before her. Dear God, Rise thought as she imagined her boyfriend's pain, you're in so much pain that your mind is scarred like this.

"I am a Shadow, the true self," said Shadow Naruto with a weak raspy voice, "I know no emotions as the only thing that I have ever known is pain. Allow me to share it with you." Everyone gazed at the Shadow's form with both fear and sadness. "How did everything that has happened to you get this far?" asked Ino shivering at the sight before. "C'mon, Kurama-senpai," said Kanji as he psyched himself for the battle, "I know you're stronger than this!" Rise looked at Shadow Naruto with tears in her eyes and collected her resolve. "Kurama…Naruto…I don't care about the name you choose," said Rise as she stare down the Shadow, "I love you, and nothing will ever change that!" Shadow Naruto's body turned to face Rise with pain. "You say that you love me," said Shadow Naruto as its body began to curl into itself, "but the only thing that this so-called love only brings me is PAIN! SCREAM OF TORTURE"

The Shadow's body uncurled and let out a pained scream as everyone held the ears when the scream echoed throughout the room. "That scream is inhuman," cursed Kiba as he and Akamaru were fighting off the migraines, "Shikamaru, you gotta think off something, quick!" Yu summoned Izanagi who took his spear and stabbed Shadow Naruto in the stomach, stopping the scream. Lee followed with a direct kick to the Shadow's face, knocking it off the spear tip.

Shadow Naruto looked at the two who attacked him. "Nothing is ever different," said the Shadow as his fresh wounds were slowly being healed, "Everything to me is nothing but PAIN and I can never escape from this pain." Shadow Naruto then jerked his head upwards as fire had enveloped Izanagi and Lee. "Lee!" said Guy as he then rushed towards the Shadow, "Alright, if I cannot land 300 attack before I touch the ground, then I will-urk!" The Shadow slammed one of its bloody tails into Guy before he could finish his sentence and attack. Kanji summoned Take-Mikazuchi who then attacks Shadow Naruto with an electrical attack, causing a major amount of damage.

"This pain…" said the Shadow as it started flail about, causing the rope to stretch like a bungee cord, "It's unbearable! HANGMAN WHIP!" Everyone did their best to avoid the attack, but it wasn't enough as Sakura, Yukiko, Choji, and a few other Konoha-nin couldn't avoid the attack. "That attack's pretty devastating," said Rise as she pointed to the dripping blood from the noose, "but it also hurt him." Even with that advantage, Shadow Naruto threw in the same attack again and dealing massive damage to itself and everyone else.

"We need to find an opening," said Shikamaru as he then looked at the noose, "Sasuke, Yukiko, try and burn the noose around his neck!" Sasuke flashed through some hands seals as Yukiko summoned her Persona and brought forth a combined fire ball and aimed it at the rope. "Fire Style: Fireball Jutsu/Agilao!" called Sasuke as he and Yukiko released the attack and burning the rope. The rope snapped as the fire was too much, causing the Shadow to fall to the floor wide open for an attack. "There's an opening," said Yu as he rushed towards Shadow Naruto, "We need to strike now!" Everyone soon rushed in and proceeded to deal some major damage to the fallen Shadow.

Guy and Lee soon stopped as the others continued to attack the downed foe. "Guy-sensei," said Lee with a heavy heart, "attacking someone who is defenseless is very unyouthful. Why is everyone doing this?" Kanji saw the two and walked up to them an asked, "Why are you two standing around for?" Guy saw Kanji and sighed. "Why should we attack something that cannot properly defend itself?" asked Guy as he saw Chie landing a critical hit with Kakashi mimicking her. Kanji looked at the Shadow and then the look-alikes. "Listen," said Kanji, "I know that attacking Kurama-senpai's Shadow doesn't seem fair, but sometimes in order to help someone in need, you may have to beat the crap out of them, even when they're down."

