hi all! i actually used to frequent this forum years ago on a different account and while i've long since moved on from naruto itself it's always in my recurring thoughts as the series i grew up with. though my memory of it is all decently foggy.
anyway-- i was thinking more or less about the series as a whole and a thought that was
" hmm, naruto became friends with kurama a bit fast.. "
...went to
" hey, how /did/ he even manage to steal his chakra even with kushina's help? "
aaand that thought eventually came to the thought in the title! i ask this because pain's deva path really is pulling out all the stops in order to keep naruto's 6-tailed form down and even then... it never seemed to actually work, given how his 8 tailed form popped out of chibaku tensei right after?
i really got the impression that even if naruto didn't resist it, pain was kinda screwed either way
the only real conclusion i came up with is that maybe nagato was mainly accounting for the other akatsuki members being there to add support ( particularly itachi and and obito for their sharingan genjutsu, which is a definite wincon ) but they died of course and obito never stepped in, for some reason? so he had to do it himself
curious to know what everyone else thinks on this