Disclaimer: Naruto © Masashi Kishimoto, and is used without permission.

Author's Note: Most of the time, Kyuubi is portrayed as a massive troll, who can't help but make Naruto's life hell. I was planning to make something similar, then I had an image of her in glasses, and it fell into place. Plot bunnies. Can't live with them, can't write a thing without them. Something I wish to note is that the Kyuubi having sight problems is not just to give her a disability, or due to the Meganekko fetish, but actually due to the fact that I've got bad headaches and mild sight problems from late night writing sessions in reality.

For her to have eye problems after being in imprisonment in a dark place for long periods, it's all too plausible, and it's more a way to highlight that she has problems and insecurities that she's not told anyone, and that the nature of her attack on Konohagakure was far from what she wanted to do, but, potentially, she couldn't actually even see what she was doing, as well as the Tsukuyomi.

To Please A Kitsune

Chapter 1: A New Approach

It all began with a simple experiment by Kushina. She decided to approach the Kyuubi from a different direction each time, and from further and further distances, when she entered the seal, to notice something. If she didn't make any noise, it failed to acknowledge that she'd even arrived until she came close to the place where it was tethered, the growled greetings and sharp retorts seeming empty when she knew it had a massive blind spot.

Testing a theory, she stopped using the rock and chains, instead creating a replica of Uzushiogakure, the Kyuubi shrunk down to the size of a common fox, with the tools for it's restoration hidden in plain sight… Just outside of the distance it noticed her at. Over the following days, she noticed something odd. Namely that the replica hadn't been disrupted in any meaningful way. Somehow, a creature considered the single most dangerous entity in the Elemental Nations… hadn't done anything.

She entered the area where it was wandering, pulling it into her lap. "Nothing has been destroyed, No-one's running in terror..." Kushina observed.

"Two or three pet rabbits might have disappeared..." The fox offered, it's voice, at this size, soft and surprisingly feminine, "I was surprised when it seemed like you released me from the seal, with most of my power weakened by the method… I actually thought you had, and decided to make the most of it..."

"Yet nothing, outside of a few pets, has been killed, and the village is still intact, plus you're still lap-sized..." Kushina continued, stroking it's head, "How is that making the most of it?"

"Datara's not awake, so that's not on the agenda for a few decades," The fox offered, Kushina's eyebrow raising at the name, "That's how I knew it wasn't real. Couldn't get very far from the village before the landscape just went repetitive… Still, Waking up Datara is not something I want to do right now. Currently been sleeping at the temple to Inari, the priestesses give belly rubs to any foxes they meet… If I wasn't lap-sized, how would I get the belly rubs?"

Kushina wasn't sure what to think. The Kyuubi no Yoko, the fearsome leader of the Bijuu… basically was scamming belly rubs off the priestesses as the most disruptive thing it had done since she'd, unknown to it, actually hid the seal in said temple's fox statue when she made the replica village, the temple not being there in reality. The priestesses were intended as a distraction if the Kyuubi found the temple, but it didn't see them as the kind of distraction she did. It saw them as a way to just be a fox.

"Well, I think that you've proven quite how much I can trust you..." She stated, an image of one of the priestesses she'd created in her mind as she used the fact it was her mind they were in to change the fox into a priestess, earning a confused yelp from the fox-turned-girl, "Hey! What was that for? Not that I don't mind, but what..."

"You can change yourself back at any time..." Kushina stated, "Now, go back to the temple, and I'll be back in a few months..."

When she got back the second time, after discovering what the Kyuubi meant by Datara, and shuddering at the revelation that the Kyuubi wasn't the most destructive thing in the Elemental Nations, she headed for the temple to find her… sweeping the front of the main building, a pair of glasses perched on her nose, getting, for the first time since she started the experiment, noticed as she came into view.

"What's with the glasses and… actually doing what you would be doing if you were always a priestess?" Kushina asked, even more confused now.

"Never thought to do two things… One, take on a human form. Two, get some glasses," Kurama stated, "Any particular reason she's a redhead?"

"It's a common hair colour in Uzu..." Kushina replied, "Still, You likely know how to unseal your powers..."

"Go check..." Kurama stated, for Kushina to find that someone had removed the seal that could change the Kyuubi back into a nine-tailed fox, the girl coming up behind her, "I don't want to be that any more… Since seeing things from the angle of the things I…. I destroyed, I can't go back to being what I was..."

"You don't have to..." Kushina offered, "I have some things I need to do, then..."

"Then?" Kurama asked, to just get her hair ruffled, her fox ears popping up and getting played with a few moments later.

A few years later, after several more visits to Kurama, where Uzushiogakure changed into Konohagakure, she was entering a bedroom, whose construction had been a closely guarded secret, the owner even more so, as she watched Kurama, not wanting to admit how close she looked to herself at that age, except for her omnipresent glasses. She now knew it was a necessary thing, with the fact the Kyuubi couldn't see more than a couple of feet in front of her clearly.