Elsewhere, Sakura had stopped her assault the Shadow as it brought up her memories of all beatings she had given Naruto. "Thank Kami I never had Lady Tsunade's training that fateful day," said Sakura as she was at the memory of the last beating she had ever given the real Naruto, "I'm such a monster." Ino saw Sakura and ran up towards her, obtaining a view of her best friend crying. "It's not our fault for not knowing the truth about Naruto," said Ino as she hugged Sakura in an effort to comfort the crying kunoichi, "but it is our fault that he became so lonely and we need to fix what has been broken." At this realization, Sakura pushed Ino aside and said, "Thanks Ino, I really needed that. Now let's go save Naruto-kun!"

As the All-Out Attack let up, Shadow Naruto broke free from the bindings and got up onto all fours, letting out a demonic roar. "NO!" screamed the Shadow giving the group a demonic glare as its voice was now more louder and clearer, "I see that you don't understand my pain. I guess that I'll just have to SHOW YOU MY PAIN!" Shadow Naruto then let out a howl as a red mist enveloped it and Yosuke as it howled, "PAIN'S CONNECTION!"

Shino threw spheres made of the beetles within his body which surprisingly connected. The Shadow slightly flinched while Yosuke held his boy and grunted in absolute pain. "What happened?" asked Yosuke as slowly got back to his stance, "My body feels like it's being eaten by termites!" Another attack struck Shadow Naruto and Yosuke fell to his knees in pain. Rise saw the connection and said, "Guys! Kurama's Shadow used something on itself to transfer the attack to Yosuke!" Troublesome, Shikamaru thought as he watched the other attack while Sakura, Yukiko, and Teddie healed Yosuke, now we need to watch about attacking him.

"PAIN'S CONNECTION!" howled Shadow Naruto as the red mist moved from Yosuke to Hinata. "Quick!" shouted Shikamaru as he pointed to Hinata, "Hinata's the target now!" As the three healers ran towards Hinata, Shadow Naruto then open his mouth towards the sky and said, "I will show you the destructive power of my pain! NIGHTMARE MASS!" Orbs of energy gathered over the Shadow's face and formed a sphere before it was eaten by Shadow Naruto. The Shadow's body quickly expanded as Rise knew that this was trouble. "Brace yourselves, guys!" said Rise, "It's going to use a really powerful attack!" Everyone braced themselves for the attack as a large blast erupted from the Shadow's mouth.

After the explosion passed, everyone was still on their feet albeit barely. "What an insane attack," said Gai as he struggled to get back up, "I'm not sure if we can take another one like that." Shadow Naruto pointed his mouth to the ceiling and said, "NIGHTMARE MASS!" Orbs began to gather and form a much larger sphere before Chie had an idea to stop it. "Oh no you don't," said Chie as she jumped on the blade of Tomoe's twin bladed weapon and was launched towards the jaw with her foot outstretched, "Galactic Punt!" The attack connected with a strong enough force for the sphere to drop and explode on Shadow Naruto.

The Shadow shook the dust off itself and said, "You really don't know my pain!" It then brought up his palm as a sphere of black energy began to form. "Watch out!" said Rise as she viewed the sphere, "He's charging up a powerful attack!" Everyone backed away as Kakashi saw the familiar jutsu in the Shadow's hand. "That can't be," said Kakashi as the memories of his sensei's jutsu flooded his mind, "that's the Rasengan!" The Shadow's Rasengan was finally finished and the beast brought the sphere into the air. "CORRUPT RASENGAN!" said Shadow Naruto as he slammed the sphere into the ground, sending everyone flying towards the wall.

Yosuke, Ryotaro, and Rise had recovered from the attack when they heard voices as everything in the battlefield had been frozen in place. "Yosuke," said a voice that grabbed both Yosuke's and Ryotaro's attention. "Jiraiya?" asked Ryotaro as the spirit of his old friend appeared along with and older man who looks like Naruto, with the exception of the whisker marks, and a woman with red hair. "It's really good to see you again Ryotaro," said the blonde man, "how's my son doing?"

