[B, are you all right? Can you get used to this?]
[Big Brother... actually, I feel more at ease here than in the Valley of Clouds and Lightning. The other Tailed Beasts have memories of their previous lives, and they acknowledge the bond between me and Gyuki... you don't have to worry about me!]
[Really? But this place is still...]
[Big Brother, just come see me whenever you miss me. I'll be fine.]
The Fourth Raikage's expression eased somewhat. He naturally knew that the Eight-Tails before him was not truly a Tailed Beast, but his younger brother, Killer B.
If B had said he had no freedom here and that Konoha's treatment of them was unreasonable, the Raikage would not have let Konoha carry out its plans so smoothly, even if he could not beat them.
Even though Minato Namikaze had already been frank with him, and he understood the importance of this meeting to Konoha, B's circumstances mattered just as much to him as his own life.
Seeing that the other Tailed Beasts did not reject B for being different, the Fourth Raikage believed about eighty percent of what Minato Namikaze had told him.
[...Will you quit nagging, old woman? I already told you I'm not going back!]
[Shukaku, don't you care about Sunagakure at all? That's your home... Gaara will be going back later too. I've already worked things out with Konoha...]
[Then let Gaara go back. I'm perfectly happy here!]
[But Konoha has already told me that you should be free to act as you please going forward, so why not...]
[Look, old woman, there's no need to overthink it. I'll be straight with you too. As much as I hate the sight of that stinking fox, even if the other eight of us... oh, nine, counting