Naruto 572

Naruto and Kurama team up against Tobi's tailed beasts.

Little Kurama shedding a tear... weird.

Summary:
Naruto and Kurama counter the combined tailed beast bombs of the other beasts with their own giant tailed beast bomb. The two attacks create a huge explosion, and Naruto/Kurama uses the smoke to grab the stakes on Tobi's beasts with Kurama's tail-arms (each containing a fox mode Naruto shadow clone). Naruto wants to pull all the stakes out at once, but suddenly he is transported into an inner dimension again. This time, all of the remaining beasts and their jinchurikis are present and none of them are bound by chains. Even Son Goku and his jinchurikis appear, and all of the jinchurikis and beasts pledge support to Naruto. While watching Naruto, Kurama takes a trip down memory lane where the Sage of the Six Paths held an assembly with all nine of the young tailed beasts. The Sage stated that he won't be alive for long, but he tells the beasts to search for the right path and eventually become one again. Kurama believes that maybe this day has finally come.

Back to the real world, Naruto pulls out the stakes from the remaining beasts and Tobi has to suck the beasts back into the cursed statue. Having met with the other tailed beasts in the inner world, Naruto now has even more confidence.

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Naruto and Kurama defeat Tobi's puppets and Naruto gets more knowledge (and perhaps power) from the other tailed beasts. Kurama shows himself as the most powerful of the beasts as he and Naruto countered the combined attack of five other tailed beasts and then pulled out the control rods. Everything went so well that half of the chapter was spent in the inner world where Naruto learned the proper names of all of the tailed beasts and made some stupid jokes (and then got made fun of). I suppose the inner world stuff with all the beasts and jinchurikis pledging support was necessary, but the flashback with all the baby tailed beasts around the Sage of Six Paths was a bit weird. I certainly didn't expect to see the beasts in their kid chibi forms and I thought Kurama shedding a tear was funny. The whole thing felt out of place to me. I thought the beasts would be somewhat hostile to the Sage since he was the one who formed them from the Juubi, but it sounds like the Sage was more like a father figure to the tailed beasts. Maybe this is all to go with Naruto's central message of that everyone can and should get along or something along those lines.

Anyways, Tobi loses the puppets, but he still has the Cursed Statute and probably some other eye hacks if he chooses to continue the fight. We'll see if Naruto received any additional power-ups from his meeting with the tailed beasts.