Both Rise and Yosuke looked at the man with confusion and the red-haired woman walked toward Rise. "Naruto, or Kurama as you two have known him as," said the woman looking at Rise, "is our son and after the sealing, we wanted him to have a normal, happy life." Jiraiya soon added his two cents and said, "But unfortunately, Naruto only had that small amount of happiness as he had to work hard to obtain what he really wanted, only to lose it all when he choose to be banished."

Rise caught on to what Jiraiya and was about to ask what he meant when the man in red from before appeared. "After bringing back that Uchiha brat, the Civilian Council wanted Naruto to be executed. Tsunade, the current Hokage, had talked them out of the idea, but she was enraged when the Council had already passed the idea of banishment by doing the paperwork beforehand. Tsunade told Naruto about what was going on and apologized for not stopping them."

The spirits walked up to the three with Jiraiya next to Yosuke, the blonde man next to Ryotaro, and the red-haired woman next to Rise. "What's going on?" asked Ryotaro when the spirit placed his hand on the detective's shoulder. "We are going to temporarily use your bodies to defeat our son's Shadow," said the blonde and Rise looked at the man in red. "What about you?" asked Rise when light began to envelop around her and the other two men. The man then turned away and said, "I'm already with someone who will need me after all of this. And Rise, I've seen everything that the kit has been through and I can only imagine what a pop idol such as yourself have been through. So I'll only ask that you make the right choice of how you want to live your life with the kit."

A blinding light shone through the battlefield, blinding everyone on the field, and when the light faded, three different people stood in the place where Yosuke, Ryotaro and Rise once stood. The Konoha Investigation Squad looked in awe at the three before them. One was a white-haired man wearing a red cloak over a green shirt and green pants, and a metal horned plate with the kanji for "oil" written on it. There was also sun-blonde man who could pass of for an older version of Naruto without whisker marks on his face. The last person was a woman with red hair wearing what looked like battle armor for a ninja. "Jiraiya, Minato-sensei, Kushina," said Kakashi as the three people in front of the group nodded and then glared at the Shadow.

"So you're the one who's been plaguing my son," said Minato as he got out a tri-pronged kunai knife, "I will make sure that you never harm him again!" As Minato jumped towards the Shadow, Jiraiya and Kushina soon followed with their own weapons ready. Shadow Naruto looked at the group charging towards him and let out a demonic growl.

"So," said the Shadow as it glared at the blonde in the middle of the attacking group, "the man who is responsible for my pain finally shows to face me. You are a pathetic excuse of a leader for using a newborn baby, let alone your own son, as a sacrifice so that your precious village could prosper after the fox's attack." Minato lowered his head as he remembered how he used his own son to seal away the fox. "You're right," said Minato as he threw his kunai at the Shadow, only to miss, "I am a pathetic excuse for a leader, but I'm even a worse father than I could have ever been as I've placed too much trust in the village to see beyond the fact that the fox was sealed inside of you."

Minato then teleported behind the Shadow's head and grabbed Shadow Naruto's hair with a blue sphere of energy in his other hand. "That is why," said Minato as he tightened his grip on the Shadow, "I will do EVERYTHING I CAN TO GET MY SON'S FORGIVENESS!" Minato slammed the sphere of energy into the Shadow's skull, launching him into Jiraiya, who then followed with his own attack which launched the Shadow into the air. Kushina then sent the Shadow hurtling to the ground with a powerful hay maker causing Shadow Naruto to struggle at recovering but to no avail.

The Shadow's body dissipated to reveal the Shadow Naruto from before the attack, prone and trying to recover. Kurama woke up and saw the Shadow before him and gave him a threatening glare. "You're…you're not me," said Kurama/Naruto as three people then split from Yosuke, Ryotaro, and Rise. "Son," said the spirit of Minato grabbing Kurama's attention, "I know who you really are and I really want to say how sorry I am for causing such grief to befall you." Kurama/Naruto looked at the man with anger welling and then decided to punch the blonde in the gut.

