"Naruto..." Kushina gazed at Naruto before her, her eyes brimming with so much emotion.
Naruto suppressed the torrent of feelings inside him and gave Kushina a reassuring smile. "Could you wait just a little while, Mom?"
Kushina nodded. "I'll wait. You don't need your mom to give you a helping hand anymore, ya know!"
Smack!
Naruto struck his palm with his fist and declared spiritedly, "That's right! Mom just needs to watch me and sip tea on the sidelines, believe it!"
Although there was no tea to sip, Kushina flexed her arms like a strongman. "Go on! Mom will cheer you on, ya know!"
On the battlefield within his mental world, Naruto straightened his backward-leaning body.
"No matter how old you get or how much you've been through, the bonds of family are the one thing you can never sever. Mom, getting to see you again really, really is wonderful, believe it...!!!"
Boom...!!
Naruto fully unleashed his own chakra!
Outside.
"!" Orochimaru, who had his teeth sunk into Naruto's neck as he released the power of his Cursed Seal, was suddenly hurled away by a surge of force!
"Naruto-kun..." Sitting on the ground, he stared at Naruto's abdomen with shining slit pupils. The formula of the Five Elements Seal was unraveling on its own!
Orochimaru's gaze trembled with shock. "Naruto-kun actually forced his way through the Five Elements Seal with his own power?? What's going on!? Even with a complete Uzumaki bloodline, he couldn't accomplish that in such a short time... could it be!? Has Naruto-kun already adapted completely to this body??"
Hiss, hiss, hiss!
Orange pigmentation appeared around Naruto's eyes.
Yamato watched intently. "He's entered Sage Mode. Is the final battle with the Nine-Tails about to begin!?"
Within his mental world.
Naruto called out firmly, "Mom, please release the