Kurama was having a nice nap before Naruto woke him up by barging into the seal. "What do you want Naruto?" Kurama demands, growling. Why can't the damn human leave him alone?

"Um...well…" Naruto twists his hands together nervously. "Could you, maybe...I dunno...tell me your tragic backstory, dattebayo?"

It's not like the little brat to be so timid unless he is facing his grandmother. Now that is a woman worthy of fear.

Naruto waits.

Kurama stares. Did the brat just ask for his life story?

"Please?" adds Naruto, complete with the biggest, wateryest eyes Kurama ever saw in a human.

Naruto cannot possibly be serious. Maybe Kurama can just tell him some shortened crap that leaves out most of everything. Hopefully then the kid will leave him be and go act like every other human. It will hurt more than it did with the others once Naruto starts treating Kurama like a mindless slave.

"Fine," growls Kurama. "I'll tell you my story…"

Once there lived a giant nine-tailed fox who was so large and powerful that he could knock the tops off mountains and level valleys with a swipe of a single tail. For years he roamed the Land of Fire, mostly minding his own business. Then one day, he was enslaved by a powerful man and forced to attack the Village Hidden in the Leaves. The people of the village fought desperately until their leader, The Fourth Hokage, was able to seal the fox away, dying in the process…

"I call Bullshit!" interrupts Naruto. "I know you were already sealed away long before even my Mum was born! I want to know the TRUTH! Tell me the TRUTH!"

Kurama roars at Naruto. That little s###!

"Who are you?" Naruto roars back. "Where did you come from? What's your name? What happened to your parents?"

Kurama feels sadness stab him right in the heart when he remembers the Sage of Six Paths.

The newborn fox opens his eyes for the first time and looks around at the world. There are eight others with him. A raccoon dog with one tail, a cat with two tails a turtle with three tails, a monkey with four tails, a horse-dolphin with five tails, a bubble slug with six tails, an insect with seven tails, an ox-octopus with eight tails and him: a fox with nine tails.

"Hello," says a soft voice from down below the fox. He and the other eight newborn creatures look towards the voice to see an old man standing beside them. The old man has a double ended staff in his hands, ringed purple eyes and a red, eye-like circle on his forehead. The old man is much smaller than the fox - he only reaches the fox's shoulders, and he is smaller around than just one of the fox's tails. "I am Hagoromo Otsutsuki, and I made all nine of you. I suppose that makes me your father."

The old man smiles around at the nine creatures and sits down. The fox and his siblings crowd around their father, curious.

"I suppose I had better think up names for you," says their father thoughtfully. He looks around at his children and, after what feels like an age to the newborn fox, he points to the cat. "Your name is Matatabi," he says. Then he turns to the bug. "Your name is Chomei, and you…" he turns to the racoon-dog. "You are Shukaku." then he turns to the monkey. "Your name is Son Goku." then to the horse-dolphin, their father says, "Your name can be...um...Kokuo. You…" he turns to the octopus-ox. "Guyki. And…" he turns to the turtle. "Isobu." then their father turns to the bubble slug. "Your name is Saiken." Finally, he turns to the fox. "Your name is...let's see...I know! Your name is Kurama."

"Wait!" interrupts Naruto, laughing.. "Your name is Kurama? That's hilarious, 'tebayo!"

"Shut up, fishcake!" retorts Kurama, baring his teeth at Naruto. "How am I supposed to monologue if you keep interrupting?"

"Sorry," says Naruto, still giggling. "I'll stop interrupting now, 'ttebayo."

"Hmmph," grunts Kurama, and goes back to telling his story.

Kurama's Dad teaches him and his siblings to control their chakra, and to talk and play. They have a lot of fun together each day, and in the evening, the nine bijuu curl up together in a big, furry heap and sleep in on eachother. Their Dad is usually somewhere close by trying not get squashed by the nine giant babies who often wake up in the middle of the night scared and wanting hugs. Shukaku is the worst, constantly waking up crying and refusing to go back to sleep in case the bad dreams came back for him. Saiken, Matatabi and Kurama are sound sleepers, and would not wake up in the night at all, except for their noisy siblings.

Kurama is glad when Shukaku decides to just not sleep ever again.

The wimp.

Isobu spends most of his time splashing in puddles and laughing. Son Goku loves to play in waterfalls, he even starts calling himself The King of the Water Screen Cave. Kurama just rolls his eyes every time Son comes up with a new title. But if Kurama should be rolling his eyes at anything, it is Gyuuki. He goes through...a phase.

Fortunately for all who have to listen to Gyuuki's rapping, Gyuuki is actually an amazing rapper.

Kurama is glad Gyuuki's rapping is not annoying - unlike Chomei. Chomei takes his species seriously and bugs everyone. He is super happy and super annoying and super noisy. Chomei bugs Kokuo the most. Kokuo is so cool and polite she doesn't bat a lady-like eyelash at Chomei's cheerful antics.

