2nd Legacy: Prisoner of Hatred

"Humans are fickle being, they could hate as strong as they love...
greedier than demon and seek pleasure from slaughtering for power..."
Kurama, The nine tailed fox

Naruto ran back to his home with the scroll Hiragi-jiichan gave him safely tucked in his backpack. He was grinning from ear to ear at the prospect of learning cool fuuinjutsu and becoming a seal master like the Yondaime and Hiragi-jiichan. He frowned at the sight of an ANBU squad stationed in front of his home and stopped before jogging to them. "Hello, good evening~ whatcha doing here?"

The ANBU with a bird looking mask crossed his arms. "Where were you, Naruto-kun?" Tori asked worriedly. They had gotten the corpse of the man suspected for kidnapping Naruto, but further investigation indicated the man was alone. They had combed through the enitre village before being ordered to wait for the child in front of his home, while another squad was assigned to continue their search.

Naruto raised an eyebrow. "Eh, shouldn't you know where I am? Like all the time?" he pointed out, innocently unaware he had scored a jab on the ANBU squad losing him again.

"Naruto-kun," Tori warned, flushing under his mask, "we're going to see Hokage-sama." And then after a beat he added, "And you're grounded. Three days of no pranking and no ramen."

Naruto flinched at that, "Eh, sorry, Tori... I'll just put my backpack in my room first, okay?"

A bear masked ANBU stretched his hand out to Naruto, and the boy quietly gave the backpack to him. Kuma sighed as he jumped to Naruto's balcony and put the backpack there. No one would steal it anyway.

Naruto opened his mouth to protest leaving his backpack there, but Tori hoisted him up onto his shoulder like a sack of potatoes before he could. "You're in trouble, Naruto-kun," Tori stated in a stern tone as they took their first leap to the Hokage tower.

"But Toriiiiiiiiiiiiii," Naruto whined. Tori was the only ANBU of the squad who talked to him. It was not like the rest of the squad was not allowed to speak, but Tori was the spokesman of the squad. But throughout his childhood Naruto could discern from their body language what they wanted to convey. If they crossed their arms with a lifted chin or tapped their limbs that meant he was in trouble and was going to get grounded. If their shoulders shook slightly that meant he had done something that amused them.

"No buts."

Naruto had read the rest of the note Hiragi left, including the part that asked him to keep the scroll a secret. Hiragi meant for the scroll to be for Naruto alone, not Konoha. If they knew about the scroll it would be taken away from him, and while the child was warned of that prospect, he was torn between telling Hokage-jiichan and lying to him. The Hokage had always been kind to him and had even assigned an ANBU squad to protect him. Naruto owed the Sandaime a lot and the least he could do was be honest with him.

But...

Sandaime-jiichan never told him anything about his parents, and whenever Naruto asked, he swiftly dodged the question. The only thing Naruto knew was that they had passed away as heroes, but how they were heroes was never explained. He also never told him why he was shunned by everyone either.

"I fell asleep in the forest." Technically it was true. He had been sleeping, but it was in a sake warehouse on the outskirts of Konoha. "The weather was nice and when I woke up was it late," he mumbled. Since Sandaime didn't trust him with a number of things, Naruto thought it was only fair he kept some secrets, too.

The Sandaime, of course, was well aware that Naruto was lying, but what good would it do to force the truth out of Naruto? The child had a stubborn streak a mile wide that he'd inherited from his parents. "I see… You may go."

That night changed everything.

On the way back home, he was once again carried by Tori. Naruto's eyes were glazed as a number of scenes played out in his mind.

"The main character is just like you, sensei."

"Naruto… it's a beautiful name..."

"Realize what's the most important thing to your brother…"

"I hope our sons will be good friends!"

"... neither shinobi nor jinchuuriki"

"Naruto?" Tori called out. He chuckled when he saw the boy was sleeping on his back. "Fell asleep I see..."

Kuma snorted. "He ran us dry today..."

Deep within Naruto, Kyuubi scrunched his nose. It seemed what the Yondaime and his wife feared had come true. The memories and chakra had leaked into Naruto's system. Never mind Kyuubi's problem though. The bijuu was well aware there were small amounts of his chakra leaking into Naruto to build the boy's resistance to it. Kyuubi had been pretty much resigned about it since the moment he was sealed into Naruto.

Clink Clank Clink...

