Even Toneri himself did not know what had been left here.
All he knew was that after meeting Naruto, the necklace he had worn since childhood had reacted—
That meant Naruto had to be the person he was waiting for.
Though Toneri had not even realized it, his memories held no answers as to where this necklace had come from or why he had worn it since childhood, or...
Who had given him a mission he himself knew nothing about.
Yet it felt perfectly natural. Once the necklace reacted, Toneri simply brought Naruto to this place as a matter of course.
It was as though someone had already told him to do so.
"The chakra here is really dense, and... there's a familiar presence. Strange. Why would that be?"
Having developed a resistance to Naruto's peculiar train of thought, the Nine-Tails ignored his musings outright. Ever since arriving at this temple, he had felt that something was a little strange.
After sensing his surroundings for a while, he discovered something amiss.
What's strange about a familiar presence? Haven't you been here before, Kurama?
"I have, but that was a long time ago. Besides, back then, you came here mainly to save Hinata and stop Toneri from changing the moon's orbit by destroying the Tenseigan hidden here."
"The situation was urgent, and you didn't understand Sealing Jutsu back then, so there was no time to research some barrier that would spare you from doing chores..."
Sounds like the old me came here and did something pretty incredible!
The Nine-Tails briefly described what Naruto had experienced in the past, but soon turned his attention back to the matter at hand.
"But I didn't sense this familiar chakra back then. Stop interrupting my train of thought for a moment..."
With the Nine-Tails effectively