"Then come close kid..." Nine Tails called not really expecting the boy to come close to the cage bars, but he was surprised when Naruto actually came close and stood exactly at the center of the seal facing the beast.

"Well... Well... Well..." Nine Tails started saying with a light laughter. "I thought you were actually an intelligent kid after hearing the speech you just gave... But you're actually an idiot... NOW DIE..." Nine Tails shouted the last two words and slammed his massive right paw on Naruto very hardly through the gap between the bars of the cage.

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(In the Real World...)

"Lady Tsunade... Has Naruto-kun not woken up yet...?" Shizune asked her master who was in the kitchen when she still didn't find her brother running around the home.

"I guess not... Well, let him have his sleep... After all, today will be a busy day for him and for us too..." Tsunade answered not turning back to look at her assistant and kept on working on the turkey chicken which is gonna be on the menu in the evening.

"Ok Lady Tsunade... It's just that I have this nagging feeling that he might be in danger..." Shizune finally opened up on what was actually bothering her.

Tsunade stopped working on the turkey chicken and turned around to look at her apprentice and put her hands on her shoulders to comfort her and said, "You know him very well just as I do Shizune... He has the guts to stand against all the odds."

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(Inside The Eight Trigrams Seal...)

"I thought dealing with him would be a pain in the neck... But he is a lot dum...." Nine Tails was interrupted from his bragging when he felt something under his paw.

The huge paw of the Nine Tails was being forcefully lifted even though the mighty beast kept applying pressure on to the paw. "WHAT..!?" The beast can't help but shout in surprise.

Naruto lifted the beast's paw all the way above his head and forced it backwards a little and then brought it back to his waist level and took hold of the paw in his hands with an iron grip having an intense gaze all the time on his face. For a brief second the beast almost thought he saw Hashirama Senju in the place of the kid holding his paw.

The beast tried his best to get his paw out from the blond kid's grip but when he could not get it out, "JUST DIE..." the beast shouted in frustration and threw its left paw this time through the gap between cage bars to smash the kid flat on the ground. But imagine his surprise when Naruto caught his other paw too with his right hand and now both of his paws were stuck in the boy's hands.

Naruto kept both of the beast's legs locked in an iron grip in his hands and looked straight into the eyes of the beast with such an intense anger that it made the mighty beast itself to worry a little and said in an ominous way, "I trusted you..." then without any warning, the blond kid in an unbelievable show of strength jerked both the legs that he held in his hands forward forcing the beast's head to crash into the cage bars with a loud bang.

"WHAT THE HELL ARE YOU...?" the beast shouted in surprise after having a first hand experience of the incredible strength of the boy. He seriously wanted to rub his head which was throbbing in pain, but the kid was still not letting his paws go.

"I really wanted to be your friend..." then he repeated the action again causing another loud bang echoing throughout the seal.

"STOP IT YOU IDIOT....!" The beast shouted.

"I even tried to move forward from the fact that you killed my parents..." another loud bang.

"I SAID STOP IT...!" The beast shouted again in frustration and headache.

"You tried to kill me once and you try to kill me now too...?" another loud bang.

"OK... OK... I'M SORRY... NOW LET ME GO YOU FREAK..." The beast shouted at last, finally realizing that the boy won't let him go if he doesn't. Even if he wanted to retaliate, he can't due to the presence of the cage that is imprisoning him.

"Better..." said the blond and then finally he let go of the beast's paws, which the beast immediately used to rub his aching head.

"I think our first meeting is a disaster... So, lets talk like civilized beings the next time..." Naruto said still feeling a little angry at the beast.

"I WON'T FORGET WHAT YOU DID BRAT... MARK MY WORDS... I WILL NEVER BE YOUR FRIEND AND I WILL TEAR YOU INTO THOUSANDS OF PIECES THE FIRST CHANCE I GET..." the beast declared.

"You can try..." The boy challenged and paused to release a sigh to cool his anger down and a few moments later he continued again, "Look... I said I want you to be my friend, but It's your choice... I won't force my ideals on you..."

That made the beast to pause and raise an eyebrow at the last sentence said by the boy standing against him. A few seconds later the beast replied again, "Humans are all the same and you're nothing different kid... Now, be gone..."

With that Naruto woke up on his bed in real life. He decided that it will be best if he kept the meeting with The Beast Within a secret for now. No need to get his mother, sister and uncle worried for nothing.