Gyuki, the Eight-Tails, gently lowered Naruto to the ground.
"We weren't trying to make things difficult for you."
"We just wanted to see whether your desire to coexist with us would waver in the face of doubt and rejection."
"You've proved you're still someone we can entrust ourselves to. Kurama was right about you."
Gyuki held out his fist.
"Thank you. Thank you all, truly..."
Tears filled Naruto's eyes as he raised his fist and bumped it against Gyuki's.
The other tailed beasts each reached out and stacked their hands on Gyuki's fist.
The tailed beasts spoke in unison. "Go! Do what you need to do!"
Outside the Demonic Statue, Naruto opened his eyes and landed on the ground from midair.
He now had every tailed beast's chakra within him, and he knew senjutsu.
The conditions had been met. In fact, he was even better prepared than in his previous life!
A golden chakra coat covered his entire body, with a black lining underneath.
On the back of the coat were the Rinnegan pattern and nine tomoe arranged in a formation.
Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh! Whoosh!
Truth-Seeking Orbs appeared behind Naruto one after another, forming a circle of nine in all.
Naruto had acquired Six Paths Senjutsu!
[Note: The power the Sage of Six Paths once gave Naruto and Sasuke consisted only of the "yin-yang powers." Naruto's Six Paths Senjutsu and Sasuke's Rinnegan awakened on their own once the conditions were met. This is another major point that is easily misunderstood.]
Naruto looked at his full-body Six Paths coat and said, "This Six Paths Senjutsu is more complete than before. It must be because my mastery of senjutsu has improved."
In his previous life, Naruto had learned only Mount Myōboku's senjutsu. Now, however, he had the same Freeform Sage Art as