He'd had two women as his jinchuuriki, so a brat couldn't be any worse of an option in his book. He had contemplated driving Naruto insane, but his pride wouldn't allow him to sink to the same level as Shukaku. Seriously, that tanuki brought a bad name to bijuu, always throwing his name around in his drunken stupors. Had he no shame or pride to keep the honorable name their father bestowed upon them?

Clink Clank Clink...

Speaking of pride, he wondered how his fellow bijuu were faring with their jinchuuriki. When Kushina was still alive he had heard about Matatabi and Gyuki. It seemed Gyuki had been a good friend with his jinchuuriki or something like that. Ha! The second strongest bijuu had submit himself to a life of servitude for shinobi!

Clink Clank Clink...

"SHUT UP!" Kyuubi roared to no one in particular. "Kushina! Stop playing with your chain or I will..." He paused, contemplating what he could do to threaten his ex-jailor – someone who was an avatar that existed by chakra and the memory of her son. Nothing came up. Wait a minute, the avatar should be back to a dormant state by now, so where was the rattling sound coming from? On second thought, he couldn't care less. He just wanted it to stop!

The next morning...

"I can't sleep, it's so noisy... what a dream... full of a rattling chain..." Naruto mumbled, blissfully unaware that his tenant wholeheartedly agreed with him. "I didn't even check on the scroll Hiragi-jiichan left me." He blinked at the thought and went to his window. He opened it and shouted to a tree on the left. "Tori, can you tell Hokage-jiichan I won't go to the academy today?"

Tori almost fell comically from his tree. Then again, it was just a daily portion of bruised pride when regarding Uzumaki Naruto. The boy could easily spot them and identify them by name. Naruto couldn't see them, but he could sense them. Sometimes he wondered if Naruto was a sensor type, but according to the Hokage, it was in the Uzumaki blood to have a sharp intuition.

The ANBU sighed. "Naruto-kun." He was about to chide the blond boy but stopped when he saw the tired look on Naruto's face. "What's wrong? Didn't get enough sleep?"

"I can't sleep," he answered.

"Nightmare?"

Naruto shook his head. "It was a noisy dream. The sound of a rattling chain echoing in a sewer..."

"...I will send a message to Hokage-sama," Tori said. "Go back to sleep, Naruto-kun."

"My head is throbbing, Tori..."

The ANBU frowned. "...We'll go see a doctor then."

Naruto was too tired to protest that he disliked hospitals. "'Kay."

Sanada Anzu was the only medic Sandaime trusted to handle Naruto with care. She had been, after all, a dear friend of Kushina's. She had black hair that held a green sheen to it and steel colored eyes. Anzu was dressed in the standard outfit for female medics of Konoha. She was one of the few medic nin lucky enough to be taught by Tsunade of the Sannin. She was not an apprentice of Tsunade, but back in the third Shinobi war, she had been part of a medic class Tsunade had taught. In spite of her vast array of knowledge, she was nowhere near Tsunade's level, but she was good enough to be head doctor of the hospital. Unfortunately, her health was not the best and she would retire within the next two years. She had been reckless when she was younger and had been poisoned by a Suna nin on one of her missions. While immediate death was avoided by neutralizing the poison, Anzu had discovered not all of the poison from back then had been removed from her system. Now it was gnawing on her liver and heart and, within the next two years, would reach her nervous system and paralyze her. Anzu doubted Tsunade-sama herself could heal her, but she was content with continuing to serve Konoha. Her only worries were about Kushina's son.

The boy was a frequent patient, though thankfully not because of the hate of the villagers. If she retired, would her replacement treat the boy like she did? The boy rarely got sick, but when he did it was just a mild flu or fever. He also received minor injuries from his prank escapades. Anzu recalled Kushina was the same way back then. At first, after she'd found out about Kushina's status, she was confused about why Kushina needed medical treatment from time to time. Apparently, her tenant wouldn't heal minor injuries, because it was beneath it to give so many favors. She recalled Kushina didn't have the best relationship with her tenant, and she had to wonder if it would treat Naruto the same way too.

"So, Naruto-kun... had trouble sleeping?" Anzu eyed her patient keenly, then briefly glanced at the bird masked ANBU. The boy looked like he was sleeping soundly, but it was obvious he was troubled. "All this time I thought he was the type who could sleep through an ox stampede." His mother could when she was off-duty.

Tori nodded. "He said, 'It was a noisy dream. The sound of a rattling chain echoing in a sewer…'" he quoted.

