Indeed, Li's original body's power had now been sealed, but Kurama—or rather, Kurama on the moon—had originally been a being that lived in this world.
"Listen. I'll return your consciousness to you now. Help me defeat them, or I'll make your soul scatter to the winds!" Li said sternly. Any so-called conciliatory policy was laughable in a situation like this. Li did not have time to wait for slow results. If he truly possessed only Naruto's original strength, then facing the Five Kage, all of Konoha's elites, and a Sasuke who was evenly matched with Naruto hunting him down, Li really did not think he could escape!
Kurama snorted. "You don't need to tell me that. Our physical forms have already been destroyed. If we fall into their hands, we'll inevitably become nourishment for the original one inside your body!"
Li snorted. "Don't push it too far!"
"Kakashi! Didn't you say he was no longer Naruto?!" Gaara roared. "If he isn't Naruto, how could he possibly control Kurama?!"
Gaara was also a Jinchuriki. Naturally, he knew how much suffering a Tailed Beast inside one's body caused. It was not the sort of agony that could simply be forcibly suppressed through sheer willpower. On the contrary, no matter how strong your mind was, the Tailed Beast's spirit would grow stronger alongside it.
The One-Tail, Shukaku, had always been an extremely psychologically repressed Tailed Beast. Gaara had suffered greatly because of him as a child, and under his father's influence, his mind had become somewhat twisted as well. As he grew older and Shukaku remained within him longer and longer, that darkness eventually spiraled out of control, turning Gaara incomparably brutal.
In truth, Gaara's temperament had gradually been transforming into Shukaku's.
Even so, Gaara did not dare claim that he could completely