The search for the Six-Tails ran into a little trouble.
The people of the Land of Water truly did not know where the Six-Tails was.
But that did not matter.
Using the Demonic Statue of the Outer Path's sensory power, Tsunade found traces of the Six-Tails deep within a swamp in the Land of Water.
Few people ventured into this swamp. Miasma filled the air, and a layer of grayish-white bubbles rose on the water's surface.
The wild Six-Tails had lain dormant here for a long time, establishing a territory of its own.
Tsunade stepped onto the wet mud at the swamp's edge, her pale purple Rinnegan sweeping over the unnaturally still water ahead.
Something stirred slowly deep underwater, accompanied by an extremely faint trace of tailed beast chakra.
"There."
Without wasting words, Tsunade leaped toward the center of the swamp and plunged straight into the water.
In the murky depths, an enormous outline flickered in and out of view.
The Six-Tails was slightly smaller than the intelligence reports had described, but it was still like a small mountain.
Sensing unfamiliar chakra intruding, it wheeled around and opened its mouthparts, revealing a ring of closely packed, sharp teeth.
A mass of powerful acid gathered in its throat, as though it intended to finish the intruder with this one attack.
Tsunade gave it no chance to spray.
She swam straight beneath the Six-Tails and drove a fist into its soft belly.
The massive creature let out a low, muffled sound, its body abruptly curling like a shrimp.
It struggled a few times, then slowly went still, floating unconscious in the water.
Tsunade grabbed one of its tails and dragged its enormous body up out of the swamp.
The Six-Tails was contained by a sealing scroll and shrunk to the size of