Tailed Beasts, Your Power is Too Great

"Hmph!"

Uchiha Madara watched as Senju Hashirama signaled his younger brother, Uchiha Izuna, to take action.

In the end, he merely let out a cold snort and said nothing more.

And just like that, the mortal enemies from the original timeline had become a pair of close companions, with Uchiha Izuna and Senju Tobirama setting off together to capture the Tailed Beasts.

In truth, for other nations, defeating a Tailed Beast was not difficult; the challenge lay in how to kill one. After all, even if a Tailed Beast were killed, it would eventually resurrect after a period of time.

Once a Tailed Beast resurrected, it would be time for it to seek its revenge, which was why Tailed Beasts eventually ended up coexisting peacefully with the people of other nations.

The Land of Lightning was established upon peaks that pierced the clouds, shrouded in mist and echoing with deafening thunder.

Home to the Cloud Village, it was a militant village founded by the First Raikage.

It possessed two jinchuriki, those of the Two-Tails and the Eight-Tails. The people of the village were dark-skinned, skilled in swordsmanship and Lightning Release, and favored the use of ninja-taijutsu.

A cat demon, a hundred meters in length and covered in blue chakra flames, loomed before them.

"Who are you, and why have you come looking for me?"

Matatabi, the Two-Tails, looked at Uchiha Izuna and Senju Tobirama and asked with curiosity.

Although the Two-Tails looked fierce, its tone of voice was surprisingly gentle.

"Two-Tails, your power is too great! It is too dangerous to leave you in the Land of Lightning."

Senju Tobirama said to Matatabi calmly.

"What!"

Matatabi was stunned; it did not understand what Senju Tobirama meant by those words.

Senju Tobirama threw a shuriken at it, then immediately used the Flying Thunder God Technique to instantly teleport right next to Matatabi.

Before the Two-Tails could even react, it had already been transported to an uninhabited area several kilometers away.

Then, Matatabi saw a pair of blood-red eyes—a Mangekyo Sharingan with four small dots circling a small ring.

"Four Symbols Sealing!"

Senju Tobirama shouted, his hands moving rapidly through hand seals.

He created three shadow clones, positioning them at the north, south, east, and west. The four divine beasts—the Azure Dragon, White Tiger, Vermilion Bird, and Black Tortoise—manifested, and Matatabi was instantly sealed into a scroll.

"Is this what a Tailed Beast is? Its strength is nothing special."

Uchiha Izuna said with disdain.

"It is not that the Tailed Beast is weak; it is that we are too strong. To others, the power of a Tailed Beast is still formidable."

Senju Tobirama replied calmly.

"Haha, perhaps!"

"Then, next is the Eight-Tails!"

"Don't make a move yet; let me play with the Eight-Tails for a while first."

Uchiha Izuna laughed.

About three days later, Uchiha Izuna and Senju Tobirama found Gyuki, the Eight-Tails, in a primeval forest near the sea.

A massive octopus-like creature appeared before Uchiha Izuna and Senju Tobirama.

Compared to Matatabi, Gyuki was far more vigilant.

The moment it saw Uchiha Izuna and Senju Tobirama appear, the giant bull with octopus tentacles for tails launched an attack against them.

"Tailed Beast Bomb!"

The Eight-Tails spat out several Tailed Beast Bombs in rapid succession, attacking the pair.

Boom!

As the Tailed Beast Bombs struck the ground, they triggered a staggering explosion.

Flames churned and fireballs expanded rapidly, the shockwave of the blast consuming everything in the vicinity. The destructive power was like a missile, obliterating everything in its path.

Both men used the Body Flicker Technique simultaneously to dodge the Tailed Beast Bomb attacks.

"Good fellow, that's some strong power!"

"Tobirama, he's mine!"

As he spoke, Uchiha Izuna let out a sharp shout.

[Fire Style: Dragon Flame Song Jutsu]

Uchiha Izuna leaped a hundred meters into the sky, his hands weaving seals at high speed.

He spat four fire dragons, each twenty to thirty meters long, toward Gyuki the Eight-Tails, attacking from above, below, left, and right.

[Tailed Beast Eight Twists]

Seeing the four fire dragons closing in, Gyuki the Eight-Tails reacted.

He employed his "power technique," using his tentacles to wrap around his body and spin at high speed, instantly forming a massive storm.

Boom!

Four sounds like missile explosions rang out.

Gyuki the Eight-Tails successfully blocked Uchiha Izuna's attack.

[Octopus Hold]

Gyuki the Eight-Tails roared.

He spat a massive stream of ink from his mouth.

The hundred-meter-high wave of ink surged rapidly toward Uchiha Izuna and Senju Tobirama.

Uchiha Izuna used the superior vision of his Mangekyo Sharingan to dodge the ink.

Meanwhile, Senju Tobirama used the Flying Thunder God Technique to vanish from the battlefield.

[Fourth Form Susanoo]

Uchiha Izuna was finally getting serious.

Susanoo?

And the fourth form at that. This is going to be troublesome.

Why did this Uchiha come all the way here to cause me trouble?

Gyuki the Eight-Tails wondered in confusion.

"Eight-Tails, your power is too great! My apologies, but I have no choice but to suppress you!"

Uchiha Izuna's voice echoed within a radius of a thousand meters.

What the hell!

Is that even something a person would say?

Who exactly is the strong one and who is the weak one here?!

Gyuki the Eight-Tails ranted frantically in his mind.

Rumble!

Boom!

About ten minutes later, Gyuki the Eight-Tails was taken down by Senju Tobirama.

About a month passed.

All nine Tailed Beasts had been captured and brought to Konoha Village.

In the original story, Senju Hashirama had captured eight of them while out on campaigns.

But now, aside from the Nine-Tails, which was already in Konoha and had been captured by Senju Hashirama during the village's founding, the other seven Tailed Beasts had been captured by the trio of Uchiha Izuna, Senju Tobirama, and Uchiha Madara.

As for why Senju Hashirama wanted to capture the Tailed Beasts, it was because they possessed many unique traits.

1: Massive chakra. This is the foundation of a Tailed Beast's power.

2: Colossal size. This makes them extremely difficult to defeat.

3: Sentience and the ability to speak. This provides a bridge for communication between Tailed Beasts and humans.

4: The death of a Tailed Beast is not permanent. Even if their soul or body is completely destroyed, over time, "factors" will inevitably manifest somewhere, allowing them to resurrect and be reborn. No one knows how long it takes for these "factors" to manifest or where they will appear, but this makes the existence of Tailed Beasts a constant, lingering threat.

5: Knowledge of many secrets. If one becomes friends with a Tailed Beast, they become an intangible treasure for a ninja.

6: Excessive power. If controlled properly, they are sharp weapons for defending a nation or village.

Without a doubt, everyone understood this: Tailed Beasts possess immense chakra and massive bodies, and a single jutsu or movement can often cause dozens or even hundreds of casualties, not to mention the destruction of buildings.

Therefore, using them as weapons was the best choice.

Once people realized the Tailed Beasts had the potential to be weapons of mass destruction, they never gave up on trying to capture them.

If controlled by a nation, they were tools to protect the country and village; if controlled by an ambitious individual, they were the best aid for realizing personal ideals.

Ninjas like Orochimaru naturally understood this logic, though his raw strength was somewhat lacking.

Obito, Madara, Naruto, and Killer Bee were the best evidence of this.

However, in this era, not everyone possessed the ninjutsu required to seal a Tailed Beast.