"Kakuzu, you look like you're not doing so well! You actually lost two hearts fighting a delicate little woman like that!"
In the jungle outside a village in the Land of Lightning, Hidan sneered at Kakuzu with a light chuckle.
Kakuzu beside him did not answer. Having unleashed his full strength, his limbs, torso, and head were connected by countless strands resembling hair, making him look like some kind of stitched-together monster. The two hearts on his back had already been completely burned through. This showed that capturing Yugito alive had cost him two lives.
Although Yugito of Kumogakure could barely be considered a Jinchuriki possessing Two-Tails Chakra, she was similar to the brothers Kinkaku and Ginkaku back then—a man-made Jinchuriki created using the residual flesh and Chakra of a Tailed Beast. Compared with a true Jinchuriki, she still fell far short and had originally only been considered a backup target for Akatsuki.
However, the Two-Tails Jinchuriki known throughout the Shinobi World was an existence even the entire Akatsuki dared not provoke. Akatsuki could only pray that she would not notice them, so how could they take the initiative to court trouble? Thus, the original backup target had instead become their primary target.
Compared with a true Tailed Beast Jinchuriki, an artificial one like Yugito did possess Tailed Beast Chakra and could enter a state similar to Tailed Beast Transformation. However, the activity and quantity of the Tailed Beast Chakra within her were limited. If they extracted it directly, they probably would not gain much.
Therefore, Pain ordered the Undying Duo to capture Yugito alive and bring her back. They planned to use Akatsuki's methods to increase the quantity and activity of the Tailed Beast Chakra in her body, leaving her until the end for extraction.
Yugito was not weak.