The Sage of Six Paths Appeared

"Huh?"

Naruto was stunned by his dark side's sudden refusal.

What was the word for this again?

He had heard Shirozumi use the term before.

Oh, right.

A contrarian personality.

Instead of taking Naruto's Senjutsu Chakra and saving himself, his dark side had struck a cool pose and declared that his favorite thing to say was "No."

If that wasn't a contrarian personality at work, what was?

The problem was that Naruto had only heard the term. He had no idea how to deal with someone like that.

"Ugh."

Naruto sighed.

If his dark side refused, then so be it.

He wasn't the one suffering. He couldn't feel anything here in the Mental Space.

And his body?

Like he'd said before, his body was in the real world. What did he have to fear?

If neither his mind nor his body was being hurt, then he had nothing to worry about, right?

But was it really that simple?

By refusing Naruto just to contradict him and ignoring the danger outside, his dark side had already let the argument get to his head. He was losing it.

And once he'd gone that far, there was no telling what he might do. Why would he stop at rejecting Naruto's goodwill?

Naruto sighed and was about to go back to idly skipping stones in the Mental Space when his vision suddenly went black. When he opened his eyes again, he was somewhere unfamiliar yet strangely recognizable.

Wasn't this Kusagakure, where he had seen his dark side through the Waterfall of Truth in the Mental Space?

How had he ended up here?

Wait!

Had he come out?

Naruto tried looking into the Mental Space. His dark side now stood before the Waterfall of Truth there.

The condition Killer B had described—returning to the Waterfall