While it was impotent next to his, Kyuubi returned with his own memories, just as fiercely. Memories of being a small child, raised in a village of hatred, of losing friends, mentors, family in the war... where Draiss killed them, all. Memories of losing more, in helping to fight his many battles... and the tremendous sense of loss and confusion, after Draiss' disappearance. The fear, the anger, the despair, all boiling inside of him, until, suddenly, the Kyuubi spark took hold of him, twisted all of those emotions into a beacon for the other males to follow. More confusion and anger, as the heavy weight of responsibility settled onto his shoulders, threatening to overwhelm him, crush him... and the faint glimmer of hope, in the form of the one man in the universe, who seemed to understand what was going on, who offered to help, to bring peace, and stability, and provide a guiding light, for all living beings. The<em>pain,</em>the blinding, searign pain, far beyond anything he'd ever experienced before, as Barid infused him with the husk of the Beyonder, and the terrible, tearing sensation that seems to come from the conflict of existence of the two of them being in the same room, like his soul being powerblasted with sand.<br/><br/>"You... are not... the only one... to suffer..." he snarled.