The fact it wasn't unheard of for Uzumaki women to need glasses was why she didn't bring up the fact with the girl herself. She entered a replica of of the bedroom, where Kurama was looking at her in confusion.

"Who's bedroom is this?" She asked, "I've not seen it anywhere in Uzu, or Konoha..."

"It'll be yours soon enough. You're not exactly a nine-tailed demon fox any more..." Kushina stated, "I'll be drawing up papers with Minato for your new status to become official once Naruto is born, The weakness in the seal at that time will give you ample chance to slip the noose for good… With how you're sealed, you'll lose most of your tails, but you don't exactly use them..."

"You trust me that much?" The girl asked, fox ears and a fox tail manifesting, the tail swishing in agitation, "But I'm..."

"On the clan roll, and haven't done anything to make me think you're going to cause trouble..." Kushina stated, "Now, Naruto will need his big sister to take care of him if something goes wrong… Promise me, Kurama… Be that big sister for him. End the time of the Kyuubi..."

Before Kushina or Kurama could take that last step, a mysterious man approached Kushina, and Kurama found herself not in control of her body as the best part of a decade of goodwill was destroyed in an instant. The papers remained unfiled on Minato's desk, and were misfiled in the following chaos. Kurama found herself back to square one, sealed within the original seal configuration, inside who was almost her brother. She didn't like being sealed like this. For one, the manga she stored in the seal was woefully out of date!

Several years later, Naruto slumped as he considered how many things had gone wrong with what should have been the beginning of his great career as a ninja of the leaf. First, Mizuki had turned out to be a traitor to the leaf, then his team assignment was toxic, with Sasuke hating him, and he'd begun to feel like that, maybe, just maybe, Sakura only barely tolerated him at best. At worst, he would be expected to team up with, for the rest of his career, with a pair of people who would take turns to contemplate stabbing him in the back.

He'd have taken that chinese girl in Neji's team as a teammate, or that quiet girl who always sat behind him. They were both girls who didn't sigh happily at Sasuke-teme every time he walked past, meaning he'd not get hit half as much for disagreeing with Sasuke or finding fault in Sasuke…

He collapsed on his bed, tired of all the crap he was dealing with. Maybe his dreams would be better...

...only to abruptly find himself floating face down in some water. He got up, finding himself, surreally, completely dry despite the fact he should have been drenched. The even more odd thing was that he was very much aware of his surroundings and situation. Heading further into the chamber, he found himself walking into a dimly lit room where a dark red-haired teenage girl was sat, dressed in what seemed to be a tailored crimson leather jumpsuit, reading a manga. What was more interesting was that she was in a ball-shaped cage, the lower third filled with pillows that she was sat on.

She muttered something to herself as she leafed through the manga, grumbling about something he couldn't make out, before taking out a pair of glasses, sighing and going back to the manga, eventually giving up and tossing it over her shoulder, the book disintegrating as she took out a different one, then she just gave up, threw it after the first, and looked across at him.

"Something must have gone bad..." She muttered, "Okaasan isn't here, and hasn't been here for over a decade, and now you..."

"Umm, What are you talking about?" Naruto asked, for her to glare at him over the top of her glasses.

"Usual visiting hours are between the periods of 'Terrible Peril' and 'Almost Certain Death' right now," She declared, adding, as an aside, "I will forgive you for coming outside of usual hours with the presentation of a box of pocky, some good shoujo manga or good quality ear rubs,"

"I don't have any pocky or shoujo manga, I didn't expect to need some!" He snapped back, "And what do you mean by 'terrible peril and almost certain death'?"

"I'm not someone you visit because your school life is shit. I know, I know… They gave you the wrong tests, kicked you out of key skills lessons and didn't give you the mandatory lessons in chakra control, but I am not someone who handles those kinds of things..." She stated, "Good thoughts on who to enter a relationship with. I only know of two people outside you alive who have Uzumaki bloodlines, and that's by accident. I don't count, due to extenuating circumstances..."

"What do you mean by all that?" Naruto snapped, "Anyway, What kind of extenuating circumstances?"

"First of all, I'm stuck in here, and..." She began, then, looking thoughtful, "Secondly, What's got nine tails, and is officially, according to anyone that matters, as well as the public records on the subject, dead?"

"Umm… The Kyuubi no Yok… Oh shit..." Naruto stated, as she took off the glasses only for the cage to change into a massive wall of iron, behind which an equally intimidating pair of yellow eyes glared at him, a mouthful of sharp teeth grinning at him. Naruto now knew the other circumstances. She was the Kyuubi.

