The final battle had started. He was weakening, but so was the wicked figure. His chakra was depleted, the energy melting out of his body. Yet he could not back out now. He had come too far and meant to continue without looking back.
The damned thrashed on the floor in the middle of the room, the dark shape flickering like a dying flame. "You can't seal me again," it hissed. "I'm already inside you. I am your fear. Your guilt. I will never die."
With his eyes closed, Naruto's body shook from exhaustion. "You are wrong," he said. "You planted doubt into our hearts, but you got nothing more out of this. We're not going to let you destroy this village. We're not going to let you win.".
With a final, desperate heave, Naruto, Sasuke, and the others channeled every last shred of his chakra into one combined jutsu. There was cracking in the air as Naruto's Rasengan dug into Sasuke's Chidori head-on, both blowing each other up into a blinding explosion of light.
The darkness shrieked apart, rent asunder, unravelling into nothingness. Shadows, once the room was consumed by them, now faded out from the space of their frantic battle.
But the figure disappeared even as the voice, a chilling one in the air again, spoke.
You can't get away from me, Naruto Uzumki. I will be with you.in the shadows.