"Those bastards!" Tsunami yelled as Naruto finished his story of the last two months. Tazunas face was dark with anger. Many of his major contracts were from Konoha looking for new bases or housing, they could kiss the discount he gave them good-bye. "Agreed, you can stay here as long as you like Naruto. Here, you're family." Naruto teared up. "Thank you both, so much." Then he proceeded to pass out on the ground. "Naruto!" Tsunami yelled in fright as the blonde went down. She checked his pulse and put a hand to his forehead, she let out a sigh of relief. "He's just exhausted. He'll be fine once we get him some rest and food" Tazuna, who had also jumped from his chair, fell back in his chair with a sigh of relief. "Get him too a bed then, he can eat when he wakes up."

Naruto woke up and for a second had no idea where he was, then he heard a dripping and saw… pipes. 'Fucking perfect. Just what I need right now.' he thought, then had a sobering idea that he wouldn't have had before Sasukes betrayal. 'I shouldn't be such an ass right off, the fox probably hates this whole situation just as much as i do, probably even more since it's being treated as nothing but a giant monster chakra battery thing.' Naruto knew having your chakra taken from you forcibly hurt, so he wondered what it was like for the kyuubi. As Naruto made his way to the seal room, more of these thoughts assaulted his head. 'And that's another thing, is it even an it? Nobody ever bothered to figure out if it was a boy or a girl. And its name? Does it have one, and is so, what is it?' Naruto was so engrossed in his thoughts that he almost ran into the cage. He was shaken from his thoughts when a deep, ancient voice spoke, "Brat. We have much to discuss." Naruto looked to see two deep red eyes glaring down at him. At the word discuss, the questions flowed like water.

"Whatsyourgender?Areyouaboyoragirl?Doyouhaveanameifsowhatisitandcanicallyouit?..." "SHUT UP FOR ONE GODDAMN MINUTE!" The Kyuubi yelled at the endless stream of questions. "Why are you suddenly so interested in my life brat? You never gave a damn before."The Kyuubi was suspicious of its container, as it should be, it is HER spawn. What happened next, shocked it to the core, but even more, it had hope. Naruto took a breath, "I was doing some thinking, and I realized,"

"I understand."

The Kyuubi looked down at him, like a person would look at a child that confused him. "You, understand? What does that mean?" Naruto looked up at him, "I understand, I understand why you're so angry all the time, why you threaten me, why you look down on humans. When we learned of you and yours, we didn't stop to think about whether or not you where evil or meant harm, or even to see if you where intelligent. We attacked, yes, WE attacked, I believe that the bijuu would never have instigated an attack on humans. We attacked, captured you and used you as weapons or pariahs to blame for everything. We stripped you of your names, your identities, your freedom, and your choices." Naruto stopped and inhaled deeply; "We took everything from you and what do you get, to be sealed into a fucking baby and blamed by that brat for his shitty life and he never stops to think that you never asked for this, you hate this more than he does, more, more than I do. And I'm sorry"

"You're sorry." The Kyuubi said slowly, as if testing the words to ascern their truthfulness. "You, you of all people are sorry." Naruto closed his eyes, expecting the fox to start shouting, to start trying to kill him. He was surprised as well. "That makes things easier." The Kyuubi said. "First, I will answer your questions. No, I do not have a gender, but let's say I'm male, just for convenience. Second, my name is Kurama, and yes, you may call me it. As for why I drew you here, I needed to speak with you." Naruto was struck by how, amicable, the Kyu-Kurama was being. Was it that easy? "What did you need to talk to me about?" Kurama seemed to think, "First i guess, we should talk about writing up a contract." Naruto was confused, "a contract?" Kurama nodded, well, as well as a giant fox could nod. "A contract is a mutual agreement between a Bijuu and it's host. But, it can only be made between a Bijuu and Jinchuuriki who are willing to work together, which would not have been possible had you been the same as your mother or even you just a week ago." Naruto nodded, "wait, my MOTHER?!"