
Hearing this, Naruto begins to shed tears as he realises that the woman in front of him is none other than his mother, and rushes forward to hug her. The woman muses that she has always had a verbal tic and that she hopes she did not pass it down to Naruto, and wonders why Minato did not tell him about her. He initially believes her to be the Nine-Tails' true form, but when she replies using dattebane, Naruto recognises the verbal tic as being akin to his own dattebayo. Meanwhile, Naruto finds himself in a different environment facing a red-haired woman. On the outside, Yamato and Killer B are surprised to see that only half of Naruto's body has transformed. Naruto proclaims that he must get away and return to the real world, only for a voice to tell him that it is okay to stay. As the fox's influence begins to take over Naruto, he loses his Sage Mode as his body begins to transform into his Version 2 form. As the attack strikes the tailed beast, Naruto begins to absorb some of the fox's chakra however, the fox responds by sending its own anger and malice through the chakra Naruto is siphoning. A shadow clones rushes out to grab one of the nine tails and flips the fox onto its back, as the real Naruto and the other shadow clone hurl their Wind Release: Rasenshuriken. The real Naruto, along with two shadow clones, are hidden behind one of the Eight-Tails' tentacles.

The fox immediately uses its paw to crush Naruto, although the one in his clutches is none other than a shadow clone. Naruto's senjutsu-enhanced Ultra-Big Ball Rasengan is ineffective against the Nine-Tailed Demon Fox.
