“Hey Hachi! Where did all my sake go?” Kai asked one morning.
It was approximately three in morning to be exact. I opened my eyes slowly and stared at the boy staring at me from the hallway. I had made sure to leave my door closed to keep Kai out, but he had pushed the door open. He was still in regular clothes not even pajamas.
“Kai, have you been out all night?” I asked groggily.
“Ya and the bar tender kicked me out, so I came home to some sake. When I came home and went into the kitchen for the sake, it was gone!” Kai nearly yelled.
“Kai, I threw out all that sake,” I answered laying back down on the soft pillows, “Go get in pajamas and get to bed. We have training in two hours.”
“Not until I get some sake. I’ll just go over to Shukaku’s house,” Kai finally decided.
“Kai, get to bed,” I said getting out of bed. If he continued to protest I would have to knock him out.
“Hachiiiiiiiiiiii please!”
‘That was it!’
I grabbed his shoulder and was about to hit him when he yawned. Instead I picked him up and put him in his room. I didn’t bother with pajamas but rather just put him into bed. He was asleep instantly.
“The world would be a better place without sake,” I sighed.
[Approximately seven years ago]
I slithered alone through the mountains. Orochimaru had just asked me to join him, but of course I refused. He was not worth the time or effort. Not when I had the mountains to enjoy. Unlike most, I did not like cities or close areas. I preferred the free air of the mountains. There were little humans to annoy me, and the mountains themselves had always been my home. There was a stream no bigger than one of my tails to drink from, and the trees made a safe haven away from travelers. Fish were plentiful in the shallow ponds, and other animals made peace with me to live happily.
I was not sure how Orochimaru had found me, but I didn’t care. He was a nuisance that could be dealt with easy enough. The smell of something being heated caught one of my noses. Someone was in my mountains burning something! Anger floored in me. It was a human. Did this human not understand that he risked the safety of the trees and the mountains themselves? I followed the trail of the smell until I caught a glimpse of the person making it.
It was a human of the sorts. His white hair stuck out in all directions, and he looked relatively young. He sat with his back to me heating something over a fire.
“Now all I have to do it wait for the fish to get cooked,” the man said happily already drunk with sake, “in the mean time, I’ll finish off this bottle of sake!”
“What are you doing in my mountainssssss?” I hissed.
The man jumped up and looked to see me looking down at him all eight heads ready to tear him to shreds. His fear was evident even though he was trying desperately to act calm.
“You’re Hachimata the mountain *hic* snake!” he said almost pleased.
“What are you doing in my mountainsssss?” I asked again.
“Well you see, I was just cooking *hic* this fish and was about to have *hic* a *hic* second bottle of sake,” the man laughed.
“Ssssake,” I hissed. That fowl drink made humans stupid as well as other creatures. I had refused to drink it. “Get out of my mountains!”
“Awww come *hic* on now you big snakey snakey. I’m not hurting *hic* anything. Come one take *hic* a sip of this stuff and you’ll feel better,” the man chuckled at his own words.
“Get that away!” I hissed. He entered my mountains, was burning my fish, and was talking childish to me! I couldn’t take it! One of my tails slashed at the fire and beat it to death. There was not going to be a fire in my mountains.
“Hey now *hic* snakey! That wasn’t nice!” the man protested.
“Stupid fowl human!” I hissed, “You could easily destroy this haven! Get out!”
“You’re a mean snakey *hic*,” the man laughed grabbing a match and trying to start a fire again. He missed the area with the rocks around it and the sparks hit a bush.
“No!” I said angrily.
The fire caught quickly and began to burn everything into ash. My tails beat the fires, but the spread faster and faster. Terror flew through me. I rushed to the river and sipped up nearly all the water. I spewed the water over the fire, but it grew and grew. I heard the human laughing drunkenly at the fire. There was nothing I could do but vacate the area. Alone I watched as the fire tarnished the once beautiful mountains into black ash. I was far off, but my eyes caught every flake of fire, and every tree cried out in terror. Pain at their loss ripped through me each time one more feel to the fire.
“Stupid humans, stupid sake,” I hissed cursing everything I could think of.
“Humans aren’t that bad,” a cool voice said quietly. I turned to see the nine-tailed fox. He sat beside me as I watched the fire consume everything including the man that started it. I did not move, and he did not move.
“You know, you are going to have to deal with humans eventually,” Kyuubi said calmly, “I can help, but only if you want me to. Come with me, and I’ll teach you human ways and how to deal with them”
“Kyuubi, my home isssss gone, and I have lossssst everything. Yesssss I will come with you, but to where?”
“A human village. It is a safe haven for demons in plain sight.”
“A village filled with humans and ssssake. I will not come.”
“Humans will eventually destroy all your hiding places Hachimata. You will have to face them alone at that time. Come with me, act human, and stay safe from this.”
“How can I just sit back and watch as humans destroy everything?”
“If you join the village, you can stop things before the escalate to this and destroy another area. Come Hachimata, Hachi. Let’s go home.”
“Hachi eh? I like that nick name….”

After that I went with Kyuubi to the village and learned how to act human. My transformation jutst had always sucked, so it put more pressure on me to act like a normal human.