"You're saying a Tailed Beast Jinchūriki fought someone near the Naka River, then went berserk?"
Tsunade frowned, looking at Jiraiya in disbelief.
She seriously wondered whether she had misheard him. Why would a jinchūriki come onto their territory to fight an unknown enemy?
Though, logically speaking, that unknown enemy was most likely Akatsuki, which had been capturing jinchūriki everywhere.
"Are you joking, Jiraiya? Naruto is still in the village. How could another jinchūriki turn up outside it? Surely a jinchūriki from another village wouldn't come here of their own accord?
You know all the shinobi villages now suspect that Konoha is backing Akatsuki and sending them out to capture jinchūriki. Why would any jinchūriki willingly show up near our village?"
"I'm not joking. It's true. I brought back photos of the scene. Take a look for yourself."
Jiraiya took out the photographs he had taken at the scene. The entire bank of the Naka River had been transformed.
Gullies and enormous craters scarred the ground, and river water had even flowed into them, forming lakes.
"This was damage caused by a battle?!"
"That's right. Apart from jinchūriki, only a handful of people could cause destruction like this. If any of those people had appeared near our village, there's no way we wouldn't have heard anything."
Jiraiya took out another report and added,
"This is the Sensory Team's report. Just a few hours ago, they clearly detected a powerful chakra fluctuation unique to tailed beasts."
Tsunade studied the documents on the desk, her frown deepening.
"But that raises another question. Which village did this jinchūriki belong to? Why did they come near Konoha?
And now that the battle is over, what happened to that jinchūriki? Did they escape, or were they captured?"
Faced with Tsunade's questions, Jiraiya shook his head.
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