"BOO," The fox boomed, transforming back into the girl as she began laughing to herself as he fled, back to being sat in the ball cage with all evidence of what she'd just done gone, with her adding, "Not had to do that… well, except for that little incident just over a decade ago… And I am sorry about that, Wasn't myself… in nearly 18 years..."

"You're seriously..." Naruto began.

"I prefer Kyuubi no Kitsune… Not been Yoko since I got this body. I also prefer Kurama…" She offered, "Most of my best days were when I use Kurama..."

"Still, you're the big bad..." Naruto began, to earn the same eyes-over-glasses glare as earlier, "Ahem, so if you're the Kyuubi, Why are you sat here in this place, reading..."

"Decade-old manga?" Kurama offered, "Well, I can't exactly go to the manga store and get some new issues! I'm stuck here 'on probation' until you kick the bucket… And if I breach my probation, I kick the bucket as well. Good call there, Dad!"

Naruto shook his head, not wanting to know who Kurama's father was that she hated him so much.

"So, Why is this place flooded like this?" Naruto asked, for her to look thoughtful.

"One of the pipes burst shortly after I arrived..." Kurama mused, "Bet your chakra control is an absolute mess, and has been since as long as you can remember… They should have taught you about this, but nooooooo… Can't have the Kyuubi's container able to use his abilities… I'd love to know what they'd done if she filed those papers..."

"So, it isn't water, but..." Naruto began.

"Chakra, yes, but it won't exactly help swimming in it..." Kurama stated, rubbing her nose, "Look, since I do need to show I'm not the 'big bad Kyuubi'… Just the Kyuubi… I'll look into fixing the plumbing… But your lap, my head and some pampering will come up in the near future!"

Naruto blinked as she summoned a pair of rubber boots, before opening the cage and dropping out of it, for it to shoot up towards the ceiling, vanishing from sight.

"Lesson 1 about the seal… It's not meant to keep me in the cage… Learned that over a decade ago, during a particularly odd time in Uzu..." Kurama offered, leading him into a location where some pipes were, one of them clearly broken and pouring the liquid into the chamber.

"The drainage system is working, that's good..." She muttered, pushing her glasses up onto the top of her head as she created a wrench and began removing the damaged section, "You go have a dream about ramen. I'm going to deal with this plumbing,"

A few hours, and a really really good dream about ramen, later, Naruto woke up, feeling a lot better than he had in weeks.

"Kurama?" He wondered.

"Bwuh… Oh, Naruto, you're awake..." Kurama stated, getting the impression she was jumping to her feet, "I'm awake, I'm awake… Don't exactly need sleep. Would love some right now… Goddamn Uzumaki chakra coils..."

"Thanks..." Naruto thought.

"Best thing you can do for me is to make a single clone. Need to test the repairs anyway. Think of when you saw me, and I'll do the rest..." Kurama offered, her clone stretching a few times after it had formed. Naruto then had a thought, and sat down on his couch, and gave her that pampering she'd asked for.

"You go do your team introductions, I have some things to do involving the Hokage..." Kurama said, "You're not permitted to know what until after I've done so,"

A short time later, Sarutobi was startled when a fox-girl, who looked like a younger Kushina, walked in, the ANBU coming out of hiding to cut her off.

"GODDAMMIT, I HAVE PERMISSION, YOU KNOW!" She snapped, several balls of fox fire forming, the ANBU fleeing as she even more resembled Kushina in her youth.

"Ahem, Let me guess..." Sarutobi asked, taking out a sheaf of papers from a folder, "Kurama Uzumaki?"

"Mom at least did that right..." She stated, looking over the papers, "Should have grown up alongside Naruto in a physical sense, ended up stuck in him for a decade and change..."

"So, The bedroom?" Sarutobi asked, Kurama nodding, "So, why did you not come in earlier?"

Kurama simply beckoned towards the general direction of the formerly destroyed portion of the village.

"Minor case of destruction of personal property and arson, caused by a high-level Tsukuyomi…" She offered, "Plus my 'little' brother only knew I was around last night… I blame his father, that or his godparents… Where are they anyway?"

"Yes, That was a particularly bad situation, and we'll consider you to have been punished enough for it… and also take partial blame for him not learning of your existence… and will track down Iruka or Tsunade if we need to," Sarutobi stated, "Your family name I assume is to be kept classified?"

"Until it is needed to be revealed..." She replied, doing some stretches, "The one thing good about being made of chakra in the first place… This… might have been a clone, first one Naruto did right… but burned out all Naruto's chakra in it just dealing with the ANBU on the way here… Left most of my tails in the seal, before you ask, but I can sustain it as long as I need to. Kept enough Naruto in here for him to dispel it..."

"I will file your registration, and mark you as an interim member of Team 7. If you show a willingness to make up for your mistakes, I will allow you to become a full member." Sarutobi stated, Kurama nodding.