Inside Naruto Uzumaki's inner space.
"Hey, Kurama, are you all right?" Naruto looked worriedly at the Nine-Tails crouching before him.
"Phew..."
"You reacted in time. Some Chakra was absorbed, but I'm all right," Kurama said, letting out a breath.
Only then did Naruto relax.
"But..."
"But what?"
"The enemy absorbed quite a bit of Chakra. Your current state is about to wear off..."
Before the Nine-Tails finished speaking, Naruto could no longer maintain his Sage Fox state in the outside world.
His golden Tailed Beast Cloak vanished completely.
"Hey, hey, hey..."
Naruto immediately jumped up and down in his inner space, shouting at the Nine-Tails, "Kurama, you can't undo this state now! Those two enemies are still out there!"
Naruto was so anxious he was on the verge of sweating.
Although he had escaped the enemy's clutches, it went without saying that the coming battle would be even fiercer.
If he couldn't maintain his Sage Fox state, he was finished.
The enemy wouldn't let such a good opportunity slip away.
In his normal state, Naruto had no way of fighting members of the Ōtsutsuki Clan.
"Quiet!"
The Nine-Tails glared at Naruto, then pressed his claws together. "I'll gather Chakra and enter Sage Mode as quickly as I can."
"Until then, you have to use Shadow Clones to hold off those two enemies at any cost."
"If you can't, both of us will be captured!"
"Then all we can do is hope Shihōin Naraku and Sasuke Uchiha come to rescue us."
"Provided we're still alive, that is."
After saying everything in one breath, the Nine-Tails began concentrating fully on gathering Chakra.
In fact, Naruto didn't even need to tell him. He was already giving it everything he had.
Even setting aside his relationship with Naruto, the Nine-Tails himself didn't want to