Kurama: This Is Hell!

The damage Rasa had done to Gaara's mind when he was little was too deep. Even now, Gaara couldn't trust anyone.

Xuanye had no intention of winning Gaara's loyalty with a few words. That was never going to happen.

He could have Naruto and Sasuke beat the kid up, then let Gaara catch them alone and hit back. After a few rounds, they'd have the beginnings of a friendship.

Xuanye thought for a moment, then said, "Take some time to settle in. I'll arrange for you to start school in a few days."

Gaara's eyes turned fierce. Did this man not understand him? He'd already said he didn't want to go to school or make friends.

"But before that, I need to talk to the tanuki inside you."

Before Gaara could object, Xuanye stepped in front of him and loosened a corner of the Sealing on his body.

Shukaku's Chakra poured out, quickly taking the shape of a terrifying gray-brown tanuki.

"I'm finally out!"

The moment Shukaku emerged, he tried to form a Tailed Beast Bomb and destroy everything around him.

Almost every Tailed Beast sealed inside a Jinchuriki did the same thing upon release: vent his resentment at being imprisoned.

They usually hated humans to the bone. That was why people called them natural disasters.

"Behave, Shukaku." Xuanye's eyes shifted into the Mangekyō pattern as he regarded Shukaku with a faint, unreadable smile.

"Sharingan? A descendant of Indra?"

Shukaku was a proud tanuki. The Sharingan made him wary, but it certainly didn't scare him senseless.

That made sense. One-Tail Shukaku hadn't been captured by Senju Hashirama or Uchiha Madara. He had been sealed by a High Monk of the Land of Wind, and his previous Jinchuriki had even been a monk named Bunpuku.

The tanuki had probably never witnessed