When your life depended upon keeping your host alive, you made sure to keep them out of trouble. But what if the host had a knack for said trouble. How much care could you give before you craved them.... And when your a demonic fox What methods do you use to get what you protect.

How could he have been so foolish! He was beyond angry. How could he have been so foolish as to have been so careless about the damned 4th Hokage?! He knew that he should have killed him when he had the chance, but he didn't. He let him live, and now he was inside of this prison, inside of his son no less. What an utter humiliation. To be shoved inside a seal of an infant.

-Time Skip- (like this would be after the first time Naruto became aware of the Kyuubi inside of him)

Kyuubi sighed as he looked around his metal prison. He wanted out, and he wanted out now. He remembered quite fondly the last time the blonde idiot wanted to use his powers. He remembered that time very vividly. As he was stuck in his metal prison he had a lot of time to think about the blonde, since he was the only one that chose to "visit" him. He reminded him a lot of his father. That fighting spirit, that tenacity, and especially the way that he would never give up without a fight. What made him even angrier though was the fact that he wanted to protect the blonde. He didn't know that if he was trying to keep the blonde alive because he liked the blonde or if he wanted to keep the blonde alive.

They wouldn't call him weak, or useless. He was bound and determined to be the strongest, stronger than sasuke, stronger than his sensei, Kakashi, stronger than even the hokage!

He hurried along, jumping through the bowery of the tree's, he fled his shame of his latest defeat as he went from branch to branch. Naruto wasn't going to come back until he had trained his shoes off. He grinned as he thought of his newest plan. He had heard that it was dangerous and that only high level ninjas would go to train like the ANBU Black Ops. Naruto knew he could do it if he worked really hard.

Kyuubi looked up from his silent musing as he heard Naruto's thoughts. "Interesting,"thought Kyuubi. "He's wanting to play in the big leagues huh. I guess I might have to be attentive in the event that he does anything bad to get himself in trouble." He wanted out of this dreadful cage, he wanted to be powerful again. Being locked up in this prison left him with nothing to do. Maybe he could try and contact Naruto again. "Naruto,"he whispered. "Can you hear me?"

AS he ran or rather jumped along he thought he heard something. A call from a distance or a whisper? It seemed close yet far. He paused on a tree branch putting his back to the wall of bark as he looked about. He hoped it wasn't Sakura trying to bring him back. He wasn't good at standing up to her, and didn't want to be swayed from his practice.

He could detect no one in the area. He was very confused. He hadn't made out any words and yet.... Perhaps he was thinking too much. He wasn't the best in the brains area anyway. That wouldn't stop him though, he was just a few minutes away from the training grounds. Crumbly mountain trails, waterfalls, all sorts of traps and wild beasts. It would surely toughen him up some, and then he would show Sasuke.

Kyuubi cursed a little bit, completely forgetting that the blonde wasn't the smartest of Team 7. Letting out a sigh he tried to think of another way to get in contact with his host. He wanted out and he wanted out now, but how would he get it. Then it hit him. As long as they could see one another then that meant that they could have a conversation, and come to some form of an understanding. He knew that the more contact that he had with the blonde the more likely he was to use his power and mix his own chakra with his own, and in his mind, that was a good thing. A very, very good thing.

Pacing around again it hit him all he needed to do was get to a surface that was able to reflect Naruto's image back to him. It would be like looking in a mirror. He badly wanted to see the blonde as well, because that was all he could think about while he was imprisoned.

He yelped in glee as he arrived at the training grounds. Now he could get to work and really show them. He ran ahead into the entrance. a large quiet pond that had thin poles pegged in as "stepping stones." he jumped onto the first one nearly falling off before he was able to get his balance. The next one was pretty far....

"this is supposed to be a warm up?" He cried in exasperation. he knew the whole area was a course like a workout, meant to be done once a day during the training period. He would master this course in no time... at least that was his goal. He looked down into the water. It looked so deep from here....

Kyuubi continued to pace in his cell not really sure what he would do. Sitting down he closed his eyes as he tried to concentrate. Being a part of Naruto, even though he was sealed away, he could still see what the blonde was doing at all times. He had to be able to do that because how would he manifest himself when the other was in danger. He knew that it was more of a self-preservation thing. If Naruto died, then he would probably die as well, that or be extracted and transferred to another body. He felt oddly sad about that. He had been with Naruto since he was a small baby, at least he thought that he was. He had watched him grow up into a toddler, go to academy, and sadly get made fun of everyone there because of him. He felt a little bad, but it wasn't like he chose to be placed here. The damn 4th Hokage did that.

He watched through Naruto's eyes and figured that he was doing some form of training because he was on top of a "stepping stone" peg. He knew that the blonde wouldn't do this voluntarily so that meant that he was training. "Probably to get stronger so he can rescue his dear precious Sasuke." He grimaced at the thought, the very thought that Sasuke was occupying the majority of the blonde's thoughts made him spiteful.

He summoned up his fiery spirit and leaped to the next pole. He yelled his feet in front of him as he sped through the air. He missed with a splash, the blond going under confused. The pole was farther than it looked. Only controlled chakra in your jump being able to propel one to the next.

He surfaced with a cough and a splutter.

"What was that!" he sulked and looked angrily at the pole before climbing out to the ponds edge, breathing deaply. Perhaps this was going to take more effort then he first thought.

Kyuubi continued to look through Naruto's eyes as he let out a scoff. He knew that what he was attempting to do would be darn well near impossible for him to do at his current level of chakra control. He was right, when he heard the blonde sputter and cough as he inhaled some water when he fell into the water. He was a little concerned, that he might have to help the blonde, but he saw that he didn't when he saw the blonde make his way over to the edge of the water.

He wanted so badly for the blonde to fail at something so that the other male would have to rely on his powers to help him out. That or he could wait until he fell asleep. When he was asleep he had a better chance of getting out since the chakra barriers that held him in were more relaxed.