Not only was Hikari speechless, but Kurama inside Naruto was utterly disgusted by the name as well, loudly complaining from within.
"Hey (#`O′)! Naruto! How is your naming sense even worse than your old man's?!"
Naruto merely snorted without a care.
"This name contains the sincere friendship between us Jinchuriki."
"Kurama, when you reach my age, you'll understand the romance behind it~"
Kurama was left dazed by those meaningful words. They even sounded like they made a little sense.
Indeed, when he reached Naruto's age...
"Understand my ass! I'm already over a thousand years old! Do you even hear yourself?!"
Kurama directly controlled one of his tails and smacked Naruto on the head.
"ε＝ε＝ε＝(#＞д＜)? Alright, alright~ You stinky fox, stop hitting me! Go hit Sister Xiaoguang's Susanoo instead!"
"What kind of skill is it to bully a twelve-year-old kid?!"
After the man and fox roughhoused in the mindscape for quite a while, they finally turned their attention back to the battlefield before them.
A faint smile rose on both their lips. Connected through Chakra, they could both feel each other's emotions.
Naruto, in Tailed Beast Transformation, controlled the beast as it rapidly swung its limbs and charged at Hikari. Its claws became like sharp blades as it pounced at Susanoo's wings, trying to tear them off.
Hikari immediately spread her wings, and the two giant hands at their tips met the Nine-Tails' claws. The two sides began to wrestle against each other.
But absurdly, Hikari discovered that in terms of pure strength, she was actually weaker than her opponent!
Naruto and Kurama both wore smug smiles at that moment.
At the same time, they silently thanked Gaara for everything he had done just now.
Even the Nine-Tails, for once, set aside his prejudice against that guy Shukaku and silently gave