"Why," asked Kurama/Naruto with tears in his eyes, "Do you have ANY IDEA what those bastards in the village have done to me because of the Nine-Tailed Fox seal inside of me!?" Minato recovered from the blow that was given to him by his son as tears began to roll from his eyes. "Because," said Minato as he enveloped his son in a hug, "I loved you and I knew that if anyone could handle the fox's power, it was you, Naruto Namikaze-Uzumaki." Kurama/Naruto then returned the hug as the spirit of Kushina soon followed with her own hug. "We wish we could have been with you, my baby boy," said Kushina as tears fell from her eyes, "but we will meet again in due time and we will always be there for you."

The spirits of the two parents soon vanished and Jiraiya looked at Yosuke. "I know that the Jiraiya you know will not be the same as me," said the spirit of Jiraiya as he placed his hand of Yosuke's shoulder, "but please, help Naruto in any way you and your friends can. He's going to need it now."

Kurama/Naruto then looked at his Shadow self with courage burning in his eyes. "I was always alone, always on my own with no shoulder to cry on, no one to call friend, I never even knew if I had a family," said Kurama/Naruto as the Shadow got to its feet, "but I had those who truly cared for me; Jiji, Iruka, Teuchi, Ayame, and maybe even a few Anbu." Tears began to form in Kurama's/Naruto's eye as he continued, "But that was never enough. I had set my goal to become Hokage as I always saw how the people respect the person, and I wanted to be acknowledged and given respect, not treated as some sort of outcast or monster." The Konoha Invetigation Squad soon had tears in their eyes as Kurama/Naruto then hugged his Shadow. "Now I have friends who see me for me," said Kurama/Naruto as he let the Shadow loose from his hug and looked at the Inaba Investigation team, "I no longer have to shoulder this pain alone."

The Shadow smiled and a blue light enveloped him, transforming him into a red fox wearing a mask and holding a kunai knife in its mouth. "I am thou, and thou art I," said the fox, "Thou hath faced thyself and obtained the façade to face life's hardships. I am Kitsune, the trickster fox." The Persona then changed into its card form and vanished into Kurama's/Naruto's mind. "Persona, huh," said Kurama/Naruto as he fell to his knees.

Both Kanji and Yu wrapped Kurama/Naruto's arms around their shoulders and helps him up to his feet. "Easy there Senpai," said Kanji as he guided the weakened Kurama/Naruto out of the room with everyone following. Rise turned to look at the cage and saw the same red man inside the cage. "Who are you?" asked Rise and then added, "What are you?" A red cloak surrounded the man and the slim eyeholes of the mask flashed a dark red. "You could say that I am a part of your…boyfriend at the moment," said the man as the cloak became foxlike, "I will tell you my name, but the kit will tell you and your friends about me when it's time. My name…is Kurama." Rise looked at the man before her until she heard someone call for her and she left. "Well kit," said the man as he became a giant red nine-tailed fox, "you will need to choose your future from here."

Naruto has faced his Shadow and obtained his persona, Kitsune, the trickster fox. I know that you all are wondering why I had Minato, Kushina, and Jiraiya able to defeat Shadow Naruto and the reasons are: 1) Shadow Naruto was already severely from his failed attack, 2) The Boss Shadows are always difficult, some more than others, and 3) Nine-Tailed Demon Fox.

Now here's the stats on Kurama/Naruto's persona:

Name: Kitsune

LV: 37

Arcana: Hanged Man

Strengths: Fire-Str, Wind-Null, Elec-Wk, Dark-Str

Elemental Skills: Agilao, Maragi, Garula, Magarula

Support Skills: Sukukaja, Rakunda

Ailment Skills: Marin Karin

Passive Skills: Regenerate 2

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