"I really like being around people but I think lots of places would look weird without a ton of nature..."

"There's parks and stuff, but it sounds like you wouldn't get along with a heavily urbanized population center." Cam flicks around in his photos and finds a drone's-eye-view picture of Tokyo.

"I think being around that many people'd be super nice? But - yeah it looks really weird with just metal and glass and concrete and stuff. 'Course, the Leaf's half trees, or grown buildings."

"Ooh, grown buildings! Demons can fake that but it's super hard to make a building legit grow."

"Yeah! The First Hokage grew the entire early village plus a bunch of stuff to expand into."

"That's really cool, I bet people get super into that as a civilian application."

"I think it's just a him thing, I haven't heard of anyone else with tree control? But maybe it'll be spreadable, who knows."

"Bloodline thing and then he didn't have kids?"

"Oh, he had at least one kid - Granny Tsunade's his granddaughter, though she hasn't had kids and her brother died young. Dunno why they didn't have the thing."

"Huh! Did they have other bloodline admixture or something...?"

"His wife was an Uzumaki? So yeah I guess. You could probably ask him too if you're really curious, he's one of the undead."

"I will send him an email." Cam does this.

"Email's cool."

"Hm... Oh, yeah, Nine Tails - he knows the other Tailed Beasts, called them his annoying little siblings. He's also not a biochemist, he just knows a lot about the world which I think works out to 'is actually a biochemist.' He might be helping with the clone memory processing thing but he's not sure, it's not like he pays attention to what I'm thinking?"

"I wanna know if he can solve protein folding problems in his head. There's probably not a great way to present him with protein folding problems unfortunately. - Can he pay attention to what you're thinking?"

"I think he can listen to me and like see through my senses? From what he's commented. And I guess if you wrote something out for me I could go ask him? But he might not like feeling like he's being told what to do."

"Listen to what you say to him on purpose or listen to random thoughts you are having about unrelated things?"

"I can ask him which? But I think it's the second?"

"Well that's creepy. Are the other eight likely to be the same?"

"I don't mind? But I dunno about all the others. I know that with the One Tailed Tanuki, Shukaku, he's able to talk to his jinchuuriki Gaara, and from how Gaara's acted before I think Shukaku knows his thoughts?"

"Even if you don't mind and/or the fox happens to find your thoughts super boring, that doesn't mean all of them shake out that way, I'm assuming the various beasts and hosts have different opinions on miscellaneous things."

"Yeah. Shukaku was an ass to Gaara a lot, tried to overwhelm him with bloodlust and keep him from sleeping. I dunno if he still is an ass, though I've heard Gaara's doing better with the mental stuff?"

"Which could mean Shukaku's behaving better or it could mean Gaara is acquiring better coping mechanisms for what continues to be unrelenting nastiness."

"I think probably the second."

"That's real fucked up! Any prospects for fixing it?"

"I think Gaara's Kazekage now, so he'd be able to authorize someone messing with his seal - dad might be able to do something, or if we experiment a lot with me and the Nine Tails we might be able to figure out how to get a Tailed Beast out of someone without that someone dying? Which if they promise not to attack anyone is probably a better balance to be at..."