When the Nine-Tails heard Qingyun's voice, its nine tails tensed like a mouse hearing a cat. Hearing Qingyun actually call it by name brought memories buried deep in its heart for a thousand years surging back.
A thousand years ago, the Sage of Six Paths and his younger brother, Hamura Otsutsuki, had joined forces to seal their mother. Afterward, Hamura Otsutsuki had gone to the moon to guard Kaguya Otsutsuki's seal.
As for Hagoromo Otsutsuki, the Sage of Six Paths, he had traveled the shinobi world. Seeing devastation everywhere, he had set out to restore the world. At the same time, he had used yin and yang power to divide the Ten-Tails within him into nine tailed beasts, giving each its own name.
He had also told them that one day, when turmoil swept the shinobi world again, a Child of Destiny would appear, and they would need to help that Child of Destiny protect it.
For a thousand years, the Nine-Tails had waited. Yet their bodies were enormous, and their chakra was almost limitless. Faced with such unknown beings, humans either worshipped them as gods or branded them demons.
Their differing temperaments had only compounded matters. Over time, the people of the shinobi world had demonized them. No one welcomed them; people either fled or hunted them down.
Some had even coveted their power, constantly sending armies to surround and kill them so they could claim that power for themselves. Eventually, the tailed beasts had grown sick of it and come to resent humanity. In the end, they had withdrawn from human settlements and gone into seclusion.
A hundred years ago, Madara Uchiha had found it. It had wanted to resist, but the Sharingan was the bane of tailed beasts. Moreover, Madara Uchiha was the reincarnation of Indra's chakra,