"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..."

"...I don't know if 'promise' is really the standard here but sticking them in people is definitely not great or anything."

"Unfortunately I think the Nine Tails might take any kind of 'how do we let you guys out safely' as kind of hostile? Since he doesn't like being a prisoner?"

"That's legit as far as it goes which isn't all that far. Are any of them more, uh, chill?"

"Don't know. Haven't met any others."

"Hm. It's really not the biggest-scale problem extant but..."

"Yeah. It's - jinchuuriki are usually kind of miserable for lots of different reasons, but it's max eighteen people impacted directly... Though I might be uniquely positioned to help other jinchuuriki, and maybe if we can get the Tailed Beasts cooperating that'd at least make stuff safer?"

"That'd be nice! You have a lot on your plate, though."

"Yeah, but I've got clones, and befriending the Nine Tails probably makes a lot of my other stuff easier."

"Does it? How, just getting you better access to various perks of the host position?"