The Shinobi World didn't know much about the Tailed Beasts. Information about them was classified, known only to the higher-ups in each village and a handful of elite Jonin.
Thanks to the damnable secrecy rules shinobi lived by, Regular Ninja had no idea what Tailed Beasts even were. As far as they knew, they were dangerous monsters.
Indeed, at the time, both shinobi and ordinary people in the Shinobi World believed the Tailed Beasts were legendary demons.
As for how long it took a Tailed Beast to revive after dying, how it revived, and whether the place of its revival mattered? Those were secrets among secrets.
Kirigakure was probably the only village with relevant information. Those bastards had a strange way of thinking; they'd even kill their own Jinchuriki during internal power struggles.
Their village could practically be called the Shinobi World's Tailed Beast revolving door, with plenty of Recovery Experience.
Just as the One-Tail, Shukaku, would only revive in the desert if it died, the Three-Tails should, in theory, only revive somewhere with a vast body of water.
Six months earlier, the Three-Tails had died alongside Nohara Rin, a Konoha Ninja. Its remaining Chakra had spread everywhere like air, but most of it had drifted over the sea southeast of the Land of Fire.
There wasn't much of it within the Land of Fire, but Kirigakure didn't dare take the risk. What if the Three-Tails got a sudden craving for freshwater and chose to revive within the Land of Fire?
Whether Konoha would have ideas about it didn't matter. What mattered was that we thought you might.
If my belongings showed up in your house, you were guilty. As for why they were in your house? That was none of your business.
So, to eliminate even the slightest possibility