Anzu raised an eyebrow. "Chain?" That oddly reminded her of Kushina. "Hm... I don't want to give him sleep medicine." She had learned from Kushina it wasn't effective anyway. "I guess we can only observe him and make sure he is fine. There's nothing we can do for now."

Anzu had no idea how correct she was.

Naruto awoke to the sound of feral screaming and wet feet. He wondered how he got there as the last thing he remembered was napping on Tori's back on the way to the hospital. Since when did the hospital look like a sewer? It wasn't hygienic, right? He thought out loud, almost falling down when the feral voice screamed louder, thundering throughout the sewer. "If you know it's unhygienic don't turn your mind into a sewer, BRAT!"

"My mind?" he echoed as he ran to the source of the voice. "Who's there?" It didn't take long for him to find a giant cage and a pair of red eyes glowing in the deep darkness within.

Kyuubi moved closer to the bars with bared fangs. "I see that my jailor has decided to grace me with his presence..." He would have tried to intimidate the boy with his claws, but decided against it because distressing the brat risked the seal reacting in the undesirable way it did last night.

"Jailor?" Naruto repeated. "Who? Me?"

"Yes, YOU!" The Kyuubi growled, and after a beat added under his breath, "to my everlasting shame." He was pretty grumpy because of the noise from before and because of the fact it sounded eerily like Kushina's chain.

Naruto looked at the giant shadow with red eyes with childish curiosity. "You're big."

"Very observant," he said sardonically.

Naruto beamed at that. "Thanks!" Rubbing the back of his head with that sheepish smile eerily reminded the Kyuubi of Kushina's habit when she was embarrassed.

"You're not even old enough to recognize sarcasm." Kyuubi rolled his eyes. "I bet you don't even know what sarcasm is."

"Oh! Can you teach me then?" Naruto asked innocently. The giant shadow with red eyes was nice! For someone like Naruto who had been ignored by a majority of Konoha's population, having someone talk civilly to him was enough to consider said person as a potential friend. The ANBU were nice, but they only interacted with him if it was necessary. "What's sarcasm? Is it something good?"

Kyuubi sighed. This was why he preferred his jinchuuriki to be at least capable of comprehending he was a dangerous being."Heh... what a child… whatever, go away brat. I need my beauty sleep."

"Oh... you're a girl? I thought your voice was a bit... low like man! Sorry!" he chirped.

Kyuubi's left eye twitched angrily. "I am no woman, brat. Now GO AWAY and never come back!"

A spell of silence hung in the air until it was broken by a choked sob. "Hic..."

If anything, his eye twitching didn't subside even as the brat in front of him burst into waterworks. "Why are you crying, brat?"

Naruto hiccupped. "You told me to go away... hic hic." Just like the parents of the children he tried to play with. "You don't want me here... hic hic. You want to get away from me..." he sobbed.

Kyuubi sighed. "I wish I could." He had zero intentions of consoling the brat. Who cared if he cried? It was something new at least. Mito and Kushina never let themselves show any weakness in front of him. Then again, the brat was an innocent child. Unfortunately, he had nursed his hatred for too many years to care for the brat's woes. He was as unwilling as Naruto was with this arrangement of jailor and prisoner. In fact, more so considering he had dealt with confinement for many more years. Speaking of the brat, why had he become so quiet now?

"You can't? Why?" Naruto had stopped crying and was looking at the bijuu with wide, curious eyes.

There was something in those eyes, and Kyuubi's mind went into auto-pilot like all living creatures did when faced with puppy dog eyes. The eyes demanded to be given into to. "I was sealed in you, so like it or not I am going to be here for your whole life." Mentally, Kyuubi hit himself for giving in.

"You..." Naruto stammered in disbelief. "Will be..." he took a deep breath, "with me forever?"

"To my everlasting shame," Kyuubi admitted with a growl. "I am inside your mindscape, so yeah... you live, I live unless you screw up." The last part was muttered under his breath.

Naruto's big, blue eyes widened as he took in what Kyuubi said. He didn't understand why Kyuubi was stuck with him, but what he did understand was that someone would always be with him! He would never be alone again! So what he should do now was get the big shadow to like him! "Anoo saa! Will you be my friend?" he asked with the most pleading voice he could muster.

Kyuubi's eyes widened in disbelief. The brat asked what?! Friend?! Had he been dropped on his head or something?! "Do you know who I am?" he asked back.

"No!" Naruto chirped.

