Not really...well my friend that pledge was made with respect to yamato and the mis-understandings of the village that naruto cares with him. He has been told all his life that the fox was evil, bad, and everything else. So it makes sense that naruto be fearful of the fox. But that fear is ignorance, you can run from your demons for only so long.
Look at the image (of the eye), and re read the mange if you need to remember, not relying on the kyubi is all about Sasuke and Sakura and his promise never to let that "evil" hurt them again...
I agree that one can out run there demons for so long, and this appearance of the six tails proves it.