"A theory?"

Naruto nodded.

A moment passed.

"That was an invitation to explain."

"I know."

Another moment passed.

"Fucking explain."

Naruto sighed. "You're no fun."

A third moment passed.

"Naruto-"

"I'm going to explain, sheesh." Naruto waved him off. "I was just thinking about how to phrase it."

He sighed again. "So, you know I was doing research into the Jinchuuriki and the Bijuu, yeah?"

"Obviously." The Kyuubi's voice was flat.

"And, obviously, that includes you." Naruto continued without a care. "You guys were all actually pretty rare throughout history, you know? Collectively, you showed up maybe three or four times every few decades. Isobu showed up like once every eighty years until pretty recently. You yourself showed up, like, once every thirty or forty years." Naruto nodded. "'Course, when you did, you were typically obliterating something. Not all the time, though; every now and then, you appear because some group of Humans or another went after you. That only happened a couple times, though, so I'm not going to count them."

Naruto's head tilted to the side. "I'm pretty sure your total was twenty six or twenty seven? In all but two of those, you destroyed something and then left just as quickly. Naturally, me being me, I got curious. All those places you obliterated, those clans you wiped out, that one mountain you turned into a canyon... You want to know what I found out about those places?"

The Kyuubi did not say anything. Naruto could easily sense his impatience.

"The first time you appeared in history was at a place called Tanzaka. It was a port town, a stopping point for several trade routes in the region. It was also, intriguingly, the site of one of the largest slave trades known to the world at time. Literally tens of thousands would pass through the town every month." Naruto explained. "It was reaching an all-time high when you showed up. You burned the entire place to the ground, killing hundreds of thousands. At the same time, you disrupted the biggest slave-trade for the next five hundred years. The second time you showed up was over fifty years later; at an inland village. A dry and parched place, called Zanaku. Again, not much noteworthy about it, except for a major Yakuza presence, and a particularly harsh one at that. It was choking underneath their control, too poor to do anything about the Yakuza, and too beaten down to fight back. You showed up, wiped it all out, and left."

Naruto took a breath. The Kyuubi said nothing. "Most of them are like that. Some dark and downtrodden place, high in misery and other problems. The Shinobi Clans aren't much different. The first clan you wiped out was the Akataki Clan, famous for both their numbers and their ruthlessness. They liked to torture their enemies, and perfected the art of doing so while keeping their subjects alive for as much suffering as possible. They reached a peak, then you showed up and wiped them out to the last man, woman, and child. They don't exist anymore. That mountain I mentioned had also happened to have been used as a hideout for various unsavoury people."

Naruto paused, smiling. "The two exceptions are interesting. Six hundred years ago, you and the Ichibi got into a fight that ended up wrecking a massive portion of the environment. The deserts in the Land of Wind have you to thank for being so large. The other exception, of course, is the battle at the Valley of the End, which, of course, wasn't your choice." Naruto stretched. "So, do you know what I took away from all that? Want to know what the theory I made is?"

"I'm waiting."

"Almost every time you showed up, you went after places that were dark, miserable, downtrodden, or whatever. Some of the worst places and people known to man were wiped out by you." Naruto grinned. "But how did you know about it? There was nobody around to tell you. You're not capable of hiding your Chakra enough to observe them. You can't transform or shape-shift. So, how did you know? The answer is pretty simple."

Naruto waited a moment. The Kyuubi said nothing. "You've mentioned, a while back, that you can sense things. I think you can sense more than you let on; that, much like Drich, you can sense emotions. Drich proved that that was possible. Sure, Drich isn't a good baseline, but neither are you."

"Tch." The Kyuubi paused for a moment. "For all you act like a fool, you're a lot more observant than you get credit for."

Naruto smiled. "So I was right?"

"Partially." The Kyuubi corrected. "I can sense negative emotions."

"Still makes sense." Naruto nodded. "Hell, more sense. If you can't sense positive emotions, then you'd have no reason to not annihilate a place that's too negative. Can the other Bijuu do it?"

"No. Just me." The Kyuubi stopped a moment before adding. "And my hosts."

"Really?" Naruto asked. "Wait, how do you know that? Neither of your previous two actually used your power, did they?"

"The Senju's wife acquired it later on in life." The Kyuubi scoffed. "And she was praised for her compassion because of it." He sounded bitter. "Not that she ever bothered correcting them. That woman was all too eager to dismiss me as nothing more than a mass of hatred. And then there was Kushina Uzumaki..." He hissed the name, as always. "Claiming love, and happiness, and kindness, but she hated me as much as any, deep down. Oh, 'but that's okay, he tried to get free and hurt my family, so he deserves it'." He growled.

"What do you sense from me?"

"What?"

"What do you sense from me?" Naruto repeated. "I'm curious."

The Kyuubi sighed.

He didn't say anything for nearly five seconds. Naruto was patient, though, and the Kyuubi hadn't outright said no.

"Little." The Kyuubi finally answered. "I sense little from you. You have anger, and sadness, and you get indignant. You feel rage and hate just as any Human does. You just don't bottle it up. You express it, let it run its course, and then return to being a happy-go-lucky moron. You fear nothing, not even me, despite having every reason to. It's infuriating, because you're nothing if not genuine."

"Thanks, Ku-chan!" Naruto laughed.

"Hn." The Kyuubi grunted. "'Ra'."

"Huh?" Naruto asked.

"My name has three syllables." The Kyuubi responded. "'Ra' is the second. I'd have given you the first, but the fucking monkey-"

"Kura, huh?" Naruto smiled, cutting him off. "Thanks, Kura-chan."

"Stop fucking using 'chan', you moron!"

Naruto started laughing again.