"Yes, it's very unfortunate. I still think it can be fixed. My world hasn't had a war in about a century."

The fox regards him evenly. 

"Does your kind bear names?"

"Generally, yes. Is that significant?"

"In a thousand years, not once has a human asked my name."

"Oh, I was under the impression it was Kyuubi. What is it?"

"Calling me 'kyuubi' would be like calling you 'aspel' and nothing else."

"I am Kurama."

"It's nice to meet you, I'm Cam. For whatever it's worth I've spent a fair amount of time being addressed solely as 'demon'."

"Humans are rude."

"I usedta be one, don't knock 'em."

Grumble. 

"The child isn't as bad as the rest. None of my previous jailers have given me even this much freedom."

"I'm glad you're enjoying the moon so much. Can you stop hurting him or is that involuntary?"

"That is a function of the seal. If they removed it entirely, he would not be in pain, but they also wouldn't be able to shove me back in when they feel they are tired of my freedom."

"Bit of a tradeoff, yeah."

"Do you believe I should not be freed, then?"

"I mean, perhaps this is all vicious slander but my understanding was the last time you were running around there was a body count."

"I avoid humans when I can. Sometimes they attack me, and the consequences are on their own heads."

"In the last two cases, a human had used one of their accursed ninjutsu to control me, though if I had escaped on my own I would have been justified in using force to keep my freedom."

"I don't have a great way to check up on that because I can't conjure you. It does seem a little weird that all nine of you guys have been caught and sealed if left to your own devices you just wandered around not bothering anybody."

"All nine of us were caught by the same person, who decided we would make pretty little gifts for other humans."

"Who was that?"

"Senju Hashirama, their precious First Hokage."

"Well, maybe he'll corroborate, that'd be interesting. I wouldn't expect it naively but one of the other guys admitted to complicity in a genocide."

"I can corroborate on our end - Hashirama is indeed said to have sought out and trapped all the Tailed Beasts except the Nine Tails, who was technically actually trapped by Uzumaki Mito during a battle between Uchiha Madara and Senju Hashirama, when the Nine Tails fought by Madara's side. The usual supposition was that the Tailed Beasts were mindless, and Madara was controlling him - the night I sealed him in Naruto he was also being controlled, by Uchiha Obito."

"Well, he sure doesn't seem mindless now, we've been having this entire conversation and we are the only people on the entire moon unless there really is a someone sealed in it."

"Yes." To Kurama: "I apologize for thinking you mindless - but not for protecting my village, even if the only solution was one that harmed you."

"Pah."