What in Rokudou Sennin's name was the brat thinking? Wanting to be his friend was crazy enough, but asking someone he didn't even know to be his friend was even more bizarre. Then again, Kyuubi's previous jinchuuriki never suffered isolation like Naruto did, because their status was a well-kept secret from civilians and lower ranked ninjas. While Kushina had suffered a bit because of racism in the beginning, it hadn't lasted long because she'd begun dating Namikaze Minato and people had forgotten her foreign status in the mist of war. In Naruto's case however, he didn't even have a clue about why he was hated and ignored to the point of being desperate for attention.

The gears in his mind started working. The prospect of having a too naive jinchuuriki affected their survival rate negatively. The previous night's incident was a testament to how dangerously naive Naruto was because of his longing. "Brat, do you know what happened on October 10th six years ago?" For survival's sake, the brat could cry himself hoarse, but he wasn't going get both of them killed because he craved attention.

Naruto tilted his head to the side. "Uhm... the Yondaime Hokage defeated the Kyuubi no Youko and heroically saved Konoha." Everyone in Konoha knew about it; it was common knowledge.

Kyuubi groaned as he moved forward, revealing his body to the child. As expected the child froze. "And yet here I am... That was the bullshit your old Hokage fed to you younglings. I am an immortal being. Not even the Yondaime could kill me..." The strongest bijuu hissed, revealing his sharp teeth.

Naruto looked up at the demon, stricken by fear at the sight of the nine tailed fox. He was gargantuan. The tale about his gigantic body was not an exaggeration. "You're... the Kyuubi? You're sealed… in me? Is that why... grownups hate me?"

"Hoo... you're not as stupid as I thought." It seemed the brat was not a lost cause. "They think you're my reincarnation or something along that line... Fools! All of them! They fear a helpless child like you, how foolish!" Naruto stared at Kyuubi. Did the fox just give a sound reason about why he was hated? Did he just call the villagers stupid… for hating him? For mistaking him as its reincarnation?! Logic told him to fear the Kyuubi, but his heart was elated that someone else felt he didn't deserve their hatred. "Humans are fickle beings, they can hate as strong as they love... are greedier than a demon and seek pleasure from slaughtering for power..."

"Is that why you attacked Konoha?" Naruto blurted out the first question that came to his mind without even realizing it. "Because humans are horrible?" he added. "Were we... punished by Kami-sama?"

Kyuubi couldn't believe his ears. Why didn't the child break out into a hysterical fit and blame all his misery on him?! Why did he ask about the reason he attacked Konoha?! "Brat, I hate Konoha." A pure and simple reason for attacking the village.

"Why?" Naruto asked again.

"Why you ask?" Kyuubi returned the question with another. "I hate Konoha, that's all there is to it."

Naruto shook his head fervently. "All this time, I never knew why they hated me, and it hurt... so bad..." he mumbled as tears streamed down his cheeks. "I didn't know what I did to deserve it. To them, I am 'that child' or 'bakemono'. They never cared about who I am... and yet they hate me so much." He looked up to his prisoner, azure eyes locked onto Kyuubi's red. "When you told me why they hate me... I was so angry, scared, and... relieved."

The bijuu stared at the child with disbelief evident in his feral face. "Relieved?" Kyuubi repeated incredulously. "You're relieved because now you know why they hate you?!"

Naruto nodded. "It still hurts," he admitted with a pained grin, "but at least I know it's not my fault... Now, I know I don't deserve that hatred. That's why... I want to know why you hate Konoha and humans so much, please... tell me."

"..." Kyuubi couldn't believe he was considering responding. All his life he had been controlled and seen as a lesser being with the base nature of wrath. Uchiha Madara had viewed him as a tool to control with his so-called blessed eyes. Senju Hashirama called him a creature too terrible to be free, and Uzumaki Mito and Kushina bound him to them to keep the world safe from him. He was a mass of chakra and hatred they feared, and yet humans were ignorant of what caused that hatred to grow within him. They feared his hatred and yet they nursed said hatred by imprisoning and using him.

All of them – even the shinobi who claimed to be the strongest among their kind – were guilty of this. And yet, this one child was the only one who had bothered to ask. A child of six years old, young even by human standards.

"Shukaku, Matatabi, Isobe, Songoku,
Kokuo, Saiken, Choumei, Gyuuki, and Kurama... one day...
Someday... will...
true power"

Kyuubi gritted his teeth, recalling the memory about the human who saw them as his children – the only man whose death he had shed tears for. This child bored many similarities to his father, so maybe this child was different than the other worthless humans. "Your village has been imprisoning me for years, binding me to their will..." he began. "The Shodai Hokage captured and sealed me to keep me at bay... passing me on from generation to generation. Then six years ago I was freed from the seal..."

