While Kushina underwent the Rinnegan transplant surgery, everyone gained some breathing room and could relax enough to attend to their own affairs.
The Third Raikage and Fourth Raikage brought Killer B to find the Eight-Tails.
The Eight-Tails had already separated from Killer B. Killer B should have died, but Hashirama had used the Reanimation Technique.
He had been resurrected, but in doing so, his seal connection with the Eight-Tails had been severed.
Clearly, Cloud Village did not want to lose the Eight-Tails.
With his arms crossed, the Third Raikage said to the Eight-Tails, "Gyuki, you should know that only with human wisdom can the power of you Tailed Beasts be fully brought out."
The Eight-Tails looked at the Third Raikage and the others with hostility. "Do you want to seal me again?"
Tailed Beasts were not merely beasts. They possessed their own wisdom and thoughts.
As long as one could think, one would not want to become a bird locked in a cage.
Tailed Beasts were no exception.
In the Original Work, after the Eight-Tails was released, the Nine-Tails asked where he planned to go.
The Eight-Tails answered that he would return to Killer B's side.
To the Eight-Tails, Killer B was no longer a restraint, but a bond.
Killer B treated the Eight-Tails as a friend. He cherished that feeling of friendship, so he chose to return to Killer B's side.
But that was a proactive choice, not something the Third Raikage and Fourth Raikage could passively accept.
I am a Tailed Beast. I have my own dignity as a beast. I do not belong to Cloud Village.
Hearing the Eight-Tails' answer and catching the hint of temper in his words, the Third Raikage lowered his arms. Lightning Style Chakra flickered across the muscles of his chest.
"Gyuki, you