Inside the darkness, he saw every fear he’d ever had: Iruka disowning him, Jiraiya’s body floating in the rain, Hinata dying to protect him, the village spitting on him again. But he didn’t flinch.
“Lonely, aren’t you, jinchuriki? All that power. All that hate inside you. And still, no one really sees you. They see the monster. Just like they saw me.”
“I’ve lived through all of that,” Naruto said, voice steady. “And I’m still here. You don’t scare me. You just remind me of what I’ve already survived.” naruto shippuden episodes
Yamato saw Orochimaru’s grin, then the face of every experimental subject he’d failed to protect.
Yamato laughed, ruffling Sai’s hair. “Yeah. It is.” Inside the darkness, he saw every fear he’d
Naruto smiled, tired but genuine. “That’s okay. That’s why we’re a team. When one of us forgets, the other remembers.”
And somewhere in the darkness, the Kuroikiba’s last whisper faded into nothing: “What a terrifying boy… he’s not afraid of his own heart.” All that power
The nightmare hissed and dissolved.