"Kami, this place is dark!"
"Kyuu?"
The Nine-Tails turns his head. "Shukaku?"
"Yeah, it's me," Shukaku replies. He leans back against his tail as Kyuubi sits down nearby. "So, your brat get himself killed like mine?"
"Wha? No, my brat was an Uzumaki. Kushina survived when Uchiha Madara ripped me from her." He smirks and punches Shukaku in the arm. "He had almost as much chakra as you."
Shukaku frowns angrily and his ear twitches.
"Kidding," Kyuubi goes on. "But your brat ain't dead either. Mine brought him back, by the way. No, he's on the war path and wanting blood, but not dead."
"Whose?" It had been years since the red-head had wanted to kill anyone. If the brat had listened to him, both him and Kyuubi wouldn't be in this Kami-forsaken place. Or, at least, he wouldn't.
"Uchiha Sasuke," Kyuubi says, grinning.
"Uchiha...But isn't that the one your brat wanted to save from that snake guy?" Shukaku asks, curiously tilting his head to the side.
"Well, that was before he ripped me from the brat."
"What? But I thought only that Nagato guy could remove us? And that Uchiha..."
"He helped him. Lured the blond idiot into a fight. Madara snuck up on him and ripped me from him. Your brat had blood-lust in his eyes, you know."
"Well, he always did hate that Uchiha brat."
"It's not that," Kyuubi insists. "He wants the Uchiha's blood because he nearly killed Naruto. Your brat managed to drag him to safety though."
"Shame you didn't get to see more," Shukaku muses, smirking sadistically. "I would've loved to hear how Gaara took his revenge for the blond."
Kyuubi rolls his eyes and says, jokingly, "Yeah. You would."