Ten years in the past-

"HEY! Watch it, kid", A loud voice rings through a seemingly empty area.

"Sorry...", A small blond-haired boy begins to sniffle, cuddling into the large orange tail that had saved him from falling to his death. "I'll be careful.."

"You say that everytime, yet you continue to walk into the most dangerous places. You are lucky I am larger than this ravine.", The monstrous orange-pelted fox barks as he brings the blond boy to its muzzle. "A year has pasted since your memory loss and still can't manage to walk without falling! Such a pathetic child you are."

The two walk over to a safer location. A large monster fox with nine, treacherous tails. As well as a boy, just over 6 years old with blonde hair, fiery red eyes, and three feral whisker markings on both side of his face.

The fox lowers him into a grassy field, many small rock formations rest in the grass. The beast settles himself into a large nearby cave, and watches the boy play on the stone.

"Hey Kurama? Why do you keep me around? You always complain about me..."

"I have answered this before. Me and you are connected. You die, I die. And vice versa."

"What does 'vice versa' mean?"

The fox grunts, and pulls the boy to him with a tail.

"Kurama, why do you always stay in caves or in the dark?"

"Because I can be seen easier than you, and you do not want the humans who caused you the pain of memory loss coming back to get you, am I correct Naruto?"

"How did I lose my memory again?"

"Maybe I will tell you when you can walk without falling, kit.", the fox smiles, pulling the boy closer to his face. However, recalling the memory causes him to grimace. Poor child..

Flash back in a flash back- whattt

Naruto slowly backs away as several drunken men surround him. Fear and confusion are the main emotion Kurama senses from the boy. This boy, his walking prison cell, but the only one that has shown kindness to him...

"Demon!"

"We haven't forgotten what you did to this village!"

"T-that wasn't m-me!", Naruto continues to back away until an empty Sake bottle hits him. He stumbles a bit and holds his arm, now injured from stray glass and inpact force. These men honestfully meant to harm him.

"Guys.. He is just a kid. Take it easy..", a younger male among them argues, however the other remain unfazed and glare at him.

The men continued to hit him, using old achohol bottles and splintering wood, breaking them against the young five-year old child.

After about 2 minutes, he comes running into the old gilded cage, bleeding and crying into a bright orange muzzle. Kurama places a tail around him and snarls. Naruto pushes himself closer to the conforting fur.

The fox stands, lifting Naruto up as well, and presses his massive, white claws on the cage door. The demon had gone so far as to call this boy his kit, and these men are harming him because of this! Unacceptable!

"How dare you harm my kit!", the voice growls out of Naruto. (Kyuubi-Though you can admit you have gotten slightly less tolerent of him as your "raised" him the past year. But your role as protector of the child stands, as a vow to yourself.)

As the hateful snarl of obscenities emit from the foxes jaws, the men stare fearfully as a smaller fox forms, modeling directly from the kyuubi, but with only a single tail. Orange fur spiking and rippling down his smaller physical form. The long singular tail whips around wildly over your newly unconcious container, who had passed out shortly before.

He make quick work of the men, leaving them dying on the pavement seems like an acceptable punishment. Kurama so desperately wanted to kill them at his own claws but there had been footsteps approching. The demon lifts Naruto onto its back, the form mustered just large enough to carry him without problem. As he run off you see another young man, with white hair walk rush out from the street corner, weapon drawn.

Kurama gently places Naruto down, and focuses on healing the nasty injures he had recieved. Leaving his much weaker physical form out, to watch.

After Naruto awakes, he questions the Kyuubi in broken speak patterns as to who he is, and where he his. Though upsetting to find out the boy had acquired anmesia, the beast thought it would be better. So the boy can forget his harmful past. Perhaps he can get Naruto to practice removing and replacing Kurama's seal, so he could train him and watch him.

-Flashback end

"Hey Kurama? What's a 'kit'?", Naruto asks, fiddling with a small stone.

"A baby fox."

"Why do you call me that? I'm not a fox!", He laughs, dropping the stone.

"A part of you is."

Naruto smiles and looks up at you.

'Look at your son, Kushina.', Kurama thinks to himself. 'You too, Minato.'