"Damn Nine-Tails Fox! Get lost! You can have this mask, just don't come here and bring me bad luck!"
"Tch, what's the point of a brat like this living in the world? Why doesn't he just die?"
"A bastard with a mother to birth him but none to raise him. Disgusting."
All the curses and hatred he had endured came surging into Naruto's mind like a raging tide under the influence of the Nine-Tails' Chakra.
Pain, despair, and that boundless loneliness swallowed Naruto whole like the gaping maw of an abyss.
Inside the seal, Kurama watched Naruto, who was clenched tightly in his palm, his face twisted in pain, with a complicated look in his eyes.
Kid, this is the price of using my Chakra. Whether you can get through this trial is up to you...
From the moment the Nine-Tails was born, it had been destined that his existence would differ from that of the other Tailed Beasts.
The reason his Chakra would forever surpass that of the other Tailed Beasts was because he contained the most massive amount of negative emotions from within the Ten-Tails. Thus, an enormous amount of Chakra was needed to maintain the balance.
As an existence that devoured the Chakra of the Shinobi World, the Ten-Tails had consumed the negative emotions of all living beings in the Shinobi World along with the Natural Chakra it absorbed.
This was the burden Tailed Beasts were born to bear, and the Nine-Tails was the one who shouldered the greatest responsibility among them.
The pain he carried far exceeded that of the other Tailed Beasts. That was why the Nine-Tails was so powerful.
Naruto felt his consciousness growing increasingly hazy, as if he were about to be drowned once more by the waves of loneliness.
But at