The villages were all busily analyzing intelligence and making their own responses. Kirigakure was probably the busiest of them all; after all, their Six-Tails Jinchuriki was still drifting around outside, whereabouts unknown.
The Six Tails Saiken's true form was a gigantic white slug. Of course, compared to the Slug Sage of Shikkotsu Forest, it was hardly worth mentioning, and the two had nothing to do with each other.
Although the Six-Tails Jinchuriki Utakata had not suffered as badly as Gaara, his life had not been much better. Both fortunately and unfortunately, he had a master who wanted to help him get rid of his Jinchuriki status: Harusame.
Harusame believed he had developed a safe method of extracting Tailed Beasts. But he was far too action-oriented. Without properly explaining things to Utakata, he tied him up and immediately began extracting the Tailed Beast without another word.
As a result, Utakata mistakenly believed his Master wanted to kill him. And, as everyone knew, Jinchuriki went berserk when faced with a life-or-death crisis. So Harusame died just like that.
Having killed his companion, and believing himself betrayed by someone he trusted, Utakata fled Kirigakure in grief and confusion. From then on, he never believed in the bonds between master and disciple again, and he hated being called "Master."
After learning the truth, Yagura nearly cried himself unconscious in the restroom. What kind of teammates did he have? Because one sentence had not been made clear, Kirigakure had lost a veteran jonin and misplaced a Jinchuriki.
But what was done was done. Knowing that someone wanted to capture Tailed Beasts, letting Utakata wander around outside was practically delivering him on a platter. They could only send people to find him.
Of course, what Yagura did not know was that the Utakata he considered an