Sai, unusually thoughtful, added, “The Kuroikiba could not feed on me because I acknowledged my lack of emotion. But… I felt something when Naruto struck the core. It was warm. Is that… friendship?”
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. naruto shippuden episodes
Yamato saw Orochimaru’s grin, then the face of every experimental subject he’d failed to protect. Sai, unusually thoughtful, added, “The Kuroikiba could not
Naruto smiled, tired but genuine. “That’s okay. That’s why we’re a team. When one of us forgets, the other remembers.” Is that… friendship
He slammed it into the core. The Kuroikiba shrieked—not in pain, but in confusion. For the first time in three hundred years, something had refused to be afraid. Its form collapsed inward, and the black chains turned to silver dust.