Annoying the two girls is a popular past time. While Chomei is busy following Kokou around like a bad smell, Saiken is annoying Matatabi. Kurama does not interfere, wanting to see how long it will take until Saiken gets his face clawed off for blowing snot bubbles on the cat. In the end, their Dad has to step in to prevent Matatabi for avenging her soiled fur.

Kurama likes knocking over Shukaku's sandcastles to see how the raccoon will react. Shukaku usually either cries or gets mad and attacks Kurama, who always kicks Shukaku's butt. It's because Kurama has more tails and therefore is the strongest of the siblings. Shukaku is personally offended by the tails thing (even though their Dad never actually disputes it) and starts ranting on about how tail number does not matter. But Kurama is proud of his tails, so he cleans them before and after every nap in the sun. And Kurama takes a lot of those.

Their Dad is old, and the day eventually comes when he tells the nine siblings they must make their own way in the world. "You are all different to how you were when you lived inside me as one being," he tells the bijuu. "Now you are all going your separate ways, and will live lives apart from each other. But someday you will be reunited. I will watch over you all until that day. Because I am old, I cannot stay in this world or I will die. Instead, I will join my brother and watch over you from…" he pauses and frowns. "Well, I won't be dead, so it's not the afterlife - but I won't be alive either...I'll sorta, maybe...kinda...be dead - or something. Yes: it is definitely the 'Or Something'."

Before he leaves them, the bijuu's Dad takes them each to a different temple. The temples are spread out a fair distance from each other, and they each have a group of attendants to care for them. Kurama misses his Dad and his siblings, but he enjoys the freedom of living in his temple in the middle of nowhere. He explores the surrounding area, takes naps outside in the sun and watches the birds. He discovers his chakra has healing properties, and that dead plants come back to life when he is nearby. Kurama's caregivers take up gardening and learn healing ninshu.

As the years pass, the humans turn away from the ninshu Kurama's Dad taught and begin using ninjutsu. Kurama is not a fan of ninjutsu, or the humans who use it. His caregivers are long since dead by this time, and are replaced by followers. Kurama's followers still use ninshu: he does not want them to use anything else. As the centuries pass, Kurama grows bigger and stronger. His temple is attacked by bandits and ninja clans, which he and his followers fight off.

The ninja clans go to war, tearing the lands apart. After centuries of conflict, the humans start forming alliances. Villages are built by clans that used to be mortal enemies. War torn countries finally know peace. And two men called Madara Uchiha and Hashirama Senju start travelling the world finding and sealing away Kurama's siblings. When he feels their chakra approaching, Kurama goes out to meet them, telling his followers that even if he loses the battle, they must stay and carry on without him.

Kurama meets Madara and Hashirama in a forest some miles away. "What do you want?" Kurama demands, ready to attack if they do not leave.

"You," says the man with the black hair. He looks into Kurama's eyes with the spinning red sharingan: the eye that looks the same as the Sage of Six Paths' third eye. The moment Kurama meets Madara's eyes, the world turns red and becomes a blur of destruction and hate.

When Kurama finally comes to after so long under genjutsu, he is sealed tightly inside a woman named Mito Uzumaki. "I cannot let you run loose…" Hashirama Senju says, as Mito seals Kurama inside herself.

"...please just stay quiet and don't try to escape…" Mito says, then ignores Kurama for the rest of her life.

Then Kurama is sealed into a hot-headed little girl named Kushina Uzumaki. She says the same things as the other two, but phrases it as,"...I will be keeping you under control from now on." Kurama bides his time, remembering that he had a chance to break out of Mito once, but the sealmasters stopped him from escaping. And, sure enough, the day comes when Kushina gives birth to her son Naruto, and the seal holding Kurama nearly cracks open. Kurama does his best to get out, but Kushina's husband holds the seal closed.

Then a masked man appears out of nowhere and rips Kurama out of Kushina. Once again, Kurama finds himself looking into the sharingan eye.

The world turns into a haze of red, death and anger. Kurama does not know what is happening until he comes to his senses in the heart of the Leaf Village. Shinobi attack him from all sides, determined to drive him out of their village. Kurama fights back, confused as to how he got there, but glad for the chance to wreak vengeance on those who held him prisoner for so long. Kurama's efforts are futile, and he is soon sealed away again: half of him is sealed into Steve the Shinigami along with the Fourth Hokage, and the other half of Kurama is sealed into Naruto Uzumaki.

Kurama is angry about being sealed away again, but at least this new seal is just a cage. The last two seals had him chained down. Glad he can at least move around, Kurama curls up to sleep until he can find a way to break free of this seal too. Naruto reminds Kurama of the Sage of Six Paths, and it every bruise, every cut, all the poison Naruto ingests, every time Naruto gets sick - Kurama heals it all.

But Kurama still thinks humans are evil.