Kyuubi bunny #2
Kyuubi bunny #2 came about after reading yet another "nice"!Kyuubi fic. Y'know, there's a lot of fanfic where Kyuubi is Naruto's ally. It's not unusual for Kyuubi to be depicted as a female, who can use a human form, and who may become a romantic interest for Naruto. She may not always be actually nice, but she's certainly not evil. She has a "good reason" for having attacked Konoha (before Kishimoto retconned Kyuubi's attack into a ploy of Madara's, it was often Orochimaru's fault somehow). That eventually led me to wishing I'd see an interpretation of this I've never seen before.
My idea goes like this: what if Kyuubi wasn't pure evil? And what if it didn't really hate Kushina for being its prison? We know from Bee and the Hachibi that a Bijuu and its Jinchuuriki can have a cordial relationship, and, a bit more importantly, we know from Gaara that the Bijuu can perceive a bit of the outside world through its Jinchuuriki. So what if Kyuubi went through life with Kushina, kind of watching from behind her eyes?
I'm not saying that it should have been Kushina's best friend. It would be kind of hard not to resent being imprisoned. But. When you read a book or watch a movie, you usually get invested in the main characters, don't you? So, what if the Kyuubi got just a bit attached to Kushina, and through her, to Minato, and then Naruto?
I don't know how exactly to write such a relationship, but I've got this image in my head of Kyuubi taking a (female, redheaded) human form and teaching baby!Naruto to speak and read and write, because Kushina was so looking forward to doing those things and now she can't anymore and it looks as though no one else will. And also this other image of Naruto confronting Kyuubi for the first time and at one point going "you killed all those people! You killed the Yondaime!" and Kyuubi exploding that she'd never have willingly killed Minato.
My idea goes like this: what if Kyuubi wasn't pure evil? And what if it didn't really hate Kushina for being its prison? We know from Bee and the Hachibi that a Bijuu and its Jinchuuriki can have a cordial relationship, and, a bit more importantly, we know from Gaara that the Bijuu can perceive a bit of the outside world through its Jinchuuriki. So what if Kyuubi went through life with Kushina, kind of watching from behind her eyes?
I'm not saying that it should have been Kushina's best friend. It would be kind of hard not to resent being imprisoned. But. When you read a book or watch a movie, you usually get invested in the main characters, don't you? So, what if the Kyuubi got just a bit attached to Kushina, and through her, to Minato, and then Naruto?
I don't know how exactly to write such a relationship, but I've got this image in my head of Kyuubi taking a (female, redheaded) human form and teaching baby!Naruto to speak and read and write, because Kushina was so looking forward to doing those things and now she can't anymore and it looks as though no one else will. And also this other image of Naruto confronting Kyuubi for the first time and at one point going "you killed all those people! You killed the Yondaime!" and Kyuubi exploding that she'd never have willingly killed Minato.