"That's why you attacked Konoha when I was born?" Naruto asked, his eyes still wide and glassy with tears. "So many people died back then..."

Kyuubi snorted. "If I'd had a choice, I would have left and never come back instead of risking my freedom to wreak havoc!" the bijuu roared angrily, causing Naruto to be blown away into the watery surface. "Revenge is one thing, freedom is quite another! But someone controlled me and made me attack your pathetic village! And guess what?! I AM SEALED AGAIN WITHIN YOU!"

"... So, the attack is not your fault?" Naruto asked.

"HELL NO! See where it landed me?!" Kyuubi asked incredulously. "I am no fool! And I..." His eyes narrowed at his jinchuuriki. The boy's shoulders were shaking. "Brat... you..."

"Ha ha hA HA HA HA!"

"What are you laughing at?!" Kyuubi roared irately.

Naruto grinned from ear to ear. "No, it's just... both of us are stuck to each other unwillingly... and neither of us are to blame! Ha ha ha! Ha ha ha!"

Naruto kept laughing to the point Kyuubi thought his jinchuuriki had gone mad. That only lasted for a short moment before a stream of tears soaked the child's cheek. "Brat, are you crying, laughing, or both?" They didn't seem like tears of happiness.

"It's just... it never ends," Naruto muttered sadly. "I should hate the villagers since they made my life miserable, but… since they hate me because of you I should hate you instead. But you're stuck with me because... it's someone else's fault..." Naruto shook his head. "It just goes on... should I hate the Yondaime now for sealing you in me? No. He had to save Konoha, but then should I hate Konoha? And now... it's back to square one..." His lips quivered. "I thought I would be happy to know why I am hated by everyone, because then I could change their minds or even hate them back... but in the end, I can do neither... and it still hurts so much..."

Kyuubi eyed Naruto skeptically, looking for a sign of dishonesty. He found none. The boy was being honest. Then again, his family was never one to lie either. As much as he hated Mito and Kushina, he respected their sincerity. Other humans could betray and lie as easily as breathing, but not Mito and Kushina, and neither could this child it seemed. "I see... so what would you do, child?"

And as expected, the boy was unaware Kyuubi called him child instead of brat. "I don't know." Kyuubi sighed, it was never this complicated with his previous jinchuuriki. "Will you be my friend?"

The fox stared at Naruto then sighed. "... I thought I would get used to your antics, but I'm not," Kyuubi admitted. Not even the boy's mother could be so persistent – or even think of being his friend. Then again, Kushina was told by Mito that he was a mass of chakra full of hatred, while Naruto had no one to teach him that. "Why would you want to be a friend of a bijuu? One who has terrorized your village and made you a pariah?"

Naruto grinned his first true smile since he found out about his jinchuuriki status. "Tori once said, 'birds of the same wings gather together'."

"I think you mean birds of a feather flock together..."Kyuubi corrected, rolling his eyes.

The boy blinked at that. "Yeah! And you see... since we're stuck together... I thought..."

"No."

"Why not?"

"Just because."

Naruto harrumphed. "I guess this is what they call the courting process!" He had seen a jounin attempt to befriend a pretty lady, and after said jounin failed, another jounin came and advised his friend to take it easy and slow the courting process.

Kyuubi eyed his jinchuuriki skeptically, wondering why he had to deal with this instead of Kushina and Minato. "Courting is to get yourself a mate, child."

"My name is Uzumaki Naruto! Nice to meet you!" Naruto started, coincidentally ignoring Kyuubi's correction. "What's your name?" He had seen a girl his age using the same introduction to be another girl's friend. They backed away when he tried the same thing though.

Kyuubi groaned. "You know who I am."

Naruto tilted his head to the side in confusion. "Is Kyuubi your real name?"

Kyuubi groaned again. He would disrespect his old man who gave him the name if he dared to say yes to that question. "It's 'what' I am. Nine tails is not my real name." After a beat he added, "And I'm not going to tell you either."

"But if it's what you are, I don't want to call you Kyuubi anymore!" Naruto refused with a scowl. "That's like the villagers calling me 'that boy' or 'monster'. They don't care who I am!"

Kyuubi sighed again. This was getting ridiculous. The brat was getting under his skin and he'd only known him for half an hour. It was record time. "Fine... I am Kurama, and I..." He shook his head. He was not going to rant about how he was the king of Mount Kurama, his tails, or his beauty like a certain ape brother of his.

