... I don't remember. @__@ I've just always liked creatures who are great and terrible and totally inhuman. So Kyuubi is... kind of evil, in a human way, but the beauty of it is that while he is indeniably sentient and perhaps even really crafty he doesn't think in a human way at all. And I just really love the idea of a creature that is totally wild, unstoppable and selfish, but also incredibly possessive, because if you managed to make it love you, well, that's pretty much the only way to tame it. The idea is pretty fascinating. (... Kyuubi isn't here yet. By far. Very far. XD He might never get to "love" actually, but as soon as I can get him to "mine" that will be close enough. He's still a fox, not a person, so that might be as close as he CAN get.)

As for the interaction with Naruto, I always found it kind of a waste of shiny in the manga that he would have a monster fox sealed inside him and yet we've seen him actually contact the fox maybe two times, the rest of the time he's just an excuse for chakra godmode. :-/ needed to be remedied!