Quote Originally Posted by Sam98034 View Post
I'm confused. I thought what was happening is that they were asking Naruto to get rid of the kyuubi. By release I thought they meant get rid of it. I'm guessing they mean something else completely?
Think of "release" in this sense as "unleash" or paradoxically, "harness" (the power of). In pretty much the same sense as when Danzou said he was going to "release" his arm.