"So your name is Kurama!" Naruto beamed, and Kyuubi was startled to see the boy was elated from learning his name. "Ne ne... my name means maelstrom you know?"

Kurama snorted. The boy was a keen learner, observing how to make friends. What made the brat think it could work on a bijuu? "Actually, you're named after another kind of 'Naruto' that was randomly thought of when eating ramen," he muttered under his breath recalling Kushina and Minato's conversation with the Toad Hermit.

"Did you say something?" Naruto tilted his head to side, ears perked up at Kyuubi.

"No."

"Oh okay... so what's your name mean?" Naruto urged on, grinning from ear to ear.

Kurama growled. "Enough is enough! Don't keep pestering me! You should be honored I even bothered to tell you my name. I am not going to be your friend and that's it."

Naruto looked like he was about to protest but held his tongue. He shook his head. "I'm sorry for being annoying Kurama... I'm just so used to acting that way so people will pay attention to me..." The fox flinched involuntarily. That was a sore spot. "But I'm not giving up about being your friend, because then... we can both stop hurting from this hatred... "

"..."

"I guess I'll go now, but I will come back again, Kurama." He grinned. "See you later," the jinchuuriki said as he turned around and started to walk away.

"Oi Naruto."

"Eh?"

"You can try." Kyuubi considered that as a challenge and wanted to see if the brat would rise to the occasion in spite of all the odds.

Naruto spun around, staring at the bijuu in shock. That was not a 'yes' to be his friend, but it definitely wasn't outright rejection. That meant one day, Kurama would accept him as a friend. That was more of a chance than any of the villagers had given him, and here the bijuu they feared so much had given him a shred of hope. "Thank you, Kurama..." Naruto muttered in gratitude. Then after a beat he added, "By the way... uhm, do you know how I get out?"

Kurama's left eye twitched violently. "This isn't going to be the last time I deal with your idiocy, is it?" Damn Minato and Kushina. Why did he have to deal with this? "Oi, Naruto. For our survival's sake, stop trusting so easily." Unexpectedly, the boy nodded, his expression looking resigned as he accepted the truth reluctantly. "Also, keep this encounter a secret. As kind as your Hokage appears, he has to put his pathetic village above everything else... including you... "

Naruto nodded again. "I won't blame him for that either."

He snorted at that. "Whatever, but bear in mind that your life is not your own... and maybe one day you can prove yourself to be the one we have been waiting for... for so long... "

"Eh... Kura... what do you...?" And everything went white.

Naruto woke up and found the Sandaime hovering above him with a worried expression. "Hokage-jiichan?"

Sandaime smiled at the child, caressing his yellow locks. "How are you feeling, Naruto?"

The child stiffened for a moment, then his lips curved into a smile. "I am fine, jiji!" He grinned from ear to ear. "As good as new after some good sleep."

The Hokage instantly knew Naruto was hiding something, but he didn't know what, and it wasn't wise to pressure the child. It must be depression because the villagers treated him badly again. "I'm glad to hear that... it's almost dinner time and Sanada-sensei assured me you deserve a good meal instead of hospital food." Sanada knew how much her late friend and her son loved ramen.

"Ichiraku RAMEN!" Naruto cheered.

That night, another secret was made. In the back of his mind, Naruto wondered if the secrets would keep piling up or if he'd ever tell anything to Sandaime again. But if the Hokage and the whole village could keep secrets from him, why not the other way around? He should at least have that much.

Please review!

I hope I manage to write a make sense conversation between Naruto and Kyuubi, Naruto was much more mature than canon but I think deep down Naruto always is. Kurama is not going to be right away a friend, now he was in a level of reluctant acquittance I guess... at least at this point they have come to an understanding that both are unwilling to be on their position, and as Kushina said, neither of them have any sort of luck as jinchuuriki and imprisoned bijuu.

Naruto also learned everyone lied to him, and started to think 'it's justified' to keep secret especially if it helps him to survive like Kurama said.

As for the rattling chain sound, it have meaning but not going to be revealed for now.

BTW before anyone suggested any pairing, there would be no one paired with Naruto because that have always the sorest topic in Naruto fandom. Romance is not even a topic in this story so forget it. I don't mind side pairing that's already confirmed as canon like AsumaXKurenai, MinatoXKushina and so on though.

update: dunno what overcome me to forget the most important date in naruto universe...