Shisui Uchiha's consciousness had already turned into a stone statue before him. He could no longer hear or see anything.
The Nine-Tails was especially pleased to see that blood-red Sharingan turn the color of stone.
Then the Nine-Tails stopped paying attention to him and lowered his head, watching the mist he had scattered with his blows slowly gather again.
This mist was not something the Nine-Tails had conjured to be deliberately mysterious. It was a manifestation of Naruto's current consciousness.
As a squatter in Naruto's body... no, that wasn't right. As they said, a long illness made a good doctor... no, that wasn't it either...
In short, having spent so long inside Naruto, the Nine-Tails was particularly quick to understand these strange phenomena.
"...What a troublesome brat."
With those parting words, the Nine-Tails gradually vanished, leaving only Shisui Uchiha, now a stone statue, standing motionless inside the New Eight Trigrams Sealing Style.
Meanwhile, in the outside world.
"Naruto" was examining Shisui Uchiha, who stood motionless before him with his eyes wide open.
Placing a hand over Shisui's heart and feeling that it had indeed started beating again, "Naruto" couldn't help sighing.
"Lord Kurama really is asking too much. Without using chakra, even I'd be hard-pressed to figure anything out."
Indeed, Minato Namikaze was currently controlling Naruto's body.
The instant he realized Naruto would not have time to dodge Kotoamatsukami, Minato had prepared to take over, just as he had on the night of the Uchiha Clan Massacre.
His earlier conversation with Itachi had already informed him of Shisui's Mangekyō Sharingan abilities. Even the Nine-Tails' warning had come because Minato first noticed something was wrong, but unfortunately, they had been a step too late.
Yet even in such an emergency, when the Nine-Tails switched out Naruto's consciousness, he specifically stressed one