wtf, ffnet, stop eating my question marks!
'We gotta stop meeting like this,' he mutters the next time, as he awakens half-floating in front of the cage.
/Lost a fight with your bitch again, brat ?./ the fox sneers, and licks a gigantic paw in a not-quite-uncaring way.
Naruto doesn't sneer back, or posture. He finds a relatively dry place and sits down against the wall. 'No. Jiraiya's checking on the seal.' Naruto doesn't like the way he's been sleepwalking. The other night he woke up with his hand in a rat hole, clawing at the hidden rodents frenetically. He got plaster and mortar everywhere. His landlord hates his guts already.
Kyuubi bares his teeth, but doesn't reply.
It's dark and cold and damp in here, and the only light comes from Kyuubi's eyes and the chakra oozing from him. There's a dripping noise coming from somewhere, irregular enough to startle him every time, frequent enough to be a real nuisance. After ten minutes it's already getting on his nerves. Kyuubi is silent like mountains are silent -- just the wind of his breath and the heaviness of his sheer presence and the weight of everything there is between them.
They sit in the dark for a long time, waiting.
At the end he gets to leave. Kyuubi doesn't.