Hearing the Sage of Six Paths' question sent a shudder of revulsion through Naruto.
The Sage of Six Paths asking, "You aren't interested in me, are you?" sounded just like someone narcissistically saying, "You don't have a crush on me, do you?"
"Drop dead, you old bastard! I've had enough of you!"
Naruto was out of options and ready to throw it all away.
If his dark side could abandon his life and make him come out to endure all this, why couldn't he willingly be sealed away again and make his dark side come out to endure it instead?
Just as Naruto tried to find the mental world in his mind and switch places with his dark side, he suddenly noticed a problem.
Wasn't he already in a mental world?
It simply wasn't the mental world with the Waterfall of Truth as its backdrop.
A consciousness inside a mental world couldn't delve deeper into itself and enter another mental world.
So he couldn't do it at all.
Yet Naruto's outburst made the Sage of Six Paths suspicious. "Naruto, how did you become like this? Could some demon have possessed you? Evil spirit, leave Naruto's body at once!"
"..."
"That's right, an evil spirit has invaded my body! You damned evil spirit, get out!"
With tears in his eyes, Naruto pointed at the Sage of Six Paths, his face full of resentment.
Although his consciousness had entered the mental space, he knew that his body outside was still enduring attacks from the Sage of Six Paths' Holy Relic.
"Me? Naruto, have you misunderstood something? I'm the Sage of Six Paths. How could I possibly be an evil spirit?"
The Sage of Six Paths thought Naruto's demand to "get out" meant that he wanted his spiritual form to leave Naruto's consciousness.